[67] Letter from Professor L. F. Parker, Grinnell, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1894.
[68] Letter from President W. M. Brooks, Tabor, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1894.
[69] Sparks's Washington, IX, 158, quoted in Quakers of Pennsylvania, by Dr. A. C. Applegarth, Johns Hopkins Studies, X, p. 463.
[70] Lunt, Origin of the Late War, Vol. I, p. 20.
[71] L. Maria Child, Life of Isaac T. Hopper, 1854, p. 35.
[72] History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, R. C. Smedley's article on the "Underground Railroad," p. 426; also Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 26.
[73] The Rev. Thomas C. Oliver, born and raised in Salem, N.J., says that the work of the Underground Railroad was going on before he was born, (1818) and continued until the time of the War. Mr. Oliver was raised in the family of Thomas Clement, a member of the Society of Friends. He graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1856. As a youth he began to take part in rescues. Although seventy-five years old when visited by the author, he was vigorous in body and mind, and seemed to have a remarkably clear memory.
[74] L. Maria Child, Life of Isaac T. Hopper, p. 316.
[75] History of Florence, Mass., p. 131, Charles A. Sheffeld, Editor.
[76] The Underground Road was active in New York City at a much earlier date certainly than Lossing gives. He says, "After the Fugitive Slave Law, the Underground Railroad was established, and the city of New York became one of the most important stations on the road." History of New York, Vol. II, p. 655.