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Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist Pastors.  This list includes every person known to have (1) been licensed or ordained in the East Baltimore (1856-1868) or Central Pennsylvania (1868-1970) Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal [and Methodist] Church or (2) served an appointment in those conferences 1856-1970.  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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ABRAM, HARRY EMERSON

 

Born: 2-7-1930  Hastings PA                                     married: Ruth Alice Thompson (1957)

Died:                                                                           obit: [2/28/1931 – 8/13/2022]

 

1954    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-56           student, Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

                             1953-56  youth minister, Wilmette IL Baptist Church

1956-58           M2 missionary to Latin America

1958-67           missionary to Malaya   

1967                transfer to Southeastern Asia Conference

1968                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1968-71           Wayne

1971-83           Willistown Township

1983-97           Havertown Trinity

1997                retired

 

Note: H. Emerson Abram retired to the United Methodist Home in Lewisburg PA and later moved to be with his son in South Bend IN. 

 

 

ADAMS, FURMAN

 

Born: 9-3-1849  Mt. Horeb NJ                                   married: Sarah Elizabeth VanNess

Died: 11-19-1905  Montoursville PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923,137

 

?          quarterly conference license, Mt. Horeb NJ

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle Emory

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit:  Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 112

 

1874-77           Mercersburg               

1877-79           Lumber City              

1879-82           Glen Hope                  

1882-84           Penn’s Valley             

1884-87           Port Royal                  

1887-88           Manor Hill                 

1888-93           Cassville                     

1893-97           Stewartstown             

1897-99           Newport                     

1899-04           Ralston                       

1904                retired 

 

Note: Furman Adams is the father of Katherine Adams Roher, wife of Frank W. Roher.

 

 

 ADAMS, JOSEPH VERNON

 

Born: 4-13-1874  Clearville PA                                 spouse: Nettie S. Brengle

Died: 2-20-1945  Muncy PA                                      obit: Central PA Conference 1944,243

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Laura Probst Bierly     

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Bedford obit2: Central PA Conference 1971,371

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Kohr-Adams mausoleum in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 215

 

1897-98           Tatesville

1898-99           Belleville                

1899-00           Pleasant Gap          

1900-03           Blackwell               

1903-06           McConnellsburg    

1906-11           Newport                 

1911-13           Hanover                 

1913-16           New Cumberland   

1916-18           Milton                    

1918-20           Williamsport Grace

1920-24           Altoona Grace

1924-27           Curwensville          

1927-28           Harrisburg Trinity28

1928-32           Williamsport Third Street

1932-33           Clearfield West Side

1933-35           York Ridge Avenue

1935-43           Renovo  (ending 12/1/43)            

1943-45           Muncy  (starting 12/1/43)                 

 

Note: The manuscript “Horse and Buggy Days” of Joseph V. Adams was printed in the 1994 volume of The Chronicle, pages 3-52.

 

 

ADAMS, MAE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-29           Harrisonville (beginning January 1929)

 

Note: Mae Adams served as a local pastor.  She is otherwise unknown.  This may be Mae Adams (Mrs. Elwwod) Lanehart (1872-1957) buried in Fulton County.

 

ADAMS, ROBERT BRUCE

 

Born: 9-14-1939  Altoona PA                                    married: Donna M. Wicker

Died: 5-30-2006  Ballston Spa NY                            obit: [10/4/1938 – 1/18/2002] (divorced)

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Knight

                                                                                    obit2:

1963    license, recommended by Altoona Eighth Avenue

1964   admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

1960-61           Lemont

1961-63           Ramey

1963-67           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1963-67      Whitesville, Northern New Jersey Conference

1967-74           Reedsville             

1974-75           on leave

1975                withdrew, page 112

                             14 years      staff, WPSU-TV

                                                director of communications, Rensselaer Polytech in Troy NY

                             2003           retired

 

Note: In his later years R. Bruce Adams served as a supply pastor in the Presbyterian Church at Ballton Spa NY and at Hamilton Union in Guilderland NY.  He had just completed all his requirements for Presbyterian ordination and was seeking a call when he was diagnosed with cancer.

                                                 

 

AGUE, GEORGE B.

 

Born: 5-3-1848  Hubbard OH                                    married: Margaretta Susan Loy

Died: 3-27-1922  Bellwood PA                                  obit: Central PA Conference 1927, 528

 

?          quarterly conference license, Grahamton circuit

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Grahamton

1876    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Logan Valley Cemetery, Bellwood PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 129

 

1874-75           Snow Shoe               

1875-76           Osceola                    

1876-78           Loyalsock                

1878-81           New Washington     

1881-82           Clearfield circuit

1882-83           Port Matilda             

1883-84           Pine Grove               

1884-96           on leave, ill health         

1896                retired

 

AHO, ROBERT D.

 

Born: 6-16-1945  Meadville PA                                 married: Judith Reppert (1967)

Died: 9-22-2022  Bath NY                                         obit:

 

1968     license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-70           Manor Hill

1970                no longer listed

 

Note: Robert D. Aho served as a local pastor while attending Lock Haven University and planning to go on to seminary – but became a high school teacher in industrial arts.  He continued to seerve as a lay pastor in the Northern NY and Central NY Conferences, and was an active member at Centenary UMC in Bath NY. 

 

 

AKE, FRANK WORTH

 

Birth: 2-20-1910  Altoona PA                                                married: Helen Eichelberger

Death: 6-19-1987  Lewisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 160

 

1931    license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1946    admitted on trial

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill PA  

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 400

 

1944-47           Hampton NJ, Northern New Jersey Conference

1947-50           Avis                      

1950-53           Woolrich               

1953-57           Lewisburg Beaver Memorial            

1957-66           Williamsport Pine Street   

1966-75           Bloomsburg Wesley

 

Note: Frank Worth Ake is the son of J. Howard Ake.  He is listed in the Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, 1947.

 

AKE, JAMES HOWARD

 

Born: 4-16-1874  Williamsburg PA                           married: Martha Daisy O’Connor

Died: 1-28-1952  Berwick PA                                    obit: died from childbirth 2-25-1910

                                                                                    married2: Olive Cecelia Cortright

1899    license, recommended by Williamsburg        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 372

1903   admitted on trial

                                               

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 197

 

1900-01           Wagner

1903-09           Mapleton-Mill Creek                  

1909-10           East Altoona                                

1910-16           Berwick First                                 

1916-21           Chambersburg                              

1921-25           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1925-31           superintendent, Harrisburg District              

1931-34           Sunbury St. John’s

1934-42           Williamsport Pine Street

1942-46           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1946                retired                       

 

Note: J. Howard Ake is the father of Frank Worth Ake.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 38.

 

AKE, MERRILL HOWARD

 

Born: 8-4-1879  Williamsburg PA                             married: Edna Elizabeth McClintock [1907]

Died: 9-15-1921  Altoona PA                                    obit: [1/31/1884 – 5/5/1917]

 

1907    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1907-09           Karthaus                  

1909-11           Port Matilda            

1911-12           no appointment      

1912                withdrew under complaints

 

Note: Merrill H. Ake is not a close relative of the other ministerial Akes.  He later served as rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Berwick in 1919.

 

AKERS, JESSE R.

 

Born: 9-26-1844  Bedford County PA                       married: Clara Ashcome

Died: 12-7-1904  Everett PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924,127

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment:  Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 113

 

1868-69           Schellsburg

1869-71           Saxton

1871-72           Thompsontown

1872-75           Freedom

1875-77           Huntingdon

1877-78           West Huntingdon

1878                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1878-79           ?

1879                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1879-91           on leave

1891                retired

 

Note: Jesse Akers is a third cousin of J. Milton Akers and J. Benson Akers. Until 8 months before his death, he apparently lived in Iron River MI.

 

 

AKERS, JOHN MILTON

 

Born:  2-12-1836  Akersville PA                               married: Millie E. Ellis

Died:  2-3-1889  Saint Charles MN                            obit: Northern Minnesota Conference 1918, 216

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by York Springs circuit

1863    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Saint Charles MN

Obit: Minnesota Conference 1889, 70

 

1861-62           Pleasant Grove MD

1862-63           Clinton

1863-64           Orangeville

1864-65           Sunbury

1865-66           Laporte

1866-67           Elysburg

1867-68           Newport

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           on leave

     1869-70      principal, Dravosburg high school

     1870-71      Sauk Centre and Osakis, Minnesota Conference

1871                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1871-72           Sauk Centre and Osakis

1873-75           Princeton

1875-78           Berlin

1878-81           Byron

1881-83           Fairbault circuir

1883-84           Reed’s and Wabasha

1884-87           Pine Island

1887-88           Saint Charles

 

Note: J. Milton Akers is a brother of J. Benson Akers.  They are third cousins of Jesse Akers.

 

AKERS, JOSEPH BENSON

 

Born: 2-3-1829  Akersville PA                                  married: Henrietta Galligher

Died: 10-27-1889  Bellwood  PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1873, 74

                                                                                    married2: Lydia A. Gibbony

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916,129

?          quarterly conference license, Castle Fin circuit                                                         

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference , recommended by Carlisle Emory

1860    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1862    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Logan Valley Cemetery, Bellwood PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 78

 

1858-60           Shrewsbury

1860-62           York Springs  

1862-63           Catawissa

1863-65           Sharpsburg & Clear Springs

1865-67           Mercersburg

1867-68           Liberty

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Liberty

1869-70           Freedom

1870-71           Port Matilda   

1871-72           president, Catawissa Seminary

1872-74           White Haven

1874-77           Hyner’s Run

1877-80           Howard

1880-82           Penn’s Valley

1882-85           Glen Hope

1885-87           Logan Valley 

1887-89           Shrewsbury

1889                on leave

 

Note: J. Benson Akers is a brother of J. Milton Akers.  They are third cousins of Jesse Akers.

 

 

ALBERTS, WILLIAM EDWARD                          

 

Born: 10-26-1926  Williamsport PA                          married: Doris L. Schmaus

Died: 3-22-2021 Canton MA                                     obit: [5/13/1927 – 1/2/2013]

                                                                                    married2: Eva V. Young

1952   admitted on trial                                               obit2:              

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1949-51           Trout Run      

1951-52           Clearville

1952-60           at school

1960                transfer to New England Conference

1960-64           Somerville First

1964-65           Salem Lafayette Street

1965-73           Boston Old West

1973                forcibly retired*

1973-78           secular work

1978-92           Unitarian Universalist-affiliated Community Church of Boston

1992-11           chaplain, Boston Medical Center

2011                retired

 

*Because of his controversial social positions and activities, the Conference presented eight “reasons” [not “charges” – reportedly to prevent a church trial] declaring him unappointable, and this was upheld by a majority vote of the clergy.  A 13-year process of suits and charges in the civil courts ultimately resulted in a favorable settlement for Alberts.]  His performing a marriage ceremony between two male members of his congregation was the definitive issue.  He was an early champion of LGBT rights.

 

Note:  In 2019 William E. Alberts and his second wife were living in Canton MA.  His first marriage ended in divorce.  He is the author of several controversial books and of the 2014 collection of his writings The Counterpunching Minister (who could not be “preyed” away).

 

ALBERTSON, ALBERT O.                         

 

Born: 4-28-1884  Freylinghuysen Township NJ        married: Anna M. _____

Died: 7-?-1962  NJ                                                     obit:                                        

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1910-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1910-12      Newville         

 

Note: Dickinson College records home town and subsequent residence of Albert O. Albertson as Hope NJ.  He is otherwise unknown.  He appears to have completed the 3/1911 to 3/1912 appointment at Newville, even though he graduated from Dickinson 6/1911.

 

ALBERTSON, ADEN BYRON

 

Born: 10-24-1887  Rossford OH                                married: Margaret Lola Finly (6/27/1922)

Died: 7-11-1984                                                          obit: West Ohio Conference 1970, 298

                                                                                    married2: Dorris S. _____

                                                                                    obit2: West Ohio Conference 1992, 342

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima OH                                                              

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1985, 341

 

1913-14           Excelsior

1914-16           student, Dickinson College

                             1915-16      Littlestown

1916-18           student, Ohio Wesleyan University

 

1920-21           Essex MA Congregational Church (presumably as a seminary student)

 

Note: A. Byron Albertson is a brother to Oliver H. Albertson.  He is a non-graduate of the Dickinson class of 1918.  He is the author of a book about his parents – In memory's Lane, or the life story of Alonzo Baldwin Albertson and Rhoda Anne Moore Albertson.

 

ALBERTSON, ISAAC WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-22-1874  Luzerne County PA                     married: Catherine Taylor Hardcastle

Died: 11-18-1923  Columbia County PA                   obit: [9/25/1875 – 5/10/1959]

 

Interment: Kitchens Cemetery, Columbia County PA

Obit:

 

1919-21           Orangeville & Rohrsburg

 

Note: I.W. Albertson was a local pastor from Lattimer Mines. 


 

ALBERTSON, OLIVER HERMAN

 

Born: 11-21-1867 Columbia County PA                    married: Oriola Jennison Latteer

Died: 9-28-1949                                                          obit: Nebraska Conference 1933,384

 

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Harveyville

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Harveyville

 

Interment: Fairmont Cemetery, Fairmont NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1950, 414

 

1895-97           Washingtonville

1897-99           Benton

1899-02           Irish Valley

1902-03           Beach Haven

1903-04           Harveyville

1904-05           Medix 

1905-08           Rouservile

1908                transfer to Nebraska Conference

 

Note: Oliver H. Albertson is a brother to A. Byron Albertson.

 

ALBRIGHT, NEIL ROY

 

Born: 11-10-1934  Philipsburg PA                             married: Barbara Ann Phennicie

Died: 12-2-2007  Altoona PA                                    obit: [b1934]

 

1953    license, recommended by Madera

1957   admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 393

 

1953-54           Hopewell (beginning 9/1/53)

1954-56           Fairbrook  

1956-58           Frankstown Parish

1958-61           Saxton-Coalmont       

1961-65           Mercersburg   

1965-70           Mifflintown   

1970-80           Altoona Pleasant Valley Parish

1980-81           sabbatical leave

1981-86           Phillipsburg Grace

1986-93           Tyrone Christ

1993-94           Tyrone Christ & chaplain, Epworth Manor

1994                retired

 

ALBRITTON, JOSIAH LUKE

 

Born: 9-13-1847  Mayfield KY                                  married: Lydia J. O’Roark

Died: 3-24-1931  Chicago IL                                     obit: [4/25/1842 – 1/27/1902]

 

?          admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference MES

 

Interment: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago IL

Obit:

 

1882                transfer to Central Ohio Conference

1882-83           Lima South

1883-86           Toledo St. John’s

1886-90           Bellefontaine

1890-94           Fremont

1894-96           superintendent, Toledo District

1896-97           superintendent, Findlay District

1897-98           suspended for one year

1898                transfer out to Montana Conference

1898-99           (appears to have no assignment this year)

1899                transfer in to Montana Conference

1899-01           Butte Mountain View

1901-02           Salt Lake City First (until Aug 1902, Utah Mission Conference)

1902-03           Williamsport Grace (from Aug 1902, Central Pennsylvania Conference)

1903                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1903-04           Williamsport Grace

1904-06           Lewisburg Beaver Memorial

1906                transfer to Illinois Conference (April/September)

1906                transfer to Austin Conference (September/December)

1906-07           Dallas Tabernacle

 

Note: Rev Josiah L. Albritton is mentioned briefly in Edward Laird Mills’ 1947 Plains, Peaks and Pioneers: Eighty Years of Methodism in Montana, page 58.  In August 1902 two pastors exchanged positions across conference line:  I.N. Morehead from Williamsport Grace to Salt Lake City First, and J.L. Albritton in return – undoubtedly as arranged by the superintendent of all the work in the Utah Mission appointments at that time, J.L. Leilich of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  J.L. Albritton was a close friend and personal minister to Rutherford B. Hayes, and he preached at the Hayes funeral.

 

ALFORD, REGINALD LLIAS

 

Born: 7-20-1927  Lake Placid NY                             married

Died:                                                                           obit

 

1950    license

1953   admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-55           Harrisonville (ending 8/10/55)           

1955-58           Catawissa (beginning 8/10/55)          

1958                transfer to North Indiana Conference

 

Note: In 2020, Reginald L. Alford was living in Avon Park FL.

 

ALLEN, EDWARD E.

 

Born: 8-15-1804  Accomac County VA                    married: Sarah Wilson

Died: 5-28-1872  Shrewsbury PA                              obit:

                                                                                    married2: Elizabeth B. Wiley

1827    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [d. 1870]

            ordained deacon

            ordained elder

 

Interment:  Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1873, 71

         

1827-28           Bellefonte      

1828-29           Lycoming       

1829-30           Shamokin       

1830-31           Concord         

1831-32           Huntingdon    

1832-33           Stafford         

1833-34           Fredericksburg

1834-35           St. Mary’s                   

1835-37           Severn            

1837-38           Fort Littleton 

1838-39           Licking Creek            

1839-41           Bedford                     

1841-43           Cumberland               

1843-44           Hollidaysburg            

1844-45           Patapsco                     

1845-47           Baltimore City Mission          

1847-53           Baltimore Sailor’s Bethel

1853-57           on leave

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           on leave

1858-60           Jersey Shore   

1860-62           Great Island   

1862-63           Hereford        

1863-65           Liberty           

1865-66           on leave          

1866                retired 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Edward E. Allen appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 327.

 

ALLEN, ROBERT JOHN

 

Born: 4-20-1869  Stockton PA                                   married: Bertha Huff

Died: 12-15-1963  Harrisburg PA                              obit: Central PA Conference 1936, 198

 

1897   admitted on trial

1899    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 354

 

1897-98           Washingtonville         

1898-99           Waller             

1899-01           Silver Brook   

1901-04           Riverside        

1904-07           Freeland         

1907-11           Picture Rocks 

1911-14           Lock Haven East Main Street

1914-16           Woolrich

1916-20           Everett

1920-25           Juniata First

1925-29           Tyrone First   

1929-35           Waynesboro

1935-40           Berwick First 

1940-42           Mechanicsburg

1942                retired 


 

ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 4-5-1878  Dauphin PA                                     married: [never married]

Died:  9-20-1914  Williamstown PA                          obit:

 

1897    license, recommended by Williamstown

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Waterville

 

Interment: Williamstown PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 116

 

1904-06           Waterville       

1906-07           Cameron         

1907-09           Emporium      

1909-11           Blackwell       

1911-14           Mercersburg   

1914                on leave

 

Note: Some biographical information on William H. Allen appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 52.

 

ALLER, ELLSWORTH McCLELLAN

 

Born: 7-6-1863  near Knobsville PA                          married: Mary Ann Peffer

Died: 8-30-1948  Berwick PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 180

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Loudon

1889    ordained deacon

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 192

 

1886-88           Fort Loudon circuit

1888-91           Fairview-Marysville   

1891-93           Greencastle    

1893-98           Newville-Rehoboth    

1898-01           Hopewell        

1901-04           Warriors Mark

1904-08           Howard

1908-10           Barnesboro     

1910-12           Duncannon     

1912-15           Mount Holly  

1915-18           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1918-22           Enola  

1922-25           Nescopeck

1925-28           Flemington

1928                retired 

 

ALLISON, JOHN S. JR.

 

Born: 8-20-1883  Mount Forest, Ontario Canada      married: Clara M. Thompson

Died: 8-10-1968  Washington PA                              obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1957, 597

 

1906    admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference

1909    ordained deacon, Pittsburgh Conference

1911    ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

                                                                                   

Interment: Washington Cemetery, Washington PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 316

 

1904-05           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1904-05      Elimsport & Maple Hill

1905-07           student, Washington & Jefferson College in Washington PA

                             1905-07      Houston & Meadow Lands

1907-12           Bentleyville

1912-15           Dravosburg

1915-21           McKees Rocks

1921-26           Pittsburgh North Avenue

1926-31           Crafton

1931-36           New Kensington

1936-51           Washington First

1951-56           Aspinwall

1956                retired

                             1956-62      Pittsburgh Rock Bend

 

AMMERMAN, GEORGE EDWARD

 

Born: 1-11-1889  Pectono PA                                    married: Florence Louisa Hooper

Died: 4-20-1984                                                          obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1980, 200

 

1933    ordained, Eastern Conference MP

 

Interment: Olivet Cemetery, Pittsgrove NJ

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1985, 209

 

1918-23           Carley Brook

1923-32           Clifford (ending 11/15/1932)

1932                “transfer” to Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church (1933, 73)

1933-34           Hollisterville and Cortez

1934-37           Hollisterville

1937-40           Point Erial NJ

1940                transfer by denominational merger to Southern New Jersey Conference

1940-49           Manahawkin and Cedar Run

1949-56           Centerton Circuit

1956-59           Alloway

1959                retired

 

Note: George E. Ammerman served as a local preacher in the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church until 1938 (page 40), when he was ordained and granted full membership.  Mrs. Ammerman was the daughter of Thomas H. Hooper (1861-1935) of the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.  She had a brother and two brothers-in-law who were preachers in the Methodist Protestant Church and became Methodists in the 1939 denominational union: Thomas Leroy Hooper (1894-1975) of the West Virginia Conference, Stephen F. Sliker (1884-1958) [married to her sister Leona] of the New Jersey Conference, and George H. Naylor (1898-1966) [married to her sister Myrtle] of the Southern New Jersey Conference.

 

AMOS, JOHN EDWIN

 

Born: 4-12-1838                                                          married: Lucy V. Amoss

Died: 2-26--1926                                                        obit: [1845 – 4/14/1909]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Lindsley Sledge

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf          obit2: [1873 – 1955]

1861    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1864    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1926, 242

 

1859-60           Middletown

1860-61           Hancock

1861-62           Baltimore High Street

1862-63           suspended

1863-64           Baltimore Caroline Street

1864-66           Hampstead

1866-68           Westminster

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           North Baltimore station

1872-71           Baltimore Strawbridge

1872-74           Hagerstown

1874-75           Washington DC Fourth Street

1875-77           Annapolis

1877-80           Martinsburg

1880-81           Jackson Square

1881-84           Woodberry

1884-85           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1885-91           superintendent, West Baltimore District

1891-92           Dumbarton

1892-94           Canton

1894                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1897                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1897-98           Bloomington

1898-99           Savage & Guilford

1899-01           Harford

1901-04           North Capitol

1904-06           Reisterstown

1906-09           Falls Church

1909                retired

 

Note: The maiden surname of Mrs. Amos was also Amos, but they were unrelated.

 

AMUNDSEN, ANTON JOHANNES

 

Born: 3-31-1891  Talvik Norway                               married: Jenny Aminda Hansen        

Died: 6-22-1975                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963,336

 

1920    admitted on trial, Norwegian Danish Conference

1922    ordained deacon, Norwegian Danish Conference

            ordained elder, Norwegian Danish Conference

 

Interment: Nelson Cemetery, Nelson PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 143

 

1919-21           Kenosha WI

1921-23           Chicago Bethany IL

1923-27           Hillsboro ND

1927-28           Virginia MN

1928-32           Duluth MN

1932-35           Forest City IA 

1935-36           Manister MI 

1936-39           Cambridge  WI

1939-40           Corning Bethany and South (Genesee Conference)

1940                transfer to Genesee Conference

1940-77           Corning Bethany and South

1947-51           Cuba-Hinsdale           

1951-56           Scio    

1956-58           Silver Springs

1958                retired                         

1958-62           Nelson-Tompkins

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundaries

1962-64           Nelson

1964                retired 

 

Note: Rev. Amundsen is the father of Ann A. Palmer.  After his (second) retirement in 1964 he was no longer a pastor in charge, but he continued to serve individual congregations on multi-point charges (Millerton 1965-66, East Smithfield 1966-67, and maybe others).

 

ANDERSON, BLAKE CHARLES

 

Born: 4-28-1919  Hollidaysburg PA                          married: Marguerite M. Love

Died: 11-02-1999                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 161

 

1956    license, recommended by Altoona Broad Avenue

1960    license

1965    ordained

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Blair Memorial Cemetery, Bellwood PA

Obit: [2000, 334]

 

1960-64           Schellsburg

1964-69           Lock Haven East Main Street

1969-77           Laurelton Lincoln Chapel

1977-82           Martinsburg

1982-85           Mifflinburg St. Paul’s

1985                retired

 

ANDERSON, JOHN H.

 

Born: 12-24-1803  Frederick County MD                  married:

Died: 9-10-1867  Sunbury PA                                    obit:

 

1834    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

           

Interment: Sunbury Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 48

 

1834-35           Patapsco

1835-36           Sunbury

1836-37           Phillipsburg

1837-38           Clearfield

1838-39           Stafford

1839-40           Harford

1840                transfer to Missouri Conference

1840-41           Potosi

1841-43           Warrenton

1843-44           Lexington

1844-46           Arrow Rock

1846-47           *

1847-48           Carrolton, under Illinois Conference MEC

1848-49           Greenfield, “

1849-50           Pittsfield, “

1850-51           Perry, “

1851-52           Warsaw, “

1852-53           St. Louis Hedding, under Missouri Conference MEC

1853-54           (in transition)

1854                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1854-56           Castle Fin

1856-57           Gettysburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Frederick

1858-59           Middletown & Jefferson

1859-61           Bellefonte

1861-62           Kishacoquillas

1862-64           McVeytown

1864-66           Manor Hill

1866-67           Sunbury

 

*When the Missouri Conference sided with the MEC South, John Anderson remained and worked under direction from the Illinois Conference until the MEC was able to re-establish a Missouri Conference.

 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH FERGUSON

 

Born: 3-17-1849  Bedford PA                                                married: Drusilla V. Tallhelm

Died: 1-5-1940  Blair County PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 197

 

?          quarterly conference license, Woodland

1876    admitted on trial, recommended by Woodland

1878    ordained deacon

1880    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 172

 

1876-77           Clearfield circuit

1877-78           Pine Creek circuit

1878-79           Duboistown   

1879-82           Ralston

1882-84           Hughesville    

1884-87           Dillsburg-Wellsville   

1887-92           Woodland-Bradford  

1892-96           Sinnemahoning

1896-00           Williamsport Fourth Street [Calvary]

1900-06           Altoona Simpson       

1906-08           Patton             

1906-11           Emporium      

1911-16           Milton            

1916-21           Bellwood       

1921-25           Saxton

1925                retired 

                             1926-32      Tipton 

                             1932-33      Altoona Eighth Avenue

                             1933-34      Hollidaysburg First

 

Note: J.F. Anderson is the author of Methodist Dictionary: A Brief Work on Methodist Terminology, published by Eaton & Mains in 1909.  Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of John F. Tallhelm (1825-1908) of the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church.

 

 

ANDES, WILLIAM OLIVER JR

 

Born: 10-18-1914  Nanticoke PA                               married: Annetta Semmer

Died: 9-28-2011  Danville PA                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 392

 

1966    license, recommended by Danville Trinity

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Columbia Hill Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 291

 

1967                Audenreid-Janesville (summer)

1968-72           Buckhorn-Rupert

1972-82           Orangeville

1982                retired

 

ANDREAS, J. FRED

 

Born:  2-25-1882  Conyngham PA                             married: Esther Belle Showalter

Died:  9-28-1956  Highspire PA                                 obit: Central PA Conference 1973, 381

 

1909    admitted on trial

1911    ordianed deacon

 

Interment: Highspire Cemetery, Highspire PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 237

 

1908-09           Laurelton        

1909-11           Jonestown      

1911-13           Bloomingdale 

1913-18           Town Hill       

1918-22           Shrewsbury    

1922-25           Milesburg-Unionville 

1925-28           Hastings         

1928-31           Weatherly       

1931-34           Williamsport Market Street 

1934-40           Enola              

1940-42           Riverside        

1942-47           Wrightsville    

1947                retired 

 

Note: J. Fred Andreas is the grandfather, through his daughter Helen Margaret, of Ken DeWalt, of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

ANDUJAR, MANUEL

 

Born: 6-16-1856  Estrada, Spain                                married: Emma Clouser

Died: 9-?-1929                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 114

                                                                                    married2: Lily Esther Kurzenknabe (9/22/1904)

1895    admitted on trial, New York Conference       obit: Puerto Rico Mission Conference 1955, 70

1898    admitted on trial, Central PA Conference

                        recommended by New Bloomfield    

Interment:

Obit: Puerto Rico Mission Conference 1929, 52

 

1895-97           Pachuca, Mexico [missionary]

1897-98           New Bloomfield, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1898                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1898-99           Cassville         

1899-00           Alum Bank     

1900-01           New Millport  

1901-14           missionary to Puerto Rico

1914                transfer to Puerto Rico Mission Conference

 

Note: The second Mrs. Andujar is a daughter of Harrisburg songwriter J. H. Kurzenknabe.  See The Christian Advocate, October 6, 1904, p. 24.

 

ANTES, WILLIAM M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1867    quarterly conference license, Howard

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868-69           Laporte

1869-70           Leidy

1871-72           English Center

1872-73           Sinnemahoning

 

Note: William M. Antes apparently served as a local pastor.

 

ARGOUE, LUCIOUS L.

 

Born: 3-12-1911  SC                                                              married: Ruth E. Gottschall (1938)

Died: 3-6-1988  Marion OH                                                  obit: [4/14/1906 – 12/20/1969]

 

Interment:        

Obit:

 

1949-50           Morris

 

Note:  L.L. Arguoe served as a local pastor.  Mrs. Argoue was from the Evangelical Church in Jersey Shore, and he was a student at the John A. Davis Memorial Bible School in Johnson City NY at the time of their wedding.  By the late 1950’s, they were living and serving in Ohio, denomination unknown.

 

ARMSTRONG, ROBERT LEIPER

 

Born: 5-22-1843  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Elizabeth Catharine Peffer

Died: 5-8-1905  Howard PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 534

 

?          quarterly conference license, Lexington KY

1873    admitted on trial, recommended by Chambersburg

1875    ordained deacon

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lock Haven

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 107

 

1873-74           Shippensburg 

1874-75           McConnellsburg

1875-77           Fort Littleton 

1877-79           Bendersville   

1879-81           Beach Haven  

1881-83           Centralia         

1883-86           Trevorton       

1886-89           Airville           

1889-91           Dillsburg-Wellsville 

1891-94           Salladasburg   

1894-95           Half Moon      

1895-96           Woodland-Bradford  

1896-99           Ralston

1899-02           Snydertown   

1902-03           Reedsville      

1903-05           Wallaceton     

1905                retired

 

Note: Robert L Armstrong is the father of William L. Armstrong.

 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM LANDSTREET  

 

Born: 11-19-1875  Hustontown PA                           married: Mazie Trumbower Paris

Died: 5-20-1960  Orangeville PA                              obit: Central PA Conference 1931, 194

                                                                                    married2: Estelle White

1900    admitted on trial                                              obit: Central PA Conference 1955, 236

1902    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 241

 

1893-97           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1897            Ralston (Apr – Sept)

1897-00           student, Dickinson College

                             1898-99      Berrysburg, Philadelphia Conference

1900-02           Jeddo             

1902-04           Town Hill       

1904-06           Espy-Lime Ridge

1906-10           Warriors Mark

1910-12           Coalport-Irvona

1912-15           Muncy            

1915-17           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1917-19           Hanover         

1919-22           Montoursville             

1922-28           Clearfield West Side  

1928-30           Harrisburg Camp Curtin  

1930-34           Chambersburg            

1934-36           Sunbury St. John’s     

1936-40           Emporium      

1940-45           Altoona Eighth Avenue 

1945-47           Espy-Light Street   

1947                retired             

                             1947-50      Audenreid

 

Note: William L. Armstrong is the son of Robert L. Armstrong.

 

 

ARTHUR, KENNETH RAY

 

Born: 12-23-1936  Altoona PA                                  married: Margaret Ainsworth

Died: 10-5-2010  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit:

 

1958    license

1959    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona Grace

1960    ordained deacion

1961    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto-Reste Park Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 392

           

1957-59           Allenwood-Elimsport

1959-62           Orbisonia        

1962-70           Watsontown   

1970-71           assistant director, United Methodist Home for Children

1971-06           executive director, United Methodist Home for Children

2006                retired

 

Note: Kenneth Arthur is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 34.

 

ARTLEY, FRANKLIN LUTHER

 

Born: 4-16-1893  Catawissa PA                                 married: Grace Edna Hartman

Died: 10-1-1984  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: [3/17/1891 – 10/19/1961]

                                                                                    married2: Olive Elizabeth Ehmer

1914    admitted on trial                                              obit:

 

Interment: Esther Furnace [St. Paul’s UM] Church Cemetery, near Catawissa PA

Obit:

 

1913-16           Emporium Circuit (moved to Montandon during the 1915-16 year)

1916-18           Montandon    

1918-23           Millville & Jerseytown          

1923-27           Newport         

1927-29           Mifflinburg    

1929                withdrew to enter Presbyterian ministry

1929-37           Bayonne NJ   

1937-61           Elmora Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth NJ

1961                retired to 534 Iron Street, Bloomsburg PA

 

ASH, HAROLD GIRARD

 

Born: 8-3-1898  New Bloomfield PA                        married: Edna Mae Young

Died: 2-24-1988  State College PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 358

 

1938    ordained by Baptist Church

1943    licensed, recommended by State College St. Paul’s

1944    admitted on trial

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 402

 

1939-43           South Altoona Baptist Chapel

1943-46           Wallaceton (beginning 11/1/1943)

1948-52           Half Moon

1952-53           discontinued

1953-63           Vira (beginning 6/1/1953)

1963-67           Allenport

1967                retired

                             1967-75  Howard

 

Note: Harold G. Ash is the son of Henry K. Ash and the grandson of Henry M. Ash.

 

ASH, HENRY KINGSLEY   

 

Born: 7-18-1866  New Washington PA                     married: Nancy Loraine McCaulley

Died: 3-4-1940  Juniata PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 246

 

1892   admitted on trial

1896    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Juniata PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 173

 

1892-93           Mountaindale 

1893-94           Allegheny       

1894-95           Gordon

1895-98           Burnt Cabins  

1891-01           New Bloomfield

1901-04           Ennisville       

1904-07           Three Springs 

1907-10           Martinsburg    

1910-12           Woolrich-Avis            

1912-15           Milesburg-Unionville 

1915-18           Newton Hamilton

1918-20           North Bend-Farwell

1920-24           Mill Hall        

1924-33           Marysville      

1933                retired 

 

Note: Henry K. Ash is the son of Henry M. Ash, and the father of Harold G. Ash.

 

ASH, HENRY M.  

 

Born: 8-6-1840  Bedford County PA                         married: Adaline Boak

Died: 11-23-1910  Lewisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 202

 

?          quarterly conference license, Allegheny circuit

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference, recommended by Pleasant Grove

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 125

 

1860-61           Clinton

1861-62           Karthaus

1862-63           Caldonia         

1863-65           Port Matilda   

1865-67           New Washington       

1867-68           Muncy

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Muncy

1870-71           Shippensburg 

1871-74           Wrightsville    

1874-76           Newport         

1876-78           Newton Hamilton

1878-80           Mount Union 

1880-81           Manor Hill     

1881-84           Port Royal      

1884-86           Salona-Washington

1886-89           Mifflinburg

1889-91           Weatherly       

1891-94           Northumberland

1894-95           Gordon

1895-97           McVeytown   

1897-99           Mont Alto      

1899-01           McConnellsburg

1901-02           Shrewsbury    

1902-03           Liverpool        

1903-05           Muncy Valley

1905-06           Jamestown     

1906-09           Montandon    

1909                retired 

 

Note: Henry M. Ash is the father of Henry K. Ash, and the grandfather of Harold G. Ash.  A memoir also appears in the 1/12/1911 NY Christian Advocate, page 63.


 

AUMAN, LESTER WARD

 

Born: 11-28-1890  Mifflintown PA                            married: Esther Morsch

Died: 8-15-1982                                                          obit: New York Conference 1975, 1276

 

 

1908    license

1917    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1917    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

1919    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City IA

Obit: New York Conference 1983, 1433

 

1911-14           student, Dickinson College

                             1911-13      Greencastle (beginning fall 1911)

                             1913-14      Newville

1914-17           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1917                “transfer” to New York East Conference

1917-18           Center Moriches

1918-20           Sag Harbor

1920-22           Bensonhurst St. James

1922-26           Winstead CT

1926-30           Amityville First

1930-38           Jamaica First

1938-50           Jackson Heights

1950-56           superintendent, Brooklyn South District

1956-61           Floral Park

1961                retired

 

AUSTIN, PAUL LEIGHTY

 

Born: 6-14-1918  Myersdale PA                                married: Margaret Erna Keim (6/6/1943)

Died: 2007                                                                  obit: [1918 – 2005]

 

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Cumberland Cemetery, Media PA

Obit:

 

1938-40           student, Dickinson College

     1938-40      Tipton (beginning 9/1/1938)

1940-43           student, Boston University School of Theology

     1940-43      Waltham, New England Conference (beginning 9/1/1940)

1943-44           Altoona Jaggard Memorial

1944-46           assistant, Harrisburg Grace 

1946-48           Danville St. Paul’s

1948-52           student, University of Pennsylvania

                             1948-52      Chester Parkside, Philadelphia Conference

1952                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1952-53           Grove

1953-80           faculty, Haverford College (beginning 9/1/1953)

1980                retired

 

 

 

BABCOCK, HARRY FRANCIS

 

Born: 3-27-1886  Blackwell PA                                 married: Jessie Reed

Died: 8-17-1971                                                          obit: [7/11/1888 – 11/16/1976]

 

1911    license, recommended by Osceola Mills

1912    admitted on trial

1914    ordained deacon

1916    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 386

 

1911-13           Center-Sandy Ridge

1913-17           Bakerton

1917-21           Half Moon      

1921-24           student, Penn State University in State College

1924-28           Lewisburg      

1928-35           Bloomsburg    

1935-42           State College St. Paul’s

1942-43           York First       

1943-46           superintendent, Altoona District

1946-49           Carlisle

1949-50           sabbatical leave

1950-53           Pleasant Gap  

1953                retired 

 

Note: Rev. Babcock is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.

 

 

BAER, GUY RICHARD

 

Born: 7-17-1934  Warrensville PA                            married: Eleanor Grace Frey

Died: 4-21-2021  Newville PA                                   obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 348

 

1954    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC: recommended by Mongul

1966    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mongul Cemetery, Mongul PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 348

 

1954-55           Mt. Vernon

1955-58                      Etna Avenue, Huntington IN

1958-63           Pleasant Hill

1963-64           Cold Springs

1964-66           assistant, Chambersburg King Street

1966                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1966-70           assistant, Chambersburg St. Paul

1970-74           Altoona Greenwood

1974-81           associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

1981-92           Shiremanstown

1992-96           Bellefonte Faith

1996                retired

                        chaplain, Quincy Retirement Village

                        chaplain, Green Ridge Retirement Community

 

Note: Guy Baer is the father of Timothy R. Baer of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

 

BAGNELL, ROBERT

 

Born: 8-10-1865  Philadelphia PA                             married: Mary Elizabeth Wallace

Died: 4-24-1946  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [3/?/1867 – 11/24/1960]

 

1884    admitted on trial, Upper Iowa Conference

1888    ordained, Upper Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1946, 123

 

                        Iowa

1889                transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference

                        Iowa

1901                transfer to New York Conference

1901-07           NYC Metropolitan Temple

1907                transfer to New York East Conference

1907-14           Brooklyn Janes

1914                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1914-17           Philadelphia Park Avenue

1917                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1917-33           Harrisburg Grace

1933                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1933-37           Charleston Christ

1937                retired

 

Note: Rev. Bagnell is the author of Economic and Moral Aspects of the Liquor Business, and is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

 

BAILOR, DONALD ELLIS SR

 

Born: 1-11-1928                                                          married: Bernice Jean Shaffner

Died: 12-2-2007                                                          obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 472]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Lou Longenecker

1967    license, recommended by Newton Hamilton  obit:

1970    ordained deacon

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Old Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 395

 

1967-75           Ramey

1975-83           Millerstown (ending 8/1/1983)

1983-89           Lewisberry (beginning 8/1/1983)

1989-93           Fayetteville Otterbein

1993                retired

 

Note: The first Mrs. Bailor is the daughter of L. Earl Shaffner and niece to Thomas M. Stone.

 

BAIR, ELWOOD LEROY

 

Born: 5-24-1914  Montgomery PA                            married: Audrey Mary Shilling

Died: 2-24-1976                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986,425

 

1932    license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary

1943   admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Lycoming County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 2:144

 

1936-38           Karthaus

1938-41           Lock Haven circuit

1941-43           Littlestown  

1943-47           Doylesburg     

1947-52           Lewistown Grove Memorial & Lake Park

1952-57           Warriors Mark

1957-62           Montoursville

1962-67           Hanover         

1967-71           Waynesboro   

1971-76           Chambersburg St. Paul’s

 

Note: Elwood L. Bair is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.

 

 

BAIRD, WILLIAM SIGGINS

 

Born: 11-4-1815  Lycoming County PA                    married: Rebecca Emily Everett

Died: 8-13-1874                                                          obit: [7/14/1825 – 3/16/1896]

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1844    ordained deacon

?          ordained elder

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit:

 

1842-43           Sunbury

1843-44           Huntingdon

…

1853-55           Woodstock

1855-57           East Rockingham

1857-59           Hillsboro

1859-61           Winchester

1861-67           principal, Wesley Female Institute in Stanton VA

…

1871-72           Loudon

1872-74           editor, Baltimore Episcopal Methodist

 

Note: William S. Baird was never a member of the East Baltimore or Central Pennsylvania Conference, but he is included in this list because he was born in Lycoming County and started his ministerial service at appointments now within our conference.

 

BAKER, EDGAR RAYMOND

 

Born: 1-31-1909  Unityville PA                                 married: Helen Ruth Kline (12/8/1928)

Died: 8-6-1999                                                            obit: [12/31/1910 – 10/13/2000]

 

1963    license, recommended by Benton

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Talmar PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 334]

 

1963-69           Muncy Valley

1969-70           Unityville

1970-75           Muncy Valley

1975                retired

                             1975-79      Muncy Valley

                             1981           Shickshinny (2/1/1981 – 7/1/1981)

 

 

BAKER, ELMER GRIFFITH

 

Born: 4-23-1852  Alexandria PA                               married: Sarah E. Summerson

Died: 12-13-1910  Espy PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938,231

 

1885     admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 126

 

1885-86           Hyner-North Bend

1886-89           Three Springs 

1889-92           Town Hill

1892-97           Airville

1897-99           Conyngham    

1899-03           Newport         

1903-05           York Epworth  

1905-07           Picture Rocks 

1907-08           Barnesboro     

1908                retired 

 

BAKER, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 8-29-1856 Newburg PA                                               married: Mary Anna Ebbs

Died: 4-4-1915  Winfield KS                                                 obit: Southwest Kansas Conf 1918, 98

 

1876    admitted on trial

1878    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, Winfield KS

Obit: Southwest Kansas Conference 1916, 43

 

1876-77           West Creek    

1877-78           Cove

1878                transfer to Kansas Conference

…

1882-83           McConnellstown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1883-85           Port Matilda, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885-86           Coalport, Central Pennsylvania Conference

…

1908                retired

 

 

BAKER, HARRY WISE

 

Born: 3-2-1863 Alexandria PA                                  married: Bell Cisna (1894)

Died: 5-24-1943  Sacramento CA                              obit: [1865 – 9/10/1916]

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Huntingdon First

 

Interment: Sacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento CA

Obit:

 

1895-96                      Hastings

1896                transfer to California Conference

1906                on leave

1911                retired

1913                located at own request

1919-20           Sacramento Oak Park

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Harry W. Baker appears in the 1913 History of Sacramento County CA, page 992. 

 

BAKER, TRUMAN LEROY

 

Born: 3-12-1920                                                          married: Margaret E. Auman (1947)

Died: 6-7-1998                                                            obit: [11/31923 – 1/12/2017]

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Millheim PA

Obit:

 

1956-62           Half Moon

1962-65           Doylesburg

1965-66           Wast Waterford

1966-68           Enola

1968                “transfer” to the United Church of Christ      

1968-85           Hublersburg

1985                retired

 

Note:  Truman L. Baker served as a local pastor in the Methodist Church.

 

BAKER, W.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-22           Rouzerville

 

Note:  W.J. Baker served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown. 

 

BALDWIN, AMOS SMITH

 

Born: 9-21-1854  Shirleysburg PA                             married: Kate McCulloch

Died: 8-25-1905  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 234

 

?          quarterly conference license, Liverpool

1875    admitted on trial, recommended by Liverpool

 

Interment:  Newton Hamilton Memorial Cemetery, Newton Hamilton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 114

 

1874-75           Liverpool        

1875-76           Gettysburg

1876-77           Saxton            

1877-78           Port Royal

1878-80           McVeytown

1880-82           Rays Hill        

1882-85           Ennisville       

1885-88           Newton Hamilton      

1888-90           Waynesboro

1890-91           on leave          

1891-92           Fort Littleton 

1892-93           Newport         

1893-95           Muncy

1895-97           Milton            

1897-00           Clearfield       

1900-02           Lewistown Trinity

1902-04           superintendent, Juniata Distirct

1904-05           superintendent, Danville District

 

Note: An obituary notice for Amos S. Baldwin appears in the 8/31/1905 Christian Advocate.  A memoir appears in the 11/16/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1847.

 

BALL, RITCHIE FLEENOR

 

Born:  7-15-1907  Greendale VA                               married: Florence Ethel Jones

Died: 11-30-2008                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 385

                                                                                    married2: Doris Elizabeth Kelly Stephens

1957    license, recommended by Clearville               obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 256

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Shelby Hills Cemetery, Bristol TN

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 413

 

1957-65           Clearville (beginning 7/15/1957, ending 2/4/1965)

1965-70           Delta (beginning 2/5/1965)

1970-74           Delta-Bryansville

1974                retired

                             West Willow UMC, West Willow PA

                             Wesley Chapel UMC, Conyers GA

 

Note: Ritchie F. Ball worked in the hosiery and clothing industry before entering the ministry as a second career.  The second Mrs. Ball (nee Kelly) was the widow of a Mr. William Edward Stephens.

 

BANER, ALBERT LAWRENCE

 

Born: 11-7-1896  Quinton NJ                                     married: Phoebe Lore Sharpe

Died: 3-31-1984  Syracuse NY                                  obit: Central New York Conference 1952,130

 

1924    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1924    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference

1926    ordained elder, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Haleyville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Haleyville NJ

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1985, 210

 

1920-21           student, Dickinson College

                             1920-21      Newville

1921-24           student, Drew Seminary in Madison NJ

                              1921-24     Woodruff & Rosenhayn   

1924-27           Aura

1927-28           director of religious education, Camden Central-Tabernacle

1928-33           Trenton Hamilton Avenue

1933-36           Red Bank First

1936-40           Vineland First

1940-41           superintendent New Brunswick District

1941-45           superintendent, Camden District

1945                transfer to Central New York Conference

1945-58           Syracuse First

1958-61           Syracuse First (merged with Centenary)

1961-62           sabbatical

1962                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1962                retired

 

 

BANKS, WILLIAM WHITE

 

Born: 8-13-1879  Salisbury MD                                 married: Daisy Maud Elliott

Died: 10- 26-1964  Clearfield PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 258

 

1907    admitted on trial

 

Interment:  Mt. Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 351

 

1905-07           Rehoboth (starting fall 1905) 

1907-10           Enola-West Fairview 

1910-13           Enola  

1913-17           Hazleton Diamond Street 

1917-21           Emporium      

1921-25           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1925-31           Altoona Juniata First

1931-36           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1936-42           Roaring Spring

1942-49           Clearfield Trinity

1949-52           Jersey Shore First

1952                retired

                             1953-56      Shawville

                             1958-60      Wallaceton     

 

BARDINE, BRUCE ROBERT SR.

 

Born: 12-6-1920  Newton Hamilton PA                    married: Darthea Dunlap (6/23/1944)

Died: 6-9-2004  Altoona PA                                      obit: [11/20/1924 – 1/30/2022]

 

1967    license, recommended by Mount Union First

1970    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: (none)    

 

1966-67           Robertsdale

1967-71           Hustontown

1971-78           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1978-80           Salladasburg

1980-83           Montoursville Bethel

1983                retired

                             1983-87      Shade Valley (beginning 8/1/1983)

 

Note: Bruce R. Bardine’s relationship with the United Methodist Church ceased in 1996. He may have been born in Newton Hamilton PA but appears to have been raised in Canton OH. In 2019, Mrs. Bardine celebrated her 95th birthday and living was on 21st Avenue in Altoona PA.

 

BARNARD, CHARLES H.

 

Born: 4-?-1845  Canada                                             married: Fietta Fetterman

Died: 1-16-1907  Ashland PA                                                obit: [2/5/1843 – 10/24/1914]

 

1865    license

1886    ordained elder, recommended by Ashland

 

Interment: Christ Church Cemetery, Ashland PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 64]

 

1887-90           Helfenstein

1891-05           Fountain Spring (near Ashland)

 

Note: Charles H. Barnard lived in Ashland and served as a local pastor.

 

 

BARNER, GLENN ALLISON

 

Born: 9-8-1918  Meiserville PA                                 married: Mary Edith Wigfield

Died: 6-24-1993                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 473

 

1958    license, recommended by Altoona Simpson

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Alto Rest Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 454

 

1958-64           Newton Hamilton

1964-69           Williamsport Grace (beginning 11/1/1964, ending 3/1/1969)

1969-75           Warrior’s Mark (beginning 3/1/1969)

1975-85           Altoona Greenwood

1985                retired

                             1986-92      Manor Hill

 

BARNES, JAMES ELMER

 

Born: 10-15-1926  Lancaster PA                                married: Necia Jane Niswander

Died: 10-1-2003  Palmyra PA                                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 262

 

1960    license, recommended by Saint Thomas        

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Gardens, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 358

 

1944-47           US Army

1947-60           E.C. Barnes & Son Oil Distributors

1960-64           Rouzerville     

1964-65           Fort Loudon

1965-70           Mount Nebo   

1970-76           Spry Otterbein

1976-83           New Kingstown

1983-87           Lemoyne Grace

1987                retired

                             1987-92      Mt. Rock

 

BARNES, SAMUEL

 

Born: 4-5-1827  Luzerne County PA                         married: Gracia Ann Stone

Died: 1-14-1912  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Philadelphia Conference 1915, 74

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1912, 97

           

1853-54           Milton circuit

1854-55           Muncy

1855-56           Berwick

1856-58           Milton

1858                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           Milton-Montoursville

1859-61           Bedford

1861-62           East Baltimore

1862                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1862-64           Wheeling Fourth Street

1864-65           Lewistown

1865-68           North Baltimore         

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Chambersburg            

1870-74           superintendent, Danville District

1874                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1874-77           Pottsville

1877-80           Philadelphia Twelfth Street

1880-81           Frankford Paul Street & Aramingo

                        Rehoboth

                        Philadelphia St. George’s

1886-89           Philadelphia Nineteenth Street

1889-93           associate, Philadelphia Park Avenue

1893                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Samuel Barnes appears in Simpson’s 1876 Cyclopedia of Methodism.

 

BARNES, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 7-18-1919  Gillette PA                                     married: Ruby Luella Hamilton

Died: 8-25-1985  Sayre PA                                        obit: [3/9/1918 – 12/9/2012]

 

1964    license, recommended by Jackson Center

1967    ordained deacon

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Jackson Center Cemetery, Jackson Center PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 426

 

1963                Millerton (Feb – Jun)

1963-69           Genesee (ending 8/24/1969)

1969-84           Burlington-East Smithfield (beginning 8/24/1969)

1984                retired

                             1984    Burlington-East Smithfield (until 7/18/1984)

 

Note: In 1991 the widowed Mrs. Barnes married a Mr. Winfield Woodland.

 

BARNETT, FRED

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-28           Allegheny circuit

 

Note: served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

BARNHART, THOMAS

 

Born: 6-3-1823                                                            married: Hannah Hall

Died: 5-8-1880                                                            obit: Des Moines Conference 1903, 386

 

1845     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak IA

Obit: Des Moines Conference 1880, 47

 

1845-46           Clearfield

1846-47           Sunbury          

1847-48           Huntingdon

1848-49           Lycoming

1849-51           Jersey Shore   

1851-53           Bloomingdale             

1853-55           Northumberland         

1855-57           Berwick          

1857-58           Clearfield-Curwensville

1858                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           Clearfield-Curwensville

1859-61           Williamsburg  

1861-63           Cumberland   

1863-65           Chambersburg

1865-68           superintendent, Juniata District

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           superintendent, Juniata District

1869-72           Tyrone

1872-75           Phillipsburg    

1875                retired             

1876                transfer to Des Moines Conference

 

Note: A memoir for Thomas Barnhart also appears in The Conference News for June 1880, page 5.

 

BARNITZ, ALEXANDER McCLAIN [aka McCLEAN]

 

Born: 6-13-1824  York PA.                                        married: Sarah Elizabeth Gray (1853)

Died: 1-18-1903  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 133

 

?          quarterly conference license, York

1849   admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference, recommended by York

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 108

 

1849-50           Bellefonte circuit

1850-51           Williamsport   

1851-52           Bloomingdale 

1852-53           Carlisle circuit

1853-55           Newville         

1855-56           Clearfield-Curwensville       

1856-58           Penn’s Valley             

1858                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1858-60           Huntingdon    

1860-62           Manor Hill     

1862-64           Berwick          

1864-66           Danville          

1866-68           Espy-Light Street

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Mifflin            

1871-74           Everett           

1874-76           York First

1876-78           Ashland          

1878-81           Milton            

1881-84           Mifflinburg                

1884-86           Shickshinny    

1886-89           Catawissa                   

1889-94           York Duke Street

1894-98           New Cumberland       

1898-00           York West Street

1900                retired

 

Note:  Alexander M. Barnitz is the father of Charles M. Barnitz.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 328.  There is a memoir in the 5-14-1907 NY Christian Advocate, page 807.  He is a brother to Rev. Samuel Bacon Barnitz of the Lutheran Church.  Mrs. Barnitz was one of eight sisters, five of whom married Methodist ministers: Anna married Presley Smith, Margaret married Dennis Dorsey of the Missouri Conference, Frances married Samuel Regester, Elmira married Abram Creighton. 

 

BARNITZ, CHARLES McCLEAN

 

Born: 1869                                                                  married: Mazie Adeline Frank

Died: 1956  FL                                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 145

                                                                                    married2: Fannie Smith (1921)

1892    admitted on trial                                              obit2:

                                                                                    married3: Miss Helen Blanche Ferguson

Interment:                                                                   obit3: [1884 – 1947]

Obit:

 

1892-94           Audenreid      

1894-97           Riverside        

1897-98           Centralia         

1898-00           Weatherly

1900-03           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1903-06           Osceola          

1606-11           on leave          

1911-12           Riverside

1912-18           on leave          

1918-21           retired (?)

1921-24           on leave          

1924                retired 

1927                withdrew under complaint

 

Note: Charles M. Barnitz is the son of Alexander M. Barnitz.  He attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary in the late 1880’s.  While his burial place is unknown, the third Mrs. Barnitz is buried in Daytona Memorial Park, Daytona FL.

 

 

BARR, WILLIAM HUBERT

 

Born: 10-25-1925  Altoona PA                                  married: Phyllis J. Hyatt

Died: 12-30-2002  Hollidaysburg PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 405

 

1949    license

1955    admitted on trial, recommended by Juniata Gethsemane

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 375

 

1950-52           Rehoboth 

1952-57           Cherry Tree 

1957-66           Altoona Jaggard

1966-71           Jersey Shore First

1971-83           Gettysburg

1983-91           Altoona First

1991                retired

 

BARRETT, ARTHUR G.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1965-66           Hunlock Creek

 

Note:  Arthur G. Barrett served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  A Rev. Arthur G. Barrett performed a wedding in Huntingdon County PA in 1971.  A Rev. Arthur G. Barrett (1919-1973) is buried in Virginia.

 

 

BARRETT, OWEN CHARLES

 

Born: 5-21-1890  Berrytown PA                                married: Flora Bessie Briggs

Died: 8-20-1976  Sayre PA                                        obit: Central New York Conference 1967, 186

 

1914    license to preach

1918    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1920    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1922    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Troy PA

Obit: Central New York Conference 1977, 226

 

1914-16           New Albany

1918                Laquin 

1918-21           Enfield-Hennedys

1921-25           East Canton               

1925-26           East Canton-Beach Flats

1926-33           East Troy-Leona        

1933-37           Blossburg       

1937-47           East Smithfield-Big Pond-Wetona

1947-52           Daggett-Roseville-Webbs Mills

1952-58           East Canton-Windfall-West Franklin

1958                retired 

                             1958-60      East Smithfield          

                             1960-62      associate, Troy

                             1962           [transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference – see Note below]

                             1962-70      associate, Troy           

 

Note: Troy, and most of the present Wellsboro District, was moved from the Central New York Conference to the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1962.  Even though the Central Pennsylvania Conference journal lists Owen Barrett as a member, and he was serving part-time as an associate at Troy until 1970, he officially remained a member of the Central New York Conference – i.e., he was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference and the journal is in error on that point from 1962 to 1970.  Owen C. Barrett is the father of Allen L. Barrett (1916-1997) of the Florida Conference and James W. Barrett (1926-2015) of the Upper New York Conference.

 

BARTER, MERRILL EMERSON

 

Born: 7-11-1894  East Weymouth MA                      married: Martha Elizabeth Ricker

Died: 9-18-1973                                                          obit: [6/25/1898 – 1/20/1993]

 

1917    ordained, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church

 

Interment: Fairmont Cemetery, East Weymouth MA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 417

 

1917-29           missionary, Belgian Congo

1929-31           ?

1931                enters Baptist ministry

1931-35           Wardsboro VT

1935-42           Wilmington VT

1942-48           Parkersburg PA

1948-54           Wildwood Crest NJ Community Church

1954-58           Patton PA

1958-59           ?

1959                local pastor, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1959-60           New Millport

1960-62           Three Springs

1962-68           Houtzdale

1968                retired

                             1968-73      Houtzdale

 

 

BARTH, FRANCIS LOUIS

 

Born: 10-18-1924  Florence SC                                 married: Joan Kaugh

Died: 8-15-2014  Altoona PA                                    obit:

 

1944    license, recommended by Brightwood Park, Washington DC

1950    ordained deacon

1951    admitted on trial

1952    ordained elder

 

Internment: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 259

 

1945-47           Mill Spring NC (beginning 11/1/1945), North Carolina Conference    

1947-52           Three Springs

1952-58           Duncansville  

1958-62           Mill Hall (beginning 11/15/1968)

1962-67           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue (ending 12/1/1967)

1967-78           Everett (beginning 12/1/1967)

1978-84           Red Lion St. Paul’s

1984-90           superintendent, New Cumberland District

1990-93           Lewistown Grace

1993                retired

 

Note: F. Louis Barth is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 65.

 

BARTON, LAWRENCE BURGESS

 

Born: 4-11-1893  Unionville PA                                married: Alma Amelia Corle

Died: 3-18-1972  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 372

 

1918    license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary

1923    admitted on trial

1925    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 388

 

1921-26           Muncy Valley (beginning 6/21)

1926-29           Espy-Light Street       

1929-31           Claysburg       

1931-37           Hastings

1937-42           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1942-43           Williamsport High Street (ending12/1/43)

1943-50           Renovo (beginning 12/1/1943)

1950-55           Harrisburg Epworth

1955-59           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

1959                retired 

 

BASSLER, JAMES EARL

 

Born: 3-2-1893  Hyndman PA                                   married: Lillian Grace Bridenbaugh

Died: 6-23-1965  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 435

 

1917    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, between Muncy and Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 332

 

1912-14           Washingtonville

1914-15           Jeddo-Lattimer

1916-18           associate, Williamsburg

1918-21           Birmingham   

1921-28           Alexandria     

1928-34           Enola  

1934-43           Williamsport Market Street

1943-48           Barnesboro-Bakerton 

1948-51           Nescopeck      

1951-55           Flemington     

1955-58           Ashland

1958                retired 

 

Note: J. Earl Bassler is the preferred rendering.

 

 

BASTIAN, CLYDE C.

 

Born: 3-13-1909                                                          married: Sylvia Erilla Bierly

Died: 3-5-2005                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 382

 

1968     license, recommended by Williamsport Newberry

 

Interment: Linwood Cemetery, McElhattan PA

Obit: (none)

 

1968-70           assistant, Picture Rocks (ending 12/31/69)

1970-71           McElhattan (beginning 1/1/70)

1971                retired

 

 

BASTUSCHECK, BURTON CHARLES

 

Born: 8-15-1910  Drums PA                                      married: Ruth Peters

Died: 11-14-1995  Mount Angel OR                         obit: Oregon Conference 1963, 96

                                                                                    married2: Gladys Laura Shank

1936    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1997, 210

1937    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Maplewood Pioneer Cemetery, Scotts Mills OR

Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1996, 198

 

1931-32           Mahaffey       

1932-35           Half Moon      

1935-37           Picture Rocks 

1937-39           Harveyville     

1939-42           White Haven  

1942-44           Weatherly       

1944-47           Altoona Fairview

1947-49           McConnellsburg         

1949                transfer to Iowa Conference

1949-54           director, Van Buren Country Group Ministry in Keosauqua IA

1954-64           faculty, Willamette University in Salem OR

1964-68           Clackamus County Group Ministry in Mt. Angel OR

 

Note: Burton C. Bastuscheck is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 68.

 

BATTENHOUSE, HENRY MARTIN

 

Born: 8-27-1885                                                          married: Sarah Louise Krill

Died: 3-23-1960                                                          obit: Detroit Conference 1962,768

 

1911    admitted on trial, Colorado Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Edgerton OH

Obit: Detroit Conference 1960,235

 

1909                graduate, Baldwin-Wallace College

1911-20           Colorado Conference

1919-20           faculty, Dickinson College

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-29           faculty, Penn State University

1929                transfer to Detroit Conference

1929-?             faculty, Albion College

?                      retired

 

Note: English Professor Dr. Henry M. Battenhouse is the author of This Seed of Faith, English Romantic Writers (1958), Christ in the Gospels: An Introduction to His Life and Its Meaning (1952), and other books.  His collected papers are in the special collections of the Stockwell-Mudd Library at Albion College.

 

 

BAUGHMAN, GEORGE E.

 

Born: 2-8-1899  York PA                                           married: Grace N. _____

Died: 11-9-1988  Cumberland MD                            obit: [1898 – 1970]

 

1932    received by Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Sunset Memorial Park, Cumberland MD

Obit:

 

1926-29           Concord

1929                “transfer” to Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1929-31           Oak Grove and Prince George

1931-33           Bedford PA

1933-39           Cumberland First

1939                transfer by merger to Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church

1939-46           Cumberland First

1946                voluntary location

 

Note: George E. Baughman served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.

 

BAUM, GORDON WINFIELD

 

Born: 3-31-1929  York PA                                         married: Doris Fite

Died: 3-31-2013  New Milford PA                            obit:

 

1952   admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-53           at school

1953                transfer to Newark Conference

1953-57

1957-61           Staten Island Christ

 

Note: In 2003 Gordon W. Baum is listed as a retired member of the Greater New Jersey Conference.

 

 

BAUMAN, ERNEST

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1926-27           Trout Run

 

Note: Ernest Bauman served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

BEAM, HERBERT PLANK

 

Born: 5-27-1896  Adams County PA                         married: Katharine Naomi Patterson

Died: 10-26-1978  Lancaster PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 386

 

1920    license, recommended by Evanston IL First

1922    admitted on trial, Northwest Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Williamsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 328

 

1920-22           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                            1920-22  Thornton-Lansing IL, Rock River Conference (10/1/20 – 8/30/22)

1922-25           Oto (beginning 10/1/22)

1925                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1925-26           Claysburg       

1926-28           Bakerton        

1928-30           Orbisonia        

1930-33           Gettysburg     

1933-36           Harrisburg Trinity

1936-43           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1943-47           Tyrone First

1947-53           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1953-55           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1955-61           Lock Haven Trinity (beginning 10/1/1955)

1961-64           Enola  

1964                retired 

 

 

BEARD, CLYDE WILSON

 

Born: 2-26-1939                                                          married: Alma Jean Cole

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1957    license, West Virginia Conference

1962    ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference

1964    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1964    ordained elder, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           Albright

1960-64           Short Gap

1964-65           ?

1965                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1965-67           Mapleton-Mill Creek  1965-67

1967-68           Knoxville                    1967-68

1968                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1968-70           West Liberty-Short Creek

1970-73           Belle-Mt. Juliet

1973-81           Petersburg Main street

1981-83           Glen Dale

1983-90           Parkersburg Christ

1990-96           superintendent, Huntington District

1996-01           Elm Grove

2001                retired

 

 

BEARD, JOHN E.

 

Born: 4-27- 1878  Yorkana PA                                  married: Mary E. Birnstock

Died: 5-7-1949  York  PA                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 194

 

1905    admitted on trial, West Wisconsin Conference

 

Internment:  Canadochly Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 193

 

1905-07           Muscoda

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1907-12           Millerstown    

1912-15           Berwick Calvary

1915-18           Freeland

1918-22           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1922-25           Carlisle

1925-30           Williamsport Newberry

1930-32           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1932                retired 

 

 

BEARD, RICHARD LEWIS

 

Born: 11-21-1932  Clearfield PA                               married: Carol Rowe Cook

Died: 12-3-2016                                                          obit: [1/7/1935 – 2/11/2020]

 

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree MA

Obit:

 

1954-57           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                        1956  Cuttyhank MA (summer)

                        1957  Popponessett MA (summer)     

1957-58           Wallaceton     

1958-59           at school         

1959-60           sabbatical leave

1960                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1960-64           Baltic and Versailles

1964                voluntary location

 

BEAVER, JACOB F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1922-26           assistant, Kulpmont

1926-29           ?

1929-34           Helfenstein

 

Note: Jacob F. Beaver served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  His middle initial is sometimes given as S.

 

BECK, GEORGE PAUL SR

 

Born: 4-22-1880 Philadelphia PA                              married: Mary Orella Cramer

Died: 3-24-1961                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 323

 

1909    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1961, 562

 

1904-09           student, Dickinson College

                             1906-07  Boiling Springs & Pine Grove Furnace

                             1907-09  Green Village

1909                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1909-13           Millersville

1913-18           Philadelphia Springfield Avenue

1918-22           Prospect Park

1922-27           Sharon Hill\

1927-29           Brookline

1929-34           Lansdale

1934-37           East Stroudsburg

1937-39           Wissinoming

1939-44           Philadelphia Simpson Memorial

1944-47           Norwood

1947-52           Philadelphia Lindley

1952                retired

                             1952-56  Ashland Avenue

 

 

 

BEDFORD, JOSEPH WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-5-1850  Fulton County PA                          married: Mary Catherine Furlow

Died:                                                                           obit: West Virginia Conference 1932, 112

 

1876     admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1947, 216

 

1873-74                      Schellsburg     

1874-76           Logan and Sandy circuit, West Virginia Conference

1876-78           Winfield WV

1878-81           Milton WV

1881-83           Barboursville WV

1883-85           Sinclair WV

1885-86           Deer Park MD

1886                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1886-88           Woodbury and Loysburg

1888-90           Snow Shoe

1890-92           Freeland

1892-94           White Haven  

1894                transfer to West Virginia Conference

Note: Joseph W. Bedford is a brother to Elias Cambridge Bedford (1855-1932) of the West Virginia Conference.  A brief biography appears on page 705 of Bradsby’s 1893 History of Luzerne County Part II: Biographical Sketches. Loysburg is listed as Pattonville in the conference journal; the village was called Morris Cove 1820-35, Loysburg 1835-44, Pattonville 1844-82, and Loysburg since 1882.

 

BEEMAN, VANDERBILT HAMILTON

 

Born: 11-25-1906  Frostburg MD                              married: Jennie Edna Hunt

Died: 3-27-1979                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 401

                                                                                    married2: Patsy Ann Korman

1935    license, recommended by Frostburg MD       obit2: [11/25/1934 – 9/25/2017]

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 329

 

1945-50           Trout Run (beginning 6/1/45)

1950-53           Grampian (ending 10/1/53)

1953-59           Espy-Lightstreet  (beginning 10/1/53)

1959-60           Salona-Lamar

1960-63           Altoona Lakemont

1963-72           Port Matilda

1972                retired

                             1972-76  Fairbrook-Spruce Creek

 

Note: Rev. Beeman was still considered a layman, and there was no need for a transfer of conferences when he moved from Frostburg into Pennsylvania in 1943.

 

BEERS, ROBERT

 

Born: 2-13-1806  Concord PA                                   married: Harriet Hill

Died: 2-15-1870  Cassville PA                                   obit: [1/12/1812 – 9/1/1861]

 

1835     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 63

 

1835-36           Northumberland

1836-37           Lewistown     

1837-38           Williamsburg  

1838-39           Deerfield

1839-41           Monroe

1841-43           Allegheny

1843-45           Clearfield

1845-47           Bloomingdale 

1847-49           Trough Creek 

1849-51           Shirleysburg   

1851-53           Concord         

1853-55           Stonerstown   

1855-56           on leave

1856-57           Bald Eagle      

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Pine Creek     

1858-59           Jersey Shore               

1859-61           on leave

1861                retired

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Robert Beers appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 332.


 

BEISHLINE, HERVIE GLEN

 

Born: 4-7-1892  Columbia County PA                       married: Vernie Elnora Beishline

Died: 4-9-1948  Columbia County PA                       obit: [9/9/1896 – 4/25/1961]

 

1921     admitted on trial, recommended by Benton

 

Interment: St. James UCC Cemetery, Bendertown PA

Obit:

 

1921-22           Jeddo-Milnesville

1922                discontinued

 

BEISHLINE, JOHN L.

 

Born: 6-9-1849  Columbia County PA                       married: Rachel R. Faus

Died: 10-8-1887  Buckhorn PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 142

 

1879    license, recommended by Wesley Chapel, Orangeville circuit

1884    ordained deacon, recommended by Muhlenburg circuit

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by Muhlenburg circuit

 

Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Talmar PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 101

 

1883-86           Muhlenburg

1886-87           New Washington circuit

1887                Buckhorn                   

 

Note: Mrs. Beishline is a sister to Theodore S. Faus and an aunt to George W. Faus.

BELL, FRANK THOMPSON    

 

Born: 2-4-1869  Decatur IL                                        married: Marion Estelle Siebert

Died: 7-21-1924  Huntingdon PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 166

 

1902    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Vira Cemetery, Vira PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 157

 

1900                Manada Furnace-Paxton, Philadelphia Conference

1902-06           Gatchelville    

1906-11           Weatherly       

1911-18           Reedsville      

1918-21           Newport

1921-24           Bellwood

 

Note: Frank Thompson Bell is the nephew of J. Foster Bell.  He supplied in 1900 while a student at Dickinson.  He is the father of eminent historian Raymond M. Bell of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 34.

 

BELL, JAMES ELLIS

 

Born: 8-4-1846  Dry Valley, Mifflin County PA       married: Juniata Waters

Died: 3-21-1932  York PA                                         obit: Central PA Conference 1930, 201

 

?          quarterly conference license, Logan

1878    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport

1880    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Prospect Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 169

 

1878-81           Williamsport Price Chapel [Grace]

1881-83           Duncannon

1883-86           Hollidaysburg

1886-89           Bedford

1889-93           Williamsport Grace

1893-98           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1898-00           Chambersburg

1900-06           superintendent, Altoona District

1906-11           York First, York

1911-16           Chambersburg

1916-17           Berwick First

1917-21           Mechanicsburg

1921                retired 

 

Note: James Ellis Bell is a brother of J. Foster Bell.  He is the uncle of John Thompson Bell (son of his brother J. Foster) and Frank Thompson Bell (son of his brother Samuel).  A memoir appears in the 4/14/1932 Christian Advocate, page 405.  His daughter Elsie is married to John W. Buckingham’s son Lewis.  Mrs. Bell is the daughter of Plummer E. Watters of the Baltimore Conference and step-daughter of James H. McGarrah.

 

BELL, JAMES W.

 

Born: 1845  Birmingham PA                                      married: Anna F. Levegood

Died: 1-9-1910                                                            obit: [4/15/1853 – 3/21/1950]

 

1872    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport circuit

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1870-71           Washington [Lamar] (beginning 2/1/1871)   

1871-72           Williamsport circuit

1872-73           Liberty Valley

1873-74           Leidy

1874-76           Pleasantville   

1876-78           McConnellstown

1878-80           Schellsburg     

1880-81           Milroy

1881-82           Three Springs 

1882                permitted to withdraw under charges (vote of 82 to 69)

 

BELL, JOHN FOSTER

 

Born: 10-17-1844  near Lewistown PA                     married: Maria Emery Naginey

Died: 3-5-1878  Lewistown PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 198

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Internment: Brick Church, Reedsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 70

 

1869-70           Warrior’s Mark

1870-73           Osceola

1873-75           Beech Creek

1875-76           Pine Grove

1876-78           Woodland

 

Note: J. Foster Bell is a brother of James Ellis Bell.  He is the father of John Thompson Bell and the uncle of Frank Thompson Bell.  A memoir also appears in The Conference News for April 1880, page 2.

 

 

 

BELL, JOHN THOMPSON   

 

Born: 7-10-1877  Woodland PA                                married: Claudia Kitchen

Died: 3-17-1922  Bedford PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 199

 

1900    admitted on trial

1902    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Easton Cemetery, Easton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 130

 

1900-04           Blain   

1904-09           Yeagertown   

1909-12           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1912-17           Watsontown   

1917-21           Bedford

1921                retired 

 

Note: John Thompson Bell is the son of J. Foster Bell and a first cousin of Frank Thompson Bell.

 

BELL, SHERIDAN WATSON

 

Born: 12-21-1908  Cincinnati OH                              married: Elizabeth Rich

Died:  10-30-1982 Harrisburg PA                              obit: [3/11/1912 – 3/8/1999]

 

1936    license, recommended by Buckhanon WV First

1937    admitted on trial, Ohio Conference

1938    ordained elder, Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Woolrich Cemetery, Woolrich PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 397

 

1937-39           Columbus Indianola

1939-41           Columbus Shepherds-St. Paul’s

1941-43           Columbus Maple Grove

1943-45           chaplain, US Navy     

1945-46           Franklin

1946-50           Delaware William Street

1950                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1950-74           Harrisburg Grace

1974                retired

 

Note: Sheridan W. Bell Jr is the son of Sheridan W. Bell Sr (1864-1938) of the West Virginia Conference.

 

BELL, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1886    ordained deacon, recommended by Philipsburg station

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: William Bell served as a local pastor. 


 

 

BENDER, AMOS J.

 

Born: 7-31-1828  Bendersville PA                             married: Elizabeth Schleichter

Died: 6-30-1897  Dublin MD                                     obit: [1/14/1832 – 2/6/1921]

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1859    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 61

 

1855-56           St. Mary’s circuit

1856-57           Frederick

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Liberty

1858-59           Green Village

1859-60           Coalmont

1860-61           New Granada

1861-63           New Washington

1863-68           on leave for health reasons

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-71           Allegany

1871-73           Harper’s Ferry

1873-76           Middletown

1876-78           Gorsuch

1878-79           Fletcher

1879-88           on leave for health reasons

                             1883-85  Loudon 

1888-92           St. Mary’s

1892-96           Severn

1896-98           North Harford

 

Note: Amos J. Bender is the father of Simpson A. Bender (1865-1940) of the East Main Conference and Elizabeth R. Bender, Methodist missionary to Japan.  This is believed to be the A.J. Bender who served Evangelical Association churches 1851-54 and is listed in the Evangelical pastor file.

 

BENDER, AQUILA REESE

 

Born: 12-17-1848  near York Springs PA                  married: (never married)

Died: 8-19-1881  New Market MD                            obit:

 

?          quarterly conference license, Carlisle

1875     admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment:  Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 75

 

1875-76           Shrewsbury    

1876-77           Mont Alto (resigning for health, August 1877)

1877-78           living in Greencastle

1878-81           vice principal, Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover DE

1881                Dorchester circuit, Wilmington Conference

 

Note: Aquila R. Bender is a brother to Henry R. Bender.

 

BENDER, HENRY RICHARD

 

Born: 3-18-1847  Bendersville PA                             married: Florence Salome VanFossen

Died: 10-26-1932  Northumberland PA                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 272

 

?          quarterly conference license, Carlisle

1873    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1875    ordained deacon

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 182

 

1873-74           York Springs  

1874-75           Wellsville

1875-78           York Duke Street

1878-81           Stewartstown 

1881-83           Birmingham   

1883-86           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1886-90           Lock Haven Trinity

1890-92           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1892                transfer to Central New York Conference

1892-97           Auburn First

1897-01           Syracuse Centenary

1901-04           on leave          

1904                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1904-08           Lock Haven Trinity

1908-11           Chambersburg

1911-17           Clearfield Trinity

1917-20           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1920-26           Northumberland

1926                retired 

 

Note: Henry R. Bender is a brother to Aquila R. Bender.  Some sources list his birthplace as Petersburg [York Springs].  Henry R. Bender was present when President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.  He is the author of Twentieth Century Interpretation of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1905), The Problem of Consolation (1912), The Bible Devil (1917), Devils: Bible versus Pagan (1918), Walks with St. John (1929).  A memoir also appears in the 11/17/1932 Christian Advocate, page 1249.

 

 

BENDER, LaRUE GIRTON

 

Born: 5-31-1911  Muncy Valley PA                          married: Helen Shaw Metzger

Died: 5-29-1997  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 339

 

1944    license

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by Elysburg

1948    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 428

 

1944-45           Catawissa circuit

1945-50           Elysburg

1950-54           McConnelsburg

1954-58           Altoona Grace

1958-63           South Williamsport    

1963-               Coudersport   

 

Note: LaRue Bender is the father of Richard W. Bender.  He has a nephew Donald Wayne Bender and a grandson Richard J. Bender in the Central Pennsylvania Conference United Methodist data base. He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 86.

 

 

BENDER, RICHARD WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-23-1935  Muncy PA                                    married: Janet Hunter

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by South Williamsport

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           Oriole  (ending September 1965)

1965-69           student, Crozer Seminary in West Chaester PA

                             1965-68  Trenton NJ Hamilton Avenue (beginning October 1965)

                             1968        Millville NJ Fourth (Feb-Jun)

1969-77           McVeytown   

1977-79           Altoona Broad Avenue-Schumm Memorial

1979-               chaplain, Lewisburg United Methodist Home

 

Note: Richard W. Bender is the son of LaRue Bender.

 

 

BENFIELD, FRANK LESLIE.

 

Born: 11-2-1891  Centralia PA                                  married: Marjorie M. _____

Died: 1953                                                                  obit:  [1895 – 1987]

 

Interment: Brookside Cemetery, Deerfield MA

Obit:

 

1918-19           Rehoboth

1923-24           Schuyler Lake Federated and Exeter Methodist, New York state

                        Episcopal priest, New York State

 

Note: Frank L. Benfield served as a local pastor.  He may have been a student at Dickinson College. 


 

BENFORD, JACOB POORMAN

 

Born: 3-5-1844  Mt. Pleasant PA                               married: Frances Emma Trescott (8/29/1877)

Died: 3-22-1913  Riverside PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 137

 

?          quarterly conference license, Uniontown in the Pittsburgh Conference

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Philipsburg

 

Interment: Union-West End Cemetery, Allentown PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 115

 

1873-74           Decatur

1874-75           Williamsburg  

1875-76           Bloomingdale 

1876-78           Beaver Meadow

1878-80           Hickory Run  

1880-81           Centralia

1881-83           Fairview-Marysville

1883-84           Lewisburg

1884-86           York Springs  

1886-89           Newville-Rehoboth

1889-92           Shrewsbury    

1892-94           Liverpool        

1894-97           York Ridge Avenue

1897-98           Jeanesville      

1898-00           Coalport-Irvonia

1900-03           Duncansville  

1903-11           Gordon

1911-13           Riverside        

 

 

BENFORD, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 5-3-1866  Birmingham, England                      married: Rosalie A. Novallie (12/31/1891)

Died:                                                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 138

 

1892    admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1891-92           Centerville NJ, New Jersey Conference

1892-93           Vienna MD

1893-94           Woodside DE

1894-96           Royal Oak MD

1896-98           Bethel and Summit

1898-99           Mount Lebanon DE

1899                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1899-00           Shirleysburg   

1900-01           Ennisville       

1901-02           Clearville        

1902-04           Jamison City

1904-08           Benton

1908                withdrew

…

1926-27           Elimsport & Maple Hill

 

 

BENNETT, ERWIN DAVID

 

Born: 9-13-1907  Syracuse NY                                  married: Doris Muriel Larkins

Died: 1-20-1983  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 360

 

1927    license, recommended by Watertown NY Asbury

1932    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 399

 

1932-34           Hammond      

1934-35           Mount Pleasant

1935-38           Oswego Center

1938-39           at school         

1939-40           Constantia-West Monroe

1940-41           at school         

1941                transfer to Central New York Conference

1941-43           Benton-Voak 

1943-45           Red Creek

1945-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-48           Weedsport Brick Church

1948-53           chaplain, US Navy

1953-57           Lansing Parish

1957                transfer to Genesee Conference

1957-62           Buffalo-Plymouth

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-65           Wellsboro

1965-68           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1968 -73          Altoona Fifth Avenue

1973                retired

 

 

BENNETT, FENTON S.

 

Born: 2-13-1912                                                          married: Ruth Hendricks (1940)

Died: 3-12-1992                                                         obit: [4/22/1918 – 8/24/1994]

 

?          license, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Towanda PA

Obit:

 

1947-48           associate, Newtown Creek Larger Parish

1950                Sugar Creek Parish

1959-62           New Era

1962                “transferred” by change of boundaries to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           New Era

 

Note:  Fenton S. Bennett served as a local pastor.

 

 

BENNETT, GILBERT LLOYD

 

Born: 7-2-1902  Port Matilda PA                               married: Kathryn Fritz

Died: 12-20-1990                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 473

 

1926    license

1928    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 477

           

1926-27           Jamison City (ending summer 1927)

1927-32           Orangeville (beginning summer 1927)          

1932-37           Picture Rocks Parish  

1937-43           Catawissa       

1943-48           Hanover

1948-55           Huntingdon First

1955-61           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1961-67           superintendent, Williamsport District

1967                retired 

1967-68  visitation, Harrisburg Calvary

1968-70  evangelism, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial

1970-80  visitation, Camp Hill

 

Note: Gilbert L. Bennett is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 88.

 

BENNETT, THOMAS LEE

 

Born: 1-13-1935                                                          married: Irene Fay Hamilton (8/3/1959)

Died: 12-4-2004                                                          obit:

 

1965     license

1971    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Eulalia Cemetery, Coudersport PA

Obit:

 

1965-72           Roulette

1972                no longer listed

 

Note: T. Lee Bennett may not have finished his final year at Roulette, as no report was submitted to Conference.  He reportedly was “a teacher and pastor.”

 

 

BENSCOTER, CRAWFORD LORENZO

 

Born: 1-28-1845  Luzerne County PA                       married: Josephine Louisa Davidson

Died: 5-12-1905  Huntingdon PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 529

 

?          quarterly conference license, Bloomingdale

1870     admitted on trial, recommended by Jeanesville

 

Interment:  Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 105

 

1869-70           Jeanesville

1870-71           Berwick          

1871-72           Benton           

1872-75           Hickory Run  

1875-77           Benton

1877-79           South Heberton

1879-82           Mifflinville     

1882-85           Newville-Rehoboth    

1885-88           Hopewell        

1888-93           Mount Union 

1893-97           North Altoona

1897-00           Lock Haven East Main Street

1900-03           Shamokin Second      

1903-05           Huntingdon Second

1905                retired

 

Note: A memoir for Crawford L. Benscoter also appears in the 8/31/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1407.

 

 

BENSON, LEVI

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1919-21           Alum Bank

1921-25           Benezette

1925-27           Cogan Valley

 

Note: Levi Benson served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknow, but he is listed as officiating at funerals in the Benezette area in 1930.

 

BERGSTROM, FRANK WILLIAM

 

Born: 1-13-1930  Worcester MA                               married: Barbara Ann Schonberg

Died: 8-2-2017  Allentown PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 252

 

1960    license

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 264

 

1951-56           Meridian CT

1956-58           Worcester MA Park Avenue

1958-59           ?

1959-63           student, Penn State University

                            1959-63  Penns Valley (ending 3/15/1963)

1963-68           Mt. Alto (beginning 3/15/1963)

1968-83           Dillsburg Calvary

1983-95           Lemoyne Calvary

1995                retired

                             2000-06  assistant, Lemoyne Grace

Note: Frank W. Bergstrom is a brother to John B. Bergstrom.

 

 

BERGSTROM, JOHN BOGARDUS

 

Born: 7-31-1923  Providence RI                                married: Averil L. Peterson

Died: 7-8-2011  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 428

 

1958    license, recommended by Worcester MA Park Avenue

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 291

 

1945-57           Assembly of God churches

1957-59

1959-64           Grampian-Lumber City

1964-70           Benton

1970-73           Oriole

1973-78           Westfield

1978-83           Williamsport Trinity

1983-86           Berwick First

1986                retired

                             1986-93  associate, Picture Rocks Parish

                             1993-96  South Williamsport Larger Parish

 

Note: John B. Bergstrom is a brother to Frank W. Bergstrom.

 

BERKEBILE, CALVIN E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-22           Sandy Ridge

 

Note:  C.E. Berkebile served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

BERKHEIMER, CHARLES FRANKLIN

 

Born: 8-8-1896  Mechanicsburg PA                          married: Zerba Theresa Weber

Died: 12-17-1968  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 401

 

1918    admitted on trial

1921    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 306

 

1918-19           Riverside-West Fairview

1919-22           Millerstown    

1922-24           Dillsburg-Wellsville   

1924-26           Snow Shoe

1926-30           Williamsport Market Street

1930-36           Emporium

1936-43           Sunbury St. John’s

1943-51           Williamsport Pine Street

1951-57           superintendent, Sunbury District

1957-62           Milton

1962                retired 

 

Note: Charles F. Berkheimer is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 92.  Mrs. Berkheimer’s sister Alma Weber Mower is the mother of A. Glenn Mower Jr.

 

BERKSTRESSER, GEORGE

 

Born: 8-12-1807  PA                                                  married: Anna Catherine Horn

Died: 11-3-1896  Dadeville AL                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895,87

 

1836     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Dadeville City Cemetery, Dadeville AL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 93

 

1836-37           New Bloomfield

1837-38           Mifflin

1838-39           Beaver Meadows

1839-40           Bellefonte

1840-42           Danville circuit

1842-43           Sunbury          

1843-45           Shrewsbury    

1845-46           Bedford

1846-48           Warrior’s Mark

1848-50           Newport         

1850-52           Clearfield       

1852-54           Penn’s Valley 

1854-55           Lewistown circuit

1855-57           Cassville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Woodbury      

1859-60           York Springs  

1860-62           Shrewsbury    

1862-64           Gettysburg     

1864-65           Rainsburg

1865                retired

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-80           on leave

1880                retired

                        living in Alabama

 

Note: A biographical sketch of George Berkstresser appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 333.

 

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:

 

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

1956-57           Forksville

1957-59           Lock Haven East Main Street

1959-62           New Bloomfield

1962-64           Mt. Rock, Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB

 

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.

 

BETHUNE, JAMES WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg

1883    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1880-81           Wharton

1881-82           Cogan Valley 

1882-83           ?

1883                located at own request

 

BETTENS, JAMES HENRY

 

Born: 7-15-1869  Cornwall England                          married: Mary Fullmer

Died: 9-26-1954  Lock Haven PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 241

 

1899    admitted on trial

 

Interment:  Millville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 227

 

1899-01           Waller 

1901-02           Silver Brook   

1902-06           Irish Valley    

1906-08           Selinsgrove     

1908-10           Benezette       

1910-16           North Bend

1916-21           McVeytown

1921-25           Flemington

1925-30           Nescopeck

1930-36           Riverside

1936-38           Lock Haven East Main. Street

1938                retired 

 

Note: James H. Bettens is an uncle (through his sister Elizabeth Bettens Symons) to Edmund J. Symons.

 

BEYER, DAVID

 

Born: 9-7-1763  Frederick MD                                  married: Susan Crum

Died: 12-1-1841  Tipton PA                                       obit: [10/17/1767 – 9/25/1845]

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Antis township Blair County

Obit:     

 

 

Note: David Beyer is the grandfather of James S. Beyer.  He served as a local preacher and was instrumental in introducing Methodism to the region and establishing the Mount Zion Church in Antis township, Blair County. See Africa’s History of Blair County, page 44.

 

BEYER, JAMES STEVENS

 

Born: 11-29-1837  Beyer’s Mill, Blair County PA    married: Susannah Woolverton

Died: 3-30-1899  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927,527

 

1857    license

1865    ordained deacon

1866    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1869    ordained elder, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 108

 

1866-68           Lewisburg WV

1868                transfer to Virginia Conference

1868-69           Middlebrook WV

1869-71           Portsmouth

1871-73           Old Point Comfort

1873-76           Alexandria

1876-79           Falls Church

1879-81           superintendent, Alexandria District

1881                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1881-83           Half Moon      

1883-85           Sinnemahoning

1885-86           Espy-Light Street

1886-89           Weatherly       

1889-92           Salona

1892-96           Ralston

1896-99           Woodland

 

Note: James Stevens Beyer is the grandson of David Beyer.  Following the death of James, Mrs. Woolverton and her daughters retired to her home area at Alexandria PA.  Their daughters Anna “Ruth” and Mary served as Methodist missionaries in Chile.  Their daughter Martha married Rev. Joseph Howard Varner Sr (1886-1973) of the Presbyterian Church and is the mother of Rev. Joseph Howard Varner Jr (1915-1995), also of the Presbyterian Church.

 

BICHELL, ALBERT A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1912-13           Orrtanna

1919-20           Cross Fork [Potter County]

 

Note: A.A. Bichell served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He began his ministry in 1897 in the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and his full known service record may be found in the Methodist Protestant pastor file.

 

BICKEL, JOHN CRAWFORD

 

Born: 1864                                                                  married: Idylla Robbins

Died: 11-29-1939  Fort Wayne IN                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 1165

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Harveyville

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Columbys OH

Obit: Ohio Conference 1940, 182

 

1893-95           Harveyville     

1895-98           Milnesville-Jeddo       

1898-00           without appointment  

1900-03           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1903-04           Salt Lake City UT First

1904-10           superintendent, Wyoming Mission    

1910                transfer to Indiana Conference

                        Irvington

                        transfer to Ohio Conference

 

Note: John C. Bickel was born in Indiana and raised in Missouri.  He is supposedly a graduate of DePauw and Boston University.

 

 

BICKELL, CHARLES ALBERT LEHMAN

 

Born: 8-8-1906  Williamsport PA                              married: Marion Theodora Danskin

Died: 6-26-1969  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 468

 

1929    admitted on trial, recommended by Newberry

1931    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

           

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 379

 

1928-30           Wallis Run     

1930-32           Montandon    

1932-34           at school

1934-36           Snydertown   

1936-40           Riverside        

1940-43           Shickshinny    

1943-46           Milton

1946-53           Philipsburg (ending 11/30/1953)

1953                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1953-56           [California]     

1956                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1956-59           Waynesboro

1959-63           York First

1963-69           superintendent, Sunbury District

 

Note: Rev. Bickell is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 97.

 

BIDDLE, CHARLES ABRAHAM  

 

Born: 6-26-1853  Buffalo Run Valley PA                  married: Rosa Vene Lee

Died: 3-11-1922  New Millport PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 225

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by Port Matilda circuit

1888    ordained deacon

 

Interment:  New Millport Cemetery, New Millport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 124

 

1884-85           Osceola

1885-86           Port Matilda

1886-89           Coalport

1889-93           Lumber City  

1893-97           Ramey

1897-99           Altoona Epworth mission.

1899-04           Clearfield       

1904-07           Woodland-Bradford

1907-10           New Millport  

1910                retired 

 

Note: Charles A. Biddle is a brother to Fletcher W. Biddle and to Rev. John Edward Biddle (1855-) of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.  Mrs. Biddle is a granddaughter of Rev. Timothy Lee, supposedly “a member of the first American Methodist General Conference” (1792?), who was a first cousin of the eminent missionary Jason Lee (1803-1845).

 

 

BIDDLE, FLETCHER W.    

 

Born: 6-15-1858  Buffalo Run PA                             married: Josephine Little

Died: 6-8-1930  Bedford PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 273

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

 

Interment: Bedford Cemetery, Bedford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 176

 

1885-86           assistant, Concord

1887-88           Cassville         

1888-90           Clearville        

1890-93           Shirleysburg   

1893-96           Flemington     

1896-99           Petersburg      

1899-03           Osceola

1903-07           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1907-10           Bedford

1910-12           Roaring Springs

1913-15           Williamsport Grace

1915-19           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1919-20           Curwensville  

1920-22           Renovo

1922-23           Mount Union 

1923-24           Stewartstown 

1924-26           Duncansville  

1926                retired 

 

Note: Note: Fltecher W. Biddle is a brother to Charles A. Biddle and to Rev. John Edward Biddle (1855-) of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.  A memoir also appears in the 6/19/1930 Christian Advocate, page 789.  Mrs. Biddle’s sister Melissa is the wife of David F. Kapp.

 

BIDLACK, STEPHEN BRUCE

 

Born: 4-8-1875  Southdale PA                                   married: Emma Eldora Fiester

Died: 4-5-1966                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 247

 

1902     admitted on trial

1905    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 311

 

1901-03           Laporte

1903-05           Clarkstown

1905-09           Muncy Valley

1909-11           Trevorton       

1911-14           Espy-Lime Ridge

1914-17           West Fairview

1917-19           Marysville      

1919-23           Lock Haven East Main Street

1923-26           Watsontown   

1926-27           Petersburg      

1927-31           Freeland

1931-37           Mifflinburg    

1937-38           Williamsport Third Street

1938-40           Duboistown-Nisbet    

1940-42           Lewisberry-Lisburn    

1942                retired 

                             1942-45      Laurelton 

 

Note: Some biographical information on Stephen B. Bidlack appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 31.   Some sources give his birth date as 4-1-1875.

 

BIEBER, GEORGE STERLING

 

Born: 12-12-1921  Williamsport PA                          married: Mrs. Montene Murphy

Died: 4-25-2003                                                          obit: [1923 – 4/21/2015]

 

1945    admitted on trial, New England Southern Conference

1947    ordained elder, New England Southern Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New England Conference 2003, B-291

 

1941-43           Clearville (beginning 10/1/41)

1943-44           living in Williamsport

1944-45           Mapleville & Glendale, New England Southern Conference

1945                “transfer” to New England Southern Conference

1945-48           Mapleville & Glendale

1948-51           East Hartford Center

1951-61           chaplain, USAF

1961-66           Vineyard Haven

1966-74           Marshfield

1974-82           Glastonbury (ending 5/1/82)

1982-88           Spencer (beginning 5/1/82)

                             1985-88      West Warren (10/1/85 – 3/8/88)

1988                retired

 

Note:  George S. Bieber is a brother to Rev. Charles M. Bieber (1919-2014) of the Church of the Brethren.  Mrs. Bieber was the widow of a Mr. Francis X. Murphy (1911-1989).

 

BIERI, JOHN CASPER

 

Born: 11-13-1873  Philadelphia PA                           married: Jeanette M. Betson

Died: 3-30-1951  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Philadelphia Conference 1924, 880

                                                                                    married2: Alice Dalrymple

1902    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference    obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1937, 189

1902    ordained, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: North Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1951, 1034

 

1898-01           student, Dickinson College

                             1900-01      Millerstown (last part of year)

1901-02           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1901-02      Millerstown

1902                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1902-07           Easton Memorial

1907-09           Philadelphia Hancock Street

1909-10           Philadelphia Scott

1910-13           Reading Windsor Street

1913-16           Columbia

1916-18           Mahanoy City

1918-20           Chester Providence Avenue

1920-24           Philadelphia Siloam

1924-25           Philadelphia Frankford Avenue

1925-27           Spring City

1927-28           Philadelphia Centenary

1928-29           conference evangelist

1929-30           Philadelphia Wissahickon (ending 10/30)

1930-34           Philadelphia Columbia Avenue (beginning 10/30)

1934-37           Philadelphia St. Luke’s

1937-40           Philadelphia Park Avenue

1940                retired

                            1942-44       Philadelphia Clearview (beginning 10/42)

 

Note: John C. Bieri is the author of over 60 published hymn and is also noted for gospel magic presentations.

 

BIERLY, EDWIN SYLVERIUS

 

Born: 6-20-1869  Rebersburg PA                               married: Sarah Catherine Erhard

Died: 1954  Pensacola FL                                          obit: [1872-1938]

 

1899    license, recommended by Spring Mills

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Port Matilda

 

Interment: St. Peter’s Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg PA

Obit:

 

1901                East Falmouth MA (3 months)

1904                South Dakota

1905-06           York Springs

1906-07           Alum Bank

1907-09           Port Matilda   

1909-10           Pine Grove Mills

1910-11           Burnt Cabins  

1911                discontinued

1911-13           Bethany, Wyoming Conference

 

Note: Some sources give the first name as EDWARD.  Edwin S. Bierley is an 1898 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 59.  Mrs. Bierly is a sister to Rev. Clyde Erhard “of Texas” (dates and affiliation unknown).

 

 

BINGAMAN, HARRY LUTHER

 

Born: 7-21-1908 Glen Iron PA                                   married: Dorothy Gwendolyn Aumiller

Died: 11-1-2001 Lewisburg PA                                 obit: [11/14/1908 – 4/2/1981]

 

 

Interment: Hartley township, Union County PA       

Obit:

 

1959-63           Montandon (ending 1/31/63)

 

Note:  Harry Bingaman was a schoolteacher and served as a local pastor.  He served as worship leader and “pastor emeritus” for many years at Laurelton Lincoln Chapel.

 

BIRD, FRANKLIN HORATIO JR.

 

Born: 9-2-1924  Brooklyn NY                                   married: Sara Marie Levance

Died: 19-11-2009  Ozark AL                                     obit: [1/9/1931 - ]

 

1955    license

1961    admitted on trial

1961    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Olive Cemetery, Rocky Head AL

Obit:

 

1954-57           Lower Bank circuit, New Jersey Conference (10/1/54 – 5/26/57)

1957-59           student, Juniata College

                             1957-59      assistant, James Creek

1959-60           student, Lycoming College

                             1959-60      assistant, James Creek

1960-61           student, Crozer Seminary in Chester PA

                             1960-61      Freeland Parish

1961-63           student, Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY

                             1961-63      Freeland Parish

1963-66           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1966                voluntary location

                        Alabama-West Florida Conference

 

 

BIRD, PEMBERTON

 

Born: 10-3-1817  Shamokin PA                                 married: Mary A. Arnold

Died: 9-2-1894  Shamokin PA                                   obit: [6/24/1817 – 6/26/1871]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah E. Deiterly

                                                                                    obit2: [2/18/1840 – 4/1/1920]

 

?          quarterly conference license, Shamokin

1855    local deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1859    local elder, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Sunbury circuit 

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

1868                charter “member” of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Jeansville

1869-71           Williamsport circuit

1871-72           Cogan’s Valley

1872-73           Watsontown (first part of year)

1873-75           Wharton

1875-76           Pine Creek

1882-83           Hickory Run

 

Note: Pemberton Bird served as a local pastor.  He worked as a carpenter and was an 1838 charter member of the congregation at Shamokin.

 

BIRD, ROBERT WENNER

 

Born: 10-30-1922  Troy NY                                       married: Marie Kuchar

Died: 4-27-2011  Utica NY                                        obit: [5/30-1922 – 3/6/2010]

 

1952     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit:

 

1947-52           Catawissa circuit

1952-55           at school         

     1954-55      Beaver Falls, Northern New York Conference

1955                transfer to Northern New York Conference (1/15/1955)

1955-               Beaver Falls

                        North Central New York Conference

 

BIRDSALL, ARCHIBALD F.

 

Born: 1903                                                                  married: Effie Jane VanLeuvender

Died: 1957                                                                  obit: [1902 – 1977]

 

1926    admitted, Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

1926    ordained, Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Pine Hill Cemetery, Shickshinny PA

Obit:

 

1922-25           Cassville

1925-39           Shicksinny

1939                transferred to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1941                withdrawn by action of the Annual Conference

 

Note: Many records list the given name as ARCHIE.  At the 1939 denominational union, A.F. Birdsall and the Shickshinny MP congregation never actually came into the Methodist Church.  Fiercely autonomous, he and the congregation even declined to join the newly formed Bible Protestant Church and became independent.  The congregation eventually associated with the GARB (Baptist) denomination.  Beginning in 1956, his son Rev. Warren M. Birdsall (1923-1995) served the congregation for 30+ years.

 

BIRT, PAUL EUGENE

 

Born: 7-14-1936  Berwick PA                                    married: Mary Esther Gunder (6/7/1958)

Died: 9-16-2023  Maryville TN                                  bit:

 

1964    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg Salem

1965    admitted on trial

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1964-67           Barnitz

1967-72           York Springs  

1972-76           Millheim

1976-77           sabbatical

1977-80           Millheim

1980                honorable location

 

Note: Paul E. Birt is the  1980 founder of Victorious Living Ministries International, with ministrties in NY and TN,  Mrs. Birt is the daughter of Jesse K. Gunder.

 

BITTENBENDER, EDWIN LEE

 

Born: 2-25-1925  Berwick PA                                    married: Mona A. Monson (6/21/1953)

Died: 7-2-2011  Fergus Falls MN                              obit: [1929 -

 

1954    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls MN

Obit:

 

1949-52           instructor, Lucknow Christian College, Lucknow India

1952-54           M2 to India

1954-56           student, Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston IL

1956                transfer to Lucknow Conference (11/1/1956)

1956-61           chaplain, Lucknow Christian College

1961-63           Herman First (Minnesota)

1963-70           Lucknow Lal Bagh

1970-72           Perham, Richvale & Dent (Minnesota)

1972-77           Minnetonka (Minnesota)

1978-80           Karachi (Pakistan) St. Andrews

1980-82           Norcross & Tenney (Minnesota)

1982-87           Bangkok (Thailand) International Congregation

1987                retired

                             1990-91      Nome (Alaska) Community UMC

 

Note: The Bittenbenders met in the early 1950’s while attenfing Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL.  In 2020, at age 90, Mrs. Bittenbender is living an active Christian life in Grand Rapids MN.

 

BIXLER, ANDREW LOY

 

Born: 1-1-1880  Perry County PA                              married: Carolyn Mable Moore

Died: 2-9-1962  Harrisburg PA                                  spouse: 1973, 382

 

1906    admitted on trial, New England Conference

1908    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 319

 

1906-07           Leicester

1907-10           Upton

1910-15           Boston

1915-18           Beverly

1918-20           secretary, YMCA France

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-21           director of religious work, Dickinson College

1921-25           Altoona Fairview

1925-28           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1928-29           Huntingdon First

1929-31           State College  

1931-36           Altoona Simpson

1936-42           Mount Carmel

1942-46           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1946-49           Lewisburg

1949-50           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1950                retired 

 

BLACK, JACOB H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1873    admitted on trial, recommended by Hazleton station

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873-74           Conyngham

1874                discontinued at own request

 

Note: This may be Jacob Hoffman Black (b. 12/7/1848 in Huntingdon, graduated from Millersville State College in 1869, lived and taught in the Sunbury area before returning to Huntingdon (where he was a druggist and died 3/3/1913) –  who was an active Methodist lay person.

 

BLACK, JAMES HARPER

 

Born: 12-29-1845  Chambersburg PA                        married: Mary Carter Barbour

Died: 10-12-1932  Chambersburg PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 142

 

1873    admitted on trial, recommended by Chambersburg station

1875    ordained deacon

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 183

 

1873-75           Bendersville   

1875-77           Wellsville

1877-80           Shippensburg 

1880-83           Harrisburg Fifth Street  (ending 8/17/1882)

1882-83           superintendent, Methodist Book Room (beginning 8/17/1882)

1883-86           Bedford

1886-89           Clearfield       

1889-92           Everett

1892-97           Lock Haven Trinity

1897-02           superintendent, Williamsport District

1902-03           superintendent, Book Room

1903-08           Huntingdon First

1908-11           Carlisle           

1911                retired 

 

BLACK, ROBERT WESLEY

 

Born: 9-6-1824  Huntingdon PA                                married: Belinda Talbot Gorsuch (1853)

Died: 8-13-1895  Baltimore MD                                obit: [2/21/1833 – 1895]

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1896, 55

 

1851-52           Cassville

1852-53           Hereford

1853-54           Gettysburg

1854-55           Catawissa

1855-57           Mifflinburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Birmingham

1859-60           Bedford

1860-62           Mechanicsburg station

1862-64           Carlisle

1864-66           Jersey Shore

1866-68           Baltimore Broadway

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Broadway

1869-72           Union Square

1872-75           Washington DC Wesley Chapel

1875-78           Hamline

1878-81           Baltimore High Street

1881-82           South Baltimore station

1882-87           superintendent, East Baltimore District

1887                retired

 

Note: This name is sometimes given in the form R. Wesley Black.

 

BLADES, ANSLEY BAKER

 

Born: 6-25-1870  Canisteo NY                      married: Florence Leonard Bailey (8/10/1894)

Died: 1941  Seminole County FL                   obit: [1/21/1875 – 5/15/1946]

 

1900    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

1902    ordained deacon, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Union Springs [Cayuga County] NY

Obit:

 

1904                transfer to California Conference

1906                transfer to Newark Conference

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1907-08           Williamsport Market Street (ending 9/29/1908)

1908                withdrew to join the Presbyterian ministry; see 1909,82

 

Note: Ansley Baker Blades is the son of John Hogg Blades (1829-1891) of the Genesee Conference.  A notice of the withdrawal of A.B. Blades appears in the 13/3/1908 Christian Advocate, page 2026.  He also served ME churches in Cottonwood County MN, but it is unclear whether this was before or after his service in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was residing in WA in 1930.

 

BLAIR, SAMUEL

 

Born: c1863                                                                married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1891    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Hazleton Mission [Diamond] & West Hazleton

1890-91           Hazleton Diamond

1891-93           Harveyville

1893-96           Altoona City Mission

1896-99           Morrisdale      

1899-00           Altoona Epworth Mission

1900                transfer to North Nebraska Conference

1900-02           [Nebraska]

1902                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1902-04           missionary, Wyoming

1904-07           missionary, Utah

1907-09           missionary, Texas

1909-11           missionary, New Mexico

1911                transfer to Kansas Conference

 

Note: In the 1890’s, Samuel Blair was a regular evangelist/preacher at the Patterson Grove Camp Meeting.  He is known as Samuel Blair D.D. and appears to have been a superintendent of mssions.

 

BLAKE, BURDINE

 

Born: 1-13-1800  Lancaster County PA                     married: Mazey Ann Simpkins (12/14/1818)

Died: 8-26-1874  Martinsburg PA                              obit: [2/?/1794 – 4/1/1867]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Barbara Stifler (11/?/1867)

Interment:                                                                   obit2:

Obit:

 

 

Note:  Burdine Blake was an ordained local elder.  There is no evidence that he every served a charge under appointment.

 

BLAZY, J.F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-22           Westport & Cross Forks

 

Note:  J.F. Blazy served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

BLOOM, ARTHUR WILLIAM

 

Born: 3-16-1927  Bronx NY                                      married: Margaret Reed (6/12/1954)

Died: 2-7-2019                                                            obit: [4/22/1933 – 5/3/2015]

 

1948    license

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: New York Conference 2019,

 

1952-54           at school

1954-57           York Duke Street

1957                transfer to New York Conference

Bedford Hills

Ossining

Northport

Patchogue

1992                retired to Groton VT

 

Note: Mrs. Bloom is the daughter of Rev. William Bruce Reed (1910-1994) of the New York Conference.

 

BOBB, DEAN MEREDITH SR

 

Born: 4-3-1929  Yeagertown PA                                married: Doris Ann Close (4/7/1950)

Died: 12-28-2018  Danville PA                                  obit: [d. 10/12/2018]

 

1959    license, recommended by Lewistown Rhodes Memorial

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-62           Morris

1962-66           Elkland (ending 11/14/66)

1966-71           Williamsport High Street (beginning 11/15/66)

1971                no longer lister

                        “transfer” to United Church of Christ

                        Lewistown Trinity

                        Milroy

                        Siglerville

                        Jonestown

                        Marion

                        Abbottstown

                        McClure

 

BOBB, JOSHUA PIERCE

 

Born: 11-23-1846  near Mechanicsburg PA               married: Agnes M. Crumb

Died: 8-30-1895  Maywood NE                                 obit: [1858 – 1939]

 

1870    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Maywood Cemetery, Maywood NE

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 99

 

1870-71           Salladasburg   

1871-76           faculty, Pennington Seminary

1876-78           on leave          

1878                retired

    1878-90       faculty, High Forest MN Seminary

 

Note: Joshua P. Bobb graduated from Dickinson College in 1870 and later earned a PhD from Illinois Wesleyan University.  He suffered with health problems most of his life.

 

BODTORF, ROY OAKLEY

 

Born: 5-10-1909  Centre Hall PA                               married: Mabel Elizabeth Dougherty

Died: 9-13-1968   Harrisburg PA                               spouse: Central Pennsylvania Conf 2009, 414

 

1930    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment:   Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 307

 

1929-31           Vira    

1931-33           Oriole-Antes Fort      

1933-35           Duboistown-Nisbet    

1935-38           Pleasant Gap  

1938-43           Morrisdale-Munson    

1943-47           Mifflintown   

1947-53           Altoona Fairview

1953-57           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1957-62           Tyrone First

1962-66           Berwick First

1966-68           assistant administrator, Bethany Village

1968                retired 

 

BOGGS, GEORGE FRANKLIN

 

Born: 11-3-1867  Path Valley, Franklin County PA  married: Isabelle Virginia Kapp

Died: 2-5-1947  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 234

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Shirleysburg circuit

1896    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Alto Rest Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 197

 

1894-97           McKee’s Gap 

1897-01           Hastings

1901-04           Howard

1904-08           Hazleton Diamond

1908-11           Williamsport High Street

1911-14           Hollidaysburg

1914-17           Waynesboro   

1917-22           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1922-25           Milton

1925-28           Renovo

1928-32           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1932-36           Camp Hill       

1936-40           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1940                retired 

 1943-47  Altoona Mardorf

 

Note: Mrs. Boggs is a sister to David F. Kapp.

 

 

BOHNER, RUSSELL HENRY

 

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, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church

            recommended by Elizabethville

1938    admitted on trial, Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 447

 

1936-38           Chesterville

1938-41           Gambier

1941-43           Gnadenhutten

1943-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-48           West Lafayette

1948-50           Mt. Gilead

1950-67           chaplain, US Air Force

1967-69           sabbatical

1969                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-73           on leave

1973                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Bohner ceases to be listed as a surviving spouse beginning in 2000, but there is no mentio of her death.

 

 

 

 

BOLLINGER, LLOYD DAVID

 

Born: 4-23-1928  York PA                                         married: Phyllis E. _____

Died: 6-11-1984  York PA                                         obit: [b.1931]

 

 

Interment: New Freedom Cemetery, New Freedom PS        

Obit:

 

1952-54           Hustontown

 

Note:  Lloyd Bollinger served as a local pastor.

 

BONACCI, ANGELO W.

 

Born: 1878  Adams, Italy                                           married: Carrie M. _____

Died: 1946                                                                  obit: [3/25/1884 – 6/15/1975]

 

1902    license

1906    admitted on trial, Austin Conference
1909    ordained, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Yellow Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Wellsville OH

Obit:

 

Italian Mission, Cleveland OH

1905-06           Hazleton & Mount Carmel missions

1906                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1906-09                      Altoona Italian Mission

1909                transfer to Genesee Conference

1909-13           missionary, Buffalo NY Italian Mission        

1913                transfer to Des Moines Conference

1913-16           Des Moines Italian Mission

1916                expelled

                        Presbyterian Church

1921-22           Chicago Melrose Park Italian Mission           

 

BONHAM, KENNETH ROBERT

 

Born: 2-24-1916  Hunlock PA                                   married: Esther Louise Mensch

Died: 7-3-2012                                                            obit:

 

1950    license, recommended by Oakdale of the Hunlock Creek charge

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013,263

 

1950-53           student, Lycoming College

    1950-52       Forksville, Central New York Conference (beginning 10/1/1950) 

1953-56           student, Wesley Theological Seminary

    1952-56       Mount Alto    

1956-59           Barnesboro     

1959-61           Gatchelville    

1961-62           Newport (beginning 9/15/1961)

1962-66           Mill Hall        

1966-77           Bendersville   

1977-81           Dallastown Trinity
1981-82           Adamsville-Dallastown parish (ending 12/31/1982)

1983                retired (beginning 1/1/1983)

 

 

BOONE, SAMUEL PERRY

 

Born: 9-18-1858  Black Creek, Luzerne County PA married: Anna May Hess

Died: 7-26-1938  Hazleton PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 251

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by West Hazleton circuit

1890    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Methodist Church Cemetery, Black Creek PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 205

 

1884-86           West Hazleton

1886-91           Benton           

1891-92           Mifflinville     

1892-93           Buckhorn-Rupert

1893-01           on leave

1901                retired

 

BOOTH, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 6-13-1868  DE                                                  married: Mary E. Parry

Died: 7-25-1953  Eddystone PA                                obit: [3/27/1869 – 1/8/1949]

 

1938    admitted, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1938    ordained, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Sorber Cemetery, Shickshinny PA

Obit:

 

1923-29           New Brooklyn NJ

1929-33           Hollisterville PA circuit

1933-34           Hillburn NJ

1934-38           Point Erial NJ

1938-39           Reyburn circuit

1939                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1941                withdrawn to join ministry of another church

 

Note: At the 1939 denominational union, J.W. Booth and the Reyburn MP charge never actually came into the Methodist Church.  The Register Church closed.  Rev. Booth and the Bloomingdale, Koonsville and Reyburn congregations joined the newly formed Bible Protestant Church. 

 

BOUGHEY, PERCY S.

 

Born: 11-6-1890  Derby, England                              married: Lucy Belle Harries

Died: 8-19-1972  Matlock, England                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953,227

 

?          license, British Methodist Church

1919    admitted on trial

1921    ordained deacon

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Harrisburg PA Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 368

 

1913-15           Lancashire, England

1915                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1915-16           Hummelstown

1916                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-18           Liverpool 

1918-22           Montandon    

1922-25           Kulpmont

1925-30           Audenreid      

1930-31           Williamsport Market Street

1931-38           Weatherly       

1938-47           Ashland          

1947-50           Shippensburg 

1950-61           Renovo

1961                retired 

 

Note: The father and grandfather of Percy S. Boughey were local preachers in England.  He is an uncle to Rev. Harry E. Boughey of the United Church of Christ.  Mrs. Boughey is the daughter of Alfred Harries (c1870-1916) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

BOUSE, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 4-9-1823  Pendleton County WV                     married: Virginia Miles

Died: 7-21-1892  Woodland PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899,99

 

1849    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 90

 

1848-50           Lewisburg VA

1850-51           Woodstock VA

1851-52           Springfield VA

1852-54           Westernport MD

1854-55           Cumberland MD

1855-57           Bedford circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Cassville

1859-61           Shirleysburg   

1861-63           Newport

1863-66           Port Royal

1866-68           Gettysburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           New Bloomfield

1871-74           Three Springs 

1874-75           West Clearfield

1875-78           Penn’s Valley 

1878-81           Half Moon

1881-84           Green Village 

1884-87           Warrior’s Mark

1887-92           Milesburg

1892                Woodland

 

Note: A biographical sketch of George W. Bouse appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 335.  The 1899 conference obituary for Mrs. Bouse is in error.  It gives her maiden names as Mills and the marriage data as 8/7/1858; the maiden name is Miles and the marriage date is 8/7/1851.

 

BOUTON, ARTHUR ALONZO

 

Born: 9-27-1890  Brooklyn NY                                 married: Helen F. Garber

Died: 7-8-1974                                                            obit: New York Conference 1973, 541

 

1917    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

1919    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Huntsdale Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Huntsdale PA

Obit: New York Conference 1975, 1258

 

1911-15           student, Dickinson College

                             1914-15      Boiling Springs (summer 1914 – summer 1915)

1915-17           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1915-17      West Livingston NJ (beginning summer 1915)

1917-18           Riverside & West Fairview

1918                transfer to New York East Conference

1918-20           New Rochelle First

1920-23           Lynbrook St. James

1923-26           Hempstead

1926-33           Brooklyn Bay Ridge Grace

1933-40           Queens Astoria First

1940-46           Baldwin

1946-52           Queens Elmhurst

1952-59           Union

1959                retired

 

BOWDEN, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 2-3-1850  Holmbush England                          married: Sarah Belle Cisney

Died: 12-27-1919  Windber PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 235

 

1867    license, Bible Christian Church in England

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

 

Interment: Redland Cemetery, Windber PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 134

 

1873-75           Concord circuit

1875-76           New Bloomfield

1876-77           Port Royal

1877-78           Ray’s Hill

1878-79           Shirleysburg   

1879-81           Burnt Cabins  

1881-83           Lycoming

1883-85           Liberty Valley

1885-87           Cogan Valley 

1887-90           Wolfsburg

1890-93           Schellsburg

1893-01           on leave

1901                retired 

 

BOWEN, JOHN

 

Born: 6-8-1793  Bedford County PA                         married: Martha Lewis Walton Grier

Died: 11-18-1864                                                        obit: [10/14/1800 – 8/28/1877]

 

1820    license

1823    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1825    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1827    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 42

 

1822-23           Bedford circuit

1823-24           Aughwick

1824-25           Bald Eagle

1825-26           Clearfield

1826-28           Lycoming

1828-30           Pendleton

1830-32           Carlisle

1832-33           Baltimore

1833-34           Calvert

1834-35           Lewistown

1835-37           Huntingdon

1837-39           Hollidaysburg

1839-41           Chambersburg

1841-43           Milton

1843-44           Lycoming

1844-45           Williamsport station

1845-47           Berwick

1847-49           Staunton station

1849-50           York

1850-51           Shepherdstown

1851-53           Baltimore Caroline Street station

1853-55           Patapsco

1855-57           Westminster

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Gettysburg

1859-61           Baltimore Dallas Street

1861-65           retired

 

Note: Mrs. Bowen was the widow of a Dr. Matthew Blackburn Grier, M.D. (1887-1818).  This 4/5/1827 marriage may have been a second marriage for John Bowen.

 

BOWER, AARON VINCENT

 

Born: 10-15-1862  Berwick PA                                  married: Harriet V. Garney

Died:3-6-1939                                                             obit: [1/29/1864 – 11/18/1930]

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Berwick station

 

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunmore PA

Obit:

 

1888                graduated from Drew Theological Seminary

1888-89           Beach Haven  

1889                discontinued at own request

1891                readmitted to New York East Conference

1891-92           East Chester NY

1892-95           New Canaan CT

1895                studying law at Scranton PA

 

Note: Aaron V. Bower became a lawyer and settled in Scranton PA.

 

BOWER, HARRY CLAYTON

 

Born: 5-31-1882  Elimsport PA                                 married: Mabel Lucy Crawford (6/2/1909)

Died: 8-?-1971  St. Petersburg FL                              obit: [d. 1/18/1951]

 

1901    license, recommended by South Williamsport

1905    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1905-06           Cameron

1906-08           missionary, Pinang Malaysia

1908                transfer to Philippine Islands Mission Conference

1913                transfer to Malaysia Conference

1918                transfer to Netherlands Indies Mission Conference

1927                transfer to North Sumatra Conference

1935                withdrew (7/18/1935)

 

Note:  Some biographical information on Harry C. Bower appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 56.  Some sources give his birth year as 1883.  The biographical files at the conference archives contain limited information on his assignments.  Mrs. Bower served as a missionary.

 

BOWER, LAHMAN FOREST

 

Born: 7-5-1858  Berwick PA                                      married: Gertrude E. Henninger

Died: 3-12-1934  Carlisle PA                                     obit: [4/27/1861 – 11/2/1933]

 

1895    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Newville PA

Obit:

 

1884-87           principal, preparatory department at Dickinson College

1887-96           businessman, Carlisle

                        moved to Cincinnati OH

                        vice president of Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee WI

 

Note: Lahman F. Bower served as a local pastor.  His name also appears as Lahman FORREST Bower.  A biographical sketch appears in the 1905 Dickinson College Alumni Record, page 37.  He is the author of the book The Economic Waste of Sin, published by Abingdon Press in 1924.  He appears to be living back in Carlisle 1930-34.

 

BOWER, MABEL LUCY (Crawford)

 

Born:                                                                           married: Harry C. Bower (6/2/1909)

Died: 1-18-1951  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: [5/31/1882 – 8/?/1971]

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

Note:  Mabel C. Bower served as a missionary. Mr. Bower was a ministerial member of the Conference.

 

BOWER, ROY WILLARD  

 

Born: 9-7-1922  Akron OH                                        married: Mary Frances Knowles

Died: 7-7-1983                                                            obit: [6/12/1926 – 5/27/1997]

 

1946    local preacher’s license

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member, East Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Greenlawn Memorial Park, Akron OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1984, I:111

 

1948-50           Mont Alto (ending 11/15/50)

1950-53           Port Matilda (beginning 11/15/50 & ending 9/15/53)

1953                “transfer” to East Ohio Conference

                        West Bedford

                        Trinway

                        Warsaw

                        Thompson

                        Andover

1978                retired to Akron OH

 

Note: The middle name for Roy W. Bower is sometimes given as WILLIAM.  The widowed Mrs. Bower later married a Mr. Donald W. Mishka (1927-2010).

 

BOWERS, DANIEL P. S.

 

Born: 3-2-1922  Waynesboro PA                               married:

Died: 10-23-2006  Westfield NJ                                obit:

 

1946    admitted on trial, North Carolina Conference

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1939-43           student, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA

1944-46           student, Duke Divinity School in Durham NC

1946-47           assistant, Franklintown

1947-53           faculty, Louisburg College (ending 1/31/1953)

1953                transfer to Newark Conference (1/31/1953)

1953-56           assistant Westfield (beginning 1/31/1953)

1956-57           student

1957-61           on leave

1961                withdrew

 

Note: Dan S. Bowers has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

BOWMAN, ALFRED STECK

 

Born: 11-19-1845  near Mifflinville PA                    married: Mary Alice Rockefeller

Died: 11-27-1934   Scotia NY                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 111

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1870    ordained deacon

1872    ordained elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 236

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Berwick circuit

1869-70           Elysburg

1870-71           Conyngham    

1871-72           Washingtonville

1872-73           Danville St. Paul’s

1873-75           Riverside

1875-78           Muncy

1878-80           Williamsport Third Street

1880-83           Mechanicsburg

1883-86           Waynesboro   

1886-88           Ashland          

1888-91           Harrisburg St. Paul

1891-93           Shickshinny    

1893-96           Newberry

1896-99           Austin

1899-04           Hollidaysbsurg

1904-10           endowment secretary, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1910-11           Reedsville-Milroy

1911-13           Weatherly

1913                retired 

 

Note: A.S. Bowman fought in the Battle of Gettysburg.  He is the author of The Jesse Bowman Sr. Lineage (1931).  Alrfed S. Bowman is a second cousin to Shadrach L. Bowman.  Relationships to other pastors are too numerous to mention, but are detailed in the Bowman Family files at the conference archives.  His sister Martha married Aaron M. Kester.   A.S. Bowman served as Conference Historian during his retirement and wrote the History of Methodism in the Central Pennsylvania Conference in the 1918 Conference Journal, pages 117-122.

 

BOWMAN, SHADRACH LAYCOCK

 

Born: 5-2-1829  Berwick PA                                      married: Mary Elizabeth Aber (11/25/1856)

Died: 9-1-1906  Newark NJ                                       obit: [1/28/1835 – 12/?/1925]

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark NJ

Obit: Newark Conference 1907, 97

 

1855-56           Carlisle circuit

1856-57           East Loudon  

1857                transfer to Newark Conference

1857-58           Passiac

1858-50           located [member of Union Chapel in Cincinnati OH]

1860                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1860-62           Berwick

1862-64           Bellefonte Station

1864-66           Carlisle Emory

1866-68           faculty, Dickinson College

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-72           faculty, Dickinson College

1872-73           on leave

1873-74           Bedford         

1874-76           Lock Haven   

1876-79           York First

1879                transfer to Newark Conference

1879-82           Morristown NJ

1882-83           Jersey City NJ St. Paul’s

1883-89           dean of School of Theology, DePauw University

1888                transfer to North Indiana Conference

1888-90           dean of School of Theology, DePauw University

1890                transfer to New York Conference

1890-93           Katonah NY

1893-94           Hughland on the Hudson NY

1894-99           on leave

1899                transfer to Newark Conference

1899-01           on leave

1901                retired

 

Note: Shadrach Laycock Bowman, named after Shadrach B. Laycock, is the author of numerous booklets and articles - including Silence of Women in the Churches (1878), Revised Version of the New Testament (1881).  His major book (732 pages) is Historical Evidence of the New Testament (1908).  After the deaths of professors Miley (1895) and Crooks (1897), Bowman responded to the call of Drew University to temporarily fill their positions.  S.L. Bowman is a second cousin to A.S. Bowman.  Relationships to other pastors are too numerous to mention, but are detailed in the Bowman file at the conference archives.  Most notably, S.L. Bowman is a grandson of Thomas Bowman (1760-1823, ordained by Asbury) and a first cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914), both of the Baltimore Conference.

 

BOWSER, HARRY GRABILL

 

Born: 2-5-1872                                                            married: Esther Williams [c1889]

Died: 5-29-1935  Muncy Valley PA                          obit: [b. c1868, possibly Bedford County]

                                                                                    married2: Viola May Swisher

1913    ordained, Church of the Brethren                   obit2: [5/12/1872 – 2/19/1927]

1924    recognized as elder from the Church of God married3: Mrs. Emma Cordelia [Della]

                                                                                                Stackhouse Shaw Secules

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA             obit3: 1942, 207         

Obit: [1936, 98]                                                                                             

 

1923-26           Penfield (beginning 9/1/1923: see 1924, 85)

1926-30           Muncy Valley

1930-35           Harveyville

1935                retired in mid-year: see 1935,93

 

Note: H.G. Bowser served as a local pastor.  The third Mrs. Bowser, the widow of Jack Shaw and Jefferson Secules, was a cook for four years at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary while her daughter Pearl Shaw attended there.

 

 

BOWSER, ROBERT NELSON

 

Born: 6-15-1937  Duncansville PA                            married: Susan North (6/16/1962)

Died: 8-25-2012  East Dennis MA                             obit:

 

1962    admitted on trial, recommended by Duncansville Hicks Memorial

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-64           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL         

1964-65           Gatchelville    

1965-69           Beach Haven  

1969                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1969-70           Lansdowne

1970-73           Philadelphia Calvary

1973-74           on leave

1974                voluntary location

                        chaplain, NJ prison system

 

Note: Robert N. Bowser is listed 1963, 98 as transferring in as a probationer from the Northwest Indiana Conference.  That is confusing because (1) he is listed 1962, 88 as being admitted on trial to the Central Pennsylvania Conference and (2) the General Minutes list no connection to the Northwest Indiana Conference.

 

BOYLES, ATCHINSON GLENN SR..

 

Born: 1851                                                                  married: Amanda Peffer [5/27/1896]

Died: 1930                                                                  obit: [1864 – 11/20/1937]

 

Interment: Harrisburg East Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

 

Note: A.G. Boyles was an active local pastor with membership at Harrisburg Ridge Avenue.

 

BRACHETTI, GIULIO C.

 

Born: 12-18-1872                                                        married: Rose Manuel

Died: 6-18-1950                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 407

 

1916    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference

 

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY

Obit: Erie Conference 1950, 972

 

1913-14           Clearfield Italian Mission      

1916                “transfer” to Northern New York Conference

1916-20           Frankfort Italian Mission

 

Note: Guilio C. Brachetti served as a local pastor.

 

BRADFORD, HARRY A. JR.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-53           Deerfield NJ

1953-57           Friendship NJ

1957-62           North Towanda

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1962-64           North Towanda

1964                transfer to New Jersey Conference

                        transfer to Peninsula Conference

1968-71           on leave

1971                voluntary location

 

BRADLEY, EDGAR HERMAN

 

Born: 1-4-1916  Dudley PA                                       married:

Died: 4-16-1988  Concord CA                                   obit:

 

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Camellia Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento CA

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1988, 294

 

1937-39           Cogan Valley 

1939-41           Muncy Valley 

1941-46           Kulpmont       

1946                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

 

BRADLEY, GEORGE WELLS

 

Born: 9-1-1876  Altoona PA                                      married: Caroline Moon

Died: 8-28-1949                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 230

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [1950, 69]

 

1922-27           assistant, Williamsburg circuit

1927-29           Blandburg

1929-34           Allegheny circuit

1934-41           Hollidaysburg [Loop] St. Paul’s

1941-47           Allegheny circuit

1947                retired

 

Note: George W. Bradley served as a local pastor.

 

BRADS, JAMES

 

Born: 1-18-1813                                                          married: Eliza Ritchie

Died: 12-18-1887  Orange NJ                                    obit: Baltimore Conference 1897, 72

 

1836    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1888, 62

 

1836-37           Gettysburg

1837-38           Moorefield

1838-39           Wardensville

1839-40           on leave

1841-43           Concord

1843-44           Williamsburg

1844-46           Westmoreland

1846-47           Warrenton

1847-49           York Springs

1849-51           Boonsboro

1851-53           Frederick

1853-55           Danville station

1855-57           York

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore Whatcoat

1859-61           Westminster

1861-62           Westernport

1862-64           Huntingdon

1864-66           Petersburg [Duncannon]

1866-68           Petersburg

1868                retired

                             1870-71      Gorsuch

 

 

BRADY, LYONS MUSSINA JR.

 

Born: 1-9-1873  Mackeyville PA                               married: Sarah Virginia Gwynn

Died: 12-6-1930  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 526

 

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Loyalsock circuit

1887    ordained deacon

1889    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 182

 

1884-86           Loyalsock

1886-91           Penfield          

1891-92           Williamsburg  

1892-93           Coalport         

1893-98           West Clearfield

1898-03           Mount Union 

1903-06           Hughesville    

1906-10           Shippensburg 

1910-14           Williamsport Fourth Street

1914-15           Emporium

1915-18           Montgomery  

1918-25           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1925                retired 

 

Note: Lyons Mussina Brady’s grandmother Rachel Mussina (1799-1849) is a sister to Malcolm Mussina’s great-grandfather Henry Brusbusky Mussina (1803-1869) and to J. Lyons Mussina’s father Jacob Lyons Mussina (1807-1888).  Mrs. Brady is the daughter of William Gwynn.

 

BRAGONIER, WILLIAM FARE    

 

Born: 1871                                                                  married: Maude May Miller [1893]

Died: 1955                                                                 obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1909-10           Blandburg

 

Note:  William F. Bragonier served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown, but appears to have been a tailor living in Altoona.  Mrs. Miller was from Selinsgrove, where W.F.B attended the Missionary Institute (now Selinsgrove University).

 

BRANNON, GEORGE OMER.

 

Born: 10-26-1923                                                        married: Nancy [Ruth?] Martin

Died: 11-3-1998                                                          obit: [11/10/1926 – 7/20/2005]

 

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens. Columbia PA     

Obit:

 

1948-50           East Waterford

 

Note:  George O. Brannon served as a local pastor.

 

BRECKBILL, WILLIAM WALLACE SR

 

Born: 2-4-1907  Danville PA                                     married: Violet Bertha Beard

Died: 9-?-1974                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 222

                                                                                    married2: Anna Marguerite Hixson

1933    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [11/18/1915 – 12/20/2007]

1934    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Carson Valley Cemetery, Duncansville PA

Obit:

 

1932-35           Ray’s Hill       

1935-39           Three Springs 

1939-45           Altoona Broad Avenue

1945                withdrew

 

Note: In 1946 William Wallace Breckbill was one of the co-founders of the Evangelical Methodist Church, and he established the denomination’s first headquarters in Altoona PA.  When the EMC split over the issue of holiness/sanctification 1952-54, Breckbill led the non-holiness and pro-fundamental faction.  He is the namesake of Breckbill Bible College, which he founded in 1957 in Williamsburg PA.  The school relocated to Altoona, then to Hollidaysburg in 1966, and to its present location in Max Meadows VA in 1996.  Apparently there is a published biography, The Life and Ministry of William Wallace Breckbill by Max McCall, of which the conference archives does not have a copy.  W.W. Breckbill is the father of Rev. William W. Breckbill Jr. (1928-1998), affiliation unknown.

 

BREESE, WILLIAM H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1879    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: William H. Breese served as a local pastor. 

 

BREISCH, HOWARD REESE

 

Born: 12-29-1892  Hazelton PA                                 married: Rebecca [Reba] Morgart.

Died: 7-21-1974                                                          obit: Newark Conference 1958, 152

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Marie D. McCloud. Nast

1921    admitted on trial, Newark Conference           obit2: Northern New Jersey Conference 1975, 229

1921    ordained deacon

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth NJ

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1975, 228

 

1916-18           student, Dickinson College

                             1916-17      Hickorytown

                             1917-18      Greencastle

                             1918-18      Summerdale

1919                “transfer” to Newark Conference

1919-21           Broadway, Lows Hollow & New Village

1921-22           Denville

1922-25           Aloine & Demarest

1925-29           Hasbrouck Heights

1929-20           Cranford

1930-32           Woodbridge

1932-34           Hackettstown

1934-47           Bloomfield Watessing

1947-59           Elizabeth Epworth

1959                retired

 

 

BRENNAN, JAMES McCLELLAN

 

Born:  9-22-1871  Hazleton PA                                  married: Maud Reeder

Died:  2-15-1957  Tyrone PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 182

 

1893    license

1903    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 238

 

1903-05           Jamestown     

1905-11           Duboistown   

1911-15           Picture Rocks 

1915-19           Lock Haven East Main Street

1919-21           Freeland         

1921-27           Emporium      

1927-30           Curwensville  

1930-32           Danville St. Paul’s

1932-37           Bellwood       

1937-38           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial

1938-41           Duncansville  

1941                retired 

 

Note: Some biographical information on James M. Brennan appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 38.  His autobiography From Mine to Pulpit was published in 1954.

 

BRENNEMAN, JEREMIAH BENDER

 

Born:  4-21-1861  Dillsburg PA                                 married: Kate Spessard

Died:  3-18-1930  Harrisburg PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 219

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Dillsburg & Wellsville

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Newton Hamilton circuit

 

Interment: Greencastle Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 172

 

1887-88           Newton Hamilton

1888-91           York Ridge Avenue

1891-93           Birmingham               

1893-96           Martinsburg-Woodbury

1896-99           Port Royal      

1899-00           Camp Hill-Salem

1900-02           York West Street

1902-05           McVeytown

1905-08           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1908-11           Lock Haven East Main Street

1911-14           Bellwood

1914-20           Lewisburg      

1920-22           Mount Union

1922-25           Hanover

1925-29           Jersey Shore

1929                retired 

 

Note: Jeremiah B. Brenneman is a brother to Joseph E. Brenneman.  The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville United Brethren church.  Katie Spessard Brenneman is a niece of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia UB Conference, and a first cousin to E.G. Spessard of the Pennsylvania UB Conference and Arbelion Spessard, wife of Samuel H. Snell of the Pennsylvania Conference of the UB Church.  Longtime UB missionary Miss Lottie Mae Spessard (1891-1982) is the daughter of another first cousin.

 

BRENNEMAN, JOSEPH ERWIN

 

Born:  4-26-1873  Dillsburg PA                                 married: Carrie Halfpenny Watson

Died: 7-27-1951  Mifflinburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 237

 

1899     admitted on trial

1901    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 198

 

1897-99           Waterville 

1899-01           Liberty Valley

1901-03           Laurelton

1903-05           East Waterford

1905-08           Liverpool        

1908-12           Mill Hall

1912-15           South Williamsport

1915-17           Altoona Fairview

1917-19           Camp Hill

1919-23           Stewartstown 

1923-26           Duncannon     

1926-29           Northumberland

1929-31           Jersey Shore Epworth

1931-33           Mechanicsburg

1933-37           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1937-41           Mifflinburg    

1941-45           Williamsburg  

1945                retired 

 

Note: Joseph E. Brenneman is a brother to Jeremiah B. Brenneman.  Some sources give the middle name of Mrs. Brenneman as Hoffman.

 

 

BRENNEMAN, RICHARD FLOYD

 

Born: 4-4-1933  Stewartstown PA                                         married: Lynne Meredith Kennaugh

Died: 10-27-2018  Elizabethtown PA                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 352

 

1954    license, recommended by Stewartstown

1956    admitted on trial

1956    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Rinely PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 334

 

1956-58           assistant, Brooklyn NY Hansen-Place-Central

1958-61           Wrightsville    

1961-62           Fayetteville    

1962-63           missionary to Austria

1963                transfer to Austrian Provisional Conference             

1963-70           Vienna-Sechshaus

1970                return to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-76           Mansfield

1976-82           Spry Otterbein

1982-90           Yorkshire

1990-98           Hershey (ending 11/1/1998)

1998                retired

 

BRETH, ROBERT ELWOOD

 

Born: 9-24-1912  Yarnell PA                                     married: Frances Mary Lauderbach

Died: 8-23-1989                                                          obit: North Central NY Conference 1993, 348

 

1941    ordained deacon

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment: Onondaga Valley Cemetery, Syracuse NY

Obit: North Central New York Conference 1990, 336

 

1938-40           Benezette-Penfield

1940-42           Wallis Run     

1942-43           Half Moon      

1943-46           Austin            

1946-48           Fairview         

1948-50           Watsontown   

1905-55           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1955-58           associate general secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Christian Education

1958                transfer to Central New York Conference

1958-77           director of Christian Education, New York State Council of Churches

1977                retired

 

Note: Robert E. Breth graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1943.

 

BRETZ, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 3-8-1876  Bracken County KY                        married: Mary Prudence Smith

Died: 3-21-1958  Marysville OH                               obit: [4/5/1879 – 1/6/1966]

 

?          admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference

 

Interment: Oakdale Cemetery, Marysville OH

Obit: Ohio Conference 1958, 1084

 

1907-08           student

1908                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1908-09           Ennisville

1909-10           Millville

1910-11           on leave

1911                transfer to Gulf Conference

 

BREWER, CHARLES CURTIS

 

Born: 10-31-1900  Clark Township NJ                      married: Jennie Gearhart

Died: 5-8-1977  Port Matilda PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 202

                                                                                    married2: Inez Gray Sellers

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Vira        obit: [1892-1963]

1930    ordained deacon                                              married3: Mrs. Sara A. Williams

1932    ordained elder                                                 obit: [7/16/1913 – 2/9/2001]

 

Interment: Grays Cemetery, Centre County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,264

 

1926-27           Vira

1927-28           Mount Holly Springs

1928-30           Munson          

1930-32           Half Moon      

1932-33           Claysburg

1933                withdrew

                             1934-42      automobile accessories business

                             1942-68      insurance representative

1972                reactivated, retired

                             1972-75      Shrader

 

Note: Charles C. Brewer also served as a local pastor when not under appointment.  The maiden name of the third Mrs. Brewer was Sara A. Kern.

 

 

BREWER, RAYMOND RUSH

 

Born: 6-20-1894  Sylvan, Franklin County PA          married: Constance Falsted

Died: 11-29-1963  St. Louis MO                                obit: [1893 – 1975]

 

1918    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Graceland Cemetery, Decatur IL

Obit: Central Illinois Conference 1964, 192

 

1915-16           student, Dickinson College

                            1915            Hickorytown

                        student, Drew Theological Seminary

                        chaplain

                        student Boston University

1921-27           missionary to China

1927-30           student, University of Chicago

                        faculty, College of the Ozarks in Clarksville AR

transfer to Central Illinois Conference

1943-62           faculty, James Millikin University in Decatur IL

                             1946-62      Decatur Sharon

1962                retired

 

Note: When Raymond R. Brewer was asked to preach in the abandoned United Evangelical church at Hickorytown in 1915, a revival broke out resulting in 46 conversions and the organization of a Methodist congregation.  He is the author of The Source of the Matthean Logia (1929).

 

BRILL, WILLIAM

 

Born: 2-23-1855  Pottsville PA                                  married: Lillie Gregg McMurray

Died: 6-8-1925  Bloomsburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 200

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by New Britain CT

1888    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 339

 

1886-88           Port Matilda   

1888-89           Pine Grove

1889-91           Birmingham   

1891-93           Tyrone Second

1893-98           Mount Union 

1898-00           Burnham

1900-01           Altoona Walnut Avenue

1901-05           Newberry

1905-06           Shickshinny

1906-08           Sunbury St. John’s

1908-09           Danville St. Paul’s

1909-10           suspended for one year

1910-15           on leave

1915-16           faculty, Bloomsburg Normal School 

1916                retired 

 

Note: Mrs. Brill is the daughter of Jacob McMurray.  She is a direct descendant of Senator Andrew Gregg and a first cousin of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin.

 

BRIM, WILLIAM WALLACE

 

Born: 5-18-1827  Henrietta NY                                 married: Julia Mabel Maria Douglas

Died: 10-7-1874  Lockport NY                                  obit: [1828 – 1907]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 70

 

1857                graduated from Dickinson College

1857-60           principal, Rainsburg Seminary

1859-60  Schellsburg

1860-61           Lewistown Circuit     

1861-62           principal, Rainsburg Seminary

1862-63           retired to California for health reasons          

1863-64           principal, Jonesville Seminary in Saratoga NY

1864-68           retired to Lockport NY

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868                retired

 

Note: William W. Brim did not marry until 1864.  Mrs. Brim’s first husband, a Mr. Augustus Dickerson, died in 1859.  Doug Brim at dprh@aol.com is a 2004 contact person

 

 

BRINKER, ALBERT JAN SR.

 

Born: 7-18-1912  Louisiana                                        married: Hazel Bernice Cooper

Died: 3-28-1990  North Carolina                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Elizabeth Varga

1956    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [1/24/1914 – 8/?/1995]

1956    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-57           Rehoboth       

1957-58           York Duke Street

1958                withdrew at own request, page 53

1958                entered the ministry in the United Church of Christ

1958-64           Penryn PA, Jerusalem UCC

1964-70           Mechanicsburg PA, St. Paul’s UCC

                        retired, living in Winston-Salem NC

 

BRINTON, HOWARD THOMAS

 

Born: 1-14-1916  Evanston IL                                   married: Elizabeth McAbee

Died: 5-4-1998  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 361

 

1935    license, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1939    admitted on trial, Southern Congo Provisional Conference

 

Interment: Homeville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 428

 

1939                graduated from Asbury College

1939-41           Sandoa, Belgian Congo

1941-43           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminsiter MD

     1942-43      Fayetteville

1943                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1943-44           Fayetteville

1944-45           student, Hartford Seminary

1945-66           missionary, Republic of the Congo

1966-80           executive staff, Board of Global Ministries

1980                retired

 

Note: Howard T. Brinton is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 147.

 

 

BRITTAIN, ALEM MARR

 

Born: 9-17-1809  near Light Street PA                      married: Jemima Porter Goodfellow

Died: 11-9-1889  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 123

 

1830    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 79

 

1829-30           Philipsburg     

1830-31           Concord         

1831-32           Bellefonte      

1832-33           Philipsburg     

1833-34           Berwick          

1834-36           Hollidaysburg

1836-43           on leave

1843-45           Sunbury

1845-47           Milton circuit

1847-49           Berwick          

1849-51           Bellefonte circuit

1851-53           Warrior’s Mark

1853-54           Huntingdon

1854-56           Penn’s Valley 

1856-57           Lock Haven

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Bellefonte circuit

1859-61           West Harford 

1861-62           East Harford  

1862-63           Chambersburg

1863-64           Carlisle circuit

1864-65           chaplain, US Army

1865-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           on leave

1870-73           Berwick circuit

1873-75           Jeanesville

1875-76           Mount Carmel

1876-78           Espy-Light Street

1878-79           Beach Haven              

1879-80           Buckhorn       

1880                retired

 

Note: Alem M. Brittain is the father of Melville C. Brittain, the father of the wife of Ebenezer A. Smith (1827-1902) of the New England Conference and the grandfather of Katherine Brittain Leidy, wife of George Leidy.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 336. 

  Alem Brittain is supposedly a second cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman, the bishop’s mother Sarah Brittain being a cousin to Alem’s father John Brittain.  He apparently is the namesake of Alem Brittain Mettler (1844-1917) of the Rock River Conference and Alem Brittain Shipman (1845-1906) of the Des Moines Conference.

 

BRITTAIN, MELVILLE COOKMAN

 

Born: 5-?-1842  PA                                                    married: Amelia J.B. Randolph

Died: 12-14-1915  Hampton VA                                obit: [1828 – 8/8/1884]

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Carlisle circuit

1873    local pastor’s license, Central Pennsylvania Conference [1873,85; 1874,85]

 

Interment: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1862-63           Pennsylvania 126th Regiment, Company D (8/13/62 – 5/20/63)

1865-66           Birmingham

1866-67           Half Moon

1867-68           Mt. Vernon

1868-69           East Baltimore station

1869                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1869-70           East Baltimore station

1870-71           chaplain, US Navy

1871                transfer to New Hampshire Conference

1871-72           Dover (ending 12/1871)

1872                withdrew

1873-75           Bloomingdale, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1875-76           local pastor living in New Columbus, possibly serving as the principal of a school

1876                no longer listed

1880                living in Landis NJ

1881-82           Roadstown & Harmony, New Jersey Conference

1893                preached and officiated at funerals in Connecticut

1897                preached and officiated at funerals in Ohio

 

Note: Melville C. Brittain is the son of Alem M. Brittain.  He appears also to be known as Melton C. Brittain.  Local sources report that he served Dillsburg 1865-66 and State College 9/1891-3/1892.  Mrs. Brittain [nee Randolph] was the widow of a Mr. William H. Watson, Jr., who died circa 1855; she is buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore MD – but neither of her husbands are

     The following is taken from the 1914 History of Strafford County, New Hampshire by John Scales: In 1871, Rev. M. C. Brittain, who had been transferred from the Baltimore Conference, was stationed at Dover.  Owing to habits of intemperance, which he said he had formed in the navy, in which he had served as a chaplain, he resigned the charge at the request of the official board and the presiding elder in December.  He removed from the city soon after his resignation.  The church was deeply affected with grief at this unfortunate event, but treated Mr. Brittain with the greatest kindness, and bore with him some time with charitable hopes of his reformation, which was of no avail, notwithstanding his strong promises and feeble efforts.

     Mrs. Brittain was the widow of a Mr. William H. Watson Jr.

 

BRONSON, B.F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-22           Muncy Valley

 

Note:  B.F. Bronson served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

BRONSON, PERRY LORENZO

 

Born: 7-30-1854  Lake twp, Luzerne County PA      married: Harriet Elizabeth Lewis [8/11/1893]

Died: 8-2-1928                                                            obit: [1853-1927]

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Sweet Valley PA

Obit:

 

                        student Wyoming Seminary

1883-85           student, Drew University

1889-90           Boyle’s Run

 

Note: P.L. Bronson served as a local pastor.  He became a fruit grower in Hunlock Creek PA.  A transcription of the cemetery records lists him as Harry L. Bronson.

 

BROOKS, LYNN CALVIN

 

Born: 19-8-1929  Center Hall PA                               married: Delores Marion Knepp

Died: 1-7-1971  Neptune township NJ                       obit:

 

1949    license, recommended by Pleasant Gap

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Reformed and Lutheran Cemetery, Centre Hall PA

Obit:

 

1948-52           student, Lycoming College

                             1950-52      Montandon

1952-55           student, Drew University in Madison NJ      

1955-57           Nescopeck (beginning 3/1/1955)       

1957                voluntary location

                        New Jersey Correctional Institution for Boys

                        probation officer, Monmouth County NJ

 

BROOKS, RICHARD

 

Born: 8-11-1861  Cornwall England                          married: Alice Adeline Taylor

Died: 11-1-1934  Drexel Hill PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 247

 

1889    admitted on trial, recommended by Clifton & Mt. Pleasant of the Philadelphia Conference

1891    ordained deacon

 

Interment:  Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 234

 

1889-90           York West Street

1890-92           Hoytville

1892-94           Montandon    

1894-95           Emporium circuit

1895-99           Snydertown   

1899-04           Conyngham    

1904-06           Altoona Walnut Avenue

1906-08           Houtzdale

1908-11           Shamokin Second

1911-15           York Epworth

1915-17           Muncy            

1917-19           Stewartstown 

1919-22           St. Mary’s       

1922-24           Enola

1924-27           Mercersburg   

1927                retired 

 

BROOKS, WILLIAM C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1955-56           Burnt Cabins (beginning 3/1/1955)

1956-58           Shade Valley

 

Note:  William Brooks served as a local pastor.

 

BROUSE, DAVID YOUNG

 

Born: 8-10-1865  Boalsburg PA                     married: Margaret Ann Marks Murphy

Died: 8-8-1940  Williamsport PA                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923,138

                                                                        married2: Leda Mandella Bahn

1897    admitted on trial                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 314

 

Interment:  East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 204

 

1889                Hancock school house, Manor Hill circuit (beginning 4/24/1889)

1891-94           Emporium circuit (beginning 12/12/1891)

1894-97           Muhlenburg [Bloomingdale] 

1897-02           Jerseytown     

1902-05           Port Royal      

1905-10           Newton Hamilton

1910-13           Warrior’s Mark

1913-17           Williamsport Market Street

1917-21           Houtzdale

1921-23           York Grace

1923-27           Mount Union 

1927-31           Harrisburg Epworth

1931-34           Altoona Grace

1934                retired 


 

BROWN, ELBERT V.

 

Born: 7-19-1874  Clearfield PA                                 married: Harriet Eleanor Bowers

Died: 2-18-1952  Carlisle PA                                     spouse: [1870 – 1936]

 

1900    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 200

 

1900-01           Centre

1901-04           Altoona Fairview

1904-07           Camp Hill

1907-09           East Altoona  

1909-10           Bakerton

1910-15           on leave          

1915-16           assistant, Clearfield Trinity

1916-18           secretary, Conference Temperance Society

1918-49           located at own request

                        worked in Harrisburg in state offices

1938                moved to Carlisle

entered real estate business

1949                readmitted as elder

1949                retired 

 

 

BROWN, JAMES H.

 

Born: 8-20-1807  Lancaster County PA                     married:

Died: 3-15-1886                                                          obit: [d.11/7/1883]

 

1829    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1887, 39

 

1829-30           Bellefonte

1830-31           Lycoming

1831-32           Sunbury

1832-               Liberty

1830-35           Baltimore City station

1835-36           Fredericksburg

1836-37           West Baltimore

1837-38           Shippensburg station

1839-41           Frederick station

1841-42           Montgomery

1842-44           Washington DC Ebenezer

1844-46           Chambersburg

1846-47           Staunton

1847-49           Baltimore City

1849-51           Carlisle

1851-53           Lewistown

1853-55           Washington Wesley chapel

1855-57           Martinsburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           East Baltimore station

1859-61           Baltimore Whatcoat

1861-63           assistant, Baltimore Strawbridge

1863                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

 

BROWN, JOHN C.

 

Born: 10-13-1847  Winchester VA                            married: Mary A. Lee

Died: 3-14-1899  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [3/8/1858 – 11/23/1920]

 

1878    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 97

 

1878-79           Cove   

1879-80           South Hebertown

1880-81           Benton

1881-83           Muhlenberg    

1883-86           Littlestown     

1886-86           Greencastle    

1887-88           Hyner 

1888-90           Ray’s Hill

1890-95           Wolfsburg

1895-97           Manor Hill     

1897                on leave


 

BROWN, JOHN D.

 

Born: 11-8-1834  Kishacoquillas Valley PA              married: Susan M. _____

Died: 2-17-1878  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 130

 

1857    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 68

 

1859-60           Birmingham circuit

1860-61           Philipsburg

1861                Warrior’s Mark (until 8/1861)

1861-70           India Mission 

1870-71           Carlisle First

1871-72           India Mission 

1872                transfer to India Conference

1872-76           India Mission

1876                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-77           ?

1877-78           Sunday School tract agent

 

Note: A memoir for John D. Brown also appears in The Conference News for March 1880, page 4.  His original 1876 letter from India regarding his transfer back to Central Pennsylvania is in the conference membership files.

 

BROWN, JOHN FEARON

 

Born: 7-19-1832  Clinton County PA                        married: Melinda Louisa Weaver

Died: 12-8-1880  Quiggleville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 120

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 68

 

1858-59           Philipsburg

1859-60           Cassville

1860-61           Newberry

1861-62           Bellefonte circuit

1862-64           Karthaus

1864-66           Milroy

1866-68           Cassville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Orangeville     

1871-73           Elysburg         

1873-75           Conyngham    

1875-76           Washingtonville

1876-78           Bloomingdale 

1878-80           Grahamton     

1880                Montgomery  

 

Note: A memoir for J. Fearon Brown also appears in The Conference News for 12/15/1880, page 5.

 

BROWN, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 1-7-1837  Baltimore MD                                  married: Abigail Gambrill

Died: 11-10-1900  Manhattan NY                             obit: [d. 2/14/1905]

 

1866    candidate for orders, Protestant Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY

Obit: [The Churchman, 11/17/1900, page 28]

 

1859-60           Hampstead

1860-62           Hereford

1862-63           Gettysburg

1863-64           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1864-65           Baltimore Huntingdon Avenue

1865                withdrew

                        joined the Protestant Episcopal Church

                        assistant, Baltimore MD Emmanuel

                        Middletown DE St. Anne’s

                        Philadelphia PA Trinity

                        Detroit MI Christ

1876-               Cleveland OH Trinity

                        Buffalo NY St. Paul’s

1888-1900       Manhattan NY St. Thomas

 

Note: John Wesley Brown is a brother to Rev. Philip A.H. Brown (1842-1909) of the Protestant Episcopal Church.  He is a graduate of Dickinson College.  Mrs. Brown died and is buried in Hong Kong.

 

BROWN, RUSSELL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-28           Phelps Chapel & Charlton

 

Note: Russell Brown served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

BROWN, WILLIAM MARTIN

 

Born: 2-12-1928  West Oneonta NY                          married: Lorraine Bodkin (8/21/1954)

Died: 10-7-2020  Newville PA                                   obit:

 

1944    license, recommended by Oneonta NY Elm Park

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 351

 

1946-47           Avis (9/46 – 4/47)

1947-48           Clearfield circuit (4/47 – 8/48)

1948-50           student, West Virginia Wesleyan in Buckhannon WV

                             1948-50      group ministry, West Virginia Conference

1950-52           US Army (12/1950 – 12/1952)

1953-55           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1954-55           student

1955-58           Fayetteville

1958-63           New Freedom

1963-68           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1968-70           York Ridge Avenue-Bethlehem

1970-73           York Bethlehem

1973-80           Hummelstown Grace

1980-88           Huntingdon First

1988-93           Shippensburg Messiah

1993                retired

 

Note:  William M. Brown was conference secretary 1976-2000.  He is the father of Ann Brown Baer, wife of Timothy R. Baer of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

BRUBAKER, DAVID OWEN

 

Born: 1-5-1915  Altoona PA                                      married: Ruth Naomi Drake

Died: 5-20-1987  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 360

 

1933    license, recommended by Altoona Grace

1937    admitted on trial

1938    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 406

 

1937-39           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1939-41           Bakerton

1941-44           Newton Hamilton      

1944-48           Watsontown   

1948-50           Altoona Lakemont

1950-55           Mifflintown   

1955-59           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1959-62           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1962-67           Montoursville

1967-72           Tyrone First

1972-76           Williamsport Pine Street

1976-81           Towanda

1981                retired

                             1981-83      South Williamsport

                                                Trout Run

                                                Eagles Mere

 

Note: David O. Brubaker is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 164.

 

BRUCE, AMOS MARTIN

 

Born: 1-10-1873  Mount Nebo PA                             married: Mary F. Faussett

Died: 10-12-1936  Ithaca NY                                     obit: New England Southern Conference 1951,694

 

1900    admitted on trial

 

Interment: East Lawn Cemetery, Ithaca NY

Obit: New England Southern Conference 1937, 246

 

1895-99           student, Dickinson College

                             1897-99      Rehobeth

1899-00           York Springs

1900-01           Milnesvile-Lattimer    

1901-03           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1901-02      assistant, Maplewood MA Congregational Church

1903-05           York Springs  

1905-07           York West Street

1907-09           North Bend-Hyner

1909                transfer to New England Southern Conference

 

BRUMBAUGH, HARRY FRANCIS

 

Born: 3-29-1895  Royer PA                                       married: Hazel Jamilla Bingaman

Died: 11-18-1941  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 314

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Laurelton

1921    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Alto-Reste Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 198

 

1914-19           Vira  (beginning 9/14)

1919-22           Laurelton

1922-24           Selinsgrove

1924-27           Mill Hall

1927-31           Burnham

1931-36           Newport

1936-40           Hazleton Diamond

1940-41           Altoona Llyswen, Altoona

 

Note: Harry F. Brumbaugh was conference treasurer 1928-36.

 

BRUNER, CALDER DANIEL APPLEY

 

Born: 3-31-1867                                                          married: Martha A. _____

Died: 5-27-1945  Collinsville NJ                               obit: [3/31/1870 – 2/3/1911]

                                                                                    married2: Ella May _____

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA obit 2: [1870 – 1938]

Obit:     

 

1910-17           New Benton [Bressler]

 

Note: Calder D.A. Bruner was a baker and served as a local pastor.  His father, a brakeman for the railroad, was killed on the Rockville Bridge in 1874, and Calder was raised at the Soldier’s Orphan School in Mount Joy PA.  Biographical material is on file at the archives.

 

BRUNSTETTER, BYRON CURTIS

 

Born: 12-8-1900  Delano PA                                      married: Alice Buscall

Died: 9-16-1953  near Albany NY                             obit: [7/3/1904 – 2/4/1996]

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Camp Curtin

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-22           student, Dickinson College

                             1921-22      Bainbridge, Philadelphia Conference

                             1922           Hummelstown, Philadelphia Conference

1922-23           student, Drew Theological School in Madison NJ

                             1922-23      Jeddo, Latimer & Milnesville

1923                discontinued

 

Note: Byron C. Brunstetter is the son of Frank H. Brunstetter.  He left seminary to study for a PhD in Biochemistry.  Lycoming College presents the Byron C. Brunstetter Science Award each year to a senior majoring in the chemical and biological sciences.

 

BRUNSTETTER, FRANK HOWARD

 

Born: 4-27-1871  Eyers Grove PA                             married: Lulu M. Appleman

Died: 4-20-1925  Everett PA                                      obit: [3/7/1877 – 7/4/1974]

 

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Whippany NJ

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment:  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Orangeville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 335

 

1898-01           Excelsior

1901-02           Park Place-Delano

1902-04           York West Street

1904-11           Conygham      

1911-14           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1914-18           Williamsport Fourth Street

1920-24           Camp Curtin  

1924-25           Everett

 

Note: Frank H. Brunstetter is the father of Byron C. Brunstetter.  Following the death of Rev. Brunstetter, Lulu Brunstetter worked at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (now Lycoming College) for 32 years as a teacher and librarian.  The conference archives include a copy of the 1995 book The Ministry of the Reverend Frank Howard Brunstetter, compiled by his grandson Richard W. Brunstetter MD.

 

BRUNYATE, EDWIN RICHARD

 

Born: 10-20-1852  Selby, Yorkshire England            married: Eliza Ann England

Died: 1-13-1930                                                          obit: New Jersey Conference 1941, 523

 

1873    admitted on trial, Nova Scotia Conference

 

Interment: Broad Street Presbyterian Cemetery, Bridgeton NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1930, 307

 

1920-21           Greencastle (did not finish the year)

 

Note: Edwin R. Brunyate supplied as a retired pastor from New Jersey, but he had connections in the area.  Some sources give his christening date as 531/1846, which contradicts the birthdate in his obituary.  His daughter Josephine Brunyate Meredith (1870-1864) was Dean of Women at Dickinson College 1920-46, and that institution’s first female full professor and first professor emerita.

 

BRYNER, CHARLES WILBUR

 

Born: 11-8-1871  McCoysville PA                            married: Lo Demma Kirkpatrick

Died: 7-18-1939  Danville PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 120

                                                                                    married2: Ethel Rosalind Chilcote

1902    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 138

1906    ordained deacon                                              married3: Carrie Catharine Waltman

                                                                                    Obit3: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970,387

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA      

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 174

 

1899-00           Cassville

1900-02           Shirleysburg

1902-03           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1903-05           Washingtonville

1905-07           Buckhorn

1907-11           McConnellsburg

1911-16           Centralia

1916-17           Houtzdale

1917-19           St. Mary’s       

1919-23           Wrightsville    

1923-25           Freeland         

1925-28           Danville Trinity

1928                retired             

 

Note: Some biographical information on Charles W. Bryner appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 29.  The first husband of the second Mrs. Bryner was a Charles Bard.  She is a niece to Mary Catherine Chilcote Norcross, the wife of William H. Norcross.

 

BUBB, MICHAEL B.

 

Born: 1871  Lycoming County PA                             married: Pearl Day Gogley [11/2/1904]

Died: 1923                                                                  obit: [2/22/1878 – 1964]

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Waterville

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit:

 

1899-01           Waterville

1901-02           Nelson’s Run 

1902-04           Wharton

1904-07           James Creek   

1907-11           Salona-Lamar 

1911-13           Salladasburg   

1913-15           Wallaceton

1915                withdrew

 

Note: The obituary of Mrs. Bubb appeared in the Altoona Mirror.

 

BUCK, CHARLES J.

 

Born: 12-25-1852  Clarkstown PA                             married: Anna Rebecca Hass

Died: 8-14-1883  Clarkstown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 136

 

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Hughesville circuit

 

Interment:  Emmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, Muncy Valley PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 77

 

 

1874-75           Muncy Creek

1875-76           South Heberton

1876-77           Elysburg         

1877-78           Benton

1878-79           Beech Creek and Johnstown  

1879-81           Kedron           

1881-83           Fort Littleton 

1883                Shirleysburg   

 

Note: A memoir for Charles J. Buck also appears in The Conference News for 9/1/1883.

 

 

BUCKE, DAVID PERRY

 

Born: 4-24-1907  Sunbury PA                                    married: Amy McCallum

Died: 9-9-1993  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 154

 

1927    license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1930    admitted on trial

1932    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 474

 

1929-31           Jeddo-Milnesville

1931-33           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1932-33      West Fairview-Summerdale

1933-37           Mercersburg

1937-42           Gettysburg

1942-47           York Grace

1947-53           Tyrone First   

1953-59           Phillipsburg    

1959-62           Berwick First 

1962-67           Waynesboro   

1967-71           York Asbury  

1971-74           Millersburg First

1974                retired

                             1977-79      assistant, Newport Parish

                             1981-82      Susquehanna

 

Note: D. Perry Bucke is the son of J.E.A. Bucke.  He is a brother to Emory Stevens Bucke and Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller (medical missionary to Nepal).

 

BUCKE, EMORY STEVENS

 

Born: 11-18-1913  Williamsport PA                          married: Barbara Burns

Died: 3-10-1987  Phoenix AZ                                                obit: [7/18/1915 – 3/3/2017]

 

?          license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1939    admitted on trial, New England Conference

1941    ordained deacon, New England Conference

 

Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Oak Bluffs MA

Obit: Southern New England Conference 1987, 181

 

1936-38           Winchester NH Federated Church

1938-42           Oxford MA

1942-44           Hyde Park MA

1944-53           editor, Zion’s Herald

1953-               senior editor, Board of Publication

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Emory S. Bucke appears in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.  Named for Emory Stevens, Emory Stevens Bucke is the son of J.E.A. Bucke.  He is a brother to D. Perry Bucke and Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller (medical missionary to Nepal).  Mrs. Bucke is the daughter of Bishop Charles W. Burns (1874-1938), originally of the Philadelphia Conference.


 

BUCKE, JACOB EDWARD AMBROSE

 

Born: 11-3-1875  Hunter’s Valley, Liverpool PA      married: Linnie Mae Coulter

Died: 3-8-1961  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 231

 

1903    admitted on trial

1905    ordained deacon

 

Interment:  Calvary Cemetery, Duncannon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 261

 

1900-03           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             New Germantown NJ

1903-05           Buckhorn-Rupert

1905-12           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1912-20           Williamsport Newberry

1920-21           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1921-27           superintendent, Sunbury District

1927-34           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1934-38           Lock Haven Trinity

1938-45           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1945-48           Newport         

1948                retired 

                             1948-52      Patton

 

Note: 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 Irene Bucke Fray, wife of Charles Augustus Fray (1880-1953) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  He is also the father of D. Perry Bucke, Emory Stevens Bucke and Dr. Alma Elizabeth Jane Bucke Miller (medical missionary to Nepal).  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 39.  An account of the family appears in the 2010 volume of The Chronicle, pages 49-61.

 

BUCKE, JOHN LAWRENCE LEE

 

Born: 11-18-1858  Perry County PA                          married: Clara S. Crow [1881]

Died: 10-21-1933                                                        obit: [8/2/1860 – 3/11/1911]

                                                                                    married2: Minnie F. Moses

                                                                                    obit2:

 

Interment: Evergreen Methodist Cemetery, Duncannon PA

Obit:

 

1907-09           Duncannon circuit

 

Note: J. Lawrence L. Bucke served as a local pastor.  He was a teacher, and he served as treasurer of Perry County 1928-32.  He is a brother to J.E.A Bucke and W. Fowler Bucke.

 

BUCKE, WILLIAM FOWLER

 

Born: 9-29-1866  Hunter’s Valley, Liverpool PA      married: Anna Currance Moore [6/17/1896]

Died: 9-14-1941  New Buffalo PA                             obit: [3/10/1872 – 7/21/1933]

 

1922    ordained local deacon, Genesee Conference

1927    ordained local elder, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Grove Methodist Church Cemetery, Whiteford PA

Obit:

 

1892-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-98           faculty, Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown NJ

1898-02           high school principal, New Castle PA

1902-04           student, Clark University in Wooster MA

1904-?             principal, Manual Training School in Harrisburg PA

                        faculty and department head, State Normal School in Genesco NY

1926-28           Rouzerville (beginning 12/3/1926)

1928-29           West Fairview & Summerdale

1929-32           Gatchellville

 

Note: W. Fowler Bucke has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated through the system.  His ministerial service was as a local pastor.  He is a brother to J.A.E. Bucke and J.L.L. Bucke.  He the author of several early twentieth century publications including “Children’s Thoughts, Reactions, and Feelings Toward Pet Dogs,” “Examinations and Grading: an Historical Comparative, and Psychological Study,” and “Dynamics of History.”

 

BUCKINGHAM, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 1832                                                                  married: Rebecca McGinley

Died: 1904                                                                  obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Sallie A. VanKirk

?          license                                                             obit2:

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Methodist 12/1/1904, 8

 

Note: John W. Buckingham served as a local preacher.  His local preacher’s license is on display at York Asbury UMC.  A biographical sketch appears in the 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 128.  His son Lewis married Elsie Bell, the daughter of James Ellis Bell.

 

BUCKINGHAM, NATHAN S.

 

Born: 9-13-1821  Montgomery County VA               married: Margaret M _____

Died: 4-27-1884  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 96

 

1843    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 78

 

1843-44           Front Royal

1844-45           Bellefonte

1845-46           Northumberland

1846-47           Lexington

1847-48           Jersey Shore

1848-49           Berwick

1849-51           Havre de Grace

1851-52           Shippensburg 

1852-54           Mifflin

1854-56           Huntingdon

1856-57           Highland

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Concord

1859-61           Mifflin

1861-63           Carlisle

1863-66           Frostburg

1866-68           York   

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           York

1860-72           Shamokin       

1872-74           Bloomsburg    

1874-78           superintendent, Danville District

1878-81           Bedford

1881-82           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1882-84           Lewisburg      

 

Note: Nathan S. Buckingham is the son of Rev. Richard Buckingham, a local preacher in the Baltimore Conference.  A memoir also appears in The Conference News for 9/15/1884.  Biographical sketches appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 341, and in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.  He is the namesake of Nathan Buckingham Smith.

 

BUCKLEY, JOHN W.

 

Born: 12-11-1833  near Mount Union PA                  married: Mary Jane Rishel

Died: 5-1-1918  Media PA.                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 130

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Media Cemetery, Media PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 133

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Coalmont

1858-59           Birmingham   

1859-60           Bedford circuit

1860-61           Woodbury

1861-62           Muncy

1862-63           Middleburg    

1863-65           Mercersburg   

1865-68           Antietam

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Glen Hope      

1870-73           Howard          

1873076          Rehoboth-Newville

1876-79           Newport

1879-82           Selinsgrove     

1882-85           Stockton and Beaver Meadow

1885-88           Centralia

1888-90           Watsontown   

1890-93           Mount Holly  

1893-98           Weatherly

1989-03           Centralia

1903-07           White Haven  

1907                retired

 

Note: A memoir for John W. Buckley also appears in the Christian Advocate for 6/13/1918, page 748.

 

BUEHLER, JOHN FRANCIS

 

Born: 12-7-1910  Hazleton PA                                   married: Alma Ruth Kellander

Died: 7-9-1996  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 328

 

1940    license, recommended by Snow Shoe

1949    admitted on trial

1951    ordained elder

 

Interment: Stewartstown Cemetery, Stewartstown PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997,337]

 

1941-42           Karthaus

1942-45           Wallis Run

1945-47           Birmingham 

1947-50           Beaver Meadows

1950-54           Clearfield Emmanuel

1954-57           Watsontown   

1957-62           Stewartstown 

1962-64           Northumberland

1964-68           Altoona Llyswen

1968-70           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1970-75           Mechanicsburg Grace

1975                retired

 

Note: John F. Buehler is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 172.

 

BUOY, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 7-16-1841  Milton PA.                                     married: Ella Simpson

Died: 10-31-1897  Philadelphia PA                           obit: [1846 – 7/31/1927]

 

1868  Philadelphia Conf. On Trial

.

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1898, 104

 

1868                charter member of Wilmington Conference

1868-71           Fairmount MD

1872                Salisbury MD (resigned due to ill health)

1872-73           on leave

1873                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1873-76           assistant, Philadelphia Grace

1876-79           West Philadelphia Christ

1879                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1879-82           Harrisburg Grace

1882                transfer to Colorado Conference

1882-84           Denver Evans Chapel (resigned due to ill health)

1884                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1884-86           Philadelphia Ebenezer

1886-91           Philadelphia Trinity

1891-96           West Philadelphia Church of the Covenant

1896-97           Philadelphia Trinity

 

Note: Charles W. Buoy is the author of the book Representative Women of Methodism.  Mrs. Buoy is the daughter of Bishop Matthew Simpson.  The burial plot of Rev. and Mrs. Buoy adjoins that of Bishop and Mrs. Simpson.

 

BUHRMAN, EMORY

 

Born: 4-11-1836  Washington County MD                married: Ada Eliza Chenoweth

Died: 2-3-1919  Relay MD                                        obit: [10/5/1838 – 7/1/1910]

 

1858    license, Antietam circuit

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

1861    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1863    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1919, 98

 

1858-59           Hampstead circuit

1859-60           Coalmont

1860-61           Schellsburg

1861-62           Allegany

1862-63           Mifflin

1863-64           Shrewsbury

1864-66           Wrightsville

1866-68           Frostburg

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Frostburg

1869-72           Hampstead

1872-75           Liberty

1875-77           Harford

1877-80           Montgomery

1880-83           Bentley Springs

1883-86           Hancock

1886-90           Patapsco

1890-93           New Windsor

1893-99           Hampstead

1899-02           Summerfield

1902-07           Severn

1907-09           Elkridge

1909                retired

 

Note: Emory Buhrman reportedly had a brother in the ministry, name and denomination unstated.

 

BURDON, RICHARD FLOYD

 

Born: 2-18-1931  Multnomah OR                              married: Isabel Felix de Lade (9/27/1958)

Died: 1-19-2018                                                          obit:

 

1959    license, Oregon Conference

1960    admitted on trial, recommended by Secretary MD

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 2018, 223

 

1953-56           Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

1956-59           rural mission school, Brazil

1959                Secretary MD, Baltimore Conference (3 months)

1960-61           Dudley

1961-62           Rehoboth

1962                transfer to Idaho Conference

1962-69           Idaho Conference

                             Wallowa – Flora

                             American Falls – Aberdeen

1969                charter member of Oregon-Idaho Conference

1969-70           North Bend First

1970                voluntary location

 

Note: Although not listed in the General Minutes, Richard F. Burdon operated as a retired member of the Oregon-Idaho Conference.  In 1998 he signed on as a United Methodist minister willing to officiate at same-sex unions, and in December 2005 he preached at University Park UMC in Portland OR.

 

BURKET, KENNETH ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1-6-1914  Everett PA                                        married: Marjorie Grace Batts

Died: 12-8-1975  Phillipsburg PA                              obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 280

 

1934    license, recommended by Juniata Wesley

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wells Valley Methodist Cemetery, Wells Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 145

 

1935-36           Allegheny circuit (ending 10/31/1936)

1936-38           Picture Rocks (beginning 11/1/1936)

1938-41           (not assigned)

1941                Tipton (ending 11/14/1941)

1941-45           Birmingham (beginning 11/15/1941)

1945-50           Fort Loudon

1950-52           Newton Hamilton

1952-55           Three Springs

1955-59           Salona-Lamar

1959-64           Glen Campbell

1964-69           Duboistown

1969-72           Blossburg

1972-75           Osceola Mills

 

Note: Following the death of Kenneth A. Burket, Marjorie married Charles I. Walker.

 

 

BURKHOLDER, HARRY CLAY

 

Born: 6-9-1869  near Bellwood PA                            married: Anna Belle McIntyre

Died: 1-8-1940  Athens TN                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 122

                                                                                    married2: Sandra McLaughlin

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 365

                        Williamsport Pine Street

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 175

 

1901-03           Jamestown     

1903-06           Blackwell       

1906-09           New Bloomfield

1909-12           McVeytown   

1912-15           Yeagertown   

1915-17           Shrewsbury

1917-19           Williamsport Market Street

1919-20           executive secretary, Centenary Fund of the Oregon Conference

1920                transfer to Oregon Conference

1920-29           executive secretary, Centenary Fund

1929                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1929-30           financial secretary, Conference

1930-36           on leave

1936                retired 

 

Note: Beginning in 1919 Harry C. Burkholder traveled extensively for Methodist educational institutions, working for brief periods in almost every state in the Union.

 

BURNLEY, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 8-24-1841                                                          married: Sally Harris Updegraff

Died: 9-3-1917 Ocean City NJ                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 196

 

1871    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 134

 

1871-72           Watsontown   

1872-75           Muncy Creek 

1875-77           on leave          

                             1875-77      assistant, Pine Street

1877-80           Hyner’s Run  

1880-81           Clearfield circuit

1881-90           on leave

                             1888-90      Williamsport Fourth Street    

1890                retired             

                             1915-17      Morris

                             1917           Snow Shoe

 

Note: A memoir for Charles W. Burnley also appears in the 11/15/1917 Christian Advocate, page 1216.  Rev. Burnley is credited with organizing and erecting the Williamsport Fourth Street church in 1888.  His daughter married Rev. James M. Stifler of the Baptist denomination.

 

BURTNER, ROGER QUENTIN

 

Born: 11-30-1918  Butler PA                                     married: Mrs. Jane Marie K. Dworsak (3/11/1961)

Died: 6-23-2016  Brady TX                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 355

 

1943    admitted on trial, recommended by Thorn Creek

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 280

 

1943-45           Morris  (beginning 1/1/1943)

1945-49           North Bend-Farwell   

1949-53           Orangeville     

1953-58           chaplain, US Air Force

1958-59           at school         

1969-61           Bald Eagle Parish       

1961-65           Reedsville (beginning 7/15/1961)                  

1965-74           Millville (beginning 8/15/1965)

1974-76           Troy

1976                transfer to Southwest Texas Conference

1976-80           Hallettsville

1980-81           Mason

1981-84           Llano

1984                retired

                             1985-87      Lometa

                             1988-89      associate, Kingsland Community

1991                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Roger Q. Burtner is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 184.  Mrs. Burtner (nee Kustanbauder), a native of Tyone PA, was the widow of a Mr. Richard Rudolph Dworsak (1921-1959).

 

BUTERBAUGH, CARL LEROY

 

Born: 5-23-1931  Cito PA                                          married: Nancy Jane Johnston

Died:                                                                           obit: [11/26/1934 -]

 

1950    license, recommended by Cito

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-52           assistant, Millville

1952-57           Montandon    

1957-64           Yeagertown   

1964-71           Northumberland Christ

1971-88           Waynesboro Christ

1988-93           Duncansville Hick’s Memorial

1993                retired

                             1998           Barts-Centenary (Jan 1 – Jun 30)

BUTLER, DALLAS WILSON

 

Born: 6-13-1922                                                          married: Lucille Bolling Mears

Died: 6-22-2003                                                          obit: Peninsula Conference 1984, 433

 

1954    license

1956    admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Interment: Belle Haven Cemetery, Belle Haven VA

Obit: Peninsula-Delaware Conference 2004,?

 

1954-57           Newell WV

1957-58           Pittsburgh Morningside

1958-61           Pittsburgh Friendship Park

1961                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1961-64           Petersburg

1964                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1964-69           South Brownsville

1969-70           Mt. Pleasant-Alverton

1970                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1970-79       Crisfield Immanuel

1979-81           Chestertown First

1981-82           Princess Anne Antioch

1982-86           Crisfield Immanuel

1986                 retired

BUTLER, ELISHA SMITH

 

Born: 6-8-1798  Connecticut                                      married: Sarah Cousert [c1824]

Died: 4-5-1883  Tyrone PA                                        obit: [d. 1835]

                                                                                    married2: Martha Green Ganoe [1841]

1838    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 141

1840    ordained deacon

1842    ordained elder

 

Interment: Milton Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 80

 

1837-38           Northumberland circuit

1838-39           Clearfield circuit

1839-41           Lewistown

1841-42           Williamsburg  

1842-43           Clearfield

1843-45           Concord

1845-46           Warrior’s Mark

1846-48           Bedford

1848-49           South Branch 

1849-50           McConnellsburg         

1850-51           Hancock

1851-53           Frostburg        

1853-54           on leave

1854-55           Manor Hill

1855-56           Birmingham   

1856-57           Schellsburg     

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Bloomingdale 

1859-60           Luzerne          

1860-62           Sunbury          

1862-64           Castle Fin       

1864-66           agent, Sunday School & tracts

1866-68           Port Matilda   

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Milesburg

1870-73           Half Moon      

1873-74           Great Island   

1874-75           Hughesville    

1875-76           Elimsport        

1876-78           Beech Creek   

1878                retired

 

Note: Elisha Butler is the father of Electa M. Butler, missionary to China.  A memoir for Elisha Butler also appears in The Conference News for April 16, 1883, page 4.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 344.  The second Mrs. Butler is a sister to Martine L. Ganoe and William V. Ganoe.

 

BUTLER, HOWARD WELSH

 

Born: 2-14-1892  Roaring Spring PA                         married: Roseanna Coney

Died: 11-21-1967                                                        obit: [4/26/1898 – 1/25/1986]

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Gainesville GA

Obit:

 

1912-16           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                               1914-15    Waterville (beginning fall 1914)

 

Note: Howard W. Butler served as a local pastor.  He is known to have lived later in El Paso TX and Columbus GA.

 

 

BUTTORFF, LYNN WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-16-1928  Williamsport PA                            married: Helen June Keeler

Died: 4-9-1985                                                            obit: [10/3/1923 – 10/18/2006]

 

1960    license, recommended by Montoursville Faith

1967    admitted on trial

1972    ordained elder

 

Interment: Center Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 404

 

1961-62           Salladasburg

1962-66           Fayetteville Marvin Memorial, North Carolina Conference

1966-68           Summit Point WV, Baltimore Conference

1968-70           Altoona Broad Avenue

1970-63           Osceola Mills

1973-74           New Freedom

1974-75           Addiction Prevention Lab, Penn State University

1975-79           National Institute on Drug Abuse, Washington DC

1979-83           Snow Shoe

1983-85           Bellefonte Trinity

 

BUYERS, FRANK CLARENCE

 

Born: 2-13-1868  Sunbury PA                                    married: Minnie Kate Britcher (1900)

Died: 12-22-1923  Selinsgrove PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 252

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Madison NJ

1896    ordained deacon

1898    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 143

 

1894-96           Irish Valley

1896-97           Park Place-Delano

1897-98           Jonestown

1898-00           York Epworth

1900-02           Liverpool        

1902-05           Rouzerville     

1905-09           Penfield

1909-10           Burnside-Glen Campbell

1910-14           Lock Haven circuit    

1914                retired 

 

Note: A memoir for Franck C. Buyers also appears in the 1/10/1924 Washington Christian Advocate, page 4.  Additional information appears in the 1925 Drew Theological Seminary Alumni Record, page 233.  Mrs. Buyers is the daughter of J. Edward Britcher of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

BYERS, WALTER REUVEN

 

Born: 11-5-1890  Rock Hill Furnace PA                   married: Georgia M. Dodd

Died: 6-7-1977  Mesa AZ                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 347

 

1912    license, recommended by Orbisonia

1917    admitted on trial

1926    discontinued

1931    re-admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Mesa AZ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 255

 

1913-14           Washingtonville

1914-15           Eagles Mere 

1915-17           Burnt Cabins

1917-18           Keating Summit

1918-19           Waterville

1919-20           Concord

1920-22           Jonestown

1922-29           Wapwallopen 

1929-32           Penfield   

1932-33           Benezette-Penfield

1933-36           Wallaceton     

1936-38           Morris 

1938-40           Clearfield circuit

1940-44           East Waterford

1944-46           Cherry Tree    

1946-50           Beach Haven  

1950-53           Snydertown   

1953-55           Catawissa circuit

1955-57           Port Matilda   

1957                retired 

 

Note: Walter R. Byers was designated a supply pastor 1926-31, as he was not officially a ministerial member of the Conference during those years.

 


CADDEN, JAMES R.

