The Children's Aid Society New York
Persons
Person | Relation type | Date from | Date to |
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Jane Quinn | Assistant Executive Director | ||
Patricia Grayson | Assistant Executive Director | ||
C. Warren Moses | CEO | ||
Betty Nogan-Woerner | CFO | ||
William Weisberg | COO | ||
Charles Loring Brace | Founder of |
Relations to other organizations
Organization | Relation Type | Organization | Country | Date from | Date to |
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The Children's Aid Society New York | Organizes | The Orphan Trains |
In 1853, a young minister, Charles Loring Brace, became obsessed by the plight of these children, who because of their wanderings, were known as "street Arabs." A member of a prominent Connecticut family, Brace had come to New York to complete his seminary training. Horrified by the conditions he saw on the street, Brace was persuaded there was only one way to help these "children of unhappy fortune."
"The great duty," he wrote, "is to get utterly out of their surroundings and to send them away to kind Christian homes in the country."
In 1853, Brace founded the Children's Aid Society to arrange the trips, raise the money, and obtain the legal permissions needed for relocation. Between 1854 and 1929, more than 100,000 children were sent, via orphan trains, to new homes in rural America. Recognizing the need for labor in the expanding farm country, Brace believed that farmers would welcome homeless children, take them into their homes and treat them as their own. His program would turn out to be a forerunner of modern foster care.
Documents
Title | Publication date |
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The stories of the Orphan Train Riders | |
The Children's Aid Society New York - IRS 990 forms |