AME Zion Church Pastors

Pastors of the Cross Street African Method Episcopal Zion Church: 1822-1929

 

Date Pastor Other church officials
1822-1823 James Anderson[1] 1829 Trustees: Asa Jeffrey, George Jeffrey, Joseph Gilbert, John Hamilton, and Ebenezer DeForest.[2]
1831-1838 Jehiel C. Beman[3]
1839-1840 D. H. Vandervere/ Vandivier[4]
1841 Peter Ross[5]

 

1850 P. W. West[6]
1862 James A Jones[7]
1863-1864 S. M. Giles[8]
1868-1869 Silas A Mitchell[9]
1872-1873 Allen Walker [10] 1873 Sunday School Officers: F. A. Duncan (a Wesleyan student), Sophia M. Stevens, Charles Beman; Thomas E Smith (Secretary); Julia Stevens (treasurer); George Clark, Charles Gardner (librarians); Misses Fitch and Stevens (visiting committee).[11]
1874 W. D. F. Pyle[12]
1874-1875 S. C. Birchmore[13]
1876-1878 J. B. Small[14]
1878-1879 J. W. Brown[15]
1879-1880 J. C. Lodge[16]
1886-1887 John E. Allen[17]
1888-1889 George H. S. Bell[18] Trustees: H. Farnham (President), C. Weeks (Secretary), T. E. Smith (Treasurer), J. Snipes, H. Sales, C. A. Beman

Sunday School Officers: C. A. Beman (Assistant Superintendent of Sunday School), Miss F. J. Sullivan (Secretary), Miss E. G. Smith (Treasurer)[19]

 

1889-1890 Chanceford Fairfax[20] Trustees 1889-1890: H. Farnham (President), T. E. Smith (Secretary and Treasurer), G. O. Smith, Miss E. G. Smith, C. Weeks

Sunday School Officers 1889-1890: C. A.C.  Beman (Assistant Superintendent of Sunday School), Miss F. J. Sullivan (Secretary), Miss E. G. Smith (Treasurer)[21]

Trustees 1890: H. Farnham (President), T. E. Smith (Secretary and Treasurer), C. H. Weeks, C. A. C. Beman, John H. Snipes

Sunday School Officers 1890: L. H. Andrews (Superintendent), C. A. C. Beman (Assistant Superintendent), Miss F. J. Sullivan (Secretary), Miss E. G. Smith (Treasurer) Chas. H. Weeks (Librarian)[22]

1891-1892 Charles C. Ringgold[23]
1894 Alfred Day[24]
1895-1896 William Jones[25] Trustees: E. G. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), H. Farnham (President), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary & Treasurer), George Washington, John H. Snipes (Sexton), C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[26]
1896-1897 Alfred T. Clarke[27] Trustees 1896-1897: E. G. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), H. Farnham (President), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary & Treasurer), George Washington, John H. Snipes, Henry Travis, C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[28]

Trustees 1897-1898: E. G. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary), William Sullivan (Treasurer), C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[29]

1899 J. A. Evans[30]
1900 S. E. Robinson[31]
1901-1903 S. W. Hutchings[32]
1904-1905 Moses Monzino[33] Trustees: E. G. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary), M. E. Robinson (Treasurer), C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[34]
1906 G. H. S. Bell[35] Trustees: E. G. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary), M. E. Robinson (Treasurer), C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[36]
1908-1910 William J. Smith[37] Trustees 1908: C. A. C. Beman (preacher’s steward and secretary), M. E. Robinson (Treasurer), C. A. C. Beman (Sunday School Superintendent)[38]

Trustees 1910: C. A. C. Beman (preacher’s steward and secretary), M. E. Robinson (Treasurer)[39]

1911-1912 Joseph Murphy[40] Trustees: John E. Hill (Preacher’s Steward), M. E. Robinson (President), C. A. C. (Secretary), Thomas L. Sparks (Treasurer)[41]

(C. A. C. Beman was preacher’s steward and secretary during 1911, M. E. Robinson (Treasurer))[42]

1913 J. T. Battle[43] Trustees: T. E. Smith (Preacher’s Steward), M. E. Robinson (President), C. A. C. Beman (Secretary), Thomas L. Sparks (Treasurer)[44]
1914-1915 S. E. Robinson[45]  
1915-1916 William Henry Lamar[46] Trustees: Hubert Rogers, president; John Snipes, secretary; Charles A. Geer, assistant secretary; Thomas E. Smith, treasurer; Richard Hasbrook, James Thornton and William Jones[47]
1916-1917 W. D. Francis[48]  
1918-1920 G. H. Coffey[49]  
1921-1922 [50] Treasurer: Thomas E. Smith[51]
1923-1924 E. Horace Brown[52]
1925 Theodore Auten[53]
1926-1929 S. William Weller[54]

Middletown City Directory entries for the A.M.E. Zion Church can be viewed here. 

[1]“Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church: Struggle, Jubilee, Vision,” Wesleyan University Special Collections and Archives, http://crossstreetchurch.site.wesleyan.edu

[2]Jesse Nasta, “‘Their Own Guardians and Protectors’: African American Community in Middletown, Connecticut, 1822-1860,” April 2007, 49.

[3]A. G. B. “Letter from Middletown,” September 30, 1868, in The Amos Beman Scrapbooks, Volume 2, 112; “Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church: Struggle, Jubilee, Vision,” Wesleyan University Special Collections and Archives, http://crossstreetchurch.site.wesleyan.edu

[4]“Methodist Ep. Conference – Zion Connexion,” The Colored American, June 8, 1839; “The General and Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist,” The Colored American,June 27, 1840

[5]  W. P. Johnson, “For the Colored American,” The Colored American, November 20, 1841; W. P. Johnson (maybe), “For the Colored American,” n.d.  in The Amos Beman Scrapbooks, Volume 1, 46.

