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Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church

Pennsylvania United Brethren Pastors.  This file ncludes every person known to have (1) been licensed or ordained in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania (up to its dissolution in 1964), East Pennsylvania (up to 1951) or Allegheny (up to its dissuloution in 1952) Conferences of the United Brethren [and EUB] Church or (2) served an appointment in one of those Conferences.  Individual pastors may be accessed using the search function, by scrolling down the list, or by clicking on the first letter of the surname to enter the file at the appropriate place.
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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: Colusa Community Cemetery, Colusa CA

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 birth years (apparently erroneously) 1887 and 1892 for Albert and “Bessie”.

 

ARNOLD, JAY HARTZELL

 

Born: 1896                                                                  married: Ruth Edythe 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: 5-20-2020                                                          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 Centennial

1957-59           Aristes-Mount Carmel

1959-69           Cleona Immanuel (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

 

Note:  As of 2026, Joan H. Aughinbaugh was living in Urbana IL.

 

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:

 

1887-88           East Salem (beginning previous year; see 1887, 19)

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           Three Springs (beginning 12/1904)

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 Linda 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 The Religious Telescope

 

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

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 2.

 

 

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 God's Viking, 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

1906-08           Liverpool, Allegheny Conference
1908-09           Port Matilda, 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

 

1966    license, Western PA Conference EUB [1966,98]

1971    ordained deacon

 

Interment: Spring Valley [Woodside] Cemetery, Spring Valley PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 361

 

1967-70           Mount Hope [Mt. Hope, Salem, Spring Valley], former Allegheny Conference UB

1970                charter member of Western Pennsylvania Conference UM

1970-84           Cabot – Emory Chapel

1984                retired

                             assistant, Clearfield West Side 

 

Note: Chalmers Bell served ast a full-time local pastor.

 

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: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 352

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 a 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: 2-24-1985  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: Dayton Memorial Park Cenetery, Dayton OH

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: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

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 [see BINGHAM, SOLOMON]

 

 

BIGLER, ADAM G. JR

 

Born: 5-16-1908  PA                                                  married: Ruby Doris Woolner

Died: 12-7-1968                                                          obit: [6/30/1910 – 9/15/1975]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1935    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery. Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1941                referred

 

Note: In the 1940 census Adam Bigler Jr is listed as a stenographer living in Pequea township, Lancaster County.  In the same 1940 census, Mrs. Bigler is listed as born in Canada and living in Kitchner, Ontario.  His Dayton OH tombstone lists him as “Rev.” – but he is not listed in the EUB yearbook.  His father’s 1942 obituary lists him as “Rev. Adam Bigler, Jr., of Dayton OH.”  He may have been in the UCC ninistry.

 

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: Alta (Baer) Bingham is married to James Bingham.  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: c1848  PA                                                         married: Martha Jane Bryan

Died:                                                                           obit: [6/1/1844 – 6/1/1905]

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 [complaint of imprudent behavior; permitted to withdraw]

 

Note: In the 1880 census, the family is living in St. Thomas township, Franklin County PA.  In the 1900 census, Mrs. Bingham is still living there as a widowed head the house. Some sources confuse George W. Bingham with Rev. George Washington Bingaman (1848-1928), who also was from Franklin County.

 

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

 

Note” James Bingham is married to Alta (Baer) Bingham.

 

BINGHAM, SOLOMON

 

Born: 5-3-1817                                                                        married: Caroline Roth

Died: 6-30-1889  Duncannon PA                                           obit: [11/20/1836 – 6/21/1907]

Miller-Raker #: 327 [BIGHAM]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1862    license

1863    ordained

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 21 [BIGHAM]

 

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 [BIGHAM].

 

 

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

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 1.

 

 

 

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, The Bible Doctrine of Devotion.  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).

 

BRALEY, E.H.

 

Born:                                                                                                  married:

Died:                                                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916       admitted on trial, Erie Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-18  Odin [Potter County]
1918                       withdrew

 

Note:  E.H. Braley was a member of the Erie Conference and served mostly outside the area of the present Susquehanna Conference.  He appears to be listed as #291 E.H. Bradley in Weaver’s 1936 History of the Erie Conference.

 

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, THOMAS M.

 

Born: 1-6-1865  Warriors Mark PA                           married: Carrie E. Sharer (10/5/1897)

Died: 11-12-1940  Kistler PA                                    obit: [11/17/1875 – 9/29/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Anna Elizabeth Varner (4/22/1929)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/20/1853 – 2/22/1933]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mount Union PA

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 first wife was from the Mount Union circuit’s Mt. Nebo Church and is listed in their records as Carolyn Sherer.  His second wife (nee Cramer) was the widow of a Mr. Thomas J. Varner (1850-1921).  The service of T.M. Briggs in the Erie Conference of the Methodist Church was as a supply.  His secular employment included teaching School, factory work and operating a furniture stor in Kistler, Mifflin County, where he was the justice of the peace when he died. 

 

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

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 11.

 

 

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.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 5.

 

 

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

1942-43           Xenia OH

1943-44           Piqua OH

1944-45

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

 

Note:  Donald S. Burkhart was an active member of the West Shore Evangelical Free Church.

 

 

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: Hillsdale Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit:

 

1931-34           Union Deposit circuit

1934-38           Royalton Emanuel

1939                honorable dismissal

                        Harrisburg Brookfield Bible Church
1973                retired

 

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 Creager (1950)

Died: 9-16-2023                                                          obit: [8/?/1933 - ]

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 (1918-2016), 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.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 10.

 

 

 

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

 

Note: This is believed to be Hiram Brinker Campbell (1839-1912) of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County PA.  He served in the Civil War yntil 1863 and married in 1867.

 

 

 

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                transfer to Virginia Conference

1918-22           local, living in Martinsburg WV

1922                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1922-1930       local, living in Martinsburg WV

1930                withdrew, at own request

 

Notre: The first name of J. Barrett Chamberlin is listed as both Jonas and John.  Conference records consistently render the surname as Chamberlain, but he seems to prefer Chamberlin.  According to Funkhouser, page 298, he was granted an advisory seat at the 1904 session of the Virginia Conference.  Some sources list his birthplace as Mineral County WV.

 

 

CHAMBERLINE, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1852-53           Chester County mission

1861                name dropped

 

Note: This may be James Chamberlain/Chamberline [12/31/1822 – 1/13/1887] buried in Fairview Cemetery, Madrid IA

 

CHAMBERS, CURTIS ALLEN

 

Born: 9-24-1924  Damascus OH                                married: Anna June Winn (1946)

Died: 1-3-2015  Terre Haute IN                                 obit: [2/3/1925 – 7/5/2025]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            license, Friends Church

1954    ordained

 

Interment: Damascus Cemetery, Damascus OH

Obit:

 

1951-53           Cleveland First

1953-54           Rockville (beginning 12/1/1953)

1954                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference (UB)

1954-50           Rockville (ending 5/31/1959)

1959-64           editor EUB adult publications, Dayton OH (beginning 6/1/1959)

1964                editor, Church and Home (beginning 1/1/1964)

1972-84           director, United Methodist Communications

1984                transfer to Louisiana Conference

1990                retired to Nashville TN

2004                moved to Terre Haute IN

                             Rosedale (interim)

                             Northside (interim)

 

Note: Curtis A. Chambers was a member of the Methodist-EUB Commission on Church Union a co-editor of the Plan of Union, and a co-editor of the first (1970) United Methodist Discipline. 

 

CHARLESTON, J.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1913-14           Springfield (beginning 1/1913)

1916-17           Geneva NE

 

Note: J.J. Charleston served as “others employed by the conference” and is otherwise unknown.  This surname is also reported as CHARLESWORTH.

 

CHILDRESS, WALTER LOMAX

 

Born: 9-26-1867  Roanoke County VA                     married: Ada M. Burtner

Died: 10-4-1936  Singers Glen VA                            obit: [1860 – 1934]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1894    entered Virginia Conference from Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Dayton Cemetery, Dayton VA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1937, 13

 

1900-02           Rohrersville

1902                Perry circuit, resigned immediately after conference

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 160, gives a brief biography.  It appears that he considered himself a member of the Virginia (and not Maryland) Conference – and as such never matriculated into the Pennsylvania Conference in 1902, but returned to the Virginia Conference.  Mrs. Childress is the grand-daughter of Henry Burtner, the daughter of Rev. William H. Burtner (1834 – 1894) of the Virginia Conference, and a sister to Luther, Newton W. and Otto W. Burtner.  The conference archives has a copy of his 1901 book “Trailing Arbutus and Other Poems.”

 

 

CHRISTMAN, CHARLES WILSON

 

Born: 10-7-1872  St. Thomas PA                               married: [single]

Died: 1945                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 511

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1898    quarterly conference license, St. Thomas

1903    license

1908    ordained

 

Interment: St. Thomas Cemetery, Saint Thomas PA

Obit:

 

1903-04           Carlisle circuit

1904-08           Bendersville

1908-10           Taneytown

1910-12           Chewsville

1912-18           local

1918-20           Wolfsville

1920-43           local

1943                dismissed  1943, 47

 

Note: Charles W. Christman is an uncle of Samuel F. Christman.  He was a schoolteacher

 

 

CHRISTMAN, SAMUEL FRED

 

Born: 6-17-1908  St. Thomas PA                               married: Gladys V. Rotz

Died: 3-14-1999  Fayetteville PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 381

Miller-Raker #: 662

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1926    quarterly conference license, Lemasters

1929    license

1938    ordained

 

Interment: Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 429

 

1931-33           Biglerville

1933-40           Newburg

1940-44           New Cumberland Trinity

1944-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-53           Chambersburg First

1953-54                      Quincy Home, assistant superintendent

1954-71           Quincy Home, superintendent

1971                retired

 

Note: Samuel F. Christman is a nephew of Charles W. Christman,

 

CHUBB, CLARENCE LEE

 

Born: 2-20-1914                                                          married: Alice Betts

Died: 1-1-2008  Dallastown PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 430

Miller-Raker #: 708

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1936    quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference Liverpool charge: Oriental Salem

1943    license, Allegheny Conference

1949    ordained

 

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 400

 

1940-45           Shade Gap

1945-47           Shermansdale, Pennsylvania Conference

1947-48           Mt. Tabor, Pennsylvania Conference

1948                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1948-50           Mt. Tabor

1950-53           Chambersburg First, associate

1953-59           Young’s-Mt. Zion

1959-62           Chewsville

1962-68           Red Lion St. Paul’s Chapel

1968-73           Paxtonville

1973-74           Selinsgrove Wesley

1974-77           Mapleton yoked

1977-80           Glen Rock

1980                retired

 

CHUBB, FRANK B.

 

Born: 6-1-1871  England                                            married: Edith Clift

Died: 12-17-1944  near Linglestown PA                   obit: 2/8/1875 -1/24/1952

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1902    quarterly conference license, New Cumberland charge

1910    license, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, Colonial Park PA

Obit: conference biographical files

 

1902-03           Salem charge (Fishing Creek Salem & Mt. Olivet), resigned 4/1/1903

                        living in Pleasant Grove, York County

1907-10           Jones Spring, Virginia Conference

1910                joined Virginia Conference

1910-12           Maysville [South Branch]

1912-14           Edinburg

1916-17           Tom’s Brook

1917-18           Shenandoah City

1918                retired because of poor health to Linglestown PA

                        local

1926-28           Manada Hill, East Pennsylvania Conference

                       

Note:  See the explanation of the resignation in 1903, 13.  While Rev. Chubb is listed as an itinerant in the Virginia Conference, he appears as a first year licentiate 1912-18.  He apparently never made any progress toward ordination.  Some personal details are given in 1913, 9.

 

 

CIAMPA, DONALD N.

 

Born: 8-6-1905  Italy                                                  married: Dorothy Love Jackson

Died: 6-2-1989                                                            obit: Western PA Conference 2005, 331

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 491

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, South Fork PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 288

 

1927-31           Zion

1931-38           Rockwood

1938-48           Belsano

1948-63           Beaverdale

1963-72           Herminie

1972                retired

                             1972-80  Dunlo

 

Note: Donald N. Ciampa is the father of five United Methodist pastors, all graduates of United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH: J. Paul Ciampa, John E. Ciampa, B. Frank Ciampa, and Ralph C. Ciampa of the Western Pennsylvania Conference; Donald J. Ciampa of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. 

 

CLAIR, HORACE G.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Amy E. Wensell (1890)

Died:                                                                           obit: [1864 – 11/?/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Highspire

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-91           Halifax Otterbein

1891-93           Jacksonville circuit (resigned spring 1893)

1893-95           located

1895                honorable dismissal

                        “transfer” to  the Presbyterian Church [as CLAIRE]

1898                graduated from Auburn Seminary in Auburn NY

                        St. Thomas

1903-04           supply as needed

1904-05           Millerstown

1905-               Newton Hamilton

                        Boswell

     and supplying Somerset

                        Fairmont NE

                        Colby KS

1912-16           Wood River NE

1917                moved to Iowa

        -23           Sioux City Williams Memorial [Presbyterian]

1923-               Wall Lake IA

 

Note: Mrs. Clair and family were active members of the Highspire UB church, and her father Isaac R. Wensell appears to have been a local preacher.  By 1917, H.G. Clair appears to be serving in Iowa, and was in that state until at least 1930 – and his wife is buried in Sioux City IA.

 

CLAIR, JOHN G.

 

Born: 9-22-1818  W Hempfield twp, Lanc Co PA    married: Susan Hosler

Died: 7-11-1882  Mount Joy PA                                obit: [5/10/1818 – 9/21/1893]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1859    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1863    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Florin PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 25

 

1862-63           York circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1863-64           Paradise [Jefferson] circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1864-65           Highspire circuit

1865-67           Halifax circuit

1867-68           Harrisburg circuit

1868-69           Pine Grove circuit

1869-70           Susquehanna circuit

1870                located to Mt. Joy for health reasons

 

CLARK, CHARLES H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 535

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    license, recommended by York First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1905-06           Walkersville

1906-07           Wolfsville

1907-08           Spring Grove (Greenmount, Jefferson, Spring Grove)

1909                withdrew  1909,40

 

 

CLARK, DONALD L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1922    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by West Decatur

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1922-23           Mahaffey (beginning 4/1/1922)

1923-24           Bradenville

1924-25           (without appointment)

1925                referred back to quarterly conference

 

Note: This may be Donald Leroy Clark [aka Donald R. Clark], born 10/12/1897 in northwestern PA and died 2/29/1988 in New York state.  As of 2013, contacts with living relatives have been unable to confirm or refute this possibility.

 

CLAY, GEORGE BOTELER

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 599

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license, recommended by Quincy

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-18           student at Lebanon Valley College, Annville PA

1918-21           student at Otterbein College, Westerville OH

1921-24           student at Asbury Seminary, Wilmore KY

1924                withdrew  1924, 28

 

Note:  His last known address is Ozawie KS in 1947.  Be careful – there was ANOTHER Rev. George B. Clay (1863-1943) in the United Brethren Church in KS and MO in the early 1900’s.  There was also a Rev. George B. Clay in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Pittsburg PA in the early 1940’s and in IN from the mid 1940’s to early 1960’s.

 

CLEMM, JACOB A.

 

Born: 1-?-1825                                                            married: Percilla Barnes

Died: 4-8-1891  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: [8/13/1831 – 7/17/1907]

Miller-Raker #: 319

Fulton #: 140

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    exhorter’s license in Methodist Episcopal Church, Alto Dale [Mont Alto]

1860    license

1862    ordained

 

Interment: originally at Young’s Church in Perry County

                 moved to Harrisburg East Cemetery in 1904

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1891, 42

 

1859-61           Rocky Spring circuit

1861-63           Manchester circuit

1863-64           York Springs circuit

1864-66           Bendersville mission

1866-68           Perry circuit

1868                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1868-69           Bellefonte circuit

1869-70           Juniata circuit (Mt. Union area)

1870-72           Scottsville circuit (Three Springs area)

1872-73           unclear, ministering at large

1873-75           Fallen Timber

1875-76           Clearfield circuit

1876-77           Burnside circuit (Woodland area in Clearfield County)

1877-78           Holidaysburg circuit

1878-79           Mahoning

1879-80           unclear

1880                Allegheny circuit [2 conferences this year: time switched from spring to fall]

1880-82           Liverpool

1882-85           Three Springs

1885-88           presiding elder, Altoona district

1888                Patchinsville (did not complete the year)

1889                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1891                Ironville and Silver Springs (Lancaster County, part year: 191, 13)

 

Note: It appears that Rev. Clemm’s wife died 1888/9 and he moved in with his son in Harrisburg.  There is a Clemm folder in the biographical files at the conference archives.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 5.

 

 

CLINE, JESSE

 

Born: 1-30-1809                                                          married: Juliann Smyers [Smoyer?]

Died: 7-31-1883  Petersburg [York Springs] PA       obit: [6/15/1812 – 5/13/1878]

Miller-Raker #: 306

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license

 

Interment: Cline’s Church, Adams County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 21

 

1855 –56         York circuit

1856                located permanently

 

Note: Jesse Cline is a brother to Joseph Cline (1811-1884), the primary organizer of Clines Church, and is an uncle to Joesph’s son local pastor George A. Cline (1847-1871).

 

CLIPPINGER, ARTHUR RAYMOND

 

Born: 9-3-1878  Franklin County PA                         married: Ellen Weinland Mills

Died: 7-18-1958  Dayton OH                                     obit: [11/16/1882 – 6/5/1955]

Miller-Raker #: 510

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license, recommended by Newburg charge

1911    ordained

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1959, 91

 

1903                Greencastle station, May-October: 1903, 21

1905-07           New Cumberland Trinity

1907-09           Trumbull CT Congregational Church, student at Yale

1909-10           North Haven CT Congregational Church, student at Yale

1910-11           Dayton OH Summit Street

1911                transfer to Miami Conference

1911-18           Summit Street

1918-21           conference superintendent

1921-50           bishop

1950                retired

 

Note: Bishop Clippinger represented the United Brethren in the famous handshake that signified the 1946 EUB union.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 316, gives a brief biography – as does The Chronicle 1997, 7.  He is a brother to Walter G. Clippinger.  Mrs. Clippinger is the daughter of Bishop Job Smith Mills and Mary Keister Mills, a sister to the noted Lawrence Keister.

 

CLIPPINGER, JOHN O.

 

Born: 12-23-1848  Franklin County PA                     married: Emma E. Cormany

Died: 7-9-1918                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 33

Miller-Raker #: 390

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1877    quarterly conference license, Center (Orrstown circuit)

1879    license

1882    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 78

 

1880                Pine Grove mission

1880-83           York Springs circuit

1883-84           Pequa mission

1884-87           Big Springs station

1887-89           St. Thomas

1889-92           Waynesboro

1892-95           Boiling Springs

1895-97           Greencastle

1897-01           Taneytown (named Littlestown 1897-99)

1901-03           Fayetteville

1903-07           Mechanicsburg circuit

1907-08           York Haven

1908-11           Rohrersville (did not finish last year)

1911                local

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 291, gives a brief biography.  Clippinger was apparently a very common surname in Franklin County, and attempts to relate John to Arthur/Walter Clippinger or ME preacher W.A. Clippinger have not been successful.  But John O. Clippinger was a first cousin to the wife of Samuel D. Faust, her father Henry being a brother to John’s father Elias.  Mrs. Clippinger is a granddaughter of Jacob Cormany and a first cousin of Cora Cormany (Mrs. Lawrence) Keister.  John O. Clippinger is also an uncle to missionary Lulu May Clippinger, the daughter of John’s brother Mr. Samuel W. Clippinger

 

CLIPPINGER, LULU MAY

 

Born: 3-9-1878                                                            married: [never married]

Died: 8-16-1967                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

missionary

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: The World Evangel for December 1967, page 395

 

1914-19           Africa

1920-31           Alcalde NM

1931-               Vallecitos NM

 

Note:  Lulu May Clippinger is the neice of John O. Clippinger. A biographical sketch appears in Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 329.  A tribute for Lulu’s sister Amy C. Clippinger appears in The World Evangel for October 1959, page 317.

 

CLIPPINGER, WALTER GILLAN

 

Born: 3-1-1873  Lurgan PA                                        married: Sarah Roop

Died: 9-29-1948  Dayton OH                                     obit: [3/15/1875 – 7/12/1940]

Miller-Raker #: 468

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1898    license

1903    ordained

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1949, 11

 

1898-01                      student, Lebanon Valley College  Annville PA

1901-04                      student, Union Seminary  Dayton OH

1904-05           UB Publishing House  Dayton OH

1905-09           professor, Union Seminary  Dayton OH

1909-10           president, Otterbein University  Westerville OH

1910                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

1910-39           president, Otterbein University  Westerville OH

1939                retired (president emeritus)

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 316, gives a brief biography.  Walter is a brother to Arthur Raymond Clippinger.

 

CLOPPER, JOHN

 

Born: 10-8-1772  Washington County MD                married: Barbara Ann Keedy [1800]

Died: 6-13-1852 Rihrersville MD                              obit: [1/4/1772 - ?/?/1818]

Miller-Raker #: 100                                                    married2: Susannah Longman [6/17/1820]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [c1795 – c1835]

Gibble list: yes [KLOPPER]

 

1821    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment: Rohrersville Cemetery, Rohrersville MD

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

 

Note: The first Mrs. Clopper is the daughter of George Adam Geeting Sr. and the sister of George Adam Geeting Jr.


 

COLAS, MARCEL R.

 

Born: 01-20-1887 France                                            married: Isabel Boyd Strickler

Died: 10-27-1968  Capitola CA                                 obit: [1892-1992]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license

1921    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by Dunlevy

 

Interment: Santa Cruz Memorial Park, Santa Cruz CA

Obit:

 

1920-21           Dunlevy

1921-23           Middelburg

1923-26           Clarion River

1926                transfer to Missouri Conference

 

Note: Marcel R. Colas is a brother to two Baptist preachers: Rev. Raymond Colas (1899-1989) of Oval PA and Rev. Charles C. Colas (1895-1987) of Kansas City KS and Belle Vernon PA.

 

COLE, CALVIN H.

 

Born: 2-16-1938                                                          married: Janet L. Miller

Died: 1-8-2018  Carlisle PA                                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: 774

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license, recommended by Mt Zion: Manchester MD

1965    ordained

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference  2018, 266

 

1958-59           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1959-60           Shermansdale

1960-62                      Mt. Tabor

1962-64           Center Christian Church, Dayton OH

1964-69           Baltimore Otterbein

1969-77           New Cumberland Trinity

1977-81           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1981-92           Harrisburg Grace

1992-99           York Messiah

1999                retired

 

COLE, JOHN HARRYMAN

 

Born: 10-26-1828  Baltimore County MD                 married:

Died: 1-16-1908  Lemoyne PA                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

 

Interment: Black Rock Baptist Meeting House, Baltimore County MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 108

 

1883                West Fairview, supply for 4 months

1884                Eschol, several months

1896-97           Ortanna

1900-01           Path Valley (starting 9/1/1900)

1901                New Bloomfield, 2 months

1906-07           Sabillasville

 

Note: John H. Cole never accepted a license to preach, although it was offered to him.  He was a member at Rayville MD 1887-1908 and at Lemoyne from 1-5-1908 until his death.  He was connected with a dry goods establishment in Baltimore for 30 years before becoming a full-time evangelist in 1879.  An obituary also appears in The Religious Telescope for January 29, 1908, page 30.

 

 

COLESTOCK, ZEPHANIAH AUGUSTUS

 

Born: 3-25-1824  Littlestown PA                               married: Priscilla Louisa Cormany (1849)

Died: 1-19-1924                                                          obit: [9/30/1822 – 9/20/1901]

Miller-Raker #: 286

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1843    quarterly conference license, Atwater Center (Nimishillin circuit, Muskingum Conference)

1844    license, Muskingum Conference

1847    ordained

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 63

 

1844-45           Orange circuit

1845-46           Nemishellon circuit

1846-47           Littlestown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1847                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1847-48           Hershe circuit

1848-49           Chambersburg circuit

1849-50           Big Spring

1850-52           Hershe’s station

1852-54           Chambersburg circuit

1854-57           Chambersburg station

1857-60           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1860-62           Chambersburg station

1862-66           Big Spring

1866-68           Baltimore Scott Street

1868-69           Shopp’s station

1869-72           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1872-75           presiding elder, York District

1875-78           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1878-93           local, living in Mechanicsburg

1893-05           superintendent, Old People’s Home at Mechanicsburg PA

1905-12           assistant superintendent, Old People’s Home at Mechanicsburg PA

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 291, gives a brief biography.   Mrs. Colestock’s maiden name is also variously given as Carmony, Cormony and Carmany.

 

COLLEDGE, GEORGE J.

 

Born: 4-2-1894  Greensburg PA                                married: Minnie Agnes Knarr

Died: 12-17-1927  Torrance PA                                 obit: [9/24/1885 - 11/18/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 386

Gibble list: no

 

quarterly conference license

1911    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928, 61

 

1913-16           Middleburg

1916-17           (no appointment)

1917-18           Dunlo

1918-20           Fairmont

1920-21           Hollsopple

1921-23           Huntingdon (ending 4/1923)

1923                located for health reasons

 

Note: George J. Colledge is the son of John S. Colledge.

 

 

COLLEDGE, JOHN S.

 

Born: 10-16-1874  Greensburg PA                            married: Martha Fenwick

Died: 6-18-1942                                                          obit: [1877 – 1954]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 351

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Scottdale

1907    license, Allegheny Conference

1911    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hillview Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1942, 64

 

1906-07           Middletown

1907-09           Springfield

1909-11           Milton

1911-17           South Williamsport

1917-21           Beaverdale

1921-25           Milton

1926-31           Clearfield

1931-39           Tyrone

1939-40           conference evangelist

1940-42           Bellwood

 

Note John S. Colledge is the father of George J. Colledge.

 

COMER, JOSEPH ESTEL

 

Born: 8-7-1871  Oak Hill OH                                    married: Frances Caroline Crawford (1894)

Died: 4-24-1941  Ashland OH                                   obit: Ohio East Conference 1959, 102

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 347

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Ashland OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1941, 12

 

1906                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1906-07           East Pittsburgh

1907                transfer to

 

COMREY, EDWIN STANTON

 

Born: 9-4-1878  Mahanoy City PA                            married: Katherine Dougherty (10/3/1907)

Died:  9-22-1964  Cincinnati OH                               obit: Miami Conference 1923, 92

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Meta Stella Veith (1924)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: West Ohio Conference 1980, 289

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bridgetown Cemetery, Cheviot OH

Obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1965, 72

 

1909-12           Pequea

…

1914-16           Cheviot, Miami Conference

1916                transfer to Miami Conference
1916-24           Cheviot
                        Hamilton First

 

CONERY, J. WILLIS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1874    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873-74           Northumberland mission station

1874-76           Paxinos circuit

1876                expelled

 

Note: This is believed to be Rev. John W. Conery (1848-1885) of the Christian Church, a native of Boiling Springs PA who was licensed by the Eel River Christian Conference in 1884 and is buried in Liberty Mills IN.

 

CONLEY, URIAH

 

Born: 1-21-1827  Shellsburg PA                                married: Catherine Hammer (1854)

Died: 6-13-1893  Bethel, Somerset County, PA        obit: [7/29/1827 – 2/3/1871]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Mary McHenry Goheen (1872)

Fulton #: 132                                                               obit2: [1/6/1839 – 11/3/1919]

Gibble list: no

 

1852    quarterly conference license

1864    license, Allegheny Conference

1873    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Jenners Crossroads Cemetery, Jenners Crossroads PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1893, 31

 

Jefferson

Somerset

Mahoning

Holidaysburg

Otterbein

Clearfield

Port Matilda

Ligonier

East Freedom

1891-93           Jenners Cross Road

 

Note: The second Mrs. Conley (nee McHenry) was the sidow of a Mr. George Goheen (1839-1865), who died from wounds he has received in the Civil War.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 1.

 

 

COOK, SAMUEL

 

Born: 2-11-1810                                                          married: Magdalena _____

Died: 4-13-1849                                                          obit: [? – 7/26/1877]

Miller-Raker #: 274

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

 

Interment: West Lawn Cemetery, Canton OH

Obit: Muskingum Conference 1885, 26

 

1846                transfer to Muskingum Conference

 

COOKE, GEORGE C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 218

Gibble list: no

 

1887    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference

 

1887-88           Coalport

1888-90           Somerset

1891-95           Johnstown Walnut Grove

1896-97           Dunlo (did not finish the year)

1897-98           on leave

1898-00           Dunlo

1900                honorable dismissal

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 1.

 

COOMBS, ISAAC

 

Born: 8-9-1799                                                            married: Susan _____

Died: 11-14-1858                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 219                                                    married2: Eliza _____

Fulton #: 11                                                                 obit2: [1811 – 9/30/1891]

Gibble list: yes [COMBS]

 

1837    license

 

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit:

 

1838-39           Juniata circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40                      Clearfield circuit

1840-41           no minutes taken

1841-42           Allegheny circuit

1842-43           appointments not listed

1843-44           Bellefonte circuit

1844-45           Bellefonte & Millheim

1845-47           Somerset circuit

1847-51           unknown, but apparently not assigned by Allegheny Conference

1851                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1851-52           York circuit

1852-54           Manchester mission

1854-55           Dover circuit

1855-56           Mercersburg mission

1856-57           York Springs circuit

1857-58                      Carlisle circuit

1858-59           Perry circuit

 

Note: This surname is also rendered COMBS.  Isaac and Susan Coombs were members of Fetterhoff’s class, near Chambersburg, at least from 1834.  The widowed second Mrs. Coombs later married Samuel Enterline.

 

 

COONS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1845-46           Chambersburg station

 

Note: As one not properly licensed, he was serving under the presiding elder.

 

COOPER, J.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 509

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1906                referred back to quarterly conference  1906, 49

 

COOPER, PAUL EDWARD

 

Born: 7-26-1900                                                          married: Helen M. Nye

Died: 3-16-1990                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 212

Miller-Raker #: 618

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1922    license

1928    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 449

 

1928-31           Chewsville

1931-35           York First

1935-41           Lemoyne Calvary

1941-49           Baltimore Otterbein

1949-64           Dallastown Bethlehem

1964-65           Gettysburg Memorial

1965                retired

                            1973-74       assistant, York Messiah

 

Note: Paul E. Cooper is a brother to Margaret Cooper Werner, wife of Paul A. Werner of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.  He is also a first cousin to Lewis Cleveland Cooper (1884-1949) of the Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

COPE, JOHN FRETTS

 

Born: 6-2-1894                                                            married: [single]

Died: 2-26-1922                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Scottdale

1921    license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Lebanon Cemetery, Tarrs PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1922, 123

 

1920-21           Bradenville

 

Note: John F. Cope was scheduled to receive his annual conference license at the September 1921 session of the Allegheny Conference, but he was too ill and too weak to attend.   He died of tuberculosis a few months later.

 

COPENHAVER, MERRITT ALLEN

 

Born: 1-8-1936                                                            married:

Died: 3-17-2000                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 762

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    license, recommended by Taneytown

1962    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-59           Gettysburg Salem

1962-79           Dover Bethany

1979-80           leave of absence

1980                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

CORL, PETER

 

Born: 2-8-1824                                                            married:

Died: 6-19-1884                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 324

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license

1863    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Pleasant [Hayes Grove] Church, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 31

 

1860-63           Paradise circuit

1863-64           US army

1864-68           Liverpool

1868-71           York circuit

1871-73           Rocky Spring

1873-75           Mercersburg circuit

1875-76           Liverpool circuit

1876-77           Big Spring circuit

 

CORMANY, JACOB

 

Born: 2-?-1798                                                            married: Margaret Hampsher

Died: 4-24-1856                                                          obit: [1786-c1829]

Miller-Raker #: 218                                                    married2: Lydia Hampsher (1831)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/20/1809 – 12/29/1836]

Gibble list: yes [CARMONY]                                   married3: Mary Eckerman

                                                                                    obit3:

1837    license

 

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County

Obit: 1856, 42

 

Note: While there is no record of his ordination and he appears not to be a regular itinerant, 1848, 8 lists him as eligible for election to General Conference.  Jacob Cormany is the father of Samuel E. Cormany, and the grandfather of cousins Cora Cormany (Mrs. Lawrence) Keister and Emma Cormany (Mrs. John O.) Clippinger and Naomi Jane Carmany [sic] (Mrs. Benjamin G.) Huber.  The first and second wives were sisters.  The third Mrs. Cormany married a Mr. Daniel Byers in 1859.

 

 

CORMANY, SAMUEL ECKERMAN

 

Born: 5-24-1838  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Rachel Bowman

Died: 4-20-1921  Scottdale PA                                  obit: [4/12/1836 – 2/18/1899]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Almeda Truxall (1904)

Fulton #: 226                                                               obit2: [d. 1915]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1871    ordained

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1921, 96

 

1859-60           student, Otterbein College

1860-62           living in Canada

1862-65           Civil War service

1865-68           living in Missouri, informal home missionary

1868-73           living in Kansas, informal home missionary

                             Cherokee circuit

1873-76           living in Canada

                             1873-76      Waterloo circuit

                             1876-78      Fonthill circuit

1878-88           living in Michigan, informal home missionary

1888                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1888-91           ?

1891-92           missionary, Greensburg District

1892-95           New Florence

1895-97           Moxham

1897-99           on leave

1899-00           Upper Yoder

1900-01           Wilmerding

1901                on leave

 

Note: Samuel E. Cormany is the son of Jacob Cormany and the father of Cora Cormany Keister, wife of Lawrence W. Keister.  He reportedly also served as superintendent of the Pittsburgh Protestant Home for Boys.  There is additional material on Samuel E. Cormany and his wife Rachel in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

 

CORNEAL, JOHN MANSFIELD

 

 

Born: 1889                                                                  married: Jessie Saunders

Died: 4/10/1948                                                          obit: [1887 – 11/6/1955]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, recommended by Philadelphia Third

 

Interment: Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge PA

Obit:

 

1921-22           Pottstown Baltzell’s

 

Note: It has not been verified that the John M. Corneal whose personal information given above is the same John M. Corneal who was recommended by Philadelphia Third and served in Pottstown.

 

COURSEY, WILLIAM RIDDLE

 

Born: 6-16-1803  Rockbridge County VA                 married: Mary Ann Sheetz (2/9/1836)

Died: 7-2-1881  Benevola MD                                   obit: [1814 – 1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1833    license, Virginia Conference

1835    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Boonsboro Cemetery, Boonsboro MD

Obit:

 

1833-35           Hagerstown circuit

1835-36           Frederick circuit

1836-37           unknown

1837-38           Staunton circuit

1838-41           presiding elder, district unspecified

1841-42           no minutes

1842-43           Staunton circuit

1843-45           unknown

1845-48           presiding elder, district unspecified

1848-50           Fredrick circuit

1850-52           Hagerstown circuit

1852-53           Woodstock circuit

1853-56           unknown

1856-57           Hagerstown circuit

1857-58           presiding elder, Maryland District

1858-59           unknown

1859-60           Greencastle circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1860-61           unknown

1861-63           Hagerstown circuit

1863-65           Mountville-St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-67           unknown

1867                transfer to Rock River Conference

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 161, gives a brief biography.


 

COURTNEY, REED HAYES          

 

Born: 8-5-1879  Middleburg PA                                married: Ella Foltz

Died: 10-?-1945                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1950, 80

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 518

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license, Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Church

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

           

Interment: Richfield PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946, 58

 

1927-28           Susquehanna, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928                transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928-30           Susquehanna

1930-37           East Salem

1937-39           Waukesha

1939-42           Punxsutawney

1942-45           Runville

1945                retired

 

COWDER, CECIL CLYDE

 

Born: 3-8-1914  West Decatur PA                             married: Margaretta Allene Houser

Died: 4-19-2008  Bigler PA                                       obit: [6/29/1916 – 5/12/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Josephine Houser Owens

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/10/1914 – 7/1/2012]

Gibble list: no

 

1935    quarterly conference license

1937    license, Allegheny Conference

1939    ordained, Allegheny Conference

           

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2008,?

 

1936-39           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1939-42           Coalport

1942-45           chaplain, US Army

1946-48           Altoona Pleasant Valley

1948-63           chaplain, US Army

1963-68           Heckathorn

1968-77           Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1977                retired

 

Note: The second Mrs. Cowder is the widow of James Bernard Owens (d. 1949), and an older sister to the first Mrs. Cowder.

 

COWHER, MERLE S.

 

Born: 7-4-1914  Hannah Furnace PA                         married: E. Gladys Patton

Died: 3-23-1987                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 267

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1936    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME: recommended by Tyrone Columbia Ave

1945    quarterly conference license, Altoona First UB

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1967    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Shoop's Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 413

 

1937-38           Allegheny circuit (beginning 1/1/1937)

1938-40           Sandy Ridge – Center

1940-41           Wallaceton

1941-41           (not appointed)

1942-45           US Army

1945-46           Springfield, Allegheny Conference of the UB Church

1946                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the UB Church

1946-47           Springfield

1947-54           Sewickley

1954-56           Oak Ridge

1956-57           (not appointed)

1957-63           Fishertown

1963-70           Huntingdon larger parish

1970-73           Westfield

1973-81           Harrisburg Otterbein

1981                retired

 

Note: Merle S. Cowher is a brother to Harold L. Cowher, local pastor of the Central Pennsylvania (M) Conference and to Lois M. Cowher Rodgers, wife of Emanuel E. Rodgers of the Central Pennsylvania (M) Conference.

 

COWLING, DONALD JOHN

 

Born: 1880                                                                  married: Elizabeth Lucretia Stehman

Died: 11-27-1965                                                        obit: [3/2/1889 – 5/?/1980]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 302 [W.J. COWLING]

Gibble list: yes

 

1902    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-06           student, Yale University at New Haven CT

1907-09           faculty, Baldwin University in Baker KS

1909                transfer to

1909-1945       president, Carlton College at Northfield MN

1945                retired

 

Note: Donald J. Cowling is the son of John P. Cowling.   He is the namesake of that Carlton College’s Cowling Arboretum, and his papers are housed at the University of Minnesota.

 

 

COWLING, JOHN P.

 

Born: 4-11-1853  St. Leath, Cornwall England         married: Mary K. Stevens

Died: 9-9-1907  McKeesport PA                                obit: Allegheny Conference 1930, 65

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 285

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license, East German Conference

1890    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1907, 85

 

1887-90           Paxinos circuit

1890-94           Shamokin First

1894                transfer to Ontario Conference

1894-97           superintendent, Ontario District

1897                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-99           Dubois

1899-00           Greensburg

1900-04           Scottdale

1904-06           Tyrone

1906-07           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

 

Note: John P. Cowling is the father of Donald J. Cowling.  He is also identified as J.W. Cowling.

 

 

COX, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 62

Gibble list: no

 

1844    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1850                transfer “to Illinois Conference, or any other conference that he may attach himself to”

 

Note: James Cox did not receive any appointments prior to 1850 and is assumed to have functioned as a local preacher.

 

CRABILL, SAMUEL A.

 

Born: 6-15-1862  Rockingham County VA               married: Effie Landis

Died: 11-9-1936                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 33

Miller-Raker #: 525

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1889    quarterly conference license, Whitesels (Cross Keys circuit, Virginia Conference)

1895    license, Virginia Conference

1898    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Sidney VA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 20

 

1895-98           Franklin circuit

1898-99           Tom’s Brook circuit

1899-03           Inwood circuit

1903-04           Jones Spring circuit

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-05           Chambersburg circuit

1905-07           Hagerstown circuit

1907-09           Newburg

1909-11           Spry

1911-15           Hanover

1915-19           Dillsburg

1919-22           West Fairview

1922-24           Enola

1924-25           Oakville

1925-27           Carlisle circuit

1927-30           conference evangelist

[1928               Shepherdstown, part year supply]

1930                retired

 

Note: A detailed biographical sketch of Samuel A. Crabill appears in the 1911 Spry charge History and Directory.

 

CRAIG, JOHN

 

Born: 7-7-1834  Franklin County PA                         married: Josephine Eckley

Died: 1-29-1908  Julian PA                                        obit: [?/?/1839 – 2/21/1912]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 211

Gibble list: no

 

1885    license, Allegheny Conference

1888    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Julian Cemetery, Julian PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908, 64

 

1885-93           Julian

1883-08           on leave, living in Julian
                             1890-91      Stormstown (beginning 12/1890)

 

Note: Although listed as an itinerant, John Craig appears to have functioned as a local preacher for his entire career.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 4.

 

 

CRALL, LLOYD HORNBERGER

 

Born: 7-28-1921                                                          married: Betty Lee Frotze

Died: 6-29-2014  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [8/31/1928 – 1/12/2019]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church Cemetery, Lititz PA

Obit:

 

1942-43           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1942-43      Lickdale

1943-50           Bonebrake Seminary, Dayton OH

1950-51           living in Dunkirk NY

1951                transferred to another denomination, East Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 47

 

Note: Lloyd H. Crall is the father of Rev. Robert L. Crall of Las Vegas NV (addiliation unknown).  The 1947 LVC Alumni Register lists him as pastor of St. Paul’s EUB Church, 3821 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA – this is St. Paul’s of the Atlantic Conference that was sold to a black congregation in 1952, with the assets used to establish St. Paul’s EUB Church in Fairless Hills, but Lloyd H. Crall is not listed in any Atlantic Conference records and another pastor is listed at that time for St. Paul’s.  He reportedly served (denomination unknown, but possibly Presbyterian) Pennsylvania congregations in McConnellsburg, Freedom, Brownsville, Dunmore and Danville – and as interim pastor in Middletown NY and Lebanon PA.

 

CRAMER, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 271

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1844    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                transfer to Illinois Conference

 

CRAMER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 167

Fulton #: 18

Gibble list: yes

 

1831    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1854                dropped

 

Note: There is no evidence that he was ever assigned to a circuit.


 

CRAMER, WILSON ISAAC

 

Born: 2-1-1837  Chambersburg PA                            married: Amanda Melvina Griffith

Died: 11-23-1902  Johnstown PA                              obit: [10/11/1836 – 3/22/1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1883    local preachers license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

            Recommended by Johnstown Franklin Street

1889    license, Allegheny Conference

1889    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1903, 26

 

1888-89           Huntingdon mission, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1889                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1889-90           Huntingdon mission

1890-92           Phillipsburg

1892-95           Port Matilda

1996-97           South Williamsport

1897-00           East Salem

1900--02          Jenner Cross Roads

 

Note: Wilson Cramer is the father of Rev. Thomas Edmund Cramer (1864-1939) of the New Hampshire Conference and a brother to Rev. Isaac Cramer (1835-1907) of the Pittsburgh Conference, both of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

CRAUMER, LEWIS WENTZ

 

Born: 9-16-1827  Manheim township, York County married: Maria Smith

Died: 11-8-1900  Reading PA                                                obit: [11/3/1837 – 8/10/1917]

Miller-Raker #: (none)

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    quarterly conference license

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 27

 

1849-50                      Pine Grove

1850-52           Milheim

1852-55           Union mission

1855-57           Dayton OH German

1857-59           Circleville OH

1859-60           Highspire circuit

1860-62           Pine Grove

1862-63           Deep Creek circuit [Heginsville]

1863-64           Lebanon Salem

1864-67           Annville

1867-69           Myerstown

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-71           Myerstown

1871-78           ?

1878-82           presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1882-85           Pine Grove       

1885-86           Sinking Springs circuit

1886-89           ?

1889-90           Lebanon Fourth [West Lebanon]

1890-91           Lykens

1891-93           Reading Salem

1893                retired

 

Note: Lewis W. Craumer died a member of the East German Conference in 1900, but that Conference had remerged into the East Pennsylvania Conference by the time his obituary was printed in 1901.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 452, gives a brief biography.  Lewis is not a brother to Rev. William H. Craumer, but they appear to be related.

 

CRAUMER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 9-3-1829  near Shrewsbury, York County       married: Catherine Sterner

Died: 6-4-1899  Dallastown                                       obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 84

Miller-Raker #: 338

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license

1868    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 42

 

1865-68           Jefferson circuit

1868-74           Liverpool [Manchester] circuit

1874-78           York circuit

1878-79           Manchester circuit

1879                retired

                             1879-81      Pine Grove circuit, East German Conference

                             1883-84      Yocumtown

                             1885-86      Hopeland circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

                             1894-95      Jefferson

 

Note: His daughter Sarah married Rev Alexander R. Ayres.  William is not a brother to Rev. Lewis Wentz Craumer, but they appear to be related.

 

CRETZINGER, JOHN IRVIN

 

Born: 1892                                                                  married: Martha L. Weidler

Died: 1956                                                                  obit: [1887-1978]

Miller-Raker #: 590 [JOHN C.]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license, recommended by Duncannon

 

Interment: Duncannon Union Cemetery (United Brethren section), Duncannon PA

Obit:

 

1915-18           living in Duncannon

1918-19           military service in France [battery D, 314th field artillery]

1919-21           student at Lebanon Valley College

1921-24           living in Duncannon

1924                withdrew  1924, 28

1925                M.A. Penn State

1939                Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

1946-50           professor of biology, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: It appears that Mrs. Cretzinger may have also been married to a Mr. Culhane, most likely after John’s death in 1956.

 

CRIDER, CHRISTIAN SMITH

 

Born: 2-1-1811                                                            married: Catherine _____

Died: 3-7-1850                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 199

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment: Zion UMC Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1851, 28

 

1840-43           York station

1843-45           York circuit

1845-46           Lebanon Salem

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Lebanon Salem

1848-50           presiding elder, Lebanon District

1850                no assignment due to ill health

 

Note: Christian S. is the son of John Crider and the grandson of Martin Crider.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 39, gives a brief biography. The Eberly-Albright-Brane 1911 Landmark History, page 60, gives a brief biography.  His daughter Barbara A. married effective quarterly conference licensee D.M. Rumler.

 

CRIDER, HENRY M.

 

Born: 10-14-1839  Franklin County PA                     married: Sadie Elizabeth Kaufman (1861)

Died: 1902                                                                  obit: [1839-1874]

Miller-Raker #: 335                                                    married2: Amanda Cornelia Fahs

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/22/1832 – 3/16/1913]

Gibble list: no

 

1864    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1877                withdrew

 

Note: Henry M. Crider is a brother to Mr. David Wilson Crider, active in the formation of Lebanon Valley College and a trustee thereof 1879-95.  The middle name is variously reported as MOUER or MOWER, both of which are variants of his mother’s maiden name.

 

CRIDER, J.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 391

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            licensed, Miami Conference

1881    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1879-80           Baltimore Woodbury mission [Otterbein Memorial], Pennsylvania Conference

1880                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1880-82           Baltimore Woodbury mission [Otterbein Memorial]

1882-84           West Fairview station, left irregularly in middle of 2nd year

1884                dismissed

 

CRIDER, JOHN

 

Born: 4-15-1766                                                          married: Barbara Smith

Died: 6-17-1842                                                          obit: [8/13/1771 – 2/27/1861]

Miller-Raker #: 66

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1812    license

1814    ordained

 

Interment: Crider’s Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1842, 49

 

1823-24           presiding elder

 

Note: John is the son of Martin Crider and the father of Christian S. Crider.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 39, gives a brief biography. 

 

 

CRIDER, MARTIN

 

Born: 2-14-1740                                                          married: Anna Catharine Schmutz

Died: 11-14-1826                                                        obit: [1/22/1747 – 6/22/1821]

Miller-Raker #: 12

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [KREIDER]

 

1789    license

 

Interment: Kreider Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

Note: Martin is the father of John Crider and the grandfather of Christian S. Crider and David S. Early.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 371, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 38, give brief biographies.  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 157, gives a brief biography of Crider and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.  Martin is the son of Rev. Hans Jacob [John] Kreider (1715-1779) of the Mennonite Church.

 

 

CRIDER, ROBERT FREDERICK JR

 

Born: 4-3-1941                                                            married: Diane A. W.

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 789

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue

1967    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-63           Mt. Olivet-Mt. Zion

1963-65           Dayton OH Epworth, youth minister

1965-66           Baltimore Dorguth, seminary intern

1967-70                      Baltimore Christ

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-72           Baltimore Christ

1972-73           Baltimore Simms

1973-75           Lanham Ebenezer

1975-83           Martinsburg Otterbein

1983-87           Hagerstown Wesley

1987-93           superintendent, Cumberland-Hagerstown District

1993-96           Linthicum Heights

1996-05           Timonium
2005                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Crider is a ministerial member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.


 

CRIDER, TOBIAS

 

Born: 10-26-1799                                                        married: Anna Mary _____

Died: 6-13-1881                                                          obit: [4-21-1805 – 5/13/1879]]

Miller-Raker #: 220

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1837    license

1840    ordained

 

Interment: Cashtown Cemetery [St. John’s?], Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 37

 

1843-46           unorganized work in Franklin & Fulton counties

1846-48           Dover circuit

1848-49           Chambersburg circuit

1850-52           Conococheague circuit

1852-53           York circuit

1853-55           local?

1855-56           Lisburn mission

1856-58           Jefferson circuit

1858-60           Mercersburg circuit

1860                local at Cashtown, Franklin County, due to health

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 378, gives a brief biography.


 

CRIDLAND, HARRY CLIFFORD

 

Born: 8-28-1879                                                          married: Grace L. Faust

Died: 6-15-1966                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    quarterly conference license

1933    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Wilkinsburg

1939    ordained, Allegheny Conference

           

Interment:      

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 31]

 

1935-37           Susquehanna (beginning 3/1/1935)

1937-41           Altoona Schum Memorial

1941-47           Sewickley

1947-48           Wilmore

1948-51           Huntingdon

1951                retired

 

Note: Harry C. Cridland and Grace L. Faust were married 2/21/1901 in Dayton OH.  He is a 1910 graduate of Harvard, worked as a chemist for the Joyce-Cridland Company in Dayton OH, served in WWI, and worked for the International Sunday School Association in Dayton OH, Minneapolis MN, Little Rock AR, and Pittsburgh PA.  Mrs. Cridland is the daughter of Samuel D. Faust.

 

CRIM, ABRAM HARRY MARSHALL

 

Born: 10-25-1894  Grimes VA                                   married: Mabel Grace Renn

Died: 3-23-1972  Winchester VA                              obit: [6/11/1888 – 9/1/1929]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Maude Vashti Jarrett Sencindiver

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [6/18/1894 – 5/?/1982]

Gibble list: no

 

1919    license, Virginia Conference

1929    ordained, Winchester Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Strasburg VA

Obit: [Winchester Star, 3/24/1972]

 

1917-20           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1917-19      Jonestown circuit, East Pennsylvania Conf. (beginning Oct 1917)

     1919-20      West Lebanon, East Pennsylvania Conf. (ending 7/18/20, see 1920, 7)

1920-23           missionary, Taiama Africa (beginning 7/18/20)

1923                no longer listed

1923-26           faculty, Handley High School, Winchester VA

                             1924           Highland Avenue Presbyterian Mission (summer)

1926-29           student, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond VA

                             1926-27      Petersburg WV Presbyterian

                             1927-29      Richmond VA, Grove Avenue Presbyterian

1929-69           Strasburg VA Presbyterian

1969                retired

                            1970-72       Winchester VA, Shawnee Presbyterian Chapel

 

Note: This surname is also rendered CRIMM.  Harry Crim is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journal as “others employed in the Conference.”  He attended the denomination’s Shenandoah Valley Academy and served in the East Pennsylvania Conference while a student at Lebanon Valley College (see 1918, 6).  He graduated from Union Theological Seminary (BD 1929, ThM 1938, ThD 1944) in Richmond VA. The first marriage occurred 6/23/1923 in Shamokin PA, and the first Mrs. Crim died in connection with childbirth and is buried in Shamokin.  She is a niece to U,S. Grant Renn and apparently met Mr. Crim while they were each serving as missionaries in Africa.  The second Mrs. Crim (nee Jarrett) was the widow of a Mr. John Frederick Sencindiver (1894-1926).

 

 

CRIST, ROBERT PAUL

 

Born: 6-13-1923  Hershey PA                                    married: Marion E. Speicher

Died: 7-3-2011  Lititz PA                                           obit: [1924 – 2001]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [CHRIST]

 

1942    quarterly conference license

1944    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1947    ordained, Baptist Church

 

Interment: Hebron Churchyard Cemetery, Hebron ME

Obit:

 

1942-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1943-44      Lickdale circuit

1944-46           student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1944-46      staff, Dayton OH First Baptist

1946                honorable dismissal to join the Baptist Church

1946-47           student, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Newton MA

1947-49           associate, Worcester MA First

1949-56           Southbridge MA Central

1956-65           minister of education, Worcester MA First

1965-93           Hebron ME Community and faculty, Hebron Academy

1993                retired

 

CROFT, JOHN ROSS

 

Born: 8-21-1827  Franklin County PA                       married: Margaret Haulman

Died: 1-27-1898  near McConnellsburg                     obit: [8/6/1827 – 9/6/1867]

Miller-Raker #: 376                                                    married2: Sarah Ann Sites

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [2/5/1834 – 9/22/1905]

Gibble list: no

 

1872    quarterly conference license, Mercersburg circuit

1875    license

1878    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 49

 

1875-88           Fulton circuit

1888-89           Horse Valley

1889-90           Fulton circuit

1890                retired due to ill health

 

Note: John R. Croft is the father of Edward J. Croft (1873-1956) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

CRONE, AUGUSTUS C.

 

Born: 8-4-1875  Dover, York County                        married: Elizabeth R. Reichenbauch

Died: 2-10-1968                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 436

Miller-Raker #: 507

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    quarterly conference license, Rohlers

1903    license

1908    ordained

 

Interment: Kutz’s Cemetery, Cumberland County

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1968, 125

 

1904-07           Carlisle circuit

1907-08           Taneytown

1908-11           Springett

1911-14           York Haven

1914-19           Winterstown

1919-26           Shepherdstown

1926-28           Boiling Springs

1928-30           Bendersville

1930-37           Jefferson

1937-42                      Mechanicsburg circuit

1942                retired, attended Carlisle Grace

 

CRONISE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 10-21-1825                                                                    married: Catherine Elizabeth Lease

Died: 10-20-1896                                                                    obit: [10/3/1825 – 8/29/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1879    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: First Methodist Cemetery, Sharpsburg MD

Obit:

 

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

 

CROWELL, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1-10-1829  Osceola Mills PA                           married: Mary Kephart

Died: 2-20-1887  Shueyville IA                                 obit: [2/2/1831 – 3/14/1905]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 92 & 104

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license, Allegheny Conference

1858    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Shueyville Cemetery, Shueyville IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1897, 24

 

1856-57           Curwensville

1957-59           Luthersburg mission

1859-61           Bellefonte

1861-63           Jefferson

1863-64           Kittaning

                        transfer to Iowa Conference

 

Note: Abraham Crowell apparently was torn between Pennsylvania and Iowa.   He is listed as transferring to Iowa Conference in 1857, transferring back to Allegheny Conference in 1858, and transferring to Iowa Conference in 1861 – even though he appears to have been appointed in the Allegheny Conference continuously until 1864.  Mrs. Crowell is the daughter of Henry Kephart and a sister to Isaiah Lafayette Kephart, bishop Ezekiel Boring Kephart and bishop Cyrus Jeffries Kephart.

 

CROWELL, CHARLES

 

Born: 1817                                                                  married:

Died: 7-9-1878                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 34

Gibble list: no

 

1840    license, Allegheny Conference

1846    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Old Bradford Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit:

 

1841-42           Huntingdon

1842-43           no minutes taken

1843-44           Juniata

1844-45           Washington

1845-46           Liverpool

1846-48           Bellefonte

1848-49           Schellsburg

1849-50           Somerset

 

1860-61           Curwensville  

 

Note: Charles Crowell is believed to be a cousin of Abraham Crowell, but the exact relationship has not yet been established.

 

CRUM, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 1748  Germany                                                 married: Christiana Schmidt

Died: 9-30-1820                                                          obit: [1749->1831]

Miller-Raker #: 18

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

1815    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester VA

Obit:

 

1810-11           Virginia circuit

 

Note: Christian Crum is the father of Susanna Crum Ambrose, wife of Williams Ambrose.  The 1968 Miller-Raker history, page 373, gives a birthdate of 1763 and deathdate of 7/30/1820 – but it disagrees with other sources.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference gives his death as 1823.   Christian is the twin brother of Henry Crum.  Christian and Henry are reported to have been chaplains under George Washington in the Revolutionary War. 

     Otterbein University has a Bible that belonged to William Otterbein, who gave it to Christian Crum, who gave it to William Ambrose, whose son “M. Ambrose” presented it to the university in 1873.

 

 

CRUM, HENRY

 

Born: 1748  Germany                                                 married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 27

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1800    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Henry is the twin brother of Christian Crum – see the note on Christian’s file regarding their birth year.  Christian and Henry are reported to have been chaplains under George Washington in the Revolutionary War.  Henry is reported to have become a Methodist minister and started the Methodist work several miles northwest of Berryville, Clarke County VA.

 

CRUMBLING/CRUMLING,  see GRUMBLING

 

 

CULP, LEROY THOMAS

 

Born: 1894                                                                  married: Catherine Shaffer

Died: 1981                                                                  obit: [1896-1976]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 492

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pringle Hill Cemetery, Wilmore PA

Obit:

 

1924-27           Port Matilda

1927-31           Trafford

1931-32           Hollsopple (ending 9/28/31)

1932                name erased, page 75

 

CUNKLE, PAUL VINCENT

 

Born: 1-11-1916                                                          married: Gracella S. _____

Died: 9-8-1991  East Hampton NY                            obit: [1921 – 2003]

Miller-Raker #: 681

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1935    license, recommended by West Fairview

1941    ordained

 

Interment: Green River Cemetery, East Hampton NY

Obit: biographical files at conference archives

 

1935-38           student, Lebanon Valley College

1938-41                      student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1941-42           without appointment

1942-48           Windsor (starting 2/1/1942)

1848-50           assistant, Chambersburg Firs

1950-55           York Fifth

1955-56           living on Long Island NY

1956-63           high school social studies teacher, Deer Park NY

1963                reclassified as local elder

1963-68           high school social studies teacher, Deer Park NY

1968-69           living on Long Island NY

1969-81           Amagansett & Springs Presbyterian charge, East Hampton NY

1981                retired

 

CUNNINGHAM, BENJAMIN F.

 

Born: 1879  PA                                                           married: Louisa Gertrude Barnett

Died: 9-23-1916  CA                                                  obit: [California Conference 1917, 30]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 327

Gibble list: no

 

license

1906    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Inglewood Cemetery, LaRamada Section, Inglewood CA

Obit: [California Conference 1917, 30]

 

1903                Hollsopple circuit (6/25 – 9/1)

1904                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904                Hollsopple circuit (3/1 – 10/1)

1907                transfer to Michigan Conference

1907-10           Grand Rapids First

                        Anderson IN

1913-14           Los Angeles Third CA

1914                transfer to California Conference

                        Los Angeles Second

                        Riverside

 

Note: B.F. Cunningham drowned in a swimming accident near Los Angeles. As reported in the San Bernardino News for September 25, 1916: “RIVERSIDE, Sept. 25. In a futile attempt to save her husband from drowning, both Mrs. Cunningham, age 37, and Rev. B. F. Cunningham, age 38, pastor of the United Brethren church of Riverside, met death Saturday afternoon in the swimming hole at Domenigoni [Bernasconi] Hot Springs, near Lakeview, about twenty miles east of Riverside. Rev. Cunningham and his wife, accompanied by their three small children, Mrs. Mary J. Winner, and the latter's daughter, Mrs. Daisy Hyde, went out to the hot springs on a picnic. Rev. Cunningham and his wife entered the plunge. The former, who could swim but little, got beyond his depth and called for help. Mrs. Cunningham swam quickly to him, but in the struggle both were drowned before other members of the party could summon aid. Rev. Cunningham was in the second year of his pastorate here, having come from the Second United Brethren church in Los Angeles. Mrs. Cunningham was to teach at the Lincoln school, which opened today.”  Mrs. Cunningham was born 8/23/1882 and married B.F. Cunningham in Grand Rapids MI 6/14/1908.

