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Copyright, 1955, by Etienne William Maxson
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Printed by McQuiddy Printing Company Nashville, Tennessee
PREFACE
I am very grateful to my father, Etienne Maxson, and Captain Anatole McKan, for the valuable information I received from them, which has helped me so much in preparing this little book. The book entitled “The Progress of the Races,” contains a short history of four towns, namely, Pearlington, Logtown, Napoleon and Gainesville, on Pearl River, in Hancock County, State of Mississippi. The names of the business men and the kind of business that they carried on are also given. The chief business of these towns was lumbering. As the timber is fast disappearing in this section, this business will soon be discontinued and the towns depopu: tated, unless some other business springs up soon.
Therefore, we are trying to preserve in writing what ha> been done in the way of progress by the white and colored people. We have endeavored to show the progress of the colored people under the headings of Industrial Progress, Educational Progress, Business Progress, Political Progress, and Religious Progress. The names of eighty-nine colored captains on Pearl River are given, besides, colored engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, etc., as well as what they owned, the kinds of businesses they carried on, and the schools and the churches that they built. We have only given a synopsis of what the races have done on this historic stream, with the hope that what has been written will do justice to the races and be of interest to the reader.
E. W. Maxson.
615 P Street, Northwest,
Washington, D. C.