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Rev. T. W. Henderson. D.O.
Rev. Edward P. Jones, D.D.
Vicksburg, Mis••
::\In. JONF: isrrand master of the Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows of Mi 'is ippi, upreme rna tel' of the" nited Reformers,"
pa tor of a Bapti t Church with a member hip of
2,000 and a man of wide influence.
He i recolTnized throughout the
South a one of the great leader in the
fmternal soci ties among the colored
people.
He was born February 21, 1872, in
Hinds County, 1.is issippi. His father,
Rev. George P. Jone , wa an elder
of the.l\li ionary Baptist Church and
for many years wa a ucce ful pastor
and church builder. The young man
attended the Vick burg public chool ,
and afterward attended Alcorn Agricultural
and lechanical College at
Rev. E. P. Jones. D.D. Alcorn, ~li S., and atchez College,
-atchez, Mi s. He was yaledictorian of hi cla s in the public
school at Vick burg and at Katchez College. Mter leaving
school, he en'ed everal term as a teacher in :Mississippi
chools, and in 1894 was ordained to the mini try in the Baptist
church.
During hi pa torate at Vick burg he ha built a modern,
up-to-date church, at a co t of $6,000. He has been very uccessful
in church work and frequently has been honored with position
of responsibility and tru t by the denomination.
Perhaps h is best known in the line of work with the fraternal
societies. He has been grand ma tel' of the Odd Fellows since
1901, and has served the order a a fraternal delegate to Europe.
He i upreme ma tel' of the " United Reformer ," of America,
Europe, A.·ia, and Africa, having been elected for five ucces ive
terms. Thi organization has grown very rapidly and is now
the leader among the fraternal organizations of the colored
people in America.
Dr. Jone' says that whatever succe s he ha attained is due
very largely to the " devotion and whole. orne advice of his wife."
He i one of the leading orators of hi race, and not only in religious
affairs, but in material thinlTs, ha achieved eminent susce
s. Hi property in l\lissis ippi alone is worth about $40,000.
Rev. Tho~as W. Henderson, D.D.
Boston, Mass.
Dn. HE DERSO is pa tor of the Charles Street African
Methodi t Epi 'copal Church, one of the largest and mo t influential
churches of the denomination.
He wa born in Greensboro, North Carolina, October 12, 1845.
Hi parent were proprietors of a
bakery, and Thomas wa a clerk in the
bakery when he was a boy. At the
age of fourteen he was sent to Oberlin,
Ohio, where he had the advantage of
Oberlin College for six years.
When he left college he became a
teacher and a preacher. He spent
eleven year in Kan a'. He was the
owner and publisher of the first
colored newspaper in Kansas. He
published the Colored Radical in
Leavenworth, which was afterward
merged into the Colored Citizen, at
Topeka, and wa an influential paper.
He entered the realm of politics and came within a few votes
of being named for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Gov.
John P. St. John. He was unanimously elected chaplain of the
Kan as House of Representatives, and was twice elected a member
of the Board of Education of Lawrence, Kan. He was
interested in fraternal societies while in Kansas, and held nearly
every office in the gift of the Masonic order.
He left Kansas in 1879 and was four years pastor of St. Paul's
Church, S1. Louis, adding nine hundred' members and raising
more than $40,000 for the work of the church. He has been
pastor in Chicago, Kansas City, and ew York in some of the
large t charges of the church. He erved four years as business
manager of the publishing department, and gave evidence of unusual
busines and executive ability. He gave the church the
" Mu ical Edition of the Church Hymnal," the first of the kind
published by the race; and The Recorder, the organ of the church,
and the oldest paper of its kind published by the race, received a
remarkable increase in circulation and influence. Dr. Henderson
has been mentioned for the episcopacy. He was a member
of the Clifton Conference and is enthusiastically interested in
the ucce of it plans.
