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Development of the Williamson School Idea

As seen in preceding chapters, there had been notable indications for many years of Williamson's peculiar interest in charitable efforts for boys and girls. Foreign institutions of that sort had greatly appealed to him while abroad, before he was forty, and all through his bachelor life these feelings seem to have gathered power. It has been noted how the Lincoln Institution for soldiers' orphans was one of the first benevolences to which he contributed largely. Other asylums and educational institutions for children later received his substantial aid. In the management of some of them he bore an active part. In the work of the Educational Home for Boys, for instance, he was a member of the Board of Council, a body of representative men giving counsel and aid to the Board of Managers, all of whom were women; and when it was pro-

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