ABBOTT, MORRIS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1837 license
Interment:
Obit:
1837-38 New
York
1838 surrender
license until difficulties settled
ABELS, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 109
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1824 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1818-19 Dauphin circuit,
Philadelphia Conference of ME Church
Note: William Abels was admitted on trial in the Philadelphia Conference of
the ME Church in 1818, but he does not appear in any category in any
subsequent year. He is known to have visited Liberia, Africa, as a
preacher in December 1831, apparently as part of an effort to return Negroes
from America to Africa.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY
Born: 1-24-1826
Loganton PA married:
Hannah Forney
Died: 7-11-1903
Lock Haven PA obit:
[11/3/1832 – 8/14/1911]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1851 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1854 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown PA
Obit:
1851-53 Halifax
circuit
1853-55 Dauphin
circuit
1855-57 Lancaster
1877 name
erased
Note: John Q. Adams settled on a farm near Dunnstown PA in
1878, lost all in the flood of 1889, re-settled in Woodward township in the
gardening business and served as a local pastor, and became a charter member
of the East Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Lock Haven PA. Extensive biographies of John and Hannah
appear in Beers’1910 Commemorative
Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, pages 580-583.
AIKMAN, JOSEPH G.
Born: 1839 Dayton OH married:
Nannie S.C. Hough
Died: 7-?-1923 obit:
[1842 - 1895]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Etta M. _____
Fulton #: no obit2:
[1858 – 1928]
Gibble list: no
1867 ordained, Miami Conference
Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines IA
Obit:
1860-64
student, Wittenberg College in Springfield OH
1864-67
divinty student, Wittenberg College in Springfield OH
Miami City OH
Buda IL
1873-74 college
chapel, Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA
1874 enters
the ministry of the Congregational Church
1874-75
Lexington OH
1883-86 Red Cloud
NE
1889-93 Perry IA
1893 enters
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church
1893-96 Mount Ayr
IA
1896-99 Humeston
IA
1920
living in Jackson MO
Note: Joseph G. Aikman served the college chapel 1873-74 while a faculty
member in the Natural Sciences.
ALBAN, GEORGE ROBERT
Born: 5-28-1871
Carroll County MD married:
Mary Haines
Died: 11-27-1947 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 381
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 350
Gibble list: no
1903 quarterly
conference license
1905 permanent
quarterly conference license, page 16
1906 license,
recommended by Baltimore Otterbein Memorial [not granted, see Note]
1907 license,
Allegheny Conference
1911 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Hampstead Cemetery, Hampstead MD
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948, 65
1906-08 East
Salem
1908-10 Mapleton
1019-12 Monessen
1912-14 Beaver
Falls
1914-16 Windber
1916-18 Everson
1918-20 Herminie
1920-25 Clearfield
1925-27 Huntingdon
1927-28 Portage
1928-29 Holsopple
1929-34 Altoona
Schum
1934-37 Madison
1937-39 Beaverdale
1939-40 Susquehanna
1940-45 Milton
St. Peter’s
1945 retired
1945-47
supply, Milton St. Peter’s
Note: 1905,50 conditions his admission
to conference upon meeting the educational requirements of the
Discipline. An amendment specifies
that he be retained in the quarterly conference relation until the
requirements are met.
ALBERT, A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1902 York Springs
(May-Oct)
Note: A. Albert was a quarterly conference preacher who
was appointed to York Springs when H.H. Yohe resigned – see Pennsylvania
Conference 1902, 16.
ALBERT, IRA E.
Born: 11-13-1868
Lebanon County PA married:
Mary Richards
Died: 11-6-1902
Sierra Leone, Africa obit:
[5/26/1877 – 12/14/1973]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1895 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1899 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Africa; memorial tombstone in Shirk’s Cemetery,
Lebanon County PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 23
1895-97 Sinking
Spring
1897-99 Elizabethville
1899-02 superintendent,
United Brethren mission is Sierra Leone
Note: Mrs. Albert
later married Samuel S. Hough. The
1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism includes an article on Mary R. Hough.
ALBRIGHT, ISAAC HUNTSBERGER
Born: 4-9-1853 West
Fairview PA married:
Catharine Ann Uhler
Died: 4-21-1919 obit:
[3/12/1856 – 3/10/1930]
Miller-Raker #: 405
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1876 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1879 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 45
1872-76 student,
Lebanon Valley College
1876-79 Manheim
1879-82 Florin
1882-85 Mt.
Wolf circuit
1885-87 York
First
1887 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1887-90 York
First
1890-94 presiding
elder, Baltimore District
1894-99 Dallastown
1899 transfer
to East German Conference
1899-01 Shamokin
First
1901 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-04 Lebanon
Salem
1904-06 Reading
Zion
1906-12 New
Holland
1912-18 Middletown
1918-19 Cleona
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of Pennsylvania Conference,
page 288, gives a brief biography. I.H.
Albright earned a PhD (not honorary) from Lebanon Valley College in 1893.
ALEXANDER, GEORGE VALENTINE
Born: 7-12-1936
Lancaster PA married:
Carol Murphy
Died: 2-13-2022
Lancaster SC obit:
[d. 1991]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Gail Suggs
Fulton #: no obit2:
Gibble list: no
1960 1icense, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Neffsville
1963 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1960-63 student,
United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1961-62
Sugar Creek UCC in Bellbrook
OH
1962-63
minister to youth, Dayton
Miami Chapel
1963-69 Cressona-Landingville
1969-70 Cressona
1970 no
longer listed
“transfer”
to Baptist Church
Freeport
NY
Mattituck
NY
1978 associate,
Lancaster PA First
Scottdale
PA
Salem
OH
Penacock
NH
1994 founded
Vision Ventures Ministries (church consulting firm)
Note: George Valentine Alexander was active is scouting
and received several awards.
ALLCORN, DAVID KUHL
Born: 7-7-1928
Freedom PA married:
Shirley Todd
Died: 1-29-2008 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference
1949 license,
Allegheny Conference
1965 ordained
elder, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
Interment: Concord UMC Cemetery, Marion NC
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference
1950-51 Orbisonia
(last half of year)
1951 transfer
to Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB by conference union
1951-58 Orbisonia
1958-70 Pittsburgh
Immanuel
1970 transfer
to Western Pennsylvania Conference UM by denominational union
1970-87 Pittsburgh
Immanuel
1987-88 Power
Resources
1988 retired
and moved to Marion NC
1989-92 Clinchfield-Concord,
Western North Carolina Conference
1992-96 Concord,
Western North Carolina Conference
1996 transfer
to Western North Carolina Conference
ALLENBAUGH, SAMUEL FORREST
Born: 3-2-1807
Cheat River Valley MD married:
Anna Maria Gossard
Died: 3-25-1885
Cumberland County IL obit:
[6/22/1809 – 4/6/1887]
Miller-Raker #: 153
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1829 license
1834 ordained
Interment: Washington Cemetery, Crooked Creek township,
Cumberland County IL
Obit: Lower Wabash Conference 1891, 4
1830 charter
member of Hagerstown Conference
1834-35 Staunton circuit
1835-37 Woodstock circuit
1837-38 South Branch
circuit
1838-39 ?
1839-41 Pendleton mission
1841-42 no minutes
1842 withdrew
transfer
to Lower Wabash Conference
Note: This surname is also rendered ALLENBACH. He grave marker declares him to be “a
faithful member of the United Brethren Church for 55 years” – but be may have
associated with the Lutheran Church for a period of time. Samuel F. Allenbaugh is the father of Rev.
John Wesley Allenbaugh (1833-1888), who was licensed by the United Brethren
and went to Kansas in 1866 – where he was ordained in 1880 by the
Congregational Church.
ALTMAN, NEHEMIAH
Born: 1813
Mostrach, Germany married:
Sophia Weels
Died: 2-21-1878
Baltimore MD obit:
[c1824 – 8/?/1902]
Miller-Raker #: 280
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1845 license
1846 ordained
Interment: Loudon Park, Baltimore MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 20
1845-46 Jewish
Mission
1846 transfer
to Scioto Conference
1853 Liverpool,
Allegheny Conference
1854 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1854-55 York
circuit
1855-61 Baltimore
English mission
1861-62 York
Springs circuit
1862-63 Alto
Dale circuit
1863-66 presiding elder
York District
1866-67 presiding
elder Chambersburg District
1867-68 Shopps
station [Shiremanstown]
1868-70 Carlisle
circuit
1870-73 Baltimore
First [Old Otterbein]
1873 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 18
1873-75 Baltimore
Fulton Avenue
1876 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of Pennsylvania Conference,
page 288, gives a brief biography.
ALWAY [see ELWAY]
AMBROSE, WILLIAM HANBY
Born: 11-30-1770 MD married:
Susanna B. Crum
Died: 8-23-1850
Hillsboro OH obit:
[11/15/1776 – 2/18/1855]
Miller-Raker #: 44
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1802 license
1808 ordained
Interment: Ambrose Cemetery, Highland County OH
Obit: Religious Telescope 1/8/1851
1812 accompanies
Newcomer in VA, PA, OH, KY
1815 transfer
to Miami (OH) Conference
Note: William H.
Ambrose is the father of Matthias Ambrose (1810-1883) and Lewis D. Ambrose
(1817-1892), both of the Illinois Conference.
William’s wife Susanna is the daughter of Christian Crum (see the note
in that file), and his daughter Christina married a grandson (Jacob Sonner,
in Highland County OH) of George Adam Geeting.
ANDREWS, DAVID HAFER
Born: 4-14-1928 married:
Grace Marie Willard
Died: 11-25-2013
Frederick MD obit:
[8/27/1927 – 12/16/2020]
Miller-Raker #: 718
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1950 license,
recommended by Upper Strasburg
1954 ordained
Interment: Mount Bethel Cemetery, Garfield MD
Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2014, 622
1949-51 Upper Strasburg
1951-54 student,
Bonebrake [United] Seminary, Dayton OH
1954-58 Dillsburg
1958-61 Baltimore
Otterbein
1961-64 York Fifth
1964-70 Silver Spring
Memorial
1970 transfer
to Baltimore Conference by boundary change
1970-76 superintendent,
Frederick District
1976-82 Concord – St.
Andrews
1982-86 conference
council director
1986-91 coordinator,
Appalachian Development Commission
1991 retired
Note: David Hafer Andrews is the son of Elmer Ross
Andrews. He is the father of Rev.
Richard Andrews (1958-2013) and the grandfather, through Richard, of Rev.
Daniel Andrews and Rev. Sarah Andrews Schlieckert – all of the
Baltimore-Washington Conference. His
home church was Newburg.
ANDREWS, ELMER ROSS
Born: 3-3-1900
Hagerstown MD married:
Helen Hafer
Died: 9-19-1981
Hagerstown MD obit:
Baltimore Conference 1984, 371
Miller-Raker #: 641
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1921 quarterly
conference license
1925 license,
recommended by Hagerstown Grace
1930 ordained
Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1982, 395
1926-28 Mont Alto
1928-31 Rohrersville
1931-34 Fayetteville
1934-47 Chewsville
1947-54 Newburg
1954-68 Thurmont –
Deerfield
1968 retired
1969-70 Shiloh,
supply
1970 transfer
to Baltimore Conference
1970-81 Shiloh,
supply
Note: Elmer Ross Andrews is the father of David Hafer
Andrews, and the beginning of at least four generations of ordained pastors
within the United Methodist tradition – see David H. Andrews.
ANDREW, HENRY W.
Born: 3-25-1887
near Refton PA married:
Died: 6-27-1909 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes [ANDREWS]
1907 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery, Strasburg PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 36
1907-09 student,
Lebanon Valley College
Note: “Harry” Andrew appears to be the preferred name.
ANKERBRAND, CHARLES MARTIN
Born: 1-9-1887
Franklin County married:
Mildred E. Barnes
Died: 8-21-1964 obit:
Baltimore Conference 1990, 413
Miller-Raker #: 623
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1923 license,
recommended by Fayetteville
1927 ordained
Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1964, 48
1923-29 Biglerville
1929-33 Winterstown
1933-49 Waynesboro
1949-60 Mt. Wolf
1960-64 Williamsport MD
ANTHONY, JOHN PETER
Born: 2-1-1843 PA married:
Salana Diehl
Died: 3-6-1919
Guilford PA obit:
[1844 – 1903]
Miller-Raker #: 346
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1865 quarterly
conference license, Mechanicsburg
1867 license
1870 ordained
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Keedysville MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 69
1867-68 Ickesburg
1868-70 Path
Valley
1870-73 Orrstown
1873-76 Alto
Dale
1876-79 Shopps station
[Shiremanstown]
1879-80 Newville
1880-81 Baltimore Scott
Street
1881-83 Bendersville
1883-84 Shippensburg
1884-87 West
Fairview
1887-89 Rocky
Spring
1889-93 Manchester
1893-94 St. Thomas
1894-99 presiding elder,
Chambersburg District
1899-02 York Third
1902-16 Keedysville
1916 retired
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of Pennsylvania Conference,
page 289, gives a brief biography.
APP, DONALD BERNARD
Born: 2-13-1916
Rockhill Furnace PA married:
Grace Arlene Gifford
Died: 7-19-1979
Dayton OH obit:
[5/24/1916 – 8/16/2015]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1934 quarterly
conference license
1936 license,
Allegheny Conference: recommended by Orbisonia
1938 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1980, 252
1834-38 student,
Otterbein University
1938-41 student,
Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1938-41
Springboro OH, Miami
Conference
1941-43 Wall
1943-47 Houserville
1947-61 Scottdale
1961-68 assistant
director, Adult and Men's Work [Dayton OH]
1968 transfer
to Rocky Mountain Conference
1968-71 Torrington
WY
1971-74 conference
council director [Denver CO]
1974-79 Sterling
CO
1979 retired
Note: The Apps
retired to Ohio, where they each died and were cremated. Mrs. App was from the Shade Gap – Mount
Union area of Huntingdon County.
ARDELL, GAYNELL V.
Born: 1898 married:
[never married]
Died: 4-5-1966 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 505
Gibble list: no
1926 quarterly
conference license, Altoona First
1927 license,
Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA
Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 29]
1925-28 church
secretary and pastoral assistant, Altoona First
1928-43 religious
education and young people’s work
1943-44 Mahaffey
1944-46 Casselman
1946-47 religious
education
1947-49 New
Paris
1940-55 religious
education
1955 retired
ARMOR, ROBERT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 108
Gibble list: no
1859 license,
Allegheny Conference
1862 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60 Tyrone
1860-61 Luthersburg
1861-63 Curwensville
1865 name
erased
1873-74 Brookville
Note: This is believed to be the Robert Armor (1823-1898)
buried in the Elmenton Cemetery, Emlenton PA, who married Mary A. Hulings
(1843-1877) in 1863.
ARNDT, RAYMOND H.
Born: 1895 Manheim
PA married:
Iona G. Kemmerly
Died: 2-18-1980 obit:
[6/8/1897 – 7/20/1994]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 421
Gibble list: yes
1912 quarterly
conference license
1913 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1921 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Newtown UM Cemetery, Columbia PA
Obit:
Student,
Lebanon Valley College
1913-14 Waukesha,
Allegheny Conference
1914-15 Bradenville,
Allegheny Conference
1915 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1915-17 Bradenville
1917-20 Richfield
1920-23 Liverpool
1923-27 South
Williamsport
1927-28 Jeannette
1928-29 Enders,
East Pennsylvania Conference
1929-30 Fayette
1930-31 Westmoreland
1931-36 Latrobe
1936-37 without
appointment
1938 located
Note: After locating, Raymond H. Arndt retuned to
Lancaster County and acted as a supply minister and part-time salesman
ARNDT, ROBERT STEVENSON
Born: 4-29-1856
Annville PA married:
Ellen E. Peffley
Died: 6-26-1933 obit:
[1858-1908]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Agnes C. Gassert
Fulton #: no obit2 [1861-1939]
Gibble list: yes
1879 quarterly
conference license
1881 license, East
German Conference
1885 ordained,
East German Conference
Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer [Lebanon
County] PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 17
1880-81 Pine
Grove circuit
1881-82 Freeburg
circuit
1882-83 Albany
mission
1883-85 Paxinos
circuit
1885-89 Tremont
circuit
1889-91 Catawissa
circuit
1891-95 Jonestown
circuit
1895-98 Tower
City
1898-01 Mt.
Carmel
1901 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02 Mt.
Carmel
1902-03 Iona
1903-04 Lickdale
1904-10 Valley
View
1910-12 Allentown
circuit
1912-14 Grantville
circuit
1914-20 Bern
circuit
1920-23 Linglestown
1923-25 Campbelltown
1925 retired
ARNFIELD, ALBERT EDWARD
Born: 5-15-1878
England married:
Elizabeth Augusta Maupin (5/15/1909)
Died: 12-6-1940
Roseville CA obit:
[10/13/1891 – 5/6/1940]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1914 admitted on
trial, Northwest Texas Conference MES
Interment:
Obit:
1897-98 Rosedale
1898-99 student,
Lebanon Valley College
1914 “transfer”
to Northwest Texas Conference, MES
1914-16 Lamesa
1916-18 ?
1918 located
“transfer”
to Presbyterian Church
Trenton
MO
Sallisaw
OK
Note: A.E. Arnfield
served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the
conference.” The 1900 LVC yearbook
lists him in one place as being from Manchester, England, and in another
place as being from Johnstown PA. The
gravemarkers give the years (apparently erroneously) 1887 and 1892 for Albert
and “Bessie”.
ARNOLD, JAY HARTZELL
Born: 1896 married:
Ruth E. Warriner
Died: 1972 obit:
[1906 – 1990]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit:
1920-22 Sinking
Spring
1922-25 student,
Princeton Seminary
1947-49 York
Westminster Presbyterian
Note: Jay H. Arnold served as “others employed by the
conference” while a student at Lebanon College 1918-22. He became a Presbyterian minister.
ARTZ, WILLIAM HERBERT
Born: 5-3-1868
Schuylkill County PA married:
Maggie Statia Leydig
Died: 8-25-1934
Port Matilda PA obit:
[12/13/1870 – 2/11/1958]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 270
Gibble list: yes
1888 quarterly
conference license
1891 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1901 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1934, 63
1891-93 Schaefferstown
circuit
1893-94 Lickingville,
Allegheny Conference
1894-95 Middletown,
Allegheny Conference
1895 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1895-96 Berlin
1896-98 Springfield
1898-99 Dehaven
1899-00 Paychinsville
1911-12 Susquehanna
1912 Port
Matilda
1912 located
ATWELL, WAYDE VINCENT
Born: 2-11-1922
Franklin PA married:
Louise Stevenson
Died: 2-7-2003
Millersville PA obit:
[5/15/1923 – 6/8/2008]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1957 1icense, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by East Smethport
1963 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Green Hill UM Cemetery, Conestoga PA
Obit:
1957-62 Bellegrove
circuit
1962-67 Highville
1967-76 Allentown
Salem
1976-81 Lancaster
Pearl Street
1981-85 West
Willow
1985 retired
1995-99
Green Hill
AU see OW
AUGHINBAUGH, HARRY ELWOOD
Born: married:
Joan H. _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1951 1icense, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
1955 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1952-57 Mount
Carmel
1957-59 Aristes-Mount
Carmel
1959-69 Cleona
(ending 11/1/69)
1969-73 coordinator,
Conference Camps and Conferences (beginning 11/1/69)
1973-78 consultant,
Conference
1978-83 Lancaster
Grandview Heights
1983-94 Norristown
Haws Avenue
1994 retired
AUKER, PETER L.
Born: 11-?-1855
Juniata County PA married:
Elizabeth Bressler (1880)
Died: 10-8-1932
Blair County PA obit:
[1856-1900]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Emma Florence Buckley (1901)
Fulton #: 224 obit2:
[7/28/1872 – 8/27/1928]
Gibble list: no
1888 license,
Allegheny Conference
1891 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Dunmyer Cemetery, Salix PA
Obit:
1888-90 Juniata
1890-93 Berlin
1893-94 Cooksburg
1894-95 Clarington
1895-97 North
Jefferson
1897-99 Mahoning
1899-00 Cambria
1900-01 Dunlo
1901-02 East
Freedom
1902-03 Bigler
1903-04 West
Decatur
1904-05 not
listed
1905-06 Susquehanna
1906-14 on
leave
1914 referred
to quarterly conference, page 63
Note: Peter L. Auker is the subject of the 2021 on-line
document Tracing the Steps of a Circuit
Rider by Lindea Auker. He is a
brother to Rev. Joseph Auker (1844-1899) of the Church of the Brethren. An obituary for the first Mrs. Auker
appears on page 666 of The Religious
Telescope for May 23, 1900.
AUNGST, FRANK C.
Born: 6-21-1892
Pine Grove PA married:
Elizabeth Herr
Died: 9-?-1972 obit:
Eastern Conference 1964,120
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Ada Howard
Fulton #: no obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 347
Gibble list: yes
1912 quarterly
conference license, Pine Grove
1915 license,
Lower Wabash Conference
1921 ordained,
Illinois Conference
Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 367
1912-15 student,
Lebanon Valley College
1915-16 Wood
River IL, Lower Wabash Conference
1916-17 Mt.
Vernon IL, Lower Wabash Conference
1917-18 Redmon
circuit, Lower Wabash Conference
1918-21 student,
Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1919 transfer to Illinois Conference
1919-21 Dayton
OH Wagner Chapel
1921-23 Lebanon
St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference
1923 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1923-24 Lebanon
St. Paul’s
1924-26 Linglestown-Colonial
Park
1926-47 New
Holland
1947-62 Hummelstown
1962 retired
1962-63
West Willow
1963-64
Refton
1964-65
Shopes
1970 transfer
by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
AURANDT, JOHN DIETRICH
Born: 11-8-1760
Buffalo Valley PA married:
Catharine Reiber
Died: 4-24-1831 obit:
[8/7/1764 – 8/13/1849]
Miller-Raker #: 29
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1800 license
1809 ordained,
German Reformed
Interment: Water Street Cemetery, Water Street PA
Obit:
1801-04 Dreisbach German
Reformed Church, Union County
1804-31 Zion
German Reformed Church, Huntingdon County
1807 dismissed
Note: John Dietrich Aurandt was elected to the State
legislature in 1819.
