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In 1873, she founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, and under her superintendence it became in a few years a prosperous charitable institution.
It was begun in a modest house in a small way with five pupils ; in 1900 the building, which was erected in 1883, sheltered ninety boys and girls.
The orphans were taken when quite young, were fed, clothed, and given a basic education, and when old enough positions were found for them in “ good Christian families .” Some of them before leaving were taught to earn their own living.
In furtherance of the work to which she consecrated her later years, and which she termed her “ life work ,” during 1886 she established The Friendly Society.
Every woman on becoming a member of the Society chooses one of the girls in the orphanage and makes her the object of her special care and solicitude.
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