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...
Annie, Charles & Lena Wander, Boone County and McHenry County
Annie Wander wrote in 1893 that she was called Annie Lobdell, and that the asylum should address mail to her that way. One year later,...
Edward Conlon, Charles and Katie Powell Boone County
Edward Conlon (1868 - 1932) was sent to Illinois in 1877 and he lived with the Loing family near Bonus, Illinois. In 1885 Eliza Loing...
George Washington Sterling, Boone Co.
George Washington Sterling (1849 - 1923) was sent to Illinois in 1862 and was placed with the Heath family in Boone Co. He wrote a letter...
Theresa Keppler, Boone County
Theresa Keppler (1885 - 1958) first appears in the record as a dressmaker-lodger in the home of Seymour and Ruth Cox of Belvidere, Boone...
