Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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o object for contemptwith a hungry soul. An anecdote of her we heard in our youthwas that, on being introduced at a socialgathering in Hartford to the poet Percival,she went at him in an exciting adulatorystrain upon his poetry, which had then justappeared and was eliciting general admira-tion. Percival, who was then a very youngman, and the most shrinking of mortals, wascompletely overwhelmed; he could not an-swer a word, but as soon as possible escapedfrom her, and then, in his low, whisperingtones, inquired of a bystander, ltIs not thatthe young lady who was engaged to Prof.Fisher? /Yes. Ah ! rejoined he, u itis well he died. No American family has so much influ-enced American thought as the Beechers,and none, through its genius and eccentrici-ties, has been so interesting ; and it did Ohiogood that she had possession of them fortwenty years. It used to be a common ex-pression forty years ago that the UnitedStates possessed two great things, viz., theAmerican flag and the Beechers,
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LEVI COFFIN. CATHARINE COFFIN. The reputed President of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin, philan-thropist, was born October 28, 1798, near New Garden, North Carolina, and ofQuaker parentage. His ancestors were from Nantucket, and he was a farmerand teacher. His sympathies were enlisted in favor of the slaves, and when aa lad of but fifteen he began to aid in their escape. In 1826 he settled in Waynecounty, Indiana, kept a country store, cured pork and manufactured linseed oil. io4 HAMILTON COUNTY. Meanwhile his interest in the slaves continued, and he was active in the Under-ground Railroad, by which thousands of escaping slaves were aided by him ontheir way to Canada, including Eliza Harris, the heroine of Uncle TomsCabin. In 1847 he removed to Cincinnati and opened and continued for yearsa store where only were sold goods produced by free labor, at the same time con-tinuing his efforts for the escape of slaves. In the war period he aided in theestablishment of the Freedmens Bur

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