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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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d has demonstrated that how-ever limited are a boys opportunities he may yet succeedif he is willing to pay the price. ELIJAH RICHARD RICHARDSON ANOTHER man who found his life work right on the soilof his nativity is Elijah Richard Richardson, of Wash-ington, Georgia, where he was born in August, 1860, theyoungest son of Matthew and Hannah Richardson, then slavesbut who were to be Emancipated within a few years. Hisfather was a farmer. His paternal grandfather, MichaelRichardson, was a carpenter by trade and his grandmother,Hannah Richardson, was a skilled weaver in those days of thehand loom. So he probably inherited these sterling qualitieswhich, even in slavery days, were recognized as valuable. The boys education was by snatches, for his parents wereold and feeble. He attended the public schools of Washing-ton when he could, and also for a time went to the Knox In-stitute at Athens; entered the Atlanta Baptist College andspent one term, but then had to return to take personal care
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ELIJAH RICHARD RICHARDSON. 558 HISTORY OF AMERICAN NEGRO of the old folks. Few indeed would make such an uncomplain-ing, simple surrender of personal ambitions, the good times ofboyhood, the school associations, to settle down on a farm andbe nurse, as well as support, to the elders, as did young Rich-ardson. When the Great Biography is written on the pagesof the infinite, perhaps some of those who were least in thislife because they humbly, patiently ministered to age, to help-less orphaned childhood, to invalids and the worlds neg-lected, forgetting all about success and the plaudits of themultitude, will blaze forth with the glory of the stars. Mr. Richardson has never married, but it is pleasant torecord that, while he has not worked solely for money, andhas had misfortunes through fire and storms that would haveutterly discouraged a less hardy sort, he still has acquired acomfortable home and stands well in his community as a manof business integrity and solid substance. His chie

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