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• Jimmy Santiago Baca and Adoption
  ...2009.jpg/428px-Jimmy_baca_2009.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Jimmy Santiago Baca at the 2009 [[Texas]] Book Festival, Austin, [[Texas]].'''<br />Source: Wikipe ...St. Anthony's School for Boys in [[New Mexico]] (an [[orphanage]]). He ran away often, but did not finally escape until he was 11. The next years were spen
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• John Green Brady and Adoption
  ...ocal judge named John Green. With him on the same train was Andrew Burke, who became his good friend and was later governor of [[North Dakota]]. ...n [[Alaska]] (1878), where he also established a school for Native Alaskan children. He left the ministry and became active in the logging industry. He was app
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• Barbara La Marr and Adoption
  ...r court appearance she was spotted by a journalist, Adela Rogers St. John, who took her under her wing and introduced her to other reporters and other, mo ...uberculosis) and she died young. She left a young son by her last husband, who was adopted by her friends, actress ZaSu Pitts and Tom Gallery.
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• George Herman Ruth ("Babe") and Adoption
  ...e and reform school. They even signed over [[custody]] to the Brothers who ran the institution. He had been virtually living on the streets already, and w Brother Mathais at St. Mary's took an interest in young George, and encouraged his obvious tal
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• Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Adoption
  Hedgewar was the fifth of six children of a very poor family in Nagpur. His father was a Hindu priest. When he was ...shav and the next-older brother to take responsibility for the other three children and the house.
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• Matthew Alexander Henson and Adoption
  ...ved on the streets for a while, until he was taken in by a Miss Janey, who ran a café where he worked and where he slept on the floor. He wanted to go to ...He also fathered several African-Inuit children, and there are still Inuit who acknowledge him as their ancestor.
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• Peter Jacobs and Adoption
  ...iate Family|immediate family]] died while he was a young child and he grew up poor and alone. ...to conflict with the church, leading to poverty and alcoholism. Two of his children also became missionaries.
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• Buffalo Child Long Lance and Adoption
  ...Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot at all, but rather of mixed ancestry, including African-American, white, and p ...join a wild west show. He attended the US Bureau of Indian Affairs school at Carlisle from the age of 18 (registering as a Cherokee), graduating top of
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