Mason, C. H. (Charles Harrison), 1866-1961 (Personal Name)

nuc89-57653: His A man greatly used of God, 1967 (hdg. on NN rept.: Mason, Charles Harrison; usage: C.H. Mason)

NUCMC data from Mattie McGlothen Library (Richmond, Calif.) for DuPree, S.S. African American Holiness Pentecostal collection, 1880-[ongoing] (Charles Harrison Mason; 1866-1961)

African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mason, Charles Harrison; church founder, clergy, Pentecostal; born 08 September 1866 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States; licensed and ordained to preach by the Baptist denomination in Preston, Arkansas (1891); claimed to have been revealed by the Lord the name of their new congregation, the Church of God (1897); along with Charles Price Jones, fellow Baptist minister, moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to charter and incorporate their church under that name; the belief in the primacy of glossolalia in the Christian life led to split with Jones (1907); formed the Pentecostal Assembly of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC); was elected general overseer and chief apostle (1900s); the birth of COGIC culminated in the largest, oldest, and most visible African American Holiness-Pentecostal church in the world; also formed a COGIC's Women's Department (1911); died 17 November 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, United States)