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Central Pennsylvania Evangelical Pastors.  This list includes every person known to have (1) been licensed or ordained by the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical [and Evangelical Association and United Evangelical] Church or (2) served an appointment in that Conference 1839-1964.  The list also includes some pastors who served former Evangelical churches that were not in the Central Pennsylvania Conference but that are now within the boundaries of the Susquehanna Conference UMC.   Individual pastors may be accessed using the search function, by scrolling down the list, or by clicking on the first letter of the surname to enter the file at the appropriate place.

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ADERHOLD, GLENN EUGENE

 

Born: 10-29-1920  Williamsport PA                          married: Marjorie Marlin

Died: 1-27-2018  Broomfield CO                              obit: [9/29/1921 – 5/26/1999]

 

1944    license            

 

Interment: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver CO
Obit:

 

1945-47           Dushore-Lopez

1947-51           Buffalo Valley

1951                without assignment

 

Note: Glenn E. Aderhold appears to have “transferred” to the Colorado Conference by 1952.  He and his wife met while students at Asbury College.

 


 

ALBRIGHT, GEORGE EDWIN

 

Born: 1-24-1879  Cumberland County PA                 married: Alta Mae Zeigler

Died: 3-6-1936  Leesburg FL                                     obit: [10/26/1879 – 11/1/1968]

 

1906    license

 

Interment: Lone Oak Cemetery, Leesburg FL

Obit:

 

1909-10           Dorsey

1910                withdrew

                       

Note: George E. Albright later served in the Presbyterian ministry in western Pennsylvania and Iowa.  His Albright ancestors go back 4 generations at the Letort [Kutz’] EV church on the Cumberland charge.

 


 

ALBRIGHT, GEORGE SMITH

 

Born: 7-9-1870  Newport PA                                     married: Maria Emily Pee

Died: 3-22-1952  Schuylkill County PA                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 68

                                                                                    married2: Anna Kline

1903    license                                                             obit2: [11/14/1881 – 3/13/1928]

1905    ordained deacon

1907    ordained elder

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA

Obit:

 

1903-07           Keystone

1907-11           Lewisberry

1911-15           Winfield

1915-18           East Prospect

1918-22           York (Princess Street)

1922                withdrew to join West Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lutheran Church

 


 

ALBRIGHT, RAYMOND WOLF

 

Born: 7-16-1901  Akron PA                           married: Mary Catherine Sherr

Died: 7-15-1965  Boston MA                         obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 204

                                                                        married2: Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Ayer Rising

                                                                        obit2: [1901 – 3/13/1990]

1921    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Akron Mt Zion              

1923    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Laureldale Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1966, 120

 

1920-22           Wyomissing Berkshire Heights

1922-24           Lebanon Old Emmanuel

1924-27           Matamoras

1926-52           faculty, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA

1952-65           faculty, Episcopal Theological School in Boston MA

 

Note: Raymond W. Albright is the great-great-grandson of Jacob Albright and the brother of Rev. Alton P. Albright (1904-1995) of the United Church of Christ.  He is the author of the definitive 1945 History of the Evangelical Church.  The second Mrs. Albright was the widow of a Mr. Hawley K. Rising (1889-1927).


 

ALLEN, J.N.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1867    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: J.N. Allen is believed to have moved to Ohio, and then to Nebraska in 1871, and served as a Congregational minister.

 


 

ALLISON, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1914    license

 

Interment:

Obit:


 

ALTHOUSE, HENRY

 

Born: 3-21-1819  PA                                                  married: Juliana Myers [12/27/1857]

Died: 9-18-1895  Los Angeles CA                             obit: [9/2/1832 – 1/21/1915]

 

1852    license

1856    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles CA

Obit:

 

1855-56           Lycoming

1856-58           York station

1858-59           Gettysburg

1859-60           Middle Creek

1860-61           Center

1861-62           Clinton

1862-63           Lock Haven

1863-64           Center

1864-66           York circuit

1866-67           Baltimore circuit

1868                transfer to Iowa Conference

1888                transfer to California Conference

1888-89           Bardsdale mission

1889                retired

 

Note: Henry Althouse is the father of William Henry Althouse (1858-1929) of the California Conference.

 

 


 

 

ANTHONY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 5-30-1844  Juniata Furnace (Perry Co) PA      married: Anna H. Zimmerman (5/29/1868)

Died: 5-23-1886  East Berlin PA                               obit:

 

1877    ordained deacon

1879    ordained elder

 

Interment: Bower’s Church Cemetery [Red Mount UMC], York County PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]

 

1875-76           Middleburg

1876-77           McClure

1877-80           Hagerstown

1880-82           Lewisberry

1882-85           Jarrettsville

1885-86           Dillsburg

 

Note: Mrs. Anthony re-married in 1894 to Benjamin F. Hall – a retired member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  She is also referred to as Anna H. Finicle – and she may have had a previous marriage to a Mr. William Fenicle.

 


 

ARCHER, JOSIAH

 

Born: 3-22-1827  Bethnal Green, England                 married: Jemima Johnson

Died: 12-5-1882  Irving MI                                        obit: [9/24/1826 – 3/9/1894]

 

 

Interment: Coopersville Cemetery, Coopersville MI

Obit:

 

1874-75           Duboistown

1875-76           Glen Rock

1876-77           Baltimore Mission

                        withdrew; "transfer" to Lutheran Church

1877-79           Beckleyville MD, Independent Lutheran Synod

                        moved to Michigan; "transfer" to Methodist Episcopal Church

1879-80           Grand Rapids Division Street MI [organizing pastor] (beginning summer 1880)

1880-82           Coopersville MI

1882-               Irving MI

 

Note: The biographical files include an obituary and other material for Josiah Archer.  His service in Michigan was as a local pastor filling "to be supplied" appointments, and his name does not appear in the conference minutes.

 


 

ARMSTRONG, H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1882    license

 

Interment:

Obit:


 

ARNSPARGER, CLIFFORD B. SR.

 

Born: 11-10-1876                                                        married: Lucretia Mullenix

Died: 1-6-1952  Hagerstown MD                               obit: [1863 – 11/30/1944]

 

1902    license

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit:

 

1902-03           Emigsville

1905                withdrew

 

Note: In October 1903, C.B. Arnsparger took charge of the American House hotel in Hagerstown MD, avoiding moral issues by placing his brother Walter in charge of the saloon.  He became an independent evangelist and eventually joined (as a lay person) the Assemblies of God denomination


 

ARTMAN, DANIEL ABRAM

 

Born: 2-4-1864  Mordansville PA                              married: Mary Amelia Oakes [1886]

Died: 4-27-1928  West Nanticoke PA                        obit: [1862 – 3/26/1887]

                                                                                    married2: Ida May Erdley

1889    license, recommended by New Berlin            obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 79

1892    ordained deacon                                              married3:  Hulda Gertrude Baumgardner [1922]

1894    ordained elder                                                 obit3: [9/20/1870 – 12/19/1952]

 

Interment: New Freedom Cemetery, New Freedom PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 82

 

1890-91           Middleburg

1891-93           West Clifford

1893-95           Espy

1895-96           Dushore

1896-00           Cumberland

1900-03           Wrightsville

1093-05           Howard

1905-09           Mifflin

1909-10           Hebbville

1910-13           Hellam

1913-16           NewFreedom

1916-17           Bellwood

1917-19           Hummels Wharf

1919-24           Avis

1924-25           Pennsdale

1925-27           Penns Creek

1927-28           West Nanticoke

 

Note: The third Mrs. Artman [nee Wertz] was the widow of Aaron S. Baumgardner, and following the death of Daniel Artman she married a Mr. Milton James Brown (1867-1946).  She was a member of the prominent Evangelical Association Wertz family of Union County, her sister Regina Wertz Stapleton being married to Mr. Norman Stapleton, brother of noted Evangelical Association historian Ammon S. Stapleton


 

AURAND, CELESTINE VAN BUSKIRK

 

Born: 6-4-1858                                                            married: Ida Marie Catherine Leopold

Died: 3-8-1901  Hanover PA                                      obit: [d. 12/8/1933]

 

1885    license

1887    ordained deacon

1889    ordained elder

 

Interment: Blooming Grove Evangelical Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 64]

 

1885-86           Cumberland

1886-87           Middleburg

1887-90           Liberty

1890-92           Spring Mills

1892                "transfer" to East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1892-94           Pottstown & Birdsboro

1894-95           Catasauqua Immanuel

1895-97           Philadelphia Germantown

1897-99           Schuylkill Haven

1899-00           ?

1900                returned to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1900-01           Hanover Circuit

 

Note: C.V.B. Aurand is the son of Simon Aurand.  Mrs. Aurand is the daughter of Aaron Frederick Leopold and the sister of William Augustus Leopold.  She is also the sister of Sylvester Theodore Leopold (1851-1913) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.  The widowed Mrs. Aurand later married a Mr. William A. Weidner (1865-1931)


 

AURAND, SIMON

 

Born: 12-26-1827  near Selinsgrove PA                    married: Sarah Van Buskirk

Died: 4-18-1909  Berwick PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 67

 

1860    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, BerwickPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 65

 

1856-57           Lycoming

1857-59           Cherry

1859-61           Block House

1861-63           Gettysburg

1863-65           Shrewsbury

1865-67           Perry

1867-69           Port Trevorton

1869-71           Center

1871-73           Troxelville

1873-75           York (German)

1875-78           York Circuit

1878-80           York (English)

1880-83           Cumberland

1883-84           Located

1884-86           Loganville

1886-87           Port Trevorton

1887-90           Middleburg

1890-93           Brush Valley

1893-96           Milesburg

1896-97           Zions Grove

1897-00           Hanover

1900-02           Centerville

1902-05           Millmont

1905                retired

 

Note: Simon Aurand is the father of C.V.B. Aurand.  Mrs. Aurand is a grand-daughter of Abraham Eyer (of the Eyer Barn in Winfield), whose daughter Sarah Eyer married a John Van Buskirk.

 


 

AUSTIN, DONALD PAUL

 

Born:                                                                           married: Bessie Mae Tinsman [5/9/1943]

Died: 2004                                                                  obit: [2/19/1921 – 3/18/1995]

 

1941    license, recommended by Berkley Place (Martinsburg WV)

1954    ordained elder, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Ocean County Memorial Park, Toms River NJ

Obit:

 

1947-48           Martinsburg
1948-53           West Frederick
1953-56           Manassas

1956                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1956-63           Hummel's Wharf
1963-66           Williamsport circuit

1966-69           Port Trevorton

1969                transfer to Southern New Jersey Conference

 


 

BABCOCK, ROYAL ANSON

 

Born: 2-23-1890  Elgin PA                                        married: Minnie Frances Scott

Died: 4-27-1948                                                          obit: [9/26/1886 – 7/9/1975]

 

1930    license, recommended by Carlisle First

1932    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

 

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 100

 

1930-34           Cearfoss

1934-37           Bryansville

1937-48           Rebersburg

 

Note: Mrs. Babcock is a sister to Nellie Scott Wheelock, wife of Rev. Orrin Wheelock (1874-1953) of the Free Methodist Church and mother of Paul S. Wheelock.


 

BAILEY, CHARLES ARTHUR

 

Born: 6-16-1920  Spring Mills PA                             married: Charlotte Elizabeth Fiebig

Died: 8-17-2006  Danville PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 428

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Isabelle Moyer Troup

1940    license, recommended by Hummel's Wharf   obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 278

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 400

 

1940-42           student, Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA

1942-45           student, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA

                1942-45  Port Trevorton
1945-57           Cearfoss
1957-61           Windsor
1961-72           Mexico

1972-73           Avis Yoked Parish

1973-76           Williamstown

1976-79           York Springs-Arnolds

1979-81           Jacobus

1981                retired

                            1981-92    Ralston

                            1993-94    Union circuit

                            1994-98    Millmont

 

Note: Charles A. Bailey is the son of Irwin C. Bailey Sr and a brother to Irwin C. Bailey Jr.  The second Mrs. Bailey [nee Moyer} was the widow of a Mr. Daniel Troup

 


 

BAILEY, CHARLES CARROLL

 

Born: 6-7-1893  Loganville PA                                  married: Margaret Louise Kibbler

Died: 11-6-1955  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1899 – 1975]

 

1918    license, recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial

1920    ordained deacon

1922    ordained elder

 

Interment: Loganville Evangelical Cemetery, Loganville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 81

 

1917-18           Berwick Bower Memorial (beginning 7/8/1917)

1918-25           York Christ

1925-27           Milton

1927-29           assistant (under Dan A. Poling), Marble Collegiate church in New York NY

1929-39           Baltimore Faith

1939-43           Lemoyne Grace

1943-51           York St. Paul's

1951-55           Baltimore Immanuel

 

Note: C. Carroll Bailey is the son of Eli B. Bailey, the nephew of Irwin C. Bailey Sr. and William E. Bailey, and the cousin of Charles A. Bailey and Irwin C. Bailey Jr.

 


 

BAILEY, DAVID PAUL JR.

 

Born: 9-14-1928                                                          married: Eleanor Ann Adelman [7/24/1951]

Died: 6-28-2009  Middletown PA                              obit: [b. 9/28/1928]

 

1948    license, recommended by York Grace

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Longsdorf Cemetery, New Kingstown PA

Obit:

 

1953-58           Liberty
1958-61           Williamsport Heshbon Park
1961-66           Newberrytown St. Paul

1966-68           without appointment by own request

1968                located, page 237

                        PA Department of Aging

 

Note: At the time of his death, David P. Bailey was living in Hummelstown and attending Derry Presbyterian Church.  The tombstone for Mrs. Bailey gives her name as “Eleanor R.C.” and a birthdate of 9/15/1927.


 

BAILEY, ELI BENTON

 

Born: 1-1-1864  Loganville PA                                  married: Malinda Alice Venus

Died: 7-8-1917  Berwick PA                                      obit: [12/11/1862 – 4/8/1954]

 

 

 

1889    license

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Emmanuel UMC Cemetery, Loganville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 72

 

1890-92           Chanceford

1892-93           York Circuit

1893-94           Akron OH

1894-97           Baltimore Grace

1897-01           Baltimore Olive Branch

1901-02           located

1902-05           Alberton

1905-06           located

1906-07           Manchester

1907-11           Bloomsburg

1911-15           Baltimore Memorial

1915-17           Berwick Bower Memorial

 

Note: Eli B. Bailey is a brother to Irwin C. Bailey Sr and to William E. Bailey (1862-1931) of the Ohio Conference, and is the father of C. Carroll Bailey.

 


 

BAILEY, IRWIN CORNELIUS SR

 

Born: 11-19-1887  York County PA                          married: Hattie Grace Freed

Died: 11-1-1961  York PA                                         obit: [3/11/1884 – 9/4/1960]

 

1910    license, recommended by Loganville

1912    ordained deacon

1914    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 94

 

1910-12           York (Princess Street)

1912-16           Bryansville

1912-19           Salladasburg

1919-22           Spring Mills

1922-28           Lewisberry

1928-32           Alberton

1932-37           Windsor

1937-51           Hummels Wharf

1951-58           York Bethlehem

1958                retired

 

Note: Irwin C. Bailey Sr is a brother to Eli B. Bailey and to William E. Bailey (1862-1931) of the Ohio Conference, and is the father of Charles A. Bailey and Irwin C. Bailey Jr.

 


 

BAILEY, IRWIN CORNELIUS, JR.

 

Born: 7-11-1912  Bryansville PA                               married: Miriam Virginia Ritter

Died: 3-1-1974                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 262

 

1934    license, recommended by Windsor Emmanuel

1938    ordained deacon

1940    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 416

 

1936-37           Manchester–Yorkshire
1937-40           Ransom–Scranton
1940-42           Dushore–Lopez
1942-59           chaplain, U.S. Army
1959-61           Mexico
1961-64           Middleburg

1964-74           Lewisburg St. Paul's

 

Note: Irwin C. Bailey Jr is the son of Irwin C. Bailey Sr, a brother to Charles A. Bailey, and the father of Rev. Kathryn Louise Bailey Moore of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

 


 

BAILEY, WILLIAM ELMER

 

Born: 3-23-1862  Loganville PA                                married: Laura Kate Whiteleather

Died: 3-4-1931  Mansfield OH                                  obit: [12/19/1856 – 4/9/1892]

                                                                                    married2: Minnie Bright

1893    license                                                             obit2: [8/8/1867 – 9/11/1954]

 

Interment: Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus OH

Obit: Ohio Conference 1931, 64

 

                        transfer to Ohio Conference

 

Note: W. Elmer Bailey is a brother to Eli B. Bailey and Irwin C. Bailey Sr.


 

BAIR, ISAAC NEWTON

 

Born: 11-29-1854  East Prospect PA                         married: Hannah Jane Kirkwood Campbell

Died: 7-31-1936                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 84

 

1891    license

1895    ordained deacon

1897    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 78

 

1893-96           Bryansville

1896-98           Shrewsbury

1898-03           Howard

1903-06           Millheim

1906-08           Cumberland

1908-12           Marysville

1912-16           Mount Holly

1916-17           Burnham        

1917-22           Williamsport Grace

1922-29           Espy   

1929                retired

 


 

BAIR, JOHN S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1867    license

1873    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1869-70           Liverpool

                        located

 

Note: This surname is also rendered BEAR.

 


 

BAKER, FRANCIS M.

 

Born: 11-?-1839  Oak Hill Station PA                       married: Harriet Elizabeth Fenner

Died: 1926                                                                  obit: [8/15/1836 – 1919]

 

1872    license

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dauphin Cemetery, Middle Paxton township, Dauphin County PA

Obit:

 

1868-69           student, Bucknell University

1869-72           student, Union Theological Seminary in New York NY

1872-73           Port Trevorton

1873-74           Perry

1874-79           principal, Union Seminary in New Berlin PA

                        “transfer” to New York Conference on the Methodist Episcopal Church

1880-81           Cannonsville              

1881                discontinued

1882                received by the Philadelphia Central Presbytery

1882-84           Hicksville OH

1885-99           Dauphin PA

 

Note: Francis M. Baker is the father of Rev. George Fenner Baker (1873-?) of the Presbyterian Church.  Some sources give the name of Mrs. Baker as Elizabeth H. Cornelius, but this is believed to be the result of confusion with the name of her father, Cornelius George Fenner.

 


 

BAKER, G.G.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

license

ordained deacon

ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1851-52           Allegheny

1852                charter member of Pittsburg Conference

 


 

BAKER, HOWARD E.


Born: 3-15-1888  Bannerville PA                              married: Pearl Octavia Mohn

Died: 4-15-1967  Sinking Spring PA                         obit: [6/21/1890 – 10/6/1964]

 

1908    license

1909    admitted as traveling licentiate, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mohnsville Cemetery, Mohnton PA

Obit:

 

1916-21           Reading Trinity

1921-22           Plymouth Meeting

1922                “transfer” to Evangelical Congregational denomination

1922-26           Plymouth Meeting

1926-30           Palmerton

1930-38           Reading Bethany

1938-44           Manheim

1944-51           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1951-53           Adamstown

1953                retired

                            1957-58  Reading Trinity

 

Note:  .


 

BAKER, IRVING KING

 

Born: 11-28-1883  near Carlisle PA                           married: Bessie May Kutz

Died: 5-27-1964  York                                               obit: [4/8/1885– 6/8/1954]

 

1908    license, recommended by St. Paul's Hagerstown Md.

1911    ordained deacon

1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs PA

Obit: [Susquehanna Conference 1964, 18]

 

1908-10           Mt. Holly Springs

1910-14           Bloserville

1914-19           Loganville

1919-21           Mexico

1921-26           Wellsville

1926-29           Rebersburg

1929-36           Felton

1936-46           Winfield
1946-52           Manchester-Yorkshire
1952                retired

                            1952        Wellsville (May-Aug)

                            1954-55  Windsor and Bittersville (Nov 54-Aug 55)

                            1956        Loganville (May-Oct)

                            1957        Felton (Feb-May)

                            1957        Wellsville (May-Dec)

 

Note: An obituary for Mrs. Baker is given in the 7/3/1954 Telescope-Messenger, page 16.

 


 

BAKER, WARREN ARTHUR

 

Born: 9-7-1924  McClure PA                                     married: Irene Dunkelberger

Died: 11-29-1981                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 385

 

1955    license, recommended by McClure

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, McClure PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 380

 

1954-59           Sonestown
1959-64           Craley

1964-68           Sonestown

1968-81           Selinsgrove Christ

1981                Duncannon Parish

 

Note: Mrs. Baker is the daughter is the daughter of Edwin E. Dunkelberger.

 


 

BANKES, CRYDER HAROLD

 

Born: 2-19-1893  Mainville PA                                  married: Ellen Jane Pugh [4/24/1919]

Died: 1-7-1983  Bloomsburg PA                                obit: [4/24/1897 – 4/28/1957]

 

1920    license

1922    ordained deacon

1924    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit:

 

1920-21           Penns Creek

1921-23           Buffalo Circuit

1923-25           Freemont

1925-28           Pennsdale

1928-29           Dushore

1929-31           Espy

1931-33           without appointment; caretaker at Central Oak Heights

1933-34           Morgan WV

1934                located

1955                name removed

 

Note: C. Harold Bankes printed the periodical "The Evangelical Challenge" and was outspoken on many issues.  The 1994 volume of The Chronicle, pages 87-88, tells of the controversy that led to his name being removed from the Conference rolls.

 


 

BANZHAF, JACOB

 

Born: 6-29-1832  Germany                                                     married: Marie Rasch

Died: 10-14-1868                                                                    obit: [12/25/1843 – 5/8/1915]

 

1858    license

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc WI

Obit:

 

Note:  This surname is also rendered BANZOF and BANZAFF.  He appears to have been originally interred in Menomonee Falls WI and moved to Manitowoc in 1889.


 

BARBER, JAMES

 

Born: 4-22-1797  Lancaster County PA                     married: Mary Maize

Died: 9-19-1867  Snyder County PA                         obit: [1805 – 1870]

 

 

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, New Berlin PA

Obit: [1883, 95]

 

1817-18           Lancaster Circuit

1818-19           Somerset

1819-20           Lancaster

1820-21           York Circuit

1821-22           Somerset and Bedford

1822-23           Union

1823-27           superintendent, Salem District

1827-28           Center

1828-30           Union

1830-31           Center

1831-32           White Deer

1832-33           Lycoming

1833-34           Franklin

1834-36           Located

1836-37           Schuylkill

1837-38           Lykens

1838-39           Columbia

1839-40           Union

1840-41           Lycoming

1841-43           Center

1843-45           Union

1845-47           Buffalo           

1847-48           Mahantango

1848-49           Union

1849                retired

 

Note: James Barber is the father of Lovina Barber Krause, wife of Abraham Krause, and the grandfather of Minerva L. Spitler Shortess, wife of John D. Shortess.  A biographical sketch of James Barber is given in Stapleton's 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 537.  An extended article on James Barber appears in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, pages 4-33.

 


 

BARNER, JACOB KENNETH

 

Born: 7-15-1922  Liverpool PA                                 married: June Geraldine Bucher

Died: 10-14-2006                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 374

 

1953    license, recommended by Liverpool

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Holly Springs Cemetery, Mt. Holly Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 401

 

1953-62           Daniels
1962-74           Mt. Holly Springs (ending 10/31/74)

1974-79           Altoona Juniata Otterbein (beginning 11/1/1974)

1979-88           Dover Bethany

1988                retired

                            1988-90       Mt. Airy-Mt. Zion


 

BARR, NATHAN A.

 

Born: 8-3-1857  Rebuck PA                                       married: Ophelia Henrietta Light

Died: 9-12-1936  Lake Worth FL                               obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 390

 

1878    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 365

 

1879-80           Montgomery

                        Annville

                        Lykens

                        Frackville

                        Schuylkill

                        Birdsboro

                        Adamstown

                        Berlinsville

                        Bath

                        Trappe

                        Cressona

                        Williamstown

                        East Weissport

                        Ashland

Steelton

                        Mount Joy

                        Tremont

                        Steelton

                        retired

 

Note: Nathan A. Barr retired to the “Penny Farms”, near Daytona FL, established by the J.C. Penny Foundation for retired pastors and their wives.  Although he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference, he is listed here because he was born and served within areas that later became part of the Susquehanna Conference.


 

BARSHINGER, HENRY B.

 

Born: 11-9-1864  Springvale PA                                married: Rozella M. Fulton

Died: 11-25-1917  Mont Alto PA                               obit: [1873-1950]

 

1887    license

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 75

 

1889-90           Middleburg

1890-91           Sugar Valley

1891-92           Nittany Valley

1892                located

 


 

BARTGES, LEE WILBUR.

 

Born: 8-21-1902  Logan Mills PA                             married: Iva Edith Moyer

Died: 10-17-1968  Lock Haven PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 447

 

1929    license, recommended by Logan Mills

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: St. Paul's EUB Church Cemetery, near Loganton PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 209

 

1929-34           East Point
1932-34           East Point-Grover

1924                Sonestown, March and April
1934-36           Morgan

1936-38           Cearfoss

1938-44           Warrensville
1944-53           Lock Haven Mission
1953-59           Centre Hall-Spring Mills
1959-65           East Salem

1965-68           Pennsdale

1968                retired

 

Note: Lee Wilbur Bartges is a first cousin to Woodrow Allen Bartges.


 

BARTGES, WOODROW ALLEN

 

Born: 3-27-1913  Logan Mills PA                             married: Sara Elizabeth Schilling

Died: 3-13-1997  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2001, 607

 

1932    license, recommended by Milheim

1940    ordained elder

 

Interment: St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1997, 635

 

1936-38           Keystone-Perry

1938-41           Nescopeck
1941-48           missionary, China
1948-57           Grace, York
1957-70           Washington DC Albright Memorial

1970                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-78           Washington DC Albright Memorial

1978                retired

                             visitation pastor, Yorkshire

 

Note: Woodrow Allen Bartges is a first cousin to Lee Wilbur Bartges and the nephew of Ada Minerva Bartges (Mrs. Charles Newton) Wolfe.  Linda Bartges, daughter of Woodrow A. Bartges, married Scott Basom, son of William E. Basom.  Woodrow Bartges is also the great-grandson (through his mother Catherin Ruth Yearick) the great-grandson of Samuel Yaerick.


 

BARTHOLOMEW, MARSHALL EDWIN

 

Born: 11-7-1885  Lycoming County PA                    married: Bessie O. Rachau

Died: 4-?-1974  Philadelphia PA                               obit: [1883 – 8/20/1968]

 

1908    license

1910    ordained deacon

1912    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1908-09           Nittany

1909-11           Mount Rock

1911-13           Leesburg

1913-16           Lewisberry

1916-18           located

1918                withdrew

        -42           Geneva Presbytery

1942-47           Northumberland Presbytery

1947-              

 

Note: Marshall E. Bartholomew was later (1920's-1940's) a Presbyterian minister in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.

