Delia Ann Webster

Birth Date

1817-12-17

Death Date

1876

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Vermont, abolitionist. Vergennes, Vermont native. Daughter of Benejah Webster. Attended Vergennes Classical School in Vergennes, Vermont. Teacher in Vergennes in 1835. Established Lexington Female Academy in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1843. Arrested with Calvin Fairbank on September 30, 1844, on charges of "negro-stealing," or helping the enslaved Hayden family escape to freedom in Ohio. Sentenced to two years in the Kentucky penitentiary but pardoned on February 24, 1845. Teacher in New York from 1845. Operated a farm and underground railroad station in Trimble County, Kentucky, in 1854.

The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 939.

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