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• The Lincoln Institution

The Lincoln Institution was created and run by Mary McHenry Cox. It had 4 phases. In the first phase (1866 -1884) it was a State-sponsored Civil War Soldier's Orphans' School for white Episcopalian boys; in the second phase (1884 - 1900) it was a Federally-funded Indian School; in the third phase (1900 - 1906) it was a privately-funded Indian School; and in the fourth phase (1907 - 1922) it was privately-funded orphanage for white, protestant boys.

The Lincoln Institution occupied 4 sites, one on 11th Street in center-city Philadelphia; one on 49th Street in Philadelphia called the Educational Home; one in the Dakotas called the Meade Farm; and one spanning the border of Tredyffrin and Upper Merion townships on the Mainline called Ponemah. The Lincoln Institution and the Education Home produced annual reports, many of which have been located and digitized.

• A list of all the documents concerning the Lincoln Institution



Lists of all documents for a specific phase of the Lincoln Institution

• Phase 1
• Phase 2
• Phase 3
• Phase 4


• A list of the newspaper articles concerning the Lincoln Institution
• A list of the documents containing images concerning the Lincoln Institution


• A list of the articles concerning the Lincoln Institution Scholarships


• A list of the Lincoln Institution annual reports.
• A list of the Educational Home annual reports.


• A list of all the documents concerning student deaths in Phase 1
• A list of all the documents concerning student deaths in Phase 2


• A list of all the documents concerning Mary McHenry Cox
• A list of all the documents concerning ad-nen-la-de-ni (Daniel La France)
• A list of all the documents concerning William Hugg
• A list of all the documents concerning Richard Pratt
• A list of all the documents concerning 1900 census returns


• A list of all the documents concerning the Lincoln Institution site
• A list of all the documents concerning the Educational Home site
• A list of all the documents concerning the Ponemah site