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He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U ...
Evandberg Orphanage was established as a guardianship orphanage located in Comal County, Texas approximately 3.5 mi (5.63 km) north of New Braunfels, Texas. The indigent children home was created by a charter enacted into state law by the 2nd Texas legislature on March 16, 1848. [ 1 ]
The Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home was founded by Eva Carroll Monroe in 1898. [3] Monroe had moved to Springfield from Kewanee, Illinois two years earlier and managed to save $125 in that time and place a down payment on the property.
In 1948, the Orphan House was under criticism by the Child Welfare League of America.As a result, the Charleston City Council began to question its operations. Two years later in September 1951, the Charleston Orphan House officially closed [1] and the commissioners of the Orphan House bought roughly 37 acres of a new site called Oak Grove Plantation in North Charleston.
This was the first orphanage constructed in Minnesota. Caroline Magny headed the home. The fourth building of the Vasa Children's Home near what is now Welch, Minnesota, 1907. The home was entirely rebuilt after a tornado demolished it 2 July 1879 in which four children died, and again after a fire caused by a resident child 16 January 1899.
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The Colored Orphan Asylum was founded in Manhattan in 1836 by a group of Quakers [2] led by Anna Shotwell and Mary Murray. It was one of the first of its kind in the United States to take in black children whose parents had died, or were not able to take care of them. [3]
The English colonization of America had been based on the English colonization of Ireland, specifically the Munster Plantation, England's first colony, [6] using the same tactics as the Plantations of Ireland. Many of the early colonists of North America had their start in colonizing Ireland, including a group known as the West Country Men ...