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Robert H. Terrell
Robert H. Terrell
JUDGE TERIlEl,L is judge of the Municipal Court of the District
of olumbia. the fir. t color d man ev r made a federal
judge in this country. Previou to hi appointment, in Februar,",
1909, h had be n for 'even year presiding justi of one
of the l\IaC1istrate'. ourts.
IIe was born in .Ia'· rv in GI nave, •
Va.. 'O\'emb r25, I 57. Heattended
the public chool of the Di trict of
Columbia. lIe prepared for college
al Lawrence Academy Groton Ma .
In 18 °he entered the freshman class
at Harvard. He \Va graduated \\;th
the degree of A.B. cum imide and
was one of the six honor men to repre.
ent hi clas. as a commen ement
orator. Five .year before hi entrance
to Harmrd he worked ·day. s in ~le-morial
Hall a. a waiter, and studied
his books at night. The Boston Transcript aid of him, at the
time of his gradualion, that" he entered one nd of Memorial
Hall as a menial and eame out of the other with the highest
honor~ that Han'ard could bestow."
Appointed a leae-her in the olored High chool \Ya. hington.
he wa head of the department of Latin until eptember. 1 9.
when he became chief of a divi. ion of the . Trea, un'. •
He studied law at Howard University Law ehool. and gradu-ated
at the head of hi cla .. in 1889. In 1893 he formed a law
partner 'hip wilh Hon. John R. Lynch. In 189 :\11'. Tenell
was mad, 1rincipal of the Washington High hool, the largest
school for. erondar." education for colored youth in the ·ountr.\'.
Judge Tefl' II ha~' tak n a prominent part in the acti"ilies and
iut r st. of the colored people. He has been a member of the
Board of Trad of the Distrie-t of 01 umbia for fifteen years.
He was one of the two olor<~d men plac d upon the exeeuti"e
committe in charge of the inauguration of President Taft. He
i pre ident of the I ru tees of th Lincoln :\Iemorial Congregational
Temple. During his two term. ru magistrate, he tried
17,429 case. and the record. how that his decisions were seldom
reversed by the u]lreme ourt. In the only case from his court
that reached the l nited tates Supreme Court he was sustained.
l E. B. Taylor
E. B. Taylor
HaIti_ore, Md.
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lVIR. TAYLOR is a " society" caterer, of whom Paul Lawrence
Dunbar wrote, " He ha1j set a standard for the young men in the
city that has the largest colored population in the world."
He wa born in Baltimore in 1878, wa educated in the public
schools, and graduated from the Colored
High School in the cla s of '97.
When he graduated he wa earning
$5 a week. He declined an appointment
as teacher, at nearly double the
compensation, saying that he wanted
an opportunity in the business world.
From bundle boy, he began at fifty
cents a week, and he made upward
progres until he became teward of
the Atheneum Club of Baltimore, and
later at the Baltimore AtWetic Club,
and the exclusive Baltimore Club.
He wa club steward for seven years,
when one of the leading caterers of Baltimore died suddenly
and Mr. Taylor bought his business and has made a great
succes . of it.
He was official caterer for the Jame town Expo ition. 'While
he number many friends among the leading white people of the
state, he a)'s he is proud of the fact that he is a Negro. He has
recently erected a fine building in Baltimore, of colonial st~Tle of
architecture, to be used part as a home and part a a catering
establishment.
He owns a farm of three hundred acres in Charle. County,
Maryland, and is asses ed for several valuable pieces of property
in Baltimore. He is vice-president of the Jegro Busines
League; chairman of the Citizens' Committee, which is raising
$100,000 for Morgan College; pre ident of the Board of Managers
of the Home for Friendless Colored Children, and member
of the Advi ory Board of Provident Hospital. He i intere ted
in every forward movement for the benefit of his p ople.
Paul LawTence Dunbar said: "His influence upon his fell.ows
is for good. He has taught them that striving is worth while,
and by force of his example of industry and perseverance he
stands out hom the mas He does not teU how to do things; he
does them."
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