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1. By the 1880s, he referred to himself as C.C. Painter or Professor C.C. Painter.
2. Riverside County, formed in 1893, was made up largely of territory taken from the northern end
of San Diego County.
3. Williams College Obituary Record (1894-95), 272-73; First Congregational Church: Great Barrington,
Mass. Parish Bulletin, 1895 (Great Barrington: Edward V. Foote, Book and Job Printer, 1895), 13; Historical
Catalogue of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood &
Brainard Company, 1881), 92; and The Delta Upsilon Decennial Catalogue (Published by the Fraternity,
1902), 139. See also Bernard A. Drew, Dr. Du Bois
Rebuilds His Dream House (Great Barrington: Attic
Revivals Press, 2006), 70-71, and William T. Hagan,
The Indian Rights Association: The Herbert Welsh Years,
1882-1904 (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press,
1985), 23. The First Congregational Church, 13, had him
attending Andover Theological Seminary as did
“Death of Rev. C. C. Painter,” The Berkshire Courier,
January 17, 1895, 1.
4. Although no records of his employment at Fisk
University were found in the university archives,
there is solid evidence that he was employed there.
In “Churches and Ministers,” New York Times,
December 29, 1878, 10, mention is made that he had
been “elected Professor of Theology.” The Congregational
Year-Book, 1896 (Boston: Congregational
Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1896), 31, has
him at Fisk University from 1879-80. However letters
on Fisk stationery, written as late as 1882, exist in
the American Missionary Association Archives,
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New
Orleans (originally at Fisk University) and as late
as 1883 in Samuel Chapman Armstrong Papers,
Hampton University Archives, Hampton, Virginia.
However, apparently he used whatever writing
paper he could find. Fisk, which opened in January
1866 to educate African Americans, was named for
Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen’s Bureau.
A Civil War general, Fisk, a Methodist, later served
as president of the Board of Indian Commissioners
Esperanza Sobernish making a basket, 1920.
©SDHS #OP 15362-376. Photo by E.H. Davis.
from 1881 until his death in 1890. The board, comprised of unpaid philanthropists, was created in
1869 as part of a new Indian policy focused on a peaceful approach to the Indian problem. Painter
was appointed to the board shortly before his death. For Painter’s address on Fisk University
at the Congregational Church in Great Barrington see,“Educating the Negro,” Berkshire Courier,
January 7, 1880. Painter, working with four Congregational parishes, funded a scholarship for W.
E. B. Du Bois, whom he had met through his son, a student in the same high school. See Drew, Dr.
Du Bois Rebuild His Dream House, 60-65, and 70-4, and Drew, “Charles C. C. Painter, Advocate,”
The Berkshire Eagle, November 3, 2003.
5. Williams College Obituary Record, 273 for quote; see also Hagan, The Indian Rights Association, 21.
In an undated letter in the Amistad Research Center, Painter informed Interior Secretary Henry
Teller that he was secretary of the AMA, “whose work is among the Indians in part.” The AMA,
which aided newly freed slaves, was established in 1846 by Congregationalists, members of other
liberal communions, and abolitionists. They founded or supported anti-slavery churches, supported
abolitionists, and built hundreds of freedmen schools and colleges, including Fisk.
6. See, Prof. C. C. Painter, “The Negro For His Place,” 35, No. 6 (June 1881), 165-67; and “Fisk
University,” 35, No. 7 (July 1881), 302-05, in The American Missionary. In 1883 the AMA began
work among American Indians, see, “Our Indian Work,” 37, No. 10 (October 1883), 291; “Report
of Committee on Indian Missions,” 37, No. 12 (December 1883); and Rev. C. C. Painter,
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