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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
Bathg 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 srve
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
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 Mt. Union First
1970 ordained
deacon
Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mopunt 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: 11-19-1847
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: S.L. Bowman 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 Mt.
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
Mt. 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 |