Financial Records, 1915-1957.

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Financial Records, 1915-1957.

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The collection consists of two bound journals and one folder of correspondence and reports. The journals record the investments and income for the trusts and payments to the Boston Children's Aid Society and its successors. The folder consists of correspondence between the trust administrators and the Society.

2 bound volumes and 1 folder (.25 linear feet).

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7784365

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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Boston Children's Aid Society

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The Boston Children's Aid Society was founded in 1863 to provide temporary reformative care for children and to bind them out to appropriate families. It later provided homes for destitute children as well. By 1900 it had closed its three homes and began to provide foster and medical care for needy children. In 1923 it merged with the Boston Society for the Care of Girls to form the Children's Aid Association, later to become the Boston Children's Service Association. From the descri...

Huntington Institute for Orphan Children.

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Ralph Huntington of Boston died in 1866 and left a charitable trust called the Huntington Institute for Orphan Children to provide care and maintenance for needy orphaned children. The Trust would operate through the medium of other child care agencies beginning in 1915. It provided funds to the Boston Children's Aid Society for the purpose of assisting some of the orphaned children in their care. From the description of Financial Records, 1915-1957. (University of Massachusetts at B...