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Elizabeth Comstock

Comstock is born in England in 1814, attends Quaker schools and marries before her husband dies and she moves to Belleville, Ontario. Inspired by English reformer, Elizabeth Frye, she becomes a Quaker minister and public lecturer, speaking out for prison reform, temperance and abolition. She runs the Underground RR station at the southeast city of Rollins, Michigan. During the war she serves in Union hospitals and later heads the Kansas Freedmen’s Relief Organization.

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