Background
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker was born on December 25, 1835 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hugh S. and Isabel H. Tanner.
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker was born on December 25, 1835 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hugh S. and Isabel H. Tanner.
Educated Avery College, Allegheny, and Western Theological Seminary. Was not graduate; (honorary Master of Arts, Avery, 1870. Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, Wilberforce).
Father of Henry Ossawa T. Ordained African Methodist Episcopal ministry. Elected bishop, 1888. Editor Christian Recorder (organ of African Methodist Episcopal Church) 16 years.
Founder, and 4 years editor, African Methodist Episcopal Church Review.
Author: Outlines of African Methodist Episcopalian Church History. The Dispensations in the History of the Church.
The Negro in Holy Writ. A Hint to Ministers, Especially of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Delaware 3d Ecumenical Methodist Conference, September 1901, London, England.
Read paper before that body on “The Elements of Pulpit Effectiveness”. Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Sarah Elizabeth Miller, August 19, 1858.