#Burleigh lecture

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i have to contact that woman because in the lecture she did at the national gallery in 2019 she had MULTIPLE IMAGES from mary’s body of works . which is insane and i’m wondering if she has pictures or anything from them because the people who have mary’s work are like sooo secretive about it like they wouldn’t even let nina burleigh have pictures. but here this lady is….

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Dr. Robert Ambrose Thornton (May 6, 1902 - March 7, 1982) physician and university administrator was born in Houston to Frank Thornton, a laborer, and Mary Jane Sullivan, a midwife. He attended Houston Colored High School but graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School. He entered Howard University to study Physics and mathematics. He worked as a student teacher and, hoping to break into show business, auditioned to sing in the hit Broadway musical comedy Shuffle Along. He became an associate of concert tenor Roland Hayes and composer Harry T. Burleigh. He first met Albert Einstein who gave a lecture in Washington’s Belasco Theater.

He pursued graduate study at Ohio State University where he earned an MA. He studied for his doctorate at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago where he was a Rockefeller fellow. He married home economics professor Jessie Lea Bullock (1924) at Shaw University. He taught at Johnson C. Smith University and Talladega College.

He launched a liberal arts program at the University of Puerto Rico. He wrote to Einstein requesting his assistance in establishing a philosophical basis for the program. Einstein responded, beginning a nine-year correspondence. They had seven face-to-face meetings.

He was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Minnesota and began teaching as an associate professor at the University of Chicago. He next taught at Brandeis University, worked as a dean at Dillard University, and at Fisk University. He taught physics at San Francisco State College. He was appointed its first Dean of the School of Natural Sciences.

The university awarded him an honorary doctorate of science. He was honored when the new science and engineering building was christened the Robert A. Thornton Hall. His final employment was as visiting professor at the University of the District of Columba. Just prior to his death, he had been editing transcripts of his years of conversations with and letters to Albert Einstein. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Dr. Jasmine Pigott presented a lecture entitled "Reclaiming Authenticity: Capturing the Essence of Negro Spirituals in Instrumental Performance" and featured music by Harry T. Burleigh & J. Rosamond Johnson at The U.S. Army Band 2025 Tuba-Euphonium Workshop. #NegroSpiritual #Tuba #TEW2025 #TEW #Music

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WAY BEFORE THE MOVIE COINED THE PHASE HIDDEN FIGURES

AND LONG AFTER PATRICK HENERY SPEECH MADE  IN 1772 

“GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”

There was a slave sandwich between these two era’s of time who became a HIDDEN FIGURE while with every part of his being saying in action.....

“GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”

I present to you a person that had the ingenuity and determination to be a free man and he did not wait for a conductor from the underground railroad.

                             Henry “Box” Brown

Black Paraphernalia Disclaimer - Images from Google images 

To learn of this intriguing man’s story of his very unusual great escape 

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM - HERNY BOX BROWN

           Who Was Henry "Box" Brown?

Henry Box Brown 1815 – June 15, 1897 was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Henry Box Brown  was a slave for thirty-three years before escaping to Philadelphia in a three-by-two-foot box. His life as a slave was relatively free from physical abuse by his slaveholders. 

His first owner was John Barret, a former Richmond mayor. Upon Barret's death, Brown was enslaved by William Barret, John's son. Brown was fed, clothed, and given spending money, much to the amazement of slaves on neighboring plantations.

However, despite this relatively liberal treatment, he suffered many trials and much heartache as a slave. In his narrative, Brown explains that the horrors of slavery were not limited to physical abuse alone. The pains he suffered were tortures of the heart and soul, as illustrated by the sale of his wife and children.

This act of cruelty drove Brown to escape. Assisted by friends, and trusting in divine providence to deliver him safely, Brown arrived in Philadelphia jarred, but in one piece. After his escape, he traveled across New England delivering antislavery lectures, and he also showcased a moving panorama called "Henry Box Brown's Mirror of Slavery" in 1850.

