Background
He was born to Hugh and Isabella Tanner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1835.
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He was born to Hugh and Isabella Tanner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1835.
His father died before the boy had finished his schooling and he was compelled to meet his expenses at Avery College, Allegheny City, from 1852 until 1857, by working as a barber in his spare time.
In 1857 he entered Western Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1860.
In 1856 he was converted and became a licensed preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Then he was ordained as deacon and elder. Obliged to decline an appointment to the Sacramento station in California on account of a lack of means, he served as a substitute preacher for a year or more for a Presbyterian church in the District of Columbia.
After the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a Sunday school for the freedmen newly enlisted in the navy, and in April 1862 was installed as head of the Alexander mission in E Street, the first of its kind to be established in Washington by the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Having become a member of the Baltimore Conference in 1862, he was appointed the following year pastor of a Georgetown church, and in 1866 was promoted to a pastorate in Baltimore. He resigned from this position to become the principal of the Conference school at Frederick, Md.
At the General Conference of his Church held in Washington in 1868 he was made its chief secretary and at the same time editor of the Christian Recorder. In 1881 he attended the Ecumenical Conference in London and in 1884 left the Christian Recorder to become the editor of the A. M. E. Church Review, which periodical he had helped to found.
In 1888 he was elected bishop and assumed charge of the first district of the denomination with headquarters in Philadelphia. In September 1901 he was a delegate to the Third Ecumenical Conference on Methodism. At the General Conference held in May 1908 he was relieved of his duties at his own request and retired on half pay, being the first African Methodist Episcopal bishop to be given a pension.
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On August 19, 1858, he married Sarah Elizabeth Miller by whom he had two sons and five daughters.