George T. Downing

b. New York, NY, December 30, 1819
d. Newport, RI, July 21, 1903

Bibliography

"Local News Items - Another Incendiary Fire!" Newport Daily News, 17 December 1860. 

"Local News Items," Newport Daily News, 18 December 1860. 

"Fire!" Newport Mercury, 22 December 1860. 

"George T. Downing - Unexpected Death of Prominent Citizen of Newport," Newport Daily News, 22 July 1903. 

"Died," Newport Daily News, 23 July 1903. 

"Funeral of George T. Downing," Newport Daily News, 24 July 1903. 

"A Leader of His People," Newport Mercury, 25 July 1903. 

"Fifty Years Ago."  Newport Mercury, 7 November 1925. 

Bayles, Richard M., ed. History of Newport County, Rhode Island. New York: L. E. Preston & Co., 1881. 594, 595. 

Grossman, Lawrence. "George T. Downing and Segregation of Rhode Island Public Schools, 1855-1866," Rhode Island History. Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society. Vol. 36, No.4 (November 1977): 99-105. 

Hewitt, J. H.  "Mr. Downing and His Oyster House: The Life and Good Works of an African-American Entrepreneur,"  New York History (July 1993): 229-252. 

Hoff, Henry B. "Frans Abramse Van Salee and His Descendants: A Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. 121, No.2 (April-October 1990): 65-71, 157-161, 205-211. 

Hopkins, G.M., Atlas of the City of Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, 1883. Plate 6. 

Hopkins, G.M., City Atlas of Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, 1876. Plate F. 

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Washington, S.A.M. George Thomas Downing: Sketch of His Life and Times. Newport: The Mime Printery, 1910. 

Youngken, Richard C. African Americans in Newport: An Introduction to the Heritage of African Americans in Newport; Rhode Island 1700-1945. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 1995. 53. 

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