Bowen, J. W. E. (John Wesley Edward), 1855-1933 (Personal Name)

Voice of the Negro (Atlanta, Ga.), Jan. 1905: cover p. 3 (J.W.E. Bowen, J. Max Barber, Editors)

LC database, 12/9/93: (hdg.: Bowen, John Wesley Edward, 1855-1933; usage: Bowen, J.W.E.)

African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bowen, John Wesley Edward; religious educator, theologian; born 03 December 1855 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; New Orleans University awarded him a master's degree (1886); became pastor of Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey; was the second African American to earn a PhD in the United States (1887); served as professor of church history and systematic theology at Baltimore's Morgan College (1888-1892) and as professor of Hebrew at Howard University in Washington, D.C.(1890-1891); became professor of historical theology at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree (1893); launched the Voice of the Negro (1904); became the president of Gammon Theological Seminary (1906-1910); was an active member of the American Historical Association, the American Negro Academy, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; died 20 July 1933 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)