The following was found through the Chronicling America project, a joint effort by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is clipped from the Waco Daily Examiner, 4 April 1882, page 4.
A few facts about the people on the program:
- Richard Harvey Cain, twice elected U.S. Congressman from South Carolina, became Bishop of the Texas-Louisiana A.M.E. Conference in 1880. He was President of Paul Quinn College at the time of the move and also one of the original founders.
- Edwin A. Sturgis, an influential early mayor of Waco, was a former sergeant in the Confederate Army.
- W. R. Carson, a prominent minister in the Northeast Texas A.M.E. Conference, was another of the 1872 founders.
- H. T. Kealing later served as President of Paul Quinn College, and was widely known as an author and editor of the A.M.E. Review.
- R. C. Burleson was the second president of Baylor University and a vocal supporter of African American colleges in Texas.
- J. M. Brown was the presiding Bishop of the Texas A.M.E. Conference at the founding of the future Paul Quinn College in Austin, Texas in 1872, and was our first President.
- J. C. Embry was the A.M.E. Church's first Superintendent of Education, and would later become its 25th Bishop.
- Mrs. N. T. Jones was Principal of the Female Department of Paul Quinn College.
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