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In addition to his pastoral and editorial work, and the care of the churches
of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and Mexico,
Bishop Taoner bas contributed liberally and instructively to periodical literature,
both prose and poetry, and he is the author of many works that have had a wide
circulation, including: "The Negro African and American," " An Apology for
African Methodism," " Outline of the History of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church," " The Color of Solomon," etc.
THE district over which Bishop Salter presides is tile state of Florida.
He was born in Charleston. S. C., February 13, 1841. At Il,e age of sixteen he
was converted and became a member of the African l\lelllodist Episeopal
Church. He was licensed to prp.3ch in 1865 at Charle ton, and later was
admitted to Il,e South Carolina Conference.
For several years he was pastor of some of the large t churches in South Carolina
and Georgia, and in 1892, at the General Conference in the "Molller
Bethel" Church, Philadelphia, was elected bi hop and was assigned for his
first term to his native state, with headquarters at Charleston. He is an able
preacher of the evangelistic type, and is greatly beloved both by pastors and
people.
Bishop Moses B. Salter, D.D.
A. M. E. Church
• R.esidence: Charleston,S. C .
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Bishop B. T. Tanner, LL.D.
A. M. E. Church
R.esidence: Philadelphia, Pa.
BISHOP BENJAMIN T. TANNER has retired from ·active service as a member of
the episCopacy, and at the age of nearly seventy-four )'ears is living quietly ill
PhiJadelphia.
He was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Christmas Day, 1835. He studied at Avery
College and at Western University, Allegheny, Pa. He was licensed to preach
in 1856, but did not enter actively into the ministry until four years later. He
became pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, and,
while a resident of that city, organized the first school for freedmen in the United
States Navy Yard, by permission of Admiral Dahlgren.
At the end of eighteen months in the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, he
returned to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as a member of the
Baltimore ConIerence.
He spent some time in Virginia in missionary work and organized the first
church of his denomination in that state. He made rapid progres in successful
work, and in 1868 was elected secretary of the General Conference.
The literary attainments of the preacher merited and received recognition,
and in 1868 he was made editor of the Christian Recorder, the organ of the
church, a position which he held until 1884, when he was elected managing
editor of a new church publication, the Africon Methodist Episcopal Church
Review. He was elected bishop in 1888. In 1870 Avery College gave him the
honorary degree of A.M., and in 1878 Wilberforce University gave him D.D.
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