Lewis Penick Clinton
Lewis Penick Clinton (also known as Louis Penick Clinton and Prince Somayou Zea Clayou) (born 1865 or 1866) was a Prince of the
Early life
Clinton was born as Prince Somayou Zea Clayou in 1865 or 1866 in
Education in the United States
In 1884 seeking to further his education, Clinton came to the U.S. and studied at
Founding of Liberian mission
In 1898 Clinton was ordained as a Free Will Baptist minister, and he returned to Africa in 1899 to found a mission near Fortsville in Grand Bassa, Liberia helping to educate local men and women and to hopefully regain the throne from his uncle.
References
- ^ a b c The Literary Digest, Volume 15, No 9 (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1897), pg. 269
- ^ a b c Jack Williams, "Prince Who Wept" (Free Will Baptist Historical Commission)
- ^ D. Elwood Dunn, A History of the Episcopal Church in Liberia, 1821-1980 (Metuchen, NH: The Scarecrow Press, 1992) 120
- ^ Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess, Joseph Jeffrey Walters, Gareth Griffiths, John Victor Singler (2004), pg. 45
- ^ Lawrence American, Vol 42, 2/3/1899 (Lawrence, MA, 1899)
- ^ "First Native African graduated from Cobb Divinity School Wednesday" The Lewiston Daily Sun - May 21, 1897, pg. 6
- ^ "No Christmas in Heathen Africa," THE BATES STUDENT, Vol. XXV. JANUARY, 1897. No. 1
- ^ Prof, Alfred Anthony (Bates College), Missionary Helper Vol 21, No 1, (January 1898) pg. 5 imageserver.library.yale.edu/digcoll:361439/500.pdf
- ^ Minutes of the ... General Conference of the Freewill Baptist Connection in North America ... Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911), pg. 85 (1902). General Conference(Trustees of the Freewill Baptist Connection, 1898)
- ^ The Literary Digest, Volume 15, No 9 (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1897), pg. 269
- ^ a b Minutes of the General Conference of Free Baptists- v. 27-32, Morning Star Publishing House, pg 84-87
- ^ Baptist Year Book for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, (1906), pg. 63
- ^ The Crisis - Aug 1917 - Page 191
- ^ Herald of Gospel Liberty v. 102 (1910)
- ^ The Journal of Race Development v. 1 (Clark University (Worcester, Mass.), 1911), pg. 254