Английская Википедия:Herschel V. Cashin
Herschel Vivian Cashin was an American lawyer, state legislator, and public official in the United States.[1]
He was born in the state in Georgia to a white Irish father and a free "mulatto" woman. He was educated in Philadelphia by Octavius Catto at the Institute for Colored Youth,[2] but returned to the south to serve in the Alabama House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.[3] Charles Spencer Smith, his colleague in the Alabama House, described him as a friend.[4]
Theodore Roosevelt nominated him to be Receiver of Public Monies in Huntsville, Alabama.[5] He was the lead author of Under Fire With the Tenth Cavalry about "the Negro's Participation in Wars of the United States" and the Spanish-American War in particular.[6][7]
Several of his descendants were active in civil rights advocacy including grandson John L. Cashin Jr. And great-granddaughter Sheryll Cashin.
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