 

Born: 1-9-1828  Warrenton VA                                 married: Isabel Virginia Bouldin

Died: 7-13-1906  Baltimore MD                                obit: Baltimore Conference, 1880, 74

                                                                                    married2: Rachel Leona Ecker Stouffer

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf          obit2: [c.1849 - ?]

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1907, 64

 

1858-59           Liberty

1859-60           Gettysburg

1860-61           Westminster

1861-62           Mount Vernon station

1862-63           Frederick City

1863-65           West Harford

1865-67           North Baltimore station

1867-68           Hereford

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Hereford

18760-72         Piedmont

1872-74           Woodberry

1874-77           Baltimore circuit

1877-79           Hereford circuit

1879-80           Govanstown

1880-81           Baltimore Hill Street

1881-84           New Windsor

1884-86           Patapsco circuit

1886-87           Spencerville

1887-88           Rockville

1888-94           on leave

1894                retired

 

Note:  James R. Cadden is the son of Robert Cadden.  The second Mrs. Cadden was the widow of a Mr. Elhanan Stouffer.

 

CADDEN, ROBERT

 

Born: 10-28-1782  Ireland                                          married: Margaret _____

Died: 6-26-1859  Baltimore County MD                   obit: [?/?/1798 – 8/5/1883]

 

admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1860, 36

 

1815-16           Huntingdon circuit

1816-17           Allegheny

1817-18           Monroe

1818-19           Staunton

1819-20           Juniata

1820-22           Aughwick

1822-24           Lycoming

1824-26           Northumberland

1826-28           Stafford

1828-30           Jefferson

1830-32           Berkeley

1832-33           Baltimore circuit

1833-34           Frederick

1834-35           Liberty

1835-39           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1840-42           Loudon

1842-44           Hillsboro

1844-46           Front Royal

1846-48           West River

1848-49           Baltimore Sharp Street & Asbury

1849-51           Great Falls

1851-52           East Harford

1852                retired

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Robert Cadden is the father of James R. Cadden and Elizabeth S. Cadden Israel, wife of Rev. Fielder Israel (1825-1884) – originally of the Baltimore Conference, but later a Unitarian minister.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 344.

 

CADLE, WILBERT WHITTINGTON

 

Born: 6-2-1865  Kingsholin, England                        married: Hattie W. Hicks [9/22/1887]

Died: 5-26-1960  Geneva OH                                    obit: [2/7/1870 – 9/27/1950]

                                                                                    married2: Kathryn Louise Lombard [1914]

1891    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [1/13/1895 – 12/13/1923]

1892    discontinued  own request

1893    admitted on trial (second time), recommended by Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1895    ordained elder, recommended by Silver Brook

 

Interment: Lakeview Cemetery, Geneva OH

Obit:

 

1887                West Hazleton (Mar – Sep)

1887-               “Bishop Taylor’s Africa Mission” (beginning 9/87)

1890-92           Snow Shoe

1892-93           discontinued

1893-95           Silver Brook

1895-99           Lumber City

1899-04           on leave

1904-10           retired

1910                expelled

 

Note: One source states that Wilbert W. Cadle was born in England in 1858.  He supposedly had 5 different spouses.  Kathryn Louise Lombard is believed to be his second wife.  It is reported he had no more children by his subsequent wives.  The 1950 Altoona Tribune obituary for the Hattie W. Hicks (whose middle names also appears as Vera) states that she was a former missionary to Africa, married Wilbert W. Cadle in Altoona, had six Cadle children, that he preceded her in death (which is not true), and that she later married a Mr. William J. Estep.

      Silver Brook was a community just south of Hazelton, across the county line in Schuylkill County.

 

CADMAN, ISAAC

 

Born: 1-22-1860  Shropshire, England                       married: Mary Eleanore Blakemore

Died: 7-11-1920  Riverton NJ                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952,206

 

1896    admitted on credentials from Baptist Church

 

Interment: Locustwood Cemetery, near Camden NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 524

 

1891-95           medical missionary to Congo

1895-97           Trevorton

1897-01           Beaver Meadows

1901-03           Newton Hamilton

1903-07           Nescopek

1907-11           Centralia

1911-15           Northumberland

1915-20           Hastings

1920-24           Duncansville

1924-26           Stewartstown

1926                retired

 

Note: Isaac Cadman’s father and grandfather were Methodist preachers in England.

 

CALDWELL, RANKIN SUTTON

 

Born: 5-29-1885                                                          married: Jane Brandt Ulsh

Died: 6-?-1979                                                            obit: [7/12/1884 – 10/6/1959]

 

1911   admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1909-11           student, Dickinson College

                              1909-11     Boiling Springs & Pine Grove Furnace

1911-12           Rehoboth

1912-14           Rouzerville

1914-16           Mercersburg

1916                withdrew

                        entered the Presbyterian ministry

1920-53           Bedford PA

 

Note: The 1910 home address of Rankin S. Caldwell is given as Harrisburg.  In 1918 he was living in Middletown CT.  He died while living in Birmingham MI, home of his son John Rankin Caldwell MD.  Mrs. Caldwell is buried in Bedford PA.

 

 

CALUMBO, MICHAEL JOSEPH

 

Born: 3-6-1917  Brooklyn NY                                   married: Virginia Pope

Died: 12-23-2013                                                        obit: Alabama – West Florida Conf. 2007, 617

 

1957    license, recommended by Altoona Fifth Avenue

1959    ordained deacon

1960    ordained elder

 

Interment: Community Cemetery, Point Washington FL

Obit:

 

1957-59           Cherry Tree

1959-65           McVeytown

1965-66           Jersey Shore Epworth

1966-70           Patton

1970-74           Duncansville

1974-78           Enola Memorial

1978                transfer to Alabama-West Florida Conference

 

Note: In 2003, Michael J. Calumbo is listed as a retired associate member of the Alabama-West Florida Conference.

 

 

CAMP, JOHN LEWIS

 

Born: 11-27-1935  Catawissa PA                               married: Joan Ann Crawford (5/10/1958)

Died: 1-18-2011  Boston MA                                     obit: [5/19/1938 – 8/9/2023]

 

1962    license, recommended by Catawissa First

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment: Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne MA

Obit:

 

1958-62           student, Olivet Nazarene College in Bourbonnais IL

1962-65           Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                              1962-65     Hopewell

1965-66            Patton

1966                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1966-76           Willimantic

1976-84           Leominster First (ending 2/1/84)

1984-91           Westboro (beginning 2/1/84)

1991-94           North Attleboro

1994-98           Maynard

1998                retired

 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES HENRY

 

Born: 6-20-1856  near Jersey Shore PA                     married: Sarah Laurinda Ferguson

Died: 8-22-1938  San Antonio TX                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957,248

 

1892    admitted on trial

1896    ordained deacon

 

Interment: San Jose Cemetery, San Antonio TX

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 205

 

1891-92           Loyalsock circuit

1892-93           Kedron

1893-94           Lycoming circuit

1894-95           Williamsport Market Street

1895-97           West Jersey Shore

1895-00           North Bend-Hyner

1900-04           Ray’s Hill

1904-05           Manor Hill

1905-06           Hastings

1906-08           Espy-Lime Ridge

1908-12           Munson

1912-13           Trevorton

1913                retired

     1914-16      Belleville

     1918-20      Littlestown

     1920-21      Lewisberry-Lisburn

 

Note: Mrs. Campbell is the daughter of Rev. John Lynn Ferguson, a local preacher in the Central New York Conference.

 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-33           Hollidaysburg [Loop] St. Paul’s

 

Note: Charles W. Campbell served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

CAMPBELL, ROBERT POTTER

 

Born: 8-17-1849  near Pine Grove Mills PA              married: Martha [Mattie] L. Wright

Died: 1-21-1880  Woodland PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 161

 

1875    admitted on trial

1877    ordained deacon

1879    ordained elder

 

Interment: Meek’s Church, Fairbrook PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 72

 

1872-75           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1875-77           Martinsburg

1877-78           Glen Hope

1878-80           Woodland

 

Note: An obituary for Robert P. Campbell is also given in the February 1880 Conference News, page 5.

 

CARE, THOMAS

 

Born: 7-10-1832 St. Marys PA                                   married:

Died: 3-18-1864  Harrisburg PA                                obit:

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

 

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 38

 

1859-60           Shirleysburg

1860-61           Mifflin

1861-62           Bloomfield

1862-64           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1864                retired

 

Note: During a period of poor health about 1863, Thomas Care served as a self-appointed missionary to Elk County PA. See Piper’s Lycoming College: 1812-2012, page 82.

 

 

CARES, HENRY FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-14-1846  Luzerne County PA                       married: Mary Emma Plough

Died: 3-8-1926  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 85

                                                                                    married2: Anna Mary Lewars (1893)

1872  admitted on trial                                                obit2: [5/28/1853 – 10/19/1948]

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 344

 

1871-72           English Center

1872-73           Williamsport circuit.

1873-74           Sinnemahoning

1874-76           Ralston

1876-78           Emporium

1878-79           Montandon

1879-80           Pine Grove

1880-82           Howard

1882-85           on leave

1885-87           Mill Hall

1887-90           Muncy Valley

1890-92           Montgomery

1892-93           Fairview

1893-96           Elysburg

1896-97           Green Village

1897-99           McConnellsburg

1899-01           Rouzerville

1901-03           York Springs

1903-04           Camp Hill-Salem

1904-06           Town Hill

1906-08           Orangeville

1908                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Cares’ maiden name is also recorded as Plough.

 

CARHART, WILLIAM W.

 

Born: 1851                                                                  married: Alice Reese Halbert

Died: 5-29-1932                                                          obit: [?/?/1856 – 1/6/1915]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Clara Stout [1916]

1881    admitted on trial, Des Moines Conference     obit2: {6/28/1857 – 1/5/1926]

1885    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Unionport Cemetery, Unionport OH

Obit:

 

1881-83           Missouri Valley

1883-84           Licking Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1884-86           Lewisberry-Salem, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885-86           Lewisberry-Salem

1886-88           York Springs

1888-92           on leave

1892                located

                        “transfer” to Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

1893-94           New Florence

1894-95           Clarksville

                        entered the Presbyterian ministry

1910                Newcomerstown and West Lafayette OH

1914-15           Annapolis MD

                        Ohio

 

Note: The second Mrs. Carhart was the widow of a Mr. Peter Stout.

 

 

CARLSON, JOHN ALFONS

 

Born: 5-9-1894  Aland Islands, Finland                     married: Gladys Moore

Died: 6-19-1983  Port Allegheny PA                         obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 381

 

1930    quarterly conference license

1932    license, Erie Conference of the United Brethren Church

1934    ordained local elder

 

Interment: Card Creek Cemetery, Roulette PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 410

 

1930-33           Sartwell Creek

1933-34           Sweden Valley

1934-36           Alma

1936-39           Chandlers Valley – Pittsfield

1939-41           Great Valley

1941-42           Deckard

1942-45           Williston

1945-47           Rew

1947-51           Union City

1951-56           Port Allegheny

1956-59           Clarence Center

1959                retired

    1969-70  Elkland (last part of the year: 1970, 254)

 

Note: J.A. Carlson is noted as a retired local pastor. 

 

CARLYON, ROBERT DAVID

 

Born: 6-14-1937  Hazleton PA                                   married: Marsha Elliott

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1960    admitted on trial, North Texas Conference

1960    ordained deacon, North Texas Conference

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-59           student, Lycoming College

                             1957-59  student assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

1959                Picture Rocks (summer)

1959-60           student, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas TX 

1960                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960                student, Union Theological Seminary in New York City NY (one term)

1960-62           student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NJ

                             1960-62 Smithburg NJ

1962-64           associate, Bloomsburg

1964                withdrew to enter Episcopal ministry

 

Note: As of 2006, Robert Carlyon has been serving St. James Episcopal Church Orwigsburg PA for at least 8 years.  As of 2017 he was retired and living in Sedona AZ.

 

 

CARNELL, SAMUEL SLACK

 

Born: 4-15-1869  Nottinghamshire, England             married: Mina Viola Bressler

Died: 3-12-1932  Berwick PA                                    obit: [2/?/1878 – 10/17/1942]

 

1896    admitted on trial

1898    ordained deacon

 

Interment: North Bend Cemetery, North Bend PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 175

 

1895-97           Westport

1897-00           Jersey Shore Epworth

1900-01           Jonestown

1901-05           Marysville

1905-11           York Ridge Avenue

1911-14           Shippensburg

1914-16           Bellwood

1916-19           Mount Union

1919-25           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1925-27           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1927-30           Emporium

1930-31           Flemington

1931-32           Berwick Calvary

 

Note: An obituary for Samuel S. Carnell is also given in the 3/24/1932 Christian Advocate, page 328.

 

CARPENTER, CHARLES IRVING

 

Born: 1-13-1906  Wilmington DE                             married: Miriam Dryden

Died: 2-22-1994                                                          obit: d. 1985

                                                                                    married 2: Mrs. Dorothy Hooper Boyle

1929    admitted on trial, Newark Conference           obit2: [ 1907 – 5/1/1999]

1929    ordained deacon, Newark Conference

1931    ordained elder, Wilmington Conference

 

Interment: Barratt’s Chapel, Frederica DE

Obit: Peninsula-Delaware Conference 1994, 366

 

1925-27           student, Bucknell University

                              1925-26     Johnson Citya

                              1926-27     Montandon & Henderson (ending summer 1927)

1927-31           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1931-34           Rehoboth

1934-36           Federalsburg MD

1936-60           chaplain, USAF

                              1948-58     chief of Air Force chaplains

                              1958-60     (first) chaplain, ASAF Academy

1960-68           Milford Avenue

1968                retired

 

Note: Charles I. Carpenter is reported to be the first chaplain elected a delegate to General Conference (1956).  The second Mrs. Carpenter was the widow of a Mr. Richard Townley Boyle (1906-1967).

 

aThe statistical report in 1926 indicates that Johnson City is a new appointment in the Sunbury District.  Johnson City is apparently another name for Ranshaw (east of Shamokin), which is also sometimes called Brady.

 

CARPENTER, CHARLES JOSEPH.

 

Born: 5-28-1920  Corning NY                                   married: Margaret Marie Davis

Died: 10-20-1967  Newport News VA                      obit: [11/16/1929 – 4/23/2000]

 

1941    license, Genesee Conference

1943    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Haynes Cemetery, Mathews VA

Obit:

 

1941-42           Dexter-Middle Ridge

1942-43           Dalton NY

1943-45           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1943-44      Bellport, Long Island NY

1945-46           JasperWoodhull NY

1946-47           Hemlock-Lima NY

1947-50           Elkland-Osceola         

1950-52           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

      1950-52     Salona-Lamar  (ending 1-1-1952)

 

Note: Charles Carpenter took work in the Virginia Conference.   See 1952, 89.  The widowed Mrs. Carpenter later married a Mr. William Reed Atkins.

 

CARROLL, DAVID HENRY

 

Born: 7-11-1840  Baltimore County MD                   married: Mary E. Boyd

Died: 11-15-1912                                                        obit: [?/?/1936 -2/26/1903]

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1863    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1913, 71

 

1861-63           Westminster

1863-65           Frederick City

1865-66           Mt. Vernon

1866-68           Carlisle

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Williamsport Price Chapel

1870                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1870-71           on leave

1871-72           Baltimore Huntingdon Avenue

1872-88           agent, book depository

1888-95           president, Baltimore City Missionary and Church Extension Society

1895                located

                        president, Consolidated Cotton Duck Company

 

 

Note: David H. Carroll was also the founding president of the National City Bank of Baltimore in 1910.  Rev. and Mrs. Carroll had no children, and Mrs. Carroll was extremely active in Methodist women’s, missionary and benevolent organizations.

 

CARROLL, FLOYD A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1938    admitted on trial, Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1936-39           Warwick

1939-40           Doylesburg

1940                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church

1940-42           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1942-45           Duncannon

1945-50           Gettysburg

1950                withdrew

 

Note: Floyd A. Carroll was a student at Westminster Seminary 1937-38.

 

CARSON, JESSE FLEMING

 

Born: 7-8-1889  Lycoming County PA                      married: (single)

Died: 10-11-1963                                                        obit:

 

1923    quarterly conference license, Waterville

 

Interment: Waterville Cemetery, Waterville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 356

 

1941-43           Phelps Chapel

1954-63           associate, Waterville

 

Note: Jesse F. Carson served as a local pastor.  His main vocation was that of teacher and principal in the Jersey Shore public schools.  He also served the South Avis Community Chapel and preached for many summers at the Carsontown ME Church.

 

 

CARVER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 10-14-1850  Havre de Grace MD.                    married: Helen Girvin

Died: 10-25-1939  Lakewood OH                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 236

 

1873    admitted on trial

1875    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Sunset Memorial Park, Cleveland OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 176

 

1873-74           Salona

1874-75           Conyngham

1875-76           Buckhorn

1876-78           Hickory Run

1878-79           Town Hill

1879-81           Dillsburg

1881-83           Snow Shoe

1883-85           Wallaceton

1885-87           Martinsburg

1887-90           Warrior’s Mark

1890-94           McConnellsburg

1894-96           Gettysburg-New Oxford

1896-99           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1899-00           Mahaffey

1900-01           Stewartstown

1901-04           Airville

1904-08           Snydertown

1908-14           Morrisdale

1914-17           Orbisonia

1917-19           South Williamsport

1919-21           Belleville

1921                retired

 

Note William A. Carver edited and published “Manual of the Central Penna. Conference 1869-1900.”

 

CASE, WATSON

 

Born: 12-1-1839 Catawissa PA                                  married: Sarah V. Daneker

Died: 11-13-1911                                                        obit: [10/27/1849 – 10/10/1923]

 

1862    quarterly conference license, Catawissa circuit

1864    admitted on trial , East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mifflinburg

 

Interment: Mt. Oliver Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1912, 82

 

1862-63           Bloomingdale circuit (beginning 12/9/62)

1863-64           Mifflinburg

1864-65           Jeansville

1865-66           Muncy

1866-67           Birmingham

1867-68           Bloody Run [Everett]

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Baltimore Green,ount Avenue

1870-71           Harper’s Ferry WV

1871-72           Long Green

1872-75           Baltimore Canton

1875-76           Baltimore Mt. Olivet [Memorial]

1876-78           Antietam

1878-80           Hancock

1880-83           Hereford

1883-85           Great Falls

1885-87           Towson

1887-91           Piedmont WV

1891-94           Annapolis Wesley Chapel [Maryland Avenue]

1894-96           Washington DC Grace

1896-97           Mt. Washington

1897-98           Hampden Mt. Vernon

1898-01           Baltimore Fort Avenue

1901-04           Laurel

1904-06           Baltimore Montford Avenue

1906-09           Midland

1909-11           Williamsport (Md)

 

CASTLEMAN, DAVID

 

Born: 11-4-1825  near Gettysburg PA                       married: Anne White Dellinger

Died: 11-10-1875  Mooresville PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 163

 

1849   admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mooresville Cemetery, Mooresville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 58

 

1849-50           Milton

1850-51           Charles

1851-52           Severn

1852-53           Bald Eagle

1853-54           New Bloomfield

1854-55           Hancock

1855-56           Patapsco

1856-57           Hillsboro

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Mercersburg

1859-61           McConnellsburg

1861-63           Pleasant Grove

1863-65           Bloomingdale

1865-67           Muncy

1867-68           Penn’s Valley

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Penn’s Valley

1869-72           Warrior’s Mark

1872-75           Martinsburg

1875                Manor Hill

 

Note: An obituary for David Castleman also appears in the 12-1-1875 Conference News.  Biographical sketches appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference and in Simpson’s Cyclopedia of Methodism.

 

CATHERMAN, CHARLES FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1890  Millmont PA                                           married: Gladys Grace Hackenberg

Died: 12-6-1968  Conyngham PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 386

 

1918    admitted on trial

1920    ordained deacon

1922    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rebersburg Cemetery, Rebersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 309

 

1917-18           Newville (beginning 6/17)

1918-19           Jeddo-Lattimer

1919-24           Penn’s Valley

1924-26           Shrewsbury (ending 9/30/26)

1926-30           Gettysburg (beginning 10/1/26)

1930-35           Muncy

1935-38           Everett

1938-43           Hanover (ending 11/30/43)

1943-46           Altoona Simpson (beginning 12/1/43)

1946-57           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1957                retired

 

CATTRON, JOHN GARDNER JR.

 

Born: 4-29-1930  Bryn Mawr PA                               married: (5/31/1952)

Died:   <2021                                                              obit:

 

1952    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-53            student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1951-53  Winchester VA Braddock Street (11/51 – 5/53)

1953                chaplain, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC (summer)

1953-54           Wallacetown (10/53 – 8/54)

1954                chaplain, Norwich State Hospital in Norwich CT (9/54-12/54)

1954-55           chaplain, New Jersey State Hospital in Greystone Park NJ  

1955-59           chaplain, New Jersey State Hospital in Ankora NJ

1959                withdrew

 

Note: In 1950 John G. Cattron is listed as a student at DePauw University from Williamsport PA – which appears to be his “home” town, as his father died in Williamsport in 1952.

 

CHAMBERS, JAMES WILLIAM

 

Born: 1946                                                                  married: Sara Jane Milliron

Died: 9-6-1916                                                            obit: [?/?/1844 – 12/12/1932]

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [1917,66]

 

1896-99           Center (near Osceola Mills) (did not finish the last year)

1907-11           Alum Bank

1911-13           Burnt Cabins

1913-14           Pine Grove Mills

1914-15           Allegheny circuit

 

Note: James W. Chambers served as a local pastor.

 

 

CHAMBERS, LEWIS

 

Born: 6-24-1820                                                          married: Eliza Ann Ironside

Died: 3-10-1907                                                          obit: [7/?/1820 – ?/?/1901]

 

1847    quarterly conference license

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Big Cove Tannery PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Cove (Fulton County)

1879-82           Cove

1882-83           Licking Creek

1883-84           Fort Littleton

1884-86           Licking Creek

1886-88           Fort Littleton

1892-93           Harrisonville

 

Note:  Lewis Chambers lived in Big Cove Tannery and served as a local pastor.

 

CHAMBERS, ROBERT DANIEL

 

Born: 1-4-1823  Martinsburg VA (WV)                     married:

Died: 9-8-1864  Carlisle PA                                       obit:

 

admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 40

 

1845-46           South Branch

1846-47           Front Royal

1847-48           Stafford

1848-49           Baltimore Caroline Street station

1848-51           Liberty

1851-53           Woodstock

1853-54           Rockingham

1854-56           Annapolis station

1856-57           North Baltimore

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Carlisle

1859-64           faculty, Irving Female College in Mechanicsburg

1864-65           president, Emory Female College in Carlisle

 

 

CHANDLER, ABRAM S.

 

Born: 8-22-1813  Luzerne County PA                       married: Almeda Lewis

Died: 1-6-1887  Flemington PA                                 obit: [d. 9/18/1871]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Mary Ann Allen

1844    license, exhorter                                              obit2: [7/18/1818 - 3/25/1902]

1852    license, local preacher

1856    ordained deacon

1869    quarterly conference license, Leidy

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Christian Advocate 4/7/1887

 

1858-59           Newton, Wyoming Conference (2nd half of year)

1868-69           Leidy

1869-70           Westport & Farrandsville

 

Note: Abram S. Chandler served as a local pastor.  He is the father of Ira Lewis Chandler (1839-1920) of the Central Tennessee Conference, and of Levi Wesley Chandler (1849-1927) of the Nebraska and Oregon Conferences.  He reportedly also served Old Caledonia, Pine Creek, Lewisburg mission and Loyalsock. The first Mrs. Chandler is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Lewis  (c1797-c1873: a local preacher in the Wyoming Conference) and a first cousin of Joshua S. Lewis (1829-1908) of the Wyoming Conference.  Abram and Almeda are the great-great-grandparents (through their daughter Nellie Chandler von Dreele) of Lutheran bishop Claire Schenot Burkat and Episcopal priest James von Dreele.

 

 

CHANDLER, IRA LEWIS

 

Born: 6-14-1839  PA                                      married: Margret Emma Graham

Died: 3-8-1921  Florence AL                         obit: Central Tennessee Conference 1914, 6

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Caledonia circuit

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Dickson TN

Obit: Central Tennessee Conference 1921, 21

 

1865-66           Hancock (first part of year) & Westport (second part of year)

1866-67           Sinnemahoning and Westport

1867-68           Sinnemahoning

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Sinnemahoning

1869-70           Carlisle mission

1870-72           on leave

                             1871-72  Leidy

1872-73           Port Matilda

1873-74           Schellsburg

1874                transfer to Tennessee Conference

 

Note: Ira L. Chandler is the son of Abram S. Chandler, and the brother of Levi Wesley Chandler (1849—1927) of the Nebraska and Oregon Conferences.

 

CHANDLER, J.R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1872-73           Pine Creek

 

Note: J.R. Chandler served as a local pastor.

 

 

CHARLTON, WILLIAM CHAPMAN

 

Born: 2-10-1869  Gateshead, England                       married:

Died: 1-9-1940                                                            obit:

 

1896    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Flushing Cemetery, Flushing NY

Obit:

 

1896-98           Alexandria

1898-99           Wolfsburg

1899-00           Blain

1900-02           McVeytown

1902-05           Mahaffey

1905-08           Munson

1908-10            Benton

1910                withdrew “to connect with another denomination”  1910, 73

                             1910  Episcopal Deacon

                             1911  Episcopal Priest

 

Note: William C. Charlton is listed in the Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1910 and a priest in 1911.  See Drew Alumni book  (class of 1896), p. 255.  Contact person (2002) is

William E. Charlton

29 Walt St.

Wellesley, MA  01481

(781) 237-4228

 

 

CHAVEZ, JUAN C.

 

Born: 1878, New Mexico                                           married: Lisaida Ruybal

Died:                                                                           obit: [d. 1927]

                                                                                    married2: Estanislada G. _____

1900    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961,264

Southwest Spanish Mission Conference

1906    ordained elder,

            New Mexico Spanish Mission Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1929-38           Spanish mission, Douglas AZ

1938                retired

 

 

Note: Juan C. Chavez is the son of early New Mexico Methodist preacher Teodosio F. Chavez.  He transferred to Central PA when the Spanish Mission Conference was dissolved in 1929 [see the 6/20/1929 Christian Advocate, page 788].  Juan C. Chavez is also credited with serving as a Methodist pastor in Socorro NM, Hillsboro NM and Las Cruces NM (among other places) – and as being an early circuit rider on horseback to outlying Methodist groups in NM.  He retired to El Paso TX, and his connection to Central Pa is not known.  He “disappears” from the journal and is not is not listed after 1964. 

 

 

CHENOWETH, GEORGE DAVENPORT

 

Born: 8-3-1811  Berkley County WV                        married: Frances Crawford

Died: 5-18-1880  Washington DC                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 101

 

1832    license

1833    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 71

 

1833-34            Covington

1834-35           Woodstock

1835-36           South Branch

1836-37           Springfield

1837-38           Stafford

1838-39           Williamsburg

1839-40           Augusta

1840-42           Patapsco

1842-43           West Baltimore

1843-44           Baltimore Howard Street

1844-46           York

1846-47           Ryland, Washington DC

1847-49           Warrenton

1849-52           North Baltimore

1851-52           Harper’s Ferry

1852-53           Staunton

1853-57           tract agent

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Hagerstown

1859-62           Carlisle

1861-65           superintendent, Juniata District.

1865-67           agent, Dickinson College

1867-68           agent, PA State Temperance Union

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-78           on leave

                        1869-70  Carlisle Emory Chapel

                        1874-75  Carlisle Emory Chapel

1878                retired

 

Note: An obituary for George D. Chenoweth also appears in the July 1880 Conference News.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.  He is a brother to Alfred Griffith Chenoweth (1809-1864) of the Northwest Indiana Conference.

 

CHESLOCK, DAVID CLAYTON

 

Born: 7-8-1943  Ellwood City PA                              married: Beverly Ann Morgan [8/28/1965]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by Orbisonia

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1965-68           Dudley

1968-81           McConnellsburg-Cito

1981-89           Fayetteville Otterbein

1989-90           Littlestown (ending 11-1-1990)

1990-96           leave of absence (beginning 11-1-1990)

1996                involuntary termination  1996, 207

 

Note: David C. Cheslock is living in Chambersburg PA in 2017.

 

CHESTON, HENRY CLAY

 

Born: 9-29-1834  near Bristol PA                              married: Jennie Culver

Died: 11-27-1882  Light Street PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 148

 

1865    local deacon, New Jersey Conference

1867    local elder

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Carlisle Emory

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 77

 

1862-68           principal, preparatory department at Dickinson College

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Gettysburg

1871-74           Newport

1874-77           Shippensburg

1877-80           Greencastle

1880-82           Espy-Light St.

 

Note: An obituary for Henry C. Cheston also appears in the 12/15/1882 Conference News.  Mrs. Cheston is the Jane Culver mentioned in the 2006 volume of The Chronicle, page 68.  His daughter Alice H. Cheston married the son of William Watson Hicks.

 

CHILCOTE, ELIAL McVEY

 

Born: 5-27-1838  Shirleysburg PA                             married: Ruth Ann Ale

Died: 1-29-1911  Ridgway                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 202

 

1864   admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Schellsburg

 

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 129

 

1863-64           Schellsburg

1864-65           McConnellsburg

1865-66           Orangeville

1866-67           Chilisquaque

1867-68           Bloomingdale

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Hughesville

1871-73           Liberty Valley

1873-75           Cogan Valley

1875-78           Penfield

1878-80           Sinnemahoning

1880-82           Hyner-Westport

1882-85           Orangeville

1885-86           Beach Haven

1886-88           Trevorton

1888-91           Snydertown

1891-92           Nescopeck

1892-93           Freeland

1893-97           Rohrsburg

1897-99           Selinsgrove

1899-01           Penn’s Valley

1901-02           Rouzerville

1902-05           Shrewsbury

1905-06           Catawissa circuit

1906-08           Roaring Creek

1908-09           Laurelton

1909                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Elial M. Chilcote also appears in the 5/18/1911 New York Christian Advocate, page 683.  This surname is also rendered CHILCOAT.

 

CHILCOAT, WILLIAM L.

 

Born: 12-5-1845                                                          married: Sarah A. Shenefelt

Died: 5-5-1917                                                            obit: [5/9/1855 – 2/15/1932]

 

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 67]

 

1899-02           Utahville

1902-03           Altoona circuit

1903-05           Asbury (near Altoona)

1905-06           Pleasant Gap

1907-09           Blandburg

1910-12           Irish Valley

 

Note: William L. Chilcoat served as a local pastor.  This surname is also rendered CHILCOTE, and the middle initial is also given as A.

 

CHOATE, CAUTIOUS A.

 

Born: 1-30-1898  Illinois                                            married: Ruth Florence Poorman

Died: 8-13-1971  Kansas                                            obit Kansas West Conference 1991, 286

 

1922    admitted on trial, Southwest Kansas Conference

 

Interment: Halstead Cemetery, Hal;stead KS

Obit: Kansas West Conference 1972, 233

 

1923-24           Belmont

1931-32           Eagles Mere & Laporte, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Dr. Cautious A. Choate served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference while a member of another conference. 

 

CHURCH, FRANCIS E.

 

Born: 1842  Philadelphia PA                                      married: Annie Randolph

Died: 10-16-1891  Mt. Airy PA                                 obit: [9-7-1841 – 19/17/1903]

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Williamsport Second

 

Interment: Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1863-64           Berwick

1864-65           Milton

1865-66           West Baltimore circuit

1866-67           East Harford

1867-68           East Baltimore

1868                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1868-69           Milestown

1869-70           Doylestown

1870-72           Paschalville

1872-73           Lochiel and Allison’s Hill

1873-75           Bristol

1875-76           Philadelphia Sanctuary

1876-78           Philadelphia twenty-Ninth Street

1878-80           on leave

1880                located at own request

                        may have moved to Michigan

 

Note: In 1873 Lochiel and Allison’s Hill (and other Harrisburg appointments) were transferred from the Philadelphia Conference to the Central PA Conference.  The 1873 journals list Francis E. Church as transferring from Philadelphia to Central PA and from Central PA back to Philadelphia.  For all intents and purposes, he was really never a member of the Central PA Conference.

 

CLARK, LARRY SPENCER

 

Born: 4-23-1928  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Rae Ludwig

Died: 11-13-1992  Deltona FL                                   obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Salladasburg

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 456

 

1961-62           Ralston

1962-66           East Canton

1966-71           Wallis Run

1971-75           Eagle – Mill Creek

1975-80           East Canton

1980-85           Montandon – Milton

1985-89           Mifflinburg St. Paul (ending 1/1/89)

1989                disability leave (beginning 1/1/89)

 

CLARK, LEWIS NEWMAN

 

Born: 6-3-1833                                                            married: Annie A. _____

Died: 3-2-1909                                                            obit: [? – 10/8/1887]

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference.

 

Interment: Porchtown Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, Franklinville NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1909, 151

 

1863                transfer to Troy Conference

1863-68           Troy Conference

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Port Matilda

1870-72           New Washington

1872-73           Pleasantville

1873-75           York Springs

1875-76           Castle Fin

1876-78           on leave

1878                retired

1884                transfer to New Jersey Conference

 

CLARK, VANCE NORMAN

 

Born: 5-14-1926  Canton OH                                     married: Elva Madelyn Bascom (1946)

Died: 8-22-2019  Duncansville PA                            obit: [5/28/1927 – 12/23/2004]

 

1949    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1944-46           Harrisonville (beginning 9/1/1944)

1946-48           Montandon 

1948-50           Snydertown

1950-52           Hastings

1952-56           chaplain, US Air Force

1956                withdrew

1956-58           unknown

1958-62           St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Tifton GA

 

2005                Trinity Episcopal Church, Tyrone PA (rector emeritus)

 

 

CLARKE, FRANCIS A.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 10-?-1894                                                          obit:

 

1873    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY

Obit:

 

1873-74           Excelsior

1874                discontinued at own request

 

Note: It has not been confirmed that the Francis A.C. Clark buried in Brookl;yn NY is the same Francis A.C. Clark who served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

CLARKE, J.H. SLICER

 

Born: 3-11-1831  Baltimore County MD                   married:

Died: 9-21-1893  Rossville MD                                 obit:

 

?          license, recommended by West Falls

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rossville MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 95

 

1860-61           Castle Fin circuit

1861-62           McVeytown

1862-63           Woodbury

1863-65           West Falls

1864-66           Quincy

1866-67           Canton

1867-68           chaplain, Bay View Asylum in Baltimore MD

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           York Duke Street

1869-70           Mercersburg

1870-71           Gettysburg

1871-72           McConnellsburg

1872-73           Bendersville

1873-74           Granville

1874-75           on leave

1875-76           Ray’s Hill

1876-77           New Bloomfield

1877-78           Concord

1878-79           Saxton

1879-80           Ray’s Hill

1880                on leave

 

Note: Bay View Asylum was erected in 1866, became part of the Baltimore City Hospitals in 1925, and is now part of the Johns Hopkins facilities.  One source suggests J.H. Slicer Clarke never married.  Maser’s 1969 history indicates (with question marks) a wife with initials J.C. who died in 1913, but these appear to be extraneous jottings referring to James C. Clarke that found their way into the final manuscript.

 

CLARKE, JAMES CRAWFORD

 

Born: 10-13-1837  Birmingham PA                           married: Adelaide Graham

Died: 3-26-1899  Baltimore MD                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 131

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 106

 

1860-62           Manor Hill

1862-64           Bedford circuit

1864-65           Mechanicsburg

1865-68           Saxton

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Mount Union

1870-71           Marklesburg

1871-72           Sunbury

1872-75           Shamokin

1875-78           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1878-82           superintendent, Harrisburg District.

1882-85           Williamsport Pine Street

1885-86           Hazleton

1886-99           on leave

 

CLARKE, JAMES M.

 

Born: 11-16-1806  Baltimore County MD                 married: Mary Kay Angle

Died: 3-12-1880  Duncansville PA                            obit: [d. 6-24-1912]

 

1832    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 69

 

1832-22           Sunbury

1833-35           Huntersville

1835-36           Clear Spring

1836-37           on leave

1837-38           Bladensbug

1838-40           Mifflin

1840-42           Franklin

1842-44           Lewisburg circuit

1844-45           Monroe

1845-47           Castle Fin

1847-49           Huntersville

1849-51           Franklin

1851-53           Dallas Street

1853-55           Cassville

1855-57           Shirleysburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore City Mission

1859-61           Asbury-Orchard Street

1861-63           Shirleysburg

1863-65           Concord

1865-67           Woodbury

1867-70           York Springs

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           York Springs

1870-73           New Cumberland

1873-75           Shrewsbury

1875-76           Clearfield circuit

1876-78           Warrior’s Mark

1878-80           Duncansville

 

Note: A biographical sketch of James M. Clarke appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 348.

 

CLEAVER, BRUCE ROBERT

 

Born: 1-17-1908  Catawissa PA                                 married: Mary A. Clark

Died: 3-25-1973                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 405

 

1949    license, recommended by Allenwood

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, New Columbia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 369

1948-53           Cassville (ending 2/15/1953)

1953-59           Houtzdale (beginning 2/15/1953)

1959-65           Clearfield circuit

1965-72           Flemington circuit

1972-73           Elimsport

 

CLEAVER, CHARLES

 

Born: 6-11-1815  Brackley, England                         married: Elizabeth Dodd

Died: 11-25-1880  Hereford MD                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Elizabeth _____

1834    local preacher, England                                  obit2:

1844    local preacher, Baltimore Conference                        married3: Mary _____

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit3: [6/8/1816 – 1/8/1889]

 

Interment: Hereford UMC Cemetery. Hereford MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1881, 43

 

1853-55           Bald Eagle

1855-57           Clearfield

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           New Washington

1859-60           Schellsburg

1860-62           Bedford

1862-63           Jerseytown

1863-65           Mifflinburg

1865-66           Bloomingdale

1866-67           on leave

1867-69           Hereford

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-72           Bentley Springs

1872-75           West Harford

1875-76           Liberty

1876-78           on leave

1878                retired

 

Note: Charles Cleaver is the father of John W. Cleaver.  The book Your Affectionate Son – Letters from a Civil War Soldier is a collection of letters written to Charles by his son James.

 

CLEAVER, JOHN W.

 

Born: 7-3-1836  England                                            married: Laura E. Wilkinson

Died: 12-3-1884  Bedford PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 142

 

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Bedford Cemetery, Bedford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 80

 

1858-58           Manor Hill

1859-60           McConnellsburg

1860-61           Westernport

1861-63           Concord

1863-65           Saxton

1865-68           Newport

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Half Moon

1870-73           Milesburg

1873-75           Williamsburg

1875-77           Martinsburg

1877-80           New Bloomfield

1880-83           Mount Union

1883-84           on leave

 

Note: John W. Cleaver is the son of Charles Cleaver.

 

CLEAVER, NELSON ELIJAH COLLINS

 

Born: 4-15-1864  near Catawissa PA                         married: Minerva A. Roop (6/3/1891)

Died: 6-5-1913  Brooklyn NY                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 131

 

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle station

1892    ordained elder

1892    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 118

 

1883-87           student, Dickinson College

1887-89           faculty, Pennsylvania State College 

1889-92           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1892-93           Mercersburg

1893-95           McVeytown

1895-97           Conyngham

1897-00           Hazleton Diamond Street

1900-01           Newton Hamilton

1901-06           Danville Trinity

1906-08           Emporium

1908-09           Lewisburg

1909-13           Mount Carmel

1913                Curwensville

 

Note: Mrs. Cleaver is a sister to Rev. Curtin Gregg Roop (d. 1943) of the Northern New York Conference.  The 1905 Dickinson College Alumni Record, page 291, also credits him with serving churches in West Livingston NJ, New York City NY Fordam, and Brooklyn NY Flatbush Avenue – as well as being an instructor in Greek at the Drew Theological Seminary.  Perhaps all that was accomplished 1889-92.  Nelson E. Collins Cleaver is the author Cleaver's Latin Method for Beginners  and Cleaver's  Latin  Lessons.

 

 

CLEES, THOMAS OBOURN

 

Born: 11-16-1839  Pennville PA                                married: Amanda Matilda Andrews

Died: 2-18-1887  Montandon PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 345

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Milton Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 84

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Watsontown

1869-71           Washingtonville

1871-73           Trevorton

1873-76           Elysburg

1876-79           Buckhorn

1879-82           Orangeville

1882-85           Selinsgrove

1885-86           Town Hill

1886-87           on leave

 

CLEETON, ALAN ROBERT

 

Born: 12-9-1926  Pittsburgh PA                                 married: Marion Wickersham

Died: 8-10-2004  Franklin MA                                  obit: [12/24/1910 – 2/17/2006]

 

1950    license, recommended by Morningside of the Pittsburgh Conference

1952    admitted on trial, North Iowa Conference

1952    ordained deacon, North Iowa Conference

1954    ordained elder, North Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 436]

 

1952-55           associate, Iowa City

1955                transfer to Rocky Mountain Conference

1955-59           Conference Director of Youth Ministries

1959-64           director, Wesley Foundation at the University of Colorado

1964                transfer to the Central Pennsylvania Conference

1964-68           director, Wesley Foundation at Penn State

1968-69           sabbatical leave

1969-71           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1971-92           faculty, Wentworth College of Technology in Boston MA

1992                retired

 

 Note: Alan. Cleeton is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 244.  He lived in retirement in Franklin MA.

 

CLEMENCE, ROY VIVIAN

 

Born: 1-23-1880  Orbisonia PA                                 married: Annie Caruthers

Died: 2-26-1952                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 338

 

1921    license

 

Interment: South Fork Cemetery, South Fork PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 202

 

1921-23           Alum Bank

1923-26           Wolfsburg

1926-27           Blandburg

1927-29           Clearville

1929-30           Concord

1930-31           Wells Tannery & Tatesville

1931-34           living in Bedford

1934-42           Tatesville

 

Note: Roy V. Clemence served as a local pastor.

 

CLEMENS, JOSEPH

 

Born: 12-9-1862  Cornwall, England                         married: Mary Knapp Strong

Died: 1-26-1936  New Guinea                                    obit: [1/1/1873 – 4/13/1968]

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment: New Guinea

Obit:

 

1894-97           Mont Alto

1897-99           Airville

1899-00           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1900-02           Nescopeck

1901-27           chaplain, US Army

1927                transfer to the Philippine Islands Conference

 

Note: The entire 2000 volume of The Chronicle is devoted to Chaplain Joseph and Mary Strong Clemens.

 

CLINE, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1884    ordained elder, recommended by Concord circuit

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884-85           McConnellstown

1885-86           Loudon

1886-87           Licking Creek

 

Note: In some records this name is given as KLINE.  John W. Cline lived in Fulton County and served as a local pastor.

 

CLINE, WESLEY MATTHEW

 

Born: 3-3-1845  Fort Littleton PA                              married: Frances Smith

Died: 4-13-1928  Fort Littleton PA                            obit: [1/2/1843 – 12/29/1927]

 

Interment: Fort Littleton Cemetery, Fort Littleton PA

Obit:

 

1906-08           Burnt Cabins

1908-09           Hustontown

1910-13           Harrisonville

1913-14           Fort Loudon

1914-15           (apparently not appointed)

1915-16           Shirleysburg

 

Note: Wesley M. Cline served as a local pastor. 


 

CLIPPINGER, WILLIAM A.

 

Born: 3-9-1842  Willow Hill PA                                married: Emma Virginia Smith

Died: 5-2-1883  Jeanesville PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 85

 

1865    quarterly conference license, Rainsburg

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Jeanesville Cemetery, Jeanesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 82

 

1869-72           Clearfield circuit

1872-75           Manor Hill

1875-77           Petersburg

1877-78           Gettysburg

1878-79           on leave

1879-82           Ennisville

1882-83           Jeanesville-Audenreid

 

Note: An obituary for William A. Clippinger also appears in the 7/2/1883 Conference News. Mrs. Clippinger’s sister Jennie Elizabeth is married to John L. Leilich.  The 2005 volume of The Chronicle, pages 72-75, includes material on the Clippinger family.

 

CLOSSON, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 1858                                                                  married: Elizabeth Agnes Pheasant

Died: 9-15-1944                                                          obit: [?/?/1860 – 5/27/1921]

 

1893    ordained elder, recommended by Hastings circuit

 

Interment: Oakridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1890-93           Hastings

1893-94           Shawmut [Shawville]

1894-95           living in Hastings

1895-97           Altoona Asbury

1897-98           Warrior’s Mark

1906-07           Blackwell

 

Note: William H. Closson served as a local pastor.  The surname is also rendered CLOSSEN.

 

CLOUSER, ELMER CLEVELAND SR.

 

Born: 7-31-1909  Hanover PA                                   married: Alda Isabel Famous

Died: 3-29-1999  Inverness FL                                  obit:

                                                                                    married2: Emogene Kennedy

                                                                                    obit2:

1955    license, recommended by Forest Hill MD Watters Memorial

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: [cremation: ashes buried at Hernando UM Church, Hernando FL]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 430

 

1957-60           Schellsburg

1960-62           Salona

1962-65           Port Royal

1965-71           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1971-75           Tower City

1975                retired

 

Note: In memory of Elmer C. Clouser, the Hernando FL UM Church designated its library as “The Clouser Library and Chapel.”

 

CLOUSER, JAMES HOWARD

 

Born: 2-18-1933  Burnham PA                                  married: Jean Phyllis Gray (8/20/1955)

Died: 11-10-2009                                                        obit: [7/22/1932 – 5/6/2000]

 

1952    license, recommended by Burnham

1956    admitted on trial

1956    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

 

Interment: Trout Run Cemetery, Trout Run PA

Obit:

 

1951-55           student, Lycoming College

                             1952-54      Trout Run

                             1954-55      Gordon

1955-58           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1955-58      Gordon

1958-61           Snow Shoe

1961                transfer to Troy Conference

1961-62           North Hero-Grand Isle-Isle LaMotte

1962-65           North Hero-Grand Isle-Isle LaMotte-South Alburg

1965-68           Richford and Montgomery

1968-71           program director, Conference Council

1971-76           Montpelier

1976-83           Averill Park

1983-89           Plattsburgh

1989-               Latham

 

 

CLYMER, JOHN FLETCHER

 

Born: 7-27-1840  Philadelphia PA                             married: Linda E. Reifsnider

Died: 1-18-1903   Dansville NY                                obit: Central New York Conference 1884, 94

 

1864    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Shippensburg station

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Troy Conference 1903, 152

 

1862-63           Carlisle

1863-64           Ashland

1865-66           DePuyster

1866                “transfer” to Black River Conference

1866-68           Potsdam

1868-69           Oswego

1869                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1869-72           Wilmington St. Paul’s

1872-73           Smyrna

1873                transfer to Troy Conference

1873075           Pittsfield MA

1875-78           Glens Falls

1878-80           Albany Trinity

1880                transfer to Central New York Conference

1880-81           Auburn First

1881-84           Syracuse First

1884-87           Ithaca Aurora Street

1887                transfer to New England Conference

                        Maine Conference

1892-93           Portland Pine Street

                        Troy Conference

 

COBB, JOHN FRANCIS

 

Born: 6-17-1858  Berlin NJ                                        married: Hannah E. Taylor

Died: 2-7-1936  Shawville PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 201

                                                                                    married2: Maude E. Gifford

1898    license, New Jersey Conference                     obit2:

 

Interment: Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery, Cape May County NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 191

 

1898-10           Atlantic City NJ Pacific Avenue

1910                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1910-12           Blandburg

1912-13           Glen Hope

1913-16           Karthaus

1916-20           Sandy Ridge & Clearfield circuit

1920-23           Coalport & Irvona

1923-26           Jamison City

1926-30           Wolfsburg

1930-31           without appointment

1931-36           Shawville       

 

Note: John F. Cobb served as a local pastor.

 

COFFMAN, JOHN SAMUEL

 

Born: 1919                                                                  married: Norma Swords

Died: 1-15-1989                                                         obit: [6/12/1917 – 8/5/2005]

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park. Camp Hill PA    

Obit:

 

1957-51           student, Dickinson College

                             1948-50      Lewisberry-Lisburn

                             1950-51      Rays Hill (ending 2/1/1951)

1951                superintendent, Bethesda Mission in Harrisburg PA (beginning 2/1/1951)

                        state supervisor, PA Bureau of Rehabilitation

 

Note:  John S. Coffman is the father of Norman S. Coffman of the Susquehanna Conference.  John appears to have ministerial credentials, but his denominational affiliation is not known.

 

COHICK, JAMES LEROY

 

Born: 4-30-1890  Lycoming County  PA                   married: Iva Gertrude Wagner

Died: 20-24-1952   Salladasburg                                obit: [10/25/1892 – 12/?/1979]

 

1923    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 216

 

1920-25           Lock Haven

1925-26           Martinsburg

1926-30           Duboistown-Nisbet

1930-33           Orbisonia

1933-34           Avis-Phelps Chapel

1934-37           Avis

1937-39           Berwick Calvary

1939-41           New Bloomfield

1941-43           on leave

1943                retired

 

COLAS, HARRY

 

Born: 1-17-1892  Sturgeon PA                                   married: Sarah Frances Walburn

Died: 7-15-1969                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 202

 

1926    admitted on trial

1929    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1921-24           Oriole & Antes Fort

1924-25           Laurelton

1925-30           Town Hill

1930-34            Elysburg (ending 10/15/1934)

1935                withdrew to enter Baptist ministry (see 1935, 93)

                        Baptist pastor in Turner KS [Kansas City area]

 

Note: Harry Colas served as a supply pastor for several years before seeking formal admission to Conference.  Mrs. Colas is a graduate of the Lucy Webb Hayes School and worked as a deaconess before their marriage in 1920.

 

COLBURN, NATHANIEL W.

 

Born: 5-3-1829  Wales                                                married: Mary Emily Johnson

Died: 4-11-1891  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 162

 

1853    local license

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1856    ordained deacon

1858    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 87

 

1853-54           Mifflin

1854-55           Caledonia

1855                Clinton (3 months)

1855-56           New Washington (9 months)

1856-57           Sunbury

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bloomsburg

1858-60           Bald Eagle

1860                transfer to Genesee Conference

1860-61           Laporte

1861                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1861-63           Schellsburg

1863-65           Woodbury

1865-67           Mifflinburg

1867-68           Montoursville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Montoursville

1869-70           Mifflinburg

1870-73           Conyngham

1873-76           Snydertown

1876-79           Mount Carmel

1879-82           Newport

1882-83           Weatherly

1883-85           Stewartstown

1885-88           Sinnemahoning

1888-89           Williamsburg

1889                on leave

 

Note: Nathaniel W. Colburn is a brother of Richard H. Colburn.  All the transfers of Rev. Colburn, except for his 1861 return to East Baltimore, were due to changes in conferences boundaries.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 350.

 

COLBURN, RICHARD HOWARD

 

Born: 5-1-1840  Karthaus PA                                     married: Helen Hoover

Died: 6-21-1920  Harrisburg   PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 142

                                                                                    married2: Anna Margaret Alleman (1914)

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf          obit2: Central Pennsylvania 1926, 348

            recommended by Great Island circuit

 

Interment: New Union Cemetery, Fleming PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 134

 

1867-68           New Washington

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Half Moon

1869-70           Liberty Valley

1870-73           Hyner’s Run

1873-75           New Washington

1875-77           Howard

1877-80           Weatherly

1880-82           Gettysburg

1882-84           Shippensburg

1884-85           Mount Holly

1885-88           Wrightsville

1888-90           Houtzdale

1890-92           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1892-96           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1896-01           Newberry

1901-04           Lewisburg

1904-05           Mill Hall

1905-08           Duncansville

1908-10           Riddlesburg

1910-12           Selinsgrove

1912-14           Munson

1914-15           Cherry Tree

1915                retired

                             1917-18      Bressler (did not finish the year – see 1918,73)

 

Note: Richard H. Colburn is a brother of Nathaniel W. Colburn.  While his headstone is as indicated above, some sources say he is buried in Selinsgrove and other sources say he was cremated.

 

COLE, CHARLES CHESTER

 

Born: 3-10-1890                                                          married: Kathryn Snyder

Died: 3-5-1984                                                            obit: [1903 – 1992]

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona Fairview

 

Interment: Hardyston Cemetery, Hardyston NJ

Obit: New York Conference 1984, 264

 

1912-14           Vira

1914-15           Salona-Lamar-Mackeyville

1915-21           Everett

1921-22           Juniata Fifteenth Street

1922-24           student, Columbia University in New York City NY

1924-25           State College Wesley Foundation

1925-26           Gettysburg (ending fall 1926)

1926-28           school, Columbia University in New York City NY

                             1926-28      field secretary, New York City Broadway Temple (beginning fall 26)

1928                transfer to New York Conference

1928-29           field secretary, New York City Broadway Temple

1929-30           staff, NY Federation of Churches

1930-34           staff, Federal Council of Churches

1934-38           New York City Grace

1938-43           Yonkers First

1943-46           chaplain, U.S. Army

1946-50           Bronx Fordham

1950-56           Duane Metropolitan

1956                retired

 

Note: Charles C. Cole is the father of Dan Poling Cole.

 

COLE, DAN POLING

 

Born: 10-23-1929  New York City, NY                     married: Catherine Alice Crowding

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1951    admitted on trial, New York Conference

1952    ordained deacon, New York Conference

1953    ordained elder, New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1953-56           Pleasant Gap

1956-60            student, Drew University in Madison NJ

                             1956-58  Monroe NY

                             1958-60  assistant, Drumont NJ Calvary

1960-65           faculty, Lawrence College in Appleton WI

1965-91           faculty, Lake Forest College in Lake Buff IL

1992                no longer listed

 

Note: Dan P. Cole is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 254.  Mrs. Cole is the daughter of Walter Lynn Crowding.

 

COLEGROVE, ALBERT ERNEST

 

Born: 12-9-1855  Corry PA                                        married: Margaret M. McCullough

Died: 1919  Perry OH                                                 obit: [1856 – 1929]

 

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Ralston

 

Interment: Perry Center Cemetery, Lake County OH

Obit:

 

1876-80           student, Allegheny College in Meadville PA

1880-82           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1882-83           ? [Ralston?]

1883-84           Mercersburg

1884                transfer to Erie Conference

1884-86           faculty, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima NY

1886-87           faculty, Allegheny Colle in Meadeville PA

1887                discontinued at own request

1890-93           faculty, Baker University in Baldwin KS

1893                retired due to ill health to Corry PA

                        principal, high school in Bradford PA

                        principal, Glenwood high school in Cleveland OH

 

Note: Albert E. Colegrove is the son of Major [Mager] Colegrove (1821-1893) of the Erie Conference and the father of Dana Creighton Colgrove (1883-1913) of the Episcopal Church.  This surname is also rendered COLGROVE.

 

 

COLEMAN, JAMES A.

 

Born: 1831  Baltimore MD                                        married: Mrs. Louisa E. (Buffington) Schott

Died: 3-30-1879  Philadelphia PA                             obit:                                        

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 67

 

1849-51           Castle Fin

1851-52           Shrewsbury

1852-53           Westminster MD

1853-54           Liberty MD

1854-55           Hampstead MD

1855-57           Allegheny circuit.

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Bedford circuit

1859-61           Cassville

1861-62           Birmingham (ending 10/62)

1862-63           chaplain, US Navy (beginning 10/62)

1865-68           retired

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: An obituary for James A. Coleman also appears in the May 1879 Conference News, page 5.

 

 

COLEMAN, JUDITH ANN (DeSTEFANO)

 

Born: 5-21-1942  Altoona PA                        married: Larry Lee Coleman

Died: 4-11-2005                                              obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by Altoona Fairview

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 442

 

1964-67           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

     1964-65  youth pastor, Rutherford NJ

     1965-66  youth pastor, Boontoon NJ

1967-69            associate, Jessup-Guilford MD

1969-71           chaplain, Women’s Detention Center at Washington DC

1971-75           Burnt Cabins

1975-76           Tressler Home Services

1976-89           chaplain, State Correctional Institution at Muncy PA

1989                Harrisburg Women in Crisis, Harrisburg (ending 12/9/1989)

1989-91           chaplain, Harrisburg Hospital (beginning 12/9/1989)

1991                Dauphin County Pre-Trial Services (ending 8/12/1991)

1991-93           chaplain, Leader Nursing Homes (beginning 8/12/1991

1993-97           head counselor, Harrisburg Salvation Army Rehab Center

1997-05           director Harrisburg Daystar

 

Note: Larry Coleman is a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.  His service record is given in the Susquehanna list.

 

COLEMAN, SEYMOUR

 

Born: 12-23-1794  Sharon CT                                    married: Sophia Thorpe

Died: 1-23-1877  Williamsport PA                            obit: [1806 – 10/13/1840]

                                                                                    Married2: Lucinda Swan

Interment: Williamsport Cemetery, Wmpt PA           obit2: [1807 – 1869]

Obit: Troy Conference 1877, 41

 

1867-68           periodic at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]

 

Note: Seymour Coleman served in Central Pennsylvania while a retired member of the Troy Conference living in Williamsport.

 

 

COLLINS, GEORGE THOMAS DORSEY

 

Born: 9-6-1849                                                            married: Emma D. Hutchinson [3/15/1880]

Died: 1-30-1926                                                          obit:

 

            license, Baltimore Conference MES

            ordained, Baltimore Conference, MES

 

Interment:        

Obit: Baltimore Conference MES 1926,98

 

1891-92           Waterville

1908                 Cumberland Trinity

 

Note: G.T.D. Collins apparently had a long and distinguished career in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  At the time of their marriage, G.T.D. Collins was 30 years old from York PA – and Emma was 17 years old from Shenandoah County VA.

COLLINS, JOHN ANDERTON

 

Born: 1801  near Seaford DE                                     married:

Died: 5-7-1857                                                            obit:

 

1826    license

1830    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1858, 17

 

            pastor

            superintendent

            served for 27 years

 

 

COLLINS, JOHN CONFUCIOUS

 

Born: 3-1-1871  Saxton PA                                        married: Mary Grace Gearhart

Died: 5-14-1934  Berlin NJ                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939,221

 

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Morrisdale circuit

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Newton Hamilton Cemetery, Newton Hamilton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 221

 

1898-00           Karthaus

1900-04           Alum Bank

1904-06           Ray’s Hill

1906-11           Orbisonia

1911-17           Newport

1917-20           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1920-24           Curwensville

1924-28           Altoona Grace

1928-31           Williamsport Grace

1931-               retired

 

Note: John C. Collins, a ministerial son of the Newton Hamilton church, is the father of Paul F. Collins.  He is the son of Rev. Presby C. Collins of the Church of God.  The mother of Mrs. Collins is Catherine Flegal Gearhart (1856-?), great-granddaughter of United Brethren pioneer preacher Valentine Flegal (1758-1840).

 

COLLINS, PAUL FREDERICK

 

Born: 9-30-1898  Karthaus PA                                   married: Dorothy Dinterman [1922]

Died: 12-8-1944  Orbisonia PA                                  obit: [d. 1925]

                                                                                    married2: Thelma M. Crone [1927]

                                                                                    obit2: [4/10/1909 – 8/5/2001]

Interment: Newton Hamilton Memorial Cemetery, Newton Hamilton PA

Obit

 

Note: Paul F. Collins is the son pf John C. Collins.  He has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He apparently started but did not complete the conference course of study and worked as a salesman in a store in Mount Union.  The second Mrs. Collins later married a Mrt. McMullen.

 

COLLINS, ROY C.

 

Born: 12-7-1912  Lewistown PA                               married: Nancele A. Keith

Died: 5-20-1969  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 470

 

Interment: William Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969,311

 

1946-57           youth director, Lewistown First

1957-65           East Waterford (did not complete final year)

1965                retired

 

Note: Roy C. Collins served as a local pastor.

 

COLPETZER, JOHN IRWIN

 

Born: 1-29-1917  State College PA                            married: Delores Ruth Michaels

Died: 2-20-1996                                                          obit:

 

1955    license

1960    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Alto Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 310

 

1957-59           Cassville

1959-60           Cherry Tree

1960-63           Frankstown

1963-66           Altoona Lakemont

1966-69           Clearfield

1969-70           Hastings

1970                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-72           Hastings

1972-75           Edinburg Christ

1975-77           Rew-Gifford

1977-78           Curllsville

1978-80           Curllsville and Fairmont City

1980                retired

 

Note: John I. Colpetzer served as a local pastor.

 

COLWELL, ERNEST

 

Born: 4-7-1871  Manchester England            married: Anna Catherine Lantz

Died: 6-14-1961  Union Bridge MD                          obit: Wyoming Conference 1941, 165

                                                                                    married2: Inez C. Williams

1896    admitted on trial                                              obit2:

1898    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Union Bridge MD

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1962, 221

 

1896-97           Belleville

1897                discontinued

1898                entered Wyoming Conference

1898-99           Alford

1899-00           Franklin Forks

1900-02           Hallstead

1890-05           Mt. Vision

1905-07           Ariel

1907-08           West Nanticoke

1908-11           Askam

1911-15           Moosic

1915-16           Wilkes Barre Bennett Memorial

1916-20           Newark Valley

1920-25           Meshoppen

1925                retired

                        1929-30  Coventry

                        1930-33  Oxford

                        1933-35  Nichols-Lounsberry

 

Note: Ernest C. Colwell is the son of Rev. John Colwell, a Methodist minister in England.  His three brothers were Methodist ministers in England, and he had two uncles who were Methodist ministers in Australia.  He came to America in 1894.  He is the father of Dr. Ernest Cadman Colwell, president of the School of Theology at Claremont CA.

 

COMLY, ROBERT H.

 

Born: 8-8-1876  Locust Grove MD                            married: Jennie Trout

Died: 11-13-1956                                                        obit: Philadelphia Conference 1959, 1067

 

1904    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1904    ordained, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1957, 484

 

1898-02           student, Dickinson College

                             1901-02  Rehoboth

1902                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference           

1902-05           Orwigsburg & Port Clinton

1905-06           Slatington, Slatedale & Parryville

1906-07           Hulmeville & Bensalem

1907-09           Portland

1909-11           Elam

1911-13           Avondale & Catham

1913-17           Nesquehoning

1917-18           on leave

1918-21           Pine Grove

1921-23           Cornwall

1923-27           Lykens

1927-32           Lancaster Lancaster Avenue

1932-35           Leola & New Holland

1935-37           Mount Joy

1937-39           Hulmeville

1939                retired

 

 

COMP, GEORGE LEIBY

 

Born: 2-28-1848  Perry County PA                            married: Esther Angeline Jacobs

Died: 11-2-1916  Newport PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 139

 

1887    quarterly conference license

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Alum Bank circuit

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Walnut Grove Cemetery, Perry County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 132

 

1890-92           Alum Bank (beginning as an assistant during the 1889-90 conference year)

1892-96           Reedsville

1896-98           Ennisville

1898-01           Warrior’s Mark

1901-05           Hopewell  

1905-08           Petersburg

1908-10           Duncannon

1910-12           Barnesboro

1912-14           Coalport

1914                retired

 

 

COMP, JACOB S.

 

Born: 5-24-1845   Markelsville PA                            married: (single)

Died: 11-16-1876  Markelsville PA                           obit:

 

1867    quarterly conference license

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Walnut Grove Cemetery, Perry County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 64

 

1867-69           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1869-71           Watsontown

1871-72           New Cumberland

1872-73           no appointment due to ill health

1873-74           New Cumberland

1874-75           West Fairview & Marysville

 

Note: An obituary also appears in the December 1876 Conference News.


 

COMPTON, HARRY B.

 

Born: 9-3-1857  Tiffin OH                                         married: Rebecca Myers

Died:12-30-1937  Ohio                                               obit:

 

1878    license, Conference unknown

1890   ordained deacon, New England Conference ["under the missionary rule"]

 

Interment:

Obit: New York Conference 1938,269

 

1883-90           missionary to Chile

1913-14           Panama English Church, North Andes Mission Conference

1925-26           Rouzerville  (started during 1925-26 conference year, ending fall 1926)

 

Note: Harry Compton served as a local pastor.  He was a missionary who had served for many years in South America.  See 1926, 255.  The conference archives has a biographical file on Harry Compton. He started his missionary career in Uruguay shortly after his graduation from Ohio Wesleyan College.  He is also described in 1913 as a chaplain in the United States army in the Canal Zone and the director of the American College in Panama.

 

CONEY, DANIEL RITCHIE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit

 

1925-28           Oriole & Antes Fort   

1928-30           Morris

 

Note: Daniel Coney served as a local pastor.  He is a 1924 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

 

CONFER, E.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1906-07           Oriole & Antes Fort

 

Note: E.J. Confer served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

CONFER, JOSEPH HERBERT, JR.

 

Born: 9-18-1941  Lock Haven PA                              married: Barbara Kathryn Kramer (10/28/1961)

Died:                                                                            obit:

 

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-66           student, Methodist Theological School in Delaware OH

1966-67           Harrisburg Christ

1967-70           Williamsburg

1970                located  1970,98

 

Note: Joseph H. Confer reported served 2 years as a supply in Ohio.  In 2023 Joseph H. Confer Jr is living in Williamsport PA.

 

CONNER, BENJAMIN COULBOURN

 

Born: 1-5-1850  Marion MD                                      married: Bettie S. Tyler

Died: 8-18-1921  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 144

 

1878    admitted on trial

1880    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 125

 

1878-79           Jamestown

1879-80           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1880-81           Sinnemahoning

1881-84           Williamsport Grace

1884-87           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1887-92           York First

1892-95           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1895-00           Bloomsburg

1900-03           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1903-06           Altoona First

1906-12           superintendent. Altoona District

1912                superintendent, Danville District (ending August 1912)

1912-21           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (beginning August 1912)

 

Note: Benjamin C. Conner is the son of local preacher Nathan Conner (1814-1890) and a brother to Samuel James Allen Conner (1841-1865) of the Philadelphia Conference.  There is also an obituary in the 12-8-1921 Christian Advocate, page 1555.  A biographical sketch appears in the 7-11-1912 Christian Advocate, page 1014.  Frank Ames Tyler (1875-1953) of the Virginia Conference of the MEC South (and later the Baltimore Conference) is supposedly a nephew – although the connection seems hard to establish. 


 

CONNER, GEORGE FRANCIS

 

Born: 2-16-1892  Wilmington DE                             married: Olive Electa Keeler

Died: 9-14-1948                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf  1990, 7.318

 

1917    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1949, 490     

 

1911-14           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1912-14      Eagles Mere & Laporte         

1916                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1916-18           Coventryville, Philadelphia Conference

1918-21           Safe Harbor

1921-25           West Grove

1925-30           Pottstown First

1930-35           Norwood

1935-39           Philadelphia Berry Memorial

1939-42           Upper Darby Sellers Memorial [aka Bywood]

1942-48           Philadelphia Berry-Long Memorial

1948                Chester Trinity

 

Note: Mrs. Conner was from Laporte, and met her husband while he was serving the student appointment there.

 

CONNER, WALTER ROSS

 

Born: 2-19-1888  McVeytown PA                             married: Bertha Jane Hancock

Died: 10-18-1955                                                        obit:

 

1917    admitted on trial

1922    ordained deacon

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: West Wisconsin Conference 1956, 154

 

1916-17           Emporium circuit (beginning during the 1915-16 year)

1917-20           student, Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware OH

1920-23           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

1924                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

 

Note: Walter Ross Conner is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1952 Who’s Who

 

CONRAD, FRED A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1917    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-18           Riverside

1918-20           no appointment

1920                transfer to Rock River Conference

CONSER, SOLOMON L. M.

 

Born: 6-6-1812  Lewisburg PA                                  married: Susan Folck [9/7/1842]

Died: 2-20-1896  Loganton PA                                  obit: [d. 8/?/1903]

 

1840    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

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

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1896, 53

 

1840-41           Licking Creek

1841-42           Allegany [MD]

1842-43           Bedford

1843-44           Covington

1844-46           Luzerne

1846-48           Danville

1848-49           Jersey Shore

1849-50           Allegany

1850-52           Northumberland

1852-54           Lewisburg (Pa) station

1854-56           Carlisle First

1856-57           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1858-60           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1860-62           Huntingdon

1862-63           chaplain US Army.

1863-64           Petersburg

1864-66           Gettysburg

1866-67           Port Matilda

1867                transfer to Baltimore Conference [to help reorganize in the South]

1867                Staunton

                        Fairfax

1877                retired

Note: S.L.M. Conser is an uncle to Elder T. Conser of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  He requested the 1867 transfer to help reorganize the Methodist Episcopal Church in the South following the War.  He is the author of the 1891 Virginia after the war: an account of three year's experience in reorganizing the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia at the close of the Civil War and other related material.  One source gives his birth as “Washington township, Lycoming [now Clinton] County.”

 

COOK, ALBERT JACOB

 

Born: 1-30-1849  Bendersville PA                             married: Anna Amelia Benshoff [1880]

Died: 10-29-1930  Johnstown PA                              obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1947, 766

 

1873    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:  Pittsburgh Conference 1931, 520

 

1873-75           missionary, China

1875                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1875-79           missionary, China

1879-80           Donegal circuit, Pittsburgh Conference

1880                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1880-82           Donegal circuit

1898-01           Claysville circuit

1901-04           Beallsville circuit

 

Note:  The early career of Albert J. Cook is linked with that of J. Resides Hykes of Shippensburg.  Both were admitted on trial in the Central NY Conference as missionaries to China in 1873, both transferred to the Central PA in 1875 and continued to serve as missionaries to China.  After graduating from college in 1870, he became the principal of Johnstown PA’s first high school.  He is a dramatic survivor of the 1889 Johnstown flood.

 

COOK, CHARLES OSCAR

 

Born: 11-17-1845  Baltimore MD                              married: Josephine H. Graves

Died: 10-11-1899  Shepherdstown WV                     obit: [d. 12/16/1893]

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown WV

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1900, 73

 

1865-66           Hancock

1866-67           Frostburg

1867-68           Westminster

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           North Baltimore

1869-71           Berkley Springs

1871-73           Antietam

1873-75           on leave for health reasons

1875-76           Bladensburg

1876-78           Spencerville

1878-80           Berkley Springs

1880-81           Flintstone

1881-84           Shepherdstown

1884-86           Forestville

1886-89           Anacostia

1889-94           Washington North Capitol

1894-97           Fletcher

1897-98           Brookland & Langdon

1898-99           Brookland

1899                Baltimore Garrett Park

 

 

COOK, HARVEY A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-29           Wallis Run

 

Note: Harvey A. Cook served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  He is also designated as E. HARVEY COOK.

 

COOK, ISRAEL BRIGGS

 

Born: 6-19-1789  Vermont                                                     married: Anna Beach Dodson

Died: 3-7-1868  Luzerne County PA                                     obit: [3/22/1797 – 5/20/1847]

 

1813    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

1816    ordained deacon, Genesee Conference

1817    ordained elder, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 55

 

1813                Genesee Conference

1813-14           Lycoming

1814-15           Canaan

1815-16           Northumberland

1816-17           Canaan

1817-18           Bridgewater

1818-19           Shamokin

1819-20           Lycoming

1820                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1820-21           Northumberland

1821-22           Juniata

1822                retired

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Israel B. Cook maintained his home in Huntington township, Luzerne County, where his wife was born and raised.  Some sources give that as his birthplace.  He is also reported to have been a member of the Wyoming Conference

 

COOK, JOHN C.

 

Born: 7-5-1838                                                           married:

Died: 4-22-1862  Carlisle PA                                     obit:

 

1860    admitted on trial,                                             East Baltimore Conference 

1862    ordained deacon,                                             East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1863, 31

 

1860-61           Shirleysburg

1861-62           Carlisle

1862                McVeytown [appointed, but took ill before filling the appointment]

 

 

COOK, MAX BURDETTE

 

Born: 1-18-1909  Farrandsville PA                            married: Freda Miller

Died: 2-22-1983                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 412

 

1951    license, recommended by Jersey Shore First

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 400

 

1951-53           assistant, Lock Haven Parish

1953-54           Waterville

1954-56           Millville

1956-58           Trevorton

1958-62           Howard

1962-66           Bendersville (beginning 3/15/1962)

1966-71           Mill Hall

1971-75           Milesburg

1975                retired

     1975-76      Waterville

     1976-79      Fairbrook

 

Note: Max B. Cook is a grandson of William B. Cook Sr. and a nephew of William B. Cook Jr.  He taught high school and coached for 20 years prior to entering the ministry.

 

COOK, WILLIAM B. SR

 

Born: 3-16-1843  Clinton County PA                        married: Mary Elizabeth Stouck

Died: 10-3-1912  Flemington PA                               obit: [1849 – 1892]

 

1907    license

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit:

 

1906-07           Cherry Tree

1907-08           Gatchelville

1908-10           Waller

1910-12           Washingtonville (moved to Jonestown in mid-year year: see 1912, 81)

1912                Jonestown

 

Note: William B. Cook Sr. is the father of William B Cook Jr. and (through another son) the grandfather of Max B. Cook.  He served as a local pastor.   

COOK, WILLIAM BURDETTE JR

 

Born: 6-16-1884  Clinton County PA                        married: Kitty F. _____

Died: 10-13-1929  Lockport PA                                 obit: [1886 – 1970]

 

1911    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown PA

Obit:

 

1910-11           Clearfield circuit

1911-13           Karthaus

1913-15           Port Matilda

1915-18           Salona-Lamar

1918                located

                        “transferred” to the Presbyterian Church

1923-29           Jamestown PA

 

Note: William B. Cook Jr. is the son of William B. Cook Sr. and an uncle to Max B. Cook.

  

COOPER, GEORGE B.

 

Born: 2-20-1867  Johnstown PA                                married: Letta L. Schobert [3/3/1891]

Died:                                                                           obit: [b. 3/3/1868]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1888-89           Schloyersville (first 4 months), while the assigned pastor finished school   

                        Nescopeck (last 8 months), assisting during the last year they were attached to Berwick

 

Note: George B. Cooper is listed as a local pastor 1888,125 – his only mention in the conference journals.  The story of George B. Cooper is given in the 2013 volume of The Chronicle, pages 60-73.

 

COOPER, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 7-11-1825  Gettysburg PA                               married: Lavinia Beckwith

Died: 1-22-1902                                                          obit: [8/9/1828 – 6/30/1922]

 

1847    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1850    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1852    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1902, 58

 

1848-49           Shippensburg

1849-50           Carlisle

1850-51           Frederick

1851-53           Lewisburg (Va) station

1853-55           Martinsburg

1855-56           Lewistown

1856-57           Hollidaysburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Hollidaysburg

1858-60           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1860-62           Baltimore Emory Chapel

1862-63           Waynesboro (first part of year)

                         Baltimore Jefferson Street (second part of year)

1863-66           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1866-68           Frostburg station

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Frostburg station

1869-72           Baltimore Columbia Avenue

1872-74           Washington McKendree

1874-78           superintendent, Winchester District

1878-81           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1881-84           Baltimore Franklin Street

1884-87           Baltimore Columbia Avenue

1887-92           Westminster

1892-97           Baltimore Mount Vernon

1897                retired

                            1897  Baltimore Bethany (5 months)

 

 

COOPER, OKEY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1953    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1956    admitted in full connection, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-54           Smithfield (moved to Greenbank before the year was completed)

1954-55           Greenbank

1955-58           Oceana

1958-59           Dallas

1959                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959-63           Claysburg

1963                located

 

COPE, PAUL WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-30-1933  Salem township, Luzerne Co.      married: Anna Lucille Eddy (2/16/1954)

Died: 11-30-2015  Danville PA                                  obit:

 

1963    license

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA

Obit:

 

1962-64           associate, Hunlock Creek

1964-68           Ulysses

1968-71           South Williamsport (ending 1/1/71)

1971                no longer listed

                        became a pastor in the United Church of Christ

                        Mausdale/Ridgeville (Montour Co.)

                        Paradise Holtschwamm (York Co.)

                        Nescopeck

                        Briggsville Mt. Zion

                        Ben Salem

1995                retired

                             Selinsgrove St. Paul’s

 

Note: Paul W. Cope served as a local pastor and was a dairy farmer for 12 years before entering the ministry.

 

COPE, RALPH EDWARD     

 

Born:                                                                           married: Sherryl _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    license, recommended by Lime Ridge First

1970    admitted on trial Baltimore Conference

1970    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1974    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-69           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1969-71           student, Lutheran Theological Seminar at Gettysburg

                             1969-70      Big Pool – Potomac, Susquehanna Conf. EUB (beginning 9/1969)

                             1970           “transfer” to Baltimore Conference by boundary change

                             1970-71      Big Pool – Potomac (ending 11/1971)

1971                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference (11/1971)

1971-78           Martinsville (beginning 11/1971)

1978-87           Chestnut Grove

1987-89           State Line

1989-93           Altoona East End

1993-99           Sunbury Otterbein

1999-02           South Williamsport larger parish

2002                retired

                             2002-06      Hendrickson-Mooresburg (ending 10/7/2006)

                             2007-11      Evansville

                             2014-16      Fowlersville – Lime Ridge

 

Note: Ralph E. Cope served Audenreid-Jeanesville as a local as a local pastor.

 

COPELAND, HARRY F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1909-10           Irish Valley

1910-11           Wharton

 

Note:  H.F. Copeland served as a local pastor.  This is believed to be the Harry F. Copeland who was a member of Harrisburg Thirteenth Street [Stevens Memorial] in 1901 and who is buried in the Harrisburg Prospect Hill Cemetery as “Rev. Harry Copeland (1882-1958)” – possibly married to Clara Jane “Jennie” Hamilton (1873-1962) buried in the Palmyra Gravel Hill Cenetery.

 

 

CORSON, FRED PIERCE

 

Born: 4-11-1896  Millville NJ                                    married: Frances Blount Beaman

Died: 2-16-1985                                                          obit: Wyoming Conference 1998, 319

 

1919    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

1920    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1922    ordained elder, New York East Conference

           

Interment:

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1986, 282

 

1919-24           Jackson Heights

1924-26           New Haven

1926-28           Port Washington

1928-30           Brooklyn Simpson

1930-34           superintendent, Brooklyn South District

1934-37           president, Dickinson College

1937                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1937-44           president, Dickinson College

1944-               elected Bishop

 

Note: Fred P. Corson is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  He is the father of Hampton Payne Corson of the New York Conference.

 

COSSLETT, CARL EVANS

 

Born: 1-28-1934                                                          married: Gwendolyn Justice

Died: 9-30-2018                                                          obit: [1/30/1932 – 6/28/2013]

 

1957    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58           Mont Alto

1958                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        Petersburg Trinity

                        retired

                             pastor emeritus, Chesterfield VA Trinity

 

 

 

COTTAM, JOSEPH A.

 

Born: 5-20-1883                                                          married: Elizabeth Green [3/14/1903]

Died: 9-5-1967  Philadelphia PA                               obit: [1885-1963]

 

1904    admitted on trial, Detroit Conference

1909    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1909-10           Trout Lake and Nawbinway

1910-12           Newberry

1912-14           Dearborn Ten Eyck Memorial (ending Feb 1914)

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-19           Beaver Meadows (left during the year for war work: see 1919, 72&73)

1919-20           YMCA  War Work

1920-23           on leave

1923                permitted to withdraw under complaints

                        missionary work in China, Japan, India and Africa

 

Note: Joseph A. Cottam was a singular personality who became involved in serious incidents in both the Detroit and Central Pennsylvania Conferences.  He just “appears” in the Detroit Conference appointments beginning in 1909, with no mention of his entering the Conference in any category.  The 1904 and 1909 dates are as reported in a Central Pennsylvania Conference file. The folder on Rev. Cottam in the biographical files at the archives includes a post-1923 brochure describing his involvement with the traveling Swarthmore Chautauqua circuit.

 

COUP, P.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1886-87           Loyalsock

 

Note: P.M. Coup is otherwise unknown.

 

COVERT, HORACE THADDEUS

 

Born: 7-14-1889  Three Springs PA                           married: Elizabeth Watkins

Died: 2-1-1957  Bedford PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 208

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Erma Rebecca Campbell (1943)

1917    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 166

1919    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Saltillo Cemetery, Saltillo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 239; 1958, 251

 

1913-14           Shirleysburg

1914-15           Ennisville 

1915-17           Mapleton  & Mill Creek

1920-23           Williamsburg

1923-29           Mifflintown

1929-31           South Williamsport

1931-36           Ashland

1936-41           Woolrich

1941-47           Bellwood

1947-56           Bedford

1956                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Covert (nee Mulhollem) was the widow of a Mr. Harry Alton Campbell (1901-1942).

 

COWHER, HAROLD LEROY

 

Born: 3-21-1921                                                          married: Norva Loretta Baker

Died: 12-28-1998                                                        obit: [1/3/1919 – 12/30/1999]

 

Interment: Jacksonville Memory Gardens, Orange Park FL

Obit:

 

1956-57           Robertsdale

 

Note: Harold L. Cowher is a brother to Merle S. Cowher and to Lois M. Cowher Rodgers, wife of Emanuel E. Rodgers.  He served as a local pastor and settled on a career with the railroad.

 

COWHER, MERLE S.

 

Born: 7-4-1915  Hannah Furnace PA                         married: E. Gladys Patton

Died: 3-23-1987                                                          obit: [6/24/1918 – 5/28/2017]

 

1936    license, Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1945    license, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1946    admitted on trial, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1967    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

 

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 413

 

1937-38           Allegheny circuit (1/1/37 – 6/30/38)

1938-40           Sandy Ridge – Center

1940-41           Wallaceton

1941-45           US Army

1945                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1945-47           Springfield (11/1/45 – 9/1/47)

1947-64           Sewickley (beginning 9/1/47)

1954-56           Oak Ridge

1956-57           no appointment

1957-63           Fishertown

1963-70           Huntingdon Larger Parish

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the UMC

1970-73           Westfield

1973-81           Harrisburg Otterbein

1981                retired

 

Note: Merle S. Cowher is a brother to Harold L. Cowher.  He started the conference course of study and has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he opted to join the United Brethren denomination.  He is a brother to Lois M. Cowher Rodgers, wife of Emanuel E. Rodgers.

 

COX, ALBERT EDWARD

 

Born: 10-30-1935                                                        married: Ruth Gray

Died: 2-26-2003                                                          obit:

 

1966    ordained, Christian & Missionary Alliance Church

1968    license

1971    ordained

1973    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Brookfield Cemetery, Tioga County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 377

 

1962-68           Christian & Missionary Alliance churches

1968                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1968-69           Harrison Valley Federated (ending 11/14/1969)

1969-71           Genesee (beginning 11/15/1969)

1971-72           Lock Haven circuit

1972-76           Lock Haven Parish

1976-86           North Towanda

1986-91           New Bloomfield Parish

1991-93           Saginaw-Starview

1993-97           Leesburg (ending 10/4/1997)

1997-99           Watsontown (beginning 10/4/1997)

1999                retired

                             1999-01 Wallis Run

 

COX, JOHN ALFRED

 

Born: 7-7-1896  Orbisonia PA                                   married: Eva Crispell

Died: 3-31-1966                                                          obit:

 

1924    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Swissdale Cemetery, Swissdale PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 333

 

1922-23           Cassville

1923-25           Ennisville 

1925-27           Shirleysburg

1927-30           Allenport

1930-32           Petersburg

1932-37           Berwick Calvary

1937-38           on leave

1938                withdrew

1960-66           McElhattan

 

Note: John A. Cox was a member of Trinity Lock Haven and worked for the Sylvania Company 1938-60.

 

CRAIG, JOHN F.

 

Born: 8-6-1826  Montour County PA                        married:

Died: 10-30-1886  Douglas County MO                    obit

 

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mountain Dale Cemetery, Webster County MO

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 81

 

1858-59           Newberry

1859-60           Bellefonte circuit

1860-61           Caledonia

1861-62           Shippensburg

1862-63           Penn’s Valley

1863-65           New Washington

1865-66           Philipsburg

1866-67           Sinnemahoning

1867-68           Rainsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Snydertown

1869-71           Trevorton

1871-72           Port Matilda

1872-73           Cogan Valley

1873-74           Liberty Valley

1874-75           Benton

1875-77           Snow Shoe

1877-78           Martinsburg

1878-79           Pleasant Gap

1879-81           Congress Hill

1881-86           on leave for health reasons

 

Note: John F. Craig supplied churches in Missouri 1882-85.

 

CRAMER, LEO CARL

 

Born: 5-15-1929  Soldier PA                                      married: Mona Lou Buhite

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1947    license

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder, Erie Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-57           Newton Hamilton

1957                transfer to Erie Conference (merged into Western Pennsylvania in 1962)

1957-63           Sandy Lake

1963-65           missionary, Chugiak AK

1965-71           missionary, Anchorage AK Anchor Park

1971-70           Saegertown-Blooming Valley

1979-94           Reynoldsville

1994                retired

 

Note: Leo Carl Cramer is a brother to Max Wayne Cramer and to Roger W. Cramer of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 286.

 

CRAMER, MAX WAYNE

 

Born: 7-13-1922  Sykesvile PA                                  married: Gladys Irene Sheesley

Died: 1-16-2012  IN                                                   obit: Central PA Conference 2008, 402

 

1951    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Valhalla Memory Gardens, Bloomington IN

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 293

 

1952                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1952-54           Claysburg

1954-56           McVeytown

1956-58           Snow Shoe

1958-59           Reedsville

1959                transfer to Erie Conference (merged into Western Pennsylvania in 1962)

1959-65           Harrisville (ending Feb 1965)

1965-66           Dubois Lakeside –Sabula (beginning Feb 1965)

1966-70           missionary, Girdwood & East Anchorage AK

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-73           Clearfield Parish

1973-78           missionary, AK (ending 10/25/1978)

1978-82           Penbrook Trinity (beginning10/25/1078)

1982-86           Red Bird Missionary Conference

1986-88           Manchester KY First

1988                retired

 

Note: Max Wayne Cramer is a brother to Leo Carl Cramer and to Roger W. Cramer of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 286.

 

CRAMMER, HOWARD SAUNDERS

 

Born: 4-15-1886                                                          married: Adra Buzby

Died: 5-29-1951                                                          obit: [1/18/1884 – 12/1/1972]

 

?          admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1951, 806

 

1915-16           Picture Rocks circuit (beginning 4/15/15), Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-17           Oriole-Antes Fort

1917-18           Port Matilda

1918-20           Rouzerville

1920                transfer to New Jersey Conference

 

CRAWFORD, FRANK SYLVESTER

 

Born: 9-11-1892  Altoona PA                                    married: Lulu M. Fouse

Died: 6-7-1975  Huntingdon PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 365

                                                                                    married2: Sara Ramsey Mort

1946    license, recommended by Allenport               obit: [d. 2/2/2001]

1952    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Union IOOF Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 158

 

1944-48           Allenport

1948-54           McVeytown

1954-59           Allenport

1959                retired

                             1962            Shade Valley (ending 11/14/1962)

                             1962-69      James Creek (beginning 11/15/1962)

 

CRAWFORD, MONTE HARPER

 

Born: 3-11-1886  Renovo PA                                     married: Gertrude Elizabeth Whitby

Died: 12-31-1950  Philipsburg PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 436

 

1920    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Bald Eagle Cemetery, Bald Eagle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 203

 

1916-18           Cross Fork

1918-20           Leetonia

1920-22           Salladasburg

1922-26           Hopewell

1926-29           Altoona Broad Avenue

1929-33           Milesburg-Unionville

1933-41           Osceola Mills

1941-47           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1947-48           Birmingham

1948-50           Bald Eagle Parish

 

CREEK, JOHN THOMAS

 

Born: 5-4-1849  Washington County MD                  married: Lizzie _____

Died: 9-24-1928  Keyser WV                                    obit: [1852 – 1892]

                                                                                    married2: Minnie Margaret Barnhart [1/24/1894]

1898    ordained local deacon, recommended            obit2: [9/?/1862 – 1931]

by Utahville

 

Interment: Piney Plains Methodist Church Cemetery, Bellegrove MD

Obit:

 

1896-98           Utahville

                        Baltimore Conference (incomplete)

1899-00           St. Mary’s

1903-04           Hedgesville

1907-08           Old Town circuit

1908-09           Bloomington

1912-13           Smithurg

 

Note: John T. Creek served as a local pastor.  He appears to have lived in MD before living in Utahville, and then returned to MD to serve as a supply preacher in the Baltimore Conference and be ordained a local deacon [again?] in 1914.  Some sources give the name of the first Mrs. Creek as Rachel, which was also the name of his mother.

 

CREIGHTON, ABRAM M.

 

Born: 4-16-1831  near Lewistown PA                       married: Elmira Gray

Died: 7-7-1884  Philipsburg PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 87

 

1857    quarterly conference license, Newville

1857    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Gray’s Church Cemetery, Stormstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 79

 

1857-58           Concord

1858-59           Lock Haven

1859-60           Warrior’s Mark

1860-62           Beaver Meadow

1862-64           Sunbury

1864-67           Montoursville

1867-68           Ashland

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Ashland

1870-71           Danville Trinity

1871-74           Renovo

1874-77           Montoursville

1877-79           Hazleton

1879-82           Philipsburg

1882-84           on leave

 

Note: An obituary for Abram M. Creighton also appears in the 7/15/1884 Conference News.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.  Mrs. Creighton was one of eight sisters, five of whom married Methodist ministers: Anna married Presley Smith, Margaret married Dennis Dorsey of the Missouri Conference, Frances married Samuel Regester, Sarah married Alexander M. Barnitz. 


 

CREIGHTON, SAMUEL

 

Born: 1-25-1833  near Lewistown PA                       married: Catharine A. Ryman

Died: 9-10-1907  Mackeyville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 87

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 129

 

1853-54           Karthaus

1854-55           Manor Hill

1855-57           Bellefonte

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Mifflinburg

1859-61           Altoona

1861-63           Philipsburg

1863-65           North Baltimore

1865-68           Lock  Haven

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Lewisburg

1871-74           Danville St. Paul’s

1874-76           Berwick

1876-79           Lock  Haven

1879-82           Williamsport Pine Street

1882-85           Milton

1885-88           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1888-93           Williamsport Pine Street

1893-00           on leave

1900-01           Lewistown

1901                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Creighton is the daughter of local preacher Charles Ryman.

 

CREPS, JOHN ELSWORTH

 

Born: 5-16-1895  Rouzerville PA                              married: Phoebe M. Richards [4/11/1925]

Died: 7-10-1971  St. Louis County MN                     obit: [1/23/1898 – 4/12/1989]

 

1923    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Brighton MI

Obit:

 

1922-25           student, Dickinson College

                             1922-23      Rehoboth

                             1924-25      West Fairview & Summerdale

1925-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1925-26      West Fairview & Summerdale

1928-29           Flemington

1929                withdrew to enter the Presbyterian ministry

1929-43           Curwensville Pike

                        Sparrow Point MD

 

Note: This middle name also appears as ELLWORTH and ELLSWORTH.  His son and grandson, Rev. John E. Creps Jr and Rev. John E. Creps III, also served as pastors in other denominations.  More information is available from the biographical files in the conference archives.

 

CREVELING, SETH A.

 

Born: 1-20-1836                                                          married: Lydia M. Mack

Died: 4-20-1911  Montoursville                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 137

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 124

 

1863-64           New Bloomfield

1864-65           Birmingham

1865-66           Saxton

1866-68           Shirleysburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Cassville

1870-71           Concord

1871-77           on leave

                             1871-73      Concord

                             1873-75      McVeytown

1877-80           Ray’s Hill

1880-83           Schellsburg

1883-86           Freedom

1886-89           Green Village

1889-92           Airville

1892-97           Town Hill

1897-01           Rohrsburg

1901-03           Fairview

1903                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Seth A. Creveling also appears in the 9/14/1911 NY Christian Advocate, page 1259.  Mrs. Creveling’s mother was part of the extended Bowman family of Old Stone Church.

 

CREVER, BENJAMIN HECK

 

Born: 3-16-1817  Carlisle PA                                     married: Susan Caroline Follansbee

Died: 4-16-1890  Hanover PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 86

 

1840    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Washington Street Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 75

 

1840-41           Augusta

1841-42           Christiansburg

1842-32           Baltimore City station

1843-44           Lewisburg VA

1844-46           Northumberland

1846-48           schoolmaster, Milton PA

1848-50           founding president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1850-51           Warrior’s Mark

1851-53           Jersey Shore

1853-55           Lewistown

1855-57           North Baltimore

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Caroline Street

1859-61           Cumberland

1861-63           Frederick

1863-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-68           superintendent, Carlisle District

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           superintendent, Northumberland District

1869-70           superintendent, Danville District

1870-72           Bloomsburg

1872-74           living in Minnesota for health reasons

1874-75           founding president, Worthington Seminary of the Minnesota Conference

1875-76           Mifflinville

1876-77           on leave, established a short-lived school in Harrisburg

1877-79           Liverpool

1879-81           Watsontown-Montandon

1881-83           Emporium

1883-86           Petersburg

1886                retired

 

Note: Benjamin Heck Crever is a brother to Frederick E. Crever.  There is also an obituary in the 5-29-1890 Baltimore Methodist.  Biographical sketches appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference and in Simpson’s Cyclopedia of Methodism.  Rev. Crever led the construction of Crever Memorial ME Church in Petersburg in memory of his wife.  Rev. Crever’s daughter Mary is the wife of Charles T. Dunning and mother of James Edwin Dunning.

 

CREVER, FREDERICK E.

 

Born: 4-9-1824  Carlisle PA                                       married: Rachel Ann Hendrix

Died: 8-7-1887  Shrewsbury PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 149

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Shrewsbury Cemetery, Shrewsbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 88

Obit: The Old Balt. Conf. by Armstrong, 356

 

1853-54           Sinnemahoning

1854-55           Warrior’s Mark

1855-56           Lewistown Circuit

1856-57           Shrewsbury

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Shrewsbury

1858-59           Newport

1859-61           Concord

1861-62           McConnellsburg

1862-64           Hampstead

1864-66           Castle Fin

1866-67           Great Falls

1867-68           Shrewsbury

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shrewsbury

1869-70           on leave

1870-71           Hazleton

1871-74           Orangeville

1874-76           Espy-Light St.

1876-77           Castle Fin

1877-80           on leave

1880                retired

 

Note: Frederick E. Crever is a brother to Benjamin Heck Crever.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.

 

CRITES, BART E.

 

Born: 2-20-1892  Renovo PA                                     married: Alma I. Dieffenderfer

Died: 11-22-1961  FL                                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 389

 

1924    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 318

 

1924-28           Avis

1928-35           Altoona Llyswen

1935-37           Hollidaysburg First

1937-42           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1942-49           Waynesboro

1949-54           Williamsport Newberry

1954-57           Northumberland

1957                retired

 

 

CRIVELLI, UGO

 

Born: 8-14-1881  Milan, Italy                                    married: Esther Rossi

Died: 8-15-1960  Youngstown OH                            obit: Erie Conference 1953, 660

 

Interment: Youngstown OH

Obit: Erie Conference 1961, 596

 

            Indiana Conference

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-33           Altoona Italian Mission

1933                transfer to Wyoming Conference

                        Hillsville PA

                        retired to Jamestown NY

                        returned to Altoona PA and conducted Italian services at Altoona Broad Avenue

 

CROFT, EDWARD JACOB

 

Born: 2-28-1873  Franklin County PA                       married: Anna Viora Wagner

Died: 7-15-1956                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 248

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 240

 

1913-22           Harrisonville (beginning 5/10/13)

1922-26           Concord

1926-31           Fort Loudon (ending 10/15/31)

1931-36           York Springs (beginning 10/15/31)

1936-41           Blain

1941                retired [see 1940,27]

                             1946-47  Burnt Cabins (beginning 10/15/46)

 

Note: Edward J. Croft served as a local pastor and is the son of John R. Croft (1827-1898) of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.  The story of how he was recruited for Methodism is given in the 1814 journal, page 80.  He is also reported to have served briefly in retirement at Hustontown, Harrisonville, Neelyton, East Waterford, and Bendersville. 


 

CROMWELL, GEORGE CUSTER

 

Born: 1-22-1901                                                          married: Lula Leonard LeCompte

Died: 2-12-1998                                                          obit: Baltimore Conference 1989, 382

 

1925    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1927    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1929    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rockville Cemetery, Rockville MD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1998, 585

 

1924-25           student, Dickinson College

                            1924-25  Blain (beginning 8/4/24 and ending fall 1925)

1925-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1928-31           Stone Chapel

1931-35           Woodlawn St. Lukes

1935-39           Exeter Memorial

1939-45           Havre de Grace

1945-47           Washington DC Lewis Memorial

1947-51           Towson First

1951-57           Washington DC Brookland

1957-66           Rockville

1966                retired

                             1966-72       minister of visitation, Bethesda

 

Note: G. Custer Cromwell is the father of missionary to Argentina Marian Cromwell (Mrs. Milton) Robinson.

 

CRONCE, ASHER READING

 

Born: 9-3-1851  Rosemont NJ                                    married: Martha Gregg Morris (12/8/1881)

Died: 10-24-1906                                                        obit: Newark Conference 1921, 79

 

1879    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Newark Conference 1907, 101

 

1878-81           Howard

1881-83           Altoona Twenty-Fourth Street

1883-86           York Duke Street

1886-89           New Cumberland

1889                transfer to St. Louis Conference

1889-92           Carthage MO

1892-94           Sedalia MO First

1894-96           president, Jennings Seminary in Aurora IL

1896-98           Freeport IL

1898-99           Fulton IL

1899                transfer to Newark Conference

1899-03           Newark NJ Summerfield

1903-06           Newark NY Trinity

 

 

CRONE, LEVI SMITH

 

Born: 2-12-1836  near Dover PA                               married: Mrs. Elizabeth C. Krause [1869]

Died: 9-15-1896  Marion KS                                      obit: [3/2/1834 – 5/6/1911]

 

1862    license, recommended by York Beaver Street

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1867    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Marion Cemetery, Marion KS

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 92

 

1862-63           Middletown MD

1863-64           Frostburg

1864-65           Liberty

1865-66           Allegheny

1866-67           Quincy

1867-68           York Duke Street

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Jamestown

1870-73           Sinnemahoning

1873-75           Howard

1875-76           Congress Hill

1876-79           Washingtonville

1879-82           Castle Fin

1982-84           Three Springs

1884-86           Concord

1886                on leave to Kansas for health reasons

 

CROPF, ALLEN FOSTER

 

Born: 2-23-1933  Danville PA                                   married: Varabhon _____

Died: 10-24-2013                                                        obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           Audenreid

 

Note: Allen F. Cropf served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He graduated from Perkins School of Theology and served as a pastor and/or chaplain in Pennsylvania, Texas, Thailand and New York.  He was a longtime resident of Ithaca NY.

 

CROSTHWAITE, ADAM CLARK

 

Born: 1-31-1844                                                          married: Harriet Emma Fisher

Died: 3-3-1917                                                            obit: Nebraska Conference 1929, 420

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1917, 266

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Bloomingdale

1870-72           Centralia

1872-74           Benton

1874-75           Liberty Valley

1875-78           Duboistown

1878                transfer to Nebraska Conference

 

Note: A. Clark Crosthwaite is the son of Mortimer P. Crosthwaite.

  

CROSTHWAITE, MORTIMER P.

 

Born: 9-16-1819  Centre County PA                          married: Catherine E. Close

Died: 1-6-1898  Cammal PA                                      obit: (d. 6/17/1851)

                                                                                    married2: Rebecca T. Kennelly

1860  admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference  obit2: (d. 12/2/1889)

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 96

 

1860-61           Warrior’s Mark

1861-62           Orangeville

1862-64           Catawissa

1864-66           Berwick

1866-68           Bloomingdale

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Bloomingdale

1869-72           Salona

1872-74           Espy-Light St.

1874-77           Mifflinburg

1877-79           Montousville

1879-82           Hughesville

1882-84           Beech Creek-Mill Hall

1884-85           East Lock Haven

1885-88           Saladasburg

1888-91           Duboistown

1891-98           on leave

 

Note: Mortimer P. Crosthwaite is the father of Adam Clark Crosthwaite and Jennie M. Crosthwaite, wife of Zebulon Stratton Rhone.

 

CROTSLEY, GEORGE NELSON

 

Born: 3-17-1851  near Cassville PA                           married:

Died: 1-31-1901  near Eagle Foundry PA                  obit:

 

1887    ordained deacon, recommended by Clarkstown

 

Interment: family cemetery, near Cassville PA

Obit: [1901, 78]

 

1886-87           Clarkstown and Fairview

1887-89           Clarkstown

1889-91           Loyalsock

1892-95           Waterville

1895-98           Gardeau

1898                no longer listed

 

Note: George N. Crotsley served as a local pastor and is the brother of H.H. Crotsley.  In 1898 (following the death of his wife and for his own health) he retired to Slate Run PA and practiced dentistry as he was able.  An obituary also appears in the 4/18/1902 Christian Advocate, page 638.

 

CROTSLEY, HARMON HESTON

 

Born: 2-11-1854  near Cassville PA                           married: Emma Catherine Sterling

Died: 10-8-1928  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947,200

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1888    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Huntingdon Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 188

 

1886-88           Waterville

1888-90           Wesport

1890-92           Austin-Costello

1892-96           Houtzdale

1896-97           Hyner

1897-99           Watsontown

1899-05           Petersburg

1905-09           Juniata

1906-10           Watsontown

1910-11           St. Mary’s

1911-12           Harrisburg Epworth

1912-17           Osceola Mills

1917-20           Altoona Fairview

1920                retired

 

Note: H.H. Crotsley is the brother of George N. Crotsley.

 

CROUSE, LEWIS ALEXANDER

 

Born: 3-16-30  Williamsport PA                                married: Patricia Ann Johnson [5/16/63]

Died: 10-14-2009                                                        obit:

                                                                                    married2: Torus Y. Ness Wise [8/28/1982]

                                                                                    obit2:

1954    license                                                            

1958    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Wesley

1958    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

 

Interment: Blymire’s Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 162

 

1952-54           associate, Lock Haven

1954-56           Penns Valley

1956-60           Ray’s Hill

1960-61           Altoona Wesley-Asbury (ending 10/15/1961)

1961-64           Renovo (beginning 10/15/1961)

1964-66           Milesburg

1966-69           Mount Holly Springs

1969-73           Mercersburg

1973-82           Milton Bethany

1982-85           Altoona Faith

1985-89           Altoona Faith-Trinity

1989-94           York Fourth

1994                retired

                                            associate pastor, Dallastown Bethlehem

                                            visitation pastor, Stewartstown

                                            interim pastor, Fairmount Salem

                             2005-09  Freysville Zion

 

CROW, HARRY EDGAR

 

Born: 8-27-1871  near Liverpool PA                         married: Mary L. Lickle

Died: 6-20-1952  Reading PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 383

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1903    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 217

 

1901-03           Greencastle

1903-04           Vira

1904-06           South Williamsport

1906-09           Wilburton

1909-12           Laurelton (moved to Conyngham in mid 1911-12)

1912-18           Conyngham

1918-22           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1922-25           Shippensburg

1925-32           Stewartstown

1932-36           Burnham

1936-39           Houtzdale

1939                retired

 

 

CROWDING, WALTER LYNN

 

Born: 10-4-1894  Still Pond MD                                married: Catharine Frederick

Died: 6-23-1980  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 450

 

1922    admitted on trial

 

Prominent Personalities in American Methodist, 1945

Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, 1966, 295

 

Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 327

 

1922-24           West Fairview-Summerdale

1924-26           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1926-28           Berwick Calvary

1928-33           Trinity, Harrisburg

1933-38           Lewisburg

1938-42           Waynesboro

1942-45           Altoona First  

1945-51           superintendent, Sunbury District

1951-57           Williamsport Pine Street

1957-58           sabbatical leave, exchange minister in Stockport England

1958-63           Shippensburg

1963                retired

                             1963-69  associate, Carlisle Allison

 

Note: Walter L. Crowding is the father of  Catherine Crowding Cole, wife of Dan P. Cole.  He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.


 

CROYLE, FRANK CARL

 

Born: 6-4-1940  New Castle PA                                 married: Barbara Louise Stocker

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1965    admitted on trial

1965    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-62           student, ULCA in Los Angeles CA

                             1959-62  assistant, Los Angeles CA LaTisera

1962-64           student. Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1962-64  assistant, Demarest NJ

1964-66           assistant, Ridgefield CT Jesse Lee Memorial

1966-67           study abroad

1967-70           Summerdale-West Fairview

1970-76           Summerdale (ending 9/1/1976)

1976-84           Troy (beginning 9/1/1976)

1984-86           Penbrook Grace

1986-87           sabbatical

1987-90           leave of absence

1990                withdrew: see 1990, 236

 

CROYLE, HARRY ALLEN

 

Born: 3-23-1892  Pavia PA                                        married: Mabelle Z. Hilbish

Died: 10-29-1950                                                        obit: [1890-1978]

 

1927    ordained local deacon

 

Interment: Pavia Cemetery, Pavia PA

Obit:

 

1923-25           Glen Hope

1925-28           Karthaus

1028-29           Penfield

 

Note: Mrs. Croyle is the daughter of Benjamin F. Hilbish.

 

 

CROYLE, ROBERT RAYMOND

 

Born: 3-2-1903  Ramey PA                                        married: Helen Elizabeth Riffle

Died: 6-18-1980                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 444

 

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 328

 

1928-31           student, Juniata College

     1928-31  Shirleysburg

1931-33            student Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

                             1932-33  Harvey IL

1933-38           Altoona Jaggard

1938-41           Altoona Jaggard-Mardorf

1941-43           Curwensville

1943-45           chaplain, US Navy

1945-46           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1946-49           Milton

1949-56           Clearfield Trinity

1956-60           superintendent, Altoona District

1960-65           Bloomsburg Wesley

1965                retired             

                             1965-74  counseling minister, Bloomsburg Wesley                     

 

 Note: Robert R. Croyle is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 296.

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CUDDY, JAMES BILLINGSLEY

 

Born: 8-16-1836 Baltimore County MD                    married: Harriet Kramer

Died: 8-2-1874  Dansville, NY                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 201

 

1857    license

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Danville

1862    ordained deacon

1864    ordained elder

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 67

 

1860-61           Muncy

1861-62           Shrewsbury

1862-63           Harford Avenue

1863-64           Great Falls

1864-65           Long Green

1865-66           Hancock

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Jeanesville

1870-72           Muncy

1872-74           Salona

 

Note: A biographical sketch is given in the 1/1/1882 Conference News, page 5.  James Billingsley Cuddy is a first cousin to George Lawson Cuddy (1854-1929) of the Pacific Northwest Conference and to the father of Royston S. Cuddy.  Refer to the Cuddy folder in the biographical files.

 

CUDDY, ROYSTON STABLER

 

Born: 9-26-1892                                                          married: [5/27/1913]

Died: 2-26-1968                                                          obit:

 

1914    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Vestal Hills Memorial Park, Vestal NY

Obit:

 

1911-13           local preacher, living in New Freedom

1913-14           Gatchelville

1914-17           Green Village

1917-18           Bakerton

1918-19           York Epworth

1919-20           New Bloomfield

1920-22           Town Hill

1922                withdrew

 

Note:  Royston S. Cuddy is a 1912 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.  Photos of him are available in glee cub and graduation group pictures.  In 1934 Royston Cuddy was a congregational pastor in Norwood NY.  In 1952 he was a Presbyterian minister in Conklin NY.  Royston S. Cuddy is the nephew of George Lawson Cuddy (1854-1929) of the Pacific Northwest Conference and the first cousin once removed of James Billingsley Cuddy.  Refer to the Cuddy folder in the biographical files.

 

CULLUM, JEREMIAH WESLEY

 

Born: 2-18-1808  East Baltimore MD                        married: Margaret Blair

Died: 4-30-1886  Baltimore MD                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Esther Bickerton

1832    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit: [d. 6-?-1886]

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1887, 44

 

1832-33           Christiansburg

1833-34           Franklin

1834-35           Huntersville

1835-36           Craig’s Creek mission

1836-37           Monroe

1837-38           Lost River mission

1838-39           South Branch

1839-41           Moorefield

1841-42           Harford

1842-44           Baltimore Sharp Street & Asbury station

1844-45           Baltimore city mission

1845-47           Shrewsbury

1847-48           retired

1848-50           Baltimore Dallas Street

1850-52           Castle Fin

1852-54           Montgomery

1854-56           Boonsboro

1856-59           agent, Maryland State Colonization Society

1859-60           in leave

1860-61           agent, Maryland State Colonization Society

1861                retired

                            1868        transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

                            1870-72  Liberty (beginning in mid-1870)

                            1872-75  Hampstead          

                       

Note: J. Wesley Cullum is sometimes erroneously designated John Wesley Cullum.  The second Mrs. Cullum was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Freeman, “well-known as an active missionary in the city of Baltimore.”

 

CULVER, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1907-08           Shirleysburg

 

Note: Charles E. Culver served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

CULVER, WELLINGTON WASHINGTON

 

Born: 5-11-1826  Luzerne County PA                       married: Mary A Blish

Died: 8-9-1903                                                            obit:

 

1887    ordained deacon, recommended by Bloomingdale circuit

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Wellington W. Culver served as a local pastor. 

 

 

CUMMINGS, COURTNEY HAMPTON SR.

 

Born: 10-23-1900  Tilghman MD                              married: Ruth T. Fell

Died: 4-14-1977                                                          obit: [7/6/1905 – 8/16/1999]

 

1931    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Tilghman Memorial Cemetery, Tilghman MD

Obit:

 

1931-34           Hustontown

1934-35           no appointment

1935                withdrew under complaints

 

CUMMINGS, JOHN THOMAS THOMPSON

 

Born: 1-7-1906  Ranshaw PA                                    married: Reba Ellen Reynolds

Died: 3-16-1974                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 406

 

1926    license, recommended by Johnson City, Ranshaw PA

1928    admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Blair memorial Park, Bellwood PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 415 & 417

 

1927-28           Westport & Shintown

1928-29           Sandy Ridge

1929-31           Burnt Cabins

1931-33           Birmingham

1933-38           Alexandria

1938-42           Manor Hill

1942-44           Clearfield Emmanuel

1944-48           St. Mary’s

1948-54           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1954-57           Tyrone First

1957-61           Mount Union First

1961-64           Williamsport Calvary

1964-65           Hazleton Diamond Street

1965-69           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1969                retired

                             1969-71  Barnesboro

 

CUMMINGS, WALLACE JOSEPH

 

Born: 1-3-1909  Andover NY                                    married: Kathryn Elizabeth Coffey

Died: 11-10-1972  Harrisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 357

 

1936    license, recommended by Shippensburg

1939    ordained deacon

1945    admitted on trial

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 371

 

1936-38           Wallis Run 

1938-40           Half Moon  

1940-43           Howard  

1943-45           Littlestown 

1945-49           Duncannon

1949-54           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1954-65           Williamsport Newberry

1965-72           Harrisburg Grace

 

Note: Wallace J. Cummings is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  His daughter Mary Celia Cummings is married to Rev. Raymond L. Bailey of the Brethren in Christ Church.

 

CURNS, JAMES

 

Born: 8-10-1824  Chatham’s Run PA            married: H. Jane Fitzsimmons

Died: 12-29-1891  Chambersburg PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 98

 

1850    quarterly conference license, Jersey Shore circuit

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 89

 

1851-52           Northumberland circuit

1852-54           Berwick

1854-55           Sunbury

1855-57           Luzerne

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Newberry

1959-61           Hagerstown

1861-62           Mercersburg

1862-64           High Street

1864-66           East Baltimore

1866-68           Frederick

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           superintendent, Carlisle District

1870-74           superintendent, Williamsport District

1874-77           Altoona First

1877-80           Everett

1880-83           Curwensville

1883-86           Clearfield

1886-91           Huntingdon

1891                Chambersburg

 

Note: There is a biographical sketch in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 358.

 

CURRAN, HUGH ASBURY

 

Born: 5-18-1840  Margaretta, York County PA         married: Sara A. _____

Died: 1-3-1917  Carlisle PA                                       obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 151]

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 133

 

1869-73           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1873-76           faculty, Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown PA

1876-92           faculty, Bloomsburg State Normal School

1892-93           vice principal, Mansfield State Normal School

1893-94           on leave

1894-96           faculty, Mansfield State Normal School

1896-00           faculty, East Stroudsburg State Normal School

1900-01           on leave

1901-02           faculty, Pennington Seminary

1902-03           on leave, living in Carlisle PA

1903-07           on leave, living in Johnstown PA

1907-09           faculty, Jacob Tome Institute for Boys at Port Deposit MD

1909-14           on leave, living in Port Deposit MD

1914                retired

 

Note: Rev. Curran is also reported to have been on the faculty of Wyoming Seminary at Kingston PA.  His daughter Mary Curran is the wife of James Henry Morgan.

 

CURRY, FRANK WESLEY

 

Born: 10-26-1860  near New Millport PA                 married: Blanch Quiggle

Died: 11-20-1904  Williamsport PA                          obit:

 

1892    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 122

 

1891-93           Concord circuit

1893-95           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1895-98           Williamsport High Street

1898-02           on leave

1902-04           Park Place-Delano

1904                Altoona Fairview Avenue

 

CURRY, JAMES WILSON

 

Born: 9-25-1831  Huntingdon PA                              married: Elizabeth A. Barndollar

Died: 5-11-1892  Altoona PA                                    obit: [8/5/1837 – 5/11/1889]

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1857    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1855-56           Bedford circuit

1856-57           Westernport

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Woodbury

1858                transfer to Peoria Conference

1858-59           Chillicothe circuit

1859                located

1860                transfer to Western Virginia Conference

1860-62           Brandonville

1862                located

 

Note: James Wilson Curry is reported to have attended Cassville Seminary and graduated from Evanston Theological Seminary in Illinois.  The 1870 census lists him as a merchant in Altoona PA.

 

CUSTER, H.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Schloyerville

 

Note: H.J. Custer served as a local pastor.

 

 

 

DANIELS, HARRY

 

Born: 12-13-1875  Granite Falls NC                          married: Mary Edith Rohrer

Died: 4-9-1932  Berwick PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 234

 

1907    admitted on trial

1912    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mennonite Cemetery, Strasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 177

 

1906-08           Hustontown

1908-13           York West Street

1913-15           Shrewsbury

1915-17           Yeagertown-Rhodes

1917-20           Sinnemahoning

1920-25           Gettysburg-New Oxford

1925-30           Mechanicsburg

1930-32           Shickshinny

 

Note: An obituary for Harry Daniels also appears in the 4/28/1932 Christian Advocate, page 462.

 

DANIELS, HARRY JOSEPH          

 

Born: 10-11-1904  Lykens PA                                   married: Myrl P. Bowers

Died: 9-7-1989  Denver PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 452

 

1944    ordained, Pilgrim Holiness Church

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 451

 

1936-61           Pilgrim Holiness church

                        Williamstown

                        Pitman

                        Frackville

                        Port Matilda

                        Stonington

                        Rebuk

1961                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist

1961-64           Wrightsville

1964-66           Renovo

1966-72           Milroy

1972-77           Belleville

1977                retired

 

Note: Harry J. Daniels served as a local pastor.

 

DASHIELL, JOHN HUTSON

 

Born: 10-11-1821  Salisbury MD                               married: Emily W. Irving

Died: 1-21-1914                                                          obit: [3/3/1822 – 11/25/1866]

 

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1914, 63

 

1852-54           Great Falls

1854-56           Hereford

1856-58           Lewisburg (Pa) station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Lewisburg (Pa) station

1858-60           principal, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1860-62           Baltimore Strawbridge

1862-63           Baltimore Emory Chapel (nominal)

1863-64           without appointment

1864-65           principal, Northwest Institute in Baltimore

1865                “withdrew to join M.E. South”

1865-70           *Chatsworth Independent Methodist Church

                        and principal, Northwest Institute in Baltimore

1870                re-admitted to Baltimore Conference

1870-73           Georgetown Dumbarton Avenue

1873-74           Baltimore Madison Avenue

1874-77           Washington McKendree

1877-80           Annapolis First

1880-83           Hagerstown

1883-86           Frederick

1886-91           Washington Fifteenth Street

1891-92           secretary, Methodist Alliance in Washington DC

1892                retired

 

Note: John H. Dashiell is a brother to Robert Laurenson Dashiell (1825-1880) of the Baltimore and Newark Conferences who served as president of Dickinson College 1868-72 and whose obituary consequently appears in the 1880 Central Pennsylvania Conference journal, page 65.  The maiden name of Mrs. Dshiell is also given as Irwin.

 

*In the early 1860’s there was dissension in Baltimore that led to the formation of the Independent Methodist “denomination” of several churches. That association of churches appears to have developed out of the Methodist Episcopal and/or Methodist Protestant Church, but not the M.E. South – and that reference is apparently in error and likely a misunderstanding about the Independent Methodists.  The Northwest Institute [aka Northwestern Institute] is otherwise unknown.

 

DAUGHERTY, BEVERLY WAUGH

 

Born: 1834  Baltimore MD                                        married:

Died: 7-27-1895                                                          obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Helen J. Thompson Sawyer

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2:  

1857    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1880    ordained deacon, Episocpal Diocese of North Carolina

1884    ordained priest, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: [Baltimore Sun 7/30/1895, page 8]

 

1855-56           Salem

1856-57           Warm Springs VA

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Castle Fin

1858-59           Alto Dale

1859-60           East Harford

1860-61           Lock Haven

1861-62           Frederick

1862-63           West Falls

1863                withdrew

                        “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church South

1873-74           Hampton and Fox Hill

1880                “transfer” to Episcopal Church

1882-86           Winston-Salem NC St. Paul’s [BWD pictured in church’s 1976 Centennial booklet]

1886-95           Huron OH Christ

 

Note: Beverly Waugh Daugherty is a brother to Thomas Daugherty.  The second Mrs. Daugherty nee Thompson) was the widow of a Mr. Cleveland Sawyer, and her papers reside in the manuscript collection of the Perkins Library at Duke University.  

 

 

DAUGHERTY, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 2-2-1868  Thompsontown PA                          married: Lillian Mae Fisk

Died: 11-29-1937  Jersey Shore PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 236

 

1892    admitted on trial, recommended by Hazleton St. Paul’s

           

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 220

 

1892-93           assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

1893-95           South Williamsport

1895-97           Hughesville

1897-00           Williamsport Third Street

1900-03           Shickshinny

1903-09           Tyrone First

1909-15           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1915-20           Sunbury St. John’s

1920-30           Williamsport Pine Street

1930-37           Lewistown First

1937                Jersey Shore First

 

 

DAUGHERTY, THOMAS

 

Born: 4-6-1828  Maryland                                          married: Mary _____ [c1856]

Died: 9-15-1885  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1832 – ]

                                                                                    married2: Susan Catherine Rippey [1865]

1850    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [1840 – ]

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1886, 38

 

1850-51           Westminster

1851-52           Front Royal

1852-54           South Branch

1854-56           Bellefonte

1856-57           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1858-60           Waynesboro

1860-61           Mercersburg

1861                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1861-64           principal, Morgantown Female Institute

1864                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1864-66           Hollidaysburg

1866-67           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1867-68           Mechanicsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mechanicsburg

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-70           North Baltimore circuit

1870-73           Baltimore Whatcoat   

1873-75           Baltimore Exeter Street

1875-78           South Baltimore

1878-81           Baltimore Emory

1881-84           Baltimore Jackson Square

1884-85           Baltimore Hanover Street

 

Note: Thomas Daugherty is a brother to Beverly Waugh Daugherty.  He received a diploma from the Maryland University School of Medicine and was a practicing physician before entering the ministry.

 

DAVIDSON, ELLIS BELL

 

Born: 12-7-1886  Bedford PA                                                married: Mary Louise Willoughby

Died: 8-6-1869  Bedford County PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 437

 

1909    quarterly conference license, Bedford

1912    admitted on trial

1914    ordained deacon

1916    ordained elder

 

Interment: Community Mausoleum of the Bedford Cemetery, Bedford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 380

 

1911-13           Eagles Mere & Laporte

1913-15           Littlestown

1915-18           Riddlesburg

1918-20           Reedsville-Milroy

1920-21           York West Street

1921-24           Mechanicsburg

1924-28           Muncy

1928-29           Bellwood

1929-36           Huntingdon First

1936-38           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1938-40           Lock Haven Trinity

1940-46           Berwick First

1946-49           Mount Union First

1949-52           Altoona Simpson

1952                retired

                             1954-55      Wolfsburg (9/1/1954 to 5/31/1955)

                             1961-63      Dunning Creek United Church of Christ

 

Note: Ellis Bell Davidson was baptized by and named for J. Ellis Bell.  Mrs. Davidson graduated from the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School and served as a deaconess at Harrisburg St. Paul prior to her marriage.

 

 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT EARL

 

Born: 5-4-1934  Lewistown PA                                 married: Marjorie Ellen Moist

Died: 12-23-2015  Lewistown PA                              obit:

 

1957    license

1958    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Greater New Jersey Conference 2016, 288

 

1957-62           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1957-62      Catonsville MD

1962-63           Allenport

1963                transfer to Newark Conference

1963-68           associate, Westwood

1968-71           Irvington

1971-78           Midland Park

1978-92           Totowa

1992-01           Hillsdale

2001                retired

                             2001-03      Mount Union First

 

DAVIS, CHARLES EVAN

 

Born: 11-27-1889                                                        married: Esther Shackell

Died: 12-30-1975                                                        obit: Peninsula Conference 1998, 444

 

1921    admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

 

Interment: Greensboro Cemetery, Greensboro MD

Obit: Peninsula Conference 1976, 357

 

1916-19           student, Dickinson College

                             1916-17  Hickorytown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-22           student

1922-25           Cheswold

1927-27           faculty, Wesley Collegiate Institute

1927-30           Cherry Hill

1930-34           Hockessin

1934-36           Wilmington Asbury

1936-39           Cecilton

1939-41           Still Pond

1941-43           Queenstown

1943-54           Ocean View

1945-49           Greensboro

1949-52           Pittsville Ayres

1952-57           Wilmington Trinity

1957                retired

 

DAVIS, EDWARD EVERETT        

 

Born: 3-18-1906  Freeland PA                                   married: Bertha Alberta Brobst [1923]

Died: 1-10-1998                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 291

 

1962    license

1964    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Freeland Cemetery, Freeland PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 7.257

 

1962-70           Gordon Simpson

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to East Pennsylvania Conference

1970-72           Gordon Simpson and Barry Salem

1972                retired

                             1972-84      visitation pastor, Pottsville First

                             1984           named pastor emeritus of Pottsville First

 

Note: Edward E. Davis served as a local pastor.  He worked for 38 years as a mining engineer before entering the ministry.  His mother Rev. Sarah (Green) Davis was an ordained minister in the Primitive Methodist Church prior to her marriage.

 

DAVIS, GEORGE EDWARD

 

Born: 9-9-1903  Abington MD                                   married: Anita Amelia Stephney

Died: 4-21-1981  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 471

 

1947    admitted on trial, Washington Conference

1947    ordained deacon

1951    ordained elder

 

Interment: Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 329

 

1945-51           Centerville MD

1951-56           Harrisburg Mitchell Memorial

1956                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1956-69           Harrisburg Mitchell Memorial

1969                retired

 

Note: George E. Davis is the son of George A. Davis (d. 1945) of the Washington Conference and the father of Bernice Davis Stevens in the United Methodist files.  In 1956, Mitchell Memorial Church became the first congregation in the entire Methodist denomination to transfer out of the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction of Negro conferences into its otherwise geographically appropriate conference.

 

DAVIS, JAMES MERLYN  

 

Born: 5-8-1925  West Nanticoke PA                         married: Florence  _____

Died: 4-9-2015  Hunlock Creek PA                           obit:

                                                                                    married2: Jeanne Roper

1967    license, recommended by Mifflinville            obit2:

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 263

 

1967-68           Buckhorn-Rupert

1968-71           North Bend

1971-77           Pennsdale

1977-88           Muhlenburg

1988                retired

                             1992-93      Westmore Church of Christ

                             2006-12      West Nanticoke Calvary

 

Note: James M. Davis served as a local pastor.

 

DAVIS, JOHN F.

 

Born: 4-21-1840  Chambersburg PA                          married: Elizabeth Jane Davis [12/25/1967]

Died: 11-11-1912  Williamsport PA                          obit: [2/27/1845 – 4/14/1911]

 

1866    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mulberry Street

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: [Williamsport Gazette & Bulletin, Nov. 12, 1912]

 

1866-68           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1870-71           Duboistown-Rocktown

1871-72           Susquehanna [Nisbet]

1872-81           on leave

                            1872-75       assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

                            1875-77       assistant, Williamsport Price Chapel

                            1877-78       assistant, Mulberry Street

1881                located

 

Note: Rocktown is the lower part of South Williamsport.  Susquehanna is the original name for Nisbet.  The “move” in 1871 was a re-naming of the circuit.  From 1865 to 1879, John F. Davis was the founder and head of the Williamsport Commercial College.  In 1879 he sold that college and established a similar institution in Altoona, which he conducted for four years.  He then entered into a successful career in the insurance business.  His picture appears in the April 20, 1904 Northwestern Christian Advocate, page 17, as a Central Pennsylvania lay delegate to General Conference.  He was an active charter member of the Williamsport High Street congregation and is the grandfather of Mary Alice Davis Worthington (d. 1996), long-time officer and benefactor of the Central Pennsylvania Conference Historical Society and Preacher’s Aid Society (see the 1998 volume of The Chronicle, page 4).

 

DAVIS, MICHAEL F.

 

Born: 9-6-1893  Eatontown NJ                                  married: Florence McMillen

Died: 1-7-1991  Ephrata PA                                       obit: [1887 – 1978]

 

1919    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Atglen Methodist Cemetery, Atglen PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 302

 

1914-17           student, Dickinson College

                             1914-16      Rehoboth

                             1916            “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

                             1916-17      Atglen & Mt. Pleasant

1917-20           student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

1920-24           Mount Joy

1924-26           Chester Parkside

1926-28           West Grove

1928-32           Reading St. Peter’s

1932-37           Jenkintown

1937-39           Philadelphia Roxborough First

1939-42           Philadelphia Berry-Long Memorial

1942-48           Philadelphia Oak Lane

1948-54           Bethlehem Wesley

1954-58           Ardmore

1958-60           Philadelphia Logan

1960-66           Quarryville Memorial

1966                retired

                             1970-71      Mount Hope

 

DAVIS, WILLIAM H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-21           Fort Loudon  (did not finish the year)

 

Note: William H. Davis served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

DAY, GIDEON HOWARD

 

Born: 5-16-1816  Ellicott City MD                            married: Sarah Ann Seamans

Died: 5-16-1901  Riverside                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 109

 

1840    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Old Gearhart Cemetery [Mt. Vernon Cemetery], Riverside PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 120

 

1840-41           Clearfield

1941-42           Sunbury

1842-43           Luzerne

1943-44           Waynesboro

1844-46           Mifflin

1846-48           Luzerne

1848-50           Bloomsburg

1950-52           Jersey Shore

1852-53           agent, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1853-55           Baltimore City station

1855-56           Washington Capitol Hill

1856-57           New Bloomfield

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-60           Seaman’s Union Bethel

1860-62           Jeanesville

1862-64           on leave

1864-66           Orangeville

1866-68           Jeanesville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-73           on leave

                             1868-70      Berwick

                             1871-72      Benton

1873-76           Trevorton

1876-79           Snydertown

1879-82           Elysburg

1882-84           Washingtonville

1884-87           White Haven

1887-88           Stockton-Beaver Meadow

1888-90           Riverside

1890                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Gideon Howard Day also appears in the 5/23/1901 Christian Advocate.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.

 

 

DEALE, JOHN SUMMERFIELD

 

Born: 9-3-1825  Annapolis MD                                 married: Sarah Buckmaster

Died: 4-19-1885  Baltimore MD                                obit: [9/16/1827 – 12/12/1891]

 

1849    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1886, 41

 

1849-50           St. Mary

1850-51           Rockville

1851-52           Cumberland

1852-53           Warrenton

1853-55           Shepherdstown

1855-56           Rockville

1856-57           Ryland Chapel station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Ryland Chapel station

1858-59           Harpers Ferry

1859-60           Williamsport MD

1861-63           Hereford

1863-65           principal, Baltimore County Institute

1864-66           North Baltimore

1866-69           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-70           Baltimore Broadway

1870-74           superintendent, East Baltimore District

1874-76           North Baltimore station

1876-78           Waugh

1878-81           Washington Wesley Chapel

1881-82           Ryland

1882-85           superintendent, Washington District

1885                Baltimore Caroline Street

 

 

DEAN, GLENN IRVAN THOMAS.

 

Born: 6-5-1939  Tyrone PA                                        married: (none)

Died: 6-20-1972  New Paris PA                                 obit:

 

Interment: Eastlawn Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 372

 

1968    license, recommended by Tyrone Columbia Avenue

 

1967-68           associate, Tyrone Columbia Avenue (beginning 1/1/67)

1968-71           Burnt Cabins

1971                New Paris, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Glenn I.T. Dean served as a local pastor.

 

DEAN, JOHN SHERIDAN WEBSTER

 

Born: 3-7-1848  Upshur County WV                         married: Grace Marple

Died: 6-24-1917  Kansas City MO                             obit: [2/4/1868 – 5/6/1958]

 

1875    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1918, 201

 

1875-76           Pine Grove

1876-80           faculty, Pennsylvania Agricultural College [Penn State]

1880-83           student, Boston University in Boston MA

1883-84           student, University of Berlin in Germany

1884-85           member, West Virginia legislature

1885-86           Detroit MI

1886                transfer to Nebraska Conference

                        Peru

                        Pawnee City

                        Falls City

                        Hastings

                        Lincoln

                        presiding elder, Nebraska City District

                        transfer to Kansas Conference

 

Note: The conference archives have a newspaper obituary for John S.W. Dean.

 

DEAVOR, EDWARD EPHRAIM ALLEN

 

Born: 12-31-1845  Roses Place, Fulton County PA   married: Susan Stotler

Died: 9-17-1923  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 130

 

1872    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mifflintown Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 144

 

1872-73           Shrewsbury

1873-76           West Fairview

1876-79           Wrightsville

1879-80           Mercersburg

1880-83           Newton Hamilton

1883-84           Birmingham

1884-85           Shrewsbury

1885-88           Newport

1888-90           Wrightsville

1890-93           Newberry

1893-96           Emporium

1896-97           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1897-99           Hollidaysburg

1899-00           Austin

1900-02           Patton

1902-03           Hazleton Diamond

1903-06           York Duke Street

1906-09           Montoursville

1909-12           Osceola

1912-16           Mifflintown

1916-17           York West Street

1917                retired

 

Note: Edward E.A. Deavor is a brother of Joseph D.W. Deavor and W.T. Sherman Deavor. 

 

DEAVOR, JOSEPH DYKE WALTER

 

Born: 5-31-1853  Fulton County PA                          married: Laura Belle McDowell

Died: 12-20-1935  Harrisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 133

 

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1881    ordained deacon, recommended by Port Royal

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 188

 

1880-81           Port Royal

1881-83           Robinsonville

1883-85           Orbisonia

1885-88           Mifflinville

1888-91           Northumberland

1891-93           Weatherly

1893-95           Mount Holly Springs

1895-99           Shamokin Second

1899-02           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1902-04           Mifflintown

1904-07           Burnham

1907-10           Williamsport Fourth Street.

1910-12           Ashland

1912-14           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1914-19           Harrisburg Epworth

1919-23           Morrisdale

1923                retired

 

Note: Joseph D.W. Deavor is a brother of Edward E.A. Deavor and W.T. Sherman Deavor.  The conference archives contain an extensive file of his written sermons. 

 

DEAVOR, WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

 

Born: 12-8-1864  West Dublin, Fulton County PA   married: Katharine Totten

Died: 11-2-1898  Wapwallopen PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania  Conference 1956, 235

 

1886    quarterly conference license, Mifflinville

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Mifflinville circuit

1890    ordained deacon

1892    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 89

 

1888-89           Schloyerville

1889-91           Nescopeck

1891-92           Silverbrook

1892-98           faculty, St. John’s College at Annapolis MD

 

Note: W.T. Sherman Deavor is a brother of Edward E.A. Deavor and Joseph D.W. Deavor.  WTS Deavor is the author of A History of the Deavor Family, of which the archives do not have copy.

 

DECKER, ANDREW WILSON

 

Born: 9-18-1834  Huntingdon PA                              married: Sallie A. Johnston

Died: 8-7-1901  Orbisonia PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 76

                                                                                    married2: Anna Rebecca Jones

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf          obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 217

 

Interment: River View Cemetery, Huntingdon

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 127

 

1862-65           Shirleysburg

1865-67           Woodbury

1867-78           Schellsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Schellsburg

1870-72           Cassville

1872-75           New Bloomfield

1875-77           Duncansville

1877-79           Birmingham

1879-82           Concord

1882-84           Castle Fin

1884-85           Airville

1885-86           Newville

1886-87           Conyngham

1887-90           Elysburg

1890-92           Jerseytown

1892-95           Manor Hill

1895-98           Ray’s Hill

1989-00           Saladasburg

1900                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Andrew W. Decker also appears in the 10/17/1901 Christian Advocate.

 

DECKER, WILLIAM HERBERT

 

Born: 4-8-1874  Tomah WI                                        married: Arria Evelyn Wheeler (1/1/1900)

Died: 9-23-1935  Trenton NJ                                     obit:

 

1895    license, Wyoming Conference

1899    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1904    ordained deacon, Episcopal Church

1905    ordained priest, Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Trenton NJ

Obit:

 

1895-98           student, Wyoming Seminary

                            1895-96       Courtdale

                            1896-98       Plainsville (ending fall 1898)

1898-02           student, Dickinson College

                            1899             “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                            1899-01       West Fairview

                            1901-02       Lewisberry- Lisburn

1902-03           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1903                withdrew to enter the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church

1903-04           instructor, York County Academy

1904-05           Minersville and Forrestville PA

1905-08           Jermyn and Peckville PA

                        missionary to Panama Canal Zone

                        missionary to Cuba

                        Nicholson?

1912-21           Isle of Pines CO

1921-23

1923-26           Mexico MO

1926-29           Trenton NJ St. Paul’s

1929                retired

 

Note: William Herbert Decker was a noted football player at both Wyoming Seminary and Dickinson College. He is not to be confused with the contemporary Pennsylvania Presbyterian pastor Rev. William Harrison Decker.  Some sources give the first name of Mrs. Decker as Anie.

 

D’ELIA, PASQUALE

 

Born: 8-3-1875  Tarlizzi, Bari Italy                           married: Angelina Profeta

Died: 5-16-1967  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 220

 

1917    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 312

 

1912-26           Hillsville Italian Church

1926                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1926-29           Frankfort NY Italian Mission

1929                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1929-32           Yatesville PA Italian Mission

1932-33           Altoona Italian Mission, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1933                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1933-42           Altoona Italian Mission

1942                retired

 

DEMING, WALTER RAY

 

Born: 7-27-1919  Canfield OH                                   married: Isabel Buchaca

Died: 1-30-2004                                                          obit: Troy Conference 1992, 285

 

1951    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1951    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Quaker Cemetery, Quaker Street NY

Obit: Troy Conference 2004, ?

 

1951-52           Deer Park

1952                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1952-57           Muncy Valley

1957-63           Conyngham

1963-66           Williamsport Third Street.

1966                transfer to Troy Conference

1966-77           Round Lake and Clifton Park

1977-87           Granville and Rupert

1987                retired

 

 

DeMOYER, JOHN AMOS

 

Born: 3-12-1826  New Berlin PA                               married: Susanna Frey

Died: 2-9-1903  Trevorton PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 164

 

1850    quarterly conference license, Williamsport Pine Street

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Northumberland Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 112

 

1851-52           Middleburg

1852-53           Bloomingdale

1853-54           Bloomsburg

1854-55           North Danville

1855-57           Orangeville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Catawissa

1859-60           Milton

1860-62           Penn’s Valley

1862-63           Great Island

1863-65           Warrior’s Mark

1865-66           Half Moon

1866-68           Manor Hill

1868                charter member Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Manor Hill

1869-71           Waynesboro

1871-72           White Haven

1872-74           Montoursville

1874-77           Sunbury

1877-80           Hollidaysburg

1880-83           Ashland

1883-84           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1884-85           Snydertown

1885-88           Houtzdale

1888-90           Duncannon

1890-93           Wrightsville

1893-97           Shickshinny

1897-00           Northumberland

1900                retired

   1902-03        Tevorton

 

Note: An obituary for John A. DeMoyer also appears in the 6/18/1903 New York Christian Advocate, page 1007.  A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 361.

 

DENDLER, JAMES WESTON

 

Born: 8-2-1916  Berwick PA                                      married: Alta M. Baker

Died: 4-4-2001                                                            obit: [3/8/1916 – 3/30/2004]

 

1946    admitted on trial, recommended by Rouzerville

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Indianola IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 2001, ?

 

1941-42           Waterville 

1942-44           Sandy Ridge  

1944-46           Rouzerville  

1946-47           Mont Alto

1947-48           Patton

1948-53           Weatherly

1953                transfer to Des Moines Conference

 

DENLINGER, PAUL BURK

 

Born: 1921                                                                  married: Teresa Sun  _____

Died: 11-15-1989                                                        obit: [4/15/1915 – 1/18/2015]

 

Interment: Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue WA

Obit:

 

1939-43           student, Dickinson College

1945-46           York Springs – New Oxford

1946                Anking, Chinna Inland Mission of the Episcopal Church

                        faculty, Chinese & Russian Institute of the U of Washington in Seattle WA

                        living in Taiwan

 

Note: Paul B. Denlinger served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He apparently became an Episcopal priest and is the author of books and articles on Sino-Tibetan languages. 

 

DERK, FERDINAND

 

Born: 8-23-1908  Shamokin PA                                 married: Marion Leona Snyder

Died: 10-22-1995  Mechanicsburg PA                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 430

 

1931    license, recommended by Shamokin Chestnut Street

1933    admitted on trial

1936    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 407

 

1932-33           Vira 

1933-35           Wilburton  

1935-36           Laurelton

1936-39           Beach Haven (ending 12/31/1939)

1940-42           Glen Campbell (beginning 1/1/1940 and ending 2/1942)

1942-45           chaplain, US Army (beginning 2/1942 and ending 10/1945)

1945-46           Fairview (beginning 11/1/1945)

1946-47           Hillrose CO [?]

1947-48           Flemington (ending 9/1948)

1948-52           Ferrum Junior. College, VA (beginning 9/1948)

1952-57           Shickshinny

1957-65           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1965-74           Bellefonte Trinity

1974                retired

 

Note: Ferdinand Derk is the father of Jay Merrill Derk, and the grandfather of J. Michael Derk of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

DERK, FRANCIS H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-56           Bald Eagle Parish (appears not to have served; see 1956,79)

1955-70           Pine Knolls CMA Church, South Glen Falls NY

                        evangelist

 

Note: Francis Derk is a brother to Ferdinand Derk.  He was appointed as a local pastor.  He is the author of Names of Christ (1976).

 

 

 

DERK, JAY MERRILL                                     

 

Born: 10-6-1940  Clearfield PA                                 married: Donna Lee Chronister

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1959    license, recommended by Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1963    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1963    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           student, Juniata College

                             1961-62      Wolfsburg 

1962-65           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1962-63      assistant, Washington McKendree

                             1963-65      Bristol MD

1965                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1965-66           Harrisburg Christ and Mechanicsburg Salem

1966-70           Mechanicsburg Salem

1970-74           Mifflintown

1974-82           Sunbury St. John’s

1982-87           Philipsburg Trinity

1987-00           Grace Lemoyne

2000-02           York Fourth

2002                retired

 

Note: Jay Merrill Derk is the son of Ferdinand Derk, and the father of J. Michael Derk of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.

 

DERSHEN, ROBERT CAREY

 

Born: 4-16-1884  Mifflinburg PA                              married: Kathryn M. Rherer

Died: 11-3-1947  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [8/8/1882 – 5/22/1974]

 

?          ordained, Northwestern Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 190

 

                        Correll and Norcross, MN

                        Big Stone City and Aberdeen, ND

                        Palmerton PA

1921-22           Hustontown, Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church

1922-24           ?

1924-25           Lewisberry & Lisburn, Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church

1925                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

1925-28           Gatchelville & Cross Roads

1928-30           Elysburg

1930-32           Conyngham

1932-35           Pleasant Gap

1935-38           Snow Shoe

1938-40           East Waterford

1940                retired

     1940-41      Fort Loudon 

     1941-42      Karthaus  

     1942-45      Allenwood  

     1945-46      Montandon  

     1946-47      Boyles Run 

 

Note: The churches listed prior to 1925 are as given in his obituary and are not necessarily in sequence.  Robert C. Dershen is the father of Mable Jeannette Dershen Keboch, wife of Edwin C. Keboch.  The maiden name of Mrs. Dershen also appears as Catherine Rherer and Mary Catherine Rherer.

 

DERSTINE, MICHAEL SHAFFER

 

Born: 9-29-1864  Oak Hall, Centre County PA         married: Maude May Gruver

Died: 4-12-1936  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 200

 

1897    admitted on trial

1899    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Centre Hall Cemetery, Centre Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 248

 

1897-02           East Waterford

1902-03           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1904-06           North Bend-Hyner

1906-10           Woolrich-Avis

1910-15           Williamsport Third Street

1915-18           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1918-20           Danville St. Paul’s

1920-22           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1922-28           Williamsport High Street

1928-30           Muncy

1930-32           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1932-34           Ramey-Janesville

1934                retired

                             1934-35      Ramey-Janesville

 

DeWALT, HARRISON ALBERT

 

Born: 5-30-1901  Hancock County OH                     married: Alice Elaine Atwood

Died: 2-7-1995  Benson AZ                                       obit: Wyoming Conference 1947, 732

                                                                                    married2: Ruth Evelyn Kent

1933    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference        obit: [5/26/1923-?]

1936    ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Cochise Gardens of Rest Cemetery, Benson AZ

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 229 & 438]

 

1933-34           Lisle

1934-36           Sidney Center

1936-37           Sanataria Springs

1937-39           Kirkwood

1939-43           Flemingville

1943-46           Tioga Center

1946-48           Hornbrook

1948                transfer to Central New York Conference

1948-49           associate, Odessa-Catherine-Alpine

1949-53           Blodgett Mills-Freetown-East Freetown

1953-55           East Smithfield-Wetona-Big Pond

1955-58           Victory-Bethel-Ira

1958-61           Ledyard-West Genoa-Venice Center (ending in mid-year)

1961                Whitneyville, Genesee Conference (beginning in mid-year)

1961                transfer to Genesee Conference

1961-62           Whitneyville (beginning in mid-year)

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Whitneyville Parish

1964-65           Bald Eagle Parish

1965-66           sabbatical leave

1966                retired

 

Note: Harrison A. DeWalt is the father of Robert William DeWalt (1937-1992), admitted on trial in the Central New York Conference in 1960.

 

DIAL, GLENDALL PEARL

 

Born: 9-13-1919  Branchland WV                                         married: V. June Finch (1947)

Died: 9-15-1959  Batavia OH                                                obit: [6/23/1926 – 10/11/2011]

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1960, 425.

 

1944-47           Burnt Cabins

 

Note: G. Pearl Dial served Burnt Cabins as a student from another conference, while attending seminary at Westminster MD.  This first name also appears in various records as Glendell and Glendal.  The widowed Mrs. Dial later married a Mr. Warren William Jackson (1945-2009).

 

DICKSON, CONWAY WING

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1897    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1897-01           West Fairview-Marysville

1901-03           Beaver Meadow

1903-04           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1904-06           Great Island

1906-07           Hughesville

1907-09           Sinnemahoning

1909-11           Epworth, York

1911-12           Conyngham (did not finish the year)*

1912-16           on leave

1916                withdrew

 

Note: This is not the Conway Wing Dickson (1885-1978) who was an attorney born in Berwick PA and practiced law there.  But this Conway Wing Dickson is also from Berwick and is listed in the 1895 catalog for Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

*Conway Dickson was originally appointed to Shamokin Chestnut Street, and then the appointment was changed to Conyngham. 

As reported in the 3/28/1911 York Daily, page 1, “CHANGE IN APPOINTMENT OF REV. CONWAY DICKSON. The Rev. Conway Wing Dickson, former pastor of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church. Salem avenue and Hartley street, will not go to the church at Shamokin, to which he was appointed by Bishop Anderson at the recent conference at Bloomsburg. He has been transferred to his former charge at Conyngham, near Hazleton. The Rev. Frank Brunstetter, who was appointed to the Conyngham charge, will instead go to Shamokin, taking the church to which the Rev. Mr. Dickson was appointed. The Rev. Mr. Dickson and his family expect to leave York today.”

As later reported in the 4/11/1911 Mount Carmel Daily News, page 4: “It is reported that Rev. Conway Dickson, the Methodist minister at Conyngham will refuse to serve the charge at that place and went to Berwick to see the presiding elder and have some other minister appointed to take his place.”  

As further reported in the 4/2/1911 Danville Morning News, page 3: “Trouble to Suit Rev. Dickson. Rev. Conway Dickson, who was appointed to the Chestnut Street M. E. church in Shamokin by Bishop Anderson at the close of the Central Pennsylvania conference which convened at Bloomsburg, has been returned to his old charge at Hazleton. After he refused the Shamokin oharge, District Superintendent Gilbert transferred him to Conyngham, which also met with the minister's disapproval and he was sent to his former charge at Hazleton.”

According to the 1912 journal, he appears not have served anywhere and is listed as being on leave and living in Olyphant in Lackawanna County.  The references of returning to former charges are unclear.

 

DIEBEL, JACOB HENRY

 

Born: 3-25-1863  Germany                                         married: Bertha A. _____

Died: 6-1-1918  Gordon                                             obit: [d. 4/25/1942]

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Fort Littleton circuit

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Clauser Cemetery, Llewellyn PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 126

 

1888-90           Fort Littleton

1890-91           Mont Alto

1891-92           Rouzerville

1892-95           Littlestown

1895-97           Selinsgrove

1897-00           Mifflinville

1900-02           Bloomingdale

1902-05           Clearville

1905-06           Slate Run

1906-11           Ramey

1911-12           Hoytville

1912-16           Houtzdale

1916-16           Gordon

 

Note:  An obituary for Jacob H. Diebel also appears in the 8/10/1916 Christian Advocate, page 1073.

 

DIEHL, CHARLES ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 1-4-1909  Millville PA                                     married: Ruth Louise Cupp

Died: 7-18-1994  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 406

 

1927    license, recommended by Newberry

1930    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 443

 

1928-29           Hummelstown, Philadelphia Conference

1929-31           Waterville

1931-33           Phelps Chapel and Limestone

1933-37           Salona-Lamar

1937-43           Petersburg

1943-47           Shickshinny

1947-50           York Grace [Calvary]

1950-63           New Cumberland

1963-66           Chambersburg

1966-71           Lewistown First

1971                retired

 

DIEHL, JARED NEWTON

 

Born: 2-17-1846  Snydertown PA                              married: Katherine Hilner

Died: 1-23-1942  Berwick PA                                    obit: [1855 – 2/17/1887]

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Morrison (1890)

1907    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 222

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 200

 

1907-09           Milnesville, Lattimer & Jeddo

1909-16           Jamison City

1916-21           Wapwallopen

1921-26           Orangeville & Rohrsburg

1926-30           Laurelton

1930                retired

 

Note: Jared N. Diehl served as a local pastor.  He appears to have been originally assigned to Washingtonville in 1909, but was “moved” to Jamison City before beginning his work there.

 

 

DILL, HENRY G.

 

Born: 7-18-1808  Gettysburg PA                               married: Sarah Ann Gilbert

Died: 5-30-1887  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 72

 

1831    quarterly conference license

1833    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1835    ordained deacon

1837    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 86

 

1833-34           Prince George

1834-35           Harford

1835-37           Great Falls

1837-39           Sunbury

1839-40           Lewistown circuit

1840-42           Frederick

1842-43           Williamsburg

1843-45           Huntingdon

1845-47           Bellefonte

1847-49           Milton circuit

1849-51           Williamsport

1851-53           Berwick

1853-55           Frederick

1855-57           Liberty

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Berwick

1859-61           Gettysburg

1861-63           Muncy

1863-64           Espty-Light Street

1864-67           Northumberland

1867-68           White Haven

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Catawissa

1871                retired

                             1882-84  New Columbia

 

Note: Henry G. Dill is the father of William Henry Dill.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 363.  There is a folder on the Dill family in the biographical files.  Three of Mrs. Dill’s sisters also married ministers.

 

DILL, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 9-28-1838  Sunbury Pa                                     married: Edith Boynton [7/31/1865]

Died: 1-25-1906                                                          obit: [2/14/1845 – 2/24/1920]

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: (none)

 

1861-66           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1866-67           Hereford

1867-68           Northumberland

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           on leave

                            1868-69  Curwensville & Clearfield

1869-70           Clearfield

1870-73           on leave

                            1872-73  Clearfield

1873-76           Woodland

1876-77           Clearfield circuit

1877-80           Clearfield mission

1880-82           West Huntingdon

1882                located for health reasons, became cashier at First National Bank in Clearfield

 

Note: William Henry Dill is the son of Henry G. Dill.  A biographical sketch of W.H. Dill is given in Aldrich’s 1887 History of Clearfield County, page 690.  He is mentioned in connection with the dedication of a “United Christian” church as follows:  “The dedication of the 'United Christian Church' at Graham Ore Bank, three miles west of Mifflintown, on Sunday last was a grand success in every way. The full amount of the debt subscribed. The dedication sermon in the morning was preached by the Pastor, Rev. H. M. Eberly, and the afternoon addresses by the Revs. Sherlock, of Mifflintown, and Dill, of Clearfield.  A protracted meeting is in progress, with favorable signs for good."

Juniata Sentinel and Republican  March 13, 1878

 

 

 

DIMMICK, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 5-10-1850  Easton PA                                      married: Sarah Louise Morris

Died: 8-2-1908  Delaware OH                                   obit: Ohio Conference 1943, 1064

 

?          Cincinnati Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate KY

Obit: Ohio Conference 1908, 120

 

                        Cincinnati Conference

                        Ohio Conference

                        Cleveland Central

1894                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1894-99           Harrisburg Grace

1899-01           Danville St. Paul’s

1901                transfer to Ohio Conference

                        Columbus Wesley Chapel

 

Note: Am obituary for Benjamin Franklin Dimmick D.D. also appears in the 8/19/1908 Western Christian Advocate, page 2.  He was an 1874 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and instrumental in the May 1889 convocation in Cleveland OH that united various Methodist youth groups to form the Epworth League.

 

DI STEFANO, NICOLA

 

Born: 8-13-1881  Montalbono Sicily                          married: Myrtle Rebecca Cozzens

Died: 1-20-1966  Lake Harbor FL                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 162

married2: Augusta Foor Andrews

1908    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference  obit2: Central New York Conference 1966, 192

1915    ordained deacon, Genesee Conference

1918    ordained elder, page 59

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY          

Obit: Central New York Conference 1966, 187

 

1908-15           Italian work and/or missionary to Italian Conference

1915                transfer to Genesee Conference

1915-16           Italian Missions

1916                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-20           Altoona Italian Mission

1920                transfer to Central New York Conference

1920-21           Manchester

1921-23           Newfield-Trumball

1923-49           Syracuse Church of the Redeemer

1949                retired

 

DIXON, DAVID L.

 

Born: 1-7-1872  near Petersburg PA                          married: Winifred Simon

Died: 8-4-1929  Millerstown  PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 197

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended byh Waterville

 

Interment: Hopewell Cemetery, Hopewell PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 188

 

1906-07           Shirleysburg

1907-09           Waterville

1909-10           West Port

1910-11           Eagles Mere

1911-12           Trevorton

1912-15           Lewisberry-Lisburn.

1915-16           Mt. Holly Springs

1916-18           Hopewell

1918-20           Weatherly

1920-22           Hastings

1922-27           Catawissa

1927-28           Montgomery

1928-29           Millerstown

 

Note: An obituary for David L. Dixon also appears in the 8/22/1929 Christian Advocate, page 1032.

 

DIXON, EDWARD DELBERT       

 

Born: 12-16-1923  Clearfield County PA                  married: Martha Marie Dixon

Died: 2-6-2001                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 358

 

1965    license, recommended by Centre Hill

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Centre Hill Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 361

 

1965                Simmemahoning (Jun 1 – Oct 31)

1966-78           Wallaceton

1978-88           Shawville

1988                retired

 

Note: Edward D. Dixon worked as a laborer and truck driver for 24 years before entering the ministry.

 

DIXON, JOHN ALEXANDER

 

Born: 7-13-1830  Frederick County MD                    married: Harriet Abigail Richards

Died: 5-7-1905  Chicago IL                                       obit: [b. 2/6/1832]

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1859    ordained deacon. East Baltimore Conference

1861    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleun, Chicago IL

Obit: West Wisconsin Conference 1905, 35

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Warrior’s Mark

1858-59           Karthaus

1859-60           Shippen

1860-61           Milton circuit

1861-62           Sunbury

1862-64           York Springs

1864-65           Shippensburg

1865-67           Williamsburg

1867-68           Mount Carmel

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mount Carmel

1869-71           Hanover-New Oxford

1871-72           Newville-Rehoboth

1872-73           Rehoboth

1873-76           Logan Valley

1876-77           Pine Grove

1877-78           Grahamton

1878                located, after a trial, without consent

1878-80           “went west”

1880                “re-admitted” to Nebraska Conference

1880-81           Red Cloud

1881-82           Grant

1882                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1882-83           Coalburg

1883-84           Fairfields

1884-85           Point Pleasant

1885-86           Smithville

1886-87           Quinnimont

1887-88           Hinton & Coal Valley

1888-89           Hinton

1889                transfer to Virginia Conference

1889-90           ?

1890-91           Bethany

1891                transfer to West Wisconsin Conference

1891-92           West Sterling

1892-94           Rewey

1894-95           State Line

1895-98           Cassville

1898-99           Rewey

1899                retired

 

DOBBS, JAMES HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1881    admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Ridge Avenue station

1884    ordained deacon, Illinois Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881    transfer to St. Louis Conference

1884    transfer to Illinois Conference

 

1884-85           Mendon

 

DODD, HARPER P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1944-48           Benezette-Penfield (beginning 10/1/1944)


Note: Harper P. Dodd served as a local pastor.  This may be Harper Byron Dodd (1904-1962), 1936 graduate of Susquehanna University, high school guidance counselor in DuBois PA, married to Irene Fasold.

 

DODSON, EDWARD WESLEY

 

Born: 6-7-1929  Rome PA                                          married: Mrs. Nancy Thomas Hidden (12/21/1985)

Died: 3-10-2007  Westport WA                                 obit: [7/24/1939 -

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1949-53           student, Dickinson College

                             1950-52  Lewisberry

 

Note: Edward W. Dodson is the son of Lavere A. Dodson.  The 1955 Dickinson Alumni Register lists him as a major in the US Army.  Mrs. Dodson (nee Thomas) was previously married to (8/6/1960) and divorced from (1/15/1976) a Mr. Edward William Hidden.  Edward W. Dodson appears to have been once married (per his mother’s obituary) to a woman named Eleanor.

 

DODSON, LAVERE ALVIN

 

Born: 5-26-1902  Quincy PA                                     married: Eunice Alma VanRiper

Died: 3-10-1998                                                          obit: Wyoming Conference 1954, 1760

                                                                                    married2: Grete Helen Paradies

1925    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Upper New York Conference 2019, 217

1928    ordained deacon

1930    ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: East Newark Valley NY

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1998, 320

 

1925-27           Manor Hill

1927-29           Riddlesburg

1929                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1929-32           Rome-North Orwell

1932-36           Otego

1936-39           Bethany

1939-43           Moscow

1943-57           chaplain, US Army

1957                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1957-62           New Jersey Conference

1962                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1962-68           Otego

1968                retired

                             1968-69      Chenango Bridge

                             1969-70      chaplain, Broome CCOC

                             1970-72      Sanitaria Springs

                             1972-74      North Fenton/Susquehanna/Tioga Center

                             1974-76      Brookvale


Note: Lavere A. Dodson is the father of Edward W. Dodson.

 

DOHERTY, JAMES

 

Born: 5-15-1867  Lisburn, Ireland                             married:

Died: 2-27-1941                                                          obit:

 

1900    admitted on trial

1901    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Utahville Cemetery, Coalport PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 205]

 

1893-97           student, Dickinson College

1897-00           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1900-01           Everett circuit

1901-02           Jonestown

1902-03           Benton

1903-09           Excelsior

1909-10           Waterville

1910-12           Jeddo-Milnesville

1912-14           Allegheny

1914-16           Gatchelville

1916-19           York Springs

1919-22           Williamsburg (asst)

1922-23           Ennisville

1923-25           Claysburg

1925-28           Emporium circuit.

1928-30           Glen Hope

1930-33           Alum Bank

1933-34           Blandburg

1934                retired

 

DOLOWAY, ERNEST S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit

 

1925-26           Juniata Gap    

 

Note: This name is also rendered as DOLAWAY.  Ernest Doloway served as a local pastor.  He was been a Baptist pastor in the Endicott NY area (who resigned amidst difficulties) area prior to coming to Pennsylvania – and there was an Ernest Doloway (father?) in the Tabernacle ME Church in Binghamton NY in the late 1880’s.
     This is believed to be the “Rev. E. Stanley Dolaway” who died 1/28/1957 and is buried in the Oatka Cemetery in Scottsville NY, but no other information is available.

 

DONAHUE, JOHN

 

Born: 6-30-1831  Baltimore MD                                married: Mrs. Catharine Mytinger Linton

Died: 5-31-1893  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 101

 

1859    quarterly conference license, Newport circuit

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 90

 

1865-66           Newport circuit

1866-69           Mount Holly Springs

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mount Holly Springs

1869-70           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1870-71           Chambersburg Second

1871-74           Waynesboro

1874-77           Everett

1877-80           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1880-81           Bellefonte

1881-83           Bloomsburg

1883-86           Ashland

1886-89           Hazleton

1989-93           superintendent, Danville District

 

Note: This surname is also rendered DONOHUE.  Mrs. Donahue was first married to a Mr. Linton.  She is the sister of Charles H. Mytinger of the Baltimore Conference.

 

DONALDSON, JANE HOWELL (MONTGOMERY)

 

Born: 1-12-1932  Boston MA                                     married: Joseph Donaldson

Died: 11-28-2006  Tallahassee  FL                            obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by State College

1957    admitted on trial

1960    ordained deacon, Florida Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: [Tallahassee Democrat 12/1/2006]

 

1957-58           at school

1958-61           assistant director, Florida State University Wesley Foundation

1961-63           dean of women, Westminster Choir College at Princeton NJ

1963-65           publicity department, Cedar Crest College at Allentown PA

1965                located

 

Note: Jane Montgomery Donaldson is the daughter of Frank W. Montgomery and the sister of Joanne Montgomery Link.  Some sources five the birthdate as 1/27/1932.

 

 

DOSH, JOHN H.C.

 

Born: 4-17-1821  Strasburg VA                                 married: Hannah Brown Tallman (c. 1852)

Died: 4-16-1881  Arlington MD                                obit: [9/5/1828 – 3/21/1895]

 

1846    quarterly conference license, Woodstock circuit

1848    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1850    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1852    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1882, 34

 

1847-48           Franklin circuit

1848-49           Frostburg

1849-50           Concord

1850-51           Lewistown

1851-53           Pine Creek

1853-54           New Liberty

1854-56           Gettysburg

1856-57           Waynesboro station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Waynesboro station

1858-60           Hollidaysburg

1860-62           Jefferson station

1862-64           Danville

1864-66           York

1866 -68          superintendent, Frederick District

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           superintendent, Frederick District

1869-70           superintendent, West Baltimore District

                        agent, Book Depository

                        Baltimore Harford Avenue

                        Hereford

                        Baltimore circuit

                        Arlington

                        Summerfield

 

Note: Mrs. Dosh is the daughter of prominent layman Jeremiah Tallman of the Williamsport Pine Street congregation.

 

DOTY, JAMES B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-97           Town Hill

 

Note: James B. Doty lived in New Cumberland and served as a local pastor.  The surname is also rendered DOTEY.

 

DOUGHERTY, JAMES H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1892    ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: James H. Dougherty served as a local pastor. 


 

DOUT, SAMUEL REUBEN

 

Born: 7-13-1882  Boyertown PA                               married: Edith M. Coleman

Died: 5-24-1947  York PA                                         obit: Philadelphia Conference 1953, 406

 

1910    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Boyertown PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1948, 208

 

1908-10           student, Dickinson College

                             1908-09  Greencastle

                             1909        “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

                             1909-10  Hummelstown

1910-11           Hummelstown

1911-14           Leola & New Holland

1914-18           Elverson

1918-19           chaplain, US Army

1919-28           Ardmore

1928-37           Shenandoah

1937-45           Philadelphia Rehoboth

1945-46           Lansdale

1946-47           Royersford

                           

 

 

DOVERSPIKE, CLIFFORD LEROY

 

Born: 2-21-1937  Troutville PA                                 married: Wanda Lou Mattern

Died: 4-4-2014  New Salem PA                                 obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Canoe Creek

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

1969    admitted on trial

           

Interment: New Canoe Creek Cemetery, Canoe Creek PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 255

 

1960-63           Oriole

1963-68           Trevorton

1968-72           student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY

     1968-72  Marathon, Ohio Conference

1972-83           Altoona Trinity

1983-88           Greencastle

1988-91           Mechanicsburg Aldersgate

1991-95           Wellsboro

1995-99           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1999                retired

 

Note: C. Leroy Doverspike is the son of Rev. Clifford Reed Doverspike (1908-1975) of the Florida Conference and a brother to Rev. Fred Wilmer Doverspike of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 357.

 

DOW, LOREN WOODBURY

 

Born: 3-11-1915  Camden ME                                   married:

Died: 10-29-1997                                                        obit:

 

1937    ordained deacon, Maine Conference

1939    ordained elder, Maine Conference

1940    admitted on trial, Maine Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New England Conference 1998, ?

 

1935-37           North Brooksville

1937-38           Mattawamsburg

1938-40           Dexter

1940-42           Wareham, New England Southern Conference

1942                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1942-45           Altoona Lakemont

1945-46           at school

1946                transfer to New England Southern Conference

 

DOWNIN, DAVID ALBERT, JR

 

Born: 8-3-1908  Phoenixville PA                               married: Marion F. Dimmick

Died: 10-27-1997  Oriole PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937,275

                                                                                    married2: G. Elizabeth Fenstermaker

                                                                                    obit2: 2004, 364


1937    admitted on trial, recommended by Bethlehem Wesley

1939    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Limestone Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:1998, 432

 

1935-38           Oriole & Antes Fort

1938-40           Rouzerville

1940-42           Half Moon

1942-45           Pleasant Gap

1945-49           Salladasburg

1949-53           Port Royal

1953-57           Newport

1957-64           Berwick Calvary        

1964-75           Millerstown

1975                retired

                             1975-88  Williamsport Christ

 

Note: David A. Downin is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 358

 

DOWNS, WILFORD

 

Born: 3-12-1827  near Lexington VA                        married: Martha Cornelius

Died: 10-12-1884  Baltimore MD                              obit: [1836 – 8/27/1899]

 

1850    quarterly conference license, Fincastle (Va.) circuit

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1885, 35

 

1850-51           Fincastle circuit

1851-52           Moorefield

1852-54           Augusta

1854-56           North Baltimore station

1856-57           Altoona

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Lock Haven

1859-61           Boonsboro

1861-63           Frostburg station

1863-65           Frederick

1865-67           Lewistown

1867-68           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1869-72           East Baltimore station

1872-74           Baltimore Strawbridge

1874-78           superintendent, West Baltimore District

1878-81           South Baltimore station

1881-84           Washington Waugh

1884                Baltimore Monroe Street

 

Note: Wilford Downs is the father of Howard F. Downs (1860-1936) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

DRAKE, CARL VANDIVER

 

Born: 10-25-1880   Flintstone MD                             married: Elva Dempsey

Died: 10-19-1918   Williamsport PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 209

 

1906    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 148

 

1904-08           Elimsport & Maple Hill (started in mid-1904, ending 10/15/08)

1908-13           Williamsport Market Street (beginning 10/15/08

1913-17           Saxton

1917-18           Williamsport Third Street

 

Note: Some biographical information on Carl V. Drake appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 60.

 

 

DRAKE, DONALD E.          

 

Born: 4-22-1929  Lock Haven PA                             married: Jeanne Elizabeth Barner (6/8/1949)

Died: 8-23-2014  DuBois PA                                     obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 399

 

1964    license

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Friends Cemetery, Gramp;ian PA

Obit:

 

1964-67           Half Moon

1967-70           Grampian

1970                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-75           Grampian

1975-88           DuBois Trinity- Penfield

1988-94           Grampian circuit

1994                retired

 

DRIVER, CHARLES ERNEST

 

Born: 3-27-1892  Renovo PA                                     married: Henrietta Pauline Humphrey

Died: 11-25-1979  Bakersfield CA                            obit: [12/21/1892 – 4/18/1958]

                                                                                    married2: Lovina _____

                                                                                    obit2:

Interment: Hillcrest Memorial Park

Obit:

 

1914-16           Trout Run

1916-19           Duboistown & Nisbit

1919-21           Port Matilda

1921-22           Jamison City

1922                no longer listed

1925                evangelist, living in Palmyra NY

1928                Paterson NJ Lewis Street Community Church

1951-79           living in Kern County CA

 

Note: Charles E. Driver served as a local pastor.  There is a biographical file in the conference archives on Charles E. Driver.


 

DRUM, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 1834  McKee’s Half Falls PA                          married: Selma Jane McMillan

Died: 4-7-1898  Philadelphia  PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 743

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 80

 

1855-56           Catawissa

1856-57           Berwick

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Sunbury

1858-59           Gettysburg

1859-60           Liberty

1860-62           Wrightsville

1862-63           Shrewsbury

1863-65           New Washington

1865-66           Warrior’s Mark

1866-68           Liberty Valley

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Renovo

1869-72           Emporium

1872-75           Muncy

1875-78           Jeanesville

1878-81           Northumberland

1881-84           Shickshinny

1884-86           New Cumberland

1886-89           Mt. Carmel

1889-92           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1892-95           Mifflin

1895-98           Shippensburg

1898                on leave

 

Note: Martin L. Drum is the grandfather of William D. Gould (1897-1993) of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.  A biographical sketch of Martin L. Drum is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 365.  Mrs. Drum’s father David McMillan was a local preacher, and her sister Carrie L. McMillan was a missionary to India and the wife of the prominent Methodist missionary Rev. Philo M. Buck (1846-1924).  Charles and Mary Drum, the parents of M.L. Drum were the builders of the Drum House on the Lycoming College campus that served as the president’s residence 1940-1965.

 

DUBOIS, RAYMOND DONALD

 

Born: 8-25-1942  Brooklyn NY                                 married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           student, Susquehanna University

1965-66           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NY

1966                “withdrew” to New York Conference

                        Greater New Jersey Conference

 

Note: Raymond D. DuBois has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He apparently started the ministerial process while a student within our conference and then returned to his native New York Conference.  In 2003 he is listed as a member of the Greater New Jersey serving as chaplain of the Garden State Correctional Facility.

 

DUBRICK, WILTON J.

 

Born: 6-16-1904  Courtdale PA                                 married: Hazel Mae Harding

Died: 8-25-1981                                                          obit: Wyoming Conference 2003, 204

 

1929    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1982, 222

 

1929-31           student, Dickinson College

                             1929-31  Lewisberry & Lisburn

1931-33           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1932-33  Pocono Lake

1933-35           Wilkes-Barre Bennet Memorial –St. Andrews

1935-37           Glen Lyon

1937-41           Whitney Point

1941-42           Endwell & Vestal Center

1942-43           Endwell

1943-46           Sidney

1946-51           Waverly NY

1951-53           Wilkes-Barre Firwood

1953-58           executive secretary, Conference Board of Education

1958-63           Clarkes Green

1963-72           Binghamton Fairview

1972-75           Maine Federated

1975                retired

                             1975-77  Maine Federated

                             1980-81  Choconut Center

 

Note: served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

DUM [DUNN], RAY SPOTTS

 

Born: 7-6-1888                                                            married: Jennie Helen McWhood

Died:                                                                           obit:  New Mexico Conference 1920, 50

                                                                                    married2: Kate Heller

1914    admitted on trial, New Mexico Conference   obit2:  Oregon Conference 1946,305

                                                                                    married3: Mrs. Mirabel _____

                                                                                    obit 3:

Interment:                                                                  

Obit: [DUNN] Idaho Conference 1953, 83

 

1908-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1909-10  Hammersly Fork (later part of the year)

                             1910-11  Rehoboth

                             1911        Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Grove (ending summer 1911)

1911-14           student, drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1914-16           Clayton English Mission

1916-17           Las Vegas (English)

1917-21           Roswell (English)

1921                transfer to Colorado Conference

1921                 Pueblo Bethel

…

?                      transfer to Idaho Conference

1951                retired

 

Note:  Ray S. Dum moved to New Mexico in 1914 for the health of his first wife, who suffered from tuberculosis.  At the insistence of the second Mrs. Dum, he legally changed his name to Ray S. Dunn.  There is a Dum biographical file at the conference archives and a Dum Family Collection in the special Collections at Dickinson College.

 

DUMVILLE, WILLIAM SOLOMON JOSEPH

 

Born: 7-4-1877  Alpena MI                                        married: Nan Pearl Wertz (aka Werts)

Died: 7-12-1939                                                          obit: [8/14/1882 – 12/14/1957]

 

1906    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Riverview Buirial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit:

 

1902-04           Westport

1904-05           Harrisonville

1905-07           Wapwallopen

1907-09           Jamison City

1909                withdrew because he was unwilling to abstain from tobacco

 

Note: This surname also appears as DUMVILL, including on hius tombstone, and this first name is sometimes given as Willis.  Some biographical information on Will S.J. Dumville appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 56.  He is listed in the 1915 History of Allegheny College as a 1906 graduate serving in Galloway NE.

 

 

DUNCAN, CHARLES HAVEN

 

Born: 9-1-1934  Ashland PA                                      married: Linda Dorothea Kilbourne ([9/1/1956)

Died: 10-8-1981  Danielson CT                                 obit: [b. 11/10/1936] (divorced 1975)

                                                                                    Married2: Carlyn Wenger Hopkins

1958      admitted on trial

 

Interment: Christ Church Cemetery, Fountain Springs PA

Obit:

 

1958-60           student, Boston University School of Theology

1960                transfer to Northwest Indiana Conference

1960-61           Clermont IN

1962                discontinued

1962-67           East Haddam CT Congregational

1967-68           Long Beach CA Community Church

1968-69           Nowell MA Methodist

1069-76           Eastford CT Congregational  


 

DUNCAN, JACKSON LASHER

 

Born: 3-1-1847  Fork MD                                          married: Effie Lee Davis

Died: 1-29-1918  Baltimore MD                                obit: [3/8/1862 – 6/13/1933]

 

1891    admitted on trial

1895    ordained elder, recommended by Lewisberry circuit

 

Interment: Sherwood Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cockeysville MD

Obit:

 

1890-92           Muhlenberg

1892-93           Rohrsburg

1893                discontinued at own request

 

Note: Jackson L. Duncan served after 1893 as a local pastor.

 

DUNCAN, JOHN MASON

 

Born:                                                                           married: Rebecca Mary Duffield

Died:                                                                           obit: [d. 2/28/1887]

 

1872    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1872-73           McConnellsburg

1873                discontinued at own request

 

Note: It is believed that John Mason Duncan later taught at the Allegany County Academy (near Cumberland MD) and still later removed to Bellefonte PA.  Mrs. Duncan was from McConnellsburg.

 

 

DUNKERLY, JOHN RICHARD

 

Born: 12-28-1856  Williamsport PA                          married: Bertha Free

Died: 2-11-1905   Shickshinny PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 81

                                                                                    married2: E. Cordelia Reifsnyder

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Newberry     obit2: 1927,533

1880    ordained deacon, recommended by Newberry

           

Interment: Washington Street Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 115

 

 

1880-81           South Heberton

1881-82           Mont Alto

1882-84           Liverpool

1884-87           Shippensburg

1887-91           Gettysburg

1891-94           Hopewell

1894-99           York Duke Street

1899-03           Huntingdon Second

1903-04           Shickshinny

 

Note: An obituary for John R. Dunkerly also appears in the 2/23/1905 Christian Advocate, page 309.  The second Mrs. Duncan is a sister to the prominent medical missionary Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder.

 

DUNLAP, GEORGE WILSON

 

Born: 1-20-1827   Brownsville PA                             married: Elizabeth M. Hendrix

Died: 6-23-1901  Williamsport PA                            obit: [1828-1865]

                                                                                    married2: Nancy J. Musser

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: 1902, 136

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 126

 

1855-56           Allegany

1856-57           Schellsburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Shirleysburg

1858-59           York Springs

1859-60           West Falls

1860-62           Shrewsbury

1862-64           Wrightsville

1864-66           Karthaus

1966-68           Philipsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Canton MD

1869-70           Granville

1870-72           Freedom Forge [Burnham]

1872-75           Cassville

1875-77           New Bloomfield

1877-79           Three Springs

1879-81           Port Royal

1881-83           Benton

1883-84           Lycoming

1884-87           Great Island

1887-88           Cogan Valley

1888-97           on leave

                             1891-92  Hyner

                             1092-93  Lycoming

1897                retired

 

Note: A biographical of George W. Dunlap sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 366.

 

DUNLAP, MARION OSCAR [“DUTMY”]

 

Born: 7-24-1911  Chambersburg PA                          married: Lillian Violet Royer (1935)

Died: 11-27-1999  Yuba City CA                              obit: [4/14/1917 – 3/24/2011]

 

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1944    ordained elder, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Sutter Cemetery, Sutter CA

Obit:

 

1943-44           chaplain, US Army

1944                transfer to Virginia Conference

1944                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1944-47           chaplain, US Army

1947                transfer to California Conference

1948                [re-named California-Nevada Conference]

1954-56           on leave

1956                voluntary location

 

DUNLAP, PAUL BRYAN

 

Born: 6-05-1897  Banks twp, Indiana Co PA            married: Mary E. Todd

Died: 9-13-1960  New Castle PA                               obit: [1/25/1890 – 12/3/1943]

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Kathryn Fox (6/29/1945)

Interment: Montgomery Cem., Glen Campbell PA   obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1999,353

Obit:

 

1932-34           Glen Hope & Madera

1934-36           Frankstown

1936-39           Ramey & Blandburg
                        “transfer” to Pittsburgh (Erie?) Conference of the Methodist Church
1949-57           Sligo & Cherry Run
1957-60           Clintonville

 

Note: Paul B. Dunlap served in Central Pennsylvania as a local pastor.  The second Mrs. Dunlap supplied the pulpit at Clintonville (1960-73) after her husband died and went on to become an associate member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

DUNLAP, RICHARD NORMAN

 

Born: 9-1-1934  Philipsburg PA                                 married: Ann Carolyn Devore

Died: 2-22-2011  Philipsburg PA                               obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 255

 

1960    ordained deacon

1961    admitted on trial

1963    ordained elder

           

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 396

 

1961-62           New Millport

1962-65           Montgomery

1965-66           student, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena CA

1966-70           Wrightsville

1970-77           Jersey Shore Epworth & Trinity (yoked parish)

1977-88           Muncy

1988-97           Huntingdon First

1997                retired

 

Note: Richard N. Dunlap is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 369.

 

DUNLAP, PAUL BRYAN

 

Born: 6-5-1900  Hortons PA                                      married: Mary Todd

Died:9-13-1960  New Castle PA                                obit: [d. 1943]

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Kathryn Fox

1924    ordained, ? Conference                                   obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference1999,353

 

Interment:                                                                  

Obit: Erie Conference 1961, 599

 

                        Wisconsin Conference

                        Central Pennsylvania Conference

1949                “transfer” to Erie Conference

1949-57           Sligo-Cherry Run

1957-60           Clintonville Grace

 

 Note: Paul B. Dunlap has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He passed through the conference course of study 1934-38.  Mrs. Dunlap supplied the pulpit during her husband’s illness and became an associate member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1969; when Paul B. Dunlap died, she continued as pastor at Clintonville until 1973.

 

 

DUNLAP, SAMUEL B.

 

Born: 5-10-1816  Brownsville, Fayette County PA   married: Caroline L. Easter (1842)

Died: 5-14-1861  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1/28/1819 – 6/19/1892]

 

1838    admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1862, 36

 

1837-38           Kingwood (Va) circuit

1838-39           Washington (Pa) circuit

1839-40           Somerset

1840-41           Ligonier

1841-42           Redstone

1842                transfer to Missouri Conference

1842-43           St. Charles

1843-44           Fayette

1844-45           (no appointment)

1845                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference (because of the ME/MES split)

1845-46           Beallsville circuit (last part of the year)

1846-48           Morgantown VA

1848-50           Temperanceville

1850-51           Allegheny City Beaver Street

1851-52           Allegheny City South-Common

1852-54           Steubenville OH

1854-55           (no appointment)

1855                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1855-57           Frostburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Carlisle

1859-61           Baltimore Caroline station

 

 

DUNMIRE, WILLIAM WORTH

 

Born: 3-27-1847 near McVeytown PA                      married: Rosamund Caldwell Vail

Died: 3-16-1907                                                          obit: [1850-1910]

                                                                                   

1871    admitted on trial                                             

 

Interment: Dunmire Cemetery, McVeytown PA

Obit:

 

1870-72           Concord

1872-73           Granville

1873-76           Burnt Cabins

1876-79           Glen Hope

1879-82           Williamsburg

1882-85           Logan Valley

                            1882-85       editor, Williamsburg Independent

1885                located

                            1885-?         editor, Altoona Evening Independent

                            1893-94       Warriors Mark

 

Note: William W. Dunmire is a brother to Emily Dunmire Melick (1834-1910), wife of Justus A. Melick, and to Lucinda Dunmire Ely (1840-1895), wife of John Wesley Ely.  He is a first cousin to Gabriel Dunmire (1832-1885) of the Erie and East Ohio Conferences.  The 1892 Biographical Cyclopedia of Blair County gives a biographical sketch and reports that William Worth Dunmire is the proprietor and editor of the Independent Loyal American newspaper in Altoona.

 

DUNN, ROBERT HENRY  

 

Born: 2-10-1916  New Waterford OH                       married: Agnes E. _____

Died: 10-16-1999  Atlanta GA                                   obit: [9/4/1915 – 9/16/2006]

 

1962    license, recommended by Beaver First

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Atlanta GA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 334]

 

1963-68           Eagles Mere (beginning 9/1/63)

1968-74           Enola (beginning 8/1/68)

1974-78           Berwick St. Paul’s

1978-81           disability

1981                retired

 

Note: Robert H. Dunn appears to have been originally from California.

 

DUNNING, CHARLES THOMPSON

 

Born: 11-21-1852  Dover DE                                     married: Mary Hamilton Crever

Died: 10-22-1932  Pittsburgh PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 138

 

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Watsontown & Montandon

1882    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 185

 

1873-74           faculty, Worthington Seminary in Worthington MN

1874-76           faculty, Jennings Seminary in Aurora IL

1876-77           faculty, seminary at Harrisburg PA

1877-80           faculty, Pennington Seminary in Pennington NJ

1880-81           Hickory Run circuit.

1881-82           Beach Haven

1882-84           Concord

1884-86           Three Springs

1886-88           Petersburg-Alexandria

1888-89           Petersburg

1889-93           Hanover-New Oxford

1893-96           Wrightsville

1896-99           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1899-03           Mechanicsburg

1903-06           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1906-09           Osceola Mills

1909-11           Altoona Juniata

1911-13           Williamsport Grace

1913-14           Mt. Carmel

1914-17           Hollidaysburg

1917-20           Williamsburg

1920                retired

 

Note: Charles T. Dunning is the father of James E. Dunning.  Mrs. Dunning is the daughter of Benjamin Heck Crever.

 

 

DUNNING, JAMES EDWIN

 

Born: 1-23-1886  Three Springs PA                           married: Elizabeth “Daisy” W. Fisher

Died: 9-26-1958  Los Angeles CA                             obit:

           

1907    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1959, 324

 

1907-09           Center-Sandy Ridge

1909-12           Lumber City

1912-15           Howard

1915                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1915-17           Johnstown Louther Memorial

1917-21           Ford City

1921                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1921-25           Los Angeles Chesterfield Square

1925-29           Los Angeles Euclid Heights

1929-33           Pacific Palisades

1933-35           Orange

1935-39           superintendent, San Diego-Phoenix District

1939-43           executive secretary, conference board of missions and church extension

1943-58           Los Angeles First

 

Note: James E. Dunning is the son of Charles T. Dunning and grandson of Benjamin Crever.  He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, page 100.

 

 

DURKEE, JOHN BEST

 

Born: 6-13-1855  Madera PA                                     married: Lucretia Shoff

Died: 5-6-1930  Houtzdale PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 163

 

1893    ordained deacon

1895    ordained elder

1910    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Beulah Cemetery, Madera PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 174

 

1893-94           Millheim 

1894-98           Harrisonville  

1898-01           New Millport [Ansonville]

1900-04           Karthaus 

1904-07           Port Matilda 

1907-08           Pleasant Gap 

1908-11           Cogan Valley

1911-13           Costello-Wharton

1913-15           Shawville

1915-17           Cherry Tree

1917-19           Munson

1919-21           Jeddo-Milnesvile

1921-22           Kulpmont

1922024          Karthaus

1924-25           Waterville

1925                retired

 

 

DUVALL, GEORGE ALBERT

 

Born: 12-28-1879  Akersville PA                              married: Anna Elizabeth Steck

Died: 1-9-1955  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 266

 

1904    admitted on trial

1906    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 228

 

1903-04           Medix 

1904-07           Westport

1907-11           Park Place-Delano

1911-16           Gordon

1916-22           Barnesboro

1922-27           Roaring Spring

1927-30           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1930-33           Bedford

1933-42           Williamsport High Street

1942-46           Jersey Shore Epworth

1946-49           Mill Hall

1949                retired

 

Note: George A. Duvall is the uncle of Ira R. Duvall.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 45.

