Items

• McDonough Reference Files Inventory

  An inventory of McDonogh materials available at Lafayette College Archives & Special Collections.
• David's bequeathed land

  The land owned by David McDonogh, as described in his will. This is the property that was liquidated and used to raise money for David's various benefactors after his death.
• Offices of Michael T. Barrett, Counselor-at-Law

  Michael T. Barrett's offices at 88 Broad Street. Barrett wrote letters to David's various benefactors, including Lafayette College, informing them of David's will and testament.
• Plane Presbyterian Church

  132 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, United States. Site of Plane St. Presbyterian Church, which David McDonogh probably attended. (Plane St. later renamed University Ave.)
• Streetcars outside Old City Hall

  Streetcars ran through much of Newark, and encouraged settlement in far flung suburbs. In the 1890s they were pulled by horses. 920 Broad Street, Newark, NJ, United States.
• Intersection of Springfield and Belmont Avenues

  Bustling Newark around the year 1900.
• McDonough Residence

  239 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, United States
• South Orange Ave Reservoir

  A reservoir close to the McDonogh residence.
• Historical map of Liberia
• St. Philip's Episcopal Church

  St. Philip's Episcopal Church was originally founded in 1818 and became the first African American Epsicopal church in New York City. One of its original locations was on 31 Centre Street in New York City. It is now located on 208 West 134th Street. St. Philip's was lead in its early years by leading abolitionist, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. The church continued to play a key role in the fight for civil rights for African Americans.
• Abyssinian Baptist Church

  Abyssinian Baptist Church, the oldest black congregation in New York, was founded in 1808 by a group of African American and Ethopians that refused accept segragated churches. Along with their abolitionist efforts and fight for equality, the church was and still is highly involved in the African American community. Some of the churches notable pastors included Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and his son Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
• Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church

  The roots of the Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) trace back as far as the the late 1700s however the church was not recoginized until 1820. The recoginition of the church came at a time when more African Americans in New York were gaining their freedom. The AME Church made it their goal to end slavery in the south and racsim in the north. The church was also a stoping point in the underground railroad. Some of it's notable members include Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.
• Shiloh Presbyterian Church

  Shiloh Presbyterian Church was founded in 1822 as the First Colered Presbyterian Church under the abolitionist Samuel Carnish. From its opening, the church was involved in abolitionist effort ranging from the underground railroad to boycotts on products that were produced by slave labor. Fellow activist, Henry Highland Garnet, was the third pastor of the church.
• Plane Street Colored Presbyterian Church

  Established on May 1835. Was most likely the Church that David regularly attended.
• American Missionary Association National Office

  The American Missionary Association was originally founded in 1846 in Albany, New York. Its main goals were to abolish slavery, promote racial equality, and educate African Americans as well as promoting Christian values. This association was also responsible for the founding of anti-slavery churches. During the 1870s the national office relocated to 287 4th Avenue in New York City. The AMA was responsible for the founding of numerous schools and colleges including Fisk and Howard University.
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

  Was organized in 1842 in a building on Greene Street with a group of 15 members. It has moved several times and eventually changed its name to St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church and moved to 90 Union Street and then to the present location at 588 High Street.
• Donations and Board of Managers

  Adding these pages of donations, shows how much the community contributed to the first hospital. The various sources of donations to the Mcdonough Hospital portrays how imperative a non-segregated Hospital was at the time.
• Ground Breaking for the Second Hospital in 1918
• The First McDonogh Hospital 1898
• McDonogh Group's Leaders Pondering Future of $45,000

  This article outlined a lot of the information for the fund raising of the second hospital.
• Pictures for McDonogh medical career
• Attempts to Raise Funds for a Second Hosptial

  Various shareholders tried to accumulate funds to open a new hospital, especially in the eve of WWI. But due to lack of funds and a statement issued by the surgeon general, saying that "no more institutions of the type contemplated by the Mcdonogh group were needed by the army."; the hospital never opened.
• City Closes First Hospital

  "New York City officialdom, however, was not satisfied with the standards maintained, and closed the hospital in 1900. The assets lay dormant for a decade."
• First Hospital opens

  Opened in a section of the city called " Little Africa"; "The Hospital opens two new fields. The one is a hospital in which physicians, regardless of nationality, creed or color, can have clinical practice; the other is a training school in which our colored girls can learn to be professional nurses.
• Formation of McDonogh Memorial Hospital Association

  Dr. Peter Johnson, once a mentee under the direction of David McDonogh, co-founded the organization in hopes to bring high quality medical services to the urban poor in New York City. Its officers, along with Dr. Johnson, were Dr. T. S. Miller, vice-president; and Dr. W. M. Lively, Secretary.