Edgar Amos Love (September 10, – May 1, ) was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal and a civil rights spokesman. He is also noted as a founder of Omega Psi Phi, the first international fraternity founded at an HBCU.
Early life
Edgar Amos Love was born in the Carter's Methodist Church parsonage in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His father, Julius C. Love, was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother, Susie Love (née Carr), was also a licensed minister and the first woman to graduate from Morgan College. Due to the pastoral obligations of his father, Love spent portions of his childhood in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. He was one of seven children.
Love graduated from the Normal and Industrial Academy of Morgan College from to He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in While at Howard, Love and two other students, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, established Omega Psi Phi Fraternity on November 17, Ernest Everett Just *isted the students in their endeavors. Love was a charter member for Howard's Alpha chapter on December 15, , and served as its first Grand Basileus (presiden
Founder: Honorable Bishop Edgar Amos Love
Founder: Honorable Bishop Edgar Amos Love
Sept 10, – May 1,
Was born in Harrisburg, Virginia, the son of Rev. Julius C. Love and Mrs. Susie C. Love. He received his early training in the public schools of Virginia and Maryland. In , he graduated from the Academy of Morgan College and entered Howard University. In , he graduated Cum Laude from Howard with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In after three years of additional hard work, he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Howard University. To further his training, he entered Boston University, where he received the Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in Later he spent two sessions of graduate work at the University of Chicago. Because of his distinguished work in religion as a teacher, pastor and inspired civic worker for the advancement of all humanity, Morgan College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in June Brother Love pastored for fifteen months in Fairmount, Maryland, four years in Washington, D.C., three years in Annapolis, Maryland, three years in Wheeling, West Virginia, and two years in Baltimore Maryland, directing the great John Wesley M.C. Chu
Edgar Amos Love ()
Edgar Amos Love was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal Church and cofounder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Love was born on September 10, , to Julies C. Love, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Susie Love, a licensed minister and the first woman to graduate from Morgan College (Now Morgan State University).
Love attended the Normal and Industrial Academy of Morgan College from to and then Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in While at Howard, Love, alongside two other students, Frank Coleman and Oscar James Cooper, and Howard faculty adviser Ernest Everett Just, established Omega Psi Phi Fraternity,
Love received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Howard University School of Religion in and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Boston University School of Theology in Love served as a chaplain for the th Infantry (The Harlem Hellfighters) of the United States Army in France during World War I. After the war, he became a history and Bible professor at Morgan College and served as the school&#;s athletic director and principal.
After leaving Morgan, Love became a Methodist minis
Edgar Amos Love ( - )
Biography
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Bishop Edgar Amos Love was a Methodist minister, educator and activist who co-founded Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at Howard University.[1]
Edgar Amos Love was born in ,[2] a son of Methodist ministers Rev. Julius Love and Rev. Susie Carr. In , at nine years of age, he was enumerated in the household of his mother in Washington D.C.[3] In , he graduated from the Academy of Morgan College and entered Howard University. By , his father Julian was back as head of the household.[4] In , Edgar was one of the founders of Omega Psi Phi , along with Frank Coleman, Oscar James Cooper and Ernest Just.[5] In , he graduated cum laude from Howard with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In after three years of additional hard work, he received the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Howard University. To further his training, he entered Boston University, from where he received the Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in
When the call of the United States came for our youth to do service in France, our Founder promptly entered the Officers Training Camp at Des Moines, Iowa and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant. He was as
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