Results for subject term "Till House - 19 Paige Street<br />
Paige Street by April 1896, and accepted as a Town way in 1942. The 1889 date suggests it was named after Frank E. Paige, and not Professor James B. Paige who resided nearby and is credited by James Smith’s Record (p. 68). Two of the Paige St. lots were sold and the other three rented to African American families, named Hasbrook, Till and Pettyohn, who bought their homes in 1905.<br />
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Robert E. Till was renting the house on Paige by 1896 when he was employed by C. Deuel (a pharmacist ) and was subsequently listed by the 1900 Amherst Directory as a janitor at Beta Theta Pi and living in a house on Paige. The 1900 Census lists Robert Till as Black, born in Massachusetts, age 31, living on Paige with his wife Amanda, Black, born in Virginia, age 27, their son Robert C. born in Massachusetts, age 3, and Till’s sister-in-law (Amanda’s sister) Ella Pettijohn, born in Virginia and age 13.<br />
Till bought the house they were renting (8500 sq. ft) for $850 in 1905 [595/253-4] (Paige had by then moved to Boston) but moved to Walnut Street within the year, selling the Paige Street property to Susie Suma in February 1906 [646/309-10] for $1,000. Susie Suma and her husband Frederick were African Americans noted in local clippings about the AME Zion Church as active in the church. In this, they joined with other African American families in the neighborhood, most notably the Goodwins and Mittie Hall of McClellan, and the Hasbrooks on Paige.<br />
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