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Lundy, Benjamin 1789-1839
Philanthropist; born in Hardwick, N. J., Jan. 4, 1789; became an abolitionist about 1810.
In 1815 he founded the Union humane Society, an anti-slavery organization, in St. Clairsville, O. During different periods of his life he established anti-slavery papers in several States.
He is said to have been the first to have made anti-slavery addresses and to have founded anti-slavery periodicals.
He died in Lowell, Ill., Aug. 22, 1839.