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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
1858 ordained elder
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: [4/18/1854 – 1/27/1927]
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. After B.F. Hall’s death, she married a third time – to a Mr. William L. Fenical [Finicle?] (1854-1907).
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
1903-05 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
1858 ordained deacon
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: 1-16-1924 Smithfield PA married: Bessie Mae Tinsman (5/9/1943)
Died: 5-18-2004 Toms River NJ 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
Note: Donald Paul Austin is the son of Rev. Robert Hawley Austin (1880-1943), affiliation uncertain.
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
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 Rebersburg (ending 9/29/29)
1929-34 East
Point (beginning 9/29/29)
1932-34 East Point-Grover
1934 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 assignment,
China/Philippines/US
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) of Samuel Yearick.
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 Yorkana
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.
BEAR, JOHN S.
Born: 8-20-1824 married: Annie Koons
Died: 9-12-1906 Cocolamus PA obit: [12/28/1830 – 2/24/10-7]
1867 license
1873 ordained deacon
Interment: St. John’s EV/UM Cemetery, McAlisterville PA
Obit:
1869-70 Liverpool
located
Note: This surname is also rendered BAIR. It has not verified with certainty that the Rev. John S. Bear described above is the EV preacher who served in Liverpool.
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
1810 ordaijned deacon
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, SPYKER RILEY
Born: 3-3-1895 Penns Creek PA married: Esta G. Erdley
Died: 3-?-1984 obit: [7-19-1898 n- 4-8-1960]
1911 license
Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit:
became Presbyterian
Janesville WI
Hazelwood Presbyterian, Pittsburgh PA
Note: Spyker Bingaman is a 1915 graduate (AB, BD) of
Albright College. He continued his
ministerial education at McCormick Seminary and then entered the Presbyterian
ministry. He is also known as “S.P.
Bingaman” and is the father of Rev. William G. “Bill” Bingaman (1922-2009) of
the Presbyterian Church, 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
1833 received
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 Annette Henry
Died: 2-16-2016 Pittsburgh PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 53
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
Note: Mrs. Bowersox is the daughter of Rev. Frank W. Henry
(1897-1974) and Rev. Gladys Allyn (Grout) Henry (1904-1989) of the Pilgrim
Holiness Church.
BRADER, JOSEPH M.
Born: 2-24-1849 married: Minerva Wright
Died: 12-25-1889 Warrensville 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 in 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: [1813 - ?]
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.
BURKHART, J. PAUL
Born: 4-28-1899 Newville PA married: Mildred Shambaugh
Died: 8-29-1991 Carlisle PA obit: [1901 – 10/27/1986]
1921 license,
ordained
deacon,
Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA
Obit:
1929 transfer
to Central PA Conference of the
1929-31 teaching, living in Lemasters PA
1931 placed on list of local deacons 1931, 61
1936-46 assistant superintendent, Cumberland County Public Schools
1946-66 superintendent, Cumberland County Public Schools
Note: Mrs. Burkhart was a graduate of Albright College and a member at Carlisle First UMC.
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
1873-75 Hughesville
1875-78 Luzerne
1878-80 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] Smith (1957)
Died: 12-16-2024 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: 7-30-1823 Shrewsbury PA married: Isabella Frantz (1848)
Died: 9-21-1887 Eustis
FL obit:
[4/5/1826 – 8/29/1867]
1847 ordained deacon
1849 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [Pittsburgh Conference 1888, 24]
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. There is a memoir for Mrs. Dick in The Evangelical Messenger, 9 Oct 1867, page 327.
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
Note: Ann Prothero Dimmick was an adjunct professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids MI.
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, HIRAM H.
Born: 6-24-1846 Clinton County PA married: Adda Ritter
Died: 8-24-1900 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.
DUM, JOHN
Born: 1816
PA married:
Mary C. Tressler
Died: 3-2-1887 Perry
County PA obit:
[1814 – 4/?/1893]
1869 license
1874 ordained deacon
Interment: Mount Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Elliottsburg PA
Obit: [DUMM] Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 17
Note: John Dumm is described as “a local preacher on Perry circuit” who “died at a ripe old age.” He was fir a while the proprietor of the White Hall Soldiers’ Orphans’ School in Camp Hill. This surname is given as DUMM in the conference records. Mrs. Dum is part of the noted Tressler/Loy family, prominent Lutherans and educators in Perry County.
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:
Mary Becker
Died: obit:
[d. 1814]
1808 received in trial
1810 ordained deacon
1812 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1809-10 Northumberland
1810-11
1811-12 Northumberland
1812-13 Lancaster
1813 located on account of bodily infirmity
Note: Mrs. Erb was the daughter of George Becker, in whose house where Jacob Albright died. See Stapleton’s 1896 Evangelical Annals – where Erb and his accomplishments are mentioned numerous times.
ERB, PAUL JACOB
Born: 9-22-1924 McClure PA married: Betty Jane Peck
(4/21/1946)
Died: 8-11-2007 Camp
Hill PA obit:
[7/3/1925 – 7/30/2024]
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 Evelyn Pattison
Died: obit:
[12/20/1933 – 5/21/2012]
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 - 1926]
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
Syracuse NY obit:
[1865 - ?]
1886 license
1888 ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder, Central New York
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Mount Olivey Church Cemetery., 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 “DEL” 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, JOHN W.
Born: 11-19-1829 Stony Brook PA married: Mariah Schaeffer
Died: 7-25-1898 York
County PA obit:
[1/24/1829 – 9/8/1912]
1869 license
Interment: Winterstown Evangelical
Cemetery, Winterstown PA
Obit:
Note: John W. Graham is a brother to Philip Graham. A licensed local pastor, he was farmer and
served in the Civil War, but poor health prevented him from being a regular
itinerant.
GRAHAM, P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1874 license
Interment:
Obit:
GRAHAM, PHILIP
Born: 7-11-1813 Stony Brook PA married: Susan Snyder (1833)
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 a brother to John W. Graham and 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. He is a brother to Methodist missionaries Rev. James Graham (1815-1884) of the North Texas Conference (MES) and Rev. William Graham (1821-1897) of the North Indian Conference (ME).
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: 10-?-1846 PA married:
Anna “Annie” E Gill
Died:10-26-1906 Fort
Wayne IN obit:
[5/?/1846 - 1905]
1877 license
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment: Old Maysville Cemetery, Harlan IN
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
? -06 Pine Flats Christian Church, Clymer PA
1906 First Christian Church, Oak Harbor OH
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.
His official legal name appears to
be William Harry Gross, and he is credited as being a D.D., Ph.D. – but even
his grave stone reads “Harry Gross”. He was a teacher and a Civil War soldier
1861-65 before entering the ministry.
When he died he was pastor of the First
Christian Church in Oak Harbor OH and visiting his brother in Fort Wayne
IN. Mrs. Gross died while he was serving
at Pine Flats, Indiana County PA.
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. Anthony (1894)
license obit2:
[4/18/1854 – 1/27/1927]
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 (nee Zimmerman) is the widow of Benjamin F. Anthony. After B.F. Hall’s death, she married a third time – to a Mr. William L. Fenical [Finicle?] (1854-1907).
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 East Point (ending 9/29/29)
1929-30 Grover
(beginning 9/29/29)
1930-34 West Nanticoke
1934 Salladasburg
Note: During the denominational split, Ezra E. Haney served in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association.
*In 1929 E.E. Haney was originally appointed to East Point, but he returned to Grover.
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: 7-8-1847 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 Yorkana
PA married:
Sarah Ann Zeller (3/21/1965)
Died: 9-11-1920
Lemoyne PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 81
1866 license, Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1869 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
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 Yorkana
PA married:
Sarah Sayres
Died: 1-2-1916 York PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 70
1858 ordained deacon
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:
Susquehanna Conference 2015, 267
1951 license,
recommended by Red Lion St. Paul's
1954 ordained elder
Interment: Bethlehem Stonepile
church Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 435
1952-54 Warrensville
1954-58 Penn's Creek
1958-65 Avis
1965-72 Felton
1972-80 East Prospect
1980-88 Roxbury
1988 retired
1993-98 visitation pastor, Red Lion St. Paul’s
HEILMAN, GERALD GLENN
Born: 5-17-1922 Manchester PA married: Geraldine Marie Bowker
Died: 1-23-2017
Lewisburg PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2018, 272
1942 license,
recommended by Manchester St. Paul
1948 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 284
1945-47 Faith,
Milwaukee Wisconsin Conference
1947-53 West Milton
1953-56 Cumberland
1956-67 Baltimore Immanuel
1967-78 Williamsport Trinity
1978-87 Altoona Simpson
1987-91 Lewisburg St. Paul’s
1991 retired
HEIM, R. KENNETH
Born: 6-23-1917 Cogan Station PA married: Virginia Todd Benson
Died: 1-7-2001 obit:
Central PA Conference 1961, 89; 1962, 92
married2: Jean Louis Bennett
1940 license, recommended by Balls Mills obit2: [d. 8/18/2011]
1942 ordained deacon
1944 ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 364
1940-44 Montoursville-Pennsdale
1944-47 chaplain, U.S. Army
1947-48 Port Trevorton
1948-51 Cumberland charge
1951-59 New Kingstown
1959-64 Williamsport St. Paul's
1964-80 Berwick Bethany
1980 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Heim served was a former missionary nurse in Israel.
HEIM, WILLIAM WARDEN
Born: 3-2-1878 Shamokin Dam PA married: Bessie Mabel Fiedler
Died: 11-11-1948 obit: [1/3/1879 – 9/11/1951]
1903 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1909 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference ME
1910 ordained elder, Genesee Conference ME
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1903-05 student, Susquehanna University
1903-05 reportedly served as a supply preacher, Central PA Conference EV
1905 “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church
1905-06 Montandon, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1906-07 Wharton, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1907 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1907-08 Roulette
1908-09 Ceres
1909-10 Ceres and Horse Run
1910-11 Warrens Corners and East Wilson
1911-13 Fowlerville and Greigsville
1913-14 Evans and Brant
1914-15 North Collins and Indian Mission
1915-16 Darien
1916-17 Gainesville
1917-19 Savona
1919-20 Savona and Campbell
1920-21 Fillmore and Hume
1921-22 Buffalo St. Mark’s
1922-28 on leave
1928 located
Note: W. Ward Heim served as a local pastor in the United Evangelical and Methodist Episcopal denominations until joining the Genesee Conference in 1907. In 1930 he was living in Buffalo NY and working as a ticket agent for the railroad.
HEINDEL, JOHN ELMER
Born: 7-16-1872 Wrightsville PA married: Alma Dorothy Klinker
Died: 7-?-1941 obit:
[1883 – 1967]
1892 license
1897 license, Allegheny Synod of the Lutheran Church
1898 ordained, Allegheny Synod of the Lutheran Church
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit:
1892-95 student, Albright College
1895-98 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg PA
York Haven
York Haven & Goldsboro Mt. Zion
1898-41 English
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jersey City NJ
Note: John Elmer Heindel’s parents and grandmother were donors of the land for the Trinity North Church in York County.
HEINEY [see HINEY]
HEISER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 6-11-1908 Shenandoah PA married: Viola Alyce Wiest
Died: 12-5-1997
Mechanicsburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 84
married2: Mabel I. Oberdorff
obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 437
1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Shenandoah Bethany
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 436
1930-33 Bellwood-Pine Croft
1933-38 White Deer charge
1938-41 Hebbville
1941-47 Mifflin Trinity
1947-51 Baltimore Immanuel
1951-53 Mechanicsburg Grace
1953-59 Williamsport St. Paul's
1959-70 conference program
director
1970-74 associate conference program director
1974 retired
visitation pastor, Shiremanstown
visitation pastor, Lemoyne Grace
Note: The first Mrs. Heiser is the daughter of Rev. Lawrence Orwig Wiest (b. 1867, affiliation uncertain), granddaughter of Samuel L. Wiest, and great-granddaughter of W.W. Orwig.
HEISLEY, HOMER WILLIAM
Born: 11-27-1905 Marysville PA married: Anna Evelyn Page
Died: 6-11-1952 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 388
1922 licensed, recommended by Marysville
1931 ordained deacon
1933 ordained elder
Interment: Twin Hills Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 77
1929-32 Dushore
1932-43 Lock Haven
1943-52 Williamsport First
Note: Homer W. Heisley is a brother to Lester H. Heisley and the father of Joan Heisley Fisher, wife of Bruce D. Fisher of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
HEISLEY, LESTER HENRY
Born: 1-3-1894 Marysville PA married: Edna Myrtle Gielow (1916)
Died: 10-24-1922
Chicago IL obit:
[4/23/1896 – 2/25/1980]
1913 license
Interment: Montrose Cemetery, Chicago IL
Obit: Evangelical Church Yearbook 1924, 122
1913-14 student, Albright Academy at Myerstown
subsequent schooling [exact dates unknown]
Albright College
Moody Bible Institute
McCormick Theological Seminary (Union Theological College)
subsequent pastoral service [presumably while a student]
1916-18 North Ashland Avenue United Evangelical Church, Chicago IL
1918-19 unknown church, Manhattan IL
1919-22 Cragin Congregational Church, Chicago IL
He died before his expected 1923 graduation from seminary.
Note: Lester H. Heisley is a brother to Homer W. Heisley. A biographical sketch appears in Hain’s 1922 History of Perry County, page 814. This name is incorrectly given in the 1913 journal, page 38, as Lester M. Heishley. Also buried in Montrose Cemetery is his 2½ hour old son Edward, 12/9/1918, who was survived by his twin sister Virginia. The widowed Mrs. Heisley later married Rev. Clarence B. Gould (1887-1979) of the Congregational Church.
HEISS, JACOB
Born: 12-30-1808 Lancaster County PA married:
Died: c1850 St.
Joseph County IN obit:
1841 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Jacob Heiss is a brother to Peter Heiss and Samuel Heiss. Two other brothers, Henry Heiss and Levi Heiss, were 1840 charter members of the Ohio Conference – and Levi, who served the Rock River IL circuit for two years while it was part of the Ohio Conference, guided the charter members of the Illinois Conference into that territory in 1844. There is a brief account of the Heiss family in Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 107.
HEISS, PETER
Born: 9-21-1818 Lancaster County PA married: Catherine Williams
Died: 11-12-1871
Mifflinburg PA obit:
[8/1/1824 – 10/23/1897]
1842 license
1845 ordained deacon
1847 ordained elder
Interment: Forest Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, Forest
Hill PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]
1842-43 Cumberland
1843-44 York circuit
1844-45 Somerset
1845-47 located
1847-48 Lycoming
1848-49 Cumberland
1849-50 Strasburg
1850-52 Luzerne
1852-53 Hollidaysburg
1853-54 located
1854-56 Canton
1856 located
Note: Peter Heiss is a brother to Jacob Heiss and Samuel
Heiss. Two other brothers, Henry Heiss
and Levi Heiss, were 1840 charter members of the Ohio Conference – and Levi,
who served the Rock River IL circuit for two years while it was part of the
Ohio Conference, guided the charter members of the Illinois Conference into
that territory in 1844. There is a brief
account of the Heiss family in Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 107.
HEISS, SAMUEL
Born: 7-14-1803 Lancaster County PA married: Maria Anna Roland
Died: 2-9-1883 Elkhart
IN obit:
[3/8/1808 – 6/29/1849]
married2: Susanna _____
1841 ordained deacon obit2:
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Fairview [Erie County] PA
Obit:
1839-41 Armstrong
1841-42 Warren
1842 transfer to Ohio
Conference
Note: Samuel Heiss is a brother to Jacob Heiss and Peter Heiss. Two other brothers, Henry Heiss and Levi Heiss, were 1840 charter members of the Ohio Conference – and Levi, who served the Rock River IL circuit for two years while it was part of the Ohio Conference, guided the charter members of the Illinois Conference into that territory in 1844. There is a brief account of the Heiss family in Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 107.
HELLER, JOHN
Born: 9-28-1805 Hellerstown
[Berrysburg] PA married:
Christina Troutman
Died: 2-14-1892 Loganton PA obit:
[1/24/1805 – 6/16/1891]
? license
Interment: Fairview Evangelical Cemetery, Loganton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 14
Note: John Heller was a local preacher and a wagon-maker in Loganton, Sugar Valley. He was converted under Bishop Seybert.
HENCH, SEIBERT LEE
Born: 9-25-1885 Blain PA married: Edna S. Uhrich
Died: 3-8-1953
Dallastown PA obit:
[1891 – 1979]
1908 license
1913 ordained, Western Pennsylvania
Synod of the Lutheran Church
Interment: Dallastown Union Cemetery, Dallastown PA
Obit:
1908-10 student, Albright College
1910-13 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg PA
1913-15 West Manheim Lutheran
1915-52 Dallastown
Christ Lutheran
HENDRICKS, JOHN B.
Born: 3-12-1827 married:
Esther M. Stover
Died: 12-13-1896 obit:
[Evangelical Messenger 12/20/1887,
811]
1873 license
Interment: Wenksville Cemetery, Wenksville PA
Obit:
Note: J.B. Hendricks was apparently a local pastor. The 1887 obituary for Mrs. Hendricks states he “moved to Beaver appointment of Bendersville charge of our church 18 years ago.”
HENGST, BENJAMIN
Born: 1826
Yorkana PA married: Mary A. Dunkle
Died: 11-13-1907 York
PA obit:
[1830 – 1879]
married2: Mrs. Kate P. Hetzel Rhoads
1847 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 83
1849 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 69
1847-49 Center
circuit
1849-50 Buffalo circuit
1850-52 Baltimore McEldery Street
1852-54 Baltimore Green Street
1854-56 Center
1856-60 Baltimore District
1860-63 Baltimore Green Street
1863-65 York Queen Street
1865-67 Baltimore Green Street
1867-69 Washington DC
1869-71 Baltimore Green Street
1871-73 Baltimore McEdlery Street
1873-74 Baltimore Memorial
1874-76 Baltimore McEldery Street
1876 charter member of Atlantic Conference
1876-77 Baltimore
McEldery Street
1877-78 located
1878-79 Baltimore Memorial,
Central Pennsylvania Conference
1879 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1879-81 Baltimore
Memorial
1881-83 Lewisburg
1883-86 Center circuit
1886-89 Loganville
1889-92 York Queen Street
1892-93 Williamsport Market
Street
1893-95 Newport
1895-99 York Grace
1899-00 York West
1900-02 located
1902-04 Mt. Holly Springs
1904-05 Emigsville
1905-07 York Bethany
1907 retired
Note: Benjamin Hengst is the father of Anna Leah Hengst Benfer, wife of Henry A. Benfer. The first Mrs. Hengst is a daughter of prominent Evangelical Association member John S. Dunkel, in whose Union County home 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. Mary’s sister Susan Dunkel married noted Evangelical preacher and publisher and administrator Charles Hammer, and her sister Sophia Dunkel married John G. Miller.
HENIG, ADAM [see KENDIG, ADAM]
HENN, JACOB
Born: 4-27-1835 Germany married: Lydia Rebecca Ream
Died: 2-20-1903 Le
Mars IA obit:
[9/12/1839 – 9/11/1917]
1856 license
185 8 ordained decon
1861 ordained elder
Interment: Memorial Cemetery, Le Mars IA
Obit: [Iowa Conference 1924, 6]
1856-57 Center
1857-58 Lycoming
1858-59 Middle Creek
1859-60 Center
1860-62 Baltimore circuit
1862-64 Baltimore McEldery Street
1864-66 Washington DC
1866-68 agent, Washington DC
mission
1868-70 Baltimore Green Street
1870 transfer to Iowa
Conference
Note: Mrs. Henn is a native of Centre County PA.
HERMAN, MARK ARTLY
Born: 10-5-1892 York Springs PA married: Alice Myrtle Harman
Died:8-20-1961 Idaville PA obit:
[3/23/1897 – 11/25/1992]
1921 license
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder
Interment: Uriah Church Cemetery, Cumberland County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 94
1922-24 Rebersburg
1924-31 West Milton
1931-38 Lock Haven mission
1938-50 Espy
1950-54 White Deer
1954-61 Danville
1961 retired
HEROLD, S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1872 license
Interment:
Obit:
HERTZ, JOHN HENRY
Born: 8-28-1846 Linglestown
PA married:
Susan Anna Graybill
Died: 2-25-1926
Sonestown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 87
1876 license,
recommended by Pine on the Port Trevorton charge
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment: Sonestown Cemetery, Sonestown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 94
1877-78 Columbia
1878-79 Liberty
1879-82 Catawissa
1882-83 Susquehanna
1883-84 Tunkhannock
1884-86 Maple Grove
1886-88 Chanceford
1888-91 Red Lion circuit
1891-92 Shrewsbury
1892-95 Spring Mills
1895-99 Middleburg
1899-03 Perry
1903-04 Cumberland
1904-06 Yoe
1906-08 East Point
1908-12 Sonestown
1912-13 South Wayland
1913 retired
HESS, BENJAMIN
Born: 1811
Harrisburg PA married:
Anna Wolf (3/4/1845)
Died: IL obit:
[11/6/1811 – 3/4/1861]
1844 license
1846 ordained deacon
1848 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Center
1845-46 Lycoming
1846-47 Union
1847 Buffalo
migrated to Stephenson County IL
and entered into business with his brother-in-law Andrew Wolf
Note: Mrs. Hess is a sister to Aaron and Simon Wolf, and to Leah Wold Rohland, wife of Henry Rohland. She is buried in the Cedarville Cemetery in Stephenson County IL. Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 79, gives a brief account of the Wolf family, as does Beers’ 1910 Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, page 1192-3.
HESSER, CHARLES.
Born: 11-5-1807 Orwigsburg PA married: Hannah Wagoner
Died: 10-12-1843
McKees Half Falls PA obit:
[1819-1873]
1831 license
Interment: Orwigsburg PA
Obit:
Note: A biographical sketch of Charles Hesser is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 543. He died in an accident on his way to attend the 1843 General Conference of the Evangelical Association as a delegate of the East Pennsylvania Conference [see Breyfogel’s 1888 Landmarks of the Evangelical Association, page 105.] Mrs. Hesser is the daughter of Charles Wagoner and a sister to Rebecca Wagoner Hoffman, wife of Francis A. Hoffman, and Elizabeth Wagoner Orwig, mother of Bishop W.W. Orwig. One source gives the dates for Mrs. Hesser as 2/19/1810 – 6/5/1883, with a marriage date of 1828.
HETNER, JOHN A.
Born: 1849 married:
Rebecca E. Friedel
Died: 3-29-1942
Greensburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 59
1872 license
1873 ordained deacon
1875 ordained elder
Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1942, 53
1871-72 Milton
1872-73 Sugar Valley
1873-75 Liverpool
1875-76 Millerstown
1876-77 Orangeville
1877 transfer to Platte
River Conference
transfer to Kansas Conference
1893 withdrew
irregularly
reinstated as
local elder, Pittsburgh Conference
HEWITT, CLYDE ERNEST
Born: 1-31-1897 Fulton County PA married: Clara Erma
Royer
Died: 11-28-1934
Mechanicsburg PA obit:
[1898 – 4/21/1978]
1917 license,
recommended by Berkley Springs
1920 ordained deacon
1927 ordained elder
Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 87
1918-19 Wapwallopen
1919-20 Rebersburg
1920-26 student, Albright
College
1922-23 Klinefeltersville
1924-25 Charlton
1925-26 Steelton
1926-29 State
College
1929-31 student, Princeton
Theological Seminary at Princeton NJ
1929-31 Locktown NJ Congregational Church
1931-34 Mechanicsburg
Note: While the church records always give the surname as HEWITT, the tombstone gives the family name as HEWETT.
HILL, ELMER ST. CLAIR
Born: 4-21-1888 Lycoming County PA married: Clara Virgil Rider
Died: 1-16-1933
Baltimore MD obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 345
1915 license,
recommended by Jersey Shore
1917 ordained deacon
1919 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 78
1915-16 Pennsdale
1916-20 South Wayland
1920-25 Liberty
1925-29 Loganville
1929-32 Cumberland
1932-33 Baltimore Immanuel
Note: Elmer S. Hill is a brother to Harry D. Hill.
HILL, HARRY DOLMER
Born: 4-27-1877 near Hughesville PA married: Sarah A. Bartlow
Died: 10-27-1960 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 82
married2: Mary Alice Bennett
1906 license,
recommended by Hughesville obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 346
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 87
1908-12 South
Wayland
1912-16 Grover
1916-19 Nuremberg
1919-24 Loganton
1924-26 Berwick Bower Memorial
1926-33 Baltimore Olive Branch
1933-48 York Grace
1948 retired
Note: Harry D. Hill is a brother to Elmer S. Hill. He appears to be buried in York, where he died, even though his pre-arranged gravemarker in the family plot at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Hughesville was updated to note his death.
HINEY, GEORGE WESLEY
Born: 1870 married:
Josephine Butterfield
Died: 1947 obit:
Central New York Conference 1950, 120
1893 license
1896 ordained deacon
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit:
1894-95 Tunkhannock
1895-97 Waller
1897-99 Bellefonte circuit
1899-04 located
1904 name dropped from
conference roll (see 1904,58)
1905 “transfer” to Methodist Protestant Church
Stanards
Pains Hollow
North Wolcott
1911 “transfer” to Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1911-13 Montezuma
1913-15 Ludlowville & Lansing
1915-17 Sterling & Martville
1917-19 Savannah
1919-21 Lodi
1921-24 Sodus Point & Wallington
1924-27 North Rose & Resort
1927-30 Skaneateles
1930-34 Phoenix
1934-36 Locke
1936 retired
Note: This name appears in many records as HEINEY. G.W. Hiney is the father of Ralph E. Hiney of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
HINKLE, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1852 Perry
circuit
left the church
HINKLE, J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1852 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John Hinkle
appears to have been a school teacher in Mechanicsburg
who functioned as a local preacher. An
1852 letter written by him says he was “unable to preach for health reasons.”
HIPPLE, CHARLES W.
Born: 7-4-1870 near Carlisle PA married: Maggie
Murray
Died: 3-18-1940 Hellam
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 79
1892 license,
recommended by New Kingston
1896 ordained deacon
1898 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Holly Cemetery, Mt. Holly Springs PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 90
1894-95 Zion's
Grove
1895-96 Tunkhannock
1896-97 Bellefonte circuit
1897-98 Cumberland circuit
1898-99 West Clifford
1899-01 Waller circuit
1901-04 Craleyville
1904-06 Hagerstown circuit
1906-10 Perry circuit
1910-14 Warrensville
1914-16 Salladasburg
1916-21 Wellsville
1921-24 Port Trevorton
1924-28 McClure
1928-33 Hellam
1933 retired
HIPPLE, HERMAN HARRIS
Born: 8-6-1896 married:
Died: 12-3-1985 obit:
1916 license
Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Marysville PA
Obit:
Note: Herman H. Hipple was a resident of Marysville PA.
HOCH, WILLIAM C.
Born: 8-25-1871 Mahanoy City PA married: Carrie Jeannette Fetzer
Died: 8-6-1940
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 96
1893 license
1895 ordained deacon
1898 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 89
1893-94 Tunkhannock
1894-95 Milton circuit
1895-96 Spring Mills
1896-98 Port Trevorton
1898-99 Good Will
1899-09 East Prospect
1902-05 Felton
1905-08 Middleburg
1908-12 Mifflinburg
1912-15 West Berwick
1915-16 Baltimore Olive Branch
1916-19 Glen Rock
1919-23 West Milton
1923-26 Hummels Wharf
1926-30 Hughesville
1930-32 Windsor
1932-34 Danville
1934-37 Marysville
1937 retired
HOFFMAN, BALTHASAR
Born: 1-5-1828 Bavaria married: Elizabeth Anna
_____
Died: 2-14-1912 Joplin
MO obit:
[1837 – 7/27/1927]
1852 license, Evangelical Church
1861 ordained, Cincinnati OH Presbytery
Interment: Webb City Cemetery, Webb City MO
Obit:
1854-55 Lycoming
1855-56 Clinton
1856 “transfer” to the
German Reformed Church
1856-59 Sellersburg IN
1859 “transfer” to Ohio German Conference of the United Brethren Church
1859-63 (locations unknown, apparently Presbyterian connections during this time)
1863 transfer to Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Association
1863-64 (locations unknown)
1864 transfer to Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association
1864-65 Montgomery
1865-66 Richmond
1866-68 Fulton
1868-70 South Bend circuit
1872 began serving in the Presbyterian Church
1872-78 Holton & Arlington KS
1878-80 Summit & Prosperity MO
1880-93 ?
1893-? Clafin KS Salem
retired a member of the Ozark Presbytery
Note: Balthasar [aka Balthazar or Bathazer] Hoffman studied for the priesthood at the Jesuit College in Rome 1844-45 and converted to Protestantism in 1850.
HOFFMAN, BENJAMIN GRIFFIN
Born: 5-18-1893 Milton PA married: Eva Imogene Miller
Died: 8-14-1987 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 346
1916 license,
recommended by West Milton
1919 ordained deacon
1921 ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 414
1916-17 Keystone
1917-20 Bloserville
1920-27 Leesburg
1927-34 Yorkana
1934-42 Lycoming
1942-56 Jersey Shore
1956-64 Hughesville
1964 retired
HOFFMAN, ELISHA ALBRIGHT
Born: 5-7-1839 Orwigsburg PA married: Susanna M. Orwig
Died: 11-25-1929
Chicago IL obit:
[6/1/1844 – 6/22/1876]
married2: Emma Sayres Smith [1879]
1867 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference obit2:
[1/4/1853 – 7/24/1941]
1868 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
Interment: Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago IL
Obit:
1867-68 Lebanon station
1868-69 Fairville station
1869 open transfer, apparently to pursue music business in Cleveland OH
1895 withdrew from the denomination, apparently because of the denominational split
1900-15 First Presbyterian Church in Benton Harbor MI
1915-22 First Presbyterian Church in Cabery IL
Note: Elisha Hoffman is the son of Francis A. Hoffman. He is a noted writer and publisher of gospel songs. The first Mrs. Hoffman is the daughter of William W. Orwig. A biographical sketch of Susanna Orwig Hoffman, including some of her poetry, is given in Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights of Evangelical History, pages 166–173. The mothers of Elisha Hoffman and W.W. Orwig were sisters, and so the first Mrs. Hoffman was the daughter of his first cousin.
HOFFMAN, FRANCIS A.
Born: 1-3-1806 Hamburg PA married: Rebecca Ann
Wagoner
Died: 7-26-1894
Reading PA obit:
[12/18/1807 – 1/29/1891]
1826 license
1828 ordained deacon
1832 ordained elder
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit:
1824-25 Schuylkill circuit (beginning fall 1824)
1826-27 Mansfield and Canton OH circuits
1827-28 Franklin and Berkley circuits
1828-29 Union circuit
1829-30 Centre circuit
1830-31 located
1831-32 Berkley (beginning fall 1831)
1832-33 Lancaster circuit
1833-34 Union circuit
1834-35 Centre circuit
1835-36 York circuit
1836-37 Lycoming circuit
1837-38 Lebanon circuit
1838-39 Lehigh circuit
1839-40 Lebanon circuit
1840-42 Schuylkill circuit
1842-43 Womelsdorf circuit
1843-44 Pine Grove station
1844-46 Lehigh circuit
1846-48 Philadelphia station
1848-52 superintendent, Philadelphia District
1852-54 superintendent, Lebanon District
1854-56 superintendent, Orwigsburg District
1856-57 Reading
1857-58 New York City
1858-62 superintendent, Lebanon District
1862-64 Pine Grove
1864-66 Lehigh circuit
1866-68 Lebanon
1868-71 superintendent, Easton District
1871-72 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1872-73 Philadelphia Sixth Street
1873-74 Philadelphia Fifth Street mission
1874-75 Philadelphia Fourth Street
1875-76 Philadelphia Fifth Street
1876-78 Norristown mission
1878-81 Emmaus mission
1881-84 Tremont circuit
1884-85 Womelsdorf circuit
1885-86 East Reading mission
1886 retired
Note: Francis A. Hoffman is the father of Elisha A. Hoffman and Francis C. Hoffman. A biographical sketch his given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 544. Mrs. Hoffman is the daughter of Charles Wagoner and a sister to Hannah Wagoner Hesser, wife of Charles Hesser, and Elizabeth Wagoner Orwig, mother of Bishop W.W. Orwig.
HOFFMAN, FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER JR.
Born: 10-28-1836 married:
Lizzie C. German (1867)
Died: CA obit:
1860 license
1862 ordained deacon
1865 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1860-61 Cumberland
1861-73 faculty, Union Seminary
at New Berlin PA
1863-69 principal
moved to Cleveland OH
Note: Francis C. Hoffman is the son of Francis A. Hoffman and a brother to Elisha A. Hoffman. In 1914, he was associated with First Church [denominational affiliation uncertain] in Newton MA. At the time of the 1916 Evangelical Centennial Celebration, Mrs. Francis C. Hoffman was noted as living in Newton Center MA.
HOFFMAN, GEORGE C
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1893 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
HOGUE, RALPH WAYNE
Born: 1-23-1932 married:
Mary Charlene Taylor
Died: 3-24-2021
Fredericksburg VA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2016, 264
1952 license,
recommended by Bradford Hill Memorial, Erie Conference EUB
1957 ordained elder, Erie Conference
EUB
Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens, Four Mile Fork VA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 361
1957-60 Glenwood,
Erie assistant
1960-62 Bradford Degolia
1962 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1962-67 Buffalo Run
1967-75 Centre Hall
1975-81 Fayetteville Otterbein
1981-94 Hughesville Bethany
1994-95 Blossburg
1995 retired
1995-98 York St. Luke’s
2001-09 Fredericksburg VA Falmouth UMC
HOLLENBAUGH, JAMES A.
Born: 3-5-1852 Blain PA married: Emma Mary Davis
Died: 11-6-1932
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86
1877 license, recommended by Stony Point on the Perry circuit
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 77
1877-79 Wyoming
1879-81 Lenoxville
1881-87 transfer to Pacific
Conference
1881-84 Albany mission
1884 charter member of Oregon Conference
1884-85 Albany mission
1885-87 Salem
1887 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1887-90 Lewisburg
1890-92 Lock Haven
1892-96 Williamsport First
1896-98 Williamsport St. Paul
1898-02 Altoona
1901-06 Baltimore Memorial
1906-10 Lewisburg
1910-14 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1914-18 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1918-21 Jersey Shore
1921 retired
Note: James A. Hollenbaugh is a brother to Reuben C. Hollenbaugh, and their wives were first cousins. Mrs. Hollenbaugh is the daughter of Samuel E. Davis.
HOLLENBAUGH, REUBEN CREIGHTON
Born: 12-25-1861 married:
Anna Davis (1892)
Died: 7-6-1893 obit:
[2/?/1868 – 1928]
1885 license
Interment: Stony Point United Evangelical Church Cemetery,
Perry County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 55
Note: Reuben C. Hollenbaugh is a brother to James A. Hollenbaugh, and their wives were first cousins. His surname is also given as HOLLENBACH. Mrs. Hollenbaugh is the daughter of Charles W. Davis. In 1911 the widowed Mrs. Hollenbaugh married the widowed Mr. William Vincent Provost (1862-1930) and is buried with him in Alva OK.
HOLLOPETER, ELWOOD LYLE
Born: 5-22-1918 Rockton PA married: Eva L. Newkirk (1957)
Died: 4-26-2009
Wellsboro PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2011, 399
1956 license, recommended by Clearfield First Baptist
1957 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment: East Point Cemetery, East Point PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 422
1957-58 First Baptist, St. Mary’s OH
1958 transfer
to Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church
1958-60 Hope First
1960-62 Clarksville
1962 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1962-64 Union circuit
1964-67 Salladasburg
1967-68 Hartfield Memorial, Mayville NY
1968-79 Riverview, Buffalo NY
1970-75 Lycoming
1975-78 Pine Creek
1978-82 Howard
1982-92 Wallis Run
1992 retired
Note: Elwood L. Hollopeter is a brother to Jason P.
Hollopeter; they are the sons of Rev. Jason B. Hollopeter of the Church of the
Brethren.
HOLLOPETER, JASON PHILIP
Born: 9-30-1913 Rockton PA married: Nellie Dean Wright
Died: 5-20-1996 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 409
1942 license, recommended by Decker MI Baptist
1946 ordained, American Baptist
Interment: Rockton Memorial Cemetery, Rockton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 413
1942-50 [American Baptist churches]
Lawton MI
Decker MI
1949 “transfer” to Detroit Conference of the Methodist Church
1949-51 Otisville MI
1951-52 Beaverton MI
1952-53 Elkton MI
1953-55 Central Square NY, Northern New York Conference
1955-58 Savona NY Federated (ending 12/31/1958)
1959-60 Skinners Eddy, Wyoming Conference (beginning 1/1/1959)
1960 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1960-62 Grover & East Point
1962-65 Liberty & East Point
1965-66 Nashville MI, Michigan Conference
1966-69 Freemont IN, Michigan Conference
1969-72 Millheim
1972-74 Kunkle OH
1974-76 Petersburg (ending 10/31/76)
1976-79 Susquehanna Valley (beginning 11/1/76)
1979 retired
Calvary UM, Bippus IN
Note: Jason P. Hollopeter is a brother to Elwood L.
Hollopeter, and the father of Rev. Jason C. Hollopeter of the United Brethren
(Old Constitution) Church [see Susquehanna Conference list]. He and Elwood are the sons of Rev. Jason B.
Hollopeter of the Church of the Brethren.
HOOSE, H. DEAN
Born: 2-22-1888 Canton PA married: Alice M. Terwilliger
Died: 4-23-1962 obit:
7/21/1897 – 10/21/1989]
1907 license
Interment: Rose Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn OH
Obit:
Note: H. Dean Hoose apparently never served under appointment. He moved to Akron OH, where he managed a hardware store, about 1919
HOOVER, RICHARD GRANT
Born: 1926
Marcus Hook PA married:
Peggy Evelyn George (11/9/1952)
Died: 1-?-2006 obit:
[12/27/1931 – 10/11/2015]
1951 license,
recommended by Madisonburg
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1952-54 Sonestown
1954-56 student
1954-55 Spring Valley Friends (Ohio Conference)
1956-60 Grover – East Point
1960-61 Penns Creek
1961-63 Dushore – Lopez
1963 “transfer”
to United Church of Christ, page 105
HORN, J.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1874 dropped
HORN, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1891 license
Interment:
Obit:
HORNBECK, HAROLD CLIFTON
Born: 8-30-1907 married:
Sarah Ann Bower
Died: 9-17-1998 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 440
1928 license,
recommended by West Milton
1937 ordained elder, New York
Conference
Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Milton PA
Obit: [1999, 423]
1928-33 not appointed
1933 transfer to New York Conference
1933-39 Grove-Swain
1939-42 Binghamton
1942 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1942-46 Lycoming
1946-52 Berwick St. Paul's
1952-58 Lewistown Trinity
1958-68 Mifflin Trinity
1968-71 Mount Nittany
1971-75 Houserville
1975 retired
1975-76 Church Hill
1978 Axeman-Weaver
Note: Harold C. Hornbeck is a brother to Elsie O. Hornbeck Kindt, wife of Charles N. Kindt.
HORNBERGER, ZACHARIAH
Born: 2-5-1833 PA married:
Minerva Evans
Died: 4-18-1893
Findlay OH obit:
[b.1837]
1853 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1859 ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1861 ordained elder
Interment: Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory OH [Zacharias]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 55
1858-59 Perry
1859-60 Montour
1860-61 Cherry
1861-62 York circuit
1862-64 Cumberland
1864-65 Conewago
1865-67 Shrewsbury
1867-68 Gettysburg
1868-70 Clinton
1870-72 Liberty
1872 Seneca
1872-73 Jersey Shore
1873-75 Port Trevorton
1875-77 Lewistown and Patterson
1877-78 Lewisburg
1878-79 Shickshinny
1879-81 Buffalo circuit
1881-82 Danville
1882-84 East Liberty
1884-85 Milesburg
1885-1887 Seneca Falls
1887-88 Red Lion circuit
1888-92 assistant editor, The
Living Epistle and English Sunday-School Literature [living in Ohio]
1892 located
withdrew
Note: Zachariah Hornberger is a brother to J.C. Hornberger (?-1905) of the New York Conference – who was licensed by the East Pennsylvania Conference in 1865 and served with Zachariah as editor of the denomination’s English Sunday School literature. While serving in Danville, Zachariah Hornberger was editor and publisher of the Temperance Star. While serving in Seneca Falls, he may have also supplied the Lutheran and Reformed church. Mrs. Hornberger’s sister Tamar Evans is married to H.A. Dietterich.
HOSTERMAN, WARD KRAPE
Born: 2-4-1902 near Woodward PA married: Beatrice S.
Rishel
Died: 7-1-1962
Lewisburg PA obit:
[Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 486]
1930 license
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Reformed Cemetery, Aaronsburg
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 101
1930-35 Mt.
Holly Springs
1935-47 Centre Hall
1947-54 Leesburg
1954-61 Sugar Valley
1961-62 White Deer
HOTTENSTEIN, CHARLES STETLER
Born: 2-7-1891 married:
Annie G. Gerhart
Died: 3-?-1977 obit:
[7/17/1896 – 1/16/1986]
1912 license,
recommended by Winfield
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit:
1912 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1912-16 student, Albright College
Note: Beginning with a 1916-17 term as principal of the high school at New Albany PA, Charles S. Hottenstein went on to a distinguished career as an educator. Though not an itinerant, he maintained membership in the East Pennsylvania Conference.
HOUSE, CLYDE EDWARD
Born: 5-18-1901 Frostburg MD married: Ethel Perry
Died: 12-6-1973 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 410
married2: H. Marie Hornberger
obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 410
1918 quarterly conference license, Altoona Greenwood
1928 license, Allegheny Conference
1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Union Cemetery, Richfield PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 423
1927-30 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1930-31 Runville
1931-39 Bigler
1939-42 Trafford City
1942-44 Westmoreland
1944-51 Richfield
1951 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1951-52 Richfield
1952-54 Montoursville-Pennsdale
1954-63 Rebersburg
1963-66 Lopez-Dushore
1966 retired
Note: Clyde E. House is related to two Allegheny Conference pastors included in the United Brethren files. He is the son of Edwin F. House and a brother to Carrie Almetta House Orlidge, wife of Alfred J. Orlidge.
HOUSEAL, DAVID ABEL
Born: 3-6-1939 Millheim PA married: Peggy A. Mellinger
Died: obit:
married2: Linda Marie Heck (11/30/1980)
1961 license,
recommended by Carlisle First obit2:
1965 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1961-62 student, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena CA
1962-65 student, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville IL
1963-65 Rollo UCC, Rollo IL
1965-66 Rollo UCC, Rollo IL
1966-71 Duncannon
1971-73 student
1973-80 York Bethlehem
1980 withdrew, page 273
Note: David A. Houseal is the son of Harry A. Houseal. His first marriage ended in divorce. In 2023 he was living in Clermont FL.
HOUSEAL, HARRY ALBERT
Born: 10-4-1908 married:
Beatrice Romaine Abel
Died: 7-22-1995 obit:
[10/3/1908 – 3/19/1999]
married2: Mildred [Mickey] K. Alexander
1927 license, recommended by York Grace obit2: [9/1/1919 -7/22/2015]
1933 ordained deacon
1935 ordained elder
Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens
Obit:
1931-37 Montoursville-Pennsdale
1937-43 Millheim
1943-57 Lemoyne
1957-59 York Bethany
1959-67 Carlisle First
1967-68 Chewsville
1968 dropped, page 237
Note: Harry A. Houseal is the father of David A. Houseal. The second Mrs. Houseal, whom Harry married in 1970, appears to have been previously married to a Mr. Robert N. Zeigler (1916-1998).
HOUSER, A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1870 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
HOUTZ, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1867 license
Interment:
Obit:
HOWER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Born: 3-31-1864 Lycoming County married: Ida D. Moyer
Died: 8-15-1943 Danville PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 83
1897 license
1900 ordained deacon
1902 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 79
1898-02 Danville
1902-05 Lopez
1905-08 Dushore
1908-12 Bellefonte
1912-16 Scranton
1916-21 Baltimore
1921-24 Milton
1924-27 State College
1927-32 Glen Rock
1932-36 Nescopeck
1936 retired
HUDDELL, HOWARD EARL
Born: 8-26-1903 Philadelphia PA married: Doris Melissa Bishop
Died: 4-14-1967
Ephrata PA obit:
[1/8/1914 – 5/22/2022]
1936 license,
recommended by Kearney NE
1940 ordained deacon
1942 ordained elder
Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 133
1926-27 Dayking, Powell & Hazard NE, Methodist Episcopal Church
1936-37 Eddysville NE
1938 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1938-40 Manchester and Yorkshire
1940-42 Ransom
1942-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-48 Mifflinburg
1948-50 Loganville
1950-57 chaplain, US Army
1957 transfer
to Northeastern Conference
1957-62 Jersey City Zion
1962-65 Brownstown Emmanuel
& Rothsville Salem
1965-67 Brownstown Emmanuel
Note: Mrs. Huddell is the author
of A Marriage in Wartime: The World War
II Letters of Howard and Doris Huddell, published in 1994.
HUFF, FLOYD ARTHUR
Born: 1-4-1888 Union County PA married: Anna Mae Smith
Died: 6-14-1959
Lewisburg PA obit:
[1885 – 1977]
1924 license
Interment: Highland Cemetery, New Columbia PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 87
1925-26 Centre
Hall
1926-27 Williamsport Trinity
1927-31 Buffalo Valley
1931 located
Note: Floyd A. Huff returned to the teaching profession and served as an active layman in the local church.
HUMMEL, NORMAN LONG
Born: 12-16-1888 Snyder County PA married: Edna Belva Logan
Died: 8-21-1980 Camp
Hill PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 106
married2: Mrs. Alice Eva Haney Niebel Steinmetz
1908 license,
recommended by Shreiners obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 389
1919 ordained deacon
1921 ordained elder
Interment: Shreiners Church
Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 333
1917-22 State
College
1922-26 York Bethany
1926-32 Williamsport St. Paul
1932-39 York Trinity
1939-59 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1959 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Hummel was the widow of Benjamin E. Niebel.
HUMMELBAUGH, H.A.
Born: Adams County PA married:
Mary Jane Myers
Died: 1922 Los
Angeles CA obit:
[1833 – 1908]
1871 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
service in Iowa
transfer to California Conference
Evangelical Association, not United Evangelical Church
HUMMELSHEIM, LEVI
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1845 ordained deacon
1847 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Cumberland
1845-47 Gettysburg circuit
1847-48 Perry circuit
1848-49 Tuscarora Mission
HUMMER, GEORGE BERNARD
Born: 5-26-1925 York PA married: Helen Ruth
Rohrbaugh
Died: 2-5-2014 Hanover
PA obit:
[1/17/1923 – 8/16/2022]
1948 license,
recommended by York Trinity
1953 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: [York Daily Record 2/9/2014]
1950-54 Danville
1954-59 Selinsgrove
1959-67 Williamsport Trinity
1967-87 chaplain, US Navy
1987 retired
1997 withdrew, page 207
Note: George B. Hummer retired to Hanover PA.
HUMMER, JAMES CEPHAS
Born: 10-10-1833 Loudon County VA married: Annie Amelia
Whaley [6/10/1856]
Died: 6-10-1903 obit:
[d. 2/19/1917]
? license, Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56 Middlesex
1870-71 Frederick MD Trinity
1882-86 Baltimore John Wesley Chapel, Independent Methodist Church
1886 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1887 Baltimore Trinity (Aug-Oct)
Note: J.C. Hummer was a Maryland homeopathic medical doctor who also supplied pulpits for the Evangelical Association. In 1885 he is listed as pastor of Baltimore’s thomey Chapel of the Independent Methodist denomination. The nature of his ministerial credentials is not known. There is also mention of a Rev. J.C. Hummer in the Methodist Church in Virginia and Maryland in the mid-1800’s.
