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Title: The Afro-American press and its editors
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930
Subjects: Press African Americans
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. Willey & co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Bee, and duringvacation was city editor, and in winter, during the schoolterm, he had control of the educational column of that paper.For two years he was local correspondent of The Columbus(Ohio) Evening Dispatch, and at other times the correspondentof TJie Sentinel and Afro-American of Cincinnati and of TheGlobe at Cleveland, Ohio, In 1886, in company with. Calvin W. Reynolds, sinceengrossing clerk of the House of Representatives of Ohio, hestarted The Spokesman, an Afro-American journal at Ironton;but like a rose blighted by frost from too early setting outthe attempt failed, and The Spokesman became a thing of thepast. Going to Missouri in 1886, he taught school in WebsterGroves until 1889, and while there was local correspondentfor The St. Louis Gtobe-Democrat, and for Tlie ClaytonWatchman, both white papers, his work being devoted notto race news alone but to the public. He is now thecorrespondent of The Chicago Appeal, from Washington,where he is a clerk in the War Department.
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544 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. diaries Carroll Stewart, of TJie Indianapolis (Ind.) World,second vice-president of the Association, was born at Annap-olis, Maryland, February 28, 1859. In 1862 he moved withhis parents, who were free-born, to Washington, where hisfather, Mr. Judson Stewart, engaged in business. He is adescendant of one of the best Afro-American families ofMaryland. His grandmother was a Bishop, while his grand-father was a Jackson. These families are well knownthroughout Maryland and in Washington as large owners ofreal estate. Mr. Stewart was educated in the public and private schoolsof Washington, and there studied dentistry for several years.When but sixteen years old he had a desire to see more of theworld, and in 1874 an opportunity to do so presented itself tohim. He accepted a position with a party of surveyors thatwere to go to Panama to survey and lay out the plan for cut-ting the Panama canal. During this trip he visited CentralAmerica and the Southern seaport

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