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Charles Loring Brace was born on June 19, 1826, in Litchfield, Connecticut. He came on both sides of old and distinguished New England stock. His father, John Brace, was the grandson of Capt. Abel Brace, a Revolutionary officer, and was descended from Stephen Brace (or Bracy) who came from England to Hartford in 1660; his mother, Lucy Porter of Maine, was related to the Beechers and was a descendant of Rufus King.
Charles, efficiently guided in his studies, and in trout-fishing, by his father, was ready for college at the age of fourteen but delayed two years, entering Yale in 1842 and graduating in 1846.
Brace taught country schools for a year, returning to New Haven in 1847 to study theology in Yale Divinity School. The course there bred more doubts than convictions, and two ensuing years in New York turned his attention away from theology to thoughts of work among the delinquent classes of the metropolis.
In the fall of 1850, Charles Brace took brief walking trips in Ireland, England, and the Rhine country with two life-long Connecticut friends, John and Frederick Olmstead, then lingered on through the winter in Berlin, and in the spring ventured into Hungary, where he was imprisoned for a month as a Kossuth sympathizer, being released through the efforts of the United States minister, only after thirteen trials by court-martial.
Upon his return to America he published Hungary in 1851 (1852) and Home Life in Germany (1853). In 1854, he made a flying trip to the British Isles to bring back as his bride Letitia Neill whom he had met upon his previous visit. Meanwhile, he had definitely entered upon his life-work.
In 1853, he was influential in founding in New York City the Children's Aid Society, an organization which, under his direction, worked mainly among the foreign immigrants, establishing cheap lodging houses, industrial schools, night schools, summer camps, and sanitariums. It also, in the course of years, found homes and employment in the country for more than 100, 000 city waifs.
Of several later trips to Europe, the last, taken in quest of health, ended at Campfer in the Engadine, where he died on August 11, 1890.
Brace was a pioneer in modern philanthropic methods, grounding all his efforts on the principle of self-help, and opposing every charitable enterprise which tended toward pauperization. Founder of the Children's Aid Society in New York City (1853) and who instituted the use of the "Orphan Trains" to send orphaned, abused, neglected or abandoned NYC children to other regions of the United States in order to place them in good homes with foster parents. During his years of work in the slum districts, Brace showed himself brave, resourceful, and tolerant, inspired by a belief in the infinite worth of every human soul as having that within it "which shall live when the old world has passed by. " His remarkable success brought him an international reputation, and he had a large circle of distinguished friends on both sides of the Atlantic, including Emerson, Theodore Parker, Asa Gray, Henry Ward Beecher, Darwin, John Morley, and John Stuart Mill.
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"When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go. "
"Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city. "
On August 21, 1854, Charles Loring Brace married Letitia Neill in Belfast, Ireland.
September 24, 1901 – July 20, 1978
5 October 1859 - 4 January 1952
12 October 1864 - 2 November 1949
3 October 1861 - 24 December 1938
2 June 1855 - 24 May 1938
1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
He was the most important American botanist of the 19th century.
British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant.
American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church.
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker.
Born in 1930.
