. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . d with the Masons and Pythians. He believes instressing both industrial and higher education and is im-pressed with the importance of economy and right living. Heowns a comfortable property in Savannah. Dr. Epton has special aptitude for languages, lie was. ofcourse, introduced to Latin and Greek in college and contin-ued their study together with mathematics under Prof. JohnMaxwell while pastoring at Eastman. Later, at Savannah,he read Hebrew under a Jewish Rabbi, and at Columbus,studied Spanish with a native C
. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . d with the Masons and Pythians. He believes instressing both industrial and higher education and is im-pressed with the importance of economy and right living. Heowns a comfortable property in Savannah. Dr. Epton has special aptitude for languages, lie was. ofcourse, introduced to Latin and Greek in college and contin-ued their study together with mathematics under Prof. JohnMaxwell while pastoring at Eastman. Later, at Savannah,he read Hebrew under a Jewish Rabbi, and at Columbus,studied Spanish with a native Cuban for a teacher. ROBERT WALTON WALKER, Jr. REV. ROBERT WALTON WALKER, pastor of the FirstBaptist Church, of Dublin, has struggled up throughpoverty, from a place of obscurity, to a place of prom-inence and usefulness among his people and in his denomina-tion. He was born in Burke county February 10, 1870. Hisfather, Robert Walker, Sr., was a fanner, and his mother, be-fore her marriage, was Laura Hodges. Loth parents wereslaves. His maternal grandparents were Peter and Dinah. ROBERT WALTON WALKER, JR. 582 HISTORY OF AMERICAN NEGRO Hodges, of whom he says, Though they were born slaves,they believed in God and prayed to see the yoke of bondageremoved, and saw it, and died at a ripe old age after Emanci-pation. Mr. Walker belongs to a family which has beencelebrated in Georgia for the number and character of menit has contributed to the Baptist ministry. His education stretches over a long period of years, andwas interrupted by numerous breaks. He began with the pub-lic schools of Burke county when a boy, and completed thetheological course at Morehouse College, Atlanta, when forty-four years of age. His father was a farmer with a big fam-ily and lacked the means to give the boy the education he de-si red. He was permitted, however, to attend school three offour months each year, but remembers how he had to hoecotton until nine oclock, and then often run two and a halfmiles to
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