Global Information Lookup Global Information

Erastus Milo Cravath information


Erastus Milo Cravath
Born(1833-07-01)July 1, 1833
Homer, New York
DiedSeptember 4, 1900(1900-09-04) (aged 67)
St. Charles, Minnesota
Education
  • Oberlin College
  • Grinnell College
OccupationEducator
Spouse
Ruth Anna Jackson
(m. 1860)
RelativesPaul Drennan Cravath (son)
Georgia Laura White (niece)
Signature

Erastus Milo Cravath (1833–1900) was a pastor and American Missionary Association (AMA) official who after the American Civil War, helped found Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and numerous other historically black colleges in Georgia and Tennessee for the education of freedmen. He also served as president of Fisk University for more than 20 years.[1]

  1. ^ Richardson, Joe (1980). A History of Fisk University, 1865-1946. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. pp. 2–4. ISBN 0817300155.

and 14 Related for: Erastus Milo Cravath information

Request time (Page generated in 0.7936 seconds.)

Erastus Milo Cravath

Last Update:

Erastus Milo Cravath (1833–1900) was a pastor and American Missionary Association (AMA) official who after the American Civil War, helped found Fisk University...

Word Count : 909

Paul Drennan Cravath

Last Update:

Cravath was born on July 14, 1861 in Berlin Heights, Ohio. His mother, Ruth Anna Jackson, was a Pennsylvania Quaker, and his father was Erastus Milo Cravath...

Word Count : 1684

Cravath

Last Update:

Cravath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erastus Milo Cravath (1833–1900), American religious leader and educator Gavvy Cravath...

Word Count : 122

Erastus

Last Update:

(1909–1983), mayor of Albany, New York, great-grandson of the above Erastus Milo Cravath (1833–1900), American abolitionist, field secretary with the American...

Word Count : 363

Fisk University

Last Update:

shortly after the end of the Civil War. It was founded by John Ogden, Erastus Milo Cravath, and Edward Parmelee Smith of the American Missionary Association...

Word Count : 4802

Alice Vassar LaCour

Last Update:

much of the faculty of Fisk University. The university's president, Erastus Milo Cravath, performed the ceremony. The LaCours had daughters Lucile, Marion...

Word Count : 437

Georgia Laura White

Last Update:

the time of White's birth. Her uncle was Erastus Milo Cravath, president of Fisk; her brother William Cravath White was a prominent attorney. She trained...

Word Count : 643

James Raymond Lawson

Last Update:

v t e Presidents of Fisk University Erastus Milo Cravath (1875–1900) James Griswold Merrill (1901–1908) George Augustus Gates (1909–1912) Fayette Avery...

Word Count : 691

Edward Parmelee Smith

Last Update:

Rev. Erastus Milo Cravath of the AMA, in 1866 Smith founded the Fisk School (future Fisk University) in Nashville, Tennessee. Smith and Cravath founded...

Word Count : 599

101st Ohio Infantry Regiment

Last Update:

Leonard D. Smith - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga Chaplain Erastus Milo Cravath - a founder of Fisk University and its president for 25 years Private...

Word Count : 907

Henry Ponder

Last Update:

v t e Presidents of Fisk University Erastus Milo Cravath (1875–1900) James Griswold Merrill (1901–1908) George Augustus Gates (1909–1912) Fayette Avery...

Word Count : 129

Fayette Avery McKenzie

Last Update:

v t e Presidents of Fisk University Erastus Milo Cravath (1875–1900) James Griswold Merrill (1901–1908) George Augustus Gates (1909–1912) Fayette Avery...

Word Count : 1427

George Augustus Gates

Last Update:

v t e Presidents of Fisk University Erastus Milo Cravath (1875–1900) James Griswold Merrill (1901–1908) George Augustus Gates (1909–1912) Fayette Avery...

Word Count : 409

James Griswold Merrill

Last Update:

v t e Presidents of Fisk University Erastus Milo Cravath (1875–1900) James Griswold Merrill (1901–1908) George Augustus Gates (1909–1912) Fayette Avery...

Word Count : 392

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net