[[return]]56. The Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, August 23, 1844.
[[return]]57. Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 372.
[[return]]58. Simmons, "Men of Mark," 490.
[[return]]59. A white slaveholder, a graduate of Amherst, taught in this school. See Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, June 26, 1844.
[[return]]60. These facts were obtained from oral statements of Negroes who were living in Cincinnati at this time; from M. R. Delany's "The Condition of the Colored People in the United States"; from A. D. Barber's "Report on the Condition of the Colored People in Ohio," 1840; and from various Cincinnati Directories.
[[return]]61. Delany, "The Condition of the Colored People in the United States," 92.
[[return]]62. The Cincinnati Directory for 1860.
[[return]]63. For the leading facts concerning the life of Robert Gordon I have depended on the statements of his children and acquaintances and on the various directories and documents giving evidence concerning the business men of Cincinnati.