Front Cover: Rev. P. Gordon Gould, in 1950, while gathering support for Methodism’s Alaska Pacific University. See the article beginning on page 4.

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

of the United Methodist Church, 303 Mulberry Drive, Mechanicsburg PA 17050-3179.

THE CHRONICLE

Journal of the Historical Society

of the

Susquehanna Conference

of the

United Methodist Church

Milton W. Loyer

editor

.

Volume XXXI spring 2020

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

Notable Ancestors……………………………………………..…3

Peter Gordon Gould: Williamsport’s Missionary from and to Alaska

by Robert W. Gould………………………………………………….4

Edwin Lincoln Eslinger: Dillsburg’s Quiet Ambassador

by Joel N. Clary………………………………………………………….17

Rural Pastors...............................................................................29

Rev. Morris Howe………………………………………………………...……..30

Rev. Royal J. Kellogg…………………………...………………………….……38

Rev. Willis W. Willard Sr. ………………………………………………………44

Families………………………………………………………….46

The Klinefelters of York County………………………………………….……..47

The Beyers of Blair County…………………………………...…………………60

The Mowers of Franklin County……………………………………………..….72

Other Little Known Stories……………………………………85

Early American Methodism and Slavery

by Rev. A. Glenn Mower, Jr………………………….…………….…...86

Scranton’s Watson Avenue Church

by Thomas Morgan……………………………………………….……..90