The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-16
OBITUARY OF DR.. n. T. HEALING,
A. M.
By Shelton French, Vice President of
Western University.

Western University.
Hightower T. Healing, A. NJ, D. D.,
l.. L. D., was born in Austin, Texas,
April l, 1859, and departed this life
February %, 1918, aged 5S years, ten
months and four days.
While a youth of fourteen years he
was circuit rider with Presiding Elder
Haywood, whose district constituted
the whole state of Texas. He was sec.
the quarterly conferences.
After completing the work Of the
public schools of his native city, he
graduated from Straight University
at New Orleans, La, and still having
an Unsuitable desire for more knowl-
edge, went to Tabor College, Tabor,
Iowa, where he finished his collegiate
course with great credit. He was
ever especially a student of philoso-
ply, science, languages, sociology and
the Holy Bible. Thus he had thor
oughly prepared himself for a great
career.
Though born a slave, his life
achievements prove that a Negro can
conjugate Greek verbs, master higher
mathematics, and withal be a man
among men.
His first work after leaving college
vas to establish Paul Quinn College
at Waco, Texas, and then he became
vice president of the State Normal
School at Prairie View, Texas. From
there he became supervising principal
of the colored public schools of Aus
tin, Texas, and later established and
became principal of the Negro high
school of the same city. Later he be-
came president of Paul Quinn College
at Waco, Texas.
In 1896 the General Conference in
session at Wilmington, n. C., elected
him editor of the A. NJ. E. Church Re-
view, which position he filled with
credit to himself, the Church and the
Here is where he so brilliantly dis
played ripe scholarship, a profundity
of information that a only be Sc
cured by wide and careful reading, a
keen analytical mind of philosophical
poise and a complete mastery of loren
sic expression.
In 1901 he was a delegate to the
Ecumenical Conference in London,
He participated in the deliberations
of this meeting and had an important
part in all of its constructive policies.
While abroad he visited throughout
England, France and Switzerland.
On october /, 1910, at the call OF
Governor Stubs of Kansas and on the
recommendations of Booker T. Wash
ington, Bishop A Grant and DR.. J.. r,
Ransom, he resigned the editorship OF
the Review to become president OF
Western University.
November /, 1910, he was indicted
into this new position in the middle
west. How well he succeeded is at
tested by the staus of the school, the
character and efficiency of it's grad
yates, and this multitude Of faithful
admiring, mourning friends.
In 1911 he became a member of the
Jeanes Fund Board, taking the place
of the lamented Bishop Grant.
DR.. Healing was distinctively an ed
ucator and a lover of aspiring youth
His life was characterized by simple
ity. He placed character above
achievement, and honesty of purpose
above attainment. He was not a rad
ical, but a practical reformer.
AS a thinker and publicist he ranks
not only among the foremost of his
race, but among the ablest of his day
With ease he could hold, and lead
and sway his audiences. His wit was
spicy, ever quick at repartee, enjoyed
a good story, and was most successful
in telling a good story, telling it wei
and driving it home to its logical anC
moral conclusion.
His last public utterance was de
ivered from this sacred rostrum, IL
a sitting posture to a large, magnifi
cent audience on the afternoon Of Jan
uary 6, 1918, from the subject, q
Man Without Eyelids." 1t proved t
be his Swan Song" In closing tina
matchless address he told this apt