Bellefaire Orphanage

Bellefaire Orphanage

The Bellefaire Orphanage was a Jewish orphanage in Cleveland Ohio [http://www.kesh.com/hnoh/USJORPH6A.html] founded in
1868 as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the Civil War, making it one of the oldest orphanages in the US.

=References=
* Bellefaire [http://www.bellefairejcb.org/helping-kids/about/] .
*Inside Looking out: The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924
*Edward Polster; Kent State University Press, 1990


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