Macon County AlArchives Biographies.....Calloway, Clinton J. 1869 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 15, 2008, 11:36 pm Author: Clement Richardson, Editor CLINTON J. CALLOWAY. A. B. TRAVELING through the districts of Alabama, especially through Macon County, everywhere one sees new up-to-date school houses. These schools have three and four rooms or more. Some are used as Model schools in which the teacher lives and has around her all the animals and other things to be had on a farm. These model schools are to train the country boys and girls how to live happily amid their native surroundings. In some places the old half-decayed school buildings are still standing making a marked contrast with the new and up-to-date structures. The one man who is more largely responsible for this condition than any other is Clinton J. Calloway of Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Calloway was born April 18, 1869, in Cleveland, Tennesee. Here in his native town he attended the public school, remaining to finish the Grammar grades. For his High School work he went to Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a young man he had the trait of sticking to a thing and so he remained in the school till he completed the course in 1889. He then matriculated at Fisk Uunivrssity. All through his school career he was an earnest, careful student, deserving and receiving the praise of his teachers. In 1895 he completed the classical course of Fisk and graduated with the degree of A. B. All through his years of study he gave close attention to practical ideas and ideals. After graduation Mr. Calloway accepted work in the Extension Department at Tuskegee Institute and here he has remained ever since. During the years spent in the Extension Department of Tuskegee, Mr. Calloway has done much to develop and make of service his department. In 1895 when Mr. Calloway took charge, the work was restricted to dealing with the farm and country folk in general. It was then in its rudimentary stage. Mr. Calloway saw the great need of better schools. It has been largely through the demonstrations of Mr. Calloway that Miss Jeannes of the Jeannes Fund was convinced of the value of outside aid in rural school work among Negroes. To this end there are now all through Alabama and other Southern States workers among the rural teachers who travel back and forth supervising the work of the country schools. These are the Jeannes supervisors. Another great advance in the Rural Schools of Alabama and now of other Southern states is due to the vision and thought of Mr. Calloway. It was he who suggested to Dr. Washington that Mr. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago would help in the erection of new and up-to-date schools for the rural districts of Alabama. Acting on this suggestion Mr. Rosenwald has invested the largest sum of money set aside for educational purposes. The schools built from the fund are known as the Rosenwald schools. The suggestion came from Mr. Calloway and he is the man who has had to work out the detail of the investment and he has also had to help the rural people raise their share of the money. All of them turn to Mr. Calloway when discouraged and expect to be shown the way out of difficulties. Never has he failed them. Mr. Calloway is now the head of the Extension Department with a number of workers under him, instead of being the whole of the Department as he was when he first took the work. Mr. Calloway was married to Miss Josie Elizabeth Schooler March 12th, 1901 at Kowaliga, Alabama. To Mrs. Calloway her husband gives credit for his success in acquiring property. They own their own beautiful home and 1,000 acres of land and the implements, stock, etc., that are required for this sort of farming. Mr. Calloway is a Congregationalist in Religious belief. He is a practical Christian and commands the respect of all who know him. Mr. Calloway is through and through a man of business. Whatever he undertakes to do is seen through the amount of good done for the amount of money spent. He is President of Homeseekers Land Company, Capital Stock $10,000.00 and manager of the Tuskegee Farm and Improvement Company with a capitalization of $25,000.00. There are many better schools, better homes and better farms in Macon County and in fact all through Alabama because of the work of Mr. Calloway in the Extension Department of Tuskegee. Additional Comments: Extracted from: The National Cyclopedia of The Colored Race Editor-in-Chief CLEMENT RICHARDSON President of Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, Mo. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dr. C. V. ROMAN, Nashville, Tenn. Professor of Meharry Medical College. W. T. B. WILLIAMS, Hampton Institute, Va. Field Agent of the Jeannes and Slater Funds. H. M. MINTON, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Directors Mercy Hospital. SILAS X. FLOYD, Augusta, Ga. Principal of City Schools. DR. R. E. JONES, New Orleans, La. Editor of South Western Christian Advocate. DR. A. F. OWENS, Selma, Ala. Dean of Theological Dept. Selma university. FRED MOORE, New York City. Editor New York Age. ADVISORY BOARD EMMETT J. SCOTT, Chairman, Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. N. B. YOUNG, Tallahassee, Fla. President of A. and M. College. DR. J. W. E. BOWEN, Atlanta, Ga. Dean of Gammon Theological Seminary. J. R. E. LEE, Kansas City, Mo. Principal of Lincoln High School. J. S. CLARK, Baton Route, La. President of Southern University. DR. M. W. DOGAN, Marshall, Texas. President of Wiley University. Volume One NATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. PUBLISHERS MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 1919 COPYRIGHT 1919 NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Inc. MONTGOMERY, ALA. Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/macon/photos/bios/calloway54nbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/macon/bios/calloway54nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 6.2 Kb