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Harry Bradshaw Matthews, Associate Dean

and Director of U.S. Pluralism Programs

Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820

607-431-4428

http://www.hartwick.edu/usct/usct.htm

 

Postscript: While most of Isaac Newton Arnold's personal items were
destroyed in the Chicago fire of October 1871, one book that survived was
his copy of the "Memorial Volume of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of
Hartwick Seminary Held August 21, 1866," in which he wrote many notes; one
inscription affirmed his connection to Hartwick Seminary and Academy. The
book is today included in the Matthews Collection for the Preservation of
Freedom Journey Classics that is owned by Harry Bradshaw Matthews. Matthews
is the 54-year-old grandson of the formerly enslaved American, Richard
Parler, Jr. of Denmark, South Carolina. Matthews is a 1970 graduate of
Roosevelt Jr-Sr. High School in Roosevelt, Long Island. He currently serves
as the executive director of the United States Colored Troops Institute for
Local History and Family Research at Hartwick College.