 


 

BARTO, GEORGE WALTER III

 

Born:                                                                           married: Suella _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1960    license, recommended by Milton First

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1960-63           student, Albright College in Reading PA

1963-65           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1963-65      youth director, Dayton St. Paul’s Methodist Church

1965-72           Avis

1972-77           Mechanicsburg Mt. Olivet

1977-94           Wellsboro

1984-96           Manchester

1996-05           Halifax

2005                retired

                            2009            Millersburg Grace (1/26 – 2/21)


 

BASOM, EDWARD CHARLES

 

Born: 1-7-1878  Richfield PA                        married: Carrie Bordlemay

Died: 6-13-1957  York PA                             obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 394

 

1900    license, recommended by Pine

1902    ordained deacon

1904    ordained elder, Oregon Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 93

 

1900-01           Big Spring

1901-02           Emigsville and Manchester

1902                transfer to Oregon Conference

1902-03           Portland Second

1903-05           Sodaville & Sweet Home

1905                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1905-08           Mifflinburg

1908-09           West Nanticoke

1909-13           York Bethany

1913-17           Hagerstown

1917-22           Williamsport St. John's

1922-26           Williamsport St. Paul's

1926-31           Red Lion

1931-35           superintendent, York District

1935-39           superintendent, Lewisburg District

1939-49           Lewisburg St. Paul's

1949-57           Yorkanna

1957                retired

 

Note: Edward C. Basom is a nephew of Henry S. Basom and the father of William E. Basom.

 


 

BASOM, HENRY S.

 

Born: 7-19-1849  Richfield PA                                  married: Ada L. Nailor

Died: 2-25-1920  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 82

 

1876    license

1883    ordained deacon

1886    ordained elder

 

Interment: Kutz's Cemetery, near Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 65

 

1877-78           Baltimore circuit

1878-83           located to undergo a surgical operation to correct physical deformity

1883-86           Big Spring

1886-88           Brush Valley

1888-91           Jersey Shore Circuit

1891-92           Williamsport Newberry

1892-95           Lock Haven Circuit

1895-98           East Prospect

1898-02           Big Spring

1902-03           Wellsville

1903-07           Salladasburg

1907                on leave

1908                retired

 

Note: Henry S. Basom is the father of Florence Basom Furhman, wife of Lester A. Fuhrman, and of Emma Basom Jacobs, wife of Harry H. Jacobs.  He is the uncle of Edward C. Basom and great-grandfather of Susquehanna Conference preachers Vance Dimmick and Thomas Jacobs.  The 2015 volume of The Chronicle prints the 1875-76 diary of Henry Basom during his pre-ministerial years.  Mrs. Basom is the granddaughter of early Evangelical local preacher George Nailer

 


 

BASOM, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born: 2-22-1915                                                                      married: Ruth Nash (8/25/1939)

Died: 4-10-2011  Lewisburg PA                                            obit: [11/15/1915 – 11/30/2015]

 

1934    license, recommended by Trinity, York

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1934-35           student, Albright College in Reading PA

1935-36           Nescopeck
1936-37           Penns Creek

1937-38           Albright Memorial, Washington D.C.
1938-69           Alexandria Beverley Hills

1969                transfer by boundary change to Virginia Conference

1969-80           Alexandria Beverly Hills
1980                retired to Lewisburg PA

 

Note: William E. Basom is the son of Edward C. Basom.  Scott Basom, son of William E. Basom, married Linda Bartges, daughter of Woodrow A. Bartges.

 


 

BAUGHMAN, WARREN LEONARD SR.

 

Born: 2-22-1902  York PA                                         married: Bessie Margaret Spahr

Died: 3-21-1999  Berwick PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 89

                                                                                    married2: Geneva E. Schott Traugh

1927    license, recommended by York Zion              obit2: [10/18/1905 – 2/6/2006]

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1999, 599

 

1927-31           Dorsey

1931-36           Berkeley Springs

1936-41           Columbia circuit
1941-47           Juniata, Altoona
1947-52           Montoursville & Pennsdale
1952-57           Berwick St. Paul's Berwick
1957-70           Hagerstown St. Matthew's

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference by boundary change

1970-71           Hagerstown St. Matthew’s

1971                retired

 

Note: Warren L. Baughman Sr is the father of Warren L. Baughman Jr.  The second Mrs. Baughman (nee Schott) is the widow of a Mr. Carl Traugh.  She is the mother of Rev. Mary Lou Traugh Hall of the Church of the Brethren.


 

BAUGHMAN, WARREN LEONARD JR.

 

Born: 6-7-1928                                                           married: Doris Leora Tipton

Died: 3-3-2019  PA                                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 332

 

1946    license, recommended by Altoona Grace

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 333

 

1946-47           Mt. Rock
1947                Port Trevorton
1947-52           Sonestown
1952-55           Lewisberry
1952-61           Newberrytown
1961-70           Berwick Bower Memorial

1970-73           Red Lion Bethany

1973-78           superintendent, New Cumberland District

1978-82           Harrisburg Calvary (ending 10/1/1982)

1982-88           superintendent, Lewisburg District (beginning 10.1.1982)

1988-91           Muncy

1991                retired

                            2004-04  Berwick First (beginning 8/19.2004)

                            2006-07  Evansville (beginning 3/1/2007)

 

Note: Warren L. Baughman Jr is the sin of Warren L. Baughman Sr and the grandfather of Rev. Michael J. Baughman [married to Rev. Rachel (Griffin) Baughman] of the North Texas Conference.

 


BAUMGARDNER, AARON SYLVESTER

 

Born: 2-12-1852  Fayette County PA                        married: Ruth R. Crane

Died: 10-29-1916  Lewisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 80

                                                                                    married2: Huldah Gertrude Wertz

1874    license, Pittsburgh Conference                       obit2: [9/20/1870 – 12/19/1952]

 

Interment: Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 73

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference

1885                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885-88           Danville

1888-89           Glen Rock

1889-91           Baltimore Grace

1891-93           Jarrettsville

1893-94           York circuit

1894-97           Hagerstown circuit

1897-98           Perry

1898-99           Newport & Perry

1899-02           Buffalo

1902-04           Sugar Valley

1904-06           Warrensville

1906-08           McClure

1908-09           New Berlin

1909-11           Liverpool

1911-15           Morgan

1915                located

 

Note: The dates for the first Mrs. Baumgardner, not given in her obituary, are 1846 (VA) to 1901.  The second Mrs. Baumgardner was a member of the prominent Evangelical Association Wertz family of Union County, her sister Regina Wertz Stapleton being married to Mr. Norman Stapleton, brother of noted Evangelical Association historian Ammon S. Stapleton.  Following the death of Aaron Baumgardner, she married Daniel Artman – and following his death she married a Mr. Milton James Brown (1867-1946). 

 


 

BAYNE, ELLIS JAMES

 

Born: 10-7-1893  Baltimore MD                                married: Lillie Mae Craley

Died: 8-20-1982  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 389

 

1914    license, recommended by Goodwill

1918    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 396

 

1915-18                            Manchester

1918-22                            Bryansville

1922-27                            Craley

1927-33                            Hanover

1933-39                            Lewistown Grace

1939-47                            Williamsport St. John's
1947-57                            Bethany, York
1957-61                            Berwick Bower Memorial
1961                                 retired

 

Note: Ellis J. Bayne is the father of Thelma Bayne Woods, wife of William F. Woods.


 

BEAM, LORENZO S.

 

Born: 2-22-1860  Cumberland County PA                 married: Alice Jane Light

Died: 7-23-1924  Lemoyne PA                                  obit: [5/10/1860 – 3/7/1939]

 

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Enola Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit:

 

1904                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 23

 

Note: L.S. Beam is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor on trial who lived in Lebanon and "moved within the bounds of the Central Pennsylvania Conference."  He appears not to have served an appointment in either Conference.

 


 

BEAUMONT WILLIAM LINCOLN

 

Born: 2-17-1863 St. Clair PA                                     married: Julia Ann Frey (12/25/1887)

Died:   1948                                                                obit: [6/6/1863 – 1857]

 

1885    license

1887    ordained deacon

1890    ordained elder, Oregon Conference

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, Colville WA

Obit:

 

1885-86           Dillsburg circuit

1886-88           West Brooklyn circuit

1888-89           Middleburg circuit

1889-90           Spring Mills

1890                transfer to Oregon Conference

1890                Newberg (did not finish the year)

1890                withdrew irregularly

1890                "transfer" to Oregon Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

1890-93           Gervais OR

1893-94           Lycoming PA

1894-95           Charleston WV

1895-96           Beverly OH

1901                Athens OH

                        Baileyville KS

1911                Kettle Falls WA

1916                Okanogan WA

 

Note: William L. Beaumont was well educated.  He received a BE from Central Pennsylvania College in 1888, an MA from Marietta College (OH) in 1896, and a PhD from Mt. Union College in 1901.  He is the 1910 author of Ben Ezra, or The Midnight Cry.  Presbyterian records list him as serving in the Willamette, Northumberland and Athens Presbyteries.  The headstones give 1862 as the birth year for both Rev. and Mrs. Beaumont.

Note2: He is not to be confused with another William Lincoln Beaumont (1868-1947) from St. Clair who married a Laura Elinor Edwards (1875 – 1951).


 

BEAVER, EMANUEL MOYER

 

Born: 1850                                                                  married: Louisa Blemly

Died: 1926                                                                  obit: [7/22/1858 – 8/28/1885]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah Jane Blemly

1872    license                                                             obit2: [8/17/1856 – 8/7/1896]

1887    ordained deacon                                              married3: Eleanor McWilliams

                                                                                    obit3: [1860 – 1946]

Interment: St. Johns Cemetery, Watsontown PA

Obit:

 

1872-73           Hughesville

1873-74           Columbia

1874-75           Center Hall

1875                located

 

Note: E.M. Beaver continued as a local deacon until surrendering his license and withdrawing from the church in 1910 (page 44).  The maiden surname of the first two Mrs. Beavers also appears [erroneously] as Blimley.


 

BECKER, MICHAEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1810    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1810-11           Schuylkill

1811-12           Franklin

1812-13           York


 

BEECHER, H. W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1920    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 


 

BENDER, A. J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1853    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1851-53           Columbia

1853-54           Blockhouse and Cherry

1854                went west and united with M. E. Church

 

Note: This is believed to be the Amos J. Bender (1828-1897) given in the Methodist Episcopal pastor file.

 


BENDER, HARVEY WALTER

 

Born: 11-7-1863  Bendersville PA                             married: Lulu Musser Schoch

Died: 7-28-1941  Bendersville PA                             obit: [2/20/1872 – 5/3/1926]

 

1891    license

1893    ordained deacon

1897    license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

1898    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

 

Interment: Bendersvillle Cemetery, Bendersville PA

Obit:

 

1891-92           Cumberland

1892-93           Nittany Valley circuit

1896                surrendered license, withdrew; page 67

1897                "transfer" to Lutheran Church

1898-01           Dickinson PA

1901-06           New Chester PA

1906-07           Philipsburg PA

1907-14           Schellsburg PA

1914-23           Lilly PA

1923-34           Juniata PA

                       

Note: H.W. Bender graduated from Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin in 1894 and from the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg in 1898.  An obituary appears in the 7/28/1941 Gettysburg Times, page 1.  Mrs. Bender is the daughter of Rev. William H. Schoch (1839-1930) of the Lutheran Church.

 


 

BENFER, HARRY ARTHUR

 

Born: 10-24-1892  Lock Haven PA                           married: Mabel Mary Hoffman

Died: 1-2-1966  Allentown PA                                  obit: [6/16/1894 – 11/15/1977]

 

1913    license

1919    ordained deacon

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Bangor PA

Obit:

 

1916-17           Hummels Wharf

1917-18           faculty, Western Union College

1918-19           Army Y.M.C.A. Secretary

1919-25           faculty and coach, Albright College

1925-36           coach, Muhlenberg College

1936                withdrew

 

Note: Harry A. "Haps" Benfer is the son of Henry A. Benfer and a brother to Kenneth L. Benfer.

 


 

BENFER, HENRY ABRAHAM

 

Born: 3-12-1861  Bannerville PA                              married: Anna Leah Hengst

Died: 6-7-1925  Red Lion PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 100

 

1882    license

1884    ordained deacon

1886    ordained elder

 

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Marysville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 91

 

1882-83           Middleburg

1883-84           Center

1884-86           Liverpool

1886-89           Big Spring

1889-92           Williamsport Bennett Street

1892-96           Lock Haven

1896-00           Williamsport First

1990-03           Carlisle

1903-07           York Trinity

1907-11           superintendent, York District

1911-15           Center District
1915-20           Baltimore Memorial

1920-25           Red Lion

 

Note: Henry A. Benfer is the father of Harry A. Benfer and Kenneth L. Benfer.  Mrs. Benfer is the daughter of Benjamin Hengst.

 


 

BENFER, KENNETH LOUIS M.D.

 

Born: 10-12-1903  York PA                                       married: Janet Merrian Kaltreider

Died: 1-15-1985  York PA                                         obit: [6/26/1903 – 11/26/1991]

 

1924    license, recommended by St. Paul's, Red Lion

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 400

 

1924-25           Baltimore Trinity

1925-26           Red Lion

1926-27           Alberton [Daniel's] MD
1927-30           student, Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore MD 

1930-80           medical doctor in York

                            1930            York St. Paul's

                            1934            East Prospect Zion

                            1953            Guinter Memorial Hospital in Bambur, Nigeria

1980                retired

 

Note: Kenneth L. Benfer is the son of Henry A. Benfer and a brother to Harry A. Benfer.  He is the author of the book Somewhere in North Africa and an unpublished book-length manuscript Chiron in North Africa that is kept at the conference archives.

 


 

BENNINGTON, SAMUEL DINSMORE

 

Born: 2-8-1831  Harford County MD                        married: Eliza Gault Paige

Died: 9-20-1892  WV                                                 obit: [8/28/1836 – 9/13/1920]

 

1859    license

1861    ordained deacon

1864    ordained elder

 

Interment: Tabernacle Church Cemetery, Whiteford MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal South 1893, 37

 

1859-60           Loganville

1860-61           York Circuit

1861-62           Leesburg

1862-63           Perry Circuit

1863-64           Franklin Circuit

1864-65           Hagerstown

1865-67           Columbia

1867-69           Buffalo

1869-71           Liverpool

1871-73           Boalsburg

1873-74           Lycoming

                        located, and withdrew (1879) from the Church

1888-91           Flintstone circuit, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

1891                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference, ME South

1891-92           Springfield

 

Note: Samuel D. Bennington reportedly located in order to move West, but those plans were interrupted and he settled in his home county.  The dates on the tombstone for Samuel (1829-1896) and Eliza (1833-1921) appear to be incorrect.

 


 

BENTZ, JOHN W.

 

Born: 7-4-1839  PA                                                    married: Elizabeth D. Detwiler

Died: 8-3-1912  Carlisle PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 76

 

1867    license

1868    ordained deacon

1870    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Holley Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 69

 

1867-68           Hughesville

1868-69           York circuit

1869-70           Big Spring

1870-72           Susquehanna

1872-80           faculty, Union Seminary at New Berlin

1880-83           Port Trevorton

1883-85           Perry Circuit

1885-88           Leesburg

1888-89           Marysville

1889-91           Dillsburg

1891-92           Cumberland

1892-94           Hagerstown

1894-96           York circuit

1896-98           located

1898-99           Milton circuit

1899-03           Bloomsburg

1903-05           Liverpool

1905-06           Hanover circuit

1906-09           Dorsey

1909-10           Harford

1910-11           West Nanticoke

1911                retired

 

Note: John W. Bentz was originally a licentiate in the Reformed Church, but left that denomination in 1867.  Mrs. Detwiler is a sister to W.E. Detwiler.

 


 

BERGE, WILLIAM F.

 

Born: 1870                                                                  married: Esther M. Kulter [1901]

Died: 1942                                                                  obit: [1880 – 2/25/1932]

 

1899    license, Illinois Conference UE

1902    ordained deacon, Illinois Conference UE

1870    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Sterling IL

Obit:

 

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920                “transfer” to Rock River Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

1920                Coal Valley and Beulah

1928                living (pastoring?) in DeKalb

 

Note: W.F. Berge has no record in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 


 

BERGER, DANIEL

 

Born: 4-16-1797                                                          married: Hannah Wiltrout

Died: 4-14-1880                                                          obit: [5/1/1800 – 3/1/1879]

 

1834    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1836    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1838    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Orwigsburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 13

 

1850                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51           Baltimore Green Street

1851                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 


 

BERGER, HENRY C.

 

Born: 8-4-1851  Centerville, Snyder County PA       married: Emma Louisa Strawman

Died: 3-2-1918  Lindsey OH                                      obit: [1/1/1861 – 11/20/1946]

 

1872    license

1877    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Lindsey Cemetery, Lindsey OH

Obit:

 

1875-76           Prospect

1876-77           Center

1877-78           Prospect

1878                transferred to Erie Conference

 


 

BERNINGER, WILLIAM EUGENE SR

 

Born: 1-19-1918  Williamsport PA                            married: Kathryn Beaver

Died:  2-24-2011  Dunlap TN                                    obit: [6/5/1916 – 4/?/1976]

 

 

Interment: Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga TN         

Obit:

 

                        Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist

1955-56           Williamsport Third Street (beginning 9/1/55)

1956-57           Forksville

1957-59           Lock Haven East Main Street

1959-62           New Bloomfield

1962                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1962-64           Mt. Rock

 

Note:  William Berninger served as a local pastor.  He “transferred” from the East Tennessee Conference, where he apparently was also a local pastor.  He later served as a pastor and evangelist for the Church of the Nazarene in Pennsylvania and Tennessee.  Mrs. Berninger’s name is sometimes given, apparently erroneously, as Katherine.


 

BERRY, AQUILLA WENCENLUS

 

Born: 9-28-1839  Clinton County PA                        married: Sarah Brungart

Died: 2-27-1893  Concordia KS                                 obit: [5/27/1842 – 11/5/1886]

 

1877    license

 

Interment:  Wallace Cemetery, Jewell KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1893, 19

 

Note: A.W. Berry moved to Kansas about 1878.  He served as a local pastor in both PA and KS, and his Kansas obituary states that he “formerly served a few years in the itinerant ranks of our conference.”


 

BERRY, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 4-26-1829  Centre County PA                          married: Lydia Wise [1852]

Died: 6-2-1869                                                            obit: [7/26/1826 – 3/22/1863]

                                                                                    married2: Christiana Stine [1863]

1850    license                                                             obit2: [3/11/1843 – 8/14/1927]

1852    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Fairview Evangelical Cemetery, Loganton PA

Obit:

 

1850-51           Bedford

1851-52           Perry Circuit

1852-53           Shrewsbury

1853-54           Lycoming

1854-56           Blockhouse and Cherry

1856                located

                        withdrew

 

Note: Following the death of William, the second Mrs. Berry married [1877] a Mr. Johnathan Greak.

 


 

BERTSCH, J.G.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1853    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1838-39           Loyalsock


 

BETZ, MATTHEW

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: c1813                                                                obit:

 

?          license

1813    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1814

 

1809-10           Schuylkill

1810-11           “to organize a new circuit”

1811-12           Schuylkill

1812-13           York

1813-14           Northumberland

 

Note: The 1814 conference simply reports that “Matthew Betz died during the past year.


 

BIERLY, ADAM SYLVESTER

 

Born: 12-25-1863  Tylersville PA                              married: Cordie Ida Mae Bressler

Died: 12-24-1947                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 84

                                                                                    married2: Minerva Grenninger

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 79

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association       

                                               

Interment: Witmer's Church Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 100

 

1901-03           Mifflin

1903-05           Spring Mills

1905-11           Port Trevorton & Mifflin

1911-12           Port Trevorton

1912-13           Cresswell, Milton Grove & Conewago

1913-15           Spring Mills, Uniontown & County Line

1915-17           Spring Mills

1917-18           living in Selinsgrove

1918-21           Waller

1921-22           Wayne

1922-23           Port Trevorton

1923                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by denominational re-union

1923-25           living in Selinsgrove

1925-28           Freemont

1928                located

 

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered BIERLEY.  The father of A.S. Bierly was a first cousin to the grandfather of W.C. Bierly.  During the denominational split, Adam S. Bierly served in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association as a local deacon.


 

BIERLY, WILLIAM CRESSWELL

 

Born: 3-20-1858  Madisonburg PA                            married: Ida Mae Mader

Died: 2-3-1942  Jersey Shore PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 92

 

1888    license

 

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 89

 

1889-91           Liverpool

1891-94           Fishing Creek

1894-97           Juniata Circuit

1897-99           Dillsburg

1899-03           Liberty

1903-05           Spring Mills

1905-08           Millmont

1908-10           Sugar Valley

1910-12           located

1912-13           Unityville

1913                located

 

Note: This surname is also rendered BIERLEY.  The grandfather of W.C. Bierly was a first cousin to the father of A.S. Bierly.  W.C. Bierly is the nephew of the noted gospel songwriter/publisher Alfred Beirly.

 


 

BIGGS, JOSEPH OLIE

 

Born: 2-28-1869  Georgetown MD                            married: Helen Elizabeth Smith

Died: 1-5-1947                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 100

 

1893    license

1898    ordained deacon

1900    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Lemoyne PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 98

 

1896-00           Luzerne

1900-02           Milton Circuit

1902-06           Sonestown

1906-10           Espy

1910-12           Dallastown

1912-16           Alberton

1916-21           Baltimore Christ

1921-22           East Prospect

1922-26           Williamsport St. John's

1926-30           Hagerstown

1930-31           York St. Paul's

1931-40           Enola

1940                retired

 

Note: This name also appears as Joseph O'Neal Biggs.  Mrs. Biggs is the daughter of Samuel Smith.

 


 

BIGLER, EDWARD EMANUEL

 

Born: 7-6-1920  Carlisle PA                                       married: Isabell Stangrewski

Died: 3-22-2010  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 231

 

1946    license, recommended by Carlisle First

1950    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 181

 

1946-53           Ringtown
1953-56           Paxtonville

1956-59           Pennsdale
1959-62           Selinsgrove Christ
1962-70           Mechanicsburg Grace

1970-82           York Zion

1982-85           Duncannon parish

1985                retired

 


 

BINGAMAN, S.P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1911    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: S.P. Bingaman is the father of Rev. William G. “Bill” Bingaman (1922-2009), affiliation unknown, whose 1943 wedding announcement refers to a “Rev. and Mrs. S.P. Bingaman of Wisconsin.”


 

BINGMAN, JACOB FREDERICK

 

Born: 6-17-1875  Beavertown PA                              married: Edna Grace Dice

Died: 3-14-1947  Dallastown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 79

 

1904    license, recommended by Beavertown

1907    ordained deacon

1909    ordained elder

 

Interment: Beavertown Cemetery, Beavertown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 99

 

1905-09           Milton Circuit

1909-11           Nittany Valley

1911-15           Rebersburg

1915-19           Howard

1919-20           Millmont

1920-25           Centre Hall

1925-29           Cumberland Circuit

1929-33           Loganville

1933-37           Ringtown

1937-46           Mexico

1946                retired

 

Note: J. Frederick Bingman is an uncle to Stewart F. Bingman.  Mrs. Bingman is the daughter of Levi Dice.

 


 

BINGMAN, STEWART FRANKLIN

 

Born: 2-26-1920  Beavertown PA                              married: Mary M. Dellinger

Died: 11-29-2008  Mechanicsburg PA                       obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 292

 

1941    license, recommended by Beavertown

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Beavertown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 413

 

1943-46           Windsor
1946-52           Avis-Salladasburg
1952-67           Richfield

1967-84           Shepherdstown

1984                retired

                                      assistant, Dillsburg Calvary

                            1989  Mount Holly Springs (Jan – Jun)

                                      chaplain, Country Meadows Retirement Center at Mechanicsburg

                            1994  Chestnut Grove (Jan – Jun)

 

Note: Stewart F. Bingman is a nephew of J. Frederick Bingman.

 


 

BINKLEY, HENRY K.

 

Born: 3-4-1848  Berks County PA                             married: Catherine Barbara Bierly [6/10/1886]

Died: 9-12-1914                                                          obit: [2/23/1854 – 10/30/1916]

 

1884    ordained, Reformed Church

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

1876-77           student, Union Seminary in New Berlin PA

1878                surrendered credentials

                        missionary work, Honesdale PA

1888-1914       canvassing agent, Reformed Church Record

 

Note: Henry K. Binkley lived in Reading.  Mrs. Binkley is a first cousin to A.S. Bierly.

 


 

BISCHOP, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1849    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1849                Bedford

 


 

BICKSLER, DANIEL WESLEY

 

Born: 12-15-1854  Womelsdorf PA                           married: Almeda Barbara Wolf

Died: 2-3-1944  West Palm Beach FL                       obit: [3/14/1862 – 2/23/1936]

 

1877    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1883    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Akron PA

Obit:

 

1877-78           Halifax

1878-79           ?

1879-80           White Deer, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1880-81           located

1881-82           Birdsboro

1882-84           Womelsdorf

1884-85           Mount Joy

1885-88           Dauphin

 

1893                superintendent, Lancaster General Hospital

 

1912-14           St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Reformed Church, Dauphin County

 

Note: This surname is sometimes given as BIXLER.  D.W. Bicksler is a primary founder of Lancaster General Hospital.

 


 

BOAS, JACOB

 

Born: 11-15-1815  Reading PA                                  married: Rebecca Kutz

Died: 4-5-1884                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 68

 

Interment: Letort Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 47

 

1833-34           Indiana circuit

1834-35           Lake circuit

1835-36           Indiana

1836-37           Erie circuit

1837-38           Miami circuit

missionary to Illinois, organized the first circuit west of Chicago

1838-39           Canton

1839-40           Bedford

1840-42           missionary to Baltimore

1842-44           Cumberland

1844-45           Gettysburg

1845-46           Baltimore

1846-47           York

1847-51           superintendent, Baltimore District

1851-55           superintendent, Center District

1855-56           superintendent, Baltimore District

1856-72           located

1872-73           Perry circuit

1873-78           located

1878-79           Jersey Shore

1879-81           Center Hall

1881-83           Big Spring

1883                retired

 

Note: Jacob Boas is the father of Lillian Boas Ettinger, wife of Jesse M. Ettinger.

 


 

BOHNER, BENJAMIN FREDERICK

 

Born: 6-17-1837  near Pillow PA                                           married: Catharine [Katie] Kistler

Died: 4-14-1926  Allentown PA                                            obit: [19/4/1843 – 4/6/1928]

 

1857    exhorter’s license, Trautman’s

1862    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865    ordained deacon

1868    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 62

 

Montgomery

Fairville

Womelsdorf

Easton

Mahantongo

Luzerne

Mauch Chunk

Reading Salem

Norristown

Allentown Salem

Catasauqua

Bethlehem St. John’s

Allentown Immanuel

1913                retired

 

Note: B.F. Bohner is the father of Rev. Charles H. Bohner (1875-?), formerly of the Evangelical Association and later of the Presbyterian Church, and a great-uncle of Russell H. Bohner.  He never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church, but is included in this file because he is the ministerial son of a congregation now within the conference boundaries.


 

BOHNER, RUSSELL H.

 

Born: 10-9-1907  Shamokin Pa                                  married: Martha Irene Leitzel

Died: 6-26-1989  Sunbury PA                                    obit: [4/8/1914 – 2/12/1999]

 

1933    license, recommended by Elizabethville (Evangelical)

1937    admitted on trial, Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church

1938    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 447

 

1933-36           student, Oberlin Theological Seminary

1936                “transfer” to Methodist Church

1936-38           Chesterville OH

1938-41           Gambier

1941-43           Gnadenhutten

1943-46           chaplain, U.S. Army

1946-48           West Lafayette

1948-50           Mt. Gilead

1950-67           chaplain, U.S. Air Force

1967-68           on leave

1968                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-73           on leave

1973                retired

 

Note: Russell H. Bohner is a great-nephew of B.F. Bohner.  He never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church, but is included in this file because he is the ministerial son of a congregation now within the conference boundaries.



