John Jacob Esher

In 1890-1891 he presided over a schism in the Evangelical Church and his followers were dubbed Esherites and they opposed the breakaway Dubsites.

[3] He was born in the German part of Baldenheim in Alsace, France in 1823 to Johann Jakob Esher.

In 1832, at age nine, he migrated with his parents to Pennsylvania and from there his family moved to Chicago, Illinois.

[2] Esher, Bishop Bowman and Rudolph Dubs were at loggerheads starting in 1885 over the administration of the Evangelical Association mission in Japan.

The charges were: "Un-Christian conduct, slander, evil speaking and falsehood, creating dissension, and perpetuating and intensifying the agitation in the church, and disturbing her peace by a revival of old and previous adjudicated difficulties and differences.