AYRES, ALEXANDER ROBINSON
Born: 6-30-1856
Winterstown PA married:
Sarah Ellen Craumer
Died: 10-15-1939
Carlisle PA obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 22
Miller-Raker #: 400
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1879 quarterly
conference license, Dallastown
1881 licensed
1884 ordained
Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 28
1881-84 Perry circuit
1884-86 Duncannon mission
station
1886-90 Boiling Springs
circuit
1890-99 Shippensburg
mission station
1899-02 presiding elder,
Chambersburg District
1902-14 York Second
1914-22 New Cumberland
1922-23 Lemoyne
1923-25 located
1925 conference
superintendent July to October
1925 retired
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of Pennsylvania Conference,
page 289, gives a brief biography.
Mrs. Ayers is the daughter of William H. Craumer.
BACHMAN, JERALD G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1954 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street
Interment:
Obit:
1954-58 student,
Lebanon Valley College
1958-62 student,
University of Pennsylvania
1962-20 staff,
University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
2020 retired
Note: Jerald G. Bachman is the author of numerous books
and articles on youth behaviors, substance abuse, and other social issues.
BACHMAN, MONROE EUGENE
Born: 9-8-1867
Lititz PA married:
Clara Weidman
Died: 11-25-1939
Des Moines IA obit:
[11/16/1870 – 3/25/1953]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1894 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1897 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Chapel Hill Cemetery, Des Moines IA
Obit:
1894-95 Paradise
station
1895-98 Grantville
circuit
1898-00 Manheim
station
1900-01 Jacksonville
circuit (Enders)
1901-02 Manor
1902-03 on
leave for secular employment
1903-05 Eby’s
(ending 9/10/1905)
1905-10 living
in Elkhart IN and pastoring part-time
1910-12 living
in Des Moines IA and pastoring part-time
1912 transfer
to Iowa Conference
1912-39 living
in Des Moines IA and pastoring part-time
Note: Although
1908, 11 states “an open transfer was granted to M.E. Bachman” while he was
living in Indiana, he apparently did not formally join another conference
until 1912 while he was living in Iowa.
M.E. Bachman graduated from the Still College of Osteopathy in Des
Moines IA in 1912 and served as dean of that institution 1912-23. He is the father of Walter Eugene Bachman
(1890-1971: member of the Iowa and Nebraska Conferences, and president of
York College 1947-53) and Fannie Irene Bachman (1898-1973: teacher at McCurdy
Mission School 1929-51 and namesake of that institution’s Bachman Hall
dormitory). Even though he is listed
in the United Brethren Yearbook until 1940, there appears to be no conference
obituary for M.E. Bachman. The story
of the Bachman family is given in Pauline Bachman Mann’s 1981 book “Our Heritage,
a History of the Bachmans of Lititz Pennsylvania: ancestors and descendants
of Aaron Eugene & Fannie Ritter Bachman, and Monroe Eugene & Clara
Weidman Bachman.”
BAER, ALLEN ULYSSES.
Born: 7-30-1874 Reading
PA married:
Irene O. _____
Died: 3-30-1947
Portland OR obit:
[5/7/1898 – 12/10/1974]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1896 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: River View Cemetery, Portland OR
Obit:
1899 transfer
[to Rock River Conference?]
Note: A.U. Baer appears in the UB Yearbook in the Rock
River Conference beginning in 1902.
The East Pennsylvania Conference gives a middle initial of W.
BAER, DAVID
Born: 1796 married:
Died: 2-27-1853
Path Valley PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 95
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
1822 ordained
Interment: Spring Run Cemetery, Spring Run PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1854, 30 – sent to
1826-27 presiding
elder
Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences,
page 45, gives a brief biography [BEAR].
BAER, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: 1823 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 97
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
Interment:
Obit:
BAER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: 1831/2 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 76
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1815 license
Interment:
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1832, 32
Note: John Baer appears to have been the brother of
Christian Newcomer’s father-in-law (see Newcomer’s journal for 5/1/1812).
BAER, MICHAEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 65
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1811 license
Interment:
Obit:
BAIER, WILLIAM ANTHONY
Born: 6-24-1842 married:
Louise Ungerbuehler
Died: 6-17-1911
Hartleton PA obit:
[4/4/1844 – 8/13/1921]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 231 [BAIR]
Gibble list: yes
1884 license, East
German Conference
1887 ordained,
East German Conference
Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 32
1883-84 Philadelphia
Port Richmond [St. Paul’s]
1884-85 Middleburg
circuit
1885-86 Freeburg
circuit
1887-88 Yocumtown
mission, Pennsylvania Conference
1888 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1895 transfer
to East German Conference
1900-01 East
Clearfield, Allegheny Conference
1901 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: W.A. Baier (also Baeir, Bare, Beier)
was a member of the East German Conference from Freeburg, Snyder County, when
assigned to Yocumtown. He suffered
from ill health and did not finish the year.
BAILEY, NEWTON SILKWOOD
Born: 5-3-1856
Wellsboro PA married:
Mary Gummo
Died: 7-10-1911 New
Paris PA obit:
Allegheny Conference 1918, 64
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 331
Gibble list: no
1905 license,
Allegheny Conference
1910 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1911, 83
1905-06 Lloydell
1906-07 Claysville
1907-08 Dunevy
1908-09 Houserville
1909-10 Fair
Hope
1910-11 New
Paris
Note: Church records refer to him (apparently incorrectly)
as Newton F. Bailey.
BAIR, EMANUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 59
Gibble list: no
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46 Juniata
1846 name
erased
Note: This is believed to be the Emanuel Bair [8/17/1816 –
1/3/1901] born in Newberry township, York County, and died in Shade Gap,
Huntingdon County.
BAKER, E.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 382
Gibble list: no
? license, ?
Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1907-08 Madlen
IL, Illinois Baptist State Convention
1908-09 Waukesha
circuit, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
1909-10 Springfield,
Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
1910 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1916 returned
to quarterly conference license
affiliated
with the Baptist Church
1917-19 Peter’s
Creek, Pittsburgh PA Baptist Association
1918-22 Pitcairn
First, Pittsburgh PA Baptist Association
1922- Des
Moines IA
Note: E.H. Baker served in the Allegheny Conference under
“others employed by the conference” – his credentials and/or affiliation
appear to be Baptist.
BAKER, F.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1933 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended
by Altoona Otterbein
Interment:
Obit:
Note: F.H. Baker apparently never served under
appointment. He is otherwise unknown, but is believed to be the Frank
H. Baker [2/24/1914 – 9/25/1999] born in Blair County and died in Juniata
County.
BAKER, HARRY P.
Born: 1-12-1891
near Newburg PA married:
Catharine Louise Sparrow
Died: 10-3-1959
Enola obit: Pennsylvania Conference
1931, 40
Miller-Raker #: 596 married2:
Olive May Sheibley
Fulton #: no obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 389
Gibble list: no
1916 license
1922 ordained
Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 42
1916-17 Carlisle circuit
1917-20 Dover
1920-25 Shermansdale
1925-30 Oakdale
1930-38 Duncannon
1938-48 Shepherdstown
1948-50 York Haven
1950-58 Enola
1958 retired
Note: The first Mrs. Baker was the daughter of Charles
Mayberry Sparrow.
BAKER, HENRY
Born: 1759 Germany married:
Susanna Putnam (1781)
Died: 1808
Tennessee obit:
Miller-Raker #: 9
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1789 license
Interment: Tennessee
Obit:
Note: Drury’s 1924
History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 156, gives a brief biography
of Baker and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of
1789. Page 257 of the same book notes
that on 4/5/1812 Francis Asbury made the following comments while eulogizing
Martin Boehm and speaking of the United Brethren in general: “Our German
reformers have left no journal or record, that I have seen or heard of, by
which we might learn the extent of their labors; but from Tennessee, where the
excellent Baker labored and died, through Virginia and Maryland, into
Pennsylvania as far eastward as Bucks and Berks counties, the effects of
their ministry were happily seen and felt.”
Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives a
brief biography.
The first
authoritative biograph of Henry Baker entitled “The Excellent Baker” is given
in the 2024 volume of The Chronicle,
pages 18-22. His family tree includes
three Mehtodist Episcopal preachers. He
is father of Rev. Henry Baker (1795-1863) of the Cincinnati Conference, the
grandfather of Rev. George W. Waggoner (1820-1905) of the Southern Illinois
Conference, and the uncle of Rev. Job McNamee Baker (1794-1878) of the East
Texas Conference.
BAKER, J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1860-61 Shopps station
[Shiremanstown]
1860 resigned
Shopps station
BAKER, JOHN LUDWIG
Born: 8-22-1809
Centre County PA married:
Sarah Linstman
Died: 10-2-1900 obit:
[3/29/1821 – 3/28/1852]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 33
Gibble list: no
1839 license,
Allegheny Conference
1841 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1901, 32
1841-42 Juniata
1842-43 Harrisburg
station, Pennsylvania Conference
1843-45 superintendent,
Huntingdon District
1845-46 superintendent,
Westmoreland District
1846-48 Allegheny
1848-50 located
1850-51 Westmoreland
1851-52 Somerset
1852-53 located
1853-55 Liverpool
1855-56 Allegheny
1856-57 Johnstown
1857-58 Schellsburg
1858-59 Washington
1859-63 located
1863-64 Mechanicsburg
1864-65 Blair
1865-66 Bellefonte
1866-68 Millheim
mission
1868-69 Juniata
1869-70 Washington
1870-71 Industry
1871-72 located
1872-73 Bellefonte
& Millheim
1873-74 ?
1874-75 Cambria
1875-76 West
Branch circuit
1876-78 Springfield
1878-79 Fallen
Timber
1879-80 East
Salem
1880-81 Indiana
1881-82 Cooksburg
1882-85 Allegheny
1885-87 located
1885-86 Cooksburg
1886-87
Tuscorora (1st
part), New Haven (2nd part)
1887 retired
BALMAN, NOLAN F.
Born: 6-14-1916
Rozel KS married:
Ruth Horst
Died: 2-12-1978 obit:
[5/18/1918 – 4/16/1989]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Schaefferstown Cemetery, Scharfferstown PA
Obit:
1958-59 Shermansdale-Young’s
Note: Nolan F. Balman is listed as “others employed” and
the charge as under “care of conference superintendent.” In 1967 he is
described the Lebanon Daily News as
the “deputation secretary of the Evangelical Alliance Mission.” He is the author of the biography of TEAM missionary Walter S. Olsen
(1916-1972).
BALMER, CHRISTIAN
Born: 1804 married:
Nancy _____
Died: 1884 obit:
[1811 – 3/24/1867]
Miller-Raker #: 285 married2:
Mary A. _____
Fulton #: no obit2:
[? – 5/23/1870]
Gibble list: no
1847 license
1851 ordained
Interment: Old Hill Cemetery, Smithville OH
Obit:
1851 transfer,
to any western conference
Note: Little in known of Christian Balmer except that a
daughter Anna M. was born in Mechanicsburg PA in 1839 appears to have been
associated with Shoop’s Church in Shiremanstown and many of the United
Brethren pioneers. The family moved to
Ohio in 1851. He reportedly worked as
a coachmaker and preached on Sundays. The
Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. Christian Balmer is no relation to Bishop
John Balmer Showers, who was named for the Canadian physician who attended
his mother’s birth.
BALSBAUGH, PETER HUMMEL
Born: 1-21-1868
Hummelstown PA married:
Katie E. Linaweaver
Died: 9-5-1922 obit:
[5/14/1872 – 11/18/1938]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1903 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1906 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Fishburn Cemetery, Hershey PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 66
1902-07 Catawissa
circuit (beginning 1/1/03 – see 1903, 5)
1907-15 Harrisburg
Sixth Street
1915-19 Columbia
Salome
1919-22 Schuylkill
Haven
Note: Peter H.
Balsbaugh is the father of Edna Balsbaugh Beittel, wife of Charles R.
Beittel.
BALTZELL, ISAIAH
Born: 11-26-1832
Thurmont MD married:
Cecelia Caroline James (1859)
Died: 1-16-1893
Annville PA obit:
[10/25/1836 – 4/16/1914]
Miller-Raker #: 330
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1854 license,
Virginia Conference
1856 ordained,
Virginia Conference
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 30
1854-55 Middle
Creek circuit
1855-56 Buckhannon
1856-57 Churchville
1857-58 Winchester
1858-59 Hagerstown
mission station
1859-61 Baltimore
mission
1861-62 Frederick
1862 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1862-64 Orrstown
station
1864-66 Shopps station
[Shiremanstown]
1866-67 New Holland
circuit
1867-68 unknown
1868 transfer
to Virginia Conference
1868-69 unknown
1869-70 Hagerstown
mission station (also assigned in 1870, but went to East Pa instead)
1870-72 Mountville
circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference
1872 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1872-73 Mountville
circuit
1873-74 Highspire circuit
1874-80 presiding
elder
1880-83 Harrisburg
Memorial [First]
1883-84 presiding elder,
Chambersburg District
1884-85 presiding elder,
Lancaster District
1885-86 presiding elder,
Baltimore District
1886-89 presiding
elder, Harrisburg District
1889-92 Reading
Otterbein
1892-93 Pottstown mission
Note: Isaiah Baltzell was a prominent hymn writer and
editor of gospel song books.
Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 289,
gives a brief biography. Gibble’s 1951
History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 452, gives a brief
biography.
BANKERT, NATHAN EUGENE
Born: 7-25-1934 married:
Verna E. _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 772
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1959 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
1959-61 member
of New Cumberland Trinity, student at Messiah College
1961 withdrew,
moved to Tennessee
BARGER, JOSEPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 136 & 207 [BERGER]
Fulton #: 26
Gibble list: no
1828 license
1835 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1839 charter
member of Allegheny Conference
1857 erased
Note: Eberly’s Landmark
History of the United Brethren Church, page 77, also renders the name
BARGER. Aldrich’s 1887 History of Clearfield County, page
440, identifies Joseph Barger as an early Boggs township resident prominent
in the United Brethren Church. This
could be the Joseph Barger (1790-1866) buried in the Bigler Cemetery in
Bigler PA.
BARGER, WILLIAM D.
Born: 1850 married:
Laura Belle Smith
Died: 12-3-1919
Hagerstown MD obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 36
Miller-Raker #: 484
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1873 quarterly
conference license, Mt. Hebron (South Branch, Virginia Conference)
1877 license,
Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference
1879 ordained,
Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference
Interment: Rose Hill, Hagerstown MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 67
1874-75 New Germany MD
1875-76 Augusta circuit
VA
1876-77 Buckhannon
station WV
1877-78 Berlin, Ontario
Canada
1878-79 Philippi WV
1879-80 Central station
1880-82 West Milford
1882-84 Lexington IL
1884-86 Pendleton circuit
1886-87 South Branch
1887-88 North Fork
1890 transfer
to Maryland Conference
1890-91 Chewsville MD
1891-92 Williamsport MD
1892-93 Westernport MD
1894 retired,
member of Hagerstown Grace
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
by boundary change
1904-11
evangelist at large
Note: The Maryland Conference was formed from the Virginia
Conference in 1887 and merged into the Pennsylvania Conference in 1902. William D. Barger’s daughter Eunice is the
wife of Joseph H. Schmitt.
BARNABY, PAUL ROMINGER
Born: 5-18-1891 Huntington
IN married:
Helen Virginia Beall
Died: 7-16-1967
Darlington MD obit:
[2/23/1891 – 12/9/1972]
Miller-Raker #: 626 married2:
Mary B. _____
Fulton #: no obit2:
[5/31/1907 – 5/8/1979]
Gibble list: no
1924 license
1931 re-licensed,
recommended by Baltimore Franklin Street
1931, 28
Interment: Deer Creek Harmony Presbyterian Church
Cemetery, Harford County MD
Obit:
1925-27 Baltimore Trinity
1927-29 Winterstown
1929-30 living in
Lancaster
1930 returned to quarterly
conference license
1930-33 living
in Lancaster, Baltimore, Hagerstown
1932-33
Hagerstown Mission,
Pennsylvania Conference of the UBOC
1933 dropped,
discontinued course of study, no longer UB
Note: Paul R. Barnaby is the son of Rev. Alvin Paul
Barnaby (1865-1906) and the grandson of Bishop Horace Thomas Barnaby
(1823-1917), both of the United Brethren Old Constitution – the latter being
an 1889 co-founder of the denomination along with Bishop Milton Wright. A family picture and biographical sketch
appear in the 1928 Winterstown Church Centennial booklet. See also the journals of the Pennsylvania
Conference of the UBOC 1932 (p.11) and 1933 (p.4), as Paul R. Barnaby
supplied their work in Hagerstown for almost two years but was never a
ministerial member of that conference.
BARNER, FERN TYBERTIUS
Born: 4-14-1912
Snyder County PA married:
Naomi Beatrice Herrold
Died: 4-16-1998 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 308
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1933 quarterly
conference license, Freeburg
1935 license,
Allegheny Conference: recommended by Richfield
1941 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 390
1939-42 Waukesha
1942-47 Altoona
1947-53 Altoona
Third
1953-60 South
Fork
1960-68 Philipsburg
(ending 11/1968)
1968-75 Paradise
(beginning 11/1968)
1975-78 South
Greensburg
1978 retired
BARNETT, ARTHUR LEE
Born: 19-14-1897
Punxsutawney PA married:
Bessie Mildred Dobson
Died: 9-12-1975
Hollidaysburg PA obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976,
333
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 490
Gibble list: no
1923 quarterly
conference license
1925 license,
Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Pearce Cemetery, Rossiter PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 319
1923-25 Hustontown
1925-27 Runville
1927-28 New
Paris
1928-30 Rochester
Mills
1930-34 Casselman
1934-37 Wyano
1937-49 Glasgo
1949-52 Sidman
– St. Michael
1952-57 Punxsutawney
Albion
1957-59 Cherry
Tree
1959 retired
BARNETTE, KENNETH THOMAS
Born: 8-1-1911
Punxsutawney PA married:
Edna Elizabeth Sherwood
Died: 10-27-1988 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 283
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1931 quarterly
conference license
1936 license,
Allegheny Conference: recommended by Punxsutawney
1938 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 495
1936-38 student,
Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1938-43 Altoona
Pleasant Valley (ending 3/1/1943)
1943-49 McKeesport
First (beginning 3/1/1943)
1949-56 Somerset
1956-64 Johnstown
Park Avenue
1964-75 McKeesport
Kephart
1975-76 sabbatical
1976 retired
Note: Kenneth T. Barnette is the father of Rev. Sherwood
Barnette and Rev. Sheldon Barnette – both formerly of the Western
Pennsylvania Conference, most recent affiliations unknown.
BARNHART, DAVID
Born: 10-24-1840
Middleburg, Franklin Co PA married:
Susan Catherine Gossard
Died: 1-17-1904
Bendersville PA obit:
[12/29/1843 – 12/11/1892]
Miller-Raker #: 410
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1874 license,
Virginia Conference
1879 ordained,
Virginia Conference
Interment: Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 70
1884 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
taught
school until becoming an itinerant
1895-98 Perry circuit
(beginning 10/12/1895)
1898-99 New
Bloomfield
1899-03 Bendersville
Note:
David Barnhart is the father of Elmer H. Barnhart and William V. Barnhart.
BARNHART, ELMER HOWARD
Born: 5-21-1872 married:
Cynthia L. Baker
Died: 6-20-1958 obit:
[1/24/1877 – 6/26/1962]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 284
Gibble list: no
1898 license,
Allegheny Conference
1903 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Burwood Cemetery, Escalon CA
Obit: Southern California–Arizona Conference (M) 1959, 316
Clarington
1895-98 Industry
1898-00 Connellsville
1901-03 student,
Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH
1901-02
Fairview, Miami Conference
1902-03
Bowlusville, Miami
Conference
1903-04 Claysville
moved
to California
Chino
UB
Monrovia
UB
1907-11 Alpaugh
Union
1910 honorable discharge from the United Brethren
Church
1911 “transfer”
to Southern California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1911-12 Alpaugh
1912-13 Del
Rey
1913-14 Orange
Cove
1914-19 Alpaugh
1919-20 missionary
to Arizona (Williams, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon)
1920-21 located
1921-22 Cutler
and Exeter
1922-25 Earlimart
1925 retired
Note: Elmer H. Barnhart is the son of David Barnhart and a
brother to William V. Barnhart. Baker
was the maiden name of Mrs. Barnhart’s mother; Mrs. Barnhart’s maiden name is
also given as Cynthia Vandivort.
BARNHART, THOMAS JEFFERSON
Born: 1-2-1893
Forward PA married:
Reba Mae Wentling
Died: 10-26-1944 obit:
[2/21/1892 – 5/19/1975]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1926 quarterly
conference license, Cleona
1927 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1931 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 15
1926-32 Lebanon
circuit
1932-44 Hershey
First
BARNHART, WILLIAM VERNON
Born: 1-11-1867
Waynesboro PA married:
Fannie Susan Gossart
Died: 6-7-1946 obit:
[1/4/1871 – 3/10/1954]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 267
Gibble list: no
1894 quarterly
conference license
1895 license,
Allegheny Conference
1899 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Green Ridge Cemetery, Scottdale PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946, 64
1894-95 Rosedale
1895-99 LaJose
1899-02 McKeesport
First
1902-07 Connellsville
1907-08 Wilkinsburg
1908-17 Pitcairn
1917-19 field
work Church Erection
1919-21 field
work, Board of Administration (ending 4/1921)
1921-23 Monessen
(beginning 4/1921)
1923-26 McKeesport
Kephart
1926-27 Beaver
Falls
1927-31 Latrobe
1931-42 Westmoreland
1942 retired
Note: William V. Barnhart is the son of David Barnhart and
a brother to Elmer H. Barnhart. Mrs.
Barnhart's maiden name is also rendered Gossert.
