In addition to receiving funds from the State (when it was a Soldiers' Orphans school) and the Federal Government (when it was an Indian school) the Lincoln Institution received many donations and material gifts from local individuals and organizations. These donations and gifts are listed in the annual reports. This document discusses the donations which were structured as annual scholarships or endowments.
In 1870 Mary McHenry Cox initiated the scholarship scheme for the Lincoln Institution by collecting together donations from her church, Holy Trinity. This scholarship scheme swiftly spread to other Episcopalian churches in the central Philadelphia area. The scholarship information has been extracted from the annual reports of the Lincoln Institute and the Educational Home. For some years, the Lincoln Institution annual report lists the scholarships but not the scholars, while the Educational Home report lists the scholars.
No special treatments for those with a scholarship have been found. The money donated went directly into the Instiution bank accounts.
A scholarship was funded by a donation of $150 or more to the Lincoln Institution (later reduced to $125), or a donation $100 or more to the Educational Home, and later an endowment was funded by a donation of $2,000. In some years some scholarships were not totally funded, but the scholarships continued.
Also note that the dates in this document are the dates of the scholarships, not the dates of the annual reports. For example, the 1874 annual report lists the scholarships for 1873.
The following graph shows the number of scholarships over the lifetime of the Institution. The red bars mark the years where annual reports have been found. Some of the reports do not list information on the scholarships.
The number of scholarships in the 1870s was stable. In 1880 there was a complaint by some of the boys about the corporal punishment at the Institution and a newspaper exposé. The 1881 annual report did not list the students or scholarship. Among the responses to the complaint was a campaign to increase the number of scholarships. The Institution also decided to reduce the number of older boys and that initiative together with the change to become an Indian school caused a rapid reduction in the number of orphans and also the number of scholarships. No Indians were ever named to a scholarship.
Some of the scholarships continued into the 1890s. In the 1910s a number of endowments continued.
| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student |
Dates |
| |
| Church of the Incarnation |
Rev. Joseph D. Newlin (1874) |
Elmer Herbert Butler (1874) |
1874 |
|
| Epiphany |
Miss Platt (1872), Miss McHenry (1873), Mrs. Wm. Henry Trotter (1874 - 1875) |
James McFall (1871) |
1871 - 1880 |
| |
|
Thomas McFall (1872 - 1873) |
|
| |
|
Edward Boswell (1874 - 1878) |
|
| |
|
Edward Krimmell (1879 - 1880) |
|
|
| Holy Trinity |
Mary McHenry Cox (1870 - 1879, 1881 - 1884) |
unnamed (1870) |
1870 - 1885 |
| |
|
Issac Simms (1871) |
|
| |
Mrs. T. R. Tunis (1880, 1882, 1884) |
John Francis (1872 - 1880) |
|
| |
|
Howard Noble (1874) |
|
| |
|
William H. Massey (1881 - 1886) |
|
|
| Memorial Chapel of Holy Trinity |
|
George Glass (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1885 |
| |
|
Wesley Kurtz (1884 - 1886) |
|
|
| Missionary |
Miss Trotter (1873) |
Hugh Roy Toomey (1871 - 1874) |
1871 - 1880 |
| |
|
Harold Harris Hamilton (1875 - 1880) |
|
|
| St. James' |
Miss Platt (1872), Miss Trotter (1873), Miss S. W. Fisher (1874 - 1880, 1884, 1886, 1887) |
John Hill (1871 - 1876) |
1871 - 1894 |
| |
Miss A. B. Coxe (1881 - 1884) |
Samuel Fisher (1887 - 1880) |
|
| |
Miss Rebecca Coxe (1886) |
William McKowen (1881 - 1886) |
|
| |
Mrs. John Drexel (1887) |
Howard Cox (1887) |
|
| |
Mr. Henry W. Wilson (1893, 1894) |
unnamed (1886 - 1894) |
|
| |
|
donation, $59 |
1894 |
| |
|
donation, $32.66 |
1897 |
|
| St. Luke's |
Miss Frazer (1872), Mrs. R. T. Jones (1874), Miss Clara Roberts (1875 - 1876), Mrs. N. Frazier jr. (1878 - 1880) |
David Berry (1871 - 1880) |
1871 - 1886 |
| |
Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison (1881 - 1883) |
William McIlwain (1881 - 1884) |
|
| |
Mrs. Morton P. Henry (1882 - 1883) |
|
|
| |
Mrs. John W. Pepper |
unnamed (1885 - 1886) |
|
|
| St. Mark's |
Mrs. J. E. Thompson and Mrs. Ed. Lowber (1873), Mrs. Henry G. Clay (1874 - 1879) |
Samuel Ritchie (1872 - 1877) |
1872 - 1885 |
| |
|
Henry Hurst (1878 - 1880) |
|
| (at Lincoln Institution) |
Mrs. Elwood Davis (1882 - 1883) |
W. J. Johnson (1881 - 1884) |
|
| (at Lincoln Institution) |
|
James A. Gillen (1885 - 1886) |
|
|
| St. Stephen's |
Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott (1872 - 1880, 1886. 1887) |
Joseph Brown (1872) |
1872 - 1894 |
| |
Mrs. William Lippincott (1882 - 1883) |
William Rapp (1873 - 1879) |
|
| |
|
David Stiles (1880) |
|
| |
Miss Magee (1893, 1894) |
unnamed (1884 - 1894) |
|
| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship Dates |
| |
| Rev. A. C. Abrams |
Mrs. Evan Randolph (1881 - 1883) |
Joseph E. Wilson (1881 - 1884) |
1881 - 1884 |
| |
|
Frank Baird (1884) |
|
|
| Bishop M. A. D. W. Howe, First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, 1871 - 1891 wikipedia |
|
Henry C. Russell (1871) |
1871 - 1880 |
| died 1895 |
|
Charles Hurst (1873 - 1874) |
|
| |
|
George B. Ryan (1875) |
|
| |
|
Aldoph Lambert (1876) |
|
| |
|
Charles Stone (1877 - 1879) |
|
|
| Rt. Rev. T. A. Jaggar, Rector of Holy Trinity church, 1870 - 1875; later Bishop of southern Ohio; died 1912; wikipedia |
Mary McHenry Cox (1881 - 1884) |
Charles E. Packer (1881 - 1885) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
Robert McCormick (1882 - 1883, 1886) |
|
| |
|
Frederick Whiteley (1887) |
|
|
| Rev. Henry J. Morton, Rector of St. James' church, Philadelphia, 1837 - 1887, died 1890 |
Miss A. B. Coxe (1881 - 1884) |
Charles D. Peterson (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1894 |
| |
Miss Rebecca Coxe (1886) |
Ed. Carey (1883 - 1884, 1886) |
|
| |
Mrs. John Drexel (1887) |
John Slider (1887) |
|
| |
Mr. Henry W. Wilson (1893, 1894) |
John Whipple (1893, 1894) |
|
|
| Alonzo Potter, third Episcopalian Bishop of Philadelphia (1845 - 1865), wikipedia |
Miss Israel (1874) |
Harold Hamilton (1874) |
1874 |
|
| Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, fourth Episcopalian Bishop of Philadelphia (1865 - 1887) wikipedia |
Mary McHenry Cox (1881 - 1884) |
Henry Miller (1881 - 1885) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
William Neary (1886) |
|
| |
|
William McIlwain (1887) |
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| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship Dates |
| |
| unnamed |
|
William Brown (1881) |
1881 |
|
| unnamed |
|
Franklin Hill Detroit (1881) |
1881 |
|
| John Bohlen |
|
Thomas Neary (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
Levi Slider (1883 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
Raymond Harper (1887, 1893) |
|
|
| Burnam, Parry & Williams |
Mrs. Evan Randolph (1881 - 1883) |
John Cox Massey (1881 - 1882, 1884 - 1885) |
1881 - 1885 |
|
| Lemuel Coffin |
Miss H. F. Randolph (1881 - 1883) |
Washington Gardner (1881) |
1881 - 1886 |
| |
|
Thomas McCormick (1882, 1884 - 1886) |
|
|
| Samuel V. Cope |
Miss Laura T. Merrick (1874) |
John Gordon Armstrong (1874) |
1874 - 1887 |
| died 1871, aged 13. |
|
Alfred McKnight (1881 - 1884) |
|
| death certificate |
|
Frank Atkins (1885 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
Robert McCormick (1887) |
|
| |
|
John Splicer (1893 - 1894) |
|
|
| Arthur Dick |
|
Robert M. Packer (1874) |
1874 - 1886 |
| |
|
Henry Redrup (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
Edward Werner (1883 - 1884) |
|
| |
|
James B. Carson (1885 - 1886) |
|
|
| Franklin A. Dick |
|
George O. Krimmel (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
Andrew Heath (1884) |
|
| |
|
William Massey (1885 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
William McCuen (1887) |
|
|
| Otis K. Dick |
Mrs. F. A. Dick (1874, 1882 - 1884) |
Victor Hamilton (1874) |
1874 - 1885 |
| |
|
William Perrine (1881 - 1884) |
|
| |
|
John White (1885) |
|
|
| F. A. Drexel jr. |
