Clara P., George, & Othelia Roth, Kankakee & Champaign County
Clara P. Roth (1863 - 1941) came to Illinois in 1879 and was place with the Reverend Cephas Williams. He praised her in his 1880 letter...
Marie Tavormino, Orphan Train Rider
Marie Tavormino was sent to Illinois well before 1900 when she married a distant relative of her guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Devine...
Mary Loretta Broland, Piatt County
Mary Loretta Broland came to Illinois in 1860, where she was placed in Piatt County with William Webster, with whom she stayed throughout...
Americanization and the Visiting Agent
Letter from the visiting agent in 1892 were often sharply critical of the children as well as the neighbors. It was clear from these...
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...
