The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 14, 20 Sept. 1867, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers ]2 This computation is in error. The tom is actually $7,078.80. ]3 Benjamin N. Hatcher, thirty-one years old in 1860, was a local manufacturer. He was a partner of John Cardwell Ferguson in the tobacco~manufacturing finn of Ferguson and Hatcher, reported in the census of manfactures in ~ 860. The firm hired forty slave men and four slave women and produced ~60 pounds of chewing tobacco in the fiscal year 1859-60. The two partners also owned a blacksmith shop. ~4 James Wright, a near neighbor, was listed as a sixty-five-year-old farmer in the 1860 census. ]5 This may have been Thomas M. Holland, a near neighbor, twenty-five years old in ~ 860, teacher of the local common school, or possibly Thomas Holland or Thomas N. Holland, members of the Halesford Sons of Temperance in 185~. (Minutes of meeting, Jan. 4, 185~, document in possession of Sarah Dinwiddie, Halesford, Va.) is Clerk of Franklin County. Charles Wheeler Sharps to John Kimball2 Charleston, West Va., Sept. co/67 J. Kimball, Esq., Supt of Schools: Maiden Township The school districts, and the enumeration of scholars are as follows: District No. 2 - Scholars I I These two districts '' '' 3 do ~ 6 lie near together and could send scholars to the same school. Tinkersville3 District No. 4 Scholars 79 Oakes Furnace '' '' 5 t' —4I Camel's Creek4— n '' 8 '' 3 I I 78 Whole number. I met the Board of Education in this township and submitted to them the proposition of the Bureau, and urged the matter as discreetly and forcibly as possible. I presented their own interest in building now, the necessity of some better provision than the present in order to ~have?] good schools, the state and national policy of educating every class and condition, and met all their objections. The only point of any account I4