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3 images with subject Shorter, James A., 1817-1887.

  • Bishop Daniel A. Payne. Bishop James A. Shorter. Dr. John G. Mitchell. FOUNDERS OF WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY. From The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.


  • BISHOP JAMES A. SHORTER. From Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Containing Principally the Biographies of the Men and Women, both Ministers and Laymen, Whose Labors During a Hundred Years, Helped Make the A. M. E. Church What It Is; Also Short Historical Sketches of Annual Conferences, Educational Institutions, General Departments, Missionary Societies of the A. M. E. Church, and General Information about African Methodism and the Christian Church in General; Being a Literary Contribution to the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Denomination by Richard Allen and others, at Philadelphia, Penna., in 1816.


  • JAMES CALLINAN, Des Moines, Ia., $5,000.00. JAMES A. AND MARIAH SHORTER, Wilberforce, Ohio, Endowment, -- $2,000.00. From The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.