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EAN num: 9780615153131
ISBN number: 0615153135
Label: Clark Kidder
Manufacturer: Clark Kidder
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Page Count: 192
Printing Date: September 14, 2007
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It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America s not-so-distant past that nearly 200,000 children could be loaded on trains in large cities on our East Coast, sent to the rural Midwest, and presented for the picking to anyone who expressed an interest in them. That s exactly what happened between the years 1854 and 1930. The primitive social experiment became known as placing out, and had its origins in a New York City organization founded by Charles Loring Brace called the Children s Aid Society. The Society gathered up orphans, half-orphans, and abandoned children from streets and orphanages, and placed them on what are now referred to as Orphan Trains. It was Brace s belief that there was always room for one more at a farmer s table. The stories of the individual children involved in this great migration of little emigrants have nearly all been lost in the attic of American history. In this book, the author tells the true story of his paternal grandmother, the late Emily (Reese) Kidder, who, at the tender age of fourteen, became one of the aforementioned children who rode an Orphan Train. In 1906, Emily was plucked from the Elizabeth Home for Girls, operated by the Children s Aid Society, and placed on a train, along with eight other children, bound for Hopkinton, Iowa. Emily s journey, as it turned out, was only just beginning. Life had many lessons in store for her lessons that would involve overcoming adversity, of perseverance, love, and great loss. Emily's story is told through the use of primary material, oral history, interviews, and historical photographs. It is a tribute to the human spirit of an extraordinary young girl who became a woman a woman to whom the heartfelt phrase there s no place like home, had a very profound meaning.
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This book is a must for anyone interested in their family roots. Clark Kidder simply and eloquently tells the story of his grandmother Emily Reese Kidder - placed in a New York City orphanage in the early 20th century after her father deserts the entire family. Through The Children's Aid Society, she is then placed aboard the famous orphan train to be sent to a strange, rural home in the midwest. Sadly, Emily is shunted from one farming family to another, some who treat her with great kindness and some who don't. Several of the stories revealed are heartrending. But, luckily for Emily, her luck changes due to a very special man who enters her life. I won't give all the story away but just understand this is a beautiful book about a certain period in American history - as well as a wonderful love story.
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