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	Calvin Fairbank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Fairbank was tried in 1845 and received a 15-year term, five years for each of the slaves he helped free.
		Mandana Fairbank died of tuberculosis in 1876 and the couple's son was raised by her sister and brother-in-law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calvin_Fairbank (761 words)

	Underground Railroad Indiana! Calvin Fairbank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because Calvin Fairbank was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana, he is considered worthy of mention in Indiana history.
		Calvin Fairbank's 1890 autobiography is filled with similar accounts of brutal treatment.
		To Fairbank there was "very little difference between the condition of the prisoner and that of an actual slave." As previously noted, the Abolitionist was flogged repeatedly during his second term.
	www.undergroundrailroadindiana.com /CalvinFairbank.htm (353 words)

	User:Cuppysfriend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sparkman, a troubling case that warns us that the people sitting next to us in church might differ from the "good Germans" of the 1930s only by the accidents of history and geography.
		There's no connection whatever between them except that someone with the same name is buried in the same cemetery as Fairbank.
		If there were any real logic to things, I should have found Fairbank when I was researching my great-grandmother's second husband's older brother who married the daughter of a reputed Underground Railroad activist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Cuppysfriend (742 words)

	H-Net Review: Michael B. Chesson on Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
		Fairbank took his prize back to Cincinnati where she married into upper-class white society, few members of which were aware of her background.
		Fairbank could have remained in Ohio as well, to plan his next venture, but Webster was determined to return to her school in Lexington.
		Fairbank was chained to a slave condemned to death for murdering his mistress, Caroline Turner, "a Boston blueblood" (p.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15581857574286 (3881 words)

	Fairbanks
		Fairbank was a deacon in the Joy Prairie Congregational church, holding a similar place here and was superintendent of the Sabbath school.
		Fairbank was married Aug. 21, 1850, to Miss Sarah Epler, daughter of John Epler, and sister of Judge Cyrus Epler.
		Fairbank was State Registrar of the Minn. congregational Association, and incumbent of the similar position in the Illinois church at the time of his death, March 11, 1910.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilmaga/newspapers/fairbanks.html (2654 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Fairbank Center welcomes new postdoc fellows, visiting scholars, and associates
		At the Fairbank Center, he will be revising his manuscript on "Conflict, Stability, and Political Change in China, 1977-2002." This study describes and explains how the transition from state socialism to market socialism has transformed the patterns of state-society contentious interactions.
		At the Fairbank Center he will be working on "Political and Cultural Aspects of Elite Activism in Early 19th Century Suzhou." He is interested in the commercial wealth and cultural confidence of market town elites in the 18th century and the cultural atmosphere that enabled the expression of such confidence in the 19th century.
		At the Fairbank Center he will be researching "People's War: Perpetuation of the Myth," which will inject a new perspective of realism into accounts of China's civil war in the 1940s, revising what has become an untouchable myth in the PRC.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/11.10/10-scholars.html (1784 words)

	Lewis Hayden (1811 - 1889) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Impressed by his literacy and intelligence, she introduced him to Calvin Fairbank, an abolitionist ministerial student from Oberlin, OH.
		In 1844, Calvin Fairbank arrived in Lexington to assist in the rescue of a slave but, when the plans for that rescue fell through, he agreed to transport Lewis, his wife Harriet, and their son, William, across the Ohio River to freedom.
		During the journey, traveling through the darkness of night, Calvin Fairbank asked Hayden why he wanted to be free, and Hayden responded, quick as a flash, "because I am a man."
	www.nps.gov /boaf/lewishayden.htm (270 words)

	Lewis Hayden (1811 - 1889) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of his first priorities was to raise money for the release of Calvin Fairbank, sent to prison in 1845 for assisting the Haydens in their escape from Kentucky.
		Hayden's former owners had agreed to petition the Kentucky courts to suspend Fairbank's fifteen-year sentence in exchange for $650.
		Lewis Hayden, using his network of influential abolitionist friends (particularly Wendell Phillips and Francis Jackson), raised this amount, sent it to Kentucky, and received notice that Calvin Fairbank had been released from prison on August 24, 1849.
	www.nps.gov /boaf/lewishayden2.htm (371 words)

