Abigail Hopper Gibbons

Biography

Abigail Hopper Gibbons devoted her life to abolitionism, prison reform, and the care of soldiers during the Civil War, founding the Women’s Prison Association and serving as a nurse and organizer in Washington.

Her compassionate activism continued in the decades that followed, and she was laid to rest at Green-Wood Cemetery with gratitude for her courageous service to the oppressed.