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John Byington
John Byington was active in the antislavery movement and when the leadership of the Methodist Episcopal Church opposed abolitionism, he withdrew from that denomination and joined the new antislavery Wesleyan Methodist Connection. He then helped to erect a church and parsonage that are still standing at Morely, New York. He went as a lay delegate to the Wesleyan organizational Genera. -
James Springer White
James White was known as Elder White and the co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and husband of Ellen G. White. In 1849 he started the first Sabbatarian Adventist periodical entitled "The Present Truth" Then in in 1855 he relocated the fledgling center of the movement to Battle Creek, Michigan, and in 1863 played a pivotal role in the formal organization of the denomination. -
John Nevins Andrew
John Nevins Andrew was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. Andrews University is named after him. He was born in Poland, Maine in 1829; Andrews became a Millerite in February 1843 and began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845. -
James Springer White
White was baptized into the Christian Connexion at age 16. He learned of the Millerite message from his parents and after hearing powerful preaching at an advent camp meeting in Exeter, Maine, White decided to leave teaching and become a preacher. Consequently, he was ordained a minister of the Christian Connexion in 1843 -
George Ide Butler
George Ide Butler was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, administrator, and author. In 1853 his family moved to Iowa where he was converted at age 22 and baptized by John Nevins Andrews. He then settled on a farm and taught school during the winter months. -
James Springer White
James White served as editor of the periodical until 1851 when he invited Uriah Smith to become editor. He played a senior role in the management of church publications as president of the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Then he suffered from a paralytic stroke in 1865. White eventually determined that he should retire from the ministry and live out his days gracefully. -
Geroge Ide Butler
In 1865 George was elected Iowa Conference president. The in June of 1867 Butler was given a ministerial license, and in October was ordained. Butler worked untiring as an evangelist, bringing unity to the previously fragmented conference. As a result of his rebuttals to the Marion party, which focused their dissent upon the ministry of Ellen G. White, Butler became one of the foremost apologists to defend her during the 1860s and 1870s.
