The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 458, July 1894, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers by railroad. It is one mile from the center of the town, on a farm on high land, with large groves near by. No whisky is sold in the county, and the location is quiet and retired, just the place for rest. Tuskegee has always been noted for healthfulness, and the nights in Tuskegee in August are always coo] and pleasant. Tuskegee is forty miles east of Montgomery, and five miles from Chehaw Station on the Western railroad, with which it is connected by the Tuskegee railroad. NEED OF REST Many ministers, teachers and other brain workers, fee] that they cannot afford to take a rest. Experience shows that any one who gives himself one or two weeks of rest and change of scenery, can do much better work because of it. It is especially urged that churches provide the means for their minister to attend the ''Tuskegee Assembly.'' BILL OF FARE Everything possible will be done to provide a good and tempting bill of fare for each meal. Among the lecturers will be all car a portion of such well known persons as these: Rev. R. M. Cheeks, B.D., Rev. R. T. Pollard, Rev. W. I. Larkin, Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, Rev. E. l. Penney, A.M., N. B. Young, A.M., J. Q. Johnson,2 A.B., Mrs. Hallie Dillon Johnson, M.D., Mrs. Booker T. Washington, A.B., Prof. J. D. McCall, A.B., Rev. H. B. Peterson,3 B.D. Those who expect to come should write at once arid engage rooms. Address: Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. Indianapolis Freeman, July ~ I, 1894, I. ~ Pastor of St. John's A.M.E. Church, Montgomery. 2 John Quincy Johnson, born in ~ 870, graduated from Fisk University in ~ 890. He later studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and Hartford Theological Seminary, where he secured a B.D. degree. He taught mathematics at Tuskegee in 1893-94. In 1894 he married Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon. He left Tuskegee in 1894 to become president of Allen University and dean of its theological school for a year. Prom :895 to 1898 he was an A.M.E. minister in Montgomery, and later held pastorates in Birmingham (~ 8-~goo), Nashville (~900-~903), and Princeton, N.J. 3 Butler H. Peterson, as assistant in Phelps Hall Bible School. On the staff of Tuskegee from 1893 to 1903, he taught at various times Bible history, sacred geography, mathematics, and mental and moral science. 458