(1810-1876)
Betsey Mix Cowles dedicated her life to fighting slavery and improving the status of women. Her desire for a formal education led her to Oberlin College, where she completed two years of study in 1840. An advocate of immediate abolition, Cowles lectured on the moral depravity of slavery, opened her home, at this site, to fugitive slaves. Opposed to expansion of slavery into the West, Cowles protested the Mexican War. Cowles served as president of Ohio's first women's rights convention (in Salem) in 1850, and the following year wrote a treatise on equal pay for working urban women. She served as the first dean of women at Grand River Institute, and later became one of the first women public school superintendents in Ohio.| HM Number | HM2A8Y |
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| Year Placed | 2003 |
| Placed By | The Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The International Paper Company Foundation, and The Ohio Historical Society |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, August 11th, 2018 at 4:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17T E 512078 N 4622451 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 41.75380000, -80.85471667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 41° 45.228', W 80° 51.283' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 41° 45' 13.68" N, 80° 51' 16.98" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 440 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling South |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1101 OH-45, Austinburg OH 44010, US |
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