Background
Hood, James Walker was born on May 30, 1831 in Kennett Tp., Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Levi and Harriett (Walker) Hood.
Hood, James Walker was born on May 30, 1831 in Kennett Tp., Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Levi and Harriett (Walker) Hood.
Went to school a few months only in New Castle Company, Delaware, and Chester Company, Pennsylvania, bet. years 1841 and 1845. Other general and theological studies without a teacher. Had tutor for Greek; (Doctor of Divinity, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.
Doctor of Laws, Livingstone College, North Carolina).
Minister African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1858. Sent from North.E. Conference, 1860, as missionary to Nova Scotia. Missionary to freedmen within Union lines in North Carolina, 1863.
Member North Carolina Const.
Convention, 1868; assistant superintendent public instruction of North Carolina, 1868. Ordained bishop. July 3, 1872.
Later senior bishop American Mechanical Engineering Zion Church Author: The Negro in the Christian Pulpit, 1884. One Hundred Years of the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1895.
The Plan of the Apocalypse, 1900.
Second Book of Sermons, 1908. President trustees Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina, since 1879. Address: Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Member North Carolina Const. Convention, 1868.
Married Hannah L. Ralph, September 1852. Married second, Sophia J. Nugent, May, 1858.