Guy Beckley was a Methodist Episcopal minister, abolitionist, Underground Railroad stationmaster, and lecturer.
15 Facts About Guy Beckley
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The Guy Beckley House is on the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and the Journey to Freedom tour.
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Guy Beckley attended the Methodist Episcopal Church and became a preacher at the age of 19.
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Guy Beckley was a traveling preacher for nine years for the Methodist Church.
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Guy Beckley began his career in 1827, when he was admitted on trial to the New England Methodist Conference and was assigned to Rev William McCoy of Rochester, Vermont.
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Guy Beckley was ordained a deacon in 1830 and an elder in 1831.
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Guy Beckley was a minister at the Newfane church in Vermont.
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Guy Beckley was a paid lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society, traveling throughout New York and New England for three years.
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Guy Beckley reported that the Society purchased the freedom of twelve enslaved people in 1837.
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Guy Beckley sat on the executive committee and was the vice president of the Michigan State Anti-Slavery Society.
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Guy Beckley's house had lower ceilings in his second-story closets that provided niches to hide enslaved people.
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Guy Beckley had 28 acres of land that adjoined his brother's property.
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Guy Beckley published and was co-editor of The Signal of Liberty with Theodore Foster from 1841 to 1847.
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Guy Beckley was the daughter of Philenia Spencer and John Walker.
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Guy Beckley died at his house in Ann Arbor on December 26,1847, at which time his oldest child was 15.