The Ministers And Priests Of Kendall County is organized in two sections. The first section is an alphabetical list of Kendall County ministers and priests. The names included were found in two general categories. The first general source is Kendall County Marriage Registers (Books A-1, One and Two.) The second general category consisted of various published church and county histories.
Dates found in the column headed Marriage records indicates these dates were the general time frame the minister or priest was performing marriages. Dates found in the History Books column indicates the dates found in one of the published histories. Dates should not be taken as precise. In many cases, they are more a general guide-line than an absolute date.
The second section is a list of the known ministers or priests of a particular Kendall County Church. Some of the published histories supplied sequential or chronological lists of the ministers of a church but failed to provide a time frame for the minister or priest's tenure. In these cases, the date column is blank
| Name Of Church | Found In | Found In | ||||
| Surname | Given Name | Church If Provided | Location | History Books | Marriage Rec. | Sort |
| Arlen | Henry | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1893-1898 | 1893-1897 | P |
| Bassett | Daniel A. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1862-1864 | P | |
| Bingaman | Reverend | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Board | James H. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1860-1860 | P | |
| Carson | Robert | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1888-1891 | P | |
| Chapman | Andrew Wells | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1848-18?? | P | |
| Colver | A. W. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1872-1872 | P | |
| Harris | George Adamson | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1910-1912 | P | |
| Jessup | Theodore F. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1874-1887 | P | |
| Johnson | Oliver C. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Kosin | Wesley L. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Kyle | Robert J. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1898-1901 | P | |
| Liggett | William Heberton | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1913-1914 | 1913-1914 | P |
| Loss | Reverend | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| McCain | Reverend | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1907-1908 | P | |
| Nansen | Reverend | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Reid | Joseph H. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1891-1893 | 1891-1895 | P |
| Robertson | D. F., Dr. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1902-1905 | 1904-1905 | P |
| Robertson | W. A. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1871-1871 | P | |
| Smith | James Aiken | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1898- | 1899-1900 | P |
| Steward | Edwin J. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1866-1870 | P | |
| Stewart | L. J. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Taylor | David | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | P | ||
| Todd | Milton E. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1900-1903 | P | |
| Walker | John | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1857-18?? | 1858-1859 | P |
| Wood | A. T. | AuSable Grove Presbyterian | NaAuSay Twp | 1865-1865 | P | |
| Cord | W. H. | Baptist | 1874-1874 | B | ||
| Maddock | Roger | Baptist | 1852-1852 | B | ||
| Howard | Charles | Baptist Mission | Newark | 1964-1966 | B | |
| Blegen | Allen R. | Bethlehem Lutheran | Lisbon | L | ||
| Ackiss | Ernest Lee | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1913-1916 | B | |
| Alger | Henry H. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1900-1902 | B | |
| Bennett | Albert A. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1873-1874 | B | |
| Bestor | O. P. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1874-1876 | 1875-1876 | B |
| Bostick | W. F. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1909-1910 | B | |
| Brooks | Zadock | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1848-1850 | 1848-1849 | B |
| Chase | E. J. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1908-1909 | B | |
| Colpitts | Horace G. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1911-1913 | 1911-1913 | B |
| Danforth | A. M. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1866-1866 | B | |
| Donovan | Rev. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1919- | B | |
| Edson | R. Ambler | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1850-1850 | B | |
| Gale | Ebenezer | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1856-1864 | B | |
| Haigh | William M. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1858-1862 | 1858-1866 | B |
