Ary J. Lamme III, who nominated Elijah Parish Lovejoy, was joined by second-nominators Sandra Lamme (Gainesville FL), Paul Lovejoy (Toronto ON), Lovejoy descendent, and Neilson Bezerra (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Submitted by Dot Willsey
(Peterboro, NY – Oct. 2013) Relatives and affiliates from several states and countries gathered in Peterboro Oct. 24 and 25 at the site of the 1835 inaugural meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society to participate in the inductions ceremonies of four abolitionists to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF).
Ary J. Lamme III, who nominated Elijah Parish Lovejoy, was joined by second-nominators Sandra Lamme (Gainesville FL), Paul Lovejoy (Toronto ON), Lovejoy descendent, and Neilson Bezerra (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Those who gathered for Brookfield NY’s own Myrtilla Miner were Christopher Anglim from the University of the District of Columbia, who nominated Miner, Denise Roe (Madison County NY) author of a Miner publication in NYS Archives magazine, Charles Lenhart (Hilton NY) Underground Railroad researcher, Virginia Keith (Waterville NY) President, Brookfield Historical Society, Judith Brown (Hamilton NY) NAHOF Secretary, and Michele Henry (Chittenango NY) Chair, Madison County Freedom Trail Commission.
John McKivigan (Indianapolis IN) nominator of John Rankin was joined by Elizabeth Rankin Fulcher (Brooklyn, NY) for the public nominations. Alvin Oickle (Ormond Beach, FL), who wrote the nomination for Jonathan Walker, was unable to attend due to health, so John Hoh and son Matthew (North Prairie WI) presented the nomination with second-nominations provided by Bill Ketchum (San Diego CA) great, great grandson of Walker, Joan Reamer (Portland OR) great, great grand-daughter of Walker, Robert Walker (Madison WI) great, great grandson of Walker.
Joining were representatives of past inductees: Lynne McKinney Lydick (Worcester MA) a.k.a. Abby Kelley Foster (2011 inductee) and John Brown’s great, great, great grand-daughter Alice Keesey Mecoy (TX).
The inductions ceremony followed a 19th C. Antislavery dinner catered by the Copper Turret, and included musical selections directed by Hugh C. Humphreys (Hamilton NY) and performed by the Lingo Family Singers (Morrisville NY) and Max Alden Smith (Oneida NY).
The NAHOF weekend ended with a Sunday afternoon tribute to Harriet Tubman in the centennial year of her death, including a program by Milton C. Sernett (Cazenovia NY) called by the same title as his book Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History, a film by Linda Robertson (Geneva NY) on Sarah Bradford, Tubman’s biographer, Joyce Stokes Jones and Michele Jones Galvin presenting on their new publication on their great, great Aunt Harriet, a report by Cherie A. Butler, Superintendent, Harriet Tubman Underground National Monument(Cambridge MD), a conference announcement by the Harriet Tubman Booster Club in Auburn, and an invitation to Niagara Bound Tours by Lezlie Harper Wells (St. Catherine’s ON). The public is invited to the commemoration of the four abolitionists October 24, 2014.
Those who gathered for Brookfield NY’s own Myrtilla Miner were Christopher Anglim from the University of the District of Columbia, who nominated Miner, Denise Roe (Madison County NY) author of a Miner publication in NYS Archives magazine, Charles Lenhart (Hilton NY) Underground Railroad researcher, Virginia Keith (Waterville NY)President, Brookfield Historical Society, Judith Brown (Hamilton NY) NAHOF Secretary, and Michele Henry (Chittenango NY) Chair, Madison County Freedom Trail Commission.
John McKivigan (Indianapolis IN) nominator of John Rankin was joined by Elizabeth Rankin Fulcher (Brooklyn, NY) for the public nominations.
Alvin Oickle (Ormond Beach, FL), who wrote the nomination for Jonathan Walker, was unable to attend due to health, so John Hoh and son Matthew(North Prairie WI) presented the nomination with second-nominations provided by Bill Ketchum (San Diego CA) great, great grandson of Walker, Joan Reamer (Portland OR) great, great grand-daughter of Walker, Robert Walker (Madison WI) great, great grandson of Walker.
Joyce Stokes Jones and Michele Jones Galvin presented on their new publication on their great, great Aunt Harriet.
Cherie A. Butler, Superintendent, Harriet Tubman Underground National Monument (Cambridge MD), announced progress at the Tubman Conference in Auburn in November, and Alice Keesey Mecoy, great, great grand-daughter of abolitionist John Brown inducted in 2007.
