The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 556, July 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER 1:. WASHINGTON Papers Higginson, Mr. Endicott,2 of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Mrs. R. P. Hallowel1,3 Mr. Kelsey,4 Mr. V. Everit Macy, Mr. Bowdelet,5 Sanger Bros.6 of Dallas, Texas, and others, all subscribe to his plan for amounts of $500, loon and $~00? and others are to follow soon thereafter. Under all the circumstances, I have brought myself to fee] that you would not care to have the whole enterprise go astray because of what might look like an unfavorable attitude on your part. These white business men, including Mr. Kelsey as you will remember, have examined the prospectus and have endorsed it more favorably than one could reasonably expect. One good thing in Mr. Wiley's favor, as ~ understand it, is he has not sought to impress you in this matter at all. Your connection with the matter comes about because of Mr. TrumbuD's desire to have a favorable word from you since he wishes, as I understand it, to fee] that since he is a trustee of Tuskegee that he is doing something for others if not in the same direction, then in the same general direction. beg to male a plea In Mr. Wiley's behalf. I think well to keep in mind that an advisory board at Mr. Trumbull's suggestion, composed of some of the wealthiest citizens of Dallas, who are to serve as a finance committee, has been organized and wiD represent Mr. Trumbull and other subscribers, thereby becoming responsible for the safe and sane conduct of the mill. Yours very truly, Emmett I. Scott TLSr Con. Ho BTW Papers DLC. Frank Trumbull (~8s8-~g~o), chairman of the board of the C & O Railroad, was a trustee of Tuskegee Institute beginning in two. 2 William Endicott, an 1887 Harvard graduate, was employed by the Boston banking firm of Kidder, Peabody and Co. from 1887 to 1897, when he became a partner of the firm, a relationship he continued for more than thirty years. 3 Anne Davis, born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia in 1838, married Richard Price Hallowell in ~ 859 and moved to West Medford, Mass. 4 Clarence H. Kelsey (~856-~930), a Yale graduate (~878) and lawyer, was president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Co., which he had helped to found in 188~. Ele took a lifelong interest in Hampton and Tuskegee, raised a $5 million endowment for the two schools in 19~5, and was chairman of the Hampton board of trustees. 5 Charles Pickering Bowditch of Boston (b. 1842) was president of the Pepperell Manufacturing Co. and a student of Mayan archaeology. 6 Isaac, Alexander, Philip, Samuel, and Cornelia Sanger were directors of Sanger Bros., a wholesale and retail dry-goods and clothing firm in Dallas. Ale~cander Sanger was also vice-president of the Dallas Trust and Savings Bank. 556