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id 1310 lastname Volin firstname Johnnie sex m birth_date 1894.12.24 birth_place Hancock 1899, 1901 date_admitted Blew fingers off & put out an eye, playing with gunpowder, 1901. covenant_signed In Hancock school 1899, MPH.5220. Child of Mr. & Mrs. Peter Volin; attended Hancock Shaker school Sept 1901; 'Johnnie has met with quite a serious accident which will probably keep him out of school for an indefinite period of time. He got hold of some gunpowder and struck a match with the result being he has lost the ends of three fingers on his left hand, and lost his right eye, they are working now to save the left eye. It seems so sad for such a bright little boy to be maimed for life,' 1901.09.27 letter to Daniel Shepardson, MPH.1007-a.