On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 day ...
After war career: In 1784 formed a partnership with Robert Morris in Baltimore called Tench Tilghman Co. Lived on Lombard Street. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/002600/002633/html/02633bio.html https://societyofthecincinnati.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/ ...
REMEMBERING THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE FOR CHINESE IN RULEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.......... - One room "shotgun" style house; formerly used as a servant’s quarter - Potbelly stove for heating…….lighting with paper and chopped-up wooden apple crates for fuel - Utility room in the back used to ...
Dr. Gloria Hom shares the remarkable life story of her grandfather, Thomas Foon Chew, who was a very successful Chinese-American businessman during the early 20th Century, in the Chinese Exclusion Act period in California. Settling in the South Bay, he became a cannery magnate, starting and ...