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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.