Hedwig and Marianna Schutze, LaSalle County
Hedwig and Marianna Schutze were sent to LaSalle County, Illinois in 1889. These sisters may have been two sisters who arrived in America...
Margaret Allison, LaSalle County
Like so many of the orphan train riders, Margaret Allison made a very faint impression in recorded history. The 1877 Annual Report...
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...
Annie, Emil, Margaret & Ottilile Schultz, Orphan Train Riders
Annie E. wrote a long letter to the Asylum in 1893. Her letter has an underlying tone of sadness in it. She was not happy in Illinois,...
Josephine Fren, Orphan Train Rider
Josephine Fren (b. 1893) Josephine Fren's letter appears in the 1901 report of the NYJA. Her name was found with the Martin H. Crider...
