JESUS is Alive! By Ron Kenoly

JESUS Is Alive! ----- Day 4 ------ By Greg Asimakoupoulos ---- 2002

 

People of all ages gathered in a small Baptist church in rural Bangladesh to view a screening of the "JESUS" film.  The small building was so crowded that little children had to sit on the floor, while rows of adults stood in the back. 

During the crucifixion scene, weeping and gaps of disbelief could be heard as the dark-skinned audience looked on in horror.

As the Bengalis watched, they vicariously sensed the drama of the moment.  It was as if they actually could feel the agony of JESUS' pain and the diappointment of the disciples.  

In that emotional moment, one young boy near the makeshift screen jumped to his feet and cried out, "Don't be afraid.  He gets up again!  I saw the movie before."

Whether we say, "HE gets up again,"  "CHRIST is risen," or "HE'S Alive!", the reality of the resurrection should not be reserved for only one Sunday a year.  The message of Easter is the foundation of our Faith every single day of our lives.

Because JESUS defeated death.  HE is not bound by space, time, or distance.  HE'S alive!  JESUS lives forever!  Write in block letter across your calendar, 

 "EVERY DAY IS EASTER!"

  Hebrews 7:24-25

24 But this man, because he continueth ever*, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

 

Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart by Henry Smith

Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart --- Day 1 ----- By Greg Asimakoupoulos ---- 2002

 

 Give thanks. 

 To whom?  

      The Holy One, GOD Himself. 

 Why?    

   Because HE has given JESUS CHRIST, His SON.  

GOD gave His SON for what?  

 To die on a cross and save us from our sins. 

Give thanks.  

How? 

      With a grateful heart.

💙💚💛💜💙💚💛💜💙💚💛💜 

If we really think about it ,we are overwhelmed. 
GOD sent His one and only SON to die a cruel death on a cross.  That's how much HE loves us ----rebellious,evil, contentious, and sinful people.  We don't deserve such love.
We don't deserve to have someone die for us------ and yet Someone did.

GOD looked down upon His glorious creation, now stained by sin, and HE knew HE would act to bring us back to Himself. 
 

Sin had to be punished, but HE took the punishment upon Himself through HIS SON.

When JESUS shed HIS blood on the cross, HE was paying the punishment for our sins.  Now, when we accept HIS sacrifice, we are made right with GOD.






Give thanks, and do so with a grateful heart!

💙💚💛💜💙💚💛💜💙💚💛💜

We would have no hope for eternity if not for the Holy One who has given JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON, for us.

John 3:16 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 

Promises Of God from the King James Version

Bible Verses About Promises Of God

 
Genesis 3:15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Acts 2:38-39 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.   (Read More...)

Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:4 - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Corinthians 1:20 - For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Titus 1:2 - In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

2 Corinthians 7:1 - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

John 14:18 - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Psalms 84:11 - For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

1 Kings 8:56 - Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

Proverbs 16:1-33 - The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD.   (Read More...)

John 6:50-71 - This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.   (Read More...)

John 4:24 - God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 - Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.   (Read More...)

John 6:55-59 - For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.   (Read More...)
 

By Debbye Graafsma ------ To HIM Who Sits On TheThrone

To HIM Who Sits On the Throne ----- 20002 -------- Greg Asimakoupoulos ------Day 77

 

It was her dad's 50th birthday party.  Even though, she wanted to stay up, Patty's mom insisted she go to bed before the company arrived.  With the doorbell and all the voices, laughter, and music, the 4 year old could not fall asleep.  So when her curiosity could stand it  no longer, Patty slipped out of bed and quietly descended the staircase.  

To her disappointment, the French doors leading in to the living room were closed.  Patty was wise enough to know that it would not be smart to pen the doors and walk in.  So stepping up on her tiptoes, she peeked through the keyhole near the door latch.  What she saw was unlike any birthday party she'd been to.  It was magical!

When it comes to heaven, the writers of the New Testament don't go into specific detail, but they do provide us a keyhole through which we can peek.  Far more wonderful than the most elaborate birthday party, heaven promises  to be a worship festival that defies words.

The music will be breathtaking.  The beauty will be thrilling,  The glory of GOD'S presence will leave us straining for words.  As the old gospel hymn puts it,  "What a day of rejoicing that will be!"

Revelation 5:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

 

Graham Kendrick ------ Meekness and Majesty

Meekness and Majesty ---- Day 76 ------ Greg Asimakoupoulos -----2002

 
  

 Oxymorons are word couplets that negate one another.  They are paired opposities like "jumbo shrimp," "now then", "genuine copy", and "recorded live".  Some of them can be humorous, such as "Microsoft Works", "military intelligence", of "airplane food".

