Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to Aged Women’s Home of Montgomery County, Pa.‏

Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author); Home Trust Company (Author); Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author)
Title: Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to Aged Women’s Home of Montgomery County, Pa.‏
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context: Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.5. General Donations
Subjects: Endowments; Older people--Care; Older people--Housing; Norristown (Pa.); Aged Women’s Home of Montgomery County (Pa.)
Format: correspondence
Genre: Business correspondence
Date: [between 1901 and 1919?]

Physical Description: microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.): Reel 81
Note: PDF may contain multiple grant documents.; When Dr. Mary Henderson Stinson died in 1889, she left her entire estate for the establishment of a home for the elderly women of Norristown. Her will specifically states that the home was for respectable spinsters and widows over the age of 56 who ha d lived in Montgomery County at least ten years. The home was incorporated in 1894... Our records for the Aged Women’s Home run until 1960." [SOURCE: "The Aged Women’s Home of Montgomery County." Historical Society of Montgomery County, 26 Feb. 2016, https://hsmcpa.wordpress.com/2016/02/. Accessed 19 Sep. 2018.]
Language: English
Library Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In: Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Copyright Status: No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-9k3v-zx04