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of its time. They took turns preparing and giving speeches, discussed current political topics, and answered questions posed by fellow members. They intended the institute to be a kind of preparatory school until members gained experience and skills in public speaking. By 1841, the
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Cornish and Louella Burr Mitchell Allen saved and collected documentation, photos, and oral histories that recount his period, the First African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, and the achievements of him and his family. In 2005, the Aaron Burr Association welcomed them
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Burr would hide runaways in his house. Because Burr was of mixed race and light-skinned, he often accompanied refugees to their next stop in the city or environs. If they were questioned by police, Burr would simply say he was taking "his man" (personal servant) out for a walk.
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Episcopal congregation. Burr worked with Jones, who was ordained in 1804 as the first black Episcopal priest, to build the congregation's second church. Burr also helped develop the membership, among whom were many leaders in the black community.
419:) of the Moral Reform Retreat, Philadelphia's first shelter for African American women who were "victims of vice". Hetty also worked in business, having an employment office, and by 1860 was a dressmaker together with her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Louisa.
250:, born 1788, also the daughter of Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons. Louisa Burr worked most of her life as a domestic servant in the household of Philadelphia society matron, Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, and after her death, in the home of Mrs. Fisher's only child,
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He aided many refugees from slavery on the
Underground Railroad. Together with his wife and some of their children, he was active in fraternal organizations that worked for education, charity and civil rights for the African-American community.
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showed a familial link between descendants of John Pierre and Aaron Burr. In 2019, a new headstone was unveiled in Eden
Cemetery, identifying John Pierre Burr as a "Champion of justice and freedom, conductor on the Underground railroad".
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John and Hetty Burr had at least nine children, including John Emory, Julia
Matilda, David, Edward, Martin, Elizabeth, and Louisa. Edward and Martin both worked as carpenters. The family shared a commitment to the antislavery struggle.
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Demosthenian Institute of Philadelphia at his home on January 10, 1837. First known as a literary society, its members trained young black men in their early 20s to prepare for public speaking, like a
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in Boston and distributed nationally. He worked on civil rights, protesting disfranchisement of free blacks by the state legislature in 1838, and sheltering fugitive slaves.
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Burr worked as a barber in the city of Philadelphia, and by 1818 had his own business, a whites-only barber shop in the front room of his home.
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into the descendant family. The documents were shared with the Aaron Burr Association and historical societies, to ensure their preservation.
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during his first marriage. John (or Jean) Pierre Burr, the younger of the two, was born in 1792 in either
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