Mills County, Iowa
Who's Who - Pilgrim's Pastors
The Pilgrims of Iowa
Chapter XVII
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.
| Last Name | First Name | Notes |
| Allender | John | Prairie City, Glenwood, Red Oak, 1871-1887; Born New London, Connecticut, Died 1907 |
| Askin | John | Council Bluffs, Tabor, 1893-1904. Later in South Dakota |
| Bockoven | William H. | Glenwood, 1902-1904 |
| Brooks | Raymond C. | Tabor, Sept. 1869; Elliott 1893-1894; Taught in Tabor, 1895-1896; Later Pastor in California, Oregon & Washington |
| Burton | R. Washington | Indiana, 1868; Glenwood, 1909-1910 |
| Cooley | Oramel W. | Massachusetts, 1816; Glenwood, 1865-1868; Residence to time of death, may, 1889 |
| Cowan | John W. | Tabor, 1885-1894 Eldora, Newton, 1898-1901 Crete, Neb., 1901- |
| Cummings | Origin Vernon | 1812; One of the founders of Tabor, Percival and Exira, 1861-1864; Died August 1864 |
| Ferner | John W. | Ohio, 1847 Mitchelville, Prairie City, Grundy Center, Postville, Storm Lake, Hampton, 1880-1900 Tabor 1904-1910 Went to Nebraska |
| Fisher | Charles F. | Pennsylvania, 1873 Clinton, Le Mars, 1905-1910, Tabor, 1910-- |
| Geer | Herman | Vermont 1818 Nevin, 1878-1879 Died at Tabor, January 1892 |
| Hanley | Charles S. | Childhood at Tabor; Independent Evangelist, 1887-1904; Council Bluffs, People's Church, 1908-- |
| Hill | Virgil B. | Tabor, 1869 Tabor College, Waucoma, Mitchelville, Allison, Rockwell, 1894-1907; agent, Tabor College 1909- |
| Holcombe | Gilbert T. | Glenwood, 1883-1887 Steamboat Rock, 1903-1904 |
| House | Albert V. | Glenwood, Otho, Manson, Lawler, 1862-1875 Died in 1875 |
| Johnson | P. Adelstein | Iceland, 1868 Tabor College, Iowa pastorate, Ottumwa 1900-1907 Home Missionary secretary, 1907 |
| MacLeod | Alex | Canada 1858 Glenwood in 1880 Died, March 1896 |
| McClelland | Thos. | Ireland, 1846 Denmark Academy, 1875-1877 Prof,` Tabor 1880-1891. Pres. Forest Grove, 1891-1900 Pres. Knox Col., 1900-- |
| Mosher | Albert E. | Wisconsin, 1860 Creston Pilgrim, Hastings, 1887-1889 Died, January, 1895 |
| Nutting | John K. | Massachusetts, 1832 Polk City, Bradford, Monticello, Glenwood, 1858-1873, Glenwood again, 1890-1895, Buffalo Center, Thompson, Gaza, Sioux Rapids, College Springs and Farmington, 1895-1904 Later in Florida |
| Platt | M. Fayette | Connecticut, 1822; Pacific Junction, 1866-1874; Later in Kansas and California; Died July, 1898 |
| Reed | Marian D. | Ohio, 1860 Silver Creek, Lakeview, Exira, Glenwood, Humboldt, Eldon, 1890-1908 Oklahoma, 1908-- |
| Rogers | Alonzo | Michigan, 1844 Glenwood, 1877-1880 Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 1880-1883, Dunlap, 1883-1887 Later in Nebraska, Oregon and Washington Died, July, 1901 |
| Sharp | J. B. | Mount Pleasant, Glenwood, 1878-1882 |
| Skiles | Jas. H. | Iowa, 1857 Riceville, Nevinville, Lewis, Avoca, Farragut, Glenwood, 1882-1909, Eldon 1909- |
| Storrs | S. D. | Glenwood, 1858-1859 Later in Kansas |
| Thain | Alex | Tabor 1894-1898 Returned to Illinois to take charge of The Advance. Later pastorates in Wisconsin and Illinois. |
| Thompson | Mark M. | Clay, Glenwood 1879-1883 |
| Thingley | Marshall | New York, 1834; Michigan, Glenwood, 1860-1861, Sioux City, 1861-1869; Died February, 1879 |
| Todd | John | Pennsylvania, 1818 Ohio, Tabor, 1850-1883, Emeritus, 1883-1888 Died January 31, 1888 |
| Todd | Quintus C. | Ohio, 1844 Tabor Col., Corning, 1879-1880, Exira, Center Point, Big Rock, Britt, 1887-1894 |
| West | Lester L. | Wisconsin, 1851 Tabor Col., Fort Dodge, 1878-1889, Winona, 1889-1901; Norwich, Connecticut, 1903-1909; Everett, Wash., 1909-- |
| Wright | Johnson | New York, 1826 Ohio, 1859-1866 Prof. Tabor Col., 1866-1877 Died, May, 1877 |
| ~ Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner |
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