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The Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home (ISOH) opened its doors on June 17, 1869 with 180 children in residence and one main building. Mrs. Virginia C. Ohr, a widow of a Civil War veteran, served as the home's first superintendent. Her tenure was controversial and included accusations of mistreatment of the children. [2]
The Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School opened in 1869 as a home for the orphaned children of soldiers who had died in war. The Children's Village was built in 1930-31 as housing for children aged 3–8, as the school aimed to divide its housing by age.
An old soldiers' home is a military veterans' retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc.
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Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers; Masonic Widows and Orphans Home; Memorial Foundation for Children; Mercy Home for Boys and Girls; Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children; Mooseheart, Illinois
Billy Sunday was born near Ames, Iowa.His father, William Sunday, was the son of a German Americans named Sonntag, who had anglicized their name to "Sunday" when they settled in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.William Sunday was a bricklayer who worked his way to Iowa, where he married Mary Jane Corey, daughter of "Squire" Martin Corey, a local farmer, miller, blacksmith, and wheelwright. [2]
Before "A Hallowed Home for Heroes'" TV debut, the documentary will be shown in two in-person screenings, at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave., and at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 ...
He was a United States pension agent in Chicago, Illinois, from March 18, 1890, until November 4, 1893. [1] He moved to Normal, Illinois, in 1899, to serve as superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. He subsequently received appointment as governor of the National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers in Danville, Illinois. [1]