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<\/a>On February 2, 2021, we presented a Lunch With Books Livestream program<\/a> exploring the lives, times, and achievements of nine leaders of Wheeling\u2019s African American community during the era of \u201cJim Crow\u201d segregation, including: barber Henry Boose Clemens<\/a>; police officer William Alexander Turner;<\/a>\u00a0firefighter Ashby Jackson; attorney Harry H. Jones; medical doctors Boswell Henson Stillyard<\/a>, Julia Katherine Pronty Davis; Robert Maceo Hamlin; and Alga Wade Hamlin; and musician Will H. Dixon<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis post will serve as the penultimate supplement to our livestream video<\/a>. A profile of Will H. Dixon<\/a> will follow.<\/p>\n While we published back in 2016 a rather complete biography of Officer Turner\u00a0HERE.<\/a>\u00a0one recently about Dr. B.H. Stillyard HERE<\/a>, another about barber Henry Boose Clemens HERE<\/a>, and yet another about musician Will H. Dixon<\/a>, we include the other five, rather incomplete biographies below.<\/p>\n The information we have comes mostly from newspaper accounts.\u00a0Most of these stories are, therefore, very limited. There just isn\u2019t a lot of information readily available. We do not claim to be experts on this subject. But, we believe these people deserve to be remembered and we would like to help. So, if you happen to be a descendant or know people who have information and photos and are willing to share, please contact us. Our goal is to create and keep as a complete a record as we can of the accomplishments of these and other key personalities from Wheeling\u2019s past. And, largely because of the lingering effects of segregation, the history of Wheeling\u2019s black community has been neglected.<\/p>\n These nine accomplished people were among the leaders\u00a0in Wheeling\u2019s African American community during the period of segregation known as \u201cJim Crow<\/a>,\u201d that system of laws, polices, and traditions in many southern US states, including West Virginia, that kept black and white people legally separate. The system was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case called Plessy<\/em> vs. Ferguson<\/em><\/a> in 1896, which held that that such laws were constitutional, so long as public facilities were \u201cseparate but equal.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, the reality was that separate facilities for African Americans, such as\u00a0Wheeling\u2019s Lincoln School<\/a>, were underfunded and inferior in quality.<\/p>\n One of the people we\u2019ve profiled, an attorney and educator named Harry H. Jones\u00a0gave a speech on WWVA radio in 1936, titled, \u201cWheeling\u2019s 20th Man<\/a>,\u201d in which he detailed how black people in Wheeling had been barred from employment in local factories, mills, shops, and stores. You can read and listen to the full text of the speech on the OCPL\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jones went on to describe an entirely distinct black community \u2013 one with its own\u00a0doctors, dentists, restauranteurs, shop keepers, barbers, hairdressers, movie theaters operators, hoteliers, and even funeral directors.\u00a0Wheeling in 1936 was actually two cities, side-by-side but completely separate. And\u00a0black people were not welcome in white Wheeling.<\/p>\n So, many Wheeling black-owned businesses were listed in the Negro Motorist Green\u00a0Book<\/em><\/a>, a guide for African American travelers to hotels, restaurants, and other public facilities where they could be served and not experience the embarrassment of being told they weren\u2019t welcome. This was Wheeling under Jim Crow: separate, but not equal.<\/p>\n The primary black neighborhood in Wheeling during this era ran mostly along Chapline\u00a0Street as the western border,\u00a0as far north as Lincoln School as far south as 12th Street,\u00a0and east up the hill to Grandview Street.<\/p>\n And this is the Wheeling in which the people we are profiling worked, flourished, prospered, and inspired, despite all of these obstacles.<\/p>\n Ashby Jackson<\/a> was born in 1873 in Haywood, Virginia. He came to Wheeling in about 1896 at age 23 and became Wheeling\u2019s first black firefighter in 1897 when he started working shifts on February 22 at the Chemical Engine House #7 on 11th Street. He would eventually ascended to the rank of Captain there, a position he held for \u201cmany years.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n In November of 1904<\/a>, Captain Jackson was connected to a case that really illustrates the evils and abuses of power common during Jim Crow Wheeling. Police interfered in black voting at the election polls near the Upper Market House. The newspaper concluded that \u201cDeliberate Methods [were] Used.