“I shall want a full and explicit history of all that is done, so that if my children should ever be poor, they may have the satisfaction of knowing that their father's money was not all lost in speculation.”

About Amos Adams Lawrence

Philanthropist • American

Amos Adams Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American philanthropist, businessman, and abolitionist from Massachusetts. He played a crucial role in the settlement of Kansas by anti-slavery emigrants during the...