Philip A. Payton, Jr. [SEP] occupation
Philip A. Payton Jr.
Philip A. Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 1917) was an African-American real estate entrepreneur, known as the "Father of Harlem", due to his work renting properties in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City to African Americans.
Early life.
Philip A. Payton Jr. was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1876. He was the second of four children, one girl and three boys. His father was a barber and his mother a hairdresser
as vice-president of Afro-American Realty, had passed even earlier, in 1912, at the age of 30. The Philip A. Payton Jr. Company survived after him, managing numerous African-American apartments at least until 1922.
The Philip A. Payton Jr Company was co-managed by John E. Nail and Henry C. Parker, who went on to be known as the "little fathers" of Negro Harlem. They worked to fulfill Payton’s dream of making this Harlem neighborhood a political and cultural capital for African