Catharine Coffin portrait   Save
Ohio History Connection
Description: Photographic reproduction of a copper engraved portrait of Catharine Coffin (1803-1881), a Quaker and a sympathizer with fugitive slaves. Together with her husband Levi, Coffin aided over 2,000 fugitive slaves at Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, from 1826 to 1846. 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: AL03029
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Fountain City (Indiana)