HUMPHREYS, HARRY ANDREW
Born: 8-17-1911 Baltimore MD married:
Gladys A. _____
Died: 8-?-1976 obit:
1940 license, recommended by Emmaus Second Street
1943 ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1940-45 Bryansville
1945-50 Hebbville
1950-51 without appointment
1951-52 Lewistown Trinity
1952-53 Baltimore St. Matthew
1953 transfer to Atlantic
Conference
1953-55 without appointment
1955-57 local elder: see 1955, 49
1957 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1957-59 Oberlin
1959-60 living in Baltimore
1960 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1960-64 Baltimore St. John's
1964-65 Baltimore Salem, Eastern Conference
1965 located
Note: The 1937 Albright College graduation list states that Harry Andrew Humphreys was from Baltimore MD. He coached basketball and track at Emmaus PA before entering the ministry. In the 1950’s he was a teacher in the Baltimore public schools.
HUNT, LEVI CLARENCE
Born: 7-30-1873 Seitzland PA married: Anna
Longenecker Frey
Died: 8-18-1948
Pottsville obit:
[9/28/1880 – 8/8/1941]
1896 license
Interment: Mount Joy Cemetery, Mount Joy PA
Obit:
1896-97 student, Dickinson College
1897 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1897-98 Columbia
1898-01 faculty, Albright College at Myerstown PA
1898-99 Myerstown
1901-05 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1901-04 Centerport NY, Methodist Episcopal Church
1905-09 Reading Grace
1909-13 Philadelphia Germantown
1913-15 Bangor
1915-23 president, Albright College at Myerstown PA
1923 “transfer” to the Evangelical Congregational Church [which retained the name United Evangelical for a few years]
1923-26 Allentown Bethany
1926-31 Reading First
1931-34 Philadelphia Kembel Park
1934-39 Schuylkill Haven Park
1939-? Boyertown
Note: L. Clarence Hunt appears to be the preferred form of
this name.
HUNTER, GEORGE
Born: 10-14-1824 Columbia County PA married: Sarah A. Greenough
Died: 12-7-1901
Lewisburg obit:
[7/4/1834 – 10/30/1915]
1848 license
1850 ordained deacon
1853 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: [1902, 83]
1848-49 Virginia circuit
1849-50 Gettysburg circuit
1850-51 Virginia circuit
1851-52 Shrewsbury
1852-53 Perry
1853-54 Buffalo
1854-55 Luzerne
1855-57 Seneca Falls
1857-58 Hagerstown
1858-60 Shrewsbury
1860-61 Lewisburg
1861-63 Columbia
1863-65 Gettysburg
1865-67 New Berlin
1867-68 Cumberland
1868-69 New Berlin
1869-71 Lock Haven
1871-72 Williamsport Bennett Street
1872-73 located
1873-74 White Deer
1874-76 Buffalo
1876-78 located
1878-79 Bloomsburg
1879-81 Danville Emmanuel
1881-83 Centre Hall
1883-88 located
1888-89 Leesburg
1889 retired
HUSLER, THURMAN REESE
Born: 9-15-1888 Leesburg PA married: Verna G. Cover
Died: 6-13-1973 obit:
[d. 2/8/1922]
married2: Jane Amanda Kane
1924 license,
recommended by Leesburg obit2:
1981, 439
1929 ordained elder
Interment: Leesburg
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 425
1924-25 Hancock
MD
1925-27 South Wayland NY
1927-28 Howard
1928-31 Lock Haven mission
1931-40 West Milton
1940-50 Sugar Valley
1950-57 Felton
1957 Retired
Note: Thurman R. Husler is an uncle to Rev. James Nenninger,
affiliation unknown.
HUTH, ABRAHAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1812 license
Interment:
Obit:
1812-13 Schuylkill
Note: This is believed to be the Abraham Huth who was a schoolteacher (at Kimmerling’s school, northeast of Lebanon) and a local artist of religious frakturs. Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association (page 140) appears to associate him with work in Ohio, but he is not listed in Leedy’s definitive volume on the Evangelical work in Ohio.
HYDE, JACOB S.
Born: 9-27-1828 married:
Amanda May Crane
Died: 3-12-1865 obit:
[5/10/1831 – 9/17/1915]
1851 received into
the itinerancy
Interment: Brandonville Cemetery, Brandonville WV
Obit: [Pittsburgh Conference 1866]
1850-51 Franklin
circuit
1851 transfer to Pittsburg
Conference
1851-53
1853-54 New Paris
1854-55
1855 located
Preston circuit, Preston
Co VA [WV]
Note: Jacob S. Hyde died in the Civil War – of disease, a few days after being
released from Libby Prison – while a captain in the West Virginia Cavalry. There is a small possibility the Rev. J.S.
Hyde of the Evangelical Association may not be the Jacob S. Hyde whose dates
and spouse are given above.
Born: 12-4-1838 Union County PA married: Lucinda Spangler
Died: 7-14-1923 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 48
married2:
Cora Ellen Seitz
1860 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 84
1862 ordained deacon
1864 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 77
1860-62 Perry
Circuit
1862-63 Lock Haven
1863-65 Cherry
1865-67 Lewisburg
1867-69 Columbia
1869-70 Lewisburg
1870-73 Milton
1873-75 Union
1875-78 Williamsport Bennett
Street
1878-81 Carlisle
1881-83 Baltimore Memorial
1883-86 York Trinity
1886-87 York Circuit
1887-90 Milton
1890-91 Lewisburg
1891-95 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1895-99 superintendent, York
District
1899-03 Hagerstown
1903-07 Lemoyne
1907-11 Hagerstown
1911-15 Hanover
1915-18 York Princess Street
1918 retired
Note: Armstrong H. Irvine is a brother to John A. Irvine. Some sources give his birthplace as Milton, which is in Northumberland County.
IRVINE, JOHN ANDREW
Born: 1845
PA married:
Mary Louise [Maria] Hackenberg
Died: 1928 TX obit:
[1850-1930]
1870 license
1873 ordained deacon
1875 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Olive Cemetery, Fort Worth TX
Obit:
1871-72 Hughesville
1872-73 Perry
1873-74 Bendersville
1874-75 Conewago
1875-77 Bloomsburg
1877-79 Berwick
1879-80 Williamsport Bennett
Street
1880-83 Nittany Valley
1883-85 Milton
1885-88 Glen Rock
1888-90 Carlisle
1890 granted credentials
and moved to Texas
became a pastor in
the Presbyterian Church
Note: John A. Irvine is a brother to Armstrong H. Irvine.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1871 license
Interment:
Obit:
JACOBS, HARRY HALBERT
Born: 5-4-1893 Carlisle PA married: Emma Catherine Basom
Died: 12-22-1975 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989,468
1915 license,
recommended by First, Carlisle
1922 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment: Green Lawn Memorial Park, Montgomery PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 150]
1915-16 Junior
preacher Cumberland circuit
1919-20 Keystone Mission
1920-24 South Wayland
1924-26 Liberty
1926-33 Lycoming
1933-39 Danville
1939-49 Bellefonte
1949-58 Bethany, Berwick
1958-62 Jersey Shore
1962 retired
Note: H.H. Jacobs is the grandfather (through his daughter Martha Jacobs Dimmick) of Vance Dimmick Jr of the West Michigan Conference and (through his son Jay Jacobs) of Thomas Jacobs of the Susquehanna Conference. Mrs. Jacobs is the daughter of Henry S. Basom.
JACOBS, JOHN A.
Born: married:
Catherine Elizabeth Burg
Died: obit:
[9/24/1807 - ]
1835 admitted on trial
1839 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1835-37 Gettysburg
1837-38 Union
1838-40 Cumberland
1840-41 York and Gettysburg
circuit
1841-42 Cumberland
1842-45 located
1845-46 Gettysburg
1846 located
Note: John A. Jacobs of East Prospect was a farmer and local preacher. In 1834 he donated the land for the first Evangelical Association church building in East Prospect, and in 1849 he laid out the land for the town.
JACOBS, MELVIN CLAYTON
Born: 10-8-1885 married:
Maybelle Beatrice Heebner (5/20/1915)
Died: 4-16-1949 obit:
[5/5/1890 – 10/9/1967]
1906 license
1908 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Walla Walla WA
Obit:
1906-07 Altoona Juniata
1907-08 Enola
1908-09 student, York Collegiate Institute
1909-12 student Ursinus College
1912-15 student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1915-19 faculty Washington College in Limestone TN
1919 Ridgebury NY Presbyterian
1928-46 faculty, Whitman College in Walla Walla WA
1946 retired
1946-49 museum curator, Whitman College
Note: Beginning with his enrollment at Ursinus College, he is known as Melvin Clay Jacobs. Some sources give his birthdate as 12-8-1885. Mrs. Jacobs is the daughter of Rev. Samuel Heebner (1854-1893) of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JACOBS, OTIS LEANDER
Born: 3-15-1862 near Rossville PA married: Mellie V.
Madge
Died: 9-29-1897 obit:
[1866 – 1/26/1892]
1883 license
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1880-84 student, York Collegiate
Institute at York PA
1884-86 student, Princeton
University at Princeton NJ
1886-87 faculty, Central
Pennsylvania College at New Berlin PA
1887-93 vice-principal, York
High School at York PA
1893-97 principal, York High
School at York PA
Note: A picture of Prof. O.L. Jacobs appears in the 11/8/1898 issue of The Evangelical, page 353, and a biographical sketch appears in the 9/17/1913 issue of The Evangelical, page 6.
JACOBS, PAUL FREDERICK
Born: 6-20-1942 married: Nancy _____
Died: obit:
1962 admitted on trial, recommended by Castanea
1970 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1962-64 student,
Albright College
1964-67 student,
Drew Theological Seminary
1967-73 student,
Drew University
1973-75 Middlebury
Parish
1975-90 faculty,
University of St. Thomas in Houston TX
1990-01 faculty,
Mississippi State University
2001 withdrew
(4/20/2001), page 171
Note: As of 2010 Paul F. Jacobs was still on the faculty at
Mississippi State University.
JAMES, EDWARD.
Born: 8-24-1847 Juniata County PA married: Catharine Leiter
Died: 1-16-1922 Liverpool PA obit: [8/5/1852 – 1/27/1936]
1878 license
Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Pfoutz Valley PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1922,123
1878-79 Cumberland
1879-81 Middleburg
1881-84 listed as local preach
on trial, living in “Juniata”
1884 credentials granted,
page 10
1885 “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
Note: The maiden name of Mrs. James, given above as it appears on her tombstone, is sometimes given as Catherine Lyter.
JAMES, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1875 license
Interment:
Obit:
JAMISON, MILTON IRVIN
Born: 12-31-1859 Spring Mills PA married: Rosa Emma Keen
Died: 2-17-1920
Williamsport PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 79
1885 license,
recommended by Millheim
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 69
1885-86 Sugar
Valley
1886-88 Nittany Valley
1888-89 Turbotsville
1889-92 Hughesville
1892-96 Williamsport St. Paul
1896-98 Nescopeck
1898-02 Baltimore Memorial
1902-06 Altoona
1906-07 Baltimore Memorial
1907-11 York Trinity
1911-13 Hagerstown
1913-15 agent, Albright College
1915-19 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1919-20 Center District
Note: Mrs. Jamison is a sister to Emanuel D. Keen.
JARRETT, HARRY LEPLEY
Born: 9-15-1885 East Prospect PA married: Mary Katherine Bailey
Died: 4-14-1948 Philadelphia PA obit: Central PA Conference ME 1946, 233
married2: Jennie R. Dodge
1907 license obit2:
1913 admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Shriener’s Church Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1948,193
1908-11 Eagles Mere & Laporte, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME
1911-15 Cross Fork, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME
1913 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1913-15 Cross Fork
1915-16 Fairview
1916-21 New Millport
1921-30 McConnellsburg (moved to Millerstown in mid-year 1929-30)
1930-41 Millerstown-Liverpool (came from Liverpool in mid-year 1929-30)
1941-48 Montgomery
Note: Harry L. Jarrett is the son of Percival F. Jarrett.
JARRETT, PERCIVAL F.
Born: 5-29-1848 married:
Maria Lepley
Died: 10-31-1915 obit:
[5/?/1850 – 1921]
1873 license
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder
1989 ordained elder, Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Kratzerville
PA
Obit:
1874-76 Buffalo
1876-79 Jarrettsville
1879-82 Bendersville
1882-85 Dillsburg
1885-88 East Prospect
1888-89 Liverpool
1889-90 located
1890-92 Nittany Valley
1892-95 Sugar Valley
1895-98 located
1896-98
Wapwallopen,
Central Pennsylvania Conference ME
1898 withdrew to “transfer”
to Methodist Episcopal Church
1898-99 Wapwallopen
1899-01 ?
1901-02 Jamison City
Note: Percival F. Jarrett is the father of Harry L. Jarrett. He served as a local pastor in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
JARRETT, RALPH McKINLEY
Born: 10-15-1896 Shamokin Dam PA married: Alice Ruth Bierly
Died: 6-16-1940
Williamsport PA obit:
[1894 – 1981]
1933 license,
recommended by Hummels Wharf
1936 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment: Orchard Hills Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 90
1934-39 Grover and East Point
1939-40 Williamsport circuit
JENKINS, A. MORGAN
Born: 4-5-1886 New Park PA married: Sylvia Kirk
Died: 8-1-1980 York
PA obit:
[11/6/1887 – 2/5/1976]
1910 license,
recommended by Lewisberry
1912 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder
Interment: Centre Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New Park PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 335
1910-13 Yoe
and Freysville
1913-18 Felton
1918 Baltimore Immanuel
(ending 8/1918)
1918-19 chaplain, U.S. Army
(8/18 – 12/19)
1919-20 evangelist (beginning
12/19)
1920-21 Mt. Holly Springs
1921-26 Baltimore Olive Branch
1926-28 Wrightsville
1928-33 Altoona Grace
1933-41 Jersey Shore
1941-46 chaplain, U.S. Army
1946-48 Bloomsburg
1948-50 Felton
1950-51 Loganville
1950-54 no
assignment
1954 retired
Kreutz Creek Presbyterian Church, York County
JEWELL, CLYDE ELMER
Born: 11-21-1889 Hughesville PA married: Jennie Mae Unger
Died: 11-28-1944
Scranton PA obit:
[8/6/1893 – 2/18/1933]
married2:
Eleanor Stanley Thompson (7/11/1936)
1910 license obit2:
[5/21/1905 – 4/30/1999]
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 83
1915-17 Lopez
1917-20 Dushore
1920 located
Note: Clyde E. Jewell became principal of the high school at
Dushore and left the itinerancy for a vocation in
education. He also served as principal
at high schools in Tunkhannock PA and Waverly PA. On 9/23/1950, the widowed second Mrs. Jewell
married a Mr. Everett Morgan Kneeshaw.
JONES, THOMAS REESE
Born: 11-3-1927 York PA married: Jeune E. Krebs
Died: 1-10-2010 Cross
Keys PA obit:
1940 license,
recommended by York Grace
1955 ordained elder
Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 166
1952-57 Bryansville
1957-65 Felton
1965-74 York St. Luke
1974-77 York St. Luke and St. Paul
1977-78 sabbatical
1978-93 associate chaplain, York Hospital
1993 retired
JOHNSON, C.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1897 license
Interment:
Obit:
JOHNSON, IRVIN ELLSWORTH
Born: 6-17-1871 married:
Lulu Idell Kauler
Died: 10-1-1971 obit:
[12/8/1876 - ?/?/1957]
1897 license, East
Pennsylvania (United) Conference
Interment: Riverview Burial Park, Lancaster PA
Obit: Eastern Conference of the Evangelical Congregational Church 1972, 146
1897-98 Limerick
1898-00 Lemoyne
1900-04 Pottstown
1904-07 Sunbury
1907-11 Terre Hill
1911-13 Mount Joy
1913-15 on leave
1915-17 Mount Joy
1917-22 Manheim
1922 identified with Evangelical Congregational Church
1922-23 Columbia
1923-25 York
1925-30 Shillington
1930-34 Manheim
1934-37 Harrisburg
1937 retired
JORDAN, MARK S.
Born: 4-5-1923 married:
Ruby J. Fohringer
Died: 5-13-1996 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2020, 227
1950 license,
recommended by Tusseyville
1955 ordained elder
Interment: Zionb Hill Cemetery, Tusseyville PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 401]
1951-59 Keystone-Perry
1959-72 Newport
(beginning9/4/1959)
1972-82 Hellam
1982-89 York Fourth
1989 retired
JOSEPH, GEORGE
Born: 3-7-1845 Abadair
England married:
Agnes Gilmore
Died: 3-3-1922 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 87
1876 license,
recommended by Arnot class of Liberty circuit
1878 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 74
1876-78 Milton
circuit
1878-79 Liverpool
1879-81 Marysville
1881-82 Fishing Creek Valley
1882-85 Hagerstown circuit
1885-87 Perry
1887-89 Millmont
1889-91 Shrewsbury
1891-94 East Prospect
1894-95 Red Lion
1895-98 Lewistown
1898-01 Newport
1901 retired
1910-11 Lewistown Grace (last 4 months)
1912-15 Lewistown
Trinity
Born: 12-22-1879 Berrysburg PA married: Helen
Venette Schiek
Died: 5-27-1956 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 90
married2: Lovie E. Wiest
1910 license,
recommended by East Point obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 83
1912 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder
Interment: Zion EUB Church Cemetery, near Penns Creek PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 79
1910-11 Grover
1911-13 Ellenton
1913-16 Wayland
1916-21 Hagerstown circuit
1921-25 Hanover circuit
1925-28 Sugar Valley
1928-35 Penns Creek
1935-37 Rebersburg
1937 retired
Note: Walton L. Kamble wrote gospel songs and is the subject of an article in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, pages 46-54. The second Mrs. Kamble is a niece of Samuel L. Wiest.
KAUFFMAN, EARL HARNISH
Born: 4-18-1915 near Leola PA married: Frances Eleanor Prutzman
Died: 10-28-1991 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 347
1935 license,
recommended by Brownstown Emmanuel
1941 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1943 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania
Conference
Interment: Kauffman’s Cemetery, near Annville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 476
1939-40 Bolichs and Drehersville
1940-42 Tamaqua
1942-45 Shenandoah
1945-46 Nazareth
1946-49 Phoenixville
1949-51 Weissport
1951 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1951-54 Selinsgrove Charge
1954-59 White Deer Charge
1959-65 West Nanticoke and
Ransom
1965-70 Jefferson-Greenmount
1970-74 Gatchelville
1974-78 Highspire
1978-82 Highspire & Steelton M. Zion
1982 retired
1982-83 associate, Enders-Powell’s Valley
1983-86 Shopes-Stoverdale
KAUFFMAN, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1839 license
1850 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1840-41 York
and Gettysburg circuits
1841-42 Buffalo
1852 located
Note: In 1838, John Kauffman was one of the laymen who gathered to form the denomination’s Missionary Society – see Stapleton’s Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 201.
KAUFFMAN, KARLE F.
Born: 2-4-1916 married:
Dora Katherine Schwalm
Died: 10-18-1995 obit:
[6/14/1920 – 3/22/2001]
Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City PA
Obit:
1943-45 Cearfoss MD
1945-47 West Milton
Philadelphia?
1948-53 Welsh Memorial Baptist Church, Cumberland MD
1953- Community Church, Epping NH
Note: Karle F. Kauffman served as a supply pastor. He is otherwise unknown and appears to have been living in Lykens PA at the time of his death.
KEAFER, CLAIR ERNEST
Born: 2-14-1905 Somerset County PA married: Iva Mae Reesey
Died: 9-25-1968 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974,439
1924 license,
Pittsburgh Conference, recommended by Johnstown Centennial
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Richland Cemetery, near Johnstown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969,208
1930 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1930-36 Winfield
1936-41 Northumberland
1941-46 Bloomsburg
1946-51 Mechanicsburg
1951-57 Mifflinburg
1957-64 Berwick St. Paul
1964-68 Hughesville Bethany
KEAGLE, HENRY
Born: 5-25-1805 Perry County PA married: Mary Levegood
Died: 9-13-1861 Linn
County IA obit:
[1/15/1810 – 3/24/1897]
? license
Interment: Lafayette Cemetery, Alburnett IA
Obit:
1852-53 Canton
1853-54 Buffalo
moved west
Note: When Henry Keagle was born, Greenwood township was in Cumberland County. While he is referred to as Rev. Henry Keagle, and he served under appointment twice, there is no record of his receiving a license or ordination.
KEEN, EMANUEL D.
Born: 6-26-1849 Millheim PA married: Emma J. Yoder
Died: 2-3-1917
Wrightsville PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 76
1881 license
1883 ordained deacon
1885 ordained elder
Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 74
1881-82 Middleburg
1882-83 McClure
1883-86 Juniata Circuit
1886-88 Liverpool
1888-91 Yorkana
1891-94 Loganville
1894-95 Yorkana
1895-98 Red Lion
1898-02 Nescopeck
1902-04 East Prospect
1904-07 York St. Paul
1907-11 Berwick North
1911-15 Lemoyne
1915-17 Wrightsville
Note: Emanuel D. Keen is the father of Paul Edwin Keen and a brother to Rosa E. Keen Jamison, wife of Milton I. Jamison. His mother Anna Maria [Mary] Deininger Keen is a sister to C.F. Deininger.
KEEN, PAUL EDWIN
Born: 1888
Yorkana PA married: [never married]
Died: 11-19-1958
Naperville IL obit:
1910 license,
recommended by Berwick Bethany
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Wisconsin Conference EUB 1959, 64
1917-22 Wrightsville
1922-24 State College
1924-28 faculty, Albright
College at Reading PA
1928-57 faculty, Theological
Seminary at Naperville IL
1957 retired
Note: Paul Edwin Keen is the son of Emanuel D. Keen. A biographical sketch for Paul Edwin Keen appears in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 348.
KEHR, DANIEL
Born: 12-15-1803 married:
Rachel Rishel
Died: 9-9-1871 Centre
County PA obit:
[6/21/1809 – 10/2/1865]
1830 license
1832 ordained deacon
ordained
elder
Interment: Zion Hill Cemetery, Centre County PA [KERR]
Obit:
1830-31 Canton
Circuit
1831-32 Lancaster Circuit
1832-33 Somerset
1833-34 Lake Circuit
1834-35 Gettysburg
1835-36 located
1836-37 Somerset
1837-38 Indiana
1838-39 Lykens Circuit
1839-40 Dansville Circuit
1840-41
1841-42 Columbia
1842-44 superintendent, Carmel
District
1844-46 superintendent, Potomac
District
1846-48 Clinton circuit
1848-49 Union
1849-51 Center
1851-52 Block House
1852-53
1853 located
went west and served as Presiding Elder; afterward returned: superannuated
Note: This surname is also rendered KERR. The parents of Daniel Kehr provided a regular preaching place for Jacob Albright in Centerville, a few miles west of New Berlin. Mrs. Kehr is a sister to David Rishel and to Susan Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and Sarah Rishel Kreamer (wife of John Kreamer).
KELLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 3-3-1851 near
East Prospect PA married:
Fanny Fisher
Died: 4-23-1926
Litchfield PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 80
1875 license
1877 ordained deacon
1879 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 87
1875-76 Jersey
Shore circuit
1876-77 Block House
1877-78 Liverpool
1878-80 Juniata
1880-81 Dushore
1881-84 New Columbia
1884-86 West Clifford
1886-89 Wayland
1889-92 Grover
1892-93 West Brooklyn
1893-94 Tunkhannock
1894-96 Hebbville
1896-98 York circuit
1898-01 Craleyville
1901-05 Ransom
1905-09 Lopez
1909-13 New Berlin
1913-17 Port Treverton
1917-21 Pennsdale
1921-25 Penns Creek
1925 retired
KELLER, CHARLES WILLIAM JR.
Born: married: Ruth _____
Died: obit:
1961 license, recommended by York Trinity
1967 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1961-64 student, Albright College
1963 Bryansville (summer)
1964-67 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1965-66 youth director, Dayton OH Third Street Baptist
1967-75 Fayetteville Otterbein
1975-77 Rockville (ending 10/31/1977)
1977-80 associate, Chambersburg St. Paul’s (beginning 11/1/1977, ending 9/1/1980)
1980-93 Hanover First (beginning 9/1/1980)
1993-99 Red Lion St. Paul’s
1999-03 Hershey First
2003 retired
KELLER, DAVID ALAN
Born: married: Mardell _____
Died: obit:
1960 license, recommended by Williamsport St. John’s
1965 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1960-62 student,
Lycoming College
1960-61 Mt.
Pleasant – Salladasburg
1961-62 Sonestown
1962-65 student,
United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1965-74 Williamsport
Heshbon Park
1974-80 Sunbury
Otterbein
1980-87 Berwick
Bethany
1987-94 Milton
St. Andrew’s
1994-96 Red
Lion Bethany
1996-02 Bellefonte
Faith
2002 retired
2002-06 Wallis
Rub
2006-15 Williamsport
Heshbon Park
KELLER, JACOB
Born: 1847, Germany married: Dorothea _____
Died: 2-17-1911 obit: Atlantic Conference 1908, 21
1878 license, Atlantic Conference
1880 ordained deacon, Atlantic Conference
1883 ordained elder, Atlantic Conference
Interment:
Obit: Atlantic Conference 1911, 21
1878-80 Union Hill NJ and West New York
1880-83 Harrisburg Salem
1883-87 West Jersey and Bridgeton [Clarksboro] NJ
1887-90 Trenton NJ
1890-93 New York City 77th Street
1893-96 Union Hill NJ
1896-97 Baltimore McEldery
1897-98 Jersey City [Greenville] NJ
1898-00 medical leave
1900-03 Jersey City Heights NJ
1903-04 Trenton NJ
1904-05 medical leave
1905 retired
Note: Jacob Keller migrated to America as a youth and
settled in Reading.
KELLY, LEVI
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1847 license
1853 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1856 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1847-48 Indiana
circuit
1848-49 Gettysburg
1849-50 Franklin
1850 expelled
1853 “transfer” to East Pennsylvania Conference
1853-54 Chester
1854-55 New Jersey Mission
1855-56 Northampton
Note: There was a Rev. Levi Kelly in the Free Methodist Church who (1827-1911) who served mainly in southern NY and northern PA – and in Illinois in the 1860’s.
KELLY, WILLIAM HOWARD
Born: 2-11-1904 Craley PA married: Geraldine Grace
Lagerman
Died: 11-26-1988
Harrisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987,418
1930 license,
recommended by Red Lion St. Paul's
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989,469
1930-32 Scranton
Zion
1932-38 Hebbville
1938-46 York Zion
1946-49 Berwick Bethany
1949-60 Lewisburg St. Paul's
1960-66 Williamsport First
1966 retired
KENDIG, ADAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1813 license
1814 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1813-14 “new”
1814-15 Schuylkill
Note: This may be the Adam Kendig who became a German
Reformed preacher. Some sources give
this surname as HENIG.
KENNELLEY, MAX AUGUSTUS
Born: 5-5-1867 Spring Mills PA married: Havilla
Catherine Miller
Died: 3-8-1928 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 100
1892 license,
recommended by Spring Mills
1894 ordained deacon
1896 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 81
1892-93 Milesburg
1893-94 Middleburg
1894-96 Liberty
1896-00 Hebbville
1900-02 York St. Paul
1902-06 Baltimore Grace
1906-08 Altoona
1908-12 York Grace
1912-16 Carlisle
1916-21 Milton
1921-23 Lewistown
1923-26 Hughesville
1926-28 York Grace
KEPNER, DANIEL A.
Born: 1-25-1825 near Newport PA married: Leah Crist
Died: 4-1-1901
Millerstown PA obit:
[10/9/1826 – 2/7/1894]
license
1860 ordained deacon
1869 ordained elder
Interment: Millerstown Memorial Cemetery, Millerstown PA
Obit:
1867-68 Big
Spring
1868-69 Hagerstown
1869-71 Luzerne
1871-73 Liverpool
1873 located
Note: Daniel A. Kepner is the father of Daniel L. Kepner and J.A. Kepner.
KEPNER, DANIEL LLOYD
Born: 10-22-1859 Perry County PA married: Jennie R. Kerchner
Died: 2-25-1942 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 84
1891 license
1893 ordained deacon
1895 ordained elder
Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 89
1891-93 Millmont
1893-96 Brush Valley
1896-99 Dushore
1899-03 Milton
1903-05 Marysville
1905-08 York Grace
1908-11 Red Lion
1911-13 Williamsport St. John
1913-17 Hughesville
1917-22 Mechanicsburg
1922-24 Northumberland
1924 retired
Note: Daniel L. Kepner is the son of Daniel A. Kepner and
the brother of J.A. Kepner. Some sources
give his middle name as Reaser.
KEPNER, JOHN A.
Born: 1-3-1850 Perry County PA married: Lydia Myers
Died: 8-10-1919 obit:
[7/7/1850 – 4/20/1904]
married2: Ella J. Stackhouse
1879 license obit2:
[9/13/1869 – 1/14/1941]
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit:
Note: “J.A. Kepner” is the only designation given in the conference records. He is the son of Daniel A. Kepner and the brother of Daniel L. Kepner. Daniel A. Kepner had two sons with the initials J.A. that lived in Berwick. It is not clear whether it was Jacob Albert Kepner or John Alfred Kepner who received the local preacher’s license – but since John attended Union Seminary in New Berlin, he is the more likely candidate. He never served an appointment, but taught school for a while, worked for the DuPont Powder Company and American Car and Foundry Company, and became an active Methodist layman.
KERSTETTER, HOWARD ALLEN
Born: married:
Evelyn Louise Walker
Died: obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 371
1951 license,
recommended by State College St. John’s
1957 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1952-54 Runville
1954-57 Dorsey
1957-66 Baltimore Trinity
1966-83 Lemoyne Grace
1983-92 Carlisle First
1992 retired
1992-2003 Mt. Rock
KESSLER, ELMER LEWIS.
Born: 7-7-1866 Blooming Grove PA married: Annie Lucinda
Wise
Died: 4-1-1934
Woodward PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 84
1888 license,
recommended by Blooming Grove
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder
Interment: Woodward Cemetery, Woodward PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 83
1889-90 Sugar
Valley
1890-91 Milesburg
1891-92 Middleburg
1892-95 Leesburg
1895-97 Perry circuit
1897-00 Hagerstown circuit
1900-04 Luzerne circuit
1904-06 Harford
1906-19 Located
1919-23 East Point
1923-30 Keystone
1930 retired
KESSLER, ELVIN H.
Born: 6-21-1917 Muir PA married: Blossom M. Workman
Died: 7-7-1992 West
Grove PA obit:
[4/17/1916 – 4/25/2003]
1927 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Muir PA
Obit:
1940-41 Port Trevorton
1941 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 76
1941-42 Port Trevorton
1942-46 Liberty
1946-51 Lewistown Trinity
1951-53 Wrightsville
1953 “transfer” to Philadelphia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 75
KIBBE, GEORGE ROSEMULLER
Born: 4-9-1931 Williamsport PA married: Jeannette
E. Jones
Died: 2-13-2017
Baltimore MD obit:
[6/19/1933 – 5/18/2016] (divorce)
married2: Sharon Bennett (1979)
1952 license,
recommended by Williamsport First obit2:
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Upper New York Conference 2017, 209
1953-54 Otterbein-Green
Hill, Indiana North Conference
1954-55 Markle, Indiana North
Conference
1956-59 Howard
1959-61 Sonestown
1961-62 Penn's Creek
1962-66 Columbia circuit
1966-70 Baltimore Calvary
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-76 Baltimore Keen Memorial
1976-78 leave of absence
executive director, Idaho State Human Rights Commission
1978 transfer to Northern New York Conference
1978-82 Lowville – Martinsburg
1982-91 Dolgeville – Oppenheim
1991-95 Muncy Valley, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1995 retired
2003-07 Muncy Valley, Central Pennsylvania Conference
2010 charter member of Upper New York Conference
KIESS, HARRY AMMON
Born: 6-24-1873 Lycoming County PA married: Mary L. Messinger
Died:9-22-1930 obit:
[1881 – 7/3/1921]
married2: Laura Stoltz [1922]
1896 license obit:
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit:
1896-99 student, Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin PA
1900-29 faculty, Albright College at Myerstown PA
1929-30 faculty, Albright College at Reading PA
Note: Harry A. Kiess also served as a math tutor and band director 1896-99. On the faculty, he taught mathematics and astronomy. He was a 1915 charter member of the Mathematical Association of America. Although sometimes known as Rev. Harry Kiess, he never served under appointment. The first Mrs. Kiess is the daughter of J.W. Messinger.
KINDT, CHARLES
NATHAN
Born: 7-13-1909 Allentown PA married: Elsie
Opal Hornbeck
Died: 3-10-1989 Millersburg PA obit: [1910 –
6/12/2003]
1930 license, recommended by Reading Ebenezer
1937 ordained elder, New York Conference
Interment: Highland
Park Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: Eastern
Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 333
1930-32 student, Albright College in Reading
PA
1932-34 West Walworth Salem
1934-38 Arabia East Stone
1938-39 Syracuse Immanuel
1939 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1939-42 Catasauqua & Allentown Immanuel
1942-46 Elizabethville – Oakdale – County
line – Loyalton
1946-48 Nazareth Trinity
1948-51 Wilkes-Barre Salem
1951-55 Allentown Calvary
1955-57 Quakertown Bethlehem
1957-59 Bangor Salem
1959 Philadelphia Calvary (ending
9/1959)
1959-60 faculty, Messiah College in Grantham
PA
1960-61 faculty, Houghton College in Houghton
NY
1961-64 Wiconisco
Calvary
1964-67 Bangor Salem
1967-70 Allentown Zion
1970-75 Shamokin St. John’s
1975-76 Belfast & Wind Gap
1976 retired
Note: Charles N. Kindt is the grandson of David Lentz
(1834-1898) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Association. While he never was a member
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, he is listed here because he served
congregations that are now within the bounds of our conference. Mrs. Kindt is a sister to Harold C. Hornbeck.
KING, JOHN MARTIN
Born: 5-2-1839 Springfield PA married: Anna Amelia Hatton
Died: 5-5-1912
Newberry PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 90
1869 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 68
1869-70 Boalsburg
1870-71 Center circuit
1871-72 Nittany circuit
1873-74 Block House (Liberty
circuit)
1874-77 Canton circuit
1877-80 Milesburg
1880-83 Canton circuit
1883-86 Newberry
1886-88 Center Hall
1888-90 Nittany Valley
1890-93 Williamsport circuit
1893-97 Jersey Shore circuit
1897-01 Wayland
1901-05 Williamsport circuit
1905-09 Columbia circuit
1909-11 Lopez
1911-12 Williamsport Grace
1912 retired
KING, WARREN E.
Born: 10-9-1899 Berks County PA married: Sara Annetta Wolkskill
Died: 4-19-1979 obit:
[1900 – 1947]
married2: Martha R. Michener
1917 license obit2:
[1899 – 1971]
1923 ordained deacon
Interment: Millbach Cemetery, Millbach PA
Obit:
Note: Warren E. King entered the Presbyterian ministry.
KISTLER, JAMES DANIEL.
Born: 11-29-1872 Weissport PA married: Annie C.
Traub
Died: 11-24-1936
Harrisburg PA obit:
Northeastern Conference 1961, 116
1901 license East
Pennsylvania Conference UE
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 366
1901-02 Egypt
1902-04 Egypt and Franklin
1904-08 Reading St. Paul
1908-11 Lebanon First
1911-15 Tamaqua
1915-20 Allentown Trinity
1920-27 Mount Carmel
1927-30 Germantown
1930-36 Harrisburg
Harris Street
KLEFFEL, HARRY CHRISTIAN
Born: 3-21-1889 Hanover PA married: Joy Irene Billhime
Died: 3-1-1963
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959,107
1911 license
1913 ordained deacon
1915 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 103
1911-14 Milton circuit
1914-18 Sugar Valley
1918-25 Ringtown
1925-31 Millheim
1931-48 Altoona First [renamed
Faith in 1947]
1948-52 Mifflinburg
1952-56 Hummels Wharf
1956 retired
Note: Harry C. Kleffel is the father of John B. Kleffel and
Paul H. Kleffel.
KLEFFEL, JOHN BILLHIME
Born: 4-25-1918 Ringtown PA married:
Geraldine Elaine Mangle
Died: 10-28-2000
Harrisburg PA obit:
[6/14/1931 – 8/25/2012]
1943 license
ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1944-48 Enola
1948- 53 Grover –East Point
1953 “transfer” to
Lackawanna Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 75
1953-58 Canton
Presbyterian
Note: John B. Kleffel is the son of Harry C. Kleffel and a brother to Paul H.
Kleffel. Mrs. Kleffel was also once
married to a Mr. George Vincent Candeloro (1925-1995)
KLEFFEL, PAUL HARRY
Born: 4-13-1923 Ringtown PA married: Elizabeth L. Throssel
Died: 11-26-1993 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2014, 260
1946 license,
recommended by Altoona Faith
1951 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 481
1948-50 Union
circuit
1950-53 Espy
1953-58 Millheim
1958-66 Lock Haven First
1966-77 Lemoyne Calvary
1977-80 Huntingdon First (ending 1/15/1980)
1980-82 Chambersburg First (beginning1/15/1980)
1982-86 Spry Otterbein
1986 retired
Note: Paul H. Kleffel is the son of Harry C. Kleffel and a
brother to John B. Kleffel.
KLEINFELTER, JACOB
Born: 10-23-1792 York County PA married:
Died: 1-25-1858 Marion County OH obit:
1813 license
1815 ordained deacon
Interment: Pleasant Cemetery, Marion OH
Obit:
1813-14 Schuylkill circuit
1814-15 Somerset
1826 moved to Ohio
Note: Jacob Kleinfelter is a brother to John
Kleinfelter. This surname is also rendered
KLINEFELTER.
KLEINFELTER, JOHN R.
Born: 5-5-1791 Glen Rock PA married: Catharine Becker (1823)
Died: 4-16-1863 Kleinfeltersville PA obit: [4/1/1796 – 6/13/1883]
1813 license
1815 ordained deacon
1817 ordained elder
Interment: Albright Cemetery, Kleinfeltersville
PA
Obit:
1813-14 “new”
1814-15 Union
1815-16 Lancaster
…
1821-23 superintendent, Salem District
1825 located
Note: John Kleinfelter is a brother to Jacob Kleinfelter and the father-in-law of two preachers in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church – daughter Catherine married Rev. William Hoffman (1831-1915), and daughter Leah married Rev. Franklin Sechrist (1839-1917). He is the founder and namesake of Kleinfeltersville, Lebanon County, where Jacob Albright is buried. Mrs. Kleinfelter is the daughter of George Becker, in whose house Jacob Albright died. This surname is also rendered KLINEFELTER.
The history of Kleinfeltersville given on the Heidelberg township website states the following:
A few families
settled the land now known as Kleinfeltersville
nearly 100 years before it was named after its largest landowner, Rev. John
Kleinfelter, in 1848.
Born May 5, 1791, near Glen Rock in
York County, Rev. Kleinfelter grew to become president of the Evangelical
Church Conference from 1822 to 1824. Traveling as a circuit minister, his
travels brought him to this area quite often. Upon one
visit he met Catherine Becker, daughter of John George Becker II, a follower of
Rev. Jacob Albright.
In 1823, Catherine and Rev.
Kleinfelter were married at her father's farm. The next year he bought the
200-acre Becker farm for 1,453 pounds and five shillings. There he lived,
farmed, and preached when needed.
During the 1830s, Rev. Kleinfelter lived in Cocalico and operated a store. In
1844, he returned to the farm and bought another 49 acres with a two-story log
house that stood in the center of what is now Kleinfeltersville.
In 1848, he divided the 49 acres
into lots that were sold to his daughters and only son. This was the start of Kleinfeltersville. By 1861, Rev. Kleinfelter retired from
farming and sold the farm to his son-in-law, Rev. William Hoffman. The next two
years he lived in the two-story log house he had bought in 1844. There he died
in 1863.
KLINE, A. E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1860-61 Montour
…
1872-74 Pine Creek and Shickshinny, Pennsylvania Conf. of the Methodist Protestant Church
Note: A.E. Kline reportedly sought admission on trial in 1860, but was denied.
When the pastor appointed to Montour circuit refused the assignment,
A.E. supplied the circuit. He then
reportedly sought admission on trial again in 1861, but
was denied. He then became a preacher in
the Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.
KLINE, DANIEL PETER
Born: 9-11-1848 Troxelville PA married:
Miriam Eyer
Died: 9-6-1900 obit:
Nebraska Conference ME 1943,1073
1874 license
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder
Interment: Prairie Home Cemetery, Holdrege NE
Obit: Nebraska Conference ME 1900, 68
1874-75 York
circuit
1875-76 Center circuit
1876-78 Jersey Shore
1878-81 Sugar Valley
1881-84 Buffalo
1884-87 Columbia circuit
1887 transfer to Platte
River Conference
1891 transfer to Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1891-92 Garrison
1892-95 Waco
1895-96 Arborville
1896-99 Surprise
1899-00 Utica
Note: Mrs. Kline is a great-granddaughter of Abraham Eyer (of the Eyer Barn in Winfield).
KLINE, EDWIN NEWTON
Born: 1-14-1873 Liverpool PA married: Carlotta Mae Grissinger
Died: 7-19-1971 obit:
[1875 – 3/13/1941]
married2: Belle T.
obit2: [5/7/1871 – 6/4/1962]
1896 quarterly conference license, Selinsgrove ME
1900 license,
Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1902 ordained deacon, Wyoming
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1904 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Lake Carroll Cemetery, Hillsborough County FL
Obit:
1893-97 student, Susquehanna University
1897-99 student, Dickinson College
1899-00 Camptown (last part of the year)
1900-01 South Danby
1901-03 Litchfield
1903-04 Scranton Ash Street
1904-05 Glen Lyon
1905-06 Auburn
1906-07 Maine NY
1907 transfer to Dakota Conference ME (apparently in and out without an appointment)
1907 transfer to Detroit Conference ME
1907-08 Newberry
1908 withdrew
“transfer” to Lackawanna Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church
1915-16 Stephentown
1919-20 Mountain Top
1921-24 Northumberland Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church
1925 “transfer” to the Central PA Conference of the Evangelical Church, page 61
1925-26 Alberton
1926-27 Buffalo Valley
1927 “transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
1931-32 Erie Belle Valley
1937-38 Middlefield Center NY
1938-40 Laurens NY
Note: A biographical sketch for Edwin N. Kline appears in
Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 356. His service in
the Presbyterian Church involved at least the following Presbyteries: Otsego,
Albany, Northumberland, Lackawanna. The
years given for the Presbyterian service include only the years he was known to
have been at those locations – expanding the years at each location to
eliminate the apparent gaps is not possible from the information at hand. Mrs. Kline is buried in the
Brooksville Cemetery in Brooksville FL.
The headstone includes the name and birth years for Edwin Newton Kline –
but the death date is not cut into the stone.
Edwin is buried with his second wife in Lake Carroll Cemetery, located at
the north end of Lake Carroll on Armenia Avenue, owned by and a ministry of
Lake Magdalene United Methodist Church.
KLINE, LEWIS ELLERMAN
Born: 3-30-1898 Elliottsburg
PA married:
Ivy May Brighton
Died: 11-8-1969 Hallam
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 90
married2: Edith Backel Horn (1942)
obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 384
1926 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Charlton
1928 ordained deacon
1930 ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 381
1926-27 Manada
Furnace, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1927-28 East Point
1928-35 Sonestown
1935-41 Howard
1941-60 Hellam
1960-66 Dorsey
1966 retired
chaplain, Pleasant Home in York County
Note: The second Mrs. Kline (nee Backel) was the widow of a Mr. Wilton Sylvester Horn.
KINENFELTER, EMANUEL
Born: 9-22-1818 married:
Susan Keener
Died: 3-7-1891 obit:
[2/28/1822 – 2/21/1885]
1856 license
1874 ordained deacon
Interment: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Shrewsbury
PA
Obit:
Note: Emanuel Klinefelter appears to have been a local
preacher and never served under appointment.
He operated the first store in Winterstown, and then returned to his native Shrewsbury. This surname is also rendered KLEINFELTER.
KLINGEMAN, HARRY ALBRIGHT
Born: 5-6-1900 Mahanoy City PA married: Elizabeth Ann Pettee
Died: 3-18-1984
Philadelphia PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 374
married2: Irene B. Lucas
obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 429
1921 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Mahanoy City Salem
1934 ordained deacon
1936 ordained elder
Interment: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Lycoming County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 378
1932-38 York
Zion
1938-43 Williamsport Grace
1943-49 Baltimore Trinity
1949-60 Bellefonte Trinity
1960-62 Lewisburg
1962-68 Jersey Shore
1968 retired
1974-77 First Baptist Church, Gloucester City NJ
KLINGER, CHARLES LEROY
Born: 5-12-1930 Lewistown PA married: Ruth E. Fenstermaker
Died:11-3-2010 obit:
1950 license,
recommended by Lewistown Grace
1955 ordained elder
Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 401
1950-52 student, Abright College in Reading PA
1952-54 student, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA
1954-55 United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1954-55 youth pastor, Sulphur Grove OH
1955-61 Lewisberry
1961-62 Houserville
1962-68 Mount Nittany
1968-79 South Williamsport Grace
1979-87 associate, Hummelstown Trinity
1987-92 Berwick Bower Memorial
1992 retired
KNAUB, MELVIN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1899 license
Interment:
Obit:
KNISLEY, BRUCE FRANCIS
Born: 12-20-1921 Windsor PA married: Ruth McElwee Hood
Died: 3-20-2017 York PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 265
1941 license,
recommended by Windsor Emmanuel
1947 ordained elder
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 286
1942-52 Baltimore
St. Matthew's
1946-48 Baltimore
St. John's
1952-56 Manchester-Yorkshire
1956-70 Yorkshire
1970-78 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
1978-85 Hanover Grace
1985 retired
Note: Bruce F. Knisley is the grandfather of Kenneth M. Loyer of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.
KOEHL, JOHN
Born: 4-1-1821 Germany married: Mary E. _____
Died: 1-16-1892 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 42
1846 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1967 ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: [Atlantic Conference 1926, 4]
1876 charter member of Atlantic Conference
1876-79 Easton
1879-82 Baltimore Green Street
1882-84 York
1884-87 Philadelphia mission [Germantown Avenue]
1887-88 Philadelphia and vicinity
1888 retired
Note: John Koehl migrated to America as a youth and settled
in Philadelphia.
KOHLER, JOHN HENRY
Born: 8-22-1884 York County PA married: Matha Augusta Gilbert
Died: 7-15-1919 Big
Horn River MT obit:
[2/14/1891 – 8/9/1963]
1911 license
1913 ordained deacon
1915 ordained elder, Nebraska
Conference
Interment: Broadview MT
Obit: [Nebraska Conference 1938, 17]
1911-13 Liverpool
1913 transfer to Nebraska Conference
1916-19 Broadview MT
Note: A complete obituary for John H. Kohler is given in the 8/6/1919 issue of The Evangelical, page 20.
KOHR, EMANUEL R.
Born: 9-24-1823 York County PA married: Matilda Haines
Died: 8-?-1894
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 63
1844 license
1846 ordained deacon
1848 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 64]
1844-45 Gettysburg
circuit
1845-47 Perry
1847-49 Columbia
1849-51 Buffalo
1851-53 Cumberland
1853-54 Leesburg
1854-55 York Queen Street
1855-56 York circuit and station
1856-57 Hagerstown
1857-58 Perry
1858-62 superintendent, Center
District
1862-66 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1866-70 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1870-71 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1871-72 on leave
1872-74 Buffalo
1874-75 White Deer
1875-76 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1876-79 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1879-80 superintendent, Juniata
District
1880-83 superintendent, York
District
1883-86 located
1886-88 Williamsport Market
Street
1888-91 Williamsport Newberry
1891 retired
Note: A complete obituary for Emanuel Kohr is given in the 8/29/1894 issue of The Evangelical, page 276.
