![]() 9, 1907, edition of the Battle Creek Daily Moon. Kellogg’s ungodliness,” according to the Sept. The church urged followers to “withdraw their subscriptions, owing to Dr. In 1902, following a fire that destroyed the church’s Review and Herald publishing house, she transferred the Seventh-day Adventist headquarters to Washington D.C.īeginning in 1903, White claimed to have visions that “a sword of fire hung over Battle Creek.”īy 1907, after Kellogg had been excommunicated from the church along with hundreds of others, the Seventh-day Adventist Church “disinherited” the Haskell Home. However, Adventist co-founder and prophetess Ellen White increasingly feared centralizing the church in Battle Creek and called for a “scattering” of believers. The Seventh-day Adventist Church published “The Haskell Home Appeal,” a quarterly that encouraged church members of the international Protestant sect to offer financial support for the orphanage. Some of the children would be “farmed out,” while others tended to the fruit trees and gardens on the property. 16, 1894.Ĭhildren in the home were grouped by “families” of six or seven, boys and girls slept in separate dormitories on the upper floors and classes were taught in subjects such as furniture building, mattress stuffing, cooking, agriculture. The Haskell Home was said to be the “grandest institution” in Battle Creek when it was dedicated on Jan. “It points to the fact that the home was really open to kids of all races, which, for the day and time, is quite remarkable.” ![]() “We have an orphanage that was integrated,” Wilson noted. Haskell, a visitor to the Battle Creek Sanitarium from Indiana, donated $30,000 to build the orphanage, on condition it be named after her late husband and remain a non-denominational institution (she was Episcopalian) open to all races. An orphanage and an old folks home was seen as a package deal.”Ĭaroline E. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living.” “That’s when he approached the general conference. Kellogg to take in orphans all the time, and at some point he said we need some institution,” said Brian Wilson, professor of religious studies at Western Michigan University and author of “Dr. Seventeen acres of land was purchased for the orphanage on what is now Hubbard Street in 1891, but fundraising for the project stalled at $10,000. ![]() In the early 1880s, the Seventh-day Adventist Church began an effort to open an orphanage as well as an “old folks home” in the name of the church’s co-founder, James White. Lena, Cecil and George didn’t make it out. Thirty-seven children were sleeping at the Haskell Home that night when a fire started. But on the morning of February 5, 1909, he was nowhere to be seen. ![]() The only black boy at the institution, he was quartered in the boys dormitory. George Goodenow, 10, had only just arrived there by way of Chattanooga, Tennessee. ![]() Rowland Harris of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and her brother lived at the home of a farmer near Urbandale. Originally from Iowa, her sister lived with Dr. The Battle Creek girl was being treated for an injured hand while her family visited Florida.Ĭecil Coutant, who was 12, had lived at the orphanage for seven years. Fourteen-year-old Lena McKelvey was a temporary guest at the Haskell Home orphanage. ![]()
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