 

BOLE, MELVIN D.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Patricia _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Williamsport St. Johns

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1961-62           Salladasburg Mt. Pleasant

1962-65           student, Evangelical Theological Seminary

1965-68           York Otterbein

1968-72           York St. Paul’s

1972-77           Uriah

1977-87           Laurelton

1987-02           Williamsport Trinity

2002                retired


 

BOLLINGER, EDWARD S.

 

Born: 10-6-1859  York PA                                         married: Lillian Frances Deininger

Died: 9-3-1942  Clackamas County OR                    obit: [1866-1920]

 

1886    license

1887    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Greenwood Hills Cemetery, Portland OR

Obit:

 

1886-88           Baltimore Preston Street

1888-89           Prospect Circuit

1889                transfer to Oregon Conference

1889-90           Salem

1890-95           superintendent, Oregon School for the Blind at Salem

1895                "transfer" to Oregon Conference of the Congregational Church

1895-99           Astoria Congregational

1899-06           Oregon City First Congregational [now Atkinson Memorial Unitarian Universalist]

1906-15           Portland Highland Congregational

 

Note: E.S. Bollinger appears to be serving in Valdez AK in the late 1910's and the First Congregational Church in Vancouver WA in 1921.  No more information about him is known at this time.  He is the author of the book An Alaska Investment, published by the Congregational Home Missionary Society.  Mrs. Bollinger is the daughter of C.F. Deininger.

 


 

BOLTON, JOHN C.

 

Born: 1-14-1828  New Castle, England                     married: Elizabeth Christina Huffmaster

Died: 7-2-1899  Augusta IL                                       obit: [c1830 – 1894]

 

1847    license

1848    ordained deacon

1851    ordained elder

 

Interment: Round Prairie Cemetery, Plymouth IL

Obit:

 

1847-48           Columbia

1848-49           Muncy

1849-50           Somerset

1850-51           Bedford

1851-52           Indiana circuit

                        transfer to Pittsburg Conference

 

Note: John Bolton moved to Richmond VA just prior to the Civil War.  He later moved to Dushore PA, where he married, and eventually moved on to IL, where he reportedly was a Methodist circuit minister of country churches.

 


 

BOWER, AMOS WRIGHT

 

Born: 12-19-1852  Columbia County PA                   married: Eleanor W. Miller [8/30/1880]

Died: 7-10-1937  Meridian WA                                 obit: [4/21/1860 – 4/19/1933]

 

1872    license

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated, location of ashes unknown]

Obit:

 

1871-72           assistant, Conewago Circuit (beginning 12/1/1871)

1872-73           Prospect

1873-74           Milton

1874-75           Dushore

1875-76           student, Union Seminary

                             1876-77      York King Street [Trinity] (started in mid-year)

1877                transfer to the Pacific Conference

1877-79           Salem OR

1879                withdrew to join the Congregational Church

1879-81           Oregon City First Congregational

1881-85           East Portland

1885-               Portland Mt. Zion Congregational

1891-               Sultan City

 

Note: Amos W. Bower is a nephew to Isaiah Bower.  He is listed in the 1920 and 1930 censuses as a merchant.  The maiden name of Mrs. Bower is also given as Queen Nevada Miller.

 


 

BOWER, HIRAM S.

 

Born: 5-10-1847                                                          married: Eliza M. Grutzmacher

Died: 10-20-1915                                                        obit: Kansas Conference 1919, 210

 

1853    license

1875    ordained deacon

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Westmoreland Cemetery, Westmoreland KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1916, 62

 

1872-73                       Baltimore Circuit

1873-74                       Middle Creek

1874-76                       located

1876-77                       Bendersville

                                    transfer to Kansas Conference

1912                            retired

 


 

BOWER, ISAIAH

 

Born: 3-19-1829  Evansville PA                                married: Hannah Hagenbauch

Died: 1-25-1912                                                          obit: [4/20/1831 – 4/2/1910]

 

1881 ordained deacon

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, near Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 66

 

Note: Isaiah Bower is a first cousin to George E. Zehner and an uncle to Amos W. Bower.  He was involved full-time in various secular work: manufacturing, retail selling, real estate, etc.  He is the namesake of the Bower Memorial Church in Berwick.


 

BOWER, JACOB

 

Born: 11-27-1820                                                        married: Mary A. Bishoff

Died: 12-18-1902                                                        obit: [4/10/1828 – 11/24/1902]

 

Interment: Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood WV

Obit:

 

1845-46           Bedford

1846                located

 


 

BOWER, KENNETH IRVIN

 

Born: 4-24-1916  near Williamsport PA                    married: Lois M. English

Died: 3-13-2001  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 404

 

1935    license, recommended by Williamsport St. Paul's

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 359

 

1938-39           Penns Creek

1939-41           Salladasburg
1941-42           Howard
1942-46           Berwick St. Paul's
1946-53           York Zion
1953-60           Lewistown Grace
1960-68           Milton First

1968-82           Mechanicsburg First

1982                retired

                            1991-96  Mt Airy-Mt. Zion

 


 

BOWER, MOSES

 

Born: 4-28-1794                                                          married: Mary Bedinger

Died: 3-10-1847  Somerset County PA                      obit: [1816 – c1890]

 

1841    ordained deacon

1843    ordained elder

 

Interment: Stoystown Cemetery (West), Stoystown PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]

 

1840-41           Cumberland

1841-43           Virginia Circuit

1843-44           Gettysburg

1844-46           Cumberland

1846-47           superintendent, Potomac District

 

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered BAUER.  About 1850, the widowed Mrs. Bower reportedly married a Mr. Philipp Reinhard Schomber (1828-1900), and they moved to Nebraska.


 

BOWERSOX, JOHN FARIS DAVID

 

Born: 1-14-1886  Centre County PA                          married: Mrs. Elizabeth May Condo Freeby (1905)

Died: 7-10-1955  Somerset PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 70

                                                                                    married2: Tressa L. Burg (1921)

1916    license                                                             obit2: [1901 – 7/10/1922]

1918    ordained deacon                                              married3: Mary Edna Starner (1926)

1920    ordained elder                                                 obit3: [10/7/1904 – 4/6/1950]

                                                                                    married4: Minnie M. Mostoller (1951)

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Stoystown PA               obit4: [6/27/1909 – 1/23/1996]

Obit:

 

1916-19           Nittany Valley Circuit

1919-21           East Prospect

1921                Baltimore Christ ("left his charge during the year and united with another denomination")

1921                "transfer" to the Lutheran Church

1921-24           St. Benjamin's Lutheran Church, Carroll County MD

1924-26           New Hope and Zion Lutheran Churches, Adamsville OH

 

Note: The first husband of the first Mrs. Bowersox (nee Condo) was a Mr. Charles W.L. Freeby; she married J.F.D. Bowersox in 1915 (or 1905?).

 


 

BOWERSOX, JOSIAH

 

Born: 9-22-1837  Snyder County PA                         married: Mary Catherine Orwig

Died: 1-11-1929  OR                                                  obit: [12/14/1841 – 9/4/1896]

                                                                                    married2: Mollie E. Harner [1899]                

1865    ordained deacon                                              obit2: [2/26/1845 – 1/30/1929]                      

1867    ordained elder

 

Interment: Salem Pioneer Cemetery, Salem OR

Obit: [Oregon Conference 1929, 9]

 

1863-65           Lock Haven

1865-67           Blockhouse

1867-69           Lewisburg

1869-70           York

1870-76           missionary to Oregon            

1876                charter member of Pacific Conference

1876-77           superintendent, Pacific Conference

1877-84           Albany and superintendent, Pacific District

1884                charter member of Oregon Conference

1884-88           superintendent, Oregon District

1888-90           superintendent, Washington District

1890                identifies with Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1890-91           Brooks mission

1891-92           superintendent, Washington District; also Albany and Brownsville, and Brooks mission

1892-94           superintendent, Columbia District; also Salem

1894-97           Salem

1897-99           Lafayette

1899-03           Dayton

1903-07           Portland Second

1907-11           Portland Ockley Green

1911-12           Portland Second

1912-13           Portland Ockley Green

1913-16           city missionary

1916-18           Warren, city missionary

1918-22           Warren

1922                retired

 

Note: Josiah Bowersox is a brother to Reuben C. Bowersox.  They are grandsons of George Adam Bowersox whose 1802 log cabin, that hosted Jacob Albright and other early Evangelical leaders, is still standing on the Bowersox Tree Farm.  A brief biography is given in Poling's 1938 History of the Evangelical Church in Oregon and Washington, page 277.  The first Mrs. Bowersox is the daughter of W.W. Orwig.  Excellent obituaries for Josiah (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24112409) and Mary (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24112410) are available online.

 


 

BOWERSOX, REUBEN C.

 

Born: 12-2-1843  Snyder County PA                         married: Sarah A. Gift

Died: 10-20-1879                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 72

 

1871    license

1875    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]

 

1871-72           Perry Circuit

1872-73           Columbia circuit

1873-75           Bloomsburg

1875-78           Cumberland circuit

1878                located

 

Note: Reuben C. Bowersox is a brother to Josiah Bowersox.  They are grandsons of George Adam Bowersox whose 1802 log cabin, that hosted Jacob Albright and other early Evangelical leaders, is still standing on the Bowersox Tree Farm.  About 1869 or 1870, he was apparently supplying the Green Hill [York Bethany] appointment.

 


 

BOWERSOX, RONALD ERB

 

Born: 1-10-1934  McClure PA                                   married: Joyce Henry

Died: 2-16-2016  Pittsburgh PA                                 obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by McClure

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated] God’s Garden, Camp Hill UMC, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 257

 

1956-60           Loganville
1960-65           South Williamsport Grace

1965-78           Bellefonte Faith (ending 11/1/1978)

1978-88           Dallastown Bethlehem (beginning 11/1/1978)

1988-95           superintendent, Lewisburg District

1995-01           Camp Hill

2001                retired

                            2002-05       Dover New Creation

                            2005-06       Hellam Faith

                            2006-07       York Asbury

                            2009-10       Lewisberry


 

BRADER, JOSEPH M.

 

Born: 2-24-1849                                                          married: Minerva Wright

Died: 12-25-1889  Warrensvillr PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 68

 

1872    license

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]

 

1872-73           Milton

1873-76           Orangeville

1876-79           White Deer

1879-80           Canton

1880-82           Perry

1882-85           Danville

1885-88           Wyoming

1888-89           Sugar Valley

1889                Williamsport circuit

 

Note: A death notice for J.M. Brader appears in the 1/15/1890 issue of The Evangelical, page 23.

 


 

BRENNEMAN, H.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1880    license

 

Interment:

Obit:


 

BRESSLER, WILLIAM.

 

Born: 1-9-1819  Centre County PA                            married: Sarah Jane McKisson

Died: 8-24-1899  Green County WI                           obit: [7/4/1817 – 2/28/1903]

 

1849    license

 

Interment: Staver Church Cemetery, Clarno WI

Obit:

 

1849-50           Columbia

1850-52           Clarion

1852                charter member of Pittsburgh Conference

 

Note: A death notice for William Bressler and his wife appears in the 9/13/1899 issue of the Evangelical Messenger, page 587, and states they were residents of Illinois.  The maiden name of Mrs. Bressler also appears as McKesson.


 

BRETZ, CARL VICTOR

 

Born: 12-6-1925  Mechanicsburg PA                        married: Janice Miller (divorce)

Died: 10-4-2020                                                          obit: [5/9/1928 – 3/10/2011]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Rosemary Smith Morris Burns

1952    ordained elder                                                 obit2: [1922-2009]

1956    ordained, Unitarian Universalist Church

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Memorial Garden, Oak Ridge TN

Obit:

 

1949-52           Warrensville

1952-54           student, Boston University School of Theology

                             East Wareham

1954-64           chaplain, NH State Mental Hospital

     1956  “transfer” to Unitarian Universalist Church

1964-72           Harvard MA Congregational Unitarian Church

1972-84           Albama Department of Mental Health

     1972-89  Tuscaloosa AL Unitarian Universalist Church

1989                retired

1994                moved to Tennessee

 

Note: Carl V. Bretz graduated from the denomination’s Albright College (1949) and The Evangelical School of Theology (1952).   The first Mrs. Bretz (aka Janice Bretz-Howe) was the daughter of Rev. Clarence Truman Miller (1901-1978) of the Pittsburg Conference of the Evangelical Church.  She graduated from Albright College in 1950, married a Mr. Richard F. Howe, and became a social worker in Massachusetts.  The second Mrs. Bretz was previously married to a Mr. David Markland Morris and a Mr. John H. Burns.

 


 

BRICKLEY, FRANCIS ELMER.

 

Born: 3-?-1883  MO                                                   married: Anna Bertha Capp [1909]

Died:3-26-1946  Kitsap County WA                          obit: [8/17/1886 – 9/8/1973]

 

1913    ordained elder, Oregon Conference

 

Interment: Miller-Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bremerton WA

Obit:

 

                        Christian & Missionary Alliance Church

1909                "transfer" to Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1909-10           Sodaville & Sweet Home

1910-11           Independence

1911-12           Dayton

1912-13           Lewisville & Bridgeport

1913-14           Lewisville

1914-15           Eugene

1916                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-17           Idaville

1917-20           Lycoming

1920-23           located

1923                withdrew

 

Note: There was apparently an earlier different F.E. Brickley in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association who served Lickingville 1890-92.

 


 

BRICKLEY, GEORGE

 

Born: 1-31-1806  Mifflinburg PA                              married: Mary Ann Wingert

Died: 3-17-1889  York PA                                         obit: [3/10/1813 – 12/7/1874]

 

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 39

 

1829-30           Somerset

1830-31           York circuit

1831-32           Franklin

1832-33           Lancaster

1833-35           Lycoming

1835-36           Center

1836-37           York circuit

1837-39           Columbia

1839-42           superintendent, Salem District

1842-44           York Queen Street

1844-46           Baltimore Green Street

1846                located to practice medicine

 

Note: George Brickley is the father of George A. Brickley.

 


 

BRICKLEY, GEORGE A.

 

Born: 5-1-1840  New Berlin PA                                 married:

Died: 8-26-1895  York PA                                         obit:

 

1863    license

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: The Evangelical, 9/11/1895 page 294

 

                        Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1865-66                   York & Jefferson circuits (1865, 104)

1866-67           Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits

1874-75           Shamokin First, East Pennsylvania Conference; see Gibble, 358

 

Note: George A. Brickley the son of George Brickley.  To distinguish him from his father, he is referred to as George Brickley Jr.

 


BRICKLEY, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1841    license

1843    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841-43           Somerset

1843-44           Indiana

                        moved west

 

Note: This appears not to be the Rev. John K. Brickley (1795-1872), born in Union County and died and buried in Indiana County, who served the Evangelical Association in Burnside, Clearfield County – about whom details are vague.


 

BRILLHART, CLEON DUBS

 

 

Born: 7-27-1892  Liberty PA                                     married: Edna Igerna. English (7/1/1917)

Died: 6-23-1956  Napoleon OH                                 obit: [5/24/1894 – 2/?/1976]

 

1916    license

 

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Napoleon OH

Obit:

 

Note: C.D. Brillhart had worked in education for 40 years, the last 31 of which in Napoleon OH.  He was the superintendent of schools in Napoleon when he died.


 

BRILLHART, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 4-26-1865  Kralltown PA                                 married: Cora Minnie Zarfoss

Died: 2-10-1917  York PA                                         obit: [12/31/1870 – 12/27/1954]

 

1889    license

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 75

 

1889-91           Wayland

1891-94           Liberty

1894-96           Grover

1896-98           Bryansville

1898-01           Port Trevorton

1901-04           Leesburg

1904-06           Cumberland

1906-08           Yoe

1908-09           Dallastown

1909-11           New Freedom

1911-12           Bryansville

1912                located

 

Note: William E. Brillhart is the father of C.D. Brillhart.  Some sources five the maiden name of Mrs. Brillhart as KLINE.


 

BRINER, LEWIS ANDREW

 

Born: 11-28-1917  Lewistown PA                             married: Mildred R. Woodward

Died: 3-27-2003  Kalamazoo MI                               obit: [1917 –  3/11/2000]

 

Interment:

Obit: [Kalamazoo Gazette 3/30/2003]

 

1937    license, recommended by Lewistown Grace

 

1937-39           student, Albright College

1939-43           student, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology

                        "transfer" to the Presbyterian Church

1943-45           pastorate

1945-47           chaplain, US Navy

1947-49           pastorate

1949-70           faculty, McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago IL

1970-83           Kalamazoo MI First Presbyterian

1983-03           pastor emeritus, Kalamazoo MI First Presbyterian

 

Note: Lewis A. Briner is the author of several books and articles on worship.  He is a member of the Consultation on Common Texts and chairman of the North American Committee on Calendar and Lectionary.

 


 

BRININGER, HARRY LEROY

 

Born: 1-7-1913  McClure PA                                     married: Leona Alverne Boyer

Died: 2-24-1988                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 96

                                                                                    married2: Ruth E. Bichler

1932    license, recommended by McClure                obit 2: [11/23/1921 – 1/15/2006]

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: McClure Union Cemetery, McClure PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 404

 

1935-39           Mount Holly Springs

1939-43           director of public relations, Albright College

1943-47           Williamsport St. Paul's


1947-50           director of church school administration, PA State Sabbath School Association

1950-52           director of Educational Promotion, National Council of Churches
1952-57           associate secretary of administration, National Council of Churches
1957-65           assistant General Secretary of administration, National Council of Churches

1965-75           associate General Secretary, National Council of Churches

1975-77           administration, Union Theological Seminary in NY

1977-78           National Council of Churches

1978                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch for H. Leroy Brininger appears in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 349.  The second Mrs. Brininger later married a Mr. Merrit G. Page.


 

BRINKER, LUKE JEREMIAH

 

Born: 11-20-1925  East Texas PA                              married: Theda Jean Jones

Died: 8-16-2015                                                          obit:

 

1947    license, recommended by Allentown First Church of the Nazarene

1951    ordained elder, Church of the Nazarene

 

Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Emmaus PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 216, 258

 

1950-62           Served in Church of Nazarene
1962-68           Penn's Creek

1968-75           Fishing Creek Salem

1975-79           Wrightsville Grace

1979-82           York Trinity

1982-85           Bloomsburg Good Shepherd

1985-88           Sunbury Albright

1988                retired

 

Note: Luke J. Brinker is the father of David Luke Brinker of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church and an uncle to Rev. Rodney Bartman of the Church of the Nazarene.



BRITCHER, JAMES EDWARD

 

Born: 9-20-1851  Adams County PA                         married: Margaret B. Alton

Died: 11-12-1894                                                        obit:

                                                                                    married2: Barbara Margaret Myers

1880    license                                                             obit2: [1/10/1855 – 11/7/1939]

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

Note: J. Edward Britcher was a painter by vocation and never served under appointment.  His first marriage apparently ended in divorce and produced no children.  He is the father of Minnie Kate Britcher Buyers, wife of Franck C. Buyers of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 


 

BROADBECK, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married: Sarah Patterson (10/11/1838)

Died: 1860  Baltimore MD                                         obit:

 

1857    ordained deacon

1859    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]

 

1856-57           Buffalo

1857-59           Center

1859-60           Baltimore McEldery Street

1860                located

 

Note: An incident involving Henry Broadbeck is given in Stapleton's 1908  Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 60.

 


 

BROWN, JAMES GOOD

 

Born: 7-17-1901  Bellefonte PA                                married: Mary Frances Curry

Died: 12-25-2008  Haverhill NH                               obit:[3/16/1895 - 8/17/1975]

                                                                                    married2: Valerie Wentworth

1922    license                                                             obit2:

 

Interment: Manchester PA

Obit:

 

1923-26           Buffalo

1926                transfer to Pittsburg Conference

                        withdrew

 

Note: J. Good Brown is the son of William H. Brown.

 


 

BROWN, LORENZO DOW

 

Born: 7-9-1822  Tionesta PA                                     married: Susannah Frantz [8/3/1843]

Died: 1-14-1918  Minneapolis MN                            obit: [3/?/1823 – 11/5/1896]

 

1846    license

1851    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis MN

Obit:

 

1846-48           Somerset

1848-49           Clarion

1849-50           Venango

1850-52           Shenandoah Circuit

                        transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

                       


 

BROWN, PERCY DONALD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Louise J. Frey

Died:                                                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 398

 

1949    license, recommended by Carlisle First

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-55           Wellsville Charge
1955-62           Mount Holly Springs Charge
1962-65           Rockland MD

1965-76           New Kingstown

1976-84           Middletown Evangelical (ending 2/15/1984)

1984-92           York Messiah (beginning 2/15/1984)

1992                retired


 

BROWN, PETER WILLARD

 

Born: 2-20-1875  Brownstown PA                             married: Ella Nora Diebert (1903)

Died: 4-4-1942  Shenandoah PA                                obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 452

 

1898    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1903    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Union Hill Cemetery, Weissport PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 537

 

White Haven

Wilkes-Barre Grove Street

Easton Trinity

Philadelphia Ninth Street

Reading Immanuel

Wilkes-Barre Grove Street

Easton Trinity

Schuylkill Haven

West Lawn

Shenandoah

 

Note: Mrs. Brown, at the time of marriage to P. Willard Brown, was serving as Conference Evangelist.


 

BROWN, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 1-8-1871  Manchester PA                                married: Minnie Ella Wetzel

Died: 12-13-1924                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 76

                                                                                    married2: Harriet R. Heller

1892    license                                                             obit2: [1867 – 8/24/1928]

1899    ordained deacon

1901    ordained elder

 

Interment: Manchester Union Cemetery, Manchester PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 79

 

1897-01           Spring Mills

1901-04           Bellefonte

1904-08           East Prospect

1908-10           Newport

1910-14           Lewisburg

1914-18           Millheim

1918-22           Burnham

1922-23           York (Princess Street)

1923-24           Loganville

 

Note: William H. Brown is the father of J. Good Brown.

 


 

BROWNMILLER, EPHRAIM STEIN

 

Born: 10-5-1853  Hamlin PA                                     married: Minnie Anna Zimmerman

Died: 12-28-1933  Reading PA                                  obit: [10/30/1856 – 10/28/1923]

 

1873    license

1875    ordained, Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

1873-74           York Circuit

                        "transfer" to the Lutheran Church

1874-81           Union Deposit

1881-89           Ephrata Parish (Ephrata, Swamp, Schoeneck's, Lincoln)

1889-06           Reading Parish (Reed, Oley, Spiess, Shalter's, Kissinger, Bern)

 

Note: E.S. Brownmiller was a life-long Lutheran.  He appears to have taken an appointment in the Evangelical Church while a student.  He is the father of Rev. Martin Luther Brownmiller of the Lutheran Church.

 


 

BRUER, THOMAS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1814    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1814-15           York


 

BUCHMAN, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1779                                                                  married:

Died: 1856  Adams County IN                                   obit:

 

1813    license

1814    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1813-14           Northumberland

1814-15           Somerset

1816                located

1840                moved to Adams County IN

 

Note: Abraham Buchman opened his house in 1810 as one of the original preaching places on the Franklin circuit.  He lived near Lees Crossroads on Cumberland County.


 

BUCHMAN, S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1859    ordained deacon (or 1860?)

 

Interment:

Obit:


 

BUCHNER, JOHN P.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Minnie Flora Siegfried (1/23/1889)

Died: [before 1900]                                                    obit: [1/26/1868 – 5/14/1951]

 

1889    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-91           Juniata circuit

1891-93           Hanover circuit

1893-96           Shrewsbury

1896                withdrew from the Church; page 67

 

Note: Mrs. Buchner is the daughter of Charles W. Siegfried.  She is buried in the Harrisburg East Cemetery, Harrisburg PA.

 


 

BUCK, HARRY MERWYN SR.

 

Born: 7-6-1891  Muncy Valley PA                            married: Edith Mae Ackerly

Died: 10-5-1954  Mifflin                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 344

 

1917    license, recommended by Sonestown

1920    ordained deacon

1922    ordained elder

 

Interment: Sonestown Cemetery, Sonestown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 84

 

1918-23           Enola

1923-28           East Prospect

1928-33           Carlisle

1933-39           Berwick Bower Memorial

1939-43           Williamsport First

1943-54           Baltimore Olive Branch

1954                Mifflin

 

Note: H. Merwyn Buck is the father of Harry M. Buck.

 


 

BUCK, HARRY MERWYN JR.

 

Born: 11-18-1921  Enola PA                                      married: Esther M. Gingrich

Died: 7-4-2010  Chambersburg PA                            obit:

 

1940    license, recommended by Williamsport First

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 393

 

1938-42           student, Albright College in Reading PA

    1942  Cearfoss  (Jan – Mar)

1942-46           Baltimore St. John,
1946-49           State College
1949-51           fellow, University of Chicago
1951-59           professor, Wellesley College in Wellesley MA

1959-87           professor, Wilson College in Chambersburg PA

1987                retired

 

Note: Harry M. Buck is the son of H. Merwyn Buck.  Mrs. Buck is the daughter of Felix Moyer Gingrich (1872-1958) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.


 

BUCK, HENRY WILLIAM SR.

 

Born: 2-28-1843  New Berlin PA                               married: Margaret C. Lush

Died: 2-2-1916  York PA                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 79

 

1863    license

1866    ordained deacon

1868    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 77

 

1864-65           Cumberland

1865-67           Lycoming

1867-69           Hughesville

1869-71           Buffalo

1871-74           Columbia

1874-76           Danville

1876-79           Glen Rock

1879-82           Jersey Shore

1882-85           Berwick

1885-87           Bloomsburg

1887-91           superintendent, Williamsport District

1891-95           superintendent, York District

1895-99           superintendent, Lewisburg District

1899-02           Millheim

1902-05           Berwick

1905-09           New Freedom

1909                retired

 

Note: H.W. Buck Sr is the son of Thomas Buck, and a brother to S.T. Buck, and the father of H.W. Buck Jr.  The maiden name of Mrs. Buck is also given as Losch.  Find-A-Grave fives his birth year as 1842 and states that he is buried in the cemetery at New Berlin.

 


 

BUCK, HENRY WILLIAM JR.

 

Born: 12-30-1883                                                        married: Anna Isabella Mayer

Died: 7-20-1971                                                          obit: [10/7/1887 – 3/22/1972]

 

1907    license

1913    ordained deacon

1915    ordained elder

 

Interment: Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit:

 

1912-14           Mifflin

1914-16           York Zion

1916-17           Scranton

1917                withdrew to join another denomination [Presbyterian]

1918-20           Wellston OH

1920-21           associate, Portsmouth OH Second

1921-36           Minneapolis MN Highland Park

1936-48           ?

1948-50           Benton PA (including Orangeville and Raven Creek)

1950-57           Elkland PA Parkhurst Memorial (beginning 11/9/1950)

1957                retired

 

Note: Henry W. Buck Jr. is the son of Henry W. Buck and the grandson of Thomas Buck.  He was known as HARRY W. BUCK, and that is the name that appears on his tombstone.


 

BUCK, SOLOMON T.

