| has gloss | eng: Henry Alvin Cameron was born in Nashville, Tennessee on February 4, 1872 to Walter and Jane Bentley Cameron. His true date of birth in February 1872 has been established from census records taken at various stages of his life and a biographical sketch of himself that Professor Cameron wrote for an encyclopedia of outstanding black Americans published in 1915 (see Who’s Who of the Colored Race, A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African descent. Volume 1 (pg58) - edited by Frank Lincoln Mather. Chicago 1915. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976). |
