Robert Thomas Teamoh (March 25, 1864 – June 20, 1912; pen name: Scribbler)[1] was an American journalist, newspaper editor, printmaker, and politician. He worked as a reporter for The Boston Globe, and was a state legislator in Massachusetts.[2][3][4] He lived in Boston, Massachusetts.

Personal life

Robert Thomas Teamoh was born on March 25, 1864, in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Thomas and Margaret Patterson Teamoh.[5] He was the nephew of Virginia state senator George Teamoh.[6]

He attended Boston Latin School.[7] Teamoh graduated in 1879 from Boston Industrial Drawing School (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design).[7]

In 1894, he married Julia Jackson.[8]

Career

In his early career Teamoh worked briefly at The Observer, a "colored" newspaper in Boston.[7] He worked in photoengraving, and had opened up a related business in New London, Connecticut.[7]

Teamoh was a city editor for The Boston Leader newspaper, as well as a contributor to The New York Age, and The Boston Advocate under the pen name "Scribbler".[7] Teamoh worked for The Boston Globe newspaper for over 20 years.[5][7] He is believed to be the first African American reporter for a white newspaper in Boston.[9]

He represented Ward 9 of the 1894 Massachusetts legislature. He was part of a delegation of legislators that visited Virginia. Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Virginia's governor, refused the meet with the delegation while Teamoh was part of it. This caused some outrage and protest in Massachusetts.[10] Journalist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin criticized Teamoh in her newspaper, Woman's Era, for "servile complicity" in the O'Ferrall incident.[11] He was succeeded in office by William L. Reed in 1896.[10] Teamoh was a known Freemason.

He died on June 20, 1912, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.[1] His funeral was held at the First A.M.E. Church of Boston, and they held a Masonic funeral service.[1][5]

Teamoh is profiled in the book The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (1891).

References

  1. ^ a b c "Funeral Next Monday". The Boston Globe. 1912-06-22. p. 15. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  2. ^ "A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators". A.M. Bridgman. February 3, 1895 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Senate, Massachusetts General Court (February 3, 1895). "The Journal of the Senate" – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Robert T Teamoh, editor and reporter, buried in Portsmouth RI". June 24, 1912. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c "Robert T. Teamoh funeral". The Boston Globe. June 25, 1912. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Teamoh, George. God Made Man, Man Made the Slave. Edited by F.N. Boney, Richard L. Hume and Rafia Zafar. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 1990. 187.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Penn, I. Garland (1891). The Afro-American Press and its Editors. Springfield, Mass. Willey & co. p. 360 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "Emory Women Writers Resource Project : The Woman's Era, Volume 1 : Announcement 0". womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu.
  9. ^ Hayden, Robert C. (1991). African-Americans in Boston : more than 350 years. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston. p. 113. ISBN 0-89073-083-0. OCLC 25150424.
  10. ^ a b Greenidge, Kerri K. (November 19, 2019). Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter. Liveright Publishing. ISBN 9781631495359 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Schneider, Mark R. (2019). Boston confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920. Zebulon V. Miletsky. Boston: Northeastern University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-55553-884-2. OCLC 1102419996.
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