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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.