Freda & Frank Reichardt, Orphan Train Riders
Freda (1873 - 1941) and Frank (1875) Reichardt Freda Reichardt lived with the Gillespies, along with her brother, Frank, after coming...
The Report of 1910
By 1910, the State of Illinois was pushing the child placing agencies out of Illinois. The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society was...
Visiting Agents
The visiting agents of the New York Juvenile Asylum were meant to look out for the well being of the children and make sure they were...
William A. Garrett, Orphan Train Rider
William A. Garrett came to Illinois in 1880 at the age of 9. In the letter he wrote in 1897 he reported having steady employment, but the...
Grace, Anne & Agnes Milne
Grace Milne was sent to Illinois in 1905 by the New York Juvenile Asylum to live with a family here, but in 1910, Grace Milne was a...
Fred Heine, Orphan Train Rider
Fred Heine (1868 - 1939) wrote to the asylum in 1895, at the age of twenty seven. He had come to Illinois in 1878 along with an unnamed...
John, James and Margaret Swanson
John Swanson (1870 - 1944) was sent to Illinois in 1877 and was placed with Hugh O'Hara on his farm in Assumption, Illinois. John...
Amelia and Ernest Wamster, Orphan Train Riders
Amelia Wamster (1882 - 1953) was sent to Illinois in 1895 with her brother Ernest Wamster. They were taken in by the George Hewerdine...
Alexander F. Roy, Iroquois County
Alexander Fowler Roy (1885 - 1966) came to Watseka, Illinois in 1895 to live with a young couple named Wockener. He was just ten years...
