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Oberlin| Town in Lorain County, northern-central Ohio, USA, 11 km/7 mi southwest of Elyria; population (1990) 8,200. It lies in an agricultural region specializing in market gardening, and dairy and poultry farming. The life of the town revolves around Oberlin College, founded in 1833 as the first coeducational liberal arts college in the world, and noted for its conservatory of music. |
| Oberlin was an antislavery centre before the American Civil War and an important station on the Underground Railroad network, providing sanctuary and assistance for escaped black slaves. It has also been a base for reform and religious movements, including temperance, women's suffrage, and evangelism. |
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Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown
Burns, Anthony
Dett, R Nathaniel
Eastman, Linda Anne
Elwell, Herbert
Emmerich, André
Finney, Charles Grandison
Hall, Charles Martin
Harris, James Rendel
Heisman, John
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King, Henry Churchill
Lewis, David K
Lewis, Edmonia
Oberlin, Jean Frederic
Oberlin, Russell
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Wildavsky, Aaron B
Wilson, Olly
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| He and his party had registered at the Oberlin Hotel, and Daylight encountered the young hammer-thrower himself in the office. Sir James, as brother in-law, building model cottages on his estate, and then, perhaps, others being built at Lowick, and more and more elsewhere in imitation--it would be as if the spirit of Oberlin had passed over the parishes to make the life of poverty beautiful! Gray was a professional inventor, a highly competent man who had begun his career as a blacksmith's apprentice, and risen to be a professor of Oberlin. |