He moved to England later that year in fear of the Fugitive Slave Act, which was passed soon after. He exhibited the panorama in Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, and Yorkshire through the spring of 1851 and continued to lecture. Brown returned to the United States from England in 1875 with his new wife and daughter Annie, and he performed as a magician(excerpt from docusouth.com)

HOW DID HE PULL OFF HIS GREAT ESCAPE

With the help of James C. A. Smith, a free black man, and a sympathetic white shoemaker (and likely gambler) named Samuel A. Smith (no relation), Brown devised a plan to have himself shipped in a box to a free state by the Adams Express Company, known for its confidentiality and efficiency

Brown paid US$86 (equivalent to $2,643 in 2019) (out of his savings of $166) to Samuel Smith. Smith went to Philadelphia to consult with members of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society on how to accomplish the escape, meeting with minister James Miller McKim, William Still, and Cyrus Burleigh. He corresponded with them to work out the details after returning to Richmond. They advised him to mail the box to the office of Quaker merchant Passmore Williamson, who was active with the Vigilance Committee

To get out of work the day he was to escape, Brown burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric acid. The box in which Brown was shipped was 3 by 2.67 by 2 feet (0.91 by 0.81 by 0.61 m) and displayed the words "dry goods" on it. It was lined with baize, a coarse woolen cloth, and he carried only a small portion of water and a few biscuits. There was a single hole cut for air, and it was nailed and tied with straps.

Brown later wrote that his uncertain method of travel was worth the risk: "if you have never been deprived of your liberty, as I was, you cannot realize the power of that hope of freedom, which was to me indeed, an anchor to the soul both sure and steadfast."

During the trip, which began on March 29, 1849, Brown's box was transported by wagon, railroad, steamboat, wagon again, railroad, ferry, railroad, and finally delivery wagon, being completed in 27 hours. Despite the instructions on the box of "handle with care" and "this side up," several times carriers placed the box upside-down or handled it roughly. Brown remained still and avoided detection.

The box was received by Williamson, McKim, William Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee on March 30, 1849, attesting to the improvements in express delivery services] When Brown was released, one of the men remembered his first words as "How do you do, gentlemen?" He sang a psalm from the Bible, which he had earlier chosen to celebrate his release into freedom.

Another "Resurrection of Henry Box Brown" published with an account of the story in William Still 's 1872 book The Underground Railroad

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Celia Burleigh, Connecticut’s First Female Minister

In 1871, Celia Burleigh, a life-long activist and reformer, became minister of the Unitarian congregation in Brooklyn, Connecticut. This made her the first woman ever ordained in Connecticut and the first woman ordained in the Unitarian church.

Burleigh was born in Cazenovia, New York, in 1826, but there is relatively little information available about her childhood. After the failure of an early marriage, she lived in Syracuse where she taught, gave lectures on temperance and suffrage, and wrote articles for the Christian Register. On September 7, 1865, she married William Henry Burleigh, a reformer and publisher who, at the time, worked as a harbor master in New York City.

With the support of her new husband, Celia Burleigh made a name for herself as a national leader in support of women’s suffrage and the rights of children. In 1869 she helped organize the New-York-based Social Science Club, later renamed the Brooklyn Woman’s Club, and became its first president. Burleigh also worked diligently to create the first women’s business union. During this time, she frequently attended women’s suffrage conventions, like the North-western Woman’s Suffrage Association meeting in November of 1870. There, she took the platform alongside reformers such as Lillie Peckham and Susan B. Anthony.

A New Calling

In July of 1871, Celia received an invitation to become a summer minister in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her husband William, who had died just four months earlier, had always encouraged Celia to be a minister, and although she had never preached before, she embraced the opportunity to have a weekly platform for delivering her message.

After finding a great deal of success preaching in Brooklyn in August of 1871, Burleigh accepted the church’s invitation to stay and become their permanent minister. On October 5, 1871, she was ordained as a minister in the Unitarian Church. Her ordination was such a momentous occasion that Julia Ward Howe (author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”), read a letter of support for Burleigh written by Henry Ward Beecher, arguably the most well-known minister in the country.

Burleigh’s time as a minister in Brooklyn was brief but eventful. She kept a busy schedule preaching, furthering the cause of women’s suffrage, and even took part in the ordination of Mary Hannah Graves, the second woman to be ordained by the church. Unfortunately, after just two years as minister of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Burleigh had to resign when she developed breast cancer.

