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Moncure Daniel Conway was a renowned abolitionist, writer, and lecturer whose childhood home stands nearby to the northwest. His family moved into the Federal-style house in 1838. Conway graduated from Dickinson College in 1849 and Harvard Divinity School in 1854 and became outspoken in the abolitionist movement. During the Civil War, he lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, and traveled east in 1862 to lead his family’s slaves to freedom in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He moved to London in 1863 and spent a number of years abroad, writing for English and American periodicals. He also wrote biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thomas Paine. Conway died in Paris on 15 Nov. 1907.
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