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Dr. A. M. Curtis
H. D. Kealing
Nashville, Tenn.
MR. KEALING is editor of the African Metlwdist Episcopal
Review, the magazine of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a strong intellectual force.
He was born in Austin, Tex., April 1, 1859, of slave parents.
Educated in the public schools, at
Straight University, and Tabor College,
Tabor, Ia.
Mter teaching several months, he
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was principal of Paul Quinn College,
Waco, Tex., for three years, and then
assistant principal of the State Normal
School, Prairie View, Tex. He
made notable contributions by public
speeches at the National Education
Association at Topeka, Kan., and by
writing to the New England Journal
of Edtteation and the Century
H. D. Kealing Magazine, and other publications.
He organized the Austin, Tex., High School for colored children
and was subsequently elected supervisor of all the colored
schools of the city, a position created for him.
He returned to Paul Quinn College and served as president
from 1892 to 1896, when he was elected editor of the African
Methodist Ep'iscopal Review, the quarterly magazine of the
church. He was the first layman ever elected to such a position
by the church. He has been re-elected three times by the General
Conference in quadrennial session.
He was founder and twice president of the State Teachers
Association of Texas. In 1901, was fraternal delegate to the
Ecumenical Conference in London, and in 1902 was fraternal
delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. At the 1909 National Peace Congress in
Chicago, he was the only man of his race on the program.
He has been active in promoting business and industrial
enterprises among his people, and has himself made successful
investments in real estate, mainly in Texas, Pennsylvania,
and Washington (city). Mr. Kealing has given much time to
public speaking and lecturing both in this country and in
Europe. His lecture, "The American Jonah," is unique and
witty.
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Dr. A. M. Curtis
Washington, D. C.
DR. AUSTIN M. CUUTIS, one of thc ablest and most skillful
surgeons of his race, was born in Raleigh, N. C., in 1868, one of
a family of ten children.
He graduated from the public schools of Raleigh, carrying off
the honors. A northern lady leaching
in the public schools of Raleigh, became
interested and secured for him a
scholarship at Lincoln University,
Pennsylvania. He entered the freshman
class in 1884, worked in hotels
during the summer months to keep
himself in funds during the succeeding
school term, and graduated in four
years, earning the degree of A.B.
Later, Lincoln University conferred
upon him the degree of A.M. He
entered the Northwestern University
Medical School, Chicago, graduating
in 1891 with honors.
Dr. Curtis was house surgeon for one year at Provident
Hospital, Chicago, and was the first colored physician to be
appointed on the staff of the Cook County Hospital of that city,
where he served one year as attending surgeon. He served as
attending surgeon at Provident Hospital until 1898. That
year he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen's Hospital
at Wa hington, D. C., the most noted institution of its kind in
the country. Here Dr. Curtis made a national reputation.
Many of his cases received special notice in surgical literature.
He served as surgeon-in-chief at Freedmen's Hospital four
years, retiring to engage in private practice.
Dr. Curtis is associate professor of surgery at Howard University,
attending urgeon at Freedmen's Hospital, and consulting
surgeon, Provident Hospital, Baltimore, and Richmond Hospital,
Richmond, Va. He makes frequent trips South to perform
surgical operations in variou cities.
Dr. Curti. had charge of the medical exhibit of the )l"egro
department of the Jamestown Exposition, where he installed a
model hospital, showing the progres of medical science and
the latest and most approved ideas in hospital management.
Dr. Curtis pays taxes on property in . everal cities.
