Edward Parmelee Smith
Deceased Person
1827 – 1876
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Who was Edward Parmelee Smith?
Edward Parmelee Smith was a Congregational minister in Massachusetts before becoming Field Secretary for the United States Christian Commission during the American Civil War. In official positions with the American Missionary Association, he was a co-founder of Fisk University and other historically black colleges established in the South for the education of freedmen. Beginning in 1873, he served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1875 he was selected president of Howard University, but died on a trip in Africa in 1876 before taking office.
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