to educating others. He did not finish his own schooling until the spring of 1894. Though he loved teaching others about the Bible he also loved history, biology, and literature of modern missions and Negro advancement. After being questioned on his views of human progress, he said: "Urge above all things else regenerated lives and loyalty to God, patriotism, true home building, economy, education, race consciousness and unceasing efforts to deserve and to secure all rights." Arter was the author of the slave narrative, Echoes From a Pioneer Life. In 1921, Arter was serving as pastor of Curtis Free Will Baptist Church in Harpers Ferry. Personal life Arter married twice: once on July 10, 1890, to Emily Carter, and once on December 29, 1910, to Maggie Wall. In his first marriage he had five children, four of whom died before they were twenty. He was a Republican, missionary baptist, and mason. At the time of Arter's funeral, Nathan Cook Brackett said, "If we had two or three William Arters in every community of this country the race problem would be settled." External links Jared Maurice Arter in the African American National Biography Echoes from a Pioneer Life (1922): Electronic Edition. Documenting the American South. "Jared Maurice Arter", West Virginia Division of Culture and History. References 1850 births 1928 deaths 19th-century African-American people 19th-century American slaves 20th-century African-American people African-American educators African-American history of West Virginia Baptist ministers from the United States Baptists from West Virginia Chicago Theological Seminary alumni Educators from West Virginia Hillsdale College alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni People from Jefferson County, West Virginia People who wrote slave narratives Storer College alumni Storer College faculty 19th-century African-American writers