Information about children at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home (Annie Wittenmyer Home) abstracted from each of the 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 U.S. censuses and the 1895 Census of Iowa.
Davenport Public Library Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center copy: Bound with photocopies of the following: "At the Home: Ten Orphan Boys and Girls Graduate," Davenport Democrat and Leader, June 17, 1894; "Its Rise and Growth, 'Tis a Model Institution," by A.P. Doe, Daily Times (Davenport, Iowa), September 29, 1900; Biennial report of the superintendent of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport to the Board of Control of State Institutions for the period ending July 1, 1901; Report card of Florence Carley from the Soldiers' Orphans' Home School, September 1910-May 1911; Photographs of Annie Wittenmyer and the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home; National Register of Historic Places Inventory form for the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home; Soldiers' Orphans' Home records, Davenport, Iowa (J.W. Pearman and M.B. Cochran, 1867).
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