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Book lovers, this one’s for you. DC-area indie bookstores are celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with deals, giveaways, and more this weekend.
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America Waldo Bogle (June 2, 1844 – December 28, 1903) was a pioneer in the Oregon Territory. She and her husband, Richard Arthur Bogle, were among the first African-American settlers in Walla Walla, Washington.

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America Waldo was born in Missouri on June 2, 1844. Her mother is believed to have been a slave of Missouri farmer John Waldo (1796–1849), and her father was a white man, probably either John Waldo or his brother Joseph (1805–1871). In 1854 America traveled by wagon train to Oregon with John Waldo's widow, Avarilla, and several other African Americans. They spent the winter with Avarilla's brother-in-law, Daniel Waldo, at his farm east of Salem. In the spring of 1855, they moved south to Douglas County where Avarilla established a Donation Land claim near Roseburg, Oregon. America remained in the Roseburg area for the next five years, during which time she met her future husband, Richard Arthur Bogle, a barber in Roseburg. In 1861 she returned with Avarilla to Salem where she lived with the Daniel Waldo family until her marriage. Daniel Waldo, a former legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon, who had arrived in Oregon with the Great Migration of 1843, "may have taken responsibility for raising her and thus acted as a father figure." In 1862 Richard Bogle left Roseburg and settled in Walla Walla, Washington, but returned to Oregon briefly at the end of that year to prepare for his marriage to America.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐧

In Salem, Oregon, on January 1, 1863, at the age of 18, America Waldo married Richard Arthur Bogle, a free Black man born in Jamaica. Their wedding was on the same day that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. The wedding was controversial because there were both white and black guests at the ceremony, going against racial segregation practices. Reverend Obed Dickinson, an abolitionist, presided over the marriage. Daniel Waldo publicly supported the wedding and gave them "several gifts of great value with which to start their home. Newspaper editor Asahel Bush called the wedding "shameful" in the local newspaper and in a letter to Matthew Deady he wrote, "It was a negro equality sentiment mixed up with a little snob-aristocracy." The Oregonian retorted to Bush's negative press coverage by saying, "the heart of a man who could be guilty of making the light even of a poor mulatto girl's feelings is blacker than the skin of any African. News of the wedding travelled all the way to the San Francisco Bulletin, where it was written that the wedding included, "distinguished white ladies and gentlemen, who saw proper to witness the ceremony and participate in the festive proceedings.

𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚, 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧

The Bogles settled in Walla Walla, Washington, where, in addition to Richard's job as a barber, they started a 200-acre ranch. America Waldo Bogle was known as "a lady of estimable character, noted for her deeds of charity to the poor and suffering. She died in Walla Walla on December 28, 1903, and her husband died a year later on November 22, 1904. On the day of her funeral, all the barbershops in Walla Walla closed early out of a "profound respect the employing barbers entertain for the late Mrs. Richard A. Bogle. America and Richard had eight children together. Her three older children died between 1876 and 1878. Her five surviving children were Arthur, Warren, Belle, Katherine and Waldo, and the sons followed in their father's footsteps and became barbers.

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America and Richard's commitment to hard work and community involvement was continued in subsequent generations of the Bogle family. Examples include her daughter-in-law Bonnie Bogle (1885-1953) who wrote a regular column in the Seattle Enterprise newspaper and was very active in Portland's civil rights and women's suffrage movements her granddaughter-in-law Kathryn Bogle (1906-2003), a social worker, activist and freelance journalist in Portland and her great-grandson, Richard "Dick" Bogle, who became a television newsman and the second African-American city commissioner in Portland, Oregon.

In 2023 Salem Oregon's Bush House Museum (named for its original owner, newspaperman Asahel Bush, and part of Bush's Pasture Park) dedicated one room of the museum as the America Waldo Bogle Gallery. The gallery will include a permanent collection of commissioned paintings by Portland artist Jeremy Okai Davis representing portraits of early Oregon Black pioneers and includes one of America and her family. The gallery was named in America's honour "because the stories of nineteenth-century Black women are rarely told, particularly against the legacies of powerful men like Asahel Bush. Asahel Bush wouldn't have invited America Waldo Bogle… or presumably any future portrait subjects into his home. He didn't regard their lives as worthy of consideration… Thankfully, this is no longer Bush's choice to make.

(𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞: 𝐀 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧: 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧, 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐨)

(𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 & 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞: 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲)