Talk:William Leidesdorff

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I started cleaning up the article. I removed the duplicate information from the article and made the birth and death information more presentable. Exhartland 08:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] African American Heritage

This should probably be discussed more at length, especially since there are claims of him being America's first black millionaire. [1] 67.185.99.246 09:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

You are exactly right. William Leidesdorff's role in the establishment of the City of San Francisco is almost criminally overlooked, as well as his position as probably the nation's first black millionaire. I have tried to add some things to this article and will come back to it when I have more time. Thanks for pointing this out.MarmadukePercy (talk) 18:35, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm unclear about the latest addition to the Leidesdorff piece, concerning his mother's Carib ancestry. Is this questioning, then, whether Leidesdorff was black? (Because such a suggestion is ludicrous.)MarmadukePercy (talk) 05:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Leidesdorff is almost universally acknowledged to have been black, which makes his considerable accomplishments all the more remarkable.MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)