People

John Graff 

John Graff (1800-1885) 
Blairsville businessman, Liberty and Free Democratic Party candidate. Underground Railroad Agent. His network brought Hardy County, Va. Fugitives Anthony Hollingsworth, Charles Brown and Jared Harris to Indiana County







James Simpson 
Conductor between Indiana and Phillip’s Mills (Homer City) Simpson sheltered and employed fugitive Anthony Hollingsworth on his farm, today’s Brookside Dairy on Old 56 West. The slavecatchers took Hollingsworth from there and brought him to Indiana, where the town rescued him. 

Dr. Robert Mitchell (1786-1863) and Jane Clark Mitchell (1805-1890) 

Dr. Robert Mitchell

Dr. Mitchell was an Indiana County Abolitionist leader and Underground Railroad Manager and the founder 

of Diamondville (Mitchell's Mills). He was active in the Liberty and Free Democratic Parties and was also a 

member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and an Associate Judge. 

James Moorhead. (1780-1857) 

Indiana Abolitionist leader and Underground Railroad Manager and Conductor. Moorhead was a self-educated writer and editor of The Clarion of Freedom and The Independent, both anti-slavery newspapers. He was also a traveling lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society and a poet.

These depictions are courtesy of the Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum.  More information can be obtained form the following link:
http://www.undergroundrailroadblairsvillepa.com/PDFs/UGRR_Conductors_and_Stories.pdf