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,...
John, James and Margaret Swanson
John Swanson (1870 - 1944) was sent to Illinois in 1877 and was placed with Hugh O'Hara on his farm in Assumption, Illinois. John...
Albert H. and Fernando Trede, Orphan Train Riders
Albert Trede (1868) came to Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois in 1882 and his employer wrote a letter to the asylum in 1884. He was not...
Lena & Thomas Church, McHenry County
Lena and Thomas Church came to the small community called Terra Cotta in McHenry County in 1893, the year of the White City World's Fair....
