Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon

Life span:

12/06/1815 to 07/22/1884

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Life Summary

Full name:

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

Place of Birth:

Pittsburgh, PA

Burial Place:

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA

Birth Date Certainty:

Exact

Death Date Certainty:

Exact

Gender:

Female

Race:

White

Sectional choice:

North

Origins:

Free State

No. of Spouses:

Family:

Thomas Cannon (father), Mary Scott Cannon (mother), James Swisshelm (husband - divorced 1857)

Occupation:

Farmer or Planter

Journalist

Other

Other Occupation:

Clerk

Relation to Slavery:

White non-slaveholder

Other Affiliations:

Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)

Temperance (Prohibition)

Women’s Rights

Government:

Lincoln Administration (1861-65)

Johnson Administration (1865-69)

Events

Date span begin	Life span End	Event
02/26/1866	02/26/1866	President Johnson dismisses his critic, Jane Grey Swisshelm, from her War Department job

Major Topics

Slavery

Dred Scott Case

Reconstruction

Documents

Subject Docs

Date	Title
03/02/1866	"Mrs. Swisshelm Guillotined," Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1866

Images

Jane Swisshelm

Jane Swisshelm, detail

Bibliography

Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon

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