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


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About Jesse E. Moorland

  • 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.

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