Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882

found: WBIS, Feb. 18, 2010(Garnet, Henry Highland; b. Dec. 23, 1845 [i.e., 1815?], Kent County, Md.; d. 1882; Rev. Henry Highland Garnet; minister resident of Liberia)

found: African American National Biography , accessed January 28, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Garnet, Henry Highland; abolitionist, slave, Presbyterian clergyperson; born 23 December 1815 in New Market, Kent County, Maryland, United States; enrolled at the Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, New York; was founding member of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; pastor of the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church in Troy, New York; served as agent for the Palladium of Liberty and the Weekly Anglo African; edited two papers, the Clarion and the National Watchman; delegate to the World Peace Congress in Frankfurt, Germany; employed as a missionary to Jamaica by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (1852); involvement with the African Civilization Society; helped establish the Colored Soldiers Aid Society; president of Avery College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; appointed to a diplomatic post in Liberia; died 12 February 1882 Monrovia, Liberia)