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{{Short description|American academic administrator (1879–1976)}}
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{{Short description|American college president, minister, and educator (1879–1976)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Matthew Simpson Davage
| name = Matthew Simpson Davage
| image = File:Matthew Simpson Davage 1926.png
| caption = Davage in 1926
| birth_date = June 16, 1879
| birth_date = June 16, 1879
| birth_place = [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], U.S.
| death_date = September 20, 1976
| death_date = September 20, 1976
| death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
| death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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| alma_mater = [[New Orleans University]]
| alma_mater = [[New Orleans University]]
| occupation = College and university president, educator, businessperson, minister
| occupation = College and university president, educator, businessperson, minister
| office = President of [[George R. Smith College]]
| office = 7th President of [[George R. Smith College]]
| office1 = President of [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]]
| office1 = 6th President of [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]]
| office2 = 1st President of [[Samuel Huston College]]
| office2 = 5th President of [[Samuel Huston College]]
| office3 = President of [[Rust College]]
| office4 = 16th President of [[Clark College (Atlanta, Georgia)|Clark College]]
| office5 = 1st President of [[Huston-Tillotson University]]
| termstart = 1915
| termstart = 1915
| termend = 1916
| termend = 1916
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| termstart2 = 1917
| termstart2 = 1917
| termend2 = 1920
| termend2 = 1920
| image = File:Matthew Simpson Davage 1926.png
| term_start3 = 1920
| caption = Davage in 1926
| term_end3 = 1924
| term_start4 = 1924
| term_end4 = 1941
| term_start5 = 1952
| term_end5 = 1955
}}
}}


Rev. '''Matthew Simpson Davage''' (June 16, 1879 – September 20, 1976) also known as '''M. S. Davage''', was an American educator, college and university president, businessperson, and minister.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Vernon |first=Walter N. |date=December 1, 1994 |title=Davage, Matthew Simpson |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/davage-matthew-simpson |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=[[Texas State Historical Association]] (TSHA)}}</ref> He served as president of [[George R. Smith College]] (from 1914 to 1916); [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]] (from 1916 to 1917); [[Samuel Huston College]] (from 1917 to 1920); [[Rust College]] (from 1920 to 1924); and [[Clark University]] (from 1924 to 1941).<ref name=":0" />
Rev. '''Matthew Simpson Davage''' (June 16, 1879 – September 20, 1976) also known as '''M. S. Davage''', was an American educator, college and university president, businessperson, and minister.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Vernon |first=Walter N. |date=December 1, 1994 |title=Davage, Matthew Simpson |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/davage-matthew-simpson |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=[[Texas State Historical Association]] (TSHA)}}</ref> He served as president of [[George R. Smith College]] (from 1914 to 1916); [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]] (from 1916 to 1917); [[Samuel Huston College]] (from 1917 to 1920); [[Rust College]] (from 1920 to 1924); and [[Clark College (Atlanta, Georgia)|Clark College]] (from 1924 to 1941).<ref name=":0" />


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Matthew Simpson Davage on June 16, 1879 was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to parents Harriet (née Lee) and Rev. Samuel Davage.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Larry G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxsmAgAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of African American Religions |last2=Melton |first2=J. Gordon |last3=Ward |first3=Gary L. |date=2013-11-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-51338-2 |pages=226 |language=en}}</ref> The family moved to New Orleans when he went to college.
Matthew Simpson Davage on June 16, 1879, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to parents Harriet (née Lee) and Rev. Samuel Davage.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Larry G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxsmAgAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of African American Religions |last2=Melton |first2=J. Gordon |last3=Ward |first3=Gary L. |date=2013-11-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-51338-2 |pages=226 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=1974-02-23 |title=Retired Educator Recalls Fete For President Taft |pages=2 |work=The Louisiana Weekly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121828116/retired-educator-recalls-fete-for/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The family moved to New Orleans when he went to college, where his father served as the pastor for the Methodist Episcopal Church.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1915-09-23 |title=Rev. Samuel Davage |pages=5 |work=The Town Talk |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121836429/rev-samuel-davage/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |quote=Newman Memorial Methodist}}</ref>


