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Goodloe Harper Bell
No full textGoodloe Harper Bell was the first teacher at the first Seventh-day Adventist school and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist school system. This first school was located on the first floor of the old Review and Herald building in Battle Creek, Michigan. Bell and his family lived on the second floor. Some of his early students included Edson and Willie White, sons of James and Ellen G. White. Ellen White was a great supporter and influencer of Bell. Bell also taught the Kellogg brothers, William K. and John Harvey
George Ide Butler Headstone
No full textHeadstone of Seventh-day Adventist pinoeer George Ide Butler. Butler was a minister, administrator, and author. He died on July 25, 1918 in Healdsburg, California and is buried at Bowling Green City Cemetery in Bowling Green, Hardee County, Florida, USA
Glenn A. Coon and Wife
No full textFormal portrait of Glenn A. Coon and his wife, Ethel. Glenn was founder of the ABC's Prayer Crusades. Glenn served 60 years in the ministry, including 40 years of extensive travel overseas and in North America. He authored more than 20 books. His wife Ethel was instrumental in helping her husband compile more than 30 Christian books on prayer. The Coon's were members of the Collegedale Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The Coon family included their daughter, Juanita Steffens of Ooltewah; son, Glenn A. Coon, Jr., of Cohutta, GA; six grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren
Lewis Oswald Stowell
No full textHead and shoulders portrait of Lewis Oswald Stowell. Stowell was born in North Paris, Maine, on July 4, 1828. Stowell was one of the early pioneers of the Advent movement. He served as pressman in the publishing of the first Seventh-day Adventist paper, the “Present Truth” in Paris, Maine and the Second “Advent Review” in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was married to Melissa M. Bostwick and together they had six daughters
William and John Nevins Andrews
No full textFormal portrait of William (standing) and John Nevins (sitting) Andrews. William died at Knoxville, Iowa on July 27, 1878. He was the younger brother to the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor and scholar John Nevins Andrews. William married Martha Butler, younger sister of George Butler
Winton Henry Beaven
No full textWinton Henry Beaven was an Adventist educator, college administrator, lecturer, and broadcaster. He was president of the International Committee for the Prevention of Alcoholism. Beaven graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. He later earned a Master’s degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1950. He was dean at Potomac University from 1956 to 1959 and served as dean and then president of Columbia Union College from 1959 to 1970 and provost of Kettering College from 1970 to 1983. Beaven retired in July 1983, but did not stop working at Kettering College. He served as assistant to the president for special projects
Joseph Bates
No full textPhotographic reproduction of a portrait of Joseph Bates. Bates was the founder and developer of the branch of Adventism that became known as Sabbatarian Adventism and later still as Seventh-day Adventism. Bates convinced James and Ellen White of the perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath. Bates was the first temperance advocate and vegetarian Adventist. By 1844, Bates had given up all forms of alcohol, tea, coffee, meat, tobacco and "greasy and rich foods." Later Seventh-day Adventists were influenced by Bates' health principles and by the 1860s Adventist publications discouraged the use of alcohol, coffee and tea
Lora E. Clement at Church
No full textPhotograph of Seventh-day Adventist editor and columnist, Lora E. Clement and an unidentified female standing outside of a church in Takoma Park, Maryland
Lewis Harrison Christian and Wife
No full textPhotograph of General Conference administrator and author Lewis Harrison Christian sitting in a grassy field with his wife. During Christian's life, he was married three times. Mable Royce in 1899, Hansine Panduro in 1904, and Dorothy White in 1938. At the time of processing, it is unknown which wife this is
Lewis Harrison Christian
No full textGeneral Conference administrator, Lewis Harrison Christian, sitting reading a book. Christian showed a deep religious interest from an early age. When he was seventeen years old, he started working as a colporter and sold many books for the Seventh-day Adventist church for two years. In 1890, he and his brother enrolled at Union College and graduated six years later. It was also at Union College where he met his wife, Mable Royce and married on June 14, 1899. In the summer of 1900, he was ordained and later accepted an invitation of the General Conference to go to Copenhagen, Denmark for two years. While overseas, Mable died and he was remarried in 1904 to Hansine Panduro. It was also during this time, he was elected president of the Illinois Conference. During his life, he wrote six books, and many articles. Just before his death in 1949, he was writing a series for the Review and Herald