Identifier: historyofamerica02incald (find matches)
Title: History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by A.B. Caldwell
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, 1873- ed
Subjects: Negroes
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., A. B. Caldwell publishing co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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and is Secreary ofthe Haralson County Committee. He is a registered voter,qualifying under both the property and educational clauses.He is a member of the Mt. Newly Baptist Church and Super-intendent of the Sunday School. He is a constant reader ofthe National Baptist Union Review, his denominational paper.He has never identified himself with the secret orders. Mr.Joyner is regarded as a good citizen and stands well withboth his white and colored neighbors. WILLIAM RYLEY FORBES IT FALLS to the lot of only a few men to rise from a po-sition of poverty and obscurity to the leadership of a greatdenomination or party. The lives of such men are alwaysinteresting. There is perhaps no more helpful literature thanthe biographies of the men who have come up through tribu-lation to places of responsibility and power. The presidency of the Georgia Baptist Missionary Conven-tion is such a place, and brings its leader in touch with thou-sands of members of his denomination in the State, and gives
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WILLIAM RYLEY FORBES. 516 HISTORY OF AMERICAN NEGRO him the appointing of the important boards of the denomi-nation, as well as making him the presiding officer of the an-nual Convention. That position is now (1914) held by Rev.William Ryley Forbes, D. D., of Macon. He is a native ofPrincess Ann county, Virginia, where he was born November22, 1856. While born in slavery, he remembers the war timeonly vaguely, though both his parents, Nelson and FannieForbes, were slaves. His father was his masters hostler ata time when many of the wealthy Virginians maintained ex-pensive stables, as well as private race courses. The boy livedoutdoors with his father and among the horses till his fatherdied. His former master, observing that he was a boy whocould be trusted, brought him up in much the same way thathis father had been trained, so that at an early age he wenton the turf, and remained in that work for seven years, con-tributing his earnings to the support of his mother, and at-tended the

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