Pastored church that was a key refuge for runaways and instrumental in the underground railroad's route to Canada, etc.
None in the auction record and no examples in the trade at the time of cataloging.
[Civil War, Christian Commission, Baptists, Ohio] Memoir of Rev. Seymour W. Adams, D.D. Late Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio. Published in Pursuance of a Request of the Church, J. P. Bishop, J. M. Hoyt, and W. T. Smith, Committee of Publications. Cleveland, Ohio. Printed by Fairbanks, Benedict & Co. Herald Office. 1866. First Edition. 237pp.
Good - in original cloth, worn through and chipped at extremities, very between title and contents page. Certainly usable with some care. Some scattered foxing and toning, but generally clean. Complete, including the frontis.
