Josiah Thomas Settle collection, 1879-1915.

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Josiah Thomas Settle collection, 1879-1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70941281

Correspondence, programs, an autograph album, a newspaper clipping, and diplomas relating to Settle's activities at Howard University and as a member of the Mississippi State Legislature.

.5 linear ft.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8046811

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Settle, Josiah Thomas, 1850-1915

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African American lawyer and one of the first graduates of Howard University. From the description of Josiah Thomas Settle collection, 1879-1915. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941281 ...

Mississippi. Legislature

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...