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• John Green Brady and Adoption
  ...sent to a children's home, and in 1858 he was sent on the [[Orphan]] Train to [[Indiana]], where he was [[adopted]] by a local judge named John Green. W ...ging industry. He was appointed territorial governor in 1897 and continued to press for Native Alaskan civil rights, but he resigned in 1906 after a crit
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• George Cole and Adoption
  ...s, whom he met when he and Alistair were both acting in the film A Cottage to Let. He was unable to trace his birth family as a teenager and no longer has any interest in doin
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• Harry Houdini and Adoption
  ...en he was 13 the family moved to [[New York]] City and he returned to them to live. His father died when he was 16. ...fter being hit in the stomach by a college student, before he had the time to prepare himself by tightening his abdominal muscles.
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• Barbara La Marr and Adoption
  ...ist, Adela Rogers St. John, who took her under her wing and introduced her to other reporters and other, more respectable, aspects of show business. ...uding drug addiction, alcoholism and tuberculosis) and she died young. She left a young son by her last husband, who was adopted by her friends, actress Za
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• Robert Scourfield Mills and Adoption
  ...and became famous for his exploits there; he was awarded the DSO and rose to the rank of colonel. He wrote at least eight books, mostly adventure novels Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1959)
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• James Templer and Adoption
  ...tect but after three years of the seven to which he was bonded he ran away to sea as a shipwright. ...of docks and other buildings, soon making a very large fortune. Returning to England, still in his 20s, he became even wealthier through building docks
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• Matthew Alexander Henson and Adoption
  ...he slept on the floor. He wanted to go to sea and a few years later walked to Baltimore, where he signed on as a cabin boy. His captain taught him until ...on he saved Perry's life again, and in 1909 Henson was the first non-Inuit to reach the north pole, 45 minutes before Perry, but because he was Black his
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• Buffalo Child Long Lance and Adoption
  Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot a When he was 12 he left home to join a wild west show. He attended the US Bureau of Indian Affairs school a
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• Lue Gim Gong and Adoption
  ...let him emigrate, alone. After a few years in San Francisco he headed east to become a strike-breaker at a shoe factory, and there he met the wealthy Bur ...and returned to America in 1885, this time to [[Florida]], where he began work in orange groves owned by the Burlingame family near DeLand. In 1903 he inh
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