Hezekiah Joslyn

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

Joslyn homesteaded in Cicero, New York. The homestead is now considered a potential archaeological site. He was a Onondaga County, New York doctor since 1823 and an official 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 also a prominent abolitionist. Their home in New York near the United States-Canada border was a station on the Underground Railroad.

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

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