Davage studied in the [[Classical studies|classical]] department at [[New Orleans University]] (now [[Dillard University]]).<ref name=":0" /> While attending college, he played baseball on the University Nine baseball team and he started teaching in the evenings.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated in 1900 with a B.A. degree, and in 1907 with a M. A. degree;<ref name=":1" /> after in which he began teaching mathematics and Latin.<ref name=":0" /> Davage did a period of postgraduate study at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University.<ref name=":0" /> He married Alice Vera Armstead in 1904.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gy9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 |title=Who's Who in American Methodism |date=1916 |publisher=E. B. Treat |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref>
Davage studied in the [[Classical studies|classical]] department at [[New Orleans University]] (now [[Dillard University]]).<ref name=":0" /> While attending college, he played baseball on the University Nine baseball team and he started teaching in the evenings.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated in 1900 with a B.A. degree, and in 1907 with a M. A. degree;<ref name=":1" /> after in which he began teaching mathematics and Latin.<ref name=":0" /> Davage did a period of postgraduate study at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University.<ref name=":0" /> He married Alice Vera Armstead in 1904.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gy9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 |title=Who's Who in American Methodism |date=1916 |publisher=E. B. Treat |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref>


Davage was business manager for the ''[[Southwestern Christian Advocate]]'' newspaper from 1905 to 1915.<ref name=":0" /> He served as president of [[George R. Smith College]] (from 1914 to 1916); [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]] (from 1916 to 1917); the first president of [[Samuel Huston College]] (from 1917 to 1920, now Huston–Tillotson University);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pledge drive flyer for Samuel Huston College, circa 1948 |url=https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1v13nzj |website=UCLA Library Digital Collections}}</ref> the first president of [[Rust College]] (from 1920 to 1924); and [[Clark University]] (from 1924 to 1941).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mason |first=Herman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15_F2jzhMa8C&pg=PA108 |title=Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties |date=1997 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7524-0887-3 |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref>
Davage was business manager for the ''[[Southwestern Christian Advocate]]'' newspaper from 1905 to 1915.<ref name=":0" /> He served as president of [[George R. Smith College]] (from 1914 to 1916); [[Haven Institute (Meridian, Mississippi)|Haven Institute]] (from 1916 to 1917); the first president of [[Samuel Huston College]] (from 1917 to 1920, now Huston–Tillotson University);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pledge drive flyer for Samuel Huston College, circa 1948 |url=https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1v13nzj |website=UCLA Library Digital Collections}}</ref> the president of [[Rust College]] (from 1920 to 1924);<ref name=":2" /> and Clark College (from 1924 to 1941, now [[Clark Atlanta University]]).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mason |first=Herman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15_F2jzhMa8C&pg=PA108 |title=Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties |date=1997 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7524-0887-3 |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref> He was the first Black president of Rust College, a private historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi.<ref name=":2" />


He was active within the Methodist church both nationally and internationally, and served as a [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] educator.<ref name=":1" />
He was active within the Methodist church both nationally and internationally, and served as a [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] elder statesman and educator.<ref name=":1" /> He was friends with [[George Washington Carver]], [[Booker T. Washington]], and [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]].<ref name=":2" /> Within his lifetime, Davage observed the political changes from Black enslavement and being interposed, to a transformation towards the [[Civil rights movement|American civil rights movement]].<ref name=":2" />


