Here I blogged about Booker T. Washington’s visit to Wilson, and the photograph taken on Samuel H. Vick‘s lawn that day. On a recent visit to the Freeman Round House and African-American Museum, I examined an enlargement of that photo on exhibit. Many of the men depicted were from Washington’s entourage, but here are close-ups of the Wilson men invited to a private meet-and-greet with him.
- 7. Short William Barnes (1860-1943), carpenter.
- 8. Unknown.
- Hardy Tate (1854-1938), brickmason.
- 13. Samuel H. Vick (1863-1945), educator, postmaster, political and business leader.
- 20. Probably Braswell R. Winstead (1860-1926), educator and barber.
- 26. William Arthur Mitchner (1882-1941), physician.
- 31. Camillus Lewis Darden (1884-1926), businessman.
- 34. Walter Scott Hines (1879-1941), barber and real estate developer.
- 37. Dr. Frank Settle Hargrave (1874-1942), physician. Founder of Wilson Hospital and Tubercular Home and its medical director from 1913 to 1923. President of the National Medical Association, 1914-15.
- 38. Matthew Stanley Gilliam (1885-1932), physician.
- 40. William Hines (1885-1981), barber and real estate developer.
- 41. Oliver Nestus Freeman (1882-1955), stonemason.