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Title
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Orphans Reunited
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Description
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The Independent Order Odd Fellows built the Odd Fellows orphanage in Liberty, Missouri, "to provide a place to care for and educate the orphans of their membership. It was not the intent of the Odd Fellows to adopt the children out." The location of the orphanage was a former 1890s resort and 108-room Winner Hotel. The hotel was refurbished as both an orphanage and old folks home. After a fire, a new building was built around 1900 and a separate building was built as a retirement home. Former orphans recount their experiences at the home and now hold an annual reunion.
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Date
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2004-01-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Somewhere over the Rainbow: Children of the Orphan Trains
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Description
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Article about trains of orphan children arriving in Kansas from the East Coast between 1854 and 1930, with photos and description of causes and results of the phenomenon, mostly due to "the social ills of overpopulated living."
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri State Odd Fellows Home
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Description
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Description and photograph of the Missouri State Odd Fellows Home located near Liberty, Missouri. The building was dedicated May 24, 1895, and had been the Winner Hotel, "an eighty-room edifice, a product of the great Winner boom of 1887, built for a resort at Reed Mineral Springs." Manheim Goldman of Liberty was responsible for securing the institution for Clay County. "In February, 1900, the building burned. Each Odd Fellow in the State was taxed $1.00 for a new building, which was opened in 1901." A farm of 250 acres belonged to the home, and it also had school facilities, its own hospital, Sunday School and church services.
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Date
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1922
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me
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Description
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Article tells about "How the Good Sisters at St. Anthony's Home Endeavour to Obey the Divine Precept-Grave and Humorous Incidents in the Careers of a Big City's Infantile Glotsam and Jetson." The stories of several abandoned children are told in melodramatic fashion.
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Date
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2009
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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The Legacy of C.B. Irwin and The Y-6 Ranch
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Description
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Pictures and article about the 25,000 acres of the Y-6 Ranch built by Charles Burton Irwin. C.B., as he was called, was born in Missouri, the son of a blacksmith. Later, C.B. and his wife Etta, went to Wyoming where they founded the Y-6 Ranch northeast of Cheyenne. Among the many ventures Irwin engaged in was the Irwin Bros. Wild West show, which lasted from 1913-1917. C.B. and Etta had three daughters and a son, but adopted and fostered 17 children, many from the Orphan Trains. What motivated Shirley Morris to do a documentary about the family "is how Irwin encouraged his three daughters to become not just champion riders but also overachievers in every area of their lives. This family really should have a very special place in Western history, because it was not just one member of the family that was outstanding, it was the entire family. They each had something to contribute to the West."
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Date
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2011-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