KOONS, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1882 license
Interment:
Obit:
KOONTZ, ELIAS WASHINGTON
Born: 8-8-1834 Frederick County MD married: Sarah Anne Steffy
Died: 6-1-1903 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 87
1872 license,
Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church
1882 ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder
Interment: Bethel Cemetery at Greer’s Point, Perry County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 60
1872-75 Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission
1875-77 Bendersville circuit
1877-79 living in Arendtsville
1879 withdrew, page 15
1880 transfer to Central PA Conference of the Evangelical Association, page 7
1888-91 Milesburg
1891-93 Bellefonte Mission
1893-96 Millmont
1896-98 Nittany Valley
1898-00 Liverpool
1900-03 Fishing Creek [Keystone,
Perry County]
1903 retired
Note: Elias W. Koontz is the father of Samuel E. Koontz.
KOONTZ, SAMUEL EDWARD
Born: 12-19-1867 Carroll County MD married: Ollie S. Harter
Died: 11-4-1932
Lewistown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86
1889 license,
recommended by Lemont
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, near Lewistown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 76
1889-90 Milesburg
1890-91 Nittany Valley
1891-194 Wayland
1894-98 Williamsport Grace
1898-01 Patterson
1901-03 Spring Mills
1903-07 New Berlin
1907-11 Winfield
1911-14 Bloomsburg
1914-19 York St. Paul
1919-23 Berwick North
1923-29 Lewistown Grace
1929-32 Newport
Note: Samuel E. Koontz is the son of Elias W. Koontz.
KOPP, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1843 license
1846 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Indiana
circuit
1845-46 Clarion
1846-47 Virginia
1847-49 located
1849-50 Venango
located and moved
west
KOPP, LAMAR WARNER
Born: 1925
York PA married:
Jean McClintock
Died: 3-1-2023 obit:
Baltimore-Washington Conference 2009, 649
1948 license, recommended
by York Christ
1952 ordained elder
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
1947-54 Baltimore
1954-70 Hebbville
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-76 Hebbville
1976-85 Hagerstown Otterbein
1985-89 Washington DC Metropolitan Memorial
1989 retired
KRAMER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1839 license
1841 ordained deacon
1843 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1839-41 Lancaster
circuit
1841-42 Lehigh
1842-44 Milford
1844-46 Lykens
1846-48 Lehigh
1848 located
Note: Shortess’ 1939 History
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 49, places this service record
at the beginning of that of John KREAMER (1817-1886), but they appear to be two
distinct persons.
See Breyfogle’s 1888 Landmarks of
the Evangelical Association, pages 119 and 399.
KRAUSE, ABRAHAM
Born: 6-27-1823 near Selinsgrove PA married: Lovina Barber
Died: 8-21-1893
Williamsport PA obit:
[12/4/1827 – 12/3/1896]
1848 license
1852 ordained deacon
1854 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 55
1850-51 Center
1851-52 Lycoming
1852-54 York circuit
1854-56 Center
1856-58 Baltimore McEldery Street
1858-60 Shrewsbury
1860-62 Middleburg
1862-64 Lycoming
1864-66 Baltimore McEldery Street
1866-68 York circuit
1868-70 Loganville
1870-71 York circuit
1871-73 Lycoming
1873-76 Williamsport Market
Street
1876-77 McClure circuit
1877-78 Middleburg
1878-79 York circuit
1879-82 Lycoming
1882 retired
Note: Abraham Krause is the father of Mary Alice Krause Schleh, wife of G.H. Schleh. An obituary for Abraham Krause is given in the 9/20/1893 issue of The Evangelical, page 303. Mrs. Krause is the daughter of James Barber. A complete obituary for Lovina Barber Krause is given in the 12/23/1896 issue of The Evangelical, page 415.
KREAMER, AARON W.
Born: 12-6-1844 Centre County PA married:
Died: 3-16-1888 obit:
1867 license
1869 ordained deacon
1871 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1867-68 Middle
Creek
1868-69 Boalsburg
1869-70 Muncy
1870-72 Big Spring
1872-74 Conewago
1874-76 Jarrettsville
1876-77 Liverpool
1877-79 Luzerne
1879 transfer to Kansas
Conference
1879-80 Pratt County
1880-82 Jewell City
1882 located on account of throat trouble
Note: Aaron W. Kreamer is the son of John Kreamer. A complete obituary for Aaron W. Kreamer is
given in 5/9/1888 issue of The
Evangelical, pages 162-163,
KREAMER, DANIEL L.
Born: 8-27-1824 Millheim PA married: Mary Magdalene Condo
Died: 10-21-1900 obit:
[d. 10-14-1858]
married2: Margaret Jane Hummer (1860)
1846 license obit2:
Illinois Conference 1911, 44
1849 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder
Interment: Shannon Brethren Cemetery, Shannon IL
Obit: Illinois Conference 1901, 34 [KRAEMER]
1846-47 Buffalo
1847-49 York circuit
1849-51 Gettysburg
1851-52 Union
1852-54 Baltimore McEldery Street
1854-56 Baltimore Green Street
1856-58 Center
1858-59 agent, Union Seminary at
New Berlin PA
1859-60 York Queen Street
1860-62 Baltimore McEldery Street
1862 transfer to Illinois
Conference
1862-64 Freeport
1864-68 located
1867-68 Yellow Creek circuit
1868-70 Brookville circuit
1870-71 Peoria
1871-77 located
1877-79 Cedarville circuit
1879-82 Brookville
1882-85 Davis
1885 retired
1890 Black Oak (6 months)
Note: A complete obituary for Margaret Jane Hummer Kreamer
is given in the 11/30/1910 issue of The
Evangelical, page 762.
KREAMER, JOHN
Born: 1817 married:
Sarah Rishel
Died: 8-14-1886 Canada
KS obit:
[1/3/1816 – 7/14/1892]
1847 license
1849 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder
Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Canada KS
Obit: [Kansas Conference 1929, 8] [KRAMER]
1847-48 Union
1848-49 Clinton
1849-51 Perry
1851-52 Shrewsbury
1852-54 York circuit
1854-56 Lycoming
1856-57 York
1857-67 located
1867-69 Middle Creek
1869-71 Lycoming
1871-73 Williamsport German
1873-74 Baltimore McEldery Street
1874-76 Loganville
1876-79 Brush Valley
transfer to Kansas
Conference
1879-84 ?
1884-86 Canada KS
Note: John Kreamer is the father of Aaron W. Kreamer. Mrs. Kreamer is a sister to David Rishel and
to Susan Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and Rachel Rishel Kehr (wife
of Daniel Kehr). A complete obituary for
Sarah Rishel Kreamer is given in the 9/21/1892 issue of The Evangelical, page 303.
KREAMER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1858 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
KRECKER, JOSEPH WILLLARD
Born: 11-6-1898 Friedensburg PA married: Grace Griffith Drake
Died: 10-29-1992 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 430
1922 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Schuylkill Haven Grace
1926 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1929 ordained elder
Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 462
1927-31 Williamsport
Grace
1931-39 York Christ
1939-47 Red Lion
1947-67 editor, Telescope-Messenger and Church and Home
1967 retired
1969 Mount Joy Glosbrenner (7 months)
1970 Elizabethtown
St. Paul’s (6 months)
KREIDLER, CLAIR C.
Born: 8-19-1906 Yoe PA married:
Anne R. Hess
Died: 12-3-1995 York
County PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 417
1930 license,
recommended by Yoe Christ
ordained
deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 418
1930-34 Bryansville
1934-38 Craley
1938-39 York Bethlehem
1939-53 Lewistown Grace
1953-59 Carlisle First
1959-70 superintendent, Southern
District
1970-73 superintendent, York District
1973 retired
KRESGE, ALFRED SHICK
Born: 8-10-1855 McMichaels PA married: Savannah Brong
Died: 1-19-1941 Myersdale PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1909,42
married2: Alice Elizabeth Grier
1886 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference EA obit2: [d.
1936]
? ordained deacon married3:
Eva Ford
1892 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania
Conf EA obit3:
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit:
White Haven
Reading
Pottsville
York
Shamokin
Lehighton
Williamsport
“transfer” to Reformed Church, Iowa Classis
Conesville IA
Plymouth IN
transfer to Somerset Classis
Wills Creek
Hyndman
1930 retired
Rockwood
Myersdale
Note: Alfred S. Kresge is the father of Rev. Seward R.
Kresge of the Reformed Church.
KRING, SAMUEL BAUMGARDNER
Born: 10-6-1827 Elton PA married: Mary Ann Stull
Died: 7-28-1893
Decatur IN obit:
[12/7/1830 – 9/27/1894]
1850 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Forest Home Cemetery, Hicksville OH
Obit:
1850-51 Somerset
1851-52 Center
transfer to
Pittsburgh conference
Note: Samuel B. Kring is the son of Conrad Kring (1800-1887) of the Ohio Conference and the father of Savilla Kring Poling, wife of Charles C. Poling (1859-1947) of the Oregon-Washington EUB Conference and president of Western Union College. Samuel’s grandfather (Conrad’s father) George Kring lived in Morrison’s Cove and was converted under Jacob Albright. According to Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 189, Savilla Ann Kring Poling (1856-1937) was the first female evangelist in the Evangelical Church.
KUHNS, W.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
Interment:
Obit:
KURTZ, FREDERICK
Born: 2-26-1839 Germany married: Magdalena Wurster
(1861)
Died: 1-1-1906
Brooklyn NY obit:
Atlantic Conference 1916, 16
1861 license
1865 ordained deacon, Wisconsin
Conference
1867 ordained elder, Wisconsin
Conference
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
Obit: [Atlantic Conference 1923, 4]
The following represents the best approach at an accurate list of appointments.
1863-64 Buffalo
circuit
1864 transfer to Michigan
Conference
transfer
to Wisconsin Conference
Lomira
1865-67 Neenah
Jefferson
1870-71 Racine
1871-72 Waukesha
Salem
1872-73 Baltimore Green Street,
Central Pennsylvania Conference
1873 transfer to Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1873 -76 Baltimore Green Street
1876 charter member of the
Atlantic Conference
1876-77 Baltimore Green Street
An accurate list of subsequent appointments has not yet been reconstructed.
Washington DC
1879 Philadelphia Emanuel
Brooklyn Harrison Avenue
New York 24th Street
presiding elder, New York District
Brooklyn Melrose Avenue
Union Hill NJ
Brooklyn Jefferson Avenue
1905-06 Clarksboro NJ (ending 1/1/1906)
Note: A biographical sketch of Frederick Kurtz is given in
Ohms’ 1985 History of the Atlantic
Conference, page 20. A more complete
obituary appears in the The Evangelical Messenger for January 17,
1906. He is the father of Rev. Arthur
Kurtz (1880-1925) of the Presbyterian Church and of Margretha Kurtz Egger, wife
of Rev. Frederick Egger (1858-1934) of the Atlantic Conference. The dates for Mrs. Kurtz, not given in the
conference obituary, are 6/14/1842 – 2/14/1916.
KURZ, FERDINAND A. JR.
Born: 6-9-1912 Buffalo NY married: Margaret Hannah Prince
Died: 7-15-2004 obit:
[3/23/1915 – 6/14/2007]
1934 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Riverview
Cemetery, East Prospect PA
Obit:
1938-39 Scranton
1939-46 Grover and East Point
1946-48 Cumberland
1948-49 without appointment
1949 “transfer” to New York Conference of the Congregational Christian Church
1979 Wayland NY
Note: The archives has a biographical file on Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand A. Kurz. He was a graduate of the denomination’s North Central College in Naperville IL and Theological Seminary in Reading PA. Each year the Rev. Ferdinand Kurz Fire/EMS Community Service Award is presented to a Wayland-Cohocton NY high school senior.
KUTZ, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1874 license
Interment:
Obit:
Born: 1939
Jersey Shore PA married:
Died: 5-9-1974
Baltimore MD obit:
1959 license,
recommended by Jersey Shore
Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA
Obit:
1959-64 St. Matthew's, Baltimore
1964-65 Delbrook (did not finish the year)
1965 removed, page 111
Note: James R. Larson began serving Messiah Lutheran Church in East Baltimore in December 1964. He died of a wound suffered during a robbery at the motel where he was supplementing his income as a night clerk.
LAURENSON, GUY EDGAR
Born: 6-13-1907 Sullivan County PA married: Sara H.
Stackhouse
Died: 9-7-1967 obit:
[1914 – 1971]
1955 license,
recommended by Franklin, Sonestown Charge
1961 ordained elder
Interment: Franklin [Sone Heap] Church Cemetery, Sullivan
County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1968, 124
1955-57 Mount
Pleasant Mills
1957-62 Enola
1962-67 St. Paul's York
LAWVER, JACOB
Born: 8-31-1834 Mifflin County PA married: Sarah Salome
Mary Krick
Died: 2-8-1913 Mifflin
County PA obit:
[1/8/1832 – 2/28/1862]
married2: Christiana _____
1878 license obit2: [9/11/20 – 11/19/1888]
1888 ordained deacon
Interment: Lawver’s
Church Cemetery, Mifflin County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 70
Note: Jacob Lawver was the Sunday School superintendent at the Lawver appointment for 49 successive years. He served as a local pastor.
LEAS, ISAAC
Born: 6-14-1821 York County PA married: Mary A. Toomey
Died: 9-27-1895 obit:
[1823 – 3/25/1914]
license
1852 ordained deacon
Interment: Snyders United Brethren Cemetery, Perry County PA
Obit:
1850-51 Franklin
1851-52 Cherry circuit
1852-54 Liverpool circuit
1863 withdrew, page 191
Note: This surname is incorrectly given in the Conference records as LEES. Isaac Leas is a brother to John H. Leas and son of Rev. John Leas (1788-1859), affiliation unknown. The 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 49, incorrectly attributes these appointments to J.H. LEES.
LEAS, JOHN HENRY
Born: 7-5-1832 Newport PA married: Catherine A. Baer [6/12/1862]
Died: 1-2-1919
Madisonville OH obit:
[7/10/1841 – 5/20/1922]
1858 admitted on
trial, St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1861 ordained deacon
1865 ordained elder
Interment: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati OH
Obit: West Ohio Conference (Methodist Episcopal Church) 1919, 691 [LEASE]
1859 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1859-65 faculty, Union Seminary in New Berlin PA
1862-63 principal, Union Seminary
1865 transfer to Illinois Conference
1865-69 faculty, Plainfield College in Plainfield IL
1872 “transfer” to St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1872-74 Holden
1874-76 Knobnoster*
1876 transfer to Cincinnati Conference
1876-78 Batavia
1878-81 Cincinnati Asbury
1881-82 Wilmington
*The movements of J.H. Leas from 1874 to 1876 are not clear. The General Minutes for 1875 place him in 3 appointments in 3 different conferences. He is listed as transferred to the Des Moines Conference in 1874 and back to the St. Louis Conference in 1875, serving at Sidney IA in the interim. The maiden name of Mrs. Lease also appears as Bair.
Note: This surname is incorrectly given in the Conference records as LEES. John H. Leas is a brother to Isaac Leas and son of Rev. John Leas (1788-1859), affiliation unknown. Professor J. H. Leas taught mathematics and French at Union Seminary and Greek and Latin at Plainfield College. In 1870 Plainfield College moved to Naperville IL and became North-Western College. The 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 49, incorrectly identifies him as J.H. LEES and lists the service record for Isaac Lees. While in the Cincinnati Conference in the 1880’s, the surname changes to LEASE.
LEBER, CLAIR LORAIN
Born: 9-20-1914 near Wrightsville PA married: Anna Elvira
Johanson
Died: 1-13-1996 obit:
Baltimore-Washington Conference 1995, 454
1935 license,
recommended by Wrightsville
? ordained deacon
1942 ordained elder
Interment: Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Finksburg MD
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1996, 501
1938-39 Keystone-Perry
1939-41 Bryansville
1941-47 Columbia Circuit
1947-52 Mifflin
1952-58 Williamsport Christ
1958-65 Lewistown Trinity
1965-69 Baltimore Salem
1969-70 Boonsboro Mt. Nebo
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-75 Boonsboro Mt. Nebo
1975-78 Mt. Savage
1978-85 Mt. Gilead – Patapsco
1985 retired
1985-88 minister of visitation, Hunt’s Memorial Church
LEES
[see LEAS]
LEHR, JOHN EUGENE
Born: 10-8-1922 York PA married: Gloria Kathleen
Graham (5/23/1953)
Died: 12-10-2014 York
PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2012, 298
1964 license
1971 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Red Mount Cemetery, East Berlin PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 269
1962 Bryansville
1962-63 Freysville
1963-64 student
1964-92 Wellsville
1992 retired
1992-06 visitation pastor, York Trinity
LEISTER, JOHN D.
Born: 4-23-1843 married:
Esther H. Lauver
Died: 4-15-1923 obit:
[4/17/1846 – 2/3/1916]
married2: Mrs. Susan C. Good
1875 license, Allegheny Conference (UB) obit2: [11/20/1860 – 10/28/1921]
1878 ordained, Allegheny Conference (UB)
Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Cocolamus
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 80
Note: John D. Leister was active as a local deacon. One grandson is a Presbyterian minister. The second Mrs. Leister was a widow, and she is also known as Susan C. Herrold. It is believed that Herrold is her maiden name and that Good is the name of her first husband.
LEONARD, CAMERON WESLEY
Born: 9-9-1859 Perry County PA married: Elizabeth Grace Wickey
Died: 7-1-1940
Winnebago County IL obit:
[5/22/1861 – 8/25/1925]
1885 license
Interment: Middle Creek Cemetery, Winnebago IL
Obit:
1885-86 McClure
Note: Cameron W. Leonard is a first cousin to the father of Eugene P. Leonard. C.W. Leonard moved to Rockford IL in 1890.
LEONARD, EUGENE PHILIP
Born: 5-31-1854 Perry County PA married: Emma M. Orwig (3/23/1882)
Died: 1-13-1927
Lincoln NE obit:
[4/9/1861 – 5/6/1905]
married2: Annie K. Hortig
1878 license obit2:
[9/3/1867 – 5/22/1952]
1880 ordained deacon
1882 ordained elder, Des Moines
Conference
Interment: Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln
NE
Obit:
1878-79 Middleburg
1879-81 McClure
1882 transfer to Des Moines
Conference
1891 transfer to Des Moines
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1891-92 Orient
1892-93 Defiance
1893 discontinued
Note: The father of Eugene P. Leonard is a first cousin to Cameron W. Leonard. The first Mrs. Leonard’s grandfather is a first cousin to the noted William W. Orwig.
LEOPOLD, AARON FREDERICK
Born: 5-2-1819 Lehigh County PA married: Fayetta
Matilda Frey (1845)
Died: 11-6-1889 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1920, 44
1865 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Union Hill Cemetery, Weissport
PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 43
1876 charter member of Atlantic Conference
1876-77 Harrisburg
1877-79 York
1879-82 Easton
1882-83 medical leave
1883-84 Camden NJ
1884-85 no appointment
1885 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Aaron F. Leopold is the father of William A. Leopold, and of Rev. Sylvester Theodore Leopold (1851-1913) of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Mrs. Leopold’s first name also appears as Fietta.
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.
Born: 1847 married:
Ella Hirst
Died: 5-14-1925
Germantown PA obit:
[1854-1946]
1867 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Allentown Salem
1869 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1871 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 308
superintendent, Williamsport District
Note: William A. Leopold is the son of Aaron F. Leopold. His service in the Williamsport District was for that part that remained with the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association during the 1894-1922 split. He is also a brother to Sylvester Theodore Leopold (1851-1913) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.
LEPLEY, DANIEL S.
Born: 12-26-1845 married:
Susan L. Maurer
Died: 11-21-1924 El
Campo TX obit:
[1845-1946]
1876 license
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Hiawatha KS
Obit:
1876-79 student, Union Seminary
1880 withdrew
Note: Daniel S. Lepley is a brother to William A. Lepley (1858-1934) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Lepley was born in New Berlin PA, and the couple was married there 11/9/1869.
LILLEY, WILLIAM HURLEY
Born: 6-5-1851 Centreville PA married: Mary Catherine Mosteller
Died: 1-16-1939 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939,84
1876 license
1878 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 84
1876-77 York
circuit
1877-78 Catawissa circuit
1878-81 New Columbus
1881-82 Liverpool
1882-83 Leesburg
1883-84 White Deer
1884-85 Luzerne
1885-86 Hughesville
1886-91 Located
1891-95 Newberry
1895-96 Lock Haven
1896-98 Glen Rock
1898-02 Marysville
1902-06 Hagerstown
1906-09 Jersey Shore
1909-13 York Christ
1913-17 Mifflin
1917-20 Middleburg
1920-25 Mt. Holly Springs
1925 retired
LINDEMAN, CARL
Born: 7-1-1821 married:
Mary Magdalene Jaquet
Died: 4-16-1907 obit:
[Illinois Conference UE 1904, 46]
1846 license
1848 ordained deacon
1850 ordained elder
Interment: Ottawa Avenue Cemetery, Ottawa IL
Obit: [Illinois Conference UE 1922, 10]
1846-47 Clarion
1847-48 Lycoming
1848-49 Clinton
1849-50 Center
1850-52 Pittsburgh
1852 transfer to Pittsburgh
Conference
1861 transfer to Illinois Conference
Note: This name sometimes erroneously appears as Charles Lindeman. The dates for Mrs. Lindeman (not given in the conference obituary) are 2/2/1824 – 5/30/1903.
LINDSEY, HOWARD R.
Born: married:
Marie _____
Died: obit:
1960 license,
Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
1966 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1960-62 Bannersville CMA
1962 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1962-66 Daniels
1966-73 Williamsport Balls Mills
1973-78 Mercersburg (ending 11/1/78)
1978-85 Bellefonte Faith (beginning 11/1/78)
1985-88 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (ending 11/15/88)
1988-95 leave of absence (beginning 11/15/88)
1995-98 Williamsburg
1998 retired
LINDSEY, J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1876 license
Interment:
Obit:
LINK, JOHANN CONRAD
Born: 1822
Germany married:
Died: 1883 Germany obit:
1844 license
1846 ordained deacon
1848 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Union
circuit
1845-46 York circuit
1846-48 Warren
1848-50 Pittsburgh
1850-51 Allegheny mission
sent to Germany as
a missionary and later withdrew from the Church
Stuttgart
Note:
In
1850, the semi-centennial of the existence of the Evangelical Association,
there was great
interest in
establishing the work in the Fatherland. A member of the
Central Pennsylvania
Conference,
Johann Conrad Link sailed for Germany on November 20, 1850, as the first
missionary
for that purpose. Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 475, states:
“He was
successful
from the first, although he met with bitter opposition from the ministers of
the State
Church.”
Link was appointed in 1859 to begin a work in Switzerland, but he declined to
go.
While it’s
not clear what the difficulties in 1863 were, Link eventually withdrew from the
Evangelical
Association and was not involved in the official formation of the Germany
Conference
on February 24, 1865. Albright’s 1942 History of the Evangelical Church,
page 425,
gives these
comments about Bishop Esher’s visit to organize the new conference: “Very early
he
discovered
the necessity of settling the irregularities of John C. Link and on February
2nd brought
the matter
to a painful conclusion. Although denying insubordination, Link withdrew from
the
church and
became bitter in his opposition to the work. In his later years he came to
regret this
step and
before his death was reconciled with many of his
former associates in the Evangelical
Association.”
Johann Conrad Link is reportedly the first missionary within United Methodism sent from the US to Germany (and considered the founder of the Evangelical Association in Germany) and became a Baptist in 1865.
LIPPERT, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Born: 5-28-1922 near Carlisle PA married: Joanna
Lois Wentz
Died: 6-30-1999 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 363
1942 license,
recommended by McAllister, Mt. Rock charge
1946 ordained deacon
1947 ordained elder
Interment: cremation (remains scattered at Westminster
Cemetery, Carlisle PA, and at his birthplace)
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 348
1944-48 Daniels
1948-59 Port Trevorton
1959-67 Williamsport St. John's
1967-70 York Zion
1970-78 Stewartstown
1978-85 New Cumberland Community
1985 retired
1986-87 Dillsburg
Arnold’s
LOESCH, WARREN ALFRED
Born: 7-27-1923 Philadelphia PA married: Marion Elizabeth Hafer
Died: 12-11-2007
Wernersville PA obit:
1943 license. East Pennsylvania Conference
1947 ordained, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1943-44 student, Albright College in Reading PA
1944-47 Steelton – Charlton
1947-51 Telford Grace
1951-55 Wilkes-Barre First
1955-63 Mohnton Calvary
1963-68 executive secretary, Conference Board of Missions
1968-82 General Board of Global Missions
Note: Warren A. Loesch was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He is listed here because he served churches that are now within our conference.
LOGAN, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1917 license
Interment:
Obit:
LOHR, JARED JAMES
Born: 1852 married:
Emma Dora Wise
Died: 3-2-1905
Hughesville PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 80
1876 license
1878 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 64
1876-78 Nittany
Valley
1878-80 Lock Haven
1880-82 Milesburg
1882-85 Hughesville
1885-88 Berwick
1888-89 Baltimore Grace
1889-92 Glen Rock
1892-95 Nittany Valley
1895-99 Center
1899-02 Berwick
1902-05 Hughesville
Note: Jared James Lohr was commonly known as Jerry Lohr.
LONG, DANIEL N.
Born: 5-17-1813 Somerset County PA married: Susanna Flickinger
Died: 2-25-1890 obit:
[2/3/1816 – 10/14/1882]
1834 license
1837 ordained deacon
1843 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown IA
Obit:
1835-36 Shenandoah
VA.
1836-37 Indiana
1837-38 Armstrong
1838-39 Wooster
1839-40 Indiana
1840-41 Franklin
1841-42 Cumberland
1842-43 located
1843-44 Virginia
1844-46 Washington circuit
1846-47 Westmoreland
1847-48 Virginia
1848-49 located
1849-50 Bedford
1850-51 Clarion
transfer to
Pittsburgh Conference
1860 moved to Iowa
North Bend circuit
Independence Mission
Turkey River mission
1865 Preston MN
Note: A biography of Daniel N. Long is given in the 1887 Portrait and Biographical Album of Benton County, Iowa, page 359.
LONGSDORF, ALEXANDER
Born: 11-8-1813 MD married:
Rebecca AnnKiessling
Died: 2-1-1877 Loganton PA obit:
[c1812 – 8/7/1851]
married2: Sarah Keeport [Keyport]
? license obit2:
[c1829 – 1/24/18983]
1840 ordained deacon
1842 ordained elder
Interment: Washington Boulevard Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1838-39 Center
circuit
1839-41 Columbia
1841-42 Indiana
1842-44 Lycoming
1844-48 superintendent,
Allegheny District
1848-49 Lycoming
1849-50 superintendent,
Allegheny District
1850-51 superintendent, Center
District
1851-54 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1854-57 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1857-59 Lycoming circuit
1859-61 Buffalo
1861-63 Block House
1863-65 Leesburg
1865-66 Cumberland
1866-68 Shrewsbury
1868-70 Gettysburg circuit
1870-72 Clinton County circuit
1872 retired
Note: Alexander Longsdorf is the father of Jeremiah M.
Longsdorf.
LONGSDORF, JEREMIAH MAX
Born: 1849 married:
Catherine [Kate] Saylor
Died: 1923 obit:
[1851 - 1937]
1872 license
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs
PA
Obit:
1872-73 Nittany
Valley
1873-74 Center Hall
1874-75 Bendersville
1875-76 Mt. Holly
1876-78 Shrewsbury
1878-80 Perry
1880-82 Hagerstown circuit
1882-83 Juniata
1883-85 Wyoming
1885 transfer to East
Pennsylvania Conference
Note: J. Max Longsdorf is the son of Alexander Longsdorf.
LOSS, CHARLES RICHARD
Born: 2-9-1904 Snyder County PA married: Eva L.
Hackenburg
Died: 2-10-2000 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 389
married2: Marian Thorpe
1930 license,
recommended by Penn's Creek obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 450
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Middleburg
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 349
1930-31 Keystone
1931-33 Keystone and Perry
1933-37 Mexico
1937-42 Selinsgrove
1942-49 chaplain, US Army
1949-50 Middleburg
1951-56 Loganville
1956-65 Yoe-Dallastown
1965-69 Dallastown Trinity
1969 retired
1970 East Prospect (Mar-Apr)
1970 Yorkana (Sep-Dec)
1971-73 Trinity North
LOWER, J.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
LOYER, CHARLES HENRY
Born: 2-19-1889 Hanover PA married: Goldie Schwartz
Masenheimer
Died: 10-28-1944
Middleburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 87
1915 license
1918 ordained deacon
1920 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 82
1915-20 Morgan
1920-23 Hancock
1923-24 Berkeley Springs
1924-26 Columbia
1926-30 Altoona
1930-33 located
1933-36 Bloomsburg
1936-40 conference evangelist
1940-43 on leave
1943-44 Middleburg
Note: Charles H. Loyer is the grandfather of Milton W. Loyer and the great-grandfather of first cousins Matthew J. Loyer and Kenneth M. Loyer - all of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.
LOVELL, GEORGE LEIDY
Born: 12-15-1873 Linden PA married: Cora Belle Harper
Died: 11-1-1941
Portland OR obit:
[5/7/1877 – 1/11/1954]
1899 license
1901 ordained deacon, Oregon Conference
UE
1903 ordained elder, Oregon Conference
UE
Interment: Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem OR
Obit: [Oregon-Washington Conference 1942, 61]
1899-90 Penns
Creek
1900 transfer to Oregon
Conference UE
1900-01 Independence
1901-04 Brooks
1904-05 Eastern Oregon mission
1905-96 Irrigon
1906-09 Florence
1909-13 Salem
1913-16 Portland Ockley Green
1916-20 Salem
1920-23 superintendent, Oregon Conference District
1923-28 superintendent, Salem District
1928-33 Portland Willamette Boulevard
1933-34 Portland Willamette Boulevard and superintendent, Portland East Side District
1934-35 superintendent, Port East Side District
1935-36 Portland First and superintendent, East Portland District
1936-37 Portland First
1937-39 Milwaukie
1939 retired
LUNDY, ROBERT LEROY
Born: 12-30-1898 Warrensville PA married: Anna El Nora Winter
Died: 10-9-1987 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 420
1927 license,
recommended by Warrensville
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 418
1929-34 Mt.
Rock
1934-39 Buffalo Valley
1939-48 Mt. Holly Springs
1948-59 Bloomsburg
1959-67 Montoursville Bethel
1967 retired
Note: The father of Robert L. Lundy is a first cousin to Rev. Harvey S. Lundy (1846-1941) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.
LUNGER, JOHN C.
Born: c1821 PA married: Hannah Vandling
Died: 5-6-1861 obit: [10/3/1819 – 6/13/1880]
? license
1852 ordained deacon
1854 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1850-51 Perry
1851-52 Morgan circuit
1852-54 Gettysburg circuit
1854-55 Liverpool
1855-56 Perry
1856-57 Franklin
1857 withdrew
“transfer” to the Lutheran Church
Sharpsville MD
1859-61 Siglerville & Mechanicsville
Note:
Mechanicsville is now the southern end of Belleville, Mifflin County. The 1860 census confirms that Mrs. Lunger was
“Hannah” – but it has not been confirmed that she was “Hannah Vandling” as
listed above.
Born: 1-1-1863 near Berrysburg
PA married:
Lucretia Mabel Babcock
Died: 1-12-1943
Middletown CT obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 79
married2: Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Fulcomer
1887 license,
recommended by Hughesville obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 80
1890 ordained deacon
1892 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86
1888-89 Luzerne
1889-91 Washingtonville
1891-94 Juniata
1894-97 Scranton
1897-98 Muncy Valley
1898-01 York circuit
1901-05 Lewisberry
1905-09 Felton
1909-13 Brooklyn MD.
1913-17 Hebbville
MD
1917-22 Dallastown
1922-27 Hanover
1927-30 Burham
1930 retired
Note: George L. Maice is the brother of J.H. Maice. At the time of their marriage, the second Mrs. Maice was Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Brown Fisher Fulcomer, widow of Edward A. Fulcomer.
MAICE, JOHN HENRY
Born: 1-13-1854 Berrysburg
PA married:
Rebecca Minerva Zimmerman
Died: 10-21-1910 Berrysburg PA obit:
[8/21/1855 – 6/20/1898]
married2: Rebecca Louisa Karvel
1898 license obit2:
[1858 – 1/1/1919]
1907 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Sweitzers Memorial
Cemetery, Berrysburg PA [MACE]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 49
1898 licensed, Blind Evangelist
Note: J.H. Maice is the brother of George L. Maice and the father of Hattie Dora Maice Snyder, wife of Samuel A. Snyder. The Blind Man, the autobiography of J.H. Maice, was published by the United Evangelical Publishing House in 1904. While he used the MAICE spelling most of his adult life, the family surname and the name on the graves of him and his wives is MACE.
MALLORY, L.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
Des Moines Conference
1920 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 56
Note: L.S. Mallory was received as a “local preacher on trial.” He apparently was never listed or appointed as a local pastor. In 1925 he appears to be living in Altoona and supplying Evangelical pulpits as a guest preacher, possibly as a member of Altoona Grace – or, less likely, as a preacher in the Church of God and/or Church of the Brethren. The first name may be Leonard. He appears to have worked in “the shops” and then left to do home missionary work for the United Evangelical Church in Winterset IA. A 1942 Altoona newspaper article connects him with the Christian and Missionary Alliance church.
MANBECK, JACKSON F.
Born: 1-13-1837 PA married: Sarah Steininger
Died: 9-26-1872 Snyder County PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 82
1864 license
1870 ordained elder
Interment: Bakers Church Cemetery, Snyder County PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1868-69 Lycoming
1869-70 Clinton
1870-72 Loganville
MANEVAL, HARRY PETER
Born: 5-16-1885 Williamsport PA married: Thursa Pequignet
Died: 10-11-1954
Windsor PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 156
1914 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference EA
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Madisonburg UM
Cemetery, Madisonburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 84
1914-17 East
Point
1917-23 Penns Valley
1923 transfer
by denominational union to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1923-25 Sugar Valley
1925-28 Warrensville
1928-30 East Prospect
1930-37 Avis
1937-46 Ringtown
1946-53 Millheim
1953-54 Windsor Emmanuel
Note: Harry P. Maneval is an uncle to J. Leon Maneval (1906-1964) of the United Brethren Church.
MARKEL, EARL P.
Born: 10-2-1888 Centre County PA married: Leah Cassell
Died: 1934 obit:
[9/8/1888 – 4/17/1932]
1910 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Cassell Cemetery, York Haven PA
Obit:
1913-15 Perry circuit
1915-16 Liverpool (ending 9/15, see 1916,49)
1916 living in Yeagertown
MARKLEY, ABRAHAM
Born: 12-16-1829 Bucks County PA married: Susan Hood
Died: 4-17-1912 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference UE 1912, 63
1871 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1874 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1876 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania
Conference
Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference UE 1913, 60
1872-73 Seneca
Falls NY, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1873-74 located
1874 return to East Pennsylvania Conference
Lancaster circuit
Dauphin circuit
Plymouth mission
Philadelphia Ninth Street mission
Pottstown and Royersford
1896- Lykens and Wiconisco
Spring City
Note: Prior to 1871 Abraham Markley was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
MARKLEY, LEWIS PIERRE
Born: 10-11-1890 Cumberland County PA married: Ruth Fanus Beitman
Died: 6-4-1970 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 391
1920 license,
recommended by Lemoyne Grace
1923 ordained deacon
1925 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 382
1921-22 Berkeley
Springs
1922-25 Idaville
1925-30 Bryansville
1930-34 located, employed at Evangelical
Publishing House at Harrisburg
1934-39 Salladasburg
1939-40 Sonestown
1940-43 Berkeley Springs and
Morgan
1943-48 Felton
1948-54 Howard
1954-56 Buffalo Valley
1956 retired
1956-58 Buffalo
Valley
1958-59 Mexico
MARLAND, J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1851-52 Clinton
1852 located
MARLOW, WILLIAM RANDOLPH
Born: 1926
Baltimore MD married:
Mary Elizabeth Strom
Died: 1-27-2019
Providence RI obit:
1947 license,
recommended by Baltimore Olive Branch
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2019, ?
1946-49 student, Albright College in Reading PA
1949-53 counselor, boys’ high school in Hyderabad India
1953-56 student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT
1956-59 Cumberland
Charge
1959-68 chaplain, Albright
College in Reading PA
1968-71 faculty, Albright College in Reading PA
1971 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1971-92 faculty, Albright College in Reading PA
1992 retired
Note: William R. and Betty Barlow lived at the Riverwoods Senior Living Community is Lewisburg PA for many years before moving to Middletown RI.
MARTIN, OSCAR GRAYBILL
Born: 12-30-1883 Snyder County PA married: Mary Elizabeth
Dreese
Died: 6-8-1965 Mt.
Pleasant Mills PA obit:
[2/7/1888 – 10/4/1980]
1909 license,
recommended by Fremont of the Port Trevorton charge
? ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania
Conference EA
Interment: St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Mills
PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 110
1909-11 Mifflin
1911-13 Spring Mills
1913-17 Sugar Valley
1917-18 Wayne
1918-20 Port Trevorton
1920-23 located, served as
supply pastor
1923 transfer by denominational union to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1923-49 located,
served as supply pastor
1949-50 East Stone Arabia, New
York Conference
1950-52 Dressler's Ridge
1952-56 Freeburg
1956 retired
MATSUDA, MOTOI
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1884 withdrew
Note: The 1884 journal, page 9, reports the following: “Motoi Matsuda, a native Japanese preacher engaged in our Missionary work in Japan, having during the year taken a secular position in the pay of the Japanese Government, and having surrendered his license, it was resolved that his name be stricken from the rolls of this Conference to which he belonged.”
MATHIAS, L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1872 license
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Buffalo
[Buffalo twp, Union County]
1874-76 located
1876-77 Lairdsville
1877-78 Millerstown
1878 withdrew
MATTER, GLENN EDWARD
Born: 5-28-1914 Millersburg PA married: Margaret L. Johns
Died: 4-24-2005 obit:
[7/14/1910 – 8/8/2009]
1935 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1943 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 470
1935-38 student
1937-38 Wyomissing
1938-45 Wayne circuit
1945-57 Millersville Grace
1957-62 Harrisburg Harris Street
1962-79 Norristown Bethany
1979 retired
Note: Glenn E. Matter was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He is listed here because he served churches that are now within our conference.
MAUE, RAYMOND P.
Born: 10-18-1880 Hazleton PA married: Carrie S. Stevens
Died: 1-8-1936
Hazleton PA obit:
[1/13/1881 – 9/2/1949]
1904 license
1907 ordained deacon
1909 ordained elder
Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA
Obit: Illinois Conference 1936, 38
1905-06 Williamsport
Grace
1906-08 Stuben
NY
1908-09 Yoe and York Princess
Street
1909 transfer to Illinois
Conference
MAURER, W.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1915 ordained local
deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1922-26 Wayne
Note: W.E. Maurer served as a local deacon. He is otherwise unknown, but he appears to have resided in Maplewood, Wayne County.
MAXWELL, ARCHIBALD W.
Born:
1840 married:
Sarah “Sallie” J. Seiler
Died: 1-6-1910 Somerset County
PA obit:
[11/25/1839 – 7/30/1928]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 229
Gibble list: no
1873 license
1889 license, Allegheny Conference
1893 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Pain PA
Obit:
1874-75 Northumberland
Mission
1875-78 located
1878-79 Duboistown
located
1885-86 SS
superintendent, Williamsport Bennett Street
1886 surrendered
license and withdrew from the Church
1889 “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the
United Brethren Church
1889-90 assistant,
South Williamsport mission
1890-91 Liverpool
1891-93 Huntingdon
& Juniata
1893-94 Huntingdon
1894-95 Philipsburg
1895-98 Port
Matilda
1898-00 New
Paris
1900-01 located,
living in New Paris
1901 no
longer listed
1904 surrendered
license and withdrew from the Church
Note: In 1870, A.W. Maxwell is a cabinet maker living in
Watsontown; in 1885, he is selling insurance in Williamsport.
MAY, LEWIS CARL
Born: 8-15-1819 Germany married: Louisa Haines
Died: 6-8-1865
Warrensville PA obit:
[1/15/1812 – 3/30/1868]
license
1852 ordained deacon
1854 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1851-52 Hollidaysburg
Mission
1852-53 Center
1853-54 Clinton
1854-56 Union
1856-58 Wilkes-Barre Mission
1858-60 York circuit
1862-64 Middle Creek
1864-65 Lycoming
MAYER, FREDERICK F.
Born: 9-18-1861 Creswell PA married: Sarah E. Keemer
Died: 6-16-1933 near
West Milton PA obit:
[4/20/1861 – 5/2/1904]
married2: S. Dana Girton
1893 license,
recommended by York Trinity obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 80
1895 ordained deacon
1897 ordained elder
Interment: Mazeppa Union Cemetery (West), Mazeppa PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 74
1893-94 Craleyville
1894-97 Tunkhannock
1897-01 Ransom
1901-04 Susquehanna & West
Clifford
1904-05 located
1905-08 Unityville
1908-10 located
1910-11 Unityville
1911-13 Wapwallopen
1913-14 located
1914-18 Penns Creek
1918-21 Port Trevorton
1921-23 Keystone
1923-26 Howard
1926 located
Note: F.F. Mayer is sometimes misnamed in newspaper accounts as F.F. Moyer.
MAYS, JOHN BENTON
Born: 11-4-1883 Ruhl MD married: Rosanna Wilhelm
Died: 11-9-1968 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 403
1910 license,
recommended by New Freedom
1912 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Freeland MD
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 209
1910-14 Harford
1914-19 Warrensville
1919-26 White Deer
1926-33 Jersey Shore
1933-34 Hanover
1934-39 Bellefonte
1939-51 Williamsport Trinity
1951-54 Burnham
1954-56 Warrensville Charge
1956 retired
1956-61 Salladasburg
McCACHRAN, J.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1876 license
Interment:
Obit:
1915 name
erased, page 57
McCAMEY, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1877 license
1882 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1878-79 Catawissa
circuit
1879-80 Kingston mission
1878 located
McCARTY, JOHN D.
Born: 3-22-1822 near Somerset PA married: Elizabeth Ann Boyd
Died: 3-15-1897
Willoughby OH obit:
Pittsburgh Conference ME 1911, 100
1847 license
1848 ordained deacon
1854 ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Willoughby Village Cemetery, Willoughby OH
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference ME 1897, 56
1847-48 Venego
1848-49 Indiana
1849-50 located
1850 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1850-52 Georgeville
1852-54 Glade Run
1854-56 Ligonier
1856-57 Mount Pleasant and West Newton
1857-59 Murraysville
1859-61 Allegheny circuit
1861-63 Columbiana OH
1863-64 Freedom
1864-66 Agent, Mount Union College
1866-67 located
1867-68 Goshen and Benton
1868-69 Damascusville
1869-70 Beaver Falls
1870-71 retired
1871-73 Unionville and Concord
1875-76 Wood’s Run
1876-78 Dayton
1878-79 retired
1879-81 Penn
1881 retired
Note: This surname is also given as McCARTNEY.
McCLEARY, LEON ALLEN
Born: 7-18-1923 York County PA married: Edna Pearl Anderson
Died: 1-26-2011
Williamsport PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2015, 270
1959 license, recommended by Red Lion St. Paul’s
1965 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 402
1959-61 White
Deer
1961-66 Blue Mountain
1966-71 Mifflinburg
1871-81 York Grace
1981-87 Mt. Wolf Otterbein
1987 retired
Note: Leon A. McCleary is the father of Eileen P. McCleary
Prowant, wife of Edward E. Prowant of
the Susquehanna Conference.
McCRAY, R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1812-13 “new”
1813-14 Northumberland
McCULLOH, CHARLES WESLEY JR
Born: 12-9-1937 Lancaster PA married: Judith A. Bixler
Died: 5-31-2008 York
PA obit:
[1943 - ]
1964 license,
recommended Carlisle First
1971 ordained deacon
1999 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 425
1964-68 Castanea – Farrandsville
1968-70 Uriah – Mt. Tabor – Idaville
1979-72 Uriah
1972-81 Riverside
1981-84 Towanda
1984-95 Good Shepherd Community
1995-06 York Trinity
2006 retired
2006-08 Loganville (beginning 9/2006)
Note: Charles W. McCulloh Jr is the son of Charles W.
McCulloh Sr and the grandson of Rev. William McCulloh of the Brethren
in Christ Church. He is also the father
of Gwendolyn McCulloh Steiner, wife of Roger Steiner of the Lutheran Church.
McCULLOH, CHARLES WESLEY SR
Born: 8-7-1908 Morrison IL married: Miriam Caroline Musser
Died: 1-3-1998 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 484
1931 license,
recommended by Grantham District, Brethren in Christ
1948 ordained elder, Brethren in Christ
Church
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 443
1931-41 assistant, Manheim Brethren in Christ in Manheim PA
1941-58 Fox
Hollow Brethren in Christ in Montoursville PA
1958-59 Cross
Roads Brethren in Christ in Mt. Joy PA
1959 “transfer” to the
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1959-63 Keystone-Perry
Charge
1963-68 Beavertown
1968-71 Pennsdale
1971-78 Renova
1978 retired
1978-88 Waterville
Note: Charles W. McCulloh Sr is the son of Rev. William
McCulloh of the Brethren in Christ Church and the
father of Charles W. McCulloh Jr.
McCURDY, SAMUEL OAKES
Born: 3-3-1838 Union County PA married: Anna Margaret McClintic
Died: 2-27-1907
Sunbury PA obit:
[3/18/1847 – 7/16/1913]
1881 license
1884 ordained [J.O.
McCurdy]
Interment: Pomfret
Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA
Obit:
Note: An S.O. McCurdy was granted credentials in the East Pennsylvania Conference in 1887. He taught school before the Civil War and worked for the railroad afterwards. It has not been verified that the Rev. Samuel Oakes McCurdy whose personal information given above is the S.O. McCurdy licensed in 1881.
McGAW, JOSEPH M.
Born: 11-22-1837 married:
Catherine Stein
Died: 4-25-1917 obit:
[d. 11/18/1912]
1860 license
1862 ordained deacon
Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA
Obit:
1860-61 Buffalo
1861-62 Perry
1862-63 Leesburg
1863-64 Liverpool
located and later
withdrew from the Church
1868 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Note: This name is also given as J.W. McGAW. Am 1868 newspaper account of the transfer identifies him as “formerly a local preacher of the Evangelical Association” and states he was admitted as a local elder. He seems to have eventually settled in Shippensburg, and attended the Methodist Church there. His son Edgar was born in Wilmington DE in 1870.
McKESSON, JOHN MICHAEL
Born: 7-5-1823 York County PA married: Nancy Ann Witt
Died: 1-17-1900 obit:
[9/12/1826 – 12/17/1901]
1849 license
1851 ordained deacon
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs CO
Obit:
1849-50 Columbia
1850-51 Preston circuit
1851-53 ?
1853 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference
1853-54 English missionary to the West
Note: J. M. McKesson was appointed in 1853 to establish an English work in the West. June 28 he arrived in McDonough County IL and began his labors. He laid the foundations for the English work in western Illinois and eastern Iowa. Owing to ill health he did not continue the second year, and the Illinois Conference was asked to take charge of the work, owing to a scarcity of preachers in the Pittsburg Conference.
John M. McKesson became a medical doctor
and about 1862 was one of the founding pioneers of Lancaster [now Lincoln]
Nebraska and of a Methodist school there.
He is a brother of pioneer Evangelical minister Samuel W. McKesson (also
born in York County PA) of Kansas and Nebraska.
Samuel’s son J.F.C. McKesson was a prominent attorney and statesman who
wrote on the history of Lincoln and Nebraska.
McLANE, MOSES
Born: 1820 Millersburg PA married: Magdalena _____
Died: 5-10-1902 Kansas
City MO obit:
[1830 – 1/14/1889]
married2: Amy Grimes [1891]
? license obit2:
[1848-1914]
1842 ordained deacon
Interment: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Dwight
IL
Obit:
1841-42 York circuit
1842-43 Bedford
1843-44 Baltimore circuit
1844-45 York circuit
1845 located
Note: This surname is also given as McLAIN, McLEAN and McLEHN. Moses McLane is a brother to Noah McLane and Simon McLane. The conference archives contain a McLane family biographical file.