 

Born: 5-21-1838  York County PA                            married: Margaret Ann Breon (5/22/1862)

Died: 7-8-1908  Union City NJ                                  obit:

 

1860    license

1862    ordained deacon

1864    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grove Church Cemetery, North Bergen NJ

Obit:

 

1860-61           Gettysburg

1861-63           Buffalo

1863-64           Center

1864-65           Perry (ending 10/1864 to enlist and serve 10 months in the US Army)

1865-66           Lycoming (beginning 8/1865)

1866-68           Wyoming

1868-69           Williamsport Market Street

1869-71           Williamsport English

1871-74           Lock Haven

1874-76           Newberry

1876-77           agent, Union Seminary in New Berlin PA

1877-79           Milton

1879                retired

 

Note: S.T. Buck is the son of Thomas Buck, and a brother to H.W. Buck Sr, and the father of Bertha L. Buck Swengel, the second wife of [Bishop] Uriah F. Swengel.  In 1894 he was sentenced to 3 years in prison for securing money under false pretenses in connection with the sales of water filters.  He was a talented writer and planned to publish a book entitled “From the Pulpit to the Penitentiary” upon the completion of his sentence.  He relocated to New Jersey about 1900, but little is known about his later life or the fate of his intended book.  Mrs. Buck is reportedly buried in the Hackensack Cemetery, Bergen County NJ.

 


 

BUCK, THOMAS

 

Born: 1789  Lancaster County PA                             married: Rachel Haines

Died: 10-26-1842                                                        obit:

 

1823    license

 

Interment: Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, New Berlin PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]

 

1823-24           Somerset

1824-25           Union and Center

1825-26           Lancaster

1826-27           Schuylkill

1827-28           York

1828-29           superintendent, Salem District

1829-31           superintendent, Canaan District

1831-33           superintendent, Zion District

1833-34           superintendent, Canaan District

1834-37           located

1837-38           Schuylkill

1838-42           superintendent, Canaan District

1842                publishing agent

 

Note: Thomas Buck is the father of S.T. Buck and H.W. Buck Sr, and the grandfather of H.W. Buck Jr.

 


 

BUCKS, HENRY

 

Born: 7-12-1810  PA                                                  married: Sarah Elizabeth Brickley

Died: 2-26-1895  IL                                                    obit:

                                                                                    married2: Susanna Dreibelbies [c1853]

Interment: Plainfield Twp Cemetery, Plainfield IL   obit2: [11/14/1823 – 6/22/1865]

Obit:

 

1832-33           York Circuit

1833-34           Gettysburg Circuit

1834-35           Somerset

1835-36           Westover

1836-37           Crawford

1837-38           Erie Circuit

1838-42           superintendent, Carmel District

1842                transferred to East Pennsylvania Conference

1859                transferred to Illinois Conference

 

Note: Henry Bucks is the father of Williams Henry Bucks (1848-1936) of the Ohio Conference and Salome Ann Bucks Neitz, wife of Rev. William Neitz (1839-1899) of the Evangelical Association – brother of the prominent Solomon Neitz (1821-1885) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.


 

BUCHWALTER, JOHN BAUER

 

Born: 3-13-1787  Berks County PA                           married: Susannah Dreisbach

Died: 11-13-1872  Colrain OH                                   obit: [12/15/1793 – 3/17/1881]

 

license

Interment: Hallsville Cemetery, Hallsville OH
Obit:

 

1812-13           Northumberland

 

Note: This surname also appears as BUECHWALTER.  Mrs. Buchwalter is a sister to the noted John Dreisbach.


 

BULL, JOHN AARON

 

Born: 6-10-1867  Chestertown MD                            married: Ida Lillian Koller [1893]

Died: 12-28-1958  Baltimore MD                              obit: [10/5/1865 – 1/20/1946]

 

1893    license

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

Note: J.A. Bull was formally received as a "preacher on trial" in 1893 and maintained that relationship until his death.  During that time, he was an active lay member at Baltimore Grace and Baltimore Faith.

 



BUNDY, LYLE STEWARD

 

Born: 12-17-1925  Penfield PA                                  married: Iris L. Barry

Died: 8-26-2017  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 381

 

1946    license, recommended by DuBois, Free Methodist

1948    ordained deacon, Free Methodist Church

1950    ordained elder, Free Methodist Church

 

Interment: Laurel Cemetery, White Haven PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 265

 

1952-55           Free Methodist, Clearfield

1955                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1955-64           McClure

1964-73           Williamsport St. Paul's

1973-88           Red Lion Bethany

1988                retired

                             Freysville Zion

 


 

BURGETT, GORDON SPENCER

 

Born: 11-9-1898  Middlesex PA                                married: Annie Ludwig

Died: 11-25-1993  Rising City NE                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 403

 

1920    license, recommended by Letort Springs

1936    ordained elder

 

Interment: Circle Mound Cemetery, Rising City NE

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 475

 

1923-24           Hancock

1926-41           staff, Red Bird Mission in Beverly KY

1941-48           staff, Evangelical Home in Lewisburg PA

1948-84           staff, Red Bird Mission in Beverly KY

1984                retired

 


BURKETT, A.L.

 

Born: 2-11-1850  near Hyndman PA                         married: Emma Cook

Died: 4-16-1919  Hyndman PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 78

 

?          license, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Interment: Hyndman Cemetery, Hyndman PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 72

 

1902                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Morgan

1903-05           Perry

1905-07           Lewisberry

1907-08           Sugar Valley

1908-12           McClure

1912-15           Idaville

1915                located

 

Note: A more complete obituary for A.L. Burkett appears in The Evangelical, May 21, 1919, page 19.  One source gives his first name as Albert, and another as Allan, but he is listed only as A.L. in every trustworthy account.

 


 

BURSON, GEORGE L.

 

Born: 1-?-1840                                                            married:

Died: 11-3-1897  Tunkhannock                                  obit:

 

1872    ordained deacon

1874    ordained elder

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock PA

Obit:

 

1871-73           Big Spring

1973-75           Hughesville

1975-78           Luzerne

1978-80           Wyoming

1880-81           Kingston

1881-84           Dushore

1884-86           Tunkhannock

1886-88           Located

1888-92           West Brooklyn

1892-93           located

1893-94           Williamsport Grace

1894-96           Nicholson

1896                located; page 68

 


 

BUXTON, LEONARD SYDNEY

 

Born: 5-21-1930  Ephrata PA                                     married: Loretta [Tita] S. _____

Died:                                                                           obit: [3/3/1932 – ]

 

1949    license, East Pennsylvania Conference (EV) of the EUB Church

            recommended by Harrisburg Park Street

1950    admitted on trial

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-54           Steelton Grace

1954-59           Somerville MA

1959-62           Wilkes-Barre First

1962-67           Candlewood NJ

1967-71           faculty, Claflin College in Orangeburg SC

1971-74           associate, Rockville Centre NY St. Mark’s

1974-77           New Britain CT Trinity

1977-84           Valhalla

1984-85           Darien

1985-93           director of church relations, Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn

1993                retired

                            1993-95       City Island Trinity

                            1995-96       Summerfield

                            1997-00       Waymart, Wyoming Conference

 

Note: Leonard S. Buxton is the son of Sidney E. Buxton, brother of Robert I. Buxton, and father of Jon J. Buxton of the Wyoming Conference.  His autobiography This is My Story, Thus is My Song: Book One was printed in 2019; volume two is in the works.


 

BUXTON, ROBERT IVAN

 

Born: 5-21-1930                                                          married: Betty J. Donmoyer

Died: 9-5-2015                                                            obit: [10/10/1927 – 6/14/1996]

                                                                                    married2:

                                                                                    obit2:

 

1946    license, East Pennsylvania Conference (EV) of the EUB Church

            recommended by Harrisburg Park Street

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit:

 

1947                Bolich’s

1947-49           Steelton Grace and Charlton

1949-52           Steelton Grace

 

Note: Robert I. Buxton is the son of Sidney E. Buxton, brother of Leonard S. Buxton, and uncle of Jon J. Buxton of the Wyoming Conference.  Some sources give his birthdate as 3-17-1925.


 

BUXTON, SIDNEY E.

 

Born: 5-20-1895  Manchester England                      married: Ella I. _____

Died: 10-6-1972                                                          obit: [10/8/1893 – 6/?/1983]

 

1918    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 397

 

1918-20           Coaldale

1920-27           Schuylkill Haven

1927-34           Ephrata

1934-45           Allentown Salem

1945-54           Harrisburg Park Street

1954-62           Norristown

1962                retired

 

Note: Sidney E. Buxton is the father of Leonard S. Buxton and Robert I. Buxton, and is the grandfather of Jon J. Buxton of the Wyoming Conference.


 

 

CAMPBELL, ARTHUR WARD

 

Born: 11-11-1892  Washingtonville PA                     married: Susie Alice Long

Died: 12-30-1970                                                        obit: [1895-1970]

 

1915    license, recommended by Nescopeck
1917    ordained deacon
1919    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 357; Wyoming Conference 1971, 251

 

1915-17           Unityville
1917-20           Sonestown
1920-24           Dushore
1924-29           Bloomsburg
1929-34           Bellefonte
1934-41           Altoona Grace
1941-46           Mechanicsburg
1946-59           West Nanticoke and Ransom
1959                retired

 

Note: A. Ward Campbell is the son of Wesley J. Campbell

 


 

CAMPBELL, WESLEY JAY

 

Born: 9-23-1868  Liberty PA                                     married: Hattie Matilda Ward
Died: 9-22-1939  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 96

 

1890    license, recommended by Flock's class of the Liberty circuit
1893    ordained deacon
1895    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 82


1891-93           Washingtonville
1893-05           Muncy Valley
1905-09           Glen Rock
1909-13           Altoona First
1913-17           Nescopeck
1917-19           Williamsport St. Paul
1919-23           superintendent, Williamsport District
1923-27           superintendent, Lewisburg District
1927-31           Berwick North
1931-38           York Bethlehem
1938                retired

 

Note: Wesley J. Campbell is the father of A. Ward Campbell.  A biographical sketch of W.J. Campbell is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 333.


 

CARIS, DANIEL CLAYTON

 

Born: 6-4-1879  near Madisonburg PA                      married: Kathryn Amanda
Died: 8-27-1929  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 100

 

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1909    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Madisonburg Cemetery, Madisonburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 83


1907-10           Spring Mills
1910-13           Penns Valley
1913-14           located
1914-15           Birdsboro
1915-17           Penns Valley
1917-23           located

1923                transfer by denominational union to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1923-29           located
1929                Dushore



 

CAROTHERS, GEORGE.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:


1876    ordained deacon

Interment:
Obit:

 

1875-76           York circuit
1876-77           Big Springs
                        located

 

Note: George Carothers may be a nephew of Martin J. Carothers.


 

CAROTHERS, MARTIN JEFFERSON

 

Born: 8-14-1825  Plainfield PA                                 married: Elizabeth E. Weller
Died: 3-18-1897  Newville PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 76

 

1846    license
1848    ordained deacon
1850    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, near Newville PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 64]

 

1846-47           Bedford
1847-48           Somerset
1848-50           Perry
1850-52           Franklin
1852-54           Shrewsbury
1854-56           Franklin
1856-58           Cumberland
1858-60           supernumerary
1860-61           Leesburg
1861-63           Shrewsbury
1863-65           Lock Haven
1865-66           Center
1866-68           New Berlin
1868-71           superintendent, Center District
1871-75           Lewisburg District
1875-79           Williamsport District
1879-80           York District
1880-81           Williamsport Bennet Street
1881-83           Conference agent for mission churches
1883-87           superintendent York District
1887-91           Lewisburg District
1891-95           Williamsport District
1895-96           Hagerstown
1896-97           Newville and Shippensburg
1897                retired

 

 

Note: Martin J. Carothers is the father of Amanda Elizabeth Carothers Dubs, wife of [Bishop] Rudolph Dubs (1837-1915) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.  A biographical sketch of M.J. Carothers is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 312.

 


 

CASSEL, JACK HILNER

 

Born: 3-1-1935                                                            married: Linda Garman (6/9/1956)

Died: 11-18-2021                                                        obit: [Baltimore-Washington Conf. 2020, 521]

 

1955    license, recommended by New Kingstown
1960    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA
Obit:

 

1960-64           Hellam

1964-67           Hanover Grace & Green Springs

1967-70           Baltimore Immanuel

1970                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-78           Rockland

1978-82           Walkersville

1982-87           Baltimore Fulton Siemers Memorial

1987-91           Ferndale

1991-92           Carroll's–Gills

1992-00           Carroll's–Gills & Stone Chapel

2000                retired



 

CHAMBERLAIN, ALBERT J.

 

Born: 1880                                                                  married: Emma Evaline Breyer
Died: 1964                                                                  obit: [6/12/1888 – 7/30/1955]


1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit:

 

                        Illinois Conference

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1918-22           Espy
1922-26           York Zion
1926-29           Lewistown Trinity
1929-30           Mt. Holly Springs
1930                withdrew from the Church

 


 

CHAMBERLAIN, A.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1894    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

1895-96           West Clifford (did not finish the year)

1896                name removed; page 68


 

CLAIR, JACOB W.

 

Born: 5-19-1827  Lancaster County PA                     married: Susan L. Linch
Died: 5-18-1903  Washington County MD                obit: [7/14/1826 – 2/14/1886]

 

1858    license
1859    ordained deacon
1861    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD
Obit: The Evangelical June 11, 1903, page 381

 

1854-55           Buffalo
1855-56           Liverpool
1856-57           located

1857-58           Columbia
1858-59           Luzerne
1859-61           Franklin
1861-62           Center
1862-74           located
1874-75           Hagerstown
1875-76           Baltimore Mission
                        located to Washington County MD

                        active member of Mt. Zion church

 

Note: Mrs. Clair had been the widow of a Mr. Andrew Brumbaugh (1809-1859).

 


 

CLARK, U.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1891    license

 

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

CLEWELL, FREDERICK EARL

 

Born: 7-2-1924  Berwick PA                                      married: [single]

Died: 6-19-1947  Bedford County PA                       obit:

 

?          license, recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948,100

 

1947-48           Sonestown (ending 6/19/1947)

 

Note: Fred Clewell graduated from Albright College in 1945 and had just completed his second year at the Evangelical School of Theology.  He was killed in an automobile accident two days before his scheduled wedding.


 

CLINE, JERRY A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by Jersey Shore

1968    ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

 

1962-64           Sonestown

1964-68           student, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                            1964-65       assistant, Chicago IL Humboldt Park

                            1965-66       assistant, Oswego IL

                            1966-67       assistant, Milwaukee WI Memorial Community

                            1967-68       Greenville-Center WI

1968-70           Greenville-Center WI

1970-72           Northumberland Trinity

1972-75           Mifflinburg Wesley (ending 12/31/1974)

1975-77           Chambersburg St. Paul (beginning 1/1/1975, ending 11/26/1977)

1977-82           Huntingdon Twelfth Street

1982-86           associate, Camp Hill (beginning 9/1/1982)

1986-92           Berwick First

1992-96           Williamsport St. Paul’s (ending 5/1/2006)

1996-97           disability leave (beginning 5/1/2006)

1997-02           Loyalsock

2002                retired

                            2002-05       Flemington (ending 7/31/2005)

                            2007-08       Jersey Shore First (beginning 11/1/2007, ending 12/31/2008)


 

CLOSE, ROBERT LOUIS

 

Born: 11-5-1929  Ellerslie MD                                  married: Phyllis E. Oberholtzer (1950)
Died: 11-29-2008  Lewisburg PA                              obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 281

 

1949    license, recommended by Ellerslie MD St. Mark's
1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated, ashes to family]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 415

 

1951-59           Craley
1959-67           York Zion

1967-71           Carlisle First

1971-77           superintendent, Lewisburg District

1977-88           New Cumberland Trinity

1988-94           Williamsport First

1994                retired

                            1996-04       visitation pastor, Williamsport First

 

Note: Robert L. Close is the father of Cecily A. Eisley of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church and of Christine B. Brinker, wife of David L. Brinker of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.


 

COLEMAN, ARTHUR BURRIS

 

Born: 2-26-1891  Burnham PA                                  married: Anna E. Sanders
Died: 6-21-1966  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [1894 – 1986]

 

1917    license, recommended by Lewistown Grace

 

Interment: Mt. Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 228

 

1917-18           Liverpool

1918                no longer listed

 

Note: A.B. Coleman was forced to leave the ministry for health reasons.  Mrs. Coleman is a sister to Frank. H. Sanders.


 

CONFER, EDWARD I.

 

Born: 1882                                                                  married: Nettie A. Catherman
Died: 11-16-1955                                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 106

 

1901    license

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 80

 

1903-05           Millmont
1905-08           located
1908-10           Lewistown and Burnham
1910                located

 

Note: E.I. Confer located for health reasons.

 


 

CONRAD, HIRAM

 

Born: 1833                                                      married: Mary Ann Dawson
Died: 1913                                                      obit: [1841 - ?]

                                                                        married 2: Hannah _____

1869    license                                                 obit2:
1871    ordained deacon                                  married3: Sarah Elizabeth Wohlfarth
1873    ordained elder                                     obit3: [1/8/1860 – 2/15/1920]

 

Interment: St. Peter's Luth & Ref Cemetery, Lower Augusta twp, Northumberland Co PA

Obit:

 

1869-70           Lock Haven
1870-72           Buffalo
1872-75           York circuit
1875-76           Shrewsbury
                        located and moved to Florida

 

Note: Hiram Conrad is believed to be the namesake of Hiram Conrad Farley (1874-1950) of the Illinois Conference. 


 

CONSER, ELDER THOMPSON

 

Born: 1-8-1839  Centre County PA                            married: Katherine J. McCauley
Died: 7-17-1933  Humboldt County CA                    obit: [8/12/1846 – 1/2/1926]

 

1860    license

 

Interment: Eastwood IOOF Cemetery, Medford OR
Obit:

 

Note: Elder Conser is a nephew of Solomon L.M. Conser (1812-1896) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He moved west and was living in Ohio, where he met his wife, by 1864 and in Kansas by 1883 and in California by 1920.  He appears to have been in the banking business, and the degree to which he did any preaching is not known.  He is not known to appear on any list of Evangelical preachers or licentiates in Ohio or Kansas.


 

COOPER, LEWIS CLEVELAND


Born: 7-20-1884  York County PA                            married:  Dasie Weaver
Died: 3-16-1949  Akron OH                                      obit: Ohio East Conference 1956, 89

 

1907    license
1909    ordained deacon
1911    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Ohio Conference 1949, 79

 

1907-09           Unityville
1909-13           Burnham
1913-14           Bellwood
1914                transfer to Ohio Conference

 


 

CORLE, JONATHAN ABRAHAM

 

Born: 3-12-1895  Esplen PA                                      married: Beryl Edna Snyder
Died: 12-16-1962                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 87

                                                                                    married2: Edna F. Louise Learn

1923    license, recommended by Northumberland    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 344

1926    ordained deacon

1928    ordained elder

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 102

1924-26           Port Trevorton
1926-31           Perry circuit
1931-35           Ransom
1935-38           Espy
1938-44           Lock Haven Mission

1944-47           Sonestown

1947-55           Columbia circuit

1955-61           Milton St. Peter’s

1961-62           Buffalo Valley

 


 

COSTICK, WARREN WILMER

 

Born: 3-7-1925  McKeesport PA                               married: Mildred Louise Beck
Died: 4-11-2008  Mount Vernon OH                         obit: [8/26/1917 – 8/9/2009]

 

1946    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by Kephart Memorial (UB)
1954    ordained elder, Disciples of Christ Church

 

Interment: Pioneer Cemetery, Westerville OH
Obit:

 

1948                First Methodist
1948-49           Middleburg Salem

                        “transfer” to the Disciples of Christ Church
1954-56           California PA  First Christian
1956-57           Espy circuit, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1957                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1957-60           Espy circuit
1960-64           Wellsville

1964-65           Baltimore St. Matthew’s

1965-67           without appointment, by own request

1967                transfer to Ohio East Conference

1967-89           [East Ohio Conference]

1989                retired


 

COUP, P.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1869    license
1874    ordained deacon
1876    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1873-75           Seneca
1875-76           Hughesville
                        withdrew

 

Note: This person, also referred to as P.W. COUP, is believed to be the Peter M. Coup (1844 – 3/21/1923) buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA.


 

COURTER, JOHN ELLISON

 

Born: 11-?-1850  PA                                                  married: Clara Lillian Hawley
Died: 12-26-1926                                                        obit: [1889 – 1937]

 

1874    license
1876    ordained deacon

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Ashtabula OH
Obit:

 

1875-77           Newberry and Duboistown
1877-87           Duboistown
                        located

 

Note: The maiden name of Mrs. Courter also appears as Hauley.


 

COX, ALEXANDER

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1863    license

 

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

COX, JOHN B.

Born: 4-3-1826  Montour County PA                        married: Mary A. Eisenbrown
Died: 10-13-1892  Dushore PA                                  obit:

                                                                                    married2: Hannah Hepler [3/22/1862]

1846    license                                                             obit2: [3/26/1841 – 12/9/1920]

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Dushore PA
Obit:

 

1846-47           Gettysburg
                        located for health reasons

 

Note: John B. Cox is the father of William B. Cox.  An obituary for J.B. Cox appears in the 11/9/1892 issue of The Evangelical, page 359.  After locating, he became a successful photographer in Philadelphia and then moved to Sullivan County in 1862.

 


 

COX, WILLIAM BENJAMIN

 

Born: 5-9-1868  Dushore PA                                      married: Anna Mary Farley
Died: 8-28-1943  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 83

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Cora Schaeffer Emenheiser (1939)

1892    license                                                             obit2: [7/1/1877 – 4/11/1972]
1894    ordained deacon
1896    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 78

 

1892-94           Lewistown

1894-95           Mifflin

1895-97           Glen Rock

1897-01           Williamsport St. John’s

1901-02           Baltimore Grace

1902-04           York St. Paul’s

1904-08           Bellefonte

1908-09           Altoona First

1909-11           Lemoyne Grace

1911-12           Berwick West

1912-15           Berwick Bower Memorial

1915-18           Jersey Shore

1918-22           superintendent, Carlisle District

1922-24           Mechanicsburg

1924-25           Milton

1925-31           superintendent, Williamsport District

1931-35           executive secretary, Church Extension Society of the Evangelical Church

1935                retired

 

Note: William B. Cox is the son of John B. Cox.  A daughter of W.B. Cox is the wife of Rev. Charles V. Hassler (1896-1978) of the Presbyterian Church.  A biographical sketch of W.B. Cox is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 334.  The first Mrs. Cox is a sister to Hiram (Harry) C. Farley.  The second Mrs. Cox (nee Schaeffer) was the widow of a Mr. Raymond K. Emenheiser (1878-1928).


 

CRALEY, BENJAMIN

 

Born: 3-31-1826                                                          married: Franey Gable

Died: 8-10-1905                                                          obit: [8/20/1813 – 3/2/1889]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Margaret Baker Oberdorf

1870    license                                                             obit2: [2/11/1842 – 11/28/1926]
1890    ordained deacon

Interment: Bethlehem [Stonepile] Church Cemetery, York County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 71

 

Note: Benjamin Craley was a class leader at the Bethlehem [Stonepile] Church near Red Lion and served as a local preacher.  He was a farmer.  The second Mrs. Craley (nee Baker) was the widow of a Mr. Joshua Oberdorff (1853-1889).


 

CRAMER, GROVER CLEVELAND.

 

Born: 6-24-1889  Lewisburg PA                                married: Rosa Elsie Williams (1/14/1918)
Died: 8-11-1947  Williamsport PA                            obit: [9/18/1888 – 3/11/1973]

 

1916    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

1917-18           Ellenton

1918-19           Liverpool

 

Note: In 1926, Grover C. Cramer appears to be living in Montoursville PA.


 

CRAUL, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 11-1-1857  Kralltown PA                                 married: Laura Kistler [6/28/1887]
Died: 8-6-1931  East Orange NJ                                obit: [1863 – 6/25/1888]

                                                                                    married2: Caroline Haas [4/23/1891]

1882    license                                                             obit2: [1/?/1849 – 7/17/1936]

1892    ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal Church South

 

Interment: Red Mount Cemetery, York County PA
Obit:

 

1880-83           student, Yale University

1883-84           principal, Schuylkill Seminary in Fredricksburg PA

1884-86           student, Yale Divinity School

1886-87           principal, Schuylkill Seminary in Fredricksburg PA

1887-94           president Trinity College [Duke University] in Durham NC

1894-95           student, Columbia University

1895-97           faculty, Smith College

1897-98           student, University of Berlin

1898-99           director, A.C. Clark Neighborhood House in New York City

1899-06           government positions in Washington DC

1906-15           associate editor, Wall Street Journal

1915-17           CEO, Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York

1917-19           IRS, Washington DC

1919-25           director, World Market Institute of New York

1925                retired

 

Note: J.F. Craul adopted the spelling CROWELL about 1880.  He is a brother to Anna C. Crowell Weaver, wife of Albert F. Weaver.  The tombstone for the second Mrs. Crowell reads “Carrie Pascoe Crowell.”


 

CRAUL, JOHN I.

 

Born: 4-20-1870  Carroll County MD                        married: Laura I. Gladfelter

Died: 1-3-1961  Hellam PA                                        obit: [1972, 402]

 

1899    license, recommended by York Trinity
1901    ordained deacon
1903    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 88


1899-01           Dorsey
1901-04           Harford
1904-06           Leesburg
1906                located

 

Note:  Laura I. Gladfelter was born 4/6/1877 and married John I. Craul 6/2/1896. After locating,  J.I. Craul served as a supply pastor.

 


 

CROMAN, WILLIAM MUSSER

 

Born: 11-26-1847  Hughesville PA                            married: Hannah Margarette Culp
Died: 12-25-1933  Cromanton FL                              obit: Alabama Conference ME 1929, 127

 

1869    license
1871    ordained deacon
1873    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lynn Haven Cemetery, Lynn Haven FL
Obit: Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1934, 147

 

1869-70           Wyoming
1870-71           Middle Creek
1871-73           Orangeville
1873-74           located
1874-75           Columbia
1875-77           Berwick
1877-78           Shickshinny
1878-81           Lewisburg
1881-83           Carlisle
1883-85           Baltimore
1885-86           Baltimore Grace
1886                withdrew
                        reinstated

1892                “transfer” to Alabama Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1892-94           St. Andrews Bay & Cromanton FL

1894-96           Cromanton FL

1896-97           East Bay

1897-99           on leave

1899-01           DeFuniak Springs FL

 

1910-11           superintendent, Birmingham District

 

1915-18           Lynn Haven FL

1918-20           field agent, Conference Annuity Fund

1920-21           Cromanton FL

1921-22           treasurer, Conference Annuity Fund

1922                retired

 

Note:  W.M. Croman is the founder and namesake of Cromanton, in the greater Panama City area, which was depopulated to create land for Tyndall AFB in the 1930’s.

 


 

CROUCH, MATTHIAS T.

 

Born: 3-12-1848  Wicomico County MD                  married: Annie P. _____
Died: 12-7-1919                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 66

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Anna Rebecca Long Yohn

1891    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 76
1897    ordained deacon
1901    ordained elder

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 71

 

1893-96           Dorsey
1896-98           Harford
1898-02           Bryansville
1902-03           Milesburg
1903-07           Liberty
1907-09           Brooklyn
1909-10           Yorkana
1910-13           Perry circuit
1913-15           Wapwallopen
1915                Hummel’s Wharf (6 months)

1915                retired for health reasons

 

Note: The middle initial of Matthias Crouch also appears as F.   The second Mrs. Crouch, nee Long, was the widow of a Mr. Edward Donnally Yohn.

