Divisions Roswell Fenner Cottrell (January 17, 1814 – March 22, 1892) was a preacher, counselor, writer, hymnist and poet who came from a family of Seventh Day Baptists.

The family traces their sabbatarian roots back to the Seventh Day Baptists of seventeenth century England or even earlier.

The records reveal that his descendants settled in Westerly and that this settlement became the principal center of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in New England.

Along the intervening years several prominent members of the Cottrell family have become Seventh Day Baptist preachers.

He reported the meeting in the Review and Herald: Calvert B. Cottrell established a printing press manufacturing plant in Westerly.

[8] The branch of the Cottrell family living in Westerly, Rhode Island, have been observers of the Seventh-day Sabbath for more than three centuries.

With his father and other members of the family, Roswell was deeply interested in the message of William Miller, but did not identify himself with it, believing that when God would herald His second coming, the messengers would be observers of the seventh-day Sabbath.

[11] Soon after accepting the message of Christ's imminent return, he entered the gospel ministry, devoting his full-time to preaching and writing, and for a time serving as president of the New York Conference.

This is also the earliest record of a Sabbath-keeping Adventists sharing his faith with members of an American Indian tribe.

Both Cottrell and Ingraham preached, through an interpreter, at the reservation's small Baptist church of fifty members.

In the June 10, 1858 Review and Herald, a second sermon by Cottrell entitled "A Discourse Written for the Seneca Indians, to be delivered through an Interpreter, No.

In New York, Cottrell's home state, he and evangelist Ingraham assisted Loughborough in such tent meetings.

During haying and harvesting time, Loughborough's team worked in the fields four and one half days each week.

[24][25] Elder William A. Spicer, writing in the "Review & Herald" of 1951, paid this tribute to the memory of "our pioneer, Eld.

In 1908, he and his wife Myrtie accepted a call to mission service in China, where they worked for twelve years to 1920.

Since 1920, Roy lived in southern California where he worked as a pastor in Glendale, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Huntington Park and Los Angeles.

He wrote for various religious journals, prepared eight series of international senior Sabbath School lessons, and for a considerable time conducted a weekly column entitled "The Newspaper Pulpit" which appeared in the three leading metropolitan papers of Los Angeles.

After his marriage to Elizabeth Landis of Phoenix, Ariz., and a period of service as teacher, evangelist and pastor, he was called to mission endeavor in Manchuria, China, where he labored for seven years.