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Article: Brace, Charles Loring (1826-1890)
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Brace, Charles Loring (1826-1890)
Founder in 1853 of the New York Children's Aid Society (CAS)
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an early child-welfare organization that provided a variety of programs for impoverished city children
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Charles Loring Brace was an important proponent of the CAS's "Emigration Scheme." Widely known today as the orphan trains, Brace's emigration program transported more than 100,000 persons, mostly children, from the burgeoning city of New York to rural homes and farms
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in various, mostly Midwestern states, some as far away as Texas. During its seventy-five year history, the program was widely copied by other child-saving philanthropies and is still viewed as a significant ...