BARSHINGER, DANIEL
Born: 9-27-1859 Yoe
PA married:
Lydia Landis
Died: 12-22-1919
Yoe PA obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 70
Miller-Raker #: 431
Fulton #: 322
Gibble list: no
1881 quarterly
conference license, Dallastown
1888 license
1891 ordained
Interment: Dallastown PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 68
1888-89 Winterstown
(beginning 10/1888)
1889-92 Dover circuit
1892-95 Eschol
mission
1895-96 living in Dayton OH
1896 transfer
to Maryland Conference
1896-99 Walkersville
1899-00 living
in Hagerstown MD
1900 transfer
to Northern Illinois Conference
1900-01 Forreston
IL [? – nee
Note below]
1901-02 White Heath IL
1902-03 living
in Shiremanstown
1903 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1903-04 Orbisonia
1904-06 Coalport
1906-07 South
Williamsport
1907-09 Bellefonte
1909-10 Portage and/or
Wilmore [records confusing]
1910-11 Greenwood
1911-12 Mapleton
(resigned 12/7/11, moved to York?)
1912-13 Milton
1913-15 Dover,
Pennsylvania Conference
1915 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1915-17 Dover
1917-19 Shepherdstown
1919 Jefferson
Note: The 1900-01 year is confusing. Daniel Barshinger is listed locally as
pastor at Boonsboro MD (Maryland Conference) 1900-01. He also seems to have been assigned 1900-01
to New Paris (Allegheny Conference) 1900-01, but apparently did not
serve. The years 1909-1911 are also
unclear, although he apparently graduated during this time from the Doctor
Gordan School of Osteopathy at Rockford IL.
A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file
includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Barshinger.
BARTO, ISAIAH
Born: 1-10-1805
Clearfield County PA married:
Mary _____
Died: 5-29-1850 Clearfield County PA obit:
[10/8/1804 - ?]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 37
Gibble list: no
1840 license,
Allegheny Conference
1843 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Joy United Brethren Cemetery, Burnside
township, Clearfield County PA
Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9]
1843-45 Clearfield
circuit
Note: Isaiah Barto is the great-grandfather (through his
daughter Mary Ann Barto Neff and grandson Isaiah Barto Neff) of George O.
Neff. It appears that both the wife
(Mary) and 7 year old daughter (Tabitha) of Isaiah Barto may have died the
same day 4/19/1850.
BASEHORE, JOHN
Born: 11-15-1774 married:
Died: 10-31-1853 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 228
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1838 license
Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1854, 30 - sent to The
Religious Telescope
1849-50 Conococheague
circuit
BASHORE, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Carolyn Ruth Bumgartner
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1953 1icense, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein
1958 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1953-55 student,
Princeton University
1955-58 student,
United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1955-58
assistant, Dayton High Street
1958-59 assistant,
Elizabethtown
1950-64 Reading
Zion
1964-73 Reading
Inner City Parish
1973-79 superintendent,
Reading District
1979-80 Lancaster
First
1980-88 bishop,
Boston Area
1988-00 bishop,
Pittsburgh Area
2000 retired
BATDORF, GRANT DAVID
Born: 4-30-1874
Lickdale PA married:
Lydia Ann Zeller
Died: 9-21-1954
Dayton OH obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 53
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1896 quarterly conference
license, Dayton OH Summit Street
1897 license, East
German Conference
1898 ordained,
East German Conference
Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 29
1898-01 Allentown
Zion
1901 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-06 Harrisburg
First
1906-11 Reading
Zion
1911-20 Lancaster
Covenant
1920-21 Dayton
First, Miami Conference
1921 transfer
to Miami Conference
1921-29 Dayton
First
1929 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1929-45 bishop,
Eastern Area
1945 bishop
emeritus
BATEMAN, EARL CLAYTON
Born: 2-10-1905
Tyrone PA married:
Ruby Ann See
Died: 12-30-2000
Charlottesville VA obit:
Virginia Conference 1957, 20
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Lucie S. _____
Fulton #: 524 obit2:
[2/12/1912 – 9/9/1999]
Gibble list: no
1927 quarterly
conference license
1929 license,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Augusta Memorial Park, Waynesboro VA
Obit: Virginia Conference 2001,?
1929-31 Altoona
Wehnwood
1931-33 Runville
(ending 5/9/1933)
1933-35 Mapleton
(beginning 5/10/1933)
1935-36 Riverton,
Virginia Conference
1936 transfer to Virginia Conference
1936-39 Riverton
1939-43 Blairton-Greensburg
1943-49 faculty,
public schools in WV
1949-57 Berkeley
Springs
1957-69 faculty,
American School of the US Forces in Baumholder and Augsburg Germany
1969-71 faculty,
public schools in Washington DC
1971 retired
Note: Earl C. Bateman Sr. is the father of Virginia Ann
Bateman Martindale, wife of Rev. Charles T. Martindale of Ohio, affiliation
unknown. A biographical sketch for
Earl C. Bateman is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia
Conference, page 321. He is listed as
a member of the Virginia Conference at his death, but it appears that the
Conference did not publish an obituary.
BATHURST, ZEBULON W.
Born: 1859 Bellefonte
PA married:
Amelia A. Malone
Died: 5-29-1922
Orbisonia PA obit:
[?/?/1859 – 11/18/1921]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Orbisonia PA
Obit:
1907-09 Eschol,
Allegheny Conference
1909-10 Shade
Gap, Allegheny Conference
1912-13 Shade
Gap, Allegheny Conference
1912-13 Horse
Valley, Pennsylvania Conference (apparently simultaneously with above)
Note: Zebulon Bathurst appears to have served without
being formally licensed or ordained by any Conference. Zebulon and Amelia were married 12/23/1880
at Milesburg.
BAUER, CHARLES
Born: 3-18-1850
Klecknersville PA married:
Ellen M. Miller
Died: 3-9-1910 obit:
[10/3/1850 – 3/7/1924]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1889 quarterly
conference license, Chapman’s Quarries
1892 license, East
German Conference
1895 ordained,
East German Conference
Interment: Salem Union Cemetery, Moorstown (Northampton
County) PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 42
1891-92 Catawissa
circuit
1892-93 Myerstown
1893-96 Mt.
Carmel
1896-97 Pine
Grove circuit
1897-99 located,
living in Klecknersville
1899-01 Sunbury
and Milton
1901 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02 Paradise
1902-08 located,
living at Klecknersville
1908-09 Iona
1909 retired
Note: The maiden name of Mrs. Bauer also appears as Mary L.
Miller.
BAULUS, JACOB
Born: 3-10-1768
Middletown Valley MD married:
Anna Margaret Beckenbach
Died: 4-20-1851 OH obit:
[2/24/1768 – 9/16/1840]
Miller-Raker #: 24
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1795 license
1814 ordained
Interment: Bowlus Cemetery, Fremont OH
Obit:
1812-13 oversight
“between Potomac and Susquehanna rivers”
1816-18 presiding elder
1820’s transfer
to Ohio
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania
Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography. The surname is also rendered BOWLUS. Memorial United Methodist Church (Sandusky
County OH) has microfilmed records at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential
Center placed by Vonda Bowlus Kokai, a lifelong member and church
historian. The congregation begun
under Jacob Bowlus. In 1822, Jacob
Bowlus migrated from Frederick County, Maryland to Winter's Station (near
Bettsville OH). Through his influence, the General Conference formed the
Sandusky Conference and began supplying the stations with itinerant ministers
in 1829. Chapter 6 of the 1908
denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Jacob Baulus. Jacob Bowlus is a first cousin to Jacob
Doub. Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the
1819-24 Conferences, page 46, also gives a brief
biography.
BAULUS, VALENTINE
Born: 1763 married:
Died: 1818/9 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 45
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1802 license
1817 ordained
Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1819, 15 (postscript)
Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences,
page 46, gives a brief biography.
BAUMBACH, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1888 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889 transfer to Maryland
Conference
Baltimore
1890 transfer to
Ohio German Conference
Toledo
Dayton
Note: Henry Baumbach is considered a ministerial son of
Baltimore Third [Fulton Ave]. This
surname is also rendered BAUMBACK.
BAZZLE, WILLIAM PERRY
Born: 7-19-1863 married:
Mary Sylvaria Fout
Died: 10-31-1933
Frostburg VA obit:
[3/18/1869 – 10/12/1916]
Miller-Raker #: 486 married2:
Lydia E. Garman [8/22/1917]
Fulton #: no obit2:
Gibble list: no
1888 licensed,
Virginia Conference
1895 ordained,
Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1888-89 Hartmansville
mission
1889-90 Franklin
1890-91 Moorefield
1891-02 unknown,
apparently transferred to Maryland Conference
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania
Conference
1902-04 living
in Westernport MD
1904-06 living
in Elkgarden WV
1907 dismissed,
pages 46&72
Note: The Conference at which William P. Bazzle was
dismissed was held on October 1907. As
late as September 1907 he was living on Main Street, Keyser WV, and performed
two weddings – presumably as a local pastor, even though this was outside the
bounds of the Pennsylvania Conference in which he was licensed. In 1911 there was a wedding performed “at the home of Rev W. P. Bazzel [sic] by Rev J. H. Brunk of
Keyser.” Keyser WV and Rev. J.H. Brunk
were within the Virginia Conference of the United Brethren Church, but there
is no known evidence that W.P. Bazzle ever re-connected with the Virginia
Conference of the United Brethren Church.
In 1917 W.P. Bazzle was living in Summit County OH, using the Rev.
designation as a “minister of the Gospel.”
BEACH, WILLIAM
Born: 7-128-1852
West Bromwich, England married:
Sarah Evans
Died: 1-10-1929 obit:
[3/1/1854 – 4/14/1935]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
quarterly
conference license, Columbia Salome
1889 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1893 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 13
1892-93 Marietta
circuit
1893-99 East
Harrisburg circuit
1899-00 Intercourse
1900-01 Halifax
1901-03 Tower
City
1903-04 Pequea
circuit
1904-06 Elverson
circuit
1906-09 Liverpool,
Allegheny Conference
1909-11 Union
circuit
1911-15 Hillsdale
circuit
1915-18 Royalton
1918-20 retired
1920-22 Iona
1922 retired
Note: In 1901 Rev. Beach was assigned to Hillsdale but
“exchanges were made shortly after conference” and he served at Tower City
instead.
BEACHEL, LeROY K.
Born: 12-12-1917
Beavertown PA married:
Erma E. Hoffman
Died:12-10-2004
York PA obit:
[1/3/1921 – 2/19/1997]
Miller-Raker #: 719
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1947 quarterly
conference license, York First (transfer from Allegheny Conference)
1950 license,
recommended by York First
Interment: Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York PA
Obit:
1947-48 Mount
Olivet
1950-59 living
in York, no progress
1959 return
to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89
Note: LeRoy K. Beachel taught in the York public schools
for 32 years and taught Sunday School at York Otterbein for more than 50
yrars
BEACHLEY, RAYMOND ELSWORTH
Born: 8-26-1898
Prince William County VA married:
Grace Agnes Morgan
Died: 3-23-2000, Chambersburg obit: [6/15/1897 – 10/30/1980]
Miller-Raker #: 611 married2:
Mrs. Anna Ruth Ross Baker [1983]
Fulton #: no obit2:
[7/1/1914 – 5/1/2002}
Gibble list: no
1920 license
1925 ordained
Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA
Obit:
1921-25 Chewsville
1925-26 Fayetteville
1926-28 instructor,
Quincy Orphanage
1928-57 local
1957 withdrew,
page 82 “engaged full time in commercial enterprise”
Note: The death of his father, layman Elmer C. Beachley of
Myersville MD, is noted in 1935, 28.
Raymond E. Beachley was an active member of Fayetteville Otterbein,
where he directed the choir for more than 60 years. He developed the successful printing
department at Quincy Orphanage in 1928 and founded Craft Press Inc, of
Chambersburg in 1929 – of which he was president until retiring in 1974. The second Mrs. Beachley, nee Ross, was the
widow of a Mr. Harold Gilbert Baker.
BEAMER, WALTER J.
Born: 7-23-1842 married:
Sarepta O. Miller
Died: 1-25-1927 obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 115
Miller-Raker #: 351
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1868 quarterly
conference license, Salem (Littlestown circuit)
1869 license
1873 ordained
Interment: Salem Church at Guldens, Adams County
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 58
1869-70 Fulton mission
1870-73 Perry circuit
1873-76 Shopps
station [Shiremanstown]
1876-80 Baltimore Second
1880-83 presiding elder,
Chambersburg District
1883-84 presiding
elder, Baltimore District
1884-86 presiding
elder, Chambersburg District
1886-88 Hanover
station
1888-90 local
1890-93 presiding
elder, Chambersburg District
1893 local
[1900-01 Gettysburg,
from 11-1-1900 until conference in March 1901]
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania
Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography.
BEAMESDERFER, CORNWELL
Born: 9-2-1893
Klinefeltersville PA married:
Sallie Ebling
Died: 5-11-1969
Lancaster County PA obit:
Eastern Conference 1969, 119
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 quarterly conference
license, Myerstown
1914 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Zion UB Cemetery, Myerstown PA
Obit: Eastern Conference 1969, 119
1914-17 Schaefferstown
1917-18 student,
Albright College at Myerstown
1918-24 “unemployed”,
living in Myerstown
1924-28 Williamstown
1928-34 Shamokin
Second
1934-37 Reading
Salem
1937-39 Tower
City
1939-42 Union
circuit
1942-48 West
Willow
1948-50 Iona
1950-56 Coatesville
1956-57 Refton
1957-58 without
appointment, page 45
1958-60 assistant,
Neffsville
1960 retired
1960-69
Oregon
Note: Cornwell Beamesderfer is the father of Emmett E.
Beamesderfer, Harold E. Beamesderfer and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.
BEAMESDERFER, EMMETT E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list:
1949 license
Interment:
Obit:
1954 dropped:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 48
Note: Emmett E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell
Beamesderfer and the brother of Harold E. and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.
BEAMESDERFER, HAROLD EBLING
Born: 10-6-1916
Myerstown PA married:
Mary Ruth Hoffman
Died: 3-8-2003
Richland PA obit:
[11/3/1917 – 5/30/2005]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly
conference license, Shamokin Second
1945 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1947 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 396
1946 associate,
Palymra First (summer)
1946-47 Grantville
circuit
1947-52 Showmakersville-Bern
1952-62 Steelton
1962-75 Lebanon
Trinity
1975-80 Philadelphia
Juniata Park
1980 Jonestown
1980 retired
Note: Harold E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell
Beamesderfer and the brother of Emmett E. and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.
BEAMESDERFER, LLOYD EBLING
Born: 7-15-1915
Myerstown PA married:
Miriam Ruth Schott
Died: 1-24-2001 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 427
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly
conference license, Shamokin Second
1942 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1951 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 357
1937-38 Mt.
Aetna
1943-55 Williamstown-Tower
City
1955-59 Linglestown
1959-60 Royalton
1960-70 administrator
and chaplain, Dauphin County
1970 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-77 administrator
and chaplain, Dauphin County
1977-81 Steelton
Grace
1981 retired
1981-85
Steelton Grace
Note: Lloyd E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell
Beamesderfer and the brother of Emmett E. and Harold E. Beamesderfer.
BEAMESDERFER, SAMUEL H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1944 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1948 dismissed
Note: Samuel H. Beamesderfer was designated a parish
associate at Highland Presbyterian in Lancaster PA [Presbytery of Donegal] on
June 23, 1998.
BEATTIE, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 10-2-1907 married:
Died: 12-26-1990 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 654
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1926 license,
recommended by Hanover
Interment:
Obit:
1926-29 student, Lebanon Valley College
1932 referred
back to quarterly conference 1931, 37
Note: John W. Beattie is the son of William Metzel
Beattie. He later enrolled in the Army
OCS at Aberdeen MD.
BEATTIE, WILLIAM METZEL
Born: 3-1-1874
Peach Bottom PA married:
Carrie Susan Klinedinst
Died: 8-21-1944 Greencastle PA obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 25
Miller-Raker #: 531 married2:
Ruby Edith Morin Wyand
Fulton #: no obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 386
Gibble list: no
1897 quarterly
conference license, York Second
1904 license
1911 ordained
Interment: River View Cemetery, Williamsport MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 37
1900 Hellam,
resigned after 1 month: 1901, 16
1904-08 Rohrersville
1908-10 Dillsburg
1910-14 Mount Wolf
1914-20 Greencastle
1920-22 Keedysville
1922-25 York Fifth
1925-27 Hanover
1927-30 Shiremanstown
1930-33 Gettysburg
1933-37 Williamsport MD
1937-42 Jefferson
1942-44 Lemasters
Note: William M. Beattie is the father of John W.
Beattie. Miller’s 1968 History of
Pennsylvania Conference, page 390, gives a brief biography.
BEATTY, GEORGE WILLIAM
Born: 3-9-1839 married:
Frances Keller
Died: 1-6-1920 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 371 married2:
Mary E. _____(c1869)
Fulton #: no obit2:
[7/21/1842-4/23/1878]
Gibble list: no married3:
Margaret Maria Wiley (1879)
obit3:
[1/25/1844-7/3/1908]
1973 license married4:Lula
Virginia Zuse (1911)
obit4:
[3/3/1885-11/4/1959]
Interment: Maryland Line Cemetery, Maryland Line MD
Obit:
1869-70 assistant,
Cecil circuit of Maryland Conference of MP Church
1871-73 Stewartstown
mission
1873-75 Shippensburg
circuit
1876 Alto
Dale, did not finish the year
1878-79 Greencastle
(beginning Oct 1878)
1885 returned
to quarterly conference license, page 17
Note: There is
evidence unsupported by conference records that he supplied Spry Otterbein
briefly in the 1870’s and part of the Parkton circuit of the Baltimore
Conference of ME Church during 1903-04.
This person is referred to by several other names – including George
M. Beatty, George McBeatty, J. McBeatty. The fourth Mrs. Beatty is a sister to
Clayton H. Zuse and Harry W. Zuse.
BEATTY, THOMAS BAYARD SR.
Born: 4-2-1881
Quincy PA married:
Clara Emma Eisenbaugh
Died: 9-26-1966 Newfoundland
NJ obit:
[11/16/1884 – 12/12/1965]
Miller-Raker #: 515
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1903 license,
recommended by Mont Alto
Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA
Obit:
1903-05 student, Lebanon
Valley College
1905-06 living
in Dayton OH [student at Bonebrake Seminary?]
1906 withdrew,
page 49
1906-07 faculty,
Masanutten Academy
1907-14 faculty,
Central High School in Pittsburgh PA
1914-16 principal
of schools, Red Lion PA
1916-19 faculty,
Carnegie Institute of Technology
1919-25 faculty,
Lebanon Valley College
1925-44 principal,
Radnor PA High School
1944- faculty,
Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg FL
faculty,
New York University
faculty
Bucknell University
Note: The 1905 BIZARRE [LVC yearbook], page 34,
gives a picture and brief biography.
T. Bayard Beatty taught English, and one of this main interests was in
drama. Mrs. Beatty was a native of Red
Lion and a 1904 graduate of Lebanon Valley, where thy met. Do not confuse this man with his son, T.
Bayard Beatty Jr, born in Red Lion PA 10/20/1908.
BEATTY, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1900-01 Hellam
(served only 1 month, and then resigned)
Note: See 1900, 55 and 1901, 16. Nothing more is known about this man,
although there is a possibility this is George William Beatty.
BECKER, ISAAC
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1888-89 Lititz
and Brunnerville
Note: Isaac Becker was a local preacher who served for one
year. In 1889 Lititz and Brunnerville were
placed on the Lancaster circuit. This
may be Lititz blacksmith Isaac S. Becker (1849-1931), who appears to have
later become a Mormon elder.
BECKLEY, ARTHUR S.
Born: 8-8-1884
Lebanon County PA married:
Emma Elizabeth DeLong
Died: 1914 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 61
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1905 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1909 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Aulenbach’s Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 36
1904-06 Landingville
1906-10 Mont
Clare
1910-12 Grantville
circuit
1912-14 Shamokin
First
BECKLEY, MABEL ESTHER
Born: 9-26-1893
Lebanon County PA married:
[never married]
Died: 5-24-1956
Lebanon PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Iona Cemetery, Iona PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 28
1930-47 missionary
– Moyamba, Sierra Leone
1947-51 missionary
– Tiami, Sierra Leone
1951 furlough
fore health reasons
BECKTEL, RUSSELL GORDON
Born: 3-8-1907
Elizabethville PA married:
Eva Louise Shissler
Died: 1-9-1993 Cape
May NJ obit:
[1912 – 9/26/2012]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1928 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1936 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Brunnerville UM Cemetery, Brunnerville PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 277
1925-26 Sinking
Spring
1926-27 Fontanna
1927-29 Brunnerville
1929-34 Tremont
St. John’s
1934-36 Lebanon
Bethany
1936-40 Mont
Clare Otterbein
1940-41 Silver
Spring circuit (ending 8/29/41)
1941-46 chaplain,
US Air Force (beginning 8/29/41)
1946-47 Philadelphia
Fourth [Burholme]
1947-57 Philadelphia
First [Mt. Pisgah]
1957-59 Harrisburg
State Street
1959-69 Middletown
1969-73 Mountville
St. Paul’s
1973 retired
BEERHALTER, M.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1932 Philadelphia
Third (Jan – Sept); 1932, 21
Note: M.B. Beerhalter, a local minister of Philadelphia
Third, filled the pulpit for the remainder of the conference year following
the death of I. Moyer Hershey on 1/30/1932.
BEHNEY, HARVEY JOSEPH
Born: 9-27-1881
Fredericksburg PA married:
Ada Alleman
Died: 4-7-1961
Lancaster PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 28
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 quarterly
conference license
1901 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1907 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 55
1904-06 Manor
circuit
1906-09 Cressona
1909-16 Manheim
1916-38 Shamokin
First
1938-53 Columbia
Salome
1953 retired
BEHNEY, HENRY
Born: 7-8-1824 near
Myerstown PA married:
Elvina Kalbach [Kelbaugh]
Died: 4-9-1892 obit:
[2/2/1825 – 1/5/1913]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
quarterly
conference license
Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA
Obit:
Note: Henry Behney preached in the German Language as a
local preacher in the Hummelstown area up to the time of his death.
BEHNEY, JOHN BRUCE
Born: 10-15-1905
Ralston PA married:
Dorothy E. Hiester [9/15/1934]
Died: 8-18-1987
Lebanon OH obit:
[1/3/1910 – 12/15/1994]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly
conference license, Annville
1928 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1933 ordained, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1988,
student,
Lebanon Valley College
student,
Yale University
1935-73 faculty,
Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1973 retired
Note: J. Bruce Behney is co-author, with Paul D. Eller, of
Abingdon Press’ 1979 The History of the
Evangelical United Brethren Church.
