Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home Records. 1866-1875.

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Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home Records. 1866-1875.

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The General Assembly chartered the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home in May 1864. Edwin Whitney of Mansfield, 'who had nearly completed a fine large building for a boys' school, offered this building with the farm of fifty acres, all valued at $12,000 or $15,000, as a gift to the Home.' Edwin Whitney conveyed by deed, title to the property to the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home, September 24, 1866. Mr. Gold was the first, and apparently the only, secretary of the Home during its existence from October, 1866, to May, 1875.

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Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home.

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Gold, Theodore S.

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"In 1864 there was published in Hartford by the press of Williams, Wiley & Waterman a pamphlet entitled: A Plan for the Mental, Moral and Physical Development of Children. An Appeal to the Statesmen and Philanthropist. The Orphans of the War the Children of the State. It was signed by T.S. Gold and possibly was paid for by him. "The General Assembly accepted the new idea and chartered the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home in May 1864 . Various locations were consid...

Whitney.

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