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Hiram Warner Farnsworth (born October 13, 1816 in Brattleboro, VT and died 26 July 1899 in Topeka, KS) was an abolitionist, Kansas pioneer, educator, Indian agent and community leader. == Early life == Hiram Warner Farnsworth (H. W.)〔''H.W.'' is used here as most external references to Hiram use those initials instead of the full name.〕 was educated at Brattleboro, Vermont. H.W. attended Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1836 and graduated in 1840. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He taught school in Tuskegee, Alabama, from June 1840 to December 1841.〔 He was appointed Principal of the New London Female Academy in New London, Connecticut. , a position he held until March 1855.〔 On March 17, 1842 H.W. married Deborah (Della) Torrey Lerow in Boston.〔 She was born on July 5, 1815 in Orange, Massachusetts. She was a teacher of French and Botany at the New London academy. They had three children one of whom died thirteen months after his birth. Della died on June 5, 1850.〔 He also served as the railroad agent at New London for one year for the Northern Railroad. On December 3, 1855 H.W. married his second wife, Harriet Ann Stoddard (born May 28, 1822). In the 1850s H.W. participated in the public discussions of the era concerning slavery. H.W. was a Congregationalist and abolitionist. As the political turmoil increased he decided on a course of action inspired by the New England Emigrant Aid Company of Boston. This company was formed to facilitate overland treks to Kansas of Free-Stater families to help throw pre-statehood Kansas into the abolitionists camp. The New England Emigrant Aid Company was formed to help fund resettlement of abolitionist sympathizers in Kansas prior to referendums to determine if Kansas would be a slave state. Three groups sponsored by the Society set out for Kansas – the first in March 1855. H.W. didn't leave New England until March 4, 1856〔 with his new wife who was pregnant and with his two small daughters from his first marriage. It took six weeks to trek by wagon to Kansas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hiram Warner Farnsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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