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	The Underground Railroad in Dallas County
The State Historical Society of Iowa's collections include county-level inventories of people and places associated with the Underground Railroad. The following have been identified as associated with the Underground Railroad in Dallas County:

Inventory of People
Abolitionists
Cook, Anna Sumner George*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, Harmon*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, John*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, John R.*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, Martin*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Anti-Slavery
Huston, James Brown	Boone Township
Lewis, A. W.	Union Township
Murray, Jonathan M.	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Murray, Rhoda	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Van Fossen, Dr. Ezra	Adel Vicinity
Associated with John Brown
Huston, James Brown	Boone Township
Lewis, A. W.	Union Township
Murray, Jonathan M.	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Murray, Rhoda	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Associated with Jim Lane
Cummings, Louis Jerome	Winterset
Curtis, Oren	Winterset
Evans, Henry	Vicinity Unknown
Tibbles, Thomas Henry	Vicinity Unknown
Conductors/Station Agents
Cook, Anna Sumner George*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, Harmon*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, John*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, John R.*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Cook, Martin*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Lewis, A. W.	Union Township
Murray, Jonathan M.	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Murray, Rhoda	Union Township, Redfield vicinity
Van Fossen, Dr. Ezra	Adel Vicinity
Unknown Status
Huston, James Brown	Boone Township
Newlin, Dianah Cox Cook*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting-conductor in Plainfield, IN
Newlin, Joshua*	Union Twp., Quaker Divide, Bear Creek Meeting
Frazier, Thomas	Linn Township
Inventory of Places
Bear Creek Meeting-Quaker Divide
Dayton House-Seth Dayton	Beaver Township
Huston Cemetery	Iowa Site Inventory #13DA174, #25-00043
Oakland Meeting-Quaker Divide	Redfield Vicinity
North Branch Meeting	Dallas & Madison Counties
John Wilson House	Adams Township
Redfield

Asterisk (*) indicates the individual has been researched by the Iowa Freedom Trail Project and a biographical form is on file at the State Historical Research Center in Des Moines.

For additional info visit the SHSI Underground RR in Iowa Collection online.

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Transcribed and formatted for Dallas County IAGenWeb by Conni McDaniel Hall, January 2018

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The Underground Railroad in Dallas County