\u201d[2]<\/p>\n Policemen reportedly gathered around polls and began making arrests for trivial matters claiming some men came from out of state, while other though living in Wheeling could not claim it as their permanent home. The Intelligencer<\/em> that day headline indicated that \u201cA Determined Effort to Overawe the Colored Voter was Made Throughout the Day.\u201d [3]<\/p>\n Democratic Chief of Police John S. Ritz and Republican Prosecuting attorney Frank W. Nesbitt clashed over the matter with Nesbitt working to help the men who had been wrongfully charged \u2013 some while in the police buggy \u2013 and threatening to have policemen arrested. One of the men targeted was Ashby Jackson\u2019s brother. Even though there was proof that he was 22, police claimed Jackson\u2019 brother was underage making it illegal for him to vote. He was arrested and locked up during the debacle. [4]<\/p>\n In 1915, Ashby Jackson was one of six black city employees to present Dr. Thomas M. Haskins<\/a> a gold-headed cane to when he retired from the City\u2019s Board of Control. The other men were Tom Arrington (police patrol driver); Russell Williams (janitor at City Hall); Isaac Jones (employee with the City Water Works); John Doffmeyer (city light trimmer at the time \u2014 he would join the Wheeling Fire Department in 1919<\/a>); and William Turner (policeman). [5] Dr. Haskins had been a Democrat until 1893, at which time he \u201cadhered to the Republican party\u2026 He is a man of broad views, unfailing courtesy, genial presence, deep humanitarianism spirit and abiding human sympathy, so he naturally has gained and retained the staunchest of friends among all classes and conditions of men.\u201d [6]<\/p>\n In the October 1917 edition<\/a> of the NAACP\u2019s national publication, The Crisis,<\/em> Jackson was featured as one of the Men of the Month. The Crisis<\/em> noted Jackson, \u201cthe only colored man on the Fire Department at Wheeling, W. Va., has served twenty years.\u201d [7] He would serve twenty-two and a half years before another African-American man was hired with John Doffmeyer joining Engine Company No. 8 on September 16, 1919 and Archibald Johnson joining Hose Company No. 7 on July 1, 1920. [8] Captain Jackson retired from the Wheeling Fire Department in 1935, having served on the force for thirty-eight years. [9]<\/p>\n In addition to being a fireman, Mr. Jackson was also a bail bondsman and was in the newspaper frequently in that capacity. [10] Most notably, in 1918, he went to Pittsburgh and arrested two alleged murderers \u2014 the Hodge brothers \u2014 and brought them back to Wheeling. The Intelligencer<\/em> article<\/a> about the arrest states that Jackson \u201cnot only has a record for being a faithful city employee but he has perhaps assisted more colored people \u2014 also hundreds of white men \u2014 than any one negro in this city.\u201d [11]<\/p>\n In 1938<\/a>, he became bailiff to Federal Judge William Baker. [12] Judge Baker would later be involved in some of the early trials of Wheeling mobster Bill Lias<\/a>. [13]<\/p>\n In addition to being active in local politics, Ashby Jackson was a member of the Black Elks and also of the Odd Fellows. He died the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, Dec. 8, 1941<\/a>. [14]<\/p>\n Like Bill Turner<\/a> before him, he was buried at Peninsula Cemetery<\/a>. [15]<\/p>\n Harry H. Jones was a true Renaissance man.\u00a0Born November 7, 1887 in Wheeling, he\u00a0graduated of Lincoln School and Lincoln High School, then Oberlin College in 1914. [1]<\/p>\n He became a teacher of history and civics at Lincoln School, earning the nickname \u201cprofessor\u201d before completing\u00a0his law degree at Howard University in 1929.<\/p>\n Jones married Edith Walker\u00a0Redman on Dec. 10, 1942. [2]<\/p>\n Mr. Jones was editor of a Wheeling African American newspaper in known as The Advocate<\/em>\u00a0until resigning in September 1923. \u201cWhile [Jones was] on the staff,\u201d The Pittsburgh Courier<\/em> wrote, \u201c[he] made the paper felt with his strong dissertations regarding race questions in the community.\u201d [3] Indeed, his writing reveals an eloquent spokesman regarding such issues.