George Clinton Rowe (1853–1903) was an American missionary, minister, and poet. He is referred to in James T. Haley's ''Afro-American Encyclopaedia"" as the "Palmetto Poet".

Life and career

He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He established the Sunday school with three Newtown children in his house. The popularity of the Bible sessions called for an expanded space. He became a minister at the Plymouth Congregational Church in

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

and published verses. Rowe was also a printer at Virginia's Hampton Institute and established what became the

Little England Chapel Little England Chapel (originally called The Ocean Cottage Sunday School) was founded by George C. Rowe. A printer at Hampton Institute, Rowe began the Sunday School A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Chr ...

Sunday school.

Bibliography

*"Thoughts in Verse" (1887) *"Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1890) *"Our Heroes: Patriotic Poems on Men, Women, and sayings of the Negro race"

References

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