La Porte's orphan train children : the children's home, orphanages, and training schools of Julia E. Work
From the 1850s into the 1920s, institutions, many privately owned, were aimed at keeping poor children from mixing with adults in the county poorhouse. The children's homes, orphanages and training schools of Julia Work strived to teach adolescents marketable skills while providing shelter
Print Book, English, ©2008
Cemetery & Research Assn. of La Porte Co[unty], IN, [LaPorte, Ind.], ©2008