Life

He graduated from the Tuskeegee Institute.
He succeeded Joseph Carter Corbin as principal of Branch Normal College

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is a historically black university located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. Founded in 1873, it is the oldest HBCU and the second oldest public institution in the state of Arkansas . UAPB is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund...

, from 1902 to 1911.
During his tenure, the school concentrated on elementary and secondary education of students.
He taught at Fisk University

Fisk University

Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to...

 and Hampton Institute.

He believed, as did his mentor Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915...

, in industrial education for African Americans.

His papers are held at the University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...

.

Works

• "The Negro Problem as we are trying to solve it at Tuskeegee", Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, The Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891
• Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges, 1933

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