In hopes of reviving her health, Burleigh moved to Danville, New York, where the hospital worked to improve her condition with a water cure. She served the congregation in Danville during her 18 months there but then returned to Syracuse when the effects of her illness required additional care. Celia Burleigh died in Syracuse on July, 25, 1875, and her remains were sent back to Brooklyn for burial.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/celia-burleigh-connecticuts-first-female-minister/

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JULY 20: The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

169 years ago today, the Seneca Falls Convention concluded in Seneca Falls, New York. Organized by suffragists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Convention was the very first women’s rights convention to ever take place and offered America women their first opportunity to come and “discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman."

The “Declaration of Sentiments” that was decided on and signed by all of the women present at The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 (x). 

The first wave of the Women’s Rights Movement in America began in the 1840s; women were starting to be allowed to pray aloud in church meetings, more and more women were becoming vocal in the abolitionist movement, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave her first public speech in 1841. With the social movement gaining momentum, Stanton and her fellow suffragist and feminist speaker, Lucretia Mott, began to see that these women needed a meeting place where they would be able to see each other and discuss their goals in person. That meeting place came in the form of the Seneca Falls Convention from July 19-20, 1848. Organized by Stanton, Mott, and the Quaker women local to the area, the Convention included six different sessions of philosophical debates on women’s role in society, lecture on civil law, and a particularly heated debate on whether women should be granted the right to vote.

Lucretia Mott (left) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (right) were the primary organizers of the convention (x) (x).

Now you’re probably asking yourself, “Yes I read all about this in my 10th grade history textbook, but what does it have to do with lesbians?” Well, just like the women’s conventions of the 1970s and 80s that were such a crucial part of the second wave feminist movement, the Seneca Falls Convention was not only one big hookup retreat for lesbian activists of the day, but it was also organized by wlw themselves. That’s right – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both had deep connections with those women in the movement who enjoyed “romantic friendships” with each other, such as Mary Grew and Margaret Burleigh, Carrie Catt and Mollie Hay, and the notorious womanizer Isabel Howland. We briefly covered Stanton’s not-so-friendly relationship with Susan B. Anthony here, and you can read more about the lesbian underbelly of the American suffragist movement here! Lillian Faderman puts it best when she writes, “From its inception, women's fight for the vote was largely led by women who loved other women.”

-LC

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‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later

‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later By Neely Tucker Published May 06, 2019 at 09:00AM

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865. Photo: Moses P. Rice and Sons. Feinberg-Whitman collection.

Walt Whitman, that most exuberant of poets, the 19th century bard of transcendent sensitivity, sensuousness and epic vision, was given to intimate correspondence in his personal life, too.

As the Library marks Whitman’s 200th birthday, it’s worth pausing over an affectionate letter he sent to Peter Doyle.

Doyle, a D.C. streetcar conductor, was some two decades Whitman’s junior, but the pair bonded one night in 1865 when Whitman stepped, alone, onto Doyle’s streetcar and sat beside him. Doyle later recalled that he put his hand on the older man’s knee and “we understood.” In August of 1870, the bearded poet wrote Doyle a letter, ending one section with:

“I believe that is all for to-night, as it is getting late, — Good night, Pete, — Good night my darling son —– here is a kiss for you, dear boy – on the paper here – a good long one.” Most charming is that the “o” in “one” is smudged. It is tempting to imagine Whitman giving the paper a playful wet smack before mailing, blurring the ink, though it is impossible to know.

The relationship was, in one way, critical to Whitman’s legacy as the poet who enshrined the national grief over President Lincoln’s death. The night Lincoln was assassinated, Whitman was in New York. Doyle? Sitting in Ford’s Theater, an eyewitness to the assassination.

“Whitman used that information in a lecture he often gave on the death of Abraham Lincoln,” says Barbara Bair, a historian in the Manuscript Division and lead curator of the Whitman Bicentennial exhibit. “He spoke as if he was the eyewitness. He didn’t say, ‘My dear one was there and told me.’ He gave the ‘Death of Lincoln’ speech many times, and people assumed he saw it.”

Whitman’s letter to Doyle, along with other rarely seen letters, manuscripts, rare books and personal belongings, will be on display in the Jefferson Building from May 16 to August 15, as part of the Library’s bicentennial celebration of Whitman’s birth. The Library’s Whitman collections of his works and belongings are the world’s largest. They include his spectacles, haversack, notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, a surviving draft page from his famous poem “Song of Myself” and an original print edition his seminal work, “Leaves of Grass.”

