Gerrit Smith, also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate fo
Clasped Hands of Gerrit and Ann Smith, by Edmonia Lewis, 1872
Gerrit Smith house, Peterboro, New York, from an 1878 book. The house was destroyed by fire in 1936.
Smith made women's suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform on June 14–15, 1848.
New York Central College, commonly called New York Central College, McGrawville, and simply Central College, was a short-lived college founded in McGraw, New York, in 1848 by abolitionist Baptists led
Main building, 1850. The first two floors held classrooms and the third a dormitory for male students.