Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall home photograph   Save
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection
Description: Isaac Mendenhall (1806-1882) and his wife Dinah (b. 1807) kept fugitive slaves in their home, pictured here, in Hamorton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The photograph was taken in 1919. It is from Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert's research on the Underground Railroad. Siebert (1866-1961) began compiling information on anti-slavery actitivy to get his students interested in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03197
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Hamorton (Pennsylvania); Chester County (Pennsylvania)