Daniel Alexander Payne

(1811-1893)

Born a free African-American. He taught the Colored people at this college, 1837, while a student at the Lutheran Seminary. A historian, he was elected bishop of the A.M.E. Church, 1852, and was president of Wilberforce University, 1863-76.

Marker is on North Washington Street 0.1 miles south of West Stevens Street.

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