Bishop College
Historically Black College
Mrs. Daisy Miller Harvey
Mrs. Harvey was born in Mississippi, but reared in Memphis, Tennessee, where she attended the public schools and later Le Mayne Institute. In September, 1877, she entered the Roger Williams University, and was graduated from the normal course in 1879. She began at once to teach, and, with the exception of one year, has been engaged in educational work continuously for the past nineteen years. In 1885, she was appointed by the Women's Baptist Educational Society as their missionary. She says: "I traveled throughout the State of Kentucky from east to west and from north to south, visiting churches, organizing missionary bands, making special talks to the young people, visiting the homes, and helping when I could to encourage the women to live pure, clean lives, and to make their homes all they ought to be—types of the heavenly home." In 1884, Mrs. Harvey began a movement which has resulted in the establishment of the Colored Orphans' and Old Ladies' Home. Since 1896 Mrs. Harvey has been matron in Bishop College, Marshall, Texas.