Papers of John Patterson Green, 1869-1910.

Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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President William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States. He was beginning his second term as President after winning the election in 1900. On Sept. 5, 1901 he and his wife were attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when he was shot by as assassin waiting in line to shake his hand. After being attended by physicians, he was resting at the exposition's director's home in Buffalo, NY. He seemed to be recovering when his condition rapidly worsened on Sept. 14th. P...

Mitchell, S. T. (Samuel Thomas), 1851-

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Tyler, Ralph W. (Ralph Winfred), 1902-1994

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Educator and university administrator. A.B., Doane College, 1921. A.M., University of Nebraska, 1923. Ph. D. University of Chicago, 1927. Professor of education, University of Chicago, 1938-1953. Chairman, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1938-1948. University Examiner, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Dean, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Director, Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1967. From the description of ...

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898

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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term (Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate but did not complete a full term). In 1868, during Reconstruction, Bruce relocated to Bolivar...

Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904

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Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born on September 24, 1837, in New Lisbon (in 1895 renamed Lisbon), Ohio, to Dr. Leonard and Samantha Hanna. Leonard's father, Benjamin Hanna, a Quaker of Scotch-Irish descent, was a wealthy store owner in New Lisbon. Dr. Hanna practiced in Columbiana County, where New Lisbon was located, until he suffered a spinal injury while riding. After the accident, he joined the family business, B., L., and T. Hanna, by now a major grocery and goods brokering firm. Samantha, née Co...

Bliss, Theodore, 1822-1910

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Loudin, F. J. (Frederick J.)

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Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928

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T. Thomas Fortune was the foremost African-American journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as an editor, publisher, writer, orator and civil rights leader, using his position at a series of black newspapers in New York City as the leading spokesman and defender of the rights of African Americans in both the South and the North. Fortune's journalism career began in Florida, he moved to New York in 1881, and founded the "New York Freeman...

Myers, George A., 1859-1930

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George A. Myers (1859-1930) was a Black Republican political leader in Cleveland, Ohio and a barber. From the description of George A. Myers papers, 1890-1929 (inclusive), [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122512773 Ohio African-American politician, owner of Holledon Hotel barber shop in Cleveland, Ohio, and member of the Ohio Republican State Executive Committee. From the description of Papers, 1890-1929. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: ...

Smith, Harry C.

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United States. Post Office Department

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On July 26, 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed: That a postmaster general be appointed for the United Colonies, who shall hold his office at Philada, and shall be allowed a salary of 1000 dollars per an: for himself, and 340 dollars per an: for a secretary and Comptroller, with power to appoint such, and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary. That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the Postmaster general, from Fal...

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...

Brown, Jere A., 1841-1913.

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Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...

Green, John Patterson, 1845-

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Cleveland lawyer, justice of the peace (1873-1882), Ohio state congressman (1882-1892), state senator (1892-1896), and U.S. Postage Stamp Agent. He was a powerful Republican campaign orator and was influential in William McKinley's 1896 presidential campaign. From the description of John Paterson Green papers, 1869-1910. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725496 John P. Green, the first African American to be elected to public office in Cleveland, Ohio, wa...