Chidren’s Home Society of Idaho

Chidren’s Home Society of Idaho. Historical Timeline. In 1907, Reverend O.P. Christian of the National Children’s Home Society wrote a letter to Idaho Governor Frank R. Gooding asking for support in establishing an Idaho Children’s Home Society. Gooding responded pledging his full support, should such a society be founded., “I came to Idaho in April, 1908, and Governor Gooding called a meeting of some of the prominent social workers, where the different phases of the project were discussed. In a short time an organization was effected. Mrs. Cynthia A. Mann gave to the society a clock of land on Warm Springs Avenue, valued at that time at $25,000. On the place where our new building now stands, there was a six-room house, which has since been moved to a corner of the block. In it we opened the home on the 22nd day of July, 1908, and on the 29th of that month we received our first child.” , -O.P. Christian, 1913, Cynthia Mann was a life-long teacher and one of the Children’s Home Society’s original directors. She was devoted to enriching the lives of children and is remembered for her generosity and compassion. Until the current Children’s Home building was constructed, she taught at local schools and often taught classes in her own home., Caption , Cynthia Mann stands with her students in front of her home at 730 Warm Springs Ave.