This photograph of Gerrit Smith, born in 1797, was taken in 1854, when as a member of Congress he introduced Susan B. Anthony to influential Washingtonians. Reputedly the richest man in New York, his New England Emigrant Aid Society sent abolitionist settlers to Kansas to make it a free state—among them John Brown and Anthony’s brother Daniel. He financed Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, and introduced his first cousin, Elizabeth Cady, to her future husband Henry Stanton.
Source photograph: Ezra Greenleaf Weld (1801–74), daguerreotype; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Date: 1854
This photograph of Gerrit Smith, born in 1797, was taken in 1854, when as a member of Congress he introduced Susan B. Anthony to influential Washingtonians. Reputedly the richest man in New York, his New England Emigrant Aid Society sent abolitionist settlers to Kansas to make it a free state—among them John Brown and Anthony’s brother Daniel. He financed Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, and introduced his first cousin, Elizabeth Cady, to her future husband Henry Stanton.
Source photograph: Ezra Greenleaf Weld (1801–74), daguerreotype; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Date: 1854