{"id":609,"date":"2019-09-29T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2019-09-29T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T22:36:51","slug":"george-frazee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/george-frazee\/","title":{"rendered":"George Frazee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Frazee (1821-1904)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>Burlington, IA<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dick&#8221; Case (1855) &#8211; 1 released<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 23, 1855, an approximately 50-year-old African American male, named &#8220;Dick,&#8221; was seized near the Iowa-Illinois border by slave catchers William C. Young and Solomon Rose (both Missourians), and brought to Burlington, Iowa for a hearing. Young and Rose made tracks for U.S. Commissioner George Frazee&#8217;s office, and along with attorney Milton D. Browning, obtained a warrant for Dick&#8217;s arrest, which was executed by U.S. Marshal Frederick Funk. &#8220;As Dick had no counsel, Mr. [T.D.] Crocker moved to continue the case till Tuesday [June 26] in order to give time to employ counsel.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/09\/1855-06-25-Burlington-IA-Hawk-Eye-The-Slave-Dick-p-4-GB.pdf\">1855-06-25<\/a>\u00a0Burlington, IA\u00a0<em>Hawk-Eye<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>The son of Dick&#8217;s alleged owner, Thomas Rutherford, testified that &#8220;the negro there present WAS NOT the slave Dick, was not the property of his father.&#8221; After this testimony, Commissioner Frazee released &#8220;Dick.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/09\/1855-07-04-Burlington-IA-Hawk-Eye-Dick-Case-p2-GB.pdf\">1855-07-04<\/a>\u00a0Burlington, IA\u00a0<em>Hawk-Eye<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Frazee (1821-1904) OFFICE LOCATION: Burlington, IA TENURE:\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 0 CASES:\u00a0 &#8220;Dick&#8221; Case (1855) &#8211; 1 released On June 23, 1855, an approximately 50-year-old African American male, named &#8220;Dick,&#8221; was seized near the Iowa-Illinois border by slave catchers William C. Young and Solomon Rose (both Missourians), and brought to Burlington, Iowa for a hearing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}