Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Orphans High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Knightstown, IN)

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ffgeeggisjf 13 A' ' S? 1 'VN of the same year md It wIs dedlcated June 23 1892 The follovulng purchases of land for the use of the Home have been made and together eonstItute the Home farm Ac mfs M'u'ch1 186 Aprll 20 IWI 1'VIIIIray est Itel Aprll 1890 fMorrI estatel AprIl 1-49 lRxmsey Istxtrl Fotal Home farm '7 1892 893 1894 9: 1896 1897 South row of boys cottages bullt and occupled makIng18 dIvIsIons In all 12 of boys and 6 of gIrls The hot water plant was put In Hospltal The old chapel was converted Into sehool bulldlng Water plant enlarged lead tank placed In attle of maIn buIldIng Iron foot brIdge buIlt Coal provIded low gas pressure Free admlsslon of e100 chIl dren to Roblnson s Cxrcus New dynamo and engIne Installed HIghest enrollment In the hIstory of the Home Jan 22 189s and contln umg for nIne days 644 The H0 pur chased cleared and dralned and the '13 acres south of barns and garden purchased total acreage 242 Two story hospltal veranda buIlt bv Home carpenter and bovs Feed water heat er and pIIrIfIeI Installed In englne house Jraduatmg Class of 22 Sermus hre In mam kltehe n has shortage from low temperature lb below lero Wood burned under bollers VIsItIng Lt gIsI l.tU1S hear Queen Fsther 9944 1890 1900 9 902 190 3 904 905 00? 1907 LINCOLN HAI I Twenty two graduates New greenhouse bullt H feet by 214 feet 11 feet hIgh In eenter in grad uates Steam heat substItuted for gas stove s In prIvate rooms Wood often used under boIlers Gas explosIon In DIVI sIon 17 Water system enlarged hlewated 50 000 gallon steel tank buIlt Dean pump Installed Marrxage of Hon WIll fumback and Mms Waehtstetter SQTIOUS shortage of gas Plre nearly destroyed Cottage II Great storm at the Home lune 21th Damages paxd by Gov Durbm from emergency fund Small pox seourge at Kmghtstown 81 cases Nom at the Home Mamtenance approprlatlon 99: 000 00 RefrlgeratmgplantInstalled Wooden sllo bullt and filled Steel ceIlIng In chlldren s dlmng room Marble Vlo saIc fioor In mam buIldIng Foun taIn and walk west of mam buIldIng New manual traInIng bulldlng ereeted and equlpped Stately fence of con erete posts and two Ineh gas plpe bullt Orchard planted upon Gov Durhm s recommendatIon FIVE day cert momes at Commencement New fence extended and Iron gates added Iumber and plpe rouse bullt I' el problem Coal purchased Cmnery bullt and equlpped FlectrIe lIght system thoroughly made over 4000 volumes In lIbrary axon annual 'lS 1909 0 ll 9 ll' 0 '14 lt, I' appropIIatIon for llbrary FIscal year changed to end September 30th Death of bupt A I-I Graham mourned 71119 Home Dr W T S of Franklm chosen bupermtendent lhlrteen trades taught New coal house erected Blble Study to the front General C Italogue of the Home prepared E tensIon of smoke stack Malntenance approprlatlon S5100 000 00 DHIFV barn made a model one Cement walks lald More than S10 000 turned baek Into state treasury The gradu ates general theme The Book of Matthew t Iandehlldre n admltted Enrollment ehanges from tlt-!LllY'1L to Increase Gam of 43 Not a slngle death In the Home In the year Many mInor Improvements made Reeeptlon to Dr O E Hollo way at Commeneement Graduates general theme An OutlIne VIGW of the lllble RI al estate valuatlon S315 857 34 llumbmg and broom makmg trades added IsI001ldfIdltl0Y1 to 11091311181 for b IbIes New fenelng on arm Rotatlon of crops Installed I ak: Improved Dfldllllng' tIle lald on farm FlectrIc plant changed new englnfs new dynamos Play ground Ipparatus for glrls Installed New Iqulpment of type Wlfltlng' ma alum s Complete motIon plcture out lIt Installed lhxee new metal washers and dnv tumbler In laundry Concrete , - . ,. 1 A1 .' 1 .1 ' er 2' - I L .. 'A '. ' - ' . 5. . , L A L . . U I L, - LU., I , . ' ' .' . ly . . . . tott, f,.. . . 1 ,, . Q .- . 7. ...., ...,,.,.... . .. ., 54 ' ' ' ' V H H . , , . U , , .. . ' - IZ -. ..,... ..... . In - - - - ', ' 's : .... . , ..... .,... 8 0 ,' , ,, ' ' ,' , ', 1 . '11 - ...... .. ....,... :Ia 1.01, -, ' -'- 52. , , . X, ' ,.... .. ,,,, . ,. ,,.,, .,.... 2 4- ', - - . . ' . .' . .. . , . ' D I ' ' , 1 1 Y 1 -- - A- 1.1. U ' 1 . 1 ' ' ' . . . .. - e .. - s ' ' - W' s v 1 - . . ' ., ' . , -:' , ' f ' an ' ' .I . 1-. - I . 3 - A . - 1.11. I- - - . .1 , , ... . . ' ' I ' 3 .S vu' I . . ' 7 '- .3. ' ' ' . T, . . If L.. - ' I ' . . - I f . fi I . I' .' I ' . ' ' . . . ' 1:45. ' f 1 ' ' ' ' . ' I - ' I '-- . ' I - , . . . . , ' ' . vs H .' s ' ' ' I ' - . , 1 .' ,. I 1 I - . .. 1.13. , . ,.. . . J ' ' . . 1- . . ' . . ', ' I .3 ' ' . , , - , I - .A . ' ' 1 . - . - . - f. I -' f . 5' . - - ' G ' . x I ' A A Y' .' . . 1 .. I . ' . 1 ' ' - - . C ' ,'., 'L. I - ' gs, ' - I . I ' . ' ' ' ' - -. 1. I. . - ' ' . ' . 'uf a I ' .' ' .' 1. 1' , ' . , . ,I .l.I. A - ' I4 - ' I.. ' I 5 .A. t L. , . ' ' I. , , ' ' . 5 ,