 

 

CUNNINGHAM, SAMUEL H.

 

Born: 9-16-1894  PA                                                  married: Ruth Mae Buckwalter

Died: 6-28-1933  Cynthiana KY                                obit: [7/19/1898 – 2/16/1963]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by McKeesport First

 

Interment: [supposedly in or near Pittsburgh PA]

Obit:

 

1926                withdrew

 

 Note: At the time of his death, S.H. Cunningham was pastor of the Carlisle KY Christian Church.

 

CURRY, CONRAD KREIDER

 

Born: 1-18-1896                                                          married: Edna Lorene Hocker [6/2/1917]

Died: 12-10-1929                                                        obit: [9/19/1894 – 2/11/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah Ann Muth [6/21/1926]

Fulton #: no                                                                obit2: [10/18/1896 – 12/6/1993]

Gibble list: yes

 

1920    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Balsbaugh’s United Christian Church [aka Broadview Cemetery], Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 12

 

1922-23           Brunnerville

1923-29           Lickdale

 

Note: Conrad K. Curry is a brother to Rev. Irwin K. Curry (1904-1965) of the United Christian Church.

 

 

CUTLOUGH, RICHARD   [see CATLOW, RICHARD]

 

 

DaFOE, WILLARD HERBERT

 

Born: 6-16-1863 Asphodel, Ontario, Canada             married: Melissa Annie DaFoe [5/27/1891]

Died: 1926 (?)                                                             obit: [1865-1926]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 311

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Ontario Conference

?          ordained, Ontario Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        Ontario Conference

1900-01           Hustontown, Allegheny Conference

1901-02           Mahaffey, Allegheny Conference

1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-04           Mahaffey

1904-05           Glasgow

1905-07           Williams Grove

1907-08           Bayside, Ontario Canada

1908                open transfer

 

Note: W.H. DaFoe continued serving Bayside, Ontario, for a few more years – listed in the UB Yearbook as a member of the Allegheny Conference.  Apparently he never followed through to join another conference.

 

 

DAMBACH, ALBERT WITMER

 

Born: 10-22-1879  Columbia PA                               married: Minnie E. Dull

Died: 1-9-1956                                                            obit: [1883-1956]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Landisville Mennonite Cemetery, Landisville PA

Obit:

 

1917-19           Brunnerville

1919-25           Columbia circuit

1925-32           Hillsdale circuit

1932-38           Aristes

1938-41           no assignment

1941-42           Enders-Powell’s Valley

 

Note: A.W. Dambach is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journals under “others employed by the Conference” and no other information is available.  Albert Witmer Dambach is related to Clayton C. Witmer, but the exact relationship is not known.

 

DARKES, ETHEL MAY [HOWER]

 

Born: 4-24-1912                                                          married: Clarence G. Darkes [6/20/1937]

Died: 5-29-2007                                                          obit: [11/23/1909 – 3/10/1985]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1933    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon circuit

1940    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference [see page 55]

 

Interment: Kochenderfers Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

Note: Ethel Mae Hower was a 1931 graduate of Lebanon Valley College and taught at Lebanon High School.  She completed the conference course of study, was never assigned to a church, but was an active worker in the church.

 

DAUB [see DOUB]

 

DAUGHERTY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-3-1862  near Dallastown PA                         married: Della Frances Roop

Died: 8-28-1944  Penney Farms FL                           obit: [5/15/1873 – 2/9/1951]

Miller-Raker #: 439

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1889    license

1892    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 22 

 

1887-89           student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1889-91           graduate student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1891-94           Baltimore Fifth

1894-97           Harrisburg Otterbein (resigned Sept. 1897)

1897-06           professor, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA (beginning Sept. 1897)

1906                transfer to Lower Wabash Conference

1906-11           president, Westfield College at Westfield IL

1911                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1911-34           Lebanon Trinity

1934                retired

 

Note: Benjamin is a twin to Joseph Daugherty and a brother to Samuel F. Daugherty (East Pennsylvania and Southeast Ohio Conferences) and Mary Daugherty Roberts, wife of Rev. Palmer F. Roberts (Northern Illinois Conference).  Mrs. Daugherty is a sister to Hervin Ulysses Roop (East Pennsylvania Conference and president of Lebanon Valley College 1897-1906). A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch of Benjamin F. Daugherty.

 

DAUGHERTY, GEORGE CLINTON

 

Born: 7-25-1883  Dallastown PA                               married: Bertha F. Freed

Died: 4-7-1968  Chambersburg PA                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 50

Miller-Raker #: 555

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    quarterly conference license, Dallastown Bethlehem

1909    license

1914    ordained

 

Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 126

 

1909-11           Spring Run

1911-13           Lemoyne Calvary

1913-20           Greenmount MD

1920-27           Winterstown

1927-45           Hanover Lohr’s

1945-49           Duncannon

1949-55           Jefferson-Greenmount

1955                retired

                            1956            Winterstown, supply

                            1963-64       Jefferson-Greenmount

 

Note: George C. Daugherty is the father of Esther Romaine Daugherty Jarrell, wife of J. Temple Jarrell.  George C. Daugherty is a first cousin to Benjamin F. Daugherty, Joseph Daugherty and Samuel F. Daugherty.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, JOSEPH

 

Born: 7-3-1862  near Dallastown PA                         married: Rebecca Prowell

Died: 12-3-1943                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 20

Miller-Raker #: 438

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1889    license

1892    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 14 

 

1891-92           Newville

1892-96           New Cumberland

1896-00           Baltimore Franklin Street

1900-03           Carlisle

1903-07           York First

1907-09           Waynesboro

1909-10           Myerstown, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1910-12           Myerstown

1912-15           Columbia

1915-18           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1918-23           Steelton

1923-29                      Elizabethtown

1929-32           Hummelstown

1932                retired

 

Note: Joseph is a twin to Benjamin Franklin Daugherty and a brother to Samuel F. Daugherty (East Pennsylvania and Southeast Ohio Conferences) and Mary Daugherty Roberts, wife of Rev. Palmer F. Roberts (Northern Illinois Conference).  Daughter Mary married Rufus H. Lefevre, and daughter Miriam married Clarence E. Ulrich.  Joseph Daugherty is the grandfather (through daughter  Miriam) of Clarence D. Ulrich and (through son J. Arthur) of Robert M. Daugherty.  There was also an unrelated Joseph B. Daugherty (1826-1899) in the East Pennsylvania Conference.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch of Joseph Daugherty.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, JOSEPH BRANDT

 

Born: 12-18-1826  Williamsport PA                          married: Christiana Smith

Died: 5-3-1899  near Lebanon PA                             obit: [12/29/1828 – 1/17/1855]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Amelia Smith

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/4/1830 – 12/24/1874]

Gibble list: yes                                                            married3: Mary Elizabeth Shaeffer

                                                                                    obit3: [12/20/1850 – 10/30/1921]

1856    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1859    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 38

 

1856-57           Hummelstown circuit

1857-58           Union County mission

1858-59           Amity circuit

1859-61           Highspire circuit

1861-63           Lancaster circuit

1863-66           Lebanon Salem

1866-67           Columbia Salome

1867-69           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-72           superintendent, Lebanon District

1872-73           Bethlehem circuit

1873-75           Allentown Zion

1875-78           ? [superintendent, Harrisburg District?]

1879-79           Union Deposit circuit

1879-81           ?

1881-84           Grantville circuit

1884-87           superintendent, Susquehanna District

1887-88           ?

1888                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1888-90           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1890                Florin Glossbrenner (ending 10/31/90)

1890-93           on leave, living in Lebanon

1893-96           Lebanon circuit (English)

1896                retired

 

Note: Joseph B. Daugherty is the father of Raymond P, Daugherty, Sealon S. Daugherty, and Almeta Daugherty Peiffer, wife of William Peiffer.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 453, gives a brief biography.  The third Mrs. Daugherty is a sister to Rev. Grant L. Shaeffer of the Congregational Church.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, RAYMOND PHILIP

 

Born: 8-5-1877  Lebanon PA                                     married: Lulu Effie Landis

Died: 7-13-1933  New Haven CT                               obit: [6/15/1883 – 3/1/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 33

 

1904-14           principal, Albert Academy in Sierra Leone, West Africa

1914-16           student, Yale Divinity School

1916-18           student, Yale University

1918-26           faculty, Goucher College

1927-33           faculty, Yale University

 

Note: Raymond P. Daugherty is the son of Joseph B. Daugherty.  He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles.  Mrs. Daughtery of the daughter of Rev. Josiah Pennabecker Landis (1843-1947) – noted United Brethren seminary dean, writer, editor and hymnal editor.  Mrs. Daughtery was a missionary to Africa 1911-13, which occasioned their meeting.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, ROBERT MOWERY

 

Born: 10-16-1930  Harrisburg PA                              married: Ruth Alice Shaeffer

Died: 4-8-2003  Lancaster PA                                    obit: [2/21/1931 - ]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg State Street

1955    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Salem Evangelical Reformed Church [Hellers], Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 398

 

1950-52           student, Lebanon Valley College

1952-55           student, United Theological Seminary

1955-56           Tremont-Barry

1956-64           Broomall Christ [formerly Philadelphia Second]

1964-72           Lebanon Covenant [formerly Lebanon Salem]

1972-79           Lancaster Covenant

1979-85           superintendent, Lebanon-Reading District

1985-86           conference consultant

1986-96           conference council director

1996                retired

 

Note: Robert M. Daugherty is the grandson of Joseph Daugherty.  When Robert M. Daugherty died in 2003 as secretary of the Northeastern Jurisdiction, his wife completed his term.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, SAMUEL FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-1-1870  Dallastown PA                                 married: Martha Ella Raab

Died: 12-27-1938  Dayton OH                                   obit: Sandusky Conference 1931, 21

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

            license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906    ordained, South East Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1896-01           student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

                             1900-01      Highspire

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Highspire

1903-05           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1905                transfer to South East Ohio Conference

1905-06           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1906-14           Westerville

1914                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1914-19           Annville

1919-20           Columbus Fifth Avenue, Southeast Ohio Conference

1920                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

                        Sandusky Conference

                        Miami Conference

 

Note: Samuel F. Daugherty is a brother to Benjamin F. Daugherty and Joseph Daugherty and Mary Daugherty Roberts, wife of Rev. Palmer F. Roberts (Northern Illinois Conference).  Following the death of A.L. Shannon on 12/13/1900, Samuel F. Daugherty finished the conference year at Highspire.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Samuel F. Daugherty. 

 

DAUGHERTY, SEALON S.

 

Born: 2-25-1860  Highspire PA                                 married: Barbara Light

Died: 10-17-1913  Elizabethtown PA                        obit: [3/16/1858 – 6/3/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

quarterly conference license, Avon

1887    license, East German Conference

1891    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Kimmerling Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 33

 

1886-87           Catasauqua circuit

1887-90           Lykens station

1890-95           Cressona circuit

1895-97           Reading First [Zion]

1897-98           Shamokin circuit

1898-01           Berne circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-09           Lititz

1909-13           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1913                Reading Trinity (died before he began serving)

 

Note: Sealon S. Daugherty is the son of Joseph B. Daugherty. 

 

DAUGHERTY, SIMPSON BENDER

 

Born: 5-5-1891                                                            married: Nan Murray

Died: 6-5-1968                                                            obit: [1896 – 1980]

Miller-Raker #: 577

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license, Baltimore Third

1912    license

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Greenmount MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 207

 

1912-13           Millers

1913-15           Oakville

1915-20           Hanover Lohr’s

1920-25           Chambersburg First

1925-41           Washington DC Memorial

1941-45           chaplain, US Army

1945-57           Carlisle Grace

1957-61           conference superintendent

1961                retired

 

Note: Simpson B. Daugherty is the son of William E. Daugherty.

 

 

DAUGHERTY, WILLIAM EMERY

 

Born: 1-7-1861  Somerset County MD                      married: Isabell Jones

Died: 9-16-1927                                                          obit: [1860-1936]

Miller-Raker #: 488

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    local pastor’s license, St. Mary’s charge of the Baltimore Conference: ME Church

1898    quarterly conference license, Thurmont (Maryland Conference)

1898    license, Maryland Conference

1901    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Greenmount MD

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 10 

 

1897-98           Frostburg circuit, supply for Baltimore Conference: ME Church

1898                joins Maryland Conference: UB Church

1898-1901       Thurmont MD

1901                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Rayville circuit (beginning 9/1/1901)

1903-05           Yoe

1905-08           Shiremanstown

1908-13           Baltimore Third

1913-15           Reading Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1915-17           Reading Trinity

1917-21           Harrisburg First

1921                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1921-22           Hershey First, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1922-23           Hershey First

1923-27           Coatesville

 

Note: William E. Daugherty is the father of Simpson B. Daugherty.

 

 

DAVENPORT, J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-97           Orbisonia

 

Note:  J. Davenport served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person.

 

DAVIDSON, ANDREW

 

Born: 7-11-1849  England                                          married: Dorothy Ormiston

Died: 6-3-1928  Pittsburgh PA                                   obit: [1850 – 1/28/1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 198

Gilbble list: no

 

1880    quarterly conference license

1882    license, Allegheny Conference

1885    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Curwensville Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928, 58

 

1880-81           Bridgeport

1881-83           Lycippus

1883-84           Fallen Timber

1884-86           Burnside

1886-88           South Williamsport

1888-91           Three Springs

1891-94           Woodland

1896-98           Johnstown Park Avenue

1898-02           Wilmore

1902-05           Bellefonte

1905-06           Madison

1906-07           New Brighton

1907-11           Bellwood

1911-16           Hollsopple

1916                retired

     1918-19      Rochester Mills (6 months)

     1919-20      Industry (7 months)

     1920-23      Sewickley

 

Note: In 1881, this person is identified as EDWARD DAVIDSON.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 2.

 

 

DAVIS, C.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 353

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

                       

                        Michigan Conference

1906-07           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1907                transfer to Allegheny Conference [see Michigan Conference 1906, 18]

1907-08           McKeesport Highland Avenue

1908-09           New Brighton and Rochester

1909-10           (no appointment)

1910                transfer to St. Joseph Conference

 

Note: There was a different C.W. Davis (1834-1910) in the Evangelical Church [Evangelical Association, United Evangelical Church] who also labored in Western Pennsylvania.

 

DAVIS, DAVID J.

 

Born: 1-14-1872                                                          married: Anna Behrer [5/22/1905]

Died: 1-21-1945                                                          obit: [1876-1926]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 358

Gibble list: no

 

1908    licensed, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1904-05           Lemont

1907-11           South Williamsport

1911                open transfer, page 88

 

Note: David J. Davis does not appear in subsequent United Brethren Yearbooks.  Apparently he did not follow through on the transfer.  It is believed he moved to California and worked in a ship yard.  The conference archives have a biographical file on David J. Davis.

 

 

DAVIS, FREDERICK W.

 

Born: 3-19-1873  Millertown, Ontario Canada          married: Sara Wagner

Died: 3-?-1945  Altoona PA                                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 461

Gibble list: no

 

1921    ordained, East Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Alto Rest Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945, 64

 

1912-18           missionary, China

1918-21           ?

1921                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1921-27           Greensburg

1927-31           Scottdale

1931-34           Johnstown First

1934-45           Altoona Second

 

Note: Frederick W. Davis is the father of Rev. Kirk Davis of the Presbyterian Church.

DAY, ALBERT

 

Born: 1861  Pendleton County WV                           married: Fronie V. Clower

Died: 1915                                                                  obit: [11/18/1854 – 2/4/1937]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 221

Gibble list: no

 

1883    license, Virginia Conference

1886    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw IN

Obit:

 

1883-85           North Fork

1885-86           Alleghany

1886-87           Deer Park

1887                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1887-88           Industry

1888-89           Washington

1889-90           Ligonier

1890-91           Juniata

1891                honorable dismissal

1892                “transfer” to the Huntington Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

                        Mannington WV

                        Marietta OH

                        Warsaw IN

 

DAY, KEITH EDWIN

 

Born: 11-6-1930                                                          married: Charlotte J. Lemley

Died: 12-27-1986  Virginia                                         obit: [10/18/1930 – 12/27/1986]

Miller-Raker #: 799

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1951    license, West Virginia Conference: recommended by Parkersburg First

1958    ordained, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Parkersburg Memorial Gardens, Parkersburg WV

Obit:

 

1951-52           Edinburg VA

1952-55           Huntingdon Z. Warner

1955-58           Arlington OH

1958-59           Benington

1969-61           Phillipi

1961-62                  Nitro

1962                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1962-67           Carlisle Grace, assistant

1967-69           Charles City MD

1969                located

 

 

DEAN, ISAAC HARRISON

 

Born: 2-3-1850  New Lancaster PA                                       married: Amelia Snook

Died: 9-21-1914  Franklinville PA                                         obit: [d. 11/10/1880]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                  married2: Amanda Matilda Spigelmeyer

Fulton #: 360                                                                           obit 2: [8/15/1862 – 2/18/1920]

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license, Wayne church on Mapleton charge

1908    license, Allegheny Conference

1912    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mattawana Cemetery, McVeytown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 66

 

1901-02           Hilliard

1902-04           Metal

1904-07           Middleburg

1907-10           Three Springs

1910-11           Runville

 

Note: The obituary of Isaac H. Dean states that he also served Germany Valley.

 

DEAVEN, HARRY WALTER

 

Born: 3-5-1916  Jonestown PA                                  married: Ellen Mary Simko

Died: 4-2-1974  Farmersville OH                              obit: [11/13/1917 – 4/9/2015]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1936    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1941    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1974, 2 33

 

1941-42           Hummelstown circuit

1942-49           Steelton

1949-59           Lebanon Trinity

1959                transfer to Ohio Miami Conference

 

DEBOLD, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license (?, see Note)

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1834                name erased, page 34

 

Note: Jacob Debold attended conferences beginning in 1825 and was willing to travel, but there is no formal notation of his admittance/license.

 

DECKARD, MARSHALL G.

 

Born: 2-14-1933  Selinsgrove PA                              married: Sandra K. Botteicher

Died: 2-17-2014  Lewistown PA                                obit: [9/25/1942 – 3/14/1986]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    temporary license  1956, 36 & 45 & 74

 

Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: [Lewistown Sentinel 2/19/2014]

 

1956-57           Upper Strasburg

 

Note: Marshall G. Deckard was a building and codes inspector for the borough of Lewistown.  He also reportedly supplied at various times Church Hill, Havice Valley, Shrader, Salem and Milroy.

 

 

DeHAVEN, ELMER EMERY

 

Born: 7-19-1862  Clearfield PA                                 married: Mary [Mollie] Owens

Died:  6-4-1942  Clearfield County PA                     obit: [5/14/1865 – 1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 272

Gibble list: no

 

1896    license, Allegheny Conference

1903    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Banner Ridge Cemetery, Mahaffey PA

Obit:

 

1895-99           Lickingville

1899-00           Dehaven

1900-01           ?

1901-07           Springfield [Normalville]

1907-08           Windber

1908-09           Glasgow

1909-10           (not listed)

1910                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

 

 

DEHOFF, JOHANN JACOB

 

Born: 4-2-1768  Codorus PA                                      married: Barbara White

Died: 3-18-1834 Leitersburg MD                               obit: [1732-1832]

Miller-Raker #: 54

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1805    license

1815    ordained

 

Interment: Leitersburg MD

Obit:

 

Note: Jacob Dehoff is the brother of John Dehoff.  A brief biography of Jacob Dehoff is given in Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46.  Some sources give the birthdate as 2-4-1768.

 

 

DEHOFF, JOHN [JOHANNES]

 

Born: 5-10-1765                                                          married: Elizabeth Henig

Died: 5-11-1844                                                          obit: [3/24/1761 – 1844]

Miller-Raker #: 138

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1830    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1845, 60

 

Note: John Dehoff is a brother to Jacob DeHoff.

 

 

DEIBLER, WALTER EVANS

 

Born: 4-25-1895  Dauphin County PA                       married: Harriet Susan Schaeffer

Died: 1-28-1976  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [1896 – 3/?/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Reigel’s

1920    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 527

 

1920-26           Paradise

1926-30           Lebanon Memorial

1930-43           Highspire

1943-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-56           Pine Grove

1956-70           Columbia Salome

1970                retired

                             1970-71      Columbia Salome

 

 

DEITRICH, PHILIP E.

 

Born: 12-9-1838  Chambersburg PA                          married: Mary Rial

Died: 11-25-1903  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [7/4/1842 – 4/28/1902]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 174

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    quarterly conference license, Altoona

1876    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania 1904, 2 4     

 

1876-78           Conemaugh Valley charge

1878-82           living in Harrisburg, attending Harrisburg Memorial

1882                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1878-03                      living in Harrisburg, attending Harrisburg Memorial

 

Note: Philip E. Deitrich may be a brother to Samuel K. Deitrich.  This surname is also rendered DIETRICH

 

DEITRICH, SAMUEL K.

 

Born: 3-24-1836                                                          married:

Died: 1-26-1873                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 313

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license

1871    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1857-58           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1859-60           Orrstown circuit

1869                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Samuel K. Deitrich may be a brother to Philip Deitrich.  He farmed in Upper Swatara township and kept a diary 1862-64 that is now housed with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission collections.  This surname is also rendered DIETRICH.

 

 

DEITRICH, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 9-18-1826                                                          married: Margaret I Reed

Died: 3-19-1896                                                          obit: [2/18/1842 – 2/10/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1855    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1858    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Shamrock PA

Obit: East German Conference 1896, 41

 

1855-56           Hummelstown circuit

1856-57           Sinking Spring circuit

1857-58           Northumberland mission

1858-60           West Branch circuit

1860-62           Dauphin circuit

                        Company G, 208th PA Infantry (9/9/1864 – 6/1/1865)

?                      transfer to East German Conference

1885-86           Middleburg circuit

 

Note: This surname is also rendered DIETRICH.  The preferred given name is Wesley – in both church and military records.

 

 

DEITZLER, JONATHAN CLEVELAND

 

Born: 1-13-1887  Fredricksburg PA                           married: Elsie E. Sterner

Died: 3-15-1969  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [1/21/1895 – 9/10/1991]

Miller-Raker #: 578

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1969, 116 

 

1909-10           Littlestown mission

1910-12           student, Annville Academy

1912                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference  1912, 50

1912-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1913-14      Jefferson

1916-17           Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (last part of the year)

1917                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference  1917, 52

1917-18           Shamokin circuit

1918-20           Mt. Carmel

1920-22           Lykens Valley circuit

1922-25           Tower City

1925-26           Manor circuit

1926-33           Florin

1933-35           Pottstown-Birdsboro

1935-38           Hummelstown circuit

1938-39           Royalton

1939-51           Catawissa circuit

1951-57           Bellegrove circuit

1957                retired

 

Note: His father Levi Deitzler was a licensed preacher in the Pennsylvania Conference of the UBOC denomination.  His brother William C. Deitzler of Jonestown was a local preacher in the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

DELLER, WILLIAM NICHOLAS

 

Born: 1-14-1874 Pleasant Lake IN                            married: Estella Myers [Meyers?]

Died: 3-26-1930  Mitchell SD                                    obit: [11/14/1873 – 1/29/1970]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 336

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, North Ohio Conference

?          ordained

1912    ordained local deacon, Dakota Conference

 

Interment: Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell SD

Obit: Dakota Conference (ME) 1930, 346

 

1901-05           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

                             Sandusky Conference

1905                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1905-07           Altoona Second

1907                “transfer” to Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-10           Chester

                        Hartford

                        East Souix Falls

                        Flandreau

1920-21           Geddes

                        Winner

                        Wessington Springs

 

Note: In 1907 William Deller reportedly resigned due to improper conduct.

 

DeLONG, ALVA LORENZO

 

Born: 3-28-1850  Newville IN                                   married: Florence Grim

Died: 6-4-1890  Garden City KS                                obit: [2/26/1855 – 2/2/1914]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 193

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license, Allegheny Conference

1880    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Roanoke IN

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1890, 40

 

1880-82           Pittsburgh mission 

1882-83           Braddock

1883-84           faculty, Western College in Toledo IA

1884-87           Johnstown

1887                retired for health reasons

 

Note: A.L. DeLong is a brother to D.D. DeLong.  He graduated from Otterbein University and taught school in Ohio before graduating from Yale Divinity School and entering the ministry.

 

DeLONG, DAVID DENMAN

 

Born: 11-11-1846  Newville IN                                 married: Emmalyza Lete Knepper

Died: 3-4-1932  Los Angeles CA                               obit: [1/20/1847 – 8/3/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 157

Gibble list: no

 

1872    license, Allegheny Conference

1875    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA

Obit:

 

1874-76           Mount Pleasant station

1876-87           president, Lebanon Valley College

1888                honorable dismissal

                        “transfer” to the Congregational Church

 

Note: D.D. DeLong is a brother to A.L. DeLong.  He served Congregational churches in Kansas and Chicago and retired to California in 1922.  Mrs. DeLong was a professor of Greek at LVC, said to be the first woman in the U.S. to hold such a position.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 5.

 

DENIG, JOHN

 

Born: 6-25-1793                                                          married: Maria Anna _____

Died: 8-1-1863  York PA                                           obit: [1805 – 1885]

Miller-Raker #: 258

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

1854    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1864, 93

 

Note: John Denig was the editor of the 1858 “Autobiography of Rev. Samuel Huber.”  He is the father of medal of honor recipient John Henry Denig, cited for his 8/5/1864 actions at Mobile Bay.

 

 

DENLINGER, H.F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889                honorable dismissal

 

 

DENLINGER, HARRY T.

 

Born: 7-5-1857  Millersville PA                                married:

Died: 3-31-1931                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 583

Fulton #: 238

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Stehman Memorial UMC Cemetery, Millersville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 42

 

1887-88           Camden mission (beginning 9/1/87)

1888-89           Tyrone, Allegheny Conference

1889-90           Williamsport, Allegheny Conference

1890                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1890-93           Williamsport

1893-95           Penbrook, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1895-98           Penbrook

1898                Paradise St. John’s (did not finish the year 1899, 5)

1898-00           Sugar Valley, Allegheny Conference

1900-01           Juniata, Allegheny Conference

1901                withdrew irregularly from the denomination  1901, 4

1901-02           Sugar Valley, Allegheny Conference

1902-12           Unicarn [southern Lancaster County], Baptist          

1912-13           Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference

1913                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference [from Baptist Church  1913, 48]

1913-14           Lemasters

1914-16           Biglerville

1916                located, page 77

 

 

DESENBERG, LEON LENHART

 

Born: 3-2-1898                                                            married: Elsie B. Slonaker

Died: 5-1-1977                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 405

Miller-Raker #: 721

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Emigsville

1950    license

1955     ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 2 57

 

1952-55           Gettysburg Salem

1955-60           Red Lion circuit

1960-66           Red Lion Zion

1966                retired

                             1966-76      Pine Grove [Leader’s Heights]

 

 

DETWILER, PETER C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873-74           Shamokin First

1889                license returned

 

 

DETWILER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1875                name erased

 

DEVOR, BASIL JAMES

 

Born: 10-29-1829  Franklin County PA                     married: Margaret Jane Faust [4/8/1855]

Died: 1905                                                                  obit: [1833-1912]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 173 [J.B. Devor]

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

 

1880                name erased (October)

 

Note: B.J. Devor is listed in the February 1880 journal as a local pastor living in Mount Union, Huntingdon County.  He never followed through on his path to the United Brethren ministry, and his secular careers may be summarized as follows.

1861-65           mercantile business, Shirleysburg

1865-71           store owner/operator, Mount Union

1871-75           owner/operator of National Steam Flouring Mill, Mount Union

1875-78           read law under H.C. Shafer of Huntingdon

1878                lawyer, Mount Union

 

Note: Basil J. DeVor became a Presbyterian, and long-time superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School in Mount Union.  He rendered the surname DeVor, and his children appear to have rendered it Dever.

 

DEWINNI, DANIEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 149

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1831-32           Huntingdon circuit

1832                dismissed

 

Note: Should this be rendered Daniel Devinney?

 

DICK, WILLIAM B.

 

Born: 1818                                                                  married: Virginia Jane Caldwell

Died: 1871                                                                  obit: [1815-1909]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 72

Gibble list: no

 

1850    license, Allegheny Conference

1852    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1872, 24

 

1850-51           Ligioner

1851-53           Washington

1853-54           Allegheny City

1854-57           superintendent, West District

1857-59           Mount Pleasant station

1859-60           Altoona

1860-62           Madison

1862-64           Westmoreland

 

 

DICKSON, JOHN

 

Born: 6-15-1820  Chambersburg PA                          married: Mary Jane Adair (1844)

Died: 2-22-1907  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [1827 – 4/2/1904]

Miller-Raker #: 284

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1845    quarterly conference license, Littlestown

1847    license

1850    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 95

 

1846-47           Perry circuit

1847-49           Carlisle circuit

1849-50           Hershey’s station

1850-51           Big Spring circuit

1851-54           Chambersburg station

1854-56           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1856-57           Big Spring circuit

1857-61           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1861-62           Orrstown station

1862-66           Chambersburg station

1866-67           Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits

1867-68           Greencastle circuit

1868-69           Big Spring station & Plainfield circuit

1869-93           bishop

1893                retired

 

Note: John Dickson is the father of William A. Dickson and Dr. Madge Dickson Mateer, a Presbyterian missionary to China.

 

 

DICKSON, WILLIAM ADAIR

 

Born: 8-19-1850  Big Spring                                      married: Emma E. Kuhn (1875)

Died: 3-20-1921  Chambersburg                                obit: [1851 – 9/22/1910]

Miller-Raker #: 375

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1872    quarterly conference license, Chambersburg First

1874    license, Miami Conference

1877    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg

Obit: Pennsylvania 1921, 70

 

1874-75           Orrstown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1875                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1875-76           Orrstown circuit

1876-78           Rocky Spring circuit

1878                Greencastle station (resigned Oct 1878)

1879-82           Newburg circuit

1882-83           Newville

1883-84           Shippensburg

1884-85           Orrrstown

1886-92           UB Publishing House, Dayton OH

1892-98           living in Chambersburg

1898-99           Orrstown (assigned Carlisle circuit, but resigned)

1899-08           Dillsburg

1908-08           living in Shippensburg (assigned to Gettysburg, but resigned)

1909-12           Carlisle circuit

1912-18           Scotland

1918-20           Shiremanstown

 

Note: William A. Dickson is the son of John Dickson.  His gravemarker gives a birth year of 1849.

 

 

DIETER, HAROLD H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-24           Northampton circuit

 

Note: Harold H. Dieter is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journal under “others employed in the Conference.”  This may be Harold Dieter (b. 11/18/1894) in neighboring Lehigh County.

 

 

DIETRICH, GLENN MARK

 

Born: 12-19-1931  Akron PA                                     married: Shirley Walker

Died: 3-21-2010                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1951    license, recommended by Ephrata First

1956    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion U< Cemetery, Akron PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 163

 

1956-59           Brunnerville

1959-66           Halifax Otterbein

1966-70           Harrisburg Park Street

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-76           Harrisburg Park Street

1976-84           York Calvary

1984-90           Harrisburg Derry Street

1990-93           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1993-98           York Otterbein

1998                retired

                             1998-06      visitation pastor, Red Lion St. Paul’s

                             2006-10      Windsor Grace

 

DILLEN, WARREN REED

 

Born: 10-14-1863  Centre County PA                        married: Sarah “Annie” H. Coyle

Died: 3-24-1937  Altoona PA                                    obit: [1868 – 1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 265

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license, Allegheny Conference

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Blair Memorial Park, Bellwood

Obit:

 

1892-93           East Salem

1893-95           Wallace Run

1895-98           New Paris

1898-01           Three Springs

1901-03           Port Matilda

1903-05           Bigler

1905-07           Hooversville

1907-09           (not listed)

1909                honorable dismissal

 

Note: After leaving the ministry, Warren R. Dillen was a member at the Altoona Greenwood UB church. This surname is also rendered DILLON.

 

DILLER, OLIVER F.

 

Born: 11-12-1848                                                        married: Henrietta _____

Died: 12-13-1925                                                        obit: [8/17/1837 – 1/17/1924]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit:

 

1890-92           York Springs

1893-94           Bendersville

 

Note: Oliver F. Diller is a second cousin to Simon Diller.

 

DILLER, SIMON

 

Born: 5-11-1840                                                          married: Lydia A. Morrett

Died: 12-29-1916  near Franklintown PA                  obit: [8/9/1842 – 7/4/1921]

Miller-Raker #: 302

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license

1891    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit: [Gettysburg Times; January 1, 1917, page 1]

 

1875-77           Carlisle Springs circuit

1877-81           Dover circuit

1881-82           located

1882-83           Yocumtown circuit

1883-90           living in Clear Spring, York County

1890                transfer to UBOC denomination; 1890, 10 & 27

1890-91           York Springs circuit

1891-92           Dillsburg

1892-93           Mechanicsburg

1893-94           York Springs circuit

1894-95           Shippensburg

1895-97           Mechanicsburg

1897-99           Littlestown mission

1899-03           presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1903-06           inactive, living in Dillsburg RD

1906                withdrew  1906, 6

 

Note: Simon Diller is the son of "Rev. Samuel Diller (1811-1873), who built the South Mountain Union Church in 1867."  He is a second cousin to Oliver Diller.

 

DIMERLING, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 122

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1825    license

 

Interment:

Obit:


 

DINGER, LEROY WILSON

 

Born: 2-28-1917  Clarks Valley PA                           married: Helen Elizabeth Mann

Died: 9-17-1973  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [2/23/1915 – 5/31/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: St. Peter’s Cemetery, Orwin PA

Obit:

 

1942-43           Northampton circuit

 

Note: Leroy W. Dinger is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journal under “others employed by the Conference.”   He appears to have supplied various Presbyterian and other churches across Pennsylvania and New York, and he may have ties to Lebanon Valley College.

 

DISSINGER, HENRY

 

Born: 10-19-1819 (or 1818?)                                      married:

Died: 8-25-1887                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Reinholdsville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1887, 10

 

1867-69           Sinking Spring circuit

1870-71           Neffsville Long Memorial

1884-85           Hopeland circuit

 

Note: Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 81, states that Henry Dissinger lived in the Brunnerville.

 

DISSINGER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868-69           Sinking Spring circuit

1869-70           Bellegrove circuit

1870-71           Middleburg circuit

1871-73           Germanville [Valley View] circuit

1874                transfer to

 

 

DITTERS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 201

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1835    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note:  John Ditters is listed as attending the conferences of 1835 and 1836, but nothing more is known about him.

 

DOERKSON, JACOB

 

Born: 1823                                                                  married:

Died: 8-28-1891                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Baltimore MD

Obit: East German Conference 1891, 45

 

1852-53           Millheim circuit

1853-54           Union County circuit

1854-55           Lykens Valley circuit

1855-57           Union County Circuit

1857-58           Lebanon circuit

1859-60           ?

1860-62           Lancaster circuit

1862-63           Pine Grove circuit

1863-64           Hummelstown circuit

?                      transfer to East German Conference

1873-77           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1877-81           Baltimore Fulton Avenue

1881-90           ?

1890-91           Baltimore Fulton Avenue

 

Note: this name is sometimes transcribed as DARKSON or DARBSON.

 

DOHNER, HIRAM B.

 

Born: 12-28-1847  Lebanon County PA                    married: Margaret Early

Died: 11-15-1905  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [d. 1905]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Sherk’s Meeting House Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 30 

 

1877-80           Jacksonville circuit

1880-81           ?

1881-82           Schuykill Haven station

1882-84           York Second

1884-86           Mountville station

1886-88           conference instructor, Sunday School Normal Course

1888-91           presiding elder, Harrisburg or Lancaster District

1891-93           presiding elder, Conference

1893-94           Philadelphia St. Paul

1894-97           agent, Union Biblical Seminary of Dayton OH [living in Belle Grove PA]

1897-01           agent, Lebanon Valley College

1901-03           Reading Trinity                      

1904-05           Landingville circuit

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 453, gives a brief biography.

 

 

DONAHUE, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 96

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1820    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1820-21           Virginia circuit

 

Note:  This surname appears in many variations, including DANAHOW and DUNAHOO – and the given name appears in some records as JACOB. Drury’s 1924 denominational history, page 354, states: “As indicating the increasing use of the English language in preaching, Jacob Dunahoo of Virginia, and Irishman, was licensed to preach in 1820.”

DOUB, JACOB

 

Born: 11-22-1771  Frederick MD                              married: Elizabeth Merkle [aka Merckle]

Died: 8-27-1838                                                          obit: [1774-1848]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Jerusalem Cemetery, Jerusalem MD

Obit:

 

1824-25           Augusta circuit

 

Note: Jacob Doub is a first cousin to Jacob Bowlus.  He is also the brother of the Valentine Doub who married Esther Kemp, the daughter of the Peter Kemp in whose home the United Brethren denomination was formed in 1800.  This surname also appears as DAUB.  This may be the Jacob Doub who served the Bedford Methodist Episcopal circuit in the Baltimore Conference 1827-28.  Jacob Doub is also known as John [Johan] Jacob Doub.  He is a grandfather (through daughter Elizabeth) to Joshua L. Harp and a great grandfather (through son Jonathan F.) to Florence May Doup, wife of David S. Eshleman.

 

DOYLE, GEORGE ALTAIR

 

Born: 2-28-1863                                                          married:

Died: 7-1-1902  Reading PA                                      obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon PA

Obit:

 

1887-89           Springfield circuit

1889                honorable dismissal

 

Note: George A. Doyle is the son of Martin P. Doyle.  He is not to be confused with his son, also named George Altair Doyle, who married a Henrietta Constance Keelan.

 

DOYLE, MARTIN PATRICK

 

Born: 1-5-1838  Ireland                                              married: Ellen V. _____

Died: 4-20-1916                                                          obit: [1839-1912]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 127

Gibble list: yes

 

1863    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon County PA

Obit:

 

1863-64           Schellsburg

1864-65           first lieutenant, 21st Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry of the 182nd Volunteers

1865-69           Altoona

1869-71           superintendent, East District

1871-75           Johnstown mission station

1875-76           Huntingdon mission station

1877-79           Juniata

1879-1881       Mt. Joy, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1881-85           Lebanon Trinity

1885-88           Reading Otterbein

1889                surrender license, possibly over the 1889 denominational split

 

Note: Martin P. Doyle is the father of George A. Doyle.  He came to America in 1855.  After he surrendered his license, he moved back west to live in Huntingdon PA. The conference archives has a picture and brief biography in the biographical files.

 

DRAKE, U.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit: Allegheny Conference

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1888    license, Allegheny Conference

1891    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference

 

1888-89           New Paris

1889-90           Berlin

1890-91           Wilmore

1891-92           Sanburn

1892-94           Bigler

1894-95           Weston OR

1895                “transfer” to Congregational Church in Oregon

 

 

DRAKSEL, see TROXEL

 

 

DRESBACH, SIMON

 

Born: 3-4-1802  Union County PA                            married: Frances Bowman

Died: 3-12-1867  Carroll County IL                          obit: [12/30/1809 – 6/25/1895]

Miller-Raker #: 120

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll IL

Obit:

 

1828-29           Lebanon circuit

1844-45           Carlisle circuit

1846-47           Highspire circuit

1851-52           Highspire circuit

1865                transfer

 

Note: Simon Dresbach’s father Martin Dresbach (1776-1850) is a double first cousin of the noted John Dreisbach (1789-1871) of the Evangelical Church – as Martin’s father (Jacob Dreisbach) and mother (Magdalena Buch) were brother and sister to John’s father (Martin Dreisbach) and mother (Sabina Buch).  Furthermore, Simon’s step-mother Anna Eyer Dresbach (i.e., Martin’s second wife) was a daughter of the noted Evangelical Abraham Eyer and a sister to the two Eyer wives of John Dreisbach.  This surname is also rendered DREISBACH and DRESSBACH and DRESBACK.  The Eberly-Albright-Brane 1911 Landmark History, page 61, gives a brief biography.

 

 

DRUCKENBROD, FRANK E.

 

Born: 4-26-1877  Lancaster County PA                     married: Minnie H. Yocum

Died: 12-4-1961                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 52

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1924    quarterly conference license, Ruhl’s

1926    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Cambridge PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 61

 

1924-26           Brunnerville

1926-47           Pequea

1947                retired

 

DUCKWALT, FREDERICK

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 51

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1805    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered DUCKWALL, DUCKWALD, DUCKWOLT.  The family lived in Sleepy Creek, Berkley County, (West) Virginia as early as 1789.  Duckwalt is mentioned frequently in Newcomer’s journal as a host, traveling companion, and preacher.  There appears to have been a Lewis Duckwall and a Lewis Duckwall Ambrose in the United Brethren ministry.  This is believed to be George Frederick Duckwall Jr. (1750-1823).

 

DUCKWALT, LUDWIG

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 42

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

1802    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: See the comments for Frederick Duckwalt, assumed to be a brother.

 

 

DUENNEBIER, H.D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1892    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1892-93           Baltimore Seventh

1895                transfer

 

DUITSCHER, HANNAH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1912    ordained deaconess  1912, 33

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 28

 

Note: Hannah Duitscher was a member of the Bonebrake Seminary class of 1917.  She is described as “for many years a faithful deaconess of our Fulton Avenue Church, Baltimore.”  She may have been from Iowa.

 

 

DUKE, ISAAC JOSEPH

 

Born: 5-3-1878  Clearfield County PA                      married: Susan Bertha Graffius [5/5/1897]

Died: 11-1-1961  Clearfield County PA                    obit: [b. 7/?/1880]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Cora Jewel _____ [c1920]

Fulton #: 380                                                               obit2: [12/4/1886 – 12/14/1963]

Gibble list: no

 

1910    license, Allegheny Conference

1913    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Bradford Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit:

 

1910-11           Glasgow

1911-16           Rockwood

1916-18           Portage

1918-19           Monessen

1919                dismissed, page 62

 

Note: Isaac Joseph Duke apparently was also known as I. Jay Duke.  The first Mrs. Duke reportedly married a Mr. Port[er] Wise, who may have previously been the husband of her older sister Meltha E. Graffius, sometime before 1924.

 

DUMA, JOHN

 

Born: 1-12-1749                                                          married:

Died: 1832                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 165

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license to exhort

1831    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

DUNDORE, SAMUEL THOMAS   

 

Born: 9-3-1896  Bernville PA                                    married: Mabel Lucille Morrison

Died: 10-26-1971  Harrisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 407

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Mt. Aetna

1922    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 388

 

1917-19           student, Lebanon Valley College

1919-22           student, United Theological Seminary

1922-25           Elizabethville

1925-33           Mountville

1933-49           Millersburg

1949-62           Elizabethtown

1962                retired

                             1962-66      visitation pastor, Harrisburg Market Square Presbyterian

                             1966-67      Manada Hill

                             1967-70      Steelton Grace

                             1970           transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1970-71      Steelton Grace

 

Note: Samuel T. Dundore is married to Mabel M. Dundore.

 

 

DUNDORE, MABLE LUCILLE MORRISON

 

Born: 3-3-1896  Fisher IL                                          married: Samuel Thomas Dundore

Died: 2-20-1988                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 388

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1923    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 407

 

1922-23           deaconess, Canton First

1923                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1962                retired

                             1966-67      Manada Hill

                             1967-70      Steelton Grace

                             1970           transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1970-76      Steelton Grace

 

Note: Mabel M. Dundore is married to Samuel T. Dundore.

 

DUNHAM, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 2-16-1882  Troupstown NY                             married: Mary Witman

Died: 2-24-1947                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 57

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1921    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Avon

1926    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Kochenderfer’s Church Cemetery [Zion], Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 27

 

1919-29           Mount Carmel

1929-39           Catawissa

1939-44           Aristes

1944-47           Florin Glossbrenner

 

DUNKELBERGER, ALLEN

 

Born: 10-27-1858  Snyder County PA                       married: Anna Heffelfinger

Died: 1-20-1936  Dayton OH                                     obit: Miami Conference 1905, 65

Miller-Raker #: 402                                                    married2: Laura Bowman

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Miami Conference 1922, 30

Gibble list: yes

 

1879    license, East German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Miami Conference 1936, 40 

 

1879-80           Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1880                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1880-81           Yocumtown circuit (finished the year), Pennsylvania Conference

1881                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1881-82           Yocumtown circuit

1882                York circuit (resigned 8/15 to attend seminary)

1882-86           student, Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton OH

1886                transfer to Miami Conference

 

Note: Allen Dunkelberger is an uncle to Edwin E. Dunkelberger.  The East German Conference 1880,6 states that A. Dunkelberger was voted a transfer to the East Pennsylvania Conference.  Apparently he was licensed by the East German Conference but never actually served there. 

 

 

DUNKELBERGER, EDWIN E.

 

Born: 3-24-1888  Richfield PA                                  married: Alice E. Lyter

Died: 8-14-1959  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [1887 – 1969]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 476

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Evangelical Church

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Richfield Union Cemetery, Richfield PA

Obit:  Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB) 1960, 88

          Western Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 32

 

1923                transfer to the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1923-26           Waukesha

1926-30           Orbisonia

1930-34           Middleburg

1934-36           Altoona Schum Memorial and Altoona Wehnwood

1936-37           Altoona Schum Memorial

1937-42           South Williamsport

1942-46           Mapleton

1946-51           retired

                             1949-51      Middleburg

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania (EUB) Conference 

1951-52           Middleburg

1952-54           Mifflin

1954                retired

 

Note: E.E. Dunkelberger is a nephew of Allen Dunkelberger and the father of Irene Dunkelberger Baker, wife of Warren A. Baker (1924-1981) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

DUNWOODY, RICHARD GEORGE

 

Born: 12-23-1921  Lancaster PA                                married: Betty Hoffman

Died: 3-29-1984                                                          obit: [9/15/1920 – 12/14/2006]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1957    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 374

 

1953-57           Cressona–Landingville

1957-63           Lebanon Kochenderfer’s

1963-84           Penbrook Grace

 

DURKES, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 144

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1832                transfer

 

 

 

EARHART, JACOB EITNIER

 

Born: 4-17-1911  Lancaster County PA                     married: Beatrice Ruhl Kupp

Died: 10-4-1962                                                          obit: [1912-1988]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license, Ruhl’s

1947    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1952    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ruhl’s Cemetery, north of Manheim PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 58

 

1946-47           Brunnerville

1947-48           Lebanon Memorial

1948-51           Silver Spring circuit

1951-57           Kochenderfer’s

1957-62           Refton-West Willow

 

 

EARLEY, CHARLES LUTHER

 

Born: 4-8-1876  Dauphin County PA                         married: Cora Gingrich

Died: 4-17-1933                                                          obit: [3/27/1876 – 10/17/1900]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary A. Mark [2/22/1902]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/22/1872 – 5/18/1934]

Gibble list: yes

 

1911    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Otterbein

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1916    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s UMC Cemetery, Grantville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 13

 

1913-14           Chambers Hill

1914-15           Coatesville Grace (did not finish the year)

1915-16           living in Harrisburg

1916-19           Chambers Hill

1919-25           Manada Hill

1925-26           Rockville

 

Note: This surname is also rendered EARLY.  Charles Luther Early taught in the Grantville public schools for eight years before entering the ministry.  He left the ministry for health reasons and was ill the last seven years of his life.  He appears to have worked as a postal clerk while he served as a preacher.  Some sources give the birth year for the second Mrs. Early as 1871.

 

 

EARLY, DANIEL SETH

 

Born: 5-29-1828  Lebanon County PA                      married: Amanda A. Mark

Died: 7-21-1907  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [1831-1919]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1859    quarterly conference license, Annville charge conference

1861    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1864    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 35

 

1870                transfer to East German Conference

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: D. S. Early “never traveled as an itinerant” but “was a very useful man in a local relation.” His mother was Christiana Kreider, a daughter of Martin Crider.  His wife was the daughter of George A. Mark.   He was a successful businessman, general superintendent of United Brethren Mutual Aid Society, and first president of the Board of trustees of Lebanon Valley College.  His first name is sometimes reported as David, and his full name is sometimes reported as Aaron Daniel Seth Early.  The birth and death dates on his tombstone are 15 days earlier than the above dates based on his conference obituary.  A thorough biographical sketch is given in the Biographical Annals of Lebanon County PA.

 

 

EARNST, CLARENCE L.

 

Born: 4-15-1917  Mount Union MD                          married: Irene Elizabeth Fauth

Died:  3-25-1992  Harrisburg PA                               obit: Susquehanna Conference 1968,127

Miller-Raker #: 790                                                    married2: Miriam E. Barrick Kitner

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003,380

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license, recommended by Emigsville Otterbein

1965    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992,472

 

1961-82           Shermansdale

1982                retired

                             1982-83      assistant, Newport parish

                             1988-92      assistant, Waynesboro Faith

 

Note: The second Mrs. Earnst was the widow of a Mr. Raymond L. Kitner

 

 

EBERLY, DANIEL

 

Born: 4-22-1834  near Shiremanstown PA                married: Josephine Bittinger

Died: 7-9-1910  Hanover PA                                      obit: [7/?/1850 – 7/28/1884]

Miller-Raker #: 314

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license

1861    ordained

 

Interment: St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, Abbottstown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 122

 

1856-57           student, Mt. Pleasant College

1857-58           student, Otterbein University

1858-59           assistant, Carlisle circuit

1859-60           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1860-61           Littlestown circuit

1862-63           York Spring circuit

1863-65           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1865-66           Baltimore English mission

1866-72           president, Cottage Hill Female College at York

1872-73           president, Otterbein University at Westerville OH

1873-74           Philadelphia Girard Avenue Mission, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874-76           Lebanon Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876-84           professor, Lebanon Valley College at Annville

1884                retired, upon the death of his wife

                             chaplain, Pennsylvania National Guard

                             board member, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: Daniel Eberly is the son of Samuel Eberly.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography.  Wallace’s 1966 Centennial History of Lebanon Valley College contains significant information on both Mr. and Mrs. Eberly. 

 

EBERLY, H.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 165

Gibble list: no

 

1874    license, Allegheny conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1874-75           Millheim circuit
1875-77           no assignment

1877                name erased

 

Note: H.M. Eberly associated with a Juniata County group known as the United Christian Church, which is distinct from the United Christian Church that broke away from the United Brethren Church in 1869 under George Hoffman and is headquartered in Annville PA.  He officiated at the dedication of United Christian buildings at Graham's Ore Banks in 1878 and at Whiteland in 1879.  He was involved in a United Christian controversy at Dressler's Ridge in 1895.

     “The dedication of the 'United Christian Church' at Graham Ore Bank, three miles west of Mifflintown, on Sunday last was a grand success in every way. The full amount of the debt subscribed. The dedication sermon in the morning was preached by the Pastor, Rev. H. M. Eberly, and the afternoon addresses by the Revs. Sherlock, of Mifflintown, and Dill, of Clearfield [both Methodist preachers].  A protracted meeting is in progress, with favorable signs for good."

Juniata Sentinel and Republican March 13, 1878

 

 

EBERLY, SAMUEL

 

Born: 3-10-1790                                                          married: Catherine Erb

Died: 11-14-1862                                                        obit: [6/23/1791 – 10/9/1860]

Miller-Raker #: 175

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Shopp’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1864, 92

 

Note: Samuel Eberly preached locally.  He is the father of Daniel Eberly and of Mary Ellen Eberly Gosweiler, mother of Augustus Van Hoff Gosweiler.  Mrs. Eberly was a sister to bishop Jacob Erb and is buried in Shopp’s Cemetery. 

 

 

EBY, JOHN ALBERT          

 

Born: 2-4-1866  Edmonton, Alberta Cannada           married: Ida F. Spotts

Died: 9-28-1950  Beverly Hills CA                           obit: [12/?/1866 – ?/?/1905 ]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lillian C. Cairns

Fulton #: 295                                                               obit2: [4/9/1876 – 11/2/1949]

Gibble list: no

           

license, St. Joseph Conference

1895    ordained, St. Joseph Conference

 

Interment: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood CA

Obit:

 

                       

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1901-03           Greensburg

1903-04           living in Dayton OH (student?)

1904                honorable discharge

1906-10           YMCA work in Philadelphia

1910                “transfer” to California Conference

1910-17           Los Angeles First

                        Santa Monica

        -31           Wilshire Presbyterian Church

1931                retired

     1930’s        executive secretary, Church Federation of Los Angeles

 

Note: John A. Eby is the son of John W. Eby (10/1/1840 – 5/28/1914) of the St. Joseph Conference.  The first Mrs. Eby is buried in Elkhart IN, by John Albert Eby’s parents.

 

ECKELS, J.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 394

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1879-81           Horse Valley, did not finish the second year:  see 1880,4 & 1881,4

1881                expelled  1881,14

 

Note: This may be Jonathan H. Eckels (1857-1922), who entered the bakery/grocery business in Chambersburg in 1900, was an active lay member at Chambersburg First and in the Franklin County Federation of churches, and a lay delegate to the 1913 General Conference.

 

 

ECKSTINE, JOHN

 

Born: 6-24-1782  Baden-Wurttemberg Germany       married: Barbara Dautel (1805)

Died: 2-?-1866  Washington County MD                  obit: [9/4/1777 – 9/2/1850]

Miller-Raker #: 129

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1827    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit:

 

1827-28           Hagerstown circuit

1828-29           Virginia circuit

1837-38           Lancaster circuit

 

Note: This surname is also rendered ECKSTEIN.  John Eckstine was elected German secretary of the conference in 1830.  He may have been considered a member of the Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference after 1830, but there is no record of appointments there, either.  He continued to attend conference and the following appears in the 1840 minutes: Resolved that the Secretary of the conference shall give notice to John Eckstine to attend the first Quarterly Conference that shall be held in the city of Baltimore in the ensuing year by the Presiding Elder or other proper person, and substantiate the charges he has made against John Russell and against the Pennsylvania Conference and if he neglects or fails, he shall be silenced until the next annual conference, but if he succeeds in establishing his allegations, his privilege of preaching is to be left untouched.  The following appears in the 1842 journal: Resolved that the secretary write John Russell and John Eckstine, each a letter informing them that the conference resolved that they shall meet each other in the time of three months and settle the difficulty existing between them according to Discipline, or if they do not thus proceed they shall be silenced and not preach until the next annual conference. And the 1842 journal reports: John Russell reports that he has settled the difficulty existing between himself and John Eckstine and a full reconciliation has taken place. Approved by the conference. The 1844 journal includes this and other relevant comments: John Eckstine’s name was next called, and a letter read from him in which he charged Bro. J. Russell with an unwillingness to pay him $5.00 which a former committee said he should pay as a donation.

Note2: At the conference of 1835, John Eckstine is listed as absent, and a Jacob Eckstine is listed as present.  The 2019 200th anniversary history of Salem UMC [former UB] in Wolfsville MD lists early members as brothers Jacob Eckstine (born in Germany in 1808) and John Eckstine (born in Germany in 1816), supposedly sons of Lutheran minister Jacob Eckstein (born in German in 1781).  Putting this with other sources, it appears that the “Lutheran minister” “Jacob Eckstein” is the John Eckstine/Eckstein ordained by the United Brethren and that his son Jacob (1808-1881) was also licensed/involved with the United Brethren.

 

 

EDMUNDS, ARTHUR FREDERICK

 

Born: 12-11-1922                                                        married: Julia Ethel Wrightstone

Died: 2-28-1996                                                          obit: 2006, 425

Miller-Raker #: 765

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1958    license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion

1964    ordained

 

Interment: Pleasant Grove UM Church Cemetery, Newberry township York County

Obit: 1996,409

 

1959-68           York Haven-Pleasant Grove

1968-71           Windsor Grace

1971-79           Mifflinburg St. Paul

1979-88           Bethlehem-Springvale

1988                retired

                             1989-93      Bittersville

                             1993-95      Bittersville & Windsor Grace

 

 

EDMONSON, ALEXANDER         

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died: 1877                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 56 [Edmunson]

Gibble list: no

           

1844    license, Allegheny Conference

1847    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: near Unionville, Centre Cooiunty PA

Obit:

 

1869-70           Runville, Julian [Bellefonte circuit? see Fulton, page 115,116,135]

 

Note: According to Fulton’s History of the Allegheny Conference, Alexander Edmonson was still a member at his death.  There is no record of him serving under appointment.

 

EDRIS, REGINA SUSANNA AMANDA

 

Born: 1902  Myerstown PA                                        married: (single)

Died: 7-?-1958                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1925    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit:

 

1933                surrender license

 

Note: Regina Edris graduated from Lebanon Valley College with a degree in nursing in 1924.

 

EGGE, WILLIAM JACOB

 

Born: 1-30-1820  near Allentown PA                        married: Matilda _____

Died: 1-12-1903                                                          obit: [11/18/1819 – 8/16/1893]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1855 license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Union-West End Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903,24

 

1855-1897       local relation

1897                transfer to East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note:  William J. Egge is the father of Rev. Charles Hesser Egge (1844-1924) of the Evangelical Association/United Evangelical/Evangelical Congregational Church, and the grandfather of Charles’ son Rev. Walter Howard Egge (1874-1948) of the United Evangelical/Evangelical Congregational Church. 

 

 

EHRHART, CARL YARKERS

 

Born: 5-11-1918                                                          married: Geraldine M. Baldwin

Died: 6-25-2003                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2000,7.303

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1937    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1940    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1943    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1947-61           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: Carl Y. Ehrhart is the son of Oliver T. Ehrhart.

 

EHRHART, HENRY

 

Born: 1821                                                                              married: Isabelle Staley

Died: 1881                                                                              obit: [7/22/1830 – 5/5/1906]

Miller-Raker #: 300

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1852    license

 

Interment: Arcola Township Cemetery, Arcola IN

Obit:

 

1849-50           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1854-55           Littlestown circuit

1857                transfer to Iowa Conference, page 46

 

Note: Dr. Henry Ehrhart is described as a “physician, minister, superintendent of the Sunday School at the First Church of the United Brethren in York PA.”  He is mentioned in Raber’s Journal.  Henry Ehrhart is the son of Jacob Ehrhart, whose paper mill provided one of the first and most enduring preaching appointments on the early York circuit.  The widowed Mrs. Ehrhart married a Mr. John A. Draper on 4/8/1890.

 

EHRHART, OLIVER TILLMAN

 

Born: 10-8-1881  Lancaster County PA                     married: Edna E. Yarkers

Died: 5-22-1960                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1984,292

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenfield Cemetery of Stehman Memorial Church, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 55

 

1910-20           Lebanon Hebron

1920-51           Lancaster Covenant

1951                retired

 

Note: Oliver T. Ehrhart is the father of Carl Y. Ehrhart.

 

 

EICHELBERGER, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 264

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                silenced  1846,72&73

 

 

EICHINGER, HARRY LITCHENBERGER

 

Born: 12-27-1874                                                        married: Laura A. Myers

Died: 3-11-1932                                                          obit: [9/15/1870 – 4/9/1952]

Miller-Raker #: 462

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    license

 

Interment: Dallastown Union Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Jefferson

1897-98           Dover circuit

1898-99           living in Annville

1899-01           Grantville circuit, East German Conference

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 11

1901-02           Derry [Hershey] circuit

1902                Catawissa circuit, resigned shortly after conference

1902-04           Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 11/1/1902)

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-06           living in Mount Wolf

1906                returned to quarterly conference relation  1906,49

…

1929-32           Hanover Otterbein

 

Note: Rev. Eichinger is in a posed picture of ministers in the Penn Grove camp meeting file.  Mrs. Eichinger’s mother is a sister to Henry A. Sechrist.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Eichinger.  The 1920 census places them living on East Main Street in Dallastown.

 

ELLENBERGER, JOHN      

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died: 1857                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

           

1840    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: John Ellenberger was a leader of the class that met in the Grazier school house in Warrior’s Mark township, Huntingdon County.

 

ELLIS, DAVID ROBERT

 

Born: 11-12-1840  Wales                                            married: Martha J. Keck

Died: 8-28-1908  Annville PA                                   obit: [6/16/1859 – 12/4/1913]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 180

Gibble list: no

 

1876    license, Allegheny Conference

1879    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908,68

 

1876-77           East Salem

…

1889-91           Clearfield [Woodland]

 

Note: D.R. Ellis was serving on board the Monitor in 1862 during its famous battle when it sank the Confederate gunboat Merrimac.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 3.

