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Author:
Johnson, Mary Ellen, 1939-
Title:
Waifs, foundlings and half-orphans : searching for America's orphan train riders / Mary Ellen Johnson.
Publisher:
Heritage Books,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
xiii, 87 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Orphan trains--United States--History.
Orphans--United States--Biography.
Orphans--United States--Genealogy.
Abandoned children--United States--Biography.
Abandoned children--United States--Genealogy.
Notes:
"J0955." Includes index.
Contents:
Orphan train riders : Peg's story ; Algie's story ; Orphan Train Riders Research Center -- Mass immigration: a major impact : Changing life in New York City ; The effects on children ; Parental responsibility ; Our cities charities, no. iv ; Free-home-placing-out ; A story of events of an era -- Orphanages and institutions : Newsboys lodging house -- Sending children to the country ; Children's Aid Society ; Brace Farm School ; New York Founding Asylum; The work of the Sisters of Charity ; History of he New York Founding Hospital ; New York Juvenile Asylum ; American Female Guardian Society ; Extracts from the first report of the First Home Industrial School ; Chicago Orphan Asylum ; New England Home for Little Wanderers ; Home for Destitute Catholic Children ; Jewish orphanages ;Traveler's Aid Society ; Salvation Army ; Name change records in New York --Research and resources : Is there an orphan train rider in my family? ; Where did the orphans go ; The first orphan train riders ; Loading places for the children ; Where to look next ; Orphan Train Heritage Society of America -- References and reading list : References and reading list ; Researching an orphan train rider.
ISBN:
9781585499557
1585499552
LCCN:
2006298424
Locations:
E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)
F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)
NTPC983 -- Northwood Public Library (Northwood)

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