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D. L. Knight
Louisville. Ky,
l\IR. KNIGHT is engaged in the tran fer business. He was
born in Bullitt County, April 16, 1863. His widowed mother,
having fi\"(' small children, wa unable to give him the advantaae
of an eduC'ation. He learned the alphabet at an early age
in the unda,\"- C'hoo!. Later he re-
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c ived private les ons and by hard
tud,', in a few leisure hours, acquired •
an education.
At the age of fourteen, he went to
Louisville and worked at the hardest
of manual labor. A year later he
ent for his mother and her children,
and then began to tudy what he could
do to enable him to support them.
One day while working in a brick
yard he aw an old hor e grazing in
the field. He wa impre ed to buy
D. L. Knight the horse. He bought the hor e and
a dilapidated wagon and in a week was a ycgetable peddler.
His trade grew so rapicUy that he was soon able to buy a coal
wagon and two mules, and began to deliver coa!. His bu iness
increa ed until he wa able to buy a tran fer wagon and hor e ,
and beaan the transfer bu ine s.
The "be"ainn"ina was very. di coura"ain"a. He made only eventy- fiYe cents durina hi . first few week. He per isted, howe,'er, and
at the present time ha a bu ine s that average about $12,000 a
year, and he own evcnteen wagon and twenty horse and
mule, in addition to oth r property.
Hi "Lightning Transfer" Company was the fir t of the
kind run b.v Nca"rocs in Louisville. About two year ago he
lcased a farm three miles from the cit.v. pon thi fal'm he ha
rai ed more than enough to upply hi stock for a year, and he
has reali7.ed about $500 from the ale of garden produ t .
Mr. Knight own real estate in Loui ville valued at 8,000.
At the annual convention of the 1 egro Bu ine s League in
Loui ville, in .\ugust, H)09 he was chairman oI the General
Committee of Arrangement. Hi. address of welcome was
brief, cordial, and in good taste. He occupies a very prominent
place among his people, and i considered one of their most
. ucce 'sIul hu ine men.
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Albert W. Williatns, M.D.
Chicago, 111.
DR. WILLIAMS is a physician and surgeon. He was born on a
cotton plantation near Monroe, La., January 31, 1863, of slave
parentage. He worked in the cotton and ugar-cane fields until
he was fourteen years old.
When a small bo , he heard of the
North and especially of the state of
Ohio, and had a desire to go North for
education. In those days there were
no public schools in Louisiana.
In December, 1876, a Missouri
mule trader hired Williams to herd
mules through the South to be sold,
and he worked so well that he finally
succeeded in realizing his desire, as
the trader paid hi way to Springfield,
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Mo., where he secured a job on a farm
for $10 per month and board. He
A. W. Williams, M.D. saved money, paid the money advanced
for transportation, and, having saved more money, bought books,
and entered school for the first time at the age of fourteen,
learned his ABC's. He passed the district examination in
1881, and spent ten years in tudy and in teaching.
He studied medicine in Northwestern niversity Medical
School, Chicago, three years, graduating in 1894. He was
re ident physician of Provident Hospital and Training School
two years, and for twelve years has been attending physician.
He was ecretary of Provident Hospital medical staff six years,
and president of medical board 1906-1907. Dr. Williams has
been trea urer of the National Medical Association of Colored
Phy icians, Denti ts, and Pharmaci ts five years; member of
the American Medical Association, Chicago Medical Society,
Illinoi Medical ociety. At pre ent he i making a specialty
of lung di ease. In 1908, he delivered a serie of lecture on
tuberculo. i. He is secretary of the ub-committee of the
hicago Tuber ulo is In titute, which meets in different colored
churches for the purpose of instituting plans to prevent the
spread of that di ease. Dr. Williams is a large property owner
in Chicago. He is president of the Black Diamond Development
Company, which produces and markets natural gas, and
which has $50,000 a sets.
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