Part I: 1859-1888 ~ Part II: 1888-1896 ~ Part III: 1896-1902 ~ Part IV: 1902-1906
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Above: Sheafe as a young man, n.d., Oakwood University Archives. Frederick Douglass was among the platform dignitaries at Sheafe’s graduation from Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C. (right, below), in 1888, and gave a “brief speech” after degrees were awarded.
Below: Faculty listing of Annie C. Howard (Sheafe) in 1886-1887 Wayland Seminary bulletin. Sheafe wins one of the "Judge Wayland" prizes for scholarship; his classmate Thomas L. Jones, who beat him out for "best speaker," went on to become a prominent Washington attorney, appointed assistant district attorney for D.C. by President Coolidge. The course-listing for the theological training at Wayland.
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Above: Lewis C. Sheafe and Annie C. Howard were married in the historic Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington on June 6, 1888 (Library of Congress photo). By that time, Rev. Walter H. Brooks was already six years into his 63-year pastorate (1882-1945), which continued more than six years after Sheafe's death in 1938. He is pictured above in the May 11, 1901 edition of the Colored American newspaper, and in an undated Scurlock Studio portrait decades later. In January 2009, 19th Street Baptist (now located on 16th St, NW) was the first congregation with which the new "first family" worshipped, on the Sunday preceeding the inauguration (AP photo).
Life & Times, Part II: 1888-1896
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