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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| Coffin, Levi |
| 1798–1877, American abolitionist, b. North Carolina. In 1826 he moved to the Quaker settlement of Newport (now Fountain City), Ind., where he kept a store until 1847. His home became a leading station of the Underground Railroad, of which he was styled “president.” | 1 |
| See his Reminiscences (3d ed. 1898, repr. 1968). | 2 |
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