Source material on the life of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1872-1907.

Denmark Industrial School

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Morris, J. Kenneth

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White Episcopal minister from Columbia, S.C.; graduate, University of Alabama (1917); rector Emeritus, Saint John's Episcopal Church, Columbia, S.C.; chair of Voorhees Board of Trustees; b. James Kenneth Morris in Bessemer, Ala., 1896; d. 1987. From the description of Source material on the life of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1872-1907. (Voorhees College). WorldCat record id: 70968227 Episcopal clergyman and author; chairman, Board of Trustees, Voorhees College, Denmark, S.C.; ...

Voorhees Industrial School

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Denmark Industrial School, a school for blacks, founded 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, with one teacher, Jessie Dorsey, and fourteen students in a rent free, old store in Denmark, S.C.; M. Ralph Voorhees, a white philanthropist from Clinton, N.J., donated $4500 to buy a plot of land and $500 to erect the first building; in 1902 the school was renamed Voorhees Industrial School in his honor; school became affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1924; became junior...

Wright, Elizabeth Evelyn, 1872-1906

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