On the train from Detroit at three that morning and had huddled together on the station platform until sunup. Served as a school, but on that day, a Sunday, it was a Presbyterian church, and more than usually crowded, not only because the children had taken so many seats, but because the regular parishioners had been augmentedīy less devout neighbors curious to see the "orphans."įor the last couple of weeks notices had been running in the newspapers, and bills had been posted at the general store, the tavern, and the railroad station asking families to take in homeless boys and girls from New York City. Most were between ten and twelve years old, though at least one was six and a few were young teenagers. On the morning of October 1, 1854, forty-five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac, Michigan. The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
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