Our Leadership
The Charter Members
Of Swanzey Congregational Church
Rev. Timothy Harrington
Nathaniel Hammond
Abraham Graves
Samuel Dunn
Charles Lumis
William Carr
David Belding
Samuel Hills
Thomas Cresson
John Evans
Nathaniel Hammond, Jr.
Thomas Hammond
The Ministers
Of Swanzey Congregational Church and
First Congregational Church of Swanzey
Rev. Andrew Gardner
Rev. Timothy Harrington 1741
Rev. Ezra Carpenter 1753
Rev. Edward Goddard 1769
Rev. Clark Brown 1809
Rev. Joshua Chandler 1819
Rev. Ebenezer Colman 1827
Rev. Elisha Rockwood 1836
Rev. John G. Wilson 1858
Rev. Thomas E. Roberts 1864
Rev. William Cutler 1868
Rev. Charles Willey 1871
Rev. E. Ervin Carpenter 1873
Rev. H. H. Saunderson 1877
Rev. Benjamin Merrill 1882
Rev. Harvey Woodward 1889
Rev. C. E. Milliken 1891
Rev. Virgil W. Blackman 1896
Rev. Lucian C. Kimball 1901
Rev. George A. Furness 1904
Rev. Roland Farnum 1913
Rev. Alexander Stewart 1914
Rev. Ralph Rowse 1915
Rev. John Hardwick 1918
Rev. Sumner Sargent 1921
Rev. Robert Jones 1922
Rev. Stephen Wood 1924
Rev. Archibald Kerr 1927
Rev. Roy M. Pearson 1938
Rev. Kenneth Martin 1940
Rev. Fred K. Swett 1943
Rev. Rankin Shrewsbury 1945
Rev. Neil Howard 1946
Rev. William Stone 1949
Rev. Herbert J. Buhler, Jr. 1954
Rev. Samuel F. Brown 1959
Rev. Richard W. Bauer, Jr. 1961
Rev. Fay Gemmell 1964 interim
Rev. Herbert J. Guth 1964
Rev. Wesley E. Burwell 1967
Rev. Gary Wehrwein 1975
Rev. Marilyn E. Bushnell 1984 interim
Rev. Mary Jane Barber 1985
Rev. Kurt F. Herber 1997 interim
Rev. Andrew J. Nagy-Benson 1998
Rev. Allen Humes 2001 interim
Rev. Pamela Cady Spain 2003
Rev. Allen Humes 2009 interim
Rev. Damon Anderson 2010
Rev. Christopher J. Karluk 2022