	KET's Underground Railroad - Anti-Slavery Prisoners in the Kentucky State Penitentiary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ordeal of Calvin Fairbank represents one of the best known incidents in the history of the Underground Railroad in Kentucky.
		Isaac Barter, a native of Ireland who was convicted in Simpson County, was a physician while Calvin Fairbank was a man of the cloth.
		Whether a militant abolitionist like Calvin Fairbank, or simply a man moved by the plight of his neighbor's "property," Green was undoubtedly regarded as a dangerous fanatic by the pro-slavery element in Pendleton County.
	www.ket.org /underground/research/prichard.htm (2032 words)

	"Bury Me in a Free Land": The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana, 1816-1865 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calvin Fairbank was one victim of the Fugitive Slave Law.
		When Fairbank returned to Kentucky, he met Tamar, a slave girl who wished to be free.
		Fairbank stood trial in the slave state, was found guilty, and served an additional ten years in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.14
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/ugrr/buryme7.html (2308 words)

	A history of the trial of Miss Delia A. Webster at Lexington, Kentucky : a machine readable transcription.
		Fairbank, and two negroes condemned to be executed, were trying to move about in their irons.
		that Fairbank was not the real author of the letter; and if he was the author of it, she wished him to explain how it was and why it was he had used the initial of the name of your affiant in said letter, as it was used.
		Fairbank praying a continuance of his case; which of course was not read on my motion for a new trial.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /rbc/rbcmisc/lst/lst0093/lst0093.sgm (18646 words)

	University Press of Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country.
		Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, married and a father, became enamored of her and was tempted into a compromising relationship he would come to regret.
		A native of Maysville, the Kentucky river town where Webster and Fairbank ferried the Haydens to freedom, he discovered in the course of his research that his own ancestor had once borrowed Louis Hayden's first wife and child from statesman Henry Clay.
	www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Group=19&ID=597 (541 words)

	OhioPix: Calvin Fairbank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait of Calvin Fairbank (1816-1898) of Hamilton County, Ohio.
		He went to the southern states and convinced slaves to escape to freedom in Canada.
		Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/image.cfm?ID=2786 (59 words)

	History And Geography Of The Underground Railroad
		Usually agents hid or destroyed their personal journals to protect themselves and the runaways.
		Only recently researchers have learned of the work rendered by courageous agents such as David Ruggles, Calvin Fairbank, Josiah Henson, and Erastus Hussey.
		The identity of others who also contributed to this effort will never be fully recognized.
	afgen.com /underground_railroad.html (1241 words)

	History - Part 2 FUMC
		In 1844, Fairbank and some others took an enslaved waiter at the Phoenix Hotel, together with his wife and son, to Maysville and ferried them across the river to freedom.
		Sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary, Fairbank was pardoned in 1848, only to be arrested again in 1851 for helping slaves escape.
		Rev. Fairbank obviously lived in the Lexington area, if not in the city, and it may be that he was pastor of the northern church.
	www.1stumc.org /history2.html (16689 words)

	The Covington Route
		Calvin Fairbank of Pike, who worked on the Underground Railroad in Ohio, was arrested for helping escaped slaves.
		He was pardoned in 1849 and resumed his illegal activities and was arrested again and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
		Once again, urged by President Lincoln, the Governor of Kentucky pardoned Fairbank.
	www.leroyny.com /news/2004/0830/Historical (656 words)

	The Multiracial Activist - White Slaves by Lawrence R. Tenzer
		I have had men and women apply for work who were so white that I could not believe they had a particle of negro blood in their veins."
		The memoirs of Chesnut, Aughey, Ross, Fairbank, and Coyler were published during or after the Civil War.
		Many other accounts were published all through the period before the Civil War in which travelers and visitors to the South made note of the white slaves they saw on plantations and at slave auctions.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/yardy2001/white_women_as_slaves.htm (4458 words)

	The Virginia Quarterly Review » Notes on Current Books, Winter 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When schoolmistress Delia Webster and Methodist minister Calvin Fairbank started out from Lexington, Kentucky, one fall day in 1844 to deliver Lewis Hayden, his wife, and their child to members of the underground railroad in Ohio, they little realized where their journey would lead.
		Webster, the first woman imprisoned for aiding runaway slaves, passed several months in a jail where she began a close and puzzling long-term relationship with her jailer.
		Fairbank spent several years at hard labor for assisting Hayden and other slaves to escape to Canada, and Hayden became an influential member of the abolition movement in New England.
	www.vqronline.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/7688 (7630 words)

