The State Historical Society of Iowa's has a collection which includes county-level inventories of people and places associated with the Underground Railroad. The following have been identified as associated with the Underground Railroad in Muscatine County.

(**) indicates the individual has been researched by the Iowa Freedom Trail Project and a biographical form is on file at the State Historical Research Center in Des Moines.

For additional info visit the SHSI Underground Railroad in Iowa Collection online at
https://history.iowa.gov/history/research/collections/featured-topics/underground-railroad-iowa

Inventory of Places

**	Alexander Clark House	Muscatine National Register of Historic Places #76000796
**	American House Hotel	Muscatine
**	Atalissa
**	Dr. D. P. Johnson House	126 W. 3rd St, Muscatine
**	403 W. 2nd St.	Muscatine
**	Octagon House	Muscatine
**	Keith’s Mill	West Liberty
**	Meeting House-Congregational Church	Muscatine
**	Tenement House	West Liberty
**	West Liberty

Abolitionist: One who either demanded the immediate abolition of slavery or who showed ferocious hostility to the institution of slavery. Individuals who were both antislavery and abolitionist are listed only as abolitionist.

**	Butler, Jacob	Muscatine
**	Byers, Moses Watson	Bloomington Township
	Clark, Alexander Sr.	Muscatine
	Cloud, David	Muscatine
**	Foster, Suel	Muscatine
	Gibson, Joseph M.	Atalissa
	Johnson, Dr. David P.	Muscatine
	Johnson, Sarah Melissa Bumgardner	Muscatine
	Keith, A. E.	West Liberty
	Lee, John B.	Muscatine
	Mahin, John	Muscatine
	Maxson, Jonathan	West Liberty See also Cedar County
**	Parvin, John A.	Muscatine & Sweetland Township
	Robbins, Reverend Alden B.	Muscatine, Iowa Band
**	Robertson, Dr. James M.	Columbus City
	Stout, N. L.	Muscatine
**	Taylor, Steward	West Liberty
	Weed, Dr. James	Muscatine

Station Agent/Conductor: One who worked as an Underground Railroad agent by hiding fugitive slaves in their homes, barns, or elsewhere on their property. One could be both a conductor and a station agent but not necessarily both.

	Brockway, Frank	Unknown
**	Butler, Jacob	Muscatine
	Clark, Alexander, Sr.	Muscatine
	Cope, Charles	Atalissa
**	Foster, Suel	Muscatine
	Gibson, Joseph	Atalissa
	Greening, William	Muscatine
	Jelly, J.A. (?)	Atalissa
	Lundy, William	Atalissa
**	Parvin, John A.	Muscatine & Sweetland Township
**	Robertson, Dr. James M.	Columbus City
	Smalley, first name unknown	Unknown
	Van Pelt, Dr. A. M.	Atalissa

Free African-Americans: One of a relatively small number of African-Americans who were not slaves. They may have been granted their freedom from their owners, bought their freedom, or by a grant of freedom from the state of residence.

	Clark, Alexander, Sr.	Muscatine
	Greening, William	Muscatine
	Kelly, Henry	West Liberty
	Trusty, Elijah and family	West Liberty

Freedom Seekers: A modern term to describe the same thing as the traditional term, fugitive slave.

	Clay, Anna	Muscatine, Iowa City
	White, Jim	Muscatine

Residents of the Tenement House, West Liberty

	Anderson, Dick and Hannah
	Diggs family
	Patterson family
	Peyton family
	Robertson family Wells, Gulliver

Slaves

White, Jim

Muscatine

Unknown Status

	Aikins, Edmund W.	West Liberty
	Cope, John	Goshen Township
	Cope, Sarah Dungan	Goshen Township
	Cope, William	Goshen Township
	Letts, Albina Brockway	Story of runaway slaves
	Negus, Isaac	Muscatine
	Parvin, James	Vicinity unknown
	Robertson, Dr. William S.	Muscatine