George B. Hitchcock
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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.
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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.
