(1890-1958)
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Born in Danville, Indiana, September 7, 1890,
was graduated from the Danville High School in 1910 and entered
the University of Indiana and there completed three years of
pre-medical work. He later became a student at Temple University
(1915) but was compelled to leave school because of a death in the
family. He enlisted in the 349th Field Artillery in March of 1918
and served overseas as a First Class Sergeant and Gunner. His
battery enjoys the unique distinction of having been the first
battery of Negro Artillerymen ever to open fire upon an enemy.
John Milton Lee fired the first shot.
He helped organize, and for several years was
president of, the Fairview Gold Club, the first Negro Golf Club in
Pennsylvania. In 1931 he married Mary Walker Robinson.
Vocationally, he was engaged in several enterprises. For eight
years, he conducted a successful catering business in
Philadelphia; he organized and served as Vice-president and
Secretary of the Mutual Emergency Union, a mutual aid company in
Philadelphia. He was also a member of the board of Managers of the
Columbia Community Branch of the YMCA. |
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