Hi Donna. There are many good historical articles re: the Annie Wittenmyer Home on the IaGenWeb Scott county homepage at: http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/. The Home was originally a soldiers training camp called Camp Kinsman. It was donated by the government, along with the existing beds, bedding, cooking utensils, etc. to the Davenport Ladies Aid Society to be used for housing orphans. Annie Wittenmyer worked closely with the Society to found a Soldiers Orphans Home and with donations from the public, they turned the camp into an orphanage in 1865. Elaine Rathmann Assist. CC: Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm. for: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJH" <dhynd@kctc.net> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: [IASCOTT] Annie Wittenmyer Home > I went to a family reunion yesterday and was told that before the Annie > Wittenmyer Home came into existence it was a Catholic boarding school or > Catholic orphanage. Could someone tell me whether this is true or not > and what years it was operating or tell me where I might look for this > information. Thank you for the help. > > Donna > > -- > > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >