The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Marie Jane Collins

  1. Foster Name: Mary Jane
  2. Foster Family: Adelaide Kemper
  3. Location of Family: St. Libory, NE
  4. Sending Organization: Foundling Hospital
  5. Arrival Place: Grand Island, NE
  6. Age on Arrival: 2
  7. Date of Birth: 1911-03-07, Waterbury, CT
  8. Gender: female
  9. Married Name: Mary J. Callihan
  10. Spouse Name: Theodore Callihan
  11. Notes: Later married again - Mary J. Baade.
  12. Source: Crossroads, Fall 1988, p. 5; Thomsen Register #593 and attached letter November 16, 187; North Platte Telegraph, 30 September 1987; Des Moines Register (received October 16, 1987); ROT A-L Neb p 2; Lincoln Star, 26 August 1987; Patricia J. Young and Frances E. Marks, Tears on Paper: The History and Life Stories of the Orphan Train Riders (n.p., 1990), 147-151; National Orphan Train Complex; Mary Ellen Johnson, comp., Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories vol. 3 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992), 276-283; 1920 United States Federal Census; Grand Island Independent, 17 May 1912.
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