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This is a biography of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. He was an educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Upon his election as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, he became the first African American to lead an institution of higher education in the United States.
A diary recording Payne's activities during 1856; a journal relating to his activities during 1877-1878; and a photostatic copy of a letter written to the Reverend T.M.D. Ward in 1870.
Meet an educator, minister, author and one of the great Black leaders of America, Bishop Daniel A. Payne.
This volume is a typescript of Murray's essay titled "Paul Jennings and His Times." Jennings was James Madison's valet and wrote an 1865 biography of the president, a work that is considered the first White House memoir. The volume also includes a few letters between George Frisbie Hoar and Murray concerning corrections to the essay.