Elisha Yale
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Reverend Elisha Yale was an American clergyman and pastor, first minister of the Congregational church of Gloversville, New York. He founded the Kingsborough Academy, now the Fulton County Historical Society and Museum, and published several works on religion.
Senator Elizur Smith's residence, High Lawn Stock Farm, built in 1850 in Lee and Lenox, Massachusetts
Statue of Rev. Elisha Yale in Gloversville, NY
Kingsboro Presbyterian Church, North Kingsboro Avenue, Gloversville, Fulton County, NY
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