Background
George Beckwith Hitchcock was born in Massachusetts January 9, 1812.
George Beckwith Hitchcock was born in Massachusetts January 9, 1812.
His house in Lewis, Iowa, now a National Historic Landmark, was part of the Underground Railroad. He was against slavery, and joined the abolitionism movement known as the Underground Railroad. He settled in Lewis, Iowa in the mid-1850s, and he lived in a log cabin until the completion of his stone house in 1856.
The Reverend George B. Hitchcock House is now a museum.
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 August 4, 1872, of presumed natural causes.