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James Monroe Trotter served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War and, following this conflict, became the first African American to find employment in the Boston, Massachusetts division of the United States Post Office. . . .

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The Ridges was formally an asylum for the mentally ill in Athens, Ohio. . . .

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The Ridges was formally an asylum for the mentally ill in Athens, Ohio. . . .

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The J.M. Smucker Company produces a wide array of jams, jellies, and other food items. . . .

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The First Regular African Baptist Church of Christ of Chillicothe, the predecessor of the First Anti-slavery Baptist Church and of the First Baptist Church, was an African-American church established in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1824. . . .

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The First Regular African Baptist Church of Christ of Chillicothe, the predecessor of the First Anti-slavery Baptist Church and of the First Baptist Church, was an African-American church established in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1824. . . .

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Jerome Monroe Smucker founded the J.M. Smucker Company, which produces a wide array of jams, jellies, and other food items. . . .

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The First Regular African Baptist Church of Christ of Chillicothe, the predecessor of the First Anti-slavery Baptist Church and of the First Baptist Church, was an African-American church established in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1824. . . .

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Emma Ann Reynolds was the first African-American woman admitted to the Medical College of Chicago at Northwestern University. . . .

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The Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church was an African-American church established in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1821. . . .

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