 

ELSER, THEODORE EDWIN

 

Born: 10-25-1929                                                        married: Lois Mae Martin [9/24/1953]

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 775                                                    married2: Barbara _____

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license

1950    ordained deacon

1963    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-62           Young’s-Mt. Zion

1962-69           Boonsboro Mt. Nebo

1969-70           Frederick Centennial

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-71                      Centennial

1971-76           Wesley Grove

1976-80           chaplain, Scotland (PA) School

1981-83           leave of absence, living in Scotland PA

1983                transfer to Peninsula Conference

1983-85           Tilghman

1985-88           Cecilton

1988-93           Clarksville St. George’s

1993                retired

 

Note: Theodore E. Elser worked in the family grocery business in Greenvillage before entering the ministry.

 

ELWAY, JAMES

 

Born: 2-11-1805  England                                          married: Sarah Prosser [in England]

Died: 8-26-1862                                                          obit: [1808-1887]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 24 [ALWAY]

Gibble list: yes

 

1838     license, Pennsylvania Conference

1840    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1844-45           Westmoreland circuit

1845-46           Clearfield circuit

1846-47           Jefferson circuit

 

Note: Rev. Elway was born in England, emigrated to America in 1830 and lived briefly in Philadelphia and Centre County. Africa’s 1883 History of Blair County, page 141, says that “James Elway came to the Tuckahoe Valley in Logan township in 1850, where he purchased a farm.  He removed to Altoona in 1859.”  His son James married the daughter of Jacob Root – the layperson behind Roots appointment, predecessor to the Bellwood congregation.

 

 

ELY, DANIEL

 

Born: 6-9-1832  Franklin County PA                         married: Martha Ann Combs (185 6)

Died: 2-16-1909  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [8/2/1837 – 10/6/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1867    quarterly conference license, Chambersburg First

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 28

 

1889-95           Horse Valley

1897-99           Ortanna

1900-03           Horse Valley

1907-09           living in Philadelphia

 

Note: Daniel Ely lived in Chambersburg.  Stephen Keefer (who built the Keefer church in middle Hiorse Valley) would travel to Chambersburg each Sunday to bring him to serve the 3 Horse Valley churches.  He served with a permanent quarterly conference license.  There is a folder on him in the biographical file at the conference archives.  The 1910 UB Yearbook incorrectly identifies him as Daniel EBY in the death notices.  The maiden name of Mrs. Ely is also given as COOMBS.

 

 

ELY, GUY NEWTON

 

Born: 10-19-1894  McKeesport PA                           married: Ethel Baxendell

Died: 5-23-1953  McKeesport PA                              obit: [4/19/1892 – 3/25/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Richland Cemetery, Dravosburg PA

Obit:

 

1942-43           Dunlevy

 

 

Note: G.N. Ely served with a quarterly conference license. 

 

EMENHEISER, BENJAMIN F.

 

Born: 3-31-1898                                                          married: Roberta Glanville

Died: 4-17-1991                                                          obit: [1891 – 12/29/1973]

Miller-Raker #: 609

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1919    license, recommended by Thurmont

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1919-21           student, Lebanon Valley College

1924                withdrew  1924,28

                        teacher, Baltimore City College

 

Note: Benjamin F. Emenheiser is the son of Franklin Benjamin Emenheiser and a brother of Paul D. Emenheiser. See the F.B. Emenheiser page for more family connections.  He is a member of the Baltimore City College Hall of Fame.

 

EMENHEISER, FRANKLIN B.

 

Born: 5-22-1870  near East Prospect                          married: Catherine Jane Daugherty

Died: 4-28-1957  Hagerstown MD                             obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 47

Miller-Raker #: 478

 

1896    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1901    license

1905    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 41

 

1901-03           Dover circuit

1903-07           Rayville circuit

1907-10           Lemasters circuit

1910-12           Oakville circuit

1912-16           Shiremanstown circuit

1916-18           Fayetteville

1918-20           Thurmont

1920-25           Springet

1925-39           York Haven

1939                retired

 

Note:  Franklin B. Emenneiser is the father of Benjamin F. Emenheiser, Paul D. Emenheiser and Cora Mabel Emenheiser Zeigler – wife of Roy R. Zeigler.  The Zeigler children [Franklin’s grandchildren] include Betty Zeigler Keperling (wife of Ira C. Keperling), Eleanor Zeigler Ford (wife of missionary Rev. Paul Ford) and Harold E. Zeigler.  Mrs. Emenheiser is a first cousin of Benjamin Daugherty Rojahn (through Rojahn, and possibly also through Daugherty).  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. F.B. Emenheiser.

 

EMENHEISER, PAUL DAUGHERTY

 

Born: 2-20-1911  York County PA                            married: Esther Louise Redding

Died: 1-3-1969  Pontiac MI                                        obit: [4/11/1906 – 1/17/1987]

Miller-Raker #: 666

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license

1936    ordained

 

Interment: Elmwood Cemetery, Sycamore IL

Obit:

 

1931-33           student, Lebanon Valley College

1933-36           student, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

                            1933-36       Barts

1936-38           Taneytown

1938-42           Baltimore Otterbein

1942-48           Wormleysburg, resigned 5/31/48

1947                withdrew  1948,56&96

 

1954-63           St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sycamore IL

 

Note:  Paul D. Emenheiser is the son of Franklin B. Emenheiser and brother of Benjamin F. Emenheiser.  See the F.B. Emenheiser page for more family connections. 

 

 

EMENHIZER, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 5-2-1843  Stormstown PA                                married: Sarah Elizabeth Long

Died: 5-10-1928                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1932, 49

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 195

Gibble list: no

 

1875    quarterly conference license

1880    license, Allegheny Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Houserville Cemetery, Houserville PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928, 59

 

1875-79           Bellefonte circuit

1879-80           Allegheny

1880-82           Shade Gap

1882-86           East Salem

1886-89           Juniata

1889-92           Bellefonte

1892-94           Punxsutawney

1894-95           Fairmont

1895-97           DeHaven

1897-98           Connellsville

1898-01           Springfield

1901-04           Three Springs

1904-06           Path Valley

1906-08           Fairhope

1908-13           Belsano

1913-15           West Decatur

1915-17           Casselman

1917-18           ?

1918-20           Clarion River

1920                retired

 

Note: G.W. Emenhizer is the grandfather of J.S. Emenhizer.  His picture [Eminhizer] appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 2.

 

EMENHIZER, JARED SILAS

 

Born: 12-14-1892  Centre County PA                        married: Naomi Blanche Newman

Died: 9-1-1973                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 406

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 428

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license

1916    license, Allegheny Conference

1923    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Houserville Cemetery, Houserville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 284

 

1915-16           Union

1916-18           Hustontown

1918-20           Mahaffey

1920-24           Susquehanna

1924-26           Glasgow

1926-28           Waukesha

1928-30           Middleburg (ending 9.24.1930)

1930-31           Central City (beginning 10/1/1930, apparently was originally assigned to Clarion River)

1931-36           New Paris

1936-37           Shade Gap

1937-43           Three Springs

1943-46           Woodland

1946-49           Rockwood

1949-53           Hollsopple

1953-54           Bowersdale

1954-60           Salem

1960-62           Mount Hope

1962                retired

 

Note: J.S. Emenhizer is a grandson of G.W. Emenhizer.

 

 

EMPFIELD, CHARLES HAROLD

 

Born: 5-11-1914                                                          married: Dorothy Blanche Claypool

Died: 8-15-2002  New Smyrna Beach FL                  obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 360

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1939    quarterly conference license

1943    license, Allegheny Conference

1946    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pine Land Cemetery, Strongstown PA

Obit:  Western Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?

 

1941-44           Rochester Mills (beginning 10/18/1941)

1944-48           Johnstown Overbrook

                             1947-48  Windber

1948-51           Beaver Falls

1951-61           Altoona Schum Memorial

1961-69           McKeesport First

1969-79           disability leave

1979                retired

 

 

EMPFIELD, JACKSON B.  

 

Born: 8-1-1832  Indiana County PA                          married: Jane Pittman

Died: 3-23-1904  Ryno NE                                        obit: 7/10/1839 – 2/12/1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 130

Gibble list: no

           

1864    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Callaway NE

Obit: [in the biographical files]

 

1871-73           Fallen Timber circuit

1878                name erased

1887                moved to Custer County NE

 

ENCK, SCHUYLER COLFAX

 

Born: 7-3-1868  Hopeland PA                                    married: Elizabeth Sophia Seltzer

Died: 11-29-1963                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 50

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Hopeland

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hopeland Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 121

 

1888-1891       Ruhl’s

1891-92           Pottstown

1892-93           Lockington, Miami Conference

1893                New Holland

1893-98           Manheim

1898-12           Columbia

1912-17           Philadelphia Second

1917-42           conference superintendent

1942                retired

 

Note: Schuyler C. Enck’s son Paul is married to David E. Long’s daughter Laura.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 449, gives a brief biography.

 

 

ENDERS, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 1-6-1836                                                            married: Susan Warner

Died: 12-27-1916                                                        obit: [12/8/1838 – 9/23/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    quarterly conference license

1881    license, East German Conference

1887    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Enders PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1917, 39

 

1892-93           Jacksonville circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Wash Enders was a shoemaker, farmer, school teacher, proprietor of a general store and United Brethren Sunday superintendent for 25 years.  He served as needed as a local pastor.

 

ENGEL, DANIEL

 

Born: 4-10-1811  Germany                                         married: Anna Marie Weltz

Died: 3-16-1883  WV                                                 obit: [8/10/1814 – 4/?/1900]

Miller-Raker #: 241 [ENGLE]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license, recommended by Old Otterbein

 

Interment: Engel Cemetery, Braxton County WV

Obit: Parkersburg Conference 1891,31 & West Virginia Conference 1897,51

 

1840-46           pre-Buckhannon WV, informally

1843                transfer to Virginia Conference

 

Note: Daniel Engel is mentioned in Burrow’s 1989 History of West Virginia United Methodism, pages 217 & 219.  This surname is also rendered ENGLE.

 

 

ENSMINGER, EARL JACOB

 

Born: 3-30-1904  near Strinestown PA                      married: Ruth M. Funk

Died: 11-19-1977  Florida                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980,338

Miller-Raker #: 810

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1934    quarterly conference license, Strinestown UBOC

1935    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1941    ordained, UBOC

 

Interment: Strinestown Cemetery, Strinestown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978,258

 

1936-40           missionary to Sierra Leone

1940-41           student, Huntingdon College  IN

1941-44           Heidlersburg

1944-45           student, Huntingdon College  IN

1945-49           missionary to Sierra Leone

1949-52           Celina OH circuit, Auglaize Conference

1952-53           living in Huntingdon IN

1953-57                      missionary to Sierra Leone

1957-63           State Line

1963-64           Mt. Tabor MD

1964                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB denomination

1964-69           Marion

1969                retired

                             1974-77      associate, Seminole FL

 

Note: Earl J. Ensminger is married to Ruth M. Funk Ensminger.

 

ENSMINGER, RUTH M. FUNK

 

Born: 8-6-1911                                                            married: Earl Jacob Ensminger

Died: 11-30-1979                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978,258

Miller-Raker #: 811

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1939    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1951    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment: Strinestown Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980,338

 

1936-40           missionary to Sierra Leone

1940-41           student, Huntingdon College  IN

1941-44           Heidlersburg

1944-45           student, Huntingdon College  IN

1945-49           missionary to Sierra Leone

1949-52           Celina OH circuit assistant, Auglaize Conference

1952-53           living in Huntingdon IN

1953-58           missionary to Sierra Leone

1964                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB denomination

1964-69           Marion, unofficial assistant

1969                retired

 

Note: Ruth is married to Earl Jacob Ensminger.  She is the daughter of Bishop Ezra Funk of the United Brethren, Old Constitution.

 

 

ENTERLINE, SAMUEL D.

 

Born:  9-4-1810  Lykens Valley PA                           married: Elizabeth Stump

Died: 5-24-1884  Adams County PA                         obit: [2/2/1808 – 7/30/1859]

Miller-Raker #: 238                                                    married2: Mrs. Eliza. Coombs

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1811 – 9/30/1891]

Gibble list: yes

 

1839    license

1842    ordained

 

Interment: Hampton Union Cemetery, Adams County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 29

 

1842-44           Lebanon circuit

1844-46           Dauphin circuit

1846-47           York circuit

1847-48           York Springs circuit

1848-49           York circuit

1849-51           Dover circuit

1851-53           Franklin circuit

1853-54           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1854-57           Baltimore station

1857-59           Rocky Spring circuit

1859-60           Orrstown circuit

1860-61           York Springs circuit

1861-65           York station

1865-67           Manchester circuit

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography.  In later life he was also a medical doctor practicing homeopathic medicine.  He is a grandson of Lutheran immigrant minister John Michael Enterline.  The second Mrs. Enterline was the widow of Isaac Coombs.

 

 

ERB, JACOB

 

Born: 5-25-1804  near Manheim PA                          married: Elizabeth Shirk

Died: 4-29-1883                                                          obit: [4/1/1801 – 2/18/1834]

Miller-Raker #: 105

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1823    license, Hagerstown Conference

1825    ordained

 

Interment: Shopp’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 20

 

1823-24           Lancaster circuit

1824-25           Hagerstown circuit

1825-26           Lancaster circuit

1827-28           missionary to New York

1828-29           Susquehanna circuit

1829-31           unassigned

1831-32           Littlestown circuit

1832-33           Canada mission, informally & working on hymnal

1833-36           presiding elder, Carlisle District

1836-37           Canada mission, informally

1837-45           bishop

1837-38           Dauphin circuit

1841-45           Baltimore Otterbein

1845-48           Baltimore Otterbein

1849-53           bishop

1854-56           presiding elder, York District

1856-57           agent for Philadelphia church

1857-58           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1858-59           Liverpool circuit

1859-60           agent for the printing establishment

1860-62           unassigned – unofficial agent for Otterbein University and the printing establishment

1862-63           Carlisle circuit

1863-66           York station

1866-68           unassigned – proprietor of Cottage Hill Female College in York

1868-70           Harrisburg First

1871-75           unassigned

1875                retired

1876                special agent for Lebanon Valley College

1878-82           conference evangelist

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 317, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, give brief biographies.  Chapter 6 of the 1911 denominational study guide Our Heroes vol 2 discusses Jacob Erb and gives a picture.  His mother Elizabeth Hershey Erb was a sister to Abraham and Christian Hershey.  His sister married Samuel Eberly.  Jacob Erb is a cousin to Jacob G. Erb.  The 2007 issue of The Chronicle, pages 55-66, includes a series of papers on Jacob Erb.

 

 

ERB, JACOB G.

 

Born: 9-30-1802  Warwick PA                                  married: Catherine Wenger

Died: 1886                                                                  obit: [6/12/1800 – 11/13/1871]

Miller-Raker #: 176

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    ordained

 

Interment: Harris Hill Cemetery, Clarence [Erie County] NY

Obit:

 

1836                dismissed

                        old Erie Conference

1861                charter member of new Erie Conference

1862-63           Orleans mission

1880                irregularly withdrawn

 

Note: Jacob G. Erb a cousin to Bishop Jacob Erb, whose Koontz-Roush biography states on page 218 that “Jacob G. Erb, an able preacher, lived about 6 or 7 miles from Buffalo NY and gave a number of years to ministerial service in that region.”

 

 

ERB, JOHN CALVIN

 

Born: 7-28-1863  Calvin PA                                      married: Frances Settle

Died: 12-31-1932  Blair's Mills PA                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1937, 58

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 372

Gibble list: no

 

1894    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:  Allegheny Conference 1933, 48

 

1894-95           South Williamsport

1895-98           Wilmore

1898-99           Dunlevy

1899-00           Shade Gap

1900-03           Orbisonia

1903-04           Newport (6 months)

1904-05           Clarion River

1905-07           Birmingham

1907-08           Susquehanna

1908-11           East Salem

1911-13           Bigler

1913-15           Knoxdale

1915-16           Rochester Mills

1916-17           living in Liverpool

1917-18           living in New Buffalo

1918-20           Runville

1920-21           Industry

1921-23           ?

1923-24           New Paris

1924-28           Cambria

1928                retired

 

 

ERHARD, ROBERT LOUIS

 

Born: 2-25-1858  Spring Mills PA                             married: Mary Morgan          

Died: 9-3-1926  Jeanette PA                                      obit: [d. 4/23/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sara Ghrist

Fulton #: 281                                                               obit2: Pittsburgh Conference (M) 1940, 131

Gibble list: no

           

1897    license, Allegheny Conference

1901    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grove Cemetery, New Brighton PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference (ME) 1926, 434

 

1896-98           Three Springs

1898-03           Claysville

1903-04           East Clearfield

1904-05           Clearfield

1905-07           Braddock Second [Comrie Avenue]

1907-08           (not listed)

1908                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

                        Pittsburgh Lemington Avenue

                        New Brighton Grace

                        Donora

1916-20           Pittsburgh California Avenue

                        South Brownsville

                        Jeannette

 

ERNST, IRA SANKEY

 

Born: 12-2-1894  Guilford Springs PA                      married: Nellie Rice

Died: 1-31-1959                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 48

Miller-Raker #: 589

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Lincoln Lawn, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 47

 

1915-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-18           Biglerville

1918-21           Chewsville MD

1921-41           Carlisle Grace

1941-53           Washington DC

1953-59           Chambersburg First

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 391, gives a brief biography. 

 

 

ERNST, JOHN [JOHNNES] PETER

 

Born: 2-22-1744 Baden-Werttemberg Germany        married: Maria Catherina Kaffroth (1767)

Died: 8-30-1804 East Berlin PA                                obit: [10/20/1750 – 1810]

Miller-Raker #: 7

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    license

 

Interment: East Berlin Union Cemetery, East Berlin PA

Obit:

 

1790’s             congregation in Adams County

 

Note: John Ernst was active in the Reformed Church until his association with Otterbein and revivalism made him a persona non grata.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography.  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 156, gives a brief biography of Ernst and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.  He is the grandfather of Rev. David B. Ernst (1815-1877) of the Reformed Church and Sarah B. Naille, the wife of Rev. John Naille (1801-1901) of the Reformed Church.

 

ESCHBACH, CARL B.

 

Born: 9-9-1903  Tyrone PA                                        married: Ruth Myers

Died: 5-20-1998                                                          obit: West Ohio Conference 1984,307

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 522 [Eschbaugh]

Gibble list: no

 

1923    quarterly conference license

1929    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Davids Cemetery, Kettering OH

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1998,?

 

1929-45           missionary, Philippine Islands

1945-46           ?

1946-50           associate secretary, Foreign Missions

1950-51           faculty, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1951                transfer to Miami Conference

 

 

ESENSEE, HENRY J. [ISENSEE, J.J. HENRY]

 

Born: 3-21-1812 Germany                                          married: Esther Klingensmith

Died: 5-16-1890                                                          obit: [6/2/1825 – 5/28/1912]

Miller-Raker #: 251

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ESENSY]

 

1841    license

1844    elected to the office of elder – but refused to be ordained, page 55

 

Interment: Forks-Zion Lutheran Cemetety, Gilpin twp, Armstrong County PA

Obit:

 

1841-42                      Dauphin circuit

1842-43           Lancaster circuit

1843-44           Lebanon circuit

1845                dismissed

                        entered the Lutheran ministry, Pittsburgh Synod

1845-51           Brick Church St. John’s, Freeport Trinity, Gilpin Twp Zion

1851                deposed

 

Note: Henry Esensee is a brother to John Esensee, apparently preached in German.  Heissenbuttel’s 1959 Pittsburgh Synod Congregational Histories includes references to both Henry and John Esensee, but their exact service in the Lutheran Church is not clear.

 

 

ESENSEE, JOHN FREDERICK [ISENSEE, JOHANN FRIEDRICH]

 

Born: 9-18-1825  Germany                                         married: Marie Barbara Albert (1847)

Died: 4-26-1899  Indianapolis IN                              obit: [3/22/1822 – 3/30/1904]

Miller-Raker #: 250

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ESENSY]

 

1841 license

 

Interment: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis IN

Obit:

 

1841-42           Chambersburg circuit

1843                withdrew

                        entered the Lutheran ministry, Pittsburgh Synod

1842-44           Saxonburg St. Luke’s

1843-45           Freeport Trinity

 

Note: John Esensee is a brother to Henry Esensee.  Heissenbuttel’s 1959 Pittsburgh Synod Congregational Histories includes references to both Henry and John Esensee but their exact service in the Lutheran Church is not clear.  There appears to be a connection with George St. Clair Hussey.

 

 

ESHLEMAN, DAVID S.

 

Born: 9-5-1865  Canada                                             married: Florence May Doup

Died: 10-11-1940  Arcanum OH                                obit: [8/11/1870 – 4/10/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1897    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1892-93           Hopeland

1893-94           student, Lebanon Valley College

1894-97           student, Union Seminary in Dayton OH        ?         

1897-00           Annville

1900-03           Mountville St. Paul’s

1903-04           Allentown Zion

1904-07           Middletown

1907-08           Mount Carmel

1908-09           Myerstown

1909-10           Cressona

1910                honorable dismissal

 

Note: This surname is also rendered ESHELMAN.  Mrs. Eshleman is a great granddaughter of Jacob Doub.

 

 

ESTERLINE, CLIFFORD EUGENE

 

Born: 10-31-1895  Wiconisco PA                              married: Ruth Irene McClean

Died: 1-13-1981                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 583

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1935    quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third

1936    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 273

 

1938-39           Aristes

1939-42           Tower City

1942-46           Shamokin circuit

1946-47           Pottstown-Birdsboro

1947-66           Intercourse

1966                retired

 

 

ESTERLINE, LORENZ [LAWRENCE]

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 108

Fulton #:

Gibble list: yes

 

1824    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered ESTERLEIN.

 

 

ETTER, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 3-13-1846  Powell’s Valley PA                       married: Sarah Elizabeth Collier

Died: 3-28-1895  Dayton OH                                     obit: [2/18/1851 – 1/16/1900]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    quarterly conference license

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876    ordained

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 53

 

1871-72           student, Lebanon Valley College

1872-73           professor, Lebanon Valley College

1873-75           student, Drew University

1875-77           Mount Joy

1877-79           Philadelphia

1879-82           Baltimore Fourth

1882-83           unknown, living in Halifax

1883-85           Mount Joy

1885-89           Lebanon

1889-93           editor of the Quarterly Review, Dayton OH

                            1891-92       professor, Union Seminary

1893-95           chief editor, UB Sunday School literature

 

Note:  The conference archives collection contains the following books by John W. Etter [a.k.a. J. Wesley Etter]: The Doctrine of Christian Baptism (1888), The Preacher and his Sermon (1883), The Thorn in the Flesh (1892).   Mrs. Etter was also a graduate (1875) of Lebanon Valley College; she is buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Halifax PA.

 

 

ETTER, ROBERT WILLIAM

 

Born: 1912                                                                  married: Josephine L. Nye

Died: 1994                                                                  obit: [1914 – 1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1941    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1942    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1945    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit:

 

 

1944-53           Manor circuit

1953-54           living in Lancaster

1954                withdrew to join another denomination: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954,48

                             1956-75      Coleman Memorial United Presbyterian Chapel, Brickerville PA

 

Note: Robert W. Etter is a brother to Russell E. Etter.    A 1935 graduate of Lebanon Valley College, he served as a research chemist with General Motors in Dayton OH 1942-44 and with RCA in Lancaster PA 1953-75.

 

 

ETTER, RUSSEL EMERICH

 

Born: 10-15-1910  Hummelstown PA                        married: Kathryn Miller

Died: 12-27-1979  York PA                                       obit: [5/26/1910 – 3/25/1998]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1925    quarterly conference license, Balsbaugh’s United Christian Church

1928    annual license, United Christian Church

1931    ordained, United Christian Church

1938    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1941    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: New Holland UMC Church Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 338

 

1938                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Church

1938-48           Iona

1948-60           New Holland

1960-76           Harrisburg First

1976                retired

 

Note: Russel E. Etter is a brother to Robert W. Etter.

 

 

ETTER, SAMUEL R. JR.

 

Born: 1-2-1823  Campbelltown PA                            married: Lydia Mark

Died: 9-20-1907  Reading PA                                                obit: [2/16/1821 – 10/30/1851]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Louisa Killinger

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/3/1833 – 5/23/1912]

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1873    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 36

 

1869-71           Pine Grove circuit

1871-74           Jonestown circuit

1874-76           Lehigh Valley circuit

1876-80           Landingville circuit

1880-81           Jonestown circuit

1881-86           Reading Zion

1886-89           Reading Salem

1889-92           Avon Zion

1892-93           Lebanon Memorial

1893-94           Tamaqua

1894                retired, living in Reading

 

Note: Samuel R. Etter Jr is the son of Samuel Etter Sr.  The middle initial of Samuel Etter Sr is not known, but it appears the church created the Jr-Sr designation to distinguish between the two.  The first wife of Samuel R. Etter Jr. is a daughter of George A. Mark Sr.

 

ETTER, SAMUEL SR.

 

Born: 2-4-1803  PA                                                    married: Susana Mary Fasig

Died: 2-?-1864 Massillon OH                                    obit: [1/20/1803 - 10/25/1847]

Miller-Raker #: 200

Fulton: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Marshallville Cemetery, Marshallville OH

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1860                expelled

 

Note: Samuel Etter Sr. is the father of Samuel R. Etter Jr.  He served as a local preacher.  The middle initial of Samuel Etter Sr is not known, but it appears the church created the Jr-Sr designation to distinguish between the two.

 

EVANS, A.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Amanda Bierly

Died:                                                                           obit: [1851 – 9/25/1925]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

           

1874    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895                name erased

 

Note: The 5/21/1885 obituary of his daughter in the Millheim Journal, page 3, states that A.E. Evans “filled the pulpits of the U.B. church on this charge.”  His wife and daughter are buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Rebersburg PA.

 

EVANS, JOHN R.     

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died: 1863                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 54

Gibble list: no

           

1843    license, Allegheny Conference

1846    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843-44           Allegheny circuit

1844-45           Juniata

1845-46           Washington

1846-47           Shellsburg

1847-49           Liverpool

1849-50           suspended

1850                moved to Illinois

 

EVERHART, LORENZ [LAWRENCE]

 

Born: 5-6-1755                                                            married: Ann Mary Breckinbaugh

Died: 8-6-1840                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 58

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [EBERHART]

 

1805     license

1808    ordained by Francis Asbury

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown MD

Obit:

 

1812                November, Maryland and Pennsylvania while Spayth is in Virginia

1812                membership ceased, apparently joined the Methodist Episcopal denomination

1816                organized the Methodist class at Little Cove, Franklin County

                        see Foreman’s 1967 History of Little Cove, page 26

1817                German missionary, Carlisle District

1818                missionary

1819                missionary

1820                German missionary

1821                located

 

Note: Known in secular history for several acts of bravery in the Revolutionary War, his surname is also rendered Eberhart, Everhardt, etc.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography.  The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 228, gives an extensive biographical sketch.  See also Clark’s 1958 Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury, volume II, page 741.  He was the father of John Everhart (1791-1860), a UB pastor in Iowa discussed in chapter 17 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes and of Anna Margaret Everhart Larkin, wife of Thomas Larkin (1786-1852) of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

 

EVERS, ABRAM M.

 

Born: 10-2-1837  Rockingham County VA               married: Jennie Rhinehart

Died: 9-18-1918                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 23

Miller-Raker #: 489

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1861    quarterly conference license, Pleasant Grove (Augusta circuit, Virginia Conference)

1862    license, Virginia Conference

1863    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 79

 

1861                South Branch circuit, 6 months

1862-64           Rockbridge circuit

1864-65           Lacey Springs circuit

1865-66           South River circuit

1866-68           Boonsboro circuit

1868-70           Myersville circuit

1870-72           Hagerstown circuit

1872-75           Frederick circuit

1875-78           Martinsburg station

1878-79           presiding elder, South Branch District

1879-82           Churchville circuit

1882-86           Frederick station

1886-87           presiding elder, Potomac District

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-92           presiding elder

1892-95           Hagerstown circuit

1895-02           Hagerstown Grace

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Hagerstown Grace

1903-07           Marion

1907                local

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 293, and Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 163, give a brief biography.  He is the father of Samuel J. Evers.  His daughter Alice M. married Rev. D.E. Burtner of the Congregational Church.

 

 

EVERS, SAMUEL J.

 

Born: 7-?-1870  MD                                                   married: Katherine Edith White

Died: 3-21-1965                                                          obit: [1/21/1875 – 2/29/1964]

Miller-Raker #: 491

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1891    quarterly conference license, Frederick (Maryland Conference)

1896    license, Maryland Conference

1896    ordained [simultaneously], Maryland Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Stamford CT

Obit: see the biographical files

 

1896-1946       Glenbrook Union Memorial Church [Congregational], Stamford CN.

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UB

1923                transfer to Fairfield County Assoc of Congregational Churches and Ministers  1923,33

 

Note: He is the son of Abram M. Evers.  There was also a Samuel Evers (1830-1861) who entered the Virginia Conference in 1857.

 

 

EVERS, WILLIAM BURKET

 

Born: 9-21-1839  Rockingham County VA               married: Florence America Burhman

Died: 11-9-1920  Martinsburg WV                            obit: [7/25/1852 – 1/23/1937]

Miller-Raker #: 385 & 490

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1863    quarterly conference license, Whitesels (Rockingham circuit, Virginia Conference)

1866    license, East Des Moines Conference

1869    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg WV

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921,66

 

1862-63           Franklin circuit

1863-65           Big Grove circuit, East Des Moines Conference

1865-66           Winchester circuit

1866-67           New Holland, East Pennsylvania Conference

1867                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68           Mount Joy

1868-70           Shamokin

1870-71           Highspire

1871-72           Reading Otterbein

1872-75           Harrisburg Boas Street

1875-77           Phoenixville

1877-78           Greencastle, Pennsylvania Conference

1878                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 5

1879-80           Opequon, Virginia Conference

1880                appears to have located

1889                in Maryland Conference

1889-90           Keedysville

1893-94           Williamsport

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1903-04           Westernport MD, Virginia Conference

1904                local

 

 

EWIG, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 146

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license to exhort

1829    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1834                withdrew

 

Note: The German word ewig (everlasting) is pronounced “evich” – and so alternate renderings of this surname might be EVICH or EVICK or EVIG.

 

 

EWIG, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 111

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1822    license to exhort

1824    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: The German word ewig (everlasting) is pronounced “evich” – and so alternate renderings of this surname might be EVICH or EVICK.   

 

EWING, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

           

1869    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1871                name erased

 

Note: This may be Rev. John Wesley Ewing (1820-1886) born in PA and buried in Berkley Springs WV, the son of Rev. James Wesley Ewing (1786-1861) of the Central PA Conference ME..

 

FAHRINGER, REUBEN

 

Born: 3-29-1834  Roaring Creek Valley PA              married: Sarah Ann Keller [1851]

Died: 11-8-1915  Centralia PA                                   obit: [12/18/1833 – 9/12/1896]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1864    quarterly conference license, St. Paul’s in Columbia County

1870    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion United Methodist Cemetery, Aristes PA

Obit:

 

1878                name erased

 

Note: According to Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 365, Reuben Fahringer served “only locally or as a supply.”  He organized the Zion congregation in Aristes, where there is a memorial window to him.  He was a blacksmith and a wheelwright in Centralia.

 

 

FAIR, DELTON RAY

 

Born: 12-28-1891  Glen Rock            PA                               married: Mabel Blanche McNamee

Died: 7-10-1969  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 344

Miller-Raker #: 653

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1923    quarterly conference license, York Fifth [Messiah]

1927    license

1933    ordained

 

Interment: Jerusalem (Fissel’s) Cemetery, near Glen Rock PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 381 & 1979, 332

 

1923-24           Bendersville

1924-27           Wolfsville

1927-35           Springet

1935-38           Myersville

1938-55           Manchester (PA)

1955-60           Shepherdstown

1960                retired

    1960-64       Fetterhoff-Mount Union

    1964-69       associate, New Cumberland Trinity

 

 

FAKE, NORMAN I.

 

Born: 1-29-1889  Green Point PA                              married: Gertrude Rupp

Died: 10-11-1976                                                        obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf. 1983, 344]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Green Point

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1919    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 576

 

1912-14           Tower City

1914-16           Grantville

1916-17           Lebanon circuit

1917-23           Hopeland

1923-28           Avon

1928-30           Lykens

1930-39           Lebanon Memorial

1939-52           Lebanon Bethany

1952-58           Mountville

1958-60           Pine Grove

1960                retired

                            1960-64       Schaefferstown

                            1965-66       Shirk’s

                            1966-67       Shopes

                            1967-70       Shirk’s

 

Note: The dates for Mrs. Fake are 8/11/1889 – 6/15/1982.

 

 

FALSTICK, HOMER MELVIN

 

Born: 11-11-1907  Johnstown PA                              married: Bessie M. Dickert

Died: 9-24-1975                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 424

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    quarterly conference license, Johnstown First of the Allegheny Conference

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Congregational Church

1945    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 536

 

1929-32           student, Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA

                             1929-32      East Allentown Evangelical Congregational Church

1932-33           Northampton, East Pennsylvania Conference

1933                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1933-38           Northampton circuit

1938-41           Cressona

1941-42           Stillwater, Oklahoma Conference

1942-47           Shoemakersville

1947-48           Stillwater, Oklahoma Conference

1948-52           Elizabethville

1952-59           Middletown

1959-65           Linglestown

1965-67           Lititz

1967-69           Shoemakersville-Berne

1969-72           Hopeland (ending Nov. 1972)

1972                retired

 

Note: Homer M. Falstick is a brother to Kenneth M. Falstick.  Mrs. Falstick’s birth date, not given in her obituary, is 8/13/1896.

 

 

FALSTICK, KENNETH MYRON

 

Born: 7-4-1904  Johnstown PA                                  married: Mildred Dimond [1927]

Died: 5-2-2001  Westerville OH                                obit: [12/25/1905 – 6/?/1980]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 523

Gibble list: no

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Johnstown First

1929    license, Allegheny Conference

1936    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Blendon Central Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1929-36           at school

1936-39           Industry

1939-45           East Pittsburgh

1945-52           Industry

1952-54           without appointment at own request

1954-56           on leave

1956-68           local elder, living in Westerville OH

1968                no longer listed

 

Note: Kenneth M. Falstick is a brother to Homer M. Falstick.  His surname is sometimes rendered FALSTIC.

 

 

FARNSWORTH, JOHN THOMAS

 

Born: 12-15-1880  Bellwood PA                                married: Venia Lois Zimmerman

Died: 8-15-1953  Punxsutawney PA                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 44

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 408

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1913    license, Allegheny Conference

1919    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 23

 

1914-19           Ligonier

1919-25           Everson

1925-28           Rockwood

1928-40           Altoona Third

1940-46           Altoona Wehnwood

1946-48           East Freedom

1948                retired

 

Note: John T. Farnsworth worked as a machinist for several years before receiving a call to the ministry and attending Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH.

 

 

FARRELL – see O’FARRELL

 

 

FASICK, LUCIEN BANKS

 

Born: 11-20-1871  Mifflintown PA                            married: Emma May Mitchell

Died: 9-9-1921  Petersburg PA                                  obit: Central PA Conference (ME) 1913, 140

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Iva May Steele Eichelberger

Fulton #: 268                                                               obit2: Central PA Conference (ME) 1928, 744

Gibble list: no

                                                           

1895    license, Allegheny Conference                      

1899    ordained elder

 

Interment: Frankstown Cemetery, Frankstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference (ME) 1922, 127

 

1894-95           assistant, Concord circuit of the Central PA Conference of the ME Church

1895-96           Indiana PA

1896-97           Punxsutawney

1897-99           Orbisonia

1899-02           Fairmount

1902-03           Jenners Cross Roads

1903                Hollsopple Bethel (ending 6/25/1903)

1903-04           Gridley OH

1904-06           Fayette

 

1908-09           Windber

1909-10

1910-11           Coalport

1911-12           Dunlo

1912                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, ME Church (see CPC 1912, 92)

1912-14           Hopewell

1914-18           Rouzerville

1918-21           Frankstown

1921                Petersburg

 

Note: An obituary for Lucien Banks Fasick also appears in the 9/22/1921 Christian Advocate, page 1196.  He is a brother to Augustus S. Fasick (1867-1953) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.  The second Mrs. Fasick was the widow of a Mr. James Eichelberger.

 

FAUST, SAMUEL D.

 

Born: 11-24-1852  near Roxbury PA                         married: Josephine K. Clippinger (10/19/1875)

Died: 7-12-1929  Dayton OH                                     obit: [11/6/1852 -12/14/1879]

Miller-Raker #: 412                                                    married 2: Elizabeth J. Mower

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

                                                                                   

1882    quarterly conference license

1885    license

1888    ordained

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Mowersville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 16

 

1873-81           school teacher & farmer, Franklin County

1881-84           student, normal schools in Ohio

1884-85           Intercourse, East Pennsylvania Conference

1885-89           student, Lebanon Valley College

1889                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference  1889, 11

1889-92           Harrisburg Memorial [First]

1893                Hygiene CO, for health reasons

1893-26           professor, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1926-29           professor emeritus

 

Note: Samuel D. Faust is the father of Grace L. Faust Cridland, wife of Harry C. Cridland.  The first Mrs. Faust is a first cousin to John O. Clippinger.  The second Mrs. Faust is a sister to William Mower,

 

FEASTER, ROBERT K. 

 

Born: 2-28-1930  WV                                                 married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 712

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license, recommended by Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1954    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-56           Woodland Beach

1956-59           Boonsboro

1959-60           supernumerary

1960-61           Big Pool

1962-63           supernumerary

1963                local elder

 

1983-96           president, United Methodist Publishing House

 

Note: Robert K. Feaster is a 1951 graduate of Lebanon Valley Colleg.

 

FEGLEY, DANIEL LeROY

 

Born: 9-23-1901  Lykens PA                                     married: Mildred Woodside

Died: 4-20-1990                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 410

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Lykens

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1930    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 453

 

1924-27           student, Lebanon Valley College

1927-30           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

                             1929-30      Ivyland Presbyterian

1930-32           Allentown Zion

1932-47           Hummelstown

1947-67           Lancaster Otterbein

1967                retired

                             1967-70      assistant, Hummelstown Trinity

                             1970           transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

 

FEHL, HARRY LaFORCE SR.

 

Born: 9-7-1897  near Dillsburg PA                            married: Ruth E. Shettel

Died: 4-4-1973                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 144

Miller-Raker #: 617

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1922    license, recommended by York Third

1926    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 373

 

1922-46           Rayville

1946-52           Greenmount MD

1952-61           Windsor

1961-65           Quincy, also chaplain of the orphanage & Home

1965                retired

 

Note: Harry LaForce Fehl Sr. is the father of Harry LaForce Fehl Jr.  Mrs. Fehl is the daughter of J.A. Shettel, and a sister to Paul L. Shettel and Mrs. Mervie H. Welty.

 

 

FEHL, HARRY LAFORCE JR.

 

Born: 2-26-1919  York PA                                         married: Ruth Enona Brown [8/18/1943]

Died: 4-3-2009  Carlisle PA                                       obit: [4/25/1919 – 12/4/1992]

Miller-Raker #: 690

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Rayville

1940    license

1947    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1943-44           Mount Tabor

1944-45           Shermans Dale

1945-47           Wagner Chapel, Miami Conference

1947-50           Chewsville

1950-54           York Haven

1954-56           Winterstown

1956-60           Gettysburg

1960-63           Frederick

1963-68           Fishing Creek Salem

1968                without appointment

 

Note: Harry LaForce Fehl Jr. is the son of Harry LaForce Fehl Sr.  His last residence was in Carlisle.

 

 

FEIGHTNER, JOSEPH MILLER    

 

Born: 9-22-1875                                                          married: Mary Ann Summers

Died: 11-26-1930                                                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1942, 62

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 333

Gibble list: no

 

1902    quarterly conference license              

1905    license, Allegheny Conference

1909    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1931, 66

 

1902-07           Dunlevy

1907-12           Wall

1912-15           Kephart Memorial

1915-27           Somerset

1927-29           Pitcairn

1929                retired

 

 

FELIX, JOHN

 

Born: 11-8-1830  PA                                                  married: Susannah Young

Died: 9-12-1915  Windber PA                                   obit: [2/13/1832 – 5/5/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 143

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Allegheny Conference

1872    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmount PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 71 

 

1873-74           Path Valley, did not finish the year

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 10.

 

FELMLEE, JACOB

 

Born:  1800  Centre County PA                                 married: Mary Elizabeth Fohl

Died: 8-28-1885  Waterloo PA                                  obit: [2/19/1809 – 4/18/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 171 [FELMOLEE]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [FELMOLEE]

 

1832    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment: Waterloo Cemetery, Juniata County PA

Obit:

 

1832-33           Chambersburg circuit

1834-35           York circuit

 

Note: Jacob Felmlee was postmaster in State Line, Franklin County, 1838-43 and 1844-45.  This surname is also rendered FELMELEE, but it appears that the simpler FELMLEE is the spelling that continued into the next generation.  Mrs. Felmlee is a sister to John Fohl and Mrs. David O’Farrell.

 

  

FELTY, RICHARD G.

 

Born: 5-26-1941                                                          married: Joy _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 791

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license, recommended by Young’s (Cumberland County)

1968    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1968-69           Delbrook, ended 12/31/68

1970-75           Red Lion Zion, began 1/1/70

1975-83           Tyrone Christ

1983-88           Williamsport St. John’s

1988-98           Dallastown Bethlehem

1998-05           Mechanicsburg Mount Olivet

2005                retired

 

 

FERICH, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 7-21-1934  Lancaster PA                                  married: Jean R. Stutzman

Died: 1-13-2008  Myrtle Beach SC                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1954    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1959    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 402

 

1954-56           student, Elizabethtown College in Lancaster PA

                             1954-56      Newton

1956-59           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1956-57      Blanchester circuit

                             1957-69      Springboro

1959-62           Rocherty & Fontanna

1962-70           Steelton Centenary

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-73           Steelton Centenary

1973-81           Shippensburg Messiah

1981-84           York Messiah (ending 2/15/84)

1984-89           Middletown Evangelical (beginning 2/15/84)

1989-94           Carlisle Grace

1994                retired

 

Note: It appears that Jack Ferich did not officially transfer into the Central Pennsylvania Conference until 1979.

 

 

FERTIG, HARRY H.

 

Born: 8-6-1871 Lebanon County PA                         married: Emma L. Gross

Died: 4-5-1921                                                            obit: [5/27/1874 – 5/17/1935]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Kochenderfer’s Church Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 66

 

1910-14           Schaefferstown

1914-16           Pequea circuit

1916-19           Jacksonville circuit

1919-21           Lebanon circuit

 

 

FETTER, CHARLES WILLARD

 

Born: 2-6-1914                                                            married: Grace Hockley

Died: 7-2-2002                                                            obit: West Ohio Conference 1999, 381

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1934    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1941    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Lee Memorial Park, Fort Myers FL

Obit: West Ohio Conference 2003, 370

 

1934-35           student, Lebanon Valley College

1935-36           South Branch circuit, Virginia Conference

1936                transfer to Virginia Conference, page 23

1936-38           South Branch circuit  

1938-41           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1938-41      Residence Park

1941                transfer to Miami Ohio Conference

1941-44           Residence Park

1944-45           director of War Services, Church Federation of Dayton OH

1945                transfer to East Ohio Conference

1945-59           Akron First

1959                transfer to West Ohio Conference

1959-75           Dayton First

1975                retired

 

Note:  The 1941-90 sermons of C. Willard Fetter are on file with the General Commission of Archives and History in Madison NJ.  The collection is arranged by sermon number, as organized by Rev. Fetter. Each folder in this collection contains the sermon title, sermon number, and scripture reference.

 

 

FETTERHOFF, HIRAM RICKERT

 

Born: 5-11-1837  Franklin County PA                       married: Mary Ellen _____

Died: 8-13-1899  Baltimore MD                                obit: [d. 7/11/1882]

Miller-Raker #: 315                                                    married2:

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license

1863    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1858-59           Rocky Spring

1859-60                      Perry circuit

1860-61           located

1879                withdrew

 

Note: Hiram R. Fetterhoff was also a photographer and a physician.  He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869 and practiced medicine in Newville until moving to Baltimore in 1874.

 

FETTERHOFF, JOHN

 

Born: 9-9-1798                                                            married: Elizabeth Null [1821]

Died: 10-14-1882                                                        obit: [2/12/1803 – 11/23/1862]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Susanna Monn

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [2/21/1832 – 10/15/1901]

Gibble list: yes

 

1819    license

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1819-20           state of Ohio

 

Note: The Life of John Fetterhoff, an 1883 284-page hardback book, is shelved with the United Brethren biographies.  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren Church, page 729, credits John Fetterhoff with being a pioneer preacher of the St. Joseph Conference.

 

 

FICKES, VERNON MERLE

 

Born: 1-11-1927  Penbrook PA                                  married: Delores M. Darr

Died: 8-3-1999  Wheeling WV                                  obit: [b. 8/31/1936]

Miller-Raker #: 703

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1947    license

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit:

 

1943-47           student, Lebanon Valley College

    1945-46       Biglerville

1947-48           Shermans Dale, resigned 2/1/48

1948-51           military service

1951-53           living in Mechanicsburg

1953                withdrew  1953,68

 

Note: As of 2013, Mrs. Fickes was living in Mechanicsburg.

 

FICKINGER, EDWARD W.

 

Born: 1876  Dauphin County PA                               married: Anna F. _____

Died: 10-5-1964                                                          obit: [1876-1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1897    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Chelsea Cemetery, Chelsea OK

Obit: Oklahoma Conference (Methodist Church) 1965, 228

 

1907                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1907-10           Catawissa circuit

1910                transfer to North Kansas Conference

1928                transfer to Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1928-29           Moberly

1931                transfer to Oklahoma Conference

1939-40           Breckenridge

 

Note: Edward W. Fickinger was a local elder in the Evangelical Association when he transferred to the United Brethren Church.  He was the 1942 Prohibition Party candidate for governor of Oklahoma and received 0.47% of the popular vote.

 

 

FILER, THOMAS A.

 

Born: 6-14-1897  Altoona PA                                    married: June E. Walker

Died: 7-31-1993  Tyrone PA                                      obit: [1898 – 9/13/1979]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

1936   credentials as singing evangelist, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Altoona Mirror 8/2/1993, page 11

 

1937-38           singing evangelist, page 94

1943-44           singing evangelist, page 7

 

Note: There are newspaper accounts of Thomas A. Filer ministering in various churches throughout central and western Pennsylvania at least until 1958.  A 1916 graduate of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, he was locally famous as a blind artist and musician, and he worked as a self-employed piano tuner and was very active in the Altoona First UB church.

 

FISHEL, DONALD GARY

 

Born: 4-10-1937                                                          married: Mary Elizabeth Rickabaugh

Died: 3-18-2019                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Chestnut Grove [letter,  1964, 41]

1971    ordained deacon

1974    ordained elder

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 338

 

1964-66           Dillsburg Mt. Zion

1966-67           Gettysburg Salem

1967-70           Dover

1970-72           Cabin John MD, Baltimore Conference

1972-73           student, Wesley Seminary in Washington DC

1973-81           McConnellstown

1981-89           Valley View

1989-93           Waynesboro Peace

1993-95           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1995-99           East Prospect

1999                retired

 

 

FISHER, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 10-8-1861  WV                                                 married: Louisa B. Shamblen

Died: 5-16-1951                                                          obit: [12/11/1863 – 1/18/1933]

Miller-Raker #: 521

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            ordained, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita KS

Obit:

 

1902-03           Boonsboro

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference  1903,57

1903-04           Myersville

1907                open transfer  1907,66

 

Note: Charles W. Fisher later served in the Southeast Kansas and Kansas Conferences.  His find-a-grave website includes a good photograph.

 

 

FISHER, EDWARD JOHNSTON JR.

 

Born: 8-19-1938                                                          married: Phyllis _____

Died: 8-14-2021                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 780

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Carlisle Grace

1964    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 353

 

1960-64           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1964-65           Jefferson        

1965-67           Hagerstown Grace, assistant

1967-75           chaplain US Army, ended 12/31/75

1976-85           Warrior’s Mark, began 1/1/76

1985-94           York Grace

1994-01           Milesburg Curtin

2001                retired

 

Note: A least part of the time he was in seminary, Edward J. Fisher served the Caesar’s Creek Friends Church.  He retired to the Red Lion area.

 

 

FISHER, FRANCIS  

 

Born: 7-28-1844  Bath NH                                         married:          

Died: 9-11-1942  Otterbein CA                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2:

Fulton #: 188                                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no

           

1864    license, St. Joseph Conference

 

Interment: Pomona CA (?)

Obit: California Conference 1943, 47

 

                        Berrien Springs MI

                        Roanoke IN

…

1878                transfer to Allegheny Conference

                        Connellsville

1880-82           Greensburg Fourth Street [Otterbein]

1883-84           superintendent, Johnstown District

1884-86           Sacramento CA

1886                transfer to California Conference

…

1888-91           Feather River circuit

1901-12           Woodbridge

1912                Philomath circuit, Oregon

                        Hazel Green, Oregon

1921                retired to the Baker [UB] Home in Otterbein CA

 

Note: A picture and biographical sketch of Francis Fisher appear in Epley’s 1940 Seventy-Five Years for the Kingdom: A History of the California Conference, page 59.

 

FISHER, GUY DANIEL

 

Born: 3-19-1860  Pittsburgh PA                                 married: Carrie E. Angell

Died: 5-1-1910  Newburg PA                                    obit: [1862-1939]

Miller-Raker #: 560

Fulton #: 326

Gibble list: no

 

1901    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

            license, Minnesota Conference

            ordained, Minnesota Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 116

 

1901-03           Wycoff

1903-04           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1904                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904-06           McKeesport

1906-07           Johnstown Walnut Grove

1907-09           Spry, Pennsylvania Conference

1909                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1909-10           Newburg

 

Note: In 1914, the widowed Mrs. Fisher married a Mr. John Milton Strine (1851-1923).

 

 

FISHER, HARRY JACOB

 

Born: 2-20-1909  Richfield PA                                  married: Myrtle Florence (Peggy) Reid

Died: 12-26-1999  Johnstown PA                              obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 422

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Josephine R. Kriz

Fulton #: 521                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 343

Gibble list: no

 

1928    quarterly conference license

1929    license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Richland Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 361

 

1929-32           student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1930      Liverpool (4 months)

1932-33           Altoona Wehnwood

1933-36           student, Otterbein College & Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

                             1936      Hawker Reformed Church (9 months)

1936-39           Ligonier

1939-46           Pitcairn

1946-56           Wilkinsburg Christ

1956-70           conference superintendent     

1970-73           superintendent, Johnstown District

1973                retired

                             1973-82  chaplain, Arbutus Park Manor

 

 

FISHER, JOHN KLINE

 

Born: 6-1-1850                                                            married: Sallie E. Gettel [2/1/1877]

Died: 6-18-1890  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [1855 – 1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1875-77           Intercourse

1877-79           Mount Joy

1878-83           Annville

1883                withdrew

 

 

FISHER, JOHN WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-1-1900  Frederick MD                                married: Henrietta Prempert

Died: 12-4-1962  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [7/6/1896 – 6/7/1985]

Miller-Raker #: 634

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license, Frederick

1925    license

1932    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 49

 

1923-24           Wolfsville

1924                Bendersville, 1 month [ill health, see 1925,24]

1925-41           Walkersville

1941-52           Lemoyne

1952-62           Hagerstown Emmanuel

 

Note: John W. Fisher is the father of M. Eugene Fisher.  He was also a religious cartoonist who supplied materials for his church’s bulletins and newsletters, and for the Harrisburg Evening News when he served Lemoyne. The spring 1947 La Vie Collegienne of Lebanon Valley College notes that he “has for years been a contributor of religious cartoons to various denominational and interdenominational publications.”

 

 

FISHER, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927-33           listed

1933                referred

 

FISHER, MEREDITH EUGENE

 

Born: 1-22-1930                                              married: Arlene Shuey

Died: 1997                                                      obit: [6/9/1930 – 2/1/2015]

Miller-Raker #: 722

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950     license

1955    ordained

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1950-52           student, Lebanon Valley College

1952-55           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1955-56           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, assistant

1956-57           West Fairview

1957-60           Middleburg-Shiloh

1960-68           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1968                without appointment

 

Note: M. Eugene Fisher is the son of John W. Fisher.  After 1968 he lived in Harrisburg PA.  Some sources give his birthdate as 6-13-1930.  Mrs. Fisher is a 1951 graduate of Lebanon Valley College who taught music and played violin in the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra for 25 years.

 

 

FISHER, WILBUR RAYMOND     

 

Born: 4-17-1906  Mapleton Depot PA                       married: Ruth Naomi Moses

Died: 9-28-1973  Hershey PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 428

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1934    quarterly conference license, Altoona Garden Heights

1936    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Garden Heights

1940    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Mapleton Depot PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 419

 

1936-40           Altoona Wehnwood

1940                Beaver Falls (resigned 9/26/1940)

1940-45           Shanksville – Central City (beginning 9/28/40)

1945-48           Beaver Falls

1948-51           Bellefonte Grace

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

1951-53           Bellefonte Grace

1953-58           Mechanicsburg Grace

1958-71           York Trinity

1971                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Fisher is the daughter of James C. Moses.

 

 

FLECK, DAVID

 

Born: 2-27-1791                                                          married: Magdalene Miller [6/17/1820]

Died: 2-17-1842                                                          obit: [1791 – 1866]

Miller-Raker #: 87

Fulton #: 19

Gibble list: yes

 

1817    license

1819    ordained

 

Interment: Kelly Family Farm Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit:

 

1819-20           Juniata circuit

1827-28           Juniata circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: David Fleck appears to have live in Path Valley, and he may have originally been from the Shendandoah Valley VA.  His daughter Karen Fleck Kelly married into the family in whose cemetery he is buried.  Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, gives a brief biography. 

 

FLEGAL, JOHN

 

Born: 3-31-1796                                                          married: Ann Nancy Hoover

Died: 4-18-1870                                                          obit: [8/25/1802 – 9/6/1879]

Miller-Raker #: 130

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [FLIEGEL]

 

1827    license

1830    ordained

 

Interment: Luthersburg Union Cemetery, Luthersburg PA

Obit:

 

1832    dismissed

 

Note: This surname is also rendered FLUGEL.  John was the son of Valentine Flegal.  The Chronicle for 2002, pages 31&48, gives information on the Flegal family.

 

 

FLEGAL, VALENTINE

 

Born: 8-10-1757  Frederick County MD                    married: Elizabeth _____

Died: 10-6-1838  Clearfield County PA                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: 46                                                      married2: Christina Sentzer [8/17/1774]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [9/1/1759 – 11/12/1831]

Gibble list: yes [FLIEGEL]

 

1803    license

1817    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1834                dismissed, page 34

 

Note:  Valentine Flegal is the father of Susannah Flegal Winters, wife of Thomas Winters, and of John Flegal.  The Chronicle for 2002, pages 31&48, gives information on the Flegal family – and their relationships with the United Brethren Goss and Kephart families.  Valentine Flegal reportedly was ordained by the Methodists in 1838 (Aldrich’s History of Clearfield County, page 511), but no supporting evidence of that claim can be found.  The maiden name of the second Mrs. Flegal is also rendered as Sensor.  Valentine Flegal is also the great grandfather of first cousins Martin Creighton Flegal (1871-1927) and Frank Porter Flegal (1874-1953) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.  This surname is also rendered FLUGEL.

 

 

FLEISHER, LEWIS

 

Born: 10-22-1830  Bernville PA                                married: Sarah Jane Harter

Died: 11-11-1908  Lebanon PA                                 obit: [1839-c1880]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1855    quarterly conference license, Millheim

1857    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1864    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 34

 

1859-60           Susquehanna circuit

1860-61           Highspire circuit

1861-62           Lebanon circuit

1862-64           Neffsville

1864-67           Myerstown

1867-68           Pine Grove circuit

1868-70           ?

1870                charter member of East German Conference

1870-75           ?         

1875-76           Union Deposit circuit

1877-78           Germanville circuit [Valley View]

1878-80           ?         

1880-81           Lebanon circuit

1881                Conewago circuit (Feb-Oct)

1881-82           Berks County circuit

1882-83           Landingville circuit

1883-84           Lehigh Valley circuit

1884-90           apparently living in Lebanon

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Lewis Fleisher is the father of Harry Fleisher (c1871-1959) of the Central Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church.

 

 

FLEMING, MERVIN ROBERT

 

Born: 4-13-1883  New Chester PA                            married: Estella Rexroth

Died: 6-21-1946  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [1888 – 1971]

Miller-Raker #: 536

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1905    permanent quarterly conference license, page 16

1906    license

1909    ordained

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 30

 

1903-04           York Princess Street mission

1904                 Bendersville (Mar-Oct)

1904-06           York Princess Street mission

1906                Spring Grove (Feb-Oct)

1906-07           no appointment (student, York Collegiate Institute)

1907-10           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1907-09      Carlisle circuit

     1909-10      Enola

1910-13           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

     1910-12      Englewood, Miami Conference

1913                York Fifth (July-Nov)

1913-16           Baltimore Salem

1916-40           Red Lion

1940-46           Chambersburg First

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 391, gives a brief biography.

 

 

FLICKINGER, JACOB

 

Born: 3-20-1782  Lancaster County PA                     married: Hannah Kumler [1814]

Died: 3-29-1844  Butler County OH                          obit: [10/12/1798 – 2/5/1892]

Miller-Raker #: 82

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1816    license

 

Interment: Millville Cemetery, Mollville OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1892, 9

 

1818                moved to Butler County OH, farmer & local preacher in Miami Conference

 

Note: This birth year also appears a 1781.  Mrs. Flickinger was the daughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Sr and the sister of Bishop Henry Kumler Jr.  She was also the mother of a bishop, for Jacob and Hannah are the parents of Bishop Daniel Kumler Flickinger.  The 1950 Koontz and Roush book on The Bishops, page 92 of volume II, gives information on Jacob Flickinger.  The Henry Kumler Sr. page gives more details on the Kumler family.

 

 

FLINCHBAUGH, FREDERICK

 

Born: 12-23-1789                                                        married: Mary Kindig

Died: 1-14-1866                                                          obit: [8/20/1788 – 1/20/1866]

Miller-Raker #: 204

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1841    ordained

 

Interment: St. Pauls [Mt. Lebanon] Lutheran Cemetery, Felton PA

Obit:

 

1845-46           Dover circuit

 

Note: Frederick was the driving force in the founding of Zion UB south of Red Lion.  He is a nephew of (i.e., not the same person as) the Frederick Flinchbaugh who gave the land in 1809 for Mt. Lebanon Lutheran & Reformed Church.  The Chronicle for 1996, page 130, gives a brief biography.

 

 

FLINCHBAUGH, JAMES EDWARD

 

Born: 2-8-1924  Dallastown PA                                 married: Jean W. Turner

Died: 2-6-2005  St. Marys OH                                   obit: West Ohio Conference 2007, 394

Miller-Raker #: 699

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license

1948    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: West Ohio Conference 2005, 353

 

1942-44           Mt. Olivet, supply

1944-47           student, United Theological Seminary

[1945-46          Middleton OH Maple Park, Miami Conference]

1947-59           Lynn MA Bethany, Congregational Christian Church

1949-50           graduate student, Harvard University

1950-51           chaplain, State Hospital  Dayton OH

1951-65           chaplain, Miami Valley Hospital  Dayton OH

                            [and lecturer in pastoral care, United Theological Seminary]

1966-67           Dayton OH Belmont, Miami Conference                  

1967                transfer to Miami Conference

1967-72           Dayton Belmont

1972-78           superintendent, Dayton South District

1978-84           Celina St. Paul’s

1984-90           chaplain, Flower Memorial Hospital  Sylvania

1990                retired

 

 

FLOOK, CYRUS F.

