Detail from a studio portrait of Reverend Walter T. Cleghorn standing beside a chair. He is wearing a biretta, lace surplice, and stole, published in Negro trailblazers of California by Delilah L. Beasley (1919), 354A. Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 on Paloma St. Walter T. Cleghorn was a native of St. Kitts island in the West Indies. He came to the United States in 1905 and graduated from Oskaloosa College, Iowa, in 1908. He became the Vicar of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Los Angeles in 1910, and was an executive member of the NAACP Typescript below the photo: Rev. Wm. T. Cleghorn. Rector of St. Phillips Episcopal Church Los Angeles
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African American clergy African American churches Cleghorn, Walter T. (Walter Thomas), 1881-1832 St. Phillips Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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