Webster, E. A. (b. 1849) The free citizen.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.40 Author/Creator: Webster, E. A. (b. 1849) Place Written: Orangeburg, South Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 27 February 1875-21 August 1875 Pagination: 3 items Order a Copy
E. A. [Eugene Alonzo] Webster is listed as publisher of the "Free Citizen," and A. [Alonzo] Webster is listed as editor. States that the Citizen is published weekly, and is devoted to "Temperance, Literature, and Politics."
Alonzo Webster (1818-1887) was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church originally from Vermont. During the Civil War he served as a chaplain, and then after the war moved to Orangeburg, South Carolina to work as a missionary serving the freed slaves and educate African American ministers. He cofounded Claflin University in Orangeburg and served as its first president. Claflin was the first university in that state to admit students regardless of race, class and gender. Webster's second child, Eugene Alonzo Webster (b. 1849), graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and then taught at Claflin University beginning in 1873. He subsequently worked as an attorney and then served as Postmaster in Orangeburg.
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