He was also a pastor in New Bedford from 1839-1840. “Methodist Ep. Conference – Zion Connexion,” The Colored American,June 8, 1839; “The General and Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist,” The Colored American, June 27, 1840

He was also a pastor in Bridgeport in 1870. “Emancipation Jubilee!” in The Amos Beman Scrapbooks, Volume 2, 104.

[6]Jesse Nasta, “‘Their Own Guardians and Protectors’: African American Community in Middletown, Connecticut, 1822-1860,” April 2007, 49.

[7]A. G. B. “Letter from Rev. AG. Beman,” June 4, 1862, in The Amos Beman Scrapbooks, Volume 2, 79-80.

[8]“For the Christian Recorder. Information For All.” The Christian Recorder, March 21, 1863; “Obituary,” The Christian Recorder, January 20, 1864.; “New England Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church,” The Christian Recorder, August 2 1862.

[9]  Daily Constitution(Middletown, CT), December 30th, 1868; A. G. B. “Letter from Middletown,” September 30, 1868, in The Amos Beman Scrapbooks, Volume 2, 112; Middletown City Directory 1868-1869, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1868), 227.

[10]Middletown City Directory 1872-1873, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1872), 131.

[11]Daily Constitution (Middletown, CT), June 19, 1873, 2.

[12]Daily Constitution (Middletown, CT), October 31, 1874.

[13]Middletown City Directory 1874-1875 , (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1874), 111.

[14]Daily Constitution (Middletown, CT), August 5th, 1876; Middletown City Directory 1877-1878, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1877), 108.

[15]Middletown City Directory 1878-1879, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1878), 119.

[16]Middletown City Directory 1879-1880, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1879), 119; Middletown City Directory 1880, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1880), 115.

[17]Middletown City Directory 1886-1887, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1886), 153.

[18]Middletown City Directory 1888-1889, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1888), 164-165.

[19]Middletown City Directory 1888-1889, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1888), 164-165.

[20]Middletown City Directory 1889-1890, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1889), 174-175; Middletown City Directory 1890, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1890), 178.

[21]Middletown City Directory 1889-1890, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1889), 174-175;

[22]Middletown City Directory 1890, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1890), 178.

[23]Middletown City Directory 1891, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1891), 199; Middletown City Directory 1892, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1892), 203.

[24]Middletown City Directory 1894, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1894), 191.

[25]Middletown City Directory 1895-1896, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1895), 191.

[26]Middletown City Directory 1895-1896, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1895), 191.

[27]Middletown City Directory 1896-1897, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1896), 202;Middletown City Directory 1897-1898, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1897), 214.

[28]Middletown City Directory 1896-1897, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1896), 202;

[29]Middletown City Directory 1897-1898, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1897), 214.

[30]Middletown City Directory 1899, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1899), 222.

[31]Middletown City Directory 1900, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1900), 200.

[32]Middletown City Directory 1901, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1901), 214; Middletown City Directory 1903, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1903), 224.

[33]Middletown City Directory 1904, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1904), 230; Middletown City Directory 1905, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1903), 222.

[34]Middletown City Directory 1904, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1904), 230; Middletown City Directory 1905, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1905), 222.

[35]Middletown City Directory 1906, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1906), 240.

[36]Middletown City Directory 1906, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1906), 240.

[37]Middletown City Directory 1908, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1908), 218; Middletown City Directory 1909, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1909), 226; Middletown City Directory 1910, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1910), 238.

[38]Middletown City Directory 1908, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1908), 218;

[39]Middletown City Directory 1910, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1910), 238.

[40]Middletown City Directory 1911, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1911), 250; Middletown City Directory 1912, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1912), 253.

[41]Middletown City Directory 1911, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1911), 250;

[42]Middletown City Directory 1912, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1912), 253.

[43]Middletown City Directory 1913, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1913), 249.

[44]Middletown City Directory 1913, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1913), 249.

[45]Middletown City Directory 1914, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1914), 252; Middletown City Directory 1915, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1915), 244.

  1. E. Robinson died while stationed in Middletown. William Henry Lamar was sent to replace him. Thomas Sparks, “Open Counsel: Treasurer of A.M.E. Zion Church, Gives Explanation,” Penny Press(Middletown, CT), March 11, 1916.

[46]“Six A Month May Disrupt Church,” Penny Press (Middletown, CT), March 3, 1916

[47]“Six A Month May Disrupt Church,” Penny Press (Middletown, CT), March 3, 1916; W. Henry Lamar, “Open Counsel: Rev. W. H. Lamar Gives Views on A. M. E. Zion Church Situation,” Penny Press (Middletown, CT), March 11, 1916.

[48]Middletown City Directory 1916, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1916), 348; Middletown City Directory 1917, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1917), 354; “New A. M. E. Zion Pastor,” Penny Press(Middletown, CT), August 15, 1916.

[49]Middletown City Directory 1918-1919, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1918), 332;Middletown City Directory 1919-1920, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1919), 347.

[50]No pastor listed in the Middletown City Directories for these years

[51]Middletown City Directory 1921, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1921), 362; Middletown City Directory 1922, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1922), 258.

[52]Middletown City Directory 1923, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1923), 361; Middletown City Directory 1924, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1924), 371.

[53]Middletown City Directory 1925, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1925), 380.

[54]Middletown City Directory 1926, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1926), 357; Middletown City Directory 1927, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1927), 378; Middletown City Directory 1928, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1928), 281; Middletown City Directory 1929, (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Co., Publishers, 1929), 264.