https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/browse/page/11/?output=atom <![CDATA[Black Gotham Archive]]> 2018-07-10T17:31:40-04:00 Omeka https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/17/ <![CDATA[Cornelia White Peterson and children]]>
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Cornelia White Peterson and children

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My grandmother, Cornelia White Peterson, was born in 1869, the second of Philip and Elizabeth's three daughters. She married my grandfather, Jerome Bowers Peterson, in 1893. She is shown here with her two older children, Philip and Dorothy. While the family was living in in Puerto Rico, Philip drowned at sea. His body was never found and Cornelia never recovered from his death. She died in 1926.

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circa 1900

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/16/ <![CDATA[Jerome Bowers Peterson]]> New York Globe, and then became Fortune's co-editor at the New York Age. A Republican political appointee, he was given assignments in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, in 1903 and 1916 respectively.]]> 2012-06-10T15:13:07-04:00

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Jerome Bowers Peterson

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My grandfather, Jerome Bowers Peterson, married Philip White's middle daughter, Cornelia, in 1893. Born in New York in 1859, Peterson attended the city's colored schools. One of his teachers was Peter Guignon's former schoolmate, Charles Reason, who also taught Philip White and Maritcha Lyons. In the early 1880s, Peterson began writing for T. Thomas Fortune's newspaper, the New York Globe, and then became Fortune's co-editor at the New York Age. A Republican political appointee, he was given assignments in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, in 1903 and 1916 respectively.

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circa 1900

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/15/ <![CDATA[Mary Thompson]]> 2012-06-02T23:26:36-04:00

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Mary Thompson

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I know very little about Philip's siblings, including his older sister Mary. Born in 1818, she married Richard Thompson, and died in 1881. They had a daughter, Elizabeth, called Bessie, who was Philip's favorite niece. Bessie never married and died at age 40. In commemoration, Philiip erected a small chapel, St. Elizabeth's Chapel, in St. Philip's Church.

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/14/ <![CDATA[Philip Augustus White]]>
With the money he made, Philip generously gave back to the community. He was a devoted member of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. When St. Philip’s gained admission to the Episcopal Diocesan Convention in 1853, Philip was one of the three delegates seated. As a member of vestry and then as senior warden, Philip oversaw the church finances, buying and leasing properties for profit, and helping the church move to new locations.

Philip was equally dedicted to improving the education of black children. He served for many years as secretary of the New York Society for the Promotion of Education among Colored Children. After he moved to Brooklyn, then Mayor Seth Low appointed Philip to the Brooklyn Board of Education in 1883. Occupying the "colored seat" on the Board, Philip successfully lobbied for the integration of Brooklyn's public school system while insisting that the black community be able to retain its three existing schools whose teachers were all African American.

Philip was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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Philip Augustus White

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Philip attended the Laurens Street School where Peter Guignon’s former classmate, Charles Reason, was the principal teacher. After graduating, he apprenticed in Patrick Reason’s engraving shop until it became apparent that he had no talent in this area. Philip then began an apprenticeship in the pharmacy of James McCune Smith, and at the same time attended the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York from which he graduated in 1844, the first black man to do so. In 1847, he opened his own drugstore in Lower Manhattan. Initially an unpretentious endeavor, it grew into a large retail business to which Philip eventually added a successful wholesale department. Over time, Philip gained admission to the city’s major professional pharmaceutical societies.

With the money he made, Philip generously gave back to the community. He was a devoted member of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. When St. Philip’s gained admission to the Episcopal Diocesan Convention in 1853, Philip was one of the three delegates seated. As a member of vestry and then as senior warden, Philip oversaw the church finances, buying and leasing properties for profit, and helping the church move to new locations.

Philip was equally dedicted to improving the education of black children. He served for many years as secretary of the New York Society for the Promotion of Education among Colored Children. After he moved to Brooklyn, then Mayor Seth Low appointed Philip to the Brooklyn Board of Education in 1883. Occupying the "colored seat" on the Board, Philip successfully lobbied for the integration of Brooklyn's public school system while insisting that the black community be able to retain its three existing schools whose teachers were all African American.

Philip was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/13/ <![CDATA[Peter Guignon]]>
After graduating from the Mulberry Street School, Peter tried his hand at a variety of trades—porter, cigar vendor, hairdresser—without much success. His fortunes brightened when he married Cornelia Ray in the late 1840s. The family was prosperous: Cornelia's father, Peter Ray, was a longtime employee of the Lorillard tobacco company, and one of her brothers, Peter Williams Ray, was a doctor and pharmacist. In the late 1850s, He took Peter into his store and put him to work as a druggist.
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Peter Guignon

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Crummell’s obituary noted that Peter attended the Mulberry Street School where his classmates were, in his words, “the most celebrated pupils which ever were enrolled upon its records.” He named several of these students, among them James McCune Smith, George Downing, Henry Highland Garnet, and the two Reason brothers, Patrick and Charles. One student that he did not name was Edward Marshall whose sister Rebecca Peter would eventually marry. She died early leaving him with one daughter, Elizabeth, who later became Philip White’s wife.

