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JOHN BIAS.

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JOHN BIAS, professor of mathematics at the State Normal for Negroes in Elizabeth, North Carolina, is one of Lincoln's sons in whose career she might find much to be proud.

He says when Mr. O.H. Winston came to Palmyra from Lincoln Institute he started the exodus from that place to Lincoln.

Mr. Bias himself was the second, following his sister, Lizzie, now deceased. He reached Jefferson City with seventy-five cents, and remained at Lincoln Institute nine years, earning every dollar paid for board, books and clothing with his hands.

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JOHN BIAS.

After finishing both normal and college courses at Lincoln Institute, 1901, Mr. Bias went to Chicago University for a short time. During the vacation he came to St. Louis for work; while there Acting President J.W. Daniel prevailed upon him to come to Lincoln Institute and assist in science and English, and to instruct in mechanical and free-hand drawing.

In October of this year he began the work at Lincoln Institute, and made quite an impression as a teacher. At the close of this scholastic year Mr. Bias resigned and returned to Chicago University, where he again worked with his hands and succeeded in paying his college expenses, and cleared twenty-seven dollars every month.

The two and a half years in Chicago University were devoted to the study of science and mathematics.

Through Doctor Angel, of the Department of Psychology, and Doctor Slaughter, of the Department of Mathematics, Mr. Bias secured the position in the State School of North Carolina, which position he now holds with much credit to himself and to Lincoln Institute, where he received the inspiration and obtained his foundation work.

Mr. Bias is a devout Christian, and devotes much of his time to the Sunday-school, of which he is superintendent, and to the College Y.M.C.A., of which he is president.

Much of the time while at Lincoln was devoted to the same kind of work, and the fact that he continues as he started at Lincoln Institute proves that a school is a miniature world, and the tendencies in school are followed when in the activities of after-life.