Thomas Cairnes, Moultrie County
Thomas Cairnes (1858 - 1905) was sent west in 1872 at the age of fourteen. five years after he arrived the visiting agent visited the...
George N. Bickner, Montgomery County
George N. Bickner's (1886 - 1963) first stop in Illinois was Montgomery County, where he was taken from the train by William H. Applegate...
Mabel Jordan, Lee County
Mabel Jordan (1879 - ??) was sent to Illinois in April, 1891 and found a home with the George H. Brewer family in Ashton, Lee County,...
Matilda Kimmel, Orphan Train Rider
Matilda Kimmel (1879 - 1967) was sent to Illinois in 1896 where she lived with the J. F. Meyer family in Cabery, IL. She married John H....
James, George and Edward Sterritt, Livingston and Grundy County
The Sterritt brothers, Edward (1880 - 1973), George (1876 - 1948), and James (1874 - 1950) were the sons of George and Margaret/Mary...
William Henry Quattlander, Montgomery County
The first record of William Henry Quattlander (1885 - 1959) is one of the few lists of orphans published in a newspaper (Montgomery...
Mildred Emelia Pfendler, Orphan Train Rider
Mildred Emelia Pfendler (1882 - 1967) was born in New York in 1882, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Pfendler. Whe was sent to...
David and Merrin Nicoll, Crawford County
Because I am slowly coming to the end of my quest within the Annual Reports of the New York Juvenile Asylum, I have begun searching...
Martha & Frederick Zenn, Orphan Train Rider
Martha Zenn was placed in Ford County, Illinois in 1873 and was born in 1861 or 1864. Her name appears in the census as an inmate of the...
Annie O'Brien, McLean & Boone County
Annie O'Brien, a young girl of Irish parentage, wrote a couple of letters to the asylum, but her story includes a newspaper story...
