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Jvecoonizino THE CENTENNIAL CONVOCATION OF JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY CHARLOTTE, N. C. 1867-1967
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The Reverend Samuel Carruthers Alexander was born in Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania. He received the degree of A.B. from Jefferson CoUeEe in 1858 and was graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia South Caro- lina in 1861. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Charleston, South Carolina, in 18fi0, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Concord, North Carolina in 1861. .? J. •s Reverend Willis L. Miller, attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, 1853-1854. He was licensed to preach October 27, 1855 and was ordained by the Presby- tery of Orange in 1857. He was pastor in Pittsboro. North Carolina in 1857-1858 and was Stated Supply of St. Lloyd Church, Catawba Presbytery, U.S.A. Rev. Miller later be- came field agent and travelled extensively in the East in an effort to raise money for the Institution. DIGESTED CHRONICLE of One Hundred Years 1867-1891: Founding Period and Early Development In 1867, two years after the Civil War ended in America, the strong demand was for trained leadership among the newly liberated slaves. To meet the demand in this section of the Southland, two Presbyterian Ministers, Reverend Samuel C. Alexander and Reverend Willis L. Miller, devised a plan to educate and evangelize the Freedmen. Authorized by a state charter, which had been procured in the spring of 1866, the two ministers met with the Catawba Presbytery on April 7, 1867, and perfected plans for founding and operating the proposed institution. The Reverend Alexander and the Reverend Miller, were elected by the Catawba Presbytery to be teachers and were to be associated equally in the conduct and management of the school.
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