Hezekiah Joslyn Explained

Hezekiah Joslyn
Birth Place:Cicero, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Fayetteville, New York
Occupation:Physician
Known For:Abolitionist activity
Relations:Matilda Joslyn Gage, daughter; 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.[1]

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".[2]

Hezekiah's daughter Matilda was mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[3]

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  1. Web site: Hezekiah Joslyn Grave Site. Freethought Trail. January 20, 2020. 2020.
  2. News: Matilda Gage Book Signing, Lecture. Seneca Daily News. November 15, 2015. January 17, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170212162550/http://senecadaily.com/?p=1055033. February 12, 2017. dead.