The Orphan Trains of Nebraska

Fred Engert

  1. Foster Name: Frederick
  2. Alternate Foster Name: Fred
  3. Foster Family: Unknown
  4. Location of Family: Tecumseh, NE
  5. Sending Organization: Children's Aid Society
  6. Arrival Place: York, NE
  7. Age on Arrival: 6
  8. Date of Birth: 1919-05-08, Canandaigna, NY
  9. Date of Death: 2005-05-09
  10. Gender: male
  11. Source: Patricia J. Young and Frances E. Marks, Tears on Paper: The History and Life Stories of the Orphan Train Riders (n.p., 1990), p. 252-256; The Osceola Record, 17 September 1925; The Osceola Record, 24 September 1925; www.orphantraindepot - Fred (Engert) Swedenburg [National Orphan Train Complex]; Charlotte Endorf and Sarah M. Endorf. Plains Bound: Fragile Cargo: Revealing Orphan Train Reality (Outskirts Press, 2006), p. 1-5; Mary Ellen Johnson, comp., Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories vol. 2 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992), p. 359-363; Mary Ellen Johnson, comp., Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories vol. 3 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992), p. 371-378; The Fence Post, Plains Edition, 3 April 2010, p. 4-5; Lincoln Journal Star 18 November 1997; Aurora News-Register, 2 December 1967; Omaha World Herald, [undated].
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