The Afro-American press and its editors . f his own, called Hie Brooklyn Sentinel,which is meeting with much favor. The New York Pressof September 15, 1889, pays him this tribute: He waselected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1876, butwas counted out by the Democrats. He was connected withThe New York Globe a few years later, and is at presentupon the staff of The Indianapolis Freeman, the leadingcolored paper of the United States. He was a candidate forthe position of minister to Hayti, receiving the indorsementof 509 leading Republicans of the United States. He is aFrench student, a po
The Afro-American press and its editors . f his own, called Hie Brooklyn Sentinel,which is meeting with much favor. The New York Pressof September 15, 1889, pays him this tribute: He waselected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1876, butwas counted out by the Democrats. He was connected withThe New York Globe a few years later, and is at presentupon the staff of The Indianapolis Freeman, the leadingcolored paper of the United States. He was a candidate forthe position of minister to Hayti, receiving the indorsementof 509 leading Republicans of the United States. He is aFrench student, a poet, and writer. He stands head andshoulders above many colored men who have received morereward. As a political leader, he has few equals; as acolored journalist, none. R. A. Jones, Editor and Proprietor Cleveland Globe. Richard A. Jones was born July 16, 1847, in RandolphCounty, Georgia. At the age of twelve he was taken toRochester, Minnesota, and being very apt with books, wassent to the public school at Rochester, where he received a. 293 294 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. good, thorough training. While at Rochester, he was takeninto the family of Hon. 0. P. Whitcomb and wife, who caredfor him until he was able to provide for himself. He cameto Cleveland in 1873, after having traveled extensivelythrough the South and West. Mr. Jones is a thoroughly self-made man, and exact andshrewd in his business relations. The thoughtful precisionand self-reliance with which he is possessed, indicate thatperseverance and push were his chief instructors. He figures prominently, not only in political but in thesocial and literary circles of Cleveland, and is well knownthroughout the state of Ohio as an earnest and intelligentadvocate of race principles. He became a mason in PioneerLodge, No. 5, St. Paul, Minn.; was made a royal arch masonin 1877, in Cleveland, by St. Johns Chapter; and in thesame year was dubbed and created a knight templar in theEzekial Commandery. He afterward withdrew from th
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