History of the American Negro and his institutions edited by A.B. Caldwell (1917) (14748303256)

Identifier: historyofamerica02incald (find matches)
Title: History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by A.B. Caldwell
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, 1873- ed
Subjects: Negroes
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., A. B. Caldwell publishing co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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d has accumulated someproperty in both Georgia and Florida. Dr. Hall was a member of the General Conference whichmet in Kansas City in 1912. He is a Trustee of Morris BrownUniversity and Payne College. He has been especially active in the work of the Masons andthe Wise Men of the East. While located at Cairo from 1900-04,he traveled extensively over Florida. He was at that timeGrand Master of the Masons of that State and did much fieldwork for the Wise Men of the East. He has also done consider-able work in both Alabama and North Carolina in the sameinterest. For fourteen years he has been Supreme GrandDeputy Chief of that organization. In this and other interests,he has been over a large part of America. JOHN HENRY HALL WHOEVER believes that a man can lie tied down anddefeated by hardships and by poverty in his boyhooddays should study the life and work of John HenryHall, of Walton county. His situation as a boy was difficultenough to defeat any but the bravest. His real character is
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JOHN HENRY HALL AND WIFE. GEORGIA EDITION 38? shown by the manner in which lie has overcome the obstacles bywhich he was confronted. He was born at White Plains, Greene county, during thewar, September 11, 1862. His parents, Jacob Hall and AdelineRankin, had both been slaves before Emancipation. After thewar they were poor and, of course, without education. Underthese conditions it is not strange that they failed to realize theimportance of educating their boy. In fact, the father wasopposed to education. The boy, however, at an early age, de-termined to better his condition. He attended the short termpublic school when not required to work on the farm, but soonrealized that he must have money to go away to school if he wasto succeed. So he never lost an opportunity to trade knives orchickens or anything that would bring him a few cents. Thesesavings he kept in a snuff box under an old apple tree. Whenhe had saved ten dollars he bought a calf which he later soldfor twenty-five dollars