John Gregg Fee
John Gregg Fee (September 9, 1816 – January 11, 1901) was an abolitionist, minister and educator, the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky, The Church of Christ, Union in Berea (1853), Berea College (1855), the first in the U.S. South with interracial and coeducational admissions, and late in his life another congregation that would become First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 2 blocks from his first. (1890). During the American Civil War, Fee worked at Camp Nelson to have facilities constructed to support freedmen and their families, and to provide them with education and preaching where the formerly enslaved men who had joined the Union Army were taken to be mustered out in the last years of the Civil War.
John Gregg Fee | |
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| Born | September 9, 1816 Bracken County, Kentucky, United States |
| Died | January 11, 1901 (aged 84) |
| Education | Augusta College Miami University Lane Theological Seminary |
| Occupation(s) | Minister, educator, Berea College (founder) |
| Spouse | Matilda Hamilton |
| Children | Laura Ann Embree, Burritt Fee, Howard Samuel Fee, Tappen Fee, Edwin Sumner Fee, and Bessie Hamilton Fee |
| Parent(s) | John Fee Jr. and Sarah (Gregg) Fee |
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