George Merschiere

1. Foster Name: George Eugene
2. Foster Family: Harry Emmanuel and Anna Marie Thoren Johnson
3. Location of Family: Harlan City, NE
4. Sending Organization: Children's Aid Society
5. Arrival Place: Alma, NE
6. Age on Arrival: 4
7. Date of Birth: 1912-06-26, New York City, NY
8. Date of Death: 2005-06-24, Alma, NE
9. Gender: male
10. Spouse Name: Frances Johnson
11. Notes: George was placed in the New York Infant Asylum on November 26, 1912, and he stayed there until being placed with the Children's Aid Society. After their wedding, George and Frances settled in rural Fairfield, NE, where George was a farmer. They lived for a short time in Phillipsburg, KS, before returning to Nebraska in 1937. Frances died on March 26, 1989.
12. Source: "Riders of the Orphan Trains: Nebraska," http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/trains/riders.htm; Kearney Hub (NE), 27 June 2005; Harlan County Journal (Alma, NE), 30 June 2005; Charlotte Endorf and Sarah M. Endorf, By Train They Came: Fragile Excess Baggage vol. 2 (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2007), 36-37; 1920 United States Federal Census; 1940 United States Federal Census; Gravestone, Stamford Cemetery, Stamford, NE