 

DUVALL, IRA RUSSELL

 

Born: 7-29-1892  Crystal Springs PA                        married: Ramie Osa Jackson

Died: 10-10-1983                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 428

 

1912    license, recommended by Akersville

1917    admitted on trial

1919    ordained deacon

1921    ordained elder

 

Interment: Watsontown Cemetery, Watsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 375

 

1914                Vira (ending 9/14)

1914-15           student, Dickinson College (9/14 to 9/15)

1915-17           Keating Summit (beginning 9/15)

1917-21           Burnt Cabins

1921-28           Orbisonia-Shirleysburg

1928-32           Houtzdale (ending 6/32)

1932-38           Montgomery (7/32 – 7/38)

1938-48           Altoona Grace (beginning 8/38)

1948-55           Osceola Mills

1955-61           Curwensville

1961                retired

 

Note: Ira R. Duvall is the nephew of George A. Duvall.

 

 

DYER, LEWIS A.

 

Born: 12-24-1866  Pleasant Hill MO                         married: Bula Schaeffer

Died: 11-27-1930  Landisville PA                             obit: [1884 – 1975]

 

1895    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment: Landisville Cemetery, Landisville PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1931, 712

 

1898-00           Bethel-Trinity (did not finish the second year)

1900-05           Shamokin mission

1905-09           on leave

1909-11           Wapwallopen

1911-13           Beach Haven

1913                Roaring Creek

1913                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1913-14           Springfield

1914-15           Grove

1915-17           Thorndale

1917-20           Tremont

1920-21           Belfast and Wind Gap

1921-24           Tullytown

1924-26           Delaware Water Gap Portland

1926-27           Lehighton

1927-28           on leave

1928-30           Salunga

1930                on leave

 

Note: The Trinity of Bethel-Trinity is the former Trinity South of the Evangelical Association; this charge is in southern York County.

 

 

DYSART, RUSSELL BALDWIN

 

Born: 12-27-1887  Newton Hamilton PA                   married: Anna L. Reynolds

Died: 11-12-1943  Mifflinville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 452

 

1913    license

1918    admitted on trial, recommended by Montville NJ

1918    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Franklinville Cemetery, Franklinville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 220

 

1916-17           Montville NJ, Newark Conference

1917-20           YMCA War Work

1920-22           Riddlesburg

1922-25           Birmingham

1925-28           James Creek

1928-30           Dudley

1930-34           New Oxford

1934-39           New Bloomfield

1939-42           Three Springs

1942-43           Mifflinville

 

Note: Russell B. Dysart is a brother to William A. Dysart.  Following the death of Russell Dysart, his wife cared for the work at Mflinville and Lime Ridge until the end of the conference year.

 

DYSART, WILLIAM ALEXANDER

 

Born: 10-10-1879  Newton Hamilton PA                  married: Fay McCoy Carse

Died: 7-10-1972  Miami FL                                       obit: [10/3/1884 – 9/24/1975]

 

Interment: Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Miami FL

Obit:

 

1922-25           Allegheny circuit

1925-28           Sandy Ridge

1928-29           [no appointment]

1929-31           Blandburg

 

Note: William A. Dysart is a brother to Russell B. Dysart.  He served as a local pastor and lived in Belleville for 34 years.  In 1940 he retired from the ministry and moved to Lansdowne PA.  He moved to Miami in 1953.

 

DYSON, FRANKLIN

 

Born: 11-26-1810  Charles County MD                     married: Mary Ann Noble

Died: 11-10-1880  Chambersburg PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 81

 

1839    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1841    ordained deacon

1843    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 74

 

1839-41           Waynesboro

1841-42           Concord

1842-43           West River MD

1843-45           Charles MD

1845-47           Newport

1847-49           Mifflin

1849-51           York Springs

1851-53           Boonsboro MD

1853-55           Bloomingdale

1855-57           Milton station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857                retired

     1857-68  agent, Bible Society

     1868        charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

     1868-80  agent, Bible Society

 

Note: An obituary for Franklin Dyson also appears in the March 1880 Conference News, page 4.  He is an uncle to Mary Addie Dyson Kester, wife of Aaron M. Kester.

 

 

EARNSHAW, WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-12-1828  Philadelphia PA                             married: Margaret A. Hutchinson

Died: 7-17- 1885  Dayton OH                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 127

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 77

 

1853-54           Warrior’s Mark

1854-56           Gettysburg

1856-57           Hancock MD

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Hancock MD

1858-60           Mercersburg

1860-62           Shippensburg

1862-67           chaplain, US Volunteers

1867-68           chaplain, National Home for disabled volunteers in Dayton OH

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-85           chaplain, National Home for disabled volunteers in Dayton OH

 

Note: An obituary for William Earnshaw also appears in the 8/6/1885 Christian Advocate.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 368, and in the January 1879 Conference News.  Some sources indicate that he transferred to the Tennessee Conference in 1864.

 

EARP, EDWIN LEE

 

Born: 10-26-1867  Illchester MD                               married:  Lina Gibb Pearsall [5/1/1901]

Died: 2-4-1950                                                            obit: [1877 – 1960]

 

1893    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1896    ordained elder, Newark Conference

1900    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Valleau Cemetery, Ridgewood NJ

Obit: Newark Conference 1950, 491

 

1891-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-97           student, New York University in New York City NY

                             1895-97      Ridgewood NJ

1897-98           student, Drew Theological Seminary on Madison NJ

1898-99           student, University of Berlin

1899-00           student, Leipzig University

1900-02           Newark St. James

1902-04           Plainfield Grace

1904-09           faculty, Syracuse University in Syracuse NY

1909-38           faculty, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1938                retired

 

Note: Although ordained by the conference, Edwin L. Earp was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He is the author of numerous books and articles.  Mrs. Earp took seminary courses at Drew 1923-25.  Other sources erroneously give her maiden name as Ella Louisa Pearsall.

 

 

EBERHART, DAVID CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 11-19-1826  Mercer County PA                       married: Mary Elizabeth Gerry

Died: 12-21-1913  Shrewsbury PA                            obit: [1835 – 4/2/1867]

                                                                                    married2: Warnetta Irene Benton [1872]

1853    license, North Baltimore quarterly conf         obit2: [4/1/1850 – 8/23/1936]

1863    ordained local deacon

 

Interment: Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery, Shrewsbury PA

Obit: The Christian Advocate 2/5/1914, page 206

 

                        Shrewsbury circuit (18 months, resigned for failing health)

1863-64           chaplain, US Army

 

Note: David Eberhart is the father of James G. Eberhart and of David Cleon Eberhart [strangely known as David Cleon Eberhart Jr.] (1874-?) who attended Drew Theological Seminary and served briefly in the Congregational Church before taking up law.  He practiced dentistry in York County and served as a local pastor.  Family tradition says David Sr. was initially assigned to Shrewsbury circuit but left the itinerancy because of failing health.

 

EBERHART, JAMES GERRY

 

Born: 7-27-1856  Shrewsbury PA                              married: Florence Elmira Little [3/3/1881]

Died: 11-19-1936  Winnebago County IL                 obit: [1861 – 7/15/1939]

 

1881    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

1884    ordained deacon

1886    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Rockford IL

Obit:

 

1881-82           Burnt Cabins

1882                discontinued at own request

1882                “transfer” to Rock River Conference

1882-83           Shannon

1883-84           Forreston

1884-85           Durand and Davis

1885-86           missionary to Flagstaff AZ

1886-88           missionary to Prescott AZ

1888                missionary to Tombstone AZ

1888                transfer to Colorado Conference

1888-89           Central City

1889-90           Ouray

1890                transfer to Rock River Conference

1890                Kent

1890                transfer to Upper Iowa Conference

1890-91           Northwood

1891-92           Parkersburg

1892-93           West Branch

1893-94           Edgewood

1894-96           Elwood

1896-97           Slacyville

1897-98           Ridgeway

1898-99           Bassett

1899-01           Andrew

1901-02           Oxford Junction

1902-06           on leave

1906                transfer to Central Illinois Conference

1906-08           Moline and Carbon Cliff

1908-09           Erie

1909-14           on leave

1914                located, living in Rockford IL.

 

Note: James G. Eberhart is the son of David C. Eberhart.  He graduated from Cornell College (Iowa) in 1878 and from Drew Theological Seminary in 1880.

 

EBNER, J. ROLLIN

 

Born: 10-25-1876  Muncy PA                                    married: Blanche Gertrude Duncan

Died: 2-5-1968  Muncy PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 181

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Muncy

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 318

 

1901-03           Westport

1903-05           Penfield

1905-06           on leave

1906-07           Williamsport Pine Street

1907-11           Stewartstown

1911-21           retired

1921-22           on leave

1922                retired

 

ECKERSLEY, JAMES

 

Born: 8-1-1854  England                                            married: Cornelia Ann Gerard [4/18/1883]

Died: 3-26-1936                                                          obit: [3/26/1853 – 3/6/1901]

 

1882    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1883    ordained deacon, recommended by Loudon

 

Interment: Columbus Cemetery, Columbus NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1936, 134

 

1880-82           student, Dickinson College

1882-83           Loudon

1883-84           Dillsburg

1884-86           Fort Littleton

1886-89           Littlestown

1889-92           Newville-Pine Grove

1892-95           Selinsgrove

1895                transfer to New Jersey Conference

                        Columbus

 

EDEL, WILLIAM WILCOX

 

Born: 3-16-1894                                                          married: Louise Billingsley

Died: 9-16-1996  El Cajon CA                                   obit: So Cal-Arizona Conference 1967, 266

                                                                                    married2: Joscelyne Ursula [“Marina”] Gee

1916    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: California-Pacific Conference 1989, 336

 

Interment: Westminster Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit: California-Pacific Conference 1997, H-5

 

1917-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-59           president, Dickinson College

1947                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1947-59           president, Dickinson College

1959                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

 

Note: William W. Edel also served as superintendent of education for American Samoa 1924-27.  The second Mrs. Edel was the widow of a Mr. Rupert Nixon; for details on her life in the entertainment/communication industry see her obituary in the 10/27/1988 San Diego Union, reprinted by Find-a-Grave.

 

 

EDMONDS, WALTER GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married: Peggy Giauque

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1968    admitted on trial

1968    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

1968-70           student, Yale University in New Haven CT

1970                transfer to Southern New Jersey Conference

1978                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

1982                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1982-88           minister of music, St. Luke’s Lutheran (beginning 1/1/1988)

1988-11           Damascus-Friendship
2011-132         Damascus

2013                retired (01/01/2013)

 

Note: Walter G. Edmonds (pianist) and his daughter Polly Edmonds Baldridge (soloist) have produced several albums of Christian music.

 

EDWARDS, ISAIAH T.

 

Born: 11-13-1847  Broad Top PA                              married: Eliza Ellen Stucker

Died: 10-6-1891                                                          obit: [1847 – 1911]

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, PA

Obit:

 

1869-72           Orangeville

1871-73           Castle Fin

1873-75           on leave

                             1873-74      Benton

1875-76           Liberty Valley

1876-77           Congress Hill

1877-79           Snow Shoe

1879-82           Lumber City

1882                transfer to Florida Conference (for health reasons)

1883-84           Lake Eustis, Mont Dora & Round Lake

1884-85           Seneca Lake circuit

1885-86           St. John’s River

1886-88           on leave

1888                located, and apparently returned to Pennsylvania

                             1888-89      Waterville

                             1901-02      Boiling Springs

 

EDWARDS, JACOB DANIEL

 

Born: 5-10-1892  Nesquehoning PA                          married: Marie Becker

Died: 9-9-1966  Emmaus PA                                     obit: [divorced 5/6/1938]

                                                                                    married2: Esther Caroline Iobst [9/14/1947]

1926    license, Evangelical Congregational Church  obit2: [4/6/1900 – 9/25/2003]

1927    ordained, Evangelical Congregational Church

 

 

Interment: Protestant Cemetery, Nesquehoning PA

Obit:

 

1924-25           Clearville

1925-26           Picture Rocks circuit

1926                “transfer” to the Evangelical Congregational Church

1926-31           Herndon

1931-37           Emmaus St. Matthew’s

1937-42           Boyertown

1942-43           Slatington

1943-44           US Army

1944-50           Slatington

1950-51           located

1951-53           Centronia

1953-58           Herndon

1958-59           Slatington

1959                retired

 

Note: Jacob D. Edwards served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He served in the US Army in WWI and WWII, and he and his wife reportedly founded the Edwards Evangelical Congregational School and Church in Liberia, Africa.

 

EDWARDS, THOMAS R.

 

Born: 5-27-1863  England                                          married: Margaret B. Simmons

Died: 11-23-1931  Shenandoah PA                            obit: [11/3/1856 – 6/12/1953]

 

1888    ordained local deacon, recommended by Stockton & Beaver Meadows charge

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit:

 

Note: Thomas R. Edwards served as a local pastor.  He worked as a mine inspector since coming to America, and settled in Schuylkill County in 1890.

 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE

 

Born: 4-23-1834  Martinsburg VA                             married: Lucinda Frances [Fanny] Trone

Died: 2-16-1909  Baltimore MD                                obit: [11/30/1838 – 4/12/1912]

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference.

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1909, 87

 

                        Warrenton VA

                        Jefferson circuit

                        Jackson Street and Market Street, St. Paul MN

                        Alexandria VA

                        Chambersburg circuit

                        Warrenton

Severn

                        Fayette Street

                        City Station

1869                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-71           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1871                transfer to Baltimore Conference

                        Broadway

                        Caroline Street

                        Centre Street

                        superintendent, Baltimore District

                        superintendent, West Baltimore District

                        McKendree

                        Dumbarton Avenue

                        superintendent, Baltimore District

                        superintendent, East Baltimore District

                        Madison Square

1901                retired

 

Note William S. Edwards is the son of William B. Edwards (1809-1888) of the Baltimore Conference.  Mrs. Edwards is the daughter of John Steadman Trone (1882-1885) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

EGE, OLIVER

 

Born: 12-11-1800 Boiling Springs PA                       married: Susanna Penrose Thompson

Died: 8-9-1889 Mechanicsburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 105

 

1827    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 75

 

1827-29           Concord

1829-30           Philipsburg

1830-31           Bellefonte

1831-32           Sunbury

1832-33           Berwick

1833-34           Lycoming

1834-35           Northumberland

1835-37           Sunbury

1837-39           Great Falls

1839-41           Codorus

1841-43           Shrewsbury

1843-45           East Harford

1845-47           Washington DC Ebenezer

1847-48           Patapsco

1848-50           Calvert

1850-52           Newport

1852-54           Severn

1854-56           Great Falls

1856-57           Frederick circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           York Springs

1859-60           Wrightsville

1860-68           founder/principal, Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-78           principal, Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg

                            1874-75       New Cumberland

                            1876-78       Mechanicsburg

1878                retired

 

Note: Oliver Ege is the father of Thompson P. Ege.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 370.  Another son, Alexander Hemphill Ege (1838-1920), is also credited with being the principal at Cumberland Valley Institute 1860-1878.  It appears that the proper titles at Cumberland Valley Institute are as follows:

1860-65           Thompson = principal, Alexander  = assistant principal, Oliver = manager

1865-68           Alexander = principal, Oliver = manager

 

EGE, THOMPSON PRETTYMAN

 

Born: 10-12-1835  Berwick PA                                  married: Sarah Cooper Dodson

Died: 3-?-1912                                                            obit: [5/?/1834 – 1/20/1891]

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1866    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1868    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Church of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr PA

Obit:

 

1860-65           president, Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg

1865-68           president, Irving Female College at Mechanicsburg

1868                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-84           president, Irving Female College at Mechanicsburg

1884                withdrew to join the Protestant Episcopal Church

 

Note: Thompson P. Ege is the son of Oliver Ege.  He is the author of History and Genealogy of the Ege Family in the United States 1738-1911 and of Dodson Genealogy 1600-1907, neither of which the archives has.

 

EIDAM, JOHN RICHARD

 

Born: 4-28-1944  Shamokin PA                                 married: Elaine Marie Wetzel [8/12/67]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-66           student, Lycoming College

1966-69           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1969- 91          dean of admissions, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

1991                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1991-               dean of admissions, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

 

Note:  As of 2003, John Eidam still serves as the dean of admissions at Wyoming Seminary.

 

EISENMAN, THOMAS EDWARD

 

Born: 4-25-1927  Hazleton PA                                   married: Sarah [Sally] Hallman 96/20/1953)

Died: 7-10-2020                                                          obit: [6/25/1935 – 6/13/2018]

 

1950    license

1952    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Lima OH

Obit:

 

1950-53           White Haven

1953-56           Beach Haven

1956-58           Freeland Parish

1958                withdrew to join the United Church of Christ

 

1981-91           Calvary UCC, Lima OH

1991-14           First Reformed UCC, Kenton OH

 

 

ELLIOTT, THOMAS ALFONZO

 

Born: 7-23-1855  Lewisburg PA                                married: Anna M. Zuck

Died: 8-10-1922  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 91

                                                                                    married2: Laura Annette Ulsh

obit2: [Central Pennsylvania Conf. 1947, 215]

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Pine Grove circuit    

1886    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, New Buffalo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 133

 

1882-83           Woodland

1884-87           Pine Grove

1887-89           Birmingham

1889-94           on leave

1894-96           Liverpool

1896-97           Hoytville

1897-99           on leave

1899-00           Greencastle

1900-01           Camp Hill

1901-05           on leave (ending 7/16/1905)

1905-07           Lock Haven East Main Street (beginning 7/16/1905)

1907-08           Cross Forks

1908-11           Hoytville

1911-13           Ramey

1913-15           Sinnemahoning

1915                retired

 

Note: Thomas A. Elliott is the son of John W. Elliott (1818-1857) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

ELLIOTT, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

1859-60           Muncy

1860                discontinued at own request

 

ELY, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 1-25-1844  near Elysburg PA                           married: Lucinda Susan Dunmire

Died: 8-16-1893  Warrior’s Mark PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 135

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Bloomsburg

1880    return to itinerancy, recommended by McVeytown & Granville circuit

 

Interment: Warrior’s Mark Cemetery, Warrior’s Mark PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 91

 

1867-68           Washingtonville

1968                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shirleysburg

1869-71           Manor Hill

1871-73           Milroy

1873-75           Rainsburg

1875-76           on leave

1876-78           Freedom

1878-80           on leave

1880-82           Blain

1882-83           on leave

1883-85           Thompsontown

1885-88           on leave

1888-90           Woodbury

1890-93           Warrior’s Mark

 

Note: An obituary for John W. Ely also appears in the 8/24/1893 Central Pennsylvania Methodist, page 1.  Mrs. Ely is a sister to William Worth Dunmire and Mrs. Justus A. Melick.

 

 

ENGLER, STUARD HARRISON

 

Born: 5-30-1864  Bethlehem PA                                married: Myrtle Joanna Bryan

Died: 5-28-1927  Port Matilda PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 248

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by McElhattan

1903    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Tyrone Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 737

 

1899-01           McElhattan & Pine

1901-03           Liberty Valley

1903-05           Laporte

1905-11           Medix Run

1911-12           Pleasant Gap

1912-16           Glen Campbell

1916-19           Schellsburg

1919-23           Glen Hope

1923-25           Three Springs

1925-27           Port Matilda

 

ERTEL, DANIEL ANDREW

 

Born: 7-30-1870  Penn Hall PA                                 married: Carrie Mae Ulrich

Died: 4-19-1929  Spring Mills PA                             obit: Central PA Conference EUB 1960,89

 

1901    exhorter’s license

1902    local preacher’s license

1911    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1913    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1915    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Millheim PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church 1930, 81

 

1909-11           Karthaus

1911                “transferred” to United Evangelical denomination

1911-13           Port Trevorton

1913-15           Nittany

1915-20           New Berlin

1920-23           Millmont

1923-24           Grover

1924-26           Salladasburg

1926-29           on leave

1929                retired

 

Note:  Daniel A. Ertel served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

ESKRIDGE, ALFRED AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 3-1-1798  Centreville, Fairfax County VA      married: Eliza Ann Buchanan

Died: 1-16-1891  Staunton VA                                  obit: [3/11/1811 – 2/19/1888]

 

1830    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton VA

Obit: Baltimore Conference M.E. South 1891, 33

 

1830-31           Northumberland

1831-32           xxx, George’s & St. Mary’s

1832-33           Warm Springs

1833-34           Christiansburg

1834-35           Woodstock

1835-36           Washington DC Ebenezer

1836-37           Rocky springs

1837-38           Fincastle

1838-40           Lexington

1840-42           Rockingham

1842-44           Severn

1844-45           Lancaster

1845-47           Winchester

1847-49           Moorefield

1849-50           South Branch

1850-52           on leave

1852-54           Augusta

1854-55           Bladensburg

1856-57           Patapsco station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Williamsburg

1859-60           Manor Hill

1860-62           Kishacoquillas

1861-62           Middletown

1862-63           retired

1864                withdrew to join M.E. South

 

Note: Some sources give the name of Mrs. Eskridge as Isabella.

 

ESLINGER, EDWIN LINCOLN

 

Born: 12-5-1864  Dillsburg PA                                  married: Minnie Coover Berkheimer

Died: 7-28-1942  Waynesboro PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 220

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Dillsburg & Wellsville

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 208

 

1890-94           York Ridge Avenue

1894-96           Harrisburg Epworth

1896-00           Liverpool (inc. New Buffalo)

1900-02           Port Royal (inc. Matamoras, Ebenezer, Pomeroys)

1902-05           Half Moon (Grays, Ross, Fillmore, Waddle, Scotia)

1905-07           Martinsburg

1907-11           Saxton

1911-13           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1913-18           Roaring Spring

1918-23           Berwick First

1923-29           Waynesboro

1929-33           Clearfield Trinity

1933-37           Gettysburg

1937                retired

 

Note: Edwin L. Eslinger retired to Waynesboro and is reported to have supplied Greencastle in his retirement.  Mrs. Eslinger is a second-cousin of the father of Charles F. Berkheimer.

 

ETTER, CHARLES E.

 

Born: 1892  Clappertown PA                                     married: Eva Caroline Bumbarger

Died: 2-3-1920 Duboistown PA                                 obit: [11/6/1888 – 4/30/1961]

 

1918    license, recommended by Williamsburg

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Williamsburg PA

Obit: [1920, 82]

 

1916-18           student, Taylor University in Upland IN

1918-20           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport PA

     1918-19      Elimsport & Maple Hill

     1919-20      Duboistown & Nisbet

 

Note: Charles E. Etter served as a local preacher.  A death notice also appears in The Christian Advocate for 3/11/1910, page 367, stating that he was 28 years old and died in the parsonage while serving as a supply pastor and attending Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Piper’s 2012 Lycoming College 1812-2012, page 203, includes the following: “Two men died the next spring [1920], both from pneumonia: Rev. Charles Etter and Walter Van Ormer.  Both had declared for the ministry, and Etter was serving as student pastor of the Duboistown and Nisbet charge.  Etter’s circumstance was particularly tragic.  [WDS President] Conner had heard that he was entering the ministry and encouraged him to seek an appointment in the Williamsport District so he could attend the seminary.  Connor helped him acquire a loan from the Conference Education Society.  The loan, the pre-ministerial discount, and the preaching appointment brought Etter to the seminary.  He was ill just eight days when he died, leaving a wife and two small children and no provision for them.  The seminary took up an offering, as did the churches in Williamsport, and Conner appealed to the Conference Home Missionary Society for help for the family.”

     Two 1917 newspaper articles state: “Mr. and Mrs. Charles Etter and daughter Lourane, of Ohio, are spending their vacation among relatives at their former home, in Williamsburg. Mr. Etter Is preparing himself for the ministry, being a student at Taylor university.” and “Mr. and Mrs.' Charles Etter and little daughter Louraine [sic], after spending the summer months, here, departed this week for Indiana, where Mr. Etter will resume his theological studies at Taylor University.”  The other daughter was named Lucille.  Charles’ parents are William and Margaret Etter, buried in the Royer Cemetery.
     The family moved back to Williamsburg, and in 1931 Miss Lourane Etter [later Mrs. John Campbell (10/14/1914 – 12/12/2000)] is listed as a leader in the Epworth League.

 

EVANS, BUREN HERBERT

 

Born: 1-26-1882  North Star PA                                married: Anna Mary Corbin

Died: 7-20-1973  Altoona PA                                    obit: [11/2/1878 – 1/12/1942]

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1923-24           South Lakemont

1924-26           living in Altoona

1926-27           Altoona Asbury

 

Note: B. Herbert Evans served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

EVANS, DAVID CHARLES

 

Born: 11-2-1889  Jackson OH                                                married: Emma Mae Jenkins

Died: 4-20-1974                                                                      obit: [9/11/1889 – 12/?/1979]

 

1921    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1921    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference

1923    ordained elder, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Elmer NJ

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1975, 37

 

1918-19           student, Dickinson College

                             1918-19      Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Grove Furnace

1919-22           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1919                “transfer” to New Jersey Conference

1919-21           Hancocks Bridge and Canton

1921-23           Aura

1923-29           Millville Westside

1929-31           Glassboro

1931-34           Woodstown

1934-37           Asbury Park Ballard

1937-46           Burlington Broad Street

1946-48           Long Branch St. Luke’s

1948-55           Audubon

1955-57           Camden Broadway

1957                retired

                             interim pastor, Philadelphia Old St. George’s

 

 

EVANS, EMMA HILDA

 

Born: 1877  London, England                                    married: (none)

Died: 5-12-1941  Ocean Grove NJ                             obit:

 

Interment: Shady Lane Cemetery, Chinchilla PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 210

 

Buffalo NY

Baltimore MD

Newark NJ

Tyrone PA

 

Note: Miss Evans served as a deaconess.

 

EVANS, SIMPSON BOUSE

 

Born: 12-12-1858  Eagle Foundry PA.                       married: Hannah Mary Lincoln

Died: 9-29-1939  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 118

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Ruth Belle Heisse Wolf

1886    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 193

                 recommended by Westport & Keating Summit circuit

 

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 177

 

1885-86           Westport & Keating

1886-87           Westport

1887-92           Lock Haven East Main Street

1892-97           Williamsport Third Street

1897-99           Mifflinburg

1899-04           Milton

1904-06           Danville St. Paul’s

1906-09           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1909-12           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1912-18           superintendent, Altoona District

1918-20           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1920-25           Williamsport Newberry

1925032          Philipsburg

1932-35           field agent, Dickinson Junior College

1935                retired

 

Note: The first Mrs. Evans is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln.  The second Mrs. Evans is the widow of JE Wolf, a brother of Mrs. Charles Wesley Karns.  She is a sister to John Frederick Heisse (1883-1924) of the Baltimore Conference

 

EVANS, WILLIAM WILSON

 

Born: 9-24-1840  Lewistown PA                               married: Alice E. Frysinger

Died: 10-2-1916  Washington DC                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 181

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 126

 

1861-62           Schellsburg

1862-63           Birmingham

1863-66           York Duke Street

1866-68           Williamsport Price Chapel [Grace]

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968-71           Sunbury

1871-74           Berwick

1874-77           Hazleton

1877-78           Altoona First

1878-82           superintendent, Danville District

1882-85           Berwick

1885-88           Philipsburg

1888-89           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1889-92           Carlisle

1892-98           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1898-04           superintendent, Danville District

1904-09           superintendent, Juniata District

1909-11           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1911                retired

 

Note: An obituary for William W. Evans also appears in the 10/12/1916 Christian Advocate.

 

 

EVELAND, WILLIAM PERRY

 

Born: 2-12-1864  Harrisburg PA                                married: Rose Mullin

Died: 7-28-1916  Mount Holly Springs PA               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 746

 

1891    admitted on trial

1892    ordained deacon

1895    ordained elder

 

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

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 121

 

1890-95           Shippensburg

1895-97           Danville Trinity

1897-99           director, Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit MD

1899-01           York Duke Street

1901-03           Chambersburg

1903-06           Bloomsburg

1906-13           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

1913-16           bishop, Southern Asia and the Philippines

 

Note: A biographical sketch for William P. Eveland appears in the 9/4/1912 Christian Advocate, page 976.  Bishop Eveland is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

 

EWING, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 1751  Lancaster County PA                             married: Jane Wilson

Died: 12-24-1831                                                        obit: [1753 – 1830]

 

Interment: Prospect Church Cemetery, Gatchelville PA

Obit: (New York) Christian Advocate 4/6/1832

 

Note: Alexander Ewing served as a local pastor.  His dates also appear as 6/27/1750 – 12/31/1831.  He is the father of James W. Ewing and of Eleanor Ewing Reiley, wife of James Reiley (1784-1841) of the Baltimore Conference, and of Esther Ewing Reiley, wife of Tobias Reiley (1789-1843) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

EWING, JAMES WESLEY

 

Born: 12-15-1786  York County PA                          married: Prudence Manifold (3/9/1812)

Died: 9-22-1861  Juniata County PA                         obit: [4/22/1783 – 3/20/1818]

                                                                                    married2: Justina Grove (4/10/1819)

1809    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [10/29/1797 – 8/9/1850]

1811    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference        married3: Elizabeth Jennings Herreson (11/3/1851)

1813    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference            obit3: [12/23/1800 – 5/20/1873]

 

Interment: Old Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1862, 35

 

1809-10           Huntingdon

1810-11           Hartford (Monongahela District)

1811-12           Erie

1812-13           Carlisle

1813                Harford (Carlisle District); apparently located and did not serve

1813-33           located

1833-34           Shrewsbury

1834-36           Carlisle

1836-38           Shrewsbury

1838-40           Lycoming

1840-42           Berwick

1842-44           Northumberland

1844-46           Danville

1846-48           Lycoming

1848-50           Sunbury

1850-52           Lewistown

1852-53           on leave

1853                retired

 

Note: James Ewing is the son of local preacher Alexander Ewing and the father of Rev. John Wesley Ewing (1829-1886), who served as a Methodist Episcopal preacher in Virginia, and of Rev. Alexander Tidings Ewing (1826-1850), who served as a Methodist Episcopal preacher in Pennsylvania.  He is also the father of the grandfather of Edwin Henry Witman (1855-1919) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  Sisters of James Ewing married Baltimore Conference brothers/preachers James Reiley (1784-1841) and Tobias Reiley (1789-1843).  He is part of extended Ewing-Bowman-Reiley-Witman family that produced dozens of Methodist pastors over several generations.  A detailed listing of this family may be found in the Ewing files at the conference archives, along with a copy of an oath of loyalty to Christ that James Ewing signed with his own blood.  Some sources give the name of the third wife as KINNISON; the record in the family Bible appears to be HERRESON.  James Ewing was licensed to preach by Francis Asbury.

 

EWING, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 2-29-1820  York County PA                            married: Mary J. Harris (1/1/1852)

Died: 8-25-1886  Berkley Springs WV                      obit:

                                                                                    mareried2:

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2:

1844    ordained deacon

1846    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenway Cemetery, Berkeley Springs WV

Obit:

 

1841-42           assistant, Luzerne circuit

1842-43           Hutingdon circuit
1843-44           Concord

1844-45           Waynesburg

1845-46           Newport

1846-47           York Springs [this and above appointmants all in PA]

1847-48           South Branch [this and below appointments almost all in VA]

1848-49           Front Royal

1849-50           Cumberland MD

1850-51           Springfield

1851-52           Harpers Ferry & Bolivar

1852-53           Bath

1853-54           located

                             became a dentist in Cumberland MD

 

Note: John Welsey Ewing is the son of James Ewing.  While John Wesley Ewing was never a member of the East Baltimore or Central Pennsyvania Conferences, he is included in this file because of his family connections and his service in areas later covered by Central Pennsylvania Conference.  Among his children were daughters named Philadelphia Minnehaha Ewing and Hiawatha Ewing.

 

EYER, P. FRANKLIN

 

Born: 11-2-1835 near Orangeville PA                       married: Jennie Torbert

Died: 1-1-1910 Bloomsburg PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 126

 

1858    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 117

 

1858-59           Muncy, East Baltimore Conference

1859                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1859-60           Luzerne

1860-61           East Harford

1961-63           Great Falls

1863-65           located

1865-67           Bloomingdale

1867-78           Berwick

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Berwick

1870-73           Mount Carmel

1873-76           New Cumberland

1876-78           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1878-80           Mechanicsburg

1880-82           Weatherly

1882-84           Montoursville

1884-87           McConnellsburg

1887-89           Shippensburg

1889-92           Gordon

1892-97           York West Street

1897-00           Hanover

1900-01           Harrisburg Epworth

1901-05           Saxton

1905                retired

 

Note: P. Franklin Eyer is the namesake of Franklin Eyer Hartman.

 

 

 

FARRAR, JAMES ALFRED

 

Born: 7-2-1888  Robertsdale PA                                married: Ethel Race

Died: 10-12-1958  Huntingdon PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 267

 

1911    local preachers license, recommended by Federal PA of the Pittsburgh Conference

1921    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 249

 

1913-17           Colliers WV, Pittsburgh Conference

1917-18           Austin (6 months)

1920-21           Hickorytown & Salem

1921-22           Vira

1922-23           Cross Roads-Gatchelville

1923-24           York Springs

1924-27           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

                                         1924-27   Stony Point NJ, Newark Conference

1927-28           Sinnemahoning

1928-31           Mill Hall

1931-34           Port Royal

1934-36           Robertsdale-Woodvale

1936-42           Ralston

1942-46           Mount Hill

1946-50           Grampian

1950-53           Houtzdale-Madera

1953-57           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1957                retired

 

 

FASICK, AUGUSTUS SAYFORD

 

Born: 3-30-1867  Mifflintown PA                              married: Alfarata Hollobaugh

Died: 4-20-1953  New Cumberland PA                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 182

 

1892    admitted on trial

1894    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 218

 

1892-97           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1897-03           New Cumberland

1903-11           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1911-17           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1917-25           Tyrone First

1925-30           York First

1930-37           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1937                retired

 

Note: Augustus S. Fasick is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.  He is the father of Ray H. Fasick and a brother to Lucien B. Fasick.

 

FASICK, CLYDE AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 8-13-1887  PA                                                  married: Esther Ruth Kennedy

Died: 12-20-1951  Juniata County PA                       obit: [1/5/1915 – 4/14/1993]

 

1916    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: [The Sewanee Purple, 1/9/1952, page 1]

 

1907-10           public school teacher

1910-14           student, Gettysburg College

     1912-13      Rehoboth

1914-15           student, University of Pennsylvania

1915-18           Mercersburg

1917-19           instructor, officers training school

1919-23           headmaster, Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee TN

1923                transfer to Holston Conference

1923-51           headmaster, Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee TN

 

Note: Clyde A. Fasick has degrees from Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (1907), Pennsylvania [Gettysburg] College (1914), University of Pennsylvania (1915) and University of the South (1934).  He also is reported to have later served on the faculty/administration at Camp Greenbrier for Boys (Alderson WV).  Although Central Pennsylvania Conference records indicate Clyde A. Fasick transferred to the Holston Conference, there is no record of him joining that body.  Clyde A. Fasick appears to be related to brothers Augustus S. Fasick and Lucien B. Fasick, as he is buried in the same cemetery as their parents, but the exact relationship is not known.  In 1956, the widowed Mrs. Fasick married a Mr. Charles Franklin Hickerson (1905-1968).

 

Note2: For 1919-23, the conference journal lists Clyde A. Fasick as a missionary residing in Iquique, Chile, South America – but that conflicts with other secular reports on his career.

 

FASICK, LUCIEN BANKS

 

Born: 11-20-1871  Mifflintown PA                            married: Emma May Mitchell

Died: 9-9-1921  Petersburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 140

                                                                                    married2: Iva May Steele Eichelberger

1895    license, Allegheny Conference UB                obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 744

1899    ordained elder, Allegheny Conference UB

 

Interment: Frankstown Cemetery, Frankstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 127

 

1894-95           assistant, Concord circuit of the Central PA Conference of the ME Church

1895-96           Indiana PA

1896-97           Punxsutawney

1897-99           Orbisonia

1899-01           Fairmount

1901-03

1903                Hollsopple Bethel (ending 6/25/1903)

1903-08

1908-09           Windber

1909-10

1910-11           Coalport

1911-12           Dunlo

1912                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, ME Church (see 1912, 92)

1912-14           Hopewell

1914-18           Rouzerville

1918-21           Frankstown

1921                Petersburg

 

Note: An obituary for Lucien Banks Fasick also appears in the 9/22/1921 Christian Advocate, page 1196.  He is a brother to Augustus S. Fasick and an uncle to Ray H. Fasick.  The second Mrs. Fasick was the widow of a Mr. James Eichelberger.

 

FASICK, RAY H.

 

Born: 8-28-1893  Harrisburg PA                                married: Hazel Rosenberger

Died: 7-15-1947  New Cumberland PA                     obit: [12/14/1895 – 2/?/1983]

 

1918    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1918-19           at school

1919-23           Manor Hill

1923-25           Sinnemahoning

1925-27           Warrior’s Mark

1927                withdrew

 

Note: Ray H. Fasick is the son of Augustus S. Fasick and the nephew of Lucien B. Fasick.

 

FAULKNER, JOSEPH EDWARD

 

Born: 3-15-1928  Augusta GA                                   married: Barbara Anne Lammerding

Died: 11-1- 2016  Warminister PA                            obit: [ 9/20/1928 – 1/6/2015]

 

1947    license, North Georgia Conference, recommended by Augusta St. John’s

1953    admitted on trial, North Georgia Conference

1954    ordained deacon, North Georgia Conference

1956    ordained elder, North Georgia Conference

 

Interment: Graysville Cemetery, Spruce Creek PA

Obit:

 

1953-55           Duluth, GA.

1955-57           Prospect

1957-59           Grace

1959-60           faculty, Penn State University

1960                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-75           faculty, Penn State University

1975                honorable location

1975-91           faculty, Penn State University

1991                retired

 

Note: Joseph E. Faulkner is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 413.  A longtime professor of sociology at PSU, he is the author of numerous books and articles on sociology and religion.  After 1975 he continued living in State College and attending St. Paul’s UMC, apparently considered informally as United Methodist clergy.

 

FAUS, GEORGE WASHINGTON  

 

Born: 11-11-1865 near Talmar PA                             married: Minnie Lila Kitchen

Died: 2-10-1938  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 226

 

1891    admitted on trial

1893    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 226

 

1891-94           Williamsport High Street

1894-97           Costello

1897-01           St. Mary’s

1901-05           Sinnemahoning

1905-08           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1908-11           Hanover

1911-13           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1913-17           Bedford

1917-20           Shickshinny

1920-24           Mifflinburg

1924-29           Jersey Shore Epworth

1929-33           Osceola Mills

1933-36           Centralia

1936                retired

 

Note: George W. Faus is the father of Raymond W. Faus and W. Arthur Faus, a nephew to Theodore S. Faus, and a cousin to William A. Faus (1861-1942).  He is also a brother to Eva R. Faus McKelvey, wife of Ellis E. McKelvey.  A 1915 book in the archives tells the story of the lives and untimely deaths of his sons Gerald M. Faus (1895-1911) and Edgar K. Faus (1899-1914).

 

FAUS, RAYMOND WESLEY

           

Born: 1-6-1901  St. Marys PA                                    married: Louise Poinier

Died: 3-27-1965  Altoona PA                                    obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 408

 

1921    license

1923    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery and Mausoleum, Indiana PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 905

 

1924-26           Madera

1926-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1928-29           Port Matilda

1929                Lakemont (ending fall 1929)

1929                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1929-34           Oakland

1934-39           Pittsburgh Mt. Washington

1939-42           California PA

1942-47           Wilkinsburg Mifflin Avenue

1947-50           Butler

1950-62           Indiana PA

1962-65           superintendent, Blairsville District

 

Note: Raymond W. Faus is the son of George W. Faus.  Prior to their marriage, Mrs. Faus served 4 years as a missionary to Korea.

 

FAUS, THEODORE S.

 

Born: 4-18-1845 near Talmar PA                               married: Martha Williams

Died: 11-3-1933  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 183

 

1871    admitted on trial

1873    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mound Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 214

 

1871-72           Elysburg

1872-73           Salona

1873-74           Pine Creek

1874-75           Benton

1875-76           Hickoy Run

1876-78           Leidy

1878-79           on leave

1879-82           Beach Creek

1882-84           Hyner-Westport

1884-87           Muncy Creek

1887-92           Ralston

1892-93           Saxton

1893-96           Ennisville

1896-99           Penn’s Valley

1899-04           Snow Shoe

1904-07           Lumber City

1907-11           Elysburg

1911-14           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1914                retired

 

Note: Theodore S. Faus is a brother to Rachel R. Faus Beishline, wife of John R. Beishline, and an uncle to George W. Faus.

 

FAUS, WILLIAM ALFRED

 

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

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

 

1899    license, Central PA Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1901    ordained deacon, Central PA Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1903    ordained elder. Central PA Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 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 a nephew to Theodore S. Faus and Rachel R. Faus Beishline, and a cousin to George W. Faus. 

 

FAUS, WILLIAM ARTHUR           

 

Born: 2-24-1907  Janesville PA                                 married: Evelyn Bumgardner

Died: 9-17-1980                                                          obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 453]

 

1926    license, recommended by Jersey Shore Epworth

1927    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 330

 

1924-28           student, Dickinson College

                             1927-28  Rehoboth (ending 8/28)

1928-33           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1929       Bremen ME (Jun – Sep)

                             1930       Georgetown ME (Jun – Sep)

                             1932       South Tamworth NH (Jun-Sep)

1933-35           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1935-38           Hughesville

1938-43           Williamsport Third Street

1943-44           Nescopeck

1944-50           Clearfield Emmanuel

1950-52           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1952-72           faculty, Lycoming College

1972                retired

 

Note: W. Arthur Faus is the son of George W. Faus.  He is the author of the book The Genius of the Prophets, published by Abingdon-Cokesbury.

 

FEIG, CHESTER ANDREW

 

Born: 6-20-1893                                                          married: Maude M. Dewey

Died: 2-?-1963                                                            obit: [2/25/1894 – 8/1/1992]

                                                                                    married2: Wyona Robbins [1957]

                                                                                    obit2: [6/.8/1906 – 2/11/2001]


Interment: North Bingham Cemetery, North Bingham PA

Obit:

 

1915-17           Blackwell

                        “transfer” to Central New York Conference

1933-34           Roseville (Methodist-Baptist Community Church)*

1934-37           Rutland (the last year Rutland was served very irregularly, if at all)

1939-42           Farmington Presbyterian Church

 

Note: Dr. Chester A. Feig served as a local preacher.  He earned his doctorate from Penn State University in 1932 and was on the faculty of Mansfield University.  This surname is sometimes incorrectly rendered FIEG.

*The Community Church, a project of Chester A. Feig, did not last and the Roseville Methodist Church closed (while the Baptist Church continued) until it was reopened in 1942.

 

FEIGHT, JOHN WHITSTONE

 

Born: 8-18-1837  Friend’s Cove PA                          married: Mary Emma Shapley

Died:  2-27-1896  New Cumberland PA                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 71

                                                                                    married2: Jennie E. Criswell

1864    license, Rainsburg QC                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 146

1866    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Shippensburg Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 103

 

1862-65           officer/chaplain, Union Army

1865-66           Carlisle circuit (balance of the year)

1866-68           York Springs

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Carlisle circuit

1969-71           Mont Alto

1871-72           Mercersburg

1872-75           Liverpool

1876-79           Trevorton

1879-81           Newville-Rehoboth

1881-82           Liverpool

1882-86           on leave

1886-88           Mercersburg

1888-92           Montandon

1892-94           Hyner

1894-95           Salladasburg

1895-               on leave

 

Note:  There is a memorial window for Rev. J.W. and Mary Emma Shapley at Shippensburg Christ, the home church of Mrs. Feight.

 

FELKER, DANIEL GIBBLE

 

Born: 8-19-1876  Lancaster County PA                     married: Elizabeth Caldwell

Died:   12-9-1930  Winburne PA                               obit: [before 6/18/1912]

                                                                                    married2: Clara Jane Harper

1915    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982,390

1916    admitted on trial

1921    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Greenwood Evangelical Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 185

 

1916-18           Blandburg

1918-19           East Waterford

1919-22           Fayetteville

1922-24           Conyngham

1924-26           Juniata Fifteenth Street

1926-30           Duncansville

1930                Clearfield Emmanuel

 

Note: The obituary for his son Charles LeRoy Felker, killed in action in WWI, is given the 1919 Central Pennsylvania Conference journal, page 161.

 

FELTON, WALTER WIEST

 

Born: 6-23-1912  Chapman’s Quarries PA                married: Leah Elizabeth Burg

Died: 3-7-1996  Sandy Spring MD                            obit: [5/9/1915 – 12/21/1999]

 

1936    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        student, Lehigh University

1936-38           student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

1941-42           minister of music and religious education, Harrisburg Grace           

                        faculty, Swarthmore College

                        engineer, Franklin Institute Laboratories in Philadelphia PA

1959-               FAA in Washington DC

 

Note: Walter W. Felton is the son of Clarence Biddle Felton (1882-1953) of the Philadelphia Conference and a brother to C. Paul Felton (1915-1997) of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.  He has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served under appointment in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  His 1933 degree from Lehigh was in electrical engineering.  He went on the receive a master’s degree in sacred music from Yale Divinity School and an MRE from Union Theological Seminary in NYC.  Mrs. Felton’s first name is also given as Sarah.

 

FENSTERMAKER, WILLIAM EDWIN

 

Born: 6-17-1923  Oriole PA                                       married: [single]

Died: 5-12-2011  Schellsburg PA                              obit:

 

1947    license

1951    admitted on trial

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Limestone Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:

 

1947-49           student, Bucknell University

     1947-49      Laurelton

1949-52           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

     1949-50      Asbury-Allentown

     1950-52      Belfast-Wind Gap

1952-53           Patton

1953-57           associate, Harrisburg Grace

1957-61           Gettysburg

1961                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1961-79           associate, Mt. Lebanon

1979-85           Brookline

1985                retired

 

FERGUSON, LLOYD C.

 

Born: 9-1-1915                                                            married: Myrtle Anna Fleegle

Died: 2-10-1998                                                          obit: [7/30/1915 – 9/21/1947]

                                                                                    Married2: B. Florence Price

1968     license                                                            obit2: [4/10/1925 – 10/13/2003]

 

Interment: Fishertown Cemetey, Fishertown PA

Obit:

 

1967-68           Warfordsburg

1968-69           Dudley

1969-77           Clearville

1977                apparently living in RD Bedford with no more appointments

 

Note: Lloyd C. Ferguson served as a local pastor.  The name is sometimes rendered C. Lloyd Ferguson.

 

 

FERGUSON, WILLIAM GEORGE

 

Born: 5-7-1832  Halifax PA                                       married: Mary St. Clair Coover

Died: 8-22-1898  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 197

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 85

 

1857-58           Warm Springs

1858                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           Churchville

1859-60           Concord

1960-61           West Harford

1961-62           Boonsboro

1862-63           chaplain, US Army

1963-64           Carlisle circuit

1864-66           York Springs

1866-68           Bloody Run [Everett]

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Hagerstown

1869                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-72           Curwensville

1872-73           Bedford

1873-76           Lewistown

1876-78           Chambersburg First

1878-80           Ashland

1880-83           Everett

1883-85           Sunbury

1885-86           Catawissa

1886-89           York Duke Street

1889-92           Mount Carmel

1892-95           Bloomsburg

1895-97           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1897-98           Milton

 

Note:  A biographical sketch for William G. Ferguson appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 374.

 

FERRY, E.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929-30           Concord (last part of year: see 1930, 81)

 

Note: E.J. Ferry served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

FETTERMAN, BRIAN ADAMS

 

Born: 12-9-1930  Mount Carmel PA                          married: Lois Virginia Derr

Died: 1-2-2021                                                            obit: [4/11/1930 – 1/29/2022]

 

1953    license, recommended by Mount Carmel First

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 356

 

1953-55           Wallis Run (beginning 6/1/53)

1955-57           associate, Bloomsburg

1957-64           Hazleton Diamond

1964-7 1          Williamsport Calvary

1971-74           Lewistown First (ending 10/31/74)

1974-81           Harrisburg Grace (beginning 11/1/74)

1981-87           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1987-88           Tyrone Wesley (ending 11/1/88)

1988-91           General Board of Global Ministries (beginning 11/1/88)

1991-92           coordinator, Urban Ministries

1992-95           Harrisburg Harris Street (ending 12/31/95)

1996                retired (beginning1/1/96)

                             1999-02      Harrisburg Christ

 

 

 

FIELDS, CLOYD WESLEY

 

Born:  4-13-1890  Mount Union PA                          married: Myrtle A. McClain

Died:  5-1-1964  Pittsburgh PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 387

 

1916    admitted on trial

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 357

 

1915-18           James Creek

1918-23           Mifflintown

1923-29           New Cumberland

1929-36           Mt. Carmel

1936-41           Huntingdon First

1941-50           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1950-57           Lewistown First

1957                retired

     1957-61  Salem

     1961-64  Harrisburg St. Paul’s

 

Note:  Cloyd W. Fields is a brother to Mary Fields Welliver, the mother of H. Richard Welliver.

 

FIGGLES, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 4-22-1848  Muncy PA                                      married: Harriet Adams

Died: 6-12-1938                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 221

 

1911    local elder, Central New York Conference: page 26

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 207

 

1888-89           South Danby, Wyoming Conference

                        Chemung

                        Big Flats

                        Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue

1914                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-16           Oriole & Ante Fort (began during the 1913-14 year)

1916                Avis (ending 12/31/16)

1924-26           Westport

 

Note: Charles E. Figgles served as a local pastor and was never a ministerial member of any conference.

 

 

FISHER, BRUCE DAVID

 

Born: 4-19-1934  Williamsport PA                            married: Joan Carol Heisley

Died: 8-11-2021                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 201, 396

 

1954    license, recommended by Williamsport Wesley

1957    admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated?]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 353

 

1953-56           student, Lycoming College

     1953-56      Morris

1957-59           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

     1957-59      East Orange NJ

1959-63           Pleasant Gap

1963-64           Danville Trinity

1964-69           director of youth work, Conference Board of Education (ending 12/31/69)

1970-74           associate program director, Conference Council on Ministries (beginning 1/1/70)

1974-80           State College St. Paul’s

1980-85           director, Conference Council on Ministries

1985-88           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1988-95           director, Conference Council on Ministries

1995-99           Montoursville Faith

1999                retired

                             2004-05      Selinsgrove Wesley (beginning 1/10/2005)

 

Note: Mrs. Fisher is the daughter of Homer William Heisley of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

FISHER, IRA ELLIS

 

Born: 4-16-1884  Centre County PA                          married: Bessie Belva Black

Died: 6-13-1927  Wallaceton  PA                               obit: [1889 – 1959]

 

1914    license

1920    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Half Moon Valley Cemetery {akak Friends Cemetery], Centre County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 739

 

1915-16           Williamsburg circuit

1916-17           Altoona circuit

1917-18           Allegheny circuit.

1918-21           Pine Grove Mills

1921-24           Clearville

1924-27           Wallaceton

 

Note:  Mrs. Fisher is reported to have remarried 6/10/1929 to a Mr. Ira Ellis Smith (yes, a man with the same first and middle name as Rev. Fisher!).

 

FISHER, JOHN KLINE

 

Born: 6-1-1850  Berne PA                                          married: Sallie E. Gettel

Died: 6-18-1890  Lebanon PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930,200

 

1875    license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1876    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 82

 

1875-77           Intercourse

1877-79           Mount Joy

1879-82           Annville

1882                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference ME, page 14

1882-83           Town Hill

1883-86           Conyngham

1886-89           Gordon

1889-90           Shippensburg

 

Note: Biographical material for John K. Fisher is given in Gibble’s 1950 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference (United Brethren), page 392.

 

FISK, RUSSELL G.

 

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit: 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924-25           Emporium circuit

 

Note: Russell G. Fisk served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

FITZGERALD, HOWARD STOUGH

 

Born: 7-15-1894  Strinestown PA                              married: Grace Marie Bond

Died: 11-9-1973                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 192

                                                                                    married2; Dorothy Marian Reading

1916    license, recommended by Wellsville               obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000,341

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Philadelphia Twenty-Second Street

1923    ordained deacon

1926    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 421

 

1917-20           student, Dickinson College

                             1917           Hickorytown (ending 9/17)

                             1917-18      Rehoboth (beginning 9/17)

                             1918-20      Newville

1920-21           Summit Hill, Philadelphia Conference

1921-22           Thompsontown

1922-24           Rouzerville (ending 9/4/24)

1924-27           McVeytown (beginning 9/4/24)

1927-28           Mill Hall

1928-31           Salladasburg

1931-32           Selinsgrove-Shamokin Dan

1932-34           Coalport-Irvona

1934-37           Gatchelville

1937-40           Port Royal

1940-42           Mifflinville

1942-45           Freeland

1945-48           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1948-52           Altoona Wesley & Asbury

1952-54           Orbisonia

1954-60           Burnham

1960                retired

     1960-61      Mifflintown (9/1/60 to 8/31/61)

     1962           Williamsport Third Street (Jul-Aug)

                             1963           Harrison Valley (Oct-Nov)

                             1963-64      Nelson (beginning 12/1/63)

 

Note: Howard S. Fitzgerald is the grandfather of Charles A. Fitzgerald of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

FLANEGAN, HENRY D.

 

Born:  3-31-1861  Salem NJ                                       married: Mary Webb Sloan

Died:  12-16-1953  Lansdowne PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 223

 

1895    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1896    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Arlington Cemetery, Upper Darby PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 226

 

1893-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-98           York Princess Street

1898-00           Espy-Light Street

1900-02           Hyner

1902-04           Salona-Lamar

1904-10           Ralston

1910-14           Mechanicsburg

1914-15           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1915-17           Williamsport Third Street

1917-18           Saxton

1918-19           leave of absence

1919-27           on leave

1927                retired

 

FLECK, ALBERT EDGAR

 

Born: 9-10-1891  Altoona PA                                    married: Alta May Jacoby

Died: 11-11-1959                                                        obit: [3/1/1887 – 7/27/1939]

                                                                                    married2: Susan Garber

            Christian & Missionary Alliance Church       obit2: [5/26/1903 – 1/19/1984]

1918    license

1929    ordained local deacon

1933    ordained local elder

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 243

 

1918-19           Picture Rocks circuit

1919-21           Liverpool

1921-22           Karthaus

1922-23           Harrisonville

1923-24           Burnt Cabins

1924-26           Wallis Run

1926-29           Shawville

1929-31           Benezette

1931                Port Matilda

1931-33           Sandy Ridge

1933-34           without appointment

                             staff, Methodist Home for the Aged in Tyrone

                             staff, Altoona Hospital

1953                retired

 

Note: Albert E. Fleck served as a local pastor and is a brother to Robert E. Fleck. The widowed second Mrs. Fleck later married a Mr. Andrew Clair Kemmler (1910-1968).

 

 

FLECK, ROBERT ELLWOOD

 

Born: 5-6-1896  Altoona PA                                      married: Margaret E. Housum

Died: 12-27-1979  Mesa AZ                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 407

 

1929    license, recommended by Lock Haven Trinity

1929    admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Arizona Veterans Cemetery, Phoenix AZ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 339

 

1929-31           East Waterford

1931-33           Mercersburg

1933-38           McVeytown

1938-40           Howard

1940-49           Port Royal

1949-54           Salladasburg (ending 9/15/64)

1954-56           Petersburg (beginning 9/15/54)

1956                retired

     1962-64  Galeton

 

Note: Robert E. Fleck is a brother to Albert E. Fleck.

 

FLEGAL, FRANK PORTER

 

Born: 4-4-1874  Lick Run Mills PA                           married: Edith May Davis (4/27/1910)

Died: 6-6-1953  Oakland CA                                     obit: [11/26/1883 – 12/1/1968]

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland CA

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1954, 232

 

1899-03           student, Dickinson College

                             1902-03      Pine Grove

1903-05           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

 

Note: Frank Porter is a first cousin of Martin C. Flegal and a great grandson of Valentine Flegal (1757-1838) of the Pennsylvania Conference United Brethren Church.

 

 

FLEGAL, MARTIN CREIGHTON

 

Born: 11-2-1871  Clearfield County PA                    married: Dora E. Smith

Died: 7-16-1927  Avis PA                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 221

 

1902    admitted on trial

1904    ordained elder

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 740

 

1902-03           Pine Grove

1903-05           Catawissa circuit

1905-06           Blain

1906-07           Glen Hope (ending 9/1/1907)

1907-08           president, Edwardsville Seminary in Edwardsville AL (see 1908, 73)

1908-11           Three Springs

1911-14           Shellsburg

1914-18           Lumber City

1918-19           Wallaceton

1919-21           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1921-24           Avis

1924-25           sabbatical

1925                retired

 

Note: Martin C. Flegal is a first cousin of Frank P. Flegal and and great grandson of Valentine Flegal (1757-1838) of the Pennsylvania Conference United Brethren Church.  Some biographical information on Martin C. Flegal appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 34.

 

FOCHT, LAWRENCE CARL

 

Born: 9-3-1943  Williamsburg PA                             married: Sally Ann Claus

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1966    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsburg First

1966    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-65           associate, Hunlock Creek

1965-69           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

     1965-66  intern, Baltimore St. Mark’s

     1966-67  Baltimore Center Campus Ministry1966-69 School

     1967-69  Phoenix MD

1969-77           Howard

1977-85           Mechanicsburg Mount Olivet

1985-02           New Cumberland Community

2002-06           Red Lion St. Paul’s

2006                retired

 

FOLK, JOHN R. JR

 

Born: 5-5-1944                                                            married: (single)

Died: 2-12-1965                                                          obit:

 

 1963   quarterly conference license, Lewistown First

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 352

 

1963-65           student, Lycoming College

                             1964-65  Nelson

 

FOLTA, GEORGE P.

 

Born: 1891  Slovakia                                                  married: Ludmila Huskova [Husek] [Green]

Died: 1964                                                                  obit: [1896 – 1994]

 

1924    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Daytona Memorial Park, Daytona Beach FL

Obit:

 

1922-35           Hazleton Holy Trinity (Anthracite Mission)

1935                transfer to Pittsburg Conference

1935-38           West Brownsville

 

Note: George P. Folta was originally Presbyterian.  Both from Czechoslovakia, the Foltas were married in Pennsylvania 6/29/1926.   Their son George P. Folta Jr. (1927-1930) is buried in the Vine Street Cemetery in Hazleton.

 

FORREST, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 2-4-1861  Littlestown PA                                 married: Sue Elizabeth Spangenberg

Died: 2-4-1931  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 249

 

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by York Princess Street & Ridge Avenue

 

Interment: Littlestown Cemetery, Littlestown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 192

 

1884-85           assistant, Emporium (first part of year)

                        York Princess Street & Ridge Avenue (last part of year)

1885-86           Mercersburg

1886-88           Mont Alto

1888-90           Liverpool

1890-92           York Springs

1892-94           Snow Shoe

1894-95           Pine Grove

1895-97           Howard

1897-98           Glen Hope

1898-99           Mahaffey

1899-00           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1900-03           Mercersburg

1903-05           Munson

1905-07           Birmingham

1907-08           Three Springs

1908-10           Fairview

1910-11           Keating Summit

1911-12           Rouzerville

1912-13           Selinsgrove

1913-14           Trevorton

1914                retired

 

Note: The grandfather of John Wesley Forrest is a cousin of Josiah Forrest.  The family has a strong Methodist heritage.

 

FORREST, JOSIAH

 

Born:  10-?-1797  Anne Arundel County MD           married: Lydia S. Knuckle

Died:  4-16-1873  Zanesville OH                               obit: [? – 4/23/1873]

 

1828    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1874, 62

 

1828-29           Bedford circuit

1829-30           Northumberland

1830-31           Sunbury

1831-32           Lewistown

1832-34           Northumberland

1834-36           Bellefonte

1836-37           Hollidaysburg

1837-38           Williamsburg

1838-40           Allegany

1840-42           Gettysburg

1842-44           Fincastle

1844-46           East Rockingham

1846-48           Greencastle

1848-50           Shippensburg

1850-57           on leave

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           on leave

1858-59           North Branch

1859-61           Westernport

1861-63           Boonsboro

1863-64           Orangeville

1864-66           Jeanesville

1866-68           Elysburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Milroy

1869                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Josiah Forrest is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 375.   The grandfather of John Wesley Forrest is a cousin of Josiah Forrest.  The family has a strong Methodist heritage.

 

FORREST, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-21           Westport & Cross Forks

 

Note: William Forrest served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

FORSCHT, AUGUSTUS CALVIN

 

Born: 5-15-1858  York County PA                            married: Sarah J. Stein

Died: 11-23-1922  York PA                                       obit: [9/17/1857 – 9/8/1885]

                                                                                    married2: Annie Elizabeth Lutz [3/9/1888]

1887    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: [9/?/1868 – 11/16/1941]

                 recommended by Harrisburg St. Paul’s

 

Interment: Manchester Union Cemetery, Manchester PA

Obit:

 

1887-88           Liverpool

1888-90           Mont Alto

1890-91           Fort Littleton

1891-93           Lewisberry

1893-94           Clearville

1894-96           Shirleysburg

1896                withdrew

                        Lutheran pastor

                        Union Deposit

1900-03           Plum Creek charge, Northumberland County (4/1/00 – 3/1/03)

                        …

1921-22           Ickesburg (6/7/1921-8/7/1922)

1922                retied

 

FORTNER, HENRY B.

 

Born: 2-25-1839                                                          married:

Died: 7-31-1903  Millville PA                                   obit:

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 109

 

1869-70           Berwick circuit

1870-72           Muhlenburg circuit

1872-73           Centralia

1873-74           Greencastle

1874-75           Helfenstein

1875-78           Beach Haven

1878-81           Benton

1881-84           Snydertown

1884-87           Elysburg

1887-90           Conyngham

1890-94           Schloyerville

1894-99           Beach Haven

1899-03           Selinsgrove

 

FORTNEY, McCLELLAND JAMES

 

Born: 7-4-1927  Mount Union PA                             married: Janet Banks

Died: 10-9-1997                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 264

 

1962    license, recommended by Nossville

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 434

 

1962-63           Warfordsburg

1963-77           Vira

1977-81           Philipsburg Grace

1981-93           Lewistown Lake Park-Granville

1993                retired

                            1997            Penns Valley

 

FOSTER, MILTON KIRK

 

Born: 2-22-1838  Lewisberry PA                               married: Martha Rodgers

Died: 5-25-1928  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 139

 

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 184

 

1858-59           Mifflin

1859-60           Green Village

1860-61           Carlisle circuit

1861-62           Newport

1862-63           New Bloomfield

1863-65           Newberry

1865-66           Phillipsburg circuit

1866-68           Phillipsburg

1868                chart member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Lock Haven

1870-73           Huntingdon

1873-77           superintendent, Juniata District

1877-80           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1880-82           Lewisburg

1882-84           Carlisle

1884-86           Bellefonte

1886-91           superintendent, Juniata District

1891-97           superintendent, Williamsport District

1897-00           Lock Haven Trinity

1900-06           Clearfield Trinity

1906-08           Danville St. Paul’s

1908-12           Newberry

1912                retired

 

Note: Milton K. Foster is the grandson of Lewisberry’s pioneer Methodist layman Hugh Foster.  He is a brother to Elizabeth Foster Pennington, the wife of James Pennington, and an uncle to Robert B. Foster.

 

FOSTER, ROBERT BURCH

 

Born: 3-23-1879  Harrisburg PA                                            married: Fannie Grace Hartman [1903]

Died: 2-26-1973  Cincinnati OH                                            obit: Ohio Conference 1969, 689

1908    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1973, 249

 

1908-10           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1910-11           Altoona Epworth-Llyswen

1911-12           Bakerton (left in mid-year; see 1912, 75)

1912                transfer to Cincinnati Conference

…

1933                superintendent, Portsmouth District

 

Note: Robert B. Foster is a nephew to Milton K. Foster and Elizabeth Foster (Mrs. James F.) Pennington.

 

FOWLER, ALBERT C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-17           Westport

 

Note: Albert C. Fowler served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

FOWLER, GEORGE W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-63           Trout Run

 

Note: George W. Fowler served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

FOX, JOHN D.

 

Born: 1-7-1851  Pipesville PA                                   married: Mary Emma Cooper

Died: 10-6-1921  Somerville NJ                                obit: Philadelphia Conference 1880,72

                                                                                    married2: Emma B. Kopp

                                                                                    obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1945,206

1873    license, recommended by Village Green circuit of the Philadelphia Conference

1874    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1876    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1878    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment:  Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1922, 387

 

1873-74           Village Green circuit

1874-75           Avondale & Chatham

1875-76           Merion Square

1876-78           Charlestown

1878-80           Upland

1880-83           Haddington

1883-84           Tremont

1884-86           Reading Covenant

1886-88           Frankford Frankford Avenue

1888-91           Philadelphia Fifth Street

1891-95           Philadelphia Salem

1895-98           Pottsville

1898-01           Philadelphia Grace

1901                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1901-10           Trenton State Street

1910                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1910-17           Harrisburg Grace

1917                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1917-20           Germantown St. Stephen’s

1920                retired

 

FOX, SAMUEL

 

Born: 9-30-1867  Cornwall, England                         married: Edith Mary Gutelius

Died: 9-5-1934  Mifflinburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 235

 

1891    admitted on trial

            licensed as local preacher Wesleyan Methodist Church as teenager

 

Interment: Hill Side Cemetery, Mifflinburg

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 224

 

1890-91           Three Runs

1891-92           Kedron

1892-93           Wharton

1893-94           Westport

1894-95           Jamestown

1895-96           Trout Run

1896-97           Marysville

1897-98           Green Village

1898-99           Catawissa circuit

1899-02           Beech Haven

1902-05           Littlestown

1905-08           Shrewsbury

1908-09           Espy-Lime Ridge

1909-10           Riverside (1½ years)

1910-11           Shamokin Lincoln Street  (½  year)

1911-16           Mifflinburg

1916-18           Centralia

1918-20           Duncannon

1920-22           Weatherly

1922-25           Jeansville-Audenreid

1925                retired

 

 

 

FRANCE, JOSEPH

 

Born: 8-26-1819                                                          married: Susan Strickler

Died: 7-27-1889  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [8/9/1829 – 12/?/1903]

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:    Baltimore Conference 1890, 46

 

1842-43           Licking Creek

1843-44           Frederick

1844-45           Carlisle

1845-46           East Harford

1847-48           York station

1848-49           Baltimore Columbia Street

1849-51           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1851-53           Danville

1853-54           Williamsport

1854-57           on leave

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-61           on leave

1861-63           tract agent

1863-64           York

1864-66           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1866-67           superintendent, Baltimore District

                        Baltimore High Street

                        Baltimore Whatcoat

                        Baltimore Union Square

                        Baltimore Caroline Street

1882-85           Washington DC Fourth Street

1885-87           Cumberland Center Street

1887                retired

 

Note: Joseph France is the father of Henry Strickler France (1851-1925) of the Baltimore Conference.

FRANK, ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

Born: 11-30-1865  near Newport PA                         married: Alberta May Zeigler

Died: 5-5-1928  New Bloomfield PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 112

                                                                                    married2: Aura Mabel Kirk

                                                                                    obit2: [11/?/1880 - ?]

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Duncannon

1900    ordainded deacon

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 195

 

1898-00           Thompsontown

1900-01           Hustontown

1901-02           McKee’s Gap

1902-05           Shawville

1905-08           New Washington

1908-11           Half Moon

1911-16           Mahaffey

1916-19           Mount Holly Springs

1919-20           Coalport-Irvona

1920-22           Hopewell

1922-25           Weatherly

1925-27           Sinnemahoning

1927-28           New Bloomfield

 

FRANK, GLENN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-63           Salona

 

Note: Glenn Frank served as a local pastor.

 

 

FRANK, NELSON HARRY

 

Born: 11-10-1912  Roxbury PA                                 married: Kathryn E. Myers

Died: 2-21-1977                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 362

 

1931    license, recommended by Greencastle

1933    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1936    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 258

 

1931-34           student, Dickinson College

     1931-34      Boiling Springs & Hickorytown

1934-37           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

     1934-37      Cataumet, New England South Conference

1937-39           Hustontown

1939-42           Bendersville

1942-46           Mechanicsburg

1946-51           Northumberland

1951-57           Chambersburg

1957-74           State College St. Paul’s

1974                retired

 

Note: Nelson H. Frank is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who the Methodist Church, page 443.  Mrs. Frank is the daughter of Rev. Joseph C. Myers of the Brethren in Christ Church.

 

FRANKFORTER, ALBERTUS DANIEL III

 

Born: 5-17-1939  Waynesboro PA                             married: Karen _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1960    license

1962    admitted on trial, recommended by Waynesboro

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-65           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1965-71           various graduate and post-graduate studies

1971-               professor of history, Penn State Erie

 

Note: A. Daniel Frankforter is the author of numerous books and articles.

 

FRAVEL, RAYMOND DUKE

 

Born: 1-25-1936  Hudson PA                                     married: Margaret Ann Dunlap

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by Osceola Mills

1959    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-58           student, Lycoming College

     1957-58  Morrisdale (6/57 – 1/58)

1958-61           Wolfsburg (6/58 – 6/61)

1961-62           associate, Pittsburgh South Avenue

1962-64           Patton

1964                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1964-67           associate, Pittsburgh South Avenue

1967-68           staff, Methodist Church Union of Pittsburgh

1968-69           chaplain, Home for Unwed MothersWestern

1969                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-74           instructor, Shippensburg University

                        1970-74  Mt. Victory

1974-79           Canton

1979-83           Carlisle Allison Memorial (ending 8/15/83)

1983-93           Clearfield West Side (beginning 8/15/83)

1993-01           Yorkshire

2001                retired

                             2002-03      New Freedom (beginning 1/1/2003)

                             2005-06      Red Lion Chapel (beginning3/1/2006)

                             2007-08      Wrightsville Locust Street (beginning 10/1/2007)

                             2008-09      Glen Rock (beginning 10/6/2008)

 

FRAY, ALFRED CLEMSON

 

Born: 10-14-1905  Harrisburg PA                              married: Marion VanHorn

Died: 4-16-1978  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 388

                                                                                    married2: H. Romain Frey Dube

1925    license, recommended by Rehobeth               obit2:

1927    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dodson Cemetery, Luzerne County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 259

 

1925-27           Rehoboth

1927-28           Madera & Smoke Run

1928-29           Rouzerville & Mont Alto

1929-30           at school

1930-31           Wolfsburg

1931-33           Wallaceton

1933-33           Vira

1933-36           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1936-37           Harveyville

1937-39           Orangeville

1939-40           Hastings

1940-42           Saxton

1942-47           Glen Campbell

1947-50           Freeland Parish

1950-53           Duncannon

1953-55           Port Royal

1955-58           Clearfield Emmanuel

1958-59           Bellwood

1959-65           Beach Haven

1965-68           Catawissa

1968-70           Avis

1970                retired

 

Note: Alfred C. Fray is the son of Rev. Charles A. Fray of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

FRAZER, HUGH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1922-24           Salona & Lamar

1924-25           East Waterford

 

Note: Hugh Frazer served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

FRAZIER, LUTHER EUGENE

 

Born: 7-30-1913  Tusseyville PA                               married: Marsiella Jane Wolfgang

Died: 12-8-1998  Akron OH                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 433

 

1948    license, recommended by Yeagertown

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment:  Sunset Hills Burial Park, Canton OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 431

 

1963-65           Penns Valley

1965-67           Glen Campbell

1967-70           Allenport

1970-72           Austin

1972-75           Espy-Light Street

1975-79           Milroy

1979-81           Buffalo Valley

1981                retired

 

FREDIN, PIERRE N.

 

Born: 1-14-1866  Bergsjo, Sweden                            married: Josephine Jones

Died: 11-2-1935                                                          obit: [11/?/1882 – 7/11/1911]

 

1900    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Manderson Cemetery, Manderson WY

Obit:

 

1893-97           student, Dickinson College

1897-00           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1897-99  Lafayette NJ

                             1899-00  West Patterson NJ

1900-01           Jamison City

1901-03           Milnesville-Lattimer

1903-05           Beaver Meadow

1905-12           missionary to Wyoming

1912                withdrew

 

Note: The 1/19/1905 Pennsylvania Methodist, page 5, states “the Rev. Pierre Fredin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Beaver Meadows, has relinquished his charge and will start for China at once to take up missionary work.”  Josephine Jones was from Lafayette NJ; they were married 6/14/1899.

 

FREED, WILLIAM MARVIN

 

Born:  5-15-1927  Walker WV                                   married: Laura Irene Davis (1946-1992)

Died: 7-29-2012  Williamsport PA                            obit: [5/20/1997 – 9/7/1998]

 

1944    license, recommended by Vaught Chapel of the West Virginia Conference

1958    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Meyer Cemetery, Buffalo Run PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 264

 

1946-47           Lockhart

1947-48           Belleville

1948-54           Mineral Wells

1954-46           Grafton

1956-59           Fairmont

1959-60           Morgantown

1960                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1960-63           Whiteford

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Mt. Nebo

1963-65           Ramey

1965-68           Lemont

1968-78           Axeman-Weaver

1978-92           Yeagertown

1992                Pine Creek Valley Parish

1992                retired

 

Note: William M. Freed the father of Rev. Larry Edward Freed and Rev. Richard Lynn Freed, affiliations unknown.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who the Methodist Church, page 445.

 

 

FREHN, JOHN ARNOLD

 

Born: 7-13-1906  Walnut Bottom PA                        married: Ruth Gladys McBeth

Died: 10-19-1995  Penny Farms, FL                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 348

                                                                                    married2: Kathryn McDowell

1936    license, recommended by Rehobeth               obit2: [3/12/1909 – 10/28/2005]

1941    admitted on trial

1941    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Penny Farms, FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 410

 

1937-38           Harrisonville

1938-41           Littlestown

1941-42           Hustontown

1942-46           Harrisburg St. Paul’s-Riverside

1946-51           South Williamsport

1951-54           Altoona Grace

1954-59           Harrisburg Trinity

1959-62           Waynesboro

1962-68           Camp Hill

1968-73           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1973                retired

                             1973-75  assistant, Mechanicsburg First

 

Note: Rev. Frehn is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who the Methodist Church, page 447.

 

FRICKLAND, ERNEST

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-01           Laporte

1907-08           Mahoning circuit, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Note: Ernest Frickland served as a local pastor.  An 1899 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, which lists his given name as EARNEST, he is otherwise unknown.

 

FRIED, PHILIP

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

?          license, Central New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           East Canton

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           East Canton

 

Note: Philip Fried served as a local pastor.  In the 1970’s, he appears to be serving United Methodist churches in New York state.

 

FRITCHLEY, NEWTON HORACE

 

Born:  9-4-1916  Calcutta, India                                married: Delores M. Heinley

Died: 7-25-2013  Carlisle PA                                     obit: [1/21/1919 – 10/27/2007]

 

1937    license, recommended by Calcutta Thorburn, India

1939    admitted on trial, Bengal Conference

1943    ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference

1945    ordained elder, New Hampshire Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit:

 

1937-40           Boys High School, Calcutta

1940-43           at school

1943                transfer to New Hampshire Conference

1943-45           Salem Depot

1945-46           Windber, Pittsburgh Conference

1946                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1946-49           Windber

1949-53           Pitcairn

1953-58           Pittsburgh Brookline

1958-63           Butler

1963                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1963-73           Carlisle Allison Memorial

1973                transfer to West Ohio Conference

 

Note: Newton H. Fritchley is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 449.  He is listed in 2003 as a retired member of the West Ohio Conference.

 

FRITZ, JESSE EMANUEL

 

Born:  4-3-1933  Benton PA                                       married: Sandra Mae Baker

Died: 6-14-2018  Danville PA                                    obit:

 

1962    quarterly conference license

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment: Benton Cemetery, Benton PA

Obit:

 

1963-66           Lewisberry

1966-69           Millerton-Daggett

1969-75           on leave

1975                located

 

Note: Jesse E. Fritz is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 450.  Before entering the ministry, he taught school in Red Lion and Benton.  He settled in Benton, where he was very active in the local church.  He is reported to have owned and operated the Jubilee Valley Retreat Center (location, details unknown) for 25 years.

 

FRITZ, REYBURN LUTHER

 

Born: 3-8-1905  Freeland PA                                     married: Rachel Jane Howey

Died: 6-22-1990  Lewisburg PA                                obit:

 

1930    license, recommended by Freeland Park

1937    ordained deacon

1938    admitted on trial

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Freeland Cemetery, Freeland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 478

 

1930-34           Muncy Valley (ending summer 1934)

1934-38           Cassville (beginning summer 1934)

1938-42           Salladasburg

1942-45           Lock Haven East Main Street

1945-47           Broad Ave., Altoona

1947-49           Marcy Cent., Chicago

1949-53           Grace, Wmpst.

1953-58           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1958-62           Altoona Fairview

1962-67           Everett

1967-71           Harrisburg Epworth

1971                retired

      1971-77      Harrisburg Riverside

      1977-81     Lewisberry

 

FRITZINGER, JASON A.

 

Born: 5-14-1921  Hazelton PA                                   married: Emma W. Fohringer

Died: 10-19-1978                                                        obit: [1927 – 2008]

 

Interment: Pine Hall Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: [Centre Daily Times, 10/20/1978, page 20]

 

1944-45           Laurelton (beginning 10/15/44)

 

Note: J.A. Fritzinger served as a local pastor.  He attended Dickinson Junior College [now Lycoming College] and worked for 30 years as an accountant in State College while an active layperson in the St. Peter’s UCC.

 

FROST, SAMUEL MILTON

 

Born: 5-31-1825  Mocksville NC                               married: Juliet Katharine Klossen

Died: 1-6-1906  Montoursville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 120

 

1846    admitted on trial, North Carolina Conference MES

1846    ordained deacon, North Carolina Conference MES

1848    ordained elder, North Carolina Conference MES

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 99

 

1846-47           Wilkes circuit

1847-48           Salisbury

1848-49           Washington

1849-50           Greensboro

1850-51           Washington

1851-53           Chapel Hill

1853-55           Fayetteville

1855-56           Wilmington Front Street

1856-62           president, Wayne Female College in Goldsboro NC

1862-64           school teacher

1866-70           Chatsworth Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore

1870-71           China Hall Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore

1871                transfer to Baltimore Conference ME (March 1)

1871                transfer to St. Louis Conference (March 8)

1871-72           Pleasant Hill

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73           York Springs

1873-76           Hanover – New Oxford

1876-79           New Cumberland

1879-82           Mt. Carmel

1882-85           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1885-88           Shamokin

1888-89           Bloomsburg

1889-90           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1890-92           Mifflintown

1892-96           Centralia

1896-97           Watsontown

1897-99           Duncansville

1899-03           White Haven

1903-06           Weatherly

 

Note: Wayne Female College was taken over by the Confederate Army for a hospital in 1862, and it reopened in 1868 as Goldsboro Female College.


 

FROWNFELTER, GEORGE MILTON

 

Born: 3-2-1861  near New Bloomfield PA                married: Helen Virginia Quiggle

Died: 9-28-1944  Harvey’s Lake PA                          obit: [1961, 285]

 

1892    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 223

 

1892-94           Harrisburg Epworth

1894-95           Williamsport High Street

1895-99           Great Island

1899-03           Mifflinburg

1903-07           St. Mary’s

1907-09           Flemington

1909-13           Wallaceton

1913-17           Clearville

1917-23           Three Spring

1923-29           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1929-40           Mifflinville

1940                retired

 

FRUM, DAVID JAMES

 

Born: 2-17-1850  McElroy Creek WV                       married: Dilemma Talkington

Died: 7-28-1918  Clearfield PA                                 obit: [6/17/1853 – 11/12/1925]

 

1910    license

 

Interment: Beracha Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Plumville PA

Obit: [1919, 62]

 

1910-12           Glen Campbell

1912-15           Pleasant Gap

1915-17           Ray’s Hill

1917-19           Clearville

 

Note: David J. Frum served as a local pastor.

 

FRY, EDGAR

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-1961       Talmar circuit (beginning 9/1/58)

 

Note: Edgar Fry served as a local pastor.

 

FRY, SAMUEL DILLER JR.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by Drums St. Paul’s

1968    admitted on trial

1968    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-65           Morris

1965-67           Oriole

1967-70           student, Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester PA

                              1967-70      Colonial Manor, Woobury NJ

1970-72           Avis Grove Street

1972-75           York Springs-Arnolds

1975-83           associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

1983-83           Middletown Wesley

1984-86           staff, Iowa Wesleyan College

1986-88           staff, William Patterson College in Wayne NJ

1988                transfer to Iowa Conference

                        transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

2003                retired

 

FRYE, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-19           Muncy Valley (starting January 1918)

 

Note: Charles E. Frye served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

FRYSINGER, WILLIAM MASLIN

 

Born: 4-18-1840  Hanover PA                                   married: Sarah Elizabeth Quin

Died: 11-8-1933  Healdsburg CA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 116

                                                                                    married2: Laura Trout Zeigler

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf.      obit2: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 218]

1862    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Sebastopol, California

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 218

           

1860-63           York Duke Street

1863-65           Mount Holly Springs

1865-68           Baltimore Huntingdon Avenue

1868-69           Altoona

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-70           Jackson Square Centenary

1870                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1870-73           Carlisle Emory

1873-74           Sunday School & Tract Agent

1874-78           on leave

                              1874-75     Lewistown

                              1877-78     assistant, Harrisburg Grace

1878-82           superintendent, Methodist Book Room (ending 7/1882)

1882-89           president, Centenary Biblical Institute (beginning 7/1882)

1889                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1889-94           editor, Baltimore Methodist

1894                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1894-99           Carlisle Allison

1899-00           Tyrone First

1900-03           Bloomsburg

1903-04           secretary, Annuity Fund

1904                retired

 

Note: William M. Frysinger is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who American Methodism.  Centenary Biblical was established in Baltimore by the Methodists as a college for African Americans in 1867 and is now Morgan State University. 


 

FULCOMER, GEORGE MASON WASHINGTON

 

Born: 8-2-1876  Wrightsville PA                               married: Laura Belle Godfrey

Died: 11-24-1947  Green Bay WI                              obit: [1878-1953]

 

1909    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Christ U.M. Cemetery, Jacobus PA

Obit: [York Gazette and Daily for 11/25/1947, page 31]

 

1902-03           Glen Rock

                        student, York Collegiate Institute

1908-10           student, Drew Theological Seminary

    1909       “transfer” to Newark Conference

    1909-10  Port Colden and Changewater

1910-14           Gladstone NJ

1914                withdrew

1917                “transfer” to Presbyterian Church

1917-23           Alton IA

1923-               Groton SD

                        Walbeno WI First

 

Note: George M.W Fulcomer is the brother of preachers Edward A. Fulcomer (1869-1936) and Willis N. Fulcomer (1870-1957) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church, and the father of Rev. Charles Frederick Fulcomer (1914-2003) of the Presbyterian Church.  He served Glen Rock as a local pastor. 


 

FULLER, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 1-23-1907  Philadelphia PA                             married: Edna Mae Warsing

Died: 3-17-1990                                                          obit:

 

1930    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Missouri East Conference  1990, 297

 

1928-29           Picture Rocks

1929-30           Half Moon

1930-31           Riddlesburg

1931-33           Burnt Cabins

1933-35           Cherry Tree

1935-38           school

1938-53           missionary,  Africa Southern Rhodesia

1953-57           faculty, University of Missouri

1957                transfer to Missouri Conference

 

FULLERTON, JAMES ARCHER

 

Born: 5-28-1850                                                          married: Anne Jane Barrett

Died: 6-29-1928                                                          obit: West Virginia Conference 1928, 107

 

1872    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1928, 105

 

1872                transfer to West Virginia Conference

 

 

FULLMER, CHARLES WALTER

 

Born:                                                                           married: Margaret Janice Lee [3/30/1957]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1956    admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

1956-58           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                             1956-58      Lyon Lake, Michigan Conference

1958                transfer to Michigan Conference

1958-59           Lyon Lake

1959-62           Kalamazoo First

1962-66           Grand Rapids Valley

1966-70           Reed City

1970-77           Ionia First

1977-86           Grandville

1986-94           Petosky

1994-97           chaplain, Clark Retirement Community

1997                retired

                             1999  Amble

 

Note: Charles W. Fullmer is a 1964 graduate of Lycoming College

 

FULTON, THOMAS J.

 

Born: 11-7-1850                                                          married: Sephronia _____

Died: 2-14-1922                                                          obit: [10/8/1850 – 1/8/1892]

                                                                                    married2: Ida M. _____

1903    license                                                             obit2: [d. 8/15/1939]

 

Interment: Sterling Run Cemetery, Sterling Run PA

Obit: [1922, 74]

 

1903-04           Medix

1904-07           apparently no appointment

1907-11           Oriole & Antes Fort

1911-15           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1915                Picture Rocks circuit (ending 4/15/15)

1915-19           Salladasburg (beginning 4/15/15)

1919-22           Salona & Lamar

 

Note: Thomas J. Fulton served as a local pastor.

 

FUNK, WILLIAM WARREN II

 

Born: 11-4-1938  Philadelphia PA                             married: Barbara Mae Lucas__

Died: 1-5-2017  Stat Colleg PA                                 obit:

 

1964    admitted on trial, recommended by Nescopek Wesley

1964    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment: Roselawn Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 283

 

1960-64           student, Bloomsburg State University

1964-66           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1966-67           Centralia

1967-69           New Paris

1969-71           Osceola Mills

1971-96           honorable location

                             1971-96      teacher, Clearfield Area School District

1996-99           Belleville

1999-01           leave of absence

2001                retired

 

FUREY, JOHN RHOADS

 

Born: 7-16-1852  Connellsville PA                            married: Lucy C. Homan

Died: 1922                                                                  obit: [6/23/1853 – 4/19/1938]

 

1876    ordained deacon, Protestant Episcopal Church

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Bloomsburg

1880    recognized as deacon, recommended by Bloomsburg

 

Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

                        Pennsylvania Diocese

1875                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Diocese

1875-76           Plymouth

1876-77           Milford St. Mark’s

1877-80           unknown, Reformed Episcopal Church

1880                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1880-81           Buffalo Mission, New Columbia

1881-82           Loyalsock

1882                transfer to Virginia Conference

1882-83           Old Point

1883-84           Highland

1884-85           Falmouth

1885                no longer listed

 

Note: John R. Furey is the son of Rev. John Groves Furey (c1824-c1905) of the Episcopal Church (Milton and Connellsville) and grandson (through his mother) of John Rhoades (1783-1843) of the Baltimore Conference.  He is also the brother of Thomas M. Furey of the Wyoming [PA] Conference.  As of 1894, according to the University of Pennsylvania alumni catalog, he was engaged in business in Philadelphia and “occasionally officiating” as a clergyman.

 

 

FURLONG, HENRY

 

Born: 3-21-1797  Baltimore MD                                married: Jane Sophronia Carruthers [2/14/1822]

Died: 8-29-1874  Baltimore MD                                obit: [4/9/1803 – 8/10/1888]

 

1816    quarterly conference license, Fells Point

1817    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1819    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1821    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1875, 26

 

1816-17          

1817-19           Berkley

1819-20           Loudon

1820-21           Lancaster

1821-22           Short Creek

1822-24           Washington (Pa)

1823-25           Chartiers

1825-26           Redstone

1826-27           Wheeling station

1827-28           Greenfield

1828-29           Montgomery

1829-30           Winchester

1830-32           Baltimore City station

1832-33           Georgetown

1833-35           Loudon

1835-37           Harford

1837-39           East Baltimore station

1839-40           Gettysburg

1840-41           Severn

1841-42           Annapolis

1842-46           superintendent, Huntingdon District

1846-47           Huntingdon

1847-49           Jefferson

1849-50           Berkley

1850-51           Martinsburg station

1851-52           Leesburg

1852-53           Hagerstown

1853-55           Baltimore Sharp Street & Asbury

1855-57           East Baltimore

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Shrewsbury

1858-60           on leave

1860-62           Seaman’s Union Bethel

1862-64           Baltimore Dallas Street

1864                retired

 

Note: Henry Furlong is the father of Henry Bascom Furlong (d. 1853/4) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

 

GAMBLE, JAMES

 

Born: 2-22-1802  near Carlisle PA                             married: Charity Bailey

Died: 3-10-1890  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [d. 12/14/1832]

                                                                                    married2: Julia Ann Rowe

1828    quarterly conference license,                          obit2: [d. 7/9/1868]

                        Berkeley circuit                                   married3: Margaret “Maggie” R. Dunn

1837    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit3: [3/22/1821 -12/12/1889]

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1890, 53

 

1835-36           Moorfield circuit

1836-37           ?

1837-38           Bath

1838-39           Christiansburg

1840-41           Covington

1841-42           Deerfield

1842-44           Baltimore City mission station

1844-46           East Bedford

1846-47           Monroe

1847-49           Sinnemahoning

1849-50           Luzerne

1850-51           West Clearfield

1851-53           Baltimore City mission station

1853-55           Baltimore Dallas Street

1855-57           mission to colored people, Harford County

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Montour mission

1858-59           Liberty Valley (Pa)

1859-60           on leave

1861                retired

                             1865-73  city missionary, East Baltimore District

 

 

GANOE, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 8-17-1843  Warrior’s Mark PA                        married: Sophie Jones

Died: 9-3-1917  Chambersburg PA                           obit: Central PA Conference 1916, 134

 

1870     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 135

 

1870-72           Lumber City

1872-74           Clearfield circuit

1874-77           Gettysburg

1877-80           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1880-83           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1883-86           Chambersburg

1886-89           superintendent, Danville District

1889-92           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1892-94           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1894-99           Altoona First

1899-06           York First

1906-08           Bloomsburg

1908                retired

 

Note: Martin L. Ganoe is a brother to William V. Ganoe and Martha Ganoe Butler, wife of Elisha S. Butler.  An obituary also appears in the 11-15-1917 Christian Advocate, page 1216.

 

GANOE, WILLIAM VAN DEVENDER

 

Born: 6-8-1847  Warrior’s Mark PA                          married: Constance Addleman

Died: 11-14-1932  Jersey Shore PA                           obit: Central PA Conference 1911, 134

 

1870     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Greencastle Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 188

 

1870-71           Sinnemahoning

1871-72           Half Moon

1872-73           Pine Grove

1873-74           Mercersburg

1874-77           Greencastle

1877-78           Harrisburg Mt. Pleasant

1878-80           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1880-82           Mifflin

1882-85           Williamsburg

1885-88           Altoona Chestnut Street

1888-93           Sunbury

1893-96           Shamokin First

1896-01           Williamsport Grace

1901-06           Jersey Shore First

1906-07           Renovo

1907-10           Curwensville

1910-13           Bedford

1913                retired

 

Note: William V. Ganoe is a brother to Martin L. Ganoe and Martha Ganoe Butler, wife of Elisha S. Butler.

 

GARDNER, GEORGE PARKER

 

Born: 7-17-1870  York Springs PA                            married: Jennye [Jennie] H. Gemmill

Died: 6-16-1952  Jersey Shore PA                             obit: [1893 – 1993]

 

1918    license

1928    ordained deacon

1930    ordained elder

 

Interment: Round Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery, near Cross Roads PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 219

 

1918                Rehobeth (3 Months)

                        Bressler (2 months)

1918-22           Cross Roads & Gatchellville  (beginning 10/21/18)

1922-25           Hustontown

1925-30           Fayetteville

1930-31           Laurelton

1931-35           Catawissa circuit

1935-40           Lewisberry & Lisburn

1940-46           Oriole & Antes Fort

1946-50           Lock Haven Parish

1950                retired

 

Note: G. Parker Gardner served as a local pastor.

 

 

GARDNER, LEONARD MARSDEN

 

Born: 10-10-1831  near Gettysburg PA                     married: Anna M. Rhodes

Died: 2-24-1925  York Springs PA                            obit: [1/6/1836 – 3/17/1899]

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, York Springs PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1925, 93

 

1854-55           Mercersburg

1855-56           Frederick

1856-57           Liberty

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           McConnellsburg

1859-61           Hancock

1861-63           Lock Haven station

1863-65           Curwensville

1865-68           Baltimore Exeter Street

1868-70           Baltimore Strawbridge

1870                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1870-73           Pittsburgh Liberty Street

1873                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1873-74           Calvert circuit

1874-75           Winchester

1875-76           Frostburg

1876-78           East Baltimore

1878-81           Washington DC Ryland

1881-84           Washington DC Mt. Zion

1884-87           Baltimore Franklin Street

1997-90           Woodberry

1890-02           on leave due to wife’s illness

1902                retired

 

Note:  A copy of Sunset Memories, the autobiography of L.M. Gardner, is on file in the biography section of the conference archives.

 

 

GARDY, MICHAEL ROGER

 

Born: 6-6-1944 Hazleton PA                                      married: Sally A. Snyder

Died: 1-14-2021  Williamsport PA                            obit:

 

1968    admitted on trial, recommended by Hazleton Diamond

1968    ordained deacon

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment: First UMC Memorial Garden, Muncy PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 356

 

1967-70           student, Wesley Theological Seminary

                             1967-68      youth minister, Mt. Vernon in the Baltimore Conference

                             1968-69      assistant, Washington DC Asbury in the Baltimore Conference

1970-71           assistant, St. Andrews in the Baltimore Conference

1971-81           Newburg

1981-94           Woolrich

1994-12           Muncy First

2012                retired

 

GARRAHAN, JAMES M.

 

Born: 10-31-1932  Luzerne PA                                              married: Delores Jenny Giberson

Died: 3-22-2010  Milford DE                                                 obit: [?/?/1932 – 3/16/2002]

 

Interment: Willow Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Pittsgrove NJ

Obit:

 

1963-55           student, Eastern Bible Institute [now Valley Forge Christian College]

1956-58           Dover DE Calvary Assembly of God

1956-67           student, Bloomsburg State College

    1965-67  Orangeville

 

Note: James M. Garrahan is a brother to Rev. John F. Garrahan (1920-2009), once of the Southern New Jersey Conference.  In 1967 James Garrahan moved to New Jersey where he taught high school for 28 years and served United Methodist churches as a local pastor in Ewan, Malaga, Willow Grove and Vineland Fourth Street.

 

GARTHOFF, JAMES WREN

 

Born: 1-3-1914  Juniata PA                                        married: Edith Marie Detwiler

Died: 5-11-1988  Wellsboro PA                                 obit: [9/2/1919 – 4/6/1999]

 

1936    license, recommended by Juniata [Altoona] Gethsemane

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Charleston Cemetery, Whitneyville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 409

 

1938                Tipton (3 months)

1938-42           Burnt Cabins

1942-44           Ray’s Hill

1944-46           Newton Hamilton

1946-48           Dudley

1948-51           Gordon

1951-52           Altoona Lakemont,

1952-54           Stewartstown

1954-57           McConnellsburg

1957-62           Flemington

1962-64           Williamsport High Street

1964 -74          Whitney Parish

1974-77           Altoona East End

1977-79           Bigler

1979                retired

                             1979-80      Bigler

                             1980-83      Roseville

 

GARVER, JOHN ARTHUR

 

Born: 7-28-1876  Aughwick Station PA                    married: Byrde McKee

Died: 9-5-1953  Turtle Creek                                     obit: Central PA Conference 1950, 205

 

1912    license

1942    ordained local deacon

 

Interment: Germany Valley Cemetery, Huntingdon County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 226

 

1912-13           Shirleysburg (last 7 months)

1913-15           Alum Bank

1915-17           Thompsontown

1917-20           apparently no assignment

1920-23           Ray’s Hill

1923-25           Manor Hill

1925-28           East Waterford

1928-30           Harveyville

1930-34           Frankstown & Canoe Creek

1934-36           Burnt Cabins

1936-38           East Waterford

1938-41           Morris

1941-44           Concord

1944-47           Glen Hope & Madera

1947                retired

 

Note: J. Arthur Garver served as a local pastor.

 

GASS, PETER SNYDER

 

Born: 5-23-1878  Sunbury PA                                    married: Mary Anna “Nettie” Kennedy [1902]

Died: 3-18-1947  Shamokin Dam PA                        obit: [5/27/1880 – 6/18/1966]

 

1918     admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-19           Jonestown

1919-23           Buckhorn

1923                discontinued

 

GAUGLER, NEWMAN R.

 

Born: 12-20-1902  Snyder County PA                       married: Beulah V. Shaffer

Died: 2-4-1985                                                            obit: [1/29/1904 – 1/27/1929]

                                                                                    married2: Mildred Florence Doward [Dourand?]

Interment: Orchard Hills Cemetery                            obit2: [b. 12/20/1902]

                        Shamokin Dam PA                             married3: Irene A. Kuchler

Obit:                                                                            obit2: [6/29/1914 – 8/2/1996]

 

1957-59           Laurelton (beginning 6/1/57)

 

Note: Newman Gaugler, with encouragement from Elton Trueblood, founded and headed the National Yokefellow Prison Ministry about 1956, first from Sunbury and later from Shamokin Dam.

 

GAUL, BENJAMIN LEE

 

Born: 12-15-1931  Mifflin PA                                    married: Shirley Naomi Williams

Died: 5-11-1995  Phoenix AZ                                                obit: [9/1/1929 - ?]

 

1954    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Lake Havasu Memorial Gardens, Lake Havasu City AZ

Obit: Iowa Conference 1995, 151

 

1952-53           assistant, Millville

1953-56           Ray’s Hill

1956                transfer to North Iowa Conference

1956-59           Garrison

1959-61           Lohrville

1961-63           Lohrville–Rinard

 

 

Note: Benjamin L. Gaul is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  He is the father of Jonathan David Gaul of the Iowa Conference.

 

 

GEARHART, FRANKLIN

 

Born: 6-18-1821  near Danville PA                           married: Mary Elizabeth Wagenseller

Died: 1-31-1890  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central PA Conference 1903, 115

 

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Selinsgrove Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 81

 

1845-46           Allegany

1846-47           Huntingdon

1847-48           Lewistown circuit.

1848-49           Williamsburg

1849-50           Bald Eagle

1850-51           Wrightsville

1851-52           Gettysburg

1852-54           Summerfield

1854-56           Mifflin circuit

1856-57           Lewistown circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Lewistown circuit

1858-60           Northumberland

1860-62           Bloomsburg

1862-64           Milton circuit

1864-66           Catawissa

1866-68           New Bloomfield

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Hanover

1869-71           Watsontown

1871-73           on leave

                             1872-73      Watsontown (last part of year)

1873-74           Hughesville

1874-76           Orangeville

1876-77           Mifflinville

1877-79           Catawissa

1879-80           Montoursville

1880-81           Loyalsock

1881-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Franklin Gearhart is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 377.  He is the father of Edmund B. Gearhart of the Central New York Conference.

 

GEARHART, GLENN PHILIP

 

Born: 7-31-1931  Gearhartville PA                            married: Winifred Guyer

Died: 3-29-2009  State College PA                            obit:

 

1966     license, recommended by Oak Grove (West Decatur)

1969    ordained deacon

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Mocks Hill Cemetery, Wallaceton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 418

 

1966                Allmansville & Smoke Run (6 months)

1966-69           Newton Hamilton

1969-83           Lock Haven East Main Street

1983                associate, Snow Show (ending 10/9/83)

1983-84           Altoona Grace (beginning 10/9/83)

1984-85           Morrisdale (ending 12/21/85)

1986-97           disability leave (beginning 1/1/86)

1997                retired

                             2000-06      Wallaceton

 

GEARY, CARL DONALD

 

Born: 8-5-1933  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Marion Haldeman

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1953    license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1954    admitted on trial

1956    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-59           Bald Eagle Parish (beginning 7-15-55)

1959-64           Williamsburg First

1964-69           York Calvary

1969-76           Williamsport Wesley (beginning 8-1-69)

1976-81           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1981                chaplain, Bethany Village (ending 11-1-81)

1981-84           Richfield (beginning 11-1-81)

1984-88           Lock Haven Trinity-Flemington

1988-92           Duncannon

1992-96           Mechanicsburg Young’s

1996                retired

 

GEIGER, FRANCIS JOSEPH

 

Born: 7-21-1912  Harrisburg PA                                married: Martha A. Dice

Died: 5-30-1996                                                          obit: Central PA Conference 1969, 313

                                                                                    married2: Ruth McDannell

                                                                                    obit2: Central PA Conference 2001, 363

1930    license, recommended by Harrisburg Epworth  
1931    admitted on trial

1933    ordained local deacon

1937    ordained elder

 

Interment: Perry Heights Cemetery, Marysville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 382

 

1931                York Springs (Jun-Nov)

1932-33           student, Dickinson College

1933-37           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                                      Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1937-39           Marysville (beginning Jun 1937)

1939-41           Espy-Light Street

1941-44           Picture Rocks

1944-48           Weatherly

1948-52           Millerstown-Liverpool

1952-54           Howard

1954-57           Hazleton Diamond (beginning Oct 1954)

1957-59           Williamsburg

1959-63           Hastings-Bakerton

1963-67           Morrisdale

1967-69           East Canton (ending Dec 1969)

1970-74           Bald Eagle Parish (beginning Jan 1970)

1974                retired

 

Note: Francis J. Geiger is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 465.  The father of the first Mrs. Geiger is a first cousin to Lyman M. Dice and Walter J. Dice, both of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  The second Mrs. Geiger is also a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference (see McDannell).

 

GEIGER, RUTH  [see McDANNELL]

 

GEISSINGER, ELMER LAMONT

 

Born: 10-10-1888  Tamaqua PA                                            married: Verna Glenella Ocker

Died: 10-12-1980  San Diego County CA                             obit: Nebraska Conference 1988, 336

 

1915    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside CA

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1981, 303

 

1911-14           student, Dickinson College

                              1911-13     Green Village

                              1913-14     Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Grove Furnace (ending fall 1914)

1914-17           student, Boston University School of Theology

                        Hennicker NH Congregational Church

1919                transfer to Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1919-               Omaha First

1923-28           Columbus

                        Lincoln

 

Note: E. Lamont Geissinger is the preferred rendering.

 

GEMBERLING, RALPH LOGAN JR.

 

Born: 6-3-1926  PA                                                                            married:

Died: 11-?-1979  Northumberland County PA                                  obit:

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA

Obit:

 

1950-52           Laurelton

 

Note: Ralph L. Gemberling served as a local pastor.  Some sources give the middle name as Leonard.

 

GEORGE, ROBERT ELMER

 

Born:                                                                           married: Millicent _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-57           Bellville NY, Wesleyan Methodist Church

1957-59           Rich Valley Wesleyan & Gardeau Baptist

1959-62           Picture Rocks, Methodist

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1962-63           Picture Rocks

1963-67           Jerseytown

1967-69           Barnesboro

1969-71           Hopewell-Dudley

1971-78           Mill Hall

1978-83           Houserville

1983-85           Craley-New Bridgeville

1985-87           Montandon-Milton St. Peters

1987-90           Royalton Emmanuel

1990                retired

                             1990-92      Enola Grace

 

GERE, JOHN AVERY

 

Born: 4-8-1799  Chester MA.                                     married: Sarah A. Neal

Died: 6-3-1874  Shickshinny PA                                obit: Central PA Conference 1892, 94.

 

1823    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Berwick PA, later removed to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 63

 

1823-24           Pendleton

1824-25           Aughwick

1825-26           Bedford

1826-27           Bottetourt

1827-28           Christiansburg

1828-29           Baltimore City station

1829-31           Federick circuit

1831-33           York station

1833-34           Annapolis

1834-36           Baltimore circuit

1836-38           West River

1838-40           Severn

1840-41           North Baltimore

1841-43           Liberty

1843-45           Jefferson

1845-47           Carlisle station

1847-49           Huntingdon

1949-53           superintendent, Northumberland District

1853-55           Baltimore Fayette Street

1855-58           agent, Sunday Schools

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           agent, Sunday Schools

1858-62           superintendent, Carlisle District

1862064           East Baltimore

1864-65           North Baltimore circuit

1865-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           Berwick

1867-69           Berwick station

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Berwick station

1869-72           Montoursville

1872-74           Shickshinny

 

Note:  Biographical sketches for John A. Gere appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 277, and in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.  His daughter Laura is married to A. Duncan Yocum.  Mrs. Gere is the daughter of local preacher Abner Neal of the Baltimore Conference.

 

GETCHEY, WILLIAM ADOLPHE

 

Born: 9-20-1926  Aristes PA                                      married:

Died: 2-16-2001  Sonoma CA                                    obit:

 

1949    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma CA

Obit:

 

1944-47           Rehoboth (beginning 7/1/1944)

1947-49           at school

1949-52           Orbisonia

1952-54           Lock Haven East Main Street

1954-57           chaplain, US Navy

1957                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

 

GIBSON, ALEXANDER EARLY

 

Born: 9-2-1825  Baltimore MD                                  married: Mary Ellen Markey (1/17/1856)

Died: 1-10-1897  Baltimore MD                                obit: [7/9/1833 – 3/2/1915]

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1897, 58

 

1848-50           Shrewsbury

1850-51           West Harford

1851-52           East Harford

1852-53           Baltimore City station

1853-55           Frederick

1855-56           Altoona

1856-57           Bedford

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Cumberland (Md)

1859-61           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1861-63           Williamsport Pine Street

1863-64           East Baltimore

1864-66           Broadway

1866                transfer to Baltimore Conference

                        (the following are not necessarily in order)

                        Baltimore Madison Avenue

                        Baltimore Fayette Street

                        Baltimore Exeter Street

                        Baltimore Grace

                        Strawbridege

                        Whatcoat

                        Harlem Park

                        Laurel

                        Baltimore Fulton Avenue

                        Washington DC Foundry

                        Washington DC Waugh

 

Note: Alexander E. Gibson is the father of Rev. Frank E. Gibson of the Episcopal Church.

 

GIBSON, ANDREW WIER

 

Born: 3-24-1827 near Nisbet PA.                               married: Anna M. Seibert

Died: 12-29-1913  Muncy PA                                                obit: Central PA Conference 1904, 125

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 122

 

1851-52           Huntingdon

1852-53           Bellefonte

1853-54           Penn’s Valley

1854-56           Shippensburg

1856-57           Baltimore Caroline Street

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Muncy

1859-61           Berwick

1861-62           Mifflinburg

1862-64           Hollidaysburg

1864-66           Petersburg

1866-69           Duncannon

1869                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-72           Bedford

1872-74           Curwensville

1874-76           Williamsport Grace

1876-77           Watsontown

1877-79           Jersey Shore

1879-81           Hanover-New Oxford

1881-84           Mount Holly Springs

1884-87           Muncy

1887-94           on leave

1894                retired

 

 

GIBSON, CHARLES KNIGHT

 

Born: 10-25-1874  Odessa DE                                   married: Edna Earle Ewell

Died: 7-7-1978  Hockessin DE                                  obit: Central PA Conference 1965, 365

 

1898    license, recommended by Madison NJ

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Hyde City

1907    ordained deacon

1909    ordained elder

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 333

 

1901-04           Chester NJ, Newark Conference

1904-06           Hyde City

1906-09           Clearfield Circuit (ending Jan 1909)

1909                Clearfield West Side (Jan-Mar)

1909-13           White Haven

1913-15           Nescopeck

1915-20           Northumberland

1920-22           Williamsport High Street

1922-25           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1925-29           Saxton

1929-31           Mifflinburg

1931-33           Catawissa

1933-36           Mechanicsburg

1936-40           Centralia

1940-43           Enola

1943-45           Gettysburg

1945                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on Charles K. Gibson appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 54.

 

GIBSON, ROBERT EDWIN

 

Born: 10-4-1906  Bedford County PA                       married: Edna Larue Buchanan

Died: 2-25-1985  Altoona PA                                    obit: [6/19/1909 – 4/16/2008]

 

1928    admitted on trial

1935    ordained deacon

1937    admitted on trial (2nd time)

1937    ordained elder

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton Depot PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 408

 

1927-28           Tatesville  (beginning 6/27)

1928-29           Allegheny 

1929                Williamsburg (4/29 – 9/29)

1930-32           Rehoboth  

1932-33           West Fairview-Summerdale

1933                discontinued, apparently becoming a local pastor

1933-34           Benezette & Penfield (to Dillsburg in mid-year)

1934-35           Dillsburg-Wellsville (from Benezette in mid-year 1933-34)

1935-37           Birmingham

1937-40           Glen Campbell & Mahaffey

1940-43           Mercersburg

1943-45           Berwick Calvary

1945-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-54           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial

1954-59           Everett

1959-61           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1961-68           Altoona Broad Avenue

1968-71           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1971                retired

 

Note: Robert E. Gibson is the son of Thomas R.G. Gibson.

 

GIBSON, THOMAS R. G.

 

Born: 6-15-1872  Bedford County PA                       married: Clara Idella Pencyl

Died: 9-30-1956  Trans Run PA                                 obit: [died 1907]

                                                                                    married2: Estella Poole Perdew

1912 admitted on trial                                                 obit2: Central PA Conference 1960, 249

 

Interment: Trans Run Methodist Church Cemetery, Trans Run PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 241

 

1910-14           Frankstown (started midway through year one)

1914-16           Blain

1916-19           Jamison City

1919-23           Harveyville

1923-26           Cassville

1926-29           Schellsburg

1929-31           Bakerton

1931-34           James Creek

1934-37           Fort Loudon

1937-39           Gatchelville

1939-43           Glen Hope-Madera

1943-45           Frankstown

1945                retired

 

Note: Thomas R.G. Gibson is the father of Robert E. Gibson.

 

GIDEON, BRUCE EUGENE

 

Born: 1-9-1911  Thedford NE                                                married: Opal E. Marsh

Died: 12-9-1988  FL                                                   obit: [1911 – 2006]

 

1935    admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference

1942    ordained deacon

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment: Royal Palm Memorial Gardens, Punta Gorda FL

Obit: Northern Illinois Conference 1989, 233

 

1931-32           Juniata

1932-33           Lincoln

1933-35           Greenwood

1935-38           Carleton

1938-42           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1938-42      Anderson NJ circuit

1942                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1942-45           Hughesville

1945-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-47           Williamsport Market Street

1947-49           Wesley Foundation at State College,

1949-52           Muncy

1952-53           voluntary location

1953-54           Bertrand-Loomis, Nebraska Conference

1954                readmitted in order to transfer to Nebraska Conference

1954-55           Bertrand-Loomis

1955-59           Lincoln

1959-60           industrial chaplain, Lockwood Grader Corporation in Gering NE

1960-63           associate, Wilmette IL

                        Rock River Conference

 

Note: Bruce E. Gideon is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  His biography “Bruce Gideon: Friend of Sinners, Foe of Rum” by Omer B. Poulson was published in 1960.

 

GILBERT, JAMES H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1919-20           York Springs

1920-21           Orrtanna

1921-22           Concord

1922-23           Vira

1923-26           Harrisonville

1926-28           Glen Hope

1928-29           [no appointment]

1929-33           Harrisonville

 

Note: James H. Gilbert served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

GILBERT, RICHARD HENRY

 

Born: 4-8-1855  South Wales, England                     married: Sarah Rosalie _____

Died: 5-17-1924  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central PA Conference 1883, 79

                                                                                    married2: Julia A. Lau

1880    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 118

            recommended by Fort Littleton circuit           married3: Mrs. Margaret Jackson Crispin

1882    ordained deacon                                              obit3: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 196

 

Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick PA             

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 153

 

1880-81           Fort Littleton

1881-83           Dillsburg

1883-86           Emporium

1886-89           Williamsport Grace

1889-91           Chambersburg

1891-96           Tyrone First

1896-00           Huntingdon First

1900-06           Berwick First

1906-12           superintendent, Danville District

1912-13           secretary, Conference Annuity Fund

1913-16           secretary, Conference Temperance Society

1916                retired

 

Note: Richard H. Gilbert is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.  There is also an obituary in the 6/12/1924 Christian Advocate, page 751.  The first husband of the third Mrs. Gilbert was a Mr. Benjamin Franklin Crispin Jr.

 

 

GILBERT, WILLIAM F.

 

Born: 1863                                                                  married: Mary Alice Freeland

Died: 1925                                                                  obit: [1867 – 2/22/1941]

 

1899    license, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Eschol, Pennsylvania Conference

1897-98           Mount Union

1898-99           Mattawana (Mifflin County)

1899-00           Glasgow (Cambria County)

1900-01           Elton (Cambia County)

1901-02           Cambria

1902-03           Path Valley

1903-05           Mapleton

1905-06           no assignment

1906                honorable discharge

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1907-08           McKee’s Gap

1908-09           no assignment

1909-11           Centre-Sandy Ridge

1911-13           Port Matilda

1913-16           Glen Hope

1916-17           Glen Campbell

1917-19           on leave, living in Mapleton Depot

1919                withdrew to join the ministry of another denomination, page 38

                                    [possibly Presbyterian in Oregon]

 

GILLIAM, JAMES EDWARD SR.

 

Born: 2-24-1927                                                          married: Elsie _____

Died: 9-11-2015                                                          obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mabel _____

1961    license, recommended by Glen Burnie MD   obit2:

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indian Gap PA

Obit: [Susquehanna Conference 2016, 156]

 

1963-67           Salona-Lamar (beginning 9/15/63)

1967-70           Gatchelville

1970-76           Wrightsville Locust Street

1976-80           Williamsport Wesley

1980-83           St. Thomas (ending 3/15/83)

1983-91           Curwensville (beginning 3/15/83)

1991                retired

 

GINTER, JOHN PAUL

 

Born: 5-8-1913  Fernwood, Clearfield County PA    married: Elizabeth Bertha Cowher

Died: 11-28-1979  Woodburn OR                              obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1999, 198

 

Interment: Riverview Abbey Mausoleum and Crematory, Portland OR

Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1980, 98

 

1935-56           Pine Grove Mills

1936-37           Allenport

1937-38           Cogan Valley

1938-41           New Millport

1941-45           (no appointment)

1945-47           Salona & Lamar

1947                “transfer” to Montana Conference

1948-49           Superior

                        transfer Oregon-Idaho Conference

 

Note: John P. Ginter served as a local pastor.  Following the death of John, Mrs. Ginter married a Mr. George Nuss.

 

GLASS, JAMES F.

 

Born: 4-17-1857  McConnellsburg PA                      married: Jennie S. Wilson

Died: 7-23-1926  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 133

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Margaret Gertrude (Haney) Leach

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Leidy     obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 361

1884    ordained deacon, recommended by Leidy

1888    ordained elder

 

Interment: Shoops Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 525

 

1882-83           Liberty Valley

1883-84           Leidy

1884-86           Clarkstown-Fairview

1886-90           Benezzette

1890-93           Muncy Valley

1893-98           Fairview

1898-00           Cassville

1900-04           Elysburg

1904-07           Airville

1907-11           Harrisburg Epworth

1911-19           Jersey Shore Epworth

1919-24           Marysville

1924-26           Altoona Broad Avenue

1926                retired

 

Note: James M. Glass is a second cousin to George W. Stevens and William H. Stevens.  He is the son of Katherine M. Stevens, a cousin to Benjamin Fletcher Stevens and  Isaac C. Stevens.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors.  Some sources name the first Mrs. Glass as the former Jennie S. Rumbarger.

 

GLASSCO, HERBERT WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-13-1900  Tyrone, PA                                     married: Marietta Griest

Died: 8-6-1970  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: Central PA Conference  1971, 373

 

1922    admitted on trial, recommended by Osceola Mills

1922    ordained deacon

1924    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 359

 

1922-24           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1924-27           Conyngham

1927-28           Ramey-Janesville

1928-29           Robertsdale

1929-33           Altoona Lakemont

1933-34           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1934-40           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1940-42           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1942-46           Juniata First

1846-50           Lewistown First

1950-56           superintendent Altoona District

1956-63           Clearfield Trinity

1963-67           administrator, Epworth Manor at Tyrone

1967                retired

                             1967-70      visitation pastor, Camp Hill

 

Note: Herbert W. Glassco is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.  Mrs. Glassco held an exhorter’s license.

 

 

GLENN, GEORGE MEEK

 

Born: 2-12-1860  Centre County PA                          married: Ellura S. Gray

Died: 10-4-1918  Half Moon Valley PA                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 238

 

1890     admitted on trial, recommended by Boston MA Brownfield Street

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA

Obit: Ventral Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 151

 

1890-93           South Williamsport

1893-95           Hughesville

1895-96           Hyner-North Bend

1896-00           Gettysburg-New Oxford

1900-06           Roaring Spring

1906-08           Chambersburg

1908-11           Sunbury St. John’s

1911-15           Philipsburg

1915-17           Tyrone First

1917-18           Mount Carmel

1918                retired

 

GLENN, WALTER FURST

 

Born: 2-26-1905  Curtin PA                           married: Blanche Beatrice Gilbert

Died: 9-17-1980                                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 365

 

1930    license, recommended by Jersey Shore First

1935    ordained deacon

1936    admitted on trial

1937    ordained elder

 

Interment: Schenck’s Cemetery, Howard PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 332

 

1932-36           Wallis Run

1936-38           Fayetteville

1938-40           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1940-42           Penn’s Valley

1942-45           Salladasburg

1945-48           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1948-50           Barnesvoro

1950-54           Catawissa

1954-57           Yeagertown-Lewistown Rhodes Memorial

1957-63           Duncannon

1963-67           Pleasant Gap

1967-70           Altoona Fairview

1970                retired

                              1971-74     Wallis Run (beginning April 1971)

 

 

GLOVER, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 7-24-1867  Selinsgrove PA                               married: Jessie Wertz Shearer

Died: 7-5-1942  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central PA Conference 1947, 201

 

1890     admitted on trial, recommended by Selinsgrove

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 211

 

1890-92           Riverside

1892-93           Pine Grove

1893-95           Birmingham

1895-96           Ansonville

1896-97           Wallaceton

1897-99           McVeytown

1899-01           on leave

1901-03           faculty, Battin School at Elizabeth NJ

1903-05           on leave

1905-06           faculty, Battin School at Elizabeth NJ

1906-09           Hopewell

1909-11           Petersburg

1911-13           Freeland

1913-17           Hanover

1917-18           Newport

1918-22           Catawissa

1922-26           York Duke Street

1926-27           Camp Hill

1927-30           Ashland

1930-31           Williamsburg

1931                retired

 

 

GODWIN, WILLIAM FRANCIS

 

Born: 11-10-1879                                                        married:

Died: 11-14-1963                                                        obit:

 

1917    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Sarasota Memorial Park, Sarasota FL

Obit:

 

1915-18           student, Dickinson College

                             1915-18      Orrtanna

1918                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1918-20           Bishopville

1920-21           Tangier VA

 

Note: W. Francis Godwin is a non-graduate of the Dickinson College class of 1918, but his father William Francis Godwin M.D. is a graduate of the class of 1861.

 

GOELLER, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 4-30-1880  New York NY                                married: Lizzie Marion Titus

Died: 5-11-1913  Hackettstown NJ                            obit: Central PA Conference 1972, 403

 

1906     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Hackettstown NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 116

 

1904-06           Summerfield NJ, Newark Conference

1906-09           Irish Valley

1909-10           York Springs

1911-13           Millville-Jerseytown

 

Note: Some biographical information on Fred A. Goeller appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 61.

 

GOMBERT, KENNETH VERNON

 

Born: 1-21-1919  West Pittston PA                            married: Helen Mae Williamson

Died: 5-4-1997  Aurora IL                                         obit:

                                                                                    married2: Wilma Mae Bidner

1948    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference        obit2: [5/6/1929 – 6/9/2019]

1949    ordained deacon

1950    ordained elder

1970    ordained elder, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

 

Interment: Cross Lutheran Cemetery, Yorkville IL

Obit:

 

1945-48           student, Juniata College

     1945-47      James Creek

     1947-48      Mont Alto

1948-50           Pittston St. Paul’s

1950-52           Taylor

1952-53           Morris

1953-56           Nicholson

1956-57           “special appointment”

1957-58           Susquehanna

1958-60           Bainbridge

1960-66           Old Forge

1966-69           Chinchilla

1969                withdrew to join the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

1969-70           student, Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis MO

 

Note:  Kenneth Gombert served 1945-48 in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.

 

GORDON, JENNIE M. TAYLOR

 

Born: 12-13-1867  Concord PA                                 married: Charles W. Gordon

Died: 12-29-1897  Angola, Africa                              obit:

 

1906     admitted on trial

 

Interment: mission graveyard in Malange, Angola

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 102

 

1893-96           missionary to Africa

 

Note: Jennie Taylor Gordon is the daughter of Andrew E. Taylor (whose card gives a complete list of the related Taylor pastors in the Methodist ministry) and the niece of prominent Bishop William Taylor (1821-1902), with whom she traveled to Africa.  She is a graduate of Williamsport Dickinson College, Dickinson College, and the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia.  After working as a physician and surgeon at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, she studied dentistry and is reported to be the first person to go abroad as a dental missionary.  Rev. Charles W. Gordon was born in Lynn MA and served as a Methodist missionary in various African Conferences and is last listed in 1903 as being “home in America.”  He is not to be confused with the Presbyterian Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon (1860-1937) who served as a missionary and wrote novels under the pen name Ralph Conner.

 

GORDON, OTHA LEE

 

Born: 9-6-1892  Brownsville MD                              married: Madeline Koller

Died: 6-27-1963  Huntingdon PA                              obit:

 

1937    ordained deacon

1942    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Nossville Cemetery, Nossville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 358

 

1932-37           Concord

1937-40           Fort Loudon

1940-43           Clearfield circuit

1943-46           Port Matilda

1946-48           Snydertown

1948-50           Newton Hamilton

1950-51           Wolfsburg

1951                retired

 

Note: O. Lee Gordon served as a supply pastor.  Some sources give his birth year as 1893 or 1894 and/or his first name as Otho.

 

 

GORMAN, PHILIP THOMAS

 

Born: 5-30-1890  Bangor, North Ireland                    married: Ethel Gertrude Vaughn

Died: 12-6-1949  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central PA Conference 1994, 478

 

1916    admitted on trial

1918    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 199

 

1913-14           Lewistown Highland Avenue

1914-15           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1915-16           at school, University of Minnesota

1916-18           Dudley

1918-20           Riddlesburg

1920-23           Reedsville-Milroy

1923-25           Williamsburg

1925-28           Patton

1928-32           Clearfield West Side

1932-34           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1934-36           Hanover

1936-42           Harrisburg Trinity

1942-46           Chambersburg

1946-49           superintendent, Altoona District

 

GOSHORN, DONALD EUGENE

 

Born: 8-17-1935  New Germantown PA                    married: E. Jane Rockey

Died: 7-26-2017  Harrisburg                                       obit:

 

1955    license, recommended by Doylesburg

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 271

 

1955-56           associate, Fort Loudon

1961-65           student, Lycoming College

                             1961-65      Trout Run

1965-68           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1965-68      Johnsville-Middleburg MD

1968-74           Lemont

1974-79           Lewisburg St. Paul’s

1979-82           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1982-95           Highspire-Steelton Mt. Zion (ending 10/1/1995)

1995-00           disability (beginning 10/1/1995)

                             1996-00      Steelton Mt. Zion

2000                retired

 

 

GOSHORN, GEORGE VAUGHN, JR

 

Born:                                                               married:

Died:                                                               obit:

 

1969     admitted on trial, recommended by Shade Gap St. Luke’s

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1969-72           student, Methesco at Delaware OH

1972-77           Pine Grove-McAlisterville

1977-82           leave of absence

1982                honorable location, page 310

 

Note: George V. Goshorn (and family) operated the Phillips Motel in Shamokin Dam PA from 1963 until 2015 – when it became vacant and for sale, before being sold in 2019. 


 

GOSS, ROY ALTON

 

Born: 11-8-1913  West Decatur PA                           married: Ethel Frances Shreiner

Died: 5-29-1984                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 237

                                                                                    married2: Marjorie Jean Cook [1948]

1933    quarterly conference license                           obit2:

1935    license, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1937    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1941    ordained deacon

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Shelton CT

Obit: New York Conference 1984, 267

 

                        student, University of Dayton in Dayton OH

1936-40           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1940-41           Birmingham, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church (ending 11/15/41)

1941                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1941-43           Bakerton (beginning 11/15/41)

1943-46           Howard

1946-47           Flemington

1947-51           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1951-54           Hollidaysburg First

1954-60           chaplain, Valley View Hospital and Home for the Aged in Altoona

                             1956-59      Bakerton

                             1959-60      Hopewell

1960                re-admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-61           Petersburg

1961                Renovo

1961                transfer to New York East Conference East

1961-68           executive director, Methodist Home for the Aged in Danbury CT

1968-74           executive director, United Methodist Homes of CT, Inc.

1974-               president, UM Retirement Homes of CT, Inc.

 

Note: Roy A. Goss is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 490.

 

GOTSHALL, HARVEY OSCAR

 

Born: 10-17-1875  Columbia County PA                   married: Laura Mae Kiefer

Died: 10-12-1955  Mifflinville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 230

 

1919    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 230

 

1919-21           Thompsontown

1921-22           McVeytown

1922-23           East Waterford

1923-26           Beach Haven

1926-28           Morrisdale

1928-29           Snow Shoe

1929-31           Espy-Light St.

1931-33           Flemington

1933-36           Woodland-Bradford

1936-39           York Springs

1939                retired

 

Note: Harvey O. Gotshall is the father of Grace Ellen Gotshall Pannebaker, wife of Foster L. Pannebaker.

 

GOTTSCHALL, MURREN HOKE

 

Born: 4-4-1878  Boiling Springs PA                          married: Estella Elizabeth McSherry

Died: 5-17-1930  Mount Lebanon PA                        obit: [1884 – 1944]

 

1903     admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-04           Burnt Cabins (beginning 9/8/1902)

1904                discontinued

 

Note: Some biographical information on Murren H. Gottschall appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 26.  He is described 1903,71 as “a local preacher, a well-approved and well-equipped man.”  M. Hoke Gottschall was a 1900 graduate of Dickinson College who later went into the real estate business in Pittsburgh.  He is the author of the 1922 book “Constructive Pittsburgh, a review of the Babcock Administration.”  The 1925 alumni directory lists him as living in Mechanicsburg PA, where he was apparently Director of the Bureau of Statistics and Information, Department of Internal Affairs, in Harrisburg PA.  The widowed Mrs. Gottschall later married a Mr. Mitchell.

 

GOTWALT, THOMAS D.

 

Born: c1830  New Bloomfield PA                             married: Mary Jane Shulze [1857]

Died: 12-3-1863  Williamsport PA                            obit: [1830 – 11/4/1904]

 

1852    quarterly conference license

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1864, 35

 

1852-53           (unknown)

1853-54           Huntingdon

1854-55           Bellefonte

1855-56           Lock Haven

1856-57           West Georgetown & Tennal station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Petersburg

1859-61           Muncy

1861-63           Clearfield & Curwensville

1863                Williamsport Second

 

Note: The widowed Mrs. Gotwalt later [1877] married the widowed businessman Mr. Mordecai William Jackson (1815 – 1894) of Berwick PA.  She was the niece of J. Andrew Shulze (1775-1852), the sixth Governor of Pennsylvania.

 

 

GOULD, ARDELL GORDON

 

Born: 7-17-1926  Syracuse NY                                  married: Roma Marie Gunder

Died: 7-29-2007  Silver Lake NY                              obit: [9/7/1926 – 1/27/2015]

 

1951    admitted on trial

1951    ordained local deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion NY

Obit: Western New York Conference 2008, 205

 

1945-49           student, Lycoming College

                             1945-46      Wallis Run

                             1946-47      Mottville NY, Central New York Conference

                             1947-49      Ralston 

1949-51           Claysburg

1951-55           Airville

1955-59           Jersey Shore First

1959-63           Bellwood

1963-67           Harrisburg Epworth

1967                transfer to Western New York Conference 10/1/1967

1967-69           Dickersonville –Niagara Falls Albright

1969-77           East Rochester Parkside

1977-79           Jamestown Kidder Memorial

1979-88           Albion

1988                retired

                             1992-95      Wilson Exley

                             1995-96      Indian Falls (beginning 12/3/1995)

                             1997-99      Carlton (beginning 11/6/1997)

                             2002-03      Holley/Disciples (beginning 11/21/2002)

 

Note: Ardell G. Gould is the son of Peter Gordon Gould (1900-1988) of the Western New York Conference and a brother to Edward C. Gould and Robert W. Gould.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 491.  Mrs. Gould is the daughter of Jesse Kolb Gunder.

 

GOULD, EDWARD CURTIS

 

Born: 4-10-1930  Syracuse NY                                  married: Sarah Ann Fiquette

Died: 4-20-2009  Greenville NC                                obit: [9/22/1930 - ]

 

1962    ordained deacon, Alabama – West Florida Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Western New York Conference 2009, 197

 

1952-53           Anson KS

1953-54           no appointment

1954-57           Risingville NY, Genesee Conference

1957-59           student, Lyoming College

     1957-58      Wallis Run, Central Pennsylvania Conference

     1958-59      Montandon, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959                “transfer” to Alabama – West Florida Conference

1959-62           Malone FL

1962-63           Elizabeth Chapel FL

1963-64           Thorsby-Jemison AL

1964-67           Marion Junction – Orrville AL

1967-70           Greenwood – Bascom FL

1970-71           Lynn Haven

1971-72           Farm Hill

1972                transfer to Western New York Conference

1972-73           Hemlock – Allens Hill

1973-76           West Seneca Calvary

1976-80           on leave

1980                retired

 

Note: Edward C. Gould is the son of Peter Gordon Gould (1900-1988) of the Western New York Conference and the brother of Ardell G. Gould and Robert W. Gould.  In the Genesee Conference he is listed as a student supply – with a notation that he was licensed by the Philadelphia Conference.  He was living with his daughter in Havelock NC when he died.

 

GOULD, IVAN M.

 

Born: 10-16-1908  Philadelphia PA                           married: Helen Joslin

Died: 1-29-1963                                                          obit:

 

1933    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1933    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

1935    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New York East Conference 1963, 1179

 

1933-34           Brookhaven

1934-36           Rockville Center

1936-37           ?

1937-42           staff, International Council of Religious Education

1942-45           general secretary, Service Men’s Christian League

1945-46           ?

1946-47           executive secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1947                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1947-52           executive secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1952-53           executive secretary, West Virginia Council of Churches

1953                transfer to New York East Conference

 

Note: Ivan B. Gould is the son of William H.G. Gould (1869-1933) of the Philadelphia Conference and a brother to Dickinson College professor and author William Drum Gould (1897-1992) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

GOULD, ROBERT WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-20-1936                                                        married: Mary Catherine Kelly

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-56           student, Alfred University

                             1955-56      Cameron, Genesee Conference

1957-59           student, Lycoming College

                             1957-59      Waterville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Robert W. Gould is the son of Peter Gordon Gould (1900-1988) of the Western New York Conference and the brother of Ardell G. Gould and Edward C. Gould.  In the Genesee Conference he is listed as a student supply – with a notation that he was licensed by the Philadelphia Conference. He earned an MSW from West Virginia University in 1961 and directed the social work at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

 

GOULD, THEODORE EDGAR

 

Born: 10-30-1913                                                        married: Catherine Simons

Died: 3-3-2005   Summerville SC                              obit: Central PA Conference 1993,456

 

1938    license, Primitive Methodist Church: recommended by Johnson City NY

1943    ordained, Primitive Methodist Church

 

Interment: Summerville Cemetery, Summerville SC

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 415

 

1939-41           Grindstone PA

1941-44           New Diggings WI

1944-45           Fort Atkinson WI

1945-46           Plymouth PA

1946-53           Hartzdale

1953-56           Plains-Wilkes Barre East End

1956-63           Shamokin Seventh Street

1963                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1963-66           Ray’s Hill

1966-70           Altoona Grace

1970-74           Roseville Yoked Parish

1974-77           Gatchelville

1977-81           Orbisonia Community Parish

1981                retired

 

Note: Theodore E. Gould is the father of Mary Gould Shrawder, wife of Kermit Shrawder.

 

GOULD, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 6-22-1908  Mt. Carmel PA                               married: Olive Mildred Long

Died: 4-22-1983                                                          obit:

 

1934    admitted on trial

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1983, 266

 

1933-35           Rouzerville

1935-38           Montandon

1938-43           Flemington

1943-46           South Williamsport

1946                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

1946-48           Reedley CA

1948-55           Chico CA

1955-61           superintendent, Shasta District

1961-               Campbell CA

 

Note: William H. Gould is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.  Mrs. Gould is the daughter of John W. Long and a 1931 graduate of what is now Lycoming College.

 

GRAHAM, CAMBRIDGE

 

Born: 12-19-1816  near Bellefonte PA                      married: Mary M. Cruesberger [Creutzberg]

Died: 12-20-1885  Tyrone PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 117

 

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Tyrone Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 84

 

1844-45           Karthaus

1845-46           Bloomingdale

1846-47           Lewistown circuit

1847-48           Shirleysburg

1848-49           Trough Creek

1849-50           East Bedford

1850-51           Frostburg

1851-53           Allegheny

1853-55           Concord

1955-57           Carlisle circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           New Bloomfield

1859-61           Woodbury

1861-63           Cassville

1863-65           Shirleysburg

1865-68           Carlisle circuit

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Tuscarora

1871-74           Duncannon

1874-77           Mount Holly

1877-79           Newville-Rehoboth

1879-80           Stockton-Beaver Meadows

1880-82           on leave

1882                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 380.  Cambridge Graham is the father of Mary Graham Wharton, wife of Andrew Parker Wharton. 


 

GRAHAM, CHARLES CONRAD

 

Born: 5-18-1919  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Shirley Maxine Curts

Died: 8-30-1975  Williamsport PA                            obit: [1922 – 11/17/2014]

 

1957    license, recommended by Jersey Shore First

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 146

 

1956-57           Pine & McElhattan

1957-61           Benezette-Penfield

1961-68           Altoona Wesley-Asbury (beginning 10/15/61)

1968-74           Martinsburg

1974-75           Gaines-Galeton

 

Note: The widowed Mrs. Graham later married a Mr. Foster B. Rhian.

 

GRAHAM, JACOB BRUNER

 

Born: 2-12-1849  Honetbrook PA                              married: Anna Freeman (5/17/1883)

Died: 7-2-1898  Hoytville PA                                    obit: Central PA Conference 1943, 218

 

1879     admitted on trial

1880    ordained deacon, recommended by Leidy

 

Interment: Honey Brook Cemetery, Chester County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 84

 

1879-79           Houtzdale and Osceola (first part); Beech Creek (second part)

1879-82           Leidy

1882-83           Kedron

1883-84           Ralston

1884-85           Pleasant Gap

1885-88           Snow Shoe

1888-89           Blain

1889-90           Green Village

1890-92           Mercersburg

1892-95           Concord

1895-96           James Creek

1896-98           Littlestown

1898-98           Hoytville

 

Note: An obituary for J. Bruner Graham also appears in the 7/21/1898 Christian Advocate, page 1185.

 

GRAHAM, McCORMICK

 

1871    quarterly conference license, Renovo

 

Born: 4-4-1818                                                            married: Mary Ann Bollinger

Died: 9-26-1893                                                          obit: [9/15/1825 – 5/6/1892]

 

Interment: Clark Cemetery, Beech Creek PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Shintown

1875-76           Westport

 

Note:  McCormick Graham served as a local preacher.  He was a carpenter by trade.  Some sources give the dates for Mrs. Graham as 9/17/1825 – 4/6/1892.

 

 

GRAHAM, WILLIS AQUILLA

 

Born: 12-25-1879  Oak Hall PA                                 married: Anna Winifred Fuller

Died: 6-7-1938  Jersey Shore PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 210

 

1907     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Lake View Cemetery, Ithaca NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 207

 

1904-06           Hammersley Fork

1906-07           Waterville

1907                Blackwell (5 months)

1907-09           Picture Rocks

1909-11           Penfield

1911-14           Salona-Lamar

1914-19           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1919-22           Nescopeck

1922-25           Patton

1925-30           Williamsburg

1930-33           York Ridge Avenue

1933-36           Shippensburg

1936-38           Jersey Shore Epworth

 

GRANT, DAVID WILSON

 

Born: 12-21-1943  Ashland PA                                  married: Barbara Minnick

Died: 5-23-2020  Pottsville PA                                  obit:

                                                                                    married2: Susan S. Yost (1989)

1965    license                                                             obit2: [4/23/1946 – 3/3/2020]

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1961-65           Evangelical Congregational School of Theology in Myerstown PA

                             Ashland Bethany Evangelical Congregational (6 months)

                             Clayton-Vera Cruz charge, Evangelical Congregational Church (6 months)

1965-66           Newton Hamilton

1966                withdrew to join the United Church of Christ

                             Hegins Christ

                             Tamaqua Trinity

                             Lebanon St. John’s

 

Note: David W. Grant has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated within the conference. 

 

GRAY, EDWARD JAMES

 

Born: 7-27-1832  Half Moon Valley PA                    married: Eva Vanderbilt Emery

Died: 1-20-1905  Baltimore MD                                obit: Central PA Conference 1906, 119

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 110

 

1859-60           Lock Haven

1860-61           Middletown MD

1861-62           Baltimore Huntingdon Avenue

1862-64           Lewisburg

1864-66           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Lancaster First, Philadelphia Conference (last part of year)

1869-70           Allegheny City North Avenue, Pittsburgh Conference

1870                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1870-72           Frostburg

1872-74           Baltimore Grace

1874                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1874-05           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

 

Note: Edward James Gray is the son of local preacher Peter B. Gray, Jr., (1799-1862).  He is a second cousin to George Tarring Gray.  A biographical sketch is given in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.

 

 

GRAY, GEORGE FRANKLIN JR.

 

Born: 7-3-1924  Wilmington DE                               married: Bessie May Lohr

Died: 1/1/2000  Lewistown PA                                  obit: Central PAa Conference 1994, 479

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Ada Ruth (Nale) Boyer (1995)

1953    license, recommended by Nacogdoches TX First      obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 296

1956    admitted on trial, Texas Conference              

1958    ordained deacon, Texas Conference

1960    ordained elder

 

Interment: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Friedens [Somerset County] PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 344

 

1953-55           Redland-Burk

1955-56           Chireno circuit

1956-57           Winnsboro circuit

1957-58           Canton circuit

1958-60           Mineola circuit (ending 1/31/60)

1960                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-64           Wallaceton (beginning 2/1/60)

1964-67           Barnesboro

1967-72           Thompsontown

1972-76           Burnham Yoked Parish

1976-80           Wrightsville Locust Street

1980-86           Oakville

1986-92           Bendersville

1992                retired

                             1992-00  Hustontown

 

Note: The Garden of Memories Cemetery is across the road from the Zion Hoffman Lutheran Church and was formerly known as the Zion Hoffman Lutheran Cemetery.  The second Mrs. Gray was the widoe of a Mr. Lee Imler Boyer (1824-1977)

 

GRAY, GEORGE TARRING

 

Born: 11-13-1832  Half Moon Valley PA                  married: Mary E. Hagey

Died: 2-18-1898  Irvona PA                                       obit: [d. 1862]

                                                                                    married2: Alice Augusta Mullen

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: 1914, 130

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 99

 

1856-57           Shirleysburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Cassville

1858-59           Bedford circuit

1859-60           Manor Hill

1860-62           North Baltimore circuit

1862-63           East Baltimore

1863-64           Mount Vernon

1864-65           East Harford

1865-66           Mount Holly

1866-68           Beaver Meadow

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Beaver Meadow

1869-71           Duncannon

1871-72           Mount Holly Springs

1872-75           Carlisle First

1875-76           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1876-79           Lewistown

1879-82           Hazleton

1882-83           Sunbury

1883-84           Everett

1884-86           Huntingdon First

1886-89           Lewisburg

1889-92           Curwensville

1892-95           Mount Carmel

1895-97           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1897-98           Coalport-Irvona

 

Note: George Tarring Gray is a second cousin to Edward James Gray.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 380.

 

GRAY, GORDON

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1899    admitted on trial

1900    ordained local deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-00           Everett

1900-01           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1901-03           Concord

1903-04           Port Matilda

1904-07           Jamison City

1907-12           Birmingham

1912-17           on leave

1917                located

 

 

GRAY, JOSEPH          

 

Born: 8-18-1840  McVeytown PA                             married: Mary A. Miller

Died: 1-4-1918  Washington DC                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 137

 

1868    admitted on trial East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 140

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Glen Hope

1869-70           Schellsburg

1870-71           Thompsontown

1871-73           Ray’s Hill

1873-75           Snow Shoe

1875-76           Port Matilda

1877-77           Elimsport

1877-78           Montgomery

1878-79           Hughesville

1879                transfer to Nebraska Conference

                        Nebraska Conference

1893                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1893-95           Buckhorn

1895-96           Mapletown

1896-98           James Creek

1898-01           Littlestown

1901-03           Orbisonia

1903-05           York Ridge Avenue

1905                retired

 

Note: An obituary also appears in the 1/24/1918 Christian Advocate, page 121.  He retired to Lewistown PA, was active in establishing Rhodes Memorial Church, and served as Sunday School superintendent there.  No relation to the Grays of Half Moon Valley, he is the father of Joseph M.M. Gray.

 

GRAY, JOSEPH M. M.              

 

Born: 8-31-1877  Montgomery PA                            married: Elizabeth Lily McCurdy

Died: 1-9-1957                                                            obit: Ohio Conference 1952, 295

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Littlestown

1901    ordained deacon

1903    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1957, 708

 

1901                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1901-04           Baltimore Rodgers Memorial Chapel

1904-06           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1906-08           Havre de Grace

1908-11           Easy Baltimore station

1911-13           Washington DC Hamline

1913                transfer to St. Louis Conference

1913-20           Kansas City Grand Avenue

1920                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1920-28           Scranton Elm Park

1928                transfer to Detroit Conference

1928-34           Detroit Central

1934-40           chancellor, American University

1940                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1940-41           chancellor, American University

1941                transfer to Ohio Conference

1941-50           Columbus Bexley

1950                retired

 

Note: Joseph M.M. Gray is the son of Joseph Gray.  He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the1952 Who’s Who in Methodism.

 

GRAY, LYLE A.

 

Born: 5-14-1935                                                          married: Helen Long

Died: 11-5-2009                                                          obit:

 

1956    local preacher’s license, Milo Center

1958    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           student, Drew Univserity

1960                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-63           director, Youth Work

1963                transfer to New Hampshire Conference
1972                left the ministry

                        provost, Northern Kentucky University

1987-1993       president, Castleton State College, Castleton VT

1993                retired

 

Note: Lyle A. Gray is a 1955 graduate of Cornell University and 1960 graduate of Drew Theologiy Seminary.

 

GRAY, ROY S.

 

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit: 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924-26           Clearfield circuit

 

Note: Roy S. Gray served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

GREEN, CHARLES FRANCIS

 

Born: 4-15-1849  NY                                                 married: Abigail Frances Blaisdell

Died: 3-2-1916                                                            obit: [3/15/1852 – 3/5/1905]

 

1889    ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

Note: Charles F. Green served as a local pastor.   Biographical sketch appears in Loyer’s 2004 James M. Black and Friends, page 27.

 

 

GREEN, LOUIS VANCE

 

Born: 12-18-1900  Altoona, PA                                 married: Esther Ruth Dell

Died: 10-31-1992  York PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 390

                                                                                   

1923     admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle Allison

1926    ordained deacon

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment: Bowman’ Chapel Cemetery, Mapleton Depot PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 457

 

1923-24           Fort Loudon

1924-25           York Springs

1925-27           Altoona Lakemont

1927-29           White Haven

1929-32           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1932-35           Newton Hamilton

1935-37           Patton

1937-41           Curwensville

1941-45           Duncansville

1945-50           York Duke Street

1950-54           York Grace

1954-56           Montgomery

1956-59           Williamsport Grace

1959-64           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1963-66           Marysville

1966                retired

                        1966-77 visitation pastor, York First [Asbury]

 

Note: L. Vance Green is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.

 

 

GREENLAND, JACK STANLEY.

 

Born: 7-27-1927                                                          married: Geraldine Lydia Dinges (1959)

Died: 2-?-1967                                                            obit:

 

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit:

 

1960-62           Allenwood

 

Note: Jack S. Greenland is the brother of John B. Greenland.  He was a theological student at Lycoming College and served as a local pastor. 

 

 

GREENLAND, JOHN BENJAMIN

 

Born: 11-17-1921  Trough Creek PA                         married:

Died: 9-6-1984  State College            PA                              obit:

                                                                                    married2: Ruth G. Lauser

1958    license                                                             obit2: [1922-1997]

1961    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 409

 

1958-61           Wallis Run

1961-62           Fairview

1962-64           Bald Eagle

1964-70           Snydertown

1970-84           Penns Valley

 

Note: John B. Greenland is the brother of Jack S. Greenland.  The conference obituary does not mention Rev. Greenland’s first marriage, which occurred before his second career in the ministry.  A son from first marriage is Dennis Greenland,

201 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Bel Air  MD 21014.

 

GREENLY, THOMAS BOWMAN

 

Born: 5-8-1830  Bristol, England                               married: Margaret Turley

Died: 1-18-1914  Berwick PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 132

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 124

 

1859-60           Catawissa

1860-61           Orangeville

1861-62           Cassville

1862-63           Bedford circuit

1863-64           Mifflin circuit.

1864-65           Frostburg circuit

1865-66           McConnellsburg

1866-67           Emmitsburg

1867-68           Sinnemahoning

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Caledonia

1869-70           Snow Shoe

1870-72           on leave

1872-78           preached in Iowa

1878                retired

 

Note: An 1870’s letter of Thomas Greenly protesting possible forced location is in the conference membership files.

 

GREENWALT, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 6-29-1888  Espy PA                                         married: Lucy Anita Burlingame

Died: 10-23-1943  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 206

 

1912    exhorter’s license, Espy

1914    admitted on trial

1916    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Creveling Cemetery, Almedia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 221

 

1913-15           Roaring Creek

1915-17           Catawissa cir.

1917-19           Bloomingdale

1919-22           Mifflinville

1922-25           Burnham

1925-27           Harrisburg Trinity

1927-34           Hanover

1934-40           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1940-43           Emporium

1943-43           Williamsport Newberry

 

Note: Mrs. Greenwalt was superintendent of the Florence Crittenton Mission in Williamsport PA.  The 1913 Roraring Creek circuit file includes a biographical statement from John H. Greenwalt

 

GREGORY, WAYNE T.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1961    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           Sinnemahoning

1965-69           White Haven

1969-70           Conyngham

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Wayne T. Gregory served as a local pastor.

 

GRIFFIN, CHARLES H.

 

Born: 1853                                                                  married: Mary H. Bennet

Died: 12-?-1918                                                          obit: [5/23/1846 – 8/3/1933]

 

1905    license

 

Interment: Alexander Cemetery, Madera PA

Obit: [1919, 62]

 

1905-08           Allegheny

1908-09           Liberty Valley

1909-12           Shirleysburg

1912-14           Ennisville

1914-18           Frankstown

1918-19           Glen Hope

 

Note: Charles Griffin served as a local pastor.  He conducted a dry goods store in Altoona before entering the ministry.  He died of the Spanish flu.  An obituary for Mrs. Griffin appears in the Altoona Tribune, 8/19/1933, page 10.

 

GRIFFITH, JOHN WESLEY POWELL

 

Born: 8-2-1892  Williamstown PA                            married: Dollie Rutter

Died: 2-22-1937  New York, NY                               obit: [1890 – 1956]

 

1920    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1920    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

1922    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Williamstown PA

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1937, 355

 

1912-14           student, Dickinson College

                             1912-13      Fort Loudon

                             1913-14      Green Village

1917-20           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1920                “transfer” to New York East Conference

1920-21           Easthampton

1921-22           Bayport & Blue Point

1922-24           Bridgehampton

1924-               New Canaan CT

 

Note: The preferred first name is Wesley.  Some sources give the birth year as 1891.

 

GRIFFITH, THOMAS MAGEE

 

Born: 4-14-1849  Howard County MD.                     married: Martha Isabella Myers

Died: 12-25-1887  Cassville PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 117

 

1872    quarterly conference license, recommended by Baltimore Caroline Street

1874     admitted on trial, recommended by Elkridge Landing circuit

 

Interment: Cassville Cemetery, then to Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 91

 

1873-74           Hereford, Baltimore Conference

1874-75           Gettysburg

1875-76           Cove circuit

1876-79           Mercersburg

1879-81           Liverpool-New Buffalo

1881-84           York Springs

1884-86           New Bloomfield

1886-87           Cassville

 

Note: Thomas M. Griffith is the son of Richard Griffith, a local preacher in the Baltimore Conference.

 

GRIFFITH, THOMAS MILLER

 

Born: 3-23-1834  Honey Brook PA                           married:

Died: 4-8-1898  Philadelphia PA                               obit:

 

1859    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1899, 80

 

1859-60           Chestnut Hill

1860-61           Churchtown

1861-62           Cornwall

1862                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1862-64           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1864                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

                        Somerton

                        Philadelphia Fortieth Street

                        Philadelphia Arch Street

1868-71           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1871-72           ?

1872-73           touring the Europe and the Holy Land

                        Reading Covenant

                        Philadelphia Cumberland Street

                        Philadelphia Nineteenth Street

                        Lebanon

                        Mauch Chunk

                        Tamaqua

                        Media

                        Conshohocken

                        Philadelphia Eleventh Street 

                        South Chester

                        Philadelphia Cooper Memorial

 

Note: Thomas M. Griffith attended Dickinson College 1854-58, and that institution’s archives has a collection of his papers and artifacts.

 

GRIMES, JOHN CONLEY

 

Born: 1869  New Market PA                                      married: Elsie Bushey

Died: 1-27-1912  Blossburg PA                                 obit: [1867-1933]

 

1896     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Greencastle

1897-98           Park Place – Delano

1898-00           Jonestown

1900-01           Orangeville-Light St.

1901-03           Nescopeck

1903-05           on leave

1905-06           Berwick Calvary

1906-07           McConnellsburg

1907-09           Riverside

1909                withdrew to become an Episcopal priest

1909-11           Williamsport St. Mary’s

1911                Renovo Trinity

1911-12           Blossburg St. Luke’s

 

Note: The biographical files contain a 1/30/1912 account of the death of John C. Grimes from the Gettysburg Times.

 

GROSCUP, ARTHUR WELLS

 

Born: 1885 Belair MD                                                married: Jeanette Lusby

Died: 5-18-1955                                                          obit: [12/17/1885 – 1/6/1977]

 

Interment: Bryan Cemetery, Paint Bank VA

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1955, 415

 

1909-12           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1911-12  Oriole & Antes Fort

 

Note: Arthur W. Groscup supposedly served in the Baltimore and West Virginia Conferences.  In the General Minutes, he first appears in the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church in 1940.  He is the father of Stacy L. Groscup (1920-2005) of the West Virginia Conference. 

 

 

GROSCUP, PHILIP S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1913-14           Lewistown Highland Avenue

 

Note: Philip S. Groscup served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

GROVE, KENNETH WESLEY

 

Born: 4-2-1920  Cross Roads PA                               married: Dorothy Dellinger

Died: 1-4-1975  Martinsburg WV                              obit:

 

1945    admitted on trial, recommended by Gatchelville

1945    ordained deacon

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect UM Cemetery, Gatchelville PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1975,334

 

1941-50           Gatchelville

1950                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1950-58           Cumberland Emmanuel & Fairview

1958-67           Baltimore Sexton

1967-75           Martinsburg Trinity

 

Note: Kenneth W. Grove is the father of John W. Grove of the Baltimore Conference.

 

GROVER, DANIEL MALVERN

 

Born: 4-1-1863  near Conyngham PA            married: Sarah Elizabeth Hetler

Died: 5-13-1946  Bloomsburg PA                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 202

 

1896    admitted on trial

1898    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mifflinville Cemetery, Mifflinville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 198

 

1896-00           Blackwell

1900-03           Costello

1903-07           Flemington

1907-09           Jersey Shore Epworth

1909-12           Shickshinny

1912-18           Ashland

1918-22           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1922-24           Montoursville

1924    retired

                        1930-42  Buckhorn-Rupert

 

Note: Daniel M. Grover is the grandfather (through his daughter Mary) of Samuel Grover Powell.

 

GUFFICK, WILLIAM R. SR.

 

Born: 4-12-1903  Yorkshire, England                        married: Henrietta Bardo

Died: 10-10-1974                                                        obit:

 

1925    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Seaville Methodist Churhc Cemetery, Seaville NJ

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1975, 39

 

1925-26           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1925-26      Spring Lake NJ

1926                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1926-28           Whiltesville and Pleasant Grove

1928-31           Beach Haven

1931-35           West Grove

1935-36           Trenton Broad Street Park

1936-40           Absecon

1940-51           Trenton St. Paul

1951-55           superintendent, Trenton District

1955-58           Ocean City First

1958-64           superintendent, New Brunswick District

1964-68           Ocean City First

1968                retired

                             1972-73      visitation pastor, Linwood Central

 

GUIZAR, RICHARD D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-68           Sinnemahoning (beginning 1/1/66)

1968-69           Montgomery

 

Note: Richard D. Guizar served as a local pastor.  He appears to have relocated to Virginia, become a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene, worked as an abuse counselor, and affiliated with the Northern Virginia Community College.

 

GULDIN, JONATHAN

 

Born: 2-22-1848  near Reading PA                            married: Jeanette Allison Clarkson

Died: 4-4-1926  Rochester NY                                   obit: [2/28/1855 – 5/16/1927]

 

1873    admitted on trial

1875    ordained deacon

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 519

 

1872-74           Gettysburg

1874-76           Mont Alto

1876-78           Shrewsbury

1878-79           Elysburg

1879-81           Catawissa circuit

1881-83           Milroy

1883-85           South Heberton

1885-86           Washingtonville

1886-88           Jerseytown

1888-91           Trevorton

1891-92           Liberty Valley

1892-96           Cogan Valley

1896-00           Penfield

1900-03           Muncy Valley

1903-05           Fairview

1905-08           Shellsburg

1908-13           Clearville

1913-15           James Creek

1915                retired

 

GUNDER, JESSE KOLB

 

Born: 8-17-1903  Waynesboro PA                             married: Esther Marie Avey

Died: 7-14-1965  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 438

 

1936     admitted on trial

1936    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenhill Cemetery, Waynesboro

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 334

 

1932-33           Waterville

1933-35           Oriole-Antes Fort

1935-38           Dillsburg & Wellsville

1938-40           Lock Haven East Main Street

1940-42           Centralia

1942-45           Saxton

1945-48           Williamsport High Street

1948-51           Altoona Grace

1951-54           Northumberland

1954-57           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1957-59           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1959-61           Altoona Simpson

1961-63           Osceola Mills

1963-65           Mount Union First

1965                retired

 

Note: Jesses K. Gunder is the father of Roma Gunder Gould, wife of Ardell G. Gould, and of Mary Esther Birt, wife of Paul E. Birt.


 

GUSCOTT, JOHN W.

 

Born: 1-24-1915                                                          married:

Died: 10-15-2001                                                        obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-62           Houtzdale

1962-66           Coalport

1966                Altoona Lakemont (ending 10/15/66)

1966-67           New Paris (beginning 10/15/66)

1967                no longer listed

 

Note: John W. Guscott served as a local pastor.  His residence at death is listed as Demopolis AL.


 

GUSS, JOHN

 

Born: 1-31-1832  Perry County PA                            married: Elmira McCord

Died: 9-3-1880  Riverside PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913,138

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1858    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1860    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mifflintown Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 67

 

1855-56           principal, Bloomsburg High School

1856-57           Orangeville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Luzerne

1858-59           Berwick circuit

1859-60           North Baltimore

1860-61           Bald Eagle

1861-62           Caledonia

1862-64           Sinnemahoning

1864-66           Cassville

1866-68           Salladasburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Salladasburg

1869-70           Great Island

1870-71           Mifflinburg

1871-72           on leave

1872-73           Snow Shoe

1873-75           Port Matilda

1975-76           Bloomingdale

1876-79           Elysburg

1879-80           Snydertown

 

Note: A biographical of John Guss sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 384.  An obituary also appears in the 10/1/1880 Conference News, page 2.  He is the father of Sallie Guss Whiteley married to Robert T. Whiteley, and of Rev. Howard Langley Guss (Presbyterian, Princeton 1897).

 

GUYER, ASBURY WESTON

 

Born: 4-26-1832  Warrior’s Mark PA                        married: Catherine Ashcom

Died: 12-17-1899  Duncansville PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893,98

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 114

 

1854-55           Bloomsburg

1855-56           Bloomingdale

1856-57           Penn’s Valley

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Westminster

1859-60           Havre de Grace

1860-62           East Baltimore

1962-63           Mount Holly

1863-64           Hanover

1864-66           on leave

1866-67           Hollidaysburg

1867-68           Curwensville-Clearfield

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Curwensville-Clearfield

1869-70           Altoona First

1870-73           Ashland

1873-75           Danville Trinity

1875-78           Shrewsbury

1878-81           Newberry

1881-83           Sinnemahoning

1883-84           Osceola-Houtzdale

1884-85           Houtzdale

1885-87           Milesburg-Unionville

1887-90           Logan Valley-Bellwood

1890-93           Martinsburg

1893-95           Coalport

1895-99           State College

1899-99           Duncansville

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Asbury W. Guyer is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 385.  Obituaries also appears in the 1/4/1900 Christian Advocate, page 33, and in the 2/15/1900 Christian Advocate, page 278.  Asbury Guyer had 4 brothers in the Methodist ministry: John Guyer (1808-1867) of the East Baltimore Conference, George Guyer (1812-1891), James Guyer (1817-1846) of the Baltimore Conference, and Simpson Guyer (1821-1893) of the Des Moines Conference.

 

GUYER, GEORGE

 

Born: 2-28-1812  Centre County PA                          married: Jane Wilson Elder

Died: 3-24-1891  Tyrone PA                                      obit: [d. 1858]

                                                                                    married2: Jane Elizabeth Galbraith Taylor

1837    quarterly conference license, Huntingdon circuit       obit2: 1896, 106.

1837    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Warrior’s Mark PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 81

 

1837-38           Berwick

1838-39           Bellefonte

1839-40           Lycoming

1840-41           Beaver Meadow

1841-41           Danville circuit

1841-43           Lycoming

1843-45           Milton circuit

1845-47           Lewistown

1847-49           Hollidaysburg

1849-50           Birmingham

1850-51           on leave

1851-51           Bellefonte

1851-52           Birmingham

1852-53           Clearfield

1853-55           on leave

1855-57           Manor Hill

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           superintendent, Cumberland District

1858-61           superintendent, Juniata District

1861-63           Warrior’s Mark

1863-68           on leave

1868-68           superintendent, Northumberland District

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Birmingham

1869-69           Tyrone

1869-70           Philipsburg

1870-71           Tyrone

1871-73           Sinking Valley

1873-75           East Tyrone

1875-78           Half Moon

1878-81           Logan Valley

1881-84           Warrior’s Mark

1884-87           Birmingham

1887-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of George Guyer is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 385.  George Guyer had 4 brothers in the Methodist ministry: John Guyer (1808-1867) of the East Baltimore Conference, James Guyer (1817-1846) of the Baltimore Conference, Simpson Guyer (1821-1893) of the Des Moines Conference, and Asbury Guyer (1832-1899).  The first husband of the second Mrs. Guyer was Charles Taylor, M.D.  He is the namesake of George Guyer Senser.

 

GUYER, JOHN

 

Born: 2-13-1808  Huntingdon County PA                 married: Eleanor Adlum Green

Died: 12-13-1867                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference  1910, 124

 

1834    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 50

 

1834-35           Sunbury

1835-36           Northumberland

1836-37           Bath

1837-38           Severn

1838-39           West River

1838-41           Lewisburg (Va) station

1841-42           Augusta

1842-44           Baltimore Columbia Street station

1844-45           Frederick

1845-46           Shepherdstown

1846-47           Danville

1847-49           Williamsport

1849-50           Jersey Shore

1850-52           Lewisburg (Pa) station

1852-54           Patapsco

1854-56           Chambersburg

1856-57           Bellefonte

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bellefonte

1858-60           Bloomsburg

1860-62           Baltimore High Street station

1862-64           Lewistown station

1864                superintendent, Northumberland District

 

Note: John Guyer had 4 brothers in the Methodist ministry: George Guyer (1812-1891) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, James Guyer (1817-1846) of the Baltimore Conference, and Simpson Guyer (1821-1893) of the Des Moines Conference, and Asbury Guyer (1832-1899) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

GWYNN, WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-22-1823  Gettysburg PA                               married: Matilda Beaverson

Died: 1-26-1887  Wrightsville PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 86

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1844    ordained deacon

1848    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wrightsville Cemetery, Wrightsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 81

 

1842-43           Westmoreland

1843-44           Frostburg

1844-45           Huntingdon

1845-46           Shirleysburg

1846-47           Luzerne

1847-49           Bloomingdale

1849-51           Sunbury

1851-53           Wrightsville

1853-55           Carlisle circuit

1855-57           York Springs

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-60           Harford (colored mission)

1860-62           Allegheny

1862-64           Kishacoquillas

1864-67           McVeytown

1867-68           Williamsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Williamsburg

1869-72           Manor Hill

1872-75           Warrior’s Mark

1875-77           Milesburg

1877-79           Martinsburg

1879-82           Shrewsbury

1882-84           McVeytown-Granville

1884-85           McVeytown

1885-86           Airville

1886                on leave

 

Note: A biographical sketch of William Gwynn is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 386.   He is the father of Sallie Gwynn Brady, wife of Lyons M. Brady.

 

 

HAAS, ALFRED BURTON

 

Born: 7-21-1911  Shamokin, PA                                married: [single]

Died: 7-19-1987  Lewisburg PA                                obit:

 

1935    admitted on trial, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1935    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 411

 

1933-36           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1936     Hazleton Holy Trinity (April – December)

1936-42           Harrisburg Grace

1942-44           at school

1944-68           faculty, Drew University in Madison NJ

1968-71           chaplain, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

1971                retired

 

Note: Alfred B. Haas is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 520.  He was a consultant to the committee which prepared the 1964 Methodist Hymnal, and in his memory the Chi Rho Singers present a hymnal to each newly-ordained elder in the Conference.

 

HACKENBERRY, JOHN RICHARD

 

Born: 6-23-1923  Lewistown PA                               married: Joyce Vivian Klinger

Died: 5-18-2011  Summerville PA                             obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 411

 

1948    license

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Juniata Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit:

 

1949-51           Burnt Cabins (beginning 11/1/1949)

1951-54           Wolfsburg

1954-58           Ramey (beginning 9/1/54)

1958-63           Morrisdale

1963-68           Martinsburg

1968-70           Coalport

1970                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundaries

1970-74           Coalport-Irvona

1974-79           Juneau (ending 3/15/79)

1979-85           Littles Corners (beginning 3/15/79)

1985                retired

                                            Juneau

                                            Emerickville Church of God

                                            Wellington Heights St. Mark’s Independent

                             1997-11  Barton Chapel (beginning 1/1/97)

                                             Coolspring Presbyterian

 

 

HAGEY, JEREMIAH CLARKE

 

Born: 3-15-1835  near Martinsburg PA                     married: Rachel Elizabeth Thomas

Died: 9-22-1888  Athens TN                                      obit: [2/5/1845 – 4/6/1935]

 

1857    quarterly conference license, Cassville

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1860    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1862    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Ivy Hill Cemetery, Germantown PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1889, 65

 

 

1858-59           Concord

1859-60           Mifflin

1860-61           Newport

1861-62           Shippensburg

1862-63           Cumberland Valley Mission

1863-64           Catawissa

1864-65           Muncy

1865-66           Jeansville

1866-67           New Bloomfield

1867-69           Shrewsbury

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-72           West Harford

1872-73           East Harford

1874-76           Piedmont

1876-79           Baltimore Caroline Street

1879-82           Washington DC Union

1882-83           Washington DC Grace

1883-86           Washington DC North Capitol

1886-88           faculty, Grant Memorial University [Tenesee Wesleyan] in Athens TN

 

Note: J. Clarke Hagey reportedly mastered 22 different languages and compiled a critique on the first revision of the New Testament  entitled The New Testament, Revised Edition.

 

HALL, JOHN P.

 

Born: 1832  MD                                                          married: Rachel E. Allen

Died: 9-8-1888  Gaithersburg MD                             obit: [1836 – 11/24/1888]

 

1853    admitted on trial

1855    ordained deacon

1857    ordained elder

 

Interment: Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit:

 

1853-54           Frostburg

1854-55           Baltimore

1855-56           Fincastle

1856-57           Hereford

1857-59           Boonsboro

1859-60           Catawissa

1860-62           Frederick

1862-63           Westminster (nominal)

1863                withdrew

                        “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church, South

1865-66           Hyattstown

1866                “readmitted” to Baltimore Conference MES

1866-67           Poolesville

1867-69           Taylor’s

 

Note: When the Methodist Episcopal Church South [MES] was formed in 1844, the churches in the Shenandoah Valley remained in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church [ME].   After the war, in 1866, a Baltimore Conference MES was formed – mostly of churches and pastors of the Baltimore Conference [ME].  This was the conference in which John P. Hall settled.  John P. Hall is credited with founding the ME South congregation in Boyds MD in 1865.  His name appears in the 12/11/1876 Congressional Record as one of the petitioners that the Southern Methodist Publishing House “be paid for the use of its facilities by the United States Army in the years 1864 and 1865.”

 

 

HALL, THOMAS MAXWELL

 

Born: 7-30-1891  Newburg PA                                  married: Helen Louise Bechdel

Died: 9-15-1958  Williamsport Pa                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 267

 

1922    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder

 

Interment: Baptist Cemetery, Blanchard PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 251

 

1922-23           at school

1923-25           Blandburg (ending 10/25)

1925-27           Madera (beginning 10/25)

1927-30           Manor Hill

1930-34           Warrior’s Mark

1934-40           South Williamsport

1940-45           Harrisburg Epworth

1945-52           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1952-58           Roaring Spring

1958                Mill Hall

 

Note:  Mrs. Hall was a minister’s assistant in the Presbyterian Church prior to her marriage, and a parish visitor in the Methodist Church following the death of Rev. Hall.

HALLMAN, RAYMOND W.

 

Born: 5-17-1910                                                          married: Charlotte Bradford

Died: 5-9-2001                                                            obit: [3/5/1909 – 3/18/1966]

 

1933    admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford DE

Obit:

 

1929-31           Littlestown (began 9/29)                    

1933-39           itinerant in the Wilmington Conference

1939                charter member of Peninsula Conference

1939-43           itinerant in Peninsula Conference

1943                no longer listed                      

 

Note: Raymond Hallman served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a supply pastor, presumably while attending college and/or seminary in Westminster MD.  Prior to her death, Mrs. Hallman had been the school nurse at Seaford High School for 22 years.

 

HALLOCK, EVERETT FROST

 

Born: 4-25-1907  Staten Island NY                            married: Catherine Porter

Died: 1-7-1967  Hialeah FL                                       obit: [6/3/1908 – 6/20/2003]

 

Interment: Vista Memorial Gardens, Hialeah FL

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1967, 179

 

1929-30           student, Dickinson College

                             1929-30      Boiling Springs & Hickorytown  (last part of year: see 1930, 81)

…

1940-49           Rutherford NJ (beginning 4/21/1940 and ending 1/1949)

 

Note: The widowed Mrs. Hallock later married a Mr. John E. Shoemaker.

 

 

HAM, SAMUEL

 

Born: 10-15-1855  Cornwall, England                       married: Adda C. Thompson

Died: 11-3-1912  Shrewsbury                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 162

 

1882    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

1884    ordained deacon

1886    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Buffalo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 137

 

1881-83           Concord

1883-84           Robinsonville

1884-85           Port Royal

1885-87           Liverpool

1887-88           Pine Grove

1888-91           Cogan Valley

1891-96           Penfield

1896-96           Muncy Valley

1896-97           South Williamsport

1897-03           Great Island

1903-07           Salladasburg

1907-11           Airville

1911-12           Shrewsbury

 

HAMLIN, BENJAMIN BAIRD

 

Born: 8-28-1823  Kinzua PA                                      married: Rebecca Manley

Died: 3-8-1904  Huntingdon PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 96

 

1848    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 122

 

1848-49           Milton circuit

1849-50           Northumberland

1850-51           Berwick

1851-53           Williamsport

1853-54           Liberty Valley

1854-56           Lewisburg

1856-57           Baltimore High Street

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Baltimore High Street

1858-60           Baltimore Strawbridge

1860-62           Danville

1862-66           superintendent, Bellefonte District

1866-68           Williamsport Mulberry Street (and “New Chapel” = Third Street)

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1869-73           superintendent, Juniata District

1873-74           Chambersburg

1874-78           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1878-81           Altoona First

1881-84           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1884-87           Carlisle

1887-89           Everett

1889-94           superintendent, Altoona District

1894-96           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1896-00           Houtzdale

1900                retired

 

Note: Benjamin B. Hamlin is a brother to William S. Hamlin.  Biographical sketches are given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 387, and in Simpson’s 1891 Cyclopedia of Methodism, Simpson.  An obituary also appears in the 3/17/1904 Pennsylvania Methodist.

 

HAMLIN, WILLIAM SIGGONS

 

Born: 4-23-1837  Salona PA                                      married: Caroline Allison

Died: 3-11-1919  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 131

 

1870    admitted on trial

            ordained deacon

1874    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 153

 

1868-69           Washingtonville

1869-70          

1870-72           Snow Shoe

1872-74           Lumber City

1874-76           Glen Hope

1876-78           Shirleysburg

1878-80           Freedom [Burnham]

1880-82           McVeytown

1882-85           Pleasantville

1885-88           Catawissa circuit

1888-91           Harveyville

1891-93           Benton

1893-96           Catawissa circuit

1896-97           Wapwallopen

1897-99           Silver Brook

1899-02           Trevorton

1901                retired

 

Note: William S. Hamlin is a brother to Benjamin B. Hamlin.  The following notice appeared in various newspapers on 2/11/1919: “Rev. William S. Hamlin, of Bloomsburg, fell through an open

coal hole in front of his residence and was seriously injured about the head and spine, but the result can not be told for a day or two.”

 

 

HAMMAKER, FRANK ENSOR

 

Born: 9-22-1901                                                          married: Grace Lillian McCaulley

Died: 10-18-1985                                                        obit: [1/14/1902 – 10/30/1951]

                                                                                    married2: Aileene Callaway

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA       obit2: [5/30/1908 – 3/30/2001]

Obit:

 

Gettysburg

 

Note: Frank E. Hammaker has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He appears to have been in the cemetery monument business in Maryland, and his cemetery marker in Gettysburg is rather distinctive.

 

HAMMOND, CHARLES MITCHELL

 

Born: 10-16-1902  Horse Valley PA                          married: Altha Florence Hallman

Died: 4-15-1993  State College PA                            obit: [10/17/1911 – 1/4/1997]

 

1937    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 458

 

1933-34           Burnt Cabins

1934-36           Hopewell

1936-37           Pine Grove Mills

1937-38           Cherry Tree

1938-42           Snow Shoe

1942-44           Penn’s Valley

1944-47           Ralston

1947-50           Mifflinville

1950-54           Morrisdale

1954-57           Lock Haven East Main Street

1957-59           Port Matilda

1959-61           Woodland

1961-62           Forksville

1962-64           Half Moon

1964-68           Kulpmont

1968                retired

 

HAMMOND, JAMES S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-23           Pine Grove Mills

 

Note:  James S. Hammond served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

HANCE, OSCAR TIBBALS

 

Born: 11-9-1863  Jersey City NJ                                married: Nolie Rose [1889]

Died: 10-13-1902  Pittsburgh PA                               obit: [d. 11/?/1891]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah J. _____ [1898]

                                                                                    obit2: [8/?/1879 – 1/3/1915]

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Grace

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Philadlephia PA

Obit: Harrisburg Telegraph, 10/14/1902, page 1.

 

1901-02           associate, Harrisburg Grace

 

Note: Oscar T. Hance was a newspaper man whose life was ruined by addiction.  He reformed, became superintendent of Lafayette Mission on State Street, Harrisburg, and entered the ministry.  “Overwork and family troubles brought on pneumonia, and threatened with consumption he went back to his old habits.  His death resulted.”  The second Mrs. Hance later married a Mr. W.M. Jollie.

 

HANK, WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-31-1796  Grenbrier County VA [WV]          married: Serena Peale

Died: 3-31-1869  Middleway WV                              obit: [12/3/1802 – 7/9/1870]

 

1820    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Middleway Masonic Cemetery, Middleway WV

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1870, 38

 

1820-21           Harrison

1821-22           Monongahela

1822-23           Lewis

1823-24           Bedford

1824-25           Randolph

1825-26           Cross Creek

1826-27           Monongahela

1827-29           Fincastle

1829-31           Rockingham

1831-32           Pendleton

1832-34           Jefferson

1834-36           Calvert

1836-38           Severn

1838-39           Shrewsbury

1839-41           Lancaster

1841-42           Baltimore William Street station

1842-43           West Baltimore

1843-44           Baltimore Whatcoat

1844-46           Baltimore circuit

1847-48           Hereford

1848-49           Montgomery

1849-51           Liberty

1851-53           Westminster

1853-55           Washington DC Foundry & Asbury station

1855-57           Baltimore City Mission

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore Dallas Street

1859-61           on leave

1861                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: William Hank is the father of Jehu Newman Hank (1827-1899) of the Baltimore Conference ME South and Armeinius Summerfield Hank (1831-1887) of the Baltimore Conference, a brother to Jehu Newman Hank (1801-1880) of the Baltimore Conference ME South, and an uncle to Josiah Dickenson Hank (1835-1909) of the Virginia Conference ME South.

 

 

HANN, VICTOR BLAKE

 

Born: 4-3-1902  Clearfield PA                                   married: Muriel Elizabeth Flexer

Died: 1-24-2004  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 455

 

1925    license, recommended by Williamsport Newberry

1929    admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 366

 

           

1925-25           Vira

1925-28           Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (ending June 1928)

1928-30           New Bloomfield (beginning June 1928)

1930-32           Martinsburg

1932-35           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1935-39           Watsontown

1939-42           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1942-71            superintendent, Methodist Home for Children at Mechanicsburg

1971                retired

 

Note: Victor B. Hann is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 539.

 

HANTON, MARJORIE EMMA

 

Born:  4-12-1905  Jackson PA                                               married: [single]

Died: 7-27-2000  Scranton PA                                               obit:

 

1941    ordained deacon, Troy Conference

1953    ordained elder, Troy Conference

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 2001, 191

 

1931                home missionary, Community Center in Hazleton PA

                        home missionary, Unity Mission in Berwick PA

                        girls’ dormitory supervisor, Wood Junior College in Mathiston MS

                        community center and mission church, Barree VT

                        transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1956-58           Alum Bank

1958-59           director, Shawnee Rural Group Work

                        transfer to Wyoming Conference

                        superintendent, Elizabeth Church Manor in Binghamton NY

                        South Auburn

1972                retired

 

Note: Marjorie Hanton is the daughter of Benjamin Hanton (1865-1951) of the Wyoming Conference.  She worked as a deaconess, but also served congregations.  See Maser’s 1969 Methodism in Central Pennsylvania, pages 297 and 363.

 

 

HARDEN, WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-27-1828  Baltimore MD                                married: _____ Slicer

Died: 11-9-1873  Baltimore MD                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mary W. Moody

1847    quarterly conference license,                          obit2: [9/30/1833 – 3/26/1914]

            Severn circuit of the Baltimore Conference

1848    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1874, 31

 

1848-49           Newport

1849-50           Boonsboro

1850-51           Gettysburg

1851-53           Frederick City

1853-55           Lewisburg, Va.

1855-57           East Baltimore

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Baltimore Caroline Street

1858-60           Danville

1860-62           Chambersburg

1862-66           superintendent, Frederick District

1866-68           East Baltimore

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           East Baltimore

1869-72           Williamsport Pine Street

1872                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1872-73           Baltimore Emory

 

Note: William Harden was one of first professors at Centenary Biblical Institute [now Morgan State University] 1867-69.  The first Mrs. Harden was the daughter of Henry Slicer (1801-1874) of the Baltimore Conference.  An obituary for the second Mrs. Harden appears in The Christian Advocate for 6/11/1914, page 839.

 

HARMAN, HARRY CURTIN

 

Born: 10-14-1862  Orangeville PA                            married: Rose Ella Lesh

Died: 9-30-1942                                                          obit: Nebraska Conference 1896, 79

                                                                                    married2: Belle Sherfey

1879    admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference         obit2: North Indiana Conference 1945, 282

1881    ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: Violet Cemetery, Goshen IN

Obit: North Indiana Conference 1943, 480

 

1879-80           Franklin Center

1880-81           (apparently not appointed)

1881                missionary to West Nebraska Mission

1881-82           Scotia

1882-83           Culbertson

1883                transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference

1883-84           Goldfield

1884                missionary to West Nebraska Mission*

1884-85           Shelton

1885                transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference

1885-86           located

1887                re-admitted to Nebraska Conference

1887-88           Steele City

1888-89           Ulysses

1889-92           Utica

1892-93           Humboldt

1893-94           Auburn

1894-97           Nebraska City

1897/8             transfer to Black Hills Conference

1898-99           Lead

1899                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1899-01           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1901-04           Danville St. Paul’s

1904-06           Milton

1906-11           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1911                transfer to Rock River Conference

                        Chicago Woodlawn Park

                        Evanston Hemmenway

1914                transfer to North Indiana Conference

1914-17           Richmond First

1917-22           Goshen First

1922-26           Fort Wayne Wayne Street

1926-30           Elwood First

1930                retired to Goshen IN

 

*Apparently Rev. Harman automatically became a member of the West Nebraska Conference when it moved from Mission to Conference status, and he had to transfer back to the Northwest Iowa Conference.

 

Note: Harry C. Harman was admitted on trial in October 1879, a few days before his seventeenth birthday.  Two years later, the 1881 Nebraska Conference journal states that “Harry C. Harman was to be ordained a Deacon under the Missionary rule, if he should be appointed as a missionary to the West Nebraska Mission.”

 

 

HARMAN, HENRY MARTYN

 

Born: 3-22-1822  Anne Arundel County MD            married: Hannah V. Davis

Died: 7-2-1897  Baltimore MD                                  obit:

 

1871    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 57

 

1853-55           faculty, Baltimore Female College

1858-68           faculty, Light Street Institute in Baltimore

1868-69           faculty, West Virginia University

1869-70           traveled in Europe and the Holy Land

1870-72           faculty, Dickinson College

1872                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1872-96           faculty, Dickinson College

1896                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Henry M. Harman is given in Simpson’s Cyclopedia of Methodism.  He is author of several books.  He taught ancient languages.

 

HARPER, ALFRED BERTRAM

 

Born: 10-23-1878  England                                        married: Lily Agnes Craven [6/26/1900]

Died: 3-5-1948  Bridgeton NJ                                                obit: [1/18/1880 – 8/4/1956]

 

1915    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Ferbwood Cemetery, Bridgeton NJ

Obit:

 

1914-18           Penfield (moved to Wolfsburg during 1917-18 year)

1918-19           Wolfsburg

1919-20           Glen Campbell

1920-22           North Bend-Hyner

1922-24           Mifflinville

1924-26           on leave

1926                withdrew

 

HARPER, DAVID SCOTT

 

Born:                                                                           married: Linda _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1969    admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Fifth Street

1969    ordained deacom

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1969-70           student, Boston School of Theology in Boston MA

1970-72           student, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg

                            1970-72  Barts-Green Springs

1972-80           Linden

1980-90           Newport Parish

1990-94           chaplain, Dickinson College

1994                withdrew to unite with the Episcopal Church

                        Olivet Episcopal Church, Alexandria VA

 

HARPER, ELLAHUE ANSIL

 

Born: 12-28-1866  Van Wert County OH                  married: Cora A. Rudy

Died: 11-20-1947  Ada OH                                        obit: [12/?/1868 – 1952]

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Troy OH

Obit: Ohio Conference 1948, 229

 

1926-27           Greencastle

 

Note: Ellahue A. Harper appears to have been a pastor from the Ohio Conference who was associated with Dickinson Law School in 1926.  His middle name is also rendered Ansile.

 

HARPSTER, HERBERT M.

 

Born: 1-7-1897                                                            married: Emma G. Potter

Died: 3-?-1969                                                            obit: [1895-1990]

 

Interment: Ross Methodist Cemetery, Centre County PA

Obit:

 

1923-24           Harveyville

 

Note: Herbert M. Harpster served as a local pastor.  He was a school teacher.

 

HARRIS, FREDERICK BROWN

 

Born: 4-10-1883  Worcester England                        married: Helen Louise Streeter

Died: 8-18-1970  Washington DC                             obit: Baltimore Conference 1988, 384

 

1909    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1909    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference

1911    ordained elder, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens, Rockville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1971, 437

 

1905-09           student, Dickinson College

                             1907-08      Greencastle

1909                “transfer” to New Jersey Conference

1909-12           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1909-12      Trenton Greenwood Avenue

1912-14           Trenton Greenwood Avenue

1914-18           Long Branch St. Luke’s

1918                transfer to New York Conference

1918-24           New York City Grace

1924                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1924-55           Washington DC Foundry

1955                retired

                             1955-69      chaplain, U.S. Senate

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Frederick B. Harris appears in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.  The author of several books and chaplain of the US Senate, he conducted the funerals of President Herbert Hoover, Senator Robert A. Taft, and General Douglas MacArthur.  He is the son of George Thomas Harris (1859-1930) of the New Jersey Conference.  Mrs. Harris is the daughter of Lewis R. Streeter (d. 1930) of the New York East Conference. 

 

HARRIS, STERLING G.

 

Born: 3-17-1899 Queen Anne County MD                married: Edna M. Sell

Died: 4-27-1977                                                          obit: [2/15/1900 – 9/21/1975]

 

Interment: Saint Helenas Episcopal Churchyard, Beaufort SC

Obit:

 

1918-19           student, Dickinson College

                             1918-19      Hickorytown

 

Note: Sterling G. Harris served as a local pastor.  He did not enter the ministry, but became president of the Blue Channel Corporation (crab canning, for which he owned several patents) in Centerville MD.  His last employment and retirement were in Beaufort SC.

 

 

HARRISON, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 1-31-1923  Wilkes-Barre PA                            married: June I. Kerestes [5/6/1943]

Died:                                                                           obit: [1925 – 1/23/2012]

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1946-50           student, Dickinson College

     1946-50  Boiling Springs-Hickorytown

1950-54           Gordon

1954                discontinued

1955-74           “private practice teacher”

1975-               freelance writer, Castle Point NY

 

Note: Charles Edward Harrison received a B.D. from Temple in 1953 and a MTh from United in 1956.  According to the 1955 Dickinson alumni directory, Rev. Charles Edward Harrison was living in Harrisburg PA.  He was a writer and a composer.

