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The Children's Aid Society's sent an average of 3,000 children via train each year from 1855 to 1875. [1] Orphan trains were sent to 45 states, as well as Canada and Mexico. During the early years, Indiana received the largest number of children. [ 7 ]
Charles Loring Brace (June 19, 1826 – August 11, 1890) was an American philanthropist who contributed to the field of social reform.He is considered a father of the modern foster care movement and was most renowned for starting the Orphan Train movement of the mid-19th century, and for founding Children's Aid Society.
Children's Aid, formerly the Children's Aid Society, [6] is a private child welfare nonprofit in New York City founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace.With an annual budget of over $100 million, 45 citywide sites, and over 1,200 full-time employees, Children's Aid is one of America's oldest and largest children's nonprofits.
During the movement, 250,000 homeless and orphaned children were sent by train from New York into rural America. An estimated 10,000 were placed in Iowa, ... Delmar Orphan Train Movement mural ...
The Children's Aid Society started the Orphan Train Movement in 1853 to help the homeless, abused, and orphaned children living on the streets of New York City; the beginning of the modern-day foster care system in the United States. Jacob Riis' "Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters 1890." Mulberry Street in Manhattan.
After an MGM publicist and his wife adopted a child from the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society he presented Mrs. Gladney's life story to then head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Louis Mayer. Her life's work was the foundation for the 1941 film, Blossoms in the Dust. Greer Garson played Gladney and Walter Pidgeon played her husband Sam.
In 1853, Charles Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, which worked hard to take street children in. The following year, the children were placed on a train headed for the West, where they were adopted, and often given work. By 1929, the orphan train stopped running altogether, but its principles lived on.
The Orphan Trains and Newsboys of New York" an unabridged nonfiction resource book and pictorial history about the orphan trains. ISBN 978-0-615-29755-2 Dianne Creagh, "The Baby Trains: Catholic Foster Care and Western Migration, 1873–1929," Journal of Social History (2012) 46#1 pp 197–218 online