Social reformer and philanthropist. Founder of the Children's Aid Society in New York City (1853) and who instituted the use of the "Orphan Trains" to send orphaned, abused, neglected or abandoned NYC children to other regions of the U.S. in order to place them in good homes with foster parents.
Married Letitia Neill August 21, 1854 in Belfast, Ireland.
Cause of death - Bright's disease.
Married Letitia Neill August 21, 1854 in Belfast, Ireland.
Cause of death - Bright's disease.
Social reformer and philanthropist. Founder of the Children's Aid Society in New York City (1853) and who instituted the use of the "Orphan Trains" to send orphaned, abused, neglected or abandoned NYC children to other regions of the U.S. in order to place them in good homes with foster parents.
Married Letitia Neill August 21, 1854 in Belfast, Ireland.
Cause of death - Bright's disease.
Married Letitia Neill August 21, 1854 in Belfast, Ireland.
Cause of death - Bright's disease.
Gravesite Details
According to his obit in the London Daily News, he is buried in "the churchyard of St. Moritz Switzerland."
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