Henry Schmidt, Edgar County
Henry Schmidt came to Illinois in 1895 and lived with the John Morris family. He was the only boy in the family. In 1900 he attended...
Jacob Walter, Whiteside County
Jacob Walter was just 10 years old when he lived with Napoleon Peters near Neoga, Illinois in 1895. Peters reported to the Asylum that...
Albert H. and Fernando Trede, Orphan Train Riders
Albert Trede (1868) came to Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois in 1882 and his employer wrote a letter to the asylum in 1884. He was not...
Barbara Klink, LaSalle County
Barbara Klink most likely came to Ottawa, Illinois in 1879 (the reference to the date 1870 here is a typographical error). She was born...
Daniel Mayor, Ford County
Daniel started life in Illinois in DuBois, Washington County, which is in the southern reaches of Illinois (information from the 1890...
Joseph Weinberg & Harold Beale, Cook County & Madison County
Joseph Weisberg came to Illinois in June 1904. At that time the immigration process was being handled by the Children's Aid Society,...
Frank E. Powell, Crawford County
Frank E. Powell came to Illinois in 1886 and lived with Isabella Kennedy, a widowed lady in Hutsonville, Illinois. Although he does not...
Elizabeth Van Hove, Livingston County
Elizabeth Van Hove came from England before her second immigration to Illinois. She had two brothers, Samuel and Harry, who were also...
Orphan Train Rider Weddings, 1897
In the 1897 Report, the Asylum announced the weddings of eight girls who had been sent west. Isabella Carr married Joseph Boyer of...
Amelia Biastoff, Cook County
Amelia Biastoff, an Irish immigrant born of a German father and Irish mother wast sent to Illinois in March, 1903. She was thirteen years...
