Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten records, 1899-1938 [manuscript].

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Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten records, 1899-1938 [manuscript].

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Papers relating to the organization, administration, and financing of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten in Savannah, Ga. The project, started in 1899 by George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927) and his sisters as a memorial to their mother, was continued by his children and grew into a city-wide system of kindergartens. Papers include minutes of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten Association and correspondence of George Hull Baldwin and other members of the Baldwin family with Hortense M. Orcutt (d. 1936) and other officials of the association and supervisors of the kindergarten.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Orcutt, Hortense M., d. 1936.

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Hortense M. Orcutt was born in Conway, Massachusetts and was the daughter of William Baker and Mary Elizabeth Orcutt. She attended the Ethical Cultural School in New York, New York where she studied to become a kindergarten teacher. Orcutt worked as a kindergarten teacher and principals of kindergarten programs in New York before accepting the position of supervisor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten program in Savannah, Georgia. Orcutt held this job until her death in Savannah in 1936. The K...

Baldwin, George Johnson, 1856-1927.

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George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927), capitalist and civic leader, was born in Savannah, Ga. An 1877 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began his career as a chemist, but quickly became associated with diverse industries and companies, especially Stone & Webster, a Boston, Mass., firm of electrical engineers, financiers, and managers of street railway and public utilities companies. During World War I, Baldwin lent his business expertise to the shipping and shipbuilding indu...

Baldwin, George, 1743?-1826

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1760 travelled to Cyprus; 1763-1768 travelled to Acre; 1768 returned to England; 1768-c 1773 explored possible routes to India via the Red Sea; 1774 travelled to Cairo via the holy caravan from Mecca, then returned to England; 1774 secured employment with the East India Company; 1775-1779 merchant operating out of Cairo; 1786-1796 appointed to Egypt as consul-general; 1798 left Egypt; 1800 advisor to the British Expedition to Egypt. Epithet: author, diplomat and merchant...