The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 427, Jan. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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JANUARY l goo man. He was active in black affairs in Denver as a member of the executive board of the Denver Colored Civic Association. 6 Paul Edward Spratlin was born in Alabama in 18 and graduated from Atlanta University in 188~. He taught school in the South from 18 to 1889 before moving to Denver, where he received a medical degree in 189e from the Denver Medical College of the University of Denver. From 1895 to 1899 he was Denver's chief medical inspector. He was active in many institutions in the black community of Denver, including the Douglass Undertaking Co., the Lincoln-Douglass Consumptive Sanitarium, the A.M.E. Church, and the Y.M.C.A. Joseph H. Stuart, a black Denver attorney. g Edwin H. Hackley, born in Michigan in 1859, was a black lawyer who clerked in the Arapahoe County recorder's office for twelve years before Moo, when he became a clerk in the city auditor's once in Denver. g Samuel H. Hobson, born in Tennessee in 187~. to Wharton D. Phillips, who entertained BTW and fifty guests, including Colorado's governor Charles Spalding Thomas, at his restaurant after BTW's speech. 1t Oscar Jefferson Waldo Scott, not Sweet, was born in Ohio in 1867 and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in ~ 8~5. He received a B.D. degree from Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, N.T., in 1897, and a D.D. from Wilberforce in 1909. He was a minister of the A.M.~. Church in Denver at Shorter's Chapel from 1897 to 1902. From ~go: to egos he was stationed in Kansas City, Mo., and from 1909 to Dog he was a minister in Washington, D.C. Later he served as chaplain with the oath Infantry from 1907 to 19~7 and then with the Both Cavalry from 19~7 to 192~. He taught theology at Howard University for several years before his death in 19~7 or Age. From William Henry Baldwin, Jr. Brooklyn Heights. Jan 28, Too Dear Washington, Glad to get your letter from Omaha. I do not believe that the Western people have yet reached a point of giving largely to educational institutions outside of their local surrounding country, but it is well to have them understand the question, and there may be another surprise in store for you, similar to the old lady~ in Ohio, who gave the $~ s,ooo. There are several letters from me at Tuskegee, anti I won't burden you with more I have had a long letter from Rev. Murphy. He is coming to Phila to speak possibly to New York. He was apparently impressed with the paper I sent him on the ''present problem'' the one I gave at Saratoga. He says he feels that I am ''one of us.'' They will want a meeting in Montgomery in May. I think I better send them a contribution of Too. toward it, and let 427