Ohio Historical Markers, OH

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• Cornelius Battelle
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• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Philip Paul Bliss
• Moses Cleaveland
• Betsey Mix Cowles
• Israel Donalson, Nathaniel Massie
• Joshua Giddings
• William and Catherine Hubbard
• Thomas Kirker
• Charles Kettering
• Chales Matheny
• Lelia Naylor Morris
• Ransom, Pliny Olds
• Lemuel Porter
• William and Abigail Woodward
• Ebenezer Zane
• Fort Washington

Historical Marker

Betsey Mix Cowles dedicated her life to fighting slavery and improving the status of women. Her desire for a formal education led her to Oberlin College, where she completed two years of study in 1840. An advocate of immediate abolition, Cowles lectured on the moral depravity of slavery, opened her home, at this site, to fugitive slaves. Opposed to expansion of slavery into the West, Cowles protested the Mexican War. Cowles served as president of Ohio's first women's rights convention (in Salem) in 1850, and the following year wrote a treatise on equal pay for working urban women. She served as the first dean of women at Grand River Institute, and later became one of the first women public school superintendents in Ohio.

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Posted By: Ray Gurganus