McLANE, NOAH JAMES
Born: 8-5-1822 Millersburg PA married: Mary Elisabeth Hertz
Died: 11-20-1869
Kankakee IL obit:
[12/3/1826 – 10/15/1914]
1848 license,
East Pennsylvania Conference
1850 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
ordained elder
Interment: Mound Grove Cemetery,
Kankakee IL
Obit:
1848-49 Lehigh circuit
1849-51 Milford circuit
1851-52 Lancaster circuit
1852 transfer to Illinois Conference
1852-53 Peru circuit
Note: This surname is also given as McLAIN, McLEAN and McLEHN. Noah McLane is a brother to Moses McLane and Simon McLane. He died of pneumonia, caught while circuit-riding when his horse fell through the ice. The conference archives contain a McLane family biographical file.
McLANE, SIMON
Born: 7-18-1818 Millersburg PA married: Rachel Long
Died: 3-4-1882
Kankakee IL obit:
[12/18/1824 – 12/28/1903]
license
1843 ordained deacon
1845 ordained elder
Interment: Grand Prairie Cemetery,
Bonfield IL
Obit:
1842-43 Lycoming
1843-44 Somerset
1844-45 Clarion
1845-46 Bedford
1846-47 Venango
1847-48 Gettysburg
1848-49 Perry
1849 located
Note: This surname is also given as McLAIN, McLEAN and McLEHN. Simon McLane is a brother to Moses McLane and Noah McLane. The conference archives contain a McLane family biographical file.
McLAUGHLIN, JARRETT BURR
Born: 6-10-1879 Harford County MD married: Alma C. Harrison
Died: 8-28-1962 Lewisburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 212
1906 license,
recommended by Tabernacle on the Bryansville charge
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Dallastown Cemetery,
Dallastown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 101
1906-09 Goodwill
1909-11 Rebersburg
1911-15 Pennsdale
1915-20 Random
1920-27 Lycoming
1927-31 Enola
1931-35 Dallastown
1935-36 Manchester
1936-46 West Nanticoke
1946-51 Burnham
1951 retired
MEADS, NATHAN T.
Born: 1-29-1918 married:
Sarah Jane Wantland
Died: 8-7-1891 obit:
[3/30/1823 – 4/25/1878]
1874 license
Interment: Rock Chapel Cemetery,
Shrewsbury PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 41
Note: N.T. Meads was a local preacher in York County.
MEISSNER, D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Methodist Episcopal Church
1850 transfer to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
MELOY, JOURMAN BEALE
Born: 7-17-1876 near Port Royal PA married: Pearl May Roy
Died: 12-16-1951 Lewistown PA obit: Central PA Conference ME 1935, 243
married2: Mrs. Mildred Bonham Search
1897 license obit2:
? ordained, Upper Iowa Conference of the United Evangelical Church
Interment: New Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1952, 203
1899 transfer to Upper Iowa Conference
1899-23 Upper Iowa Conference
1923-24 ?
1924-26 Liverpool, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church
1926 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church
1926-29 Mifflinville-Lime Ridge
1929-30 Trevorton-Irish Valley (moved to McConnellsburg in mid-year)
1930-32 McConnellsburg (came from Trevorton in mid-year 1929-30)
1931-32 Mill Hall
1932-26 North Bend-Farwell
1936-37 Manor Hill
1937-39 Benton
1939-40 Berwick Calvary
1940-41 Conyngham
1941-45 Bloomingdale
1945-47 Freeland Parish
1947-49 Orbisonia
1949 retired
MENTZER, JUNIOR CALVIN
Born: 4-24-1926 married: Sylvia Anne Ford (1/4/1955)
Died: 4-18-2007 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 275
1956 license,
recommended by Blue Rock UBOC
1973 ordained deacon, Indiana North
Conference
1976 ordained elder, Indiana North
Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Church Cemetery,
Selinsgrove PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 395]
1957-61 student, Huntington College in Huntington IN
1961-63 student, Huntington Seminary in Huntington IN
1961-63 Pleasant Grove, Indiana North Conference EUB
1963 “transfer”
to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1963-65 Keystone-Perry
1965-67 Walkersville MD
1968 “transfer” to United Church of Christ
1969-72 Zieglerville Peace in Zion
1972 “transfer” to North Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church
1972-75 Huntington County South Parish
1975 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1975-77 Penns Creek
1977-79 Balls mills – Rose Valley
1979-81 Mount Hope
1981-83 Axeman – Weaver
1983-85 Delta – Bryansville
1985-86 Mifflin Trinity
1986-88 Loganville
1988 retired
1988-90 associate, Enders – Powell’s Valley
1990-99 Dressler’s Ridge
Note: Junior C. Mentzer appears to have
been born as Calvin Mentzer Jr.
MERGENTHALER, GUY R.
Born: 3-17-1893 married:
Jessie Irene Mundis
Died: 1-?-1966 obit:
[1/3/1892 – 6/?/1979]
1915 license
1921 ordained deacon
1923 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York
PA
Obit:
1922-27 Windsor
1927-32 Lock Haven
1932-34 Dushore
1924 located
MESSINGER, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 10-26-1850 Danville PA married: Mary Lovina Reichard
(11/16/1872)
Died: 5-22-1916
Hanover PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 83
1879 license
ordained deacon
1883 ordained elder
Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 70
1879-80 Nittany Valley
1880-82 Susquehanna
1882-84 West Clifford
1884-85 New Columbia
1885-86 Waller
1886-89 Hughesville
1889-91 Luzerne
1891-94 Scranton
1894-97 Carlisle
1897-99 Milton
1899-01 Bloomsburg
1901-03 Scranton
1903-07 superintendent, York
District
1907-11 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1911-14 Williamsport St. Paul
1914-15 Jersey Shore
1915-16 Hanover
Note: J.W. Messinger is the father of Mae Messinger Kiess, wife of H. Kiess, and of Emma D. Messinger, editor of Evangelical Missionary World and The Missionary Gem. He is the author of the 1903 book Undertones and Overtones of Life.
MESSNER, CHARLES STEWARD
Born: 4-2-1882 Lykens PA married: Pearl May Pettit
Died: 2-25-1956
Carlisle PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 50
married2: Grace Viloa Bixler
1908 license,
recommended by West Berwick obit2:
[1895-1976]
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery,
Spring Garden twp, Rork County PA
Obit:
1908-11 Morgan circuit
1911-12 Hanover circuit
1912-15 McClure
1915-18 Lewisberry
1918-22 Nittany Valley
1922-26 Sonestown
1926-27 Lopez
1927 “transfer” to the
Lutheran Church
1927-1956 Lower Frankford charge (Lower Frankford Stone, Plainfield, Carlisle Springs)
Note: Some sources give this person as Charles STEWART Messner. The first Mrs. Messner is a sister to John Theodore Pettit.
METHFESSEL, FREDERICK C.
Born: 9-2-1835 Germany married: Frenkie “Harriet”
_____
Died: 10-24 -1916
Independence IA obit:
[7/5/1834 – 2/17/1906]
license
1864 ordained deacon
1866 ordained elder
Interment: Coster Cemetery, Allison
IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1917,52
1862-63 Cumberland
1863-65 Lycoming
1865-66 Cherry circuit
1866-68 Harford
1868-69 Baltimore circuit
transfer to Iowa
Conference
Note: This surname also appears as
METFESSEL. F.C. Methfessel
is the father of Rev. Newton Samuel Metfessel (1876-1925) of the Presbyterian
Church.
METZGER, DAVID M.
Born: 8-17-1863 Linden PA married: Ella Josephine Hoberg
Died: 6-15-1920
Williamsport PA obit:
[11/3/1861 – 3/3/1950]
1887 license
1889 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: State Road Church
Cemetery, Lycoming County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 68
1887-88 Middleburg
1888-93 Baltimore Olive Branch
1893-95 Wrightsville
1895-00 faculty, Lafayette
Seminary in Lafayette OR
1900-13 faculty, Dallas College in Dallas OR
1913-20 faculty, Western Union College in LeMars IA
Note: A brief biography is given in Poling's 1938 History of the Evangelical Church in Oregon and Washington, page 278. Mrs. Metzger was the widow of a Mr. Peter M. Gates.
MICKEY, MILLARD ORION
Born: 6-20-1909 Pitcairn PA married: Beatrice Noble Brownlee
Died: 6-25-1981 obit:
[8/31/1919 - ?]
1927 quarterly conference license
1931 license, recommended by Bradenville UB
1937 ordained elder, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Riverview Cemetery, East
Prospect PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 336
1928-30 Waukesha
1930-32 Three Springs
1932-36 Industry
1936-42 Zion
1942-47 Bellwood
1947-51 Liverpool
1951 transfer
by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1951-62 Liverpool
1962-72 East Prospect
1972 retired
1972-78 assistant, Red Lion St. Paul’s
MILES, ELMER F.
Born: 12-6-1885 Ashby MA married: Ada Minnick
Died: 9-9-1949 obit:
[b. c1882]
1923 license, recommended by Ransom
Interment: Hanover Green Cemetery,
Wilkes-Barre PA
Obit:
Note: Elmer F. Miles was still living
in Firchburg MA in 1913. The 1940 census show
E.F. Miles living in Luzerne County PA, apparently the home of Mrs. Miles.
MILLER, CHARLES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1846 license
1848 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1846-47 Virginia
1848-49 Bedford
1849-450 Morgan
1850 located
MILLER, DAVID W.
Born: 8-18-1832 York County PA married: _____ Fowler
Died: 1-6-1904
Williamsport PA obit:
1857 license
1858 ordained deacon
1861 ordained elder
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery,
Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 60
1857-58 Columbia
1858-59 Luzerne
1859-60 Harford
1860-61 Cumberland
1861-62 Luzerne
1862-64 located
1864-65 Center
1865-66 Middle Creek
1866-68 Liverpool
1868-70 Perry
1870-72 Port Trevorton
1872-73 Baltimore circuit
1873-75 McClure
1875-77 Middleburg
1877-79 Williamsport circuit
1879-82 Williamsport Market
Street
1882-84 Jersey Shore circuit
1884-85 White Deer
1885-88 Lycoming
1888-89 located
1889-90 Seneca
1890-95 located
1895-96 Spring Mills
1896-99 East Point
1899 retired
Note: Mrs. Miller was the daughter of a Mr. Asahel and Mary Fowler of Briar Creek township, Columbia County PA.
MILLER, FRED
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1849-50 Cumberland
located
MILLER, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1809 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1813 located on account of bodily infirmities
MILLER, GEORGE L.
Born: 3-2-1910 near West Milton PA married: Ruth Helen
Cotner
Died: 8-4-1964 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 364
1933 license,
recommended by Mt. Zion
? ordained
deacon
1940 ordained elder
Interment: White Deer Cemetery, Union
County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 106
1936-37 Hughesville
1937-38 Penns Creek
1938-40 Cearfoss
1940-44 Sonestown
1944-49 Warrensville
1949-53 Windsor
1953-55 Houserville
1955-63 Winfield
1963-64 Williamsport Heshbon
Park
MILLER, GLEN ARTHUR
Born: 10-15-1937 Sonestown PA married: Carole L. Boxe
Died: 6-22-2009
Waynesboro PA obit:
1963 license,
recommended by Ringtown
1966 ordained elder
Interment: Adams Cemetery, Juniata
County PA
Obit:
1963-69 Buffalo Valley Charge
1969-83 Greencastle
1983 withdrew to united with another denomination, page 327
Note: Glen A. Miller is the son of Paul M. Miller. Glen A. Miller was the founding pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Greencastle on 4/10/1983 and served as senior pastor of that congregation until his death.
MILLER, HAROLD E.
Born: 3-26-1931 Williamsport PA married: Patricia Ann Ryder
Died: 1-6-2019 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 426
1958 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 345
1958-61 student, Lycoming College
1958-61 Liberty
1961-62 student, Mansfield University
1961-62 Liberty
1962-66 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1962-66 Germantown OH State Road, Ohio Miami Conference
1966-73 Warrensville (ending 9/1973)
1973-76 Pennsylvania Council on Alcohol Problems (beginning 9/1973)
1976-84 Lycoming Parish (ending 11/1/1984)
1984-93 West Milton (beginning 11/1/1984)
1993 retired
1993-95 Brookside – Centennial
1995-01 Centennial – White Pine
MILLER, JOSEPH HARRIS
Born: 8-14-1902 Milton PA married: Dora Mary DeWire.
Died: 2-12-1968 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 465
1928 license, recommended by Milton First
1930 ordained deacon
1932 ordained elder
Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Milton
PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1968, 125
1928-31 Yoe
1931-36 Baltimore St. John
1936-43 York St. Paul
1943-53 Carlisle
1953-58 Lock Haven
1958-60 Milton First
1960-64 Lewistown Grace
1964-68 Berwick St. Paul
Note: Joseph H. Miller is the father
of Mary Louise Miller Rowe, wife of Leon E. Rowe. Mrs. Miller is a sister to Harry DeWire.
MILLER, J.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1853-54 Lycoming
1854-55 Baltimore McEldery Street
transfer to
Wisconsin Conference
Note: According to the 1828-1973 roster Blake’s 1973 history of United Methodism in Wisconsin, page 319, there is no record of J.C. Miller in Wisconsin.
MILLER, J.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1887 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1885 received
from the United Brethren Church as a local deacon, page 22
1885-88 Bendersville
circuit
1888-89 Center Hall circuit
1889-91 Hagerstown circuit
1891 deposed from the
ministry and expelled from the Church, pages 17 & 22
MILLER, JOHN G.
Born: 2-9-1813 Wurtemberg,
Germany married: Sophia
Dunkel
Died: 4-2-1893 Madison
WI obit:
[11/1/1822 – 7/15/1896]
1843 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery,
Madison WI
Obit: [Wisconsin Conference EA 1911, 7]
1851-52 Union
transfer to
Pittsburgh Conference
Note: Mrs. Miller 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.
Sophia’s sister Susan Dunkel married noted Evangelical preacher and
publisher and administrator Charles Hammer, and sister Mary Dunkel married
Benjamin Hengst.
MILLER, LUTHER ALVIN
Born: 3-26-1873 Centre County PA married: Edith A.
Mumma
Died: 2-1-1963 Sunbury
PA obit:
[2/21/1873 – 8/26/1940]
1908 license
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Witmers
Evangelical Association Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA
Obit:
1908-11 Hagerstown circuit
1911-16 Wellsville
1916-19 Spring Mills
1919-24 Salladasburg
1924-26 Grover
1926-28 Port Trevorton
1928 located
Note: In retirement, L.A. Miller worked as a barber. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Rev. Joseph Christian Mumma (1849-1902) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.
MILLER, LEONARD MICHAEL
Born: 5-17-1896
Loganville PA married:
Ada Clara Swengel
Died: 1972 obit:
[1902 – 1986]
1917 license
Interment: Emmanuel United Methodist
Church Cemetery, Loganville PA
Obit:
Note: Leonard M. Miller graduated from York Collegiate Institute in 1916 and from Albright College in 1920. He was an educator in Harrisburg. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Uriah F. Swengel.
MILLER, LYLE ARNOLD.
Born: 1-8-1919 Shiloh PA married: Ruth Shirley Harrier (11/27/40)
Died: 3-22-1992 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 437
1964 license, Western Pennsylvania Conference
1978 ordained,
Central Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Shiloh Cemetery, Shiloh PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 479
1964-70 Winburne Emmanuel
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-89 Winburne Emmanuel
1989 retired
1989-91 Winburne Emmanuel
Note: Before serving under appointment, Lyle A. Miller taught in the Clearfield Area schools for 36 years.
MILLER, PAUL MONROE
Born: 1-17-1902 Marysville PA married: Lucy Marie Swartz
Died: 4-15-2000
Greencastle PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 352
1931 license,
recommended by Salem (Keystone-Perry charge)
1933 ordained deacon
1935 ordained elder
Interment: Mazeppa Union Cemetery,
Mazeppa PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 351
1931-32 Liverpool
1932-35 Rebersburg
1935-39 Sonestown
1939-42 Avis
1942-46 Avis and Salladasburg
1946-48 Mexico
1948-59 Newport
1959-67 Ringtown
1967 retired
Note: Paul M. Miller is the father of Glen A. Miller.
MILLER, S. SILAS
Born: 6-1-1895 near Freeland MD married: Justa E. Reehling
Died: 6-25-1932 York
PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 1969, 213
1922 license,
recommended by Ruhl
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder
Interment: New Freedom Cemetery, New
Freedom PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 74
1922-26 Cearfoss
1926-32 York Zion
Note: S. Silas Miller is a brother to Ethel Miller Teter, wife of Lester E. Teter.
MILLER, VERNON EBY
Born: 3-30-1905 Baltimore MD married: Myrtle Irene Dayhoff
Died: 5-10-1994 obit:
Baltimore Conference 1988, 387
1930 license,
recommended by Walbrook Memorial
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1994, 515
1930-39 Baltimore St. Matthew
1939-56 Baltimore Faith
1956-66 Rodgers Forge
1966-68 Baltimore Trinity
1968 retired
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
Note: Vernon E. Miller is the father of Rev. Vernon D. Miller of the Presbyterian Church.
MILLER, WILSON I.
Born: 1-3-1878 Macungie PA married: Rebecca S. _____
Died: 1-26-1947 West
Reading PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 309
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Boyertown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 83
Williamsport
1929-46 faculty, Schuylkill College and Albright College
1946 retired
Note: Wilson I. Miller served the Williamsport congregation that remained with the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association during the 1894-1922 split.
MINSKER, HARRY
Born: 6-15-1867 near
Dauphin PA married:
Lulu L. Ward
Died: 2-11-1950 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 84
1888 license
1893 ordained deacon
1895 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 94
1891-92 South Williamsport
1892-95 Dushore
1895-98 Espy
1898-02 West Nanticoke
1902-06 Nuremberg
1906-07 Danville
1907-11 Lock Haven mission
1911-15 Baltimore Olive Branch
1915-19 Baltimore Bethany
1919-26 York Grace
1926-29 Baltimore Grace
1929-34 Marysville
1934-35 Yorkana
1935-36 Dallastown and Bittersville
1936-39 Dallastown and Yoe
1939 retired
Note: Harry Minsker is the son of William Minsker. His daughter Miriam married the son of David F. Young.
MINSKER, WILLIAM
Born: 4-27-1839 near Dauphin PA married: Ellen Fite
Died: 11-17-1912 Baltimore
MD obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 83
1871 license,
East Pennsylvania Conference
? ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder
Interment: Warrington Friends Meeting
House Cemetery, Wellsville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 69
1888-89 Perry
1889-91 Liberty
1891-92 Sonestown
1892-95 Waller
1895-96 Cumberland
1896-98 Big Spring
1898-12 located
Note: William Minsker is the father of Harry Minsker.
MITCHELL, ROBERT PAUL
Born: 9-5-1927 Mifflinburg PA married: Myra Haubert
Died: 11-2-2013 Perry
County PA obit:
1948 ordained elder, Church of the
Nazarene
Interment:
Obit:
Denton MD
Harrisburg PA
Nazareth PA
1961 “transfer” to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1961-65 student, Lycoming College
1961-65 Pennsdale
1965-68 Taneytown MD
1968-70 New Bloomfield
1970 located, page 98
Note: Robert P. Mitchell worked for the PA Department of Health.
MIZENER, CALVIN CRAWFORD
Born: 7-16-1876 near
Loganton PA married:
Bertha B. Stamm
Died: 12-8-1952 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 86
1900 license,
recommended by Loganton
1903 ordained deacon
1905 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery,
Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 78
1901-05 Mifflinburg
1905-09 Wayland
1909-12 Grover
1912-16 White Deer
1916-19 Alberton
1919-23 Hughesville
1923-28 Altoona Grace
1928-34 Wrightsville
1934-35 State College
1935-39 Berwick St. Paul
Note: This surname is consistently misreported as MIZNER.
MOORE, BENJAMIN LUTHER
Born: 9-20-1880 Hagerstown MD married: Esther May Hepner
Died: 5-13-1973
Dallastown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 80
1901 license,
recommended by Hagerstown St. Paul's
1903 ordained deacon
1905 ordained elder
Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery,
Enola PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 426
1901-02 Big Spring
1902-04 Juniata
1904-08 Mt. Holly Springs
1908-10 Hellam
1910-13 Mechanicsburg
1913-18 Enola
1918-22 located
1922-26 Mt. Rock
1926-32 Wellsville
1932-39 Cumberland
1939-56 Yoe-Dallastown
1956 retired
MOORE, CHARLES D.
Born: 5-20-1862 Slocum PA married: Sadie Della McCarty
Died: 5-5-1922 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 86
1886 license
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment: Hughesville Cemetery,
Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 77
1886-87 Waller
1897-90 West Clifford
1890-93 located
1893-97 Columbia circuit
1897-00 Scranton
1900-03 Cumberland
1903-07 Yorkana
1907-10 York Zion
1910-14 Danville
1914-16 Burnham
1916-17 New Columbia
1917-19 Hughesville
1919-22 Alberton
MORGANTHALER, J.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1883 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note” This surname also appears as MORGENTHALER.
MORRIS, JOSEPH F.
Born: 5-12-1845 Freeland MD married: Sarah A. _____
Died: 8-30-1928 obit:
[1849 – 1923]
Interment: Zion Cemetery, Dorsey MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 84
1911 “transfer” to the “Evangelical” Church
1911-15 Baltimore Bethany
1915-24 Dorsey
1924 located
Note: Joseph F. Morris was supposedly credentialed in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1911-15 service at Baltimore Bethany is stated in his obituary, but this church is unknown. He first appears, without explanation, in the Central Pennsylvania Conference journals in 1915. His obituary names him JOSEPH H. MORRIS.
MORRIS, THOMAS M.
Born: 11-2-1837 Maryland married: Eliza C. Hartman
Died: 5-11-1890
Williamsport PA obit:
[4/17/1842 – 1917]
license
1864 ordained deacon
1866 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery,
Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 43
1862-63 Lycoming
1863-84 Middleburg
1864-65 Montour
1865-67 Perry
1867-69 Luzerne
1869-70 Blockhouse
1870-73 Dushore
1873-74 Hagerstown
1874-75 Marysville
1875-77 Port Trevorton
1877-79 Loganville
1879-81 Baltimore circuit
1881-82 White Ground
1882-84 Milesburg
1884-86 Sugar Valley
1886-88 Williamsport St. John
1888-89 Williamsport Market
Street
1889 retired
Note: An obituary for Thomas M. Morris also appears in the 6/25/1890 edition of The Evangelical, page 207. Some sources give his birthplace as Reading PA. The Morris family appears to have roots in Loganton PA.
MORRIS, W.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1888 license
1894 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
MOUNTZ, SAMUEL M.
Born: 12-8-1858 Cumberland County PA married: Abbie A. Strohm
[4/24/1885]
Died: 1938 obit:
[1859-1950]
1883 license
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: Trinity Lutheran Church
Cemetery, New Holland PA
Obit:
1882-83 Big Spring circuit
1883-85 Leesburg
1885-86 Center circuit
1886-88 Juniata circuit
1888 “transfer” to the
Lutheran Church
1889-91 Lairdsville [Susquehanna Synod]
1891-95 Montgomery [Susquehanna Synod]
1895-97 ?
1897-00 McKeesport St. John’s [Pittsburgh Synod]
1900-03 assistant, Butler First English [Pittsburgh Synod]
1903-04 ?
1904-22 New Holland Trinity [Lancaster Conference]
1922- York Springs [West Pennsylvania Synod]
West Camp NY
Note: A picture and biographical sketch of Samuel M. Mountz appear in the published history of the Trinity Lutheran Church of New Holland, page 94, and in the 1925 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod, page 287. A picture also appears in the 1917 History of the Susquehanna Synod, page 20.
MOWRER, BENJAMIN K.
Born: 12-29-1867 Lancaster County PA married: Kate _____
Died: 10-20-1961 York
County PA obit:
[1864-1928]
? license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1921 granted deacon credentials
Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Hanover PA
Obit:
1893-95 White Haven
1895-11 living in Columbia as a local deacon
1911 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local deacon, page 24
1911-12 Dorsey
1912-14 Hanover circuit
1914-21 located
1921 “transfer” to Lutheran
Church
New Baltimore St. Paul’s
Note: This name is also given as B.K. MAURER
MOWRY, HERMAN W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1920 license
Interment:
Obit:
MOYER, CHARLES R.
Born: 6-10-1933 Yoe PA married: Rev. Jean W. Watts
Died: 12-24-2022 Montoursville PA obit:
1957 license,
recommended by Yoe
1960 ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery,
Montoursville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 360
1953-57 student, Albright College in Reading PA
1957-60 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1960-61 Paxtonville
1961-62 Heshbon Park,
Williamsport
1963-69 without appointment
1969-75 Williamsport Christ
1975-78 Houserville
1978-79 sabbatical
1979-84 on leave
1984 honorable location, page 302
MOYER, FRANK HEBREW
Born: 7-6-1893 Freeburg PA married: Florence Mabel Neitz
Died: 9-1-1965
Danville PA obit:
[1894 – 1957]
1921 license,
recommended by Hagerstown St. Matthews
1923 ordained deacon
1925 ordained elder
Interment: Witmers
Cemetery, Snyder County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 143
1921-27 West Nanticoke
1927-28 Liberty
1928 retired
Note: Frank H. Moyer retired early for health reasons and became an active member at Milton First.
MOYER, IVAN WILLARD SR.
Born: 9-22-1902 Trout Run PA married: Freda Pauline Webster
Died: 12-6-1971
Lakeland FL obit:
[10/19/1904 – 2/19/1973]
1926 license,
recommended by Williamsport First
1928 ordained deacon
1930 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery,
York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 393
1926-28 Salladasburg
1928-31 Montoursville
1931-35 Berwick St. Paul
1935-41 Mechanicsburg
1941-46 Glen Rock
1946-58 York Christ
1958-64 Berwick Bethany
1964-66 Mifflinburg St. Paul’s
1966 retired
Note: Ivan W. Moyer Sr. is the father if Ivan W. Moyer Jr.
MOYER, IVAN WILLARD, JR.
Born: 10-30-1932 married:
Kathleen _____
Died: 2-28-2019 obit:
1952 license, recommended by York Christ
1957 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery,
York PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 346
1954-57 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1954-57 youth pastor, Dayton First
1957-62 Park Forest Village and Lemont
1962-66 Park Forest Village
1966-69 counseling center staff, Ohio State University
1969-70 staff, Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Corrections
1970-95 staff, Delaware County campus of Penn State University
1995 retired
Note: Ivan W. Moyer Jr. is the son of Ivan W. Moyer Sr.
MOYER, JACK DALE
Born: married:
Carol Rudisill (8/20/1960)
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2023, 360
1958 license,
recommended by Lewisburg St. Paul
1964 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1958-59 Castanea-Farrandsville
1959-64 student
1959-60 assistant, Park Presbyterian Church in Newark NY
1960-62 West Walworth, New York Conference
1963-64 Eldorado OH, Miami Conference
1964-66 Port Trevorton
1966-73 chaplain, US Army
1973-73 Enola First
1978-85 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
1985-90 Northumberland Christ
1990-92 Harrisburg Harris Street
1992-95 Altoona Fairview-Grace
1995-97 Altoona Broad Avenue – Fairview-Grace
1997 retired
MOYER, WILLIAM HENRY SR
Born: 11-30-1919 near Shamokin PA married: Betty Jean
Kerstetter
Died: 10-23-2001
Harrisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 172
1949 license, recommended by Shamokin St. John’s
1954 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Indiantown Gap Memorial
Cemetery, Indiantown Gap PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 365
1949-53 Port Carbon Grace
1953-54 Lehighton, Big Creek, Middle Creek
1954-56 Lehighton, Big Creek, Weissport
1956-58 Mount Carmel St. Paul
1958-69 Sunbury Albright
1969-70 Middletown Evangelical
1970 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-76 Middletown Evangelical
1976-81 Harrisburg Mount Calvary
1981-85 York Grace
1985 retired
Note: William Henry Moyer Sr. is the father of William H. Moyer Jr of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.
MUELLER, CHARLES .A.
Born: 8-23-1830 Wutemberg
Germany married:
Louise Goetze
Died: 1-19-1889 obit:
married2: Margaret M. Stier
1876 license, Iowa Conference obit2: [2/13/1830 – 1/8/1918]
1880 ordained elder, Iowa Conference
Interment: Groton Cemetery, Groton SD
Obit: [Dakota Conference 1920, 29]
1877 transfer to Atlantic Conference
1877-78 Harrisburg Salem
1878 transfer to Iowa Conference
1891 transfer to Des Moines Conference
1897 open transfer
Note: This names also appears as CHRISTIAN MUELLER. Mrs. Mueller is a sister to Rev. August Goetze (1853-1945) of the California Conference of the Evangelical Church. It is likely this page is a composite of two different Evangelical preachers: Christian Mueller and Charles A. Mueller.
MUMEY, SOLOMON S.
Born: 5-18-1867 near Mainville PA married: Eva Zehner
Cox
Died: 10-30-1957 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 99
1888 license
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery,
Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 94
1889-91 Muncy Valley
1891-93 Luzerne
1893-95 Danville
1895-98 West Nanticoke
1898-02 Espy
1902-03 West Nanticoke
1903-05 Mifflin
1905-09 Hughesville
1909-10 Williamsport St. Paul
1910 transfer
to Oregon Conference
1910-12 Portland
1912-16 superintendent, Salem District
1916-20 superintendent, Oregon Conference
1920-21 Salem
1921 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1921-24 superintendent,
orphanage at Lewisburg
1914-28 Northumberland
1928-29 Bellefonte
1924-33 Bloomsburg
1933-37 Hummels Wharf
1937-38 Hughesville
1938 retired
MURRAY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN
Born: 1894 Washington County MD married:
Bessie L. Miller
Died: 1968 obit:
[1895 – 1990]
1922 license
Interment: Orchard Ridge Cemetery,
Hancock MD
Obit:
1922-23 Berkeley Springs WV (did not finish the year)
1923 no longer listed
school teacher
pastor in the Church of God denomination
Note: W.F. Murray founded the Orchard Ridge First Church of God in Hancock MD in 1941 and served there at least until 1967.
MUSSELMAN, SAMUEL OLIVER.
Born: 1852 Churchtown, Cumberland County PA married: Carrie Fulton
Died: 1907 obit:
[died in Kansas]
married2: Anna Gensler
1875 license obit2:
Interment: Youngsville Cemetery,
Youngsville PA
Obit:
1875-76 Nittany Valley
1876 transfer to Kansas Conference
1881 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1892 transfer to Pittsburgh
Conference
1895 withdrew
1899 “transfer” to Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, page 29
Note: S.O. Musselman is a brother to Anna A. Musselman Reeser, wife of James C. Reeser. He never served under appointment in the Erie Conference, as he is not listed in that Conference’s complete ministerial list – although he is listed in 1898 as a local preacher living in Youngsville.
MUSSER, JOHN SABASTIAN
Born: 3-29-1808 Centre County PA married: Maria Meese
Died: 1-9-1887 obit:
[2/15/1805 – 12/4/1883]
? license
1837 ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Paradise Cemetery, near
Millheim, Centre County PA
Obit:
1835-36 Schuylkill circuit
1836-38 Lycoming
1838-39 Lykens circuit
1839-40 Columbia
1840-56 located
1856-57 Clinton
1850-60 Middle Creek
1860-61 Lycoming
located
Note: John Sebastian Musser gave the land for the historic
Paradise [a.k.a. Musser’s] Evangelical Association church near Millheim. His mother was the daughter of Lutheran
pastor Ludwig A. Ilgen (1759-1823).
Born: married: Sonie _____
Died: obit:
1964 quarterly conference license
1966 license, recommended by York Trinity
1974 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1964-68 Bryansville
1968-70 York Haven – Pleasant Grove
1970-73 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1973-75 Dellville
1976-83 Felton Bethany
1983-86 Lewistown Trinity
1986-01 general evangelist (ending 12/31/2001)
2001 retired (beginning 12/31/2001)
NESS, CARROLL CLINTON
Born: 6-16-1922 Yoe PA married:
Miriam Louise Irick
Died: 4-13-2008
Inverness FL obit:
[8/21/1924 – 9/12/2000]
1943 license,
recommended by Bethany, Berwick
1945 ordained elder
Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Clermont FL
Obit:
1943-45 Keystone-Perry
1945-47 Bryansville
1947 Penns Creek (ending
9/1947)
1947-90 missionary, Africa
Inland Mission (beginning 9/1947)
1990 retired
Note: Carroll C. Ness is the son of Clinton R. Ness.
NESS, CLINTON RAYMOND
Born: 5-7-1900 Jacobus PA married: Mary May Sheffer
Died: 1-4-1983
Lancaster PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979,247
1919 license,
recommended by Jacobus Christ
1922 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983,405
1920-21 Charlton, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1921-28 Yoe
1928-35 York Bethany
1935-43 Berwick North
1943-51 Wrightsville
1951-58 Milton First
1958-65 York Christ
1965 retired
1965-80 chaplain, York County Home and Hospital (beginning 10/1965)
Note: Clinton R. Ness is the father of Carroll C. Ness.
NEWCOMER, JACOB ELMER
Born: 10-31-1863 Cumberland County PA married: Amanda Emily Whitmer
Died: 6-6-1947 Lewisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 81
1906 license,
recommended by Harrisburg Park Street
1913 ordained deacon
1915 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 99
1906-19 local preacher, East Pennsylvania Conference
1909 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1909-10 local preacher
1910-14 Keystone
1914-18 Hanover circuit
1918-20 Leesburg
1920-28 Liverpool
1928-33 Lewisberry
1933 retired
NEWCOMER, JESSE CARPENTER
Born: 5-5-1909 Williamsport PA married: Anna D. Winklebleck
Died: 9-9-1962 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 1966,146
1944 license, recommended
by Williamsport St. John’s
1947 ordained elder
Interment: Buchanan Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 101
1944-47 Montoursville
1947-51 Selinsgrove
1951-52 without assignment
1952-53 Nescopek
1953-58 Wrightsville
1958-62 Mechanicsburg
1962 Williamsport circuit
NEUHAUSER, JOHN H.
Born: 7-22-1876 PA married:
Grace Ordner
Died: 2-28-1919
Lancaster County PA obit:
[1887-1971]
1897 license
1904 ordained elder, East Ohio Synod of
the Lutheran Church
Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland OH
Obit:
“transfer” to the Lutheran Church
1904 student, Theological Seminary in Springfield OH
1905 North Georgetown OH
1906 Breklum Germany (student? exchange pastor?)
1906-08 Cleveland OH Bethany
1908-? Indianapolis IN Second
? -11 Auburn IN
1911-16 Shelby OH
1916 retired for health reasons
Note: This surname is also rendered NEWHAUSER. John H. Neuhauser of Watsontown PA entered Susquehanna University (a Lutheran institution) in the fall of 1898 as a sophomore. One likely scenario is that he became Lutheran while in college. In 1912 he was granted a US patent (#1,037,296) for a “clipping file.”
NIEBEL, BENJAMIN HENRY
Born: 8-10-1854 Pittsburgh PA married: Lorena Keller
Died: 4-8-1933
Steelton PA obit:
Iowa Conference 1937, 43
1881 license, Ohio Conference
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 426
Iowa Conference, including two terms as superintendent
(see obituary for his numerous denominational positions)
1922-26 executive secretary, Evangelical Mission Society
retired to active membership at Steelton Grace
Note: Benjamin H. Niebel is the son of Rev. Abraham Niebel (1817-1901) of the Des Moines Conference and the father of Benjamin E. Niebel and of Amah Niebel McClelland, wife of Emmett R. McClelland (1883-1975) of the Iowa Conference. While living in Penbrook (some time before 1922), B.H. was serving as president of the Minister’s Benefit Society of the Des Moines Conference of the United Evangelical Church.
NIEBEL, BENJAMIN EARL
Born: 11-6-1886 IA married:
Alice Eva Haney
Died: 3-5-1937
Abington PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 389
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 82
1912-27 medical missionary to Hunan, China
1927 retired to practice medicine in New Cumberland PA
Note: Benjamin E. Niebel is the son of Benjamin Henry
Niebel. Mrs. Niebel is a daughter of
Rev. Conrad Haney, a third-generation Methodist preacher who left the
denomination. Thrice-widowed,
following the death of B.E. Niebel she married (1946) Mr. Gus Steinmetz and
(1959) Rev. Normal Hummel of this conference.
NIEBEL, HENRY
Born: 3-16-1784 Union County PA married: Maria Eyer
Died: 5-2-1877 Wyandot
County OH obit:
[5/11/1787 – 4/10/1857]
? license
1813 ordained elder
Interment: Bibler Cemetery, Wyondot
County OH
Obit:
1809-11 Schuylkill
1811-12 Franklin
1812-13 York
1813-14 Franklin
1814-15 Union
1815 superintendent
1833 moved to Ohio
Note: Henry Niebel is the father of Rev. Abraham Niebel
(1817-1901) of the Des Moines Conference, the grandfather of Benjamin H.
Niebel, and the great-grandfather of Benjamin E. Niebel. Mrs. Niebel is a daughter of Abraham Eyer of
the famed Eyer’s barn in Winfield PA where the notable 1816 General Conference
was held – and a sister to Catharine Eyer and Fanny Eyer, consecutive wives of
John Dreisbach.
NOBLE, DAVID A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1920 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: This may be the Rev. David A. Noble of the Presbyterian Church in the Philadelphia area in the 1940’s.
NOECKER, JOHN
Born: 2-18-1814 married:
Priscilla High
Died: 8-3-1887 obit:
[11/22/1818 – 1/30/1894]
1834 license
Interment: Paradise United Brethren Cemetery, Chapman
township, Snyder County PA
Obit:
1834-35 Gettysburg circuit
1835-36 Erie circuit
1836-37 Canton OH
1837-38 Lancaster circuit
1838-39 Indiana circuit
1839-40 Bedford
1840-41 Columbia
no further record
Note: John Noecker is the father of Rev. Milton Monroe Noecker (1860-1930) of the Reformed Church. He emigrated from Germany to Watsontown PA and entered the ministry. About 1840 he married Priscilla High (also from Watsontown), retired from the itinerancy, and settled near Middleburg PA.
NORMAN, F.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1886 license
Interment:
Obit:
NORTHACKER, HOWARD ARLINGTON.
Born: 12-4-1891 Scranton PA married: Gladys V. Townsend
Died: 9-10-1967
Seminole FL obit:
[7/23/1898 – 6/6/1981]
married 2: Dorothea Holz
1907 license obit2:
1915 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1915-16 graduate student, Princeton
Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ
“transfer” to the
Presbyterian Church
1919-60 First Presbyterian Church, Newtown NY
1960 retired
Note:
Dr. Howard A. Northacker is a 1912 graduate of
Albright College. He the author of the
1927 History of the First Presbyterian
Church of Newtown at Elmhurst. It
appears that the first Mrs. Northacker married a William Frederick Cunneen (1899-1976) following a pst-1925
divorce from Howard Northacker.
NYGREN, ELLIS HERBERT
Born: 6-27-1928 Brooklyn NY married: Louise Whitton
Died: 4-18-2020 Wheaton IL obit: [11/9/1923 – 6/1/2016]
1950 license, North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church
1952 ordained
deacon, New York Conference of the Methodist Church
1955 ordained elder, New York
Conference of the Methodist Church
Interment: Wheaton Cemetery, Wheaton IL
Obit:
1952-54 Brooklyn Emmanuel
1954 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of EUB Church, page 74
1954-55 Baltimore Olive Branch
1955 “returned” to New York Conference of the Methodist Church
1955-58 Bridgehampton
1958-60 Shelton
1960-69 faculty, Emory and Henry College, Emory VA
1969-91 faculty, Taylor University, Upland IN
1991 retired
Note: Herbert Nygren was licensed in Indiana while an undergraduate at Taylor University, where he met his wife Louise, in Upland IN. His parents were immigrants from Norway and Sweden, and they met at the Bethelship Norwegian Methodist Church in Brooklyn, where his mother was a founding member.
Born: 4-20-1883 Milton PA married: Valeria Mae Miller
(1903)
Died: 11-28-1944
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 97
1918 license,
recommended by Milton First
1920 ordained deacon
1922 ordained elder
Interment: Milton PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 83
1918-23 Scranton
1923-27 York St. Paul
1927-30 Winfield
1930-36 Middleburg
1936-38 Nescopeck
1938 retired
Note: The first name of Mrs. O’Donnell also appears erroneously as Valiera.
OPLINGER, GORDON
WILLIAM JOHN
Born: 9-3-1908 Palmerton PA married:
Minerva M. Fritzinger
Died: 11-19-1991 St. Marys OH obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 480
1939 license, East Pennsylvania Conference,
recommended by Palmerton Salem
1941 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1944 ordained elder,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Danielsville Union Cemetery, Danielsville PA
Obit: Central
Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 480
1942-44 Tower City and Williamstown
1944-51 Milford
1951-55 Wilkes-Barre Salem
1955-59 Bethlehem St. John’s
1959-64 Allentown Ebenezer
1954-70 Valley View
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference by boundary change
1970-72 Valley View
1972-77 Williamsport Newberry
1977 retired
Note: Gordon W.
Oplinger was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference (EV). He is listed here because he served churches
that are now within our conference.
ORWIG, PHILIP S.
Born: 3-7-1846 married:
Kate Green
Died: 1-7-1890 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 81
1869 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 40
1870-71 Lock Haven circuit
1871-73 Luzerne
1873-75 Wyoming
1875-77 Kingston
1877-78 Danville
1878-81 Shrewsbury
1881-83 Newport and Marysville
1883 retired
Note: Philip S. Orwig is a nephew of William W. Orwig.
ORWIG, WILLIAM [WILHELM] WAGNER
Born: 9-25-1810 near Orwigsburg PA married: Susan H. Rishel
Died: May 29, 1889
Cleveland OH obit:
[12/10/1811 – 2/11/1900]
1828 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland OH
Obit: Erie Conference 1890, 23
1828-29 Center
1829-31 Lebanon
1831-32 York Circuit
1832-33 Schuylkill Circuit
1833-36 superintendent, Zion
District
1836-37 superintendent, Moriah
District
1836-39 editor, Der Chrisliche Botschafter
1839 transfer by boundary change to East Pennsylvania Conference
1839-44 editor,
Der Chrisliche Botschafter
1844-46 York Station
1846-48 Baltimore Station
1848-50 Baltimore mission
1850-56 editor, Der Chrisliche Botschafter
1856-59 principal, Union Seminary
at New Berlin PA
1859-63 bishop
1863-67 editor, Der Chrisliche Borschafter
1867 moved to Cleveland
Ohio, became member of Erie Conference
district superintendent
Note: W.W. Orwig is the father of A.W. Orwig of the Ohio Conference and of three daughters who married Evangelical pastors: Mary Orwig Bowersox (wife of Josiah Bowersox), Elizabeth Orwig Wiest (wife of Samuel L. Wiest), and Susan Orwig Hoffman (wife of Elisha A. Hoffman). William W. Orwig is also an uncle to Philip S. Orwig. Mrs. Orwig is a sister to David Rishel and to Rachel Rishel Kehr (wife of Daniel Kehr) and Sarah Rishel Kreamer (wife of John Kreamer). The mother of W.W. Orwig is Elizabeth Wagoner Orwig, a sister to Hannah Wagoner Hesser (wife of Charles Hesser), and Rebecca Wagoner Hoffman (wife of Francis A. Hoffman). This means that W.W. Orwig is both a first cousin to and the father-in-law of Elisha Hoffman.
OSWALD, CURTIN LINCOLN
Born: 2-8-1864 Harrisburg PA married: Harriet M. Moser
Died: 12-11-1937
Philadelphia PA obit:
[11/8/1868 – 6/25/1937]
1888 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1891 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference (UE)
1893 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania
Conference (UE)
Interment: Christ Church Cemetery, Fountain Springs PA
Obit:
1888-89 ?
1889-91 Locust Dale
1891 identifies with the “minority” faction that became the United Evangelical Church
1891-94 Wilkes-Barre
1894-97 Lancaster Mulberry Street
1897-99 Allentown Bethany
1899-01 Easton Bethany
1901-05 Reading Grace
1905-09 Bangor
1909-12 Millersburg
1912-14 Pottsville (left after starting year 3)
1914 “transfer” to Presbyterian Church, see 1915, page 45
1927-30 Fort Schuyler NY
Note: Curtin L. Oswald is also known to have served Presbyterian churches in Baltimore, Long Island, and Harrisburg. His daughter Ruth married Evangelical layman “Hinkey” Haines of Red Lion PA, the only athlete to play on both an NFL champion (New York Giants) and World Series champion (New York Yankees) team – see the 2008 volume of The Chronicle, pages 79-91.
OTTO, WILLIAM JACKSON
Born: 6-14-1926 Cleveland OH married: Jean E. Ulmer
Died: 2-17-2011 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2015, 272
1953 license,
recommended by Balls Mills, Williamsport Circuit
1959 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 404
1949-51 Marion Friends Church, Marion OR
1953-56 student, Lycoming College
1953-56 Grover and East Point
1956-59 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1956-59 Caesar's
Creek Friends Meeting, New Burlington OH
1959-63 Centre Hall-Spring Mills
1963-67 Winfield and New Berlin
1967-78 Hanover Grace
1978-83 Middletown Wesley
1983-85 Dillsburg Calvary
1985-88 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial
1988 retired to Lebanon, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Morgantown (1 year)
Kauffman’s (3 years)
assistant, Lebanon Good Shepherd (9 years)
Born: 10-15-1836 Baden Germany married: Mary M. Stickel
Died: 5-12-1909 Alpine
PA obit:
[7/8/1840 – 1/25/1924]
1862 license
1864 ordained deacon
Interment: Salem Evangelical Cemetery, Rossville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 66
1862-63 Shrewsbury
1863-64 Liverpool
1864-65 Conewago
1865-66 Harford
1866-78 located
1878 restored, but apparently not appointed
Note: F.C. Pandel came to America in 1854. He took courses at Union Seminary in New Berlin, and served for a few years as their instructor in French. After 1866 he was a farmer in the Rossville PA area, served as a local pastor, and remained active in the affairs of the Conference. A detailed obituary (with picture) appears in The Evangelical for 6/16/1909, pages 380-381. The first name of Mrs. Pandel is also given as Matilda.
PASSMORE, FREDERICK F.
Born: 1838
Bodmin, Cornwall England married:
Mary Ann Harvey
Died: 2-10-1889 obit:
[4/13/1841 – 2/?/1930]
1876 license
Interment: Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield PA
Obit:
1879 withdrew
Note: Frederick F. Passmore was a shoe maker in Arnot and Mansfield PA. At his death he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mansfield.
PAULHAMUS, ALFRED C.
Born: 4-24-1888 Linden PA married: Florence L. Craig
Orwig
Died: 2-8-1970
Williamsport PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 91
married2: Mrs. Caroline J. Durrwatcher Beach
obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 404
1914 license,
recommended by Maple Spring on the Lycoming charge
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment: State Road Cemetery, Lycoming County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 383
1914-16 Dewart
1916-21 West Nanticoke
1921-28 Middleburg
1928-31 Loganton
1931-37 Millheim
1937-41 Bloomsburg
1941-46 Williamsport circuit
1946-48 South Williamsport
Christ
1948 retired
1949 Rebersburg
and Madisonburg
Note: Alfred C. Paulhamus is the father of Lewis O. Paulhamus. The obituary of A.C. Paulhamus states that his first wife was named Florence Orwig, but there is no other confirmation of that surname. Either the obituary is in error, or the first Mrs. Paulhamus (nee Craig) was widow of a Mr. Orwig. The second Mrs. Paulhamus (nee Durrwatcher) was the widow of a Mr. J. Frank Beach.