After graduating from the Mulberry Street School, Peter tried his hand at a variety of trades—porter, cigar vendor, hairdresser—without much success. His fortunes brightened when he married Cornelia Ray in the late 1840s. The family was prosperous: Cornelia's father, Peter Ray, was a longtime employee of the Lorillard tobacco company, and one of her brothers, Peter Williams Ray, was a doctor and pharmacist. In the late 1850s, He took Peter into his store and put him to work as a druggist.

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/12/ <![CDATA["Schedule of Property Destroyed or Stolen by a Riotous Mob, July 12, 1863"]]> 2012-07-17T22:23:07-04:00

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"Schedule of Property Destroyed or Stolen by a Riotous Mob, July 12, 1863"

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Ashamed of what had happened to their city during the Draft Riots, New York's merchant class set up a Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People offering all black New Yorkers whose property had been destroyed or stolen to submit claims for compensation. Albro submitted a lengthy list of items and eventually received $500 in compensation.

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Albro Lyons

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NYLP ID number: 1819712
Harry A. Williamson Papers. Sc Micro R-3984, Reel 1, Box 1, folder 3

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1863

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Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/11/ <![CDATA[Letter from Sergeant John W. Rode to Albro Lyons, July 17, 1863]]>
After it was all over, a police sergeant wrote this note to Albro Lyons promising help. What caught my eye was the reference to “said drugstore.” I wondered whether it was Philip's drugstore located right around the corner. If so, how could it have been a safe meeting place for a white police officer and a black victim gathering up his few remaining earthly possessions?

I found the answer in a New York Times obituary of Philip. Unlike Lyons, Philip had made himself indispensable to his local neighborhood. He had forged a mutually interdependent relationship between himself and his poor Irish neighbors. Giving away medicines for free, Philip was performing an act of charity but he was also ensuring the stability of the neighborhood in which he lived and worked, and safeguarding his own position within it. Accepting his benevolence over the years, his poor Irish neighbors repaid him during the riots by protecting him and his drugstore, upon which they depended so heavily.]]> 2013-03-31T18:47:19-04:00

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Letter from Sergeant John W. Rode to Albro Lyons, July 17, 1863

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During the draft riots, a mob stormed the Lyons's home three times before finally managing to destroy the interior and partially burn it down. The mob's goals were multiple but precise: they wanted to strike at the heart of the black family; destroy black property and what they deemed to be undeserved wealth; undermine black enterprise; prevent black sailors from obtaining “white” work on the docks; and finally eliminate black activism (in the form of Vigilance Committees) dedicated to the abolitionist cause.

After it was all over, a police sergeant wrote this note to Albro Lyons promising help. What caught my eye was the reference to “said drugstore.” I wondered whether it was Philip's drugstore located right around the corner. If so, how could it have been a safe meeting place for a white police officer and a black victim gathering up his few remaining earthly possessions?

I found the answer in a New York Times obituary of Philip. Unlike Lyons, Philip had made himself indispensable to his local neighborhood. He had forged a mutually interdependent relationship between himself and his poor Irish neighbors. Giving away medicines for free, Philip was performing an act of charity but he was also ensuring the stability of the neighborhood in which he lived and worked, and safeguarding his own position within it. Accepting his benevolence over the years, his poor Irish neighbors repaid him during the riots by protecting him and his drugstore, upon which they depended so heavily.

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Sergeant John W. Rode

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NYPL ID number: 1819711
Harry A. Williamson Papers. Sc Micro R-3984, Reel 1, Box 1, folder 3

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July 17, 1863

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]]> https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/10/ <![CDATA[Protestant Episcopal Church, St. Philip's on Mulberry Street ]]> ]]> 2012-06-02T23:14:27-04:00

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Protestant Episcopal Church, St. Philip's on Mulberry Street

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In 1857 St. Philip’s moved from its original building on Centre Street to a more convenient location uptown on Mulberry Street. Despite their lack of funds, parishioners immediately set to work to beautify the new sanctuary. During the draft riots, authorities occupied the church as a barracks to house military troops brought in to restore order. The soldiers left the church heavily damaged. Devastated, St. Philip's parishioners demanded reparations from the city and the federal govermnment. It took them a full eight years to be reimbursed $1,500 out of the $2,500 requested.

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photograph by G. Stacy

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Negative #75721

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circa 1860

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