title: Abandoned: The Untold Story of Orphan Asylums
author: Michael T. Keene
description: <div><span>Such a delight, reading Michael T. Keene's <i>Abandoned: The Untold Story of Orphan Asylums !</i>. </span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span>He delineates, in his plain style, the histories of eighteen orphanages, most in New York City or state. He focuses on people, on the wide variety of benefactors, visionaries, and saints who founded these asylums.</span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span>In short, Keene's <i>Abandoned</i> is a must-read for students, researchers, and descendants of orphan train riders. It reunites us with an important segment of that history.</span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span>-- Marilyn June Coffey</span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div>
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  # THE FORGOTTEN ORPHAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Glynis Peters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## [Copyright](part0003.html#copyright)
  
  
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