Josiah Huntoon

Josiah Parmerley Huntoon (July 16, 1813 – 1891) was a businessman and abolitionist in New Jersey. A painting of him by Thomas Waterman Wood is in the National Portrait Gallery.[1]

He was born in Montpelier, Vermont. He lived in Paterson, New Jersey.[2]

He had a successful coffee business including a mill. He and his apprentice William Van Rensalier, an African American who became an engineer, were part of the Underground Railroad.[3] A plaque commemorates their work in helping people who escaped slavery.[4]

Huntoon's home, a stop on the Underground Railway, was demolished for a car park and later a Taco Bell was proposed for the site.[5]

His son Louis Huntoon was an economic professor at Yale University and wrote a family history.[5]

References
  1. "Josiah P. Huntoon, (Painting)".
  2. Huntoon, Daniel Thomas Vose (September 15, 1881). "Philip Hunton and His Descendants". Cambridge University Press: J. Wilson and Son. p. 79 – via Internet Archive.
  3. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (March 26, 2015). The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations. Routledge. ISBN 9781317454168 – via Google Books.
  4. "BY THE WAY; Up From Underground". The New York Times. February 7, 1999.
  5. Browne, Harry (October 26, 1999). "An Irishman's Diary". The Irish Times.
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