 

HARRISON, GEORGE WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-4-1910  Old Forge PA                                   married: Alice M. Winterbottom

Died: 1-5-1994                                                            obit:

 

1937    ordained, Primitive Methodist Church

1942    license

1946    admitted on trial, recommended by Bendersville

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Virginia Conference 1994, 219

 

1932-34           student, Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia PA

                             1932-34      Congregational Church, Spring Brook PA

1934                “transfer” to Primitive Methodist Church

1934-37           West Conshohocken PA

1937-39           Youngstown OH

1939-42           Zion, Mount Carmel PA

1942                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church

1942-47           Bendersville

1947-50           Mifflintown

1950                transfer to Virginia Conference

 

HARRISON, LEROY JAMES SR.

 

Born: 3-2-1927  Westmoreland County PA               married: Carol Nellie Munster

Died: 5-16-2005  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 336

 

1944    license, Newark Conference

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by Cokesbury NJ

1948    ordained deacon

1950    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 445

           

1946-47           Damascus Valley, Wyoming Conference

1947-52           Harveyville

1952-59           Altoona Broad Avenue

1959-62           Everett

1962-73           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1973-85           Harrisburg State Street

1985-86           sabbatical

1986-88

1988                retired

 

Note: Leroy J. Harrison is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 554.

 

 

HART, BARNETT HAMILTON

 

Born: 10-25-1864  Gettysburg PA                             married: Minnie Alice Shuman

Died: 1-8-1949  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 160

                                                                                    married2: Pearl Barclay

1887     admitted on trial, recommended by Cassville  obit2: Central PA Conference 1973,383

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 194

 

1887-88           assistant, Port Royal

1888-91           Thompsontown

1891-93           West Huntingdon

1893-96           Huntingdon Second

1896-01           Jersey Shore First

1901-15           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1915-20           Williamsport Pine Street

1920-25           York First

1925-27           Mt. Carmel First

1927-36           Hollidaysburg First

1936                retired

 

Note: Barnett H. Hart served as conference treasurer 1939-49, and Pearl Part served as conference treasurer 1949-64.

 

HART, RUSSELL MILFRED

 

Born:                                                                           married: Dorene _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, North Dakota Conference: recommended by Pembina Pioneer Mem.

1967    ordained deacon, North Dakota Conference

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-70           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1967-70      Three Springs

1970                transfer from North Dakota Conference

1970-77           Altoona Fairview

1977-87           Harrisburg Rockville

1987-95           Red Lion Zion

1995-12           director, Center for Spiritual Formation

2012                retired

 

HARTER, ELMER ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 10-24-1868  Perry County PA                          married: Bertha Williams Sparks

Died: 12-23-1936  Oakmont PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 111

                                                                                    married2: Priscilla Ray

1891    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 235

1893    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 261

 

1890-91           assistant, Concord

1891-93           Thompsontown

1893-96           Schellsburg

1896-01           Dudley

1901-05           Altoona Juniata

1905-06           Muncy

1906-08           Wrightsville

1908-12           Austin

1912-17           Shickshinny

1917-23           Hollidaysburg

1923-25           field secretary, Children’s Home Society

1925-34           state superintendent, Children’s Home Society

1934                retired

 

 

HARTMAN, ALBERT

 

Born: 1-5-1821  Lamar PA                                         married: Elizabeth Jane Evans [12/16/1851]

Died: 2-3-1897  Florence KS                                     obit: [12-1-1827 - ?]

 

1849    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Florence KS

Obit: Southwest Kansas Conference 1897, 33

 

1849-50           Penn’s Valley

1950-51           Luzerne

1851-52           Sunbury

1852-53           Orangeville

1853-54           Deerfield

1854-55           Sinnemahoning

1855-57           Pine Creek

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           North Lock Haven

1858-59           Clinton circuit

1859-60           Laporte

1860-62           Castle Fin

1862-63           Mifflinburg

1863-66           Jerseytown

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-72           on leave

                             1868-69      Bloomsburg

1872                transfer to Kansas Conference

 

HARTMAN, C.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1890-91           Emporium circuit (ending 12/12/1891)         

 

Note: C.H. Hartman served as a local pastor.  In 1888, a C.H. Hartman was one of the incorporating members of the church at Austin PA.

 

 

HARTMAN, DANIEL

 

Born: 7-8-1810  Salona PA                                        married: Mary  Elizabeth Davis

Died: 3-14-1891  West Chester PA                            obit: [11/15/1819 – 6/12/1874]

 

1833    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill [Asbury ME] Cemetery, Harrisonville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 86

 

1833-34           Littleton

1834-35           Clear Spring

1835-37           Bedford

1837                transfer to Virginia Conference

1837-44           Virginia Conference

1844                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1844-45           Newville

1845-47           York Springs

1847-48           Baltimore City Mission

1848-50           Penn’s Valley

1850-52           McConnellsburg

1852-53           Greencastle

1853-54           Mercersburg

1854-56           Waynesboro

1856-57           Chambersburg 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Chambersburg

1858-59           tract agent

1859-61           Carlisle circuit

1861-63           Petersburg

1863-64           chaplain, US Army

1864-67           Salona

1867-68           temperance agent

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           temperance agent

1870-72           Logan Valley

1872-75           Altoona Third

1875-78           on leave

1878-79           retired

1879-81           Harrisburg Mt. Pleasant

1881-84           Riverside

1884-85           Liverpool

1885-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Daniel Hartman is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 392.

 

HARTMAN, FRANKLIN EYER

 

Born: 1-18-1865  near Bloomingdale PA                  married: Eva Isabel Harrison (8/6/1891)

Died: 11-28-1944  Muncy PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 238

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Madison NY

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Madison NJ

1898    ordained elder

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 219

 

1890-91           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1891-94           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1894-95           Milnesville

1895-96           Nescopeck

1896-99           Irish Valley

1899-01           Hoytville

1901-02           Slate Run

1901-04           North Bend-Hyner

1904-05           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1905-07           Stewartstown

1907-11           Mahaffey

1911-13           Flemingtom

1913-14           McVeytown

1914-17           Port Royal

1917-18           Wallaceton

1918-20           Ramey

1920-24           Muncy

1924-25           Mechanicsburg

1925-26           Frankstown

1926-28           Coalport-Irvona

1928-30           Riverside

1930-31           Kulpmont

1931-32           Duncannon

1932-33           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1933                retired

 

Note: Franklin Eyer Hartman is named after P. Franklin Eyer.  He is reportedly the author of “The Scripture Doctrine of Sanctification” (details unknown).

 

HARTMAN, H.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929-30           West Fairview & Summerdale (did not finish the year)

 

Note: H.W. Hartman served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  He appears not to have been a student at Dickinson College.

 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM DAWSON

 

Born: 10-6-1939  Lewisburg PA                                married: Linda Ruth Blair

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-62           student, Lycoming College

                             1958-59      assistant, Montoursville         

1962-65           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1962-63      Branchville NJ.

1963-66           Centralia-Helfenstein

1966-68           Marysville

1968-72           on leave

1972                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1972-79           Gilberton and Mahnoy City (beginning 1/1/1972)

1979-85           Philadelphia Church of the Redeemer

1985-90           Roxborough First

1990-               chaplain, Evangelical Manor

 

Note: William D. Hartman is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 558. 

 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM EMORY 

 

Born: 11-7-1900  Freeland PA                                   married: Naomi D. Gum

Died: 6-4-1958  Columbus OH                                  obit: West Ohio Conference 1974, 253

 

1924    admitted on trial

1924    ordained deacon

1926    ordained elder

 

Interment: New South Park Cemetery, Martinsville IN

Obit: Ohio Conference 1958, 1088

 

1924-26            student, Boston Universoty School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1924-26      Trinity Congregational Church, Neponset MA (1/24 – 5/26)

1926-27           student, Universities of Berlin & Strasbourg & Oxford

1927-28           faculty, Allegheny College in Meadville PA

1928-30           Berwick Calvary, Berwick

1930-32           Wesley Foundation, State College PA

1932-41           Carlisle

1941-43           superintendent, Altoona District

1943-50           Harrisburg Grace

1950                transfer to Ohio Conference

1950-58           Bexley

 

Note: W. Emory Hartman is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.   W. Emory Hartman is the son of William Wade Hartman and the father of Robert Hill Hartman of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 11-10-1852  Union County PA                        married: Abigail Robbins

Died: 1-12-1945  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943,216

 

1877    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1881    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1883    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Almedia Cemetery, Almedia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 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, 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 (1864 – 1939) of the Ohio Conference.

 

 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM WADE               

 

Born: 7-24-1869  Buckhorn PA                                 married: Hester Ann Tubbs (6/19/1895)

Died: 3-20-1922  Clearfield PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941,222

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Montville NJ

1896    ordained deacon, recommended by Montville NJ

1898    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 134

 

1891-92           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1892-95           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1895-96           Park Place-Delano

1896-98           Audenreid

1898-01           Freeland

1901-03           St. Marys

1903-04           Mifflinburg

1904-09           Gettysburg

1909-11           Hollidaysburg

1911-15           Tyrone First

1915-17           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1917-22           Clearfield Trinity

 

Note: William Wade Hartman is the father of W. Emory Hartman.  Following her husband’s death, Mrs. Hartman worked 1922-36 as a hostess at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH.

 

HARTSOCK, A.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868-69           Saxton

 

Note: A.C. Hartsock served as a local pastor.

 

 

HARTSOCK, HENRY WILLIS

 

Born: 1-9-1877  near Warrior’s Mark PA                  married: Maude Letitia Harris

Died: 5-26-1964  Tyrone PA                                      obit:

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Half Moon

1903    ordained deacon

1905    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Salona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 353

 

1901-02           Altoona Epworth

1902-03           Altoona Epworth-Asbury

1903-06           Glen Hope

1906-08           Marysville

1903-13           Liverpool

1913-17           Camp Hill

1917-20           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1920-25           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1925-27           Bedford

1927-29           Mount Union First

1929-31           Tyrone First

1931-35           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1935-36           Williamsport Grace

1936-41           Bellefonte

1941-46           Everett

1946                retired

 

Note:  Henry W. Hartsock is a brother to Frank D. Hartsock (1865-1936) of the Wyoming Conference and a nephew of A. Jackson Hartsock (1832-1907) of the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church.  Mrs. Hartsock is a niece of William A. Carver [her mother’s sister is married to Rev. Carver.]

 

HARTSOCK, SAMUEL MITCHELL

 

Born: 11-23-1838  near Elmira NY                            married: Mary Elizabeth Lewis

Died: 3-18-1908                                                          obit: [1842 – 3/29/1913]

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1908, 77

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Penn’s Valley

1858-59           Bellefonte

1859-60           Boonsboro

1860-62           Frostburg

1862-63           Greencastle

1863-65           Warrior’s Mark

1865-66           Port Matilda

1866-68           Mount Union

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Jackson Square

1869-71           Middleton

1871-73           Washington DC Union

1873-75           Baltimore High Street

1875-78           Baltimore Emory

1879-81           Baltimore Franklin Street

1881-84           Washington DC Hamline

1884-87           Baltimore Eutaw Street

1887-92           Union Square

1892-94           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1894-99           Washington DC Ryland

1899-04           Douglass Memorial

1904-05           Chatsworth

1905-08           Laurel

 

Note: Samuel Mitchell Hartsock is the father of Jacob Lewis Hartsock (1870-1943) of the New York Conference.  Mrs. Hartsock is buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD.

 

HARTZELL, CHARLES VINTON

 

Born: 3-9-1856  Newport PA                                     married: Mary Emma Tomlinson

Died: 9-17-1927  Muncy PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 165

 

1879    admitted on trial

1881    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 742

 

1879-81           Saxton

1881-82           West Huntingdon Mill Creek

1882-84           West Huntingdon

1884-85           Harrisburg Grace Mission [Thirteenth Street = Stevens Memorial]

1885-87           Shrewsbury

1887-89           Dillsburg

1889-91           Petersburg

1891-94           Hollidaysburg

1897-00           Waynesboro

1900-03           Harrisburg St. Paul’s.

1903-04           West Fairview

1904-07           Millerstown

1907-09           Boiling Springs-Salem

1909-10           New Benton [Bressler] –  East State Street

1910-12           Cross Roads

1912-13           Newville

1913-14           on leave

1914-15           Beaver Meadow

1915-17           Stewartstown

1917-20           Muncy

1920-21           York Epworth

1921                retired

 

Note: The Harrisburg “East State Street” appointment is otherwise unknown.

 

HARVEY, LAWRENCE NELSON

 

Born: 4-6-1921  Harrisburg PA                                  married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1941-44           student, Dickinson College

                             1941-44      Rehobeth (ending 7/1/1944)

 

Note: Lawrence N. Harvey has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he left his ministerial ambitions to become a medical doctor and worked at least for a while in Washington DC.

 

 

HASLUP, REZIN CLARK.

 

Born: 9-30-1840  Baltimore MD                                married: Mary Jane Sadler

Died: 6-2-1874  Baltimore MD                                  obit: [1842 – 1897]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1875, 34

 

1859-60           Hancock

1860-61           Allegany

1861-63           West Harford

1863-64           East Harford

1864-66           Emmitsburg

1866-67           North Baltimore circuit

                        Piedmont

                        Govanstown

                        East Baltimore station

 

HAUGHAWOUT, JOHN WOOLSEY

 

Born: 5-13-1811  Mifflin County PA                         married: Mary Anna Laycock

Died: 3-24-1891  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 99

                                                                                   

1837    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 85

 

1837-38           Lancaster

1838-39           Sunbury

1839-40           Danville circuit

1940-42           Lycoming

1942-43           Penn’s Valley

1843-45           Bloomingdale

1845-47           Sunbury

1847-49           Lock  Haven

1849-51           Bloomingdale

1851-53           New Bloomfield

1853-55           Bellefonte circuit

1955-57           Manor Hill

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Warrior’s Mark

1859-61           Newberry

1861-63           Bloomingdale

1863-64           Montoursville

1864-66           Milton circuit

1866-68           Warrior’s Mark

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Warrior’s Mark

1859-72           Penn’s Valley

1872-75           Grahamton

1975-77           Williamsburg

1877-79           Port Matilda

1879-80           Loyalsock

1880-83           on leave

1883-84           assigned to Muhlenburg, apparently did not complete the year

1884-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of John W. Haughawout appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 399.  Mrs. Haughawout is the daughter of Shadrach B. Laycock and Susan Bowman,  daughter of Thomas Bowman of Old Stone Church fame who was ordained by Bishop Asbury and was the grandfather of Bishop Thomas Bowman and noted educator Shadrach Laycock Bowman of the Newark Conference.

 

HAVEN, CLARENCE VINCENT

 

Born: 9-17-1867  Vermillion NY                               married: Mary Butts [11/29/1894]

Died: 5-15-1929  Felts Mills NY                               obit: [d. 1895]

                                                                                    married2: Stella Belle Merriman [12/14/1897]

                                                                                    obit2: Northern New York Conference 1945, 323

1899    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference

1903    ordained elder

 

Interment: Black River Cemetery, Rutland Center NY

Obit: Northern New York Conference 1930, 369

                       

                        Northern New York Conference

1917-18           Beach Haven, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918-20           Beach Haven

1920                transfer to Northern New York Conference

 

Note: Clarence V. Haven is a brother to Fred E. Haven (1855 – 1920) and Willis A. Haven (1860-1932), both of the Northern New York Conference.

 

HAVEN, THEODORE WOODRUFF

 

Born: 3-1-1862  Malden MA                                      married: Susan Choate Gould

Died: 4-3-1920                                                            obit: Central New York Conference 1908, 162

 

1897    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Mentz Church Cemetery, Montezuma NY

Obit: New York Conference 1920, 85

 

1897                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1897-98           Espy & Lime Ridge

1898-99           Trevorton

1899-00           Catawissa circuit

1900-01           York Springs

1901-03           Penn’s Valley

1903-04           Concord

1904-05           Harveyville

1905                transfer to Central New York Conference

1905-07           Enfield and Kennedy’s

1907-09           Montezuma

1909-10           Tyrone (NY)

1910-11           S. Onondaga-Cedarvale

1911                transfer to New York Conference

 

Note: Theodore W. Haven is related to two Methodist bishops, being the son of bishop Erastus Otis Haven (1820-1881), who in turn was a first cousin to bishop Gilbert Haven (1821-1880).

 

HAWKINS, CHARLES PITMAN

 

Born: 1835  Philadelphia PA                                      married: Sadie Pfouts

Died: 12-15-1869  Sinnemahoning PA                      obit: [1837 – 10/9/1877]

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 64

 

1866-68           Karthaus

1868                charter member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Karthaus

1869                Sinnemahoning

 

Note: Charles Pitman Hawkins was baptized by and named for Charles Pitman (1796-1854) of the Newark Conference.

 

HAWKINS, JOHN EVANS

 

Born: 8-28-1850  Aberhocken, Wales                        married: Sarah C. Ritchey

Died: 8-12-1920                                                          obit: [6/3/1857 – 7/28/1944]

 

?          ordained local deacon

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit: Altoona Tribune 8/20/1920, page 10

 

1904-05           Ashcroft

 

Note: John E. Hawkins served as a local pastor.  He worked as a superintendent in the mining and as a partner in the coal business.

 

HAY, HUGH

 

Born: 8-22-1851  Scotland                                         married: Cordelia Jane Bennett [1878]

Died: 3-4-1935  Douglas County MN                        obit: Northwest Iowa Conference 1929, 213

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Big Stone SD

Obit: Northwest Iowa Conference 1935, 504

 

1931-33           Littlestown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Hugh Hay served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference while a retired member of another conference.

 

 

HAYDEN, ROBERT L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-39           Harrisonville (beginning 10/38)

1939-40           Wallis Run

 

Note: Robert L. Hayden served as a local pastor.

 

HAYS, EDWARD SYLVESTER

 

Born: 12-8-1898  Charlestown PA                             married: Mary Jane Gorman

Died: 4-13-1985  McConnellsburg PA                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 345

                                                                                    married 2: Cora E. Sipes                    

1922    license, recommended by Chambersburg       obit2: [Central Pennsylvania Conf 1991, 476]

1931    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 410

 

1929-34           Fairview

1934-36           James Creek

1936-37           Claysburg

1937-38           Salona-Lamar

1938-42           Mt. Holly Springs

1942-47           McConnellsburg

1947-52           Saxton

1952-55           Altoona Lakemont

1955-64           Airville

1964                retired

                            1964-67       Warfordsburg

                            1967-68       Harrisonville (Dec 1967 – Jan 1968)

                            1968            Shade Valley (Feb – June)

                            1968-70       Warfordsburg – Little Cove

                            1971-74       Bethlehem, Fulton County

 

Note: The dates for the second Mrs. Hays are 12/27/1913 – 12/9/1990.

 

HAZEN, COLLINS EMERSON

 

Born: 9-13-1891  Nordmont PA.                                married: Velma Elizabeth Thrump

Died: 3-20-1945  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 391

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Picture Rocks

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 213

 

1915-18           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1918-20           Emporium

1920-22           Picture Rocks circuit

1922-25           Town Hill

1925-28           Penn’s Valley

1928-35           Lock Haven East Main Street

1935-40           Muncy

1940-42           Gordon

1942-45           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

 

HEATHER, FRED HARVEY JR

 

Born: 9-27-1905                                                          married: Mary E. _____

Died: 5-21-1989                                                          obit: [11/16/1915 – 11/29/2008]

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: California-Pacific Conference 1989

 

1926-29           student, Bucknell University

                             1926-29  Johnson City [Ranshaw] (beginning fall 1926)

1929-30           Johnson City

1930-31           ?  [returned to Johnson City in mid-year]

1931-34           Johnson City

Note:  The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry offers the Fred H. Heather memorial clinical pastoral education scholarship, established in 1989, to provide scholarship assistance for members of The United Methodist Church who want the training and experience of Clinical Pastoral Education.  There are also other scholarships available in his name for chaplains, women, and minorities.  Fred H. Heather appears to have been a chaplain.

 

HECK, LEVI G.

Born: 4-9-1842  Orbisonia PA                                   married: Sarah Widney

Died: 12-31-1918  Watsontown PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 130

 

1867    quarterly conference license, Shirleysburg

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Watsontown Cemetery, Watsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 157

 

1868-69           Tuscarora circuit

1869-70           Concord

1970-71           Liberty Valley

1871-72           Muncy Valley

1872-75           Caledonia

1875-78           Sinnemahoning

1878-80           Salona

1880-81           Pine Grove

1881-83           on leave

1883-84           Schellsburg

1884-00           on leave

                             1885-86  McConnellstown

1900                retired

 

Note: Levi G. Heck had significant military involvement during the Civil War and was present when Lee surrendered at Appomattox.  Mrs. Heck is a member of the prominent Widney family of the Concord circuit.

 

HECK, ORLANDO GRAHAM

 

Born: 4-10-1860  Three Springs PA                           married: Carrie Minerva Shammo

Died: 4-8-1910  Berwick PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 195

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Westport

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 113

 

1884-87           student, Dickinson College

1887-88           Westport

1888-90           Liberty Valley

1890-92           Fairview

1892-96           Watsontown

1896-97           Centralia

1897-01           Danville Trinity

1901-03           York Duke Street

1903-06           Waynesboro

1906-10           Berwick First

 

Note: Orlando G. Heck is a cousin of William Waters Stevens (1853-1909) of the Wisconsin Conference, Frank Gilbert Haven Stevens (1874-1964) of the California Conference, and of Emory Miller Stevens.  His mother Rachel B. Stevens Heck (Mrs. Daniel) was a member of the Stevens family that has produced dozens of Methodist clergy – including her brother William Henry Stevens, father of Emory Miller Stevens.

 

HECKERT, DAVID W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-55           Bakerton

 

Note: David W. Heckert served as a local pastor.

 

HECKMAN, EDGAR ROHRER

 

Born: 2-11-1875  Ennisvile PA                                  married: Anna Mabel Geiger

Died: 5-24-1948  Millerstown PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 196

 

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 196

 

1898-00           faculty, Dickinson College

1900-02           Town Hill

1902-06           State College

1906-08           Duncannon

1908-15           Bloomsburg

1915-18           Altoona First

1918-19           superintendent, Altoona District

1919-25           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1925-29           Clearfield Trinity

1929-32           Carlisle

1932-36           Bellefonte

1936-47           superintendent, Home for Aged at Tyrone

1947                retired

 

Note: Edgar R. Heckman is the son of Isaac Heckman.  He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.

 

 

HECKMAN, ISAAC

 

Born: 2-24-1842  Juniata County PA                         married: Annie Rohrer

Died: 11-6-1917  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 129

 

1871    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mifflintown Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 138

 

1871-72           Saxton

1872-74           Glen Hope

1874-76           Ennisville

1876-78           Osceola Mills

1878-81           Warrior’s Mark

1881-82           Logan Valley

1882-85           Martinsburg

1885-88           Penn’s Valley

1888-92           Sinnemahoning

1892-97           Mifflinburg

1897-00           Montoursville

1900-02           Lock Haven East Main Street

1902-04           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1904-08           Mifflintown

1908-11           Northumberland

1911-14           Petersburg

1914                retired

 

Note: Isaac Heckman is the father of Edgar Rohrer Heckman.

 

HEDGES, JOHN WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-2-1818  Hedgesville WV                              married: Marry Clarke Lightner

Died: 4-27-1907  Baltimore MD                                obit: [5/28/1827 – 5/12/1895]

 

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1908, 76

 

1845-46           Springfield

1846-47           Franklin

1847-49           Greenbrier mission

1849-50           Rockingham

1850-52           agent, Wesley Female Institute In Wilmington DE

1852-54           Ryland Chapel station

1854-55           Lexington

1855-56           Rockbridge

1856-57           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1858-60           Baltimore Emory

1860-62           Lewisburg

1862-64           Shrewsbury

1864-66           Baltimore Caroline Street

1866-68           Jackson Square

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Westminster

1870-73           Baltimore Franklin Street

1873-75           Annapolis

1875-77           Washington DC Fourth Street

1877-82           Sunday School and Tract Society

1883-87           on leave

1887-88           Calvert

1888-90           Great Falls

1890-92           Savage & Guilford

1892-93           South Baltimore mission

1893-94           Homestead

1894                retired

 

Note: Some sources give John W. Hedges a birthdate of 7/16/1819.

 

HEIL, EUGENE G.

 

Born: 11-26-1927  Rosebud PA                                             married:

Died: 12-16-2007  Rosebud PA                                             obit:

 

 

Interment: Utahville Cemetery, Coalport PA

Obit: Clearfield County The Progress 12/17/2007, page 14

 

1947-49           Ray’s Hill

 

Note: Eugene Heil served as a local pastor.  A 1948 graduate of Dickinson College, he lived in Rosebud (rural Coalport PA) and worked as the executive director of the Clearfield County Department of Public Welfare, retiring in 1987.

 

HEIM, CLAUDE STEPHEN

 

Born: 1896  Jackson Twp, Northumberland Co PA               married: Ruth Biesecker

Died: 1947                                                                              obit: [d. 4/5/1937]

 

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Congregational Church

1926    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-22           Eagles Mere & Laporte (started in middle of first year)

1922-23           Orrtanna

1924                “transfer” to Evangelical Congregational Church

                        Reading Grace

 

Note: Claude S. Heim has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never progressed through the system.  Mrs. Heim was from Ortanna.  Some sources give his birth year as 1895.

 

HEIM, WILLIAM WARDEN

 

Born: 3-22-1878  Shamokin Dam PA                        married: Bessie B. _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1903    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1909    ordained deacon, Genesee Conference ME

1910    ordained elder, Genesee Conference ME

 

Interment:

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: William W. Heim served as a local pastor in the United Evangelical and Methodist Episcopal denominations until joining the Genesee Conference in 1907. 

 

HELLER, PARKE HESS

 

Born: 7-24-1894  Lancaster County PA         married: Ida Myrtle Flick [11/5/1914]

Died: 4-12-1964  Baltimore MD                    obit: [1893 – 1/?/1966]

 

1926    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

1928    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Dundalk MD

Obit:

 

1926-28           Maple Grove

1928-29           Skinner’s Eddy

1929                withdrew

1930                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1930-31           Hustontown (started during the 1929-30 conference year)

1931-33           Fayetteville

                        “transfer” to Congregational Church

1934-39           Glenolden, Chester County PA

                        “transfer” to Baptist Church

                        Dundalk MD

1957-64           Cordova MD First

 

Note: Parke H. Heller taught secondary schools for 4 years and worked as a shoe salesman before entering the ministry.  He is the father of Rev. John R. Heller of the First Baptist Church in Riviera Beach FL.

 

HELT, CARL CLINTON

 

Born: 3-2-1910, Berwick PA                          married: Vera Luella Callender

Died: 1-6-1993                                                obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 379]

 

1931    license, recommended by Berwick Calvary

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 459

 

1934-35           Johnson City

1935-37           Allenwood 

1937-39           Wilburton  and Johnson City

1939-42           Montandon-Hendrickson

1942-45           New Bloomfield

1945-49           Hughesville

1949-54           Altoona Jaggard Memorial

1954-57           superintendent, Home for the Aged at Tyrone

1957-59           Shickshinny

1959-64           Mount Carmel

1964-68           Mount Olivet (beginning 11/1/1964)

1968-75           Fawn Grove

1975                retired

 

Note: The dates for Mrs. Helt are 6/29/1909 to 2/14/1997.

 

 

HENCK, HARRY SMITHSON

 

Born: 12-12-1898  Harpers Ferry WV                       married: Mary R. Hawthorne

Died: 12-29-1985                                                        obit: Wyoming Conference 1993, 350

 

1921    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1922    ordained deacon

1924    ordained elder

 

Interment: Harper Cemetery, Harpers Ferry WV

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1986, 292

 

1919-20           student, Dickinson College

                            1919-20  Hickorytown & Salem, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-23           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                            1920-23  Bayville and Ocean Gate

1923-24           Cliffwood

1924-               New Brunswick Highland Park

…

1956                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1956-64           West Pittston

1964-67           Endicott St. Paul’s

1967                retired

 

Note: Harry S. Henck is the son of Louis Henck (1864-1898) of the Baltimore Conference and a brother to Louis Wheeler Henck (1897-1994) of the Troy Conference.  [His brother is also known as Louis E. Henck.]

 

HENNINGER, FRANK LAMONT

 

Born: 5-16-1900  Williamsport PA                            married: Harriet Seibert Stoner

Died: 11-14-1975  Mechanicsburg PA                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 389

 

1917    license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1922    admitted on trial

1924    ordained deacon

1926    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 148

 

1920-22           Boiling Springs

1922-23           Fort Loudon

1923-24           Harrisburg Riverside

1924-26           Jeddo-Lattimer

1926-28           Shippensburg

1928-30           director of student work, Drew University in Madison NJ

1930-32           Danville Trinity

1932-34           Danville

1934-39           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1939-45           superintendent, Sunbury District

1945-46           Carlisle

1946                transfer to Genesee Conference

1946-49           Rochester

1949                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1949-53           Altoona First

1953-59           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1959-69           executive secretary, Conference Interboard Council (ending 12/31/69)

1969                retired (beginning 12/31/69)

                             1970-71      Harrisburg Mitchell Memorial

                             1972-73      Harrisburg St. Paul

                             1973-74      assistant, Harrisburg Grace

 

Note: F. Lamont Henninger is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.

 

 

HENRY, EDGAR ANDREW

 

Born: 2-23-1905  Reedsville PA                                married: Esther Pauline Brumbaugh

Died: 4-11-1995  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 455

 

1926    license, recommended by Lewistown First

1927    admitted on trial

1919    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

           

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 444

 

1925-26           Steelton, Philadelphia Conference

1926-27           Hagerstown, Baltimore Conference

1927-30           Wallaceton

1930-33           Nescopeck

1933-38           Altoona Broad Avenue

1938-41           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1941-46           Mount Union First

1946-51           Altoona Juniata First

1952-59           York First

1959-65           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1965-68           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1968                retired

                             1968-75  Harrisburg Camp Curtin

 

Note: Edgar A. Henry is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 583.  He is the father of Joanne Yvonne Henry Winstead, wife of Donald L. Winstead.

 

 

HENRY, FRANK BERNARD

 

Born: 11-25-1912  Chambersburg PA                        married:

Died: 10-1-1996                                                          obit:

 

1936    admitted on trial

1936    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe HI

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1997, 152

 

1937-38           West Fairview-Summerdale

1938-40           Pleasant Gap

1940-68           chaplain, US Army

1968                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

 

HENRY, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 7-1-1927  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Jean Bowman

Died: 6-15-2009  Sunbury PA                                    obit:

 

1962    license

1965    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Sunbury The Daily Item 6/16/2009

 

1962-64           Shade Valley (beginning 11/15/62)

1964-66           Wallaceton

1966-68           Coalport

1968-71           Williamsport Third Street (ending 1/1/71)

1971                no longer listed

                        became a pastor in the United Church of Christ

 

Note: George W. Henry is the father of Rev. Edward A. Henry of the United Church of Christ.  He was a pastry chef and owned a bakery in Harrisburg before entering the ministry.

 

HENSON, ROBERT GRANT

 

Born: 4-5-1922  Charleston WV                                married: Orpha Sarah akersAkers

Died: 11-7-2003                                                          obit: [7/30/1921 – 11/25/2009]

 

?          West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Shreves Chapel Cemetery, Bedford County PA

Obit: West Virginia Conference 2004, ?

 

1939-43           student, Charleston University

                             1939-40      East Charleston

                             1940-41      Cinco WV

                             1942-43      Charleston WV Wesley-Greenlee (beginning 11/42)

1943-46           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1943-45      Clearville (beginning 9/1/43)

                             1944-45      Grantsville MD

                             1945-46      Landsodowne MD

1946-49           Meadow Bridge

1949-53           Rupert

1953-56           Grafton St. Paul’s

1956-60           Milton

1960-66           South Charleston St. Paul

1966-69           Moundsville

1969-70           chaplain, West Virginia State Penitentiary

1979-80           chaplain, Leckie Correctional Center

1980-85           Sophia-Mabscott

1985                retired

                             1987-97  Mt. Horeb

 

Note: Robert G. Henson has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never became a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

HERMAN, JAMES WALTER

 

Born: 2-1-1932  New Oxford PA                               married: Margaret Virginia Daum

Died: 6-6-2008  New Oxford PA                               obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 358

 

1955    approved lay pastor

1970    license

 

Interment: New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 420

 

1957-62           Fannettsburg-Metal

1968-69           Fort Loudon

1969-79           Fort Loudon-Edenville

1979-92           Hummels Wharf Christ Community

1992-96           Scotland-Salem

1996                retired

 

Note: James W. Herman served 1957-62 as a lay pastor, and after 1970 as a local pastor.

 

HERRING, PAUL LAMAR

 

Born: 1-15-1932  Shamokin PA                                 married: Eleanor Roadarmel

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 357

 

1956    license, recommended by Elysburg

1960    admitted on trial

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-59           Morris

1959-63           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1963-65           associate, Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1965-68           Dillsburg -Wellsville

1968-76           Towanda

1976-83           York Aldersgate (ending 8/15/83)

1983-90           Carlisle Allison (beginning 8/15/83)

1990-96           superintendent, Williamsport District

1996                retired

                             1996-04      associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

                             2004-04      Harrisburg Paxton (10/1/2004 –10/1/2005)

 

Note: Paul L. Herring is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 588.

 

HERRITT, JOHN ADRILE

 

Born: 1-25-1895  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Louise Mengee

Died: 1-5-1960  Danville PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 268

 

1924    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Lime Ridge PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 242

 

1920-21           Morris (beginning 9/20)

1921-24           Trout Run

1924-28           Harveyville

1928-34           Three Springs

1934-39           Thompsontown

1939-46           Benton

1946-52           Burnham

1952-58           Danville Trinity

1958-60           Catawissa

 

HERROLD, BENJAMIN S.

 

Born: 5-17-1889  Port Trevorton PA                         married: Bertha A. Long

Died: 9-8-1974                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 249

 

1936    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Susquehanna Mennonite Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 160

 

1937-40           Allenwood

1940-43           New Millport (ending 2/1/43)

1943-45           Trout Run (beginning 2/1/43)

1945-48           Morris

1948-50           Penns Valley

1950-54           East Waterford (ending 9/1/54)

1954-57           Altoona Wesley-Asbury (beginning 9/1/54)

1957-58           Saxton

1958                retired

                             1958-62  James Creek

 

Note: Benjamin S. Herrold served as a local pastor.  Bertha Herrold (widow of B.S.) appears in the journals with no address in the spouses of deceased ministers list for the years 1977-82; this is an error.

 

HERRON, LEVIN DORMAN

 

Born: 10-20-1824  Salisbury MD                               married: Sally Priscilla Belt

Died: 4-4-1897                                                            obit: [c1835 – 1875]

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 65

 

1853-54           Hereford

1854-55           Patapsco

1855-57           Montgomery

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           West Falls

1859-61           Emmitsburg

1861-62           Hancock

1862-64           Middletown

1864-65           Westernport

1865-68           Long Green

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Darlington

1869-77           on leave

1877-80           Pendleton

1880                retired

 

 

HESS, CHARLES FRANKLIN SR.

 

Born: 6-9-1925  Allenport PA                                    married: Lillian G. White

Died: 5-6-2014  Bloomsburg PA                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 399

 

1955    license, recommended by Allenport

1957    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Lime Ridge Methodist Cemetery, Lime Ridge PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 258

 

1955-58           Three Springs

1958-61           Ramey

1961-66           Saxton

1966-71           Milesburg

1971-78           Curwensville

1978-83           Berwick First

1983-87           Williamsport Trinity

1983-87           Lime Ridge

1987                retired

 

Note Charles F. Hess is the father of Susan Hess Knorr of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

HESS, DORIS E.

 

Born: 8-7-1924  Hughesville PA                                married: [single]

Died: 1-13-2009  Asheville NC                                 obit:

 

missionary

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009,421

 

                        missionary, Philippines (9 years)

Woman's Division of Methodist Church
World Association for Christian Communication

1990                retired

Note: Miss Hess graduated from Asbury College and received her MA and PhD from Syracuse University.  She worked in missionary journalism in various parts of the world.

 

HESS, GERALD B.

 

Born: 6-11-1916  Roaring Spring PA                         married: Anna Marie Cogan

Died: 7-27-1978  Saint Clairsville PA                       obit: [8/6/1918 -  2/2/1956]

                                                                                    married2: Mary L. King

1959     license                                                            obit2: [8/30/1924 – 11/19/1958]

                                                                                    married3: Virginia R. Weight

Interment: Mooresville Cemetery, Mooresville PA   obit3: [1925 – 2001]

Obit: Morrisons Cove Herald 8/3/1978

 

1959-62           Manor Hill

1962-66           Freeland Parish

1966-70           Ashland

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Gerald B. Hess served as a local pastor.

 

 

HESS, LEVI LOGUE

 

Born: 9-26-1905  Warfordsburg PA                           married: Ruth V. Deshong

Died: 4-24-1976  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 480

 

1945    license, recommended by Harrisonville Asbury

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Asbury Cemetery, Harrisonville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 149

 

1947-52           Harrisonville (beginning 6/1/47)

1952-56           New Millport (ending 2/15/56)

1956                Orangeville (beginning 2/15/56)

1956-59           North Bend

1959-62           Port Royal

1962-65           Fairview

1965-67           Gatchelville

1967-71           Orbisonia

1971                retired

                             1971-72      East Salem

                             1972-75      Turkey Valley

 

HESS, MALCOMB LaRUE

 

Born: 2-3-1906  Benton PA                            married: Ginor H. Hughes

Died: 1-9-1982  New Smyrna Beach FL        obit: [1/9/1914 – 4/29/2005]

 

1969    license, recommended by Talmar Wesley Chapel

1970    ordained local deacon

 

Interment: Benton Cemetery, Benton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 380

 

1969-73           Forksville

1973                retired

Note: M. LaRue Hess served as a local pastor, having served as a lay speaker for many years before accepting an appointment.

 

HESS, MARSHAL L.

 

Born: 1873                                                                  married: Ida Mary Sweet

Died: 1954                                                                  obit: [2/21/1873 – 3/4/1958]

 

Interment: Dudley Methodist Cemetery, Dudley PA

Obit:

 

1922-23           Blandburg

 

Note: M.L. Hess lived in Altoona and served as a very active local pastor out of the Simpson ME Church, filling in for vacationing pastors and speaking on special occasions.   M.L. Marshall and Ida Sweet were leading Methodist young people of Dudley.

 

HESS, SAMUEL MILLER VARDEN

 

Born: 1-12-1850  Huntingdon County PA                 married: Agnes P. Elliott

Died: 7-12-1926  McVeytown PA                             obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1931, 48

 

1881    admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

            recommended by Cassville

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church 1926, 40

 

1881-85           Bethel

1885                transfer to Nebraska Conference

                        transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

                        Cookport

                        Rogersville

                        Bookville

                        Bellview and Coal Bluff

                        Orange

                        Brownsville

                        Trumbull

                        Burnside

1907                retired

     1911-13      Concord, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

 

Note: S.M.V. Hess served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor. 

 

 

HESSER, WILLIAM  CHARLES

 

Born: 6-6-1833  Mifflinburg PA                                married: Ellen Clarissa Templin

Died: 1-7-1906  Mifflinburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 121

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mifflinburg circuit

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 104

 

1860-62           Mifflinburg & Middleburg

1962-63           Berwick

1863-65           Shippen [Emporium]

1865-66           Lycoming

1866-68           Orangeville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           White Haven

1871-74           Shippensburg

1874-77           Jersey Shore

1877-80           Great Island

1880-83           White Haven

1883-84           Northumberland

1884-86           Jeanesville-Audenried

1886-89           Hanover-New Oxford

1889-94           Mechanicsburg

1894-97           Montoursville

1897-99           Hughesville

1899-01           Watsontown

1901                retired

 

Note: William Charles Hesser is the son of Hannah Wagoner Hesser and Rev. Charles Hesser (1807-1843) of the Evangelical Association.  The elder Rev. Hesser 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.]

 

 

HEVERLY, HARRIS EDWARD

 

Born: 10-2-1913  Howard PA                                    married: Isabel Barker

Died: 3-16-2007  Denver CO                                     obit: [8/19/1915 – 11/18/2003]

 

1941    admitted on trial

1941    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Schencks Cemetery, Howard PA

Obit:

 

1941-42           student, Juniata College

1942                transfer to New England Conference

1942-44           student, Boston Theological Seminary

1944-47           Crawford Memorial. Winchester MA

1947-49           at school

1949                withdrew

                        entered the ministry of the Congregational Church

                        Massachusetts

                        New York

                        Connecticut

                        Henderson CO Congregational Church

     and Brighton CO Inglenook Retirement Community

                       

Note: In 1957 Rev. Harris E. Heverly was working in the denominational finance offices of the Congregational Church.

 

HEWETT, JACOB CALVIN

 

Born: 8-6-1842  Franklin County PA                         married: Isadiah Anna Souders

Died: 3-11-1906  Plum Run PA                                 obit: [1844 – 2/25/1871]
                                                                                    married2: Rachel Culler

Interment: Rehobeth Cemetery, Warfordsburg PA    obit2: [1/25/1848 – 8/18/1911]

Obit:

 

1882-83           Cove (beginning 5/28/1882)

1884-85           Cove

 

Note: J.C. Hewett was a local pastor living in Dickey’s Mountain, Fulton County.

 

HEYDE, GEORGE WATSON

 

Born: 1-2-1834  Cumberland County PA                   married: Olivia Whitehill

Died: 1-20-1913  Parkton MD                                    obit: [4/?/1840 – 6/?/1905]

 

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1913, 69

 

1858-59           Shirleysburg

1859-60           York Springs

1860-62           Liberty

1862-63           Mercersburg station

1863-65           Hagerstown

1865-67           Havre de Grace

1867-68           Hollidaysburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Hollidaysburg

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-71           Hancock

1871-74           Patapsco

1874-75           Woodberry

1875-76           Baltimore Hanover Street

1876-79           Summerfield

1879-81           Washington DC Twelfth Street

1881-84           Annapolis Wesley Chapel

1884-87           Westminster

1887-88           Great Falls

1888-11           chaplain, Seamen’s Union Bethel

1911                retired

 

 

HICKOK, FRED CLYDE

 

Born: 2-18-1928  Hallstead PA                                  married: Marguerite Elaine Pedrone

Died: 11-16-2020  State College PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 438

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Louise Johnson Sims

1950    license                                                             obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 272

1954    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment: Brookside Cemetery, Franklin twp, Susquehanna County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 360

 

1950-53           Morris

1953-57           Elysburg

1957-59           Port Royal

1959-60           Weatherly

1960-66           Harveyville

1966-68           Petersburg

1968-74           Bedford Valley

1974-78           Williamsport Third Street

1978-80           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1980-84           Witmers

1984-86           Burnham yoked parish (ending 4/1/86)

1986-87           leave of absence (beginning 4/1/86)

1987-90           Robertsdale

1990                retired

 

Note: Fred C. Hickok is the father of Fred Earl Hickok of the Susquehanna Conference.  The second Mrs. Hickok (nee Johnson) was the widow of a Mr. Thomas E. Sims (d. 1990) and is the grandmother of Joshua T. Beben of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

HICKS, OWEN DEVON

 

Born: 5-27-1842  Machen, Wales UK                       married: Lucy C. Zigler

Died: 9-14-1921  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 125

                                                                                    married2: Clara J. Kline [8/20/1908]

                                                                                    obit2: [1864-1943]

1861    local license, recommended by Waring Street in Cleveland OH

1866    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1868    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Schencks Cemetery, Howard PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 128

           

1866-67           Thompson [Concord]

1867                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1867-68           Franklin

1868-69           Hillsborough

1869                charter member of Virginia Conference

1869-70           Williamsburg and Hampton

1870-71           Hampton and Rippon Hall

1871-73           Rockbridge

1873-74           Middlebrook

1874-75           Accotink

1875-76           Portsmouth

1876                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-78           Littlestown

1878-81           Muhlenburg

1881-84           New Washington

1884-86           Howard-Beech Creek

1886-89           Duncansville

1889-91           Penn’s Valley

1891-92           West Fairview

1892-94           Hustontown

                             1893-94      Harrisonville

1894-97           McConnellsburg

1897-99           Mercersburg

1899-04           Montandon

1904-06           Cogan Valley

1906-09           Slate Run

1909-11           Costello

1911-16           Duboistown-Nisbet

1916                retired

 

Note: Owen D, Hicks is a brother to William W. Hicks.  An obituary also appears in the 9/21/1921 Christian Advocate, page 1196.  His semi-centennial paper has been bound and published with photographs.

 

HICKS, WILLIAM WATKINS

 

Born: 11-22-1837  Wales UK                                    married: Mary Etta _____

Died: 6-1-1920  Williamsport PA                              obit: [3/25/1840 – 12/25/1875]

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1857-58           West Harford

1858-60           Great Falls

1860-62           Havre de Grace station

1862-64           missionary to India

1864-65           Bellefonte

1865-66           Frederick

1866                withdrew       

1866-67           State Street Congregational Church, Brooklyn NY     

1867-68           Lee Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn NY       

                         moved South: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida

 

Note: William W. Hicks is a brother to Owen D. Hicks.  Rev. and Mrs. William W. Hicks appear in an 1863 photograph of the 1863 annual meeting of the India Mission housed in the mission collection at the conference archives.  Apparently both he and his wife returned from India with illnesses from which they never fully recovered.  His 4/19/1865 address occasioned by the death of President Lincoln has been reprinted in various contexts.  After his withdrawal from the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1866, William W. Hicks maintained an interest in, if not a direct connection with, the work in India and wrote at least one related book, The Sanctuary.  His son Thomas M.B. Hicks married the daughter of Henry Clay Cheston.  Some sources give the maiden name of Mrs. Hicks as Clara Hart.

 

HILBERT, JAMES JOSEPH

 

Born: 1-10-1903  Shenandoah PA                              married: Margaret E. Ruehling

Died: 5-29-1981                                                          obit: [1905 – 1992]

 

1933    license, Wyoming Conference

1942    ordained deacon

1949    ordained elder

 

Interment: Elkton Cemetery, Elkton MD

Obit: Peninsula Conference 1981, 355

 

1938-41           Thornhurst

1941-42           West Nicholson

1942-44           Rome

1944-45           Rome – Orwell

1945-47           Castle Creek

1947-49           Alderson – Noxen

1949-50           McClure

1950-51           North Fenton

1951-53           Greene

1953-54           not appointed

1954                “transfer” to New York Conference

1958                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1958-61           Enola

1961-62           Lawrenceville – Tioga – Tioga Junction, Genesee Conference

1962-65           Delta

1966                “transfer” to Peninsula Conference

1966-68           Cherry Hill

1968-70           Port Deposit - Tome

1970                retired

                            1970-73       Wesley Chapel

 

Note: James J. Hilbert served as a local pastor.

 

HILBISH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 10-12-1869 near Shamokin PA                                    married: Catharine Mary Anna McKelvey

Died: 8-26-1954  Upland IN                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 183

 

1900    local license, recommended by Shamokin First

1902    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1904    ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference

1908    ordained elder, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 230

             

1898-99           Roxbury

1899-00           Coram, Central New York Conference

1900-01           Marmet, West Virginia Conference              

1901-02           St. Albans

1902-03           Lumberport

1903-04           Grantsville MD

1904-05           Blaine

1905-06           Clearville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1906                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1906-08           Bloomingdale

1908                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1908-09           Troy

1909-11           Glenville

1911                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1911-13           Harveyville

1913-15           Ray’s Hill

1915-17           Wolfsburg

1917-19           Manor Hill

1919-21           Espy-Light Street

1921-26           Mahaffey

1926-28           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1928-32           Crossroads-Zion

1932                retired

 

Note: Benjamin F. Hilbish is the father of Mabelle Z. Hilbish Croyle, wife of Harry A. Croyle.  The biography of Benjamin F. Hilbish, Tales of Frontier Preacher, was written by his daughter Florence May Anna Hilbish and published by Pageant Press.  Mrs. Hilbish is the sister of three Central Pennsylvania Conference pastors: Clarence E. McKelvey, Ellis E. KcKelvey, and Wesley L. McKelvey.

 

 

HILDEBRAND, JOSIAH

 

Born: 6-16-1817  Lewistown PA                               married: Frances Elizabeth Dorsey (1846)

Died: 8-5-1892  Des Moines IA                                 obit: [5/10/1828 – 3/30/1915]

 

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1855    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Winterset City Cemetery, Winterset IA

Obit: on file in the conference archives

 

1852-53        Karthaus
1853-55        Greenbank
1855-56        Lewisburg circuit
1856-57        Hampstead
1857              charter member of the East Baltimore Conference
1857-58        Hampstead
1858-59        Allegany
1859              transfer to Illinois Conference
                      reportedly served in the Illinois Conference until locating about 1884

 

Note: Josiah Hildebrand is a brother to Thomas Hildebrand (1816-1887) of the Baltimore Conference MES and to Stephen H. Hildebrand (1812-1877) of the Baltimore Conference.  The tombstone gives a birth year of 1816, but other information favors 1817.

 

HILDT, GEORGE

 

Born: 2-6-1803  Baltimore MD                                  married: Harriet _____

Died: 3-7-1882  Baltimore MD                                  obit: [c1803 – 2/14/1838]

                                                                                    married2: Eliza Welch

1826    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Baltimore Conference 1879, 74

 

Interment: Mount  Zion UMC Cemetery, Lothian MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1882, 37

 

1826-27           Northumberland

1827-28           Gettysburg

1828-29           Hagerstown

1829-30           Liberty

1830-31           Baltimore City station

1831-33           Washington DC Foundry

1833-35           Staunton

1835-37           Chambersburg

1838-38           Harper’s Ferry

1838-39           Alexandria

1839-40           Washington DC Ebenezer

1840-41           West River

1841-45           superintendent, Northumberland District

1845-47           Baltimore City station

1847-49           Baltimore Caroline station

1849-51           East Harford

1851-55           superintendent, Winchester District

1855-57           McKendree station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           North Baltimore

1859-61           East Baltimore

1861-65           on leave

1865                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

HILL, ANTHONY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-17           Fort Loudon

 

Note: Anthony Hill served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

HILL, CARL EUGENE

 

Born: 9-2-1940  Nanticoke PA                                   married: Janet D. Nichols

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 296

 

1959    quarterly conference license, Beach Haven

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1965-67           McVeytown

1967-72           Pleasant Gap

1972-79           Clearfield Trinity

1979-87           Bedford

1987-94           Blossburg

1994-03           Lemont Mt. Nittany

2003                retired

                             2005-10      Milesburg

                             2021-22      Black Oak (beginning 12/1/2021)

 

 

HILL, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 5-8-1863  Kalida OH                                        married: Nora Holmes

Died: 10-12-1936  New York NY                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 126

                                                                                    married2: Sara Harrison Schmidt

?          license                                                             obit2: [11/21/1878 – 5/23/1959]

?          ordained

 

Interment: Woodlawn Methodist Cemetery, Ada OH

Obit: New York Conference 1937, 111

 

                        Sprague WA

                        Ogden UT

                        Helena MT

                        Minneapolis MN

                        transfer to Central Ohio Conference

                        Fostoria OH

1899                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1899-06           Harrisburg Grace

1906                transfer to New York East Conference

1906-07           Brooklyn

1907-12           Manhattan Metropolitan Temple

1916-36           chancellor, Lincoln Memorial University in Cumberland Gap TN

1936                retired

 

Note:  John Wesley Hill is the son of John Wesley Hill Sr (1831-1913) of the West Ohio Conference.  He was a noted orator, Chautauqua speaker and political campaigner for McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft.  The first Mrs. Hill died in Los Angeles while attending the 1904 General Conference.

 

 

HILL, KENNETH ROBERT

 

Born: 1-8-1931                                                            married:

Died: 10-10-1994                                                        obit:

 

1960    license, recommended by Selinsgrove

1962    admitted on trial

1961    ordained deacon

1983    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, West Hazleton PA

Obit: [1995, 438]

 

1960-61           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1961-66           student, Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster PA

                             1961-66      Conestoga

1966                discontinued

1966-73           Steelton First (beginning 12/1/66)

1973-84           Beavertown    

1984-88           Bedford Valley

1988-90           Brandon-Central

1990-94           disability

 

 

HILL, PETER W.

 

Born: 2-1-1918  Shamokin PA                                   married: Claire Johnston

Died: 6-23-2003  Danville PA                                    obit: [1930 - ]

 

1968     license

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield PA

Obit: Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise 6/29/2003 (on file at the archives)

 

1940-61           American Baptist minister in PA, CA and IL

1961-84           faculty, Mansfield State University

                             1968-74      Nelson (beginning 2/4/68)

                       

 

Note: Peter W. Hill continued to live in Mansfield and function as a pastor after 1974.

 

 

HILLIARD, CALVIN RAYVON

 

Born: 8-17-1931  Lexington NC                                married: Clara Louise Reed

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 266

 

1953    license, recommended by Tryo in Linwood NC

1954    admitted on trial, Western North Carolina Conference

1855    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-56           East Waterford, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1955                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1955-56           East Waterford

1956-58           Orangevile

1958-62           Danville Trinity

1962-64           Altoona Mardorf

1964-68           Berwick Calvary

1968-80           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1980-81           Lewistown Lake Park-Granville

1981-84           Mount Union First

1984-89           Williamstown

1989-94           Pennsdale-Huntersville

1994                retired

                             2001           Danville St. Paul’s Emmanuel

                             2002-03      Bloomsburg Good Shepherd

 

Note: Calvin R. Hilliard is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 598.

 

HEIM, WILLIAM WARDEN

 

Born: 3-22-1878  Shamokin Dam PA                        married: Bessie Mabel Fiedler [/4/1907]

Died: 11-11-1948                                                        obit: [1/3/1879 – 9/11/1951]

 

1903    license

1907    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

1909    ordained deacon, Genesee Conference

1910    ordained elder, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit:

 

1905-06           Montandon

1906-07           Wharton

1907                “transfer” to Genesee Conference

1907-08           Roulette

1908-10           Ceres and Horse Run

1910-11           Warren’s 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           Gainsville

1917-20           Savona and Campbell

1920-21           Fillmore and Hume

1921-22           Buffalo St. Mark’s

1922-28           on leave

1928                located

 

Note: W.W. Hime served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.

 

 

HIMES, CHARLES FOSTER

 

Born: 10-20-1889  Bunkertown PA                           married: Ethel Myers

Died: 12-3-1979  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 268

 

1909    license, recommended by Vira

1913    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 342

 

1913-14           Burnt Cabins

1914-18           Millerstown

1918-22           Newton Hamilton

1922-26           Petersburg

1926-41           Montoursville

1941-50           Woolrich

1950-54           Williamsport Market Street

1954                retired

                             1954-56      Fairview

                             1961-65      Eaglesmere (beginning 12/1/61)

                             1965-75      Waterville

 

HINE-BULTER, DOUGLAS E.

 

Born: 11-25-1918                                                        married: Patricia Hine-Butler

Died: 7-6-1978                                                            obit: [11/3/1929 – 1/10/1986]

 

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit:

 

1964-68           Grampian (beginning 10/1/64)

 

Note: Douglas Hine-Butler served as a local pastor.  From a 1981 newspaper article: “Native Of India Speaks At WCF Patricia Hine-Butler of Butler will be the guest speaker when the Women's Christian Fellowship of Graystone Church meets at 1 p.m. May 13 in the church social hall.' Ms. Hine-Butler was born in Calcutta, India, educated in a private English-speaking school for girls, and came to the U.S. in 1965 with her three children to join her husband who was to assume the pastorate of the Grampian Methodist charge. In 1966 Rev. Butler was involved in an automobile accident which left him with extensive brain damage and incapable of performing his duties. Pat stepped in and for eighteen months filled the pulpit. More "fiery trials" were to follow but through it all she came out of them, not without heartache and much soul-searching, to witness today victoriously that Jesus Christ is not only her Saviour but Sustainer. She shares her belief in what Jesus said, "I have come that ye might have life and that more abundantly." Pat is presently employed as an executive secretary at the Research Center of North American Refractories Company.”  From a 1965 newspaper article: “EVANGELIST - The Rev. Carl Butler, minister of Evangel Temple, an undenominational church at Harrisburg, will be the evangelist in a series of revival services at the - Grampian Methodist charge starting Sunday, Sept. 72, and continuing for one week at 7:30 p. m. each day. The Rev. Butler has been a missionary to India for over 20 years. The pastor of the Grampian Church, Douglas Hine - Butler, said he is pleased to announce the choice of evangelist, for it was the Rev. Mr. Butler who sponsored the Hine-Butler family's immigration to the United States.”

 

HINEY, RALPH E.

 

Born: 4-5-1898                                                            married: Edith R. Mead

Died: 12-8-1959                                                          obit: Central New York Conference 1973, 174

                                                                                    married2: Elinor L. _____

                                                                                    obit: [7/23/1905 – 10/2/1997]

1918    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1918    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Kentucky Conference 1960, 245

 

1918-19           Belle Isle

1919-20           Belle Isle & Camillus

1920-22           Fleming & Scipioville

1922-24           Valois – Logan

1924-27           Aloquin & Flint

1927-31           Ovid & Varick

1931-36           Seneca Falls

1936-41           Warners & Belle Isle

1941-44           Syracuse Brown Memorial

1944                retired

     1944-47      New Millport (beginning 10/1/1944), Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Ralph E. Hiney is the son of George W. Hiney of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  He served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  At the time of his death he was an approved part-time supply pastor in the Kentucky Conference.  It appears that Ralph and Edith divorced before 1957 and that Ralph moved to Kentucky.

 

HINKLE, GORDON FRANKLIN JR.

 

Born: 8-24-1899  Columbia PA                                 married: Mary H. _____

Died: 5-10-1967  Monroeville PA                              obit: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1967, 2071

 

1924    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 2071

 

1923-24           Vira (ending fall 1924)

1924-27            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1924-26      Harriman, Philadelphia Conference

1927-28           Jeddo-Lattimer

1928-30           Petersburg (ending fall 1930)

1930-35           Patton (beginning fall 1930)

1935-37           Saxton

1937-40           Altoona Llyswen

1940-45           Hazleton Diamond

1945-47           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1947-49           Sunbury St. John’s

1949                transfer to Florida Conference

1949-51           Jacksonville Snyder Memorial

1951                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1951-55           Zelienople

1955-59           Beaver Falls College Hill

1959-65           Pittsburgh McKnight

1965                retired

 

HINKLE, HERBERT CRAWFORD

 

Born: 1-8-1874  Williamsport PA                              married: Luella Shamberger

Died: 10-21-1917  York PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 265

 

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by York First

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 130

 

1901-04           Everett circuit

1904-06           Cross Roads

1906-07           South Williamsport

1907-13           Camp Hill

1913-15           Hughesville

1915-17           St. Mary’s

1917                Watsontown

 

Note: Herbert C. Hinkle is the son of Richard Hinkle.  An obituary also appears in the 11/15/1917 Christian Advocate, page 1216.

 

HINKLE, RICHARD

 

Born: 10-9-1830  Allegheny County MD                  married: Elizabeth H. Purvis

Died: 4-7-1917  York PA                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 127

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 127

 

1854-55           Shirleysburg

1855-56           Cassville

1856-57           Woodbury

1857-58           North Baltimore station

1858                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           North Baltimore station.

1859-61           Lock  Haven

1861-63           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1863-65           North Baltimore station

1865-68           Strawbridge station

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-71           Frederick City

1871                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1871-74           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1874-77           Lewisburg

1877-79           Harrisburg Grace

1879-81           Huntingdon First

1881-85           superintendent, Juniata District

1885-88           Danville St. Paul’s

1888-91           Milton

1891-94           Berwick

1894-99           York First

1899-04           Everett

1904                retired

 

Note: Richard Hinkle is the father of Herbert C. Hinkle and a brother to George B. Hinkle (1828-1913) of the California Conference.  Mrs. Hinkle is a sister to the Isaac F. Purvis who married the gospel songwriter and Williamsport Dickinson Seminary instructor Katharine E. Nash Purvis.

 

HINKELMAN, RALPH D.  

 

Born: 1-28-1892  Hyner PA                                       married: Lauretta Hunter

Died: 4-25-1959  Mt. Carmel PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 336

 

1918    admitted on trial, Wisconsin Conference

 

Interment: Quigglevile Church Cemetery, Quiggleville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 250

 

1917                Strockbridge circuit (2 months)

1918-20           Pardeeville

1920-23           Sinnemahoning, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-23           Sinnemahoning

1923-26           South Williamsport

1926-28           Houtzdale

1928-31           Patton

1931-34           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1934-40           Harrisburg Epworth

1940-46           Northumberland

1946-50           Williamsport Calvary

1950-54           Clearfield West Side

1954-59           Mt. Carmel

 

Note: Ralph D. Hinkelman is the father of Richard H. Hinkelman, and of Robert M. Hinkelman (1919-2005) of the Texas Conference .

 

HINKELMAN, RICHARD HUNTER         

 

Born:                                                   married:

Died:                                                   obit:

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-53           at school

1953                transfer to East Wisconsin Conference

 

Note: Richard H. Hinkelman is the son of Ralph D. Hinkelman, and the brother of Robert M. Hinkelman (1919-2005) of the Texas Conference.  In 2003 he is listed as a retired member of the Wisconsin Conference living in Lewisburg PA.

 

HIRONS, WILLIAM R.

 

Born: 1878 near Dover DE                                         married: Elizabeth H. Derrickson

Died: 5-28-1907  Philadelphia                                    obit:

 

1899     admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

 

Interment: Silver Lake Cemetery, Dover DE

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 126

 

1906                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1906-07           Greencastle

1907                Newville

 

HOCH, G.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1877    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1877-78           York Springs

 

Note: G. Hoch served as a local pastor.

 

HOCH, WILLIAM E.

 

Born: 5-13-1849  Mt. Pleasant PA                             married: Margaret J. Jones

Died: 7-29-1897  Mercersburg PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 135

 

1873     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mercersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 93

 

1873-75           Saxton

1875-76           McConnellstown

1876-78           Shellsburg

1878-80           Shirleysburg

1880-97           on leave

 

HODGSON, FRANCIS DAY

 

Born: 2-13-1805  Driffield England                           married: Agnes Cobourn Long (4/15/1830)

Died: 4-17-1877                                                          obit: Philadelphia Conference 1892, 97

 

1828    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference, 1878, 60

 

1828-29           Dauphin

1829-31           Elkton MD

1831-33           Philadelphia St. George’s

1833-34           Harrisburg circuit

1834-35           Harrisburg station

1835-36           Columbia

1836                transfer to New York Conference

1836-37           New York City Vestry Street

1837-39           New York City Mulberry Street.

1839-41           Middletown CT circuit

1841-43           Hartford CT

1843-45           New Haven CT

1845                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1845-47           Philadelphia Trinity

1847-49           Salem

1849-51           Harrisburg

1851-53           Wilmington DE St. Paul’s

1853-55           Philadelphia St. George’s

1955-57           Union

1957-59           Lancaster

1859-63           superintendent, South Philadelphia District

1863-65           Philadelphia Fifth Street

1865-67           Easton

1867-68           Salem

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Danville

1871-74           Lewisburg

1874-76           Chambersburg

1876                retired

1877                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

 

Note: Francis Hodgson is the father of Francis Day Hodgson (1832-1899) of the Central New York Conference.

 

HODGSON, IRVIN SWYERS

 

Born: 2-24-1890  Dagus Mines PA                            married: Blanche Anita Cline

Died: 6-14-1966  Rochester PA                                 obit: [8/17/1889 – 12/30/1980]

 

1912    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Rochester PA

Obit:

 

1912-13           Excelsior

1913-14           White Haven

1914-17           Snow Shoe

1917-18           Oriole-Antes Fort

1918-19           worker, US YMCA

1919-20           Benezette

1920                withdrew

 

Note: Some sources give this first name as Irving.  He is listed in the class of 1911 at Williamsport Dickson Seminary as being from St. Benedict PA.

HOFFMAN, CHARLES DUANE

 

Born: 4-17-1931  Hazleton PA                                   married: Ruth Jewett

Died: 10-22-2018                                                        obit:

 

1954    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: [Wilkes-Barre Citizen’s Voice 10/24/2018]

 

1954-55            at school

1955                name missing from list, no other information found.

 

Note: Charles D. Hoffman had been an approved supply pastor since 1952, but he never filled an appointment.  He attended Drew Theological Seminary and worked in the mental health field.  His memorial service was held at the Church of Christ Uniting in Kingston PA.

 

HOFFMAN, HARRY C.

 

Born: 3-27-1884                                                          married:

Died: 3-7-1963                                                            obit:

 

1916    license

 

Interment:

Obit: [1963, 142]

 

1916-17           Summerdale

1937-47           Boyles Run

1947-48           without appointment, living in Sunbury

1948-53           Boyles Run

1953                retired

 

Note: Harry C. Hoffman served as a local pastor.

 

HOKE, GEORGE M.

 

Born: 10-20-1853  Fort Loudon PA                           married: Virginia Budding

Died: 2-10-1911  Hellam PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 132

 

1878    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 130

 

1878-81           Mont Alto

1881-84           Harrisburg Grace mission

1884-87           West Huntingdon

1887-90           Orbisonia

1890-95           Duncannon

1895-00           Altoona Simpson

1900-03           Waynesboro

1903-05           New Cumberland

1905-11           Shamokin First

 

Note: George M. Hoke is the nephew of prominent UB layman Jacob Hoke of Chambersburg.

 

HOFFMAN, WILLIAM MAGUIRE

 

Born: 8-14-1877  Maple Hill PA                                married: Lillian Harriet Shaffer

Died: 5-5-1063  Baltimore MD                                  obit: Baltimore Conference 1952, 240

 

1908    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Fort Lincoln Cemetery

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1963, 288

 

1903-07           student, Dickinson College

                             1905-06  Lewisberry & Lisburn (first half of the year)

1907                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference

1907-09           assistant, Great Falls

1909-13           Laytonsville

1913-14           Patapsco

1914-17           Baltimore Columbia Avenue

1917-22           Aberdeen

1922-24           Clifton

1924-29           Waugh

1929-32           Keyser WV

1932-49           Millersville Baldwin Memorial

1949                retired

 

HOLBERT, JOSEPH CONRAD

 

Born: 1838  VA                                                          married: Margaret Elizabeth Stinson

Died: 12-7-1903  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [5/21/1834 – 5/16/1907]

 

1872    license, Harrisburg Fifth Street quarterly conference

 

Interment:

Obit: [Harrisburg PA Patriot News, 12/9/1903]

 

Note: Joseph C. Holbert was a local pastor.  He never served under appointment, but was instrumental in founding Harrisburg Fifth Street (1870), where he was a charter member.  He worked for the Pennsylvania RR and was well-known in the Harrisburg area for supplying pulpits.

 

HOLLAND, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1878    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1878-79           Wharton

 

Note: William Holland served as a local pastor.

 

HOLLEY, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born: 7-11-1911  Juniata [Altoona] PA                     married: Eleanor K. Kost

Died: 7-?-1980                                                            obit: [10/30/1912 – 2/?/1994]

 

1935    admitted on trial

1935    ordained deacon

1937    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-32           student, Dickinson College

1932-35           student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

                             1934-35      Clinton CT Baptist Church

1935-38           Salladasburg

1938-41           Woodland-Bradford

1941-48           Shrewsbury

1948-57           on leave

1957                voluntary location

                        safety director, R.H. Sheppard Company of Hanover PA

 

HOLLINGSWORTH, SAMUEL WILLIAM JR

 

Born: 8-27-1925  Abington PA                                  married: Erma F. Raudabaugh

Died: 2-5-2010                                                            obit: [2/7/1925 – 6/18/2015]

 

1951    admitted on trial

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent WA

Obit:

 

1945-49           student, Dickinson College

                             1948-50      West Fairview-Summerdale

1949-52           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1949-50      West Fairview-Summerdale

                             1950-52      Mont Alto

1952-55           Bendersville

1955-58           Shippensburg

1958-61           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1961-66           Altoona Simpson

1966-67           sabbatical

1967                voluntary location

                        supervisor of investigations, EEOC in Seattle WA

 

Note: S. William Hollingsworth is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  Mrs. Hollingsworth is buried in the Springville Cemetery, Boiling Springs PA.

 

HOLLINS, JOHN C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1893    ordained deacon, recommended by Milnesville & Humboldt

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1890-91           Port Royal

 

Note: John C. Hollins served as a local pastor.

 

HOLLINS, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1893-94           Excelsior

 

Note: J.W. Hollins served as a supply pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

HOLMES, CHARLES AVERY

 

Born: 6-2-1827                                                            married: Temperance Tingley

Died: 3-15-1897                                                          obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1889, 56

 

Interment: Washington Cemetery, Washington PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1897, 55

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference

1874                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1874-77           Harrisburg Grace

1877-79           Williamsport Pine Street

1879                transfer to Kentucky Conference

 

Note: The birthdate for Tempe Tingley Holmes, not given in her conference obituary, is 2/4/1830.

 

HOLMES, FRED VERNON

 

Born: 5-25-1899  Catawissa PA                                 married: Mary Diener

Died: 2-?-1972                                                            obit: [b. 12/5/1898]

 

1920    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-24           student, Dickinson College

1924-27           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1926-27      Beach Haven

1927-28           Beach Haven

1928                withdrew to enter the ministry in the Episcopal Church

                        Muncy PA St. James

 

Note: Mrs. Holmes attended the College of Missions of Drew Theological Seminary in 1924-26.

 

HOMMEL, AMOS EPHRIAM

 

Born: 10-12-1908  Irwin PA                          married: Myrtle Willow Musser

Died: 4-22-1984  Huntingdon PA                  obit: [10/15/1908 – 10/10/1969]

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit:

 

                        Christian & Missionary Alliance, Lumber City PA

1945-76           Roadside Chapel, Huntingdon PA

1976-84           Grant Street Chapel, Lock Haven PA

 

Note: Amos E. Hommel has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was seeking ordination as a local pastor and became instead the founding pastor of Roadside Chapel in Huntingdon.  The Hommels were married in the First Methodist Church in Lewistown in 1937.

 

HONTZ, ALMON WADSWORTH

 

Born: 1-30-1861  Luzerne County PA                       married: Beulah A. Bunce (7/26/1894)

Died: 10-18-1898  Pasadena CA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 259

 

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Helfenstein

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1889    admitted on trial again

 

Interment: Centerport, Long Island NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 87

 

1884-86           Helfenstein

1886-90           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1890-93           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1893-95           Jamison city

1895-98           on leave to California for health reasons

 

Note: Almon W. Hontz is the author of “The Pastor’s Study” published in the Pennsylvania Methodist (date unknown).

 

HOOPERT, GRANTAS ELTON

 

Born: 3-27-1911  York Springs PA                            married: Ethel Mae Decker

Died: 8-24-1995                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 360

 

1945    license, recommended by York Springs

1949    admitted on trial

1949    ordained deacon

1951    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hill Top Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 414

 

1945-47           Hustontown

1947-49           Littlestown

1949-53           Doylesburg

1953-59           Mifflinburg

1959-63           Sunbury St. John’s

1963-67           New Cumberland

1967-73            superintendent, Williamsport District

1973-76           York Aldersgate

1976                retired

                            1976-79       Buffalo Valley

                            1986-87       Hendrickson-Mooresburg

 

Note: Grantas E. Hoopert is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 618.

 

HOOVEN, ANDREW BOZORTH

 

Born: 8-11-1833  Philadelphia PA                             married: Mary Helen Thorn

Died: 2-7-1904  DuBois PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 143

 

1867    quarterly conference license, Salladasburg

1869    admitted on trial

1871    ordained deacon

1873    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 119

 

1869-72           Caledonia

1872-74           Emporium

1874-75           Lycoming

1875-78           Hughesvile

1878-81           Penfield

1881-83           Montgomery

1883-85           Town Hill

1885-88           Orangeville

1888-93           Stewartstown

1893-96           Petersburg

1896-97           Flemington

1897-00           Duboistown

1900                retired

 

Note: Andrew B. Hooven is the father of Miss Minnie Hooven, who served 8 years in Georgia and Florida with the Freedman’s Aid Society and later joined the faculty at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

 

HOOVER, JAMES MATTHEWS

 

Born: 8-26-1872  Green village PA                           married: Mary Young (1904)

Died: 2-11-1935  Kechung, Sarawak, Borneo            obit: [d. 1962]

 

1898    local preacher’s license, Chambersburg St. Paul’s

 

Interment: St. Thomas Anglican Ceemtery, Borneo

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 217

 

1899-03           Penang, Malaysia

1904-35           sarawak, Borneo

 

Note: He is the namesake of Hoover Square in Borneo.

 

HOOVER, JOHN ALFRED

 

Born: 2-4-1891  Clearfield County PA                      married:  Alta M. Wertz

Died: 12-8-1974  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 351

 

1925    license, recommended by Kylertown

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Kylertown Cemetery, Kylertown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 161

 

1927-29           Benezette

1929-33           Salona and Lamar

1933-36           Lock Haven circuit

1936-40           Wallaceton

1940-43           Trout Run (ending 1/15/43)

1943-46           Cassville (beginning 1/15/43)

1946-48           Newton Hamilton

1948-54           Millville-Jerseytown

1954-58           Benton

1958-63           Ashland

1963                retired

 

Note: John A. Hoover served as a local pastor.

 

 

HOOVER, SOLOMON HUBBARD

 

Born: 3-18-1844  Washington DC                             married: Mary Augusta Mitchell

Died: 9-3-1908                                                            obit: Philadelphia Conference 1909, 95

 

1868    admitted on trial, Troy Conference

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference1909, 87

 

1868-69           faculty, Fort Edward Institute

1869-70           East Sand Lake

1870                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1870-72           East Mauch Chunk

1872-73           Harrisburg Fifth Street

                        [1872  transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference]

1873                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1873-74           Sanctuary

…

1876-79           Philadelphia Park Avenue

…

1903-08           superintendent, North District

 

Note: Solomon H. Hoover was not really a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was automatically transferred in between the 1872 and 1873 annual conferences when the General Conference added Harrisburg to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, but he immediately transferred back to the Philadelphia Conference in 1873.


 

HOPKINS, HENRY FRANCIS

 

Born: 12-25-1919  Nanty-Glo PA                              married: Betty T. Yordy

Died: 12-6-2001  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 273

 

1939    license, recommended by Mt. Zion of the Catawissa circuit

1945    admitted on trial, recommended by Beaver Meadows

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 361

 

1942-43           Vira (beginning 7/15/42)

1943-45           Snydertown  (beginning 10/1/43)

1945-47           Beaver Meadows

1947-49           Berwick Calvary

1949-54           Riverside

1954-58           Llyswen, Altoona

1958-63           Epworth, Harris.

1963-69           Williamsport Wesley

1969-74           Huntingdon First

1974-80           superintendent, State College District

1980-83           New Cumberland Baughman Memorial

1983                retired

                            1983-89       South Williamsport Grace

 

Note: Henry F. Hopkins is a brother to Martin W. Hopkins and Thomas J. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long.

 

 

HOPKINS, MARTIN WESLEY

 

Born: 7-18-1917  Anita PA                                        married: Betty Louise Zeigler

Died: 7-18-1998                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 412

 

1938    license, recommended by Breezewood

1945    admitted on trial, recommended by Beaver Meadows

1945    ordained deacon

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 433

           

1938-40           Laurelton (beginning 5/38)

1940-43           Snydertown (ending 10/43)

1943-45           Beaver Meadow (beginning 12/43)

1945-48           Nescopeck

1948-51           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1951-54           director of youth work, PA Council of Churches

1954-65           Harrisburg Calvary

1965-71            superintendent, Harrisburg District

1971-78           York Asbury

1978-82           Everett

1982                retired

                             1982-86      Middletown Ebenezer

 

Note: Martin W. Hopkins is a brother to Henry F. Hopkins and Thomas J. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 620. 

 

HOPKINS, THOMAS JAMES

 

Born: 11-27-1911  Nanty-Glo PA                              married: Mary Elizabeth Brant

Died: 11-6-2000  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central PA Conference 1997, 385

 

1935    license, recommended by Glen hope

1937    admitted on trial

1937    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 366

 

1935-38           Ray’s Hill

1938-41           Catawissa circuit

1941-45           Espy-Light St.

1945-50           Mount Carmel

1950-54           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1954-61           Bloomsburg

1961-66           Lewistown First

1966-72           Williamsport Pine Street

1972-77           Tyrone Wesley

1977                retired

 

Note: Thomas J. Hopkins is a brother to Henry F. Hopkins and Martin W. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long.

 

HORNER, JOSEPH E.

 

Born: 8-27-1876  Camden NJ                                    married: Annie W. _____

Died: 3-21-1942  Oinewald NJ                                  obit:

 

Interment: Cedar Groove Cemetery, Waretown NJ

Obit:

                       

                        Waretown NJ, Methodist Episcopal

1915-17           Massey/Golt MD, Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1917-18           Reyburn circuit PA, Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1919-20           Jonestown
1921-22           Washingtonville

1922-23           NJ

 

Note: J.E. Horner served as a local pastor.  He apparently also served area Methodist Protestant churches and appears to have moved about freely in the mid-Atlantic area.  He served as a holiness evangelist and his son Charles Russell Horner (1904-1976) was a songleader at campmeetings and evangelistic services.

 

 

HORNING, JOHN

 

Born: 1845 near Ennisville PA                                   married: Hannah Margaret Oburn

Died: 9-25-1931  Huntingdon PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 134

 

1872    admitted on trial

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 168

 

1872-73           Rays Hill

1873-74           Warriors Mark

1874-75           Conyngham

1875-77           South Heberton

1877-79           Centralia

1879-82           Bloomingdale

1882-85           Mifflinville

1887-88           Snydertown

1888-91           Orangeville (moved to Shamokin Second during the 1890-91 conference year)

1891-94           Shamokin Second

1894-97           Hazleton Diamond

1897-98           York Ridge Avenue

1898-01           Duncannon

1901-03           Duncansville-Altoona Epworth

1903-05           Hopewell

1906-07           Costello

1907-13           Nescopeck

1913-15           Weatherly

1915                retired

 

 

HOUCK, WILLIAM ADAM

 

Born: 1-25-1837  Newburg [Huntingdon Co.] PA     married: Lydia Maria Durland

Died: 3-25-1926  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 140

 

1858    license, Bland Chapel of the Cassville charge

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1861    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Old Graveyard, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 518

 

1859-60           Woodbury

1860-61           Jeansville

1861-62           Birmingham

1862-63           Manor Hill

1863-65           Lewistown circuit

1865-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           Hanover

1867-68           Shippensburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Shippensburg

1870-73           Milton

1873-76           Ashland

1876-79           Danville St. Paul’s

1879-82           Lock Haven

1882-86           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1886-89           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1889-94           Bellefonte

1894-97           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1897-03           Mount Carmel

1903-06           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1906                retired

                             1909  Mount Holly Springs (Jan-Mar)

 

Note: The 1927 death date on his tombstone is in error.  The maiden name of Mrs. Houck is sometimes given as Derland.

 

 

HOUGHTELIN, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 12-12-1842  Adams County PA                       married: Martha Adelaide McMillan

Died: 2-25-1935  Marathon IA                                  obit: [d. 1900]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Rushlow La Mountain

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference obit2:

 

Interment: Topeka Cemetery, Topeka KS

Obit:

 

1868-69           Newport

1869                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869                withdrew

 

 

Note: William H. Houghtelin was a teacher (1860) in Adams County, served (as “Houghtlin”) in the Civil War, and married (3/9/1865) before entering the ministry.  This is believed to be the W.H. Haughteline given in list of United Brethren preachers.  After William left the ministry, the family may be found in Falls Church VA (1880), Shawnee KS (1885) and Iowa (1910).

 

HOUSE, JAY WESLEY

 

Born: 9-7-1931  Williamsport PA                              married: Marjorie Lamphier

Died: 3-19-2023  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit:

 

1951    license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary

1954    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 358

 

1954-55           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1955-60           West Fairview

1960-63           Williamsport Market Street

1963-68           Nescopeck

1968-78           Altoona Simpson

1978-81           Mount Wolf Otterbein

1981-85           associate program director, Conference Council on Ministries

1985-88           council director, Conference Council on Ministries

1988-96           New Cumberland Trinity

1996                retired

                             1997-00      Riverpoint (Wormleysburg and West Fairview)

                             2004-05      Rockville (beginning 3/1/2005)

                             2006-08      Wormleysburg St. Pauls (ending 6/8/2008)

                             2008-09      Mechanicsburg Wesley (beginning 2/1/200()

 

Note: Jay W. House is the father of James Charles House of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

HOVENSTINE, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born: 6-24-1923  Ranshaw PA                                  married: Mae Constance Slotterback

Died: 4-7-2011  Altoona PA                                      obit: [5/12/1925 – 2/11/2011]

 

1952    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit:

           

1951-53           Ray’s Hill

1953-54           Fort Loudon

1954-55           Catawissa

1955-57           chaplain, US Air Force

1957-59           Jerseytown

1959-61           Mifflintown

1961-62           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1962-70           chaplain, Altoona Veterans’ Hospital

1970                transfer to the United Church of Christ denomination

 

Note: John R. Hovenstine is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 626.

 

HOVIES, DAVID WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-20-1910  Sunbury PA                                    married: Ruth Lorraine Shipe

Died: 6-27-1973  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 422

 

1958    license, recommended by Mt. Pleasant on Snydertown charge

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 424

 

1957-61           Forksville (beginning 6/1/57)

1961-66           Snow Shoe

1966-71           Renovo

1971-73           Lewistown Grove Memorial

 

HOWE, WESLEY

 

Born: 2-5-1802  near Millerstown PA                        married: Elizabeth Eyster

Died: 12-8-1869  Orrstown PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 93

 

1829    quarterly conference license, recommended by Salem of the Carlisle circuit

1831    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Orrstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 65

 

1831-32           Berwick

1832-33           Sunbury

1833-34           Bloomfield

1834-36           Mifflin

1836-37           Luray

1837-38           Warrenton

1838-39           Fairfax

1839-50           Loudon

1840-42           Gettysburg

1842-43           Mercersburg

1843-44           Springfield

1844-45           Lewistown

1845-46           Williamsburg

1846-48           Lewistown

1848-50           Bedford

1850-52           Penn’s Valley

1852-54           Newport

1854-56           Chambersburg

1856-57           Green Village

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Green Village

1858-60           Castle Fin

1860-62           Shippensburg

1862                retired

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Wesley Howe is the son of Morris Howe (1766-1843) of the Baltimore Conference.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 400.  His mother Phoebe Osborne Howe died when he was 22 days old, likely of complications from childbirth.  His father then married Parmelia Bowman Howe, a daughter of the noted Methodist pioneer Rev. Christian Bowman (1761-1831) of Briar Creek, but he was reportedly raised by Methodist relatives in Greenvillage.

 

 

HOWES, JOHN BAXTER

 

Born: 10-25-1908  Ivyton KY                                                married: Laura Elizabeth Fisher

Died: 12-12-1995  Emmitsburg MD                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 367

 

1925    license, recommended by Flatwoods

1927    admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference

1933    ordained deacon, Kentucky Conference

1935    ordained elder, Holston Conference

 

Interment: Emmitsburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Emmitsburg MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996,415

 

1927-31           student, Union College in Barbourville KY

1931-33           faculty, Kingdom Come Settlement School

1933-34           Elkhorn City larger parish

1934                transfer to Holston Conference

1934-37           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1934-37      North Church, Fall River MA.

1937-39           Southern Mountain Missions

1939-42           Harriman

1942-43           director of rural work, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 9/1/42)

1943                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1943-45           director of rural work

1945-47           Town Hill

1947-58           faculty, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

1958-79           faculty, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1979                retired

                             1980-84      Mt. Bethel, Baltimore Conference

 

Note: John B. Howes is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 630.

 

HOYT, EDWARD SAMUEL

 

Born: 11-23-1927  Occoquan VA                              married: Rebecca Lee

Died: 1-4-2019  Fairfax VA                                       obit: [6/11/1930 – 7/18/2011]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           Roulette

1965-66           Wallis Run

 

Note: Edward S. Hoyt served as a local pastor.  The Hoyts had retired to Kearneysville WV.  His memorial service was held in Harpers Ferry WV.

 

HUBBOCK, A.R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-58           Danville St. Paul’s

 

Note: A.R. Hubbock was pastor of the Dialstone Methodist Church in Stockport, England.

 

HUFF, NORMAN EUGENE

 

Born: 6-18-1932  Lewistown PA                               married: Anna Mae Good

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1952    quarterly conference license, Lewistown First

1954    license, recommended by Lewistown First

1959    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-56           student, Lycoming College

                             1954-56      Waterville

1956-57           East Waterford

1957-61           Rehoboth

1961-64           Fort Loudon

1964-65           associate, Camp Hill

1965-78           Salladasburg

1978-87           Tyrone Good Shepherd

1987-91           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1991-94           Muncy

1994                retired

                             1996-97      Mapleton Depot (beginning 3/1/96)

                             1997-01      Bellwood-Pinecroft

                             2006-07      Lemont Mt. Nittany (beginning 2/1/06)

 

 

HUGHES, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-1-1910  Courtdale PA                                   married: Betty Margaret Cole

Died: 8-?-1981  Lewistown PA                                  obit: [1/27/1917 – 12/12/1992]

 

Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit:

 

1936-37           Lock Haven circuit

1937-40           student, Dickinson College

                             1937-40      Rehobeth

1940-42           Rehobeth

                        chaplain, U.S. Navy

 

Note: Benjamin F. Hughes has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the conference.   

 

HUGHES, WILLIAM BRUCE

 

Born: 5-3-1856   Center County PA                           married: (never married)

Died: 3-20-1916  Bellefonte PA                                 obit:

 

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Hickory Run circuit

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, Philipsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 121

 

1883-84           Hickory Run

1884-85           Jerseytown

1885-86           Iola

1886-87           West Hazleton

1887-88           Lumber City

1888-89           Port Matilda

1889-91           Glen Hope

1891-94           McKee’s Gap

1894-96           Karthaus

1896-97           Pleasant Gap

1897-98           Allegheny

1898-00           Harrisonville (ending 8/1900)

1900-02           Bethel-Trinity (beginning 8/1900)

1902-03           Green Village

1903-05           Shirleysburg

1905-09           Concord

1909-11           James Creek

1911-13           Alum Bank

1913-14           Costello

1914-15           Keating Summit

1915                retired

 

Note: Bruce Hughes is the preferred form of this name.

 

HULL, HARTZELL WAYNE

 

Born: 11-6-1919  Towanda KS                                  married: Esther May Mickey

Died: 4-23-2001  Winfield KS                                   obit: [4/24/1923 – 4/6/2005]

 

1947    admitted on trial, recommended by Winfield KS Grace

1947    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit: Kansas West Conference 2001, ?

 

1944-47           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1947-48           Half Moon

1947                transfer to Central Kansas Conference  1948, 42

                        Cedar Chapel

                        Hicks Chapel

                        Woodbibe

                        Haysville

                        Cheney

                        Wichita

1955-63           missionary, Alaska

1963-96           camp director, Monte Toyon Methodist Camp and Conference center in Aptos CA

1996                retired

 

Note: H. Wayne Hull did graduate work at Penn State 1947-48 and apparently completed the year at Half Moon – see 1948, 87 and 148.

 

HUMBERT, CHESTER A. JR.

 

Born: 3-28-1915                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1933    quarterly conference license, Altoona First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1941-43           Sandy Ridge

 

Note: C.A. Humbert served as a local pastor and served as a guest speaker in several different denominations..  He reportedly attended American University intending to enter the ordained ministry.  In 1937 he was reportedly a theological student at the University of Southern California.

 

HUMPHREYS, GEORGE WELLER

 

Born: 11-5-1875  Brighton England                           married: Lillian K. Lewis

Died: 11-6-1949  Schuylkill Haven PA                     obit: [5/31/1887 – 6/24/1976]

 

1913    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Schuylkill Haven Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 200

 

1913-16           Schuylkill Haven

1916-18           East Bangor

1918-23           Philadelphia Cumberland Street.

1923-28           Shenandoah

1928-29           Philadelphia Centenary

1929-34           Lancaster St. Paul’s

1934                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1934-37           Salisbury Asbury

1937-45           Danville St. Paul’s, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1938                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1938-45           Danville St. Paul’s

1945                retired

 

HUNSINGER, AMANDUS RAY [“PAT”]

 

Born: 5-29-1910  Kingston PA                                  married: Dorothy C. Evarts

Died: 3-3-2005                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 440

 

1951    license, recommended by Hunlock Creek

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Sweet Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 446

 

1951-53           Catawissa circuit

1953-60           Snydertown

1960-65           Orangeville

1965-75           Farragut-Fairview

1975                retired

 

HUNT, JOHN M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1945-47           Mercersburg

 

Note: John M. Hunt served as a local pastor.

 

HUNTER, CLARENCE VanDYKE

 

Born: 11-12-1920  Berwindale PA                             married: David Marie Lindsey

Died: 12-01-1995  KY                                                obit: [5/26/1991 – 7/13/2017]

 

1941    license

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Jacksboro TX

Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1996, 332

 

1942-44           Allenport

 

Note: Clarence V. Hunter has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he did not matriculate in the conference.

 

HUNTER, JAMES

 

Born: 12-6-1827  Mauch Chunk PA                          married: Anna Johnson

Died: 12-28-1913  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902,137

 

1855     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Northumberland Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 121

 

1855-56           Sinnemahoning

1857-57           New Washington

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bellefonte circuit

1858-60           Sinnemahoning

1860-61           on leave

1861-62           Liberty Valley

1862-64           Salona

1864-66           Howard

1866-68           Great Island

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           on leave

                             1868-70       Saladasburg

1871-73           Williamsport circuit

1873-76           Northumberland

1876-79           Renovo

1879-81           Muncy

1881-83           Salladasburg

1883-84           Montgomery

1884-86           Northumberland

1886-87           Danville Second

1887-88           on leave

1888-90           Hyner

1890-91           Mill Hall

1891-93           Duboistown

1893-97           on leave

1897                retired

 

Note:  An obituary for James Hunter also appears in the 1/29/1914 Christian Advocate, page 171.

 

HUNTER, JOHN WALTER

 

Born: 1-15-1934  Hastings PA                                   married: Ruth L. Glazier

Died: c2019                                                                obit:

 

1957    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-64           at school

1964-69           faculty, Greensboro College at Greensboro NC

1969-78           executive secretary, Farm & Wilderness Camps at Woodstock VT

1978                honorable location

 

Note: John W. Hunter and Ruth Glazier Hunter graduated from Lycoming College in 1955 and 1956 respectively.

 

HURLBERT, JAMES PREDMORE

 

Born: 5-27-1870  Potter County PA                           married: Martha Belle Kinney

Died: 1-30-1939  Mount Lebanon PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 211

 

1909    license, recommended by Wharton

1913    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: Coudersport Cemetery, Coudersport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 209

 

1911-12           Wapwallopen

1912-15           Montandon

1915-17           Beach Haven

1917-19           Laurelton

1919-21           Avis

1921-23           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1923-26           Espy-Light Street

1926-31           Mahaffey

1931-33           Salladasburg

1933-37           Trout Run

1937                retired

 

HURLEY, DONALD ROY

 

Born: 7-25-1925  Petersburg PA                                married: Lillian Marie Norris (1953)

Died: 9-28-1999                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 399

 

1946    license, recommended by Petersburg

1947     admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: St. Jacob’s Cemetery, near Hesston PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000,345

 

1947-51           Frankstown

1951-56           Loop St. Paul’s

1956-59           Martinsburg

1959-66           Jersey Shore First

1966-79           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

1979-85           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1985-89           Dillsburg Calvary

1989                retired

                             1994-95  Spring Valley parish

 

Note: Donald R. Hurley is the father of Donald N. Hurley of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

HUSTON, OLIVER H.

 

Born: 1844  Taylor township, Fulton County PA      married: [single?]

Died: 9-7-1923  Johnstown PA                                  obit:

 

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by McConnellsburg circuit

1876    ordained deacon

1878    ordained elder

 

Interment: Center Methodist Church Cemetery, Fulton County PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Ray’s Hill

1875-76           Shirleysburg

1876-77           Concord

1877-78           Decatur

1878-79           South Heberton

1879-80           Georgetown Mission

1880-81           Licking Creek

1881                withdrew

 

Note: The gravemarker gives a death year of 1924.

 

HUTSON, HAROLD HORTON

 

Born: 1-14-1914  Spring Hill, SC                              married: Virginia Earle Hudson

Died: 7-15-2006                                                          obit: [1/12/1921 – 6/18/2000]

 

1932    license, recommended by Salem in Heath Springs SC

1947    admitted on trial, Ohio Conference

1947    ordained deacon, Ohio Conference

1949    ordained elder, Ohio Conference

           

Interment: Salem Cemetery, Heath Springs SC

Obit:

 

1931-32           student, Wofford College in Spartanburg SC

1932-35            student, Duke University in Durham NC

1935-38           student, University of Chicago in Chicago IL

                             1936-38      director of adult work, Chicago Auburn Park

1938-46           faculty, Birmingham Southern College in Birmingham AL

                             1944-46      Birmingham Pilgrim Congregational Church

1946-52           faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH

                             1947-51      Jerome Methodist

                             1951-52      Waldo Methodist

1952-64           president, Greensboro College at Greensboro NC

1964-69           provost, American University at Washington DC

1969                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-76           president, Lycoming College

1976                retired

 

Note: Harold H. Hutson is the son of Edward Palmer Hutson Sr. (1859-1933) of the South Carolina Conference (MES).  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 648.  The long lines of ministerial ancestors for his father Edward Hutson (on his father’s and mother’s sides) are given in Watson B. Duncan’s 1901 Twentieth Century Sketches of the South Carolina Conference, M.E. Church, South, pages 171-2.

 

 

HYKES, JOHN RESIDE

 

Born: 8-9-1852  Shippensburg PA                             married: Rebecca Shields Marshall

Died: 5-14-1921  Shangai China                                obit: [11/7/1858 – 2/27/1924]

 

1873    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Old Cemetery, Shanghai China

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 129

 

1874-75           missionary, China

1875                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1875-93           missionary, China

1893-21           agency secretary for the American Bible Society, Shanghai

 

 

ILGENFRITZ, ELMER FRANKLIN

 

Born: 9-30-1879  York PA                                        married: Jessie Renfrew        

Died: 4-20-1945  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania 1952, 207

 

1901    admitted on trial

ordained deacon

ordained elder

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 221

 

1901-02           Vira

1902-03           Greencastle

1903-04           Pine Grove Furnace

1904-06           Green Village

1906-07           Gatchelville

1907-08           Snow Shoe

1908-12           Glen Hope

1912-14           Lumber City

1914-18           Mill Hall

1918-21           Watsontown

1921-23           Watsontown

1923-28           Williamsport Third

1928-31           Altoona Grace

1931-35           Tyrone First

1935-38           Waynesboro

1938-41           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1941-44           Osceola Mills

1944-45           Nescopeck

 

 

ILLINGWORTH, RALPH WALSHAW

 

Born: 1863  England                                                               married: Marion Snyder (1894)         

Died: 4-4-1940  Winona Lake IN                                           obit: [1872-1915]       

                                                                                                married2: Isabel Davis

                                                                                                obit2: [10/19/1883 – 7/30/1972]

1891    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Johnstown OH

Obit:

 

1891-92           Morrisdale

1892-93           Williamsburg

1893-94           Pine Grove

1894-96           Penn’s Valley

1896-98           Warrior’s Mark

1898                withdrew

                        Presbyterian Church

                        superintendent, Indian missions in Arizona

1903-04                       Tidioute PA

1904-05                       student, Edinburgh Scotland
1912-13           Bedford PA

1924-39           Johnstown OH

     1928-32      Mifflin, Gahanna OH

1939                retired

 

Note Ralph W. Illingworth is the father of Rev. Ralph Illingworth Jr. (1899-1984) of the Presbyterian Church.

 

IRWIN, THOMAS HENRY JR.

 

Born: 2-19-1936  Harrisburg PA                             married: Hazel Ann Srock (6/4/1967)

Died: 4-26-2014  Smith Mills PA                           obit:       

 

1961    license

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 259

 

1960-65           Weatherly

1965-66           student

1966-74           Saxton – Coalmont

     1966-69  Coalmont

     1969-74  Six Mile Run

1974-85           Duncansville

1985-96           associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

1996-02           superintendent, Altoona District

2002                retired

                             2002-05Mt. Hope (ending 10/2/2005)

 

 

ISENBERG, DAVID ALLEN

 

Born: 10-20-1836  near Alexandria PA                     married: Virginia Buckingham

Died: 3-25-1866  Alexandria PA                               obit: [5/3/1836 – 10/20/1918]

 

1859    quarterly conference license, Rainsburg charge

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Alexandria Methodist Cemetery, Alexandria PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1867, 46

 

1860-61           Frederick

1861-62           Hampstead

1862-63           Muncy

1863-64           Gettysburg

1864-65           New Bloomfield

1865-66           Shirleysburg

1866-67           on leave

1867                died

 

Note: A native of Gettysburg, the widowed Mrs. Isenberg later married a Mr. William H. Forrester.

 

IZER, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 4-3-1849  Baltimore MD                                  married: Emmarene Forsythe )3/29/1870)

Died: 9-13-1917  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Philadelphia Conference 1910, 89        

                                                                                    married2: Laura Thompson

                                                                                    obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1940, 955

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1869    ordained deacon

1871    ordained elder

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1918, 351

 

1867-69           New Bloomfield

1869                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-70           East Salem – Thompsontown

1870-71           Mercersburg

1871                transfer to Oregon Conference

                        Taylor Street, Portland

1875                transfer to Central New York Conference

                        Elmira Hedding

                        Courtland

1881                transfer to Oregon Conference

                        San Francisco CA Howard Street

                        San Francisco CA Simpson

                        Pittsburgh PA Christ

                        Allegheny PA

                        Philadelphia PA Covenant

                        Philadelphia PA Calvary

                        Philadelphia PA Arch Street

                       

 

 

 

JACKSON, EDWARD

 

Born: 11-28-1890  Houtzdale PA                               married: Dorcas Elizabeth Dunnick

Died: 4-25-1950  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 269

 

1914    admitted on trial

1916    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 202

 

1911-12           Washingtonville

1912                Jeddo-Lattimer  (see 1913, 81)

1912-13           Jonestown

1913-15           Cross Roads

1915-16           Lewisbury-Lisburn

1916-20           McConnellsburg

1920-23           Gordon

1923-25           Lock Haven East Main Street

1925-28           North Bend-Farwell

1928-31           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1931-32           Montgomery

1932-37           York Duke Street

1937-39           Barnesbsoro

1939-42           Thompsontown

1942-45           Newport

1945                retired

 

JACKSON, S. RAYMOND

 

Born: 7-28-1941  Hollywood CA                               married: Linda _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by Fullerton CA First

1966    ordained deacon, Southern California-Arizona Conference

1977    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1965-67           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1967           (Aug-Dec) Cassville charge
1967-68           associate, Encinitas CA San Dieguito

1967-72           ?

                        Baltimore Conference

1972-73           Berkley – Morgan

1973-74           Piney Plains

1974-75           Mechanicsville

1975-77           associate, Wheaton Hughes

1977-78           Eckhart

1978                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1978-79           Oriole

1979-80           Shade Valley

1980-82           Mont Alto

1982-84           Altoona Grace

1984-86           Cocolamus

1986-88           Lewisberry New Bethel (ending 9/1/1988)

1988-89           on leave (beginning 9/1/1988)

1989                located, page 224

 

 

Note: S. Raymond Jackson left seminary in December 1967, reportedly to pursue another vocation.  There is biographical information on him in the Cassville file.  At some later point he was accepted into the Baltimore Conference and returned to Wesley Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1975.

 

JACOBS, HORACE LINCOLN

 

Born: 9-23-1863  York PA                                         married: Helen Gardner Stroebel (6/8/1887)

Died: 11-4-1936  Woolrich PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 234

 

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Mont Alto

1887    ordained deacon         

 

Interment: Woolrich Cemetery, Woolrich PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 243

 

1884-85           Mont Alto circuit

1885-86           Harrisburg Grace Mission

1886-87           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1887-90           Greencastle

1890-93           Hughesville

1893-94           Hanover-New Oxford

1894-96           Hanover

1896-99           Tyrone First

1899-03           Altoona First

1903-06           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1906-15           Altoona First

1915-20           superintendent, Williamsport District

1920-22           Lewistown

1923-25           Clearfield Trinity

1925-27           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1927-30           Bedford

1930-32           Bellefonte

1932-36           Woolrich

1936                retired

 

Note: Horace L. Jacobs is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who In American Methodism and the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.   He was elected to 9 consecutive General Conferences from 1900 to 1932.  Mrs. Jacobs is also referred to as Eleanora.

 

JACOBS, J. EARL

 

Born: 8-3-1888  Shirleysburg PA                               married: Mary Belle Thompson

Died: 3-11-1950  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1887 – 1985]

 

1913    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: The Dickinson Alumnus, May 1950, page 45

 

1911-12           Clearfield circuit

1912-13           Cross Roads

1913-15           Selinsgrove

1915-17           Port Matilda

1917-19           Avis

1919-23           South Williamsport

1923-28           on leave

1928                located

 

Note: J. Earl Jacobs is a 1914 graduate of Dickinson College.  From 1933 until the time of his death he had been president of the Baynesville Coal Company. 

 

JAMESON, JOHN EDMUND

 

Born: 4-30-1931  Wabasso FL                                   married: Sally Ann Beck [8/17/1957]

Died: 2-18-2018  Duncansville PA                            obit: [b. 10/13/1937]

 

1958    license, recommended by State College St. Paul’s

1961    admitted on trial

1961    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lost Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, McAlisterville PA

Obit:

 

1958-59           student, Penn State University

                             1958-59      Lemont

1959-60           Salladasburg

1960-64            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1961-64      East Side Terrance, Newark Conference

1964-65           Patton

1965                transfer to Florida Conference

1965-66           associate, Orlando First

1966                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1966-66           Robertsdale

1966-70           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1970-71           sabbatical

1971-78           director, Improved Dwellings for Altoona

1978-79           housing manager, American Baptist Company

1979-80           Altoona Broad Avenue-Schum Memorial

1980-81           Shade Valley

…

1982                honorable location, page 310

1982-2004       founding pastor, New Covenant Fellowship, Duncansville PA

2004                retired

 

Note: John E. Jameson is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 660.

 

JAMISON, ENOCH G.

 

Born: 1820                                                                  married: Mary S. Eakin

Died: 12-10-1880  VA                                                obit: [1828 – 3/29/1845]

 

Internment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South 1881, 31

 

1841-43           Covington

1842-43           Lewisburg

1843-44           New Castle

1844-45           Floyd

1845-46           Deerfield

1846-47           Sweet Springs

1847-48           New Castle

1848-50           Highland

1850-52           Huntersville

1852-54           Monroe

1854-56           Lost River

1856-57           Pleasant Grove

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Pleasant Grove

1858-59           Coalmont 

1859-62           on leave

1861                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 JANACEK, ROBERT NORMAN

Born: 9-1-1930  Kalamazoo County MI                    married: Patricia Louise Bonner [1955]

Died: 5-22-17  Pittsburgh PA                                     obit: [1/20/1931 – 7/3/2018]

 

Interment: Meade Chapel Cemetery, Jefferson County PA

Obit:

 

1965-67           student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

                             1965-67      Reedsville (beginning 8/1/65)

                        clinical director, Clearfield-Jefferson  Mental Health Center in Brookville PA

2006                retired

 

Note: Robert N. Janacek graduated from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1957.  He also earned an MA in counseling from Winona Lake Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. from Boston University School of Theology.  While working in counseling, he typically pastored (mostly, if not exclusively, at United Methodist churches) and/or taught part-time. He is the author of numerous articles and books.

 

JARRETT, HARRY LEPLEY

 

Born: 9-15-1885  East Prospect PA                           married: Mary Katherine Bailey

Died: 4-14-1948  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 233

                                                                                    married2: Jennie Rebecca Shuler Dodge (1947)

1907    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference     obit2: [3/22/1898 – 1/13/1964]

                 of the United Evangelical Church                                    

1913    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Shreiner’s Church Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 193

 

1908-11           Eagles Mere & Laporte (see 1909,82)

1911-15           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.  The second Mrs. Jarrett (nee Shuler) was previously married (1922) to and divorced (before 1940) from a Mr. Fields Pendleton Dodge (1894-1957).

 

 

JARRETT, PERCIVAL F.

 

Born: 5-29-1848  PA                                                  married: Maria Lepley

Died: 10-31-1915  Snyder County PA                       obit: [1850-1921]

 

1873    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1876    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1878    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1898    ordained elder, recommended by Wapwallopen

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Kratzerville PA

Obit:

 

1874-76           Buffalo circuit

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 of the ME Church

1898                withdrew to “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church

1898-00           Wapwallopen

1900-01

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.

 

JENNINGS, HAROLD WINNETT JR

 

Born: 2-1-1922  Clairton PA                                      married: Betty Kissell

Died: 5-8-1991  Savannah GA                                   obit: [1-17-1926 – 10/25/2008]

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Savannah GA

Obit: South Georgia Conference 1991, I-365

 

1948-52           student, Lycoming College

                             1948-50      Ralston           

                             1951-52      Ralston

1952-53           student, American University Seminary in Washington DC

                        became a pastor in the South Georgia Conference

                        Blakely

                        Thomasville Morningside

                        Warner Robins Northside

                        Ray City and Berris

                        Leslie and Desota

                        East Dublin Gethsemane

                        Savannah Asbury

                        Hamp Stevens

                        Columbus Trinity

1986                retired

 

JENSEN, MAUD KEISTER

 

Born: 9-27-1904  New Cumberland PA                     married: A. Kristian Jensen

Died: 10-12-1998                                                        obit: North-East Ohio Conference 1957,534

 

1925    license, recommended by Lewisburg Beaver Memorial

1948    ordained deacon

1952    ordained elder

1956    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Korea

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 435

 

1926-70           missionary to Korea

1970                retired

 

Note: In 1956 Maud K. Jensen became the first woman in the entire Methodist denomination to obtain full clergy rights and become a full member of an American annual conference.

 

 

JOHN, DAVID CLARK

 

Born: 2-14-1835  near Catawissa PA                         married: Adeline Emily Wells

Died: 10-8-1920  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: Minnesota Conference 1885, 57

                                                                                    married2: Sarah Elizabeth Whitaker

                                                                                    obit2: Wisconsin Conference 1928, 145

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Carlisle Emory

 

Interment: Barratts Chapel Cemetery, Frederica DE

Obit: Wisconsin Conference 1921, 294

 

1856-59           student, Dickinson College

1859-60           Carlisle

1860-62           Baltimore Caroline Street

1862-64           Bloomsburg

1864-65           Lewisburg

1865-66           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-73           on leave, living in Milton

                             1868-69      Carlisle circuit

                             1869-70      Bloomsburg

                             1870-71      Milton

1873                Carlisle Emory & Newville (did not finish the year)

1873-74           president, Mankato Normal School in Mankato MN

1874                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1874-80           president, Mankato Normal School

1880-83           president, Hamline University in St. Paul MN

1883-85           Winona Central

1885                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

1885-88           Milwaukee Grand Avenue

1888-90           Racine First

1890-91           faculty, Clark University in Atlanta GA

1891-93           Wauwatosa

1893-96           president, Clark University on Atlanta GA

1896-02           superintendent, Milwaukee District

1902-05           superintendent, Oshkosh District

1905                retired

 

Note: David C. John is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

 

JOHNSON, BOYD RAYMOND

 

Born: 2-10-1850  Greenwood PA                              married: Anna Belle Mott

Died: 3-25-1923  Waycross GA                                 obit: [1854-1934]

 

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Lewisburg, page 41

1913    ordained local deacon, page 69

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Waycross GA

Obit:

 

Note: Boyd R. Johnson was a high school teacher/principal who lived in Lewisburg and served as a local pastor.  Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of Lycoming County local ME preacher Daniel Mott (1823-1904)

 

JOHNSON, GEORGE ELMER

 

Born: 12-28-1891  Catawissa PA                               married: Faye Lippiatt

Died: 2-27-1971                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 164

                                                                                    married2: Helen Rauhauser

                                                                                    obit2: 1977, 268

1915    admitted on trial, recommended by Bloomsburg

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 365

 

1910-11           Jeddo 

1911-13           Jonestown (did not finish the second year; see 1913, 81)

1913-14           Westport (did not finish the year)

1914-15           at school?

1915-16           Excelsior (ending fall 1915; see 1916,75)

1915-17           student, Dickinson College (beginning fall 1915)

                             1915-16      Newville (beginning fall 1915)

1917-19           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1917-18      Berkshire NJ

                             1918-19      East Moriches NY.

                             1919           Roosevelt NY

1919-20           York Epworth

1920-22           Shippensburg

1922-25           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1925-27           Ashland

1927-30           Altoona Fairview

1930-37           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1937-43           Lewistown First

1943-53           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1953-57           Altoona First

1957                retired

 

Note: The 1912-13 appointment at Westport may be incorrect:  1912, 72 list Charles A. Sauter at Westport; 1913, 81, suggests George E. Johnson was still at Jonestown.

 

JOHNSTON, CLARENCE FREDERICK

 

Born: 1-5-1899  Centralia PA                                    married: Blanche Friday

Died: 6-17-1982  Sonoma CA                                    obit: [7/24/1899 – 4/5/1996]

 

1924    license, recommended by Centralia

1930    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma CA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 402

 

1925-29           student, Dickinson College

                             1928-29      Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (starting June 28, ending summer 29)

1929-34           Trevorton & Irish Valley (beginning summer 1929)

1934-39           Espy-Light Street

1939-42           Marysville

1942-46           Mill Hall

1946-48           Jersey Shore Epworth

1948-53           Mifflinburg

1953-57           New Bloomfield

1957-62           Lewistown Lake Park

1962-68           York Ridge Avenue

1968                retired

 

Note:  He is sometimes listed incorrectly as Clarence F. Johnson.


 

JOHNSTON, JAMES MONROE

 

Born: 9-17-1850  Boalsburg PA                                 married: Kate B. Cunningham

Died: 11-22-1920  Wilburton PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 124

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Henry

1872    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943,215

 

Interment: Huntingdon Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 138

 

1872-74           Port Royal

1874-76           Shellsburg

1876-78           McVeytown

1878-80           Milroy

1880-83           New Bloomfield

1883-86           Cassville

1886-91           Logan

1891-96           Jersey Shore

1896-00           Emporium

1900-04           Austin

1904-06           Williamsport Grace

1906-10           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1910-13           Catawissa

1913-15           St. Mary’s

1915                retired

                             1918-20      Wilburton

 

JONES, CARLTON W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929-30           Lock Haven circuit    

 

Note: Carlton W. Jones served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

JONES, CHARLES TURNER

 

Born: 3-30-1873  Cambridge MD                              married: Emma Grace Lissel

Died: 8-28-1932                                                          obit:

 

1900    admitted to Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1901    license, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1901,14

1902    deacon, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1902,58

1904    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UB Church 1904,64

 

Interment:

Obit: Wilmington Conference 1933, 113

 

 

1892-97           student, Dickinson College

                             1897-98  Greencastle (ending fall 1897)

1897-00           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1903                “transfer” to North Indiana Conference ME Church

1903-04           Thurmont, Pennsylvania Conference UB Church

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UB Church, page 32

1904-05           Thurmont, resigned 5/1/05; withdrew 1907,46

1906                “transfer” to Wilmington Conference ME Church

1906-08           Chincoteague MD

1908-11           Greensboro MD

1911-13           Fruitland MD

1913-14           Trappe MD

1914-16           Crumpton MD

1916-17           Hillsboro MD

1917-20           Tilghman MD

1920-22           Port Deposit MD Hopewell

1922-24           Chesapeake City MD

1924-               St. Georges DE          

 

Note: The maiden name of Mrs. C. Turner Jones is also given as LITTLE.

 

JONES, MYRON RICHARD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Bonnie _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by East Salem

1967    admitted on trial

1967    ordained deacon

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-71           student, Union Theological Seminary in New York City NY   

                             1968-71      assistant, Farmingdale NY

1971-75           Orbisonia Parish

1975-81           Fawn Grove

1981-88           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1988-93           York Otterbein

1993-99           South Williamsport Larger Parish

1999-06           Berwick Bower Memorial

2006-09           Williamsburg

                             2007-09      Canoe Creek

2009                retired

 

JONES, REYNOLD MARVIN

 

Born: 9-29-1925  Plymouth PA                                  married: Anna I. Lambert

Died: 1-4-1991  South Renovo PA                             obit: [12/28/1926 – 12/21/2003]

 

1963    license, recommended by Benton

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Bloomingdale Cemetery, Bloomingdale PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 480

 

1962-66           Ralston (beginning 9/15/62 – ending 11/30/66)

1966-66           Port Royal (beginning 12/1/66)

1968-72           Salona

1972-76           Mackeyville

1976-81           Cumberland

1981-91           Renovo

 

Note: Reynold M. Jones served as a local pastor.

 

JONES, RICHARD PIERCE SR.

 

Born: 8-13-1930  Sewell NJ                                                   married: Dorothy Ruth Scheetz

Died: 5-4-2000  Allentown PA                                              obit: [1931 – 1999]

 

Interment: Philadelphia Memorial Park, Frazer PA

Obit:

 

1962-65           Mainesburg

 

Note: Richard P. Jones served as a local pastor.  He may have served while he was a student at Mansfield University.  He was a local pastor in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and reportedly served Methodist churches for 20 years in Lancaster and Carbon counties in PA and in Allgany and Livingston counties in NY.

 

JONES, ROBERT LEE

 

Born: 5-28-1926  Baltimore MD                                married: Beulah Garrison

Died: 6-21-2007  Lancaster PA                                  obit:

 

1957    recognized as deacon from previous orders in Church of the Nazarene

1958    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2008, ?

 

1957-63           Mount Holly Springs

1963                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1963-68           Leola

1968-77           Hatboro Lehman Memorial

1977-80           Jenkintown

1980-87           Grove

1987-91           Drexel Hill

1991                retired

                             1991-92      Columbia Newtown

                                                Quarryville Mt. Hope

                                                Lancaster First

 

 

JONES, ULRIC ROBERT

 

Born: 6-1-1879  near Thompsontown PA                  married: Glennie L. Wood

Died: 9-23-1913  Scranton PA                                   obit: [1879 – 1968]

 

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Thompsontown PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1914, 102

 

1902-03           Rehoboth

1903-04           Greencastle

1904-10           missionary, teacher and principal at Hinghwa China

1910                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1910-12           New Milford PA

1912-13           Guilford NY

1913                translator, International Correspondence School at Scranton PA

 

Note: Some biographical information on Ulric R. Jones appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 48.  An obituary also appears in the 1/29/1914 Christian Advocate, page 171.  Mrs. Jones was from Galeton PA.

 

JONES, WALTER STANLEY

 

Born: 9-?-1878  Baltimore MD                                  married: Grace Karsner (6/24/1904)

Died: 11-14-1956  Annaplois MD                              obit: [d. c1954]

 

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Western Run Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1957, 259

 

1901-04           student, Dickinson College

                             1902-03      Boiling Springs

                             1903-04      Rehoboth

1904-05           Glen Rock

1905-07           Karthaus

1907-08           York West Street

1908-09           Rohrsburg

1909                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1909-10           Chestnut Ridge

1910-13           Eckhart

1913-16           St. James

1916-17           Montgomery

1917-19           Roger’s Memorial

1919-22           Severn

1922-26           Thurmont

1926-27           Smithville (ended in mid 27/28 year)

1927-29           West Baltimore circuit (started in mid 27/28 year)

1929-30           Patapsco circuit

1930-31           Hagerstown Howard Street (ended in mid 31/32 year)

1931-32           Riviera Beach Trinity (started in mid 31/32 year)

1932                retired

 

Note: One source gives the dates for Grace Karsner Jones as 10/21/1885 – 8/?/1971, but that is believed to be taken from the SSDI for a different Grace Jones; the c1954 date comes from the obituary of Stanley Walter Jones.

 

JONES, WILLIAM RAYMOND

 

Born: 11-20-1889  Hazleton PA                                 married: Christine Mae Shumaker

Died: 10-11-1972  Hanover PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 269

 

1915    license, recommended by Spring Mills

1916    admitted on trial

1920    ordained deacon

1926    ordained elder

 

Interment: Church Hill Cemetery, Reedsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 376

 

1916-18           Shawville

1918-23           Lumber City

1923-31           Benton

1931-36           Mifflintown

1936-40           Newport

1940-58           Reedsville

1958                retired

                            1958-66       Littlestown

                            1967-70       Littlestown (ending Apr 1970)

                            supply pastor for the United Church of Christ

 

Note: William R. Jones is the son of Rev. R. Raymond Jones (affiliation unknown), and his daughter Shelia is married to Rev. John Calvin Chatlos of the United Church of Christ, son of Rev. Rudolf Otto Chatlos (1883-1973, affiliation unknown).  John C. Chatlos served Incarnation UCC in Emmittsburg MD from 1958 until he retired in 1984.  William R. Jones is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 691.

 

JUDD, ALBERT G.

 

Born: 3-27-1881  Mount Holley NJ                           married: Lulu Irene Brinkerhoff

Died: 3-26-1976  Herkimer NY                                 obit: Northern New York Conference1960, 184

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Margeurite E. Hummel

1910    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conf. obit2:

1910    ordained deacon, Northern New York Conf.

1912    ordained elder, Northern New York Conf.

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Northern New York Conference1976, 192

 

1908-10           student, Dickinson College

                             1908-09      Manada & Paxton, Philadelphia Conference (ending fall 1909)

                             1909-10      Rehoboth, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning fall 1909)

1910-14           Middleville & Fairfield

1914-18           Utica South Street

1918-25           Oswego First

1925-31           superintendent

1931-37           Ilion

1943-56           superintendent, Folts Home in Herkimer NY

1956                retired

 

Note: Prior to attending Dickinson College, Albert G. Judd attending preparatory school at Pennington NJ Seminary and reported served as a pastor to a church in New Jersey.  While both the Philadelphia and Central Pennsylvania Conferences met in March, it appears that his1908-1910 assignments there coincided with the academic year and not the conference year.  He is the founding superintendent of the Folts Home.

 

 

KAHLER, JOSEPH EDWARD

 

Born: 7-28-1880  Picture Rocks PA                           married: Maude Eleanor Houseknecht

Died: 10-21-1936  Mifflintown PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 228

 

1910    admitted on trial

1912    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Hughesville Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 268

 

1909-10           Slate Run

1910-12           Waterville

1912-15           Muncy Valley

1915-21           Selinsgrove

1921-25           Warrior’s Mark

1925-29           Lock Haven East Main Street

1929-34           Reedsville-Milroy

1934-36           White Haven

1936-36           Mifflintown

 

KALBFUS, DAVID CHARLES

 

Born: 1807                                                                  married: Mary Ann Bowman

Died: 5-10-1882                                                          obit: [c1814 – c1859]

                                                                                    married2: Lavinia Elizabeth Beall

Interment: Glen Forest Cem., Yellow Springs OH    obit2: Cincinnati Conference 1909,301

Obit: Cincinnati Conference 1882, 10

 

1826-27           Rockingham

1827-28           Calvert

1828-29           Northumberland

1829-30           Lycoming

1830-31           Fairfax

1831-32           Prince George & St. Mary

1832-34           Severn

1834-35           Loudon

1835-36           York

1836-38           Northumberland

1838-40           Berwick

1840                located

1860                readmitted to East Baltimore Conference

1860-61           Pleasant Grove

1861-62           Clear Spring

1862-64           Westernport

1864-65           Middletown

1865-66           transfer to Cincinnati Conference

 

Note D. Charles Kalbfus is the father of Charles Henry Kalbfus (1834-1911) of the Cincinnati Conference.

 

KANE, JOHN ELLSWORTH.

 

Born: 12-1-1904                                                          married: Anna Pearl Kerstetter

Died: 10-6-1984                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 391

 

1948    license, recommended by Lewistown Grove Memorial

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Birch Hill Cemetery, Burnham PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 410

 

1947-49           Burnt Cabins

1949-52           Hustontown

1952-54           Ramey-Blandburg (ending 9/1/54)

1954-58           Morrisdale (beginning 9/1/1954)

1958-61           Fayetteville

1961-64           White Haven

1964-67           McConnellstown

1967-70           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1970                retired

 

 

KAPP, DAVID FINLEY

 

Born: 7-28-1865  Hogestown PA                               married: Melissa J. Little

Died: 6-21-1953  State College PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 229

 

1896    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Concord Cemetery, Concord PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 227

 

1895-97           Birmingham

1897-99           Ennisville

1899-42           on leave

1942                retired

 

Note: David F. Kapp is a brother to Isabelle Virginia Kapp Boggs, wife of George F. Boggs.  Mrs. Kapp is the daughter of local preacher John H. Little.

 

 

KARALFA, ROBERT HILLIARD

 

Born: 7-10-1913  Johnstown PA                                married: Helen Katharine Burkholder

Died: 2-1-2000                                                            obit: [6/15/1918 – 3/25/2004]

 

1935    license, recommended by Altoona Grace

1944    admitted on trial

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

           

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 334]

 

1938-41           Fayetteville

1941-43           Rouzerville

1943-45           Bakerton

1945-49           Altoona Jaggard

1949-53           New Bloomfield

1953-62           St. Mary’s

1962-68           Fawn Grove

1968-73           Woolrich

1973-78           Altoona First

 

Note: Robert H. Karalfa is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 699.

 

KARNS, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 8-9-1858  Loysburg PA.                                   married: Ida May Wolfe

Died: 7-2-1941  Bedford County PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 229

 

1891    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 201

 

1890-93           Clearville

1893-95           Ray’s Hill

1895-97           Concord

1897-00           Manor Hill

1900-06           Coalport-Irvona

1906-07           Mifflinburg

1907-13           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1913-14           Altoona Chestnut Avenue and Walnut Avenue

1914-15           Altoona Grace

1915-20           secretary, Conference Annuity Fund

1920-26           superintendent, Children’s Home

1926-30           Altoona Mardorf Memorial

1930                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Karns is a brother to W. Emerson Karns.  A biographical sketch is given in Karns’ 1933 Historical Sketches of Morrison’s Cove, page 63.

 

 

KARNS, WILLIAM EMERSON

 

Born: 10-14-1868  Loysburg PA                                married: Edith Bell Bogenrief

Died: 3-29-1936  Tyrone PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 231

 

1899    admitted on trial

1901    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 187

 

1898-00           Centre-Sandy Ridge (beginning in the middle of the 1898-99 conference year)

1900-07           Jersey Shore Epworth

1907-10           St. Mary’s

1910-12           Watsontown

1912-17           York Duke Street

1917-20           Renovo

1920-36           superintendent, Methodist Home for the Aged

 

Note: W. Emerson. Karns is a brother to Charles W. Karns.  A biographical sketch is given in Karns’ Historical Sketches of Morrison’s Cove, page 63.

 

 

KARNS, WILLIAM LESTER

 

Born: 9-11-1928  Altoona PA                                    married: Frances Shirley Clapper

Died: 4-8-2003                                                            obit: [2/7/1928 – 9/15/2012]

 

1950    license

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment: New Canoe Creek Cemetery, Canoe Creek PA

Obit:

 

1951-54           Bakerton

1954-57           Clearville

1957-59           Austin

1959                transfer to Genesee Conference

1959-62           Derrick City-Limestome PA

1962                transfer to Erie Conference

1962                charter member of Western Pennsylvania Conference

1962-65           Dubois Lakeside (ending 2/1/65)

1965-67           Harrisville-Forestville (beginning 2/1/65)

1967-71           Cambridge Springs

1971-74           Armaugh-Seward (ending 1/13/1974)

1974                withdrew – Western Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 130

 

KARSCHNER, LLOYD WILLETTS

 

Born: 6-25-1858  Columbia County PA                     married: Ida Gertrude Brader

Died: 4-4-1936  Meeker PA                                       obit: Wyoming Conference 1910,133

                                                                                    married2: Edna M. Harrison

1884    quarterly conference license                           obit2: Wyoming Conference 1974, 293

1888    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Hanover Green Cemetery, Hanover Green PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1936, 848

 

1886-87           Herndon

1887-88           Boyles Run

1888                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference

1888-91           Exeter & Schuyler’s Lake

1891-94           Sterling

1894-98           Lake Como

1898-99           Yatesville

1899-02           Waymart

1902-06           Pleasant Mount

1906-08           Uniondale & Dundaff

1908-10           Maple Grove

1910-11           assistant, Wilkes-Barre First

1911-13           Wyalusing

1913-14           Maple Grove

1914-16           Eaton

1916-19           Skinner’s Eddy

1919-22           Herrickville

1922                retired

 

Note: Lloyd W. Karschner taught school for several years before entering the ministry.

 

KAUFFMAN, CLYDE RAY

 

Born: 8-29-1920  Tower City PA                               married: Ann Faust

Died: 2-18-2014  Cheyenne WY                                obit:

 

1947    admitted on trial, recommended by Orangeville

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1944-47           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1947-49           Orangeville

1949-54           at school

1954                voluntary location

 

Note: In 1956 Clyde Ray Kauffman received a BS in music education from Susquehanna University.  In 1960 he appears to be a Congregational pastor in Minersville.  In 2007 there is a retired Rev. Clyde R. Kauffman in the Congregational Christian Church who was supposedly ordained 6/1/1947.

 

KAUFFMAN, DAVID D.

 

Born: 6-2-1870  Mill Creek PA                                  married: Bessie Harris

Died: 3-1-1945  Mount Union PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 130

                                                                                    married2: Lyda M. Johnson

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 252

1893    quarterly conference license, Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord

1896    ordained deacon

?          ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 218

 

1894-95           Cassville

1895-96           Shirleysburg

1896-98           Thompsontown

1898-00           Alexandria

1900-02           at school

1902-03           Dudley

1903-05           Newton Hamilton

1905-07           Saxton

1907-09           on leave

1909-12           Belleville-Yeagertown

1912-15           Patton

1915-20           Altoona Grace

1920-23           Waynesboro

1923-28           Berwick First

1928-30           Renovo

1930-35           on leave

1930-33           Allenport

1933-35           Littlestown 

1935-40           Milesburg-Unionville

1940                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Kauffman is the daughter of Rev. John C. Johnson of the Dunker Brethren Church and the sister of Rev. Carmen C. Johnson of the Brethren Church.

 

KAUFFMAN, WILLIAM W.

 

Born: 2-22-1925  Port Royal PA                                married:

Died: 7-12-2000  Petersburg PA                                obit:

 

1963    license, recommended by Port Royal

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: New Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 368

 

1964-70           Monroeton (beginning 1/1/64)

1970-80           Manor Hill (ending 1/15/80)

1980-85           Altoona Broad Avenue-Schum Memorial (beginning 1/15/80)

1985-91           Mapleton

1991                retired

                             1991-95      Robertsdale

 

KAUFMAN, DANIEL E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1893-94           Concord

 

Note: Daniel E. Kaufman served as a supply pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be Daniel E. Kaufman (1875-1951) of Reading PA who moved to Montana in 1895.

 

KEARNS, CARL HUGH

 

Born: 9-9-1935  Derry twp, Mifflin County PA        married: Norma J. Freed

Died: 4-4-2021  Carlisle PA                                       obit: [1/?/1936 - ]
                                                                                    married2: Phyllis (Fagel) Smith (6/11/1983)
                                                                                    obit2:

 

1959    admitted on trial, recommended by Vira

1960    ordained deacon, Northern New Jersey Conference

1962    ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Little Valley Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Vira PA

Obit:

 

1959-60           student, Drew Theological Seminary

1960                transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference

1960-62           student, Drew Theological Seminary

     1960-62      Broadway and Montana

1962-71           Martinsville

1971-83           Metuchen Centenary

1983-92           Bound Brook

1992-02           conference treasurer
2002-12           ?
2012                retired

 

 

KEBOCH, EDWIN CHARLES

 

Born: 10-30-1881  Berrysburg PA                             married: Bertha Mae Lehman

Died: 12-6-1966  Sarasota FL                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 184

                                                                                    married2: Mabel J. Dershen

1900    license                                                             obit2: [2/6/1909 – 7/15/1994]

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Manada/Paxton of the Philadelphia Conference

1907    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Millersburg PA

Obit: Florida Conference 1967, 270

 

1904-05           Manada-Paxton, Philadelphia Conference (beginning 4/10/04)

1905-09           Wolfsburg

1909-13           New Bloomfield

1913-16           Warrior’s Mark

1916-48           executive secretary, Conference Board of Education

1948                transfer to Florida Conference

 

Note: Edwin C. Keboch is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.  He is the namesake of the New Bloomfield Keboch Memorial church building and discussed in an article in the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, page 36.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 51.  In addition to being prominent in Christian education, the second Mrs. Keboch is also reported to have been ordained – but no record of that has been located.

 

KEELEY, WILLIAM BIRD

 

Born: 4-19-1860  Dublin, Ireland                               married: Nannie Hannah Southworth

Died: 3-12-1910  Rouzerville PA                               obit: [1865 – 4/4/1944]

 

1892    license, North West Kansas Conference

1895    admitted on trial, North West Kansas Conference

1896    ordained deacon, North West Kansas Conference

 

Interment: Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 121

 

1892-93           reported to have supplied Jamestown, Webber

1895-97           Narka

1897-98           Formosa

1898                located

                        Nebraska

                        Iowa

1901                transfer to Virginia Conference, United Brethren Church

1901-03           Lacy Springs

1903-05           Harrisonburg

1905-06           Rocky Spring, Pennsylvania Conference

1906                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1906-07           Rocky Spring

1907                open transfer 1907,66 [see also 1907,46]

                        chaplain, Scotland Soldiers’ Orphan School

1908-09           Rouzerville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1909                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-10           Rouzerville

 

Note: William B. Keeley was converted in London under Charles H. Spurgeon and was a local pastor in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England before moving to America in 1891.

 

 

KEEMER, LELAND WILBUR

 

Born: 4-17-1918  East Waterford PA                         married: Virginia Simon Crist

Died: 12-3-2004  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 370

 

1934    license, recommended by East Waterford

1938    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 370

 

1938-41           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1941-43           Austin

1943-46           Grampian

1946-53           DuBoistown

1953-57           Montoursville

1957-61           Warriors Mark

1961-65           Curwensville

1965-69           Roaring Springs

1969-72           Williamsport Newberry

1972-81           Valley View

1981                retired

 

Note: Leland W. Keemer is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 702.

 

KEEN, CLARENCE E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-19           Eagles Mere & Laporte

 

Note: Clarence E. Keen served as a local pastor.  He was the last pastor of record at Cherry Grove, which closed in 1919.  He is otherwise unknown, but he and his wife are mentioned in The Christian Advocvate (2/24/1921, 253) as assisting in a revival in the Wilimington Conference in 1921

 

 

KEISER, RENA E.

 

Born: 10-28-1891  Shamokin PA                               married:

Died: 2-7-1948                                                            obit:

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

Note: Rena E. Keiser has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but she never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  She graduated from the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School in 1918 and was seeking ordination as a local pastor in the 1930’s.

 

 

KEITH, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 1829  Cecil County MD                                   married: Marietta Mullin

Died: 2-4-1896  Gettysburg PA                                  obit:

                                                                                    married2: Helen A. Hines

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [Central Pennsylvania Conf. 1924, 151]

 

Interment: New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 101

 

1855-56           Concord

1856-57           Newport

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           New Bloomfield

1858-59           North Baltimore

1859-61           Mount Holly Springs

1861-62           Havre-de-Grace

1862-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           Emmitsburg

1867-68           Carlisle Emory

1868                charter member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Newville-Rehoboth

1871-73           Hanover-New Oxford

1873-75           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1875-78           Duncannon

1878-81           Waynesboro

1881-84           Newberry

1884-86           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1886-91           Shickshinny

1891-94           Gettysburg

1894                retired

 

Note: A brief biographical sketch for William H. Keith is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.

 

KELCHNER, ROSS GARFIELD

 

Born: 3-2-1911  Palmyra PA                          married: Virginia Kathleen Stambaugh (12/25/1939)

Died: 1-30-1995  Hershey PA                                    obit: [5/3/1918 – 11/10/2001]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1937-39           student, Dickinson College

                             1937-38  Greencastle & Newville

 

Note: Ross G. Kelchner apparently lived, worked, and retired in Harrisburg – although his wedding announcement in the December 1939 Dickinson Alumnus stated he was planning on entering Drew Theological Seminary.  His parents were members of the Fifth Street M.E. Church in Harrisburg PA.  Mrs. Kelchner is buried with her parents in Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA.

 

KELLER, GWYNN HENRY

 

Born: 7-19-1890  Wrightsville PA                             married: Roberta Dowdall

Died: 12-23-1957                                                        obit: [1895 – 1982]

 

1913    quarterly conference license, West Chester

1916    license, Philadelphia Conference

1917    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1917    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1919    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1958, 537

 

1915-18           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1916-17      Lumberville and Lahaska

                             1917-18      Paoli

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918-19           Port Matilda

1919                transfer to Troy Conference

1919-20           Freys Bush NY

1920                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1920-21           Tabernacle

1921-23           Hammonton First

1923-25           Wildwood

1925-29           Glassboro

1929-31           Linwood and Bethel

1931-33           Hightstown

1933-35           Cape May

1935                Long Branch First

1935-37           Camden Parkside

1937-41           Millville Second

1941-43           Bridgeton Trinity

1943-46           Absecon

1946-48           Sayreville

1948-51           Trenton Trinity

1951-55           Atlantic City First

1955-56           Paulsboro, Billingsport & Repaupo

1956                retired

 

 

KELLER, ROBERT PHILIP JR

 

Born: 2-1-1933                                                            married: Rosemary Skinner (8/15/1958)

Died: 4-25-2022                                                          obit: [6/20/1934 – 6/5/2008]

 

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago IL

Obit: Northern Illinois Conference 2022, ?

 

1955-58           at school

1958                transfer to Troy Conference

1958-61           Brandon/Chittenden/Pittsford VT

1961-62           Pittsford/Chittenden VT

1962                transfer to Rock River Conference

 

KELLEY, PAUL S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-24           Jeddo, Lattimer & Milnesville

1924-25           living in White Haven

1925-27           White Haven

 

Note: Paul S. Kelley served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown, but may be related to Ralph W. Kelley.  He may be the Paul S. Kelly that served Zion Lutheran Church in Newville PA for several years beginning in 1929 and died in 1944 in Wooster OH where he had been serving a Lutheran church.

 

 

KELLEY, RALPH WENDELL

 

Born: 3-26-1901  Pittston PA                                     married: Kathryn Estelle Richards

Died: 4-29-1984                                                          obit: [1901-1977]

                                                                                    married2: Dorris Vough Johnston

1923    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference        obit2: [9/4/1921 – 6/21/2014]

1924    ordained deacon

1925    ordained elder

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Alexandria LA

Obit:

                       

1923-24           White Haven, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1924                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1924-25           White Haven

1925                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1925-27           Wenonah

1927                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1927-28           Centerville

1928-30           Stoughton MA

1930                transfer to Genesee Conference         

1930-34           Niagara Falls First

1934-35           Bath

1935                transfer to Holston Conference

 

Note: Ralph W. Kelley appears to have converted to Catholicism and taught in a parochial school.  Following the death of Ralph, the second Mrs. Kelley married a Mr. James Francis Ware.

 

KELLY, REUBEN E.

 

Born: 6-18-1825  Centre County PA                          married: Love Ann Bathurst

Died: 10-20-1904  Lock  Haven PA                           obit: [10/6/1827 – 3/11/1852]

                                                                                    married2: Diantha M. Potter

1855     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference       obit2: [11/14/1837 – 12/28/1896]

 

Interment: Trinity Church Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 108

 

1854-55           Sinnemahoning

1855-56           Liberty Valley

1856-57           West Branch

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           West Branch

1858-59           Laporte

1959-61           Orangeville

1861-63           Concord

1863-64           Cassville

1864-65           English Center

1865-66           Liberty Valley

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Westport

1869-70           Philipsburg

1870-71           Grahamton

1871-72           Jamestown

1872-73           New Washington

1873-78           on leave

                             1873-74      Salona

                             1874-75      Lock Haven

                             1877-78       Farrandsville

1878-79           Granville-Decatur

1879-80           Wharton

1880-81           Bennezette

1881-82           Pine Creek

1882-83           on leave

1883                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch for Reuben E. Kelly is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 403.

 

KELSEY, CHARLES C.

 

Born: 1878                                                                  married: Alice M. _____

Died: 1942                                                                  obit: [1883-1953]

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Snow Shoe

1912    ordained, Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Flushing Cemetery, Flushing NY

Obit:

 

1907-09           Snow Shoe

1909-10           Rohrsburg

1910                discontinued

 

                        “transfer” to the Episcopal Church

1911                Manhein and Quarryville PA (6 months)

1912                Mount Hope PA Hope (May – Sept)

1914-16           Berwick PA Christ

                        Belhaven NC St. James

                        Brooklyn NY Church of the Atonement

 

Note: Details of the health problems and decisions of Charles C. Kelsey are given in the 1910 journal, page 72.

 

KELSO, DAVID WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-7-1841  Knobsville PA                                  married: Elizabeth M. Glunt [1863]

Died: 10-2-1916  Knobsville PA                                obit: [9/20/1840 – 7/16/1883]

                                                                                    married2: Cartherine Bradnick [1884]

Interment: Methodist Cemetery, Knobsville PA        obit2: [1838-1936]

Obit:

 

1890-91           Licking Creek

 

Note: D.W. Kelso was a farmer who served as a local pastor. 


 

KEMBERLING, DAVID EUGENE

 

Born: 4-29-1927  Selinsgrove PA                              married: Janet Keller

Died: 8-22-2004                                                          obit:

 

1948    license, recommended by Selinsgrove Wesley

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 447

 

1947-51           student, Lycoming College

                             1947-48      New Millport

                             1948-50      Picture Rocks

                             1950-51      assistant, South Williamsport Messiah Lutheran

1951-56           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1952-53      assistant, Gaithersburg MD Epworth

                             1953-56      Brookeville-Mt. Carmel MD

1956-60           Millville

1960-65           Catawissa

1965-71           Curwensville

1971-73           State College Park Forest Village

1973-77           Jersey Shore First

1977-79           Altoona Llyswen

1979-84           Burnham Yoked Parish

1984-88           Liverpool

1988-90           Fort Louden-Edenville

1990                retired

 

KENNARD, WALTER WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-8-1936  Clearfield PA                                   married: Susan Ebersole (6/6/1962)

Died:                                                                           obit:

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Marshman (6/20/1971)

1959    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [divorced 1978]

1960    ordained deacon                                              married3: Sally _____

1962    ordained elder                                                 obit3:

 

Interment:

Obit:

                                                                                   

1954-58           student, Grove City College in Grove City PA

                             1957  Sinnemahoning (summer)

                             1958  Penfield (summer)

1958-62           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1962-67           York Springs

1967-69           Selinsgrove

1969-70           Hazleton Diamond

1970                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1970-80           Hazleton Diamond

1980-82           chaplain, Hospice St. John in Luzerne County

1982                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1982-91           Hospice St. John-Alderson

1991-01           Alderson

2001                retired

 

Note: W. William Kennard is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 711.

 

KENNEDY, ROBERT JAMES

 

Born: 5-16-1938  Altoona PA                                    married

Died: 4-30-2020  State College PA                            obit:

 

1963    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona Llyswen

1963    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: [ashes released on Jekyll Island GA]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 337

 

1963-65           Lemont

1965-72           Shickshinny

1972-79           Northumberland Trinity

1979-91           State College Park Forest Village

1991-94           Roaring Spring

1994-00           Bellwood-Tipton

2000                retired

 

KENYON, ARNOLD OAKLEY

 

Born: 4-24-1896  Margaretville NY                           married: Mabel Emma Sholler

Died: 4-26-1950  Lewis IA                                        obit: [11/14/1894 – 11/8/1986]

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Lewis IA

Obit:

 

1920-21           student, Dickinson College

                             1920-21  Vira

 

Note: Arnold O. Kenyon moved to Nebraska, then Iowa, and served as a pastor in non-Methodist churches.

 

KEPLER, JAMES HOEY

 

Born: 4-29-1912  Shintown PA                                  married:

Died: 8-18-1987  Santa Monica CA                           obit:

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Orangeville PA

Obit:

 

1946-48           student, Lycoming College

                             1946-48  Wallis Run

1948-50           Montandon

                        at school, temporarily related to North Texas Conference

1957                Pacoima CA, First Congregational Church

1959                Los Angeles CA, Panorama City Church of Our Saviour Congregational Church

 

Note: James H. Kepler is a brother to William McKinley Kepler.  He served as a local pastor.

 

KEPLER, SAMUEL

 

Born: 11-5-1804  Baltimore MD                                married: Mary McCoy

Died: 8-1-1884  Baltimore MD                                  obit: [? – 4/23/1900]

 

Interment: St. Marks Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South 1885, 32

 

1827-28           Hagerstown

1828-29           Great Falls

1829-30           Gettysburg

1830-31           Washington DC Foundry

1831-32           Westmoreland

1832-34           Winchester station

1834-35           Lewistown

1835-37           Union, Philadelphia Conference

1837-39           Leesburg

1839-41           East Baltimore

1841-42           West River

1842-43           Carlisle

1843-45           Loudon

1845-47           East Baltimore station

1847-48           Great Falls

1848-50           Winchester station

1850-51           Harper’s Ferry

1851-54           on leave

1854-55           Lexington

1855-56           Lexington station

1856-57           Cumberland station

1857-59           Williamsport station

1859-61           Lewistown

1861-63           Bedford

1863-64           McConnellsburg

1864                withdrew to join M.E. South

 

KEPLER, WILLIAM McKINLEY

 

Born: 4-6-1897  Shintown PA                                    married: Edith Mae Stephenson

Died: 4-27-1977                                                          obit: [1902 - ]

 

1919    license, recommended by Shintown

1924    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Lakeside Cemetery, Erie PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 260

 

1922-24           Pleasant Gap

1924-26           Morris

                             1924-25      Coolidge Hollow, Genesee Conference

1926-27           Orangeville (ending 9/1/27)

1927-30           Montandon and Hendrickson (beginning 9/1/27)

1930                Elimsport-Allenwood (3 months)

1930-31           student, Drew University

1931-35           Bakerton

1935-39           Newton Hamilton

1939-45           Houtzdale

1945-47           Saxton

1947-49           Williamsport Grace (beginning 8/1/47)

1949-53           Centralia-Helfenstein

1953-57           Berwick Calvary

1957-62           Watsontown

1962                retired

                             1962-73  associate, Erie Lawrence Park

 

Note: William McKinley Kepler is a brother to James H. Kepler

 

KERLIN, JOHN FREEMAN

 

Born: 1864  Sunbury PA                                            married: Emma Katherine Shoemaker

Died: 1924                                                                  obit: [12/17/1858 – 1930]

 

1882    requested admission on trial, recommended by Sunbury station

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Rohrsburg

1883    ordained elder, recommended by Rohrsburg

1896    licensed, West Susquehanna Classis of the Reformed Church

?          ordained, West Susquehanna Classis of the Reformed Church

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Lamar township, Clinton County PA

Obit:

 

1882-83           Rohrsburg

1883-86           Harveyville

1886-90           Montgomery

1890-92           York West Street

1892-94           Gordon

1894-95           Hyner

1895-97           South Williamsport (did not finish second year)

1897                withdrew, page 27

1898-98           Sugar Creek (9 mos)

1898-01           Evans City (3 yrs)

1901                transfer to Somerset Classis of the Pittsburgh Synod

1902-05           Beams (3.5 yrs)

Hyndman (3.5 yrs)

1910                Sioux City IA

 

Note: John F. Kerlin was baptized as an adult 4/28/1867 at Northumberland Christ.  Mrs. Kerlin is the daughter of Rev. David O. Shoemaker (1830-1893) of the Reformed Church.

 

KERLING, ARTHUR N.

 

Born: 11-9-1900  Dublin Mills PA                             married: Maude Grace Curfman

Died: 6-21-1972  Orlando FL                                     obit: [8/24/1896 – 3/17/1965]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Ruth Zook

Interment: Three Springs Cem., Three Springs PA   obit2: [4/17/1908 – 6/19/2000]

Obit:

 

1945-47           assistant, Dudley

 

Note: A.N. Kerling served as a local pastor. A 1959 newspaper article mentions a “Rev. A.N. Kerling of three Springs” – and apparently A.N. Kerling operated a Chevrolet dealership there.  An interesting photo of the building appears at https://www.facebook.com/jacksontownship.historicalpreservation/photos/a.876868929012321/1080834505282428 .  The second Mrs. Kerling (nee Glick) was the widow of a Mr. Eli Kanagy Zook (1902-1956) and has Amish-Mennonite roots in Big Valley.

 

KERN, ALAN DAVID

 

Born: 8-9-1945  Williamsport PA                              married:

Died: 10-20-2011  Desert Hot Springs CA                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Anna _____ (1999)

1969      admitted on trial                                            obit2:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-68           Harrison Valley

1968-73           at school

1973                no longer listed

 

Note: Alan David attended Lycoming College (class of 1967) and earned an MA in Divinity at Pittsburg Theological Seminary in CA and an MA in education from St. Mary’s College in Oakland CA.  He worked in adult education for the Oakland CA Unified School District and as a counselor at the Children’s Hospital in Oakland CA.

 

 

KERR, DAVID MCCLELLAN

 

Born: 8-21-1892  Donnally Mills PA                         married: Claire Russ Eddy

Died: 8-27-1965  Gowando NY                                 obit: [1890 - ]

 

1915    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 336

 

1912-13           Shirleysburg

1913-15           Hoytville  (started in middle of the first year?)

1915-16           Eagles Mere-Laporte

1916-17           Allegheny circuit

1917-79           Glen Campbell

1919-21           Schellsburg

1921-23           Elysburg

1923-26           Lumber City

1926-28           Dudley

1928-31           Airville

1931-32           Burnham

1932-35           Audenreid-Jeanesville            

1935-39           Warrior’s Mark

1939-41           Orangeville

1941-44           Watsontown

1944-45           Mifflinville-Lime Ridge

1945-57           Mifflinburg-Laurelton

1947-48           Mifflinburg

1948-52           Jersey Shore Epworth

1952-54           York Ridge Avenue

1954-55           Port Matilda

1955-57           Flemington

1957                retired

 

 

KERR, GEORGE COMPTON

 

Born: 6-28-1896  Guthriesville PA                            married: June Belinda Patterson

Died: 4-26-1973                                                          obit: [6/29/1895 – 12/29/1992]

 

1921    license, recommended by Harrisburg Grace

1940    ordained

 

Interment: Oxford Historical Cemetery, Oxford GA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 376

 

1921-25           Methodist Mission Book Company, Shanghai China

1925-33           living in Reading PA

1933-35           Shanghai China

1935-35           ?

1937-44           Cumbola circuit

1944-47           Goodwill Industries, Scranton PA

1947-51           Goodwill Industries, Harrisburg PA

1951-53           Elysburg

1953-56           Millerstown (beginning 10/15/53)

1956-57           Pennsylvania Temperance League, Pittsburgh PA

1957-60           Barnitz

1960-61           sabbatical exchange pastor, Chiswick England

1961-64           Barnitz

1964                retired

                             1968-71  visitation assistant, Harrisburg Calvary (beginning 9/1/68)

                             1971-73  visitation assistant, Shiremanstown

 

Note: George C. Kerr served as a local pastor.  His daughter June Shaner Kerr Barton is the wife of Jesse Hamby Barton JR of the Kansas West Conference, son of Jesse Hamby SR (1889-1979) of the Kansas West Conference.  George C. Kerr is the grandfather of Jesse Hamby Barton III and George Kerr Barton, both of the Kansas West Conference.

 

KERR, JOHN CONLIN

 

Born: 8-12-1886  Falkirk, Scotland                            married: Christine Harlan Bond

Died: 10-27-1918  France                                           obit: [11/2/1891 – 5/14/1976]

 

1913    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1919, 103

 

1911-12           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1911-12  Westport

                             1912        Shirleysburg (ending summer 1912)

1912                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference

1912-14           Spencerville

1914-15           Herndon VA

1915-18           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1918                Overlea (ending 8/1918)

1918                student, Chaplains’ Training School at Camp Taylor KY (Aug-Oct)

1918                chaplain, US Army

 

Note: J.C. Kerr served as a local pastor

 

 

KERSTETTER, EARL EDWARD

 

Born: 4-20-1913  near Sunbury PA                            married: Mary Margaret Cramer

Died: 11-9-1978  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 369

 

1935    license, recommended by Lewistown Rhodes Memorial

1942    admitted on trial

1942    ordained deacon

1944    ordained elder

 

Interment: Juniata Memorial Park, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 333

 

1935-39           student, Dickinson College

                             1937-39  Boiling Springs (9/37 – 8/39)

1939-42            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1940-42  Catawissa circuit (starting July 1940)

1942-48           Millville-Jerseytown

1948-50           Petersburg

1950-56           Hughesville

1956-64           Bedford (ending 10/31/64)

1964-67           Milton (beginning 11/1/64)

1967-71           Hanover

1971-78           Middletown Wesley

1978                retired

 

Note: Earl E. Kerstetter is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 714.

 

 

KERSTETTER, MARLIN FARNELL

 

Born: 11-9-1905                                                          married: Velma Mordan

Died: 5-22-1998                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 297

 

1931    admitted on trial, recommended by Shamokin Chestnut Street

1935    ordained deacon

1937    ordained elder

 

Interment: Laurel Hills Cemetery, Orangeville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 441

 

1931-35           Elimsport-Allenwood

1935-37           Wilburton

1937-40           Millville-Jerseytown

1940-41           Milesburg

1941-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-48           Gordon

1948-52           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1952-58           Selinsgrove

1958-64           Altoona Llyswen

1964-67           Yeagertown

1967-72            Newport

1972                retired

 

KERSTETTER, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born: 4-25-1913  Lykens PA                                     married: Leona Frances Bateman

Died: 1-5-1996                                                            obit: [12/2/1922 – 11/16/2006]

 

1938    admitted on trial

1938    ordained deacon

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment: Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne MA

Obit: South Indiana Conference 1996, 365

 

1933-36           student, Dickinson College

                             1933-34  Blain

1938-39            student, Boston University in Boston MA

                             1938-39  director of religious education, United Church in Norwood MA

1939-41           director of religious education, United Church in Norwood MA

1941-42           Hull MA

1942-44           student, Harvard University and Emory University

1944                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1944                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1944-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-53           faculty, Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea OH

1953                transfer to Iowa Conference

1953-63           president, Simpson College in Indianola IA

1963                transfer to Indiana South Conference

1963-75           president, DePauw University in Greencastle IN

1975-78           chancellor, DePauw University

1978                retired

 

KESTER, AARON M.

 

Born: 11-25-1827  Columbia County PA                   married: Martha Bowman

Died: 10-4-1892  Lincoln NE                                     obit: [4/2/1834 – 3/16/1862]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Addie Dyson

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 149

 

Interment: Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln NE

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 92

 

1856-57           Milton circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Bloomingdale

1859-61           Montoursvile

1861-63           Ashland

1863-65           Waynesboro

1865-67           Liberty

1867-68           Middletown-Jefferson

1968                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Middletown-Jefferson

1869-71           Renovo

1871-72           Catawissa

1872-73           Chambersburg Second

1873-76           on leave

                             1873-74  Chambersburg Second

1876-76           Shickshinny

1876-78           White Haven

1878                transfer to Kansas Conference

1878-79           in Kansas

1879                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1879-83           on leave

1883                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch for Aaron M. Kester is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 404.  An obituary also appears in the 10/27/1892 Central Pennsylvania Methodist, page 1.  He is the father of Reese Bowman Kester (1861-1940) of the Northern Minnesota Conference.  The first Mrs. Kester is the sister of Alfred Steck Bowman.  The second Mrs. Kester is the niece of Franklin Dyson.

 

KETTERER, GEORGE HENRY

 

Born: 2-21-1880  Somerton PA                                  married: Bertha Hutchinson Curry

Died: 2-6-1958  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965,366

 

1908    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1910    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Burket Cemetery, Warrior’s Mark PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 248

 

1905-06           Boiling Springs & Pine Grove Furnace

1906-08           Washington Boro, Philadelphia Conference

1908                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1908-10           New Holland & Leola

1910-15           Westwood

1915-16           Basking Ridge

1916                transfer to Newark Conference

1916-17           West Orange

1917-18           Frenchtown

1918-19           chaplain, US Army

1919                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1919-20           Williamsport Market Street

1920-24           Everett

1924-28           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1928-31           Milton

1931-35           State College

1935-41           superintendent, Altoona District

1941-45           Hollidaysburg First

1945                retired

 

KHAN, KENRICK RAHAMAT

 

Born: 2-20-1924  British Guiana                                married: Alma Leila Ashford

Died: 5-19-2022  Penny Farms FL                             obit:

 

1952    license, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1955    admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1960    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 359

 

1955-57           student, Lycoming College

1957-60           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1958-60      Teabo-Mt. Hope NJ

1960-74           Caribbean and American Conference of the British Methodist Church

                             1960-64      missionary/student

                             1964-69      Curacao British Guiana

                             1969-74      superintendent, US Virgin Islands District

1974-75           student, San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Francisco CA

1975-79           East Freedom

1979-81           chaplain, Bethany Village

1981-84           faculty, Gbarnga School of Theology in Liberia

1984-91           Troy

1991-93           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1993                retired

 

KIESSEL, HENRY G.

 

Born: 5-26-1900                                                          married: Catharine Durwood [?]

Died: 6-?-1982                                                            obit:

 

1925    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Nichols Cemetery, Nichols NY

Obit:

 

1923-24           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1924-28           student, Dickinson College

                             1924-26      Fort Loudon 

                             1926-27      York Springs

                             1927-28      Littlestown

1928-29           Littlestown

1929-31           Yeagertown-Highland

1931                withdrew

…

1939                Church of the Incarnation [denomination unknown], Atlanta GA

…

1955                professor, Montrose PA

…                   

1975                retired, living in Nicholas NY

 

KILLAM, ROBERT D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929-31           student, Dickinson College

                             1929-31  Blain

 

1948                Cleveland OH First Unitarian

 

Note: Robert D. Killam became a Unitarian pastor.  Harvard University has a file on Robert D. Killam in their Unitarian Universalist collection and offers a Robert D. Killam theological fellowship.

 

KIMPER, FRANK WALTER

 

Born: 5-12-1917  Lancaster PA                                  married: Dorothy Mae Shanor

Died: 5-9-2009  Santa Rosa CA                                 obit: [6/4/1916 – 11/12/1995]

 

1938    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-41            student, Union Theological Seminary

                             1940-41      Kulpmont

1941-45           Conyngham

1945-46           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1946-49           Mechanicsburg

1949-51           Hazleton Diamond

1951-53           student, Boston University in Boston MA

                             1951-53      Oakdale, New England Conference

1953                transfer to New England Conference

1953-56           student, Boston University

                             1953-56      Oakdale

1956                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

1956-74           faculty, Claremont School of Theology

1974                retired

 

Note: Frank W. Kimper was a retired member of the California-Nevada Conference.

 

KING, BARTHOLOMEW PETER

 

Born: 11-4-1827  Dunnstown PA                               married: Mary M. Emory

Died: 8-7-1910  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 139

 

1853     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 115

 

1852-53           Kettle Creek

1853-54           Luzerne

1854-55           Bloomingdale

1855-56           Sunbury

1856-57           Sinnemahoning

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Sinnemahoning

1858-60           Kishacoquillas

1860-62           Clinton

1862-64           Hazleton

1864-66           Sunbury

1866-67           Chillisquaque

1867-68           Washingtonville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Washingtonville

1869-72           Bloomingdale

1872-75           Catawissa

1875-77           Weatherly-Stockton

1877-79           Watsontown

1879-82           Renovo

1882-83           Newport

1883-84           White Haven

1884-86           Danville Trinity

1886-88           Northumberland

1888-91           Stockton-Beaver Meadow

1891-92           Selinsgrove

1892                retired

 

Note: Bartholomew P. King is the brother of Joseph R. King and the father of George E. King.  An obituary is also given in the 10/20/1910  N.Y. Christian Advocate, page 1479.  Mrs. King is a cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

KING, GEORGE EMORY    

 

Born: 10-6-1856  Sinnemahoning PA                        married: Eda S. Millard

Died: 3-17-1918  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 274

 

1879    permitted in “the traveling connection” per Paragraph 187 of the Discipline

1880    admitted on trial, recommended by Sideling Creek circuit

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 141

 

1879-80           Licking Creek

1880-81           Bloomingdale

1881-82           Hickory Run

1882-84           Benezette

1884-85           Hyner-North Bend

1885-88           Liberty Valley

1888-91           Howard

1891-92           Coalport

1892-95           Duncansville

1895-00           Milesburg-Unionville

1900-03           Williamsport Third

1903-07           Mount Union

1907-09           Mount Carmel

1909-11           Lewisburg

1911-13           New Cumberland

1913-16           Everett

1916                retired

 

Note: George E. King is the son of Bartholomew P. King and the nephew of Joseph R. King.

 

KING, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 10-21-1880  West Decatur PA                         married: Susanna Elias Mull

Died: 3-23-1945  Seattle WA                                     obit: [4/19/1883 – 7/10/1969]

 

1905    license, recommended by Williamsport High Street

1906    admitted on trial

1908    ordained deacon

1911    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1905-07           Clarkstown

1907-08           Lock Haven circuit

1908-11           Schellsburg

1911-12           Hopewell

1912                transfer to Upper Iowa Conference [in fact, Northwest Iowa Conference]

1912-16           at school, member of Idagrove Quarterly Conference

1916                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1916-18           Guilford

1918-19           Foster and Brooklyn (did not finish the year)

1919                withdrew, page 56

 

Note: His letter of withdrawal in the files states that he seeks a denomination “more loyal to the teachings of Jesus than the oath of the Masonic Fraternity.”  Some biographical information on George W. King appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 61.  Apparently he left the ministry and became a lumberman.

 

KING, JOSEPH REEDER

 

Born: 3-2-1832  Dunnstown PA                                 married: Julia A. Hewitt

Died: 4-11-1895  Benton PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 59

                                                                                    married2: Anna Augusta Ward

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf          obit2: Central Pennsylcania Conference 1917, 134

1861    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Dunnstown Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 96

 

1859-60           Caledonia circuit

1860-62           Karthaus

1862-63           Shippen

1863-65           Beaver Meadow

1865-67           Concord

1867-69           McConnellsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           McConnellsburg

1869-71           Milroy

1871-76           on leave

                             1871-72  Lock Haven

                             1873-75  Lock Haven

1876-77           Pine Creek

1877-79           Congress Hill

1879-81           Port Matilda

1881-83           Trevorton

1883-85           Milroy

1885-88           Ray’s Hill

1888-92           Manor Hill

1992-94           Beach Haven

1894-95           Benton

 

Note: Joseph R. King is the brother of Bartholomew P. King and the uncle of George E. King.  The first Mrs. King is the daughter of Rev. Thomas Hewitt, affiliation unknown.

 

KINGSLEY, DONALD FREDERICK, JR.

 

Born: 1-25-1921  Reading PA                                    married: Dorothy Ann Freitas

Died: 11-3-1995  San Diego CA                                obit: [12/17/1924 – 3/31/2008]

 

1950    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego CA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 416

 

1948-51           White Haven

1951-54           associate, Harrisburg Grace

1954-77           chaplain, US Navy

1977                retired

 

Note: Donald F. Kingsley also has a memorial marker in the First UM Memorial Garden, San Diego CA.


 

KINNER, FRANK TILLINGHAST

 

Born: 6-4-1876  Trowbridge PA                                married: Harriet Elizabeth Sickles

Died: 3-25-1970  Johnson City NY                            obit: [d. 2/1931]

                                                                                    married2: Lula Celia Welsh

1913    license, central New York Conference           obit2: [d. 12/1955]

 

Interment: Vestal Hills Cemetery, Vestal NY

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 391

 

                        Terrytown PA

                        “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-23           Wallis Run (beginning in fall 1920)

1923-26           Fairview

1926-28           Morris

1928-31           Oriole & Antes Fort

1931-33           (living in Benezette)

1933-38           Benezette & Penfield

1938-39           (living in Penfield)

1939                “transfer” to Erie Conference

1939-45           Luthersburg

1945-48           Belleview

1948-50           Brockport

1950                retired

                           

Note: Frank T. Kinner served as a local pastor.  After his retirement, he was active in the Johnson City NY Primitive Methodist Church.

 

KINSEY, EDWARD

 

Born: 3-21-1829  near Triadelphia MD                     married: Martha C. Wells

Died: 9-12-1877  Keyser WV                                    obit: [1841-1918]

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Queens Meadow Point Cemetery, Keyser WV

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1878, 39

 

1853-54           Bladenburg

1854-55           Great Falls

1855-56           Hereford

1856-57           East Harford

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference
1857-58           East Harford

1858-59           Baltimore Strawbridge

1859-61           Hanover

1861-63           Baltimore Whatcoat

1863-66           West Harford

1866-69           Cumberland

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1875                retired

 

Note: Other sources give birth years for Edward Kinsey from 1828 to 1834, and a death date of 9-10-1877.

 

 

KINZIE, WILLIAM RAYMOND

 

Born: 10-21-1956  Catawissa PA                               married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1953    license

1954    admitted on trial

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-56           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1953-54      assistant, Woodbridge NJ

                             1954-56      Audenreid-Jeanesville

1956-57           Jerseytown

1957                voluntary location

1961                withdrew

1977-81           Memorial Baptist, Newberry PA

 

Note:  The 1991 yearbook of the Evangelical Free Church in America lists William R. Kinzie as the superintendent of the South Central District [Texas, except El Paso].

 

KIRBY, EDMUND WESLEY

 

Born: 4-11-1831 Virginia                                           married: Emeline Massey Wilson

Died: 2-7-1902  Washington DC                               obit: [9/27/1833 – 4/17/1907]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Jane Hartley

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2:

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit:

 

1852-53           Castle Fin

1853-54           Woodstock

1854-55           Penn’s Valley

1855-56           Warrior’s Mark

1856-57           Manor Hill

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Clearfield circuit

1858-59           Philipsburg

1859-61           New Washington

1861-63           Williamsburg

1863-65           Bedford station

1865-68           Mifflin

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Milton

1870-72           Chambersburg

1872                withdrew

1885-86           Philadelphia Grace, East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

                       

Note: There is a biographical file on Edmund W. and Mrs. Kirby at the conference archives.  He is the subject of the extended article “Rev. Edmund Wesley Kirby: A Participant in Methodist History” in the 2008 volume of The Chronicle, pages 46-69.  After 1872, he relocated to Philadelphia and became a medical doctor, first in Philadelphia and then in Washington DC.  The first Mrs. Kirby is a sister to Reuben E. Wilson and Elsie Wilson McGarrah, wife of James H. McGarrah.

 

 

KIRK, IRVIN C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Manayunk Mt. Zion [Roxboro First]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1888-89           Boyle’s Run

1889                withdrew

 

KISSIEL, SAMUEL R.

 

Born: 10-4-1929                                                          married: Jean Lorain

Died: 3-?-1971                                                            obit: [1928 – 2016]

 

Interment: Mapleton IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit:

 

1952-53           Hopewell

1953-57           Cassville

1957-58           Doylesburg

1958-64           Benton

1964-65           Glen Campbell

1965-66           Bald Eagle Parish

 

Note: Samuel R. Kissiel served as a local pastor.

 

KITCHIN, CHARLES HENRY.

 

Born: 1837                                                                  married:

Died: 5-26-1863                                                          obit:

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

 

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1864, 36

 

1860-61           New Washington

1861-62           New Grenada

1862-63           Glen  Hope

1863                Newberry

 

Note: This surname is also rendered KITCHEN.

 

KLEPFER, GEORGE MURRAY

 

Born: 5-5-1860  Alexandria PA                                 married: Ida Mae Wilt [4/27/1886]

Died: 3-28-1932  Harrisburg                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 314

 

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Port Royal circuit

1885    ordained deacon, recommended by Saxton circuit

 

Interment: Huntingdon Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 172

 

1883-85           Saxton

1885-87           Orbisonia

1887-90           Selinsgrove

1890-95           Danville Trinity

1895-00           Catawissa

1900-03           Huntingdon First

1903-09           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1909-11           Milton

1911-14           Carlisle

1914-15           local

1915-17           Greencastle

1917-18           Green Village

1918-19           Fayetteville

1919-20           Harrisburg Riverside

1924-28           Airville

1928-32           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

 

Note: An obituary for George M. Klepfer also appears in the 4/14/1921 Christian Advocate, page 405.

KLINE     see  CLINE

 

KLING, JACOB

 

Born: 12-6-1823  Perry County PA                            married: Nancy Jane Clayton

Died: 2-24-1910  Nossville PA                                  obit: [12/27/1830 – 4/2/1889]

 

1880    local pastor’s license

 

Interment: Nossville Cemetery, Nossville PA          

Obit:   

 

1883-84           Licking Creek

1887-88           Licking Creek

 

Note: Jacob Kling was a local pastor living in Nossville, Huntingdon County.  The name in the Licking Creek record book is not clear and may be Jacob Kline – if such is the case, that person is otherwise unknown – or even the J.W. Cline given in this file.

 

DOYLE HETLER, JR

 

Born:                                                                                                  married: Jean _____

Died:                                                                                                  obit:

 

1968       license, recommended by Eyers Grove

1971       ordained deacon

1974       ordained elder

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1971-73  Espy

1973-75  Enders – Powell Valley

1975-86  Centre Hall

1987-97  Jersey Shore Trinity

1997-02  Huntingdon First

2002-08  Bellefonte Faith

2008                       retired

 

KNISELY, JOSEPH KEEFER

 

Born: 2-8-1853  Port Royal PA                                  married: Sophia B. Lotz

Died: 11-7-1940  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 198

 

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Burnt Cabins circuit

1885    ordained elder, recommended by Burnt Cabins circuit

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 206

 

1882-85           Burnt Cabins

1885-87           Saxton

1887-89           Schellsburg

1889-93           Ennisville

1893-95           New Bloomfield

1895-97           Orbisonia

1897-00           Flemington

1900-02           Reedsville

1902-03           Jeddo

1903-06           Houtzdale

1906-12           Altoona Walnut Avenue

1912-16           Barnesboro

1916-19           Juniata Fifteenth Street

1919                retired

                             1919-23      Altoona Broad Avenue 


 

KNISELY, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881-82           Decatur

 

Note: J.W. Knisely served as a local pastor.

 

KNITTLE, RALPH WARREN

 

Born: 12-4-1881  Girardville PA                                married: Lucy Mary Longenberger

Died: 1-5-1968  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: [1952, 226]

 

1916    admitted on trial

1918    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 319

 

1913-16           Wapwallopen

1916-18           Buckhorn

1918-24           Beaver Meadow

1924-28           Hughesville

1928-31           Montgomery

1931-34           South Williamsport

1935-37           Williamsburg

1937-38           Saxton

1938-45           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1945-49           Muncy

1949-51           Berwick Calvary

1951                retired

 

 

KNOX, GEORGE H.

 

Born: 4-1-1866  York PA                                           married: Mary E. Kauffman

Died: 2-21-1930  Cassville PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933,204

 

1916    received as a supply from Church of God

1923    received on credentials as Elder in Church of God

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 196

 

1915-16           Sandy Ridge & Clearfield

1916-18           Blain

1918-19           Liverpool

1919-21           Muncy Valley

1921-24           Schellsburg

1924-25           Port Matilda

1925-28           Munson

1928-30           Cassville

 

 

KNOX, HOMER CHARLES, SR.

 

Born: 9-2-1880  Burnt Cabins PA                              married: Edna Pearl Burlew

Died: 5-20-1964  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 259

 

1914    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 359

 

1911-15           Picture Rocks (replaced W.C. Robbins in mid-year; see 1912, 75)

1915-19           New Bloomfield

1919-25           Harrisburg Epworth

1925-30           Bellefonte

1930-32           Barnesboro

1932-36           Hazleton Diamond

1936-40           Northumberland

1940-45           Camp Hill

1945-50           York Ridge Avenue

1950                retired

                             1950-55      West Fairview

 

Note: Homer C. Knox is the brother of Robert J. Knox.  Homer C. Knox is the author of the 1901 History of Methodism in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

 

 

KNOX, ROBERT ADOLPH

 

Born: 9-1-1904  Bellwood PA                                    married: Helen Virginia Headings

Died: 9-24-1980  Williamsport PA                            obit: [1/5/1908 – 11/20/1990]

 

1937    admitted on trial

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit:

 

1934-37           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1937-38           Concord

1938-39           Glen Hope

1938-40           Schellsburg

1940-42           Ray’s Hill

1942-43           Cassville

1943                withdrew

 

Note: Robert A. Knox, son of Mr. Charles J. Knox of rural Mount Union, attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport PA.  The Knox and Headings families appear to have attended the Newtown Hamilton church.

 

KNOX, ROBERT JAMES

 

Born: 7-6-1870  Juniata Couty PA                             married: Nannie E. Barry

Died: 12-10-1955  State College PA                          obit: [d. 1952]

 

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State Coillege PA

Obit:

 

1903-04           Cameron

1904-07           Lock Haven Circuit

1907-12           South Williamsport

1912-14           Orbisonia

1914-17           Morrisdale

1917-18           Shrewsbury

1918-19           Benton

1919-20           sabbatical year

1920-25           located

1925                withdrew

 

Note: Robert J. Knox is the brother of Homer C. Knox.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 45.  The information above comes from the Find-a-Grave site.  Some sources give a birth date of 4/6/1870 in Bedford PA, a death date of 1949 and the first name of Mrs. Knox as Minnie.

 

KOON, DANIEL FRANK

 

Born: 3-20-1924  Duncansville PA                            married: Margaret Louise Leedom

Died: 3-26-1968  Pittsburgh PA                                 obit: [10/29/1924 – 9/23/2005]

 

1950    admitted on trial

1950    ordained deacon

1952    ordained elder

           

Interment: Alto-Reste Cemetery, near Hollidaysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 325

 

1946-49           Clearville

1950-53           Fort Loudon

1953-56           Trevorton

1956-61           Shawville

1961-66           Warrior’s Mark

1966-68           Altoona Simpson

 

Note: Daniel F. Koon is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.  In 1977, the widowed Mrs. Koon married the widower Rev. Robert Nelson Yetter (1927-2002) of the Presbyterian church.

 

KRALL, JESSE V.

 

Born: 8-14-1880                                                          married: Anna Marie _____

Died: 1-?-1973                                                            obit: [8/9/1879 – 9/15/1966]

 

 

Interment: Lakewood Memorial Gardens, Dorseyville PA

Obit:

 

1911-14           Cherry Tree

                        Christian and Missionary Alliance Church

1939                Erie

1943                Gettysburg area

 

Note: Jesse V. Krall served in the Central Pennsylvania as a local pastor.  He apparently later affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church as a pastor and evangelist.  The 1920 census places him in New Castle DE.  He appears to have been active in the York PA area into the 1950’s.

 

KRAPF, BYRON KADEL

 

Born: 4-25-1938  Waynesboro PA                             married: Yvonne Myers

Died: 11-23-2018  New Oxford PA                           obit:

 

1961    admitted on trial, recommended by Hollidaysburg First

1961    ordained deacon

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, ?

 

1961-63            student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1961-63  youth worker, Boston Old South

1963-65           Jersey Shore Epworth

1965-68           Montgomery

1968-73           Berwick Calvary

1973-79           State College Park Forest

1979-91           Shippensburg Christ

1991-00           Riverside St. Peters

2000-08           Lemoyne Grace

2008                retired

                             2011-12      Berwick Calvary – St. Paal’s (beginning 8/12/2011

 

Note: Byron K. Krapf is the son of Oliver H.R. Krapf.

 

KRAPF, OLIVER HENRY RAPELJE

 

Born: 10-21-1907  Hopewell Junction NY                married: Vera Kadel

Died: 4-14-1983  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 481

 

1931    license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley

1932    admitted on trial

1934    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment:  Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 403

 

1932-35           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1932-35      Johnsonburg N.J.

1934-36           Muncy Valley (beginning summer 1934)

1936-40           Conyngham

1940-43           Berwick Calvary

1943-48           Selinsgrove

1948-54           Altoona Llyswen

1954-61           Hollidaysburg First

1961-66           Emporium

1966-72           Clearfield Trinity

1972                retired

 

Note: Oliver H.R. Krapf is the son of Rev. Elvin Charles Krapf (1869-1935) of the Narazene Church. He is the father of Byron K. Krapf and of Joy Krapf Clark, wife of Robin Kent Clark of the East Ohio Conference.  Mrs. Krapf is the sister of Presbyterian pastor William H. Kadel (1913-1990), founding president of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg FL. 

 

KRAUSE, HARRY DELYLE

 

Born: 6-10-1906  Wellsboro PA                                married:  Florence Briston

Died: 2-23-1980                                                          obit: [1909 – 1980]

 

1968    license, recommended by Wellsboro

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Shumway Hill Cemetery, near Wellsboro PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 343

 

1968-70           Sinnemahoning (beginning 10/3/68)

1970-71           Newton Hamilton

1971-76           Ralston

1976                retired

 

KREMER, JAMES FRANCIS

 

Born:                                                               married: Gloria _____

Died:                                                               obit:

 

1967    license, recommended by Mifflinville

1971    ordained deacon

1999    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-71           Lawrenceville

1971-78           Catawissa Parish

1978-86           Jerseytown

1986-95           Columbia circuit

1995-97           Benton

1997-98           Benton & Brandon Central

1998-02           Benton

2002-05           Fawn Grove

2005-08           Woolrich

2008                retired

 

Note: James F. Kremer is the son of Clair F. Kremer of the Susquehanna Conference files.

 

 

KREPPS, GORDON DEAN

 

Born: 5-5-1914  Spruce Creek PA                             married: Charlotte Virginia Stewart

Died: 2-14-1972                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 412

 

1938    license, recommended by Spruce Creek

1949    ordained deacon*

1955    ordained elder*

* as self-reported in conference journals and not supported by any other material at hand

 

Interment: Franklinville Cemetery, Spruce Creek PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 392

           

1940-42           Ramey

1942-44           Burnt Cabins

1944-45           James Creek

1945                Elysburg (ending 8/1/45)

1946                no longer listed as an approved supply pastor (see 1946, 89)

1946-54           affiliation unknown, appointments listed are as self-reported in the journals

                             1947-48  Selma VA

                             1948-49  Clymer PA

                             1949-50  Ventitia

                             1950-51  Manor

                             1951-54 [Church of Christ]

1954                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church, page 74

1954-56           Howard

1956-57           Warrensville

1957                 Columbia circuit (did not finish the year)

1957                r emoved from Central Pennsylvania Conference of EUB Church, page 91

1957-60           affiliation unknown, appointments listed are as self-reported in the journals

                             1957-59  Port Republic VA

                             1959-60  Suffolk Providence        

1960                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-62           Robertsdale

1962-68           North Bend

1968-72           Catawissa

 

Note: Gordon K. Krepps first re-appears on the official list in 1962, page 25, as an approved supply pastor.

 

 

KROHN, PHILIP

 

Born: 2-16-1843  MA                                                 married: Sarah Margaret VanKleeck

Died: 10-14-1904  Candor NY                                   obit: [6/?/1841 – 2/18/1922]

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Candor NY

Obit

 

1866-67           Athens

1867                “accepted” into Central Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68           Spencer

1868-69           Caroline

1869-72           Scranton

1872-74           Lock Haven

1874                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1874-76           Kingston

1876                transfer to Troy Conference

1876-78           Albany Hudson Avenue

1878-81           West Troy Washington Street

1881                located at own request

1881-82           Joplin MO First

1882                transfer to Kansas Conference

1882-85           Atchison

1885-86           agent, Kansas State Temperance Union

1886-86           on leave

1887                permitted to withdraw under charges

 

Note: One secular account reports that “Dr. Krohn is one of Kansas’ ablest speakers.”  Philip Krohn entered the newspaper business, purchasing the Atchison KS Weekly Campion and Press in 1889.  He appears to have retired to and/or re-entered the ministry (affiliation unknown) in Tioga County NY in 1900.  See the 8/7/1880 New York Times for a statement of his financial difficulties in New York and the 4/17/1886 National Police Gazette: New York, page 7 for accounts of his other difficulties in New York and Kansas.                       

 

 

KROUSE, RALPH SHISSLER

 

Born: 1-11-1903  Sunbury PA                                    married: Margaret M. Hendrickson

Died: 7-25-1991  Lewisburg PA                                obit: [3/9/1912 – 3/27/1994]

 

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Crown Crest Memorial Park, Hyde PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 477

 

1928-31           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1931-34           Town Hill

1934-38           on leave due to illness

1938                Picture Rocks

1838-42           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1942-47           Patton

1947-52           Williamsport Third Street

1952-58           Bellwood

1958-68           Clearfield Emmanuel

1968                retired

                             1968-70  Clearfield Emmanuel

                             1970-71  Shawville

 

Note: Ralph S. Krouse is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 745.

 

KUGLE, JOSEPH LUTHER

 

Born: 2-4-1943                                                            married: Gloria Kay Sipe

Died:                                                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 424

                                                                                    married2: Martha _____

1968    license, recommended by Mt. Gilead             obit2:

1974    ordained deacon

1977    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1968-72           Hunlock Creek

1972-74           Paint Lick, Kentucky Conference

1974-78           Rouzerville

1978-82           Altoona Fairview

1982-94           York Trinity

1994-95           Milton St. Andrews

1995-08           New Kingston Trinity (ending 2/1/2008)

2008                retired (2/1/2008)

 

KULP, OSCAR LORENZO 

 

Born: 3-27-1908  Hunlock Creek PA                         married: Vera May Koup

Died: 3-3-1993                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 448

 

1963    license, recommended by Hunlock Creek

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment: Oakdale Cemetery, Oakdale PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 464

 

1960-62           associate, Hunlock Creek (beginning 4/1/60)

1962-66           Forksville

1966-73           Harveyville

1973                retired

 

Note: Oscar Kulp is the father of Marjorie Kulp Iverson, wife of Baptist Rev. T. Bradley Iverson of northeast Pennsylvania and California.

 

 

LADD, CLEMENT GEORGE

 

Born: 10-1-1900  Sharon VT                                      married: Ethel Andrew

Died: 5-31-1992                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 390

 

1963    license, recommended by Sunbury St. John’s

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Montandon Cemetery, Montandon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 478

 

1963                Montandon (Feb – Jun)

1963-64           Picture Rocks (beginning 11/15/63 and ending 2/1/64)

1964-69           Laurelton (beginning 2/1/64)

1969-73           Hendrickson-Mooresville

1973                retired

 

LaFORCE, THOMAS McCAIN

 

Born: 1910                                                                  married: Harriet T. Dawes

Died: 4-1-1968                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 268

 

1947    license

 

Interment: Trout Run Cemetery, Trout Run PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 141]

 

1952-57           Ralston

1957-61           Fairview

1961-68           Avis

 

Note: Thomas M. LaForce served as a local pastor.  He was raised in South Williamsport PA.

 

 

LAIDIG, ROBERT VANCE

 

Born: 2-10-1914  Hustontown PA                             married: Daisy Irene Harvey

Died: 10-1-1991  Hudson WI                                     obit: [7/17/1924 – 2/21/2009]

 

1938    admitted on trial

1941    ordained deacon

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Minnesota Conference 1992, 304

 

1935-36           Rehoboth

1936-37           Harrisonville

1937-39           Pine Grove Mills 

1939-42           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1939-42      Wilburton-Johnson City

1942-47           Harveyville

1947-51           Stewartstown

1951                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1951-58           Minneapolis Walker

1958-               Excelsior

 

Note: Robert V. Laidig is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.  The Laidigs are related to the ministerial Deavor family as noted in the 2013 issue of The Chronicle, “A Brief History of the Deavor Family in America.”  Mrs. Laidig was a native of Harveyville PA.

 

 

LAMBERSON, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 2-1-1853 near Hustontown PA                        married: Prudence Reynolds Stout

Died: 12-11-1919  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 215

 

1878    quarterly conference license, McConnellsburg

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Kedron

1886    ordained deacon

1888    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grand View Cemetery near Juniata PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 130

 

1882-83           Leidy

1883-84           Kedron

1884-86           Lycoming

1886-88           Duboistown

1888-91           Salladasburg

1891-96           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1896-97           Hanover

1897-00           Harrisburg Curtin Heights.

1900-04           Burnham

1904-06           Everett

1906-07           Williamsport Fourth Street [Calvary]

1907-11           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1911-15           Sunbury St. John’s

1915-19           Juniata First

 

Note: Alexander Lamberson is the father of Blanche Lamberson Mackie, wife of J. Archibald Mackie.  Mrs. Lamberson is the daughter of Rev. John Wesley Stout – originally of the Baltimore Conference, and then in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota.

 

LAMBERT, ALBERT R.

 

Born: 1860 near Clearfield, PA                                  married: Fannie L. Heath

Died: 8-8-1927  Rochester NY                                   obit: Northern New York Conference 1938, 376

 

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Philipsburg

 

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY

Obit: Northern New York Conference 1928, 716

 

1884-85           Woodbury-Pattonville

1885-87           Pleasant Gap

1887-88           West Clearfield

1888-90           Clearfield circuit

1890-93           Muncy

1893-96           Huntingdon First

1896-00           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1900                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1900-01           Minneapolis Fowler Memorial (Northern MN)

1901-04           Spokane First (Columbia River)

1904-06           Chicago South Park Ave.  (Rock River)

1906-07           Lagrange & Congress Park  (Rock River)

1907-10           Kankakee first (Central IL)

1911-12           Knoxville First (Holston)

1913-15           Ithaca First (Central NY)

1915-18           Rochester Monroe Ave.  (Genesee)

1918-22           Fulton First (Northern NY)

1922-26           Watertown First (Northern NY)

1926                retired 

 

 

LANGLEY, JOHN WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-4-1831  Charlestown WV                             married: Jannett Rebecca Montgomery

Died: 11-1-1898  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [Philadelphia Conference 1912, 124]

 

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1899, 83

 

1852-53           Berlin

1853-55           Fredrick circuit

1855-56           Kishacoquillas

1856-58           Frederick Asbury

1858-59           Mifflin circuit

1859-60           Mifflin station

1860-62           Milton station

1862-64           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1864-65           Baltimore Exeter Street

1865                transfer to Kentucky Conference

1865-68           Covington

1868                transfer to Missouri Conference

1868-70           St. Louis

1870                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1870-72           Lock Haven

1872                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1872-75           Green Street

1875-78           St, John’s

1878-81           Mariner’s Bethel

1881-84           St. John’s

1884-87           St. Paul’s

1887-90           Kensington

1890-92           St. John’s

1892-94           St. Paul’s

1894                Emmanuel

 

Note: John W. Langley is the father of Charles Wilbur Langley (1861-1910) of the Philadelphia Conference.  Mrs. Langley’s birth, not given in her obituary, was 12/12/1833 in Frederick County MD.

