Definition of "orphan asylum" [orphan asylum]

• Orphanage (noun)

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• "A statue in one of the public squares of New Orleans, inscribed "Margaret", marks the appreciation of the people of that community for Margaret Haughery, an Irishwoman whose charitable labours during life won for her the title of "the orphan's friend", and who bequeathed a considerable fortune for the support of the orphan asylum which she had greatly helped to establish."
• "A senate bill entitled an act amending and re-enacting the act entitled an act to incorporate the Jackson orphan asylum of Norfolk, passed February 26th, 1856, was read a first and second times, and on motion of Mr. BISBIE, read a third time and passed."
• "Martins, Sullivans, and Murphys, including Don Timotheo Murphy, who had lived two years in Peru, and who with O'Farrell gave the land on which the first orphan asylum in San Francisco was built."