William Miller
1782 – 1849
Pioneer of the Millerite Movement
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Elon Galusha
1790 – 1856
Baptist Minister, Abolitionist & Millerite Evangelist
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Joseph Bates
1792 – 1872
Co-founder of the SDA Church
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George Storrs
1796 – 1879
Preacher and editor
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Henry Dana Ward
1797 – 1884
Chair, First General Conference on the Second Coming
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John Byington
1798 – 1887
First General Conference president
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Stephen Pierce
1804 – 1883
Preacher and leader
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Charles Fitch
1805 -- 1844
Preacher and prophetic cartographer
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Joshua V. Himes
1805 -- 1895
Publicist of the Millerite movement
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Hiram Edson
1806 – 1882
Adventist pioneer
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Samuel S. Snow
1806 – 1870
Preacher
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Apollos Hale
1807 – 1898
Millerite Preacher, Editor & Chart Designer
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John Preston Kellogg
1807 – 1881
Early financial supporter of the Adventist movement
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William Farnsworth
1807 – 1888
First layman to keep the Sabbath
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Josiah Litch
1809 -- 1886
Preacher and writer
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Rachel Oakes Preston
1809 – 1868
Lay missionary
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Thomas M. Preble
1810 – 1907
First American Adventist to accept the seventh-day Sabbath
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Frederick Wheeler
1811 – 1910
First ordained minister to preach the Sabbath
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Roswell F. Cottrell
1814 -- 1892
Writer and editor
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Sylvester Bliss
1814 – 1863
Editor, Signs of the Times & Advent Herald
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Michael Belina Czechowski
1818 – 1876
First Adventist missionary to Europe
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William E. Foy
1818 – 1893
Millerite Visionary & Preacher
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Joseph H. Waggoner
1820 – 1889
Editor of Signs of the Times
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O. R. L. Crosier
1820 -- 1913
Writer and theologian
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James and Ellen White
James: 1821 – 1881 | Ellen: 1827 – 1915
Co-founders of the SDA Church
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Abram La Rue
1822 – 1903
Self-supporting missionary to Asia
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Merritt E. Cornell
1827 – 1893
First tent evangelist
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Annie Rebekah Smith
1828 – 1855
Editor and hymn writer, Review and Herald
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John N. Andrews
1829 – 1883
Missionary and theologian
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George W. Amadon
1832 – 1913
Editor and typographer
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John N. Loughborough
1832 – 1924
First Adventist historian
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Uriah Smith
1832 – 1903
Editor and theologian
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Stephen N. Haskell
1833 – 1922
Founder of the Missionary Society
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A.C. Bourdeau
1834 – 1916
French-Canadian Pioneer Evangelist & Conference President
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George I. Butler
1834 – 1918
General Conference president
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John Gottlieb Matteson
1835 – 1896
Pioneer missionary to Scandinavia
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Sarepta Myrenda Irish Henry
1839 – 1900
Temperance evangelist and women's ministry pioneer
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Dudley Marvin Canright
1840 – 1919
Evangelist, Author, GC Committee Member
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Kate Lindsay
1842 – 1923
Pioneering Physician and Nursing Educator
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John Orr Corliss
1845 – 1923
Pioneer evangelist in America and Australia
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James Edson White
1849 – 1928
Missionary to the American South
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Alonzo T. Jones
1850 – 1923
Preacher and editor
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John Harvey Kellogg
1852 – 1943
Physician, Health Reformer, Editor
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William Clarence White
1854 – 1937
Secretary, Ellen G. White Estate
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Charles M. Kinny
1855 – 1951
Founder of Black Adventism
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Ellet J. Waggoner
1855 – 1916
Editor and preacher
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W. W. Prescott
1855 – 1944
Educator and editor
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Ludwig Richard Conradi
1856 – 1939
Evangelist, Missionary, Administrator
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A. G. Daniells
1858 – 1936
Longest-serving General Conference president
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Lewis C. Sheafe
1859 – 1938
Evangelist and Orator
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Harry Fenner
1862 – 1940
Co-founder of Adventist Youth Ministry
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I. H. Evans
1862 – 1945
Church treasurer, missionary administrator, hymn writer
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Luther Warren
1864 – 1940
Youth Ministry Pioneer
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Edward A. Sutherland
1865 – 1955
Educator and College Founder
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F. M. Wilcox
1865 – 1951
Editor, Review and Herald
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W. A. Spicer
1865 – 1952
General Conference secretary and president
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Georgia Burrus Burgess
1866 – 1948
First Adventist missionary to India
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Frederick Carnes Gilbert
1867 – 1946
Foremost Adventist evangelist to Jewish people
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Frederick Griggs
1867 – 1952
Architect of Adventist Education
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Percy T. Magan
1867 – 1947
Educator and Medical School President
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David Paulson
1868 – 1916
Medical Missionary and Social Reformer
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Anna Knight
1874 – 1972
Missionary Nurse, Teacher, and Conference Leader
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Ferdinand Anthony Stahl
1874 – 1950
Apostle of the Incas
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M. L. Andreasen
1876 – 1962
Theologian and Seminary Professor
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Charles Henry Watson
1877 – 1962
General Conference president during the Depression
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Eric B. Hare
1894 – 1982
Missionary storyteller to Burma
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