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Marker detail: Chloe Merrick Reed (1832-1897)
Photographer: Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society
Caption: Marker detail: Chloe Merrick Reed (1832-1897)
Additional Description: Chloe Merrick Reed, member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and teacher, supported the Underground Railroad in Syracuse. After the Civil War, she taught school for freed people of color in Fernandina, Florida, where she created an orphanage in a former plantation home. In 1869, she married Florida's governor, Harrison M. Reed, and promoted legislation for education and poor relief.
Submitted: September 4, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p491287
File Size: 1.620 Megabytes

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