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Bishop J. S. Flipper, D.D., LL.D.
A. M. E. Church
ResideDce: AtlaDta. Ga.
BISHOP FLIPPER presides over the churches in the Oklahoma and Arkansas
conferences. He wa born in Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1859.
Immediately after the war he attended school in Beiliel African Methodist
Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga., and completed hi education in Storrs School
and Atlanta University. He taught school in country clistriets, 1877 to 1 SO. He
was converted in 1877, and two years later was licen ed to exhort and preach.
He joined ilie Georgia Conference in 1880.
He served some of the large t churches in Georgia. In 1903 he became
dean of the theological department of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, and served
as president from 1904 to his election as bishop in 1908. He received the Ethiopian
Church of South Africa into the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
Jnne 19. 1896.
Bishop Willia1ll H. Heard, D.D.
A. M. E. Church
R.esideDce: Sie....e Leone. West Africa
BISHOP HEARD presides over the Thirteenth Episcopal Ditrict of tile Afri 1ln
Methodist Episcopal Church, which embraces the Sierre Leon. Liberian, and
BISHOP WILLIAM H. HEARD, D.D.
Gold Coost conference<; and all the west coast of Africa, beginning at Freetown,
Sierra Leone, and e~1.ending as far outh as l~'lgo.. He was born in Elbert
County, Georgia, of sla\'e parent,. and wa(a ·Iave until the surrender of Lee.
He was then fifteen years old, without even a knowledge of the alphabet. He
did whatever service he could render in the vicinity in which he lived. and secured
the services of a kind-hearted Yankl'e teacher to instruct him at night.
In four years he had gained sufficient knowledge to engage in public-school work,
which position he h Id for twelve years. He was a page in the South Carolina
Legi lature at the age of twenty-onc, and at the same time was a stndent in the
South Carolina .niversity.
After five years of hard study in Gr~k. Lttin. lIehrew. and the higher mathemnties,
he was appointed ruilwlly mail clerk, filling this position for scwrnl years.
Soon after his conversion, he resigned the gowrnllwnt position to enter the
mini try. He filled many of the best appointments in the Imrch and rose
rupidly in the work, as mini ter, presiding elder, ami generul officer.
He was appointed by President Cle\·eland. in t8f),';. to he l'nited 'tates resident
minister and ('On-general to th Hepublie of Liberia. which position he
held with credit until the election of Prl'!'ident :'IfcKinle.\·.
Having slX'nt four years in Africa and ha\;ng become a(·quaint<-d with its
people and custom, their needs. etc., he aspired to return there. and in 1908 the
General Conference elected him one of the bishops of the church and II' igned
him to his present distri ts. His wife, :'Ilrs. Josephine Oelphine Heard. i an
accomplished mnsic·ian. author. and !'Cluc·ator.
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