KANSAS COLLECTION ARTICLES
"Orphan Trains of Kansas" is contributed by CONNIE DIPASQUALE.




PLACING AGENTS
WHO BROUGHT CHILDREN TO KANSAS
(with documented years operating in state)


Legend:
(CAS) = Children's Aid Society
(NYFH) = New York Founding Hospital


Miss Anna Laura Hill (CAS): 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1924, 1925

Rev. J.W. Swan (CAS): 1909, 1911

Ms. Clarabelle Comstock (CAS): 1911, 1915, 1917

Ms. Georgia Greenleaf (CAS): ?

Mr. Charles Fry (CAS): 1886

Mr. Rudolph Heig (CAS): 1886

Mr. B.W. Tice (CAS): 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910, 1911

Mr. Fredrick K. King (CAS): 1894, 1899, 1900

Miss Sinclare (CAS): 1894

Mrs. M.M. Elston (CAS): 1894

Mr. James P. Brace (CAS): 1880

Mr. C.L. Brace (CAS): 1898, 1899, 1900

Mr. E. Trott (CAS): 1882, 1884, 1885, 1899 (it has been stated that he made at least 144 trips!)

Mr. G. Calder (CAS): 1882

Mr. Robert N. Brace (CAS): 1899, 1900

M? Roberts (CAS): 1894

Mr. W.J. McCully (CAS): 1886

Mr. J. Matthews (CAS): 1883, 1884

M? Bugbee (CAS): 1911, 1912

M? Peterson (CAS): 1911

Miss Jewell (CAS): 1911



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