Whitman. Photo: Matthew Brady. Feinberg-Whitman collection.

There’s lots to do. His writings are available for transcription in a By the People crowdsourcing project at any time. There’s a May 23 evening lecture and movie at the Packard Campus Theater in Culpepper, and a family-oriented birthday party in the Young Readers Center on June 1, featuring author Robert Burleigh, illustrator Sterling Hundley and their book, “O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.” On June 3, an Open House in the Jefferson Building will showcase some of most rarely seen material in the Library’s collections.

Whitman’s writings, most particularly the many editions of his “Leaves of Grass,” described the growing nation and helped define the idea of it. He wrote of an earthy, sweaty, protean America, a continent and a people entwined in a shockingly beautiful cosmos that ran as the universe intended, far above the teachings of any one religion. The book was sensual, often sexual — and frequently condemned as obscene.

He was largely self-taught and never outgrew his affection for men and women who earned their wages by muscle, sweat and grit. “When he lived in In New York, he loved to ride with the streetcar drivers, the stevedores, the sailors, the ferry-boat pilots — those were his guys,” Bair says.

He wrote so many iconic lines that, over the course of time, they seemed to have seeped into the groundwater of America’s mythology of itself.

“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear…”

 “O Captain! My Captain! Our fateful trip is done…” 

 “I sing the body electric.” 

 “I am large, I contain multitudes.” 

 “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” 

He was the second of nine children, born to a Long Island carpenter on May 31, 1819. The family moved to Brooklyn when he was a child. At 12, he was a printer’s apprentice. At 23, he was the editor of a newspaper in New York. A tall, robust man who reveled in the natural world, heworked as a carpenter, printer, government clerk and, famously, as a volunteer at military hospitals in and around Washington during the Civil War. He later traveled by river and rail across much of the country, absorbing the landscape and people like a sponge. Though he opposed slavery, he was not immune from the racism and white supremacy of the era.

Bethuel Smith. Feinberg-Whitman Collection.

He kept pocket-sized notebooks of his own making for his work in the hospitals and camps. Ever the journalist, he jotted down injured soldiers’ names, addresses, wants and needs (oranges, wine), and their memories from the war. He often brought them treats. Betheul Smith, a fellow New Yorker, was one of those soldiers and became a friend and correspondent.

In another entry, under heading of “Virginia Idioms,” he lists “How’s all?” and “Where you been at?” It’s that ear for the unpolished talk of the common folk that he gave back to the nation in timeless poetry and why, 200 years later, he remains a towering figure.

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Quaker Friends Meetinghouse | Pembroke, Massachusetts c.1706

You may have noticed on the front page of this site, a very cool photo of two blue doors. The photo is taken of the front of the Quaker Friends Meetinghouse in Pembroke, Massachusetts. This house of worship is one of the oldest Quaker Meetinghouses in the United States. The Meetinghouse was built by Robert Barker, Jr. son of an original settler of Duxbury in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.  Duxbury Quakers were traveling a distance to Scituate to gather and pressed for a Meetinghouse closer to their home.  Lore has it that the house was built in Scituate and moved "over the ice" to it's present day location. The structure sits on a triangular piece of land where routes 139 and 53 intersect in Pembroke. Ensconced in brush atop a stone wall, there appears not formal (or informal) entrance for even a pedestrian to walk through. The house is in beautifully restored condition. The muted seafoam blue/green paint imbues the front and east facing sides while an opposite side is naturally shingled. The first floor has undergone updated and it is said that the second floor remains nearly untouched. Originally, the first floor was divided into two sections; the rights side for the men, the left for the women and they also had separate entrances, note the two front doors. There is no plumbing and therefore no bathroom inside. A second small storage shack is positioned next to the house. Most intriguing is the burial ground in back. Many proper graves and some makeshift still remain. It is difficult to discern whether there was an original pattern or intention to the burials. Some families appear at rest together and others are strewn randomly along the property. The name of the humble resting place is "Friends Burying Ground".

