Pilgrim Pastors

Roughly 1884-1910

Source: The Pilgrims of Iowa
by Truman O. Douglass, 1911

This chapter is an attempt to list alphabetically the Pilgrim pastors of the decades, locating each, and a little more fully sketching a few. The list is not complete chiefly because the records are not. For a number of years the Welsh associations were not reported at all. Doubtless some have been inadvertently overlooked; and the names of a few have been purposely omitted because they simply passed through the state, and their ministry was of no significance because so brief.

1906--1908

Doon

Barnett, John H.

 

---Kansas City, Kansas 1908

Webster, Jewell, Salem, Des Moines, Greenwood, Rock Rapids, Harlan, 1895--1908

Beardsley, Frank G.

 

1894----

Quasqueton, Dickens, Edgewood, Wittemberg, Larchwood, Fayette

Benton, Adoniram J.

 

Died March 15, 1905

Born, Ohio, 1842 Ohio Regiment Pastorates 1889--1905, at Baxter, Reinbeck, Doon, Kellogg, Mitchelville and Jewell

Brandt, Wesley L.

 

Milford, Primghar, Rock Rapids, 1898--1906

Methodist Episcopal training

Burch, Henry H.

 

Retired to farm

(England, 1863) Whiting, Larchwood, Green Mountain, 1893--1906

Croker, George H.

 

1902--1904

Little Rock

Downs, Charles A.

 

1896--1902

Larchwood, Lewis

Evans, D. Ellis

 

Rock Rapids, 1906--

Washta, Primghar, 1901--1906

Gilmore, Charles E.

 

Congregational, Doon, Exira, 1901--1903

(Fayette, Iowa, 1863) U.B. Ministry, 1894--1899

Hartsough, William W.

 

1907---

Alvord

Jansen, Jacob E.

 

Died 1886

(Manchester, England 1835) Colesburg, Dyersville, Fairfax, Rock Rapids, 1874--1883

Jones, Amos

 

Died at Larchwood, May, 1896

(Manchester, England 1841) Center Point, Salem, Eldon, Larchwood, 1886--1896

Jones, William

 

1897--1898

Larchwood

Knipe, Samuel

 

Retired to Spencer but continued supply work

(Pennsylvania, 1851) U.B. 1884--1891 Larchwood, Runnells, Peterson, Aurelia, Gowrie, Ruthven, 1891--1902

Leichliter, Albert M.

 

In 1911 residing in New York

(New York, 1837) M.E. churches in New York and Massachussetts. In Iowa, 1884--1888, at Perry and Rock Rapids

Lyon, Asa P.

 

Sioux City Pilgrim, Sloan, Onawa, 1887--1903

Rock Rapids, 1880--1882

McNamara, John E.

 

1884--1889

Rock Rapids, Cedar Rapids, Bethany, Muscatine

Morse, Chas. H.

 

Later, Minnesota and Oregon

Born, Wisconsin, August, 1861. Mitchell, Waverly, Rock Rapids, Newell, 1889--1903.

Pinkerton, Wm. B.

 

1907--1910

Dickens, Little Rock, Gowrie

Steele, John T.

 

1908---

(England, 1843) England, 16 years. Wisconsin, South Dakota, Larchwood

Thompson, Thos.

 

1903--1905

Doon

Watt, Wm. J.

 

1902--1906

Larchwood, Moville

Wickwire, Geo. A.

 

1898--1899

Chapin, Rock Rapids

Williams, J.A.

 

Little Rock, 1910---

(England, 1873) Little Rock, Milford, 1904--1908

Wilson, Edward C.

 

1897--1910

(Wayne, Iowa, 1868) West Burlington, Clay, Rock Rapids, Onawa, South Ottumwa

Zickefoose, F.A.

 
Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner