Click on the names below to view a story of an Orphan Train Rider.
Names are organized alphabetically by last name. Riders featured may change.
George Alexander Aberle, AKA eden ahbez – Kansas, 1917
Alice Bullis Ayler – Kansas, 1930
Mary Jane Baade – Nebraska,1912
Anna Miller Bassett – Texas, 1918
Charles Bintliff – South Dakota, between 1889-1900
Hazelle Boxberg – Texas, 1918
Gov. John Green Brady – Indiana, 1859
Ellen Broderick – North Dakota,1908
Gov. Andrew Burke – Indiana, 1859
John J. Callahan – West Virginia, 1903
Paul Young Clithero – Kansas, 1911
Irma Craig – Missouri, 1901
Mike Francese – Texas, 1919
Charles Frederick – Illinois, 1888
Harry Gerguson, AKA Prince Michael Romanoff – Illinois, 1904 and Texas, 1908
Ann Harrison – Colorado, 1911
Clifton and Myrtle Jennings – Arkansas, 1912
Charles Miller, AKA Kansas Charley – Virginia, Minnesota, and Kansas, 1880s
Lee Nailing – Texas, 1926
Bill Oser – Michigan, 1922
Edith Peterson (Sister Justina Bieganek) – Minnesota, 1913
John and Austin Porter – Nebraska, 1899 and Texas, before 1910
Jean Sexton – Missouri, 1914
Arthur Field Smith – Iowa, 1922
Fred Engert Swedenburg – Nebraska, 1925
Marguerite Thompson – Nebraska, 1911
George Washington and Joseph Benjamin Timmons – Michigan, 1857
More Orphan Train Riders Stories can be found in Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories Volumes 1-6 published by the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America and available through our bookstore.
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