Levi coffin biography
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Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
Levi Coffin (28 Oct. Sept. ), abolitionist, temperance leader, and philanthropist, was born in New Garden, Guilford County, a descendant of Tristam Coffin, who came to America in and was one of nine purchasers of Nantucket from the Indians. Only son and seventh child of Levi and Prudence Williams Coffin, whose families had removed from Nantucket to New Garden before the American Revolution, Levi was taught largely by his father in their pioneer home. At twenty-one he studied briefly in some unknown school, and thereafter he taught and studied alternately for several years. In spite of the opposition of the elders, he joined the young Quakers of New Garden in in establishing a Sunday school in the new brick school adjoining the meeting house. This endeavor met with such success that he assisted in organizing
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Levi Coffin
American educator and abolitionist (–)
Levi Coffin Jr. | |
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| Born | ()October 28, Guilford County, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | September 16, () (aged&#;78) Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Resting place | Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Occupation(s) | Farmer Pork packing Merchant Banking |
| Known&#;for | work with Underground Railroad |
| Political party | Whig Republican |
| Board member&#;of | Western Freedman's Society Second State finansinstitut of Indiana |
| Spouse | Catherine White |
| Relatives | Lucretia Coffin Mott (cousin) |
Levi Coffin Jr. (October 28, – September 16, ) 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 through his care. The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne
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Levi Coffin
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Levi Coffin was the only son of Levi and Prudence (nee Williams) Coffin. His family were Quakers and farmers in Guilford County, North Carolina. He had little formal schooling because he was needed to work on the farm. Nevertheless he was educated sufficiently well at home (with his six sisters) to be able to take up teaching. His life story is told in his book “Reminiscences of Levi Coffin” published in He wrote “Both my parents and grandparents were opposed to slavery, and none of either of the families ever owned slaves; and all were friends of the oppressed, so I claim that I inherited my anti-slavery principles.”
When he was fifteen he went to a corn husking, where he noticed a group of slaves brought to the husking by a slave dealer named Stephen Holland. While the other whites in the party dined, the young Quaker remained behind to talk with the slaves and to "