Personal Life
He married Mary Wilson Lewis on November 15, 1873 in Fall River, Massachusetts ; she was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of William and Louisa M. Lewis. The couple had two daughters, Emma Jeanette (born on June 12, 1883, died in February 1978) and Louise Rebecca (born April 19, 1890, died in January 1963). Jeanette married Gerald F. Norman, the first black hired as a high school teacher in the New York City public school system, and had two children, Winifred Latimer Norman (born 1914), a retired social worker who serves as the guardian of her grandfather's legacy; and Gerald L. Norman (1911–90), who became an administrative law judge.He was a good man.
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