This collection showcases entries by Avondale affiliated staff from the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists
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Colcord, Willard Allan (1860–1935)
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Willard Allan Colcord was an editor and religious liberty advocate.
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Conger, Milton George (1891–1957) and Lottie Lea Lucas (1883–1968)
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Milton Conger served as a missionary teacher in China and a pastor, conference president, and college lecturer within the Columbia Union Conference.
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Connerly, Brenton Ernest (1869–1937) and Lillian Snyder (1873–1940)
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Brenton and Lillian Connerly were pioneer missionaries in Puerto Rico, the American Canal Zone and Colombia.
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Coulston, Elmer Floyd, (1906–1934) and Leatha Wenke Coulston-Brooks (1905–1996)
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Elmer and Leatha Coulston were medical missionaries in northern China in the early 1930s. Their united pioneering efforts were cut short when Elmer died of diphtheria in 1934.
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Cox, James John Charles (1925–2020)
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A pastor and New Testament professor, James J. C. Cox served Adventist academic institutions in Australia and the United States both as a scholar and an administrator.
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Crothers, William M. D. (1867–1915) and Mary Hannah Charlton (Tuxford) (1847–1925)
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William and Mary Charlton Crothers gave leadership to various lines of publishing and editorial work, serving in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, and Jamaica, West Indies.
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Daivalu, Ratu Tevita (c.1895–1928)
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Ratu Tevita Daivalu was a Fijian teacher and missionary to Papua New Guinea.
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Day-Star
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The Day-Star was a Millerite periodical published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1845 to 1847.
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Dexter, Herbert Hildreth (1871–1970)
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Herbert Dexter and his wife, Millie, were missionaries to Tahiti, France and Switzerland.
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Dyason, Lennon Anton (1907–1980)
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Lennon Anton Dyason was a missionary in Tonga and Papua New Guinea.
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Edwards, Sanford Palmer Stillman (1873–1965)
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Dr. Sanford P. S. Edwards was prominent in Adventist medical missionary work during the first decade of the 20th century. Despite debilitating health problems that prevented him from sustaining full-time labor after 1908, he found a variety of ways to continue enhancing the mission of the church and the well-being of society.
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Erich, Otis George, Sr. (1903–1982)
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Otis Erich was a medical missionary and treasurer who served in China during the troubled era of World War II and the Communist revolution.
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Faulkner, Norman Hawken (1892–1965)
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Norman Hawken Faulkner was Youth and Education secretary for Australasian Union Conference and the Sanitarium Health Food Company branch manager.
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Ferguson, Margaret (1893–1967)
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Margaret Ferguson was a self-supporting missionary teacher in Tonga for two decades.
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Fletcher-Dowell, Elizabeth (Bessie) Armstrong (1899–1980)
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Elizabeth (known as Bessie) Armstrong Dowell served on the Asiatic Division office team in Shanghai from 1917 to 1922.
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Floding, William Erik (1876–1961)
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William Erik Floding, an Adventist missionary to Samoa, was born on September 8, 1876, in Minnesota to Erik and Betsey Olafsdotter (Lind) Floding. His parents were of Swedish heritage, their surname sometimes appearing as “Flodin.”
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Follett, Philip Stanley (1932–2011)
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An administrator for much of his career in ministry, Philip Follett served as vice president of the General Conference, president of the Atlantic Union Conference, and as president of the Ohio, Chesapeake, and Northern California conferences.
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Fries, Robert Samuel (1874–1946)
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Robert S. Fries was an innovative urban evangelist and conference president in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Good Health (America)
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Good Health was the first health periodical published by Seventh-day Adventists. Initially entitled the Health Reformer (1866-1878), it was issued monthly at Battle Creek, Michigan, in association with the Western Health Reform Institute (WHRI), renamed Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1877. The periodical served the dual purpose of advertising the health institution and instructing the church members and wider community about natural means for the prevention and treatment of disease.
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Gooding (Carr; later Golding), Evelyn (1877–1960)
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Evelyn Gooding was a pioneer teacher to Rarotonga and the first Avondale College graduate to Pacific Islands mission work.
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Graham, Edith Mary (1861–1918)
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Edith M. Graham held multiple church leadership responsibilities in Australia and New Zealand and served as head of the Home Missionary Department of the General Conference.
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Green, Joseph Calvin (1870–1902) and Cleora E. Hall (later Webster) (1879–1963)
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Joseph Green and his wife, Cleora, were missionaries to Tahiti.
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Hackman, Earl Frederick (1898–1951)
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Earl F. Hackman spent his early career in Home Missionary departmental leadership from local conference to General Conference levels and then moved to the presidencies of the Southeastern California Conference, the Northern California Conference, the Southern Union Conference and the Inter-American Division.