History of Slaughter, (Kent County) Delaware United States of America

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Jabez Pitt Campbell, African M. E. bishop, was born at Slaughter's Neck, Delaware, Feb. 6, 1815, of free-born African parentage. His two grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war. His father, a Methodist preacher, mortgaged the boy in part payment for a fishing boat, and the mortgagee being about to foreclose, Jabez fled to Philadelphia, where he acquired an education. In 1837 he was licensed to preach and in 1856 became editor and publisher of the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the African M. E. church. In 1864 he was made a bishop and assigned to the special work of organization in Louisiana and California. In 1876 he attended the Wesleyan conference in England. He was appointed bishop of North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland in 1887, and travelled extensively in the interest of the church in Great Britain, France, Central America, Mexico, and California. In 1884 he was president of the centennial conference of the A.M.E. church, and was president of the educational department of that denomination as a member of the evangelical alliance. He was a trustee of Wilberforce university from 1863, and received from that institution the degrees of D.D. and LL. D. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 9, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Slaughter, (Kent County) Delaware

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