Figure 1.-- We know little about the Evagelical United Brothern Orphanage and Home (UBO) except that it was locted in Quincy, Pennsylvania. Some times the Evalgelical a left off the name of the orphange as you can see on the drim here. And sometimes 'and Home' was also left off. Like many early orphanages, they organized a band for the boys, reminding one of the Broadway show 'Music Man'. Thevband here was an all boys, marching brass band. They were well uniformed. The photograph looks like it was taken in the 1910s.

We know little about the Evagelical United Brothern Orphanage and Home (UBO) except that it was located in Quincy, Pennsylvania. Quincy is a very small town located in southeastern, Pennsylvania, a rural area close to Amish counry. Some times the 'Evalgelical' isa left off the name of the orphange as yu can see in theimage here (figure 1). And sometimr 'and Home' was left. Like many early orphanages, they organized a band for the boys, reminding one of the Broadway show 'Music Man'. Thy were well uniformed. The band photograph that we have looks like it was taken in the 1910s . And we know the UBO was active in the 1930s and 40s because a girl cared for there mentions it. We only see boys in the band, but at least in the 1930s it cared for girls as well. We also notice the orphanage mentioned in the 1950s. The sponsiring church appears to be the the Church of the United Brethren in Christ which was an evangelical Christian denomination based in Huntington, Indiana. It is a Protestant denomination of episcopal structure, Arminian theology, with roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities of colonial Pennsylvania. Thee were also close ties to Methodism. The local churches held a conference at the Otterbein Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1789). The Church was was formally organized by Martin Boehm and Philip William Otterbein (1800). It was the first American denomination that was not transplanted from Europe. Until 1800, the United Brethren churches did not have aby central orgnization. And not all of which joined the church when it firsr formally organized.

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