Barnabas Yale
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Barnabas Yale was an American abolitionist attorney, vice-president and cofounder of the Central New-York Anti-Slavery Society, part of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He petitioned Congress in 1838 for the abolition of slavery, about 30 years before the American Civil War, and was made Justice of the Peace of Martinsburg, New York.
A copy of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper in which Barnabas Yale is featured during the Utica convention
The World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 at Exeter Hall in London. William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan, founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society were participants
Lorenzo Da Ponte' Opera House, on Leonard Street, New York, 1833
Burrage Yale
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Burrage Yale was an American tin ware manufacturer and Justice of the Peace from Wakefield, Massachusetts. He was the town treasurer and the largest employer in the city. He gave his name to Yale Avenue and Yale Fire Station. He was also the first postmaster recognized in Washington, D. C., and the cofounder of South Reading Academy, with abolitionist minister, Cyrus P. Grosvenor.
Michigan Exchange Hotel, Detroit, property of Harvey P. Yale's relative, Capt. Lyon
Handwritten letter of Burrage Yale to an employee in 1852
One of Burrage Yale's factories in Wakefield, Massachusetts, became the Thomas Emerson Shoe Factory
Example of covered wagons used by 100s of Yale's peddlers, selling tin ware products across New England