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Current headquarters. The New York Foundling, founded in 1869 by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, is one of New York City's oldest and largest child welfare agencies. . The Foundling operates programs in the five boroughs of New York City, Rockland County, and Puerto Ri
Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics.
Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when abandoned infants were routinely sent to almshouses with the sick and insane.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.
The New York Catholic Protectory, officially known as the Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children in the City of New York, was a Catholic orphanage in the Bronx, New York City, founded in 1863.
www.scny.org The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York , most often known as the Sisters of Charity of New York , is a religious congregation of sisters in the Catholic Church whose primary missions are education and nursing and who are dedicated in particular to the service of the poor.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York is one of the largest charitable organizations in the New York metropolitan area.It is a federation made up of 90 social service agencies throughout the 10 counties of the Archdiocese of New York - Bronx, Dutchess, New York, Orange, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester.
New York Nursery and Child's Hospital was an obstetrics and pediatrics hospital founded on May 2, 1854 by Mary Ann Delafield DuBois and Ana R. Emmit in New York City. [1] [2] Initially the Hospital served as a foundling home and provided care for New York's working women and their children.