The pictures on the front and back covers refer to the article beginning on page 79.

FRONT COVER: Hinkey Haines, United Brethren athlete from York County PA, and Babe Ruth –

teammates on the World Champion 1923 New York Yankees.

BACK COVER: Front of the December 8, 1927, program for a “Testimonial Dinner Tendered to Hinkey

Haines,” star of the World Champion 1927 New York Giants.

THE CHRONICLE is published by the Historical Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the

United Methodist Church, PO Box 2053, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-2053.

THE CHRONICLE

Journal of the Historical Society

of the

Central Pennsylvania Conference

of the

United Methodist Church

Milton W. Loyer

Editor

Volume XIX spring 2008

Editor's Preface ...................................................................................…...............2

Charles Wesley: Poet of the United Methodist Way…………………………..….……..4

by Charles Yrigoyen, 2007

Great-Grandfather James Reiley………………………………………..……….….……20

by Henry Baker Reiley, 1950

The Baltimore Origins of Methodism’s Reform Movement…………………..…….…..38

by James M. Hanson, 1827

Rev. Edmund Wesley Kirby: A Participant in Methodist History………………...…....46

by Jon Noring, 2008

Joseph A. Bennett: An American Tragedy………………………………...……………69

by Milton Loyer 2008

Hinkey Haines: One for the Record Book…………………………………...………….79

by James M.O. Loyer, 2006

Marching for Justice: Personal Experiences in the Civil Rights Movement………......92

by Richard Hughes, 2006

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