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He also was a founder of the Los Angeles Orphans' Home, of the College of Medicine at the University of Southern California and of California Hospital. [1] He was superintendent of the Los Angeles County Hospital in 1885 and was president of the California State Medical Society. [3]
On June 23, 1942, they were bused, under armed guard, with several adult caretakers from Los Angeles to Manzanar. [3] Over the next few months, approximately thirty more children from Washington, Oregon and Alaska, mostly orphans who had been living with non-Japanese foster families, would arrive in Manzanar.
An orphans home, or orphanage, was planned for "the Binford property" in Sonoratown in 1882 when the owner, G.E. Long, sold it to a group of women for $2,100. [15] The Los Angeles Daily Times commented:
Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on May 27, 1902 [b] in Porfirio Díaz (now named Piedras Negras, Coahuila) in Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.Her mother, Della Mae Monroe (née Hogan), was born in Missouri [2] [3] and she was from Bentonville, Arkansas, and her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, was a house painter from Indianapolis.
His other charities included the Boys' Home at Garvanza, the Los Angeles YMCA, a Los Angeles orphan asylum, the Salvation Army Rescue Home, and he raised a fund for the erection of a monument to Spanish–American War veterans in Central Park, now known as Pershing Square. [1]
Odd Fellows Home (Gainesville, Florida) 1893 built Gainesville, Florida "Odd Fellows Home was built in 1893 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. It was subsequently used as a girls school and as the city hospital. In 1914 it became a rest home for aged Odd Fellows and an orphanage. The home was closed in 1966." [15]
Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located east of the Los Angeles River.It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano/Mexican American communities, and is home to cultural landmarks like Mariachi Plaza and events like the annual Día de los Muertos celebrations.
Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow Sofianlehto Orphanage from 1930 in Helsinki, Finland St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia. An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The ...