When it come to describing JESUS, oxymorons are neither funny nor out of the ordinary.  We can't seem to come to terms with HIS identity without allowing for descriptions that defy normal categories.  HE is the GOD-Man, the Morning Star, the Suffering Messiah, and the Servant King.

In this wonderful hymn by Graham Kendrick about the Incarnation, we are posed with another oxymoron:  Meekness and Majesty.  In fact, the lyrics of this song are filled with contrasts.  When you stop and think about it, ours is an oxymoronic faith.  The "simple mystery" of salvation is a portrait of opposites.  We die in order to live.  We give in order to receive.  The first shall be last.

Before doing anything else today, why not watch and pray?

Mark 10:45 King James Version (KJV)

⁴⁵ For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.


Celebrate the mystery of your Faith.  As difficult as it might be for you, talk to the LORD without needing to understand how prayer works or why HE allows what HE does. 

 

7 Blessings from the Holy Spirit (part 2)---- Romans 8---- 6-23-19---- By David Higgs

 

1.   Holy Spirit continually reminds me of my    
      complete forgiveness (v. 1)


2.   Victory over sin (vv. 5-14)


3.    HOPE for any situation (vv.18-27)

            Reasons Why We Have HOPE

• We have HOPE for a great future (v.18)
• We have HOPE that gets us through suffering (v.,18)
• HOPE of a future resurrection  (v.23)
• HOPE that the HOLY SPIRIT is praying for us even when we are going through struggles (v.26)

4.   Assurance for every problem (vv. 28-30)

There is a purpose for everything that happens in your life.

GOD will use it All for HIS purpose.
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Questions:  What is the purpose of all things?


Answer:  "To be conformed to the likeness of HIS SON"  (v.29)
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5.   Freedom From All fear (v. 31)  
      Isaiah 43:2


6.   Solution For Every Need  (v.32)

• (gave)  -   HIS own SON
• (give)   -  all things

7.   Divine Security For All of Eternity
      (vv. 35-39)

• No Separation from the LOVE of GOD  (v.38)

•  GOD Loves HIS children

Why Am I Saved? ---Romans 7:1-13 ---- 5-26-19---- By Dr. David Higgs

I.   Why I Need to be Saved  (Chapters 1-2)

II.  How I am Saved  (Chapters 3-5)

III. Living life after I am Saved (Chapters 6-7)
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Sin -----Salvation -------- Sanctification
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Purpose of LAW

1. Reveals sin to us. (verse 7)
2. Shows us that we have fallen short (verses 10-11)
3. Reveals GOD'S character (verse 12)

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Why Am I Saved?

1. To bear fruit for my new master, the LORD GOD (verse 4) 
2. To love my new Master, GOD (verse 6)
3. Galatians 5:22

 Dear LORD, have I pleased YOU today?
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Applications

1. Be intentional about serving the LORD out of Pure Love each day.
2. Be intentional about producing an abundance of fruit each day.

 

Yes, You Can Help It! ---Romans6:1-14----Dr. David Higgs ----April 28,2019

Why you Must not continue in sin.

1. You died with CHRIST.  Galatians 2:20
2. You were buried with CHRIST.
3. You are alive in CHRIST.

Applications

1. Count yourself dead to sin.
2. Refuse to let sin reign ( verses 11-12)
3. Use your body differently than the world does. (verse 13)
4. Every Christian Must reject the lie that you cannot control your sinful desires.

 

7 Blessings From The Holy Spirit ---- Romans 8 ----- By Dr. David Higgs ------ 6-9-19

Indwelling of the Holy Spirit

John 14:17
Acts 11:16-17
Romans 5:5
I Corinthians 2:12
II Corinthians 5:5
Romans 8:9
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Filling of the Holy Spirit
  Extensive Influence and Control of a    
   Believer's Life

JESUS  -Luke 4:1
Helpers -Acts 6:3,5
Stephen  -Acts 7:55
Barnabas -Acts 11:24
Disciples  - Acts 13:52
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HIS Spirit continually reminds me of my complete forgiveness.
  John 5:24

Day 51 By Greg Asimakoupoulos

There's so such thing as a FREE lunch.  That old axiom means that there has to be somebody footing the bill somewhere. 

Those who make their way to a soup kitchen or a rescue mission don't have to pay at the door.  They are welcome.  But someone has contributed to this agency so it could provide for others

the some could be said for heaven's handout.  Looking down on HIS fallen creation, GOD saw ua in out need.  We could not repair the rift that separated us from our Creator. 

