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From: "Poor House Lady" <>
Subject: [PA-QUAKERS] Friends Almshouse School -- Philadelphia?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:12:24 -0600


There is an item up for sale now on eBay which contains the following
information:

Horace Binney (1780-1875) was born in Philadephia in 1780 and received his
early education at the Friends Almshouse School and the Grammar School of
the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1797
with high honors and studied law in the Philadelphia office of Jared
Ingersoll, who had been a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787
and was the attorney general of Pennsylvania.

I host a website called The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information
about 19th century American poorhouses)at http://www.poorhousestory.com

I would very much like to learn more about "Friends Almshouse School"
mentioned above. I am curious to know whether local children who were NOT
residents of the almshouse would have been eligible to go to that school.
Or does his attendance there mean he WAS in that almshouse?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. But please send an e-mail to me
off-line because I may not be able to continue subscribing to this list for
very long.

Thanks,

Linda Crannell
(aka=The Poorhouse Lady)

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