Rebecca Updegroff photograph   Save
Ohio History Connection
Description: Rebecca Updegroff (1790-1867) kept a station on the Underground Railroad with her husband David at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03147
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Ohio women; Abolitionists;
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)