In an article about happenings at Chicago’s Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A.:

Chicago Defender, 7 December 1912. 

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I have found only one other reference to James H. and Hattie I. McGrew in Wilson, which mentioned that James McGrew had come to work in Wilson for Lincoln Benefit Society in the fall of 1912. They didn’t stay long.

In 1910, the couple appears in the census of Brunswick County, Virginia. In 1915, J.H. McGrew was counted in the 1915 state census of Bluff Creek, Iowa. In 1920, the McGrews are listed in Richmond, Virginia, where James worked as state secretary of the Y.M.C.A. By the mid-1930s, he was executive secretary of Atlanta’s famed Butler Street Y.M.C.A.

Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A., Chicago, Illinois.