Colored refugees in Canada in 1860 / Hiram Wilson. 1860.

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Colored refugees in Canada in 1860 / Hiram Wilson. 1860.

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Wilson, Hiram, 1803-1864

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Hiram Wilson, reformer and missionary to black fugitives in Canada, was born in 1803 in Ackworth, New Hampshire. He attended the Oneida Institute in New York state and in 1833 went to the newly-founded Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. He accompanied the the band of student abolitionists known as the "Lane Rebels" to Oberlin, Ohio and graduated with the first class of the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1836. He departed for Canada in the fall of 1836 with $25 given to him by evangelist C...