National Homestead at Gettysburg

The National Homestead at Gettysburg was an orphanage and widows home opened in October 1866[1]:70 (incorporated March 22, 1867)[2] on the Gettysburg Battlefield along Steinwehr Avenue on the north foot of Cemetery Hill. The facility was created by Dr. John F. Bourns after fundraising resulting from the identification of a Battle of Gettysburg casualty's children as Amos Humiston's.[1] In 1867, Ulysses S. Grant was photographed with orphans at the entrance,[3] and an 1870 Pennsylvania bill was used to fund the facility.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Reef, Catharine. Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America. Retrieved 2012-10-19. read the account in November 1863 [and suspected they were] their children, Frank, Alice, and Fred, ages eight, six, and four. p. 70: The Humiston family subsequently resided at the homestead for 3 years until the widow remarried, when they relocated to Massachusetts.
  2. ↑ Beitel, Calvin Gustavus (1874). A Digest of Titles of Corporations Chartered by the Legislature... (Google books). J. Campbell & son. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
  3. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RmsmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Nv8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1656%2C7850029
  4. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GmQmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0P8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4011%2C2911487
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