Interred in Friends Burying Ground

John Bailey (1751-1823) , Quaker preacher, inventor, clockmaker

According to the Bayley Family Genealogy published by descendants in 1899, three Bayley's came from England to Massachusetts: James settled in Rowley, John settled in Salisbury and Thomas in Weymouth. The John Bailey of 1751 buried in Friends Burying Ground is a 7th generation descendent of Thomas of Weymouth. John Bailey (1751-1823) son of Revolutionary War Colonel John and wife Ruth Randall.  Bailey's father was second in command at Dorchester Heights and was a reliable favorite of General Washington and was known to be a "brave and attentive officer". Col. Bailey, along with his brother, served as selectman of Hanover for several years. His father's will bequeathed him 1700 dollars, part of his land and required him to comfortably support "my old negro's for the rest of their natural lives". In the year 1770 John Bailey's residence is listed as Hanover and Lynn, Massachusetts. According to The Book of American Clocks, Bailey was a mechanic, crafts person and clockmaker, making his first clock at age 12.

Face inscribed "John Bailey, Hanover" John Bailey was a Quaker preacher. He is said to have been a conscientious man yet would have "spiritualized a broomstick".  He repaired guns, muskets, compasses and clocks. Bailey was an accomplished inventor and engineer as well. In use at his old home in Hanover was an iron sink of which Bailey designed the first pattern for. He also created the first pattern for a crooked nose tea-kettle cast at the foundry in nearby Middleboro. Bailey was said to be "steam mad" and predicted that within 50 years the most common method of travel would be via steam and had the forethought that a "different kind of road would be required". At the time of his steam tinkering, Bailey developed a roasting jack for cooking meats over an open fire. In 1895 on of these jacks was still in existence, the patent for which was signed by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Rudolph, attorney general. Bailey was married three times. Mary Hill, who is said to be his second wife, is buried in Friends. His third wife, Tabitha Olney, was a descendant of Thomas Olney, one of the original settlers of Rhode Island. Thomas Olney landed in Salem, Massachusetts on the ship Planter in 1635 and was asked to leave the colony due to religious differences. Thomas Olney followed Roger Williams into Providence and was integral to the formation of government in 1640 serving as Treasurer, tax collector and a member of the court. He was one of the original 12 persons to be deeded land by Williams. Bailey's three marriages produced five children. Most notably is son John Bailey, Jr. (1787-1883), also known as Bailey, III, who inherited the watch and clock making mind and grew his talents into a thriving and profitable business. The eight-day, tall clocks made by Bailey and Bailey, III were well-known and sought after fixtures in Plymouth Colony. Only families of affluent economic superiority were wealthy enough to afford tall clocks and it is very rare to find one today. Bailey III relocated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of the most active whaling communities in the country, where he imported astronomical instruments. Bailey's business was making over $5,000.00 per year when in 1824 things began to turn. Bailey, III was an abolitionist and vice president of both the Bristol County Anti-Salvery Society and the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In the 1850s Bailey launched two anti-slavery newspapers; Pathfinder and the People's Press, Lib. Known to be a man committed to the rights of and welfare of others, Bailey would not commit to a political party. He was a trusted confidante amongst the black community of New Bedford. An active lecturer and organizer, Bailey at his home, a stop on the Underground Railroad, held anti-slavery meetings. Always seeking his advice on whom to vote for, the black community were encouraged by Bailey to

Portrait of John Bailey, III "vote for the man who would do justice to their race". These principles, however, cost him his business. The Whig party encouraged Bailey, Jr. to influence the black community to vote their ticket. They threatened his business if he refused. George Howland, local and successful shipbuilder and Quaker preacher of New Bedford expressed to Bailey, III. that he had better yield or he would be ruined. The Bayley Family Genealogy, documents Bailey, III response as: "George, as long as fish live in the sea and clams live in the sand, I'll not sell my principles". Surreptitiously, the Whig party hired a man to take over Bailey's work and the next week every chronometer was taken from Bailey's store. He indeed was ruined. Politics... they haven't changed. Bailey passed in 1883. Father John Bailey died in 1823 in Hanover. Tabitha in 1827 also buried in Friends. Ann Barker (1750-1789) Ann was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, daughter of Abraham and Susanna Anthony. On 27 January 1785 she married Benjamin Barker (1757) son of Prince Barker and Abigail Keen, grandson of Isaac Barker & Elizabeth Slocum, great-grandson of Isaac and Judith Prence, great-great grandson of Robert Barker, Sr. original settler of Duxbury. He is the great nephew of Robert Barker, Jr. builder of the Friends Meetinghouse. Ann and Benjamin produced two children together; Abraham (1786-1855) married Margaret Buffum and Susan (Sarah) Ann (1788 - 1861) who married David Buffum of Newport. After Ann's untimely death at the age of 38, Benjamin Barker married Rebecca Partridge of Boston in 1791. They had one child, Samuel born in 1792 who married Catherine Gooch of Boston. Both his Barker family name and his marriage to Ann left Benjamin a wealthy man. Nathan Thomas Shepherd, Jr. (1843-1912) Nathan Shepherd came from a family of box manufacturers. His grandfather,

