Papers, [ca. 1929]-1945.

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Papers, [ca. 1929]-1945.

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Records of the North Carolina Florence Crittenton Industrial Home, Charlotte, kept by Wilson, a member of the board of directors. Wilson was the daughter of Dr. John L. Caldwell, president of Queens College (1911-16) and great-great-great granddaughter of the Alexander Craighead, minister of Rocky River (1758-60) and Sugaw Creek (1758-66) Presbyterian churches. Her husband, George E. Wilson Jr., was mayor of Charlotte (1929-31) and they were charter members of Myers Park Presbyterian Church. The collection consists of the following items: 8-page handwritten description of the home (n.d.); 2-page typed history of the home (ca. 1929); proposed bylaws (1940); and unsigned carbon copy of "Certificate of Amendment to the Charter of Charlotte Crittenton Home" (1945).

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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National Florence Crittenton Mission

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The first Florence Crittenton home, the Florence Night Mission, was opened in 1883 on New York City's Bleeker Street by Charles Nelson Crittenton, a wealthy New York merchant. Crittenton founded the mission in memory of his daughter, Florence, who had died at the age of four. The purposes of this home were to reform "fallen women" and preach salvation and hope to and provide shelter for unmarried, pregnant women and girls. With the success of the Bleeker Street mission, Crittenton b...

North Carolina Florence Crittenton Industrial Home (Charlotte, N.C.)

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Wilson, Lyda Caldwell.

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