List of Elders of the Scotchtown Church 1804-1971

John White .............................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1839

David Arnell ...........................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1825

George Houston .....................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1826

Ephraim Everett ......................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1825

Adam Millspaugh ....................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1824

Enos Ayres .............................................................................................ordained 1804, died 1828

Stephen Harlow ......................................................................................ordained 1825, died 1854

James Boak ............................................................................................ordained 1825, died 1851

Samuel Millspaugh ..................................................................................ordained 1825, died 1867

John McWilliams ....................................................................................ordained 1827, died 1850

Jason Corwin .........................................................................................ordained 1827, died 1860

Joshua Hornbeck ...................................................................................ordained 1840, died 1857

Joseph Slaughter ....................................................................................ordained 1851, died 1873

James McWilliams .................................................................................ordained 1851, died 1887

Archibald Slaughter ................................................................................ordained 1859, died 1867

Stephen Harlow .....................................................................................ordained 1859, died 1887

Alanson Slaughter ..................................................................................ordained 1870, died 1884

Morris Lee ............................................................................................ordained 1870, died 1887

Gilbert B. Corwin ..................................................................................ordained 1870, died 1889

George Wallace ....................................................................ordained 1870, not active after 1885

Theodore Comfort ....................................................................ordained 1889, still active in 1896

David B. Meyers ......................................................................ordained 1889, still active in 1896

William H. Puff .........................................................................ordained 1891, still active in 1896

Eugene Smith ...........................................................................ordained 1891, still active in 1896

William M. Norris .................................................................................................ordained 1912

Herbert Mills .........................................................................................................ordained 1912

Charles Alexander Comfort ...................................................................................ordained 1927

Howard Denton Mills ............................................................................................ordained 1927

Jacob Edgar Mills .................................................................................................ordained 1942

George Kelley .......................................................................................................ordained 1945

Warren Taylor .......................................................................................................ordained 1945

Albert Norris .........................................................................................................ordained 1945

Frank Brooks .........................................................................................................ordained 1953

Herman Blumel .......................................................................................................ordained 1954

Milton Comfort ......................................................................................................ordained 1954

Mabel S. Mills .......................................................................................................ordained 1955

John Mills ..............................................................................................................ordained 1955

Harry Shaw ...........................................................................................................ordained 1958

George Sontag ......................................................................................................ordained 1958

Frank Locatell .......................................................................................................ordained 1963

Charles Winter .......................................................................................................ordained 1965

Earl Martin (Lester Jr.) ...........................................................................................ordained 1966

Dorothy Rossol ......................................................................................................ordained 1967

Ralph Force ...........................................................................................................ordained 1967

Richard Smith .........................................................................................................ordained 1969

Robert Cameron .....................................................................................................ordained 1970


The pre-1896 records were taken from The Scotchtown Memorial; or The Centennial of the Presbyterian Church of Scotchtown. 1796-1896 (Newburgh, NY: E. G. Hulse, 1896). The names of the elders ordained after 1896 are taken from Yesterday, Today, and Forever: Scotchtown Presbyterian Church (1972).