contribution #183

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{
  "id": "thorogood_odelia",
  "name": "Odelia Thorogood",
  "born": 1871,
  "died": "—",
  "class": "professional",
  "background": "Black American",
  "neighborhood": "Colored Town",
  "occupation": "principal, Douglass Colored Grammar School (1914-present); teacher in the same system since 1895",
  "notes": "Thirty years in Port Hume's colored schools. Member of Bethel AME, president of the women's circle. Wrote a well-regarded 1919 pamphlet on the history of Port Hume's Black community which the Clarion excerpted in two parts. Corresponds with Isaac Fleming professionally.\n",
  "relationships": [
    {
      "to": "fleming_isaac",
      "type": "friend"
    },
    {
      "to": "tallant_ruth",
      "type": "friend"
    },
    {
      "to": "harriss_corine",
      "type": "friend"
    },
    {
      "to": "nowak_irena",
      "type": "—"
    }
  ]
}