Simeon Bushnell

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Full name:Simeon Martin Bushnell

Date of birth:05. 12. 1829

Date of death:08. 12. 1861

Age:32^{† Deceased}

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1800s

State:Ohio

Time Imprisoned:

2 Months 26 Days

Support

Abolitionism Underground Railroad

Biography

Simeon Bushnell was an Oberlin, Ohio bookseller and one of the leaders of the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the recaptured freedom seeker John Price, whom he drove to safety. Tried first in Cleveland and convicted under the Fugitive Slave Act, he received the heaviest sentence of the rescuers.