1st Lieutenant and Chaplain Charles T. Isom photograph   Save
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Description: Photograph of 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain Charles T. Isom posed in uniform and standing in front of tent, taken during his service in World War I. Isom (1880-1943) was a graduate of Denison University and Ohio University, and served as a chaplain in World War I. He was Executive Secretary of Ohio Baptist General Association for 24 years, and worked as editor of the Ohio Baptist News. In the 1930s, he moved to Dayton where he was Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church until his death in 1943. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B02_04
Subjects: African American Ohioans; American Baptist Church--Clergy; Religion in Ohio; World War I, 1914-1918;
Places: Ohio History Connection