The largest African owned carriage company in the United States in the early 1900s.

1. The largest African owned carriage company in the United States in the early 1900s.

2. www.bhmonth.com Mr. J. R. Archer, an Englishman, has been elected mayor of Battersea. Battersea has a population of nearly 200,000 people and covers 2,100 acres in the city of London, south of the Thames. Mr. Archer is a photographer and has lived in Battersea for twenty years. The Crisis, Jan 1914 John R. Archer Elected mayor of Battersea, a borough of London in 1913.

3. Born just before the War in Columbus, Miss. (1860), he attended the public school of his home and also the Columbus Union Academy. He passed the entrance examination in Annapolis, and was admitted into the Naval Academy as cadet midshipman in 1875, where he remained for nearly two years. In 1877, he was appointed "copyist" in the United States Patent Office and promoted to the position of Second Assistant Examiner at $1,600 per year. He attended the Ben-Hyde Benton School of Technology in Annapolis from 1877 to 1879. He entered the law department of Howard University in 1879, graduating in 1881, at the head of his class, and from the post-graduate course in 1883. Twentieth Century Negro Literature By D. W. Culp Published in 1902 www.bhmonth.com HENRY E. BAKER Released the publication “The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years” in 1913

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