Eli Thayer of Worcester, Massachusetts, founds the…

June 1854 CE

Eli Thayer of Worcester, Massachusetts, founds the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society in 1854 to promote the settlement of anti-slavery groups in Kansas with the ultimate objective of making it a free state.

Thayer had founded Worcester’s Oread Institute, a school for young women, in 1848.

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