Green (known as the “Father of Greater New York” for his role in founding Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other landmarks) in front of Green’s Park Avenue home, confusing him with Platt.īlack Entrepreneur History writes that in reality, her and Mr. Emails are serviced by Constant ContactĪfter Elias reunited with Platt, he gave her large sums of money, and “volunteered to start her in the boarding-house business”, at 128 W 53rd Street, whereas the proprietress rented a room to Cornelius Williams. She then moved into a mansion at 236 Central Park West, passing as Sicilian or Cuban. Williams later fatally shot city planner Andrew H.
You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. She became pregnant and gave birth at the Blockley Almshouse in December 1885, giving the child up for adoption.īy submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Harlem World Magazine, 2521 1/2 west 42nd street, Los Angeles, CA, 90008. Satterfield asked her to live with the latter in a boardinghouse in east Philadelphia. She left the brothel when her twin brother David and suitor Frank P. Supporting herself as a sex worker at a “resort” owned by Emelyn Truitt in Manhattan’s Tenderloin neighborhood, she met wealthy glass-factory owner John R. Hannah Elias was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 1820 Addison Street, one of nine children. Her father Charles Elias was a “negro with Indian blood in him” who ran a large, well-regarded catering operation, her mother Mary Elias was “almost white”, and they sent her to public school. In 1884, to attend her sister Hattie’s wedding in style, Hannah borrowed a ball gown without permission from her employer, leading to a sentence at Moyamensing Prison and her banishment from home. 1865-1938, was a Harlem, NY sex worker and landlord who became one of the richest Black women in the world during her lifetime.
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