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vi medical association ever organized in America. While in California, Dr. Majors married Miss Georgia A. Green, of Texas, an accomplished lady, in 1889.

Dr. Majors was a welcome associate in the medical societies of California, where his color was no bar to his participancy in was invited to lecture on medical topics the proceedings.

He before the Los Angeles Medical College. He was also very active in the political life of the State, and through The Western News, a paper which he edited, secured recognition of his race on the police force, in city public works, and in the office of assessor and collector. Prior to this no Negro had ever been so employed in any of the departments of the city.

Returning to Texas, in 1890, he at once began the compilation of " Noted Negro Women." This merited recognition of the virtues and force of the noted women of the race, whose work and influence have all too long been unnoticed, will receive at the hands of a discriminating public the attention its importance demands. Epic in subject, inspiring in effect, it is no less true in fact, and only a culling from the wealth of similar material supplied in the lives of hundreds of others, who, though possibly less eminent in the public eye, are no less true, devoted, capable, and noble exemplars of our possibilities and queens in our homes.

H. T. Kealing, Waco, Texas.

President Paul Quinn College.