Garnet Douglass Baltimore

The history of black America's struggle for freedom and dignity, of Troy, and of Rensselaer are very much a part of the life of Garnet Douglass Baltimore. 

Garnet and his wife Mary Baltimore were an early power couple in Troy. Garnet Baltimore was the first African American to earn a bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was an accomplished landscape engineer who made a huge impact on his hometown of Troy, NY. He was a consulting engineer at Oakwood Cemetery for 30 years.

His interracial marriage to Mary Lane Baltimore was not the norm at the time. But Mary was not one to be limited by the opinions of others. A force in her own right, she was a suffragist working throughout the region to win the right for women to vote.

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1859 - 1946