page_title: Henry N. Jeter
section_title: Move to Newport
hierarchical_section_title: Henry N. Jeter / Move to Newport
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeter in 1887
context_page_description: Henry N. Jeter was a Baptist minister and social justice activist from Newport, Rhode Island. He was minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport for 42 years before founding a pair of foundations seeking to aid poor, urban African Americans, the Pastors and Laymen's Humane and Reform Association and the Jeter Movement of Race Relations and Social Service.
context_section_description: Jeter was invited on January 8, 1875 to preach to the Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island after the resignation of its previous pastor, Ananias Brown. Shiloh had been founded May 10, 1863 by Rev. Edmund Kelly. Jeter was ordained June 24, 1875 at Shiloh and made its pastor by a council including Kelly and others.
  In 1894, Jeter was a financial agent for the Wayland Seminary, collecting donations for the school. His work exhausted him, and he was advised to rest. He invited evangelist Joseph Murphy from Congdon Street Baptist Church in Providence to replace him during his vacation. On Jeter's return, Murphy sought to remain as pastor, and the case was put before a state council of Baptist ministers, who retained Jeter. Murphy sued Jeter for slander, but the case was thrown out.
caption: Jeter in 1887
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