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This site houses a brief biography and pictures plus links to other similar sites. Not-To-Missed Links Section:
2)	Other Orphan Train Pages http://www.hamilton.net/subscribers/hurd/orphan.htm Other Biographies:
3)	Riders on an Orphan Train to Kansas - 1911 http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll /articles/orphan train 1911.html
4)	Riders' Stories http://www.orphantrainriders.com/ridersl 1 .html#menu
5)	Tracking the Past http://www.komu.com/news/html/body 2orphan train.html
6)	Sarah Came on the Orphan Train in 1909: Sister Mary James' Story by P. Finney Jr., Clarion Herald (May 13, 1999) http://dominican-sisters.net/stmarys/people /iames-m.htm
More Orphan Train Resources
Canada's Home Children by S. Salloum from Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia
http://www.neo-vox.net/~bcadoption/articles/ethics/homekids.htm
This article provides a Canadian perspective on the movement or relocation of
orphans.
Champion of Children: Charles Loring Brace
http://www.childabuse.org/champions2.htm
This is an online biography of the man that is considered the founder of the modern foster care movement. He started the Children's Aid Society in New York and launched the "orphan trains" program.
Nodaway Valiev Museum from Clarinda Chamber of Commerce (Iowa) http://www.clarinda.org/museum.htm
This page on the history of a southwest Iowa community includes a section on "The Page County Orphan Train Story."
Related Website:
2)	Orphan Train Articles from Palo Alto Reporter (Iowa) http://www.celticcousins.net /paloalto/orphans.htm
Orphan Train by P. Moyer
http://www.zianet.com/patsyandfriends/0180rphan%20Train.htm Learn about the largest migration of children in history.
Other Summary Articles:
2)	New Homes, New Lives: The Era of the Orphan Trains by M. Pearson from America's Past http://www.americaspast.com/articlelQ07.shtml
3)	Orphan Train by A. Warren, Special to The Washington Post [November 11, 1998] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7446/trainpage.html
4)	Orphan Train: A Unique Heritage by J. Schlegel from Valley City Times-Record http://www.times-online.com/archives/2002/2Q02aprill9heritage.htm
5)	Orphan Train Era by B. Higgins http://members.aol.com/bhiggins/orphan.html
6)	Orphan Train Program by S. Eischen from The Algona Upper Des Moines [March 27, 1980)lhttp://www.studerhistory.org/content/orphan.shtml
7)	Orphan Train to Dougherty http://members.aol.com/Mlochlan/orphans.htm
8)	Orphan Trains http://www.outfitters.com/~melissa/ot/ot.html
9)	Orphan Train Riders Exhibit, Reunion Set for Saturday from Jefferson City News Tribune http://www.newstribune.com/stories/060699/com 0606990024.asp
10)	Orphan Trains Tale An American Tragedy (Book Review) by D. Veach, The
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