Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893 (Personal Name)

Griffin, P.R. Black theology as the foundation of three Methodist colleges, 1984: CIP t.p. (Daniel Payne) galley (Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne of the African Method. Episcopal Church)

LC data base, 5-31-84 (hdg.: Payne, Daniel Alexander, Bp., 1811-1893; usage: Payne, Daniel A.)

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Payne, Daniel Alexander; African methodist episcopal bishop, educational institution official; born 24 February 1811 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States; educated at a school for free blacks in Charleston; ordained in the Franckean Synod of the Lutheran Church as its first black minister (1839); joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) (1841); appointed to the AME's traveling ministry, traveled across the Northeast to found schools and build churches; wrote the History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a valuable resource for historians (1891); bought Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio (1863); became the first black president of the first black-controlled college in the U.S.; brought Wilberforce on solid financial and academic ground; was Wilberforce Unviersity chancellor (1876); published Treatise on Domestic Education, followed by autobiography, Recollections of Seventy Years (1885, 1888); died 02 November 1893 in Xenia, Ohio, United States)