HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES AND HUNDREDS 431
THE HOME FOR FRIENDLESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN
To Mrs. J. Taylor Gause is due the credit of founding this deserving charity. Soon after the opening of the Civil War Mrs. Gause was impressed with the need of an institution where the children of parents of insufficient means might be cared for and especially the children of soldiers who were then engaged in the Civil War. Through Mrs. Cause's efforts the first home for children was established in a dwelling house at No. 412 King Street. Several kind-hearted women joined with Mrs. Gause in the movement and in less than a year from the opening of the Home fifty children had found shelter beneath its roof. A charter was obtained in March, 1863. Under it the trustees of the home were authorized to receive children voluntarily surrendered by their parents, or to admit children by the order of the courts. At first the Home was supported entirely by private subscriptions. In the course of time several bequests were made and from the latter an income was derived. Subsequently the General Assembly of the State provided for an annual appropriation by the Levy Court of the county. In 1865 a plot of ground was bought by the Home at the southeast corner of Ninth and Adams streets.
On it was a large brick building that had been built some years before by Rev. Thomas M. Cann as a boarding school. This building was changed in minor respects and well suited the purposes of the Home. The Home continued at this location until 1888 when a new building was erected on a plot of ground near Riverview Cemetery, and to this location the Home was moved in 1889. Since its inception several hundred inmates have been admitted, and no benevolent undertaking in the city has brought forth better results than the work maintained for forty years by the managers of this Home.
THE HOME FOR FRIENDLESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN
To Mrs. J. Taylor Gause is due the credit of founding this deserving charity. Soon after the opening of the Civil War Mrs. Gause was impressed with the need of an institution where the children of parents of insufficient means might be cared for and especially the children of soldiers who were then engaged in the Civil War. Through Mrs. Cause's efforts the first home for children was established in a dwelling house at No. 412 King Street. Several kind-hearted women joined with Mrs. Gause in the movement and in less than a year from the opening of the Home fifty children had found shelter beneath its roof. A charter was obtained in March, 1863. Under it the trustees of the home were authorized to receive children voluntarily surrendered by their parents, or to admit children by the order of the courts. At first the Home was supported entirely by private subscriptions. In the course of time several bequests were made and from the latter an income was derived. Subsequently the General Assembly of the State provided for an annual appropriation by the Levy Court of the county. In 1865 a plot of ground was bought by the Home at the southeast corner of Ninth and Adams streets.
On it was a large brick building that had been built some years before by Rev. Thomas M. Cann as a boarding school. This building was changed in minor respects and well suited the purposes of the Home. The Home continued at this location until 1888 when a new building was erected on a plot of ground near Riverview Cemetery, and to this location the Home was moved in 1889. Since its inception several hundred inmates have been admitted, and no benevolent undertaking in the city has brought forth better results than the work maintained for forty years by the managers of this Home.
HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES AND HUNDREDS 431
THE HOME FOR FRIENDLESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN
To Mrs. J. Taylor Gause is due the credit of founding this deserving charity. Soon after the opening of the Civil War Mrs. Gause was impressed with the need of an institution where the children of parents of insufficient means might be cared for and especially the children of soldiers who were then engaged in the Civil War. Through Mrs. Cause's efforts the first home for children was established in a dwelling house at No. 412 King Street. Several kind-hearted women joined with Mrs. Gause in the movement and in less than a year from the opening of the Home fifty children had found shelter beneath its roof. A charter was obtained in March, 1863. Under it the trustees of the home were authorized to receive children voluntarily surrendered by their parents, or to admit children by the order of the courts. At first the Home was supported entirely by private subscriptions. In the course of time several bequests were made and from the latter an income was derived. Subsequently the General Assembly of the State provided for an annual appropriation by the Levy Court of the county. In 1865 a plot of ground was bought by the Home at the southeast corner of Ninth and Adams streets.
On it was a large brick building that had been built some years before by Rev. Thomas M. Cann as a boarding school. This building was changed in minor respects and well suited the purposes of the Home. The Home continued at this location until 1888 when a new building was erected on a plot of ground near Riverview Cemetery, and to this location the Home was moved in 1889. Since its inception several hundred inmates have been admitted, and no benevolent undertaking in the city has brought forth better results than the work maintained for forty years by the managers of this Home.
THE HOME FOR FRIENDLESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN
To Mrs. J. Taylor Gause is due the credit of founding this deserving charity. Soon after the opening of the Civil War Mrs. Gause was impressed with the need of an institution where the children of parents of insufficient means might be cared for and especially the children of soldiers who were then engaged in the Civil War. Through Mrs. Cause's efforts the first home for children was established in a dwelling house at No. 412 King Street. Several kind-hearted women joined with Mrs. Gause in the movement and in less than a year from the opening of the Home fifty children had found shelter beneath its roof. A charter was obtained in March, 1863. Under it the trustees of the home were authorized to receive children voluntarily surrendered by their parents, or to admit children by the order of the courts. At first the Home was supported entirely by private subscriptions. In the course of time several bequests were made and from the latter an income was derived. Subsequently the General Assembly of the State provided for an annual appropriation by the Levy Court of the county. In 1865 a plot of ground was bought by the Home at the southeast corner of Ninth and Adams streets.
On it was a large brick building that had been built some years before by Rev. Thomas M. Cann as a boarding school. This building was changed in minor respects and well suited the purposes of the Home. The Home continued at this location until 1888 when a new building was erected on a plot of ground near Riverview Cemetery, and to this location the Home was moved in 1889. Since its inception several hundred inmates have been admitted, and no benevolent undertaking in the city has brought forth better results than the work maintained for forty years by the managers of this Home.
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