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Rev. George L. White Rev. Sa11luel A. Brown
Boston, Mass. Boston, Ma.s.
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Rev. G. L. White Rev. s. A. Brown
MR. BROWN i pastor of the t. Mark Congregational Church.
He wa born in King ton, Tenn., 1 ovember 9, 1870. HiQ
mother and father died, leaving him alone in the world, when he
wa a young boy. Before they died he wa. permitted to attend
school three or four month each ummel'.
The death of hi parents made
it nece ary for him to eek work and
" shift for himself."
Samuel went to Kentucky and found
employment, but became di sati fied
because there was no opporlunity there
to attend school. From Kentucky he
went to Indianapolis, but here hi hope
to gain an education was buried in hard
work. He kept his courage, however,
until an opportunity to go to Washington,
D. C., appeared. Mter working
for a year in bu ine sand aving from
his small wage, he became a student in Howard niversitr.
He was able to remain for several years at thi in titition and
practicaIJy fini hed his preparatory cour e.
An opportunity wa offered him to go to Bo ton and a chance
to enter the Boston University opened for him. He graduated
from the chool of theology in 1901. While a tudent in Boston
Univer ity he was invited, in 1899, by the members of a little
Home Missionary Church in the South End of Bo ton,~St.
Mark's Congregational Church, to be their pastor. The field
looked mo t promi ing to the young student and he accepted
the call and accepted the pastorate of the little flock, and has
remained with the church ever since.
AlthouO'h having passed through many rough and exacting
places, after even year of hard work in this place, 1\11'. Brown has
brought his church out of the experimental tage, and a future
of usefulne i as ured. He has introduced into his church
some institutional features, uch as mu ic, ewing, and phy ical
culture classe. There i also a literary ocicty which meet
regularly, and a unday- chool of which they may feel proud.
Mr. Brown was a member of the Clifton Conference and in the
development of it plans has manife ted keen intere t and
thorough appreciation.
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MR. WHITE is pastor of the Columbus Avenue African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church. He was born in Jack onville,
N. C., July 15, 1868, of slave parents.
He was born in an ox-cart on the public highway while hi
parents were moving from one plantation
to another. His father died when
the boy was eight years of age. George
was taught to read and write by the
planter whose father was the former
owner of the young man's mother.
The planter desired George to know
how to read and write in order that he
might be able to weigh the cotton in
the field for the planter. This gave
him an inspiration for an education,
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and he afterwards attended the public
schools, then the State Normal School
at Newbern, and later Shaw niversity.
He was obliged to work hard whenever opportunity offered
while he was obtaining an education. His widowed mother
continued to cook for the planter and did laundry work at
night in order that the desire of her son for an education
might be realized. While he was attending Shaw University
he did janitor work in Raleigh, making enough, with his
mother's help, to support himself in the school. He .graduated
in 1888 with honor. Since his graduation he has given
nearly all of his time to the ministry in the Mrican Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church and to the practice of medicine. He
is considered one of the foremost pastors and leaders of the
church.
His appointments have been in North Carolina, Florida,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, New York, Virginia, and his
present pastorate in Boston. His work in Boston has been
crowned with large success. The church is thoroughly organized
and is considered, because of its organization and work,
one of the leading churches of the denomination.
Mr. White was a prominent member of the Clifton Conference.
He has frequently shown great interest in the work of the conference
and expresses himself as willing to do any service for the
uplift and advancement of his people.
