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04-09-08 Mom says while she was at the orphanage (St Joseph) she didn't remember any of the sisters passing away. There was a cemetery on the grounds, babies from hospital buried there and some older folks that lived on the orphanage grounds.
Milroy, Mary W. obit says she had a maternity home at 152 Northeast Tenth Street.
Orphanages and other homes for children have long fueled the imaginations and fantasies of young people. In the first book of its kind, award-winning nonfiction author Catherine Reef uncovers the true history of orphanages.
An orphanage might have been located in the heart of an American city, but the children inside lived apart from the world around them. The orphanage became a home, school, and church, and the boys and girls who lived there rarely ventured beyond its confines. The outside community called them asylum children. Source: p 26 Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America By Catherine Reef, Published by Clarion Books, 2005 ISBN-10: 0-618-35670-3
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November 7, 1907 p 3
Children Weep; Forced To Part
...United Provident association (either an orphanage or placement service)
November 22, 1907 p 4
Child Left On Train Adopted
Wife of Conductor Will Be Mother To Waif Left In Oklahoma City
Special to The Oklahoman
Shawnee, Okla., Nov 21 - Mrs. J. M. Buchanan, wife of a Rock Island conductor of
this city, has adopted the child deserted by its mother on a Rock Island train
in Oklahoma City, November 5. She has christened it Polinas (sp?), a family
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December 31, 1901 For An Orphanage - The wholesale liquor dealers of the territory have agreed to donate $20,000 for the purpose of building somewhere in the territory an orphans' home. The retail liquor dealers have also agree that they will provide and maintain the orphanage after it has been established. These seems to be a good offer and Oklahoma City ought to secure it.
January 28, 1904 "I am frequently asked," said Mrs. N. E. Bon, police matron, to an Oklahoman reporter yesterday, "if the Waif's Anchorage is connected with the Amie Rescue home. I will say to you, for publication, that it is not. It is under the same management, with the same matron and assistants, but is in a separate building and as much separated as through in a different part of the city. This orphanage will be known as "Amie, the Waif's Anchorage." It is a department of our work that the rapid growth of our rescue work and my own work as police matron have necessitated. Our orphan homes are full and cannot take all kinds of children. It is a month before some children in our city, especially from the slums district, are really fit to be cast into a home of orphan children.
"We are situated so that we can watch them, break them from running away, of chewing, smoking and other bad habits that exist among so many children in this city that are in need of a home.
"We have today fifteen children, some very sweet spirited and bright children, all for adoption at the proper time and to the right parties.
"One thing we insist upon, that people who adopt our children must educate them and bring them up right.
"We find the girls in reformatories usually have very little or no education, and the great majority of the criminals of our land lack a common school education.
"These children have four hours daily in the school room and are also trained to housekeeping, music and everything that will fit them for useful life.
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"We need groceries, wood and coal, meat and clothing, new and old. Visitors will be cheerfully received by our matron, Mrs. Mathews.
January 14, 1904 Oklahoman news article ...orphanage and rescue work at 502 West Main street...for the benefit of the Amie Rescue Home and Orphanage...and Miss Mallor's orphanage northwest of town...
March 5, 1904 Oklahoman news article ...Oklahoma City has three orphanages and a rescue home and many destitute people outside these institutions... Miss Mallory's Orphanage, Miss Bond's Orphanage and rescue home and the Capital Hill Orphanage are all known.
March 16, 1904
July 15, 1904 Orphanage Work...ladies of Epworth addition organized a union missionary society and have been doing good work for Miss Mallory's orphanage...
August 25, 1904 Mrs. Matthews, the matron of the Amie Rescue Home and Orphanage...there are now fifteen girls and six babies at the institution...
May 15, 1906 Rescue and Orphanage Com'n to Oklahoma Orphanage, $6000, E half SE 18-12-3 May 6
May 24, 1905 Oklahoma Orphanage to Wm. E. Phillips, part se 20 13 8 w; $375
November 15, 1906 ...[fire] alarm was received from 230 Pottawatomie, where a barn in the rear of the Baptists' orphanage had been set afire...
October 13, 1906 The Oklahoma Orphanage to W. F. Hammond, $492; block 6, Beula H. June 9
September 26, 1907 (appears to be a real estate sale) The Oklahoma Orphanage to R. B. Beall, $400; building 800 ft. S of N. E. cor. of block W. to S. W. cor. N. to part 300 ft. S of N. W. cor., thence E. to place of beginning; Jan. 21-07
Nov 15 1907 p 5 Rescue Home to be continued...W.C.T.U. (Women's Christian Temperance Union) will raise funds to help fallen and despondent women...appointed a committee to confer with churches, and other organizations and C. H. Crittenden, founder of the Florence Crittenden homes.
