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Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa.Born in Osogun (in what is now Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old. [2]
Dandeson Coates Crowther [1] Archdeacon Dandeson Coates Crowther (24 September 1844 - 5 January 1938) was a son of Archbishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther [2] and a leader of the Anglican Church in West Africa. He was born in Sierra Leone. [3] He was a part of the Christian Missionary Society (CMS) in 1870 and titled as "Archdeacon" of the Niger Delta ...
Samuel Crowther may refer to: Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1809–1891), first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria; Samuel Crowther (journalist) (1880–1947), American journalist, writer and biographer; Sam Crowther (born 2000), Dutch footballer
Townsend was born in Exeter, in Devon, England on December 1, 1815. [1]Ordained in England in 1842, Townsend set off for Sierra Leone with Charles Andrew Gollmer and Samuel Ajayi Crowther, [2] landing there that same year; after working there only a few months, he was transferred to the Yoruba mission. [1]
Samuel Fenton Cary – congressman and temperance movement leader; John Cranley – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2013–2022; Steve Chabot – Republican congressman, 1995–2009; 2011–2023; Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate; Donald D. Clancy – former Republican congressman; Levi Coffin – abolitionist, member of the Underground ...
Herb Jones, a former college basketball standout at Cincinnati, has died at the age of 51 following a battle with lung and liver cancer. Jones was a star for the Bearcats back in the day. He and ...
Police say one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting near the University of Cincinnati on Thursday. 21-year-old killed, teen wounded in shooting near University of Cincinnati ...
Bishop Henry K. Moeller of Columbus was named coadjutor archbishop in Cincinnati by Pope Pius X in 1903. When Elder died in 1904, Moeller succeeded him as the fourth archbishop of Cincinnati. [ 26 ] During World War I , Moeller successfully petitioned Rome for an end to national parishes and permission to formulate parish boundaries.