Miss Drexel (1881 - 1884) |
William Brown (1881) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
Robert Krewson (1882 - 1885) |
|
| |
|
Elmer Sewell (1886) |
|
| |
|
Frank Seeds (1887) |
|
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| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship Dates |
| |
| James C. Fisher jr. |
|
John Francis Brandwith (1874) |
1874 - 1886 |
| |
|
Bernard Wreith (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
James Auchuff (1883) |
|
| |
|
John A. White (1884) |
|
| |
|
Elmer Sewell (1885 - 1886) |
|
|
| Thomas Gordon |
Miss Mary H. Trotter (1874) |
Charles Laurence (1874) |
1874 |
|
| Susan Gorgas No. 1 |
Miss Gorgas (1881 - 1884) |
William S. Pierie (1881 - 1882, 1884 - 1885) |
1881 - 1885 |
| Susan Gorgas No. 2 |
Miss Gorgas (1881 - 1884) |
George G. Pierie (1881 - 1882, 1884 - 1885) |
1881 - 1885 |
| Susan Gorgas No. 3 |
Miss Gorgas (1881 - 1883) |
Harry Pope (1881 - 1882, 1884 - 1886) |
1881 - 1886 |
|
| Mrs. J. C. Harris |
|
William Prince (1884 - 1886) |
1884 - 1886 |
|
Marshall Hill, jr. |
Mr. B. G. Godfrey (1881) |
Robinson Perrine (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1882 |
|
Miss Hinds |
Miss Cora Roberts (1881 - 1882) |
John A. White (1882) |
1882 |
|
| Miss Hutchinson |
Mrs. Jas. Paul jr.(1881) |
William J. Fisher (1881) |
1881 |
|
| Mrs. George T. Lewis |
Mary McHenry Cox (1884) |
William Lewis Carson (1884 - 1887) |
1884 - 1887 |
|
| Henry Lewis |
|
William Neary
William Neary (1881 - 1882, 1884 - 1885) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
Raymond Harper (1886) |
|
| |
|
Edward Carey (1887) |
|
|
| S. Draper Lewis |
|
Charles Johnston (1874) |
1874 - 1886 |
| |
|
Henry B. Smith (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
Charles Auchuff (1883, 1884) |
|
| |
|
James Carrigan (1885 - 1886) |
|
|
| Charles E. Lex |
Miss Borroughs (1873), Miss McHenry (1874) |
Edward Armstrong (1873 - 1874) |
1873 - 1874 |
|
| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship Dates |
| |
| Mrs. J. D. Lippincott No. 1 |
|
John McCormack (1884 - 1885) |
1884 - 1885 |
| Mrs. J. D. Lippincott No. 2 |
|
Arthur McCormack (1884 - 1885) |
1884 - 1885 |
|
| William Lippincott |
|
Joseph Tarbell (1893 - 1894) |
1893 - 1894 |
|
| General Lyon |
|
Charles Lawrence (1881 - 1883) |
1881 - 1884 |
| |
|
James A. Gillen (1884) |
|
|
| Mary McHenry |
|
Ottive Lambert (1871) |
1871 - 1894 |
| aka Mary McHenry Cox |
|
Thomas Bradley (1872 - 1873) |
|
| |
|
Thomas Collins (1874) |
|
| |
|
Edward Armstrong (1875) |
|
| |
|
John Hodge (1876 - 1878) |
|
| |
|
George Vincent (1879) |
|
| |
|
Samuel Williamson (1880) |
|
| |
|
Jeremiah Jago (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
John Slider (1884) |
|
| |
|
John McElby (1885) |
|
| |
|
Frank Seeds (1886) |
|
| |
|
Richard Kelly (1887) |
|
| |
|
William R. Leecy (1893 - 1894) |
|
|
| William Madely |
Miss C. C. Biddle's Bible Class (1874) |
Robert Meeks (1874) |
1874 |
|
| Maginnis |
Mrs. White, Mrs. S. E. Cook, Miss Israel, Miss Key (all 1871) |
John Maginnis (1871) |
1871 - 1874 |
| |
|
unnamed (1874) |
|
|
| General George G. Meade (EH) |
Mrs. F. A. Dick (1874) |
Hugh Livingstone (1873) |
1873 - 1886 |
| |
|
Henry Mason Bumpus (1874) |
|
| |
|
Tobias W. McClelland (1881) |
|
| |
|
Frank Frommer (1882) |
|
| |
|
Charles Slider (1883 - 1886) |
|
| General George G. Meade (LI) |
Miss Israel (1873, 1875 - 1880) |
T. Townsend (1874) |
1874 - 1880 |
| (wikipedia) |
|
William Collins (1875 - 1878) |
|
| |
|
William Watt (1879 - 1880) |
|
|
| J. Hartley Merrick |
Mrs. S. V. Merrick (1874) |
John Marshall (1874) |
1874 - 1894 |
| died 1874 |
Miss Laaura T. Merrick (1881) |
Howard Noble (1881 - 1883) |
|
| |
|
George E. Atkins (1884) |
|
| |
|
William Carson (1885 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
James Carrigan (1887) |
|
| |
|
Tom Smoke (1893 - 1894) |
|
|
| Lucy W. Merrick |
|
Edward B. Williamson (1881) |
1881 - 1894 |
| |
|
William H. Patterson (1882 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
Thomas McCormick (1887) |
|
| |
|
Eddie Carey (1893) |
|
| |
|
James Jarvis (1894) |
