Joshua McCarter Simpson
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He was fostered before being leased out as an orphan. He was indentured until age 21. He attended an Abolitionist school in Big Bottom, Ohio and Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. He wrote anti-slavery verses and set them to popular tunes.
He had a store and medical practice in Zanesville, Ohio. Vicki L. Eakler wrote a master's thesis on him in 1982 at Washington University in St. Louis.
The ''Zanesville Courier'' reported his death April 20, 1877 and ran an obituary for him the following day. Provided by Wikipedia
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