e year, but think I
can get the dates for you if it is of interest to you.

His early life was spent in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was a very
successful business man, barber by trade. His later life was
actively spent in church work. He was presiding elder in the A.
M. E. Z. church and was nominated for bishop, but his age was an
obstacle.

He lived in Mobile, Alabama at the time of his death at 70 years.
He was still in the ministry at this time.

Very truly,
(Signed) MRS. M. E. RICHARDSON.

245 WEST 139TH ST.,
NEW YORK CITY,
July 22, 1920.

CARTER G. WOODSON, Ph.D.,
Editor _The Journal of Negro History_,
1216 You St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

_Dear Sir:_

You have presented the matter of the Reconstruction Period in
splendid shape and no doubt it will be read with much interest
especially by the few "old timers" who can recall those halcyon
days.

There are some errors I would like to correct and a few additions
I would like to make as it was not my intention to slight any
person engaged in that laudable work of making Negro history, and
I would like to know at your earliest convenience if there will
be time before the July number goes to press. There is just one
error I want to correct now and that is relative to myself. In
the foot notes it is stated that I was a page in the House of
Representatives in the Reconstruction Period. I do not know how
Mr. Work made the error as there is nothing in my retained carbon
copies to show that I gave him that information. It was my
brother, Dr. J. E. Wallace, now with the Standard Insurance
Company of Atlanta who occupied that position. I certainly would
have preferred that job as it was more remunerative than the one
I held. I was employed in the post office at Columbia, S. C.,
from March 1, 1871 to August 15, 1886, when I resigned under the
democratic postmaster, Major W. H. Gibbes, notwithstanding the
fact that he requested me to continue in the position. It was
owing to my position that I came in contact with the prominent
people from all over the State and was thus enabled to