Lewis Woodson
Teacher, Deceased Person
1806 – 1878
Who was Lewis Woodson?
Lewis Woodson was an educator, minister, writer, and abolitionist. He was an early leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Woodson started and helped to build other institutions within the free African-American communities in Ohio and western Pennsylvania prior to the American Civil War.
Woodson was among the original 24 trustees to found Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1856, in a collaboration between the AME and the Cincinnati Methodist Council. When the college faced financial difficulties during the American Civil War, the AME Church bought it from the Methodist Church in 1863, making it the first historically black college to be owned and operated by African Americans.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1806
Greenbrier County - Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Chillicothe
- Died
- Jan 1, 1878
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on July 23, 2013
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