Hezekiah Joslyn
Hezekiah Joslyn | |
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| Born | 1797 Cicero, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 1865 (aged 67–68) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | Abolitionist activity |
| Children | Matilda Joslyn Gage |
| Relatives | Maud Gage Baum (granddaughter) L. Frank Baum (grandson-in-law) |
Hezekiah Joslyn (1797 – October 30, 1865) was an American physician and abolitionist.
Joslyn homesteaded at what is today (2020) 8560 Brewerton Rd. in Cicero, New York. The homestead is now considered a potential archaeological site. He was an Onondaga County, New York, doctor after 1823 and in 1865 an officer in the county medical society.
Joslyn was a founding member of the Liberty Party, an early advocate of abolitionism founded in the 1840s. His daughter Matilda Joslyn Gage was a suffragist as well as a prominent abolitionist. Their home in Fayetteville, New York, where Hezekiah died, was a station on the Underground Railroad. His tombstone near his former home in Cicero reads "AN EARLY ABOLITIONIST".
Hezekiah's daughter Matilda was mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.