About Hezekiah Joslyn
Lived 1797 – 1865 (aged 67–68). Hezekiah Joslyn was a physician.
Hezekiah Joslyn (1797 – October 30, 1865 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.
Hezekiah's daughter Matilda was mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Who was Hezekiah Joslyn?
American physician and abolitionist (1797-1865)
When was Hezekiah Joslyn born?
Hezekiah Joslyn was born in 1797 in Cicero, New York.
When did Hezekiah Joslyn die?
Hezekiah Joslyn died in 1865 in Fayetteville, New York.
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Hezekiah Joslyn was a physician.
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