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Andrew J. Golden
Cary, Miss.
Rev. Johnson W. Hill, M.D.
Boston, Mass.
A. ]. Golden
hurch, located
Hill, Dinwiddie
Rev. ]. W. Hill
DR. HILI. is pa tor of t. tephen' Baptist
in Cambridge, Mru s. He was born at Gunn
County, Va., in 1865, of former slave parents.
He was educated in the county schools and in VirO'inia or- • 0
mal and Industrial Institute at Petcrs-burO',
graduatin tr from thi institution
at the close of four year' tudy, in
1 8. He supplemented this training
by a year in the sophomore cla of
Brown Uniyer ity, and a year at Harvard
College, and thr e years at the
Newton TheoloO'ical Institution. He
was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church,
1\orwalk, Conn .. for two years, and
during that time he pur ued tudie in
the Yale Divinity School. He was
appointed General Mi sionary and
Field Secretary for New England Baptist
1is ionar." Com'ention, compri ing the colored Bapti t
churche in New England and vicinity. In 1898 he was made
pastor of the Twelfth Bapti t Church, Boston, and then erved
the Everett Zion Bapti t Church, the Third Baptist Church,
Lawrence, and. for the past three years, St. Stephen'. Church.
In 1900 he took up the study of medicine, and. after work at
Harvard Medical School and Boston Univer ity, he took a
course at the College of Phy icians and Surgeons, and graduated
from that institution, with the degree of M.D., in the cia
of 1908. He took a po t-graduate cour e at Tufts College and
was given the degree of .T.B., the only colored man it is said,
who ever received such a degree from Tufts.
Dr. Hill hru b en vcr." prominent in the work f his denomination.
He wa Corre 'ponding ecretary of the l\1as acllU ells
Bapti t tate Convention, Colored, for four years' wa also
Corresponding ecretary of tile Jew England Baptist Mi sionary
Convention; and i President of the State Convention.
Dr. Hill was a member of the Clifton Conference, and was an
enthusiastic participant in its deliberations. His society has
recently purcha ed the building of the Pro pect Street Congregational
Church, in a fine location, and the friends of the
movement are rallying to it upport.
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MR. GOLDEN is county correspondent of Sharkey County,
Missis ippi, forthe United States Department of Agriculture.
He was born September 29, 1858, in Selma, Ala. He oTaduated
from the schools of Georgia at the age of sixteen years,
and has taught school for more than
twenty-five years since receiving his
graduation certificate. In 1882 he was
active in politics, and was elected
member of the Board of Supervisor
of Sharkey District. He was also
elected justice of the peace, in which
capacity he served four years. In
1875, thinking to better serve his
race, he founded and edited the IT'eekly
Negro Wadd, a national paper. It
has a weekly issue of 30,000 copies,
and is read by white and colored people
throughout the United States, Canada,
and Cuba, ranking high ill newspaper circles.
He served as census enumerator for the First District, Sharkey
County, in 1900. In 1901 he was founder and promoter of the
Southern Negro Conference, an organization de igned to uplift
the Negro race. Mr. Golden pent more than $3,000 in this connection.
At Cary, :l.\1iss., he owns a residence, a two-story office
building, and a front block of nearly three acres in the city, and
an orchard containing grapes, peache , pear, figs, pecan, walnuts,
pomegranates, plums, and apples. He has many kinds of
trees, such as sugar maple, cherry, etc., surrounding hi home.
He also has property in Florida.
In 1904 he was appointed county correspondent of Sharkey
County, Mississippi, for the United State Department of Agriculture,
which offic'e he now fills. In 1907 he wa elected third
vice-pre ident of the Frederick DouglassLeague Club at Chicago,
and in 1909 wa elected third vice-pre ident of the Half Century
Colored Exposition Company of the United States, to meet in
Chicago, 1913. Mr. Golden has achieved success by hard work
and by earnest endeavors along high lines. He is an authority
frequently consulted, not only in agricultural matters, but in the
concerns of the race. A man of po itive convictions, he is
deeply interested in matter that mean prog'ress for his people.
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