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Article: She rode the orphan train into history Suburban woman arrived in Chicago to a childhood of indentured servitude.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- September 8, 2002
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Byline: Rukmini Callimachi Daily Herald Staff Writer
All that 90-year-old Helen Macior has left of her earliest years is a clouded memory of the white metal bars that enclosed her cot at New York City's Foundling Hospital.
In 1915, Macior, then a 2-year-old with a brown pageboy haircut and clad in a white smock, was sent to Illinois on a train filled with orphans - each of them tagged with their name, their age and the address of their future parents.
The train that brought Macior to Chicago was one of the so- called "orphan trains" - an ambitious rescue effort organized in the mid-1800s by Charles Loring Brace, an idealistic young minister ...