The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Mary Josephine Kenny

  1. Alternate Birth Name: Kinney
  2. Foster Name: Josephine
  3. Alternate Foster Name: Jo
  4. Foster Family: Henry and Elizabeth Boland
  5. Location of Family: Hartington, NE
  6. Sending Organization: Foundling Hospital
  7. Arrival Place: Hartington, NE
  8. Age on Arrival: 2
  9. Date of Birth: 1910-07-13, New York City, NY
  10. Gender: female
  11. Married Name: Sweeney
  12. Source: Charlotte Endorf and Sarah M. Endorf, By Train They Came: Fragile Excess Baggage (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2007), p. 21-23; 1920 United States Federal Census; 1930 United States Federal Census; Omaha World-Herald (undated); Living Here, Winter 2007; Hartington Herald, 4 October 1912.
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