History of Point Pleasant, (Ocean County) New Jersey United States of America

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Alexander Crummell, clergyman, was born in New York city, March 3, 1819; son of Boston Crummell, a native of West Africa. He attended school at Canaan, N.H., where Henry Highland Garnet and Thomas Sidney, also colored youths, were fellow students. Race prejudice compelled them to leave this school and they were received at the Oneida (N.Y.) institute, and remained there, 1836-39. Crummell was refused admission to the General theological seminary, New York city, in 1839, but pursued his theological studies under Dr. A. H. Vinton of Providence, R.I., and was ordained by Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1848 he went to England where he preached and studied. He was graduated at Queen's college, Cambridge, in 1853; was principal of Alexandria high school, and professor in Liberia college, Africa, 1853-73; founder of St. Luke's church, Washington, D.C., 1873, and its rector and rector emeritus, 1873-95. In 1897 he organized in New York city the America Negro academy, an organization of authors, artists and scholars, and was its first president. He was also president of the Colored ministers' union and a commissioner for church work among the colored people. He published: A Future of Africa; The Greatness of Christ, and Africa and America. He died at Point Pleasant, N.J., Sept. 9, 1898.

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

History of Point Pleasant, (Ocean County) New Jersey

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