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Abolitionists from New York (state)
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The list Abolitionists from New York (state) includes
Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eliza Farnham, William E. Dodge and Amy Kirby Post.
The list consists of 31 members
and 1 sublist.
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Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist
Overview: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland ...Date of birth: 14 February 1818Date of death: 20 February 1895Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: MaleHeight: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Overview: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls ...Date of birth: 12 November 1815Date of death: 26 October 1902Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Female 0
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Eliza Farnham
American novelistOverview: Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform.Date of birth: 17 November 1815Date of death: 15 December 1864Age: 49 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Female 0
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William E. Dodge
American politician
Overview: William Earl Dodge Sr. (September 4, 1805 – February 9, 1883) was an American businessman, politician, and activist. He was referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years ...Date of birth: 4 September 1805Date of death: 9 February 1883Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Male 0
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George Bush
American biblical scholar and pastor (1796-1859)
Overview: George Bush (June 12, 1796 – September 19, 1859) was an American biblical scholar, pastor, abolitionist, and academic. A member of the Bush family, he is a distant relative of both President George H ...Date of birth: 12 June 1796Date of death: 19 September 1859Age: 63 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Educator 0
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Amy Kirby Post
American, Activist
Overview: Amy Kirby Post (December 20, 1802 – January 29, 1889) was an activist who was central to several important social causes of the 19th century, including the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Post's ...Date of birth: 20 December 1802Date of death: 29 January 1889Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Female 0
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Abigail Bush
American abolitionist and women's rights advocate
Overview: Abigail Norton Bush (March 19, 1810 – December 10, 1898) was an abolitionist and women's rights activist in Rochester, New York. She served as president of the Rochester Women's Rights Convention, which ...Date of birth: 1810Date of death: 1899Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Female 0
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Shields Green
American slave executed for murder (1836–1859)
Overview: Shields Green (1836? – December 16, 1859), who also referred to himself as "'Emperor"', was, according to Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave from Charleston, South Carolina, and a leader in John Brown's ...Date of birth: 1836Date of death: 16 December 1859Age: 23 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: SailorGender: Male 0
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Calvin Fairbank
American activist
Overview: Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 – October 12, 1898) was an American abolitionist and Methodist minister from New York state who was twice convicted in Kentucky of aiding the escape of slaves, and served ...Date of birth: 3 November 1816Date of death: 12 October 1898Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: American 0
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Elias Hicks
American Quaker preacher (1748–1830)
Overview: Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which caused the second ...Date of birth: 19 March 1748Date of death: 27 February 1830Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Writer 0
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Henry James, Sr.
American Swedenborgian theologian
Overview: Henry James Sr. (June 3, 1811 – December 18, 1882) was an American theologian and adherent of Swedenborgianism, also known for being the father of the philosopher William James, the novelist Henry ...Date of birth: 3 June 1811Date of death: 18 December 1882Age: 71 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PhilosopherGender: Male 0
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Elial T. Foote
American physician, politician, jurist and historian
Overview: Elial Todd Foote (May 1, 1796 – November 17, 1877) was an American physician, politician, jurist, and historian. He was Judge of Chautauqua County, New York from 1824 to 1844. Previously, he served three ... 0
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Jane Hunt
American Quaker
Overview: Jane Clothier Hunt or Jane Clothier Master (26 June 1812 – 28 November 1889) was an American Quaker who hosted the Seneca Falls meeting of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Date of birth: 26 June 1812Date of death: 28 November 1889Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActivistGender: Female 0
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Ann Carroll Fitzhugh
American activistOverview: Ann Carroll Fitzhugh (1805–1875) was an American abolitionist, mother of Elizabeth Smith Miller, and the spouse to Gerrit Smith. Her older brother was Henry Fitzhugh.Date of birth: 1805Date of death: 1875Age: 69 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Activist 0
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Elon Galusha
American lawyer and preacher
Overview: Elon Galusha (June 18, 1790 – January 6, 1856) was a lawyer and Baptist preacher who was active in reform activities of the early 19th century in New York. He was the son of Jonas Galusha, the 6th and ...Date of birth: 18 June 1790Date of death: 6 January 1856Age: 65 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Activist 0
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Dyer Lum
labor activist and poet
Overview: Dyer Daniel Lum (1839 – April 6, 1893) was a 19th-century American anarchist labor activist and poet. A leading anarcho-syndicalist and a prominent left-wing intellectual of the 1880s, he is remembered ... 0
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Overview: William Goodell (October 25, 1792 – February 14, 1878) was an abolitionist and reformer born in Coventry, New York on October 3, 1792.Date of birth: 25 October 1792Date of death: 14 February 1878Age: 85 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Activist 0
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Galusha Anderson
American theologian
Overview: Galusha Anderson (March 7, 1832, Bergen, New York-July 20, 1918, Wenham, Massachusetts) was an American theologian.Date of birth: 1832Date of death: 1918Age: 85 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Educator 0
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Stephen Ballard (philanthropist)
Businessman and philanthropist (1815–1901)
Overview: Stephen A. Ballard (September 9, 1815 – August 11, 1901) was a businessman in Brooklyn, New York and a philanthropist. He was in the leather business. He funded schools for African Americans in the southern ... 0
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Alvah and Martha Frisbie
Pioneer residents of Des Moines, Iowa
Overview: A. L. Frisbie was a pioneer minister at Plymouth Church, Des Moines, Iowa from 1871 to 1899. After he retired he served as Pastor Emeritus for a total of 42 years of service. Martha Frisbie was a teacher ...Date of death: 18 December 1917 0
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