INDIAN SCHOOLS REOPEN

photo to be added. [2 photographs Christine Benedict, Mohawk and Ida Bruce Mohawk with Hattie Porsucal, Chippewa] Three Bright Girls of the Indian School

The Lincoln Institution and the Educational Home, two associations which have had in their charge more than 2000 soldiers' orphans and Indian boys and girls since 1866, again opened their school at 324 South Eleventh street, yesterday, for the shelter and education of the wards of the Nation. On June 30 last the school ceased to be under governmental supervision. At that time there were in the institution on South Eleventh street and in the educational home, at Forty-ninth and Greenwood avenue, 198 Indian boys and girls, toward whose support the government was paying $167 each a year. The management at that time ceased asking assistance from the government, and decreased the number of pupils, with the intention of running the school as a private institution, supported wholly by individual contributions.

The school will still be run by Mrs. J.B. Cox, the founder, assisted by the former Board of Managers and committees.

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Notes and References

Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1900.10.02 Indian School Reopen, Philadelphia Inquirer p2.pdf