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Article: O'Connor, Stephen. Orphan trains; the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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O'CONNOR, Stephen. Orphan trains; the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed. Univ. of Chicago Press. 362p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c2001. 0-226-61667-3. $16.00. SA
Charles Loring Brace invented the idea of placing city orphans in the countryside of late 19th-century America as a way to help the children as well as to help families who needed young people on their farms. As a minister and the first director of the Children's Aid Society, he placed children in every one of the 48 states, often with little regard to record keeping or appropriateness of the placement. While two of these children became governors of states and a ...