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SIMMONS, William J., Rev. (1849-1890). Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Cleveland, OH: Geo. M. Rewell, 1887.
Thick 8vo. Numerous wood-engraved portraits in the text including frontispiece of the author. Original decorative blue-green cloth lettered in gilt (recased).
FIRST EDITION of this compilation featuring short biographies of virtually every African-American “man of mark” up to and including the year of publication. Simmons was a reverend and an ex-slave who eventually became President of the State University of Kentucky, now Simmons College of Kentucky.