Wilbur Siebert Letters and Interviews
Dublin Core
Title
Wilbur Siebert Letters and Interviews
Subject
Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground railroad; Abolitionist
Description
This collection of letters and interviews that were sent to Wilbur Siebert, a historian from Columbus, Ohio who looks at the Underground Railroad in Ohio. The letters were written between a half-century in Siebert's research looking into the Underground Railroad, each describes the path of the Underground Railroad throughout Wayne County, Ohio.
Source
Ohio Memory Project, Wilbur H. Siebert Collection http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/siebert/id/4811/rec/1 MSS116AV BOX58 F01 009
Rights
In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Format
PDF
Language
eng
Type
Text
Identifier
Wilbur_Siebert_Collection_001
Collection Items
Letter from Albert McFadden to Wilbur Siebert, August 5, 1893
This letter written by Albert McFadden, one of the first abolitionists in Wayne County and a close informant of the head of the Underground Railroad in Wayne County, to Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad historian based in Columbus, Ohio,…
Thomas L. Smith Interview, Sept. 18., 1894
This interview of Thomas L. Smith, a man who moved about Ohio and Pennsylvania quite a bit during the mid-nineteenth century, taken by Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad historian residing in Columbus, Ohio, discuss Smith’s knowledge and…
Jessie E. Pocock Letters to Wilbur Siebert, Sept. 21, 1948 and Oct. 20, 1948
This letter written by Jessie E Pocock, a resident of Lodi, Ohio during the mid-1900s and granddaughter of a prominent abolitionist and Underground Railroad helper in Wayne County, wrote this letter to Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad…