The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-31
THE NEGRO IN PROFESSIONS.
STATISTICS GATHERED SHOWING
EXTENT OF EDUCATION.

Work the Leading Colleges and Uni
verSitIes Have Done for the Race.
Many Trained Nurses and Doctors,
Lawyers and Preachers-CoIOred
Ministers in Prominent stations.
Representative Negroes of Two
Denominations.
New York, Jan. S0-The field secretary
in the South of the American Missionary
Association. Rev. George w. Moore of
Nashville. has made protracted and de-
tailed investigation concerning the negro
in professional life.
He reports that in 1866 there were 1873
students in professional courses in col
ored schools and of these 126 were women.
There were 70s students and 76 gradu-
ates of theology, 124 students and "a gradu-
ates in law. 2S6 students and 80 gradu-
ates in medicine and graduates in phar-
macy and 126 students and 40 graduates
in nurse training. There were twenty
five schools in theology, five schools of
law and six schools of medicine.
In addition 10 these schools, which have
been established for the negro in profess
sional life, the doors of the leading col.
leges ana universities of the North, East
and West are open TO him.
Nurses and Doctors.
Since 1895 there have been 1856 graduates
who received diplomas from reputable
medical colleges, making a total of sos
This list does not include the large num-
Der of negro men who have graduated
from northern Institutions.
for
colored women as nurses; two hundred
nurses have been trained and are in train
ing. Provident hospital of Chicago is the
pioneer school in this work The Freed
mems Hospital of Washington, d. c., is
the largest hospital in the country open TO
colored people. The medical department
of Howard University is located at this
hospital. 1t has graduated 253 colored doc
tors. There are thirty colored practicing
physicians in the District of Columbia.
Meharry Medical College of Nashville,
Tenn, has graduated $40 men in medicine
So in dentistry and 43 in pharmacy. The
enrolment for the present year is 161 in
the department of medicine, q in dentis-
try and 10 in pharmacy Shaw University
at Raleigh, N c., also has a well equipped
medical school. Able corps of col
ored physicians are associated with
white physicians as professors in five
of the six medical colleges established
in the south for colored men,
There are colored medical associations in
several Southern states; there is also ma
tional association of cofored physicians,
and there are a number of colored physi-
clans and surgeons in the United States
army.
Lawyers and Preachers.
The law department of Howard Univer-
sity is the largest and best school in the
South open TO colored men. Quite a num-
Der of coored men have graduated from
the law schools of Yale Harvard, Boston
University and the University of Michi-
gan.
Colored lawyers practice in many North
ern, Eastern and Western states and in the
leading cities of the South There are
about 400 colored lawyers in this country
They practice man tho courts.
About LOCO seminary trained men and
1000 more classed as educated are in the
ministry. The majority of Congregational,
Episcopal and Presbyterian ministers are
educated men, but they form only small
wing of the army of colored ministers
There are many intelligent Methodist and
Baptist colored ministers. The bishops of
the African Methodist Episcopal, the Afrl-
can Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the
Colored Methodist Episcopal churches, to-
gether with their ministers, exercise a
wide influence in their churches. Bishop
b. w. Arnett of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Bishop Alexander
Walters of the African Methodist Eplsco-
pal Zion Church, are members of the board
of trustees of the United Society of Chris
tan EndeavoT
Some Prominent Ministers.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has no
colored bishops. j. w. E. Bowen, D. d
is the most. representative minister of that
church He is a professor in 'Gammen
Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and was
the colored candidate for bishop at the
last general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
NJ. c.. Maron, d. D., was elected cor
responding secretary of the Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Educational Society of
that church. G. w. Henderson, D. D.,
a graduate of the University of Vermont
and of Yale divinity school, is dean of the
Straight University Theological School at
New Orleans.
Rev l.. B. Maxwell, a graduate of
Atlanta University and Hartford Theolog-
ical Seminary, Is field secretary of the In
ternational Sunday school work among
the colored people of the South and Rev
H. n. Proctor, a graduate of Fisk Univer-
sity and Yale divinity school, is pastor of
the First Congregational Church of At
lanta, Ga
There are representative colored men in
the Baptist ministry like w. H. Brooks.
D. D.. Of Washington, d. c., and Rev. J.
NJ Waldron of Jacksonville Fla. f. ID.
Grimke, d. D.. OF Washington, D. c., is
the leading Presbyterian minister
Howard University has graduated 1862 in
theology Taliadega, Straight. TougalOo
and Fiskuniyersities have sent forth many
men In the ministry. Wiiberforce, Bi1dle
Lincoln and Richmond Bible schools have
also trained many men for the ministry.
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CITY COURT ADJOURNED.