"FATHERLESS CHILD" 001 - This child was born into poverty to an unwed mother who was a servant on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean. His father was a shiftless sort from Scotland who abandoned her at a time when this was a scandalous and irreversible blight on the mother's life...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 002 - This child was born to a prosperous family and well-educated in his early youth. But then his father died when he was just 10, and he was sent off to live with his older half-brother...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 003 - This child's father died even before he was born in a small and provincial southern town. His mother then moved away to further her education, leaving the boy with his grandparents...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 004 - This child was born in a log cabin in a southern state to two illiterate parents. His mother was a washerwoman. His father -- who periodically worked as a porter, a tavern servant, and a janitor, died when the child was three, some say in an attempt to rescue two drowning men...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 005 - This child was the second of three children born to Quaker parents in Iowa. His early childhood was happy, but when he was six, his father, a blacksmith, died from typhoid fever...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 006 - This child was born in a shack in 1818 in Maryland. He never knew who his father was, and he was separated from his mother when he was a baby. His grandparents raised him from babyhood until he was six years old, but then abandoned him -- "a betrayal", he said in his adult life, that he "never got over"...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 007 - This child's father died in a logging accident few weeks before he was born near the border of North and South Carolina...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 008 - This child was born in Poland in 1473 into a merchant class family. His father died when he was ten, and his mother soon afterward. His mother's brother, a clergyman, became his and his three siblings' guardian...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 009 - This child was born in Ohio in 1822, into a middle-class home, eleven weeks after father died. He was his mother's fifth child, but only he and one older sister survived to adulthood....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 010 - This child was born in 1865 and grew up in Missouri. He was the sixth of seven children. Life was poor and hard. His sister died when he was three, and his brother died when he was six. When he was eight, 24 people in the little town where he lived died from the measles. He himself was sickly...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 011 - This child, one of 8 siblings (6 sisters and 1 brother), was born in the mid-18th century to an ambitious and successful colonial mapmaker, surveyor and landowner, who died when the child was 14...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 012 - This child, the fifth child in his family, was born in Virginia in 1807... When the child was two years old, his father was thrown into jail... when the child was 11, his father completely abandoned the family and left the United States altogether....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 013 - This child was born two years before the Revolutionary War in a one-room log house with a loft on a farm in the Virginia wilderness. He was the second of four children in a military family of many decorated soldiers, including his father, but his father died when he was only five...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 014 - This child was born on Christmas Day on a farm in England in the 1600s. He never knew his father, who died three months before he was born. His mother remarried a church minister when he was two years old, and they sent the boy off to live with his grandparents, where he was treated like an orphan...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 015 - This child did not even know that he had been given a last name until he was an adult, long after he had adopted another one for himself...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 016 - This child's mother fled from his biological father just after giving birth, because of the man's cruelty and regular abuse of her. She moved back home to live with her own parents...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 017 - This child was born in the 1860s to the fourth wife of a government official. As a young child, he was very timid and afraid of things such as the dark... When he was 13 years old, he got married...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 018 - This child was born in Minnesota in 1898. When he was six, his father died...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 019 - This child was born in a small town in Greece... the last of three children. His mother died when he was young, and following his father's death when he was 10, the child became a ward of his older sister's husband...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 020 - This child was born in Great Britain into a lower middle-class family. His father, who was himself an orphan, worked on a ship, and repeatedly walked in and out of his wife and child's life starting when the boy was still an infant. He left for good, emigrating to another country, when the boy was five...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 021 - This child was born in Georgia in 1919, the youngest of five children. His father was a poor sharecropper, earning $12 a month for working another man's farmland. His mother worked as a maid. Shortly after the child's birth, his father abandoned the family, heading for Florida, and was never heard from again...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 022 - This child was born in Europe before the American Revolution to a wealthy military family who lived in a castle. His father died when he was two...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 023 - This child was one of the preeminent men of the 19th Century. He was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. He was the eighth child of 11 children. When he was nine years old his father, a tavern owner and local politician died....