 

Born: 8-21-1866  Myersville MD                              married: Elizabeth Eby

Died: 8-23-1932  Myersville MD                               obit: [1870 – 6/22/1961]

Miller-Raker #: 492

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1891    quarterly conference license, Hagerstown St. Paul’s (Maryland Conference)

1892    license, Maryland Conference

1895    ordained, Maryland Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion UM Cemetery, Myersville MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 23

 

1892-93           Lacey Springs VA

1893                located

                        professor at Kee Mar College, Hagerstown MD

                        businessman

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Cyrus F. Flook was the historian of the Myersville Church and preserved much of its history.  He is the grandson of Joshua Harp through his mother Elizabeth Harp Flook.  His sister married F. Berry Plummer.

 

 

FLURER, FRANCIS GEORGE

 

Born: 1-22-1912  Philadelphia PA                             married: Rhea Celesta Stutzman

Died: 3-10-1990                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third

1944    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1946    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Stehman’s Church Cemetery, Millersville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 309

 

1943-45           Mount Carmel

1945-48           Lebanon West

1948-56           West Willow-Refton

1956-57           West Willow

1957-62           Highville

1962-71           Coatesville Grace

1971-77           Stehman Memorial –Green Hill

1977                retired

                             1980-82      Klinefeltersville

 

 

FOGELMAN, HARRY ELMER

 

Born: 7-3-1892  Lebanon County PA                        married: Rebecca F. Zeller

Died: 10-21-1978  Harrisburg PA                              obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 33

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Clara Myers

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1946    quarterly conference license, Kochenderfer’s

1946    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1950    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Kochenderfer’s Church Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 418

 

1942-53           Enders-Powell’s Valley

1953-62           Pequea circuit

1962                retired

                             1962-69  Enders-Powell’s Valley

 

Note: The second Mrs. Fogelman was the widow of a Mr. George Meyers.

 

 

FOGLE, BERNARD EIGENBRODE

 

Born: 6-13-1920  Frederick MD                                married:

Died: 7-9-2009  Gaithersburg MD                             obit:

Miller-Raker #: 723

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

1955    ordained

 

Interment: Wellers Cemetery, Thurmont MD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2010,?

 

1950-51           student, Lebanon Valley College

1951-52           Emigsville-Saginaw

1952-55           student, United Theological Seminary

1955-63           Jefferson-Greenmount

1963-69           Baltimore Third

1969                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1969-71           Baltimore Third

1971-81           Baltimore Fulton Avenue-Siemers Memorial charge

1981-84           Glen Burnie Messiah

1984                retired

 

 

FOHL, JOHN

 

Born: 6-7-1815  Franklin County PA                         married: Mary Ann Radebaugh

Died: 1-26-1901  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [3/5/1820 – 2/18/1897]

Miller-Raker #: 213

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1836    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1901, 20

 

1836-37           Clearfield circuit

1837-38           Washington circuit

1838-39           Chambersburg circuit

1839-40           Chambersburg station

1840-43           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1843-46           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1846-47           Chambersburg station

1847-49           Littlestown circuit

1849-51           Franklin circuit

1851-53           Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853                transfer to White River Conference

1853-67           non-itinerating local pastor and Sunday School worker in Indiana

1867                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68           Baltimore Second [English] and supply

1868-69                  York Springs

1869-70           Alto Dale [Mont Alto]

1870-71           Mercersburg

1871-72           Mount Joy, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872                retired

1879                withdrew

1890                member of Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1891-01           retired, member of Chambersburg quarterly conference

 

Note: Note: The 1868 assignments list Baltimore Second for John Fohl, but apparently he “traded” with H.A. Schlichter for York Springs before the appointments took effect.  After his retirement, John Fohl was involved with the controversy at Chambersburg Second [now King Street UBOC], the United Christian denomination and the UBOC [United Brethren, Old Constitution] denomination.  See Loyer’s 2000 Autobiography of John Fohl.  John Fohl is a brother to Hannah Fohl O’Farrel (wife of David O’Farrel) and Mary Elizabeth Fohl Felmlee (wife of Jacob Felmlee).  He his likely the namesake of Pennsylvania-born United Brethren local preacher Rev. John Fohl Wagner (1851-1931) of Kansas.

 

 

FORD, A.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

1891    “license” – Allegheny Conference page 20

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1890-93           Indiana (started in mid-year)

1893-95           Berlin

1895-97           Shade Gap

 

Note:  A.C. Ford served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  He later lived in Heilwood, Indiana County, and occasionally supplied United Brethren pulpits in the absence of the regularly appointed pastor.

 

FORTENBACH, G.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 20

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: G. Fortenbach is listed as being absent from the historic conference of 1791.  Nothing else is known about him.

 

FORTNA, IRA C.

 

Born: 5-22-1937  Denver PA                                     married: Janice Marie Ditterline

Died: 5-8-2013  Millersville PA                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1962    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Sunbury Otterbein

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1956-59           student, Franklin and Marshall College

                              1956-59     Newton

1959-62           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                              1959-60     choir director, Wayland Memorial Baptist in Philadelphia

                              1960-61     interim, Trotwood UCC

                              1961-62     interim, Ridgewood Heights UCC

1962-65           Allentown Grace

1965-70           Allentown Covenant [Grace and Calvary]

1970-72           Philadelphia East Allegheny

1972-75           Philadelphia St. Philip’s

1975-81           Philadelphia Faith-St.Luke’s-Snyder Avenue

1981-89           Stehman Memorial-Green Hill

1989-03           Georgetown-Mt. Pleasant

2003                retired

 

Note: Ira C. Fortna is the son of Ira R. Fortna.

 

 

FORTNA, IRA REUBEN

 

Born: 10-4-1899  Lebanon PA                                   married: Esther Marie Koons

Died: 5-23-1988                                                          obit: [1/14/1905 – 4/20/1998]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem          

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1988,7.16

 

1923-24           Williamstown

1924-25           Sinking Spring

1925-27           Grantville

1927-28           Bellegrove circuit

1928-31           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1931-32           Aristes

1932-37           Denver-Sinking Spring

1937-47           Coatesville

1947-48           New Holland

1948-49           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1949-54           Lebanon West

1954-59           Siver Spring circuit

1959-62           Sunbury Otterbein

1962-64           Lykens

1964-66           Orwigsburg Salem-Port Carbon Grace

1966                retired

 

Note: Ira R. Fortna is the father of Ira C. Fortna.  Ira’s father was a third cousin to Raymond Fortna.

 

 

FORTNA, RAYMOND D.

 

Born: 4-25-1900                                                          married: Miriam Herr

Died: 1967                                                                  obit: [11/16/1902 – 2/29/1992]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines IA

Obit:

 

1923-25           Cleona

1926-26           student, Dallas TX

1932                honorable dismissal

 

Note: Raymond D. Fortna’s father was a third cousin to Ira R. Fortna’s father.

 

FOUTZ, JOHN P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 231

Fulton #: 17

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839                expelled, “for deviating from the Doctrine of Bible & the Church”

 

 

FOW, DANIEL W.

 

Born: 11-10-1843                                                        married: Eliza _____

Died: 3-6-1912                                                            obit: [d. 1910]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1882    admitted on trial, Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1885    ordained deadon

 

Interment: Sunset Cemetery, Quincy IL

Obit:

 

1876-78           Philadelphia Ebenezer

1882                “transfer” to Michigan Conference ME

1882-83           Bloomingdale

1883-85           Fennville

1885-86           Monterey

1886-88           Banfield

1888-89           Shephardsville

1889-90           Winfield

1890                located

 

Note: Daniel W. Fow served this short-lived congregation for the East Pennsylvania Conference.  See Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 440.  Nothing more is known about this congregation.  He and a George W. Fow were recruited in Philadelphia 12/26/1863 for the 82nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E.

 

 

FOX, CHARLES JOSEPH

 

Born: 8-12-1906  Westmoreland County PA             married: Rebecca Hood

Died: 11-29-1992                                                        obit: [3/21/1908 – 4/9/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Betty B. Wendel

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1921 – 1989]

Gibble list: no

 

1931    quarterly conference license, Middletown [Westmoreland County]

1932    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Sewickley

1935    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown [Moreland County] PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 452]

 

1931-35           Sewickley (beginning 11/21/1931)

1935-39           Jefferson

1939-47           Johnstown Westmont

1947-56           North Braddock

1956-72           Altoona First UB [Trinity UM]

1972                retired

 

Note: Some sources list a single spouse: Elizabeth Feather [1909-1962].

 

FRANCIS, JOSEPH ELMER

 

Born: 7-14-1866  Union County PA                          married: Margaret L. Gross

Died: 10-25-1958  Dallastown PA                             obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 48

Miller-Raker #: 533

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    quarterly conference license, Mt. Carmel (East German Conference)

1896    license, East German Conference

1899    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Yoe

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 43

 

1896-97           Frackville

1897-98

1898-01           Susquehanna

1901-03           Jacksonville

1903-04           Harrisburg circuit

1904-05           Oakville, Pennsylvania Conference

1905                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1905-07           Oakville

1907-08           Hanover

1908-10           Fayetteville

1910-14           Yoe

1914-15           Lemasters

1915-16           local (assigned to Shermansdale, but resigned immediately after Conference)

1916-19           Newburg

1919-20           Winterstown

1920                retired

                             1928-32      chaplain, York County Home

 

 

FREE, ELLIS HARWOOD

 

Born: 10-10-1861                                                       married: Annie Mary Miller (1888)

Died: 1-17-1941  Earlton KS                                      obit: [1/14/1863 – 10/28/1914]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah J. Heilman Ewen (8/9/1916)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Kansas Conference 1945, 40

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:  Allison Cemetery, Allison IA

Obit: Kansas Conference 1941, 32

 

1899-00           York Springs, Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Thurmont circuit, Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 9/21/1902)

1904-05           Port Matilda, Allegheny Conference

1905-06           West Decatur, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Note:  Ellis H. Free appears to have served churches in the Pennsylvania and Allegheny Conference without being formally licensed or ordained, even though the UB Yearbook lists him as a member of the Allegheny Conference 1905-09 and 1911.  He reappears as a member of the Kansas Conference beginning in 1917 at Earlton and then serving various places until his retirement in 1936.  Ellis Harwood H. Free is the grandson of Peter Free and Naomi Lowe Free buried in Methodism’s historic Rock Chapel Cemetery near Shrewsbury PA.  The second Mrs. Free [nee Heilman] was the widow of a Mr. Albert Johnson Ewen (1862-1911).

 

 

FREED, JOHN D.

 

Born: 12-29-1817  Rockingham County VA             married: Phebe Jane Berry (1840)

Died: 8-8-1891                                                            obit: [d. c1857]

Miller-Raker #: 416                                                    married2: Elizabeth C. Rinehart (1859)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [2/23/1836 – 7/12/1883]

Gibble list: no

 

1850    license, Mehtodist Epoiscopal Church

1857    license, Virginia Conference

1862    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Wellers Cemetery, Thurmont MD

Obit: Maryland Conference 1892, 18

 

1857-60           Franklin

1860-61           Winchester

1862-63           South Branch

1867-68           Frederick

1869-71           Woodstock

1871-73           Tuscarora mission

1873-75           Potomac mission

1875-77           Tuscarora

1877-81                      Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1881-84           Frederick circuit [Walkerstown]

1884-85           Conestoga circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1885-86           Manor station, East Pennsylvania Conference (apparently did not complete)

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1887-90           Newburg station

1890-91           ?

1891                transfer to Maryland Conference

 

Note: J.D. Freed is the father of A.D. Freed (1850-1877) of the Virginia Conference.  John W. Wayland’s 1912 History of Rockingham County VA, page 267, says that in 1850 John D. Freed was a licentiate of the ME Church associated with ME preacher Benjamin Denton and his efforts to start an independent movement at Dry River.  The above death/obituary information is from the CD produced by the GCAH; page 21 of the 1898 Maryland Conference journal gives his death as 8-9-1890 in Shippensburg PA.

 

 

FREY, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 119

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1824    license to exhort

1825    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: See Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, for comments on FREY.  John  Frey appears never to have served an appointment, and he is last mentioned as being present at Conference in 1831.

 

 

FREY, PHILIP

 

Born: c1809  Germany                                               married: Leah Witwer

Died: 1856                                                                  obit: [5/28/1816 – 4/19/1884]

Miller-Raker #: 225

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [FRY]

 

1838    license

1841    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1856, 42

 

1839-40           Lancaster circuit

1840-41           Chambersburg circuit

1841-42           Lebanon circuit

1854                retired, relocated to Baltimore

 

Note: Philip Frey sometimes served as the German secretary of the Annual Conference.  This surname is also rendered FRY.  Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives a brief biography.  He had a son named Otterbein J. Fry (1845-1900) born in Scotland PA.  Mrs. Frey was the daughter of Jonas Witwer.  The widowed Mrs. Frey later married a Mr. John Huber (c1798-c1870) and a Mr. John Hassler (1812-1885).

 

 

FRIDINGER, IRVIN MYERS

 

Born: 12-31-1888 Bachman’s Valley MD                 married: Mary E. Kopp

Died: 8-8-1936                                                            obit: [9/11/1889 – 12/20/1981]

Miller-Raker #: 609

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916    quarterly conference license

1918    license

1921    ordained

 

Interment: UCC Cemetery, Manchester MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1936,21

 

1917-18           Wolfsville

1918-27           Baltimore Second

1927-29           Windsor

1929-32           West Fairview

1932-36           Taneytown

 

 

FRIDINGER, MERTIS VICTOR

 

Born: 12-5-1894  Hummelstown PA                          married: R. Irene Miller

Died: 1-9-1955                                                            obit: [1892 – 1978]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Denver

1925    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1926    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Denver PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 33

 

1915-16           Lebanon circuit

1916-20           Intercourse

1920-25           Highspire

1925-28           Palmyra Second

1928-33           Millersburg Hebron

1933-46           Mountville

1946-55           director, Conference Audio-Visual Aids

                        1950-51  Highspire (8 months)

                        1951-52  Middletown

                        1952-53  Shoemakersville circuit (7 months)

                        1954        Rockville

 

Note: Mertis V. Fridinger is the son of William W. Fridinger and the brother of Paul E. Fridinger.

 

 

FRIDINGER, PAUL EARL

 

Born: 7-10-1897  Hopeland PA                                  married: Norene Mae Heilman

Died: 12-29-1966  Mt. Gretna PA                              obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1999,7.289

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1915    quarterly conference license, Jonestown

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Jonestown PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 129

 

1920-22           Grantville

1922-25           Royalton

1925-30           Lebanon Bethany

1930-35           Lykens

1935-42           Steelton

1942-49           Elizabethtown

1949-57           Millersburg Hebron

1957-59           Tampa First, Florida Conference

1959-62           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1962                retired

                             1962-65      Lebanon Ebenezer

                             1965           assistant, Lebanon Memorial and St. John’s-Pleasant Hill

 

Note: Paul E. Fridinger is the son of William W. Fridinger and the brother of Mertis V. Fridinger.  Mrs. Fridinger is the daughter of a Mr. David Heilman.

 

 

FRIDINGER, WILLIAM WESLEY

 

Born: 7-28-1862  Carroll County MD                        married: Amelia Susanah Wine Zepp

Died: 10-9-1916  Jonestown PA                                obit: [8/20/1858 – 10/17/1889]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Clara Estella Frank

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/29/1872 – 4/26/1948]

Gibble list: yes

 

1893    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1898    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Iona Church Cemetery, Iona PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 37

 

1892-95           Fishburn circuit

1895-98           Hopeland

1898-02           Schaefferstown

1902-03           Lykens circuit

1903-08           Reading Salem

1908-09           Allentown Sixth Street

1909-14           Denver Trinity

1914-16           Jonestown

1916-16           New Holland

 

Note: William W. Fridinger is the father of Mertis V. Fridinger and Paul E. Fridinger.  The first Mrs. Fridinger (nee Wine) was the young widow of a Mr. Samuel Uriah Zepp (1851-1875).  Following the death of William W. Fridinger, the second Mrs. Fridinger married a Mr. Francis A. Logue (1872-1934).

 

 

FRITZ, JAMES G.

 

Born: 3-9-1832                                                            married: Lydia A. Sankey

Died: 8-17-1892                                                          obit: [1837 – 1876]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rebecca E. Palm

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1834 – 1915]

Gibble list: yes

 

1854    license, East Pennsylvania

1857    ordained, East Pennsylvania

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East German Conference 1892, 51

 

1855-56           New Holland and/or Lykens Valley and/or Millheim

1856-57           Millheim circuit

1857-59           Lykens Valley

1859-60           Annville

1860-61           Reading Zion

1861-63           Myerstown

1863-65           Pine Grove circuit

1865-67           Schuylkill Haven

1867-75           ?

1875-79           Grantville circuit, East German Conference

1879-80           Philadelphia Fourth Street, East German Conference

1880                transfer to East German Conference

1880-81           Philadelphia Fourth Street

1881                Northampton circuit (Feb-Oct)

1881-82           ?

                        apparently transferred back to East Pennsylvania Conference

1882-83           Middletown (PA) station

1883-84           Paradise circuit (apparently did not serve)

1883                transfer to East German Conference

1883-85           Tamaqua

1885-89           Mount Carmel

1889-90           Shamokin

1890-92           Schuykill Haven

 

Note: For 1855-56, Gibble’s 1950 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference (pages 149, 172, 447) places him on three different circuits.  In addition, Battle’s 1887 History of Columbia County, page 316, credits Rev. Fritz “of Mt Carmel” with establishing the United Brethren Church in Montana [now Aristes] in 1871 – but this cannot be confirmed from church records at hand.

 

 

FRY, HENRY JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married: Catherine Cooper

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 71

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1814    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1815                transfer to Ohio

 

Note: The Frys moved from Loudoun County VA to Warren County OH 1815/16.  They followed the Blinn family, with whom they were heavily inter-married.  Ancestors of Vera Blinn, the Blinns were known for establishing United Brethren churches in Ohio and Kansas.  See Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, for comments on FREY.

 

 

FRYE, GLADYS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 382

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: “from Houserville”

1933    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Otterbein

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Miss Gladys Frye apparently never served under appointment.  She is otherwise unknown.

 

 

FULMER, JAY SHELDON

 

Born: c1936                                                                            married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1962    1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Ono

1963    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-66           Ono

1966-71           Intercourse-Mt. Tabor

1971-76           Mt. Tabor and Zelrenreich United Church of Christ

1976                voluntary location: East Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 461

 

Note:  In 2022, Jay Sheldon Fulmer was living in New Holland PA.

 

FULTON, ARTHUR BYRON

 

Born: 4-6-1901  Irvona PA                                         married: Hulda Ruth Bohse

Died: 12-27-1977                                                        obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 315

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 502

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1926    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: William Penn Gardens of Remembrance, Churchill [Allegheny County] PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 410

 

1924-27           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1925      St. Michael (3 months)

                             1926      Casselman (3 months)

1927-18           Hamilton OH, Miami Conference (beginning 1/1/1927)

1928-31           Jeannette

1931-32           Altoona Wehnwood

1932-35           Monessen

1935-37           Altoona Garden Heights

1937-40           Shanksville – Central City

1940-47           Braddock

1947-56           Altoona First

1956-69           Pittsburgh Lorenz Avenue

1969                retired

 

Note: A. Byron Fulton is a son of Walker G. Fulton, and the father of Western Pennsylvania Conference pastors Robert S. Fulton and Byron Tate Fulton.

 

 

FULTON, ARTHUR EDDIE

 

Born: 12-8-1838  York County PA                            married: Elizabeth Flinchbaugh (3/15/1861)

Died: 9-14-1916  Windber PA                                   obit: Allegheny Conference 1921, 97

Miller-Raker #: 354

Fulton #: 162

Gibble list: no

 

1868    quarterly conference license

1870    license, Pennsylvania Conference

1873    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1916, 72

 

1857-61           school teacher

1861-63           army

1863-69           school teacher

1869-70           York circuit

1870-71           Path Valley

1871-72           ?

1872                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1872-74           Liverpool

1874-76           Otterbein [Bigler]

1876-78           Clearfield

1878-80           Hollidaysburg [East Freedom]

1880-82           Cambria

1882-83           Somerset        

1883-85           Connellsville

1885-87           Washington

1887-88           Industry & Allegheny

1888-89           Industry

1889-91           Cambria

1891-93           East Freedom

1893-94           Mahoning

1894-97           Mahaffey

1897-98           Dunlo

1898-99           Patchenville

1899-01           Ligonier

1901-03           Hooversville

1903-04           Lloydell & Onnalinda

1904-06           New Florence

1906                retired

 

Note: Arthur E. Fulton is the father of James S. Fulton and Walker G. Fulton.  Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 3.

 

FULTON, JAMES S.

 

Born: 10-28-1865  Winterstown PA                          married: Flora A. Weigle

Died: 3-31-1943                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1942, 61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 246

Gibble list: no

 

1891    quarterly conference license

1892    license, Allegheny Conference

1895    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1943, 59

 

1891-93           Glasgow

1893-95           DuBois

1895-98           New Florence

1898-03           Madison

1903-07           Wilkinsburg

1907-27           conference superintendent

1927-33           director, Preacher Pension Fund

1933-37           Johnstown Westmont

1938                retired

                             1938-39  Johnstown Westmont (beginning 2/23/1939)

 

Note: J.S. Fulton is the son of A.E. Fulton and a brother to W.G. Fulton.  He is the author of the 1931 History of the Allegheny Conference.

 

 

FULTON, WALKER GLOSSBRUNNER

 

Born: 1-8-1876  Wallace PA                                      married: Jeanette May Zook

Died: 3-8-1953                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1942, 59

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 317

Gibble list: no

 

1902    quarterly conference license

1903    license, Allegheny Conference

1905    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1953,21

 

1903-07           Knoxdale

1907-11           Philipsburg

1911-13           East Pittsburgh

1913-23           Beaver Falls

1923-29           Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1929-37           Punxsutawney

1937-46           Madison

1946                retired

                             1947-48      Altoona Wehnwood

                             1952-53      Altoona Faith

 

Note: Walker G. Fulton is the son of Arthur E. Fulton, a brother to James S. Fulton,  and the father of A. Byron Fulton.  He was principal of schools in Irvona before entering the ministry.  Mrs. Fulton is a sister to pastors Joshua B. Zook (1868-1954) of the Mennonite Church and Leo Perry Zook (1881-1959) of the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Church.

 

 

FULTZ, CHARLES E.

 

Born: 1-20-1861                                                          married: Lydia Franklin Cooper

Died: 10-24-1931                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 33

Miller-Raker #: 467

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1895    quarterly conference license, Pine Grove (Rayville charge)

1897    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Rayville MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 20

 

1897-99           Greencastle

1899-08           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial
1908-25           Washington DC

1925-31           conference superintendent

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.

 

 

FUNK, ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

Born: 1-2-1848  West Newton PA                             married: Mary Gardner

Died: 8-13-1918  Westerville OH                              obit: Allegheny Conference 1919, 83

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 200 & 244

Gibble list: no

 

quarterly conference license

1882    license, Allegheny Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1918, 64

 

1882-84           Braddock

1884-86           Westmoreland

1886-87           Scottdale (did not finish the year)

1886                transfer to California Conference

1891                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1891-97           Altoona First

1897-05           East Pittsburgh

                             1899-00      Braddock Second

1905-07           Beaver Falls

1907-09           Connellsville

1909                retired

 

Note: A.L. Funk is a brother to William R. Funk.  Mrs. Funk is also an ordained member of the Allegheny Conference.  She is the daughter of Ozene B. Gardner (1831-1864) of the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

 

FUNK, AMOS MYERS

 

Born: 9-27-1888  Chambersburg PA                          married: Edith May Cormany

Died: 3-13-1972  Fayetteville PA                              obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 34

Miller-Raker #: 645                                                    married2: Alice Virginia Mickley

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 260

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Salem UBOC

1909    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1914    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment: Salem Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 390

 

1908-09           Mt. Pleasant

1909-12           Lemasters

1912-15           Franklintown

1915-18           Strinestown

1918-23           Shippensburg

1923-24           ?

1924-25           Salem-Oak Grove

1925-26           Greencastle

1926                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Church

1926-34           Lemasters

1934-37           Scotland

1937-42           Windsor (resigned 2/1/42)

1946-49           Biglerville

1949-50           Ortanna

1950-51           Ortanna & Marion-St. John’s

1951-64           Marion-St. John’s

1964                retired

     1964-70      St. John’s

     1970-72      assistant, St. John’s

 

Note: Amos is the brother of Bishop Ezra M. Funk of the United Brethren (Old Constitution) Church and the father of Timothy Funk of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.  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.

 

 

FUNK, BEULAH VIRGINIA

 

Born: 10-13-1877  Phoenixville PA                           married: [never married]

Died: 11-?-1907                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Kweilin, China

Obit:

 

1904-07           missionary, China

 

Note: Beulah V. Funk is the daughter of John B. Funk, and a sister to Clifford A. Funk and Ira W. Funk.  She arrived in South China in October 1904 died there after serving for three years.

 

 

FUNK, CLIFFORD ALTEMONT

 

Born: 11-10-1873  Deer Park MD                              married: Lena Hoefel

Died: 6-28-1953                                                          obit: [1877 – 7/18/1970]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    license

1912    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mountville Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 30

 

1912                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1912-15           Halifax

1915-16           Philadelphia First

1916-21           missionary, China

1921-25           Middletown

1925-34           Reading Salem

1934-43           Shamokin Second

1943-47           Highspire

1957-49           Highville

1949                retired

 

Note: Clifford A. Funk is the son of John B. Funk, and the brother of Beulah V. Funk and Ira W. Funk.

 

 

FUNK, ERASMUS PETRO

 

Born: 3-29-1848  Singers Glen VA                            married: Margaret Anne Jordan (2/3/1869)

Died: 11-13-1883  Baltimore MD                              obit: [1849 – 1938]

Miller-Raker #: 404

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, Virginia Conference

1875    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 21

 

1872-74           Page Valley

1874-76           Highland

1876-77           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1877-78           South Fork mission

1878-79           Potomac mission (did not finish; started at Shamokin in E Pennsylvania Conf)

1879                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1879-80           Shamokin First

1880-81           ?

1881-82           Halifax

1882                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1882-83           Baltimore Woodberry [Otterbein Memorial]

 

Note: Erasmus P. Funk is a brother to John B. Funk and the father of Louella Funk Bowman, wife of Edward S. Bowman.  He died in the Woodberry parsonage and was originally buried in the Stover Memorial Cemetery in Dauphin County PA.  He was later moved to the Mechanicsburg cemetery to rest with his wife, daughter and son-in-law and other family members.

 

 

FUNK, IRA WILHIDE

 

Born: 12-6-1879  Reading PA                                    married: Bertha B. Vogel

Died: 3-9-1958                                                            obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 111

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Reading Trinity

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mountville Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 47

 

1913-14           Berne

1914-16           Intercourse

1916-19           Coatesville

1919-21           Halifax

1921-22           Lebanon Hebron

1922-25           Lititz

1925-30           Elizabethville

1930-33           Cleona

1933-44           Florin

1944-47           Halifax

1947-49           Pequea

1949-51           Kochenderfer’s

1951                retired

 

Note: Ira W. Funk is the son of John B. Funk and the brother of Beulah V. Funk and Clifford A. Funk.

 

 

FUNK, JAMES JULIUS

 

Born: 5-21-1869  Liverpool PA                                 married: Mary Catherine Bretz

Died: 12-12-1953                                                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1941, 62

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 287

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license

1899    license, Allegheny Conference

1901    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, Perry County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 24

 

1898-99           Glasgow (beginning 1/31/1899)

1899-01           Industry

1901-05           Ligonier

1905-09           Woodland

1909-14           Westmoreland

1914-23           Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1923-27           McKeesport Shoemaker

1927-30           Somerset

1930-32           Youngwood

1932-39           Huntingdon

1939-43           Ligonier

1943                retired

                             1944-46      Dunlevy

 

FUNK, JOHN BELLE

 

Born: 12-30-1845  Singers Glen VA                          married: Sarah E. Wilhide (1/21/1873)

Died: 4-22-1933  Cleona PA                                      obit: [3/23/1853 – 6/11/1924]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    quarterly conference license, recommended by Lacy Springs circuit

1871    license, Virginia Conference

1874    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Mountville Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 15

 

1870-71           Page Valley

1871-72           South Forks

1872-73           Mechanicstown [Thurmont] MD

1873-75           Deer Park MD

1875-77           Chewsville MD

1877-78           Phoenixville PA, East Pennsylvania Conference

1878                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1878-81           Reading Otterbein

1881-84           New Holland

1884-87           Columbia

1887-91           Lancaster Covenant

1891-92           agent, Bonebrake Theological Seminary

1892-93           agent, Lebanon Valley College

1893-04           local

1904-06           Lancaster Otterbein

1906-10           local

1910-11           West Willow

1911-12           Reading Memorial

1912-14           Florin

1914-15           conference evangelist

1915                retired

 

Note: John B. Funk is the brother of Erasmus P. Funk and the father of Beulah V. Funk, Clifford A. Funk and Ira W. Funk.  From 1893 on, he was essentially a local pastor.  The “appointments” listed are churches where he had a significant ministry during those times and essentially acted as the pastor.  A brief biography of J.B. Funk appears in Brane’s 1909 Historical Souvenir of the United Brethren Churches of Reading, page 32.

 

 

FUNK, MARY GARDNER

 

Born: 12-23-1860  Elwood KS                                   married: Abraham Lincoln Funk

Died: 2-15-1919  Westerville OH                              obit: Allegheny Conference 1918, 64

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 280

Gibble list: no

 

1892    quarterly conference license, Riverside CA

1896    license, Allegheny Conference

1900    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1919, 83

 

Note: Mary Gardner Funk is the daughter of Ozene B. Gardner (1831-1864) of the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  A.L. Funk is also an ordained member of the Allegheny Conference, and Mrs. Funk spent her ministerial career assisting her husband on his charges.

 

 

FUNK, WILLIAM ROSS

 

Born: 8-1-1861  West Newton PA                             married: Lottie Hamlin

Died: 11-3-1935  Lebanon OH                                   obit: Allegheny Conference 1933, 49

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 203

Gibble list: no

 

1880    quarterly conference license

1883    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1936, 57

 

1879-82           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1882-83           student, Bonebrake [United]Seminary in Dafton OH

1883-84           Industry

1884-86           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1886-88           Westmoreland

1888-92           Scottdale

1892-97           Greensburg

1897-33           publishing agent, United Brethren Church
                             1920-21      Greensburgf (resigned 7/1/1921)

1933                retired

 

Note: William R. Funk is a brother to A.L. Funk.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 12.

 

FUNKHOUSER, DANIEL COFFMAN

 

Born: 2-18-1809  Shenandoah County VA                married: Susanna Sherk

Died: 8-31-1869                                                          obit: [12/15/1802 – 7/1/1897]

Miller-Raker #: 190

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 23

 

1834-35           Lancaster circuit

1835-37           Dauphin circuit

1837-38           Carlisle circuit

1838-40                      Lancaster circuit

1841                transfer to Virginia Conference, page 46

1847                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1847-49           Highspire circuit

1858                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 378, reports: “He traveled circuits for 6 years before his health broke.  Although he never returned to itinerant work, he served as a local preacher, speaking as often as 100 times a year.”  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 293, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 135, give a brief biography.  Chapter 3 of the 1911 denominational study guide Our Heroes vol 2 discusses Daniel Funkhouser and gives a picture.  The 1858 Autobiography of Samuel Huber, beginning on page 225, gives an extended biographical sketch.  Daniel’s son Benjamin was the father of Mrs. William Washinger.  Daniel C. Coffman is a second-cousin to the father of George A. Funkhouser.

 

FUNKHOUSER, GEORGE ABSALOM     

 

Born: 6-7-1841  Mount Jackson VA                          married: Susan Margaret Kumler      

Died: 7-30-1927  Dayton OH                                     obit: Miami Ohio Conference 1928, 34

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 149

Gibble list: no

 

           

1870    license, Allegheny Conference

1871    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1927, 77

 

1868-71           Student, Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh PA

     1870-71      Greensburg

1871-12           faculty, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

1912                retired

 

Note: George A. Funkhouser is a second-cousin once-removed to Daniel C. Coffman.  He was elected bishop in 1893, but declined the office in favor of remaining at the Seminary to train others.  Mrs. Funkhouser is the daughter of Daniel C. Kumler (1807-1882) of the Miami Ohio Conference and granddaughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Sr.  The Henry Kumler Sr. page gives more details on the Kumler family.  The brother of George Absalom Funkhouse is married to the sister of George H. Snapp.  Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 8.

 

GABEL, HENRY S.

 

Born: 7-31-1860  Lebanon PA                                   married: Christie S. Bowers

Died: 4-29-1914  Mount Joy PA                                obit: [5/25/1868 – 8/26/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Isabella “Belle” Barr [1893]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 24

Gibble list: yes

 

1882    license, East German Conference

1885    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 33

 

1881-84           Catawissa circuit

1884-85           Philadelphia Port Richmond St. Paul’s mission

1885-87           Pinegrove

1887-89           Lykens Valley circuit

1889-94           Lebanon Salem

1894-01           superintendent, Conference

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-05           superintendent, Eastern District

1905-13           general secretary, United Brethren Church Erection Society

1913-14           Mount Joy station

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 475, gives a brief biography.  He is the father of Sue Gael Martin, wife of Lloyd Martin.

 

 

GABLE, HENRY EUGENE

 

Born: 1-8-1926  York PA                                           married: Audrey Kauffman

Died: 10-7-2015  Lewisburg PA                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 257

Miller-Raker #: 792

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license

1965    ordained

 

Interment: Stony Brook Mennonite Church Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 261

 

1961-64           Rohrersville

1954-69           Yoe Salem

1969-81           Hughesville Bethany

1981-87           Lewisburg St. Paul’s

1987-90           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1990-92           Elizabethville

1992                retired

                            2001-10       Clarkstown

 

Note: Henry Gable is the son of Walter Harry Gable and brother of Gladys Gable Lauver, wife of Marlin H. Lauver.

 

 

GABLE, JOHN HENRY 

 

Born: 4-25-1916  Lebanon PA                                   married: Mildred M. Hartman

Died: 10-7-1966  Reading PA                                                obit: [4/1/1915 – 5/4/2004]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1938    license, Illinois Conference

1939    ordained, Illinois Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer [Covenant Greenwood] Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 126

 

1937-40           Prairie Chapel, Farmer City IL

1940-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1940-44      Lebanon Ebenezer, East Pennsylvania Conference

1944                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1944-45           Reading Zion

1945-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-55           Florin

1955-56           Columbia

1956-65           Iona

1965                retired

 

Note: John H. Gable is a nephew of Martin L. Gable.  Mrs. Gable is listed as a surviving spouse in the 1969 Eastern Conference, but not in the 1970 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference following the merger – and at some point she appears to have remarried to a Mr. Davis.

 

 

GABLE, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 1890 Union Waterworks PA                            married: Helen _____

Died: 6-16-1969  Phoenix AZ                                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Hebron

 

Interment: Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix AZ

Obit:

 

1920-23           Intercourse

                        student, Wheaton College in Wheaton IL

                        joined the ministry of the Congregational Church

1927-29           Dwight IL

                        Mendota IL

1951-57           Phoenix AZ First

1957                retired

 

Note: Martin L. Gable is an uncle of John H. Gable.  He served in the East Pennsylvania Conference with a quarterly conference license under the category “others employed by the conference.”

 

 

GABLE, WALTER HARRY

 

Born: 5-29-1900  Manchester PA                              married: Mabel Ferrence Hursh

Died: 3-6-1974                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 412

Miller-Raker #: 740

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1929    ordained, Lancaster Conference of the Mennonite Church

1952    license

1954    ordained

 

Interment: Stony Brook Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 159

 

1929-52           Stony Brook

1952                transferred to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB Church

1952-54           Shermans Dale

1954-57           Oakville

1957-62           Dover

1962-63           Hagerstown Emmanuel, assistant

1963-68           Middleburg-Shiloh

1968                retired

                             1969-72      Freysville

 

Note: Walter H. Gable is the father of Henry Eugene Gable and Gladys Gable Lauver, wife of Marlin H. Lauver.

 

 

GAITHER, GOLDEN ALBERT

 

Born: 10-27-1927  Martinsburg WV                          married: Barbara A. Hess

Died: 9-7-2018  York PA                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 339

Miller-Raker #: 779

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license, Virginia Conference

1955    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 339

 

1955-59           Broadway

1959                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1959-61           Greenmount MD

1961-64           Baltimore Otterbein

1964-68           Dillsburg

1968-71           Mont Alto

1971-74           Mapleton yoked parish

1974-88           Yoe Christ

1988-90           Greencastle

1990                retired

                             1993-95      Jacobus (ending 11/5/1995)

                             1995-96      Airville McKendree (11/5/1995 – 2/29/1996)

                             1996           New Freedom Trinity (beginning 5/1/1996)

 

 

GALLAGER, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1843?                                                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: 226

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [GALLAGHER]

 

1838    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843                expelled

 

Note: James Gallagher was a trustee of the Methodist building at Second and South Streets in Harrisburg from its erection in 1820 until its sale in 1839 to the United Brethren – to which denomination he then switched.  See Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 194.

 

 

GALLOWAY, WILLIAM T.

 

Born: 1850                                                                  married: Nancy Jane Stiffler [6/28/1881]

Died: 6-17-1927  Norristown PA                               obit: [10-1-1852 – 1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 178

Gibble list: no

 

1876    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Norristown PA

Obit:

 

1874-78           student, Western Pennsylvania Classical and Scientific Institute in Mt. Pleasant PA

     1874-77      Braddock Jones Avenue

     1877           Donegal Baptist (6 months)

1879                withdrew

1881                Donegal Baptist (Apr 1 – Sept 1)

1881-82           student, Bucknell University

1882-84           student Crozier Seminary

1884-89           Berwick PA

1889-92           Bloomsburg PA

                        Blakely PA

       -1912        Center Square PA

1912-               Old Bridge NJ

 

 

Note: William T. Galloway received a license from the Allegheny Conference.  He apparently was committed to the Baptist denomination and functioned essentially as a supply pastor for the United Brethren while he attended school.  The Western Classical and Scientific Institute was a Baptist institution that took over the buildings of the United Brethren’s Mount Pleasant College (1850-58) in 1871.  Mrs. Galloway is reported to be a sister to four brothers who were pastors and two sisters who were missionaries – including  Baptist preachers James M. Stiffler and  William H. Stiffler.

 

GAMBLER, URIAH

 

Born: 1-3-1841  Berks County PA                             married: Susan E. Baum

Died: 1-11-1920  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [5/31/1847 – 2/3/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    quarterly conference license, Allentown mission

1878    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 52

 

1878-79           Pine Grove circuit

1879-81           Middleburg circuit

1881-82           Susquehanna circuit

1882-85           Lebanon Salem

1885-88           Grantville

1888-89           Tamaqua

1889-90           Lykens Valley circuit

1890-91           Paxinos circuit

1891-93           Mount Carmel circuit

1893-94           Tower City

1894-95           Reading Zion

1895-97           West Lebanon

1897-10           unemployed for health reasons

1910-11           Lebanon Pleasant Hill

1911-12           Sinking Spring

1912                retired

 

 

GARDNER, JOHN CHARLES

 

Born: 6-24-1858  Dauphin County PA                       married: Sarah Katherine Bitting

Died: 5-4-1934  Mechanicsburg PA                           obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 33

Miller-Raker #: 423

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1885    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Otterbein

1887    license

1891    ordained

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 21

 

1887-89           Eschol

1889-91           Winterstown

1891                Duncannon (until September)

1891-92           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1892-93           Dayton Brookville, Miami Conference

1893-94           Miamisburg, Miami Conference

1894-96           Baltimore

1896-98           Path Valley

1898-01           Newburg

1901-03           Shiremanstown

1903-05           Duncannon

1905-07           Shippensburg

1907-09           Enola

1909-10           Greencastle & Marion

1910-11           supply

1911-12           Shepherdstown

1012-14           Gettysburg

1914-18           Bendersville

1918-20           Rohrersville

1920-22           Williamsport MD

1922-25           York Haven

1925-27           Spry

1927                retired

 

 

GARLAND, THOMAS

 

Born: 9-23-1847  Llewellyn PA                                 married: Lucinda Robinson

Died: 3-16-1925                                                          obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 66]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Penbrook PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 13

 

1872-74           Northumberland circuit

1874-76           Catawissa circuit

1876-79           Highspire circuit

1879-81           Harrisburg circuit

1881-83           Hummelstown

1883-85           New Cumberland

1885-87           Mt. Wolf

1887-89           New Holland

1889-90           Middletown

1890-93           supernumerary, living in Powell’s Valley

1893-95           Halifax

1895-96           living in Powell’s Valley  (apparently dealing with death of son William)

1896-98           Pequea station

1898-00           Springfield station

1900-02           Penbrook

1902-04           Mt. Carmel

1904-05           Lykens

1905-07           Williamstown

1907-10           Refton

1910-12           Cressona

1912-13           Harrisburg State Street

1913-14           living in Penbrook

1914-16           Florin

1916                retired in Penbrook

                            1917-19       Pleasant Hill

                            1919-21       Cleona-Pleasant Hill

 

Note: Garland Thomas served Pennsylvania Conference churches during the 1882-86 quadrennium when the Pennsylvania and East Pennsylvania Conferences met jointly.

 

 

GARMAN, J.D. ADAN

 

Born: 1-22-1818                                                          married: Louisa _____

Died: 10-4-1884                                                          obit: [1814 – 1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [G.D.A GARMAN]

 

1869    license, East German Conference

1876    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Kemmerling’s Church Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East German Conference 1885, 12

 

1867-69           Bellegrove circuit

1868                charter member of East German Conference

1869                Schaefferstown circuit

1869-71           Neffsville Long Memorial

1871-75           ?

1875-77           Hopeland circuit

1877-78           Harrisburg circuit       

           


 

GARMAN, JOHN

 

Born: 12-5-1825  Upper Strasburg PA           married: Margaret E. Ferguson

Died: 11-24-1901                                            obit: [3/6/1834 – 3/13/1913]

Miller-Raker #: 370

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1870    quarterly conference license

1872    license

1876    ordained

 

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 56

 

1872-75           Goldsboro mission

1875-77           Perry circuit

1877-78           Harrisburg circuit

1878-80           Carlisle Springs circuit

1880-84           ?

1884-87           Eschol mission

                        supernumerary, living in Shermans Dale

 

Note: John is the father of Sheridan G. Garman. A biographical sketch is given in the 1897 Biographical Encyclopedia of Juniata Valley, page 1103.

 

 

GARMAN, SHERIDAN G.

 

Born: 8-1-1866  Cumberland County PA                   married: Catherine L. _____

Died: 11-29-1912  Galesburg IL                                obit: Northern Illinois Conference 1916, 31

Miller-Raker #: 464

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1896    license

 

Interment: Linwood Cemetery, Galesburg IL

Obit: Northern Illinois Conference 1913, 65

 

1896-99           York Fourth & York Fifth (resigned during final year to attend seminary)

1899-01           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1901-02           Salem circuit part year, New Bloomfield circuit part year  1902, 12

1902                transfer to Wisconsin Conference

1902-03           Richland Center

1903-05           Van Orin IL

1905-06           Freeport IL

1906                transfer to Northern Illinois Conference

1906-08           Polo

1908-09           Freeport

1909-11           Bayliss

1911-12           Galesburg

 

Note: Sheridan Garman is the son of John Garman.

 

 

GARRETT, PHILIP H.

 

Born: 1870                                                                  married: Mary E. Felts

Died: 1915                                                                  obit: [1860 – 1906]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [GARRET]

 

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hanoverdale Cemetery, Dauphin County PA

Obit:

 

1889                Birdsboro Grace (Feb-Oct: short conference year)

1889-90           Pequea circuit

1890                expelled

 

Note: The Lebanon Daily News for May 20, 1890, states: ‘Rev. P. H. Garrett, the United Brethren preacher who is under indictment for forging the name of Adam E. Good, one of his parishioners, is out on bail. He returned to his circuit on the Welsh Mountain, and endeavored to secure a place to preach, but without success. He said he could convince his people that be is more of a saint than sinner. But the church doors were closed against him, and the Salisbury township school board refused him permission to vindicate himself in the Meadville school house.”  The Tyrone Daily Herald for October 7, 1891, states: “A Minister Sentenced. READING, Pa., Oct. 7.—Rev. Philip H. Garrett, an eloquent United Brethren minister was sentenced to serve one year in prison for swindling a friend out of $250. He trembled and wept as sentence was pronounced. Garrett pleaded that his salary was so small that he was unable to support his family on it.”

 

 

GARVIN, ARTHUR W. SR.

 

Born: 1-24-1902                                                          married: Mabel Snyder

Died: 1-4-1999                                                            obit: Baltimore Conference 1990, 415

Miller-Raker #: 650

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1926    license

1932    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1999, 603

 

1926-29           student, Westminster Theological Seminary

1929-32           faculty, Indiana Central College

                            1930-31       Harmony-Zion, White River Conference

                            1931-33       Needham IN, Methodist Protestant Church

1933-36           supply, living in Quincy (no apparent relationship with the Home)

1936-38           Middletown-Pleasant Valley

1938-62           Taneytown

1962-67           Rayville

1967                retired

1969                transferred to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Arthur W. Garvin is the father of Roland E. Garvin.

 

 

GARVIN, ROLAND EDWIN

 

Born: 7-1-1930  Indianapolis IN                                married: Sue Ann Thomas

Died: 11-12-2023  Dover township PA                      obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 270

Miller-Raker #: 724

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, recommended by Taneytown Messiah

1954    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2024, 337

 

1953-54           Good Shepherd, youth pastor, Miami Conference

1954-63           Newburg

1963-84           Manchester St. Paul’s

1984-90           superintendent, Williamsport District

1990-93           Yorkshire

1993                retired

 

Note: Roland E. Garvin is the son of Arthur W. Garvin.

 

 

GATES, LAFAYETTE MARTIN

 

Born: 11-28-1845  Cambria County PA                     married: Dionysia [Nish] Smiley

Died: 6-17-1932  Ottawa KS                                      obit: [6/16/1848 – 4/16/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 197

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Durant Cemetery, Durant IA

Obit:

 

1869                moved to Iowa

1880                moved back to PA

1881                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1881-82           Three Springs

1882-83           Cooksburg

1884                name erased

                        moved to Kansas

 

Note: In 1878 L.M. Gates was a farmer and local United Brethren preacher living in Cedar County IA.  He is a brother to Elizabeth M. Gates, second wife of Daniel Strayer.  Warning:  Lafayette Martin Gates is a contemporary to a different Rev. L.M. Gates who was a Presbyterian pastor in Ottawa IL.

 

GAUNTT, HOMER EDWARD

 

Born: 2-16-1907  Swayzee IN                                    married: Marian Esther Head

Died: 3-24-1977                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 411

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 509

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license, Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 259

 

1926-27           Bryant IN, Indiana Conference of the MP Church

1927                transfer to Allegheny Conference of the UB Church

1927-29           St. Michael

1929-31           Wilmore

1931-40           Houserville

1940-57           Clearfield Emmanuel

                             1942-49      Mount Hope

1957-72           Altoona Garden Heights – Lakemont

1972                retired

                             1972-75      Mount Moriah

 

Note: Homer Gauntt was also an architect and “drew some 50 blueprints during his lifetime for churches, social halls, parsonages, etc.”

 

GEETING, GEORGE ADAM SR.

 

Born: 2-6-1741  Germany                                           married: Barbara Snavely Berghman [1765]

Died: 6-28-1812  Keedysville MD                             obit: [1748 – 1802]

Miller-Raker #: 3

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1783    ordained (by Otterbein & Hendel)

1788    ordination validated, German Reformed Church

 

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery, near Keedysville MD

Obit:

 

1772-1812       Keedysville

[1790-1807      Hagerstown St. Paul’s]

1812                bishop (informally elected, he had already presided at several conferences)

 

Note: This surname is also rendered GUETHING.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 27, gives a brief biography.  George Sr. is the father of George Geeting Jr. and of Simon Geeting (of Ohio and Indiana, who also had a son Simon in the ministry) and of Barbara Ann Keedt Clopper, wife of John Clopper.  Some sources identify Mrs. Geeting as the former Elizabeth Detwiler.

 

 

GEETING, GEORGE ADAM JR.

 

Born: 2-27-1781                                                          married: Barbara Ann Bishop

Died: 2-5-1842                                                            obit: [9/28/1780 – 3/27/1847]

Miller-Raker #: 69

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1812    license

1816    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery, near Keedysville MD

Obit:

 

1819-20           presiding elder, Virginia circuit

1823-24           presiding elder

1827-28           presiding elder

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831-32           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

 

Note: This surname is also rendered GUETHING.  George Jr. is the son of George Adam Geeting Jr. and the brother of Simon Geeting (of Ohio and Indiana).  Barbara Ann Bishop Geeting is an aunt to James M. Bishop and Jeremiah P. Bishop – being the sister of their father, Littlestown layman Philip Bishop Jr.).

 

 

GEIGER, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 11-7-1850  Reading PA                                    married: Sarah E. Hildebrand

Died: 2-26-1916  Woodbury County IA                    obit: [1/?/1852 – c 1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1875    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids IA

Obit:

 

1870-73           Halifax circuit

1873-76           Columbia Salome

1876-78           Harrisburg First (did not finish second year, resigned 9/1/1877)

1878                transfer to Philadelphia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1878-79           New Holland-Bareville

1879-81           Marietta

1881-82           Guthrieville

1882-84           Hopewell

1884                withdrew

1884                St. John’s Episcopal Church in Compass, Chester County PA (May-Nov)

1885-87           Des Moines IA, denomination unknown

1887-89           Harlan IA, Congregational Church

 

Note: The Clinton Mirror [Iowa] for Mar 29, 1897, states: “Rev. John Wesley Geiger, pastor of the Congregational Church at Marion, who was expelled from the Davenport Association of Congregational Churches, has retained counsel and will bring suit in the District Court of Lynn county for libel and slander against the Davenport Association and those who preferred the charges,”

 

GEIGER, RUTH  see McDANNELL, RUTH

 

 

GEIMAN, MELVIN JR.

 

Born: 8-2-1918  Chambersburg PA                            married: A. Lorraine Burkhart

Died: 3-15-2002                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 257

Miller-Raker #: 700

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1941    quarterly conference license, Chambersburg Park Avenue

1944    license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue

1949    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Springettsbury township, York County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 359

 

1941-42           Middletown-Pleasant Valley

1942-44           Wolfsville-Big Pool

1944-46           Oakville

1946-48           student, Eastern Baptist Seminary

1948-52           Shermansdale

1952-82           York Fourth

1982                retired

 

 

GEISINGER, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1807                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 26

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1800 license

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1807, 5

 

Note:  Jacob Geisinger was present at the Peter Kemp house at the 1800 formation of the United Brethren Church.

 

GEISINGER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 73

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1813    license to exhort

1814    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: John Geisinger attended annual conferences until 1818 but did not itinerate.  When he appealed for an appointment or financial support in 1825, conference ordered “the secretaries shall give notice to Bro. Geisinger that they can do nothing for him.”

 

GEIST, CONRAD GROFF

 

Born: 2-13-1818  New Hanover PA                           married: Rachel Linderman

Died: 12-25-1883  Pillow PA                                     obit: [9/4/1818 – 1/14/1898]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1847    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, near Pillow PA

Obit: East German Conference 1884, 18

 

1853-55           Berks County circuit

1855-56           Lancaster circuit

1856                ill health, assists other ministers

 

Note: Conrad G. Geist is the father of Henrietta Geist Runk, wife of Jacob Runk.

 

 

GELBACH, HENRY H.

 

Born: 5-23-1825  Lancaster County PA                     married: Sarah _____

Died: 7-8-1886  Lebanon PA                                     obit: [11/11/1821 – 4/6/1887]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    quarterly conference license, Jonestown

1854    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1869    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East German Conference 1886, 12

 

1866-67           Bellegrove circuit

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-72           Lebanon Salem

1872-74           superintendent, Lebanon District

1874-76           Lebanon circuit

1877-78           Union Deposit circuit

1878-83           superintendent, Lebanon District

1883                Avon Zion (left in mid-year)

1883-84           superintendent, Lebanon District (started in mid-year)

1884                ceased active work due to ill health

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 454, gives a brief biography.

 

 

GEYER, GEORGE

 

Born: 6-14-1777                                                          married:

Died: 8-5-1859                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 180

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833 license

 

Interment: Florin PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 63, gives a brief biography.

 

 

GEYER, HARVEY KERCHER

 

Born: 9-2-1891  Florin PA                                         married: Naomi Longenecker

Died: 4-21-1962  Lebanon PA                       obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 539

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1915    quarterly conference license, Florin Glosbrenner

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Spring Creek Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 66

 

1917-19           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1917-19       Lebanon circuit

1919-22           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1919-22       Miamisburg OH, Miami Conference

1922-23           Miamisburg OH, Miami Conference

1923                transfer to Miami Conference

1923-25           Miamisburg

1925                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-51           Middletown

1951-59           Reading Salem

1959                retired

                           1959-62        Newtown

 

Note: Harvey K. Geyer is the father of missionary to Africa Janet Geyer Snavely [Mrs. John] and Rev. George Robert Geyer of the Presbyterian Church.

 

GIBBLE, PHARES BRUBAKER

 

Born: 6-3-1888  Lancaster County PA                       married: Pearl Beatrice Sherk

Died: 4-7-1976  Palmyra PA                                      obit: Eastern Pennsylvania 1986,VII.21

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1910    quarterly conference license, Mt Joy St. Mark’s

1911    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 132

 

1910-11           Green Point

1911-13           West Lebanon (started during 1910-11 year; see 1911, 6)

1913-15           Cleona-Pleasant Hill

1915-18           student, United Theological Seminary

                            1916             South Lebanon, Miami Conference

                            1916-18       Dayton Troy Street, Miami Conference

1918-23           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1923-46           Palmyra First

1946-53           Ephrata First

1953-57           Myerstown Zion

1957                retired

 

 

GIBSON, JAMES

 

Born: 10-1-1797  Cherryhill PA                                 married: Mary Griffith [6/1/1818]

Died: 12-20-1844  Cherryhill PA                               obit: [4/26/1801 – 5/3/1881]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 42

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Penn Run PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1845, 4

 

 Note: James Gibson apparently functioned as a local pastor and never served under formal appointment.

 

GILBERT, FREDERICK

 

Born: 9-24-1801  Chambersburg PA                          married:

Died: 1-23-1869                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 133                                                    married2: Lena Werner

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1822 – 1902]

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1831    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 24

 

1828-29           Juniata circuit

1829-30           conference itinerant

1831-33           Chambersburg circuit

1833-34           Baltimore County

1835-36           Huntingdon circuit

1836-37           Chambersburg circuit

1837-39           Carlisle circuit

1839-40           Chambersburg circuit

1845-46           Dauphin circuit

1861-62                      Shippensburg circuit

 

Note: Frederick Gilbert is a brother to George Gilbert.

 

 

GILBERT, GEORGE F.

 

Born: 9-12-1805                                                          married: Mary _____

Died: 5-2-1870                                                            obit: [12/6/1806 – 2/14/1875]

Miller-Raker #: 142

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1832    ordained

 

Interment: Shopp Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit:

 

1832-33           Huntingdon circuit

1833-34           Juniata circuit

1839-40           Frederick, Virginia Conference

1849-41           Hagerstown, Virginia Conference

1844-45           Chambersburg circuit

1845-46           Carlisle circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Lancaster circuit

1848-50           New Holland

1850-51           Dauphin circuit

1851-54           ?

1854-56           Northumberland mission

1856-61

1861-62           New Holland

1862-69

1869-70           living in Shiremanstown

 

Note: George Gilbert is a brother to Frederick Gilbert.

 

 

GILBERT, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1827    license to exhort

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

GILBERT, WILLIAM F.

 

Born: 1863                                                                  married: Mary Alice Freeland

Died: 1925                                                                  obit: [1867 – 2/22/1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 288

Gibble list: no

 

1899    license, Allegheny Conference

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Eschol, Pennsylvania Conference (resigned 10/9/1897)

1897-98           Mount Union (beginning10/9/1897)

1898-99           Mattawana (Mifflin County)

1899-00           Glasgow (Cambria County)

1900-02           Cambria

1902-03           Path Valley

1903-05           Mapleton

1905-06           no assignment

1906                honorable discharge

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1907-08           McKee’s Gap

1908-09           no assignment

1909-11           Centre-Sandy Ridge

1911-13           Port Matilda

1913-16           Glen Hope

1916-17           Glen Campbell

1917-19           on leave, living in Mapleton Depot

1919                withdrew to join the ministry of another denomination, page 38

 

 

GILCHRIST, FRANK B.

 

Born: 3-11-1909                                                          married: Emily H. Mull

Died: 11-?-1967  Tampa FL                                       obit: Florida Conference 2005, 297

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1929    quarterly conference license

1932    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by McKeesport First

1935    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Tampa FL

Obit: Florida Conference 1968,?

 

1929                McKeesport First (part year)

1931-32           Industry (beginning 5/7/1931)

1932-40           Beaver Falls

1940                Shanksville – Central City (resigned 9/26/1940)

1940-42           Beaver Falls (beginning 10/1/1940)

1942-60           Youngwood (ending 1/1960)

1960-62           Tampa First, Florida Conference

1962                transfer to Florida Conference, page 95

1962-67           Tampa First [Otterbein]

 

GILES, DANIEL M.

 

Born: 1830                                                                  married: Arishia Donely

Died: 9-21-1899  Altoona PA                                    obit: [1841 – 9/24/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 137

Gibble list: no

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1855    ordained deacon

1866    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [Altoona Mirror, Friday, September 22, 1899, page 8]

 

1853-54           Bellefonte circuit

1854-56           New Washington [Glen Hope – Cherry Tree – Susquehanna]

1856-57           West Branch

1857-58           Alto Dale

1858-59           Loudon Reformed

1866                “transfer” to United Brethren Church

1867                withdrew

 

Note: Daniel M. Giles was removed from the roll of the Mercersburg Classis in 1864.  He served on the Rock Hill town council in 1861 and was performing weddings in the Orbisonia area as early as 1864 and as late as 1884 – denomination unknown.  Various Methodist records refer to him as Daniel M. Giles, David M. Giles and David W. Giles.  After leaving the ministry he reportedly devoted his life to “educational work.”

 

GINGERICH, JOHN SIDEMAN

 

Born: 10-16-1819  Juniata County PA                       married: Elizabeth J. Wallis

Died: 11-17-1900  Pasadena CA                                obit: [1827 – 4/2/1905]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 91

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license, Allegheny Conference

1857    ordained, Kansas Conference

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena/Altadena CA

Obit: Neosho Conference 1901, 16

                       

1855                “transfer” to Missouri Conference

1855-57           missionary to Kansas

1857                charter member of Kansas Conference

1857-58           Prairie City

1858-59           Lawrence

1859-60           located

1860-61          

1861-63                      located

1863                chaplain, US Army (Mar-Sep)

1863-68          

1868-69           superintendent, South District

1869                charter member of Osage Conference

1881                charter member of Southwest Missouri Conference

1883                transfer to Osage Conference

1885                charter member of Neosho Conference

                        Los Angeles

 

Note: John S. Gingerich is a first cousin to Christian Gingrich (1810-1902) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association.  John’s father is a first cousin to Joseph Gingerich and to David Gingrich Jr.  His original license was actually issued by the Allegheny Conference in December 1854.  Fulton’s listing him with that Conference as “name erased” in 1860 is likely a confusion with Joseph Gingerich.  A biographical sketch of John S. Gingerich appears in the 2010 volume of The Chronicle, pages 16-30.  He is likely the J. Gingerich listed as an 1867 trustee of the United Brethren’s Lane University in Lecompton KS.

