Description:
A meticulously researched account that shines a much needed searchlight on the African American experience in Philipsburg, New Jersey. It combines demographic, documentary, and narrative history-writing strategies to hold the reader's interest and suggest new areas for further research.
Dr. Paul D. Barclay, Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Brief description: Wayne C. Sherrer, born in Phillipsburg, is a sixth generation resident of Phillipsburg, NJ. He is a past president of the Phillipsburg Area Historical Society and research associate of the Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society. His published works include A Guide to Civil War Graves in Phillipsburg Cemetery, transcriptions of the parish records of Wesley Methodist Church and St. Luke's Episcopal Church (both in Phillipsburg) and an article in The Historiographer. He is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Newark and an avid genealogist.