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Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, D.D., President
GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ATLANTA, GA.
Founded in ,883 through the gift of $500,000 by.Rev. Elij~ B. Gammon, of illinois. Ninety-three stude?ts and 5 teacbers in 1908.
Gammon bas a campus of '7 1-2 acres, 2 modem buildIngs, 4 reSIdences for professors, and 10 cottages for mamed students. Endowment,
$522,000. Value of property, $, ,8,000. Annual eIllenses, $,6,000, secured from the endowment and from the Society.
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and oration ; there i a library of 300 volume on Africa, and a
mu eum of the products of the country and specimens of African
handicraft.
Twenty-Eight Schools Represented at Gammon
In 1907, twenty-eight preparatory school and colleges ent
men to Gammon for theological instruction. The e men represented
fifteen tates, four foreign countrie and five denomination.
Among the graduate of Gammon ar ome of the leading
Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including church
officials, educator. , and pastor. Among the number may be
mentioned Rev. :Madison B. C. Mason, D.D., for many years
corresponding secretary of the Freedmen' Aid Society; Rev.
James M. Cox, D.D., president of Philander Smith College,
Little Rock, Ark.; Rev. S. A. Peeler, D.D., president Bennett
College, Greensboro. N. C.; D. N. Minus, D.D., president
Sterling Industrial College; Rev. Alexander P. Camphor, D.D.,
former president of the College of We t Africa. now pre ident
of Central Alabama College. Birmingham. Ala.; Rev. R. E.
Jones, D.D., editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate,
New Orleans, La.; Rev. J. W. Moultrie, a leading Sundayschool
worker of South Carolina. and others.
Theological Setninary,
Atlanta, Ga.
Gatntnon
THE only Theological Seminary of the Freedmen' Aid ociety.
Founded in 1883, through the gift of nearly $500,000 by Rev.
Elijah Gammon, of Illinois.
Rev. Wilbur P. Thirki<¥d, D.D.,
was president for sixteen years. In
1906 he wa succeeded by Rev. Dr. J.
W. E. Bowen, a graduate of New
Orleans University and Bo ton Univer
ity. Dr. Bowen is considered one
of the leading men of his race.
The purpose of Gammon Seminary
is to prepare young men to become
preachers and pastors. .Special emphasis
is placed on the study of the
English Bible. The course covers
Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, D.D. three years and includes the study of
the entire Bible, book by
book.
A special department of
Gammon is" The Stewart
.Missionary Foundation
for A fr i c a ," named in
h 0 nor of Rev. W. F.
Stewart. of Illinois, who
gave a group of highly cultivated
farms, 600 acres, in
central Illinois, the income
to be used in maintaining
a department t hat the
giver hoped would become
., a center for the diffu ion
of mi sionary intelligence,
the development of missionary
enthu iasm, and
the increa e of missionary
offerings" for Africa.
Prizes are given for
mi sionary hymns, essay,
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