 


 

CROWELL, JOHN FRANKLIN   [see CRAUL, JOHN FRANKLIN]


 

CRUMBLING, EDWARD

 

Born: 1-27-1856  Hellam PA                         married: Arvilla Kise
Died: 4-9-1940  Lock Haven PA                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 75

 

1878    license, Forge [Ebenezer] class of East Prospect circuit
1880    ordained deacon
1882    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 88

 

1878-80           Baltimore circuit
1880-82           Alberton
1882-85           Glen Rock
1885-88           Yorkana
1888-91           Berwick
1891-94           Lewisburg
1894-98           York Trinity
1898-02           superintendent, Williamsport District
1902-06           superintendent, Centre District
1906-10           Williamsport First
1910-14           Lock Haven
1914-19           Lewisburg
1919-23           Lemoyne
1923-27           Lock Haven
1927-30           Williamsport Trinity
1930                retired

 

Note: Edward Crumbling is a brother to Lincoln E. Crumbling.  A biographical sketch of Edward Crumbling is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 326.

 


 

CRUMBLING, LINCOLN ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 5-2-1861  Hellam PA                           married: Sarah Elizabeth Krout
Died: 10-29-1938  Lewistown PA                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 79

 

1883    license, Ebenezer on the East Prospect circuit
1885    ordained deacon
1887    ordained elder

 

Interment: Christ United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jacobus PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 83

 

1883-86           York circuit
1886-90           Hanover circuit
1890-93           Lewisberry
1893-97           Dillsburg
1897-01           Leesburg
1901-05           Hellam
1905-08           Marysville
1908-12           Alberton
1912-14           East Prospect
1914-16           York Christ
1916-19           Mount Holly Springs
1919-26           Lewistown Trinity
1926-33           Mexico
1933                retired

 

Note: Lincoln E. Crumbling is a brother to Edward Crumbling.

 


 

CURRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON F.

 

Born: 5-28-1845  near Harrisburg PA                        married: Minnie Rebecca Willow
Died: 12-21-1928  Berwick PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 58

 

1872    license, recommended by Milton
1874    ordained deacon
1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 83

 

1872-73           Sugar Valley
1873-74           Nittany Valley
1874-75           Chanceford
1875-77           East Prospect
1877-79           Newport and Patterson
1879-82           White Deer
1882-83           Ransom
1883-86           Center Hall
1886-89           Williamsport Bennet Street
1889-92           located
1892-95           Glen Rock
1895-99           Bloomsburg
1899-03           Williamsport St. Paul
1903-07           Williamsport St. John
1907-11           South Williamsport Grace
1911-12           Baltimore Christ
1912-17           South Williamsport Grace
1917                located

 


 

DARBY, ADAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1847    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

1847-48           Bedford

1848                located

 


 

DAUBERMAN, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 9-10-1880  Troxelville PA                               married: Cora Lucinda Holtzer
Died: 11-23-1960  Red Lion PA                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 107

 

1919    license, recommended by Mountain Chapel on the New Berlin circuit
1921    ordained deacon
1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: Springville Cemetery, near Craley PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 88

 

1919-23           Wapwallopen
1923-26           East Point
1926-33           Morgan Mission
1933-38           Lewisberry
1938-48           Craley

1948                retired

 


 

DAUBERT, RAY SIGNOR

 

Born: 12-29-1885  near Selinsgrove PA                    married: Sue Elsie Kerstetter
Died: 1-30-1949  Hanover PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 82

 

1906    license, recommended by Milton
1910    ordained deacon
1912    ordained elder

 

Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Milton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 98

 

1908-11           Luzerne circuit
1911-13           Nittany circuit
1913-15           Liverpool
1915-20           Lock Haven Mission
1920-23           Juniata
1923-24           West Milton
1924-30           Avis
1930-39           Hagerstown
1939-44           Danville

1944-49           Hanover



 

DAVIS, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 4-8-1834                                                            married: Etta K. Klinefelter

Died: 5-23-1910                                                          obit: [8/23/1840 – 12/19/1908]

 

1862    license

1864    ordained deacon, Pittsburgh Conference

1866    ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

Interment: Union Center Cemetery, Alva OK
Obit:

 

                        transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1864-66           Dempseytown

1866-68           Venango circuit

1872                transfer to Illinois Conference

                        transfer to Oklahoma Conference

 

Note: C.W. Davis is the father of Anna Davis Hollenbaugh, wife of Reuben C. Hollenbaugh, and is a brother to John H. Davis, Samuel E. Davis and William H. Davis.  Local records place him on the Shrewsbury circuit before he transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference, but this cannot be confirmed.  His grandfather David Davis Sr. (1761-1843) was a Methodist local preacher – see the 2014 volume of The Chronicle, page 101. 


 

DAVIS, HAROLD EDGAR

 

Born: 11-5-1895  Zion Grove PA                               married: Harriet Humbert Sullivan
Died: 2-27-1980  Wadsworth OH                              obit: [11/7/1898 – 9/4/1990]

 

1915    license

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA
Obit:

 

1915-19           student, Albright College

1919-23           student, Princeton Seminary

1923-27           missionary to China

                        Wassaic NY

 

 

Note: Harold E. Davis is the grandson of John H. Davis.  His Princeton records list him as being from Berwick PA.  He was married 7/27/1922.  His Wadsworth OH funeral was held in a Mennonite church.


 

DAVIS, J.B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1914    license

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

DAVIS, JOHN H.

 

Born: 3-1-1837  Columbia County PA                       married: Margaret Fry
Died: 10-24-1924  Hornell NY                                  obit: [1838 – 1912]

 

1888    license, recommended by Davis Chapel of the Ringtown charge
1894    ordained local deacon

Interment: Davis Chapel Cemetery, Columbia County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 81

 

Note:  John H. Davis is the brother of C.W. Davis, Samuel E. Davis and William Davis, and he is the grandfather of Harold E. Davis.  He served as a local preacher.  His grandfather David Davis Sr. (1761-1843) was a Methodist local preacher – see the 2014 volume of The Chronicle, page 101.

 


 

DAVIS, SAMUEL E.

 

Born: 1834                                                                  married: Mariah B. Baker
Died: 1902                                                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 88

 

1859    license
1864    ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 72

 

1859-60           Buffalo circuit
1860-62           Clinton
1862-64           Wyoming
1864-65           Middle Creek
1865-66           Cherry circuit
1866-67           Muncy circuit
1897-69           Northumberland mission
1869-71           Hagerstown
1871-73           Middle Creek
1873-75           Cumberland
1875-77           Dillsburg
1877-80           Lewisberry
1880-82           Bloomsburg
1882                transfer to Pacific Conference

1882-83           Salem OR mission

1883-84           Dayton OR mission

1884                charter member of Oregon Conference

1884-85           ?

1885-88           Albany

1888-89           without appointment

1889                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1889-90           Hilands Mission
1890-93           Centre Hall
1893-96           Port Trevorton
1896-97           Fishing Creek Valley
1897-00           Juniata
1900                retired

 

Note:  Samuel E. Davis is the brother of C.W. Davis, John H. Davis and William Davis, and he reportedly is the grandfather of a Rev. Hollenbaugh of the Baptist Church in Oregon [but that may be a misstatement].  His grandfather David Davis Sr. (1761-1843) was a Methodist local preacher – see the 2014 volume of The Chronicle, page 101.  His daughter Emma Mary Davis Hollenbaugh is the wife of James A. Hollenbaugh.

 


 

DAVIS, W.J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1880    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

1896-97           Ashland, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Note: There is a W.J.W. Davis who died 1/2/1922 buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Neosho MO.


 

DAVIS, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 1830                                                                  married:
Died: 8-9-1902                                                            obit:


1864    ordained deacon
1866    ordained elder

 

Interment: Union Center Cemetery, Alva OK
Obit:

 

1863-65           Shrewsbury
1865-67           Hagerstown
1867-68           Perry
1868-69           Liverpool
1869-71           Danville
1871-72           located
1872-73           White Deer
1873-75           located
1875-76           Milton circuit
                        transfer to Des Moines Conference

 

Note:  William H. Davis is the brother of C.W. Davis, Samuel E. Davis and John H. Davis.  His grandfather David Davis Sr. (1761-1843) was a Methodist local preacher – see the 2014 volume of The Chronicle, page 101.

 


 

DAYTON, ISAAC R.

 

Born: 12-30-1873                                                        married: Emma Grace Hartzell
Died: 10-27-1924                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 78

 

1894    license

Interment: Mt. Holly Springs Cemetery, Mt. Holly Springs PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 79

 

1894-95           Cumberland
1895-96           South Wayland NY circuit (did not finish the year)
1896                name removed; page 68

 

Note: Isaac R. Dayton is the father of Manville W. Dayton.

 


 

DAYTON, MANVILLE WILLIAM

 

Born: 6-25-1895  Bloomsburg PA                             married: Gertrude E. Ziegler
Died: 1-1-1969  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 145

 

1917    license, recommended by Carlisle First
1921    ordained deacon
1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Holly Springs Cemetery, Mt. Holly Springs PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 210


1919-20           Liverpool
1920-21           South Wayland NY
1921-24           Pennsdale
1924-26           Lopez
1926-28           Spring Mills
1928-32           McClure
1932-35           Wellsville
1935-37           Ransom
1937-39           Avis
1939-40           supply
1940-42           Keystone
1942-44           without appointment
1944-51           disability leave
1951                retired

 

Note: Manville W. Dayton is the son of Isaac R. Dayton


 

DEIBLER, M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

license

Interment:
Obit:

 

1812-13           Lancaster

1813-14           Franklin

 


 

DEININGER, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK

 

Born: 1-4-1826                                                            married: Mary A. Reesman

Died: 7-17-1888  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 49

 

1852    ordained deacon
1854    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1889, 34

 

1850-51           Columbia
1851-52           Cherry circuit
1852-54           York
1854-56           Cumberland
1856-58           Shrewsbury
1858-60           Baltimore Green Street
1860-62           Union circuit
1862-63           agent for Union Seminary, New Berlin PA
1863-64           Lewisburg
1864-67           missionary to San Francisco CA
1867-70           Salem OR
1870-71           Washington DC
1871-72           superintendent, Carlisle District
1872-75           superintendent, Baltimore District
1875-77           York Queen Street
1877-80           Center circuit
1880-83           Middleburg
1883-85           New Berlin
1885-86           located
1886-88           York Queen Street

 

Note: C.F. Deininger is the father of Lillie Frances Deininger Bollinger, wife of Edward S. Bollinger and the brother of Anna Maria [Mary] Deininger Keen, the mother of Emanuel D. Keen and Rosa E. Keen [Mrs. Milton I.] Jamison.  A biographical sketch of C.F. Deininger is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 313.

 


 

DEISHER, REUBEN

 

Born: 12-18-1822                                                        married: Rebecca A. Hoffman
Died: 10-20-1902                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference UE 1900, 43

 

1844    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

            ordained deacon

ordained elder

 

Interment: Linden Street Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference UE 1903, 78

 

1876                charter member of Atlantic Conference

1876-79           New York City 53rd  Street

1879-80           no appointment

1880-82           York

1882                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: This surname also appears as DEISCHER.

 


 

DEITZ, MILLARD K.

 

Born: c1896                                                                married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1920    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

Note: M.K. Deitz was a 1926 graduate of Albright College.  The 1928 alumni directory lists him as a minister in Philadelphia.  He appears to be serving in Patterson MJ in 1929.  His home church was York St. Paul’s, where he was elected KLCE vice president in 1916.   


 

DELLINGER, GEORGE

 

Born: 9-15-1811 Windsor twp, York County PA      married: Elizabeth Stahley
Died: 6-29-1878  Union County PA                           obit: [c1812 –  >1870]

 

1837    license

1841    ordained elder

 

Interment: Canadochly Lutheran Cemetery, York County PA
Obit:

 

1837-38           Lake circuit
1838-39           Somerset circuit
1839-41           Armstrong
1841-43           Gettysburg circuit
1843-44           Washington circuit
1844-46           Perry circuit
1846-48           Strassburg
1848-50           Clarion
1850-51           Union circuit
1851-53           Center
1853-54           Clarion
1854-56           York circuit
1856-58           Middle Creek
1858-74           located and went West
1874                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

 



DEOBLER, NOAH

 

Born: 1823  Union County PA                                   married: Mrs. Catharine Slear Sierer
Died: 10-28-1898  Snyder County PA                       obit: [1/8/1814 – 12/15/1896]

 

1854    ordained deacon
1857    ordained elder

 

Interment: Schreiner’s Cemetery, Hummels Wharf PA
Obit:

 

1857-59           Baltimore circuit
1859-61           Clinton
1861-62           Lycoming
1862-63           Center
1863                located

 

Note: This surname is also given as DEABLER and DOEBLER.  The first husband of Mrs. Deobler (nee Slear) was a John P. Sierer.

 


 

DERRICK, R.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:


1874    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1872-75           Newberry
1875-77           Seneca
1877-78           Prospect
1878                withdrew and moved to Iowa

 


 

DETWILER, WILLIAM E.

 

Born: 1843  near East Prospect PA                            married: Catherine Mauck
Died: 1924                                                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 95

 

1863    license
1865    ordained deacon
1867    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 76

 

1863-64           Cumberland
1864-65           Perry
1865-66           Conewago
1866-67           Buffalo
1867-69           Lock Haven
1869-71           Marysville
1871-74           Danville
1874-75           Lewisburg
1875-78           Nittany Valley
1878-79           Williamsport Bennet Street
1879-83           superintendent, Lewisburg District
1883-87           superintendent, Williamsport District
1887-89           Shrewsbury
1889-91           York King Street
1891-95           superintendent, Carlisle District
1895-98           superintendent, Williamsport District
1898-01           agent for Central Pennsylvania College
1901-03           Williamsport St. John
1903-04           Carlisle
1904-05           financial agent for Albright College
1905-09           Hanover
1909-12           Mount Holly Springs
1912-15           Marysville
1915-19           Danville
1919                retired

 

Note: William E. Detwiler is a brother to Elizabeth Detwiler Bentz, wife of J.W. Bentz.  A biographical sketch of W.E. Detwiler is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 319.

 


 

DeWIRE, HARRY ALBERT

 

Born: 4-24-1914  Scranton PA                                   married: Marian Heck

Died: 6-5-2001  Dayton OH                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 164

 

1935    license, recommended by Milton First
1942    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rockafield Cemetery, Fairborn OH
Obit:

 

1936-41           Baltimore St. John
1941-45           Nescopeck
1945-48           Quincy MA, New England Conference
1948-82           faculty, Evangelical School of Theology/United Theological Seminary

1982                retired

 

Note: Harry A. DeWire is a brother to Dora Mary DeWire Miller, wife of Joseph H. Miller.

 


 

DICE, LEVI

 

Born: 9-13-1842  Freysville PA                                 married: Mary Isabelle Ilgenfritz
Died: 2-27-1928  Marysville PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 83

 

1872    license
1876    ordained deacon
1878    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 92

 

1874-75           McVeytown
1875-76           McClure
1876-78           Mifflinburg circuit
1878-79           Peach Bottom circuit
1879-82           Jarrettsville
1882-85           Lewisberry
1885-88           Cumberland
1888-91           Lycoming
1891-94           Zion's Grove
1894-96           Loganville
1896-00           McClure
1900-02           Sugar Valley
1902-06           Buffalo circuit
1906-07           Port Trevorton
1907-11           Ranson
1911-15           Williamsport circuit
1915-16           Wapwallopen
1916-17           Milesburg
1917-18           West Milton
1918                retired

 

Note: Levi Dice is the father of Lyman M. Dice and Walter J. Dice and Edna Dice Bingman, wife of J. Frederick Bingman.

 


 

DICE, LYMAN MARTIN

 

Born: 2-10-1870  Marysville PA                                married: Alice Gertrude Baker
Died: 9-30-1948  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 99

 

1896    license, recommended by Pike class on Millmont circuit
1898    ordained deacon
1900    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Lemoyne PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 97

 

1896-99           Liberty
1899-01           Grover
1901-05           Wayland
1905-09           Williamsport St. John
1909-13           Nescopeck
1913-17           Mechanicsburg
1917-22           Hagerstown
1922-24           Jersey Shore
1924-29           Marysville
1929-34           Lewistown Trinity
1934-38           Williamsport Grace
1938                retired

 

Note: Lyman M. Dice is the son of Levi Dice and is a brother to Walter J. Dice and Edna Dice Bingman, wife of J. Frederick Bingman.  He is also a first cousin to the father of Martha A. Dice Geiger, husband of Francis J. Geiger of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 


 

DICE, WALTER JONATHAN

 

Born: 12-29-1876  Forest Hill            PA                               married: Bella Rose Freed
Died: 7-2-1958  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 373

 

1898    license
1900    ordained deacon
1902    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hills Cemetery, Beavertown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 105

 

1898-99           Newport
1899-00           Milesburg
1900-03           Liverpool
1903-06           East Point
1906-10           Warrensville
1910-14           Millheim
1914-19           Bloomsburg
1919-24           Baltimore Bethany
1924-31           Lewisburg
1931-39           superintendent, Williamsport District
1939-48           Hagerstown

1948                retired

 

Note: Walter J. Dice is the son of Levi Dice and is a brother to Lyman M. Dice and Edna Dice Bingman, wife of J. Frederick Bingman.  He is also a first cousin to the father of Martha A. Dice Geiger, husband of Francis J. Geiger of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  A biographical sketch of Walter Jonathan Dice is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 341.

 


 

DICK, CALVIN J.

 

Born: 12-1-1850  York County PA                            married: Emma Adeline Skivington
Died: 10-6-1931  Farrandsville PA                            obit: [8/6/1859 – 2/26/1943]

 

1886    license
1888    ordained deacon
1890    ordained elder

 

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Marysville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 75

 

1886-87           Turbotville

1887-90           Wyoming

1890-91           Tunkhannock

1891-92           Columbia circuit

1892-94           Luzerne

1894-03           located

1903-05           Wellsville

1905-11           located

1911-15           Lock Haven mission

1915-17           Williamsport circuit

1917-19           Hebbville

1919-20           Brooklyn

1920                located

 

Note: Calvin J. Dick is the brother of Jeremiah M. Dick and the father of Jancy M. Dick and H. Roy Dick.  Death notices appear in the conference journal for three daughters: Elsie Mildred (infant 1903, 74), Fannie (age 19 1904, 61), and Mamie (age 14 1904, 61).

 


 

DICK, HARRY ROY

 

Born: 4-17-1892  Evansville PA                                married: Mary Seitz
Died: 1-?-1957  Roscoe NY                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 72

                                                                                    married2: Clara Rebecca Shambaugh [6/21/1923]

1914    license, recommended by Lock Haven           obit2: [2/25/1902 – 7/24/2003]
1917    ordained deacon
1919    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Lock Haven PA
Obit:

 

1915-20           Mount Rock
1920-23           Bellwood
1923-28           Scranton
1928-32           Baltimore Walbrook
1932-39           Glen Rock
1939-45           Hanover

1945-48           without appointment

1948                retired

                        “transfer” to the Baptist Church

                        Chester

                        East Smithfield PA

 

Note: H. Roy Dick is the son of Calvin J. Dick, the brother of Jancy M. Dick, and the father of Baptist pastor James M. Dick.  While church records consistently name him as Roy H. Dick, his own biographical form gives the name Harry Roy Dick.  The second Mrs. Dick is a niece of William Ira Shambaugh.

 


 

DICK, JANCY MARTIN

 

Born: 10-16-1887  Washingtonville PA                     married: Zulu A. Krater
Died: 7-1-1968  Williamsport PA                              obit:

                                                                                    married2: Bernice Sauter

1918    ordained deacon                                              obit2: [5/6/1915 – 5/?/1976]
1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Liberty Baptist Cemetery, Blanchard PA
Obit:

 

1916-19           East Point
1919-24           Warrensville
1924-29           Berwick St. Paul
1929-31           Lewistown Grace
1931-32           Northumberland
1932-33           located
1933                surrendered license

                        “transfer” to the Baptist Church

                        Canton PA

 

Note: J.M. Dick is the son of Calvin J. Dick and the brother of H. Roy Dick. 

 


 

DICK, JEREMIAH M.

 

Born: 5-3-1853  Marysville PA                                  married: Alice Conrad
Died: 2-3-1920  Seattle WA                                       obit: [7/?/1854 – 5/27/1942]

 

1880    license
1882    ordained deacon
1884    ordained elder

 

Interment: Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA
Obit:

 

1880-81           Nittany Valley
1881-82           Center
1882-84           Liverpool
1884-87           Lock Haven
1887                transfer to Oregon Conference

1887-89           Salem

1889-90           Corvallis station

1890                identifies with the Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1890-91           East Portland

1891-92           Albina, St. Johns & Lacamas

1892-93           Albina & St. Johns

1893                no longer listed

 

Note: Jeremiah M. Dick is a brother to Calvin J. Dick.  He became a pastor in the Congregational Church.  This name is sometimes given as James M. Dick, and some sources give Mrs. Dick as June M.

 


 

DICK, JOSEPH

 

Born: 1823                                                                  married:
Died: 1887                                                                  obit:

 

1847    ordained deacon
1849    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1844-45           Baltimore County mission
1845-46           Union circuit
1846-47           Center
1847-48           Cherry circuit
1848-49           Venango
1849-51           Warren
1851-52           Venango circuit
                        transfer to Pittsburg Conference

 

Note: Joseph Dick is an uncle to Jeremiah M. Dick and Calvin J. Dick.


 

DICKERT, WILSON CHAPPELL JR.

 

Born: 4-3-1928  Washington DC                               married: Joyce Marie Kummell
Died: 3-1-2006  Reading PA                                      obit: [10/10/1927 – 12/20/2005]

 

1949    license, recommended by Washington DC Albright Memorial

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 414

 

1950-54           Dorsey
1954-59           Runville
1959-62           Lycoming circuit
1962-70           Jacobus

1970                retired

 


 

DIEHL, JEROME FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-12-1898  Wrightsville PA                             married: Mary Olive Thomas
Died: 4-3-1974                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 348

 

1930    license, recommended by Wrightsville Grace
1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 418

 

1931-35           Manchester and Yorkshire
1935-39           Williamsport circuit
1939-41           Glen Rock
1941-51           Milton First

1951-59           Williamsport St. John

1959-66           York Bethany

1966                retired

                             1966-73  Yoe Christ

 


 

DIENER, PAUL WILLIAM JR.

 

Born: 11-20-1928  Lebanon PA                                 married: Shirley A. Brown

Died: 8-19-2008  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 341

 

1949    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference (EV) of the EUB Church

            recommended by Palmyra Bethany

1954    ordained deacon

 

Interment: First Presbyterian Churchyard, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 416

 

1949-55           Charlton

1955-71           missionary, Philippines

1971                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1971-78           York Christ

1978-85           faculty, York College

1985                withdrew to another denomination

1986                reinstated

1986-96           faculty, York College

1996                retired

 


 

DIETTERICH, ELMER ELSWORTH

 

Born: 6-28-1861  Millville PA                                   married: Mary Bell Tyson
Died: 4-22-1932  Lycoming County PA                    obit: [8/3/1863 – 11/14/1917]

 

1880    license

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Montgomery PA
Obit:

 

1880                reportedly, no appointments available

                        withdrew and united with the Lutheran Church

                        Stone Valley

1891-95           Sugar Valley

1895-00           Ickesburg

1900-02           Lemoyne

1902-05           Duncannon

1905-16           New Chester, Adams County

1916 -24          St. John’s [Brick Church], Clinton township, Lycoming County

1924                retired

 

Note: E.E. Dietterich is the son of H.A. Dietterich.  This surname is also given as DIETRICH and DIETTERICK.  A picture of H.A. Dietterich appears in the 1917 History of the Susquehanna Synod, page 86.  Mrs. Dietterich was killed by a train while walking to a gathering to sew bandages for the Red Cross.

 


 

DIETTERICH, HENRY ALONZO

 

Born: 4-21-1838  Columbia County PA                     married: Tamar M. Evans
Died: 3-22-1899                                                          obit: [1841 – 1924]

 

1859    license
1861    ordained deacon

Interment: Christ Lutheran Stone Church Cemetery, Allenwood PA
Obit:

 

1858-69           Columbia (second half of year, replaced George P. Weber)

1859-61           Luzerne
1861-62           Montour
1862-64           Buffalo
1864-66           Wyoming
1866-67           Gettysburg circuit
1867-68           Located
1868-70           Big Spring
1870-72           Conewago circuit
1872-73           Cumberland
1873-76           Perry circuit
1876-77           Jersey Shore
                        withdrew and united with the Lutheran Church

1880-81           Espy & Briar Creek

1881-87           White Deer Valley

1888-92           Salona

 

Note: H.A. Dietterich is the father of E.E. Dietterich and of Lutheran pastor James Eugene Dietterich (1858-1938), and he is a brother to Rev. John F. Dietterich of the Lutheran Church.  Mrs. Dietrich is a sister to Minerva Evans Hornberger, wife of Zachariah Hornberger.  This surname is also given as DIETRICH and DIETTERICK.  A picture of H.A. Dietterich appears in the 1917 History of the Susquehanna Synod, page 62.  He is the author of the 1892 book A Wonder of Grace: or 33 years in the ministry.

 


 

DIMMICK, VANCE MAURICE JR.

 

Born: 1938  Danville PA                                            married: Ann Prothero
Died: 11-20-2014  MI                                                 obit:

 

1958    license, recommended by Bellefonte Trinity

1966    ordained

Interment:
Obit:

 

1958-62           student, Albright College in Reading PA

                             1961           Philadelphia Belfield Avenue (7/1/1961 – 10/1/1961)

1962                Lock Haven circuit (June, July)

1962-66           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1963-64      Hepburn circuit, Ohio-Sandusky Conference

1966-69           assistant, Hegerstown St. Paul’s

1969-72           Hellam

1972-77           Catawissa First

1977                transfer to West Michigan Conference

                        Weidman

                        Grand Rapids Northlawn and Faith

 


 

DOERSTLER, ABRAHAM HARTZLER

 

Born: 6-21-1853  Creswell PA                                   married: Lazena Hershey

Died: 9-5-1926  Slatington PA                                   obit:

 

1885    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference
1897    ordained deacon

1906    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 63

 

1891                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1896                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

1908                Catasauqua Emanuel

 

Note: The obituary of Abraham H. Doerstler states that he was a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891-1896, but no record of him or any service by him can be found.  The 1910 census places him and his family in Lehigh PA.

 


 

DOSCH, GEORGE HAYES

 

Born: 8-13-1870  York PA                                         married: Jennie A. Walter
Died: 4-18-1918  Woodward PA                               obit: [8/16/1862 – 9/19/1934]

 

1892    license

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, East Prospect PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1918, 33

 

                        transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1908-10           Elton, Salix & South Fork

1910-13           ?

1913-14           Portage & Point

1914-17           Gravel Pit, Hyndman & Palo Alto


 

DOUTY, H.H.

