force University, where in 1887 he
graduated from the Theological Course with the degree of B.
D. In 1893 Wilberforce University conferred upon him the
degree of D. D. in recognition of his superior worth and
ability. In June, 1900, he was elected President of
Wilberforce University, and a year later Claflin University
conferred upon him the degree of M. A.

As a minister of the Gospel he has been pastor in charge of
Williams Chapel, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Branchville
Circuit, South Carolina; Fort Motte Circuit, South Carolina;
Wheeling, West Virginia; The Holy Trinity Church,
Wilberforce, Ohio; Lynn, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode
Island; Columbus, Ohio; and Presiding Elder of the Columbus
District, Ohio Conference; Pastor at Zanesville, Ohio. In
all an unbroken period of thirty-six years of church work
and twenty-eight years in the ministry he has never known a
failure. His labors have been indefatigable and his
ministrations clean and inspiring.

In his public services he has been an inspiration to the
race. For fourteen years he has been a Trustee of
Wilberforce University, five years Trustee and Secretary of
the Normal and Industrial Department at Wilberforce, and a
constant and ardent helper in the establishment and
development of the same. For six consecutive years he was
elected and served as member of the Columbus Board of
Education, and through his efforts six colored teachers were
put into the mixed schools of Columbus, Ohio, as teachers.

In private affairs he has been industrious, frugal,
economical and administrative. He has accumulated a
comfortable estate and stands well with the banking and
business circles of Columbus, Ohio, and pays taxes on a tax
valuation of $10,000.

He has always been an ardent lover of his race, of his
church, of his country and his God, and has always been a
striking figure in the circles of men wherever his lot has
fallen. Fifteen years ago he was elected Dean of Allen
University, Columbia, South Carolina; eight years ago
Professor of Theology in Payne Theological Seminary, neither
of which he was able to accept because of heavy demands upon
his energy elsewhere. In 1890 he was elected delegate to the
Methodist Ecumenical Conference and has been several times
de