A biographical sketch appears in Gibble’s History of the East
Pennsylvania Conference, page 558.
Both Rev. and Mrs. Behney are graduates of Lebanon Valley College, and
they were married in the college church in Annville.
BEIGHEL, WILLIAM
Born: 1-31-1817
Spruce Creek PA married:
E.G. _____
Died: 8-10-1883
Pleasant Unity PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 205
Fulton #: 8 & 167
Gibble list: yes
1837 license
1840 ordained,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Pleasant Unity Cemetery, Westmoreland County PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1883, 36
1838-39 Clearfield
circuit
1839 charter member of Allegheny
Conference
1839-40 Huntingdon
circuit
1840-41 no minutes taken
1841-42 Washington
circuit
1842-43
1843-44 Westmoreland
circuit
1844-45 Ligonier
circuit
1845-46
1846-47 presiding
elder, Western District
1847-48 Westmoreland
circuit
1848-49 Somerset
circuit
1849-50 presiding
elder, Huntingdon District
1850-51 presiding
elder, Eastern District
1851-52 Ligonier
circuit
1852-53 presiding elder,
Western District
1853-54 presiding elder,
Eastern District
1854-55 Westmoreland
circuit
1855-56 Washington
circuit
1867-57 Madison circuit
1857-58 presiding elder,
Western District
1858-59 presiding elder,
Northern District
1859-60 suspended for 1
year
1860-61 Springfield
circuit
1861 withdrew,
irregularly
1861-74
1874 transfer
(?) to Allegheny Conference
BEILSTEIN, CLYDE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 519
Gibble list: no
1928 quarterly
conference license
1929 license,
Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1929-32 student
1932-35 YMCA
1935 no
longer listed
Note: Clyde Beilstein graduated from Otterbein University
in 1927 with his hometown listed as Connellsville PA. He is listed as a pastor of a United
Brethren church in Englewood, Montgomery County OH, in “the 1930’s.” He returned to Connellsville as a Rally Day
speaker in 1964 and attened the Miami (OH) manual conference sessions in
1966.
BEISTLINE, ALLEN ROBERT
Born: 6-8-1928
Steelton PA married:
Margaret Ann Greenawalt
Died: 2-3-1985
Pottsville PA obit:
[6/13/1931 – 5/2/2011]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1967 1icense,
Eastern Conference: recommended by Steelton Centenary
1969 ordained,
Eastern Conference
Interment: St. Michael’s Cemetery, Birdsboro PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 301
1965-75 Birdsboro
Christ
1975-78 Birdsboro
Christ & Focht Memorial
1978-84 Birdsboro
Focht Memorial
1984-85 Frackville
First & St. Clair
Note: Allen R. Beistline is an uncle to Ronald J.
Beistline of the Susquehanna Conference.
BEITTEL, CHARLES ROUSS
Born: 4-20-1893
Columbia PA married:
Edna Frances Balsbaugh
Died: 5-29-1974
Harrisburg PA obit:
Eastern Conference 1967, 130
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1915 quarterly
conference license, Columbia Salome
1918 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1924 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 414
1917-18 Diamond
Grove IL
1918 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1918-22 Royalton
1922-28 Schuylkill
Haven
1928-64 Harrisburg
Otterbein
1964 retired
1964-70 visitation pastor, Mechanicsburg First
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1970-72 visitation pastor, Harrisburg Otterbein
Note: Charles R. Beittel is the father of Dale R.
Beittel. Mrs. Beittel is the daughter
of Peter Hummel Balsbaugh.
BEITTEL DALE RUSSELL
Born: 3-5-1924 married:
Barbara Ruth Kolb
Died: 5-24-2012 obit:
[1926 – 12/2/2015]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1943 quarterly
conference license
1945 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1950 ordained
Interment: Mound Cemetery, Marietta OH
Obit:
1943-44 Enders-Powell
Valley circuit
1944-45 Hillsdale
circuit
1945-49 student,
Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT
1949 dismissed,
joined West Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church
Chicago
Oak Park
Perrysburg-Toledo
First
Columbus
Riverside
Cincinnati
Armstrong
Springfield
Central
Columbus
King Avenue
Zanesville
Grace
1973-82 Marietta
Christ
retired
Marietta
OH Belpre Congregational
New
Martinsville WV First Christian
Charleston
WV Boyd Memorial Christian
Note: Dale R. Beittel is the son of Charles R.
Beittel.
BELL, CHALMERS REASON
Born: 8-13-1918
McKeesport PA married:
Eileen F. Gilbert
Died: 1-30-1995 Clearfeld PA obit: [7/3/1922 – 10/15/2011]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Woodside Cemetery, Spring Valley PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 361
Mount
Hope, Allegheny Conference
Conference
staff
1970 charter
member of Western Pennsylvania Conference UM
1984 retired
assistant, Clearfield West Side
BELL, LLEWELLYN E.
Born: 12-28-1921
York County PA married:
Elizabeth Ann Sparks
Died: 8-20-1973
Columbus OH obit:
[11/24/1928 – 7/1/2012]
Miller-Raker #: 720
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1950 license,
recommended by Spry Otterbein
Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Spry PA
Obit: [York Daily Record
8/22/1973, page 8]
1950-52 attending
Otterbein College, Westerville OH
1953 dropped,
change in vocational plans
Note: Llewwellyn and Elizabeth Bell graduated from
Otterbein College in 1952 and 1950 respectively. According to his obituary, he was a ninth
grade teacher in the Columbus school system, a six-year Navy veteran, and had
lived in Columbus OH for 21 years. In
1976, Mrs. Bell married a Mr. James Malta.
BEMESDERFER, JAMES ORVILLE
Born: 10-22-1911 married:
Amelia A. Millovich
Died: 1-16-1999 obit:
[11/7/1914 – 3/28/2018]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1934 quarterly
conference license, Lebanon Salem
1937 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon Covenant
1939 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1999, ?
1940-46 Potttstown
Salem & Birdsboro Christ
1946-51 Allentown
Zion [Trinity]
1951-59 Cleona
& Lebanon St. John’s
1959-76 chaplain,
Lebanon Valley College
1968-76
Mt. Gretna
1976 retired
BENDER, E. ETHAN
Born: 3-27-1881
Elizabethville PA married:
Estella S.M. Leese
Died: 3-7-1944 obit:
[2/24/1886 – 9/?/1968]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1910 quarterly
conference license, Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1910 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1912 ordained,
East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Union Deposit Cemetery, Union Deposit PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 16
1910-13 Allentown
Sixth Street [Grace]
1913-15 Williamstown
1915-21 Bellegrove
1921-32 Allentown
Sixth Street [Grace]
1932-34 Campbelltown & Lebanon West
1934-44 Lebanon
West
BENDLE, ARTHUR JAMES
Born: 11-12-1876
England married:
Matilda Trabert
Died: 2-3-1947
Johnstown PA obit:
[2/7/1873 – 6/11/1946]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
? license,
Allegheny Conference
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit:
1900 Hollsopple
Bethel (July – Sept)
1900-01 West
Decatur (resigned soon after conference)
…
1904-05 Lloydell
Note: Arthur J. Bendle is listed as "others employed
in the conference." He and his
wife were lieutenants in the Salvation Army and served in Johnstown following
the 1889 flood. He is the author of
the 1917 book Is the Bible What It
Claims to Be?
BENEDUM, GEORGE
Born: 3-3-1766
Cumberland County PA married:
Magdalena Minnich
Died: 3-29-1837 OH obit:
[1/23/1766 – 4/23/1843]
Miller-Raker #: 48
Fulton #: no
Gibble #: yes
1803 license
1815 ordained, Miami
Ohio Conference
Interment: Liberty Cemetery, Fairfield County OH
Obit:
1810 charter
member of Miami Ohio Conference
Note: George Benedum is considered one of the founders of
the UB Church in Ohio. See Drury, page
308. Krumm’s 1958 History of the
Scioto Conference, page 7, gives a brief biography. Chapter 3 of the 1908 denomination study
course Our Heroes discusses George Benedum.
His daughter Mary Magdalene Benedum is the mother of Ohio UB preacher
Alexander C. Jeffries , father of the heavyweight
boxing champion Jim Jeffries.
BENNETCH, FREDERICK E.
Born: 12-13-1930
Rehrersburg PA married:
Mary Lou Ruegsegger
Died: 7-8-2014 Camp
Hill PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1955 1icense, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Schaefferstown
1960 ordained,
Michigan Conference
Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Marysville PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 260
1957-60 student,
Evangelical Theological Seminary
1958-59
assistant, Chicago Diversey Parkway
1960 transfer
to Michigan Conference, page 95
1960-62 Ludington
Zion
1962 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1962-67 Shamokin
Second
1967-70 Millersburg
Hebron
1970 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundary
1970-80 Millersburg
Hebron
1980-93 Marysville
Wesley
1993 retired
1993-95
associate, Wellsville
BENNETT, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1931 license,
Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First
Interment:
Obit:
1935
name erased, page 93
Note: William Bennett apparently never served under
appointment and was never ordained. He is otherwise unknown.
BENSON, HARRY KREITZER.
Born: 1-3-1877
Lebanon PA married:
Eva Ronald
Died: 9-27-1954
Seattle WA obit:
[1883 – 1980]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Acacia Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle
WA
Obit:
1899 transfer
to Oregon Conference
Note: Harry K. Benson graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1899. The Hood River Sun for 10/5/1899 describes Rev. H. K. Benson as “the young minister who arrived here last week from Lebanon, Pa., to take charge as pastor of the U. B. church for the ensuing year” and states “Mr. Benson is an earnest, forcible and eloquent speaker and has made a very favorable impression with our people.” In 1902 he was “appointed” to serve as the principal of the Kent WA public schools. He eventually obtained a PhD and taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and authored a college textbook on industrial chemical engineering.
BENSON, L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1913-16 Hustontown
1916-17 Clarion River
Note: L. Benson served as “others
employed by the conference” and is otherwise unknown. This may be Rev. Louis Harry Benson
(1892-1985) who was licensed by the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical
Church in 1926.
BERGER, CHRISTIAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 52
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1803 license
1805 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
BERGER, JOSEPH [see BARGER, JOSEPH]
BESHORE, ANDREW S.
Born: 5-17-1888 married:
Nannie Burris
Died: 6-28-1961 obit:
[8/20/1880 – 7/30/1945]
Miller-Raker #: 572
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1912 license, recommended by Windsor: 112, 33
Interment: Kearney Cemetery,
Kearney NE
Obit:
1912-14 attending
Shenandoah Institute, Dayton VA
1914-15 living in Aurora NE
1915 transfer to Nebraska Conference, page 80
BICKLEY, AUGUSTUS SR.
Born: 1820 married: Isabella McKee
Died: 11-11-1891 Chambersburg PA obit: [1819 – 8/28/1891]
Miller-Raker #: 268
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1843 license
Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Chambersburg PA
Obit:
1850-51 Perry circuit, did not finish the year
1860-61 Mercersburg
circuit
1872-78 chaplain, Franklin County Poor House
1879 withdrew,
over issue of secret societies
1881-87 chaplain, Franklin County Poor House
Note: Augustus Bickley Sr. is the father of Barnet A. Bickley. The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. Augustus Bickley Jr. served Alto Dale circuit for the Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1890-91, although he is not listed as a ministerial member of that conference. Beer’s 1887 History of Franklin County, page 213, states that “Mr. Bickley commenced holding religious service at the poor-house in 1836, and continued with few interruptions until 1872, when he was regularly elected chaplain, with a salary.”
BICKLEY, BARNET A.
Born: 8-3-1838 Chambersburg PA married:
Died: 2-17-1863 Chambersburg PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 334
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1863 license
Interment:
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1864,
91
Note: Barnet A. Bickley is the son
of Augustus Bickley Sr. This name is
sometimes given as BERNARD. His father
also had a brother named Barnet (1816-1880) – who married a daughter
(Delilah) of John Fohl.
BIELSTEIN, CLYDE HENRY
Born: 3-15-1907 married:
Madeline Violet Lemmon
Died: 2-?-1985 Dayton OH obit:
[4/26/1907 – 3/14/2003]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 519 [BEILSTEIN]
Gibble list: no
1928 quarterly conference license
1929 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
Dayton OH
Englewood OH
1932-35 YMCA
1935 no longer listed
BIELY, ALDEN GEORGE
Born: 4-25-1902 Lebanon PA married:
Rena Miller Borgner
Died: 11-27-1977 Lebanon County PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 58
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Hilda Catherine Jenkins (Castor)
Fulton #: no obit2:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 62
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem
1926 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
Lebanon PA
Obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference
1978, 486]
1925-68 Lebanon Hebron
1968 retired
Note: Alden George Biely is the
father of Alden George Biely Jr. The second Mrs. Biely was the widow of a Mr.
Norman Richard Castor.
BIELY, ALDEN GEORGE JR
Born: 4-3-1930 Lebanon PA married:
Died: 2-10-2017 Annville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1952 license
Interment:
Obit:
1953-54 student, United Seminary in Dayton OH
1954 dropped: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 48
Note: Alden George Biely Jr. is the
son of Alden George Biely. He
graduated from Lebanon Valley College with a degree in music education in
1952, served as an organist and choir director at several churches in Lebanon
County and initiated the Mt. Gretna Campmeeting mass choir. His daughter Beth married Mark Wethington,
son of missionary and LVC professor Elbert Wethington.
BIERMAN, GEORGE FILLMORE.
Born: 8-25-1855 Upper Bern PA married: Sarah Jane Wagner
Died: 8-19-1939 Reading PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 26
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 quarterly conference license
1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery,
Reading PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1939, 16
1891-92 Penbrook
1892-95 Marietta
1895-98 Halifax
1898-00 Hopekand
1900-01 Elverson
1901-02 on leave, living in Birdsboro PA
1902-09 faculty, Gibraltar School in Birdsboro
1909-24 faculty, Reading High School for Boys
1921-22 Pottstown
1924-25 Pottstown
1925-29 instructor in Spanish, Schuylkill [Albright] College in
Reading
1929 retired
Note: George F. Bierman is a brother
to the educator Dr. Elijah Benjamin Bierman (1839-1909) who was on the first
faculty at Lebanon Valley College and served as its president 1890-97. Rev. Bierman received a D.D. degree from
The Chicago Lutheran Seminary in 1901 and spent most of the rest of his years
in education as a member of the Reading Salem congregation. He is also the author of the “Bierman
Family” booklet. Mrs. Bierman’s dates,
not given in her conference obituary, are 4-30-1857 to 8-19-1922.
BIGGS, GEORGE JR.
Born: 6-2-1907 Youngwood PA married: Martha Ellen Wingate
Died: 6-13-2001 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 404
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 528
Gibble list: no
1929 quarterly conference license
1930 license, Allegheny Conference
1935 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 2002, 313
1928-32 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1932-35 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
Dayton OH
1932-33 Aley Chapel
1935-36 assistant, Wiliknsburg Christ
1936-38 Middleburg
1938-44 Altoona Greenwood
1944-50 McKeeesport Shoemaker
1950-68 Johnstown Homestead Avenue
1968-83 Arbutus Park Manor
1973 retired
1973-1985 Arbutus Park Manor
BIGHAM, SOLOMON
Born: 5-3-1817 married:
Died: 6-30-1889 Duncannon PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 327
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1862 license
1863 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1890,
21
1863-64 Ickesburg
mission
1864-66 Carlisle circuit
1866-68 Rocky Spring station
1868-69 Orrstown station
1869-70 Bendersville
1870-73 located, living in Shiremanstown
1873-78 Pennel’s ME
Duncannon,
from 10/17/1879 until conference in March 1880
Note: The Chronicle 1996,
page 88, gives a brief biography.
BIGLER, ADAM G. JR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1935 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1941 referred
BINGHAM, ALTA [BAER]
Born: 10-23-1886 Hanover PA married:
James Bingham
Died: 1-14-1958 Quincy PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 17
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1929 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1958, 46
Note: Mrs. Bingham was never
assigned to a church, but always active in churches served by her husband.
BINGHAM, CYRUS C.
Born: 4-23-1854 Franklin County PA married: Mary Elizabeth Glee (5/1880)
Died: 1-9-1919 Shiloh UB Church,
Bigler PA obit: [10/30/1856 –
12/31/1928]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 271
Gibble list: no
1896 license, Allegheny Conference
1899 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Old Bradford Cemetery,
Bigler PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1919, 86
1895-97 Glasgow
1897-00 Liverpool
1900-03 Woodland
1903-04 Wilmore
1904-07 Runville
1907-09 East Freedom
1909-11 Somerset
1911-12 living in Portage
1912-13 Greenwood & Juniata
1913-14 living in Juniata
1914-16 East Salem
1916-19 Bigler
BINGHAM, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 373
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1874 license
1877 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1874-77 Ickesburg circuit
1877-80 York Springs circuit
1880-81 resigned York Springs, helped on Horse Valley
1881-85 Greencastle
1885 withdrew, pages 4 & 23
BINGHAM, JAMES G.
Born: 12-14-1884 Toronto, Canada married: Alta Baer
Died: 6-22-1946 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 46
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1920 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third
1923 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Baer Mennonite Cemetery,
Hanover PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1946, 17
1921-22 Chambers Hill
1922-23 Sinking Spring
1923-26 Stoverdale
1926-29 student, Bonbrake [United] Theological Seminary in
Dayton OH
1926-29
Englewood OH
1929-30 Highspire
1930-31 not assigned, living in Harrisburg
1931-32 Campbelltown (beginning 5/50/1931; see 1931, 19)
1932-37 Coatesville
1937-42 West Willow
1942-44 Halifax
1944-46 Lebanon Memorial
BINKLEY, JOHN
Born: 1-20-1833 married:
Fannie Eshelman
Died: 2-12-1918 obit:
[11/9/1832 - ]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1865 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1868 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Lebanon PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1918, 42
1867-69 Susquehanna circuit
1869 charter member of East German Conference
1869-71 Bellegrove circuit
1871-72 Pinegrove circuit
1872-75 Union Deposit circuit
1875-76 Jonestown circuit
1876-78 Bellegrove circuit
1878-81 not assigned, living in Jonestown
1881-82 Lebanon circuit
1882-83 not assigned
1883-84 Valley View circuit
1884-85 not assigned
1885-88 Fishing Creek circuit
1888-98 not assigned
1898 retired
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: The reason for the gaps in
service is not known. The death date
is also variously reported as 1-12-1918 and 2-6-1918.
BINOD, ANDREW
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 159
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1830 license
Interment:
Obit:
BISHOP, JAMES MADISON
Born: 8-9-1821, Littlestown PA married:
Eliza Over
Died: 3-27-1891 obit:
[12/18/1824 - 12/16/1889]]
Miller-Raker #: 273
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1844 license
1847 ordained
Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Chambersburg
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC
1892, 14
1845-46 Perry County
mission
1846-48 Chambersburg
circuit
1848-49 Rocky Spring
circuit
1849-50 Chambersburg
station, did not finish the year
1850-57 located
1857-59 Greencastle
circuit
1859-63 presiding elder,
Chambersburg District
1863-65 Rocky Spring
station
1865-66 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1866-67 Newburg circuit
1867-69 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1869-70 Orrsrtown station
1870-71 Shippensburg
mission station
1871 located
1873-74
Greencastle
1879 withdrew, over issue of secret societies
1889 appointed superintendent of the Chambersburg
District by UBOC dissenters
Note: The Chronicle 1996,
page 88, gives a brief biography. James
M. Bishop is a brother to Jeremiah P. Bishop.
BISHOP, JEREMIAH PHILIP
Born: 1828 married:
Elmira Snively
Died: 1890 obit:
[1840 – 1909]
Miller-Raker #: 295
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1851 license
1854 ordained
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Greencastle PA
Obit:
1851-52 Chambersburg circuit
1852-53 Rocky Spring
circuit
1853-54 York Spring
circuit
1854-55 Mercersburg
circuit
1855-57 Philadelphia
Clinton Street station
1857-58 Harrisburg
mission
1858-59 Big Spring circuit
1859-60 Big Spring station
1860-61 Orrstown station
1861-62 Baltimore mission
station
1862-65 Baltimore English mission
1865-66 Rocky Spring
station
1866-67 Shopps station
[Shiremanstown]
1867-70 Mechaniscburg
station
1870 withdrew, over doctrines about hell
Note: The Chronicle 1996,
page 89, gives a brief biography.
Jeremiah P. Bishop is a brother to James M. Bishop.
BITTNER, MELVIN S.
Born: 2-14-1893 Garrett PA married:
Savilla Romesberg (1918)
Died: 12-19-1959 obit:
Allegheny Conference 1948, 69
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mrs. Viloa A. Brannen Kime (1949)
Fulton #: 427 & 479 obit2:
[11/4/1891 – 5/17/1981]
Gibble list: no
1915 quarterly conference license
1916 license, Allegheny Conference
1920 ordained, White River Conference
Interment: Grandview Cemetery,
Altoona PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1960, 32
1917-18 East Salem (beginning 11/1917)
1919 Glasgow (summer)
1920 transfer to White River Conference
1920-21 Snyder Chapel of the Crawfordsville circuit
1921-22 Crawfordsville circuit
1923 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1923-28 Woodland
1928-59 Altoona Juniata
1959 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Bittner (nee
Brannen) outlived three husbands – she was the widow of a Mr. Edwin Grant
Kime (1892-1947), and when widowed a second time she married a Mr. Martin
Kensinger Glass (1876-1970).
BITZEL, PETER
Born: married:
Margaret Hartner
Died: 7-30-1849 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 256
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1841 license
1844 ordained
Interment: Baltimore MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1850,
16
1844-47 Baltimore mission
Note: Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old
Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives some biographical information.
BLACK, NATHANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 57
Gibble list: no
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Allegheny
1845-46
1846-47 Washington
1847-59
1849-51 agent, Mt. Pleasant College
1851 name erased for leaving his wife and child
BLACKBURN, EDWARD J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
student,
Otterbein University
1890-91 Waterford (last part of year)
1891-92 BradenAburg
1896-97 East Freedom
1897-98 Clarington
1900-02 student, Union Seminary
1902-03 Seward IA
Note: E.J. Blackburn served in the Allegheny
Conference under “others employed in the conference.” Nothing more is known about this
person. The 1900 journal of the
Miami Conference states “E.J. Blackburn of the seminary [at Dayton] was
recommended as worthy to receive beneficiary aid.” He is listed in the United Brethren year
books up to and including 1914 as a member of the Miami Conference with
various addresses in Ohio, mostly Dayton.
