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orphan trains: see Brace, Charles Loring Brace, Charles Loring, 1826–90, American clergyman and social reformer, b. Litchfield, Conn. America's pioneer children's advocate, he founded (1853) the Children's Aid Society of New York, an organization that established modern methods in child welfare. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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To extend, have students make their own lists of best resources for studying orphan trains. The story of the orphan trains (about 1900-1933), which took children from impoverished conditions in eastern US cities to the Midwest in hope of finding homes for them, is fascinating to a wide range of readers. The orphan trains that were a well-meaning effort to get urban orphans transported from the cities of the east to the farm communities of the west have been the subject of many children's books-it is an endlessly fascinating story after all. |
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