COVER PHOTOGRAPH: The first and second buildings of
the present Grace United Methodist Church on State
Street, the mother congregation of Harrisburg Methodism.
BACK COVER: Pennington Seminary and Female Collegiate
Institute, Pennington, NJ. See section 4,
page 30, of the article of Bishop Isaac W. Wiley
THE CHRONICLE is published
by the Historical Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
United Methodist Church, PO Box 2053, Mechanicsburg PA 17055
THE CHRONICLE
Journal of the Historical Society
of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference
of the
United Methodist Church
Milton W. Loyer
editor
Volume XVII
spring 2006
Editor's Preface ........................................................................................ ...............2
Jacob
Gruber
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by Milton Loyer, 1984
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This,
Too, Is Harrisburg District History
by Charles Berkheimer, 1967
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by J. Martin Stroup, 1964
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by Isaac W. Wiley, 1882
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Reading
Between the Lines: An Interesting Letter from Methodisms Past
by Robert Wilson, 1832
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Harrisburg
Women
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by Beverly R. Waugh, 1861 52
Rev. Richard McAllister of Fort Hunter
by Ann Hulme Price, 1817 .78
by Lena Elizabeth Beck, 1909 ....85
by Helen Eichelberger
Ake, 1965
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50 Years of
Inclusiveness
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