• Thumbnail for George Boyer Vashon
    George Boyer Vashon (July 25, 1824 – October 5, 1878) was an African American scholar, poet, lawyer, and abolitionist. George Boyer Vashon was born in...
    7 KB (692 words) - 00:09, 14 August 2023
  • II George Boyer Vashon (1824–1878), American scholar, poet and abolitionist James Vashon (1742–1827), British naval officer and namesake of Vashon Island...
    1 KB (182 words) - 05:58, 18 December 2022
  • College was located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1863 to 1867 George Boyer Vashon was the President. Jonathan Jasper Wright received an honorary LL...
    2 KB (125 words) - 05:01, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederick Douglass
    Amos Noë Freeman, James Monroe Whitfield, Henry O. Wagoner, and George Boyer Vashon. Like many abolitionists, Douglass believed that education would...
    197 KB (20,866 words) - 03:21, 4 September 2024
  • Oglesby, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1873 to 1878 (died 1899) George Boyer Vashon, African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar (died 1878)...
    15 KB (878 words) - 06:50, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oberlin College
    Oberlin Collegiate Institute graduated its first black student, George Boyer Vashon, who later became one of the founding professors of Howard University...
    123 KB (12,041 words) - 03:27, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vashon High School
    African-American educators: George Boyer Vashon, the first black graduate of Oberlin College, and his son, John Boyer Vashon. Located at 3026 Laclede Avenue...
    20 KB (1,981 words) - 22:34, 26 August 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (290 words) - 00:11, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inman E. Page
    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...
    12 KB (1,476 words) - 02:54, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vincent Ogé
    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...
    16 KB (2,055 words) - 00:30, 26 August 2024