TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - physicians
KW - ministers
KW - orphans
KW - pregnant women
KW - adoption
KW - unplanned pregnancies
KW - Protestants
AU - Margaret Deland
AU - F. [Frank] Walter Taylor
AB - When Lydia Sampson’s landlord’s daughter becomes pregnant, Lydia intervenes mysteriously and raises an “orphan baby.”
C1 - 1870s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Manchester
C4 - Literary; Christian
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. Manchester is disguised as Old Chester.

Previously published in <em>Harper’s Weekly</em> (1920).
N2 - When Lydia Sampson’s landlord’s daughter becomes pregnant, Lydia intervenes mysteriously and raises an “orphan baby.”
PB - Harper & Brothers
PP - New York
PY - 1920
RN - Margaret Deland (1857-1945) was born Margaretta Wade Campbell to Allegheny City, Allegheny County clothing merchants. Her mother died after childbirth and her father died shortly thereafter, so Deland's mother's sister raised her in Manchester, then a borough in Allegheny County. Deland attended boarding school in New York and studied art at Cooper Union. She married Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard's football coach. Maggie, as she was called, had a deep interest in women's issues and over the years she opened her home to over 60 unwed mothers and their babies. She was a friend to Willa Cather. For magazines, especially <em>Harper's Weekly</em> and <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, she published dozens of short stories, most based on her early years in Maple Grove and Manchester. She died in Boston. Frank Walter Taylor (1874-1921), born in Philadelphia, was an illustrator.
EP - 125 p.
TI - An Old Chester Secret
ER -