George Boyer Vashon (July 25, 1824 – October 5, 1878) was an African American scholar, poet, lawyer, and abolitionist. George Boyer Vashon was born in...
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II George Boyer Vashon (1824–1878), American scholar, poet and abolitionist James Vashon (1742–1827), British naval officer and namesake of Vashon Island...
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College was located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1863 to 1867 George Boyer Vashon was the President. Jonathan Jasper Wright received an honorary LL...
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African-American educators: George Boyer Vashon, the first black graduate of Oberlin College, and his son, John Boyer Vashon. Located at 3026 Laclede Avenue...
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Frederick Douglass, James Monroe Whitfield, Henry O. Wagoner, and George Boyer Vashon. In 1857 Freeman moderated the annual meeting of the Evangelical...
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Amos Noë Freeman, James Monroe Whitfield, Henry O. Wagoner, and George Boyer Vashon. Like many abolitionists, Douglass believed that education would...
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March 10, 1913) Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) George Boyer Vashon Denmark Vesey (c.1767 – July 2, 1822) David Walker (September 28...
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Washington's Vashon Island was named after him by the explorer George Vancouver, who had been Vashon's subordinate in Europa. Vashon rose to the rank...
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Oberlin Collegiate Institute graduated its first black student, George Boyer Vashon, who later became one of the founding professors of Howard University...
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during the Antebellum Period. In 1853, the poet and abolitionist George Boyer Vashon wrote a 359-line poem titled Vincent Ogé, which included the stanzas...
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with her father. The principal of the school where she taught was George Boyer Vashon, whom she later married on February 17, 1857. They had their first...
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where her father opened a saloon and livery stable and her brother, George Boyer Vashon, was born two years later, in 1824. In 1829, her father moved the...
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Oglesby, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1873 to 1878 (died 1899) George Boyer Vashon, African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar (died 1878)...
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Stewart George Storrs Jane Swisshelm Arthur Tappan Lewis Tappan Charles Turner Torrey Norton Strange Townshend Amos Tuck George Boyer Vashon Edward Wade...
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George Boyer Vashon. E. R. Akin, A. M., D. M., professor of natural sciences A. B. Campbell, A. M, professor of Latin language and Literature George Lester...
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along with Douglass, James Monroe Whitfield, Amos Noë Freeman, and George Boyer Vashon. Wagoner, Jones, and fellow Chicago abolitionists H. Ford Douglas...
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graduate from Georgetown University School of Law [Washington, D.C.] George Boyer Vashon (1869): First African American male lawyer in Washington, D.C. John...
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23rd Secretary of State of Mississippi (born 1838) October 5 – George Boyer Vashon, African-American attorney, educationalist, abolitionist, essayist...
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War. Others include Robert Morris (lawyer) in Massachusetts, 1847; George Boyer Vashon in New York, 1848; and John Mercer Langston in Ohio, 1854. A skilled...
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George F. T. Cook, brother of John F. Cook Jr. He also took hired work to support his family and later attended night school taught by George Boyer Vashon...
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Jewish American male lawyer in New York Moses Simons (1816) and George Boyer Vashon (1847): First African American male lawyers in New York Eneas Yamada...
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English May 19 – William Allingham (died 1889), Irish July 25 – George Boyer Vashon (died 1878), African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar...
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Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe October 5 – George Boyer Vashon (born 1824), African-American attorney, educationalist, abolitionist...
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USDA Forest Service – Pacific Northwest Research Station 2006. Vashon, Jennifer; Vashon, Adam; Crowley, Shannon. "Partnership for Lynx Conservation in...
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Donny Hathaway (category Vashon High School alumni)
gospel singer, at the age of three, and studying piano. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963. Hathaway then studied music on a fine arts scholarship...
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Cannon, and Hawaii Five-O where he made multiple appearances as Honore Vashon, one of that series' most memorable villains. Gould originated the role...
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bay, connecting Downtown Seattle with West Seattle (Seacrest Dock) and Vashon Island. Two marinas are in Elliott Bay. The larger of them is the privately...
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Birding Club fosters inclusivity". Retrieved April 11, 2024. "Vashon Audubon renames itself Vashon Bird Alliance". Retrieved May 17, 2024. "Our New Name!"....
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Quimper Peninsula Roche Harbor Touchet Touchet River Vashon Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent Bayard...
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Park and Black Point Marina. Camp Parsons, founded in 1919 and the oldest Boy Scout camp west of the Mississippi River, sits just outside the north end...
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