<\/p>\n Jones wrote, for example, for the Wheeling Majority, <\/em>a popular socialist newspaper during Wheeling\u2019s union heyday,\u00a0<\/em>for whom he crafted an insightful and prescient article about the 1919, post WWI race riots and how the experience of the European war opened the consciousness of America\u2019s black soldiers, a view that has become widely accepted<\/a>. [4] Jones, then a 32 year old teacher at Lincoln School, wrote in part:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026the development of race consciousness among Negroes during the war has tended to spur their demands for consideration at the hands of their fellow Americans. Prior to the war the Negro was wont to confine his agitation for justice to restricted channels on this side of the Atlantic. Today, following the example of other oppressed peoples, he is carrying on an international propaganda. Formerly, when he was attacked by mobs, he ran; today he stands and defends himself. He is conscious of having rendered efficient service to his government during the war, and now he asks that his government reward him with the rights and privileges of American citizenship. The war broadened his views. It brought him in contact with many races of mankind. Either on the battlefield or through the press, he found that France was willing to accept him at his worth. He has faced death many times more horrible than a Georgia mob could inflict on him. He has lost the fear of death\u2026the civilian Negro, having given his best in manhood, means and brawn to \u2018make the world safe for democracy,\u201d having had sounded repeatedly in his own ears that all mankind is entitled to self-determination, has formed the opinion that Democracy ought to begin at home, and that he ought to share in the fruits of victory. He cannot appreciate our championing the right of weak people in Europe and Asia to self determination and our remaining silent on his right to enjoy it at home.\u201d [5]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jones also wrote for The Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, a nationally respected black newspaper, and for the\u00a0The Crisis, <\/em>the official publication of the NAACP, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois himself,\u00a0for whom he wrote articles under the title, The Negro Before the Courts<\/a>. <\/em>[6]<\/p>\n In March 1920, Jones contributed a rather important article to The Crisis<\/em>, titled, \u201cThe Crisis in Negro Leadership<\/a>,\u201d in which he discusses the visions of the right (Booker T. Washington<\/a>), center, and new left or radical wings of that leadership. Building upon his thesis from the 1919 article about black soldiers, Jones dismissed the conservatives as having surrendered to the white South, and eschewed the socialist left out of a fear of alienation from \u201cfair-minded whites\u201d and reprisal by \u201cwhite workers.\u201d Concluding that the middle ground was the best path forward, Jones wrote:<\/p>\n \u201cThe majority of intelligent and active Negroes belong to this [center] class. Its methods call for agitation, education, legislation, and law enforcement. It has a definite program \u2026 The Centre has these points in its favor: the spirit of equality running through American legislation; the capacity of the nation to respond to high ideals in national crises; the active support of many high-minded whites in their fight to secure justice for the Negro \u2026 It has fought against moving picture plays that fostered race feeling; it has carried on strong propaganda against lynching and mob violence \u2026 \u00a0The two races must find a common ground to work out their differences in a friendly fashion and in mutual good will. Shall they work according to American customs, standards, and traditions? Or shall they follow European State Socialism? To every Negro who prizes his racial inheritance and believes in its possibilities, I suggest in all candor that he think seriously upon which wing he will follow, for upon his choice will hinge the future of his race and, perhaps, the nation\u2019s.\u201d [7]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jones served as the West Virginia field supervisor of the \u201cCivilian Defense for Negro Activities,\u00a0held the federal position of Clerk, Office of Recorders of Deeds, Wheeling, and was a member of both the Wheeling Zoning Commission and the West Virginia Human Rights Commission. [9]<\/p>\n In 1936 he delivered a speech titled \u201cWheeling\u2019s Twentieth Man<\/a>,\u201d on WWVA Radio, a very important\u00a0document about black life in Wheeling in the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n In 1960, he was appointed Librarian of the Ohio County Law Library, remaining in that position until his retirement in 1971. [10] Jones was not the first black law librarian in Ohio County. That distinction belongs to Elijah J. Graham, Jr.