American Decades

Deaths

Rev. George Aaron Barton, 83, Episcopal clergyman and expert on biblical literature and Semitic languages, 28 June 1942.

Rev. Warren Akin Candler, 84, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and chancellor of Emory University, 25 September 1941.

Rev. James Cannon, Jr., 79, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and aggressive advocate of Prohibition, 6 September 1944.

Rev. William Chalmers Covert, 77, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 4 February 1942.

Rev. William Horace Day, 75, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, 16 March 1942.

Marcus Garvey, 52, Jamaican black nationalist and advocate of a future black homeland in an "Africa for Africans," 10 June 1940.

Dr. Jesse Herman Holmes, 78, Quaker who founded the organization that became the American Friends...

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