PAULHAMUS, LEWIS OLIVER
Born: 4-21-1923 Middleburg PA married: Wanda Musser
Died: 7-23-1988
Fountain Hill PA obit:
[2/17/1925 – 7/8/2018]
1948 license
1957 ordained
Interment: Plainfield Cemetery, Pen Argyl PA
Obit:
1945-49 student, Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA
1946-47 Port Trevorton
1949-51 student, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA
1951-53 ?
1953-55 Baltimore St. Matthew
1955-57 Windsor
1957-60 Ringtown
1960 transfer to United Presbyterian Church, page 85
…
1965-85 Pen Argyl Faith
1985 retired
Wind Zion
Note: Lewis O. Paulhamus is the son of Alfred C. Paulhamus. He was a pre-theological student at Susquehanna University.
PEFFLEY, WILLIAM EDWIN
Born: 3-31-1876 Marysville PA married: Joyce Marcella Hoch
Died: 1-6-1947 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1848, 100
1899 license
1904 ordained deacon
1906 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 99
1902-03 Millmont
1903-07 York Zion
1907-11 Juniata
1911-15 Altoona Grace
1915-16 Lewistown Grace
1916-22 assistant editor, Sunday
School literature
1922-46 editor, Sunday School
literature
1946 retired
PERNA, ANTHONY JOHN
Born: 10-10-1920 Centre PA married: Margaret Jean Musser
Died: 4-4-1987 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2011, 404
1948 license, recommended by Philipsburg First, Allegheny Conference
1957 ordained elder
Interment: McClure Union Cemetery, McClure PA
Obit:
1948-52 East Salem
1952 transfer
by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1952-59 East Salem
1959-65 Runville
1965-66 Nescopek
1966-80 McClure
1980-87 disability leave
PETERS, DANIEL GROUP
Born: 7-6-1824 Bendersville
PA married:
Lydia B. Bender
Died: 5-4-1891 Aspers
PA obit:
[4/13/1820 – 11/5/1868]
married2: Amanda E. _____
1874 license obit2:
Interment: Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville PA
Obit:
Note: Daniel G. Peters is the father of John H. Peters. He served as a local preacher. Obituaries are given in The Evangelical for 5/27/1891, page 167, and for 6/3/1891, page 175.
PETERS, GEORGE VICTOR
Born: 2-8-1908 Mt. Pleasant Mills PA married: Mary Helen
Kerstetter
Died: 5-6-1991 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 445
1958 license,
recommended by St Thomas, Mt. Pleasant Mills charge
1971 ordained elder
Interment: St. Thomas Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Mills PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 485
1957-69 Freeburg
1969-76 Union circuit
1976 retired
Note: George V. Peters was a farmer, insurance salesman, and
carpenter before entering the ministry, and he served many years as a lay
speaker.
PETERS, JOHN H.
Born: 8-27-1851 married:
Sarah Ellen Metcalf
Died: 4-12-1909 Bendersville PA obit:
[4/?/1852 – (after 1923)]
license
1876 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder
Interment: Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville PA
Obit:
1876-77 Lycoming
1877-78 Center
1878-81 Danville NY
1881-82 Hughesville
1882-88 located
1888 transfer to Platte
River Conference
1888-91 Kenesaw NE
1891-92 Glenville NE
1892 “transfer” to Presbyterian Church
1892-97 Menardsville TX
1898 retired
Note: John H. Peters is the son of Daniel Group Peters and a third cousin to Philip W. Group. He was living in Bendersville PA at the time of his death.
PETTIT, JOHN THEODORE
Born: 1-1-1874 Nuremburg PA married: Mima Eade Paull
Died: 5-20-1938 Broad
Top PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 81
1898 license
1901 ordained deacon
1903 ordained elder
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 85
1899-01 Mt.
Holly Springs
1901-04 Newport
1904-08 Carlisle
1908-11 Baltimore Memorial
1911-15 York Trinity
1915-20 Red Lion
1920-21 Baltimore Memorial
1921 located
Note: J. Theodore Pettit is a brother to Pearl May Perttit (Mrs. Charles S.) Messner.
PEWTERBAUGH, CHESTER DAVID
Born: 1-25-1874 Wyoming County PA married: Jennie B. Haus
Died: 11-15-1953 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 109
1909 license,
recommended by Pennsdale
1911 ordained deacon
1913 ordained elder
Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 79
1909-13 Liberty
1913-18 Cumberland
1918-24 Marysville
1924-27 Altoona First
1927-32 Nescopeck
1932-40 East Prospect
1940-45 Mifflinburg
1945 retired
PFEIFER, JOHN GEORGE
Born: 2-18-1820 married:
Susannah Mitchell
Died: 9-1-1891 near
Bloomington MO obit:
[10/2/1826 – 4/19/1906]
1851 license
1853 ordained deacon, Pittsburgh
Conference
? ordained elder
Interment: Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington MO
Obit:
1851-52 Indiana
circuit
1852 charter member of
Pittsburgh Conference
? ?
1859-61 Jefferson circuit
? ?
1866 transfer to Kansas Conference
1866-68 Macon
1868-69 Grand River
1869-73 superintendent, Missouri District
1873-75 superintendent, Kansas District
1875-77 superintendent, Holton District [re-naming of Kansas District]
1877-81 superintendent, Missouri District
1881-84 Nemaha
1884-86 Platte River and Denver
1886 retired
Note: John George Pfeifer was present as a visitor at the organization of the Kansas Conference in 1865. He transferred the following year and became one of the key figures in the development of that Conference. There is also a JOHN G. PFEIFFER (1820-1887) who was licensed by the Pittsburgh Conference in 1858.
PHILIPBAR, CHARLES
Born: 7-4-1853 Philadelphia PA married: Dorothea Scharr
Died: 11-7-1932 Queens
NY obit:
Atlantic Conference 1933, 30
1877 license, Atlantic Conference
1879 ordained deacon, Atlantic Conference
1881 ordained elder, Atlantic Conference
Interment: The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
Obit: Atlantic Conference 1933, 30
1877-79 Camden NJ circuit (with Bridesburg and Glassboro)
1879-80 York
1880-81 Jersey City [Greenville] NJ
1881-83 New Yoek City 24th Street
1883-86 Washington DC
1886-88 Camden NJ
1888-90 Brooklyn NY Harrison Avenue
1890-93 Baltimore Greene Street
1893-97 Philadelphia Sixth & Dauphin Streets
1897-00 New York City 77th Street
1900-04 Brooklyn NY Harrison Avenue
1904-06 New York City 55th Street (with Bronx)
1906-11 Brooklyn NY Flushing [Melrose]
1911-15 Brooklyn NY Harrison Avenue
1915-23 Brooklyn NY Linden Street
1923- Brooklyn NY Cyprus Hills
PINES, ISAIAH MILLER
Born: 11-18-1837 near Liverpool PA married:
Died: 12-3-1922
Lewisburg PA obit:
[d. 1866]
married2: Mrs. Sophia Emma Moore Miller
1861 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 76
1864 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 79
1861-62 Gettysburg
1862-63 Montour
1863-65 Luzerne
1865-67 Cherry
1867-68 Wyoming
1868-69 Milton
1869-72 Lewisburg
1872-75 Williamsport Bennett
Street
1875-76 Carlisle
1876-79 Perry
1879-81 Union circuit
1881-84 Columbia
1884-87 Buffalo
1887-91 superintendent, Center
District
1891-92 Buffalo
1892-94 Washingtonville
1894-95 located
1895-96 Nittany Valley
1896-06 located
1906-08 Hanover circuit
1908-09 Cumberland
1909-10 Milton circuit
1910 retired
PLANNETT, JOHN WILLIAM
Born: 3-10-1824 Baltimore MD married: Matilda _____
Died: 4-2-1916 Crawford County PA obit: [6/27/1824 – 8/27/1898]
married2: Margaret Erwin [1900]
1845 license obit2:
[11/20/1824 – 1/13/1906]
married3:
Adelia Naramore [10/24/1906]
Interment: Linesville Cemetery, Linesville PA obit3: [8/23/1832 – 9/3/1916]
Obit:
1845-46 Virginia
circuit
1846-47 Indiana circuit
Note: The first Mrs. Plannett is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia MO. There is a tombstone there with William Plannett’s name and birth date, but no death date – suggesting the stone was prepared when Mrs. Plannett died and then William later moved away and was buried at a different location. The second Mrs. Plannett (nee Erwin) was the widow of a Mr. Robert P. Miller (1815-1899). The third Mrs. Plannett (nee Naramore) was the widow of a Mr. Seth Gilliland (1817-1879).
PLATTENBERGER, THEODORE ALEXANDER
Born: 8-6-1817 Northampton County PA married: Hannah C. _____ (c.
1860)
Died: 4-7-1884
Philadelphia PA obit:
[Atlantic Conference 1906, 20]
1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia PA
Obit: [Atlantic Conference 1912, 27]
1865-67 Hazelton Salem
1876 charter member of Atlantic Conference
1876-77 New Jersey circuit: Newark – Union Hill – West New York
1877-78 Newark NJ
1878-80 Harrisburg Salem
1880-82 Union Hill NJ
1882-83 Philadelphia mission [Germantown Avenue]
1883 retired
Note: This man is also known as ALEXANDER THEODORUS PLATTENBERGER. He was Christened 8/31/1917 in the Schoeneck Moravian Church. The birthdate for Mrs. Plattenberger is July 1828. They had no children.
POLING, WILLIAM BERRY
Born: 8-12-1820 Hampshire County VA [WV] married: Martha Shingleton
Died: 1-21-1902 Dayton
OH obit:
[9/28/1823 – 12/12/1902]
1849 license
1853 ordained deacon, Pittsburgh
Conference
1857 ordained elder, Pittsburgh
Conference
Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH
Obit:
1851-52 Morgan
Circuit
1852 charter member of
Pittsburgh Conference
1855-56 Palo Alto (appointed, but did not accept the appointment)
1856-57 Wellersburg Mount Harmony
1857-59 located
1859-61 Wellersburg Mount Harmony
moved to Wisconsin and united with the English Methodists
PORTZLINE, CARL E.
Born: 6-4-1902 near Thompsontown
PA married: Sarah
Elizabeth J. McNaight
Died: 10-4-1928 Locust
Run PA obit:
[4/14/1903 – 7/?/1980]
1923 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Locust Run Cemetery, Locust Run PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 85
1926-27 East
Point
1927-28 located
PRICE, ARTHUR CHARLES
Born: 8-28-1879 Wapwallopen
PA married: Mary
J. Brookens
Died: 2-26-1914 South
Williamsport PA obit:
[1882-1960]
1900 license
1903 ordained deacon
1906 ordained elder
Interment: East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 67
1901-05 Williamsport
Grace
1905-06 Dorsey
1906-07 Penns Creek
1907-08 New Berlin
1908-13 Middleburg
1913-14 Burnham
Note: Arthur C. Price is the son of James M. Price. The name and dates of Mrs. Price have not been verified.
PRICE, H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1880 license
Interment:
Obit:
PRICE, HENRY REAM
Born: 1-2-1825 Centre County PA married: Matilda
Wise
Died: 1-9-1898 Oregon
MO obit:
[4/16/1825 – 4/11/1905]
1852 license
1854 ordained deacon
1856 ordained elder
Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Oregon MO
Obit:
1852-53 Lycoming
1853-54 Shrewsbury
1854-55 Baltimore circuit
1855-56 Shrewsbury
1856-57 Lock Haven circuit
1857-58 Clinton
1858-59 Blockhouse
1859-60 Lycoming
1860-62 Williamsport
1862-64 York circuit
1864-66 Cumberland
1866-67 Boalsburg
moved west
1870 moved to Vanwert OH
1882 moved to Holt County MO, to a farm 6 miles northeast of Oregon MO
1884 moved into Oregon MO
PRICE, JAMES MONROE
Born: 2-4-1833 Bloomsburg PA married: Ellen M. Prentiss
Died: 6-8-1916 Mexico
PA obit:
[2/10/1836 – 11/1/1901]
1867 license
1869 ordained deacon
1871 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 70
1867-69 Columbia
1869-70 Wyoming
1870-73 Bendersville
1873-75 Liverpool
1875-77 Center
1877-79 McClure
1879-81 Luzerne
1881-83 Liberty
1883-86 Wayland
1886-88 Jersey Shore
1888-91 White Deer
1891-94 Red Lion
1894-96 Craleyville
1896-99 Grover
1899-02 Millmont
1902-06 Nittany Valley
1906-10 Bloserville
1910-14 Mexico
1914 retired
Note: James M. Price is the father of Arthur C. Price.
PRICE, JOHN MYER
Born: 7-1-1867 Sugar Valley PA married: Annie Irene Mark
Died: 6-12-1949
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 100
1898 license,
recommended by Loganton
1903 ordained deacon
1904 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 94
1898-99 Penns
Creek
1899-00 student
1900-02 Mexico
1902-05 Hanover Circuit
1905-06 Wellsville
1906-09 Leesburg
1909-10 Unityville
1910-12 Buffalo Valley
1912-16 Spring Mills
1916-18 Espy
1918-19 Penns Creek
1919-24 McClure
1924-25 Warrensville
1925-28 Hellam
1928 Mt. Holly Springs
(ending 9/28)
1928-31 caretaker, Central Oak
Heights (beginning 9/28)
1931 retired
Note: The mother of John Myer Price [nee Mary Myer] was the widow of George Weirick when she married Mr. Price.
PROBST, JACOB THOMAS
Born: 1-11-1815 Kandel Germany married: Mary Magdalene Rundio
Died: 3-2-1897
Williamsport PA obit:
[8/5/1817 – 11/1/1886]
? license
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
1838-39 Dunnstown
1840-41 Center
circuit
located
Note: Jacob T. Probst owned a dairy farm just north of Williamsport. While he was known as “Rev. Jacob Probst,” the extent of his ministerial involvement is unclear. According to a statement in Yeakel’s 1894 History of the Evangelical Association, page 247, he came to America from Germany min September 1833.
PURKISS, HENRY T.
Born: 1860
England married:
Died: obit:
[1856 - ]
Interment:
Obit:
1903 came to America
Baptist Union (see 1905,38)
1905 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1905-06 Susquehanna
1906-07 West Clifford
1907-08 Luzerne
1908-09 English Baptist Church, Plymouth PA (beginning 5/1908 and ending 9/1909)
“transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1910-12 Lakeville
Note: In the United
Evangelical Church, H.T. Purkiss was received as a local deacon and is always
listed at serving under the presiding elder.
He is sometimes listed as H.L. Purkiss.
After serving successfully for 3 years, he is no longer listed in any
context in the United Evangelical Journals (although in 1908,76 he is listed as
being on the Memorials committee).
In the Wyoming Conference, H.T.
Purkiss is listed as a Baptist who served as a supply pastor. In January 1912 (see the Honesdale Citizen 1/31/1912, page 4) he created a
moderate scandal apparently claiming his steamship ticket to return from
Ireland had been stolen when no ticket had been purchased – and the Lakeville
congregation said they would send him no money.
He appears to have managed to return to finish the year – as he signed
the year-end reports, and no mention of the incident is made in the 1912
journal – but he was not given an appointment in 1912 and nothing more is known
about him.
The following news item appears in the
3/20/1912 New York Times: “Missing
English Clergyman Found. London, March
19 – The Rev. H.T. Purkiss of Worthing, who had been missing for some time, has
been found in the East End of London studying the condition of the poor. He says he lost his memory for a week after
leaving Worthing.”
Born: 10-12-1872 Perry County PA married: Minerva Pearl Stambaugh
Died: 3-6-1950 Newport
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 81
1900 license,
recommended by Pleasant Point on the Perry circuit
1902 ordained deacon
1904 ordained elder
Interment: New Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 95
1899-00 Perry
circuit
1900-02 Hagerstown
1902-04 Hagerstown & Cherry
Run mission [Cearfoss charge]
1904-05 Newport
1905-08 Hellam
1908-09 Mt. Holly Springs
1909-13 Baltimore Grace
1913-18 Williamsport First
1918-23 Berwick Bower
Memorial
1923-25 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1925-30 York Bethlehem
1930 Winfield (ending 6/30)
1930 retired (beginning 6/30)
Note: Charles I. Raffensperger is the father of Clifford I. Raffensperger and John G. Raffensperger.
RAFFENSPERGER, CLIFFORD IRVIN
Born: 1917 married:
Died: 1993 obit:
? license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Clifford I. Raffensperger is the son of Charles I. Raffensperger and brother of John G. Raffensperger. He was an elementary school principal at Newport PA and served as Sunday School superintendent at the Newport Evangelical Church.
RAFFENSPERGER, JOHN GORDON
Born: 2-5-1900 Elliottsburg
PA married:
Helen May Fahs [6/19/1930]
Died: 7-21-1953
Towanda PA obit:
[5/19/1910 – 4/30/1995]
1920 license
Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Towanda PA
Obit:
Note: John G. Raffensperger is the son of Charles I.
Raffensperger and brother of Clifford I. Raffensperger.
RAIDABAUGH, PETER WALTER
Born: 3-9-1849 Lewisburg PA married: Sarah W. Walter
Died: 8-1-1920 obit:
[1852 – 5/17/1920]
1869 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment: Maple Hill Cemetery, Plainfield IN
Obit:
1869-70 Block
House
1870-71 Columbia
1871-72 Buffalo
1872-75 Glen Rock
1875-76 White Deer
1876-77 Danville
1877-78 North Danville
1878-79 Danville
1879-80 located
1880-83 York King Street
1883 superintendent,
Lewisburg District (resigned)
1883-87 editor, The Living
Epistle and English Sunday School literature [Cleveland OH]
1887-88 assistant editor, English Sunday School literature
1888 transfer to Ohio Conference
1888-89 located
1889-91 pastor, Friends Church in Cleveland OH
1891 withdrew to join the Friends [Quaker] Church
1891-03 editor of various denomination publications
1903-13 editor of various denomination publications and pastor, Friends Church in Bridgeport IN
Note: P.W. Raidabaugh left the Evangelical denomination because of the denominational split. He continued as a pastor and editor of denominational material for the Friends Church. The 1914 History of Hendricks County, pages 688-691, gives a biographical sketch and picture of Rev. and Mrs. Peter W. Raidabaugh. He is the author of Fighting Giants, The Pilgrims and other Sunday School library books.
RAKER, WILLIAM LARUE
Born: married:
Marilyn Joyce Dykstra
Died: obit:
Baltimore-Washington Conf 2019, 597
1956 license,
recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1960 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1957 Warrensville
1958 Penn's Creek
1960-62 Columbia circuit
1962-65 Bellefonte Grace
1965-70 Baltimore Olive Branch (did not finish last year)
1970 Rodgers Forge (started before conference)
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-76 Rodgers Forge
1976-85 Fallston
1985-92 Oxon Hill
1992-00 Baltimore Arnolia
2000 retired
Note: William L. Raker is the author of the Evangelical
portion of the 1968 Miller-Raker Histories
of the Pennsylvania and Central Pennsylvania Conferences.
RANK, JACOB G.
Born: 3-17-1816 married: Sarah Matters
Died: 7-12-1905 obit: [8/?/1818 – 1/28/1902]
1837 license
1840 ordained deacon
1842 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown IA
Obit: Des Moines Conference 1906, 35 & 58
1838-39 Crawford
1839-40 Somerset
1840-41 Indiana
1841-42 Bedford
1842-44 Warren
1844-46 Clarion
1846-47 Indiana circuit
1847-49 Somerset
1849-51 Indiana circuit
1851-52 Bedford
1852 charter member of
Pittsburgh Conference
1852-53 Clearfield County
1853-57 superintendent, Allegheny District
1857-58 Harmony circuit
1858-60
1860-64 Harmony circuit
transfer to Des Moines Conference
Note: Jacob Rank is the grandson of Jacob Albright, founder of the Evangelical Church. His mother Sallie Albright Rank (Mrs. Noah) was the only daughter of Jacob and Catherine Cope Albright.
REAM, HENRY H.
Born: 1840 married:
Caroline Elizabeth Jones
Died: 10-?-1924 obit:
[10/12/1842 – 8/30/1895]
married2: Nellie L. Butler [1/13/1897]
1863 license obit2:
[3/31/1866 – 8/?/1935]
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment: Borden – Elk Creek Cemetery, Woodhull NY
Obit:
1867-68 Liverpool
1868-69 Middle Creek
1869-71 York circuit
1871-73 Hagerstown circuit
1873-74 Dushore
1874-76 Wilmot
1876 located
withdrew from the
Church
Note: Henry H. Ream appears to have located to care for his first wife, who became an invalid in 1876 and survived until 1895. After the death of his first wife, he appears to have served Baptist churches in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York.
REARICK, ADAM
Born: 9-6-1835 Darmstadt Germany married: Julia Ann
Gross
Died: 9-5-1905 Warren
PA obit:
[1/9/1836 – 4/11/1924]
1859 license
1861 ordained deacon
1863 ordained elder
Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Warren PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1906, 33
1860-61 Lycoming
1861-63 Cherry
1863-65 Blockhouse
1865-66 Shrewsbury
1866-68 Baltimore McEldery Street
1868-69 York Queen Street
1869-70 Washington DC.
1870-71 Baltimore McEldery Street
1871-73 Union circuit
1873-76 Jersey Shore
1876 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference
1876-78 ?
1878-79 located
1879 removed
from the ministry
1888 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1888-90 Brush Valley
1890-92 East Liberty
1892 located
transfer by denominational split to the East PA Conf. of the Evangelical Association
1895-96 Williamsport Market Street and superintendent, Central District
1896-97 Williamsport Market Street
1897-00 Philadelphia Germantown
1900-01 Germantown and Hatfield
1901-03 Easton
1903 retired, living in Warren PA
REARICK, SAMUEL
[see YEARICK, SAMUEL]
REDEKER, CHARLES EDWARD
Born: 2-21-1871 Philadelphia PA married: Bessie Robina “Ena” Gates
Died: 7-14-1955 obit:
[5/1/1889 – 3/26/1976]
1896 license
1900 ordained deacon
1902 ordained elder
Interment: Victoria Memorial Gardens, Oldcastle [Essex
County, Ontario] Canada
Obit:
1898-99 Milton
circuit
1899-00 Baltimore
1900-03 Hebbville
1903-04 Morgan circuit
1904 credentials granted
(see 1904,57)
1911 moved to Vancouver BC
moved to Detroit MI
Note: Charles E. Redeker was the organizer and first national president of the BPOE in Canada and is the author of the 1937 Early History of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland.
REED, ISAAC YOUNG
Born: 1838
NY married:
Emma Heller Clark
Died: 1-15-1897
Cumberland County PA obit:
[4/?/1852 – 12/?/1934]
1862 license
1864 ordained deacon
1866 ordained elder
Interment: Jacksonville Evangelical Cemetery, Walnut Bottom
PA
Obit:
1863-64 Perry
1864-66 Gettysburg
1866-68 Big Spring
1868-70 Cumberland
1870 located
withdrew from the
Church
Note: Isaac Y. Reed became a homeopathic physician and practiced in Chambersburg from about 1872 to about 1876. He reportedly practiced in Carlisle before that and in Leesburg, where he is said to have died, after that. Some sources give the name of Mrs. Reed as Emma Clark Heller; her tombstone reads “Emner C. Reed”
REED, JAMES P.
Born: 11-14-1916 Milroy PA married: Mary E. Heyler
[6/1/1947]
Died: 6-8-2014
Watsontown PA obit:
[1922 – 12/22/2013]
1937 license
? ordained deacon
1943 ordained elder
Interment: Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Liberty PA
Obit:
1937-39 student,
Albright College
1939-43 Mount Rock
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-49 Liberty
1949-52 State College St. John’s
1952-54 without assignment, living in State College
1954-56 Union circuit (ending Dec 1956)
1956-59 without appointment, living in State College (beginning Dec 1956)
1959 located, page 101
1960 “transfer” to United Church of Christ
1960-78 Turbotville Trinity
1978 retired
Note: James P. Reed was circulation manager for the Centre Daily Times 1956-60.
REEN, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Born: 6-23-1836 near Liverpool PA married: Deborah Jane
Wright [12/25/1866]
Died: 6-16-1893
Isabella County MI obit:
[3/28/1849 – 4/25/1940]
1875 license
1881 ordained deacon
Interment: West Hesperia Cemetery, Hesperia MI
Obit:
Note: C.C. Reen never received an appointment, and he moved
to Michigan in 1883. He appears to have
served as a local preacher in both Pennsylvania and Michigan. The grave marker for Mrs. Reen names her a Jennie D. Reen.
REESER, ADAM L.
Born: 9-15-1831 near Dushore
PA married:
Anna Mary Seitz
Died: 2-23-1906
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 13
married2: Elizabeth Miller
1853 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 86
1855 ordained deacon
1857 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 70
1853-54 Columbia
1854-55 Shrewsbury
1855-56 Luzerne
1856-57 Union
1857-59 Cumberland
1859-60 Perry
1860-62 York Queen Street
1862-64 Union
1864-69 located
1869-70 Conewago
1870-71 Lock Haven circuit
1871-72 Jersey Shore
1872-75 suprintendent,
Carlisle District
1875-78 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1878-83 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1883 located
Note: Adam L. Reeser is the brother of William Reeser and is the father of James C. Reeser. An obituary for A.L. Reeser appears in the March 7, 1906, issue of The Evangelical, page 157.
REESER, GEORGE LEROY
Born: 3-8-1893 Warrensville PA married: Alda Ada Simmons
Died: 3-6-1963 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 271
1913 license,
recommended by Mt Zion on the Warrensville charge
1915 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment: Riverview Cemetery, East Prospect PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 103
1913-15 Unityville
1915-18 Columbia circuit
1918-21 Hanover circuit
1921-27 Yorkana
1927-30 Hebbville
1930-40 Mifflinburg
1940-52 East Prospect
1952 retired
REESER, JAMES CLINTON
Born: 7-16-1856 New Berlin PA married: Anna A. Musselman
Died: 6-11-1930
Mechanicsburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 85
1877 license,
recommended by Lewisburg
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment: Churchtown, Cumberland County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 74
1877-78 Cumberland
1878-79 Nittany Valley
1879-81 Newberry
1881-84 Williamsport Bennett
Street
1884-87 Hagerstown
1887-89 Newport and Patterson
1889-91 Big Spring
1891-94 Carlisle
1894-95 Hagerstown
1895-99 Berwick
1899-03 York Trinity
1903-07 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1907-11 superintendent, Center
District
1911-15 Lewistown Grace
1915-19 Berwick North
1919-20 York St. Paul
1920-22 Hanover
1922-27 Burnham
1927 retired
James C. Reeser is the son of A.L. Reeser and a nephew of William Reeser.
REESER, WILLIAM JOHN
Born: 11-8-1816 Union County PA married: Sarah [Sallie] G.
Martin
Died: 8-30-1906 obit:
[9/16/1819 – 7/18/1891]
1844 license
1847 ordained deacon
Interment: Colley Cemetery, Sullivan County PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1907, 42
1844-45 Lycoming
1845-46 Buffalo
1846-47 Perry
1847-64 located
1864-65 Harford
1865-67 Conewago
1867-68 Hagerstown circuit
1868 located
withdrew
Note: Williams Reeser is the brother of Adam L. Reeser and an uncle to James C. Reeser. Following the 1894 denominational split, William Reeser identified with the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association. He located to settle on his father’s farm in Sullivan County. Later he moved to Colley and lived, at the age of 86 years, with his daughter, Mrs. Winfield Potter of Lopez.
REICHARD, LEMUEL S.
Born: 7-13-1865 York County PA married: Florence Lavinia Hayward
Died: 2-13-1938
Baltimore MD obit:
[1876 – 11/9/1953]
1888 license,
recommended by Trinity Church on the Chanceford circuit
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
1890-93 Wrightsville
1893-97 Baltimore Olive Branch
1897-01 Baltimore Grace
1901-05 Glen Rock
1905-06 Lewisburg
1906 “transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
Note: Lemuel S. Reichard appears to have relocated to California. Mrs. Hayward was born in MD about 1875.
REICHLEY, OTTO W.
Born: c1875 married:
Laura C. Napp (9/28/1897)
Died: obit:
1897 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: O.W. Reichley is from Kratzerville,
Snyder County PA. He graduated from
Bucknell University in 1901 and was a teacher/principal at North York and York
high schools in PA and Ocean City high school in NJ.
REITER, EDWARD NATHANIEL
Born: 1-7-1924 Karthaus PA married:
Grace Hope Patterson
Died: 8-29-2001 Sidman
PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2015, 273
1953 license, recommended by Pottersdale Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
1956 ordained, Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
Interment: Richland Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 370
1953-56 student, Houghton College in Houghton NY
1953-56 Riceville CMA, West Valley NY
1956-58 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY
1958-60 Paramus Community Church, Paramus NJ
1960-61 faculty, Christian School in Fall River MA
1961 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1961-68 Paxtonville
1968-87 Milton St. Andrews
1987 retired
1987-94 Hendrickson-Mooresburg
REITMIRE, W.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
Interment:
Obit:
1873 Jersey
Shore
located
Note: This surname is also given as REITMEYER.
REMALY, FRANCIS EMERSON
Born: 6-25-1890 married:
Mary Erma Bieber
Died: 7-22-1997 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 392
1916 license,
recommended by Mazeppa
1918 ordained deacon
1920 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 423]
1916-18 Wapwallopen
1918-22 Lopez
1922-26 Baltimore Grace
1926-33 Berwick Memorial
1933-43 Carlisle
1943-51 superintendent, York
District
1951-58 York St. Paul's
1958 retired
1959-75 associate, Carlisle First
REMER, SIMON PETER
Born: 5-24-1847 near Lewisburg PA married: Martha Alice
Flick
Died: 9-14-1924 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 70
married2: Carrie McCreary
1868 license obit2:
[2/15/1875 – 10/6/1956]
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 77
1868-69 Hughesville
1869-71 Orangeville
1871-72 Glen Rock
1872-74 Leesburg
1874-77 Columbia
1877-79 Dushore
1879-81 Milton
1881-82 located
1882-85 Bloomsburg
1885-86 White Deer
1886-88 located
1888-90 Lewistown
1890-93 Newport and Marysville
1893-94 Baltimore Memorial
1894-98 Alberton
1898-99 Williamsport St.
Paul
1899-02 superintendent, Center
District
1902-06 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1906-07 superintendent, Center
District
1907-09 Lemoyne
1909-11 Hanover
1911-15 Red Lion
1915-20 Juniata
1920-23 retired
REYNOLDS, JESSE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1879 license
Interment:
Obit:
RHOADS, HAROLD MOYER JR
Born: 1-14-1906 Pottstown PA married: Frances Ellis
Died: 10-30-1978
Zanesville OH obit:
[3/3/1909 – 7/12/2001]
1931 license,
recommended by Willow Grove, Christian & Missionary Alliance
1933 ordained elder, Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church
Interment: Morningside Cemetery, DuBois PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 334
1937-58 National Evangelist Youth & Children
1958 “transfer”
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1958-63 Beavertown
1963-66 Rebersburg
1966-68 Nescopeck
1968 retired
Note: Harold M. Rhoads is a brother to the wives of two
ministers in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church: sister Alice is
married to Rev. James L. Stahl (1911-1996), and sister Ruth is married to Rev
Neil E. Fye (1915-2003).
RHOADS, WILLIAM WESLEY
Born: 9-17-1842 Chester County PA married: Sarah Derr
Died: 3-31-1914 Sayre
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 58
1863 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 50
1870-71 Lycoming
1871-73 Hughesville
1873-75 Luzerne
1875-78 Wyoming
1878-81 Columbia
1881-84 Shrewsbury
1884-87 Milmont
1887-89 Perry
1889-92 Leesburg
1892-94 Hebbville
1894-97 New Berlin
1897-01 Center Hall
1901-02 Grover
1902-04 Dillsburg
1904-07 Mexico
1907-11 Howard
1911-12 West Nanticoke
1912-14 Lopez
Note: W.W. Rhoads is the author of the gospel song “One Look at the Cross,” #72 in the 1885 Gospel Jewels for Sabbath Schools.
RICKER, JOHN HENRY
Born: 5-1-1876 Berkley County WV married: Minerva Reed
Died: 10-29-1938 near
Norristown PA obit:
[11/19/1881 – 11/7/1953]
1908 license,
recommended by Carlisle First
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Laureldale Cemetery,
Reading PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 85
1908-11 Hanover
circuit
1911-13 Lewisberry
1913-16 New Berlin
1916-17 McClure circuit
1917-20 Williamsport circuit
1920-24 Lock Haven mission
1924-25 Hellam
1925-27 Danville
1927-30 Columbia circuit
1930 located
RICKETS, J.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1903 license
Interment:
Obit:
RIDALL, ARCHIE FREDERICK
Born: 1-4-1894 near Berwick PA married: Hazel Mae Smith
Died: 7-1-1996 obit:
[2/11/1896 – 3/?/1987]
1932 license,
recommended by Nescopeck Free Methodist Church
1946 ordained elder, Free Methodist
Church
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 445
1944-50 Putnam
Valley NY
1950-54 White Haven PA
1954 “transfer”
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1954-61 Leesburg
1961-69 South Williamsport
Christ
1969 retired
1969-1986 Outlet PA, Free Methodist
RIMERT, JOHN MARLYN
Born: married:
Charlotte _____
Died: obit:
1950 license,
recommended by Lewisburg St. Paul's
1955 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1949-50 Lewisburg
Congregational-Christian Church, Lewisburg
1951-54 Union circuit
1954-56 Pennsdale
1956-62 Mount Rock
1962-68 Selinsgrove
1968-74 Berwick St. Paul
1974-84 State College St. John’s
1984-91 Middletown Wesley
1991 retired
1992-93 interim, State College St. Peter’s UCC
1994-96 interim, Bellefonte St. John’s UCC
1996-97 Philipsburg Trinity
1997 Allport Gethsemane
1997-99 interim, Center Hall Trinity UCC
2001-02 State College St. Peter’s UCC
2004-06 State College St. Peter’s UCC
2006 Mt. Nittany (Feb – Jun)
2008 Park Forest Village (4/6/2008 – 7/26/2008)
RISHEL, DAVID
Born: 1817 married:
Catharine Crotzer
Died: 1847 obit:
[7/9/1817 – 1/10/1866]
1842 license
1844 ordained deacon
1846 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1842-43 Columbia
1843-44 Clarion
1844-45 Somerset
1845-47 Union
1847-48 Pittsburg mission
Note: David Rishel is a brother to Rachel Rishel Kehr (wife of Daniel Kehr), to Susan Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and to Sarah Rishel Kreamer (wife of John Kreamer).
RISHEL, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1857 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: George Rishel lived in Bloomsburg, was a local preacher and practiced dentistry. He never served under appointment. He was class leader of the class organized at Port Noble school house in 1867, predecessor to the Bloomsburg class.
RISHEL, PETER HARPINE
Born: 11-19-1836 Columbia County PA married: Abigail A. Heimbach
Died: 1905 Bushton KS obit:
[5/18/1835 – 4/24/1917]
married2: Sarah _____
1863 license obit2:
1865 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment: Bushton-Farmer Township
Cemetery, Bushton KS
Obit:
1863-64 Gettysburg circuit
1864-65 York
circuit
1865-66 Lock Haven circuit
1866-67 Center
1867-69 Blockhouse
1869-71 Columbia
1871-73 York circuit
1873-75 Prospect
1875-77 Lycoming
1877-78 Lock Haven
1878 moved to Rice County,
Kansas
Note: Peter H. Rishel reportedly heard Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg address. After moving to Kansas with his wife and 8 daughters, he appears to have worked only as a farmer. He reportedly later divorced or left Abigail, married a woman named Sarah and moved to Mississippi, where he died.
RITTER, JOSEPH FRANKLIN
Born: 12-19-1915 near New Kingston PA married: Dorothy June Shepler
Died: 4-26-1990 Ocala
FL obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 425
1947 license,
recommended by New Kingstown
1951 ordained elder
Interment: Kutz’s Cemetery, Cumberland County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 464
1947-53 Mount
Rock charge
1953-61 Middleburg
1961-70 Northumberland Trinity
1970-80 Marysville
Bethany
1980 retired
ROGERS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 1-22-1874 Herrick Center PA married: Ella Morris
Died: 2-22-1946 Dushore obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 79
1924 license
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Dushore
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 84
1928-31 Lopez
Note:
ROHLAND, HENRY
Born: 11-15-1817 married:
Leah Wolf
Died: 4-14-1895 obit: [4/21/1818 – 12/23/1909]
1839 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1841 ordained deacon
1843 ordained elder
Interment: Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport IL
Obit:
1839-40 Center
1840-42 Somerset
1842-44 Union
1844-45 Columbia
1845-46 Center
1846-47 Pittsburg mission
1847-48 Union
1848-49 York circuit
1849-50 York Queen Street
went West
Note: This surname is sometimes given as ROLAND. Mrs. Rohland is a sister to Aaron and Simon Wolf, and to Anna Wolf Hess, wife of Benjamin Hess. Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 79, gives a brief account of the Wolf family, as does Beers’ 1910 Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, page 1192-3.
.
ROHRBAUGH, JAMES FRANKLIN
Born: 9-3-1885 Brodbecks PA married: Katie
Ellen Sterner [1913]
Died: 8-20-1956 York
PA obit:
[1892 – 1990]
1910 license
1914 ordained deacon
1916 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 80
1912-16 West Nanticoke
1916-17 Sonestown
1917-22 Craley
1922-29 Felton
1929-33 Ringtown
1933-38 Hellam
1938-41 Leesburg
1941-43 McClure
1943-47 Lewisberry
1947-52 Bryansville
1952 retired
ROMBERGER, ARLAND FRANKLIN
Born: 11-7-1925
Hegins PA married:
Ruth Mary Hain
Died: 4-19-2007
Palmyra PA obit:
[4/5/1938 - ]
1955 license, Pilgrim Holiness Church
1962 ordained,
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Interment: Sweitzers Memorial
Cemetery, Berrysburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 426
1954-58 assistant, Pine Grove PA
1958-59 student pastor, Trenton NJ
1959-64 Watsontown PA
1964 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB denomination
1964-71 Lock Haven circuit
1971-83 Union Deposit
1983-89 Berwick St. Paul’s
1989-93 Mount Pleasant Mills
1993 retired
Covington VA Mt. Carmel
1996-99 Milroy (beginning 3/15/1996, ending 7/31/1999)
1999-01 Clarkstown (beginning 8/1/1999)
Note: Arland F. Romberger is the father of Rev. Duane W. Romberger of the United Church of Christ. Ruth M. Romberger became a licensed local pastor in 1998 and is listed in the Susquehanna Conference pastors data base.
ROSENBERGER, JACOB HENDRICKS
Born: 5-11-1875 Hatfield PA married: Martha Fuss
Died: 2-9-1954 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 106
1909 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference EA, recommended by Hatfield
1911 granted elder status, East
Pennsylvania Conference EA, based on 1907 ordination in the Baptist Chutch
Interment: Good Shepherd Cemetery, Ellicot
City MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 80
1909-13 Sugar
Valley
1913-17 Lehighton
1917-22 Tamaqua
1922-23 Williamsport Market
Street
1923 transfer
by denominational union to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1923-27 Enola
1927-32 New Freedom
1932-44 Alberton
1944 retired
ROSER, M.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1907 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROSS, DANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 13
Note: Daniel Ross was a local pastor on the Wyoming circuit.
ROSS, J.N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROTAN, CHARLES ALBERT
Born: 11-20-1845 Baltimore MD married: Kate Fort White
Died: 5-24-1926
Baltimore MD obit:
[d. 1/12/1906]
married2: Helen E. McClure
? license obit2:
[9/29/1872 – 12/2/1952]
Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
United Brethren Church
1897 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
Note: Charles A. Rotan is listed as local preacher in 1897, page 4.
ROW, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1869 license
Interment:
Obit:
ROWE, LEON ERNEST
Born: married:
Mary Louise Miller [7/17/1958]
Died: obit:
1958 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
Interment:
Obit:
1957-60 Wellsville
1962-63 Enola
1963-66 student, Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
1964-65 Mount Rock
1966 withdrew, page 149
Note: Mrs. Rowe is the daughter of Joseph H. Miller. In 2011 Leon and Mary Louise Rowe were living in Palermo ME. In 2015, they were living in Lewistown PA.
ROYER, JAMES SAYLOR
Born: 1-18-1896 Lancaster County PA married: Helen M. Firing
Died: 12-3-1992 obit:
[ - 8/2/1989]
1915 license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
recommended by Ephrata Hope
1919 ordained, East
Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
Interment: Pleasant View Cemetery, Sinking Spring PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 278
1915-17 Northampton Heights
1917-18 Northampton – Nazareth
1918-21 Wayne circuit
1921-23 Matamoras
1923-48 no appointment for health reasons
1934-35 Wyomissing
1948-53 Voganville
1953-62 Wyomissing
1962 retired
1969-70 Port Carbon Grace
Note: James S. Royer was never a member of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference. He is listed
here because he served congregations that are now
within the bounds of our conference.
RUMBERGER, DANIEL P.
Born: 8-25-1837 Wiconisco PA married: Matilda
Weirick
Died: 3-3-1905 obit:
[1848 – 1/8/1908]
1873 license
? ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder, Michigan
Conference
Interment: Brookside Cemetery, Scottville MI
Obit: Michigan Conference 1905, 37
1871-72 Baltimore
circuit
1872-73 Liberty
1873-74 Center
1874-75 Sugar Valley
1875 transfer to Michigan
Conference
1875-77 Whitehouse
1877-79 Monroe
1879-81 Ludington
1881-82 Riverton
1882-83 Greenbush
1883-84 Eureka
1884-86 Fremont
1886-88 West Unity
1888-90 Whitehouse
1890-91 Riverton
1891-93 Byron
1894-96 Ridgeway
1896-98 Whitehouse
1898 retired
RUMMEL, CHARLES LESLIE
Born: 9-26-1913 near Mount Union PA married: Sarah E. Secrest
Died: 1-26-1988 obit: [9/16/1916 - 5/7/1991]
1942 quarterly conference license
1945 license, Allegheny Conference
1955 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Nebo Cemetery, Shirleysburg PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 374
1943-46 Knoxdale
1947-53 Houserville (in Central Pennsylvania Conference beginning in 1951)
1953-64 Franklin Grace
1964-77 Somerset Grace
1977 retired
1986-87 Spruce Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Charles Rummel continued to serve Houserville following its 1951 transfer into the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference. This surname is also rendered ROMMELL.
RUNNER, MARVIN HARRY
Born: 5-14-1917 Jersey Shore PA married: Kathryn Wanner
Died: 1-10-2004 Boalsburg PA obit: [1919 – 2010]
1939 license
1947 ordained
Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA
Obit:
1941-42 Salladasburg
1942-43 Enola
1943-45 ?
1945-46 Lewistown Trinity
1946-47 student
1947-48 Altoona Grace
1948-51 Daniels MD
1951-55 Williamsport Trinity
1955-57 Houserville
1957-58 (without assignment)
1959 located, page 101
1964-66 Fairbrook, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church
Note: Marvin H. Runner served in the Methodist Church as a local pastor.
RUNYAN, ROBERT WILBUR
Born: 6-10-1850 Watsontown PA married: Frances E. Buttorf
Died: 1-28-1935 Alexandria PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1934, 223
1872 license
1874 ordained deacon
1883 ordained elder
Interment: Gray’s Church Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1935, 239
1872-73 Conewago circuit
1873-74 Cumberland circuit
1874-75 Perry circuit
1875-76 apparently no appointment
1876-77 Millerstown circuit
1877-78 Hughesville
1878-83 located
1883-84 Newport and Marysville
1885-88 Lewistown
1888-90 New Berlin
1890-91 Alberton MD
1891-93 Baltimore MD Memorial
1893 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church
1893-97 Mercersburg
1897-02 Half Moon
1902-04 Woodland-Bradford
1904-06 Morrisdale
1906-09 Muncy
1909-13 Sinnemahoning
1913-16 Harrisburg St. Paul’s
1916-18 Flemington
1818-21 Alexandria
1921 retired
Note: Robert W. Runyan is a brother to Marion J. Runyan (1853-1930) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
RUSS, CHARLES ALBERT
Born: 5-4-1923 Salladasburg PA married: Rosemary Sechrist
Died: 8-10-2007 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 487
married2: Jean Mase
obit2:
1944 license,
recommended by Salladasburg Bethany
1949 ordained elder
Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 425
1945-46 Port
Trevorton
1946-49 Windsor
1949-53 Liberty
1953-62 Williamsport circuit
1962-64 Lewisburg St. Paul’s
1964-73 Lewistown Grace
1973-88 Steelton Centenary
1988 retired
RUTH, ADAM C.
Born: 2-19-1906 Sinking Springs
PA married: Hattie
Cordella Carl
Died: 10-4-1968 New
Cumberland PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 392
1924 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Mohnton Calvary
? ordained deacon
1929 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 208
1924-28 student, Albright College at Reading PA
1928-29 student, Evangelical School of Theology at Reading PA
1929 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1929 Grover (ending 9/29)
1929-34 State
College (beginning 9/29)
1934-39 Hanover Grace
1939-46 York Christ
1946-57 Berwick Bower Memorial
1957-64 York Grace
1964 retired
RYDER, JOHN HARRISON
Born: 4-9-1872 near Sonestown PA married:
Mary Belle Huston
Died: 6-11-1927 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 1964, 83
1898 license
1903 ordained deacon
1905 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 89
1902-05 Dorsey
1905-09 Grover
1909-13 Wayland
1913-16 Glen Rock
1916-22 York Zion
1922-26 Hagerstown
1926 retired
Born: 12-12-1892 Paxtonville
PA married:
Sadie Victoria Huffman
Died: 3-17-1962 Stuart
FL obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 79
married2: Sadie M. Biddle Fisher
1913 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 375
1915 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment: Beavertown Cemetery, Beavertown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 94
1913-18 Leesburg
1918-25 Cumberland
1925-31 York Christ
1931-39 Williamsport St. John
1939-46 superintendent,
Evangelical Homes at Lewisburg PA
1946-50 Winfield
1950-55 Winfield and New Berlin
1955-61 Northumberland
1961 retired
Note: Frank H. Sanders is a brother to Anna Sanders Coleman,
wife of Arthur B. Coleman.
SANNER, WILLIAM MORTIMER
Born: 12-16-1862 Baltimore MD married: Anna Royston
Died: 8-4-1934 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 82
1896 license
1898 ordained deacon
1900 ordained elder
Interment: Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 85
1896-97 Good
Will
1897-98 Altoona
1898-90 Red Lion
1890-93 White Deer
1903-05 Williamsport St. Paul
1905-06 Perry circuit
1906-19 retired
1919-20 Baltimore St. Paul
1920-22 Harford
1922 retired
SCHAEFFER, DANIEL P.
Born: 7-13-1848 Lebanon County PA married: Addie George
Died: 2-22-1912 Idaville PA obit:
[3/21/1854 – 1/12/1945]
1891 license,
recommended by Mt Zion on the Hagerstown circuit
1893 ordained deacon
1895 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Cearfoss MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 66
1891-93 Liverpool
1893-95 Lewisberry
1895-96 Sugar Valley
1896-99 Millmont
1899-02 Wellsville
1902-04 Bloserville
1904-08 Craleyville
1908-10 Bryansville
1910-12 Idaville
Note: This surname is also given as SCHAFFER.
SCHAEFFER, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1837 license
? ordained deacon
1840 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1837-38 Cumberland
1838-39 Gettysburg
1839-40 Lancaster
1840-41 Cumberland
1841-42 Union
1842-44 Columbia
1844-46 York circuit
1846 located
1874 withdrew from the
Church [SCHAFFER]
Note: This surname is given as SHAFER in the pastoral records of the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 56 – and it also appears in the records as SHAFFER.
