Background
Camphor, Alexander Priestly was born on August 9, 1865 in Soniat, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Son of Perry and Elizabeth Camphor.
Camphor, Alexander Priestly was born on August 9, 1865 in Soniat, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Son of Perry and Elizabeth Camphor.
Leland University, 1879-1880. New Orleans University, 1880-1889. Gammon Theological Seminary, South. Atlanta, Georgia., 1893-1895.
Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University, 1896.
University of Chicago, summers, 1912-1914.
Professor mathematics, New Orleans University, 1889-1893. Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1895, Saint John's Church, Orange, New Jersey, 1896. President College of West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia, 1897-1907.
President Central Alabama Institute, Birmingham, 1908-1916.
Bishop Methodist Episcopal Church for Africa, since 1916. Trustee College for West Africa, Central Alabama Institute Delaware General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, 1904, 12, World’s Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910.
Member African Society, Freedman’s Aid Institution Methodist Episcopal Church, Southern Sociological Congress.
Married Mamie A. R. Weathers, November 19, 1895.