State House: 1884 -1885 Secretary of State: Oct-Nov 1873
Born: c. 1847 in Ohio Died: December 1895 in Aberdeen, MS
Attorney who served as Jackson’s city clerk. In October 1873, Governor Ridgley Powers appointed him Secretary of State, a position he resigned only weeks later. Listed on the 1880 census in Jackson with wife Caledonia (“Callie”). Callie died in 1907, and the Clarion-Ledger called her “one of the wealthiest negro women of the south.”
Freemasons in Mississippi, from New York Public Library
Vicksburg Herald, November 18, 1873Daily Mississippi Pilot, July 29, 1875Clarion Ledger, August 20, 1879Clarion Ledger, May 26, 1880Clarion Ledger, October 11, 1882New Mississippian, Feb 4, 1884State Ledger, March 14, 1884State Ledger, April 25, 1884Vicksburg Evening Post, May 26, 1884Aberdeen Examiner, May 29, 1884State Ledger, October 17, 1884Weekly Commercial Herald, Sep 25, 1885Clarion Ledger, July 21, 1886Hinds County Gazette, October 30, 1886Weekly Democrat, February 6, 1889Clarion Ledger, July 5, 1890Clarion Ledger, September 2, 1891Vicksburg Evening Post, April 25, 1892Clarion Ledger, June 7, 1894Weekly Clarion Ledger, December 13, 1894Clarion Ledger, March 9, 1895Natchez Democrat, December 4, 1895Clarion Ledger, December 4, 1895Clarion Ledger, December 7, 1895Weekly Clarion Ledger, April 1, 1897Clarion Ledger, April 18, 1907
