Charles Loring Brace – Timeline

Parents

Scene 1 – Hartford, Birth of a Reformer (1826)
Scene 10 – The Idea of “Placing Out” (Later 1850s)
Scene 11 – First Orphan Trains Roll (Late 1850s–early 1860s)
Scene 12 – The City in Upheaval, the Work Continues (Civil War Era)
Scene 13 – “The Dangerous Classes”: Writing the Justification (1870s)
Scene 14 – Family and Legacy Taking Shape (1870s–1880s)
Scene 15 – Late Reflections in New York (1880s)
Scene 16 – August 11, 1890: Certified Dead
Scene 17 – Afterlives: Biography, Debate, and “All Aboard”
Scene 2 – Growing Up in the New England Air (1830s–1840s)
Scene 3 – A Name in Print (1846)
Scene 4 – Seminary and the City Doorway (Late 1840s)
Scene 5 – Across the Atlantic: Prussia & Ideas of Order (Late 1840s–early 1850s)
Scene 6 – Return & First Shock of New York’s Streets (Early 1850s)
Scene 7 – 1851: The City as Problem to be Solved
Scene 8 – 1853: Founding the Children’s Aid Society
Scene 9 – Five Points House of Industry: The Laboratory (Mid‑1850s)