Cynthia Catlin Miller, a prominent antislavery leader from an abolitionist family, founded the Female Assisting Society and the Ladies’ Fugitive Aid Society. Her home, the Miller Mansion, was a refuge for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad, and her organizations provided them with food and clothing. She and her son Franklin hosted Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists when they came to speak at the Sugar Grove Convention of 1854.