2021 Business Hall of Fame: Adolphus Humbles with Ted Delaney

Adolphus Humbles, who is being inducted into the Business Hall of Fame posthumously, was a successful merchant in Campbell County and operated the toll road between Lynchburg and Rustburg. He was an early supporter of the Virginia Theological Seminary, a precursor to the Virginia University of Lynchburg, where Humbles Hall is named for him, and he also was the Treasurer of the Virginia State Baptist Convention. Also active in politics, he served as Chairman of the Campbell County Executive Committee for the Republican Party for 13 years. Mr. Humbles built what is known as the Humbles Building at 901 Fifth Street in what is now the Fifth Street Historic District. The Humbles Building is a large, three-story, mixed use facility that contained two storefronts on the first floor and an auditorium on the second floor. He also served on the board of the Grand United Order of True Reformers, an African-American fraternal organization that had many forms including a temperance movement, bank, newspaper, real estate, and at one point in time was the largest black fraternal society and black-owned business in the United States.

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