Front Cover: Proposal for the structure that is now the United Methodist Building

at 100 Maryland Avenue in Washington, DC. See the article beginning on page 83.

THE CHRONICLE is published by the Historical Society of the Susquehanna Conference

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

THE CHRONICLE

Journal of the Historical Society

of the

Susquehanna Conference

of the

United Methodist Church

Milton W. Loyer

editor

.

Volume XXVII spring 2016

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

What Ever Happened to…

John J. Pearce [1865]……………………………………………………….…3

Richard Van Valkenburg [1865]…………………………..…………………6

Cyrus Jeffries [1866]…………………………………………………………11

F. Passmore [1878]………………………………………………………...….24

J.F. Craul [1882]…………………………………………………..…………38

James Shelland [1886].....................................................................................44

James C. Hogan [1897]……………………………….………………………51

Watson Signor [1911]…………….………………………………………......58

James D. Matthews [1913]………….……………………………….…...….67

Charge Conference Trials [1840]…………………………………….……..74

Methodist Prohibition [1918] …………………………………………….…83

Hanover Circuit of the Evangelical Association [1928].……….………….85