Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930 (Personal Name)

His The Afro-American press ... 1891.

African American National Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Penn, Irvine Garland; educator, newspaper editor / publisher, biographer; born 07 October 1867 in New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States; MA from Rust College (1890); honorary doctorate from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas (1908); teacher at Payne School, a public school in Lynchburg, later becoming principal (1887); published the essay Lynchburg Plan in Jesse Lyman Hurlbut's Seven Graded Sunday Schools (1893); member of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, which created the True Reformers Bank; board of directors member of the Lynchburg Loan and Trust Company; co-creator of the National Medical Association (1895); co-corresponding secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society (later the ME Board of Education for Negroes) and the Southern Education Society (1912); writer for the ME publication the Christian Educator; participant in the Joint High Commission on the Unification of the ME Church; died 22 July 1930, possibly in Virginia, United States)