Philadelphia Times 1/17/1879, p. 4

THE LINCOLN BOYS

What Advantages They Enjoy - How the Institution Got Along Last Year

The Lincoln Institution managers held their thirteenth annual meeting yesterday, with Rev. W. N. McVickar, D.D., presiding and Samuel Bell as secretary. The annual report said that out of one hundred and twelve boys employed during last year two were discharged for unfaithfulness. The committee on admissions and dismissions report that twenty-five boys were received during 1878, twenty-two being transferred from the Educational Home. The present number in the institution is ninety-four. Of these twenty-three are State soldiers' orphans between the ages of thirteen and sixteen years, twelve graduated State soldiers' orphans between sixteen and twenty-one years of age ten from the Soldiers' Home. The remaining forty-nine are supported by scholarships and wages. Fourteen of the boys were confirmed at the Church of the Epiphany and fifteen at the chapel of the Educational Home last spring.

The board's report is as follows: “An examination will show the Lincoln boys are found in situations where their honesty and capacity are thoroughly tested and rewarded. Merchants, manufacturers, banks, trust companies, lawyers, mechanics, all kinds and classes of industry are open for them, and they have established for themselves such a reputation as a class that they are almost certain to find employment.”

Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens was re-elected president of the institution; vice president, J. B. Moorhead; secretary, Samuel Bell, and treasurer, G. Theodore Roberts. Miss McHenry was again placed at the head of the Board of Managers, and William M. Hugg reappointed superintendent.

The expenses of carrying on the institution during 1878 amounted to $25,930.08, the receipts being $26,843.77. At the close of the reading of the reports Major Moses Veale of Post 2, G.A. R., delivered a speech complimentary of the institution.

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