 

Born: 1845                                                                  married: Adda _____
Died: 1900  Mexico PA                                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 79

 

1879    license
1880    ordained deacon
1882    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 76

 

1879-80           Susquehanna
1880-82           Wyoming
1882-84           Luzerne
1884-86           Chanceford
1886-87           Shrewsbury
1887-88           York circuit
1888-91           Jarretsville
1891-94           Alberton
1894-95           East Prospect
1895-96           Newport and Marysville
1896-00           Warrensville
1900                Juniata circuit

 


 

DREISBACH, JOHN

 

Born: 6-5-1789  New Berlin PA                                 married: Catharine Eyer
Died: 8-20-1871  Circleville OH                                obit: [3/11/1785 – 4/12/1815]

                                                                                    married2: Frehne [Fanny] Eyer

1807    license                                                             obit2: [9/22/1791 – 11/26/1876]
1809    ordained elder

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Circleville OH
Obit:

 

1807-09           Northumberland

1809-10           Schuylkill

1810-11           Northumberland

1811-12           Franklin

1812-13           “new”

1813-14           “new”

1814-15           conference superintendent

1854-57           editor, Evangelical Messenger

 

Note: John Dreisbach’s wives were sisters –  daughters of Abraham Eyer of the famed Eyer’s barn in Winfield PA where the notable 1816 General Conference was held.  Their sister Mary Eyer Neibel was the wife of Henry Neibel.  John Dreisbach is a double first cousin to the father of Simon Dresbach (1802-1867) of the United Brethren Church – see Simon’s page in the United Brethren file for the details.


 

DRESSLER, GEORGE

 

Born: 10-22-1801                                                        married: Sarah Fisher
Died: 1883                                                                  obit: [12/1/1803 – 1885]

 

1839    license

1860    ordained deacon

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, New Buffalo PA
Obit:

 

Note: George Dressler appears to have been a local pastor, as there is no record that he was ever under appointment.  He lived in New Buffalo and was involved with the short-lived Evangelical Association congregation in that community.


 

DUBS, NOAH JACOB

 

Born: 7-25-1870  York County PA                            married: Ida May Floray
Died: 7-31-1948  Mifflinburg PA                              obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 212

 

1895    license, Pleasant Hill class on the Hanover circuit
1898    ordained deacon
1902    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Side Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 96

 

1896-97           Spring Mills

1897-99           Dorsey

1899-02           Rebersburg

1902-06           Penns Creek

1906-09           located

1909-10           Bellefonte circuit

1910-14           Millmont

1914-19           Mexico

1919-26           Mifflinburg

1926-31           Hummels Wharf

1931                retired


 

DUFFEY, AMBROSE OLIVER

 

Born: 4-10-1851                                                          married: Harriet Ellen Ripley
Died: 1924                                                                  obit:

 

1893    license

Interment: Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito CA
Obit:

 

Note: Ambrose Duffey was a trustee and lay member of the Oregon Hill Church, Lycoming County.  Ambrose and Harriet divorced about 1898, and Harriet married a William Faulkrod.


 

DUMM, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1869    license
1874    ordained deacon

Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 17

 

Note:  John Dumm is described as “a local preacher on Perry circuit” who “died at a ripe old age.”


 

DUNKELBERGER, EDWIN E.

 

Born: 3-24-1888  Richfield PA                                  married: Alice Ellen Lyter

Died: 8-14-1959  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 403

 

1923    license

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Richfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 88

         

1923                transfer to the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1923-26           Waukesha

1926-30           Orbisonia

1930-34           Middleburg

1934-36           Altoona Schum Memorial and Altoona Wehnwood

1936-37           Altoona Schum Memorial

1937-42           South Williamsport

1942-46           Mapleton

1946-51           retired

                             1949-51      Middleburg

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference 

1951-52           Middleburg

1952-54           Mifflin

1954                retired

 

Note: E. E. Dunkelberger is a nephew of Allen Dunkelberger (1858-1936) of the Miami Conference of the United Brethren Church and the father of Irene Dunkelberger Baker, wife of Warren A. Baker.

 


 

DUNLAP, IRVING RAY

 

Born: 2-4-1884  Red Lion PA                                    married: Iva Guiley
Died: 8-11-1952  Middleburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 437

 

1908    license
1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 78

 

1908                Dearfield (part year)

1908-09           Dixon (part year)
1908-33           missionary to China
1933-36           Baltimore Immanuel  
1936-43           Williamsport St. Paul

1843-46           Berwick North [Bethany]

1946-50           Glen Rock

1950-52           Middleburg

 

Note: Irving Ray Dunlap is the son of John F. Dunlap.  Biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. I.R. Dunlap are given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 355-357.


 

DUNLAP, JAMES A.

 

Born: 1841  York County PA                                     married: Anna Maria Lichtenberger [1870]
Died: 3-22-1913  Addison PA                                    obit: [3/18/1844 – 6/9/1906]

 

1863    license

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit:

 

                        transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1870-72           Bedford circuit (Salix, Scalp Level, etc.)

1875-76           Dubois Trinity

1876-79           Brookville

                        “transfer” to the Lutheran Church

1896-98           Berlin PA

1898-01           Sinking Valley PA St. Johns

                        Tyrone?

1903-10           Lilly PA St Lukes

 

Note: James A. Dunlap is a nephew to James Dunlap and an uncle to John F. Dunlap.  He is also a brother to Rev. George W. Dunlap (1853-1928) of the Lutheran Church.


 

DUNLAP, JAMES

 

Born: 11-24-1809                                                        married: Sarah Ferrel

Died: 12-1-1884                                                          obit: [2/27/1809 – 4/27/1878]

 

1842    license
1843    ordained deacon
1845    ordained elder

 

Interment: Naperville Cemetery, Naperville IL
Obit:

 

1842                Cumberland
1842-45           Perry
1845-47           Columbia
1847-49           Cumberland
1849-53           superintendent, Susquehanna District
1853-54           Franklin
1854-56           Leesburg
1856-57           Cumberland
1857-58           superintendent, Susquehanna District
                        located and moved to Naperville Ill.

1864                transfer to Illinois Conference

 

Note: James Dunlap is an uncle to James A. Dunlap.  He was a delegate to the 1851 General Conference and an original 1854 trustee of Union Seminary in New Berlin.  The 1937 History of the Illinois Conference, page 321, says that James Dunlap is buried in Burlington MO.

 


 

DUNLAP, JOHN FRANCIS

 

Born: 7-10-1865  York PA                                         married: Mary Ellen Knisley
Died: 1-1-1941  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 79

                                                                                    married2: Esther Elmeda Smith

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 96
1888    license, Illinois Conference, recommended by Naperville English mission                         

1891    ordained deacon

1893    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 86

 

1888-89           student, Union Biblical Institute at Naperville IL

1889                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1889-90           Columbia circuit
1890-91           West Clifford
1891-93           Danville
1893-96           Nescopeck
1896-97           Marysville
1897-01           Lewisburg
1901-04           Lock Haven
1904-06           Williamsport First
1906-10           superintendent, Williamsport District
1910-15           president, Albright College
1915-19           superintendent, York District
1919-23           superintendent, Lewisburg District
1923-34           bishop
1934                retired

 

Note: John F. Dunlap is a nephew to James A. Dunlap and the father of Irving Ray Dunlap.  A biographical sketch of John Francis Dunlap is given in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 332.

 


 

DUNN, EDWARD BROWN

 

Born: 1-28-1868  near Winchester VA                      married: Mary A. Keck [5/14/1889]
Died: 1-7-1945  Philadelphia PA                               obit: [4/?/1869 – 7/19/1901]

                                                                                    married2: Ida M. Anderson [6/11/1903]

1894    license, recommended by Hebbville               obit2: [5/1/1876 – 14/24/1963]

1896    ordained deacon
1898    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lorraine Park Cemetery, Woodlawn MD
Obit:

 

1894-98           Washingtonville
1898-02           Muncy Valley
1902-06           Danville
1906-09           Nescopeck
1909-13           Glen Rock
1913-17           Williamsport St. John
1917-21           Bellefonte
1921-24           Baltimore Memorial
1924-31           Berkeley Springs
1931-33           Hebbville
1933                withdrew

 

Note: In 1937 Edward B. Dunn was a minister in Philadelphia, affiliation unknown. 

 


 

EBERHART, LEVI

 

Born: 12-4-1822  PA                                                  married: Rebecca Rowena Xander
Died: 12-29-1909  Des Plaines IL                              obit: [6/?/1828 – 6/24/1919]

 

1841    license
1843    ordained deacon
1845    ordained elder

 

Interment: Newton Union Cemetery, Newton IA
Obit: Illinois Conference (UE) 1910, 74

 

1841-42           Indiana circuit
1842-43           Baltimore Mission
1843-46           Pittsburgh
1846-47           Venango
1847-49           York Station
1849-51           Cumberland
1851-52           Baltimore circuit
                        located and went West

1857                transfer to Illinois Conference

1861                charter member of the Iowa Conference

1861-62           presiding elder, Kansas District [resigned because of illness]

 

Note: Levi Eberhart is a brother to Uriah Eberhart and to Jeremiah S. Eberhart (1836-1921) of the Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  This surname also appears as EBERHARDT.  The surname of Mrs. Eberhart also appears as Sanders, which was the surname of her parents and siblings, but she seems to have used Xander.

 


 

EBERHART, URIAH

 

Born: 7-4-1821  Westmoreland County PA               married: Catherine Margaret Giesey
Died: 9-17-1899  Chicago IL                                     obit: [4/22/1824 – 3/3/1858]

                                                                                    married2: Lovica Ann May

1843    license                                                             obit2: Upper Iowa Conference (ME) 1922, 437
1845    ordained deacon
1847    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago IL
Obit: Upper Iowa Conference (ME) 1899, 362

 

1843-44           Somerset
1844-46           Westmoreland
1846-47           Cumberland
1847-48           Franklin
1848-49           Strassburg [Shrewsbury]
1849-52           presiding elder, Somerset District
                        transferred to Pittsburg Conference

                        transferred to Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Note: Uriah Eberhart is a brother to Levi Eberhart and to Jeremiah S. Eberhart (1836-1921) of the Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  This surname also appears as EBERHARDT.  A picture of Uriah Eberhart appears in the 1907 History of the Upper Iowa Conference (ME), opposite page 128.


 

ECKERT, DANIEL

 

Born: 6-27-1809  Lebanon County PA                      married: Catherine Strome [Strohm]
Died: 11-4-1886  OH                                                  obit: [2/24/1811 – 12/12/1864]

 

1843    ordained deacon

Interment: Haldeman Cemetery, Morrow County OH
Obit:

 

Note: Daniel Eckert lived in Cumberland County PA until about 1855.  He then moved to Ohio and is said to have pastored Evangelical churches there 1857-59.



 

EDGER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

?          license
1843    ordained deacon
1847    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1842-43           York circuit
1843-45           Bedford
1845-46           Somerset
1846-47           1ocated
1847-48           Indiana circuit
1848                Warren

 

Note: This is not the Rev. John Edgar who was the principal at Bloomfield Academy in Perry County PA in the 1870’s and later president of Wilson College in Chambersburg.


 

ENTZ, HERBERT SAMUEL

 

Born: 5-10-1902  Lycoming County PA                    married: Lillian Gertrude Wilson
Died: 9-25-1984                                                          obit: [8/19/1900 – 1/14/1993]

 

1928    license, recommended by Montoursville

1930    ordained deacon
1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: State Road Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 406

 

1927-28           Lopez

1928-30           West Nanticoke
1930-36           Columbia circuit
1936-43           Felton
1943-46           Millheim
1946-57           Lycoming
1957-61           Houserville
1961-65           Danville-Milton

1965-68           Lycoming

1968                retired

                             1968-69      Salladasburg St. John’s Chapel (beginning 11/68)

                                                Salladasburg Pine Run (beginning 1/69)

 


 

EPLEY, BENJAMIN

 

Born: 9-11-1810  PA                                                  married: Salome Hickman
Died: 3-22-1896  Shell Rock IA                                obit: [11/18/1814 – 11/15/897]

 

?          license
?          ordained deacon
1841    ordained elder

 

Interment: Harlington Cemetery, Waverly IA
Obit:

 

1837-38           Somerset
1838-39           Columbia
1839-40           Lykens circuit
1840-41           Union circuit
1841-42           Lycoming
1842-43           Indiana circuit
1843-45           Lycoming
1845                transfer to Illinois Conference

1845-46           Rock River circuit

1846-47           Madison mission

1847-48           Galena

1848-49           Iowa mission

1849-50           Racine

1850-51           ?

1851                located

 

Note: This surname is also given as EPPLEY.

 


 

ERB, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

license

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1809-10           Northumberland

1810-11

1811-12           Northumberland

1812-13           Lancaster

1813                located on account of bodily infirmity

 


 

ERB, PAUL JACOB

 

Born: 9-22-1924  McClure PA                                   married: Betty Jane Peck (4/21/1946)]
Died: 8-11-2007  Camp Hill PA                                 obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by McClure

1955    ordained deacon
1958    ordained elder

 

Interment: McClure Union Cemetery, McClure PA
Obit: Florida Conference 2008,?

 

1958-65           Nescopeck

1965-66           South Williamsport

1966-               chaplain, US Navy

Norfolk VA

Coral Gables FL

Mims FL

Bokeelia FL

Pine Island FL

retired

 


 

ERTEL, DANIEL ANDREW.

 

Born: 7-30-1870  Penn Hall PA                                 married: Carrie Mae Ulrich
Died: 8-19-1929  Spring Mills PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 89

 

1911    license, recommended by Green Grove
1913    ordained deacon
1915    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fair View Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 81

 

1911-13           Port Treverton
1913-16           Nittany
1916-20           New Berlin
1920-23           Millmont
1923-24           Grover
1924-26           Salladasburg
1926                located

 


 

ETTINGER, ADAM

 

Born: 3-29-1787  York County PA                            married: Elizabeth Miller
Died: 11-2-1877  York PA                                         obit: [1787 – 1855]

 

?          license
?          ordained deacon
1841    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit:

 

1816-17           York circuit
1817-18           Lancaster circuit
1818-35           Located
1835-41           [first] editor, Der Christliche Botschafter, located
1841-42           York circuit
1842-44           superintendent, Zion District
1844-48           editor, Der Christliche Botschafter
1848-62           located
1862-63           Hartford circuit
1863-64           York circuit
1864-66           Baltimore circuit
1866-75           located
1875                transferred to the Atlantic Conference

 

Note: Adam Ettinger is the grandfather of Jesse M. Ettinger.  Adam Ettinger is the son of Rev. Adam Ettinger Sr (1760-1809) of the Reformed Church, a co-worker of Philip William Otterbein.  The archives contain a biographical file on the Ettinger family.

 


 

ETTINGER, JESSE M.

 

Born: 12-13-1846  York PA                                       married: Ella Boas (9/23/1875)
Died: 2-3-1895  York PA                                           obit:

 

1866    license
1869    ordained deacon
1871    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1895, 85

 

1867-68           Conewago circuit
1868-70           Shrewsbury
1870-73           Baltimore
1873-75           Carlisle
1875-76           Liverpool
1876-78           Leesburg
1878-79           East Prospect
1879-82           Berwick
1882-84           Lock Haven
1884-87           Juniata District
1887-91           presiding elder, York District
1891                resigned because of failing health

Note: Jesse M. Ettinger is the grandson of Adam Ettinger.  The archives contain a biographical file on the Ettinger family.  In appreciation for his service to the Church, the J.M. Ettinger memorial in Prospect Hill Cemetery was erected by the Historical Society of the United Evangelical Church in 1914.  Mrs. Ettinger is the daughter of Jacob Boas.

 


 

EVANS, H.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1879    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

 

Note:  This may be the Congregational Rev. H.M. Evans in Pittsburgh in the early 1900’s.

 


 

FAKE, STERLING ALBERT

 

Born: 1-15-1916  Mohnton PA                                  married: Cleo Violet Harding

Died: 10-17-2003  Allentown PA                              obit: Eastern PA Conference 1991, 7.311

                                                                                    married2: Mae Catherine Bendigo Helt

                                                                                    obit2: Eastern PA Conference 2000, 7.304

1942    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference

1947    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2004, ?

 

1942-45           student, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA

                            1944-45       Annville circuit

1945-48           Wayne circuit

1948-59           Lehigh circuit

1959-70           Danielsville

1970-75           Zionsville Salem

1975                retired

 

Note: Sterling A. Fake never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He is listed here because served Wayne circuit, now within the Susquehanna Conference.  The second Mrs. Fake (nee Bendigo)was the widow of a Mr. Lloyd R. Helt (1908-1970).


 

FARLEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 12-1-1878                                                          married: Ora May Thomas
Died: 5-5-1964                                                            obit: [1/2/1879 – 1/28/1966]

 

1920    license

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA
Obit:

 

Note: B.F. Farley is a first cousin to Hiram C. Farley.  He is listed as living in Marysville when he was licensed in 1920.  He later lived in Altoona and worked as a machinist in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops, retiring in 1945.

 


 

FARLEY, HIRAM CONRAD

 

Born: 3-7-1874                                                            married: Emma M. Moffit
Died: 7-24-1950                                                          obit: Platte River Conf. 1917, 46

                                                                                    married2: Mary E. _____

1899    license                                                             obit2: [1879-1973]

Interment: Ladies Union Cemetery, Stockton IL
Obit: Illinois Conference EV 1951, 74

 

1903-04           York Jackson Street
1904                transfer to Platte River Conference

 

Note: Hiram (Harry) C. Farley is a brother to Anna Mary Farley Cox, wife of William B. Cox.  He is also a first cousin to Benjamin F. Farley.  He is listed as living in Lewisburg when he was licensed in 1899.


 

FARNSWORTH, JACOB C.

 

Born: 6-23-1807  Northumberland County PA          married: Catherine Gentzle

Died: 12-24-1883                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 48

 

1843    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 52]

 

1843-44           Lehigh circuit
1844-46           Milford circuit
1846-47           Germantown circuit
1847-48           Northampton
1848-49           Pine Grove
1849-51           Harrisburg mission
1851-52           Lykens circuit
1852-54           Reading Station
1854-55           Dauphin circuit
1855-56           Womelsdorf circuit
1856                located
1857                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1857-59           Buffalo
1859-60           Boalsburg
1860-61           Perry circuit
1861-63           Liverpool
1863-64           Perry
1864-65           Port Trevorton
1865-67           Middle Creek
1867-69           Conewago
1869-70           White Ground
1870-72           York Queen Street
1872-73           Loganville

1873                retired
    1878  transfer to Atlantic Conference [along with York Queen Street]

 

Note: Jacob C. Farnsworth was converted and baptized by John Seybert in Eyer’s barn in Winfield PA.  He is the father of John Seibert Farnsworth (1850-1933) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.  His funeral services at the York Bethlehem EA church were is both German and English.

 


 

FAUS, WILLIAM ALFRED

 

Born: 5-7-1861  Unityville PA                                   married: Emily Ann Kerr

Died: 10-24-1942   Hughesville PA                           obit: Central PA Conference ME 1955, 237

 

1899    license

1901    ordained deacon

1903    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1943, 212

 

1899-01           West Clifford

1901-04           Waller

1904-06           Luzerne

1906-07           Dudley, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference ME

1907-09           Dudley

1909-11           Beach Haven

1911-12           Rohrsburg

1912-14           Orangeville-Light Street

1914-18           Millville

1918-21           White Haven

1921-23           Belleville

1923-27           Wilburton

1927                retired

 

Note: William A. Faus is related to several persons in the Methodist pastor file.  He is a nephew to Theodore S. Faus and Rachel R. Faus Beishline, and a cousin to George W. Faus. 

 


 

FENNER, JOHN [JOHANNES] H.

 

Born: 7-22-1845  Germany                                         married: Emma _____
Died: 9-8-1911                                                            obit: [8/28/1850 – 6/16/1928]

 

1871    license

1887    ordained deacon, Atlantic Conference

1889    ordained elder

Interment: Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro NJ
Obit: Atlantic Conference 1912, 27

 

1876                charter member of Atlantic Conference

1887-90           West Jersey and Bridgeton [Clarksboro] NJ

1890-93           Trenton NJ

1893-96           Philadelphia East Mission [Fifth Street]

1896-00           Philadelphia Broad Street [Germantown Avenue]

1900-01           Brooklyn Liberty Avenue [East New York]

1901-04           Trenton NJ

1904-08           Philadelphia Ninth Street

1908-10           Camden and Aura NJ

1910-11           Philadelphia Broad Street [Germantown Avenue]

 

Note: Johannes Fenner migrated to America as a youth, settled in Baltimore, and served as a local preacher 1871-1887, including 1871-76 in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  The widowed Mrs. Fenner later married a Mr. De Frehn.

 

 


 

FETTERMAN, KARL SHELLEY

 

Born: 12-26-1928  Berwick PA                                  married: Phyllis Elaine Shaffer
Died: 11-24-2008                                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 213

                                                                                    married2: Barbara Frey

                                                                                    obit2:

1948    license, recommended by Berwick First Baptist
1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 417

 

1955-57           First Baptist, Jamestown RI
1957-69           Warrensville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1959                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1959-63           Warrensville
1963-65           Centre Hall-Spring Mills

1965-77           Glen Rock

1977-86           Williamsport Newberry

1986-91           Wormleysburg St. Paul’s

1991                retired

 


 

FIESTER, MARK LAFAYETTE

 

Born: 6-12-1907  South Williamsport PA                  married: Grace Roberta Dexheimer
Died: 3-24-1996  Frisco CO                                       obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1997, 324

 

1930    license, page 60

 

Interment: Castle Rock Cemetery, Castle Rock CO
Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1996, 333

 

1930-34           student, Albright College

1934-37           student, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville IL

1937-38           Jersey City Salem, Atlantic Conference

1938                transfer to Atlantic Conference

1938-48           Jersey City Salem

1948                transfer to Colorado Conference

1948-53           Ordway

1953-65           Denver Grace

1965-72           Breckenridge

1972                retired             

 

Note: Mark L. Fiester is the author of Blasted Beloved Breckenridge (1973) and Look for Me in Heaven (1980).  Mrs. Fiester is the daughter of Robert D. Dexheimer (1879-1958) of the Illinois Conference.

 


 

FINKBINDER, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-27-1857  Lycoming County PA                    married: Elizabeth Klingelhoffer
Died: 7-25-1927  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 78

 

1879    license, recommended by Williamsport First
1881    ordained deacon
1883    ordained elder

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 90

 

1879-81           York circuit
1881-83           Dorsey
1883-85           Lewistown and Patterson
1885-87           Milton
1887-90           Columbia circuit
1890-91           Zion’s Grove
1891-94           Millheim
1894-97           Lewisburg
1897-99           Marysville
1899-01           Glen Rock
1901-03           Baltimore Olive Branch
1903-07           Red Lion
1907-10           Lock Haven
1910-13           Williamsport First
1913-17           Baltimore Grace
1917-20           Nescopeck
1920-23           York St. Paul
1923-27           Lemoyne
1927                retired

 


 

FISHER, FLOYD E.

 

Born: 1876                                                                  married: Mary Elizabeth Miller
Died: 6-16-1956                                                          obit: [1879 – 11/26/1944]

 

1898    license

1903    ordained deacon, Oregon Conference of the Evangelical Association
1905    ordained elder, Oregon Conference of the Evangelical Association


Interment: River View Cemetery, Portland OR
Obit: Pacific Northwest Conference 1956, 75

 

1901                transfer to Oregon Conference of the Evangelical Association

1901-02           Newburg

1902-03           Sweet Home & Sodaville

1903-04           Portland St. John’s

1904-10           Brooks

1910-12           Mapleton

1912-15           Hillsboro

1915-20           Eugene

1920-21           Dayton & Lafay

1921-23           Dayton

1923-25           Dayton & Lafay

1925-29           St. Johns

1929-30           Chehalem & Laurel

1930-31           Rickreal

1931-39           Dayton & Lafay

1939-44           Canby

1944-46           Portland W

1946                retired

                             Middle Grove

 


 

FISHER, WILBUR RAYMOND

 

Born: 4-17-1906  Mapleton Depot PA                       married: Ruth Naomi Moses
Died: 9-28-1973  Hershey PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 428

 

1936    license, recommended by Altoona Garden Heights
1940    ordained elder, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton Depot PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 419

1936-40           Altoona Wehnwood
1940-45           Shanksville
1945-48           Beaver Falls First
1948-52           Bellefonte Grace

1952                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1952-53           Bellefonte Grace
1953-58           Mechanicsburg Grace
1958-71           York Trinity

1971                retired


 

FLECKENSTINE, JAY HUDSON

 

Born: 1-7-1891  Milton PA                                        married: Hazel Beatrice Peck
Died: 1-29-1971  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 387

 

1910    license, recommended by Milton First
1914    ordained deacon
1916    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 370

 

1912-13           Bellefonte circuit
1913-17           Avis
1917-19           Lewistown Trinity
1919-23           Hummels Wharf
1923-27           Berwick North
1927-34           Williamsport
1934-39           Lewisburg
1939-58           York Trinity
1958                retired

     1958-59      York

     1960-62      Jacobus

 


 

FLICK, HERMAN L.

 

Born: 1-17-1892  near Sonestown PA                        married: Emma Lydia Honito
Died: 7-20-1945  near Forest Hill PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 89

 

1915    license
1921    ordained deacon

Interment: Forest Hill PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 83


1920-22           Mount Rock
1922-26           located
1926-28           York Bethany
1928                located

 

Note: Herman L. Flick is also reported to have served in Scranton and at two locations in the state of New York.

 


 

FLOHR, LeROY WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-25-1934  Cumberland County PA                 married: Joyce E. Pattison
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by Leesburg
1966    re-admitted on trial

1971    ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1960-62           Bryansville

1962-64           Lycoming (did not finish second year)

1964-66           withdrew

1966-70           West Nanticoke Calvary and Ransom

1970                transfer to Wyoming Conference by boundary change

1970-73           West Nanticoke Calvary

1973-85           Union Center

1985-96           Nimmonsburg

1996                retired

    2010  charter member Upper New York Conference


 

FOCHT, GEORGE

 

Born: 9-1-1833                                                            married: Catharine L. Turner
Died:                                                                           obit: Pittsburg Conference UE 1911, 55

 

1856    local preacher’s license

1860    license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1860    ordained deacon

Interment: Millville PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference UE 1892, 35

 

                        (records incomplete)

1860-61           Mt. Joy

1865                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1865-66           Zion

1880-82           Ringgold circuit

1886-87           Jefferson circuit

1889-91           Fairview circuit

                        (Pittsburg Conference as per obituary, not necessarily in order)

2 years             Rochester

2 years             Harmony

2 years             Salem

2 years             Marchand

1 year              Greensburg     

2 years             Lickingville

2 years             Marchand

2 years             Bedford

1 year              Salem 

3 years             Ringgold

1 year              Charleston

3 years             Fairview

1 year              Troutville

3 years             Mechanicsburg

 

Note: George Focht is the father of Emma W. Focht Dunlap (1858-1943), wife of George W. Dunlap (1853-1928) of the Pittsburgh Conference (and later, of the Lutheran Church in Kansas).  Through Emma, he is also the grandfather of Lutheran preacher Charles Robert Dunlap (1875-?) of Illinois.


 

FOSS, FRANK HERBERT

 

Born: 7-1-1873  Sweet Valley PA                              married: Cora May Carey
Died: 3-1-1942  Binghamton NY                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 79

 

1894    license
1896    ordained deacon
1898    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Christian Church Cemetery, Sweet Valley PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86

 

1894-95           Bernice and Lopez
1895-96           Milton circuit
1896-98           West Clifford
1898-01           Felton
1901-05           New Freedom
1905-09           Liverpool
1909-13           Columbia
1913-18           Centre Hall
1918-19           Loganton
1919-23           Howard
1923-27           Bellwood
1927-34           Leesburg
1934-39           Mt. Rock
1939                retired

 

Note: Frank H. Foss is a brother to James A. Foss.


