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Looking to find a history (hopefully online) of this institution...after 1900. I have found that it was formed in 1853 as a Quaker missionary school for Indians, a charity boarding school operated by the Society of Friends. Eventually more than 60 Indian children from a number of western reservations boarded there annually, with the last class in 1895. My interest is that a relative was there in the 1920 census...one of about 200 youths, mostly males between the ages of 10 and 20. They were refered to as "wards", which leads me to think they may have been orphans or this was a juvenile detention center/school of some sort with the State of Indiana having the control of the "Institute" and it's inmates.
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