Heaven was designed to be our ultimate home, but without some kind of intervention we would be forever homeless.




A Holy GOD who is wholly compassionate designed a rescue mission that would bridge the breach.  He would offer us complete forgiveness, residency in heaven, and full inheritance as sons and daughters. 

The only way HE could accomplish this was to punish HIS perfect SON by placing on HIM all out guilt, shame, and selfish ambition.  Grace would be FREE, but it would come with an unbelievably costly price tag.

No wonder we call it "Amazing Grace".  In light of all JESUS did to purchase our salvation, no wonder we claim HIM as the KING of our lives.

2 Corinthians 8:9 King James Version (KJV)

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Consider the contrasts that distinguish us from our Great GOD.  Think about what the Father paid that we might FREELY claim HIS love. 
 
 

YOU Are My KING By Billy James Foote

I'm forgiven because, You were forsaken
I'm accepted, You were condemned
I'm alive and well, Your Spirit lives within me
Because, You died and rose again

I'm forgiven because, You were forsaken
I'm accepted, You were condemned
I'm alive and well, Your Spirit lives within me
Because, You died and rose again

Amazing love, how can it be
That You, my King, would die for me?
Amazing love, I know it's true
It's my joy, to honor You
In all I do, I honor You

 

 

 

Launching Arrows: 8 Principles that will change the trajectory of your life By Jacob Davis May 19,2019 --- The Cause

 

I.   Take your thoughts captive  (Romans 12:2)
   A.  Sow a Thought and you Reap an Act
   B.  Sow an Act and you Reap a Habit
   C.  Sow a Habit and you Reap a Character
   D.  Sow a Character and you Reap a Destiny  





II.   Hate Sin  (Romans 6:16)
 

III.   Every Conflict is an Opportunity
     A.   Matthews 5:22
    B.   Matthews  18:15-17


IV.   Community is FORGED not FOUND
     A.  Hebrews 10:24-25
    B.  Mark 2: 3-5


V.   Authentic Worship
     A.  Isaiah 29:13


VI.   Use Bible As A Blueprint
      A.  II Timothy 3:16


VII.   Surrender Brings VICTORY!
      A.  Matthew 16:24-25


VIII.   Educate Your Heart
      A.   Proverbs 4:23

 

Why Do I Still Struggle With Sin? Romans 7:14-25 June 2, 2019 By Dr. David Higgs

I.  Explanation of the Struggle
    A.  Old Rebellious Flesh vs. New Spirit
   B.  verses 2-3

II.   Emotions of the Struggle
   A.   (v.15) Confused
   B.   (v. 17) Frustrated
   C.   (v. 24)  Trapped


III.   Escape From the Struggle  (Verses 24-25)
    A.   He needed GOD'S help over the struggle
   B.   Only deliverance to beat the flesh is through deliverance   
          through JESUS CHRIST   

Applications

1. Be on the constant alert for the old rebellious flesh.
2. Know your weaknesses.
3. Fear what giving into sinful flesh can do.
4. Quit taking Vitamin "I".
5. Turn to LORD for help immediately.

ONE SIN CAN DESTROY YOUR LIFE!

• Temper
• Lack of Self-Control
• Jealousy
• (Mouth)  Addiction

Dr. Youssef Words For Being Fully Alive in CHRIST

Apart from Christ, I was:                                              Because of the resurrection, I am:

Dead in my sin  (Eph. 2:1)                                             Dead to sin and alive to GOD (Rom. 6:11)
Deserving of wrath (Eph. 2:3)                                       No longer condemned (Rom. 8:1)
Hopelessly lost (Luke 19:10)                                          Made new (II Cor. 5:17)
Condemned (John 3:18)                                                 Redeemed and forgiven (Eph 1:7)
Separated from GOD (Eph.2:12)                                  Brought near to CHRIST (Eph. 2:13)
An enemy of GOD (Col.1:21)                                         Secure in HIS hands (John 10:28)
A slave to sin (Rom. 6:20)                                               No longer a slave, but a son (Rom. 8:15)
Living without a purpose (Eccl. 2:24-26)                      Set apart for GOD'S purposes (I Pet. 2:9)
Spiritually blind (Eph. 4:18)                                          More than a conqueror (Rom. 8:37)

 

Inventor of the Lasting Shoe Maker Machine ------ Mr Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889)

Jan Ernst Matzeliger 

(September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889)

He was an inventor whose lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes.
Matzeliger was born on a coffee plantation in Dutch Guiana, now Suriname. 

His father, Ernst Matzeliger, was a third generation Dutchman of German descent living in the Dutch Guiana capital city of Paramaribo. He owned and operated the Colonial Shipworks that had been in his family for three generations.

