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RG1.B10.F1 - Newsletter
This folder contains issues of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association newsletters. The newsletters give family information on descendants as well as information on upcoming events, and family research. The Oct. 2018 issue gives a bio of Dr. Otto.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F15 - Correspondence
This folder contains various correspondence between the Executive Director of Historic Yellow Springs and various members of the Dr. Bodo Otto descendants. The content is about family reunions, visits from descendants, descendants seeking information, and new family information. Also included is a mailing label list of addresses of the family association.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F16 - Newsletter
This folder contains various editions of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association newsletter. Dr. Otto was a physician during the Revolutionary War and director of the Yellow Springs Hospital. His descendants maintain a very active association and continue the geneaology research which is often included in the newsletters. Articles of historical significance to the family are often included, too.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F21 - Newsletter
A collection of Dr. Bodo Otto Association newsletters is included. They describe what is happening within the Otto family. New reserach is included as well as photographs from the Otto family collections.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F7 - Newsletter
This folder contains newsletters of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association which details family history and current happenings among the descendants. It includes information on reunions as well as genealogy data. Also included is correspondence about reunions. Dr. Otto was a Revolutionary War physician and director of the Yellow Springs hospital.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F8 - Newsletter
This folder contains newsletters of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association which details family history and current happenings among the descendants. It includes information on reunions as well as geneaology data. Also included is correspondence about reunions and plans. Dr. Otto was a Revolutionary War physician and director at the Yellow Springs hospital. Dr. Bodo Otto Association Handbooks for 1996 and 1996-97 are included and a photocopy of a pai...
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F9 - Genealogy
This folder contains newsletters and genealogical information from the Dr. Bodo Otto Association which details family history and current happenings among the descendants. It contains information on reunions as well as general data. Correspondence is included. Photographs of the dedication of the Revolutionary War Hospital ruins at Yellow Springs are highlighted as well as the coloring book for children produced by Patricia Otto Godwin. Dr. ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B11.F1 - Correspondence
This is a collection of correspondence between Mrs. Edward L. Webster (Eleanor) and Carol Roark re the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan School and the role of Eleanor H. Moore, Principal. Eleanor H. Moore was Eleanor Webster's grandmother. The correspondence relates the story of Eleanor Moore - her early life and how she got to Chester Springs plus her marriage to Mr. McCullough and her later life after Chester Springs. Also included are unidenti...
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B11.F19 - Documents
This folder contains various written correspondences and summaries of telephone conversations regarding information sought on certain pupils at the Orphans School. The letters generally reflect delight on part of those who were able to find information on relatives who attended Chester Springs. Included is a list of those students buried at St. Vincent's Baptist Church.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B11.F4 - Correspondence
Included are letters from former orphans from the PA Soldiers' Orphan School at Chester Springs. Most are in response to the 1979 reunion held here. There is a history of the orphan program by J. B. Hassan, himself a former orphan. Also included are several photographs from the reunion.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B11.F9 - Newspaper clippings
A newspaper clipping describes a reunion of "Sixteeners" at Chester Springs in 1907. Also included are two letters between friends. One desribes the Chester Springs Soldiers' Orphan School where his mother and his sister attended plus neighboring families. The other letter requests membership in the Yellow Springs Association and donates the newspaper clipping.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B15.F3 - Newspaper clippings
This folder contains documents gathered to put together a lecture about the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan School at Chester Springs. Included are photographs of the facility and childrens' activities. Excerpts from the James Paul 1976 book describe the school, teachers, staff and the rights of the children, how to teach, recreactional activities and other facets of managing such a school. Also included are excerpts from some of the yearbooks ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B15.F5 - Newspaper clippings
Columnist for the Daily Republican John V. Norris wrote a series of articles filled with anecdotes of the Chester Springs Soldiers' Orphan School and they are included here. The Pikeland Historical Society did the same. Other articles re the school are included.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B16.1 - Print, Photographic
This is a long horizontal photograph of a Sixteeners Reunion c. 1922. Sixteeners were graduates of the PA Soldiers' Orphans School.
Record Type: Photo
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RG3.B16.F1 - Report
Estelle Cremers researched and wrote this report on the Pennsyvania Soldiers' Orphans School at Chester Springs. She details the founding of the school to care for children of killed or idsabled soldiers of the Civil War. She describes life at the school from living conditions, food, school and work details for boys and girls. Holiday celebrations are detailed as well as the situation of raising the flag pole. Additional research adds to th...
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B8.F12 - Photographs and etchings
A black and white photograph of people in front of a boarding house - the Channell - in Atlantic City. it is believed this is an orphan reunion. Photographer is Fred Hess of Atlantic City.
Record Type: Archive