BLACKBURN, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 6-8-1866 MD married:
Clara May Haws (9/14/1886)
Died: 4-27-1944 Los Angeles County CA obit: [c1868 - ]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 235
Gibble list: no
1890 license, Allegheny Conference
1893 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Inglewood Park Cemetery,
Inglewood CA
Obit: California Conference 1944,
50
1890-92 New Paris
1892-94 Bellefonte
1894-96 Liverpool
1896-98 Braddock Second
1898-99 Wilmore
1899-01 Johnstown Third
1901-06 Rockwood
1906-08 Orbisonia
1908-12 Herminie
1912 transfer to California Conference
1912-13 Riverside First
BLACKBURN, W.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 213
Gibble list: no
1885 license, Allegheny Conference
1886 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1885-86 student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary
1887 transfer to
BLAIR, JOHN G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1861-62 York circuit
BLATT, WILLIAM CARL
Born: 12-3-1902 Royalton PA married:
Ruth N. Goudy
Died: 2-22-1985 Brandon FL obit: Eastern
Pennsylvania Conf 1996,?
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg State Street
1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1932 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Limona Village Cemetery,
Brandon FL
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1985, 299
1926-29 Stoverdale
1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
Dayton OH
1929-30 Waterhouse-Bonehill, Miami Conference
1930-31 Houghton Congregational Christian Church in
Houghton OH
1932-33 Lebanon circuit
1933-40 Silver Spring circuit
1940-68 Mont Clare
1968 retired
1968-73
visitation pastor, Limona Village UM Chapel in Brandon FL
BLECKER, AARON M.
Born: 1-15-1844 Lebanon County PA married: Kate _____
Died: 11-28-1924 Myerstown PA obit: [2/20/1840 – 1/24/1905]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Lillie L. Bomgardner
Fulton #: no obit2:
[5/4/1877 – 7/6/1962]
Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]
1885 license, East German Conference
1888 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Zion UM Cemetery,
Myerstown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1925, 14
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Araon M. Blecker is a brother
of Jared R. Blecker. “Brother Blecker
never served as a regularly appointed pastor…
He ministered extensively by assisting the different presiding elders
in the conducting of quarterly conferences, and doing some evangelistic work,
as well as relieving pastors when in need of a supply.” He also served on various Conference and
General boards. He appears to have
operated a photography shop in Myerstown 1863-1898.
BLECKER, JARED R.
Born: 10-15-1847 Lebanon County PA married: Elizabeth Zeller
Died: 4-1-1912 Myerstown PA obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf
1926, 13]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]
1881 quarterly conference
license, Mt. Aetna
1882 license, East German Conference
1884 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: United Brethren
Cemetery, Myerstown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1912, 32
1881-83 Northampton circuit
1883-86 Lehigh Valley circuit
1886-89 Sinking Spring circuit
1889-93 Baltimore Old Otterbein
1893-97 Lebanon Memorial
1897-99 Bellegrove circuit
1899-01 Palmyra First
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02 on leave, living in Myerstown
1902-03 Schuylkill Haven
1903-05 Iona circuit
1905-07 Bern circuit
1907 located for health reasons
Note: Jared R. Blecker is a brother
of Aaron M. Blecker. Mrs. Blecker’s
dates, which are not given in the conference journal, are 10/3/1847 –
2/18/1926. Her father George Zeller
(1818-1889) was a local preacher instrumental in establishing the Mt. Aetna
church and a nephew to [Bishop] Andrew Zeller (1755-1839) of the Miami
Conference.
BLOUCH, GIDEON LIGHT
Born: 5-12-???? Lebanon PA married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-14 Jonestown circuit
1919 referred
Note: Gideon L. Blouch eneter
Lebanon Valley College in 1912. His
picture and limited information appear in the 1915 LVC yearbook Bizarre. The 1947 alumni directory places him as a
teacher in Joliet IL.
BLOUCH, HERBERT ROY
Born: 3-27-1910 Lebanon PA married:
Mildred Catherine Lengle
Died: 3-31-1988 Cornwall PA obit:
Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1994,7.274
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1931 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Bethany
1933 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1938 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Lebanon PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1988, 7.17
1934-35 Mt. Aetna
1935-38 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1938-41 Northampton circuit
1941-43 Jonestown
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-53 Allentown Grace
1953-56 Manor circuit
1956-59 Sunbury Otterbein
1956-61 Silver Springs-Centerville
1961-64 Hempfield
1964-75 Reading Faith
1975 retired
1976-77
Shirk’s
1977-80
Kauffman’s
BLUBAUGH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 7-20-1882 Thomastown married:
Elizabeth Middour
Died: 6-8-1973 obit:
Baltimore Conference 1981, 372
Miller-Raker #: 644
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1908 license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC: recommended by
Waynesboro
1917 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC
Interment: Quincy Cemetery
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1974,
390
1907-08 Littlestown mission
1908-10 Carlisle mission
1910-12 Shippensburg mission
1912-13 Lemasters, did not finish the year
1913-14 Hagerstown mission
1914-17 Lemasters
1917-26 Chambersburg King Street
1926
transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1926-33
Myersville
1933-52
Baltimore Franklin Street
1952 retired
Note: Mrs. Blubaugh was a niece of
Etta and Harvey Kitzmiller, benefactors of the Quincy Home. While B.F. Blubaugh (Chambersburg King
Street), Amos M. Funk (Greencastle) and Walter I. Kauffman (Franklintown) all
transferred from the UBOC at the same time, there is no evidence of any
connection.
BOEHM, CHARLES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble #: no
1828 license to exhort
1830 license
1832 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1831-32 Juniata circuit
BOEHM, HENRY
Born: 6-8-1775 Lancaster County PA married:
Died: 12-19-1875 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 28
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1800 license
1802 license, Methodist Episcopal Church
1803 ordained, Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Staten Island NY
Obit: Newark Conference ME 1876, 53
Note: Henry Boehm is the son of
Martin Boehm.
BOEHM, MARTIN
Born: 11-30-1725 Lancaster County PA married: Eve Steiner
Died: 3-23-1812 Lancaster County PA obit: [12/25/1734 – 11/26/1822]
Miller-Raker #: 2
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1756 ordained, Mennonite Church
Interment: Boehm’s Chapel,
Lancaster County PA
Obit:
1800 elected [with Otterbein] one of first two bishops of
the United Brethren Church
Note: Martin Boehm is the father of
Henry Boehm.
BOESHORE, HARRY FRANKLIN
Born: 4-13-1894 Lebanon PA married:
Adeline Florence Murray
Died: 1-24-1926 Cressona obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 51
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, South
Pottstown PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1926, 11
1913-17 Pottstown
1917-19 Reading Trinity
1919-21 Shamokin Trinity
1923-26 Cressona
Note: Beginning in 1924 Harry F.
Boeshore was unable to perform full pastoral duties and continued to live in
the parsonage while the primary pastoral duties were performed by another
pastor.
BOGER, CALVIN ULYSSES
Born: 4-11-1868 Lebanon County married: Clara Nye
Died: 1930 Philadelphia PA obit: [1870-1925]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1894 license, East German Conference: recommended by Lebanon First [Salem], see Gibble, 315
Interment: Ebenezer, Lebanon PA
Obit:
1896 membership ceased
BOLES, HUBERT ALLEN
Born: 10-3-1921 Beech Grove IN married: Dorothy Mae Lynch [9/25/1942]
Died: 9-2-1985 obit:
[6/14/1922 – 4/27/2000]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1941 license, Baptist Church
1942 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment:
Obit: West Ohio Conference 1986,?
1947-50 Bradenville, Allegheny Conference of the EUB Church
1948 transfer to Allegheny Conference of the EUB Church
1948-50 Bradenville
1950-56 Woodland
1956-58 Punxsutawney First (ending 1/1958)
1958-59 Tampa FL, Florida Conference (beginning 1/1958)
1959 transfer to Florida Conference
BOLTON, JOSEPH L.
Born: 10-14-1845 Lebanon County PA married: Esther A. _____
Died: 12-23-1917 Harrisburg PA obit: [5/24/1846 – 12/2/1870]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mary E. Feeser
Fulton #: no obit2:
[9/23/1846 – 11/25/1919]
Gibble list: yes
1875 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Willow Grove Cemetery,
Linglestown PA
Obit:
1881 name erased
Note: A member of the Linglestown
church, Joseph L. Bolton was school teacher/principal and justice of the
peace.
BOMBERGER, JOSEPH WILLIAM
Born: 11-7-1871 Palmyra PA married:
Sara E. Parker
Died: 11-20-1943 Palmyra PA obit:
[6/30/1875 – 5/12/1955]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by
Harrisburg First
Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery,
Palmyra PA
Obit:
1911-1914 living in Annville
1914 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
Note: 1914, 13 lists Joseph W.
Bomberger as transferring to the Pennsylvania Conference, but there is not
record that this actually occurred. He
is last listed in the 1914 UB Yearbook as a member of the East Pennsylvania
Conference living in Annville. There
is no record of him as a student or staff member at Lebanon Valley
College. He was a student at Lebanon
Valley College with ministerial intentions, but appears to have left without
graduating (he had a 5-year-old daughter who died on Christmas Day 1912) and
stayed in Annville for a few years before moving to Gardners PA as the
railroad station agent.
BONAWITZ, PETER
Born: 10-29-1784 Berks County PA married: Barbara _____
Died: 9-10-1852 Linglestown PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 266
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1842 license
Interment:
Obit:
1846
charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1849
expelled
Note: Peter Bonawitz was an elder
in the Linglestown congregation organized in 1827 by John Winebrenner that
erected the first church building in what became the Church of God
denomination. In 1843 Bonawitz and his
wife Barbara sold the Linglestown UB congregation the lot for its first
church building.
BONEWELL, JOHN W.
Born: 6-20-1813 married:
Died: 10-11-1875 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 291
Fulton #: 76
Gibble list: no
1848 ordained, on credentials from Primitive Methodist Church
Interment: Hershey Cemetery,
Richfield OH
Obit:
1848-49 Philadelphia
Clinton Street Mission
1849-50 Rocky Spring
circuit
1850-51 Chambersburg
station
1851 transfer
to Allegheny Conference
1851-52 Jefferson circuit
1852-54 Juniata circuit
[Three Springs]
1854-55 Schellsburg
circuit
1855-56 Mahoning circuit
1856-57 Clearfield circuit
1857-59 Springfield circuit
1859-60 Allegheny circuit
1860-61 local relation for 1 year
1861 transfer to “any other annual conference he may
wish to join”
Note: The Chronicle 1996,
page 90, gives a brief biography. J.W.
Bonewell apparently brought the Clinton Street Mission with him into the
denomination. One source lists him
preaching in Columbia, East Pennsylvania Conference, 1854-55 – but this may
have been for revival meetings or some other special circumstances. It has not been confirmed that the “Elder
John W. Bonewell” buried in Richfield OH who was “in the ministry 32 years”
is the John W. Bonewell whose service record appears above.
BOOK, WILLIAM J.
Born: married:
Barbara
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1930-31 Linglestown circuit
Note: William J. Book supplied the
Linglestown circuit (Linglestown & Colonial Park) during the first part
of the conference year. He is not
listed as a local pastor, and his credentials are not known.
BORING, ADA LEROY
Born: 9-10-1878 Cherry Tree PA married: Laura May Felix (3/31/1902)
Died: 2-7-1972 Altoona PA obit:
[1/29/1880 – 3/14/1963]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 304
Gibble list: no
1902 license, Allegheny Conference
1908 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park,
Altoona PA
Obit:
1902-03 Glasgow
Bellwood
1918 returned to quarterly conference license
Note: A.L. Boring was a 1905
graduate of Otterbein Universoty.
BORING, EZEKIEL B.
Born: 1-15-1780 Baltimore County MD married: Catharine Moore
Died: 2-14-1861 obit:
[12/12/1784 – 11/16/1853]
Miller-Raker #: 127
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1825 license
1828 ordained
Interment: UB Cemetery, Manchester
MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1862,
76&78
1828-29 Juniata circuit
1829-31 appointments not
listed in journal
1831-32 presiding elder,
Chambersburg & Juniata & Huntingdon circuits
1832-34 presiding elder,
Huntingdon District
1834-35 Cumberland
circuit
1835-36 Lancaster station
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the
East Pennsylvania Conference, page 165, gives a brief biography. He is the namesake of Bishop Ezekiel Boring
Kephart (1834-1906).
BORTSFIELD, MATTHIAS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 49
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1804 license
Interment:
Obit:
1818 charter member of Muskingum Conference
BOSSLER, ETHAN ALLEN G.
Born: 4-12-1866 Middletown PA married: Kathryn Hemperly
Died: 7-3-1960 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 44
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1886 quarterly conference license, Royalton
1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1890 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Paxtang Mausoleum,
Harrisburg PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1960, 57
1890-93 Oberlin
1893-07 Lancaster Covenant
1907-13 Steelton
1913-17 Harrisburg State Street
1917-18 retired
1918-21 Middletown
1921 retired
BOSTON, ARTHUR A.
Born: 12-17-1922 married:
Helen Frain
Died: 9-3-2005 Greenville OH obit: [8/18/1921 – 8/26/2012]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1949 license, recommended by Philadelphia Second
1952 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery,
Marietta OH
Obit:
1950-52 Laura OH Congregational Christian
1952-57 Lebanon Bethany
1957 granted “certificate of recommendation”
to
the Southwestern Association of the Ohio Conference of the United Church of
Christ
Note: A.A. Boston is a graduate of Bonebrake
[United] Seminary in Dayton OH.
BOUGHTER, CHARLES EDWIN
Born: 2-10-1868 Lebanon County PA married: Clara Wagner Fritz
Died: 12-4-1922 obit:
[6/30/1869 – 5/6/1947]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, East German Conference
1894 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery,
Reading PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1923, 15
1891-93 Montana [Aristes]
1893-95 Paxinos circuit [Shamokin circuit]
1895-96 Susquehanna circuit
1896-99 Cressona circuit
1899-01 West Lebanon circuit
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-03 Intercourse
1903-10 Ephrata
1910-15 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1915-16 Harrisburg First
1916-20 Reading Zion
1920-22 Lykens
Note: Charles E. Boughter is an
uncle to Harvey D. Boughter.
BOUGHTER, HARVEY DIXON
Born: 9-17-1870 Fredericksburg PA married: Emma Elizabeth Daub
Died: 5-23-1940 Decatur IL obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 35
Miller-Raker #: 664
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1900 ordained, Churches of God
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Fredericksburg PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1940,
33
Upper
Sandusky OH
Martinsburg
PA
Altoona
PA
Chambersburg
PA
Decatur
IL
1922 transfer to UB Church, Oregon Conference
1922-26 president, Philomath College
1926-30 Greenmount
1930 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1930-31 Greenmount
1931-34 Chewsville
1934-36 Fayetteville
1936-40 Dover
Note: Harvey D. Boughter is a
nephew to Charles E. Boughter.
BOUGHTER, JOHN W.
Born: 6-10-1837 Lancaster County PA married: Mary A. Simmons
Died: 5-24-1914 obit:
[5/31/1839 – 3/15/1915]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1870 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1881 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Stoverdale Cemetery,
Stoverdale PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1914, 33
1868-69 Union Deposit circuit
1870-76
1876-77 Lebanon circuit
1877-79
1879-81 Susquehanna circuit
1881-82 Valley View circuit
1882-84 Middleburg circuit
1884-84 Freeburg circuit
1885-87 Fishburn circuit
1887-89 apparently w/o appointment
1889-90 Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (see
1890, 18)
1890 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1890-92 Lititz circuit
1892-93 Ruhl’s station
1893-95 Chestnut Grove circuit
1895-96 Royalton
1896-97 Lebanon circuit (English)
Note: This surname is also rendered
BUCHTER.
BOUGHTER, S.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1897-98 Middleburg circuit
Note: S.B. Boughter was a quarterly
conference pastor in the East German Conference (see 1898, 18).
BOVEY, DANIEL R.
Born: 5-25-1827 Washington County MD married: Mary Ann Cost (12/29/1851)
Died: 12-5-1897 obit:
[9/21/1796 – 1/25/1886]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Keedysville MD
Obit:
1893-1894
Marion circuit, member of Virginia Conference
Note: UB Yearbooks for 1893, 1894
list Daniel R. Bovey in the Virginia, Maryland conferences – no other
references. Our journal indicates he
served the entire year (Feb-Feb), but he is also the pastor of record for
Mar-Sep 1893 of Williamsport MD station in the Maryland Conference. He is the son of Adam I. Bovey (1797-1879:
Virginia Conference) and a brother to Jacob A. Bovey (1824-1859: Virginia Conference)
and Henry A. Bovey (1831-1919: Virginia, Central Ohio, Miami Conferences). He
is an uncle to Michael Stine Bovey (1858-1935: California Conference), son of
Henry. He did not enter the ministry
until he was 50 years old and apparently served as a local pastor, for there
is no formal record of him in the Virginia Conference.
BOWERMASTER, JOHN RICHARD
Born: 10-8-1879 married:
Amelia Mohr
Died: 2-7-1963 obit:
[d. 1953]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 quarterly conference license, Paradise St. John’s
1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1911 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1963, 62
1904-06 Middleburg, Allegheny Conference
1906-07 Liverpool, Allegheny Conference
1908-18 Lancaster Laurel Street mission, under conference
supervision
1909-10 Centerville
1918-50 Lancaster Laurel Street mission, as an independent work
1950 retired
BOWERS, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK
Born: 12-31-1821 Baden-Wurttemberg,
Germany married: Barbara E. Rider
Died: 12-19-1907 Malcom IA obit:
Iowa Conference 1901, 28
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 61
Gibble list: no
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Lime City Cemetery, Lime
City IA
Obit: Iowa Conference 1908, 42
1846-47 Bellefonte
1847-48 Washington
1848-50 Clearfield
1850-52 Schellsburg
1852 transfer to Iowa Conference
Note: Mrs. Bowers is the daughter
of John Rider.
BOWERS, HERBERT HARVEY
Born: 3-26-1913 married:
Violet Cleona McClain
Died: 4-9-1981 obit:
[6/29/1913 – 4/5/2004]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly conference license, Rockville
1940 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Hill Cemetery, Cleona PA
Obit:
1943-46 Northampton
1946-47 Hummelstown circuit
1947-48 Philadelphia Burholme
1948-49 Mount Carmel
1949-52 living in Halifax
1952-54 Royalton
1954-57 living in Halifax
1957-69 living in Harrisburg
1969 no longer listed
Note: Herbert H. Bowers is the son
of Walter G. Bowers.
BOWERS, THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Born:10-24-1904 Denton MD married:
Died: 6-10-1983 Saltillo PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gilbble list: no
1939 quarterly conference license
1948 license, Allegheny Conference
1954 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Three
Springs PA
Obit:
1944-53 Three Springs
1953-60 New Florence
1960-70 Orbisonia – Mt. Nebo
1970 no longer listed
Note: In 1970, when the former
Methodist and EUB Conferences in the entire state were reorganized, Theodore
R. Bowers was serving Orbisonia (which was being moved from the Western
Pennsylvania Conference EUB to the Central Pennsylvania Conference UM). In 1970 he appears in no UM journal, and
the Orbisonia EUB charge is left without a pastor and experiences a drastic
loss of membership. T.R. Bowers
reappears in the 1970’s as the pastor of the independent Cromwell United
Brethren Church (re-incorporated as the Cromwell United Bible Church in 1977)
3 miles north of Three Springs on PA 747.
BOWERS, WALTER GEORGE
Born: 2-3-1890 Rockville PA married: Katie Heilman
Died: 3-2-1982 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 35
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Bessie Clara Shanaman Kreps
Fulton #: no obit2:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 402
Gibble list: yes
1926 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Sixth Street
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Hill Church Cemetery,
Cleona PA
Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania
Conference 1982, 269
1926-46 Rockville
1947-58 Halifax
1958-62 Allentown Grace
1962 retired
Note: Walter G. Bowers is the father of Herbert
H. Bowers. Officially, Walter G.
Bowers was “referred” in 1938 and re-admitted in 1950; during those years he
appears in the category “others employed by the conference.” After 1970 he lived in the Harrisburg area
and should be a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United
Methodist Church; the memoir of his second wife appears in that journal, but
he is never listed in any category.
BOWLUS [see BAULUS]
BOWMAN, EDWARD STAUFFER
Born: 1866 married:
Louella Funk (10/30/1890)
Died: 8-19-1940 Lebanon PA obit:
b. [11/16/1869 - 1936]
Miller-Raker #: 442
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes [EDWIN S. BOWMAN]
1889 license
1892 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1885-90 Lebanon Valley College
1890-94 Greencastle (begins in mid-ear: see 1891,20)
1894-00 Mechanicsburg
1900-03 Harrisburg Otterbein
1903 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1903-08 Harrisburg Otterbein
1908-09 living in Princeton NJ
1909-10 living in Dayton OH
1910 transfer to Miami Conference
1910-11 ?
1911 "transfer" to Presbyterian Church
1911-37 Emmanuel Presbyterian Church
1937 retired
Note: The conference journals consistently refer
to him erroneously as “Edwin S. Bowman”.
He is listed as an 1890 graduate of LVC “from Boonsboro MD”, but also
as being on faculty 1885-1890 in bookkeeping & penmanship. He authored at least one book, . A 1929 anniversary booklet in the
Harrisburg Otterbein file gives his picture and refers to him as Edward S.
Bowman, DD of Philadelphia. His
relationship to other Bowmans on the LVC faculty in the 1880’s and 1890’s is
not known. Mrs. Funk is the daughter of Erasmus P. Funk.
BOWMAN, PETER A.
