Lucy's Girls: Lucy Orme Morgan and the Girl's Industrial Home

Lucy Orme Morgan was passionate about social welfare and was active in numerous philanthropic activities throughout her lifetime. However, her passion (and what would become the most distinguishable effort in her life) was the Girl's Industrial Home.

Founded in 1889, the Home was a place for dependent children who were neglected or had no one to care for them. It was an institution where girls would be taught useful skill to prepare them for a life of independence when they were of age. To Lucy, it was her "hobby" to make it "a home and keep it as far as possible from being an institution."

For more than 30 years, the Home flourished under her watchful eye. In 1929, the board of the Home honored her service by renaming it "The Lucy Orme Morgan Home."

This program will be offered both in person in Community Room 1 of the library and via livestream at the BPL YouTube page and will be presented by Candace Summers, Senior Director of Education for the McLean County Museum of History. Each year, Summers helps to educate more than 20,000 people in Central Illinois through a wide variety of educational programs. Many of those individuals are school children and senior citizens who receive in-depth educational programs free of charge.