John Gregg Fee
American abolitionist
Born on: September 9, 1816Died on: January 11, 1901
Aged: 84 years 124 days (1012 months)
Birth Sign: Virgo
John Gregg Fee was an abolitionist, minister and educator, as well as the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky.
He established The Church of Christ, the Union churxh in Berea (1853), Berea College (1855), the first in the U.S. South with interracial and coeducational admissions, and late in his life, he founded another congregation that would become the First Christian Church, two blocks from his first. (1890).
During the American Civil War, Fee worked at Camp Nelson to have facilities constructed to support freedmen and their families, and to provide them with education and preaching.
The camp was also where the formerly enslaved men who had joined the Union Army were taken to be mustered out in the last years of the Civil War.
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