Harry Hosier, c.1750-1806
Hosier became famous as a traveling evangelist up and as a companion on evangelistic trips with Asbury, Coke, Jesse Lee, and Freeborn Garrettson,  and was heralded as one of the greatest preachers of his time.

Lucy Rider Meyer, 1849-1922
Director of the deaconess program in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Paula Mojzes, 1906-1970
The First Female District Superintendent in The Methodist Church - 1955.

Anna Oliver, 1849-1892
Brought the first test case on the ordination of women before the 1880 General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Phoebe Palmer, 1807-1874
Leader in the American Holiness movement.

Lydia Sexton, 1799-1894
The First Woman to be Voted Recommendation as a Pulpit Speaker by the General Conference of The United Brethren Church

Margaret Newton Van Cott, 1813-1914
The First Woman to be Licensed to Preach in The Methodist Episcopal Church - 1869.

Francis Williard, 1839-1898
American temperance leader and reformer, well-known lecturer, writer, and educator.
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