Jordan Winston Early
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Born | Franklin County, Virginia, U.S. | June 17, 1814
Died | November 19, 1903 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Methodist preacher |
Known for | Pioneering of African-American Methodism in the United States |
Spouse(s) | Louisa Carter (1843–1862; death), Sarah Jane Woodson Early (m. 1868–?) |
Children | 8 |
Jordan Winston Early (June 17, 1814 – November 19, 1903)
Early life
Early, a former
Career
Early and his family were taken by their enslavers to
In 1843, he married Louisa Carter, and they had eight children, four of whom survived to adulthood. The Earlys sent their children to Wilberforce University. He became licensed as an exhorter in 1853.[8]
In the late 1850s, Early evangelized in Tennessee and founded numerous AME missions in Missouri (including in Kirkwood, Saint Charles, Roche Port, Washington, Jefferson City, Louisiana, Booneville, Saint Joseph, and Weston).[8] In 1853, Early founded the Olive Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation in Kirkwood, Missouri.[9][10]
After Louisa died in 1862,
See also
References
- ^ Stephen W. Angell, Early, Jordan Winston, in American National Biography, Oxford University Press
- ^ "Sarah J. W. Early (Sarah Jane Woodson) Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South". Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union. 1894.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8103-9177-2. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89789-799-0. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ a b c Sarah J. W. Early, Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South, Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894, carried at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-689-81410-5. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-595-40687-6. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ a b c Smith, Charles Spencer; Payne, Daniel Alexander (1922). A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: Being a Volume Supplemental to A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, by Daniel Alexander Payne ... Chronicling the Principal Events in the Advance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1856 to 1922 (Public domain ed.). Johnson Reprint Corporation. pp. 34–. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ Shapiro, Mary (30 November 2010). "House tour offers historical perspective on Kirkwood". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ISBN 978-1-4671-1004-4.