Portrait of Professor Wilbur Siebert, Ph.D., of The Ohio State University

ID: 699 ~ Source: Ohio Memory, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio.

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…