FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHY ON BACK OF PLATE:

PROF. JOSEPH D. BIBB, A. M. Prof. Joseph D. Bibb comes from the city of Montgomery, Ala., of excellent parents. His early life was spent among pleasant surroundings and he received his primary education at the Swain Public School of that city. While quite young he entered Fisk University, where he was prominent because of his splendid scholarship and original ideas. Being impressed with the idea that Negroes were the natural and best teachers for the Negro youth, he left that institution and entered Livingstone College at Salisbury, N. C,, at the head of which was the justly celebrated Dr. J. C. Price. Here he received the degree of A. B. in 1886. He was not contented with his academic attainment, but completed the courses of law and theology, and has constantly applied himself to the fulfillment of his high Ideal. After graduating he spent his first year as instructor in the State Normal at Montgomery, ten years as principal of the public school, In which he received his training, and two years as professor of Hebrew and Bible history at Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. Neither of these nor the minor fields of usefulness satisfied his ideal, and it was not until he entered the active ministry that he felt that satisfaction that comes with fitness. He is now laboring acceptably as a minister in the A. M. E. Church and is recognized as one of its most scholarly divines. The world needs men who will use all of their cultivated powers to bless and and lift up their fellowmen, who will dedicate.themrelves to their fullest energies and their energies to their people. Such a man Is the subject of our sketch.