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Yardley Warner

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Yardley Warner (1815 - 1885) was a Quaker educator, lawyer, and minister who helped establish schools for African Americans after the American Civil War.[1]

Warner was born in Pennsylvania. He established the neighborhood now known as Warnersville in Greensboro, North Carolina selling lots to African Americans.[2] In 1876 he established Warner Institute in Jonesboro, Tennessee.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Warner, Yardley | NCpedia". dev.ncpedia.org.
  2. ^ "Yardley Warner". Greensboro Daily Photo.
  3. ^ "Warner Institute - Jonesborough - TN - US". Historical Marker Project.
  4. ^ Stafford Allen Warner; Yardley Warner; Janet Whitney (1957). Yardley Warner, the freedman's friend : his life and times : with his journal and letters reproduced in an appendix. Retrieved 2023-09-03.