Pastors at Salem Monthly Meeting
In the 1870s - 1880s many of the Quaker meetings in Iowa moved from the un-programmed meeting to the pastoral system. If you find someone called a minister before this date; they were not a minister as we call them today. They had a gift of God to travel and minister to the needs of their people, as Thomas Frazier, ca 1853 was. Some had a gift to minister to the elderly, some to the imprisoned, some to the Indians, some to those in need, some to teach and the list goes on.
Our pastors are not ordained they are recorded and rarely use the prefix Rev. They are called by God to minister to his people, just as others are called by God to teach or visit the sick. One gift of God is no greater than another.
9-11-1895 W. C. Pidgeon
2-8-1899 - Allen Briggs
10-9-1901 - Eli Parisho
12-11-1904 - Miles and Georgia Reese
10-14-1905 - Melvin and Anna Smith
6-8-1907 - Leslie Bond
8-10-1907 - Alice Lawrence
9-10-1910 - Fred C Lebert
4-8-1911 - Bessie F. Collins
9-1-1912 - Carrie Curtis
10-11-1913 - Viola Smith
8-31-1916 - Florence Baker
9-12-1922 - Lawrence Sams
8-25-1925 - Guy Harvey
8-31-1928 - Alfred Hanson
8-31-1930/31 - Glenwood Stanley
8-31-1935 - Bessie F. Collins
8-31-1937 - Paul Barnett
9-1-1940 -Clinton Nellis
9-1-1945 - John McCracken
9-1-1948 - Frank Enyart
9-1-1949 - Arthur Moon
9-1-1952 - Freida McLeland
9-1-1955 - Lewis May
9-1-1958 - Edgar Barcus
9-1-1961 - Roscoe Townsend
9-1-1968 - Waylen Brown
7-1-1974 - George Bigley and youth - Bob Johnson
7-1-1879 - Fred Jones and youth - Kennth Smith
7-1-1983 - Wayne Conant
7-1-1887 - Dwight Engel
7-1-1990 - Wayne Stephens
7-1-1991 - Tom Palmer
9-1-2006 - Nathan Martin (last Suday May 3, 2009- missionary in Cambodia)
2010 - search committee at work
7-1-2011 - Scott Morin
mid September 2013 - Jared Haley