Bishop edgar amos love biography of barack

Edgar Amos Love was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal Church and cofounder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Love was born on September 10, 1891, to Julies C. Love, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Susie Love, a licensed minister and the first woman to graduate from Morgan College (Now Morgan State University).

Love attended the Normal and Industrial Academy of Morgan College from 1904 to 1909 and then Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913. While at Howard, Love, alongside two other students, Frank Coleman and  Oscar James Cooper, and Howard faculty adviser Ernest Everett Just, established Omega Psi Phi Fraternity,

Love received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Howard University School of Religion in 1916 and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Boston University School of Theology in 1918. Love served as a chaplain for the 368Infantry (The Harlem Hellfighters) of the United States Army in France during World War I. After the war, he became a history and Bible professor at Morgan College and served as the school’s athletic director and principal.

After leaving Morgan, Love became a Methodist minister with appointments in locations including Fairmount, Maryland, Washington D.C., Annapolis, Maryland, Wheeling, West Virginia, and at the John Wesley United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1922, he was elected to serve as the national chaplain for the American Negro Veterans of the World War.

In 1933, Love became district superintendent of the Washington Conference of the Methodist Church. Seven years later, in 1940, he led the Methodist Department of Negro Work and worked with the Division of Missions in New York City. He also worked alongside Mary McLeod Bethune in the Methodist Federation for Social Services from 1940 to 1944. On June 22, 1952, Rev. Love was elected Bishop of the segregated Central Conference (Baltimore area) of the Methodist Church. His

FOUNDER: HONORABLE DOCTOR OSCAR JAMES COOPER
May 20, 1888 – Feb 24, 1972

Oscar James Cooper was born in Washington, DC. Upon finishing the elementary schools of Washington, in 1909 Cooper entered Howard University, where he obtained his baccalaureate degree in 1913 and his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1917. Some of the academic subjects proved little interest for him because his all-absorbing interest in college was Biology. His aptness and proficiency along this line drew him to Professor Just, who was teaching Biology at Howard. So accomplished was Brother Cooper in this subject that he was made a laboratory assistant in Biology.

Brother Cooper thus was the link, between our other Founders, all Juniors, in the fall of 1911, and Professor Just, the eminent, young (only 5 years Cooper’s senior), Associate Professor, who advised the three young pioneers… Cooper, Coleman and Love.

Brother Cooper early on showed that he believed both in work and in pleasure. He liked to work; to work hard for the achievement of great ends, but he also liked to socialize. Accordingly, in the founding of Omega, Brother Cooper worked unsparingly along with the other Founders many a night until late in the morning.

Upon completing his medical studies, Brother Cooper settled in Philadelphia and worked untiringly and persistently until he built up one of the most lucrative practices to be found among the physicians of Philadelphia, practicing medicine for 50 years. His contributions and awards in the field of medicine were many.

He maintained an excellent general library and an excellent medical library. It was a real inspiration to tour these libraries and through his office. Brother Cooper was ever discovering new techniques in his field and efficiently applying them. He went on like his friends to serve Omega until his dying day in 1972.

Ω Chapter: Founder Cooper is interred at Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Ambler, PA.

FOUNDER: HONORABLE PROFESSOR