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Lewis Sheridan Leary

(1835-1859)
American activist
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Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859), an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed. He was the first husband of Mary Patterson. By her second marriage to Charles Henry Langston, she became the future maternal grandmother of poet Langston Hughes.

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Born
17 March 1835
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Died
20 October 1859 (aged 24)
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Zodiac Pisces
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