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Sidney Brownsberger was an Adventist educator and administrator. He played a significant role during the early development of Battle Creek College (Andrews University) and Healdsburg College (Pacific Union College). He was considered a “pioneer” in the development of Adventist education.
Buffalo Sanitarium was an Adventist health facility from 1902 to 1908. It was located initially at 868 Niagara Street (1902-1903) and in 1903 onward at 922 Niagara Street.
A camp meeting is a Christian gathering, typically characterized by biblical preaching, sessions of prayer and testimonies, and enthusiastic hymn singing. Camp meetings traditionally are held in groves of trees or on a campground with rustic buildings, and most participants stay in rustic tents or cabins. Camp meetings are held for the purpose of revival and evangelism.
Addison S. Carmichael was a pioneer Adventist medical missionary to Africa.
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George and Alma Caviness were educators and missionaries. George was also an ordained minister and college president.
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Miss Vera Chilton, a Bible worker in India, persevered in ministry to zenana women longer than any other person, extending her 32 years of active service another 10 years beyond retirement.
A restorationist or primitivist movement that emerged independently in several sections of North America about 1800. It is considered as the first truly indigenous American religious movement. The focus was a quest for apostolic purity.
Larkin Baker Coles (or Cole) was a physician, a Millerite lecturer, a writer, and an abolitionist. His book "Philosophy of Health" was the most comprehensive statement on health to come out of the Millerite community and had an enduring influence on the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s conception of health reform.
John Ball Cook was a Baptist turned Millerite minister from Middletown, Connecticut. Later he moved west and was the most well-known and most widely traveled Advent lecturer from 1843 to 1846 in the midwestern (the central region that includes Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois) United States. He preached the Second Advent as far west as St. Louis, Missouri. Cook was instrumental in popularizing the practice of foot washing among Millerites. By early 1846 he and T. M. Preble (1810-1907) were the first two Millerite ministers who, for a time, accepted the seventh-day Sabbath.
Cuno P. Crager was a missionary educator and administrator who served in Africa and Latin America with his wife, Reba Hatton Crager.
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Stenographer, private secretary, editor, bibliophile, researcher, author, and trusted literary assistant to Ellen G. White, Clarence Crisler was also a missionary, missiologist, and administrator.
Eli Curtis was a Millerite who initially sympathized with Bridegroom Adventists including James and Ellen White but who later became a spiritualist.
Donald John Davenport (1913-1996) was a physician and entrepreneur at the heart of financial misdoings during the 1970s through the early 1980s, which became the most significant financial scandal within Adventism in the twentieth century. The scandal raised issues about financial transparency, the integrity of church leaders and systems of accountability, and ultimately resulted in a significant number of church members and institutions who lost funds as a result.
Donald Edward and Pearl Ivy Hoyt Davenport were Seventh-day Adventist medical missionaries to China.
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Ovid Elbert Davis was a pioneer missionary to the indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia. He also served in ministry in Washington and Michigan states, and then became a pioneer missionary in British Guiana (after 1965 simply called Guiana) where he perished from blackwater fever while establishing a mission station near Mt. Roraima.
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Mary Gibbs was a pioneer missionary nurse to the Karen people in Burma (today Myanmar).
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Henry John Doolittle, more affectionally known as “Harry,” and Florence Jessie Delph Doolittle were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to China (1913-1927). Harry was a minister, administrator, and treasurer, while Florence was a nurse. Harry’s Chinese name was: 杜立德 (pinyin Dù Lìdé).
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Adventist missionary and philanthropist Phebe Helen Rankin Druillard, known as Nellie, was an administrator, treasurer, and founder of institutions.
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Euphemia Edie was a missionary, educator, Bible worker, colporteur, evangelist, and advocate for women.
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Carrie Ericksen was a missionary nurse to China in the early 1900s. Her Chinese name was 艾瑞克 (Pinyin ài ruì kè).
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