Half-length portrait of the A.M.E. clergyman Coleman C. Dunlap, seated on a chair with an ornate back. Rev. Dunlap, looks forward, and is attired in a shirt with stiff collar, straight bow tie, and a jacket. He wears a mustache. Rev. Dunlap was a pastor for over forty years with pastorships in South Carolina, Bermuda, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, including at Mother Bethel in Philadelphia, Pa. Born in South Carolina in 1861, Rev. Dunlap entered Allen University (South Carolina) in 1881 and graduated in 1887. Following his graduation, he pastored appointments in the Columbia Conference, the New England Conference, and the Philadelphia Conference. He pastored at West Chester 1903-1908; at Harrisburg 1908-1912; and Philadelphia at Mother Bethel 1912-1916. He later served at Ward A.M.E. Church in West Philadelphia and Bethel Methodist Church in Reading, Pa. before his death in 1926. Rev. Dunlap was also a delegate to the General Conferences of 1896 and 1912., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of pastorship of sitter at A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pa., Reproduced in Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ... (Philadelphia, 1916), 273. Accompanied by biographical entry. LCP copy: *Am 1916 Church 17748.Q (Schimmel)., RVCDC
Date
[ca. 1908]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - Dunlap [P.2025.37]
