Charles W. Chesnutt

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as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. “There's time enough, but
none to spare.”(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial
news column for the New York Mail and Express. Later that year his
son Edwin J. Chesnutt is born. In November, he leaves New York for
Cleveland where he begins to work in the accounting department of
Nickel Plate Railroad Company. While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied
Law.
While in Cleveland Chesnutt supports his mother and father
while supporting his own family. Chesnutt begins to write for Family
Fiction. While working at Nickel Plate Railroad Company and
writing for Family Fiction he continues to study law. A year later, he
passes the Ohio Bar Exam and joins the law offices of Henderson,
Kline, and Tolles. Chesnutt published “The Goophered Grapevine” in
the Atlantic ...

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