| Haigh | William M. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1865- | B | |
| Haigh | William M. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | -1919 | 1883-1883 | B |
| Haydon | A. Eustace | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | B | ||
| Hill | William Tate | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1862-1863 | 1865-1865 | B |
| Holden | C. H. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1883-1884 | B | |
| Hoye | J. T. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | -1919 | B | |
| Irvine | W. Franklin | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1892-1897 | B | |
| Mallory | N. C. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1890-1890 | B | |
| Matthews | J. L. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1887-1889 | 1887-1889 | B |
| Monk | James A. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1898-1899 | B | |
| Mountain | Joseph | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1882 - | B | |
| Parker | D. L. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1906-1908 | 1906-1906 | B |
| Powell | H. W. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1883-1883 | B | |
| Robbins | A. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1890-1891 | 1889-1891 | B |
| Rocho | V. C. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1890-1890 | B | |
| Rutledge | Robert | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1905-1906 | B | |
| Sargent | Charles R. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1885-1886 | 1885-1886 | B |
| Sargent | R. S. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1903-1904 | B | |
| Scofield | James | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1843-1846 | 1843-1845 | B |
| Smith | Frederick M. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1877-1881 | B | |
| Smith | Warren J. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1908-1909 | 1908-1908 | B |
| Tolman | Jeremy Fisher | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1843-1846 | 1843-1846 | B |
| VanOsdel | Orville Willis | Bristol Baptist | Bristol | 1869-1872 | B | |
| Webster | B. H. | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1846-1847 | 1846-1847 | B |
| Woodward | Jonas | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1867-1873 | B | |
| Woodward | Jonas | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1879-1879 | B | |
| Young | John | Bristol Baptist | North Yorkville | 1852-1857 | 1852-1857 | B |
| Arnold | Reverend | Bristol Circuit M. E. | 1837-1838 | M | ||
| Hadley | Harvey | Bristol Circuit M. E. | 1840-1840 | M | ||
| Kimball | William | Bristol Circuit M. E. | 1840-1842 | 1842-1842 | M | |
| Rogers | Austin F. | Bristol Circuit M. E. | 1839-1840 | M | ||
| Springer | Elihu | Bristol Circuit M. E. | 1838-1839 | M | ||
| Abernethy | L. F. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1894-1894 | M | |
| Burns | John R. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1874-1880 | M | |
| Dean | Jesse A. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1900-1900 | M | |
| Erving | George A. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1905-1910 | M | |
| Griswold | George Albert | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1891-1893 | M | |
| Hartman | Jacob | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1879-1882 | M | |
| Jones | John Cooper | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1895-1897 | M | |
| Lovejoy | Cyrus C. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1907-1907 | M | |
| McGuffin | John B. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1869-1904 | M | |
| Mettler | A. B. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1902-19?? | M | |
| Nate | John | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1886-1893 | M | |
| Pate | Robert H. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1912-1914 | M | |
| Rose | Edward J. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1898-1901 | M | |
| St. Clair | John F. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1889-1890 | M | |
| Stokes | Nicholas M. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1885-1891 | M | |
| Thompson | Ernest L. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1910-1911 | M | |
| David | J. E. | Bristol Methodist | Bristol Station | 1854-18?? | M | |
| Lebel | J. A. | Catholic Missionary | 1851-1851 | CA | ||
| Cautle | Michael A. | Catholic Priest | Plano | 1900-1900 | CA | |
| Kaiser | Eusebus | Catholic Priest | 1856-1857 | CA | ||
| Leydon | Thomas F. | Catholic Priest | Oswego | 1888-1888 | CA | |
| Liermann | Herman | Catholic Priest | 1865-1877 | CA | ||
| Macken | J. | Catholic Priest | 1866-1867 | CA | ||
| Martel | J. U. A. | Catholic Priest | 1875-1876 | CA | ||
| Meyer | Theodore | Catholic Priest | Bristol | 1901-1903 | CA | |
| Meyer | Theodore | Catholic Priest | Plano | 1901-1903 | CA | |
| Nieolos | Timothy | Catholic Priest | 1849-1849 | CA | ||
