American physician and abolitionist (1797-1865)
Hezekiah Joslyn (1797 – October 30, 1865[1]) was an American physician and abolitionist.
Joslyn homesteaded at what is today (2020) 8560 Brewerton Rd. in Cicero, New York.[2] The homestead is now considered a potential archaeological site.[3] He was an Onondaga County, New York, doctor after 1823 and in 1865 an officer in the county medical society.[6]
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.[7] 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".[10]
Hezekiah's daughter Matilda was mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[11]
References
- ^ "Death of Dr. Hezekiah Joslyn" (PDF). Syracuse Daily Journal. November 2, 1865. p. 4.
- ^ Sarah Moses (October 17, 2011), "Town of Cicero unveils historical marker at Matilda Joslyn Gage's childhood home", Syracuse Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York
- ^ Sites Relating to the Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Syracuse and Onondaga County, Preservation Association of Central New York
- ^ *"List of officers of county medical societies". Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York: 372. 1865.
- ^ "That Laboratory of Abolitionism, Libel and Treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University
- ^ "Hezekiah Joslyn Grave Site". Freethought Trail. 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ^ "Matilda Gage Book Signing, Lecture". Seneca Daily News. November 15, 2015. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
Bibliography
- Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015), The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations, Routledge, ISBN 9781317454168
- Women's History Month: Happy Birthday to Matilda Joslyn Gage, Onondaga Historical Association, March 2015
- "List of officers of county medical societies, 1852", Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 2, New York state legislature, 1852, p. 155
- v.d. Luft, Eric (2009), SUNY Upstate Medical University: A Pictorial History, ISBN 9781933237350