SCHECHTERLY, JOHN RAYMOND
Born: 11-10-1885 Berwick PA married: Salome Catharine Becker
Died: 4-13-1958
Williamsport PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 83
1908 license,
recommended by Nescopeck
1914 ordained deacon
1919 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Myerstown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 95
1910-11 Berwick West
1911-12 Lopez
1912-16 Sonestown
1916-21 Buffalo Valley
1921-25 Danville
1925-29 Ringtown
1929 State
College (ending 9/29/29)
1929-32 Rebersburg
(beginning 9/29/29)
1932-41 McClure
1941-47 Wellsville
1947-53 Williamsport Grace
1953 retired
SCHENBERGER, ADAM WALTER
Born: 1-31-1836 New Bridgeville PA married: Susan F. Moody
(8/16/1860)
Died: 2-11-1918
Industry KS obit:
[1829 – 3/10/1901]
married2: Elenora Swartz (5/3/1910)
1870 license obit2: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 71]
1872 ordained deacon
1874 ordained elder
Interment: Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs NE
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 74
1870-72 Loganville
1872-74 Jarretsville
1874-77 Milton
1877-78 Columbia circuit and Bloomsburg
1878 transfer to Des Moines Conference
1878-12 [other conferences]
1912 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1912-13 Dallastown
1913 located
Note: Adam W. Schenberger was a
very successful pioneer missionary, pastor and district superintendent in
Kansas and Nebraska. He is the namesake
of Shenberger Chapel in York County, erected on his land in 1865. There was different Adam W. Shenberger, a
businessman of Red Lion, who died about 1900.
This surname is also rendered SHENBERGER. A native of Shrewsbury, Susan F. Moody
Shenberger was the organizer and first president of the Platte River Conference
Branch of the Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society, active in temperance
causes, and the author of published pamphlets and speeches – she died in Kansas
and is buried there. A.W. Schenberger may have returned from the west prior to 1912,
as his 1910 marriage to Elenora Swartz took place in Harrisburg PA. Mrs. S.F. Moody Schenberger
is the author/subject of the 1901 book A Woman’s Legacy to her Friends, of
which the archives has a copy.
SCHLEH, GEORGE HARRY
Born: 2-9-1853 married:
Mary Alice Krause
Died: 4-15-1929 obit:
[3/3/1853 – 3/10/1910]
married2: Alice Susan Baughman Brown
license obit2:
[6/2/1860 – 1/26/1952]
1879 ordained deacon
1881 ordained elder
Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha NE
Obit:
1877-79 Jersey
Shore circuit
1879-82 Dillsburg
1882-85 Prospect
1885-88 Baltimore Trinity
1888 deposed from the
ministry and expelled from the Church, page 7
1890’s living in Nebraska
Note: G. H. Schleh was the pastor of record when the Evangelical churches were erected in East Berlin in 1879 and Bryansville in 1882. He later became a prominent lecturer for the Woodmen of the World lodge and is the author of the 1914 biography of Joseph Cullen Root (1844-1913), founder of the Woodmen of the World. In 1916 Dr. G.H. Schleh was the Congregational minister in Krakow NE. The first Mrs. Schleh (some sources give her birthdate as 3/12/1853) is the daughter of Abraham Krause and the granddaughter of James Barber. She was born in New Berlin, Union County PA, and is buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA. The second Mrs. Schleh was born in Baltimore MD and the marriage appears to have taken place about the time G.H. Schleh left the Conference.
SCHLOSSER, NOAH
Born: 1822 Franklin County PA married:
Katherine Maxwell
Died: 1907 Denver CO obit: [1832 – 1914]
1844 license
1846 deacon
Interment: Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver CO
Obit:
1844-46 Virginia Circuit
1846 located
1848 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
1848-49 Mifflin
1849-50 McConnellsburg
1850-51 Jacksonville
1851-52 Sweet
Springs
1852-53 Baltimore
Canton-Asbury
1853-54 Washington
Ryland
1854-57 St.
Mary’s (did not finish third year)
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 located
1858-60 Green
Village
1860-61 located
1861 retired
1868 charter member
of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1879 located at own
request
became a dentist
1883 moved to Denver
CO
Note: Information on Noah
Schlosser is in the biographical files at the conference archives. Noah is the son of the John Schlosser mention
in Stapleton’s 1896 Evangelical Annals,
page 117.
SCHLOYER, RAY W.
Born: 12-25-1919 Nescopek PA married: Faustina
L. Grasley
Died: 6-26-1990 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 206, 429
1957 license,
recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial
1965 ordained elder
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 488
1956-61 Dushore–Lopez
1961-68 Leesburg
1968-79 Montoursville Bethel
1979-85 Danville Trinity
1985 retired
Columbia circuit
Mt. Zion – Kulp
Light Street
Nescopek and Mt. Zion United Church of Christ
SCHNABEL, GEORGE ERNEST
Born: 12-23-1894 Olean NY married: Marguerite Breyfogel
Died: 9-13-1978
Syracuse NY obit:
Baltimore Conference 1979, 399
1917 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1979, 392
1915-17 West Lawn
1917-26 Syracuse
Immanuel, New York Conference
1926-51 Washington DC Albright
Memorial
1951 transfer to Virginia Conference
1951-67 Arlington St. Mark’s
1967 retired
1970 transfer by boundary change to the Baltimore Conference
Note: Mrs. Schnabel is the daughter of Sylvanus C. Breyfogel (1851-1934), Evangelical Association bishop and author and seminary president at the Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA [now part of United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH]. Her sister Esther Clara Breyfogel married Rev. Dr. Gustav Bernard Kimmel (1874-1939) of the Evangelical Church, president of the denomination’s Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville IL [now part of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston IL].
SCHNEIDER, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1825 license
1829 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1825-26 Lancaster
OH circuit
1826-27 Schuylkill circuit
1827-28 Center circuit
1828-29 Sandusky
1829-30 Lancaster circuit
1830-31 Union circuit
1831-32 Lake NY circuit
1832-33 Shenandoah VA circuit
1833-34 Lycoming circuit
1834-35 Somerset circuit
1835-36 Cumberland circuit
1836 located
Note: His first year in the ministry, George Schneider traveled with Bishop Long in Ohio. That account is given in Yeakel’s 1897 biography Bishop Joseph Long: The Peerless Preacher of the Evangelical Association, beginning on page 38.
SCHREIBER, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1869 license
Interment:
Obit:
SEARLE, HENRY THEOPHILUS
Born: 4-2-1851 Chamberwell
England married:
Clarissa Sybilla Meals
Died: 7-1-1934
Lancaster PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 78
1880 license,
recommended by Williamsport Newberry
1883 ordained deacon
1885 ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 84
1881-82 Jersey
Shore circuit
1882-83 Nittany Valley
1883-85 Bendersville
1885-90 Alberton
1890-92 New Berlin
1892-95 Perry
1895-98 Liverpool
1898-01 Nittany Valley
1901-04 Port Trevorton
1904-07 Sugar Valley
1907-09 Mt. Rock
1909-11 Leesburg
1911-15 Wrightsville
1915-19 Lemoyne
1919 retired
SECHRIST, JAMES R.
Born: 2-29-1852 Chanceford PA married: Della Jane Reichard
Died: 11-27-1930
Howard PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 74
1880 license
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 76
1881-82 East
Prospect (6 months)
1882-83 Cumberland
1883-84 Nittany Valley
1884-86 Jersey Shore
1886-89 Liberty
1889-92 Perry
1892-95 Cumberland
1895-99 Howard
1899-03 Lock Haven circuit
1903-05 Columbia
1905-09 Center Hall
1909-13 Bellwood
1913-17 Dallastown
1917-18 Burnham
1918-22 Mifflin
1922 retired
SEIBERT, JAMES L.W.
Born: 5-2-1826 Woodstock VA married: Barbara Weller
Died: 9-13-1897
Somerset PA obit:
[2/28/1831 – 5/12/1920]
1845 license
1847 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder
Interment: Weller Cemetery, Somerset County PA
Obit:
1845-46 Somerset
1846-48 Bedford
1848-49 Somerset
1849-51 Strasburg [Shrewsbury]
1851-53 Columbia
1853-54 Cumberland
1854-55 editor, Evangelical Messenger
transfer to the Ohio Conference
transfer to Pittsburgh Conference
1857-60 Stahlstown
superintendent, Somerset District
1876-78 Somerset Grace
1893-94 Somerset-Gephart
1894 sided with the United Evangelical faction during the denominational split
Note: James L.W. Seibert is a brother to Samuel W.
Seibert. This surname is also rendered
SEYBERT.
SEIBERT, SAMUEL W.
Born: 4-1-1824 Woodstock VA married: Eleanor K. Neilson
Died: 5-28-1913
Newport PA obit:
[12/20/1826 – 6/16/1905]
1846 license
1854 ordained deacon
1856 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Elliottsburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 67
1845-46 Bedford
1846-47 Columbia
1847-48 Perry
1848-52 located
1852-54 Blockhouse and Cherry
1854-56 Shrewsbury
1856-58 Gettysburg
1858-59 Franklin
1859-61 Gettysburg
1861-64 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1864-65 Buffalo circuit
1865-67 Lock Haven circuit
1867-69 Lock Haven Mission
1869-70 Port Trevorton
1870-72 Perry
1872-73 collector for Carlisle
church
1873-75 Mifflin
1875-76 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1876-77 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1877-79 York District
1879-81 Liverpool
1881-82 located
1882-83 Lewistown and Patterson
1883-84 located
1884-87 superintendent, Lewisburg District
1887-88 Carlisle
1888 located, living in
Newport
Note: Samuel W. Seibert is a brother to James L.W. Seibert. This surname is also rendered SEYBERT.
SEIFERT, ULYSSES GRANT.
Born: 2-2-1866 near Rossville PA married: Emma J.
Ortmeyer
Died: 11-28-1940 obit:
[6/23/1868 – 5/24/1950]
1893 license
1896 ordained deacon
Interment: Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Lewisberry PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 91
Note: U.G. Seifert lived in Rossville and was a member of
the Mt. Airy church. He was an active
local pastor. He is the great nephew of
Lutheran pastor Henry Seifert.
SEITZ, DALE EMERICK
Born: 10-13-1899 married:
Madeline Victoria Martin
Died: 12-29-1987 obit:
[8/14/1900 – 2/27/1993]
1920 license
Interment: Westminster Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA
Obit:
Note: Dale E. Seitz was from Newville, Cumberland County. He later moved to Carlisle, held a position at the Farmer’s Trust Company, and appears to have become an active layman in the Presbyterian Church.
SEITZ, FLAVEL M.
Born: 11-22-1870 Glen Rock PA married: Ella Ehrhart
Died: 11-18-1938 Glen
Rock PA obit:
[11/22/1865 – 12/31/1938]
1896 license
Interment: Glen Rock Union Cemetery, Glen Rock PA
Obit:
1898-99 West York (Eberton) mission
Note: Flavel Seitz was from Immanuel Church in Glen Rock,
where he was an officer in the Enterprise Furniture Company. He served West York as a supply pastor. Some sources give his name as FLABLE SEITZ.
SHAEFFER, J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1870 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
SHAFER, EMANUEL E.
Born: 7-13-1861 Pine Station PA married:
Died: 8-10-1910
Baltimore MD obit:
1891 license
1893 ordained deacon
1895 ordained elder
Interment: Green Burr Cemetery, Clinton County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 48
1891-93 Light
Street
1893-97 Ransom
1897-01 Zion's Grove
1901-03 Columbia circuit
1903-07 North Berwick
1907-10 Baltimore Olive Branch
SHAFER, JOHN RICHARD
Born: 1-16-1927 Hummels Wharf PA married: Doris Jean
Luckenbaugh (6/11/1949)
Died: 1-13-2025 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 483
marrried2: Mrs. Phyllis Jeanne (Haber) Wagner
obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 363
1946 license,
recommended by Williamsport First
1950 ordained elder
Interment: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 349
1947-50 Keystone-Perry
1950-54 Sugar Valley
1954-59 Montoursville
1959-67 Cumberland charge
1967-83 Williamsport St. John’s
1983-92 New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
1992 retired
1992-97 associate, Unityville
1999-01 Trout Run – Rose Valley
2003 Avis (7/1/03 -9/7/03)
2006-07 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (beginning 9/6/06)
2008 Jersey Shore Trinity (8/1/08 – 10/31/08)
2008-09 Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar (beginning 4/1/09)
2009-10 Jersey
Shore Trinity (beginning 11/8/2009)
2011-12 Williamsport
Faxon-Kenmar (beginning 5/1/2012)
Note: John R. Shafer is the father of Eric Shafer in the Susquehanna Conference database.
SHAFFER GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
? ordained deacon
1846 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
SHAMBACH, JOSHUA
Born: 8-1-1850 Middleburg PA married: Sarah Jane Yetter
Died: 10-8-1915 Middleburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 81
1875 license
1878 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder
Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 75
1876-77 Middleburg
1877-79 McClure
1879-82 East Prospect
1882-84 Loganville
1884-86 York Queen Street
1886-89 Spring Mills
1889-92 Lock Haven circuit
1892-94 York Queen Street
1894-95 York
Grace
1895-99 Buffalo
1899-03 Middleburg
1903-07 Bloomsburg
1907-11 Williamsport circuit
1911-15 Espy
1915 retired
SCHANBACHER, CHARLES WESLEY
Born: 12-15-1872 Union County PA married: Esther Merlitta Randall [1897]
Died: 4-28-1915
Newfane NY obit:
[11/16/1868 – 7/21/1948]
1896 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1896 license, Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1898 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Fairmount Cemetery, Forksville
PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference ME
1896-99 Pendleton Center
1899-02 Youngstown and Porter Center
1902-04 North Ridge and Fickersonville
1904-09 Newfane and Olcott
1909-10 Olcott
1910-11 agent, Law and Order Union of Elmire NY
Note: This surname is reported as SHAMBACHER in the Evangelical church records. Mrs. Schanbacher was from Forksville, then within of the Genesee Conference of the M.E. Church. The dynamics of C.W. Schanbacher shifting from the Evangelicals to the Methodists in unknown, but the 4/28/1915 Lockport News reports that “Sometime ago, he retired from the ministry of the church after a difference with the church authorities and church doctrine.”
SHAMBAUGH, WILLIAM IRA
Born: 8-19-1876 Plainfield PA married: Mary Magdalena Mundis
Died: 11-30-1942 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 96
married: Maude L. Leyda
1896 license,
recommended by Bloserville obit2: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 230
1902 ordained deacon
1904 ordained elder
Interment: Upper Frankford Brick Church Cemetery, near Bloserville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 85
1900-03 York
Zion
1903-07 Scranton
1907-08 Milton
1908-27 missionary, China
1927-32 Lemoyne
1932-36 Williamsport St. Paul
1936-41 Milton
1941-42 Wrightsville
Note: William Ira Shambaugh is an uncle to Clara Rebecca Shambaugh Dick, wife of Harry Roy Dick.
SHANK, CHESTER BEAM
Born: 6-4-1887 Shanktown MD married:
Died: 2-1-1976
Randallstown MD obit:
1909 license,
recommended by Hagerstown circuit
1917 ordained deacon
1919 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
-15 student, Albright College
1915-17 Lewistown
Trinity
1917-18 Lopez
1918-19 West Milton
1919-20 Nuremberg
1920-22 Rebersburg
1922-25 located
student, Evangelical Theological Seminary
and Yale University
1925-27 Hancock
1927 located
Note: Chester B. Shank is a brother to Melvin E. Shank. He graduated from Albright College in 1915, from the Evangelical Theological Seminary (Reading PA) in 1924, and attended Yale University in 1925. He retired to Big Pool MD
SHANK, JOHN W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1900 license
Interment:
Obit:
SHANK, MELVIN EARL
Born: 3-21-1889 Hagerstow MD married: Anna
Alice Eller
Died: 10-30-1969
Waterloo IA obit:
Iowa Conference 1974, 75
1913 license
1916 ordained deacon, Des Moines Conference
1920 ordained elder, Des Moines Conference
Interment: Radcliffe Cemetery, Radcliffe IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1970, 340
1914 transfer to Des Moines
Conference
Polo
Evergreen
Nevada
Iowa City
Afton
Sumner
Waverly
Laporte City
Summer Union
1957 retired
Note: Melvin E. Shank is a brother to Chester B. Shank.
SHANNON, W.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1917 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: W.W. Shannon lived in Berwick and was an auditor for Columbia County.
SHAUER, FREDERICK
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1812 license
1814 ordained deacon
1816 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1812-13 Northumberland
1813-14 York
1814-15 Franklin
1815-16
1816-17 Scioto
1828 “transfer” to Western Conference
Note: This surname also appears as SHOWER and SAUR. Breyfogel’s 1888 Evangelical Landmarks says that in 1828 Sauer was “again received and ordained to the office of deacon” by the Western Conference.
SHEAFFER, STERLEN SYLVESTER
Born: 4-2-1924 Carlisle Springs PA married: Evelyn Jean Thumma (6/30/1950)
Died: 1-27-2021 obit:
1951 license, recommended by Carlisle First
1953 ordained elder
Interment: Letort Cemetery, Carlisle PA
Obit:
1950-53 student, Evangelical School of Theology
1951-53 Milton St. Peter’s
1953-57 Nescopeck
1957 “transfer” to Lutheran ministry, page 77
Newry
Freeburg
Mount Holly Springs
1968-91 Boiling Springs St. John’s
1991 retired
Note: Sterlen S. Sheaffer is a 1950 graduate of Dickinson College.
SHEARER, CHARLES HENRY JR.
Born: 1-11-1937 Harrisburg PA married: Janet L. Stoudt
Died: 9-19-2014
Middletown PA obit:
1956 license, recommended by Penbrook Trinity
1961 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 273
1956-62 Allentown Calvary
1960-61 Catasauqua Emmanuel
1962-67 Hegins
1962-54 Muir
1967-70 Harrisburg Rockville
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change
1970-75 Harrisburg Rockville
1975-87 Linglestown
1987-90 Mechanicsburg Wesley
1990-91 Royalton (ending 12/31/1999)
1991-92 honorable location (beginning 12/31/1999)
1992 retired
director of church relations, China Outreach Mission
missions pastor, Harrisburg New Love in Christ Church
SHEARER, IRVIN CLEOPHAS
Born: 9-25-1877 Cumberland County PA married: Minnie Virginia Webb
Died: 8-3-1970 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 83
married2: Ruth O. Shaffer
1907 license, recommended by Carlisle First obit2:
1912 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder
Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 362
1910-12 Bellefonte
circuit
1912-16 Northumberland
1916-17 Dushore
1917-22 York Bethany
1922-23 East Prospect
1923-29 Newport
1929 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Shearer may be the Ruth O. Shearer (1901-1986) buried in the Newport PA Cemetery.
SHEARY, SAMUEL F.
Born: 4-13-1841 Lewisburg PA married: Eva Hartman
Died: 5-8-1914
Mifflinburg PA obit:
[1/13/1845 – 5/8/1916]
1877 license
Interment: Penns Creek Union Cemetery, Penns Creek PA
Obit:
Note: S.F. Sheary served in Snyder County as a local
pastor. He lived in Penns Creek and
taught school, also serving for a time as town postmaster and county coroner.
SHEELEY, HARRY B.
Born: 4-30-1898 married:
Martha Shambaugh
Died: 3-5-1990 obit:
[1/3/1898 – 3/11/1988]
1920 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Westminster Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA
Obit:
1920-24 student, Albright College
Note: Harry B. Sheeley appears was from Newville PA, where his father was a teacher. A 1924 graduate of Albright College, he was a high school teacher in Myerstown PA at least from 1924 to 1928. In 1936 he was teaching in West Orange NJ. Mrs. Sheeley was also a 1924 graduate of Albright College. This name also appears as SHEELY.
SHEESLEY, JOSEPH PEARL
Born: 7-23-1894 Hamilton PA married: Esther Ionia Hamilton
Died: 2-22-1977
Allegany County MD obit:
Baltimore Conference 1985, 372
1921 license,
Pittsburgh Conference, recommended by St. Jacob’s on the Worthville
charge
1923 ordained deacon, Pittsburgh
Conference
1925 ordained elder
Interment: Davis Memorial Cemetery, Cumberland MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1977, 384
1921-22 Indiana and Westover
Mission
1922-24 Berkeley Springs,
Central Pennsylvania Conference
1924 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1924-26 Morgan mission
1926-28 Cearfoss
1928-33 Port Trevorton
1933-40 Keystone and Perry
1940-48 Union circuit
1948-51 Berkley Springs and Morgan
1951-54 Hardy, Virginia Conference
1954-56 Cumberland Calvary – Bethel
1956 transfer to Virginia Conference
1956-57 South Branch WV
1957-58 Blairton – Greenburg
1958-59 Massanutten
1959-60 Martinsburg rescue mission
1960-63 Wardensville
1963-67 conference evangelist
1967-71 Toms Brook
1971 retired
Note: Joseph P. Sheesley is the father of Dwight L. Sheesley (1932-2014) of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
SHELLENBERGER, JOHN LLOYD SR
Born: 1-23-1932 Richfield PA married: Naomi L. Shirk
Died: 12-11-2009
Lewistown PA obit: Susquehanna
Conference 2017, 293
1954 license, recommended by Richfield
1959 ordained elder
Interment: Richfield Union Cemetery, Richfield PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 174
1958-59 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1958-59 Gentown Congregational Christian Church, Lebanon OH
1959-64 Salladasburg Charge
1964-69 Millheim
1969-81 Middleburg
Trinity
1981-94 Lykens
1994 retired
1995-99 Freeburg
(beginning 1/8/1995)
1999-03 Pisgah
(Perry County)
Note: John L. Shellenberger Sr is the father of John L.
Shellenberger Jr of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.
SHENK, JAY RICHARD
Born: 4-28-1927 Steubenville OH married: Shirley June Yarnell
Died: 6-27-2012
Sunbury PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2018, 279
1958 admitted on
trial, New York Conference: recommended by Lewistown Grace
1960 ordained elder, New York
Conference
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 271
associate chaplain, Wesleyan University in Middletown CT
Meriden, CT
Long Island Commack
Litchfield CT
chaplain, Robinson School in San Juan PR
1989 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1989-91 Bethesda Day Care Center
1989-91 Union circuit
1991 retired
Note: Mrs. Shenk is a sister to Edward H. Yarnell. She is buried in the Globe Mills Cemetery, Snyder County PA, but the burial site of Jay Richard Shenk is not known.
SHERK, NOAH BASHORE
Born: 5-18-1841 Cumberland County PA married: Lydia Behny
Died: 1-17-1927 Lisbon
IA obit:
Iowa Conference 1940, 45
1873 license
1877 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
Interment: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1917, 7 & 37
1874-75 Jersey
Shore circuit
1875-76 located
1876 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1876-77 Mt Carmel mission [St. Paul’s]
1877 transfer to Des Moines Conference
1877-78 Buffalo circuit
1878 located
Note: Noah B. Sherk is the father of Mary Elizabeth Sherk Streyffeler, wife of Samuel H. Streyffeler (1867-1948) of the Iowa EV-EUB Conference and mother of Earl R. Streyffeler (1893-1982) of the Iowa UM Conference. A biographical sketch of N.B. Sherk is given in the 1901 Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa, pages 51-53. This surname is sometimes erroneously rendered SHIRK.
SHERMAN, FRED D.
Born: 12-19-1886 married:
Anna M. Stager
Died: 4-21-1975 York
PA obit:
[1892 – 1979]
1911 license
1913 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1911-12 Lewistown
Trinity
1912-14 York Princess Street
1914-16 Keystone
1916-20 Liberty
1920-23 Ransom
1923-24 Columbia
1924 withdrew with
credentials
pastor in the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination
Nanty-Glo – South Fork – Cresson
Connellsville
?-1956 Nanticoke
1956 retired
SHIMP, JACOB
Born: 10-13-1795 VA married:
Rebecca Swisher
Died: 8-29-1870
Berkley Springs WV obit:
[11/6/1812 – 12/23/1896]
1834 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Riner Cemetery, Jones Springs WV
Obit:
1834-36 Virginia circuit
1844-45 Virginia
circuit
1845 located
SHOEMAKER, DANIEL
Born: 5-5-1839 Swissdale PA married:
Elizabeth Probst
Died: 1-20-1918 Arden
NY obit:
[7/28/1841 – 4/17/1907]
? license
1880 ordained deacon
Interment: Swissdale Cemetery, Swissdale PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 76
Note: Daniel Shoemaker served as a local pastor.
SHOLES, LEROY KUMLER JR.
Born: 12-17-1912 Williamsport PA married: Ruth Helen Swarts
Died: 4-9-1981
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 393
1939 license,
recommended by DuBois CMA
1944 ordained elder, Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church
Interment: Roselawn Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 341
1939-41 Madera
1941-45 Nescopeck
1945-50 Marysville
1950-53 Berwick mission
1953 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1953-59 Mexico
1959-62 Howard
1962-68 Liverpool
1968-71 Rebersburg
1971-75 Clearfield Christ
1975-78 Austin
1978 retired
associate, Milton St. Andrews
SHOMAKER, W.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1874 license
Interment:
Obit:
SHOOK, JAMES A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1904 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: James A. Shook is listed as living in Bellefonte PA. He appears to have become a high school teacher in Tyrone PA.
SHORT, SAMUEL McCLELLAN
Born: 5-4-1883 Waterloo PA married: Rachel Elizabeth Brown
Died: 2-3-1969
Richfield PA obit:
[2/26/1895 – 1/1/1974]
1914 license,
recommended by Mifflin Trinity
1918 ordained deacon [in China]
1920 ordained elder [in China]
Interment: Academia Cemetery, Juniata County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 211
1914-21 educational
missionary, China
1923-33 Harrisburg district
superintendent, Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylvania
1933-50 superintendent, public
schools of Juniata County
1950 retired
Note: Samuel M. Short is a 1912 graduate of Albright College.
SHORTESS, JOHN DAVID
Born: 3-22-1860 near Markelsville
PA married: Minerva L.
Spitler
Died: 10-20-1953 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 75
1881 license
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 78
1881-82 student,
Union Seminary in New Berlin PA
1882-83 Center circuit
1883-85 McClure
1885-88 Lewisberry
1888-90 Chanceford
1890-92 Dushore
1892-95 Buffalo Valley
1895-97 Patterson
1897-02 Hughesville
1902-03 Millheim
1903-07 Milton
1907-11 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1911-15 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1915-19 York Grace
1919-24 Lewisburg
1924-31 Mechanicsburg
1931-33 field secretary,
Evangelical Homes at Lewisburg PA
1933 retired
Note: John D. Shortess is the son of Samuel I. Shortess and the brother of Thomas A. Shortess. He is the co-author of the 1916 Evangelical Centennial Celebration and the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. Mrs. Shortess is a granddaughter of James Barber and her Union Seminary records give her name as Leah Minerva Spitler.
SHORTESS, SAMUEL IRVIN
Born: 6-7-1834 New Bloomfield PA married: Elizabeth Kline
Died: 1-19-1910
Millersburg PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1920, 45
1860 license,
recommended by Milford on the Perry circuit
1867 ordained deacon
1870 ordained elder
Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1910, 33
1866-67 Middle
Creek circuit
1867-68 Center
1868-70 Cherry circuit
1870-73 Wyoming
1873-75 Susquehanna
1875-77 Marysville
1877-89 Big Spring (ending
6/1879)
1879-86 superintendent, Union
Seminary at New Berlin PA (beginning 6/1879)
1886-89 located
1889-93 Waller
1893 transfer to East
Pennsylvania Conference EA
1893-95 Sugar
Valley
1895-97 Brush Valley
1897-01 Liberty and East Point
1901-03 Millersburg
1903 retired
Note: Samuel I. Shortess is the father of John D. Shortess, of Thomas A. Shortess, and of Anna E. Shortess Yeakel, wife of Irvin C. Yeakel.
SHORTESS, THOMAS ALBERT
Born: 4-7-1856 bear Markelsville
PA married: Mary
Augusta Seidle
Died: 9-23-1948
Beavertown PA obit:
[8/1/1857 – 7/3/1938]
1877 license
1886 ordained local deacon
Interment: Beavertown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 97
1877-78 Liverpool
Note: Thomas A. Shortess is the son of Samuel I. Shortess and the brother of John D. Shortess. He served as a local pastor.
SHRADER, JULIAN HERISH
Born: 8-11-1927 Frost WV married: Joan Williams
Died: 9-27-2007
Dallastown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 374
1955 license, West
Virginia Conference, recommended by Fairmont First
1957 ordained elder, West Virginia
Conference
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 428
1955-57 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1955-57 Eaton OH
1957-58 Reader
1958-60 South Charleston mission
1960-61 Salem
1961 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1961-71 Windsor
1971-79 York Trinity
1979-90 Wrightsville Grace
1990 retired
SHULE, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1867 license
Interment:
Obit:
SHULTZ, IRVIN STURGER
Born: 1885 married:
Pamela M. _____
Died: 1966 obit:
[1883-1971]
1907 license
1909 ordained deacon
1911 ordained elder
Interment: Forest Hills Memorial Park, Huntingdon Valley,
Montgomery County PA
Obit:
1907-11 Juniata
Park
1911-12 located
1912 withdrew with
credentials
“transfer” to the Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia Trinity
Note: I. Sturger Shultz is the son of James F. Shultz. He is also the brother of James A. Shultz and Ward K. Shultz, and of William Shultz of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He graduated from Grove City College in 1913 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1918.
SHULTZ, JAMES ALVIN
Born: 8-12-1879 married:
Margaret Estella Mertz
Died: 2-25-1927 obit:
West Virginia Conference ME 1950, 436
1913 license
1915 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown WV
Obit: West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1927, 523
1913-16 Liberty
1916-18 Grover
1918-20 Center Hall
1920-22 New Freedom (left in the
middle of year 3: see 1923, 65)
1922 “transfer” to West
Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1922-23 Monongalia
1923-25 Morgantown Sabra
1925-27 Moundsville Calvary
Note: James A. Shultz is the son of James F. Shultz. He is also the brother of I. Sturger Shultz and Ward K. Shultz, and of William Shultz of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The above birthdate is from his conference obituary, his tombstone gives his birth year as 1880. This surname is sometimes given as SCHULTZ or SCHULTY.
SHULTZ, JAMES FRANKLIN
Born: 1-22-1846 Dewart PA married: Mary E. Maxwell
Died: 1-3-1918 Watsontown PA obit:
married2: Amelia Garman
1875 license obit2:
[12/24/1849 – 1/12/1882]
1877 ordained deacon married3:
Mary Etta Stevenson
1879 ordained elder obit3:
Central Pennsylvania 1950, 95
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 74
1875-76 Block
House
1876-78 Danville
1878-80 Hughesville
1880-81 Big Spring
1881-82 Leesburg
1882-83 Perry
1883-84 Chanceford
1884-86 Shrewsbury
1886-87 Waller
1887-89 Bloomsburg
1889-91 Buffalo circuit
1891-93 Jersey Shore
1893-96 Williamsport circuit
1896-97 Newberry
1897-01 New Berlin
1901-05 Center Hall
1905-07 Howard
1907-09 Bellwood
1909-12 Mifflin
1912 retired
Note: James F. Shultz is the father four pastors: by his first wife, William Maxwell Shultz (1867-1934) of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; by his second wife, James A. Shultz; by his third wife, I. Sturger Shultz and Ward K. Shultz.
SHULTZ, WARD KELL
Born: 2-11-1883 Elliottsburg
PA married:
Maybelle Keller
Died: 6-9-1955
Watsontown PA obit:
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 782
1902 license,
recommended by Centre Hall
1905 ordained deacon
1908 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Philadelphia Conference ME 1956, 223
1903-05 Milesburg
1905-06 Mt. Rock
1906-07 Cearfoss
1907-10 Mexico
1910-13 Hebbville
1913-15 Columbia circuit
1915-16 Dushore
1916-19 White Deer
1919-23 Newport
1923 transfer to East
Pennsylvania Conference
1923-24 Philadelphia Christ
1924-26 Lehighton
1926 “transfer” to the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1926-28 Reading St. Peter’s
1928-31 Minersville
1931-35 North Wales
1935-37 Philadelphia Covenant
1937-39 Philadelphia Twenty-Ninth Street
1939-40 Mount Pocono
1940-42 Frackville
1942-44 Frackville and Gilberton
1944-48 Steelton First and Mt. Zion
1948-50 Philadelphia Eden
1950-52 Paoli
1952 retired
Note: Ward K. Shultz is the son of James F. Shultz. He is also the brother of I. Sturger Shultz and James A. Shultz, and of William Shultz of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
SIEGFRIED, CHARLES WILLIAM
Born: 12-10-1843 near Kutztown PA married:
Died: 3-20-1926
Hanover PA obit:
1888 license [SEIGFRIED]
1890 license
? ordained
deacon, Pittsburgh Conference
? ordained elder, Pittsburgh
Conference
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 86
1890-97 Warren circuit, Pittsburgh Conference
transfer to New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1923 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church
Note: Charles W. Siegfried is the father-in-law of J.P. Buchner.
SILL, DANIEL L.
Born: 1-25-1814 Bedford County PA married: Mary E. Moses
Died: 1-9-1881
Lincolnville KS obit:
[9/18/1817 – 3/28/1851]
1842 license
1844 ordained deacon
1847 ordained elder
Interment: Lincolnville Cemetery, Lincolnville KS
Obit:
1842-43 Somerset
1843-44 Bedford
1844-46 Indiana
1846-48 Clarion
1848-49 located
1849-50 Somerset
1851 located
1852 charter member of
Pittsburgh Conference
Note: Daniel Sill moved to Lincolnville in 1871 and led the organizing of the Zion Evangelical congregation there, which met in his home until erecting a building on his land. He also served as postmaster 1873-1881.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1889 license
Interment:
Obit:
SINCLAIR, J.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1908 license
Interment:
Obit:
SINDLINGER, JOHN M.
Born: 7-25-1807 Germany married: Phillipena
“Phoebe” Hayd
Died: 19-21-1883 obit:
[7/14/1812 – 12/25/1888]
1833 license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Naperville Cemetery, Naperville IL
Obit:
1834-35 Center
circuit
1835-37 Columbia
1837-39 Lancaster circuit
1839-43 superintendent, Moriah
District
1843-44 Center
1844-46 Clinton
1846-47 Center
1847-49 Buffalo
1849-50 Lycoming
1850-52 superintendent,
Allegheny District
1852 transfer to Illinois
Conference
SIPE, WILLIAM CASTELL
Born: 9-11-1894 York PA married: Faith Agnes Houston
Died: 1-?-1978 obit:
[9/20/1895 - ?/?/1965]
1912 license
1919 ordained deacon
1921 ordained elder
Interment: Congregational Cemetery, Hollis NH
Obit:
1919-20 Manchester
1920-24 Brooklyn
1924-25 located
1925 “transfer” to the
Congregational Church
1928-41 Hollis NH
Note: William C. Sipe was named pastor emeritus at Hollis UCC in 1962, and the church has an endowed scholarship in his name. He was the last person buried in the church’s now full cemetery.
SITES, HAROLD R.
Born: 12-4-1914 Scotland PA married: A. Grace Sipe [1939]
Died: 3-11-2000
Chambersburg PA obit:
[6/30/1918 – 10/26/2001]
1934 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Myers Cemetery, Welsh Run [Franklin County] PA
Obit:
1938-40 Keystone and Perry
1940-43 Cearfoss
1943 withdrew
…
1961-78 Hagerstown MD Glad Tidings Tabernacle
1978 retired
Note: Rev. and Mrs. Harold R. Sites were the founders of the Glad Tidings Evangelistic Association of Hagerstown MD. Which evolved into the Glad Tidings Tabernacle Church.
SLICK, WILLIAM ANSON
Born: 10-19-1917 New Paris PA married: Betty Elizabeth Harbaugh
Died: 6-24-1996 obit: [3/23/1920 – 6/5/2014]
1952 license, recommended by New Paris of the Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1953 admitted on trial, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1971 ordained
Interment: Fishertown Cemetery, Fishertown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 388
1942-52 Church of the Nazarene congregations
Union City
Albion
1952 “transfer” to Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1952-58 Shade Gap
1958-61 Pennsdale, Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1961-65 East Freedom
1965-68 Glasgo
1968 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church
1968-77 Ray’s Hill [Breezewood]
1977-81 Osceola Mills
1981 retired
1983 Robertsdale
1983-85 Wolfsburg
1991-96 Rainsburg
SLOAT, MICHAEL
Born: 9-2-1828 York County PA married: Mary Jane _____
Died: 9-11-1884 New
Kingston PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 50
1860 license
1865 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment: Riverview Cemetery, East Prospect PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 47
1860-61 Montour
(refused the appointment, which was then supplied by A.E. Kline)
1861-62 Cumberland
1862-67 located
1867-69 Perry
1869-71 Union
1871-72 Center
1872-75 Nittany Valley
1875-77 Center Hall
1877-79 Buffalo
1879-81 Liberty
1881-83 Newberry
1883-84 Cumberland
a, DANIEL PHILIP
Born: 10-1-1883 near Craley PA married: Myra M. Illgas
Died: 7-7-1972 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 74
married2: Ida Gertrude Hess
1917 license,
recommended by Windsor obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 100
1919 ordained deacon married3:
Alberta Kerlin
1921 ordained elder obit3:
[1899-1962]
married4: M. Louise Burch
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA obit4: [b. 1911]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 429
1917-20 Harford
1920-22 Cearfoss
1922-26 Perry circuit
1926-28 Sonestown
1928-34 Salladsburg
1934-38 Leesburg
1938-41 Hellam
1941-45 Hebbville
1945-48 Danville
1948-52 Altoona Faith
1952-54 East Prospect
1954 retired
1956-58 Buffalo Valley
SMELTZER, WILLIAM NATHANAEL
Born: 8-28-1902 Shamokin PA married: Beatrice Irene Thompson
Died: 1-1-1984
Mechanicsburg PA obit:
1930 license, recommended by Grace, Lewistown
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Shamokin PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 381
1930-31 Williamsport
Trinity
1931-35 Yoe
1935-39 Yorkana
1939-43 Middleburg
1943-48 Loganville
1948-53 Northumberland
1953-62 Bellefonte Grace
1962-65 Baltimore Olive Branch
1965-68 Gettysburg
1968 retired
SMITH, GEORGE S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1883 license
Interment:
Obit:
SMITH, HARRIS
Born: 6-11-1852 PA married:
Died: 1-21-1940 obit:
1895 license
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1896-97 Hanover circuit (appears to have started during the 1895-96 conference year)
Note: Harris Smith was suposedly a lifelong member of St. Paul’s United Evangelical Church in York PA, but the journal lists him as living Jacobus. He appears to have been called to serve the Hanover circuit in mid-year because of the pro-Association views of his predecessor during the split. In particular, he served the Pleasant Hill Trinity church (which merged into Hanover Spring Avenue [Grace] in 1928) during its legal battle resulting from the split with the Evangelical Association. The name Harris Smith remains on the conference roster as a preacher on trial from 1895 to 1928 (listed as living in York from 1903 on), although he was never assigned to another church. His name disappears without explanation in 1929.
SMITH, J.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1874 license
Interment:
Obit:
SMITH, J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1888 license
Interment:
Obit:
1892 withdrew
SMITH, PHILIP
Born: 3-3-1784 married:
Eve Fry
Died: 3-26-1864 obit:
[9/22/1787 – 7/5/1862]
1816 license
1846 ordained deacon
Interment: Manbeck Church Cemetery, Snyder County PA
Obit:
Note: Philip Smith opened his home near Beaver Springs,
Snyder County, to Jacob Albright about 1803.
He became a local pastor.
SMITH, PHILIP A.
Born: 5-4-1861 Walker twp,
Juniata Co PA married: Ida B.
Bittinger (8/2/1888)
Died: obit:
[6/?/1868 - ]
1900 license (pages
20-21,72-73)
Interment:
Obit:
1900-02 Milesburg
1902 Rebersburg
located
Note: He is also known as Dr. Philip A. Smith and served as a coroner 1896-99. He is the subject of an interesting 1897 legal case, *Directors of the Poor v. The Overseers of the Poor of Walker*, which concerned his legal residence.
SMITH, RALPH A.
Born: 10-23-1879 York County PA married: Ida G. Ness
Died: 1-27-1940 Dorsey
MD obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 95
1906 license
1908 ordained deacon
1910 ordained elder
Interment: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 83
1906-10 Wellsville
1910-14 Sugar Valley
1914-19 Millmont
1919-24 Hebbville
1924-31 Manchester
1931-39 Dorsey
SMITH, ROY M.
Born: 1881 married:
Edna F. King
Died: 1970 obit:
[8/15/1893 – 1/17/1959]
1909 license
Interment: Memorial Cemetery, LeMars IA
Obit:
1909-12 student, Albright College
1919 transfer to Platte River Conference
faculty, Westmar College
faculty, Western Union College in LeMars IA
1929-32 faculty, Culver-Stockton College in Canto MO
1932-49 pastorates, Iowa Conference
Boxholm
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
1949 transfer to South Dakota Conference, Congregational Church
1949-56 pastorates, South Dakota Conference
1956 retired to Hinton IA
Supply minister, First Presbyterian Church in Ireton IA
Note: Roy M. Smith appears to have been from the Shawville area. He is the father of Rev. Lester Earl Smith of the Congregational Church.
SMITH, SAMUEL
Born: 11-8-1833 Centre County PA married: Helen Ziebach
Died: 3-12-1915
Mifflinburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 81
1857 license
1859 ordained deacon
1861 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 72
1857-58 Buffalo
1858-59 Lycoming
1859-60 Cherry
1860-62 Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming
1862-64 Boalsburg
1864-66 Williamsport Market
Street
1866-68 York Queen Street
1868-70 Lock Haven
1870-71 Williamsport Market
Street
1871-75 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1875-78 Union
1878-80 Middleburg
1880-81 Center
1881-84 Mifflinburg circuit
1884-86 McClure
1886-88 White Deer
1888-90 located
1890-93 Port Trevorton
1893-95 Middleburg
1895-97 located
1897-99 Waller
1899-02 East Point
1902-05 Rebersburg
1905 retired
Note: Samuel Smith is the father of Helen Smith Biggs, wife of Joseph O. Biggs.
SMITH, WALTER EARL
Born: 7-4-1882 Hagerstown MD married: Estella May Delp
Died: 3-1-1963 Red
Lion PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 376
1902 license, Ohio
Conference
1908 ordained deacon
1910 ordained elder
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 102
1904 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1905-06 Dorsey
1906-07 Dillsburg
1907-10 Pennsdale
1910-11 Milton circuit
1911-15 Ransom
1915-20 Perry
1920-26 Williamsport circuit
1926-33 Center Hall
1933-39 Loganville
1939-46 Buffalo Valley
1946-51 Wellsville
1951 retired
SNAVELY, JOSEPH
Born: 3-27-1812 married:
Sarah _____
Died: 2-14-1898 obit:
[10/11/1810 – 2/3/1885]
? license
1866 ordained deacon
Interment: Yorkana Cemetery, Yorkana PA
Obit
Note: Joseph Snavely was a local preacher in the Yorkana area.
SNELBAKER, JAMES KENNETH
Born: 2-1-1922 Mechanicsburg PA married: Mildred Betty
Ruebsamen [1944]
Died: 6-14-1992 obit:
[4/11/1922 – 2/1/2019]
1942 license,
recommended by Mechanicsburg
? ordained deacon
1946 ordained elder
Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Roslyn PA
Obit:
1946-69 chaplain, U.S. Navy
1969-84 middle school teacher, Pitman NJ
1984 retired
Note: James and Ruth met while classmates at Albright College in Reading PA.
SNOOK, HARVEY A.
Born: 8-15-1871 Penns Creek PA married: Susan Smith
Died: 12-4-1968
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 66
married2: Kathryn Auker Martin
1897 license,
recommended by Penns Creek obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 95
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder
Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Penns Creek PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 210
1897 transfer to Iowa Conference
1897-98 Red Oak
1898-99 Winterset
1899-04 located
1904 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1904-05 located
1905-06 Bloserville
1906-08 Nittany
1908-12 Spring Mills
1912-16 Hagerstown circuit
1916-20 Hanover
1920-27 Winfield
1927-32 Danville
1932-37 Selinsgrove
1937-43 Windsor
1943 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Snook was the widow of Rev. J.G. Martin of the East Pennsylvania Conference EA (1905, 32).
SNOOK, JOHN ERDLEY
Born: married:
Patricia _____
Died: obit:
1948 license,
recommended by Lewistown Grace
1955 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1953-55 Northumberland
1955-58 Beavertown
1958-62 Lock Haven mission
1962 “transfer” to United Church of Christ, page 89
Note: John E. Snook is a brother to Norman R. Snook.
SNOOK, NORMAN RUSSELL
Born: 10-?-1930 married:
Nancy McClain
Died: obit:
[3/17/1930 – 2/11/2017]
1950 license,
recommended by Lewistown Grace
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1953-54 assistant,
Devon Union
1953 assistant, Lemoyne
Grace (summer)
1954-55 assistant executive
secretary Y.M.C.A, Mississippi State College
1956-60 Jacobus
1960 university pastor,
Ohio State University
1970 transfer to Ohio West Conference
faculty, United Theological Seminary
Note: Norman R. Snook is a brother to John E. Snook. He is a 1950 graduate of Albright
College. In 2024 he was living in
Delaware OH.
SNYDER, ABRAHAM
Born: 1-20-1819 married:
Christina Hess (1840)
Died: 2-8-1873 obit:
[3/6/1820 – 2/21/1900]
1866 ordained deacon
Interment: Emmanuel United Methodist Church Cemetery,
Loganville PA
Obit:
Note: Abraham Snyder was a local preacher.
SNYDER, CLYDE B.
Born: 1884
PA married:
Clara C. McClintock
Died: 1948 PA obit:
[1883-1958]
1906 license
1910 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1907-08 West
Nanticoke
1908-12 East Point
1912-17 Lycoming
1917-18 Scranton
1918-25 Millheim
1925-27 Nescopeck
1927-28 Milton
1928 excluded from the
Church
SNYDER, CHARLES EARL
Born: married:
Bonita _____
Died: obit:
1962 license, recommended by Jersey Shore Trinity
1964 admitted on
trial
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1962 Salladasburg Mt. Pleasant (Jul – Oct)
1962-67 White Deer Charge (beginning 10/62)
1967-70 Greenmount
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-71 Greenmount
1971 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1971-78 South Williamsport
1978-79 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1979-81 on leave
1981-83 Shade Valley (ending 8/1/1983)
1983-87 Millerstown (beginning 8/1/1983)
1987-91 Riverside
1991-95 Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street
1995-96 Valley View St. Andrews (ending 1/1/1996)
1996-04 disability leave (beginning 1/1/1996)
2004 retired
SNYDER, EUGENE HAROLD
Born: 2-1-1929 Reading PA married: Ruth Marie Haugh
(1953)
Died: 12-12-2016 obit:
[5/10/1927 – 5/28/1996]
married2: Emily G. Martin
obit2:
1948 license,
Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1956 ordained deacon, Central
Pennsylvania Conference
? ordained elder
Interment: Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reiffton
PA
Obit:
1949-50 Pomeroy
1950-52 Pine Grove Circuit
1952-54 St. Paul’s and Harmony
1954 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1954-56 Baltimore St. John’s
1856-59 Baltimore St. Matthew’s
1959-62 Port Trevorton
1962 “transfer” to United Church of Christ denomination
1962-64 Penns Creek
1964-71 Carlisle circuit
1971-85 Hilltown St. Peter’s
1985-91 East Goshen – West Chester
…
1998 retired
SNYDER, MICHAEL J.
Born: 9-10-1853 Loganville PA married: Sallie J. Bower
Died: 11-25-1923
Potosi PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 98
1881 license
1883 ordained deacon
1888 ordained elder
Interment: Loganville Cemetery, Loganville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 79
1881-82 Cumberland
1882-83 York circuit
1883-84 Dorsey
1884-87 faculty, Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1887-89 Seneca Falls
1889-90 Williamsport St. Paul
1890-91 Lewistown
1891-02 located
1902-05 Grover
1905-07 Spring Mills
1907-11 Port Trevorton
1911-15 Howard circuit
1915-16 Buffalo
1916-20 New Freedom
1920-21 Manchester
1921-22 Dallastown
1922-23 Keystone
1923 retired
SNYDER, SAMUEL ABRAHAM, SR.
