ROLFE AND RUMFORD ASYLUM.
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The. Rolfe and Rumford Asylum for mother-
less girls who are natives of Coneord, New Hamp-
shire, had its origin in Munich, Bavaria, March
26,1797, on the forty-fourth birthday of the
great philanthropist, Count Rumford, when his
daughter Sarah, Countess of Runford,
the day took twelve children from the House of
Industry in Munich, which Count Rumfo:rd had
founded, and having dressed them from head to
foot in new clothing, presented then to him as he
sat at breakfast.
occurrence that he at once settled upon her
the sum of two thousand dollars in American
three per cent stock, on the express condition
in his own words, "that she should appropriate
it in her will as a capital for clothing every
year forever upon her birthday twelve poor and
industrious children, each of them to be fur-
nished with a comp lete suit of new clothing
made up in the same form and colors as the uni-
forms of the poor children she clothed on my
birthday
in honor of
He was so mueh affected by this
The Countess of Rumford, after a brilliant
and varied career both in this country and Eu-
rope, cane back to Coneord to end her days in
the historie mansion where she had been born on
October 18, 1774, and where she died in December
1852.
