John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
Lorenzo Dow was an eccentric itinerant American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible.
John Henry Hobart was the third Episcopal bishop of New York (1816–1830). He vigorously promoted the extension of the Episcopal Church in upstate New York, as well as founded both the General Theological Seminary in New York City and Geneva College in Geneva in the Finger Lakes area.
Jedidiah Morse was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
George Dana Boardman was an American missionary.
John England was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina. England served as a priest in Cork, where, before being appointed to Charleston, he was very active in the movement for Catholic Emancipation.
Aubrey George Spencer was the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda (1839–1843). He was also bishop of Jamaica. His brother George Spencer became Bishop of Madras. He is from the Spencer family.
Robert Richford Roberts distinguished himself as an American Methodist Circuit Rider, Pastor, Presiding Elder, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1816. He was the first married man in America to serve as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1850. He also distinguished himself as a circuit rider, pastor and Christian preacher; as chaplain to the U.S. House of Representatives; and as an editor, a college academic, and a denominational leader.
William Patton, was a pastor, abolitionist, and the son of Revolutionary War colonel and the first Postmaster of Philadelphia Robert Patton. He was the father of the abolitionist William Weston Patton.
Edward Barron (1801–1854) was an Irish-born missionary bishop who led a Catholic mission to Liberia.
William Ward (1769–1823) was an English pioneer Baptist missionary, author, printer and translator.
John Howard Hinton was an English author and Baptist minister who published, along with many other works, The History and Topography of the United States of North America together with his brother Isaac Taylor Hinton (1799-1847). He is the father of surgeon James Hinton and grandfather of mathematician and science fiction author Charles Howard Hinton.
Richard Knill was an English missionary.
Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Father Arthur O'Leary, O.F.M.Cap was an Irish Capuchin preacher and polemical writer.
John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was an American missionary for the Moravian Church.
Thomas Webb was a Methodist pioneer.
Michael Schlatter was an American German Reformed clergyman.
Alexander MacWhorter, DD was an American clergyman.
