Pastors of First Church

(1807 - present)

Pastors of the Church at Walnut and Christian Streets

1811-1812 Thomas Ware
1812-1828 Circuit Riders
1828-1830 Joseph McCool
1831-1832 John Nicholson
1832-1834 John Lednum

1834-1836 Thomas Sovereign
1836-1838 James Houston
1838-1840 James Neill
1840-1842 Dallas Lore
Pastors of the Church at 238-240 North Duke Street

1842-1843 Samuel Higgins
1843-1845 Robert Gerry
1845-1847 William Wiggins
1847-1849 William Urie
1849-1851 James McCarter
1851-1853 Pennell Coombe
1853-1855 William Bishop
1855-1857 David Bartine
1857-1859 Francis Hodgson
1859-1861 William Elliot
1861-1863 James Meredith
1863-1865 Goldsmith Carrow
1865-1869 Charles Thompson

1868 Henry Hurn
1868-1869 Edward Gray
1869-1871 Curtis Turner
1871-1874 Joseph Smith
1874-1877 Joseph Dobbins
1877-1879 John Boyle
1879-1881 Samuel Smith
1881-1883 William Robinson
1883-1886 James Satchel
1886-1889 Joseph Gray
1889-1891 Samuel Vernon
1891-1892 John S.J. McConnell
Pastors of the Church at Duke and Walnut Streets

1892-1893 John S.J. McConnell
1893-1898 James Satchel
1898-1902 William Shaffer
1902-1906 Edwin Griffith
1906-1909 Thomas Jackson
1909-1912 John Watchorn
1912-1919 Edward Bawden
1919-1922 Robert Crawford
1922-1927 Edward Bond
1927-1931 Albert Witwer

1931-1939 Edward Randolph
1939-1945 George Laughead
1945-1955 Luther Ketels
1955-1961 W. Edgar Cathers, Jr.
1961-1965 Francis Thomas
1965-1979 Charles Scott Kerr
1979-1980 George Bashore
1980-1986 William Sharp
1986- present Kent Kroehler