            John S. Gingerich’s brother George Washington Gingerich changed his last name to Kingery.  John S. Gingerich is an uncle to Lulu Martha Kingery Buell (1872-1952) [wife of Albert S. Buell (1875-1951) of the California-Nevada ME Conference] and Blanche Elsie Kingery Carroll (1873-1952) [wife of Charles E. Carroll (1877-1946) of the Wyoming ME Conference].

 

 

GINGERICH, JOSEPH

 

Born: 2-7-1802  Dauphin County PA                         married: Frances Stauffer

Died: 9-12-1872  Centre County PA                          obit: [1803 – 1873]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 53

Gibble list: no

 

1843    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Centre County PA

Obit:

 

1860                name erased

 

Note: Joseph Gingerich is the brother of Magdelena Gingrich May, wife of Frederick May, and is a first cousin to David Gingrich Jr and to the father of John S. Gingerich.

 

 

GINGRICH, DAVID SR.

 

Born: 11-22-1768 [or 12-13-1768?]                           married: Barbara _____

Died: 12-1-1849                                                          obit: [7/18/1773 – 5/?/1838]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1812    license [per Gibble]

 

Interment: Gingrich family cemetery, near Geyer’s Church in Dauphin County PA

Obit:

 

Note: David Gingrich Sr is the father of David Gingrich Jr.  He ministered locally in upper Lancaster and lower Dauphin counties.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 63, gives a brief biography.

 

 

GINGRICH, DAVID JR.

 

Born: 2-21-1802                                                          married: Mary Rider

Died: 9-4-1874  Mount Joy PA                                  obit: [7/14/1805 – 3/12/1891]

Miller-Raker #: 179

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Herr-Gingrich-Reider Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           Lancaster circuit

1847-49           Dauphin circuit

1849-51           Lancaster circuit

1851-52           Berks County circuit

 

Note: David Gingrich Jr is the son of David Gingrich Sr and is a first cousin to Joseph Gingerich and to the father of John S. Gingerich.  He was prominent in the Elizabethtown congregation – see Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, pages 94 & 95.   Mrs. Gingrich is a sister to George Reider.  The cemetery on High Street, across from the East High Elementary School.

 

 

GINGRICH, JAMES M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1915    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924                referred

 

 

GINGRICH, RAPHAEL AMMON

 

Born: 7-14-1909                                                          married: Velma Leota Aud

Died:  5-22-1996                                                         obit: [9/15/1911 – 8/12/2000]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: yes

 

1934    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Cleona

 

Interment: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Mount Vernon IN

Obit:

 

1936                transfer to Indiana Conference, page 23

                        “transfer” to Baptist Church

                        Calvary Baptist Church mission, Evansville IN

                        Pilgrim Baptist Church, Evansville IN

 

Note: Raphael A. Gingrich is listed in the denominational yearbook as a licensed preacher of the Indiana Conference living (serving?) in Montgomery IN for several years and then drops from the list in 1942.  The 1944 Evansville IN city directory lists him as a Baptist pastor.

 

GIPPLE, SAMUEL R.

 

Born: 9-4-1844  Dauphin County PA                         married: [never married]

Died: 11-24-1892                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East Pennsylvania

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery [Jackson township], Enders PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 32

 

1870-72           Susquehanna circuit

1872                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1872-74           Mount Carmel mission

1874-76           Manheim station

1876-77           Linglestown circuit

1877-80           Catawissa circuit

1880-82           Paxinos circuit

1882-84           Eschol Mission, Pennsylvania Conference

1884-86           Dover, Pennsylvania Conference

1886-89           Florin circuit

1889                 Pequea circuit (Feb-Oct conference year)

1889-91           Jacksonville circuit

1891-92           Ruhl’s station

 

 

GLASER, WILLIAM KARL

 

Born: 10-8-1939                                                          married: Jo Ann _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 776

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959     license, recommended by Greencastle First

1967    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-63                student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1959-60  Mt. Olivet-Mt. Zion

1963-67           student, United Seminary

1967-79           missionary, McCurdy School NM

1979                transfer to Kansas West Conference

1979-85           Hutchinson Trinity

1985-92           Phillipsburg

1992-02           Haysville

2002                retired

 

Note: William K. Glaser retired to Parker CO.

 

 

GLEN, JOHN STEWART

 

Born: 9-25-1889  Baltimore MD                                married: Elizabeth Barget

Died: 5-3-1983  Chambersburg PA                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 45

Miller-Raker #: 581

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1913    license, recommended by Baltimore Salem

1916    ordained

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 401

 

1913-16           Fayetteville

1916-22           Enola

1922-30           Shippensburg Messiah

1930-40           Chambersburg First

1940-49           Red Lion Bethany

1949-58           Baltimore Otterbein

1958                retired

                             1959-82      associate,Chambersburg First,

 

Note: John Stewart Glen is the brother of William Richert Glen.

 

 

GLEN, WILLIAM RICHERT

 

Born: 12-31-1884  Baltimore MD                              married: Ethel W. Greasley

Died: 6-4-1942                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 71

Miller-Raker #: 547                                                    married2: Mrs. Flora Schaeffer Schell

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Baltimore Salem

1909    license

1912    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 29

 

1910-14           Rohrersville

1914-20           Gettysburg

1920-26           Frederick

1926-27           leave of absence

1927-33           Baltimore Trinity

1933-39           Emigsville

1939-42           Wormleysburg

 

Note William Richert Glen is the brother of John Stewart Glen.

 

 

GLENN, FRANKLIN McCLURE

 

Born: 2-10-1870  Grafton WV                                   married: Cora Alice Shaver [1890]

Died: 7-2-1937  Grafton WV                                     obit: [7/18/1871 – 10/15/1933]

Miller-Raker #: 502                                                    married2: Gertrude Countryman [1935]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/2/1888 – 7/16/1945]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton WV

Obit:

 

1897-98           Kerens

1898-00           Mountain Lake Park MD

1900-02           Myersville, Maryland Conference

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Myersville

1903                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1903-07           Belington

1907-16           Parsons

1916                apparently left the United Brethren ministry

 

Note: Apparently F.M. Glenn was serving Myersville as a member of the West Virginia Conference and got caught in the merger of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Conferences.

 

 

GLICK, JACOB BOICE

 

Born: 7-11-1880  Lancaster County PA                     married: Nellie Cora McCreery

Died: 8-16-1953  Indianapolis IN                              obit: [10/26/1890 – 6/3/1985]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1913    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis IN

Obit: Indiana North Conference 1954, 100

 

1910-13           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1913-14           living in Roanoke IN

1914                transfer to St. Joseph Conference

 

 

GOCKLEY, DAVID WOODROW

 

Born: 10-9-1918  Lancaster County PA                     married:

Died: 3-18-2001                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Ephrata First

1942    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1945    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Colonial Cemetery, Westport CT

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2001,?

 

1945-48           director of public relations, Lebanon Valley College

1948-51           director of religious and social relations, Lebanon Valley College

1951-56           Philadelphia Second

1956-61           Philadelphia Council of Churches

1961-74           director of public relations, Religion in American Life

1974-78           executive vice president, Religion in American Life

1978-85           president, Religion in American Life (ending 1/3/85)

1985                National Education Network (beginning 1/3/85)

1985                retired             

 

Note: David Woodrow Gockley is a brother to Rev. Robert Witwer Gockley (1915-1973) and an uncle to Rev. Robert W. Gockley II, both of the Evangelical Congregational Church.

 

GOFF, WILLIAM JOHN.

 

Born: 6-8-1933  Broadway OH                                  married: Phyllis Jean Pardoe

Died: 5-2-2010                                                            obit: [4/14/1933 – 1/17/2015]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license, Ohio Sandusky Conference

1958    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB

 

Interment: Broadway Cemetery, Broadway OH

Obit:

 

1951-55           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1955-58           student, Evangelical Theological Seminary at Naperville IL

1958-60           Orbisonia

1960-63           Johnstown Ferndale

1963-65           student

1965                transfer to Ohio Southeast Conference

1965-67           social worker  

1967-               chaplain, Ohio Penitentiary

                        chaplain, Marysville Women’s Reformatory

                        York OH

                        visitation pastor, Westerville OH Church of the Master UM

 

Note: William J. Goff appears in this list because he served Orbisonia, a former United Brethren Church within our present conference boundaries.  Mrs. Goff is the daughter of Gerald L. Pardoe (1913-1989) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

GOHN, CLAYTON C.

 

Born: 5-7-1879  Red Lion PA                                    married: Lucy Sherk

Died: 3-30-1938  Greensburg PA                               obit: [1881 – 1956]

Miller-Raker #: 504

Fulton #: 485

Gibble list: no

 

1901    quarterly conference license, York Haven

1902    license

1905    ordained

 

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, East Harrisburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 63

 

                        student, Union Biblical Seminary

1903-04           Williamsport MD (starting 5/1/1903)  1903, 21

1904-08           Wormleysburg

1908-11           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1911-12           Akron, East Ohio Conference

1912                transfer to East Ohio Conference  1912, 56

1912-17           Akron

1917-18           Indianapolis First, White River Conference

1918                transfer to White River Conference

1918-23           Indianapolis First

1923-24           Johnstown First, Allegheny Conference

1924                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1924-31           Johnstown First

1931-38           Greensburg

 

Note: Clayton C. Gohn is the son of Jacob A. Gohn.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. J.A. Gohn.  The widowed Mrs. Gohn later married a Mr. Fenical.

 

 

GOHN, JACOB A.

 

Born: 10-2-1853  East Prospect PA                           married: Anna Mary Blockinger

Died: 6-14-1928  West York PA                                obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 31

Miller-Raker #: 448

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1889    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1891    license

1897    ordained

 

Interment: UB Cemetery, Spry PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 71

 

1891-94           Duncannon

1894-97           student, Union Seminary [Dayton OH]

1897                Joslin, Northern Illinois Conference

1897-98           Polo, Northern Illinois Conference

1898-02           York Haven

1902-07           Baltimore Third

1907-11           York First

1911-13           Spry

1913-14           Baltimore Second

1914-18           York Haven

1918-19           Mechanicsburg

1919-25           Dillsburg

1925-26           Boiling Springs

1926                retired, membership at York Third

 

Note: Jacob A. Gohn is the father of Clay C. Gohn.  He is the son of Rev. George Gohn (1819-1899), a local preacher in the Evangelical Church.

 

 

GOOD, DAVID JAY

 

Born: 5-12-1872  Dayton OH                                     married: Pearl Myers

Died: 11-30-1939  Klamath Falls OR                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1912, 91

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rachel Emma Applegate

Fulton #: 348                                                               obit2: [11/?/1887 – 6/15/1955]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1914    ordained, White River Conference

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery Klamath Falls OR

Obit:

 

1898-00           staff, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1906                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference

1906-08           Altoona Third

1908-09           Braddock Jones Avenue

1909-13           Braddock First

1913-14           Anderson IN, White River Conference

1914                transfer to White River Conferencea

1914-17           Indianapolis First

1917                transfer to Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1917-18           Indianapolis Fletcher Place and City Missions

1918-19           Hartford, Michigan Conference

1919                transfer to Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1919-20           Hartford

1920                (no appointment)b

1921                permitted to withdraw under charges or complaints              

1925                Dayton OH Patterson Memorial Presbyterian Church

                        school administrator, Klamath County OR

aIt is not clear whether this formal transfer of credentials was ever completed.

b"The case of D.J. Good was referred to the District Superintendent for investigation."

 

Note: David J. Good is believed to be the son of Rev. Solomon Good (1845-c1911) of the Brethren in Christ Church in Bachman OH.   It appears he preferred the form D. Jay Good while in the United Brethren Church, and David J. Good after 1917.

 

 

GOOD, JOHN DANIEL

 

Born: 1-29-1885  Harrisonburg VA                           married: Rachel Virginia Seneff

Died: 9-17-1968  Quincy PA                                      obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 28

Miller-Raker #: no                                                     

Fulton #: 415                                                              

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

1918    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 28]

 

1914-17           New Florence

1917-20           Hollsopple

1920-22           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1922-26           Mount Pleasant

1926-27           Scottdale

1927-31           Greensburg

1931-37           Altoona First

1937-40           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1940-51           Johnstown First

1951-57           Pitcairn

1957                retired

 

Note: John D. Good is a brother to William D. Good and Charles Martin Good (1876-1973), once a member of the Virginia Conference.  He was the host pastor for the 1946 uniting conference that created the Evangelical United Brethren denomination.  Mrs. Good is the daughter of Michael B.L. Seneff.  One source identifies Mrs. Good as the former Mrs. Grace Wentz, which we believe to be incorrect.

 

 

GOOD, MICHAEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1856                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference (manuscript) 1856, 72

 

Note: This may be Michael Good (5/1/1812 – 4/6/1855) buried in the Bareville Union Cemetery, Lancaster County PA.  A Michael Good was one of the founding members of the nearby Paradise church.

 

GOOD, WILLIAM DANIEL

 

Born: 6-23-1905  Middleburg PA                              married: Betty Romaine Smith

Died: 11-6-1982  Liverpool PA                                  obit: [7/27/1927 – 5/9/1999]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 472

Gibble list: no

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Middleburg

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Liverpool Union Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit:

 

1922-23           Dunlevy (resigned 10/29/1922)

1923-25           without appointment

1925                dropped

 

 

GOOD, WILLIAM DAVID 

 

Born: 10-10-1873  Dale Enterprise VA                     married: Mary Elizabeth Harrison

Died: 11-7-1952  Quincy PA                                      obit: [1/15/1890 – 9/30/1950]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 447

Gibble list: no

 

1900    quarterly conference license

1902    license, Virginia Conference

1906    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Shanghai Presbyterian Cemetery, Shanghai WV

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 21

 

1901-02           Albemarle

1902-06           student, Otterbein University

1906-08           Shenandoah

1908-09           Berkeley Springs

1909-11           Westernport

1911-12           Jones Springs

1912-14           Swoope

1914-16           Pendleton

1916-19           Riverton

1919                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1919                Westmoreland

1919-21           Ligonier

1921-22           Casselman

1922-24           Knoxdale

1924-26           Hooversville

1926-28           Rochester Mills

1928-34           Wall

1934-35           Altoona Garden Heights

1935-36           Zion

1936-39           New Florence

1939-41           Industry

1941                retired

 

Note: This middle name is sometimes given as DANIEL.  William D. Good is a brother to John D. Good and to Charles Martin Good (1876-1973) of the Virginia Conference.

 

 

GOODLING, ISAAC

 

Born: 8-15-1842  PA                                                  married: Catherine Gelnett [1865]

Died: 1-6-1918  PA                                                    obit: [1/?/1845 – 5/25/1906]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [J. GOODLING]

 

1882    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Freeburg PA

Obit:

 

1882-83           Albany circuit [Berks/Schuylkill County] (first part of year)

1882-83           Freeburg circuit (last part of year)

1884                dropped

 

Note: Isaac Goodling was a farmer near Freeburg, Snyder County PA.

 

 

GOODMAN, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 4-10-1855  Aristes PA                                      married: Mary Ann Harris

Died: 12-3-1932                                                          obit: [11/20-1860 – 8/27/1935]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1884    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Irish Valley PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 12

 

1889-92           Susquehanna circuit

1892-98           Catawissa

1898-07           Shamokin circuit

1907-10           Lykens circuit

1910-11           Berne circuit

1911-15           Catawissa circuit

1915-27           Tremont

1927-32           Shamokin circuit

1932                retired

 

Note: Benjamin F. Goodman is the grandfather (via son Burt Harris Goodman) of Chester O. Goodman.  Mrs. Goodman is the daughter of Mathias W. Harris (1837-1887) and brother of William S. Harris (1865-1956), both of the Evangelical Church.

 

 

GOODMAN, CHESTER OSCAR

 

Born: 11-28-1911  Sunbury PA                                  married: Martha Ruth Schaum

Died: 12-26-1957                                                        obit: [10/4/1912 – 6/6/1998]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Edna Marie Mewhirter

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/2/1927 – 1/30/1990]

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license

1931    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Irish Valley PA

Obit: [see biographical files]

 

1935-37           missionary, Freetown West Africa

1937-38           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1938-41           Hummelstown circuit

1941-43           Salem Englewood, Oregon Conference

1943                transfer to Oregon Conference

1943                Salem Englewood (ending 10/1/43)

1946-48           Salem YMCA

1950                withdrew

 

Note: Chester O. Goodman is the grandson on Benjamin F. Goodman.  He left the ministry in Oregon to become a high school teacher and coach. The information regarding a second marriage does not appear in all sources, and it may not be correct.

 

 

GOODWIN, WILLIAM M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, Walla Walla Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1891-92           Pullman

1892                transfer to California Conference

1892-93           Brooks

1893-94           Springfield circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (last part of year)

1894                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1894-97           Springfield circuit

1897-99           living in Blue Rock, Chester County PA

1899                honorable dismissal

 

Note: William M. Goodwin is listed as the statistical secretary for the 1892 Walla Walla Conference.  In July 1895, while supposedly serving the Springfield UB circuit, he is referred to as pastor of the Rock Baptist Church in Springfield PA.  In the 1930’s he may be serving a Baptist church in Illinois.

 

 

GOSS, HOWARD GARD

 

Born: 6-26-1892  Sanborn PA                                    married: Minerva Ida Smeal

Died: 1-17-1974  Philipsburg PA                               obit: [2/15/1898 – 4/6/1948]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Melva I. Kline Goss

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [9/23/1900 – 1975]

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Sanborn Cemetery, Sanborn PA

Obit:

                       

1932-42           Mount Hope (beginning 3/5/1932)

1942-60           Oak Ridge Union Church (Madera PA)

1960-64           Winburne EUB, Western Pennsylvania Conference

                         

Note: Howard Goss is listed in the United Brethren Church under "others employed" by the conference.  He worked as a shop foreman and was a member of the Sanborn church.  The second Mrs. Goss (nee Kline) was the widow of Mr. Raymond Roy Goss (1905-1929), a distant relative of Howard.

 

 

GOSS, ROY ALTON

 

Born: 11-8-1913  West Decatur PA                           married: Ethel Frances Shreiner

Died: 5-29-1984                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania (M) Conf  1946, 237

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Marjorie Jean Cook

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1935    quarterly conference license, Altoona Second

1936    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Second

1937    ordained

1941    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1943    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

 

Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Shelton CT

Obit: New York Conference 1984, 267

 

                        student, University of Dayton in Dayton OH

1936-40           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1937    East Pittsburgh (ending 10/25/1937)

1940-41           Birmingham, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church (ending 11/15/41)

1941                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conf (Methodist) -see Allegheny Conference 1941, 91

1941-43           Bakerton (beginning 11/15/41)

1943-46           Howard

1946-47           Flemington

1947-51           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1951-54           Hollidaysburg First

1954-60           chaplain, Valley View Hospital and Home for the Aged in Altoona

                             1956-59      Bakerton

                             1959-60      Hopewell

1960                re-admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1960-61           Petersburg

1961                Renovo

1961                transfer to New York East Conference East

1961-68           executive director, Methodist Home for the Aged in Danbury CT

1968-74           executive director, United Methodist Homes of CT, Inc.

1974-               president, UM Retirement Homes of CT, Inc.

 

Note: Roy A. Goss apparently never served under appointment in the United Brethren Church.  He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 490.

 

 

GOSSARD, GEORGE DANIEL

 

Born: 11-26-1868  near Greencastle PA                    married: Florence Elizabeth Huber

Died: 4-17-1932  Lebanon County PA                       obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 18

Miller-Raker #: 465                                                    married2: Ella Augusta Plitt

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: 1/21/1871 – 8/5/1959]

Gibble list: no

 

1888    quarterly conference license, Middleburg [State Line] (Maryland Conference)

1897    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 22

 

1897-99           Marion circuit

1899-02           Shippensburg

1902-12           Baltimore Third

1912-32           president, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 319, gives a brief biography.  George Daniel Gossard’s grandfather was a first cousin to John Franklin Tallhelm, whose mother was a Gossard.

 

 

GOSSLER, JACOB S.

 

Born: 12-5-1807                                                                      married: Margaret Moyer

Died: 4-26-1882                                                                      obit: [12/17/1808 – 12/9/1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

Note: Jacob S. Gossler served in the Reading area as a local preacher for 35 years while employed by the Philadelphia/Reading RR for nearly 40 years.  A brief biography appears n Brane’s  1909 Historical Souvenir of the United Brethren Churches of Reading, page 33.  This surname is also rendered GOSLER.

 

 

GOSWEILER, AUGUSTUS VAN HOFF   

 

Born: 8-3-1849  Shiremanstown PA                          married: Laura J. Fisher

Died: 2-22-1913  Manhattan NY                               obit: [1852 – 8/?/1937]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit:

 

1871-72           Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Allegehny PA

1872-73           New Holland circuit

1873-74           Steelton Centenary

1874-75           Halifax Otterbein

1880                withdrew

 

Note: Dr. A.V.H. Gosweiler is an 1871 graduate of Otterbein University in Westerville OH and an 1877 graduate of Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia PA.   His 3/15/1913 obituary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, page 846, states “for 30 years a practitioner of Baltimore County MD, and for 10 years resident physician of the Eastern Dispensary, Baltimore; a druggist of New York City since 1905; died in Bellvue Hospital shortly after a surgical operation.”  Van Gosweiler is the nephew of Daniel Eberly, his mother being the daughter of Samuel Eberly – whose wife was the sister of (Bishop) Jacob Erb .

 

GOTTSCHALL, LEWIS DOUGLAS

 

Born: 7-10-1894  Mount Carmel PA                          married: Mary Ann Parcels

Died: 1-25-1981  Oakland CA                                   obit: [2/13/1890 – 1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

quarterly conference license, Lebanon Trinity

1915    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit:

 

1916-18           Allentown Grace

1918-20           Linglestown circuit

1920-22           chaplain, US Navy

1922                withdrew

                        settled in California

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GOTTWALD, DANIEL

 

Born: 12-16-1793  Manchester, York County PA     married: Susan Mae Crouse

Died: 3-11-1843  Aaronsburg PA                              obit: [11/9/1801 – 7/17/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 121

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1830    license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination

1831    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination

 

Interment: Aaronsburg Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Aaronsburg PA

Obit:

 

1828-30           student, Gettysburg Seminary

1830                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination

1830-38           Petersburg [York Springs]

1838-43           Aaronsburg

 

Note: Wentz’ 1926 History of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, page 367, gives a brief biography.  Daniel Gottwald gave 3 sons, a grandson and a great-grandson to the Lutheran ministry – see Stump and Anstadt’s 1925 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod (Lutheran), pages 179 & 190.  Some sources give the name of Mrs. Gottwald as Susannah Crone.

 

 

GOTWALT, ALFRED KENNETH

 

Born: 2-8-1916  York PA                                           married: Beatrice R. Liek

Died: 2-17-2000  State College PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 408

Miller-Raker #: 725

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, recommended by Druck Valley

1960    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 343

 

1949-50           Mt. Olivet

1950-56           Mt. Olivet-Mt. Zion

1956-58           living in Hellam

1958-71           Orrtanna (beginning 1/12/1958; 1958, 59)

1971-86                      Buffalo Run

1986                retired

 

Note: Alfred Gotwalt is an uncle to Tina Rockwell, wife of William Keith Rockwell.

 

 

GRABILL, SAMUEL R.

 

Born: 1851                                                                  married: Eliza C. Sprecher

Died: 1933                                                                  obit: [1854 – 1/18/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit:

 

1877-78           Ephrata station, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: S.R. Grabill was apparently a local preacher.  He was instrumental in starting the Lancaster Covenant congregation in 1884.  See Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, pages 117-120.

 

 

GRAHAM, GEORGE LAVENGOOD

 

Born: 7-9-1870  East Springfield OH                        married: Jennie E. Miller

Died: 3-29-1927  Erie PA                                           obit: [1866 – 1936]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 296 & 422

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license, East Ohio Conference

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Toronto Union Cemetery, Toronto OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1927, 63

 

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1901-04           Philipsburg

1904-07           Altoona First

1907-11           Mt. Pleasant

1911                transfer to Sandusky Conference

1915                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1915-16           Philipsburg

1916-19           Wilkinsburg

1919                transfer to East Ohio Conference

 

Note: G.L. Graham is a 1900 graduate of Otterbein University.  Some sources give a death date of 5/24/1927

 

GRANT, JAMES G.

 

Born: 8-12-1832  Margate, England                          married: Sarah Chapman

Died: 2-12-1895                                                          obit: [1826 – 7/25/1895]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 113

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

1861    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: St. Peters Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church 1895, 65

 

1859-61           Allegheny

1861-62           Washington

1862-63           (not listed)

1863-64           Curwensville

1864-66           Ligonier

1866-67           Bellefonte

1867                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the “Methodist Church” [?]

1868-69           Hooversville Reformed

1870                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church

1870-71           Hooversville

1871-73           Zion’s Valley

 

 

Note: James Grant is reported to have credentials with the Pittsburgh Conference of “Methodist Church” dated 9/8/1868, but he joined the Reformed church in 1870 on his credentials from the United Brethren Church.  His obituary states “during the latter years of his life he was without a charge” and was “granted permission to engage in secular work.”

 

GRANTZ, GOTTLIEB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 257

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843                withdrew

 

 

GRAUL, AMOS W.

 

Born: 10-3-1831  Reading PA                                    married: Serena [Ella] Kern

Died: 12-5-1902  Pinegrove PA                                 obit: [1834 – 8/20/1886]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Elmira Kern Miller

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/18/1830 – 10/26/1907]

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East German Conference

1875    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Aulenbach Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 21

 

1870-71           Sunday School Missionary

1871-72           Middleburg circuit

1872-73           Susquehanna circuit

1873-73           Freeburg circuit

1874-76           Williams Valley mission

1876-77           Tamaqua station

1877-79           Swatara circuit

1879-80           Conewago circuit

1880-82           Harrisburg Otterbein

1882-83           Schuylkill Haven station

1883-89           superintendent

1899-92           Lebanon Glossbrenner Memorial

1892-94           Schuylkill Haven

1894-95           Lykens

1895-96           Ebenezer

1896-98           Mount Carmel

1898-99           located

1899-01           Pinegrove

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           Pinegrove

1902                West Lebanon and Memorial

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 454, gives a brief biography.  The second Mrs. Graul (nee Kern) was a sister to the first Mrs. Graul and was the widow of a Mr. Jacob A. Miller (1830-1882).

 

 

GRAYBILL, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 8-6-1850  Annville PA                                     married: Mary Virginia Moore

Died: 12-28-1938  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [12/25/1852 – 4/20/1886]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Adboretum, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1874-75           Steelton Centenary, East Pennsylvania Conference

                        “transferred” to the Presbyterian Church

                        Dayton OH Summit Street (12 years)

                        St. Mary’s PA Chiloh (25 years)

                        pastor emeritus, St. Mary’s PA Chiloh

 

Note: John H. Graybill is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh.  The surname on his gravestone is given as GRAYBEILL.

 

GREEN, JOHN ISRAEL

 

Born: 12-17-1884  Baltimore County MD                 married: Pauline Cassandra Fetrow

Died: 1-23-1960  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 383

Miller-Raker #: 546

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1907    quarterly conference license, Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1908    license

1911    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 43

 

1909-11           Sabillasville (did not finish 2nd year)

1911                Carlisle (May-Oct)

1911-13           Duncannon

1913-15           Lemoyne

1915-18           Baltimore Second

1918-20           Walkersville

1920-24           Thurmont

1924-38           York Third

1938-45           Mont Alto

1945-56           West Fairview

1956                retired

 

 

GREEN, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born: 7-26-1827  York County PA                            married: Elizabeth Heindel

Died: 8-20-1883                                                          obit: [3/4/1829 – 1/4/1906]

Miller-Raker #: 369

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1872    license

 

Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 21

 

1872-73           assistant, Littlestown circuit

1873-74           Path Valley (last part of the year)

 

Note: His obituary states he served primarily as a local pastor on York circuit.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. John R. Green.

 

 

GREENBLADE, HENRY

 

Born: 1804                                                                  married: Margaretta Bupp

Died: 7-26-1887                                                          obit: [6/23/1815 – 2/28/1893]

Miller-Raker #: 297

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1851    license

1860    ordained

 

Interment: Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City IA

Obit: East Des Moines Conference 1887, 14

 

1851-53           Dover circuit

1853-54           York circuit

1855                transfer

 

Note: The UB Yearbook places him in Columbus City IA in 1885 and Columbus Junction IA in 1887.

 

 

GREGORY, DAVID THOMAS

 

Born: 7-16-1889                                                          married: Margaret Lillian Broy

Died: 12-27-1956                                                        obit: Western Pennsylvania 1957, 27 & 31

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license, Virginia Conference

1920    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rosedale Cemetery, Martinsburg WV

Obit: Virginia Conference 1957, 15 & 18

 

                        West Frederick, Jones Springs, Shenandoah

1915-17           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1916-17      Lebanon Bethany, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917-20           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1920-21           associate editor, Religious Telescope

1921-22           director, United Enlistment Movement of the Board of Administration

1922-26           president, Shenandoah College

1926                transfer to Miami Conference

1926-36           Dayton Euclid Avenue

1936-37           superintendent, Miami Conference

1937-50           executive secretary, Board of Administration

1950                elected bishop

 

Note: Following the death of Samuel B. Wengert on 12/2/1916, David T. Gregory finished the conference year at Lebanon Bethany.  Mrs. Gregory is a niece to Martha Broy Snyder, wife of Josiah Snyder.

 

 

GRENZEBACH, JACOB C.

 

Born: 5-21-1871  Zorra, Ontario Canada                   married: Georgia Johanna Staebler

Died: 9-27-1931                                                          obit: New York Conference EUB 1955, 68

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 308

Gibble list: no

 

1900    license, Ontario Conference

ordained, Ontario Conference

 

Interment: Trinity UMC Cemetery, Grand Island [Erie County] NY

Obit: New York Conference of the Evangelical Church 1932, 49

 

1897-01          

1901-02           LaJose, Allegheny Conference

1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-04           LaJose

1904-06           Waukesha

1906-08           Dubois

1908                transfer to New York Conference of the Evangelical Association

1908-12           Grove

1912-17           Webster

1917-20           Amsterdam

1920-27           Syracuse

1927-28           Rochester Bethany

1928-31           Grand Island

 

Note: Jacob C. Grenzebach is the father of Rev. Eldon V. Grenzebach (1899-1938) of the Presbyterian Church.  An obituary also appears in the 10/31/1931 Evangelical-Messenger.

 

GRIER, JOSEPH A.

 

Born: 1853  Elverson PA                                            married: Emma C. _____

Died: 1935  Birdsboro PA                                          obit: [1855-1917]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: St. Mark’s Episcopal Cemetery, Honey Brook township, Chester County PA

Obit: Reading Times April 27, 1935, page 19

 

1894-97           Birdsboro Grace

1900-01           Elverson (beginning 7/1/01)

 

Note: Professor J.A. Grier was a local pastor within the Birdsboro congregation.  He taught school, for several years was associated with Stoner’s Business College in Reading, and served for 11 years as supervising principal of the Birdsboro schools.

 

 

GRIMM, FREDERICK

 

Born: 1-6-1817  Hopewell twp, York County PA      married: Barbara Sechrist

Died: 2-11-1888                                                          obit: [1/29/1811 – 7/6/1888]

Miller-Raker #: 259

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

1846    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Church, York County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 30

 

1848-50           Dover circuit

1850-52           York circuit

1852-53           considering transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference         

1853-56           Jefferson circuit

1856-58           York circuit

1858-59           York Springs circuit

1859-70           ?

1870-73           Jefferson circuit

1873-76           Dover circuit

 

Note: This surname is also rendered GRIM.  Benjamin Grim (1844-1923), son of Frederick Grim, was a carpenter in York PA who appears to have been a local pastor.

 

GRIMM, JACOB LUTHER

 

Born: 11-27-1842  Rohrersville MD                          married: Mary Ellen Harp

Died: 8-22-1905                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 33

Miller-Raker #: 406

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1867    license, Virginia Conference

1869    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 73

 

1867-68           Boonsboro circuit

1868-69           ?

1869-71           Rockingham circuit

1871-73           ?

1873-75           Chewsville

1875-80           ?

1880-81           Boonsboro circuit

1881-83           Baltimore Salem, Pennsylvania Conference

1883                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1883-84           Baltimore Salem

1884-87           Baltimore Scott Street

1887-89           editor “The Weekly Itinerant” & manager Eastern UB Book/Publishing House

1889-97           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial (resigned 10/1/1897)

1897-02           presiding elder, Baltimore District (beginning 10/1/1897)

1902-04           New Cumberland

 

Note: Jacob Luther Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to William Otterbein Grimm and John Wesley Grimm.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.

 

 

GRIMM, JAMES LOWER

 

Born: 4-12-1869  New Creek WV                             married: Lillie Mae Appenzellar

Died: 7-25-1933  York PA                                         obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 20

Miller-Raker #: 430

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1886    quarterly conference license, New Cumberland

1888    license

1891    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 21

 

1888-89           Greencastle

1889-91           Newville

1891-93           St. Thomas circuit

1893-98           Red Lion circuit

1898-01           York circuit

1901-02           York Fourth & York Fifth

1902-09           York Fourth

1909-16           Waynesboro

1916-22           Shippensburg

1922-27           Mt. Wolf

1927-33           Spry

 

Note: J. Lower Grimm is the son of John Wesley Grimm. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Grimm is the daughter of local preacher Henry Appenzellar.

 

 

GRIMM, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 6-24-1839  Rohrersville MD                            married: Elizabeth Catherine Hoffman

Died: 2-15-1921  York PA                                         obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 41

Miller-Raker #: 380

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1861    quarterly conference license, Rohrersville (Virginia Conference)

1863    license, Virginia Conference

1864    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 68

 

1862-66           Frederick circuit

1866-68           Churchville circuit

1868-69           Frederick circuit

1869-71           South Branch circuit

1871-73           Woodstock circuit

1873-75           Lacey Springs circuit

1875-76           Newburg circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1876                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3

1876-78           Newburg circuit

1878-80           Alto Dale circuit [Mont Alto]

1880-82           Shopp’s station

1882-85           Highspire

1885-89           New Cumberland

                             1887-88  Yocumtown (part year  1888, 15)

1889-90           Rocky Springs circuit

1890-92           Boiling Springs circuit

1892-95           Big Spring circuit

1895-98           Winterstown

1898-01           West Fairview

1901-02           Springet

1902-05           Spring Grove

1905-09           Boonsboro

1909-21           Judge Fahs Union Mission, York PA

 

Note: J. Wesley Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to William Otterbein Grimm and Jacob Luther Grimm.  He is the father of J. Lower Grimm and Nellie Virginia Grimm Shue, wife of Allen Clayton Shue (1880-1962) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Grimm’s sister is married to Rev. Abram S. Hammack of the Virginia Conference.

 

 

GRIMM, JOSEPH SAMUEL

 

Born: 5-8-1812  Rohrersville MD                              married: Sarah Huffer

Died: 3-10-1892  Rohrersville MD                            obit: [5/4/1817 – 2/12/1904]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Virginia Conference

1847    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rohrersville Cemetery, Rohrersville MD

Obit: Maryland Conference 1892, 18

 

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

 

Note: Joseph S. Grimm is the father of Jacob Luther Grimm, John Wesley Grimm and William Otterbein Grimm.  He never accepted an appointment and preferred to preach without compensation as the opportunity afforded.

 

 

GRIMM, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 7-14-1837  near Rohrersville MD                    married: Martha Ann Mullendore (3/16/1865)

Died: 8-24-1896                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 21

Miller-Raker #: 411

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license, Virginia Conference

1865    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rohrersville Cemetery, Rohrersville MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 36

 

1864-66           teacher of “freed men” at Vicksburg MS

1866-70           school teacher

                             1868-69      Boonsboro circuit

1870-71           Boonsboro circuit

1871-72           Potomac mission

1872-73           Boonsboro circuit

1873-75           Churchville circuit

1875-77           Rockingham circuit

1877-78           Edenburg circuit

1878-80           presiding elder, Potomac District

1880-81           Keedysville station

1881-82           Rohrersville

1882-84           agent, United Seminary

1884                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1884-85           Littlestown circuit

1885-87           St. Thomas

1887-89           Big Spring

1889-91           Bendersville

1891-95           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1895-96           Dover

1896                retired

 

Note: William Otterbein Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to John Wesley Grimm and Jacob Luther Grimm.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Grimm is a sister to Julia Mullendore (Mrs. Joshua) Harp.

 

GROFF, ISRAEL M.

 

Born: 5-18-1851  near Intercourse PA                       married: Mary C. Ranck

Died: 2-11-1940                                                          obit: [d. 11/28/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    quarterly conference license, Ranck’s

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1897    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1940, 12

 

1875-76           Florin

1876-77           Harrisburg Allison Hill [Derry Street]

1877-78           Ephrata station

1879-80           Paradise

                             1880  Intercourse (following the 7/16/1880 death of Jeremiah S. Riddle)

1894-95           Woodbridge CA

 

 

GROFF, JOHN HOWRY

 

Born: 12-8-1843                                                          married: Elizabeth Kurtz

Died: 3-21-1910                                                          obit: [12/29/1841 – 11/29/1873]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah C. Eckert [11/15/1877]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/14/1846 – 6/13/1924]

Gibble list: yes

 

1874    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1873-75           New Holland circuit

1881                referred

 

Note: John H. Groff is the grandson of Rev. Hans Howry (1769-1829) of the Mennonite Church.

 

GROFF, MARTIN

 

Born: 10-23-1862                                                        married: Annie E. Kauffman

Died: 10-6-1954                                                          obit: [4/14/1863 – 6/25/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Green Hill United Methodist Cemetery, Conestoga PA

Obit:

 

1900-01           Manor circuit (beginning 4/1/01)

1901-03           Marietta circuit

1904-05           Silver Spring

1910-20           Manor circuit

 

Note: Martin Groff was a local pastor in the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

GROFF, MICHAEL B.

 

Born: 10-24-1864  New Providence PA                     married: Annie M. Martin

Died: 7-2-1939  Lancaster County PA                       obit: [7/20/1867 – 7/27/1940]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    quarterly conference license

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: New Providence Mennonite Cemetery, New Providence PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 15

 

1916-22           Pequea circuit

1922-26           West Willow

1926-30           Manor circuit

1930-35           Hopeland

1935                retired

 

 

GROH, ISAAC W.

 

Born: 12-30-1855  Hespeler, Ontario Canada            married: Margaret Rosenberger

Died: 9-2-1947                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1935, 58

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 352 & 405

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, Ontario Conference

1993    ordained, Ontario Conference

 

Interment: IOOF Memorial Cemetery, Rockhill Furnace PA

Obit:

 

1889-93           Niagara circuit

1893-99           conference superintendent

1906-07           LaJose, Allegheny Conference

1907                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1907-08           LaJose

1908                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1912                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1912-15           Orbisonia

1915-18           Woodland (ending 3/31/1918)

1918-21           Altoona Third [East End] (beginning 4/1/1918)

1921-24           Shanksville

1924-26           Wilmore

1926                retired to Huntingdon

 

Note:  The 1908 transfer to the East Pennsylvania Conference notes that Isaac W. Groh “does not expect to enter the active ministry of our Conference” (page 8).  It is unclear what vocation he pursued 1899-1906 and 1908-12.  He retired to Huntingdon in 1926 and moved to live with his daughter in Michigan following the death of his wife.

 

 

GROSH, CHRISTOPHER

 

Born: 1-12-1749                                                          married: Ann Maria Ranck

Died: 4-16-1829                                                          obit: [12/25/1750 – 1/4/1837]

Miller-Raker #: 13

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    license

 

Interment: Ranck’s Church, New Holland PA (originally buried on family farm across the road)

Obit:

 

1812-13           north side of Susquehanna circuit

 

Note: One of the “founding fathers,” Grosh was Moravian and added that influence to the Reformed and Mennonite background of the others.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 31, gives an extended biographical sketch.  Among his descendants are the Weidman and Ranck pastors of the East Pennsylvania Conference.  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 157, gives a brief biography of Grosh and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.  His tombstone identifies his as CHRISTOFEL GROSCH.

 

 

GROSS, GEORGE DUFFIELD

 

Born: 10-4-1840  Gap PA                                          married: Ruth Elizabeth Marshall

Died: 1-29-1927  Johnstown PA                                obit: [6/1/1845 – 12/12/1928]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1876    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Roaring Spring PA

Obit:

 

1875-76           Linglestown circuit

1876-78           Monocacy circuit

1878                withdrew

                        entered the Lutheran ministry

 

 

GROSZ, WILLIAM GEORGE

 

Born: 3-4-1907  Philadelphia PA                               married: Margaret S. Clark

Died: 5-17-1971  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [7/17/1919 – 12/15/1999]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah

1930    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fishburn Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 315

 

1929-31           Philadelphia Fourth [Burholme]

1931-35           associate, Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1935-37           Brunnerville-Newton

1937-42           Williamstown

1942-48           Union circuit

1948-61           Lebanon Memorial

1961-71           Brunnerville

 

GROVES, JAMES ANDREW

 

Born: 12-16-1860  Middletown IN                            married: Melvina Louisa Gaskill

Died: 10-7-1943  Westerville OH                              obit: St. Joseph Conference 1930, 75

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 325

Gibble list: no

 

1883    license, St. Joseph Conference

?          ordained, St. Joseph Conference

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Bourbon IN

Obit: St. Joseph Conference 1944, ?

 

1889-92           student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary

     1890-91      Dayton Home Avenue

1903-04           Greensburg, Allegheny Conference

1904                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904-05           Greensburg

1905                transfer to St. Joseph Conference

                        Lafayette

                        superintendent, West District

1930                retired

 

 

GRUBB, DAVID

 

Born: 5-18-1797  Chester County PA                        married: Margaret Ewig

Died: 7-3-1863  Liverpool PA                                    obit: [died c1868]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 52

Gibble list: yes

 

1843    license, Allegheny Conference

1846    ordained

 

Interment: Liverpool Union Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1864, 9

 

Note: David Grubb lived in Liverpool and worked as an undertaker and cabinet maker.  He never served under appointment, but he preached and performed weddings as an active local pastor.

 

 

GRUBER, CHARLES BARTHOLOMEW

 

Born: 3-6-1860  Annville PA                                     married: Sarah C. “Sallie” Iceman

Died: 5-25-1940  Pennsboro WV                               obit: [5/19/1859 – 11/25/1952]

Miller-Raker #: 434

Fulton #: 199

Gibble list: no

 

1882    license, Allegheny Conference

1885    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Harmony Masonic Cemetery, Pennsboro WV

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1940, 14

 

1883-84           Brookville [Knoxdale]

1884-87           Liverpool (resigned during last year; see 1887,19)

1887-88           living in Annville PA

1888-89                      Baltimore Woodberry mission [Otterbein Memorial], Pennsylvania Conference

1889                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1890                name erased  1890, 11

1921                reappears in UB Yearbook as member of West Virginia Conference

living in Pennsboro WV but not engaged in active work

 

Note: His son born in Liverpool in 1884 was named William Otterbein Gruber.  The grave marker for Mrs. Gruber gives her dates as 1862-1952.  His picture [GREBER] appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 11.

 

 

GRUMBLING, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 1-3-1796 York County                                     married: Catherine Heindell

Died: 9-5-1865                                                            obit: [d. 1834]

Miller-Raker #: 145 [CRUMBLING]                        maried2: Julia A. Myers

Fulton #: 27                                                                 obit2: [1/29/1800 – 3/25/1885]

Gibble list: yes [CRUMLING]

 

1829    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment: Fry Cemetery, Brush Valley [Indiana County] PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1866, 5 [GRUMLING]

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Christian Grumbling is the father of Emanuel Grumbling and an older brother to Jonathan Grumbling.  This surname is also rendered CRUMLING, CRUMBLING, GRAMLING and GRAMBLING.  Grumbling is the spelling that appears on the tombstone.  A brief family history is given on the Find-A-Grave webpage for Christian’s immigrant father George Grumbling (1757-1832).

 

 

GRUMBLING, EMANUEL H.

 

Born: 10-17-1831  Indiana County PA                      married: Margaret Ellen Stewart

Died: 7-13-1912  Altoona PA                                    obit: [3/6/1833 – 4/9/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Susan Lytle [or Hough?]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana PA

Obit: [Altoona Mirror 7/15/1912, page 12]

 

1895-96           Elk

1896-97           Millheim

1897-98           Shade Gap

 

Note:  Emanuel H. Grumbling is the son of Christian Grumbling.  Although his newspaper obituary states he was “a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren Church,” E.H Grumbling served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  He operated a mercantile business in Indiana County for many years, apparently retiring from that occupation to serve the church following the death of his first wife.

 

GRUMBLING, JONATHAN C.

 

Born: 4-6-1813  York County PA                              married: Mary Andrews

Died:                                                                           obit: [4/4/1810 – 11/25/1869]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 44

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

1844    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fry Cemetery, Brush Valley [Indiana County] PA

Obit:

 

 1848-49          Mahoning mission

 

Note: Jonathan Grumbling is a younger brother to Christian Grumbling.

  

GUINIVAN, THOMAS WILLIAM

 

Born: 9-15-1917  Harrisburg PA                                married: Irene Lenore Schwalm

Died: 6-8-2007  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 383

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg State Street

1939    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1942    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 405

 

1939-42           student, United Theological Seminary

1942-44           Hummelstown circuit

1944-47           chaplain, US Navy

1947-53           Rockville

1953-73           Hershey First

1973-78           superintendent, York District

1978-83           Harrisburg Colonial Park

1983                retired 

                             visitation pastor, Penbrook Grace

                             visitation pastor, Shiremanstown

 

Note: His brother Robert M. Guinivan (1919-1977) appears to have been a pre-ministerial student at Lebanon Valley College and may have even had a quarterly conferece license, but never entered the ministry.

 

GWYNN, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 3-18-1883  Green County PA                           married: Alice C. Lydick

Died: 8-13-1955  Johnstown PA                                obit: [1886 – 10/28/1867]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 467

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1919    license, Colorado Conference

1920    ordained, Colorado Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit:

 

1918-19           Peublo

1919-20           Niwot

1920-22           [Baptist Church]

1922                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference

1922-23           Orbisonia

1923-25           Belsano

1925-27           Dunlo

1927-28           Industry-Sewickley

1928-30           Sewickley

1930-31           Windber

1931-32           Jeannette

1932-34           Everson

1934-36           Knoxdale

1936-37           Mahaffey (ending 10/25/1937)

1937-39           East Pittsburgh (beginning 10/25/1937)

1939-40           New Florence

1940                Runville (ending 10/25/1940)

1940-41           Hollsopple (beginning 10/25/1940)

1941-44           without appointment

1944                united with another denomination, page 96

  

 

HAAS, SAMUEL GLENWOOD

 

Born: 7-5-1864  Philadelphia PA                               married: Pauline Anna Rauschmeier

Died: 4-24-1935  Hummelstown PA                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 130

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1904    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Stoverdale Church Cemetery, Stoverdale PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 11

           

1899-03           Wayne

1903-04           Lykens and Wiconisco

1904-05           Williamsport

1905-08           Penn’s Valley

1908-10           Phoenixville and Limerick

1910                Cresswell and Milton Grove (did not finish the year)

1910                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1910-12           Lykens circuit

1912-14           Pequea

1914-16           Lititz

1916-18           Mt. Carmel

1918-21           Tower City

1921-24           Halifax Otterbein

1925-26           Royalton

1926-30           Intercourse

1930-32           Bellegrove circuit

1932-35           Hummelstown circuit

 

 

HACKETT, FRANK BUTLER

 

Born: 2-14-1888 Chautauqua County NY                 married: Mrs. Zelma Alice Mann Whitton

Died: 7-7-1981                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 354

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 477

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1915    license, Erie Conference

1918    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Lakeland Memorial Gardens, Lakeland FL

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 391

 

1915-16           Burtville

1916-18           Lake Pleasant

1918-20           Pine Grove

1920-23           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1923                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1923-24           Bellefonte (beginning 6/1923)

1924-26           Hollsopple

1926-28           Wall

1928-32           Arona

1932-36           Mafaffey

1936-38           New Paris

1938-40           Rockwood

1940                Port Matilda (resigned 9/28/1940)

1940-46           Sidman – St. Michael (beginning 9/28/1940)

1946-49           Ligonier

1949-53           New Florence

1953-55           Clarion River

1955-58           Mount Hope

1958                retired

 

Note: Frank B. Hackett is the husband of Zelma Hackett.

 

HACKETT, ZELMA ALICE MANN

 

Born: 4-5-1885  Sheffield PA                                    married: Tracy Yount Whitton

Died: 4-6-1977  Lakeland FL                                     obit: [5/12/1881 – 1/26/1952]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Frank B. Hackett

Fulton #: 500                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf 1982, 391

Gibble list: no

 

1925    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1925    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Lakeland Memorial Gardens, Lakeland FL

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 354

 

1927-28           associate, Wall

1928-32           Arona

1932-36           Mafaffey

1936-38           New Paris

1938-40           Rockwood

1940-46           Sidman – St. Michael

1946-49           Ligonier

1949-53           New Florence

1953-55           Clarion River

1955-58           Mount Hope

1958                retired

 

Note: Zelma Hackett is the wife of Frank B. Hackett.  Her first marriage ended in divorce.

 

HACKMAN, AUGUSTUS MILLER

 

Born: 10-1-1855                                                                      married: Annie Evans Brown

Died: 5-19-1927                                                                      obit: [8/4/1858 – 2/4/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1889     license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mohn’s Hill Cemetery, Mohn’s Hill PA

Obit:

 

1882-83           Swatara circuit  [credited to “A.H. HACKMAN”]

1888-89           Lancaster circuit

1889-92           Fishburn circuit

1892-93           Schaefferstown circuit

1893-94           Jacksonville circuit

1894-95           on leave, living in Enders

1895                referred

                        Congregational Christian Church

1900                living in Sparrows Point MD

1910-20           bishop, living with son Charles in Baltimore MD

1920                living in Montgomery County PA

1923-24           Ephrata and Reamstown

 

Note: Mrs. Hackman is the daughter of Rev. Christian S. Brown (1835-1916) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church.

 

HACKMAN, HENRY EDWARD

 

Born: 9-15-1824  Rebersburg PA                               married: Sarah Ann Slusser

Died: 12-27-1896  Elizabethville PA                         obit: [12/3/1826 – 4/10/1861]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Catherine Hake Hain

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit 2: [d. c1918]

Gibble list: yes

 

1851    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1856    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Motters Cemetery, Lykens Valley PA

Obit: East German Conference 1897, 43

 

1851-52           Union County circuit

1852-56           ?

1856-57           Halifax circuit

1857-59           Annville

1859-62           Lebanon circuit

1862-64           Manheim circuit

1864-65           ?

1865-67           Lykens Valley circuit

1867-68           Mt. Joy circuit

1868-69           ? [apparently in Progress/Churchville area of Dauphin County]

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-70           Harrisburg circuit

1879-71           ?

1871-72           Myerstown

1862-73           Pine Grove circuit

1873-74           ?

1874-76           Germanville [Valley View] circuit

1876-79           Lykens Valley circuit

 

Note: The first Mrs. Hackman is buried in the Bellegrove UB Cemetery, North Annville township, Lebanon County.  The second Mrs. Hackman (nee Hake) was the widow of a Mr. Hain.  According to the family: “Mary Catherine was a young widow (Hain) with a young son when she married Henry. Her family didn't want her to take on the responsibility of 7 small children and made her write him a letter refusing his proposal but he arrived at her home before he got the letter and she couldn't refuse him. All her step children loved her. They had been parceled out to various families until she came.  This information is from Henry’s granddaughter Mary C. McLanachan.”  Some sources erroneously claim that Henry E. Hackman died in Reel County, Mississippi.   An obituary also appears in the 1/27/1897 Religious Telescope.

 

HAESELER, ARTHUR LEE

 

Born: 6-30-1879  Orwigsburg PA                              married: Rose Jane Achenbach

Died: 1-17-1960                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 36

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Dora E. Elslager

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1904    quarterly conference license, Annville

1904    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1911    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Burial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 53

 

1904-09           Pequea

1909-11           Birdsboro Grace

1011-17           Millersburg

1917-26           Manheim

1926-38           Columbia

1938-42           Shoemakersville

1942-46           Allentown Grace

1946-52           Hopeland

1952                retired

 

 

HAHN, CLINTON HENRY

 

Born: 5-4-1880                                                            married: Ophelia Jane Trach

Died: 1-5-1962                                                            obit: [10/26/1881 – 11/7/1946]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Bushkill United Methodist Cemetery, Northampton County PA

Obit:

 

1927-32           Crossroads

 

Note: Clinton Hahn served from Allentown Sixth Street [Grace] under a quarterly conference license.  His brother Charles L. Hahn (1877-1956) also was licensed as a local preacher.

 

 

HAINS, PETER LOHR

 

Born: 10-10-1847  McKees Half Falls PA                 married: Mary Viola Deihl

Died: 1-18-1921                                                          obit: [East PA Conference 1922, 66]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, East German Conference

1886    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 62 [HAINES]

 

1878-79           Middleburg circuit

1879-84           ?

1884-87           Union Deposit circuit

1887-89           Fisburn circuit

1889-92           Lehigh Valley cirecuit

1892-95           Pine Grove circuit

1895-98           Avon Zion

1898-99           Ebenezer

1899-01           Bellegrove circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Grantville

1903-06           Hillsdale

1906-08           Pleasant Hill

1908-09           Shamokin circuit

1909                Grantville (did not finish the year; 1910, 7)

1909-10           Shamokin circuit

1910-12           Bellegrove circuit

1912-13           Lickdale

1913                retired, living in Palmyra

 

Note: This surname is also given as HAINES

 

 

HAIR, MARY ELLEN

 

Born: 9-17-1900  New Bloomfield PA                      married: David Kenneth Reisinger

Died: 10-22-2002  Lewisburg PA                              obit: Western PA Conference 1977, 363

Miller-Raker #: 629

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1922    quarterly conference license

1924    license, recommended by New Bloomfield

1933    ordained

 

Interment: Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit: see biographical files

 

1922-26           student, Lebanon Valley College

1940-45           religious education teacher, Carroll County MD

1945-47           director, Child Evangelism Fellowship of MD

1952                transfer to Erie Conference, page 65

1953-55           co-pastor, Bradford

1955-60           staff, Evangelical Teacher Training Association of Wheaton IL

1960-68           consultant, Gospel Light Publications of Glendale CA

1968                retired

 

Note: She entered the Conference as Mary E. Hair but is known as Mary H. Reisinger.  She is married to D. Kenneth Reisinger.  At one time she was the oldest living clergywoman in the United Methodist denomination.

 

 

HAIRE, ALVIN H.

 

Born: 2-?-1898                                                                        married: Elsie M. Eckman

Died: 1962                                                                              obit: [1904-1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 450

Gibble list: no

 

1917    quarterly conference license

1920    license, Allegheny Conference

1920    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, New Florence PA

Obit:

 

1919                Industry (May – Sep)

1920                Sewickley (May – Oct)

1920-22           Jefferson

1922-23           Clarion River

1923-24           Middleburg

1924-51           local elder living in New Florence

1951                no longer listed

 

 

HALL, RANDY KENT

 

Born: 3-26-1943                                                          married: Mary Gladys Hann (divorce 1987)

Died: 12-6-2000  Tucson AZ                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: 812                                                    married2: Jeannette Mossner (divorce 1993)

Fulton list: no                                                              obit2:

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Emelita Espinoza

                                                                                    obit3:

1964    license, recommended by Shepherdstown

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant United Methodist Cemetery, Taneytown MD

Obit: biographical files in the conference archives

 

1964                Dillsburg (summer supply)

1964-65           Gardners

1965-68           student, United Seminary

1968-70           Taneytown

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-80           Taneytown

1980-82           Linganore-Keys Chapel         

1982-83           Linganore

1983-87           Pleasant Hill

1987                withdrew,  Baltimore Conference 1987, 177

                            1987-95       worked for Wantz Chevrolet in Taneytown MD

                            1995            moved to Tucson AZ

 

 

HALLIWELL, MARY GERTRUDE MITCHELL

 

Born: 9-5-1888                                                            married: Rupert Halliwell

Died: 10-17-1965                                                        obit: Western PA Conference 1970, 388

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 504

Gibble list: no

 

1925    quarterly conference license

1926    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Stone Church Cemetery, Fishertown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 29

 

1926-28           [Missouri]

1928-31           New Paris

1931-32           Zion

1932-33           supply

1933-35           Shade Gap (ending 11/8/1935)

1935-40           Clarion River (beginning 11/12/1935)

1940-41           Knoxdale

1941-42           Casselman

1942-47           Arona

1947-48           associate, Arona

1948-50           East Freedom

1950                retired

  

 

HALLIWELL, RUPERT

 

Born: 6-9-1885  Lancashire England                         married: Florence May Carter

Died: 1-5-1970  Windber PA                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Gertrude Mitchell

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Western PA Conference 1966, 29

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license, Methodist Protestant Church

1923    ordained, Methodist Protestant Church

1945    license, Allegheny Conference

1946    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Stone Church Cemetery, Fishertown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 388

 

1916-38           [pastor and evangelist in Methodist Protestant Church]

1938                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1938-47           evangelist and associate pastor at various places

1947-48           Arona

1948-50           East Freedom

1950                retired

                             1952-57      Fulton Memorial

 

 

HALLMAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 2-22-1888  Pottstown PA                                 married: Florence March

Died: 11-11-1958  Alexandria VA                             obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 126

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Pottstown

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: West Side Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 54

 

1914-17           Union Deposit circuit

1917-18           Millersburg Hebron

1918-22           Lebanon Bethany

1922-25           Harrisburg First

1925-29           Hummelstown

1929-34           Harrisburg First

1934-56           Sunbury

1956                retired

 

 

HALLOWELL, THOMAS FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1824  near Mt. Joy PA                                      married: Margaret E.A. Hammond (1850)

Died: 11-1-1905                                                          obit: [d. 1915]

Miller-Raker #: 293

Fulton #: 122

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1852    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Christian Conservator (UBOC) 11/29/1905

 

1849                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1849-50           York circuit

1850-52           Rocky Spring circuit

1852-54           Littlestown circuit

1854-55           Greencastle circuit

1855-60           ?

1860-61           Juniata circuit. Allegheny Conference

1861                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1861-63           Juniata circuit

1863-65           Altoona

1865                transfer to Rock River Conference

1886                transfer to California Conference

1886-87           Riverside

1887-88           Los Angeles

1889                sided with the United Brethren Old Constitution portion of the denomination

1889-90           Los Angeles

1890-91           superintendent, Los Angeles District

1891                retired

                             1892-02      listed as "absent" at the meetings of the California Conference

                             1902           no longer listed

 

Note: While Thomas F. Hallowell was born near Lancaster PA – also the original home of brothers Rev. Peter Hallowell (1818-1906: Methodist) and Rev. Norman P. Hallowell (d1905: denomination unknown) – his relationship to that Hallowell family is not known. 

     There is also a Rev. Thomas F. Hallowell listed in the West Africa Conference at Rotifunk from 1898 to 1947.  This is an African pastor who received the name T.F. Hallowell because Mrs. T.F. Hallowell, then living in Lancaster PA, sent funds to Africa for his support.  Mrs. Hallowell died in Los Angeles in August 1915.  A biography of this African T.F. Hallowell is in the United Brethren section of the conference archives and a tribute to him appears in The World Evangel for January 1957, page 13. 

 

 

HAMILTON, JAMES A.

