The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 16, 20 Sept. 1867, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers house. which to worship. They might give still more, if they could be assured they could use the school houses as places of worship on Sundays. They now have no places for that purpose. They are wide awake on the subject of schools, and their heart is in this matter. The same is true elsewhere. At Brook's Hollow the freedmen own a plot of ground for a school Very respectfully, Rev. C. W. Sharp Agent R. F. &A. L. ALS District of Columbia Superintendent of Education, Reports of Sub-District, Ratios BRFAL DNA. Pages 4-7 of fifteen-page report. ~ Charles Wheeler Sharp (~83~-80) was born in Newton, Conn., and educated at Yale University, Union Theological Seminary' and Yale Divinity School. After holding several pastorates in the Congregational Church in New York State, he went to Charleston, W.Va., in 1867 under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau and the American Missionary Association to help erect schoolhouses for Kanawha Valley freedmen. Later he taught in freedmen's schools in Wilmington, N.C., superintended a school in Savannah, Gal, and taught blacks in Connecticut and in Boydton, Va. Upjohn Kimball (~83~-97), born in Barton, Vt., attended Dartmouth and Union Theological Seminary. After graduating from Union in 1859 he served as a Congregational minister in New York City and in California. An army chaplain from 1863 to 1865, he was appointed superintendent of colored schools in Washington, D.C., after the war, holding the position until 1869. Later Kimball was an American Missionary Association agent on the West Coast and held a number of temporary pastorates in the following decades. Kimball toured West Virginia with the state superintendent of schools in the summer of 1867 and reported to General Charles H. Howard in Washington after returning. About the Kanawha Valley he said: ''The people appear to be doing very well. Among the mines and salt-works they receive good wages, and some of them are securing homes. There are already seven (7) schools in operation in the valley, five of which are taught by Colored persons from Ohio. Most of these schools have received some assistance from the local and State School tax.'' He said that a school of thirty pupils had been established at Tinkersville. ''We met a very large Colored congregation at Tinkers[ville] on the Sabbathday. They were gathered from all the country round about. Colored men from Tinkersville, Oakes Furnace' and Camels [Campbell's] Creek assured us that they would use their best endeavors to build houses and put the schools on a permanent footing with our help.'' Kimball recommended ''that at Charleston a first class man be stationed who shall be the Principal of the school there, and also have immediate charge of the work throughout the Valley. He shall hold institutes for the instruction of the Colored teachers, and see that the schools are conducted in the most approved manner. He shall also engage the efforts now being put forth to secure suitable school-houses. I think that one of the Northern Societies I6