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128                         THE CRISIS

[[image of the Rev. W. H. Stokes]]
[[image of Dr. M. B. Jones]]
[[image of Dr. W. H. Hughes]]
[[image of Mr. John Mitchell, Jr.]]
[[image of the Rev. Z. D. Lewis]]
[[image of Att'y J. T. Hewin]]
[[image of Mr. G. W. Bragg]]

THE REV. W. H. STOKES  DR. M. B. JONES  DR. W. H. HUGHES
MR. JOHN MITCHELL, JR.
THE REV. Z. D. LEWIS  ATT'Y. J. T. HEWIN  MR. G. W. BRAGG

MEN OF RICHMOND                    129

zens presented him a silver loving cup as a token of their appreciation for this service.

PROFESSOR CHARLES T. RUSSELL is the superintendent of Virginia Union University. He received his early training in the Richmond Public schools and took up architecture at Hampton Institute, and was graduated. He is the only licensed Negro architect in Richmond. His interest in young men who enter into business activities has made him especially appreciated.

DR MILES B. JONES is a graduate of the old Richmond Institute. He attended Richmond TheologicalSeminary and was a teacher for ten years in the Richmond public schools. In 1901 he received his M. D. degree from Howard University Medical School. He is founder and surgeon-in-chief of the Richmond Hospital, physician for Virginia Union University, founder of the colored branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in Richmond, and he has been the superintendent of Second Baptist Sunday School since 1889.

ATTORNEY J. THOMAS HEWIN was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He studied in the public schools and at Commercial College, at Smithdeal. He is a graduate of Boston University Law School. For the past sixteen years he has practised law in Richmond and become a prominent figure in his profession. He is president of the American Beneficial Insurance Company and the Improved Order of the Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem recently elected him Grand Shepherd.

DR. Z. D. LEWIS is widely known as a Hebrew scholar. He studied at the public schools and Richmond Theological Institute. He is president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia and has been the pastor of Second Baptist Church for over thirty years.

DR. W. N. HUGHES' ability as a surgeon is widely recognized. He received his A. B. from Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, in 1893; he was graduated in medicine from Shaw University, in 1897; a post-graduate at Howard University Medical School; and interne at the Freedmen's Hospital from 1897 to 1898. In 1902 Governor Bliss appointed him to serve the government. He resigned this charge in 1915 to go abroad. He attended clinics at Bartholomew Hospital, in London; Pasteur Institute Paris;  and Czerny's Clinics at Heidelberg. He returned to Richmond, where he has since resumed private practise.

MR. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., is one of Richmond's bachelors. He was educated at the Armstrong Normal School. He has served as an alderman and in other capacities of city government. He is widely known as the editor of the Richmond Planet. He is Grand Chancellor of the Virginia Knights of Pythias, Worthy Chancellor of the Court of Calanthe, founder and president of the Mechanics' Saving Bank, and the only Negro member of the American Bankers' Association.

DR. E. R. JEFFERSON was graduated from Shaw University with the degree of B. S., in 1892;  and Leonard Medical College, of this university, in 1893. He has since been resident physician of this school and a professor of physiology and chemistry. He is a medical examiner for several Negro fraternities in Richmond and Master of Exchequer, Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

GEORGE W. BRAGG realized over $100,000 through the laundry business. He then entered the real estate business. He is one of Richmond's most successful business men.

DR. J. B. SIMPSON has been professor of Greek and sociology in Wayland College of Virginia Union University for twenty-five years. He has studied at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D. C.; Colby College, Maine; Newton Theological Seminary; and the University of Illinois. One of his professors has said of him: "You may strike Mr. Simpson anywhere, at any time, with anything, and he will always ring true." He has lived a life of devotion to principle regardless of popularity.

MRS. MAGGIE L. WALKER is the president of the St. Luke's Bank, and the only Negro woman banker in America; Right Worthy Secretary-Treasurer of the Supreme Council of the Independent Order of St. Luke, the editor of the St. Luke's Herald, and the president of the Colored Women's Council of Virginia. She is a product of the Armstrong Normal School.

MR'S ORA B. SAUNDERS studied at the Virginia Normal Industrial Institute, at Petersburg, and was graduated in 1900. She is the founder and superinten-