George B. Hitchcock

George B. Hitchcock

Reverend George B. Hitchcock (1812-1872) was an American involved in housing slaves on their way to freedom. His house in Lewis, Iowa, now a National Historic Landmark, was part of the Underground Railroad.

Life

Rev. George B. Hitchcock was born in Massachusetts in 1812. He was against slavery, and an Underground Railroad member. He became an ordained minister in 1844 for the Congregational Church, becoming a travelling preacher in Iowa. He setteled in Lewis, Iowa in the mid 1850's, and he lived in a log cabin until the completion of his stone house in 1856. He moved to Missouri in 1865, and began preaching to newly-freed blacks, moving to Kansas to do the same two years later. Hitchcock died in 1872, of presumed natural causes.

Resources

* http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ia2.htm


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