== Death and legacy ==
== Death and legacy ==
He died on September 20, 1976 in a hospital in New Orleans.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 14, 1976 |title=Dr. Davage Dies at age 76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |journal=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |volume=51 |issue=4 |issn=0021-5996}}</ref> The Davage Auditorium (1954) at Clark University was dedicated to him.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=April 1954 |title=College and School News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA243 |journal=[[The Crisis]] |language=en |publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. |issn=1559-1573}}</ref>
He died on September 20, 1976, in a hospital in New Orleans.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 14, 1976 |title=Dr. Davage Dies at age 76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |journal=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |volume=51 |issue=4 |issn=0021-5996}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1976-09-22 |title=Thursday Rites Set for Educator |pages=12 |work=The Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121834158/obituary-for-matthew-simpson-davage/ |access-date=2023-03-28}}</ref> The Davage Auditorium (1954) at Clark University was dedicated to him.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=April 1954 |title=College and School News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA243 |journal=[[The Crisis]] |language=en |publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. |issn=1559-1573}}</ref>


The [[Amistad Research Center]] at [[Tulane University]] has a collection of his papers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matthew Simpson Davage papers |url=https://amistad-finding-aids.tulane.edu/repositories/2/resources/796 |website=Amistad Research Center, Amistad Research Center Repository, Tulane}}</ref> The [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] at the New York Public Library has a photograph of Davage published in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |title=President M. S. Davage. |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-95e6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 |website=NYPL Digital Collections}}</ref> In 1939, he corresponded with [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] who sent him an autographed copy of Du Bois' speech "The Revelation of St. Orgne the Damned", which is now part of the archives at [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b087-i542|title=Letter from M. S. Davage to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 20, 1939|website=credo.library.umass.edu}}</ref> He was photographed at the charter signing of [[Huston-Tillotson College]] on October 24, 1952, which is now part of the Huston-Tillotson University Downs-Jones Library Archives and Special Collections in Austin, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3ef51144897745558e272d36e3a50f9e|title=Huston-Tillotson College|first=Huston-Tillotson|last=Motto|date=April 8, 2021|website=ArcGIS StoryMaps}}</ref>
The [[Amistad Research Center]] at [[Tulane University]] has a collection of his papers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matthew Simpson Davage papers |url=https://amistad-finding-aids.tulane.edu/repositories/2/resources/796 |website=Amistad Research Center, Amistad Research Center Repository, Tulane}}</ref> The [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] at the New York Public Library has a photograph of Davage published in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |title=President M. S. Davage. |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-95e6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 |website=NYPL Digital Collections}}</ref> In 1939, he corresponded with [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] who sent him an autographed copy of Du Bois' speech "The Revelation of St. Orgne the Damned", which is now part of the archives at [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b087-i542|title=Letter from M. S. Davage to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 20, 1939|website=credo.library.umass.edu}}</ref> He was photographed at the charter signing of [[Huston-Tillotson College]] on October 24, 1952, which is now part of the Huston-Tillotson University Downs-Jones Library Archives and Special Collections in Austin, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3ef51144897745558e272d36e3a50f9e|title=Huston-Tillotson College|first=Huston-Tillotson|last=Motto|date=April 8, 2021|website=ArcGIS StoryMaps}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of presidents of Clark Atlanta University]]
* [[List of presidents of Huston–Tillotson University]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:New Orleans University alumni]]
[[Category:African-American history in New Orleans]]
[[Category:20th-century African-American academics]]
[[Category:20th-century American academics]]
[[Category:Presidents of George R. Smith College]]
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[[Category:African-American businesspeople]]
[[Category:African Methodist Episcopal Church clergy]]
[[Category:Presidents of Huston–Tillotson University]]

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Matthew Simpson Davage
Davage in 1926
7th President of George R. Smith College
In office
1915–1916
Preceded byGeorge Evans
Succeeded byRobert B. Hayes
6th President of Haven Institute
In office
1916–1917
5th President of Samuel Huston College
In office
1917–1920
President of Rust College
In office
1920–1924
16th President of Clark College
In office
1924–1941
1st President of Huston-Tillotson University
In office
1952–1955
Personal details
BornJune 16, 1879
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedSeptember 20, 1976
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
SpouseAlice Vera Armstead
EducationUniversity of Chicago,
Columbia University
Alma materNew Orleans University
OccupationCollege and university president, educator, businessperson, minister

