Sunday, July 4, 2010
Jacob C. White, Jr. (1837-1902)
A Black educator who lived here, White was the principal of the Robert Vaux School for forty years. He was a founder of the city's first Black baseball club, the Pythians, and the first president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital.
Reference: http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=16
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