Calvin Shepherd 1786-1876 Calvin Cleveland Shepherd (1786-1876), a farmer, came to Bridgewater, Mass from Canterbury, Connecticut.  Calvin operated a cotton factory at Pudding Brook in Pembroke before converting it to a sawmill where he produced boxes. The box operation remained in the family for generations. He married Mary Byram of Bridgewater, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hall. Their marriage produced 9 children. Nathan Thomas Shepard, Sr. (1811-1885) was the third born. Nathan is listed as a box manufacturer and printer on the 1810 census. He died from complications due to an accidental fall leading to the amputation of his arm. Following the shoe worker's strike of 1860, Nathan relocated to Lynn,

Massachusetts with brother George and entered the shoe cutting trade.  In 1871, Nathan T., Jr. married Susan Ann Burleigh of Lynn, Massachusetts. Susan came from a family of twelve children born to William of Ossipee, NH and Nancy Hodsdon of Tuftonboro, NH.  Both her parents having been dead by the time of her marriage to Shepherd and sometime before 1871, Burleigh relocated to Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1874, their son William Burleigh Shepherd was born in Lynn. By 1880, the lumber industry was booming in Minnesota and the Shepherds relocated where Nathan was a "door sash manufacturer". By 1900 Susan was still married to Nathan and owned the home where she lived on 1103 1st Avenue, North in Minneapolis. There she boarded two women. Somewhere thereafter, Susan moved in with son William and family at 2640 Dupont Avenue, S in Minneapolis and Nathan relocated to Spencer, Massachusetts where perhaps had an opportunity to return to shoe cutting as that area was fast developing mills to produce such items. In 1912, Nathan died from cancer of the intestines. In 1915, Susan is still noted as living with William on Dupont Ave., however she is not listed on the 1920 census. I have yet to discover her death record. Susan LeFurgey (1831-1931)

Susan Shepherd Le Furgey (1831-1931) Searching for Susan proposed some challenges at first. Le Furgey is not a local name and therefore results of other relatives that might lead to information about Susan were few. She was found however, with a name spelled differently.  The headstone originally had me thinking that her name was Le Furcey; the "C" was in fact a "G" with an inferior mark. She was born in 1831 to Mary Byram and Calvin Shepherd. In 1920, Susan Le Furgue is present on the US Census as an 88 year old woman living with her son John Calvin and daughter in law, Nellie Howland.  Susan's husband, Lemuel Le Furgy (1837-1909) came from a well-to-do shipbuiding family of Loyalists in Tyrone, Prince Edward Island, Canada and operated the Le Furgy Mill and became a prominent business man in Pembroke. Likely because of his shipbuilding past and mill operation, his ties to the foresting industry allowed the extended family to capitalize on wood products and manufacturing. He eventually became a figure in the box and packing industry founded by his father in law. Sarah L. West (1858-1912) The L. is for Lucinda! She was born in Watashaw, Minnesota in 1858 as Sarah Calkins, (or Corkins) born to Daniel P. (1811-1869) , a farmer from Connecticut family origin, and Hannah Chandler Ford of Pembroke, Mass, daughter of James and Mercy Lewis. When she was just 16, Sarah married Calvin Shepherd West (1853-1928), son of James and Mary Green Shepherd, in 1874. Mary Green Shepherd is the sister of Susan Shepherd Le Furgey. On the 1880 census, Calvin is noted as being a box manufacturer. The box business, that his grandfather Calvin Shepherd began, was inherited by his father James.  Sarah and Calvin had one child, Lester D. born in 1880. Lester married Ethel Loring Jacobs of Hingham in 1902.  In her will, dated 1905, Sarah leaves her estate to her husband and the remainder to pass onto her son upon his decease. Her inventory includes a deposit to Scituate Savings Bank for 1349.02 and another to Rockland Savings Bank for 770.93 which is today's equivalent of about 50,000.00 USD. Sarah died of breast cancer in 1912. Calvin, two years later, remarried Abbie Curtis in Brockton. They resided in Norwell until Calvin's death in 1928 where he was a proprietor of a grocery store. Read the full article

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What to do when your son gets caught playing with fire: single mum hacks

When my son Lindsay was in year 8 or 9 he got into trouble at school for lighting fires, a group of boys had a spray can and they were lighting it at the back of the school grounds.  The school insisted upon a series of punishments including detention and all the boys sat through a one hour lecture from the police and fire department.  As a single mum I really thought about how I would handle this, I picked my son up from detention and said that I feel he had completed his 'punishment'.  I said I understood that because of his bullying in primary school he was so happy to be in this group of friends that he was making poor choices when faced with peer pressure.  I knew that if I handle this the wrong way that I would not stop the behaviour only make him more secretive about it, which I thought was next level dangerous.  I told him that his curiosity about fire was perfectly natural but I wanted him to explore that in the safest way possible, so I took him to Three Worlds (our local drumming/fire twirling shop), we bought a fire stick and booked in for lessons on a Thursday night.  We couldn't afford to have many lessons which didn't matter because Lindsay learnt quickly.  He then taught his brother & sister & I!  He became very popular amongst his friends because of his burgeoning fire twirling skills.  We went to Burleigh Beach every Sunday night where people gather to drum, dance & fire twirl, and he would twirl with other twirlers and learn new skills, he loved it!  He learnt his lesson about fire and I never had a problem again, he grew up to be a perfectly well-adjusted, non-arsonist, beautiful, loving human with a very healthy respect for fire.  He turns 25 tomorrow and a long time ago our original fire stick was left behind on a camping trip, so his brother, sister & I have pitched in to buy him a new fire stick, poi & Firesol for his birthday, I know he'll love his present. 

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Dr. Robert Ambrose Thornton (May 6, 1902 - March 7, 1982) physician and university administrator was born in Houston to Frank Thornton, a laborer, and Mary Jane Sullivan, a midwife. He attended Houston Colored High School but graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School. He entered Howard University to study Physics and mathematics. He worked as a student teacher and, hoping to break into show business, auditioned to sing in the hit Broadway musical comedy Shuffle Along. He became an associate of concert tenor Roland Hayes and composer Harry T. Burleigh. He first met Albert Einstein who gave a lecture in Washington’s Belasco Theater.

He pursued graduate study at Ohio State University where he earned an MA. He studied for his doctorate at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago where he was a Rockefeller fellow. He married home economics professor Jessie Lea Bullock (1924) at Shaw University. He taught at Johnson C. Smith University and Talladega College.

He launched a liberal arts program at the University of Puerto Rico. He wrote to Einstein requesting his assistance in establishing a philosophical basis for the program. Einstein responded, beginning a nine-year correspondence. They had seven face-to-face meetings.

He was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Minnesota and began teaching as an associate professor at the University of Chicago. He next taught at Brandeis University, worked as a dean at Dillard University, and at Fisk University. He taught physics at San Francisco State College. He was appointed the first Dean of the School of Natural Sciences.

The university awarded him an honorary doctorate of science. He was honored when the new science and engineering building was christened the Robert A. Thornton Hall. His final employment was as a visiting professor at the University of the District of Columbia. Just before his death, he had been editing transcripts of his years of conversations with and letters to Albert Einstein. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Bornstein Promotes Change Through Journalism

This week, social journalist, David Bornstein, lectured Marquette students, faculty, and community members on the virtues of solution journalism, a hybrid form of journalism that focuses more on covering solutions rather than covering problems.

“I always say to people think of 10 problems in the world, and then I tell them to think of 10 solutions,” said Bornstein. “It always much easier for us to name the problems.”

Bornstein’s lecture urged young people to consider a new way of thinking to solve these world problems. He gives lectures to people who he believes can be the difference.

