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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774-1821, American Roman Catholic leader, usually called Mother Seton, b. Elizabeth Ann Bayley, New York City. She was the daughter of a prominent physician. Her husband, William Seton, a successful merchant, died (1803) in Italy, leaving her with five young children.... Read more
Charity Organization Movement Charity Organization Movement
Charity Organization Movement. The charity organization movement was a late nineteenth‐century philanthropic reform that sought to bring rich and poor together even as the forces of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization drove them apart. Beginning in England in 1869, the movement... Read more
University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; private with some state support; coeducational. Planned in 1740 as a charity school, it opened in 1751 as an academy, largely through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin. In 1755 it received a college charter. Pennsylvania opened the first school of medicine... Read more
Bunch Bunch
Bunch a cluster or tuft, properly of things of one type growing or fastened together; a group of things or animals of the same type gathered close together. See also bundle, nosegay. Examples: bunch of bananas; of cards, 1563; of cattle, 1884; of charity, 1633; of cherubs, 1832; of ducks [up to... Read more
Charity Adams Earley Charity Adams Earley
Charity Adams Earley 1918–2002 Former Women’s Army Corp lieutenant-colonel Racial Intimidation Beginning of World War II The Persuasive Mary McLeod Bethune Joined WAAC Opportunities for Black Women Discrimination—Again The 6888th Central Postal Battalion Selected Writings... Read more
Parmenas Parmenas
Parmenas One of the Seven appointed to administer charity (Acts 6: 5); the name is Greek; he was perhaps a Hellenistic Jew.... Read more
Aid Aid
6. Aid See also 75. CHARITY . abetment, abettal the act of abetting or inciting another to commit a crime. Read more
pension pension
pension periodic payments to one who has retired from work because of age or disability. Pensions, originally thought of as charity, are now viewed as an essential part of the social responsibility of employers or of the state. In the Roman Empire there was a well-established pension system to care... Read more
dole dole
dole distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. John Leake in 1792 left £1,000 to Trinity Church, New York City, the income of... Read more
Annie Kilburn Annie Kilburn
Annie Kilburn, novel by Howells, published in 1889.The heroine, having lived in Italy for 11 years, after her father's death returns to her girlhood home, Hatboro', Mass. Aged 31, and refusing to be an old maid member of the local social set, she plunges into a career of indiscriminate philanthropy.... Read more

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