Louis Blume, Madison County
Louis Blume (1873 - ?) came to Illinois on the train on May 24, 1886 to Alton, IL. He was placed with Henry W. Luker, who seemed to have...
Gertrude Dangler, Stephenson County
Gertrude Dangler was sent to Illinois in March of 1887 with a company of 18 boys and 4 girls. she was one of five children assigned to...
David, John, and Robert Berwick, Ogle County
The three sons of David and Jessie Douglas Berwick were sent west in 1893. According to family trees, Jessie Berwick died in 1890 or...
Rose Agnes Appell, LaSalle County
Rose Agnes Appell was born 1871 in New York City to Charles and Lizzie Appell, two German immigrants living on Avenue C in what is now...
Peter Murphy, Vermilion County
Peter Murphy was another boy brought to Vermilion County by Rev. Enoch Kingsbury in November of 1855. I wonder how he felt about life on...
Michael Madden and Julia Neron, Vermilion County
Michael Madden came to Illinois on the orphan train on or about November 4, 1855. He was brought to Illinois by Reverend Enoch Kingsbury,...
Mason M. Imlay, Will County (1866 - 1891)
Mason Imlay was thirteen years old when he arrived at the Joliet train station. He came with twenty other boys and Ebenezer Wright on...
Andrew W. King, DeKalb County
Andrew King was born in Scotland in 1862 and was sent to DeKalb County, Illinois in 1876. Andrew was placed with the Bourcy family of...
Augusta Vogt, Babylon, Fulton Co.
Augusta Vogt came to Illinois in 1885 when she was about 8 years old. She had been living with one family for eight years when she wrote...
Edith, Margaret & William Stuckey, Ogle & Rock Island County
Edith and Margaret first appear in official records in 1880 in NYC with parents John and Margaret Stuckey. Their father, John, was a...
