Theodore Pollock Ferguson
Theodore Pollock Ferguson was a pioneer leader in the American Holiness Movement, a Christian evangelist and social worker who co-founded the Peniel Mission and Peniel Missionary Society.
Ferguson was born on January 10, 1853 in Mansfield, Ohio in Richland County, Ohio. He was converted in 1875 in Oberlin, Ohio through the preaching of evangelist Charles Finney. He became a minister in the United Presbyterian church. In 1879 he relocated to Santa Barbara, California. In 1880 he was entirely sanctified during a holiness revival meeting in California. He became an itinerant preacher. On June 7, 1883 he married Manie Payne Ferguson. They moved to Los Angeles, California during the boom of 1885–86. On 11 November 1886 they founded the Los Angeles Mission, later named the Peniel Mission.
Ferguson died on 12 July 1920 in Los Angeles.
