Armed with almost unlimited power as Johnstown’s mayor and magistrate, Joseph Cauffiel had been issuing ruthless punishments to Black people for years by 1923.
Mayor Joseph Cauffiel forever transformed the economic and cultural identity of Johnstown when, on Sept. 7, 1923, he ordered all Black and Mexican people who had lived in the city
Sometime back in the 1990s, Mary Carol “Butchie” Edwards read a column in The Tribune-Democrat about the 1923 Rosedale incident and, much to her surprise, saw the name “Joseph Grachan.”
Sometime back in the 1990s, Mary Carol “Butchie” Edwards read a column in The Tribune-Democrat about the 1923 Rosedale incident and, much to her surprise, saw the name “Joseph Grachan.”