Tucked inside was the photograph of the girl with the long, dark hair who might almost have been Jennifer herself, if the old-fashioned dress and hair twisted into a soft bun hadn't given her away. She dropped into a comfortable wicker chair next to Grandma's and picked up the journal which had been written so long ago by FYances Mary Kelly. Jennifer Collins hurried to the screened-in porch of Grandma Briley's home. As for the historical figures who enter these stories-^they very well could have been at the places described at the proper times to touch the lives of the children who came west on the orphan trains.ĪND FRIENDS GENERALLY A re req*.i08ted to give publicity to the above Joseph, Missouri, between the years 18 as our setting in order to place our characters in one of the most exciting periods of American history. The Orphan Train Quartet was inspired by the true stories of these children but the characters in the series, their adventures, and the dates of their arrival are entirely fictional. This placing-out program was so successful that other groups, such as the New York Foundling Hospital, followed the example. This book made available by the Internet Archive.ĭuring the years from 1854 to 1929, the Children's Aid Society, founded by Charles Loring Brace, sent more than 100,000 children on orphan trains from the slums of New York City to new homes in the West.
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