. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . g the next year visited forty-two separate SundaySchools in addition to his regular pastoral work. DENNIS FULTON DOUGLASS PROF. DENNIS FULTON DOUGLASS, who has beenprincipal of the Montezuma Public Schools since 1906,and who is doing splendid work in his chosen profes-sion, is a native of Augusta, where he was born just beforethe outbreak of the war, on February 1, 1860. His father wasGeorge Douglass, who was by trade a carpenter. His motherwas Martha Lanier. After attending the public schools, young Douglass we
. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . g the next year visited forty-two separate SundaySchools in addition to his regular pastoral work. DENNIS FULTON DOUGLASS PROF. DENNIS FULTON DOUGLASS, who has beenprincipal of the Montezuma Public Schools since 1906,and who is doing splendid work in his chosen profes-sion, is a native of Augusta, where he was born just beforethe outbreak of the war, on February 1, 1860. His father wasGeorge Douglass, who was by trade a carpenter. His motherwas Martha Lanier. After attending the public schools, young Douglass wentto Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, at Hampton,Va., and later attended school at Winstead, Conn., completingthe course there in May, 1876. His father having died atthe end of his first term in school, the boy had to make hisown way after that, which he did with steady courage anddetermination. On the completion of his course, he returned South and be-gan teaching at Schofield Normal, at Aiken, S. C. This wasin the Fall of 1876. He continued to teach until 1S82, when. DENNIS FULTON DOUGLASS. GEORGIA EDITION 547 he took charge of the Journal of Progress, published atAugusta. Later he got on the carrier force of the city, andwas subsequently appointed railway postal clerk, but wasdisplaced from the service during the Cleveland administra-tion, but returned to the service after Harrisons in Augusta he also edited The Peoples felt all along the call to educational work, and finallydecided to return to the schoolroom. In 1900 he went toMacon and became the manager of The Baptist Truth,and printing concern of Central City College, where he wasalso engaged as a teacher of mathematics. Three years laterhe decided to give his whole time to teaching, and in 1906 waselected principal of the Montezuma Public School. Prof. Douglass is a practical man, and undertakes to linkup the work of his school with the life of his people. Heruns a truck farm, raisin
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