Lessor-Known Figures Associated with Farmington

Also important, although less well known, were:

• Caroline C. and William G. Barker (Farmington Quakers, signers of Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments)
• Josephine Brown (African American author) lived in Farmington as a girl
• Darius and Otis Comstock (Farmington Quakers, major Underground Railroad supporters)
• Daniel and Mary Anthony (members of Farmington Quarterly Meeting, abolitionists and woman’s rights supporters), Susan B. Anthony’s parents
• Elias J. and Susan Doty (Farmington Quakers, signers of Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments)
• Jacob Ferris (Farmington Quaker abolitionist lecturer)
• Sunderland P. Gardner (Farmington Quaker minister for 42 years, who preached widely throughout the U.S. and Canada)
• Cassandra Green Hathaway (Farmington teacher, abolitionist, and woman’s rights activist)
• Esther Hathaway (Farmington abolitionist and Underground Railroad, friend of Frederick Douglass)
• Phebe Hathaway (Farmington abolitionist organizer and Underground Railroad supporter, friend of Frederick Douglass)
• Anson S. Lapham (founder of Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College)
• Pliny Sexton (Farmington Quaker, abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, attended national woman’s rights conventions)
• Asa B. Smith (Farmington Quaker, abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist)
• Catharine Fish Stebbins (born in Farmington, Quaker abolitionist, signer of Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, friend of Sojourner Truth)
  
• Maria E. Wilbur (Farmington Quaker, signer of Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments).