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GEORGE S. ABINGTON.

9, Jefferson City, from 1900 to 1903, and was elected again in 1905. He has held the position of High Priest of Pride of the West, Chapter No. 8, R.A.M., for three years.

As a Knight of Pythias he has been Chancellor Commander of Gibraltar Lodge, No. 51, and delegate to the Grand Lodge, and was elected a trustee of the Pythian Temple for two years, ending 1907.

In the African Methodist church he has been honored with the positions of superintendent of the Sunday-school at Jefferson City for several years; lay delegate to the Missouri Annual Conference two successive years and a lay trustee of Wilberforce University, Ohio.

Professor Reynolds is a hard worker in any capacity. He has acquired some valuable real estate and much personal property.
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GEORGE S. ABINGTON completed the Normal Course in Lincoln Institute, June, 1887; was principal of the school at Marthasville, Missouri, 1887-88; was re-elected for the term 1888-89, but resigned to take the principalship at Tipton, Missouri, which position he held for four years, and resigned the position to be principal of the school at Clarksville, Missouri, in 1892, which position he has held for the past thirteen years. He is the only male teacher, white or colored, that was ever able to stay in Clarksville, Missouri, over three years. When he went to Tipton, Missouri, he found a low single-room house for a school building. This condition he sought to better. This was accomplished

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in two years by the old building being razed and a nice modern two-room brick building erected in the place of the dilapidated frame. He thereby raised the grade of the school and put in an assistant teacher.

In Clarksville, Missouri, he holds the record of being the only negro teacher to graduate any pupils from the public school. And in Clarksville and Pike county he is able to count his friends by his acquaintances. In the year of 1891 he was appointed conductor for the colored institute at St. Charles, Missouri, by State Superintendent Wolg, which took him all unawares, as he knew nothing about it until he received the appointment. He was again appointed to the same position at Washington, Missouri, in 1892; also at Plattsburg, Missouri, in 1893. The same position at Montgomery City, Missouri, in 1894, 1895, and 1896. An then, in 1897 and 1898, he was conductor at Louisiana, Missouri. And from 1899 to 1905 he has regularly returned to Montgomery City to conduct the institute.

At the close of the institute last July the Central District Teachers' Association was organized, with G.S. Abington as president. It had been started several times, with different ones at the head, but failed to ever have a meeting or a program, but through his efforts an excellent program has been arranged for the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, and everything bids fair for success.