 

 

LANTZ, J. MAX

 

Born: 9-1838  Blair County PA                                  married: Katherine Mundorf

Died: 8-21-1894  Lewistown                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912,130

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: First Methodist Cemetery, Lewistown, PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 81

 

1863-64           Lewistown circuit.

1864-65           Gettysburg

1896-66           Shrewsbury

1866-68           Wrightsville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Wrightsville

1869-72           Mount Holly Springs

1872-75           Mechanicsburg

1875-78           Williamsport Third Street

1878-78           Chambersburg Second

1878-79           Williamsport Pine Street

1879-82           Danville St. Paul’s

1882-84           Lock Haven

1884-87           York First

1887-91           Lewistown

1891-94           superintendent, Juniata District

 

Note: J. Max Lantz is the father of John M. Lantz.  An obituary also appears in the 8/30/1894 Pennsylvania Methodist, page 1.

 

LANTZ, JOHN MAX       

 

Born: 9-6-1873  Mechanicsburg PA                          married: Verna Taylor

Died: 12-31-1929  Hazleton PA                                 obit: [3/14/1875 – 7/2/1967]

 

1904    license, recommended by Danville St. Paul

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Sunbury

1907    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 191

 

1905-08           East Waterford

1908-13           Penn’s Valley

1913-19           Curwensville

1919-20           Mount Union

1920-25           Altoona Simpson

1925-28           Milton

1928-29           Hazleton St. Paul’s

 

Note: John M. Lantz is the son of J. Max Lantz.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 54.  An obituary also appears in the 1/16/1930 Christian Advocate, page 85.  Some sources give his birth year as 1872.  The tombstone for Mrs. Lantz gives her first name as Vema.

 

LARGE, PARKER WESLEY

 

Born: 2-2-1901  Dorseyville PA                                married: Edna M. Rohman

Died: 5-6-1973                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 415

 

1925    license

1935    ordained deacon, Pittsburgh Conference

1937    ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Interment: Fairmount Cemetery, East Finley PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 306

 

1922-24           Etna-Tylerstown, Christian & Missionary Alliance Church

1924-27           New Millport, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1927-28           ?

1928-32           Craigsville

1932-37           Belsano

1937-44           New Florence

1944-50           Rural Valley

1950-56           Cresson

1956-59           Murrysville-Sardis

1959-63           Claysville-Stoney Point

1963-68           Venetia

1968                retired

                             1968-72      Fairmount

 

Note: Parker W. Large served as a local pastor.

 

LARISH, DAVID

 

Born: 1-5-1830                                                            married: Priscilla D. Austin [7/4/1867]

Died: 7-27-1892                                                          obit: [7/4/1840 – 1/29/1904]

 

1869    license, Wyoming Conference

1872    ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Benton Cemetery, Benton PA

Obit:

 

1868-71           Stoddartsville

1871-72           Sterling

1872-74           Tallmansville

1874-75           Caroline

1875-77           Germany

1877-78           Spencer

1878-81           Lehman

1881                located

1886-88           Schloyerville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: In the Central Pennsylvania Conference, David Larish lived in Berwick and served as a local pastor.  He was a full member the Wyoming Conference 1872-1881, and removed from that position due to ill health.

 

LARKIN, JACOB

 

Born: 1-24-1792  Frederick County MD                    married: Louisa Diamond

Died: 3-29-1857  Baltimore MD                                obit: Baltimore Conference 1881, 75

 

1819    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1821    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1823    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Oliver Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1858, 20

 

1819-20           Aughwick circuit

1820-21           Calvert circuit

1821-22           Fell’s Point

1822-23           Bedford circuit

1823-24           York station

 

1853                on leave

 

Note: Jacob Larkin is a brother to Thomas Larkin (1786-1852) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

LARKIN, THOMAS

 

Born: 12-23-1786  Frederick County MD                  married: Anna Margaret Everhart

Died: 4-12-1852  Chatham OH                                  obit: [2/28/1790 – 11/6/1870]

 

1814    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1816    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Old Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia OH

Obit:

 

1814-15           Montgomery

1815-16           Chambersburg

1816-17           Aughwick circuit

1817-18           Huntingdon circuit

1818-19           Aughwick circuit

1819                located, functioned as a local preacher in Huntingdon County

 

Note: Thomas Larkin is a brother to Jacob Larkin.  Mrs. Larkin is the daughter of Laurence Everhart (1755-1840) and a brother to John Everhart (1791-1860), both of the Baltimore Conference.  This family is the subject of the article “Lorenz Everhart: A True Soldier for Christ” in the 2005 volume of The Chronicle, pages 87-91.

 

LARNED, GEORGE MARVIN

 

Born: 3-8-1834  Luzerne County PA.                        married: Samantha Benscoter

Died: 5-31-1905  Littlestown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 113

 

1872    ordained deacon

1873    admitted on trial

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lehighton Cemetery, Lehighton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 109

 

1873-74           Benton

1874-77           Centralia

1877-80           Conyngham

1880-83           South Heberton

1883-85           Centralia

1885-87           Stockton-Beaver Meadows

1887-90           White Haven

1890-91           Selinsgrove

1891-94           Hazleton Diamond

1894-97           Jeanesville

1897-01           Shrewsbury

1901-02           Camp Hill–Salem

1902-03           retired to CA

                             1903-05      Jeddo-Lattimer-Milnesville

                             1905           Littlestown

 

Note: An obituary also appears in the 9/21/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1527.  Mrs. Larned is the sister of Crawford L. Benscoter. 

 

LATSHAW, ELLIOT S.

 

Born: 3-10-1865  Curryville PA                                 married: Ermina Susannah Gates

Died: 8-20-1908  Curryville PA                                 obit: [3/9/1862 – 11/20/1949]

 

1893    admitted on trial, recommended by Loyalsock circuit

 

Interment: Roaring Spring Cemetery, Roaring Spring PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 107

 

1893-95           Loyalsock

1895-97           LaPorte

1897-98           on leave for health reasons

1898-01           principal, Howard high school

1901-03           Port Matilda

1903                retired

 

Note: Elliot S. Latshaw is the father of Blair Sumner Latshaw (1886-1965) of the Rock River Conference.

 

LAWSON, FRANKLIN ASBURY

 

Born: 2-9-1875  Harrison County, WV                      married: Columbia Mae Osborn

Died: 7-9-1961  Tyrone PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 339

 

1911    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1918    ordained elder

 

Interment: Duncannon Union Cemetery, Duncannon PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 317

 

1907-10           Wharton  (beginning 10/07)

1910-11           Westport 

1911-14           Trout Run

1914-17           Half Moon

1917-19           Fairview

1919-21           Wallaceton

1921-22           New Millport

1922-25           Frankstown

1925-29           Kulpmont

1928-30           Picture Rocks (ending 12/30)

1930-32           North Bend-Hyner (beginning 12/30)

1932-34           Duncannon

1934-37           Port Royal

1937-39           Dudley

1939-40           Harveyville

1940-43           Elysburg

1943-45           Salona-Lamar

1945                retired

                             1945-48      Allenwood

 

LAYCOCK, SHADRACH B.

 

Born: 9-13-1795                                                          married: Susan B. Bowman

Died: 10-31-1882  Newberry, Lycoming Co PA       obit: [11/18/1799 – 4/23/1875]

 

1819    license, local preacher

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Harveyville PA

Obit:

 

 

 

Note: Shadrach B. Bowman of Harvey was a foundryman and inventor who was an extremely active and effective local pastor in Luzerne and Columbia counties.  He is the namesake of Shadrach Laycok Bowman.  Mrs. Laycock is the daughter of the noted Rev. Thomas Bowman (1760-1823) who was ordained by Bishop Asbury.  His daughter Mary Anna is the wife of John W. Haughawout.

 

LEACH, JOHN W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895-96           Blackwell

1896-98           Laporte

 

Note: John W. Leach lived in Marysville and served as a local pastor.  The Laporte charge apparently included appointments at the Holmes school in Maple Hill and in Lopez.  He is sometimes erroneously listed as James W. Leach.

 

LEAK, THOMAS J.

 

Born: 1-31-1839                                                          married: Rose Todd

Died: 11-8-1907                                                          obit:  Pittsburgh Conference 1922,357

 

Interment: Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1908, 78

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference

1891                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1891-94           Harrisburg Grace

1894                transfer to Rock River Conference

 

LEATHERMAN, J. ARTLEY

 

Born: 12-11-1918  Bristol IN                                     married: Naomi Esther Antle

Died: 4-22-2008  Goshen IN                                      obit: [11/19/1920 – 8/19/2016]

 

1940    admitted on trial, Indiana Conference

 

Interment: Oakridge Cemetery, Elkhart IN

Obit:

 

1940-43           Poseyville

1943-46           North Webster

1946-48           Middlebury

1948                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1948-49           associate, Baltimore Mt. Vernon

1949-57           Washington DC Hamline

1957                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1957-63           Carlisle Allison

1963                transfer to South Iowa Conference

                        Des Moines Grace

                        Detroit Metropolitan

                        superintendent, Waterloo District

1985                retired

                             1985-05   visitation pastor, Elkhart Trinity

 

Note: Mrs. Leatherman is the daughter of Edward E. Antle (1885-1956) of the North Indiana Conference.

 

LEBKER, GEORGE A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-98           Kedron

 

Note: George A. Lebker served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

LECKIE, JOHN W.

 

Born: 12-12-1835  Baltimore MD                              married: Ellen S. Study [1863]

Died: 11-13-1913  Hazleton PA                                 obit: [d.1896]

                                                                                    married2: Emilie Phillips

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference obit2:

1865    ordained deacon

1867    ordained elder

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 125

 

1862-63           Birmingham

1863-65           Cassville

1965-67           Rainsburg

1867-68           McConnellstown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           McConnelstown

1869-72           Martinsburg

1872-75           Penn’s Valley

1875-78           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1878-81           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1881-83           student, Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia PA

1883-13           medical doctor, living in Hazleton

 

Note: John W. Leckie left the active ministry and became a medical doctor when his voice failed.

 

 

LEDGARD, HARRY ALDEN

 

Born: 11-17-1935  McKeesport PA                           married: Pauline Louise Harrison

Died:12-27-2017                                                         obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2000, 605

 

1958    admitted on trial, Virginia Conference

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

 

Interment: Glade Cemetery, Walkersville MD

Obit:

 

1959                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959-61           Three Springs

1961-62           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1962-63           research associate, Board of Christian Social Concerns

1963                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1963-67           Sykesville Winfield

1967-69           Lodge Forest

1969-75           Scaggsville Emmanuel

1975-76           sabbatical

1976-82           Brunswick First

1982-88           Walkersville (ending 9/1/88)

1988-89           Annapolis St. Andrew’s (beginning 9/1/88)

1989-94           Arden

1994-95           Havre de Grace (ending 12/1/95)

1995-95           disability leave (beginning 12/1/95)

1998                retired

 

 

LEE, JOSEPH S.

 

Born: 12-16-1808  Lycoming County PA                  married: Eliza Ann Wright

Died: 3-4-1864  Glen Hope PA                                  obit: [10/19/1815 – 12/21/1864]

 

1834    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 37

 

1834-35           Lycoming circuit

1835-36           Lewistown circuit

1836-37           Danville circuit

1837-38           Beaver Meadow mission

1838-39           Concord

1839-41           Clearfield

1841-43           Bedford circuit

1843-45           Warrior’s Mark

1845-46           Huntingdon

1846-48           Williamsburg

1848-50           Northumberland

1850-52           Bloomsburg

1852-53           Muncy

1853-55           Newberry

1855-57           Shrewsbury

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Castle Fin

1858-60           North Baltimore circuit

1860-61           East Harford

1861-63           Glen Hope

1863                retired

 

Note: Joseph S. Lee is the son of onetime Methodist itinerant Timothy Lee Jr. (1778-1860), reported to have been ordained by Francis Asbury, buried in the Methodist Cemetery at New Washington PA.  The passing of Mrs. Lee, “a few months” later, is noted in her husband’s obituary.  Daughter Willeta is the wife of Adolphus D. McCloskey.

 

LEEDS, ROBERT SHANNON

 

Born: c1942                                                                married: Carolyn Rowell

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Panama City FL St. Andrew

1968    admitted on trial, Florida Conference

1968    ordained deacon, Florida Conference

1970    ordained elder, Florida Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           Trinity FL, Alabama-West Florida Conference

1962-62           Highlandview FL (ending 12/31/62); Wallsboro AL (beginning 1/1/63)

1963-64           Woodland

1964-67           student, Penn State University

                             1964-67      Manor Hill (beginning 9/15/64)

1967-70           student, Duke Divinity School in Durham NC

                             1967-70      Efland NC

1970-72           associate, Camp Hill (ending 2/3/72)

1972-97           chaplain, U.S. Air Force (2/4/72 – 8/31/97)

1997-98           Hilltop UT (beginning 8/31/97)

1998-99           ?

1999                Northgate Fellowship CO (3/14/99 – 9/1/99), Rocky Mountain Conference

1999-               Tri-Lakes CO (beginning 9/1/99)

 

Note: As of 2017, Robert S. Leeds was retired and living in Panama City FL.  In 2024, he is living in Conroe TX.

 

LEEDY, PAUL DELLINGER

 

Born: 3-4-1908  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Irene Brandt Force

Died: 8-19-2002  Camp Hill PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 418

 

1931    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 385

 

1928-31           student, Dickinson College

                             1928-29      New Bloomfield

                             1929-31      Rehoboth

1931-32           Ray’s Hill

1932-37           Mt. Holly Springs

1937-42           Wrightsville

1942-43           Gettysburg

1943-44           Boiling Springs (beginning 9/1/43 and ending 6/15/1944)

1944-47           at school

1947-52           faculty, Rutgers University

1952-61           faculty, New York University

1961-76           faculty, American University

1976                retired

 

Note: Paul D. Leedy is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 771.

 

LEFLER, VICTOR BLAINE

 

Born: 1884                                                                  married: Maude N. Stevens

Died: 1966                                                                  obit: [1876 – 1961]

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

 

1920-21           principal, Pleasantville School in Venango County PA

1932-34           Tipton

1941-47           Tipton (beginning11/15/41)

 

Note: V. Blaine Lefler of Altoona worked as an insurance agent and served as a local pastor.  Mount Union was the home of Mrs. Lefler.  Some records give this surname as LEFFLER.

 

LEHMAN, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 11-12-1879  Silver Cliff CO                            married: Olive Francella Pattersom

Died: 6-2-1941  Lewisberry PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 337

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Fourth Street

1912    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Picture Rocks Cemetery, Picture Rocks PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 203

 

1908-10           Loyalsock

1910-12           Emporium circuit

1912-14           Hoytville (moved before end of the year?)

1914-18           Wilburton

1918-22           Picture Rocks

1922-26           Centralia

1926-28           St. Mary’s

1928-               retired

                             1930-32      Wilburton

 

LEHMAN, ROWLAND RITCHEY

 

Born: 3-21-1897  Williamsport PA                            married: Miriam Gouldy

Died: 2-19-1952   Harrisburg PA                               obit: [1896 – 1987]

 

1923    admitted on trial

 

Interment: East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 201

 

1922-23           Picture Rocks

1923-25           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1923-25      Union Chapel, Littleton NJ

1925-29           Milesburg-Unionville

1929-36           Northumberland

1936-42           Clearfield Trinity

1942-47           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1947-50           executive director, Minister’s Pension Plan

1950-52           assistant to president, Dickinson College

 

Note: Rowland R. Lehman is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.

 

LEICHLITER, JOSEPH T.

 

Born: 8-8-1915  Scottdale PA                                    married:

Died: 11-9-1967  Lock Haven PA                              obit:

 

Interment:  Green Ridge Memorial Park, Connellsville PA

Obit:

 

1958-62           Harrison Valley Federated

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Harrison Valley Federated

 

Note: Joseph T. Leichliter served as a local pastor.  His denominational affiliation is unknown, but he appears to be serving with the Baptists in the 1940’s in New Castle PA.  He may be associated with the Church of God, General Conference, of Findlay OH.  The Central Pennsylvania Conference journals erroneously list him as James Leichliter.

 

LEIDY, FRANK WATSON     

 

Born: 8-16-1868  Shirleysburg PA                             married: Grace E. Burleigh

Died: 5-8-1938  Forty-Fort PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 232

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona District

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Tyrone Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 211

 

1890-91           Shawville

1891-93           Pleasant Gap

1893-97           Williamsburg

1897-00           Wallaceton

1900-03           Houtzdale

1903-04           Hastings

1904-08           Northumberland

1908-12           Mifflintown

1912-14           Harrisburg Epworth

1914-18           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1918-22           Ashland

1922-25           Barnesboro

1825-32           York Grace

1832-37           Wrightsville

1928-38           New Oxford-Ortanna

 

Note: Frank W. Leidy is the son of George Leidy.

 

 

LEIDY, GEORGE E.

 

Born: 8-5-1840  Mercersburg PA                               married: Anna Brown

Died: 1-8-1919  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 86

                                                                                    married2: Katherine Brittain

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf.         obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 135

 

Interment: Mound Cemetery, northwest of Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 130

 

1861-62           Clinton circuit

1862-63           Newberry

1863-64           Philipsburg

1864-65           Nippenose

1865-66           Great Island

1866-68           Howard

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shirleysburg

1869-72           Salladasburg

1872-74           Newton Hamilton

1874-75           Duncannon

1875-77           Carlisle

1877-80           Curwensville

1880-84           Clearfield

1884-85           Altoona Eighth  Avenue

1885-89           superintendent, Altoona District

1889-91           Tyrone

1891-93           Huntingdon First

1893-98           Sunbury

1898-00           Lewisburg

1900-02           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1902-07           Bedford

1907-09           Milton

1909-11           Mount Union

1911-14           Saxton

1914                retired

                            1914-15       Montoursville (beginning 9/21/1914)

 

Note: George Leidy is the father of Frank W. Leidy.  The second Mrs. Leidy is the granddaughter of Alem Brittain.

 

 

LEILICH, JOHN LUTHER

 

Born: 12-12-1854  Frederick MD                              married: Jennie Elizabeth Smith

Died: 7-16-1905  Lock  Haven PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 86

                                                                                    married2: Mary Lucinda McLaughlin

1879    admitted, Maryland Conference                     obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 133

               of the Methodist Protestant Church

               (#284 in Lewis’ 1903 list)

 

Interment: Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 116

 

1878-79           assistant, Caroline

1879-80           Rainsburg

1880-82           Sussex

1882                withdrew

1882-83           Blain, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1883                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1883-84           Blain

1884-85           Robinsonville

1885-86           Thompsontown

1886-89           Concord

1889-92           Three Springs

1892-94           Jeanesville

1894-95           Northumberland

1895-97           Newport

1897-00           Harrisburg St. Paul’s.

1900-01           Lewisburg

1901-04           superintendent, Utah Mission

1904-05           Lock Haven East Main Street

 

Note: An obituary for John L. Leilich also appears in the 7/27/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1192, and a tribute appears in the 3/1/1906 Christian Advocate.

 

 

LENIG, FRANKLIN L.

 

Born: 11-10-1857  Clearfield County PA                  married: Dora Myrtle Irwin

Died: 12-7-1933  Evansville IN                                 obit: St. Louis Conference 1899, 180

                                                                                    married2: Ellen Baum

1881    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: [1871-1961]

            recommended by Benezette

 

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville IN

Obit: Indiana Conference 1934, 452

 

1881                transfer to St. Louis Conference

                        Bolivar

                        Springfield

                        St. Louis Good Avenue

                        St. Louis Dr. Ferry Memorial

                        superintendent, Sedalia District

                        Ft. Scott KS

                        Lawrence KS

                        transfer to North Indiana Conference

                        Ft. Wayne Wayne Street

                        transfer to Indiana Conference

                        Connersville

                        Bedford

                        Evansville Simpson

                        Rockport

1930                retired

 

LePAGE, JOHN EDWARD

 

Born: 4-24-1883  Cumberland OH                             married: Irene Lowden [9/3/1913]

Died: 6-3-1926  Guernsey County OH                      obit: [8/2/1891 – 10/24/1951]

 

1915    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Bethel Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Bluebell OH

Obit:

 

1908-09           student, Ohio Wesleyan University

1909-10           McKendree OH

1910-13           student, Boston University School of Theology

1913-15           ?

1915-16           Shawville

1916-18           Glen Hope

1918-19           Harveyville

1919-20           Jamison City

1920-21           on leave

1921                located

 

Note: John E. LePage is a brother to Franklin Arthur LePage (1897-1961) of the Ohio Conference and Herbert W. LePage (1900-1977) of the North Indiana Conference.  Another brother Samuel Maynard LePage (1884-1960) was a Congregational pastor and a fourth brother Thomas Homer LePage (1882-1957) may have been a local Methodist preacher.

 

LEPLEY, WILIAM ALBERT

 

Born: 1-1-1858 near New Berlin PA                          married: Julia Annie Glover

Died: 2-15-1934  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 150

                                                                                    married2: Alice J. Stadden

1888    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 259

            recommended by Buckhorn    

1889    ordained deacon, recommended by Buckhorn

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 213

 

1887-89           Buckhorn (beginning 10/87)

1889-90           Muhlenburg

1890-93           Elysburg

1893-96           Muncy Valley

1896-97           Duboistown

1897-99           Orbisonia

1899-02           Schellsburg

1902-04           Slate Run

1904-06           Williamsport Market Street

1906-10           Coalport-Irvona

1910-15           Newton Hamilton

1915-19           Milesburg-Unionville

1919-21           Flemington

1921-24           Hughesville

1924-29           Beaver Meadow

1929-31           Duncannon

1931-33           Kulpmont

1933                retired

 

Note: William A. Lepley is the grandfather of Paul H. Watts and a brother to Daniel S. Lepley (1845-1924) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association.

 

LEVERGOOD, CHARLES CLYDE SR

 

Born: 12-13-1895  York PA                                       married: Mary Etta Atkinson

Died: 4-7-1972  Charlotte NC                                                obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 424

 

?          license, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Sharon Memorial Pak, Charlotte NC

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 333

 

1925-26           Evansburg

1926-28           Bethel circuit

1928-29           Tullytown & Emilie

1929-30           Tullytown & Emilie & Falsington

1930                 Washington Boro (ending 8/30)

1930                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1930-33           student, Lycoming College

                             1930-33      Trout Run (beginning 8/30)

1933-36           Clearville

1936-39           Bakerton

1939-42           Wolfsburg

1942-44           Claysburg

1944                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1944-46           Goodwill circuit

1946-47           superintendent, Methodist Orphanage

1947-61           Cherry Valley (beginning 11/47)

1961-67           St. Clair

1967                retired

                             1967-68      Reading Grace

                             1968-72      associate, Charlotte NC Hickory Grove (beginning 10/68)

 

Note: C. Clyde Levergood served as a local pastor.

 

LEWIS, EDWARD LESTER

 

Born: 6-20-1900  Philadelphia PA                             married: Helen Edith Bahrenburg

Died: 11-25-1982                                                        obit: California-Nevada Conference 2002, 291

 

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Ennisville

1929    ordained deacon

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1983, 268

 

1924-25           Salona-Lamar

1925-26           Waterville

1926-28           Ennisville

1928-31           Alexandria

1931-34           Robertsdale

1934-36           Houtzdale

1936-40           Mechanicsburg

1940-42           Newport

1942-47           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1947-48           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1948                transfer to California Conference

 

Note: As of 10-2-2000, contact information for the son of Edward L. Lewis is:

John H. Lewis, 810 Willow Valley Lakes Drive, Willow Street, PA  17584-9036.

(717)464-8909  jlewis@willowgables.com.  As of that date Mrs. Lewis was 98 and living in CA.

 

LEWIS, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1939-42           Newville

 

Note: James Lewis served as a local pastor.  In April 1943, he accepted a call to be pastor of the First Lutheran Church of Windber PA.

 

LEWIS, ROYCE O.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           Knoxville

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Knoxville

1964-69           Montandon

 

Note: Royce O. Lewis served as a local pastor.  He may be the Rev. Royce Lewis who later served in the Church of the Nazarene.

 

LIBBY, ASA C.

 

Born: [Union County?]                                               married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1922-24           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1922-23      Elimsport & Maple Hill

                             1923-24      Wallis Run

 

Note: Asa C. Libby served as a local pastor.  There was an Asa Clifton Libby (8/19/1890-1937), married to Hester Campbell Davis, associated with the Salvation Army in Tyrone, Meadville and Harrisburg prior to 1922.

 

LIGHT, WARREN DELMAR, JR.

 

Born: 2-22-1934  Jonestown PA                                married: Dorothy Mary Weatherby

Died: 10-8-2012  Cloucester NJ                                 obit: [7/7/1931 – 12/1/2011]

 

1961    license, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Jonestown PA

Obit:

 

1959-63           student, Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ

1963-64           student, Eastern Baptist Seminary in St, Davids PA

1964-65           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                        transfer to Rock River Conference

1967                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1967-69           McVeytown

1969                transfer to Southern New Jersey Conference

 

Note: In 2003 Warren D. Light Jr. was a retired member of the Greater New Jersey Conference.

 

LIGHTNER, R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1893-94           Hustontown (2nd half of the year: 1894, 63)

 

LILLY, PAUL FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-23-1919  Hazleton PA                                   married: Geraldine L. Grace

Died: 3-30-1996                                                          obit: [8/14/1915 – 2/10/1981]

 

Interment: Crown Crest Memorial Park, Hyde PA

Obit:

 

1939-41           Cogan Valley (ending 8/15/41)

1941-43           Hopewell (8/15/41 – 2/21/43)

1943                “withdrew”

                       

Note: Paul F. Lilly has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was later pastor of the Fundamental Bible Church in Curwensville PA.

 

 

LINGENFELTER, IRA LEE

 

Born: 3-20-1932  Reynoldsville PA                           married: Edna R. Roush

Died: 2-25-2010  Dubois PA                                      obit:

 

1963    license, Western Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Hazen

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment: Reynoldsville Cemetery, Reynoldsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 169

 

1962-66           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1962-64      Roxbury, Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1964           transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1964-65      Roxbury

                             1965-66      Doylesburg

1966-73           New Freedom

1973-78           New Bloomfield Parish

1978-81           Enola First-Grace

1981-84           Selinsgrove Christ

1984-88           Millersburg Hebron

1988-91           Liverpool

1991-94           Fairmount

1994                retired

 

LINGENFELTER, WILLIAM HOWE

 

Born: 7-11-1833  East Freedom PA                           married: Rebecca T. Easton [9/3/1857]

Died: 3-22-1903  Phillipsburg PA                              obit: [9/17/1835 – 3/15/1916]

 

1885    ordained elder

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit: [Altoona Tribune 3/23/1903, page 1]

 

1885-86           Coalport

…

1889-91           Morrisdale

 

Note: W.H. Lingenfelter lived in Phillipsburg and served as a local pastor.  Find-a-grave reports G as the middle initial and Iowa as the birthplace.

 

LINN, HUGH

 

Born: 11-18-1832  Shirley twp, Huntingdon Co PA  married: Caroline [Carrie] Feight [3/26/1861]

Died: 5-26-1894  Shelby IA                                       obit: [2/19/1836 – 12/24/1913]

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Shelby Cemetery, Shelby IA

Obit: Des Moines Conference 1894, 234

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Allegheny

1858-59           Cassville

1859-60           New Washington

1860-61           Bedford Circuit

1861-62           McConnellsburg

1862-63           Bellefonte circuit

1863-66           Glen Hope

1866-69           Hampstead

1869                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-72           McConnellsburg

1872-75           Duncansville

1875-77           Grahamton

1877-79           Pine Grove

1879-80           located

1880-88           on leave

1888                transfer to Des Moines Conference

 

Note: Obituaries for Hugh Linn also appear in the Pennsylvania Methodist for 6/7/1894, 6/14/1894 (page 4), and 6/28/1894 (page 2).  Mrs. Linn later married widower William Henry Stevens.

 

LINK [MONTGOMERY], JOANNE CLARKE

 

Born:                                                               married: Kendall Link

Died:                                                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 482

 

1956    license, recommended by State College St. Paul’s

1957    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1975    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-60           at school

1960                discontinued

1974                re-instated

1974-79           associate, Harrisburg Derry Street

1979-88           Harrisburg Epworth

1988-95           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1995-02           Hummelstown Trinity

2002                retired

                             2004-05      Harrisburg Paxton

                             2006-07      Harrisburg CrossPoint (beginning 8/1/2006)

                             2007-08      Harrisburg Grace (beginning 11/1/2007) 

 

Note: Joanne Montgomery Link is the daughter of Frank W. Montgomery.  Kendall Link is a pastor in the United Church of Christ.

 

LIPPINCOTT, HAINES HALLOCH

 

Born: 7-21-1891  Franklin NJ                                    married: (never married)

Died: 12-23-1968  Morristown NJ                             obit:

 

1917    admitted on trial, Blue Ridge Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Tuckerton NJ

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1969, 389

 

?-?                   student, Pennington Seminary in Pennington NJ

                             ?-?              Chatsworth NJ

1913-15           student, Dickinson College

                             1913-14      Orrtanna

                             1914-15      Newville (ending fall 1915)

1915-17           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1915-17      West Chelmsford MA (beginning fall 1915)

1917                “transfer” to Blue Ridge Conference

1917-26           chaplain, US Navy (12/6/1917 – 8/14/1926)

                             1918           transfer to Baltimore Conference

1927-30           Baltimore Gorsuch

1930                retired

 

Note: Haines H. Lippincott is a brother to Samuel T. Lippincott.

 

 

LIPPINCOTT, JOSHUA ALLAN

 

Born: 1-31-1835  Medford NJ                                    married: Harriet Barlow

Died: 12-30-1906  Los Angeles CA                           obit: Philadelphia Conference 1899,94

 

1865    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference; recommended by Scranton

 

Interment: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City MO

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1907, 76

 

1865-66           Dunmore

1866-69           principal, model school in Trenton NJ

1669-72           faculty, private school in Baltimore MD

1872-74           Hackensack NJ

1874-83           faculty, Dickinson College
                             1875-76  Chambersburg (part year), Central PA Conference (see 1876,37)

1883-89           president, University of Kansas

1889-92           Topeka First

1892                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1892-96           Philadelphia Arch Street

1896-97           Philadelphia Nineteenth Street

1897-06           corresponding secretary, Philadelphia Methodist Hospital

1906                retired

 

 

LIPPINCOTT, SAMUEL THOMAS

 

Born: 4-18-1890  New York City NY                        married: Lillian Frances Spraker

Died: 7-15-1952  Chatham MA                                  obit: New England Southern Conf 1953, 154

 

1917    ordained deacon, New England Southern Conference

1920    admitted on trial, New England Southern Conference

1921    ordained elder, New England Southern Conference

 

Interment: Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden MA

Obit: New England Southern Conference 1953, 154

 

1915-16           student, Dickinson College

                             1916           Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Gove Furnace (ending fall 1916)

1916-19           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1918-19      East Dennis Wesleyan Church 

1920                “transfer” to New England Southern Conference     

1920-23           Chatham

1923-28           Taunton North Dighton

1928-31           Central Falls Embury 

1931-35           Attleboro Centenary

1935-40           Norwich Trinity

1940-46           East Providence Haven

1946-52           Taunton Calvary

 

Note: Samuel T. Lippincott is a brother to Haines H. Lippincott.  He listed in the 1952 Who’s Who in Methodism.

 

LITTLE, CHARLES JOSEPH

 

Born: 9-9-1840  Philadelphia PA                   married: Anna Marina Elizabeth Schultze

Died: 3-11-1911                                              obit: Rock River Conference 1905, 114

 

1862    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago IL

Obit: Rock River Conference 1911, 124 [and Philadelphia Conference 1911, 94]

 

1862-67          

1867-70           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1870-71           study abroad, Berlin Germany

1871-72           Chambersburg First [St. Paul’s] (beginning 9/71)

1872-74           Philadelphia Christ

1874-85           faculty, Dickinson College

                             1876-77      Carlisle Emory Chapel

1885-90           faculty, Syracuse University

1890                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1890-91           faculty, Syracuse University

1891-95           faculty, Garrett Theological Seminary

1895-98           president, Garrett Theological Seminary

1898                transfer to Rock River Conference

1898-11           president, Garrett Theological Seminary

 

LITTLE, JOHN HAYS

 

Born: 2-22-1828  PA                                                  married: Margaret Ann Campbell [1852]

Died: 6-29-1897  Franklin County PA                       obit: [7/12/1835 – 10/26/1900]

 

1869    quarterly conference license, Concord

?          ordained deacon

1883    ordained elder, recommended by Concord

 

Interment: Concord Union Cemetery, Concord PA

Obit:

 

1872-73           Concord

 

Note: John H. Little served as a local pastor.

 

LITTLETON, CHARLES BYRON

 

Born: 10-21-1874  St. Joseph MO                              married: Cordelia Ann Weems

Died: 5-5-1964  Huntingdon PA                                obit: [1873 – 1913]

                                                                                    married2: Grace V. Garrett

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 339


1892    admitted on trial, Arkansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

1896    ordained deacon, Arkansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

1916    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1921    admitted on trial again, page 42

            (notation made that he was admitted under a misapprehension four years ago)

1922    credentials restored by Kansas Conference (see Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 44)

 

Interment: Mapleton I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 354

 

1892-93           Ravenden Springs

1893-94           Texarkana

1894-96           Argenta-Beebe

1896-97           Beebe-Judsonia

1897-98           Springdale-Fayetteville

1898-99           Eureka Springs

1899-00           superintendent, Little Rock District

1900-01           Cotton Plant- Howell, White River Conference [MES]

1901                withdrew from Arkansas Conference, associated with White River Conference

1901-02           Cotton Plant Howell

1902                character not passed in White River Conference [MES]

1902                transfer to South Kansas Conference [MES]

1902-04           Cherryvale

1904-06           Mound Valley

1906-11           Elk City

1911-13           Edna

1914                withdrew

1915-16           Manor Hill, Central Pennsylvania Conference [ME]

1916                admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1916-17           Manor Hill

1917-23           Martinsburg

1923-26           Coalport-Irvona

1926-30           Hopewell

1930-31           Robertsdale-Woodvale

1931-32           Claysburg

1932-36           Mill Hall

1936-45           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1945-47           Orbisonia

1947                retired

 

Note: Charles B. Littleton is the father of William H. Littleton.

 

 

LITTLETON, WILLIAM HOWARD   

 

Born: 6-20-1923  Coalport PA                                   married: Kathryn Adelia Shearer

Died: 2-22-1996                                                          obit: [11/23/1924 – 7/11/2008]

 

1964   admitted on trial

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Duncannon PA

Obit:

 

1963-66           Ashland

1966-68           Fort Loudon

1968-71           Duncannon-Roseglen 

 

Note: William H. Littleton is the son of Charles B. Littleton.  He ceased being a member of conference in 1968 and served Duncannon as a local pastor, after which he continued as an active lay member of Duncannon Asbury.

 

LLOYD, J.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-19           Bressler (beginning fall 1917 – see 1918,73)

 

Note: J.M. Lloyd served as a local pastor.  Curiously his address is given as Sunbury, while his appointment was south of Harrisburg.  Although one reference calls him “Dr. J.M. Lloyd, noted lecturer,” this is probably not the noted Welsh preacher Rev. Dr. J. Morfryn Lloyd of Forty Fort who died 1-27-1926.

 

LLOYD, JOHN ZACHARIAS

 

Born: 1818  Shropshire, England                               married: Elizabeth Miller Clayton

Died: 12-6-1903  Swedesboro NJ                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 104

married2: Sarah E. Eastlack
obit2:  

1840    admitted on trial, British Wesleyan Society  

1846    admitted in trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 114

 

1846-47           Clearfield

1847-48           Luzerne

1848-49           Greencastle

1849-50           Newport

1850-52           Deerfield

1852-53           Stonerstown

1853-55           McConnellsburg

1855-56           Cumberland

1856-57           Westernport

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Westernport

1858-60           Great Island

1860-62           Catawissa

1962-63           Beaver Meadow

1863-65           Smithsburg

1865-66           on leave

1866-68           Castle Fin

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Castle Fin

1869-71           Shippensburg circuit

1871-73           Shrewsbury

1873-75           Half Moon

1875-76           Beech Creek

1876-77           Iola

1877-79           Mifflinville

1879-81           Trevorton

1881-84           Catawissa Circuit

1884-85           Washingtonville

1885-86           Burnt Cabins

1886                retired

 

Note: Obituaries for John Z. Lloyd also appear in the 12/17/1903 Pennsylvania Methodist, page 1, and the 1/14/1904 Christian Advocate, page 79.  A brief biography is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 412.  John Z. Lloyd had no children.

 

LLOYD, JOSHUA KENNEDY

 

Born: 2-22-1857  Huntingdon PA                              married: Anna Catherine Fetterhoff

Died: 9-21-1914  Montoursville PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 137

                                                                                    married2: Orpah Rebecca Demaree

1881    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 233

            recommended by West Huntingdon    

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 117

 

1881-83           Saxton

1883-86           Woodland

1886-88           Williamsburg

1888-92           Saxton

1892-96           Port Royal

1896-01           Martinsburg

1901-06           Altoona Chestnut Avenue.

1906-11           Williamsport Grace

1911-13           Danville St. Paul’s

1913-14           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1914-14           Montoursville (ending 9/21/1914)

 

Note: The following appeared in the 8/5/1906 Philadelphia Inquirer, page 3: WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Aug. 4.—Rev. J. M. Lloyd, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, this city, and chaplain of the Fifth Regiment, N.G.P. [National Guard of Pennsylvania], believes himself partially embalmed as a result of drinking milk “doctored” with formaldehyde, at the recent camp at Gettysburg. Pastor Lloyd has been ill since returning from camp, has largely lost the sense of taste, has been getting weaker and weaker, and suffers intensely.

 

LOGAN, ABNER CLINTON

 

Born: 4-19-1868  Carlisle PA                                     married: Claire Gearhart Helwig

Died: 4-30-1929  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 202

 

1901    admitted on trial

1903    ordained deacon

1905    ordained elder

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Ashland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 184

 

1901-03           Buckhorn

1903-04           Beach Haven

1904-06           Trout Run

1906-08           Cogan Valley

1908-10           Roaring Creek

1910-11           Millville-Jerseytown

1911-13           York Springs

1913-15           Bloomingdale

1915-16           Snydertown

1916-20           Penfield

1923-24           Clearfield circuit

1924-26           Cherry Tree

1926-27           Ramey

1927-28           New Millport

1928-29           Karthaus

 

Note: An obituary for Abner C. Logan also appears in the 5/23/1929 Christian Advocate, page 662.

 

LOGAN, LEMUEL LAWRENCE

 

Born: 2-5-1836  Near Port Royal PA                         married: Rebecca Ellen Anderson

Died: 12-12-1901  Shawville PA                               obit: [d. 7/21/1882]

                                                                                    married2: Almira Grubb

1872    quarterly conference license,                          obit2: [1849 – 12/8/1931]

            Williamstown & Tower City charge of the Philadelphia Conference

1886    ordained deacon, recommended by Herndon circuit

1900    ordained elder

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 135

 

1883-86           Herndon

1886-88           Thompsontown

1888-93           Allegheny

1893-96           Utahville

1896-97           Karthaus (did not finish the year)

1897-02           Shawville (started during the 1896-97 conference year)

 

Note: Lemuel L. Logan served as a local pastor.  The second Mrs. Logan is buried in the Grubb family plot in the St. Stephens Episcopal Churchyard, Thompsontown PA. Her obituary is in the Harrisburg Evening News for 12/9/1931, page 8.

 

LOGSDON, S. FRANKLIN

 

Born: 3-20-1906  [Frostburg MD?]                            married: Anne N. _____

Died: 8-13-1987  Largo FL                                        obit: [1/3/1906 – 11/29/1998]

 

 

Interment: Serenity Gardens Memorial Park, Largo FL

Obit:

 

1927-28           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1927-28      Picture Rocks circuit

                             1928-20      Waterville (starting fall 1928)

1936-               Erie PA Bethel Baptist

                        Buffalo NY

1942-50           London ONT Central Baptist

1950-52           Chicago IL Moody Memorial

1952-57           Holland MI Immanuel Baptist

 

 

Note: S. Franklin Logsdon was a popular Bible conference speaker, the author of numerous books, and a central figure in the NASV-KJV Bible controversy.

 

 

LONG, DANIEL LEROY

 

Born: 9-4-1938  York PA                                           married: Joyace J. Freer

Died: 1-20-1998                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 268

 

1964    license, recommended by York First

1968    ordained deacon

1973    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 442

 

1964-68           Shade Valley (ending 1/15/68)

1968-69           Harrisonville (beginning 1/15/68 and ending 10/30/69)

1969-72           Ulster (beginning 11/1/69)

1972-74           Petersburg

1974-80           Rebersburg

1980-84           Salladasburg

1984-85           Selinsgrove Christ (ending 11/1/85)

1985-94           Beach Haven (beginning 11/1/85 and ending 3/1/94)

1994                disability leave (beginning 3/1/94)

 

 

LONG, DAVID LAPORTE

 

Born: 5-26-1914  Tyrone PA                                      married: Veda Irene Briggs

Died: 5-15-1995  New Cumberland PA                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 416

 

1936    license, recommended by Tyrone First

1938    admitted on trial

1938    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Eastlawn Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 419

 

1938-39           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1939-40           Ramey-Blandburg

1940-43           Hastings

1943-47           Danville Trinity

1947-50           Williamsport Market Street

1950-53           Shippensburg

1953-57           Woolrich

1957-61           Williamsport Calvary, Williamsport

1961-67           Hollidaysburg First

1967-71           Mechanicsburg Wesley

1971-79           Harrisburg Epworth

1979                retired

 

Note: David L. Long is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 794.

 

LONG, H.B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881-82           Wharton

 

Note: H.B. Long served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

LONG, JOHN WILLIAM

 

Born: 11-3-1882  Sussex County DE                         married: Mildred Lee Lewis

Died: 5-5-1956  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 362

 

1907    admitted on trial

1909    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Williamsport Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 229

 

1902-04           student, Wesley Junior College in Dover DE

                             1902-04      Henderson MD, Wilmington Conference

1904-06           student, Dickinson College

                             1904-06      Mechanicsburg Salem

1906-10           Littlestown

1910-15           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1915-17           Clearfield West Side

1917-22           State College

1922-48           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary/Junior College

1948-55           president, Lycoming College

1955                retired

 

 

LONG, JOSIAH P.

 

Born: 3-3-1832  near Reading PA                              married: Martha J. Buchannan

Died: 5-29-1880  Liberty PA                                      obit: [12/23/1833 – 7/12/1912]

 

1863    license, Reading St. Peter’s in the Philadelphia Conference

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Laporte circuit

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 70

 

1867-68           Laporte

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Middleburg [Snyder County, only year for an M.E. appointment here]

1869-71           Shirleysburg

1871-72           Marklesburg

1872-73           McConnellstown

1873-75           Milroy

1875-78           McConnelsburg

1878-79           Castle Fin

1879-80           Liberty Valley

 

Note: An obituary for Josiah P. Long also appears in the 8/4/1880 Conference News, page 4.  This may be the Rev. Josiah P. Long who was a licensed preacher in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church 1864-66; see the United Brethren pastor files.

 

LONG, MERREL DAVID

 

Born: 5-14-1902  Neelyton PA                                  married: Helen Ella Hopkins

Died: 1-7-1963  Selinsgove PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 417

 

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Inter.  Evergreen Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 331

 

1927-28           Wells Tannery (beginning 10/1/1927; see 1928, 634)

1928-29           Ennisville

1929-30           Frankstown-Canoe Creek

1930-31           Cassville

1931-34           East Waterford

1934-35           Glen Hope

1935-38           Bloomingdale

1938-39           Alexandria

1939-43           Dudley

1943-46           Airville

1946-49           Centralia

1949-52           Danville Trinity

1952-55           Burnham

1955-57           Stewartstown

1957-59           Altoona Mardorf

1959-61           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1961-63           Bendersville

 

Note: Merrel [aka Merrell] D. Long is the father of Merrell D. Long Jr.  Mrs. Long is a brother to Henry F. Hopkins, Martin W. Hopkins and Thomas J. Hopkins.

 

 

LONG, MERREL DAVID, JR.

 

Born: 3-7-1924  PA                                                    married: Hilda Marguerite Gipe (8/8/1946)

Died: 3-14-2004  CA                                                  obit: [1/21/1925 – 2/10/2014]

 

1950    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1947-48           Fayetteville

1948-52           Newark Conference

1952-55           Watsontown

1955                permitted to withdraw under Par. 953 of 1952 Discipline

 

19??-62           vice-president, Tarkio College in Tarkio MO

 

Note: Merrel D. Long Jr is the son of Merrel D. Long.  In 1963 M. David Long was living in Omaha NE.  His last residence before death is listed as La Habra CA.  Mrs. Long is buried in the Bethel UMC Cemetery in her native York County, but apparently not so for her husband.

 

LONG, ROY E.

 

Born: 7-29-1914  Trevorton PA                                 married: Lenore G. Schriver

Died: 10-31-1994  Jersey Shore PA                           obit: [4/4/1919 – 10/22/2001]

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:

 

1939-41           Waterville (beginning 9/39)

1941-42           Morris (ending 10/1/42)

1942                “withdrew”

 

Note: Roy E. Long served as a local pastor.  He graduated from the Practical Bible Institute in NY and attended Lycoming College.  He may have served in The Central Pennsylvania Conference while a student at Lcoming College.  The Longs attended the Maranatha Bible Church.

 

LOREMAN, GRANT EDWARD

 

Born: 5-14-1920  near Riverside PA                          married: Frances Louise Bebb

Died: 6-27-2009                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 298

 

1968    license, recommended by Riverside

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 169

 

1967-68           Irish Valley

1968-73           Centre Grove

1973-78           Mount Pleasant Mills

1978-81           Williamsport High Street

1981-83           Mifflinville

1983-85           no appointment

1985                retired

 

Note: Grant E. Loreman served as a local pastor.  He was a painter and contractor before entering the ministry.

 

 

LOUZECKY, VACLAV JAMES

 

Born: 9-11-1868  Czech Republic                              married: Elizabeth B. Berdyck

Died: 7-17-1950  Lakewood OH                                obit: [1883 – 8/23/1961]

 

Interment: Sunset Memorial Park, North Olmstead OH

Obit: North-East Ohio Conference 1951, 745

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference

1904-05           Hazleton Anthracite Mission, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1905                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1905-12           Hazleton Anthracite Mission

1912                transfer to East Ohio Conference

 

LOVE, DAVID GOODLOE III

 

Born: 12-1-1935  Kingstree SC                      married: Mary Joyce Ward (1960)

Died: 2-8-2020  York PA                               obit:

 

1960    license, Columbia TN First

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 339

 

1962-63           associate, Carlisle Allison

1963-65           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                             1964-65      associate, Chicago Christian Fellowship Methodist

1965                transfer to Rock River Conference

1965-66           associate, Chicago Christian Fellowship Methodist

1966-69           Madison

1969                transfer to South Carolina Conference

1969-70           Hartsville-Twitty

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-73           Harrisburg St. Mark’s (ending 11/14/73)

1973-79           chaplain, Quincy Home (beginning 11/15/73)

1979-89           disability leave

1989-95           Berwick St. Paul’s

1995-00           disability leave

2000-01           Loganville Emmanuel

2001                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Love is the daughter of Rev. ____ Ward, believed to be Methodist.

 

 

LOVELAND, REUBEN JR.

 

Born: 11-29-1853  Lamar PA                                     married: (single)

Died: 9-20-1879  Lamar PA                                      obit:

 

1876    admitted on trial

1878    ordained deacon

 

Inter.  St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Lamar PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 70

 

1876-77           Benton circuit

1877-78           Bloomingdale

1878                on leave for health reasons

 

Note: An obituary for Reuben Loveland also appears in the 10/9/1879 Dickinson Liberal [Williamsport Dickinson Seminary], page 5.

 

LOWER, SAMUEL

 

Born: 4-14-1827  PA                                                  married: Mary Ann Van Horn

Died: 9-1-1898  PA                                                    obit: [10/16/1830 – 2/18/1911]

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1894-95           Altoona Epworth [Broad Avenue]

 

Note: Samuel Lower served as a local pastor.  He is believed to be the Samuel Lower that worked for the Altoona Brush Company on Greene Avenue.

 

LUMPKIN, OTIS ALLEN JR.

 

Born: 7-8-1940  Richmond VA                                  married: Jean _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1959    license, Wilmington DE Hillcrest

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-67           Harrisonville (beginning 9/16/61)

1967-72           Mifflinburg  (beginning 12/15/67)

1972-75           at school

1975-02           pastoral care coordinator, Geisinger Medical Center

2002                retired

 

LUNDY, HARVEY S.

 

Born: 11-23-1846  Williamsport PA              married: Lucy Ermina Graham

Died: 9-20-1941  Los Angeles CA                 obit: Southwest Kansas Conference 1914, 53

 

1868    license

1872    ordained local deacon

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Cogan Valley circuit

1878    ordained elder

 

Interment: Iglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood CA

Obit: Central Kansas Conference 1941, 309 

 

1871-72           Salladasburg

1874-75           Pine Creek

1875-76           Muncy Creek

1876-79           Liberty Valley

1879-81           Snow Shoe

1881-83           Littlestown (ending 10/17/82)

1883                transfer to South-West Kansas Conference

1884                Arkansas City

…

1900-01           Mill Hall

 

Note: Harvey S. Lundy is a first cousin to the father of Rev. Robert Leroy Lundy (1898-1987) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  He was educated at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, served in the Eighth PA Cavalry 1864-65, and served as a local pastor 1868-74.

LUNT, ANDERS ROBERT

 

Born: 3-20-1945  Williamsport PA                            married: Joan _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-66           student, Lycoming College

1966-69           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1969-70           Mt. Holly Springs

1970                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1970-72           associate, Lansdowne

1972                transfer to Baltimore Conference (12/1/72)

1972-79           associate council director

1979-91           Ellicott City Glen Mar

1991-97           Glen Gary Greater Parish

1997-10           Glen Mar

2010                retired

                             2010-17      director of Grow Congregations

 

 

LURING, ALBERT SMITH

 

Born: 3-7-1868  Mt. Carmel IN                                 married: Hattie L. Bohn

Died: 5-13-1954  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Des Moines Conference 1895, 323

                                                                                    married2: Mary Emma Robbins

1893    admitted on trial, Des Moines Conference     obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 206

1897    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Kulp Methodist Church Cemetery, Columbia County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 232

 

                        North Indiana Conference

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1907-09           Buckhorn

1909-11           Wolfsburg

1911-14           East Waterford

1914-15           Riddlesburg

1915-16           McConnellsburg

1916-21           Snydertown

1921-23           Espy-Light Street

1923-25           Martinsburg

1925-28           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1928-31           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1931-33           Alexandria

1933-35           Beach Haven

1935-38           Catawissa circuit

1938                retired

 

Note: Albert Smith Luring is the great-grandfather of Beth E. Jones of the Wyoming Conference.

 

LUSK, WILLIAM RAY

 

Born: 2-20-1931                                                                      married: Eunice Bellamy

Died: 6-8-2015  Lawrenceville PA                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 362

 

1966    license

1967    ordained deacon

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Knowlton Cemetery, Gaines PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 266

 

1950                approved pastor, Missionary Assembly Churches

1950-51           Sunderlinville PA

1951-53           Williamsport PA

1953-57           Wolcott NY Faith Tabernacle

1957-63           Easton ME Pentecostal Church

1963-64           Elmira Heights NY Faith Tabernacle

1964                local pastor, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1964-72           Gaines-Galeton

1972-89           Lawrenceville

1989-96           disability leave

1996                retired

                             2000-06      Burlington

 

LUTZ, ANDREW

           

Born: 12-10-1822  PA                                                married: Susanna Santee [1/10/1846]

Died: 4-13-1913  Forty Fort PA                                 obit: [11/9/1828 – 1/8/1921]

 

Interment: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort PA

Obit: [Wilkes-Barre Record 4/16/1913, page 12]

 

1880-81           assistant, Beach Haven.

 

Note: Andrew Lutz appears to have served as a local pastor. Reportedly, he was an ardent advocate of prohibition and “for many years he occupied a charge at Lehman [Wyoming Conference].”  In 1881 he is listed as collecting the missionary offering at Plonk’s appointment of the Beach Haven charge.

 

LYKENS, LAWRENCE WILLIARD

 

Born: 8-5-1916  Warriors Mark PA                          married: Lettitia McComb

Died: 3-20-1990  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 421

 

1937    license, recommended by Dungarvin

1944    admitted on trial

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

 

Interment: Clarion Cemetery, Clarion PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 456

 

1937-41           Sinnemahoning & Driftwood

1941-45           Fairview (beginning 9/15/41)

1945-47           Lock Haven East Main Street

1947-49           Catawissa

1949-53           Montoursville

1953-56           assistant to the president, Lycoming College

1956-57           Avis

1957-59           Altoona Simpson, Altoona

1959-60           Harrisburg Riverside and executive secretary, Board of Evangelism

1960-65           Harrisburg Riverside

1965-70           executive secretary, Board of Evangelism

1970-72           administrator, United Methodist Retirement Homes

1972-74           regional representative, Asbury Seminary (ending 12/31/74)

1975                church relations director, United Methodist Home for Children (1/1-6/30)

1975-80           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1980                retired

                             1980-86      general secretary, United Christian Ashrams

 

Note: Lawrence W. Lykens is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 810.

 

LYSTAD, ROBERT ARTHUR

 

Born: 8-10-1920  WI                                                  married: Anita Firing

Died: 6-11-2004  Bethesda MD                                 obit: Ohio Conference 1952, 296

 

1943    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        Norwegian-Danish Conference

1942-43           assistant, Harrisburg Grace: Central Pennsylvania Conference

1943                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1943-44           at school

1944                transfer to Ohio Conference

1951-61           professor of anthropology, Tulane University

1961-80           professor of African studies, SAIS at Johns Hopkins University

1980-91           associate dean for academic affairs, SAIS at Johns Hopkins University

1991                retired

 

Note: Robert A. Lystad maintained his membership in the Ohio Conference until he withdrew in 1973.  He is the author of several scholarly papers and books.  SAIS is the School of Advanced International Studies.

 

 

MACARTNEY, FRANCIS

 

Born: 1-11-1803  Ireland                                            married: Catharine C. _____

Died: 10-7-1873                                                          obit: Baltimore Conference 1881, 76

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1874, 30

 

1823-24           Huntingdon

1824-25           Northumberland

1825-26           Lycoming

1826-28           Lancaster

1828-30           Stafford

1830-32           Winchester

1832-34           Loudon

1834-35           Baltimore City station

1835-37           Lancaster

1837-39           Bladensburg

1839-41           Calvert

1841-43           Alexandria station

1843-45           Leesburg

1845-47           Bladensburg

1847-49           Baltimore circuit

1849-51           South Baltimore station

1851-53           East Baltimore

1853-55           Liberty

1855-57           West Harford

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Hereford

1859-60           Mechanicsburg station

1860-62           North Baltimore

1862-64           Great Falls

1864-66           East Harford

1866-67           Hereford

1867-68           Baltimore Whatcoat

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Francis Macartney is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 413. 

 

 

MacDANIEL, FRANK M.

 

Born: 8-18-1871  Frostburg MD                                married: Louise N. Hocker

Died: 12-31-1932  Trenton NJ                                   obit: Newark Conference 1931, 394

 

?          admitted on trial, Newark Conference

?          ordained, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit: Newark Conference 1933, 87

 

1890-94           student, Dickinson College

                             1893-94       assistant, Hanover & New Oxford

1894-97           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                              1896-97     Newark Summerfield

1897-99           Newark Summerfield

1899-               Orange First

 

Note: This surname is rendered McDaniel in the conference journal.

 

MACKIE, ALEXANDER BROWN

 

Born: 5-1-1894  Gazzam PA                                      married: Ruth L. Law

Died: 6-5-1966  Salina KS                                         obit: [6/10/1900 – 6/7/1969]

 

Interment: Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina KS

Obit:

 

1914-16           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1914-15      Loyalsock

                             1915-16      Westport

 

Note: Alexander B. Mackie is a brother to Archibald E. Mackie.  He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH and served on the faculty/administration at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina KS 1920-1963.

 

MACKIE, ARCHIBALD EUGENE

 

Born: 3-17-1887  Stonehouse, Scotland                     married: Blanche Lamberson

Died: 2-14-1929  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 250

 

1916    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Pine4 Hill Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 196

 

1912-15           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1912-13      Loyalsock

                             1914-15      Avis

1916-17           student, Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH

1917-20           Altoona Llyswen.

1920-23           Danville St. Paul

1923-29           State College

 

Note: Archibald E. Mackie is a brother to Alexander B. Mackie.  Mrs. Mackie is the daughter of Alexander Lamberson.

 

MACKIE, JAY ROBERT

 

Born: 3-18-1934  Altoona PA                                    married: Mary Lou Homsey

Died: 6-27-1995                                                          obit: [12/28/1934 – 4/21/2011]

 

Interment: Valley Memorial Park, Novato CA

Obit:

 

1958-62           Lewisberry

1962-63           Orbisonia

 

                        entered the Episcopal ministry

                        St. Michael and All Angels, Middletown PA

1986-               Corte Madera CA

 

Note: J.R. Mackie served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He attended Messiah College, Elizabethtown College, Lutheran Theological Seminary, the Philadelphia Divinity School, and the University of the South.  He also served one year as a missionary to the Cheyenne in Red Moon OK.

 

MacLACHLAN, WILLIAM ARMOUR

 

Born: 10-18-1901  Philadelphia PA                           married: Della F. Fitzgerald

Died: 8-5-1978                                                            obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 546]

 

1927, admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Washington Crossing UMC, Washington Crossing PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 411

 

1924-25           student, Dickinson College

                             1924-25      Greencastle (ending fall 1925)

1925-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1926-28      Portland & Delaware Water Gap

1928-30           Hamburg Bethany

1930-34           Bryn Mawr Radnor

1934-38           Philadelphia Ridge Avenue

1938-40           Birdsboro Focht Memorial

1940-47           Philadelphia Grace

1947-53           Mt. Airy

1953-61           Chester Trinity

1961-67           Willow Grove

1967                retired

                              1967-71     Washington Crossing 

 

Note: William A. Maclachlan is the father of Rev. William R. Maclachlan of the United Church of Christ.  His sister Myrtle MacLachlan Poley is the wife of Paul W. Poley of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

MACLAY, ALEXANDER ERWIN

 

Born: 4-30-1816  Concord PA                                   married: Amanda Beale (1854)

Died: 7-31-1875                                                          obit: [1825 - ?]

 

1844    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1847    ordained deacon

1849    ordained elder

 

Interment: Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga CA

Obit:

 

1844-45           Warrior’s Mark

1845-46           Frostburg MD

1846-47           Philipsburg

1847-49           Concord

1849-50           Williamsburg

1850-51           Huntingdon    

1851-52           Concord

1852                withdrew        

                        supply pastor in California Conference

1858-59           French Camp

 

Note: Five Maclay brothers from the Concord church went on to ministerial prominence – Alexander of the Baltimore Conference [and local pastor in the California Conference], Charles of the Southern California Conference, John of the California Conference, Robert of the Southern California Conference, and William of the California Conference.  They have entries in this list because of their national prominence and ties with Central Pennsylvania.  One source gives the dates for Mrs. Maclay as 1822-1862.

 

MACLAY, CHARLES

 

Born: 11-9-1822  Concord PA                                   married: Catherine [Kate] Paxton Lloyd (1851)

Died: 7-19-1890  San Fernando CA                           obit: [12/15/1824 – 7/2/1898]

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1844    ordained deacon

1846    ordained elder

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA

Obit: Southern California Conference 1890, 52

 

1842-43           Bloomfield

1843-44           Allegheny

1844-45           Williamsburg

1845-46           Lewistown

1846-47           Jersey Shore

1847-49           Williamsport

1849-51           agent, Dickinson College

1851                transfer to California Conference

1851-52           San Jose

1852-53           Santa Clara

1853-54           Santa Cruz [did not report?]

1854-55           president, University of Pacific

1855-56           Alameda

1856-57           Santa Clara (part year)

1857-59           on leave

                            1858-59       assistant, Santa Clara 

1859                located for medical reasons

 

Note: Five Maclay brothers from the Concord church went on to ministerial prominence – Alexander of the Baltimore Conference [and local pastor in the California Conference], Charles of the Southern California Conference, John of the California Conference, Robert of the Southern California Conference, and William of the California Conference.  They have entries in this list because of their national prominence and ties with Central Pennsylvania.

 

MACLAY, JAMES WARREN

 

Born: 9-28-1896  near Shippensburg PA                   married: Anna Drucilla Myers

Died: 4-25-1957                                                          obit: [1/13/1897 – 1/?/1980]

 

1934    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hyndman Cemetery, Hyndman PA

Obit:

 

1933-36           assistant, Altoona Wesley-Asbury-Lakemont

 

Note: In 1936 James W. Maclay was discontinued as a ministerial member of conference and reverted to local pastor status.

 

MACLAY, JOHN

 

Born: 1814  Concord PA                                            married: Georgiana Griffith (1849)

Died: 2-18-1891  Santa Clara CA                              obit: [1820 – 1/5/1890]

 

1841    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga CA

Obit:

 

1841-42           Bloomfield

1842-43           Waynesboro

1843-44           Codorus

1844-45           Hereford MD

1845-46           West Harford MD

1846-48           Rockville MD

1848-49           Patapsco MD

1849-50           Wrightsville

1850-52           Summerfield CT

1852-53           McConnellsburg

1853-54           (not listed)

1854                located

1858                “transfer” to California Conference

1858-60           Honolulu

1860-62           Iowa City

1862-63           Michigan Bluffs

1863-66           located

1866                “transfer” to Pacific Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South

1866-68           superintendent, San Francisco District

1868                located

 

Note: Five Maclay brothers from the Concord church went on to ministerial prominence – Alexander of the Baltimore Conference [and local pastor in the California Conference], Charles of the Southern California Conference, John of the California Conference, Robert of the Southern California Conference, and William of the California Conference.  They have entries in this list because of their national prominence and ties with Central Pennsylvania.

 

MACLAY, ROBERT SAMUEL

 

Born: 2-7-1824  Concord PA                                     married: Henrietta Caroline Sperry

Died: 8-18-1907  Los  Angeles County CA               obit: [d. 1879]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah Ann Barr [1882]

1846    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2:  Southern California Conference 1904, 73

1848    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles CA

Obit: Pacific Japanese Mission Conference 1907,33

         Southern California Conference 1907,72

 

1846-47           Gettysburg

1847-82           missionary to China

1882-88           superintendent, Methodist Episcopal missions in Japan

1888-93           dean, Maclay College of Theology in San Fernando CA

 

Note: Five Maclay brothers from the Concord church went on to ministerial prominence – Alexander of the Baltimore Conference [and local pastor in the California Conference], Charles of the Southern California Conference, John of the California Conference, Robert of the Southern California Conference, and William of the California Conference.  They have entries in this list because of their national prominence and ties with Central Pennsylvania.

 

MACLAY, WILLIAM JAMES

 

Born: 1826  Concord PA                                            married: Mary Ann Wyman

Died: 11-13-1879  Napa CA                                      obit: [1833 – 9/20/1870]

                                                                                    married2: A.H. Hardy

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [d. c1888]

1859    ordained elder, California Conference

 

Interment: Tulocay Cemetery, Napa CA

Obit: California Conference 1880, 32

 

1851-52           Bellefonte

1852                transfer to Oregon and California Conference

1852-53           San Jose

1853-54           on leave for health reasons

1854-56           faculty, University of Pacific

1856-57           president, University of Pacific

1857-59           Petaluma

1859-61           Marysville

1861-62           Grass Valley

1862-63           San Francisco First [Powell Street]

1863-64           located

1864-67           Napa City

1867-72           superintendent, Petaluma District

1872-73           Oakland

1873-75           on leave

1875-76           Napa City

1876                retired

 

Note: Five Maclay brothers from the Concord church went on to ministerial prominence – Alexander of the Baltimore Conference [and local pastor in the California Conference], Charles of the Southern California Conference, John of the California Conference, Robert of the Southern California Conference, and William of the California Conference.  They have entries in this list because of their national prominence and ties with Central Pennsylvania.

 

MADER, RICHARD COOVER

 

Born: 10-14-1917  Harrisburg PA                              married: Madalyn Catherine Minnich

Died: 9-13-2013                                                          obit: Central Illinois Conference 1995, 70

 

1950    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit: Illinois Great Rivers Conference 2014, 302

 

1945-48           Vira (ending 1/1/48)

1948-50           Dillsburg & Wellsville (beginning 1/1/48)

1950-51           Mt. Holly Springs

1951                transfer to Illinois Conference

                        LaPrairie Center – Blue Ridge – Sparland

                        Princeville - Dunlap

                        Washington

                        Springfield Douglas Avenue

1965-82           superintendent, Sunset Home

1982                retired

 

MAGONIGAL, HARRY J.

 

Born: 1878                                                                  married: Linda M. Long [12/28/1901]

Died: 1955                                                                  obit: [8/27/1884 – 4/2/1975]

                                                                                    married2: Anna M. Parsons

Interment: St. Johns UM Cemetery, Turnersville NJ obit2: [1892-1976]

Obit:

 

1903-04           Princeton IL, Methodist Protestant Church

1944-47           Clearville (beginning 12/1/44), Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

 

Note: Originally from New Jersey, Harry J. Magonigal entered the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in 1890.  As a blind blind gospel singer and evangelist, he traveled about holding meetings in the 1920’s and 1930’s.  He served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  It appears that the first Magonigal marriage ended in divorce, and that Linda Long Magonigal married a Mr. Rufus Adkins in 1909.

 

MALLALIEU, RICHARD

 

Born: 3-22-1838  near Baltimore MD                        married: Margaret Jeannette Mitchell

Died: 2-14-1920  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 197

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore. Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 136

 

1865-66           Liberty MD

1866-67           Saxton

1867-68           McVeytown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Duncansville

1870-72           Glen Hope

1872-74           Mount Holly Springs

1874-76           Wrightsville

1876-77           Newville-Rehoboth

1877-79           York Springs

1879-82           Saxton

1882-84           Shrewsbury

1884-86           Green Village

1886                on leave

1886-90           Espy-Light Street (beginning 8/20/1886)

1890-92           White Haven

1892-93           on leave

1893-97           Shrewsbury

1897-99           Montgomery

1899-00           Costello

1900-02           Duboistown

1902-04           Williamsport Market Street

1904-05           Slate Run

1905-07           Hoytville

1907                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Mallalieu is a half-sister to Thompson Mitchell, her mother having married Thompson’s father.

 

 

MALLALIEU, WILBUR VINCENT

 

Born: 5-10-1876  Baltimore MD                    married: Gertrude S. _____

Died: 11-16-1943  Prospect NJ                      obit:

 

1902    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1903    ordained, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 223

 

1899-02           student, Drew Theological Seminary

1902-03           student, Free Church College, Glasgow Scotland     

1903-10           Roland Park

1910-11           Havre de Grace

1911-14           Washington DC Union

1914                transfer to Newark Conference

1914-19           Summit

1919-20           American Red Cross

1920-22           Englewood

1922                transfer to North East Ohio Conference

1922-28           Akron First

1928                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1928-34           Charleston First

1934                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1934-43           Harrisburg Grace

1943                retired

 

Note: Drew University offers a Gertrude S. Mallalieu Scholarship for full-time undergraduate or graduate students preparing for the ministry.

 

MANHERZ, CHARLES EDGAR

 

Born: 4-2-1905  Waynesboro PA                               married: Kathleen Dorcis Bock

Died: 2-3-1994                                                            obit: California-Nevada Conference 1986, 302

 

1931    admitted on trial

1932    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

           

Interment: Clovis Cemetery, Clovis CA

Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1994, 231

 

1931-34            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1932-33      Pinebrook NJ

1934-46           Schellsburg

1936-38           Woodland-Bradford

1938-42           Selinsgrove

1942-45           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1945-47           Shippensburg

1947-48           Montoursville

1948                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

1948-50           Freedom CA

1950-56           Clovis CA

1956-58           Roseville CA

1958-63           Alameda CA

1963-66           Fair Oaks CA

 

Note: C. Edgar Manherz is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 822.  He is the father of Charles Edgar Manherz Jr. of the Kansas East Conference.

 

 

MANN, JOHN BARRET

 

Born: 5-6-1833  Bedford PA                          married: Elizabeth Hester Davis

Died: 2-3-1921  York PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 132

 

1858    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Ardmore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 142

 

1858                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           East Harford

1859-60           Castle Fin

1860-61           New Bloomfield

1861-62           Woodbury

1862-64           Nippenose

1864-66           Clinton

1866-68           Milesburg

1869                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1869-80           [Wilmington Conference]

1880                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1880-82           Montoursville

1882-85           Harrisburg St. Paul

1885-87           Mifflin

1987-90           Newberry

1890-92           Waynesboro

1892-95           Catawissa

1895-98           Duncannon

1898-01           York Ridge Avenue

1901-03           Gordon

1903-05           Stewartstown

1905-10           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1910-11           Littlestown

1911                retired

 

Note: Obituaries also appear in the Christian Advocate for John B. Mann (1921, page 223) and for Mrs. Mann (1910, page 1615).

 

 

MANN, P.B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 2-8-1867                                                            obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit: [East Baltimore Conference 1867, 18]

 

1866-67           Shippensburg circuit

 

Note: P.B. Mann was a local preacher from the Philadelphia Conference.  He is mentioned in secular sources as operating a female seminary (believed to be connected with Bucknell University) in Lewisburg, Union County, in 1853 and as being a preacher from Lewisburg in 1864.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

MARDEN, NORMAN LEWIS

 

Born: 12-9-1925  Oshkosh WI                                   married: Alice A. Cloonen

Died: 7-16-2007  Altoona PA                                    obit: [9/16/1924 – 7/3/2003]

                                                                                    married2: Alda M. Henry (5/12/1979)

1950    license, recommended by Oshkosh WI First  obit2: [1/26/1939 – 3/20/2021]

1950    ordained deacon

1951    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 416

 

1949-52           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1949-52      Schellsburg

1952-54           Altoona Wesley Memorial

1954-57           Port Royal

1957-61           Bendersville

1961-65           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1965-70           Mount Union First

1970-75           Tyrone First

1975-78           Dallastown Bethlehem (ending 11/1/78)

1978-80           Mercersburg (beginning 11/1/78)

1980-87           Blossburg

1987-91           Philipsburg Trinity

1991                retired

                             1991-92      Woodland

                             1992-94      Wallaceton

                             1994-95      Philipsburg Grace

                             1996-99      Forest Emmanuel (beginning 9/1/96)

                             2001-03      Forest Emmanuel (beginning 11/1/01)

 

Note: Norman L. Marden is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 826.  He is the author of the book “Sunday Dinner: Essays and Anecdotes” published by Exposition Press, and of the books “One Step Ahead” and “Perhaps ‘Twas This Way.”

 

MARLATT, ARCHIBALD GIFFORD

 

Born: 1829  Warren County NJ                                  married: Sarah Adkins

Died: 1-2-1865  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: [8/6/1831 – 6/27/1872]

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1853    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1858    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865,44

 

1851-52           Carlisle

1852-53           Lock Haven

1853-54           on leave

1854                located

                            1854-56       faculty, Male Literary Institute in Washington DC

                            1856-58       principal, Irving Female College in Mechanicsburg

1858                readmitted

1858-65           principal, Irving Female College in Mechanicsburg

1865                died

 

MARSDEN, PAUL DONALD

 

Born: 11-26-1923  Altoona PA                                  married: Marilyn Joan Matheny

Died: 1-29-2017  Fredricksburg VA                          obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Roaring Springs Trinity

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 287

 

1961-66           Dudley

1966-73           Danville St. Paul’s

1973-85           Fayetteville Calvary

1985-92           Marysville Bethany

1992                retired

                             Lake of the Woods Church, Locust Grove VA

                             Presbyterian Church, Helvetia WV

                             Presbyterian Church Pickens WV

 

 

MARSH, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 11-17-1838  Baltimore MD                              married: Sarah Elizabeth Kirk

Died: 11-13-1921  Fallston MD                                 obit: [12/2/1842 – 8/16/1926]

 

1859    quarterly conference license, North Baltimore station

1864    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mercersburg

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1922, 234

 

1859-64           schoolteacher and irregular supply, St. Mary’s circuit

1864-65           Mercersburg

1865-66           Westernport

1866-67           Westminster

1867-68           North Baltimore

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-71           Long Green

1871-74           Bunker Hill

1874-75           Harper’s Ferry

1875-76           Bloomington

1876-79           Frostburg

1879-81           Middletown

1881-84           Aberdeen

1884-87           West Harford

1887-89           New Windsor

1889-90

1890-92           Ellicott City

1892-95           Long Green

1895-98           Liberty

1898-02           Laytonsville

1902-04           Harper’s Ferry

1904                retired

 

Note: John Henry Marsh is the uncle of John Tolley Marsh (1864-1935) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

MARSHALL, CEYLON WARD

 

Born: 4-19-1851  Cambria County PA                       married: Mary Priscilla McCullough (1878)

Died: 3-22-1929  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [d. 1922]

 

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Decatur

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 182

 

1873-74           Shirleysburg

1874-76           Port Royal

1876-77           York Springs

1877-79           Stockton and Humboldt

1879-80           Centralia

1880-01           unassigned for health reasons

1901                retired

 

Note: After leaving the active ministry, Ceylon W. Marshall moved to Philadelphia and engaged in the real estate and insurance business.  Mrs. Marshall was born in Port Royal PA; her maiden name is also given as McCulloch.

 

MARSHALL, E.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1915-16           Cross Fork

1920-23           Cogan Valley

1926-27           Harrisonville

 

Note: E.J. Marshall served as a local preacher.  The 1926 appointments incorrectly list him as E.H. Marshall.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

MARSHALL, RAYMOND ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 5-13-1888  Millburn NJ                                    married:

Died: 11-27-1939                                                        obit:

 

1916    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

1916    ordained deacon, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1940, 215   

 

1913-14           student, Dickinson College

                             1913-14      Greencastle, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-17           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1915-17      Scotch Plains NJ

1917-19           Panama Canal Zone Union

1919-20           Newark Centenary

1920                transfer to Philippine Islands Conference

1920-23           Manila St. Paul’s

1923-24           evangelist, Manila District

1924                transfer to Central America Mission Conference

1924-25           Panama City, Panama

 

MARSHALL, ROMEY PITT

 

Born: 11-22-1901  Lewisburg KY                             married: Martha Helen Johnson

Died: 2-26-1985  Middletown PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 484

 

1932    admitted on trial, Florida Conference

1932    ordained deacon, Florida Conference

1937    ordained elder, Florida Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg East Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 412

 

1931-35           South Dade

1935-36           Dania

1936-41           editor,  Florida Christian Advocate

1941-43           associate  editor, Chicago Christian Advocate

1943-48           Brooksville

1948-49           St. Petersburg Allendale

1949                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1949-53           Sunbury St. John’s

1954-55           Lock Haven Trinity

1955                transfer to Western North Carolina Conference

1955-60           editor, North Carolina Christian Advocate

1960                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-67           Summerdale

1967                retired

                             1967-68      associate, Harrisburg Epworth

 

Note: Romey P. Marshall was originally surnamed Keele, and he was adopted by relatives named Marshall.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 830.

 

 

MARTIN, AARON J.

 

Born: 12-7-1883  McConnellsburg PA                      married: Mary E. Brewer

Died: 4-4-1928  Yeagertown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 351

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by York Springs

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, near McConnellsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 193

 

1919-20           Orrtanna

1920-23           York Springs

1923-24           East Waterford

1924-27           New Bloomfield

1927-28           McVeytown

1928                Yeagertown and Highland Park

 

 

MARTIN, GEORGE

 

Born: 4-23-1881  Hazelton PA                                   married: Sarah Jane Herring

Died: 1972                                                                  obit: [8/8/1883-1955]

 

            probationer in the Primitive Methodist Church

1909    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association: page 16

1913    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Rush Presbyterian Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit:

 

1909-12           student, Schuylkill Seminary in Reading PA

1912-13           Milroy

1913-14           Hazleton (did not finish the conference year)

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church, page 156

1914-15           Buckhorn (started during the previous conference year)

1915-19           Elysburg

1919-21           Orbisonia

1921-23           Benton

1923-24           no appointment

1924                withdrew to join Northumberland Presbytery

 

Note: George Martin later entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church.  Mrs. Martin was from Columbia County PA, and they were married in Bloomsburg in 1915.

 

MARTIN, ROBERT D.

 

Born: 1-24-1872  Hollidaysburg PA                          married: Mary E. Lynn

Died: 11-8-1948  Duncansville PA                            obit: [7/19/1873 – 10/2/1941]

 

1909    license, East Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 71]

 

1909-14           Church Hill [East Ohio Conference]

1921                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-27           Hollidaysburg [Loop] St. Paul’s

1927-29           Williamsburg circuit

1929-31           Sandy Ridge

1931-33           Blandburg

1933-38           Sandy Ridge

1938-40           Allegheny circuit

1940                retired [see 1940,27]

 

Note: Robert D. Martin served as a local pastor.

 

MASON, CHARLES NATHAN, JR.

 

Born: 11-25-1930  Missoula MT                                married: Mary Beth _____

Died: 11-23-2022  Silver Spring MD                         obit:

 

1954    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens, Rockville MD

Obit:

 

1954-56           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1956                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

MATHEWS, JAMES DAVENPORT

 

Born: 11-16-1869  Huntersville OH                           married: Leona B. Mertz (9/4/1899)

Died: 11-9-1961  Sharon CT                                      obit: [3/?/1875 – 1900]

                                                                                    married2: Laura Mae Wilson (10/1/1902)

1902    received on trial, North Ohio Conference      obit2:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-04           Conesville

1904-05           Mt. Hope

1905                discontinued

 

1911-13           Rays Hill, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: James D. Mathews served as a local pastor and later returned to Ohio, where he continued to serve as a local pastor.  He is the father of two prominent Methodist statesmen, both born in Breezewood during his pastorate at Rays Hill:  chaplain, seminary professor and Dean of the Ecumenical Institute (in Evanston IL) Joseph Wesley Mathews (1911-1977); missionary and bishop (and husband of E. Stanley Jones’ daughter Eunice) James Kenneth Mathews (1913-2010).

 

MATLACK, HARRY ARTHUR

 

Born: 4-25-1923  Clearfield County PA                    married: Elaine Dotts

Died: 5-2-1999  New Millport PA                             obit: [3/10/1925 – 12/28/2019]

                                                                                               

Interment: New Millport Cemetery, New Millport PA

Obit:

 

1954                Clearfield Circuit (9/1 to 11/15)

 

Note: Harry A. Matlack served as a local preacher.  He is the author of books and articles on local history, including ones on archeology associated with Native Americans.

 

MATLOCK, JOSEPH ELDON

 

Born: 3-5-1908  near New Millport PA                     married: Mabel Gladys Creighton

Died: 9-23-1985                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 208

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Marjorie Rhodehamel

1936    admitted on trial                                              obit2:

1936    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 431

 

1933-36           Allenport

1936-38           Mardorf & Tipton 

1938-40           Ray’s Hill

1940-42           Schellsburg

1942-46           Robertsdale

1946-48           Hastings

1948-52           Flemington

1951-53           Berwick Calvary

1953-58           Mill Hall

1958-62           Altoona Grace

1962-66           Dillsburg (ending 11/30/65)

1966                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Matlock was the former Miss Marjorie Musselman.

 

 

MATTERN, JOHN ASBURY

 

Born: 7-4-1853  Fleming PA                                      married: Belle M. Gray

Died: 7-24-1918                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 224

 

1878    admitted on trial, Kansas Conference

1881    ordained deacon, Kansas Conference

1884    ordained elder

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 141

 

1878-80           Medicine Lodge

1880-82           Nickerson

1882-83           Fontena (did not finish the year)

1883                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1883-84           Pleasant Gap (started during the previous conference year)

1884-86           New Washington

1886-88           Wallaceton

1888-90           Ennisville

1890-92           Port Royal

1892-94           Montgomery

1894-98           Newton Hamilton

1898-99           Jeanesville-Auden.

1899-01           Airville

1901-03           Stewartstown

1903-04           Hazelton Diamond

1904-07           Clearfield West Side

1907-08           Mifflinburg

1908-10           Mechanicsburg

1910-14           Martinsburg

1914-16           McVeyton

1916                retired

 

MAXWELL, GENE ELIZABETH

 

Born: 9-30-1925  Williamsport PA                            married: [single]

Died: 1-5-1992  Orlando FL                                       obit:

 

1955    commissioned (Cincinnati OH)

 

Interment:
Obit: Morth Central New York Conference 1992, 362

 

1954-60           West Wisconsin Conference
1960-65           Board of Missions, Riverside Drive NYC
1965-72           Women’s Division, Evanston IL

1972-77           Area Secretary, Deaconess Society, Denver CO
1977                retired

 

Note: Gene Elizabeth Maxwell was a deaconess, with Central Pennsylvania condsiered her home conference.  She listed Hanoer PA as her permanent address.  Her parents are buried in Hughesville PA, and the family roots are in Lycoming County.

 

MAXWELL, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 2-6-1830  Chambersburg PA                            married:

Died: 3-28-1866  Chambersburg PA                          obit:

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1867, 45

 

1861-62           Cumberland Valley mission

1862-63           Carlisle circuit

1863-64           McVeytown

1864-65           Concord

1865-66           Carlisle circuit

1866-67           on leave

 

MAY, JUDITH G.

 

Born:                                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-70           Freeland Parish

1970                “transfer” by boundaries to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Judith G. May served as a local pastor.

 

McABOY, JAMES FRANKLIN 

 

Born: 5-11-1878  Cabell County WV                        married: Lucy W. Morris

Died: 1941  MI                                                           obit: [10/?/1879 – 7/?/1919]

 

1908    license, Erie Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1908-09           Centerville-Riceville-Britton Run

1909-10           Clarington

1910-11           Arroyo-Halton-Portland Mills-Lake City

1911-12           Phillipsville circuit

1912-13           Spring Creek

                        “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1922-23           Montandon

1923-24           Catawissa circuit

 

Note: James F. McAboy served as a local pastor in both the Erie Conference and the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

 

McALARNEY, JOHN W.

 

Born: 3-17-1846  Martha Furnace PA                        married: Lydia Chronister

Died: 1-4-42                                                                obit: [d. 3/16/1920]

 

1908    license

 

Interment: Alto Rest Cemetery (Soldiers’ Plot), Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 204

 

1908-09           Hammersly Fork

1909-10           Liberty Valley

1910-12           Muncy Valley

1912-13           Oriole & Antes Fort (moved to Mifflinville during 1913-14 year)

1913-15           Mifflinville

1915-16           Montandon (did not finish the year)

1916-20           apparently no appointment

1920-22           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1922-23           apparently no appointment

1923-24           Pine Grove Mills

1924                retired

                             1924-25      Lakemont

 

Note: John W. McAlarney is the father of Terrence McAlarney.  He is also reported to have served Juniata Gap [Mardorf], and “built the church” there, but no official records support such involvement.

 

McALARNEY, TERRENCE E.

 

Born: 6-1-1871  Clearfield County PA                      married: Jennie Bennett

Died: 7-31-1943  Altoona PA                                    obit: [3/16/1875 – 4/9/1963]

 

1905   

 

Interment: Asbury Church Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1926-27           assistant, Birmingham

 

Note: Terrence E. McAlarney is the son of John W. McAlarney.  He served as a local pastor and worked for the railroad from 1890 until his retirement in 1938.

 

McCAHAN, GEORGE RUSSELL

 

Born: 12-29-1902  Harrisburg PA                              married:

Died: 1-26-1995  Greenville SC                                 obit:

                                                                                    married2: Gerda Prevost

1923    license, recommended by Camp Curtin         obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993,464

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Liverpool & New Buffalo

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

           

Interment: Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Greenville SC

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 449

 

1924-25           Fort Loudon

1926-28           Liverpool & New Buffalo

1928-32           Mt. Holly Springs

1932-33           Morrisdale-Munson

1933-37            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1933-37      Asbury NJ (beginning 11/1/33)

1937-42           Orbisonia

1942-43           Nescopeck

1943-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-47           at school

1947-50           chaplain, US Army

1950-63           chaplain US Air Force

1963-65           at school

1965-68           faculty, Furman University

1968                retired

                               1968-70    faculty, Furman University

 

Note: George R. McCahan is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 849.

 

McCASLIN, HAROLD FRANKLIN

 

Born: 4-4-1947  Ralston PA                                       married: Patti Rae Walker

Died: 3-29-2005  Sunbury PA                                    obit:

 

1966    license, recommended by Ralston

1972    ordained deacon

1974    admitted on trial

1976    ordained elder

 

Interment: Airville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 451

 

1966-67           Three Springs (beginning 9/1/66 and ending 9/18/67)

1967-70           Oriole (beginning 9/18/67)

1970-74           Allenport

1974-78           Bedford Valley

1978-86           Runville

1986-90           Airville

1990-97           Millersburg Hebron

1997-02           Hegins Valley

2002-05           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

 

Note: H. Franklin McCaslin is the preferred name.

 

McCLEAF, MARLIN RICHARD SR

 

Born: 2-25-1911  Chambersburg PA                          married: Oma Mae [Peg] Poff

Died: 3-21-1986  Winston-Salem NC                                    obit: [3/24/1915 – 4/8/1998]

 

1938    license, recommended by Gettysburg

1945    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1946    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1948    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1986, VII.14

 

1938-42           West Fairview-Summerdale (beginning 1/1/38)

1942-45           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1945                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1945-49           Lancaster Ross Street

1949-52           Millersburg

1952-56           Steelton First & Steelton Mt. Zion

1956-61           Sharon Hill

1961-66           Royersford

1966-69           Philadelphia Mt. Airy

1969-71           Reading St. Peter’s

1971-76           Ironville & Newtown

1976                retired

 

McCLELLAND, THOMAS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-61           Ralston (ending during the 1961-62 conference year)

1961-62           Burlington, Central New York Conference (beginning in mid-year)

1962-64           Monroeton

 

Note: Thomas McClelland served as a local pastor.

 

 

McCLOSKEY, NEVIN GEBHART

 

Born: 9-25-1894  Beech Creek PA                             married: Fannie Mae Johnson

Died: 9-4-1954  Camp Hill PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 458

 

1921    admitted on trial

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 234

 

1922-24           Juniata Fifteenth 15th Street

1924-28           Enola

1928-30           Danville Trinity

1930-32           Hazleton Diamond

1932-36           Williamsport Third Street

1936-37           Barnesboro

1937-42           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1942-46           Roaring Spring

1946-50           Berwick First

1950-54           Camp Hill

 

Note: Nevin G. McCloskey is the father of Robert J. McCloskey.

 

McCLOSKEY, ROBERT JOHNSON

 

Born: 7-10-1920  Beech Creek PA                             married:

Died: 4-23-1993                                                          obit:

 

Interment: Saint Johns Cathedral Bishops Garden Cinerarium, Duval County FL

Obit:

 

1941-45           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1942  Catawissa circuit (summer)

 

Note: Robert J. McCloskey is the son of Nevin G. McCloskey/

 

McCLOSKY, ADOLPHUS DECLIFFORD

 

Born: 12-16-1846  Cook’s Run PA.                           married: Willeta Catharine Lee

Died: 11-15-1910  Long Branch NJ                           obit: [4/8/1849 – 4/22/1933]

 

1873  admitted on trial

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Long Branch NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 124

 

1872-73           Muncy Creek

1873-74           Karthaus

1874-75           Laporte

1975-76           Wallaceton

1876-77           Birmingham

1877-80           Laporte

1880-82           Cogan Valley

1882-84           Penfield

1884-85           Jamestown

1885-86           on leave

1886-87           Picture Rocks

1887-94           on leave

1894-97           Proctor

1897-00           Montandon

1900-02           Green Village

1902-03           McConnellsburg

1903-06           Liverpool

1906                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Adolphus D. McClosky also appears in the 2/23/1911 New York Christian Advocate, page 271.  This surname is sometimes rendered McCLOSKEY.  Mrs. McClosky is the daughter of Joseph Lee.

 

 

McCLOSKY, DAVID BYRON

 

Born: 1-20-1835  Hyner PA                                       married: Luzetta Savidge

Died: 1-29-1904  Town Hill PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 161

 

1861    admitted in trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Dodson Cemetery, near Town Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 118

 

1861-62           New Washington

1862-63           Schellsburg

1863-64           Cassville

1864-65           Woodbury

1865-66           Shirleysburg

1866-68           Milroy

1968                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Martinsburg

1869-71           Snydertown

1871-73           Hughesville

1873-74           Williamsport

1874-77           Great Island

1877-78           Mifflinburg

1878-79           Muncy

1879-82           Jamestown

1882-84           Salona

1884-86           on leave

1886-89           Town Hill

1889                retired

 

Note: Mrs. McClosky is identified in her obituary as Luzzetta Savage McCLOSKEY.  She is the sister of Rev. Coleman Savidge, a Methodist minister “in the southland”, and believed to be a first cousin of George V. Savidge.

 

McCLURE, THOMAS FISHER

 

Born: 4-3-1817  Alexandria PA                                 married: Louisiana Rankin

Died: 12-22-1879  Wolfsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 102

 

            quarterly conference license, Warrior’s Mark

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1845    ordained deacon

1847    ordained elder

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 71

 

1842-43           Clearfield

1843-44           Luzerne

1844-45           Lancaster

1845-46           Augusta

1846-48           Woodsboro

1848-50           Lewisburg (VA)

1850-52           Monroe

1852-54           Little Levels

1854-55           Covington

1855-57           Greenbank

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Allegheny

1858-59           Westernport

1859-60           Allegheny

1860-62           tract agent

1861-63           Mifflin circuit

1863-64           chaplain, US Army

1864-66           Penn’s Valley

1866-68           Half Moon

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Howard

1870-72           York Springs

1872-73           Washingtonville

1873-74           Ray’s Hill

1875-77           Cassville

1877-79           Bedford circuit

 

Note: An obituary for Thomas F. McClure also appears in the January 1880 Conference News, page 1.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 416.

 

McCORD, JAMES H.

 

Born: 1-15-1837  Lewistown PA                               married: Clara Foley

Died: 11-3-1900  Muncy PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 222

 

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 105

 

1858-59           Hancock MD

1859-60           Mercersburg

1860-62           Frederick MD

1862-64           Baltimore Huntingdon Avenue

1864-67           East Baltimore

1867-68           Danville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Danville

1869-70           Danville Montour Chapel

1870-72           Clearfield

1872-75           Tyrone

1875-78           Waynesboro

1878-80           Gettysburg

1880-81           Duncannon

1881-84           New Cumberland

1884-86           Hanover and  New Oxford

1886-88           Hollidaysburg

1888-90           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1890-92           on leave

1892-95           Altoona Asbury

1895-98           Mount Holly Springs

1898-00           Muncy

 

Note: An obituary for James H. McCord also appears in the 12/20/1900 Christian Advocate, page 2086.

 

McCOY, BERRYMAN HAWKINS

 

Born: 9-20-1874  St. Mary’s OH                               married: Grace Wiest (8/25/1904)

Died: 6-4-1954  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1969, 183

 

1904    license, Newark Conference

1905    ordained deacon, Newark Conference

1907    ordained elder, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin PA

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1954, 591

 

1904-08           Newark St. James

1908-12           East Orange Sanford Street

1912-16           Bloomfield Watsessing

1916-18           Paterson Wesley

                             1917-18      Army YMCA work at Camp Merrit

1918-23           Plainfield First

1923-               Newark St. Paul’s

                        (uncertain)

        -34           Jersey City

                        transfer to New Jersey Conference

1934-44           Trenton First  

1944-46           Trenton Broad Street

1946                retired

                             1947-51      associate, Harrisburg Grace: Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

McCOY, THOMAS ALTON

 

Born:                                                                           married: Georgeline Bloom

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 360

 

1963    license, recommended by Janesville

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

1978    admitted as associate member

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           Millerton

1964-67           Lawrenceville

1967-68           Salona

1968-70           New Millport

1970-73           Woodland

1973-96           Houtzdale (ending 9/30/96)

1996-01           Philipsburg Trinity (beginning 10/1/96)

2001                retired

 

McCURDY, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1914-15           Thompsontown

 

Notre: C.E. McCurdy served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

McCURDY, JOHN PAINE

 

Born: 12-17-1877  Clearfield PA                               married:

Died: 5-31-1955  Tyrone PA                                      obit:

 

1919    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 231

 

1918-20           Karthaus

1920-22           Woodland-Bradford

1922-25           Sandy Ridge

1925-27           Birmingham

1927-28           Frankstown

1928-33           Cherry Tree-Emeigh

1933-34           Riddlesburg

1934-43           Coalport-Irvona

1943                retired

 

 

McDANNELL, RUTH D.

 

Born: 3-26-1905  New Oxford PA                             married: Francis Geiger

Died: 6-8-2000                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 382

 

1934    license, recommended Salem UB in Guldens PA

1954    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Perry Heights Cemetery, Marysville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 363

 

1956-62           Burnt Cabins

1962-68           Big Pond

1968                leave of absence to teach elementary school (ending 11/10/68)

1968-69           Millerton-Dagget (beginning 11/10/68)

1969-70           Roseville Yoked Parish (Methodist-Baptist)

1970                retired

 

Note: Ruth D. McDannell is married to Francis Geiger.  She was the first woman in the Central Pennsylvania Conference regularly appointed to serve a charge.

 

McELWEE, RONALD SMETHERS

 

Born:                                                                           married: Gloria _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1968    license, recommended by Camp Hill

1972    admitted on trial

1972    ordained deacon

1975    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1968-71           Picture Rocks

1971-76           Roxbury

1976-79           Burnham Yoked Parish

1979-82           Llyswen

1982-87           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1987-89           Bedford

1989-94           York Calvary

1994-96           Mechanicsburg Grace

1996-02           York Bethany

2002-04           Lemoyne Calvary

2004-05           South Williamsport Larger Parish

2005                retired

                             2006-13      Roxbury

 

Note: Ronald S. McElwee is the father of David R.A. McElwee of the Suqsuwhanna Conference.

 

McENALLY, JACOB

 

Born: 1897  Lancaster County PA                             married:

Died: 3-7-1859  Williamsport PA                              obit:

 

1829    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Manor Hill Cemetery, Manor Hill PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1860, 35

 

1829-30           Bedford

1830-31           Greenbrier

1831-32           Christiansburg

1832-33           Bedford

1833-34           Mifflin

1834-35           Bloomfield

1835-36           Frederick Asbury

1836-37           Clearfield mission

1837-38           Huntersville

1838-39           Westmoreland

1839                retired to Muncy

                             1857  charter member of East Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Jacob McEnally is a brother to Peter McEnally (1796-1850) of the Baltimore Conference and John McEnally (?-1846) of the Baltimore and Ohio Conferences.

 

McGARRAH, JAMES  H.

 

Born: 2-22-1830  near McVeytown PA                     married: Elsie Stewart Wilson

Died: 4-13-1899  Ennisville PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 89

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Manor Hill Cemetery, Manor Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 110

 

1854-55           Bloomfield

1855-56           ?

1856-57           Carlisle circuit

1857                discontinued at own request

1863                readmitted to East Baltimore Conference

1863-64           Woodbury

1864-65           Manor Hill

1865-67           Schellsburg

1867-68           Lewistown circuit 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Lewistown circuit

1869-72           Mechanicsburg

1872-74           Williamsport Grace

1874-76           Bloomsburg

1876-79           Berwick

1879-81           York First

1881-85           superintendent, Altoona District

1885-88           Williamsport Pine Street

1888-92           Philipsburg

1892-94           York First

1894-95           Bellefonte

1895-96           on leave

1896-97           Waynesboro

1897                retired

 

Note: Mrs. McGarrah is a sister to Reuben E. Wilson and Emeline Wilson Kirby, wife of Edmund W. Kirby.  She was married first to Plummer E. Watters (1817-1856) of the Baltimore Conference, and married James H. McGarrah in 1864.  Her daughter Juniata Watters is married to J. Ellis Bell.

 

McGARVEY, GEORGE LUTHER

 

Born: 2-7-1911  Hustontown PA                               married: Bernoce E. Campbell

Died: 11-8-1968  Williamsport PA                            obit: [9/15/1905 – 2/26/1989]

 

1931    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Fairfield twp, Lycoming County PA

Obit:

 

1931-33           student, Willaimsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1931-32  Wallis Run

1933                discontinued

 

Note: George L. McGarvey is the son of Luther W. McGarvey.  He apparently settled in Montoursville and became an insurance salesman  and a member of Montoursville Faith Methodist Church.

 

 

McGARVEY, LUTHER WESLEY

 

Born: 1-20-1879  McPherron PA                               married: Anna Marie Uhl

Died: 10-13-1947  Hyde PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 161

                                                                                    married2: Ida Gertrude Stringfellow

1909    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 374

1911    admitted on trial again

1911    ordained deacon

1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Crown Crest Cemetery, Hyde PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 191

 

1905-07           Great Falls MD, Baltimore Conference

1907-08           Loyalsock

1908-10           Harrisonville

1910-11           discontinued

                             *1910-11    Hustontown

1911-12           Hustontown

1912-13           Roaring Creek

1913-15           York Springs

1915-17           Cross Roads

1917-18           Cross Roads-Gatchelville

1918-20           James Creek

1920-21           Oriole-Antesport

1921-24           Snydertown

1924-26           Mifflinville-Lime Ridge

1926-29           Grampian-Lumber City

1929-31           Sinnemahoning

1931-35           Austin

1935-41           North Bend-Farwell

1941-45           Woodland

1945                retired

                             1945-47      Clearfield circuit

 

*Luther W. McGarvey was discontinued as a probationary member but served Hustontown normally the entire year as a supply.

 

Note: Luther W. McGarvey is the father of George L. McGarvey.

 

McILNAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 1-16-1865  Bedford County PA                       married: Alice Doran

Died: 10-24-1930  Danville PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 363

 

1895    ordained deacon, recommended by Martinsburg

1900    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Yellow Creek Cemetery, Bedford County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 180

 

1895-97           Allegheny circuit

1897-98           Pleasant Gap

1898-01           Burnt Cabins

1901-03           Munson

1903-08           Penns Valley

1908-09           Lock Haven circuit

1909-13           Dudley

1913-15           New Bloomfield

1915-19           Nescopek

1919-21           Danville Trinity

1921-23           Watsontown

1923-26           Gordon

1926-29           Centralia

1929-30           Mifflintown

 

Note: An obituary for George W. McIlnay also appears in the 11/20/1930 Christian Advocate, page 1435.

 

McINTOSH, THOMAS RANDALL

 

Born:  9-18-1939  Blossburg PA                                married: Flora R. “Becky” Jackson

Died: 1-23-2015  Rocky Mount NC                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-61           student, Lycoming College

                             1959-61      Waterville

1961-63           Roulette

 

Note: Thomas McIntosh served as a local pastor.  He became a well-known historian and social studies teacher in Harrisburg PA.  A strong advocate foir civil rights, he was also associated with Harrisburg University.

 

McKAY, HARRY J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-18           Newville

 

Note: Harry J. McKay served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

McKECHNIE, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 6-5-1860  Kilwinney Scotland                         married: Mary A. Payne

Died: 10-23-1936                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 208

 

1904    license

1913    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lutheran Church Cemetery, Pleasant Gap PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 263

 

1891-98           Willnecote & Tamworth: Wesleyan Church, England

1898-00           Blossburg PA school house mission: Congregational Church

1900-04           Antrim PA, Congregational Church

1904-05           Liberty Valley

1905-06           ?         

1906-10           living in Berwick

1910-12           Benezette

1912-15           Hustontown

1915-18           Pleasant Gap

1918-19           Shawville

1919-20           Costello

1920-21           Jamison City

1921-22           Wapwallopen

1922-23           Jonestown

1923                retired to Berwick

 

Note: John H. McKechnie served as a local pastor.  He is reported to have served North Bend circa 1905, but the conference journals do not support that.

 

 

McKEE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER

 

Born: 1-28-1820  Cumberland County PA                 married: Mary Jane Stewart

Died: 2-7-1892  Houtzdale PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 136

 

1846    admitted on trial Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Brisbin Cemetery, Osceola Mills PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 83

 

1846-48           McConnellsburg

1848-49           New Bloomfield

1849-50           York Springs

1850-51           East Bedford

1850-52           Bald Eagle

1952-54           New Washington

1954-55           Birmingham

1855-56           Woodville

1856-57           Mifflin

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Mifflin

1858-59           on leave

1859-61           Jersey Shore circuit.

1861-62           Cumberland circuit

1862-64           Frostburg circuit

1864-66           Allegany

1866-68           East Harford

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           West Harford

1869-71           Shrewsbury

1871-73           Saxton

1873-74           Shirleysburg

1874-76           Granville

1876-77           Burnt Cabins

1877-78           Milroy

1878-79           Lycoming

1879-81           Muncy Creek

1881-83           Duboistown

1883-85           Salladasburg

1885-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of William A. McKee is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 418.

 

McKEEHAN, JOSEPH G.

 

Born: 3-23-1810 near Abbottstown PA                     married: Elizabeth C. Hesser

Died: 5-6-1885  Chambersburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 138

 

1836    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 76

 

1836-37           Allegany

1837-38           Mifflin

1838-39           Huntersville

1839-40           Luray

1840-42           Mifflin

1842-43           Licking Creek

1843-44           Trough Creek

1844-45           Lewistown circuit

1845-46           Shirleysburg

1846-48           Birmingham

1848-50           Williamsburg

1850-51           Luzerne

1851-53           Lock Haven

1953-54           Pine Creek

1854-56           Sunbury

1856-57           Milton

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Milton

1858-60           Shrewsbury

1860-62           York Springs

1862-63           Orangeville

1863-65           Shippensburg

1865-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-76           on leave

1876                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Joseph G. McKeehan is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 418. 

 

McKELVEY, CLARENCE EDWARD                    

 

Born: 6-20-1875  Selinsgrove PA                              married: Margaret _____

Died: 6-29-1946  Wayne MI                                      obit: [1875 – 1970]

 

1902    license, recommended by Waller

1906    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Denton Cemetery, Denton MI

Obit:

 

1904-05           Salem

1906-07           Dungarvin

1907-08           Pine Grove Mills

1908-09           Shawville

1909                discontinued

                        apparently “transferred” to the Detroit Conference

 

Note: Clarence E. McKelvey is a 1908 graduate of Dickinson College, whose 1925 alumni directory lists him as living in Kingston MI.  He is a brother to Ellis E. McKelvey, Wesley L. McKelvey, and Catharine McKelvey (Mrs. Benjamin F.) Hilbish – whose 1940 obituary lists him as Rev. C.E. McKelvey of Detroit MI.  The 1946 death date comes from cemetery records.  He is listed in the General Minutes as a retired member of the Detroit Conference up to and including 1957.  In 1958 his name appears in the index, but not on the page where it should be.  In 1959 he does not appear at all.  Apparently there is no conference obituary.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 62.

 

 

McKELVEY, ELLIS ELMER

 

Born: 4-4-1867  Selinsgrove PA                                married: Eva Rupert Faus

Died: 10-27-1938  Montoursville PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 375

 

1896    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 213

 

1896-98           Waller

1898-00           Park Place-Delano

1900-03           Catawissa circuit

1903-06           Centralia

1906-09           Hastings

1909-11           Flemington

1911-13           St. Mary’s

1913-18           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1918-22           Williamsport Fourth Street

1922-25           Bellefonte

1925-30           Hazelton Diamond

1930-32           Everett

1932-35           Hughesville

1935                retired

 

Note: Ellis E. McKelvey is a brother to Clarence E. McKelvey, Wesley L. McKelvey, and Catharine McKelvey (Mrs. Benjamin F.) Hilbish.  He is also the father of John Wesley McKelvey (1905-1977) of the Philadelphia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire Conferences.  Mrs. McKelvey is a sister to George W. Faus.  E.E. McKelvey is an 1896 graduate of Dickinson College.

 

McKELVEY, HARRY A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1906-08           Liberty Valley

 

Note: Harry A. McKelvey served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be Henry Alblert McKelvey (1860-1941) – a brother to Clarence, Ellis and Wesley.

 

McKELVEY, WESLEY D.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:     

 

1910-11           Frankstown (did not finish the year)

 

Note: Wesley D.M. McKelvey served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This could be the Wesley L. McKelvey listed below.

 

McKELVEY, WESLEY LAURENCE

 

Born: 10-29-1878  Selinsgrove PA                            married: Ruth Connor

Died: 11-2-1946  Juniata County PA                         obit: [1/30/1873 – 6/28/1954]

 

1912    admitted on trial Wyoming Conference

1914    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1912-13           Rush

1913-14           Fly Creek

1914-15           Tioga Center

1915                discontinued

                        “transfer” to New York East Conference

1918-20           Penfield  (beginning during the 1917-18 year), Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-22           James Creek

1922                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1922                discontinued at own request

 

Note: Wesley L. McKelvey was a non-graduated member of the Dickinson College class of 1909.  The 1925 alumni directory stills lists him as living in James Creek.  He is a brother to Clarence E. McKelvey, Ellis E. McKelvey, and Catharine McKelvey (Mrs. Benjamin F.) Hilbish.  He is sometimes mis-identified as W.F. McKelvey.

 

McKENTY, THOMAS WALLACE

 

Born: 5-22-1862  Philadelphia PA                             married: Minnie K. Beamer

Died: 9-10-1942  Westmont NJ                                  obit: Philadelphia Conference 1957, 494

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Wagner

 

Interment: Harleigh Cemetery, Collingswood NJ

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1943, 674

 

1894-95           Wagner

1895-96           Belleville

1896-97           Cassville

1897-00           Jamestown and Jersey Shore

1900-01           Gardeau

1901-03           Benezette

1903/4             transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1904-05           Glen Moore

1905-28           Eighth Street Mission

1928                retired

 

 

McKINDLESS, J. A.

 

Born: 1832  Harford County MD                               married: Elizabeth R. Hebb

Died: 8-22-1883  Harford County MD                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 102

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rock Run Cemetery, Harford County MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 81

 

1861-62           Castle Fin

1862-63           Great Falls

1863-65           Bedford circuit

1865-66           Milroy

1865-66           Cassville

1866-67           Antietam

1867-68           Shippensburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shippensburg

1869-71           Castle Fin

1871-73           Rainsburg

1873-74           McConnnelstown

1874-75           McConnellsburg

1875-77           York Springs

1877-78           Mount Holly

1878-80           Newton Hamilton

1880-83           Petersburg

1883                New Bloomfield

 

Note: An obituary for J.A. McKindless also appears in the 11/1/1883 Conference News.

 

McKINLEY, JAMES FOSTER

 

Born: 10-20-1827  Milesburg PA                               married: Rebecca Wells [1845]

Died: 5-18-1898  Alden MI                                        obit: [b. c1824]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Maggie M. McCrum [1876]

1871    quarterly conference license, Milroy              obit2: [1831 – 3/30/1900]

1876    admitted on trial, Michigan Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Kalkaska MI

Obit: Michigan Conference 1898, 330

 

1872-73           Decatur

1876                “transfer” to Michigan Conference

                        Clare

                        Howard City

                        Sheridan

                        Mancelona

                        Fife Lake

                        Leroy

                        Kalkaska

                        2 years in Utah, preached some – but not under appointment

                        Williamsburg

 

Note: James F. McKinley served as a local pastor in the Central Pennsylvania and engaged in effective evangelistic work.  He served with Company K, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry (100 day enlistment) July 24 to November 5, 1864.

 

McKINNEY, WILLIAM R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

            quarterly conference license

1917    license, Virginia Conference

1918    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1913-15           Harveyville

1915-17           York Springs

1917                "transfer" to Virginia Conference of UB Church

1917-19           West Rockingham

1919-21           South Branch

1921-22

1922                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1922-23           Arona (beginning 5/1922)

1923-24           Liverpool

1924-26           Bigler

1926-27           Industry

1927-28           evangelist

1928                located

 

Note: William R. McKinney served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.  His given Virginia Conference ordination and status is what was reported to the Allegheny Conference and is not supported by Funkhouser's 1921 History of the Virginia Conference.

 

 

McLEAN, CHARLES CLOTHIER

 

Born: 1-10-1851  Philadelphia PA                             married: Ada Manderson

Died: 3-19-1932  CA                                                  obit: Baltimore Conference 1942, 157

 

1869    quarterly conference license, Green Street

1874    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles CA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1932, 105

 

1874-75           Cochranville and Friendship

1875-77           Fulton circuit

1877-80           Coatesville Olivet

1880-81           on leave [FL] for health reasons

1881-82           Philadelphia Belmont [Forty-third Street]

1882                transfer to St. John’s River Conference

1882-85           Jacksonville Trinity

1885-90           St. Augustine Grace

1890                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1890-91           Scranton Adams Avenue [Elm Park]

1891                transfer to Austin Conference

1891-93           San Antonio

1893                transfer to Southern California Conference

1893-98           Los Angeles Simpson Memorial

1901                transfer to Rock River Conference

                        Galena

                        Dixon

                        Oak Park

                        Chicago

1910                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1910-13           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial (ending December 1913)

1913                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1913-15           Roland Park (beginning December 1913)

1915-18           Douglas

1918-21           Lincoln Road

1921                retired

 

McMILLAN, CAROLINE LOUISA

 

Born: 10-23-1844 Gettysburg PA                              married: Philo Melvin Buck

Died: 4-10-1932  India                                               obit: [5/15/1846 – 9/8/1924]

 

Interment: Mussoorie, India

Obit: [conference biographical files]

 

1871-1922       missionary to India [1872, 39]

1922                retired

 

Note: Carrie L. McMillan is also noted incorrectly in some documents as “MacMillan.”  The daughter of local preacher David M. McMillan, she married fellow missionary Philo Melvin Buck [Drew graduate, member of the Kansas Conference] in India May 22, 1872.  A brief biography of Philo M. Buck given in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism describes Carrie as “an ardent evangelistic missionary.”  Caroline L. McMillan is a sister to Selma Jane McMillan Drum, wife of Martin Luther Drum.  Her story is told in the article “Carrie L. McMillan” in the 2012 issue of The Chronicle, pages 49-52.

 

McMINN, JAMES R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           Shade Valley

 

Note: James R. McMinn served as a local pastor.

 

McMORRIS, JOHN WRIGHT

 

Born: 12-15-1866  New Buffalo PA                          married: Irene E. Loomis

Died: 12-28-1952  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 322

 

1919    admitted on trial

1925    ordained elder

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 221

 

1918                Rehobeth (3 months)

1919-20           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1919-20      East Mansfield MA, New England Conference

1920-21           Hustontown

1921-22           Rouzerville

1922-24           Millerstown

1924-25            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1924-25  Finesville and Jersey City St. Paul’s, Newark Conference

1925-27           New Oxford-Ortanna

1927-28           Austin

1928-32           Morrisdale-Munson

1932-34           Stewartstown

1934-35           Warriors Mark

1935-36           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1936-37           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial

1937-38           Mt. Holly Springs

1938-39           Montandon

1939-41           Alexandria

1941-43           Frankstown

1943-44           on leave

1944-46           Ray’s Hill (beginning 11/1/44, see 1945, 77)

1946-47           Cherry Tree

1947                retired

 

McMURRAY, JACOB SNYDER

 

Born: 10-26-1821  Pine Creek Valley PA                  married: Julia A. _____

Died: 11-27-1885  Lilleyville PA                               obit: [5/7/1826 – 2/17/1867]

 

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Bellefonte Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 81

           

1844-45           Bloomingdale

1845-46           Sunbury

1846-47           Bellefonte

1847-48           Berwick

1848-49           Baltimore Fayette Street.

1849-50           Warrior’s Mark

1850-51           Birmingham

1851-53           Bellefonte

1853-55           Milton

1855-57           Newberry

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           East Baltimore

1859-61           North Baltimore

1861-62           Lewistown

1862-66           superintendent, Carlisle District

1866-68           Altoona

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Altoona

1869-73           superintendent, Altoona District

1873-76           Huntingdon

1876-77           Bloomsburg

1877-80           Clearfield

1880-82           Shamokin

1882-85           Tyrone

1885                superintendent, Juniata District

 

Note: A biographical sketch for Jacob S. McMurray appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 419.  The Methodist manuscript collection at the conference archives includes a file of sermons and notes by Jacob S. McMurray, presented by his granddaughter Julia Gregg Brill.

 

McQUILLEN, KYLE WOODROW, JR.

 

Born: 5-6-1938  Williamsport PA                              married:  Mar Louise Siegfried

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1956    quarterly conference license, Philipsburg Trinity

1961    admitted on trial

1961    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-60           student, Lycoming College

                             1957-58      Ralston

1960-64           McConnellstown

1964-65           Enola

1965-69           Mercersburg

1969-72           missionary, Nigeria

1972-79           Shippensburg Christ

1979-83           Berwick Bower Memorial (ending 11/23/83)

1983-85           superintendent, Sierra Leone Mission of the United Brethren in Christ Church

1985-87           Bellefonte Trinity

1987                withdrew to join United Brethren in Christ [UBOC] denomination

1987-93           associate director of missions

1993-01           director of missions

2001                retired

 

McRAE, LESLIE

 

Born: 11-12-1922  Snowtown, Australia                    married: Mary Margaret Summers

Died: 11-27-2007                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 171

 

1952    admitted on trial, recommended by Lewistown First

1952    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Inurnment: Skyway Memorial Gardens, Palmetto FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 417

 

1948-50           Muncy Valley

1950-53           Dillsburg

1953-54           Clearfield Circuit (ending 9/1/1954)

1954-56           Avis (beginning 9/1/1954)

1956-72           chaplain, US Air Force

1972-75           Newport Parish

1975-78           West Fairview

1978-85           Bellwood-Pinecroft

1985                retired

 

Note: Leslie McRae is listed in the 1968 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 878.

 

MEARKLE, WILLIAM WHARTON

 

Born: 1-21-1871  Bedford County PA                       married: Louise Delp [12/27/1923]

Died: 7-2-1954  Glenshaw PA                                   obit: [1887-1969]

 

Interment: Smithfield Cemetery, Allegheny County PA

Obit:

 

1894-95           Port Royal

 

Note: W.W. Mearkle lived in Mattie and served as a local pastor.  He later attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, class of 1897.  He graduated from Dickinson School of Law and moved to Pittsburgh where he worked in real estate, and finance, and as a state senator from Allegheny County for 12 years.

 

MEISER, HERMAN M.

 

Born: 3-21-1894  Millerstown PA                              married: Mary E. Howe

Died: 4-17-1972  Lakeland FL                                   obit: New England Conference 1995, E-18

 

1945    license, New York East Conference

1954    admitted on trial New England Southern Conference

 

Interment: St. Peters Cemetery, Millerstown PA

Obit: New England Southern Conference 1972, 296

 

1947-48           Portland CT

1952-58           East Hartford Wesley

1958-69           Wellfleet and Eastham MA               

1959                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959-61           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1961                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1961-64           Willimantic CT

1964-65           Jewett City–Bethel CT

1965                retired

                             1965-66      Jewett City–Bethel CT

                             1969-70      Crystal Lake Community NY

 

Note: Herman M. Meiser served as a country school teacher in Pennsylvania for 20 years before entering the ministry.

 

MELICK, JUSTUS A.

 

Born: 3-7-1823  Light Street PA                                married: Emeline E. Patchin

Died: 3-23-1886  Harrisburg   PA                               obit: [d. 10/16/1862]

                                                                                    married2: Emily D. Dunmire

1848    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf.         obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 132

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 78

 

1848-49           Bellefonte

1849-50           Clearfield

1850-51           Lycoming

1851-52           Berwick

1852-54           Luzerne

1854-56           Lock  Haven

1856-57           Great Island

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Great Island

1858-59           Manor Hill

1960-61           Birmingham

1861-63           Woodbury

1863-65           Williamsburg

1865-68           Newberry

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Bloomsburg

1870-72           Jersey Shore

1872-74           Hollidaysburg

1874-77           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1877-78           on leave

                             1877-78      assistant, Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1878                retired

                             1882-83      Harrisburg Fifth Street (beginning 8/17/82)

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Justus A. Melick is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 420.  The first Mrs. Melick died in childbirth and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg PA, with her infant son who likewise did not survive.

 

 

MELLOTT, MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY

 

Born: 8-4-1890  Everett PA                                        married: Florence Ethel Kehler

Died: 4-19-1959  Wallaceton  PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 203

 

1917    admitted on trial

1920    ordained deacon (11/21/1920)

 

Interment: Friedens Lutheran Cemetery, Liberty PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 254

 

1914-17           Cogan Valley

1917-19           Benezette

1919-23           Howard

1923-25           Morrisdale

1925-29           South Williamsport

1929-32           Altoona Juniata-Wesley

1932-33           Jersey Shore Epworth

1933-37           Orbisonia

1937-40           Williamsburg

1940-43           Beaver Meadow

1943-48           Enola

1948-52           Shrewsbury

1952-53           Millerstown

1953-57           White Haven

1957                retired

 

Note: Matthew S.Q. Mellott is the father of Mary Elizabeth Mellott Pearson, wife of Robert B. Pearson.

 

MELOY, ANDREW D.

 

Born: 10-17-1867  Carlisle PA                                   married: Alice Kronenberg [7/5/1892]

Died: 1938                                                                  obit: [7/27/1866 - 1947]

 

1892    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

1892-93           Jamestown

1893-94           faculty, Lock Haven Normal

1894                discontinued at his own request

                        banker, New York NY

 

Note: The tombstones for Andrew D. Meloy and Mrs. Meloy give their birth years as 1868 and 1867.  They are 1888 and 1889 graduates of Dickinson College, and Mrs. Meloy also taught at Lock Haven Normal School.

 

MELOY, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1939-40           Pine Grove Mills

1940-42           Allegheny circuit

 

Note: John Meloy served as a local pastor.

 

MELOY, JOURMAN BEALE

 

Born: 7-17-1876  near Port Royal PA                                    married: Pearl May Roy (1909)

Died: 12-16-1951  Lewistown PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 243

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Mildred Bonham Search (1947)

                                                                                    obit2: [9/14/1900 – 8/8/1992]

1897    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

?          ordained, Upper Iowa Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: New Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 203

 

1899-23           Upper Iowa Conference, United Evangelical Church

                             1911-13      Sharon Center

1923-24           ?

1924-26           Liverpool, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1926                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church (1926,236)

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

 

Then second Mrs. Meloy (nee Bonham) was the widow of a Mr. Elmer F. Search (1895-1936).

 

MELROY, JOHN RODMAN

 

Born: 5-2-1856  Oxford NJ                                        married: Mary Jane [Jennie] Shields (4/4/1888)

Died: 6-14-1940  White Haven PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 184

 

1885    ordained deacon, Newark Conference

1886    admitted on trial [Central Pennsylvania Conference], recommended by Hilton NJ

1890    ordained elder

 

Interment: Laurel Cemetery, White Haven

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 207

 

1883-86           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1883-86      Yatesville, Wyoming Conference (intermittent supply)

1886-88           Riverside

1888-89           West Hazelton

1889-92           Buckhorn

1892-94           Rouzerville

1894-95           Schloyerville (re-named Wapwallopen when parsonage built)

1895-96           Wapwallopen

1896-99           Alum Bank

1899-01           Clearville

1901-04           Hustontown

1904-05           Pleasant Gap

1905-08           Shawville

1908-11           East Waterford

1911-14           Wolfsburg

1914-16           Dudley

1916-18           White Haven

1918                retired

 

 

MEMINGER, SAMUEL E.

 

Born: 1852  PA                                                           married: Anna _____

Died: 3-22-1934  Douglas County OR                       obit: Oregon Conference 1934, 136

 

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Three Springs

1885    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Roseburg IOOF Cemetery, Roseburg OR

Obit: Oregon Conference 1934, 136

 

1882-83           Decatur

1883-84           McConnellstown

1884-85           Concord

1885-87           Milroy

1887-88           Saxton

1888-90           Alum Bank

1890                transfer to Oregon Conference

 

MEMINGER, WILLIAM McKEAN

 

Born: 3-16-1822  Liberty Valley PA                          married: Rebecca Watts

Died: 1-5-1888  Tyrone PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 118

 

1843    quarterly conference license, Mifflin circuit

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1847    ordained deacon

1849    ordained elder

 

Interment: Methodist Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 92

 

1844-45           Mifflin

1845-46           Shippensburg

1846-47           Newport

1847-48           York Springs

1848-49           Carlisle circuit

1849-50           Monroe

1850-52           Lewisburg circuit

1852-53           Christiansburg

1853-55           Shirleysburg

1855-57           Woodbury

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Frostburg

1859-61           Middletown

1861-63           Liberty

1863-66           Westminister

1866-68           West Harford

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Espy-Light Street

1871-73           Williamsburg

1873-75           Milesburg

1875-76           Warrior’s Mark

1876-78           Logan Valley

1878-80           Manor Hill

1880-83           Cassville

1883-85           Newton Hamilton

1885-88           on leave

 

Note: A biographical sketch of William M. Meminger is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 420.  He is the father of Rev. Wilbur Fiske Meminger, a renowned lay pastor and evangelist in the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination who is the subject of the biography "The Little Man from Chicago."  Mrs. Meminger is the daughter of James Watts (1782-1856) of the Baltimore Conference, and three of her sisters also married Methodist pastors.  Susan McKean Meminger, the mother of William McKean Meminger, is a sister of Episcopal minister Rev. Robert McKean (1732-1767) and of signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean (1734-1837).

 

MENCH, ABRAHAM HORATIUS

 

Born: 7-28-1845 near Mifflinburg PA                       married: [never married]

Died: 5-19-1876  Mifflinburg PA                               obit:

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1870    ordained deacon

1872    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 62

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Hughesville

1869-70           Shrewsbury

1870-72           Liverpool

1872-73           Greencastle

1873-74           Centralia

1874-75           Loyalsock

1875-76           Jamestown [Oriole]

1876                on leave

 

 

MENDENHALL, HENRY S.

 

Born: 8-1-1829  Nescopeck PA                                  married: Mary Updegraff Funston

Died: 2-5-1899  Berwick PA                                      obit: [c1829-1854/5]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah Catharine Eban

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [10/15/1838 – 12/14/1866]

                                                                                    married3: Anna B. Frantz

Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick PA              obit3: 1891, 84

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 92

 

1855-56           Luzerne

1856-57           Muncy

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Catawissa

1858-59           Hereford

1859-60           West Hereford

1860-61           Jeanesville

1861-63           New Bloomfield

1863-65           Newport

1865-67           Shippensburg

1867-68           Jeanesville

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Elysburg

1871-73           Snydertown

1873-75           Washingtonville

1875-76           Iola

1876-79           Orangeville

1879-81           Birmingham

1881-83           Pine Grove

1883-86           Duncansville

1886-88           Beach Haven

1888-96           on leave

1896                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Henry S. Mendenhall appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 421.

 

MENGLE, C. WILLIAM.

 

Born: 12-19-1918  Klinesgrove PA                            married: Helen J. Reeder

Died: 12-19-2005  Berwick PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 386

 

1957    license, recommended by Klinesgrove

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Klinesgrove United Methodist Cemetery, Klinesgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 422

 

1957-61           Catawissa circuit

1961-80           Mifflinville

1980                retired

                             1981-84      visitation pastor, Bloomsburg Wesley

 

MENTZER, CHARLES ROBERT

 

Born: 1-3-1906  Mont Alto PA                                  married: Nettie P. _____

Died: 11-22-1985                                                        obit: [12/24/1907 – 6/8/1996]

 

Interment: Harbaugh Church Cemetery, Rouzerville PA

Obit:

 

Note: Charles R. Mentzer is an uncle to Junior Mentzer of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

 

MENTZER, CLAYTON ABRAHAM

 

Born: 11-13-1886  Waynesboro PA                           married:

Died: 3-18-1933  Jersey City NJ                                obit:

 

1910    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside NJ

Obit:

 

1910-11           Vira

1911                Hopewell (May – Sept)

1911-14           at school (beginning 10/11)

1914                discontinued

 

Note: Clayton A. Mentzer became a medical doctor.

 

MEREDITH, VICTOR KLEIN, JR.

 

Born: 11-30-1919  Elkins WV                                   married: Delores Unangst

Died: 9-19-1997  Wellsboro PA                                 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 357

 

1941    license, recommended by Northumberland

1945    admitted on trial

1945    ordained deacon

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 444

 

1943-45           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1943-44      assistant, Lynn Boston Street

                             1944-45      South Tewksbury

1945-46           Catawissa circuit

1946-47           associate, Altoona First

1947-48           Altoona Mardorf

1948-50           Hastings

1950-52           Espy-Light Street

1952-57           Gettysburg

1957-62           Lewisburg

1962-75           Conference Adult Work/Conference Council on Ministries

1975-81           superintendent, Wellsboro District

1981-87           Conference Council on Ministries

1987                retired

 

Note: In 2000, the widowed Mrs. Meredith married a Mr. Robert G. Gates (1920-2005).

 

MERKI, WILLIAM EUGENE

 

Born: 9-12-1935  Norristown PA                               married: Sheril Darlene McCoy

Died: 1-19-2017  Martinsburg WV                            obit: [1939 – 1/20/2021]

 

1968    admitted as associate member, Baltimore Conference

1974    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           Mapleton (beginning 9/1/63)

1965-68           Bedford Valley

1968                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference

1968-74           Cumberland First

1974-76           Fort Washington

1976-85           Hancock

1985-89           Alpine

1989-96           Cumberland Davis Memorial-Otterbein

1996-97           Cumberland Davis Memorial-McKendree

1997-01           Martinsburg Otterbein

2001                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Merki was a ministerial member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

 

MERWIN, HAROLD STANTON

 

Born: 9-15-1897  Dover NJ                                        married: Mary Frances Shoener (6/18/1925)

Died: 3-?-1977                                                            obit:

 

1923    admitted on trial

1924    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-22           student, Dickinson College

                             1918           Steelton Cumbler’s Heights [Zion], Philadelphia Conference

                             1919-20      Newville

1923-26            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1926-27           on leave

1927                discontinued

                        Shadyside Academy, Pittsburg PA

                        Jenkintown PA

 

Note: Harold S. Merwin did not graduate from seminary, but rather pursued a career in education.

 

 

METZGER, AARON CALVIN

 

Born: 5-25 -1875  Lycoming County PA                   married: Alma Viola _____

Died: 5-?-1924                                                            obit: [1878-1920]

 

1919    quarterly conference license

1922    license

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1922-24           Bloomingdale

 

Note: A. Calvin Metzger is a brother to Clarence A. Metzger.  He served as a local pastor.

 

METZGER, CLARENCE ALVA

 

Born: 4-8-1874  Cogan Station PA                           married: Sarah Rabuck

Died: 5-29-1945  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 265

 

1919    license

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 229

 

1919-21           Leetonia (beginning 10/19)

1921-24           Morris

                             1922-24  Coolidge Hollow, Genesee Conference

1924-27           Bloomingdale

1927-32           Pleasant Gap

1932-36           Conyngham

1936-40           Snydertown

1940-44           Beach Haven (ending 9/1/44)

1944-45           Picture Rocks (beginning 9/1/44)

 

Note: Clarence A. Metzger is a brother to A. Calvin Metzger.  He served as a local pastor.  His name is sometimes rendered as Charles A. Metzger.

 

METZGER, KENNETH BELMONT

 

Born: 9-6-1917  Williamsport PA                              married: Jean Louise Schneider

Died: 6-17-1998                                                          obit: Central Illinois Conference 1987, 1157

 

1948    license, recommended by Williamsport Market Street

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Illinois Great Rivers Conference 1999, 19

 

1948-49           assistant, Market Street

1949-53           student, Lycoming College

                             1949-53  Wallis Run

1953-61           Dillsburg

1961-62           Mifflintown

1962                transfer to Central Illinois Conference

1962                minister of education (and conference education coordinator), Moline First

 

METZLER, OLIVER STERLING

 

Born: 1-8-1859  Harrisonville PA                              married: [never married]

Died: 2-10-1941  Williamsport PA                            obit:

 

1881    admitted on trial

1885    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 209

 

1881-82           Benton

1882-85           Beach  Haven

1885-88           York Princess Street

1888-91           Mifflinville

1891-95           Stockton-Beaver

1895-00           Ashland

1900-06           Emporium

1906-15           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1915-23           Lock Haven Trinity

1923-30           Danville St. Paul’s

1930                retired

                             1934-40      Phelps Chapel

 

MEYERS, AMOS DONOVAN

 

Born: 6-20-1917                                                          married: Julia Kam Lin Chung (1944)

Died: 1-26-2006  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: [1/30/1914 – 4/20/1981]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Helen (Torry) Renich (1982)

1952    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [1916 – 1999]

 

Interment: Russellville Cemetery, James Creek PA

Obit: [on file at the conference archives]

 

1948-50           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1950-62           York Springs

1962                voluntary location

                        superintendent, Bermudian Springs School District

                        superintendent, Juniata Valley School District

 

Note: Amos D. Meyers also supplied Methodist churches at Russellville & Entriken, East Waterford, and Roxbury and Presbyterian churches at Great Conewago and Lower Marsh Creek.  The second Mrs, Meyers (nee Torry) was the widow of a Mr. Frederick Charles Renich (1916-1979).

 

McMINN, JAMES R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           Shade Valley

 

Note: James R. McMinn served as a local pastor.

 

 

MEYERS, THOMAS W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1911-12           Thompsontown

 

Note: Thomas W. Meyers served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

MICHAEL, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-28           Hustontown (did not finish the year)

 

Note: J.W. Michael served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be John William Michael (1855-1931) of the Illinois Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

MIKA, FRANCIS S.

 

Born: 1876                                                                  married: Anna Zoltak

Died: 1960                                                                  obit: [1879 – 1964]

 

1912    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Roselawn Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit:

 

1912-14           Hazleton Anthracite Mission

1914-18           Berwick Anthracite [Unity] Mission (ending October 1918)

1919                discontinued at own request

 

MILHEIM, DANIEL CARL

 

Born: 1-16-1938  Philadelphia PA                             married: Patricia A. Stout (1960)

Died: 5-17-2020                                                          obit: [1/12/1937 – 9/10/2021]

 

1967    license, recommended by Williamsport Grace

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1967-71           Ralston (beginning 9/17/67)

1971-73           Half Moon

1973-74           Gaines-Galeton

1974                no longer listed

 

Note: Daniel C. Milheim served as a local pastor.  He reported took course work at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC, worked at Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven, was involved in prison ministry, and was a member of Wings of Love Community Church in South Williamsport.

 

MILLARD, HAROLD EUGENE

 

Born: 7-25-1914  Leonard MI                                                married: Margaret H. Campbell

Died: 5-11-2007  Kissimmee FL                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 321

                                                                                    married2: Eleanor Mary Peterson

1933    license, recommended by Lansing MI Potter Park     obit2: 1999, 436

1935    admitted on trial, Michigan Conference

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Oceola Memory Gardens, Kissimmee FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 417

 

1935-35           Portland

1936-36           Concord

1936-37           Fulton-Leondius

1937-38           Decatur

1938                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1938-39           New Oxford-Ortanna

1939-41           York Springs-New Oxford

1941-42           Harrisburg St. Paul’s-Riverside (ending 8/14/1942)

1942-46           chaplain, US Army (8/14/1942 – 5/6/1946)

1946-49            at school

                             1946-49      Flatbrook Valley parish NJ (beginning 5/6/1946, ending 12/31/1948)

1949-50           Catawissa (beginning 1/1/1949 – 11/1/1950)

1950-53           chaplain, US Army (11/1/1950 – 4/30/1953)

1953-54           Montgomery (beginning 5/1/1953)

1954-57           York Grace

1957-62           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1962-71            executive secretary for missions, PA Council of Churches (ending 12/31/1970)

1971-75           Harrisburg Paxton

1975-81           Newberrytown St. Paul’s

1981                retired

                             1981-91      associate, Kissimmee FL First

 

Note: Harold E. Millard is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 893.

 

MILLER, ALEXANDER R.

 

Born: 1838  Three Springs PA                                   married: Sarah A. Hartley

Died: 1-21-1914  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 212

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 128

 

1863-64           Concord

1864-64           McVeytown

1864-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           Bedford

1867-68           Buckeystown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Newport

1871                transfer to Virginia Conference

1871-74           Richmond

1874                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1874-76           Newton Hamilton

1876-79           Hanover-New Oxford

1879-81           New Cumberland

1881-84           Muncy

1884-87           Newberry

1887-90           Mifflintown

1890-93           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1893-97           Philipsburg

1897-00           Berwick

1900-02           Bedford

1902-06           Renovo

1906-09           Shickshinny

1909-11           Jersey Shore Epworth

1911-14           Lewisburg

 

Note: An obituary for Alexander R. Miller also appears in the 2-26-1914 Christian Advocate, page 311.

 

MILLER, ALFRED LAWRENCE

 

Born: 9-8-1869  Philadephia  PA                               married: Blanche Patterson

Died: 7-15-1962  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: Central PA Conference 1949, 199

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona District

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Hall Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 332

 

1888-90           Altoona circuit

1890-92           Pine Grove

1892-94           Riverside

1894-95           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1895-98           Gordon

1898-00           Newton Hamilton

1900-02           Hazleton Diamond

1902-05           Catawissa

1905-07           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1907-12           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1912-15           Lock Haven Trinity

1915-21           Bloomsburg

1921-22           Chambersburg

1922-30           Lewistown First

1930-36           superintendent, Williamsport District

1936-37           Hanover

1937-42           Williamsport Calvary

1942                retired

 

Note: A. Lawrence Miller is listed as assigned to Coalport in 1889, but apparently he remained on the Altoona circuit.

 

MILLER, BLAINE LESLIE JR

 

Born: 7-1-1928  Washington PA                                married: Renee L. Stevens [1/19/52]

Died: 7-31-2006  Dalmatia PA                                   obit:

                                                                                    married2: Barbara S, Clendenin

1963    license, recommended by Mont Alto             obit2:

1967    admitted on trial

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap PA

Obit: (in the ministerial files at the conference archives)

 

1963                Rays Hill (beginning 2/1/1963)

1963-68           Rehoboth

1968-80            Marysville Wesley

1980-84           on leave

1984                withdrew to unite with another denomination, page 302

1984-93           United Church of Christ

1993                retired

 

MILLER, CLARENCE ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 11-8-1893  Jersey Shore PA                             married:

Died: 1-27-1963                                                          obit:

 

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained local deacon

1932    ordained local elder

 

Interment: Sunset Memorial Park, Somerton [Philadelphia] PA

Obit:

 

1921-23           Emporium [Cameron] circuit (resigned in midyear)

1923-24           ?

1924-25           living in Duboistown

1925-26           Benezette

1926-28           Waterville

1928-29           East Waterford

1929-30           Rouzerville

1930-31           Morris

1931-33           New Millport

1933                discontinued

 

Note: Clarence Ellsworth Miller served Waterville while attending Lycoming College, from which he graduated in 1927.

 

 

MILLER, DAREN LANE

 

Born: 9-16-1924                                                          married: Patricia Ann Klinedinst

Died: 8-3-2006                                                            obit: [9/11/1933 – 19/23/1995]

 

1959    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver CO

Obit: Greater New Jersey 2007, ?

 

1954-58           Lewisberry

1958-62            student, Drew Theological School in Madison NJ

                             1958-62  Sussex

1962                transfer to Newark Conference

1962-65           Sussex

1965-69           Dunellen

1969-82           Stony Point Trinity, NY

1982-89           on leave for health reasons

1989                retired

 

 

MILLER, DONALD HARMON GEORGE

 

Born: 9-11-1912  Corning NY                                   married: Carrie Jane Lutz

Died: 4-30-2004                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 367

                                                                                    married2: Lois Fay Roos

1933    license, recommended by Jersey Shore First  obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 364

1936    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment: Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 373

 

1933-33           Waterville (ending 9/30/33)

1933-35           assistant, Geneva NY First (beginning 10/1/33)

1935-36           Rouzerville

1936-37           Littlestown

1937-39            at school

1939-41           Gatchelville

1941-43           Lock Haven circuit

1943-47           Williamsport Third Street

1947-50           Ashland

1950-61           Bellefonte

1961-65           Altoona Juniata

1965-69            Blossburg

1969-77           Coudersport (beginning 9/1/65)

1977                retired

                             1977-83  Roulette

 

 

MILLER, DORSEY NEWTON                   

 

Born: 7-9-1876  Clearfield County PA                      married: Anna Estella Smith

Died: 3-21-1938 Philadelphia PA                              obit: New Jersey Conference 1957, 337

 

1897    admitted on trial

1899    ordained deacon

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 224

 

1896-98           Muncy Valley

1898-01           student, Dickinson College

                             1898-99      West Fairview

                             1900-01      Rehoboth-Boiling Springs

1901-04           Mill Hall

1904-09           Watsontown

1909-14           Montoursville

1914-20           Lewistown

1920-34           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1934-37           Danville (ending 7/1/37)

1937-38           Pitman, New Jersey Conference

1938                transfer to New Jersey Conference

 

Note: Dorsey N. Miller is the son of John A. Miller.   Born in 1884, Mrs. Miller was a licensed local pastor and soon after the death of her husband entered the field of evangelistic preaching and singing. 

 

MILLER, EDGAR RAYMOND M.D.

 

Born: 4-19-1899                                                                      married: Alma Elizabeth Jane Bucke M.D.

Died: 6-19-1989                                                                      obit: Central PA Conference 1985, 413

 

Interment: Lower Brandywine Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Owls Nest PA

Obit:

 

1954-65           medical missionaries to Nepal

 

Note: Mrs. Miller is the daughter of J.E.A. Bucke and the sister of D. Perry Bucke and Emory Stevens Bucke.  Dr. Edgar Milller and Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller received the Conference’s Frederick D. Wertz Award in 1981.

 

MILLER, FLOYD JOSEPH

 

Born: 9-24-1925  Archibald PA                                 married: Esther M. _____

Died: 11-23-2008                                                        obit: [3/24/1931 – 8/10/2020]

 

Interment: Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell FL

Obit:

 

Note: Floyd J. Miller has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

MILLER, FRANKLIN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1933-36           Wolfsburg & Alum Bank

 

Note: Franklin Miller served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

MILLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 4-11-1845  near Gettysburg PA                       married: Amelia Evelyn Harman

Died: 11-29-1930  Brooklyn NY                               obit:

 

1865    quarterly conference license

1866    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City NY

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1931, 398

 

1866-67           Mount Vernon

1867-68           Canton

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69            McVeytown

1869-71           Selinsgrove

1871-72           Shickshinny

1872-75           York Duke Street

1875-78           Bellefonte

1878-80           Chambersburg First

1880                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1880-83           Wilmington Grace

1883                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1883-86           Philadelphia Spring Garden

1886                transfer to New York East Conference

1886-89           Brooklyn Grace

1889                transfer to St. Louis Conference

1889-93           Kansas City MO Independence Avenue

1893                transfer to New York Conference

1893-96           New York City St. Andrews

1896                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1896-01           Baltimore Grace

1901-02           West Baltimore station

1902-03           Washington St. Paul’s

1903-09           Annapolis First

1909-10           Strawbridge

1910                retired

 

Note: The obituary of George W. Miller includes interesting Gettysburg Civil War experiences.  Mrs. Amelia Harman Miller witnessed the burning of the farm when she was a schoolgirl. She wrote "The Burning of the McLean House On The First Day's Battle of Gettysburg Told by a Young Girl Driven from the House When Set on Fire" in the Gettysburg Compiler for the 50th anniversary on July 2, 1913.

 

MILLER, GUY THOMAS

 

Born: 10-1-1910  Dewart PA                                     married: Elizabeth Aimee Sholley

Died: 7-17-1994                                                          obit: [1909-1997]

                                                                                    married2: Clara M. Miles Shafer [1962]

1952    license, Wyoming Conference                       obit2: [1911-1992]

 

Interment: Clarks Green Cemetery, Clarks Green PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1995, 320

 

1945-48           Muncy Valley (beginning 6/1/45)

1952                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference

1952-53           East Lemon

1953-68           Lemon – East Lemon

1968-74           Carley Brook

1974-77           Taylor

1977                retired

                            1977-81  West Nicholson

                            1981-94  LaAnna

 

Note: Guy T. Miller served as a local pastor.  The first marriage ended in divorce.  The second Mrs. Miller [nee Miles] was the widow of a Mr. Glendon P. Shafer (1900-1957).

 

 

MILLER, HENRY FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-14-1910  Colerain PA                                   married: Ethel Louise _____

Died: 4-14-2000                                                          obit: [4/19/1909 – 10/4/1996]

 

1937    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Seven Stars Cemetery, Seven Stars, Huntingdon County PA

Obit:

 

1933-36           Wolfsburg-Alum Bank

1936-41           Frankstown

1941-42           Alexandria

1942                withdrew to join Baptist Church

 

MILLER, HENRY R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1911-12           Allegheny

 

Note: H. R. Miller served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

MILLER, IVAN LORRAINE

 

Born: 1-8-1915  near Petersburg PA                          married: Thelma V. Coffman

Died: 12-29-2002                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008,418

 

1931    license, recommended by Petersburg

1937    admitted on trial

1939    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 388

 

1935-38           Glen Hope

1938-40           Penn’s Valley

1940-42           Pleasant Gap

1942-44           student, Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

1944                transfer to Pacific Northwest Conference

1944-47           Pacific Northwest

1947                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1947-48           Lock haven East Main Street

1948-53           Montgomery

1953-68           chaplain, US Navy

1968-69           Harrisburg Riverside

1969-70           assistant administrator, Mechanicsburg Bethany Village

1970-77           administrator, Tyrone Epworth Manor

1977                retired

 

MILLER, JAMES PERRY

 

Born: 11-23-1897  York County PA                          married: Esther _____ [1920]

Died: 4-2-1980  Comanche TX                                  obit:

                                                                                    married 2: Dora Romaine Landis [1924]

                                                                                    obit2: [8/4/1893 – 10/30/1970]

                                                                                    married 3: LaVerne Boyd Roberts [1953]

                                                                                    obit3: [6/25/1914 – 1/30/1977]

 

1921  admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisberry & Lisburn

 

Interment: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Decatur TX

Obit:

 

1922-24           Lewisbury-Lisburn

1924-26           Mount Holly Springs

1926-29           Claysburg

1929-33           Altoona Broad Avenue

1933-34           leave of absence

1934                expelled

 

Note: J. Perry Miller appears to have first  entered Dickinson College in 1916 and is considered a is a (non-graduate) member of the class of 1928.   His first two marriages ended in divorce.

 

MILLER, JOHN ALEXANDER     

 

Born: 8-24-1848  Forest, Clearfield County PA        married: Clara Shunkwiler

Died: 2-14-1912  Montandon PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 132

 

1882    license

1889    ordained deacon, recommended by Leidy circuit

1898    ordained elder, recommended by Trout Run circuit

1910    admitted on trial

           

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 129

 

1888-90           Leidy [Hammersly Fork]

1890-93           Benezette

1893-96           Duboistown

1896-99           Trout Run

1899-01           Laurelton

1901-02           McElhattan & Pine

1902-03           Cameron

1904-06           Washingtonville

1906-09           Jonestown

1909-12           Montandon

 

Note: John A. Miller is the father of Dorsey N. Miller.  He is also reported to have supplied Dunnstown and Liberty – although apparently while they were part of a larger circuit, with another person listed as the preacher in charge.  

 

MILLER, JOHN

 

Born: 12-23-1794  Huntingdon County PA               married:

Died: 10-10-1878  Westminster MD                          obit:

 

1819    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1879,43

 

1819-20           Greenbrier

1820-21           Rockingham

1821-22           Allegany

1822-23           Jefferson

1823-24           Pendleton

1824-25           on leave

1825-27           South Branch

1827                located

1832                readmitted

1832-34           Fincastle

1834-35           Lexington

1835-36           Winchester station

1836-37           Baltimore City station

1837-41           superintendent, Northumberland

1841-42           West Baltimore

1842-44           Baltimore Fayette Street

1844-46           West River

1846-50           superintendent, Huntingdon District

1851-52           Baltimore City station

1852-53           on leave

1853-55           Frederick City

1855-56           Hillsboro

1856-57           Jefferson

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Westminster

1859-61            on leave

1861                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of John Miller is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 422. 

 

MILLER, NANCY L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           Woodland

 

Note: Nancy L. Miller served as a local pastor.

 

MILLER, OLIVER GAYLE

 

Born: 2-20-1917  Elimsport PA                                 married: Helen Souter

Died: 6-28-1981  Bridgehampton NY                        obit: [1/6/1912 – 5/5 /2001]

 

1951    license

1956    admitted on trial, New York Conference

1957    ordained deacon, New York Conference

1958    ordained elder, New York Conference

 

Interment: Alvira Cemetery, Union County PA

Obit: New York Conference 1982, 1114

 

1952-56           Forksville

1956                “transfer” to New York Conference

1956-57           North Tarrytown

1957-60           Tannersville & Haines Falls

1960-61           Delhi

1961-68           Highland Falls & Fort Montgomery

1968-77           Copake & Craryville

1977-79           Georgetown CT

1979-81           Fleischmanns

1981                Bridgehampton

 

Note: O. Gayle Miller is the preferred rendering.  The Central Pennsylvania Conference incorrectly lists him as Gayle O. Miller.

 

MILLER, OTHO COLFAX

 

Born: 9-8-1868  Buffalo Mills PA                             married: Loretta Jane McLaughlin

Died: 12-16-1959  Mechanicsburg PA                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 412

 

1902    admitted on trial

1904    ordained elder

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 244

 

1902-04           Waller

1904-05           Park Place-Delano

1905-06           Jonestown

1906-07           Green Village

1907-10           Cross Roads

1910-16           Altoona East

1916-19           Danville Trinity

1919-22           York Ridge Avenue

1922-26           St. Mary’s

1926-42           superintendent, Methodist Home for Children

1942                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on Otho C. Miller appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 35.  Some sources give his birth date as 9-6-1868.  Mrs. Miller is also known as Lauretta.

 

 

MILLER, RALPH RAYMOND

 

Born: 12-31-1893  Altoona PA                                  married: Mary Margaret Hetrick

Died: 9-17-1981  Branchville NJ                               obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1977, 268

 

1918    admitted on trial

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: Bald Eagle Cemetery, Bald Eagle PA

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1982, 338

 

1918-19           Allegheny circuit

1919-22           student, Dickinson College

                             1919-22       Rehoboth

1922-24           New Bloomfield

1924-25           assistant, Lewistown

1925-26           Lewistown circuit

1926-28           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1928-32           Coalport-Irvona

1932-34           Houtzdale

1934-41           Stewartstown parish

1941-47           Williamsport Grace

1947                transfer to Newark Conference

1947-50           Bergen Point

1950-54           Midland Park

1954-55           Metuchen

1955-60           Scotch Plains

1960                retired

                             East Millstone and Finesville

                             minister of visitation, Milltown

 

Note: There is a separate biographical file on Ralph R. Miller at the conference archives.

 

MILLER, TAYLOR EDWARD

 

Born: 10-25-1917                                                        married: Doris Marion Lippincott

Died: 7-24-1959  New York                                       obit: [1920 – 1975]

 

1938    admitted on trial, Troy Conference

 

Interment: Glen Falls Cemetery, Glen Falls NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 246

 

1943-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-49           faculty, Syracuse University

1949-53           Leonia NJ

1953-55           faculty, Boston University

1955-57           dean, Lycoming College

1957                transfer to Central Pennsylvania College

1957-59           associate, Harrisburg Grace

 

Note: Taylor E. Miller is the son of Cassius J. Miller of the Troy Conference.  Mrs. Miller is buried in Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA.

 

MILLER, THEODORE SIMPSON

 

Born: 11-27-1917  Jersey Shore PA                           married: Ruth Evelyn Snyder

Died: 4-15-1989  Rehobeth Beach DE                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 452

 

1936    license, recommended by Duboistown

1944    admitted on trial

1944    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Berlin Cemeteryt, New Berlin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 473

 

1938-41           Clearville (10/38 – 9/41)

1941-44           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA (beginning 9/41)

1944-45           Alexandria

1945-48           chaplain, US Navy

1948-50           Manor Hill

1950-53           Glen Campbell

1953-56           Weatherly

1956-59           Pleasant Gap

1959-64           Mifflinburg

1964-66           Wrightsville

1966-68           Harrisburg Camp Curtin, Harrisburg

1968-77           Altoona Llyswen

1977-78           Youngs

1978-81           Renovo

1981                retired

                             1981-83  Ashville OH South Bloomfield

 

Note: Theodore S. Miller is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 901.

 

 

MILLER, WAYNE M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-59           Dravo circuit

1959-62           ?

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Danville Trinity

1963                withdrew to join United Church of Christ

1963-               Frostburg MD Zion UCC

 

 

MILLER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 4-17-1863  near Tannersville PA                     married: Alice E. Sener

Died: 12-14-1929  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 202

 

1889    request for admittance on trial, recommended by Port Royal circuit

1893    admitted on trial

1895    ordained elder, recommended by Clearville

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 190

 

1893-94           Shirleysburg

1894-97           Clearville

1897-20           on leave

1920                retired

 

 

MILLS, FRANCIS MARION

 

Born: 8-5-1810  Williamsburg VA                            married: Mary H. _____

Died: 3-10-1900  Neosho MO                                    obit: [6/1/1812 – 9/14/1889]

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho MO

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South 1900, 65

 

1832-33           St Mary’s

1833-34           Hagerstown station

1834-35           Carlisle

1835-36           Frederick

1836-38           Franklin

1838-40           Waynesboro

1840-42           Allegany

1842-44           Bellefonte

1844-45           Berwick

1845-46           Patapsco

1846-47           East Baltimore station (moved to Milwaukee* in mid-year)

1847-48           Milwaukee WI

1848                transfer to Rock River Conference

1848-49           apparently no appointment for health reasons

1849                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1849-57           on leave

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-1864      on leave

1864                withdrew to join M.E. South

*This was an “exchange” with William M.D. Ryan, later of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Francis M. Mills is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 423. 

 

MILLS, WILLIAM ROBERT

 

Born: 7-5-1816  Alexandria VA                                 married: Sarah Stewart Oaks

Died: 12-19-1869  York PA                                       obit: [3/12/1826 – 10/17/1895]

 

1840    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Ennisville Cemetery, Ennisville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 62

 

1840-41           Berwick

1841-42           Huntingdon

1842-43           Northumberland

1843-44           Lycoming

1844-45           Lock Haven

1845-47           Penn’s Valley

1847-48           Northumberland

1848-50           Warrior’s Mark

1850-52           Huntingdon

1852-54           Lewistown

1854-56           Newport

1856-57           Mercersburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Liberty MD

1859-61           East Baltimore

1861-63           North Baltimore

1863-66           Altoona

1866-68           Lewisburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Carlisle

1869                 York

 

Note: A biographical sketch for William R. Mills is given Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 424.  His birth date also appears as 7-6-1816.

 

MINARD, WILLIAM GEORGE

 

Born: 4-24-1928                                                          married: Janet Palmateer (1/1/1951)

Died: 11-20-2010  Denver CO                                   obit:

 

1953    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-55           student, Iliff Seminary in Denver CO

1955-57           student, University of Michigan

1957-60           student, Denver CO

1960                discontinued

 

Note: William G. Minard and Janet Palmateer were married in the Methodist Church at Emporium PA.  Nothing more is known about William G. Minard.  He was living in retirement Lakewood CO in 2002.

 

MINKER RALPH LELAND SR

 

Born: 11-22-1897  North East MD                             married: Ruth Edna Jones

Died: 12-8-1983  Wilmington DE                              obit: Peninsula Conference 1981, 360

 

1921    admitted on trial, Southern New England Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington DE

Obit: Peninsula Conference 1984, 431

 

1917-20           student, Dickinson College

                             1917        Rehoboth (ending 9/17)

1920-23           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1923-26           Southern New England Conference

1926                transfer to New Hampshire Conference

1930                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1930-35           Wilmington Silverbrook

1935-36           Creisfield Immanuel

1936-41           on leave

1941-73           voluntary location

1973                retired

 

Note: Ralph L. Minker Sr. is the father of Ralph L. Minker Jr. of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

 

MINNICH, EDMUND WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-11-1927  Wilburton PA                               married: Martha Lucretia Whittern (divorce 1980)

Died:                                                                           obit: [12/2/1926 – 7/22/2020]

                                                                                    married2: Mary Ann ___

1952    license, recommended by Wilburton              obit2:

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-53           student, Taylor University in Upland IN

1953-56           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1953-56      Schellsburg

1956-60           Petersburg Parish

1960-64           Burnham

1964-79           Danville Trinity

1979-80           Hanover First (ending 9/1/1980)

1980-81           on leave (beginning 9/1/1980)

1981-85           Middleburg Parish

1985-89           Tower City

1989                retired

 

Note: Edmund W. Minnich is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 905.

 

MINNIGH, HENRY NEIDLEIGH

 

Born: 4-17-1838  near Gettysburg PA                       married: Lisle [Eliza] J. Eppleman

Died: 11-26-1915  Gettysburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 158

 

1871    admitted on trial

 

Interment: National Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 128

 

1871-73           Mont Alto

1873-75           Castle Fin

1875-77           Harrisburg Mt. Pleasant

1877-79           Wellsville

1879-80           Lewisberry

1880-83           Helfenstein-Gordon

1883-85           West Fairview

1885-87           Manor Hill

1887-89           Lumber City

1889-92           Duncansville

1892-94           Penn’s Valley

1894-96           Snow Shoe

1896-98           Port Matilda

1898-01           Allegheny

1901-02           Altoona circuit

1902-04           McKee’s Gap

1904                retired

 

MITCHELL, THOMPSON

 

Born: 3-22-1817  near Newton Hamilton PA            married: Temperance Turner

Died: 5-9-1897  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 120

 

1839    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 91

 

1839-41           Carlisle circuit

1941-42           Shrewsbury

1942-43           Codorus

1843-44           Lewistown circuit

1844-45           Birmingham

1845-47           Hollidaysburg

1847-49           Bellefonte circuit

1849-51           Danville

1851-53           Williamsport

1853-54           Staunton

1854-56           Baltimore Columbia Street

1856-57           superintendent, Northumberland District

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-60           superintendent, Northumberland District

1860-68           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (ending 8/1/1869)

1869-70           superintendent, Williamsport District (beginning 9/1/1869)

1870-72           superintendent, Carlisle District

1872-74           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1874-77           superintendent, Williamsport District

1877-81           superintendent, Juniata District

1881-82           Altoona First

1882-83           North Williamsport

1883-84           Duboistown

1884-90           on leave

1890                retired

 

Note: Biographical sketches appear in Simpson’s 1891 Cyclopedia of Methodism and in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 424.  Thompson Mitchell is a half-brother to Margaret Jeannette Mitchell, wife of Richard Mallalieu.

 

MOHANSINGH, SAMUEL

 

Born: 3-6-1931  India                                                 married: Lois Grace Biddle (1963)

Died: 9-3-2013  Asheville NC                                   obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 288

 

1956    ordained deacon, Delhi Conference: recommended by Delhi

1956    ordained elder, Delhi Conference

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 261

 

1956-60           Sonepat

1960-93           Dhaka

1963-65           Hissar

1965-66           student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY

1966                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1966-68           New Millport

1968-74           study leave

1974-76           faculty, Leonard Theological College in India

1976-77           faculty, Allahabad Bible Seminary in India

1977-80           Monroeton (beginning 9/77)

1980-84           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1984-89           Summerdale

1989-96           Altoona Mardorf

1996                retired

                             1996-98      Mines-Royer

                             1998-99      Mines (ending 10/31/99)

 

MOIST, JOSEPH FRANKLIN

 

Born: 8-7-1933  Lewistown PA                                 married: [never married]

Died: 4-18-2018  Lewistown PA                                obit:

 

1956    admitted on trial

1958    ordained, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Juniata Memorial Park, Lewistown PA

Obit:

 

1956-58           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

1958                transfer to New York East Conference

1971                withdrew to join Presbyterian Church

1971-80           McVeytown Presbyterian Church

 

 

Note: J. Franklin Moist was a member of the Troy Conference when he withdrew from the United Methodist ministry in 1971.  From 1980 into the early 2000’s, he served in the Presbytery of Long Island before retiring to his native Lewsitown PA, where he continued to serve as a supply pastor in the Presbyterian Church until 2017.

 

MONG, CHARLES CLAYTON SR.

 

Born: 7-3-1869  Warriors Mark PA                           married: Blanche E. Chamberland

Died: 3-18-1948  Altoona PA                                    obit: [4/23/1874 – 10/23/1939]

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery. Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1940-41           Allegheny circuit

1941-47           Hollidaysburg [Loop] St. Paul’s

 

Note: C.C. Mong was a meter foreman in the Altoona Water Department and served as a local pastor.

 

MONROE, CHARLES H.

 

Born: 8-9-1873  Huntington Mills PA                       married: Myra J. Mae

Died: 1-20-1933  Laurens NY                                    obit: [9/2/1874 – 1944]

 

1911    local preacher’s license, Noxen charge of the Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Orcutt Grove Cemetery, Noxen PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1934, 394

 

1915                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1915-17           Bloomingdale

1917-20           Catawissa circuit

1920-22           Jeanesville & Audenreid

1922-23           Half Moon (resigned in midyear)

1923                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference

1923-25           Skinner’s Eddy

1925-27           Springville

1927-30           Glen Lyon

 

Note: Charles H. Monroe is the father of Edna Monroe Crispel, wife of Floyd S. Crispel (1895-1984) of the Wyoming Conference, and of Rev. Howard Leroy Monroe (1897-?) of the Free Methodist Church.  Charles served as a local preacher in both the Central Pennsylvania and Wyoming Conferences.

 

MONROE, DAVID SOLOMON

 

Born: 4-15-1833  Leesburg VA                                 married: Caroline Matilda Pearre

Died: 11-15-1910  Altoona                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 116

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 119

 

1853-54           Newville

1854-55           York Springs

1855-56           New Bloomfield

1856-57           Wrightsville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Havre-de-Grace MD

1858-61           Mount Vernon

1861-62           Baltimore Emory (first of part year) and York First (second part of year)

1862-63           White Haven

1863-65           Lock Haven

1865-67           Curwensville

1867-69           Lewistown

1869                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-70           Lewistown

1870-72           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1872-74           York First

1874-77           Williamsport Pine Street

1877-80           Lewisburg

1880-83           Chambersburg

1883-86           Bloomsburg

1886-89           Bellefonte

1889-94           Altoona First

1894-00           superintendent, Altoona District

1900-05           Shamokin First

1905-10           New Cumberland

 

Note: A biographical sketch of David S. Monroe is given in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.

 

MONROE, FRANK OSCAR

 

Born: 9-8-1935  Southdale PA                                   married: Hildegard _____

Died: 11-23-2009  Springfield, Bradford Co. PA      obit: [5/25/1934 – ]

 

1966    license, recommended by Millville

1969    ordained deacon

1981    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wetona Cemetery, Wetona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 171

 

1965-68           Talmar circuit

1968-83           Big Pond

1983-95           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1995-98           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1998                retired 

 

MONROE, WILLIAM M.

 

Born: 9-8-1783  Boonsboro MD                                married: Mary Talbot

Died: 5-29-1871  Boonsboro MD                               obit: [3/4/1792 – 12/5/1863]

 

1810    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Boonsboro Cemetery, Boonsboro MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1872, 43

 

1810-11           Littleton

1811-12           Huntingdon

1812-13           Greenfield

1813-14           Randolph

1814-15           Redstone

1815-16           East Wheeling

1816-17           Monongahela & Randolph

1817-18           Rockingham

1818-19           Allegany

1819-20           Washington DC Ebenezer

1820-21           Chambersburg

1821-23           Winchester

1823-24           Stafford

1824-26           Rockingham

1826-28           Staunton

1828-30           Berkley

1830-32           Jefferson

1832-34           Berkley

1834-35           South Branch

1835-37           Hillsboro

1837-38           on leave

1838-39           retired

1839-41           Boonsboro

1841-42           Codorus mission

1842-43           on leave

1843-44           Mercersburg

1844-45           Waynesboro

1845-46           Greencastle

1846                retired

                             1857  charter member of East Baltimore Conference

                             1868  transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: William Monroe is the brother of local pastor John Monroe (1772-1862) of Indiana.

 

MONTGOMERY, FRANK WITHINGTON

 

Born: 3-16-1904  Huntingdon PA                              married: Agnes Cordelia Howell

Died: 12-25-1993  Huntingdon PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 371

 

1929    license, recommended by Huntingdon First

1933    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 484

 

1930-33           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1930-31      Weston VT  (6/30 – 9/31)

                             1931-33      West Groton MA  (11/31 – 7/33)

1933-36           Claysburg  (beginning 8/33)

1936-42           Nescopeck

1942-43           Selinsgrove

1943-47           Altoona Llyswen

1947-57           State College St. Paul’s

1957-63           superintendent, Sunbury District

1963-66           Clearfield Trinity

1966-71            Chambersburg

1971                retired

 

Note: Frank W. Montgomery is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 914.  He is the father of Jane Howell Montgomery Donaldson and Joanne Montgomery Link.

 

 

MONTGOMERY, JACOB

 

Born: 6-30-1818  Antrim Ireland                               married: Susan Emily Johnson

Died: 10-8-1881  Keyser WV                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 101

 

1843  Baltimore Conf. on Trial

 

Interment: Queens Meadow Point Cemetery, Keyser WV

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 79

 

1843-44           Sunbury

1844-45           Clearfield circuit

1845-46           Moorefield, Va.

1846-48           Deerfield

1848-50           New Castle

1850-52           Highland

1852-54           Schellsburg

1854-55           Williamsburg

1855-57           McConnellsburg

1857-59           agent, Preston Institute VA

1859                transfer to South East Indiana Conference    

1859-62           [Indiana]

1862                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1862-64           Hancock MD

1864-65           located

1865                readmitted

1865-66           on leave

1866-68           Allegany [Flintstone]

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Antietam

1870-71           Boonsboro

1871-75           on leave, living in Carlisle PA

1875                withdrew        

1876                reinstated, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-78           Granville

1878-80           McConnellstown

1880-81           Duboistown

1881                on leave

 

MOORE, FREDERICK LAIRD

 

Born: 7-23-1921  Pittsburgh PA                                 married: Kathleen R. Miller

Died: 4-14-1965                                                          obit: [6/2/1926 – 1/6/2008]

 

1961    license

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 355

 

1958-61           student, Evangelical School of Theology at Myerstown

                             1960-61      Richland & Newmanstown, Evangelical Congregational Church

1961-62           Shawville

1962-64           Hunlock Creek

1964-65           Lewistown Grove Memorial

 

MOORE, JACOB DUEY

 

Born: 10-19-1839  Carlisle PA                                   married: Mary A. Miller

Died: 2-13-1906                                                          obit:

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1906, 61

 

1863-64           Middletown

1864-65           Allegany & Pleasant Grove

1865-67           West Falls

1867-68           Mechanicstown [Thurmont] - Emmitsburg

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Mechanicstown [Thurmont] - Emmitsburg

1879-73           Sandy Springs

1873-73           Washington DC Gorsuch

1876-78           Baltimore Hanover Street

1878-81           West Harford

1881-82           Deer Creek

1882-83           Harper’s Ferry

1883                retired

 

Note: J. Duey Moore is a brother to J. Patton Moore.

 

 

MOORE, JACOB BONGARNER.

 

Born: 3-21-1840                                                         married: Alfretta Henderson

Died: 4-2-1920  Huston twp., Centre Co. PA            obit: [1858 – 1932]

 

1868  admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference; recommended by Great Island Circuit

 

Interment: Williams Cemetery, Martha Furnace PA

Obit:

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           New Washington

1869-70           Glen Hope

1870-71           Jamestown

1871-72           on leave

1872-73           English Center

1873-74           Conyngham

1874-76           Leidy

1876-78           Wharton

1878-79           retired

1879                located at own request 

 

MOORE, JAMES G.

 

Born: 7-9-1834  Lawrence County IN                       married: Caroline A. Sadler

Died: 7-8-1875  Baltimore County MD                     obit: [3/10/1839 – 10/9/1926]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1876, 39

 

1859-60           Westminster

1860-61           Cassville

1861-62           Bedford

1862-63           Philipsburg

1863-64           York Springs

1864-65           Shrewsbury

1865-67           Shippensburg

1867-68           Newville & Rehoboth

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

                        East Harford

                        Great Falls

                        Summerfield

 

MOORE, JOHN FREDERIC

 

Born: 6-1-1903  Centre Hall PA                                 married: Anna Virginia Sutton

Died: 2-6-1973                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 421

 

1926    license, recommended by Centre Hall

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Penns Valley

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 378

 

1926-27           Hummelstown

1927-29           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1929-30           Mercersburg

1930-36           Yeagertown-Rhodes

1936-38           Selinsgrove

1938-41           Jersey Shore Epworth

1941-46           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1946-53           Emporium

1953-57           Sunbury St. John’s

1957-61           Altoona Juniata

1961-67           Mechanicsburg

1967                retired

                            1967-72       McConnellstown

 

Note: J. Frederic Moore is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 920.

 

MOORE, JOSEPH PATTON

 

Born: 3-27-1843  Carlisle PA                                     married: Margaretta Beale Stewart

Died: 9-21-1907  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 112

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 131

 

1865-66           Middleton MD

1866-67           Piedmont WV

1867-68           Birmingham

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Saxton

1870-72           Newton Hamilton

1872-75           Weatherly

1875-77           Danville Trinity

1877-80           Petersburg

1880-82           Greencastle

1882-85           Wrightsville

1885-88           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1888-91           Renovo

1891-93           Ashland

1893-96           Curwensville

1896-99           Everett

1899-03           on leave

1903                retired

 

Note: J. Patton Moore is a brother to J. Duey Moore (1839-1906) of the Baltimore Conference and the father of R.L. Moore of the New England Southern Conference.

 

MOORE, JOSEPH CHARLES, JR.

 

Born: c1926                                                                married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-53           Espy-Light Street

1953                discontinued at own request

 

Note: Joseph Charles Moore Jr. graduated from Dickinson College in 1948 and from Duke Divinity School in 1952.  In 1955 he was living in Mill Hall PA, and in 1975 in Silver Spring MD.

 

MOORHEAD, D.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-18           Jeddo, Lattimer & Milnesville

 

Note: D.C. Moorhead served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be Rev. David C. Moorhead (1860-1941) of Berks County who appears to have served without any denominational affiliation/ordination.

 

MOORHEAD, ISAAC NEWTON  

 

Born: c1859                                                                married: Harriet B. Holmes

Died: 10-16-1902  Salt Lake City UT                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 139

 

1874    admitted on trial

1876    ordained deacon

1878    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City UT

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 106

 

1873-74           Muncy Creek

1874-75           Salona

1875-76           Weatherly

1876-77           Bloomingdale

1877-78           Helfenstein

1878-81           Littlestown

1881                transfer to South Kansas Conference

1881-83           [Kansas]

1883                transfer to Colorado Conference

1883-86           [Colorado]

1886                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1886-88           Mount Union

1888-91           Hopewell

1891-92           Burnham

1892-95           Lewisburg

1895-97           Mount Carmel

1897-01           Hazleton

1901-02           Williamsport Grace (ending 8/11/1902)

1902                Salt Lake City First UT (beginning 8/11/1902)

 

Note: Isaac N. Moorhead is the son of John Moorhead.

 

MOORHEAD, JOHN  

 

Born: 1-4-1814  near Waynesboro PA                       married: Elizabeth Jordan Sweeney

Died: 7-16-1890  Mount Union PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 71

 

1839    license

1840    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1842    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1844    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 80

 

1840-41           Allegany

1841-42           Licking Creek

1842-43           Concord

1843-44           Warriors Mark

1844-46           Wrightsville

1846-47           Shippensburg

1847-48           Baltimore Caroline Street

1848-50           Berkley circuit

1850-52           Milton circuit

1852-53           Northumberland

1853-55           Berwick

1855-56           Bloomsburg

1856-67           Jersey Shore

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Jersey Shore

1859-60           Penn’s Valley

1860-62           Lewistown

1862-64           Manor Hill

1864-65           Carlisle circuit

1865-67           Birmingham

1867-68           Woodbury

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Petersburg

1870-73           Mount Union

1873-76           Selinsgrove

1876-78           Shickshinny

1878-80           Espy-Light Street

1880-81           Mercersburg

1881-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: John Moorhead is the father of Isaac N. Moorhead.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 426.

 

MORGAN, HUGH CURRAN                     

 

Born: 2-?-1895  Carlisle PA                                       married:

Died: 5-19-1957  West Chester PA                            obit:

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference

1920-21           missionary, Foochow China

1921                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-22           missionary, Foochow China

1922                transfer to Foochow Conference

1922-26           missionary, Foochow

1926-30           high school principal, Meriden CT

1930-               high school principal, West Grove PA

                        superintendent of schools, West Grove PA

 

Note: Hugh C. Morgan is the son of James H. Morgan and a brother to Julia Morgan.  He is a 1915 graduate of Dickinson College. Personal papers of Hugh C. Morgan are in the China Records Project in the Divinity Library Special Collections at Yale University.

 

 

MORGAN, JAMES HENRY

 

Born: 1-21-1857   near Concord DE                          married: Mary Rebecca Curran

Died: 10-17-1939  Carlisle PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 745

 

1893    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1895    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 178

                       

1882-84           principal, Dickinson Preparatory School

1884-15           faculty, Dickinson College

1915-28           president, Dickinson College

1928                retired

                             1931-32      president, Dickinson College

                             1933-34      president, Dickinson College

 

Note: James H. Morgan is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism and in Who’s Who in America (all issues) 1906-1940.  He is the father of Hugh C. Morgan and Julia Morgan.  Mrs. Morgan is the daughter of Hugh A. Curran.

 

MORGAN, JULIA                

 

Born: 9-23-1891  Carlisle PA                                     married: [single]

Died: 1-26-1948  Philadelphia PA                             obit:

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

1922-1941       WFMS [Women’s Foreign Missionary Society] medical missionary to China

1941                faculty, University of Pennsylvania Medical School

 

Note: Dr. Julia Morgan is the daughter of James H. Morgan and a sister to Hugh C. Morgan.  She is a 1911 graduate of Dickinson College.  Personal papers and photographs of Julia Morgan are in the China Records Project in the Divinity Library Special Collections at Yale University and also at Dickinson College.  First UMC in Germantown PA established the Julia Morgan Fund special endowment in 1956.  Although originally limited to providing salary support for overseas missionaries, the purpose has been expanded to give the senior pastor and trustees the responsibility to decide the uses of the Fund’s income. 

 

MORGAN, RICHARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1915    license, New Jersey Conference

1922    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

1915-18           Linvale & Amwell

1918-21           student Dickinson College

                            1919-21       Bressler

1921-23           Hancocks Bridge & Canton

1923-24           Harrison & Ferrell

1924-26           at school

                             1925-26  Hurffville NJ

1926-27           Cranbury

1927-28           Forked River & Lanoka

1928-31           Bayville & Ocean Gate

1931-34           Adelphia

                        [list incomplete]

1945                voluntary location

 

Note: Richard Morgan lived (and served churches?) in New Jersey until at least 1976.

 

 

MORGART, JAMES HENRY

 

Born: 5-7-1858  near Everett PA                                married: Cora Clark

Died: 11-1-1937  Lock Haven PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 212

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Picture Rocks

1890    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Woolrich Cemetery, Woolrich PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 229

 

1887-90           Picture Rocks

1890-95           Great Island

1895-00           Slate Run

1900-03           Salladasburg

1903-15           Montgomery

1915-17           Emporium

1917-20           Hazleton Diamond

1920-24           Mercersburg

1924-27           Selinsgrove

1927-29           Wilburton

1929                retired

 

MORRIS, JAMES W.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Betty J. Wagner

Died:                                                                           obit: [3/19/1929 – 5/8/2001]

 

1954    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-51           Allenwood & Elimsport

1952                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1952-54           Fulton circuit (beginning 1/1/52)

1954-59           Lancaster Ross Street

1959-70           Grove

1970                withdrew

 

Note: James W. Morris is the son of Raymond Lester Morris.  Mrs. Morris was from the Selinsgrove PA area.

 

 

MORRIS, RAYMOND LESTER

 

Born: 7-12-1904  Philadelphia PA                             married: Helen Twigg

Died: 6-20-2000                                                          obit:

 

1928    admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-29           Madera-Smoke Run

1929-30            at school

1930-31           Hopewell

1931-33           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1933-35           Millville

1935-38           Howard

1938-41           Avis

1941-45           Sinnemahoning

1945-48           Altoona Lakemont

1948-52           Selinsgrove

1952-58           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1958-61           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1961                permitted to withdraw and surrender credentials

 

Note: Raymond Lester Morris is the father of James W. Morris and of the Rev. Raymond Morris Jr. of the United church of Christ.

 

MORTIMER, JOHN HOWARD

 

Born: 12-5-1856  Danville PA                                   married: Annie Mary Sechler

Died: 9-15-1934  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 198

 

1881    admitted on trial, recommended by Danville St. Paul

1883    ordained deacon

 

Interment: East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 232

 

1881-82           Bloomingdale

1882-83           Harveyville

1883-84           Buckhorn

1884-85           Mercersburg

1885-86           Woodbury-Pattonville

1886-88           Montandon

1888-90           Jerseytown

1890-95           Conyngham

1895-99           Mifflin

1899-03           Hughesville

1903-08           Williamsport Third Street

1908-10           Ashland

1910-12           Patton

1912-15           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1915-18           Williamsport Grace

1918-20           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1920-21           field secretary, Children’s Home

1921                retired

 

 

MOSES, WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-30-1847  Yorkshire, England                        married: Prudence Wilkinson (1872)

Died: 10-6-1940  Camp Hill PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 159

 

1872    license, recommended by Conyngham

1872    ordained local deacon

1873    admitted on trial

1875    ordained deacon

           

Interment: East Harrsiburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 210

 

1872-74           Washingtonville

1874-76           Muhlenburg

1876-79           Green Village

1879-81           York Springs

1881-84           McConnellsburg

1884-86           Williamsport Third Street

1886-89           Jeanesville-Audenried

1889-92           Catawissa

1892-95           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1895-98           Lewisburg

1898-02           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1902-06           Bellwood

1906-07           Mechanicsburg

1907-12           Burnham

1912-13           Altoona Walnut Avenue

1913-16           Flemington

1916-25           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1925                retired

 

Note: William and Prudence Moses appear to have owned gravesites in the East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA, that were not used.

 

 

MOSSER, BENJAMIN  HENRY

 

Born: 8-10-1856  New Market PA                             married: Isabel H. Hoffer

Died: 8-21-1917  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 136

 

1879    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 133

           

1879-80           Bloomingdale

1880-81           Riverside

1881-83           Mercersburg

1883-84           Williamsport Third Street

1884-86           Mechanicsburg

1886-88           Waynesboro

1888-91           Berwick

1891-95           Milton

1895-98           Chambersburg

1898-99           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1899-03           Carlisle

1903-07           Curwensville

1907-09           Williamsport Pine Street

1909-15           superintendent, Juniata District

1915-17           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1917-17           York Duke Street

 

Note: Benjamin H. Mosser is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

 

MOWER, ALFRED GLENN, JR.

 

Born: 6-22-1918  Mechanicsburg PA                        married: Anne Cocklin [11/10/1939]

Died: 1-12-2015  Pleasant Gap PA                            obit: [2/26/1917 – 2/19/2017]

 

           

1943   admitted on trial with credentials from Church of God

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Indiana Conference 2015, 312

 

1936-40           student, Dickinson College

1940-43           student, Gettysburg Theological Seminary

1943-45           Elysburg

1945-46           at school

1946-48           Airville

1948-52           Danville St. Paul’s

1952-55           Jersey Shore First

1955-56           Milesburg

1956-57           faculty, Penn State University

1957-62           faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

1962-63           faculty, Hanover College in Indiana

1963                transfer to Indiana Conference

1962-81           faculty, Hanover College in Indiana

1981                retired

 

Note: The Mower name is prominent in the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.  A. Glenn Mower is the grandson of Alfred B. Mower and great-grandson of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed.  He is professor emeritus of political science at Hanover College and the author of several books on international politics and policy.  A. Glenn Mower is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 935.  His mother Alma Weber Mower is a sister to Zerba Theresa Weber Berkheimer, wife of Charles Berkheimer.  In 2003 he is listed as a retired member of the South Indiana Conference.

 

MOWERY, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit

 

1925-29           Tatesville

 

Note: William Mowery served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be the WILLIAM MOWRY listed below.

 

 

MOWRY, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1946-47           Hopewell (beginning 1/1/46)

 

Note: William Mowry served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be the Dr. William Mowry (1901-1989) who taught high school in Hopewell and in the 1940’s was the county superintendent of schools.

 

 

MOYER, FRANK EDWARD

 

Born: 1-3-1883  Williamsport PA                              married: Mabel M. Morgan

Died: 3-8-1959  San Diego CA                                  obit: [1887 - 1946]

 

1907    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1912    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego CA

Obit: Dickinson Alumnus May 1959, page 76

 

1907-08           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

     1907-08      Clarkstown

1908-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1908-10      Newville

1911                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference

1911-13           Damascus (ending August 1912 – see 1913, page 76)

1913                discontinued

                        entered the Lutheran ministry and the U.S. Navy chaplaincy

 

Note: Frank E. Moyer served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  He is sometimes reported as Frank A. Moyer. 

 

 

MOYER, HARRY COLSHER

 

Born: 3-23-1866  Selinsgrove PA                              married: Elizabeth Frances Adams

Died: 1-?-1929                                                            obit: [1868 – 1960]

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Catawissa

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 83]

 

1906-07           living in Catawissa

1907-08           Wapwallopen

1908-09           Washingtonville

1909-10           Hustontown

1910-11           ?

1911-14           living in Berwick

1914-17           Benezette

1917-20           Ray’s Hill

1920-22           Cherry Tree

1922-23           Fairview

1923-25           Cogan Valley

1925-27           Jonestown

1927-29           Harrisonville

 

Note: Harry C. Moyer served as a local pastor.  His middle name is also given as Clyde.

 

MOYER, HENRY CLINTON

 

Born: 10-11-1836  Turbotville PA                             married: Elizabeth G. Cramer

Died: 9-24-1908  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central New York Conference 1927, 818

 

1863    license to exhort

1865    license to preach

1873    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1873    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1877    ordained elder, East Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Indian Mound Cemetery, Moravia NY

Obit: Central New York Conference 1908, 158

 

1862-71           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

     1867-68      periodic at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]

1871-73           principal, Canton PA

1873-75           Charleston PA

1875-76           Osceola PA

1876                transfer by change of boundaries to East Genesee [Genesee] Conference

1876-78           Osceola PA

1878-80           Mansfield PA

1880                transfer by change of boundaries to Central New York Conference

1880-81           Mansfield PA

1881-83           Troy PA

1883-86           Watkins

1886-88           Ovid

1888-91           Moravia

1891-               Palmyra

                        Newark

                        Auburn Wall Street

                        Cortland Homer Avenue

 

Note: Henry C. Moyer was on the faculty at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and a local preacher connected to Williamsport Mulberry Street.  Later he returned to the area and was a member at South Williamsport.  He is the father of missionary to India Miss Jennie Moyer.

 

 

MUCHMORE, LYMAN JACOBUS

 

Born: 8-11-1859  Madison NJ                                    married: Mattie Monroe Cummings

Died: 12-1-1937                                                          obit: Genesee Conference 1900, 139

                                                                                    married2: Nettie Sayre

1879    license, Newark Conference                           obit2: Genesee Conference 1950, 561

1885    admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

1885    ordained deacon, Wilmington Conference

1890    ordained elder, recommended by Carlisle station 

 

Interment: Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier CA

Obit: Genesee Conference 1938, 570

 

1883-85           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1884-85      Whitehall NJ, Newark Conference

1885                “transfer” to Wilmington Conference

1885-86           Somerset MD

1886-87           Bridgeville DE

1887                discontinued

1887-1890       faculty, Dickinson College

1890                “transfer” to Genesee Conference

1890-92           Custer City PA

1892-94           Hamburg NY

1894-95           Cambria NY

1895-97           Buffalo NY Kensington

1897-01           Darien NY

1901-02           acting superintendent, New York State School for the Blind

1902-03           West Barre & East Shelby NY

1903-06           Lyndonville NY

1906-08           moved to California for health reasons

1908-17           faculty, Whittier College in Whittier CA

1917-19           Independence CA, Southern California Conference

1919-20           Chatsworth CA, Southern California Conference

1920-23           Hynes CA, Southern California Conference

1923-37           entomologist, Los Angeles County Museum

1937                retired

 

MULLEN, JOHN SHRINER

 

Born: 10-30-1940  Martinsburg PA                           married: Dolores Jean Briggs

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by McConnellstown

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-63           Rehoboth-Newville

1963-65           Mt. Olivet-Mount Nebo

1965-66           associate, Camp Hill

1966-70           Altoona Jaggard Memorial

1970-77           Williamsburg-Cove Forge

1977-82           McVeytown

1982-85           Canton

1985-89           Waynesboro Faith

1989-95           Hummelstown Trinity

1995-02           Milton St. Andrew’s

2002                retired

 

MULLER, HENRY JOHN

 

Born: 7-24-1903  New York NY                                            married: Imogene Lucille Wood

Died: 8-29-1977                                                                      obit: Baltimore Conference 1988, 388

 

1934    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1978, 436

 

1923-27           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1926-27      Westport

1927-31           student, American University

1931-33           student, Westminster Theological Seminary

                             1931-32      Herndon VA Seat Pleasant, Virginia Conference

     1932-33      Linganore

1933-34           Linganore

1934-37           Darlington

1937-42           Patapsco

1942-51           Orems

1951-56           Lauraville

1956-60           Gaithersburg Grace

1960-66           Edwards Chapel

1966-69           Memorial

1969                retired to Leesburg FL

                             pastor emeritus, Leesburg FL Morrison Memorial           

 

Note: Henry J. Muller served Westport as a local pastor.  The December 1927 Bulletin of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College gives his address as 1231 V Street SE, Washington DC.  He served in the Air Force and lived in Washington DC before being called to the ministry.

