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only support after the war. During this time he made Danville, Ky., his home. There he joined the A. M. E. Church. He then applied for a license to preach but failed. This was the latter part of 1869. The same year he went to Louisville, Ky., and joined Old Asbury Chapel, A. M. E. Church, at Ninth and Walnut streets, Rev. R. G. Mortimor, pastor. He applied again for a license to preach in 1870, and soon after receiving it he was taken up in the interval of the conference and appointed to the Owenburg Mission, Ky., by Rev. G. H. Graham, pastor of Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Louisville, Ky., where he bought a lot and commenced to build a fine church. On leaving Owensburgh to meet his first conference at Harrodsburgh, N. Y., he saw and felt the need of an education. However, Bishop Payne sent him back to Owensburgh. In 1872, he met the conference at Shelbyville, N. Y. There he made known his great thirst for an education. The conference passed a resolution, to give him $100.00 a year until he graduated at Wilberforce, Ohio, but they did not give him one cent. But with $25.00 in hand he went to Wilberforce in October, 1872, being transferred to the Ohio Conference. In 1873 his $25.00 gave out and Bishop Wayman got Bishop Payne, the president, to let him go to Richmond, Indiana, to fill a short term. Afterwards the Bishop appointed him to the Harveysburgh and Mainville Mission, Ohio. Here he remained three years, and built a fine church at Mainville and put the people in a good house of worship at Harveysburgh. To these he would go and preach on Sunday and return to school every Monday, at the same time keeping up with his class in school. This was his first schooling. After three years at the above named places he was sent to Lebanon, Ohio. There he remained four years, and graduated in 1879 from Wilberforce. Thus in seven years, although he commenced school in the second reader and spelling book, he went through the Theological course. On leaving school, in 1879, Bishop Wayman transferred him to the New England Conference, and Bishop Payne appointed him to the Second A. M. E. Church, Providence, R. I., at which church he remained three years, and was then appointed to the First Bethel A. M. E. Church, in the same city, but on account of some unpleasantness he did not remain but three months. He was then transferred to the New Jersey Conference
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