Summary of Key Dates in Loughborough's Life
Extracted from The Great Second Advent Movement
1832 January: birth Victor, N.Y. (some 5 years younger than EGW)
1843: conversion, age 11, under the Advent awakening
1848 Spring: baptized, moved to Rochester, N.Y., age 16 (neighbor of Joseph Marsh, who abandoned the "shut door" at the Albany meeting in 1845, rejected the seventh-day Sabbath, and published The Voice of Truth)
1851: heard debate by Joseph Marsh on the theory of the "age-to-come," in Rochester, N.Y. (Joseph Bates first visit to Michigan)
1852: heard, examined, and embraced the third angel's message in Rochester; last week in September Elder J. N. Andrews gave series of talks on the subject of the sanctuary; JNL accepted the "shut door" and believed it ever since
1852 December: called by Ellen White to preach, age 20
1853-65: three rebellions; present with Brother and Sister White at meeting from which three independent movements began: (1) June 1853, Case and Russell, Jackson, MI, The Messenger of Truth; (2) March 1858, Cranmer, Otsego, MI, The Hope of Israel; (3) Spring 1865, Snook and Brinkerhoff, Pilot Grove, IA, The Advent and Sabbath Advocate
1853 June: first meeting that Brother and Sister White had in Battle Creek, MI, with JNL, in front room of Brother Hewitt's house
1853: JNL and Cornell traveled for 3 months in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, "Visits to the Scattered Flock"
1853-54 Winter: labored with Joseph Bates in Ohio
1854 May: large interest in Locke, MI, leads the Whites, M. E. Cornell, and JNL to plan tent meetings
1858: first trip to Maine with Brother and Sister White, also to Vermont
1863-65: two years labored in New England
1868 to 1878 Fall: labored in California
1878: told by Ellen White, "You have an experience valuable to the cause of God. It must be made to tell for its full value."
1878-83: worked in Great Britain
1883-90: worked in California
1890: Ellen White wrote Elder O. A. Olsen, "I say let Elder Loughborough do a work that is suffering to be done in the churches. . . . Let him go here and there, and everywhere, telling what he has seen, and known and handled in the rise of the third angel's message."
1890: asked by GC committee to write the Rise and Progress of the Third Angel's Message
1890: worked east of the Rocky Mountains
1902-03: plates of the Rise and Progress of the Third Angel's Message burned in the R & H fire; GC committee asked him to write The Great Second Advent Movement
1905: The Great Second Advent Movement published
1918: wrote Some Individual Experience in response to charges against him of inaccuracies and deception in The Great Second Advent Movement.