	In 1802 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Visit Don Kaake's website for pictures of the Mill Pond then and today and for a list of Civil War Veterans in Angelica's Until The Day Dawn Cemetery.
		Methodist preacher, Rev. Calvin Fairbank, confined in prison 17 years for freeing 47 slaves in Kentucky, is also buried here.
		Fairbank left this record of how he helped slaves to freedom: "[In 1847] I guided toward the north star, in violation of the...codes of Virginia and Kentucky.
	home.eznet.net /~angelica/history.html (464 words)

	(James FAIR - Glennis FAIRBROTHER ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calvin Cornelius FAIRBANK (17 Apr 1868 - ABT.1912-1960)
		Elizabeth Tileston FAIRBANK (19 Sep 1909 - 8 Jun 1995)
		Marcia Walker FAIRBANK (21 Feb 1892 - ABT.1893-1986)
	www.sagebrushmall.com /gen/index/ind0319.html (195 words)

	Pedigree Chart For Maurice Cady FAIRBANK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		+--Grace LEE (-19 Mar 1676) +--Jabez FAIRBANK (8 Nov 1670- 2 Mar 1758)
		+--Mary WILDER (Abt 1675-21 Feb 1718) +--Calvin FAIRBANK (- 1 Nov 1836)
		+--Eunice WILDER (-25 Jul 1774) +--Calvin FAIRBANK (- 8 Nov 1836)
	home.infostations.com /ercowden/ped00869.htm (116 words)

	The Underground Railroad - First Congregational Church of Detroit
		This historical novel is based on the life of Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist minister and abolitionist who conducted numerous rescue missions to bring slaves across the Ohio River from Kentucky, and who served two separate sentences in Kentucky, totaling 17 years, for slave stealing.
		In the book's Afterward: On History and Fiction, the author provides a detailed explanation of how his story is supported by research, and built around numerous actual incidents.
		and none at all about white abolitionists, such as Calvin Fairbank, who dared go into the South to rescue slaves." "I find a kind of parallel between telling stories such as Fairbank's and telling the story of the very small minority of Christians who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Nazi era...
	www.the-ugrr.org /home/links.asp?ID=4 (2280 words)

	Underground Railroad
		Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
		Thomas Garrett, the Deleware station-master, paid more than $8,000 in fines and Calvin Fairbank served over seventeen years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
		Whereas John Fairfield, one of the best known of the white conductors, was killed working for the underground railroad.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASunderground.htm (2356 words)

	Underground Railroad
		Along one of Tubman's railroads, freedom seekers were given such instructions as: Follow the North Star; travel using the cover of Mother Nature; and approach homes with lanterns on hitching posts along the way to find safe houses for food and shelter.
		Such other courageous agents on the railroad as David Ruggles, Calvin Fairbank, Josiah Henson, and Erastus Hussey, have been credited with aiding thousands of slaves to freedom.
		However, those men are just a few of the estimated hundreds that contributed to the effort.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h481.html (1396 words)

	E. Statement of Historical Contexts
		Examples may include the town of Ripley, Ohio, in which several buildings and the Ohio River contribute to the story.
		In another example, the story of Delia Webster and Calvin Fairbarn, who went into Kentucky and brought out Lewis Hayden and his family, crosses state lines and involves farm sites, courthouses, jails, and trails.
		Kentucky provided some of the most dramatic escapes and attempts at escape, including several accounts that were credited with inspiring Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly, especially the story of Eliza crossing the frozen Ohio River.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/underground/themee.htm (17164 words)

	Miami University: News & Public Information Office
		In 1844, Webster, who taught at several young women's schools in Kentucky,
		and Methodist preacher Calvin Fairbank helped sneak slaves to freedom.
		The first man they freed, Lewis Hayden, went on to become a prominent Boston
	newsinfo.muohio.edu /news_display.cfm?mu_un_id=430 (169 words)

	dorsey - dorg07.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		He died on 21 Jun 1989 in Myrtle Beach, SC.
		John Alan Thompson (Calvin Matthew Thompson, Rosa Dorsey, John William, Peter, John)
		Gary Mark Thompson (Calvin Matthew Thompson, Rosa Dorsey, John William, Peter, John)
	www.homestead.com /oldpend/files/dorsey/dorg07.htm (220 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| November 9 \| Sadie Hawkins Day Giants Gog and Magog ...
		Entered according to the act of Congress, by Albert James Pickett, on 27th January, 1851, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.”
		Kentucky marshals abducted abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from
		Jeffersonville, Indiana, and took him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/nov9.html (2066 words)

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