| O'Donnell | Thomas | Catholic Priest | 1851-1851 | CA | ||
| O'Sullivan | Samuel A. | Catholic Priest | 1865-1865 | CA | ||
| Power | W. D. | Catholic Priest | 1861-1961 | CA | ||
| Rigby | George | Catholic Priest | 1865-1865 | CA | ||
| Schweback | M. | Catholic Priest | 1862-1862 | CA | ||
| Sullivan | M. A. | Catholic Priest | 1862-1865 | CA | ||
| Then | Father | Catholic Priest | Oswego | 1953-19?? | CA | |
| Welby | M. | Catholic Priest | Bristol | 1883-1883 | CA | |
| Zucker | Charles H. | Catholic Priest | 1852-1855 | CA | ||
| Bullock | Lewis Franklin | Christian Church | 1843-1847 | CA | ||
| Yingst | Kenneth H. | Church of the Brethren | Boulder Hill | 1957-1957 | Misc | |
| Schweiger | Jeffry | Community Bible Church | Boulder Hill | 1982-19?? | Misc | |
| Smith | Russell | Congregational | 1853-1853 | CO | ||
| Wiborn | Nathan | Congregational | 1841-1841 | CO | ||
| Wicks | Bela | Congregational | 1856-1865 | CO | ||
| Cobb | Sylvanus S. | Congregational Society (1) | Plano | 1858-18?? | CO | |
| Harrison | Charles S. | Congregational Society (2) | Plano | 1867-18?? | 1873-1873 | CO |
| Bekemeier | R. H. | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1929-1965 | L | |
| Fuelling | C. F. | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1920-1929 | L | |
| Gilbert | Dan | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1982-19?? | L | |
| Helmich | Clarence | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1969-1977 | L | |
| Huber | Tim | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1977-1982 | L | |
| Kessler | Jon | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1965-1969 | L | |
| Rabe | John H. | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1881-1920 | 1882-1915 | L |
| Strieter | Johannes | Cross Evangelical Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1881-1882 | L | |
| Blakesley | James | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1851-1851 | LDS | |
| Cooper | Francis M. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1889-1915 | LDS | |
| Hacket | J. S. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1901-1901 | LDS | |
| Pender | W. G. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1890-1890 | LDS | |
| Pitt | F. G. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1879-1880 | LDS | |
| Raymond | John | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1842-1842 | LDS | |
| Smith | Joseph, Jr. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1861-1881 | 1866-1886 | LDS |
| Southwick | Henry | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1894-1909 | LDS | |
| VanDozer | B. F. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1842-1845 | LDS | |
| Wildermuth | Eli M. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | ????-1914+ | 1902-1902 | LDS |
| Wildermuth | Lester | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1909-1911 | LDS | |
| Wildermuth | Luke | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1909-1911 | LDS | |
| Wipper | Frank F. | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1915-1915 | LDS | |
| Woolhams | James | Elder L. D. S. Church | Plano | 1880-1880 | LDS | |
| Bickley | T. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1951 | EUB | |
| Closson | Frank | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1965-1971 | EUB | |
| Gabel | Wallace | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1956-1959 | EUB | |
| Heinrich | Reinhold (Student) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1959-1962 | EUB | |
| Ketterling | C. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1954 | EUB | |
| Koelling | M. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1950 | EUB | |
| Liebau | Paul (Supply) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1962 | EUB | |
| Lundberg | Dale | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1957-1958 | EUB | |
| Mann | H. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1953 | EUB | |
| Minton | Frank | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1958-1965 | EUB | |
| Murphy | Albert | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1955-1957 | EUB | |
| Parriott | J. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1955 | EUB | |
| Rebstock | J. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1949 | EUB | |
| Scott | R. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1952 | EUB | |
| Trusheim | W. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1962 | EUB | |
| Wilson | Ira B. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1962-1967 | EUB | |
| Woodrow | K. (Intern) | Evangelical United Brethren | Oswego Twp | 1963 | EUB | |
| Engum | Henrik G. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1915-1924 | L | |
| Foster | Preston B. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1983-1986 | L | |
| Guldseth | Paul O. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1965-1967 | L | |