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,Mi v- orphans taken from the Orphans Asylum of that exty Ina short txme she had the full number ttenj from different part of the State all wlthout frxends to care for th4 m In Apxll 18641 Mlss Fussell moyed to the Ixnlghtstown Sprlngs and wlth het lxttle famlly occupied a llttle cottage on tne hlll on the east slde of the road tnear the pre ent I lncoln Halll and here we fmd the hrst Soldlexs Orphans Home at this place whlle the Soldlers Home had just been located by prly ate enterpllse 111 the hotel on the opposlte slde of the load When the State assumed control of the Home m March 1864 theI egnslature appomt ed Henry B Hull Charles S Hubbard and Wxlllam Hannaman Trustees and the follow Ing classes were admitted to the Home 1 Totally dlsabled soldlers and seamen Z Partially dlsabled soldlers and seamen 2 Orphans under lifteen years of age of deceased soldners tnelther father nor mother hvmgj Orphans f the same elass woe mothers are llylng Wldows of deceased soldners The Trustees appointed Dr M M W1ShHlll long ldentlhed wlth this Home the tnst Superintendent Here hoveeyer Mlss Fussell llved for ten years wlth her charge of ten orphans Independent of the State Home x cept that they attended the schools estab lished by the State They mamtamed a se p arate famlly hfe whe rem they '-0 nearly for got that they were orphans that they often spoke of the others 'ts theorphans Mlss Fussell has passed over the rlver to he r rest and reward but she llye d long enough to see SLHOOI BUII DINQ most of her chlldren happlly marrled and ln homesof thelr own all blessmg her forthe care and helpful mfluence she had exerted on thexr Voung llves Mr Merrltt who IS rellable authorlty fol these statements bore wltness to the falth fulness and unselhshne s of that noble band of men and women who during the time he was an observe r of the worle had charge of the Soldiers Orphans Home In a short tlme the number of admxssmons was so great that more room was re qulred md fue acres of ground east of the road and dlrectly opposite the hotel Home were pur fhased and a new bulldlng erected thereon at a Lost of nfty QIX thousand dollars Him 0003 To this new bulldxng the old soldners were transferred and the ehlldren were left ln the hotel In 1870 however the chnldren so far out numbered the old soldlers that they ex change d quarters the chlldren takmg the new Home and the soldlers returrlng to the Hotel lfazly onthrlstmas mormng 1841 the old hotel was burned and soon thereafter the soldlers were remoyed to the Natlonal M111 tatv Home at Dayton Ohlo Th1s left the orphans m full possessxon of the Home untxl ln 1849 an asylum for feeble mmded chlldren was attached to the lnstxtutlon This contln UtKlUY1tll the Ieglslature of 1884 separated them sendmg the feeble mmded tMay 141 to Rlchmond leaymg the orphans sole pos ess ors of the ground agam whlch arrangement stlll contlnues The Home has been twice burned rust on the Nth of September ls 4 t ab t 11 1 eloele p m the building was dlseoveled to J be on the Although nearly all were sleeping soundly when the alarm was glven those m charge gave themselves so energetlcally to the worle ot savmg the chlldren that no one was lost Wlth commendable zeal the Trus tees began to bulld at onee and ln Septem ber 1848 the new bulldmg was agam occu pled The second fire occurred on July 21 18861 at P o eloele p m There was no loss of hfe but the bulldmg and most of Its contents were eonsumed Temporary shelter was lm medlately provlded for the chlldren maklng them as comfortable as posslble under the clr cuvnstanees ln beptember the Trustees rented the Valley House ln Kmghtstown orphans were removed there while the feeble mmded chxldren were assigned the frame school bulldmg upon the Home grounds The contract for rebunldmg was let at once and wlth characterlstlc promptness the Trus tees pushed the work to completlon The eorne rstone was lald on the 17th day of Noy ember 188b and June 28 1887 the south wlng was completed and occupled The re mammg part of the Admlmstratlon Bulldmg was oceupled as rapldlv as the halls and rooms were hmshed The new school bulldlng was completed m Ianuary and on the 6th day of February 1?ss8 the chlldren took possesslon The older of the two 1ndustr1alBulld1ngs was erected ln the year 1'Nts The three cottages on the east lde of L ottage Park were bullt In the ye n lsrsfb md three on the south snde were added mn the year 1891 lmeoln Hall was begun ln October 1891 The eonnnstone was lald on November 3rd and the soldlers temporarlly to .II,I EK I, , . 5 V X ,I I V as ' - L 31 V .sz , '-A. , ' e -.. 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