W. Harry Brown Home for Boys

Dates:

Established - 1921

Closed - ?

Locations:

1st site - Elizabethtown (Lancaster County)

Also Known As:

Founder:

Sponsoring Agency:

Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania

Notes:

An annual report for 1940 indicates that there were several Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown to meet the needs of master masons, their wives, widows, mothers and minor children.

The names of several children are listed in this annual report.

Location of Records:

Unknown

Sources:

PA Department Vertical Files (Orphanages)

Annals of the Masonic Homes...at Elizabethtown, Pa....November 15, 1940

Masonic Homes, Educational Institutions and Cognate Charities: Report Made to the Grand Lodge...North Dakota, June, 1908 **(r366.1 T38)(Social Sciences)**