First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Pastors (1849-date)

          This page lists all known First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, WI Pastors (1849-date).

          The following list of Pastors was obtained from the 1999 FCC History book. The book does not contain the exact birth or death date for any Pastor. I tried to extract the closest dates and ages I could from the text. The First Congregational Church Web site used to reprint Chapter 1 of the book [Archive] as an introduction to those who might be interested in purchasing a copy of it for $10.00 from the Church Office. Otherwise, that site concentrates on the Church as it pertains to members and friends today. This page, and this domain as a whole, contains a great deal of other historical information (albeit mostly music related).

Alphabetical List of all First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Pastors (1849-date)
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Pastors	Pastoral Dates	Birth Date	Death Date	Age at Death	1974 book	1999 book
Rev. Hiram Freeman (3)	06-10-1849 - 01-15-1856		186?	85		p. 4
Rev. William Horace Marble (3)	04-06-1856 - 04-01-1862		186?	81		p. 9
Mr. Wallace Walter Thorpe (3)(5)	03-23-1862 - 07-27-1862	01-17-1833	11-17-1913	80		p. 15
Rev. Henry Gilderoy McArthur (3)	12-26-1862 - 04-05-1865	1835?	1895	60		p. 15
Rev. John P. Roe (3)	09-??-1865 - 07-20-1868		187?			p. 26
Rev. Franklin Burroughs Norton (3)	05-01-1869 - 05-??-1870		1895			p. 30
Rev. William Aspley Chamberlain (3)	11-??-1870 - 01-01-1874		18??	65		p. 30
Rev. Thomas Gordon Grassie (3)	05-01-1875 - 07-23-1876		18??			p. 36
Rev. Kerr C. Anderson (3)	12-03-1876 - 01-29-1884		18??			p. 47
Rev. Fred M. Abbott	1885		18??			p. 55
Rev. Edward Henry Smith	05-??-1886 - 1913	1844?	(6) 05-11-1932	89		p. 88
Rev. Harry Foster Burns       ancestry.com - *	1913-1917	(4) 12-12-1875	??-??-1927	52		p. 127
Rev. Theodore Rush Faville       ancestry.com - *	1918 - 10-??-1922	(4) 08-23-1881	(4) 0?-??-1955	74?		p. 135
Rev. Philip Mercer	04-13-1923 - 06-07-1926		19??			p. 137
Rev. Charles Hallock Beale	10-17-1926 - 01-09-1929		19??			p. 139
Rev. David Franklyn Bent, Sr.       ancestry.com - *	1929 - 11-15-1939	(4) 08-17-1876	(4) 09-09-1944	68		p. 158
Rev. Jesse Pindell Pierce	01-19-1940 - 11-15-1946		19??			p. 168
Rev. John Kendrick Strong Mrs. Ilo Strong       ancestry.com - *	05-27-1947 - 1954	(4) 02-19-1911 Des Moines, IA	(1) 02-12-2001 Whitewater, WI	89	p. 14	p. 185
Rev. G. Paul Stowell	1955-1957	1897?			p. 16	p. 191
Rev. Nels Francis Nordstrom       ancestry.com - *	1958-1971	(4) 01-20-1904	(2) 02-18-1972	68	p. 17	p. 208
Rev. John C. Hanchett (Interim)	1971-1972				p. 21	p. 216
Rev. E. Lamar Kincaid	1972-1976	?-1924 Gastonia, NC	09-16-2014 Savannah, GA		p. 22	p. 216
Rev. Robert Spalding	1977-1987					p. 243
Rev. David C. Steffenson (Interim)	1987	05-19-1937 Moline, IL	04-15-2016 Madison, WI			p. 247
Rev. Carol DiBiasio-Snyder [Archive] Rev. Ralph DiBiasio-Snyder [Archive]	02-01-1988 - 09-13-2015	1953 1949				p. 248
Rev. Dr. Jack J. Seville, Jr. (Interim)	10-18-2015 - 01-22-2017
Rev, Nancy Alma Taylor	01-29-2017 - date

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(1) "Tidings" 3/2001
(2) 1974 book, p. 21
(3) 1849-1876 Pastoral Dates came from a typed sheet found in the FCC Archives in the 1876 records (scan). The sheet is unsigned, so it is unknown who did this research, or what was the original source of this information. This sheet gives dates for Walter Thorpe, who had no separate section in the 1999 Book. He was only mentioned at the end of William Horace Marble's entry: "Our Church was next served briefly by Walter Thorpe, who was not an ordained minister, ..."
(4) Per the ancestry.com website, click on the link after you have logged into your account there.
(5) Per the General biographical catalogue of Auburn Theological Seminary 1818-1918, he was not ordained until almost seven months after his period of service to our Church.

"WALLACE WALTER THORPE, b. Skaneateles, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1833 ; Ham. 
Col. 1858 ; m. Julia Maria Austin, Binghamton, May 30, 1861 ; ord. W. 
Salem, Wis., La Crosse Dist. Conv., Feb. 11, 1863 ; chap. 3rd N. Y. S. Vols., 
1861-2; Cong. Ch., Sparta, Wis., 1863-5; Athens, Tenn., Presb. Ch., and 
prin. Acad., 1865-7; Waterloo, la., 1870-3; Marshalltown, 1873-6; 1st 
Presb. Ch., E. Des Moines, 1877-80; Centreville, 1881-5; Wellington, 
Kan., 1885-9; Deposit, N. Y., 1890-2; Wappingers Falls, 1894-9; Hemp- 
stead, 1900-4; res. Lestershire, 1904-13; d. do., Nov. 17, 1913."

1. Rev. Fred M. Abbott 1885
2. Rev. Kerr C. Anderson 1876-1884
3. Rev. Charles Hallock Beale 1926-1929
4. Rev. David Franklyn Bent, Sr. 1929-1939
5. Rev. Harry Foster Burns 1913-1917
6. Rev. William Aspley Chamberlain 1870-1874
7. Rev. Carol DiBiasio-Snyder 1988-2015
8. Rev. Ralph DiBiasio-Snyder 1988-2015
9. Rev. Theodore Rush Faville 1918-1922
10. Rev. Hiram Freeman 1849-1856
11. Rev. Thomas Gordon Grassie 1875-1876
12. Rev. John C. Hanchett (Interim) 1971-1972
13. Rev. E. Lamar Kincaid 1972-1976
14. Rev. William Horace Marble 1856-1862
15. Rev. Henry Gilderoy McArthur 1862-1865
16. Rev. Philip Mercer 1923-1926
17. Rev. Nels Francis Nordstrom 1958-1971
18. Rev. Franklin Burroughs Norton 1869-1870
19. Rev. Jesse Pindell Pierce 1940-1946
20. Rev. John P. Roe 1865-1868
21. Rev. Jack Seville (Interim) 2015-2017
22. Rev. Edward Henry Smith 1886-1913
23. Rev. Robert Spalding 1977-1987
24. Rev. David C. Steffenson (Interim) 1987
25. Rev. G. Paul Stowell 1955-1957
26. Rev. John Kendrick Strong 1947-1954
27. Rev. Nancy Alma Taylor 2017-
28. Mr. Wallace Walter Thorpe 1862

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