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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 ...
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 ...
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 into a museum, and was ...
Today, only a few Underground Railroad sites in Indiana are open to the public, including the Catherine and Levi Coffin home (called the "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad") in Wayne County and Eleutherian College in Jefferson County. Other sites have been identified with state historic markers, an ongoing effort.
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 ...
June 21, 2024 at 2:30 AM. Sophie Nance was only 28 when she died in 1853. Everyone agreed the young woman was beautiful even in death, so much so that her family planned an unusual way to remember ...
Tristram Coffin was born to Peter and Joanna (Kember) Coffin and baptized in the parish of Brixton near Plymouth, England, on 11 March 1609–10. [1] He belonged to the landed gentry. [5] He married Dionis Stevens in 1630 and they were to have nine children, the first five born in England. Coffin was a Brixton church warden from 1639 to 1640 ...
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