Athens United Church Ministers

Ministers of Athens United Church 1830-2005

	Years	Name	Birth	Death

1	1830's	Rev. Thomas Madden
2	1835 to 1838	Rev. Thaddeus Lewis	A.D. 1793	July 1866
3	1839 to 1840	Rev. John W. Byam		Oct.1868
4	1840 to 1842	Rev. John Sills	Nov. 30 1799	Dec. 22,1851

Was also here 1859-1860

5	1842 to 1844	Rev. Philander Smith	Apr. 27,1796	Mar.28,1870
6	1844 to 1845	Rev. Wm. E. Norman	Jan. 12,1794	1889
7	1845 to 1845	Rev. D. Perry	1783	Jan. 26,1871
8	1845 to 1846	Rev. Jas. Gardiner	Apr. 19,1818	'Jan. 9,1909

Rev. Gardiner was also here 1867-1869

9	1846 to 1847	Rev. Michael Davy;	1801	Apr. 21,1882
10	1847 to 1848	Rev. Benson Smith	Elizabethtown,1800	Dec. 29,1882
11	1848 to 1849	Rev. J. G. Bull	July 12,1809	Oct. 28,1877
12	1849 to 1850	Rev. W. Brown
13	1850 to 1851	Rev. B. W. Blanchard
14	1851 to 1852	Rev. Hiram Williams	May 30,1820	Aug. 3,1891
	1852 to 1853	Rev .W. Graham	Nov. 1832	Mar. 22,1895
	1853 to 1854	Rev. G. I. Betts
17	1854 to 1855	Rev. H. Lane
18	1855 to 1856	Rev. George Jones	1808	June 18,1876
19	1856 to 1859	Rev. D. Wilson	-	Sept.19,1899
	1859 to 1860	Rev. John W. Sills	Nov. 30,1799	Dec. 22,1851

This man was here also 1840-1842

20	1860 to 1861	Rev. J. Plato
21	1861 to 1862	Rev. P. Barker
22	1862 to 1864	Rev. J. D. Bell	Nov. 26,1821	Feb. 9,1881

At our 150th. Anniversary celebrations Nov. 8,1981 the G-G-G-G-Grandson of Rev. Bell was a member of St. Peter's Choir, our guests. He was the son of Bud Emmons, who was an A. D. H. S. teacher about 18 yrs. ago.

23	1864 to 1866	Rev. Sheldon Younge	Sept.1,1819	Feb. 26,1884
24	1866 to 1867	Rev. Lorenzo Betts	1823	Dec.15,1908
25	1867 to 1869	Rev. James Gardiner	Apr. 19,1818	Jan. 9,.1909

Rev. Gardiner was hire 1845-.1I$46

26	1869 to 1871 I	Rev. Frank Chisholm		Jan.1922
			buried Phillipsville.
27	1871 to 1874	Rev. John Fergus
28	1874 to 1876	Rev. J. W. Pickett
29	1876 to 1877	Rev. N. H. Howard	May 20,1814	Jan. 8,1892
30	1877 to 1880	Rev. William Service	Prescott 1837	Mar. 29,1909
			buried Picton.
31	1880 to 1882	Rev_ W. A. Philips	1848
32	1882 to 1885	Rev. William Blair	May 6, 1843

Rev. William Blair was the minister when Wesleyan Methodist and Episconal Methodist were United.

	33 11885 to 1888	Rev. George Rogers
34	1888 to 1891	Rev. John Wilson	1838	Sept. 1909
35	1891 to 1894	Rev. John Grenfell		Aug. 18,1927
36	1894 to 1896	Rev. Joseph Hagar	1839	Sept. 27,1922

37	1896 to 1898	Rev. John Scanlon	Apr.10,1837	July 1923
38	1898 to 1901	Rev. W. W. Crane		Aug. 2, 1939
39	1901 to 1904	Rev. W. E. Reynolds	1859	Dec. 29 1919
40	1904 to 1908	Rev. Silas J. Hughes	1849	Apr.1931
41	1908 to 1912	Rev. F. A. Read	1855-6	Mar. 1924
42	1912 to 1916	Rev. George W. Edwards
43	1916 to 1920	Rev. Thomas James Vickery	1873	June, 1942

Sydney Vickery attended one of our services for our 150th. son of Rev. Vickery .

44	1920 to 1924	Rev. S. Fred Newton
45	1924 to 1929	Rev. Herman E. Warren	Mar. 7, 1864	Nov. 27,1951
46	1929 to 1938	Rev. Mahlon I. Robinson	July 15,1882	Feb. 18,1967
47	1938 to 1940	Rev. Albert S. Cleland	May 15,1878	June 30,1944
48	1940 to 1949	Rev. William P. Wornell	Dec. 21,1883	May 10,1974
49	1949 to 1952	Rev. Neal Harold Burgess
50	1952 to 1959	Rev. Carmon G. Beckel	1926	Feb. 6,1992
52	1959 to 1960	Rev. David Potter
53	1960	Rev. Gordon H. Hoult
54	1960 to 1962	Rev. Fred E. Rice		Mar. 6,1986

Rev. Rice composed the music of a Hymn "Your Love Oh God
Is Like The Waves" sung here for 50th Ann. of the United church.

55	1962 to 1966	Rev. George M. Richardson	Jan. 5, 1924
56	1966 to 1974	Rev. Allan Simmons		Feb. 20,1995
	In this time period a lot of people went to Kathryn Kuhlman healinq services
57	1974 to 1979	Rev. James Gilchrist
58	1979 to 1982	Rev. Paul Hacker
59	1982 to 1987	Rev. Tom Lanceley
60	1987 to 1998	Rev. Douglas Blair
61	1998 to 2003	Rev. Sally Canniff
62	2003 to 2004	Rev. Dolly Dikens
	2004 to ---	Rev. Dolly Dikens

This makes 62 ministers here over the years with two of them Rev. John Sills and Rev. James Gardiner being here twice. Much more information on all of these people and pictures of most of them is in the scrap books on our walls.