 

Born: 5-4-1847  Cold Ring, Lancaster County PA    married: Agnes A. Carpenter

Died: 1-9-1920  Dover PA                                         obit: [4/10/1849 – 12/12/1908]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Laura Bainbridge

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Old Constitution

1892    ordained elder

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference (ME) 1920, 84

 

1889                Mt. Pleasant circuit (Feb-Oct)

1889-90           local

1890                withdrew irregularly, page 11

1891                “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Old Constitution

1891-92           Eschol

1892-93           St. Thomas

1894-96           Rocky Spring

1896-97           Shippensburg

1897-99           Chambersburg

1899-00           St. Thomas

1900-01           inactive, living in Chambersburg

1901                dismissed

1902-03           Pleasant Unity, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1903                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1903-04           Pleasant Unity

1904-06           Stahlstown

1906-08           Armagh

1908-09           on leave

1909-10           Florence

1910-12           Georgetown

1912-14           Independence

1914                retired

                            1914-15  New Cumberland WV

                             moved to York PA, then to Dover  PA

 

 

HAMILTON, ROBERT McCLAY

 

Born: 3-1-1852  Franklinville PA                              married: Minnie Mumberg

Died: 5-31-1915  Altoona PA                                    obit: [1872-1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 342

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Port Matilda charge

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Glasgow PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 70

 

 

1899-00           Indiana

1900-01           Belsano

1901-02           Lickingville

1902-03           ?

1903-04           Belsano

1904-05           ?

1905-08           Rochester Mills

1908-10           Runville

1910-13           West Decatur

1913-15           Glasgow

 

Note: Robert Hamilton was never ordained, and was referred back his quarterly conference in 1912.  His tombstone gives his birth year as 1862.  Following the death of Robert M. Hamilton, Minnie Mumberg Hamilton married L.C. McHenry.

 

HAMM, JOHN PHILIP

 

Born: 5-4-1937  York PA                                           married: Audrey Rice

Died: 2-8-2010  Pineville NC                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: 766

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    temporary license, page 84

1958    license, recommended by York Third

1965    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated, ashes to family or friend]

Obit:

 

1957-59           Mt. Olivet-Mt. Zion

1959-66           Saginaw-Starview

1966-70           Mill Creek Towne

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-71           Mill Creek Towne

1971-75           Martinsburg Otterbein

1975-83           Frederick Trinity

1983-84           associate council director

1984-89           Frederick Trinity

1989-91           associate council director

1991-93           leave of absence

1993                withdrew, Baltimore Conference 1993, 146

 

Note: John P. “Jack” Hamm is a 1961 graduate of Lebanon Valley College and a 1966 graduate of Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary.  Mrs. Hamm is a 1960 graduate of LVC.

 

HAMMACK, A.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-95           St. Thomas circuit

 

Note: A.H. Hammack is otherwise unknown.  There is an Abram S. Hammack (1865-1932) in the Virginia Conference (licensed 1886, ordained 1890), but he appears to be accounted for during this year.  The wife of Bishop James W. Hott (1844-1902) was Martha A. Ramey, daughter of Presley and Elizabeth Hammack Ramey.

 

 

HAMMAKER, D. JOSEPH

 

Born: 6-7-1814                                                            married: Catherine Zook

Died: 7-11-1877  South Lebanon twp PA                  obit: [9/3/1831 – 5/2/1924]

Miller-Raker #: 262

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

1850    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Intercourse United Methodist Cemetery, Intercourse PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Joseph Hammaker was active in the Elizabethtown congregation.

 

HANBY, BENJAMIN RUSSELL

 

Born: 7-22-1833  Rushville OH                                 married: Kathryn “Kate” Winter

Died: 3-16-1867  Chicago IL                                     obit: [6/12/1834 – 10/19/1930]

Miller-Raker #: 316

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license

1861    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1860                transfer to Miami Conference

 

Note: Benjamin is the son of UB Bishop William Hanby (1808-1880).  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 295, fives a brief biography.  The Hanby House in Westerville OH is a heritage landmark of the United Methodist Church.  Benjamin’s sister Amanda Hanby Billheimer (1834-1926) was the first woman foreign missionary of the United Brethren Church.  She sailed to Sierra Leone in 1862 with her husband, J. K. Billheimer, and her commissioning service was held in the parlor of the Hanby House.  Mrs. Hanby is the granddaughter of Jacob Winter.

 

 

HANDSHUE, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 224

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841                withdrew, page 46

 

Note: John Handshue was not attending annual conference and was “considered withdrawn.” This surname is also rendered HANDSON.

 

HANES, JOHN NIXON

 

Born: 4-16-1866 Tyler WV                                        married: Rosella Virginia Ogden [10/5/1893]

Died: 5-21-1954 Colorado Springs CO                      obit: [1870 – 1935]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 293

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs CO

Obit:

 

                        West Virginia Conference

                        Parkersburg

                        Grafton

1899-00           Knoxdale, Allegheny Conference

1900                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1900-02           Knoxdale

1902-04           Huntingdon

1904                transfer to Colorado Conference

                        Berthoud

1908                superintendent

1921                “transfer” to Presbyterian Church

                        Ramah

?-1931             Arapahoe

 

HANEY, JOHN

 

Born: 4-10-1807  York County PA                            married: Jane Rebecca Ramsburg

Died:11-8-1904  Marion MN                                     obit: [10/17/1815 – 5/1/1846]

Miller-Raker #: 164                                                    married2: Rachel Ann Stewart

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 7/20/1855]

Gibble list: yes                                                            married3: Sarah Ebberly

                                                                                    obit3: [3/15/1838 – 12/8/1925]

1830    license

1832    ordained

 

Interment: Marion Township Cemetery, Marion MN

Obit: [see the biographical files]

 

1831                [identifies with Virginia Conference]

1831-32           Staunton & Woodstock circuits

1832-33           Woodstock circuit

1833-34           presiding elder, Virginia District

1834-35           Hagerstown circuit

1835-36           Winchester

1836                [identifies with Pennsylvania Conference]

1836-37           ?

1837-39           York circuit

1839-40           ?

1840                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        [does not appear on appointment lists, but attends most conferences]

1848-49           Lewis mission

1849-50           Buckhannon

1852-53           South Branch

1853                no longer listed as present or absent in conference minutes

1857                charter member of Minnesota Conference

 

Note: After the Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference was formed in 1830, several people seemed to serve in either conference without formally changing their membership.  John Haney appears to have been a member of Pennsylvania Conference who preferred to serve in Maryland and Virginia.  In 1840 he finally requested a formal transfer, but appears not to have itinerated for a while.  He moved to Minnesota in the mid 1850’s and was there when that conference organized in 1857.  The family of the first Mrs. Haney were leaders in the Middletown MD church, and the Haneys may have lived in that area during his non-itinerating years in the 1840’s.  Both Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 296, and Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 167, and give a brief biography.

 

 

HARBAUGH, DONALD LEE

 

Born: 8-24-1928                                                          married: Ruthie L. Kisner [1967]

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 741

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1952    license, recommended by Waynesboro First

1957    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1952-54           Middleburg

1954-57           student, United Theological Seminary

[1954-56          Riverside, Miami Conference]

1957-60           Fayetteville

1960-66           Duncannon

1966                withdrew to join the American Baptist Convention  1966, 149

 

Note: In 2017, Donald L. Harbaugh was living in Jersey Shore PA.

 

 

HARBAUGH, LEONARD

 

Born: 5-10-1749                                                          married: Rebecca Rineback

Died: 9-11-1822                                                          obit: [8/31/1754 – 2/15/1901]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC

Obit:

 

Note: Harbaugh was an early associate spoken of very highly by Otterbein.  He apparently left the ministry and returned to being an architect before the denomination was formally organized.  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 157, gives a brief biography of Harbaugh and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.  Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Story, page 57, gives a brief biography.  He is an uncle to United Brethren pioneer Yost Harbaugh (1771-1839).

 

 

HARDY, BRISTOL

 

Born:  8-2-1870  Canada                                            married: Bertha Bond

Died: 5-15-1929  Johnstown PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 413

Gilbble list: no

 

1895    license, Evangelical Association

1898    ordained Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Richland Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1929, 61

 

                      Marchand

                      Meyersdale

                      Emlenton

                      Conemaugh

                      Berkley Springs WV

1914              "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1914-15         Dunlo and Beaverdale (as needed)

1919-20         St. Michael and Mt Carmel (as needed)

1920               located

 

Note: Bristol Hardy served as a local pastor. 

 

 

HARE,   see O’HARE

 

 

HARKINS, JAMES ALPHEUS

 

Born: 9-7-1854                                                            married: Anna M. Lauver (7/15/1884)

Died: 1-26-1939                                                          obit: [3/17/1864 – 1/28/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 332

Gibble list: no

 

1905    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Path Valley Cemetery, Spring Run PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Horse Valley, Pennsylvania Conference

1904-06           Fairhope

1906-08           Glasgow

1908-09           Fairhope

1909                living in Burns KS

1910                transfer to South West Kansas Conference

 

Note: Rev. J. A. Harkins is subsequently listed in the United Brethren yearbooks as follows:

1911                Burns KS (SW Kan)

1912                Cimarron KS   (SW Kan)

1913                Maize KS (SW Kan)

1914-15           Burden KS (Kan)

1916                Cranston IA (Kan)

1917                Ardon IA (Kan)

 

Note: James A. Harkins (9/7/1854 – 1/26/1939), a retired United Brethren pastor who died in Dry Run PA, is buried in the Path Valley Cemetery, and left a widow Fannie [sic] Lauver Harkins living in California.

 

 

HARNDEN, ADOLPHUS BENJAMIN

 

Born: 3-10-1805  ME                                                 married: Elizabeth Crees

Died: 2-7-1871  Allerton IA                                       obit: [1/7/1823 – 7/18/1904]

Miller-Raker #: 222

Fulton #: 7

Gibble list: yes [HERINDON]

 

1837    license

1840    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Greenridge Cemetery, Allerton IA

Obit:

 

1837-38           Clearfield circuit

1838-39           Huntingdon circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           Allegheny circuit

1840-41           no minutes recorded

1841-42           not listed

1842-43           appointments not recorded

1843-44           Jefferson circuit

1844-45           Schellsburg

1845-46           Huntingdon circuit

1846-48           Clearfield circuit

1848-50           Allegheny circuit

1850-52           Westmoreland circuit

1852-53           Somerset circuit

1853-54           Washington circuit

1854-55           not listed

1855-56           Jefferson circuit

1856-57           ?         

1857-59           Clearfield circuit

1859                retired?

 

Note: Adolphus Harnden died shortly after moving from Pennsylvania to be with his son John.  The widowed Mrs. Harnden later married a Mr. Derreck [or Decker?] and died and is buried in Ava MO, where her son John then resided.  This surname is also rendered HARNDON, HARINDON and HERINDON.

 

 

HARNER, ABRAHAM SR.

 

Born: 1787  Germany/Switzerland                             married: Margaret Klair

Died: 1-3-1851  Juniata County PA                           obit: [12/5/1788 – 5/21/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 177

Fulton #: 15

Gibble list: yes

 

1821    quarterly conference license

1832    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, East Salem PA

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9]

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1840-41           no minutes recorded

1841-42           presiding elder, Juniata District

1842-43           appointments not recorded

1843-44           Millheim mission

 

Note: Abraham Harner is the father of Abram Harner and David Harner.  He came from Germany about 1800 and settled near Lionville, Chester County, before moving near East Salem in 1834.  This surname is also rendered HERNER.

 

 

HARNER, ABRAHAM JR. [“ABRAM”]

 

Born: 5-24-1821  Chester County PA                        married: Ann Eliza Westfall

Died: 7-2-1867  Allentown PA                                  obit: [3/23/1826 – 5/?/1889]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 96

Gibble list: no

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

1859    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, East Salem PA

Obit:

 

1867                transfer to

 

Note: Abram Harner is the son of Abraham Harner Sr.

 

HARNER, DAVID

 

Born: 10-4-1814  Chester County PA                        married: Lucetta Spitler

Died: 2-?-1903                                                            obit: [1820 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: 229

Fulton #: 16

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

1842    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, East Salem PA

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1847                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: David Harner is the son of Abraham Harner Sr.  His tombstone gives his death date as 1902.  There is no record in the East Pennsylvania Conference that David Harner followed through with the transfer granted in the 1847 Allegheny Conference minutes.  This surname is also rendered HERNER

 

 

HARNER, HARRY OLIVER

 

Born: 2-21-1878  Littlestown PA                               married: Margaret Elsie Walboun

Died: 12-15-1962  Zelienople PA                              obit: [1878-1944]

Miller-Raker #: 580

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1913    license

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Prairie Cemetery, Harrisville PA

Obit:

 

1913-15           Sabillasville

1915-17           Wolfsville

1917-20           Springett

1920                local

1921                transfer to West Pennsylvania Synod, United Lutheran Church (1921, 34)

 

Note: The only known Lutheran charge of Harry O. Harner was the three point (Filey’s, Rohler’s, St. Michael’s) Rossville charge in York County 1920-23 and a brief term in 1941 at the First Lutheran Church in Venango PA.

 

 

HARNISH, ABRAHAM H.

 

Born: 5-29-1888                                                          married: Edna May Bundy

Died: 5-31-1976                                                          obit: East Kansas Conference 1987, 233

Miller-Raker #: 562

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1910    license, recommended by Wolfsville

 

Interment: Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence MO

Obit: Kansas East Conference 1976, 202

 

1909-11           Wolfsville

1913                transfer 1913, 481

1955-56           Maple Grove

 

Note: Abraham Harnish was a member of the Kansas Conferences after 1913, expect for about 10 years (c1925-c1935) in the Nebraska Conference (which included appointment in Minnesota).

 

 

HARNISH, OLIVER PRESTON

 

Born: 3-22-1872  PA                                                  married: Bessie Hodge

Died: 6-12-1964  CA                                                  obit: California Conference 1930, 48

Miller-Raker #: 452

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license

 

Interment:

Obit: California Conference 1963/64, 95

 

1893-95           Bendersville

1895-96           Eschol

1898                transfer to Iowa Conference

                        transfer to California Conference

1923-28           San Diego First

1928-30           Riverside

                        San Diego Euclid

1933-35           Portland Tremont, Oregon Conference                     

 

Note: Epley’s 1940 History of the California Conference, page 99, has a picture of Rev. O.P. Harnish.   Mrs. Harnish was reportedly born in Iowa about 1869 and married to Oliver P. Harnish about 1898.

 

 

HARP, CYRUS DANIEL

 

Born: 2-8-1858                                                            married: Eleanor Hawthorne Whiteside

Died: 6-28-1923                                                          obit: [8/9/1870 – 8/23/1937]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1885    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1886    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Benevola United Methodist Church Cemetery, Benevola MD

Obit:

 

1885-88           Columbia Salome

1889                honorable dismissal

 

Note: Cyrus D. Harp is the son of Joshua Harp.  The widowed Mrs. Harp later married a Mr. William Greene Sherman (1881-1950).

 

HARP, JOSHUA

 

Born: 9-29-1826  Myersville MD                              married: Magdalena Wolf

Died: 2-19-1905  Benevola MD                                 obit: [9/29/1825 – 1862]

Miller-Raker #: 493                                                    married2: Julia Mullendore

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/26/1838 – 5/17/1922]

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Virginia Conference

1864    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Benevola United Methodist Church Cemetery, Benevola MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 67

 

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Joshua Harp is the grandson of Jacon Doub.  He is the father of Cyrus D. Harp and of ministerial wives Clara Harp Brane (Mrs. Commodore), and Alice Harp Weidler (Mrs. Z.A.).  He is also the father of Elizabeth Harp Flook, the mother of Cyrus F. Flook and Emma E. Flook Plummer (Mrs. F. Berry).  He never itinerated, but served locally and as a supply.  He is responsible for Mt. Lena Church, Boonsboro charge.  The second Mrs. Harp is a sister to Martha Ann Mullendore (Mrs. William O.) Grimm.

 

 

HARPER, DONALD LEE

 

Born: 8-6-1931                                                            married: Barbara Ann Gillan

Died: 12-19-2007  Harrisburg                                     obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 284

Miller-Raker #: 777

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license, recommended by Hagerstown Grace

1963    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated – ashes scattered in ocean at Bethany Beach DE]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 406

 

1958-60           Upper Strasburg

1960-64           Gettysburg Memorial

1964-75           Dallastown Bethlehem

1975-84           Bloomsburg Wesley

1984-90           superintendent, York District

1990-94           Carlisle Allison

1994                retired

                        1994-95           director, South Central AIDS Network

                        1995                interim, Harrisburg Calvary

                        1996                interim, Harrisburg Paxton

                        1998                interim, Harrisburg Calvary

 

 

HARPER, THOMAS C.

 

Born: 3-12-1877                                                          married: Susie Victoria. Sipe [7/21/1908]

Died: 5-31-1939  Columbus OH                                obit: [3/3/1870 – 6/29/1944]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 393

Gibble list: no

 

1899    license, Virginia Conference

1906    ordained

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1939, 17

 

                        Dayton VA

1908-10           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

     1909-10      Chillicothe OH

1910-11           Altoona First, Allegheny Conference

1911                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1911-12           Altoona First

1913-20           Mount Pleasant

1920-21           Latrobe

1923                transfer to

1924-28           Logan OH

                        superintendent, Chillicothe District

 

Note: Mrs. Harper [nee Baugher] was the widow of a Mr. George E. Sipe (1868-1898).

 

HARRIS, E.B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1903-04           Coatesville Grace

 

Note: E.B. Harris is listed under “others employed by the conference.”  Otherwise unknown, he is not Rev. E.B. [Edwin Bergstresser] Harris of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church – who was born in 1897.

 

 

HARRIS, HENRY RAY

 

Born: 7-12-1904                                                          married: Amanda Snell

Died: 10-19-1978                                                        obit: Western NY Conference 1994, 320

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license, Erie Conference

1931    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Harris Hill Cemetery, Clarence NY

Obit: Western New York Conference 1979, 334

 

1925-26           Clarence Center NY

1926-27           Harris Hill NY

1927-31           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1927-31      Union Deposit circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931-32           Sharpsville

1932-63           Corry

1963-69           Jamestown NY Kidder

1969                retired

1972                transfer to Western New York Conference

 

Note: H. RAY HARRIS is the preferred designation.

HARTMAN, CHESTER WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-16-1907                                                        married: Beatrice May Light

Died: 7-30-1994                                                          obit: [6/13/1906 – 12/13/1938]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Katie L. Kalbach (1936)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/26/1905 – 5/21/1988]

Gibble list: no

 

1944    quarterly conference license, Pleasant Hill

1952    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1958    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer, Lebanon County PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1995,?

 

1944-45           Brunnerville-Newton

1945-46           ?

1946-49           Northampton circuit

1949-52           Hillsdale circuit

1952-61           Schuylkill Haven

1961-65           Lebanon Memorial

1965-66           Reading Ebenezer

1966-73           Lebanon Northside Parish [Ebenezer]

1973                retired

 

 

HARTMAN, GEORGE KAUTZ

 

Born: 11-7-1868                                                          married: Elizabeth Brough

Died: 6-23-1948                                                          obit: Oregon Conference 1921, 39

Miller-Raker #: 449

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1891    quarterly conference license, Shiremanstown

1893    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles OR

Obit: Oregon Conference 1948, 48 [and also California Conference (UB) 1948, 37]

 

1894                A.B. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1894-95           Winterstown circuit (part year)

1897                A.M. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1899-03           Carlisle circuit

1903-09           Hagerstown Grace

1909-10           York Fourth

1910-13           Parsons First, Neosho Conference

1913                transfer to Neosho Conference  1912, 74; 1913, 58

1913-14           Parsons First

1914                charter member of Kansas Conference

1914-17           Topeka First

1918                transfer to Oregon Conference

1918-22           The Dalles

1922-25           Portland Second

1925-28           Seattle

1928-33           The Dalles

1933-35           Vancouver

1947                retired, living at 703 Otterbein Ave, Puente CA

 

 

HARTMAN, MARTIN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 225

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1838-39           Wheeling mission

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HARMAN.  Martin Hartman apparently went with the Allegheny Conference in 1839.  He is listed in the 1839 Allegheny Conference minutes as having withdrawn – but since he withdrew at the organizing conference, he is not listed as a charter member of the conference.  Consequently his withdrawal has escaped formal recognition in the United Brethren denomination – because how can you withdraw from a conference you never joined!  This may be the Rev. Martin Hartman who organized a German Methodist Episcopal Church in Hamilton OH in 1843.

 

 

HARTSOCK, ANDREW JACKSON

 

Born: 7-24-1832                                                          married: Ruth B. Pringle [11/16/1865]

Died: 11-8-1907  Los Angeles County CA                obit: [3/1/1841 – 2/1/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 118

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license, Allegheny Conference

1863    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina KS

Obit:

 

1861-62           Trough Creek

1862-66           Johnstown

                            chaplain, 133rd PA Infantry (9/10/1862 – 5/23/1863)

1866-68           Mount Pleasant station

1868-70           (living in Johnstown)

1870                honorable dismissal

 

Note: A. Jackson Hartsock is an uncle to two Methodist Episcopal preachers: Henry W. Hartsock (1877-1964) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference and Frank D. Hartsock (1865-1936) of the Wyoming Conference.  He is the subject/author of Soldier of the Cross: The Civil War Diary and Correspondence of Rev. Andrew Jackson Hartsock.  The spring 1986 issue of Kansas History includes A.J. Hartsock in an article on “Letters from Kansas” and stated that he “settled in Salina, founded the first Lutheran church there, and then moved to McPherson where he was a minister, farmer, and businessman.”

 

 

HAUGHTELINE, W.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1875-76           Big Spring station

 

Note: This is believed to be the William H. Houghtelin (1842-1935) given the list of Methodist pastors,

 

HAULMAN, DONALD GLENN

 

Born: 5-8-1939                                                            married: Christobel Lee Claycomb

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 397

Miller-Raker #: 781

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Shippensburg Messiah

1964    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1964-73           Enola First & Enola Grace

1973-88           Lock Haven First

1988-93           Lock Haven Covenant-Flemington

1993-01           Dancansville Hicks Memorial

2001                retired

 

 

HAUSER, see HOUSER

 

HAUTZ, J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 23

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1791    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note:  This is likely Rev. Anthony Hautz (1758-1813) of the Reformed Church, who was associated with and sympathized with Otterbein

 

 

HAVERSTOCK, CALVIN BUSHEY JR.

 

Born: 5-6-1932                                                            married: Zedna M. Shaffer

Died: 11-25-2015                                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 341

Miller-Raker #: 742

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1952    license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

1957    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 263

 

1950-54           student, Lebanon Valley College

1954-57           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1954-57      Lebanon OH Bethany Congregational Christian

1957-58           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, assistant

1958-63           Manchester St. Paul’s

1963-64           Silver Springs

1964-73           York Otterbein

1973-78           Harrisburg Colonial Park

1978-80           withdrawn

1980-83           Harrisburg Camp Curtin

1983-90           Union Deposit

1990-98           superintendent, New Cumberland District

1998                retired

 

Note: Zedna Haverstock served as the conference treasurer-comptroller 1979-2007.

 

HAWBECKER, PETER OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 2-22-1779  Lancaster County PA                     married: Susan Miller

Died: 12-27-1856                                                        obit: [1786 – 1858]

Miller-Raker #: 123

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1831    ordained

 

Interment: Greencastle PA

Obit:

 

1849-50           Conococheague

 

Note: Peter Hawbecker was a Greencastle blacksmith who served as an active local preacher.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 377, give a brief biography.

 

 

HAWK, WILLIAM GUY

 

Born: 5-29-1903                                                          married: Ivy Luella Wechtenhiser

Died: 2-15-1987                                                          obit: Florida Conference 1986, 420

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 489

Gibble list: no

 

1922    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Richland Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Florida Conference 1987, 427

 

1924-27           Central City

1927-29           Coalport

1929-32           Altoona Grace

1932-36           Youngwood

1936-50           Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1950-59           conference superintendent

1959-60           conference superintendent, Florida Conference

1960                transfer to Florida Conference

1969                retired  

HAWTHORN, JEFFERSON M.

 

Born: 9-29-1840                                                          married: Susanna Holl

Died: 2-24-1881                                                          obit: [4/9/1847 – 1/9/1910]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit:

 

1871-72           Northumberland circuit

1876                dropped

 

 

HAYES, HIRAM

 

Born: 2-15-1824                                                          married: Rachel Hammer

Died: 4-7-1898  Elton PA                                           obit: [1835 – 1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 121

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Dunmyer Cemetery, Salix PA

Obit: [Religious Telescope 4/27/1898, page 539]

 

1861-62           Somerset circuit

1866                name erased

 

Note: Hiram Hayes id the father of Isaiah P. Hayes and Jeremiah S. Hayes.

 

HAYES, ISAIAH POTTER

 

Born: 1855                                                                  married: Nina W. _____

Died: 1926                                                                  obit: [1861-1939]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 194

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Allentown Methodist Cemetery, Allentown NJ

Obit:

 

1884                honorable dismissal

 

Note: I.P. Hayes is a son of Hiram Hayes and a brother to Jeremiah S. Hayes.  He became a pastor in the United Presbyterian Church.

 

 

HAYES, JEREMIAH S.

 

Born: 9-9-1857  Elton PA                                          married: Mrs. Ella M. Leichliter

Died: 7-21-1924  Windber PA                                   obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 68

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 206

Gibble list: no

 

1882    quarterly conference license, Cambria

1883    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924, 65

 

1883-84           Indiana

1884-85           Springfield

1885-86           East Salem

1886-88           Lycippus

1888-90           Mahoning

1890-93           Coalport

1893-94           Claysville

1894-97           Woodland

1897-99           Johnstown Morellville

1899-02           New Florence

1902-06           Dubois

1906-11           Everson

1911-12           Youngwood

1912-19           Punxsutawney

1919-23           McKeesport Kephart Memorial

1923-24           Windber Graham Avenue

 

Note: Jeremiah S. Hayes is the son of Hiram Hayes and a brother of Isaiah P. Hayes, the father of Warren H. Hayes, and the grandfather of Wendell H. Hayes.  He is also the stepfather of Marguerite Leichliter Smith, wife of Rev. J.W. Smith, affiliation unknown.  The grave marker for Mrs. Hayes gives her name as Martha Ellen.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 9.

 

 

HAYES, SAMUEL J.

 

Born: 6-22-1833  near Johnstown PA                        married: Sarah Ella Ashcom

Died: 6-10-1897  Pittsburgh PA                                 obit: [5/9/1846 – 2/12/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Frances Reddington

Fulton #: 114 & 133                                                   obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

1862    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Coraopolis Cemetery, Coraopolis PA

Obit:

 

1861-62           Washington

1862                transfer to

1864                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1864-65           Juniata

1865-66           Blair

1866-68           Liverpool

1868                transfer to 

 

Note: S.J. Hayes was stricken with asthma and left the full-time ministry to pursue dentistry, although he continued preaching part-time for the United Brethren and the Baptists.  He developed and patented a method for delivering dental anesthesia.  At the time of his death he was the editor and proprietor of the journal The Dental and Surgical Microcosm.  He is the subject of the 2008 paper “Four Sermons Against Nitrous Oxide: The ‘Anaesthetic Apparatus’ of Pittsburgh’s Rev. Dr. S.J. Hayes” by George Bause, M.D.

 

 

HAYES, WARREN H.

 

Born: 2-22-1892  Coalport PA                                   married: Ila May Bale

Died: 2-3-1946  Altoona PA                                      obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 394

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1912    license, Allegheny Conference

1916    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference1946, 59

 

1911-13           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

                             1912     New Paris (Jun – Sep)

1913-16           student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

                             1916     Rochester Mills (May – Sep)

1916-24           missionary, Japan

1924-25

1925-30           Braddock

1930-40           Wilkinsburg

1940-46           Altoona First  

 

Note: Warren H. Hayes is the son of Jeremiah S. Hayes and the father of Wendell H. Hayes.

 

 

HAYES, WENDELL HERBERT

 

Born: 10-26-1928  Braddock PA                               married: [single]

Died: 2-6-1949  Columbus OH                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1946    quarterly conference license, Altoona First

1948    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1949, 73

 

1946-49           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

 

Note: Wendell H. Hayes is the son of Warren H. Hayes and the grandson of Jeremiah S. Hayes.

 

 

HEAD, ROBERT J.

 

Born:  1866                                                                 married: [never married]

Died: 1-7-1940                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 310

Gibble list: no

 

1899    license, Ontario Conference

?          ordained

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1900-01           student, Ottebein University

1901-02           Student, Bonebrake Seminary

1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-04           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1904-06           Philipsburg

1906-08           Braddock Jones Avenue

1908-11           Altoona Third [East End]

1912                honorable dismissal

 

HEBERLIG, A. ELIZABETH PERIGO

 

Born: 8-1-1893                                                            married: Raymond Snyder Heberlig

Died: 3-30-1972                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 418

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    quarterly conference license

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1924    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 332

 

Note: A. Elizabeth Perigo Heberlig is the wife of Raymond S. Heberlig.  She was a graduate of Bonebrake Seminary, but never requested an appointment. 

 

 

HEBERLIG, RAYMOND SNYDER

 

Born: 2-1-1893  Steelton PA                                      married: A. Elizabeth Perigo

Died: 11-20-1978                                                        obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 332

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Highspire

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 418

 

1916-17           Shopes-Swatara Hill

1917-18           Rockville-Linglestown

1918-19           Columbia Heights, Methodist Episcopal

1919-22           student, United Theological Seminary

1922-23           Grand Rapids Wyoming Park, Michigan Conference

1923-28           Lykens

1928-29           Avon Zion

1929-37           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1937-40           Pine Grove

1940-43           Lykens

1943-56           Shamokin Second

1956-61           Coatesville

1961                retired

 

Note: Raymond S. Heberlig is the husband of A. Elizabeth Perigo Heberlig.

 

 

HEBERLY, HARRY HEISTER

 

Born: 1877                                                                  married: Susan _____

Died: 8-4-1949                                                            obit: [1879 – 1974]

Miller-Raker #: 529

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    license

1905    ordained

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach CA

Obit: California Conference (UB) 1949, 35

 

1904-06           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1906-07           York Haven

1907                living in Westfield IL

1908                transfer to Lower Wabash Conference

 

1913                Nebraska Conference

1922                Marquette NE

1924                Aurora NE

1926-45           Culver City Palms      

                        [1934  superintendent, Southern District]

1947                retired, living in Long Beach CA

 

Note: Harry H. Heberly is the son of Monroe J. Heberly.  He was a member of the conference quartet, replaced by David M. Oyer in 1908.  Epley’s 1940 History of the California Conference, page 87, gives a picture.

 

 

HEBERLY, MONROE JONATHON

 

Born: 7-4-1852  Orefield, Lehigh County PA            married: Mary Ann Heister

Died: 12-3-1911  near Quincy PA                              obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 18

Miller-Raker #: 453                                                    married2: Mary Elizabeth Knauss

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 36

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    quarterly conference license, Siegersville (Lehigh circuit, East German Conference)

1879    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 32&101

                       

1879-81           Northampton circuit

1881-83           Philadelphia Fourth Street

1883-85           Myerstown

1885-86           ?

1886-87           Shamokin First

1887-89           Allentown Zion

1889-91           Mount Carmel

1891-92           ?

1892-93           York First, Pennsylvania Conference

1893                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1893-94           York First

1894-96           Mt. Wolf circuit

1896-97           York Haven

1897-02           Spring Grove

1902                Thurmont (resigned without reporting and was re-assigned)

1902-04           Walkersville (beginning 3/11/1902)

1904-05           Spring Grove

1905-08           Springett

1908-11           York Haven

1911                Mont Alto

 

Note: Monroe J. Heberly is the father of Harry H. Heberly.  His daughter Mrs. J.C. Myers held a quarterly conference license and ably assisted her father and others during revivals, etc.  His son Thomas Franklin Heberly (1880-1967) is the father of Thomas Franklin Heberly III.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 297, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HEBERLY, THOMAS FRANKLIN III

 

Born:                                                                           married: Shirley Rae Hall

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 751

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1955    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-57           student, Gettysburg Colleg

     1956-57      Mt. Olivet – Mt. Zion

1960                withdrew, page 88 & 89

 

Note: Thomas F. Heberly III is the great-grandson of Monroe Jonathan Heberly.  He currently (2002) attends Providence Presbyterian Church and may be reached at Thomas Heberly III, 401 Bentwood Lane, York PA 17404-1002, (717)767-2074.

 

 

HECKERT, KARL MORRELL

 

Born: 7-23-1935  Lemoyne PA                                  married:

Died: 2-4-2007  Lemoyne PA                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: 778

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: [Harrisburg Patriot-News 2/6/2007]

 

1960-61           student, Harrisburg Community College

1961                withdrew  1961, 86

                       

 

Note: Karl M. Heckert was the founding pastor and rector for 10.5 years of St. Michael’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Hampden township, Cumberland County PA.   

 

HEETER, HARRY C.

 

Born: 7-9-1866  Huntingdon County PA                   married: Ida A. Claybaugh (1889)

Died: 4-30-1939                                                          obit: [1867 – 2/?/1958]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1934   credentials as a singing evangelists, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [Altoona Tribune 5/2/1939, page 2]

 

Note: Harry C. Heeter was a 50 year veteran of the P.R.R. shops in Altoona.  He taught the Friendship Bible Class at Altoona First for 44 years and was known for his vocal and instrumental talent.

 

 

HEFFELMAN, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 3-14-1860  Cleveland OH                                married: Mary A. Fisher

Died: 12-18-1932  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [5/14/1864 – 8/20/1941]

Miller-Raker #: 450

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1893    license

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Fairview township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1894-95           Rayville circuit

1895-96           Bendersville

1896-97           local pastor, living in New Cumberland

1897                referred back to quarterly conference  1897, 46

 

HEILAND, MARTIN BYRON

 

Born: 9-29-1885  York County PA                            married: Sallie Diehl

Died: 6-18-1979  Freeland MD                                  obit: Baltimore Conference 1981, 375

Miller-Raker #: 603

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1917    license, recommended by Springett charge

1922    ordained

 

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion St. Paul’s Chapel

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 341 & Baltimore Conference 1980, 356

 

1917                Littlestown (2 months)

1917-40           Red Lion circuit

1940-46           Newberg

1946-62           Rayville

1962                retired

                        [Mount Olivet]

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Martin B. Heiland is the namesake of the Heiland View Cemetery.

 

 

HEISS, GEORGE ALVIN

 

Born: 3-29-1880                                                          married: Elizabeth M. Oberdorf

Died: 9-9-1964  Winter Park FL                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 438

Miller-Raker #: 605

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1918    license

1922    ordained

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Orlando FL

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1964, 50

 

1918-20           Shermansdale

1920-25           Dover

1925-26           Emigsville

1926-31           agent, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1931-39           Wormleysburg

1939-46                      general secretary, Ministerial Pension & Annuity Committee (UB)

1946-48                      general secretary, Board of Pensions (EUB)

1948                retired

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 398, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HENDRICKS, JOHN

 

Born: c1796                                                                married: Hetty Witwer

Died: 4-8-1881  Washington County IA                    obit: [1808 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: 114

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment: Bethel Cemetery, Washington County IA

Obit:

 

1824-25           Huntingdon circuit

1827-28           Virginia circuit

1828-29           Huntingdon circuit

1833-34           Chambersburg circuit

1834-35           Huntingdon circuit

 

Note: John Hendricks appears to be a charter member of the Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference when it was formed in 1830 – but he appears never to have itinerated there afterwards.  He is listed as absent at the 1831 Virginia Conference, but present (and accepting an appointment) at the 1833 Pennsylvania Conference.  If he initially identified with the Virginia Conference, it appears that he changed his mind.  Mrs. Hendricks is the daughter of Jonas Witwer.

 

 

HENDRICKSON, ARCHIBALD RODERICK

 

Born: 3-28-1875                                                          married: Kansada E. Kelso

Died: 8-29-1922                                                          obit: [12/4/1874 – 5/15/1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 401

Gibble list: no

 

1898    license, Virginia Conference

1902    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Sandusky Conference 1922, 14

 

1011-12           Beaver Falls, Allegheny Conference

1912                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1912-13           Portage

1913-14           Altoona First

1915                transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: Archie Hendrickson is a brother to Charles W. Hendrickson.

 

HENDRICKSON, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 10-7-1880  Maysville WV                                married: Myrtle Olena Scott

Died: 1-1-1978                                                            obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 48

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 400

Gibble list: yes

 

1904    quarterly conference license, Westerville OH

1905    license, Southeast Ohio Conference

1908    ordained, Southeast Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 553

 

1904-05           student, Otterbein College

1905-08           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1908-09           Chillicothe

1909-10           Oshkosh WI Presbyterian

1910-12           Scottsdale, Allegheny Conference

1912                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1912-13           Scottsdale

1913-20           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1920-22           Mount Pleasant

1922-23           Youngwood

1923                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1923-28           Steelton

1928-30           Allentown Zion

1930-34           Royalton Emanuel

1934-37           Schuylkill Haven

1937-43           Reading Salem

1943-46           Cleona-Pleasant Hill

1946-48           Silver Spring circuit

1948-49           West Lebanon [St. Luke’s]

1949                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Hendrickson is a brother to Archibals R. Hendrickson.  Mrs. Hendrickson is the sister of Kenneth J. Scott (1897-1970) of the West Virginia Conference.

 

HENNINGER, DANIEL SINGLEY

 

Born: 5-21-1823  Mifflin twp, Columbia Co PA       married: Mary Ann Renn [1843]

Died: 12-12-1916  Aline OK                                      obit: [10/30/1823 – 12/31/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Bentley KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1917, 29

 

1852-53           West Branch circuit

1855                transfer to ?

1881                charter member of Arkansas Valley Conference [southern Kansas and Oklahoma Territory]

1882-83           Winfield

1883-85           Mulvane

                        Neosha Conference

1895-96           Bazaar

                        retired to Sedgwick KS

 

Note: The details of his life are sketchy.  In 1850 he and Mary were living in Clinton County PA.  The journal of UB preacher Samuel Heinecke mentions Daniel Henninger as being in Iowa in the 1880's.  Mrs. Henninger was born in Union County PA and a brief obituary for her appears in the 1/20/1904 Religious Telescope, page 92(28).

 

HENRY, JOHN K.

 

Born: 1864                                                                  married: Clara Sipe

Died: 1959                                                                  obit: [1863 – 1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit:

 

1898-99           Royalton Emanuel

 

Note: J.K. Henry completed the conference year (i.e., until 10/1/1899) following the 7/11/1899 death of pastor Harry D. Lehman.  “After the death of Rev. H.D. Lehman, who had been serving the Royalton charge, I appointed Mr. J.K. Henry, as the unanimous choice of the official brethren of that place, to look after the interests of the charge during the unexpired term.” (1899, 5)  A Justice of the Peace, Mr. Henry was a lay member of the congregation and had been the lay delegate from Royalton in 1895.

 

 

HEPLER, CHRISTOPHER.

 

Born: 2-25-1829  Westmoreland County PA             married: Elizabeth A. Hough

Died: 9-10-1916  Findlay OH                                    obit: [4/?/1830 – 4/26/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 177

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Sandusky Conference

 

Interment: Bethel Cemetery, Handcock OH

Obit:

 

1870-71           Taway circuit

1872-73           Honey Creek, Seneca County OH

1875                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1877                transfer to

 

Note: Christopher Hepler is a first cousin to Leah Hepler Metzgar, wife of Samuel Metzgar.

 

HERNER, see HARNER

 

 

HERR, FREDERICK

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1821                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 19

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

HERRE, SIMON

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1821[?]                                                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: 10

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Although consistently rendered HERRE, the name is thought to be a corruption of HERR.  Bangs’ 1839 History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, page 375 of volume II, quotes Otterbein as saying in 1812 (being in America “sixty years, come next August”) that Simon Herre was from Virginia and is deceased.  He is among four that Otterbein names when asked, “What ministerial brethren who have been your helpers can you speak of with pleasure, and whose names are precious?”  Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 156, gives a brief biography of Herre and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.

 

HERRMAN, PETER

 

Born: 1796  Switzerland                                             married: Anna Barbara Eishort

Died: 7-7-1852                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 150

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HERMAN]

 

1829    license

1831    ordained

 

Interment: Lebanon Cemetery, near Red Lion PA

Obit:

 

1824                emigrated to America

1834-35           Cumberland circuit

1835-38           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1838                withdrew

1839                moved to York County, became Lutheran

1839-40           Lebanon charge

1840-52           Windsor charge

 

Note: Peter Herrman was also a medical doctor.  He is the father of Samuel Herrman.

 

HERRMAN, SAMUEL EICHERT

 

Born: 4-14-1831  Baltimore MD                                married: Sarah Bull

Died: 2-8-1903  Red Lion PA                                    obit: [8/25/1832 – 2/13/1928]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

c1867  quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: in the biographical files of the conference archives

 

1882                withdrew (over Secret Society controversy)

1883                transfer to Church of God (Winebrenner)

                        East York circuit

                        Duncannon

                        Valley View

                        East York Circuit

1893                resigned due to ill health

 

Note: Samuel E. Herrman is the son of Peter Herrman.  He was a very active local pastor in the Red Lion area.

 

 

HEROLD, JOSEPH GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 2-22-1856                                                          married: Ada Elizabeth Luse

Died: 1916 Gilliad CT                                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HERROLD]

 

1882    license, East German Conference

1885    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: St. Peter’s Episcopal Cemetery, Hebron CT

Obit:

 

1882-84           Millheim circuit

1884-86           Catawissa circuit

1886-89           Jacksonville circuit

1889-90           Schuylkill Haven

1890-92           Hopeland

1892-94           Ephrata (did not finish the second year)

1894                honorable dismissal to join the Congregational Church in Maine

1894-95           West Newfield & Parsonfield

 

Note: Joseph G.W. Herold passed the UB course of study 1882-1885, and graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1893 [or 1894?].  The surname is also sometimes given as HERALD.

 

HERROLD, THOMAS ALVA

 

Born: 4-12-1878  Chapman PA                                  married: Minnie E. Hummel

Died: 1-23-1931  Montour County PA                       obit: [6/29/1883 – 4/26/1960]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Orchard Hills Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA

Obit:

 

1907-08           Intercourse (did not report? – see 1908, 8)

1910                referred

 

Note: T.A. Herrold taught school in Snyder County before moving to Mikllersburg in 1903 and to Sunbury in 1907.

 

HERSCH, JOHN C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1839    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1842                transfer to

 

HERSHEY, ABRAHAM LANDIS (Lancaster)

 

Born: 3-3-1774  Manheim twp, Lancaster Co PA     married: Mary Herr (1802)

Died: 5-6-1839                                                            obit: [4/19/1784 – 3/22/1885]

Miller-Raker #: 32

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment: Hershey Burrying Ground, near Creswell, Lancaster County PA

Obit:

 

1823                presiding elder

1833-34           Huntingdon circuit

 

Note: Abraham Hershey is a brother to Christian Hershey and Elizabeth Hershey (Mrs. Christian) Erb, mother of bishop Jacob Erb.  His daughter Barbara married Daniel Pfeifer.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 52, gives an extended biographical sketch.

 

 

HERSHEY, ABRAHAM (Cumberland)

 

Born: 1764                                                                  married: Magdalena Witmer

Died: 5-5-1852                                                            obit: [1775 – 1/10/1851]

Miller-Raker #: 118

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine IA

Obit:

 

1851                transfer

 

Note: Abraham Hershey (Cumberland County) is a second cousin to Abraham Hershey (Lancaster County).

 

 

HERSHEY, CHRISTIAN B,

 

Born: 1-16-1777  Manheim twp, Lancaster Co PA   married: Elizabeth Yordy

Died: 8-3-1853  Lisbon IA                                         obit: [3/15/1776 – 9/3/1863]

Miller-Raker #: 33

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1807    license

1809    ordained

 

Interment: Lisbon Cemetery, Lisbon IA

Obit:

 

1814-16           presiding elder, Lancaster District

1836-37           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1847                transfer to Iowa Conference

 

Note: Christian Hershey led a large United Brethren migration to Lisbon IA in 1847.  He is a brother to Abraham Hershey (Lancaster County) and Elizabeth Hershey (Mrs. Christian) Erb, mother of bishop Jacob Erb, and Catherine Hershey Long, wife of David Long.  The 1818 annual conference was held at his house.  His daughter Nancy married John Neidig Jr – and they are the parents of Elizabeth Neidigg Runkle, wife of Daniel Runkle.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 52, gives an extended biographical sketch.

 

 

HERSHEY, EUSEBIUS

 

Born: 4-14-1823                                                          married: Mary Ann Strayer

Died: 5-23-1891  Liberia, Africa                                obit: [1820 – 1896]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1847    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1850    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Liberia, Africa

Obit: in the biographical files at the conference archives

 

1848-50           unofficial evangelist in Snyder and Union counties

1850-52           Union County circuit

1852-55           unofficial evangelist in Bald Eagle Valley

1855-56           West Branch circuit

1856-57           Amity circuit

1859                withdrew

1859-90           resident of Rebersburg PA, preacher in the Evangelical Mennonite denomination

1890                missionary to Africa

 

Note: The Chronicle for 2002, pages 40-46, gives a biographical sketch of Eusebius Hershey, defines his significance to the denomination, and provides other references.  For the Evangelical Mennonites [later known as the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, and now as the Bible Fellowship Church] he generally served as a missionary at large.  Their June 1875 Conference Proceedings, item 7, for example reports that “Brother E. Hershey was relieved from having charge of the Wadsworth [Ohio] congregation” and “Resolved: That Brother E. Hershey continue to work as a missionary in the United States and Canada as he requested.”

     Eusebius Hershey is a great grandson of Isaac Long of Isacc Long Barn fame: Isaac Long (1742-1798) → Anna Long Landis (1766-1845) → Anna Landis Hershey (1790-1831) →Eusebius.

 

 

HERSHEY, ISRAEL MOYER

 

Born: 10-3-1876  Dauphin County PA                       married: Eva Grace Nissley

Died: 1-30-1932                                                          obit: [b 6/19/1879]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Fishburn’s

1898    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1901    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 14

 

1898-00           Halifax

1900-02           Manheim

1902-03           Derry circuit

1903-06           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

                             1903-06  Englewood OH

1906-08           Myerstown

1908-11           Lancaster Covenant

1911-12           agent, Bonebrake Theological Seminary

1912-13           secretary, Hershey YMCA

1913-14           librarian, Hershey Public Library

1914-16           Shamokin First

1916-25           Myerstown

1925-26           Harrisburg First

1926-32           Philadelphia Third

 

 

HERSHEY, JOHN B.

 

Born: 3-11-1741                                                          married: Magdalena Huber (Hoover)

Died: 4-4-1811                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 22

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

 

Interment: Fahrney’s, Washington County MD

Obit:

 

1793                moved to Beaver Creek, near Hagerstown MD

 

Note: He is the son of Rev. Andrew Hershey of the Mennonite Church, and his [layman] son John Hershey (1771-1854) was elected first treasurer of the Preacher’s Aid Society when it formed in 1822.  Rev. John B. Hershey is a first cousin to [layman] Abraham Hershey, father of Abraham and Christian Hershey.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 297, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, give brief biographies.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 50, gives an extended biographical sketch.  His daughter Anna married John Shopp Sr of Shiremanstown, whose home/church/cemetery location is a conference historical site, and is the mother of Christian Shopp.

 

 

HERSHEY, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1841                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 235

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1839    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1839-40           Baltimore station

1840-41           Carlisle circuit

1841                Chambersburg circuit

 

 

HERSHEY, MICHAEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 62

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1811    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Apparently Michael Hershey did not itinerate, as Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 138, identifies him as an “exhorter.”

 

 

HERTZLER, GEORGE EDGAR

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Beatrice Brownlee

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: 2004, 368

Gibble list: yes

 

1926    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Otterbein

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1933    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1930-33           student, United Theological Seminary

                        1931  Brown City MI (summer)

1933-37           Lebanon circuit

1937-62           Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1962-66           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1966-73           Harrisburg Otterbein

1973                retired

 

Note: G. Edgar Hertzler has his picture is on the cover of the 5/13/1933 Religious Telescope as a member of the Bonebrake Seminary class of 1933.

 

HESS, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 6-2-1866  Dauphin County PA                         married: Katharine Alma Shope

Died: 7-21-1947  Chester County PA                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Hillsdale charge

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1914    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Geyer’s Church Cemetery, Dauphin County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 29

 

1910-13           Jacksonville

1913-16           Northampton circuit

1916-18           Tower City

1918-20           Grantville

1920-25           Manor circuit

1925-26           Lebanon circuit

1926-30           Aristes

1930-34           Enders

1934                retired

 

 

HESSE, WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-9-1856  Martinsburg WV                            married: Ruth Elizabeth Van Metre

Died: 12-9-1930  Martinsburg WV                            obit: [9/16/1850 – 1/2/1936]

Miller-Raker #: 426

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license, Virginia Conference

1887    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg WV

Obit:

 

1885-86           Path Valley, Pennsylvania Conference

1886-87           Perry circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 5

1887-88           Perry circuit

1888                Winterstown circuit (did not finish the year, 1889, 19)

1888                withdrew  1889, 11&19

1888                entered Lutheran ministry, Maryland Synod

1888-89           Harper’s Ferry WV

1889                transfer to East Pennsylvania Synod

1889-93           Martin’s Creek

1893                transfer to Pittsburgh Synod

1893-97           Plumville charge

1893-95           Gastown Christ, Plum Creek Twp Mount Union, Rural Valley Pleasant Union

                             [1894          Rockville St. Matthew’s, founding pastor]   

1895-97           Gastown Christ, Rural Valley Pleasant Union

1897                transfer to East Ohio Synod

1897-99           Minerva OH

1899-02           Pleasant City charge

1902                transfer to Pittsburgh Synod

1902-03           Brookville Grace

1903-07           Brookville Grace & Knoxdale St. Matthew’s

1907-11           Leechburg Grace

1911-20           Coatesville Church of Our Saviour [which Synod?]

1920                transfer to West Pennsylvania Synod

1920-22           New Franklin

1922                retired to Martinsburg WV

 

Note: Stump’s 1926 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod [Lutheran Church], page 176, gives a picture and a brief biography.  William is the father of Rev. Charles Felder Van Metre Hesse of the Lutheran church who served Shrewsbury (1912-18), Red Lion (1918-22), Jacobus (1922-25+).  In addition his daughter Mary Agatha married Lutheran pastor J. Fulton Wilson, and daughter Louella Virginia married Lutheran pastor and missionary Charles Brosius.

 

 

HETZEL, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 240

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1840    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1840-41           York circuit

 

 

HETZLER, CHARLES EMORY

 

Born: 5-7-1884  Browns Run OH                              married: Bertha Edith Young

Died: 10-8-1968  Farmersville OH                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 378

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    quarterly conference license

1913    license, Miami Conference

1916    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Germantown OH

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 28]

 

1913-16           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1916                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1916-19

1919-25           United Society of Christian Endeavor

1925                transfer to South East Ohio Conference

1925-27

1927                transfer to Miami Conference

1927-31

1931-42           evangelist at large

1942-43           Springfield, Allegheny Conference

1943                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1943-45           Springfield

1945-46           Monessen

1946-49           Zion

1949-50           Woodland

1950-51           Runville

1951-53           Venus

1953-54           Three Springs

1954-55           Bowserdale

1955-56           Laughlintown

1956                retired

 

 

HIESTAND, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 8-11-1762  Page County VA                            married: Magdalene Moomaw

Died: 2-13-1848  Harrison County IN                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: 36                                                      married2: Maria Schuster

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Elizabeth Cornwall

                                                                                    obit3: [3/2/1876 - ?]

1800    license

1815    ordained, Miami Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Tablar-Hiestand Cemetery, Harrison County IN

Obit:

 

1804                moved to Ohio

1810                charter member of Miami Ohio Conference

1812                moved to Indiana

1835                member of Indiana Conference

 

Note: The Hiestand family was originally Moravian.  Abraham is a brother to Bishop Samuel Hiestand (1781-1838) and the father of Henry Hiestand.

 

 

HIESTAND, HENRY

 

Born: 10-19-1788  Shendandoah County VA            married: Susanna Dietrich

Died: 12-28-1853  New Orleans LA                          obit: [1793 – 2/26/1878]

Miller-Raker #: 63

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1811     license [1813?]

 

Interment: Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans LA

Obit:

 

1804                moved to Ohio

1813                transferred [1815?]

1827                moved to Louisiana

 

Note: Henry is the son of Abraham Hiestand.  The 1851 New Orleans city directory lists a Rev. Henry Hiestand (and also an Ezra Hiestand, attorney at law and justice of the peace). 

 

 

HIGGINS, DAVID RAYBORN

 

Born: 2-3-1916  Guilford College NC                       married: Madaline Lois Shetrone

Died: 12-24-1987                                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 217

Miller-Raker #: 685

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    license, recommended by York Otterbein

1940    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 413

 

1938-40           Dayton OH Fairview, assistant

1940-43           Dover

1943-48           Winterstown

1948-53           Wormleysburg St. Paul’s

1953-59           Shippensburg Messiah

1959-63           Chamnersburg First

1963-70           New Cumberland Trinity

1970-75                      superintendent, Wellsboro District

1975-81           Shiremanstown

1981                retired

 

Note: D. Rayborn Higgins was the youngest and the only boy in a large family.  His sisters were a well-known singing group.  Following the death of his mother he was raised by his sister and brother-law, Katherine Higgins Shannon and Paul E.V. Shannon.

 

HIGGINS, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married: Elizabeth Balthis (5/21/1822)

Died: c1832                                                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: 151

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

1831    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Virginia Conference 1832

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HIKENS and HIGGENS.

 

 

HILBISH, HENRY

 

Born: 9-13-1836  Freeburg PA                                   married: Mary Ann Witmer (1857)

Died: 8-25-1904  Freeburg PA                                   obit: [4/13/1843 – 6/15/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1861    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Freeburg PA

Obit:

 

1858-59           Union County circuit

1859-60           Halifax circuit

1860-61           ?

1861-62           Union County circuit

1862-64           Amity circuit

1864                transfer to Miami Conference

                        transfer to Reformed Church

1880-1893       Hanover Second Reformed

1893-99           St. Paul’s Reformed, Bethel township in Lebanon County

 

Note: The Ohio assignments of Henry Hilbish in the United Brethren Church and the date/circumstances of his transfer to the Reformed denomination are unknown.  It is known that daughter Emma Hilbish was born 1/14/1883 in Decatur (Brown County) OH, within the bounds of the Miami Conference.

 

 

HILDEBRAND, ALVIN SYLVESTER

 

Born: 2-7-1917  near Mountville PA                         married: Lillian J. Schriver

Died: 10-10-2006                                                        obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf. 1985, 318]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Elaine Knause Richards

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [? – 11/21/2011]

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license, Lancaster Otterbein

1947    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1953    ordained, Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: Silver Spring Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2007,?

 

1947-49           student, Lebanon Valley College

1949-52           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1952-56           Norfolk First, Nebraska Conference

1956-61           unemployed in the ministry

1961-77           Schoeneck Weist Memorial

1977                retired

                             1977-00  Grace Chapel at Mount Airy

 

Note: Alvin S. Hildebrand taught history at Manheim Central Junior High School 1956-79.  The second Mrs. Hildebrand (nee Knause) was the widow of a Mr. Ralph Vernon Richards (1908-1973).

 

HILDT, JOHN

 

Born: 9-21-1775  Poland                                            married:

Died: 4-4-1862                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 86                                                      married2:  Mary Butt Wolgenmode

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1817    license

1820    ordained

 

Interment: Dover OH

Obit:

 

1823                presiding elder

1828                transferred

 

Note: John Hildt was a member of Otterbein’s Reformed Church in Baltimore and one of the bishop’s closest friends during the final years of his life.  He moved to Martinsburg WV about 1817 and later to Dover OH.  In 1834 he translated and published Newcomer’s diary, a document in which he himself is mentioned over 50 times.  Three sons were active in church work: Francis Hildt (d. 1859) was a local Methodist preacher in Dover OH and later an ordained member of the Muskingum Conference [UB]; John Hildt Jr was a Methodist class leader respectively in Dover OH; George Hildt (2/26/1803-3/7/1882) [see Newcomer’s diary, page 315] was a Methodist preacher in the Baltimore Conference.  Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HILTNER, GEORGE JOSEPH III

 

Born: 1-20-1940                                                          married: Sandy Jenny (8/28/1965)

Died: 4-29-2022                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 782

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Baltimore Christ

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960-65                      living in Baltimore, then NY

1965                no longer listed, no explanation

 

Note: After graduating from Lebanon Valley College with a Bachelor’s degree in 1962, George Hiltner attended Union Theological Seminary.  In February of 1963, he was assigned to work as an assistant minister of youth activities in the Southampton NY Presbyterian Church. It was during this assignment that he met his future wife, Sandy Jenny. The two were married in Southampton and he became a long-time faculty member at Suffolk County Community College in NY.

 

 

HIMMELBERGER, HARRY JOHN PAUL

 

Born: 11-18-1917  Lebanon PA                                 married: Anna Herr Orth

Died: 11-29-1991  Lancaster PA                                obit:   10/7/1914 – 3/20/2009]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1947    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1951    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mountville Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 7.305

 

1945-47           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1945           Mt. Aetna (6 months)

                             1946-47      Lickdale circuit (beginning June 1946)

1947-51           Cressona

1951-56           Catawissa circuit

1958-58           Pine Grove

1958-69           Mountville

1969-70           Lancaster Bethany

1970-71           sabbatical leave

1971-73           Willow Street – Boehm’s

1973-77           Lebanon St. Luke’s (ending Jan 1977)

1977-83           disability leave (beginning Jan 1977)

1983                retired

 

 

HISER, CARL WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-17-1900                                                          married: Bertha May Abbott 

Died: 2-4-1979                                                            obit: Virginia Conference 1976, 183

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1917    license, Virginia Conference

1930    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:      

Obit: Virginia Conference 1979, 205

 

1918-22           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1919-21      Pottsville Baltzell

 

HISKEY, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 131

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1827    license

1830    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1833                moved to Ohio

1834                charter member of the Sandusky Conference

 

Note: George Hiskey is the father of Mary Hiskey Thuma, wife of John Thuma.  The 1880 History of Richland County Ohio lists George Hiskey as a founder of the UB church in Johnsville in 1850 (page 554), a founder of the UB church in Clear Fork in 1852/3 (page 553), an early preacher in Worthington township (page 631), and a c1850 preacher in Williamsport [now Morrow County](page 680).  There is a HISKEY/RIBLET cemetery in Perry township – west of state road 546 and south of county road 31 [Bellville-Johnsville Rd].  George Hiskey appears to be a nephew of Valentine Hiskey.

 

HISKEY, VALENTINE

 

Born: 12-24-1786                                                        married: Mary Rhodes

Died: 8-11-1861  Richland County OH                     obit: [b. 5/4/1789]

Miller-Raker #: 78

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1815    license

1822    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1836-37           presiding elder, Carlisle District

                        transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, gives a brief biography.  While in Pennsylvania, Valentine Hiskey lived in southwest of Carlisle in Stoughstown.  Mrs. Rhodes is the daughter of the Jacob Rhodes who gave the land for the Oakville church, and she is an aunt to William H. Wagner.  Valentine Hiskey appears to be an uncle to George Hiskey.

 

 

HISSONG, JONAS FAUST

 

Born: 1-7-1924  Chambersburg PA                            married: [single]

Died: 4-5-2020  Belleville PA                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: 800

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Scotland church

1967    ordained

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 336

 

1963-64           Dillsburg

1964-67           student, United Theological Seminary

1967-69           Chambersburg First, assistant

1969-76           chaplain, Scotland Home

1976-83           Petersburg

1983-93           Vira

1993                retired

                          1993-99         Mifflinville

                          1999-06         Mill Creek

 

 

HITZ, CLAIR MELVIN

 

Born: 7-16-1913                                                          married: Mildred Miller

Died: 10-24-1989                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1933    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1933-34           student, Lebanon Valley College

1934-37           student, Dallas Theological Seminary

1937-41           Hillsdale circuit

1941-46           Hopeland

1946                honorable dismissal

                        Faith Community Church, Rosalyn PA

 

Note: Clair M. Hitz apparently served on the staff at the Philadelphia College of the Bible.

