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Called 'DR' by all, Daniel Read Anthony was the little brother of Susan B. Anthony. He was a force in his own right. Even before the Civil War he personally knew Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley, Eli Thayer, William Seward, Jim Lane, John Brown and other historical notables. DR was a leader among the first Emigrant Aid Society settlers to Kansas. DR owned a free-state newspaper in Leavenworth. He was a brash, outspoken abolitionist, and survived being shot at repeatedly in 'Bloody Kansas'. He was involved in the Underground Railroad, in the brazen rescue of the jailed slave Charley Fisher, in freeing Missouri slaves, and in sustaining one winter the destitute family of Frederick Douglass. But his passion for justice developed a dark side
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