Interview with José Negrón
IntervieweeInterview with
José Negrón
(Puerto Rican, 1914 - 2007)
InterviewerInterviewed by
Ruth Glasser
(American)
InterviewerInterviewed by
Amanda Rivera-López
TranslatorTranslated by
Ruth Glasser
(American)
Date2000 May 6
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration (side 1): 46 Minutes, 36 Seconds
Duration (side 2): 29 Minutes, 50 Seconds
Duration (total runtime): 1 Hour, 16 Minutes, 26 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.27.1a-d
DescriptionAudio cassette tape of an interview with José Negrón. Interviewed by Ruth Glasser and Amanda Rivera-López on May 6, 2000. The interview was conducted in Spanish. A transcript of the interview is available in both English and Spanish.
José Negrón was born in Manati, Puerto Rico in 1914, and raised in Ciales, Puerto Rico. He describes his family and his family's origins. His father was a foreman in a shoemaking factory. José Negrón learned to make shoes from his father. He married Dorca Rosario. He joined the Army during World War II and was stationed in Hawaii for six months. After the war, he attended the Puerto Rican Evangelical Seminary and earned his high school diploma. He contracted malaria. He then worked as a pastor in Puerto Rico in the Ciales countryside. After one of his daughters became sick, he brought his family to the United States and settled in New York in 1954. He worked as an assistant to an evangelical pastor. He came to Connecticut when he was working with a pastor. Once in Connecticut, he studied auxiliary nursing in the veteran's hospital. He later moved to Bristol, Connecticut and retired at age 62. He decided to return to Puerto Rico in 1983 after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and she died in 1992. He returned to the United States after her death.
José Negrón was one of the first Puerto Ricans in Hartford to be established to do ministerial work in 1958. He lived on Orange Street, then Charter Oak Terrace in Hartford. He served as an interpreter in the tobacco farm camps since he knew English. Many of the Puerto Ricans in Hartford had a difficult time finding work.
2013.27.1a-d: two digital files, J-card, and cassette tape
José Negrón was born in Manati, Puerto Rico in 1914, and raised in Ciales, Puerto Rico. He describes his family and his family's origins. His father was a foreman in a shoemaking factory. José Negrón learned to make shoes from his father. He married Dorca Rosario. He joined the Army during World War II and was stationed in Hawaii for six months. After the war, he attended the Puerto Rican Evangelical Seminary and earned his high school diploma. He contracted malaria. He then worked as a pastor in Puerto Rico in the Ciales countryside. After one of his daughters became sick, he brought his family to the United States and settled in New York in 1954. He worked as an assistant to an evangelical pastor. He came to Connecticut when he was working with a pastor. Once in Connecticut, he studied auxiliary nursing in the veteran's hospital. He later moved to Bristol, Connecticut and retired at age 62. He decided to return to Puerto Rico in 1983 after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and she died in 1992. He returned to the United States after her death.
José Negrón was one of the first Puerto Ricans in Hartford to be established to do ministerial work in 1958. He lived on Orange Street, then Charter Oak Terrace in Hartford. He served as an interpreter in the tobacco farm camps since he knew English. Many of the Puerto Ricans in Hartford had a difficult time finding work.
2013.27.1a-d: two digital files, J-card, and cassette tape
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19645784
NotesSubject Note: Through the Nuestras Historias - Our Stories project, the Connecticut Historical Society collected oral histories and photographs from a few of those who helped establish the Puerto Rican community in Hartford. It was an online exhibition presenting the story through the words and images of the pioneers themselves.Nuestras Historias was funded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the State of Connecticut, Department of Economic and Community Development, and the Connecticut Historical Society.
Status
Not on view2000 May 11
2000 May 10
