Subject: African American businesspeople / Genre: photographs / Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection / Names: Roberts, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1852-1927 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:: [circa 1905-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary, with a sign reading "Roberts Mortuary" located at 1415 Central Avenue.
Date:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:: [1922 or later]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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