Adoption and Foster Care Biographies - Biography of Adoptee Andrew Burke

Biography of Andrew Horace Burke

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Identity:
Adoptee, Politician

Born:
May 15, 1850 - New York

Died:
November 17, 1918 - New Mexico

Bio:
Burke was born in New York and his mother died in childbirth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Noblesville, Indiana, where he was adopted by a local farmer. With him on the same shipment of orphans was John Brady, who became his good friend and was later territorial governor of Alaska. During the Civil War he enlisted as a drummer boy. After marriage, Burke and his wife settled in North Dakota, where he became successively a bookkeeper, bank cashier, county treasurer of Cass County, and finally state governor, from 1891 to 1892.

Related Resources:

• Adoption History: Orphan Trains

Elsewhere on the Web:

• Biography of Andrew H. Burke - from the State of North Dakota
• "The American Experience / The Orphan Trains / Transcript" - from PBS

Source: Roger Fenton's database of Famous Adoptees, Foster Children and Others. Used by permission.


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