 

MULLIN, JAMES

 

Born:                                                               married:

Died:                                                               obit:

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1865-67           Mount Carmel

1867-69           Emporium

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Emporium

1869-72           Bellefonte

1872                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1873                located

 

Note:  This surname also appears as MULLEN.  This may be the James Mullen, age 48, who was a miner born in Ireland and died in Scranton in a mine accident 12/2/1893.

 

MULLINER, EDWARD E.

 

Born: 1859                                                                  married: Ida Florence Strayer

Died: 14-4-1918                                                          obit: [1859 – 12/7/1950]

 

1896    license, recommended by Jersey Shore

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:

 

1896-98           Wharton [Nelson’s Run]

1898-01           Cameron

…

1903-04           Liberty Valley

 

Note: Edward E. Mulliner lived in Jersey Shore and served as a local pastor. 

 

MUMPER, JOSIAH CALVIN

 

Born: 10-30-1854  Latimore PA                                married: Mary Frances Bell

Died: 2-22-1905  Jeanesville PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929,202

 

1885    admitted on trial recommended by Emporium

 

Interment: Warrington Friends Meeting House Cemetery, Wellsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 119

 

1885-86           Emporium circuit

1886-89           Lycoming

1889-92           Concord

1892-96           Green Village

1896-00           Elysburg

1900-04           Northumberland

1904-05           Jeanesville-Audenried

 

Note: An obituary for Josiah C. Mumper also appears in the 3/16/1905 Christian Advocate, page 431.

 

MUNROE, JOHN ANDREW

 

Born: 6-15-1835  Annapolis MD                               married: Frances Ramadge Howe

Died: 10-30-1897  Newark NJ                                   obit: [1839 – 1896]

 

1859    admitted on trial, recommended by Baltimore Hancock Street

 

Interment: Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson NJ

Obit: Newark Conference 1898, 74

 

1856-59           faculty, Pennington Seminary in Pennington NJ

1859-60           faculty, Baltimore Female College

1860-62           principal, Annapolis Institute

1862-68           principal, Westminster Institute

1868-73           principal, Passaic Institute in Passaic NJ

1873                “transfer” to Newark Conference

                        Clinton Avenue

                        Port Jervis

                        Patterson

                        Jersey City

                        Hackettstown

                        Bloomfield

                        Meridan

 

Note: John A. Munroe is the son of Jonathan Munroe.  This surname is also rendered MONROE and the birth date is also given as 6/15/1834 and 1/15/1835.  Dickinson College lists him as JAMES ANDREW MUNROE. His teaching field was mathematics.

 

MUNROE, JONATHAN

 

Born: 6-11-1801  Annapolis MD                               married: Matilda Heizer

Died: 12-4-1869  Westminster MD                            obit: [1803 – 1872]

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1870, 41

 

1825-26           Allegany

1826-27           Concord

1827-28           Shamokin

1828-29           Lewistown

1829-30           Concord

1830-31           Gettysburg

1831-33           Shrewsbury

1833-35           Patapsco

1835-37           Calvert

1837-39           Lewistown

1839-41           Warrior’s Mark

1841-43           Huntingdon

1843-45           Bedford

1845-47           Westminster

1847-49           Liberty

1849-50           Montgomery

1850-52           Gettysburg

1852-54           Carlisle

1854-56           Mercersburg

1856-57           East Harford

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           East Harford

1858-59           Great Falls

1859-61           Hereford

1861-63           Westminster

1863-64           Emmitsburg

1864                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Jonathan Munroe is the father of John A. Munroe.  This surname is also rendered MONROE.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 425. 

 

MURPHY, GERALD HARTLEY

 

Born: 2-10-1927  Newport RI                                    married: Mathilda Ruth Cunningham (6/21/1956)

Died: 12-3-2014  Meadville PA                                 obit: [3/17/1933 – 10/13/2022]

 

1953    license

1954    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment: Chautauqua Cemetery, Chautauqua NY

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2015,?

 

1954-56           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1956-63           Williamsport Third Street

1963                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1963-66           associate, Beaver

1966-72           Zelienople & Harmony

1972-85           Fox Chapel

1985-95           chaplain, Wesbury Community

1995                retired

 

MURRAY, DAVID EMMETT

 

Born: 8-29-1868  Liverpool PA                                             married: Phoebe Osmun Orth

Died: 9-23-1914  Catawissa PA                                             obit: [2/1/1874 – 10/10/1965]

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit:

 

                        school teacher

1900-02           Alexandria

1902                “transfer” to Dakota Conference

                        Iroquois

                        Miller

                        Leed

1906                PA Department of Agriculture

 

Note: David E. Murray served as a local pastor.  A biography appears in the Beers 1915 Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, page 658.  Due to various circumstances, the future Mrs. Murray was adopted by a Fisher family, and so she is also referred to as Phoebe Fisher.

 

MURRAY, T.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1915-16           Keating Summit

 

Note: T. Murray served as a local preacher.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

 

MUSSINA, JACOB LYONS

 

Born: 12-16-1847  near Williamsport PA                  married: Alvaretta Leaman

Died: 11-30-1916                                                        obit: [b. 10-16-1850]

 

1884    ordained deacon, recommended by Lycoming circuit

1889    ordained elder, recommended by Licking Creek circuit

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1888-89           Licking Creek

1889-91           Lewisberry

1891-92           Licking Creek

 

Note: J. Lyons Mussina served as a local pastor.  Lyons Mussina Brady’s grandmother Rachel Mussina (1799-1849) is a sister to Malcolm Mussina’s great-grandfather Henry Brusbusky Mussina (1803-1869) and to J. Lyons Mussina’s father Jacob Lyons Mussina (1807-1888). 

 

MUSSINA, MALCOLM VIVIAN

 

Born: 10-20-1902  Williamsport PA                          married:  Florence G. Spencer

Died: 5-?-1971                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 422

 

1925    license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1930    ordained deacon

1932    admitted on trial

1934    ordained elder

           

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 367

 

1932-34           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

                             1932-34      Kenilworth NJ 

1934-37           Fairview

1937-40           Mercersburg (ending 12/31/39)

1940-41           Watsontown (beginning 1/1/40)

1941-42           Weatherly

1942-47           State College Wesley Foundation (beginning 8/1/42)

1947-48           Altoona Llyswen

1948-69           executive secretary, Conference Board of Education (ending 12/31/69)

1969                retired

 

Note: Malcolm V. Mussina is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 943.  Lyons Mussina Brady’s grandmother Rachel Mussina (1799-1849) is a sister to Malcolm Mussina’s great-grandfather Henry Brusbusky Mussina (1803-1869) and to J. Lyons Mussina’s father Jacob Lyons Mussina (1807-1888).  Mrs. Mussina is the daughter of Rev. John Carrol Spencer (1879-1955) of the Rock River Conference and a sister to Rev. Harry Chadwick Spencer (1905-1996) of the Northern Illinois Conference.

 

MYERS, CHARLES V.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-52           Trout Run

1952-53           Newton Hamilton (ending 10/31/53)

1953-55           Salona (beginning 11/1/53)

 

Note: Charles V. Myers served as a local pastor.  From the 7/2/1951 Lock Haven Express, page 5: “Slot Machines Raided at Carnival TROUT RUN—Four slot machines were seized by state police on the grounds of a carnival operated along Route 14 here by the Trout Run Volunteer Fire Company. Officers of the company were scheduled to appear today before Justice of the Peace Bert Hayes of Cogan Station on charges of setting up and maintaining gambling devices. The state police made the raid after the Rev. Charles V. Myers, pastor of the Trout Run Methodist Church, complained. He said he did not object to the carnival, but that he did object to the slot machines, which were placed outside the fire house.”

 

MYERS, EDWARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-28           Wells Tannery & Zion (ending 10/1/1927; see 1928, page 634)

 

Note: Edward Myers served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

MYERS, ELVIN CLAY

 

Born: 7-31-1896  Alfarata PA                                                married: Olive E. Pecht

Died: 6-18-1970  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 392

 

1920    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 361

 

1916-17           Shirleysburg

1917-18           Wolfsburg  (ending January 1918)

1918-19           Muncy Valley

1919-22           West Fairview

1922-23           Harrisburg Trinity-Bressler

1923-24           Harrisburg Trinity

1924-30           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1930-36           New Cumberland

1936-42           York First

1942-47           superintendent, Williamsport District

1947-54           Bloomsburg

1954-62           executive director, Methodist Foundation for Higher Education

1962-69           administrator, Methodist Homes for the Aged

1969                retired

                             1969-70      executive director, Lewisburg Home

 

Note: Elvin C. Myers is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 945.

 

MYERS, PAUL BENTON

 

Born: 12-15-1906  Fayetteville PA                            married: Aletha Hill

Died: 7-22-1999                                                          obit: [1908 – 4/30/1998]

 

1926    admitted on trial

1929    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Cushing Cemetery, Mattapoisett MA

Obit:

 

1925-29            student, Dickinson College

                             1927-29      Greencastle

1929                Littlestown (ending 9/29)

1929-36           at school

                             Mattapoisett MA Congregational Church

1936                withdrew to become a minister in the Congregational Church

1936-27           Mattapoisett MA

                        Watertown

                        Wellesley

                        Shrewsbury

1973                retired

 

Note: The ministerial files for Paul B. Myers includes an obituary for Mrs. Myers.

 

 

MYERS, PAUL ERB

 

Born: 6-6-1919  Lititz PA                                          married: Thelma Irene DeShong

Died: 6-1-2006  Hershey PA                                      obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 261

 

1935    license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1944    admitted on trial, recommended by James Creek

1944    ordained deacon

1944    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 419

 

1939-41           Harrisonville

1941-42           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

1942-44           James Creek 

1944                Ray’s Hill (until becoming a chaplain – see 1945, 77)

1944-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-48           Manor Hill

1948-52           Warrior’s Mark

1952-57           Altoona Simpson

1957-63           Chambersburg

1963-67           York First

1967-73           superintendent, Altoona District

1973-79           Hershey First

1979-83           superintendent, Altoona District

1983                retired

 

Note: Paul E. Myers is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 945.

 

NAGAY, ADAM A.

 

Born:  2-2-1888  Czechoslovakia                               married: Mary Duchon

Died: 4-8-1969                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 410

 

1914    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1916    ordained elder

 

Interment: Jefferson Memorial Park, Pittsburgh PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania (M) Conference 1969, 328

 

1913-14           student, Dickinson College

                             1913-14      Rehoboth

1914-20           Hazleton Anthracite Mission

1920-23           student, Drew University

1923                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1923-32           Coke Mission

1932-35           Dravosburg

1935-39           Pittsburg Butler Street

1939-47           Pittsburgh Spencer

1947-53           Pittsburgh Brookline

1953                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Adam A. Nagay is given in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, page 96.

 

 

NASH, CHARLES

 

Born: 10-28-1802  Granby MA                                  married: Laurissa Harriet Thomas (7/17/1828)

Died: 3-4-1868                                                            obit: [1/3/1806 – 11/2/1884]

 

1828    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

?          ordained deacon, Genesee Conference

1830    ordained elder, Oneida Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1828-29           Wyalusing

1829                charter member of Oneida Conference

1829-30           Wyalusing

1830-32           Wilkes-barre

1832-33           Wyoming

1833-35           Bethany

1835-41           on leave for health reasons

                        teacher, Cayuga and Seneca counties in NY

1841                located

                             1841-45      teacher, academy in Towanda PA

1848                redmitted

1848-51           Wellsboro

1851                retired to Williamsport PA, attended Pine Street

                             1857-68      periodic at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]

 

Note: Charles Nash is the father of gospel songwriter Kate E. Purvis – who is the subject of the article “Kate E. Purvis: Little Known and Often Cited” in the 2010 issue of The Chronicle, pages 3-14, which gives much family information.  He had prepared for a career in teaching and taught 1825-28 at the academy in Wellsboro PA.  He reportedly served in 1864 (at age 62) as a private in Company C of the 107th [PA] Regiment. 

 

NAYLOR, RUSSELL M.

 

Born: 1902                                                                  married: Catherine C. Ganoe

Died: 1974                                                                  obit: [1900-1995]

 

1953    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Birch Hill Cemetery, Burnham PA

Obit:

 

1931-35           Cogan Valley

1935-38           Half Moon

1951-53           Salona & Lamar (ending 8/31/53)

1953-55           Orangeville (beginning 9/1/53)

 

Note: Russell Naylor served as a local pastor.  He appears to be living in Flemington 1938-51.

 

 

NEARHOOF, VICTOR THOMAS

 

Born: 1-11-1890                                                          married: Nan Imogene Sorenson

Died: 12-12-1955                                                        obit: [10/15/1892 – 8/12/1988]

 

1921    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville WI

Obit: Wisconsin Conference 1956, 992

 

1916-18           Pine Grove Mills

1918-19           Millerstown

1919-23           student, Dickinson College

                             1920-21      Rouzerville

                             1921-23      Newville

1923                Greencastle (ending 8/31/23)

1923-26           student, Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

1926                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

1953-55           Almond

 

Note: Victor T. Nearhoof is a 1915 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

 

NEFF, JOSIAH LUTHER

 

Born: 8-8-1889  Gordon PA                                       married: Helen S. Frisch

Died: 3-25-1980  Seaford DE                                     obit: Baltimore Conference 1981, 292

 

1917    admitted on trial, North Montana Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1980, 359

 

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918-20           chaplain, US Navy

1920                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1920-24           Chevy Chase

1924-29           Winchester VA Market Street

1929-34           Frostburg

1934-41           Washington DC Wesley

1941-51           Annapolis Calvary

1951-57           superintendent, East Baltimore District

1957                retired

                             assistant to president, Wesley Seminary

                             minister of visitation, Towson

 

 

NELSON, ORVILLE N.

 

Born: 2-24-1911  Milan MN                                      married: Verona Rosella Alspaugh

Died: 5-18-2002  Blairsville GA                                obit: Florida Conference 1990, 480

 

1936    admitted on trial, Central Northwest Conference

 

Interment: Coosa Cemetery, Blairsville GA

Obit: Florida Conference 2002, ?

 

1942                transfer to Illinois Conference

1944                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1944-45           director, Conference Youth Work

1945-46           Altoona Broad Avenue

1946-48           Osceola Mills

1948                transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference

 

 

NENNINGER, JAMES DAVID

 

Born:                                                                           married: Rae _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1966    license, recommended by Walnut Bottom Rehobeth

1968    admitted on trial

1968    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-70           student, Wesley Seminary in Washington DC

                             1966-69      Lewisberry

                             1969-70      Harrisonville (beginning 11/69)

1970-79           Grantville

1979-81           Susquehanna Valley (ending 10/19/81)

1981-91           chaplain, Geisinger Medical Center (beginning 10/19/81 and ending 8/26/91)

1991-95           director of pastoral care, Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC

1995                transfer to Baltimore Conference effective 10/14/95 – see 1996, 206

1995-08           director of pastoral care, Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC

2008                retired

 

 

NESTOR, HENRY LEE

 

Born: 1855                                                                  married:

Died: 1917                                                                  obit:

 

1889    admitted on trial, Holston Conference

 

Interment: Parsons Cemetery, Parsons WV

Obit:

 

1889-90           Sewee

1890-91           without appointment to attend school

1891                discontinued

…

1905-06           Evenwood and Jennington, West Virginia Conference

…

1915-16           Allegheny, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: H.L. Nestor served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference (and the West Virginia Conference) as a local preacher.  He was from West Virginia, and is believed to be the Henry Lee Nestor described above – the information for which is unverified.  He shares a tombstone Alice Phillips Nestor [or Alice Nestor Phillips] (1867-1946).

 

NEUFER, LESTER PAUL

 

Born: 7-1-1924  Lime Ridge PA                                married: Marna MacMahon

Died: 11-6-2014  Williamsport PA                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 364

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 272

 

1952-54           at school

1954-60           Williamsport Market Street

1960-75           faculty, Lycoming College

1975-76           sabbatical

1976                located

 

Note: L. Paul Neufer is a brother to P. Dale Neufer.

 

 

NEUFER, PHILIP DALE

 

Born: 5-19-1928  Bloomsburg PA                             married: Judith Evelyn Howard

Died: 3-17-2020  Greenville MC                               obit:

 

1945    license, recommended by Espy

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 341

 

1947-49           Rehoboth 

1949-50           Vira

1950-53           student, Drew University

                             1950-53      East Bangor

1953                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1953-54           student, Cambridge and London University, England

1954                transfer to Southern New England Conference

1954-56           Millerton NY

1956-58           Bradford MA

1959-62           Somerville MA

1962-66           student, Iliff School of Theology

                             1962-63      minister of education, Littleton CO

                             1963-66      Carbondale CO

1966-76           East Longmeadow MA

1976-82           Reading MA

1982-86           Hazardville CT

1987                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference effective 1/1/87

1987-90           Elizabethville-Loyalton (beginning 1/1/87)

1990-93           Walnut Bottom

1993                retired

                             1993-94      Nescopek Albright

                             1996-97      Hendrickson-Mooresburg

 

Note: P. Dale Neufer is a brother to L. Paul Neufer.

 

 

NEWMAN, HARRY WOODWARD

 

Born: 8-26-1868  Hustontown PA                             married: Frances Bell McElhaney

Died: 4-30-1933  Millville PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 140

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Wharton circuit

1897    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Hustontown Cemetery, Hustontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 215

 

1894-95           Wharton

1895-99           Laurelton

1899-01           South Williamsport

1901-03           Medix Run

1903-05           Costello

1905-10           Beaver Meadow

1910-18           Benton

1918-19           York Ridge Avenue

1919-22           Yeagertown

1922-26           Berwick Calvary

1922-28           Picture Rocks

1928-28           Bakerton (moved in mid-year to Penn’s Valley)

1928-30           Penn’s Valley

1930-33           Millville

 

 

NEWMAN, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58           Oriole

 

Note: Joseph Newman served as a local pastor.

 

 

NOBLE, EUGENE ALLEN

 

Born: 3-5-1865  Brooklyn NY                                   married: Lillian White Osborn

Died: 6-28-1948                                                          obit: Troy Conference 1930, 257

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Therese K. Lownes

?          admitted on trial, New York East Conf.         obit2: [1877-1970]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-02           superintendent, Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn NY

1902                transfer to Newark Conference

1902-08           principal, Centenary Collegiate Institute

1908-11           president Goucher College in Baltimore MD

1911-13           president, Dickinson College

1913                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1913-14           president, Dickinson College

1915                transfer to Troy Conference

1915                Schenectady

1920                executive secretary, Juilliard Musical Foundation

 

Note: Eugene A. Noble is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.  A biographical sketch is on file at the conference archives. The second Mrs. Noble (nee Therese Regina Kaffenburgh) was previously married to a Mr. Edgar John Lownes (1870-1924).
 

 

NOBLE, WILLIAM F.D.

 

Born: 9-20-1855  Cassville PA                                  married: Laura Catherine Eckhart

Died: 4-1-1915  Hastings PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 184

 

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Lumber City

1883    ordained deacon, recommended by Lumber City

 

Interment: Chambersburg Cemetery [cremated in Pittsburgh]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 127

 

1882-83           Lumber City

1883-85           Snow Show

1885-86           Osceola

1886-89           Half Moon

1889-90           Williamsburg

1890-93           Houtzdale

1893-95           Ashland

1895-98           Burnham

1898-99           West Clearfield

1899-02           State College

1902-04           Snydertown

1904-05           Mount Holly

1905-07           Sinnemahoning

1907-08           Newberry

1908-10           Patton

1910-11           Shippensburg

1911-12           York Duke Street

1912                no appointment

1912-15           Hastings

1915                Picture Rocks

 

 

NOLAN, JAMES EDWARD

 

Born: 8-9-1934  Philipsburg PA                                 married: Barbara J. _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1953    quarterly conference license, North Chili NY

1954    license

1958    admitted on trial

1958    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-57           student, Lycoming College

1957-61           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1957-61      Fort Loudon

1961                transfer to Montana Conference

1961-64           Lower Flathead parish

1964-66           Roundup

1966-67           counselor, Job Corps

1967                withdrew

 

Note: In 2021 James E. Nolan is listed as living in Boise Idaho as a retired member of the Central Pacific Conference of the United Church of Christ.
 

 

NOLDER, DONALD CLOYD

 

Born: 1-2-1944  Altoona PA                                      married: Deanna B. Miller

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona Wesley

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-66           student, Lycoming College

                             1962-65      assistant, Whitneyville larger parish (beginning 2/62, ending 9/65)

1966-69           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1967-69      assistant, Rahway NJ Trinity

1969-75           Montgomery

1975-82           associate, State College St. Paul’s

1982-92           York Zion

1992-02           Chambersburg First

2002                retired

 

 

NORCROSS, WILBUR HARRINGTON  

 

Born: 6-28-1882  Ralston PA                                     married: Agnes Evans Frysinger

Died: 6-11-1941  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 138

                                                                                    married2: Helen Burns

1900    license, recommended by Concord                obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 233

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Vira

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 205

 

1904-08           Vira

1908-08           Eagles-Mere-Laporte (see 1908,82)

1908-14           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1914-16           student, Johns Hopkins University

1916-41           faculty, Dickinson College

 

Note: Wilbur H. Norcross is the son of William H. Norcross. Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 53.

 

 

NORCROSS, WILLIAM HARRINGTON, SR.

 

Born: 7-12-1840  near Binghamton NY                     married: Martha J. Reese

Died: 4-27-1926  Mount Union PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 97

                                                                                    married2: Anna Laura Conley

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf.          obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 109

1867    ordained deacon                                              married 3: Mary Catherine Chilcote

                                                                                    obit3: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 239

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Mount Union PA          

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 521

 

1865-66           Sunbury

1866-67           Berwick

1867-68           Muncy

1968                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Trevorton

1869-70           York Duke Street

1870-71           Duncansville

1871-72           Grahamton

1872-73           on leave

1873-75           Pine Grove

1875-78           New Washington

1878-80           Benezette

1880-82           Salona

1882-83           Ralston

1883-84           on leave

1884-86           Benezette

1886-93           on leave

                             1892-93      Muhlenberg

1893-94           Muhlenburg

1894-95           White Haven

1896-97           Wolfsburg

1897-99           Clearville

1899-01           Concord

1901-02           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1902-04           Bloomingdale

1904-05           Ennisville

1905-07           Cassville

1907-08           Blain

1908-09           Thompsontown

1909                retired

 

Note: William H. Norcross is the father of Wilbur H. Norcross.  The third Mrs. Norcross is an aunt to Ethel Rosalind Chilcote Bryner, wife of Charles W. Bryner.

 

 

NORMAN, FRED WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-14-1926                                                          married: Pauline J. Jackson

Died: 9-27-2006                                                          obit: [8/7/1925 – 5/4/2009]

 

1954    admitted on trial, Illinois Conference

1954    ordained deacon, Illinois Conference

1957    ordained elder, Illinois Conference

 

Interment: Camp Butler National Cemetery, Springfield IL

Obit: Illinois Great Rivers Conference 2007, 233

 

1950-52           student, Lycoming College

                             1950-52      Waterville

1952-54           Waterville

1954-57           seminary student

                             1954-57      Industry IL

 

 

NORRIS, CHALMERS GAIL

 

Born: 8-22-1903  Huntingdon PA                              married: Margaret Henrietta Shue

Died: 12-28-1991                                                        obit: [5/19/1907 – 2/13/1998]

 

1925    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Florida Conference 1992, 461?

 

1925-27           Wells Tannery-Zion

1927-28           assistant, Altoona Asbury

1928-30           Jeddo-Lattimer

1930-31           at school

1931-32           Picture Rocks

1932-36           Selinsgrove

1936-42           State College Wesley Foundation

1942-43           Altoona Llyswen

1943-46           Lewisburg

1946-53           Lock Haven Trinity

1953-57           Carlisle Allison

1957-59           Sunbury St. John’s

1959                transfer to Florida Conference

 

Note: C. Gail Norris is the father of C. Gail Morris Jr. and a brother to Fred B. Norris.  Mrs. Norris is the daughter of Allen C. Shue.

 

 

NORRIS, CHALMERS GAIL JR.

 

Born: 8-17-1931  Muncy PA                                      married: Reiko Takeuchi (4/5/1953)

Died: 5-18-2004  Salt Lake City UT                          obit: [1/28/1929 – 1/2/2014]

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit:

 

Note: C. Gail Chalmers Jr. is the son of C. Gail Chalmers.  He has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, preparing to serve as a local pastor, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.   His career in education started as a Social Studies teacher in Middleburg PA and ended as head of the Utah Higher Education Assistance Authority.

 

NORRIS, DAVID YOST

 

Born: 5-15-1944  York PA                                         married: M. Jean Trout

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, recommended by Stewartstown

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-69           student, Drew University School of Theology

1969-71           Harrisburg Riverside

1971-80           Lake Park-Granville

1980-93           Selinsgrove Wesley-Shamokin Dam

1993-99           Clearfield West Side

1999-02           Red Lion St. Paul’s

2002-08           superintendent, Altoona District

2008                retired

                            2008-11       clergy assistant to the Bishop
                            2012-13       Red Lion St. Pauls (9/1/2012 – 6/17/2013)

 

 

NORRIS, FRED BAKER

 

Born: 6-30-1901  Huntingdon PA                              married: Pearle States

Died: 3-8-1941  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 270

 

1925    admitted on trial

1928    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 212

 

1924-26           Pine Grove Mills

1926-28           Martinsburg

1928-32           Newton Hamilton

1932-33           at school

1933-35           Salladasburg

1935-38           Duncansville

1938-41           Shippensburg

 

Note: Fred B. Norris is a brother to C. Gail Norris. 

 

 

NORRIS, RICHARD

 

Born: 3-25-1835  Richmond VA                                married: Sarah A.W. Baker

Died: 4-13-1897  Baltimore MD                                obit: [11/?/1839 – 3/12/1922]

 

1855    quarterly conference license, Baltimore Fayette Street

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 54

 

1855-56           Berkley

1856-57           Bloomfield

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Carlisle

1858-60           Baltimore Caroline Street station

1860-61           Baltimore Emory

1861-62           Waynesboro

1862-64           Havre de Grace

1864-67           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1867-68           North Baltimore station

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           North Baltimore station

1870-73           Jackson Square

1873-76           Waugh

1876-79           Georgetown

1879-82           Madison Square

1882-84           Ryland

1884-87           Wesley Chapel

1887-92           Cumberland Center Street

1892-97           Harford Avenue

Note: Some sources incorrectly report the spouse of Richard Norris to be a Sarah Amanda Baker (1849-1917).

 

NORTH, WAYNE ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 3-29-1914  Burnham PA                                  married: Grace Evelyn Hewitt

Died: 9-12-1989                                                          obit: Detroit Conference 1999, 276

 

1941    ordained deacon

1942    admitted on trial

1943    ordained elder

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian MI

Obit: Detroit Conference 1990, 1626

 

1933-36           student, Dickinson College

                             1933-36      Newville & Greencastle (beginning fall 1933)

1936-37           Lock Haven 

1937-42           Fairview 

1942-45           Avis

1945-50           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1950-53           Mount Carmel

1953-57           Department of Spiritual Life, General Board of Evangelism in Nashville TN

1957                transfer to Detroit Conference

1957-73           ?

1973-80           executive director, Midland Area Community Foundation
 

 

NOTTINGHAM, JAMES WORTH

 

Born: 7-14-1921  Raywood WV                                married: Dessie M. Moses

Died: 12-27-1980  Baltimore MD                              obit: [1915 – 1986]

 

1946    license, recommended by Beaver Creek, West Virginia Conference

1953    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1953    ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Marlinton WV

Obit:

 

1946-47           Mt. Vernon

1947-51           Evansville

1951-55           student, Wesley Theological Seminary

                             1951-54      Burnt Cabins, Central Pennsylvania Conference (ending 1/15/1954)

                             1954           transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1954-55      Marysville (beginning 1/15/1954)

1955-58           Howard

1958-59           Glen Campbell

1959-64           Duboistown

1964- 72          Riverside St. Peter’s

1972                withdrew, page 106

 

Note: James W. Nottingham is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 969.

 

 

NUNEMAKER, ELMER R.

 

Born: 10-14-1910  Rockland PA                                married: Ruth Cox

Died: 9-28-1999  Salem WI                                       obit: [8/27/1918 – 12/27/2003]

 

1937    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1949    ordained deacon, Erie Conference

1951    ordained elder, Erie Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1936-38           Ringold-Barton Chapel-Langville

1938-42           Riceville

1942-43           Emerickville-Meade Chapel-Port Barnett

1944-51           at school

                             1944-48      Penn’s Valley, Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1948-51      York Springs, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1951-52           Rimersburg

1953-55           Erie Asbury

1955-56           Dubois Mt. Zion

1956                withdrew

 

Note: Elmer R. Nunemaker was listed in the Erie Conference as an “accepted supply pastor.”  He is an uncle to Harold E. Nunemaker (1926-1989) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He likely attended Penn State 1944-48 and Westminster Seminary 1948-51.  He also supposedly served Pulaski in the Erie Conference 1950-51.  He apparently was also known as “Kelly” Nunemaker.  He retired to Johnstown PA but died while visiting his son in Salem WI.

 

 

NUTT, RICHARD WALLER

 

Born: 11-17-1918                                                        married: Dorothy Smailes

Died: 12-21-1997  Exeter NH                                    obit: [2/20/1920 – 2/3/2010]

 

1945    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Congregational Church Burial Ground, Exeter NH

Obit: New York Conference 1998, 8-24

 

                        transfer to Nebraska Conference

1955                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1955-63           director, State College Wesley Foundation

1963                transfer to New York Conference

1981                retired

  

OBER, RONALD WOODROW

 

Born: 9-26-1914  Pen Yan NY                                   married: Mary Lois Marsh

Died: 5-27-2012                                                          obit: New England Conference 2001, B-267

 

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Newton Cemetery, Emporium PA

Obit:

 

1943-44           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1944                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1944-46           Hamburg

1946-48           Lucknow St. Mark’s

1948                transfer to New England Conference

1948-51           Arlington Heights MA First

1951-56           Salem MA Lafayette Street

1956-62           Dorchester MA Greenwood Memorial

1962-67           Somerville MA College Avenue (ending 9/30/67)

1967-75           Quincy MA Wollaston (beginning 10/1/67)

1975-79           Ipswich MA

1969                retired

 

 

O’BRIEN, PAUL ROBERT

 

Born: 12-3-1919  Port Homer OH                              married: Eleanor Louise Bailey

Died: 3-13-2018  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 262

 

1940    license, Church of the Nazarene

1941    ordained deacon, Church of the Nazarene

1943    ordained elder, Church of the Nazarene

 

Interment: Bald Eagle Cemetery, Bald Eagle PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 275

 

1942-44           Albany IN

1944-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-49           McLouth KS, Methodist Church

1949-50           Sligo PA

1950-52           Beaver Falls PA

1952-54           Butler PA

1954-55           Sarasota FL

1955                approved supply pastor, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church

1955-58           Ellerslie

1958                Cumberland Center Street (summer)

1958-60           faculty, Vennard College in University Park IA

1960                admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1960-64           Union Grove

1964                transfer to Florida Conference

1964-66           Alturas

1966                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1966-69           Bald Eagle Parish

1969-76           Bellwood Trinity

1976-77           Mansfield

1977-80           Clearfield parish

1980-85           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1985                retired

                             1997-01      Mill Creek

 

Note: “My Almost Miracle,” the autobiography of Paul R. O’Brien is on file in the conference archives.

 

OCKERMAN, JOHN F.

 

Born: 10-29-1835  Bedford County PA                     married: Margaret B. Armstrong

Died: 1-24-1898  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1841-1931]

 

1857  admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 59

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Birmingham

1958-59           Frostburg

1859-60           Westernport

1860-61           North Baltimore station

1861-62           West Falls

1862-63           Liberty

1863-64           Westminster

1864-65           Hancock

1865-68           Hagerstown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Northumberland

1870-72           Williamsport Price Chapel [Grace]

1872                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1872-73           Shepherdstown WV

1873-75           Martinsburg WV

1875-78           Havre de Grace

1878-81           East Baltimore

1881-84           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1884-86           Washington Mount Zion

1886-89           Emory

1889-92           Baltimore Caroline Street

1892-94           Mount Washington

1894-96           Baltimore Canton Street

1896                retired

 

OLDS, WESLEY MASON

 

Born:                                                                           married: Marjorie P. _____

Died: 3-11-2022                                                          obit:

 

1963    preliminary fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Church

1965    ordained, Unitarian Universalist Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-65           associate, Harrisburg Grace

1965-66           Amherst MA Unitarian Universalist Church

1966-96           faculty, Springfield College in Springfield MA

 

Note: W. Mason Olds is the author of several articles and books on humanism.  Upon retirement he lived first in Highlands NC and then in Johns Island SC, where he taught courses at the Citadel and the College of Charleston.    He moved back north to Amherst MA in 2019.

 

 

OLEJAR, GEORGE

 

Born: 1-17-1882  Sid, Austria-Hungary                     married: Anno Danco

Died: 3-8-1951  Baltimore MD                                  obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1913-14           Berwick Anthracite Mission

1914-15           Hazleton Anthracite Mission

1915                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference

1915-20           Coke Mission

1920-27           assistant, Johnstown Franklin Street

1927-33           West Brownsville St. John’s

1933-45           Disputanta VA Bethlehem Congregational Church

 

Note: George Olejar published the monthly magazine “Krestan” (the Slovak word for Christian) from 1911 into the 1930’s.  His son Paul D. Olejar is the author of the 1991 book Sentinel at the Crossroads, the story of Methodism’s 1883-1933 “Coke Mission” in western Pennsylvania.

 

OLEWILER, HORACE N.

 

Born: 1-13-1903                                                          married: Katherine Schwindt

Died: 10-27-1995                                                        obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 411

                                                                                    married2: Edith Kellow

1925    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference    obit2: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 557

 

Interment: Bismark Cemetery, Quentin PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 7.252

 

1924-25           student, Dickinson College

                             1924-25      Vira (Sept. 1924 to fall 1925)

1925-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1925-28      Bayville & Ocean Gate

1928-31           Leola & New Holland

1931-32           Berwyn

1932-35           Columbia Cookman

1935-37           Hamburg

1937-40           Philadelphia C.C. Hancock

1940-44           Easton First

1944-49           Pottstown First

1949-53           Chester Madison Street

1953-54           Pottsville

1954-60           Bethlehem Wesley

1960-62           Glenside

1962-64           Norristown Asbury

1964-68           Lebanon

1969-73           Prospect Park

1973                retired

 

OLEWINE, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 6-21-1835  Lewistown PA                               married: Lucy J. Rhodes

Died: 11-11-1897  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 125

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Altoona

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 95

 

1861-62           Philipsburg

1862-63           New Washington

1863-64           Penn’s Valley

1864-65           Newberry

1865-66           Half Moon

1866-68           Selinsgrove

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Selinsgrove

1869-71           Wrightsville

1871-74           Watsontown

1874-76           Emporium

1876-79           Port Royal

1879-81           Three Springs

1881-83           Manor Hill

1883-92           on leave

1892                retired

 

Note: J. Wesley Olewine is the son of Jonas Olewine of the Baltimore Conference.  “Jonas Olewine, father of Rev. J. Wesley Olewine of East Baltimore Conference died near Kylarton PA, on July 30, aged 52.  He was a member of the M.E. Church for more than 33 years.  He was converted and joined the Church at Harrisburg PA, in 1830, and continued faithful to the end.  A few days before he died, we heard his voice in the love-feast.  He spoke of his enjoyments in religion and his prospect of eternal life.  In death he was not forsaken.  During his four days’ illness he was happy, and expressed a willingness to ‘depart and be with Christ.’  On being asked by his companion, when going through the valley of the shadow of death, ‘How is it with you now?’, he replied, ‘to me death has no terrors.’  With his last breath he faintly said, ‘praise, praise, praise, The Lord’, and triumphantly crossed the river of death, only to live in the paradise of God.”

 

 

O’NEILL, JOHN

 

Born: 5-3-1830  Chester County PA                          married: Mary Elizabeth Brooke

Died: 9-1-1910  Salisbury MD                                   obit: Philadelphia Conference 1904, 87

                                                                                    married2: Mary Elizabeth Stephens

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2:

 

Interment: Old Salem Cemetery, Salem PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1911, 96

 

1852-53           Fulton

1853-54           Cochranville

1854-55           Church Creek

1855-56           Cambridge

1856-58           Crozerville

1858-59           Newcastle

1859-61           Birdsboro

1861-63           Salem-Charlestown

1863-65           Conshohocken

1865-66           Wilmington Scott

1866-68           North East

1868-70           Tamaqua

1870-71           Hestonville

1871-72           Cressona

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1872-74           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1874                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1874-76           on leave

1876-92           [Philadelphia Conference]

1892                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. O’Neill is the daughter of Rev. Richard Stephens of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

 

OPPEL, BRUCE EARL

 

Born: 5-15-1937  Long Hollow, PA                           married: Linda L. Wharton    

Died: 5-3-1970  Bloomsburg PA                                obit:    

 

1961    license

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 382

 

1961-70           Catawissa circuit

 

Note: Bruce E. Oppel served as a local pastor.

 

ORR, JOHN C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1944-47           Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (beginning 6/15/1944)

 

Note: John C. Orr served as a local pastor.  It appears that he was not a student from Dickinson College.

 

ORTH, FAITH (EHRLER)

 

Born: 6-10-1935                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1968    license

 

Interment: [tombstone prepared at Mills Cemetery, Mills PA]

Obit:

 

1967-68           Middlefield, Wyoming Conference

1968-70           Ulysses (beginning 12/1/68 and ending 6/14/1970)

1970                no longer listed

1970-73           Mills (Independent)

 

Note: Faith E. Orth served as a local pastor.  She appears to have begun her process toward that status with the Philadelphia Conference.  She submitted her resignation of the three-point Ulysses charge (Gold, Mills, Ulysses) effective 6/14/1970.  And continued the newly-independent Mills congregation when it was dropped from the United Methodist Ulysses charge in 1970.  Her name appears in connections with area marriages and burials at least until 2001.  As of 2019 she appears to be living in Addison NY.

 

OTT, JOSEPH ELWOOD

 

Born: 2-12-1871  PA                                                  married: Ida Myrtle Haight [8/21/1901]

Died: 3-31-1942  Kane PA                                         obit: [11/2/1880 – 3/22/1971]

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1903    license, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit:

 

1897-98           North Jefferson, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1900-01           living in Selinsgrove

1901-02           Washingtonville

1902                Harrisonville (Mar-Aug)

1902                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1902-03           Birmingham

1903-06           East Salem

1906-07           New Paris

1907-08           Lovett

1908-10           Liverpool

1910-12           Mahaffey

1912-13           Knoxdale

1913-15           Fayette

1915-17           West Decatur (ending 4/16/17)

1926                dropped

                       

Note: Joseph E. Ott is a brother to Edwin F. Ott (1863-1948) of the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church.  He served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.  He reportedly served as a minister until two daughters aged 8 and 10 died within six months of each other, and then became a chiropractor in Kane PA.

 

OTT, LORENZO DOW

 

Born: 12-5-1863  Eichelbergertown PA                     married: Lois Olive Daugherty

Died: 8-8-1955  Duncansville PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 239

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by Leidy circuit

1888    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 232

 

1885-86           Leidy

1886-87           Leidy & Emporium

1887-88           Emporium

1888-90           Shirleysburg

1890-92           Reedsville

1892-96           Three Springs

1896-99           Blain

1899-00           McVeytown

1900-02           Manor Hill

1903-06           Newport

1906-09           Danville Trinity

1909-14           Gettysburg

1914-17           Williamsport High Street.

1917-19           Jersey Shore First

1919-22           Patton

1922-25           Ashland

1925-30           Clearfield Emmanuel

1930-35           Duncansville

1935                retired

 

 

OWEN, EDWARD THOMAS

 

Born: 12-25-1839  England                                        married: Sarah Ann Evans

Died: 10-19-1913  Berwick PA                                  obit: [1852-1922]

 

1883    recommended by Primitive Methodist Church

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Catawissa circuit

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit:

 

1884-85           Catawissa circuit

1885-87           South Heberton

1887                discontinued

 

Note: Edward T. Owen served as a traveling pastor in the Primitive Methodist Connexion in the British Isles for 20 years before coming to America in 1883. 

 

OWEN, JOHN W.

 

Born: 12-26-1830  Clearfield County PA                  married: Lavina C. Korb

Died: 6-13-1885  Kittanning PA                                obit: [7/8/1837 – 1/14/1904]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

1862    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Kittanning Cemetery, Kittanning PA 

Obit:

 

1859-60           Penns Valley

1860                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1860-61           Wilmore

1861-63           Knoxdale

1863-65           Mahoning

1865-70           located for health reasons

1870                honorable discharge

 

Note: In 1866, John W. Owen moved to Kittanning where he practiced dentistry, operated a store, and engaged in other business pursuits.  He became an active layman in the local Methodist Protestant church.  There is a biographical sketch of John W. Owen in the biographical files.

 

 

OWENS, LEONARD LYMAN

 

Born: 12-9-1888  Lumber City PA                             married: Bessie Alverta [Alcie] Reiley

Died: 8-10-1967  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 389

 

1917    admitted on trial

1920    ordained deacon

1922    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 326

 

1917-18           at school

1918-20           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1920-22           New Bloomfield

1922-24           McVeytown (ending 9/4/24)

1924-27           Burnham (beginning 9/4/24)

1927-30           Warrior’s Mark

1930-32           Hughsville (ending 6/20/32)

1932-34           Williamsburg (beginning 6/20/32)

1934-38           Altoona Grace (ending 8/11/38)

1938-42           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue (beginning 8/11/38)

1942-46           Clearfield West Side

1946-50           Bellefonte

1950-54           Petersburg-Alexandria

1954-57           Altoona Jaggard

1957                retired

                             1957-59      Ralston 

                             1961-63      Laurelton 

                             1963-64      Waterville  

 

Note: Mrs. Owens is the daughter of William McKendree Reiley.

 

 

OWENS, WILLIAM JOHNSON

 

Born: 4-7-1843  Birmingham PA                               married: M. Jennie _____

Died: 10-8-1876  Ennisville PA                                 obit: [d. c1928]

 

1866    license

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Birmingham PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 63

 

1866-68           Manor Hill

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Rainsburg [Bedford] circuit

1871-73           Granville

1973-75           on leave

                            1873-74       Warrior’s Mark

                            1874-75       Beach Creek

1875-76           assistant, Altoona Eighth Avenue

1876-76           Ennisville

 

Note: An obituary of William J. Owens also appears in the November 1876 Conference News.

 

OWENS, WILLIAM R.

 

Born: 8-03-1851                                                          married: Elisabeth Weary

Died: 10-4-1912                                                          obit: [4/15/1845 – 11/26/1918]

 

1889    ordained deacon, recommended by Shamokin station

1893    ordained elder, recommended by Shamokin First

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

Note: William R. Owns served as a local pastor.  The surname is also rendered OWEN.  The surname of Mrs. Owens also appears as Whary and Wary, and her birth year also appears as 1844.

 

 

OYLER, RICHARD SKYLES

 

Born: 6-15-1873  Mann’s Choice PA                         married: Mary Ardella Phoenix

Died: 8-7-1956  Luzerne PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 212

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Lydia O. Myers

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 230

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

 

Interment: Alto-Reste Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 242

 

1898-99           Westport

1899-01           Clarkstown

1901-04           Gardeau

1904-05           Keating Summit

1905-09           Mercersburg

1909-12           Milesburg-Unionville

1912-14           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1914-18           Gettysburg

1918-21           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1921-25           Philipsburg

1925-28           Sunbury St. John’s

1928-31           Berwick First

1931-36           Mount Union First

1936-40           Altoona Simpson

1940-42           York Grace

1942-46           Gordon

1946                retired

 

 

PACIARELLI, JOSEPH

 

Born: 5-15-1866  Rome, Italy                                    married: Josephine Piacentini

Died: 2-24-1938  Sykesville MD                               obit: Baltimore Conference 1963, 294

 

1904    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1938, 372

 

1904-09           Buffalo Italian Mission

1909                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1909-16           Altoona Italian Mission

1916                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1916-25           Baltimore Italian Mission

1925                retired

 

PALMER, ANN AMUNDSEN

 

Born: 7-17-1926  Hillsboro ND                                 married: _____ Palmer

Died: 4-28-2005  Williamsport PA                            obit:

 

1963    license, recommended by Nelson

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Grandview Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 453

 

1963-80           Sugar Creek Parish

1980-91           Harrisburg St. Mark’s-Riverside

1991-93           Harrisburg Riverside

1993-97           Powell’s Valley Zion [Stone]

1997                retired

 

Note: Ann A. Palmer is the daughter of Anton John Amundsen. 

 

 

PANNEBAKER, FOSTER LEON

 

Born: 6-23-1899  near Port Royal PA                                    married: Grace Ellen Gotshall

Died: 2-2-1978                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 467

 

1924    license, recommended by Lewistown First

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 281

 

1923-27           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1925           Grant WV circuit, Baltimore Conference (6/20/25 – 9/12/25)

                             1925-26      Picture Rocks (beginning 10/17/1925)

                             1926-27      Wallis Run 

1927-28           Shirleysburg & Singers Gap

1928-29           Wells Tannery-Zion (ending 11/30/29)

1929-30           Hopewell (beginning 12/1/29)

1930-32           Madera-Glen Hope (ending 11/15/31)

1931-34           Mapleton-Mill Creek (12/17/31 – 10/15/34)

1934-27           Elysburg (beginning 10/16/34)

1937-39           McConnellsburg

1939-43           Airville

1943-46           Morrisdale-Munson

1946-48           Howard

1948-52           Lock Haven East Main Street

1952-55           Williamsport Third Street

1955-61           Mifflinville

1961-64           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1964                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Pannebaker is the daughter of Harvey O. Gotshall.

 

 

PARDOE, HILES C.

 

Born: 7-21-1839  Lewisburg PA                                married: Annie Stoner

Died: 9-14-1919  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 145

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 127

 

1861-62           Bloomingdale

1862-63           Milton circuit.

1863-65           Hereford MD

1965-67           Middletown

1867-68           Bellefonte

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Bellefonte

1869-71           Carlisle

1871-74           Mifflin

1874-77           Hollidaysburg

1877-79           Philipsburg

1879-82           Sunbury

1882-85           Danville St. Paul

1885-86           Tyrone

1886-92           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1892-96           Bedford

1896-02           Renovo

1902-05           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1905-08           Ashland

1908-10           Williamsport Third Street.

1910                retired

 

Note: Hiles C. Pardoe is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

 

 

PARKS, EZRA LANDON

 

Born: 2-22-1901  Fairmount MD                               married: Helen Wright

Died: 3-4-1976                                                            obit: [4/7/1904 – 12/?/1987]

 

1922    license, recommended by Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1924    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 151

 

1923-24           Reedsville & Milroy

1924-25           Rehoboth

1925-26           Ennisville

1926-28           Cassville

1928-31           James Creek

1931-33           McVeytown

1933-37           Marysville

1937-42           Mill Hall

1942-47           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial

1947-48           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1948-55           Curwensville

1955-57           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1957-66           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1966                retired

                             1966-76      visitation pastor, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial

 

 

PARKS, LEWIS ARNOLD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Margaret _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1965    license, recommended by Lock Haven East Main Street

1970    admitted on trial

1970    ordained deacon

1974    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1965-68           Clearfield circuit

1968-74           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1968-70      Long Green MD

                             1970-74      Savage MD

1974-78           New Freedom

1978-80           Montgomery

1980-86           Williamsport Wesley

1986-91           Altoona Gethsemane

1991-95           Middletown Wesley

1995-98           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1998-13           faculty, Wesley Theological Seminary
                            2008-10       Dillsburg Arnolds

2012-14           Lemoyne Calvary (beginning 1/1/2013)

2014                retired

                             2014-19      Lemoyne Calvary (ending 12/31/2019)

                             2020-23      Chambers Hill (beginning 1/1/2020)

 

Note: Lewis A. Parks is the father of Jennifer Parks-Snyder of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

PARKYN, THOMAS GEORGE

 

Born: 7-20-1898  Shamokin PA                                 married:  Ella Schlabig

Died: 8-21-1973  Frackville PA                                 obit: [1/17/1900 – 4/?/1978]

 

1939    license, recommended by Trevorton

1943    ordained local deacon

1947    ordained local elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 428

 

1940-41           Allenwood

1941-42           (no assignment)

1942-44           Benezette-Penfield

1944-47           East Waterford

1947-48           Coalport

1948-50           Salona-Lamar

1950-55           Mifflinville

1955-59           Centralia

1959-64           Lock Haven East Main Street

1964                retired

 

Note: Thomas G. Parkyn served as a local pastor.  He is the uncle of Rev. Fred Parkyn, affiliation unknown.

 

PARRISH, DANIEL HOWARD

 

Born: 1838                                                                  married: Emma R. _____

Died: 2-23-1871                                                          obit: [1848 – 6/11/1870]

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD [PARISH]

Obit: Baltimore Conference, 1871 General Minutes

 

1856-57           Great Falls

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Great Falls

1858-59           West Harford

1859-60           Hereford

1860-62           Hampstead

1862-64           North Baltimore

1864                located

                        transfer to Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South

1866-67           South Baltimore, Baltimore Conference ME

1867                transfer to Baltimore Conference ME

1867-69           South Baltimore

1869                on leave          

     1869-70      East Baltimore Trinity, supply

                             1870-71      South Baltimore, supply

 

Note: In 1865, a Daniel H. Parrish was pastor of the First Congregational Methodist Church in Washington DC.  In 1870, a Daniel H. Parrish was practicing dentistry in Baltimore MD.  It appears that the wife of D. Howard Parrish died in childbirth, along with their daughter Ida Emma.

 

PATRICK, ELWYN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-63           student, Houghton College in Houghton NY

                             1962           “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1962-63      Genesee & North Bingham

1963-66           student, Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY

1966                “transfer” to the Wesleyan Church

1966-68           Wesleyan Church, Odessa NY

1968-72           ?                     

1972-75           Victory Highway Wesleyan Church, Painted Post NY

1975-79           Wesleyan Church, Westfield PA

1979-92           Horseheads Community Wesleyan Church, Horseheads NY

1992-06           Herrickville Wesleyan Church, Bradford County PA

2006                retired

                             2006-      pastor to senior adults, Horseheads Community Wesleyan Church

 

PATTERSON, GARLAND CHESTER

 

Born: 7-14-1893  Paw Paw WV                                 married:  Janet Smith Beveridge

Died: 7-30-1958                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 166

 

1927    license

1934    recognized as an accepted supply pastor

 

Interment: Centre Cemetery, Hyde PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 254

 

1927-28           Wallaceton (5 months)

1928-29           ?

1929-37           Clearfield circuit

1937-44           Cherry Tree

1944-50           Wolfsburg

1950-54           Manor Hill

1954-58           Claysburg

1958                retired

 

Note: Garland C. Patterson is the father of William B. Patterson and the son of Rev. William H. Patterson of the Disciples of Christ.  Garland’s grandfather Charles Patterson and uncle Jerry O. Patterson were also ministers in the Disciples of Christ.  Garland C. Patterson served as a local pastor.

 

PATTERSON, J. ROBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1941-42           Allenport

1942                Pine Grove Mills (ending 11/1/42)

 

Note: J. Robert Patterson served as a local pastor.

 

 

PATTERSON, WILLIAM BEVERIDGE

 

Born: 3-25-1921  Clearfield County PA                    married: Isabel Jean Ickes

Died: 6-8-2017  Hollidaysburg PA                            obit:

 

1963    license, recommended by Wolfsburg

1973    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Bedford County Memorial Park, Bedford PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 276

 

1966-83           Wolfsburg (beginning 8/66)

1983                retired

 

Note: William B. Patterson is the son of Garland C. Patterson.  He taught high school American History and Social Studies at Everett (1953-56) and Bedford (1956-81) before entering the ministry and serving as a local pastor.  He was wounded in the assault on Iwo Jima in WWII and is the author of several county/western gospel songs.

 

PATTON, JAMES A.

 

Born: 1838                                                                  married: Caroline Guinter

Died: 12-15-1916                                                        obit: [1839 – 3/5/1905]

 

1871    quarterly conference license

1884    ordained deacon, recommended by Cogan Valley

1895    license

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 80]

 

1878-79           Loyalsock

1881-82           Liberty Valley

1882-85           Cogan Valley

1885-87           Jamestown

1889-91           Waterville

1891-92           Cogan Valley

1894-96           Cross Fork (beginning c7/1/94, following death of Henry C. Stern)

1896-97           Clarkstown

1897-98           living in Picture Rocks

1898-99           Laporte

1899-00           living in Picture Rocks

1900-01           not listed

1901-02           living in Williamsport

1902-08           not listed

1908-10           living in Williamsport

1910-11           living in Hanover

1911-16           living in Salladasburg

 

Note: James A. Patton lived in Nauvoo, Tioga County, served as a local preacher.  [He is referred to as John A. Patton in the 1870’s and 80’s, and it is possible that these were two different persons.]


 

PAUL, ADAM FULTI

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1905-06           Barnesboro

 

Note: Adam F. Paul served as a local pastor.  He is described in the 1905 Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, page 433, as “an Austrian” who worked the previous year as a missionary in the Coke mission of the Pittsburgh Conference.  See 1905 Central PA Conference journal, page 62.

 

PEARCE, GEORGE ESTELL

 

Born: 2-5-1882  Point Pleasant NJ                             married: Maye Frances Bowne

Died: 12-12-1945  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 205

 

1931    ordained elder, Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Cassville Cemetery, Cassville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 230

 

1913-27           evangelist, Baptist Church

1927                transfer credentials to Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

1927-30           Cassville PA

1930-33           Patterson NJ Madison Park

1933-37           Penn’s Grove NJ

1937-39           Patterson NJ Hamilton Avenue

1939                by denominational union, member of Newark Conference of Methodist Church

1939-43           Patterson NJ Hamilton Avenue

1943                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1943-45           Hopewell 

 

PEARCE, JOHN JAMESON

 

Born: 2-28-1826  Wilkes Barre PA                            married: Elizabeth Dunn

Died: 5-26-1912  Conneaut OH                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 139

 

1844     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Lock Haven Cemetery, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 133

 

1844-45           Lycoming

1945-46           Bellefonte

1946-47           Northumberland

1847-48           Milton

1848-49           Warrior’s Mark

1849-51           Lycoming

1851-52           Muncy

1852-53           Jersey Shore

1853-55           Lock Haven

1855-57           located

1857                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1857-58           Kingston

1858-59           Owego

1859-62           superintendent, Owego District

1862-65           superintendent, Honesdale District

1865-66           located

1866                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1866-67           Williams Grove

1867-70           Philadelphia 19th Street

1870-71           Waynesburg

1871-74           Pottsville

1874                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1874-77           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1877-81           superintendent, Williamsport District

1881-84           Huntingdon

1884-87           Lewistown

1887-88           McVeytown

1888-98           on leave

1898                retired

 

Note: John J. Pearce is the son of Marmaduke Pearce (1776-1852) of the Wyoming Conference. Obituaries also appear in the 8/29/1912 Christian Advocate, page 1767, and the 11/4/1912 Christian Advocate, page 1639.

 

PEARSON, ROBERT BALLARD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Mary Elizabeth Mellott [4/21/1946]

Died:                                                                           obit: [5/21/1922 - ]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        New England Southern Conference

 

1950                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1950-51           Muncy Valley

1951                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

 

Note: In 2003 Robert B. Pearson is listed as a retired member of the California-Nevada Conference.  He is a 1950 graduate of the Boston University School of Theology.  Mrs. Pearson is the daughter of  Matthew S.Q. Mellott.

 

PEARSON, W.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1922-23           Littlestown

 

Note: W.C. Pearson served as a local pastor.  He appears to have been an assistant to student pastor Samuel Strain and did not serve the entire year.  He is otherwise unknown, but may be Walter C. Pearson (1891-1945) of Lewistown PA.

 

PENEPACKER, GEORGE DAVIS

 

Born: 11-3-1841  near Lewistown PA                       married: Hanetta [“Nettie”] W. Black (1869)

Died: 1-7-1911  Marklesburg PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 347

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 127

 

1867-68           Saxton

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Birmingham

1869-70           Greencastle

1870-72           York Duke Street

1872-74           Sunbury

1874-76           Mifflin

1876-78           Bedford

1878-81           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1881-84           Bellefonte

1884-86           Altoona First

1886                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1886                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1886-89           Tyrone

1889-93           Clearfield

1893-96           Williamsport Grace.

1896-99           Danville St. Paul’s

1899-02           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1902-05           Philipsburg

1905-07           Milton

1907-09           Mount Union

1909-11           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

 

Note: An obituary for George D. Penepacker also appears in the 3/30/1911 NY Christian Advocate, page 439.

 

PENNINGTON, JAMES FREW

 

Born: 10-21-1846  Mifflintown PA                            married: Sarah Belle Lysinger

Died: 11-26-1896  Lewisberry PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895,88

                                                                                    married2: Eliza Ann Foster

?          quarterly conference license                           obit2: [9/25/1847 – 3/28/1942]

1874    admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

1877    ordained deacon

1879    ordained elder

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 95

 

1873-74           Concord

1874-75           Federalsburg

1875                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1875-76           Saxton

1876-77           Ray’s Hill

1877-78           Shirleysburg

1878-79           Burnt Cabins

1879-82           Pleasantville

1882-84           Bedford circuit

1884-86           Blain

1886-90           on leave

1890-91           West Huntingdon

1891-93           McConnellsburg

1893-95           Lewisberry

1895-96           on leave

 

Note: James F. Penning is the father of Jennie Belle Pennington Smethurst, missionary to Puebla Mexico.  The second Mrs. Pennington, born in Lewisberry and buried in the nearby Emanuel Cemetery, had just married James F. Pennington while he was serving Lewisberry.  She is a sister to Milton Kirk Foster and an aunt to Robert B. Foster.

 

PEREGOY, DONALD MILTON

 

Born: 4-20-1931  Parkersburg WV                            married: Connie Virginia Lockhart

Died: 10-4-1998                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 427

 

1950    license, recommended by Parkersburg WV Trinity

1963    ordained deacon

1965    ordained elder

1968    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Watsontown Cemetery, Watsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 438

 

1955-58           Auburn

1958-59           Leroy

1959-60          

1960-61           Lockhart

1961-63           Ravenswood circuit

1963                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1963-66           Cassville (beginning 9/1/63)

1966-69           Hastings-Bakerton

1969-73           Claysburg

1973-75           Steelton First

1975-76           Emigsville (ending 3/7/76)

1976-96           disability (beginning 3/7/76)

1996                retired


Note: Mrs. Peregoy is the daughter of John Lockart (1913-1966) of the West Virginia Conference.

 

PETERS, ROBERT CLARENCE

 

Born: 4-4-1877  Reedsville PA                                  married: Mary McCampbell

Died: 7-11-1938  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935,245

 

1894    license, recommended by Reedsville

1906    admitted on trial

1908    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Birch Hill Cemetery, Burnham PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 215

 

1903-06           student, Boston School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1904-06      Worcester MA

1906-08           Riddlesburg

1908-10           Cross Forks

1910-14           Beaver Meadows

1914-17           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1917-19           Patton

1919-20           Williamsport High Street

1920-22           Lewisburg

1922-23           State College

1923-27           Hollidaysburg

1927-29           Mt. Carmel

1929-31           New Cumberland

1931-35           St. Mary’s

1935                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on Robert C. Peters appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 62.  Mrs. Peters, before her marriage, served three years in missionary work in Cairo, Egypt, under the United Presbyterian Mission Board.
 

 

PETERSON, CARL FORD

 

Born: 3-26-1943  Reynolds IL                                   married: Linda _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    license, recommended by Reynolds IL of the Central Illinois Conference

1966    admitted on trial, Central Illinois Conference

1966    ordained deacon, Central Illinois Conference

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-69           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1966-69      Rouzerville (beginning 10/1/66)

1969                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-71           Rouzerville

1971-75           Williamsport Calvary

1975-79           Williamsport Calvary-Williamsport Grace

1979-90           Harrisburg Harris Street

1990-96           superintendent, York District

1996-08           New Cumberland Trinity

2008                retired

                             2009-10      Spry (beginning 1/11/2010)

                             2011-12      Fishing Creek Salem (beginning 9/1/2011)

 

PETERSON, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born: 8-1-1917  Utahville PA                                    married: Daisy Beatrice Wolford

Died: 3-7-1978                                                            obit: [3/11/1919 – 12/25/2003]

 

1939    quarterly conference license, Bellwood

1943    quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1946    license, Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Kesslar Cemetery, Acme PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 406

 

1940-42           Allenport (beginning 9/1/40)

1942                Pine Grove Mills (ending 10/31/42)

1942                withdrew to join Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1942-44           Casselman

1944-49           Susquehanna

1949-53           Shanksville

1953-58           Rockwood

1958-65           Indian Creek

1965-78           Hooversville

 

Note: J. Robert Peterson has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, even though he withdrew before he was admitted in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 
 

 

PHEASANT, JESSE MILES

 

Born: 10-23-1887  Mapleton Depot PA                     married: Audra Pope

Died: 12-9-1965  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 432

 

1915    local pastor’s license

1925    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cassville Cemetery, Cassville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 337

 

1915-16           Ennisville

1916-19           living in Freeland PA

1919-23           student, Dickinson College    

1923-26           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                             1924-26      Hazel Creek, Rock River Conference

1926-27           on leave

1927                discontinued, page 378

1927-28           Lewistown Grove Memorial (started in mid-year)

1928                re-admitted, page 604

1928-30           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1930-32           New Bloomfield

1932-29           Airville

1939-42           McConnellsburg

1942-47           Thompsontown

1947-50           Glen Campbell

1950-52           Kulpmont

1952-56           Freeland Parish

1956-58           Wrightsville

1958                retired

 

Note: J. Miles Pheasant is the preferred designation.

 

PHILIPPS, RONALD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Joan _____

Died: 11-11-1975                                                        obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1942-44           Foundry Street Wesleyan Methodist, Bolton, Lancashire, England

1960-61           Barnitz

 

Note: Ronald Philipps served as an exchange pastor from London, England.  This name is also given as PHILLIPS.

 

PHILLIPS, CHARLES WILLARD

 

Born: 8-10-1903  Scranton PA                                   married: Anne Snavely Garber

Died: 11-9-1975                                                          obit: [1/18/1907 – 9/23/1999]

 

1929    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

1929    ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference

1931    ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Mennonite Cemetery, Willow Street PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 532

 

1927-29           student, Penn State University

                             1927-29      Vira

1929-31           student, Boston University

                             1929-31      Brookline NH

1931-32           ?

1932-33           Mondale

1933-35           Factoryville

1935-38           Binghamton Ogden-Hillcrest

1938-41           associate, Scranton Elm Park

1941-43           Honesdale

1943-45           Binghamton Centenary

1945-53           Kingston First

1953                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1953-69           executive secretary, Conference Board of Education

1969                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Phillips served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor. 


 

PHILLIPS, DAVID E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-97           Shawmut [Shawville]

1897-99           Grant (Clearfield County)

 

Note: David E. Phillips served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be David Ellsworth Phillips (1870-1937), born in Clearfield PA and buried in Erie County PA.

 

PHILLIPS, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 1-25-1948  Davidson twp, Sullivan Co. PA     married: Matilda J. Unger

Died: 9-13-1940  BerwicK PA                                   obit: [7/9/1848 – 9/24/1927]

 -

1897    quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Roselawn Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit:

 

1891-92           Rohrsburg

1897-00           living in Belle Bend

1900-06           living in Beach Haven

1906-08           Washingtonville

 

Note: John W. Phillips served as a local pastor.
 

 

PHILLIPS, JONATHAN SETH

 

Born: 6-2-1857  Rauchtown PA                                 married: Alma Bida Clark

Died: 10-30-1934  Belleville PA                                obit: [d. 1918]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Margaret Cummins Bigelow

1901    license                                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 185

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Belleville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 233

 

1895-96           East Salem, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1901-04           Belleville

1904-05           Burnt Cabins

1905-08           Ennisville

1908-09           Pine Grove Mills

1909-11           Thompsontown

1911-12           apparently no assignment

1912-16           Cassville

1916-17           Lock Haven circuit

1917-19           Thompsontown

1919-20           Vira

1920-23           Claysburg

1923-26           Ramey

1926-28           Salona & Lamar

1928-30           Beach Haven

1930-33           Rouzerville

1933                retired

 

Note: Jonathan S. Phillips served as a local pastor.

 

PHILLIPS, THOMAS M.

 

Born: c1834                                                                married:

Died: 4-27-1906                                                          obit:

 

1897    license

1898    recognized elder on credentials from Primitive Methodist Church

            recommended by Excelsior

 

Interment: Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 64]

 

1897-98           Excelsior

1898-01           Washingtonville

1901-05           Rohrsburg

1905-06           Waller

1906                no assignment

 

Note: Thomas M. Phillips served as a local pastor.  He previously served as a local pastor in the Primitive Methodist Church.
 

 

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM LYNN

 

Born: 4-22-1886  Lonaconing MD.                            married: Margaret Ann Sollars

Died: 10-6-1958  Mountain Lake Park MD               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 390

 

1925    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Oakland MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 255

 

1917-18           Loyalsock

1922-24           Emporium (began in midyear 1922/23)

1924-26           Shawville 

1926-27           Burnt Cabins

1927-29           Ray’s Hill

1929-31           Schellsburg

1931-32           Airville

1932-34           Hopewell

1934-37           Hustontown

1937-40           Elysburg

1940-42           Town Hill

1942-44           Wolfsburg

1944-46           Claysburg

1946-48           Cassville

1948-55           Austin

1955-56           New Millport

1956                retired

 

PICHT, CHARLES HERBERT

 

Born: 1-4-1915  Richmond NY                                  married: Lilian Rudine Hanson

Died: 6-4-1999  York PA                                           obit: [d. 1959]

                                                                                    married2: Bernadene C. Dugan

1938    license, New England Conference                  obit2:

1943    ordained deacon, New England Conference

1944    admitted on trial, New England Conference

1945    ordained elder, New England Conference

 

Interment:  Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 375

 

1942-44           Lynn MA Lakeside

1944-46           Wakefield MA

1946                transfer to Pacific Northwest Conference

1946-48           Toppenish WA

1948                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1948-52           chaplain/faculty, Lycoming College

1952-53           chaplain/faculty, Allegheny College

1953                transfer to Erie Conference

1953-56           chaplain/faculty, Allegheny College

1956-59           Meadville Grace

1959-62           Erie Lakewood

1962                by conference merger, member of Western Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Ridgway

1963-64           Beaver Falls First (ending 9/1/1964)

1964-70           on leave, living in Englewood NJ

1970                voluntary location

1980                reinststed

1980                retired

 

Note: C. Herbert Picht settled in York and practiced chiropractic medicine.
 

 

PICKEN, WILLIAM RICHARD

 

Born: 1-15-1856  Shropshire, England                      married: Sarah J. Meals

Died: 12-8-1930  Centre Hall PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926,346

 

1876    licensed to preach in Wesleyan Church in England

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Shirleysburg circuit

1885    ordained deacon, recommended by Shirleysburg circuit

1887    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Shirleysburg Cemetery, Shirleysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 185

 

1881-82           supply, Newark Conference

1882-83           supply, New York Conference

1883-86           Shirleysburg

1886-88           Blain

1888-93           McVeytown

1893-94           Ray’s Hill

1894-99           Osceola

1899-02           Mifflin

1902-04           Lock Haven, East Main Street

1904-07           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1907-10           Catawissa

1910-11           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1911-14           Williamsport High Street

1914-18           Shippensburg

1918                retired

 

PICKERING, ROBERT WAYNE

 

Born:                                                                           married: Evelyn _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    license, recommended by North Bend

1971    ordained deacon

1974    admitted as associate member

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-69           Penn’s Valley

1969-77           Sugar Valley

1977-88           Gatchelville

1988-01           Steelton Centenary

2001-08           Manchester St. Paul’s

2008                retired

                             2008-12      Renovo Area

                             2012-18      Flemington

 

PIERSON, RAY HAMILTON

 

Born: 4-24-1886  Frazeysburg OH                             married: Elizabeth Ellen Reeder (10/10/1910)

Died: 5-11-1956  OH                                                  obit: West Ohio Conference 1983, 300

 

1909    admitted on trial, Oregon Conference

1909    ordained deacon, Oregon Conference

1911    ordained elder, Oregon Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1956, 301

 

1909-10           North Bend and Myrtle Point

1910-11           San Francisco Fifteenth Avenue, Southern California Conference

1911                transfer to Southern California Conference

1011-12           San Diego Fairmont

1912-13           ?

1913-14           Millerstown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-17           East Waterford, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1917                transfer to North-East Ohio Conference

1917-18           Levering

1918-20           East Rochester

1920                transfer to Colorado Conference

1920-21           director of religious education, Denver Trinity

1921-23           Fleming

1923-25           field representative, Inter-collegiate Prohibition Association

1925-26           sabbatical

 

Note: Hamilton Pierson is the father of four ordained pastors: Carl Thomas Pierson (1916-2002) of the East Ohio Conference, Rev. John Wesley Pierson (1918-2007) of the United Church of Christ in California, Arthur Edward Pierson (1920-2000) of the Eastern Kansas Conference, and Ray H. Pierson Jr. (1923-2005) of the Presbyterian Church in western Pennsylvania.  He graduated from Taylor University in 1906 and from Drew Theological Seminary in 1908.  He served 1913-17 in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a supply pastor.  His full given name appears to be Rowland Ray Hamilton Pierson.

 

PIFER, JAY S.

 

Born: 8-11-1937  Ridgway PA                                   married: Betty _____

Died: 1-16-2022  Aiken SC                                        obit:

 

1961    license, Erie Conference

1971    ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-64           Hazen

1964-65           Mingo Junction OH

1965-68           associate, Ridgeway

1968                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968-69           associate, Bellefonte

1969-70           associate, Manor Hill

1970-71           Fairbrook

1971                “transfer” to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1971-72           associate, Bobtown-Mapleton

1972-78           Marianna

1978-85           Chalk Hill

1985-99           Penn

1995-96           associate, Jeannette Friendship

1996                retired

                           1997-99        associate, Greensburg Otterbein (beginning 8/1/97)

                           2002-06        associate, Greensburg Otterbein

 

Note: Jay S. Pifer served as a local pastor.
  He was an executive in the energy/power business.

 

PILE, WENDELL JAMES II

 

Born:                                                                           married: Mary Nell _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1969    admitted on trial, recommended by Smithfield VA Trinity

1969    ordained deacon

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1969-72           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1972-76           North Towanda

1976-78           student, Syracuse University in Syracuse NY

1978-83           leave of absence

1983                honorable location, page 327

 

Note: In 2002, Rev. W. James Pile officiated at a United Methodist wedding in Yorktown VA, but he is not listed as a member of the Virginia (or any other United Methodist) Conference.

 

PIPER, EDGAR FOSTER

 

Born: 8-7-1875  Thompsontown PA                          married: [single]

Died: 9-1-1971  Hartford CT                                      obit:

 

1901    license

1904    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1905    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

1906    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment: [cremated, ashes interred at] Meeks Cemetery, Franklinville PA

Obit: New York Conference 1972, 211

 

1901-04           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1904                “transfer” to New York East Conference

1904-11           Greenwich Diamond Hill

1911-18           New Haven Epworth

1918-25           Seymour

1925-19           Bridgeport Newfield

1929-35           New Canaan

1935-41           Mamaroneck

1941                retired

                             1942-45      Pine Grove Mills (beginning 12/1/42)

                             1945-54      Fairbrook & Franklinville

                             1950-63      Curtin

 

Note: E. Foster Piper is the son of Marshall C. Piper.  He served in Central Pennsylvania as a retired member of the New York East Conference.

 

PIPER, F.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-29           Hustontown (started during 1927-28 conference year)

 

Note: F.S. Piper served as a local pastor.  This may be Fred Shope Piper (6/2/1902 – 11/2/1971) who was born in Dry Run, Franklin County PA, attended Princeton University, and served Presbyterian churches in Socorro NM 1929-31 and Clovis NM (beginning 1931).

 

 

PIPER, JOHN FRANKLIN JR.

 

Born: 11-18-1936  Huntingdon PA                            married: Margaret Rose Powell

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1958    license, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1959    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1961    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-61           student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

                             1959-60      assistant, Nichols CT

                             1960-61      assistant, New Haven CT First

                             1961           New Haven St. Andrews (spring-summer)

1961-64           student, Duke University (beginning fall 1961)

1964-69           faculty, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley MA

                             1966-67      Winchendon North Congregational

                             1967           South Hadley Falls Congregational (spring)      

                             1967-69      associate, South Hadley-Holyhoke-Granby Methodist

1969-04           faculty, Lycoming College

                             1974-75      Trout Run

                             1975-84      Duboistown-Nisbet

                             1986-04      Williamsport Grace

2004                retired

                             2004-07      faculty, Lycoming College

                             2010           South Williamsport (1/1/2010 – 5/1/2010)

 

PIPER, MARSHALL C.

 

Born: 5-11-1848  near Petersburg PA                        married: Frances Elenore Grazier

Died: 4-13-1941  Milesburg PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 98

                                                                                    married2: Susan Dunlap

1873    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 217

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 214

 

1872-73           Warrior’s Mark

1873-74           Ray’s Hill

1874-75           Decatur

1875-77           Thompsontown

1877-80           Blain

1880-82           Bedford circuit

1882-84           Saxton

1884-85           Hopewell

1885-88           Ennisville

1888-89           Penn’s Valley

1889-93           Osceola Mills

1893-96           Williamsport Fourth Street

1896-01           Sinnemahoning

1901-04           Altoona Walnut Avenue

1904-09           Milesburg-Unionville

1909-13           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1913                retired

 

Note: Marshall C. Piper is the father of E. Foster Piper.

 

PIPP, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1963    license, recommended by Elmira NY Riverside

1968    ordained deacon

1972    admitted as associate member

1999    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-64           Sullivanville NY

1964                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1964-66           Daggett

1966-69           Burlington

1969-74           Duboistown (ending 12/31/74)

1975-81           Mifflinburg Wesley (beginning 1/1/75)

1981-84           PCAP [Pennsylvania Council on Alcohol Problems] (ending 11/1/84)

1984-95           Lycoming (beginning 11/1/84 and ending 10/1/95)

1995-06           Carlisle Good Shepherd Community (beginning 10/1/95)

2006                retired

                             2006-23      Snyders

                             2023           disaffiliated

 

PITCHER, EDWIN FRANK

 

Born: 2-14-1846  Fairmont VA [WV]                        married: Mary Frances Baker (6/24/1869)

Died: 5-18-1876                                                          obit: [10/20/1848 – 3/27/1872]

                                                                                    married2: Maria C. Gleim (6/2/1873)

                                                                                    obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1885, 77

 

1864    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Shippensburg

 

 

Interment:

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1877, 69

 

1864-65           Carlisle circuit

1865                York Springs (resigned to attend school)

1865-67           student, Theological Seminary at Concord NH

1867                admiited on trial, New England Conference

1867-68           Amherst MA
1868                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1868-70           Morgantown

1870                transfer to New Hampshire Conference

1870-72           Lawrence MA

1872                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1872-73           Lebanon

1873-76           Allentown

 

Note: The first Mrs. Pitcher was trhe daughter of ME Bishop Osmon Cleander Baker (1812-1871).

 

PITCHER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 11-25-1824  Anne Arundel County MD          married: Mary Jane Reese

Died: 12-25-1893                                                        obit: [9/12/1825 – 4/4/1893]

 

1846    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference: recommended by Severn

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1894, 48

 

1846-47           Charles

1847-48           Baltimore Fayette Street

1848-50           Ryland Chapel

1850-52           Hagerstown

1852-57           on leave

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore Exeter Street

1859-61           on leave

1861                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

PITTINGER, SAMUEL JACOB

 

Born: 6-17-1874  Shirleysburg PA                             married: Mary A. Wagaman

Died: 1-16-1938  Fountain Dale, PA                         obit: [1881 -  9/?/1930; see 1931, 78]

 

1901    license, recommended by Fountain Dale

1902    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Sunnyside Cemetery, York Springs PA

Obit:

 

1901-02           Harrisonville

1902-03           Shirleysburg

1903-04           Green Village

1904                discontinued as member of conference, continues as a local pastor

1904-05           Liberty Valley

1905-08           Harrisonville

1908-10           Burnt Cabins

1910-13           Pine Grove Mills

1913-16           Concord

1916-19           Ennisville

1919-23           Wolfsburg

1923-27           Rays Hill

1927-31           York Springs

1931-32           Lewisberry & Lisburn

1932-33           Mahaffey

 

Note: This surname is also rendered PITTENGER.
 

 

PLANT, JOHN JOSEPH

 

Born: 7-19-1917  Emeigh PA                                     married: Elner E. Henderson

Died: 9-15-1992                                                          obit: [1921 – 2008]

 

1951    license, recommended by Emeigh

1955    ordained deacon 1955

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 468

 

1951-53           Shawville (beginning 7/1/1951)

1953-57           Penfield

1957-63           Muncy Valley

1963-70           Austin

1970-73           New Albany (ending 9/1/1973)

1973-83           Lewistown Grove Memorial (beginning 9/1/1973)

1983-85           Milroy

1985                retired

 

Note: John J. Plant is the father of Robert J. Plant and the grandfather of Matthew D. Plant of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. 

 

PLANT, ROBERT JOHN SR.

 

Born: 5-10-1942  Emeigh PA                                     married: Thelma Eileen Laurenson (11/23/1961)

Died: 1-20-1974 Hershey PA                                     obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 362

 

1962    license, recommended by Muncy Valley

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 427

 

1962-64           Laurelton (ending 2/1/64)

1964-68           Picture Rocks (beginning 2/1/64)

1968-74           Port Royal    

 

Note: Robert J. Plant is the son of John J. Plant and an uncle to Matthew D. Plant of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. 

 

PLYLER, LORENZO PIERCE

 

Born: 4-6-1914  Mayburg PA                                    married: Elizabeth Harris

Died: 11-9-2005                                                          obit: North Carolina Conference 1987, 221

 

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh NC

Obit:

 

1948-50           Benezette-Penfield

1950-54           Fairview

1954-61           at school

1961                transfer to New England Conference

1961-67           ?

1967-83           faculty, Methodist College in Fayetteville NC

 

Note: In 2003 Lorenzo P. Plyler was a retired member of the North Carolina Conference.  He appears to have been living in Alpharetta GA at the time of his death.

 

POLLOCK, GEORGE F.

 

Born: 9-29-1877  Troy NY                                         married: Edna L. Sharpe

Died: 8-16-1941  Tacoma WA                                   obit: Pacific Northwest Conference 1958, 623

 

1914    admitted on trial, Puget Sound Conference

 

Interment: (cremated)

Obit: Pacific Northwest Conference 1942, 420

 

1904-05           student, Syracuse University

1905-06           Clearville

1914-38           Puget Sound Conference

                             Bay View (at least 1914-15)

                             Custer

                             Blaine (at least 1919-20)

                             Everett Grace

                             Anacortes

                             Tacoma Asbury

                             Tacoma East Sixty-Fourth Street

                             Tacoma LeSourd

                             Tacoma Grace

                             Gig Harbor

                             Tacoma Wesley

                             Gig Harbor            

1938                retired

 

Note: George F. Pollock served Clearville as a local pastor.  It is unclear why he served in this area and what he did between 1906 and 1914, but perhaps he was a seminary student. 

 

POLSGROVE, JOHN BEAVER

 

Born: 10-22-1836  St. Thomas PA                             married: Amelia Devling

Died: 6-27-1918  Chattanooga TN                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 164

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 135

 

1859-60           Allegany

1860-61           Bellefonte circuit

1861-62           Newberry

1862-63           Warrior’s Mark

1863-64           Howard

1864-65           Bedford circuit

1865-66           Bloody Run

1866-68           Mifflin circuit

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Williamsport Third Street

1871-72           Newberry

1872-79           on leave

                             1873-75      assistant, Williamsport Mulberry Street

                             1875-78      assistant, Williamsport Third Street

                             1878-79      assistant, Williamsport Price Chapel

1879-82           Catawissa

1882-85           Philipsburg

1885-88           Milton

1888-91           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1891-95           Lewistown

1895-00           superintendent, Juniata District

1900-01           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1901-03           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1903-04           on leave

1904-15           field agent, American University

1915                retired

 

Note: An obituary for John B. Polsgrove also appears in the 7/18/1918 Christian Advocate, page

909.

 

POPE, CHARLES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1949-57           Conyngham

 

Note: Charles Pope served as local pastor.

 

POPPE, GENEVIEVE C.

 

Born: 2-19-1911  Chicago IL                                     married: [single]

Died: 2-20-1974                                                          obit:

 

1934    commissioned deaconess

 

Interment: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Jackson NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 440

 

1934-37           director, Hazleton PA Blodgett Community Center

…

1964-74           director, Harrisburg PA Neighborhood Center

 

 

PORTER, EDWARD A.

 

Born: 12-6-1861  Isle of Wight, England                   married: Jane Burrows Wilson

Died: 5-3-1953                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 225

 

1916    license

 

Interment: Geeseytown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 222

 

1916-17           Blackwell

1917-18           Leetonia

1918-20           Fort Loudon

1920-21           Concord

1921-22           Frankstown

1922-24           Cherry Tree

1924-25           Oriole & Antes Fort

1925-26           Glen Hope

1926-30           Alum Bank

1930-32           Dudley

1932                retired

                             1933-38      assistant, Martinsburg

 

Note: Edward Porter served as a local pastor.

 

PORTER, JAMES FRANKLIN

 

Born: 9-25-1833  Danville PA                                   married: Margaret A. Carr

Died: 7-11-1866                                                          obit: [7/9/1834 – 1/23/1903]

 

1853    quarterly conference license, Milton

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Milton Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1867, 47

 

1853-54           Clearfield circuit

1854-55           Covington

1855-56           Patuxent

1856-57           Summerfield

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Coalmont

1858-59           Montoursville

1859-61           Bloomingdale

1861-62           Berwick

1862-63           York Springs

1863-66           Shamokin & Trevorton

1866-67           Jeanesville

 

Note:  J. Franklin Porter is the preferred usage.  Patuxent is a short-lived appointment.  The Patuxent River, the longest river entirely within Maryland, begins west of Baltimore, flows between Baltimore and Washington, and empties into the Chesapeake Bay.

 

POSEY, HAROLD EUGENE

 

Born: 5-21-1933  Red Lion PA                                  married: Joan McCoy

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by Airville McKendree

1956    admitted on trial, recommended by Airville McKendree

1956    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-56           Barnitz  (ending 9/30/56)

1956-58           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ (beginning 10/1/1956)

                             1956-58  Silverton circuit

1958-64           York Duke Street (ending 10/31/1964)

1964-68           Harrisburg Trinity (beginning 11/1/1964)

1968-71           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1971                transfer to Kansas West Conference

1971-75           Wichita Urban Ministries

1975-81           Wichita Delrose

1981-84           Wichita Calvary

1984-86           Wichita College Hill

1986-89           Eldorado First

1989                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1989-92           Tyrone Wesley

1992-98           Chambersburg St. Paul

1998                retired

                             2007-08      Harrisburg St. Marks (beginning 2/15/2008)

 

Note: Harold E. Posey is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1044.

 

POSTEN, B. MONROE

 

Born:                                                                           married: Anna Maria Shipley

Died:                                                                           obit: [2/3/1866 – 1/5/1955]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895-96           Marsh Creek Baptist Church & Charleston Baptist Church, Tioga County PA

1907-10           Stoneboro PA Baptist Church

1910-               Kent Baptist Church & Fishkill Baptist Church, Farmers Mills NY

1915                Pottstown PA

1919-1920       Port Matilda (beginning 1/1/1919)

1921-23           Cassville

1923                Blandburg (ending 5/1923)

1924-25           Fulton, Philadelphia Conference

 

Note: B. Monroe Posten served within Methodism as a local pastor.  In a 1915 article he says he has been in the ministry 22 years in Pennsylvania and New York.  He appears to have been involved in agriculture and/or the milk industry.  Mrs. Monroe died as a widow and is buried in Riverview Burial Park, Lancater PA.

 

POTT, ROBERT R.

 

Born: 3-5-1838                                                            married:

Died: 3-31-1865  Petersburg VA                               obit:

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1862    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1866, 38

 

1860-61           Catawissa

1861-62           Orangeville

1862-63           Castle Fin

1863-64           Newport

1864-65           Penn’s Valley

1865-66           private, US Army

1866                killed at Petersburg VA

 

POULSON, OMER BRUCE

 

Born: 11-25-1881  near Barnesville OH                    married: Emily Ellen Britten

Died: 10-22-1979                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 384

 

1907    license, recommended by Everett Barndollar

1909    admitted on trial

1911    ordained deacon

1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 347

 

1909-11           Shawville (beginning 1/1/09)

1911-15           New Millport

1915-17           Wallaceton

1917-18           Altoona Broad Avenue

1918-25           conference evangelist

1925-36           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1936-38           secretary, Men’s Dry League

1938-47           conference evangelist

1947-48           approved evangelist

1948-50           superintendent, Harrisburg District of the Penna Temperance League

1950                retired

                        1953                Orangeville (5/1/53 – 9/1/53)

                        1953-55           Calvary, Harris (beginning 9/15/53)

                        1955-57           Salem (beginning 8/1/55)

                        1958-59           Shiremanstown Mt. Olivet (beginning 10/1/58)

                        1959-61           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

 

Note: Omer B. Poulson is the brother of C. Ross Poulson of the North-East Ohio Conference.  He is the author of several temperance and anti-gambling books on file at the conference archives.

 

POWELL, SAMUEL GROVER 

 

Born: 7-31-1920  Ashley PA                          married: Isabelle Nelson

Died: 8-13-1980  Washington DC                 obit: [4/6/1920 – 12/10/1992]

 

1939    license, recommended by Rupert

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by Picture Rocks

1948    ordained deacon

1950    ordained elder

 

Interment: Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort SC

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 337

 

1946-48           Picture Rocks

1948-50           Kulpmont

1950-52           Avis

1952-54           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1954-80           chaplain, US Air Force

1980                retired

 

Note: S. Grover Powell is the grandson of Daniel M. Grover and the father of Air Force Chaplain Daniel Nelson Powell of the Western North Caroilina Conference.  One source states he is buried in Andersonville GA.

 

POYER, JOSEPH THOMAS

 

Born: 12-23-1826  Sunbury PA                                  married: Coral Leggett

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1896    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1901-02           Cameron

1902-04           McElhatten & Pine

1904                no longer listed

 

Note:  His first name is sometimes given as JAMES.  Some biographical information on Joseph T. Poyer appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, pages 26 and 40.

 

PREUSS, FRED ARTHUR JR.

 

Born: 8-16-1942  McKeesport PA                                         married: Laura _____

Died: 10-12-2012  Cape Coral FL                                          obit: [1947 - ]

 

1960    license

1965    admitted on trial

1965    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers FL

Obit:

 

1962-64           associate, Picture Rocks.

1964-67           Wesley Theological Seminary

                             1965-67      Mt. Savage

1967                transfer to Western PA Conference

1967-69           associate, McKeesport First

1969-74           Erie Tenth Street

1974-76           Erie Kingsley

1976-80           Dayton-Smicksburg

1980-97           social worker, Florida Sheriff’s Youth Ranches

1997-00           involuntary leave of absence, living in Florida

2000                retired

 

PRICE, ARTHUR AUSTIN

 

Born: 5-16-1889  Shade Gap PA                                married: Lettie Mae Yeager

Died: 4-18-1967  Shade Gap PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 240

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Ada Mae Sparr

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Shawville    obit2:

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 313

 

1913-14           Vira (5 months)

1914-16           Pine Grove Mills

1916-19           Concord

1919-20           Waterville

1920-21           Shawville

1921-23           Clearfield circuit

1923-26           Howard

1926-28           Snow Shoe

1928-31           Port Royal

1931-37           McConnellsburg

1937-38           Picture Rocks

1938-42           Duncannon

1942-45           Orbisonia

1945-50           Houtzdale

1950-51           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1951-55           Robertsdale

1955                retired

 

 

 

PRICE, JOB ASBURY

 

Born: 11-19-1832  Potter’s Mills PA                         married: Katharine Andrews

Died: 1-31-1910  Washington DC                             obit: [6/27/1831 – 11/3/1916]

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1857    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1859    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1910, 70

 

1854-55           Newport circuit

1855-56           Castle Fin

1856-57           Concord

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Mifflin

1858-60           White Haven

1860-62           Northumberland

1862-64           Mechanicsburg station

1864-67           Huntingdon

1867-68           Bloomsburg

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Baltimore Exeter Street

1870-71           Broadway

1871-74           Frederick

1874-76           Union Square

1876-78           Whatcoat

1878-84           superintendent, West Baltimore District

1884-87           Hamline

1887-90           Waugh

1890-93           Ryland

1893-96           Jefferson Street

1896-00           Martinsburg

1900-02           Westminster

1902-04           Canton Street

1904                retired

 

 

PRICE, JOSEPH HILYED

 

Born: 6-4-1865  Philadelphia PA                               married: Minnie Louise Bautz

Died: 1-20-1953  Reading PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 199

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Angie Belle Nickerson

1887    local preacher’s license                                   obit2:

1892    admitted on trial

1892    ordained deacon

1896    ordained elder

 

Interment: Laureldale Cemetery, Tuckerton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 223

 

1891                Atglen & Mt. Pleasant, Philadelphia Conference (5 months)

1891-92           Pine Grove Furnace (beginning Oct)

1892-93           Newville cir.

1893-96           Greencastle

1896-97           Duncansville

1897-99           Picture Rocks

1899-01           Williamsport High Street

1901-03           Mt. Holly Springs

1903-06           Wrightsville

1906-10           Roaring Springs

1910-11           Curwensville

1911-14           Lewistown

1914-19           Carlisle

1919-24           Huntingdon First

1924-28           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1928-31           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1931                retired

 

PRICE, ROBERT D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

?          license, Central New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           Peterboro & Pratts Hollow (beginning in mid-year)

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Ulster

 

Note: Robert D. Price served as local pastor.

 

 

PRICE, SAMUEL WESLEY

 

Born: 12-19-1833  Mifflin County PA                       married: Mary E. _____

Died: 1-8-1866  Williamsport PA                              obit: [1824 – 2/11/1882]

                                                                                    married2: Mary _____                                                                                                                        obit2: [1848-1887]

1853    quarterly conference license, McVeytown charge

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: family burying ground, McVeytown PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1866, 40

 

1853-54           York Springs

1854-55           Carlisle circuit

1855-56           Coalmont

1856-57           Newville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Green Village

1858-60           Hampstead

1860-62           Jersey Shore station

1862-63           Espy & Light Street

1863-65           Baltimore Strawbridge

1865-66           Williamsport Pine Street

 

Note: S. Wesley Price is the father of Alice Price Rogerson, wife of Frederick Rogerson.  Some records state he is buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA.  The information on his spouse(s) comes from find-a-grave records and may not be accurate.

 

PRICE, WILLIAM L.

 

Born: 1-29-1915  Shamokin PA                                 married: Bertha Kaseman

Died: 1-9-2002  Danville PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 426

 

1940    license, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1950    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Scott Cemetery, Waterton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 369

 

1943-47           Helfenstein (beginning 11/15/43 and ending 9/1/47)

1947-85           Town Hill (beginning 9/1/47)

1985                retired

 

PRINCE, LEON CUSHING

 

Born: 5-15-1875  Concord NH                                   married: Julia Cecilia Delavan

Died: 1-31-1937  Carlisle PA                                     obit: [1887-1981]

 

1900    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

           

Interment: Westminster Memorial Gardens. Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

1900-01           faculty, Dickinson College

1901                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           faculty, Dickinson College

1902                discontinued at own request

1902-37           faculty, Dickinson College

                            1928-36       Pennsylvania State Senate

 

Note: Leon C. Prince is the son of Morris Watson Prince (1843-1932) of the New York East Conference and the grandson of Ammi Cushing Prince (1818-1894) of the East Maine Conference.   He is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism, page 176.  He was a noted orator and the author of several books.  The conference archives has a biographical sketch on file.

 

PRINTER, J. GUY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        reportedly Sioux City IA Church of the Nazarine

1914-15           superintendent, Southeastern District [GA & FL] of the Church of the Nazarene

1915-16           Jasper AL Church of the Nazarene

1916-17           living in Davenport FL, associated with Baptist Church

1917                Riverview Baptist, New Eagle PA

                        reportedly Beallsville PA Methodist Episcopal

1922-25           Washingtonville circuit, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

 

Note: J. Guy Printer served as a local pastor.  His picture is available on website of the Jasper AL Church of the Nazarene.

 

 

PRUYN, HAROLD ANDREW

 

Born: 7-5-1901  Sidney NY                                       married: Willie Ruth

Died: 7-13-1961                                                          obit: [8/7/1906 – 3/8/2001]

 

1929    admitted on trial

1931    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh NC

Obit: Western North Carolina Conference 1962, 268

 

1924-27           Allegheny circuit

1927-29           Trout Run

1929-30           Riddlesburg

1930-34           Penn’s Valley

1934-38           Morrisdale-Munson

1939-41           Altoona Fairview

1941-44           chaplain, US Army

1944-51           special services, USO and YMCA 

1951-52           with appointment to attend school

1952                transfer to Western North Carolina Conference 9/24/1952

1952-58           Tryon

1958-61           Winston-Salem Marvin

 

Note: Harold A. Pruyn appears to be based in Portsmouth VA 1944-49 and in Rantoul IL 1949-51.  His assignment included overseas work with the British YMCA.

 

PURCELL, FRANCIS EDWIN

 

Born: 6-2-1872  England                                            married: Elizabeth Middleton

Died: 11-29-1943  Trenton NJ                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 141

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Alexandria

 

Interment: Ewing Cemetery, Ewing NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1944, 136

 

1894-96           Alexandria

1896-97           Shirleysburg

1897-99           Concord

1899-01           Wolfsburg

1901                transfer to New Jersey Conference

 

PURSEL, GLENN WESLEY

 

Born: 3-20-1934  Berwick PA                                    married: Ann Marie Dunn

Died: 3-2-2002  Berwick PA                                      obit:

 

1959    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Greater New Jersey Conference 2002, ?

 

1957-60           Robertsdale

1960-64           at school

1964-66           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1966                transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference

 

PURSEL, ROBERT HOWARD

 

Born: 12-8-1941  Bloomsburg PA                             married: Janice Maria Ann Lew [7/28/1984]

Died: 11-23-2009  Bloomsburg PA                            obit: [5/18/1957 – 7/9/2017]

 

1961    quarterly conference license, Bloomsburg

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-63           student, Bloomsburg State College

1963-66           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1966-70           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1970                transfer [by boundary change] to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1970                withdrew

                        joined the ministry of the Episcopal Church

1995-2009       Selinsgrove All Saints

2009                retired

 

Note: Robert H. Pursel is a 1969 graduate of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in NYC.  Mrs. Pursel is buried in the Millville PA Cemetery.

 

PURVIS, SAMUEL WARRINGTON

 

Born: 11-21-1867  New York City NY                      married: Martha G. Hammond

Died: 11-23-1941                                                        obit: Philadelphia Conference 1950, 792

 

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1897    admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Emanuel Cemetery, Lewisberry PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1942, 456

 

1893-97           student, Dickinson College

                             1896-97  Lewisberry (ending fall 1897)

1897-99           Williamsville NJ

1899-01           Lancaster NY

1901-03           Gowanda NY

1903-04           Albion NY

1904                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1904-08           Clifton Heights

1908-11           Columbia Cookman

1911-14           Sharon Hill

1914-31           Philadelphia Thirteenth Street

1931-32           leave of absence

1932-33           Brookline

1933                retired

 

Note: Samuel W. Purvis was the author of the “Saturday Sermon” in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin for more than 24 years.   

 

PYLES, EDWIN ARTHUR

 

Born: 12-26-1868  Waterloo PA                                married: Elizabeth Sylvania Martin

Died: 11-4-1932  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 242

 

1893    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1894    ordained deacon, recommended by Jamestown

 

Interment: Enola Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 190

 

1893-94           Jamestown

1894-96           West Fairview

1896-99           Camp Hill-Salem

1899-00           Port Royal

1900-03           York Epworth

1903-06           Mechanicsburg

1906-09           Bellwood

1909-15           Williamsport Pine Street

1915-20           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1920-25           superintendent, Williamsport District

1925-28           Bloomsburg

1928                retired

  

QUILLIAN, WILLIAM FLETCHER JR

 

Born: 4-13-1913  Nashville TN                                  married: Margaret Hannah Weigle (1940)

Died: 3-4-2014  Lynchburg VA                                 obit: [8/24/1916 – 5/4/2016]

 

1942    admitted on trial (Central Pennsylvania Conference)

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1931-35           student, Emory University in Atlanta GA

1935-38           Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

1938-41

1941-45           faculty, Gettysburg College (beginning 9/41)

1945                transfer to Ohio Conference

1945-52           faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University

1952                transfer to Virginia Conference

1952-78           president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

1978                retired

 

Note: William F. Quillian is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1063.  He is descended from a line of like-named Methodist pastors.  He is the son of William Fletcher Quillian (1880-1960) of the South Georgia Conference, and the grandson of William Fletcher Quillian (1843-1905) of the North Georgia Conference.  The Quillian family produced over a dozen Methodist ministers, many of them quite prominent, starting with our William F. Quillian’s great-great grandfather James Quillian (1793-1869) of the North Georgia Conference.  Mrs. Quillian is the daughter noted scholar and dean of Yale Divinity School Rev. Dr. Luther Allen Weigle (1880-1976)

And the granddaughter of Rev. Elias Daniel Weigle (1848-1943) of the Lutheran Church.

 

QUIMBY, CHESTER WARREN

 

Born: 6-17-1891  Tilton NH                                       married: Nellie Lowrie Earles

Died: 4-19-1972  Gulfport MS                                   obit: [1/31/1894 – 10/1/1951]

 

1917    ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference

1921    admitted on trial, North West Kansas Conference

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro KY

Obit: North Mississippi Conference 1972, 180

 

1918-20           faculty, Fargo College

1920-23           faculty, Kansas Wesleyan University

1923-27           [pastorates in NJ and NY]

1927                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1927-35           faculty, Dickinson College

1935-36           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1936-38           Burnham

1938-40           Saxton

1940-45           Mifflinburg

1945-46           Danville St. Paul’s

1946-48           faculty, Ohio Wesleyan University

1948-51           faculty, Cornell College in Mt. Vernon IA

1951                transfer to Louisville Conference

 

Note: Chester W. Quimby is listed in the 1952 Who’s Who in Methodism, page 549.  He is the grandson of the prominent Silas Everard Quimby (1837-1913) of the New Hampshire Conference.  He is the author of many books, several of which are on file in the conference archives.

 

QUIMBY, KARL KLINE

 

Born: 11-26-1887  Pottersville NJ                              married: Lillian Marten

Died: 8-18-1982  Atlanta GA                                     obit: Newark Conference 1964, 183

                                                                                    married2: Modena Maude McPherson

                                                                                    obit2: [10/15/1911 – 3/7/2001]

 

1914    admitted on trial, Northern New Jersey Conference

1914    ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference

1916    ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Rosedale Cemetery, Montclair NJ

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1983, 382

 

1909-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1909-11  Greencastle, Central Pennsylvania Conference (ending fall 1911)

1911-14           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1914-16           West Orange

1916-20           Irvington

1920-26           Roseville

1926-36           Ridgewood (ending 10/36)

1936-41           superintendent, Jersey City District (10/36 – 2/41)

1941-58           executive secretary, Methodist Missionary Board (beginning 2/41)

1958                retired

                             1958-62  staff, American Bible Society

 

Note:  Karl K. Quimby is the author of several books and articles.  He organized Religion in American Life (RIAL) in 1949 and Goodwill Industries.  The second Mrs. Quimby was the widow of a Mr. Edward Daniel Rudisell (1904-1963) and Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt (1886-1967).

 

RAFFENSPERGER, DONALD WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married: Constance _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    license, recommended by New Bloomfield Keboch

1973    admitted on trial

1973    ordained deacon

1977    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-72           Orangeville

1972-76           New Oxford-Salem

1976-86           Elizabethville-Loyalton (ending 9/15/86)

1986-87           director, Red Bird Mission (beginning 9/15/86 and ending 11/1/87)

1987-89           leave of absence (beginning 11/1/87 and ending 9/5/89)

1989-93           Everett (beginning 9/5/89)

1993-97           Sugar Creek

1997-00           Pine Grove – McAllisterville

2000                retired

 

 

RAHTJEN, DONALD FELLOWS

 

Born: 11-19-1904  Dunton NY                                  married: Anne Elizabeth Miller

Died: 12-23-1973                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 413

 

1956    license, Central New York Conference: recommended by Rochester Asbury [First]

1962    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Park Cemetery, Canton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 429

 

1956-59           Churchville

1959-62           Bergen

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-66           Canton

1966                retired

 

Note: Donald F. Rahtjen is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1065.  He taught high school for 29 years before entering the ministry.  Donald F. Rahtjen is the father of Bruce D. Rahtjen of the Kansas Conference [and, later, an Episcopal priest].

 

RALL, WILLIAM E.

 

Born: 4-19-1919  McElhattan PA                              married: Mary Elizabeth Bubb

Died: 2-3-2008                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 290

 

1967    license, recommended by Antes Fort

1970    ordained deacon

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Lock Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 421

 

1966-69           McElhattan (beginning 5/1/66 and ending 12/31/69)

1970-77           Bigler-Shiloh (beginning 1/1/70)

1977-84           Pennsdale

1984                retired

                             1984-86      associate, Picture Rocks Parish

 

RAMBO, HOMER ROBERT

 

Born: 9-5-1927  Monaco PA                                      married: Gloreine E. Myers

Died: 1-2-1970  Woodland PA                                   obit: [1926 – 2014]

 

1962    license

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Monaca PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 384

 

1962-65           New Millport

1965-70           Woodland

 

Note: H. Robert Rambo served as a local pastor.

 

RAMP, CHARLES HENRY

 

Born: 1-13-1917  Newport PA                                   married: Reba E. Scaife

Died: 6-2-1987  Wilkes-Barre PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 482

 

1936    license, recommended by Newport

1949    ordained deacon

1952    admitted on trial

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 419

 

1938-39           Wallis Run 

1939-40           Trout Run  

1940-45           Pine Grove Mills (ending 6/23/41)

1941-45

1945-48           Waterville  

1948-52           Snow Shoe  

1952-53           Mercersburg

1953-57           Duncannon

1957-59           Avis

1959-60           Shickshinny

1960                transfer to the Central New York Conference

1960-62           Blossburg

1962                transfer to the Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1962-65           Blossburg

1965-68           Huntingdon Fisfteenth Street

1968-70           Harrisburg Trinity

1970-82           disability leave

1982                retired

 

Note: Charles H. Ramp is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1066.

 

RANDALL, MARCUS WAYNE

 

Born: 6-17-1913  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Hazel Arminta Huffman

Died: 4-8-1973  Berwick PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 375

 

1935    license, recommended by Jersey Shore Epworth

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

           

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 379

 

1936-38           Trout Run  (beginning 10/36)

1938-39           Salona-Lamar  

1939-41           Hustontown 

1941-45           Fort Loudon  

1945-50           Pleasant Gap

1950-52           York Ridge Avenue

1952-56           Snow Shoe

1956-62           Hughesville

1962-66           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1966-73           Berwick First

 

Note: Marcus W. Randall is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1068.

 

 

RAYCROFT, ELJOSEPH ROBERT

 

Born: 1-18-1897  Chicago IL                                     married: Lillian Evelyn Wilson

Died: 5-?-1977                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 391

 

1940    license, Erie Conference of the Baptists Church

1944    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 348

 

1940-41           Emerickville, Erie Conference (9/1/40 – 9/15/41)

1941-43           Grampian-Lumber City (beginning 10/15/41)

1943-44           Rouzerville 

1944-46           Dudley

1946-50           Morrisdale-Munson

1950-51           Elysburg

1951-55           Milesburg

1955-58           Doylesburg

1958-60           Milroy

1960-62           Coalport

1962-65           Salladasburg

1965-66           Enola

1966-69           North Towanda

1969                retired

                            1969-70       Clearfield circuit

                            1970-72       Dushore and Laporte

                            1972-77       Morgan Run

 

Note: E.R. Raycroft is the father of Robert P. Raycroft and Lillian G. Raycroft Haddan, wife of Assembly of God pastor David L. Haddan.

 

 

RAYCROFT, ROBERT PAUL

 

Born: 10-2-1928                                                          married: Mary Lou Seidel [1952]

Died: 6-27-2007                                                          obit: [5/5/1931 – 8/11/2018]

 

1947    license, recommended by Dudley

1952    admitted on trial, ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Broad Top IOOF Cemetery, Broad Top City PA

Obit:

 

1946-50           Shawville

1950-52           Vira

1952-60           Harveyville

1960-65           Millville

1965-67           Fairview, Altoona

1967-67           Robertsdale

1967-68           sabbatical leave

1968- 83          Robertsdale

1983                withdrew to join another denomination, page 327

 

Note: Robert P. Raycroft is the son of E.R. Raycroft.  He is given as the officiating clergyman in several Huntingdon area funerals up to about 2004, but he is not given as associated with any specific church.  He appears to be a co-founder, along with a James Runyen, of Paraclete Ministries in Robertsdale.

 

 

RAYNER, ERNEST ADOLPHUS

 

Born: 7-18-1878  Chillicothe MO                              married: Klara A. Bruske [9/17/1904]

Died: 7-19-1950  Los Angeles County CA                obit: [11/28/1977 – 6/24/1975]

 

1901    license, Upper Iowa Conference

1905    admitted on trial, recommended by Sunbury

1905    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena CA

Obit:

 

1905-06           Selinsgrove

1906-07           not listed

1907                transfer to Philippine Islands Conference

1907-12           Lingrayen, Pangasianan

1912-14           superintendent, Manila District

1914                transfer to Blue Ridge-Atlantic Conference

1914-16           ?

1916                transfer to Nebraska Conference

1916-19           faculty, Nebraska Wesleyan University

1919                transfer to Philippine Islands Conference

1919-24           president, Union [Nicholson] Seminary in Manila

1924-25           furlough, living in Los Angelos

 

Note: The given name is sometimes rendered EARNEST.  A biographical sketch of Ernest A. Rayner appears on page 341 of the 1926 Drew Alumni Record.  He graduated from Cornell College [Mount Vernon, IA] in 1901, and from Drew Theological Seminary in 1904.  In 1915 he received one of the first two Doctor of Theology degrees granted by Drew.  The Blue Ridge-Atlantic Conference was an ME [i.e., not MES] conference in western North Carolina 1912-1939.  Presumably Ernest A. Rayner taught in one of the conference’s educational institutions.  Ernest A. Rayner is the father of Rev. Ernest A. Rayner of the Grafton, Australia, congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.  Some biographical information on Ernest A. Rayner appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 55.  Some sources give the birth date as 7-15-1878.

 

REAMS, DAVID BRYON

 

Born: 6-13-1927  Philipsburg PA                               married: Alice Beatrice Kline

Died: 6-2-2003                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 290

 

1951    license, recommended by Philipsburg Trinity

1957    admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1959    ordained elder

 

Interment: Asbury Church Cemetery, Harrisonville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 376

 

1950-55           Woodland (ending 9/10/55)

1955-58           Harrisonville (beginning 9/10/55 and ending 12/1/58)

1958-59           Orbisonia (beginning 12/1/58)

1959-63           Martinsburg

1963-68           Duncannon

1968-74           Nescopeck Wesley

1974-81           Mount Union First

1981-93           McConnellsburg

1993-97           Harrisonville

1997                retired

                             1997-00      Robertsdale

 

REDMOND, CLARKE JOB

 

Born: 7-5-1923  Swansea SC                                     married: Permelia F. Garthoff

Died: 3-31-2005                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 413

                                                                                    married2: Margie Ellen Armbrester

                                                                                    obit2: [3/15/1924 – 11/2/2008]

1942    license, recommended by Spartanburg SC Saxon     

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by Claysburg

1948    ordained deacon

1950    ordained elder

 

Interment: Redmond Cemetery, Swansea SC

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 454

 

1946-49           Claysburg

1949-54           Coalport Parish

1954-59           Altoona Fifty-Eight Street

1959-62           Thompsontown

1962-68           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1968-79           Bedford

1979-82           Canton

1982-84           Clearfield Parish (ending 2/1/84)

1984-88           disability leave (beginning 2/1/84)

1988                retired

 

Note: Clarke J. Redmond is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1075.

 

REED, C. RICHARD

 

Born: 1-1-1916                                                            married: N. Elaine Lankerd

Died: 4-29-1989                                                          obit: [1918 – 1983]

 

Interment: Morningside Cemetery, Dubois PA

Obit:

 

1947-48           James Creek (beginning 7/1/47)

 

Note: C. Richard Reed served as a local pastor.  Nothing else is known about him.  It has not been verified that the C. Richard Reed whose personal data is given above is the C. Richard Reed that served at James Creek.

 

REED, CLAY MUNSON

 

Born: 5-26-1904  Lycoming County PA                    married: Barbara Catharine Nunn (6/7/1927)

Died: 10-12-1983  Lycoming County PA                  obit: [1905 – 4/28/1971]

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit:

 

1946-61           Eagles Mere (ending 12/1/61)

 

Note: Clay M. Reed served as a local pastor.  He appears to have had credentials in the Presbyterian Church and also served Baptist and Community congregations in the Muncy and Moreland areas (at the same time he was supplying the Methodist-Federated congregation at Eagles Mere).

 

REED, GEORGE EDWARD

 

Born: 3-28-1846  Brownsville ME                             married: Ella Frances Leffingwell

Died: 2-7-1930  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: [12/31/1850 – 8/27/1922]

 

1870    license, Providence Conference

 

Interment: Old Graveyard, Carlisle PA

Obit: Wilmington Conference 1930, 171

 

1870-71           Willimantic CT

…

1889-1911       president, Dickinson College

 

Note: While George Edward Reed was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, he is listed because he served within the bounds of the conference as the president of Dickinson College.

 

REED, WILLIAM HIRST

 

Born: 9-14-1840  PA                                                  married: Elizabeth M. _____

Died: 4-27-1907                                                          obit: [4/4/1844 – 12/18/1937]

 

1866   admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1868   ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference
1870   ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Linganore Cemetery, Unionville MD

Obit:

 

1866-67           Allegany

1867-68           Frostburg

1868-70           Watersville [Mt. Airy]

1870-72           Buckeystown

1872-73           Hedgesvillw WV

1873-76           Frostburg

1876-77           Cumberland Kingsley

1877-78           Baltimore Parlett

1878-80           Baltimore Monroe Street

1880-82           Baltimore Hanover Street

1882-83           Washington DC North Capitol & Memorial

1883-86           Washington DC Anacostia

1886-94           Baltimore Hanover Street

1894                 retired
                            1895-97       Altoona Epworth Mission [Broad Avenue], Central Pennsylvania Conference

1898                located

 

Note: William Hirst Reed was originally from Lewistown, Mifflin County PA.  Apparently named for William Hirst (1815-1862) of the Baltimore Conference, he served as a colonel in the Civil War and entered the ministry after the War.  The March 1896 Central Pennsylvania Conference journal, page 63 states, "In the early part of the summer the Rev. W. Hirst Reed, a supernumerary member of the Baltimore Conference, not withstanding his impaired health, took charge of the Epworth Mission, in the western part of Altoona."  He appears to have retired to Altoona to care for his widowed mother.  Some sources give this name as WILLIAM HURST REED.

 

REED, WILLIAM IRELAN

 

Born: 3-6-1874  Pleasantville NJ                               married: Elizabeth Greenawalt

Died: 9-15-1947  Fair Haven NJ                                obit: Newark Conference 1956, 150

1902    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

 

Interment: Fair View Cemetery, Red Bank NJ

Obit: Newark Conference 1948, 134

 

1897-01           student, Dickinson College

                             1899-00      Rehobeth & Boiling Springs

1902-04           Camden St. George’s

1904-05           student, New York University in New York City NY

1905                transfer to New York East Conference

1905-06           Bantam CT

1906-07           Brooklyn Prospect Avenue

1907-08           Union Port

1908-09           Oceanside

1909                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1909-12           Shenandoah

1912-13           Columbia First

1913-14           Conshohocken

1914                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1914-16           Long Branch

1916-18           Staten Island St. Paul’s

1918-20           YMCA war work

1920-21           New York Anti-Saloon League

1921-26           director, Near East Relief

1926-29           Mountain View

1929-33           Springfield

1933-35           Dunellen

1935-37           Frenchtown & Kingwood

1937-39           Stanhope & Waterloo

1939-43           Fair Haven

1943                retired

 

Note: The birthdate for Mrs. Reed, not given in her obituary, is 10/21/1887.

 

 

REEDER, WILSON WILLIAM

 

Born: 6-5-1893  Huntersville PA                               married: Ethel Beatrice Taylor

Died: 2-23-1933  Cresson PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 413

 

1920    admitted on trial

           

Interment: Eagles Mere Cemetery, Eagles Mere PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 191

 

1916-18           Trout Run

1918-20           Morris 

1920-22           Half Moon

1922-24           assistant, Dudley

1924-26           Dudley

1926-27           Austin

1927                retired

 

REEGER, KENNETH

 

Born: 10-18-1915  Coalport PA                                 married: Nettie Marie Rowles

Died: 1-1-72  Clearfield PA                                       obit: [1925 – 1983]

 

Interment: Bloomington Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: Clearfield Progress, 1/3/1972

 

1963-65           associate, New Millport

 

Note: Kenneth Reeger served as a local pastor and was a member of Clearfield Trinity UMC.  


 

REES, GEORGE E.

 

Born: 11-14-1915  Nanticoke PA                               married: Doris Myers

Died: 1-16-2000  Towanda PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 173

 

1961    license

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Nanticoke Cemetery, Nanticoke PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 353; Wyoming Conference 2000, 316

 

1961-62           Talmar circuit (ending 12/1/62)

1962-67           Shawville (beginning 12/1/62)

1967-69           Centralia

1969-72           North Towanda

1972-75           Milroy

1975-79           Almedia-Espy

1979-81           Middlebury Parish

1981                retired             

                             1983-84      Litchfield, Wyoming Conference

                             1986-89      Damascus, Wyoming Conference

                             1990-92      Hornbrook, Wyoming Conference

 

 

REESE, AQUILA ASBURY

 

Born: 12-30-1812  Baltimore MD                              married: Anna Burnett (3/26/1835)

Died: 3-7-1878                                                            obit: [1815 – 2/5/1892]

 

1833    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1879, 45

 

1833-34           Fairfax

1834-35           Stafford

1855-56           Christiansburg

1836-37           Rock Creek

1837-38           on leave

                             Whatcoat

1838-39           Harford

1839-41           Great Falls

1841-43           Frederick station

1843-45           Boonsboro

1845-47           Patapsco station

1847-49           Baltimore Fayette Street

1849-50           Baltimore City station

1850-54           superintendent, Rockingham District

1854-58           superintendent, Carlisle District

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           superintendent, Carlisle District

1858-59           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1859-61           Baltimore Exeter Street

1861-63           East Baltimore

1863-77           chaplain, US Army

 

Note: Aquila Asbury Reese is the brother of Philip B. Reese and Thomas M. Reese, and the son of John Lee Reese, a prominent local preacher of the Baltimore Conference for over 40 years.

 

REESE, PHILIP B.

 

Born: 9-30-1811  Harford County MD                      married: Mrs. Ellen R. (Clark) Fish (1844)

Died: 2-7-1880  Darlington MD                                 obit: [1810 – 6/14/1867]

 

1839    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1880, 41

 

1839-41           Chickamuxena mission

1841-42           Floyd

1842-43           Covington

1843-44           East Baltimore station

1844-45           North Baltimore

1845-46           Lock Haven

1846-47           Northumberland

1847-49           Danville station

1849-51           Berwick

1851-53           Milton

1853-54           Jersey Shore

1854-56           East Harford

1856-57           Great Falls

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Great Falls

1858-60           Chambersburg station

1860-61           Mifflin

1861-63           Emmitsburg

1863-65           Baltimore Whatcoat

1865-68           on leave

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Mt. Vernon

1869-71           East Baltimore circuit

1871-72           Wesleyan Home Mission

1872-73           Patterson Chapel

1873-74           Harper’s Ferry

1874-77           Lonaconing

1877-78           Catonsville and Mt. Olivet

1878-79           Fort Avenue

1879-80           Harford

a The Chickamuxen creek in southern of Maryland flows into the Potomac River south of Washington DC.  The appointment was short-lived in the Baltimore Conference, but an enduring M.E. South congregation exists there today.

 

Note:  Philip B. Reese is the brother of Aquila Asbury Reese and Thomas M. Reese, and the son of John Lee Reese, a prominent local preacher of the Baltimore Conference for over 40 years.  Mrs. Reese (nee Clark) was the widow of a Mr. Roswell Phelps Fish (1798-1837).

 

 

REESE, THOMAS McCLEARY

 

Born: 7-18-1820  Baltimore MD                                married: Elizabeth Ann Parrish

Died: 3-27-1882  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 119

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 74

 

1842-43           Milton circuit

1843-45           Gettysburg

1845-46           Shippensburg

1846-47           West River

1847-49           Washington DC McKendree Chapel.

1849-51           Staunton VA

1851-53           East Baltimore

1853-55           Baltimore Fayette Street

1855-57           Danville

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Frederick City

1859-60           Lewisburg

1860-64           superintendent, Northumberland District

1864-66           Espy-Light St.

1866-69           Williamsport Pine Street

1869                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1869-72           Wilkes-Barre

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73           Chambersburg First [St. Paul’s]

1873-77           superintendent, Altoona District

1877-80           Shamokin

1880-81           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1881-82           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1882                on leave

 

Note: Thomas M. Reese is the brother of Aquila A. Reese and Philip B. Reese, and son of prominent local preacher John Lee Reese, all of the Baltimore Conference, and the father of William W. Reese.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 440.  An obituary is also given in the 4/1/1882 Conference News, front page.  It is unclear whether Thomas M. Reese was actually a member of the Wyoming Conference, or whether he should be considered an 1868 charter member and continuous member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

 

REESE, WILLIAM WALTER

 

Born: 1846  West River MD                                      married: Annie L. Lauderbaugh

Died: 5-10-1924  Camp Hill PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 199

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1870    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 156

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Elysburg

1869-70           Half Moon

1870-72           Hickory Run

1872-73           Mercersburg

1873-74           Muhlenberg

1874-75           Birmingham

1875-76           Osceola

1876-77           Port Matilda

1877-78           Duncansville

1878-81           McConnellsburg

1881-82           Newville-Rehoboth

1882-83           Mt. Carmel

1883-85           Milesburg-Unionville

1885-86           Grahamton

1886-87           Woodland-Bradford

1887-90           Martinsburg

1890-92           Watsontown

1892-95           Salona

1895-98           Salladasburg

1898-00           Ray’s Hill

1900-03           Ramey

1903-05           Dudley

1905-09           McVeytown

1909-11           Hopewell

1911-12           Orbisonia

1912                retired

 

Note: William W. Reese is the son of Thomas M. Reese.  An obituary also appears in the 5/29/1924 Washington Christian Advocate.

 

REESER, ISAIAH JACOB

 

Born: 4-28-1858  Northumberland County PA          married: Effie Naomi McCracken

Died: 4-1-1914                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 119

                                                                                    married2: Minnie C. Showalter

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 202

1889    admitted on trial, recommended by Jamestown charge

 

Interment: Salona Cemetery, Salona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 115

 

1888-89           Jamestown

1889-91           Clarkstown

1891-93           Mill Hall

1893-96           Benezette

1896-99           Liberty Valley

1899-04           Cogan Valley

1904-07           Salona-Lamar

1907-12           Cassville

1912-13           retired

1913-14           Dudley

1914                retired

 

Note: in some early records Isaiah Jacob Reeser is erroneously referred to as J.T. Reeser or J.J. Reeser.

 

 

REID, BURGESS GEORGE WASHINGTON.

 

Born: 1-31-1830  Montgomery County MD              married: Margaret “Maggie” Morrison

Died: 9-6-1909                                                            obit: [d. 1878]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Isabella Pennington

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [d. 5/15/1918]

1858    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1860    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1910, 73

 

1856-57           Hancock

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Frederick

1858-59           Boonsboro

1859-60           Frostburg

1860-61           Rainsburg

1861-62           Allegany

1863-64           Liberty

1864-67           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1867-68           Bedford

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Bedford

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-71           Winchester

1871-74           Baltimore Hanover Street

1874-77           Hagerstown

1877-79           Washington DC Fourth Street

1879-82           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1882-85           Baltimore Caroline Street

1885-86           Reisterstown

1886-89           East Harford

1889-93           Baltimore Emory

1893-94           on leave

1894-98           North Avenue

1898-00           North Capitol

1900                retired

 

REIDELL, GEORGE BLAINE McCLELLAN

 

Born: 9-?-1884  Dauphin County PA                         married: Katherine Irene Demmy (6/5/1905)

Died: 11-13-1952                                                        obit: [10/10/1887 – 6/4/1989]

 

?          credentials, Church of God

 

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1909                Meadow Gap Church of God

…                    …

1915-16           Hustontown, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME

1916                received in Central Pennsylvania Conference on Credentials from Church of God

1916-18           Hustontown

1918-19           Blandsburg

1919-22           East Waterford

1922-25           Woodland-Bradford

1925-28           Salladasburg

1928-29           Glen Campbell

1929                removed, charges of insubordination and dishonesty being sustained

 

 

REILEY, ASBURY ROBERTS

 

Born: 4-9-1829  Libertytown MD                              married: Julia Ann Lowe (12/27/1855)

Died: 1-12-1908  Cumberland MD                            obit: [1/?/1830 – 1914]

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
1855    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1857    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1908, 68

 

1852-53           Highland circuit

1853-54           Castle Fin

1854-55           East Harford

1855-56           Shrewsbury

1856-57           Coalmont

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Portage

1858-59           Shippen [Emporium]

1859-60           Clinton

1860-62           Bloomsburg

1862-64           Northumberland

1864-66           Baltimore Emory

1866-68           Baltimore Caroline Street

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Caroline Street

1869-72           Cumberland Centre Street

1872-83           Martinsburg WV

1873                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1873-75           Pittsburgh Liberty Street

1875                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1875-77           Parkersburg

1877-79           Wheeling Thompson

1879                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1879-81           Bentley Springs

1881-84           Highland Avenue

1884-86           Long Green

1886-89           Baltimore Caroline Street

1889-91           Washington DC Grace

1891-92           Piedmont WV

1892-97           Towson

1897-00           Cumberland Kingsley

1900                retired

 

Note: Asbury Roberts Reiley is the son of James Reiley (1784-1841) of the Baltimore Conference, is the brother of J. McKendree Reiley of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  The compete Reiley relations are given on the Williams McKendree Reiley page of the Central Pennsylvania Conference (Methodist) file.  Julia A. Lowe Reisley is the daughter of John Lowe of Shrewsbury, early circuit rider host and camp-meeting host buried at nearby Rock Chapel, and sister to the Miss Lowe who married California missionary _____ Hunter.

 

REILEY, HENRY BAKER JR.

 

Born: 5-24-1908  Trenton NJ                                     married: Betty Holmes

Died: 6-9-1984  Somerset PA                                    obit: [6/10/1914 – 10/9/1999]

 

1938    admitted on trial

1940    elected deacon

1941    elected elder

 

Interment: Somerset County Memorial Park, Somerset PA

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1985, 345

 

1937-40           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1940-41           Rouzerville

1941-42           Fayetteville

1942-43           White Haven

1943-46           Hastings

1946-50           Everett

1950-51           Gettysburg

1951                transfer to Ohio Conference

 

Note:  Henry Baker Reiley Jr is the grandson of William McKendree Reiley.  The complete Reiley relations are given on the William McKendree Reiley page.
 

 

REILEY, JAMES McKENDREE

 

Born: 9-4-1876  Hopewell PA                                    married: Eleanor Ewing Witman

Died: 6-8-1952  Newton Hamilton PA                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 441

 

1902    admitted on trial

1904    ordained deacon

1906    ordained elder

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 226

 

1901                Bellwood (7 months)

1902-05           assistant, Clearfield Trinity

1905-09           Clearfield Eleventh Street [Emmanuel]

1909-17           State College

1917-20           York First [Asbury]

1920-24           Sunbury St. John’s

1924-30           superintendent, Altoona District

1930-34           Altoona First

1934-38           Chambersburg

1938-43           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1943-46           Lewistown First

1946-47           Catawissa

1947                retired

 

Note: James McKendree Reiley is the son of William McKendree Reiley and the father of William Witman Reiley.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 33.  The complete Reiley relations are given on the Williams McKendree Reiley page. 


 

REILEY, JAMES McKENDREE  

 

Born: 3-8-1817  Broad Top Mountain PA                 married: Susan Ann Bunn Gibbs

Died: 6-2-1897  Baltimore MD                                  obit: [3/24/1824 – 7/21/1854]

                                                                                    married2: M. Alcesta Stevenson

1844    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Baltimore Conference 1897, 62

1846    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1848    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 62

 

1844-45           Hillsboro

1845-48           Lewisburg circuit

1848-50           Augusta

1850-52           Front Royal

1852-54           North Baltimore station

1854-56           Baltimore City station

1856-57           Annapolis

1857                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1857-59           Pittsburgh Christ

1859                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1859-61           Fredrick City

1861-62           Baltimore Exeter Street

1862-66           superintendent, Baltimore District

1866-68           Danville

1868                transfer to Kentucky Conference

1868-70           Covington Union

1870-72           Louisville

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-74           Williamsport Pine Street

1874                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1874-77           Wheeling Fourth Street

1877                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1877-79           Baltimore Eutaw Street

1879-82           Georgetown DC

1882-85           Baltimore Madison Square

1885-91           superintendent, Washington District

1891-96           Baltimore Harlem Park

1896                retired

 

Note: J. McKendree Reiley is the son of James Reiley (1784-1841) of the Baltimore Conference, is the brother of Asbury Roberts Reiley (1829-1908) of the Baltimore Conference, and is the father of William McKendree Reiley.  To distinguish him from his father and grandson, his given name JAMES is typically not used.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 442.  The compete Reiley relations are given on the William McKendree Reiley page.
 

 

REILEY, WILLIAM McKENDREE

 

Born: 4-24-1847  Charlestown WV                           married: Fannie Baker

Died: 1-17-1907  Newberry PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 146

 

1868    admitted in trial, Kentucky Conference

1870    ordained deacon, Kentucky Conference

1872    ordained elder, Kentucky Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 115

 

1868-70           City Mission, Kentucky

1870-71           Adair

1871-72           Harrodsburg

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73           Muhlenburg

1873-74           Ralston

1874-76           Shirleysburg

1876-79           Saxton

1879-81           Green Village

1881-84           Hanover-New Oxford

1884-86           Mifflinburg

1886-88           Watsontown

1888-92           Centralia

1892-96           Waynesboro

1896-00           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1900-02           Bellwood

1902-05           Ashland

1905-07           Williamsport Newberry

 

Note: William McKendree Reiley is the son of J. McKendree Reiley and the grandson of James Reiley (1784-1841) of the Baltimore Conference.  [James Reiley is also the father of Asbury Roberts Reiley (1829-1908) of the Baltimore Conference, and the brother of Tobias Reiley (1789-1843) of the Baltimore Conference.]  William McKendree Reiley is the father of James McKendree Reiley, and of of Alcie Reiley Owens, wife of Leonard L. Owens.  He is also the grandfather of Henry Baker Reiley Jr and William Witman Reiley.  An extensive family tree showing literally dozens of Methodist clergy in the extended Reiley family is kept in the Ewing biographical files at the conference archives.
 

 

REILEY, WILLIAM WITMAN

 

Born: 6-17-1915  Clearfield PA                                 married: Mildred Elizabeth Gardner

Died: 7-21-1979                                                          obit: [4/25/1918 – 7/15/2005]

                                   

1944    admitted on trial

1944    ordained deacon

1946    ordained elder, Wyoming State Conference

 

Interment: Etna Cemetery, Etna CA

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1980, 281; California-Nevada Conference 1980, 294

 

1942-43           Wilburton-Johnston City PA

                        …

1944-45           at school

                        1943-45  Center Moriches NY

1945                transfer to Wyoming State Conference

1945-48           Pine Bluffs

1948-50           Powell

1950                transfer to Ohio Conference

1950-54           Metamora

1954-59           Waterville

1959-64           Dayton Community

1964-66           Zanesville Central Trinity

 

Note: William Witman Reiley is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1082.  He is the son of James McKendree Reiley and the grandson of William McKendree Reiley.  The compete Reiley relations are given on the Williams McKendree Reiley page.

 

REINERT, ALFRED C.

 

Born: 6-24-1910                                                          married: Naomi Kuntzman Reinhard

Died: 5-1-1987                                                            obit: [5/25/1911 – 3/28/1997]

 

Interment: Curlew Hills Memorial Gardens, Palm Harbor FL

Obit:

 

1948-51           Penn’s Park and Lahaska, Philadelphia Conference (beginning 9/1948)

1951-55           Cornwells Heights, Philadelphia Conference

 

1963-64           Jerseytown

 

Note: Alfred Reinert served as a local pastor in both the Philadelphia and Central Pennsylvania conferences.  The 1940 census places the Reinerts in Palmerton PA.  He retired to Florida in 1982

 

REINFURT, WILLLIAM FREDERICK

 

Born: 7-8-1905  Arlington PA                                    married: Catherine Marguerite Partridge

Died: 2-23-1992                                                          obit: Wyoming Conference 1982, 227

                                                                                    married2: Larissa G. Vaughn

1935    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference        obit2: [1911 – 2008]

 

Interment: Sand Hill Cemetery, Unadilla NY

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1992, 362

 

1930-33           student, Dickinson College

                             1930-31      Rehoboth (starting during 1929-30 conference year)

                             1931-33      Blain

1933-36           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

.                            1933-36      Jackson & North Jackson

1936-38           Candor

1938-40           Wilkes-Barre Parrish Street

1940                transfer to Florida Conference

1942                transfer to Genesee Conference

1942-43           Leroy NY

1943                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1943-45           Scranton Providence

1945-52           Dallas

1952-57           Unadilla

1957-60           Athens

1960-68           Binghamton NY Centenary

1968-71           Carbondale

1971                retired

                             1971-79      Sand Hill

 

Note:  W. Frederick Reinfurt, as he was originally known in both the Conference and Dickinson College records, appears to have changed his name at some point to Frederick William Reinfurt.  The first Mrs. Reinfurt was known as Patty.
 

 

REITER, EDWIN S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-39           Trout Run

 

Note: Edwin S. Reiter served as a local pastor. 


 

REMLEY, GEORGE M.

 

Born: 5-10-1864  Divide PA                                      married: Elma Streeter

Died: 5-28-1948  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 246

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Kedron

 

Interment: Waller Cemetery, Benton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 199

 

1894-96           Kedron  (beginning fall 1894)

1896-97           Benezette

1897-98           Westport

1898-03           Cross Forks

1903-04           Trout Run

1904-07           Beach Haven

1907-08           White Haven

1908-15           Snydertown

1915-16           New Millport

1916-17           Fairview

1917-20           Lock Haven Circuit

1920-21           on sabbatical

1921-23           Waterville (moved to Half Moon midyear 1922/23)

1923-25           Half Moon

1925-26           on leave

1926-29           Blain (beginning fall 1925)

1929                retired

 

REMLEY, LEVI A.

 

Born: 2-14-1854 Columbia County PA                      married: Ellen M. Thornton

Died: 1933                                                                  obit: [1/25/1854 – 10/24/1943]

 

Interment: New Ebenezer Cemetery, Columbia County PA

Obit:     

 

1913-14           Rohrsburg

1914-16           Washingtonville

 

Note: L.A. Remley served as a local pastor.  Biographical information is given in Beers’ 1915 Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, page 1180

 

RENNER, LAWRENCE “LARRY” SNYDER

 

Born: 5-7-1894  Danville PA                                     married: Naomi Elizabeth Miller

Died: 2-22-1968                                                          obit: Peninsula Conference 1971, 1355

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Peninsula Conference 1968, 315

 

1948-52           New Millport

1952                “transfer” to Peninsula Conference

                        Seaford DE

                        Waleyville MD

                        Felton DE

Townsend DE

                        retired

                             visitation minister, Wilmington DE Richardson Park

 

Note: Larry Renner worked for the New York and Penna. Co. for 24 years before entering the ministry.  He served as a local pastor. 


 

RESCORL, PHILIP

 

Born: 1801  Cornwall, England                                  married: Elizabeth _____

Died: 8-2-1862  Waynesboro PA                               obit: [1803 – 1/29/1866]

 

1832    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1863, 30

 

1832-34           South Branch

1834-35           Harrisonburg

1835-36           Woodstock

1836-38           Baltimore Sharp Street & Asbury station

1838-39           Huntingdon

1839-40           retired

1840-42           Baltimore City mission station

1842-44           Havre de Grace

1844-46           Warrenton

1846-47           Westmoreland

1847-48           Salem

1848-50           Christiansburg

1850-52           Churchville

1852-54           South Branch

1854-56           Harper’s Ferry station

1856-57           Baltimore Asbury & Orchard Street

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           on leave

1858-60           Milton station

1860-61           Waynesboro

1861                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Philip Rescorl is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 443.

 

RESH, JAMES JACOB

 

Born: 11-12-1867   Grove Run Mills MD                  married: Martha [Mattie] Hall Buckingham

Died: 3-27-1959                                                          obit: Baltimore Conference 1943, 152

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Phebus

1897     admitted on trial                                             obit2: [1883 – 1955]

 

Interment: St. Abraham’s Lutheran burial grounds, Beckleysville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1959, 288

 

1897-00           Muncy Valley

1900-01           Medix

1901-05           Hoytville

1905-08           Mill Hall

1908-11           Shrewsbury

1911-14           York Ridge Avenue

1914-17           Mechanicsburg

1917-18           Clearfield West Side

1918-19           Freeland

1919-20           American Red Cross

1920                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1920-25           Middletown

1925-29           Morgan

1929-31           Calvert circuit

1931-33           Curtis Bay

1933                retired

 

Note: The biography section of the conference archives includes a booklet on the life of James J. Resh titled “Leaves from a Methodist Itinerant’s Diary.” The second Mrs. Resh (nee Charles) was the widow of a Mr. Roy O. Phebus (1876-1941).

 

RETTENMAYER, STEPHEN CLYDE

 

Born: 3-23-1944  Joliet IL                                          married: Linda Minnick (6/7/1967)

Died: 6-28-2015  MD                                                 obit:

 

1970    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion UM Church Cemetery, Highland MD

Obit:

 

1965-69           student, Dickinson College

                            1967-68       Burnt Cabins

1970-73           student, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond VA

1973-76           Lodge Forest

1976-77           student, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond VA

1977-82           Cape St. Claire

1982-91           Highland Mt. Zion

1991-95           Rockville Faith

1995-01           Towson Faith (ending 9/1/2001)

2001-05           The American Church in London (beginning 9/1/2001)

2005-08           Crofton Community

2008-09           Crofton Community – Trinity

2009                retired

 

 

Note: Steve C. Rettenmayer served Burnt Cabins in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a supply pastor.    He had been a clarinetist/saxophonist in the US Marine Band in Washington DC before his conversion and entry into the ministry.
 

 

REYNOLDS, CHARLES

 

Born: 1-4-1924  Crossgar, Northern Ireland              married: Maud M. Hibbard (1946)

Died: 8-30-2007  Towanda PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 174

 

?          ordained, Hyderabad Conference

1958    ordained elder, New England Southern Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Bradford County PA

Obit: New England Conference 2010, 148

 

1958                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1958-59           Manchester CN South

1959-64           Attleboro MA Centenary

1964-85           missionary, Sironcha India

1985-90           executive director, American Board of the Ludhiana Medical College

1990                retired

 

Note: Rev. Dr. Charles Reynolds and Maud Hibbard Reynolds served as Methodist missionaries to Sironcha India for 20 years.  When they met during WWII, Maud Hibbard was a missionary to India from the New Albany Church and Charles was in the British military.  After the war they returned to the United States for further education (at Adrian College in MI and Drew University in NJ) and eventually returned to India as a missionary team.

 

REYNOLDS, NORMAN KAPP

 

Born: 5-18-1900  Spruce Creek PA                           married: Hazel F. Rogers

Died: 3-27-1977                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 420

 

1960    license, recommended by Altoona Llyswen

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 261

 

1938-41           Cresson PA, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church

1965-68           Trout Run

1968-70           Lakemont-Frankstown

1970                retired

 

Note: Norman K. Reynolds served as a local pastor.

 

RHEA, JOHN H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1911-13           James Creek

1913-14           Shirleysburg

 

Note: John H. Rhea served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be the John Rhea (1857-1919) of Tell township, Huntingdon County, buried at Blairs Mills.

 

RHEEM, ALBERT LEROY

 

Born: 8-4-1925  Lewistown PA                                 married: Louise Helen Thomas (or Lorenz?)

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1961    license, recommended by Burnham

1962    admitted on trial

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960-61           Sinamahoning

1961-64           student, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas TX

1964-66           Altoona Mardorf

1966-67           student, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas TX

                             1966-67      Leona-Evans Chapel

1967-72           Morrisdale

1972-78           Pleasant Gap

1978-81           Westfield

1981-89           Newberrytown St. Paul’s

1989                retired

 

Note: Albert L. Rheem is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1087.

 

RHODES, LEVIN R. B.

 

Born: 1-21-1840  Frederick County MD                    married: Sarah Ann Schofield

Died: 12-19-1928  Marion County IN                       obit: [12/8/1843 – 1/30/1909]

 

1863    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1867    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Fall Creek Cemetery, Indianapolis IN

Obit:

 

1863-64           Patuxent circuit

1864-65           Prince George

1865-66           Charles

1866-67           St. Mary’s

1867                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1867-68           Antietam

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mercersburg

1869-70           New Washington

1870-71           Washington

1871                involuntary location

 

Note:  This surname is also rendered RHOADES.  The 1871 journal, page 43, indicates in the case of L.R.B. Rhodes “that the charge of inefficiency and unacceptability is sustained, and that he is located without his consent.”

 

RHONE, ZEBULON STRATTON

 

Born: 12-2-1844  Luzerne County PA                       married: Jennie Mary Crosthwaite

Died: 2-5-1887  Central City NE                               obit: Nebraska Conference 1918,428

           

1872    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Schuyler Cemetery, Schuyler NE

Obit: North Nebraska Conference, 1887, 23

 

1872-73           Jamestown

1873-75           Elimsport

1875-77           Cogan Valley

1877-78           Burnt Cabins

1878                transfer to Kansas Conference

 

Note: Some sources give the birth date for Zebulon Stratton Rhone as 9-2-1845.  Mrs. Rhone is the daughter of Mortimer P. Crosthwaite and the brother of A. Clark Crosthwaite.

 

RICHARDS, HERBERT EAST JR.

 

Born: 12-30-1919  Hazleton PA                                 married: Lois E. Marcey

Died: 8-18-2007  Portland OR                                   obit: [2/17/1921 – 8/20/2013]

 

Interment:

Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 2008, ?

 

1939-41           student, Dickinson College

     1939-41      Boiling Springs & Hickorytown

1941-48           Basking Ridge NJ Bishop Janes

1948-51           faculty, Drew Theological Seminary

1951-69           Boise ID First

1969-78           Eugene OR First

1978-85           Portland OR Tabor Heights

 

Note: In 2003 Herbert E. Richards, retired member of the Oregon-Idaho Conference, was president of the Inspiration Inc. Television Corp. of Eugene OR.

 

RICHARDS, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-95           Westport

 

Note: James Richards served as a local pastor.

 

RICHARDS, JERRY LEE

 

Born: 11-4-1939  Lawrenceville IL                           married: Lee Ann _____

Died: 4-22-2022  WI                                                  obit:

 

1966    admitted on trial

1968    ordained, Iowa Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           Wallis Run

1965-68           at school

1968                transfer to South Iowa Conference

1968-70           Ainsworth

1970-85           faculty, Iowa Wesley University in Mt. Pleasant IA (later becoming president)

1985-12           administration, Univerity of Wisconsin Eau Claire

2012                retired

 

RICHARDS, THOMAS T.S.

 

Born: 9-13-1834  Baltimore MD                                married: Emma Barton

Died: 12-26-1869  Baltimore County MD                 obit: [8/3/1842 – 3/29/1912]

 

1864    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Hereford

1866    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1870, 43

 

1864-65           Emmitsburg

1865-66           Frostburg

1866-67           Bloody Run [Everett]

1867-68           New Washington

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Philipsburg circuit

1869                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869                on leave

 

Note: Mrs. Richards (nee Barton) was thrice widowed.  She married a Mr. Samuel A. Eshelman (1840-1864) on 5/29/1862, T.T.S. Richards on 2/20/1867, and a Mr. James H. Long (1838-1899) on 10/22/1873.

 

RICHARDS, WAYNE LEON

 

Born: 4-25-1933                                                          married: Joanne Darlene White (6/17/1957)

Died: 12-3-2020  Orbisonia PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 343

 

1958    license, recommended by Duncansville Hicks Memorial

1962    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Trough Creek Cemetery, Calvin PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 365

 

1959-63           Cassville

1963-69           Claysburg

1969-77           Millerton-Daggett

1977-85           Mapleton

1985-88           Bigler

1988-93           Sunbury Otterbein

1993-95           Altoona East End

1995-98           Altoona East End-Pleasant Valley

1998                retired

 

RICHARDSON, JAMES THOMAS

 

Born: 2-18-1864  West Bangor PA                            married: Caroline Amelia Andrews

Died: 2-24-1938                                                          obit: Peninsula Conference 1972, 332

 

1890    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1893    admitted on trial, East Main Conference

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Gracelawn Memorial Park, New Castle DE

Obit: Wilmington Conference 1938, 308

 

1889-90           Licking Creek

1890-93           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1893-95           Searsport ME

1895-99           Bucksport ME Franklin Street

1899                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1899-01           Church Hill MD

1901-06           Denton MD

1906-07           Frederica DE

1907-08           North East MD

1908-10           Rock Hall MD

1910-13           Wilmington DE Cookman

1913-16           Mt. Pleasant DE

1916-20           Preston MD

1920-24           Harrington DE

1924-               Chesapeake City MD

 

 

RICHARDSON, JOHN HAROLD

 

Born: 5-21-1900  near Philadelphia PA                     married: Laura Maurer

Died: 11-18-1976                                                        obit: [d. 1964]

                                                                                    married2: Mildred F. Bittenbender

1966    license, recommended by White Haven         obit2: [4/2/1901 – 3/24/1995]

1968    ordained deacon

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Laurel Cemetery, White Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 262

 

1966-69           Forksville (ending 10/1/69)

1969-72           Benton (beginning 10/1/69)

1972                retired

                             1972-73      Benton

                             1973-76      Elimsport

 

Note: John H. Richardson retired from Sears in 1960 before entering the ministry.  The second Mrs. Richardson outlived 3 husbands: Lester James Anderson (1896-1956), Ray L. Blackwell (1893-1965) and Rev. John H. Richardson (1900-1976).

 

RICHARDSON, RALPH D.

 

Born: 7-25-1908                                                          married: Esther Louise Teal (12/21/1929)

Died: 12-31-1989                                                        obit: [1907 – 12/8/1984]

 

Interment: Sherwood Burial Park, Salem City VA

Obit:

 

1960-61           Salladasburg

1961-62           Ray’s Hill

 

Note: Ralph D. Richardson served as a local pastor in PA and VA.  An extensive obituary is given on Find-a-grave.

 

RICHESSON, RODNEY IRVIN

 

Born: 6-13-1938  Mercersburg PA                             married: S. LaFawn Austin

Died: 6-10-2022  Windsor PA                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 405

 

1967    license, recommended by Charlestown

1971    admitted on trial

1974    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Machpelah Cemetery, Yorkana PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 367

 

1966-71           Doylesburg (beginning 8/1/66)

1971-74           Rouzerville

1974-88           Yorkana

1988-95           Hershey Fishburn

1995-03           Dover Bethany

2003                retired


 

RIDDLE, FINLEY B.

 

Born: 12-3-1829  Howard PA                                    married: Mary Packer

Died: 3-24-1902  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 65

                                                                                    married2: Annie K. McCollum

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922,137

 

Interment: Bloomsburg Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 131

 

1856-57           Newberry

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Newberry

1858-60           Sunbury

1860-62           Penn’s Valley

1862-63           Shippensburg

1863-66           New Bloomfield

1866-68           Shamokin

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shamokin

1869-71           Berwick

1871-74           Altoona First

1874-76           Danville St. Paul’s

1876-79           Huntingdon

1879-82           Tyrone

1882-85           Shamokin

1885-86           Lewisburg

1886-88           Bloomsburg

1888-91           Danville St. Paul’s

1891-96           Renovo

1896-99           Wrightsville

1899-02           on leave

 

Note: Biographical sketches of Finley B. Riddle appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference and in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.  An obituary also appears in the 7/10/1902  NY Christian Advocate, page 1119.  The second Mrs. Riddle is the daughter of Ephraim McCollum [admitted 1838, located 1854] of the Baltimore Conference.

 

RIDEN, PAUL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-29           Vira (part year)

 

Note: Paul Riden served as a supply pastor.  This is believed to be Harry Paul Riden Jr. (1904-1967) of Lewistown PA – although the 1929 directory lists him as J. Paul Riden of Lewistown.

 

RIDENOUR, GORDON M.

 

Born: 10-4-1895  Canandaigua NY                           married: Ruth Baker Davis [8/24/1921]

Died: 6-23-1970  Horseheads NY                              obit: [6/20/1894 – 3/?/1972]

 

?          license, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Horseheads NY

Obit:

 

1961-62           Sugar Creek Parish

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Sugar Creek Parish

 

Note: Gordon M. Ridenour Reed served as a local pastor.  A veteran of WWI, he at various times was a high school teacher and principal in the 1930’s, a radio newscaster in the 1940’s, and a feature writer for the New York Herald Tribune.

 

RIDGAWAY, HENRY BASCOM

 

Born: 9-7-1830  Talbot County MD                           married: Rosamund Ursula Caldwell

Died: 3-30-1895  Evanston IL                                    obit: Rock River Conference 1917,99

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1853    ordained deacon

1855    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago

Obit: Rock River Conference 1895, 75

 

1851-52           Winchester

1852-54           Loudon

1854-55           Summerfield

1855-56           North Baltimore circuit

1856-57           North Baltimore station

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           North Baltimore station

1858-60           Baltimore High Street

1860                transfer to Maine Conference

1860-62           Portland Chestnut Street

1862                transfer to New York Conference

                        New York City St. Paul’s

                        Harlem

                        Sing Sing

                        Kingston

1876                transfer to Cincinnati Conference

1882-84           faculty, Garret Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

1884-88           president, Garrett Biblical Institute [now Garrett Theological Seminary]

1888                transfer to Rock River Conference

1888-95           president, Garrett Biblical Institute [now Garrett Theological Seminary]

 

Note: Henry Bascom Ridgaway is the author of The Life of Alfred Cookman (1873), The Life of Edmund S. Janes (1882), and other books.  His biography was supposedly written by a Milton Spenser Terry.  A biographical sketch is given in Simpson’s 1876 Cyclopedia of Methodism.

 

RIDGLEY, BENJAMIN J.

 

Born: 2-2-1914                                                            married: Jean Mildred Fraley (2/14/1942)

Died: 2-24-1986                                                          obit: [4/5/1920 – 8/8/1978]

 

1946    ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Forest Hill MD

Obit: [Wyoming Conference 1986, 179]

 

1942-44           Dillsburg & Wellsville

1944                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference

1944                Skinner’s Eddy (part year)

1944-47           chaplain, US Navy

1947-51           Meshoppen (ending 4/1/51)

1951                withdrew to enter Episcopal ministry [1951, 674 & 698]

 

RIGBY, JOSEPH GORDON

 

Born: 6-9-1902  Bursalem, England                          married Dorothy Pauline Rupp

Died: 3-31-1986  Hollidaysburg PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 350

 

1923    license, recommended by Pine Grove Mills

1927    admitted on trial

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Pine Hall Cemetery, near State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 433

 

1925-27           student, Penn State University

                             1925-26      Madera

                             1926-27      Pine Grove Mills

1927-29           Birmingham

1929-30           student, Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh PA

                             1929-30      Pittsburgh Calvary

1930-36           Manor Hill

1936-41           St. Mary’s

1941-45           York Ridge Avenue

1945-51           Hollidaysburg First

1951-53           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1953-61           Emporium

1961-63           Mount. Union First

1963-69           Bellwood Trinity

1969-71           Mapleton Trinity

1971                retired

                             1973-75      East Freedom

 

Note: Joseph G. Rigby is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1097.

 

RIGGIN, EDWIN CRANSTON

 

Born: 11-26-1899  Crisfield MD                                married: Hazel L. Allen

Died: 8-11-1984                                                          obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1997, 659

 

1923    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford DE

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1985, 364

 

1920-23           student, Dickinson College

                             1920-22      Fort Loudon (starting 9/1920)

1923-25           student, Garrett Biblical Institute

1925-27           Hancock

1927-32           Pikesville

1932-35           Gatch

1935-40           Annapolis Calvary

1940-46           superintendent, Baltimore East District

1946-65           Baltimore St. Mark’s

1955-58           superintendent, Baltimore South District

1958-70           executive secretary, Conference Board of Missions

1970                retired

 

RIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD

 

Born: 2-5-1908  Jersey Shore PA                               married: Jane E. Lytle

Died: 9-17-1968  Gowanda NY                                 obit: Western New York Conference 1984, 339

 

1936    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1936    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1938    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Pine Hill Cemetery, Gowanda NY

Obit: Western New York Conference 1969, 243

 

1931-32           Ellerslie, Corriganville & Cooks Mills MD

1932-33           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

                             1932-33      Jedo, Latimer & Milnesville

                             1935-36      Johnsborg NJ

1935-38           Georgetown, Otselic & Sheds

1938-44           Branchport & Bluff Point

1944-45           Branchport, Bluff Point & Friend

1945-57           Seneca Falls

1957                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1957-61           Fulton First

1961                transfer to Genesee Conference

1961-65           Gowanda

1965                transfer by boundary change to Western New York Conference

1965-68           Gowanda

 

RILEY, CHARLES M.

 

Born: 3-19-1859  East Brady PA                               married: Luella Shaul

Died: 7-16-1940                                                          obit: [d. 7/18/1904]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah E. Wentzel

1909    license, Erie Conference                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 226

 

Interment: Spies Cemetery, near Reading PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 215

 

1909-10           Spring Creek

1910-11           Brooklyn Heights

1911-18           evangelistic work and Baptist pastorates

1918                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918-20           Town Hill

1920-23           Catawissa circuit

1923-25           Cross Roads & Gatchelville

1925-27           Lewisberry & Lisburn

1927-30           Elimsport & Maple Hill & Allenwood

1930-31           Beach Haven

1931-32           Laurelton

1932-37           Kulpmont

1937-38           Littlestown

1938                retired

 

Note: This surname is also rendered REILEY.  Charles M. Riley served as a local pastor and is the son of William L. Riley of the Erie Conference.  It is reported that his grandfather was also a pastor.  He is the author of the booklet Grandfather’s Story.  The second Mrs. Riley is a sister to Rev. Fred D. Wentzel of the Reformed Church.
 

 

RINK, WILLIAM

 

Born: 1-22-1823  Philadelphia PA                             married: Amanda Emily Ballard

Died: 1-18-1907                                                          obit: Philadelphia Conference 1930, 440

 

1844    license, recommended by Philadelphia St. George’s

1845    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1847    ordained deacon

1849    ordained elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery and Mausoleum, Burlington NJ

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1907, 78

 

1845-46           Caroline

1846-47           Easton circuit

1847-48           Cambridge

1848-49           Dorchester

1849-50           Princess Ann

1950-52           Northampton

1952-54           Berlin

1954-56           Bethel MD

1856-58           Zion circuit

1858-60           Strasburg

1860-62           Coatesville

1862-63           Rising Sun

1863-65           Dorchester

1865-66           Seaford

1866-68           Bridgeville

1868-69           Lehma’s Chapel

1869-71           Bristol

1871-72           South Easton

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1872-75           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1875-78           Mechanicsburg

1878-80           Duncannon

1880                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

                        …

1891                on leave

                        retired

 

RINELL, JOHN RODERICK SR.

 

Born: 5-12-1928  Jamestown NY                               married: Janice “Pat” Marietta Chen (7/25/1954)

Died: 12-5-2018  East Hampton CT                           obit:

 

1954    ordained, Augustana Lutheran Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1949-52           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1949-50      Ray’s Hill

                        …

                        Wallingford CT Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

                        East Hampton CT Bethlehem Lutheran

 

Note: J. Roderick Rinell graduated from Houghton College in 1949.  Some sources give the maiden name of Mrs. Rinell as Chow.
 

 

 

RIPPLE, DONALD LARUE

 

Born: 6-20-1925  Austin PA                                      married: Beatrice Irene Rissmiller

Died: 6-10-2004                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 430

 

1949    license, recommended by Costello

1952    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Milton Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 457

 

1948-50           Waterville 

1951-54           Marysville

1954-58           Glen Campbell

1958-64           Milesburg

1964-67           Williamsburg (ending 11/15/67)

1967-77           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue (beginning 11/16/67)

1977-82           Royalton

1982-90           Milton Bethany

1990                retired

                             1990-94      executive director emeritus, Yokefellow Prison Ministries

                             1994-95      interim pastor, Yokefellow Ministries

                             1995-99      visitation pastor, Milton St. Andrew’s

 

Note: Donald L. Ripple is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1099.  He is the grandson of local preacher Lorenzo Dow Ripple (1857-1917) and the nephew of Thomas F. Ripple.  Mrs. Ripple is the daughter of William H. Rissmiller.

 

RIPPLE, LORENZO DOW

 

Born: 1857                                                                  married: Isabella Mary Brownlee (2/9/1979)

Died: 1917                                                                  obit: [12/?/1858 – 1/13/1924]

 

 

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Austin PA

Obit:

 

1885-86           Wharton

1887-88           Leidy

 

Note: Lorenzo Dow Ripple is the father of Thomas F. Ripple.  He lived in Potter County and served as a local pastor. 

 

RIPPLE, THOMAS FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-20-1880  Austin PA                                      married: Vinnie Viola Eddy

Died: 6-11-1946  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 231

 

1905    license, recommended by Williamsport Fourth Street

1906    admitted on trial

1908    ordained deacon

1910    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 199

 

1905-08           Laporte

1908-11           Bloomingdale

1911-15           Elysburg

1915-18           Berwick Calvary (ending 8/18)

1918-20           chaplain, US Army (8/18 – 8/19)

1919-20           Bloomingdale (beginning 9/19)

1920-25           Hazleton Diamond

1925-28           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1928-31           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1931-34           Harrisburg Epworth

1934-37           Gordon

1937-38           Hanover

1938-41           York Ridge Avenue

1941-44           St. Mary’s

1944-46           Osceola Mills

1946                retired

 

Note: Thomas F. Ripple is the son of Lorenzo Dow Ripple and the uncle of Donald L. Ripple.  His obituary states that he is the nephew of Levi G. Heck, but the specific connection between the families is not stated.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 63.

 

RISHELL, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 3-9-1850  Williamsport PA                              married: Elizabeth S. Harman (3/12/1878)

Died: 9-21-1908                                                          obit: [1854-?]

 

1872    license, recommended by Howard

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Rehobeth

 

Interment: Newton Cemetery, Newton MA

Obit: New England Conference 1909, 132

 

1871-72           student, Dickinson College

1872-73           student, Penn State University

1873-74           faculty, Shippensburg Normal School

1874-75           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

1875                discontinued at own request

1875-76           student, Wittenburg College in Springfield OH

1876                admitted, Cincinnati Conference

1876-78           Cincinnati Finley

1878-80           Cincinnati Winton Place & Camp Washington

1880-83           Delhi

1883-86           Avondale Grace

1886-89           Urbana First

1889-91

1891-94           Cincinnati Asbury

1894-95           Springfield Central

1895-08           faculty, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1908                transfer to New England Conference

1980                faculty, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

 

Note: Charles Wesley Rishell is the author of numerous books and articles.  He is the father of Ruth Rishell Frick, wife of Philip L. Frick of the New England Conference.

 

 

RISHELL, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 7-3-1861  Centre Hall PA                                 married: Christena Elizabeth Beyer

Died: 8-1-1932  Clearfield PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 260

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona District

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Altoona District

 

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 195

 

1885-86           Decatur

1886-88           living in Centre Hall

1888-89           assistant, Glen Hope circuit (added sometime during the 1887-88 year)

1889-90           Port Matilda

1890-91           at College

1891-92           Shawmut

1892-93           Morrisdale

1893-95           Ansonville-Mahaffey

1895-96           Mahaffey

1896-99           Snow Shoe

1899-02           Woodland-Bradford

1902-04           Jerseytown

1904-07           Elysburg

1907-08           assistant, Williamsport High Street

1908-09           New Washington

1909-10           Lock Haven circuit

1910-14           Fairview

1914-16           conference evangelist

1916-18           Howard

1918-20           Ralston

1920-22           retired

                             1921-24      Liverpool

1924-27           Pleasant Gap

1927-31           Pine Grove Mills

1931                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Rishell is the father of Paul W. Rishell, who served in the New England Conference 1929-1941.  Mrs. Rishell is a sister to Sara Ann Beyer Sheaffer, wife of William J. Sheaffer.

 

RISSMILLER, WILLIAM HARRISON

 

Born: 5-16-1894  Lebanon PA                                   married: Pelagia I. Berezko

Died: 12-3-1958  State College PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 364

 

1927    license, Church of God

1929    ordained elder, Church of God

 

Interment: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 257

 

1927-30           Suedburg and Brisbin

1930-32           Cassville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1932                received in Central Pennsylvania Conference on credentials from Church of God

1932-35           Cassville (moved to Harveyville during 1834-35)

1935-36           Harveyville (moved from Cassville during 1934-35)

1936-40           Grampian-Mahaffey

1940-43           Port Matilda

1943-45           Clearfield circuit

1945-46           Sinnemahoning

1946-48           Austin

1948-50           Fairview

1950-53           Beach Haven

1953-55           Lewisberry

1955                retired

 

Note: William H. Rissmiller is the father of Beatrice Rissmiller Ripple, wife of Donald L. Ripple.
 

 

RITCHEY, GEORGE SAMUEL

 

Born: 2-20-1914  Duncansville PA                            married: Laura Emma Jackson

Died: 11-10-1991  Yelloestone County MT               obit: [5/3/1917 – 3/10/1999]

 

1946    accepted supply

1952    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Ryegate Cemetery, Ryegate MT

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 11/12/1991; Helena Daily Record, page 6A, column 1

 

1945-47           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1947-48           James Creek (ending 7/1/47)

1948-51           at school

1951-52           Newton, Wyoming Conference

1952                received on trial by Wyoming Conference

1953-54           Pittston First

1954                Pittston First & Yatesville (part year)

1954                transfer to Montana Conference

1954-57           Blackfeet Indian Miss.

1957-58           Maryland-Delaware Temperance League

1958                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1958-59           Claysburg

1959                transfer to Montana Conference

1959-63           Fort Benton

1963-64           Harlowton

1964                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1964-66           Howard Lake

1966-67           Long Prairie

1967-68           on sabbatical

1968                withdrew

 

Note: Some sources give the birth date as 2/2/1914.  George S. Ritchey was a member of the (final) 1954 class of Evangelical School of Theology in Reading.  In 1992, the widowed Mrs. Ritchey married a Mr. Robert Harold Brown (1912-1995).

 

RITTER, RALPH ROLAND

 

Born: 11-13-1912  Danville PA                                 married: Eugertha Elmira Hauber

Died: 7-5-2004  Aitkin MN                                        obit: North Iowa Conference 1955, 1201

 

1934    admitted on trial

1937    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

 

Interment: Diamond Lake Cemetery, Aitkin County MN

Obit: Iowa Conference 2005, 348

 

1934-35           Waterville

1935-39           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1935-36      Townsend MA, New England Conference

                             1936-39      Revere MA, New England Conference

1939-41           Salona-Lamar

1941-42           New Bloomfield

1942-48           Warrior’s Mark

1948                transfer to North West Iowa Conference

 

Note: Records typically list him as R. Roland Ritter, or simply Roland Ritter.  Mrs. Ritter is from Potter County and buried in the North Bingham Cemetery.

 

RITZMAN, ELMER LEROY

 

Born: 9-5-1888  Port Royal PA                                  married: Catherine Elizabeth Miller

Died: 5-5-1971                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 234

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. B. Earlene Davis Nelson

1915    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 470

1917    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Millerstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 369

 

1913-15           Westport (beginning fall 1913)

1915-18           Muncy Valley

1918-19           Salona-Lamar

1919-23           Munson

1923-28           Robertsdale-Woodvale

1931-36           Clearfield Emmanuel

1936-41           Williamsport Grace

1941-48           Millerstown

1948-57           Enola

1957                retired

 

Note: Elmer L. Ritzman is the author of an autobiographical booklet “During Sixty-Eight Years” kept in the biography section of the conference archives.

 

ROBB, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 12-1-1919  Los Angeles CA                            married: Ethel Edna Tosh

Died: 2-22-2018  Seattle WA                                     obit: [1921-2006]

 

1950    received in Central Pennsylvania Conference from the Free Methodist Church

 

Interment: Crown Hill Cemetery, Seattle WA

Obit:

 

1950-52           faculty, Dickinson College

1952-54           chaplain, US Navy

1954                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1954-               faculty, University of Southern California

 

Note: John Wesley Robb is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1103.  In 2003 he is listed as a retired member of the California-Pacific Conference.

 

ROBBINS, WILLIAM C.

 

Born: 1847  Fulton, NY                                              married: Athema Stephens

Died: 3-9-1925  Tampa FL                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 141

 

1869    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 160

 

1869-70           Port Matilda

1870-71           Warrior’s Mark

1871-72           Duncansville

1872-73           Logan Valley

1873-76           Chambersburg Kings Street

1876-78           Mount Union

1878-81           Mount Holly Springs

1881-82           Milton

1882-85           Jersey Shore

1885-88           Renovo

1888-91           Ashland

1891-92           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1892-95           Logan

1895-99           Salona-Lamar

1899-02           Williamsport Market Street

1902-05           Duboistown

1905-09           secretary, Temperance Society
                             1908-09      “caring for” Elimsport and Maple Hill (see 1909,82)

1909-12           Picture Rocks (moved to Bakerton in mid-year; see 1912,75)

1912-13           Bakerton

1913-16           Liverpool

1916                retired

 

ROBERSON, HORACE E.

 

Born: 6-20-1893  Shipton, England                           married:

Died: 10-12-1956  Coudersport PA                            obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Georganna H. Smith Scott

1930    ordained, Assembly of God Church               obit2: [5/16/1914 – 2/19/2005]

 

Interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Roaring Spring PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 243

 

                        local pastor, Methodist Church in Canada

                        local pastor, United Church of Canada

1930-48           evangelistic work, Assembly of God Church in Canada and the US

1948-55           Harrisburg area, Assembly of God Church

1955                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1955-56           Austin

 

Note: Horace E. Roberson served as a local pastor.  The second Mrs. Roberson [nee Smith] was the widow of a Mr. Scott.  She was known as Rev. Georganna H. Roberson (affiliation unknown) and had served for many years as director of the Juneau Children’s Home in Juneau AK.

 

ROBERTS, WARREN MILTON

 

Born: 9-22-1922  Elmira NY                                     married:

Died: 7-19-1989                                                          obit:

 

1946    license, New England Conference

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by West Chlemsford MA

 

Interment:

Obit: Southern New England Conference 1990, 171

 

1945-48           student, Boston University School of Theology

                             1945-48      West Chelmsford MA, New England Conference (beginning 12/45)

1948-51           at school

                             1949-51      Hillsgrove RI Warwick, New England Conference

1951                transfer to New England Conference

1951-55           Hillsgrove RI Warwick

1955-58           Warren RI

1958-62           Brockton MA South Street

1962-66           Norwell MA

1966-67           sabbatical leave                       …

1967-72           on leave

                             1970 transfer by boundary change to Southern New England Conference

1972                voluntary location

 

Note: Warren M. Roberts graduated from Waynesboro High School (1940) and Western Maryland College (1945).  His affiliation with the New England Conference began when he went to Boston University for his seminary training and remained there. 

 

ROBINSON, DANIEL S.

 

Born: 8-5-1902  near Williamsport PA                      married: Meralda Bower

Died: 1-30-1971                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 364

 

1939    quarterly conference license

1945    license

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 366

 

1943-44           Limestone & Collomsville Lutheran churches

1944-48           McElhattan-Pine (12/1/44 – 6/1/48)

1949                Wallis Run (Feb – May)

1950-68           Lock Haven Parish

1968                retired

                             1968-70      Lock haven Parish

 

Note: Daniel S. Robinson served as a local pastor.

 

ROBISON, ALEXANDER

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-24           Penfield

 

Note: Alex Robison served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

ROBISON, PUERA B.

 

Born: 7-1-1894  Liverpool PA                                   married: [never married]

Died: 1-3-1974                                                            obit:

 

1923    license

1925    ordained local deacon, Newark Conference

1930    ordained local elder

 

Interment: Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit:

 

1918                Junior Department of Dickinson College

1922                Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown NJ

1939                Cooperstown NY

1949                Oak Grove School, Vassalboro ME

1969                South Pasadena CA

 

Note: Puera B. Robison has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but she never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  She graduated from Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and devoted her life to teaching at various Methodist-related academies.  She is considered the first woman ordained elder in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Biographical sketches appear in the 1980 “Licensing and Ordination of Women in the Central Pennsylvania Conference” and the 2003 volume of The Chronicle, page 92.  There is a picture of Puera B. Robison in the biographical files.

 

RODGERS, EMANUEL ERHART

 

Born: 2-14-1892                                                          married: Pansy Cowher [6/8/1920]

Died: 1967                                                                  obit: [1892-1963]

                                                                                    married2: Lois M. Cowher [1/20/1965]

Interment: Eastlawn Cemetery, Tyrone PA               obit2:

Obit:

 

1915-17           Loyalsock

1918-19           assistant, Williamsburg

1920-21           Sandy Ridge & Clearfield

1921-22           Birmingham

 

Note: Emanuel Rodgers served as local preacher – although his Find-A-Grave information identifies him as “an ordained minister of the Methodist church.”  He attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Juniata College and later served as a fireman for the railroad.  This surname is also rendered ROGERS.  The second Mrs. Rodgers is a sister to Harold L. Cowher and Merle S. Cowher.

 

ROGERSON, FREDERIC

 

Born: 11-3-1852  Yorkshire, England                        married: Alice Carey Price

Died: 11-5-1882  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 72

 

1874    admitted on trial

1878    re-admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 76

 

1874-75           assistant, York Springs

1875                discontinued at own request

1877-80           West Huntingdon (beginning 11/1877)

1880-82           McConnellstown

1882-82           Thompsontown

 

Note: An obituary also appears in the 11/15/1882 Conference News.  Mrs. Rogerson is the daughter of Samuel W. Price.  His first name sometimes appears as Frederick.

 

ROHER, FRANK WARREN

 

Born: 4-16-1867  Three Springs PA                           married: Katherine Evelyn Adams

Died: 4-7-1937  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 315

 

1900    admitted on trial

1904    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 269

 

1897-00           Lewisberry

1900-01           Greencastle

1901-03           at school

1903-05           Wolfsburg

1905-06           Dudley

1906-07           Bakerton

1907-11           Salladasburg

1911-16           Alexandria

1916-20           Mifflinburg

1920-24           Shickshinny

1924-28           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1928-31           St. Mary’s

1931-35           Williamsport Grace

1925-27           Altoona Llyswen, Altoona

 

Note: Mrs. F. Warren Roher is the daughter of Furman Adams.

 

ROHER, SAMUEL R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1892-94           Wagner

 

Note: Samuel R. Roher served as a supply pastor.  He is sometimes listed as Samuel Q. Roher.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

ROHRBECK, EDWIN HYNDMAN

 

Born: 1-22-1931  Bellefonte PA                                married: Marjorie Jean Shaffer

Died: 3-26-2002                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 362

 

1951    license, recommended by State College St. Paul’s

1952    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

           

Interment: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 371

 

1952-54           at school

1954-58           Patton

1958-61           Danville St. Paul’s

1961-65           Mifflintown

1965-68           Gettysburg

1968-69           sabbatical leave

1969-70           student, Penn State University

1970-88           voluntary location

                             teacher, Juniata County public schools

1988-91           East Waterford

1991-92           associate, Juniata Parish

1992                retired

 

Note Edwin H. Rohrbeck is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1117.  

 

ROOP, CURTIN GREGG

 

Born: 9-28-1863  Loveville PA                                              married: Mary Martha Spencer

Died: 8-1-1943  Mexico NY                                                  obit: Northern New York Conference 1953, 349

 

1892    license to preach

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Tyrone Second

1896    ordained deacon

 

Interment:  Mexico Village Cemetery, Mexico NY

Obit: Northern New York Conference 1944, 20

 

1894-95           James Creek

1895-96           East Waterford

1896-99           student, Boston University School of Theology

                             1896-99      Barnsted NH Congregational Church

1899                transfer to Genesee Conference

1899-02           Rochester Glenwood

1902-06           Naples

1906-08           student, Boston Univeristy School of Theology

                             1906-08      Barnsted NH Congregational Church (beginning 2/1/1906, ending 8/1/1908)

1908-09           on leave

1909-10           assistant, Naples

1910-11           Bainbfridge NY Presbyterian Church

 

ROOT, CHARLES FLOYD SR.

 

Born: 2-23-1925  India                                               married: Blossom Johanna Sweetapple [1946]

Died: 7-12-1993  East Wenatchee WA                      obit: [1/11/1925 – 9/10/2008]

 

1960    received in Central Pennsylvania Conference on Credentials from Free Methodist Church

 

Interment: Evergreen Memorial Park, East Wenatchee WA

Obit: Pacific Northwest Conference 1994, 301

 

1842-46           student, Seattle Pacific University

1946-49           student, New York Theological Seminary

1449-60           Free Methodist pastor in n New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

1960-61           missionary, waiting assignment

1961-61           missionary, Sarawak

1961                transfer to Sarawak Conference

1961-74           facculty, Sibu Theological Seminary in Sarawak, Borneo

1974                return to United States, transfer to Pacific Northwest Conference

                        Omak WA

                        Nooksack WA

                        Bremerton WA

                        Camas WA

                        Montesano WA

1986                retired

 

Note: Charles F. Root was born while his parents [Elmer Stephen Root (1898-1994) and Loretta Pettengill Root (1900-1994)] were Free Methodist missionaries in India.  He served pastorates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with the Free Methodist Church before becoming a United Methodist missionary.

 

RORAPAUGH, ALBERT CHAPMAN

 

Born: 1-8-1915  Clarks Summit PA                           married: Grace H. Wells [1940]

Died: 11-?-1985  Wood County OH                          obit: [6/8/1915 – 11/7/1994]

 

1943    admitted on trial

1944    ordained elder, Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green OH

Obit:

 

1941-44           Wallaceton

1944                transfer to Ohio Conference; transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference*

1944-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-48           Salona-Lamar

1948-48           Patton (ending 9/1/48)

1948                transfer to Colorado Conference

1948-50           Johnstown

1950-52           left without appointment to attend school

1953                no longer listed

                        Ohio 

 

*In 1944, A.C. Rorapaugh was transferred in and out of the Ohio Conference for purposes of ordinatiuon and assignment as a caplain.  See 1944,17.

 

ROSE, GUY B.

 

Born: 4-12-1883  Corning NY                                   married: Minnie E. Hooey

Died: 9-3-1965                                                            obit: [10/25/1886 – 1921]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Edna M. Brownell White

1953    license, Genesee Conference                          obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 365

 

Interment: Rural Home Cemetery, Big Flats NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 313

 

1953-62           North Fork & Brookfield

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           North Fork & Brookfield

1964                retired

 

Note: Guy B. Rose served as a local pastor.  Some sources list a middle marriage to a Stella Pierce.  The final Mrs. Rose, widow of a Mr. Les White, married Guy B. Rose in 1929.   

 

ROSE, JOEL WARREN

 

Born: 10-12-1867  Port Republic NJ                          married: Clara Hewitt [6/28/1899]

Died: 3-7-1937  Port Republic NJ                              obit: [8/28/1878 – 9/20/1940]

 

1899    admitted on trial

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Port Republic NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1937, 360

 

1893-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-96           Lower Bank, New Jersey Conference

1896-98           student, Dickinson College

                             1897-98      Berrysburg, Philadelphia Conference

1898-99           Manada & Paxton, Philadelphia Conference

1899-00           Wagner

1900-01           Jamestown

1901-03           Clarkstown

1903-06           Benezett

1906-10           Town Hill

1910-13           Wilburton

1913                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1913-14           Stockton

1914                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1914-15           Wareton

1915-16           Greenville

1916-18           Keansburg

1918-20           Cedarville

1920-23           Mantua

1923-28           Englishtown Sanford Memorial

1928-30           Trenton Wesley

1930-32           Chews

1932-34           Stratford

                       

 

ROSE, KENNETH RAY SR.

 

Born: 11-3-1921  Altoona PA                                    married: JoAnn Wilson

Died: 3-6-1998  Merritt Island FL                              obit: [1920 – 4/20/2016]

 

1940    license

1946    ordained deacon

1947    admitted on trial, recommended by New Bloomfield

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Peninsula-Delaware Conference 1998, 438

 

1940-41           Tipton (beginning 10/40)

1941-42           Boiling Springs & Hickorytown

1942-45           West Fairview & Summerdale

1945-49           New Bloomfield

1949-53           Lewisburg Beaver Memorial

1953                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1953-65           Baltimore Lovely Lane

1965                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1965-74           Salisbury Bethesda

1974-81           Wilmington Grace

1981-82           Seaford St. John’s

1982-89           Saint Michael’s St. Luke’s

1989                retired to Merritt Island FL

 

Note: An obituary for Mrs. Rose appears in the July 2016 issue, page 3, of The Tower Monthly of Lovely Lane UMC.

 

ROSE, WILLIAM SNYDER

 

Born: 8-20-1872  Yellow Springs PA                        married: Anna Olive Spencer

Died: 5-22-1971  Roaring Spring PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 316

 

1901    license, recommended by Williamsburg

1906    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Williamsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 358

 

1904-06           McKee’s Gap & Frankstown

1906-07           Blain

1907-09           James Creek

1909-11           Ennisville

1911-14           Thompsontown

1914-16           Schellsburg

1916-20           Woodland-Bradford

1920-25           Glen Campbell        [started 1920 at Snow Shoe?]

1925-26           Lock Haven circuit

1926-29           Half Moon

1929-35           Bloomingdale

1935-37           Petersburg

1937-42           Claysburg

1942                retired

                             1942-49  McConnellstown  Church of the Nazarene

 

Note: Some biographical information on William S. Rose appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 63.  Mrs. Rose is the granddaughter of Rev. W.J. Spencer, affiliation unknown.

 

ROSENBERRY, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 9-14-1873                                                          married: Esther Linter

Died: 1-2-1938  Jacksonville FL                                obit: Florida Conference 1951, 175

 

1893    license

1895    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: East Glastonbury CT

Obit: Florida Conference MES 1938, 76

 

1890-94           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1894  Kedron (ending 10/1/1894)

1894-               Syracuse Olivet

                        Dakota Conference

                        Florida Conference MES

 

Note: The WDS records list George W. Rosenberry as being from Atkinson Mills and give his father as James Rosenberry.

 

ROSS, ARTHUR IRDELL

 

Born: 1-17-1891  Fairton NJ                                      married: Ethel L. Kimball (1915)

Died: 8-10-1988  Carlisle PA                                     obit: [1883 - ?] – divorced

                                                                                    married2: Hazel Blanche Luzier (9/14/1920)

1922    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference      obit2: [9/15/1904 – 8/3/1982] – divorced

1924    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference      married3: Mrs. Rosa Vivian Carter (1958)

                                                                                    obit3: [2/20/1892 – 10/31/1976]

Interment: Letort Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

1917-18           East Waterford

1918-19           Bakerton

1919-21           Allegheny

1922                “transfer” to New Jersey Conference

1922-23           Harrisonville and Ferrell

1923-24           Groveville

                        Clarksburg

1930-33           South Vineland

1933-34           Imlaystown

                        Lakewood

                        “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference

1937-40           Elderton

 

Note: Arthur I. Ross attended Pennington Seminary [i.e., preparatory school] and was a non-graduate at the Drew College of Theology, class of 1915.  He served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  In Later years he is known as Arthur A. Ross, and so reads his tombstone in the Alliance Home section of the Letort Cemetery.  The dust jacket on one of his books states: “He united with the ME Church at age 13.  Called to the ministry when 17, he began to preach, serving for a hal-century.  Later on he became affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and finally served officially as assistant pastor of the Birmingham Gospel Tabernacle of Biringham AL.  He is the author of many books in the past, including a very successful novel in 1930 entitled Not in Their Class.
     The second Mrs. Ross later married a Mr. William Edward Du\idion (1983-1963)
     The third Mrs. Ross (nee Derry) had previously been married three times: to Samuel Julius Friedlob (1869-1926) in 1908, to Ira Freeman Mitchell (1886-1969) in 1928 and to George Richard Carter (1873-1955) in 1942.  The marriage to Ira Mitchell ended in divorce.

 

ROSS, HARRY D.

 

Born: 9-2-1894  Philipsburg PA                                 married: Rae Shimel

Died: 1-8-1968  Altoona PA                                      obit: [3/1/1898 – 5/?/1987]

 

1947    license

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 323

 

1947-1968       Allegheny circuit (beginning 6/1/47)

 

Note: Harry D. Ross served as a local pastor. 

 

ROSS, JOSEPH ALEXANDER

 

Born: 7-4-1816  McVeytown PA                               married: Mary Jameson Harvey

Died: 2-6-1888   Juniata County PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 95

 

1839    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Waterloo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 98

 

1839-40           Clearfield

1840-41           Danville circuit

1841-42           Luzerne

1842-43           Berwick

1843-44           Luzerne

1844-46           Lycoming

1846-48           Jersey Shore

1848-49           Luzerne

1949-50           Calvert

1850-52           North Baltimore

1852-54           Sunbury

1854-55           Bloomsburg

1855-57           Northumberland

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Lewistown

1859-61           York

1861-62           Carlisle

1862-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           York Springs

1867-68           Hanover-New Oxford

1868                charted member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Carlisle circuit

1869-70           New Cumberland

1870-71           Shellsburg

1871-72           Tuscarora

1872-73           Port Royal

1873-75           Petersburg

1875-76           Freedom

1786-77           Concord

1877-78           Lycoming

1878-80           retied

1880-83           Freedom

1883-88           on leave

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Joseph A. Ross is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 447.

 

ROSS, LEON WARREN

 

Born: 9-3-1904 NJ                                                      married: Anne C. _____

Died: 7-20-1984  Rocky Mount NC                           obit: [12/10/1914 – 2/8/1999]

 

1934    ordained deacon, Peninsula Conference

1936    ordained elder, Peninsula Conference

 

Interment: Forest Hills Cemetery, Nashville NC

Obit: North Carolina Conference 1985, 210

 

1924-25           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary/Junior College

1926-27           Benezette

1927-28           Jonestown

1928-29           Salona & Lamar         

1929-31           Trout Run

1931                “transfer” to Peninsula Conference

1931-32           Cordova MD

1932-33           Price Bethany

1933-34           Church Hill St. Paul’s

1934-35           Ridgley

1935-36           Tilgham

…

1940-43           Salisbury Grace

            transfer to the Virginia Conference
1956                transfer to North Carolina Conference

1969                retired

 

Note: Leon W. Ross served in Central Pennsylvania as a local pastor.  The Williamsport Dickinson Seminary/Junior College records list him as being from Leesburg NJ.

 

ROTHROCK, JOSEPH YOST

 

Born: 2-21-1823  Shrewsbury PA                              married: Caroline [Carrie] L. Shriner

Died: 11-11-1894  Forksville PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 87

                                                                                    married2: Clara Belle Little

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 86

                                                                                    married3: Celestia B. Little

Interment: Hughesville Cemetery                               obit3: [4/4/1853 – 7/12/1943]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 85

 

1852-53           Muncy

1853-54           Northumberland

1854-55           Newberry

1855-57           Catawissa

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-79           Orangeville

1859-61           New Bloomfield

1861-62           Salona

1862-64           Clinton

1864-66           Sinnemahoning

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-72           on leave

                             1868-70      Renovo

                             1870-71      Westport

1872-75           Susquehanna

1875-77           Lycoming

1877-79           Cogan Valley

1879-81           Pine Creek

1881-82           Benezette

1882-83           on leave

1883-84           retired

1884-86           Picture Rocks

1886-87           Hyner-Westport

1887-89           Loyalsock

1889                retired

                             1891-92  Three Runs (first part of year); Wharton (last part of year)

 

Note: A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 451.  The first Mrs. Rothrock may be an aunt to Sarah Shriner Rue, wife of John W. Rue.  The second and third Mrs. Rothrocks were first cousins.  The third Mrs. Rothrock later married a James Farrell.

