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Report of the Admission Committee from the Annual Report
of the Educational Home, 1888


The following transcribed from page 12 of the above document.

Boys received into the Home,
18
returned to their homes or friends,
21
on roll, ....
129
Of these there are
Soldiers' Home Boys,
15
Paid for
1
Number of Indian pupils,
99
deaths,
0
Admitted since the Home opened,
608

References

See Thomas Symons Patent table S.3 for an extended deed history of the Ivycroft estate.

and Thomas Symons Patent table S.5 for the Lincoln Institute site details.

See Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Institute for more general information on the Indian Schools.

  1. See references #3 and #6
  2. Chester County deed Q9-315
  3. Philadelphia Times, April 13, 1884. For a shortened version of the article in another newspaper report see here.
  4. Montgomery County deed 294-460
  5. Chester County deed T10-116
  6. Newspaper report - Lincoln Institute 21st annual meeting
  7. See 1900 census and ah-nen-la-de-ni's (aka Daniel Le France) autobiography extract. The complete autobiograph can be found at full autobiography
  8. Chester County deed S12-40
  9. See Mrs. Cox's obituary
  10. See Newspaper report - Lincoln Institution's Work, dated 4 February 1907
  11. Chester County deed M15-269
  12. See newspaper report Charity will Resume its Original Purpose
  13. Chester County deed K16-598 and Montgomery County deed 926-444
  14. Chester County deed T25-270

Acknowledgements

Roger Thorne provided support and significant documents from his collection. Meg Wiederseim performed newspaper searches.

Document History

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