The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-11-04
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SOME WEALTHY NEGROES.
Colorcd Men Who Have Amasscd Considcrabl bl
Worldly Goods.


Worldly Goods.
John w. Cromwell, Il negro journalist
Ill Philadelphia, has compiled an inter-
estm8 exhibit Of the business condition
of his race in America.
Ihc CarOllnnS take the lead in the
number of well-to-do negroes. North
Carolina has twenty who are worth from
$40, 600 to $50, 900 each. In South Car
oi'na the negroes own $40, ,000,0 900 worth
OF property. In Charleston fourteen
men represent $2OO,OOO Thomas r,
SmallS Is worth $4,000, and Charles c..
Leslie is worth $12, 900. The family of
Noisettcs, truck TURNER'S, arc worth
$l30,OOO. In the city savings banks the
negroes have $121, ,S3G.35 on deposit.
One man has ovcr $4,000. He recently
bought $4,000 plantation and paid
81, 600 in cash.
IN Philadelphia John Mckee is worth
hall million. He owns four hundred
houses. Several are worth ten thousand
dollars each.
The negroes Of New York own from
live to slX million dollars worth Of real
estate. j. A. White, Il wholesale drug
glst, Is worth quarter of million and
has an annual business of two hundred
thousand. Catherine Black is worth
one hundred and fifty thousand.
IN New Jersey the negroes own two
million dollars worth Of real estate. Bal
timorc has more negro home owners
than any other large city. Nineteen men
are worth total OF eight hundred thou
sand. John Thomas, tho wealthicst, is
worth about one hundred and fifty thou
sand. Less than hundred negroes in
washington are worth total Of one
million.
In Louisiana the negroes pay taxes on
fifteen million dollars in New Orleans,
and thirty million in the State. Ionic
Laton, q French uuadroon, is worth one
million ono hundred thousand. The
Mercer brothers, clOthiers, carry IL stock
OF three hundred thousand. Missouri
has twenty seven citizens worth million
dollars IN amounts ranging from twenty
tlouSahd to two hundred and fifty thou
sand.
The richest colorcd woman of TIM
South, Amanda EubankS, made SO b,
will OF her white father is worth fen
hundred thousand dollars and lives nca
Augusta, Ga. Chicago, the homo O
eighteen thousand colorcd people, ha.
three cOlorcd firms in business, whose
proprlctOrS represent twenty thousand
dollars each, one fifteen thousand and
nine ten thousand. The Eastlake furni-
ture company is worth twenty thousand.
\. j. Scott has thirty-fvc thousand in
vested in the livery business, and is
worth one hundred thousand, including
II well stocked farm in Michigan Mrs.
john Jones and Richard Grant arc worth
seventy thousand each. \. G. White,
OF st. Louis, formerly purvcyor to the
Anchor line Of steamers, after financial
rcvcrscs, has, since the age of forty-fvc,
retrieved his fortunes and accumulated
thirty thousand. Mrs. NJ. Carpenter, n
San Francisco colorcd woman, has n
bank account of fifty thousand, and Mrs.
Mary Plcasants hms an income from
eight houses III San Francisco, IL ranch
near san lhctcO and one hundred thou
sand III government bonds. In Marys-
vile, Cnl., twelve individuals are the
owners of ranches valued i'm the aggrc-
gate mt from one hundred and fifty thou
sand to ono hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars. One Of them, Mrs. Peggy
Brcdan, has besides bank account Of
forty thousand dollars.
These statistics show that the brother
IN black is making some hcadway in the
world. lie IS learning to "totc his own
skillet"