Dad was an orphan... father abandoned family of 5 boys and 3 girls...placed in the Jones Home, Cleveland Ohio, under the Cleveland Humane Society .... 1920 census listed him as "inmate"... boarded with a couple of families and used as summer labor... finally came to live with the Snyder family in 1922...
when possible he donated to the Salvation Army and later when me moved to Florida, to the Florida Sheriff's Boys Ranch .... he never explained the connection to the Salvation Army, but it was implied, and good enough for me
Les