Caroline LeCount (1846-1923) – Born in Philadelphia to a cabinet and coffin maker and his wife, who likely had connections to the Underground Railroad, LeCount graduated first in her class from the Institute of Colored Youth, then at 716-18 Lombard Street. During the Civil War, LeCount supported African-American troops. She also became an activist for African-American children’s education, teaching and becoming the principal of Cordelia Jenning’s Ohio Street School, later renamed the Octavius V. Catto School for almost 50 years. Shortly after Philadelphia passed integrated streetcar legislation in 1867, LeCount was among the women activists who would try to board streetcars, and, denied, took legal action that helped enforce the new law. LeCount was engaged to Civil Rights leader Octavius V. Catto until he was assassinated in 1871 for registering African-Americans to vote.