Life of charles loring brace

American philanthropist (1826–1890)

For the anthropologist, see C. Loring Brace.

Charles Loring Brace (June 19, 1826 – August 11, 1890) was an American philanthropist who contributed to the field of social reform.

Charles Loring Brace (June 19, – August 11, ): Congregational Minister, Child Welfare Advocate, Founder of the New York Children's Aid Society.

Charles Loring Brace was an American philanthropist who contributed to the field of social reform.

Charles Loring Brace .

Charles Loring Brace was an American reformer and pioneer social-welfare worker, a founder and for 37 years executive secretary of the Children's Aid.

Brace was an evangelical reformer who wished to remove the children of poor Catholics from crowded urban and family environments and place them in Anglo-.

He is considered a father of the modern foster care movement and was most renowned for starting the Orphan Train movement of the mid-19th century, and for founding Children's Aid Society.

Early life

Brace was born on June 19, 1826, in Litchfield, Connecticut.

He was named after his uncle, the lawyer Charles Greely Loring,^[4] a defender of fugitive slave Thomas Sims.^[5][6] His mother died when he was 14, and he was raised by his father, a history teacher.^[7][8][9]

Education

He graduated from Yale College in 1846.^[1][2] He pursued divinity and theology graduate studies at Yale, but left to study at Union Theological Seminary, from which he received his graduat