The Oklahoma City Rescue Home was abolished as a result of the discontinuance of a $50 a month donation from the city council caused by the refusal of the matron of the home to care for a negro woman sent to the home by the police matron.
Nov 19, 1907 p 1 Epworth To Be Much Enlarged
Intended to Expend $5,000,000 on Campus of Methodist University
Epworth universitys (sic) campus will contain 32 buildings, representing an expenditure of $5,000,000, if the dream of George H. Bradford, chancellor of Epworth, is realized.
Work upon a girl's hall...will represent an expenditure of $80,000, will be begun not later than June 1 and a science hall also will be added next year... (continue on page 5) I couldn't find it
June 22, 1909 p 2 Whitaker May Resign, Orphan Home Superintendent Has Board Request Founded on Friction. W. T. Whitaker, superintendent and founder of the Whitaker Orphan Home at Pryor Creek, now a state institution, has given his resignation to the board of trustees. It is understood that members of the board pressed him to do so because of alleged constant friction between him and the board over accounts.
December 18, 1909 p 12 Masons Want Tract. Senator Robert L. Owen of Muskogee has introduced a bill in the senate permitting the Masons of Oklahoma to be granted the preference right to a tract of Indian land near El Reno, Okla. which was originally purchased by the town of El Reno as the site for a Baptist college but which the Masons now desire to purchase for the location of a Masonic orphanage. The Masons, through Grand Master H. L. Muldrow of Tishomingo, have offered to pay $73,000 for the land.
January 8, 1910 p 12 Whitaker Orphans Home, Pryor Creek, Oklahoma...State Board of Public Affairs will receive propals...for the erection of two cottages, power house, ice and cold storage house, laundry machinery, installation of heating, plumbing, and electrial light and power, for the Whitaker Orphans Homes...
January 13, 1910 p 9 Orphanage Bill Passes - Washington, D.C. Jan 12 - Representative Morgan's bill providing that Masons of Oklahoma may purchase the Cheyenne-Arapahoe school building and 640 acres of ground near El Reno for $73,000 has passed the lower house of congress. The Masons propose to convert _____ buildings into an orphanage and industrial school for the children of Oklahoma.
May 3, 1910 Orphanage Proposed ... Rev Theophile Meerschaert, bishop of Oklahoma, has issued a call to all the constituent parishes of the Oklahoma diocese for donations...to a fund which will be used for the erection of an orphan asylum, which will be an interdenominational institution. The orphanage will be located six miles northwest of the residence of the bishop and just beyond the Putnam City and adjacent to the proposed boulevard which will encircle the city and will have the advantage of the El Reno Interurban railway. The tract covers 28 acres.
June 7, 1910 ...county commissioners act favorably on a proposition...to send [delinquent boys] to M. M. Malloy, the proprietor of the Oklahoma orphanage at Putnam City... The proposed site [orphanage] is one mile and a half west of Putnam City, and includes 240 acres of ground.
June 29, 1910 The Oklahoma Orphanage to R. D. Boyd, $3,500 N 1/2 block 9 Beulah Hts 6-4
July 3, 1910 Oklahoman news article ...Tags will be sold on street Thursday, the proceeds to go to enlarge charitable institution in Putnam City. ...Mrs. Mollie Malloy is matron of the orphanage, which was established fifteen years ago. The directors of the orphanage recently have made plans for more........ -- see image saved of article /obit/images
July 5, 1910 Oklahoman news article ...July 7, is "Button Day"...object is to get the people interested in the charitable work of helping the unfortunate and to create a fund to pay the expenses of conducting the Oklahoma Orphanage, an institution which takes care of thirty-five girls and boys... The orphanage in Putnam City is conducted by Miss Mollie Mallory, who has given her life's work to this cause, and she receives no salary or compensation for her labors, except that of the belief that she is doing a good charitable work... The orphanage is not self-sustaining and because of this fact a campaign for funds was decided on...connected with management of the orphanage are: Mesdames Rebecca Beatty, N. S. Gillian, W. R. Clement, W. J. Pettee, A. Morris, Thomas Martin, J. H. Marshall, T. W. Richard and F. M. Wardnell.
July 9, 1910 Oklahoman news article ...Button Day Nets Home Neat Sum, Women and Children Secure Nearly $400 for Orphanage...
December 12, 1910 ...Oklahoma orphanage at Bethany...Mrs. Mattie M. Mallory, superintendent of the orphanage...
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