John Gregg Fee
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1816 – 1901
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Who was John Gregg Fee?
John Gregg Fee was an abolitionist, minister and educator, the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky, and Berea College, the first in the U.S. South with interracial and coeducational admissions. 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 while the men were being taught to be soldiers.
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- Born
- Sep 9, 1816
Bracken County - Spouses
- Matilda Hamilton
(1844/09/26 - )
- Matilda Hamilton
- Education
- Berea College
- Lane Theological Seminary
- Miami University
- Augusta College
- Lived in
- Kentucky
- Died
- Jan 11, 1901
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on July 23, 2013
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