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Charles Loring Brace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Loring Brace (June 19, 1826 in Litchfield, Connecticut - August 11, 1890) was a contributing philanthropist in the field of social reform. He is considered a father of the modern foster care ...
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Orphan Train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Orphan Train was a social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States to the country's Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains ran between 1854 and 1929...
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A minister and early social work pioneer, and perhaps the best known representative of nineteenth-century child rescue, Charles Loring Brace was founder of the New York Children’s Aid Society in 1853 and author of The Best Method of Disposing of Our Pauper and Vagrant Children (1859). What was the best method?
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Brace depicted “the fortunes of a street waif” in four stages, from homeless child to young thief, drunkard, and imprisoned criminal. ... Source: Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them (New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1872), i-ii, 225-227, 234-235.
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Charles Loring Brace was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, June 19, 1826. He was educated for the clergy and ordained as a Methodist minister. But at the age of twenty-six he was asked to head up the newly forming Children's Aid Society of New York, which became his life ministry.
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The Children's Aid Society was founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace and a group of social reformers at a time when orphan asylums and almshouses were the only "social services" available for poor and homeless children.
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Founder in 1853 of the NEW YORK CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY (CAS)–an early child-welfare organization that provided a variety of programs for impoverished city children– Charles Loring Brace was an important proponent of the CAS's "Emigration Scheme." Widely known today as the ORPHAN TRAINS, Brace's emigration...
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The Life of Charles Loring Brace; Chiefly Told in His Own Letter ... In the task upon which I reluctantly entered three years ago, of editing my father's letters, it was from the beginning my aim to use only such material as should add something to the story of his life, and to let that story tell itself just ... EMMA BRACE.
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By Charles Loring Brace; ... Brace, Charles Loring; Scott, D. (David B.); Dangerous classes of New York, and twenty years' work among them (Book); Mcpherson, Edward; Every woman her own flower gardener (Book); Fern, Fanny; Montgomery, Florence;
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Amazon.com: Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the
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