Reverend Cyrus Yale was an American clergyman, pastor, and minister. He was an active pacifist and was among the leaders of the temperance movement, having cofounded the United States Temperance Union with Stephen Van Rensselaer, the richest man in the country at the time. He was also a cousin of abolitionist Barnabas Yale and the author of the biography of Rev. Jeremiah Hallock and other works.
Portrait of Rev. Cyrus Yale's son, Yale Doctor John Yale of Ware, Massachusetts
Town Hill Church, New Hartford, Connecticut, Rev. Yale was its fourth and last pastor
Dry goods business of Cyrus Yale Jr., Yale & Bowling, New York
Memorial plate of Town Hill Church, New Hartford, Connecticut, featuring Rev. Cyrus Yale and others
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.
Portrait of Barnabas Yale's nephew, Walter D. Yale, public notary and professor of the Bible for 30 years
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