Brief Reports of the Orphans
Robert G. McMahon was sent to Illinois in 1879 at just eight years old. A large number of very young children were sent in 1878, and...
William Gray and Bertha Forbes, Clinton County
Adam Ringer took two New York orphans into his home and found that not all orphans are alike. In 1883 Bertha Forbes came to live with the...
Charles Newhardt, Orphan Train Rider
Charles Newhardt was sent to Illinois in 1885 and was born in 1874 on Christmas Day. He worked for a farmer, G. N. French for ten years...
Brief Reports of the Orphans
George Conlon was noted in the 1881 brief report table as a 14 year old orphan in Illinois. He is found in the 1880 census living with...
Annie Alice Boyer, Iroquois County
Annie's obituary told the sad story of her journey to Illinois. She was born in Cambridgeshire England on February 1, 1860, where first...
Mary & John Dorsey, Orphan Train Riders
Mary Dorsey (1860 - 1936) wrote to the Asylum in 1896, when she was 36 years old. She reported her marriage to Perry Breeding in 1877....
William French, Lawrence County
William French was ten years old when he left New York. In 1880 he had appeared in the census with his grandparents and a sister named...
Annie Evans, Kankakee County
Annie Evans, although she had a warm home to live in, still pined for a family that loved her. She found a husband of her own in 1898,...
Lillie, John & William Heinicker, Orphan Train Riders
Lillie (1862 - 1962) and William were sent to Illinois in 1872 or 1873. In 1954 Lillie was interviewed by the Champaign newspaper and...
Annie Burns, Carroll County
Annie Burns came to Illinois in 1887 at the age of eleven. She was placed with Caroline Mark in Mt. Carroll. Mrs. Marks reported of...