ROTHROCK, WILLIAM WESLEY

 

Born: 10-3-1862  near York PA                                 married: Marion A. Scott [1894]

Died: 3-11-1943                                                          obit: Genesee Conference 1952, 139

 

1891    license

1897    admitted on trial

1899    ordained deacon

            ordained elder

 

Interment: North Ridge Cemetery, North Ridge NY

Obit: Genesee Conference 1943, 649

 

1891-93           Port Royal

1893-95           Burnt Cabins

1895-96           Alum Bank

1896-97           Mifflinville

1897-98           Trevorton

1898-99           Green Village

1899-00           Mercersburg

1900-03           Harveyville

1903-05           Selinsgrove

1905-06           Costello

1906-11           on leave

                             1909        Washingtonville (see 1910, 72-73)

                             1909-11  Rohrsburg

1911-12           Lewisberry and Lisburn

1912-14           Irish Valley

1914-15           White Haven

1915                transfer to Genesee Conference

1915-17           Allen’s Hill

1917-18           Springwater

1918-19           Short Tract

1919-20           Arcade

1920-27           on leave

1928                retired

 

Note: William Wesley Rothrock is believed to be the son of the first cousin of Joseph T. Rothrock.

 

 

ROUNSLEY, SAMUEL FRANKLIN

 

Born: 5-23-1869  Frosty Valley PA                           married: Venetta Alice Isenberg

Died: 9-1-1936  Hughesville PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 160

                                                                                    married2: Laura F. Reeder

1898    admitted on trial, rec’d by Loyalsock             obit2: [2/17/1856 –  9/18/1944]

1902    ordained deacon

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Brisbin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 246

 

1896-99           Loyalsock

1899-03           Trout Run

1903-07           Cross Forks

1907-12           Hughesville

1912-13           Hazleton Diamond

1913-15           Enola

1915-19           Wrightsville

1919-22           Jersey Shore Epworth

1922-24           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1924-26           Montoursville

1926-29           Duncannon

1929-34           Picture Rocks

1934                retired

 

 

ROVEDA, LORENZO

 

Born: [1878?]                                                              married: [Rosa Sacco?]

Died:                                                                           obit: 

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1910-11           Italian work in Clearfield County (beginning 11/1/1910)

1912-13           Wilmington DE First Italian, Wilmington Conference (beginning 12/9/1912)

Note: Nothing more is known about Lorenzo Roveda.  See 1911,65 for a description of the ministry in Clearfield County.  One refence states: Rev. Lorenzo Roveda, ex cappuccino, in St. Louis (1914).

 

ROWE, EARL NELSON

 

Born: 1-24-1914  Newport PA                                   married: Virginia Elizabeth Fickes (6/22/38)

Died: 9-16-1994                                                          obit: [12/14/1912 – 9/18/2013]

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Carol Reynolds Crawford

            license, recommended by Newport                obit:

1937    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

           

Interment: Helixville Cemetery, Helixville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 453

 

1933-35           Pine Grove Mills (beginning 12/33)

1935-38           Vira

1938-41           Concord

1941-45           York Springs

1945-49           Williamsburg

1949-54           Harrisburg Trinity

1954-62           Clearfield West Side

1962-68           superintendent, State College District

1968-75           Camp Hill

 

Note: Earl N. Rowe is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1124.  He is the step-father of Donald Crawford Rowe of the Susquehanna Conference.  He is a brother to Betty Rowe Wertz, wife of Bishop D. Frederick Wertz.  The second Mrs. Rowe is the widow of H. Donald Crawford, listed in the Susquehanna Conference files.

 

ROWLAND, PAUL RICHARD

 

Born: 2-23-1908  Patton PA                                       married: Ora M. McGahey

Died: 9-4-1995  York County PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 415

 

1931    admitted on trial, recommended by Patton

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cassville Cemetery, Cassville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 424

 

1931-32           Riddlesburg

                        … (not active)

1934-35           Allegheny circuit (ending 4/29/35)

1935-37           Cogan Valley (beginning 4/29/35 and ending 9/30/37)

1937-42           James Creek (beginning 9/30/37)

                        … (not active)

1948-53           Wallaceton (ending 10/15/53)

1953-57           Grampian (beginning 10/15/53)

1957-59           Salladasburg

1959-63           Port Matilda

1963-66           New Freedom

1966-70           Elkland (did not finish the last year)

1970-72           Harrisonville

1972                retired

                             1972-75      Three Springs

                             1975-76      Turkey Valley

                       

Note: Paul R. Rowland was officially discontinued from the itinerant ministry in 1932, and during the remainder of his service he was classified as a supply pastor.

 

 

ROYER, JOHN VICTOR

 

Born: 8-5-1876  Spring Mills PA                               married: Elizabeth Faxon

Died: 8-3-1952  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 201

 

1902    license, recommended by Bellefonte

1903    admitted on trial

1905    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 224

 

1903-05           Allegheny

1905-07           Altoona East

1907-09           Bakerton

1909-11           Mercersburg

1911-15           McConnellsburg

1915-19           Mifflinville

1919-21           Petersburg

1921-25           Bedford

1925-27           Altoona Fairview

1927-29           Woolrich

1929-33           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1933-37           Catawissa

1937-42           Martinsburg

1942-48           McVeytown

1948                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on John V. Royer appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 41.

 

RUCH, PETER B.

 

Born: 12-?-1832  Northumberland County PA          married: Anna E. _____

Died: 1917  Richardson County NE                           obit: [1832 – 1889]

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1859    ordained deacon

1861    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Brick Church Cemetery, Barada NE

Obit:

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Milton circuit.

1858-59           Catawissa

1859-60           Bloomingdale

1860-62           Sinnemahoning

1862-64           English Center

1864-65           Liberty Valley

1865-68           on leave

1868                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-79           on leave

1879                located at own request

 

Note: Peter B. Ruch appears to have settled in Nebraska and taken up farming by 1867.

 

RUCH, REUBEN FRANK

 

Born: 3-9-1880  Northumberland PA                         married: Nora Bell Johnson

Died: 8-30-1950  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 250

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Westport

1910    ordained deacon

1945    restored to membership

 

Interment: Northumberland Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 204

 

1901-04           student, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

                             1901-03      Susquehanna County

                             1903-04      Old Forge

1904-06           Damby NY, Wyoming Conference

1906-07           Loyalsock

1907-09           Westport

1909-14           Snow Shoe

1914-15           Fairview

1915-17           South Williamsport

1917-20           York West Street

1920-21           Altoona Llyswen

1921-23           Newport

1923-24           leave of absence

1924-25           on leave

1925-26           Harrisburg Riverside.

1926-28           Riverside

1928-29           Picture Rocks

1929-30           Wilburton

1930-31           Johnson City [did not finish the year]

1931-34           on leave

1934-45           located

1945                retired

 

 

RUDISILL, LEWIS ADOLPHUS

 

Born: 2-23-1847  Hanover PA                                   married: Katie Belle Hopkins

Died: 3-22-1929  Coatesville PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 529

 

1869    admitted on trial, recommended by Lewistown station

 

Interment: Oakland [Garrett County] MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 182

 

1868-69           Martinsburg

1869-71           McConnellsburg

1871                transfer to Tennessee Conference

                        relief worker during cholera epidemic

1881                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1881-83           missionary, Salt Lake City

1883-84           retired (?)

1884-01           on leave

                             1884-92      manager/editor, Topeka KS Methodist Book Rm/Christian Advocate

                             1892-01      superintendent, Mt. Lake Park

1901-04           superintendent, Mt. Lake Park [Chautauqua-style resort in Garrett County MD]

1904-09           on leave

1909                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Lewis A. Rudisill also appears in the 4/11/1929 Christian Advocate, page 468.  He is a first cousin to Abram Wherley (1846-1922) of the Baltimore Conference, and a nephew to Abram’s father Abraham Rudisill (1811-1899) of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ Church.

 

 

RUE, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 4-14-1851  Onancock VA                                married: Sarah Julia. Shriner

Died: 6-23-1906  Waynesboro PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934,221

 

1876    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 111

 

1876-78           Jamestown

1878-79           Hughesville

1879-80           Port Royal

1880-81           Robinsonville

1881-82           Thompsontown

1882-85           Ray’s Hill

1885-87           McVeytown

1887-89           Montoursville

1889-93           Emporium

1893-95           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1895-97           Bellefonte

1897-00           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1900-03           Curwensville

1903-06           Sunbury

1906                Waynesboro

 

Note: John W. Rue is a brother to Vaughn T. Rue and the son of William Rue, a local preacher in the Virginia Conference.  He is the father of missionary to China Margaret May Rue (1884-?) Rue and Edgar Heilman Rue (1890-1951) of the New York Conference.  Mrs. Rue may be a niece to Caroline Shriner Rothrock, wife of Joseph Y. Rothrock.

 

RUE, VAUGHN THOMAS

 

Born: 12-5-1855  Onancock VA                                married: Anna Swayze Black

Died: 9-10-1934  Lebanon PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 322

 

1880    license

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Rohrsburg circuit

1887    ordained deacon, recommended by Rohrsburg circuit

1891    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 229

 

1883-86           student, Dickinson College

1886-86           Rohrsburg

1887-90           West Shamokin

1890-94           York Princess Street

1894-99           Tyrone Second [Columbia Avenue]

1899-00           West Shamokin

1900-04           Gettysburg-New Oxford

1904-07           Mifflinburg

1907-11           Waynesboro

1911-17           Altoona Simpson

1917-18           Berwick First

1918-23           New Cumberland

1923-27           Wrightsville

1927                retired

 

Note: Vaughn T. Rue is a brother to John W. Rue and the son of William Rue, a local preacher in the Virginia Conference.  Mrs. Rue is an 1889 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

 

RUMBAUGH, ERNEST NEWTON JR.

 

Born: 11-11-1941  Grant twp, Indiana Co PA           married: Ruth G. [“Sue”] Snyder

Died: 1-9-2004  Shippensburg PA                             obit: [12/2/1944 - ]

 

1961    license, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1964    admitted on trial, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1964    ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1964-67           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1964-67  Wolfsburg, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note:  Ernest N. Rumbaugh Jr. became a pastor in the United Church of Christ.  He is the son of Ernest N. Newton Sr. (1913-1964) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He is a brother to Evelyn Louise Rumbaugh Downey, wife of Rev. Jack Downey of the Church of the Nazarene.

 

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
          Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 421

 

1943-46           Knoxdale

1947-53           Houserville

1953-64           Franklin Grace

1964-77           Somerset Grace

1977                retired

     1986-87      Spruce Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference 

 

Note: This surname is also rendered RUMMELL. 

 

RUNKLE, CHARLES ELMORE

 

Born: 5-14-1890  Shamokin PA                                 married: Dorothy A. _____ (2/4/1911)

Died: 1-26-1959                                                          obit: [2/5/1890 – 4/4/1961]

 

1920    admitted on trial

1922    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

1916-18           Waterville

1918-21           Trout Run

1921-22           Selinsgrove

1922-24           Mount Holly

1924-25           New Oxford

1925                withdrew under complaints

 

Note: At the time of his death, Charles E. Runkle was pastor of the “Orthodox Methodist Church” in Philadelphia.  It appears that the Runkles were no longer living together when he died. 

 

RUNNER, MARVIN HARRY

 

Born: 5-14-1917  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Kathryn Wanner

Died: 1-10-2004  Boalsburg PA                                 obit: [1919 – 2010]

 

1939    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church

1947    ordained, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:

 

1941-42           Salladasburg

1942-43           Enola

1943-45           ? (not listed)

1945-46           Lewistown Trinity

1946-47           ? (not listed)

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, MARION JOSEPH

 

Born: 2-13-1853  Watsontown PA                             married: Catherine Louise Miller

Died: 12-25-1930  Tyrone PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 233

 

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Mont Alto

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 190

 

1883-84           Mont Alto

1884-85           York Princess Street & Ridge Avenue (returned to Mont Alto during the year)

1885-86           Mont Alto

1886-89           Lewisberry-Salem

1889-92           Littlestown

1892-93           Shrewsbury

1893-94           Benton

1894-96           Liberty Valley

1896-99           Cogan Valley

1899-02           Salona-Lamar

1902-05           Schellsburg

1905-07           Manor Hill

1907-08           Hoytville

1908-09           White Haven

1910-12           Town Hill

1912-14           Half Moon

1914-18           Airville

1918-20           Snow Shoe

1920-21           Glen Campbell  (finished the year at Snow Shoe)

1921-24           Wallaceton

1924                retired

 

Note: Marion J. Runyan is a brother to Robert W. Runyan.

 

RUNYAN, ROBERT WILBUR

 

Born: 6-10-1850  Watsontown PA                             married: Frances E. Buttorf

Died: 1-28-1935  Alexandria PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 223

 

1871    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Gray’s Church Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 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

1878-82           located

1883-84           Newport and Marysville

1885-88           Lewistown

1888-90           New Berlin

1890-91           Alberton MD

1891-93           Baltimore MD Memorial

1893                received on credentials in 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.

 

RUSE, SAMUEL WILCOX

 

Born: 4-18-1863  Solina, Ontario Canada                  married: Mary Fletcher Roach

Died: 1-23-1935  Toronto, Ontario Canada               obit: [1860 – 1925]

 

1901    license, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment: Hampton Bible Christian Cemetery, Hampton, Ontario Canada

Obit:

 

1904-06           Greencastle

1906                no longer listed

 

Note:  Some biographical information on Samuel W. Ruse appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 56.  He served as a local pastor.  Excessive debt prevented him from entering the ministry.  Mrs. Ruse is the daughter of Rev. W.R. Roach, a Bible Christian minister who labored in the United States and Canada, a brother to Rev. W.F. Roach of the United Church of Canada.

 

 

RUSSELL, JOSEPH M.

 

Born:  West Liberty WV                                            married

Died: 7-11-1875  Piedmont WV                                obit:

 

1873    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 58

 

1873-75           Shrewsbury

1875                Castle Fin

 

 

RUSSELL, SETH WINFIELD

 

Born: 6-3-1904  Jersey Shore PA                               married: Helen Reiter

Died: 12-30-1989  Bradenton FL                               obit: [1905 – 1972]

 

1930    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment: Manasota Memorial Park, Bradenton FL

Obit:

 

1929-31           Karthaus

1931-33           Pine Grove Mills

1933-38           Penn’s Valley

1938                Morrisdale and Munson (a few months)

1938-40           instructor, Penn State College

1940-41           Pleasant Gap

1941-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-53           faculty, Penn State College

1953-54           dean, North Dakota State University at Fargo

1954                withdrew

1954-68           dean, North Dakota State University at Fargo

1968-71           faculty, North Dakota State University at Fargo

1971                retired

 

Note: Limited information on Seth W. Russell is available in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

RUTH, C.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1914-15           Wolfsburg

 

Note: C.W. Ruth served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

RUTH, WILLIAM ELMER

 

Born: 3-13-1874  Pen Argyl PA                                 married: Anna Elizabeth Staley

Died: 12-10-1937  McElhattan PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 235

 

1902    admitted on trial

1904    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Selinsgrove Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 228

 

1902-03           Excelsior

1903-04           Benton

1904-06           Bloomingdale

1906-09           York Springs

1909-10           Muncy Valley

1910-11           Cross Forks

1911-13           Penfield

1913-15           Salladasburg (ending 4/15/15)

1915-18           Picture Rocks (beginning 4/15/15)

1818-21           Riverside

1921-22           Wilburton

1922-27           Riddlesburg

1927-29           Mercersburg

1929-31           Snow Shoe

1931-33           Centralia

1933-35           Milesburg

1935-36           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1936-37           Mill Hall

1937                Lock Haven circuit

 

Note: Some biographical information on William E. Ruth appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 28.

 

RUTHERFORD, CARL NELSON

 

Born: 10-4-1930  McVeytown PA                             married: Arlene Redline

Died: 12-1-2014                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 427

 

1952    license

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mifflinville Cemetery, Mifflinville PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 273

 

1952-54           student, Juniata College

                             1952-54      Allenport

1954-57           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1955-57      Wolfsburg

1957-63           Elysburg

1963-69           Conyngham

1969-73            Selinsgrove

1973-78           Berwick First

1978-86           New Bloomfield

1986-90           Craley-New Bridgeville

1990-92           Montgomery (ending 10/1/92)

1992                retired (beginning 10/1/92)

                             1994-95      Beach Haven

 

Note: Carl N. Rutherford is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1133.

 

RYAN, WILLIAM M.D.

 

Born: 4-14-1811  Western VA                                   married:

Died: 1-4-1872  York PA                                           obit:

 

1839    admitted on trial, Ohio Conference

1841    ordained deacon

1843    ordained elder

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1873, 70

 

1839-44           [Ohio Conference]

1839-40           Rushville circuit

1840-41           Deer Creek circuit

1841-42           Hillsboro circuit

1842-44           Ripley

1844                transfer to Rock River Conference

1844-45           Chicago Clark Street

1845-46           Milwaukee WI

1846                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1846-50           East Baltimore-Columbia Street

1850                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1850-55           Philadelphia St. George’s-Union Chapel

1855                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1855-57           agent, Metropolitan Church in Washington DC

1857                transfer to Illinois Conference

1857-58           Chicago Wabash Avenue

1858                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1858-66           Washington City

1866-69           Baltimore Columbia Street

1869-70           Baltimore Light Street

1870                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1870-72           York

 

Note: A biographical sketch of William M.D. Ryan is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 452.  He had the reputation of an evangelist in the style of Billy Sunday.

 

 

SABIN, EDGAR WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-18-1901  Rochester NY                              married: Mabelle E. Stevens

Died: 10-18-1981                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 471

 

1938    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference: recommended by Sterling

1938    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1940    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens North, Pompana Beach FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 383

 

1933-37           youth director, North Barre VT Community House [WHMS]

1937-38           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1938-42           Sterling-Martville

1942-45           Gorham-Stanley

1945-52           Williamson

1952-62           Towanda

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Towanda

1963-68           Sunbury St. John’s

1968                retired

 

Note: Edgar W. Sabin is the father of Paul E. Sabin.  The Sabins met while Mabelle was also working as a missionary under the Woman’s Home Missionary Society at the North Barre Community House.

 

SABIN, PAUL EDGAR 

 

Born: 10-14-1940  Rochester NY                              married: Onalee Barton

Died:                                                                           obit:

                                                                                    married2: Linda E. _____

1962    license                                                             obit2: [9/8/1946 - ]

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder, Western New York Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-62           student, Lycoming College

1962-63

1963-66           student, Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley CA

1967                transfer to Western New York Conference

1967-               Buffalo Ontario Street

                        transfer to Mississippi Conference

                        director, conference children’s home

1995                transfer to Louisiana Conference

                        director, Board of Child Care

2005-2007       Monroe Memorial

2008                retired

 

Note: Paul E. Sabin is the son of Edgar W. Sabin.  He is listed in the 1962 journal as a local pastor.  The first Mrs. Sabin later married a Mr. Nixon and became Dean of Continuing Education at Elmira College.  The second Mrs. Sabin served in the Louisiana Conference as a part-time local pastor and parish nurse.  As of 2016 Paul E. Sabin is a retired member of the Louisiana Conference living in Penney Farms FL.

 

SADDORIS, ARTHUR MACHIR

 

Born: 8-19-1938  Hominy OK                                   married: Edith Gray

Died: 10-6-2007                                                          obit: [d. 1992]

 

1961    admitted on trial, Oklahoma Conference

1961    ordained deacon, Oklahoma Conference

1963    ordained elder, Oklahoma Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-56           youth director, Oklahoma City Sunnylane

1962-64           minister of education, Dallas Brooklyn Avenue

1964-65           Wesley Foundation, Panhandle A&M College in Goodwell OK

1965                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1965-75           Wesley Foundation, State College

1975-76           sabbatical leave

1976-77           on leave

1977-78           leave of absence

1977-91           career counselor, University of Maryland

     1979  withdrew from the ministry

1991-02           career counselor, various federal agencies and corporations  …

2002-07           career counselor, State Department in Washington DC

 

Note: Arthur M. Saddoris is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1135. 

 

SADOFSKY, CHARLES ARTHUR

 

Born: 9-22-1893  Baltimore MD                                married: Hattie Ferguson

Died: 5-25-1982  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: [d. 11/?/1940]

                                                                                    married2: Mildred Hines

1916    license, Baltimore Conference                       obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 340; W PA Conference 1966, 1520

1919    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1919    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 397

 

1919-21           Woodlawn

1921-22           Carrollton

1922-23           Union Bridge

1923-24           Lanaham

1924-26           Hyndman PA

1926-29           Solomons

1929-32           Baltimore Monroe Street

1932-35           Baltimore Exter

1935-36           Sparrows Point

1936-37           Reisterstown

1937-39           Warfordsburg PA

1939-40           Bunker Hill WV

1940-42           ?

1942-49           superintendent, New Jersey Temperance League

1949                transfer to New Hampshire Conference

1949-51           Plymouth

1951-52           Penecook

1952-53           Liberty

1953-57           West Bridgewater

1957                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1957-59           Ford City

1959-60           Wilkinsburg Ross Avenue

1960                retired

                             1961-65      Mechanicsburg Salem

                             1965-67      Harrisburg St. Paul’s (ending 1/1/67)

                             1967-69      Pittsburgh North Avenue (beginning 1/1/67)

                             1969-70      Trevorton

 

Note: C. Arthur Sadofsky is the author of books of poems and devotional readings.

 

SAFFORD, J.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Wharton

 

Note: J. S. Safford served as a local pastor.

 

 

SAGAR, HARRY ANDREW JR.

 

Born: 2-13-1914  Elmira NY                                     married: Elinor Barnes

Died: 7-10-1999  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 428

 

1932    license, recommended by Elmira Riverside

1941    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1941    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1943    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Hershey PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000,354

 

1940-43           Big Flats-Catlin

1943-50           Watkins Glen

1950-56           Troy PA

1956-62           Waterloo

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-70           Mansfield

1970-74           Mount Union

1974-79           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1979-81           Lewisburg St. Paul’s

1981                retired

                             1981-88      visitation pastor, Hanover First

 

Note: Harry A. Sagar Jr. is the father of Harry A. Sagar III.

 

SAGAR, HARRY ANDREW III

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, recommended by Mansfield

1967    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1967-70           student, Duke University Divinity School in Durham NC

1970-73           Altoona Grace

1973-78           student, University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh PA

1978                honorable location, page 183

 

Note: Harry A. Sagar is the son of Harry A. Sagar Jr.  He has published in the field of racial attitudes and influences in society.

 

SALTER, ALVIN B.

 

Born: 3-17-1908  Berwick PA                                    married: Elizabeth Keltner [6/12/1937]

Died: 6-26-2004  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [6/1/1914 – 12/8/2006]

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1930-31           student, Dickinson College

                             1930-31      Boiling Springs & Hickorytown

 

Note: Alvin B. Salter is the son of Robert (Bert) A. Salter and father-in-law of Diane Salter of the Central Pennsylvania Conference UM.  He settled in Chambersburg – first as a salesman, and then as a high school chemistry teacher.

 

SALTER, ROBERT A.

 

Born: Northumberland PA                                         married: Maggie M. Bartholomew

Died: 1-11-1943  Harlingen TX                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 146

                                                                                    married2: Bessie B. Stull

1900  admitted on trial                                                obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 207

 

Interment: Cross Roads Lutheran Church, Augustaville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 231

 

1900-02           Grant

1902-04           Pleasant Gap

1904-06           Hustontown

1906-09           Berwick Calvary

1909-15           Clearfield West Side

1915-17           Patton

1917-19           Williamsport High Street

1919-22           Hanover

1922-25           Renovo

1925-31           Altoona Simpson

1931-34           Milton

1934-38           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1938                retired

 

 

Note: Bert A. Salter is the father of Alvin B. Salter.

 

SAMSON, J.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-21           Wallis Run

 

Note: J.M. Samson served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

SANDERSON, JOHN RUSSELL JR

 

Born: 12-26-1913                                                        married:

Died: 11-15-1986                                                        obit:

 

1938    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Florida Conference 1987, 424

 

1935-37           Waterville (beginning 9/35)

1937-38           Birmingham (ending 9/38)

1938-41           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA (beginning 9/38)

                             1938-41      Marion MA, New England South Conference (beginning 11/38)

1941-43           Salona-Lamar

1943-44           Dudley

1944-45           assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

1945-46           Avis

1946-51           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1951-54           Hazleton Diamond

1954                transfer to Florida Conference

 

SANKS, JAMES

 

Born: 6-12-1806  Anne Arundel County MD            married: Virginia Van Tries

Died: 6-4-1862  York PA                                           obit: [c1810-1849]

                                                                                    married2: Harriet A. Timmons

1828    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 85

 

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1863, 29

 

1828-29           Clear Spring

1829-30           Huntingdon

1830-31           Phillipsburg

1831-32           Baltimore City station

1832-34           Bellefonte

1834-36           Lycoming

1836-38           Berwick

1838-40           Northumberland

1840-42           Williamsburg

1842-44           Chambersburg station

1844-46           Harper’s Ferry

1846-48           Front Royal

1848-49           Winchester

1849-50           Hollidaysburg station

1850-52           Carlisle circuit

1852-54           East Harford

1854-56           Severn

1856-57           West River

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           West River

1858-62           superintendent, Bellefonte District

1862-63           York

 

Note: A biographical sketch for James Sanks is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 452.  The second Mrs. Sanks was the widow of a person unknown when she married James; Timmons was her maiden name.

 

 

 

SARGENT, THOMAS BARTOW

 

Born: 3-30-1805  Baltimore MD                                married: Sophia Gough Carroll

Died: 10-14-1879  Baltimore MD                              obit: [12/19/1813 – 6/20/1857]

 

Interment: Old St. Paul’s Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South 1880, 28

 

1825                Philadelphia Conference

1825-27           Elizabethtown NJ station

1827-29           Rahway NJ station

1829                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1829-31           Baltimore City station

1831-32           Carlisle station

1832-33           East Baltimore

1833-34           Baltimore circuit

1834-36           Washington DC Foundry

1836-38           Baltimore circuit

1838-39           Patapsco

1839-41           Great Falls

1841-42           North Baltimore station

1842-43           traveling companion, Bishop Soule

1843-47           superintendent, Potomac District

1847-48           Summerfield

1848-50           Baltimore Charles Street station

1850-52           North Baltimore

1852-53           agent, Dickinson College

1853-56           superintendent, Northumberland District

1856-58           Baltimore Strawbridge

1858-59           superintendent, West Baltimore District

1859-62           superintendent, Baltimore District

1862-63           Baltimore Strawbridge

1863-66           Hereford

1866                located

 

Note: Thomas B. Sargent is the son of Thomas Frazier Sargent (1776-1833) of the Ohio Conference.  His rather was a friend of Bishop Francis Asbury and “when a little child in my father’s home, Bishop Asbury held me on his knee and pronounced his blessing on me.” A biographical sketch for Thomas B. Sargent is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 453.

 

 

SARVER, SIDNEY J.

 

Born: 4-20-1874  Newport, Giles County VA           married:

Died: 3-19-1946  Blossburg PA                                 obit:

                                                                                    married2:  Eva  Sadie Crayton

1889    license, Holston Conference ME South         obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1975,327

1897    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference

            recommended by Ralston

1899    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1903    admitted on trial, Iowa Conference

1905    ordained deacon, Central Ohio Conference

1907    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Pennsdale Cemetery, Marsh Hill PA

Obit: Erie Conference 1946, 743

 

1889-90           Auburn NC

1891                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South

1894                discontinued at own request

1897                joins Central Pennsylvania Conference

1897-99           Clarkstown

1899-01           Benezette

1901                withdrew under complaints, page 29

    1901-02       Spring Garden, Southern Illinois Conference (supply)

1902                license, Southern Illinois Conference

1902-03           Spring Garden

1903                “transfer” to  Iowa Conference

1903-04           Millersburg

1904                transfer to Central Ohio Conference

1904-05           Gettysburg

1905-06           Deshler

1906                transfer to Central New York Conference

1906-08           Laquin

1908                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1908-09           Brownville & Dexter

1909-11           Russell, Erie Conference

1911                transfer to Erie Conference

1911-13           Russell

1913-14           Randolph

1914-16           on leave

1916                retired

                            1924-25       Emerickville – Meade Chapel

                            1927-29       New Richmond – North Richmond – Teepleville

                            1929-30       Spring Creek

                            1935-36       Kittanning First – Dayton – Snicksburg – Marion Center

 

Note:  Sidney J. Sarver is a brother to Charles M. Sarver (1863-1842) of the Virginia Conference.  He is sometimes noted as Stephen J. Sarver or Sydney J. Sarver.  He spent his final years in Marsh Hill PA, where he performed limited pastoral functions, served as postmaster, and was active in the Pennsylvania School Association.

 

SARVIS, GIDEON PILLAR

 

Born: 5-25-1848  East Waterford PA                         married: Catherine Hoenstine

Died: 12-24-1932  Tyrone PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 137

 

1885    ordained deacon, recommended by Penn’s Valley

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Thompsontown Cemetery, Thompsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 196

 

1884-85           Penn’s Valley

1885-87           Clearfield circuit

1887-91           Pleasant Gap 

1891-93           Irvona [Ansonville] 

1893-96           Port Matilda

1896-00           Hustontown

1900-08           Thompsontown

1908-14           Blain

1914-16           Blandsburg

1916                retired

 

 

SAUNDERS, DAVID LOWELL

 

Born: 3-9-1929  Indianapolis IN                                married: Ramona Webb

Died: 6-?-1993  Marshalltown IA                              obit: [10/12/1928 – 12/29/2020]

 

1954    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Steamboat Rock Cemetery, Steamboat Rock IA

Obit:

 

1953-55           Newton Hamilton

1955                transfer to North Iowa Conference

                        …

1970                voluntary location, Iowa Conference

                        “pastor-at-large” in the Presbyterian Church

 

Note: David L. Saunders is a 1952 graduate of Indiana Central College.

 

SAUTER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 4-15-1889  Williamsport PA                            married: Beatrice Casselberry

Died: 6-30-1947  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 367

 

1912    admitted on trial

1914    ordained deacon

1916    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 192

 

1910-12           Loyalsock

1912-13           Westport

1913-15           Blackwell (ending 12/31/14)

1915-16           White Haven (beginning 1/1/15)

1916-17           Laurelton

1917-18           Fort Loudon

1918-21           Airville

1921-22           Dudley

1922-25           Austin

1925-29           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1929-33           Jersey Shore First

1933-36           Clearfield West Side

1936-40           Camp Hill

1940-47           Bedford

1947                retired

 

 

SAVAGE, HAROLD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-64           Gaines – Asaph – Marshland

 

Note: Harold Savage was a student at Mansfield State Teachers College.  Nothing else is known about him.

 

SAVIDGE, COLEMAN HALL

 

Born: 3-4-1835  Northumberland County                  married: Alcinda Harwood Creager

Died: 3-13-1902                                                          obit: [12/3/1841 – 9/22/1897]

 

1857    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA

Obit:

 

1857-58           Muncy

1858-59           Orangeville

1859-60           Berwick

1860-61           West Falls

1861-62           Middletown

1862-63           Clear Spring (first part of year)

                        Waynesboro (last part of year)

1863-64           Allegany

1884-86           Frostburg

1866-67           Hancock

                        transfer to Baltimore Conference

1870                Methodist Book Room, New York NY

1886                located at own request

 

Note: Biographical information on Coleman Hall Savidge is given in the 1894 Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County PA by Wiley and Garner, page 244.

 

 

SAVIDGE, GEORGE V.

 

Born: 6-1835  near Sunbury PA                                 married: Mariah Louise Blanchard

Died: 1-14-1921  Berwick PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 162

 

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Elysburg circuit

 

Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 139

 

1874-75           Elysburg

1875-77           Helfenstein

1877-80           Iola

1880-83           Buckhorn

1884-86           Benton

1886-89           Muhlenburg

1889-92           Beach Haven

1892-97           Jerseytown

1897-00           Town Hill

1900-05           Mifflinville

1905-06           on leave

1906                retired

 

 

SAXE, JAY ARDEN

 

Born: 8-19-1935  Sweet Valley PA                            married: Nancy Eileen Oliver (7/6/1957)

Died: 9-29-2025  State College PA                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 347

 

1953    quarterly conference license, Hunlock Creek charge

1957    license, recommended by Muhlenburg

1958    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

1960    ordained elder

           

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2026, ?

 

1957-62           Hustontown

1962-71           New Bloomfield Area Parish

1971-82           Altoona Gethsemane

1982-89           Everett

1989-97           Waynesboro Faith

1997                retired

                             1999-15      Clearville – Stevens Chapel

 

Note: Jay A. Saxe is the son of Oscar W. Saxe.  He listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1147.

 

SAXE, OSCAR WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-23-1911  Bethel Hill PA                                married: Jessie Dohl Harvey

Died: 1-4-1986                                                            obit: [6/25/1917 – 11/13/1998]

 

1943    license, recommended by Bethel Hill on Harveyville charge

1949    ordained deacon

1951    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

           

Interment: Bethel Hill Cemetery, Sweet Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 434

 

1943-45           Muncy Valley (beginning 12/1/43)

1945-62           Hunlock Creek

1962-79           Hughesville

1979                retired

 

Note: Oscar W. Saxe is the father of Jay A. Saxe.

 

 

SAXMAN, HARRY MERLE

 

Born: 11-29-1914  Armstrong County PA                 married: Ruth May Griswold

Died: 10-5-1997  Brogue PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 387

 

1942    license, Erie Conference: recommended by Putneysville

1947    admitted on trial, recommended by Fayetteville

1947    ordained deacon

1949    ordained elder

 

Interment: McKendree Church Cemetery, Airville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 448

 

1942-44           Hazen, Erie Conference (beginning 9/1/42)

1944-47           Fayetteville

1947-49           Doylesburg

1949-53           Mill Hall

1953-55           Centralia

1955-59           Clearfield circuit

1959-64           Millerstown

1964-69           Airville

1969-73           Williamstown

1973-74           Watsontown

1974-78           Runville

1978-81           Leesburg

1981                retired

                             1981-89      Hillcrest             

 

SAYERS, ELROY MERVIN

 

Born: 8-7-1915  New Bethlehem PA                         married: Alda Ruth Kirkpatrick

Died: 6-16-1988  Sawtown PA                                  obit: [1/21/1913 – 5/25/2001]

 

1936    local preacher’s license

1937    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1939    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Asbury Cemetery, Strattanville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 415

 

1936-37           Big Bend

1937-39           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1939           Hazen (May – Sept)

1938-39           Newman’s Chapel

1940-41           Grampian & Lumber City, Central Pennsylvania Conference (4/14/1940 – 10/15/1941)

1941-46           Rimersburg

1946-48           Clintonville

1948-51           Tionesta

1951-53           Lakewood NY

1953-60           Parker

1960-62           Rockland1

1962                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1962-64           Rockland

1964-72           Oil City Bethel-Plumer

1972-77           Belleview

1977-80           Connoquenessing-Renfrew

1980                retired

 

Note: Elroy M. Sayers is the son of Homer A. Sayers (1891-1968) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  E.M. Sayers served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference for 18 months (1940-41) as a local pastor, the circumstances of which are not clear.

 

SCHAEFFER, SAMUEL CARLYLE

 

Birth: 5-26-1880  Shrewsbury PA                              married: Minnie P. _____

Death: 4-12-1957                                                        obit: Southern CA – AZ Conference 1964, 276

 

1901    license, recommended by Madison NJ

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Fresno CA

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1957, 210

 

1901-02           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

 

Note: Some biographical information on S. Carlyle Schaeffer appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 32.  Some sources give his birth year as 1872 or 1873.

 

SCARBOROUGH, JOHN BARCLAY

 

Born: 9-24-1835  Harford County MD                      married: Rachel Frances Lewin

Died:12-25-1909  Harford County MD                      obit: [8/7/1842 – 11/12/1912]

 

1858    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Emory Methodist Church cemetery, Harford County MD

Obit:

 

1858-59           Woodbury

1859-60           Philipsburg

1860                discontinued at own request

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SCARBORO.  John B. Scarboro is the subject of an article in THE CHRONICLE 1991, page 88.  His 12/18/1860 marriage is likely the reason for his leaving the itinerant ministry.

 

SCHEAR, LLOYD BENNER

 

Born: 2-25-1907  Newcomerstown OH                     married: Sarah Dunning

Died: 4-30-1965                                                          obit: [10/29/1910 – 2/2/2013]

 

1939    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mosswood Cemetery, Cotuit MA

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1965, 183

 

1938-40           Birmingham (beginning 9?38)

1940-41           Hughesville (ending 10/41)

1941-43           on leave (beginning 10/41)

1943-45           White Haven

1945-47           Lewisbery-Lisburn

1947                voluntary location

1951-54           Hoboken, Newark Conference

1954                re-admitted

1954                transfer to Newark Conference

1954-57           Hoboken

1957-60           Rockaway

1960-62           Newark Trinity

1962-65           Cokesbury-Oldwick   

 

 

SCHELL, JAMES LONG

 

Born: 5-12-1936 Harrisburg PA                                 married: Phyllis Ann Moser (8/12/1960)

Died: 10-24-1987                                                        obit: [9/27/1937 - ]

 

1957    license, recommended by Stevens Memorial

1959    admitted on trial

1960    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

           

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 422

 

1954-58           student, Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown PA

1958-61           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1958-61      Mont Alto

1961-63           Mount Alto (ending 1/15/63)

1963-66           Mount Holly Springs (beginning 1/15/63)

1966-70           Duncansville Hicks Memorial

1970-81           Mechanicsburg Hope

1981-87           Harrisburg Mount Calvary (ending 7/29/87)

1987-               disability leave (beginning 7/29/87)

 

Note: James L. Schell is a brother to Walter M. Schell.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1150.

 

SCHELL, WALTER METTLEN

 

Born: 6-26-1933  Harrisburg PA                                married: Marian L. Meyer

Died: 1-30-2021  Williamsport PA                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 344

 

1953    license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1956    admitted on trial

1956    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemeter, Montoursville PAQ

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 366

 

1951-55           student, Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown PA

1955-58           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1956-58      Marysville Wesley

1958-62           Marysville Wesley

1962-67           Fayetteville Calvary

1967-79           Montoursville Faith

1979-84           superintendent, Williamsport District

1984-95           Williamsport Pine Street

1995                retired

 

Note: Walter M. Schell is a brother to James L. Schell.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1150.

 

 

SCHENCK, NATHAN HEVERLEY

 

Born: 2-7-1849  Centre County PA                            married: Mary Jane [“Jennie”] Milligan

Died: 12-20-1937  Muncy PA                                                obit: [11/7/1849 – 2/15/1917]

                                                                                   

1883    admitted on trial, recommended by Emporium

1883    ordained deacon, recommended by Emporium

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit:

 

1883-84           Emporium

1884-86           Montgomery

1886-90           Hughesville

1890-92           Williamsport Third Street

1892-97           Lock Haven East Main Street

1897-99           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1899                transfer to Black Hills Conference

1899-00           Lead

1900-01           conference evangelist, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1901                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           McConnellsburg

1902-07           on leave

1907                located at own request

 

Note: Nathan H. Schenck has roots in Schenck’s [Hunter’s Run] Church in Howard township, Centre County.  He moved to Driftwood, Cameron County, before 1870 and apparently taught school before entering the ministry.  There is a good picture of him on find-a-grave.  Mrs. Schenck’s maiden name is also given as McCloskey.

 

SCHISSLER, HARRY H.  see SHISSLER, [WILLIAM] HENRY HARRISON

 

SCHLABIG, RALPH DONALD

 

Born: 11-28-1906  New Millport PA                         married:

Died: 6-6-1960  New Millport PA                             obit:

 

1943    ordained local deacon

1949    admitted on trial, Colorado Conference

 

Interment: New Millport Cemetery, New Millport PA

Obit:

 

1940-42           Benezette & Penfield

1942-49           Snow Shoe & Karthaus

1949                “transfer” to Colorado Conference

1949-52           Rinn

1952-54           Price UT

1954                withdrew

1954-55           Clearfield Circuit, Central Pennsylvania Conference (1/15/1954 – 4/1/1955)

1955                resigned to accept a call to a Presbyterian Church in New York State, page 92

 

1959-60           supply pastor, New Millport – Olanta Lutheran charge

 

Note: Ralph D. Schlabig served as a local pastor in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was admitted into full connection in the Colorado Conference in 1951.

 

 

SCHLESINGER, GEORGE CHARLES

 

Born: 9-14-1923  Williamsport PA                            married: Leona Maxine Smith

Died: 8-4-2015  Toms River NJ                                 obit: [2/8/1929 – 8/4/2015]

 

1957    license, recommended by Avis

1961    admitted on trial

1961    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment: Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown NJ

Obit:

 

1957-60           student, Lycoming College

                             1957-60  Oriole

1960-64           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1960-61  Elizabeth NJ Park

1964-67           Mifflinburg

1967                transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference 11/30 1967

1967-73           Edison

1973-75           associate, Westfield

1975-86           Springfield

1986-89           Trenton, Southern New Jersey Conference

1989                retired

 

SCHLOSSER, NOAH

 

Born: 3-30-1822  Franklin County PA                       married: Sarah Catherine Maxwell

Died: 9-28-1907  Denver CO                                     obit: [12/11/1832 – 10/3/1914]

 

1844    received on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

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           on leave

1858-60           Green Village

1860-61           on leave

1861                retired

                             1868           charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1879           located at own request

                                                became a dentist

                             1883           moved to Denver CO

 

Note: Information of Noah Schlosser is in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

SCHRIBER, WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-28-1827 Milesburg PA                                  married: Margaret S. Anna Miller

Died: 4-30-1906 Wilcox PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 97

 

1858    license, recommended by Penn’s Valley

1866    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Wilcox, Elk County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 108

 

1866-67           Mifflin circuit

1867-69           Concord

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-71           New Bloomfield

1871-72           Manor Hill

1872-73           Concord

1873-75           Thompsontown

1875-77           Decatur

1877-78           on leave

                             1877-78      Newville & Rehobeth

1878                retired

 

SCHROEDER, PAUL DANIEL

 

Born: 6-27-1928  Binghamton NY                             married: Jeanette Ruth Browning

Died: 9-18-1989  Tyrone PA                                      obit: [1930 - ]

 

1949    license, recommended by Clarks Summit

1953    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 466 and 1991, 490

 

1950-52           Cherry Tree 

1952-53           Schellsburg

1953-56           Wrightsville

1956-59           Millerstown

1959-66           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

1966-69           Emporium

1969-73           Roaring Spring

1973-80           administrator, Bethany Village (ending 8/11/80)

1980-89           administrator, Epworth Manor (beginning 8/11/80)

 

Note: Paul D. Schroeder is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1155.

 

SCHROPSHIRE  SEE SHROPSHIRE

 

SCHUCHART, HARRY J.

 

Born: 6-18-1875  Tamaqua PA                                  married: Jennie Reeke

Died: 8-20-1959 Penney Farms, FL                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 131

                                                                                    married2: Hazel Owen

1901  admitted on trial                                                obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 350

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 248

 

1900-02           Excelsior

1902-04           Barnesboro

1904-07           Snow Shoe

1907-11           Altoona Fairview

1911-15           Stewartstown

1915-18           Weatherly

1918-20           Centralia

1920-21           Warriors Mark

1921-28           Altoona Llyswen

1928-30           York Ridge Avenue

1930-32           Jersey Shore Epworth

1932-35           Renovo

1935-36           St. Mary’s

1936-37           Williamsport Third Street

1937-40           Beaver Meadows

1940-42           Lock Haven East Main Street

1942-47           Mt. Holly Springs

1947                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on Harry J. Schuchart appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 31. 

 

SCOTT, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 6-13-1872  Huntingdon County PA                 married: Florence Adella Maneval

Died: 1-3-1961  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 251

 

1899    license, recommended by Petersburg

1905    admitted on trial

1907    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 262

 

1902-05           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1902           Summerfield NJ

1905-08           Rohrsburg

1908-11           Orangeville

1911-16           Danville Trinity

1916-19           Woolrich

1919-22           Bellefonte

1922-28           Williamsport Grace

1928-30           Barnsboro

1930-32           Renovo

1932-35           Shickshinny

1935                retired

                             1942           Waterville (July 15 to November 1)

                             1943-47      McElhatten

 

Note: Some biographical information on Alexander Scott appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 52. 

 

SCOTT, NATHAN LEE

 

Born: 3-24-1913  Lee County VA                              married: Mary Frank Farris

Died: 3-9-1960  Danville VA                                     obit: [12/26/1914 – 4/5/1998]

 

1946    admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference

1949    ordained deacon, Kentucky Conference

1951    ordained elder, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: McKendree UMC, Airville PA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1960, 120

 

1946-48           student, Union College in Barboursville KY

                            1946-48       Corbin KY Second

1948-51           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

    1948-53       Airville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1951                transfer to Virginia Conference

1951-54           Charlotte

1954-57           East Franklin

1957-60           Danville Design

 

Note: N. Scott Lee had two children – daughters born circa 1933 who married men from Airville and settled there.  His vocation before entering the ministry is not known.

 

SCOTT, WILLIAM ARTHUR

 

Born: 2-26-1921 Juniata PA                                       married: Helen M. Schuh

Died: 4-9-1998                                                            obit: [8/31/1981 – 11/2/2001]

 

1950    ordained, Conservative Baptist

1973    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Alto Reste Park, Altoona PA

Obit: [1998, 423]

 

1957-64           South Altoona Baptist (beginning 1/1/57 and ending 8/64)

1966-68           Harrisburg St. Paul’s (beginning 12/1/66)

1969-74           Runville

1974-76           Young’s-Mt. Zion

1976-81           Mexico-Locust Run

1981-86           disability leave

1986                retired

 

SEAMAN, ALAN MONROE

 

Born: 3-22-1930                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-59           Penns Valley

1959-62           student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY

1962-63           missionary, West Pakistan

1963                transfer to Indus River Conference

 

Note: Alan M. Seaman graduated from Dunbar Township High School, near Connellsville PA in 1947.  He is the author of the 1974 364-page book Guidelines for developing an improved program of agricultural education and extension in the Raiwind area of Pakistan,  The 2017 contact information for Alan M. Seaman is: 585 N SR 741, Lebanon OH 45036.

 

SEARCH, LESTER EUGENE

 

Born: 9-2-1893  Berwick PA                                      married: Cora Edna Ober

Died: 4-26-1960  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 337

 

1925    admitted on trial

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hill Cemetery, New Buffalo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 246

 

1923-25           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1925-26           Burnt Cabins

1926-28           Cross Roads

1928-29           Sinnemahoning

1929-31           Grampian

1931-34           Snydertown

1934-35           Town Hill

1935-37           Millville-Jerseytown

1937-40           Kulpmont

1940-42           Harveyville

1942-47           Audenreid-Jeanesville

1947-53           Wrightsville

1953-54           Gatchelville

1954-57           James Creek

1957-59           Mapleton

1958                retired

 

SEARS, MARVIN WAYNE

 

Born: 7-24-1918  Sunbury PA                                    married: Hazel M. Graham

Died: 12-14-2011  Palmyra PA                                  obit: [4/24/1924 – 12/6/2012]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Marvin W. Sears has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.   He attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Western Maryland College (class of 1942?), listed as being from Shamokin PA.  He worked as a librarian for the Department of Defense.

 

SEARS, SAMUEL WESLEY

 

Born: 2-27-1834  Baltimore MD                                married: Elizabeth R. McCahan

Died: 6-10-1896  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 95

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 90

 

1855-56           Newville

1856-57           Carlisle circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Lewistown circuit

1859-61           Ashland

1861-63           Hagerstown

1863-66           Cumberland

1866-68           Milton

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Philipsburg

1870-71           Altoona First

1871-72           Espy-Light Street

1872-73           on leave

1873-75           Mount Carmel

1875-77           Catawissa

1877-79           Sunbury

1879-81           Lewistown

1881-83           Bedford

1883-86           Mount Carmel

1886-89           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1889-92           Bloomsburg

1892-95           Chambersburg

1895-96           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1896                on leave

 

Note: A biographical sketch of S. Wesley Sears is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 454.  An obituary also appears in the 8/27/1896 Christian Advocate.

 

SEBRING, FRANK C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1911-12           Shawville

1912-13           Rohrsburg

 

Note: Frank C. Sebring served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  The middle initial is also given as K.

 

SEIFERT, HARRY WHITE

 

Born: 8-13-1877  Birdsboro PA                                 married: J. Minola Guest (6/22/1899)

Died: 5-28-1942  Lafayette IN                                   obit:

                                                                                    married2: Susan Jamison Miller (1910)

                                                                                    obit2: [8/13/1880 – 4/13/1943]

1900    admitted on trial, recommended by Bethel-Trinity

1905    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1907    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Rest Haven Memorial Park

Obit: Lafayette IN

 

1896-99           student, Ursinus College in Collegeville PA

1899-00           Bethel-Trinity (approx 8/1899 to 8/1900)

1900-01           Harrisonville (beginning approx 8/1900)

1901-02           Burnt Cabins (ending 9/8/1902)

1902-03           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1902-03      Patterson NJ Belle-vista

1903                discontinued

1903-05           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1903-04      Swartswood NJ

1905                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1905-07           Lower Merion

1907-08           Coventryville

1908-09           Dauphin

1909                withdrew

 

Note: Some biographical information on Harry White Seifert appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, pages 31 and 33.  The Trinity of Bethel-Trinity is the former Trinity South of the Evangelical Association.  The 1926 Drew alumni record lists him as an attorney living in Duluth MN.

 

SENSENBACH, EUGENE GUY

 

Born: 5-30-1904  Freeland PA                                   married: Ethel Mae Fairchild

Died: 2-24-1982                                                          obit: [3/9/1906 – 1/25/1978]

 

Interment: Freeland Cemetery, Freeland PA

Obit:

 

1924-25           Picture Rocks circuit

 

Note: Eugene Sensenbach served as a local pastor.  Some sources give his birth date as 5/3/1904.Cemetery, Camden

 

SENSER, GEORGE GUYER

 

Born: 10-18-1852  Philipsburg PA                             married: Julia Frances Mendenhall (12/25/1879)

Died: 8-18-1913  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [10/?/1858 – 6/29/1941]

 

1875    license

1876    admitted on trial

1879    ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference

1884    ordained elder, Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: Harleigh Cemetery, Camden NJ

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1914, 160

 

1876-77           Glen Hope

1877                discontinued at own request, to attend school

1879                admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference

1870-82           Grand Island

1882-84           St. Paul

1884-85           Keyport St. John’s, New Jersey Conference 

1885                transfer to New Jersey Conference

                        Auburn

                        Haleyville

                        Cold Springs Newport

                        Pennsville

                        Quinton

                        Woodstown

1899                transfer to Wilmington Conference

                        Pocomoke City

                        Crisfield Asbury

                        Chincoteague VA

1903                transfer to New Jersey Conference

                        Fairton and Center Grove

                        Camden Bethel

                        Wenonah

                        Camden Eighth Street

 

Note: George Guyer Senser is named for George Guyer.  

 

SEWELL, REUBEN

 

Born: 7-30-1801                                                          married: Margaret Ann McRory [2/14/1860]

Died: 1-29-1871                                                          obit: [5/26/1812 – 2/20/1888]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1859-60           Alto Dale

1860                discontinued at own request

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SEWALL.  The maiden name of Mrs. Sewell is also given as McCrory.

 

SEYMOUR, MAUDE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1926    local pastor’s license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1925-26           state vice-president, WCTU

1930-32           West Fairview & Summerdale (beginning during the 1929-30 conference year)

 

Note: Mrs. Maude Seymour served as a local pastor.  In 1929, she is listed as a local pastor living in McConnellsburg.   She moved to Dauphin when her husband secured employment with the State.

 

SHAFER, DONALD LEROY BRINTON SR

 

Born: 3-12-1919  Lewistown PA                               married: Lillie Bernice Sheeks

Died: 3-7-2007  Tyrone PA                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 269

 

1949    license, recommended by Port Royal

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 428

 

1948-53           Fayetteville 

1953-56           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1953-55      Hampton, New Jersey Conference

1956-59           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1959-61           Avis

1961-63           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1963-67           Selinsgrove

1967-77           Hollidaysburg First

1977-84           Harrisburg Derry Street

1984                retired

                            Salem UCC

                            Roaring Spring Christ UCC

                            Saxton UM

                            Manor Hill UM

                            visitation pastor, Hollidaysburg First UM

             

Note: Donald L. Shafer is the father of D.L. Brinton Shafer and of Elaine Shafer-Stroud of the Susquehanna Conference.  He is also the grandfather of Elizabeth Shafer-Glass of the Virginia Conference. 

 

SHAFER, DONALD LEROY BRINTON, JR

 

Born: 2-17-1944                                                          married: Cornelia Ann Greaves

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by Selinsgrove

1967    admitted on trial

1967    ordained deacon

1971    ordained elder

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-66           student, Lycoming College

                             1963-64      assistant, Snydertown

                             1964-66      Irish Valley 

1966-68           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1966-68      Johnsonburg-Walnut NJ

1968-72           Petersburg

1972-80           Altoona Faith

1980-91           Roaring Spring

1991-10           Hollidaysburg First

2010                retired

             

Note: D.L. Brinton Shafer is the son of Donald L. Shafer and a brother to Elaine Shafer-Stroud of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

SHAFFER, JOHN ROBINSON

 

Born: 8-4-1872  Newton Hamilton PA                      married: Alice _____

Died: 11-16-1958  Portland PA                                  obit:

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Beach Haven

 

Interment: Rose City Cemetery, Portland OR

Obit: Oregon Conference 1959, 107

 

1902-03           New Millport

1903-04           living in New Millport

1904-06           Bakerton

1906-07           Dent’s Run

1907-09           Beach Haven

1909-10           Buckhorn

1910-12           Berwick Calvary

1912-13           Mill Hall

1913                transfer to West Wisconsin Conference

 

SHAFFER, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                          obit:

 

1880    license

1882    ordained deacon, recommended by Sinnemahoning circuit

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1882-83           Wharton

 

Note: Joseph Shaffer was a local pastor living in Sinnemahoning.

 

SHAFFER, MONA MARIE THOMPSON

 

Born: 3-21-1921  Altoona PA                                    married: Paul C. Shaffer (8/2-/1949)

Died: 2-27-2018                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 300

 

1954    license, recommended by Altoona Mardorf

1966    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 278

 

Note: Mona M. Shaffer is married to Paul C. Shaffer.  A licensed local pastor, she never received an appointment. 

 

SHAFFER, NATHAN

 

Born: 9-18-1823  Columbia County PA                     married: Mary Ann Durst [2/16/1859]

Died: 12-26-1910                                                        obit: [1/21/1833 – 2/4/1918]

 

Interment: Wyoming Cemetery, Wyoming IA

Obit:

 

1852-53           Penn’s Valley

1853-54           New Washington

1854-55           Caledonia

1855-56           Bald Eagle

1856-57           Luzerne

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Hereford

1858-59           Carlisle circuit

1859-61           Liberty Valley

1861-62           English Center

1862                “retired”

1863                moved to Iowa

1863-66           lived and preached in Buchanan County IA

1866-69           lived preached in Jackson County IA

1869-96           lived and farmed in Jones County IA

1896                moved to Wyoming IA

 

Note: There is biographical information on Nathan Shaffer in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

 

SHAFFER, PAUL CLAY

 

Born: 7-8-1922  Hyndman PA                                   married: Mona Marie Thompson

Died: 6-12-2011  Honey Brook PA                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 278

 

1947    license, recommended by Altoona Emanuel EUB

1952     admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 300

 

1947-49           Glen Hope-Madera 

1949-51           Clearville

1951-57           Altoona Mardorf

1957-61           Osceola Mills

1961-65           Bellefonte

1965-68           Wellsboro

1968-73           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1973-81           York Otterbein

1981-87           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1987                retired

 

Note: Paul C. Shaffer is married to Mona M. Shaffer.  He listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1173.

 

SHAFFNER, LEWIS EARL

 

Born: 1885                                                                  married: Elsie Mae Stone

Died: 12-25-1956                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 316

 

1915  approved supply pastor

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Williamsburg PA

Obit:

 

1915-16           Avis

1916-18           student, Dickinson College

                             1916           Rehoboth (ending fall 1916)

                             1916-18      Boiling Springs (beginning fall 1916)

1920                admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1920-26           [New York East Conference]

1926                withdrew

1932-33           Orangeville-Rohrsburg

1933                admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1933-34           Orangeville-Rohrsburg

1934-38           Duncannon

1938-41           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial (ending 10/31/41)

1941                membership terminated by judicial procedure: 1942, 20&44

                        active at Lewistown First

 

Note: L. Earl Shaffer is the father of Bernice Jean Shaffner Bailor, wife of Donald E. Bailor.  Mrs. Shaffner is a sister to Thomas M. Stone. 

 

SHANK, AURANCE FOSTER

 

Born: 6-16-1905  Langford KS                                  married: Ada Sharrow

Died: 4-11-1971  St. Mary’s PA                                obit:

                                                                                    married2: Priscilla M. Thayer

1928    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [1914 - ]

1931    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Newton Cemetery, Emporium PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 374

 

1923-25           student, Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH

1925-27           student, Dickinson College

1927-28

1928-29           Altoona Jaggard

1929-33           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1929-33      assistant, Patterson NJ Market Street

1933-35           West Fairview-Summerdale

1935-41           Shrewsbury

1941-45           Shippensburg

1945-50           Camp Hill

1950-54           Berwick

1954-65           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1965-69           Altoona First

1969-70           Emporium

1970                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-71           Emporium

 

Note: Aurance F. Shank is the son of John W. Shank.

 

SHANK, JOHN WILSON

 

Born: 5-1-1879  Schoolcraft MI                                 married: Ada Viola Slarrow

Died: 4-7-1958  Renovo PA                                       obit: [b. 1873]

                                                                                    married2: Johanna J. Friedrick

                                                                                    obit2:

 

1900    license, recommended by New Berlin United Evangelical Church

1901    local preacher on trial, Central PA Conference of United Evangelical Church: page 7

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Farwell PA

Obit:

 

1901                local preacher on trial, living in Glen Union PA

                        [living in Kansas]

1906-07           Tout Run, Central PA Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1907                received into Central PA Conference of ME Church on credentials from UE Church

1907-09           Trout Run

1909-10           without appointment

1910                located at own request

 

Note: John W. Shank is the father of Aurance F. Shank.  Some biographical information on John W. Shank appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 64.  He is reported to have had credentials in the Kansas Conference of the United Evangelical Church.  The first Mrs. Shank is a sister of John Morrison Slarrow (1856-1906) of the Baltimore Conference.  She is listed in the 1920 census as a “widowed” schoolteacher  living in Williamsport PA. 

 

SHANNON, FREDERICK FRANKLIN

 

Born: 2-11-1877  Council Grove KS                         married: Effie Grace Myers [5/3/1903]

Died: 4-14-1947  Chicago IL                                     obit: [1878 – c1962]

 

1899    license, recommended by Louisa KY: West Virginia Conference of MES

1903    admitted on trial, credentials recognized from Methodist Episcopal Church South

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1899-03           West Virginia Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church South

                             1899           Ashland KY

                             1901           Sutton WV

1903-05           assistant, Harrisburg Grace

1905                transfer to New York East Conference

 

Note: Frederick F. Shannon moved to Harrisburg to enter Anti-Saloon work.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 46.  A noted pulpit expositor, he later became pastor of Grace Church in Booklyn NY, Height Reformed Church in Brooklyn NY, and Central Church in Chicago IL.  Mrs. Shannon was from York PA. 

 

SHANNON, JARED YOUNG

 

Born: 10-14-1841  Bloomsburg PA                           married: Rosetta M. Ent

Died: 2-18-1892  Newport PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 59

                                                                                    married2: Anna M. McClay

1872    admitted on trial, recom.by Bloomsburg        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 98

 

Interment: Bloomsburg Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 91

 

1871-73           Bloomingdale

1873-76           Shippensburg circuit

1876-79           Fairview-Marysville

1879-82           Wrightsville

1882-85           Greencastle

1885-88           Mount Holly Springs

1888-92           Newport 

 

SHANNON, SAMUEL

 

Born: 8-1-1830  Muncy PA                                        married: Deborah M. Knorr

Died: 12-27-1896  Washington DC                           obit: [6/17/1834 – 4/3/1908]

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1897, 67

 

1856-57           Bloomingdale

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Orangeville

1858-59           Luzerne

1859-61           Mifflinburg

1861-63           Montoursville

1863-65           Muncy

1865-67           White Haven

1867-68           Piedmont

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Piedmont

1869-72           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1872-75           Washington DC Ryland

1875-76           Washington DC Union

1876-78           Baltimore Franklin Street

1878-81           Baltimore Columbia Avenue

1881-84           Baltimore Emory

1884-87           Havre de Grace

1887-91           Annapolis Wesley Chapel

1891-94           Washington DC Grace

1894-96           Cumberland Kingsley

1896                Washington DC K Street       

 

Note: A biographical sketch for Samuel Shannon is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 453.

 

SHANNON, WILLARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1913-14           Park Place & Delano

1914-15           Rohrsburg

1915-16           Buckhorn

1916-18           Karthaus

 

Note: Willard Shannon served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown. A 1909 newspaper article refers to him as “a missionary of the American Sunday School Union.”

 

SHAVER, JOSEPH BENSON

 

Born: 12-3-1844  Perry County PA                            married: Emma J. Mumper

Died: 11-17-1903  Hazleton PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 272

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 111

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Gettysburg

1869-71           New Cumberland

1871-72           Greencastle

1872-73           Thompsontown

1873-75           Osceola

1875-77           Bedford circuit

1877-80           Milesburg

1880-83           Hollidaysburg

1883-86           Curwensville

1886-89           Altoona First

1889-92           Hazleton

1892-96           Danville St. Paul’s

1896-02           Williamsport Pine Street

1902-03           Lock Haven Trinity

 

Note: An obituary for Joseph B. Shaver also appears in the 11/26/1903 Pennsylvania Methodist.  Joseph B. Shaver is the son of David Shaver (1804-1862), who was an itinerant member of the Baltimore Conference 1827-1840 before settling in Perry County and marrying Nancy E. Linn, daughter of prominent Presbyterian John Linn.  Joseph B. Shaver is also the uncle of Mary Shaver Upham, wife of Walter H. Upham.

 

SHAW, RAYMOND CONOVER

 

Born: 9-8-1901                                                            married: Kittie May Cain

Died: 2-24-1988                                                          obit: [7/16/1906 – 4/25/2005]

 

1926    license

1927    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Tranquility Cemetery, Tranquility NJ

Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1988, 146

 

1927-29           Lebanon

1929                transfer to Genesee Conference

1929-29           Stony Point

1929-31           Alden

1931-34           Holly

1934-39           Fairport

1939                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1939-41           Mohawk

1941-42           Oswego Trinity

1942-52           chaplain US Army

1952                transfer to Genesee Conference

1952-56           Buffalo Ontario Street

1956-60           Newfane

1960-62           Coudersport

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Coudersport

1963-64           Riverside

1964                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1964-66           Zelienople Harmony

1966                transfer to Oregon Conference

…

1974-84           Talent

 

Note: Raymond C. Shaw graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1927 with his hometown listed as Andover NJ. 

 

SHEAFFER, WILLIAM JAMES

 

Born: 7-18-1868  Perry County PA                            married: Sarah Ann Beyer

Died: 12-10-1930  Newport PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 530

 

1890    admitted on trial

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 188

 

1889-92           Jamestown

1892-93           at school

1893-94           Kedron

1894-96           Hustontown

1896-99           New Washington

1899-03           Three Springs

1903-06           Reedsville

1906-10           Reedsville-Milroy

1910-13           Everett

1913-15           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1915-19           Montoursville

1919-25           Jersey Shore First

1925-27           Hanover

1927-30           Newport

 

Note: Mrs. Sheaffer is the sister of Christena Beyer Rishell, wife of Charles Wesley Rishell. 

 

 

SHEARER, JAMES WALTER

 

Born: 11-1-1874  Rainsburg PA                                 married: Elizabeth Leona Baer (7/14/1904)

Died: 1947                                                                  obit: [1878-1964]

 

1899    license, recommended by Rainsburg

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Siloam Cemetery, Vineland NJ

Obit:

 

1899-03           student, Dickinson College

1903-05           Trevorton

1905-08           Jeddo-Lattimer

1908-09           Blackwell

1909                withdrew

                        “transfer” to Pittsburgh Synod of the Lutheran Church

1910-12           Donora Trinity

1912-16           Freeport Emmanuel

1916-26           Vandergrift St. Paul’s

 

Note: Some biographical information on James W. Shearer appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 47.  In the Lutheran Church he was known as J. Walter Shearer. 

 

SHEEHAN, ROBERT HENRY

 

Born: 3-22-1914  Forkston PA                                   married: Clarissa Treat

Died: 11-3-1992  Pittston PA                                     obit: Wyoming Conference 2004, 216

 

1939    license, Wyoming Conference

1947    admitted on trial, recommended by Littlestown

1947    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Lakeville Cemetery, Lakeville PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1993, 355

 

1940-42           student, Brothers College at Drew University in Madison NJ

1942-44           student, West Virginia Wesleyan in Buckhannon WV

                             1942-44      Volga circuit

1944-47           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1944-45      Hustontown

                             1945-47      Littlestown

1947-49           Conyngham

1949                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1949-55           Wyalusing

1955-58           Cooperstown

1958-64           Endicott St. Paul’s

1964-70           Dallas

1970-74           Tunkhannock

1974-76           Vestal Calvary (ending 12/1/76)

1976-77           sabbatical (beginning 12/1/76)

1977-79           Vestal Calvary

1979                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Sheehan is the daughter of Stephen Treat (1873-1918) of the Wyoming Conference. 

 

SHEFFER, DANIEL

 

Born: 12-7-1835  Liberty PA                                     married: Mary Catherine Snyder

Died: 2-24-1905  Cedar Falls IA                                obit: Upper Iowa Conference 1922, 440

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Cedar Falls IA

Obit: Upper Iowa Conference 1905, 227

 

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Pine Creek & Liberty circuit

1858-59           Warrior’s Mark

1859-60           Karthaus

1860-62           Baltimore Harford Avenue station

1862-64           Shippensburg

1864-65           Havre de Grace

1865-67           Westernport

1867-68           Waynesboro

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Waynesboro

1869-70           Hazleton

1870                transfer to Upper Iowa Conference

1870-71           Waterloo First

1871-73           Cedar Falls

1873-75           Vinton

1875-76           Independence

1876-77           Manchester

1877-79           West Union

1879-80           Osage

1880-81           Waukegon

1881-82           Marion

1882-86           superintendent, Cedar Falls District

1886-88           Marion

1888-91           Tipton

1891-92           on leave

1892-93           Fields Chapel

1893-95           on leave

1895-97           Clarksville

1897-00           Shell Rock

1900                retired

 

Note: Find-a-grave has a good photo of Daniel Sheffer.

 

SHEFFER, SADIE J.

 

Born: 7-1-1867  Middlesex PA                                  married: [never married]

Died: 1-19-1946  Long Branch NJ                             obit:

 

1898    entered deaconess training, recommended by Williamsport Grace

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 238

 

1898-00           student, Lucy Webb Hayes Training School in Washington DC

1900-07           Newark NJ South Market

1907-37           Altoona Italian

1937                retired to Bancroft-Taylor [Methodist] Home in Ocean Grove NJ

 

Note: Miss Sadie Sheffer is featured on the cover and in an article on the Altoona Italian Church in the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, page 50.  Her sister Miss Lillian Sheffer was also a Methodist deaconess.

 

SHELHAMER, CARMER PAUL

 

Born: 6-24-1912  Evansville PA                                married: Hester Gertrude Eroh

Died: 6-6-1993  Hamburg PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 425

 

1952    license, recommended by Mifflinville

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Mifflinville Cemetery, Mifflinville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 485

 

1951-52           Muncy Valley

1952-57           Laurelton

1957-59           Talmar circuit

1959-61           Laurelton

1961-67           Buckhorn-Rupert

1967-75           Jerseytown

1975                retired

 

SHERIFF, HAROLD EDWARD

 

Born: 7-9-1928  Chester Hill PA                                married: Virginia Ibach Eboch

Died: 6-15-1966                                                          obit: Central Illinois Conference 1967, 1325

 

1951    admitted on trial, North Texas Conference

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit: Central Illinois Conference 1967, 1325

 

1948-50           student, Bucknell University

                             1948-50      Allenwood (beginning 1/15/48)

1950-51           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1951-53           student, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas TX

                             1951-52      Joy

1953                transfer to Oregon Conference

1953-55           Lyons (beginning 8/1/53)

1955                transfer to Illinois Conference

1955-               Oakwood

                        Sidney

                        Blue Mound

                       

Note: Harold E. Sheriff is a brother to Robert M. Sheriff.  He and Virginia Eboch Sheriff and daughter Hali E. (b. 7/14/1952) were killed in a plane crash on 6/15/1966.  Some sources give the crash date as 6/16/1966.  They left two sons.

 

SHERIFF, ROBERT M.

 

Born: 5-18-1931  Chester Hill PA                              married:

Died: 5-7-2000  PA                                                    obit:

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit:

 

1951-53           Bald Eagle Parish (beginning 2/1/51)

 

Note: Robert M. Sheriff is a brother to Harold E. Sheriff.  He served as a local pastor.

 

SHERLOCK, THOMAS

 

Born: 2-28-1826  Philadelphia PA                             married: Katherine Colshur

Died: 8-25-1885  Asbury Park NJ                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 118

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Selinsgrove Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 79

 

1852-53           Lock Haven

1853-54           Newberry

1854-55           Berwick

1855-56           Muncy

1856-57           Northumberland

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Berwick

1858-60           Bloomsburg

1860-62           Bellefonte

1862-64           Jersey Shore

1864-66           Carlisle

1866-69           Baltimore Emory

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Emory

1869-72           Hagerstown

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-74           Newberry

1874-76           Bedford

1876-78           Mifflin

1878-81           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1881-84           Lewistown

1884-85           Lock Haven

 

Note:  Thomas Sherlock is mentioned in connection with the dedication of a “United Christian” church as follows:  “The dedication of the 'United Christian Church' at Graham Ore Bank, three miles west of Mifflintown, on Sunday last was a grand success in every way. The full amount of the debt subscribed. The dedication sermon in the morning was preached by the Pastor, Rev. H. M. Eberly, and the afternoon addresses by the Revs. Sherlock, of Mifflintown, and Dill, of Clearfield.  A protracted meeting is in progress, with favorable signs for good."

Juniata Sentinel and Republican March 13, 1878

 

SHERMAN, DRUE ALLEN

 

Born: 3-18-1942  Berwick PA                                    married: Carol Ann Swenson

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1965    admitted on trial, recommended by Nescopek

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

1962-64           student, Lycoming College

                             1962-63      Picture Rocks

1964-67           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1964-67      Rahway NJ Trinity

1967-69           Barnitz

1969-75           associate, Carlisle Allison

1975-82           Fishing Creek Salem (ending 10/1/82)

1982-87           Sunbury St. John’s (beginning 10/1/82)

1987-93           Lewistown First

1993-00           York Aldersgate

2000-06           Williamsport Pine Street

2006                retired

           

 

SHERMAN, HARRY HUBBARD

 

Born: 12-0-1876  Bridgeton NJ                                  married: Jennie Elizabeth Lafferty

Died: 9-3-1937  Philadelphia PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 195

 

1909    admitted on trial

1912    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Asbury Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 217

 

1909-10           Altoona Epworth-Llyswen

1910-11           Lewisberry

1911-13           Blackwell

1913-18           Birmingham

1918-20           Hopewell

1920-22           Ralston

1922-24           Shrewsbury

1924-25           Penns Valley

1925-28           Glen Campbell

1928-31           Austin

1931-35           Snow Shoe

1935-37           Sinnemahoning

 

 

SHIELDS, DAVID HADDINGTON

 

Born: 1852                                                                  married:

Died: 4-22-1900  Philadelphia PA                             obit:

 

1872    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

?          ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

?          ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia

Obit:

 

1872-73           Fulton circuit

1873-75           Allentown Chew Street

1875-76           Richboro

1876-77           Morrisville

1877-78           Girardville

1878-79           Spring City

1879-80           Atglen-Parkersburg

1880                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1880-82           Shippensburg

1884-86           Watsontown-Montandon

1886-89           Curwensville

1889-92           Lewisburg

1892-94           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1894                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1894-98           [Baltimore Conference]

1898                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1898-00           chaplain, US Army

1900                expelled following a trial

 

Note: David H. Shields is the son of Rev. John Shields (1819-1891) of the Philadelphia Conference.  A death notice for David H. Shields from the 4/24/1900 New York Times is on file at the conference archives.  He died at the home of his sister Mrs. Joseph Francis Strawbridge. 

 

SHIMER, GEORGE MILTON

 

Born: 4-13-1868  McConnellsburg PA                      married: Elizabeth Mary Snyder

Died: 11-4-1955  Smithburg MD                               obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 252]

1904    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 234

 

1898-99           Lumber City

1899-01           McKees Gap

1901-04           Center & Sandy Ridge 

1904-07           New Millport

1907-10           Manor Hill

1910-14           Port Royal

1914-16           Martinsburg

1916-17           North Bend

1917-20           Mill Hall

1920-22           Centralia

1922-25           Ralston

1925-26           Newton Hamilton

1928-29           leave of absence

1929-31           on leave

1931-34           Espy & Light Street

1934-35           Three Springs

1935-36           Ramey-Janesville

1936-39           Wolfsburg

1939                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on George M. Shimer appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 47.  Some sources give his birth date as 8-16-1868.  Some sources identify Mrs. Shimer as the former Mary Elizabeth Snyder.  The dates for Mrs. Shimer, not given in her obituary, are 4/30/1866 – 4/24/1945.

 

SHIPE, JONATHAN REILEY

 

Born: 2-14-1848  near Sunbury PA                           married: Mollie Besser

Died: 1-1-1917  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conf. 1920, 149]

 

1876    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Pomfort Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 130

 

1875-76           Benton

1876-78           South Heberton

1878-79           Beach Haven

1979-82           Loudon

1882-83           Mont Alto

1883-84           West Hazleton

1884-87           Schellsburg

1887-90           Reedsville-Milroy

1890-91           McConnellstown

1891-93           Blain

1893-95           Mifflinville

1895-97           Harveyville

1897-98           McKees Gap

1898-02           Birmingham

1902-04           New Bloomfield

1904-06           Orangeville

1906-07           Cross Roads

1907-09           Costello

1909-10           Milnesville

1910-11           Gatchelville (ending summer 1911)

1911-13           Boiling Springs (beginning summer 1911)

1913                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Shipe is known as “Mame” and her birth year is given as 1839.

 

SHIREY, NEWTON D.

 

Born: 4-6-1869  Clearfield County PA                      married: Mary E. Addleman

Died: 10-6-1953                                                          obit: [1/6/1874 – 7/14/1950]

 

1930    license

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 228

 

1930-31           Shawville

1931-33           Glen Campbell

1933-38           New Millport

1938-41           Karthaus

1941                retired

 

Note: Newton D. Shirey served as a local pastor. 

 

SHISSLER, [WILLIAM] HENRY HARRISON

 

Born: 8-19-1918  Lititz PA                                        married: Martha Frances Chubb

Died: 8-1-2011                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 395

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Betty Shriver Waite

1943    license                                                             obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2007,325

1945    admitted on trial, recommended by Half Moon

1945    ordained deacon

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1943-45           Half Moon (beginning 11/15/43)

1945-47           Woodland Parish

1947-50           Espy-Light Street

1950-54           faculty, Lycoming College

1954-56           Half Moon

1956-58           faculty, Pfeiffer College

1958                transfer to Western North Carolina Conference

1958-60           faculty, Pfeiffer College

1960                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1960-70           faculty, West Virginia Wesleyan

1970                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-79           faculty, Edinboro Sate College

                             1978-79      North Richmond

1979-81           faculty, Warner Southern College

1981-82           leave of absence

1982                retired

                             assistant, Cocoa FL

 

Note: In 2010 Henry H. Shissler was living in Philippi WV. 

 

 

SHOAFF, DAVID

 

Born: 7-17-1823  Juniata County PA                         married: Margaret Ann Watts

Died: 5-27-1871  Woodstock VA                              obit: [9/30/1826 – 2/18/1884]

 

Interment: Stevens City UMC Cemetery, Stephens City VA

Obit:

 

1848-49           Allegany

1849-50           Shirleysburg

1850-52           Concord

1851-52           Covington

1852-53           Blue Sulphur

1853-55           Bedford

1855-56           Baltimore Emory

1856-57           Huntingdon

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Huntingdon

1858-59           Hancock

1859-62           Frostburg

1861-62           York station

1862-64           East Harford

1864-65           Great Falls

1865-66           Hereford

1866                withdrew to join M.E. South

                        Hedgesville

                        Leesburg

1870-71           Middleburg VA

 

Note: David Shoaff is the father of James Watts Shoaff (1852-1911) of the Los Angeles Conference, M.E. South.  A biographical sketch for is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 457.  Mrs. Shoaff is the daughter of pioneer James Watts (1782-1856) of the Baltimore Conference.  Her sister Sarah (b1820) married George Stevenson (1810-1893) of the Baltimore Conference, sister Rebecca (b1824) married William McKean Meminger (1822-1888) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and sister Nancy (b1829) married Hamilton Alexander Gaver (1830-1910) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

SHOEMAKER, ELISHA

 

Born: 3-10-1836  near Bloomsburg PA                     married: Kate L. Beuck

Died: 1-14-1904  Hustontown PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 532

 

1864  admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Jerseytown

 

Interment: Three Springs Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 116

 

1864-65           Mifflinburg

1865-66           Milton

1866-67           Sunbury

1867-68           Half Moon

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Liberty Valley

1869-71           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1871-72           New Bloomfield

1872-74           Ennisville

1874-77           Three Springs

1877-80           Cassville

1880-81           Shirleysburg

1881-83           Orbisonia

1883-85           Lumber City

1885-86           Glen Hope

1886-88           Howard

1888-90           Wallaceton

1890-91           Williamsburg

1891-92           Penns Valley

1892-93           on leave

                             1892-93      assistant, Cassville

1893-94           Cassville

1894-01           on leave

1901                retired

 

SHOEMAKER, HENRY H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1907-08           Loyalsock

 

Note: Henry H. Shoemaker served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

SHOEMAKER, PERRY RICHARD SR      

 

Born: 11-27-1915  Salona PA                                    married: Etta Pearl Thompson [1938]

Died: 8-8-2010  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 176

 

1967    license, recommended by Oriole

1970    ordained deacon

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mackeyville PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 405

 

1966-76           Morris

1976-79           Port Trevorton

1979-84           Trough Creek Valley Parish

1984                retired

                             1985-93       associate, Balls Mills

           

 

SHOLL, WILLIAM WILLIS

 

Born: 5-10-1870  Rebersburg PA                               married: Mary Alice Bostley

Died: 1-30-1965  Tyrone PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 210

 

1897    license

1900    admitted on trial

1902    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mound Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 356

 

1897-99           Pine-McElhattan 

1899-01           Westport

1901-04           South Williamsport

1904-05           Blain

1905-09           Trevorton

1909-12           Mount Holly Springs

1912-18           Duncannon

1918-22           York Duke Street

1922-31           Williamsport Calvary

1931-35           Berwick First

1935-36           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1936-38           Ashland

1938-41           Weatherly

1941-41           Watsontown

1941-42           superintendent, Park Home in Williamsport

1942                retired

                             1942-51      Marysville

 

Note:  This surname is also rendered SCHOLL.  William W. Sholl is author of the books “The King’s Highway To Peace” (1953) and “The Kitchen Companion” (n.d.).  Another source lists Mrs. Sholl as the former Alice Marie Bostley.

 

SHOWALTER, JOSEPH LESTER  

 

Born: 2-12-1899  Williamsburg PA                           married: Gladys H. Hess

Died: 3-29-1969  Springs PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 253

                                                                                    married2: Beulah W. Shumaker

1951    license                                                             obit2: [1997, 379]

 

Interment: Dudley Church Cemetery, Dudley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 312

 

1951-56           Dudley

1956-57           Schellsburg

1957-59           Grampian

1959-62           North Bend

1962-64           Lawrenceville

1964                retired

 

Note:  J. Lester Showalter served as a local pastor.  The birth date for the second Mrs. Showalter is 2/25/1911. 

 

SHOWALTER, WESLEY M.

 

Born: 2-24-1831  Philipsburg PA                               married: Mary C. Wilson

Died: 11-27-1865  Salona PA                                    obit: [1830 – 4/18/1877]

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Ephrata PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1866, 39

 

1855-56           Clearfield

1856-57           Lock Haven

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore circuit

1859-61           Cumberland circuit

1861-63           North Baltimore station

1863-65           Ashland

1865                Bedford

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Wesley M. Showalter is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 458.  Mrs. Wilson is a sister to Henry Wilson and James T. Wilson.

 

 

SHRAWDER, KERMIT O.  

 

Born: 10-4-1925  Union County PA                          married: Pauline Martha Fertig

Died: 8-23-2012  Wellsboro PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 379

 

1949    license, recommended by Chillisquaque Community

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wellsboro Cemetery, Wellsboro PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013,272

 

1952-55           Stoverdale Independent

1955-62           Port Ann Pilgrim Holiness

1962                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church

1962-73           Middlebury Parish

1973-84           Altoona Mardorf

1984-86           New Freedom

1986-93           McVeytown

1993                retired

                             1993-94      Burlington

                             1997-09      Asaph-Middle Ridge

 

SHRINER, WILFORD P.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Willie A. Cox (3/2/1887)

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1887    admitted on trial, Virginia Conference

1888    ordained deacon, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1887-89           Roanoke

1889                transfer to Holston Conference

1889-90           on leave

1890                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1890-91           Liberty Valley

1891-94           Trevorton

1894-95           Shamokin Second

1895-97           Stockton-Beaver Meadows

1897-99           Altoona Fairview

1899-00           Emporium

1900-03           Bellefonte

1903-08           Carlisle

1908-12           Lock Haven Trinity

1912-17           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1917-20           Waynesboro

1920-21           Sinnemahoning

1921-23           on leave

1923                located under charges

 

Note:  Wilford P. Shriner was tried and “reproved” in 1920; see pages 50 and 54.  After about 1900 he is referred to as “Rev. Dr. W.P. Shriner D.D.” and appears to be a noted speaker.  In 1933 his widow was living in Philadelphia PA, and by 1940 she was living with their daughter’s family [Edward Day Curtis and Emma E. Shriner Curtis] in Lawrenceville NJ.  Her middle name is believed to have been Anna.   The 3/26/1912 Danville Morning News reports on speculation that Dr. Shriner would be named superintendent of the Danville District.  He was a delegate to the 1916 General Conference.

     There is a Willie A. Shriner (1863 – 3/5/1951) buried in Drexel Hill, Delawre Ciounty PA.

 

SHROPSHIRE, BERNARD JAMES

 

Born: 1-18-1927  Camden NJ                                    married: Lois Ann Baldwin

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1956    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-54           student, Asbury College in Wilmore KY

1954-57           Hopewell

1957-58           student, Temple University in Philadelphia PA

1958-60           Coalport

1960                discontinue? transfer to New Jersey Conference?

1963-65           Tabernacle

1965-66           Mullica Hills

                        …

1974-77           Somers Point Bethany

1977                honorable location, by the Southern New Jersey Conference

 

Note: Bernard J. Shropshire is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1189.  

 

SHUE, ALLEN CLAYTON

 

Born: 3-28-1880  near Spring Grove PA                    married: Nellie Virginia Grimm

Died: 10-23-1962  Tyrone PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 223

 

1900    license, recommended by York Epworth

1906    admitted on trial

1908    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, North York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 333

 

1902-04           Trinity [southern York County, near Lucky]

1904-05           Rehoboth

1905-08           Lewisberry-Lisburn (starting fall 1905)

1908-10           Selinsgrove

1910-14           West Fairview

1914-18           York Ridge Avenue

1918-19           Saxton

1919-19           chaplain, US Army

1919-23           Williamsport, Third Street

1923-26           York Grace

1926-28           Huntingdon First

1928-31           Sunbury St. John’s

1931-39           superintendent, Sunbury District

1939-41           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1941-43           Tyrone First

1943-45           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1945                retired

 

Note: Allen C. Shue is the father of Margaret Shue Norris, wife of C. Gail Norris.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 65.  Mrs. Shue is the daughter of J. Wesley Grimm (1839-1921) of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church. 

 

SHUE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 12-21-1904  Mount Union PA                          married: Eleanor Jane Stahl

Died: 4-20-2008  Belleville PA                                  obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 351

 

1928    license

1930    admitted on trial

1932    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 369

 

1928-30           student, Juniata College

                             1928-29      Tatesville

                             1929-30      Clearville

1930-32           student, Garrett Theological Seminary

                             1930-31      assistant, Altoona Lakemont-Jaggard

1932-37           Martinsburg

1937-39           Hastings

1939-42           Warrior’s Mark

1942                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1942-44           Johnstown Cooper Avenue

1944-48           Apollo

1948-51           South Greensburg

1951-54           Homestead First

1954-58           Beaver

1958-62           Waynesburg

1962-67           Johnstown Calvary

1967-69           Lower Burrell Bethel

1969-72           Connellsville Central

1972                retired

 

Note: Benjamin F. Shue is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1190.  Mrs. Shue is the daughter of Lawrence A. Stahl (1881-1977) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

SHULL, CHARLES HORACE

 

Born: 3-2-1870  New Chester PA                              married: Cora Deliah Little

Died: 8-?-1962  Washington DC                                obit: [1880 – 1955]

 

1902    license, recommended by Gettysburg

 

Interment: Clustered Spires Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit:

 

1902-04           Harrisonville (beginning 9/02)

1904-05           Waller

1905                no longer listed, apparently returned to pastor within his Lutheran roots

                        Allegheny Evangelical Lutheran Synod

1908-09           Sinking Valley charge, Blair County PA (1/1/08 – 7/1/09)

1912                West Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod

1912-19           Chanceford charge, York County PA (12/1/12 – 8/1/19)

1919-21           Lebanon charge, York County PA (8/1/19 – 11/1/21)

1921-22           Goldsboro – Mt. Zion charge, York County PA (6/1/22-12/1/22)

1923-24           Upper Frankford charge, Cumberland County PA (5/1/23 – 12/15/24)

 

Note: Some biographical information on Charles H. Shull appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 36.  The Lutheran material lists him as C.H. Stull, PhD. 

 

SHULTZ, J. RESLER

 

Born: 7-13-1903  Harrisburg PA                                married: R. Mae Mountz

Died: 9-2-1997                                                            obit: [5/18/1903 – 11/4/1993]

                                                                                    married2: Marguerite Myrtle [DeeDee] ____

1925    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [11/7/1898 – 4/12/1986]

1927    ordained deacon

1929    ordained elder

 

Interment: Longmeadow Congregational Church Cemetery, Longmeadow MA

Obit:

 

1924-26           student, Dickinson College
                             1923-24      Bressler

                             1924-25      Bressler & Newville

                             1925-26      York Springs

1926-28           West Fairview

1928-31           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1930-31      Tilton NH

1931-35           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1935-41           Tyrone First

1941-45           Carlisle

1945-49           Altoona First

1949-50           faculty, University of California

1950                withdrew under complaints

1950-58           fundraiser, Wells Fund Raisers in Greenwich CT                  …

1958-73           director of development, Western New England College

1973                retired, living in Long Meadow MA and member of Longmeadow UMC

                             1973-93      fundraiser, Springfield MA Zoo

 

Note: J. Resler Shultz is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, page 328.  The conference archives has a set of 78 rpm records containing devotionals J. Resler Shultz delivered on the radio in Altoona.  The last known address prior to death for the first Mrs. Shultz is Harrisburg PA. 

 

SHULTZABARGER, GEORGE ELVIN

 

Born: 1-18-1918  Cambria County PA                       married: Doris Jean Hartung

Died: 7-10-2006                                                          obit: [10/14/1921 – 11/30/2002]

 

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

 

Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Scullton PA

Obit:

 

1941-42           Analomich circuit, Philadelphia Conference

1942-44           Town Hill

1944                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1944-46           Cresson

1946-47           assistant, Johnstown Franklin Street

1947-50           Somerset

1950-53           Somerset Wesley Chapel

1953-55           Fredricktown

1955-59           Mars

1959-60           Clairton Pine Run

1960-66           Board of Education

1966-69           Wexford Salem

1969-72           McKees Rocks

1972-74           Connellsville Central

1974-78           director, Connellsville Community Ministries (ending 2/1/78)

                             1974-78      associate, Connellsville Otterbein (ending 2/1/78)

1978-83           Waynesburg First (beginning 2/1/78)

1983                retired

 

SHURE, WILLIAM CURTIS

 

Born: 2-6-1907  Sunbury PA                                      married: Ruth Eloise Wentworth

Died: 9-29-1980                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 472

 

1928    license, recommended by Sunbury St. John’s

1932    admitted on trial

1936    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 342

 

1929-30           Madera-Glen Hope (beginning 9/1/29)

1930                Eagles Mere-Laporte (Mar – Sept)

1930-31           Jeddo-Lattimer beginning 10/1/30, ending 9/30/31)

1931-35           Montandon-Henrickson (beginning 10/1/31)

1935-36           Beach Haven

1936-39           White Haven

1939-40           Watsontown

1940-67           chaplain, US Army

1967-71           chaplain, Child City in Mooseheart IL

1971                retired

             

Note: William C. Shure is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1192.

 

 

SIGAFOOS, GEORGE S.

 

Born: 1824 OH                                                           married: Sarah E. Dugdale

Died: 1877  Williampsort PA                                     obit: [1828 – 10/3/1903]

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1867-68           periodic at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]

 

Note: George Sigafoos was a local preacher who had been a Wesleyan Methodist in England [although he was supposedly born in Ohio?].  Before moving to Williamsport in 1865, he was a teacher and superintendent of public schools in Bedford PA.  In 1867 he was a member at Williamsport Mulberry Street, but later became a longtime leader at Williamsport Grace.

 

 

SILL, MAURICE LUCIEN

 

Born: 4-6-1925  Follansbee WV                                married: Barbara Alice Struck

Died: 6-6-2019                                                            obit: [6/8/1926 – 4/19/2016]

                                                                                    married2: Nadya Danlichik

1955    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [8/17/1927 – 10/28/2018]

 

Interment: Holy Cross Monastery Cemetery, Wayne WV

Obit:

 

1955-56           associate, Pleasant Gap

1956-57           at school

1957-58           Milesburg

1958-63           director, India Village Service of the Presbyterian Church

1963                discontinued

                        …

1968                chairman, Involvement Education Inc

1986                faculty, Marshall University in Huntington WV

 

Note: Maurice L. Sill was discontinued because he was a probationer for 8 years without making progress toward ordination.  He settled into academia in the field of sociology and has written numerous scholarly papers.  Following her divorce with Maurice, Barbara married a Dr. Edwin West M.D. of State College PA.

 

SILL, MILTON

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1946-48           New Millport

 

Note: Milton Sill served as a local pastor.

 

SIMMONS, NORMAN JACOB

 

Born: 9-4-1897  York PA                                           married: Marguerite Elizabeth Watson

Died: 11-9-1954  Watsontown PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 348

 

1928  admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Memorial Cemetery, Watsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 235

 

1921-22           Westport, Anthracite Mission

1922-23           Eagles Mere

1923-25           Jonestown

1925-26           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1926-28           Fairview

1928-30           Glen Campbell

1930-32           Duboistown-Nesbit

1932-34           Gatchelville

1934-37           Dudley

1937-38           Manor Hill

1938-42           McVeytown

1942-45           Martinsburg

1945-47           Mifflinville

1947-47           White Haven (did not finish the year)

1947                transfer to Montana Conference

1947-48           [Montana Conference]

1948                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1948-49           Howard

1949-50           Hughesville

1950-52           Watsontown

1952                transfer to Montana Conference

1952-53           Corvallis

1953-54           Tranquility CA

1954                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1954                retired

 

 

SIMONS, HARVEY BUTLER

 

Born: 3-8-1905  Weatherly PA                                  married: Elizabeth Bigelow

Died: 11-19-1980                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 355

 

1926    license, recommended by Hazleton Diamond

1932    admitted on trial

1934    ordained deacon

1936    ordained elder

 

Interment: Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 343

 

1928-29           Bakertown 

1929-31           Ennisville

1931-32           Shirleysburg & Three Springs

1932-35           Port Matilda

1935-38           Duboitstown-Nesbit

1938-41           Picture Rocks

1941-45           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1945-47           Conyngham

1947-49           Mercersburg

1949-54           Littlestown

1954-57           Lewistown Lake Park,

1957-61           White Haven

1961-63           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1963                retired

 

Note: Harvey B. Simons is the father of William B. Simons. 

 

SIMONS, WILLIAM BIGELOW

 

Born: 5-7-1937  Williamsport PA                              married

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1957    license, recommended by Lewistown Lake Park

1960    admitted on trial

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-59           student, Lycoming College

                             1956-57      Lemont

                             1957-58      associate, Lock Haven Parish

                             1958           Wallaceton  (summer)

                             1958-59      Gordon

1959-62           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1962-65           Shickshinny

1965-68           Harrisburg Riverside

1968-72           Mount Olivet

1972-73           sabbatical

1973-74           chaplain, Philadelphia State Hospital

1974-81           Lurleen B. Wallace Center, Decatur AL

1981                transfer to North Alabama Conference

 

Note: William B. Simons is the son of Harvey B. Simons.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1196.  In 2003 he is listed as a retired member of the North Alabama Conference.

 

SIMPSON, ELMER

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1904    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1903-04           Burnt Cabins (beginning fall 1903)   

1904-06           Wharton

1906-08           Benezette

 

Note: Elmer Simpson served as a local pastor.  Limited information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 44A.   

 

SINGER, GEORGE ASBURY

 

Born: 5-30-1841  Millersburg PA                               married: Jennie E. Hefflefinger

Died: 8-25-1910  Roaring Spring PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 112

 

1867     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference 

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 117

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Cumberland Valley Institute, Mechanicsburg

1870-71           Half Moon

1871-72           Berwick

1872-73           Orangeville

1873-76           Concord

1876-79           Pleasantville

1879-81           Thompsontown

1881-83           Shirleysburg

1883-85           Manor Hill

1885-88           West Fairview-Marysville

1888-90           Mercersburg

1890-92           Green Village

1892-95           York Springs

1895-97           Stormstown

1897-00           Williamsburg

1900-02           Mahaffey

1902-03           East Waterford

1903                retired

 

 

SIPES, HORACE NELSON

 

Born: 4-6-1883                                                            married: Mary C. Norris [1909]

Died: 12-29-1919                                                        obit: [11/23/1889 – 12/24/1935]

 

1909    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1920, 83

 

1908-09           Allegheny (ending 9/1909: see 1910, 68)

1909                discontinued

1909                received on credentials, Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1909-11           Bradenville

1911                name erased

1911                received on trial, Pittsburgh Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1913-14           Ebensburg

1915-16           Uniontown-Fairchance

1916-17           Concord-Winnett-Layton-Banning

1917-19           Braddock Fourth Street

 

Note:  Horace Nelson Sipes is the son of a first-cousin to Mason Lodge Sipes.

 

SIPES, MASON LODGE

 

Born: 8-18-1837  Bedford County PA                       married: Catherine Jane Moore

Died: 11-5-1918  Earlston PA                                                obit: [4/12/1844 – 4/1/1918]

 

1868    quarterly conference license, McConnellsburg

1874    ordained, Christian Church

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit:

 

Note:  Mason Lodge Sipes is a first cousin to the father of Horace Nelson.  He is listed as a local preacher for a few years beginning in 1869.  While he never served as an appointed supply pastor, he is reported to have preached on the Ray’s Hill circuit for 3 years and to have been actively engaged in the Christian Church from 1874 until his retirement in 1897.

 

SKEATH, JAMES MILTON

 

Born: 5-23-1898  Mahanoy City PA                          married: Frances Elura Knights

Died: 11-12-1968                                                        obit: [10/9/1910 – 4/28/2005]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-21           student, Dickinson College

1921-67           faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary – Lycoming College

1967                retired

 

Note: J. Milton Skeath has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  J. Milton Skeath is the namesake of the Skeath Hall dormitory erected in 1965 on the Lycoming College Campus.

 

SKILLINGTON, JAMES EDGAR 

 

Born: 12-2-1878  Breezewood PA                             married: Loretta Hartzell

Died: 5-1-1865  Roaring Spring PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 358

 

1901    admitted on trial

1903    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Newville Cemetery, Newville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 358

           

1900-02           Loyalsock

1902-06           Newville

1906-14           Renovo

1914-19           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1919-22           Carlisle

1922-30           Altoona First

1930-35           superintendent, Altoona District

1935-43           Bloomsburg

1943-51           York First

1951                retired

                             1951-56      Martinsburg

 

Note:  James Edgar Skillington is the brother of J.W. Skillington.  He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.

 

SKILLINGTON, JOHN WALTER

 

Born: 3-23-1880  Breezewood PA                             married: Lois Belle Mickey

Died: 9-3-1978  St. Petersburg FL                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 225

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Olive Baird

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 425

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by New Benton         

1910    ordained deacon

1912    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 335

 

1904-06           Loyalsock

1906-07           Newville 

1907-09           New Benton

1909-11           Elimsport-Maple Hill

1911-12           Keating Summit

1912-14           Keating-Austin

1914-15           Austin-Costello

1915-17           Sinnamahoning

1917-19           Morrisdale

1919-21           Saxton

1921-25           Osceola Mills

1925-29           Carlisle

1929-31           Mount Union

1931-36           Roaring Spring

1936-38           New Cumberland

1938-42           Altoona Juniata First

1942-45           Mount Carmel

1945-49           Hazleton Diamond

1949-52           Duncansville

1952                retired

                             1952-59      Hastings 

 

Note: J. Walter Skillington is the brother of James Edgar Skillington.  The second Mrs. Skillington, born Olive A. Bussard, was the widow of a J. Albert Baird.

 

SLAGEL, NORMAN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 12-9-1893  Aaronsburg PA                              married: Mabel Myers

Died: 9-21-1991  New Castle DE                              obit: [d. 1920]

                                                                                    married2: Charlotte Russell

1956    license, recommended by Altoona First         obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 156

1959    ordained deacon                                              married3: Thelma Hunsinger McBride

1961    ordained elder                                                 obit3:

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 484

 

1956-59           Dudley

1959-61           Espy and Light Street

1961-63           Woodland

1963-65           Orbisonia

1965                retired

                             1966-68      Lakemont-Frankstown (beginning 10/1/66)

                             1970-71      Frankstown

 

Note: Norman F. Slagel entered the ministry after retiring from the USPS in 1955.  He served as a local pastor.   

 

SLAPINSKI, JAMES HAROLD

 

Born: 6-22-1928  Wilkes-Barre PA                            married: Josephine Elick

Died: 5-14-2011  Mountain Top PA                          obit: [12/15/1925 - ]

 

1964    admitted on trial

?          ordained deacon

 

Interment: Albert Cemetery, Mountain Top PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 406

 

1954-57           Wallaceton

1957-58           Skinners Eddy, Wyoming Conference

1958-63           Coventryville, Philadelphia Conference (ending 12/31/1962)

1963-64           Manor Hill (beginning 1/1/63)

1964-67           Burnham

1967-79           located, worked as an executive in the Boy Scouts of America

1979-80           Forest City, Wyoming Conference

1980                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1980-83           Forest City

1983-89           not appointed

1989-93           Plymouth/North Norwich/Preston (beginning 10/1/89)

1993                retired

                             1993-97      Luzerne          

                             2010           transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change

 

Note: James H. Slapinski served as a local preacher.                        

 

SLEEP, FREDERICK GRANT

 

Born: 10-8-1868  Hazleton PA                                   married: Maude O. Wright

Died: 7-19-1918  Mifflintown PA                              obit: [3/1/1874 – 9/?/1930 ]

 

1897    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 138

 

1897-98           Cameron

1898-00           Gardeau

1900-03           Penfield

1903-04           Laurelton

1904-05           Montandon

1905-08           Fairview

1908-14           Duncansville

1915-18           Enola

1918-18           Mifflintown

 

Note: In 1923, the widowed Mrs. Sleep married a widowed Mr. George W. Shuey (1866-1939).

 

SLICHTER, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1882-83           Littlestown (beginning 11/1/82)

 

Note: Jacob Slichter was a local pastor connected with York Beaver Street.

 

SLICK, WILLIAM ANSON

 

Born: 10-19-1917  New Paris PA                               married: Betty Elizabeth Harbaugh

Died: 6-24-1996                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 286

 

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

 

SLOAN, WILLIAM HAROLD

 

Born: 1-1-1899  Elk City PA                                      married: Jane Baynham

Died: 12-23-1972  Homestead FL                              obit: Wyoming Conference 1992, 353

 

1926    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1927    ordained deacon, Erie Conference

1931    ordained elder, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Palms Memorial Park, Homestead FL

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1973, 286

 

1925-26           student, Bucknell University

                             1926        Johnson City [Ranshaw] (ending summer 1926)

1926-29           Lander

1929-32           student, Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

                             1929-30      Chicago Adriel

                             1930-32      Stoughton WI First

1932-35           Linesville

1935-38           Cambridge Springs

1938-44           Fredonia NY

1944-49           DuBois First

1949-50           Erie Simpson

1950                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1950-53           Asbury Park

1953-54           Philadelphia East Falls, Philadelphia Conference

1954                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1954-57           Scranton Myrtle Street          

1957-60           Nanticoke

1960-64           Athens

1964                retired

                             1964-66      associate, Homestead FL                   

                             1967-67      Sanibel Island FL Community Church

 

Note: William H. Sloan was a student at Dickinson College 1921-24 and reportedly served student appointments in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

SLOATMAN, DAVID KEEFER

 

Born: 11-8-1901  Williamsport PA                            married: Esther Rose Hughes [6/16/1926]

Died: 10-10-1985 Shelton CT                                    obit: [10/26/1900 – 1991]

 

1918    license

1922    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1926    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New York Conference 1986, 1017

 

1922-26           at school

1926                transfer to New York East Conference

1926-27           Cutchogue

1927-30           Rowayton CT

1930-32           New Haven CT Howard Avenue

1932-35           Plainville CT

1935-38           Lake Ronkonkoma, Commack and Coram

1938-40           Greenport

1940-44           New Haven CT Westville

1944-48           Ansonia CT

1948-53           Bridgeport CT Washington Park

1953-58           Torrington CT

1958-66           Brooklyn St. Paul’s

1966                retired

                             1968           First Baptist, Bridgeport CT

 

Note: David K. Sloatman is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1204.  He graduated from Williamsport Dickinson Seminary in 1919 and received a scholarship to Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware OH, where he met his future wide Esther Rose Hughes.

 

SLICER, HENRY

 

Born: 3-27-1801  Annapolis MD                               married: Elizabeth Coleman Roberts

Died: 4-23-1874                                                          obit: Baltimore Conference 1874, 35

 

1821    license

1822    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1824    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1875, 28

 

1821-22           Baltimore circuit

1822-23           Harford

1823-24           Redstone

1823-25           Washington DC Ebenezer

1825-26           Fredericksburg

1826-27           Baltimore City station

1827-28           Carlisle station

1828-30           Great Falls

1830-32           Baltimore circuit

1832-36           superintendent, Potomac District

1836-38           Georgetown

1838-40           Washington DC Foundry

1840-42           Carlisle station

1842-44           East Baltimore

1844-46           North Baltimore

1846-48           Wesley Chapel

1848-50           Georgetown

1850-52           Baltimore City station

1852-53           Frederick

1853-55           agent, Metropolitan Church

1855-59           superintendent, North Baltimore District

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           superintendent, Baltimore District

1859-62           superintendent, West Baltimore District

1862-70           Seamen’s Union Bethel

1869                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1869-70           Seaman’s Union Bethel

1870-74           superintendent, Baltimore District

 

Note: Henry Slicer is the father Thomas R. Slicer and of the wife of William Harden.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 459.  Mrs. Slicer is the daughter of George Roberts (1765-1827) and a sister to George C.M. Roberts (1806-1870), both of the Baltimore Conference – and both with biographical sketches in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.  Slicer’s noted 1841 book on baptism is filed in the topics section of the conference archives.

 

SLICER, THOMAS ROBERTS

 

Born: 4-16-1847  Washington DC                             married: Adeline Elizabeth Herbert

Died: 5-29-1916                                                          obit: [1836 -

 

1867    recommended for admission on trial by Baltimore Broadway

1869    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1871    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1869-70           Lutherville

1871                transfer to Colorado Conference

1871-72           Denver

1872-73           Georgetown

1873                transfer to New York Conference

…

1881                withdrew to enter the Unitarian ministry

1881-90           Providence RI

1890-97           Buffalo NY

1897-16           New York City All Souls

 

Note: Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer is the son of Henry Slicer.  Thomas R. Slicer was a prominent turn-of-the-century clergyman/speaker/author.

 

SMAY, RAYMOND BRUCE

 

Born: 12-11-1924  Clearfield PA                               married: Winifred Eddy Taber

Died: 2-16-2019  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 435

                                                                                    married2: Jeane H. Gulliver

                                                                                    obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 350

1948    license, recommended by Clearfield circuit Pleasant Grove

1951    admitted on trial

1951    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Crown Crest Memorial Park, Hyde PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 349

 

1948-49           Morris 

1949-50           student, Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY

1950-52           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

1952-54           Avis

1954-63           Riverside

1963-77           Muncy

1977-80           Hollidaysburg First

1980-89           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1989                retired

                             1992-93      associate, Warrensville

 

Note: R. Bruce Smay is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1205.

 

SMILEY, ALAN ARNETT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1969    admitted on trial

 

1969-71           at school

1971                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1987                withdrew from the ministry

 

 

SMITH, AMOS

 

Born: 4-30-1795  Frederick County VA                    married: Eliza M. _____

Died: 1-20-1868  McConnellsburg PA                      obit: [d. 4/6/1888]

 

1820    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1822    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1825    ordained elder , Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: McConnellsburg Methodist Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 51

 

1820-22           Greenbrier

1822                transfer to Kentucky Conference

1822-23           Fleming

1823-24           Monroe

1825                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1825-26           Huntingdon

1826-27           Lycoming

1827-29           Bellefonte

1829-31           Lewistown

1831-33           Trough Creek

1833-35           Huntingdon

1835-36           Harford (18 months)

1836-37           located, moved to Lancaster OH (6 months)

1837-39           Gettysburg

1839-42           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1842-44           West River

1844-45           Baltimore Fayette Street

1845-47           Calvert

1847-48           Bladensburg

1848-50           West River

1850-52           Hereford

1851-53           Shirleysburg

1853-55           Hancock

1855-57           Concord

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Shirleysburg

1859-61           Newport

1861-63           New Grenada

1863                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch for Amos Smith is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 460.

 

SMITH, CHARLES DAVIDSON

 

Born: 7-28-1839  Carroll County MD                        married:

Died: 19-16-1904  Westminster MD                          obit:

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1905, 64

 

1865-66           Antietam

1866-67           Frederick

1867-68           Watersville

…

1874                East Baltimore station

…

 

Note: Charles D. Smith is the author of Rev. Leonard Cassell: A Memoir, published by the Baltimore Methodist Publishing House (1896) and John Evans and the Evans House (1897).  Charles D. Smith’s mother was the former Elizabeth Cassell, granddaughter of Richard Cassell who was converted by Robert Strawbridge, and it was Smith who presented the Strawbridge pulpit to Lovely Lane in 1894.

 

 

SMITH, DENNIS

 

Born: 6-2-1891  Tioga PA                                          married: Charlotte Schwab

Died: 9-27-1969  Northumberland PA                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 425

 

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Lock Haven circuit

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 385

 

1922-23           Westport-Cross Forks-Shintown

1923-24           Picture Rocks

1924-26           Trout Run

1926-29           Lock  Haven circuit

1929-33           Woodland-Bradford

1933-38           Flemington

1938-46           Burnham

1946-55           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1955-57           Osceola Mills

1957                retired

                             Sunbury St. John’s

                             Danville Trinity

                             Catawissa

 

SMITH, EARL LEE

 

Born: 7-23-1935  Big Pond PA                                  married: Bonnie Lamb

Died: 3-26-2017                                                          obit:

 

1955    license, Central New York Conference

1973    ordained deacon

1977    ordained elder

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Big Pond PA

Obit:

 

1959-61           Conquest & Spring Lake NY

1961-62           Daggett-Jackson Center-Roseville

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Daggett-Jackson Center-Roseville

1963-70

1970-72           student, Asbury College in Wilmore KY

                             1970-72      Green’s Chapel

1972-79           Quincy

1979-84           Flemington

1984-87           Middleburg Trinity

1987                Sunbury Otterbein (ending 11/21/87)

1987-93           leave of absence (beginning 11/21/87)

1993                withdrew

 

SMITH, GEORGE EMORY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Wagner circuit

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-91           Wagner

1891                discontinued his own request

 

Note: G. Emory Smith is the preferred usage.

 

SMITH, J. FRANKLIN

 

Born: 3-13-1884  PA                                                  married: Mae B. Focht

Died: 12-8-1930  Howard PA                                    obit: [4/29/1881 – 4/4/1953]

 

1922    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 184

 

1917-19           Cogan Valley

1919-23           Beach Haven

1923-26           Elysburg

1926-30           Howard

 

Note: In 1938 the widowed Mrs. Smith married a Mr. Edward J. Maue.

 

 

SMITH, JAMES TAYLOR

 

Born:                                                               married:

Died:                                                               obit:

 

1952    admitted on trial, Montana Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

           

1952-54           at school

1954                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1954                Burnt Cabins (1/15/1954 to 9/1/1954)

1955                withdrew from the ministry, page 80

1955                discontinued [General Minutes, page 165]

 

SMITH, JASPER S.

 

Born: 11-22-1923                                                        married: [9/2/1950]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

?          license, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Beech Flats Cemetery, Beech Flats PA

Obit:

 

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-66           Burlington

 

Note: Jasper S. Smith served as a local pastor. 

 

 

SMITH, JOHN WILSON

 

Born: 8-25-1837  Baltimore MD                                married: Susanna Brosius

Died: 8-17-1925                                                          obit: [b.8/20/1830]

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1926, 236

 

1860-62           Boonsboro

1861-62           Hancock

1862-63           Clearspring

1863-64           Pleasant Grove

1864-66           retired

1866-67           West Harford

1867-68           Mercersburg

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-70           Buckeystown

1870-72           New Windsor

1872-75           Berkley Springs

1875-78           Shepherdstown

1878-80           Spencerville

1880-82           Washington DC Grace

1882-85           Herford

1885-88           South River

1888-89           Forestville

1889-91           Elk Ridge

1891-93           Summerfield

1893-96           Chester Street

1896-99           Reistertown

1899-02           Harpers Ferry

1902                retired

 

Note: John W. Smith is the son of John Smith (1802-1851) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

SMITH, JOSEPH A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-57           student, Dickinson College

                             1953-56      Boiling Springs

                       

Note: Joseph A. Smith became a long-time professor of psychology at Shippensburg University.  In 2007 he was professor emeritus and published the book Love’s Mystery Solved: Building Lasting Relationships.

 

SMITH, LUTHER F.

 

Born: 10-26-1847  Columbia PA                               married: Emma J. McGlaughlin

Died: 1-4-1894  Hollidaysburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 142

 

1873    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hollidaysburg Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 96

 

1872-75           New Bloomfield circuit

1875-77           Milroy

1877-79           Thompsontown

1879-80           Duboistown

1880-83           Duncansville

1883-86           Mount Union

1886-76           on leave

1887-90           South Heberton

1890-93           North Altoona

1893-94           Hollidaysburg

 

Note: An obituary for Luther F. Smith also appears in the 1/11/1894 Pennsylvania Methodist.

 

SMITH, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 9-24-1832  Williamsburg PA                           married: Kate B. Jackson

Died: 8-12-1907  Huntingdon PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 201

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Huntingdon Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 127

 

1859-60           Newberry

1860-61           Birmingham

1861-62           Westernport

1862-63           Rainsburg

1863-64           Manor Hill

1864-65           McConnellsburg

1865-67           Lewistown circuit

1867-68           McVeytown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           McVeytown

1869-70           Newton Hamilton

1870-73           Petersburg

1873-76           Mount Union

1876-78           Chambersburg King Street

1878-79           Shrewsbury

1879-82           Martinsburg

1882-85           Mifflintown

1885-86           Jersey Shore

1886-87           McConnellstown

 

SMITH, NATHAN BUCKINGHAM

 

Born: 12-19-1848  Beach Haven PA                          married: Esther Alice Girton

Died: 2-3-1937 Clearfield PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 532

 

1873    admitted on trial

1875    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 250

 

1873-74           Orangeville

1874-75           Washingtonville

1875-76           Elysburg

1876-78           Muhlenburg

1878-80           Gordon-Helfenstein

1880-82           Stockton-Beaver Me.

1882-84           Great Island

1884-86           Fairview

1886-89           Glen Hope

1889-91           New Washington

1891-95           Howard

1895-96           Orangeville

1896-00           Orangeville-Light Street

1900-02           Cassville

1902-05           Birmingham

1905-07           Mahaffey

1907-11           Woodland-Bradford

1911-14           Airville

1914-17           Munson

1917-20           Cherry Tree

1920-23           Mapleton

1923                retired

 

 

SMITH, NORMAN HERBERT

 

Born: 8-19-1858  Light Street PA                              married: Monema F. Moore

Died: 1-19-1957  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 531

 

1882     admitted on trial, recommended by Shamokin station

1884    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 244

 

1882-84           Jerseytown

1884-86           Riverside

1886-88           Harveyville

1888-91           Catawissa circuit

1891-95           Snydertown

1895-99           White Haven

1899-14           Morrisdale

1904-08           Hanover

1908-12           Hazleton Diamond

1912-18           Burnham

1918-24           Montgomery

1924-26           Duboistown

1926                retired

 

SMITH, R. EMORY JR

 

Born: 8-18-1925  Williamsport PA                            married: Barbara Ann Sayer

Died: 10-12-1967  Norristown PA                             obit: Central New York Conference 1968, 204

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Emery Cemetery, west of Williamsport PA

Obit: Central New York Conference 1968, 198

 

1952-53           student, Boston University School of Theology

1953-54           student, University of Edinburgh in Scotland

1954                transfer to Central New York Conference

1954-56           associate DeWitt Community

1956-59           Syracuse Woodlawn

1959-63           Trumansburg

1963-67           Syracuse Rockefeller

 

SMITH, SAMUEL HENRY CLAY

 

Born: 11-25-1828  Queen Anne County MD             married: Mary Elizabeth Wise

Died: 4-25-1915                                                          obit: [d.7/29/1874]

                                                                                    married2: Mary A. White

 1857   quarterly conference license,                          obit2: [d.1/?/1911]

                        Baltimore Caroline Street

1858    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

1861    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1863    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Prospect Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1916, 88

 

1859-60           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1860-61           Great Falls

1861-63           Lewistown

1863-65           Mifflin

1865-68           Chambersburg

1868                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1868-69           Columbia

                        Philadelphia Tabernacle

                        Philadelphia Twentieth Street

                        Manayunk Mt. Zion

                        Lancaster First

                        Philadelphia Salem

                        Norristown First

                        Philadelphia Memorial

                        Summerfield

                        Roxborough Central

                        Steelton

1895                retired

 

Note: S.H.C Smith is the father of Samuel Wise Smith (1855-1935) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

SMITH, WALTER BROWN

 

Born: 12-12-1876  Ennisville PA                               married: Nellie Rush Smith

Died: 6-9-1949                                                            obit: [1888 – 1968]

 

1907    admitted on trial

1907    ordained deacon

1909    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Belvidere Cemetery, Belvidere NJ

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1950, 782

 

1904-07           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1906-07  Belfast and Wind Gap

1907                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1907-10           Belfast and Wind Gap

1910-13           Tobyhanna

1913-17           Philadelphia Providence

1917-18           sabbatical

1918-25           on leave

                             1922-24      Valley Forge

1924-26           Philadelphia East Montgomery Avenue

1926-27           Bryn Mawr St. Luke’s (moved to next appointment before end of 2nd year)

1927-30           Philadelphia Nineteenth Street (started before Conference)

1930-36           Nesquehoning

1936-39           Kensington Siloam

1939-43           Pen Argyl

1943-49           Easton Calvary Memorial

1949                retired

 

 

SMUCKER, CLAYTON ALBERT

 

Born: 9-30-1870  Sharon IL               married: Maude Jennie Dunfee

Died: 7-31-1925  Salem OH               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 338

 

1894    license, Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Association

1896    ordained deacon, Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 340

 

1894                transfer to the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

                        Forest

                        Prospect

                        Celina

                        Defiance

1909                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1909-13           Pittsburgh Smithfield Street

1913-14           Baltimore Roland Park, Baltimore Conference

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-21           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1921-24           Hazleton

1924-25           Huntingdon First

 

Note: Clayton A. Smucker is the son of Rev. Cyrus Schmucker (1840-1902) of the Illinois and Ohio Conferences of the Evangelical Association.  While the Methodist records give his Evangelical-Methodist transfer date as 1894, the Evangelical records give it as 1896.  Obituaries for Clayton A. Smucker also appear in the 8/13/25 Christian Advocate, page 1010, and in the 8/27/25 Christian Advocate, page 1060.

 

SMYSER, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 10-12-1841  near York PA                               married: Lydia A. Hoffman

Died: 10-28-1900  Altoona PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 146

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained deacon

1867    ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 103

 

1863-64           Hampstead

1864-65           Westminster

1865-67           Frederick circuit

1867-68           Great Falls

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Great Falls

1869-72           Havre de Grace

1872                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1872-75           Bellefonte

1875-77           Phillipsburg

1877-79           Bloomsburg

1879-82           Berwick

1882-86           superintendent, Danville District

1886-89           Chambersburg

1889-92           Bedford

1892-93           Curwensville

1893-95           Conference Book Room

1895-98           Lewistown

1898-99           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1899-00           Shamokin First

1900-00           superintendent, Altoona District

 

Note: An obituary for Martin L. Smyser also appears in the 11/15/00  Christian Advocate, page 1858.

 

SNAVELY, CHARLES CAMERON

 

Born: 10-13-1860  near Rural Retreat VA                 married: Jessie Gray Boggs

Died: 12-16-1943  Newark NJ                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 213

 

1886    admitted on trial, North Nebraska Conference

1888    ordained deacon, North Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: Lake Nelson Memorial Cemetery, Lake Nelson NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 227

 

1886-87           Beaver Green circuit

1887-89           Kennard

1889-90           Omaha circuit

                        Purple Kane

                        Omaha

                        North Bend

                        North Platte

                        Shelton

1899-00           Altoona Epworth, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1900                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1900-01           Altoona Epworth

1901-06           Williamsburg

1906-09           State College

1909-12           Danville Trinity

1912-13           Temperance Agent

1913-18           Ramey

1918-22           Clearfield West Side

1922-28           York Ridge Avenue

1928                retired

 

Note: Charles C. Snavely is the father of coach Carl G. Snavely (1874-1975), the subject of an article in the 1999 volume of The Chronicle, pages 53-55. 

 

SNIVELY, WILLIAM ANDREW

 

Born: 12-6-1833  Greencastle PA                              married: Ella B. Pirtle

Died: 3-2-1901  Louisville KY                                  obit: [4/16/1839 – 9/14/1896]

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1865    ordained, East Baltimore Conference: Protestant Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY

Obit:

 

1855-56           York Springs

1856-57           Lewistown

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           East Baltimore station

1859-60           North Baltimore station

1860-61           on leave

                             1860-61      Cincinnati OH Union Chapel

1861-62           Carlisle Emory Chapel

1862                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1862-64           Pittsburgh Christ

1864-65           ?

1865                joined the Protestant Episcopal denomination

1865-67           Pittsburgh PA St. Andrew’s

1867-70           Cincinnati OH Christ

1870-74           Albany NY St. Peter’s

1874-               Brooklyn NY Grace

                        New Orleans LA Trinity

 

Note: William A. Snively is the author of many books on various religious topics.  He is the brother of Rev. Summerfield Emory Snively (1848-1914) and Rev. Thaddeus Alexander Snively (1851-1914), both of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

 

 

SNYDER, EDMUND BOWMAN

 

Born: 4-18-1831  ME                                                 married: Mary McCoy

Died: 6-28-1895  Jacksonville FL                              obit: St. Johns River Conference 1896, 31

 

license

ordained

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville FL

Obit: St. John’s River Conference 1896, 29

 

1854-55           Salem

1855-56           Christiansburg

1856-57           Shippensburg station

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Shippensburg Station

1858-60           Bellefonte station

1860-62           Hollidaysburg station

1862-64           Baltimore Exeter Street

1864                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1866-67           Pittsburgh Christ

1868                transfer to Illinois Conference

1868-69           Chicago Trinity

1869                transfer to Northwestern Indiana Conference

                        transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1885                moved to Florida for health reasons

1890-91           Jacksonville Trinity

1891                transfer to St. John’s River Conference

1891-95           Jacksonville Trinity

 

Note: Edmund B. Snyder moved to Florida for his health in 1885, and in 1887 he raised money to build a church at Okahumpka.  He was appointed in 1890 to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, where he served until his death in 1895.  The church was renamed Snyder Memorial in 1903.   The Florida Conference archives includes an Edmund B. Snyder scrapbook.  The birthdate for Mrs. Snyder, not given in her conference obituary, is 3/10/1831.

 

SNYDER, IVAN LOTT

 

Born: 6-22-1875  Waverly PA                                   married: Lida Addie McRill

Died: 7-13-1955                                                          obit: Wyoming Conference 1946, 458

                                                                                    married2: Margaret Sutton Reed

1895    license, recommended by Wilkes Barre         obit2:

1903    admitted on trial

1904    ordained deacon

1905    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wyoming Cemetery, Wyoming PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1956, 254

                       

1895-99           student, Wyoming Seminary

                             1895-99      supply in Wyoming Conference

1900-03           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

                             1901-03      supply in Newark Conference

1903-05           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1905-06           Marysville

1906-08           Clearville

1908-10           Vira

1910-11           Rouzerville

1911                transfer to West Wisconsin Conference

1911-13           Hixton

1913                Montfort

1913                transfer to Wyoming Conference

1913-14           Rush

1914-17           Carverton

1917-19           Rendham-Old Forge

1919-20           Old Forge

1920-21           Hawley

1921-26           New Milford

1926-29           Waymart

1929-31           Throop

1931-36           Luzerne

1936-38           West Nanticoke

1938-39           Apalachin-Little Meadows

1939-42           Gouldsboro

1942-43           Gibson

1943                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on Ivan L. Snyder appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 42.  The maiden name of the first Mrs. Snyder is also given as MacRill and McKrill.  Her father is an uncle to Franklin P. Doty (1852-1933) of the Wyoming Conference.  Her mother is the granddaughter of Rev. Oliver Lewis (1797-1873: a local preacher in the Wyoming Conference) and an uncle Joshua S. Lewis (1829-1908) of the Wyoming Conference. 

 

SNYDER, JOHN ARTHUR

 

Born:                                                                           married: Judith Everett Sargent (6/30/1963)

Died:                                                                           obit: [1942 – ]

 

1964     admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-63           Lemont 

1963-64           at school

1964-65           Bedford Valley

1965-67           Orbisonia

1967                discontinued

 

Note: John Arthur Snyder appears to have graduated from Penn State in 1962 and from seminary in 1965.  In 2020, Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are living in Bath MI.

 

SNYDER, LESTER IRVING

 

Born: 10-17-1907  Cleveland OH                              married: Alice Roxanne Pettit

Died: 5-14-1983                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 409

 

1936    ordained, Pennsylvania Baptist Convention

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 438

           

                        Mt. Hermon

                        Pittsburgh Emmanual

                        Washington Allison Avenue

1954                admitted on trial, Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church

1954-55           director of finance and field service, Norfolk District

1955-57           director of finance and field service, Richmond District

1957-58           Beech Grove-Bethel

1958-60           Portsmouth Wright Memorial

1960-61           South Boston McCandless Memorial

1961                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1961-62           Shickshinny

1962                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Pittsburgh North Avenue

1964-65           Webster

1965-66           on leave

1966                retired

                             1968-69      Monongahela circuit

 

SNYDER, ROBERT M.

 

Born: 12-9-1869  Tamaqua PA                                  married: Myrtle M. Underwood

Died: 4-19-1945  Northampton County PA               obit: [12/16/1873 – 6/22/1944]

 

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Cassville

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Bethlehem PA

Obit: [Allentown The Morning Call, 4/20/1945, page 30]

 

1889-91           Cassville

1891-92           Wagner

1892-95           Alum Bank

1895-96           Mifflinville

1896-97           Espy-Lime Ridge

1891-98           Wapwallopen

1898-00           Milnesville-Jeddo

1900-03           Weatherly

1903-05           Shamokin Second

1905-07           Catawissa

1907-09           Clearfield West Side

1909                permitted to withdraw under charges

 

SNYDER, WILLIAM ALFRED

 

Born: 7-22-1912   Tower City PA                              married: Dorothy Wright Gleichert

Died:4-8-2012  Mechanicsburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 389

 

1931    license, recommended by Camp Hill

1935    admitted on trial

1935    ordained deacon

1938    ordained elder

           

Interment: St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berrysburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 302

 

1929-33           student, Dickinson College

1933-36           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1936-39           Schellsburg

1939-41           Newton Hamilton

1941-43           Milesburg-Unionville

1943-46           Flemington

1946-49           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1949-57           Williamsburg

1957-68           Woolrich

1968-77           Wellsboro

1978                retired

 

  Note: William A. Snyder is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1228.

 

 

SO, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962   admitted on trial, page 70

1962    ordained deacon, page 71

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963           no longer listed

 

Note: Henry So appears in the 1964 General Minutes under Central Pennsylvania as "no appointment reported."  He is never reported as attending a school, serving an appointment, or with an address.  Nothing else is known of him.  In reportedly was an Indonesian evangelist and, in 1964, a staff member at the Methodist Board of Evangelism in Nashville TN.

     The El Paso TX Herald-Post 6/18/1964, page 3, states: “Henry So was born into Buddhist home in far-off Indonesia. His conversion to Christianity was not easily accepted by his family and friends. He was shunned and disdained for his new belief, but it has been worth it. In January Mr. So will return to his homeland as a minister of the Methodist Church, and will have the task of establishing new churches to spread the Gospel of Jesus.”

 

 

SOLT, JAMES ELLERY

 

Born: 3-20-1858  State College PA                           married: Jemima Dewey

Died: 9-7-1942  Williamsport PA                              obit: [9/8/1868 – 4/5/1920]

 

1892     admitted on trial

           

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit:

 

1892-93           Loyalsock

1893                discontinued by request of Conference

 

SOMMER, ADAM

 

Born: 3-28-1874  Valley View PA                             married: Theresa Philabina Rodran

Died: 9-24-1956  Marsh Hill PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 199

                                                                                    married2: Lillian A. Lundy

1918    received on credentials                                   obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974,442

            as elder from Holiness Christian Church

 

Interment: Marsh Hill Cemetery, Marsh Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 245

 

1916-17           Excelsior

1917-20           Kulpmont

1920-22           Bloomingdale

1922-25           Salladasburg

1925-29           Woodland-Bradford

1929-36           Ralston

1936-40           Robertsdale-Woodvale

1940-42           Millville-Jerseytown

1942-47           Ramey-Blandburg

1947                retired

 

SOUDERS, WALTER GRANT

 

Born: 12-29-1871  Salem NJ                                      married: Martha Jane Zeitler

Died: 9-29-1934  Atlantic City NJ                             obit: [12/10/1872 – 8/7/1960]

 

Interment: Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville NJ

Obit:

 

1893-98           student, Dickinson College

                             1897-98      Greencastle

1898-99           Greencastle

1899-01           Blue Island IL Congregational Church

1901-02           Elmwood IL unknown denomination

                        living in Wisconsin

 

Note: Walter G. Souders worked in the banking business and served as a local pastor.  He is the founder of Walter G. Souders & Co., investments bankers headquartered in Chicago IL.  A photograph of Walter G. Souders is available at http://archives.dickinson.edu/image-archive-people/souders-walter-grant .

 

 

SOURS, JOHN D.

 

Born: 2-23-1815  near Idaville PA                             married: Anna Mary Mears (9/11/1856)

Died: 5-25-1912                                                          obit: [9/28/1828 – 3/18/1917]

 

1843   exhorter, recommended by Pine Grove

1844   local pastors license

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Christian Advocate 9/19/1912, page 1363

 

1844-69           traveled as a local preacher
1869                retired to Mechanicsburg, where he continued active in the church

 

Note: Also known as John D. Sowers, he served as a local pastor.  Though never under official appointment, he traveled circuits and pioneered the Methodist work in remote areas ― e.g., he organized the work at Cross Forks in 1851.  He is the father of Mechanicsburg poets Benjamin Franklin Mears Sours (1863-1956) and Laura Myrtle Sours (1866-1923), whose texts appear in several gospel hymns. 

 

SOUSER, JOHN STUCKEY

 

Born: 7-1-1861  Wolfsburg PA                                  married: Martha D. Tewksbury

Died: 4-20-1921  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 142

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Saxton circuit

 

Interment: McIntyre Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 130

 

1888-89           Cassville

1889-91           Blain

1891-93           Catawissa circuit

1893-96           Blain

1896-00           Reedsville

1900-02           Flemington

1902-06           Williamsport Fourth Street

1906-08           Everett

1908-13           Huntingdon First

1813-18           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1918-21           superintendent, Sunbury District

 

 

SOWER, DAVID ARTHUR JR

 

Born: 3-12-1878  Centre Hall PA                               married: Eva Zena Romig

Died: 10-4-1960  Daytona Beach FL                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 747

                                                                                    married2: Gladys M. _____

1905    license, recommended by Watsontown          obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973,384

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Hammersly Fork

1912    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Bellevue Memorial Park, Daytona Beach FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 263

 

1906-08           Hammersley Fork

1908-11           Pleasant Gap

1911-12           Medix Run

1912-14           Benezette

1914-16           Lock Haven circuit

1916-17           Martinsburg

1917-19           Orbisonia

1919-21           Bakerton

1921-23           Airville

1923-27           Millville-Jerseytown

1927-31           Snydertown

1931-35           Sinnemahoning

1935-40           Port Matilda

1940-43           Duboistown-Nisbet

1943-49           Milesburg-Unionville

1949                retired

                             1949-52      North Bend 

                             1952-54      Trout Run

                        Olds Hall (residence for retired ministers) in Daytona Beach FL

                             visitation pastor, Daytona Beach First

                             supply, Livingston Memorial

                             interim minister for Congregational Church

                                    Melbourne, Hallandhale, West Hollywood, North Miami

 

Note: The second Mrs. Sower began the conference course of study in 1942.  She has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but she never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

SPANGLER, JOSEPH NORRIS

 

Born: 3-25-1820  Williamsport MD                           married: Margaret Young

Died: 12-20-1887  Baltimore MD                              obit: [4/21/1831 – 10/24/1856]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah E. Malone

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [8/15/1834 – 5/30/1879]

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South1888, 36

 

1845-46           Bloomfield

1846-47           Mifflin

1857-49           Berlin

1849-51           Concord

1851-53           Cassville

1853-54           Stonerstown

1854-56           Schellsburg

1856-57           Birmingham

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Mercersburg

1858-60           Frederick

1860-62           Great Falls

1862-63           McConnellsburg

1863                withdrew to join M.E. South

 

SPEERS, WILLIAM ARTHUR

 

Born: 8-30-1926  Rutherford Heights PA                  married: Patricia Ann Jury

Died: 11-25-2015  Hanover PA                                  obit: [6/21/1932 – 3/20/2018]

 

1949    license

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1956    ordained elder

 

Interment: Halifax UMC Cemetery, Halifax PA

Obit:

 

1954-59           Gatchelville

1959-64           Shiremanstown Mt. Olivet

1964-68           York Wesley Memorial

1968-74           Sunbury St. John’s

1974                withdrew to unite with another denomination

                        York Zion UCC

                        Interim, Dallastown St. John’s [Blimire’s] UCC

 

Note: William A. Speers is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1234.  He became a minister for the United Church of Christ in York County PA.

 

SPENCER, AZARA COSTON

 

Born: 1-27-1855  PA                                                  married: Sarah Maria Emerick

Died: 8-1-1923  Kansas City MO                               obit: [12/26/1861 – 5/6/1943]

 

1898    elders orders recognized from United Brethren Church, recommended by Benezette

 

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City MO

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1923, 652

 

1897-99           Benezette

North Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1900                transfer to Ohio Conference

Nebraska Conference 

 

Note: A. Coston Spencer served 1897-99 as a local pastor.

 

 

SPENCER, JOHN CARROLL

 

Born: 3-13-1879  OH                                                 married: Grace “Jessie” Chadwick

Died: 7-8-1955  Williamsport PA                              obit: Rock River Conference 1963, 298

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Rock River Conference 1956, 251

 

1951-54           Mount Holly Springs

 

Note: John C. Spencer served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a retired member of the Rock River (IL) Conference.

 

 

SPONSLER, ELI EDWARD

 

Born: 10-30-1874  near Everett PA                            married: Mary Alice Young

Died: 2-19-1930  Everett PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 253

 

1902    admitted on trial

1906    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 193

 

1901-04           Waterville

1904-06           Laurelton

1906-10           Keating Summit

1910-14           Manor Hill

1914-30           on leave

 

Note: Some biographical information on Eli E. Sponsler appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 27.  Mrs. Sponsler is the daughter of BWA Young (1841-1911) of the Evangelical Church and a sister to Jennie L. Young Young, wife of David F. Young (1866-1952) of the Evangelical Church.

 

 

SPOTTSWOOD, WILSON LEE

 

Born: 11-3-1822  Carlisle PA                                     married: Lucy Ann Minshall

Died: 5-5-1892  Kansas City MO                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 125

 

1843    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Kansas City, Missouri

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 93

 

1843-44           Boonsboro

1844-45           Berwick

1845-46           North Baltimore

1846-48           Shepherdstown

1848-50           Rockingham

1850-52           Lexington

1852-53           Huntingdon

1853-55           Warriors Mark

1855-57           Bellefonte

1867                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Bedford

1859-61           Clearfield-Curwensville

1861-63           Altoona

1863-65           Williamsport Pine Street

1865-66           Lewisburg

1866-68           superintendent, Bellefonte District

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           superintendent, Bellefonte District

1869                superintendent, Williamsport District (ending 9/1/1869)

1869-74           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (beginning 9/1/1869)

1870-74           Waynesboro

1875-77           Shamokin

1877-80           on leave

                             1877-78      assistant, Chambersburg First

1880                retired

 

Note: Obituaries for W. Lee Spottswood also appear in the 5/15/1892 and the 6/1/1892 Central Pennsylvania Methodist.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 464.  Mrs. Spottswood is the daughter of Robert Minshall (1788-1828) of the Baltimore Conference, and she is the author of religious novels.  W.L. Spottswood is the father of Lucy Minshall Spottswood Young, wife of Jesse Bowman Young.

 

 

SPRINGER, RUTER WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-2-1863  Springfield IL                                  married: Gertrude Lynch

Died: 3-18-1837  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 209

 

1894    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1896    ordained deacon, New York East Conference

 

Interment: Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 264

 

1894-1914       chaplain, US Army

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-19           faculty, Dickinson College

1919                retired

 

 

SPURR, GEORGE CLAYTON SR.

 

Born: 11-2-1875  Mahanoy City PA                          married: Catherine Irene Roberts

Died: 2-?-1969                                                            obit: [10/5/1882 – 5/24/1974]

 

Interment: Milton Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit:

 

1935-42           Town Hill

 

Note: George C. Spurr has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He appears to have been a local pastor, and an associate on the large Town Hill charge 1930-35 while living in Milton PA.  In 1911 he was the secretary of the Reading Railroad YMCA in Sunbury PA.

 

 

STAMM, JOHN  FREDERICK

 

Born: 10-9-1902  Lock Haven PA                              married: Olive Violet Aumiller

Died: 5-25-1984                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 473

 

1923    license, recommended by Lincoln Chapel

1925    admitted on trial

1928    ordained deacon

1930    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lincoln Chapel Cemetery, Laurelton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 383

 

1924-29           Catawissa circuit 

1929-34           White Haven

1934-38           Altoona Fairview (ending 1/38)

1938-43           Jersey Shore First (beginning 1/38)

1943-46           Philipsburg

1946-51           Chambersburg

1951-57           Altoona Juniata

1957-61           Lewistown First

1961-67           superintendent, Altoona District

1967-70           administrator, Tyrone Epworth Manor

 

Note: John F. Stamm is the father of John W. Stamm and grandfather of Mark Wesley Stamm.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1243. 

 

 

STAMM, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 2-27-1930  Hazleton PA                                   married: Joanne M. Etter

Died: 10-8-2007  Chambersburg PA                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 352

 

1951    license, recommended by Chambersburg St. Paul

1952    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

           

Interment: St. Thomas Cemetery, St. Thomas PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 430

 

1947-51           student, Dickinson College

                             1951           Boiling Springs  (4/1/51 – 8/31/51)

1951-55           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1953-54      student assistant, Bloomingdale NJ (9/53 – 6/54)

                             1954-55      Jersey City NJ Waverly Congregational (6/54 – 3/55)

1955-58           Orbisonia (ending 11/15/58)

1958-62           Duncansville (beginning 11/15/58)

1962-70           Stewartstown

1970-77           Clearfield West Side

1977-82           superintendent, Lewisburg District (ending 10/1/82)

1982-92           State College St. Paul’s (beginning 10/1/82)

1992                retired

 

Note: John W. Stamm is the son of John F. Stamm and the father of Mark Wesley Stamm, given in the Susquehanna Conference files and now of the North Texas Conference.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1243.

 

STANSBURY, JOHN T.

 

Born: 7-15-1828  Baltimore MD                                married: Mary E. Smith

Died: 1-26-1873                                                          obit: [1830 – 1908]

 

1850    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1873, 48

 

1850-51           Bedford

1851-52           Fincastle

1852-53           Jacksonville

1853-54           New Castle

1854-55           agent, Olin and Preston Institute in Blacksburg VA

1855-56           Wardenville

1856-57           Blue Sulphur

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bald Eagle (first part of year)

                        New Liberty (second part of year)

1858-61           on leave

1861                retired

1868                transfer by change of boundaries to Baltimore Conference

 

 

STANSFIELD, THEODORE SIMPSON

 

Born: 5-17-1867  Howard County MD                      married: Margaret Ellen Jones

Died: 9-13-1936  near Harrisburg PA                        obit: [2/1/1870 – 1/26/1953]

 

1898     admitted on trial, recommended by Mountview MD St. James

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Mount View Cemetery, Marriottsville MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 252

 

1898-01           James Creek

1901-02           New Bloomfield

1902-06           Alexandria

1906-13           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1913-17           Jersey Shore First

1917-18           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1918-22           Milton

1922-24           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1924-25           Sunbury St. John’s

1925-26           Camp Hill

1926-32           York Duke Street

1932-33           Barnesboro

1933-35           Shrewsbury

1935                retired

 

Note: Mrs. T. Simpson Stansfield is a first cousin to the noted missionary-evangelist-author E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973).

 

 

STARR, R.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1909-10           Hammersly Fork (did not finish the year)

 

Note:  R.S. Starr served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be the Robert Spencer Starr (1880-1929) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

 

STARR, RICHARD B.

 

Born: 5-27-1936  Nyack NY                                      married: Carol J. Clee [1967]

Died: 6-2-2020                                                            obit: [10/13/1936 – 10/21/2016]

 

1962    ordained, Lutheran Church

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1955-59           student, Lycoming College

                             1956-59      Trout Run (beginning 6/1/56)

1959-62           seminary student

 

Note: Richard B. Starr was the long-time pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in Spry, in which community he was living in retirement in 2006.  In retirement he apparently served Christ Lutheran Church in Starview [near Mt. Wolf] PA.

 

 

STARR, WILLIAM BYRON           

 

Born: 12-28-1913  Freeport NY                                 married: Ruth Graner

Died: 1-15-1972  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [Eastern PA Conference 1998, 8.281]

 

1945    license, New Jersey Conference

1952    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference

1970    admitted as associate member, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Schnecks Cemetery, Howard PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 331

 

1945-55           New Jersey Conference

                        South Vineland

                        Goshen

                        Leesburg

1955                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1955-59           Woodland (beginning 9/1/55)

1959-63           Austin

1963-69           Howard

1969-70           Mount Carmel

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1970-72           Mount Carmel

 

Note: Mrs. Starr was born 8-1-1915 and died a resident of Bethany Village in Mechanicsburg – this information is not in her “obituary.”

 

STAYTON, CHARLES P.

 

Born: 5-?-1846  DE                                                    married: Samaria Carver

Died: Portland OR                                                      obit: [8/?/1846 – 10/4/1929]

 

1875    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Cowlitz County WA

Obit:

 

1875                transfer to the East Oregon and Washington Conference

1894                permitted to withdraw under complaints, Puget Sound Conference

                        steamboat captain, Columbia and Cowlitz River Transportation Company

 

STEEL, WALTER GREENOUGH

 

Born: 8-20-1866  Concord NH                                   married: Anna M. Healy

Died: 7-15-1949  Pitman NJ                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 203

 

1887    aailed to Africa as missionary under Bishop Taylor

1888    deturned home having contracted African fever.

1899    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Pitman NJ

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 203

 

1899-01           Belleville

1901-03           Wolfsburg

1903-04           Manor Hill

1904-06           New Bloomfield

1906-14           Williamsburg

1914-18           Ralston

1918-19           Howard

1919-21           Juniata Fifteenth Street [Wesley]

1921-23           on leave

1923-29           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1929-37           Beaver Meadows

1937                retired

 

 

STEIN, H.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1886-87           Clearville

 

Note: H.C. Stein is otherwise unknown.

 

 

STEIN, JAMES BERGEY

 

Born: 7-24-1858  Jericho Mills PA                            married: Minnie E. Shearer

Died: 7-16-1938  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 224

 

1887     admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle station

1887    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle station

1889    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Harrisburg [Paxtang] Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 216

 

1883-87           student, Dickinson College

1887-88           Allegheny

1888-90           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1890-95           Bellwood

1895-98           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1898-03           Sunbury St. John’s

1903-06           Chambersburg

1906-09           Bellefonte

1909-11           Tyrone First

1911-12           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1912-18           superintendent, Danville District

1918-22           Altoona First

1922-29           secretary, Board of Philanthropies

1929-31           Saxton

1931                retired

 

 

STEINER, EUGENE RAYMOND

 

Born: 12-10-1909  Turtle Creek PA                          married: Marjorie LaBar

Died: 9-3-1991                                                            obit: [1911 – 2000]

 

1925    license, recommended by Turtle Creek McMaster’s

1952    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 487

 

1947-50           student, Dickinson College

                             1947-50      Mt. Holly Springs 

1950-54           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1950-54      Towaco NJ Whitehall

1954-55           Mt. Holly Springs

1955-57           Bendersville

1957-59           Harrisburg Riverside

1959-64           Harrisburg Trinity

1964-68           Bedford

1968-70           administrator, Bethany Village

1970-73           Harrisburg State Street

1973-78           Tyrone Good Shepherd

1978                retired

                             1980-88      York Springs

 

STEINER, FRED     see STINER, FRED

 

STENGER, BENJAMIN LUTHER

 

Born: 11-11-1899  near Mercersburg PA                   married: Mary Lenora Zimmerman

Died: 3-4-1993  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 437

 

1918    license, recommended by Mercersburg

1923    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 475

 

1923-27           Littlestown

1927-31           Selinsgrove

1931-35           Watsontown

1935-40           Shickshinny

1940-45           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1945-50           Harrisburg Epworth

1950-57           Williamsport Calvary

1957-64           York Grace

1964                retired

                            1969-70       visitation pastor, Williamsport Pine Street

 

Note: Benjamin L. Stenger is a double first cousin to Harry C. Stenger (their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisters).  His maternal grandfather is Rev. William Wesley Wolf (1839-1910), affiliation unknown.

 

STENGER, HARRY CHARLES

 

Born: 12-27-1899  Williamsport MD                         married: Sarah Pearl Fearnow

Died: 10-25-1961  Tyrone PA                                    obit: [3/7/1894 – 8/25/1918]

                                                                                    married2: Mildred Ella Mason

1924    admitted on trial                                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 390

1926    ordained deacon

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Williamsport MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 315

 

1923-24           Montandon

1924-26           Montandon – Washingtonville

1926-27           Mt. Holly Springs

1927-30           Millville – Jerseytown

1930-31           Berwick Calvary (ending 6/31)

1931-35           Freeland Parish (beginning 6/31)

1935-38           York Ridge Avenue

1938-41           Everett

1941-46           Bellefonte

1946-52           Roaring Spring

1952-53           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1953-62           superintendent, Tyrone Epworth Manor

 

Note: Harry C. Stenger is a double first cousin to Benjamin L. Stenger (their fathers were brothers, and their mothers were sisters) and the father of Herman E. Stenger.  His maternal grandfather is Rev. William Wesley Wolf (1839-1910), affiliation unknown.

 

STENGER, HERMAN EARL

 

Born: 4-6-1931  Berwick PA                                      married: _____ Dawson [5/18/1952]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1954    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1949-53           student, Lycoming College

                             1952-53      Allenwood – Elimsport 

1953-54           Allenwood - Elimsport

1954-57           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1954-55      Littlestown

                             1955-57      Hustontown

1957-59           Enola

1959-62           Altoona Mardorf

1962-66           Lewistown Lake Park – Glenwood

1966                voluntary location

1997                living in Oak Park IL

2021                living in South Bend IN

 

Note: Herman E. Stenger is the son of Harry C. Stenger.

 

STEPHENS, ROBERT RALPH       

 

Born: 4-16-1910  Altoona PA                                    married: Glengail Marie Robb

Died: 5-8-1983                                                            obit: [4/28/1912 – 3/19/2011]

 

1937    license, recommended by Washington DC Lincoln Road

1943    admitted on trial, Peninsula Conference

1944    ordained deacon, Peninsula Conference

1949    ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Middletown Methodist Cemetery, Middletown MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 407

 

1943-44           Chesapeake City

1944-45           Zion circuit

1945                transfer to Pittsburg Conference

1945-48           Homestead Anne Ashley

1948-51           McKeesport Beulah Park

1951-53           Pittsburgh Butler Street

1953-56           Mt. Pleasant

1956                located

1956-61           director, Temperance League of PA, MD & DE

1961                re-licensed by Central Pennsylvania Conference

1961-64           Gatchelville

1964-65           associate, York First

1965-66           Fort Loudon

1966-77           Muhlenburg

1977                retired

 

STEPHENS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER

 

Born: 12-15-1835  Mooresville PA                            married: Letitia Margaret Africa

Died: 1-23-1921  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 134

 

1870    admitted on trial, Missouri Conference

 

Interment: Old Graveyard, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 140

 

1877                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1877-79           Ennisville

1879-82           Jersey Shore

1882-85           Renovo

1885-91           superintendent, Williamsport District

1891-93           Shamokin

1893-97           Clearfield

1897-00           Bellefonte

1900-04           secretary, Thank Offering

1904-05           on leave

1905                retired

 

Note: An obituary for William A. Stephens also appears in the 2/5/1921 Christian Advocate, page 152.

 

STERN, HENRY CLAY

 

Born: 3-5-1843  Lewisville PA                                  married: Sarah A. _____

Died: 4-20-1894                                                          obit:

 

1874    admitted on trial, Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1877    ordained, Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

 

Interment: North Bend Cemetery, North Bend PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Howard

1875-76           Cecil

1876-77           Dorchester

1877-78           Rainsburg

1878-81           Potomac

1881-82           Franklin City

1882-83           Leipsic

1883-84           Pittsville

1884                no appointment at his own request

1885                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1885-86           Robinsonville

1887-88           Clearville

1888-90           Burnt Cabins

1890-94           Leidy

1894                Cross Fork

 

Note: Henry C. Stern served as a supply pastor.  He died soon after conference and was replaced at Cross Fork by James A. Patton.  This surname is also rendered STERNS.  

 

STEVENS, BENEDICT TARRING

 

Born: 12-28-1802  near Shirleysburg PA                   married: Eve Ow

Died: 10-26-1883  Three Springs PA                         obit: [7/17/1804 – 12/31/1882]

 

1856    ordained local deacon, page 7

 

Interment: Three Springs Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit:

 

Note: Benedict Stevens is the nephew of David Stevens (1759-1825) of the Baltimore Conference, the father of William Henry Stevens, and the grandfather of Emory Miller Stevens.  He served as a local preacher.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors.  Mrs. Stevens is the daughter of Harmonius Ow (1778-1861), of the early United Brethren Church.

 

STEVENS, BENJAMIN FLETCHER 

 

Born: 3-31-1831  Bedford County PA                       married: Harriet Griffin Rhodes

Died: 5-15-1911  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 131

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1857    ordained deacon

1859    ordained elder

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 125

 

1855-57           Frostburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Westernport

1858-60           Rainsburg

1860-62           Greencastle

1862-63           Sunbury

1863-65           White Haven

1865-67           Ashland

1867-68           Jersey Shore

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Jersey Shore

1870-73           Northumberland

1873-75           Williamsport Third Street

1875-77           Clearfield

1877-78           Danville Trinity

1878-81           Mifflinburg

1881-83           Stewartstown

1883-86           Duncannon

1886-89           Mechanicsburg

1889-91           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1891-98           on leave

1898                retired

 

Note: B.F. Stevens is a brother to Isaac C. Stevens, and an uncle to George Washington Stevens.  He is the namesake of Harrisburg Stevens Memorial Church [formerly Thirteenth Street, and later Stevens Emmanual (Hispanic)].  An obituary also appears in the 9/7/1911 New York Christian Advocate, page 1227.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors.  Mrs. Stevens is the daughter of John Rhodes (1783-1843) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

STEVENS, EMORY MILLER

 

Born: 11-29-1858  near Cumberland MD                  married: Julia Kohler Leader

Died: 9-5-1937  Bedford PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 183

 

1882    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1884    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Three Springs Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 223

 

1882-84           Loyalsock

1884-86           Hughesville

1886-89           Emporium

1889-91           Jersey Shore First

1891-95           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1895-96           Bellwood

1896-00           Bedford

1901-02           superintendent, Juniata District

1902-07           Williamsport Pine Street

1907-09           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1909-15           superintendent, Williamsport District.

1915-19           superintendent, Juniata District

1919-24           superintendent, Altoona District

1924-27           Mifflinburg

1927                retired

 

Note: Emory M. Stevens is the son of William Henry Stevens, the grandson of Benedict T. Stevens, and the father of Edythe May Stevens Hockman, wife of Donald Jacob Hockman (1879-1959) of the Philadelphia Conference.  He is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors and includes a transcription of a manuscript by Emory M. Stevens about his boyhood and his father. 

 

 

STEVENS, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 3-4-1857  Fulton County PA                            married: Clara Frances Ramsey

Died: 6-30-1906  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 224

 

1881    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

1882    ordained elder, recommended by Kedron

           

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 113

 

1881-82           Kedron

1882-84           York Princess Street [relocated in 1898 to become York Epworth, merged in 1921 to form present York Calvary UMC]

1884-85           Buckhorn

1885-87           Selinsgrove

1887-90           Danville Trinity

1890-95           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1895-98           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1898-03           Lewistown

1903-06           superintendent, Harrisburg District

 

Note: George W. Stevens is a nephew of B.F. Stevens and Isaac C. Stevens, and a second cousin of William H. Stevens and James F. Glass.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors. 

 

STEVENS, ISAAC COLLINS                                 

 

Born: 2-15-1833  Fulton County PA                          married

Died: 11-29-1869 Jersey Shore PA                            obit:

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 61

           

1857-58           York Springs circuit

1858-59           New Bloomfield circuit

1858-60           Newport circuit

1860-61           Shippensburg circuit

1861-62           Mt. Holly Springs

1862-63           Mount Vernon station

1862-64           East Baltimore Station

1864-66           Hanover Station

1866-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           on leave

 

Note: I. Collins Stevens is a brother to B.F. Stevens and an uncle to George Washington Stevens.  He was the first pastor to die as a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors.
 

 

STEVENS, JOHN M.

 

Born: 7-4-1890  Frankford DE                                   married: Gladys V. Seylar

Died: 1-18-1977  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 476

 

1914    license, recommended by Carlisle Allison

1917    ordained deacon, New England Conference

1921    ordained elder

1919    admitted on trial, New England Conference

 

Interment: Mercersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 264

 

1914-16           Fort Loudon

1917-19           student, Boston University in Boston MA

                             1917-18      Oneco CT, New England Conference

                             1918-20      Cambridge Trinity, New England Conference

1919                admitted on trial, New England Conference

1919-20           Cambridge Trinity

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-21           McConnellsburg

1921-24           Snow Shoe

1924-25           Danville Trinity

1925-27           Freeland

1927-28           Petersburg

1928-31           Hastings

1931-34           Gordon

1934-40           Reedsville

1940-43           Muncy

1943-45           Williamsport High Street

1945-48           Altoona Fifth-Eighth Street

1948-53           St. Mary’s

1953-55           Shippensburg

1955-57           Fort Loudon

1957                retired

                             1957-62      Hibernia

 

STEVENS, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 10-30-1848  near Hustontown PA                   married: Hattie Ellis Cummins

Died: 7-30-1929  Camp Hill PA                                 obit: [d. 3/1/1893]

                                                                                    married2: Dora Campbell

1875    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 348

1879    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 187

 

1875                transfer to South Kansas Conference

1875-84           [Kansas]

1884                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1884-87           Wolfsburg

1887-90           Port Royal

1890-95           Orbisonia

1895-96           New Bloomfield

1896-01           Altoona Juniata

                             1900-01      Juniata Gap

1901-04           Duncannon

1904-07           Harrisburg Epworth

1907-08           Mechanicsburg

1908-14           Wrightsville

1914-18           Duncansville

1918-20           Gordon

1920                retired

                             1921-22      Bressler

 

Note: William H. Stevens is a brother to Scott F. Stevens (1855-1941) of the Southwest Missouri Conference, and a first cousin once removed to B.F. Stevens and Isaac Stevens.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors. An obituary also appears in the 8/15/1929 Christian Advocate, page 1008.
 

 

STEVENS, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 12-12-1831  near Shirleysburg PA                   married: Margaretta Sheffler

Died: 6-10-1901  Shelby IA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 87

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Hugh Linn

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [2/16/1836 – 12/25/1913]

 

Interment: Three Springs Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 124

 

1855-56           Schellsburg

1856-57           Bedford circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bedford circuit

1858-60           Pleasant Grove

1860-61           Schellsburg

1861-62           Bald Eagle – Port Matilda

1862-65           chaplain, 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers

1865-67           Emporium

1867-68           on leave

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           on leave

                            1868-69       Shirleysburg

1870-73           Shade Gap

1873-76           Saxton

1876-91           on leave

1891                retired

                        state representative

 

Note: Some sources give his fill name as William Henry Emory Stevens.  He is the son of Benedict T. Stevens and the father of Emory M. Stevens.  An obituary also appears in the 9/12/1901 Christian Advocate.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 466.  The Stevens file in the conference archives comments on the relationships among almost a score of Stevens-related Methodist pastors and includes a transcription of a manuscript by Emory M. Stevens about his boyhood and his father.  The second Mrs. Stevens (nee Carrie Feight)is the widow of Hugh Linn (1832-1894) of the Des Moines Conference.  William H. Stevens is the founder and namesake of Steven Chapel in Bedford County PA.

 

STEVENSON, GEORGE

 

Born: 9-20-1810                                                          married: Tarresse G. _____

Died: 7-8-1893                                                            obit: [d. 8/27/1849]

                                                                                    married2: Sarah Watts

1841    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: [4/11/1820 – 7/10/1893]

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Stephens City VA

Obit: Baltimore Conference ME South 1894, 37

 

1841-42           Clearfield

1842-43           Warrior’s Mark

1843-44           Bedford

1844-45           Allegany

1845-47           Trough Creek

1847-49           Concord

1849-50           Mifflin

1850-52           Williamsburg

1851-53           Hancock

1853-55           Berkley

1855-56           Hampstead

1856-57           Newport

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Newport

1858-60           Lewistown

1860-62           Greencastle

1861-62           Gettysburg

1862-64           Frederick

1864                retired

1866                withdrew to join M.E. South

 

Note: The first Mrs. Stevenson is buried in the Breezewood Methodist Cemetery.  The second Mrs. Stevenson is the daughter of James Watts (1782-1856) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

STEVENSON, JOHN W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-64           Bedford Valley

 

Note: John W. Stevenson served as a local pastor.

 

STEVENSON, WILLIAM JAMES

 

Born: 6-10-1839  Philadelphia PA                             married: Harriet Baer

Died: 12-6-1895  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Philadelphia Conference 1903, 97

 

1859    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1896, 95

 

1859-61           Doylestown

1861-63           Philadelphia Thirty-Eighth Street

1863-66           Wilmington St. Paul’s

1866-69           Wilmington Grace

1868-71           Philadelphia Spring Garden Street.

1871-73           Harrisburg Grace

1874                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1878                transfer to Troy Conference

1878-82           [Troy Conference]

1882-83           Harrisburg Grace, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1883                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by boundary change

1883-85           Harrisburg Grace

1885                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

                        Reading PA

                        Philadelphia Christ

 

Note: A biographical sketch of William J. Stevenson is given in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.  Mrs. Stevenson is the daughter of John Baer (1794-1878) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

STEWART, E. VAUGHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-56           Trout Run (beginning 6/1/54)

 

Note:  E. Vaughn Stewart served as a local pastor.

 

STEWART, EPHRAIM C.

 

Born: 1-17-1833                                                          married:

Died: 3-8-1873                                                            obit:

 

1872    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Old Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1874, 64

 

1871-72           Granville 

1872-73           Saxton circuit

 

Note:  Ephraim C. Stewart is the son of Mr. Thomas Stewart and Elizabeth Rice. Which information is not given in his obituary.  Raised near Port Royal, he practiced law in Mifflintown and taught school in Cassville before entering the ministry.  Other sources give the birth date as 1-27-1833. 

 

STEWART, OLIVER M.

 

Born: 5-5-1839 PA                                                     married: Eleanor Bell

Died: 3-7-1915  Kansas City MO                               obit: [1844 – 6/30/1927]

 

1864    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Saxton circuit

 

Interment: Chesterton Cemetery, Chesterton IN

Obit: St. Louis Conference 1915, 413

 

1864-65           Saxton

1865-67           Manor Hill

1867-68           Greencastle

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Greencastle

1869                transfer to St. Louis Conference

                        Springfield MO Grace

 

Note: Mrs. Stewart was born in Mifflin County PA, and married Oliver M. Stewart in 1860 in Huntingdon PA.

 

 

STEWART, WALTER V.

 

Born: 8-2-1887  Wells Tannery PA                           married: Eva L. Myers

Died: 5-9-1916                                                            obit:

 

1912    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1914    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1916    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1917, 155

 

1908-09           Shirleysburg

1909-11           Concord

1911                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1911-14           Lawndale

1914-16           Philadelphia Mount Carmel

 

STILES, DARWIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 10-31-1858                                                        married: Phoebe Robson

Died: 4-24-1927                                                          obit: [1/16/1869 – 2/1/1940]

 

1884  admitted on trial, recommended by Rohrsburg circuit

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Missouri Conference 1927, 408

 

1883-85           Rohrsburg

1885-87           West Shamokin

1887-89           on leave

1889                transfer to St. Louis Conference

 

STINE, JOHN SHARP

 

Born: 8-12-1813  Leestown VA                                 married: Sarah Riegel

Died: 5-5-1898  Chicago IL                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 135

 

1836    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 82

 

1836-37           Moorefield VA

1837-38           Lewisburg VA

1838-39           Lexington VA

1839-40           Warrior’s Mark

1840-41           Deerfield VA

1841-42           RockinghamVA.

1842-43           Baltimore Fayette Street

1843-44           Carlisle

1844-45           York Springs

1845-46           Shrewsbury

1846-47           Lock Haven

1847-48           Clearfield

1848-50           Muncy

1850-52           Sunbury

1852-54           Milton

1854-56           Williamsport

1856-57           Carlisle

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           York

1859-61           Duncannon

1861-63           Mifflintown

1863-65           Tyrone

1865-67           Mechanicsburg

1867-69           Williamsburg

1869                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-71           Williamsburg

1871-73           Selinsgrove

1873-75           Mifflinville

1875-77           Conyngham

1877-78           on leave

1878-79           Mt. Pleasant

1879-82           on leave

1882-84           Howard

1884-88           on leave

1888                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch for John Stine is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 467.

 

 

STINE, ROBERT HENDERSON

 

Born: 12-25-1849  Buffalo Run PA                           married: Mary Catherine Sellers

Died: 5-10-1934  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 138

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by Alum Bank circuit

1888    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Half Moon Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 220

 

1884-85           Decatur

1885-85           Wagner [Vira]

1885-88           Alum Bank

1888-93           New Bloomfield

1893-98           Cassville

1898-01           Fairview

1901-05           Muncy

1905-09           Huntingdon Second

1909-13           Jersey Shore First

1913-18           Catawissa

1918-22           Burnham

1922-26           Williamsport Market Street

1926                retired

 

Note: Two 100+ page typewritten reminiscences on parsonage life by Sarah Bertha Stine, daughter of R.H. Stine, are part of the collection in the conference archives: Skipping (or Rolling) Stones, 1936; That Old Cassville Parsonage, 1942

 

STINER, FRED CLIFFORD

 

Born: 6-29-1915  Berwick PA                                    married: Dorothy Shelhamer

Died: 8-12-1964  Milton PA                                      obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 264

 

1946    admitted on trial, recommended by Orangeville

1946    ordained deacon

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Ebenezer Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 360

 

1941-44           Muncy Valley Parish (beginning 9/1/41)

1944-46           Orangeville (ending 12/1/46)

1946-48           Kulpmont (beginning 12/1/46)

1948-55           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

1955-62           Hanover

1962-64           Milton

 

Note: This name is sometimes incorrectly reported as STEINER.

 

STOCKING, MARVIN SIDNEY

 

Born: 11-10-1874  Simsbury CT                                married: Elizabeth Pearl Cranston

Died: 1-23-1951  Hartford CT                                    obit: New England Southern Conference 1957,177

 

1900    admitted on trial, St. John’s River Conference [FL]

 

Interment: Nipsic Cemetery, Glastonbury CT

Obit: New England Southern Conference 1951, 692

 

1896-99           Everett circuit

1900-               Miami

 

 

STOKELY, NEHEMIAH

 

Born: 1845                                                                  married:

Died: 1897                                                                  obit:

 

Interment: West Newton Cemetery, West Newton PA

Obit:

 

1884-85           Leidy

 

Note: Nehemiah Stokely later affiliated with the “Messiah Adventists” in Elk and Cameron counties.  It has not been verified that the Nehemiah Stokely buried in West Newton, whose dates are given above, is the same Nehemiah Stokely who served Leidy. 

 

STONE, ARZA OZIEL

 

Born: 11-?-1847  NY                                                  married: Gertrude Anna Battin

Died: 1932                                                                  obit: [7/4/1856 – c1925]

                                                                                    married2: Katrina C. Clippinger

1871    license, Erie Conference                                 obit2: [1875-1952]

1875    ordained deacon, Erie Conference

1876    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1880    ordained elder, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit:

 

1876-77           Enterprise

1877-78           Fagundus & East Hickory

1878-80           Tionesta & East Hickory

1880-81           Monterey

1881-83           Clintonville

1883-84           on leave

1884-85           Greenwood

1885-87           New Wilmington

1887-89           Sharpsville

1889-92           Salamanca

1892-93           Espyville

1893-96           Spartansburg

1896-98           on leave

1898-00           agent, Anti Saloon League

1900-02           Sheakleyville

1902-04           West Middlesex

1904-06           Volant

1906-11           on leave

                             1908-10      Marysville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1911-15           agent, Anti Saloon League

1915                retired

                             1920-23      Greencastle (started in middle of first year)

1923                located at own request

 

Note: A.O. Stone is a brother to Martin Veranus Stone (1845-1939) of the Erie Conference.  He was a schoolteacher before he entered the ministry and was justice of the peace in Cattaraugus County NY 1870-71.  The 1910 census places him in New Cumberland.

 

STONE, DARRELL F.

 

Born: 5-27-1911                                                          married: Louetta B. Lehner

Died: 6-24-1989                                                          obit: [5/28/1906 – 11/27/2000]

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Newville PA

Obit:

 

1929-33           student, Dickinson College

                             1929-31      Greencastle & Newville

                             1931           York Springs (Mar to Jun)

                             1931-33      Greencastle & Newville (fall 1931 to summer 1933)

                        Linglestown First Church of God     

1976                retired

 

Note:  Darrell F. Stone is the father of Rev. Robert Hays Stone (1937-2016) of the Church of God.  He is a non-graduate of Dickinson, class of 1933, but he reportedly returned to graduate in 1949.  He became a pastor (and conference president) in the Church of God.

 

STONE, LEWIS STODDARD SR

 

Born: 6-3-1896  Chicago IL                                       married: Margaret Walker

Died: 3-30-1984  Laceyville PA                                obit: [3/17/1900 – 5/9/1953]

                                                                                    married2: Florence I. Bidelspacker

1954    license, recommended by Faxon-Kenmar      obit2:

1961    ordained deacon

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 384

 

1954-57           Salladasburg (beginning 9/15/54)

1957-58           (no assignment)

1958-59           assistant, Ralston circuit

1959-60           McElhatten

1960-61           (no assignment)

1961-62           Picture Rocks (ending 12/1/62)

1962-63           Talmar circuit (beginning 12/1/62)

1963-66           East Smithfield

1966                retired

                             1971           Pennsdale (Jul-Aug)

                             1972           Picture Rocks (Feb-Jul)

 

Note: Lewis S. Stone is the son of James Sumner Stone (1856-1938) of the New York Conference.  Lewis S. Stone served as a local pastor.
 

 

STONE, THOMAS MILFORD

 

Born: 2-8-1887  Huntingdon County PA                   married: Ruth H. Krieger

Died: 8-22-1965  Bloomsburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 349

 

1919     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Park, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 337

 

1915-16           Williamsburg

1916-18           Littlestown

1918-20           Summit Hill

1920-23           Harrisburg Riverside

1923-28           Reedsville-Milroy

1928-33           Shippensburg

1933-37           Jersey Shore

1937-41           Bellwood

1941-47           Montoursville

1947-52           Shickshinny

1952-57           Danville St. Paul’s

1957                retired

                             1959-62      Gordon 

 

Note: Thomas M. Stone is a brother to Elsie Mae Stone Shaffner, wife of L. Earl Shaffner.  Mrs. Stone is a graduate of the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School and served as a deaconess in the Baltimore Conference 1918-20

 

STONG, HARRY TITZEL

 

Born: 6-15-1886  Waterloo PA                                  married: Eunice H. Hutton

Died: 8-16-1961                                                          obit: Montana Conference 1962, 276

 

1912    admitted on trial

1914    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit: Montana Conference 1962, 376

 

1912-13           Emporium Cir.

1913-15           Sandy Ridge

1915-17           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1917-18           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1918-19           chaplain, US Army

1919                transfer to North Montana Conference

1919-23           Choteau

1923-               Belt

 

STONGE, FOREST ROCKWOOD

 

Born: 4-20-1915                                                          married: Doris J. Berry

Died: 9-3-2000                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 497

 

1941    license, recommended by Montgomery

1950    admitted on trial

1950    ordained deacon

1952    ordained elder

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Stormstown PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 355]

 

1941-42           Cogan Valley 

1942-45           Waterville

1945-47           Half Moon

1947-49           Hustontown

1949-50           Port Matilda

1950-54           York Duke Street

1954-55           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1955-59           Mifflintown

1959-64           Williamsport Grace

1964-69           Mount Carmel

1969-73           Airville

1973-76           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1976-77           Young’s

1977-83           Jersey Shore First

1983                retired

 

 Note: This name is also rendered FORREST R. Stonge.  He is the father of Gerald R. Stonge of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

STOUDT, JOSEPH RONALD

 

Born: 3-29-1901  Tamaqua PA                                  married: Almeya B. Stettler

Died: 12-17-1976  Sunbury PA                                  obit: [1907 – 1991]

 

1923    license, recommended by Selinsgrove

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Clearfield circuit

1930    ordained local deacon

 

Interment: West Side [Orchard Hills] Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA

Obit: (see biographical files)

 

1924-25           Karthaus (last part of year; see 1925, 88)

1925-26           Laurelton

1926-27           Clearfield circuit

1927-30           New Oxford

1930-31           Town Hill

1931                discontinued, return to supply pastor

1931-32           Wolfsburg (ending circa October 1932; see 1933,76)

1932-33           Friends Cove, Reformed Church (beginning October 1932)

1933                ordained in the Reformed [UCC] Church

1933-40           Friends Cove              

1940-56           Mifflinburg St. John’s

1956-70           Shenandoah Trinity

1970                retired

                             1970-72      Shenandoah Trinity

                       

Note: Joseph R. Stoudt is the father of Rev. John B. Stoudt and the grandfather of Rev. Robert S. Stoudt, both of the Reformed [UCC] Church.  The first name of Mrs. Stoudt is also given as Almeta.

 

STOVER, DONALD  NEVIN

 

Born: 4-12-1938  Lock Haven PA                 married: Joan Louise Saxion [8/28/1960]

Died: 2-5-1997  FL                                         obit:

                                                                        married2: Mrs. Jane Keplinger Losh

1960    license, recommended by Bellefonte obit2:

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 391

 

1964-65           student, Lycoming College

                             1964-65      Waterville

1965-69           student, Crozier Theological Seminary in Chester PA

                             1965-69      Bay View MD

1969-74           Barnitz

1974-77           Mifflintown

1977-86           Wormleysburg

1986-88           Penbrook Grace

1988-95           Dover Bethany

1995-97           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

 

 

STRAIN, HUGH

 

Born: Ireland                                                               married: Verdie S. Williams

Died: 7-26-1920 Littlestown                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 206

 

1892    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Beach Haven Cemetery, Beach Haven PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 137

 

1892-93           Shawmut

1893-94           Morrisdale

1894-96           Warriors Mark

1896-98           Mahaffey

1898-00           Glen Hope

1900-01           Williamsburg

1902-02           Dudley

1902-05           Cassville

1905-06           Port Royal

1906-07           North Bend-Hyner

1905-09           Lumber City

1909-10           retired

1910-11           Bakerton

1911-12           Half Moon

1912-13           Town Hill

1913-15           Beach Haven

1915-18           Austin-Costello

1918                transfer to Wilmington Conference

1918                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1918-20           Hustontown

1920                Littlestown

 

Note: Hugh Strain is the father of Samuel W. Strain.

 

STRAIN, SAMUEL WILLIAMS

 

Born: 6-25-1893  Morrisdale PA                                married: Dorothy Eleanore Beattie

Died: 4-6-1979                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 428

 

1920    license, recommended by Littlestown

1921    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 338

 

1920-23           Littlestown 

1923-25           Fayetteville

1925-28           Weatherly

1928-30           Hughesville

1930-34           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1934-41           Milton

1941-43           Huntingdon First

1943-47           Bloomsburg (beginning 11/15/43)

1947-53           superintendent, Epworth Manor

1953-54           Mount Carmel (beginning 2/1/53)

1954-59           Berwick First (beginning 9/15/54)

1959                retired

                             1960-64      Fairbrook 

                             1967-68      Cove Forge

 

Note: Samuel W. Strain is the son of Hugh Strain.  As a ministerial student, he took over the work at Littlestown upon the death of his father and was aided by local pastors and retirees.

 

STRAUB, HENRY ALBERT

 

Born: 3-10-1868  Snydertown PA                             married: Jennie Patterson

Died: 11-28-1923  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 252

 

1889    admitted on trial, recommended by Rohrsburg charge

1891    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Ada OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 146

 

1887-91           Rohrsburg (moved to Orangeville during the 1890-91 conference year)

1891-95           Orangeville

1895-97           York Springs

1897-00           Ramey

1900-01           Wallaceton

1901-04           Harrisburg Epworth

1904-06           Shippensburg

1906-11           Altoona Simpson

1911-13           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1913-14           Huntingdon First

1914-17           Renovo

1917-23           secretary, Lord’s Day Alliance [OH]

 

STRAUSER, EARL

 

Born: 9-15-1914                                                          married:

Died: 5-14-1993                                                          obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-39           Vira (ending 8/39)

1939-42           at school

 

Note:  Earl Strauser served as a local pastor.  The birth and death dates have not been verified as applying to this man.

 

STRAWINSKI, PETER P.

 

Born: 8-12-1854 near Columbia SC                           married: Mary W. Bastress

Died: 5-18-1920 York PA                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 139

 

1876     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 135

 

1876-77           Shirleysburg

1877-78           Saxton

1878-79           Port Royal

1879-82           Danville Trinity

1882-83           Gettysburg

1883-85           Gettysburg-Rock Creek

1885-88           Stewartstown

1888-91           Newton Hamilton

1891-93           Petersburg

1893-95           Newport

1895-97           Northumberland

1897-00           Schickshinny

1900-02           Williamsport Fourth Street

1902-03           Flemington

1903-05           on leave

1905                retired

 

STRONG, GEORGE W.       

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1904-05           Utahville

1905-06           Blandburg

 

Note: George W. Strong served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

STRUNK, DERWOOD ALDEN JR

 

Born: 4-20-1934  Altoona PA                                    married: Lois Ruth Lehman

Died: 3-23-2020  Lititz PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 375

 

1967    license, recommended by Altoona Second Avenue

1972    admitted on trial

1972    ordained

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 345

 

1967-68           Cove Forge (beginning 11/15/67)

1968-71           Trout Run

1971-76           Windsor Grace

1976-84           Williamsport Pine Street

1984-93           Bloomsburg Wesley

1993-96           Harrisburg Colonial Park

1996                retired

 

STUART, WILLIAM J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1883    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1885    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884-86           Crosswicks and Ellisdale

 

1895                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1895-96           Littleton

1896-97           East Waterford

1897-98           Wolfsburg

1898-99           Pleasant Gap

1899-01           on leave

1901                permitted to withdraw under complaints

 

STUMP, CHARLES LAWRENCE

 

Born: 1-9-1945  Lewistown PA                                 married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1963    quarterly conference license, Mifflintown

1966     admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-65           student, Shippensburg State College

1965-68           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1968-69           at school

1969-70           associate, Clearfield West Side

1970-71           at school

1971                transfer to United Church of Christ denomination

 

SUMWALT, CHARLES LEWIS KALBFUS

 

Born: c1833  Baltimore MD                                       married: Emily Jane Horner

Died: 8-30-1875  Baltimore MD                                obit: [b. 11/13/1837]

 

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Strawbridge station

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1860-62           Gettysburg

1862-63           York Springs

1863-64           without appointment, see page 14

1864                expelled, see page 14

 

Note: Some sources give a birth year of 1826.  Charles L.K. Sumwalt served in the Union Army 1862-63, a colonel in the 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers.  Though he was once arrested on the charge of expressing disloyal sentiments for wearing crepe in the button-hole of his coat as a badge of mourning for the late Stonewall Jackson (d. 5/10/1863) of the Confederate Army, this appears not to be the cause for his expulsion from the ministry.  The History of the One hundred and thirty-eight Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, page 22, states the following:

     Colonel Charles L. K. Sumwalt's military career was destined to be inglorious. He proved to be a wolf arrayed in sheep's clothing. At first he announced his intention to observe the strictest discipline, and establish for his command a good moral reputation. He was a very talented man, and having had some experience as a Minister of the Gospel, would occasionally preach, in the absence of the Chaplain, and he was always attentively listened to by an admiring audience.

     But his habits of pretended righteousness were short lived. He removed his Head Quarters to the hotel at Relay House, and from that time forward "rode a high horse." He became addicted to drunkenness, and lost to all sense of shame, honor or manly dignity.  His course of deportment became so disgraceful that charges were preferred against him — the Colonel was summoned as a criminal before a military court, found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and prejudicial to good order and military discipline, etc., and on the 30th of March, 1863, was "dismissed the military service of the United States."

 

 

SUNDERLAND, ROBERT MARKLEY

 

Born: 4-16-1908  McVeytown PA                             married: Hazel E. Hite

Died: 11-8-1980                                                          obit:

 

1956    license, recommended by Atkinson Mills

1959    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment: Atkinson Mills Methodist Cemetery, Atkinson Mills PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 345

 

1956                Fairbrook (beginning 6/1/56 and ending 10/31/56)

1956-59           Manor Hill (beginning 11/1/56 and ending 10/31/59)

1959-62           Shade Valley (beginning 11/1/59)

1962-63           Ulysses

1963-64           Monyandon

1964-65           Hunlock Creek

1965-66           Port Royal

1966-67           Littlestown

1967-69           Hopewell (ending 4/14/69)

1969-71           Cassville (beginning 4/15/69 and ending 12/31/71)

1971                retired (beginning 12/31/71)

 

Note: Robert M. Sunderland is an uncle (through his sister Thelma Grace Sunderland Rhodes) to Rev. Charles F. Rhodes, affiliation unknown, and a great-uncle to James M. Sunderland of the Susquehanna Conference files.  He served as a local pastor.

 

SUTHERLAND, HIRAM EDDY.

 

Born: 1-28-1835  Seneca County NY                        married: Harriet Lee Lauderburn

Died: 1-27-1907  Hazleton PA                                   obit: [1/20/1835 – 5/12/1909]

 

1873    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton NY

Obit:

 

1887-88           West Hazleton (beginning 9/87)

 

Note: Hiram E. Sutherland was a merchant who served as a local pastor . 

 

SUTTON, RONALD EUGENE

 

Born: 6-20-1935  Harrisburg PA                                married: Patricia Blake

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1954    license, recommended by Camp Hill

1959    admitted on trial

1959    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-61           student, Drew University School of Theology in Madison NJ

1961-63           Jersey Shore Epworth (ending 2/1/63)

1963-64           director, Youth Work (beginning 2/1/63)

1964-67           on leave

1967                voluntary location

                        faculty, American University

 

SWALLOW, SILAS COMFORT

 

Born: 3-3-1839  near Wilkes Barre PA                      married: Rebecca Louis Robins

Died: 8-13-1930  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 231

 

1863  admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 178

 

1863-64           Milton circuit

1864-66           Berwick

1866-68           Catawissa

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Newberry

1871-73           Williamsport Third Street

1873-75           Milton

1875-77           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1877-81           superintendent, Altoona District

1881-84           York First

1884-86           Williamsport Grace

1886-87           agent, Dickinson College

1887-92           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1892-02           superintendent, Harrisburg Book Room

1902-03           no appointment

1903-08           on leave

1908                retired

 

Note: Silas C. Swallow is the nephew of Miner Swallow (1815-1898) of the Wyoming Conference.  He was the 1904 Prohibition Party candidate for president of the United States.  His autobiography “Three Score and Ten” is on file in the conference archives.  An obituary also appears in the 8/28/1930 New York Christian Advocate, page 1056.  A biographical sketch is given in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism, page 2289.

 

 

SWANGER, JOHN PHILLIP

 

Born: 2-15-1836  Mifflin County PA                         married: Harriet H. Housel

Died: 6-29-1867  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1/23/1840 – 12/23/1863]

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 48

 

1859-60           Orangeville

1860-61           Sunbury

1861-63           Hanover

1863-64           Great Island

1884-85           Lycoming

1865-67           Bellefonte

1867                Baltimore Greenmount Avenue

 

SWANK, CHARLES ROBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1968    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           Talmar circuit 

1965-67           Audenreid

1967-70           Littlestown

1970                discontinued, page 96

 

Note: Charles R. Swank appears to have enetered the UCC ministry and served for many years at Catawissa St. John’s.

 

SWANK, EDWIN H.

 

Born: 1876  Somerset County PA                              married: Eliza Jane Heefner [11/12/1912]

Died: 12-20-1951  Huntingdon County PA               obit: [11/12/1886 – 8/24/1973]

 

1914    license

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 72]

 

                        known service in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association

1896-97           Lickingville

1902-03           Indiana

1903-04           Mowrytown

1904-06           Berkeley Springs

 

                        known service in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1906-07           Johnstown circuit

 

                        known service in the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1909-10           Houserville

1910-12           Hustontown

1912-13           Waukesha

 

1914-15           Burnt Cabins

1915-19           Alum Bank

1919-22           Ennisville

1922-24           New Millport

1924-25           Karthaus

 

Note:  While Edwin H. Swank was a member of conference in the Evangelical Association and United Brethren Church, in the Methodist Church he served as a local pastor. 

 

SWANK, ROBERT F.

 

Born: 2-13-1911  Sunbury PA                                    married: Althea B. Rice

Died: 4-26-1969                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 479

 

1966  admitted on trial

 

Interment: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 312

 

1964-65           associate, Snydertown

1965-69           Weatherly (ending 2/1/69)

1969-69           Montgomery (beginning 2/1/69)

 

SWANK, WARREN AMOS

 

Born: 12-24-1920  Sunbury PA                                  married: Romaine Elizabeth Keener

Died: 10-5-1998  York PA                                         obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conf. 2004, 357]

 

1942    license, recommended by Sunbury St. John’s

1946    ordained deacon

1947    admitted on trial

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 423]

 

1942-44           student, Bucknell University

                             1942-44      Montandon 

1944-47           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1944-45      Town Hill

                             1945-47      White Haven 

1947-51           Bakerton

1951-54           James Creek

1954-62           York Ridge Avenue

1962-66           Altoona Grace

1966-68           Williamsport Third Street

1968-76           Harrisburg Christ

1978-80           Reedsville

1980-86           Fairmount

1986                retired

 

Note: Warren A. Swank is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1280.  The dates for Mrs. Swank, not given in the journal obituary, are 5/31/1917 – 12/7/2003.

