Draft:Charles Newsome Otey

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Charles Newsome Otey (February 22, 1851 - ?) was a lawyer, journalist, and educator from North Carolina.[1]

He graduated from Oberlin College Preparatory School. He entered Oberlin College as a freshman but left for Howard University from which he graduated in 1873 as valedictorian. He became a school principal in Washington D.C. and studied law. He married in 1877. He edited the People’s Advocate newspaper and later the Argus. He was the orator at an anniversary celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. A tribute to him was pibliahed in several newspapers.[2]

He testified about Exodusters at the Voorhees Committee. He lived in Washington D.C.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Haley, John H. (2 July 2014). Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina. ISBN 9781469617060.
  2. ^ "On the Death of C.N. Otey / Charles N. Hunter Papers / Duke Digital Repository". Duke Digital Collections.
  3. ^ Holloway, Pippa (February 2014). Living in Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship. ISBN 978-0-19-997608-9.


James H. Harris

Osborne Hunter Jr. O. Hunter Journal of Indistry Colored State Fair Elevator newspaper brother of Charles N. Hunter [1] Raleigh Elevator[2] Did the Jourbal of Industry succeed the Elevator? [3]

W. V. Turner North Carolina Republican newspaper commentator white (Industrial Journal renamed in 1890)[4][5]

Richard Codgell Badger, son of George Edmund Badger (there was a Richard G. Badger printer in England and Richard Badger printer in Boston (same person?). This is the Richard Badger prominent “jurist” in Raleigh, North Carolina

Ike Young I. Young Colonel Henderson, North Carolina[6]

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