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Pastors

CLERGY OF THE MENDOCINO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1854 – 2008

ITINERANT METHODIST MINISTERS:
1854 – 1855   Rev. Bateman and Rev. Preston

EARLY PASTORS FIRST CHURCH
1854 – 1857   Presbyterian Elder Peter Kelly
1858    Rev. Robert Kellan
1859    Rev. Joel Burnell 

PRESBYTERIAN PASTORS
November 6, 1859   Congregation applied and was
        received into the San Francisco Presbytery
        Rev. James Pierpont, Organizing minister

1861 – 1864    Rev. David McClure
1864 – 1870    Rev. Samuel P. Whiting
1870 – 1874    Rev. Charles S. Dewing
1874 – 1875    Rev. D.K. Nesbit
1875 – 1878    Rev. W.R. Stewart
1878 – 1882    Serving short intervals:
         Rev. M. Halliday
         Rev. Thomas Kirkland
         Rev. Klinke
         Rev. Rap
         Rev. A.C. Gillis
         Student: S.W. Pollack
         Rev. A.E. Thomson
         Rev. George McClellan
1882 – 1885    Rev. James Drum
1885 – 1890    Rev. J.P. Rich
1890 – 1891    Rev. M.A. Starr
1892 – 1893    Rev. J.F. Berry
1894     Rev. John S. Ross
1894 – 1896    Rev. Elijah L. Burnett
1896     Student: William S. Wilson
1896 – 1899    Rev. James L. Wood
1899 – 1900    Rev. J.G. Anderson
1901     Rev. James Jack
1901 – 1904    Rev. R.J. Campbell
1904 – 1908    Rev. William Hough
1908     Rev. Tom A. Handley
1908 – 1916    Rev. James Melville Fisher
1916 – 1922    Rev. H.P. Ingram
1922 – 1923    Rev. John Thompson
1923 – 1927    Rev. T.H. Davies
1928 – 1931    Rev. George H. Proctor
1931 – 1935    Rev. S. Martin Eidsath
1935 – 1937    Rev. Victor S. Mackay
1937 – 1940    Rev. Thomas W. Heald
1940 – 1942    Rev. Robert H. Smith
1942 – 1945    Rev. Floyd J. Feaver
1945 – 1947    Rev. Norman R. Smith
1947 – 1952    Rev. John M. Kooyers
1952 – 1957    Rev. S. Martin Eidsath
1958 – 1962    Rev. Alfred Bryce Sidebotham
1962 – 1966    Rev. David Ng
1967 – 1972    Rev. John K. Tritenbach
1973 – 1983    Rev. Ronald R. Garton
1979 – 1984    Assoc. Rev. Grant McLean
1985 – 1992    Rev. Dale Ridenour
1993 – 2002    Parish Associate Rev. Sasha Makovkin
1994 – 2004    Rev. William L. Mangrum
2007 – date     Rev. Dr. Donald McCullough

INTERIM PASTORS
1966 – 1967    Rev. S. Martin Eidsath
1983 – 1985    Rev. Hugh D. Peniston
1984 – 1985    Assist. Rev. Betty A. Hamilton
1985    Rev. Keith M. Hood
1992 – 1993    Rev. Susan Fleenor
2005 – 2007    Rev. William McGuinness
2007    Rev. Larry Ballenger

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