 

SWARTZ, BENTON SHELLY

 

Born: 1-30-1883  Erie County NY                             married: Clara Ferguson

Died: 9-20-1972  NY                                                  obit: Western New York Conference 1966, 824

 

1901    license

1907    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference

1909    ordained deacon, Northern New York Conference

ordained elder

 

Interment: Prospect Lawn Cemetery, Hamburg NY

Obit: Western New York Conference 1973, 233

 

1903-04           Wind Gap, Philadelphia Conference

1904                Altoona Fairview, Central Pennsylvania Conference (part year)

1904-06           Syracuse Woodlawn

1906                Belle Isle

1906-09           Deansboro

1909-10           Coldbrook and Russia

1910-11

1911-17           Navy YMCE, Shanghai China

1917-18           secretary, Methodist Centenary

1918                transfer to New York East Conference

1918-19           secretary, Methodist Centenary

1919-22           Springdale CT

1922                transfer to Genesee Conference

1922-24           assistant, Buffalo Central Park

1924-30           executive secretary, Erie County Council of Churches

1930-39           director of Christian Education, Council of Churches of Buffalo and Erie County

1939-42           Somerset – County Line

1942-51           Lancaster

1951-55           Coudersport – Sweden Valley

1955                retired

                             1963-          associate, Hamburg

 

SWARTZ, CARTES K.

 

Born: 11-16-1872  Lewistown PA                             married: [single]

Died: 9-12-1969  Ocean Grove NJ                             obit:

 

1895    probationary
1898    licensed, commissioned

 

Interment: First Methodist Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit:

1895-97           Lucy Webb Hayes Training School, Washiongton DC
1897-99           Anthrcite Misson, Mt. Carmel PA
1899-01           Indiana Conference
1901-03           Newark NJ St. Paul’s, Newark Conference
1903-06           Newark NJ Roseville, Newark Conference
1906-09           Washingtonn DC McKendree, Baltimore Conference
1909-36           WHMS, Washington DC
1936                retired

 

Note: Cartes K. Swartz is a sister to Emory T. Swartz.  Their father was local preacher William Swartz (1813-1902).  She was a deaconess, whose home conference was Central Pennsylvania.

 

SWARTZ, EMORY TIBBALS

 

Born: 6-26-1836  Columbia PA                                 married: Rebecca Yocum (5/10/1864)

Died: 7-6-1911  Scranton PA                                     obit: [d. 1865]

                                                                                    married2: Anna M. Clark (2/23/1869)

1861     admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conf.        obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 151

 

Interment: Hazleton Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 127

 

1861-62           Catawissa

1862-63           Bloomingdale

1863-64           Sunbury circuit

1864-65           Catawissa

1865-66           Beaver Meadow

1866-67           York Duke Street

1867-68           Hazleton

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Hazleton

1869-70           Mount Carmel

1870-73           Jeanesville – Audenreid

1873-74           Hyner’s Run

1874-76           White Haven

1876-79           Selinsgrove

1879-81           West Fairview – Marysville

1881-83           Northumberland

1883-86           Weatherly

1886-89           Jersey Shore

1889-93           Hollidaysburg

1893-95           Altoona Simpson

1895-98           Muncy

1898-01           Mount Holly Springs

1901-04           Freeland

1904-07           Riverside

1907                retired

Note: Emory T. Swartz is a brother to Cartes K. Swartz.  Their father was local preacher William Swartz (1813-1902).

 

 

SWARTZ, MORRIS EMORY

 

Born: 2-7-1868  Pine Grove Mills PA                        married: Carrie Myrtle Bashore (8/28/1894)

Died: 4-9-1944  York PA                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 207

 

1892    admitted on trial

1894    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 225

 

1892-94           West Fairview-Marysville

1894-98           Hopewell

1898-04           Shippensburg

1904-06           Patton

1906-11           Clearfield Trinity

1911-17           York First

1917-19           superintendent, Harrisburg District.

1919-25           secretary, Washington Episcopal Area

1925-27           editor, Washington Christian Advocate

1927-31           superintendent, Sunbury District

1931-33           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1933-39           Williamsport Newberry

1939                retired

 

SWARTZ, WILLIAM R.

 

Born:  9-14-1840  Watts twp, Perry County PA        married: Adelaide “Ada” Steel

Died: 2-24-1926  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [2/14/1843 – 2/23/1904]

 

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, New Buffalo PA

Obit:

 

1904-05           Duncannon

 

Note: William R. Swartz served as a local pastor.  A teacher and general store proprietor, he was twice elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1889 and 1891) and worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (1915-1925).

 

SWAYNE, GEORGE H.

 

Born: 1-26-1874  Germany Valley PA                       married: Rhoda Shire

Died: 12-8-1962  Tyrone PA                                      obit: [3/12/1876 – 3/5/1953]

 

1898    called to the ministry

1909    ordained, Church of the Brethren

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

 

1919                pastor in the Church of the Brethren

1921-23           Burnt Cabins

1927                Neelyton
1928-29           Hustontown (part year)

 

Note: George H. Swayne served as a local pastor, mostly in Huntingdon County.  This surname is also rendered SWAINE.  He reportedly had been a farmer in Germany Valley, near Shirleysburg PA, and served the Newton Hamilton charge before entering the Methodist Home in Tyrone in December 1959.  See Royer’s 1924 A History of the Church of the Brethren in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, page 538.

 

SWEET, BURTT EDWARD.

 

Born: 3-8-1926  Scranton PA                                     married: Marilyn F. Moore

Died: 12-25-2011  Hammond NY                              obit:

 

1949    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

1953    ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference

1955    ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 303

 

1947-50           student, Lycoming College

                            1947-48       associate, Williamsport Pine Street

    1948-49       Wallis Run (ending 2/1949)

    1949-50       Rome – Orwell Federated, Wyoming Conference (beginning 2/1949)

1950-55           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                            1950-55       Rome – Orwell Federated

1955-57           Narrowsburg

1957-60           Newark Valley

1960-62           associate, Binghamton Tabernacle

1962-66           Vestal Center

1966-71           Clarks Summit

1971-74           Binghamton Boulevard

1974-80           superintendent, Oneonta District

1980-82           Shavertown

1982-88           Binghamton Fairview

1988-90           Castle Creek

1990                retired

 

Note: Burtt E. Sweet is the son of George L. Sweet of the Wyoming Conference and the father of Rebekah Sweet and of Deborah Sweet Earthrowl of the Upper New York Conference.

 

SWITZER, CLAIR JONES

 

Born: 6-26-1886  near Warriors Mark PA                 married: Elizabeth Waring

Died: 8-30-1964 Williamsport PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 317

 

1918    admitted on trial

1920    ordained deacon

1922    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Lawn Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 362


1909-10           Allegheny (beginning 9/1909: see 1910, 68)

1918-19           Altoona Broad Avenue

1919-21           Clearfield

1921-26           Bakerton

1926-31           Watsontown

1931-33           Avis

1933-36           Jersey Shore Epworth

1936-38           Shippensburg

1938-39           Altoona Broad Avenue

1939-43           Barnesboro

1943-46           Williamsport Market Street

1946-52           faculty, [Dickinson Junior College] Lycoming College

                             1946-52      Oriole-Antes Fort

1952                retired

                             1954-55      Howard 

                             1955-57      McElhattan-Pine

                             1958-59      New  Millport

                             1962-64      Waterville

 

SWITZER, THOMAS H.

 

Born: 8-19-1818  Baltimore MD                                married: Mary Shriver

Died: 3-24-1878  Philipsburg  PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 120

 

1841    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Philipsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 66

 

1841-42           Carlisle circuit

1842-43           Westminster

1843-44           East Harford

1844-45           Boonsboro

1845-46           Gettysburg

1846-47           Baltimore City Sailor’s Bethel

1947-49           Allegany

1849-51           Frostburg

1851-53           York Springs

1853-55           Muncy

1855-57           Bloomingdale

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Luzerne

1859-61           Warrior’s Mark

1861-63           Bellefonte circuit

1863-65           Philipsburg

1865-78           on leave

                             1868-70      Philipsburg circuit

                             1870-71      Grahamton

                             1871-73      Philipsburg

                             1873-75      Osceola

                             1875-76      East Tyrone

                             1876-78      Grahamton

1878                retired

 

Note: An obituary for Thomas H. Switzer also appears in the April 1879 The Conference News, page 4.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 469.

 

SWOPE, HORATIO G.

 

Born: Trough Creek Valley PA                                  married: Myrtle Downs

Died: 8-11-1951  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [11/10/1886 – 12/20/1978]

 

1909    license, Illinois Conference

1910    admitted on trial, Illinois Conference

1912    ordained deacon, Illinois Conference

1914    ordained elder, Illinois Conference

 

Interment: East Side Mausoleum, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 205

 

1909-10           Quincy Grace

1910-11           student, Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington IL

                             1910-11      Rutland

1911-12           Manchester

1912-13           Bluff Springs

1913-14           Elwin

1914-15           Stewardson

1915-17           Charleston circuit

1917                transfer to Ohio Conference

1917-18           Commercial Point

1918-26           Ohio [West Ohio] Conference

1926-28           Port Royal, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1927                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1928-29           on leave

1929-31           Harrisburg Riverside

1931-44           on leave

                             1934-35      Vira

                             1935-36      Blain

1944                retired

 

Note: Following the death of Horatio G. Swope, Mrs. Swope married a Mr. Howard W. Meyer.

 

SWOPE, WILLIAM G.

 

Born: 6-21-1901  Youngstown OH                            married: Eleanor K. Foose

Died: 6-26-1966  Swatara twp, Dauphin County PA obit: [6/9/1906 – 11/15/1937]

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1926-27           Shrewsbury (beginning10/1/1926)

 

Note: W.G. Swope was a member of the North East Ohio Conference.  See 1927, 440.  A 1923 news release states the following: William G. Swope and Miss Elinor K. Foose, both of Harrisburg, are the couple who were recently selected from among eight couples that applied, in answer to an advertisement, to be married in the Victoria theatre, that city, in connection with the exploitation of the film play, " Deserted at the Altar," which had a week's run there. They marched down the main aisle of the theatre and were married in front of an altar on the stage. The theatre management presented them with a purse and a number of other

valuable gifts.

 

 

 

SWOPE, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 9-22-1883  Highland PA                                  married: Edith Fannie Russell

Died: 2-?-1964  PA                                                     obit: [8?/?1880 – 9/?/1956]

 

1917    admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

 

Interment: Freeland Cemetery, Freeland PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1964, 235

 

1915-16           Waterville, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-17           Plymouth NY, Wyoming Conference

1917-19           McClure Settlement

1919-22           Preston

1922-23           Middlefield

1923-25           Westford

1925-27           Fly Creek

1927-28           East Worcester

1928-30           Ouaquaga

1930-32           Edmeston

19323-35         Mount Upton

1935-36           Sanitaria Springs

1936-37           Smyrna

1936-37           Mount Upton

1937-38           Davenport

1938-42           Rome – North Orwell

1942-43           Lake Como

1943-48           Hop Bottom

1948-53           Daleville

1953-54           Beach Lake

1954                retired

                             1954-57  Hale Eddy

 

Note: William H. Swope served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local preacher. 

 

SYKES, GEORGE S.

 

Born: 4-25-1842  West Newton PA                           married: Susanna M. _____

Died: 2-22-1903  Philadelphia PA                             obit:

 

1867    admitted on trial, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1866-68           Leesburg

1868-69           Waterford

1869-71           Norfolk

1871                [no record of transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference?]

1871-73           Schellsburg

1873-76           McVeytown

1876-77           Manahawkin, New Jersey Conference

1877                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1877-78           Manahawkin

1878-80           Mays Landing

1880-82           Camden Tabernacle

1882-84           Clayton

1884-85           ?

1885-88           Bridgeton Central

1888-90           Vineland

1890-91           Red Bank Grace

1891-92           ?

1892-93           Beverly

1893-94           Long Branch First (suspended, did not finish the year)

1894                withdrew under complains: 1894, 27            

 

 Note: A newspaper account of the Long Branch incident appears in the Asbury Park NJ The Shore Press, 3/23/1894, page 2.

 

SYMONS, EDMUND J.

 

Born: 12-13-1880  Russell Gulch CO                        married: Sarah Louisa Andreas

Died: 9-26-1948  Reading PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 232

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Mary L. Good Hainly

1909    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [1878-1972]

1912    ordained deacon

1917    ordained elder

 

Interment: Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 198

 

1919-12           Excelsior

1912-14           Mifflinville

1914-18           Espy-Lime Ridge

1918-19           Espy-Light Street

1919-21           Elysbug

1921-24           Danville Trinity

1924-30           Shickshinny

1930-31           Ashland

1931-38           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1938-39           Montgomery

1939-45           York Duke Street

1945                retired

 

Note: Edmund J. Symons is the son of Elizabeth Bettens Symons, sister of James H. Bettens.  The second Mrs. Symons (nee Good) was the widow of a Mr. George Hainly (1870-1934).

 

SYPHER, JAMES ALVIN

 

Born: 5-1-1884  Montoursville PA                            married: Marietta L. Bennett

Died: 11-9-1962  NY                                                  obit: [7/14/1882 – 6/?/1973]

 

?          ordained, Northern New York Conference

                                                                                   

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Northern New York Conference 1963, 983

 

1904-05           Cameron

…                    “transfer” to Northern New York Conference

1910-15           Starksville & Van Hornersville

1915-19           Prospect

1919-23           Willowvale

1923-25           on leave

1925-28           Nicholville

1928-33           Tupper Lake

1933-36           Carthage

1936-42           Frankfort

1942-48           Dogleville & Oppenheim

1948-51           Utica Centenary

1951                retired

 

Note: J. Alvin Sypher is the preferred name.  His tombstone gives the birth year as 1883.

 

TANEYHILL, THOMAS

 

Born: 12-7-1803  Calvert County MD                       married: Elizabeth Berryman

Died: 11-19-1894  Toledo OH                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 95

 

1828    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Bryan Cemetery, Bryan OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 82

 

1828-29           Greenbriar WV

1829-30           Pendleton

1830-31           Monroe

1831-33           Concord

1833-35           Sunbury

1835-36           Huntingdon

1836-38           Lycoming

1838-40           Bellefonte

1849-42           Northumberland

1842-44           Berwick

1844-45           West Branch

1845-46           Jersey Shore

1846-48           Gettysburg

1848-50           Lewistown circuit

1850-51           Lycoming

1851-52           Muncy

1852-54           Bloomsburg

1854-56           Milton

1856-57           Sunbury

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Sunbury

1858                retired

                             1868           charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Thomas Taneyhill is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.  He is the father of Charles Wesley Taneyhill (1842-1925) of the West Ohio Conference.  Some of the family use the older spelling TANYHILL.

 

TAYLOR, ANDREW EDWARD

 

Born: 11-29-1833  Rockbridge Baths VA                  married: Cleopatra Florence Diehl

Died: 4-20-1907  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central PA Conference 1909, 111

 

1856     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 124

 

1855-56           Sewell Valley

1856-57           Monroe

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Gettysburg

1858-60           Milton circuit

1860-61           Pleasant Grove

1861-63           Harford Mission

1863-65           Schellsburg

1865-67           McConnellsburg

1867-68           Concord

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Concord

1870-73           Great Island

1873-75           Sinnemahoning

1875-78           Salona

1878-81           Salladasburg

1881-84           Watsontown-Montandon

1884-87           Montoursville

1887-90           Muncy

1890-94           Montoursville

1894-99           Mechanicsburg

1899-03           Wrightsville

1903-04           Mount Holly Springs

1904                retired

 

Note: Andrew E. Taylor is the son of local pastor Stuart Taylor (1796-1874) of the Virginia Conference, brother to prominent Bishop William Taylor (1821-1902) and to Archibald Taylor (1830-1915) of the Oregon Conference, father of Rollin Stuart Taylor and of Charles Diehl Taylor (1873-1952) of the Baltimore Conference and of missionary to Africa Jennie May Taylor Gordon (1867-1897) and uncle of Bishop Taylor’s son Rev. Ross Taylor (1857-1919), affiliation uncertain.  He is also the grandfather of Rollin H. Taylor.  A biographical sketch appears in Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cumberland, York & Adams Co, pages 409-10. 
            His children attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, to which institution he donated [see 1895,32] a quarter section of land in Kansas.  An obituary for Jennie Taylor is given in 1898,59 – and she is the subject of “Two Daughters of the Parsonage” in the 2024 volume of The Chronicle, pages 4-17.

 

TAYLOR, GEORGE E.

 

Born: 1853                                                                 married: Sarah J. Wagner

Died: 1911                                                                  obit: [1854 – 1931]

 

Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery, South Philipsburg PA

Obit:

 

1905-07           Centre & Sandy Ridge

 

Note: George E. Taylor lived in Philipsburg and served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

TAYLOR, GEORGE THOMAS JR.

 

Born: 9-4-1926 Greensburg PA                                  married: Mary Denman Herr

Died: 10-26-1991                                                        obit: [1925 – 2005]

 

1948    license, Pittsburgh Conference

1953    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gracelawn Memorial Park, New Castle DE

Obit:

 

1948-50           Bobtown, Pittsburgh Conference (beginning 10/48)

1950-51           Pittsburgh Lemington Avenue, Pittsburgh Conference (ending 9/51)

1951-53           Lewisberry (beginning 9/51)

1953-55           Fayetteville

1955-56           Marysville

1956-59           Beach Haven

1959-62           Montgomery

1962-65           Flemington

1965-68           chaplain, Correctional Institution: Wilmington, Delaware

1968-73           on leave

                             1968-71      associate, Pennsville NJ Trinity

                             1971-73      Quinton NJ

1973                voluntary location

 

Note: George T. Taylor is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1292. 

 

TAYLOR, HARTER STRATFORD

 

Born: 9-28-1897  Broad Top City PA                                    married: Margaret Catherine Carbaugh

Died: 1-16-1968  Shawville PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 442

 

1923    license

1940    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Bradford Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 141]

 

1923-25           Alum Bank

1925-26           Salona & Lamar

1926-28           Penfield

1928-31           New Millport

1931-36           Morris

1936-46           Shawville (ending 12/15/46)

1946-60           Sinnemahoning (beginning 12/15/46)

1960-67           Cherry Tree

1967                retired

 

Note: Harter S. Taylor was a school teacher, served as a local pastor, and is the father of Stratford C. Taylor.

 

TAYLOR, JAMES HAROLD

 

Born: 3-16-1937  Port Royal PA                                married: Nancy Ann Wert

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 368

 

1958    license, recommended by Palmyra TN

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-61           student, Austin Peay State College in Clarksville TN

                             1958-60      Palmyra TN, Tennessee Conference

                             1960-61      Woodlawn TN Montgomery, Tennessee Conference

1961-62           Woodlawn TN Montgomery, Tennessee Conference

1962-65           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1962-64      Robertsdale

                             1964-65      New Paris

1965-66           New Paris

1966-82           chaplain, US Army (ending 8/31/82)

1982-83           without appointment (9/1/82-1/14/83)

1983-86           Saxton-Six Mile Run (beginning 1/15/83)

1986-89           Philipsburg Grace

1989-94           Bellwood Calvary

1994-98           McElhatten

1998                retired

                             2001-03      Robertsdale

 

 Note: James H. Taylor is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1293.

 

TAYLOR, JOHN PAUL

 

Born: 5-24-1923  Osceola Mills PA                           married: E. Glade Fronk

Died: 9-2-2000                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 370

 

1942    license, recommended by Osceola Mills

1952    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 376

 

1942-46           Cogan Valley 

1946-50           Cherry Tree

1950-51           Penns Valley

1951-55           Nescopeck

1955-62           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1962-65           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1965-71           Altoona Juniata Gethsemane

1971-77           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1977-83           Clearfield West Side (ending 8/15/83)

1983-89           York Aldersgate (beginning 8/15/83)

1989                retired

                             1989-92      visitation minister, Altoona Juniata Gethsemane

 

TAYLOR, ROLLIN HARMON 

 

Born: 4-21-1903  Philipsburg PA                               married: Catharine A. Flanigan

Died: 4-8-1982                                                            obit: Central PA Conference 1922, 140

                                                                                    married2: Maude Geedy (1929)

                                                                                    obit2: Central PA Conference 2003, 390

 

1925    license, recommended by Williamsport Third Street

1928    admitted on trial

1930    ordained deacon

1932    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 385

 

1925-26           Laurelton

1926-27           Picture Rocks

1927-29           Clearfield circuit

1929-31           Catawissa circuit

1931-34           Schellsburg

1934-37           Orangeville-Rohrsburg

1937-43           Mifflintown

1943-48           Curwensville

1948-51           Williamsport High Street

1951-57           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1957-62           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1962-65           Altoona Fairview

1965-70           Westfield and Cowanesque

1970                retired

                             1970-72      Lock Haven parish

 

Note: Rollin H. Taylor is the grandson of Andrew E. Taylor (whose card gives a complete list of the related Taylor pastors in the Methodist ministry) and the son of Rollin S. Taylor.

 

 

TAYLOR, ROLLIN STUART

 

Born: 9-23-1862  Abingdon MD                                married: Catherine Anna Flanigan

Died: 5-16-1933  South Williamsport PA                  obit: Central PA Conference 1922, 140

 

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Watsontown & Montandon

1886    ordained deacon

1888    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 219

 

1884-85           West Shamokin

1885-87           Rohrsburg

1887-89           Mill Hall

1889-92           Lycoming

1892-94           Picture Rocks

1894-96           Montandon

1896-98           Cross Forks

1898-01           Newville-Pine Grove Furnace

1901-03           Wallaceton

1903-05           Martinsburg-Woodbury

1905-08           Half Moon

1908-12           Howard

1912-14           Woolrich-Avis

1914-15           Lock Haven East Main Street

1915-18           Hughesville

1918-20           Shippensburg

1920-22           Williamsport Market Street

1922-23           Wilburton

1923                retired

 

Note: Rollin S. Taylor is the son of Andrew E. Taylor (whose card gives a complete list of the related Taylor pastors in the Methodist ministry), a brother to Jennie M. Taylor Gordon, and the father of Rollin H. Taylor.  Some sources given his middle name as Stewart.

 

TAYLOR, STRATFORD CLAIR

 

Born: 2-24-1925  Alum Bank PA                               married: Esther L. Mayhew

Died: 6-27-2014  Sunbury PA                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 365

 

1943    license, recommended by Shawville

1946    ordained deacon

1947    admitted on trial

1948    ordained elder

 

Interment: Shawville Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 277

 

1943-45           student, Dickinson College

                             1943-45      Vira 

1945-47           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1945-47      West Fairview & Summerdale

1947-59           Thompsontown

1959-73           Philipsburg Trinity

1973-79           superintendent, Williamsport District

1979-95           Montoursville Faith

1995                retired

 

Note: Stratford C. Taylor is the son of Harter S. Taylor.  He listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1294.

 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM MORGAN

 

Born: 4-26-1889  Glen Richey PA                             married: Bernice Virginia Decker

Died: 7-27-1964  Bradenton FL                                 obit: [7/25/1897 – 1/29/1987]

 

1916    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Montgomery PA

Obit:

 

1911-14           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1912-14  Waterville  (ending fall 1914)

1916-20           at school

1920-22           abroad

1922-24           Lewisburg

1924-30           Chambersburg

1930-34           Lock Haven Trinity

1934-38           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1938-42           Altoona First (charges filed, did not finish the year)

1942-43           suspended

1943                withdrew under charges

 

Note: Mrs. Taylor is a 1915 graduate of WDS.  They were married 12/30/1922. 

 

THAYER, GEORGE ALLAN

 

Born: 8-10-1930  Kendall PA                                    married: Alfreda Mae Gates Roulo ,(1957)

Died: 12-30-2020                                                       obit: [11/7/1938 – 8/23/2023]

                                                                                    married2: Joyce E. Cobb Underwood (1974)

                                                                                    obit2: [8/20/1932 – 3/17/2011]

?          license, Genesee Conference

 

Interment: Middlebury Union Cemetery, Middlebury Center PA

Obit:

 

1959-61           Freemont

1961-62           Middlebury

1962                “transfer” by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Burnt Cabins

 

Note: George A. Thayer is the son of Rev. Thurber Reuben Thayer (1903-1997) of the Free Methodist Church.  He is a graduate of Roberts Wesleyan College.  In the early 2000’s Rev. George A. Thayer was president and CEO of Christian TV Services in Ellicottville NY.
     The first Mrs. Thayer (nee Gates), following their divorce, married a Mr. Ronald Roulo.  The second Mrs. Thayer (nee Cobb) was previously married (1952) to a Mr. Clarence Elwin Underwood (1932-2011).

 

THOMAS, CARL ADAM

 

Born:                                                                           married: Glenda _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

            Pacific Japanese Provisional Conference

1964    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-67           student, Pacific School of Religion, Berkley CA

1967                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

1967-03           [California-Nevada Conference]

2003                retired

 

Note: Carl Adam Thomas is a 1963 graduate of Lycoming College.

 

THOMAS, CHARLES F.

 

Born: 11-22-1839                                                        married: Anne P. Grier

Died: 4-29-1896                                                          obit: [1835 – 1919]

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Danville

 

Interment: Graceland Cemetery, Yeadon PA

Obituary:

 

1861-62           Milton circuit

1862-64           North Baltimore circuit

1864-65           Frederick circuit

1865-67           Waynesboro

1867-68           Havre de Grace

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Havre de Grace

1869                transfer to Cincinnati Conference

1869-70           Cincinnati Ladies’ Home Mission

1871-72           Cincinnati Mount Auburn

1872                withdrew to enter the Presbyterian ministry

1873-78           Third Presbyterian Church, Chester PA

1878-79           Northwestern Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia PA

1881                serving in Philadelphia

 

Note: Charles F. Thomas was a student at Dickinson College until he left in 1859 to attend Garrett Bible Institute.  Dickinson College has his personal diary/journal for 1859-61.

 

THOMAS, JAMES SEWALL

 

Born: 12-21-1831  Northeast MD                              married: Eunice Drake

Died: 1-14-1917  Collingswood NJ                            obit: New England Southern Conference 1905, 97

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Harleigh Cemetery, Camden NJ

Obit: New England Southern Comference 1917, 130

 

1854-55           Woodstock

1855-56           South Branch

1856-57           Front Royal

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           North Baltimore

1858-61           on leave

1861                located

                        apparently resumed his Methodist Episcopal ministry in New England

                        Holbrook MA

1903                retired

                            Magnolia NJ

 

Note: James S. Thomas is the father of T. Snowden Thomas (1869-1907) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

THOMAS, JOHN 

 

Born: 5-23-1783  Philadelphia PA                             married: Rebecca Tallman (4/30/1814)

Died: 10-17-1867  Lycoming County PA                  obit: [9/1/1778 – 10/6/1853]

 

1807    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Williamsport Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 65

 

1807-08           Harford

1808-09           Huntingdon

1809-10           Aughwick

1810-11           Juniata

1811-12           Mishannon

1812-13           Huntingdon

1813-14           Lycoming

1814-15           Juniata

1815-16           Lycoming

1816-18           Northumberland

1818-20           Bald Eagle

1820-21           Lycoming 

1821-23           Northumberland

1823-24           on leave

1824-25           Lycoming 

1825-26           Shamokin

1826-28           Northumberland

1828                retired

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

 

Note: John Thomas is a step-brother to George Thomas, who served in the Baltimore Conference 1807-1814.  After retiring from the ministry, John Thomas served as an associate judge in Lycoming County.  Mrs. Tallman is a sister to prominent Williamsport layman Jeremiah Tallman.

 

THOMAS, NELSON ALEXANDER

 

Born: 4-16-1905  Blandburg PA                                married: Esther May Gross (1925)

Died: 8-5-1990  Green Cove Springs FL                   obit: [1/24/1903 –  8/17/1987]

                                                                                    married2: Leona McGowen (1988)

1927    license, recommended by Blandburg             obit2:

1930    admitted on trial

1932    ordained deacon

1934    ordained elder

           

Interment: Penney Retirement Community Cemetery, Penney Farms FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 493

 

1928-30           Westport 7 Shintown

1930-31           Clearville

1931-33           Beach Haven

1933-35           Birmingham

1935-37           Cherry Tree

1937-41           Trevorton

1941-43           Stewartstown

1943-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-51           Benton

1951-58           South Williamsport

1958-63           Selinsgrove

1963-69           Osceola Mills

1969                retired

 

Note: Nelson A. Thomas is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 1305.

 

THOMAS, PHILIP

 

Born: 1849                                                                              married: Sarah Faust

Died: 10-24-1935                                                                    obit: [1847 – 1/12/1929]

 

1889    ordained deacon, recommended by Shamokin station

1895    license

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: [1936, 98]

 

1886-87           Helfenstein

1895-97           Excelsior

1897-00           Jamison City

1900-05           Wapwallopen

1905-10           Harveyville

1910-12           Roaring Creek

1912-13           Park Place & Delano

1913-14           no appointment

1914-17           Jonestown

 

Note:  Philip Thomas served as a local pastor.

 

THOMAS, ROBERT F.

 

Born: 11-18-1914  Harrisburg PA                              married: Sarah E. _____

Died: 6-?-1980                                                            obit: [1921 - ?]

 

1938    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus GA

Obit:

 

1934-38           student, Western Maryland College in Westminster MD

                             1934-35      Vira (beginning Oct 1934)

                             1935-36      Littlestown

                             1936-38      Rouzerville

1938-40           Oriole-Antes Fort

1940-41           [not listed]

1941                discontinued to enter ministry of the Episcopal Church

                        North Carolina

                        Kentucky

 

THOMAS, WALTER SHERWOOD

 

Born: 1-7-1933  Boone IA                                         married: Jane Elizabeth Davies

Died: 3-19-2014                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 264

 

1956    license, Ohio Conference: recommended by Dayton OH South Park

1956    admitted on trial, Ohio Conference

1959    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment: [cremated, remains scattered at Calvary UMC, Fayetteville PA]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 265

 

1950-54           student, Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown PA

1954-56           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1954-56      associate, Dayton South Park

1956-58           Waynesville Lytle (ending 11/30/58)

1958-59           Harrisonville, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 12/1/1958)

1959                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959-61           Harrisonville

1961-65           Danville St. Paul’s

1965-69           Hazleton Diamond

1969-71           Chambers Hill

1971-77           Northumberland Christ

1977-87           Tyrone Wesley

1987-96           Linglestown

1996                retired

 

Note: W. Sherwood Thomas is the son of Rev. Evan P. Thomas (1903-1982) of the Primitive Methodist Church.

 

THOMPSON, JAMES VORHEES

 

Born: 5-25-1878  Rock Springs PA                           married: Nora Gray

Died: 7-1-1952                                                            obit: [4/18/1869 – 5/31/1951]

 

1906    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Spring Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1953, 452

 

1906-07           Altoona First

1907                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1907-09           associate, Pittsburgh Christ

1909-12           faculty, Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh

1912-14           faculty Peabody High School in Pittsburgh

1914-25           superintendent, Young People’s Department of the ME Board of Sunday School

1925-28           associate, Evanston First

1927-28           faculty, Northwestern University

1930-45           faculty, Drew University

 

Note: James V. Thompson is listed in the 1945 Personalities in American Methodism.  Mrs. Thompson is from the Gray family of Half Moon Valley; her father was a first cousin to George Tarring Gray.  Some biographical information on James V. Thompson appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 65. 

 

 

THOMPSON, THEODORE JAMES

 

Born: 9-3-1840  Waterfall PA                                                married: Margaret Anna Hohman

Died: 3-28-1903  McConnellsburg PA                      obit: [1840 – 1911]

 

 

Interment: Reformed [or Methodist?] Cemetery, McConnellsburg PA

Obit:

 

1881-82           Licking Creek

 

Note: T.J. Thompson lived in McConnellsburg and served as a local pastor.  Reported to have been a “lifelong and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church,” he was in the mercantile business and worked for a few years in the early 1870’s as a colporteur for the American Tract Society.

 

 

THRUSH, JOHN

 

Born: 3-4-1822  Shippensburg PA                             married: Rachel Mann

Died: 7-12-1872  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 113

 

1844    license, Baltimore Conference

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: First Methodist Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1873, 72

 

                        McConnellsburg

                        Boonsboro

                        Newport

                        Gettysburg

                        Greencastle

                        Cumberland Mission

                        Christiansburg

                        Williamsburg

                        Staunton

                        Rockingham

                        South Baltimore

                        Annapolis

                        West River

1862-63           Washington DC Union

1863-65           Washington DC McKendree

1865-66           South Baltimore

1866                transfer to North-West Indiana Conference

                        LaPorte station

                        South Bend

1870                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1870-72           Lewistown

 

Note: A biographical sketch of John Thrush is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 473.

 

TIFFANY, OTIS HENRY

 

Born: 7-3-1825  Baltimore MD                                  married: Eliza Bruce Hamilton (1847)

Died: 10-24-1891 Minneapolis MN                           obit: [1827 – 12/27/1900]

 

1846    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Minnesota Conference 1892, 80

 

1846-47           Hereford

1847-48           Great Falls

1848-57           faculty, Dickinson College

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           faculty, Dickinson College

1858-60           secretary, Maryland State Bible Society

1860-61           Chicago IL First

1861                transfer to Rock River Conference

                        Chicago IL First

                        Evanston IL First

1864-67           Chicago Grace

1867-70           New Brunswick NJ St. James

1870-72           Newark NJ St. Paul’s

1872-75           Washington DC Metropolitan

1875-78           Chicago IL Trinity

                        New York NY St. Paul’s

                        Philadelphia PA Arch Street

                        New York MY Madison Avenue

                        Philadelphia Pa Spring Garden Street

                        New York NY St. James

                        Minneapolis MN Hennepin Avenue

 

Note: Otis Henry Tiffany is the author of published sermons, articles and contributions to McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia.  He is also the author of several books – including the 1870 The Spirit of a Christian Life: A Tribute to the Memory of Rev. John McClintock – and was a noted painter.  While at Washington DC St. Paul’s, he was the pastor for President Grant and perfermed the wedding ceremony for Grant’s daughter Nellie.  Mrs. Tiffany is the daughter of Rev. William Hamilton (1798-1872) of the Baltimore Conference, and an obituary for her appears in The Christian Advocate, 2/14/1901, page 278.

 

TIMLIN, JOSEPH PAUL

 

Born: 9-30-1925  Philadelphia PA                             married: Martha Elizabeth Hogan (6/24/1950)

Died: 5-23-2010  New Hartford NY                          obit:

                                                                                    married2: Florence Gardy (1968)

1957    license                                                             obit2:

1961    ordained deacon                                              married3: Rev. Genett E. Couch (7/3/1989)

1962    admitted on trial                                              obit3:

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment: Windsor Village Cemetery, Windsor NY

Obit: (none)

 

1956-60           Rouzerville

1960-61           Ray’s hill 

1961-64           Kulpmont

1964-66           Williamsport High Street (ending 11/15/66)

1966-67           Altoona Mardorf (beginning 11/15/66)

1967-71           voluntary location

                             1969-71      Worcester, Wyoming Conference

1971                re-admitted, Wyoming Conference

1971-72           Worcester

1972-75           North Fenton

1975-78           Mount Upton

1978-80           Mehoopany

1980-84           Harpursville

1984-86           Marathon

1986                retired

                             1986-88      Berkshire (beginning 9/1/1986)

                             1988           Middlefield-Roseboom (9/1 – 10/31)

                             1990-94      Cherry Valley, North Central New York Conf. (beginning 4/1/1990)
                            2010                transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change

 

Note: Joseph Paul Timlin met the first Mrs. Timlin while both were students at Dickinson College.  He worked in the family furniture firm before entering the ministry.  He died during the dissolution of the Wyoming Conference, and there is no conference obituary.  His gravemarker notation “Munsee – Running Red Wolf” is a statement that he was part Munsee Native American.  The third Mrs. Timlin (nee Walker), formerly of the Central New York Conference, is a member of the Upper New York Conference.

 

TIPPETT, CHARLES B.

 

Born: 12-19-1801  Prince George County MD          married: Margaret Strother Lewis

Died: 2-28-1867  Hookstown MD                              obit: [7/28/1803 - ?]

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1867, 49

 

1820-21           Jefferson

1821-22           Rockingham

1822-23           Allegany

1823-25           Fredericksburg

1825-26           East Baltimore

1826-28           Severn

1829-30           Leesburg

1830-31           Harford

1831-35           superintendent, Rockingham District

1835-36           Georgetown

1836-38           Washington DC Foundry

1838-40           North Baltimore

1840-41           Baltimore City station

1841-42           Baltimore Fayette Street

1842-44           superintendent, Carlisle district

1844-48           agent, Book Concern in New York City.

1848-50           North Baltimore station

1850-54           superintendent, Carlisle District

1854-56           Summerfield circuit

1856-57           Williamsport PA

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           superintendent, Bellefonte District

1858-62           superintendent, Cumberland District

1862-64           Baltimore Caroline Street

1864-65           Baltimore Exeter Street

1865-67           Baltimore Whatcoat

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Charles B. Tippett is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 474.

 

 

TITLEY, RICHARD KIMPTON

 

Born: 1-31-1923  Newark NJ                                     married: Margaret Louisa Campbell

Died: 5-22-2011  Media PA                                       obit: [7/28/1916 – 5/31/2006]

 

1947    ordained deacon

1948    admitted on trial, recommended by Bendersville

 

Interment: Rush Presbyterian Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: [Pensacola News Journal 6/5/2011]

 

1945-46           Picture Rocks (6/15-45 – 2/1/46)

1946-47           Dillsburg & Wellsville (beginning 2/1/46)

1947-49           Bendersville

1949                transfer to Florida Conference

 

Note: In 2003 Richard K. Titley is listed as a retired member of the Florida Conference.

 

TITUS, CHARLES L.

 

Born: c1910                                                                married: Jean M. _____

Died: 7-30-1963                                                          obit:

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor NY

Obit:

 

1927-28           student, Bucknell University

                             1927-28      Jamison City (beginning 9/1/17) [see 1928,655]

 

Note: C. L Titus served as a local pastor.  He is listed as the soccer coach at Bucknell for the 1931 season.  In 1950 he was an elementary school principal in Peekskill NY.

 

TOLBERT, CHARLES FRANKLIN

 

Born: 8-23-1930  Chambersburg PA                          married: Shirley Leaman

Died: 3-12-2012  Scotland PA                                   obit:

 

1966    license, recommended by Waynesboro Christ

1971    admitted on trial

1974    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-71           Roxbury (beginning 1/1/66)

1971-76           St. Thomas-Lemasters

1976-80           St. Thomas

1980                withdrew, page 273

                        “transfer” to the Free Methodist Church

                        Spirit of Christ Community Church

                        Herkimer NY

1995                retired

 

Note: In his retirement, Charles F. Tolbert associated with the Mt. Pleasant United Brethren Church north of Chambersburg PA.

 

TOMKINSON, THEOPHILUS LESSEY

 

Born: 7-19-1836  Puttneyville NY                             married: Laura Elizabeth Hayman

Died: 3-19-1915  Wilmington DE                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 140

 

1860    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

.

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 119

 

                        Salisbury MD

                        Quantico

                        Princess Anne

                        Accomac VA

1868                charter member of Wilmington Conference

                        Annamessex

                        Federalsburg MD

                        Wyoming

                        Wilmington Scott

                        Zion MD

                        Easton MD

                        Wilmington Mount Salem

                        Millington MD

                        Galena MD

1887                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1887-89           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1889-94           New Cumberland

1894-97           Berwick

1897-02           Philipsburg

1902-03           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1903-07           Mount Carmel

1907                retired

 

Note: Theophilus L. Tomlinson is a brother to William E. Tomkinson.  An obituary also appears in the 6/24/1915 Christian Advocate, page 836.

 

TOMKINSON, WILLIAM ELDRIDGE

 

Born: 9-21-1837                                                          married: Julia Elizabeth Redford

Died: 12-26-1923                                                        obit: Wilmington Conference 1933, 122

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Wilmington Conference1924, 134

 

1901-02           Littlestown

 

Note: William E. Tomkinson is a brother to Theophilus L. Tomkinson.
 

 

TORRENCE, IRVIN H.

 

Born: 2-24-1821  Lancaster County PA                     married: Margaretta R. Gearhart

Died: 2-11-1899  Riverside PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 129

 

1843    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 95

 

1843-44           Bloomingdale

1844-45           Stafford

1845-46           Warrenton

1846-48           Wrightsville

1848-49           Jersey Shore

1849-51           Lock Haven

1851-87           secretary, Pennsylvania Bible Society

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-68           secretary, Pennsylvania Bible Society

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-85           secretary, Pennsylvania Bible Society

1885-94           on leave

1894                retired

 

Note: Biographical sketches for Irvin H. Torrece are given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 474, and in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism.  Irvin H. Torrence laid out the town of Riverside.  Mrs. Torrence is a first cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) of the Baltimore Conference, her mother being the daughter of Thomas Bowman (1760-1823) of the Baltimore Conference.  Her mother’s father Thomas Bowman entertained Francis Asbury, and her father’s father Jacob Gearhart entertained Francis Asbury and was a founder of Gearhart’s Church/Mt. Vernon Cemetery outside Riverside.

 

TRACH, GEORGE

 

Born: c1864 [Gilbert, Monroe Co. PA?]                    married: Martha Halton

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Decatur circuit

1889    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1886-87           Decatur

1887-88           Concord

1888-91           Irvona

1891-94           New Washington

1894-96           Wallaceton

1896-97           on leave

1897                discontinued at own request [joined Presbyterian ministry]

1897-98           Kingwood WV

                        Mannington WV

 

Note: George Trach reportedly moved to Mannington WV.  He is listed there as a Presbyterian minister with a PhD and STD.  He transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference of the ME Church in 1902 [see 1902 General Minutes, page 347, question 21, and The Presbyterian Banner, 4/24/1902, page 30].

 

TRAIL, GARY WAYNE

 

Born:                                                                           married: E. Elaine Burkett

Died:                                                                           obit:

                                                                                    married2: Mary _____

1965    admitted on trial                                              obit2:

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           Warfordsburg

1964-66           Robertsdale

1966                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1966-68           Sherwood-Bayside

1968-72           Preston-Bethesda

1972-76           Chesapeake City

1976-80           [Peninsula Conference]

1980                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1980-92           Ridgeley Holy Cross (ending 1/1/92)

1992-94           conference approved evangelist (beginning 1/1/92)

1994-96           East Cumberland Parish

1996-01           Rawlings

2001                retired

 

Note: Gary W. Trail is an uncle to Rev. Connie J. Trail Kesner of WV (affiliation uncertain).  The second Mrs. Trail was also a member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, retiring in 2004.

 

 

TRAUTMAN, HOWARD MONROE

 

Born: 10-31-1867  Hebe PA                                       married: Naomi Evelyn Mohn

Died: 5-18-1942  Lewistown PA                                obit: [12/18/1875 –  12/17/1918]  [1919, 62]

                                                                                    married2: Lula Susan Matilda Davidson

                                                                                    obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943,219

 

1899    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1911    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Landingville Cemetery, Landingville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 213

 

1899-01           Freeburg

1901-03           Pequea circuit

1903-06           Grantville

1906-08           Manor circuit

1908-10           Bern circuit

1910-12           Tower City

1912-13           Birdsboro Grace

1913-14           living in Gibraltar, Berks County, PA

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1914-16           Laurelton 

1916-20           Cassville

1920-23           Ramey

1923-25           Munson

1925-26           Half Moon

1926-28           Elysburg

1928-31           McVeytown

1931-32           Hopewell

1932-34           Shirleysburg

1934-36           East Waterford

1936-37           James Creek

1937-38           Allenport-Singer’s Gap

1938-39           Muncy Valley

1938                retired

 

Note: Howard M. Trautman is the father of Mary E. Trautman Donat, wife of Rev. J.K. Donat of the Lutheran Church.  The first Mrs. Trautman, who died in the flu epidemic, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel V. Mohn (1845-1879) of the United Brethren Church.

 

TREESE, DONALD HOWARD

 

Born: 9-11-1930  Mines PA                                       married: Lois Audrey Ward

Died: 1-21-2011  Carlisle PA                                     obit:

 

1948    license, recommended by Williamsburg

1953    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Royer Cemetery, Blair County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 407

 

1950-52           Allenport 

1952-53           Hopewell

1953-55           student, University of Chicago Theological Seminary

1955-56           associate, Williamsport Pine Street

1956-57           director of religious affairs, Lycoming College

1957-61           Newport

1961-65           Gettysburg

1965-69           Williamsport Newberry

1969-73           Altoona First

1973-79           Carlisle Allison

1979-93           associate general secretary, Board of Higher Education and Ministry

1993                retired

 

Note: Donald H. Treese is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1326.

 

TRESCOTT, EMMA

 

Born: 1870                                                                  married: [never married]

Died: 1927                                                                  obit:

 

ordained deaconess, recommended by Register

 

Interment: Dodson Cemetery, Luzerne County

Obit:

 

1909-10           Hazelton PA Slavic Mission

 

1917                field secretary, Woman’s Home Missionary Society

 

Note: Emma P. Trescott was a graduate of the Lucy Webb Hay’s Training School in Washington DC.

 

TRESSLER, ROBERT LEONARD

 

Born: 9-29-1890  Bellefonte PA                                married: Dorothy Marie Gibbs

Died: 5-10-1993                                                          obit: [1894 – 1992]

 

1918    admitted on trial

1942    ordained deacon, Virginia Conference

1943    ordained elder, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richmond VA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1993, 229

 

1918-20           Dudley

1920-21           Cassville

1921                permitted to withdraw from the ministry

…                    …

1940-42           Caroline, Virginia Conference

1942                admitted on trial, Virginia Conference

1942-43           Caroline

1943-44           Ferrum

1944-46           Spotsylvania

1946-50           Middle Bedford

1950-54           Albermarle

1954-58           Grottoes

1958-61           associate, Greene Memorial

1961-63           Brookville

1963                retired 

 

Note: Citing doctrinal differences with the Methodist Church in 1921, Robert L. Tressler United with the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church.

 

TREVERTON, HENRY

 

Born: 9-9-1866  Mistershult Parish, Sweden             married: Lulu J. Hench

Died: 4-24-1901  Mapleton PA                                  obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 252]

 

1890    admitted on trial

1892    ordained deacon

1894    ordained elder

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 119

 

1889-90           Port Royal

1890-93           Burnt Cabins

1893-96           Thompsontown

1896-01           Mapleton-Mill Creek

 

Note: The obituary of Henry Treverton does not mention a wife.  The following is on file in the Juniata County Historical Society:  “On Tuesday of this week [29 Jun 1897], Rev. Henry Treverton, a former pastor of the Methodist charge at Port Royal and Thompsontown, now located at Mapleton, was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Hench, of Eschol, Perry County. We extend heartiest congratulations to these most estimable young people, wishing them unalloyed happiness, along life's pathway.”

 

TRIMBATH, JAMES WARREN JR.

 

Born: 1-3-1835  Cornwall England                            married: Sarah Ann _____

Died: 1914                                                                  obit: [1838 – 8/5/1905]

 

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA

Obit:

 

1895-97           Wagner

1897-98           Shirleysburg

 

Note: James W. Trimbath lived in Everett and served as a local pastor. 

 

TRIMBLE, ROBERT LOUIS JR

 

Born: 11-15-1938  Kane PA                                       married: Nancy Elaine Bartlett

Died: 9-?-1979                                                            obit:

 

1960    license, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1966    admitted on trial, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1966    ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Kane PA

Obit:

 

1961-65           student, Slippery Rock State College in Slippery Rock PA

                             1961-63      assistant, Millers Station

                             1963-65      New Castle Christ

1965-66           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1965-66      Hopewell, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1966-67           Fayette City

1967-70           at school

1970                discontinued

 

TRITTENBACH, EDWARD VICTOR

 

Born: 10-24-1922  Springtown PA                            married: Althea C. _____

Died: 2-4-1989  El Paso TX                                       obit: [4/21/1923 – 10/12/1969]

                                                                                    married2: Frances M. Jones (1970)

Interment: Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso TX  obit2:

Obit:

 

1967-68           Ralston

 

Note: Edward V. Trittenbach served as a local pastor.  Some sources give his birthdate as 10/2/1922 and/or his birthplace as Hellertown PA.

 

TROUP, KENNETH LEROY

 

Born: 8-14-1921  Carlisle PA                                     married: Janet Pauline Moyer

Died: 4-28-2009  Brogue PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 431

 

1967    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg Salem

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 431

 

1969-81           Beach Haven

1981-86           Airville

1986                retired

                            1987-95       Stewartstown Mt. Olivet (beginning 9/6/87) 

                            1995            Craley – New Bridgeville (July-August)

 

Note: Kenneth L. Troup is the father of Peggy L. Troup Horst, wife of Albert Horst of the Susquehanna Conference, and the grandfather of Rachel L. Horst of the Susquehanna Conference.  He served as a local pastor.

 

TRUAX, ERNEST BELL

 

Born: 4-29-1871  Warfordsburg PA                           married:

Died: 1934                                                                  obit:

 

1897    quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit:

 

1897-99           living in Morrisdale

1899-00           Grant (Clearfield County)

1900-01           Patchenville (Clearfield County), Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Note:  Ernest B. Truax served as a local pastor and is the son of Job Truax.  He attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, with his home town listed as Ansonville PA.  Beginning in 1900, he is no longer listed in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

TRUAX, JOB

 

Born: 6-18-1842  Warfordsburg PA                           married: Harriet Lodge Bishop

Died: 3-14-1903  Hollidaysburg PA                          obit: [8/31/1842 – 9/25/1917]

 

1894    quarterly conference license

1895    ordained elder, recommended by New Washington

 

Interment: Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit: [1903, 57]

 

1889-91           Coalport (beginning circa Oct 1889)

1891-94           Glen Hope

1894-96           New Washington

1896-98           Ansonville

1898-99           McKee’s Gap

1899                no longer listed

 

Note: Job Truax served as a local pastor and is the father of Ernest B. Truax.

 

 

TUBBS, TIMOTHY H.

 

Born: 1-9-1842  Fairmount, Luzerne County PA       married: Emma Edwards

Died: 5-2-1925  Williamsport PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 132

 

1869    license, recommended by Laporte

1872    admitted on trial

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Beach Grove Cemetery, Shickshinny PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 337

 

1872-73           Conyngham

1873-74           Berwick circuit

1874-75           Mifflinville

1875-77           Bendersville

1877-80           Fort Littleton

1880-82           Jerseytown

1882-84           Elysburg

1884-85           on leave

1885-87           Buckhorn

1887-94           on leave

                            1890-91  Silver Brook       

1894-95           Excelsior

1895-97           Jamison City

1897-00           Bloomingdale

1900-02           Buckhorn

1902-04           Orangeville-Light Street

1904                retired

 

TUCK, ERNEST EVERETT

 

Born: 11-11-1888  Queensland, Australia                  married: Mabel Irene Wasley

Died: 3-9-1966  Los Angeles CA                               obit: [1888 – 6/19/1915]

                                                                                    married2: Helen Gowdy (8/18/1936)

1913    admitted on trial, Colorado Conference         obit2:

            ordained, Colorado Conference

 

Interment:                                                                  

Obit:

 

1909-13           student, University of Denver            

     1909-10      Denver CO Manchester mission

     1910-11      Denver CO Grace

Hudson CO

                        Greeley CO

1918                transfer to New England Southern Conference

1918-19           East Weymouth MA First

1919-20           student, Boston University School of Theology

1920                transfer to Colorado Conference

…

1933-34           Dillsburg & Wellsville, Central Pennsylvania Conference  (did not finish the year)

 

Note: Dr. Ernest E. Tuck was a Methodist missionary to the Philippine Islands. A survivor of the Bataan Death March, he was interned in Manila by the Japanese during World War II (1942-1945).  He came to the United States from Australia as a teenager in 1905, settling in Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver and became a Methodist minister in Colorado.  He later went to Boston University for graduate work in theology. At the time he finished his degree, World War I had ended and the Methodist church was launching a new world mission program. Tuck and his wife volunteered, and along with their four-year-old daughter began their mission work in India, spending five years. He then spent seven years as an Associate Secretary at the Board of Missions in New York. After another three years as a minister, in 1936 they went to the Philippines where he was appointed the superintendent of the Methodist Mission in Manila. Following the war and a brief time in the United States he returned to the Philippines to help in the rebuilding for seven years. He returned to spend five years in New York as the director of the Advance Department for the Board of Missions after which he retired in 1957. His papers are in the University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections in Eugene.  The details of his brief connection with the Central Pennsylvania Conference are unknown.  The first Mrs. Tuck is buried in Greeley CO.  he second Mrs. Tuck (nee Gowdy) graduated from  Colorado College in 1914.

TURNER, ARIEL REUEL

 

Born: 1-3-1888  Oxford ID                                        married: Miriam Rutherford

Died: 11-14-1967  Camp Hill PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 418

 

1914    admitted on trial

1916    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Lincoln Chapel Cemetery, Laurelton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 322

           

1913-14           Laurelton 

1914-15           Orangeville-Light Street

1915-18           Orangeville-Rohrsburg

1918-22           Berwick Calvary

1922-25           Hastings

1925-30           Everett

1930-35           Curwensville

1935-40           York Grace

1940-43           Altoona Simpson

1943-48           Huntingdon First

1948-55           Hanover

1955-58           Harrisburg Epworth

1958                retired

 

Note: Ariel R. Turner is the son of James Elmer Turner (located 1894, d. 1912 [or possibly 1863-1910]) of the Southern California Conference (and founder of the American Bible University in Ohio) and a brother to James A. Turner.  He listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.

 

TURNER, ELBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1875    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1875-76           Grahamton

1876                discontinued

 

TURNER, J.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1869    quarterly conference license, Orangeville

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868-69           Orangeville

1869-70           Laporte

 

Note: J.C. Turner served as a local pastor.  His initials also appear as “I.C.” and “P.C.”

 

 

TURNER, JAMES AUBREY

 

Born: 4-7-1889  Oxford ID                                        married: Leona Agnes Kittle

Died: 8-9-1971                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 366

 

1914    license, recommended by Bloomsburg

1915    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

1919    ordained elder

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 398

 

1915-18           Harveyville

1918-22           Conyngham

1922-26           Picture Rocks

1926-31           Gordon

1931-32           Williamsburg

1932-34           Altoona Fairview

1934-37           New Oxford-Ortanna

1937-42           Patton

1942-49           Riverside

1949-50           Duncannon

1950-55           Ashland

1955-61           Jersey Shore Epworth

1961                retired

                        Nelson (approx. 1 year)

 

Note: James A. Turner is the son of James Elmer Turner (located 1894, d. 1912 [or possibly 1863-1910]) of the Southern California Conference (and founder of the American Bible University in Ohio) and a brother to Ariel R. Turner.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 1336.

 

 

TURNER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           Frankstown

1960-64           Snydertown

 

Note: William Turner served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

TURNER, WILLIAM S.

 

Born: 11-22-1787                                                        married: Matilda Adams

Died: 12-13-1877                                                        obit: [6/5/1796 – 6/30 1830]

                                                                                    married2:

Interment: Pine Creek Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA    obit2:

Obit:

 

 

Note: William Turner, a tailor of Jersey Shore, was a class leader and local pastor.  He is the father of Reverends M.A. Turner and Henry Turner of the Baltimore Conference, and of William Smith Turner (1826-1920) of the Columbia River Conference, author of the 1904 Story of My Life published by the Western Methodist Book Concern.

 

 

 

UHRIN, JOHN JR

 

Born: 11-24-1933                                                        married: Delta Walter

Died:                                                                           obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 390

                                                                                    married2: Beulah Ruth Schroder

                                                                                    obit2: [6/14/1936 – 4/3/2016]

 

1962    license, recommended by West Hickory: Western Pennsylvania Conference

1965    ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1967    ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1969    admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1972    admitted on trial, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Distant PA (tombstone prepared)

Obit:

 

1962-66           Benezette

1966-69           Luthersburg

1969-71           student, Penn State University

                             1969-71      Half Moon, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1971-74           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1971-74      Fairhaven-Sugar Valley, Western Ohio Conference

1974-88           Punxsutawney Woodland Avenue

1988-93           Hollsopple Bethel

1993-97           New Bethlehem

1997                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Uhrin is the daughter of Rev. George H. Schroder (1900-1985) of the Free Methodist Church.

 

 

UPHAM, WALTER HORACE

 

Born: 9-7-1875  Lynn MA                                         married: Mary Edith Shaver

Died: 1-6-1939  Martinsburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 232

 

 

1905    license, New England Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 217

 

1905-08           Blandford MA

1908-12           Bondsville MA

1912-13           Upton MA

1913-15           Piermont NH, New Hamphsire Conference

1914                admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference

1914-15           Piermont

1915-17           Auburn

1917                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1917-18           Morris

1918-20           Oriole-Antes Fort

1920-21           Benezette

1921-24           Port Matilda

1924-26           Schellsburg

1926-27           Frankstown-Canoe Creek

1927-29           Bloomingdale

1929-30           Conyngham

1930-31           Fayetteville

1931-32           Waterville

1932-35           Laurelton

1935-36           Bakerton

1936-38           Clearville

1938-39           retired

 

Note:  Walter H. Upham is the grandson of Frederic Upham (1799-1891) of the New England Southern Conference, the son of Samuel F. Upham (1834-1904) of the New England Conference, and a brother to Frederick N. Upham (1860-1899) of the New England Conference and Francis B. Upham (1862-1941) of the New York East Conference.  Mrs. Upham is the grand-daughter of David Shaver (1804-1862) who itinerated in the Baltimore Conference 1827-1840, and she is the niece of Joseph B. Shaver.

 

UPPERMAN, HARRY LEE

 

Born: 6-23-1895                                                          married: Emma Clark

Died: 1-29-1984                                                          obit: Tennessee Conference 1987, 379

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Baxter TN

Obit: Tennessee Conference 1984, 283

 

1922-23           faculty, Dickinson Junior College [now Lycoming College]

    1923     Eagles Mere & Laporte

1923                “transfer” to Central Tennessee Conference

1923-57           president Baxter Seminary, Baxter TN

1957                retired

 

Note: Harry L. Upperman served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.  Baxter Seminary was a church-supported secondary school which became a part of the Putnam County public school system and was re-named Upperman High School when Dr. Upperman retired.

 

USHER, BILLY JOE

 

Born: 4-26-1927  Willis Point TX                              married: Donna Jean Davis (4/24/1948)

Died: 8-20-2020  Richardson TX                               obit: [12/15/1928 – 3/24/2017]

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1949-51           Shawville

1951-54           Penns Valley

1954-55           student, Garrett Seminary in Evanston IL

                        …

                        retired

                        visitation pastor, Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church in Richardson TX

 

Note: Billy Joe Usher was a retired member of the Desert Southwest Conference.  Mrs. Usher was from Clearfield PA.

 

 

UTTS, EDWARD ZELATUS

 

Born: 5-13-1894  Allport PA                                      married: Ruth Simm

Died: 12-5-1983  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 168

 

1919    license, recommended by Allport

1923    admitted on trial

1925    ordained deacon

1927    ordained elder

 

Interment: Allport Cemetery, Allport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 384

 

1917-18           Cogan Valley

1918-19           Keating Summit

1919-22           Blandburg

1922-25           James Creek

1925-28           Three Springs

1928-30           Martinsburg

1930-39           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1939-41           Montgomery

1941-42           Altoona Wesley

1942-47           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1947-52           Bellwood-Tipton

1952-59           Lewistown Grove Memorial

1959                retired

                             1959-61      Allenport

                             1962-63      James Creek

                             1968-69      James Creek (beginning 12/1/69)

                             1974-75      Shrader

 

Note: Edward Z. Utts is the father of Harold L. Utts.

 

UTTS, HAROLD LEE “BUCK”

 

Born: 10-30-1920  Blandburg PA                              married: Janet Ruth Holcomb (6/20/1944)

Died: 3-7-2017  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: [3/15/1924 – 8/8/2014]

 

1945    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-42           student, Juniata College

                             1939-42      Vira  (9/1/39 – 6/15/42

1942-43           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1942-43      Plainfield (beginning 10/42)

1943                “transfer” to Newark Conference

1944-46           Harrison

1946-48           Council of Clinical Training of Theological Students

1948                discontinued

                        director of social services, Buffalo NY Child and Family Services

 

Note: Harold L. Utts is the son of Edward Z. Utts.  He has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He and his wife Janet retired to East Aurora NY and are the authors of the 2000 book Town of Aurora 1810-1930.

 

 

VAN FOSSEN, GEORGE W. COUGHER

 

Born: 12-4-1839  Duncannon PA                               married: Margaret Ann Barndollar

Died: 10-4-1896  Tacoma WA                                   obit: [12/?/1841 – 7/16/1915]

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Oakwood Hill Cemetery, Tacoma WA

Obit:

 

1861-63           Shirleysburg

1863-64           Rainsburg

1864-65           West Falls

1865-66           Emporium

1866-67           Clinton

1867-68           Renovo

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Bloody Run

1871-73           Danville Trinity

1873-74           Huntingdon

1874                withdrew, page 15

 

Note: This surname is also rendered VanFosson.

 

VAN METER, JOHN BLACKFORD

 

Born: 9-6-1842  Philadelphia PA                               married: Lucinda Cassell

Died: 4-30-1930  Baltimore MD                                                        obit: [?/?/1840 – 6/19/1907]

 

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by North Baltimore

 

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1930, 235

 

1864-65           Middletown

1865-66           Westminster

1866-67           Liberty

1867-68           West Harford

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868                Gettysburg

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference (9/1868)

1868-70           faculty, The Female Collegiate and Male Academic Institute

1870-72           Washington DC Ryland

1872-82           chaplain, US Navy

                             1879-81  Mount Vernon Place

1882-85           Huntingdon Avenue

1885-86           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1886                transfer to Newark Conference

1886-89

1889                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1889-1916       faculty, dean, acting president Woman’s [Goucher] College

1916                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Van Meter is a niece of Leonard Cassell (d. 1808) of the original Conference.

 

 

VAN NORMAN, C. LACY

 

Born: 7-31-1898  Fairport NY                                   married: Martha P. White

Died: 5-4-1968  Elmira NY                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 375

 

1920    license

1922    admitted on trial, New York Conference

 

Interment: Bradford County Memorial Park, North Towanda PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 321

           

 

1921-22           Cleveland – Barnhards Bay

1922-23           student, Syracuse University

1923                transfer to Northern New York Conference

1923-24           student Syracuse University

                             1923-24      Minetto

1924                transfer to Central New York Conference

1924-26           North Towanda – Luthers Mills

1926-28           Beaver Dams

1928-35           Phelps

1935-38           Branchport – Bluff Point

1938-44           McCray

1944-47           Sodus

1947                transfer to Genesee Conference

1947-47           assistant superintendent, Pittman Center TN.

1947-54           Albion

1954-59           Honeoye Falls – Ionia

1959-65           Westfield – Cowanesque

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-65           Westfield – Cowanesque

1965                retired

                             1965-68      Nelson

 

Note: C. Lacy Van Norman is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1347.

 

VAN NOTE, GEORGE H.

 

Born: 12-1860  Howell NJ                             married: Hester Ella Hurley

Died: 9-8-1930                                                obit: [2/?/1865 - ?]

                                                                                                                                                           

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Farmingdale NJ     

Obit:

 

                        New Jersey Conference

1898-99           Chatsworth [see New Jersey Conference 1899, page 55]

1903-04           Waretown [see New Jersey Conference 1904, page 64]

1905-06           New Lisbon

1906-07           Sicklerville and Tansboro

1907-08           Canton and Hancock’s Bridge

1910-11           Millstone

                        Wilmington Conference

1914-15           Port Penn DE

                        Central New York Conference

1918-19           Forksville (beginning 9/1918)

                        Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-23           Shawville (moved to Waterville in mid year 1922/23)

1923-24           Waterville

1924-25           Burnt Cabins

1925-26           Alum Bank

1926-27           Hustontown

                        living in Penton NJ

 

Note: George H. Van Note is listed in the New Jersey Conference as a local deacon and all of his service in the various conferences was as a local pastor.  He appears to have been in the lumber business.

 

VAN PELT, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born: 11-10-1862  KY                                               married: Ellen Russell Warren

Died: 3-27-1962  Des Moines IA                               obit: Upper Iowa Conference 1946, 621

 

?          admitted on trial, Illinois Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Eagle Harbor MI

Obit: North Iowa Conference 1962, 260

 

1906                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1906-08           Lewisburg

1908-10           Everett

1910-11           faculty, Cornell College in Mt. Vernon IA

1911                transfer to Upper Iowa Conference

 

Note: John Robert Van Pelt is the son of Rev. John Francis Van Pelt 1821 – 1867), reportedly of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

VANAMAN, RICHARD H.L.

 

Born: 11-29-1913                                                        married: Elizabeth Jean Haupy

Died: 12-5-1996                                                          obit: [4/12/1912 - 9/16/1999]

 

?          admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference

 

Interment: All Saints Episcopal Church Columbarium, Lakeland FL

Obit:

 

1942-46           student, Dickinson College

                             1943-45      Dillsburg-Wellsville (9/1/43 – 9/15/45)

1946-48           Hampton [New Hampshire Conference]

1948-49           Salem Hannah Tenney Memorial [New Hampshire Conference]

1949                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1949-52          Bendersville

1952                withdrew to enter the Episcopal ministry

1955                Stuttgart AR St. Albans

1961-62           Fort Myers Beach FL St. Raphael’s

1962-63           Lake Placid FL St. Francis of Assisi

1963                Sebring FL St. Agnes

                        Alexandria LA

1977                Davenport FL

 

Note: Mrs. Vanaman was born in Bellefonte PA.  Richard H.L. Vanaman may originally have been from Jersey Shore PA.

 

VANDER LUGT, WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-1-1902  Holland                                            married:  Peternell _____

Died: 6-9-1992                                                            obit: [3/3/1908 – 12/15/1993]

 

 

Interment: Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland MI

Obit:

 

1930-50           faculty, Central College in Pella IA

1953-54           Port Matilda (beginning 10/1/53)

1954-87           faculty, Hope College in Holland MI

                             1970-72      interim president

 

Note:  William Vander Lugt was a visiting professor of philosophy at PSU.  He served as a local pastor.

 

VANDERMARK, WILSON EZRA

 

Born: 11-20-1865  Dorrance PA                                married: Mabel G. Henderson

Died: 7-4-1933  Cambridge MA                                obit: [6/1/1870 – 11/26/1964]

 

1888    license

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Milnesville

 

Interment: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA

Obit: New England Conference 1934, 518

 

1888-89           attending (local pastor?) at Stairville

1889-90           Silver Brook

1890-93           ?

1893-94           Milnesville

1894-96           Audenreid

1896-98           Nescopeck  (did not finish second year)

1898-00            student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             South Yarmouth and Millbury

1900-01           Park Place- Delano

1901                transfer to New England Conference

1901-06           Springfield St. James

1906-08           Woburn

1908-10           Chelsea First

1910-13           Medford First

1913-18           Cambridge Harvard Street

1918-19           secretary, Board of Education

1919-21           secretary, Missionary Centenary

1921-27           secretary, Boards of Home and Foreign Missions

1927-28           Revere

1928-32           representative, Boston University

1932-33           on leave

1933                retired

VANN, FLORENCE O.

 

Born: 6-17-1889  Detroit MI                                      married:  [single]

Died: 11-12-1968  Ocean Grove NJ                           obit:

 

?          consecrated deaconess

 

Interment:

Obit: [Response magazine February 1969, page 50]

 

1925-               Blodgett Community House, Hazleton PA

1931                North Barre Community Center, Barre VT

1933                Unity Mission, Berwick PA

        -1954       McCarty Settlement, Cedartown GA

1954                retired

 

Note: Miss Florence O. Vann studied at the Chicago Deaconess Training School, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan.

 

 

VASTINE, WILLIAM HURSH

 

Born: 9-28-1913  Shamokin PA                                 married: Louise M. _____

Died: 7-21-1981                                                          obit: [b. 11/?/1914]

 

1936    license, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1940    admitted on trial

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 386

 

1936-37           student, Dickinson College

1937-40           student, Boston University School of Theology        

1940-41           at school?

1941                transfer to New York East Conference

1941-45           Hampton Bays

1945-47           Inwood

1947-51           Windsor CT

1951-55           National Council of Churches, Chicago IL

1955                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1955-61           assistant secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1961-67           executive secretary, United Churches of Greater Harrisburg

1967-69           Office of Economic Opportunity, Williamsport PA

1969-71           caseworker, Dauphin County

1972-79           staff, Harrisburg State Hospital

1979                retired

 

Note: William H. Vastine served Harrisburg St. Paul’s 1964-65 and possibly again in the 1970’s.  Mrs. Vastine may have moved to Decatur GA to live with her married daughter.

 

VINTON, ROBERT SPENCER

 

Born: 1796                                                                  married: Juliet Matilda Berry

Died: 7-31-1870  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1802 - 1872]

 

1818    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1820    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1822    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1871, 38

 

1817-18           supplied an appointment under the district superintendent

1818-19           Huntingdon

1819-20           Stafford

1820-21           Prince George’s

1822-23           York station

1823-24           Chambersburg station

1824-25           Carlisle station

1825-26           Washington DC Ebenezer

1826-28           Westmoreland

1828-29           Annapolis

1829-30           Georgetown

1830-31           Severn

1831-33           Hagerstown

1833-35           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1835-37           East Baltimore station

1837-39           Annapolis

1839-51           West Baltimore

1841-43           Bladensburg

1843-45           Liberty

1845-47           North Baltimore station

1847-49           Baltimore William Street

1849-51           Baltimore circuit

1851-53           Hereford

1853-55           York station

1855-56           South Baltimore station

1856-57           North Baltimore circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           North Baltimore circuit

1858-60           East Harford

1860-61           missionary to colored people, Harford County

1861-62           Baltimore Dallas Street

1862-63           Baltimore Jefferson Street

1863-66           chaplain, US Army

1866                on leave

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1869                retired

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Robert S. Vinton is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 478.

 

VOUGHT, FREEMAN S.

 

Born: 8-11-1849  Wyoming PA                                 married: Savilla Smethers

Died: 11-10-1910  Berwick PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 133

 

1877    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1881    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association             

1883    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Berwick Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 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. 

 

VOWLER, ROBERT MOYER

 

Born: 7-15-1926  Beaverbrook PA                            married: Joan Irene Confer (6/20/1950)

Died: 3-23-1996                                                          obit: [divorce]

                                                                                    married2: Lorelle Zacharias

                                                                                    obit2:

1949    admitted on trial, recommended by Hazleton St. Paul’s

1950    ordained deacon

1951    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 401]

 

1949-51           Milesburg

1951-57           Harrisburg Riverside

1957-62           Northumberland

1962-67           Tyrone First

1967-80           New Cumberland Baughman

1980-82           State College St. Paul’s (ending 10/1/82)

1982-95           Harrisburg Calvary (beginning 10/1/82)

1995                retired

 

Note: Robert M. Vowler is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1357.  He is the author of the devotional booklets “Meditations on the Seven Last Words” and “The End of the Day.”

 

 

VROOMAN, JOHN

 

Born: 1-20-1834  Schenectady NY                            married: Henrietta Gallett

Died: 7-11-1927   Los Angeles CA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 531

 

1863    admitted on trial, Troy Conference

1865    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles CA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 189

 

1863-64           Minaville

1864-65           Victory Mills

1865-66           Essex

1866-68           Redford

1868-70           Champlain

1870-71           Hartford

1871-75           Saranac

1876                transfer to the Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-78           Montandon

1878-81           Emporium

1881-82           York Duke Street

1882-83           Altoona Chestnut Street

1883-85           Newport

1885-87           Gettysburg-Rock Creek

1887-90           McConnellsburg

1890-95           on leave

1895-96           Lewisburg

1896-97           Hastings

1897-00           Harveyville

1900-03           Glen Hope

1903-05           Mercersburg

1905-06           Keating Summit

1906-07           Laurelton

1907                retired

 

 

WAGNER, GERALD DAVID

 

Born: 9-18-1934  Altoona PA                                    married: Patricia Kilgus

Died: 9-17-2012  Hughesville PA                              obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 272

 

1951    quarterly conference license, Altoona First

1953    license, recommended by Altoona First

1957    admitted on trial

1957    ordained deacon

1960    ordained elder

           

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 273

 

1952-56           student, Lycoming College

                             1954-55      assistant, Lock Haven Parish (6/1/1954 – 9/15/1955)

                             1955-56      Allenwood  (beginning 9/15/55)

1956-57           Allenwood

1957-60           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1957-58      Montandon

                             1958-60      Freeland Parish

1960-62           Patton

1962-68           McConnellsburg

1968-72           Shippensburg Christ

1972-73           sabbatical

1973-81           Avis Yoked Parish

1981-83           Avis

1983-91           associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

1991-96           Juniata Parish

1996                retired

                             2004-08      Picture Rocks Parish

 

Note: Gerald D. Wagner is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1360. 

 

WAGNER, J. VICTOR L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1912    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1911-13           Buckhorn

1913-16           Riverside

1916-18           Gordon

1918-20           Duncansville

1920-22           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1922-24           Jersey Shore Epworth

1924                withdrew under charges, page 43

 

Note: J. Victor Wagner is believed to have been from the Altoona/Tyrone area, to have returned there after leaving the ministry, and to have retired in Lakeland FL.  A news article about the trial appears in the Shamokin Dispatch, 3/8/1924, page 1.

 

WAGNER, JOSEPH ABRAHAM

 

Born: 5-30-1893  Williamsburg PA                           married: Irma Irene Hirst

Died: 9-10-1970  Elimsport PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 266

                                                                                    married2: Anna Spyker Crissy

1930    license, recommended by Hollidaysburg First    obit2: 1974,442

1937    ordained deacon

1939    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 368

 

1933-36           Harrisonville

1936-38           Burnt Cabins (ending 8/1938)

1938-42           Cassville (beginning 8/1938)

1942-47           Schellsburg

1947-52           Ramey-Blandburg

1952-57           Saxton

1957-60           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1960                retired

                             1961-70      Elimsport

 

Note: Joseph A. Wagner served as a local pastor. 

 

WAGNER, NORMAN RICHARD

 

Born: 8-27-1892  West Moshannon PA                     married: Mildred Viola Derr

Died: 10-9-1989  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 394

 

1919    license, recommended by Mount Union First

1922    admitted on trial

1926    ordained deacon [Wyoming Conference]

1928    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 470

 

1923-25           student, Dickinson College

                              1923-25     Boiling Springs

1925-26            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1926-27           Jeddo-Lattimer-Milnesville

1927-29           Conyngham

1929-31           Centralia

1931-35           Saxton

1935-36           Lock Haven East Main Street

1936-41           Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1941-43           Altoona Jaggard

1943-45           Petersburg

1945-49           Duncansville

1949-52           Mechanicsburg

1952-58           Shrewsbury

1958                retired

 

WAGNER, ROBERT STANLEY

 

Born: 1-31-1926  Altoona PA                                    married: Floredda Hope Craig

Died: 7-11-2016  Cuyahoga Falls OH                        obit:

 

1949    admitted on trial

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1945-46           Dillsburg-Wellsville (7.15.1945 – 2/1/1946)

1946-47           Harrisonville 

1947-49           Schellsburg  

1949-51           Dudley

1951-53           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1953-55           Duboistown

1955-57           Altoona Lakemont

1957                transfer to North East Ohio Conference

 

Note: Robert S. Wagner retired as a member of the East Ohio Conference.  He served Dillsburg-Wellsville while a student at Dickibsob College, from which he graduated in 1946.

 

WALKER, CHARLES ISAAC

 

Born: 10-27-1970  Valois NY                                                married: Doratha Vertigan

Died: 12-8-1999  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 416

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Marjorie Grace Batts Burket

1938    license, recommended by Jamesville NY      obit2:

1940    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

1941    ordained deacon, Central New York Conference

1944    ordained elder, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Weedsport-Brutus Rural Cemetery, Weedsport NY

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 356

 

1942-45           Rose-Lock Berlin 

1945-50           Peterboro

1950-54           Branchport

1954-62           Weedsport

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-74           Troy

1974-77           Bellefonte Trinity

1977-83           Vira

1983                retired

                             1983-89  New Oxford

 

Note: Charles I. Walker is the son of Kendall M. Walker (1873-1951) and the nephew of Charles W. Walker (1869-1904) and Thomas I.B. Walker (1883-1916), all of the Central New York Conference.  His maternal grandfather was Charles D. Smith (c1850-1924) – also of the Central New York Conference, and the pastor of several present Wellsboro District appointments.  The second Mrs. Walker was previously married to Kenneth A. Burket.

 

WALKER, JOHN

 

Born: 12-28-1903  Philadelphia PA                           married:

Died: 6-7-1991                                                            obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1930-32           Concord

1932-34           Fort Loudon

1934-35           Cherry Tree & Glen Campbell

 

Note: John Walker has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  John Walker attended the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia 1927-30.

 

WALKER, MATTHEW NEWKIRK

 

Born: 3-8-1867  Downingtown PA                            married: Nina Mary Torbert

Died: 1-8-1909  Mount Holly Springs PA                 obit: Central PA Conference 1937, 272

 

1896    admitted on trial

1900    ordained elder

 

Interment: Old Hopewell Church Cemetery, Downingtown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 108

 

1892                Eggleston Heights FL Inskip Memorial (Jan-Apr)

1892-94           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1894-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-97           Jamestown

1897-98           Benezette

1898-00           Medix

1900-01           Slate Run

1901-04           Watsontown

1904-05           York West Street

1905-09           Mount Holly Springs

 

WALLACE, RALPH VERNON

 

Born: 12-3-1895  Tyler PA                                        married: Laura Virginia Edwards

Died: 4-?-1967  PA                                                     obit: [6/?/1894 – 10/24/1918]

                                                                                    married2: Freda Faye Lucore

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Pleasantville PA       obit2: [10/5/1901 – 1995]

Obit:

 

1922-23           Shawville (appointed in midyear1922/23)

 

Note: R. Vernon Wallace, also reported as D.V. Wallace, served as a local pastor.  He served the Sharpsville PA Free Methodist Church 1924-25, and later in other Free Methodist congregations in Pennsylvania and New York.

 

WALLACE, ELTON H.

 

Born: 7-29-1858  Newport PA                                   married: Annie Fleming

Died: 4-24-1918  Gratersford PA                               obit: Central PA Conference 1950, 208

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Port Royal circuit

 

Interment: New Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 144

 

1887-90           McConnellstown

1890-93           Ray’s Hill

1893-98           Saxton

1898-00           Roaring Spring

1900-06           Montoursville

1906-08           Austin

1908-11           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1911-12           temperance agent

1912-16           on leave

                             1912-13      Jonestown (latter part of year; see 1913, 81)

1916-17           Excelsior

1917                retired

 

WALLACE, WILLIAM CLARENCE

 

Born: 12-22-1869  Lumber City PA                           married: Pearl May Daugherty

Died: 7-24-1959  Fresno CA                                      obit:

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Lycoming circuit

 

Interment: Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Coalinga CA

Obit:

 

1895-97           Saint Mary’s

1897-98           Hoytville

1898-00           Mill Hall

1900-04           Lumber City

1904-05           New Washington

1905-09           Wallaceton

1909-13           Hastings

1913                withdrew

 

Note: In 1915 a Rev. W.C. Wallace is admitted to the Blairsville PA Presbytery, transferring in 1916 to the Erie PA Presbytery.  In 1919 Presbyterian Rev. William Clarence Wallace is in Pomona CA.

 

WALLEY, E.L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1931-32           Vira

 

Note: E.L. Walley served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WALTERS, ALBERT JUDSON

 

Born: 7-16-1897                                                          married: Nellie Gertrude Stafford

Died: 10-11-1972  Centerville PA                             obit: Central PA Conference 1973, 384

 

1958    license, recommended by Wolfsburg

1960    ordained deacon

1962    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: [1973, 390]

 

1957-58           Wolfsburg

1958-63           Trevorton

1963-66           Hastings-Bakerton

1966-68           Ray’s Hill

1968                retired

                             1968-70      Putneyville

                             1970-71      Coalport-Beaver Valley

                             1971           Union City Wilkins (as needed)

                             1972           Union City Lake Pleasant  (Feb-Oct)

 

Note Albert J. Walters served as a local pastor.

 

 

WARD, HARRY STEELE

 

Born: 12-23-1890  Mayo MD                                     married: Ruby A. Smith

Died: 10-30-1979  Portland OR                                 obit: Central PA Conference 1942, 214

 

1920    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Mayo Memorial Churchyard, Mayo MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 350

 

1916-18           Eagles Mere & Laporte 

1918-20           Austin-Costello 

1920-22           Austin

1922-24           Newton Hamilton

1925-28           Millerstown

1928-31           North Bend-Farwell

1931-37           Benton

1937-40           Gordon

1940-43           South Williamsport

1943-46           Catawissa

1946                retired

 

 

WARNER, ORVILLE VERNON

 

Born: 4-25-1920  Lemoyne PA                                  married: Betty Alexander

Died: 7-17-1998                                                          obit:

 

1938    license, recommended by Harrisburg Riverside

1945    admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference

1945    ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference

1947    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 442

 

1939-43           student, Dickinson College

                             1942-43      Boiling Springs-Hickorytown (ending 9/1/43)

1943-46           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1944-45      Salem NH

                             1945           admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference

                             1945-46      Salem NH

1946                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1946-48           York Springs-New Oxford

1948-53           Newport

1953-58           Altoona Fairview

1958-65           Roaring Spring

1965-69           Huntingdon First

1969                superintendent, Sunbury District (ending 12/31/69)

1970-75           superintendent, Chambersburg District (beginning 1/1/70)

1975-84           Camp Hill

1984                retired

 

Note: Orville V. Warner is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1377.

 

WARREN, GEORGE

 

Born: 9-1-1822  Adams County PA                           married: Louisa Bowen

Died: 8-13-1913  Tyrone PA                                      obit: Central PA Conference 1905, 125

 

1850    license, Baltimore Conference

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 119

 

1850-54           supplied appointments under supervision of the superintendent

1854-55           Great Island

1856-57           Bloomsburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Bloomsburg

1858-60           Sunbury

1860-62           Milton

1862-64           Penn’s Valley

1864-67           Shrewsbury

1867-69           Birmingham

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-72           Hollidaysburg

1872-74           Jersey Shore

1874-76           Renovo

1876-78           Northumberland

1878-81           Shickshinny

1881-82           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1882-85           Altoona Chestnut Avenue

1885-86           Williamsburg

1886-89           Salona

1889-92           Mifflinburg

1892-95           Milesburg-Unionville

1895-96           Duncansville

1896                retired

 

Note: An obituary for George Warren also appears in the 8/21/1913 Christian Advocate. 

 

 

WARREN, LAWRENCE EDWIN

 

Born: 10-26-1898  PA                                                married: Clara Rosalie Hockersmith

Died: 6-13-1963  CA                                                  obit: So. California-Arizona Conference 1972, 257

 

1921    admitted on trial, recommended by Shippensburg

1924    ordained deacon

1925    ordained elder

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1964, 282

 

1921-22           student, Dickinson College

1922-28           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1928                transfer to Southern California Conference

 

WASHABAUGH, J. EDGAR

 

Born: 6-6-1886  Waynesboro PA                               married: Gertrude Savage

Died: 12-15-1965                                                        obit: Newark Conference 1914, 99

                                                                                    married2: Elizabeth Lehmer Curry

1911    admitted on trial                                              obit2: Newark Conference 1933, 90

1913     ordained elder, Newark Conference              married3: Eleanor Brown

                                                                                    obit3: Northern NJ Conference 1966, 181

Interment: Morristown NJ

Obit: Northern New Jersey Conference 1966, 179

 

1907-09           student, Dickinson College

                             1907-09      Rehoboth (ending summer 1909)

1909-12            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1910-12      Staten Island Rosebank

1912                transfer to Newark Conference

1912-16           Rahway First

1916-18           Cranford St. Paul’s

1918-21           Washington

1921-30           Paterson Wesley

1930-32           Morristown

1932-40           superintendent, Newark District

1940-50           manager, Methodist Publishing House

                             1940-42      Summit

1950                retired

 

Note: J. Edgar Washabaugh is listed in the 1952 Who’s Who in Methodism, page 721. 

 

WASHINGTON, JOSEPH REED JR.

 

Born: 10-30-1930  Iowa City IA                                married: Sophia May Holland

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1962    admitted on trial Louisiana Conference

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-57           student, Andover Newton Theological Seminary

                             1954-56      assistant, Woburn MA First Baptist

                             1956-57      West Newfield ME Congregational and Newfield ME Methodist

1957-61           associate chaplain, Boston University

1961-63           chaplain, Dillard University in New Orleans

1963                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1963-67           chaplain, Dickinson College

1967                transfer to Michigan Conference

…                    …

1977                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1977-94           faculty, University of Pennsylvania

                             1977-81      Philadelphia St. Thomas

1994                retired

 

Note: Joseph R. Washington is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1380.

 

WASSELL, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 7-28-1925  Hartford CT                                   married: Elizabeth R. Ralson

Died: 11-20-2005  Altoona PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 408

 

1955    license, recommended by Drexel Hill Broad Street Memorial

1956    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

1966    ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference

1958    ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Blair Memorial Park, Bellwood PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 435

 

1955-57           associate, Philadelphia Calvary

1957-59           Philadelphia Gethsemane

1959-61           Lafayette Hills Messiah

1961-62           Williamstown

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-63           Marysville

1963-68           South Williamsport

1968-76           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1976-84           Bellwood-Tipton

1984-90           Towanda

1990                retired

 

 

WASSER, DELBERT WAYNE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1963    license

1967    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1971    admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-66           Frankstown

1966-67           Cassville

1967-70           Glen Campbell

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-71           Glen Campbell

1971-73           Sheakleyville

1973-76           Callensburg

1976-81           Freedom First

1981-86           Hilltop-Beck’s Run

1986-89           Ligonier Calvary

1989-93           Fairbanks AK St. Paul’s

1993-97           Dayton-Smicksburg

1997-99           Addison-Grace Chapel-Johnson Chapel

1999                retired

 

Note: As of 2007, Delbert W. Wasser was preaching occasionally in the Central Pennsylvania Conference and living at 126 Pine Street, Everett PA 15537, with e-mail address pedewa@pennswoods.net .

 

 

WASSON, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 6-14-1866  near State College PA                    married: Mary Alice Shodel

Died: 5-2-1935  Philadelphia PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 229

 

1885    license, Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1888    ordained, Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1893    admitted as member, recommended by Woodland charge

1893    orders recognized, recommended by Woodland charge

 

Interment: Pine Hall Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 192

 

1884-85           assistant, Huntingdon and Juniata

1885-86           Millheim

1886-87           Bellefonte

1887-90           Philipsburg

1990-92           Tyrone

1892                honorable discharge

1892-93           Woodland & Bradford, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME (beginning 7/21/92)

1893                received into Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1893-95           Hastings

1895-98           Patton

1898-01           Saxton

1901-06           Williamsport High Street

1906-11           York Duke Street

1911-15           Altoona Juniata

1915-21           Philipsburg

1921-25           Bloomsburg

1925-28           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1928                retired

 

 

WATKINS, GERALD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

license

ordained deacon

ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

associate, Harrisburg Grace

 

 

 

WATKINS, WILLIAM EDWARD

 

Born: 12-22-1882  Baltimore MD                              married: Isabel Wilson

Died: 12-21-1964  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 266

 

1905    admitted on trial

1907    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 363

 

1903-05           Boiling Springs & Pine Grove

1905-06           Shirleysburg

1906-11           Alexandria

1911-13           Littlestown

1913-16           York West Street

1916-18           Mifflintown

1918-25           Mount Carmel

1925-30           superintendent, Williamsport District

1930-34           Williamsport Pine Street

1934-38           Altoona First

1938-42           Chambersburg

1942-47           State College

1947-53           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1953                retired

 

Note: Some biographical information on William E. Watkins appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 55. 

 

 

WATSON, LORENZO DOW

 

Born: 12-15-1838  Allegany County MD                  married: Elnora Lawrence

Died: 10-6-1915  Brooklyn NY                                 obit: Genesee Conference 1921, 297

 

1859    license, East Baltimore Conference

1860    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Cumberland MD circuit

 

Interment: Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn NY

Obit: Genesee Conference 1916, 116

 

1859-60           Cumberland circuit (last part of year)

1860-61           McConnellsburg

1861-62           Glen Hope

1862-63           New Grenada

1863                located

1866                “transfer” to New York East Conference

1866-67           Durham CT

1867-69           Berlin CT

1869-70           Cornwall Bridge CT

1870-71           located

                             1870-71      faculty, Mansfield University

1871                “transfer” to East Genesee Conference

1871                East Canton PA

1872                transfer by boundary change to Central New York Conference

1872                transfer to Genesee Conference

1872-74           Rochester Asbury

1874-78           superintendent, Olean District

1878-80           Spencerport

1880-83           Tonawanda

1883-85           superintendent, Bath District

1885-88           on leave

1888-92           retired

1892-93           Painted Post

1893-96           Honeoye Falls

1896-99           Albion

1899-02           East Aurora and Springbrook

1902-03           assistant, Buffalo Delaware Avenue

1903-04           Temperance evangelist

1904-05           editor, Buffalo Christian Advocate

1905-07           faculty, Taylor University in Upland IN

1907                retired

 

 

Note: Dr. Lorenzo Dow Watson prepared for college at Allegheny Seminary in Rainsburg PA.  He has degrees from various schools, including a PhD. from Syracuse University.  He served as a principal in Canton and on the faculty at the State Normal School on Mansfield and at Taylor University in Upland IN.

 

 

WATSON, WILLIAM HUNT

 

Born: 9-27-1934  Memphis TN                                  married:

Died: 9-4-2007                                                            obit:

 

1954    license, Memphis Conference: recommended by Memphis TN First

1961    admitted on trial, Memphis Conference

1962    ordained deacon

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-57           student, Lambuth College in Henderson TN

                             1955-57      New Bethel circuit

1957-60           student, Duke University in Durham NC

1960-62           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           associate director, State College Wesley Foundation

1964-66           North Towanda

1966-67           East Canton

1967-67           Burnham

1967-78           Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

1978-83           director, VISTAT in Newark NJ (ending 12/30/83)

1983-96           executive director, VOICE (beginning 12/30/83)

1996-07           Unified Vailsburg Services in Newark NJ

 

WATTS, MARTIN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1904-05           Karthaus

 

Note: Martin Watts served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.  This may be Martin Overhosler Watts (1864-1939) of Clearfield County PA.

 

WATTS, PAUL HARRY

 

Born: 6-6-1924  Newton Hamilton PA                      married: Dorothy Winkelblech

Died: 9-16-2009                                                          obit:

 

1952    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Osceola Memory Gardens, Kissimmee FL

Obit: Florida Conference 2010, 220

 

1948-50           Clearfield circuit

1950-53           student, Westminster Seminary in Westminster MD

     1950-53      Gatchelville 

1953-55           Doylesburg

1955-59           Duboistown

1959-61           Reedsville

1961                transfer to Florida Conference

1961-63           White City Jensen Beach

1963-64           Ft. Lauderdale Aldersgate and Wesley

1964-66           Melrose

1966-70           Lutz Patterson Memorial

1970-73           Mannlenny

1973-77           Lakeland Lakewood Park

1977-80           Plant City Trinity

1980-83           Lake Panasofkee

1983-86           Winter Haven Trinity

1986                retired

 

Note: Paul H. Watts is the grandson of William A. Lepley.  He is a ministerial son of the Newton Hamilton church.  He listed in 2003 as a retired member of the Florida Conference.  Some sources give his middle name as HENRY. 

 

WAY, CLYDE ERNEST

 

Born: 1-5-1912  near Curwensville PA                      married: Esther. Bettina Negus

Died: 11-29-2005                                                        obit: [1920-2013]

 

1934    license, recommended by Pleasant Grove on the Clearfield circuit

1942    admitted on trial

1942    ordained deacon

1944    ordained elder

 

Interment: Camp Hill UMC columbarium, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 436

 

1937-39           Waterville (ending 9/1/39)

1939-42           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA (beginning 9/1/39)

1942-44           Three Springs

1944-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-50           assistant, Harrisburg Grace

1950-54           Everett

1954                transfer to Nebraska Conference

1954                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference (10/10/54)

1954-62           Camp Hill (beginning 10/10/54)

1962-65           Altoona First

1965-68           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1968-74            superintendent, State College District

1974-77           Huntingdon First

1977                retired

                             1977-91       visitation pastor, Camp Hill

 

Note: Clyde E. Way is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1386.

 

WEAVER, DAVID LEE

 

Born: 3-31-1940  Grampian PA                                 married: Jane Bolin Lantz

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1959    quarterly conference license, Grafton WV Fetterman

1960    license, West Virginia Conference

1965    admitted on trial

1965    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-62           student, West Virginia Wesleyan in Buckhannon WV

                             1960-62 Meadowview circuit, West Virginia Conference

1962-64           Augusta circuit, West Virginia Conference

1964-67           student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

                             1965-67      Burnt Cabins circuit (beginning 2/1/65)        

1967-73           Altoona Mardorf

1973-77           Clearfield Parish

1977-82           Mansfield

1982-86           Altoona Gethsemane  

1986-96           New Freedom (ending 5/1/96)

1996-02           Williamsport St. Paul’s (beginning 5/1/96)

2002                retired

 

WEEKS, JAMES EMORY

 

Born: 12-23-1856  Everett PA                                    married: Ida May McCurdy

Died: 6-18-1942  Hanover PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 100

                                                                                    married2: Carrie S. _____

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Wharton obit2: 1917, 135

                                                                                    married3: Nellie May _____

Interment: Everett Cemetery, Everett PA                  obit3: 1936, 200

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 207

 

1887-89           Wharton

1889-91           Austin

1891-92           Picture Rocks

1892-96           Hoytville

1896-00           Harrisburg Epworth

1900-04           Hanover

1904-06           Duncannon

1906-08           Williamsport High Street

1908-11           Mifflinburg

1911-14           Emporium

1914-17           Mount Carmel

1917-20           Altoona Simpson

1920-21           Williamsport Grace

1921                retired

                             1922-23      Littlestown (apparently assisting student pastor Samuel Strain)

 

Note: J. Emory Weeks is the preferred usage.
 

 

WEIMER, GEORGE CECIL

 

Born: 4-2-1896  Port Royal PA                                  married: Fay Fling

Died: 11-27-1974  Lock Haven PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 421

 

1919    license, recommended by Port Royal

1920    admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1921    ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference

1923    ordained elder, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Woolrich Cemetery, Woolrich PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 164

 

1919-20           student, West Virginia University in Morgantown WV

                             1919       Wana WV (ending 9/19)

                             1919-20  Morgantown WV Highland (9/19 – 9/20)

1920-23           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1922-23  East Blackstone RI

1923                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1923-24           Greencastle (beginning 9/1/23)

1924-26           Newton Hamilton

1926-29           Altoona Wesley

1929-32           Woolrich

1932-36           State College Wesley Foundation

1936-38           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1938-40           Bedford

1940-46           Lock Haven Trinity

1946-47           Sunbury St. John’s

1947-53           superintendent, Williamsport District

1953-55           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1955-61           Huntingdon First

1961                retired

 

Note: G. Cecil Weimer retired to Woolrich and wrote a regular religious column for the Lock Haven Express 1961-74, a collection of which is on file at the conference archives.

 

 

WEISE, CHARLES F.                      

 

Born: 12-2-1867  Wila PA                                         married: Annie E. Gable

Died: 11-2-1928  Ramey PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 200

 

1898    admitted on trial, recommended by Newport

1900    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 190

 

1898-01           Nelson’s Run

1901-04           James  Creek

1904-06           Alum Bank

1906-11           Ray’s  Hill

1911-17           Three Springs

1917-27           Port Royal

1927-28           Yeagertown

 

Note: Charles F. Weise is the father of John W. Weise.
 

 

WEISE, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 10-15-1903  James Creek PA                           married: Frances Benton

Died: 6-26-1971  Lindsay CA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 471

 

1923    license, recommended by Port Royal

1925    admitted on trial

1928    ordained deacon

1930    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lindsay Cemetery, Lindsay CA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 400

 

1925                Newville (Jan-Aug)

1925-28            student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1928-32           Ramey-Janesville

1932-35           Petersburg

1935-42           Freeland Parish

1942-66           chaplain, US Navy

1966                retired

                             1966-69  McFarland CA

 

Note: John W. Weise is the son of Charles F. Weise.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1394.

 

WELLER, FRANK HUGHES

 

Born: 1-15-1912                                                          married: Ruth Dianna Garrow [8/21/1938]

Died: 1997                                                                  obit: [b. 11-13-1914]

 

Interment: New Rosemont Cemetery, Espy PA

Obit:

 

1942-43           Rupert (ending 5/15/43)

1943-46           Lock Haven Parish (beginning 5/15/43)

1946-49           Port Matilda

1949-52           Mercersburg

 

Note: Frank H. Weller is a brother to Ned. E. Weller.  He served as a local pastor.

 

WELLER, NED EDMOND

 

Born: 5-4-1922  Bloomsburg PA                               married: Martha Kathryn Deiterick

Died: 1-4-2014  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 296

 

1950    license, recommended by Bloomsburg

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: New Rosemont Cemetery, Espy PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 267

 

1945-46           Beach Haven

1946-48           assistant, Millville

1950-54           student, Lycoming College

                             1950-54  Picture Rocks

1954-57           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1954-57  East Gloucester MA Wesley

1957-62           Williamsport High Street

1962-68           Lewisburg

1968-77            State College Wesley Foundation

1977-82           campus minister, State College United Campus Ministries

1982-83           United Ministry of Penn State University (ending 11/27/83)

1983-87           Berwick Bower Memorial (beginning 11/27/83)

1987                retired

                             1988-89  Middleburg (beginning 12/1/88)

                             1993        Dushore-Laporte (Jan-Jun)

                             1993-97  Susquehanna Valley

                             1999        interim chaplain, Lewisburg Riverwoods

                             2000-01  associate, Buffalo Valley

 

Note: Ned E. Weller is a brother to Frank H. Weller.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1397.
 

 

WELLIVER, HARRY RICHARD

 

Born: 2-19-1917  Port Royal PA                                married: Mary Jane Simpson

Died: 3-7-1993  Altoona PA                                      obit: [7/15/1920 – 4/20/2004]

 

1938    license, recommended by Mount Union First

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 480

 

1938-40           Allenport (ending 9/1/40)

1940-43           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1943-47           Coalport-Irona

1947-52           Altoona Broad Avenue

1952-63           Muncy

1963-68           Towanda First

1968-73           York Aldersgate

1973-79           superintendent, Altoona District

1979-85           Faxon-Kenmar

1985                retired

 

Note: H. Richard Welliver is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1397.  He may be a second-cousin-once-removed to Lester Allen Welliver, but the relationship has not been documented.

 

WELLIVER, LESTER ALLEN

 

Born: 2-2-1896  Stockton PA                                     married: Eleanor Francis Frieda Yeaworth

Died: 11-13-1973  Bethesda MD                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984. 393

 

1918    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1918    ordained deacon, Erie Conference                 

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown [Cumberland County] PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 433

 

1917-18           student, Dickinson College

                             1917-18      Hickorytown (beginning 9/17)

                             1918           assistant, Gettysburg (5/18 – 10/18)

1918-19           chaplain, US Army (beginning 11/18)

1919                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1919-22           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1919           assistant, New York City St. James (1/19 – 7/19)

                             1920-21      Greenvillage NJ

1922-24           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

                             1922-23      Altoona Lakemont

1924-28           Bellwood

1928-33           Lewisburg

1933-36           Trinity Clearfield

1936-42           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1942-43           Williamsport Pine Street

1943-55           president, Westminster Seminary

1955-61           superintendent, Williamsport District

1961-65           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1965                retired

 

Note: Lester A. Welliver is the father of L. Allyn Welliver, and of Kenneth B. Welliver of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1397.  Mrs. Welliver is the daughter of Irvin C. Yeakel (1852-1918) of the Evangelical Association (and Presbyterian Church) and Ann Elizabeth Shortess, daughter of Samuel I. Shortess (1834-1910) of the Evangelical Association.  That branch of the Yaekel family changed their name to Yeaworth following the death of Irvin in 1918.  Mrs. Welliver is the brother of Rev. Irvin S. Yeaworth (1899-1993: father of noted producer Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr) and an aunt of Rev. David Yeaworth, both of the Presbyterian Church.

 

WELLIVER, LESTER ALLYN                                           

 

Born: 12-29-1924  Bellwood PA                                married: Ruth Glick

Died: 4-16-2015  Lewsiburg PA                                obit:

 

1949    license, recommended by Westminster MD

1950    admitted on trial

1952    ordained deacon

1953    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown [Cumberland County] PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 278

 

1950-51           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1950-51  Marriottsville MD

1951-52           student, Yale University in New Haven CT

1952-55           Jersey Shore Epworth

1955-61           Mercersburg

1961-67           Lock Haven Trinity

1967-73           Milton Bethany

1973-80           Roaring Spring (ending 1/15/80)

1980-90           Hummelstown Grace (beginning 1/15/80)

1990                retired

 

Note: L. Allyn Welliver is the son of Lester A. Welliver.
 

 

WELLS, RAYMOND J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

?          license, Free Methodist Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958                admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church

1958-59           faculty, Dickinson College

1959-62           faculty, California Western University

1962                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1962-63           faculty, California Western University

1963-65           associate, La Mesa

1965-68           associate, San Diego Dt. Mark’s

1968-85           faculty, Seattle Pacific College

1985-93

1993                retired

 

Note: In 2003, Raymond J. Wells is listed as a retired member of the California-Pacific Conference.  He served as a pastor in California before coming to Pennsylvania.
 

 

WELSH, FRANKLIN MOORE

 

Born: 8-17-1859  Frederica DE                                  married: Minnie M. Hedding

Died: 6-1-1895  Trevorton PA                                   obit:

 

1886    license, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment: Frederica, Delaware

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 97

 

1887-88           Chester

1888-89           Easton

1889                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1889-90           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1890-93           Roaring Springs

1893-94           Tyrone Second [Columbia Avenue]

1894-95           York Princess Street

1895-95           Trevorton

1895                transfer to Wilmington Conference, but died before leaving

 

WELTMER, SAMUEL M.

 

Born: 1845                                                                  married: Margaret L. Waite

Died: 6-16-1913                                                          obit: [1866 – 1944]

 

1888    quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, New Buffalo PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 78]

 

1888-05           living in New Buffalo

1905-07           Duncannon circuit

1907-13           living in New Buffalo

 

Note:  Samuel M. Weltmer served as a local pastor.  An obituary appears in The News [Newport PA] for 6/19/1913.

 

WELTY, ELIAS

 

Born: 3-15-1821  Adams County PA                         married: Eliza Herriter

Died: 9-4-1890  Baltimore MD                                  obit: [4/19/1820 – 10/?/1906]

 

1842    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit:

 

1842-43           Boonsboro

1843-44           Westminster

1844-45           Rockville

1845-47           Clearfield

1847-48           Penn’s Valley

1848-50           Greencastle

1850-52           Hollidaysburg station

1852-54           Harper’s Ferry

1854-55           Leesburg

1855-57           Shepherdstown

1857-58           Rockingham

1858                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           Emmitsburg

1859-61           Liberty

1861-63           West Harford

1863-65           Harford Mission

1865-66           Great Falls

1866                withdrew to join M.E. South

 

1887                St. John’s Reformed in Sabillasville MD (6 weeks)

 

Note: Elias Welty was also a medical doctor.  His later ministerial service is reportedly with the “Reformed Church” in Virginia.

 

WERTZ, DAVID FREDERICK

 

Born: 10-5-1916  Lewistown PA                               married: Betty Jean Rowe

Died: 10-16-2013  Carlisle PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 357

 

1940    admitted on trial

1940    ordained deacon

1942    ordained elder

 

Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit:

 

1933-37           student, Dickinson College

                             1934-37  Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (ending 8/1937)

1937-40           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1938-40  New Bedford Allen Street

1940-43           Doylesburg

1943-46           Stewartstown

1946-49           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1949-53           Carlisle Allison Memorial

1953-55           superintendent, Williamsport District

1955-68           president, Lycoming College

1968-80           bishop, West Virginia Area

1980-84           bishop, Washington Area

1984                retired

 

Note: D. Frederick Wertz is the father of Robert G. Wertz.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1400.  Mrs. Wertz is a sister to Earl N. Rowe.

 

WERTZ, ROBERT GARY

 

Born: 3-11-1941  Harrisburg PA                                married: [Carlton R. Leedom]

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-69            student, Drew University in Madison NJ

1969                transfer to West Virginia Conference

 

Note: Robert G. Wertz is the son of D. Frederick Wertz.  In 2023 he was living in Brandon VT.

 

WEST, THOMAS MARSHALL

 

Born: 7-13-1840  Harford County MD                      married: Frances Amelia Lannay

Died: 5-30-1923  Fayetteville NC                              obit: Baltimore Conference 1936, 89

 

1863    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference 

1865    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1867    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1924, 538

 

1862-63           Newport circuit

1863-64           Shippensburg circuit

1864-65           Mifflin circuit

1865-66           Shippensburg

1866-67           Carlisle circuit

1867-68           East Harford

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Broadway

1869-71           Mount Washington

1871-72           Hancock circuit

1872-74           New Windsor circuit

1874-77           Montgomery circuit

1877-79           Harford circuit

1879-81           Patapsco circuit

1881-83           Ellicott City

1883-86           Bentley Springs circuit

1886-91           Hampstead circuit

1891-93           Baldwin Memorial

1893-97           Frostburg

1897-01           Piedmont WV

1901-03           Winchester VA

1903-08           Hereford circuit

1908-10           Kensington

1910                retired

 

Note: Thomas M. West is a brother to Henry Porter West (1838-1908) of the Baltimore Conference and William Montgomery West (1842-1918) of the West Ohio Conference.  His daughter married the son of Solomon German (1849-1934) of the Baltimore Conference. 


 

WEYANT, DAVID FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-29-1941  Bedord County PA                        married: Carol E. Grove

Died: 12-18-2016                                                        obit: [12/2/1942 – 12/19/2007]

 

1964    license

1973    admitted on trial, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1973    ordained deacon, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1976    ordained elder, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Monahans Cemetery, Monahans TX

Obit:

 

1964                Burnt Cabins (Jul-Aug)

1965-66           Clearville (beginning 1/5/65)

1966-67           Lewistown Lake Park (beginning 10/15/66)

1967-69           student, McMurray College in Abilene TX

1969-77           White Haven

1977                transfer to New Mexico Conference

                        Iraan RX

                        Kermit TX

                        Odessa TX Highland

                        Hobbs NM First

                        Monahans/Wickett TX

                        superintendent El Paso District

                        superintendent Odessa District

2005                retired

 

WHARTON, ANDREW PARKER

 

Born: 11-20-1850  Port Royal            PA                               married: Mary Virginia Graham

Died: 2-18-1941  Dubois PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 121

 

1874    admitted on trial

1876    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Morningside Cemetery, Dubois PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 216

 

1874-76           Montandon

1876-79           Ralston

1879-81           Lycoming circuit

1881-84           Muncy Valley

1884-87           Ralston

1887-89           New Washington

1889-94           Half Moon

1894-97           Montgomery

1897-01           Howard

1901-03           Martinsburg-Woodbury

1903-06           Ramey

1906-08           Morrisdale

1908-12           Houtzdale

1912-13           Hughesville

1913-15           Freeland

1915                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Wharton is the daughter of Cambridge Graham.

 

WHARTON, RICHARD  H.

 

Born: 1840  Orbisonia PA                                           married: Martha J. Seibert

Died: 5-9-1906  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 132

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 109

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Ray’s Hill

1871-72           Pleasantville

1872-73           McConnellsburg

1873-76           Lumber City

1876-77           Birmingham

1877-79           Williamsburg

1879-80           Washingtonville

1880-83           Conyngham

1883-85           Espy-Light Street

1885-86           Greencastle

1886-88           New Bloomfield

1888-93           on leave

1893-95           Woodland-Bradford

1895-97           Coalport

1897-00           Stewartstown

1900-04           Milesburg

1904-05           Hastings

1905-06           Altoona Fairview

 

WHITE, EDMUND

 

Born: 3-16-1837  Johnstown PA                                married: Anna J. McKay

Died: 12-29-1909  Philadelphia PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 133

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1870    ordained deacon

1872    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 119

 

1867-68           Emmittsburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           McConnellsburg

1869-70           Sinnemahoning

1870-71           Leidy

1871-73           Shippensburg

1873-74           Pleasantville

1874-75           McConnellstown

1875-77           Ray’s Hill

1877-79           Concord

1879-80           South Heberton

1880-82           Washingtonville

1882-83           Jamestown

1883-86           Pennfield

1886-88           Shirleysburg

1888-90           York Springs

1890-92           Liverpool

1892-93           Mifflinville

1893-96           Freeland

1896-97           Benton

1897-98           Karthaus

1898-00           Port Matilda

1900-02           Pleasant Gap

1902-03           Utahville

1903-04           New Millport

1904                retired

 

WHITE, WILLARD MELVIN

 

Born: 2-20-1906  Millington MD                               married: (never married)

Died: 12-22-1999  Middletown DE                           obit:

 

1928    license, Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

1930    admitted on trial, Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Smyrna DE

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 401

 

1930-32           student, Westminster Seminary in Westminster MD

1932-37           Cheasco Park – Graceland Park

1937-40           Cumberland circuit

1940                transfer to Baltimore Conference of Methodist Church

1940-42           Cumberland circuit

1942-43           Midland

1943-44           sabbatical

1944-49           Morgan

1949-51           Bedford circuit

1951-57           Shenandoah Junction

1957-62           Hyndman

1962                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           Hyndman

1964                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1964-70           Hyndman

1970                transfer by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-77           Hyndman

1977                retired
 

 

WHITE, WILLIAM JAMES I.

 

Born: 11-29-1936  Belfast Ireland                             married: Jean _____

Died:                                                                           obit: [d. 12/25/2016]

 

1955    license

1963    admitted on trial

1963    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-62           Roxbury 

1962-63           Lewisberry 

1963-65           student, Drew University in Madison NJ

1965                transfer to Newark Conference

 

Note: In 2003, W. James White is listed as a retired member of the Greater New Jersey Conference.

 

WHITELEY, ROLAND GUSS

 

Born: 3-24-1893                                                          married:

Died: 8-6-1918                                                            obit:

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 165   

 

1913-14           Cogan Valley

 

Note: Roland Guss Whiteley is the son of Robert T. Whiteley and the grandson of John Guss.  He was killed in action in WWI.
 

 

WHITELEY, ROBERT THOMAS

 

Born: 7-2-1860  Preston MD                                      married: Sarah [Sallie] Guss (1892)

Died: 2-20-1926  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 260

 

1888    admitted on trial, recommended by Jamestown charge

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 342

 

1887-88           Jamestown

1888-90           York Princess Street

1890-92           Excelsior

1892-94           Liberty Valley

1894-97           Picture Rocks

1897-99           Costello

1899-03           Montgomery

1903-04           Great Island

1904-06           Warrior’s Mark

1906-10           Port Royal

1910-14           Ralston

1914-17           Williamsburg

1917-19           Yeagertown

1919-22           Fairview

1922                retired

 

Note: Robert T. Whiteley is the father of Roland Guss Whiteley, Miriam F. Whiteley (1895-?, missionary in Argentina for 5 years), and Martha D. Whiteley (1896-1992, missionary in Algeria for 25 years).  Mrs. Whiteley is the daughter of John Guss.

 

WHITEMAN, JOHN A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1904-05           Concord

1905-06           Burnt Cabins

 

Note: John A. Whiteman served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown. 

 

WHITING, HENRY CLAY

 

Born: 3-27-1845  Speedsville NY                              married: Mary Louise Freeman

Died: 2-1-1901  Carlisle PA                                       obit: [6/16-1847 – 5/20/1910]

 

1877    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

 

Interment: Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 108

 

1867-68           principal, Prattsburg Academy in Prattsburg N.Y.

1868-70           principal, Union School in Schenectady NY

1870-74           faculty, Drew Seminary in Madison NJ

1874-78           vice-principal, Hackettstown Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown NJ

1878                vice principal, Pennington Seminary in Pennington NJ

1878-82           Dickinson College, Professor

1882                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1882-00           faculty, Dickinson College

1900                retired

 

WHITNEY, WALTER RICHARD

 

Born: 1-5-1840   Hopewell PA                                   married: Eliza Kegerreis

Died: 11-3-1922  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 196

 

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1863    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Trough Creek Valley Cemetery, Huntingdon County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 135

 

1863-64           Kishacoquillas

1864-65           Bedford circuit

1865-66           Concord

1866-68           Glen Hope

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           New Washington

1870-71           Rainsburg

1871-73           Shirleysburg

1873-76           Port Royal

1876-78           Manor Hill

1878-80           Penns Valley

1880-83           Grahamton

1883-86           Half Moon

1886-89           Altoona Simpson

1889-90           Montoursville

1890-93           Espy-Light Street

1893-94           Osceola

1894-96           Morrisdale

1896-99           Schellsburg

1899-01           Orbisonia

1901-03           on leave

1903                retired

 

WHITTAKER, G.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit: 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924-25           Allegheny circuit

 

Note: G.A. Whittaker served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WHITTAKER, V.P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1926-27           Phelps Chapel & Charlton     

 

Note: V.P. Whittaker served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WIBLE, LEWIS DERR

 

Born: 6-10-1889  McConnellsburg PA                      married: Mary B. Snyder

Died: 6-4-1944  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 351

 

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Thompsontown

1929    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 222

 

1918-24           Blain (ending 9/4/24)

1924-34           Thompsontown (beginning 9/4/24)

1934-41           Wesley, Asbury, Altoona

1941-44           Altoona Fairview

 

WICKES, WILLIAM

 

Born: 5-26-1789  Chestertown MD                            married: Sophia A. _____

Died: 4-7-1862  Bel Air MD                                      obit: [7/24/1789 – 5/25/1861]

 

 

1813    ordained elder, Protestant Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1864, 33

 

1814-17           Trinity [Old Swedes] Episcopal Church, Wilmington DE

…

1833                “transfer” to the Methodist Episcopal Church

1833-35           Hillsboro

1835-36           Rockingham

1836-38           Lewisburg VA station

1838-40           Hillsboro

1840-41           Jefferson

1841-43           Leesburg

1843-44           Frederick

1844-46           Georgetown DC

1846-47           Stafford

1857-58           Winchester

1848-50           West Harford

1850-52           York station

1852-54           Carlisle station

1854-56           on leave

1856-57           Lewistown

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-60           on leave

1860                retired

 

Note: William Wickes served churches in the Protestant Episcopal Church for 15 years, then was a school teacher and a local preacher before entering the Methodist Episcopal itinerancy.  His services in the Episcopal church included various parishes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Delaware, and the principal Episcopal congregation in Norfolk VA.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 483

 

WIESTNER, OLIVER SPURGEON

 

Born: 2-?-1886  Philadelphia PA                               married: Edith Kimball

Died: 1942                                                                  obit: [11/10/1884 -

 

1908    admitted on trial, recommended by Waller

1908    ordained deacon

 

Interment: North Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1906-08           Waller

1908-09           Wapwallopen

1909                discontinued

 

Note: Oliver S. Wiestner attended Hahnemann Medical College, class of 1926, in Philadelphia PA.  He appears to have become Baptist and/or independent in the Philadelphia area and is listed as serving in New Jersey in 1931.  This surname is also render as WEISTNER or WEISTENER.

 

WIGHTMAN, GALEN E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-64           Wolfsburg
1964-65           Munith MI charge (Munith, Fitchburg, Pleasant Lake)
1969                granted honorable location by the Michigan Conference
                             associated with Foundry UMC in Washiungton DC

 

Note: Galen Wightman served as a local pastor.  He started in Munith MI as a newly-wed.  He was originally from Michigan and likely served in PA while in seminary.  In 1999 he was living in Alexandria VA.  He may be a brother to Rev. Raymond David Wightman of the Michigan Conference,

 

WILCOX, THOMAS SEWELL

 

Born: 9-8-1848  Baltimore MD                                  married: Florence Brown Goodhand

Died: 5-29-1924  Williamsport PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 203

 

1873    admitted on trial

1875    ordained deacon

 

Interment: East Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 154

 

1873-75           Harrisburg Mt. Pleasant [Stevens Memorial]

1875-77           Liverpool

1877-78           Castle Fin

1878-81           York Duke Street

1881-83           Waynesboro

1883-92           Harrisburg Book Room

1892-93           Philipsburg

1893-96           Williamsport Pine Street

1896-99           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1899-03           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1903-09           superintendent, Williamsport District

1909-11           Bellefonte

1911-14           Waynesboro

1914-16           Mount Union

1916-18           New Cumberland

1918-24           educational secretary

1924                retired

 

WILDERMUTH, MILTON ROOSEVELT

 

Born: 3-22-1919  Pottsville PA                                  married: Naomi A. Baldinger

Died: 11/11/1995  Hershey PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 438

 

1956    license, recommended by Sunbury St. John’s

1959    ordained deacon

1961    ordained elder

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Sunbury PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 428

 

1956-61           Kulpmont (beginning 6/15/56)

1961-66           Espy-Lightstreet (ending 10/15/66)

1966-71           Lewistown Lake Park (beginning 10/15/66)

1971-84           disability leave

1984                retired

                             1991  interim pastor, Mifflinburg St. Paul’s
 

 

WILHELM, JOHN C.

 

Born: 2-13-1835  near Fannettsburg PA                    married: Catharine I. Elliot

Died: 11-10-1918  Philadelphia PA                           obit: [2/28/1836 – 7/26/1892]

 

1861    ordained in the Presbyterian Church

 

Interment: Lower Path Valley Presbyterian Cemetery, Fannettsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 154

 

1853-57           student, Lafayette College in Easton PA

1857-58           teacher, Bath NJ

1858-61           student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NY

1861-64           Presbyterian minister

1864-65           chaplain, 45th Colored Regiment

1865-83           Presbyterian minister in NJ and PA

1883-86           principal in Petersburg PA, attending Methodist Episcopal Church

1886                admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1886-88           Burnt Cabins

1888-90           Emporium circuit

1890-93           Westport

1893-98           Mill Hall

1898-99           Utahville

1899-02           Benton

1902-05           Jonestown

1905-07           Park Place-Delano

1907                retired

 

Note: John C. Wilhelm also taught school during the years 1865-83, teaching at Riddlesburg in the 1870’s.  The names of his parents, not given in his obituary, are Mr. Jacob Wilhelm Jr. (1807-1898) and Hannah Witherow Wilhelm (1809-1848).  The above dates for Mrs. Wilhelm conflict with the statement in his obituary: “His wife died while he was located at Petersburg.  He never remarried.”


 

WILHIDE, CHARLES ROSS

 

Born: 1-28-1895                                                          married: Blanche Elizabeth Ports

Died: 9-6-1990                                                            obit: Ohio Conference 1968, 388

                                                                                    married2: Evelyn R. Brown

Interment: Graceland Cemetery, Sidney OH             obit2: [8/13/1923 – 10/15/2007]

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1991,330

 

1918-19           student, Dickinson College

                             1918-19      Ortanna

                        transfer to West Ohio Conference

1948-52           Springfield High Street

 

Note: The surname for C. Ross Wilhide is also rendered WILLHIDE.

 

WILLARD, SAMUEL

 

Born: 6-30-1944  Jersey Shore PA                             married: Martha Fellers

Died: 9-20-1972  Washington DC                             obit:

 

1969    admitted on trial, recommended by Clearfield West Side

1969    ordained deacon

1972    ordained elder

 

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 380

 

1962-66           student, Lycoming College

1966-67           student, Hartley-Victoria Methodist College in Manchester England

1967-72           student, Wesley Seminary in Washington DC

                             1969-70      Mont Alto

 

Note: Samuel Willard is the son of Willis W. Willard Jr. and the grandson of Willis W. Willard Sr.
 

 

WILLARD, WILLIS WARDNER JR.

 

Born: 8-15-1909  Gatchelville PA                             married: Agnes Esbenshade

Died: 3-3-1982                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 460

 

1927    license, recommended by Camp Hill

1930    admitted on trial

1932    ordained deacon

1933    ordained elder

           

Interment: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 388

 

1926-30           student, Dickinson College

                             1927-29      Paxton, Philadelphia Conference

                             1929-30      Dauphin-Heckton, Philadelphia Conference

1930-31           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1931-36           Harrisburg Riverside

1936-38           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1938-43           Danville Trinity

1943-49           Jersey Shore First

1949-57           Milton

1957-62           Altoona First

1962-70            Clearfield Westside

1970                retired

                             1970-74      Mount Holly Springs Wesley

 

Note: Willis W. Willard Jr. is the son of Willis W. Willard Sr. and the father of Samuel Willard.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1426.  Mrs. Willard is the daughter of Willis C. Esbenshade (1873-1958) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

WILLARD, WILLIS WARDNER SR.

 

Born: 12-25-1881  Jonesboro IL                                married: Helen Cynthia Young

Died: 10-14-1967  Shiremanstown PA                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 271

 

1908    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 320

 

1905-06           Allegheny

1908-10           Gatchelville

1910-14           Riddlesburg

1914-16           Hopewell

1916-20           Warriors Mark

1920-23           Dudley-Robertsdale

1923-27           Woolrich

1927-32           Camp Hill

1932-36           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1936-41           Mount Union First

1941-46           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1946-47           Stewartstown

1947                retired

                             1947-54      McElhatten-Pine

 

WILLIAMMEE, JOHN T.

 

Born: 1873  Tioga County PA                                    married: Lulu Steele

Died: 3-1-1962  Wrightsville PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 254

 

1911    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 316

 

1910-11           Liberty Valley

1911-13           Cogan Valley

1913-14           Penfield

1914-19           Coalport-Irvona

1919-22           Mount Holly Springs – Boiling Springs

1922-27           Yeagertown – Highland

1927-32           Wrightsville

1932-33           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1933-36           Nescopeck

1936-42           Clearfield Emmanuel

1942-45           Centralia

1945                retired

                             1945-46      Centralia

 

 

WILLIAMS, ALVIN SAMUEL

 

Born: 10-10-1868  Oliphant PA                                 married: Emma Stadden

Died: 5-29-1936  Columbus OH                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 196

 

1896    admitted on trial

1898    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 254

 

1895-99           Williamsport Market Street

1899-05           Picture Rocks

1905-09           York Epworth

1909-12           Muncy

1912-18           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1918-22           Roaring Springs

1922-24           Chambersburg

1924-30           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1930-33           Williamsport Newberry

1933-36           superintendent, Harrisburg District

 

WILLIAMS, CLIFFORD COWHER

 

Born: 10-10-1910  Port Matilda PA                           married: Ruth Louise Beegle

Died: 3-15-1997  State College                                  obit: [4/20/1916 – 2/24/1997]

 

1938    license, recommended by Bedford

1943    admitted on trial

1943    ordained deacon

1945    ordained elder

 

Interment: Williams Cemetery, Martha Furnace PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 377]

 

1939-42           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1940           Beach Haven  (Jan-Jun)

                             1940-42      Laurelton 

1942-44           Alexandria     

1944-45           Altoona Jaggard

1945-51           Martinsburg

1951-54           Benton

1954-58           Coalport Parish

1958-60           Patton

1960-66           Milroy

1966-79           Snow Shoe

1979                retired

                             1979-80      Port Matilda Parish

 

Note: Clifford C. Williams is the son of Walter H. Williams and the nephew of Gordon A. Williams.

 

WILLIAMS, EDWARD MORGAN

 

Born: 9-26-1938  Hunlock Creek                               married: Nancy J. Knowles

Died: 7-1-1989  Everett                                              obit:

 

1966    license, recommended by Shickshinny

1971    ordained deacon

1973    admitted on trial

1976    ordained elder

 

Interment: cremated [ashes interred at Wesley Forest, Weikert PA]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 473

 

1965-68           Hunlock Creek (ending 8/15/68)

1968-72           Espy (beginning 8/15/68)

1972-80           Fairmount

1980-87           Sunbury Otterbein

1987-89           Thompsontown

1989                Everett (died before preaching first sermon)

 

WILLIAMS, ELMER LYNN.

 

Born: 1-29-1874  Martha PA                                      married: Kathryn Kerr

Died: 3-3-1947                                                            obit: Rock River Conference 1966, 234

 

Interment: Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago IL

Obit: Rock River Conference 1947, 159

 

1900-04           student, Dickinson College

                             1902-04      Millerstown

1904-05           student, Northwestern University School of Theology in Evanston IL

 

WILLIAMS, GORDON ARCH

 

Born: 8-26-1884  near Port Matilda PA                     married: Edith Williams

Died: 7-12-1962  Port Matilda PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 270

 

1910    admitted on trial

1911    ordained deacon

1913    ordained elder

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 335

 

1906-07           Blandburg

1907-11           student, Dickinson College

                             1907-09      Pine Grove Furnace

                             1909-11      Green Village

1911-17           Altoona Broad Avenue

1917-21           Osceola Mills

1918-19           chaplain, US Army

1921-22           Williamsport, Grace

1922-27           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1927-31           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1931-38           Altoona Juniata First

1938-41           New Cumberland

1941-43           Milton

1943-46           Emporium

1946-50           Clearfield West Side

1950-53           director, State College Wesley Foundation

1953                retired

                             1954-56      Bald Eagle Parish

                             1956-57      fund campaign director, Carlisle Allison Memorial

                             1959-60      Pleasant Gap

 

Note: Gordon A. Williams is a brother to Walter H. Williams and an uncle to Clifford C. Williams.

 

WILLIAMS, HARRY LEONARD

 

Born: 6-5-1902  Gilberton PA                                    married: 

Died: 7-15-1956  Williamsport PA                            obit: 

 

 

Interment: Barbours Cemetery, Barbours PA

Obit:

 

1928-31           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

                             1928-30      Phelps Chapel & Charlton

                             1930-31      Wallis Run

1931-33           Clearville

 

Note: Harry Leonard Williams served as a supply pastor.  The archives have records of him progressing through the first and second years of the Conference Course of Study, but he apparently was never formally admitted on trial.

 

WILLIAMS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1859-60           Welsh missionary, Bangor

1860                located

1863                withdrew

 

WILLIAMS, JOHN A.J.

 

Born: 5-9-1833                                                            married: Mary Jane Gillliland

Died: 8-6-1909                                                            obit: [3/11/1837 – 2/1/1926]

 

1881    ordained elder, recommended by Martinsburg circuit

 

Interment: Greenlawm Cemetery, Roaring Spring PA

Obit:

 

1882-84           Lloydsville

1897-99           Wagner

1899-01           Munson

1901-03           Allegheny

1903-04           Utahville

1904-05           Center & Sandy Ridge

 

Note: John A.J. Williams served as a local pastor.  After the Civil War, he moved from Wilmore PA to Roaring Spring, where he settled and worked as a renowned carpenter.  In 1865-66 he led a great revival that produced many converts and led to the erection, under his construction direction, of the church building in Roaring Spring.

 

WILLIAMS, JAMES CARL

 

Born: 2-16-1927  Roaring Springs PA                       married: Thelma F. Stockman

Died: 8-6-2010                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 272

 

1951    license, recommended by Roaring Spring

1952    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon         

1954    ordained elder

 

Interment: Riverview Memorial Gardens, Halifax PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 409

 

1950-55           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1952-53      associate, Waltham MA Immanuel

                             1953-55      Salisbury MA

1955-57           Mt. Holly Springs

1957-62           McConnellsburg

1962-67           Thompsontown

1967-74           Lock Haven Trinity

1974-81           associate director, Conference Council on Ministries

1981-87           superintendent, Wellsboro District

1987-92           Bellefonte Trinity

1992                retired

 

Note: J. Carl Williams is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1432.
 

 

WILLIAMS, JAMES LEE

 

Born: 12-18-1938  Danville PA                                 married: Nancy Jane Wensel

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 355

 

1958    license, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1961    admitted on trial

1961    ordained deacon

1964    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           student, Lycoming College

                             1958-60      Audenreid-Jeansville

1960-64            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1960-61      assistant, Irvington NJ Presbyterian Church

                             1961-64      Port Murray NJ Mt. Bethel

1964-67           Knoxville

1967-74           Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial

1974-89           Lemont Mt. Nittany

1989-99           Middletown Evangelical

1999                retired

 

Note: James L. Williams is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, 1966, 1432.

 

WILLIAMS, JAMES ROBERT

 

Born: 8-4-1926  Clearville PA                                   married:  June Naomi Weikel

Died: 4-15-1986  Berwick PA                                    obit: 

 

1962    license, recommended by Lewistown First

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Pleasant Gap PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 438

 

1962-66           Three Springs

1966-70           Jersey Shore Epworth

1970-72           Monroeton

1972-79           Port Matilda

1979-01           Genesee-Ulysses

1981-95           Shickshinny

1885-86           Columbia circuit

 

Note James R. Williams is the son of Oren R. Williams and the father of  James O. Williams, who appears on the United Methodist list.
 

 

WILLIAMS, JOHN MERRILL 

 

Born: 11-5-1881  Roaring Spring PA                         married: Carrie Mabel Withington

Died: 2-5-1954  Roaring Spring PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 252

 

1911    admitted on trial

1913    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Petersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 229

           

1911-13           Vira

1913-14           Mapleton-Mill Creek

1914-19           Petersburg

1919-23           Camp Hill

1923-30           Lock Haven Trinity

1930-36           York First

1936-42           superintendent, Williamsport District

1942-49           Harrisburg Trinity

1949                retired

                       

Note: J. Merrill Williams is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, page 399.  He is the grandson of local preacher J.A.J. Williams who was instrumental in starting the Methodist work in Roaring Spring.

 

WILLIAMS, OREN RAY

 

Born: 4-7-1899  Scotia PA                                         married: Helen C. Hoy

Died: 9-8-1976  Lewisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 449

 

1921    license, recommended by Pleasant Gap

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Everett Barndollar

1929    ordained deacon

1931    ordained elder

 

Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Pleasant Gap PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 265

 

1925-27           Clearville

1927-29           Burnt Cabins

1929-31           Ray’s Hill

1931-32           Elimsport

1932-33           Lock Haven circuit

1933-36           Fayetteville

1936-38           Muncy Valley

1938-41           Bloomingdale

1941-43           Orangeville

1943-46           Duboistown-Nisbet

1946-51           Robertsdale

1951-56           Barnesboro

1956-59           McVeytown

1959-63           Centralia

1963-66           Ulster

1966                retired

                             1966-69  Ulster

 

Note: Oren R. Williams is the father of James R. Williams.

 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT OWEN

 

Born: 3-9-1884  Skipton, Yorkshire England            married: Mabel Caroline Howard

Died: 6-18-1944  Van Wert OH                                 obit: Ohio Conference 1954, 974

 

1912    admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1914    ordained deacon

            ordained elder

 

Interment: Woodland Union Cemetery, Van Wert OH

Obit: Ohio Conference 1945, 539

 

1912-13           South Britain and Southbury 

1913-18           dean, East Greenwich Academy in East Greenwich CT

1918-19           dean, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1919                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1919-21           dean, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1921-22           faculty, Albion College

1922                transfer to Michigan Conference

1922-29           faculty, Albion College

1929-31           president, Ohio Northern University in Ada OH

1931                transfer to Ohio Conference

1931-43           president, Ohio Northern University in Ada OH

1943                retired

 

Note: Some sources give a birth date of 3/4/1884.

 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-53           Fairbrook

 

Note: Robert Williams served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WILLIAMS, WALTER HARPSTER 

 

Born: 4-29-1883  Port Matilda PA                             married: Katherine C. Cowher

Died: 8-26-1943  Hackensack NJ                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 368

 

1912    admitted on trial

1914    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Port Matilda Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 230

 

1912-14           Blandburg

1914-19           Penn’s Valley

1919-21           Benton

1921-26           Houtzdale

1926-28           Barnesboro

1928-33           Williamsport High Street

1933-38           Bedford

1938-43           Philipsburg

1943                retired

 

Note: Walter H. Williams is the father of Clifford C. Williams and Violet Williams Alexander, wife of Rev. G.P. Alexander of the Dutch Reformed Church.  He is a brother to Gordon A. Williams.

 

WILSON, CORWIN VICTOR

 

Born: 3-3-1841                                                            married: Martha Hughes

Died: 5-7-1913 NY                                                     obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1914, 100

 

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Elmlawn Cemetery, Tonawanda NY

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference 1913, 105

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mont Alto

1869-70           Markelsburg

1870-71           Saxton

1871-73           McVeytown

1873-74           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1874                transfer to Erie Conference

 

WILSON, GERALD LLOYD

 

Born: 4-4-1920  Drums PA                                        married:

Died: 9-24-2001  Benton WA                                    obit:

 

1943    admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference

1943    ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference

1944    ordained elder, New England Southern Conference

 

Interment:  Drums Community Cemetery, Drums PA

Obit: Iowa Conference 2002, ?

 

1936-40           student, Bucknell University

1940-43           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

1944                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1944-47           Three Springs

1947-49           Danville Trinity

1949-51           James Creek

1951                transfer to Iowa-Des Moines Conference

 

WILSON, HENRY              

 

Born: 9-8-1826  Lamar PA                                         married: Sarah Mersy Haslet

Died: 9-25-1881  Chatham’s Run PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1872, 58

                                                                                    married2: Catherine Hurl Funston

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference        obit2: 1916, 133

 

Interment: (error in obituary)  Jerseytown Cemetery (along with first wife), Jerseytown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 77

 

1852-53           Cumberland circuit

1853-54           Allegheny

1854-55           Woodbury

1855-56           Shirleysburg

1856-57           North Branch

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Shellsburg

1859-61           Philipsburg

1861-63           Newberry

1863-65           Bellefonte circuit

1865-66           Milesburg

1866-67           Penn’s Valley

1867-69           Watsontown

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-72           Washingtonville

1872-75           Bloomingdale

1875-78           Salladasburg

1878-80           Montgomery

1880-81           Great Island

 

Note: Henry Wilson is a brother to James T. Wilson and to Mary C. Wilson Showalter, wife of Wesley M. Showalter.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 485.    

 

WILSON, JAMES T.

 

Born: 10-22-1834  near Salona PA                            married: Sophia L. Bollinger

Died: 2-27-1890  Duncannon PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 194

 

1857    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Salona Cemetery, Salona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 82

 

1857-58           Manor Hill

1858-59           Newport

1859-60           Lewistown circuit

1860-61           Concord

1861-62           Mifflin circuit

1862-64           Liberty Valley

1864-65           Great Island

1865-66           chaplain, US Army

1866-67           Jersey Shore

1867-68           Mifflinburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mifflinburg

1869-72           Weatherly

1872-75           Salladasburg

1875-78           Riverside

1878-80           White Haven

1880-83           Williamsport Third Street

1883-86           Altoona Twenty-Fourth Street

1886-88           Duncannon

1888-90           Mount Holly Springs

 

Note: James T. Wilson is a brother to Henry Wilson and to Mary C. Wilson Showalter, wife of Wesley M. Showalter.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.

 

WILSON, LEWIS ELBERT

 

Born: 8-4-1890  Brooklyn NY                                   married: Marcella Fuehrer

Died: 3-10-1979                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 405

 

1909    license, recommended by Haskel TX of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

1915    admitted on trial

1915    ordained deacon

1920    ordained elder

 

Interment: Florida [some records say Hazleton PA, with his wife]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 341

 

1913-16           Jeddo, Lattimer & Milnesville (beginning 11/13)

1916-17           Lewisberry-Lisburn

1917-20           Mercersburg

1920-23           Duncannon

1923-25           Camp Hill

1925-29           Osceola Mills

1929-32           Bellwood

1932-35           Grace, York

1935-38           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1938-43           Lewisburg

1943-49           Williamsport Newberry

1949-56           Waynesboro

1956                retired

                              1956-57     Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Protestant Community Church

                              1957-58     Orlando FL St. Paul’s

                              1959-69     associate, Orlando FL College Park

 

Note: L. Elbert Wilson is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1445.

 

WILSON, REUBEN ELLIOT    

 

Born: 2-26-1828  Masseyburg PA                              married: Elizabeth Woods Clarke

Died: 10-19-1901  Newville PA                                 obit: [d. 8/12/1910]

 

1854    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 129

 

1854-55           Mifflin

1855-56           Newport

1856-57           York Springs

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Kishacoquillas

1858-60           Shippensburg

1860-62           White Haven

1862-64           Milton station

1864-67           Bloomsburg

1867-68           Huntingdon

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Huntingdon

1870-72           Philipsburg

1872-75           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1875-77           Tyrone

1877-78           Newberry

1878-80           Mifflintown

1880-82           Woodland

1882-85           Catawissa

1885-88           Sunbury

1888-89           Holidaysburg

1889-93           Altoona Simpson

1893-96           Espy-Light Street

1896-98           Freeland

1898-01           Gordon

1901                Newville-Pine Grove

 

Note: Reuben E. Wilson is a brother to Elsie Wilson McGarrah (wife of James H. McGarrah) and Emeline Wilson Kirby (wife of Edmund W. Kirby).  A biographical sketch is given in Armstong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.  An obituary also appears in 1/16/1902

New York Christian Advocate, page 119.

 

WILSON, RICHARD LEE

 

Born: 5-29-1929                                                          married: Annabel C. Worrell

Died: 3-17-1995                                                          obit: [1924 -

 

1957    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Titusville Methodist Church Cemetery, Titusville NJ

Obit: [Southern New Jersey Conference 1995, 234]

 

1957-59            at school

                             1958-59      Pleasant Plains NJ

1959                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1959-60           Pleasant Plains

1960-65           Titusville

1965-71           Point Pleasant Harvey Memorial

1971-75           Fair Haven

1975-85           Middletown

1985-89           Pennsville

1989-94           Oakhurst

1994                retired

 

WILSON, RICHARD LOWELL

 

Born: 1-4-1933  Cortland NY                                    married: Anne Elizabeth Wieboldt

Died: 1-2-2005  Andover MA                                                obit:

 

1952    quarterly conference license, Beaver Memorial

1955    admitted on trial

1955    ordained deacon

 

Interment: [cremated, location of ashes unknown]

Obit:

 

1952-54           student, Bucknell University

1954-57           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1957-58           at school

1958                transfer to New York East Conference

1965                transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference

1967                withdrew

 

WILSON, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 9-9-1826  Boonsboro MD                                married: Sophia Annie Stansbury

Died: 9-27-1903                                                          obit: [1838 – 1927]

 

1848    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1904, 66

 

1847-48           Lock Haven

1848-49           Northumberland

1849-50           Williamsport circuit

1850-51           Calvert

1851-52           Summerfield

1852-53           Hollidaysburg station

1853-54           Alexandria

1854-55           South Baltimore

1855-57           Baltimore Fayette Street

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Altoona

1859-60           East Baltimore

1860-62           Baltimore Harford Avenue

1862-64           Baltimore Emory

1864-67           Baltimore High Street

1867                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1867-69           Baltimore Wesley Chapel

1869-72           Washington DC McKendree

1872-73           Washington DC Foundry

1873-01           on leave

1901                retired

 

Note: After leaving the active itinerancy, Samuel A. Wilson worked for the Postal Service and the Baltimore Herald.

WILSON, SAMUEL DYSON

 

Born: 6-9-1857  Huntingdon County PA                   married: Carrie Belle Stephenson

Died: 9-1-1912  Mapleton PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 165

 

1884    admitted on trial, recommended by Pine Creek

1885    ordained elder, recommended by Pine Creek

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 134

 

1883-84           Pine Creek

1884-86           Waterville

1886-91           Fairview

1891-94           Williamsport Fourth Street

1894-96           Austin-Costello

1896-00           Bellwood

1900-01           Catawissa

1902-06           Harrisburg Thirteenth Street

1906-11           Philipsburg

1911-12           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1912                McVeytown

 

Note: Mrs. Wilson’s maiden name is also rendered Stevenson.

 

WILSON, W. SCOTT

 

Born: 1853 [or 1854?]                                                married:

Died: 1-15-1905  Altoona PA                                    obit:

 

1873    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Petersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1/19/1905 Pennsylvania Methodist, page 8

 

1872-73           Grahamton

1873-74           Williamsport circuit

1874-75           Sinnemahoning

1875-76           Loyalsock

1876-77           Curtin-Pleasant Gap

1877-80           Clearfield circuit

1880-82           Osceola-Houtzdale

1882-83           Osceola

1883                located at own request

 

Note: The obituary for W. Scott Wilson from the Pennsylvania Methodist is on file in the conference archives.


 

WILSON, WILLIAM TALBOT

 

Born: 3-14-1797  Calvert MD                                                married: Sarah L. Owens

Died: 9-1-1869  Calvert MD                                      obit: [5/13/1801 – 1/27/1841]

 

1831    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1839    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

1852    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1870, 40

 

1851-52           Hereford circuit

1852-53           Shrewsbury

1853-54           Great Falls

1854-55           missionary to colored people, Cumberland station

1855-56           Severn

1856-57           missionary to colored people, Cumberland station

1857                charter member of the East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Wrightsville

1858-60           Frederick City Asbury

1860-61           on leave

1861                retired

1868                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: William T. Wilson served as a local pastor for 24 years before entering the itinerancy in 1852.

 

 

WINKELBLECH, JOHN FRANCIS

 

Born: 6-8-1890  Lewisburg PA                                  married: Helen Margaret Smith

Died: 7-14-1973  Kissimmee FL                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 427

 

1918    ordained, United Lutheran Church: recommended by West Milton St. John’s

 

Interment: Osceola Memory Gardens, Kissimmee FL

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 434

 

1918-29           United Lutheran Church

                        Philadelphia

                        Hartleton and White Deer Old Stone Church

                        Baltimore

                        Altoona

1929                admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1929-31           Port Matilda (ending 1/15/31)

1931-35           Howard (beginning 1/15/31)

1935-37           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1937-38           Avis

1938-40           Hughesville

1940-42           Robertsdale

1942-43           Ralston

1943-45           Mercersburg

1945-47           Berwick Calvary

1947-50           Woodland Parish

1950-52           Freeland Parish

1952-54           Kulpmont

1954-56           Manor Hill (ending 10/1/56)

1956                retired

                             1965  Anthony FL (6 months)

 

WINSTEAD, DONALD LEROY

 

Born: 9-29-1927  Huntingdon PA                              married: Joanne Yvonne Henry

Died: 1-6-2017  Altoona PA                                      obit: Susquehann Conference 2021, 371

 

1951    license, recommended by Lewistown First

1954    admitted on trial

1954    ordained deacon

1957    ordained elder

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 296

 

1953-56            student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1953-54      assistant, Roselle Park NJ Community Church

1956-57           associate, York First

1957-59           New Bloomfield

1959-61           Altoona Broad Avenue

1961-62           Dillsburg

1962-66           Duncansville

1966-71            Canton

1971-73           Jersey Shore First

1973-79           Danville St. Paul’s

1979-81           Windsor Grace

                             1979-81      Freysville Zion

1981-84           Williamsport Calvary-Grace Parish

1984-90           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1990                retired

 

Note: Donald L. Winstead is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1451.

 

 

WINTER, DALE EDWARD

 

Born: 4-7-1943  Glen Gardner NJ                              married: Janet E. Morgan

Died: 5-11-1992  Ithaca NY                                       obit:

 

1967    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference: recommended by Hampton NJ

1967    ordained deacon, Northern New York Conference

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment: Musconetcong Vallet Cemetery, Hampton NJ

Obit: North Central New York Conference 1992, 371

 

1965-68           student, Crozier Theological Seminary in Chester PA

1968-69           ?

1969                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1969-73           Penn State United Campus Ministry in State College

1973-80           chaplain, Ithaca College in Ithaca NY

1980                transfer to Central New York Conference

1980-84           chaplain, Ithaca College

1984-90           Jacksonville

1990-92           Coordinator, Onondaga NY Pastoral Counseling Center

 

WISE, JACOB GEORGE

 

Born: 1-15-1866  Armstrong County PA                   married: Annie Hinderliter

Died: 1926  Rouzerville PA                                       obit: [1865 –

 

1922    license

 

Interment: Thompsontown PA

Obit: [1926, 255]

 

1922-24           Thompsontown (ending 9/2/24)

1924-26           Rouzerville (beginning 9/4/24 – died during 2nd year)

 

Note:  Jacob G. Wise served as a local pastor.

 

WITCHEY, HARRY WESLEY

 

Born: 2-19-1898  Osceola Mills PA                           married: Mildred Florence Fickes

Died: 4-15-1960  Osceola Mills PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference  1975, 168

 

1922  admitted on trial

 

Interment: Osceola Mills Cemetery, Osceola Mills PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 249

 

1919-23           student, Dickinson College

                             1922-23      Boiling Springs

1923-26            student, Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston IL

                             1925           Harmon, Rock River Conference (Jun-Sep)

1926-28           Cherry Tree-Emeigh

1928-29           Frankstown-Canoe Creek

1929-31           Birmingham

1931-33           Grampian-Lumber City

1933-36           Grampian-Mahaffey

1936-41           Austin

1941-45           North Bend-Farwell

1945-47           Petersburg-Alexandria

1947-48           Petersburg

1948-53           Trevorton-Irish Valley

1953-56           Williamsport Grace

1956-59           Montgomery

1959                retired

 

 

WITMAN, EDWIN HENRY

 

Born: 3-17-1855  Bloomsburg PA                             married: Lillian Edgett

Died: 10-22-1918  Marion PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 185

 

1882    admitted on trial, recommended by Wilkes Barre First

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 145

 

1882-83           Benton circuit

1883-84           West Shamokin

1884-86           Duboistown

1886-89           Osceola Mills

1889-90           Ramey

1890-93           West Clearfield

1893-98           Roaring Spring

1898-00           Patton

1900-02           Ashland

1902-04           Patton

1904-06           Austin

1906-09           Jersey Shore First

1909-11           Bellwood

1911-13           Curwensville

1913-18           Danville St. Paul’s

1918                retired

 

Note: Edwin H. Witman (1855) is the uncle of Edwin H. Witman (1895) and Harold E. Witman.  His daughter Eleanor Ewing Witman is the wife of James McKendree Reiley and the mother of William Witman Reiley. 

 

 

WITMAN, EDWIN HENRY

 

Born: 3-19-1895  Berwick PA                                    married: Mary Francis Grose

Died: 11-15-1971                                                        obit: California-Pacific 1991, H19

 

1919    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica CA

Obit: Southern California – Arizona 1971, 302

 

1919-20           Fayetteville-Greencastle

1920-24            student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                             1922-24       North Easton MA Central, New England Southern Conference

1924-25           Harrisburg Riverside

1925-30           State College Wesley Foundation

1930-32           Altoona Fairview

1932-35           Everett

1935-37           Curwensville

1937-39           York Duke Street

1939-43           Williamsport Newberry

1943-46           Sunbury St. John’s

1946-50           New Cumberland

1950                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

 

Note: Edwin H. Witman (1895) is the brother of Harold E. Witman and a nephew of Edwin Henry Witman (1855).  He is the grandfather of Cynthia Witman (b. 1953, of the Minnesota Conference) and Jan Witman (b. 1958, of the Yellowstone Conference).  Mrs. Witman is the daughter of George Richmond Grose (1869-1953, president of DePauw and bishop) of the North Indiana Conference and a sister to Wilbur D. Grose (1901-1991) of the Minnesota Conference.  Edwin H. Witman is part of extended Ewing-Bowman-Reiley-Witman family that produced dozens of Methodist pastors over several generations.  A detailed listing of this family may be found in the Ewing files at the conference archives.
 

 

WITMAN, HAROLD EWING   

 

Born: 2-6-1891  Berwick PA                                      married: (never married)

Died: 8-3-1917  Chicago IL                                       obit:

 

1916  admitted on trial

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 143

 

1913-16           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1915-16      Lake Hopatcong, Newark Conference

1916-17           Home & Foreign Mission Board, New York City

 

Note: Harold E. Witman is the brother of Edwin H. Witman (1895).  An obituary also appears in the 8/13/1917 Christian Advocate, page 881.  He is part of extended Ewing-Bowman-Reiley-Witman family that produced dozens of Methodist pastors over several generations.  A detailed listing of this family may be found in the Ewing files at the conference archives.

 

 

WOLF, DAVID

 

Born: 8-19-1821  Bedford County PA                       married: Catherine Schnably (1/16/1851)

Died: 4-9-1875  Mt. Smith PA                                   obit: [1/17/1828 – 6/17/1888]

 

1843    license, recommended by Bedford circuit

1845    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1847    ordained deacon

1850    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mount Smith, Bedford County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 57

 

1845-46           Concord circuit

1846-47           Deerfield

1847-48           Floyd circuit

1848-49           Indian Creek

1849                retired

                             1857  charter member of East Baltimore Conference

                             1868  charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: A biographical sketch for David Wolf is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 489.  The town of Wolfsburg is named for Rev. David Wolf, who owned the land in the immediate vicinity when the Bedford & Bridgeport railroad was built and the town developed.  

 

WOLFGANG, RALPH THOMAS

 

Born: 9-9-1895  Tyrone PA                                        married: Frances Louise Guinn [1922]

Died:12-6-1988  Merchantville NJ                             obit: [11/28/1892 – 5/13/1979]

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit:

 

Note:  Ralph T. Wolfgang has a file with the Board of Ordained Ministry for the first and second years of the Conference Course of Study.  The file is dated 6/16/1932 and he is listed as being from Tyrone.  There is no mention of him in the conference journals, and he went on be a pastor in the Episcopal Church – serving in Juniata in the 1940’s and becoming the official historian of the area’s diocese.  A graduate of Tyrone High School and Juniata College, he taught history at Tyrone High School 1918-30 before considering the ordained ministry.  He is the author of “A Short History of Tyrone Borough (1850-1950).”

 

WOMER, GEORGE SYLVESTER

 

Born: 11-9-1858  Osceola Mills PA                           married: Angeline Freeman Blake

Died: 8-4-1938  Roaring Spring PA                           Obit: Central PA Conference 1924, 150

                                                                                    married2: Ruth Stroup

1896    admitted on trial                                              obit2:

 

Interment: Kane Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 219

 

1896-98           Catawissa circuit

1898-00           Nescopeck

1900-02           Dillsburg-Wellsville

1902-04           Ogden Mission, Utah

1904-09           Hollidaysburg

1909-11           Danville St. Paul’s

1911-14           Mount Union

1914-19           Huntingdon First

1919-20           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1920-25           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1925-27           Harrisburg Epworth

1927-31           Roaring Spring

1931-38           Philipsburg

1938                retired

 

WONNER, EMANUEL WALTERSDORF

 

Born: 5-11-1849  York County PA.                           married: Anna Amelia McCurdy

Died: 6-8-1899  York Springs PA                              obit: [died 1926]

 

1875    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Rock Chapel Cemetery, Adams County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 113

 

1874-76           York Springs

1876-77           Cove (Fulton County)

1877-79           Fort Louden

1880-82           Pleasant Gap

1882-85           Clearfield circuit

1885-87           Lumber City

1887-90           Great Island

1890-94           Wallaceton

1894-97           Glen Hope

1897-99           York Springs

 

WOOD, GERALD HEWITT JR

 

Born: 5-17-1927  Oil City PA                                    married: Jacqueline Marie Crum

Died: 12-17-1988                                                        obit: [11/16/1923 – 4/22/1966]

                                                                                    married2: Dorine Myers

1968     license,                                                           obit2: Susquehanna Conference 1028, 283

            recommended by Dundalk of the Baltimore Conference

1975    ordained deacon

1975    admitted as associate member

1977    admitted on trial [toward full membership]

1980    ordained elder

 

Interment: Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 481

 

1968-76           Knoxville

1976-79           York Haven

1979-83           Milroy

1983-85           Altoona Trinity

1985-88           Duncannon

 

 

WOOD, ISAAC L.

 

Born: 10-21-1861                                                        married:

Died: 3-7-1940                                                            obit:

 

?          New York East Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: North-East Ohio Conference 1940, 133

 

1905                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1905-10           Harrisburg Grace

1910                transfer to New Jersey Conference

 

WOOD, J.D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Mill Hall

 

Note: J.D. Wood served as a local pastor.

 

WOOD, JOHN ALLEN JR.

 

Born: 1-1-1854  Osborn Hollow NY                          married: Ida Lewis Perry (6/27/1878)

Died: 2-5-1935  Los Angeles County CA                  obit: Southern California Conference 1925, 129

 

1878    admitted on trial

1880    ordained deacon

1882    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena CA

Obit: Latin America Mission Conference 1935, 46

 

1878-79           Martinsburg

1879-80           Pleasant Gap

1880-83           Lewisberry

1883-84           Helfenstein-Gordon

1884-86           Gordon

1886-90           Williamsport Third Street.

1890-92           Lock Haven

1892-96           Everett

1896-00           Curwensville

1900-03           Tyrone First

1903-06           Bellefonte

1906                transfer to Southern California Conference

1906-07           Oceanside

1907-12           Los Angeles Pico Heights

1912-15           Los Angeles South Main Street

1915-19           Los Angeles Vernon Avenue

1919                retired

 

Note: John A. Wood Jr. is the son of John A. Wood Sr. (1828-1905) of the Wyoming Conference and of note in the holiness/campmeeting movement.  Some sources indicate that John A. Wood may have had a previous wife named Catherine Uptegraff.  The birthdate for Mrs. Wood, not given in her conference obituary, is 7/1/1855.

 

WOOD, JOSEPH

 

Born: 1-28-1914  MI                                                  married: Bertha _____

Died: 6-28-1987  Cassopolis MI                                obit: [10/6/1915 – 3/4/2016]

 

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Leslie MI

Obit: West Michigan Conference 1988, 232

 

1955-57           Littlestown

1957                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1957-59           Mount Pleasant

1959                transfer to Michigan Conference

1959-61           Leslie

                        Cassopolis

 

WOOD, WILLIAM N.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-53           Clearfield Parish (beginning 9/1/1950)

 

Note: William N. Wood served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WOODCOCK, EVERETT LEROY

 

Born: 8-29-1918  Meadville PA                                 married: Vera M. Decker [1944]

Died: 9-29-2017  Asheville NC                                 obit: [12/28/1919 – 10/29/2014]

 

1943    admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1943    ordained deacon, Erie Conference

1944    ordained elder, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Sideling Hill Christian Church Cemetery, Sipes Mill PA

Obit:

 

1941-44           student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD

                             1941-44      Harrisonville, Central Pennsylvania Conference (ending 9/1/44)

1944-49           missionary, Belgian Congo Africa (beginning 9/1/44)

1949                transfer to Southern Congo Conference

1949-86           missionary, Belgian Congo

1986                retired

 

Note: Everett L. Woodcock received the 1989 Distinguished Service Award from Muskingum, from which he graduated in 1941.  He wrote an article on the Congo in the May 2005 LINK, page 5.  Mrs. Woodcock was a member of the Bedford Chapel Methodist Church (now the Sideling Hill Christian Church) which was part of the Harrisonville charge served by Rev. Woodcock until it was closed in 1956.  She taught school in Needmore before marrying Everett in 1944 and serving with him as a missionary in Africa until 1986.

 

WOODCOCK, JAY RALPH

 

Born: 11-22-1876  Williamsport PA                          married: Mabel Thompson [6/10/1908]

Died: 5-3-1962                                                            obit: [6/4/1878 – 6/25/1966]

 

1902    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Spring Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, State College PA

Obit:

 

1902-04           Loyalsock

1904                discontinued at own request

                        became a Presbyterian minister

                        Syracuse East Genesee Street

 

Note: Jay R. Woodcock is the son of John A. Woodcock.  Some biographical information on Jay R. Woodcock appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 30.  He apparently later went by the name Rev. John Ralph Woodcock.

 

WOODCOCK, JOHN ALEXANDER

 

Born: 6-13-1841  Bedford County PA           married: Anna C. Forbes

Died: 12-4-1895  Bellefonte PA                     obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 201

 

1866    license, recommended by Fort Littleton circuit

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 100

 

1867-68           Woodbury

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Manor Hill

1869-70           Logan Valley

1870-71           Greencastle

1871-74           Mifflinburg

1874-76           Watsontown

1876-78           Williamsport Price Chapel

1878-80           Osceola

1880-83           Milesburg-Unionville

1883-84           Mechanicsburg

1884                on leave for health reasons

 

Note: John A. Woodcock is the father of Jay R. Woodcock.

 

WORKMAN, EDGAR JOHN

 

Born: 1-9-1911  Orbisonia PA                                   married:

Died: 1-18-1998  Mount Union PA                            obit:

 

Interment: IOOF Memorial Cemetery, Rockhill Furnace PA

Obit: [in biographical files]

 

1956-58           New Millport (beginning 6/1/1956)

1964-73           accountant, Motel 22 near Mapleton Depot

                        owner, Workman’s Economy Store in Rockhill Furnace

 

Note: Edgar J. Workman served as a local pastor.  He satisfactorily completed the studies for a license to preach in 1955 through The Methodist Correspondence School at Emory University in Atlanta GA.  He was a member and long-time Sunday School teacher in the Orbisonia church.

 

WORLEY, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 8-20-1852  Carbon County PA                         married: Tacy A. Frants

Died: 1-23-1914  Mill Hall PA                                   obit: Central PA Conference 1927, 534

 

1876    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1878    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1880    ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Buena Vista Cemetery, Brodheadsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 126

 

1876-77           Sterling circuit

1877-78           Pleasant Valley circuit

1878-79           Bath and Ackermantown

1879-80           Wayne

1880-83           Mount Carmel

1883-86           Wilkes Barre

1886-88           Brownstown

1888-89           ?

1889-91           Kutztown

1891                identifies with faction that becomes United Evangelical Church

1891-93           ?

1893-94           Bethlehem mission                 

1894-95           Lititz

1895                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, page 51

1895                Beach Lake

1895                withdrew, page 64

1895                “returned” to United Evangelical Church

1895-98           Weissport (beginning in mid-year)

1898                granted his credentials, page 35

1898                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, page 59

1898-00           Dundaff

1900                withdrew, pages 22 & 74

1900                “returned” to United Evangelical Church

1900-02           Slatington

1902-03           ?

1903-04           Weissport

1904-05           Hazleton

1905                withdrew, page 23

1905                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1905-12           Mifflinville

1912                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1912-13           Lititz

1913                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1913-14           Mill Hall

 

Note: This surname is also rendered WOEHRLE, and so it appears in the Wyoming Conference on-line files – and on their tombstones.  Some biographical information on John W. Worley appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 57. 

 

 

WORTHINGTON, HARRIET “HATTIE”

 

Born: 3-21-1865  Lycoming County PA                                married: [single]

Died: 11-28-1929  Washington DC                                       obit:

 

1895    probation
1897    commissioned, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1895-96           Lucy Webb Hayes Training School, Washington DC
1896-12           Washngton DC Rosedale, Baltimore Conference
1912-15           Kingpo China
1915-17           Shanghai China

1917-18           on leave (sickness)
1918-29           Washington DC Rosedale, Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Hattie Worthington was a deaconess whose home conference was considered Central Pennsylvania.

 

WURSTER, STEPHEN HARRY

 

Born: 2-19-1941  Williamsport PA                            married: Jean Elizabeth Miller

Died: 8-28-1992                                                          obit:

 

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1967    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-67           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1967-71           at school

1971-77           faculty, Ball State University

1977                honorable location

                        …

1981-92           president, Catawba College

 

WYMAN, GARDINER  EVERETT

 

Born: 10-20-1926  Wilton WI                                                married:

Died: 12-14-2017                                                        obit:

 

1953    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

 

Interment:

Obit: Northern Illinois Conference 2018, ?

 

1951-52           Vira (beginning 10/51)

1954-56           Kulpmont

1956                transfer to Rock River Conference

                        Orangeville-Cedarville

                        Greenwood-Ringwood

                        Chicago Grove

                        Lombard First

                        Fox River Grove

                        Brookville-Elkhorn

                        Harvey Academy

                        Alsip Bethel-Christ

                        Oak Park Faith

                        Cornerstone

                        Malta

                        Malden-Wyonet

                        Chicago Emmaus

                        Chicago McKinley Park

 

 

 

WYNN, RAYMOND A.

 

Born: Sunbury PA                                                      married: Vera Kline

Died: 1984                                                                  obit: [d. 5/28/1993

 

1956    license

1960    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58           Picture Rocks

1958-63           Jerseytown

1963-70           Elysburg

1970                “transfer” by boundary change to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Raymond A. Wynn served as a local pastor.  He was a Member of the Catawissa Avenue Methodist Church in Sunbury and worked for the Broscious Lumber Company for 22 years before entering the ministry.  He was still performing ministerial duties as late as 1980.

 

 

YAPLE, FRED WAYNE

 

Born: 3-17-1924  Stillwater PA                                 married: Darlene Blanche Kerlin

Died: 9-30-1997                                                          obit: [7/12/1930 – 12/4/2008]

 

1947    license, Kentucky Conference

1948    license, recommended by New Columbus

1953    admitted on trial

1953    ordained deacon

1955    ordained elder

 

Interment: Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 450

 

1947-48           student, Union College in Barbourville Kentucky

                             1947-48      Barbourville KY

1948-50           student, Juniata College

                             1948-50      Allenport & Singers Gap

1950-52           Benezette 

1952-54           North Bend

1954-56           Picture Rocks

1956-59           Weatherly

1959-64           Barnesboro-Spangler

1964-66           Petersburg

1966-69           Warrior’s Mark (ending 3/1/69)

1969-75           Williamsport Grace (beginning 3/1/69)

1975-78           Montgomery

1978-79           disability leave

1979-83           leave of absence

1983                retired

                             1985-86      associate, Picture Rocks

 

Note: F. Wayne Yaple is the preferred name.

 

YAPLE, MALCOLM LEE

 

Born: 3-3-1929   Erie County PA                               married: Ruth Barnes

Died: 11-14-2018                                                        obit: [8/23/1931 – 10/4/2009]

 

1952    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Nimmo United Methodist Church Cemetery, Virginia Beach VA

Obituary:

 

1952-54           at school

1954                transfer to Virginia Conference

…

1993                retired

 

 

YARLETT, FRANCIS PAUL

 

Born: 2-1-1921  Carlisle PA                                       married: Clara Viola Garman

Died: 4-2-1999                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 378

 

1957    license, recommended by Barnitz

1961    ordained deacon

1963    ordained elder

1971    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 444

 

1958-62           Doylesburg

1962-67           Hustontown

1967-74           East Waterford

1974-76           Reedsville

1976-81           Mackeyville

1981-83           Port Royal

1983-88           disability leave

1988                retired

                             1992-95      Blain – New Germantown

 

 

YATES, RODNEY THOMAS

 

Born: 8-30-1927  Concord NC                                   married: Janie Lataine Bartlett (1951)

Died: 8-1-2010  Idaho Falls ID                                  obit: [8/12/1929 – 8/27/2012]

 

1955    admitted on trial, Western North Carolina Conference

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Concord NC

Obit:

 

1955-56           Millers Creek

1956-57           Robertsdale, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1957                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1957-58           Littlestown

1958                transfer to Western North Carolina Conference

1958-59           Unionville

1959                discontinued

                        teaching career

                        1966  moves to Iowa

 

Note: After Rodney T. Yates and his wife divorced in 1978, Mrs. Yates married a Mr. Gil Glandorf.  Limited information, mostly on Janie Yates-Glandorf, is in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

 

YOCUM, ANDREW DUNCAN

 

Born: 2-26-1838  York PA                                         married: Laura M. Gere

Died: 6-14-1889  Altoona PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 125

 

1866    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 73

 

1866-67           Newport

1867-68           Mifflin circuit

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Great Island

1869-71           McVeytown

1871-72           Chambersburg Second

1872-75           Clearfield

1875-78           Milton

1878-80           Bellefonte

1880-82           Carlisle

1882-84           Altoona First

1884-87           Everett

1887-89           Carlisle

1889-89           Altoona Eighth Avenue

 

Note:  There is also an unlabeled obituary for A. Duncan Yocum in Dr. Pardoe’s scrapbook #2.

 

 

YOCUM, EZRA HABURST

 

Born: 9-20-1843  near Catawissa PA                         married: Laura Marian Caslow

Died: 3-3-1929  Northumberland PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 147

 

1869    admitted on trial

1871    ordained deacon

           

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 186

 

1869-70           Muhlenburg

1870-71           Shickshinny

1871-74           Hazleton

1874-77           Newberry

1877-79           Tyrone

1879-81           Bloomsburg

1881-85           superintendent, Williamsport District

1885-88           Berwick

1888-91           Harrisburg Grace

1891-92           Danville St. Paul’s

1892-94           Carlisle

1894-98           superintendent, Danville District

1898-03           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1903-11           Lewistown

1911-19           Bellefonte

1919-23           Woolrich

1923                retired

 

Note: Ezra H. Yocum is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.  An obituary also appears in the 3/28/1929 Christian Advocate, page 403.

 

YODER, DONALD HERBERT

 

Born: 8-27-1921  Altoona PA                                    married: [single]

Died: 8-11-2015  Devon PA                                       obit:

 

1945    license, Rock River Conference

1947    admitted on trial

1947    ordained deacon

 

Interment: [cremated, ashes scattered in Mahantongo, Schuylkill County PA]

Obit:

 

1947-49           instructor, Union Theological Seminary in New York City

1949                honorably dismissed to unite with the Evangelical and Reformed Church

 

Note: Donald H. Yoder is one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Folklife Society (1949) and the author of numerous books and articles on the Pennsylvania Germans, especially their religious music.  He taught for many years at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  An obituary for Donald H. Yoder appears on the Find-A-Grave website and in the winter 2017 Journal of American Folklore, v. 130 no. 515, pages 109-113.

 

YOUNG, HARVEY R.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Daisy Maud Lewis [1906]

Died:                                                                           obit: [b. 10/?/1886]

 

1907a   admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1907-08           West Almond 

1908-09           ?         

1909-10b         Claymont DE, Wilmington Conference

1910-11           ?

                        “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1911-12           Park Place & Delano

1912-13           Wapwallopen

1913-14           Jonestown

 

a The Christian Advocate for 11/21/1907, page 1900, reports him as being admitted on probation, but the 1907 Genesee Conference Journal and the 1907 General Minutes do not support that.  The 1907 Genesee Conference Journal, page 29, lists Harvey R. Young as a licensed local pastor.

b As reported in the Wilmington DE Evening Journal for 10/11/1909, page 10.

 

Note: All of the above service of Harvey R. Young was as a local pastor.  He has ties to Frankfort NY and Lehighton PA and appears to have been a [local?] pastor prior to his 1906 marriage.  This is believed to be the Harvey R. Young (11/2/1882 – 10/3/1962) buried in the Lehighton Cemetery and the spouse at the time of his death of a Mossine (nee King) Young (possibly 12/23/1896 – 9/1/1986).

 

 

YOUNG, J. B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1945-46           Muncy Valley

1946-49           living in RD Benton

1949                returned to quarterly conference status in the Muncy Valley congregation

 

Note: J.B. Young served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown, although he is listed in the 1920 journal, page 10, as a contributor from Benton to the Layman’s Association and there are references in the area in the mid-1930’s to a Rev. J.B. Young who was a returned missionary from Ethiopia.

 

YOUNG, JESSE BOWMAN

 

Born: 7-5-1844  Berwick                                            married: Lucy Minshall Spottswood

Died: 7-30-1914                                                          obit: North Indiana Conference 1922, 289

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago IL

Obit: North Indiana Conference 1915, 546

 

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           York Springs

1871-74           Gettysburg

1874-77           Curwensville

1877-80           Carlisle

1880-83           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1883-85           agent, Dickinson College

1885-88           Harrisburg Grace

1888                transfer to St. Louis Conference

1888-92           Kansas City MO Grand Avenue

1892-00           editor, Central Christian Advocate

1900                transfer to Cincinnati Conference

1900-09           Cincinnati Walnut Hills

1909                transfer to Saint Johns River Conference [FL]

1909-13           Jacksonville Snyder Memorial

1913                transfer to North Indiana Conference

1913                retired

 

Note:  Jesse Bowman Young is the son of Jared H. Young (1810-1855) of the Baltimore Conference and Sarah Bowman Young (obit 1877, 66).  He is the author of the following books in the archives collection: Our Lord and Master (1903), The Hungry Christ (1904), What a Boy Saw in the Army (1904), Today: An Age of Opportunity (1909), Helps for the Quiet Hour (1909), The Battle of Gettysburg (1913), and Money Mania (n.d.).  Mrs. Young is the daughter of Wilson Lee Spottswood and the granddaughter of Robert Minshall (1788-1828) of the Baltimore Conference.

 

 

YOUNG, JOHN CAMPBELL

 

Born: 2-17-1856  Bells Landing PA                           married: Abigail Williams

Died: 1-27-1941  Port Matilda PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 203

 

1886    ordained deacon, recommended by Grahamton circuit

1889    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona District

1890    ordained elder, recommended by Altoona District

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 218

 

1884-85           Lloydsville [Coalport]

1885-86           associate, Grahamton [Wallaceton] circuit

1886-87           ?

1887-88           student, Dickinson College preparatory school

1888-90           Pine Grove Mills

1890-93           Port Matilda

1893-96           Pleasant Gap

1896-99           Three Springs

1899-04           New Washington

1904-07           Barnesboro

1907-11           Freeland

1911-15           Altoona Fairview

1915-18           York Epworth

1918-21           Hughesville

1921-26           Riverside

1926-29           Harrisburg Riverside

1929                retired

 

YOUNG, JOHN H.

 

Born: 11-24-1835                                                        married: Ellen Balsley

Died: 3-23-1920                                                          obit: [6/3/1833 – 10/18/1905]

                                                                                    married2: Anna C. Byers

                                                                                    obit2: [3/1/1857 – 5/6/1914]

 

1865    license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1868    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview Township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1864-66           York Springs circuit

1866-67           York Springs circuit & Bendersville mission

1867-68           York circuit

1868-70           Littlestown circuit

1870-73           Newville

1873-75           York mission station

1875-76           endowment agent, Lebanon Valley College

1876-78           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1878-80           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1880-82           Duncannon station

1882-85           Waynesboro station

1885-87           Newburg station

1887-90           West Fairview station

1890-94           Dallastown station

1894-95           Manchester circuit (did not finish the year)

1895-98           living in Wormleysburg

1898-01           living in New Cumberland

1901                joined the Methodist Episcopal Church [Pennsylvania Conference UB 1901,24]

1901-03           West Fairview

 

Note: In the Methodist Episcopal Church, John H. Young served as a local pastor.

 

 

YOUNG, RALPH EDWIN JR

 

Born:                                                                           married: Kathy _____

Died:                                                                           obit: [divorce: 12/26 /1984]

                                                                                    married2: Debra _____

1967    license,                                                            obit2:

     recommended by State College St. Paul’s

1970    admitted on trial

1970    ordained deacon

1973    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1965-70           student, Penn State University

                             1965-66      Penns Valley (beginning 9/65 and ending 6/66)

                             1966-69      Fairbrook (beginning 5/66 and ending 8/69)

1969-72           student, Methodist Theological School in Delaware OH

                             1970-72      Adamsville OH

1972-78           Shawville

1978-81           Martinsville

1981                transfer to Florida Conference

1981-83           Quincy Forest Hills

1983-84           associate, Fort Lauderdale First

1984-85           Miami Grace

1985-86           Fort Lauderdale Wesley Chapel

1986-94           Pompano Beach Parkway

1994-97           Neptune Beach Christ

1997-00           Melbourne Emmanuel

2000                Lakeland St. Marks (ending 9/1/2000)

2000-05           Fort Myers Cleveland (beginning 9/1/2000)

2005-14           Crescent City Howe Memorial

2014                retired

 

Note: Ralph E. Young is a brother to Kenneth E. Young of the Susquehanna Conference file.  In 2020, he is a retired member of the Florida Conference living in Versailles KY and working in the office of the Children’s Home of the Kentucky Conference.

 

YOUNG, ROBERT B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1965    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1965-70           Mainesburg (beginning 9/1/65)

1970                no longer listed

 

Note: Robert B. Young served as a local pastor.

 

 

YOUNG, WILLIAM MURRAY

 

Born: 3-30-1891  Centre County PA                          married: Henrietta Augusta Lauffer

Died: 5-10-1958  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 227

                                                                                    married2: Dorothy A. Hinkle

1921    admitted on trial,                                             obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 474

            recommended by Duboistown & Nisbet

 

Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Catawissa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 249

 

1916-18           Picture Rocks circuit

1918-20           Elimsport-Maple Hill

1920-24           Duboistown-Nesbit

1924-27           Montgomery

1927-31           Catawissa

1931-37           Williamsport Calvary

1937-41           Hollidaysburg First

1941-46           New Cumberland

1946-49           Altoona Simpson

1949-57           Mount Union First

1957                retired

 

 

YOXTHEIMER, GEORGE HENRY

 

Born: 8-9-1904   Northumberland PA                        married: Lulu Edna Kessler

Died: 11-22-1976  Ramey PA                                                obit:  [1908-1962]

 

1924    license, recommended by Northumberland

1927    admitted on trial, recommended by Altoona Lakemont

1930    ordained deacon, New York Conference

           

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 266

 

1925-26           student, Dickinson College

                             1926-27      Newville

1926-28           student, Juniata College

                             1927-28      Altoona Lakemont (ending 9/28)

1928-29           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1928-29      Peekskill NY

1929                transfer to New York Conference

1929-31           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

                             1929-30      Yonkers Memorial

1931-58           construction business in NY

                             1936-38      Laurelton (beginning fall 1936; see 1937, 84)

1958-62           construction, Cape Canaveral

1963-67           construction, West Virginia Wesleyan college

                             1963-67      Wilsonburg WV

1967-68           Burnham, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968-71           Burnham

1971-76           Morrisdale

1976                retired

                             1976-77      Ramey

 

Note: George H. Yoxtheimer is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1480.  Some sources give the death date for Mrs. Yoxtheimer as 1965.

 

 

 

ZABEL, WALTER JOSEPH

 

Born: 8-6-1923  IN                                                     married: Nancy Haskins

Died: 4-1-1999                                                            obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2005, 616

 

1948    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1948    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1950    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1999, 613

 

1945-47           Ray’s Hill (beginning 11/1/45)

1947                Harrisonville (ending 6/1/47)

1948                “transfer” to Baltimore Conference

1948-51           Great Falls

1941-59           Brookfield-Immanuel

1959-65           Patapsco-Freedom (Eldersburg)

1965-74           Liberty Grove

1974-78           College Park

1978-88           conference pension administrator; conference secretary (ending 12/31/88)

1988                retired (12/31/88)

 

Note: In 1988, the Zabels became the first on-site curators of the Strawbridge Shrine in New Windsor MD.  They later moved to Evanston IL.

 

ZANKER, ROBERT FREDERICK

 

Born: 1-8-1934  Shamokin PA                                   married: Martha Alice Getman

Died: 3-1-2008                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 349

 

1954    license, recommended by Shamokin Chestnut Street

1956    admitted on trial

1956    ordained deacon

1958    ordained elder

 

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 433

 

1956-58           Audenreid-Jeanesville (beginning 9/1/56)

1958-60           Orangeville

1960-62           chaplain, US Navy

1962-67           Newport

1967-73           Fayetteville

1973-82           Philipsburg Trinity (ending 9/1/82)

1982-89           Hummelstown Trinity (beginning 9/1/82)

1989-96           superintendent, Altoona District

1996-99           Harrisburg Calvary

1999                retired

                             2004-08      Harrisburg St/ Mark’s

 

Note: Robert F. Zanker is listed in the Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1481.

 

ZEARES, WILLIAM DENNIS

 

Born: 2-6-1946  Mifflinville PA                                married: _____ Watts (1966)

Died: 7-15-1997  Dallas TX                                       obit: [divorced 1981]

                                                                                    married2: Donna F. Smallwood (1982)

1968    license, recommended by Mifflinville            obit2: [divorced 1983]

                                                                                    married3: Lavon E. Jackson (1987)

Interment: [cremated]                                                 obit3: [divorced 1989]

Obit:

 

1968-70           Kulpmont

1970-71           Snydertown

1973                no longer listed

 

Note: W. Dennis Zeares served as a local pastor.  Some sources give 7-30-1997 as the date of death.  W. Dennis and Donna F. Zeares were married 4/9/1982 and divorced 5/26/1983. 


ZEIGLER, JOSEPH STEPHEN

 

Born: 12-5-1926                                                          married:

Died: 7-21-2011                                                          obit:

 

1954    license

1958    admitted on trial, New England Conference

1958    ordained deacon, New England Conference

1961    ordained elder, New England Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2012, 347

 

1954-57           student, Lycoming College

                             1954-55      Allenwood (9/14/54-9/15/55)

                             1955-57      Wallis Run (beginning 9/15/55)

1957-61            at school

                             1957-61      Worsester MA Park Avenue

1961                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1961-62           Bald Eagle Parish

1962-64           at school

                             1962-64      McKeesport, Christy Park

1964-65           director, Bethany House

1965                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1965-66           director, Bethany House

1966-68           mental health director, Pittsburgh Methodist Church Union

1968                withdrew, page 125

                        clinical director, Cherokee Etowah DeKalb Mental Health Center in Gadsden AL

 

Note: J. Stephen Zeigler earned an STB in 1961 and a PhD in 1972.  This surname is sometimes given as ZIEGLER.

 

ZEISLOFT, JAMES HOWARD

 

Born: 4-1-1928  Centralia PA                                    married: H. Jean Wills

Died: 5-6-2018  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 275

 

1956    admitted on trial

           

 

Interment: Christ Church Cemetery, Fountain Springs PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 283

 

1955-57           Catawissa circuit

1957-63           Nescopeck

1963-68           Shippensburg

1968-70           Lewisburg Beaver Memorial

1970-71           sabbatical [director, Harrisburg YMCA Camp and Extension Work]

1971-76           Steelton Mt. Zion

1976-78           Harrisburg Park Street

1978-83           Altoona First

1983-89           superintendent, Altoona District

1989-93           York Aldersgate

1993                retired

 

Note: James H. Zeisloft is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1481.

 

 

ZELINKA PAUL JOHN HUSS

 

Born: 5-26-1898  Husinec Czechoslovakia                married: Margaret Porter

Died: 6-27-1975                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 421

 

1929    ordained, Unity of Czech Brethren [Czechoslovakia]

1952    admitted on trial, Central New York Conference

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, New Albany PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 153

 

1950-57           New Albany-Overton-Era

1957-61           Big Flats

1961-62           New Albany-Overton-Era

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change in boundaries

1962-70           New Albany

1970                retired

                             1974-75      Wiconisco

 

Note: Paul Zelinka is the son of Rev. Paul A.F. Zelinka of the Czech Brethren denomination and the father of Paul Porter Zelinka (1930-1997) of the Wyoming Conference.

 

ZIMMERMAN, EDGAR THOMAS

 

Born: 2-12-1907  Steelton PA                                                married: Helen Margaret McPhail

Died: 11-17-1975  CA                                                obit: California-Pacific Conference 1992, H-25

 

1935    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1976, 318

 

1932-35           student, Boston University School of Theology

1935-37           West Fairview-Summerdale

1937                transfer to Southern California Conference

 

ZIMMERMAN, ELWOOD CONNER

 

Born: 7-5-1924  Snydertown PA                                married: Dolores Lee Johnson

Died: 3-16-2008  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 269

 

1943    license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary

1948    admitted on trial

           

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 434

 

1944-46           student, Bucknell University

                             1944-45      Montandon (beginning 9/1/44)

                             1945-46      Snydertown 

1946-49           student, Wesley Theological Seminary

                             1946-49      Wallaceton

1949-52           Howard

1952-61           Mechanicsburg

1961-65           Huntingdon First

1965-78           Harrisburg Calvary

1978-84           superintendent, New Cumberland District

1984-92           Chambersburg St. Paul

1992                retired

                             1992-00      administrative assistant, Harrisburg Episcopal Area

 

Note: Elwood C. Zimmerman is the son of Raymond A. Zimmerman and the father of Jay Elwood Zimmerman in the United Methodist files.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 1483.

 

ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE FLOYD

 

Born: 5-17-1891  Montoursville PA                          married: Florence Venn

Died: 12-10-1974                                                        obit: Philadelphia Conference 1961, 567

                                                                                    married2: Ethel Wagg Selby

1918    admitted on trial                                              obit2: [12/14/1893 – 3/8/1980]

 

Interment: Oak Hill Burial Park, Lakeland FL

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 772

 

1915-17           student, Boston University School of Theology

    1917-18       Hanover MA, New England Southern Conference

1918-19           chaplain, US Army    

1919-20           student, Boston University School of Theology

1920-22           faculty, Albion College in Albion MI

1922                transfer to Michigan [Detroit] Conference

1922-29           faculty, Albion College

                            1922-29       associate, Detroit Cass Avenue Congregational Church

1929-32           faculty, Vanderbilt University

1932                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1932-42           faculty, Temple University

1942-64           faculty, Florida Southern University

1964                retired

 

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered ZIMMERMANN.  G. Floyd Zimmerman is a 1915 graduate of Dickinson College.  The second Mrs. Zimmerman (nee Wagg), also a 1915 graduate of Dickinson College, was the widow of Howard Williams Selby (1891-1953) of the New England Conference.

 

ZIMMERMAN, RAYMOND ALFRED

 

Born: 12-2-1891  Lykens PA                                     married: Lena Marie Neuhard

Died: 12-20-1963  Williamsport PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conf 1954, 234

 

1922    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 360

 

1922-24           Laurelton

1924-27           Snydertown

1927-33           Shrewsbury

1933-36           Barnesboro

1936-42           Clearfield West Side

1942-46           Williamsport Calvary

1946-51           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1951-57           Williamsport High Street

1957-60           Altoona Lakemont

1960                retired

 

Note: Raymond A. Zimmerman is the father of Elwood C. Zimmerman, and the grandfather of Jay E. Zimmerman of the Susquehanna Conference United Methodist files.  His autobiographical booklet “A Brief Sketch of the Life and Labors of a Retired Minister” is on file in the conference archives.

 

ZUBROD, STEPHEN ADAIR

 

Born: 6-20-1945  Tipton PA                                      married: Peggy _____

Died: 6-16-2015  Scranton PA                                   obit:

 

1968    admitted on trial, recommended by Hollidaysburg First

1968    ordained deacon

1970    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-67           student, Penn State University

                             1966-67      Penns Valley

1967-70           student, Boston University School of Theology

1970-82           at school

1982-87           leave of absence

1987                honorable location

                       

Note: Dr. Stephen A. [“Stu”] Zubrod was employed by the PA Department of Corrections as director of the SCI Waymart, Forensics Center.