Eli Thayer's Emigrant Company

Eli Thayer's Emigrant Company

Eli Thayer

American politician and anti-slavery activist. Organized the "New England Emigrant Aid Company" to make the Kansas Territory a free state and sought to politically curb the expansion of slavery by sending northern settlers.

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Year	Eli Thayer
1819	Birth of Eli Thayer (Period: June 11, 1819, Location: Near Milford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (current Middlesex surrounding area, Massachusetts))
1854	Kansas-Nebraska Act Enactment and Emigration Movement (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1854 onward, Location: Kansas Territory (Present-day Kansas)) Bleeding Kansas (Age: 34 years old, Period: c. 1854–1859, Location: Kansas Territory and Missouri Border) Kansas-Nebraska Act Enactment and Emigration Movement (Eli Thayer, Age: 34 years old, Period: 1854 onward, Location: Kansas Territory (Present-day Kansas))
1861	American Civil War (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.)
1899	Death of Eli Thayer (Age: 79 years old, Period: April 15, 1899 (Worcester, Massachusetts))
Unknown	Marriage (Eli Thayer and Maria Thayer, Period: Mid-19th century (Exact date varies by source), Location: Massachusetts area)

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Related Links

Group	List
Abolition Movement, Ideology, and Activist	William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips Thomas Wentworth Higginson John Brown Lydia Maria Child Sojourner Truth
Industrialization of New England	Samuel Slater Moses Brown Francis Cabot Lowell Amos Lawrence
Merchants, investors, and upper elites	Nicholas Brown Jr. John Amory Lowell Abiel Abbot Lowell
Literature, Thought, and Intellectuals	Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Horace Mann Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Underground Railway & Getaway Network	William Still Ellen Smith Craft Henry Brown Moses Roper
Region, System, and Network	Eli Thayer Prudence Crandall Elizabeth Buffum Chace John Quincy Adams

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