 In 1900, while working at the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia (a charity school for Indian girls that had originally been established for orphaned children of soldiers in 1866 in her home on Chestnut Street by Miss Mary McHenry; not to be confused with the historically black Lincoln University in Chester County), Minoka met Anna Hill, an Oneida student from Wisconsin.Anna introduced Minoka to her brother Charles Abram Hill.They married in 1905.