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John (Jean) Pierre Burr : ウィキペディア英語版 | John (Jean) Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (abt 1792 – 4 April 1864) was an American abolitionist and community leader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active in education and civil rights for African Americans. He was the natural child of Mary Emmons, an East Indian servant born in Calcutta, and the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr Jr. He is buried at olive cemetery, which is now part of Eden cemetery in Philadelphia. ==Early life and education== John (Jean) Pierre Burr was born in 1792 in either New Jersey or Philadelphia to Mary Emmons, aka Eugénie Bearhani (phonetic spelling), an East Indian woman said to be from Calcutta.〔 October 5, 2005. 〕 She worked as a servant in the household of politician Aaron Burr and his second wife Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Mary/Eugénie was said to have lived and worked in Saint-Domingue before being brought to Philadelphia;〔 an early source said that she was born there.〔 She may have been brought to Philadelphia by Theodosia's first husband, Jacques Marcus Prevost, a British military officers who was stationed in the West Indies in the early 1770s. Burr had an older sister, Louisa Charlotte Burr, born 1788, also the daughter of Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons.〔 Louisa Burr worked most of her life as a valued servant in the household of Philadelphia society matron, Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, and after her death, in the home of Mrs. Fisher's only child, Joshua Francis Fisher.〔 Louisa Burr married Francis Webb (1788-1829), a founding member of the Pennsylvania Augustine Education Society, secretary of the Haytien Emigration Society formed in 1824, and distributor of Freedom’s Journal from 1827-1829.〔 Her son (and John Pierre Burr's nephew), Frank J. Webb, wrote the second African American novel, ''The Garies and Their Friends'', published in 1857. 〔(Maillard, Mary. "“Faithfully Drawn from Real Life” Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends" ), ''Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' 137.3 (2013): 261-300.〕
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