 

FOSS, JAMES ARTHUR

 

Born: 2-26-1875                                                          married: Mathilda Lehr [5/12/1903]
Died: 5-30-1958                                                          obit: [1870-1921]

                                                                                    married2: Emma Bauchle [6/3/1923]

1902    ordained deacon                                              obit2: [1881-1970]
1904    ordained elder

 

Interment: Morganville Cemetery, Stafford NY
Obit:

 

1899-01           Susquehanna
1901-02           Nittany
1902-05           Milton circuit
1905-07           Milesburg circuit
1907-12           located
1912                withdrew

 

Note: James A. Foss is a brother to Frank H. Foss.


 

FOSSELMAN, MILLARD FILMORE

 

Born: 10-4-1856  Perry County PA                            married: Nancy Jane [Jennie] Gardner
Died: 3-20-1921 Williamsport PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 77

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Clara Rebecca Shuff Paul

1880    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 76
1883    ordained deacon
1885    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 76

 

1881-82           McClure
1882-85           Catawissa
1885-88           Luzerne
1888-91           Tunkhannock
1891-93           Nescopeck
1893-97           Milton
1897-00           Carlisle
1900-04           Williamsport First
1904-07           Lock Haven
1907-11           Williamsport St. John
1911-15           superintendent, York District
1915-19           superintendent, Lewisburg District
1919-22           Williamsport St. Paul
1922                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Fosselman [nee Shuff] was the widow of a Mr. William H. Paul.


 

FOX, JOSEPH B.

 

Born: 7-3-1858                                                            married: Emma C. Rohbagh
Died: 4-29-1899                                                          obit: [?-29-1854 - ?]

 

1881    license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1885    ordained deacon
1887    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Berlin Cemetery, New Berlin PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 69

 

1883                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1883-84           Middleburg circuit
1884-85           Center circuit
1885-87           Catawissa
1887-89           Waller
1889-92           Hebbville
1892-94           East Liberty
1894-97           Lycoming
1897-99           Lock Haven circuit
1899                York Grace


 

FOY, GEORGE J.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Sarah _____
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1847    ordained deacon
1850    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1845-46           Indiana

1846-48           Venango
1848-50           Franklin
1850                Union and Centre
                        withdrew from the Church

 

Note: This name is sometimes read from the manuscripts as G.J. FREY.  He performed weddings in Perry County PA 11/10/1850 and 12/15/1850 and in Snyder County PA in 1851 – and on 9/8/1854 in the Centre-Clinton county area .


 

FOY, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1823    license

1825    ordained deacon

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1823-24           Union and Centre

1824-25           Canton OH

1825-26           Centre

1826                located, on account of bodily infirmities

 


 

FRAIN, ISAAC SHOEMAKER

 

Born: 2-3-1834  Berks County PA                             married: Mary Ann Zeigler
Died: 3-30-1919                                                          obit: [2/29/1836 – 5/?/1884]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Sarah E. Moore

1869    license                                                             obit2: [10/19/1842 – 11/11/1916]
1875    ordained deacon

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Jacksonville (Centre County) PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920,73

 

 

Note: Isaac S. Frain was a farmer and local pastor who never served under appointment.  He was an active member of the Jacksonville appointment on the Howard charge.  The second Mrs. Frain is a sister to William N. Wallis; her first husband was a Mr. David Anton Moore.


 

FRAY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 4-8-1880  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Irene C. Bucke
Died: 4-4-1953                                                            obit: [1879-1966]

 

Interment: Hunters Valley Cemetery, Perry County PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EV 1953,379

 

                        served as supply pastor in Harrisburg area

1910                moved to Iowa

                        Allendorf

                        Hinton

                        Costner

1915                moved to Pennsylvania

1915-17           Liverpool, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 9/15)
1917-18           Port Trevorton, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1918-20           Grover, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1920                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1920-21           Bloserville
1921                located

     1925  transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Charles Augustus Fray is described in 1916,49 as a member of the Northwestern Conference.  He is the father of Alfred C. Fray (1905-1978) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mrs. Fray is a sister to Jacob E.A. Bucke (1875-1961) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  J.E.A. Bucke is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.  He is a brother to J.L.L. Bucke and W. Fowler Bucke, and he is the father of D. Perry Bucke, Emory Stevens Bucke and Dr. Alma Elizabeth Jane Bucke Miller (medical missionary to Nepal) – all of whom are given in the list of Methodist pastors.

 


 

FREAS, ROY LOUIS

 

Born: 11-22-1895                                                        married: Dorothy DeHaven
Died: 8-5-1960  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 403]

 

1924    license

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 87

 

1926-28           Williamsport circuit
1928-30           Warrensville
1930-34           Buffalo Valley
1934-36           West Nanticoke
1936-40           Sugar Valley

1940-42           Liberty

1942-48           Howard

1948-53           Mexico

1953-58           Lock Haven mission

1958-60           Buffalo Valley

 


 

FREED, HENRY WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-8-1828  near Hellam PA                               married: Marie D. Reily
Died: 8-4-1899  York PA                                           obit: [2/26/1828 – 5/16/1857]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Ann Schafer

1873    license                                                             obit2: [1/13/1835 – 12/18/1902]
1890    ordained deacon

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 71

 

Note: H.W. Freed was a shoemaker and served as a local preacher.


 

FREED, JOHN PETER SHINDLE

 

Born: 9-12-1859  Beavertown PA                              married: Missouri Boyer
Died: 9-28-1932  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [8/30/1863 – 4/27/1947]

 

1896    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference EA

 

Interment: Beavertown Cemetery, Beavertown PA
Obit:

 

1896-97           Lycoming and Newberry EA

 

 

Note: John P. Freed appears to have left the Evangelical Association and started an independent association of evangelical congregations.

 


 

FREY, FRANK EDWARD JR.

 

Born: 9-14-1927                                                          married: Barbara Ann Allen (9/3/1949)
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1958    license, recommended by Williamsport St. John’s

Interment:
Obit:

 

1958-61           student, Lycoming College

     1958-61      Williamsport circuit

1961-67           Lewisberry

1967-68           Montoursville

1968                dropped, page 237

 

Note: Frank E. Frey Jr. graduated from Lycoming College in 1961.  He served as a local preacher and worked for the Pennsylvania Power and light Company before entering the ministry.  In 1981 he was working for the Lycoming County Board of Public Assistance.  He retired to Cogan Station PA.


 

FREY, GEORGE WASHINGTON SR.

 

Born: 10-31-1876  Long Level PA                             married: Mamie Estella Roser
Died: 7-9-1958  near Red Lion PA                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 1968, 126

 

1906    license, recommended by Ebenezer (Craley circuit)
1909    ordained deacon
1911    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 105


1906-09           Bellefonte circuit
1909-10           West Nanticoke
1910-14           Penns Creek
1914-17           Bloserville
1917-22           Idaville
1922-25           Bryansville
1925-27           Hanover circuit
1927-31           Liverpool
1931-35           Espy
1935-37           Yoe
1937-38           Manchester
1938-41           Lewisberry

1941-44           Leesburg

1944                retired

 

Note: George W. Frey Sr. is the father of George W. Frey Jr.  The first name of Mrs. Frey is also given as Mayme.


 

FREY, GEORGE WASHINGTON JR.

 

Born: 3-17-1913  Penns Creek PA                             married: Romaine Estella Rohrbaugh
Died: 7-10-1999  IL                                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 265

 

1932    license, recommended by Espy
1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 342

 

1935-37           Hanover mission
1937-39           Bryansville
1939-45           York Bethlehem
1945-54           faculty, Evangelical School of Theology
1954-78           faculty, United Theological Seminary

1978                retired

 

Note: George W. Frey Jr. is the son of George W. Frey Sr.  His son Fr. Robert Frey (1938-2018) had a distinguished career in academia, taught part-time at United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH and was an important part of the EUB Heritage Center located on the United campus.


 

FRIDAY, WILLIAM JACOB

 

Born: 12-27-1898  Philadelphia PA                           married: Mildred M. Henry
Died: 4-11-1954                                                          obit: [1911 – 6/6/1981]

 

1921    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925    ordained deacon

Interment: Keokee Chapel Cemetery, Paradise Valley PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania [EV] 1955, 88

 

1921-24           Paradise

1924-               Wayne

Barneville

Quakertown

Wiconisco

1947-54           Quakertown

 

*      FRY, CHARLES F.

 

Born: 8-7-1852                                                            married: Mary D. _____
Died: 5-5-1900  Nescopeck PA                                  obit: [1/28/1855 – 1/13/1922]

 

1888    license
1896    ordained deacon

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit:

 

Note: Charles F. Fry served as a local pastor.  A death notice is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 639.


 

FUHRMAN, IRA CLADION

 

Born: 3-23-1887  Troxelville PA                               married: Mrs. Betsy Whipple Letts
Died: 8-13-1961  Grover PA                                      obit: Susquehanna Conference 1964, 84

 

1916    license, recommended by Troxelville

1918    ordained deacon
1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Ellenton Cemetery, Ellenton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 93

 

1916-17           Good Will
1917-18           Unityville
1918-23           Grover
1923-28           Millmont
1928-34           Craley
1934-36           Cearfoss
1936-40           Berkeley Springs

1940-47           Penns Creek

1947-52           Lewisberry

1952-53           Avis

1953                located for health reasons

 

Note:  Ira C. Fuhrman is reported to be a cousin to Lester A. Fuhrman.  The first husband of Mrs. Fuhrman was a Daniel A. Letts Sr. (1884-1917).

 


 

FUHRMAN, LESTER ALLEN

 

Born: 11-21-1881  Snyder County PA                       married: Florence A. Basom
Died: 4-23-1963  Lewisburg  PA                               obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965,107

 

1908    license, recommended by Troxelville
1911    ordained deacon

1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Letort Cemetery, Carlisle PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963,103

 

1909-10           Wellsville
1910-11           Bryansville
1911-15           Mt. Rock
1915-18           Marysville
1918-23           Columbia circuit
1923-28           Ransom
1928-30           Scranton
1930-31           Hebbville
1931-36           Sugar Valley
1936-39           Middleburg
1939-47           Newport

1947-56           Dushore & Lopez

1956                retired

 

Note: Lester A. Fuhrman is reported to be a cousin to Ira C. Fuhrman.  Mrs. Fuhrman is the daughter of Henry S. Basom and a sister of Emma Basom Jacobs, wife of Harry H. Jacobs. 


 

FULCOMER, EDWARD ADAM

 

Born: 1-27-1869  near Wrightsville PA                     married: Clara Ellen Snyder
Died: 7-9-1936  Bloomsburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 93

                                                                                    married2: Elizabeth Jane Brown Fisher

1893    license, recommended by Jacobus                  obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 80
1895    ordained deacon
1897    ordained elder

 

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Jacobus PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 80

 

1893-96           Harford
1896-98           Craleyville
1898-01           Yorkana
1901-02           Felton
1902-04           Yoe and Freysville
1904-06           York Christ
1906-10           Berwick St. Paul
1910-14           Newport
1914-17           Bellefonte
1917-20           Bellwood
1920-21           Altoona
1921-25           Wayland
1925-32           Mifflin
1932-36           Baltimore Walbrook
1936                Bloomsburg

 

Note: Edward A. Fulcomer is a brother to Willis N. Fulcomer, and to George M.W. Fulcomer (1876-1947) of the Methodist and Presbyterian Church.  After the death of Edward, the second Mrs. Fulcomer married George L. Maice.

 


 

FULCOMER, WILLIS NATHANIEL

 

Born: 10-25-1870  Wrightsville PA                           married: Ella Jane Keiser
Died: 8-17-1957  Pinellas Park FL                             obit: [9/25/1870 – 6/20/1922]

                                                                                    married2: Nell Duff Pollock

1895    license                                                             obit2: [12/6/1881 – 12/16/1973]
1897    ordained deacon
1899    ordained elder

 

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Jacobus PA
Obit:

1895-96           Bendersville
1896-97           Dillsburg circuit
1897-00           Fishing Creek Valley
1900-04           Warrensville
1904-07           Bellwood
1907-09           Yorkana
1909-10           Dallastown
1910                transfer to Oregon Conference
1911                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1911-12           Scranton
1912                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1912-14           Scranton Tripp Park

1914                withdrew

 

Note: Willis N. Fulcomer is a brother to Edward A. Fulcomer, and to George M.W. Fulcomer (1876-1947) of the Methodist and Presbyterian Church.  Willis later became a Presbyterian minister and served in Crawford County IA.


 

FULTON, J.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1845-46           Westmoreland
1846                located

 

 

Note: J.C. Fulton appears to have been a Presbyterian minister.  He was serving in western Pennsylvania as early as 1836, and he served the Presbyterian Church in Blairsville, Westmoreland County, 1840-46.  His service for one year with the Evangelical Association is puzzling.  He is also listed as J.E. Fulton.


 

FURNER, JEROME HENRY

 

Born: 4-8-1866  Mexico PA                                       married: Katie Meals
Died: 10-21-1936                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 81

 

1891    license
1894    ordained deacon
1896    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 80

 

1892-94           Cumberland
1894-95           Bendersville
1895-97           Leesburg
1897-01           Lewisberry
1901-05           Hanover mission
1905-09           Hebbville
1909-13           Felton
1913-18           Brooklyn mission
1918-22           Northumberland
1922-27           Williamsport Grace
1927-30           Bellwood
1930-35           Burnham
1935-36           Hughesville


 

GABRIEL, GROVER CLEVELAND

 

Born: 7-7-1884  Washington County MD                  married: Ethel Minerva Grimm
Died: 8-10-1961                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 75

                                                                                    married2: Mabel G. Grimm

1909    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 407
1911    ordained deacon
1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 93

 

1909-13           Enola
1913-17           York Bethany
1917-22           Baltimore Grace
1922-26           Wrightsville
1926-31           Williamsport St. John
1931-39           Red Lion
1939-45           superintendent, Lewisburg District

1945-58           superintendent, Evangelical Home at Lewisburg PA

1958                retired

 

Note: Ethel and Mabel Grimm are sisters.

 


 

GALLIGHER, GUY BRYAN

Born: 9-19-1860  Bryansville PA                               married: Sallie Virginia Kolter
Died: 1-16-1916                                                          obit: [1865 - ?]

 

1886    license
1888    ordained deacon
1890    ordained elder, Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church


Interment: Shrewsbury PA
Obit: Central New York Conference ME 1916, 132

 

1886-87           Shrewsbury
1887-89           Highlands [Burlington area, Bradford County PA]
1889                “transfer” to Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1889-90           Italy

1890-92           Dresden

1892-93           Rushville and Vine Valley

1893-96           Rushville

1896-91           Syracuse West Genesee Street

1901-03           Ithaca First

1903-08           Syracuse Furman Street

1908-12           Elmira Hedding

1912                retired for health reasons

 

Note: The Highlands circuit included appointments at Burlington borough, Luthers Mills, Mountain Lake, Union Church and Hickory Grove.  In the Methodist Episcopal Church, this area was in the Central New York Conference.   The weakness of the Evangelical Association there, compared to the strength of the Methodist Episcopal Church, undoubtedly contributed to the 1889 transfer of denominations.  He is quoted in several places for his 1901 sermons/statements against Sunday baseball and other Sabbath violations.  This surname is also given as GALLAGHER.  An obituary also appears in the 1/20/1916 Christian Advocate, page 17.  One local paper gives the following informative obituary: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916 DR. GALLIGHER'S DEATH REMOVES FOE OF SALOON. Well-Known Temperance Advocate and Preacher Passes Away Here. IN ILL HEALTH FOR A LONG TIME (Syracuse Standard) Rev. Dr. Guy Bryan Galligher, 55, former pastor of the West Genesee Street and Furman M. E. churches in Syracuse, died at 5:30 Friday after­ noon at his home, No. 735 South Crouse avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. He had been in poor health several years, and had been confined to his bed since New Year's afternoon. Dr. Galligher was best known in Syracuse as pastor of the West Gen­esee Street church and for his activi­ties in connection with the crusade a number of years ago by the Anti-Sa­ loon League, of which he was one of the leaders in this section. It has been said that his untiring efforts as a foe of the liquor traffic un­dermined his health to a considerable extent, although it was not until af­ter leaving the city that this compel­ led him to forego active preaching. AT WEST GENESEE CHURCH. Dr. Galligher was nominally assist­ ant pastor of the West Genesee street church at the time of his death, hold­ing this position upon the request of the members of the church, who de­sired to keep him in the conference and allow him to serve the church for which he had worked so long. He oc­cupied the pulpit of that church sev­eral times last year, but his strength was not sufficient to permit his tak­ing an active charge. Born at Bryansville, Pa., Dr. Galli­gher was related directly to the fam­ily of Bryans for whom the town was named. His grandfather was a famous surgeon of that name. Dr. Galli­gher was a second cousin of William Jennings Bryan. It was at Bryansville that Dr. Galligher got his early education, but the schools of the village were not suffi­cient to permit of the broad educa­tion he desired and he went to high school in Pittsburg, Pa. Later he at­ tended Washington College and re­ceived the degree of Ph. M. He then entered Johns Hopkins University and was given his Ph. D. degree by that institution. IN NEWSPAPER WORK. Upon the completion of his college course he entered the employ of The Baltimore Sun and worked there sev­eral years before, he determined to en­ter the ministry. He was licensed to preach in 1885 and served at a supply for a time at Shrewsbury, near Balti­more, Md. He later withdrew and came to New York State, where he was accepted into the Central New York Conference and assigned to the Methodist church at Italy, near Penn Yan. This was in 1888. He served the church there for two years and was transferred to Dresden, where, he also spent two years. From Dresden he removed to Rushville, where he served the Methodist church for four years. Dr. Galligher is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sallie Kolter Galligher; two daughters, Miss Anna E. Galli­gher and Miss Ruth W. Galligher; one son, W. Irving Galligher, of New York City, and by a sister, Mrs. Almon Kilgore, who lives near Balti­more, Md. 


 

GARDNER, J.L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1892    license

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

GARRETT, CHARLES FRANKLIN.

 

Born: 9-15-1863  West Manheim twp York Co PA   married: Estie M. Stover [4/26/1892]
Died: 4-18-1915  York PA                                         obit: [1/5/1873 – 3/21/1954]

 

1893    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 21]

 

1889-90           Cumberland
1890-93           Hagerstown circuit
1893-96           Big Spring circuit
1896-00           Sugar Valley circuit
1900-04           Bellwood
1904-06           McClure circuit
1906-10           Millheim
1910-14           York St. Paul
1914-15           East Prospect

 


 

GARRETT, WILLIAM HARRISON

 

Born: 9-23-1937  Hanover PA                                   married: Marianne Lefever

Died: 9-23-2020  Hanover PA                                    obit:

 

1957    license, recommended by Hanover Grace
1963    ordained elder

 

Interment: Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery, Strasburg PA
Obit:

 

1957-59           student, Albright College

1959-63           student, United Theological Seminary

1963-64           Enola-Delbrook

1964-68           director of youth work, General EUB Church

1968-71           youth work, General Board of Evangelism

1971-72           student

                            1971-72       Venice Park, Southern New Jersey Conference

1972                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1972-77           associate, Springfield Covenant
1977-79           Warminster St. Andrew’s

1979-92           Mohnton Calvary

1992-95           superintendent, Anthracite District

1995-00           Palmyra First

2000-02           chaplain, Cornwall Manor

2002                retired

 


 

GARRISON, BENJAMIN

 

Born: 3-10-1833                                                                      married: Hattie _____
Died: 7-13-1914                                                                      obit:

 

1874    license

1880    ordained elder

 

Interment: Maury Cemetery, Richmond VA
Obit: The Evangelical, 9/13/1914, page 25

 

Note: Benjamin Garrison lived near Grover, Bradford County, and served as a local preacher.  Soon after 1890, he and others from Bradford County moved to the vicinity of Richmond VA.  He established some preaching appointments and asked the Conference to send an ordained itinerant to supply the work, but the 1891-94 denominational division and other factors prevented this from happening.


 

GEISELMAN, JAMES ROBERT

 

Born: 6-12-1937  Jacobus PA                        married: Mary Ellen Hunsberger [7/22/1961]
Died:                                                               obit: [1/4/1939 – 4/7/1990]

 

1958    license, recommended by Jacobus Christ

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1958-60           student, Albright College in Reading PA

1960-63           seminary student

1963-66           Potomac

1966-70           Baltimore Rodgers Forge (did not finish last year)

1970                withdrew (Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 98)
                        moved to Cedar Rapids IA

                             employed in industry

 

Note: Inn 2022 James Robert Geiselman appears to be living in Englewood FL.  Mrs. Geiselman is the daughter of Rev. Robert R. Hunsberger (1909-1966) a niece of Rev. Arthur R. Hunsberger (1894-1973), both former EUB pastors in Eastern Pennsylvania.


 

GENDALL, WILLIAM L.

                                  

Born: 10-18-1874  Williams Station PA                    married: Harriet Jane Corkill
Died: 10-11-1957  Wilkes-Barre PA                          obit: [4/23/1876 – 12/3/1948]

 

1933    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Wilkes-Barre Salem

 

Interment: Hanover Green Cemetery, Luzerne County PA
Obit: Northeastern Conference 1958, 799

 

1899-01           Plainsville, Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Note: William L. Gendall is the nephew of Francis Gendall (1845-1902) of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  While a student at Wyoming Seminary he served Plainsville and Old Forge.  He served in mission situations and supported himself by working as an electrical contractor.  In 1905 he established Grace mission in Wilkes-Barre and continued in the work for 18 years.  For 63 years (1894-1957) he served as chaplain and leader of religious services at the Retreat State Hospital.


 

GEPHART, CALVIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 10-16-1853  Millheim PA                                married: Sara Ann Heagy
Died: 4-10-1927                                                          obit: [1/14/1850 – 11/11/1923]

 

1879    license
1881    ordained elder

1889    license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

1890    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

 

Interment: St. Mark’s Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: [Altoona Mirror obituary on file]

 

1877-78           Liberty
1878-79           York circuit
1879-81           Cumberland
1881-82           East Prospect
1882-84           located
1884-85           Middleburg circuit
1885-88           Hagerstown
1888                “transfer” to the Lutheran Church

1888-90           student, Gettysburg Theological Seminary

1890-93           Idaville

1893                transfer to Allegheny Synod

1893-03           Lavansville charge

1904-19           Newry charge

1910                transfer to Pennsylvania Synod

1910-13           Middle Creek [McClure] charge

1913                transfer to Pittsburgh Synod

1913-18           Rural Valley charge

1918-22           Woodbury

1922-26           Ickesburg

1926                retired


 

GETZ, CLARENCE E.

 

Born: 7-3-1894  Clinton County PA                          married: Elsie Lear
Died: 5-17-1977                                                          obit: [10/17/1897 – 9/4/1996]

 

1915    license

Interment: State Road Cemetery, Cogan Station PA
Obit:

 

1928-59           Dunellen NJ First Presbyterian

 

Note: Clarence E. Getz graduated from Albright College in 1920, became a Presbyterian pastor in New Jersey, and retired to Linden, Lycoming County PA.


 

GETZ, JACOB WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-21-1903  Clinton County PA                        married: Carrie U. Spangler (1926?)
Died: 5-?-1984  Philadelphia PA                               obit:

                                                                                    married2: Ruth Elizabeth Smith (1934)

1923    license                                                             obit2:

Interment: St. Johns [Zeiglers] Cemetery, Dunnstown PA
Obit:

 

1925-26           assistant, Williamsport

1926-27           Howard
                        surrendered his license and withdrew

 

Note: Jacob W. Getz is noted as being from Lock Haven PA.  He is known to be living in Brunswick MD, serving as pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed Church there when his mother died in 1936, and in Williamsport PA when his father died in 1944.  His parents appear to have been members at Lock Haven First.


 

GILBERT, ELMER E.

 

Born: 11-22-1868  Snyder County PA                       married:  Alice Lenig [1/23/1896]
Died: 6-23-1933  Snyder County PA                         obit: [3/20/1871 – 11/27/1931]

 

            license

            ordained deacon

ordained elder

 

Interment: Saint John’s Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Mills PA
Obit:

 

1895-98           Port Trevorton EA

1899                entered the Lutheran ministry 6/15/1899

1899-00           Richfield

1922-27           McClure

 

Note: The Richfield Lutheran charge also included Oriental St. Paul, St. Peter’s & St. John’s in Juniata County, and Zion in Snyder County.

 


GILL, DAVID HASKIL

Born: 5-10-1925 Woodland PA                                 married: Helen Virginia Graham

Died: 5-23-2009  Albuquerque NM                           obit: [4/13/1937 – 2/4/2000]

 

1954    admitted on trial, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1955    ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB

 

Interment: Fairview UM Cemetery, Morrisdale PA

Obit:

 

1954-55           no record

1955-56           student

1956-57           Windber Grace

1957-59           Dempseytown Trinity

1959-60           Industry

1950-61           New Salem

1951-62           Altoona Faith

1962-64           Howard, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1964-65           Lisle, Wyoming Conference

1965-66           West Nanticoke, Susquehanna Conference

1966-67           Mount Pleasant Mills, Susquehanna Conference

1967-68           Bradleytown

1968-69           without appointment

1969-70           Bradleytown

1970                located

 

Note: David H. Gill served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a supply pastor.


 

GILMORE, A.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1872    license

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

GLANT, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born: 4-24-1931  Lewistown PA                               married: Sylvia Ann Tackett
Died: 2-5-1984  Sunbury PA                                      obit:

 

1952    license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Meadowridge Memorial Park, Elkridge MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 376

 

1957-64           Mt. Pleasant Mills
1964-71           York Grace

1971-74           Bloomsburg Good Shepherd

1974-75           sabbatical

1975-83           chaplain, Laurelton State Hospital (ending 12/83)

1983                retired (beginning 12/83)

 


 

GLASGOW, HERBERT ELWOOD

 

Born: 11-28-1919  Coburn PA                                   married: Ruth Elaine Daniels
Died: 4-3-1981 Mount Pleasant Mills                                     obit: [9/2/1924 – 10/10/2001]

 

1947    license, recommended by Coburn
1952    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Mills PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 331

 

1950-51           Keystone-Perry
1951-53           Daniels
1953-57           Espy
1957-62           Jersey Shore Church of God
1962-64           Lock Haven mission

1964-67           Howard

1968-73           Mt. Pleasant Mills

1973-74           Berwick Calvary

1974-77           Dallastown Trinity

1977-81           Bendersville


 

GLATFELTER, WESLEY FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-5-1853  Middlesex PA                                  married: Sarah J. Martin
Died: 9-5-1911  Middlesex PA                                  obit: [4/13/1855 – 3/18/1949]

 

1878    license

Interment: Letort Evangelical Cemetery, Carlisle PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 67

 

Note: W.F. Glatfelter served as a local pastor.  The surname is given in the journal as GLADFELTER.


