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Full listing > Accession BC2009/02 | Accession # | BC2009/02 | | Topic | Mexico Welfare Home Ledger Book | | Title | Mexico Welfare Home Ledger Book | | Size | 1 Ledger Book | | Location | Brethren History Shelves, Northeast Selving Unit, IS | | Citation | Mexico Welfare Home Ledger Book , BC2009/02 , Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana. | | Access | Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials. | | Provenance | Unknown, in Archives prior to April 2006. | | Scope and Content | 1. One ledger book with itemized income and expense reports and Inventory of Lots. 2. Two copies of financial report: Balance Sheet, 30 June 1952 Statement of Income and Expenses for the period July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952 Schedule of endowment fund investments and notes receivable, 30 June 1952. 3. One packet:"Articles of Voluntary Dissolution of Domestic Not for Profit Corporation by Art of the Corporation." 4. One packet:"State of Indiana Laws Concerning Corporations Not For Profit, March 1950 Edition." | | Date of Accession | 11 February 2009 | | Bio History Note | Mexico Welfare Home, Mexico, Indiana and Timbercrest Retirement Community, North Manchester, Indiana:
In 1889, Levi P. Miller donated land and a building near Mexico, IN for the purpose of establishing a home for the aged. The district agreed to assume direction. Seventeen residents were admitted during the first year. A parallel concern for orphans was soon raised and was cared for by Miller again, who built a second building at his own expense in 1892 for use as an orphange. By 1917 over 1,500 children had been admitted and in 1936 the name was changed to the Mexico Welfare Home. The orphanage was discontinued in 1943 and the home for the aged was remodeled and enlarged. By 1951 both the northern and southern districts of Indiana had joined in sponsoring the institution. The Mexico home was closed in 1968 and remaining residents were transferred to the newly built retirement home in North Manchester that was called Timbercrest. TImbercrest was considered a continuation of the Mexico Welfare Home.
Excerpted from The Brethren Encyclopedia | | Archivist Note | Description prepared 11 February by Jeanine M. Wine. |
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