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Jennie L. Ireland (1871-1961) served the Adventist cause through publishing, healthcare, pastoral ministry, evangelism, Bible worker training, and conference departmental leadership. As a white woman, one of her defining achievements was partnering with Black Americans in Los Angeles to start the first successful Black Adventist church west of the Mississippi River.
Lewis Johnson, preacher, evangelist, and conference president, was born on June 6, 1851, in Nyborre, on the Island of Moen, in Denmark. He immigrated to the United States in 1869 and settled in Boone County, Iowa. In 1873 at twenty-two he joined the Methodist Church and the following year, he received a license to preach.
Frederick William Bishop was one of the first Adventist colporteurs and missionaries in Chile. Sent from California to South America by the Foreign Mission Board of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he led many people to conversion, from which the main pioneers and pillars for the growth of the work emerged.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Jonathan Trumbull Orton was an early convert to Sabbatarian Adventism in Rochester, New York.
Daniel R. Palmer was a prosperous shopkeeper noted for generous support of the Adventist movement.
Will Otis Palmer, a leader in the publishing field and a pioneer mission worker to the African American population in the southern United States, was born in Michigan in September 1865 to Charles C. and Cornelia A. (Sexton) Palmer.
Calvin and Myrtle Parker devoted 35 years to exceptionally effective service as missionaries in the South Pacific region.
Rufus W. Parmele was a minister, president of three conferences in the American South, and pioneering mission administrator in the territory that became the Inter-American Division.
Thomas Preble was the first American Adventist preacher to accept the seventh-day Sabbath. His writings about the seventh-day Sabbath played a crucial role in the acceptance of the Sabbath doctrine by Joseph Bates, J. B. Cook, J. N. Andrews, and other early Sabbatarians. He subsequently abandoned his belief in the seventh-day Sabbath but remained an adherent to the Second Advent message.
George Edward (McCready) Price was a Canadian writer and educator who served in a variety of capacities within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Review and Herald Literary Society was established in response to challenges that arose in the publishing work in the 1860s and early 1870s.
Frank H. Robbins devoted 37 years to church administration – 19 as president of the Columbia Union Conference and another 18 as president of conferences in the Columbia Union.
Dores Alanzo Robinson was an evangelist, educator, and administrator who served in South Africa, England, and India during the early period of Seventh-day Adventist world mission.
North American Division Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Wells Allen Ruble was a physician, college professor, college president, medical and health administrator, and medical superintendent.
Arthur James Sanderson, physician and pastor, was born October 1, 1865. After earning a medical degree at Cooper Medical College of San Francisco, he became associated with St. Helena Sanitarium for 10 years, eight as medical superintendent.
Myrtle Irene Sather was an Adventist missionary, nurse, and administrator in Africa and North America.
Richard William Schwarz was a history professor, author, and educational administrator.
Marcial Serna, the first Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist pastor in North America, catalyzed the Spanish Adventist work in the United States by church planting, evangelizing, and mentoring.
During his four decades of varied service as a canvasser, minister, teacher, and conference leader, Henry S. Shaw fostered the early progress of Adventism among African Americans in the South and helped organize the denomination’s work in western Canada.
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