Record #:

20779

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

John Haymes Mills was the leader in the work of founding orphanages in North Carolina. While he was editor of the Biblical Recorder, Mills traveled around the state and saw the hardship that the Civil War had brought to North Carolina. When the Grand Lodge of Masons met in Raleigh in the 1870s to decide what to do with St. John's College in Oxford, Mills pleaded with them to set up an orphanage on that site. With money from the Masons and the Legislature, the orphanage was established, becoming the first orphanage in North Carolina.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 14 Issue 33, Jan 1947, p9

Subject(s):

Orphanages--Oxford; Mills, John Haynes, 1831-1898