Born: 4-6-1839 Dauphin PA married:
Mary A. Espenshade
Died: 9-25-1910 Harrisburg PA obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926,
13
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1878 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ephrata PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1910, 43
1872-73 Highspire circuit
1873-75 Grantville circuit
1875-77 Schuylkill Haven
1877-79 Spring Garden [Florin]
1879-82 Manheim circuit
1882-84 Ephrata
1884-87 Boiling Springs, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1887-88 Dillsburg, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1888-89 Intercourse circuit
1889 Hummelstown circuit (Feb-Oct)
1889-91 Union Deposit circuit
1891-94 chaplain, Dauphin County Almshouse
1892
Fishburn circuit (Jun-Oct)]
1894-95 Royalton
1895-99 Fishburn circuit
1899 Grantville circuit, did not finish
1899-01 Lititz
1901-03 Manheim
1903-05 Elizabethville
1905 retired
1907 Harrisburg Sixth Street (Feb-Oct)
1909-10 Hillsdale circuit
BOYER, HARRY THEODORE
Born: 1-28-1870 married:
Lulu Kunkle
Died: 8-26-1939 obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 47
Miller-Raker #: 463
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1892 quarterly conference license, Duncannon
1896 license
1899 ordained
Interment: Westminster Memorial
Gardens, Carlisle PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1939,
42
1897-01 Dover
1901-07 York circuit
1907-15 Shermansdale
1915-24 Oakville
1924-37 Enola
1937 retired
BOYER, JOHN NEELY
Born: 10-12-1900 Johnstown PA married: Estella Shank
Died: 7-12-1953 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 22
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 475
Gibble list: no
1922 quarterly conference license
1923 license, Allegheny Conference
1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1954, 22
1928 Connellsville (summer)
1930-32 East Pittsburgh
1932-37 Johnstown Barron Avenue
1937-40 Altoona First
1940-45 Westerville OH
1945-53 faculty, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
Note: J. Neely Boyer also served as
the mayor of Westerville OH. He and
his wife were killed in a plane crash while returning from visiting their
daughter in Guam.
BOYER, RALPH EUGENE
Born: 7-7-1889 married:
Anna Elizabeth Hatton
Died: 5-6-1965 obit:
[7/12/1901 – 10/2/2001]
Miller-Raker #: 612
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1919 quarterly conference license, York Fourth
1921 license, recommended by York Fourth
1926 ordained
Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York
PA
Obit: in the biographical files at
the conference archives
1921 Baltimore Otterbein Memorial (Apr-Oct)
1921-25 Carlisle circuit
1925-27 Springet
1927-35 Baltimore Scott Street
1935 withdrew 1935, 34
Note: Following a summer-long tent
campaign in 1935, Ralph E. Boyer moved to York and founded the York Gospel
Center. He is the father of
singer-evangelist Dave Boyer. Mrs. Boyer
was granted a quarterly conference license in 1927.
BOYER, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 9-23-1874 Chapman Quarries PA married: Ida M. _____
Died: 1947 obit:
[1882 – 1958]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 license, East German Conference: recommended by Middleburg
1902 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Hays Cemetery, Easton PA
Obit:
1898-01 Middleburg circuit
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-03 Jonestown circuit
1903-05 Jonestown
1905-07 Intercourse
1907-11 Williamstown
1911-12 on leave, living in Williamstown
1912 expelled
Note: After leaving the ministry,
William H. Boyer “entered business.”
He worked for Bethlehem Steel beginning in 1914 and enlisted in the
U.S. Army in 1919.
BRADFORD, J.T.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 368
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1872 license
1872 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1871-71 West Fairview circuit
1872-73 York Springs circuit
1875 withdrew irregularly 1875, 5
BRADLEY, WALTER HARVEY
Born: 7-20-1907 Braddock PA married:
Margaret Thelma Mackey (1930)
Died: 12-3-1987 Port Allegheny PA obit: [11/10/1915 – 9/28/1980]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Corrina Belle Kibbe
Fulton #: no obit2:
[9/7/1907 – 6/14/2003]
Gibble list: no
1926 exhorter’s license, Methodist Episcopal Church
1926 local preacher’s license, Methodist Episcopal Church
1926 local preacher’s license, Church of the Nazarene
Interment: Card Creek Cemetery,
Roulette PA
Obit:
1926-28 evangelist
? “transfer”
to Erie Conference of the United Brethren Church
1933-35 Sartwell Creek
1935-38 Sweden Valley
Note: Limited biographical material
on Walter H. Bradley is available in the biographical files and the Sartwell
Creek closed church file. He served in
the Erie Conference as a supply pastor.
The second Mrs. Bradley was the widow of a Mr. Homer Frank Taylor
(1909-1970).
BRANDAUER, FREDERICK PAUL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1954 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Annville
1958 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 student, Lebanon Valley College
1954
Brunnerville (3 months)
1954-55
assistant, Elizabethville
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1958-59 Elizabethville Tinity
1959-72 missionary, Hong Kong
1972-73 lecturer, Stanford University
1973-79 faculty, University of Washington
1979 transfer to Pacific Northwest Conference
Note: Frederick P. Brandauer is the
son of Evangelical/EUB/UM missionary Frederick W. Brandauer (1904-1986) of
the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.
BRANDT, DAVID DICKSON
Born: 9-22-1878 near Newville PA married: Emma Frances Engle
Died: 4-15-1979 Mechanicsburg PA obit: [10/11/1884 – 4/?/1974]
Miller-Raker #: 513
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1901 quarterly conference license, Shippensburg Messiah
1903 license, recommended by Big Spring charge
1906 ordained
Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery,
Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference
1979, 330
1901-04 student, Lebanon Valley College
1904-07 student, Union Seminary Dayton OH
1906
Riverside CA (summer)
1907
Beloit WI (summer)
1907-10 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, Dayton VA
1910-11 principal, Derry township high school (Dauphin County
PA)
1911 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 50
1911-13 Schuylkill Haven
1913-16 Reading Zion
1916 transfer to Virginia Conference
1916-21 Dayton VA
1921 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1921-59 local/supply
1921-44 teacher/principal, Mechanicsburg high school (Cumberland County
PA)
1944-67 justice of the peace, Hampden township
1959 retired
Note: Mrs. Brandt earned an A.B.
and A.M. from Lebanon Valley College in 1905 and 1906, and a B.D. from
Bonebrake [United] Seminary in 1907.
Apparently, she never pursued a ministerial license.
BRANDT, SAMUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 80
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1815 license
Interment:
Obit:
BRANE, COMMODORE I.B.
Born: 12-25-1849 Frederick MD married: Clara Magdalena Harp
Died: 4-7-1920 Dayton OH obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 17
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 license, Virginia Conference
1876 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Benevola UMC cemetery,
Benevola MD
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1920, 54
1872-73 Potomac mission
1873-74 New Germany
1874-76 Mechanicstown MD
1876-78 ?
1878-79 Rockbridge
1879-82 ?
1882-85 located due to ill health, Washington DC
1883
Newville, Pennsylvania Conference: completed part-year vacancy
1885-86 presiding elder, Shenandoah District
1886-87 Hagerstown MD
1887 transfer to Maryland Conference
1887-90 Hagerstown MD
1890-93 Washington DC
1893-94 general secretary, Church Erection
1894-96 Pequa, East Pennsylvania Conference
1896 transfer to
East Pennsylvania Conference
1896-06 Lebanon Trinity
1906-09 Reading Otterbein
1909-17 associate editor, Religious Telescope
Note: Dr. Brane (along with Daniel
Eberly and Isaiah H. Albright) is one of the authors of the 1911 Landmark
History of the United Brethren Church.
Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 156, gives
a brief biography. C.I.B. Brane is the
father of Jessie Brane Rupp, wife of S. Edwin Rupp, and of Annette Brane
Siddall, wife of noted medical missionary to China Dr. Alcines Clair Siddall
(1897-1980) – who in turn was the son of Alcines C. Siddall (1868-1928) of
the Sandusky Conference. Mrs. Brane is
the daughter of Joshua Harp.
BRASHEAR, THEODORE F,
Born: 3-5-1825 married:
Rachael Ryland
Died: 4-18-1888 Nebraska obit:
[1/5/1825 – 1/9/1912]
Miller-Raker #: 332
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1849 license, Virginia Conference
Interment: Graceland Cemetery,
Mitchell SD
Obit: UB Yearbook 1889, 28
1849-50 South Branch
1850-52 Buckhannon
1852-53 Highland mission
1853-54 Rockingham
1854-55 appointments not listed
1855-56 Myersville
1856-57 Lacey Springs
1857-59 Rockingham
1859-61 Churchville
1861-62 Woodstock
1862 Bethany mission (Pennsylvania Conference), completed
part-year vacancy
1862-63 presiding elder, Southern Section
1863 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1863-65 Manchester circuit
1865 transfer to any conference he wishes to join, 1865,
102
Rock
River Conference (IL)
Iowa
Conference
Elkhorn
Conference (Dakota Territory & northern Nebraska)
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of
the Virginia Conference, page 157, gives a brief biography. This surname is also rendered BRASHIER.
BRATTEN, JAMES H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 290, 320
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1848 license
1851 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1851-54 attends conference and serves on committees
1854-60 not listed in any category
1860 joined conference as “an elder in the Methodist
Episcopal Church”
1860-61 Perry circuit
1861-62 no assignment
1861 withdrew
Note: The Chronicle 1996,
page 90, gives a brief biography.
BRAZER, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: 1822/3 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 88
Fulton #:
Gibble list: yes
1817 license
Interment: Chambersburg PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1823,
19
Note: This surname is also rendered
BRAEZER. Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the
1819-24 Conferences, page 45, gives a brief
biography.
BRENEMAN, BENJAMIN MILLER
Born: 11-24-1859 near Mount Joy PA married: Jennie Kauffman Smith (1902)
Died: 5-7-1940 obit:
[1875 – 1940]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 quarterly conference license, Mount Joy Circuit of the East
Pennsylvania Conference
1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1909 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Silver Spring Cemetery,
Lancaster County PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1940, 14
1900-01 Marietta circuit
1901-04 Centerville
1904-07 Harrisburg circuit
1907-13 Paradise [Hopeland]
1913-20 Refton and West Willow
1920-32 Denver
1932 retired
BRENNEMAN, CURVIN ELMER
Born: 7-?-1887 York PA married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 570
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1910 quarterly conference license from Windsor 1910, 36
1911 license, recommended by Windsor
Interment:
Obit:
1910-11 Jefferson
1912 Horse Valley, 7/7-8/25
1912-17 local, living in
Windsor
1917-21 local, living in Annville
1921 dropped: reported to have joined another
denomination 1921, 34
Note: The 1917 LVC yearbook, page
43, lists “Cervin E. Brennaman” of Freemont MI. The 1947 LVC Alumni Register lists “Curwin
Elmer Brenneman” as a 1915 graduate, address unknown. There is a Rev. Curvin E. Brenneman in the
Roberts Centennial Book of St. Croix County WI.
BRESSLER, ELIAS DAUB
Born: 11-17-1897 married:
Sadie S. Crawford
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1922 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1921-25 student, Lebanon Valley College
1921-22 Rocherty
1923-24 Sinking Spring
1927 transfer to ?
1932 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary
1947 pastor of The Open Bible Testimony, Denver PA
BRETH, HERBERT ADAM
Born: 5-16-1869 Clearfield County PA married: Rachel Perks
Died: 1950 obit:
[3/8/1875 – 1949]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 300
Gibble list: no
1901 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mock's Hill Cemetery in
Boggs township, Clearfield County PA
Obit:
1899-01 Lickingville (resigned & appointed to West Decatur
soon after 1901 conference)
1901-03 West Decatur
1903-04 Path Valley
1904 honorable discharge
1904 supply pastor, Erie Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
1904-05 Putneyville, Armstrong County
1905-06 Hawthorn, Clarion County
1907-08 Arroyo, Elk County
BREWBAKER, CHARLES WARREN
Born: 10-18-1869 State Line PA married: Nellie Maude Snoke
Died: 5-11-1961 Dayton OH obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 49
Miller-Raker #: 527
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1888 quarterly conference license, Middleburg [State Line]
1890 license, Iowa Conference
1893 ordained, Iowa Conference
Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery,
Dayton OH
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1961,
43
1888-90 student, Buckhannon Academy at Buckhannon WV
1890-92 student, Western College at Toledo IA
1892-93 medical rest & supply pastor
1893-96 student, Union Seminary at Dayton OH
1896 transfer to Maryland Conference
1896-98
Hagerstown
1898-99
Canton OH (East Ohio Conference)
1899 transfer to East Ohio Conference
1899-04 Canton OH
1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 32
1904-11 Chambersburg First
1911-12
First Church of Christ, New Haven CT
1912-13 Baltimore Fourth
1913-29 general secretary, Sunday School & Brotherhood Work
1929-33 general secretary, Evangelism
1933-39 Dayton Fairview (Miami Conference)
1939 retired
Note: Miller’s 1968 History of
Pennsylvania Conference, page 395, gives a brief biography. Dr. Brewbaker is the author of several
books on the conference authors’ shelves.
Mrs. Brewbaker is a niece of Jacob H. Snoke.
BREWER, JACOB
Born: married:
Anna Barbara Kershner
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
? license
? ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1848 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1848-50 Northumberland mission
1850-52 New Holland
1852-53 Dauphin circuit
1853-54 Hummelstown circuit
1854-57 presiding elder
1857-58 Highspire circuit
1858-59 Lancaster circuit
1859-61 New Holland
1861-63 Reading Zion
1863-65 Susquehanna circuit
1886 name erased
Note: Jacob Brewer was a General
Conference delegate from the East Pennsylvania Conference. He performed a wedding in Hummelstown in
1868, and in 1869 he is listed as living in Hummelstown PA and in the 1880’s
as living in Winchester IN.
BRICKER, M.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1880-81 Mercersburg: see 1881, 4
BRICKLEY, GEORGE A.
Born: 5-1-1840 New Berlin PA married:
Died: 8-26-1895 York PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery,
York PA
Obit: The Evangelical,
9/11/1895 page 294
1865-66
York & Jefferson circuits (1865, 104)
1866-67 Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits
1874-75 Shamokin First, East Pennsylvania Conference; see
Gibble, 358
Note: George A. Brinkley is the
youngest son of Rev. Dr. George Brickley (1806-1889) who was a preacher with
the Evangelical Association before locating in 1846 to practice
medicine. George A. was a member of
York Grace United Evangelical Church at the time of his death.
BRIDIGUM, JOSEPH H.
Born: 1890 married:
Agnes Hummel
Died: 7-23-1956 obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 30
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 397
Gibble list: no
1910 quarterly conference license
1912 license, Allegheny Conference
1913 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1957, 30
1912-13 Connellsville (beginning 6/1/1913)
1913-14 Coalport
1914-18 Altoona Third (ending 4/1/1918)
1918-19 Portage (beginning 4/1/1918)
1919-23 Philipsburg
1923-28 Connellsville
1928-33 Mount Pleasant
1933-34 Altoona Garden Heights
1934-40 Braddock
1940-45 conference evangelist
1945-49 Punxsutawney
1948-49
Albion Heights
1949 retired
BRIGGS, T.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1896-97 Mount Union
1902-03 Byromtown, Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church
Note: T.M. Briggs served in the Allegheny
Conference under “others employed in the conference.” His service in the Erie Conference of the
Methodist Church was as a supply.
Nothing more is known about this person.
BRISBANE, EZRA DOUGHERTY
Born: 12-21-1796 Centre County PA married: Margaret Packer [4/11/1816]
Died: 9-15-1875 obit:
[6/14/1797 – 10/23/1868]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 41
Gibble list: no
1841 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Boalsburg PA
Obit:
1845 withdrew
Note: Ezra D. Brisbane never
received an appointment. This surname
is also rendered BRISBIN.
BRITCHER, JOHN CLAYTON
Born: 7-25-1934 married:
Kim _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 773
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1959 license, recommended by York Fifth
1964 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1959-60 Gardners-Mt.
Victory
1960-61 Shermansdale
1961-64 student, United
Theological Seminary Dayton OH
1962 Sulpher Grove EUB, OH
1964-64
Morning Sun United Presbyterian, OH
1964-67 Williamsport MD
1967-84 US Army Chaplain
1984 retired
1984-90 Tillicum
WA Community Presbyterian Church
BROOKS, OLIVER R.
Born: 2-24-1887 West Willow PA married: Mary S. Brenneman
Died: 10-21-1951 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 quarterly conference license, West Willow
1912 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1927 re-license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Boehm’s Cemetery, Willow
Street PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1952, 22
1912-13 Jonestown
1913-17 Centerville
1917-18 Jonestown (resigned Oct 1917, see 1918, 6)
1918-20
1920 referred
1929-39 Manheim
1939-45 Denver
1946-51 Lebanon Ebenezer
BROWN, ALAN S.
Born: c1939 Harrisburg PA married:
Constance Myers
Died: 4-13-2009 Neffsville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1960 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by
Harrisburg 29th Street
1964 ordained, Eastern Conference
Interment: Grandview UMC Memorial
Gerdens, Lancaster PA
Obit:
1964-87 assistant, Lancaster Otterbein
1987-01 West Chester Grove
2001 retired
Note: Alan S. Brown is the father of
Rev. Andrea Brown of the East Pennsylvania Conference and is a brother to
Janice Brown Fisher, wife of Rev. David Fisher of the East Pennsylvnaia
Conference.
BROWN, GEORGE
Born: Cumberland [now Perry] County
PA married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 81
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1815 license
1820 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the
1819-24 Conferences, page 45, gives a brief biography. This is believed to be
the Rev. George Brown who was a brother of Peter Brown, father of Bishop
William Brown.
BROWN, GEORGE AMBERSON
Born: 6-10-1895 married:
Alice May Bixler
Died: 2-6-1960 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 435
Miller-Raker #: 638
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1924 quarterly conference license, Waynesboro
1925 license, recommended by Waynesboro
1928 ordained
Interment: Greenmount MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960,
45
1925 Mt. Tabor-Williamsport MD, Apr to Oct
1925-29 Taneytown MD
1929-33 Newburg
1933-43 Winterstown
1943-46 Enola
1946-53 Greencastle
1953-60 Frederick MD
BROWN, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 310
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1856 license
1869 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1856-58 York circuit
1858-61 Manchester circuit
1861-63 York circuit
1863-66 Perry circuit
1866-68 ?
1868-69 Ickesburg mission
1869-70
?
1870-72 Carlisle
1872-74 West Fairview circuit (did not finish the second year)
1874 dismissed
BROWN, JACOB F.
Born: 8-3-1876 Lampeter PA married:
Died: 5-6-1934 Sunbury PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Shamokin
circuit
1917 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Paradise PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1934, 13
1910-16 Shamokin circuit
1916-19 Shamokin Second
1919-34 Sunbury
BROWN, JOHN [PA]
Born: 10-20-1800 Cumberland [Perry] County PA married: Jemima _____
Died: 12-23-1884 Hoopeston IL obit:
Miller-Raker #: 94 married2:
Huldah _____
Fulton #: no obit2:
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
1821 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1820-21 Juniata circuit
1821-24 [records incomplete]
1824-27 York circuit
Note: John Brown [PA] is a brother
to Bishop William Brown, on whose page is more family information. He apparently migrated westward sometime
during or prior to 1845, living successively in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
BROWN, JOHN [VA]
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 92
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1819 license
1821 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
BROWN, WILLIAM
Born: 7-9-1796 Cumberland [Perry] County PA married: Sallie Koch
Died: 5-11-1868 Benton County, IN obit: [1796 – 4/29/1873]
Miller-Raker #: 84
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1816 license
1819 ordained
Interment: Pond Grove Cemetery,
Otterbein IN
Obit:
1817-18 Hagerstown circuit
1818-20 Virginia circuit
1820-21 Hagerstown circuit
1821-23 appointments not listed
1823-24 presiding elder, circuits unspecified
1824-25 appointments not listed
1825-28 Baltimore
1828-29 presiding elder, circuits unspecified
1829-31 appointments not
listed
1831-32 presiding elder for eastern & southern circuits
1832-33 presiding elder, Carlisle District
1833-37 bishop
1834-35
Lancaster station, in conjunction with being bishop
1837 moved to Indiana
1838 transfer to Wabash Conference
Note: Koontz’ 1950 The Bishops:
Church of the United Brethren in Christ, page 201, gives a biography of
Bishop Brown. Bishop William Brown is
a brother to John Brown [PA] and is the father of Rev. William Otterbein
Brown (Wabash Conference), and one of his daughters married Peter Whitesell. In addition, his brothers Simon (1804-1874)
and David (1813-1875) and numerous nephews were also UB preachers. His father Peter Brown (1770-1848) served
as a local pastor. There is a folder
on William Brown in the biographical files.
This name is also rendered Wilhelm Braun. Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24
Conferences, page 46, also gives a brief biography.
BRUBAKER, URIAH B.
Born: 3-28-1872 Manheim PA married:
Martha Roloson (1905)
Died: 10-10-1957 obit:
Kansas Conference 1923, 37
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mrs. Estella Eliza Ankeny Long (1926)
Fulton #: 282 obit2: 8/13/1881 –
9/5/1950]
Gibble list: no
1896 quarterly conference license, Manheim
1897 license, Allegheny Conference
1909 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Otterbein Cemetery,
Westerville OH
Obit: Erie Conference 1958, 41
1896-97 Dunlo (beginning 1/1/1897)
1897-99 Punxsutawney Woodland Avenue
1899-04 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1904-07 Huntingdon (beginning 4/1/1904)
1907-11 East Pittsburgh
1911-14 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
Dayton OH
1914 transfer to Miami Conference
1914-16 Dayton High Street
1916 transfer to Kansas Conference
1916-19 Iola
1919-21 Salina
1921-24 Attica
1924-25 field work, Bonebrake Seminary
1925-26 assistant editor, Sunday School (ending 1/1/1926)
1926 transfer to Erie Conference
1926-30 Warren Bethel (beginning 1/1/1926)
1930-33 Jamestown NY Grace
1933-40 Clarence Center
1940 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Brubaker was
the widow of a Mr. Herman A. Long.
