Hunter
Presbyterian
Church
Register of
Pastors, Elders and Deacons
The Church Register of the Presbyterian Church of Hunter, NY
Presbyterian Board of Publication
No. 1334 Chesnut Street
Philadelphia
The Preface, Register of Pastors, Register of Elders and
Historical Sketch of this Church were transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf from
photocopies from LDS Microfilm 1310912 Item 5, supplied by Georgia Murray.
Efforts are underway to secure the remaining photocopies, at which point these
will also be transcribed and posted to the site.
Register of Deacons supplied and retyped by Jackie Towner.
Register of Pastors:
Name When Installed Dismissed
Rev. Seth
Chapin
Sept. 7th,
1825
June 20th, 1827
Rev. Calvin Durfy
April 23rd, 1828
Rev. J. Judson
Buck
October 21st, 1836
Rev. J.F. Ingersoll
October 25th,
1837
July 22rd, 1846
Rev. Henry
Osborne
Nov. 12th,
1846
April 1850
Rev. A.
Trotter
Supply for 2 ½ years
Rev. J.B.
Fish
Supply for 2 years
Rev. J.P. Lestrade
Jany 2nd,
1855
Sept 27, 1859
Rev. C. O.
Reynolds
Oct 27th,
1859
March 1864
Rev. F.F.
Judd
1865
May 1869
Rev. S.
McKinney
1869
1870
Rev. Henry J.
Crane
April
1871
May 1875
Rev. A.
Parsons
Nov
1875
Feby 1882
Rev. R.H.
Wilkinson
Jany 1,
1883
Died Feby 22 ?, 1889
Rev. W. Howell Buchanan May 1,
1889
May 1st, 1890 (resigned)
Rev. F.E. Kavanaugh
Sept.
1890
Sept. 1892
Rev. A.B.
Judson
June 25,
1893
March 10, 1904
Rev. E.E. Grosh,
S.S.
April 13, 1904
Register of Elders:
Name
When
ordained
Dismissed or ceased to act
or installed
William Edwards Feby 13,
1822
July 1846
Harry R.
Avery
Feby 13,
1822
Dec. 6, 1825
John Lockwood
Feby 13,
1822
April 23, 1841 (died)
Joseph
Bassett
Dec. 28,
1824
Sept. 27, 1830
Charles
Peck
Apl 25,
1828
Dec. 27, 1832
Dan
Case
Apl 25,
1828
removed from place, no date
Milton A. Purdy Apl
25,
1828
Dismissed June 12, 1854
William
Burns
March 27,
1831
Sept. 16, 1832
William W. Edwards Jany 1,
1832
March 28, 1858
Frederick
Tyler
Jany 1,
1832
Sept 1838
William Sedgewick Sept. 18,
1833
1845
Charles
Peck
Jany 25,
1835
Dismissed, no date
Samuel Chichester May 5,
1839
Dismissed 1845
Stephen
Gilbert
August 15,
1841
Jany 21, 1852
Henry
Osborne
Oct 8, 1852
George Fromer
June 5,
1853
Jany 15, 1845
Erastus S.
Purdy Dec. 31,
1854
Jany 6, 1856
E. Leonard Ingersoll Dec. 31,
1854
Died Catskill
Edwin
Atwater
May 6,
1860
Died 1876
Isaac Ammerman May 11,
1863
Died 1883
Horatio S. Lockwood May 11,
1863
Reelected for 6 years July
25,1886, Died Aug 4,1889
John Burtis
April 1,
1866
Reelected for 6 years July
25, 1886, died Aug 1886
Antone
Scherer
April 1,
1866
Reelected for 6 years July
25, 1886, died March 1899
Willis
Baldwin
July 25,
1886
Elected for 4 years
Frank L. Fromer
July 25,
1886
Elected for 2 years
Henry A.
Avery
Dec. 16,
1888
In place of John Burtis,
deceased; died July 18, 1890
Frank L. Fromer
Dec. 16,
1888
Reelected full term 6 years
James
Jackson
May 18th, 1895
Ernest P. Stotz
Oct 27, 1901
Zelotes L. Wilcox
Oct. 27,
1901
Central Church, Bklyn 1903
On May 18, 1895 the rotary system was abolished and perpetual system adopted by vote of Congregation. The following named were made Elders:
Antone Scherer died March 1,
Willis Baldwin
Frank L. Fromer
James Jackson
Ernest P. Stotz
Zelotes L. Wilcox Removed to Brooklyn 1903, Central Church
Register of Deacons:
Name
Installed
Dismissed
William Edwards Feb 13,
1822
July 8, 1846
Shelden Gilbert
1840
Aug 30, 1850
Jacob Schleiger
1840
Dec 31, 1852
Mathias H Chittendon Sept 1, 1850
June 6, 1852
R.P. Port (or Poet?) Oct
3, 1852
Sept 12, 1858