S9.com / Biographies /
Brace, Charles Loring
1826 - Born on June 19th in Litchfield, Connecticut. American reformer and pioneer social-welfare worker, a founder and for 37 years executive secretary of the Children's Aid Society of New York City.
1852 - At the age of twenty-six, he was asked to head up the newly forming Children's Aid Society of New York, which became his life ministry.
1854 - He married Miss Letitia Neill in Belfast, Ireland, on August 21st.
1875 - In a summer home was established where street children could spend a week in the fresh air by the sea.
1890 - Died of Bright's disease on August 11th in Campfer, Switzerland.
1852 - At the age of twenty-six, he was asked to head up the newly forming Children's Aid Society of New York, which became his life ministry.
1854 - He married Miss Letitia Neill in Belfast, Ireland, on August 21st.
1875 - In a summer home was established where street children could spend a week in the fresh air by the sea.
1890 - Died of Bright's disease on August 11th in Campfer, Switzerland.
  | Page last updated: 3:32am, 09th Jun '07 |
Related Books
  |
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by Stephen O'Connor (Paperback - Mar 1, 2004) In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
 |
  |
Roundup of the Street Rovers: Charles Loring Brace (Trailblazer Books #36) by Dave and Neta Jackson (Paperback - Oct 1, 2001) For Kip O'Reilly, life on the streets doesn't seem all that bad. At least he and the other rovers have each other, and that's more than enough to keep them happy--well, as long as they can steal to...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work among Them by Charles Loring Brace (Paperback - Feb 21, 2001) This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1880 edition by Wynkoop&Hallenbeck, New York... Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
The races of the Old world: A manual of ethnology by Charles Loring Brace (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
|
  |
Gesta Christi: Or A History Of Humane Progress Under Christianity by Charles Loring Brace (Hardcover - Jul 25, 2007) Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
 |
Address to the theological students of Harvard University by Charles Loring Brace (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
|
