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Class of 1880. 
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BANKS, MRS. (Pattie L. Lockette). Hampton, Va. 
b. 1862, Petersburg, Va. Has taught. 

BLACKBURN, MRS. WM. J. (Pauline Watts). Phoebus, Va. 
b. 1863, Atlanta, Ga.; m. Feb. 25, 1892. Has taught. 

BOYD, MRS. WM. C. (Elizabeth Cabbell). Spurgeon, Newton Co., Mo. 
b. 1859, Nelson Co., Mo.; m. 1882, Wm. C. Boyd, '79. Teacher. 

BROWN, EDWARD W. True Reformers Bank, Richmond, Va. 
b. 1860, Southampton Co., Va. Has taught. Editor of The Reformer

Transcription Notes:
From the Encyclopedia Virginia: Edward W. Brown was a politician, editor, and minister. Born into slavery, he became his church's clerk at age twelve and later taught school in Prince George County. Brown was among the last successful African American politicians in the nineteenth century, serving as the county's commissioner of revenue from 1887 to 1895. He moved to Richmond the year after he left office, where he worked for the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, a fraternal beneficiary organization. Eventually becoming editor of its weekly newspaper, the Reformer, Brown promoted the order's various enterprises while condemning the new segregation laws. The organization's finances collapsed in 1910, causing the removal of its officers. Brown became a Baptist preacher, but left the ministry in the mid-1920s to join his son's real estate and insurance agency in Norfolk. He died in 1929.