Description: Trade PB. 8vo. Oblong. Warburg Orphans School. 1917 & 1920. 32 pgs each. 1916-1917 is in German. 1919-1920 is in English. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Wartburg Orphans’ Farm School was established in 1866 by a Lutheran minister, Reverend William Passavant, with an initial gift from New York sugar refiner Peter Moller. Originally, Moller had planned to use the funds to erect a lavish memorial for his son, whom he had lost in the American Civil War. However, Reverend Passavant, who had previously founded The Orphan’s Home and Farm School in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, convinced Moller of the need for a similar orphanage in New York to help the great number of children left fatherless by the Civil War. Moller agreed and donated the money to help fund the new orphanage. With advisement from Reverend G.C. Holls, headmaster of the Zelienople orphanage and Sister Elizabeth, a nun affiliated with a similar orphanage in Rochester, Pennsylvania, Reverend Passavant searched for an appropriate property for the new orphanage. Ultimately, they settled on 125 acres of land in Pelham, New York purchased from The Lutheran Committee for Charitable Concerns. On a visit to the property, Passavant was believed to comment that “This is something like the site of The Wartburg where Luther translated the New Testament,” of which Pastor Holls, later hired as the first director of The Wartburg, replied with “Then we will call it The Wartburg.” The Wartburg was originally incorporated under the name “Deaconess Institution of the State of New York.” However, in 1884, a state charter was obtained, officially naming it “The Wartburg Orphans’ Farm School of the Evangelical Lutheran Church”. Two Yearbooks from Wartburg Orphan School Mt Vernon NY 1916-1917 & 1919-1920 Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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