Prominent Figures
- Richard Allen, founder, African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian
- Alexander Campbell, Presbyterian, and early leader of the Restoration Movement
- Thomas Campbell Presbyterian, then early leader of the Restoration Movement
- Peter Cartwright, Methodist
- Lorenzo Dow, Methodist
- Timothy Dwight IV, Congregationalist
- Charles Finney, Presbyterian, but anti-Calvinist
- William Miller, Millerism, forerunner of Adventism
- Asahel Nettleton, Reformed
- Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
- Barton Stone, Presbyterian non-Calvinist, then early leader of the Restoration Movement
- James Brainerd Taylor (no relation to Nathaniel William Taylor), Reformed, mentored by Asahel Nettleton
- Nathaniel William Taylor, heterodox Calvinist
- Ellen G. White, Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Congregationalist, later Unitarian, first ordained female minister in the United States
- Jarena Lee, traveling Methodist Episcopal preacher, African American
- Abigail Roberts, popular Christian Connection preacher in New York and New Jersey
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