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Smith (CHARLES SPENCER an American)

CHARLES SPENCER, an American bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, born at Colborne, Canada, in 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Canada and at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he received the degree of M.D. in 1880. He also holds honorary degrees from Wilberforce University and Victoria College. He was ordained a minister of the A. M. E. Church in 1872; was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876; founded in 1882 the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church, of which he was secretary and treasurer from 1882 to 1900; and was elected bishop in 1900, becoming later presiding bishop of the A. M. E. Church in Michigan, Canada, and the West Indies. He wrote "Glimpses of Africa, West and South West Coast" (1895).