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Frederick Wheeler was the first ordained minister in the Second Advent movement of the 1840s known to have also proclaimed observance of the seventh day Sabbath as Christian duty.
Ben David Wheeler was a missionary to Central Kenya, Uganda, Congo and Zimbabwe.
George B. Wheeler, a Baptist minister who accepted the Seventh-day Adventist message in 1893, focused on advocacy for religious liberty in his work as an Adventist minister in the Northeast and in Washington, D.C.
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.
Flávio Araújo Garcia was a pastor, teacher, and conductor from Brazil.
Joseph Baker, an ordained Methodist minister who joined the Millerite movement around 1843, was for a few years prominent in the early development of Sabbatarian Adventism.
Frank and Bertha Chaney were missionary educators who contributed to the development of Adventist schools in Australia and New Zealand and served, in varying capacities, in the United States, the Philippines, the West Indies, and Mexico.
North American Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
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.
The Columbia Union Visitor is the official publication of the Columbia Union Conference, providing church members in its territory with news and information along with inspiration and insight to enhance their involvement in the mission of the church.
Merritt Eaton Cornell was a tent evangelist, leading debater, and author of five doctrinal books.
Dr. Stanley G. Sturges achieved national recognition as an athlete and as a pioneering physician in Nepal.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers
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.
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.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
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.
Rachel Oaks Preston was a Seventh Day Baptist who introduced the seventh-day Sabbath to Advent believers, initiating a growing Sabbatarian Adventist movement.
The acronym ALINSA, which means Alimentos Integronaturales, S.A., constitutes the legal name of the Adventist health food brand commercially known as Alimentos COLPAC in Mexico.
William Oscar Worth was an inventor and engineer who specialized in bicycles and automobiles. One of his business partners was Henry Webster Kellogg. Worth invented the first documented automobile that Ellen White rode in.
Aaron Henderson Hilliard was an active layman and church elder. Hilliard’s contributions to the Seventh-day Adventist Church include his providing the venue for the first Sabbath-keeping Adventist home school in Madrid, New York, and the warm hospitality that he and his wife, Lydia, provided to numerous traveling Adventist preachers who stayed at their home during the 1860s and 1870s.
George W. Holt was an early Adventist preacher and a farmer. Active in the 1850s, he helped pioneer Sabbatarian Adventism in Canada, New England, New York and Ohio.