PILGRIM PASTORS OF OSCEOLA COUNTY

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.

Bowdish, Austin C. Graduate, Yankton and Chicago Seminary Sibley, 1901--1904
   
Briggs, Erastus T. Pastorates, 1905--1908 Woden, Ocheyedan and Westfield
   
Brintnall, Loren W. (Vermont, 1828) In Iowa, 1867--1896 Winthrop, Independence, Monticello, Sheldon, Ashton, Fairfax, Hartwick Died in Washington,
May 3, 1900
   
Brintnall, Walter A. Ocheyedan, Little Rock, Ogden, Westfield, 1896--1906 Wisconsin, 1906---
   
Chase, James B. (Woodstock, Vermont, 1837) Council Bluffs, 1865--1868; Cherokee, Sioux City, Pilgrim, Hull Church and Academy, Iowa Falls, Toledo, Ocheyedan, Sergeant Bluffs, Sioux City Riverside, Aurelia, Greenville and Herdland, 1880--1907 Organized twenty-four churches and received to membership 1223. Became Presbyterian, 1907
   
Dean, Benjamin A. Garnavillo, Sibley and "region round about" 1869--1878
   
Donaldson, David Ocheyedan 1894--1896
   
Fitch, Lucius R. Formerly Methodist Episcopal Washta, Milford, Ocheyedan, Lakeside, 1886--1897
   
Glover, John F. (Pennsylvania, 1845) Civil War, 38th Wisconsin Ocheyedan, 1908--1910, A Lawyer
   
Gray, John (Native of England) Avoca, Parkersburg, Sergeant Bluffs, Sibley 1883--1895
   
Hanscom, Fred L. (Maine, 1870) Sibley, Moville, Ionia, Garner, 1891--1902 Later in Illinois
   
Jackson, William Ocheyedan, Golden Prairie 1902--1905
   
Mead, Willis W. Clarion, Sibley, 1884--1886 Foreign Missionary 1886---
   
Moore, W. Howard Sibley 1904--1907
   
Pell, Thos. (Manchester, England, 1825) Sibley, 1881--1883, Ocheyedan, 1889--1891 Died in Ohio, August 1896
   
Schwimley, Wm. A. Native of Iowa. Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, Anita, Shenandoah, Sibley 1902--1910
   
Secombe, Chas. H. (Minnesota, 1868) Sibley, Ames, Waterloo, 1896--1906 Later California
   
Sherman, Eugene L. (New York, 1841) Prairie City, 1874--1877, Harlan, Sibley, Sioux City, Mayflower, Sloan, 1881--1890, later Illinois and Nebraska Died May, 1896
   
Stoddard, John C. Peterson, Sibley, Primghar, Britt, Ogden, Garden Prairie, Kelley, Earlville and Almoral, 1886--1906 Later in Illinois
   
Upton, John R. (New Hampshire, 1819) Durango, Inland, Buckingham, Monona, 1851--1869, Northwestern Iowa, Lakeville, Spirit Lake, etc., 1869--1883. Sibley without charge, 1883--1888. Died, 1898 in California
   
West, Pearley B. Born in 1843. Franklin, 1873--1875, Onawa, Sibley, Little Rock, Lakeview, Magnolia, 1891--1909. Later on farm in South Dakota


Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner
Source: The Pilgrims of Iowa by Truman O. Douglass 1919

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