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WARD, Thomas, A. M. E. bishop, born in Pennsylvania, 28 September, 1823. He is of negro parentage, was brought up on a farm, went to Philadelphia in 1843, attended a Quaker night-school, united with the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1843, and was licensed to exhort in the same year. He preached in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, and was the first secretary of the New England conference of his church. He asked to be sent to do missionary work on the Pacific coast, and arrived there, 19 May, 1854, but returned in 1860 to meet the general conference in Pittsburg. He went back to his post in 1861, and under his guidance and inspiration societies were organized and churches built at Stockton, Sacramento, Petaluma, Grass Valley, Coloma, Placerville, Los Angeles, Negro Hill, Virginia City, Carson City, Red Bluffs, and Chico. He was elected bishop in 1868. Since 1884 he has had charge of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Indian territory.
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