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May 13, 2018 Biographies

Fred Douglas Archer Jr., a native of Reidsville, North Carolina, is the son of the Fred D. Archer Sr. and Lollie Archer Williams. He spent his early years in Reidsville where he attended the public sc...

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Kenneth Seals MD

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Apr 27, 2018 Biographies

Kenneth Seals, a native Buffalonian, was born on February 20, 1956. He was the eighth child of Reverend W.B. and Clara Ellis Seals. Kenneth completed his early education in the Buffalo Public School S...

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Frank G Evans Sr. MD

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Apr 22, 2018 Biographies

Dr. Evans was a native of Rushville, Indiana. He held a BA in Chemistry, an MA in Chemistry from Indiana University and also an MD from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Evans was a veter...

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Ethel Mae Lacey Pye

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Apr 10, 2018 Biographies

Ethel Lacey Pye was born in Leeds, Alabama. According to her family she was a member of an enterprising family and at 12 years old started selling peanuts at her mother's barbershop. She also helped t...

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Benjamin C. Taylor MD

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Apr 6, 2018 Biographies

Dr. Benjamin Taylor was among one of the earliest Blacks to settle in Buffalo, New York. His home state is not exactly known, but in one census Missouri was named. Virginia has also been identified as...

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Josephine Johnson Holmes

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Mar 7, 2018 Biographies

Mrs. Holmes was the daughter of famed minister Rev. Sidney O.B. Johnson and Hannah Barnes Johnson. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama about 1917. She relocated with her family to Buffalo, New York fr...

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Dr. Myron St. Clair McGuire DDS

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Feb 24, 2018 Biographies

Dr. McGuire was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, sixty miles from Buffalo, New York. He lived in the city's Ellicott District since he came to Buffalo, at the young age of eight. He graduated from Publ...

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Earle Clifford Payne DDS

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Dec 1, 2017 Biographies

Earle C. Payne was a member of an early Buffalo Black family. His mother, Grace L. Thompson was the daughter of Nimrod Thompson, who came to Buffalo around 1850. Her mother was Elizabeth Meyers. Grace...

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Shirley Harris Baker

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Sep 18, 2017 Biographies

Shirley Harris Baker is the youngest of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her parents, Andrew and Emma Robinson Harris, lived in Camden, South Carolina. She had eight brothers, Joe, George, Willie L...

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Pauline Battle

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Aug 20, 2017 Biographies

Ms. Pauline Battle was lauded in the August 16, 1940 edition of the Buffalo (NY) Star Newspaper as Buffalo's first Black graduate nurse. She completed a nurse training course at the Harlem Hospital an...

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Theresa Victoria Garland

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Theresa Victoria Garland was a retired nurse active in church affairs. She was born in Bridgewater, North Carolina. She came to Buffalo, NY in 1940 and was a 1948 graduate of the Buffalo School of Nur...

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Gus Eugene Pratchett

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Jul 3, 2017 Biographies

Gus E. Pratchett was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His parents were Gus and Australia Pratchett. He graduated from Druid High School in Tuscaloosa before the family relocated to Buffalo, New York in 19...

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