Warren Logan to Charles W. Chesnutt, 30 November 1915
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Campaign.
November 30, 1915.
Mr. Charles W. Chestnut,
Williamson Bldg.,
Cleveland, Ohio
My dear Sir:
I hope you will pardon the liberty I take in writing you.
Mr. Mitchell V. Scott, a graduate of this institution, has located at Cleveland as field secretary succeeding Mr. Clarence A. Powell,1 who represented Tuskegee Institute for many years in that territory and whom you know. If at any time you may be in position to be of service to Mr. Scott in connection with his work, I will greatly appreciate whatever help you may render him. He is new in this particular work, but is a quiet, unassuming young man and we hope that he may make new friends for our work.
Thanking you for the service you rendered Mr. Powell from time to time I am
Yours very truly, Warren Logan Treasurer and Acting Principal. F[?]2Correspondent: Warren Logan (1859–1942), born enslaved in North Carolina, first met Booker T. Washington as a fellow student at the Hampton Institute. He served as treasurer of the Tuskegee Institute for 42 years (1888–1924), and as acting principal when Booker T. Washington was traveling and after Booker T. Washington's death. Although Logan and Emmett J. Scott were both named as possible successors to Washington, Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) from the Hampton Institute was selected.
1. Clarence A. Powell served as a Northern Financial Agent (later called "Field Agents"), fundraising for the Tuskegee Institute in the Northeast and Midwest from 1907 to 1918. He was still active for Tuskegee in the 1930s in Oklahoma, according to newspaper accounts. Mitchell Victorious Scott graduated from Tuskegee in the summer of 1914; he was listed as a Tuskegee Northern Financial Agent for the academic years 1915–16 and 1916–17. [back]
2. Very likely the initials of Thomas J. Ferguson (?–1939), who was assistant to treasurer Warren Logan at the Tuskegee Institute at this time, and later became involved with the Black business ventures of Heman E. Perry (1873–1929), Standard Life Insurance and Citizens Trust Bank of Atlanta. [back]