 His mother was a house slave of African descent; she lived on the plantation of which his father was the owner for a time. At the age of ten, Jan Matzeliger was apprenticed in the Colonial Ship Works in Paramaribo, where he demonstrated a natural aptitude for machinery and mechanics.

He left Dutch Guiana at age 19, and worked as a mechanic on a Dutch East Indies merchant ship for several years before settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he first learned the shoe trade.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889) Inventor of the Shoe Lasting Machine

In the early days of shoe making, shoes were made mainly by hand. For proper fit, the customer's feet had to be duplicated in size and form by creating a stone or wooden mold called a "last" from which the shoes were sized and shaped.

 Since the greatest difficulty in shoe making was the actual assembly of the soles to the upper shoe, it required great skill to tack and sew the two components together. It was thought that such intricate work could only be done by skilled human hands. 



After five years of work, Matzeliger obtained a patent for his invention of an automated shoe laster in 1883.  A skilled hand laster could produce 50 pairs in a ten-hour day.

 Matzeliger's machine could produce between 150 and 700 pairs of shoes a day, cutting shoe prices across the nation in half.
 
Matzeliger sacrificed his health working exhausting hours on his invention and not eating over long periods of time. He caught a cold which quickly developed into tuberculosis.

His early death in Lynn, Massachusetts from this disease meant he never saw the full profit of his invention. He died on August 24, 1889, three weeks shy of his 37th birthday.

Inventor of the Shoe Lasting Machine ---- Jan Ernst Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889)

Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger in 1885
Born	15 September 1852 Paramaribo, Surinam
Passed Away	24 August 1889 (aged 36) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.

Patents

• 274,207, 3/20/1883, Automatic method for lasting shoe
• 421,954, 2/25/1890, Nailing machine
• 423,937, 3/25/1890, Tack separating and distributing mechanism
• 459,899, 9/22/1891, Lasting machine
• 415,726, 11/26/1899, Mechanism for distributing tacks, nails, etc.
• 467,840, 7/24/1891, The second advanced lasting shoe machine

Jan Ernst Matzeliger: Great Moments in Shoe History (1852–1889)

Invention of the Lasting Machine

Matzeliger set out to find a solution to the problems he discerned in the shoemaking process. He thought there had to be a way to develop an automatic method for lasting shoes. He began coming up with designs for machines that could do the job. After experimenting with several models, he applied for a patent on a "lasting machine."

On March 20, 1883, Matzeliger received patent number 274,207 for his machine. The mechanism held a shoe on a last, pulled the leather down around the heel, set and drove in the nails, and then discharged the completed shoe. It had the capacity to produce 700 pairs of shoes a day—more than 10 times the amount typically produced by human hands.

HONORING JAN ERNST MATZELIGER FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR SOLES (1852–1889)

 

 

Invention of the Start of the Lasting Machine

After settling in the United States, Matzeliger worked for several years to learn English. As a dark-skinned man, his professional options were limited, and he struggled to make a living in Philadelphia. In 1877, Matzeliger moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, to seek work in the town's rapidly growing shoe industry. He found a position as an apprentice in a shoe factory. Matzeliger learned the cordwaining trade, which involved crafting shoes almost entirely by hand.

Cordwainers made molds of customers' feet, called "lasts," with wood or stone. The shoes were then sized and shaped according to the molds. The process of shaping and attaching the body of the shoe to its sole was done entirely by hand with "hand lasters." This was considered the most difficult and time-consuming stage of assembly.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852–1889) --- Inventor of the Lasting Shoe Machine

 

 

Synopsis

Jan Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo (now Suriname) in 1852. Matzeliger settled in the United States in 1873 and trained as a shoemaker. In 1883, he patented a shoe lasting machine that increased the availability of shoes and decreased the price of footwear. He died of tuberculosis on August 24, 1889.

Early Life

Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born on September 15, 1852, in Paramaribo, Suriname—known at the time as Dutch Guiana. Matzeliger's father was a Dutch engineer, and his mother was Surinamese. Showing mechanical aptitude at a young age, Matzeliger began working in machine shops supervised by his father at the age of 10. At 19, he left Suriname to see the world as a sailor on an East Indian merchant ship. In 1873, he settled in Philadelphia.

What Can Be Higher Than This?

Ledisi - Higher Than This........?

Jan Ernst Matzeliger in 1885 Inventor of lasting machine which brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger in 1885
Born	15 September 1852 Paramaribo, Surinam
Died	24 August 1889 (aged 36) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.

Who is Lewis Latimer?

