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ORPHAN RIDER
Cynthia Finch Powers
Allen Co. IN USA
April 13, 2005
My great-uncle, Joseph Riley (Finch), was adopted from an orphan
train which came from the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston.
His official adoption took place in 1895 (I found the record in
the county clerk's office in Portland, Jay Co. IN) but I do not
know the date the train stopped in Portland, or whether other orphans
were chosen from that stop.
He was b. 1882 d. 1967 and is buried in Portland. He and his wife
Vernia Cromer Finch had no children. I remember him as a short cheerful
man with clattery false teeth who ran a country general store at
College Corner, just south of Portland. Previously he had operated
a store in Portland in partnership with his adoptive brother, Selma
Finch, who was 10 years older and became my grandfather.
The Home for Little Wanderers says they do not have records
that far back.
Please contact Cynthia Finch
Powers if you have any information about this Orphan
Train stop in Portland in 1895.
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