William I. Bowditch
William Ingersoll Bowditch (August 5, 1819January 24, 1909) was an American lawyer, writer, abolitionist, and suffragist from Massachusetts. The landmarked William Ingersoll Bowditch House in Brookline, Massachusetts, was a station on the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War. One historian has argued that "From 1835 to 1860 the history of the moral movement against slavery in America is the history of William Lloyd Garrison and his great coadjutors like Wendell Phillips, Theodore D. Weld, Parker Pillsbury, Frederick Douglass, Theodore Parker, Lucretia Mott, Stephen Symonds Foster, Stephen and Abby Kelley, Abby Kelly Foster, the Grimké sisters, sisters Grimké, Samuel Edmund Sewall, Samuel E. Sewall, Ellis Gray Loring, Maria Weston Chapman, David Lee Child, David Lee and Lydia Maria Child, Francis Jackson (abolitionist), Francis Jackson, Samuel J. May, Samuel Joseph May, Samuel May, Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), Edmund Quincy, Henry I. and William I. Bowditch, and L ...
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