Identifier	gojg366
Title	Letter: James H. Preston to John Franklin Goucher, March 2, 1917
Creator	Preston, James H. (James Harry), 1860-1938
Subject	African Americans--Health and hygiene--Maryland African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore--History African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore--Social conditions Goucher, John Franklin, 1845-1922--Correspondence
Description	Letter dated March 2, 1917 from James H. Preston, Mayor of the City of Baltimore, to John Franklin Goucher in which Preston informs Goucher that he has appointed a committee, of which Goucher is to be a member, "to formulate suggestions and plans to bring about improvement in our housing in Baltimore". This is a followup letter to a meeting held February 23, 1917 concerning the "colored housing question". For background, see items gojg364 and gojg365.
Holding Institution	Baltimore-Washington Conference Archives, Lovely Lane United Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland
Collection	Baltimore-Washington Conference Archives, Lovely Lane United Methodist Church, John Franklin Goucher Collection
Date	1917-03-02
Date Digital	2015-04-16
Type	Text
Language	English;
Format	Digital reproduction of 1-page document, 28 x 22 cm.
Coverage (Time Period)	1911-1920
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Transcript	[printed letterhead] Mayor's Office, [logo with text] CITY OF BALTIMORE 1797 JAMES H. PRESTON MAYOR. Baltimore. Md., [typed text] March second nineteen seventeen. DR. J. F. GOUCHER, Goucher College, City. My dear Sir:- In furtherance of the meeting held in my reception room on Friday, February 23rd, I have named the following committee to formulate suggestions and plans to bring about improvement in our housing conditions in Baltimore, with power to this committee to select its own chairman. Dr. J. D. Blake, Dr. W. T. Howard, Dr. J. Hall Pleasants, Dr. W. D. Howell, Dr. J. F. Goucher, W. H. Morris, James W. Chapman, Jr., N. O. Grasty, Dr. Theodore Janeway, Judge A. S. Niles, F. M. Jencks, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Rev. C. A. Evers, General Lawrason Riggs, Morris Whitridge. J. V. Magruder, Robert Biggs, James Swan Frick, Mrs. Huntington Williams, Mrs. G. E. Ellicott. Yours very truly, [signed] James H. Preston MAYOR. JHP/JAN.