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Orphan trains : the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed

Author:Stephen O'Connor

Summary:"A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a gap in the American narrative. This book tells of a little-known but enormously influential child welfare effort: the orphan trains, which between 1854 and 1929 spirited away some 250,000 abandoned children to the homes of families in the Midwest and West. Combining the accounts of orphans - including those of surviving orphans who took the last train out - and the biography of an indefatigable crusader for children, Stephen O'Connor at last does this history justice."--Jacket

Print Book, English, 2001

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:xxi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780395841730, 9780226616674, 0395841739, 0226616673

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:45247361

Subjects:

Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890

Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)

Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) History

ORPHAN TRAINS History

Orphan trains History

Trains d'orphelins Histoire

Contents:

Part I: Want. Testimony: John Brady and Harry Morris

The good father

Flood of humanity

Part II: Doing. Testimony: John Jackson

City missionary

Draining the city, saving the children

Journey to Dowagiac

A voice among the newsboys

Happy circle

Almost a miracle

Part III: Redoing. Testimony: Lotte Stern

Invisible children

Neglect of the poor

The trials of Charley Miller

The death and life of Charles Loring Brace

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