<\/a>, who was named to the position in 1917. [11]<\/p>\n Harry H. Jones died in 1974 at the age of 87\u00a0and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery<\/a>. [12]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n J. (Julia) Katherine Pronty was born January 25, 1889 in Roanoke Va. [1]<\/p>\n She graduated from Meharry Medical College<\/a>, one of the nation\u2019s oldest and largest historically black academic health science centers located in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1910. The school was founded in 1876 as Meharry Medical Department of Central Tennessee College. [2]<\/p>\n Pronty sat for her medical exams in Charleston and Morgantown between July and November of 1910, receiving news of passing them in Jan. 1911. [3] Shortly thereafter, she came to Wheeling in 1911 via Brownsville, PA where her family had settled. [4] Upon her arrival in\u00a0Wheeling, Dr. Pronty was one of four black doctors listed in the City Directory along with Dr. Stillyard<\/a> (see above), Dr. E. S. Kennedy, and Dr. J. T. Sawyer. [5]<\/p>\n Dr. Pronty kept office in her home at 64-11th Street and frequently saw patients at Ohio Valley General Hospital. [6]<\/p>\n In 1915, the City of Wheeling celebrated a \u201cHealth Week<\/a>,\u201d with City Solicitor, J. Harold Brennan commenting, \u201cNo one connected with the city government can fail to take an interest in the health week celebration\u2026 and of the different departments of health which will be discussed from the standpoint of the state, county and city by eminent physicians.\u201d Among those physicians was Dr. Pronty, who delivered an address on the \u201cSide Chain Theory of Immunity.\u201d [7]<\/p>\n Dr. Pronty\u2019s sister, Mattie, came to Wheeling in 1918 and taught at Lincoln School. Unfortunately, three years later she passed away on January 25, 1921<\/a> at Ohio Valley General Hospital and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery. [8]<\/p>\n Dr. Pronty delivered many babies over her career. In our interview with Everett Lee<\/a> in October of 2016, Mr. Lee, a noted African American conductor of classical music born in Wheeling, and one-hundred years old at the time, recalled: \u00a0\u201cA few days ago I remembered the doctor who delivered me and her name was Dr. Katherine Pronty\u2026 she\u2019s the one who delivered me.\u201d She delivered him in 1916. Lee\u2019s century old recollection says a lot about the lasting impact of having, not only a female doctor, but a doctor from one\u2019s own community. [9]<\/p>\n In 1913, Dr. Pronty was involved in an incident that further illustrates the inequity and racism of Jim Crow Wheeling.\u00a0She was assaulted on Market Street by a Caucasian man named George Breiding and another man. Breiding put his hands in her pockets, arms around her, and refused to let go. He was released on his own recognizance<\/a> by Squire Hobbs. [10] The day after<\/a> Dr. Pronty filed charges, a police officer came to her office and tried to intimidate her into dropping the charges, claiming the men were incapable of knowing what they were doing because they were drunk and Breiding thought she was another woman. [11] A resolution was placed by Dr. W.P. McGrail before city council for a committee to investigate. It was passed. The jury found Brieding guilty<\/a> but asked the judge for no jail time. Breiding was fined $10 and released. [12]<\/p>\n Around 1919, Dr. Kathrine Pronty married John H. Davis, a druggist at North Side Pharmacy on Chapline Street. [13] When Wheeling Hall of Famer James S. \u201cDoc\u201d White<\/a> first came to Wheeling, he started out as an associate of Davis at the North Side Pharmacy, later becoming a partner in 1928. [14] Davis and Doc White were both incorporators<\/a> of The Advocate<\/em> newspaper that Harry H. Jones had edited (see above). [15] Between 1925 and 1930, he was arrested several times on the narcotics act violation, with charges in at least one case being dismissed on grounds of speculation<\/a>. [16] Despite the hits to his reputation, he ran for City Council for the Second Ward seat on the Democratic ticket in 1933<\/a> and 1935<\/a>. [17] And in 1935, when the newly formed\u00a0Wheeling <\/a>Civic League<\/a> had been \u201corganized to promote and advance the civic, economic, political, educational, religious and moral welfare of the Negro in Wheeling,\u201d both Davis and Harry H. Jones (see above) were appointed members of the organization\u2019s Civil Rights committee. [18] A member of the US Marine Corp in WWI, Davis was active in Wheeling\u2019s African-American American Legion Post 89, serving for many years as Adjutant and elected Commander in 1948. [19]<\/p>\n Dr. Pronty Davis was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Post 89. She died on September 6, 1949. Mr. Davis continued to live at 64 11th Street until his death in 1965. [20]<\/p>\n They are buried side by side at Stone Church Cemetery. [21]<\/p>\n Wade Hamlin\u2019s father was Dr. Robert Maceo \u201cR.M.