The students of the Radical University: Henry Bryan

Henry Drayton Bryan (b. Abt 1860)
South Carolina.  Mulatto.
Occupation: teacher
Father's occupation: servant
Mother's occupation: dressmaker

Henry Bryan was born in South Carolina to Anna and William Bryan. His parents lived in Charleston, where his father worked as a servant and his mother as a dressmaker.

Henry appears in university records in the 1876 University of South Carolina catalogue.  He is a freshman from Charleston following the modern studies track.  The university closed before he finished his degree.

After the closure of the university, he returned to Charleston. After working as a waiter for about a year,  Henry worked as a school teacher. He was still teaching in in Charleston in 1890.

Sources

1). Charleston, South Carolina, City Directory, 1877, 1890

2). 1880; Census Place: Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina; Roll: 1222; Page: 176B