Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874 - 1938)

Born 24 Jan 1874 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Husband of Elizabeth Francis (Hatcher) Schomburg — married 19 Aug 1896 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States

Husband of Elizabeth J (Morrow) Schomburg — married 17 Mar 1902 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Jun 1938 at age 64 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a historian, activist, and writer of the Harlem Renaissance movement.

Biography

Arthur Schomburg is Notable.

Arthur Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born on 24 Jan 1874 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Arturo married Elizabeth Francis Hatcher on 19 Aug 1896 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States^[1].

Arturo married Elizabeth J Morrow on 17 Mar 1902 in Manhattan.

Arturo married Elizabeth Mary Green in 1914.

Arturo's children include:

1. Maximo Gomez Schomburg
2. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Jr
3. Kingsley Guarionex Schomburg
4. Reginald Stanton Schomburg
5. Nathaniel José Schomburg
6. Fernando Alfonso Schomburg
7. Dolores Maria (Schomburg) Thomas
8. Carlos Placido Schomburg.

Arturo died on 10 Jun 1938 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States aged 64. He is buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA.^[2][3]

Legacy

In 2020 he was honored by the United States Postal Service as one of 4 people on the "Voices of the Harlem Renaissance" stamp issue.^[4]

Research Notes

• This article,^[5] and two biographies^[6][7] on Arturo claim the name of his second wife was Elizabeth Morrow Taylor, but the only primary records I found (the birth records of her two sons) all name her Elizabeth J Morrow, or Merrill. Díaz-2569 21:45, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

• The NYC death index states a death date of June 10, as does his obituary published June 11th (it says "died yesterday"). FindaGrave data field says June 9th.Weatherall-96 03:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ "New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24CP-4Q8 : 6 July 2020), Arthur Alphonsus Schomburg, 1896.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 March 2021), memorial page for Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (24 Jan 1874–9 Jun 1938), Find A Grave: Memorial #6506561, citing Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA; Maintained by Find A Grave.
3. ↑ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WTS-3Z5 : 3 June 2020), Arthur A. Schomburg, 1938.
4. ↑ Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
5. ↑ Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse. “The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York 1891-1938.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 3–49, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27502778. Accessed 23 Apr. 2022.
6. ↑ Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector: A Biography. United States, New York Public Library, 1989.
7. ↑ Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly. Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. United States, State University of New York Press, 2017.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5H8-C8H : accessed 2 July 2020), Arthur A Schomburg in household of Raymond M Rothschild, Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 566, sheet 1A, family 13, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1022; FHL microfilm 1,375,035.
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXYJ-SZQ : 24 August 2019), Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, 1917-1918.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4NK-PF2 : accessed 2 July 2020), Arthur Schomburg, Brooklyn (Districts 0251-0500), Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 309, sheet 11B, line 67, family 234, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1503; FHL microfilm 2,341,238.

See also:

• Weatherford, Carole Boston, and Ron Butler. 2019. Schomburg: the man who built a library. WorldCat link

• Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse. “The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York 1891-1938.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 3–49, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27502778. Accessed 23 Apr. 2022.

• Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector: A Biography. United States, New York Public Library, 1989.

• Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly. Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. United States, State University of New York Press, 2017.

• Wikipedia: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
• Wikidata: Item Q2865928, en:Wikipedia