The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 201, 22 Apr. 1882, U. of Illinois Press

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APRIL · 1882 Sunday Afternoon, a Magazine for the Household, renamed Good Company, from 1878 to 1880. Gladden was a prolific writer, popularizing the results of the new biblical criticism, advocating interdenominational cooperation, and preaching the social gospel of religious concern with the social relations of the industrial age. In 18 he became minister of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, where he remained to his death. From 1894 to egos he was vice-president of the American Missionary Association, and from egos to 1904 its president. After a trip to Atlanta University in 1903 and a meeting with W. E. B. Du Bois, Gladden expressed shock at the condition of blacks in the South and began to voice criticism of industrial education. He resigned as president of the American Missionary Association to become moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches. ~2 Samuel Giles Buckingham (~8~2-98) was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Springfield, Mass.' from 1847 to 1894. He was a descendant of one of the founders of Yale and graduated from Yale's divinity school. His older brother, of whom he wrote a biography (~894), was William A. Buckingham, Connecticut governor and U.S. senator. ~3 Mrs. George E. Howard was the wife of one of the directors of the First National Bank of Springfield, Mass. 24 Albert Harris Tolman (~856-~9~8), principal of Chicopee Falls, Mass., High School from 1878 to 188a, became a widely published Shakespearean authority and professor of English at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Williams College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Strassburg. His uncle, Richard Tolman (~8~7-94), was chaplain of Hampton Institute from 18 to 1878. Albert Tolman donated $~ to Tuskegee on this occasion. is The Congregational Church and Sunday School at Chicopee Falls donated $73. A Recommendation from George Washington Campbell and Waddy Thompson Tuskegee Ala April 22 ~ 882 To whom it may concern. The bearer of this Mr. B. T. Washington is Principal of the Tuskegee Cold. Normal School, and is now making a tour of the Northern States, soliciting pecuniary aid for the purpose of completing a building now being erected as a school house for the use of said School. We can with confidence recommend Mr. Washington as a gentleman, and hope he may meet with success in this enterprise. This School was established by an act of the Legislature of this State during a session of 1880, and an annual appropriation of Two thousand dollars was made for the support and maintenance of said school. The building we now use is not sufficient to meet the growing require201