Christopher and Nellie Hogan
Some guardians were truly benevolent toward the children and tried to help them get a good education. Nellie Hogan came to Macon County...
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...
Andrew Barrowman, Macon County
Andrew Barrowman (1868 - 1943) was sent to Illinois in 1880. The only information regarding Andrew in the report is a very brief...
Mary & John Dorsey, Orphan Train Riders
Mary Dorsey (1860 - 1936) wrote to the Asylum in 1896, when she was 36 years old. She reported her marriage to Perry Breeding in 1877....
Arthur & Annie Wycoff, Orphan Train Riders
Arthur (1860 - 1933) and Annie Wycoff (1860 - 1937) rode the orphan train to Macon County in 1873. In 1880 they both appeared with the...
Hattie and Annie Henning, Orphan Train Rider
Hattie Henning came to Niantic, Macon County, Illinois on the train in 1886. She wrote to the asylum in 1896, after she had married...
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....
Percy and Herbert Quimby, Orphan Train Riders
Percy Quimby 1876 - ? Percy Quimby wrote in 1895 that he planned to be an electrician. The 1900 census shows him living in the home of...
Charlotte Goodman, DeWitt & Macon County
Charlotte Goodman was taken in to be the companion of Miss I C Hutchin, a invalid lady living in the home of her married sister in...
