Isaac Lane (1834–1937) was the fourth bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, which established Lane College in 1882. The college was named after Bishop Lane.Isaac Lane was born March 4, 1834, in Madison County, Tennessee. Lane was born a slave on the plantation of Cullen Lane, and at age nineteen Lane married Frances Ann Boyce, also a slave, but from Haywood County. The Lanes had twelve children and several became ministers, educators, and physicians.