Jesse E. Moorland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jesse E. Moorland

American minister and businessman

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1863

Place of Birth: Coldwater, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1940

Profession: businessperson, minister, book collector

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jesse Edward Moorland (September 10, 1863 – April 30, 1940) was an American minister, community executive, and civic leader. Born in Coldwater, Ohio, he was the only child of a farming family.
Moorland attended Northwestern Normal University in Ada, Ohio.
Then he moved to Washington D.
C., where he attended the Theological department of Howard University and earned his masters degree in 1891.
He was ordained a Congressional minister.
That same year he was hired as secretary of the Washington D.C.
branch of the YMCA. Moorland devoted himself to black social organizations, such as the National Afro-American League in the 1890s, and later the National Health Circle for Colored People, as important for building community strength.
In 1914, Kelly Miller, a leading African-American intellectual, persuaded Moorland to donate his large private library on blacks in Africa and in the United States as the foundation for a proposed "Negro-Americana Museum and Library" at Howard University.
This collection formed the foundation of the Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.Moorland was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Jesse Moorland died in New York City at the age of 76.