From Eldorado Universalist Parish & Church Records
Pastors of Eldorado Universalist Church 1848-1992
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about recent ministers. Dates As Name Place & College/Ordination Date &
Misc. Info 1849 Founding Rev. Elihu Moore 1849-1855 Rev. Elihu Moore 1864-1866 Rev.
T.S. Guthrie 1867-1891 Rev. Elihu Moore (circuit) 1872-1878 Rev.
B.F. Eaton 1874-1895 Rev.
J.H. Blackford New
Westville OH, April
10, 1848 Ordained
1873 1875 Rev.
Gretchell
part of 1875 when Rev. Blackford was not able to preach 1896-1899 Rev.
Moorman 1898-1899 Rev.
J.H. Blackford 1901 Rev.
Robinson 1901-1903 Rev.
Harry Blackford Eldorado
OH Oct.
17, 1866 Tufts
College;
ordained 1892 1903-1917 Rev.
Sarah L. Stoner Union
County, IN Nov.
26, 1853 Smithson
& Buchtel;
ordained 1896 March
1937 (?) at Mt. Gilead 1903-1913 Rev. J.A.
Stoner
Peru IN April 21, 1849 Smithson;
ordained
1889 Dec.
1913 at Eldorado OH 1919-1924 Rev. Thomas
M. Murray
Manchester, England
Chicago, Ryder Divinity School; ordained
1917; installed July 6, 1919
May 10, 1954 at Concord MI 1924
accepted call to KY Dec.
5, 1920- May 1921 Rev.
F.W. Millar, D.D.
Substitute
for Rev. Murray 1924-1929 Rev.
Elmer Druley
Tufts College; ordained Dec. 11, 1924,
installed Sept. 7, 1924 Accepted
call to (?) Iowa (?) Sept. 1929 1929-1932 Rev.
Roscoe Walters
Middleport,
NY
St. Lawrence University; ordained Oct. 29,
1930; installed Nov. 10, 1929 Accepted
call to Lansing, MI, Nov. 1932 1935-1938 Rev.
George Wood, born Massachusetts
Tufts College; installed July 7, 1934 Accepted
call to Everett, Mass. Dec. 1938 1939 Rev.
Harriet Druley
1940-1942 Rev.
Clinton Scott
1947-1949 Rev.
M.R. Hartley
Canada
McMaster University, Toronto; ordained
1915; installed May 1, 1947 Accepted
call to Lansing, MI, Nov. 1949 1950-1953 Rev.
Frank D. Gentil
St.
Johns Bay, VT
Bates College & NYC Union Theological;
ordained May 31, 1953; installed Jan. 1950 Accepted
call to Northwest Church, Detroit, MI, Oct. 1, 1953 1953-1956 Rev.
Wells E. Behee
Gasport,
NY, Oct. 22, 1925
St. Lawrence University & Theological
School; ordained Nov. 1, 1953; installed Oct. 1, 1953 Resigned
effective March 1956 1956
(Sept 1) Rev.
Joseph F. Nerad
1960-1964 Rev.
George Lapoint
Lowell
MA, April
24, 1906
Tufts University; ordained Jan. 1934;
installed Oct. 1969 Accepted
call to Orange, Mass., Aug. 1964 1965-1992 Rev.Raymond
Michel
Pittsburgh,
PA., Oct. 18, 1920
University of Pittsburgh
Earlham College; ordained 1949; installed
Sept. 1965 Retired
Sept. 1, 1992
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Rev. W.Y. Emmet
Rev. Sweet
Rev. Henry Gifford