|
|
| Samuel V. Merrick, died 1870 |
Miss Laura T. Merrick (1874) |
H. R. Hurst (1874) |
1874 - 1894 |
| |
|
Samuel Williamson (1881) |
|
| |
|
Franklin Hill Detroit (1882 - 1884) |
|
| |
|
Charles Rumford (1885 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
Walter B. Banks (1887) |
|
| |
|
John Leecy (1893 - 1894) |
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| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship dates |
| |
| Willie Fitch Merrick |
|
Walter Atkins (1881 - 1887) |
1881 - 1887 |
|
| William Penn |
Miss Mary H, Trotter (1874), |
Robert Ernest McCormick (1874, 1881) |
1874 - 1887 |
| |
Mary McHenry Cox (1881 - 1884, 1886, 1887) |
Albert Krewson (1882) |
|
| |
|
Ellwood Fink (1883 - 1884) |
|
| |
|
unnamed (1886 - 1887) |
|
|
| Clifford S. Phillips |
|
Richard Wood (1874) |
1874 - 1886 |
| |
|
Edwin G. Whitehouse (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
Howard Cox (1883 - 1886) |
|
|
| Thomas H. Powers |
Mrs. J. Campbell Harris (1880, 1884) |
William Krewson (1880) |
1880 |
|
| S. Emlen Randolph |
Miss Susan Israel (1881 - 1884) |
George E. Atkins (1881 - 1883) |
1881 - 1887 |
| |
|
John S. DuBois (1884) |
|
| |
|
Bernard Writt (1885) |
|
| |
|
Walter B. Banks (1886) |
|
| |
|
William Massey (1887) |
|
| |
|
Fredericl Zimmer (1893) |
|
|
| Algernon S. Roberts |
Miss E. C. Roberts (1881 - 1884) |
John Elvy (1881) |
1881 - 1894 |
| died 1896; obituary |
|
John McElby (1882 - 1884) |
|
| |
|
John Slider (1885 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
Elmer Sewell (1887) |
|
| |
Mary McHenry Cox |
Thomas Jackson(1893) |
|
| |
|
Walter Losh (1894) |
|
|
| G. Theo. Roberts obituary |
|
Edward Boswell (1881 - 1883) |
1881 - 1886 |
| died 1921 |
|
James Carrigan (1884 - 1886) |
|
|
| Lulie W. Stone |
|
Charles E. Packer (1874) |
1874 - 1886 |
| |
|
Walter Cox (1881 - 1883) |
|
| |
|
John M. Gillen (1884 - 1886) |
|
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| Scholarship Name |
Facilitator |
Student & dates |
Scholarship dates |
| |
| Thomas A. Trotter |
Mary McHenry Cox (1874 to 1887) |
Robert W. Powers (1874) |
1874 - 1894 |
| |
|
Robert H. Jaggers (1881 - 1883) |
|
| |
|
Richard Kelly (1884 - 1886) |
|
| |
|
William S. Patterson (1887) |
|
| |
|
unnamed (1894) |
|
|
| West Chester |
Miss Gorgas (1881 - 1884) |
Samuel Talge (1874) |
1874 - 1885 |
| |
|
Henry Woodward (1881 - 1882) |
|
| |
|
John Cox Massey (1884) |
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| |
|
Frank Seeds (1885) |
|
|
| Prof. J. P. Wickersham |
Mary McHenry Cox (1881) |
George Hansel (1881 - 1882, 1884) |
1881 -1884 |
|
| Heinrich Wiener |
Mrs. Randolph (1882) |
Geo. Washington Flue (1881 - 1882) |
1881 - 1882 |
|
| I. V. Williamson |
|
Edward Charles Hill (1871 - 1875) |
1871 - 1887 |
| |
|
Herman Ashendorf (1876 - 1877) |
|
| |
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Joseph Cooper (1878) |
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John C. Calhoun (1879 - 1880) |
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Joseph McGilvery (1881 - 1883) |
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Frank Gold (1884) |
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George Hansel (1885) |
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John Cox Massey (1886) |
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George Carson (1887) |
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John Decora (1893) |
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| J. Finley Williamson |
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Charles Franklin Bumpus (1874) |
1874 - 1884 |
| |
|
Frank Atkins (1881 - 1884) |
|
|
| M. A. Williamson |
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Edward Helmick (1871) |
1871 - 1880 |
| |
|
James Porter (1872 - 1874) |
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Charles Schultz (1875) |
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Charles Taylor (1876 - 1878) |
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Charles Williamson (1879 - 1880) |
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