Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-05-24
IOWAS COLLEGE AND PROBES
SIGNAL SCHOOL NEGRO GRAD ,
YATES.
BY Atty. S. Joe Brown.

In view of the fact that 1t is SO
often stated that the Negroes OF the
south are outstripping those OF the
north in the acquisition OF hi CHER ed
ucation it may be of interest to the
readers of The Bystander to know
that out of the ten or twelve thousalio
Negroes in the state of Iowa quite
respectable proportion have taken de'
grees from the various colleges ana
professional schools of the state.
Perbans the first two Negroes 10
take professional degrees in Iowa
we're the venerable Alexander Clark,
1ate minister TO Liberia, and the Rev.
DIR. A. H. Higgs, now presiding elder
Of the st. Joseph district of the M. T..
church. which includes the city Vi
Des Moines These gentlemen re-
ceived the degree of Bachelor OF Laws
from the State University at iowa
City in the year 1886. -,
About the same year Prof. ri. T.
Healing. now editor OF rhe A. VI. r.
Church Review, and Prof f. L. Black'
shear, now president or the ieAaS
State Normal School, received the oe'
gree of Bachelor of Arts from razor
College at Tabor, Iowa.
Tn 1890 this same school conferred
q similar degree on Rev w. H.
SDoese, now minister or 'he a. M'
Z church. -.
From Wesleyan University at M
Pleasant there have been four Negro
women graduates in the persons OIL
Mrs S. Mosby Grandson. A. NJ
Misses Agnes and Louise Mason. Do'h
Of which are Bachelors OF science
and all three of which still reside III
Mt Pleasant, and Miss Ida May COO
frey b. S. now primary prlnclpai III
Kansas City, Mo.
From Iowa College at Grinnell we
only know of one, Mr.. Leo Welker, "A:
b.. who will receive the degree Oh
Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Uni
yersity next month, but we under
stand that there have been other Ne
gro graduates from this school.
From the State Agricultural College
ot Ames there has been Prof. Geo.
Carver B, S., now professor OF ASrl-
culture at Tuskegee. and MI. +. Z.
Parks, who holds the same degree
and is now director OF Applied ASrf
culture at Tuskegee.
From Drake University there are
Attorney |. E. Williamson, LII. b.
now in Washington. d. c.; Prof. Geo.
l. Holt, ILL., b.; Editor John l..
Thompson, LII. B., and DR.. e. A. Lee,
u. d. s., all residents of Des MONIES.
Mr.. l.. l.. Henderson, Phi. b., now pro
fessor of Psychology in Oklahoma
University, and Rev. NJ. W. Thornton.
Il. d.. now minister OF the A. NJ. T..
church.
OF the more recent graduates of the
State University are Attorney 5. Joe
Brown, A. NJ. LII. b., now OF Des
Moines; Attorney II. r. Wright, ILL.,
B.. now United States consul at l'tll-
la, Honduras, and Mr.. Edward A. Car
ter. Phi b., who will receive the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine from the
same school next month.
There are also several Negro col
lege bred or professional men who
are not products of iowa schools.
among whom are Attorney Geo. H.
Woodson of Oskaloosa. who is an A.
B of Petersburg College and an ILL.,
B. of Howard University; DR.. \. &.
Edwards of Des Moines and DR.. J. II.
Williams of Buxton. both of whom
are graduates Of Malaria Medical
College at Nashville, and DR.. G. Sum.
ner Taylor of Buxton who IS a grad.
uate of Howard University Medical
College; Prof. NJ. j. Gillian, A. b. 0;
Cornell University; Miss Lydia Lock
ridge, A. B., of Kansas University,
both of whom are connected with the
public schools of Buxton: Rev. w. S.
Brooks, D. d., of Morgan College.
baltimore, NJ. D.. now pastor of the
A NJ E. church. Des Moines and Rev.
II, w. Porter, A. B., of Talladega col
lege. Alabama, now pastor of the
Union Congregational church. Des
Moines: Mr.. G.. J. Wiley, Buxton, civil
engineer of Lincoln University, Penn.
There are also in the State Univer:
sity two other Negroes who will re-
ccive degrees at the commencement
next month and who we feel should
therefore be mentioned here. They
are Mr.. F.. W. Thompson of Des
Moines, who will graduate from the
College of Pharmacy, and Mr.. l.. G.
Jones of Marshalltown. who will grad
uate from the College of Liberal Arts.
and there are probably others of
whom the writer has no knowledge,
but we feel that these are sufficient
to Justify our tatement made in the
beginning that the Negroes Of Iowa
had quite a resnectable proportion of
college bred and professional people.
for it must be remembered that only
forty years ago we had none what
ever and that the accepted proportion
of college bred people among the
most favored race of Americans is one
in five thousand