Born: 8-28-1875 York PA married: Hattie Dora Maice
Died: 2-1-1943 Baltimore
MD obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 82
1898 license,
recommended by York Trinity
1904 ordained deacon
1906 ordained elder
Interment: Emmanuel United Methodist Church Cemetery,
Loganville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86
1901-02 Felton
1902-05 Byransville
1905-09 Rebersburg
1909-13 Center Hall
1913-18 Middleburg
1918-24 Hellam
1924-29 Baltimore Bethany
1929-31 Berwick St. Paul
1931-33 Lewistown Grace
1933-43 Baltimore Olive Branch
Note: Samuel A. Snyder Sr is the father of Samuel A. Snyder Jr and William H. Snyder. Mrs. Snyder is the daughter of J.H. Maice.
SNYDER, SAMUEL ABRAHAM, JR.
Born: 10-3-1910 Centre Hall PA married: Margaret _____
Died: 9-?-1974 obit:
1931 license,
recommended by Berwick St. Paul's
1936 ordained deacon
1939 ordained elder
Interment: Gracelawn Memorial
Park, New Castle DE
Obit:
1935-36 assistant,
Jersey Shore
1936-37 Bloomsburg
1937-40 Montoursville – Pennsdale
1940-50 White Deer
1950-54 Hebbville
1954-59 executive director,
Middle Atlantic Town and Country Church Development
1959-63 director,
South East Area Migrant Ministry
1963 executive secretary,
Delaware Council of Churches
Note: Samuel A. Snyder Jr is the son of Samuel A. Snyder Sr and the brother of William H. Snyder.
SNYDER, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 9-24-1912 Middleburg PA married: Cordella Funk
Died: 8-25-2002 CT obit:[? – 2/2/2014]
license
Interment: Hartford County CT
Obit:
1940-51 Dorsey
1951 without assignment
director of social services, Harford County MD
Note: William H. Snyder is the son of Samuel A. Snyder Sr and the brother of Samuel A. Snyder Jr.
SOLVER, FRED W.
Born: 6-26-1869 Booneville PA married: Frances Ann Emert
Died: 3-24-1951 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1916, 38
married2: Laura A. Hixson
license obit2: Northeastern Conference 1959, 119
Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EV 1951, 30
1896-97 Lycoming and Newberry
1897-98 Newberry and St. John’s
1928-33 Allentown Calvary
1938-40 Allentown Emmanuel
1940 retired
Note:
SOMERVILLE, ALBERT EDWARD
Born: 1838 married:
Alice Lydia Hill
Died: 1-6-1894 obit:
1858 license
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit:
1862-63 Columbia
1863 suspended
Note: It has not been verified that the Albert Edward Somerville described above, who lived in Mifflin County in the 1870’s and 1880’s and then moved to Cambria County, is the same ALBERT E. SOMMERVILLE licensed by the Evangelical Association in 1858 and the A. SUMMERVILLE who served the Columbia circuit in 1862.
SONES, CALVIN LOW
Born: 4-17-1855 Columbia County PA married: Amanda Rebecca
Young
Died: 12-9-1934 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 78
1885 license
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 87
1885-86 Middleburg
1886-87 West Clifford
1887-90 Dushore
1890-93 Bloomsburg
1893-95 Nanticoke
1895-98 Hughesville
1898-01 Williamsport circuit
1901-07 Jersey Shore
1907-08 Red Lion
1908-12 Carlisle
1912-15 York Grace
1915-19 superintendent, Center District
1919-23 superintendent, York
District
1923-24 York Princess Street
1924-26 Jersey Shore
1926 retired
SPANGLER, JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Born: 5-17-1766 Northampton County PA married: Anna Margaret Kryder
Died: 2-21-1855 Rebersburg PA obit:
[1771 – 7/14/1832]
1807 license
Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Rebersburg
PA
Obit:
Note: Christopher Spangler is the great-grandfather of Ira Spangler. He was a local preacher of great influence. He was the first (in 1805) to host Jacob Albright in Brush Valley. See Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 28.
SPANGLER, IRA EVANS
Born: 3-15-1868 Rebersburg
PA married:
Sarah E. Rute
Died: 3-18-1931 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 84
1888 license,
recommended by New Berlin
1896 ordained deacon
1898 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 77
1895-99 Bernice
and Lopez
1899-03 Red Lion
1903-07 Baltimore Olive Branch
1907-08 Baltimore Memorial
1908-12 Berwick Bower Memorial
1912-16 Milton
1916-21 Carlisle
1921-22 Jersey Shore
1922-30 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1930-31 East Prospect
SPEAKE, GEORGE WASHINGTON
Born: 2-12-1889 Baltimore MD married: Grace May Crouch
Died: 7-19-1977 obit:
[9/9/1889 – 5/3/1976]
1924 license,
recommended by Baltimore Olive Branch
1926 ordained deacon
1928 ordained elder
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn Park [Anne Arundel
County] MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1978, 438
1924-32 Baltimore
Immanuel
1932-36 Mifflin
1936-47 Baltimore Immanuel
1947-51 St. John's Williamsport
1951-57 Washington DC Albright
Memorial
1957 retired
Note: George W. Speake has three grandsons in the United Methodist ministry: Wayne H. Upton and Dennis L. Upton in the Baltimore Conference, and George D. Speake in the North Carolina Conference.
SPENCER, ELBERT DANIEL
Born: 7-20-1915 married: Daisy Samantha Varner
Died: 1-19-1998 obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 440]
1943 license,
recommended by Berwick Bethany
? ordained deacon
1947 ordained elder
Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 423]
1943-48 Berkeley
Springs and Morgan WV
1948-53 Centre Hall-Spring Mills
1953-56 Mt. Rock Charge
1956-60 Paxtonville
1960-67 Espy
1967-73 Richfield
1973-77 Lewisberry larger parish
1977-80 Oakville
1980-84 Enders – Powells Valley
1984-86 Witmers
1986 retired
SPILMAN, KENNETH E.
Born: 2-19-1927 Baltimore MD married: Mary Ann Sherron
Died: 3-6-1998
Fountain Springs PA obit:
[1932 -
1948 license,
recommended by Baltimore Trinity
1953 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 assistant,
Williamsport First
1955-56 Baltimore Olive Branch
Baltimore
1956-61 Student Christian
Fellowship, University of North Dakota University
1961-63 McKinley Foundation,
Champaign IL
1963 Westminster
Foundation, Bloomington IN
1987-90 United Presbyterian Methodist Church, Ashland and Girardville
Note: Kenneth E. Spilman was a graduate of Yale Divinity School.
SPINDLER, JOHN A. JR.
Born: 4-3-1925 married:
M. Katharine _____
Died: 9-28-1997 obit:
[9/29/1927 – 4/1/1998]
license,
Interment: Fairview Memorial Cemetery, Cape May Court House
NJ
Obit:
1948-51 Craley
1951-54 Buffalo Valley
1954 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lutheran Church, page 74
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
SPRINGMAN, HAROLD FREDERICK
Born: 5-6-1906 Lycoming County PA married: Laura Elizabeth
Newcomer
Died: 4-24-1992 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 455
1928 license,
recommended by Heilman's
1930 ordained deacon
1932 ordained elder
Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Muncy PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 485
1928 East
Point (Jun – Sep)
1928-31 Ransom
1931-33 Hummels Wharf
1933-39 Newport
1939-46 Cumberland
1946-53 Williamsport circuit
1953-71 West Milton
1971 retired
Note: Harold F. Springman is a brother to Ralph E. Springman, and an uncle to Thomas R. Springman.
SPRINGMAN, RALPH EDWIN
Born: 12-19-1917 Lycoming County PA married: Bertie Mae Florence
Died: 5-26-2002 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 486
1941 license,
recommended by Montoursville Bethel
? ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment: Juniata Memorial Park Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 389
1941-43 Lewisberry
1943-55 McClure
1955-59 Williamsport Trinity
1959-65 New Kingstown
1965-83 Lewistown Trinity
1983 retired
1992 Royalton (Jan - Jun)
Note: Ralph E. Springman is a brother to Harold F. Springman, and an uncle to Thomas R. Springman.
SPRINGMAN, THOMAS ROBERT
Born: 4-12-1931 Montoursville PA married: Irma Williams
Died: 3-25-2005 obit:
1952 license, recommended
by Montoursville Bethel
1957 ordained elder
Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Muncy PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 459
1953-56 Blanchester
EUB circuit, Blanchester OH
1956-57 Christianburg
Congregational Christian Church, Christianburg OH
1957-59 Lycoming
1959-66 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd
1966-71 State College St. John’s
1971-78 Carlisle First
1978-84 superintendent, York District
1984-95 Camp Hill
1995 retired
1998-00 Harrisburg Second United Church of Christ
2000-03 Harrisburg Stevens Memorial
Note: Thomas R. Springman is a nephew to Harold F. Springman and Ralph E. Springman.
STABLER, LESTER LEROY
Born: 7-25-1911 Lycoming County PA married: Thelma Young
Died: 3-23-1954
Montoursville obit:
1933 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 79
1933-35 student,
Albright College
1935-38 Scranton
1938-40 White Deer
1940-43 State College
1943-52 director of public relations, Albright College
1952-53 retired due to poor health
1953 located
Note: Lester L. Stabler is a first cousin to Raymond C. Stabler. Beginning in 1952, he worked for the Home Life Insurance Company in estate planning and public relations.
STABLER, RAYMOND CHARLES
Born: 10-13-1906 Lycoming County PA married:
Elsie E. Niebel
Died: 1-26-1972 obit:
[11/19/1904 – 11/7/1981]
1927 license, New
York Conference
1929 ordained deacon
1931 ordained elder
Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA
Obit:
1927-34 Liberty
1934-38 Warrensville
1938-44 Hughesville
1944-54 evangelist, living in Montoursville
1954 transfer to Church of the Nazarene. Page 75
Note: Raymond C. Stabler is a first cousin to Lester L. Stabler. Some sources give his birthdate as 10-12-1907.
STAHL, MURRAY WILLIAM
Born: 11-21-1881 Snyder County PA married: Mary Caroline
Haas
Died: 2-15-1931 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 107
1903 license,
recommended by Shreiners
1907 ordained deacon
1909 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 77
1905-06 Dillsburg
circuit
1906-07 South Williamsport
1907-10 Keystone
1910-14 Craleyville
1914-19 Newport
1919-26 Glen Rock
1926-30 Mifflinburg
1930-31 York Bethlehem
STAHLEY, ANDREW
Born: 10-3-1821 married:
Charlotte Vogt
Died: 10-5-1911 obit:
married2: Sarah Long [11/23/1852]
1848 license obit2:
1852 ordained
deacon, Pittsburgh Conference married3:
Ceres Oakes [6/22/1875]
? ordained elder obit3:
Interment: Forreston IL
Obit: [Illinois Conference UE 1922, 10]
1850-51 Buffalo
1851-52 Warren
1852 charter member of
Pittsburg Conference
1886 transfer to Illinois Conference
Note: An extended biographical sketch of Andrew Stahly is given in the 1899 Biographical Record of Ogle County, Illinois, pages 204-206. The second Mrs. Stahley is the daughter of the noted Joseph Long (1800-1869), bishop of the Evangelical Association 1843-1869.
STAMBACH, ELIAS
Born: 6-6-1817 married:
Anna Maria Bower
Died: 7-14-1890 Aaronsburg PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1911, 28
1844 license
1846 ordained deacon
1849 ordained elder
Interment: Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Aaronsburg
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 43 [STAMBAUGH]
1844-45 Bedford
1845-46 Center
1846-48 York
1848-49 Center
1849-50 Clinton
1850-52 Lycoming
1852-54 Union
1854-56 Clinton
1856-58 Baltimore Green Street
1858-60 Center
1860-62 York circuit
1862-64 Dover Mission
1864-67 Port Trevorton
1867-69 Center
1869-71 Middle Creek
1871-72 Center
1872-74 Sugar Valley
1874 retired
Note: Elias Stambach is the son of John Stambach. His birthdates is also given as 6/16/1821. He is the grandfather of C. Guy Stambach of the United Brethren Church, on whose page more Stambach relations are given.
STAMBACH, JOHN
Born: 11-10-1793 married:
Elizabeth Walter
Died: 9-23-1828 Snyder
County PA obit: [1792 –
11/7/1866]
1813 license
1814 ordained deacon
1817 ordained elder
Interment: Salem Evangelical Cemetery, south of Penns Creek
PA
Obit:
1813-14 Northumberland
1814-15 York
1815-16 Union circuit
1816-17 Centre
1817-18 Somerset
1818-19 Union circuit
1819-20 Centre
1820 located
Note: John Stambach is the father of Elias Stambach. Mrs. Stambach is a sister to John Walter Jr. and Michael Walter. The Snyder County home of their father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer. He is the great grandfather of C. Guy Stambach of the United Brethren Church, on whose page more Stambach relations are given.
STAPLETON, AMMON SPECHT
Born: 1-15-1850 Oley PA married: Sarah Crandall
Died: 9-18-1916
Williamsport PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 86
1871 license
1875 ordained deacon
1877 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 72
1872-73 Center
Hall
1873-74 Liberty
1874-75 Conewago
1875-77 Newport
1877-78 located
1878-79 Canton
1879-82 East Liberty
1882-83 Lycoming
1883-85 Seneca
1885-86 Williamsport Market
Street
1886-89 York King Street
1889-92 Hagerstown
1892-93 Hughesville
1893-95 Berwick
1895-99 superintendent, Centre
District
1899-03 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1903-07 Wrightsville
1907-10 York St. Paul
1910-14 Jersey Shore
1914-16 Williamsport St. Paul
Note: Ammon Stapleton is the author of the 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association and the 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History.
STARR, ROBERT SPENCER
Born: 11-15-1880 Sonestown PA married: Jennie Mae Simmons
Died: 12-16-1929
Middleburg PA obit:
[b. 3/15/1883]
1909 license,
recommended by Sonestown
1911 ordained deacon
1913 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 83
1909-11 Grayville,
Illinois Conference
1911-12 Unityville
1912-15 Dushore
1915-20 Winfield
1920-24 Berwick St. Paul
1924-28 Baltimore Memorial
1928-29 Middleburg
STAUFFER, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1814 license
Interment:
Obit:
1814-15 Lancaster
STAYMAN, SAMUEL W.
Born: 9-26-1828 married:
Elizabeth Rumsey
Died: 10-13-1908 York
PA obit:
[12/26/1829 – 5/26/1899]
1869 license
Interment: St. John’s Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Dover
PA
Obit:
1869-70 Conewago
Note: S.W. Stayman appears to have officiated at a funeral
at Bald Hill, York County PA, in 1869.
He is listed in the 1870 census as a “day laborer,” but the designation
“Reverend” is associated with his name on several occasions. This surname is sometimes rendered STEHMAN.
STEELY, REED OSCAR
Born: 4-12-1892 near McClure PA married: Emma Belle Yeagle
Died: 8-28-1978 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 95
married2: Eleanor Gettig
1920 license,
recommended by Williamsport First obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 269
1923 ordained deacon
1925 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 336
1921-28 Bellefonte
1928-32 Milton
1932-39 Lemoyne
1939-46 Berwick Bower Memorial
1946-51 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1951-66 superintendent, Northern
District
1966 retired
STETLER, ROY HERBEN JR.
Born: 10-5-1914 married: Ruth E. Fisher
Died: 1-10-2007 obit: [4/14/1914 – 1/31/2010]
1937 license, recommended by Harrisburg Harris Street
? ordained
deacon
1942 ordained elder
Interment: St. Matthew’s UMC Columbarium, Bowie MD
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2007, 577
1939-45 Yorkana
1945-70 Cheverly
1970 transfer by boundary
change to Baltimore Conference
1970-80 Cheverly
1980 retired
Note: Roy H. Stetler Jr is the father of Rev. Richard R. Stetler of the Baltimore-Washington Conference and the son of Mr. Roy H. Stetler Sr (1890 – 1984), noted publisher for the United Evangelical and Evangelical and Evangelical United Brethren denominations in Harrisburg PA from 1911 to his retirement in 1958. A biographical sketch of Roy H. Stetler Sr is given in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.
STITELER, WARREN WOODWARD
Born: 6-19-1857 Blair County PA married: Florence May Longsdorf
Died: 12-2-1917
Rockingham County VA obit:
[11/17/1865 – 9/15/1936]
1897 license
Interment: Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg VA
Obit:
Note” W.W. Stiteler and family are reported to have moved
from Pennsylvania to VA about 1899 for Stiteler to work in business. His father having been died in the Civil
War, W.W. Stiteler and his brothers were raised in the Soldiers Orphans School
in Tyrone township, Perry County PA. He
lived in Cumberland County PA (where he was married) in the 1870’s and early
1880’s and in Sedgwick County KS for a few years about 1890 before moving back
east. His uncle Rev. J.R. Williams was a
Lutheran pastor in Hagerstown MD and Chicago IL.
STOCK, DOOR WILLIAM
Born: 9-11-1897 Wayland NY married: Mary V. Kesecker
Died: 5-9-1991 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 431
1920 license,
recommended by Wayland NY
1927 ordained deacon
1930 ordained elder
Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 492
1922-24 Berkeley
Springs
1924-27 Dushore
1927-30 Windsor
1930-34 Hughesville
1934-40 Liberty
1940-45 West Milton
1945-50 Middleburg
1950-64 Glen Rock
1964 retired
STOKE, HARRY A.
Born: 9-3-1842 Bendersville
PA married:
Catharine Kough
Died: 8-26-1915 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 89
1864 license
1866 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 74
1865-66 Middle
Creek
1866-68 Montour
1868-70 Danville
1870-72 Jarrettsville
1872-74 located
1874-76 Leesburg
1876-78 Carlisle
1878-79 Bendersville
1879-81 East Prospect
1881-83 Milton
1883-86 Grover
1886-88 Tunkhannock
1888-91 Danville
1891-93 Ransom
1893-95 Hughesville
1895-98 White Deer
1898-99 Hagerstown
1899-01 Shrewsbury
1901-03 Yorkana
1903-05 Hebbville
1905-08 Bryansville
1908-10 Craleyville
1910-12 Wellsville
1912 retired
STOVER, GUY R.
Born: 9-16-1871 Millheim PA married: Rosa E. Koontz
Died: 1-30-1943 Portland OR obit: [ 1888/9 – 6/28/1965]
1896 license
1901 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem OR
Obit: Oregon-Washington Conference 1943, 65
1899-01 Good
Will
1901-03 located
1903 transfer to Des Moines
Conference
1910 transfer to Oregon
Conference
Note: Guy R. Stover retired from the active ministry and settled in Salem OR in 1923.
STOVER, HOWARD CLINTON
Born: 1-9-1878 York PA married: Louise _____
Died: 8-13-1973 Miami
FL obit:
[1875 – 1942]
married2: Mrs. Blanch F. Barrett Ferguson
1896 license obit2:
[5/31/1881 – 11/16/1966]
1900 ordained deacon
ordained
elder
Interment: Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem OR
Obit:
1899-00 Scranton
and Sibley
1900-02 York Grace
1902 transfer to Oregon
Conference
“transfer” to
Congregational Church
Salem OR Knight Memorial
1943-51 Enterprise OR
1951 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Stover (nee Barrett) was the widow of a Mr. Franklin Bailey Ferguson (1863-1931).
STOVER, IRA EUGENE DUBS
Born: 2-13-1882 Madisonburg
PA married:
Sara A. Sherwood
Died: 12-?-1974 obit:
[b. c1880]
1914 license,
recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1914-16 Bellwood
1916-20 Altoona
1920-25 Nescopeck
1925-27 Baltimore Trinity
1927-30 York St. Paul
1930 surrendered his
license and withdrew from the Church
Note: I.E.D. Stover is the son of William H. Stover and the nephew of John D. Stover. His address in the 1940 census was 1240 W. Front Street in Berwick PA.
STOVER, JOHN D.
Born: 1851
near Booneville PA married:
Pauline Elizabeth Overdorf
Died: 11-25-1918 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 85
1875 license
1881 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: Esher Cemetery, Booneville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 73
1878-79 Center
1879-84 located
1884-87 East Liberty
1887-90 Port Trevorton
1890-93 Middleburg
1893-95 Hanover
1895-97 Lock Haven circuit
1897-00 Lycoming
1900-04 Loganville
1904-06 Port Trevorton
1906-10 Buffalo circuit
1910-11 Espy
1911 located
Note: John D. Stover is the brother of William H. Stover and the uncle of I.E.D. Stover.
STOVER, WILLIAM HARRISON.
Born: 4-4-1843 Booneville PA married: Sarah Jane Strohecker
Died: 8-15-1921 Jersey
Shore PA obit:
[7/18/1845 – 1/30/1868]
married2: Mary Elizabeth Greninger
1869 license obit:
[7/14/1849 – 10/9/1925]
1872 ordained deacon
1875 ordained elder
Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 73
1870-72 Boalsburg
1872-73 located
1873-74 Marysville
1874-75 Center
1875-77 located
1877-79 Center Hall
1879-82 Brush Valley
1882-84 McClure
1884-87 Middleburg
1887-88 New Berlin
1888-91 Center
1891-94 Lycoming
1894-96 East Point
1896-99 Brush Valley
1899-01 Dushore
1901-02 Zion’s Grove
1902-06 Espy
1906-07 Sonestown
1907-10 Salladasburg
1910-12 Yorkana
1912-14 Loganville
1914 retired
Note William H. Stover is the brother of John D. Stover and the father of I.E.D. Stover.
STRINE, DAVID MILLER
Born: 10-31-1842 York County PA married: Catherine Koch Holler
Died: 4-27-1926
Philadelphia PA obit:
[8/17/1842 – 6/29/1894]
1877 license
1884 ordained deacon
Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview twp, York County PA
Obit: David
Miller Strine (1842-1926) - Find a Grave Memorial
1900 withdrew (page 30)
Note: The family of D.M. Strine were the founders of Strinestown, York County PA.
STROHM, SAMUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1843 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
STROUP, C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1877 license
Interment:
Obit:
STROUP, CHARLES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1871 license
1884 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1871 Jersey
Shore circuit
located
STRUNK, ROBERT WATSON
Born: 2-20-1869 Strodes
Mills PA married:
Emma Elizabeth Fink (1900)
Died: 7-1-1943
Hummelstown PA obit:
[11/26/1875 – 1/13/1968]
1900 license
1902 ordained deacon
Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA
Obit:
1900-01 Scranton
and Sibley
1901-03 Mt. Holly Springs
1903 surrendered his license
and withdrew from the Church
Note: The maiden name of Mrs. Strunk also appears as Emma L. Fink.
SUNDAY, A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1897 license
Interment:
Obit:
SUTTON, ABRAHAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: This surname is also rendered SUTTEM.
SUTTON, D.L.
Born: 8-4-1818 married:
Died: 7-21-1867 obit:
? license
Interment: Emanuel Cemetery, Lewisberry PA
Obit:
1857 Gettysburg
located
SWARTZ, JOHN W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1870 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John W. Swartz served as a local deacon, never under appointment. He appears to have ministered in Juniata and Snyder counties at least until 1882.
SWENGEL, AMON WILMER
Born: 7-27-1858 Paxtonville
PA married:
Sara Elizabeth LaRue (1890)
Died: 10-20-1945
Harrisburg PA obit:
[5/26/1863 – 11/9/1938]
1881 license
1883 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [congregational Church Year Book 1947, 54]
1881-82 Nittany
Valley
1882-83 Jersey Shore circuit
1883-85 Highlands Mission
1885-86 located
1886-89 Dillsburg
1889-90 Bloomsburg
1890-92 Carlisle
1892 withdrew to join the
Congregational Church
1892-95 Centreville and Riceville PA
1895-98 Twinsburg OH
insurance and real estate agent in Harrisburg PA
Note: A.W. Swengel is a brother to Edwin Swengel, John G.M. Swengel and Uriah F. Swengel. The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives family information, including the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.
SWENGEL, EDWIN
Born: 7-23-1848 Paxtonville
PA married:
Mary Martha Diehl
Died: 7-24-1927
Williamsport PA obit:
[9/29/1850 – 9/3/1903]
married 2: Sarah J. _____
1870 license obit2:
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1871-72 Columbia
1872-73 located
1873-74 Center
1874-75 Prospect
1875-77 Conewago
1877-78 York King Street
1878-80 Cumberland
1880-83 Seneca Falls
1883-85 Lewisburg
1885-87 Newport and Patterson
1887-90 Lock Haven
1890 located
1898-1900 Warren Evangelical, Warren
PA
1905 Salem Christian, Beaver Falls NY
1920 living in Union County PA
Note: Edwin Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, John G.M. Swengel and Uriah F. Swengel. The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives family information, including the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.
SWENGEL, JOHN GEORGE MILLER
Born: 10-3-1840 Paxtonville
PA married:
Jemima Dunkel
Died: 2-5-1923
Allentown PA obit:
[4/28/1848 – 8/26/1895]
married2: S. Lizzie Kistler
1864 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 456
1866 ordained deacon
1868 ordained elder
Interment: Union – West End Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania EA 1923, 53
1864-65 Cherry
1865-66 Buffalo
1866-67 Luzerne
1867-68 Lycoming
1868-70 Carlisle
1870-72 Cumberland
1872-75 Shrewsbury
1875-77 Lewisburg
1877-79 Lycoming
1879-80 Port Trevorton
1880-84 Sugar Valley
1884-85 Jersey Shore
1885-86 Lock Haven circuit
1886-88 Center circuit
1888-89 located
1889-92 McClure circuit
1892-94 New Berlin
1894-95 Howard
1895-96 Shenandoah, East
Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1896 transferred to East
Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
Williamstown
Lebanon
Bethlehem
Terre Hill
Allentown Zion
Catasaqua
1917 retired
Note: John G.M. Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, Edwin Swengel and Uriah F. Swengel. He is the father of Carrie Swengel Gift, wife of Rev. Foster Ulysses Gift (b. 1871) of the Lutheran Church. The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives family information, including the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli.
SWENGEL, URIAH FRANTZ
Born: 10-28-1846 Paxtonville
PA married:
Lottie Anthony
Died: 3-8-1921 obit:
[9/12/1849 – 11/11/1896]
married2: Bertha Luella Buck
1867 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 86
1869 ordained deacon
1871 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 71
1867-68 Wyoming
1868-69 Columbia
1869-70 Perry
1870-71 Big Spring
1871-74 York King Street
1874-77 Lock Haven
1877-80 Seneca Falls
1880-84 superintendent, Juniata
District
1884-88 assistant editor, Sunday School Literature at Cleveland OH
1888-91 Baltimore Memorial
1891-94 York King Street
1894-98 Baltimore Memorial
1898-99 York King Street
1899-03 superintendent, York
District
1903-07 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1907-10 Lewistown
1910-19 Bishop
1919-20 Mt. Holly Springs
1920 retired
Note: Uriah F. Swengel is a brother to A.W. Swengel, Edwin Swengel and John G.M. Swengel. Mrs. Swengel is the daughter of S.T. Buck. Biographical sketches for U.F. Swengel appear in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 321, and in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism. The 1994 book Threads of Time by Jean Swengel gives family information, including the statement that the Swengels are descended (with a corruption of the surname) from Ulrich Zwingli. The first Mrs. Swengel was a co-founder of the denominations Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society and a biography of her appears in that organization’s 1910 Twenty-five year history Reminiscences.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1883 license
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Jazo Takano was a resident of Tokyo Japan and was licensed to work in Japan. The Japan Conference of the Evangelical Association was formally organized in 1893, with Jazo Takano as one of the original ministerial members. In 1902 he appears to be working for the Tokyo YMCA. This name also appears as Jozo Takano.
TAYLOR, JAMES KENNETH
Born: 10-1-1865 near Shrewsbury PA married: Emma Jane Hengst
[7/13/1886]
Died: 1-1-1941 Yoe
PA obit:
[5/10/1867 – 8/14/1934]
1902 license
Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe PA
Obit:
Note: J.K. Taylor was an active local preacher in Yoe, where
he was a prominent manufacturer and entrepreneur and director of the Yoe
Telephone Company. A biography is given
in Prowell’s 1907 Biographical History of
York County, II:164–165.
TEMPLE, BRITON SAMUEL
Born: 8-2-1904 Unityville
PA married:
Cecelia T. Lewis (1934)
Died: 7-1-1968
Lycoming County PA obit:
[4/16/1901 – 7/20/1968]
1930 license
Interment: Salem Cemetery, Unityville
PA
Obit:
1930-32 Grover
Note: Nothing else is known about Briton Temple. He appears to be living in Pennsdale in 1934 and reported lived about 10 years in Fox township, Sullivan County P_A.
TERWILLIGER, ARISTA FRANKLIN
Born: 5-7-1851 Light Street PA married: Mary Catherine
Geiger
Died: 7-12-1933
Orangeville PA obit:
[1/5/1858 – 9/2/1922]
1874 license
Interment: Highland Cemetery, Light Street PA
Obit:
1874-75 Milton
Circuit
1875 located
Note: A.F. Terwilliger lived in Scott township, Columbia County, where he was a school director.
TETER, FRANK LIVINGSTONE
Born: 2-6-1876 McKeansburg
PA married:
Mary Martha Mumey
Died: 7-17-1953 Yoe
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 87
married2: Elizabeth M. “Lizzie” Stump
1905 license obit2:
[1893 – 8/14/1977]
1908 ordained deacon
1910 ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 77
1906-07 Luzerne
1907-09 Liberty
1909-13 Cumberland
1913-18 Hellam
1918-21 Wayland
1921-24 Altoona
1924-31 Dallastown
1931-34 Williamsport Grace
1934-45 Lewistown Trinity
1945-51 York Bethlehem
1951 retired
Note: Frank L. Teter is the father of Lester E. Teter and Myron A. Teter.
TETER, LESTER EUGENE
Born: 5-24-1896 Zion Grove PA married: Ethel Blanche Miller
Died: 1-4-1964
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 79
1917 license,
recommended by Hellam
1920 ordained deacon
1922 ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 83
1919-20 Keystone
1920-22 Perry
1922-23 Bryansville
1923-26 New Freedom
1926-28 located
1928-30 Cearfoss
1930-34 Warrensville
1934-35 Hughesville
1935-41 Wellsville
1941-48 Northumberland
1948-57 Hagerstown
1957-63 Mifflinburg (ending
10/1/1963)
1963 retired (beginning 10/1/1963)
Note: Lester E. Teter is the son of Frank L. Teter and the brother of Myron A. Teter. Mrs. Miller is a sister to S. Silas Miller.
TETER MYRON ALFRED
Born: 10-7-1900 Zion Grove PA married: Grace Reesey
Died: 11-21-1982
Lewistown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 84
married2: Jane [Jennie] C. Shuler
1920 license obit2:
[1901 – 1980]
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1928-31 Baltimore
St. John
1931-37 York St. Paul
1937 withdrew and
surrendered credentials
Note: Myron A. Teter is the son of Frank L. Teter and the brother of Lester E. Teter. After withdrawing from the ministry, he lived in Lewistown.
THOMAS, ALFRED JOHN
Born: June 6, 1907 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Adella Bertha Krupp
Died: 10-26-1982
Williamsport PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 469
1926 license,
recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1931 ordained deacon
1932 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 409
1926 Montoursville
(Jun – Oct)
1926-29 student
1929-31 Yorkshire
1931-43 Baltimore Trinity
1943-53 Lock Haven
1953-60 First, Williamsport
1960-71 Red Lion St. Paul’s
1971 retired
1971-82 assistant, Williamsport Pine Street
Note: The obituary for Mrs. Thomas gives her birth name as Bertha Adella Elizabeth Krupp.
THOMAS, CYRUS
Born: 5-3-1827 married:
Leah Reisinger
Died: 7-13-1892 obit:
[4/7/1830 – 12/15/1897]
1863 license
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
Note: Cyrus Thomas is a brother to Wesley Parish Thomas. His children were members of the York Bethany congregation.
THOMAS, HENRY
Born: 5-10-1805 Lamcaster
County PA married: Anna
Maria Gilbert
Died: 10-11-1878
Freeport IL obit:
[12/28/1806 – 10/19/1894]
1835 license
1837 ordained deacon
1840 ordained elder
Interment: Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport IL
Obit:
1835-36 Lebanon
circuit
1836-37 Gettysburg circuit
1837-39 Union circuit
1839-41 Center circuit
1841-42 located
1842-44 York circuit
1844-46 Loyalsock
1846 located
Note: Henry Thomas is an uncle to Cryus Thomas and Wesley P. Thomas. He was one of first directors of the denomination’s missionary society, organized in Union County in 1839. Yeakel’s 1902 History of the Evangelical Association, page 207, states that Henry Thomas lived near Canadochly, York County, and was converted in the 1832 revival there. Henry Thomas, his brother, and other extended family members were part of the great 1840’s Evangelical migration from Pennsylvania to Stephenson County IL.
THOMAS, HOWARD W.
Born: 12-19-1870 Yorkana
PA married:
Carrie J. Musser
Died: 10-13-1962 obit:
[1874 – 6/22/1915]
married2:
Lucia B. Vanlott
1900 license obit2:
Wyoming Conference 1984, 217
1905 ordained deacon
Interment: New
Milford PA
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1963, 231
1900-03 student, Albright College
1903-05 West Cliffford
1905-07 Ransom
1907 transfer to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1907-10 Bald Mount
1910-12 Harford and Kingsley
1912-16 New Milford
1916-18 Portland and Cooperstown Junction
1918-24 Susquehanna
1924-27 Sidney
1927-32 Cooperstown
1932-37 superintendent, Wyoming Conference Children’s Home
1937 retired
1938-49 Nimmonsburg
1949-50 Willet
THOMAS, JOHN FREDERICK
Born: 1-14-1825 Windsor PA married: Sophia Catherine Numsen
Died: 3-15-1899 York
PA obit:
[8/1/1832 – 8/15/1858]
married2: Lucinda May
1874 license obit2: [10/28/1827 – 10/2/1910]
1885 ordained deacon
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 70
Note: A member of the York Trinity congregation, John F. Thomas was a prominent businessman (tobacco) and effective local preacher in that city.
THOMAS, M.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1886 license
Interment:
Obit:
1887-89 Muncy
Valley circuit
1889 located
THOMAS, WESLEY PARISH
Born: 1-22-1844 York County PA married: Joanna Elizabeth Wolfe
Died: 7-14-1925
Lewisburg PA obit:
[1846 - ]
1867 license
1869 ordained deacon
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1867-69 Buffalo
1869 located
Note: Wesley Parish Thomas is a brother to Cyrus Thomas.
THOMPSON, JACOB WEISER
Born: 6-16-1867 Spry PA married: Orionto Iota Rohland
Died: 3-28-1944
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944,79
1888 1icense,
recommended by Manchester on the York circuit
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 82
1889-90 Howard
1890-92 Williamsport St. Paul
1892-94 Grover
1894-97 Wayland
1897-01 Lock Haven
1901-05 Lewisburg
1905-08 Berwick Bower Memorial
1908-11 Harrisburg Publishing
House
1911-14 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1914-15 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1915-19 York Trinity
1919-23 Lock Haven
1923-31 superintendent, York
District
1931-34 Lewisburg
1934-39 Williamsport First
1939 retired
Note: Mrs. Thompson is the daughter of Isaac A. Rohland (c1840 – 1893) of the Pittsburgh Conference.
TROUP, CARSON A. JR
Born: 11-2-1932 married:
Marlene Peiper
Died: 11-21-2013
Philadelphia PA obit:
1953 license, recommended by Northumberland Trinity
1958 ordained elder
Interment: Laurel Memorial Park and Crematory, Pomona NJ
Obit: [Atlantic City Press 11/23/2013]
1956-57 Miami
Valley
1957-60 Columbia circuit
1960-65 Bellefonte Trinity
1965-69 York Christ
1969-70 without appointment
1971 located, page 98
Note: Carson A. Troup was a 1958 graduate of Union
Theological Seminary in Dayton OH.
After locating, he served as executive director, American Heart
Association of Atlantic and Cape May County.
He retired in 2000 and lived in Ventnor NJ.
TRUBY, JOSEPH
Born: 7-26-1820 Armstrong County PA married: Hannah Gilger King
[1846]
Died: 4-25-1856 obit:
[6/25/1825 – 10/22/1918]
1841 license
1843 ordained deacon
1845 ordained elder
Interment: Zion Union Cemetery, Emlenton PA
Obit:
1838-39 Indiana circuit
1841-42 Union
1842-43 Center
1843-44 Clarion
1844-46 Warren
1846 transfer to Ohio
Conference
1846-47 Cleveland Salem
1847-48 Erie circuit
1848-50 Harmony circuit
1850-51 Columbiana circuit
1851-52 Erie circuit
1852 charter member of Pittsburgh Conference
1852-53 Erie circuit
1853-54 Columbiana circuit
1854-56 Allegheny City
Note: After the death of Joseph Truby, Mrs. Truby married Abraham Niebel (1817-1901) of the Ohio Conference, the son of the early denomination’s prominent Henry Niebel (1784-1877). A biographical sketch of Joseph Truby is given in the 1898 Biographical record of DeKalb County Illinois, page 306. Mrs. Truby and Abraham Niebel are the parents of Rev. Benjamin Henry Niebel, whose file in this database gives more information.
TRUMPFHELLER, HENRY H.
Born: 5-25-1884 York County PA married: Mary Ellen Ranck
Died: 7-27-1922 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 94
1887 license
1893 ordained deacon
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 80
1887-89 Nittany
Valley
1889-05 located
1905-06 Emigsville
and Manchester
1906 located
Note: Henry H. Trumpfheller
is the grandfather of Pauline Trumpfheller Lower (1898-1996), wife of Rev.
Norman N. Lower (1883-1976) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United
Evangelical [and Evangelical Congregational] Church.
Born: 4-24-1929 York PA married: Doris Marie Good
Died: 7-21-1994
Baltimore MD obit:
Baltimore-Washington Conference 2002, 633
1964 license, recommended
by York Bethany
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Fair Haven Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1995, 446
1962-64 Bryansville
1964-66 Mt. Pleasant Mills
1966-70 Manchester MD
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-71 Manchester
1971-78 Baltimore Mount Vernon
1978-87 Baltimore Sexton
1987-94 Baltimore Fulton Siemers Memorial
(ending 2/1/1994)
1994 disability (beginning 2/1/1994)
Born: 8-10-1805 married:
Ruthanna Davis
Died: 10-7-1854 obit:
[3/20/1805 – 2/18/1886]
1847 license
1847 ordained deacon
1849 ordained elder
Interment: New Berlin PA
Obit:
1847-48 Luzerne
mission
1848-49 Columbia circuit
1849-51 Cherry circuit
1851-52 Perry circuit
1852 located
Note: This surname is also given as VALLERSCHAMP. A biographical sketch of Mrs. Vallerchamp, including some of her poetry, is given in Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights of Evangelical History, pages 145–165.
VANSON, H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1877 license
Interment:
Obit:
VEIL, CHARLES F.
Born: 2-11-1813 Schormdorf,
Germany married:
Christina M. Schabacher [Schanbacker]
Died: 10-31-1887
Wellsboro PA obit:
[7/10/1816 – 7/10/1907]
1872 license
1883 ordained deacon
Interment: Wellsboro Cemetery, Wellsboro PA
Obit:
Note: C.F. Veil is listed as a local deacon living in Liberty PA and is referred to as Judge C.F. Veil. The Veil family operated a tannery about one mile north of Liberty in an area known as Veiltown. This surname is sometimes given as VAIL or VEILE.
VOGEL, MILTON RAYMOND.
Born: 9-11-1909 Cosby MD married:
Grace Irene Kingsbury
Died: 10-14-1984 obit:
Kansas East Conference 1979, 257
1926 license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Union Township Cemetery, Defiance IA
Obit: Kansas East Conference 1985, 219
1939-43 Loganville
1943-46 State College
1946-51 executive secretary, Kansas Council of Churches
1951 transfer to Kansas Conference, page 94
VONADA, ISRAEL
Born: 2-27-1834 Centre County PA married: Susannah
Roush
Died: 7-16-1891 Centre
County PA obit:
[5/5/1833 – 8/25/1906]
c1860 license
1875 ordained deacon
Interment: Yearick Cemetery, Centre County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 41
Note: Israel Vonada was an active and effective local
preacher in Centre County.
VOSS, HERMAN EHRENREICH
Born: 1-4-1873 Prohn
Germany married:
Lilla Snyder
Died: 9-27-1951
Amherst NE obit:
Platte River Conference 1915, 53
married2: Sadie Dunkelberger
1899 license obit2:
Nebraska Conference 1961, 13
1904 ordained deacon, Platte River
Conference
1906 ordained elder, Platte River
Conference
Interment: Stanley Cemetery, Amherst NE
Obit: Nebraska Conference 1952, 23
transfer to Platte River Conference
1904-27 missionary to China
Note: Herman E. Voss came to America with his parents at the age of nine and settled in Amherst NE. In 1899 he was in Pennsylvania attending the Central Pennsylvania College of the United Evangelical Church in New Berlin PA. When the denomination opened Westmar College in LeMars IA in 1900, he transferred there and graduated in 1904. His 1899 license in the Central Pennsylvania Conference occurred during his brief college experience in New Berlin, and his connection to the Central Pennsylvania Conference is peripheral and not even mentioned in standard accounts of his life. Lilla Snyder Voss served in China 1905-15 and died there. Sadie Dunkelberger Voss served in China 1912-27.
VOUGHT, FREEMAN S.
Born: 8-11-1849 Wyoming PA married: Savilla Smethers
Died: 11-10-1910 Berwick PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conf. ME 1916, 133
1877 license
1881 ordained deacon
1883 ordained elder
Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1911, 118
1879-81 Jersey Shore circuit
1881-82 Luzerne
1882-83 Bendersville
1883-86 Liberty
1886-89 Grover
1889-90 Centre Hall
1890 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1890-93 Ramey
1893-95 Lumber City
1895-97 Silver Brook
1898-01 Riverside
1901-03 York Ridge Avenue
1903-06 Orbisonia
1906-07 Centralia
1907-08 Lock Haven East Maun Street
1908-09 Petersburg
1909-10 Berwick Calvary
1910 retired
Note: An obituary also appears in the 1/12/1911 New York Christian Advocate, page
63. Tradition is that Freeman S. Vought
left the Evangelical Association because of the growing turmoil that led to the
1891 split resulting in the 1894 formation of the United Evangelical
denomination.
Born: 9-24-1767 married:
Anna Maria Goetelle
Died: 2-14-1843 obit:
[1/3/1772 – 7/5/1827]
1837 license
Interment: Salem Evangelical Cemetery, Orwigsburg PA
Obit:
1838-39 Erie
circuit
1839-40 Indiana circuit
1840-41 Somerset
1841 located
Note: Christopher [a.k.a. CHARLES] Wagoner is the father of Hannah Wagoner Hesser, wife of Charles Hesser, of Rebecca Wagoner Hoffman, wife of Francis A. Hoffman, and Elizabeth Wagoner Orwig, mother of Bishop W.W. Orwig. Biographical comments on Christopher Wagoner appear in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, pages 91-95 and page 543.
WAGONER, PHILIP
Born: 11-22-1800 near Carlisle PA married: Catharine
_____
Died: 2-15-1870
Williamsport PA obit:
[4/3/1799 – 9/8/1870]
? license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]
1822-23 Canton
OH circuit
1823-24 Lancaster OH circuit
1824-25 Union and Center
1825-26 Franklin and Berkley
1826-27 Center
1827-28 superintendent, Salem
District
1828-29 Lake NY circuit
1829-31 located
1831-33 Center
1833-35 superintendent, Carmel
District
1835-38 superintendent, Salem
District
1838-42 superintendent, Zion
District
1842-44 superintendent, Salem
District
1844-46 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1846-47 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1847-49 superintendent, Somerset
District
1849-50 superintendent, Center
District
1850-52 Canton
1852-53 Lycoming
1853-54 Center
1854-55 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1855-58 superintendent, Center
District
1858-59 Boalsburg
1859-61 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1861-62 Harford
1862-64 Williamsport
1864-66 Clinton
1866-67 Center
1867-68 Lock Haven
1868-69 Boalsburg
1869-70 Williamsport
Note: A biographical sketch for Philip Wagoner appears in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 553.
WALKER, ALBERT ROBERT
Born: 3-27-1932 New Berlin PA married: Pauline B. Kenyon
Died: 12-23-2007 obit:
1952 license,
recommended by Milton First
1959 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 432
1954-56 Jacobus
1956-59 student, United
Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1957-59 Hillgrove-Waterhouse,
Miami Conference
1959-63 Castanea-Farrandsville
1963-64 Hummel's Wharf & Witmers
1964-68 Hummel’s Wharf
1968-70 Jersey Shore
1970-73 Watsontown
1973-81 Sunbury Albright
1981-86 retired
1986-88 Harveyville (ending 1/1/1988)
1988-92 assistant chaplain, Muncy Correctional Institution (beginning 1/1/1988 and ending 8/31/1992)
1992-93 leave of absence (beginning 8/31/1992)
1993-95 Mifflinburg St. Paul’s
1995 retired
WALKER, RAYMOND C.
Born: 9-30-1883 Vicksburg PA married: Esther May Long (1919)
Died: 1-18-1951
Harrisburg PA obit:
[5/14/1889 – 1980]
1902 license
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit:
1902-03 York
Christ
1903-04 White Deer
1904-08 Mechanicsburg
1908-11 student, Princeton
Seminary in Princeton NJ
1911 “transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
1911- 25+ Pottsville Second
Note: Mrs. Walker is a niece of Rev. Aaron Albion Long (1864-1944) in the United Brethren pastor files.
WALKER, WILLIAM PAUL
Born: married: Shirley Florence Mitchell
Died: obit: [4/14/1934 – 7/3/2020]
1948 license,
recommended by York St. Paul's
1954 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1950-51 Union circuit
1951-53 Cumberland
1953-56 Avis and Salladasburg
1956-58 Avis
1958-64 Milheim
1964-66 McClure
1966-71 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd
1971-72 Quincy
1972-73 chaplain, Quincy Home (ending 12/31/1973)
1974-81 Hanover Lohr’s (beginning 1/1/1974)
1981-91 Mechanicsburg Hope
1991 retired
WALLIS, H.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1907 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
WALLIS, WILLIAM NEVIN
Born: 4-21-1848 Shippensburg PA married: Annie E. McCord
Died: 12-14-1922 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 81
1870 license
1875 ordained deacon
1877 ordained elder
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 78
1873-74 Bendersville
1874-75 Middleburg
1875-77 Hughesville
1877-79 Dillsburg circuit
1879-80 Dushore
1880-83 Danville [Wayland NY]
1883-86 Nittany Valley
1886-89 Williamsport circuit
1889-91 Millmont
1891-94 Patterson
1894-95 Leiwistown
1895-97 located
1897-01 Jersey Shore
1901-03 New Berlin
1903-07 Lock Haven circuit
1907-10 Danville
1910-11 Berwick West
1911-13 New Freedom
1913-16 Yoe and Freysville
1916-17 Pennsdale
1917-19 Avis
1919-22 Jersey Shore Mission
[South Avis?]
Note: William N. Wallis is a brother to Sarah E. Wallis Moore Frain, wife of Isaac S. Frain.
WALTER, JOHN
Born: 8-21-1781 near Quakertown PA married: Christiana Becker
Died: 12-3-1818 obit:
[d. 1868]
1802 license
1809 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Nebo Cemetery, Ono PA
Obit:
1809-10 Northumberland
1810-12 Schuylkill circuit
1812-13 Franklin circuit
1813-14 Schuylkill circuit
1814 located to near Jonestown PA
NOTE: John Walter is the first preacher to travel under Jacob Albright. A biographical sketch is given in Stapleton’s 1917 account of the lives of Jacob Albright and his co-workers, page 123. Mrs. Walter is a sister to the George Becker in whose house Jacob Albright died. It appears he was originally interred in the Faber family graveyard near Mount Nebo.