Lewis Howard Latimer
Latimer in 1882
Born	September 4, 1848 Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 11, 1928 (aged 80) Flushing, Queens, New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Inventor, Author, Engineer, Patent Consultant, Draftsman, Navy Landsman (Rank)
Spouse(s)	Mary Wilson Lewis (m. 1873)
Children	Jeanette (Mrs. Gerald F. Norman), Louise
Parent(s)	George W. Latimer (1818–1896) Rebecca Smith (1823–1910)

Do you Know what Lewis Howard Latimer invented ? 1848-1928

 

 

 

Patents

• U.S. Patent 147,363 "Water closets for railway cars," February 10, 1874.
• U.S. Patent 247,097 "Electric lamp" (with Nichols, Joseph V.), September 13, 1881
• U.S. Patent 252,386 "Process of Manufacturing Carbons," January 17, 1882,
• U.S. Patent 255,212 "Supporter for electric lamps" (with Tregoning, John), March 21, 1882
• U.S. Patent 334,078 "Early Air Conditioning Unit Apparatus for cooling and disinfecting," January 12, 1886
• U.S. Patent 557,076 "Locking rack for hats, coats, and umbrellas," March 24, 1896
• U.S. Patent 968,787 "Lamp fixture" (with Brown, Charles W.), August 30, 1910

Book

L.H. Latimer, Incandescent Electric Lighting (1890)

Latimer's Patent for Carbon Filament Process

 

 

 

 

Legacy

• Latimer is an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on electric filament manufacturing techniques.

 
 

•  The Latimer family house is on Latimer Place in Flushing, Queens. It was moved from the original location to a nearby small park and turned into the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum in honor of the inventor. 

 

• Latimer was a founding member of the Flushing, New York, Unitarian Church.

 
 

• A set of apartment houses in Flushing are called "Latimer Gardens".

 
 

• P.S. 56 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, is named Lewis H. Latimer School in Latimer's honor.

 
 

• A invention program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named after him.

Inventor of Light bulb with improved Filament in 1883

Technical work and inventions

Light bulb with improved filament patented by Lewis Latimer, 1883

In 1874, he co-patented (with Charles W. Brown) an improved toilet system for railroad cars called the Water Closet for Railroad Cars (U.S. Patent 147,363)

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell employed Latimer, then a draftsman at Bell's patent law firm, to draft the necessary drawings required to receive a patent for Bell's telephone.

In 1879, he moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, with his brother William, his mother Rebecca, and his wife Mary. Other family members, his brother George A. Latimer and his wife Jane, and his sister Margaret and her husband Augustus T. Hawley and their children, were already living there. Lewis was hired as assistant manager and draftsman for the U.S. Electric Lighting Company, a company owned by Hiram Maxim, a rival of Thomas A. Edison. 

In 1881, Latimer, along with Joseph Nichols, invented a light bulb with a carbon filament, an improvement on Thomas Edison's original paper filament, which would burn out quickly, and sold the patent to the United States Electric Company in 188.

 He received a second patent on January 17th 1882 for the "Process of Manufacturing Carbons", an improved method for the production of lightbulb carbon filaments.

(September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) Lewis Howard Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer 

 (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) 

He was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the lightbulb and telephone.



He married Mary Wilson Lewis on November 15, 1873, in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of William and Louisa M. Lewis.

The couple had two daughters, Emma Jeanette (June 12, 1883 – February 1978) and Louise Rebecca (April 19, 1890 – January 1963). 

Jeanette married Gerald Fitzherbert Norman, the first black person hired as a high school teacher in the New York City public school system, and had two children: 

Winifred Latimer Norman (October 7, 1914 – February 4, 2014), a social worker who served as the guardian of her grandfather's legacy; and Gerald Latimer Norman (December 22, 1911 – August 26, 1990), who became an administrative law judge.

Lewis Howard Latimer -----Biography

Biography of   ---    Lewis Howard Latimer

                

     

Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, the youngest of four children of Rebecca Latimer (1823 – August 13, 1910) and George Latimer (July 4, 1818 – May 29, 1897).

George Latimer had been the slave of James B. Gray of Virginia. George Latimer ran away to freedom to Boston, Massachusetts, in October 1842, along with his wife Rebecca, who had been the slave of another man. 

When Gray, the owner, appeared in Boston to take them back to Virginia, it became a noted case in the movement for abolition of slavery, gaining the involvement of such abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison.

 Eventually funds were raised to pay Gray $400 for the freedom of George Latimer.

Lewis Latimer joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 15 on September 16, 1863, and served as a Landsman on the USS Massasoit.