A.C. Enns
- A trainned missionary nurse
- Entered Tanganyika in 1903
- Arrived from Europe alongside W. Ehlers in 1903
- Started the Pare Mission in Tanganyika
- Sailed to Kendu-Bay with Arthur Carscallen to start medical work at Gendia Mission
Branson William Henry
- Born in 1887
- Educated in Battle Creek College 1901-1903
- Attended Emmanuel Missionary College (1903-104)
- Appointed President of the African Division in 1920
- Became Vice president of the General Conference in 1930
- Was President of General Conference from 1950 to 1954
- Wrote books like The way to Christ, Missionary Adventures in Africa, The Holy Spirit among others
George. W. Till
- Served in Nigeria from 1919-1950
- President of Nigerian Mission, 1922-1943
- President of West African Union Mission
- Attended Nigeria’s Independence Celebration
Koelling Wilhelm John
- Born in Hamburg Germany in 1888
- Baptized in 1903
- Worked in Tanzania from 1908 to 1914 as a missionary
- Worked in Ethiopia from 1920 as a missionary
Maxwell Arthur Stanley
- Born in Watford England
- Worked with Laura, his wife.
- Served in Kenya, Uganda ,Tanzania, Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Did missionary work for 42 years
Shaw John Luis
- Born in 1870
- Graduated from Battle Creek College in 1893
- Became the principal of Claremont Union College in South Africa
- In 1901 he was ordained and sent to India, where he oversaw the establishment of the Watchman Press in 1903 .
- From 1922 to 1936 he was treasurer of the General Conference
- During his retirement he served for a time as board chair of Loma Linda University.
Bergman George Clyde
- Was born in 1898
- Graduated from Loma Linda in 1927
- Fist Seventh Day Adventist missionary doctor to Ethiopia
- Established Taffari Makonnen Hospital
- Founded the Empress Zauditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa in 1936
C. Dunbar Henri
- Born in Clarendon, Arkansas, July 7th 1912.
- Attended Oakwood College in Huntsville
- Graduated with B.A Th from Atlantic Union College
- Worked in West Africa for 19 years from 1945
- Became the Vice President fort the General Conference from 1973 and retired seven years later
- He died in 2002 January 30th in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hanson Hubert Martin
- Born in Minnesota in 1894 of Norwegian immigrant
- Graduated from Hutchinson Theological Seminary in 1921
- Sailed to Norway where alongside his wife, Della Thompson they helped start the first Seventh-day Adventist academy in the country.
- Served as the principal of that school until around 1932 when he wen to mission in Addis Alem, Ethiopia. He took charge of a mission school which was soon closed due to the Italian invasion
- Haile Salissie I returned to Ethiopia after an exile prompting Hanson to be encouraged to start a school
- The Akaki school was built as a consequence of this and Hanson worked as a builder, teacher and as a principal.
- Hebert passed at the Empress Zauditu Memorial Hospital after a period of hill health
Konigmacher Samuel M
- Born in Pennsylvania
- Went to school at South Lancaster Academy for two years
- Attended Battle Creek College
- He arrived in Africa in 1907 to work at Malamulo Mission then to Matandani Mission
- He worked at Rusangu Mission for 25 years
- Pioneered the work at Musofu Mission near the Congo Border
- He retired to Hawaiian islands where he died in 1952
More Hanna
- Believed to be the first person to practice the Seventh-day Adventist faith in Africa, as reported in the Adventist Review of March 29, 1864.
- As a missionary in Liberia,a decade before John Nevins Andrews and his children
- Sailed for Europe [in 1874].”
Sparrow Hubert Martin
- Born in South Africa to Adventist family
- Went to Claremont Union College, Now Helderberg
- Baptized in 1906
- Worked at Maranatha Mission
- Worked at Inyazura Mission, Lower Gwelo Mission and Solusi Mission where he was principal of the station
- Received his B.A and B.Th from Emmanuel Mission College
- Administered Tanganyika Mission Field from 1941 to 1943
- Retired in 1950 to South Coast of Natal
Birkenstock Carl Fredrick
- Was born in 1897 in Natal, South Africa
- Studied at Pacific Union College from 1918
- Graduated from College of Evangelists in 1923
- Served as Medical Missionary in the South African Division
- Was the first physician at Malamulo from 1925
- He established the first leper hospital in that region of Africa
C.E.F Thompson
- Born in Jamaica,
- Became an Adventist while in Sierra Leone in 1907
- Helped pioneer the work in Ghana
- Died in 1936
Higgins W.B
- Arrived at Solusi Mission in 1929 January
- Started African teachers in 1933
- Studied at the University of Maryland between 1935 and 1937 during a furlough
- Left Solusi in 1941
Kotz Siegfried Arthur
- Born in Africa by Missionary parents in 1915
- Graduated as an M.D from Loma Linda Collge in 1940
- He served at Malamulo Mission as a medical practitioner
- He served at Kendu Hospital Kendu bay, Kenya , in which time he was ordained to the ministry.
Robinson Christopher
- Born in Haversham England September 20 1880
- Went to South Africa at the age of 19
- Was baptized in 1902
- Started Canvassing work, selling SDA publications.
- Did Nursing at the Cape Sanitarium and graduated in 1909
- Was appointed W.H Anderson’s assistant at Solusi
- Became director of Malamulo Mission for 8 years from 1911
- He opened the Songa Mission in 1920
- Was director of Inyazura Mission for 24 years
- He retired in 1948 at the slopes of table mountain
Straw Walter E.
- Born in 1880
- Graduate of Emmanuel Mission College
- Appointed principal of Claremont Union Collenge South Africa in 1915
- Educational Secretary of Southern Africa Division
- Served as superintendent of Nyasaland Mission
- Was an accomplished cornet player
Branch Thomas H
- Born in 1856 Jefferson county Missouri
- Started his missionary work at Pueblo in 1901
- Sent to work in Malamulo Mission in Malawi in 1907 but worked for only one year before returning to the States
French Marion Thomas
- Educated in Battle Creek
- Served in Sierra Leone from 1908
- Editor of African Signs of times (1925-1927)
- President of Natal Transvaal Conference (1927-1929)
- Associate director of Herald and Review for 4 years from 1934
- Chair of Bible Department at Walla Walla College
Hyde John Jacob
- Born in England in 1893
- Began work at the International Tract Society at the age of 15
- Ordained in 1924 and went to start work in Sierra Leonne
- Worked in Agona , Ghana
- Opened up Missionary work at Jengre in the Jos Division, Nigeria.
- He retired in 1957 after serving for 45 years.
Madgwick George Alex Sheridan
- Born in Antigua West Indies
- Attended government school in Englad
- Began his work at the the Stanborough Park Sanitarium where he became medical director
- He married Vera McLean in 1919
- They sailed to Africa in 1921 January to the Kenyan colony to begin medical work
- He settled at Kanyadoto Mission near the shore of lake victoria
- He decided that a hospital be built in 1924 and started the work near Gendia Mission
- He opened the Ile Ife Hospital in Nigeria in 1939
- He restored health care in parts of Abyssinia in 1949 and was invited to South Africa to start a hospital in the Nokuphila institution in Johannesburg,
Robinson Raleigh P.
- Born in 1884 in Carlifornia
- Attended School at San Fernando Academy
- Married Lena Clark in 1909
- Called to Africa in 1912 where he worked at Solusi for 7 years
- He worked at Chimpempe and at Rusangu Mission
- Raleigh preferred frontier life and often worked in the most difficult conditions
- He did missionary work for 50 years in Africa
Sturdevant Melvin C.
- Was an Adventist farmer in Alabama
- Entered Africa in April 15th 1902
- Worked at Solusi as the director of the mission school
- Moved to Inyazura Mission in 1910
