# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-cornish
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:13:03.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-cornish"
name: "Samuel Cornish"
slug: "samuel-cornish"
description: "Samuel Eli Cornish was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist. He was a leader in New York City's small free black community, where he organized the first congregation of black Presbyterians in New York. In 1827 he became one of two editors of the newly founded Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. In 1833 he was a founding member of the interracial American Anti-Slavery Society."
tagline: "American Presbyterian minister (1795–1858)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Cornish_in_1825_by_Francis_Kearney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1795"
deathDate: "1858-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cornish"
    title: "Samuel Cornish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "صموئيل كورني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "صموئيل كورنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cornish"
    title: "Samuel Cornish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cornish"
    title: "Samuel Cornish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cornish"
    title: "Samuel Cornish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump