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Daniel Wallace Culp

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Daniel Wallace Culp (1852–1918) was a pastor, principal, and doctor in Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. He authored a book about African Americans.[1] He was the "first graduate of Biddle University".[2]

He studied at Biddle Memorial Institute and then Princeton Theological Seminary.

His book features photographs and biographies of prominent African Americans as well as essays on various subjects related to African Americans in American society. His book featured profiles of prominent men and women. It was published by J. L. Nichols & Company.

Culp served as principal of Stanton Institute. He left to establish Florida Normal and Industrial Institute in Lake City, Florida. He subsequently led churches in Florence, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee. He enrolled in the University of Michigan’s medical school and after studying there continued his medical education at Ohio Medical College. He was put in charge of the Freedmen’s Hospital in Augusta, Georgia but controversy ensued with white doctors protesting. He left and established his own medical practice before removing to Palatka, Florida and then Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and daughters.[3]

He served as superintendent of the Negro State League for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. He wrote a 30 page catechism on smallpox and vaccination.[4]

Mary Emily Jefferson Culp (1861-?), a teacher, was his wife and Lottie Culp Gantt (1887-?), the first African American state nurse in Florida, their daughter.[5]

Dr. Eugene V. West was another African American who worked as a doctor in Tampa and helped vaccinate people. He lived and worked on Constant Street (now Laurel Street). There was also a Dr. Anderson.

Writings

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  • Twentieth Century Negro Literature; Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro[6][7]
  • Dr. Culp's Catechism on Smallpox and Vaccination

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Daniel Wallace Culp (1852-1918)". Log College Press Annex.
  2. ^ "Mr. Daniel Wallace Culp, first graduate of Biddle University". Images of North Carolina – via DigitalNC.
  3. ^ Culp, Daniel Wallace (1902). Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. J.L. Nichols & Company. ISBN 9780598621122.
  4. ^ "Sanitarian: Organ of the Medico-legal Society". 1899.
  5. ^ Roberts, Giselle; Walker, Melissa (7 February 2019). Southern Women in the Progressive Era: A Reader. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-926-2.
  6. ^ "Culp, Daniel Wallace | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  7. ^ Culp, Daniel Wallace (May 29, 1902). Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. J.L. Nichols & Company. ISBN 9780598621122 – via Google Books.