This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHAPMAN MAXWELL CRAWFORD SMITH KLINGENSMITH SKINNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DYB.2ACE/1345 Message Board Post: Just today I learned circuitously and serendipitiously that ancestry.com has a venue for orphans and that 2 categories were that PA had its own from I think 1862, and shortly after a sort of national civil war orphanage called Homestead, not the town, but nearer to Philadelphia I think. So mightn't OH have had a similar orphanage or system? We''ve long searched for family for Mystery Grandpa Allan Burton CHAPMAN whose birth name may well have been Harold MAXWELL, born 1864. He consistently claims born in OH as were both parents - whoever they were. It's possible his father's given name was John. ABC attended WRA in Hudson 1878-1881 and that's the earliest documentation found so far. Either someone had disposable income to pay his tuition books room & board or now a new thought -- a scholarship (at 14!) for a civil war orphan from the even-back-then liberal Western Reserve Academy.