\u201d Hamlin, who was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1898, and graduated West Virginia State College, earning his dentistry degree from Howard University. [2]<\/p>\n Dr. Hamlin settled in his hometown and started practicing Dentistry in 1924. [3]<\/p>\n He became active in politics, and was elected President of Negro Republican Club of Ohio County<\/a>. [4] In an August 1944 article<\/a> in the Intelligencer<\/em>, Dr. Hamlin stated: \u201cThe Negro doesn\u2019t want to be a Democrat. The very name \u2018Democrat\u2019 is distasteful to him because of the harsh treatment by the Democratic South. It wouldn\u2019t take a lot to make him a loyal Republican, but he must have something more than a pat on the back and a drink of liquor just before election day.\u201d [5]<\/p>\n He ran unsuccessfully for Wheeling City Council in 1943. [8]<\/p>\n A WWII veteran, Dr. Hamlin was elected Commander of American Legion Post 89. [9] In 1949, local veterans, both white and black, petitioned city council to name a segregated swimming pool for black residents \u2014 that apparently was never built \u2014 in his honor, calling him \u201ca revered leader in civic, veteran, and other bodies.\u201d [10]<\/p>\n Dr. Hamlin died on April 15, 1953 and is buried alongside his wife Alga at Mt Rose Cemetery in Moundsville. [11]<\/p>\n Alga Myrtle Wade was born in Moundsville, West Virginia in 1900. [1]<\/p>\n Like J. Katherine Pronty (see above) before her, she graduated (in 1931) from Meharry Medical College<\/a>,\u00a0one of the nation\u2019s oldest and largest historically black academic health science centers\u00a0located in Nashville, Tennessee. [2]<\/p>\n After Interning at Lincoln Hospital in Durham, North Carolina [3], Dr. Wade moved to Wheeling and married Robert M. Hamlin (see above) in 1937. [4]<\/p>\n Dr. Alga Wade Hamlin was known as a \u201cprominent woman specialist\u201d and conducted clinics<\/a> on the health of babies, children, and women throughout the Ohio Valley. [5] In 1937, she gave an address<\/a> with her husband for \u201cNational Negro Health Week,\u201d an event sponsored by the segregated\u00a0Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA<\/a> in recognition of an observance created by Booker T. Washington<\/a>. [6]<\/p>\n She died in 1983 and is buried next to her husband in Mt Rose\u00a0Cemetery in Moundsville. [7]<\/p>\n [1] \u201cCaptain Ashby Jackson, Former City Fireman, Dies at Island Residence,\u201d\u00a0Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Tuesday, December 9th, 1941, p. 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n [2] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Wednesday, November 9th, 1904, p. 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n [3] Ibid.<\/p>\n [4] Ibid.<\/p>\n [5] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Wednesday, June 23rd, 1915, p. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n [6] Miller, T.C.\u00a0West Virginia and its People<\/em>, Volume 1. 1913, pp. 493-495.<\/a><\/p>\n [7] The Crisis<\/em>, October 1917, p. 300<\/a>.<\/p>\n [8] Plummer, R. and Handlan, W.\u00a0A History of Fire Fighting in Wheeling<\/em><\/a>. \u00a01925, p. 83<\/a>. Special Collections, Ohio County Public Library Archives.<\/p>\n [9] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Tuesday, December 9th, 1941, p. 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n [10] \u201cRobert Clark, Bond Jumper, Captured After 6 Year Hunt,\u201d\u00a0Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Monday, October 7th, 1929, p. 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n [11] \u201cFireman Arrests and Brings Alleged Murderers to Wheeling,\u201d Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Friday, January 4th, 1918, p. 8.<\/p>\n [12] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Tuesday, April 19th, 1938, p. 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n [13] \u201cU.S. Judge Defers Lias\u2019 Sentence After Guilty Plea to 1 Fraud Count,\u201d\u00a0Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Wednesday, November 10th, 1948, p. 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n [14] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Tuesday, December 9th, 1941, p. 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n [15] Ibid.<\/p>\n [1] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Thursday, November 21st, 1974, p. 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n [2] Ibid.<\/p>\n [3] Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, Sept. 15, 1923, p. 