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    The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home (Later known as the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home) and sometimes abbreviated OS&SO/OVCH, was a children's...
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    soldiers' home is a military veterans' retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans...
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    operating its own sewage system. Following the Civil War, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was built in Xenia. Some of its building remains in use...
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    The Indiana State Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a 284 ft 6 in (86.72 m) tall neoclassical monument built on Monument Circle, a circular, brick-paved...
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    Mary Virginia Proctor (category Temperance activists from Ohio)
    graduation, Proctor was engaged as a teacher in the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, in Xenia, Ohio. In her capacity as teacher, she served in that...
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    The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a major Civil War monument in Cleveland, Ohio, honoring the more than 9,000 individuals from Cuyahoga...
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    movement. Baker was from Ohio where he had been the longtime Financial Officer of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. He came to New York City...
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  • the former home of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, which was later renamed "Ohio Veterans Children's Home" in 1978. The Ohio Veterans Children's...
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  • Lottie Pearl Mitchell (category People from Wilberforce, Ohio)
    antagonism at the site. In Ohio she was also a trustee of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, and active on the Mental Hygiene Council of Cleveland. Mitchell...
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    Thomas Ewing Jr. (category People from Lancaster, Ohio)
    Ohio Society of New York, a trustee of Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home (1874–78), and a trustee of Ohio University (1878–83). He served as Vice...
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    Charles H. Grosvenor (category People from Athens, Ohio)
    1874–1878 and served as Speaker of the House for two years. He served as member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home in...
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    Ephraim C. Dawes (category People from Marietta, Ohio)
    Tennessee, and Commander of Loyal Legion as well as a trustee of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia. Ephraim Dawes died at his home in Cincinnati...
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    Lucy Webb Hayes (category First ladies and gentlemen of Ohio)
    bronze sculpture inside the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Cleveland, Ohio. "Lucy Webb Hayes and Her Influence Upon Her Era - Rutherford...
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  • were a minor league baseball team based in Dayton, Ohio. From 1896 to 1900, the Dayton "Old Soldiers" and "Veterans" teams played as members of the Class...
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    poppies, made by French widows and orphans, as an emblem for remembering those who gave their lives during the World War I and, at the same time, creating...
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    Grand Army of the Republic (category American Civil War veterans and descendants organizations)
    renamed McKinley GAR Post # 25] With membership strictly limited to soldiers, sailors or Marines who served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue...
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    oil home in small bottles to use during prayer. Nicholas of Myra is the patron hallow of children, sailors, those undergoing financial problems, and victims...
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    among its own soldiers. The Bulgarian soldiers are depicted as simply living off the land without paying any redistribution and also robbing and hitting civilians...
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    Memorial Day (category Holidays and observances by scheduling (nth weekday of the month))
    to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as a sacred charge upon a Nation's gratitude—the soldiers' and sailors' widow and orphan. —John A...
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    Allen Allensworth (category Union Navy sailors)
    of the surgeons, to his home in Georgetown, Ohio. There Allensworth dined with Gordon's family, was given a room of his own, and felt he first walked as...
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    include Stella Maris, the Mission to Seafarers, the Sailors' Society, the Deutsche Seemannsmission, and the International Christian Maritime Association...
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    physics and chemistry in the high school for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home at Xenia, Ohio. From 1901 to 1902, he was assistant professor of...
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  • help wounded soldiers with housing, food, and other basic necessities. New orphanages and asylums joined the Indianapolis Orphans' Home, chartered in...
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    2022), Union pensions for Black veterans and their widows and orphans. Logue, Larry M. "Union Veterans and Their Government: The Effects of Public Policies...
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    after the Korean War, South Korea saw a spike in orphaned Afro-Korean infants. Often, the Afro-Korean orphans were purposely starved, as the society deemed...
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    the Edison laboratory—though occasionally employing Bakelite in its stead and always employing an inner layer of plaster—these cylinder records were introduced...
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    Indiana contributed approximately 210,000 Union soldiers, sailors, and marines. Indiana's soldiers served in 308 military engagements during the war;...
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    to labor, and to promote the industries, prosperity, and growth of the whole country. Eight: We hold in undying honor the soldiers and sailors whose valor...
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  • Oz". Archived from the original on 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2005-08-19. Jane Anders, Charlie (22 October 2012). "You've never seen the Wizard of Oz like this...
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    War memorial (category Lists of buildings and structures)
    (1870–71) were the first in Europe to have rank-and-file soldiers commemorated by name. Every soldier that was killed was granted a permanent resting-place...
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