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David Benjamin Updegraff
David Benjamin Updegraff, also ''David Updegraff'', ''David B. Updegraff'' and ''Rev. David Updegraff'' (January 24, 1789December 20, 1864) was an American Quakers, Quaker minister, Abolitionism, abolitionist and conductor of a station of the Underground Railroad from Ohio. Biography David Benjamin Updegraff was born the son of Nathan Updegraff, a founder and delegate to Ohio's first constitutional convention, and Anne Updegraff (née Lupton family, Lupton). He descended from a long line of ministers and elders of the Quakers, Quaker church, which belong to the Op den Graeffs, a German family of Dutch origin. He was a direct descendant of Herman op den Graeff, Mennonites, Mennonite leader of Krefeld, and his grandson Abraham op den Graeff, one of the founders of Germantown, Philadelphia, Germantown and who in 1688, was a signer of the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, first protest against slavery in colonial America. David growing up in Winchester, Virginia, Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Benjamin Updegraff
David Benjamin Updegraff, also ''David Updegraff'', ''David B. Updegraff'' and ''Rev. David Updegraff'' (January 24, 1789December 20, 1864) was an American Quakers, Quaker minister, Abolitionism, abolitionist and conductor of a station of the Underground Railroad from Ohio. Biography David Benjamin Updegraff was born the son of Nathan Updegraff, a founder and delegate to Ohio's first constitutional convention, and Anne Updegraff (née Lupton family, Lupton). He descended from a long line of ministers and elders of the Quakers, Quaker church, which belong to the Op den Graeffs, a German family of Dutch origin. He was a direct descendant of Herman op den Graeff, Mennonites, Mennonite leader of Krefeld, and his grandson Abraham op den Graeff, one of the founders of Germantown, Philadelphia, Germantown and who in 1688, was a signer of the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, first protest against slavery in colonial America. David growing up in Winchester, Virginia, Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
