Full list of FUMC Ministers

56º here in Clarinda, IA at 12 Noon Sunday - little cool, but not raining.

Here is a full list of Ministers and some of the activity from 1853 to 2017 for Clarinda, IA First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church Ministers

1853 - Samuel Farlow                   First Sermon preached in  June 1953

1853 – John W. Anderson

1854 – Richard Mulhollen            Church formed in 1854 by  Rev. Anderson with “four devout Methodist Women”

1855 – William Hoberrt

1857 – Thomas Wallace                1957 First church building  erected at 17^th & Washington; cost - $1,000

1858 – W. S. Peterson

1859 – Charles Woolsey

1861 – Jeremiah T. Hughes

1862 – Benjamin Shin       1863 “New and commodious   church     was built” in area of  16^th and Washington – cost $6,000

1864 – William McKendrie McCain

1866 - ………...Bartels

1867 – Ami Hagen Shafer               1867 – Many came into the church, including Hon. and Mrs. W. P. Hepburn

1869 – C. C. Mabee                         1869-71 Temperance movement was inaugurated: Church debt of $1,800 was paid.

1871 – Artemius Brown

1873 – Jacob Meek Holmes

1875 – J. A. Wilson

1876 – Phineas Franklin Bresee      1876 Largest revival ever held in the church prosperity followed in all lines of the church work.

1879 – William Spearing Hooker

1880 – Charles Wesley Blodgett

1881 – Benjamin F. W. Cozier

1883 – Thomas McKendree Stuart

1885 – Henry H. O’Neal                    1885 Parsonage built next to new church.

1887 – William Fox Burke                                                          

1888 – Mahlon Day Collins               1889 Membership listed at 295     

1890 – Elmer Wolford McDade

1895 – John Franklin St. Clair         1896 Methodist Jubilee listed   400 members and 250 attending Sunday School, despite  bad                                                                  weather; First Tuesday was reception evening at the parsonage; Bro. and Sister VanArsdol                                                                         only original members still in the church.

1897 – Peter Van Dyke Vedder

1899 – Elmer Ellsworth IlgenFritz

1904 – Fletcher Homan

1905 – Josiah Watson Abel

1909 – William Stefvenson, DD

1913 – Abram S. Woodard

1917 – Myron Milton Cable

1919 – James Michael Williams

1922 – Alfred T. Bishop, DD

1927 – David J. Shenton

1931 – Warren H. Meredith

1937 – W. Frank Lister

1940 – Charles R. Rowe

1945 – Warren W. Bentzinger, DD

1949 – J. Lester Greenwood

1951 – Wauneita R. McConnell

1958 – David W. Ash

1962 – John L. Beebout

1971 – Cecil Latta

1974 – Jerold L. Irvin

1980 – Harland T. Gant

1983 – Martin Miller

1987 – Richard C. Quinlan

1991 – Emmanuel R. Dass

1998 – Walden J. Paige

2007 - Andrew Rubenking

              2017 – Moved in to new $1M+ church building on     West State Street

Wednesday evening, after our first choir practice at the new church for the last performance of the season, we went to J's Pizza & Steak House as a group.

 If I could remember all the names of these people--I would have labeled the pictures.

Tomatoes growing -- and some flowers are around them

Another bird feeder added to the bunch

These What-do-you-call-them
are growing, too

               

Till next time - Lynn