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The Joseph F. Brooker papers document his business transactions as well as freight movement on the railway, and contain receipts, correspondence acknowledging payment or soliciting business, and way-bills of merchandise transported on the railway.
Replies to invitations to attend the dedication of the Civil War soldiers' monument in the Wolcottville community of Torrington, Conn.; correspondents include Joseph Hawley and Truman Smith.
(Johan) Hans Ulrich Bucher married Anna Maria, nee Schellinger on August 17, 1715 in Kleinen Garttach, Wurttemberg, Germany. She died and he married Susanna Barbara Wirth and immigrated to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in 1732. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, California, and elsewhere.
This volume turns from emphasizing Washington's institution-building (Tuskegee Institute) to examine those writings which reveal more about the black leader's growing role as a national public figure. Volume 5 covers a period during which Washington's fortunes continued to rise even as those of the black masses, for whom he claimed to speak, declined. Though forced to adhere narrowly to the racial philosophy he had espoused in the Atlanta Compromise address of 1895, Washington nonetheless was able to involve himself covertly in matters of civil rights and politics. He used the National Negro Business League as a front for political activity. He successfully lobbied against disenfranchisement...