Draft:Eugene P. Booze
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Eugene P. Booze was a businessman and community leader. He lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi[1] and later Mound Bayou.
He co-founded the Farmer's Cooperative Mercantile Company.[2] He was on the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League.[3]
He was a delegate at the 1924 Republican National Convention.[4] His wife, Mary Booze, served on the Republican National Committee.[5] Isaiah T. Montgomery was his father-in-law.[6] Montgomery's family feuded over his estate and Booze and his wife were charged with poisoning him.[7] Booze was killed in an ambush in 1939.[6] He owned extensive cotton lands and was described at Mound Bayou's wealthiest citizen at the time of his death.[8]
Montgomery's home which his family and Estelle Montgomery feuded over is part of the Mound Bayou Historic District.[9]
He was described as being light skinned and being able to pass as white.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ League (U.S.), National Negro Business (February 11, 1901). "Proceedings of the National Negro Business League: Its First Meeting Held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 23 and 24, 1900". J. R. Hamm – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Feldman, Lynne; Ingham, John N.; Feldman, Lynne B. (February 11, 1994). African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313272530 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Executive Committee National Negro Business League; 1. J. B. Bell, Houston, Tex.; 2. S.E. Courtney, M.D., Boston, Mass.; 3. W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; 4. T. Thomas Fortune, New York City, Chairman; 5. N.T. Velar, Brinton, Pa.; 6. J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky.; 7. M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; 8. E. P. Booze, Colorado Springs, Col.; 9. S. A. Furniss, M.D., Indianapolis, Ind.; 10. John E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark.; 11. James C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn". NYPL Digital Collections.
- ^ "Negro Year Book". Negro Year Book Publishing Company. February 11, 1925 – via Google Books.
- ^ Nowlin, William Felbert (February 11, 1970). The Negro in American National Politics. Russell & Russell. ISBN 9780846213673 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Eugene Booze, son-in-law of I. T. Montgomery". Mccomb Daily Journal. November 8, 1939. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Eugene & Mary Booze charged with murder". Clarion-Ledger. August 6, 1927. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "MISSISSIPPI: Booze Is Dead". Time. November 20, 1939 – via content.time.com.
- ^ "Preservation Fail Corrected: Eugene P. Booze House". March 25, 2014.
- ^ McMillen, Neil R. (1990). Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06156-1.