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Tanner (BENJAMIN TUCKER an American)

BENJAMIN TUCKER, an American clergyman of the A. M. E.

Church, born at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1835.

Educated at Avery College and Western Theological Seminary, he was ordained in the A. M. E. ministry and elected bishop in 1888, serving as editor of the "Christian Recorder," the organ of the A. M. E. Church, for 16 years. He was the founder and for four years the editor of the "A. M. E. Church Review" and a member of the Negro-American Academy. He wrote: "The Origin of the Negro"; "Is the Negro Cursed?"; "Apology for African Methodism"; "Outlines of African Methodist Episcopal Church History"; "The Dispensations in the History of the Church"; "The Negro in Holy Writ"; "A Hint to Ministers, Especially of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"; "The Color of Solomon- What?"