 

 

HOENSHEL, ELMER ULYSSES

 

Born: 4-13-1864  Westmoreland County PA             married: Laura N. Holland

Died: 5-2-1940                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 66

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 233

Gibble list: no

 

1889    quarterly conference license

1890    license, Allegheny Conference

1892    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Waynesboro VA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1940, 59

 

1892-94           Tyrone Second

1894-96           Mt. Pleasant

1896-09           principal, Shenandoah Collegiate Institute of Music in Dayton VA

                             1903-04      Dayton VA, Virginia Conference

1909-20           president, Brandon Institute in Waynesboro VA

1920-28

1928-38           lecturer

1938                retired

 

Note. E. U. Hoenshel founded Brandon Institute in the former Brandon Hotel, Waynesboro VA, which had opened in 1890.  The building became Fairfax Hall, a finishing school for women, from 1920 to 1975.  He is the author of the travel-oriented books My Three Days in Gilead and By the Overflowing Nile and the historical work The Cruise of the Neptune.

 

HOERNER, JESSIE EMMA

 

Born: 11-27-1887  Boiling Springs PA                      married: [never married]

Died: 8-26-1975                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

(missionary)

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Boiling Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 268

 

1918-45           missionary to Sierra Leone

1945-58           denominational headquarters and United Theological Seminary, Dayton OH

1958                retired

 

Note: Jessie Hoerner is a sister to Lena Hoerner.

 

 

HOERNER, LENA MAY

 

Born: 12-1-1886  Boiling Springs PA                        married: [never married]

Died: 6-3-1975  Harrisburg PA                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

(missionary)

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Boiling Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 155

 

1906-10           student, Lebanon Valley College

1910-13           teacher, Norristown High School, Norristown PA

1913-16           teaching missionary, Moyamba School for Girls, Sierra Leone

1916-17           student, Penn State University

1917-18           teacher, Annville High School, Annville PA

1918-20           teaching missionary, Moyamba School for

1920-23           student, Columbia University

1923-25           faculty, Fisk University, Nashville TN

1925-37           faculty, Otterbein College, Westerville OH

1937                transfer to Methodist denomination

1937-54           teaching missionary, Crandon Institute, Montevideo Uruguay

1954-55           teaching missionary, Bennet College, Rio de Janeiro Brazil

1955                establish library, Lima High School, Lima Peru

1955                retired

 

Note: Miss Hoerner taught home economics.  Lena Hoerner is a sister to Jessie Hoerner.  A picture and article appear in the November 1913 issue of Woman’s Evangel, the national publication of the Woman’s Missionary Association of the United Brethren Church.

 

 

HOEY, GEORGE EDGAR

 

Born: 8-25-1891  Long River WV                             married: Anna Jane Price

Died: 12-?-1953  Pitcairn PA                                     obit: [1888-1966]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 448

Gibble list: no

 

1918    quarterly conference license

1919    license, Allegheny Conference

1922    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: German Lutheran Cemetery, Frostburg MD

Obit:

 

1919-20           Dunlevy

1920-21           Runville (resigned 10/1/1920)

1921-23           Industry

1923-25           Jefferson (resigned 1/6/1925)

1925                withdrew to unite with the Baptist Church, page 119

1925-28           Turtle Creek

1928-33           First Baptist, Pitcairn PA

 

Note: George E. Hoey reported worked as a miner in WV and as a barber in Arona PA before entering the ministry.  After retiring from the ministry, he returned to being a barber.  The dates on his gravestone are 1892-1953.


HOFFER, HENRY H.

 

Born: 4-27-1863                                                          married: Elizabeth Fishburn

Died: 9-5-1941                                                            obit: [1/21/1862 – 6/22/1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fishburn UB Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit:

 

1895-96           Lancaster circuit

1896-98           Mont Clare

1898-99           ?

1899-01           Harrisburg circuit

1901-04           ?

1904-06           Lickdale circuit

1906-10           Grantville circuit

…

1917                Richfield, Allegheny Conference (beginning 3/15/1917, ending 9/30/1917)

 

Note: According to Gibble’s list, Henry H. Hoffer was “referred” in 1905.  This usually means retuned to a quarterly conference license.  His later service is classified as “others employed”.

 

HOFFER, JOHN

 

Born: 1770                                                                  married:

Died: 7-23-1842                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 101

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1821    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment: Rohrersville Cemetery, Rohrersville MD

Obit:

 

1830    charter member of Virginia Conference

 

 

HOFFMAN, DANIEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 210

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1836    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1837-38           Clearfield circuit

1838                transfer to Miami OH Conference

 

 

HOFFMAN, DAVID

 

Born: 4-18-1823                                                                      married: Mary _____

Died: 2-5-1884                                                                        obit: [12/17/1823 – 10/20/1901]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1847    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1851    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion United Brethren Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit:

 

1848-50           Lebanon circuit

1850-52           Dauphin circuit

1852-54           Reading Zion

1854-55           Amity circuit

1855-57           Pine Grove circuit

1857-60           Lebanon Salem

1860-61           Myerstown

1861-63           presiding elder

1863-64           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1864-65           Bethlehem circuit

1865-79           Allentown Zion

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-70           Allentown Zion

1870-71           Lehigh Valley circuit

1871-73           presiding elder

1873-79           Philadelphia Fourth Street German mission

1879-81           Reading Zion

1881-84           presiding elder, Lebanon District

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 454, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HOFFMAN, ELMER E.

 

Born: 1862                                                                              married:

Died: 1936                                                                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Morris Cemetery, Phoenixville PA

Obit:

 

1886-88           Mt. Shiloh

1888-91           Port Providence

                             1888-89  Pottstown Baltzell

…                    …

?      -00           Free Will Baptist, Conshohocken PA

1900-07           Valley Forge Baptist, Valley Forge PA

?      -11           Madisonville PA (Lackawanna County) Christian Church

1911-               Baleville NJ Christian Church

 

Note: Gibble’s History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 413, identifies Elmer E. Hoffmann as a local preacher who was the first class leader and Sunday School superintendent at Mt. Shiloh church, Caernarvon township, Berks County in 1886.  He is also identified as the founding pastor at Port Providence [Mt. Clare] (page 418) and Baltzell Memorial (page 420).

HOFFMAN, ENOCH

 

Born: 6-29-1808  Perry County PA                            married: Elizabeth Nace

Died: 1-14-1879  Des Moines, IA                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: 216                                                    married2: Catherine Keller [9/21/1838]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/28/1818 – 3/31/1842]

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license  Sciota Conference

1838    ordained

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City IA

Obit:

 

1836                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1836-37           Huntingdon circuit

1837-38           Chambersburg circuit

1838-39           Dauphin circuit

1839-40           Carlisle circuit

1840-41           Chambersburg

1841-43           withdrew, living in Germantown OH

1843-44           restored, Harrisburg mission

1845-47           York mission

1847                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1851                transfer to

1864                chaplain, 47th Regiment Iowa Infantry

 

Note: Enoch Hoffman is the son of (bishop) Joseph Hoffman.  His daughter Frances married Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh.  He is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), 5. Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972).  All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.

 

 

HOFFMAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 6-21-1775  Millerstown PA                              married: Elizabeth Catherine Limbert

Died: 4-1-1839  Little York OH                                 obit: [1778 – 12/31/1866]

Miller-Raker #: 59

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1810    license [1808?]

1816    ordained

 

Interment: Concord UM Church, Englewood OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1892, 8

 

1810-11           Pfoutz Valley circuit

1819                founded Concord Methodist Church, Englewood OH

 

Note: George Hoffman is the brother of John Hoffman and Joseph Hoffman.  Mrs. George Hoffman is believed to be a sister to Mrs. John Hoffman and Mrs. Joseph Hoffman.

 

 

HOFFMAN, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 10-22-1888                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 160

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1830    license

1833    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Virginia Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HUFFMAN.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 172, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HOFFMAN, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 5-26-1820                                                          married: Leah Benfer

Died: 3-1-1883                                                            obit: [9/22/1820 – 3/4/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1854    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit:

 

1853-54           Northumberland mission

1854-57           Lebanon Salem

1857-60           Reading Zion

1860-62           Halifax circuit

1862-64           Middleburg circuit

1864-65           Shamokin circuit  (first part of the year)

                        Sinking Spring circuit  (last part of the year)

1865-67           Highspire circuit

1867-68           Annville  (first part of year)

                        Sinking Spring  (last part of year)

1868-69           Sinking Spring circuit  (first part of year)

1869                name erased

 

Note: George W. Hoffman is the founder of the United Christian denomination, which has a retirement home in Annville PA and a campground in Cleona PA.  The United Christian (formally organized 1877) and United Brethren Old Constitution (1889) are the two conservative splits from the main branch of the United Brethren denomination.  Nothing is known about the pre-minsterial life of George W. Hoffman, but he and Leah (born in New Berlin) have a one year old son named Franklin buried in Middleburg, Snyder County.

 

HOFFMAN, JOHN H.

 

Born: 5-10-1767  Millerstown PA                              married: Barbara Magdalene Limbert

Died: 8-5-1849  Liberty OH                                       obit: [1/10/1770 – 3/27/1820]

Miller-Raker #: 128                                                    married2: Susanna _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1795 – 10/8/1867]

Gibble list: yes

 

1826    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment: Liberty United Methodist Church, Liberty OH

Obit:

 

1838                transfer to Miami OH Conference

 

John Hoffman is the brother of George W. (1775-1839) Hoffman and Joseph Hoffman.  The first Mrs. John Hoffman is believed to be a sister to Mrs. George Hoffman and Mrs. Joseph Hoffman.

 

 

HOFFMAN, JOSEPH

 

Born: 3-19-1780  Millerstown PA                              married: Susannah Limbert

Died: 11-8-1856  Dayton OH                                     obit: [3/3/1782 -11/14/1845]

Miller-Raker #: 55                                                      married2: Barbara _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/10/1795 – 3/29/1877]

Gibble list: yes

 

1806    license

1813    ordained (by Otterbein)

 

Interment: Lower Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1892, 9

 

1806-07           unspecified circuit “to serve the societies for a year”

1808-09           Virginia (3 months), Maryland (3 months), Pennsylvania (3 months)

1809-10           traveled with Newcomer

1810-11           Lancaster circuit

1811-12           Maryland & Pennsylvania

1812                ill health

1814-17           Baltimore Otterbein

[1816-17          also presiding elder]

1817                moved to Fairfield County OH

1818                transfer to Miami Conference

1821-25           bishop

1832                moved from Fairfield County OH to Dayton OH

1833                moved to Cincinnati

 

Note: Joseph Hoffman is the brother of John Hoffman and George (1775-1839) Hoffman.  Mrs. Joseph Hoffman is believed to be a sister to Mrs. John Hoffman and Mrs. George Hoffman.  Joseph Hoffman is the father of Enoch Hoffman.  Joseph is reported to have had five sons that entered the ministry.  Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.  Chapter 3 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Joseph Hoffman, as does chapter 2 of the 1911 Our Heroes vol 2.  He is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972).  All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.

 

 

HOFFMAN, PETER CHARLES

 

Born: 3-20-1889  Jeddo PA                                        married: Lilly Anna [Lillian] Ross

Died: 10-9-1960  Zarephath NJ                                  obit: [6/15/1888 – 3/27/1973]

Miller-Raker #: 569

Fulton #: 453 & 525

Gibble list: yes

 

1911    quarterly conference license, Lemoyne (1911, 33)

1911    license, recommended by Newburg (1911, 34)

1920    ordained

 

Interment: Pillar of Fire Cemetery, Zarephath NJ

Obit: in the biographical files at the conference archives

 

1910-11           Newburg

1911-12           Biglerville

1912-13           student, Lebanon Valley College

1913-14           Bendersville

1914-17           Red Lion circuit

1917                local 

1919                Bigler, Allegheny Conference (2/18/19 to 9/30/19)

1919-20           East Pittsburgh, Allegheny Conference

1920                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1920-21           East Freedom (resigned 2/1/1921)

1921                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1921-25           Paxinos circuit

1925                transfer to Oregon Conference

1925-26           ?

1926-28           Mont Clare Otterbein, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928-29           Liverpool, Allegheny Conference (beginning 11/7/1928)

1929                transfer to Allegheny Conference, page 118

1929-30           Liverpool, Allegheny Conference

1930                transfer to Erie Conference

1934                withdrew to join Pillar of Fire denomination

                        Zarephath NJ

                        Philadelphia Cresthaven Church & Seminary

                        Zarephath NJ

 

Note: Peter Hoffman’s daughter Phyllis Esther married Rev. Donald Justin Wolfram, later bishop and general superintendent of the Pillar of Fire denomination founded by Alma White.  Phyllis Esther Hoffman Wolfram (1921-1985) and two of her five children were also ordained in that denomination.

 

 

HOFFMAN, RUSSEL L.

 

Born:1925                                                                   married: Lois Marie Ort

Died: 2-17-2005                                                          obit: Eastern PA Conference 1988, 7.25

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Powell’s Valley Zion

1953    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Point Phillips Cemetery, Point Phillip PA

Obit:

 

1953-55           Shamokin circuit

1955-56           Elizabethville

1956-58           Northampton

1958-62           Cressona

1962-67           Bellegrove circuit

1967-77           Ranck’s

1977-84           Parkesburg

1984-89           Bethesda

1989                retired

 

 

HOKE, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 1909                                                                  married:

Died: 2-21-1969                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 680

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1935    license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1935-40           living in New Cumberland

1940                no longer listed, apparently for lack of progress

 

Note:  Charles W. Hoke was a Bible and Greek graduate of Lebanon Valley College in the 1930’s.

 

HOLDCRAFT, PAUL ELSWORTH

 

Born: 9-22-1891  Frederick MD                                married: Lola Grace McDonald

Died: 2-24-1971  Baltimore MD                                obit: Baltimore Conference 1983, 382

Miller-Raker #: 551

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    license

1913    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1971, 438

 

1910-12           Rayville

1912-16           Walkersville

1916-20           Keedysville

1920-21           York Fourth

1921-29           Baltimore Third [Fulton Avenue]

1929-49           Hagerstown Emmanuel

1949-53           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1953                retired

[1953-58          pastor emeritus, Old Otterbein]

[1958-60          supply, Old Otterbein]

[1962-68          assistant, Old Otterbein]

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: Paul Holdcraft was a noted churchman – historian, writer, regular General Conference delegate, and author of the 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

HOLDEMAN, PHARES M.

 

Born: 6-6-1880                                                            married: Carrie Ada Mengel

Died: 7-18-1954                                                          obit: East Ohio Conference 1949, 18

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1903    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Ohio East Conference 1955, 84

 

1903-04           Landingville

1904-06           Orangeville and Chautauqua

1906-11           student, Lebanon Valley College       

                             1907-11  Bellegrove circuit

1911-12           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary; see 1911, 6

1912-13           Valley View circuit

1913-15           Tremont St. Johns

1915-17           Catawissa (ending 11/1/1917)

1917-19           chaplain, US Army (beginning 11/1/1917)

1919-22           Elizabethville

1922-25           Jonestown

1925-26           Zanesville OH, Ohio German Conference

1926                transfer to Ohio German Conference

                        chaplain, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home

 

HOLLEN, JOHN R.

 

Born: 1810                                                                  married: Hannah Wilson

Died: 11-20-1885  Glasgow PA                                 obit: [1815-1871]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 109

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1866                withdrew

 

Note:  There is no indication that John Hollen ever received an appointment, and any ministerial service was as a local preacher.  He was a farmer, worked timber land, and had business investments.  This name is also appears in some conference records as JOHN HOLLAND.

 

HOLLER, PETER C.

 

Born: 5-7-1820  Franklin County PA                         married: Susan Rebecca Schlichter

Died: 2-12-1887  Peabody KS                                    obit: [1/22/1820 – 4/27/1885]

Miller-Raker #: 360

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license

 

Interment: Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody KS

Obit:

 

1873                transfer to any conference he wishes to join, page 17

                        Osage Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HOLLAR.  Mrs. Holler is an aunt to Hiram A. Schlichter.

 

HOLLINGER, CARL EDWARD

 

Born: 2-9-1910                                                            married: Esther Helen Hoopes

Died: 3-5-1970                                                            obit: [1909 – 1985]

Miller-Raker #: 783

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Yoe Salem

 

Interment: Dover Union Cemetery, Dover PA

Obit:

 

1960-64           Adamsville-Pleasant Grove

1964                dropped, for failure to make progress in course of study –

see Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 81

1965                re-admitted as probationer

                        see Susquehanna Conference 1965, 61and 129

1965-67           East Salem

1967-69           Sugar Valley

1969                withdrew – Susquehanna Conference 1969, 63

 

Note: In 1968 Carl E. Hollinger led the Mt. Pleasant church of the Sugar Valley charge out of the United Methodist church, and he became pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Community Church.

 

HOLLINGSWORTH, CHESTER COBLE

 

Born: 1-14-1895                                                          married: Esther B. Seiple

Died: 3-15-1969  Palmyra PA                                                obit: [1893 – 1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Columbia Salome

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1969, 117

 

1920-21           Brunnerville

1921-29           Shoemakersville

1929-42           Elizabethtown

1942-52           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1952-64           Lebanon Salem

1964                retired

                             1966-67  assistant, Palmyra First

 

Note: Chester C. Hollingsworth is the father of Harold C. Hollingsworth and of Rev. Gerald E. Hollingsworth of the Presbyterian Church.

 

 

HOLLINGSWORTH, HAROLD CHESTER

 

Born: 7-7-1915  Columbia PA                                   married: Ann M. Zarfoss

Died: 4-17-1967  Palmyra PA                                                obit: [1915 – 1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1934    quarterly conference license, Elizabethtown

1935    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1940    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 134

 

1934-37           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1936-37  Hillsdale circuit (see 1937, 22)

1937-40           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1939-40  Dayton First, Society of Friends

1940-46           Pine Grove

1946-67           Palmyra First

 

Note: Harold C. Hollingsworth is the son of Chester C. Hollingsworth and brother of Rev. Gerald E. Hollingsworth of the Presbyterian Church.  Following the death of Harold, Mrs. Hollingsworth married a Mr. Oakum.

 

 

HOLMES, JONATHAN LORENZO

 

Born: 5-12-1823  Selinsgrove PA                              married: Christina Matthews

Died: 8-6-1894  Tyrone PA                                       obit: [1827-1909]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 73 & 100

Gibble list: no

 

1848    license, Allegheny Conference

1850    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit:

 

1847-48           Bellefonte circuit

1848-49           Washington circuit

1849-50           Johnstown station

1850-51           Pittsburgh mission

1851-52           Allegheny City mission

1852-53           Allegheny & Wilkinsburg

1853-54           Mt. Pleasant station

1854                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1854-56           Harrisburg Front Street, East Pennsylvania Conference (did not finish 2nd year)

                              1854-56  agent, Mt. Pleasant college

1856                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1856-57           no assignment

1857-58           agent for Allegheny meeting house

1858                withdrew from the denomination, living in Tyrone

                        … pastored within the Baptist Church as follows

1859-62           Mill Creek (including extension to Three Springs in 1860)

mid 1860’s      Bald Eagle

1868                Philipsburg (possibly an extension of Bald Eagle)

1870-76           Tyrone

 

Note: In the 1855 minutes, J.L. Holmes was required to correct misrepresentation he had made in the Telescope concerning the use of funds for Allegheny mission.   In the 1856 minutes he was “received back after his ‘transfer’ out two years ago” but with a note that complaints lodged against him in Harrisburg would be investigated.  J.L. Holmes settled in Tyrone and became a prominent businessman/editor, publishing the Tyrone Herald 1867-69 and the Tyrone Blade 1870-72.  In 1870 he helped organize the Tyrone Baptists Church and served as its pastor for six years.

 

HOMAN, WILLIAM J.

 

Born: 2-6-1904  Eastport NY                                     married: Irene Lemmon [1926]

Died:                                                                           obit: [1903 – 3/10/1989]

Miller-Raker #: 651

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1926    license, recommended by Taneytown

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1932                referred back to quarterly conference  1932, 37&57

 

Note: William J. Homan is a 1924 graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary and was living in Eastport NY at the time of his wedding (at the Taneytown UB parsonage).  The Homan family was prominent in the strong Eastport Methodist Protestant Church, which later became the Eastport Gospel Church.  In 1950, Mrs. Homan married a Mr. Harold Hallock Fanning.

 

 

HOLTZMAN, MARK G.

 

Born: 1888                                                                  married: Ethel Wood

Died: 1940                                                                  obit: [1891 – 1977]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1909-1911       West Lebanon (did not finish 2nd year)

1914                referred

 

Note: Mark G. Holtzman resigned to enter YMCA work in Philadelphia; see 1911, 6.  By 1919, however, he was back living in Harrisburg.

 

HOLZINGER, CHARLES HENRY

 

Born: 6-19-1888  South Bethlehem PA                     married: Emily Rose

Died: 2-2-1928  Lancaster PA                                    obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1974, 546]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

            quarterly conference license, Allentown Sixth Street

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery, Strasburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 13

 

1909-10           Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1910-12           Reften and West Willow

1912-13           Mont Clare

1913-15           Lebanon West

1915-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-18           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

                             1917-18      Providence and Jacksonville NJ, Presbyterian

1918-28           Lancaster Otterbein

 

Note: The dates for Mrs. Holzinger are 2/12/1889 – 4/2/1974.

 

 

HORN, ALEXANDER N.

 

Born: 7-7-1866  Augusta County VA                        married: Annie C. Hammack

Died: 5-30-1943                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 76

Miller-Raker #: 484                                                    married2: “Widow” Miller

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 1933]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: (Miss) Effie N. Albright

                                                                                    obit3:

1883    exhorter’s license

1885    license, Virginia Conference

1890    ordained, Maryland Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill, Augusta County VA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 28

 

1886-87           Deer Park MD

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-90           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1890-91           Williamsport MD

1891-93           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1893-85           Newburg, Pennsylvania Conference

1895                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1895-96           Newburg

1896-98           Gettysburg

1898-01           Fayetteville

1901-03           Staunton, Virginia Conference

1903-05           Boonsboro

1905-10                      Windsor

1910-11           Enola

1911-16           Red Lion

1916-20           Baltimore Fourth

1920-25           York Second

1925-29           Mechanicsburg

1929-31           Windsor

1931                retired

    1934  supply, York Second (May to Oct)

 

Note: The first Mrs. Horn was the daughter of Cornelius B. Hammack of the Virginia Conference.  Glovier’s 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 127, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HORN, PAUL EDWARD

 

Born: 5-17-1912  York PA                                         married: Dorothy Adelaide Yeakel

Died: 11-23-1997  Quincy PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 416

Miller-Raker #: 676

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference kicense, York F

1934    license, recommended by York First

1935    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 439

 

1936-40           student, Lebanon Valley College

1940-43           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1943-48           Scotland charge

1948-53           Shippensburg Messiah

1953-61           Silver Spring Memorial

1961-70           Conference Superintendent

1970-73           Conference Program Director

1973-80           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

1980                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Horn is a sister to Bishop Joseph H. Yeakel; she was president of the denominational (EUB) Women’s Council 1962-66.

 

 

HORNER, ABRAHAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 89

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1818    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference identifies Abraham Horner as an exhorter.  Despite some confusion in the conference histories, this is probably NOT the same person as Abraham HARNER who transferred to the Allegheny Conference in 1839.

 

 

HORST, ELMER H.

 

Born: 5-21-1923  Lebanon County PA                      married: Clarian L. Groff

Died: 3-3-2004                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license, Avon

1948    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1953    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit: 2004, 369

 

1950-53           Mt. Aetna

1953-62           Shoemakersville circuit

1962-65           Fishburn-Union Deposit

1965-88           Fishburn

1988                retired

 

 

HOSLER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 2-?-1843                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 237

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HOSSLER]

 

1839    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

HOSTETTER, EUGENE R.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Anna Mae _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon St. Luke’s

1962    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-57           Mt. Aetna

1957-59           Rocherty-Fontana

1959-62           student, United Theological Seminary

                        1959-60  Waterhouse-Hillsgrove, Miami Conference

1962-66           Shoemakersville

1966-79           Lebanon Church of the Good Shepherd

1979-98           Lancaster Covenant

1998                retired

 

Note: Eugene R. Hostetter is the father of Richard Hostetter of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

HOSTETTER, MARK JAMES

 

Born: 7-24-1914  Bellegrove PA                                married: L. Ellen Hartman

Died: 7-15-2014  Cornwall PA                                  obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 7.274

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ruth C.A. Keene

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1918 – 2010]

Gibble list: yes

 

1931    quarterly conference license. Bellegrove

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1940    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: North Bellegrove Cemetery, Bellegrove PA

Obit: Easter Pennsylvania Conference 2015, 576

 

1932-36           student, Lebanon Valley College

1936-39           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1937-39      Alpha OH, Methodist Protestant

1939-40           student, Yale Divinity School

1940-45           Kansas City Statton Memorial, Missouri Conference

1945-49           Reading Zion-Lincoln Park

1949-57           Lincoln Park-Sinking Spring

1957-66           Annville

1966-69           Elizabethtown

1969-75           superintendent, Lancaster District

1975-79           Morrisville

1979                retired

 

 

HOTT, CHARLES M.

 

Born: 9-11-1851  Winchester VA                              married: Arbelon Clementine Eyler (1/23/1877)

Died: 6-15-1890  Woodbridge CA                             obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 32

Miller-Raker #: 366

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1872    license, Virginia Conference

1875    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Woodbridge Masonic Cemetery, Woodbridge CA

Obit: Maryland Conference 1891, 19

 

1872-73           Rockingham circuit

1873-74           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1874-76           ?

1876-78           Hagerstown station

1878-80           Myersville

1880-82           Dayton [VA] station

1882-84           Boonsboro circuit

1884-86           presiding elder, Potomac District

1886-87           Boonsboro circuit

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-90           Boonsboro circuit

1890                Woodbridge Seminary, Woodbridge CA

 

Note: Charles M. Hott is the son of Jacob Fries Hott (1822-1884) of the Virginia Conference and one of four brothers to enter the ministry – and a fifth brother David Otterbein Hott (1863-1880) died while so preparing, and a sister Ella Frances Hott (1849-1891) married Millard [Monroe?] F. Keiter of the Virginia Conference (and later, the Old Constitution).  The others (all members of the Virginia Conference) are (bishop) James William Hott (1844-1902), John Elkanah Hott (1846-1919), George Peter Hott (1854-1914).  Charles Hott followed his brother Bishop Hott to California and taught briefly at the UB’s Woodbridge Seminary (later San Joaquin Valley College) before his untimely death.  Charles M. Hott is not in Holdcraft’s 1939 list, but was inserted in the 1968 Miller-Raker list.  He neither was a member of the Pennsylvania Conference nor served a church while it was in the Pennsylvania Conference, and so he should not be in this list.  He apparently appears because after his death (in California, while still a member of the Maryland Conference), his widow returned east and became of widow in the Maryland Conference – so that the 1902 MD-Pennsylvania Conference merger earned her standing and an obituary in the Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

HOUCK, WILLIAM JOSEPH

 

Born: 4-20-1855  York County PA                            married: Mary A. Cramer

Died: 5-30-1917                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 58

Miller-Raker #: 444

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1890    license

1893    ordained

 

Interment: Propsect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 88

 

1890-93           Newburg

1893-00           Carlisle

1900-04           Baltimore Franklin Street

1904-08           Washington DC

1908-09           York Third

1908-10           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage

1910-14           Greencastle

1914-17           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage & Home

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 297, gives a brief biography.

 

 

HOUGH, SAMUEL STRICKLER

 

Born: 10-4-1864  Smithton PA                                  married: Mrs. Mary Richards Albert

Died: 7-15-1944  Dayton OH                                     obit: [5/26/1877 – 12/14/1973]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 234

Gibble list: no

 

1887    quarterly conference license

1890    license, Allegheny Conference

1892    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 60

 

1889-92           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1891       Attica, Sandusky Conference (4 months)

                             1891-92  Millville, Miami Conference

1892-94           Madison circuit

1894-95           Madison station

1895-05           Altoona Second

1905-19           general secretary, Board of Foreign Missions

1919-37           executive secretary, Board of Administration

1937                retired

 

Note: S.S. Hough is the author of several biographies and book on the missions.  Mrs. Hough and her first husband Ira E. Albert were missionaries to Africa.  The 1974 Encyclopedia World Methodism includes articles on both Samuel S. Hough and Mary R. Hough.   

HOUK, HERMAN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 156

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license

1834    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HAUK and HAUX.

 

 

HOUK, JACOB M.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Barbara Rhodes

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 156

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license

1833    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831-32           Staunton & Woodstock circuits

1835-36           Staunton circuit

 

Note: The names Jacob C. Houk and Jacob B. Houk also appear in the Virginia Conference records, and they may all refer to the same person.  This surname is also rendered HAUK and HAUX.

 

 

HOUK, JONAH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 125

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1825    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HAUK and HAUX.

 

 

HOUSE, AMOS L.

 

Born: c1867  Perry County PA                                   married: Mary A. _____

Died:                                                                           obit: [1861 – 1/?/1932]

Miller-Raker #: 480

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, recommended by Donnally Mills

1905    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1901-02           Path Valley

1902-05           Perry circuit

1905-06           York Haven, resigned in mid-year (4/16/1906)  1906, 19

1906                dismissed  1906, 49

 

Note: Amos L. House of Markelville attended Lebanon Valley College 1898-1901, but did not graduate.  In August 1908, 130 acres of land on Tuscarora township, Perry County, belonging to A.L. House was sold at sheriff’s sale.  Electronic copies of newspaper articles detailing the circumstances of his dismissal from the ministry is stored in the electronic “people” file at the archives.

 

HOUSE, CLYDE EDWARD

 

Born: 5-18-1901  Frostburg MD                                married: Ethel Rachel Perry

Died: 12-6-1973                                                          obit: [10/8/1904 – 8/29/1946]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: H. Marie Hornberger

Fulton #: 516                                                               obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 410

Gibble list: no

 

1918    quarterly conference license, Altoona Greenwood

1928    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Richfield PA

Obit:  Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 423

 

1927-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1930-31           Runville

1931-39           Bigler

1939-40           Trafford City

1940                Richfield (resigned 9/26/1940)

1940-42           Trafford City (beginning 10/2/1940)

1942-44           Westmoreland

1944-51           Richfield

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

1951-52           Richfield

1952-54           Montoursville-Pennsdale

1954-63           Rebersburg

1963-66           Lopez-Dushore

1966                retired

 

Note: Clyde E. House is the son of Edwin F. House and a brother to Carrie Almetta House Orlidge, wife of Alfred J. Orlidge.  There is also a gravemarker for Clyde E. House with his first wife at Greenwood Cemetery in Altoona PA.

 

 

HOUSE, EDWIN FRANCIS

 

Born: 2-16-1868  Hampshire WV                              married: Edith Dennison

Died: 10-21-1926  Johnstown PA                              obit: Allegheny Conference 1927, 74

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 416

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

1919    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:  Allegheny Conference 1927, 74

 

1909-12           Listonburg, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

1912-15           Casselman

1915-16           Glasgow

1916-18           Susquehanna

1918-19           Fayette

1919-23           Wilmore

1923-26           Altoona Greenwood

 

Note: Edwin F. House is the father of Clyde E. House and Carrie Almetta House Orlidge, wife of Alfred J. Orlidge.  Rev. and Mrs. House died as the result of an automobile accident

 

 

HOUSEAL, REUBEN ARTHUR

 

Born: 1-6-1910  York County PA                              married: Jennie Belle Hinkle (1929)

 Died: 4-4-1990  Mercer PA                                       obit: [1/10/1909 – 2/6/1964]

Miller-Raker #: 674                                                    married2: Margaret Edna Ruth Ali-Arnold (1964)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/23/1904 – 8/11/1994]

Gibble list: no

 

1933    license, recommended by Springet

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, East Prospect PA

Obit:

 

1938                referred back to York Fourth quarterly conference  1938, 45

 

Note: The second Mrs. Houseal (nee Ali-Arnold) had been presvioously married to a Mr. John A. Johnson (1909-1977).

 

 

HOUSEHOLDER, GEORGE ELMER

 

Born: 3-11-1879  Everett PA                                      married: Ida E. Foor

Died: 3-5-1963                                                            obit: [3/31/1876 – 8/27/1862]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 454

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Altoona Third

1921    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Memorial Park, Centre County PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 34]

 

1921-26           Coalport

1926-30           Everson

1930-44           Bellefonte

1944-47           Conemaugh

1947-51           Altoona Schum Memorial

1951                retired

 

Note: Complete obituaries for George E. Householder and Ida E. Foor Householder appear in the 3/14/1963 and 8/30/1962 Centre County Democrat.

 

 

HOUSEL, LLOYD J.

 

Born: 12-20-1923  PA                                                married: Carolyn Lydia Mease

Died: 4-16-2004  CA                                                  obit: [b. 5/1/1925]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1941    quarterly conference license

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1950    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside CA

Obit:

 

1946-47           Casselman

1947-50           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1948-50      assistant, Dayton OH First

1950-51           assistant, Dayton OH First, Miami Conference

1951-54           Huntingdon

1954-58           Mount Pleasant

1958-60           Blairsville (did not finish second year)

1960                withdrew at own request – 1960, 93

                        worked in industry     

1970-72           interim, Connellsville PA First Baptist

HOUSEMAN, JACOB WESLEY

 

Born: 10-7-1859  Middlesex PA                                married: Ellen Jane Keener

Died: 5-14-1935  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 39

Miller-Raker #: 429

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1885    quarterly conference license

1888    license, recommended by York Second

1889    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Greenmount MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 22

 

1888-90           Shippensburg

1980-91           Mount Wolf

1891-95           Perry circuit

1895-98           Rayville

1898-99           Winterstown

1899-01           Big Spring

1901-03           Manchester [Greenmount]

1903-06           Dover circuit

1906-08           Gettysburg

1908-09           Hanover

1909-10           Boonsboro

1910-12           Lemasters

1912-13           Carlisle circuit

1913                retired

 

 

HOUSER, MARTIN

 

Born: 7-5-1788  Annville PA                                     married: Elizabeth Grove

Died: 6-10-1857  Houserville PA                               obit:

Miller-Raker #: 182                                                    married2: Catharine Rumbarger

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Houserville

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note:  Son of the founder of Houserville, Martin Houser was a local preacher.  Lee’s 1953 History of the Houserville Church, chapter 2, gives a biography of Martin Houser.  This and other materials are in the Houserville Church file at the conference archives.  Martin Houser is the great-grandfather (Martin-Martin-David Ritttenhouse-Mitchell) of Mitchell M. Martin Houser.

 

 

HOUSER, MAX McCLELLAND

 

Born: 11-22-1913  East Salem PA                             married: Blanche Marian Moffat

Died: 4-10-2008  Clearfield PA                                 obit: Western PA Conference 2002, 335

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license

1934    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Jeannette

1936    license, Allegheny Conference

1936    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 354

 

1927-32           Monessen

1937-40           student

     1938-40  Durbin/Bath OH Presbyterian

1940                Windber (resigned 10/3/1940)

1940-45           Altoona Garden Heights (10/3/1940)

1945-61           Altoona Second

1961-62           chaplain, VA Hospital

1962-67           executive secretary, Division of Evangelism of the PA Council of Churches

1967-74           Johnstown First

1974-77           executive director, Pennsylvania Council on Alcohol Problems

1977                retired

                             1977-79  executive director, Pennsylvania Council on Alcohol Problems

 

Note: Max M. Houser is the son of Mitchell M. Houser.

 

HOUSER, MITCHELL MARTIN

 

Born: 8-2-1885  Grahamton PA                                 married: Lettie Pearl Knepp

Died: 2-26-1954  Johnstown PA                                obit: [Western PA Conference 1966, 44]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 388

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license

1911    license, Allegheny Conference

1920    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 24

 

1907-09           Shade Gap

1909-11           Middletown

1911-14           East Salem

1914-15           Rochester Mills

1915-17           Hooversville

1917-23           South Williamsport

1923-27           Conemaugh

1927-32           Monessen

1932-44           Jeannette

1944-52           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1952                retired

 

Note: Mitchell M. Houser is the great-grandson of Martin Houser, and the father of Max Houser.

 

 

HOWE, JAMES RALPH

 

Born: 1907                                                                  married: Emma Clark

Died: 1997                                                                  obit: [1910 – 1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 531

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Cleveland Memorial Park, Shelby NC

Obit:

 

1930-34           student

1934                "transfer" to another denomination, page 79

 

HUBER, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 4-16-1786  Franklin County PA                       married: Hannah Besore

Died: 2-26-1879  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [12/18-1782 – 2/7/1822]

Miller-Raker #: 106                                                    married2: Eve Hoover

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/21/1790 – 7/10/1874]

Gibble list: no

 

1823    license

 

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1879, 19

 

1823-1879              local preacher

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 298, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, give brief biographies.  Abraham Huber is a brother to Samuel Huber.  His boyhood home was the first UB preaching place between Harrisburg and Hagerstown and was visited regularly by Otterbein, Boehm and Newcomer.  He is reportedly one of the last surviving preachers to have known Otterbein.

 

 

HUBER, BENJAMIN GROVE

 

Born: 12-8-1846  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Naomi Jane Carmany [Cormany]

Died: 10-11-1917  Chambersburg PA                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 34

Miller-Raker #: 350

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, recommended by Salem Church or Rocky Spring charge

1872    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 89

 

1868-69           Greencastle & Alto Dale

1869-71           Ickesburg

1871-73           Shoops station [Shiremanstown]

1873-75           Chambersburg

1875-76           Baltimore Scott Street

1876-78           New Cumberland

1878-80           Shippensburg

1880-81           living in Chambersburg

1881-83           Orrstown

1883-84           Rocky Spring

1884-85           living in Chambersburg

1885-87           Rocky Spring

1887                transfer to West Kansas Conference  1887, 5

1887-88           Elmira

1888-89           Beloit

1889                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1889-90           Orrstown

1890-91           Orrstown & Rocky Spring

1891-92           Rocky Spring

1892-94           Chambersburg King Street

1894-98           presiding elder, Pennsylvania Conference

1898-99           Greencastle

1899-00           living in Chambersburg

1900-01           St. Thomas

1901-03           Rocky Spring

1903-05           Shippensburg

1905                local

1907                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Benjamin Huber was an officer of the Mount Zion Camp Meeting (near Green Village) and publisher of Highway of Holiness 1875-87.  Mrs. Huber is a granddaughter of Jacob Cormany.

 

 

HUBER, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 139

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

HUBER, JONAS J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 40

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

1844    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1851                transfer to ?

                       

 

Note: J.J. Huber may have become a Lutheran preacher in Iowa.

 

HUBER, SAMUEL

 

Born: 1-31-1782  Franklin County PA                       married: Nancy Weaver

Died: 7-12-1868                                                          obit: [1/27/1786 – 1/20/1854]

Miller-Raker #: 83                                                      married2: Mrs. Susannah Crider Grove

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [2/28/1794 – 4/11/1868]

Gibble list: yes

 

1816    license

1819    ordained

 

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1869, 18

 

1816-17           missionary to Tuckahoe Valley

1819-20           presiding elder

1820-21           Hagerstown circuit

1826-27           presiding elder

1836-40           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

 

Note: An Autobiography of Rev. Samuel Huber was printed in 1858.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 298, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, give brief biographies.  Chapter 5 of the 1911 denominational study guide Our Heroes vol 2 discusses Samuel Huber and gives a picture.  Samuel Huber is a brother to Abraham Huber.  The second Mrs. Huber, nee Crider, was the widow of a Mr. Abraham Grove.

 

 

HUDOC, JOHN W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 496

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1927                transfer to South East Ohio Conference

 

Note: John W. Hudoc is listed as a ministerial son of the Latrobe Bethany UB congregation.

 

HUEY, HAROLD E.

 

Born: 6-22-1904  Fayette County PA                        married: Stella Mae Grim

Died: 3-17-1983  Madison PA                                   obit: Western PA Conference 1980, 444

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license, Fairmount

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1949    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Madison Union Cemetery, Madison PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 463]

 

1942-47           Fairmount

1947-60           Madison (ending 2/1/1960)

1960-68           Altoona Pleasant Valley (beginning 2/1/1960)

1968-70           Wyano (ending 9/1/1970)

1970                retired (beginning 9/1/1970)

 

Note: Harold E. Huey is a nephew of John K. Huey.

 

HUEY, JOHN KILPATRICK

 

Born: 2-2-1874  Fayette County PA                          married: Emma Robbins

Died: 12-17-1945  Broward County FL                     obit: [1/31/1878 – 8/14/1938]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 292, 371

Gibble list: no

 

1898   quarterly conference license

1900   license, Allegheny Conference

1915   ordained, Allegheny Conference [one source says 1913]

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale FL

Obit:

 

1900-01           Connellsville   

1901-03           Fayette

1903-06           Barren Run and Middletown

1906                returned to quarterly conference license

1908                reinstated

1908-14           Hooversville

1914-23           Central City

1923-27           local

1927-28           Hooversville (ending 1/28)

1928                returned to quarterly conference license

1931                reinstated, page 91

 

Note: John K. Huey is an uncle to Harold E. Huey.

 

HUGHES, EZEKIEL L.

 

Born: 4-26-1843  Elverson, Chester County PA        married: Margaret Anna Hocker

Died: 1-16-1926  York PA                                         obit: [7/25/1863 – 3/15/1957]

Miller-Raker #: 455

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 60

 

1870-75           Phoenixville circuit

1875-78           Halifax

1878-81           Mountville

1881-83           Intercourse

1883-86           New Holland

1886-87           East Harrisburg

1887-89           Highspire

1889                Lancaster (Feb-Oct, short conference year)

1889-93           Steelton

1893-94                      ?

1894                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1894-99           St. Thomas

1899-05           Rocky Spring

1905-10           Yoe

1920-15           York Fourth

1915-17           Littlestown

1917-18           Hellam

1918-20           Littlestown

1920                local

 

 

HUMBERGER, WILLIAM

 

Born: 6-1-1818  Chambersburg PA                            married: Elizabeth Heller

Died: 5-8-1891  Chambersburg PA                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 260

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HAMBERGER]

 

1842    license, recommended by Chambersburg charge

1852    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 41

 

1851-52           Chambersburg circuit

1852-54           Mercersburg circuit

1854-56           York Springs circuit

1856-58           Perry circuit

1858-59           Lancaster station

1859-60           Liverpool circuit

1860-62           Bethany mission

1862-63           Shippensburg circuit

1863-64           Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits

1864-65           Alto Dale circuit

1865-66           Liverpool circuit

1866-69           employed by the American Tract Society

1869-70           Plainfield mission

1870-71           Goldsboro mission

 

Note: The Humbergers had no children; after the death of his wife, all their property was to go to the church.

 

 

HUMMEL, BENJAMIN JACOB

 

Born:  4-17-1855  Centre Line PA                             married: Isabella [Belle] McCoy (1886)

Died: 12-17-1937  Clearfield PA                               obit: [10/27/1855 – 5/30/1886]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah Melinda Yingst (1886)

Fulton #: 190                                                               obit2: [11/7/1862 – 8/11/1951]

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    quarterly conference license

1880    license, Allegheny Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 59

 

1878-79           Burnside

1879-80           Clarington

1880-81           Belefonte & Millheim

1881-83           Tyrone

1883-85           Bellefonte

1885-87           Fallentimber

1887-88           Ligonier

1888-89           New Florence

1889-91           Bigler

1891-92           Three Springs

1892-94           Orbisonia

1894-96           Huntingdon

1896-97           Knoxdale

1897-98           on leave

1898-01           Runville

1901-04           Bellwood

1904-05           Claysville

1905-06           ?

1906-08           Fayette

1908-11           Rockwood

1911-13           Everson

1913-14           conference evangelist

1914-17           Clearfield

1917                retired

                             1918           Woodland (1 month)
                             1920           McKeesport First (resigned 11/3/1920)

                             1921           Altoona Greenwood (2 months)

                             1922-23      Woodland (beginning 12/15/22)

 

Note: Benjamin J. Hummel is the father of Daniel W. Hummel.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 12.

 

HUMMEL, DANIEL WESLEY SR.

 

Born: 12-14-1895  Huntingdon PA                            married: Helen Elizabeth Wilson

Died: 10-9-1986  Clearfield PA                                 obit: [3/26/1900 – 11/30/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit:

 

1928-32        Mount Hope (ending 12/1/1931)

 

Note: Daniel W. Hummel is the son of Benjamin J. Hummel.  He is listed under "others employed" and was a local preacher of the Clearfield Christ church.  He was the October 1928 organizer and leader of the Mt. Hope Misson   He is listed in the census as a paperhanger and was a lay delegate to 5 consecutive General Conferences from 1941 to 1954.

 

HUMMEL, HEBER HARRISON

 

Born: 8-4-1902  Snyder County PA                           married: Vera Ann Walter

Died: 12-27-1996                                                        obit: [1901 – 1985]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 499

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    quarterly conference license, recommended by Hummel’s

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg PA

Obit:

 

1923-24           student, Lebanon Valley College

1924-28           Middleburg

1928-33           Mapleton (ending 3/31/1933)

1933-46           McKeesport Kephart Memorial (beginning 4/1/1933)

1946-56           Johnstown Park Avenue

1956-63           Wilkinsburg Christ

1963-65           serving in Florida Conference

1965                transfer to Florida Conference

 

 

HUMMEL, JOHN PAUL

 

Born: 9-19-1893                                                          married: Bertha M. Wise

Died: 8-18-1958                                                          obit: [11/7/1891 – 3/4/1984]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1916    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit:

 

1913-17           student, Lebanon Valley College

1922                referred

 

Note: J. Paul Hummel never entered the ministry.  He lived in Hummelstown and pursued a career in banking.  At LVC, he was a member of the “Old Story” quartette with Homer Ramsey, Guy Stambach and Leroy Walters.

 

 

HUMMEL, SOLOMON MUMMA

 

Born: 2-2-1839  Stoverdale PA                                              married: Mary N. Nissley

Died: 8-28-1911  Hummelstown PA                                      obit: [12/17/1839 – 4/5/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                  married2: Elizabeth J. Shenk

Fulton #: no                                                                             obit2: East PA Conference 1923, 17

 

1873    license, East German Conference

1877    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 32

 

1876-77           Union Deposit circuit

1877-78           Hopeland [Paradise]

1881                superintendent, Reading District (served 7 months)

1902-07           Paradise

1907                retired

 

Note: Solomon M. Hummel suffered from poor health.  He spent most of his years living in Hershey, engaged in the coal business, and preaching as much as health permitted.  The dates for his second wife, not given in the conference journal, are 10/14/1853 – 3/6/1923.

 

 

HUMMELBAUGH, EDWIN H.

 

Born: 12-13-1864                                                        married: Mary Ellen Huber

Died: 12-7-1924  Mont Alto PA                                 obit: [1863 – 1952]

Miller-Raker #: 457

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1895    license

1895    ordained

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 68

 

1894-96           Duncannon

1896-02           Mount Wolf

1902-10           York Fifth

1910-20           Frederick

1920-23           Gettysburg

1923-24           Mont Alto

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 299, gives a brief biography.  Edwin Hummelbaugh is the son of Hiram Hummelbaugh and the father of Grace Hummelbaugh Sponseller.  He is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), 5. Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972).  All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.

 

HUMMELBAUGH, HIRAM Y.

 

Born: 7-10-1835  Adams County PA                         married: Frances [Fannie] L. Hoffman

Died: 10-13-1868  Chambersburg PA                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 32

Miller-Raker #: 317

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license

1861    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1869, 14

 

1857-59           assistant, Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1859-60           Greencastle circuit

1860-62           Path Valley

1862-64           Bendersville circuit

1864-66           Newburg circuit

1866-68           Chambersburg

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 299, gives a brief biography.  Hiram Hummelbaugh is the father of Edwin Hummelbaugh.  Mrs. Hummelbaugh is the daughter of Enoch Hoffman, and her picture appears on page 21 in the March 10, 1923, Religious Telescope.  She is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), 5. Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972).  All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.

 

 

HUNSBERGER, IVAN GLENN.

Born: 8-19-1899  Apollo PA                                      married: Elizabeth A. Roth

Died: 8-22-1978                                                          obit: Western PA Conference 1983, 429

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 515

Gibble list: no

 

1928    license, Allegheny Conference

1933    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Corry PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 387

 

1926-28           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1928-29           Harris Hill, Erie Conference

1929                transfer to Erie Conference

1929-34           Harris Hill

1934-39           North Clymer – Edwards Chapel

1939-45           Pleasantville

1945-50           Buffalo First

1950-55           Erie Salem

1955-60           Pleasantville

1960-63           Olean

1963-68           Corry Evangelical

1968                retired

                             1973-76  Bethel – White Oak ((beginning 9/9/1973)

 

Note: Ivan Glenn Hunsberger is the father of Claude E. Hunsberger of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

HUNTER, PAUL WESLEY

 

Born: 1-6-1893                                                            married: Florence I. Walmer

Died: 12-2-1983                                                          obit: [6/8/1901 – 2/14/1961]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1923    license, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Mayville Cemetery, Mayville NY

Obit: Western New York Conference 1984, 331

 

1923-25           Sweden Valley

1925-26           Grand Valley

1926-29           student, Lebanon Valley College

                        1927-28  Birdsboro Grace

1929-31           seminary?

1931-35           Cherry Creek NY

1935                Salamanca NY

1947                Findley Lake NY

 

 

HUNTZBERRY, LARRY S.

 

Born: 11-30-1943                                                        married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 801

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1968    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           student assistant, Lemoyne Calvary

1966-67           Dayton Parkside, Ohio Conference

1967-68                      campus ministry, Antioch College

1968-70           ? [attending graduate school?]

1970                transfer to Southern New Jersey Conference

1970-72           Lambertville Centenary

1972                withdrew

 

Note: A 2002 listing indicates Larry S. Huntzberry, Ph.D., Member of the Zen Peacemaker Order.

 

 

HURSH, JOHN C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 51

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1843    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1844                withdrew

 

Note: This surname is also rendered HIRSH and HERSH.

 

HUSSEY, GEORGE ST. CLAIR

 

Born: 5-17-1810  Hagerstown MD                             married: Mary Virginia Cook

Died: 12-20-1892  Brenham TX                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 170

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    license

1836    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: see the biographical files at the conference archives

 

1832-33           Baltimore County circuit

1834-35           Chambersburg circuit

1835-36           Westmoreland circuit

1840                withdrew

1841                joined the Pittsburgh Synod of the Lutheran Church

1841-44           Baldwin North Zion

                             1841           organized a predecessor congregation of Monongahela Grace

                             1842-43      Smithton Hope Memorial

                        later studied medicine

                        assistant surgeon for GAR in IA, MO and MS

                        assistant surgeon general for MI/LA in New Orleans

 

Note: His son Dr. George St. Clair Hussey, Jr. was also a medical doctor.  Heissenbuttel’s 1959 Pittsburgh Synod Congregational Histories includes references to Rev. Hussey – and to Henry and John Esensee, who appear to have connection.

 

 

HUSTON, THOMAS

 

Born: 9-4-1796  Perry County PA                              married: Marie Christena Wachs

Died: 8-20-1877                                                          obit: [11/4/1800 – 2/8/1872]

Miller-Raker #: 102 [HUSTEN]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HOUSTON]

 

1822    license

1831    ordained

 

Interment: Snyder’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 21

 

Note: Rev. Huston is the grandfather of brothers Samuel T. Wallace and William O. Wallace.  He was an active local preacher.  Although he never took a formal appointment, he preached and ministered over a wide area.  Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, gives a brief biography.  This surname is also rendered HOUSTON, and Mrs. Huston’s maiden name is also given as Wax.

 

 

HUTCHINSON, JOSEPH RAMSEY

 

Born: 1-29-1841                                                          married: Mary E. Sellers

Died: 7-12-1922  New Cumberland PA                     obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 77

Miller-Raker #: 343

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1866    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 73

 

1868-70           Goldsboro mission

1870-73           Manchester (MD) circuit

1873-75           Duncannon

1875-77           Baltimore Woodbury mission [Otterbein Memorial]

1877-79           West Fairview

1879-81           Littlestown circuit

1881-83           Baltimore Scott Street

1883-86           Steelton Centenary

1886-89           Mechanicsburg

1889-91           Harrisburg Otterbein [East Pennsylvania Conference]

1891-94           Gettysburg

1894-95           Baltimore George Street

1895-99           York Third

1899-07           Waynesboro

1907-10           Mount Wolf

1910                local

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 299 gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Hutchinson was president of the conference WMA 1883-93.

 

 

HUTSLER, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-22-1854  Martinsburg WV                          married: Mary Jane Burke

Died: 3-3-1919  Martinsburg WV                              obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 95

Miller-Raker #: 409

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HUTZLER]

 

1878    license, Virginia Conference: recommended by Martinsburg WV

1881    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg WV

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 69

 

1880-83           Berkeley circuit

1883                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1883-86           East Harrisburg

1886-87           Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Conference

1887-89           Millville OH, Ohio Conference

1889-93           Lancaster Covenant

1893-99           Harrisburg Derry Street

1899-00           Philadelphia Central Mission Station

1900-01           Mount Joy circuit

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference 1900, 25 (see also pages 3, 8)

1901-03           Beaver Falls

1903-04           Hollsopple

1904-05           Harrisonburg VA, Virginia Conference

1905-06           Madison

1906                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1906-13           Williamsport MD

1913-15           Martinsburg Second, Virginia Conference

1915-16           Keyser, Virginia Conference

1916-17           Lemasters

1917-18           Chewsville

1918                local

 

Note: This surname is also rendered Hutzler.  Rev. Hutsler’s assignments and conference affiliations are difficult to track.  The above record is a best reconciliation of all the facts at hand.  The Allegheny Conference, for example, officially lists him as transferring in and out in 1902 and 1907 respectively.

 

 

HYSSONG, RUSSELL VANDOLLAH

 

Born:  11-20-1875  Cassville PA                               married: Della J. Wright [10/9/1894]

Died: 6-29-1932  Bridgeton NJ                                  obit: [5/10/1876 – 12/3/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Mary Alice Swope Uttley

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [6/22/1880 – 12/15/1972]

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment: Cassville Cemetery, Cassville PA

Obit:

 

1897-98           Mahaffey

 

Note:  The family name appears to have originally been given as HISSONG, and the family engaged in the pottery business in Cassville.  R.V. Hyssong served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  He lived in Huntingdon, worked as a guard at the reformatory, served as county treasurer, and accepted preaching invitations in various denominations in Blair and Huntingdon counties.  In 1920 he is listed as a local preacher of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.   The 1930 census places Russell and Mary in Cumberland County NJ.  The first Mrs. Hyssong, whose grave marker reads Julia Adella Hyssong, is buried in the Bowman’s Chapel Cemetery at Latta Grove PA.   The second Mrs. Hyssong (nee Swope) was the widow of a John Calvin Uttley, who died in 1922, with whom she is buried in Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County PA.

 

ICKES, LEROY ELMER

 

Born: 2-5-1921  Summerhill PA                                married: Virginia “Faye” Burton

Died: 12-11-2009  Delaware OH                               obit: [2/5/19xx – ]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1942    quarterly conference license

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Radnor Cemetery, Radnor OH

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 320

 

1942-43           student, Shenandoah Junior College in Winchester VA

1943-45           student, Bridgewater College in Bridgewater VA

                             1943-45      Mount Horeb, Virginia Conference

1945-48           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1945-48      Nashville/Waterhouse, Miami Conference

1948-49           Nashville/Waterhouse, Miami Conference

1949-51           Mount Hope

1951-62           Johnstown Bethany

1962                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1962-64           associate, Wilkinsburg Park Avenue (ending 2/1/1964)

1964-67           Fairview (beginning 2/1/1964)

1967-73           Monaca

1973-80           Clark Trinity

1980-84           Ridgeway

1984                retired

                             1984-86      Portsmouth Wesley

                             1986-93      McDermott

                             1996-99      associate, Wellersburg

                             1999-01      Portsmouth United Church of Christ               

                          

 

INNERST, JACOB STUART

 

Born: 8-17-1894  Dallastown PA                               married: Marian Ethel Reachard

Died: 8-30-1975  LaJolla, San Diego CA                  obit: [2/4/1897 – 10/2/1964]

Miller-Raker #: 587                                                    maried2: Gladis Barber Voorhees (1965)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/31/1914 – 5/19/2007]

Gibble list: no

 

1914    license, recommended by Dallastown

1919    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: conference biographical files

1914-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-19           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1919-27           missionary, China

1927-28           chaplain, Otterbein College

1928                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference  1928,51

1928-39           chaplain, Otterbein College

1939-43           Dayton Fairview

1943                withdrew to join Quaker Church

1947-53           Pasadena First Friends

1960-61           director, Friend in Washington Program

 

Note:  J. Stuart. Innerst authored several books on China.  His papers are housed in the Special Collections Library of the University of California at San Diego.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Innerst.  The second Mrs. Innerst (nee Barber) was the widow of a Mr. Brown V. Voorhees (1903-1961)

 

 

ISHIMURA, HENRY TOKUSHICHI

 

Born: 12-10-1899  Japan                                            married: Hatsue K. _____

Died: 1-?-1985                                                            obit: [1/20/1906 – 8/18/2002]

Miller-Raker #: 635

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1925    license, recommended by York Fourth

 

Interment: Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu HI

Obit:

 

1926                A.B. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1937                dropped  1937,34

1947                minister, Waiahai, Cahu, Hawaii

 

Note: He is listed 1932,57 as “a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Bonebrake Theological Seminary, at present preaching for another denomination in Hawaii.”  He appears to have kept his United Brethren connection, and his activities are covered occasionally in the denomination’s The Friend publication, until 1937.

 

JACKSON, WILLIAM ANDREW

 

Born: 12-31-1828  Pleasant Mill VA                         married: Alice Snook

Died: 1-20-1910                                                          obit: [9/15/1839 – 8/10/1894]

Miller-Raker #: 333

Fulton #: 147 & 260

Gibble list: no

 

1858    quarterly conference license, Winchester circuit

1860    license, Virginia Conference

1863    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Bruceville [Keymar] MD  [or Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Ladiesburg MD?]

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1910, 85


1859-60           Frederick circuit

1860-61           Hagerstown circuit

1861                Augusta circuit (did not finish the year)

1861-62           Shade Gap circuit, Allegheny Conference

1862-63           ?

1863                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1863-64           Shippensburg circuit

1864-65                     St. Thomas circuit

1865                transfer

1866                preaching in Illinois

1868                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1869                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1869-71           New Paris

1871-72           ?

1872-73           presiding elder

1873-74           presiding elder, East District

1874-75           Westmoreland circuit

1875-77           served in Washington County PA

1877-78           ?

1878-79           Johnstown First

1879-80           ?

1880-82           New Paris

1882-83           ?

1883-85           presiding elder, Johnstown District

1885-86           Somerset

1886-88           Rockwood

1888-89           Port Matilda

1889-91           Stormstown (resigned 12/90)

1891-93           withdrew to serve another denomination

[Huntingdon Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church]  1891,13

1893-94           New Paris, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1894                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1894-95           New Paris

1895-96           Hustontown

1896-97           Middletown

1897-98           Barren Run

1898-01           Berlin

1901-02           Hustontown

                        Eschol

1904-05           Hilliard

1905                retired

 

Note: William A. Jackson is the son of David Jackson of the Virginia Conference.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 10.

 

 

JACOBS, JEREMIAH

 

Born: 12-25-1817  York PA                                       married: Mary Ann Sinclair (7/29/1843)

Died: 8-20-1903  Sunfield MI                                                obit: [1817-1890]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1853    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Needmore Cemetery, Needmore MI

Obit:

 

1854-55           Lebanon circuit

1856                transfer to

 

Note: The 7/28/1870 Detroit Advertiser and Tribune reports “Jeremiah Jacobs was set apart to the work of the Gospel ministry at the Roxand and Sunfield Baptist churches, in Eaton county [MI].” 

