We Rode the Orphan Trains

Name: We Rode the Orphan Trains
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ISBN: 9780618117123

ISBN-10: 0618117121

ISBN-13: 9780618117123

Edition: 2001 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Andrea Warren

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They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children"s Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children, mostly from New York and other cities of the eastern United States, ventured forth to other states on a journey of hope. Andrea Warren has shared the stories of some of these orphan train riders here, including those of Betty, who found a fairy tale life in a grand hotel; Nettie Evans…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/29/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



Homes for Homeless Children



Agent Clara Comstock's Mission



Twins Who Just Wanted to Be Loved: Nettie and Nellie Crook, Riders to Kansas, 1911



Blessed by Six Parents: Sister Justina Bieganek, Rider to Minnesota, 1913



A Lonely Little Girl: Ruth Hickok, Rider to Iowa, 1917



The Baby in the Basket: Art Smith, Rider to Iowa, 1922



A Case of Scandalous Neglect: Howard Hurd and Fred Swedenburg, Riders to Nebraska, 1925



A Place Called Home: Bill Oser, Rider to Michigan, 1925



The Cutest Child in Kentucky: Betty Murray, Rider to Kentucky, 1930



Into the Future


Recommended Reading


Sources Used in This Book


Index