WALTER, JOHN JR.
Born: 9-17-1793 Snyder County PA married: Mary Musgrove
Died: 6-4-1874 St.
Joseph County MI obit:
[1800 – 3/17/1874]
1813 license
Interment: Constantine Township Cemetery, Constantine MI
Obit: [Evangelical Messenger
6/25/1874, page 203, col. 6]
1813-14 Schuylkill circuit
located
NOTE: The grave marker gives the surname as WALTERS. John Walter Jr. is a brother to Michael Walter and to Elizabeth Walter Stambach, wife of John Stambach. The Snyder County home of their father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer.
WALTER, MICHAEL
Born: 1794 married:
Mary _____
Died: 8-26-1856 Ohio obit:
[8/7/1798 – 3/1/1855]
1814 license
? ordained deacon
1820 ordained elder
Interment: Washington Chapel Cemetery, Helena OH
Obit:
1814-15 Bedford circuit
1815-17 Somerset circuit
1817-18 Franklin circuit
1818-19 Canton circuit
1819-20 York circuit
1820-21 Somerset circuit
1821-22 Lake circuit
1822 located
NOTE: Michael Walter is a brother to John Walter Jr. and to Elizabeth Walter Stambach, wife of John Stambach. The Snyder County home of their father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer.
WALTER, MOSES
Born: 5-?-1836 married:
Elizabeth _____
Died: 7-1-1869 obit:
1859 license
1861 ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Yorkana Cemetery, Yorkana PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1859-60 Lycoming
1860-62 Middle Creek
1862-65 Baltimore circuit
1865-66 Center
1866-68 Lycoming
1868-69 York circuit
WALTON, MORRIS
Born: 6-9-1837 Luzerne County PA married: Rosanna
Caroline Kline
Died: 8-6-1870 Luzerne
County PA obit:
[b. 10/4/1836 – 2/12/1923]
1869 license
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 67]
1869-70 Columbia
circuit
1870 located
Note: A biographical sketch of Morris Walton is given in the 1915 History of Columbia and Montour Counties, page 539.
WALTZ, JACOB W.
Born: 4-25-1881 Baltimore MD married: Ellen May Landis
Died: 1-29-1964
Richland PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 1966, 144
1903 license,
recommended by Baltimore Memorial
1910 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder
Interment: Richland Cemetery, Richland PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1964, 84
1904-08 student, Albright College
1908-09 Enola
1909-10 York Princess Street
1910-13 located
1910 Dorsey (summer)
1911
Lake Ariel (summer)
1913-18 Wayland
1918-19 Prospect
1919-24 Bloomsburg
1924 retired
WARBURTON, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 9-19-1877 Lycoming County PA married: Edna Helen Klingman
Died: 10-14-1958 Union County PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 89
1904 license,
recommended by Bethel on the Muncy Valley circuit
1908 ordained deacon
1910 ordained elder
Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Forest Hill PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 106
1905-06 West
Clifford
1906-07 West Nanticoke
1907-08 Spring Mills
1908-10 Millmont
1910-14 Salladsburg
1914-17 Craley
1917-19 McClure
1919-22 Lewisberry
1922-24 Lopez
1924-26 Rebersburg
1926-27 New Freedom
1927-29 Mr. Rock
1929 located
Note: William H. Warburton located to operate a store in Forest Hill PA. He also taught school in Union County.
WARNTZ, MALVIN FRANCIS
Born: 5-5-1920 Aaronsburg
PA married:
June Elnora Auman
Died: 2-2-2018
Lewisburg PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 391
married2: Roberta A. Guinivan
1948 license,
recommended by Millheim obit2:
[10/16/1937 – 10/23/2017]
1952 ordained elder
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit:
1950-54 Penns
Creek
1954-72 Burnham charge
1972-85 Altoona Garden Heights – Lakemont
1985 retired
WEAVER, ALBERT FREDRICK
Born: 7-31-1878 Snyder County PA married: Mary Holibaugh
Died: 2-7-1955 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 68
married2: Anna Mary Crowell
1899 license obit2:
Susquehanna Conference 1967, 231
1901 ordained deacon
1903 ordained elder
Interment: Red Mount Cemetery, York County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 85
1899-02 Dillsburg
1902-05 Mt. Rock
1905-08 Newport
1908-12 Milton
1912-14 Bellefonte
1914-19 Lock Haven
1919-25 York Trinity
1925-27 Williamsport First
1927-35 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1935-43 superintendent, York
District
1943-50 General Church treasurer, Council of Administration
1950 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Weaver is the sister of John F. Craul [Crowell] and served 1909-14 as editor of the denomination’s Missionary Tidings and Missionary Gem.
WEBB, THOMAS CEPHAS M.
Born: 10-23-1936 Baltimore MD married: Miriam Ardella Gerwig
Died: 7-23-2023 Ickesburg PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 355
1959 license, recommended by Rockland MD
1965 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 350
1959-61 student, Albright College in Reading PA
1960-61 Shenandoah, Eastern Conference
1961-65 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1961-65 West Manchester, Ohio Miami Conference
1965-70 Marysville Bethany
1970-82 Yorkshire
1982-92 Chambersburg First
1992-98 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1998-01 Dallastown Bethlehem
2001 retired
WEBER, GEORGE P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1858 license
Interment:
Obit:
1858-59 Columbia circuit
Note. George P. Weber did not finish the year on Columbia
circuit. He reportedly “became
discouraged, left the field, and went home” and was replaced by H.A. Diettrich [as reported in the 2018 volume of The Chronicle]. Nothing else is known about this man.
WEBER, JOSEPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1841 license
Interment:
Obit:
1842 located
WEIDEMEYER, PETER CHRISTIAN
Born: 2-18-1849 Pimlico MD married: Catherine Barbara Schemm
Died: 7-13-1932 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 75
1876 license,
recommended by Hebbville
1878 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Powhatan MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 76
1876-77 East
Prospect
1877-78 Middleburg
1878-81 Mifflinburg circuit
1881-83 Center circuit
1883-86 Brush Valley
1886-89 Lock Haven circuit
1889-92 Sugar Valley
1892-96 McClure circuit
1896-00 Loganville
1900-04 Lycoming
1904-08 White Deer
1908-12 Loganville
1912-16 Yorkana
1916-21 Yoe and Freysville
1921-26 Harford
1926 retired
WEIKEL, JACOB
Born: 12-24-1811 Pine township, Columbia County PA married: Margaret Rebecca Hill
Died: 5-25-1880
Delaware, Mercer County PA obit:
[12/2/1812 – 3/14/1860]
married2: Barbara Ann Turner
1848 license obit2:
[1/7/1831 – 7/12/1910]
1851 ordained deacon
1853 ordained elder, Pittsburgh
Conference
Interment: Shenango Valley Cemetery, Greenville PA [as
WEIKAL]
Obit:
1848-49 Venango
circuit
1849-50 Clarion
1850-52 located
1852 charter member of Pittsburgh Conference
1852-53 Clarion
1853-58
1858-62 superintendent, Allegheny District
1862-63
1863-64 Jefferson
1864-73
1873 retired
Note: Jacob Weikel appears to have located for some reason for various periods of time. An obituary is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 429.
WEIRICK, GEORGE
Born: 6-14-1819 married:
Mary Myer
Died: 3-11-1850 obit:
[1/30/1824 – 4/12/1899]
1842 license
1844 ordained deacon
1846 ordained elder
Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg
PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1842-43 Bedford
1843-45 Columbia
1845-46 Cumberland
1846-47 Washington circuit
1847-48 Center
1848-49 superintendent,
Allegheny District
1849-50 York circuit
Note: George Weirick is the father of W.E. Weirick. After the death of George Weirick, his widow married a Mr. John F. Price and became the mother of John Myer Price. Comments on his conversion appear in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 554 and Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 115.
WEIRICK, HENRY EDWARD
Born: 11-30-1847 Centre County PA married: Arie Ella
Whiteman
Died: 3-29-1926
Stockton IL obit:
[12/9/1858 – 2/11/1947]
1873 license
Interment: Rock Grove Cemetery, Rock Grove IL
Obit:
1873-74 Conewago
1874-75 located
1875 “took credentials for another conference”
1876 received back into Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: H. Edward Weirick is the son of George Weirick. This name is also given as W.E. WEIRICK.
WELCH, JAMES HUNTINGTON
Born: 3-13-1860 Carrol County MD married: Elizabeth
Huffman
Died: 11-2-1938 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 90
married2: Mrs. Nattine Brandt (1/30/1935)
1882 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 91
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: Yorkana Cemetery, Yorkana PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 86
1882-83 Wayland
NY
1883-84 Jersey Shore circuit
1884-85 Nittany
1885-88 Milesburg
1888-89 Hagerstown circuit
1889-91 Keystone
1891-93 White Deer
1893-95 Liverpool
1895-97 Lewisberry
1897-99 Wellsville
1899-05 located
1905-09 Berkeley Spring WV
1909-12 Lycoming
circuit
1912-16 East Point
1916-21 Yorkana
1921-26 Mexico
1926-27 Mt. Rock
1927 retired
Note: James H. Welch was a gospel song writer who collaborated with fellow Evangelical pastors Noah Young (texts) and Walter Kamble (editor).
WERNER, PAUL AUGUSTUS
Born: 9-22-1898 Parryville PA married: Margaret C. Cooper
Died: 12-4-1959 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 419
1923 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Emmaus
1927 ordained deacon, Illinois
Conference
1927 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 88
1926-27 Symerton IL
1927 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1927-31 Baltimore Trinity
1931-35 Berwick North
1935-47 York Bethany
1947-59 Red Lion St. Paul’s
Note: Paul A. Werner is the son of Lewis Augustus Werner (1862-1953) of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Mrs. Werner is the sister of Paul E. Cooper of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.
WHEATFIELD, FRANK L.
Born: 8-17-1885 Cincinnati OH married: Bessie M. Bheam
Died: 3-25-1936 obit: [1884 – 1980]
1907 license
Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park,
Altoona PA
Obit:
Note: It has not been confirmed that the Frank Wheatfield
born 8/17/1885 and described above is the same Frank L. Wheatfield licensed in
1907.
WHEELOCK, PAUL SAMUEL
Born: 2-8-1908 North Bloomfield NY married: Vietta May
Ingalls
Died: 2-22-1991
Kissimmee FL obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 494
1931 license, Free
Methodist Church, recommended by Albion NY
1935 ordained elder, Free Methodist
Church
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 493
1943 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1943-47 South
Williamsport Grace
1947-53 Williamsport St. Paul's
1953-58 York
Zion
1958-69 superintendent,
Evangelical Home at Lewisburg PA
1969-73 Sunbury Albright
1973 retired
Note: Paul S. Wheelock is the son of Rev. Orrin K. Wheelock
(1874-1953) of the Free Methodist Church and the nephew (his mother being a
sister to Mrs. Babcock) of Royal A. Babcock.
WHITEHEAD, CHARLES ARTHUR JR.
Born: 9-25-1890 Quebec Canada married: Esther Ursula Miller
Died: 10-8-1961 NY obit: [1887 – 1992]
? license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment: Beaver Falls Old Cemetery [Riverside Cemetery],
Beaver Falls NY
Obit: New York Conference EUB 1962, 69
New England Conference
1925 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1925-33 Wayland
NY
1933 transfer to New York
Conference
conference superintendent
1960 retired
1960-61 assistant, Syracuse Calvary
Note: C. Arthur Whitehead died while attending a dedication service for the church at Beaver Falls.
WHITMIRE, J.G.
Born: 1-5-1856 Evansville PA married:
Died: 4-5-1900
Bloomsburg PA obit:
1892 license
1894 ordained deacon
1896 ordained elder
Interment: New Ebenezer Cemetery, Columbia County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 78
1892-93 Waller
1893-97 Scranton Trinity
1897-98 Danville
1898 retired
Note: A death notice is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 639. While at Scranton Trinity, J.G. Whitmire appears to have also been involved with work at “Little England.”
WHITMIRE, MELVIN LEE
Born: 7-29-1909 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Anne Wengert
Died: 1-25-1987
Williamsport PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2011, 408
1946 license,
recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial
1950 ordained elder
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 422
1946-52 Nescopeck
1952-66 State College St. John’s
1966-76 Williamsport First
1976 retired
1976-82 assistant chaplain, Williamsport Hospital
WHITMORE, W.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1893 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: W.H. Whitmore appears to be a local preacher and YWMC General Secretary living in Scranton.
WHITMYER W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1853 license
Interment:
Obit:
WIEST, SAMUEL L.
Born: 5-10-1844 Northumberland County PA married: Elizabeth E.
Orwig
Died: 2-10-1924 obit:
[b. 1/5/1847 – 7/10/1931]
1869 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1871 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1873 ordained elder
Interment: Grace UM Church Cemetery, Millersville PA
Obit:
1869-70 Lykens
1870-71 agent, Church Building Fund
1871-74 Easton English mission
1874-76 Uniontown [Pillow]
1876-79 Mahony City
1879-80 Schuylkill Haven
1880 corresponding secretary, Missionary Society
Note: Samuel L. Wiest is the father of Rev. Lawrence Orwig Wiest (b. 1867, affiliation uncertain), and the grandfather of Vila Alyce Wiest Heiser, wife of Benjamin F. Heiser. He is also an uncle to Lovie Wiest Kamble, wife of Walton L. Kamble. Mrs. Wiest is the daughter of William W. Orwig.
WILCOX, E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
Interment:
Obit:
WILKES, HARRY REAY
Born: 9-13-1872 Danville PA married: Anna Catharine Heil
Died: 10-29-1959 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 92
married2: Bessie Reay
1902 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 86
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 88
1903-06 West
Nanticoke
1906-08 Nuremberg
1908-12 Dushore
1912-15 Mifflinburg
1915-20 Berwick St. Paul
1920-24 Baltimore St. Paul
1924-28 Baltimore St. John
1928-33 York Grace
1933-34 Altoona Grace
1934-36 Northumberland
1936-40 Mifflin
1940-46 Manchester
1946 retired
Note: The maiden name of the first Mrs. Wilkes is also given as HEYLE.
WILKES, MILTON R.
Born: 11-17-1903 MD married:
Grace M. Hangen (1932)
Died: 4-21-1990 obit:
[8/12/1904 -10/6/1996]
1923 license
Interment:
Obit:
1948 Chicago IL Englewood Baptist
Westfield NJ
1951 Brooklyn NY
1980 visitation minister, Lancaster PA Holy Trinity Lutheran
Note: Milton R. Wilkes is listed as a resident of Baltimore MD. Both Milton and Grace (Hangen) Wilkes are 1926 graduates of Albright College. He entered the Baptist ministry. Mrs. Wilkes is the daughter of Rev. George Washington Hangen (1867-1928) of the East Pennsylvania Conference and a brother to Rev. Emerson G. Hangen.
WILHELM, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license
1868 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: This is likely John Henry Wilhelm, another reference to the John Wilhelm licensed in 1864.
WILHELM, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1864 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: This is likely John Henry Wilhelm, another reference
to the Henry Wilhelm ordained deacon in 1868.
WILLIAMSON, A.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1886 license
1893 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: This may be the Alva Watson Williamson (1869-1953) born in Salladasburg and buried in Jersey Shore.
WILLSON, CHARLES WESLEY SR.
Born: 1-18-1919 Cresco PA married:
Violet Denault
Died: 5-23-2012
Dallastown PA obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2015, 279
1939 license, New
England Conference, recommended by Pawtucket RI Broadway
? ordained deacon
1943 ordained elder
Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 275
1939-40 Fall
River MA
1940-44 Lowell MA
1944 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1944-48 Hughesville
1948-55 Mt. Holly Springs
1955-58 Mifflin
1958-68 Wrightsville
1968-82 Red Lion Chapel
1982 retired
WILSON, ELIJAH B.
Born: 8-8-1818 Milton PA married: Lucinda Ludwig
[9/24/1840]
Died: 5-17-1868 near
Arndtsville PA obit:
[c1820 – 8/20/1884]
1847 license
1853 ordained deacon
1863 ordained, Mercersburg Classis of
the Reformed Church
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Arndtsville
PA
Obit:
1852-54 Franklin
1854-56 Gettysburg
1856-57 Perry
1857-58 Liverpool
1858-60 Columbia
1860-61 Shrewsbury
1861-62 Cumberland
1862 withdrew
1863 received by the Classis of Zion of the Reformed Church
1863-65 Strasburg, Franklin County
1865-66 Grindstonehill charge [Marion, Grindstone Hill, Fayetteville, Funkstown]
1866-68 Orangeville
Note: A biographical sketch of Elijah B. Wilson appears in volume 4 of the 1872 The Fathers of the German Reformed Church, pages 448-450. An interesting account of all that is known about this man is given in the volume “Reverend Elijah B. Wilson and Lucinda Ludwig Wilson” privately published in 2011 by James O. Stevenson of Washington DC, a copy of which is in the conference archives.
WILSON, ROLLIN E.
Born: 8-12-1873 Pennsdale PA married: Eva
Babcock
Died: 10-22-1958
Dansville NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1960, 191
1895 license
1898 ordained deacon
1906 ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit: Genesee Conference 1959, 900
1895-97 Steuben NY
1897-98 located to attend normal school
1898-02 student,
Central Pennsylvania College in New Berlin
1902-03 Susquehanna
1903-04 located
1903-04 Flycreek,
Wyoming Conference ME
1904-06 Steuben NY
1906-07 Mt. Rock
1907-09 York Bethany
1909 “transfer” to the
Wyoming (PA/NY) Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1909-11 Hallstead
1911 transfer to Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1911-14 Allen’s Hill
1914-15 Conesus
1915-16 Cohocton
1916-17 Pulteney
1917-18 Cameron
1918-19 Delevan-Yorkshire
1919-20 sabbatical
1920-22 Rushford
1922-25 Garland-Oyis
1925-26 East Bloomfield
1926-17 Warren’s Corners
1927-28 South Royalton
1928-31 West Barre
1931-36 Alabama-Basom
1936-38 Genesee-Shongo
1938 retired
WINEGARDEN, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 10-10-1817 PA married:
Elizabeth Cochran [5/15/1839]
Died: 7-24-1902 Union
County PA obit:
[8/26/1818 – 12/261890]
1866 license
1873 ordained deacon
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 73
Note: Benjamin F. Winegarden of Lewisburg served as a local pastor and class leader.
WINTER, ABRAHAM ALBERT
Born: 10-4-1871 Lycoming County PA married: Nellie Irene Henry
Died: 10-27-1938 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 1967, 232
1896 license
1901 ordained deacon, Oregon Conference
1903 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 86
1899-01 Lafayette
OR
1901-05 Dallas OR
1905-09 Portland OR
1909-13 president, Dallas
College in Dallas OR
1913-16 Salem OR
1916-38 superintendent, Evangelical Home and Orphanage at Lewisburg OA
WINTER, WILLIAM NELSON
Born: 5-12-1897 Baltimore MD married: M. Margaret _____
Died: 7-7-1963
Baltimore MD obit:
[4/25/1891 – 1/11/1968]
1920 license
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder
Interment: Parkwood Memorial Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 119
1922-26 Baltimore
St. Matthew's
1926 transfer to the
Atlantic Conference
1926-29 Philadelphia Grace [Olney]
1929-62 Baltimore Calvary
1962 retired
WITT, SAMUEL DANIEL
Born: 6-17-1790 Lehigh County PA married: Catharine S.
Cook
Died: 3-17-1842
Fairfield County OH obit:
[1789 – 12/28/1870]
1818 license
1836 ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Forest Cemetery, Circleville OH
Obit:
1818-19 Somerset
1819-20 Bedford
1820 located
Note: Samuel Witt lived near Somerset.
WITTMER, WILLIAM CARL
Born: 12-27-1907 Philadelphia PA married: Sara Gertrude Winkleblech
Died: 3-27-1979 Orange
City FL obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 480
1930 license,
Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, recommended by Gospel Tabernacle of
Binghamton NY
1932 ordained elder, Christian &
Missionary Alliance Church
Interment: [cremated; ashes scattered]
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 342
1930-31 Hammersley
Fork and Tamarack, Pa.
1931-32 Swedish Mission
Covenant, Renovo, Pa.
1932-35 Gospel Tabernacle,
Binghamton NY
1935-37 Gospel Tabernacle,
Salamanca NY
1937-42 Gospel Tabernacle,
Hornell NY
1944-48 Leesburg
1948-54 Rebersburg
1954-62 East Prospect
1962-64 Port Trevorton
1964-69 Middleburg
1969-74 Dallastown Trinity
1974 retired
1975-79 minister of visitation, Orange City FL UMC
WOLF, AARON
Born: 8-5-1820 Lewisburg PA married: Mary Ann Sankey
Died: 7-11-1899
Freeport IL obit:
[11/27/1825 – 1/10.1901
1842 license
1843 ordained deacon
1845 ordained elder
Interment: Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport IL
Obit:
1842-43 Union
1843-45 Center
1845-46 Pittsburgh mission
1846-49 located
1849-50 Union
1850 located
Note: Aaron Wolf is a brother to Simon Wolf. He was part of the large Evangelical migration from Centre County PA to Stephenson County IL during the mid-1800’s. Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 79, gives a brief account of the Wolf family, as does Beers’ 1910 Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, page 1192-3.
WOLF, ADAM E.
Born: 6-13-1893 Bellwood PA married: Minnie M. Glass
Died: 3-25-1965
Altoona PA obit:
[8/14/1893 – 10/9/1966]
1913 license
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Altoona Mirror 3/26/1965, page
21
1940-42 York, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Note: Adam E. Wolf was licensed but never appointed. In 1914 was married in the Christian Missionary and Alliance Church in Altoona and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad for many years.
WOLF, SIMON
Born: 2-22-1815 Lewisburg PA married: Victoria Morton [11/27/1866]
Died: 12-23-1890
McConnellsburg PA obit:
[10/17/1838 – 4/25/1909]
1846 license
1848 ordained deacon
1850 ordained elder
Interment: Union Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA
Obit: Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church 1891, 82
1846-47 Columbia
1847-48 Perry
1848-49 Bedford
1849-50 Lycoming
1850-52 York circuit
1852-53 Luzerne Mission
1853-54 Wilkes-Barre Mission
1854-58 agent, Union Seminary
1858-59 York Queen Street
1859-60 located
1860-61 agent, Union Seminary
1861-63 Lewisburg
1863-64 agent, Union Seminary
1864-66 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1866-68 superintendent, Center
District
1868 located
left the Church
and united with the Reformed Church
1879-84 Hickory Bottom [Martinsburg area]
1884-90 McConnellsburg
Note: Simon Wolf is a brother to Aaron Wolf. The first husband of Mrs. Wolf was a Mr. Henry S. Frey (d. 1/1/1863). The Mrs. Wolf listed is believed to be the 2nd spouse of Simon Wolf. Stapleton’s 1900 Evangelical Annals, page 79, gives a brief account of the Wolf family, as does Beers’ 1910 Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, page 1192-3.
WOLFE, CHARLES NEWTON
Born: 4-2-1873 Logan Mills PA married: Ada Minerva Bartges
Died: 2-9-1965
Lancaster PA obit:
East Pennsylvania (EV) 1951, 81
married2: Mrs. Mae S. Lentz
obit2: [7/11/1894 – 11/1/1990]
1895 license,
recommended by Logan Mills (Evangelical Association)
1897 ordained, East Pennsylvania
Conference EA
Interment: Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reiffton
PA
Obit: Eastern Conference 1965, 114
1895-96 associate, Sugar Valley
1896-00 Jarrettsville
1900-04 Elizabethville
1904-09 Williamstown
1909-11 Pottstown
1911-15 Perkasie
1915-20 Bangor
1920-25 Reading Ebenezer
1925-31 Palmerton
1931-40 Wilkes-Barre First
1940-44 Reading Immanuel
1944 retired
Kleinfeltersville
Philadelphia Calvary
Birdsboro
Note: Charles N. Wolfe is the father-in-law of two preachers: Ruth is married to Andrew B. Eickhoff (1899-1967) and Maude is married to Rev. Herbert C. Moyer of Michigan, affiliation unknown. He is also the grandfather of Rev. Andrew S. Eickhoff (1924-2007) of the New England Conference. The first Mrs. Wolfe is an aunt to Woodrow Bartges. The second Mrs. Wolfe (nee Sadie Mae Kerstetter) was the widow of a Mr. Joseph Harrison Lentz (1892-1945).
WOLGEMUTH, PAUL LEHMAN
Born: 8-19-1917 near Manheim PA married: Ruth Gibble Faus
Died: 4-4-1999 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 178
1947 license,
Brethren in Christ Church, recommended by Shippensburg
1949 ordained elder, Brethren in Christ
Church
Interment: Mastersonville BIC
Cemetery, Lancaster County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 443
1947-50 Farris Mines BIC, Pulaski County VA
1950-52 Colyer and Green Grove BIC, Centre County PA
1952-53
1953-55 Knifley BIC, Adair County KY
1955-58 chaplain,
Cumberland County Prison
1958-61 Mount Rock BIC, Cumberland
County PA
1961 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1961-67 Sugar Valley
1967-69 Winfield & New Berlin
1969-75 Winfield
1975-79 Bethlehem - Springvale
1979-82 Mifflinburg St. Paul’s
1982 retired
Note: Paul Wolgemuth is the father of Mr. Gerald Wolgemuth, media director for the Susquehanna Conference UMC.
WOMELDORF, JEZREEL
Born: 9-22-1859 Sugar Valley PA married: Vianna Zuleka
Heller
Died: 9-23-1936 West
York PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 88
married2: Mary Margaret Herrman
1886 license,
recommended by Howard obit2:
[1873 – 1953]
1888 ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 81
1886-88 Cumberland
1888-90 Bendersville
1890-91 Hanover circuit
1891-93 Dillsburg
1893-95 Bloomsburg
1895-97 Danville
1897-99 Scranton Sibly
1899-01 Bellefonte
1901-03 Patterson
1903-05 Middleburg
1905-07 Williamsport circuit
1907-08 Sonestown
1908-12 Nuremberg
1912-15 Buffalo circuit
1915-16 Espy
1916-19 Rebersburg
1919-23 Loganville
1923-25 Alberton
1925-26 Idaville
1926-28 Idaville
and Mount Holly Springs
1928 retired
Note: Jezreel Womeldorf is the father of Rev. Paul D. Womelforf (1890-1974) of the Kansas West Conference. The second Mrs. Womeldorf is from Red Lion.
WOODS, WILLIAM FREED JR.
Born: 12-8-1917 York PA married: Thelma Bayne
Died: 9-6-2015 obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2019, 351
1938 license,
recommended by York St. Paul's York
1941 ordained deacon
1943 ordained elder
Interment: [cremated]
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 273
1939-41 Baltimore
St. Matthew
1941-42 Jersey Shore
1942-45 Dushore
and Lopez
1945-49 Yorkana
1949-57 Baltimore Trinity
1957-66 Lemoyne Grace
1966-71 superintendent, Lewisburg District
1971-78 Red Lion St. Paul
1978-83 Carlisle First
1983 retired
Note: Mrs. Woods is the daughter of Ellis J. Bayne.
WOOLERY, EBER GRANVILLE
Born: 1887 married:
E. Grace _____
Died: 1970 obit:
1913 license
1916 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1914-16 Harford
1916-18 Bryansville
1918-22 located
1922-24 Baltimore Christ
1924-27 Hebbville
1927 located
Note: This surname is sometimes given as WOLLERY.
WRIGHT, RALPH LARUE
Born: married:
Lucille U. _____
Died: obit:
[4/?/1928 – 12/?/2005]
1955 license,
recommended by South Williamsport Grace
1960 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1955-57 Columbia
circuit
1957-60 Dorsey
1960-69 Loganville
1969-70 without appointment
1970 located, page 98
Note: Rev. Ralph L. Wright is mentioned in 1953 in connection with the Church of the Open Bible in East Smithfield PA, in 1969 as a guest UCC speaker in York PA, and in 1970 as conducting a funeral at Mt. Zion (which was on the Loganville charge). He is still assisting in wedding in Loganville in 1973 and 1974, although he appears to be living in Landisville, Lancaster County PA.
WUSTER, J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1862 deposed
Born: 10-28-1929 Lewistown PA married: Elsie M. Phillips
Died: 3-20-2016 York
PA obit:
[1937 - ]
1949 license,
recommended by Lewistown Grace
1954 ordained elder
Interment: Yorkana Cemetery, Yorkana PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 273
1951-57 Enola
Grace
1957-66 Yorkana
– Mt. Pisgah
1966-84 York Bethany
1984-93 Red Lion St. Paul’s
1993 retired
1993-02 Longstown
Note: Edward H. Yarnell is a brother to Shirley June Yarnell Shenk, wife of Jay Richard Shenk of the Susquehanna Conference.
YEAGER, G.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1873-75 Lairdsville
1875-76 Bendersville
transfer to Kansas Conference
1876 located
1878 returned
credentials
Note: This name also appears as C.F. YEAGER. According to Shortess’ 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 61, he “located and moved West.”
YEAKEL IRVIN C.
Born: 3-4-1852 married:
Anna Elizabeth Shortess
Died: 2-2-1918 obit:
[12/1/1861 – 6/2/1935]
1880 license
1883 ordained deacon
1885 ordained elder
Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown [Cumberland
County] PA
Obit:
1879-85 faculty,
Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1885-88 Marysville
1888-89 York circuit
1889-91 East Prospect
1891-94 Baltimore Grace
1894 withdrew to unite with
the Presbyterian Church
1894-98 Darnestown MD
1898-05 [apparently, mission work in the Baltimore – DC area]
1905-08 Brooklyn MD Memorial
1908-13 Baltimore Broadway
1913-16 West Liberty WV
1916-18
Carlisle
PA Biddle Chapel*
* A Presbyterian building, no longer standing, at the corner of North East and East North Streets. The property was purchased by the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.
Note: This name is also given as IRWIN C. YEAKEL. Mrs. Shortess is the daughter of Samuel I. Shortess and a sister to John D. Shortess and Thomas A. Shortess. The tombstone for Mrs. Yeakel reads YEAWORTH, as the family oral tradition states that “sometime after the death of Rev. Yeakel, the name was changed to Yeaworth by decree of court.”
YEARICK, SAMUEL
Born: 11-4-1827 Greg twp, Centre County PA married: Abigail Shaffer
Died: 1-21-1892 Brush
Valley, Centre County PA obit:
[8/15/1829 – 6/15/1891]
1864 license
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment: Yearick (West) Cemetery, Madisonburg
PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 40
1870-71 Clinton
1871-74 Middleburg
1874-75 Center
1875-76 McClure
1876-79 Williamsport Market
Street
1879-82 York Circuit
1882-85 Whiteground
1885-87 Red Lion
1887 retired
Note:
Samuel Yearick is a brother of Reformed preacher William Rishel Yearick
(1817-1888) and an uncle to Reformed preacher Zwingli Albert Yearick
(1845-1940). His mother Salome Rishel
Yearick (1794-1872) was a first cousin to Susan Rishel Orwig wife of William W.
Orwig. This surname is sometimes
rendered REARICK. Samuel Yearick is the
grandfather of Catherine Ruth (Yearick) Bartges, mother of Woodrow A. Bartges.
YEATTS, EARL RAYMOND
Born: 2-22-1894 York PA married: Esther Marie Lehr
Died: 12-11-1920 Burke
NY obit:
[1895 – 1973]
1917 license
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
obit:
1916-19 student, Princeton Seminary, Princeton NJ
1918-19 Presbyterian, York PA
1919 “transfer”
to the Presbyterian Church
1919-20 Burke NY
Note: E.R. Yeatts was raised in the York Third United Brethren Church. His 1917 license by the United Evangelical Church suggests he may have served, or have intended to serve, as a student pastor in that denomination, but there is no record of any such service. An obituary appears in the 1921 Princeton Seminary Bulletin, page 137.
YERLITZ, DAVID
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1810 license
1813 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1810-11 Northumberland
1811-12 Schuylkill
1812-13 Franklin
1813-14 “new”
1814-15 Bedford
2015 located
Note: Not much is known about this man who is called a true
pioneer of the work in Western Pennsylvania and mentioned in the denominational
histories. There is only one “Yerlitz” in the United States in Find-a-grave, a Lea Yerlitz (1815-1877) who was born in Pennsylvania, married a
Mr. Knauer, and is buried in Illinois.
Could the birth of this daughter be a factor that caused David Yerlitz
to locate? There is a “David Yarlitz”
household in the 1820 census in Bedford County with one adult male 26-44, 2 persons
16-25 and 3 females under 10.
YINGLING, WILLIAM EYSTER
Born: 10-6-1898 Manchester MD married: Tillie Heisley
Died: 11-14-1990 New
Oxford PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 104
married2: Mrs. Margaret Banks
1915 license,
recommended by Hanover Grace obit2:
[7/6/1902 – 10/27/1995]
1922 ordained deacon
1925 ordained elder
Interment: York Road Cemetery, Hanover PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 496
1917-19 Keystone
1919-21 located
1921-24 Manchester
1924-28 Lock Haven Mission
1928-35 Howard
1935-46 Burnham (ending 5/46)
1946-49 located for health
reasons (5/46 – 1/49)
1949-64 Hanover Grace (beginning
1/49)
1964 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Yingling, nee Margaret Elizabeth Gigeous, was the widow of a Mr. Basil C. Banks (1889-1966).
YOST, L.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1912 license
Interment:
Obit:
YOST, THOMAS ADAM
Born: 4-22-1847 Brookville PA married: Eliza Anna Schick
Died: 2-7-1926 Eugene
OR obit:
[5/6/1848 – 10/26/1922]
1908 license
Interment: Mapleton Pioneer Cemetery, Mapleton OR
Obit: [Oregon Conference 1926, 37]
Note: A more complete obituary for T.A.
Yost appears in the 1927 Year Book of the Evangelical
Church, page 107. Some sources give a
birth date of 4/7/1847.
YOUNG, ABRAHAM
Born: married:
Died: 1846 Union
County PA obit:
1846 license
Interment:
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883,95]
1846 Lycoming
YOUNG, BENJAMIN WILLIAM ALBRIGHT
Born: 3-27-1841 Salladasburg PA married: Lydia Bardo
Died: 8-28-1911 Collomsville PA obit:
[1/31/1845 – 11/25/1925]
1868 license
Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA
Obit:
1896 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Note: William Young is the son of John Young and a brother to George Young,
Noah Young and Reuben Young. He
graduated from medical school in 1871 and practiced medicine in Lycoming County
PA. The recognition of his elders orders from the Evangelical Association are stated in
the 1896 Methodist journal, page 50 – and in that same journal, page 201, “Dr.
B.W.A. Young is listed as a member at Millville [Larryville].
In 1906, page 253, B.W.A. Young is listed as a member of the Oval Methodist
Episcopal Church. His daughter Jennie L.
Young married her first cousin David F. Young, and his daughter Mary Alice
Young married E.E. Sponsler (1874-1930) of the Methodist Church. In 1909 B.W.A. Young is listed as a local
preacher living in Nisbet.
YOUNG, CARL EDGAR
Born: 6-11-1908 Williamsport PA married: Lois Spencer Horton
Died: 12-23-2011
Mechanicsburg PA obit:
[1911-1981]
1930 license,
recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1935 ordained deacon
1937 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
1930-34 student
1934-35 Scranton
1935-36 Mt. Holly Springs
1936-53 Baltimore Walbrook
1953-70 Milford Mill
1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1970-72 Milford Mill
1972 retired
Note: Carl E. Young is the grandson (through Mr. Jacob O. Young) of Reuben Young. His daughter Mary Lois is married to Rev. Robert Miller (affiliation unknown) and his daughter Margaret Carol is married to Rev. Edward Michael Wray (affiliation unknown).
YOUNG, DAVID FRANKLIN
Born: 12-3-1866 married:
Jennie L. Young
Died: 3-2-1952
Lewistown PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 98
1893 license
1895 ordained deacon
1897 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 100
1898-94 Sparrows
Point
1894-96 Columbia
1896-99 Wrightsville
1899-02 Lopez
1902-06 Nescopeck
1906-09 Baltimore Grace
1909-13 Hughesville
1913-16 Altoona
1916-21 Lewistown Grace
1921-28 Carlisle
1928-31 Northumberland
1931-39 Williamsport Trinity
1939 retired
Note: David F. Young is the son of Reuben Young. His son Reuben married the daughter of Harry Minsker. Mrs. Young is the daughter of B.W.A. Young.
YOUNG, GEORGE W.F.
Born: c1820 married:
Rachel Bierly (1844)
Died: 1858 Baltimore
MD obit:
[7/26/1826 – 1/25/1896]
1850 license
1855 ordained deacon
1857 ordained elder
Interment: Baltimore MD
Obit:
1850-51 Cherry
circuit
1851-52 York circuit
1852-54 Union
1854-55 York circuit
1855-57 Baltimore
1857-58 York circuit
1858 Baltimore mission
Note: George Young is the son of John Young and the brother of B.W.A. Young, Jacob Young, Noah Young and Reuben Young.
YOUNG, JACOB
Born: 8-24-1829 Union County PA married: Mary Lentz
Died: 4-12-1895
Williamsport PA obit:
[9/16/1831 – 12/10/1904]
1852 license
1854 ordained deacon
1856 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1896, 23
1852-53 Buffalo
1853-54 Gettysburg
1854-55 Columbia
1855-56 Blockhouse and Cherry
1856-57 Cherry Circuit
1857-58 Boalsburg
1858-59 Cumberland
1859-60 Union
1860-62 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1862-64 superintendent, Center
District
1864-66 York Queen Street
1866-68 Williamsport Market
Street
1868-70 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1870-71 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1871-72 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1871-75 editor, The Living
Epistle and Sunday-school Literature
1875-77 corresponding secretary,
Missionary Society
1877-79 Port Trevorton
1879-80 Williamsport circuit
1880-82 Lock Haven
1882-85 Williamsport Market
Street
1885-87 Lewisburg
1887-89 Buffalo
1889-92 Williamsport Market
Street
1892 located and
transferred to the East Pennsylvania Conference EA
1894-95 presiding elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference EA
Note: Jacob Young is the son of John Young and the brother of B.W.A. Young, George Young, Noah Young and Reuben Young.
YOUNG, JEREMIAH M.
Born: 4-30-1806 York PA married:
Died: 1-20-1876 near
Hazelton PA obit:
1846 license
1847 ordained deacon
1849 ordained elder
Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1846-47 Cumberland
1847-49 Gettysburg
1849-51 Columbia
1851-53 Buffalo
1853-55 Perry
1855-57 Columbia
1857-59 Union
1859-61 Cumberland
1861-62 Perry
1862-64 Baltimore Green Street
1864-66 superintendent, Center
District
1866-68 superintendent,
Baltimore District
1868-69 Lycoming
1869-71 Boalsburg
1871-73 Marysville
1873 retired
Note: A death notice for J.M. Young is given in Stapleton’s Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 405.
YOUNG, JOHN
Born: 10-5-1796 Northampton County PA married: Elizabeth Gehret
Died: 2-14-1873
Crescent PA obit:
[9/1/1802 – 1873]
license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 95]
1831-32 Schuylkill
circuit
1832-33 Lycoming
1833-34 Center
1834-35 Union
1835-36 Lycoming
1836-37 Lebanon circuit
1837-38 Somerset
1838-39 Cumberland
1839-40 Lycoming
1840-57 located
1857-58 Columbia
1858-60 Clinton
1860-61 Liverpool
1861-62 Lycoming
1862 located
Note: John Young is the father of Elizabeth Young Loyer,
first resident of the Lewisburg Home, and of five Evangelical pastors. From oldest to youngest, the ministerial sons
are George, Jacob, William [aka B.W.A], Reuben and Noah.
YOUNG, NOAH
Born: 10-12-1846 Williamsport PA married: Amelia A. Champion
Died: 4-14-1923 Port
Trevorton PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 40
married2: Sophia Feese
1871 license obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 68
1873 ordained deacon married3:
Mrs. Maria Witmer Bierly (1922)
1875 ordained elder obit3:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 96
Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 76
1871-73 York
circuit
1873-76 Baltimore circuit
1876-79 Liberty
1879-82 McClure
1882-83 Brush Valley
1883-86 Port Trevorton
1886-89 McClure
1889-91 Loganville
1891-94 Millersville
1894-95 Carlisle
1895-99 superintendent, Carlisle
District
1899-03 superintendent,
Lewisburg District
1903-07 Lewistown
1907-11 Wrightsville
1911-15 Berwick North
1915-19 Mifflinburg
1919-21 Danville
1921 retired
Note: Noah Young is the son of John Young and the brother of B.W.A. Young, George Young, Jacob Young and Reuben Young. He is the “Rev. Noah Young” who wrote the words for the gospel song The Purifying Fountain, music by C. Harold Lowden, copyright 1913 by The Heidelberg Press, and he also provided the text for 8 gospel songs for composer and fellow Evangelical pastor James H. Welch that appear in a Walton L. Kamble’s 1922 songbook Helpful Songs New and Old No.1.
YOUNG, REUBEN C.
Born: 4-20-1839 Centre County PA married: Dorothy
Ellwanger
Died: 4-8-1903 Lycoming
County PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 82
1871 license
1873 ordained deacon
1875 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 58
1871-72 Liberty
circuit
1872-73 Port Trevorton
1873-75 Center Hall
1875-78 Sugar Valley
1878-80 Nittany Valley
1880-83 Williamsport circuit
1883-85 Lycoming
1885 located
Note: Reuben Young is the son of John Young, and the brother of B.W.A Young, George Young, Jacob Young and Noah Young, and the father of David Young and the grandfather (through Mr. Jacob O. Young) of Carl E. Young.
YOUNKEN, EDWARD L.
Born: 9-15-1929 Williamsport PA married: Doris _____
Died: 10-25-2010
Edison NJ obit:
1952 license,
recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1958 ordained elder
Interment: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Metuchen NJ
Obit:
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1955-58 State
Road EUB, Germantown OH, Miami Ohio Conference
1958-66 York Bethlehem and
Violet Hill
1966-71 Park Forest Village
1971-72 sabbatical leave
entered the Presbyterian ministry
1975-81 Oak Tree Presbyterian, Edison NJ
1981-94 First Presbyterian, Rutherford NJ
1994 retired
Note:
Ed Younken played baseball in high school and college
and did not pursue professional sports to enter the ministry. The ball he used to pitch a Little League
no-hitter is in the Little League Hall of Fame in South Williamsport PA.
ZANG, JACOB WILLIAM
Born: 8-10-1892 Harrisburg PA married: Ruth H. Hertzler
Died: 9-15-1980
Carlisle PA obit:
[12/11/1896 – 11/18/1991]
1920 license
1922 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA
Obit:
1920-21 Sonestown
1921-26 Nittany
1926-33 New Columbia
1933-35 Center Hall
1935-40 State College
1940-42 without appointment
1942 retired
Note: After leaving the ministry, Jacob W. Zang appears to have taken a position involving the Pennsylvania Probation and Parole Board.
ZEHNER, GEORGE EVANS
Born: 4-8-1841 Berwick PA married: Lydia Reber
Died: 10-24-1902 York
PA obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 80
1867 quarterly
conference license
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 73
1869-70 Center
1870-72 Shrewsbury
1872-74 Lewisburg
1874-75 Baltimore English
mission
1875-77 Dushore
1877-79 Marysville
1879-81 Newport and Patterson
1881-82 Lewistown and Patterson
1882-83 White Deer
1883-85 Carlisle
1885-87 New Berlin
1887-89 Hagerstown
1889-90 Newport and Marysville
1890-91 Patterson
1891-93 Berwick
1893-97 Bellefonte
1897-98 located
1898-99 East Prospect
1899-00 Wrightsville
1900 retired
Note: George E. Zehner is a first cousin to Isaiah Bower.
ZEIGLER, CLARK GEORGE
Born: 3-17-1886 Shrewsbury PA married: Olive Mae Houdeshel
Died: 8-25-1949
Marshalltown IA obit:
Iowa Conference 1962,84
1907 license
? ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder, Iowa Conference
Interment: Green Mountain Cemetery, Green Mountain IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1950,46
1909 transfer to Iowa Conference
Belle Plaine
Marshalltown
Iowa City First
Center Point
Washta
Maxwell
Marshalltown First
George
Laurel
1945-46 retired
1946-48 Green Mountain
1948 retired
ZIEBER, PAUL FRANKLIN
Born: married: Judy _____
Died: obit:
1960 license, recommended by Troxelville
1965 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1960-62 student, Albright College in Reading
PA
1962-65 student, United Theological Seminary
in Dayton OH
1965-75 Milton St. Peter’s
1965-69 Danville
1969-75 Montandon
1975-87 Red Lion Zion
1987-99 Enola Mt. Zion
1999-04 Middletown Evangelical
2004 retired
ZIMMERMAN, JOHN JACOB
Born: 12-21-1817 Germany married: Theresa Elizabeth
Merriman
Died: 3-9-1869 IA obit:
[7/8/1828 – 11/30/1900]
1856 license
1859 ordained deacon
Interment: Floyd Valley Cemetery, Hinton IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1869, 93
1857-58 Shrewsbury
1858-59 York circuit
1859-60 Baltimore circuit
1860-68 located, living in
Baltimore
1868 missionary to Melbourne, Plymouth County IA
Note: Jacob Zimmerman died less than a year after moving to Iowa, from a fatal disease growing out of a severe cold that took him away at the age of 51 years. That left the mother in a strange land with no relatives to assist her and her family of six boys, but the good church people took care of them until such time as the mother and her oldest boys could locate themselves on a farm.
ZIMMERMAN, LEONARD
Born: 1783 Schuylkill County PA married: Anna _____
Died: 1840 Manheim PA obit: [1778 – 1846]
1811 license
1813 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Stapleton’s Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 262
1811-13 Northumberland
1813-14 York
1814-15 Lancaster
1821 located
Note: Leonard Zimmerman is the father of Margaret Zimmerman
Miller, wife of “printer” George Miller.
Note2: Colonel Leonard Zimmerman was
converted under Jacob Albright and opened his Schuylkill County home for
Evangelical preachers in 1797. His daughter Catherine married John
George Zehner and settled at Summer Hill, Columbia County, north of Berwick. In
1811, Catherine’s brother Rev. Leonard Zimmerman preached in the Zehner log
cabin, and a great revival led to the beginning of the Summerhill Evangelical
Church.
ZIMMERMAN, W.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1910 license
Interment:
Obit:
ZINSER, JOHN GEORGE
Born: 11-28-1806 Wurttemburg
Germany married: Rebecca
Ferner
Died: 10-1-1883 El
Paso IL obit:
[11/25/1817 – 3/27/1900]
1829 license
1831 ordained deacon
1833 ordained elder
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso IL
Obit:
1829-30 Somerset circuit
1830-31 Schuylkill circuit
1831-32 Lebanon circuit
1832-34 York circuit
1834-35 superintendent, Salem District
1835-36 superintendent, Carmel District
1837 moved to Ohio
ZUBER, JEREMIAH WESLEY
Born: married:
Died: 1811/12 obit:
? license,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Reading PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 67
1896-97 Altoona and Bellwood (started in mid-year)
1897 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: J.W. Zuber served as a local preacher and a supply preacher. He was the founding pastor at Bellwood Grace. This is believed to be Jeremiah Wesley Zuber (1868-1911) buried in Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA.
ZULAUF, MICHAEL
Born: married:
Died: 1869 Baltimore
MD obit:
1848 license
1851 ordained deacon
1853 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883,95]
1848-49 Buffalo
1849-50 Union
1850-51 Gettysburg
1851-52 Gettysburg circuit
1852-54 Blockhouse
1854-56 Wilkes-Barre mission
1856-58 Blockhouse
1858-59 Perry circuit
1859-61 Harford
1861-62 Shrewsbury
1862-64 Clinton
1864-66 Boalsburg
1866-68 York circuit
1868-70 Baltimore McEldery Street (died during 2nd year)