The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[136] J. B. Grinnell, Men and Events of Forty Years, p. 217.

[137] Judge R. B. Harlan and others, History of Clinton County, Ohio, pp. 380-383; letter of Seth Linton, Oakland, Clinton County, O., Sept. 4, 1892; Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 187.

[138] The Miami Union, April 10, 1895, article entitled "A Reminiscence of Slave Times."

[139] Letter of Mrs. C. Grant, Pomeroy, Meigs Co., O.

[140] The Republican Leader, March 16, 1894, article, "Reminiscence of the Underground Railroad," by E. H. Trueblood.

[141] See Underground Railroad Records, pp. 46, 47.

[142] Ibid., pp. 81-84; see also Narrative of Henry Box Brown, who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide, written from a statement of facts made by himself, 1849, by Charles Stearns.

[143] Smedley, Underground Railroad, pp. 138, 139.

[144] The Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times, pp. 24, 25; see also the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 29, 1893, p. 33.

[145] Conversation with James W. Torrence, Northwood, Logan Co., O., Sept. 22, 1894.