Garnet, Henry

HIGHLAND, preacher, born in Kent co., Md., Dec. 23, 1815; graduate of the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, N. Y.; licensed to preach in 1842. During his pastorate of a church in Troy, he edited, in the interests of his (colored) race, a paper called The Clarion; afterward became an anti-slavery orator and temperance lecturer; delegate to the Peace Congre at Frankfort, Germany, and, during the Civil War, chaplain of a camp of colored soldiers. He was the first of his people to speak in the House of Representatives at Washington. Was appointed by President Garfield minister-resident and consul-general at Monrovia, Liberia, where he died Feb. 14, 1882.