I recently came across an ancestor, albeit distant, who played a prominent role in the abolitionist movement in the 19th century in the United States.
Sydney Howard Gay is my 4th cousin, 5 times removed in the Gay branch of the Carter family tree. He is part of the ancestry of Joanna Gay Carter, my 3rd-great-grandmother, who married Isaac Powers Carter (father of Isaac Gay, who was father of Lewis, who was father of Oren).
Sydney Gay was also a fine journalist, as this excerpt from the New York Public Library shows.
Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant). Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports. Writings include manuscripts of the History of the United States and his biographies and other works. Correspondence, notes, reports, and account books are from the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Anti-Slavery Standard.
Sydney Howard Gay is my 4th cousin, 5 times removed in the Gay branch of the Carter family tree. He is part of the ancestry of Joanna Gay Carter, my 3rd-great-grandmother, who married Isaac Powers Carter (father of Isaac Gay, who was father of Lewis, who was father of Oren).
Sydney Gay was also a fine journalist, as this excerpt from the New York Public Library shows.
Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant). Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports. Writings include manuscripts of the History of the United States and his biographies and other works. Correspondence, notes, reports, and account books are from the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Anti-Slavery Standard.