{"id":3859,"date":"2013-07-15T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?page_id=3859"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:27:41","slug":"list-of-pastors-for-chilmark-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/a-community-church\/about\/list-of-pastors-for-chilmark-church\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Pastors for Chilmark Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">PASTORS OF CHILMARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">LATER KNOWN AS CHILMARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">AND CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>* Circuit preachers<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Other pastors may have served in more than one church<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1797 Joshua Hall*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1798 Joseph Snelling*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1799 Epaphras Kibby- 3mos*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1810 Erastus Otis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1811 William Hinman<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1812 Edward Hyde<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1813 William Frost<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1814 John W. Hardy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1815 Benjamin Haselton<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1816 Shipley W. Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1817 Thomas Tucker<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1818 S.W. Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1819-20 Eleazer Steele<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1821-22 John Adams<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1823 Francis Dane<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Frederick Upham<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1824 Edward T. Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> William Allen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1825 David Culver<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Caleb Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1826 John Adams<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1828 William Barstow<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1829 Hezekiah Thatcher<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1830-31 Thomas G. Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1832-34 Louis Jansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1834 Philip Crandon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1835 James Bicknell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1836 Elijah Willard<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1837 Joseph Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1838 <em>None appointed<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1839 Otis Wilder<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1840 Thomas D. Blake<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1841 Charles D. Cushman<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1842 Ebenezer Ewins<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1843 William Nanscoin<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1844 George W. Wooding<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1845-46 Nahum Tainter<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1847 O.P. Farrington<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1848 Henry Mayo<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1849 Lewis Bates<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1850-51 Thomas Slater<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1852-53 Robert C. McGonegal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1854-55 John Tasker<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1856 William Sheldon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1857 John F. Fogg<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1858-59 Franklin Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1860 James H. Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1861-62 George D. Boynton<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1863-65 Abel Alton <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1866-68 Josiah C. Allen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1869-70 Seth B. Chase<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1871-73 Daniel J. Griffin<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1874 B.K. Bosworth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1875-77 E.S. Fletcher<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1878-80 Heflin S. Smith<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1881-83 Isaac C. Sherman<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1884-86 John N. Patterson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1887-88 Winfield W. Hall<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1889-91 Charles T. Hatch<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1892-94 Charles S. Thurber ( see: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And God Caught a Whale<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"> by <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Ethel F. Blaisdell)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1895 B.K. Bosworth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1896-98 J.S. Bell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1899-1901 C.W. Ruoff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1902-04 B.F. Raynor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1905-07 A.Stanley Muirhead<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1908 J.M. Von Deck<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1909-11 Charles G. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1912-14 George F. Locke<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1914-16 Arthur F. Leigh<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1917-21 S.M. Harris<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1921-24 John F. Lowden<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1924-26 George E. Davis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1926-28 William J. Crawford<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1928-29 J.I. Bartholomew<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1929-37 Harlow Graham <em>(see inscription on pulpit)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1937-39 Joseph M. Harrell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1939-43 George W. Wiseman Harshfield<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1943-46 John Rosengrant<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1946-48 Carl Saunders<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1948-53 James M. Gage<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1953-56 George and Marguerite Hill<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1956-58 John P. McCallum<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1958-61 Kenneth L. Miner<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1961-62 J. Gorden Allen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1962-69 George and Marguerite Hill<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1969-78 Carl Sikberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1978-80 Paul McCauley<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1980-84 Lee and Helen Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1984-86 Thomas and Sally Zadaraka<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1986-92 John Wesley Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1992-03 Rev. Arlene Bodge<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2003-06 Nancy Collins<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2006-09 Rev. Susan Heyfield\/ Richard Rego<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2009-2010 Pamela Goff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2011-12 Rev.Arlene Bodge<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2013-2015\u00a0 Seongmoon Ahn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;\">2015-2017 Revs. Armen and Vicky Hanjian<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">2017-2019\u00a0 Rev. Dr. Charlotte Wright<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">2019-2022\u00a0 Rev. Ernest Belisle<\/p>\n<p>2022- 2025\u00a0 \u00a0Rev. Dr, Charlotte Wright<\/p>\n<p>2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rev. Janet Stoddard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASTORS OF CHILMARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH LATER KNOWN AS CHILMARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH * Circuit preachers Other pastors may have served in more than one church 1797 Joshua Hall* 1798 Joseph Snelling* 1799 Epaphras Kibby- 3mos* 1810 Erastus Otis 1811 William Hinman 1812 Edward Hyde 1813 William Frost 1814 John W. 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