Raphael O’Hara married Caroline Elizabeth Henderson in Craven County, NC on December 23, 1926.
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Raphael O'Hara, of New Bern, a leading lawyer of that section of the State, was born in Washington, D. C, on November 13, 1872, during the period that his father, Hon. James E. O'Hara was sent from his District as a Representative to the U. S. Congress. His father's people came from the West Indies to the States. His mother, before marriage, was Elizabeth E. Harris, of Oberlin, Ohio. She was a daughter of Beverly and Rebecca E. Harris. Beverly Harris was a native of Virginia, but went from that State to Buffalo, where he married. Later he moved further West, to Monroe, Michigan, and finally settled at Oberlin, where his children were educated and where the mother of our subject was married in 1869.
Young O'Hara attended the graded and high schools of Washington, graduating from the latter in the summer of 1890. His father was comfortably fixed financially, and was able to see the boy through school without embarrassment. He was inspired by the example of his father to study law and to succeed to his father's reputation as a lawyer, first reading law under him and later taking the law course at Shaw University, graduating in March,1895. He has from that institution the degree of L.L.D., and also the degree of A. B.
He was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice before the Superior Court of N. C. in February, 1895. On the completion of his course he joined his father at New Bern, and they practiced together under the firm name of J. E. and R. O'Hara until the death of his father in 1905, since which time he has practiced alone. He has numerous clients, not only in his own county, but in Pamlico and Jones counties as well. He also practices before the U. S. District Court and the Supreme Court of North Carolina at Raleigh. He is attorney for the Land & Improvement Company and the Standard Building & Loan Association, both of New Bern and at one time was associate member of the Legal Advisory Board of Craven Co. During the war he was chairman of the executive committee in the War Savings Stamp campaign and was also chairman of the War Camp Community Service among the colored people of Craven Co. His standing as a man and as a lawyer is such in the community that he has attracted to himself a profitable clientele which is by no means all colored. From time to time he has had a number of white clients.
Mr. O'Hara is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and is in politics a Republican. He has held various official positions in the Republican organization in North Carolina, but has not sought office, preferring to give himself entirely to his professional work. He has not identified himself with the secret orders. He believes that the permanent progress of the race in the South depends upon honest, steady, efficient work. This he recognizes calls for training which will make the Negro indispensable.
*Biography taken from “History of the American Negro and his Institutions, by A. B. Caldwell, Volume IV, 1921.
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Raphael O'Hara, of New Bern, a leading lawyer of that section of the State, was born in Washington, D. C, on November 13, 1872, during the period that his father, Hon. James E. O'Hara was sent from his District as a Representative to the U. S. Congress. His father's people came from the West Indies to the States. His mother, before marriage, was Elizabeth E. Harris, of Oberlin, Ohio. She was a daughter of Beverly and Rebecca E. Harris. Beverly Harris was a native of Virginia, but went from that State to Buffalo, where he married. Later he moved further West, to Monroe, Michigan, and finally settled at Oberlin, where his children were educated and where the mother of our subject was married in 1869.
Young O'Hara attended the graded and high schools of Washington, graduating from the latter in the summer of 1890. His father was comfortably fixed financially, and was able to see the boy through school without embarrassment. He was inspired by the example of his father to study law and to succeed to his father's reputation as a lawyer, first reading law under him and later taking the law course at Shaw University, graduating in March,1895. He has from that institution the degree of L.L.D., and also the degree of A. B.
He was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice before the Superior Court of N. C. in February, 1895. On the completion of his course he joined his father at New Bern, and they practiced together under the firm name of J. E. and R. O'Hara until the death of his father in 1905, since which time he has practiced alone. He has numerous clients, not only in his own county, but in Pamlico and Jones counties as well. He also practices before the U. S. District Court and the Supreme Court of North Carolina at Raleigh. He is attorney for the Land & Improvement Company and the Standard Building & Loan Association, both of New Bern and at one time was associate member of the Legal Advisory Board of Craven Co. During the war he was chairman of the executive committee in the War Savings Stamp campaign and was also chairman of the War Camp Community Service among the colored people of Craven Co. His standing as a man and as a lawyer is such in the community that he has attracted to himself a profitable clientele which is by no means all colored. From time to time he has had a number of white clients.
Mr. O'Hara is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and is in politics a Republican. He has held various official positions in the Republican organization in North Carolina, but has not sought office, preferring to give himself entirely to his professional work. He has not identified himself with the secret orders. He believes that the permanent progress of the race in the South depends upon honest, steady, efficient work. This he recognizes calls for training which will make the Negro indispensable.
*Biography taken from “History of the American Negro and his Institutions, by A. B. Caldwell, Volume IV, 1921.
Raphael O’Hara married Caroline Elizabeth Henderson in Craven County, NC on December 23, 1926.
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Raphael O'Hara, of New Bern, a leading lawyer of that section of the State, was born in Washington, D. C, on November 13, 1872, during the period that his father, Hon. James E. O'Hara was sent from his District as a Representative to the U. S. Congress. His father's people came from the West Indies to the States. His mother, before marriage, was Elizabeth E. Harris, of Oberlin, Ohio. She was a daughter of Beverly and Rebecca E. Harris. Beverly Harris was a native of Virginia, but went from that State to Buffalo, where he married. Later he moved further West, to Monroe, Michigan, and finally settled at Oberlin, where his children were educated and where the mother of our subject was married in 1869.
Young O'Hara attended the graded and high schools of Washington, graduating from the latter in the summer of 1890. His father was comfortably fixed financially, and was able to see the boy through school without embarrassment. He was inspired by the example of his father to study law and to succeed to his father's reputation as a lawyer, first reading law under him and later taking the law course at Shaw University, graduating in March,1895. He has from that institution the degree of L.L.D., and also the degree of A. B.
He was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice before the Superior Court of N. C. in February, 1895. On the completion of his course he joined his father at New Bern, and they practiced together under the firm name of J. E. and R. O'Hara until the death of his father in 1905, since which time he has practiced alone. He has numerous clients, not only in his own county, but in Pamlico and Jones counties as well. He also practices before the U. S. District Court and the Supreme Court of North Carolina at Raleigh. He is attorney for the Land & Improvement Company and the Standard Building & Loan Association, both of New Bern and at one time was associate member of the Legal Advisory Board of Craven Co. During the war he was chairman of the executive committee in the War Savings Stamp campaign and was also chairman of the War Camp Community Service among the colored people of Craven Co. His standing as a man and as a lawyer is such in the community that he has attracted to himself a profitable clientele which is by no means all colored. From time to time he has had a number of white clients.
Mr. O'Hara is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and is in politics a Republican. He has held various official positions in the Republican organization in North Carolina, but has not sought office, preferring to give himself entirely to his professional work. He has not identified himself with the secret orders. He believes that the permanent progress of the race in the South depends upon honest, steady, efficient work. This he recognizes calls for training which will make the Negro indispensable.
*Biography taken from “History of the American Negro and his Institutions, by A. B. Caldwell, Volume IV, 1921.
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Raphael O'Hara, of New Bern, a leading lawyer of that section of the State, was born in Washington, D. C, on November 13, 1872, during the period that his father, Hon. James E. O'Hara was sent from his District as a Representative to the U. S. Congress. His father's people came from the West Indies to the States. His mother, before marriage, was Elizabeth E. Harris, of Oberlin, Ohio. She was a daughter of Beverly and Rebecca E. Harris. Beverly Harris was a native of Virginia, but went from that State to Buffalo, where he married. Later he moved further West, to Monroe, Michigan, and finally settled at Oberlin, where his children were educated and where the mother of our subject was married in 1869.
Young O'Hara attended the graded and high schools of Washington, graduating from the latter in the summer of 1890. His father was comfortably fixed financially, and was able to see the boy through school without embarrassment. He was inspired by the example of his father to study law and to succeed to his father's reputation as a lawyer, first reading law under him and later taking the law course at Shaw University, graduating in March,1895. He has from that institution the degree of L.L.D., and also the degree of A. B.
He was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice before the Superior Court of N. C. in February, 1895. On the completion of his course he joined his father at New Bern, and they practiced together under the firm name of J. E. and R. O'Hara until the death of his father in 1905, since which time he has practiced alone. He has numerous clients, not only in his own county, but in Pamlico and Jones counties as well. He also practices before the U. S. District Court and the Supreme Court of North Carolina at Raleigh. He is attorney for the Land & Improvement Company and the Standard Building & Loan Association, both of New Bern and at one time was associate member of the Legal Advisory Board of Craven Co. During the war he was chairman of the executive committee in the War Savings Stamp campaign and was also chairman of the War Camp Community Service among the colored people of Craven Co. His standing as a man and as a lawyer is such in the community that he has attracted to himself a profitable clientele which is by no means all colored. From time to time he has had a number of white clients.
Mr. O'Hara is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and is in politics a Republican. He has held various official positions in the Republican organization in North Carolina, but has not sought office, preferring to give himself entirely to his professional work. He has not identified himself with the secret orders. He believes that the permanent progress of the race in the South depends upon honest, steady, efficient work. This he recognizes calls for training which will make the Negro indispensable.
*Biography taken from “History of the American Negro and his Institutions, by A. B. Caldwell, Volume IV, 1921.
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