John Nevins Andrews, Joseph Bates, John Byington, O. R. L. Crosier, Hiram Edson, John Norton Loughborough, Uriah Smith, James Springer White, and Ellen G. Harmon (later Ellen G. White)
They were staunch anti-trinitarians, many of whom came from The Christian Connexion—a heretical Arian and semi-Arian group.