Levi Yale

Levi Yale (April 11, 1792 – February 19, 1872), of Meriden, Connecticut, was a postmaster, justice of the peace and abolitionist, who worked as an agent of the Underground Railroad.

He was a member of the state legislature, cofounded the abolitionist Liberty Party of Connecticut and was twice nominated for lieutenant governor under Senator Francis Gillette.

Levi Yale was the oldest of a large family of children and at the death of his father, he became the main support of his mother, at 12 years of age.

[11] This was about 30 years before the American Civil War led by Abraham Lincoln, at the time of the presidency of Martin Van Buren, which brought new heights to the slavery question.

[14] Her in-laws included robber baron Trenor W. Park and Senator Chauncey Depew, member of the Skulls and Bones, and President of N. Y.

Yale's home was a station of the Underground Railroad, and he has been described as "a man of very pronounced views against slavery, and one who had the courage of his convictions.

[20] In 1841, Levi Yale cofounded the Liberty Party of Connecticut and was appointed president at the Political Anti-Slavery Convention, with General Uriel Tuttle as vice-president, whose home was also a station for the Underground Railroad.

Senator Francis Gillette, the party's candidate for governor, losing on each occasion to William S. Holabird, Reuben Booth, Noyes Billings, Thomas Backus and Charles J. McCurdy, later U.S.

[21][24][25] About the same time in 1841, Yale is featured in The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, at the clerical convention of ministers and members of the churches of Connecticut.

They had three children together, two daughters, Harriet Ellen and Emma Louisa, and a son named Levi Bacon Yale.

Levi B. was a Republican, Prohibition candidate, nominated for Senator in the 6th District in 1900, and was an active member of the Congregational Church.

[2][31] Yale initially started the enterprise in 1857 under Stout, Yale & Co., with city council member Jerome L. Stout, and became the sole agents for a number of the largest flouring mills in the West, in addition to manufacturing coffee, tea, canned goods, and other items.