John J. Minor's Second Street Barbershop Listing in William's Ohio State Directory, 1875-1876.

ID: 696 ~ Source: William's Ohio State Directory, 1875-1876, Local History Department, Portsmouth Public Library.

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Born in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not long after the city had expelled many of its Black residents during its infamous “Black…