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Author:

Juhl, Marilyn Booth.

Title:

Elim Children's Home : Elk Horn, IA 1890-1961 / Marilyn Booth Juhl.

Publisher:

Marilyn E. Booth Juhl,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

65 p., 25 p. of appendices : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Elim Children's Home--Elk Horn--Elk Horn--History.
Orphanages--Elk Horn.--Elk Horn.
United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Notes:

Includes bibliography.

Contents:

Coming to Elim -- Elim Children's Home -- Work and play -- School and church -- Elim Christmases -- The home closes -- Elim Home kids gather for reunions -- Palma and Margaret -- Appendices: A. Elim residents, 1890-1961 -- B. Chronology -- C. House plans -- D. Documents pertaining to Elim -- E. Bibliography.

Summary:

"The Elim Children's Home in Elk Horn, IA, was established by the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1890 and closed in 1961. Marilyn Booth Juhl, who lived in the Home from 1942-1949, tells the story of the Elim family and what it was like for her and the approximately 300 other children who called Elim "home" during those 71 years."--Cover.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)750455475

Locations:

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)