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 024 - This child was born in a suburb of Philadelphia in 1924, the elder child of two brothers. His father, an assistant city solicitor, died when he was nine years old...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 025 - This is the story of two fatherless boys...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 026 - This child was born in 1820. His father was one of the most famous inventors in U.S. history, who had built a gun manufacturing center...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 027 - This child, an only child, was born into a wealthy family in upstate New York in the late 1800s. Her father was an alcoholic...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 028 - This child was born in 1804 in Salem, Masachusetts, into a well-connected family that hailed from a long line of famous and powerful Puritan ancestors. One of his ancestors was a judge who presided over the Salem witch trials. When the child was four, his father drowned at sea....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 029 - This child lost both his mother and father when he was only nine years old, and then grew up to become one of the world's greatest composers...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 030 - This child was born in 1758, the eldest son of five children of a wealthy Virginia tobacco planter and slave owner. He was raised in luxury...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 031 - This child was born in Scotland in 1881 into a poor farm family. He was the seventh child of eight siblings and half-siblings. When he was seven years old, his father died...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 032 - This child was born in 1948 in Georgia, the second of three children in an impoverished family. His mother worked as a maid. The town in which they lived lacked a sewage system or paved roads. When he was still a toddler, his father abandoned the family...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 033 - This child was born in 1819... the third of eight children. When he was 7, he had scarlet fever... His father, ostensibly a merchant and importer, borrowed himself into bankruptcy, and then died when the boy was 12...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 034 - This child was born in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1745, the fourth child in a family of seven children. His father died when he was six...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 035 - This child was born in 1837 in New Jersey... [when] his father died, he was forced to drop out of school, and leave home to get a job to help support the family...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 036 - This child, a founding father of America and childhood friend of John Adams, was born in 1737... When he was only 5, his father died, leaving his mother and his three siblings destitute...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 037 - This child was born in Maryland... when the child was seven; after years of fighting, his father abruptly moved out without further explanation. The children remained in the custody of their mother...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 038 - This child... had to drop out of school to support his mother and sisters... a hobby ...gave rise to an invention that he worked on for three years in his mother's kitchen...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 039 - This child, the middle child of three half-siblings with different mothers, was born in the 16th century... While still a teenager, the child was sent to prison for treason...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 040 - This child, the seventh of 9 children, was born in 1777 on a small farm in Virginia to a Baptist minister and his wife. When he was four years old, his father died... A hundred years later John F. Kennedy called him one of America's five greatest Senators...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 041 - This child was born in 1805 in the slums of Odense, Denmark. His father was a poor shoemaker...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 042 - This child was born around 551 BC, in China, to unmarried parents. His father was a poor elderly warrior and minor government official, and his mother was barely out of her teens... ...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 043 - This child was born in 1944 in Chicago, to a lawyer father and a secretary mother. His father died of sudden heart failure when the child was 3, leaving them a diamond ring, a 1940 Buick, and about $400 in cash...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 044 - This child, born in 1820 along the banks of an Ohio river, was the 6th of 11 children. His father, a lawyer and judge, died unexpectedly when his son was nine, leaving his widow with his exorbitant debts...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 045 - This child was born in 1831, the youngest of five, to a poor farming family in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor and no chimney, in a part of the Ohio Wilderness where children ran barefoot in winter....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 046 - This child grew up near Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest of eleven in a rollicking Irish-Catholic clan, which he later referred to as "a humorocracy"....

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 047 - This child was born in Massachusetts in 1866 into extreme poverty. Her parents were Irish immigrants. She was the oldest of five children, two of whom died in infancy. Her father was an illiterate, unskilled, abusive alcoholic. Her mother was sickly with tuberculosis...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 048 - This child was born in 1961 to a teenage mother from the midwest United States, six months after her marriage to a man from another country who already was married to another woman...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 049 - This child was born in the 15th century to unmarried parents. His mother was a slave...

"FATHERLESS CHILD" 050 - This child was born in 1808 in Kentucky, the youngest and last of ten children. His father was an aging Revolutionary War veteran...