Thomas Sewell Inborden (c. 1865–1951) was a Black American educator and school founder. He was born near Upperville, Virginia, about sixteen miles from Winchester, to freeborn parents. After local public schooling he left home on foot in 1882 for Cleveland, Ohio, working as a bellboy and waiter at the Forest City Hotel for sixteen months to save money for further education. He entered the preparatory school at Oberlin College, where he stayed four years, then attended Fisk University, graduating with a B.A. in 1891. He joined the American Missionary Association, an organization dedicated to educating minorities of all races and backgrounds. His first post was as pastor of a church in Beaufort, North Carolina, for three months, after which he was transferred to Bricks, North Carolina. There, on 1 August 1895, he became the organizer and first principal of the Joseph Keasbey Brick Agricultural, Industrial and Normal School. He married Sarah Jane Evans, the daughter of freeborn Black parents who had migrated from North Carolina to Ohio around 1854; she was herself an Oberlin College graduate and taught for thirty-six years.
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