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Title: Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Paul, James Laughery
Subjects: Orphanages
Publisher: Harrisburg, L. S. Hart
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ration, and after holdingone or two .meetings, and determining to engage in the enterprise,,deputed Rev. D. K. Duff to confer, in reference to the matter, withHon. Thomas H. Burrowes, then Superintendent of Soldiers Orphans^Dr. Burrowes, having been advised of the movement here, visitedthe place, and, after making a verbal agreement with some of theleading men for the opening of a school, selected the site on whichthe buildings now stand. A company was then formed with a capi-tal of $15,000, and was composed of twenty-two members; namely,Revs. D. K. Duff and T. M. Elder, Drs. William Hosack and J. R.Crouch, and Messrs. Robert Marshall, Wesley Pontius, William R.Hamilton, William Marshall, T. P. Ormond, Thomas H. Marshall,Smith ISTeal, William Morrow, W. J. Burns, J. W. Marshall, SamuelGood, J. H. Rupp, William Hindman, John Beck, Jacob Beck, JohnCraig, David Lawson, and David Byers. Buildings were rented until more suitable accommodations couldbe procured. 242 D ►*!H 0 z (J)o X 0 or
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DAYTON SCHOOL. • 243 During the fall of 1866 the company bought thirty-five acres ofland, and immediately proceeded to the erection of buildings. Threetwo-story houses were built, as may be seen by reference to theengraving preceding this sketch. The first house, 72x24 feet insize, was ready for use in the early part of the spring of 1867 ; thesecond, 72x36 feet, was built during the summer and fall of the sameyear; and the third, 86x40 feet, was ready to be occupied by the1st of September, 1868. These houses were all substantial framestructures, well suited to their purpose, and, together, capable ofaccommodating about two hundred and twenty-five children. InDecember, 1873, two of these houses, the first and the last built, andnearly all their contents, were destroyed by fire; but were replacedwithin six months by two others, one of which — the smaller — waseight feet wider than the one it replaced; while both were better andmore convenient than the former ones. Kev. T. M. Elde

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