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n [4] See for example: Bryan, J. \u201cFighting for Respect<\/a>: African-American Soldiers in WWI.\u201d \u00a0armyhistory.org<\/a>. Accessed Feb. 20, 2121. See also: Barbeau, A.\u00a0The Unknown Soldiers: African-American Troops in WWI<\/em><\/a>. 1996.<\/p>\n [5] The Crisis<\/em>. Vol. 18. 1919. p. 304<\/a>.<\/p>\n [6] The Crisis<\/em>. Vol. 4. 1933. p. 173<\/a>.<\/p>\n [7] The Crisis. Vol. 19. 1920. p. 256<\/a>.<\/p>\n [8] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Thursday, Dec. 18, 1919. p. 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n [9] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Thursday, November 21st, 1974, p. 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n [10] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Saturday, July 23rd, 19. p. 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n [11] The Crisis<\/em>. April 1917. p. 300<\/a>.<\/p>\n [12] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Thursday, November 21st, 1974, p. 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n [1] West Virginia, U.S., Deaths Index, 1853-1973. See Findagrave.com<\/a>\u00a0entry.<\/p>\n [2] The Nashville Globe<\/em><\/a>, April 15, 1910. p. 1<\/a>.; See also: graduation program and class photo, class of 1910. Meharry Medical Library and Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n [3] \u201cMedical Board Now In Session.\u201d Bluefield Evening Leader<\/em>, July 13, 1910. p. 1; \u201cWoman Is Succesful.\u201d Uniontown Morning Herald<\/em>, January 11, 1911. p. 1.<\/p>\n [4] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Wednesday, September 7th, 1949. p. 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n [5] Callin\u2019s Wheeling City Directory, 1915. OCPL Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n [6] Ibid.<\/p>\n [7] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Monday, March 22nd, 1915. p. 14.<\/a><\/p>\n [8] Wheeling Intelligencer,<\/em>\u00a0Wednesday, January 26th, 1921. p. 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n [9] Rothenbuehler, E. \u201cWheeling-born Maestro Celebrates 100th Birthday<\/a>.\u201d ArchivingWheeling.org<\/a>. Accessed Feb. 20, 2021.<\/p>\n [10] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Friday, November 21st, 1913. p. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n [11] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Wednesday, December 10th, 1913. p. 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n [12] Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Thursday, December 4th, 1913.
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\nA City Within a City<\/h3>\n
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\nA Faithful City Employee: Ashby Jackson, Wheeling\u2019s First Black Firefighter<\/h3>\n
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\nA True Renaissance Man: Attorney Harry H. Jones<\/h3>\n
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\nA Memorable Physician: J. Katherine Pronty Davis, MD<\/h3>\n
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\nA Revered Leader: Robert Maceo Hamlin, MD<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>When interviewed for the 2008 book, The Wheeling Family Vol. 2: More Immigrants, Migrants, and Neighborhoods<\/em><\/a>, Wheeling\u2019s first black nurse and civil rights pioneer, Ann Thomas<\/a>, recalled life in the segregated black community where she grew up. \u00a0\u201cWe had black physicians,\u201d she remembered. \u201cWe had a black dentist. Wade Hamlin<\/a>, who was a classmate of mine \u2013 his father was a dentist and his mother was a physician, M.D., but if any of her patients had to be put in the hospital, she had to get her white colleague to admit them, because she had no hospital privileges.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Page-2-of-Wheeling-Intelligencerpublished-in-Wheeling-West-Virginia-on-Tuesday-May-18th-1943.jpeg?resize=300%2C151\")
<\/a>In the same piece, Dr. Hamlin pushed for better housing; better training for industrial jobs; and lamented the fact that there were no entertainment or recreational facilities for African Americans, while \u201cwhite foreigners\u201d (by which he meant immigrants) were treated much better. [6]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Page-1-of-Wheeling-Intelligencerpublished-in-Wheeling-West-Virginia-on-Wednesday-November-23rd-1949.jpeg?resize=238%2C250\")
<\/a>Dr. Hamlin married Alga Myrtle Wade (see below) in 1937. [7]<\/p>\n
\nA Prominent Woman\u2019s Specialist: Alga Myrtle Wade Hamlin, MD<\/h3>\n
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\nEnd Notes<\/h2>\n
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