John Gassett. Creation: 1870-1879. Photographer: Unknown. Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
John Gassett
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John Gassett: 1854-1921.
Born in 1854 from a single white mother, and an enslaved father. Raised in Sullivan County, Tennessee by his mother's white family, enrolled at the Freedman Institute, and majored in Latin and Classics. Teacher at Cartersville, Georgia in 1880, invested in real estate, and developed lots from Lewis Tumlin estate, now Summer Hill in Cartersville, to help settle black families. Owned a grocery store, and provided space for the first Black physician in Cartersville, Dr. William Riley Moore, to practice medicine. Died in 1921, and buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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