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Brothers and sisters, God wants me.
–Hetty Hurd Haskell, 1884

Other Women Ministers
from the Past
Short Sketches

The individuals presented in the first seven chapters by no means exhaust the list of
women ministers in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In this chapter
several additional examples are treated briefly.
This chapter is arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically. To provide some
perspective as to time, note that among the first women ministers to be licensed were
Sarah Lindsey (1872), Ellen Lane (1878), and Julia Owen (1878). In 1878 the General
Conference adopted a resolution to issue a ministerial license to those competent and
sound in doctrine; however, two of these women had received their licenses even
sooner, from local conferences. (From Bert Haloviak, “Route to the Ordination of Women in
the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Two Paths,” unpublished paper, March 18, 1985.) They
were at the forefront.
Still other women ministers who have enriched the past of their church appear in this book
only by mention of their names in appendix B. There is ample room for further research.
Hetty Hurd (Mrs. S. N.) Haskell: 1857 to 1919
Licensed minister 1901 to 1919

The life sketch of Mrs. S. N. Haskell, written by Elder J. N. Loughborough at the time
of her death, occupies nearly three columns in the Review and Herald, (From J. N.
Loughborough, “Life Sketch of Mrs. S. N. Haskell,” Review and Herald, November 20, 1919,
the source for the material in this chapter, together with information provided by Bert Haloviak at
the General Conference Archives.) indicating how highly Mrs. Haskell was esteemed by
leaders of the denomination. For a number of years both she and Ellen White were listed
in the Yearbook as ministers credentialed by the General Conference, Ellen White as
ordained (See discussion of ordination in chapter 7 and appendix A, 7.5.) and Mrs. Haskell as
licensed. Hetty Hurd Haskell’s labors in the gospel spanned 34 years.
Before she became an Adventist, Hetty Hurd was a successful district school teacher
in California for the unusually high salary of 75 dollars a month. Evidently a capable and