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About Roger Hooker Leavitt
Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt (July 21, 1805 – July 17, 1885) was a prominent landowner, early industrialist and Massachusetts politician who with other family members was an ardent abolitionist, using his home in Charlemont, Massachusetts as an Underground Railroad station for slaves escaped from the South. The escaped slave Basil Dorsey lived in Leavitt's home for nearly six years until eventually settling in Florence, Massachusetts.
Everything about Roger Hooker Leavitt →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, member of the State Senate of Massachusetts, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 21, 1805
- Died
- July 17, 1885