Frederick Asbury Cullen

Frederick Asbury Cullen's parents were Isaac and Emmeline Williams Cullen. They had both been enslaved. Frederick Asbury Cullen was born , in Fairmount, Maryland. Sometime before 1919, he married Carolyn Belle Mitchell (d. 1932), a soprano and pianist from Baltimore. They worked together in the Church. They had one unofficially adopted child, Countee LeRoy Porter, who assumed the Reverend's last name. Countee Cullen was a poet, and is regarded as a notable member of the Harlem Renaissance. == Career ==

It is said that his religious awakening occurred at Baltimore's Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in September 1894. == References ==