Bornstein credits an interest in social entrepreneurism as the inspiration behind the development in solution journalism. Bornstein who formerly wrote about solutions for the New York Times, now has his work published on the website he founded dowser.org.

On his blog, Bornstein has written about topics such as the nurse-family partnership, the microfinance Grameen Bank and a program which builds wells in Brazil with cheap electricity.

Bornstein shows that journalism tends to have the reputation of exposing bad news. “It’s people doing remarkable things that are hidden from view,” Bornstein said as he finished his lecture. He wants these remarkable things to be emphasized as the solutions to the world’s problems.

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Bornstein Advocates Solutions

Last Tuesday, David Bornstein called the Marquette community to action. An advocate for solutions journalism, Bornstein urged future media professionals to report on solutions rather than problems at Marquette University's, Diederich College of Communication, Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture.

“It's not just people doing terrible things that are hidden from view, but the remarkable things that are hidden from view,” said Bornstein.

In the hour and fifteen minute presentation, Bornstein, author of “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas,” promoted his social entrepreneurship initiative, solutions journalism and its potential benefits for media. Bornstein explained that every problem journalist address leads to different response. For Bornstein, covering only problems does a disservice to readers.

Student speaker, Kevin Griffin began the presentation by summarizing Bornstein's theory; “nobody will learn from hearing about the world's problems but rather it's solutions,” said Griffin.

Marquette, a Jesuit university, holds strong to the "leadership" component of the four pillar mission. The university mission states, "formation for life as ethical and informed leaders…" The Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture invited Bornstein to inform leaders and future leaders of the Marquette community.

Burnstein discussed the importance of bringing awareness to efforts to create solutions. 

"(It's about) thinking about the puzzle this person is dealing with," Bornstein said. 

Bornstein made a point that by reporting the solutions a specific leader or person is trying to accomplish, one is making them more powerful in their efforts. 

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Celia Burleigh, Connecticut’s First Female Minister

In 1871, Celia Burleigh, a life-long activist and reformer, became minister of the Unitarian congregation in Brooklyn, Connecticut. This made her the first woman ever ordained in Connecticut and the first woman ordained in the Unitarian church.

Burleigh was born in Cazenovia, New York, in 1826, but there is relatively little information available about her childhood. After the failure of an early marriage, she lived in Syracuse where she taught, gave lectures on temperance and suffrage, and wrote articles for the Christian Register. On September 7, 1865, she married William Henry Burleigh, a reformer and publisher who, at the time, worked as a harbor master in New York City.

With the support of her new husband, Celia Burleigh made a name for herself as a national leader in support of women’s suffrage and the rights of children. In 1869 she helped organize the New-York-based Social Science Club, later renamed the Brooklyn Woman’s Club, and became its first president. Burleigh also worked diligently to create the first women’s business union. During this time, she frequently attended women’s suffrage conventions, like the North-western Woman’s Suffrage Association meeting in November of 1870. There, she took the platform alongside reformers such as Lillie Peckham and Susan B. Anthony.

A New Calling

In July of 1871, Celia received an invitation to become a summer minister in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her husband William, who had died just four months earlier, had always encouraged Celia to be a minister, and although she had never preached before, she embraced the opportunity to have a weekly platform for delivering her message.

After finding a great deal of success preaching in Brooklyn in August of 1871, Burleigh accepted the church’s invitation to stay and become their permanent minister. On October 5, 1871, she was ordained as a minister in the Unitarian Church. Her ordination was such a momentous occasion that Julia Ward Howe (author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”), read a letter of support for Burleigh written by Henry Ward Beecher, arguably the most well-known minister in the country.

Burleigh’s time as a minister in Brooklyn was brief but eventful. She kept a busy schedule preaching, furthering the cause of women’s suffrage, and even took part in the ordination of Mary Hannah Graves, the second woman to be ordained by the church. Unfortunately, after just two years as minister of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Burleigh had to resign when she developed breast cancer.

In hopes of reviving her health, Burleigh moved to Danville, New York, where the hospital worked to improve her condition with a water cure. She served the congregation in Danville during her 18 months there but then returned to Syracuse when the effects of her illness required additional care. Celia Burleigh died in Syracuse on July, 25, 1875, and her remains were sent back to Brooklyn for burial.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/celia-burleigh-connecticuts-first-female-minister/