October 1905. Photographer WP Dodson (6th from right). The man on the far right appears to be Oliver Mark Moody, who died two weeks later in Pungo Andongo at age 23. Fourth from right is Bishop Hartzell. Second from right is Bishop Isaiah Benjamin Scott, 1854-1931, an African-American missionary bishop in Liberia 1904-1916. “In 1904 Scott became the first and only black Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop chosen without racial designation by a General Conference in the United States.†http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsc61
Third man from the right may be Robert Shields. The four women in the middle, from the left, may be unknown, Florinda Bessa, Louise Shields, and (seated) Catherine Dodson. 43661
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