. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . y Society was organized at Newport, whose charter members wereBeulah Puckett, Efizabeth Stanton, Rachel Green, Mary Hockett, EdithOsborn, Elizabeth Lacy. Ann Reynolds, Keziah Hough, Jane Porch,Achsah Thomas. ;\Iary Parker, Mrs. Henry Way and Catharine society not only aided in the agitation of the slavery question, butmade clothes for fugitives who needed them. The organization work spread into other localities, and in 1842 theFree Labor Advocate gives accounts of meetings of an
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . y Society was organized at Newport, whose charter members wereBeulah Puckett, Efizabeth Stanton, Rachel Green, Mary Hockett, EdithOsborn, Elizabeth Lacy. Ann Reynolds, Keziah Hough, Jane Porch,Achsah Thomas. ;\Iary Parker, Mrs. Henry Way and Catharine society not only aided in the agitation of the slavery question, butmade clothes for fugitives who needed them. The organization work spread into other localities, and in 1842 theFree Labor Advocate gives accounts of meetings of anti-slavery societies 13 Life of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, pp. 87, 90. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 511 in Randolph, Henry, Union, Hamilton, Jay and other counties; and onJanuary 12, 1843, a meeting of the State Anti-Slavery Society was heldat Salem, and one of the principal attractions was Stephen S. Harding,the Liberty candidate for Lieutenant Governor. In fact 1842 had beenan epoch marker, with Newport very much in the limelight. On Septem-ber 5, the State convention of the Libertj party had met there, and. Dr. Elizur Deming nominated Elizur H. Deming for Governor, with Harding in secondplace. They made a formidable team. Dr. Elizur Deming was of Puri-tan ancestry, born at Great-Barrington Park, Mass., March 4, 1798. Hewas well educated, and at the age of twenty, having graduated in lettersand in medicine, he married Hester Carpenter, at Wilkesbarre, Penn.,and then emigrated to Ohio, where he practised for a time at Milfordand Chillieothe, and in 1834 located at Lafayette. He soon took highrank as a physician, and became prominent in Masonry, being for many 512 INDIANA AND INDIANANS years Jlaster of Perry Lodge, at Lafayette. A Whig in polities, he tookthe stump in 18-10, and surprised even his friends by his campaignoratory. In 1841, the Whigs elected him to the legislature, and there ended his Whig affiliation. Notwithstanding his open advo-cacy of abolition, he was chos
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