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/Home/Historical Studies/History/American History/Westward Expansion/Orphan Trains Orphan Trains Votes:0 Orphan Trains From about 1850 through the early twentieth century, thousands of children were transfered from the overcrowded orphanages and homes in the large cities in the northeastern United States, to live with families on farms throughout the middle West. The name orphan train originates with the railroad trains that transported the children to their new homes. While some of the children were orphans, many of them had one or even two living parents. In those cases, the child's parents were unable or unwilling to care for them. Other parents believed their children would have a better life if sent to a caring family in the farmlands of the west. Many of the parents and children were immigrants who found life in America harder than they anticipated. The goal of the orphan trains was to Read More Go to Site Orphan Trains Votes:0 They rode the Orphan Trains New York's homeless children sought better lives in the Midwest. Many found the home they never had with families in Missouri and other states. by Jim McCarty Children from New York's orphanages came to the Midwest by the trainload in a huge migration that lasted 75 years. Estimates put the number of children relocated at 150,000 to 400,000, with some 100,000 coming to Missouri. Picture the plight of the poor immigrant coming to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most cases they left poverty and oppression. Unfortunately they often discovered conditions were little better in the new world The immigrants found few jobs. There was no labor union, no sick leave, no insurance. A steady supply of willing replacements meant low wages and appalling c Read More Go to Site The American Experience/The Orphan Trains/About the Program Votes:0 About the Program "I had the whole future ahead of me, and I didn't know what to expect." -- Elliot Bobo Eighty years ago, Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who over a 75-year period were uprooted from the city and sent by train to farming communities to start new lives with new families. Elliot Bobo's remarkable story is part of The Orphan Trains. The story of this ambitious and finally controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children begins in the 1850s, when thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter--prey to disease and cri Read More Go to Site

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