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Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. An active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio , some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad," estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed ...
Catherine White Coffin. Catherine White Coffin (born Catherine White; September 10, 1803 – May 22, 1881), [1] also known as "Auntie Katie", was an American Quaker abolitionist and the wife of Levi Coffin, the unofficial "President of the Underground Railroad ". [2] The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, has since been turned ...
Levi Coffin House. / 39.956250°N 84.917361°W / 39.956250; -84.917361. The Coffin House is a National Historic Landmark located in the present-day town of Fountain City in Wayne County, Indiana. The two-story, eight room, brick home was constructed circa 1838–39 in the Federal style. The Coffin home became known as the "Grand Central ...
Eliza Wright Osborne (niece) Mayhew Folger (maternal uncle) Levi Coffin (cousin) Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from ...
The timing of the pregnancies suggests that the children were each conceived after Gaines's wife had become pregnant and was sexually unavailable to him. [2] In a contemporary account, abolitionist Levi Coffin described Margaret Garner at her arrest as "a mulatto, about five feet high ... she appeared to be about twenty-one or twenty-three ...
Levi Coffin, a Quaker and one of the most famous abolitionists in Indiana, operated a station out of his rural home at Newport (present-day Fountain City). Coffin, who is sometimes referred to as the president of the Underground Railroad, made no secret of his activities as an Underground Railroad conductor, although many of his fellow Quakers ...
Levi Coffin House, Fountain City, Indiana. The Levi Coffin House, home of Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin and his wife Catherine, was an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Coffin was sometimes known as the "president" of the Underground Railroad. It is now operated as an Indiana State Historic Site. [9]
NEW YORK (AP) - Since becoming famous 50 years ago, Mick Jagger has had a series of high-profile relationships, most tragically with designer L'Wren Scott, who was found dead in New York on Monday ...