found: African American National Biography, accessed November 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Arter, Jared; Jared Maurice Arter; college president, educator, Baptist clergy; born 27 January 1850 in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States; studied at Storer College in Harpers Ferry (1873); received a license to preach; studied at Pennsylvania State College (1879); received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan (1885); became an ordained gospel minister, which permitted him to complete the ecclesiastical duties of the Missionary Baptist denomination; hired as a teacher and minister at Storer College, Harpers Ferry (1887); graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary (1894); taught Latin, civil government, physics, and rhetoric at the American Baptist Home Mission Society (1895); opened a Bible school at the Cairo Mission, chartered as the J. S. Manning Bible School, Cairo, Illinois (1900); accepted the presidency of the West Virginia Industrial School Seminary and College in Hill Top (1907); returned to Storer College Church and became pastor again (1917); died 1928 in West Virginia, United States)
