Description Oak United Baptist Church, River John, NS

Ministers

1848 – Obed Parker – opened church

1876 – E L Carbonell – first minister, ordained in Town Hall April 19

1879 – D W Crandall – about four years (1879 could be wrong date)

1881 – Charles S Stearns – a short time

1883 – Charles S Stearns – for three Sabbaths

1887 – F D Davison – first sermon May 30

1889 – F D Davison – resigned in March

1895 – J T Dimcok – wife Nettie May Hennigar

1904 – J T Dimock – resigned May 1904

1904 – George L Bishop – one year, resigned 14 October 1905

1906 – A E Ingram – resigned 1910

1914 – P C Clark – came May 3 for one year

1918 – R D Dickson – for one year beginning 23 June

1927 – A G Crowe – left sometime after 17 June, 1934

1935 – C R Barkhouse – Licentiate, from June 1934

There are no further minutes after 4 April 1935

 

Visiting Ministers

1848 – Charles Tupper – Amherst, father of Sir Charles Tupper

1848 – Rev McNabb

1848 – D W C Dimock – church formed into a Union Society

1851 – Nelson Baker – ordained in Oak Church

1876 – David Freeman – Moderator

1876 – D W Crandall – Pugwash

1879 – W P Freeman – exchanged church with Mr Crandall

1880 – E B Phalen – Amherst

1881 – Charles S Stearns, from Acadia College

1881 – Bro Blakeney

1883 – A Freeman

1884 – P D McGregor – came from time to time

1885 – Bro Martell – on occasion

1885 – Isiah Wallace – occasionally

1885 – P D McGregor and wife

1886 – Evangelists Muckle and Jerrier

1890 – A J Dykeman – one Sunday

1891 – Isiah Wallace – visited 14 December 1891

1892 – Lew Wallace – student, spent vacation with them

1899 – Nelson Baker – came to hold special meetings

1902 – Mr McDougall – special meetings for three weeks

1904 – H S Erb – Albert County, New Brunswick, called but did not come

1906 – Mr Porter – 29 April

1911 – Carlton Easton – student, came in May for three months

1913 – R D Porter – came for the summer

1916 – Mr Short – came for the summer

1917 – Lewis Bezanson – came for the summer