Bishop edgar amos love biography template

American bishop and fraternity founder

Edgar Amos Love (September 10, 1891 – May 1, 1974) was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal and a civil rights spokesman.^[1][2][3][4] He is also noted as a founder of Omega Psi Phi, the first international fraternity founded at an HBCU.^[5][6]

Early life

Edgar Amos Love was born in the Carter's Methodist Church parsonage in Harrisonburg, Virginia.^[6][4] His father, Julius C.

Love, was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[1][6] His mother, Susie Love (née Carr), was also a licensed minister and the first woman to graduate from Morgan College.^[1] Due to the pastoral obligations of his father, Love spent portions of his childhood in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.^[2] He was one of seven children.^[2]

Love graduated from the Normal and Industrial Academy of Morgan Col