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Traverse Benjamin Pinn Sr. was a magistrate,[1] local official,[2] newspaper co-founder and publisher, inventor, internal revenue official, barber, and civic leader in Alexandria, Virginia. He was African American.
He was secretary of the Fourth Ward Republican Club in 1870.[3] He was elected a magistrate the same year.[1] He served on Alexandria's Board of Aldermen in 1872.[2] He was a storekeeper in Alexandria, Virginia.[4] He founded The People's Advocate with John Wesley Cromwell in 1876. He was the paper's publisher and business manager.[5][6] Cromwell was its editor. It was a Republican paper.[7]
He owned a house on Duke Street.[8]
In 1871 he testified about election threats he received while campaigning. He testified that he was 31 years old.[9]
He was an assistant auditor in a federal treasury office.[10]
In 1880 he received a patent for a file holder.[11][12] Susie E. Pinn was appointed administratix of his estate.[13]
His sister, Hannah Bailey (1850-1937), gave an interview in 1937. She said a bachelor named Montgomery fathered her mother who was freed at 18. She said his will deeded lands to her mother and the lands were taken after his death. She said Traverse Pinn worked at a Confederate hospital.here?
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The History of Alexandria: Discovering the Decades". City of Alexandria, VA.
- ^ a b "Alexandria Gazette 29 June 1872 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive". virginiachronicle.com.
- ^ "Alexandria Gazette 17 August 1870 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive". virginiachronicle.com.
- ^ Treasury, United States Department of the (June 10, 1874). "The United States Treasury Register: Containing a List of Persons Employed in the Treasury Department, Including Sub-treasuries, Depositories, Mints, Assay Offices, and the Customs, Steamboat-inspection, Revenue-marine, Life-saving, Light-house, Marine-hospital, Internal-revenue, and Coast-survey Services" – via Google Books.
- ^ https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/chataignesdirect00alex/chataignesdirect00alex.pdf
- ^ "The People's Advocate (Alexandria, Va.; Washington, D.C) 1876-188?". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ Penn, Irvine Garland. The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Willey & Company. ISBN 9780598582683.
- ^ "Alexandria Real and Personal Property Taxes Paid by African Americans: 1865". www.freedmenscemetery.org.
- ^ Representatives, USA House of (June 10, 1871). "House Documents". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "House documents". June 10, 1884 – via Google Books.
- ^ Quick, William Harvey (June 10, 1898). "Negro Stars in All Ages of the World". S.B. Adkins & Company, Printers – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, United States Patent (June 10, 1880). "Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office". U.S. Patent Office. – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Daily Washington Law Reporter". June 10, 1889 – via Google Books.