A Place for Me An Orphan's Journey Home : Sandra McKay Author : 9780996656665 : 0996656669 : 17 Dec 2021 : A Place For Me tracks one of the children put on the orphan train in the early 1900's. Like ninety five percent of children who were labeled as orphans, Dora, the author's grandmother, was not an orphan. Instead, her mother gave her children up when she could no longer care for them. Taken from her bed and separated from her brothers, Dora's train ride to an orphanage in Chicago, was only the beginning of her journey to find a place where she would belong. Dora was nine years old when Joseph Leopold Murphy, a wealthy influential lawyer, took her in to raise until she was the age of majority. Murphy died four years later, and Dora was thrust into a world of intrigue that surrounded Murphy's death and the "Famous Murphy Will Trial". Set against the backdrop of the Illinois prairies at a time when the Wright brothers made the first flight and Bell's Model 102 telephone was introduc