The Tabor Beacon, 1890, 1891, contains a series of reminiscences from the pen of the Rev. John Todd. The first of these recounts the first arrival of fugitives in July, 1854.
[107] S. G. Howe, The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West, 1864, pages 11, 12.
[108] G. M. Weston, Progress of Slavery in the United States, Washington, D.C., 1858, p. 22.
[109] Some conclusions presented in the American Historical Review, April, 1896, pp. 460-462, are here repeated.
[110] R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad, pp. 34, 35.
[111] The Firelands Pioneer, July, 1888, p. 35.
[112] The Underground Railroad, pp. 4, 5.
[113] The date of the act is February 26, 1839.
[114] See an article entitled "An Underground Railway," by Robert W. Carroll, of Cincinnati, O., in the Cincinnati Times-Star, Aug. 19, 1890; also Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 182; and J. B. Robinson, Pictures of Slavery and Anti-Slavery, pp. 293, 294.
[115] History of Henry County, Indiana, p. 126 et seq.