Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans Home
Orphanages--Soldiers--American Civil War (1861-1865)Gold, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1818-1906
Orphanages--Soldiers--American Civil War (1861-1865)--Storrs (inhabited place)--Connecticut (state)--Gold, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1818-1906
<a href="https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/1004" show="New" actuate="OnRequest">Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans Home Records finding aid</a>. One manuscript volume of daily activities at the Home, recorded by the Secretary of the Home, T. S. Gold, and several publications.
The General Assembly chartered the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home in May 1864. Edwin Whitney of Mansfield, 'who had nearly completed a fine large building for a boys' school, offered this building with the farm of fifty acres, all valued at $12,000 or $15,000, as a gift to the Home.' Edwin Whitney conveyed by deed, title to the property to the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home, September 24, 1866. Mr. Gold was the first, and apparently the only, secretary of the Home during its existence from October, 1866, to May, 1875.
Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
The Daily Journal is part of the collection located at the Mansfield Historical Society, 954 Storrs Road, Storrs, CT (http://www.mansfieldct-history.org/).
Connecticut. General Assembly (Creator)
1864-1875
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administrative records
20002:MHS20160001
local: Mansfield Historical Society
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:MHS20160001
Storrs (inhabited place)
Connecticut (state)
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