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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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Adventist pastor, missionary, administrator, and hymn writer. He served as treasurer of the General Conference (1903-1910), the first president of the North American Division (1914-1918), and manager of the Review and Herald, vice-president of the General Conference, and 17 years as a missionary in Asia.
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Elon and Anna Everts were early Millerite Adventists who were among the first Sabbatarian Adventists in Vermont. Elon is considered the one to have coined the term “investigative judgment” in connection to Sabbatarian Adventists. He was also one of the first Sabbatarian Adventist ministers to be ordained in 1853.
Cyrus Kingsbury Farnsworth was a farmer from Washington, New Hampshire, who became an early and stalwart Sabbatarian Adventist.
William Farnsworth was a farmer from Washington, New Hampshire who was an early Sabbatarian Adventist.
Harry Emil Fenner co-founded with Luther Warren (1864-1940) the first Adventist youth club.
Mary F. Maxson Fish, an early Adventist believer from Adams Center, New York, was closely associated with church leaders such as James and Ellen White and J. N. Andrews during the 1860s and wrote regularly for church periodicals.
Thomas Marion French was a pioneer educator and missionary in Africa. French later became a prominent theologian and author in the denomination, and served as an administrator and as a member of various denominational boards.
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John Fulton was a missionary, minister, and administrator. Susan served as a counselor, carrying on many responsibilities entailed with mission work and raising children. John is referred to as the “Adventist apostle to the Fiji Islands.”
General Conference Session of 1888 was a pivotal meeting of ninety-six church leaders held from October 17 to November 4, 1888, at the newly constructed Minneapolis, Minnesota, Seventh-day Adventist Church on the corner of Lake Street and Fourth Avenue, South. A ministerial institute from October 10 to 16 preceded the General Conference Session. During this General Conference session, attendees debated prophetic interpretation, the law in Galatians, and the meaning of righteousness by faith.
Josephine Gotzian was one of the wealthiest and most consistent financiers of early Adventism from the time of her conversion in the early 1880s to the end of her life. She was a close friend and confidant of Ellen G. White.
Initially called the “Southern Sanitarium,” Graysville Sanitarium was the first Adventist health facility in the American South. It was located thirty-two miles north of Chattanooga on Queen and Crescent Road. Graysville became an important Adventist center dubbed “The Battle Creek of the South.”
Heman and Eliza Gurney were early Millerite believers and close friends of Joseph Bates. They were among the first to accept the seventh-day Sabbath and became stalwart supporters of James and Ellen White.
Pioneer Adventist missionaries to China. Winferd’s Chinese name was 漢謹思 温弗雷德 (Hànjǐnsī Wēnfúléidé) and Bessie’s (or Bess’) was 漢謹思 贝西 (Hànjǐnsī Bèixī). Together they would spend fourteen years, primarily based around Amoy (Xiamen), building up an Adventist missionary presence through evangelism, distributing and translating literature, organizing churches and training workers, and in particular for Bessie, teaching school and ministering to women.
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Harbor Springs Convention (July 15 – August 17, 1891) is noted by Adventist historians as a decisive “turning point” in the development of Adventist education because during that meeting the Church embarked on creating a distinctive philosophy of Adventist education. This “educational convention” held in Harbor Springs, Michigan was the first meeting of its kind held by the Church.
Walter Harper was one of the pioneers of colporteur work in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Ellen White wrote counsels to him during his two divorces.
Raymond Herbert and Iva Esta Hamel Hartwell were Adventist missionaries to China and Lebanon for almost three decades. Raymond was a minister; Iva was a music and English teacher. The Hartwells were gifted linguists, conversant in Chinese, Tibetan, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.
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Leonard Wood Hastings was a farmer and Millerite believer who became a stalwart Sabbatarian and, later, Seventh-day Adventist. He was a close friend and supporter of Joseph Bates and James and Ellen White. His wife Elvira was a close friend of Ellen White.
John and Lavina Haughey, prominent in church life during the early decades of the denomination’s history, were key financial supporters of James and Ellen White and often led the way in financial contributions for major church projects.
Silas Hawley, Jr. was a prominent minister, author, abolitionist, and Millerite leader.