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词条 Charles L. Purce
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  1. Early life

  2. Academic career

  3. Death

  4. References

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| death_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
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Charles L. Purce (July 4, 1856 – August 7, 1905) was an educator in Louisville, Kentucky and Selma, Alabama. He was a leader in the Baptist church and president of Selma University and Simmons College of Kentucky, both Baptist institutions.

Early life

Charles L. Purce was born in July 4, 1856[1] to Ellen and William Purce in Charleston, South Carolina.[2] He was educated at public and private schools and attended high school in Charleston.[1] He converted to the Baptist religion in 1875 and attended the Benedict Institute in Columbia, South Carolina in 1878 and 1879 and graduated from the Richmond Seminary in 1883. He next became pastor of a church at Society Hill, South Carolina. He was married in Philadelphia on January 7, 1885 and had at least one child.[2] He received an A. B. from Shaw University and a D. D. from the State University at Louisville.[3]

Academic career

In November 1886, he left his position as pastor to take the chair of Greek and Latin at Selma University at Selma, Alabama. The same year he succeeded Edward M. Brawley as president at Selma University upon the unanimous vote of the university board and unanimous endorsement of the General Convention of Baptists of the state of Alabama.[2] He served as president until 1893.[3] He also was the general missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York for Alabama.[1] During this time he supported the role of white dominated Baptist leadership against a push for separate white and black societies.[4] Among his important services to Selma was the paying off of a debt of $8,000 the university owed. In 1894, he accepted the presidency of Simmons College of Kentucky, then known as the State University at Louisville, succeeding William J. Simmons.[5] In 1901 he was nominated again to the presidency of Selma University, a move which was opposed by the American Baptist a journal in Louisville,[6] and Purce remained in Louisville.[7]

Death

Purce died August 7, 1905 after three days of illness.[7]

References

1. ^Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, IL, USA: American Publishers Association, 1902. p765
2. ^Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p454-456
3. ^Pipkin, James Jefferson. The Story of a Rising Race: The Negro in Revelation, in History and in Citizenship. With introduction by John B. Gordon. ND Thompson, 1902. p430
4. ^McPherson, James M. "White liberals and Black power in Negro education, 1865-1915." The American Historical Review 75, no. 5 (1970): 1357-1386.
5. ^Richings, G. F. Evidences of progress among colored people. GF Ferguson, 1903. p57-59
6. ^[No Headline] Freeman (Indianapolis, Indiana) November 30, 1901, Volume: XIV, Issue: 48, Page: 4
7. ^Chase, Beatriz L. Paragraphic News, Washington Bee (Washington, DC), September 9, 1905, Volume: XXV Issue: 15 Page: 1
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