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James Walker Hood was born on May 30, 1831 in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Levi and Harriett (Walker) Hood.
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James Walker Hood was born on May 30, 1831 in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Levi and Harriett (Walker) Hood.
Hood went to school a few months only in Newcastle County, Delaware, and Chester County, Pennsylvania, between 1841 and 1845.
When Hood was about twenty-one he was impressed with his call to the ministry. Removing to New York, he was in 1856 granted license to preach and the next year he removed to New Haven, Connecticut, where he was received into the Quarterly Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Having been appointed to Nova Scotia, he worked in a hotel in New York for thirteen months, at the end of which time he had saved enough money to provide for his family and to take him to his field of labor. He was ordained a deacon in Boston, Massachussets, the first Sunday in September 1860, and sailed for Halifax the following Wednesday.
In 1862 he met the Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, and was ordained elder. In an unfriendly community at Englewood, near Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, he organized a church of eleven members, then in 1863 he returned to the United States and was stationed at Bridgeport, Connecticut After six months of service there he was sent by Bishop J. J. Clinton of the New England Conference as a missionary to the freedmen within the Union lines in North Carolina. He arrived in New Bern on January 20, 1864. Here he served for three years, after which he left to organize the work in and near Fayetteville. After two years there, he served in Charlotte for three and a half years. In 1868 he was a member of the Reconstruction Constitutional Convention and in the same year became assistant superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina, in which position he served for two years, especially helping in organizing the public schools of the state.
On July 3, 1872, he was ordained bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and in his later life he was long known as senior bishop. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in London in 1881, also to that in Washington in 1891, and was the first negro to preside over that body. He was chairman of the board of trustees of Livingstone College at Salisbury, North Carolina, from its founding until his death; and it was on the voyage to England in 1881 that he took up with J. C. Price the matter of the latter's traveling in interest of the new institution and of accepting the presidency on his return.
In 1882 Hood traveled in behalf of his church in thirty-four states and thereafter was a leading factor in the organization of the denomination. For twenty-six years he presided over the Conference in the state of New York; then and later his strengthening influence was felt throughout the connection. His published works include: The Negro in the Christian Pulpit (1884); One Hundred Years of the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1895); and The Plan of the Apocalypse (1900).
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Hood was a member of American Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Hood was a member of the Republican Party. He was a delegate to the 1872 Republican National Convention and temporary chairman of the Republican State convention in 1876. He was also an active abolitionist.
Hood was a man of courage, conviction, and persistence.
Hood was married three times: in September 1852 to Hannah L. Ralph; in May 1858 to Sophia J. Nugent; and in June 1877 to Mrs. Keziah P. McCoy.
