Hezekiah Joslyn

Hezekiah Joslyn (-October 30, 1865[1]) was an American doctor, and politician active in 19th century abolitionism.

Joslyn homesteaded in Cicero, New York.[2] The homestead is now considered a potential archaeological site.[3] He was a Onondaga County, New York doctor since 1823 and an official in the county medical society.[4][5][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 also a prominent abolitionist.[7] Their home in New York near the Canada–United States border was a station on the Underground Railroad.[8][9]

He is the great-grandfather of author, soldier, and film producer Frank Joslyn Baum.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Death of Dr. Hezekiah Joslyn" (PDF), Syracuse Daily Journal, p. 4, November 2, 1865 – via Old Fulton NY Postcards (fultonhistory.com)
  2. ↑ Sarah Moses (October 17, 2011), "Town of Cicero unveils historical marker at Matilda Joslyn Gage's childhood home", The Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York
  3. ↑ Sites Relating to the Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Syracuse and Onondaga County, Preservation Association of Central New York
  4. ↑ v.d. Luft 2009, p. 43 "Hezekiah Joslyn, a freethinking physician in private practice since 1823 in Cicero, New York, tried in the 1840s to get his daughter Matilda into Geneva Medical College, but there is no record of her ever applying for admission."
  5. ↑ New York Legislature 1852.
  6. ↑ Medical Society of the State of New York 1865, p. 372.
  7. ↑ "That Laboratory of Abolitionism, Libel and Treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University
  8. ↑ Snodgrass 2015, p. 208.
  9. ↑ Onondaga Historical Association 2015.
  10. ↑ "Matilda Gage Book Signing, Lecture", Seneca Daily News, November 15, 2015

Bibliography

  • Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York, 1865, p. 372
  • 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



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