The Atlantic Monthly, volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858
The Atlantic Monthly, volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858
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The suggestion met theirapproval; but whence the means for founding such an institution were tocome none of them knew; their own resources were exceedingly limited, and they had no wealthy friends to assist them. "About this time, a gentleman with whom he was but slightly acquaintedbrought him three hundred dollars, desiring that it should be expendedin aid of some new charitable institution. Soon after, a legacy of$17, 500 was left for founding a House of Rescue. Thus encouraged, Wichern and h...is friends went forward. A cottage, roughly built andthatched with straw, with a few acres of land, was for sale at Horn, about four miles from the city, and its situation pleasing them, theyappropriated their legacy to the purchase of it. Hither, in November, 1833, Dr. Wichern removed with his mother, and took into his household, adopting them as his own children, three of the worst boys he could findin Hamburg. In the course of a few months he had increased the number totwelve, all selected from the most degraded children of the city.
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