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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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dua-tion he taught in the public schools of the State in Orange-burg and Lexington counties, and also taught a primary gradeat Allen for two terms. For a short while he was substitutemail carrier at Columbia, resigning to clerk for the Negrofirm of Rice & Dawkins, at Carlisle, S. G. In 1900 he wasgiven the position of bookkeeper at the A. M. E. SundaySchool Union, by Bishop W. D. Chappelle, in which position hewas retained for six years, during which time he finished acourse in practical bookkeeping at Falls Business College.Nashville, Tenn. It was through the advice of his familyphysician, Dr. II. T. Noel, of Nashville, that he became in-terested in the study of medicine. With the consent of hisemployer. Dr. Chappelle, and the assistance of his faithfulwife, he took the medical course at Meharry College, enter-ing in 1904 and graduating in 1908. During the last twoyears in Meharry his vacations were spent in the Pullmanservice which took him to every part of the United States. To
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520 HISTORY OF AMERICAN NEGRO support his family during those four years and at the same timemeet the exacting requirements of his professional training,was, as one can easily see, no slight task; but to a man ofenergy and determination, the difficulties did not prove !abarrier to his success. He began the practice of his profession at Franklin, Tenn.,in 1908; but Franklin is located in a stock-raising and grainsection, and the farmers are able to handle their work withthe assistance of day labor for about six months in the year,leaving the laboring class, to which most of the Negroes, ofcourse, belong, unemployed for the other six months; and thelatter also find it almost impossible to rent land so as to op-erate farms on their own account; so after two years there,Dr. Williams decided to locate in a section where the agri-cultural interests were more varied, where the Negroes couldrent or buy lands, and where there were no obstacles to theircontinuous industry and consequent earning

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