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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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iment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, ofwhich he became lieutenant-colonel, and one of the teachers, W. L.Owens, captain of the company. Returning after the battle of Gettysburg, in 1863, in which hewas badly wounded, Colonel McFarland reopened the academy, andcontinued it until the following autumn, when Dr. Burrowes, thenSuperintendent of Soldiers Orphans, requested him to convert it intoa soldiers orphan school, which he did, it being duly recognized assuch November 3, 1864. From this time forward it received soldiers orphans upon theorder of the Superintendent, the number reaching sixty-one byApril 1,1865, and one hundred and forty-one the following Decem-ber. Being among the first institutions of the kind, its work was atfirst largely missionary, and needy children were sent to it fromwidely separated counties, and afterwards transferred when otherschools were opened nearer the homes of these children. It passed 196 2o >r •o - > ► o 0 ro 0) H I W r CO H w < FrW CO o E O0 r
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McALISTERVILLE SCHOOL. 197 through the severe struggles iucident to those early days of theseschools. Notwithstanding the unprofitable and unpromising stateof affairs, many and expensive improvements were made. A kitchenwas built and a large range put into it, a cistern constructed, thedining-room enlarged, new desks put into the school-room, the severaldepartments all organized, with superintendents and assistants ineach; sewing-machines procured, and other expenses incurred toincrease the accommodation and perfect the home and school facili-ties of the children. These expenses put the institution in debt,which was afterwards further increased by additional buildings, andhas since proved troublesome and annoying. This school participated in all the efforts made to educate publicopinion to the wisdom and duty of providing for the needy orphansof those who fell in the armies of the Union. At the first vacation,July 27, 1865, the children were accompanied by Dr. Burrowes toMifflin, wher

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