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Photographer: African Americans of Chesterfield County by Felicia Flemming-McCall
Caption: George Waldo Long, D.D.
d. 1943
Additional Description: George Waldo Long, D.D., attended Brainerd Institute and graduated from the Divinity School at Biddle University. Dr. Long served as pastor of Cheraw Second Presbyterian Church and as principal of Coulter Memorial Academy. When he began his tenure with Coulter, he and his wife, Lillian Bull, worked tirelessly to improve the quality of the school. During his leadership, the academy became a coeducational boarding school with a high school and junior college. before his death on August 3, 1943, Dr. Long witnessed the school grow from 87 students in 1908 to 509 students in 1943.
Submitted: February 12, 2011, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p144329
File Size: 0.030 Megabytes

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