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Calvin Fairbank

Rev. Calvin Fairbank
Born November 3, 1816
Pike, New York
Died October 12, 1898
Angelica, New York
Occupation Methodist minister,
abolitionist
Spouse (1) Mandana Tileston
(2) Adeline Winegar

Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities. Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Abolitionism was a political movement of the 18th and 19th century which sought to make Slavery illegal particularly in the United States and British West Indies As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another

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Born in Pike, in what is now Wyoming County, New York, Fairbank grew up in an intensely religious family environment. Wyoming County is a County located in the US state of New York. Listening to the stories told by two escaped slaves whom he met at a Methodist quarterly meeting, he became strongly anti-slavery. Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory. Year 1837 ( MDCCCXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Ohio River is the largest Tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada. Levi Coffin ( October 28, 1798 &ndash September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Educator, and abolitionist. The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and Safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

The Methodist Episcopal Church licensed Fairbank to preach in 1840 and fully ordained him in 1842. For individual churches named Methodist Episcopal Church, see Methodist Episcopal Church (disambiguation The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Hoping to improve his education, he enrolled in 1844 in the "preparatory division" of Oberlin Collegiate Institute, now Oberlin College, a center of anti-slavery sentiment. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Oberlin College is a private Liberal arts college in Oberlin Ohio. Responding to an appeal to rescue the wife and children of an escaped slave named Gilson Berry, Fairbank left Oberlin for Lexington, Kentucky, where he made contact with Delia Webster, a teacher from Vermont who was to help with the rescue. Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 68th largest in the United States. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Berry's wife failed to meet Fairbank as planned, so he and Webster set their sights on freeing Lewis Hayden and his family. Lewis Hayden ( December 2, 1811 &ndash April 7, 1889) was an African American leader ex-slave Abolitionist, businessman

Fairbank and Webster successfully delivered Hayden, his wife Harriet and Harriet's son Joseph to freedom in Ohio, then returned to Kentucky where they were identified and arrested for assisting the runaway slaves. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Webster was tried in December 1844 and sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary, but served less than two months of her sentence. Fairbank was tried in 1845 and received a 15-year term, five years for each of the slaves he helped free. Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He was pardoned in 1849 when a grateful Lewis Hayden raised the money to pay off Hayden's former master. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

In 1851, Fairbank helped a slave named Tamar escape from Kentucky to Indiana. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year On November 9, with the connivance of the sheriff of Clark County, Indiana and Indiana Governor Joseph A. Wright, marshals from Kentucky abducted Fairbank and took him back to their state for trial. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Clark County is a County located in the US state of Indiana, located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky Joseph Albert Wright ( April 17, 1810 May 11, 1867) was a Democratic governor of the U In 1852, he was again sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary, where he was singled out as a target for exceptionally harsh treatment that included flogging and overwork. Year 1852 ( MDCCCLII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Finally, in 1864, three years into the Civil War, he was pardoned by Acting Governor Richard T. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Jacob, who had long advocated Fairbank's release.

Mandana Tileston Fairbank
Mandana Tileston Fairbank

Once free, Fairbank married Mandana Tileston, to whom he had become engaged during his brief period of freedom in 1851. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Known as "Dana," she moved from Williamsburg, Massachusetts, to Oxford, Ohio, in order to visit Fairbank in prison as often as possible and to press the case for his pardon with the Governor of Kentucky. Williamsburg is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Oxford is a city in northwestern Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state Their only child, Calvin Cornelius Fairbank, was born in 1868. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap

The conditions of Fairbank's life in prison broke his health. Although he held jobs with missionary and benevolent societies, he was not able to support his family. At one point he and his wife tried to earn a living operating a bakery in the utopian community of Florence, Massachusetts. Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the Florence is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the city of Northampton, near Westhampton and Williamsburg in the U Mandana Fairbank died of tuberculosis in 1876 and the couple's son was raised by her sister and brother-in-law. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Fairbank remarried in 1879, but little is known of his second wife, Adeline Winegar. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Fairbank's memoirs were published in 1890 under the title Rev. Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He "Fought the Good Fight" to Prepare "the Way. " Unhappily, this effort earned him little money. He died in near-poverty in Angelica, New York, and is buried there in the Until the Day Dawn Cemetery. Angelica New York may refer to Angelica (village New York Angelica (town New York He is generally credited with helping free 47 slaves.

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