Ohio History Journal

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WILLIAM

SANDERS

SCARBOROUGH

EARLY LIFE AND YEARS AT WILBERFORCE

by FRANCIS P. WEISENBURGER

The most renowned Negroes in American history have generally been

men of vigorous action who in various ways have given spirited leadership

to their race and to their country. Such persons include Frederick Douglass,

John M. Langston, Booker T. Washington, and William E. B. Du Bois. Other

less aggressive individuals, such as Richard Theodore Greener,1 the first

Negro graduate of Harvard University and a lawyer of note, and William

Sanders Scarborough are not so well known, yet have played an important

part in Negro contributions to American life.2 The latter, noted philologist

and college president, is the subject of this article.3 He was born in Macon,

Georgia, February 16, 1852.4 His father, Jeremiah, born near Augusta,

Georgia, about 1822, had been freed by his master some years before the

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 287-289