Joseph Gomer (missionary)

Joseph Gomer (1834–1892) was an African American missionary on behalf of the United Brethren Church active in Sierra Leone.

During the American Civil War he served in the Union Army.

[1] They joined a mission station which had been founded in 1855 and which grew coffee and rubber trees.

Following a fund-raising tour of the United States, he established an industrial school.

[1] He remained in Sierra Leone, where he would die of apoplexy.