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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed. By Stephen O' Connor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xxi + 362 pp. $27.00.
Charles Loring Brace, who began working among the poor as a city missionary and became the force behind the New York Children's Aid Society (CAS), is best remembered as the architect of the orphan trains, a placement program that sent thousands of orphaned, destitute, and abandoned...