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Born in Indiana as A. Macon Bolling, he moved to New England at some point in the early 1840s and changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen in Boston in January 1844. [1] Soon after, Allen moved to Portland, Maine and studied law, working as an apprentice to Samuel Fessenden, a local abolitionist and attorney. The Portland District Court rejected ...
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
Smith's wife gave the 11-year-old Ellen as a wedding gift to her daughter, Eliza Cromwell Smith, to get the girl out of the household and remove the evidence of her husband's infidelity. [ 1 ] After Eliza Smith married Dr. Robert Collins, she took Ellen with her to live in the city of Macon where they made their home.
The mother of Macon woman killed three years ago in a shooting stood in court Monday and asked the man who took her daughter’s life to apologize. The mother of Macon woman killed three years ago ...
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Patel was shot and killed around 11 p.m. Jan. 20 when he and his wife and daughter were confronted at gunpoint by three masked men in their driveway. All three family members were shot, and the ...
Barzillai Lew's story began with Primus Lew of Groton, Massachusetts (a former servant of Captain Matthew Bonner), and Margret Lew (a former servant of Samuel Scripture). ). As free blacks, Primus and Margret Lew married in 1742 and they had two sons and two daught
An autopsy report revealed that six-month-old baby Nalani Adalee Allen had blunt force injuries and internal bleeding when she died, police said. Broken ribs, blunt force trauma: Homestead parents ...