Bumstead, Horace, 1841-1919

found: A Discussion before the Minneapolis Liberal League ... 1875:t.p. (Rev. Horace Bumstead)

found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bumstead, Horace; educator, college/university president, minister, Union Army officer; born 29 September 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; graduated from Boston Latin School and Yale (1863); as a major during the Civil War commanded black troops serving in the Richmond and Petersburg campaigns (1864-1865); graduated from Andover Theological Seminary (1870); served at a Congregationalist church in Minneapolis; taught natural science and Latin at Atlanta University (1875) and was named interim president (1886) and president (1888); retired to his native Massachusetts (1907); was a pivotal figure in education of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century; died 14 October 1919 in Intervale, New Hampshire, United States)