Martha Ellicott Tyson (September 13, 1795 – March 5, 1873) was an Elder of the Quaker Meeting in Baltimore, anti-slavery and women's rights advocate, author of the first biography of Benjamin Banneker, and a founder of Swarthmore College. She was the great-great grandmother of state senator James A. Clark Jr. (1918-2006). She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1988. He was married to Nathan Tyson, a merchant and the son of emancipator and abolitionist Elisha Tyson.
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13 September 1795 Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, US
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5 March 1873 (aged 77) Baltimore, Maryland
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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