Students, college -- Berea College

These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College.  Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.

John F. Gregg, descendant of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College, was born in Bracken County, Ky, in 1850.  He graduated from Berea College in 1875 alongside two classmates: John R. Rogers and A.A. Burleigh.  He later became a Berea College trustee and was a member of the board of trustees which called William Goodell Frost to the presidency of the College.  He passed away in Genoa Ohio in 1931.