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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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