William Rosensteel, Orphan Train Rider
William Rosensteel was sent to Illinois in March of 1902 at the age of nine. He lived with the Swingle family in Athens, IL and attended...
1896 Orphan Train Riders in Decatur
On May 29, 1896 the agent for the New York Juvenile Asylum left seven children in the care of seven different residents of Macon County....
Patrick Brennan, Orphan Train Rider
Patrick Brennan was one of the Vermilion County Company boys who served in the Civil War and were all listed in the 1868 Annual Report....
Becoming an Orphan Train Rider
The reputation of orphan train riders was that they were juvenile delinquents who had gotten into trouble in New York City or another...
Mary & Miles Blessing, Orphan Train Riders
Mary Blessing (1842- ?) was mentioned along with a group of young men who were sent to Vermilion County in 1855. The young men on the...
Henry Monehan, Orphan Train Rider
Henry Monehan/Monahan was born in 1843 in Ireland and came to Vermilion County in 1855 with a large company of boys and girls who were...
Compton, Lee County, Orphan Train Riders
Compton, Lee County Paul Kunz (1881-?) -- Placed in Lee County in 1894 -- working as farm laborer on Clayton Bowers farm in Ashton, Lee...
Ella & Frank Lindig, Orphan Train Riders
Ella Lindig (1898 - 1980) lived in San Jose, IL with Leonard and Agnes Parker for the rest of her life. In the 1930 and 1940 census she...
Henry, Lizzie, and Anna Jucker, Orphan Train Riders
Henry Jucker (1889 - 1919) The report of 1904 places Henry Jucker in Vermont, IL. The 1900 census places him in Eldorado, McDonough...
Samuel Ross Tomlinson and Matilda Reutlinger, Orphan Train Riders, Jo Daviess County
Samuel Ross Tomlinson (1882 - ?) Ross was placed in Derinda Center, IL in 1894. The 1900 census places him with the Randecker family,...
