Front Cover:
William Ernest Blandy is the author of the hymn text “Where He Leads Me I Will Follow” – picture taken in London prior to 1884 and used with permission from the archives of The Salvation Army Museum of the West in Ranch Palos Verdes CA. 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 XXXIV spring 2023

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

Local Preachers...…………………………………………………………….........3

William E. Blandy………………………………………….….4

Lovilla D. Cook………………………………………………29

Lay Persons………………………………………………………………….…....38

George Miller…………………………………………………39

John H. Kurzenknabe……………………….…………..…….47

Ordained Preachers……………………………………………………………….65

Thomas B. Miller……………………………………………..66

The J.W. Kiracofe Family…….................................................56

Missionaries……………………………..…….……………………….…..…….89

The Bartges Family……………………………………………90

The Lefever Family…………….………...……………………94