Bible Handbook

S. N. Haskell was an evangelist, missionary, teacher, and Adventist Church leader. At the age of 20, in 1853, while working as a self-supporting preacher, he and his wife, Mary, accepted the Sabbath message. He was ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist minister in 1868, and in 1870 became the first president of the New England Conference. He and his wife established the Tract and Missionary Society, which was organized throughout the church from 1870 to 1889. He also served as president of the California and Maine conferences, and founded the South Lancaster Academy, which later became Atlantic Union College. From 1889