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The Elkhart Institute: ‘A laudable enterprise’
Founder Henry A. Mumaw (1850-1908) sits at the right of this early group of Elkhart Institute students in Elkhart’s Grand Army of the Republic hall during its inaugural year in 1894-95. This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2019 issue of The Bulletin BY JOE SPRINGER ’80, Curator,…