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In 1909, Tennessee Orphan Home began in Columbia, Tennessee, to meet the needs of the three Scotten children who were tragically orphaned.In 1934 the Church of Christ Tennessee Orphan Home bought the campus of the former Branham and Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill, and the next year the orphanage was moved there from Columbia.
The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
[22] [page range too broad] Three months after Tann's death, [43] the state of Tennessee sued Tann's estate for $500,000. [44] The case was settled out of court with her beneficiaries ceding two-thirds of her $82,000 estate to the Tennessee Children's Home Society. [43] The Tennessee Children's Home Society was closed in 1950. [45]
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When the orphanage was first established it housed only three children; however, by 1925 the Steele Home had housed over sixteen hundred children. The home was located on Strait and Magnolia in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [1] The Steele Home orphanage was the only orphanage in Chattanooga after Reconstruction that opened to African American ...
Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Inc, a non-profit organization founded in 1891, is a ministry of the churches of the Tennessee Baptist Convention which provides residential care and foster care support for children, as well as family care resources in the state.
Edward Langworthy, American politician, raised in an orphanage; Moctezuma II, ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan; Malcolm X, politician and civil rights activist, raised in an orphanage and foster care; Christopher G. Memminger, German American politician, raised in an orphanage; James Monroe, fifth President of the United States; Eleanor ...
Porter-Leath, formerly known as the Children's Bureau, is a non-profit organization based in Memphis, Tennessee that serves children and families in the area.Porter-Leath was founded in 1850 as an orphanage and has since grown to six program service areas.