Front Cover:
The Jay Holmes Smith Family in India, 1993 – left to right: Kathleen, Mrs. Sylvia Shay Smith, Marian, Rev. Smith. See the article beginning on page 3.

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 XXXIII Spring2022

Editor’s Preface……………………………………………………………….......2

Jay Holmes Smith……………………………………………………………........3

Pastoral Charges

Beach Haven………………………………………………………….….23

Sheshequin……………………………………………….…………..…..37

Ecclesiastical Bodies

Two Introductory Tables…………...............................................56

The 1858-1877 Methodist Church……………………….…..….58

The Pennsylvania Conference MP ………...……………………61

Outreach Ministries

Camp Louie…………………………………………………………...…74

University of Northern Pennsylvania…………………...…………...…..82

Re-Discovered Artifacts

A Special 1818 New Berlin Hymnal………………………….…...…….86

An Early Maytown Painting……………………………….…………….92