BRYDIA, ELLIS MYERS
Born: 6-5-1909 married:
Thelma Lou Morgan
Died: 3-31-1977 obit:
[1/29/1920 – 7/2/2011]
Miller-Raker #: 749
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1955 license
Interment: Rolling Green Memorial
Park, Camp Hill
Obit:
1955-56 living in Philadelphia
1956 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1956-57 Tremont-Barry
1957-58 Cressona
1958 withdrew:
East Pennsylvania 1958, 81
Note: Rev. Brydia felt called to
the ministry as a student at Penn State but failed to respond. This bothered him, and he finally responded
while working as an engineer at Frankford Arsenal and attending Third EUB in
Philadelphia. He left the ministry because
of poor health. In 2002 Thelma M.
Brydia was living at 3003 Brisban Street, Harrisburg PA 17111, and attending
Charlton UM.
BUCH, OSCAR KIEHL
Born: 9-15-1889 married:
Clara Hahn
Died: 3-11-1972 obit:
East Pennsylvania 1957, 48
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1925 quarterly conference license, Manheim Salem
1950 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Fairview Cemetery,
Manheim PA
Obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania
Conference 1972, 337]
1925-26 Silver Spring Salem
1927-34 Rocherty
1941-43 Brunnerville
1945-55 Newton-Mt. Gretna
1955-60 Mt. Gretna
1960-61 Williamstown
1961 retired
1969 no longer listed
BUCHART, LAWRENCE EDWARD
Born: 12-11-1904 married:
Anna Evelyn Petroff
Died: 12-21-1968 San Diego CA obit: conference archives
biographical files
Miller-Raker #: 647
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1924 quarterly conference license, Yoe Salem
1926 license, recommended by Yoe Salem
Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe
PA
Obit: conference archives
biographical files
1926-28 Shepherdstown
1928-29 assistant administrator, Quincy Orphanage
1929-30 living in
Wormleysburg
1930 withdrew
BUDDINGER, DAVID DANIEL
Born: 8-3-1876 WI married:
Minnie V. Noll
Died: 2-3-1921 Lebanon PA obit:
[12/26/1873 – 3/11/1940]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1895 license, East German Conference
1899 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery,
Palmyra PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1921, 64
1895-97 Middleburg circuit
1897-99 Pine Grove circuit
1899-00 Ebenezer station
1900-01 Sinking Spring
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-06 Bellegrove circuit
1906-12 Lebanon Bethany
1912-20 Reading Salem
1920-21 Lebanon Hebron
Note: Mrs. Buddinger is the
daughter of Simon Noll.
BUELL, JOHN SPEER
Born: 9-13-1838 Ligonier Valley PA married: Susan C. Brant
Died: 3-18-1891 obit:
Allegheny Conference 1928, 64
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 159
Gibble list: no
1873 license, Allegheny Conference
1876 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Valley Cemetery, Ligonier
PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1891, 36
1874-75 Ligonier
1875-76 Susquehanna
1876-79 Castleman
1879-81 Springfield
1881-83 Madison
1883-84 no appointment
1884-85 Mahoning (resigned before reporting)
1885-86 Bigler
1886-89 Cambria
1889-90 Coalport
1890-91 Somerset
Note: For reasons that have not
been reported, John S. Buell appears not to have served under appointment
1883-85. He appears to have maintained
a regular family residence in Ligonier, even though some of his appointments
were some distance away.
BUFFINGTON, HENRY A.
Born: 6-20-1863 Pillow PA married:
Agnes L. Ressler [9/28/1886]
Died: 1-5-1952 obit:
[11/24/1864 – 1961]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 240
Gibble list: yes
1884 quarterly conference license
1885 license, East German Conference
1889 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery,
Elizabethville PA
Obit: [Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1952, 18]
1884-86 Lebanon Glossbrenner
1886-88 Tamaqua circuit
1888-89 Altoona Second, Allegheny Conference
1889 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1889-91 New Florence
1891-93 Cambria
1893-95 Jenner Cross Roads
1895-98 Walnut Grove
1898-01 student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH
1901-03 Conemaugh
1903-05 Windber
1905-06 Hollsopple
1906-10 Coalport
1910-11 Huntingdon
1911-15 Somerset
1915-16 Latrobe
1916-19 Philipsburg
1919-21 Pitcairn
1921-24 Altoona Third
1924-26 Johnstown Westmont
1926-27 Wilmore
1927-29 Madison
1929-34 Conemaugh
1934-36 New Florence
1936 retired
Note: Henry A. and Agnes Buffington retired to
Pillow Pa. Following Rev. Buffington’s
death in 1952, Mrs. Buffington moved to West Carrollton OH. Their deaths are reported in the Pottsville Republican on 1/9/1952
(page 18) and 4/1/1961 (page 14).
BUHAN, GEORGE ELWOOD
Born: 2-5-1876 Kantner PA married:
Flora Williamson
Died: 6-5-1948 Braddock PA obit:
Pittsburgh Conference (M) 1948, 165
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 414
Gibble list: no
1911 quarterly conference license
1915 license, Allegheny Conference
1919 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Washington
Cemetery, Perryopolis PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference (M)
1948, 162
1913-14 Claysville
1914-16 Arona/Middletown
1916-18 Fairmount
1918-19 Wilmore/South Fork
1919-22 Rockwood
1922 Woodland (resigned 10/1/1922)
1922 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
1922-24 Glassport
1924-27 Vanderbilt
1927-28 Fayette City
1928-31 Mount Pleasant
1931-32 Somerset
1932-35 Fredericktown
1935-38 Centerville/Taylor
1938-40 Murraysville
1940-44 Dayton/Smicksburg
1944-45 Circleville
1945-47 Redstone
1947-48 Dunbar Franklin Memorial
BUNGARD, BENJAMIN FINKLE
Born: 6-12-1882 Indian Head PA married: Christine H. Muir
Died: 5-24-1975 obit:
[1883 – 1965]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 368
Gibble list: no
1908 quarterly conference license
1909 license, Allegheny Conference
1915 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: St. John's Centennial
United Brethren Cemetery, Somerset PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1975, 300
1912-15 Monessen
1915-18 Herminie
1918-19 Trafford
1919-22 Portage
1922-31 Altoona First
1931-38 Johnstown Park Avenue
1938-49 Somerset
1949-54 Mount Pleasant
1954 retired
Listie Lutheran Church
Berlin United Church of Christ
Stoystown St. Paul's United Church of
Christ
Note: Benjamin F. Bungard is the
father of William S. Bungard and of Barbara Bungard Reed, wife of Rev. Allen
W. Reed (1921-1971) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference. B.F. Bungard served two terms (1915-16 and
1919-20) in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican from
Westmoreland County. His varied experience
also includes teaching at Monessen High School (2 years), agent for the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company (4 years), and other positions.
BUNGARD, WILLIAM S.
Born: 1-19-1914 Monessen PA married:
Catherine Parcher [12/10/1937]
Died: 6-17-2004 Attleboro MA obit: [10/22/1914 – 1/20/2002]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1933 license, Allegheny
Conference: recommended by Johnstown Park Avenue
Interment:
Obit:
student,
Otterbein College
entered
ministry in the YMCA
Dayton
OH
Piqua
OH
1945-48 Newton MA
1948-79 Attleboro MA
1979 retired
Note: William S. Bungard is the son
of Benjamin F. Bungard. In Piqua OH he
organized the first high school group for black teens in Ohio. In Attleboro MA he led a YMCA program from
the verge of bankruptcy to one of the best in the state. He was a member and Sunday School teacher
at the Attleboro Evangelical Covenant Church.
Mrs. Bungard was a 1937 graduate of Otterbein College.
BURD, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 2-2-1828 Spring Run PA married: Barbara Hammond
Died: 1-18-1898 Henry County IL obit: [11/7/1837 – 3/3/1906]
Miller-Raker #: 307
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1855 license
1859 ordained
Interment: Woodhull Cemetery,
Woodhull IL
Obit:
1855-56 York circuit
1856-58 Path Valley circuit
1858-61 Carlisle circuit
1861-63 Rocky Spring station
1863-66 presiding elder, Chambersburg District (did not finish
last year)
1868 transfer to Rock River Conference
BURGESS, HAROLD RICHARD
Born: 2-8-1917 Collinsville IL married: Lynell Mae Carter
Died: 8-16-2007 Windber PA obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 376
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1940 license, Baptist Church
1941 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery,
Johnstown PA
Obit:
Butler
Hill Baptist
Troupsburg
NY Baptist
East
Bethany NY Presbyterian
1948-49 Rochester Mills, Allegheny Conference of EUB Church
1949 transfer to Allegheny Conference of EUB Church
1949-50 Monessen
1950-53 Dunlevy
1953-58 Altoona Wehnwood
1958-63 Johnstown Westmont (ending 12/1963)
1963-67 Johnstown Belmont (beginning 12/1963)
1967-70 director, Stewardship Education and Capital Fund Service
1970-75 Franklin Christ
1975-78 director, Care & Share Program
1978-80 Connellsville Wesley
1980 retired
1981-86
associate, Johnstown First
1988-90
associate, Shawnee
BURGESS, TIMOTHY W.
Born: 2-15-1854 Pittsburgh PA married: Lulu Mary Long
Died: 8-12-1945 obit:
Allegheny Conference 1949, 72
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 217
Gibble list: no
1882 quarterly conference license
1886 license, Allegheny Conference
1890 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: St. Clair Cemetery,
Greensburg PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945, 61
1886-87 Allegheny
1887-90 ?
1890-92 Middletown
1892-94 Connellsville
1894-97 Clatsville
1897-00 Somerset
1900-03 Johnstown Fourth [Walnut Grove]
1903-05 Pitcairn
1905-07 Herminie
1907-12 Kephart Memorial
1912-13 Wall
1913-14 Walnut Grove
1914-17 Westmoreland
1917-24 Jeannette
1924-37 Herminie
1937 retired
BURGREEN, R.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1916-17 Richfield (ending 2/12/1917)
Note: R.W. Burgreen is listed as
“others employed by the conference.”
He is otherwise unknown. This
surname is also rendered BERGREEN. This
may be the Roy William Bergreen (3/29/1898 – 6/8/1965) buried in Olean NY.
BURKEL, OSCAR ARCHER
Born: 11-19-1910 Jeannette PA married: Betty Bohse
Died: 11-20-1992 obit:
[4/18/1912 – 1/20/2003]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1934 quarterly conference license, recommended by
Jeannette
1936 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Jeannette
1942 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: William Penn Memorial
Cemetery, Forest Hills PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1993, 278
1936-37 Dunlevy (beginning 2/18/1937)
1937-42 Dunlevy (beginning 10/1/1937)
1942-48 Trafford
1948-63 Wall
1963-70 Wilkinsburg Christ
1970-76 Wilkinsburg Christ-Grace
1976 retired
Note: This name is sometimes
erroneously noted as BERKEL.
BURKERT, CYRUS JACOB
Born: 7-7-1842 Rebersburg PA married: Anna C. Boughner [1867]
Died: 11-12-1905 Dayton OH obit:
[1837 – 1916]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1865 license, Miami Conference
Interment: Germantown Cemetery,
Germantown PH
Obit:
1859-60 Halifax circuit
1860-61 Union County circuit
1861-62 Lebanon Salem
1862 dropped
1865 entered Miami Conference
presiding
elder
Dayton
Summit Street
presiding
elder
Note: Cyrus J. Burkert moved to
Indiana in October 1861 and became a school teacher. He later became a member of the Miami
Conference and served as a presiding elder.
He is believed to be a first cousin of John R. Burkert.
BURKERT, JOHN R.
Born: 1821 married:
Elizabeth _____
Died: 7-24-1871 obit:
[1819 – 1896]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Springlawn Cemetery, New
Paris OH
Obit: White River Conference 1892,
57
1864 transfer to White River Conference
Note: John R. Burkert is believed
to be a first cousin of Cyrus J. Burkert.
Wilmore’s 1925 History of the White River Conference, page 160, lists
him as transferring from the Pennsylvania Conference, but the transfer was
from East Pennsylvania Conference.
BURKHART, DONALD SAMUEL
Born: 10-9-1935 married:
Virginia Smedley
Died: 8-6-2009 obit:
[1/10/1936 - ]
Miller-Raker #: 750
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1955 license, recommended by Shiremanstown
1960 ordained
Interment: Slate Hill Cemetery,
Camp Hill PA
Obit:
1955-57 student, Lebanon Valley College
1955-57 West
Hill
1957-59 seminary student at Dayton OH
1959-61 Lemasters (first year, apparently latter part only)
1961-68 Mont Alto
1968-69 Gettysburg
1969 withdrew
1969-80 Easter Seals
Society
1980-90 American Cancer
Society
1990 retired
BURKHART, ROY ABRAM
Born: 8-28-1895 married:
Hazel Shover (8/24/1917)
Died: 12-9-1962 obit:
[3/1/1898 – 4/20/1978]
Miller-Raker #: 624
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1923 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg
1929 ordained
Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery,
Hilliard OH
Obit:
principal
& football coach at Mechanicsburg High School
1923-33 student at United
Seminary & national UB Youth Director, Dayton OH
1933-35 PhD student, University of Chicago
1935-40 First Community Church (Congregational-Christian),
Columbus OH
1940 withdrew to join Congregational-Christian Church:
1940, 44
Note: Dr. Burkhart is the author of
several books, which are available in the conference archives, and the
subject of several studies. As pastor
of the First Community Church of Columbus OH in 1946, he organized the
National Council of Community Churches.
The widowed Mrs. Burkhart later married a Mr. Harry Edmond Floyd. Rebecca Davis’ 2010 book More Perfect Unions, page 139, states
of Roy Burkhart: “He had grown up in a small Mennonite community in Newville,
Pennsylvania, but when he marries Hazel Shover, and member of the United
Brethren Church [from Mechanicsburg], in 1917, the Mennonites expelled him
for marrying outside the faith. After
serving in World War I as an ambulance driver, Burkhart worked as a public
high school principal in southeastern Pennsylvania [Mechanicsburg], became
the national youth director for the United Brethren in 1927…”
BURKHOLDER, DANIEL R.
Born: 5-5-1837 Cumberland County PA married: Susan Diller
Died: 4-6-1902 obit:
[1832 – 1900]
Miller-Raker #: 364
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1872 license
1875 ordained
Interment: Hays Grove Church,
Cumberland County
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1903,
70
1872-73 Big Spring
1873-75 Perry
1875-78 Shippensburg
1878-82 Rocky Springs
1882-86 Shopp’s [Shiremanstown]
1886-89 Waynesboro
1889-90 Big Spring station
1890-92 Rocky Springs
1891-92 Marion
1892 located, health reasons
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of
the Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography.
BURTNER, CORNELIUS ALBERTUS
Born: 6-2-1852 near Keezletown VA married: Clara E. Light
Died: 3-5-1900 Harrisburg PA obit: Pennsylvania Conference
1912, 32
Miller-Raker #: 382
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1876 license
1879 ordained
Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery,
Annville PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1900,
45
1878-79 Duncannon
1879-81 Big Springs
1881-84 Mercersburg circuit
1884-87 York Second
1887-91 Baltimore Second
1891-94 York Second
1894-97 presiding elder, Baltimore District (resigned 10/1/1897)
1897-00 Harrisburg Otterbein (beginning 10/1/1897)
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of
the Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography. C.A. Burtner earned a PhD (not honorary)
from Lebanon Valley College in 1892.
Cornelius A. Burtner is a brother of Rev. Markwood M. Burtner and a
grandson of Rev. Henry Burtner.
BURTNER, EDWARD OTTERBEIN
Born: 3-21-1867 Enola PA married:
Helen Rauch
Died: 12-1-1954 obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 27
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1893 quarterly conference license
1895 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1896 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery,
Lebanon PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1955, 32
1893-95 student, Union Theological Seminary [United] in Dayton
OH
1896-97 Freeport, Rock River Conference
1897-98 Paradise
1898-99 Philadelphia Central Mission
1899-06 Hummelstown
1906-08 Mt. Joy
1908-09 Harrisburg Otterbein
1909-10 Lykens
1910-23 Palmyra First
1923-28 Allentown Linden Street
1928-35 Steelton
1935 retired
1936-37 Harrisburg Derry Street
(beginning Dec 1936)
Note: Edward O. Burtner was
licensed and ordained in 1895 and 1896 by the Rock River Conference, but as a
member of the East Pennsylvania Conference.
He is the father of J. Howard Burtner and is the brother of Ida May
Burtner Lowery (wife of Daniel D. Lowery) and of Rev. Daniel Emory Burtner
(1862-1958) of the Congregational Church.
Edward O. Burtner is the grandson of Frederick May (through his
daughter Katherine).
BURTNER, HENRY
Born: 5-6-1800 Cumberland County PA married: Margaret Stotler (7/19/1824)
Died: 1-5-1857 Dayton VA obit:
[11/24/1798 – 3/29/1866]
Miller-Raker #: 99
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1821 license
1823 ordained
Interment: Dayton Cemetery, Dayton
VA
Obit:
1830
charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of
the Virginia Conference, page 158, gives a brief biography. Henry was the father of Rev. William H.
Burtner (Virginia Conference), who was the father of Revs. Elmer E. Burtner
(Southeast Ohio Conference), Luther O. Burtner, Newton W. Burtner and Otto W.
Burtner. Henry was also the father of
Mr. Ezra Burtner, who was the father of Revs. Cornelius A. Burtner and
Markwood M. Burtner. Weaver’s 1908
Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 45, also
gives a brief biography. Mrs. Burtner
is an aunt to Lydia Stotler (Mrs. William T.) Lower.
BURTNER, JOHN HOWARD
Born: 12-23-1903 married:
Alva D. Wall
Died: 7-?-1982 obit:
[10/2/1911 – 9/28/1988]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1933 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1931-34 Union Deposit circuit
1934-38 Royalton Emanuel
1939 honorable
dismissal
Note: J. Howard Burtner is the son
of Edward O. Burtner. After leaving
the Conference, he is described as a “religious field worker” in the
Middletown area and pastor of the non-denominational Brookfield Bible Church
in Harrisburg.
BURTNER, LUTHER OLIN
Born: 12-9-1858 Dayton VA married:
Jennie Louisa Light
Died: 5-15-1910 obit:
[1/1/1866 – 7/21/1943]
Miller-Raker #: 483
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1882 license, Virginia Conference
1889 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Woodland Cemetery and
Arboretum, Dayton OH
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910,
118
1883-84 Rockbridge
1884-88 apparently not
assigned (perhaps serving in Maryland Conference)
1888-89 Keedysville (Maryland Conference)
1889 transfer
to Maryland Conference
1889-92 Keedysville
1892-93 Walkersville
1893-96 missionary to Sierra Leone
1896-97 furlough
1897-98 missionary to Sierra Leone
1898-99 Hagerstown circuit
1899-01 presiding elder, Maryland Conference
1901-04 missionary to Philippines
1904-09 Foreign & Home Missionary boards, Dayton OH
1909-10 located, for health reasons
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of
the Virginia Conference, page 159, gives a brief biography. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the
Pennsylvania Conference, page 324, gives a brief biography. Luther was the son of William H. Burtner of
the Virginia Conference (1834-1894), and the grandson of Henry Burtner. Luther is a brother to Newton W. and Otto
W. Burtner, and to Mrs. W. Lomax Childress.
Walter N. Roberts’ 1936 book The
Filipino Church, page 4a, gives a picture of Rev. and Mrs. L.O.
Burtner. The 1902 UB Yearbook, page
47, gives a picture of L.O. Burtner.
Mrs. Burtner is the daughter of Ezekiel Hoffer Light.
BURTNER, MARKWOOD MONROW
Born: 1-7-1858 Keezletown VA married: Margaret Benedict Reed
Died: 9-1-1932 Dufur OR obit:
[8/22/1863 – 6/27/1946]
Miller-Raker #: 435
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1889 license
1891 ordained
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery,
The Dalles OR
Obit:
1887-88 Orrstown station
1889-91 St. Thomas circuit
1891-94 Littlestown
1894-95 supernumerary, living in Hancock MD
1895-98 West Fairview
1898-01 Rayville (ending 8/1/1901)
1901-04 Wasco OR
1904-05 Klondike OR
1905 transfer to Columbia River Conference
1905-06 Touchet WA
1906-07 Walla Walla WA
1907-08 Lowden WA
1908-09 Walla Walla WA
1909-12 Dufur OR
1912 no
longer listed
Note: Markwood M. Burtner is a brother to Rev.
Cornelius A. Burtner and a grandson of Rev. Henry Burtner. Markwood and his father are shown in a
group picture in the Penn Grove camp meeting file. Family tradition and other sources indicate
that the 1901 move to Oregon may have been arranged by Bishop Hott in
connection with Philomath College – but Bishop Hott died before the final
arrangements had been settled. His
grandson Robert W. Burtner is listed in 2003 as a retired member of the
Oregon-Idaho Conference. Some sources
give his dates as 6/7/1858 – 12/1/1932.
BURTNER, NEWTON WELDON
Born: 9-13-1864 Harrisonburg VA married: Ella May Albert
Died: 9-8-1933 Chillicothe OH obit: Ohio Southeast Conference
1957, 109
Miller-Raker #: 471
Fulton #: 314
Gibble list: no
1899 license
Interment: [reportedly, Union Grove
Cemetery, Canal Winchester OH]
Obit:
1898-99 Baltimore Salem
1899-01 Baltimore Fourth
(resigned 11/6/1901 to go to Johnstown)
1901-02 Johnstown First, Allegheny Conference
1902 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1902-08 Johnstown First
1908-10 Scottdale
1910-12 Punxsutawney
1912-16 Huntingdon
1916-18 Canal Winchester OH
1918 transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference
Note: Newton W. Burtner is the son
of William H. Burtner of the Virginia Conference, and the grandson of Rev.
Henry Burtner. Newton is a brother to
Luther O. and Otto W. Burtner, and to Mrs. W. Lomax Childress. He graduated from Western [Leander Clark]
College in Iowa in 1891 and apparently was admitted into the Iowa Conference
[see 1899, 19] from which he “transferred” soon after the 1898 conference to
be assigned to Baltimore Salem.
BURTNER, OTTO WHITMORE
Born: 11-1-1873 Mount Clinton VA married: Ethel Bookwalter
Died: 4-23-1951 obit:
[9-3-1875 – 2-28-1963]
Miller-Raker #: 505
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1894 license, Virginia Conference
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery,
Ansonia CT
Obit:
1899 Greensburg (Allegheny Conference 1899, 7)
1899-00 supply, Scottdale (Allegheny Conference 1900, 6)
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-05 Washington DC
1905-12 New Haven CT
1912 no longer listed
entered
the Congregational ministry
First
Congregational Church, Ansonia CT
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of
the Virginia Conference, page 159, gives a brief biography. Otto is the son of William H. Burtner of
theVirginia Conference, and the grandson of Henry Burtner. He is a brother to Luther O. and Newton W.
