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Graham Windham was founded in 1806 when Isabella Graham, the President of the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children, decided to take care of six orphans rather than placing them in the local almshouse.
Orphanages were also set up in the United States from the early 19th century; for example, in 1806, the first private orphanage in New York (the Orphan Asylum Society, now Graham Windham) was co-founded by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. [8]
Elizabeth Hamilton (née Schuyler / ˈ s k aɪ l ər /; August 9, 1757 – November 9, 1854 [1]) was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was the wife of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and was a passionate champion and defender of Hamilton's work and efforts in the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
The Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. founded in 1986 in Springdale, Arkansas preserves the history of the orphan train era. [20] The National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, KS is a museum and research center dedicated to the Orphan Train Movement, the various institutions that participated, and the children and agents who rode ...
Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District (GGUFSD) is a special act school district in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. It teaches disabled and at risk students, with some of them living in a boarding facility. In 2017, its enrollment was 300. [1] It is divided into the following: [2] Ziccolela (ZIC) Elem School; Ziccolela Middle School
It was founded in response to a request in 1920 from the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Public Welfare, seeking representatives of religious social welfare organizations to form an advisory committee across the country. In the 1930s the organization changed its name to the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, seeking to ...
Graham went on to start his own production company, Airship, and he works on four active shows. Two of his shows, “American Scandal” and “American History Tellers,” rank in the top 100 of ...
In 1837, Graham and David Cambell founded The Graham Journal of Health and Longevity. [14] It was "designed to illustrate by facts, and sustain by reason and principles the science of human life as taught by Sylvester Graham". [15] It was edited by Campbell, Secretary of the APR [clarification needed] (1837–1839), and five volumes were published.