 

GOBBLE, AARON EZRA

 

Born: 2-14-1856  near Millheim PA                          married: Catherine Krauskop
Died: 4-17-1929  Myerstown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 78

 

1879    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Lancaster Bethany mission
1882    ordained deacon
1885    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Berlin Cemetery, New Berlin PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 80

 

1879-81           principal, Union Seminary at New Berlin

1881                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1881-87           principal, Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1887-02           president, Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin PA
1902-29           faculty, Albright College at Myerstown PA

 


 

GOHN, GEORGE

 

Born: 1-7-1819  York County PA                              married: Charlotte Dise
Died: 3-5-1899                                                            obit: [2/10/1825 – 1/6/1910]

 

1874    license

Interment: Freysville Cemetery, Freysville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1889, 35

 

Note: George Gohn is the father of Jacob A. Gohn (1853-1928) and grandfather of Clayton C. Gohn (1879-1938), both of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.  He was a local preacher on the Red Lion charge.


 

GOODHART, R.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1920    license

Interment:
Obit:

 

Note: This may be the Russell J. Goodhart (1899-1980) of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, who joined the joined the North-East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1930.


 

GOODLING, CHARLES H.

 

Born: 12-16-1850  Loganville PA                              married: Elizabeth Miller
Died: 11-19-1913  York PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 80

 

1880    license
1883    ordained deacon
1885    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 66

 

1881-82           York circuit
1882-83           East Prospect
1883-86           Williamsport circuit
1886-88           Sugar Valley circuit
1888-89           Hebbville
1889-92           York circuit
1892-93           Chanceford
1893-97           Center Hall
1897-99           Bellefonte
1899-03           Lewistown
1903-04           White Deer
1904-06           West Berwick
1906-10           York Jackson Street
1910-13           York Zion

 

Note: Charles H. Goodling is a first cousin to Elias O. Goodling.

 


 

GOODLING, ELIAS O.

 

Born: 5-31-1854  near Loganville PA                        married: Magdaline Strickler

Died: 4-23-1894  Nanticoke PA                                 obit: [6/7/1851 – 5/25/1945]

 

1872    license

1885    license

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit:

 

1884-87           Highlands [Burlington area, Bradford County]
1887                withdrew to enter the Presbyterian ministry

1887-89           Bernice

1890-91           Ulster

1891-93           Nanticoke

 

Note: Elias O. Goodling is a first cousin to Charles H. Goodling.  He was commonly known as Eli.   He served as a local preacher 1872-78 and then went into business in York, losing everything in the flood of 1884.  He then returned to the Evangelical ministry, only to “transfer” to the Lackawanna Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in 1887.  The Highlands circuit included appointments at Burlington borough, Luthers Mills, Mountain Lake, Union Church and Hickory Grove. 


 

GORDON, ADELBERT MYRLE JR.

 

Born: 4-16-1928  Akron OH                                      married: Minerva Diaz [6/6/1953]
Died: 4-23-2013  Johnstown PA                                obit: [7/2/1933 - ]

 

1955    license, recommended by Dayton OH Trinity

1956    ordained

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg PA
Obit:

 

1954-55           Dayton OH Overbrook, Ohio Miami Conference (beginning 11/1954)

1955-57           Wellsville

1957-60           Bryansville

                        “transferred” to UCC denomination

1960-64           Pittsburgh Mount Troy

1964                Hickory Bottom charge (Loysburg, Mount Pleasant, East Sharpsburg)

                        retired

                            Alexandria  UCC

                            Martinsburg Church of God

                            Hollidaysburg Church of God

                            Martinsburg St. John’s UCC


 

GOTTSCHALK, PAUL ALEXANDER.

 

Born: 7-19-1904                                                          married: Hazel O’Neil
Died: 10-29-1997                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 479

 

1932    license, recommended by Perkasie First

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Saint Michaels Cemetery, Birdsboro PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 423]

 

1933-35           Bowmanstown

1935-39           Elizabethville – Loyalton

1939-45           Millersville Grace

1945-60           Easton Trinity

1960-69           Charlton

1969                retired

                             1969-70      assistant, Penbrook Grace

     1970           transfer to Central PA Conference UM by conference realignment

     1970-81      assistant, Penbrook Grace

 

Note: Paul A. Gottschalk never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EV/EUB church, but he served churches now within the conference borders – and entered the conference in the 1970 conference realignments.  He is a brother to John Asher M. Gottschalk (1908-1987) of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.


 

GOTTWALD, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

 

Born: 9-2-1841  Aaronsburg PA                                married: Anna C. Murray (4/27/1869)
Died: 3-12-1921  Washington DC                             obit: [1847 – 8/13/1915]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Lillian M. Fearson (2/6/1918)

1858    license, Evangelical Association                    obit2: [8/8/1890 – 11/10/1950]

1867    license, Lutheran Church

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit:

 

1858                Buffalo circuit
1859                withdrew and united with the Lutheran Church

                        Union Soldier, Pennsylvania 26th, company A

1866-67           principal, Aaronsburg Academy in Aaronsburg PA

1867-73           Loganton charge

                             1867-68      principal, Aaronsburg Academy in Aaronsburg PA

     1868-69      principal, Clinton Seminary in Loganton PA

1873-               Milton PA

 

Note: William .H. Gottwald is the son of Rev. Daniel Gottwald (1793-1843) of the Lutheran Church.  He also served as superintendent of the Milton Public Schools.  He later adopted the surname spelling GOTWALD.  The second Mrs. Gotwald (nee Holt) was the widow of a Mr. Fearson and later, following the death of WH Gotwald, the wife of a Mr. Jesse Harris Evans.


 

GRAHAM, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1869    license

Interment:
Obit:


 

GRAHAM, P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1874    license

Interment:
Obit:



 

GRAHAM, PHILIP

 

Born: 7-11-1813  York PA                                         married: Susan Snyder
Died: 2-9-1870  Liverpool PA                                    obit: [1815 – 8/15/1883]

 

1853    ordained deacon
1859    ordained elder

 

Interment: Liverpool Union Cemetery, Liverpool PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]

 

1857-58           Harford
1858-60           Liverpool
1860-62           Center
1862-64           Luzerne circuit
1864-66           Clinton
1866-68           Liverpool
1868-69           Harford
1869                located

 

Note: Philip Graham is the father of Philip Graham Jr and Susan Graham Greninger, wife of Henry N. Greninger.  His birthdate is also given as 5/8/1813 and 6/11/1813.

 


 

GRAHAM PHILIP, JR.

 

Born: 4-7-1843  York PA                                           married: Rebecca Carruthers Farver
Died: 8-8-1923                                                            obit: [7/24/1844 – 7/4/1902]

                                                                                    married2: Martha Powlus

1872    license                                                             obit2: [8/9/1856 – 3/13/1942]
1874    ordained deacon

Interment: Creveling Cemetery, Almedia PA
Obit:

 

1873-75           Big Spring
                        located

 

 

Note:  Philip Graham Jr. is the son of Philip Graham Sr and a brother to Susan Graham Greninger, wife of H.N. Greninger.  He worked as a shoemaker.  Philip and Rebecca were married 1/7/1864.  Philip and Martha were married 8/23/1915.

 


 

GRAMLEY, ANDREW DANIEL

 

Born: 7-30-1873  Loganton PA                                  married: Ada Laura Meals
Died: 12-2-1958  Mount Holly Springs PA               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 389

 

1895    license, recommended by Loganton
1897    ordained deacon
1899    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959,108

 

1895-97           Cumberland circuit
1897-98           Penns Creek
1898-00           Bellwood
1900-04           McClure
1904-08           Loganville
1908-12           East Prospect
1912-16           Baltimore Christ
1916-18           York Christ
1918-25           Williamsport First
1925-32           York Trinity
1932-36           Milton
1936-37           on leave
1937-39           Marysville

1939                retired

                             1952-53      Williamsport

 

Note: The father of Andrew D. Gramley is a second cousin to Andrew J. Gramley and Charles H. Gramley.


 

GRAMLEY, ANDREW JACKSON

 

Born: 5-24-1851  Rebersburg PA                               married: Mary Jane Brumgard [Brungart?]
Died: 9-25-1935  Weller OH                                      obit: [12/12/1850 – 11/12/1912]

                                                                                    married2: Eugena E. Belden

1872    license                                                             obit2: [4/30/1865 – 3/11/1926]
1878    ordained deacon

Interment: Windsor Park Cemetery, Mansfield OH [GRAMLY]
Obit:

 

1872                Middle Creek
                        located, bought a berry and fruit farm near Mansfield OH

 

Note:  Andrew J. Gramley is a brother to Charles H. Gramley and a second cousin to the father of Andrew D. Gramley.  At some point he appears to have changed the spelling of his surname ti GRAMLY.  Some sources give his death date as 10/24/1935 or 10/5/1935.

 


 

GRAMLEY, CHARLES HESSER

 

Born: 9-20-1847  Rebersburg PA                               married: Chestie Ann Weber (1865)
Died: 9-7-1925                                                            obit: [3/7/1846 – 8/18/1879]

                                                                                    married2: Agnes Catharine Ressler (1880)

1870    ordained deacon                                              obit2: South Kansas Conference 1906, 79
1872    ordained elder                                                 married3: Luella Hayes (1906)

                                                                                    obit3: [1868 – 6/21/1955]

Interment:  Highland Cemetery, Iola KS
Obit: Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1926,204

 

1868-69           Conewago
1869-70           Buffalo
1870-72           Baltimore circuit
1872-73           Alberton
                        went West and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

Note: Charles H. Gramley is a brother to Andrew J. Gramley and a second cousin to the father of Andrew D. Gramley.  This surname also appears as GRAMLY, a spelling he may have adopted later in life.

 


 

GRANT, GEORGE ALLEN

 

Born: 4-23-1940  Nanticoke PA                                 married: Cassandra Cryder
Died: 1-9-2009  Wellsboro PA                                   obit: [5/7/1941 – 1/30/2006]

 

1963    temporary [student] license

 

Interment: Wellsboro Cemetery. Wellsboro PA
Obit:

 

1963-66           student, Lycoming College

     1963-66      Warrensville

1966                removed by own request, page 149

 

Note: George A. Grant served in the US Army 1959-62, graduated from Lycoming College in 1966, and taught English in the Wellsboro [PA] Area School District for 27 years.

 


 

GRAY, JOSEPH MILNER

 

Born: 3-23-1879  Gatchelville PA                             married:
Died: 11-30-1966  Red Lion PA                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Josephine Manifold Jenkins (1923)

1913    license, recommended by Woodbine              obit2: [10/2/1885 – 3/9/1976]

1926    ordained deacon

Interment: Prospect Cemetery, Gatchelville PA
Obit:

 

1914-15           Manchester and York Princess Street

1915-17           located

1917-22           Fellowship ME, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1922                Woodbine (6 months)

1922-24           located

1924-27           Dorsey

1927-28           Craley

1928                located

 

Note: It is unclear whether Joseph M. Gray had a wife before he married Mrs. Jenkins.  The first husband of Josephine (nee Howett) Gray was a Mr. Kersey Elias Jenkins (1884-1920).


 

GREGG, WILLIAM BENSON

 

Born: 8-7-1826  Halifax PA                                       married: Georgiana [“G. Annie”] Hutchinson
Died: 1-24-1893  Wyoming DE                                 obit: Wilmington Conference [ME] 1931, 150

 

1846    license, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1847    license
1849    ordained deacon
1851    ordained elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden DE
Obit: Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1893, 93

 

1847-48           Franklin
1848-49           Virginia circuit
1849-50           Westmoreland circuit
1850-52           Westmoreland circuit
                        went west and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church

1857                transfer to the Philadelphia Conference

 

Note: William B. Gregg is a brother-in-law to Uriah Eberhart (according to Uriah’s History of the Eberharts in Germany and the United States, page 223), but the connection is unclear.  He was chaplain of the First Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry.  The conference obituary for Mrs. Gregg gives a birthdate of 1/9/1847, but the grave marker gives 5/9/1851 – at any rate, she was considerably younger than William.


 

GRENINGER, HENRY NOAH

 

Born: 2-10-1844  Tylersville PA                                married: Susan Graham
Died: 2-23-1916  Hebbville MD                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 79

 

1871    license, recommended by St. Paul’s in Logan’s Mills
1874    ordained deacon
1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Olive Cemetery, Randallstown MD
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 21]

 

1872-73           Liverpool
1873-74           Lycoming
1874-76           Liberty
1876-79           Baltimore circuit
1879-82           Loganville
1882-85           York circuit
1885-88           Whiteground and Hebbville
1888                located

 

Note: Mrs. Greninger is the daughter of Philip Graham Sr.



 

GROSS, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1863    license

Interment:
Obit:


 

GROSS, HARRY W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1877    license
1879    ordained deacon
1881    ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1877-78           York circuit
1878-81           Leesburg
1881-83           New Berlin
1883-84           Middleburg circuit
1884-86           Williamsport Bennett Street
1886-88           Nittany Valley
1888-89           Luzerne
1889-91           Nescopeck
1891-93           Milton
1893-95           White Deer
1895-96           Hanover (appears not to have finished the year)
1896-98           Hagerstown
                        licensed revoked and name removed from roll

1898                “transfer” [pastor and congregation] to East Pennsylvania Conference EA

1898-99           Hagerstown

1899-01           Loganton

1901-02           Matamoras

1902-03           Shamokin St. John’s (did not finish the year)

1903                no longer listed.                     

 

Note: H.W. Gross is a ministerial son of the Cumberland charge.  In 1897 he tried to transfer himself and the congregation to the Baltimore Conference of the ME Church South.  In April 1902 charges were brought against H.W. Gross for an incident that occurred while he was appointed to Loganton.  Details are given in the biographical files.  He is mentioned in henry Dietterich’s “A Wonder of Grace” in the 2018 issue of The Chronicle, page 107.

 


 

GROUP, PHILIP W.

 

Born: 1-11-1849  near Idaville PA                             married: Mary Elizabeth Snyder
Died: 3-6-1912  Idaville PA                                       obit: [1850-1932]

 

1875    license

1877    ordained deacon
1879    ordained elder

 

Interment: Upper Bermudian Cemetery, Gardners PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 67

 

1875-76           Lycoming
1876-79           Newberry
1879-82           Glen Rock
1882-84           Elysville
1884-86           Albertson
1886-88           Carlisle
1888-91           Cumberland
1891-93           Big Spring
1893-94           Bendersville
1894                located

 

Note: Philip W. Group is a third cousin to John H. Peters.


 

GROVE, WATSON EDWARD

 

Born: 9-5-1899  Lycoming County PA                      married: Carrie B. Walters
Died: 2-23-1984                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 474

 

1926    license, recommended by Williamsport St. Paul's
1930    ordained elder

 

Interment: Perry Heights Cemetery, Marysville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 377

 

1926-28           Nittany
1928-35           Williamsport circuit
1935-40           Penns Creek
1940-65           Marysville

1965                retired

 

Note: Watson E. Grove is the father of Lois Geraldine Grove Loss, wife of Kenneth Loss of the Susquehanna Conference.


 

GUINTER, CLARENCE WALTER

 

Born: 8-17-1877  near Loyalsockville PA                 married: Laura Mae Hummel
Died: 2-12-1941  Wrightsville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 410

 

1897    license, recommended by Mt. Zion on the Warrensville circuit
1899    ordained deacon
1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 89

 

1897-00           Steuben
1900-02           student, Central Pennsylvania College in New Berlin PA

1902-05           student, Albright College in Myerstown PA

1905-06           faculty, Albright Preparatory School in Myerstown PA
1906-29           missionary, Africa
1929-31           missionary deputation work
1931-34           Northumberland
1934-41           Wrightsville

 


 

GUNTHER, CARL FREDERICK

 

Born: 11-17-1905                                                        married: Clara _____
Died: 5-10-1991                                                          obit: [1/29/1907 – 1/14/1994]

 

1929    license, recommended by Baltimore Trinity
1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio TX
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 231]

 

1920-32           Selinsgrove
1932-34           Scranton
1934-40           Dushore
1940-41           Mifflin
1941-62           chaplain, U.S. Army
1962                retired

 


 

GUTHRIE, HIRAM COMER

 

Born: 2-27-1869  Warrensville PA                            married: Vernie E. Sanders
Died: 2-24-1953  Northumberland PA                       obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965,106

 

1900    license
1902    ordained deacon
1904    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 79

 

1900-04           Steuben
1904-08           Lycoming
1908-12           White Deer
1912-16           Nuremburg
1916-18           Northumberland
1918-22           Felton
1922-25           Mifflin
1925                retired


 

HALL, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-4-1824                                                            married: Mary Ann Hipple
Died: 7-22-1901  Shermansdale PA                           obit:  [1/19/1825 – 3/29/1893]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Anna H. Fenicle Anthony (1894)

license                                                             obit2:
1852    ordained deacon
1854    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pisgah Church Cemetery, Perry County PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 83]

 

1850-52           Gettysburg circuit
1852-53           Franklin
1853-55           Columbia
1855-57           Buffalo circuit
1857-76           located
1876-77           Cumberland
1877                located

 

Note: The second Mrs. Hall is the widow of Benjamin F. Anthony.  She is also referred to as Anna H. Zimmerman – and she may have a previous marriage to a Mr. William Finicle.

 


 

HAMMER, WILLIAM

 

Born: 1-29-1816  Bedford County PA                       married: Margaret Beisel
Died: 8-3-1891                                                            obit: [4/12/1815 – 9/20/1890]

 

1851    ordained deacon

Interment: Mt. Union Cemetery, Lovely PA
Obit:

 

Note: William Hammer was a farmer and a shoemaker in western Bedford County.  He functioned as a local pastor for several years.  Mrs. Hammer is a niece of Conrad Beisel of Ephrata Cloister fame.


 

HAMMER, CHARLES

 

Born: 12-7-1809  near Orwigsburg PA                      married: Susan Dunkle
Died: 1-2-1887  Cleveland OH                                  obit: [2/12/1819 – 3/29/1880]

 

1830    license
1831    ordained deacon
            ordained elder

 

Interment: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland OH
Obit:

 

1830-31           Lebanon
1831-32           White Deer

1832                transfer to Western Conference
1832-33           Wooster
1833-34           Lancaster
1834-35           Canton
1835-36           Schuylkill
1836-37           Buffalo
1837-39           superintendent, Moriah District
1839-42           publishing agent of the Evangelical Association
1842-44           Baltimore
1844-46           superintendent, Baltimore District
1846-48           Susquehanna District
1848-50           Baltimore
1850-52           York circuit
1852-53           located
1853-54           superintendent, Susquehanna District
1854-67           publishing agent of the Evangelical Association

1867-76           superintendent, Ebenezer Orphans Home at Flat Rock OH
                       

Note: A biographical sketch for Charles Hammer appears in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism.  Mrs. Hammer is a daughter of prominent Evangelical Association member John S. Dunkel, in whose Union County the denomination’s missionary society was founded.  John Dunkel married Leah Dreisbach, daughter of Martin Dreisbach (1764-1831), in whose home the first General Conference was held, and sister of John Dreisbach.  Susan’s sister Sophia Dunkel married John G. Miller, and sister Mary Dunkel married Benjamin Hengst.

 


 

HANEY, EZRA EISENTRAGER.

 

Born: 6-26-1864  Ottsville PA                                   married: Sarah [Sallie] R. Hendricks
Died: 7-16-1934  Salladasburg                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 86

 

1894    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Lansdale

1897    ordained deacon. East Pennsylvania Conference EA

1903    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference EA

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 85

 

1895-98           Birdsboro
1901-05           Port Trevorton
1905-08           Spring Mills
1908-11           Penns Valley
1911-18           Waller
1918-22           located
1922-23           Sugar Valley

1923                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1923-26           Spring Mills
1926-29           Grover
1929-30           East Point
1930-34           West Nanticoke
1934                Salladasburg

 

Note: During the denominational split, Ezra E. Haney served in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association.

 


 

HANSHAW, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:
Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1843    license

Interment:
Obit:

 


 

HARDING, SANFORD P.P.

 

Born:  8-12-1847  Lycoming County PA                   married: Flora Ann Whitebread (9/17/1874)
Died: 3-4-1936  Allentown PA                                  obit: [3/20/1851 – 12/27/1931]

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit:

 

1872                Luzerne
                        located, living in Allentown

 

Note: Sanford Harding was for a while a druggist in Milton, Northumberland County. 


 

HARRIS, LEONARD K.

 

Born: 7-8-2847                                                            married: Joanna B. Ettinger
Died: 4-28-1914  PA                                                  obit: [1/6/1851 – 8/12/1908]

 

1870    license
1872    ordained deacon
1874    ordained elder

 

Interment: Benton Cemetery, Benton PA
Obit:

 

1870-71           Hughesville
1871-72           Nittany Valley
1872-73           Buffalo
1873-74           Prospect
1874-75           Lycoming
1875-77           Milesburg
1877-78           Canton
1878-79           Dewart
1879-80           Bloomsburg
1880-82           Juniata
1882-85           Fishing Creek Valley
1885-88           Jarrettsville
1888-90           Lewisberry
1890-93           Bendersville
1893-94           Big Spring
1894-96           Fishing Creek Valley
1896-00           located
1900-02           Cherry Run
1902-04           Mexico
1904-05           Waller
1905                located

Note: The 1909 journal (page 66) refer to Mrs. Harris as “Amanda”.


 

HARRIS, MATHIAS WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-12-1837  Dushore PA                                    married: Caroline Catherine Sanger
Died: 9-17-1888  Carthage MO                                  obit: [1840 – 1905]

 

1859    license
1861    ordained deacon

Interment: Park Cemetery, Carthage MO
Obit: Kansas Conference 1888, 21

 

1860-61           Liverpool
1861-63           Franklin circuit
1863-65           Columbia
1865-67           Buffalo
1867-69           Shrewsbury
1869-71           Muncy
1871-72           Liberty
1872-73           Center circuit
1874                dropped

1887                transfer to Kansas Conference

 

Note: Mathias W. Harris is the father of William S. Harris and Mary Ann Harris Goodman, wife of Benjamin Franklin Goodman (1855-1932) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.


 

HARRIS, WILLIAM SCHULER

 

Born: 10-3-1865  New Columbia PA                         married: Emma Sands
Died: 4 -?-1956  Allentown PA                                  obit: [1868-1927]

                                                                                    married2: Amelia J. Saible Kichline.

1888    license, Kansas Conference                            obit2: [1872-1951]

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 237

 

1888-89           Carthage mission

1889                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1889-90           Sparrowbush & Matamoras

1890-92           Sunbury

1892-93           Easton

1893-96           Lykens & Wiconisco

1896-00           Pottstown & Spring City

1900-03           Lemoyne Grace

1903-07           Harrisburg Park Street

1907-08           Charlton & Penbrook Trinity

1908-12           ?

1912-17           Charlton & Penbrook Trinity & Rutherford Heights

1917-18           Charlton & Rutherford Heights

1918-20           Penbrook Trinity & Harrisburg Sixth Street

1920-22           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1923-27           Steelton Grace

1929-39           Nazareth

1939                retired

 

Note: William S. Harris is the son of Mathias W. Harris and the father of Edwin B. Harris (1896-1982) of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.  The author of several books, he is the subject the article “Rev. William Schuler Harris (1865-1956): Minister, Writer, Entrepreneur and Developer” in the 1994 volume of The Chronicle, pages 112-119.  The second Mrs. Harris was the widow of a James Henry Kichline (1868-1908) and the mother of Rev. Clayton H. Kichline (1889-1979) of the Reformed Church.

 


 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 11-10-1852  Union County PA                        married: Abigail Robbins

Died: 1-12-1945  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central PA Conference ME 1943, 216

 

1877    license

1881    ordained deacon

1883    ordained

 

Interment: Almedia Cemetery, Almedia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1945, 214

 

1875-79           student, Central Pennsylvania College in New Berlin PA

1879-80           Center circuit

1881-82           West Clifford

1882-84           Maple Grove

1884-87           Dushore and Bernice

1887-88           Catawissa

1888-90           Zion’s Grove

1890-92           Columbia

1892                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1892-95           Nescopeck

1895-00           Buckhorn

1900-04           Espy-Lime Ridge

1904-09           Millville

1909-11           Trout Run

1911-16           Woodland-Bradford

1916-21           Mahaffey

1921-23           White Haven

1923                retired

                             1923-30  Rupert and Buckhorn

 

Note:  Mrs. Hartman’s sister Idylla (d. 1950) married John Crawford Bickel (d. 1939) of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 


 

HARTZLER, HENRY BURNS

 

Born: 3-23-1840  near Yorkanna PA                         married: Sarah A. Zeller
Died: 9-11-1920  Lemoyne PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 81

 

1866    license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1869    license

1870    ordained deacon
1872    ordained elder

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 66

 

1869-70           Middle Creek circuit
1870-73           Carlisle
1873-74           Milton
1874-76           York King Street
1876-79           assistant editor, Evangelical-Messenger
1879-88           editor, Evangelical-Messenger
1888-91           editor, The Evangelical
1891-95           chaplain, Moody Bible School at Northfield MA
1895-02           editor, The Evangelical
1902-10           bishop of the United Evangelical Church
1910-20           editor, The Evangelical

 

Note: Henry B. Hartzler is a brother to Jacob Hartzler.  He wrote several poems that became hymn texts.  Biographical sketches for H.B. Hartzler appear in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 317, and in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism.

 


 

HARTZLER, JACOB

 

Born: 1-18-1833  near Yorkanna PA                         married: Sarah Sayres
Died: 1-2-1916 York PA                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 70

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 76

 

1856-58           Middle Creek
1858-60           Wilkes-Barre
1860-61           Columbia circuit
1861-62           Buffalo circuit
1862-63           Center Circle
1863-64           agent, Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1864-65           Lewisburg
1865-67           agent, Washington DC mission
1867-71           Glen Rock
1871-72           Baltimore Green Street
1872-80           editor, The Evangelical-Messenger
1880-88           superintendent, Japan Mission
1888-91           superintendent, Carlisle District
1891-96           superintendent, Center District
1896-98           Yorkana
1898-02           Alberton
1902-05           York Grace
1905-08           Alberton
1908-10           Mechanicsburg
1910-11           West Nanticoke
1911                retired

 

Note: Jacob Hartzler is a brother to Henry B. Hartzler.  Biographical sketches for Jacob Hartzler appear in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 351, and in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism.

 


 

HAUERT, MATTHIAS

 

Born: 9-19-1805  Markheimer, Alsace FRANCE     married: Lydia Matter
Died: 9-19-1868  Monroe WI                                     obit: [5/7/1816 – 7/18/1864]

 

1836    license

1841    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dutch Hollow Cemetery, Sylvester WI
Obit:

 

1836-37           Armstrong
1837-38           Lancaster circuit
1838-39           Crawford
1839-40           Somerset
1840-41           Bedford
1841-43           Clarion
1843                transfer to the Ohio Conference

1843-44           Milwaukee WI  mission

1844                charter member of the Illinois Conference

1844-45           Milwaukee WI mission

1845-46           Dubuque IA mission

1846-47           without appointment

1847-48           Jefferson WI

1848-49           Sauk WI mission

1849-50           Florid IL

1850-56           unclear

1856                charter member of the Wisconsin Conference

1856-57           Dane County

1857-62           Cedarville circuit

1862                retired

 

NOTE: Matthias Hauert came to America with his family in 1820.  Some sources give his death date as 1865.  A picture of Matthias Hauert appears in the 1940 Centennial Program (84th Session) of the Wisconsin Conference, page 17.


 

HAUGH, PRESTON LEROY

 

Born: 9-21-1922  Red Lion PA                                  married: Edna Martin Burkhart
Died:12-24-1997                                                         obit: Su