2-950-099 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

J. H. Burrus, J. D. Baltimore, J. R. Clifford, Wiley Jones, 1887. Prominent African-Americans. Professor of mathematics John Houston Burrus, whose parents were a slave-owner and a slave. He was among the first group of African-Americans to graduate from a liberal arts college south of the Mason-Dixon line. Engineer and educator Jeremiah Daniel Baltimore, chief engineer at the Freedmen's Hospital. Newspaper publisher, editor and writer John Robert Clifford was the first African-American attorney in West Virginia. He was a Civil War veteran, a civil rights pioneer and founding member of the Niagara Movement. Businessman Wiley Jones owned the first streetcar company in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He also owned a saloon, racing stables and a horse-racing track. From "Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising" by William J. Simmons.