The Homeless Children Allen County, Kansas

ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

The Homeless Children

The company of children, from the Children’s Aid Society, of New York, arrived in town on Thursday, and were taken to the hotels. The party numbers 10-12 boys and 4 girls.

These children are taken by the Society from poor but respectable parents, who are unable to adequately provide for their support, together with orphan children, are transported and to the Great West into good homes and allowed to”grow up with the country.” This party is in charge of Mr. E. Trott, who is an old hand at the business, having brought the first party to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1865. This is the 123d party which he has taken charge of and found homes for.

The Society is evidently doing a great and good work. From the last annual report of the Society we find up to October 1878, 3,818 children had been provided with homes--200 of whom were sent to Kansas; 14,234 were lodged; 26,045 meals were furnished, 2279 were aided with food, medicine, & The Society has six lodging houses; twenty day and twelve night schools; a “Seaside Home,” a Penny Savings Bank and several Industrial Schools. It is supported by voluntary subscriptions, and was organized in 1853.

The children are bright looking, active little fellows, and seem charmed with the new country to which they had been brought.

On Friday at 10 a.m., a meeting was held in Long’s Hall for the disposal of the little fellows. Applications had been received for more than the number available and anxious inquiries were made as to whether any more would be brought out.

The children were awarded as follows:

Fanny(?) Porter, age 10 to Moses Neal.
Rose Porter, aged 12 to W.A. Squires
Eliza Rother and Frederick Rother, twins, aged 10; to Geo. Marshall.
Elias Wentworth, aged 10, to M.E. Wolfe
Alfred Currie, aged 8 to W.H. Maybee
Josephine Rockenstyer, aged 10 to M.M. Ashbrook
Martin Montensen, age 13, to J.S. East
Frank Eaton, aged 16, to D.W. Matsler.
Harry Kemp, aged 13, to C.W. Baylie
Chas. A. Hart, aged 15, to R.V. Reed
John Regan, aged 16, to J.J. McCowan/McGowan?
Edward Barton, aged 11, to J.P. Dildine
Alex Burrows, aged 11 to D.C. Wood
Michael Garrity, aged 16, to W.H. Maybee.
Willie Ostrander, aged 12 to Mrs. W.C. Whitney

The Society is to be congratulated upon the disposition of this company of children, leaving them as it does, in good families, and where good care will be taken of them.

(Submitted by Nancy Willis