Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American. Alaska Highway. Chaplain. H&S Company. Born: 7 January 1910, Wheeling, West Virginia. Died: 1 January 2000, Gainesville, FL. Enlisted: 21 October 1941 and discharged 23 July 1945. Education: He graduated from Washington Dunbar H.S. In 1930 he graduated from Morgan State University and in 1933 graduated from Yale School of Divinity. In 1941…
Alaska Highway. African American. Chaplain, H&S Company. Born: 12 June 1903, New York. Died: 29 November 1986 Flushing, Queens, New York. Enlisted: 15 August 1941 and released 31 August 1961. Highest Rank: Lt. Colonel. Education: graduated with B.S. and B.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York on 23 May 1933. This Seminary was established…
African American Chaplain, Alaska Highway. Born: 20 June 1907, Appomattox, VA Died: 10 May, 2000, Toledo, OH. Buried at National Arlington Cemetery. He married Beatrice Mable Clark (1916-1955) in 1937 and in June 1957 married his second wife Lee Hawkins. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1959 and taught at…