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The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1]
The Home for Aged Masons, formerly known as the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home and the Middle Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital, is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. History [ edit ]
The Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home was formed in 1867 due to a discussion on November 23, 1866, pondering what to do with the number of widows and orphans of Masons caused by the American Civil War; the 1867 founding makes Kentucky's Masonic Widows and Orphans Home the oldest Masonic home in North America. It started when a group of ...
A Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America (1997) ISBN 0674796446; Herman, Ellen. "Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-32760-0; Kleinberg, S. J. Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (2006) ISBN 0252030206; Miller, Julie.
She donated to the Protestant Episcopal Home as well and gave to Jewish charities in New Orleans. In her will she gave to the Seventh Street Protestant Orphan Asylum, the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, the German Orphan Catholic Asylum, the Widows and Orphans of Jews Asylum, and to the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and many others.
Sermon 130: National Sins and Miseries - 2 Samuel 24:16, St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, preached on Sunday, 12 November 12 1775 "for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who lately fell, near Boston, in New England". Sermon 131: The Late Work of God in North America - Ezekiel 1:16
In one court case, he established the principle that the endowment due to widows and orphans of deceased members couldn't be attached or levied upon to satisfy the deceased members' debts. [4] In 1881, Steckler was elected Judge of the Fourth District Court as an Independent. He served as Judge until 1893.
The casualties of American Civil War did more than simply reduce the male population of the country, they also dramatically increased the number of widows and orphans. Many states reacted to the crisis by erecting new (or taking over existing) buildings to "care for, educate and train the children of fallen soldiers."