Rev. Matthew Simpson Davage (June 16, 1879 – September 20, 1976) also known as M. S. Davage, was an American educator, college and university president, businessperson, and minister.[1] He served as president of George R. Smith College (from 1914 to 1916); Haven Institute (from 1916 to 1917); Samuel Huston College (from 1917 to 1920); Rust College (from 1920 to 1924); and Clark College (from 1924 to 1941).[1]

Biography

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Matthew Simpson Davage on June 16, 1879, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to parents Harriet (née Lee) and Rev. Samuel Davage.[2][3] The family moved to New Orleans when he went to college, where his father served as the pastor for the Methodist Episcopal Church.[3][4]

Davage studied in the classical department at New Orleans University (now Dillard University).[1] While attending college, he played baseball on the University Nine baseball team and he started teaching in the evenings.[1] He graduated in 1900 with a B.A. degree, and in 1907 with a M. A. degree;[2] after in which he began teaching mathematics and Latin.[1] Davage did a period of postgraduate study at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University.[1] He married Alice Vera Armstead in 1904.[5]

Davage was business manager for the Southwestern Christian Advocate newspaper from 1905 to 1915.[1] He served as president of George R. Smith College (from 1914 to 1916); Haven Institute (from 1916 to 1917); the first president of Samuel Huston College (from 1917 to 1920, now Huston–Tillotson University);[6] the president of Rust College (from 1920 to 1924);[3] and Clark College (from 1924 to 1941, now Clark Atlanta University).[1][2][7] He was the first Black president of Rust College, a private historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi.[3]

He was active within the Methodist church both nationally and internationally, and served as a Methodist Episcopal Church elder statesman and educator.[2] He was friends with George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.[3] Within his lifetime, Davage observed the political changes from Black enslavement and being interposed, to a transformation towards the American civil rights movement.[3]

Death and legacy

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He died on September 20, 1976, in a hospital in New Orleans.[8][9] The Davage Auditorium (1954) at Clark University was dedicated to him.[10]

The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University has a collection of his papers.[11] The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library has a photograph of Davage published in 1922.[12] In 1939, he corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois who sent him an autographed copy of Du Bois' speech "The Revelation of St. Orgne the Damned", which is now part of the archives at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[13] He was photographed at the charter signing of Huston-Tillotson College on October 24, 1952, which is now part of the Huston-Tillotson University Downs-Jones Library Archives and Special Collections in Austin, Texas.[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Vernon, Walter N. (December 1, 1994). "Davage, Matthew Simpson". Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  2. ^ a b c d Murphy, Larry G.; Melton, J. Gordon; Ward, Gary L. (2013-11-20). Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Routledge. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-135-51338-2.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Retired Educator Recalls Fete For President Taft". The Louisiana Weekly. 1974-02-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Rev. Samuel Davage". The Town Talk. 1915-09-23. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-03-28. Newman Memorial Methodist
  5. ^ Who's Who in American Methodism. E. B. Treat. 1916. p. 54.
  6. ^ "Pledge drive flyer for Samuel Huston College, circa 1948". UCLA Library Digital Collections.
  7. ^ Mason, Herman (1997). Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties. Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7524-0887-3.
  8. ^ "Dr. Davage Dies at age 76". Jet. 51 (4). Johnson Publishing Company. October 14, 1976. ISSN 0021-5996.
  9. ^ "Thursday Rites Set for Educator". The Times. 1976-09-22. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  10. ^ "College and School News". The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. April 1954. ISSN 1559-1573.
  11. ^ "Matthew Simpson Davage papers". Amistad Research Center, Amistad Research Center Repository, Tulane.
  12. ^ "President M. S. Davage". NYPL Digital Collections.
  13. ^ "Letter from M. S. Davage to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 20, 1939". credo.library.umass.edu.
  14. ^ Motto, Huston-Tillotson (April 8, 2021). "Huston-Tillotson College". ArcGIS StoryMaps.
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