12 Facts About Gilbert Haven

Gilbert Haven was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.

Gilbert Haven was consecrated a bishop on May 24,1872 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Gilbert Haven was an early benefactor of Clark College, visualizing it as a university of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen.

Gilbert Haven succeeded Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark as the President of the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rest Haven is a historically black section for burials in Atlanta's Westview Cemetery named after Haven.

Gilbert Haven was born in Malden, Massachusetts on September 19,1821.

Gilbert Haven married Mary Ingraham in 1851; she died ten years later.

Gilbert Haven became a member of the New England Annual Conference in 1851, and served as bishop in Atlanta to a conference composed entirely of African Americans.

Gilbert Haven died in Malden on the evening of January 3,1880.

Gilbert Haven believed in the absolute equality of all persons, and if they are equal in the eyes of God, he held that civil society would have to recognize their equality under law and in practice.

Gilbert Haven was absolutely opposed to the practice of any type of racial separation in churches.

Bishop Gilbert Haven is included in the Calendar of Saints prepared by the Order of Saint Luke and recommended for The United Methodist Church.