The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . yne to the Philadel-phia city missions, and was sub-sequently pastor of the originalchurches of his denomination inPhiladelphia and Baltimore. In1884 he entered the ProtestantEpisc
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . yne to the Philadel-phia city missions, and was sub-sequently pastor of the originalchurches of his denomination inPhiladelphia and Baltimore. In1884 he entered the ProtestantEpiscopal divinity school in WestPhiladelphia, from which he wasgraduated in 1887. The nextyear he was elected by the gen-eral conference of his churcheditor and manager of the A. M. E. Church Re-view, a periodical which has attained a prominentplace among the literary journals of this May, 1892, he was re-elected to the same is the author of several memoirs, and a valuablework entitled The Relation of Baptized Childrento the Church. Wilberforce university conferredthe degree of upon him in 1889. As a preacherDr. Coppin maintains a high standing in his denom-ination. He was married in 1881 to Fanny M. Jack-son, principal of the Institute for colored youth inPhiladelphia, who was graduated from Oberlin col-lege in 1865. She is an excellent teacher of Latin,Greek, and higher OF AMERICAN BIOfJRAPHY. 147
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