Burtner, and to Mrs. W. Lomax Childress.
BURTNER, ROGER ELLSWORTH
Born: 10-18-1926 Sharpsburg MD married: Sylvia Cruger
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 737
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1951 license, recommended by Keedysville Salem
1956 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1951-58 Ortanna (ending 1/12/1958)
1958-62 York Second (beginning 1/12/1958; 1958, 59)
1962-68 missionary to Nigeria
1968 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1968-70 missionary to Nigeria
1970-77 director, CROP/CWS New Windsor MD
1977 withdrew
1983 reinstated
1983-87 Grace-Bosley
1987-90 Rohrersville
1990 retired
Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the
Pennsylvania Conference, page 406, gives a brief biography. Roger E. Burtner is not to be confused with
Methodist pastor Rev. Roger Q. Burtner (1818-2006), no relationship, who was
a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference from 1944 until transferring
to the Southwest Texas Conference in 1976.
Roger E. Burtner is supposed to be a descendent of prominent early UB
pastors George Adam Geeting and John Russell.
BUSEY, BENJAMIN SHERMAN PITZER
Born: 7-24-1865 Gerrardstown WV married: Ida Gertrude Knadler
Died: 9-21-1952 obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 32
Miller-Raker #: 564
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1889 quarterly conference license, Greensburg (Martinsburg charge,
Virginia Conference)
1891 licensed, Virginia Conference
1898 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Homewood Cemetery,
Dillsburg (section K, lot 44)
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1952,
34
1891-92 New Creek circuit
1892-93 Hartmanville
1893-98 Inwood
1898 Berkley
Springs (March-July)
1898 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
1898-01 Orangeville
1901-03 Joslin
1903 transfer to Iowa Conference
1903-05 Garwin
1905-06 Goodwill
1906 transfer to Miami Conference
1906-07 Water House
circuit
1907-09 Vandalia
1909 Roanoke VA (Feb-Oct), Virginia Conference
1909-11 Bendersville,
Pennsylvania Conference
1911 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 30
1911-14 Enola
1914-17 Sumner IA
1917-21 Lemasters
1921-25 Enola
1925-29 Dillsburg
1929-35 Manchester
1935-37 Ortanna
1937 retired
1937-40
supply, Gardners-Mt. Victory
BUSHONG, THOMAS FRANKLIN
Born: 9-4-1837 Augusta County VA married: Florentine Matilda Sefton (1862)
Died: 10-30-1919 OH obit:
Miami Conference 1926, 99
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1861 license, Virginia Conference
1863 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Woodland Cemetery and
Arboretum, Dayton OH
Obit: Miami Conference 1920, 86
1860-61 Thurmont MD
1861-63 ?
1863-64 Shopps station [Shiremanstown], Pennsylvania Conference
1864-65 Littlestown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference
transfer
to Miami Conference
Note: The 1863 appointment included
extended ministry to Harrisburg Front Street [see Gibble’s History of the
East Pennsylvania Conference, page 196].
Flora, Mrs. Bushong, was from Thurmont MD.
BUTLER, NORMAN EUGENE
Born: 1-12-1943 married:
Gloria Umberger
Died: 8-20-1998 obit:
[6/9/1933 – 7/16/2006]
Miller-Raker #: 795
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1962 license, recommended by Maytown of the Dover charge
Interment: Hershey Cemetery,
Hershey PA
Obit:
1962-64 Gardners-Mt. Victory
1964-65 senior, Lebanon Valley College
1965-67 living in Wellsville
1967 no longer listed
BUTTERWECK, ERWIN HERBERT
Born: 5-5-1874 Lehigh County PA married: Ella Augusta Field
Died: 6-28-1951 Allentown PA obit: [8/26/1880 – 4/7/1955]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 license, East German Conference
Interment: Salem UMC Cemetery, East
Texas PA
Obit:
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1903 referred
1926-27 Cross Roads [Northampton County]
Note: Erwin H. Butterweck is a
nephew to Francis J, Butterwick. Some
sources give his first name as Ervin, and the maiden name of Mrs. Butterweck
as Garman.
BUTTERWICK, FRANCIS JAMES
Born: 3-14-1846 Mertztown PA married: Mary Jane Schaeffer
Died: 2-22-1921 Lebanon PA obit:
10/7/1843 – 8/2/1906]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1880 license, East German Conference
1882 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Covenant Greenwood
Cemetery, Ebenezer (Lebanon County) PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1921, 63
1883-86 Landingville circuit
1886-91 Jonestown circuit
1891-94 Northampton circuit
1894-98 Bern circuit
1898-01 Jonestown circuit
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-05 Lebanon circuit
1905-07 Iona circuit
1907 retired
Note: Francis J. Butterwick is the
father of Robert R. Butterwick and an uncle to Ewin Butterwick.
BUTTERWICK, ROBERT REUBEN
Born: 12-2-1869 Breinigsville PA married: Emma Heilman
Died: 6-14-1942 Annville PA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 27
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, East German Conference
1895 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery,
Annville PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1942, 14
1895-97 Shamokin circuit
1897-98 Reading Fourth [Memorial] [Trinity]
1898-00 Sinking Spring
1900-01 Lebanon Salem
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-06 Palmyra First
1906-07 field agent, Lebanon Valley College
1907-08 Schuylkill Haven
1908-16 Mountville
1916-21 Hershey First
1921-38 faculty, Lebanon Valley College
1938 retired
Note: Robert R. Butterwick is the
son of Francis J. Butterwick.
BYERS, WILLIAM L.
Born: 5-25-1866 married:
Died: 11-24-1900 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk
IA
Obit:
1889 transfer to Miami (Ohio) Conference
1889-90 Greenville
1890-92 Middletown
joined
the Congregational Church
1895-00 Keokuk IA
Note: Beginning in 1893, William L.
Byers is no longer listed in the United Brethren Yearbook. His obituary describes him as “Rev. William
L. Byers, D.D., formerly of Chambersburg.”
BYRD, RUDOLPH
Born: 9-15-1859 VA married:
Cornelia Ann Evers Weaver
Died: 10-2-1928 York PA obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 33
Miller-Raker #: 485
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1884 quarterly conference license, Mt. Horeb (Dayton circuit,
Virginia Conference)
1885 license, Virginia Conference
1887 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Spry
PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928,
73
1884-85 Trout Run mission
1885-87 Rockbridge
1887-89 Dayton
1889-90 Edinburg
1890-92 Toms Brook
1892-95 Berkley Springs circuit
1895 transfer to Maryland Conference
1895-99 Myersville
1899-02 Hagerstown
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-04 Hagerstown
1904-09 Boiling Springs
1909-12 Shiremanstown
1912-17 Windsor
1917-20 York Fourth
1920-28 Spry
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of
the Virginia Conference, page 159, gives a brief biography. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the
Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography.
CAMERON, THOMAS
Born: 8-11-1839 married:
Martha W. Lucas Rafe
Died: 4-26-1902 Centre County PA obit: [8/?/1839 – 6/27/1909]
Miller-Raker #: none
Fulton #: 201
Gibble list: no
1882 license, Allegheny Conference
1885 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Philipsburg Cemetery,
South Philipsburg PA
Obit:
1882-83 Moshannon
1883-88 Philipsburg
1888-91 New Haven
1891-92 Bigler
1892-93 living in Philipsburg
1893-94 South Williamsport
1894-97 Mahoning
1897-99 Knoxdale
1899-00 living in Philipsburg
1900 name removed, page 19
continued to hold membership at
Philipsburg
Note: Thomas Cameron is also listed
by the Johnstown Barron Avenue UB congregation as one of their pastors. Mrs. Cameron, nee Lucas, was the widow of a
Mr. Andrew Rafe Sr who died from woulds suffered in the Civil War.
CAMP, PETER MONROE
Born: 6-14-1860 married:
Martha Elnora Flexer
Died: 4-21-1931 obit:
East Ohio Conference 1930, 15
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
? license
? ordained
Interment: South Lawn Cemetery,
Beach City OH
Obit: East Ohio Conference 1931, 10
1897-98 Claysville
Note: P.M. Camp served in the Allegheny
Conference under “others employed in the conference.” The dates for Mrs. Camp, not given on her
conference obituary, are 3/5/1863 – 113/30/1929.
CAMPBELL, ELVA M. – see MOSES, ELVA
M.
Born: 5-5-1909 Bellwood PA married:
James C. Moses (1944)
Died: 2-18-1999 Davenport IA obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1971, 388
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Herbert Janke (1986)
Fulton #: no obit2:
[1918 – 11/15/2011]
Gibble list: no
1919 quarterly conference license, Bellwood
1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First
1933 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Forest Baptist Church,
Morrisdale PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference 1999, 376
Note: The following item appeared
in the November 29, 1929, Altoona
Mirror:
The first girl to be licensed as a minister from the
Bellwood United Brethren church is Miss Elva M. Campbell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Campbell of 815 North Fourth Street. Miss Campbell was licensed to
preach by the Bellwood church and is now pursuing the conference course of
study, preparing to be ordained. She is talented as a public speaker and
delivers a forceful message. Miss Campbell was born in Bellwood and has
resided there all bar life, with the exception of three years when her
parents moved to Tyrone, but returned to Bellwood in June of the present
year. She is well fitted for the life's work she has chosen, both by training
and home surroundings, being engaged in Christian work all her life – and a
host of friends wish her unbounded success in her chosen profession.
She has made remarkable
progress in her school work, entering the grade schools at the age of 8 and
graduating from the High School at the age of 17, with honors. Owing to
illness, she remained out of school for one year and then entered the United
Brethren Church school at Dayton, Va., graduating with honors in June, this
year, having completed the three years' course in a year and a half – and has
completed one year in music, violin and piano, and two years of straight
college work. As a side line, Miss Campbell
has written a number of poems, a number of which have been published in the
church papers. She has been a faithful student and Christian worker, having
united with the church at the age of 11 years – and it can be truthfully said
she is a born missionary, never being too tired nor too busy to attend to the
work of the Master. She lives by the motto, "All for Christ and the
church – and self lost." She Is well known among Christian workers
throughout the county as well as In the Allegheny conference of her own
church. She is mild of manner and her interests
center about her chosen work, and the inspiring of higher ideals among
others.
CAMPBELL, H.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 129
Gibble list: no
1864 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1864-65 Curwensville
1865-66 (not listed)
1866 name erased
CAMPBELL, HARRY GEORGE
Born: 2-11-1893 Beatty PA married:
Bessie Irene _____
Died: 2-1-1961 Jeannette PA obit: [1893-1942]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Laura P. Rupert
Fulton #: 438 obit2:
[10/24/1882 – 8/24/1959]
Gibble list: no
1913 quarterly conference license
1917 license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by Bradenville
1921 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Vernon Cemetery,
Elizabeth PA
Obit: [Pittsburgh Press 2/2/1961, page 41]
1916-17 Waukesha
1917-18 East Salem
1918-19 Middleburg
1919-21 Casselman
1921-22 Ligionier
1922-23 (not listed)
1923-24 (appointed to Glasgow but did not report – see 1923, 72)
1924 open transfer, page 136
1924 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
1924-26 Blackburn
1926-28 Madison
1928 discontinued
1931 applied for admission to Allegheny Conference,
recommended by Bradenville, page 91
denied
admission, page 120
Note: The newspaper obituary for
Harry G. Campbell describes him as a “retired lay minister.” The Pittsburgh Conference appointments
listed above are from the General Minutes and do not agree with other
material published by the Western Pennsylvania Conference. H.G. had originally been recommended by
Bradenville for a license in 1916 (page 43) but was rerferred back his
quarterly conference for further preparation (page 53).
CANOLES, WILLIAM EDWARD
Born: 1-28-1890 Rayville MD married:
Ruth Ann Baker
Died: 1-5-1965 Front Royal VA obit: [1895 – 1971]
Miller-Raker #: 575
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1912 license, recommended by Rayville charge 112, 33
1921 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference MES
1925 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference MES
Interment: Bennett’s Chapel Church,
Warren County VA
Obit: Virginia Conference of the
Methodist Church 1965, 124
1911-12 Millers
1912-13 Jefferson (also picked up Mt. Olivet, Winterstown
charge 113, 32)
1913-14 Biglerville
1914-17 Springet
1917-18 living in Esparto CA
1918-19 living in Codorus PA
1919 dismissed 1919,
41; affiliated with Baltimore Conference MES
1919-24 Warren VA circuit
1924-26 Richlands circuit, Greenbrier County WV
1926-29 Mt. Airy MD
1929-31 Freedom MD
1929 location, moved to California for health reasons
served
Methodist Church in Colfax CA
1941-44 Toms Brook VA UB
1944-47 Mathias WV UB/EUB
1947-51 Antioch WV EUB
1951-54 Hillsboro-Bluemont Methodist
1954-56 West Frederick
1956-59 Stanardsville circuit
1959 retired
Amherst (6 months)
Cokesbury circuit, Warren County VA (6
months)
Note: William E. Canoles is a
brother to Rev. John Jefferson Canoles (1893-1969) of the Presbyterian
Church. [Dates for Mrs. Canoles are
inconsistent: One source says she was born was born 6-14-1902. Their marriage is variously reported as
2-17-1914 at First UB in Hagerstown MD and as 2-14-1917 in Jefferson
PA.] There are pictures of Rev. and
Mrs. Canoles in the Pleasureville church file.
CANOLES, WILLIAM S.
Born: 9-4-1892 married:
Agnes Marie Mules
Died: 3-12-1969 Baltimore MD obit: [5/29/1896 – 4/15/1947]
Miller-Raker #: 604
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1915 quarterly conference license, recommended gy Raysville charge 115,31
[William D.]
1917 license, recommended by Rayville charge 1917, 39
Interment: St. Marys Episcopal
Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
1917-21 living in Parkton MD
1921-23 living in Baltimore MD
1923 referred back to quarterly conference 1923, 33
CARL, OSCAR ELLSWORTH
Born: 3-10-1873 Schuylkill County PA married: Emma Calvena Reed
Died: 5-6-1921 Tower City PA obit: [12/1/1882 – 11/20/1949]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 410
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment: St. Peter’s UB Cemetery,
Fearnot PA
Obit:
1913-14 Middleburg
1914 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1914-16 local preacher living in Spring Glen
1919 referred
CARPENTER, ISRAEL B.
Born: 10-17-1824 Lancaster PA married: Mary Jane Ricker
Died: 10-2-1890 Reading PA obit:
[1837 – 1/20/1920]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1855 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery,
Reading PA
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference
1890, 48
1852-53 Northumberland mission
1853-54 Lancaster circuit
1854-56 New Holland
1856-58 not assigned
1858-59 Harrisburg
1859-60 Amity mission
1860-64 not assigned
1864065 Halifax circuit
1865-66 not assigned
1866-67 Mountville
1867-69 not assigned
1869-71 Hummelstown
1871-72 not assigned
1872-76 Reading Otterbein
1876-77 not assigned
1877-78 Mountville
1878-79 Ephrata
1880 located to Reading
CARTER, DWAYNE CALVIN
Born: 5-4-1930 Herminie PA married:
Helen June Highberger (1951)
Died: 8-25-2018 York PA obit:
[1920 – 8/24/2006]
license, Allegheny Conference
1959 ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
ordained elder, Western
Pennsylvania Conferenbce EUB
Interment: Salem Union Cemetery,
Dover PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania
Conference
1950-51 Port Matilda
1951 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB by
conference union
1951-52 Port Matilda
1959-70 Johnstown St. Paul’s
1970 “transfer” to United Church of Christ
1970-89 Faith UCC in York PA
1989-95 First Congregational UCC in Ashville NC
1995 retired
Salem UCC in Dover PA
Canadochly UCC in York PA
CARTER, THOMAS COKE
Born: 1-1-1851
Carroll County TN married:
Maggie Brown (12/26/1875)
Died: 2-27-1916 Cincinatti OH obit: [d. 1932]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1869 received on trial, Tenessee Conference of the Mehtodist
Episcopal Church
Interment: Forest Hills Cemetery,
Chattanooga TN
Obit:
1869-70
1870-74 student, East Tennessee Wesleyan University
1874-75 student, DePauw University
1875-76 principal, West Tennessee Seminary
1876-80 president, Tullahoma College
1880-82 missionary to China
1882-83 ill health
1883-92 in transition
1894 transfer from Holston Confreence ME to East
Tennessee Conference UB
“superintended”
within Pennsylvania Confrence and other places
1905-13 bishop of newly created Southern District
1913 retired
Note: Thomas C. Carter had been a Methodist
Episcopal preacher who had difficulkty editing a northern newspaper while
living in the South. In 1894 he
trabnsferred to the United Brethren Chuch and the Board of Missions appointed
him superintendent of all work in the south.
It was in that context that he performed some duties within the
Pennsylvania Conference
CASTETTER, EDWARD FRANKLIN
Born: 3-11-1896 married:
Ellen Wright
Died: 2-?-1978 obit:
[8/25/1884 – 10/?/1972]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1915 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Greenwood Cemetery,
Decatur IL
Obit:
1916-17 Birdsboro Grace
1917-19 Hillsdale circuit
1919-21 student, Penn State University
1921 withdrew
1928-78 professor of biology, University of New Mexico
Note: Edward F. Castetter
apparently served while a student at Lebanon Valley College. He received a PhD from Iowa State in 1924,
published much in ethnobiology, and is the namesake of Castetter Hall at the
University of New Mexico at Albuquerque NM.
CASTLE, A. S.
Born: 1-17-1855 Frederick MD married:
Died: 10-16-1936 Frederick MD obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1886 license, Virginia Conference
Interment: Reformed Cemetery,
Middletown MD
Obit:
1884-85 Rockbridge
1885-87 Elk Garden
1887 charter member of Maryland Conference
1887-88 York Spring circuit, Pennsylvania Conference
1888-89 Duncannon station, Pennsylvania Conference
1889-90 East Salem,
Allegheny Conference
1890-93 living in Boonsboro MD
1893 no longer listed
Note: A.S. Castle was never ordained. He served churches in the Pennsylvania and
Allegheny Conferences as a licensed member of the Maryland Conference. This is assumed to be SILAS ALVA CASTLE,
brother of Elmer C.B. Castle, whose birth/death/burial information is given –
and one year he is listed in the conference records as S.A. CASTLE. He may have joined the Lutheran Church.
CASTLE, ELMER C.B.
Born: 2-27-1863 Middletown MD married: Luella K. Routzahn
Died: 8-19-1934 obit:
Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 30
Miller-Raker #: 474
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1887 quarterly conference license, Middletown (Myersville circuit,
Maryland Conference)
1890 license, Maryland Conference
1892 ordained, Maryland Conference
Interment: Reformed cemetery,
Middletown MD
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1934,
22
1889-92 Walkersville
1892-95 Keedysville
1895-98 Thurmont
1898-99 Williamsport
1899-01 New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania Conference
1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 9
1901-03 Newburg
1903-04 Greencastle
1904-06 Taneytown
1906-18 Mechanicsburg
1918-28 Dallastown
1928-33 Boiling Springs
1933 retired
Note: Elmer C.B. Castle is a
brother to Silas A. Castle [see A.S. Castle].
CATLOW, RICHARD C.
Born: 4-1-1799 Manchester England married: Mary Crowell
Died: 2-1-1881 Bellefonte PA obit: [1807 – 5/20/1887]
Miller-Raker #: 140
Fulton #: 23 [Cutlough]
Gibble list: yes [Cathlow]
1828 license
1840 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference
1854 erased
Note: Beers’ 1898 Commemorative Biographical Record of
Central Pennsylvania, page 92, states that “Richard Catlow, nephew of Sir
Robert Peel [a Prime Minister of the U.K.], and a learned and eloquent
preacher in the U.B. Church, inherited a fortune from the family estates in
England, but preferred to reside in this country. For some time his home was in Clearfield
county, but later he removed to a farm in Bald Eagle Valley, where for many
years he followed the peaceful calling of agriculture.” He became a U.S. citizen in 1869. Mrs. Catlow is an aunt to Abraham
Crowell. In Funkhouser’s 1921 History
of the Virginia Conference this surname is given as TABLOM, apparently an
indication of the handwriting and/or condition of the original document.
CAUFMAN see KAUFFMAN
CAVANAGH, GEORGE
Born: 5-26-1855 Liverpool, England married: Emma
Elizabeth Hoover
Died: 1-3-1945 obit
[8/29/1854 – 1/30/1943]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes [CAVENAUGH]
1892 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1894 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Lake Carroll Cemetery,
Tampa FL
Obit:
1892 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1892-94 Pequea circuit
1894-95 Mont Clare
1895-96 Lancaster circuit
1897 transfer to Northwest Kansas Conference
1902-03 East Freedom, Allegheny Conference
1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1903-04 East Freedom
1904-06 South Williamsport
1906-07 Magdalene station FL, Georgia Conference
1907 transfer to Georgia Conference
1907-08 Magdalene station
Note: George Cavanagh was sent to Florida as a
United Brethren home missionary to Lake Magdalene FL, now designated as
historic site #60 of the UMC. This
surname appears erroneously in many conference/denomination records as
CAVANAUGH.
CHAMBERLIN, JONAS BARRETT
Born: 10-26-1865 Winchester VA married: Maude C. Earmon [1887]
Died: 10-26-1952 Martinsburg WV obit: [1867 – 11/21/1917]
Miller-Raker #: 487
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1888 quarterly conference license, Antioch (New Creek circuit,
Virginia Conference)
1889 license, Virginia Conference
1891 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Rosedale Cemetery,
Martinsburg VA
Obit:
1888-91 Winchester
1891-95 Martinsburg
1895 transfer to Maryland Conference
1895-98 Keedysville (ending 7/1/98)
1898-01 Washington DC (beginning 7/1/98)
1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1901-18 local, living in Martinsburg WV
Greencastle
station, supply December 1902 – May 1903: 1903, 21
1918 |