John Henrie Kagi

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John Henri Kagi (March 15, 1835 – October 17, 1859) was an American abolitionist and associate of John Brown before the American Civil War.

John Henri Kagi was born in Bristolville, Ohio, in 1835, the second child of Abraham Neff Kagy (spelling on his gravestone) and Anna Fansler. (JHK adopted the Swiss spelling of his name.) He taught school in Virginia near his father's birthplace but had to make a hasty departure due to his outspoken antislavery views. A relative, Virginia historian Dr. John W. Wayland, has written the most complete monograph on Kagi and his activities.

Kagi traveled west and stayed at the cabin of his sister Barbara Kagy Mayhew and her husband Allen in Nebraska City before moving to Kansas. He worked as a correspondent for several eastern newspapers. He met John Brown in Lawrence, Kansas. He was involved with many of Brown's activities until his death in 1859 at the age of 24 in the raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.