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Peter Davis (October 25, 1887 – April 29, 1971) [1] was an American musician who gave musical training to disadvantaged youths, including Louis Armstrong, at the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was orphaned at the age of eight and sent to the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans, an institution for orphaned or delinquent boys (about six years previously, Louis Armstrong had also been sent to the Home, after being arrested as a "dangerous and suspicious character"). [3]
Chicago's Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a long-term residential home for troubled young men and women from the streets and abusive homes, has published The Waif's Messenger for more than 100 years. A cartoon waif, an orphan boy, appeared in the 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon A Waif's Welcome. [3]
It was then renamed the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. [5] The school building burned down on April 5, 1920 and a new building was constructed between 1922 and 1923. A separate institution, the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls, was established in a building constructed on the property between 1924 and 1926, also of three stories. [2]
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The home's design is marked by its Second Empire-style mansard roof, round-arched windows, and front porch. [3] It sits up high behind a retaining wall. [3] After the Merriweather Home shuttered in the early 1970s, it was converted to the Marie Key Day Care Center, which operated from 1975 to 1998. [2]
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The Waifs and Stray's Society moved to new offices at the Old Town Hall in Kennington Road in 1909. [5] By 1919 the charity had 113 homes and cared for 5,000 children. A main feature of The Children's Society's work was its insistence that children should not become long-term residents in homes, but boarded out, fostered or adopted. By the late ...