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.
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