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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.
The Messenger Party originated during the early 1850s in Jackson, Michigan.
Eli B. Miller was a pioneer Adventist educator and missionary, the first professor of elocution or homiletics in Adventist history, and contributor and editor of Bible Readings and some of the earliest Sabbath School lessons.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
Carlos Enrique Krieghoff was one of the first pastors in Chile, and a missionary and administrator in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Johannes Augusto Heinrich Pages was an administrator and pioneer of publication work in Brazil.
As the founding teacher of the denomination’s first official sponsored school, Goodloe Harper Bell is considered by some historians as the “founder” of the educational work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Berean Library was a set of core denominational books issued as inexpensive paperbacks for use in reading programs intended to enhance members’ understanding of and involvement in the mission of the church.
Though it lasted only one year as a periodical, the Bible-Reading Gazette was a precursor to one of the most widely-used tools for presentation and study of biblical doctrines in Adventist history.
Horace Lorenzo Hastings was a fifth-generation preacher, second-generation Adventist preacher, and an author of numerous books and hundreds of biblical tracts.
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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During his forty years at Andrews University, Gary Land advanced historical thinking in the Seventh-day Adventist church both through his teaching and through extensive publications that made him one of his era’s foremost historians of the Adventist experience in America.
Sands Harvey Lane was an evangelist, missionary to the British Isles, and conference president in Indiana, New York and Illinois.
Norris W. Lawrence was an editor, teacher, academy principal, college president, conference educational superintendent, and Missionary Volunteer director.
Charles L. Boyd was an evangelist, conference leader, and pioneering missionary to South Africa.
Polly Davis Lawrence, one of the earliest Millerite Adventists to accept the seventh-day Sabbath, provided hospitality and support, in her home, for Seventh-day Adventist co-founders Ellen G. and James S. White during the earliest period of their ministry.
Eri L. Barr was a Sabbatarian Adventist leader and minister and the first Seventh-day Adventist minister of color.
Howard Johnson Detwiler was an evangelist, pastor, educator, and church administrator who served as president of the West Virgina, New Jersey, and Potomac conferences, as well as the Columbia Union Conference.
William Claggett Gage was a publisher, preacher, health reformer, and the first Adventist elected mayor of a city.
Elijah B. Gaskell, the seventh treasurer of the General Conference (1873-1874), also contributed to the work of the church as a canvasser and as a missionary in South Africa.
William Hunt was the first known American Seventh-day Adventist to come to South Africa.
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