Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Edmund Wa” in article pos=17 of The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...in defending our rights.
No doubt the amount will promptly no donated and paid in. The orphan a was built, it will be remembered, over twenty years ago by money left for the suppose by the will of Edmund Wa is, of Richmond, for the use of the orphans of the city.
It has been in existence since 1840.
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