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    Presbyterian Orphans Home, now known as Presbyterian Homes & Family Services, is a historic "cottage style" orphanage complex located at Lynchburg, Virginia...
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    Presbyterian Orphans Home...
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  • This is a list of notable Presbyterian churches in the United States, where a church is notable either as a congregation or as a building. In the United...
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  • Amos Noë Freeman (category Presbyterian abolitionists)
    Siloam Presbyterian Church. Freeman served there until his retirement in 1885. Christiana Williams Freeman worked at the Colored Orphans Home in New York...
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    The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the second-largest Presbyterian church body, behind the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the largest conservative...
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    The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) was a Presbyterian denomination existing from 1789 to 1958. In that year, the PCUSA merged...
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    the laundries were there not due to intercourse but because they were orphans, abused, deserted by their families, or did not conform to social norms...
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  • The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) is a major Christian denomination in New Zealand. A part of the Reformed tradition, it is the largest...
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  • the Trustees of Porter-Leath Home recognized the declining need of services for orphans. Institutional care for orphans became rare largely due to the...
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    Ballyconree orphans in Australia". Clifden and Connemara Heritage Society. Retrieved 3 January 2023. "Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes – Summary | Find...
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    In 1997, Aronson founded Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). WWO's mission is to transform the lives of orphaned children and it accomplishes this through...
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    became enslaved by James Naylor, a merchant, postmaster, and former Presbyterian elder living in Missouri on the Boone's Lick Road; Archer Alexander became...
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  • Korean girls were not real orphans and had living biological parents but were given false papers to show that they were orphans and exported to white parents...
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    John Green Brady (category American Presbyterians)
    and Elizabeth P. Brady. Brady moved to the Alaska Territory first as a Presbyterian minister, then a missionary and then a lawyer. In 1878 he co-founded...
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    had been instrumental in placing 70 Korean orphans for adoption, including 40 within Westminster Presbyterian Church families. The Los Angeles Sentinel...
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    Montreat College (category Presbyterian Church in the United States)
    Christian convention, public worship, missionary work, schools, libraries, orphan homes, manual and trades training and other operations auxiliary and incidental...
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  • Oklahoma. In Goodland's favor was that it was the only home for Indian orphans maintained by the Presbyterian Church U.S., but it had a debt of over $30,000....
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    days First Presbyterian has been providing social services in Dallas. First Presbyterian Church began a home to house the city's orphaned and abandoned...
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    Aaron Burr Sr. (category American Presbyterian ministers)
    Aaron Burr Sr. (January 4, 1716 – September 24, 1757) was a Presbyterian minister and college educator in colonial America. He was a founder of the College...
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    Albert Benjamin Simpson (category Canadian Presbyterian ministers)
    Gables. The young Albert was raised in a strict Calvinistic Scottish Presbyterian and Puritan tradition. His conversion of faith began under the ministry...
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  • the Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District which comprises the historic cores of Presbyterian College and the Thornwell Home and School for...
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    Donaldina Cameron (category American Presbyterian missionaries)
    took Cameron to the Presbyterian Home in San Francisco, in an effort to expose Donaldina to the world around her. At the home, Donaldina met Margaret...
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    John Bethune (Canadian minister) (category American Presbyterian ministers)
    Gaelic: an t-Urr. Iain Beutan) (1751 – September 23, 1815) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, who served and helped found Reformed congregations among the...
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    Rosenthal Third near Oak 1893 Presbyterian Church Greenville, Kentucky 1893 Block of residences (5) for Presbyterian Orphan's Home Unknown 1893 Cornelia Bush...
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    Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia (1833) Founder's Hall, Girard College for Orphans, Philadelphia (1833–1848) Expansion of Andalusia, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania...
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    also home to Kemmerer Village, a private Presbyterian childcare agency, named for donor Philip Kemmerer who willed 400 acres (1.6 km2) to "the orphans and...
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  • Missouri, where her father was chaplain and executive secretary at an orphans' home. After she developed lung problems, she spent two years at a camp in...
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    and having their feet amputated. The Home for Freed Children and Others was founded in 1866 by black Presbyterian minister Henry M. Wilson, black widow...
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  • background. The home was run and managed by evangelical Protestants, who, in the main, were Plymouth Brethren, Church of Ireland or Presbyterian. It catered...
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    James Caldwell (clergyman) (category American Presbyterian ministers)
    James Caldwell (April 1734 – November 24, 1781) was a Presbyterian minister who played a prominent part in the American Revolution. Caldwell was born in...
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