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Silas Hawley, Jr. was a prominent minister, author, abolitionist, and Millerite leader.
A linotype operator, author, and religious liberty lobbyist, Claude E. Holmes was also a militant defender of Adventist fundamentalism who strenuously advocated for perfectionism and the inerrancy of Ellen White’s writings.
Adventist medical establishment located at 1082 King Street in Honolulu on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. Due to its location, it was occasionally called the King Street Sanitarium.
Warren Eugene Howell was an educator, missionary, author, editor, academic, and administrator. He was one of the most influential Adventists in the early twentieth century who worked to expand Adventist education and missions.
Alfred Sloan Hutchins was one of the first three ordained Sabbatarian Adventist ministers, early Adventist administrator, and author of numerous articles in church periodicals.
William Henry Hyde was an earlier Millerite who observed Ellen Harmon in vision and wrote the lyrics to a beloved hymn.
Adventist health facility located in Iowa. From 1899 to 1909 the facility was in Des Moines, Iowa; in 1909, it was relocated in Nevada, Iowa, and closed in 1943.
Daniel Richard Jackson was a pastor, teacher, missionary, and administrator; from 2010 to 2020, he was the president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Kansas Sanitarium was a medical establishment located in Wichita, Kansas. Originally called the Kansas Sanitarium (1902-1927), it was briefly dubbed the “Wichita Sanitarium” (1927-1929).
Keene Sanitarium was an Adventist health facility, also known as the Lone Star Sanitarium, operated between 1899 and 1916 in Keene, Texas.
Bertha Amelia Kurtz was an Adventist colporteur and missionary.
Abram La Rue was a mariner, gold prospector, and tireless colporteur and ship missionary who traveled the world and pioneered the Adventist work into Asia.
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Early Adventist missionaries to China, the Lairds combined evangelistic and medical missionary work together. The work they developed in Chang-sha was considered as “strategically important” to the early development of Adventism in China. Percival’s Chinese name is: 賴以德 (pinyin: Lài Yǐdé); Emma’s Chinese name is: 賴以道 (pinyin: Lài Yǐdào).
Drusilla Orton Lamson and her family were early Sabbatarian Adventists and active supporters of the Adventist cause.
Phebe Marietta Lamson was a pioneer Adventist physician, author, and health educator. She was the first female Adventist physician and vigorous advocate of Adventist health reform, which she termed the “hygienic medical system” and believed was “the best in the world.”
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Frederick Amos Landis (Chinese name 藍富德, pinyin Lán Fùdé) was a carpenter and builder; Chloe Bell Buchanan was a teacher. The two spent a significant portion of their lives as missionaries in China.
John Clyde Little was a colporteur, printer, minister, and evangelist from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He served as a missionary to India and Bangladesh, where he tragically died from cholera.
Elsa Luukkanen was an Adventist musician, pastor, and evangelist in Finland. Her ministry is credited with gathering large audiences, and it resulted in baptizing hundreds of converts.
Henry and Deborah Lyon were early Sabbatarian Adventist converts and philanthropists. In 1854, they sold their farm so that they could contribute funds for James and Ellen White to establish the publishing work in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Lyons relocated to Battle Creek and became charter members of the first Sabbath-keeping Adventist congregation in that community.
Elias George and Dorothy Olive Jones Marcus were pioneer medical missionaries in Africa.
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