The last “Orphan Train” left New York City on May 31, 1929 bound for Sulphur Springs and points west ln the Lone Star State.
Charles Loring Brace was a college-educated minister and social reformer working in the slums of New York City in the middle of the nineteenth century. A person of rare compassion, he was moved most by the plight of the 30,000 homeless children forced to fend for themselves i…