Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Veteran Abolltioniet Dead. [ARTICLE]

Veteran Abolltioniet Dead.

Philadelphia", April 16.—Robert Purvis, the well-known abolitionist and the last surviving member of the original American anti-slavery society, which organized in this city In 1883, died suddenly Friday night of apoplexy. He was aged 88 years.