Lincoln Institution, school profile 1886 to 1908

https://www.doi.gov/media/document/vol-ii-appendix-b-school-profiles p. 359 and 360

Commentary: There were actually 3 sites: 11th Street Philadelphia, 49th Street Philadelphia (Educational Home), and Upper Merion (Ponemah). Burial sites: multiple, but mainly at the Philadelphia cemeteries of Woodland and Fernwood. 35 Indian deaths have been identified out of a population of over 800 link.

Commentary: The Lincoln Institution was founded in 1866 as a Civil War Orphans' School for boys with 2 sites at 11th and (later) 49th Street in Philadelphia. In 1884 the Lincoln Institution agreed to take on 100 Indian girls, located at the 11th Street site, and the Ponemah site was created as a summer home. In 1885 the Lincoln Institution agreed to take on an additional 100 Indian boys, who resided at the 49th Street site.

Commentary on graph: The reduction in numbers between 1900 and 1902 was the transition from the second to third phase of the Institution. In 1900 the Insitution downsized in transitioning from a Federally funded to a privately funded school. The capacity of the school was reduced in 1903 with the sale of the Educational Home site.

In 1906, with the death of Mary McHenry Cox, the Institution transitioned to a fourth phase when it became an orphanage for white Protestant boys and the number of Indians quickly reduced to zero.