MARY DAY NURSERY.

 

After gratuitous occupation of quarters in the Home of the Union Charity Association, for abut one year, on the evening of October 20, 1891, the Nursery Association gave a general and largely attended reception in its own well-appointed Home, 406 South High street, the house and lot being generously donated to the Association by Colonel George T. Perkins, in behalf of his first grandchild, little Mary Raymond, in honor of whom the name was changed from the Akron Day Nursery to the "Mary Day Nursery," and under that name was duly incorporated September 18, 1891, five trustees being elected as follows: Colonel George T. Perkins, Frank M. Atterholt, Henry C. Corson, Mrs. Charles B. Ravmond and Miss Helen A. Storer; the original officers, as above given, being re-elected for another year; Miss Flora E. Hanchett being chosen matron.

In her first annual report the secretary says: "There are eighteen children on the roll; aggregate attendance, 571; average daily attendance, three; there was no day without children, the largest attendance in one day being eight."

The new Home, so generously provided, was furnished in a like generous manner, by useful and timely gifts of furniture, stoves, crockery, cutlery, silverware, tinware. kitchen utensils, clothing, fuel, oil, etc., by dealers whose names cannot be enumerated here, and it may safely be predicted that the Mary Day Nursery is destined to become one of the most useful of the many purely philanthropic institutions of our proverbially benevolent city and county-one of the designs of its managers being the establishment of a kindergarten in connection with the Nursery at an early day.

 

50 Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, Samuel A. Lane, Beacon Job Department, Akron, Ohio 1892 p 1096,7,8