Our
preaching service, prayer-meetings, Sunday-school, Christian
Endeavour Society, Young Men's Christian Association, and various
missionary organizations, testify to this.
In 1885, Miss Olivia Davidson, to whom I have already referred as
being largely responsible for the success of the school during
its early history, and I were married. During our married life
she continued to divide her time and strength between our home
and the work for the school. She not only continued to work in
the school at Tuskegee, but also kept up her habit of going North
to secure funds. In 1889 she died, after four years of happy
married life and eight years of hard and happy work for the
school. She literally wore herself out in her never ceasing
efforts in behalf of the work that she so dearly loved. During
our married life there were born to us two bright, beautiful
boys, Booker Taliaferro and Ernest Davidson. The older of these,
Booker, has already mastered the brick-maker's trade at Tuskegee.
I have often been asked how I began the practice of public
speaking. In answer I would say that I never planned to give any
large part of my life to speaking in public. I have always had
more of an ambition to DO things than merely to talk ABOUT doing
them. It seems that when I went North with General Armstrong to
speak at the series of public meetings to which I have referred,
the President of the National Educational Association, the Hon.
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