The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-12-27

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md were the recipients of many TO-
lcns of esteem. Among the pleasant
surprises was a beautiful set of silver
rom the faculty and teachers of Fisk
University and their neighbors. They
also received a number of beautiful
presents from friends in the city and
parts of the country and a
number of letters of c%ongratu-
They were married at the home of
Prof. Geo. l.. White, the leader of the
Jubilee Singers, and the fol
announcement of the marriage
sent out:
MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
Wednesday EUeniRg,D December 20, 1882
AT the
Residence Of Mr.. Geo. L. White,
Fred0njd, N. Y.
Req. Geo. w. Moore,
Of Fisk University,
Ella Sheppard,
Of F1Sk University Jubilee Singers.
At home after Jan. /, 1888,
0berIin, ohio.
Mr.. Moore was at that time a SEN
ior in the Theological Seminary of
Oberlin, and Mrs. Moore, nee Ella
Sheppard, had just completed eleven
years of service with the original Jubi-
lee Singers of Fisk University.
AS a member of this company she
travelled five years in Europe and six
years in America, she has sung be
fore Queen Victoria and many of the
crowned heads of Europe, and has been
entertained in the homes of Gladstone
and many distinguished people in Eu-
rope and America. She has been &C
tive in missionary and church work
and has been President of the Won
ems Missionary Union of the Ten
ncssee Association of Congregational
churches for the past twelve years.
Mr.. Moore was the first pastor of
Howard Congregational Church, of
this city. 1t was organized under his
ministry when he was a student Of
Fisk University. He was pastor of
the Lincoln Memorial Congregational
Church, Washington, D. c., from 1885
to 1892. During this pastorate he was
active in missionary, evangelistic,
charitable, temperance and Y. M. c. A.
work. He led a successful crusade
against the thirt~ en- saloons in "Hells
Bottom" the location Of the church,
making it one OF the best residence
sections of the Di trict of Columbia.
He was for five years Professor OF
Biblical History and Literature in the
Theological Depa' tmcnt OF Howard
University.
In 1889 he Travelled extensively
through Great Britain and Continent
al Europe. AS a delegate to th'
Worlds Sunday School Convention, hi
delivered an address in City Temple
london, on the "Colored Sunda!
School Work of the United States
He has been a delegate and speaker a
international gathei ings of the Y. M
c. A., Christian End2avor, Studon
Volunteers and National Council. II
1892 he was appointed Field Mission
airy and superintendent Of the South
ern church work of the American Mis-
sionary Association, this being the siy
tecnth year of his field service. II
is trustee of Fisk University and ha
been active in the work OF educatin
( the race. He has held evangelist
services in most of the churches of hi
denomination and in the schools of tn
South and has extended his labor
among the churches and schools q
other denominations. He has done e
fectiye service among the churches G
the North in raising funds to carry o
3 the work in the South.
Three children have Frightened tn
home of Rev. and Mrs. Moore-tw
boys, George Sheppard and Clinic
Fisk Russell and one daughter, Sara
Elizabeth. Elizabeth Benton Moore
their niece, is a teacher Of cooking !
the colored public schools of tn
city. Their son, George Sheppar
Moore, is a graduate of the COLES
Class of Fisk University, 1906, and
in his second year of study in Mort
western University, Medical SchoC
Chicago.
A unique feature of the family gat
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