Gilbert Haven
(1821-1880)
Methodist bishop
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Gilbert Haven (September 19, 1821 – January 3, 1880) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872. He was consecrated a bishop on May 24, 1872 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. He was an early benefactor of Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), visualizing it as a university of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen (former African American slaves). He succeeded Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark (for whom Clark College was named) as the President of the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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19 September 1821 Malden, Massachusetts
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| Died |
3 January 1880 (aged 58)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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