| Halvorson | Maynard G. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1967-1974 | L | |
| Hoffmeister | S. E. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1884-1885 | L | |
| Holtan | Leon O. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1975-1982 | L | |
| Huebschmann | H. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1891-1893 | L | |
| Jacobson | Jacob | First Lutheran | Plano | 1894-1902 | 1898-1898 | L |
| Jacobson | M. L. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1987- | L | |
| Johnson | E. Leonard | First Lutheran | Plano | 1942-1964 | L | |
| Johnson | Osmund | First Lutheran | Plano | 1924-1939 | L | |
| Johnson | Peter A. | First Lutheran | Plano | ????-1914+ | L | |
| Johnson | S. Aron | First Lutheran | Plano | 1905-1915 | 1883-1883 | L |
| Molldrem | Ariel R. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1939-1942 | L | |
| Noss | Henry T. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1905-1908 | L | |
| Pederson | Reverend | First Lutheran | Plano | L | ||
| Reinertson | Jens Christian | First Lutheran | Plano | 1889-1892 | 1890-1893 | L |
| Reinertson | Peder I. R. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1886-1889 | 1888-1888 | L |
| Roseland | Jens C. | First Lutheran | Plano | 1883-1885 | L | |
| Stubkjaer | Niels Anderson | First Lutheran | Plano | 1893-1894 | 1894-1894 | L |
| Swenson | G. Sigfried | First Lutheran | Plano | 1909-1910 | L | |
| VanTobel | Jacob | First Lutheran | Plano | 1887-1890 | L | |
| Royal | William | Fox River Mission M. E. | 1835-18?? | M | ||
| Ellingson | Kenneth | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1957-1961 | L | |
| Harrisville | Lars | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1921-1925 | L | |
| Helland | Carl K. | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1900-1900 | L | |
| Johnson | Oscar | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1966-1970 | L | |
| Klungtvedt | Nils | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1931-1952 | L | |
| Knutson | Thomas J. | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1926-1931 | L | |
| Laaveg | Oscar | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1953-1957 | L | |
| Lee | Robert | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1990-1992 | L | |
| Masted | Harold | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1971-1989 | L | |
| Mortvedt | Ariel O. | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1900-1915 | L | |
| Peterson | Nils G. | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1898-1907 | 1898-1907 | L |
| Rasmussen | Peter Andreas | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1854-1898 | 1856-1886 | L |
| Shefveland | Ole E. | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1907-1920 | 1907-1915 | L |
| Swanson | Jeff | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1992- | L | |
| Whitney | Dean | Helmar Lutheran | Helmar | 1962-1966 | L | |
| Ahl | Eugene | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1923-1929 | L | |
| Allwardt | Martin T. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1898-1901 | 1898-1901 | L |
| Dapper | A. A. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp. | 1888-1890 | 1888-1890 | L |
| Doermann | John H. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1873-1883 | 1874-1890 | L |
| Fickeissen | T. E. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1884 | 1884-1884 | L |
| Fruechtenicht | H. F. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1860-1860 | 1860-1860 | L |
| Gess | A. J. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1944-1949 | L | |
| Grafe | Harold | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1981-19?? | L | |
| Hallerberg | William | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1870-1873 | 1871-1879 | L |
| Heinemann | W. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | ?- 1861 | 1858-1858 | L |
| Hellrud | Norbert H. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1961-1964 | L | |
| Heuer | L. E. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1949-1961 | L | |
| Kildahl | John Nathan | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1894-1894 | L | |
| Lange | Charles J. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1908-1918 | 1908-1915 | L |
| Langholz | J. C. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1922 | L | |
| Lee | A. H. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1896-1896 | L | |
| Linsemann | W. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1884-1888 | 1885-1888 | L |
| Loeber | G. S. | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | ?- 1861 | 1859-1859 | L |
| Mertner | William | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1882-1882 | L | |
| Mueller | Joseph | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | ?- 1861 | 1863-1863 | L |
| Riedel | Charles "Rich" | Immanuel Lutheran | Kendall Twp | 1853-1856 | 1854-1855 | L |
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