 

JAMES, EDWARD

 

Born: 8-24-1847  Juniata County PA                         married: Catherine Lyter [aka Leiter]

Died: 1-16-1922  Liverpool PA                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1936, 60

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 216 & 406

Gibble list: no

 

1878    license, United Evangelical Church

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Pfoutz Valley PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1922, 123

 

1878-79           Cumberland

1879-81           Middleburg

1881                located

1884-85           Calvin, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1885                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1885-88           Springfield

1888-89           Lycippus

1889-91           Washington

1891-92           Fairmount

1892-93           Springfield

1896-97           McKeesport First

1897-00           Jenners Cross Roads

1900-01           Hustontown

1901                on leave

1912                withdrew to join another denomination

1913                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 11.

 

 

JAMIESON, ROBERT E.

 

Born: 1849  Ireland                                                     married: Frances Waite

Died: 9-15-1928  Hennepin County MN                    obit: [Iowa Conference 1921, 11&25&27]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 298

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Ontario Conference

 

Interment: Britannia United Church Cemetery, Mississauga Ontario Canada

Obit: [Iowa Conference 1928, 19&35]

1900-01           Liverpool, Allegheny Conference

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1901-02           Liverpool

1902-03           Mapleton Depot

1903-05           Woodland

1905-08           Pitcairn

1908-09           Monessen

1909                transfer to Iowa Conference

1909-10           Bristow

1910-11           Olin

[1910-13          Sumner – may be a different “R. Jamison”]

 

Note: The dates for Mrs. Jamieson are 5/3/1847 – 3/22/1921.

 

 

JARRELL, J. TEMPLE

 

Born: 6-25-1911  Kennedyville MD                          married: Esther Romaine Daugherty

Died: 7-14-1955                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 165

Miller-Raker #: 670

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    license, recommended by Baltimore Salem

1937    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 38

 

1933-34           Mt. Horeb, Virginia Conference

1934-37           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             1935-36      assistant, Fort McKinley in the Miami Conference

1937-55           Spring Run

1955                executive secretary, York County Council of Churches

 

Note: Mrs. Jarrell is the daughter of George C. Daugherty.

 

 

JEFFRIES, CYRUS

 

Born: 6-6-1812  near Nossville PA                            married: Catharine Kidlinger

Died: 8-12-1877  Williamstown NJ                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Margaret M. Clayton

Fulton #: 71                                                                 obit2: [1828-1907]

Gibble list: no

 

1850    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

1851-52           Clearfield

1852-53           New Castle

1853-54           ?

1854-55           Johnstown station

1855-56           superintendent, East District

1856                located

1866                irregularly withdrawn

                        identified with Spiritualism

 

Note: For a detailed account of what is known about this distinctive man, see the article “What Ever Happened to Cyrus Jeffries” in the 2016 volume of The Chronicle, pages 11-23.  A biographical sketch of and further information on Cyrus Jeffries is on file at the conference archives.  He is the namesake of the famed Cyrus Jeffries Kephart of the United Brethren Church.  He apparently was very charismatic and a little eccentric.   Writing of the early 1870's, Methodist Emory M. Stevens says: "There was a man living a few miles from Burnt Cabins by the name of Cyrus Jeffries.  He had been a presiding elder in the United Brethren Church and had left them because they had not elected him bishop.  He had organized a cult of his own and had a considerable number of followers throughout the region."  He was first associated with the Methodist Protestant Church, and was a delegate from the Indiana Conference to their 1846 General Conference.  He was also involved in newspapers and other enterprises and is the author of the 1856 book Drama of the American Revolution.

 

 

JENANYAN, HARUTUNE S.

 

Born: 4-25-1858  Marash, Armenia                            married: Helene Ruliffson

Died: 9-25-1907  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [1865 – 10/?/1917]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    ordained, Presbyterian Church

 

Interment: Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 36

 

1887                graduated Union Theological Seminary

1888-95           principal (and founder), St. Paul’s Institute in Tarsus,

1895-97           principal (and founder), The Apostolic Institute in Iconium

1897-00           living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

1900                transfer to East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1900-01           living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-07           living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

 

Note: Mrs. Jenanyan is the daughter of Rev. Albert G. Ruliffson, who founded the Bowery Mission in NYC in 1879.  Following the death of H.S. Jenanyan, she married a Mr. Nechan [Nishan] Handjian.  The following account appears in Ernest K. Emurian’s 1959 Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs, page 61.

In 1891, when my grandfather, Rev. Harutune S. Jenanyan, took his wife and little daughter on a perilous and dangerous missionary journey from Tarsus, Asia Minor, the city of St. Paul, to Sivas in Armenia, they travelled on horseback through robber-infested country for fourteen days. Two of the leading robber chiefs on that territory were Chollo, whose “name cast terror on every side” since he had successfully evaded pursuing Government forces for many months, and Kara Agha, a famous Koorish chief, whose name caused even the fear­some Chollo to tremble. Harutune took his small party directly into the heart of Kara Agha’s country, telling those he met en­route that he was go­ing to be Agha’s guest in his own village. When they reached the brigand’s headquarters, the missionary asked that they be received as guests for the night. The surprised robber chief gave them accommodations, entertaining Harutune in his own spacious tent while his wife, Helene, and their little daughter, Grace were cared for in another tent by the women of the village. The next morning, before taking their leave, the missionary asked for permission to read a portion of the Holy Scripture, and then offered a prayer. Seeing that the chief was somewhat affected, he then said, “Do you wish to have the little child sing for you?” The chief replied, “Oh yes; can she?” Then little Grace, only three-and-a-half years old, came forward and stood be­fore the tall old man and sang two songs she had recently learned in the Sunday School in Tarsus, singing them in the native tongue, “Jesus loves me, this I know” and “I want to be an angel”. The chief was so deeply touched, that he sent his own son, Bekkeer Agha, mounted on a handsome Arabian steed, to lead the small missionary party through the rest of his territory.

 

 

JOHN, LEWIS FRANKLIN

 

Born: 2-8-1854  Dayton OH                                       married: Lulu Maude Kephart

Died: 1-8-1938  Chicago IL                                       obit: St. Joseph Conference 1925, 424

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 248 & 294

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: St. Joseph Conference 1938, 60


                         Parkersburg Conference

1892                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1892-94           Johnstown Vine Street

1894-97           Johnstown First

1897-99           college pastor, Westerville OH

1899                open transfer

1899-08           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1908                Shiremanstown (April – Oct)

                        transfer to Nebraska Conference

1917-18           faculty, York College

                        transfer to St. Joseph Conference

1925                South Bend IN

                        retired, living in Chicago

 

Note: Lewis F. John is the author of the 1907 biography of his father-in-law Ezekiel Boring Kephart.  He is a brother-in-law of LVC President Hervin Ulysses Roop, who married the other daughter of E.B. Kephart.

 

 

JOHNSON, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 11-20-1862  Montgomery County PA             married:

Died: 7-12-1898  Allentown PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Memorial

1892    license, East German Conference

1895    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Keelys Church Cemetery, Schwenksville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1898, 29

 

1892-98           Allentown Zion

 

 

JOHNSON, RAY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Johnstown First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Ray Johnson apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained.  He is otherwise unknown, except that he appears to have graduated from Otterbein College in 1922 and then attended Bonebrake Seminary.  He appears to be studying at Yale Divinity School in 1934.

 

 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL M.

 

Born: 1872  Cambria County PA                               married: Viola K. Mauk

Died: 10-4-1961  Ebensburg PA                                obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 30

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 387

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license

1911    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:  Belsano PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 37]

 

1909-12           Dunlevy

1912-15           Houserville

1915-22           Belsano

1922-25           Madison

1925-28           Milton

1928-29           Altoona Grace

1929                retired

 

 

JOHNSON, W.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-95           Lancaster circuit

 

 

JOHNSON, W. J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:    

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:
 

1888-90           principal, Otterbein University preparatory department, Westerville OH

1891-93                      Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1893-96           Greencastle IN

 

Note: The February 1891 Aegis of Otterbein University, page 110, reports that “Prof. W.J. Johnson, who recently accepted a position in one of the government departments [the pension office] at Washington, has been called to the pastorate of the Salem United Brethren Church at Baltimore, Maryland.  The vacancy at the Salem church was called by the resignation of Rev. Miller, who accepted pastoral work at Toledo IA.”  He last appears in the United Brethren Year Book as a member of the Indiana Conference living in Greencastle IN.  This is not the Rev. Warren J. Johnson (1860-1927) who served Reformed and Presbyterian churches in Maryland and Pennsylvania – although it appears he received a call from Greencastle IN to the Presbyterian ministry in Glen Avon MN.

 

 

JONES, CHARLES TURNER

 

Born: 3-30-1873  Cambridge MD                              married: Emma Grace Lissel (12/30/1903)

Died: 8-28-1932                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 532

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1901,14

1902    deacon, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1902,58

1904    ordained, page 63

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Wilmington Conference ME 1933, 113

 

1892-97           student, Dickinson College

                             1897-98      Greencastle, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME (ending fall 1897)

1897-00           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1903                “transfer” to North Indiana Conference ME Church

1903-04           Thurmont, Pennsylvania Conference UB Church

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UB Church, page 32

1904-05           Thurmont, resigned 5/1/05; withdrew 1907,46

1906                “transfer” to Wilmington Conference ME Church

1906-08           Chincoteague MD

1908-11           Greensboro MD

1911-13           Fruitland MD

1913-14           Trappe MD

1914-16           Crumpton MD

1916-17           Hillsboro MD

1917-20           Tilghman MD

1920-22           Port Deposit MD Hopewell

1922-24           Chesapeake City MD

1924-               St. Georges DE          

 

Note: The maiden name of Mrs. C. Turner Jones is also given as LITTLE.

 

 

JONES, GLENN DAVID

 

Born: 11-8-1904  near Boonsboro MD                      married: Evelyn Marianna Hallin

Died: 10-17-1991                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 414

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    license, Assembly of God Church: recommended by Hagerstown MD Bethel

1929    ordained, Assembly of God Church

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Columbia PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 475

 

1927-30           Beaver Falls PA First

1930-31           Jamestown NY Calvary

1931-33           Erie PA First

1933-37           Corry PA First

1937-42           Syracuse NY Grace

1942-46           government service

1946-52           Columbia PA First

1952-58           Jackson MI First

1958-60           Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1960-64           Melcroft PA First

1964-65           Kreagert Memorial Federated Church, Stallstown PA

1965-66           Hellam-Druck Valley, Susquehanna Conference of EUB Church

1966                “transfer” to Susquehanna Conference of EUB Church

1966-69           Hellam-Druck Valley

1969                retired

 

Note: Glenn D. Jones is the father of Calvin David Jones of the Baltimore Conference and Everett W. Jones of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

JONES, JEREMIAH BIXLER

 

Born: 4-3-1829  Carroll County MD                          married: Amanda Anstine

Died: 6-17-1905  Windsor PA                                    obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 71

Miller-Raker #: 309

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license

1859    ordained

 

Interment: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 69

 

1856-57           Rocky Springs circuit

1857-58           York Springs circuit

1858-59           York circuit

1859-60           Paradise mission

1860-63           Liverpool circuit

1863-65           Bethany circuit

1865-67           Path Valley circuit

1867-68           ?

1868-70           Jefferson circuit

1870-72           Bendersville

1872-73           Harrisburg circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1873-74           Grantville circuit, East Pennsylvania Confereence

1874-77           Jefferson circuit

1877-79           Perry circuit

1879-80           living in Shermansdale

1880-81           Manchester circuit

1881-84           Dover circuit

1884-85           living in York

1885-86           living in Windsor

1886-87                      Jefferson circuit

1887-88           Yocumtown (part year 1888,15)

1888-89           Winterstown (part year 1889,19)

 

 

JONES, JOHN OWEN

 

Born: 1-26-1891  Chapman’s Quarries PA                married: Emma R. Stees

Died: 1-27-1945                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988,415

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 17

 

1911-15           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1913-15      Mont Clare

1915-18           student, Crozier Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia

                             1913-18      Mont Clare

1918-26           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1926-34           Annville

1934-37           Harrisburg First

1937-38           Elizabethville

1938-39           on leave, health reasons

1939                retired

 

Note: John Owen Jones is the son of Moses H. Jones.

 

 

JONES, JOSEPH R.

 

Born: 5-28-1848  Metal, Franklin County PA           married: Irene Davis Jones

Died: 1-14-1932                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 24

Miller-Raker #: 419

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1883    quarterly conference license, Spring Run charge

1886    license

1889    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 21

 

1886-89           Manchester circuit

1889-92           York circuit

1892-95           York Third

1895-98           Baltimore George Street

1898-02           Red Lion Bethany

1902-13           Baltimore Scott Street

1913-17           local, attending York First

1917                York Fourth (Feb-Oct)

1918-21           Hellam

1921                retired

 

 

JONES, LEWIS REECE

 

Born: 1-24-1853                                                          married: Ida Penepacker

Died: 3-27-1924                                                          obit: Pittsburg Conference ME 1939, 473

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 172

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church 1924,106

 

1875-76           State Line circuit

1876-78           Orbisonia

1878-80           Tyrone

1880-81           Wilmore and Conemaugh

1881-82           Greensburg

1882-86           Mount Pleasant

1886-88           superintendent, Greensburg District

1888                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1888-91           Mount Lebanon – Jacobs Creek

1891-94          

1894-97           Belle Vernon

1897-00

1900-06           Carnegie

1906-09           Homestead Fourth Avenue

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 8.

 

JONES, MOSES HENRY

 

Born: 9-16-1864  Chapmansville PA                         married: Mary R. Hummel

Died: 4-20-1926  Reading PA                                                obit: [1866 – 1948]

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 1926, 11

 

1891-93           Paxinos circuit

1893-94           Lykens

1894-97           Bellegrove

1897-98           Milton and Sunbury

1898-99           Sunbury

1899-02           Lykens Valley circuit

1902-07           Penbrook Grace

1907-11           Reading Memorial [Trinity]

1911-12           Shamokin First

1912-14           Paradise St. John’s

1914-19           Lebanon Memorial

1919-26           Reading Trinity

 

Note: Moses H. Jones is the father of John Owen Jones.

 

 

JONES, ROBERT U.

 

Born: 2-11-1920                                                          married: [single]

Died: 8-12-1956                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1942    quarterly conference license

1945    license, Allegheny Conference

1947    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Little Hill UM Church Cemetery, Allegheny County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 30

 

1947-52           Coalport

1952-55           Sidman

1955-56           without appointment at own request

1956                retired on disability: 1956, 100

 

JORDAN  [see YORDY]

 

 

KACHEL, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [KACKEL]

 

1916    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-17           Jonestown

1917-19           local

1919                referred

 

Note: William Henry Kachel, affiliation unknown, Dickinson College class of 1913 (n.g.) and Lebanon Valley College class of 1918/9 (n.g.), residing in Pottstown in 1922 and using the title Reverend, affiliation unknown.  When he was licensed in 1916, his residence was also listed as Pottstown.  He was living in Pottstown as late as 1935 and appears to be the owner of an antique store.  In 1941 a William Henry Kachel born in Pottstown 7/21/1888 was living in Norristown, per draft registration files.

 

KAHLER, CHARLES

 

Born: 1838 Gratz PA                                                  married: Rebecca Rosanna Morgan

Died: 1907                                                                  obit: [5/12/1839 – 9/26/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Trevorton PA

Obit:

 

                        Church of God

1886                Rockville

1889                Matamoras

1895                Brisbin

1899-01           Mahaffey, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

                        Red Hill, Newport PA

 

Note:  Charles. Kahler served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”      He was a preacher/evangelist in the Church of God.  It has not been verified that the Rev. Charles Kahler (whose connections appear to be east of the Susquehanna) whose personal information given above is the same Rev. Charles Kahler (whose connections appear to be west of the Susquehanna) whose service record is given.

 

 

KANAGA, SOLOMON S.

 

Born: 12-?-1839  OH                                                  married: Angeline B. Kohr [1867]

Died: 1917                                                                  obit: [3/26/1846 – 7/?/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 153

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Wilmot OH

Obit:

 

1871                transfer to Allegheny Conference

                        Greensburg

1879                dismissed

 

Note: S.S. Kanaga moved to Taylorville IL, where he farmed and served as a local preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mrs. Kanaga is a first cousin to Thomas H. Kohr.

 

KAPP, JACOB L.

 

Born: 11-1-1866  Elizabethtown PA                          married: Jennie Grable [Grabble?]

Died: 9-23-1946  Mount Vernon IL                           obit: [6/?/1872 - ]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 402

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license, Holton mission, Virginia Conference UBOC

1903    admitted on trial, Virginia Conference UBOC

1905    ordained, Virginia Conference UBOC

 

Interment: McInturff Cemetery, Hagarstown IL

Obit: Southern Illinois Conference ME 1946,120

1902-04           Rohrersvulle MD

1904-09           West August VA circuit

1909-               presiding elder, Virginia Conference

…

1912                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church, page 73

1912-16           Fairmount

1916-17           Middleburg

1917-18           on leave at own request, page 50

1918                open transfer, page 52

…

1922-23           Beaucoup, Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1923                “transfer” to Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1923-26           Beaucoup

1926-27           Vernon

1927-29           Mulberry Grove

1929-31           Freeburg

1931                retired to Mount Vernon IL

 

Note: J.L. Kapp began his ministry in the United Brethren Church, Old Constitution.  A brief biography of J.L. Kapp as a General Conference delegate appears in The Christian Conservator [UBOC] for April 28, 1909, page 11. 

 

KAUFFMAN, ABRAHAM H.

 

Born: 1815                                                                  married:

Died: 2-20-1897                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1853    license, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1868    quarterly conference license, Stehman’s church of East Pennsylvania Conference UB

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Mountville circuit

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Washington Boro PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 40

 

1868-70           Mountville

1870-71           Northumberland circuit

1871-74           Monocacy circuit

1874-75           Allentown English mission

1875-80           Conestoga circuit

1880-82           Highspire circuit

1882-83           Swatara

1883-85           Middletown station

1885-86           Yocumtown  [Pennsylvania Conference]

1886                retired to Columbia

                             1896      Marietta (5 months)

 

 

KAUFFMAN, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 3-5-1798                                                            married: Catharine Meyer

Died: 5-2-1877                                                            obit: [12/5/1796 – 4/4/1851]

Miller-Raker #: 270

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1847    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Annville United Brethren Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 16

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51           Lancaster circuit

1853-54           Berks County circuit

1854-56           Hummelstown circuit

1858-59           Lancaster circuit

1859-61           Union County circuit

 

Note. Christian Kauffman appears not to have been available for appointment every year.  This may be Christian Miller Kauffman, and possibly the father of Daniel M. Kauffman.

 

 

KAUFFMAN, DANIEL M.

 

Born: 3-?-1834  PA                                                    married: Emma R. Shultz

Died: 9-5-1901  Philadelphia PA                               obit: [7/28/1843 – 5/21/1912]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1860    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1856-57           Dauphin circuit

1857-58           Millheim circuit

1858-59           Union County circuit

1859-60           Lebanon circuit

1860-63           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1863-64           Reading Zion

1875                name erased

 

Note: This may be Daniel Miller Kauffman, and possibly a son of Christian Kauffman.  He was an early supporter of Lebanon Valley College and listed, as being from Philadelphia, as one of its original trustees.

 

 

KAUFFMAN, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1867-68           Sinking Spring circuit (part year)

 

Note.  This person is otherwise unknown.  This could be a mis-rendering of George W. Hoffman, who served Sinking Spring circuit part of 1868-69.

 

 

KAUFFMAN, GERALD DONALD

 

Born: 6-20-1923  Guernsey PA                                  married: Eleanor Louise Hershey

Died: 2-16-2012  Newville PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 412

Miller-Raker #: 701

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license, recommended by Bixler’s: Manchester MD charge

1946    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 297

 

1943-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1943-44      Fishing Creek Salem

1944-47           student, Yale Divinity School

1946-47           Newburg

1947-48           Pawtucket RI First Congregational

1948-52           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1952-57           York Third

1957-89           Carlisle Grace

1989                retired

 

Note: Gerald D. Kauffman is the son of Walter I. Kauffman and brother of Lester M. Kauffman.  He graduated from high school in 1941 and filled his father’s Manchester MD pulpit June-September (while his father was ill) until entering LVC in September 1941.  Mrs. Kauffman is the daughter of Rev. Clarence H. Hershey of the Lutheran Church.

 

 

 

 

KAUFFMAN, LESTER MILLARD

 

Born: 12-5-1906  York PA                                         married: Grace Eva Witmer

Died: 12-24-1993  Chambersburg PA                        obit: [2/25/1907 – 1/30/1998]

Miller-Raker #: 661

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1928    license, recommended by Dover

1934    ordained

 

Interment: Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1994,512

 

1928-30           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1928-29  Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

                             1929-30  Carlisle circuit

1930-33           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1933-34           living at home (Dover, Spring Run)

1934-39           Lemasters

1939-48           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1948-56           New Cumberland Trinity

1956-70           Hagerstown St. Paul’s [Otterbein]

1970                retired

 

Note: Lester M. Kauffman is the son of Walter I. Kauffman , brother of Gerald D. Kauffman, and father of Robert W. Kauffman.  His picture is on the cover of the 5/13/1933 Religious Telescope as a member of the Bonebrake Seminary class of 1933.

 

 

KAUFFMAN, PAUL WILFRED

 

Born: 1-4-1929                                                            married: Mae Irene Dehoff

Died:                                                                           obit: [9/29/1930 – 12/9/1990]

Miller-Raker #: 726                                                    married2: Dee W. Bailor

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem

1953    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-51           Miamisburg OH, Ohio Miami Conference

1951-53           Rosewood OH, Ohio Miami Conference

1953-57           Fayetteville

1957-59           West Fairview

1959-62           Boonsboro

1962-65           York area parish

1965-70           Emigsville-Longstown

1970-75           Mt. Nebo charge

1975-80           Newport parish

1980-83           Montgomery

1983-91           Harrisburg Twenty-ninth Street

1991                retired

     1991-01      Harrisburg First and Otterbein

 

Note: Paul Wilfred Kauffman is the father of Paul W. Kauffman III (whose legal name is actually Paul Wilbert Kauffman) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

KAUFFMAN, ROBERT WITMER

 

Born: 10-13-1936  Chambersburg PA                        married: Mary Ann Gemmill (1961)

Died: 12-11-2019  Marshfield MA                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 754

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58                      student, Lebanon Valley Collegein Annville PA

1958                withdrew to join Lutheran Church and prepare for their ministry  1958,75

1958-62           student, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg PA

                             1960-61      associate pastor intern, St. Thomas in US Virgin Islands

1962-66           Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Westfield MI

1966                left the ministry to pursue a career in counseling                  

 

Note: Robert W. Kauffman is the son of Lester M. Kauffman and grandson of Walter I. Kauffman.  He attended Boston University, earning a Masters in Psychology in 1968 and a PhD in 1973

 

 

KAUFFMAN, RUDOLPH H.

 

Born: 8-10-1832                                                          married: Frances [Fanny] Funk

Died: 3-9-1907                                                            obit: [2/17/1835 – 8/12/1853]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Anna Grebinger

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/24/1836 – 10/3/1880]

Gibble list: yes                                                            married3:

                                                                                    obit3: Mary K. Eshelman

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Highville PA

Obit:

 

1867-68           Lancaster circuit

 

Note: Rudolph Kauffman was a member of Stehman’s Memorial Church in northern Manor township, Lancaster County, and served as a local pastor.

 

KAUFFMAN, SAMUEL GETZ

 

Born: 11-20-1854  Lancaster County PA                   married: Hettie Ann Eidenmiller

Died: 1-13-1938  Neffsville PA                                 obit: [10/14/1954 – 6/18/1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    quarterly conference license, Refton

1891    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1894    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Long Memorial UMC Cemetery, Neffsville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1938,13

 

1891-95           Intercourse

1895-01           Manor

1901-05           Refton

1905-08           Denver Trinity

1908-11           Schuylkill Haven

1911-13           Centerville

1913-33           Neffsville

1933                retired

 

 

KAUFFMAN, WALTER I.

 

Born: 9-10-1882  Hellam PA                                     married: Sarah R. Welty

Died: 11-3-1965                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,269

Miller-Raker #: 646

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1919    quarterly conference license, Longstown church of Red Lion charge

1921    license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution)

1930    ordained

 

Interment: Longstown Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 145

 

1920-24           Heidlersburg

1924-26           Franklintown

1926                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference from UBOC

1926-32           Dover

1932-37           Spring Run

1937-46           Manchester MD

1946-49           Oakville

1949                retired

                             1951-56      Upper Strasburg

 

Note: He is the father of Gerald D. Kauffman and Lester M. Kauffman, and the grandfather of Robert W. Kauffman.  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.

 

KAUFMAN, JOHN WARREN

 

Born:  Mount Carmel PA                                           married: Fanny Shively

Died:                                                                           obit: [? – 1/21/1946]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

            quarterly conference license, Mount Carmel

1901    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1908    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-06           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1902-03      Hillsdale circuit

                             1903-04      West Lebanon

                             1904-06      Sinking Spring

1906-07           local, in Philadelphia

1907-10           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1910-12           Paradise St. John’s

1912-13           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

1913                honorable dismissal, to join another denomination

1916                Path Valley Presbyterian Church

1918                YMCA, Fort Fix NJ

1925                Roslyn

1943                Philadelphia

1940’s             Farmville VA Presbyterian Church

1951-52           Philadelphia

 

Note. J. Warren Kaufman is the father of Presbyterian pastor Rev. Jay Warren Kaufman (1911-1999).  He was functioning as a local preacher in Philadelphia, and he assumed responsibility at First during the 1907-08 conference year when D.E. Long became solicitor for Lebanon Valley College.  He is the co- author of the 1916 Hisotry of the Presbyterian Churches of Path Valley.  Mrs. Kaufman is a sister to Bejnamin Franklin Shively.  The surname is sometimes rendered KAUFFMAN.

 

KAUTERMAN, JOHN A. JR.

 

Born: 6-3-1884  Schuylkill Haven PA                       married: Bertha M. Kauffman [11/13/1908]

Died: 9-25-1972  Pottsville PA                                  obit: [5/29/1883 – 3/28/1969]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment: [possibly Kimmel’s Church Cemetery, Schuylkill County PA]

Obit:

 

1923-38           Cressona

 

Note:  For 1923-25, H.F. Boeshore was the assigned pastor, but he was too ill to serve.  John A. Kauterman was listed each year under “others employed in the conference,” and his status or qualifications are unclear.  He lived in Schuylkill Haven and worked as a baker.

 

 

KAUTZ, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 97

Gibble list: no

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1860                name erased

 

KECK, BENJAMIN K.

 

Born: 12-12-1825  Lehighh County PA                     married: Susanna DeEsch

Died: 2-25-1892  Myerstown PA                               obit: [2/8/1823 – 7/21/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East German Conference

1873    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Baprist Brethren Cemetery, East Texas PA

Obit: East German Conference1892, 50

 

1876-79           Lehigh Valley circuit

1879-82           Bellegrove circuit

1882-84           Jonestown circuit

1884-85           Northampton circuit

1885-88           Lebanon circuit

 

 

KECKLER, BENJAMIN F.

 

Born: 4-9-1894                                                            married: Caroline E. Batdorf

Died: 11-2-1969  Ft. Wayne IN                                 obit: [1894 – 1969]

Miller-Raker #: 632

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    license, recommended by Enola

 

Interment: Shoops Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1924-26           Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

     1925       Shermansdale (“a few weeks”  1926,23)

1926-27           Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to New Cumberland charge)

1927-28           living in Enola

1928                transfer to East Pennsylvania Eldership of the Church of God  1928,51

                        Mt. Laurel (Piketown) [Dauphin County]

                        Bainbridge [Lancaster County]

                        Eberly Mills and Glenville [Cumberland County and Perry County]

                        Harrisburg Nagle Street

                        Duncannon

                        Goldsboro

 

Note: Benjamin F. Keckler's son and grandson Benjamin F. Keckler Jr and Benjamin F. Keckler III graduated from Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay OH in 1955 and 1976 respectively.  Contact person in 2003 is grandson Marlin Keckler Jr, 11 Pennsboro Drive, Enola PA  17025.

 

 

KEECH, ROGER EUGENE

 

Born: 8-13-1923  Akron OH                                      married: Ruth Evelyn Gearhart

Died: 1-7-2010  Chambersburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 417

Miller-Raker #: 713

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license

1953    ordained

 

Interment: [body donated to Hershey Medical Center]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 167

 

1949-53           assistant chaplain, Soldiers & Sailors Home in Zenia OH

1953-58           Myersville

1958-64           Spry

1964-81           York Fifth [Messiah]

1981-88           Shippensburg Messiah

1988                retired

                             1989-94      mission interpreter, Conference Board of Global Ministries

                             1995-97      visitation pastor, Waynesboro Faith

 

 

KEEDY, DAVID D.

 

Born: 2-16-1830  Washington County MD                married: Lucinda Brechbill [1855]

Died: 1-12-1895  Keedysville MD                             obit: [5/?/1839 – 3/20/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 90

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license, Allegheny Conference

1859    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Keedysville MD

Obit: Maryland Conference 1895,18

 

1855-56           Blair circuit

1857                transfer to Virginia Conference

1857-58           Hagerstown circuit

1858-59           Otterbein station

…

1886-87           Liverpool (last part of year; see 1887,19)

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

 

 

KEEFER, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1915-16           Union

 

Note: J.W. Keefer served as “others employed by the conference” and is otherwise unknown.  His address is given as Liverpool.  The newly constituted Union Circuit of 1915 consisted of Hill, Reward, Bucks and Center Union – all detached from the Liverpool charge [see 1915,62].

 

KEELEY, WILLIAM BIRD

 

Born: 4-19-1860  Dublin, Ireland                               married: Nannie Hannah Southworth

Died: 3-12-1910  Rouzerville                                     obit: [?/?/1865 – 4/4/1944]

Miller-Raker #: 539

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            1ocal preacher, Wesleyan Methodist Church in England

1892    probationer, North West Kansas Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1896    ordained. North West Kansas Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1901    license, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church 1910,121

 

                        Jamestown

                        Weber

                        Narka

                        Formosa

                        one year in Iowa

                        one year in Nebraska

1901                transfer to Virginia Conference of United Brethren Church

1901-03           Lacey Springs

1903-05           Harrisonburg

1905-06           Rocky Spring, Pennsylvania Conference

1906                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 50

1906-07           Rocky Spring

1907                open transfer, page 46 & 66

1907-09           Rouzerville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1909                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-10           Rouzerville

 

Note: While William Bird Keeley served Rocky Spring, he was also the chaplain for the Scotland Home.  Some sources give the year of birth as 1852.  Following the death her husband, Mrs. Keeley removed to Jamestown KS.

 

 

KEENE, JAMES CALVIN

 

Born: 2-29-1908  Enders PA                                      married: Elsa Feichtinger

Died: 11-7-2002  Lewisburg PA                                obit: [1/2/1903 – 9/15/1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Penns Creek PA

Obit:

 

1926-30           student, Lebanon Valley College

1938                referred

 

Note: J. Calvin Keene is the son of James Edward Keene.  He earned a PhD in Religion from Yale University in 1927 and taught at Howard University and other schools.  Mrs. Keene was born in Linz, Austria, and the Keenes were married 4/20/1934 in Izmir, Turkey.  They lived their final years at the denominational home in Lewisburg.

 

 

KEENE, JAMES EDWARD

 

Born: 10-21-1878  Reading PA                                  married: Nora Mary Kershner

Died: 9-4-1966  Quincy PA                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 49

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1902    quarterly conference license, Reading Salem

1903    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1907    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 124

 

1902-03           Hustontown, Allegheny Conference

1903-04           Intercourse circuit

1904-08           Jacksonville circuit

1908-09           Denver Trinity

1909-14           Lititz

1914-18           Lancaster Otterbein

1918-26           Mont Claire

1926-33           Pine Grove

1933-43           Cleona-Pleasant Hill

1943-47           Avon

1947-50           Coatesville

1950                retired

 

 

KEESEY, THOMAS L.

 

Born: c1828  PA                                                         married: Margaret Ann Johnston

Died:                                                                           obit: [9/21/1827 – 10/19/1917]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 84

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

1856    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1853-54           Jefferson

1854-57           Blair

1857-59           Johnstown station

1859-60           Mt. Pleasant (did not finish the year)

1860                expelled

 

Note: Thomas L. Keesey “disappeared” in October 1859 at the same time as did a local “very handsome and fascinating grass widow.”  A “grass widow” is a woman divorced or temporarily separated from her husband.  Mrs. Keesey gave birth to their fifth child in March 1860 and in late 1860 married a Mr. (Jacob?) Hoover.  The Keesey family appears to claim Oliver township, Mifflin County, as their home during the 1850’s (in the census, and for the birth of their children) – even while T.L. Keesey was serving in other areas.  In 1860, Thomas L Keesey is reported to have been teaching in Toronto Canada, no longer with a woman and ashamed of his actions.  His daughter Clara married noted Lutheran theologian and namesake of Wittenberg University’s Hamma Divinity School Rev. Michael Wolfe Hamma (1836-1913).

 

KEIPER, JOHN ALFRED

 

Born: 12-19-1861  Elizabethville PA                         married: Gertrude Viola Barr

Died: 4-19-1933  Lebanon PA                                   obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950,28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1885    quarterly conference license

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933,14

 

1888-90           Tremont circuit

1890-91           Tower City

1891-93           Lykens

1893-01           Myerstown

1901-10           Oberlin

1910-14           Philadelphia First

1914-17           Allentown Linden Street

1917-19           Pottstown

1919-21           Lebanon Memorial

1921-22           Pine Grove

1922-25           Lebanon Hebron

1925-31           Tower City

1931                retired

                             1931-32      Lickdale and Greenpoint

                             1932-33      Lickdale

 

Note: John A. Keiper is a brother to Laura Keiper (Mrs. Harry E.) Miller.

 

 

KEIRN, JOSEPH B.

 

Born: 6-2-1862  Clearfield County PA                      married: Ella Thompson

Died: 6-16-1939  Salix PA                                         obit: Allegheny Conference 1946,65

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 306

Gibble list: no

 

1898    quarterly conference license

1902    license, Allegheny Conference

1906    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Dunmire Cemetery, Salix PA

Obit:  Allegheny Conference 1939,58

 

1901-03           Berlin

1903-07           Cambria

1907-08           Ligonier

1908-09           New Florence

1909-10           ?

1910-13           Fayette

1913-15           Madison

1915-16           McKeesport First

1916-18           Rockwood

1918-20           Ralphton

1920-21           Knoxdale (ending 3/15/1921)

1921-22           Wall

1922-23           Belsano

1923-24           Orbisonia

1924-27           Wyano

1927-29           Dunlo

1929-31           Houserville

1931                retired

                               1935-36   Rutherford (beginning 1/13/1935) 

                               1936-37   Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 12/22/1936)

                               1937-38   Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 10/1/1937)

                               1938-39     Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 11/19/1938)

 

 

KEISTER, GEORGE

 

Born: 1848  Westmoreland County PA                      married: Lillian A. Ressler

Died: 8-2-1880                                                            obit: [5/14/1851 – 4/17/1939]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 163

Gibble list: no

 

1874    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1875-80           faculty, Union Biblical Seminary

 

Note: George Keister is a brother to Lawrence W. Keister.  He was a graduate of Otterbein University and the Theological Department of Boston University.  Mrs. Keister is the daughter of Jacob B. Ressler and a sister to John I.L. Ressler.  She was very active in the denomination’s Women’s Missionary Association.  The widowed Mrs. Keister later married a Mr. Harford and is buried in the Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH.

 

KEISTER, LAWRENCE W.

 

Born: 8-28-1856  near Scottdale PA                          married: Eliza Campbell

Died: 3-9-1945                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Cora Brittania Cormany

Fulton #: 214 & 242                                                   obit2: [5/3/1862 – 2/3/1929]

Gibble list: no

 

1881    quarterly conference license

1885    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945,56

 

1877-82           student, Otterbein University

1882-85           student, Boston University School of Theology

1885                Clarion River (3 months)

1885-86           Morrellville

1886-87           Greensburg

1887                transfer to California Conference

1887-90           living in California

1890                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1890-94           Wilkinsburg

1894-95           Tyrone

1895-00           Scottdale

1900-01           faculty, Otterbein College

1901-07           Mount Pleasant

1907-12           president, Lebanon Valley College

1912                "publishing and writing"

 

Note:  Lawrence W. Keister is a brother to George Keister and to Mary Keister Mills, the wife of United Brethren Bishop Job Smith Mills (1848-1909).  The middle initial for Lawrence Keister is variously given as L (supposedly for Laurence) or W.  The conference archives has several booklets by Lawrence Keister.  There are biographical sketches of Lawrence Keister in Wallace's 1966 Centennial History of Lebanon Valley College, page 139, and in Fulton's 1931 History of the Allegheny Conference, page 75.  The latter book also includes, on page 80, a biographical sketch of his father, the prominent Allegheny Conference layman Solomon Keister (1816-1901) – and, on page 90, a biographical sketch of his brother, Allegheny Conference layman Albert Keister (1894-1929).   Mrs. Keister is the daughter of Samuel E. Cormany and a first cousin to Emma Cormany (Mrs. John O.) Clippinger.

 

 

KEISTER, SAMUEL WEBSTER.

 

Born: 7-3-1851  Montgomery County OH                 married: Mary Palmyra Nease [1879]

Died:11-3-1929  Franklin County OH                       obit: [4/22/1850 – 11/11/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 276

Gibble list: no

 

quarterly conference license

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

                        Miami Conference

1896-97           Mt. Pleasant

1897                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-01           Mount Pleasant

1901-05           superintendent, West District

1906-08           evangelist at large

1908-11           Johnstown Park Avenue

1911-13           field educational secretary, Home Missionary Society

1913-18           living in Westerville OH: field agent, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1918                transfer to Miami Conference

1924                no longer listed

 

Note: Samuel W. Keister is the son of Samuel and Eliza Keister of Germantown OH and does not appear to be directly related to Lawrence Keister and the other Keisters of the Allegheny Conference.

 

 

KELLER, CHARLES HENRY

 

Born: 12-12-1905 Pittsburgh PA                                married: Goldie L. Wechtenhizer

Died:  9-1-1983  Akron OH                                       obit: East Ohio Conference 1998, 142

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 497

Gibble list: no

 

1923    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1931    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: East Liberty Cemetery, Green OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1984, vI,117

 

1925-29           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1929-31           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1931-32           Beaver Falls

1932-37           Fayette

1937-43           Herminie

1943-44           Parkersburg WV

1944-45           Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

1945                transfer to Miami Conference

1945-46           Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

 

Note: Charles H. Keller is the husband of Goldie W. Keller.  He is the author of the 1943 History of the Allegheny Conference,

 

 

KELLER, GOLDIE LAVINA WECHTENHIZER

 

Born: 2-28-1908                                                          married: Charles H. Keller

Died:  3-9-1997  Akron OH                                       obit: East Ohio Conference 1984,vI,117

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 517

Gibble list: no

 

1926    quarterly conference license, Central City

1928    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: East Liberty Cemetery, Green OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1998,142

 

1928-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1930-31          

1931-32           Beaver Falls

1932-37           Fayette

1937-43           Herminie

1943-44           Parkersburg WV

1944-45           Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

1945                transfer to Miami Conference

1945                located

 

Note: Goldie W. Keller is the wife of Charles H. Keller.  She is listed in the EUB yearbooks up to 1968, but does not appear in the United Methodist General Minutes beginning in 1969.

 

 

KELLY, GEORGE EDWARD

 

Born:  10-23-1898  Runville PA                                married: Lucinda Muriel McFarland

Died:  3-30-1985  Johnstown PA                               obit: [10/20/1896 – 4/14/1966]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Blanche Wood Brady

Fulton #: 470                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992,315

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Rockwood IOOF Cemetery, Rockwood PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985,381

 

1928-31           Jefferson

1931-42           Wilmore–Dunlo

1942-48           Huntingdon

1948-59           East Connellsville

1959-68           Casselman

1968                retired

 

Note: G. Edward Kelly is the son of John F. Kelly.

 

 

KELLY, JAMES W. ARCHER

 

Born: 4-5-1860  near Port Trevorton PA                   married: Anna M. Zimmerman

Died: 11-22-1935  Williamsport PA                          obit: [1862-1964]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 313, 526

Gibble list: yes [KELLEY]

 

1889    quarterly conference license, South Williamsport

1897    license, East German Conference

1901    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1936,59

 

1891-98           Shamokin Second

1898-00           Milton

1900-02           South Williamsport
1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-04           South Williamsport

1904                local, living in Williamsport

1926                dropped
1929                re-instated

 

Note:  J.W.A. Kelly retired from the active ministry in 1904 because of ill health.  He took secular employment and was an active member at South Williamsport.  He was vice-president of the Billy Sunday Brotherhood of Williamsport and was instrumental in getting Mr. Sunday to come and lay the cornerstone 11/22/1925 for the new sanctuary.

 

 

KELLY, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born:  8-21-1865  Martha Furnace PA                       married: Eliza Jane Gates

Died:  1-20-1948  Altoona PA                                   obit: Allegheny Conference 1902,49

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lillian May Spain

Fulton #: 263                                                               obit2:  Allegheny Conference 1935,57

Gibble list: no

 

1893    quarterly conference license

1894    license, Allegheny Conference

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:  Mount Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,66

 

1893-95           East Salem

1895-98           Runville

1898-99           New Florence

1899-01           Middletown

1901-02           Middleburg

1902-04           Liverpool

1904-06           Wilmore

1906-08           Greenwood

1908-10           Lovett

1910-11           Shanksville

1911-12           Milton

1912-14           Clearfield

1914-15           Coalport

1915-18           East Freedom

1918-20           Hooversville

1920-22           Mill Run

1922-35           local pastor

1935                retired

 

Note: John F. Kelly is the father of G. Edward Kelly.

 

 

KELLY, M.N.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881-82           Catasauqua circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: M.N. Kelly is otherwise unknown

 

 

KEMP, GEORGE W. JR

 

Born: 6-8-1915                                                            married: Zula L. Bowser

Died: 4-22-1972                                                          obit: [8/6/1913 – 2/12/1998]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1934    quarterly conference license

1935    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Jefferson Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills PA

Obit:

 

1935-37           student

1937-39           Mahaffey (beginning 11/16/1937 and ending 4/17/1939)

1942-43           Zion

1944-45           Wall

1945-51           Wilmerding YMCA

1951-56           no appointment at own request

1956                no longer listed

…

1964                McKeesport PA First Congregational

1965                South Hills PA Congregational

 

 

KEMP, JOHN PETER

 

Born: 6-28-1749                                                          married: Mary Margaret Lehman

Died: 2-26-1811                                                          obit: [6/17/1758 – 2/20/1845]

Miller-Raker #: 43

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment: Rocky Springs Cemetery, Rocky Springs MD

Obit:

 

Note:  Mrs. Kemp is the daughter of Adam Lehman.  It was in the Peter Kemp home near Frederick MD that the United Brethren denomination was organized on September 25, 1800.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 300, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, give brief biographies.

 

 

KEMPER, J. R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 421

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        Parkersburg Conference

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3

1890                dismissed  1890,16

 

KENDALL, DANIEL HOMER

 

Born: 9-21-1913  Hagerstown MD                             married: Mary Genevieve Kendle

Died: 1-31-1991  Hagerstown MD                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990,456

Miller-Raker #: 688

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    license, recommended by Hagerstown Grace

1939    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991,481

 

1940-47           Keedysville

1947-50           Baltimore Salem

1950-59           Chewsville

1959-67           Shippensburg Messiah

1967-72           Wormleysburg St. Paul’s

1972-78                      Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1978                retired

 

 

KENDIG, LILLIAN MAY

 

Born:  5-26-1890  Mowersville PA                            married: Harry Verde Cole [1925]

Died: 9-?-1982                                                            obit: [9/4/1880 – 2/5/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1917    license, recommended by Newburg  1917,39

1918    license, New Mexico Mission Conference 

 

Interment: Leo Memorial Park, Leo-Cedarville IN

Obit:

 

1916-25           faculty, McCurdy Mission School in Espanola NM

                             1918-21  superintendent

 

Note: Lillian M. Kendig is a great niece to Jacob High Snoke.  A biographical sketch of home missionary Lillian Kendig Cole is given in Holdcraft's 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 329.  After their marriage, the Coles settled in Indiana.

 

 

KENDIG, M.D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-20           Brunnerville, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: M.D. Kendig is otherwise unknown.

 

 

KEPERLING, IRA CLAY

 

Born: 9-13-1923  Lancaster County PA                     married: Elizabeth Zeigler

Died: 12-30-2014  York PA                                       obit: [11/27/1924 – 1/27/2011]

Miller-Raker #: 714

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    quarterly conference license, Highville Church in Manor township of Lancaster County

1949    license

1957    ordained

 

Interment: Winterstown UB Cemetery, Winterstown PA

Obit:

 

1944-46           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1944-46       Lickdale circuit (ending 6/46), East Pennsylvania Conference

1946-49           ?

1949-57           Manchester MD

1957-63           Winterstown

1963-70           Hagerstown Emanuel

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-79           Govans

1979-83           Greenbelt Mowatt Memorial

1983-85           Williamsport Rehobeth

1985                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Keperling is the daughter of Roy R. Zeigler.

 

 

KEPHART, CYRUS JEFFRIES

 

Born: 2-23-1852  Oscwola Mills PA              married: Sarah Scott Perry

Died: 6-20-1932  Shelby NE                          obit: Miami Conference 1928, 34

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1874    license, Iowa Conference

1879    ordained, Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City MO

Obit: Kansas Conference 1932, 15

1869-74           student, Western College in Toledo IA

1874-75           Toledo

1875-78           student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1878-79           principal, Avalon Academy in Avalon MO

1879-85           president, Avalon College in Avalon MO

1885-87           faculty, Western College in Toledo IA

1887-89           Des Moines East Side

1889                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1889-90           president, Lebanon Valley College

1890-94           Lebanon Trinity (beginning 1/1/90)

1894-97           field secretary, Pennsylvania Sunday School Association

1897                transfer to Iowa Conference

1897-99           president Avalon College in Trenton MO

1899-02           Des Moines Summit Park

1902-05           Lisbon IA

1905-08           president, Western College [renamed Leander Clark College] in Toledo IA

1908-13           Dayton First

1913-25           bishop

1925                retired

 

Note: Cyrus J. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Ezekiel B. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart.  A biographical sketch of Bishop C.J. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 207-220.

 

 

KEPHART, EZEKIEL BORING

 

Born: 11-6-1834                                                          married: Susan J. Trefts

Died: 1-24-1906                                                          obit: [3/3/1835 – 3/22/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 107

Gibble list: no

 

1858    quarterly conference license, Clearfield circuit

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

1861    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Anville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Indiana Conference 1906, 40

 

1856-57           student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1857-58           student, Mount Pleasant College

1858-59           teaching, local public school

1859-60           Troutville mission

1860-61           Johnstown

1861-63           Altoona First

1863-64           Greensburg and Mount Pleasant

1864-65           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1865                transfer to ? [may not have followed through]

1865-66           principal, Michigan Collegiate Institute in Leoni MI

1866-67           Rochester and Industry

1867-68           Mount Pleasant circuit

1868-74           president, Western College near Cedar Rapids IA

1874                transfer to Iowa Conference

1874-81           president, Western College near Cedar Rapids IA [later removed to Toledo IA]

1881-05           bishop

 

Note: Ezekiel B. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Cryus J. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart.  He is the father of Emma May Kephart Roop, wife of Hervin U. Roop, and of Lulu Maude Kephart, wife of L. Franklin John of the St. Joseph Conference.  A biographical sketch of Bishop E.B. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 75-91.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo, center space. 

 

KEPHART, HENRY JR.

 

Born: 1-5-1802  Center Furnace PA                          married: Sarah Goss

Died: 5-5-1886  Shueyville IA                                   obit: [7/6/1808 – 10/30/1887]

Miller-Raker #: 192

Fulton #: 25 and 105

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Rapids IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1887,35

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1857                transfer to Iowa Conference

1858                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1861                transfer to Iowa Conference

 

Note: Henry Kephart was an active local preacher who reportedly only had charge of a field of labor one year.  He is the father of three very prominent denominational leaders: college president and editor Isaiah Lafayette Kephart (1832-1908), bishop Ezekiel Boring Kephart (1834-1906), and college president and bishop Cyrus Jeffries Kephart (1852-1932).  Published biographies of these prominent sons include much biographical detail on Henry and Sarah Kephart.  His daughter Mary married Abraham Crowell of the Allegheny Conference.

 

 

KEPHART, ISAIAH LAFAYETTE

 

Born: 9-8-1832  Clearfield County PA                      married: Mary Elizabeth Sowers

Died: 10-28-1908                                                        obit: [2/2/1842 – 1/8/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 106

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    quarterly conference license

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

1863    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: East Tennessee Conference 1908,12

 

1859-60           Mahoning circuit

1859-61           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1861-62           Brush Valley

1862-63           East Salem

1863-64           McVeytown (did not finish the year)

1864-65           chaplain, US Army

1865-66           Hummelstown circuit

1866                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1866-67           Hummelstown circuit

1868                transfer to Iowa Conference

1876-78           actuary, United Brethren Mutual Aid Society in Lebanon PA

1878                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1878-84           actuary, United Brethren Mutual Aid Society in Lebanon PA

1884                transfer to

1884-86           faculty, San Joaquin College in Woodbridge CA

1886-89           president, Westfield College in Westfield IL

1889-08           editor, The Religious Telescope

 

Note: Isaiah L. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Cyrus J. Kephart and Ezekiel B. Kephart.  His biography, Life of Rev. Isaiah L. Kephart, D.D., was published by the United Brethren Publishing House in 1909. 

 

KERLIN, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: mo

 

Interment:

Obit:

1920-21           Mahaffey (ending 1/3/1921)

 

Note: John Kerlin is otherwise unknown.  This may be the John F. Kerlin in the Methodist data base.

 

 

KERNS, OTTIS ALFRED

 

Born: 6-21-1896  Coldwater OH                                married: Martha Elizabeth Hollinger

Died: 8-2-1974                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983,411

Miller-Raker #: 761

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    ordained, Auglaize Conference of the United Brethren Church (Old Constitution)

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1922-23                      Carlisle, Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1923-24           Orrstown, Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1924                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1924-25           Orrstown

1925-27           Mt. Pleasant

1927-28           Greencastle

1928-33           Lemasters

1933-37           professor, Huntington College

1937-40           living in Shippensburg RFD, conference treasurer

1940-44           living in Shippensburg RFD

1944-46           Heidlersburg

1946-47           Mainsville

1947-50           Franklintown

1950-54           Mainsville

1954-56           living in Shippensburg RFD

1956                withdrew  Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC), page 9

1957                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 82

1957                                retired

                        1960    Upper Strasburg (Apr-Oct)

 

Note: No conference obituary is given for Ottis A. Kerns.  He is reported to have served Crider’s, but the UBOC appointments are tedious to reconstruct. As he seems to have lived in the same house 1937-56, some years with no appointment, it appears he may have left the UBOC because of efforts to “clean up” the ministerial rolls of non-itinerating pastors.

 

 

KESSLER, ELIAS ALVIN

 

Born: 11-28-1904  Schuylkill County PA                  married: Emma Mary Smeltzer

Died: 1-18-1992                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 408

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1935    quarterly conference license, Barry

1938    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Barry UB Cemetery, Schuylkill County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 293

 

1940                transfer to Virginia Conference

1944-46           Kentucky Home Mission Fund

1946-51           Virginia Conference

1951-55           Beaver Falls First, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1953                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1953-55           Beaver Falls First

1955-58           Bradenville

1958-60           Port Matilda

1960-67           Conemaugh Calvary

1967-70           Conemaugh Calvary – Johnstown Mt. Hope

1970                retired

                             1971-74      Casselman (beginning 1/11/1971)

 

Note: Elias A. Kessler is the author of the book REIFLICH AND SEQUEL AS A COUNTRY PREACHER DISCOVERS WHILE SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES.

 

 

KESSLER, JACOB SMITH

 

Born: 10-26-1812  Sinking Valley, Blair County PA married:

Died: 6-12-1863  Hummelstown PA                          obit: [d. 3/24/1852]

Miller-Raker #: 197                                                    maried2: Sarah _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Kalmia Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1864, 169

 

1836-37           Huntingdon circuit

1837-38           Juniata circuit

1838-40           Chambersburg circuit

1840-41           Dauphin circuit (resigned in mid-year for health reasons)

1841-43           local (for health reasons), living 4 miles east of Chambersburg

1843-45           Hershey’s station

1845-46           Highspire

1846-49           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1849-53           Philadelphia mission

1853-54           Harrisburg Front Street mission

1854-55           Rocky Spring circuit (resigned for health reasons, helped in Philadelphia)

1855-56           agent for Philadelphia church

1856-57           Lancaster, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 46

1857-58           Lancaster

1858-59           Highspire

1859-61           Hummelstown circuit (resigned for health reasons)

1861-62           postmaster, living in Hummelstown

 

Note: Jacob’s mother, Anna Smith [Schmitt], was raised near Frederick in a home visited often by Otterbein, Boehm, Geeting, Neidig, etc.  Isaiah L. Kephart wrote an 1867 biography of Jacob Smith Kessler.  Jacob Kessler had no children.

 

 

KESSLER, MATTHIAS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1812                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 39

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1812, 9

 

 

KEYS, WILLIAM SPRING HUBBELL

 

Born: 7-8-1826  Centre County PA                            married: Susan Crownover (10/7/1852)

Died: 1892                                                                  obit: [c1832 – c1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 60 [W.H.S.]

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license, Allegheny Conference

1847    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1845-46           Huntingdon

1846-47           Juniata

1847-48           Somerset

1848-50           Jefferson

1850-51           Clearfield

1851-52           Westmoreland

1852-53           Mt. Pleasant station

1853-54           Bellefonte

1854-56           (no appointment)

1856-60           withdrew for financial reasons

1860-62           Fallen Timber

1862                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1862-66           New Holland

1866-68           Harrisburg First

1868-70           Columbia Salome

1870-74           Lebanon Trinity

1874-77           Shamokin First (did not finish final year)

1878                honorable dismissal

 

Note: W.S.H. Keys was in the newspaper business in Tyrone in the 1850’s.  He later became a Congregational minister in Missouri.  He reportedly spelled his named KEYES for a time while living in Parsons KS.

 

 

KIEFER, HIRAM SHERMAN

 

Born: 7-2-1875  Shellsville PA                                  married: Margaret Fasnacht

Died: 9-28-1955                                                          obit: [died 1943]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Olive Fegley Holderman

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1902    quarterly conference license, Grantville

1903    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1909    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oberlin Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956,29

 

1904-05           Union Deposit circuit

1905-08           Halifax

1908-10           Coatesville

1910-15           Lykens

1915-21           Oberlin

1921-29           Mt. Joy

1929-38           Avon

1938-48           Elizabethville

1948                retired

 

 

KIEFER, JAMES S.

 

Born: 5-28-1918                                                         married: Velma Brubaker

Died: 11-10-1995                                                        obit: [d. 9/3/2010]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1944    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1946    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hanoverdale Cemetery, Hanoverdale PA

Obit:

1944-48           living in Elizabethtown

1948-51           living in Bern, Switzerland

1951-57           living in Frankfort, Germany

1957                granted “certificate of recommendation”

                        to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, Spartanburg SC

 

 

KILLIAN, JOHN DIEHL

 

Born: 8-3-1840  Reamstown PA                                married: Katherine Heliene [4/21/1861]

Died: 2-3-1916  Philadelphia PA                               obit:

Miller-Raker #: 420

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1874    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, East Brunswick NJ

Obit:

 

1872-73           Shamokin First

1873-75           Jacksonville circuit

1875-77           Grantville circuit

1877-79           Intercourse

1879-81           Monocacy

1881-82           Monocacy circuit

1882-83           Berks County coircuit

1883-87           Hummelstown station

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3

1887-88           Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission station

1888-90           Dallastown

1890-92           York First

1892-95           West Fairview

1895-96           Perry circuit (resigned 10/12/1895)

1896                dismissed  1896,9

 

1915                living in Philadelphia

 

Note: A picture of Rev. Killian appears in the 1915 75th anniversary booklet for York First.  He was a coachmaker before entering the ministry and died from injuries sustained as a pedestrian struck by an automobile.

 

 

KIMBERLIN, HEINRICH [HENRY] JOHANN

 

Born: 12-23-1789  Huntingdon County PA               married: Sarah Brewau

Died: 10-25-1867  Wood County OH                        obit:  [8/20/1795 – 6/20/1878]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [Kimberlein]

 

1825    admitted? – see Note2 below

 

Interment: Beaver Creek Cemetery, Grand Rapids OH

Obit:

 

Note:  Henry Kimberlin served as a local preacher.  He moved to Ohio in 1827 – where he became an effective early pioneer of the church in Ohio and was among the 1833 organizers of the Sandusky Conference.  This surname is sometimes rendered KIMBERLEIN, KEMERLING or KIMBERLING.

 

Note2: The 1816 conversion Henry Kimberlin [Kemerling] is described in Samuel Huber’s autobiography, pages 49-50.  He is listed as being present at the 1825 conference in Franklin County PA, but there is no record of him being licensed or admitted on probation. 

 

KING, JOHN RESSLER

 

Born:  1866  Fayette County PA                                married: Zella Bates

Died:  1-23-1938  St. Petersburg FL                          obit: [1873 – 1954]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 245

Gibble list: no

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Walnut Hill

1892    license, Allegheny Conference

1904    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938,61

 

1894-01           missionary, Sierra Leone [Africa]

1901-02           Beaver Falls

1902-12           missionary, Sierra Leone [Africa]

1912-26           superintendent, Otterbein Home in Lebanon OH

1926-38           superintendent, men's dormitory at Otterbein College in Westerville OH

 

Note: The middle name of the tombstone is given as RESLER.

 

 

KINGSBOROUGH, RAYMOND McCLELLAN

 

Born: 10-5-1922  Craigheads PA                               married: Pearl I Wilhelm

Died: 11-25-2018  Carlisle PA                                   obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2007, 581

Miller-Raker #: 763

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          Wesleyan Methodist Church, Middle Atlantic States Conference

1957    license, page 82 & 84

 

Interment: Springville Cemetery, Boiling Springs PA

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2019, 578

 

1957-60           Manchester MD

1960-68           New Bloomfield

1968-70           Thurmont Deerfield

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-77           Thurmont Deerfield

1977-83           Martinsburg Pikeside

1983-88           Darlington charge

1988                retired

 

 

KINNEAR, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 134

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1831    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Virginia Conference

                        apparently returned to the Pennsylvania Conference

1831-32           Huntington circuit

1832-33           Juniata circuit

1833                withdrew

 

Note: This surname is also rendered KENIER and KERNER.  A William Kinnear was a local ME preacher south of Erie in the Pittsburgh Conference in the mid 1830’s, but there appears to have been a Kinnear family indigenous to Venango County that produced the ME Rev. Gideon Kinnear (1809-1876).

 

 

KIPP, CALVIN

 

Born: 6-9-1929                                                            married: Marian Lucille Musselman

Died: 11-28-1987                                                        obit: [1934 - ]

Miller-Raker #: 715

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license

1955    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988,416

 

1949-52           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1952-55           Houston Congregational Christian (Ohio)

1955-58           Lemasters

1958-60           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1960-63           Middleburg-Shiloh

1963-79           Winterstown

1979-81           Hughesville Christ-Clarkstown

1981-87           disability

 

 

KIRACOFE, GEORGE WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-5-1847  Stribling Springs VA                       married: Virginia Catharine Koontz

Died: 8-19-1919  Accomack County VA                   obit: [10/25/1842 – 3/25/1922]

Miller-Raker #: 383

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1874    license, Virginia Conference

1877    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Onancock Cemetery, Onancock VA

Obit:

 

1873-75           Rockbridge

1875-77           Potomac

1877-78           New Creek

1878                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1877-79           Liverpool  (first year = last part only)

1879-81           Perry circuit

1881-83           Littlestown circuit

1883-86           Greenmount circuit

1886-88           Winterstown circuit

1890                enters Baptist ministry

 

Note: George W. Kiracofe is a brother to John Wesley Kiracofe and Nimrod A. Kiracofe, and an uncle to Mrs. Albert Snyder.

 

KIRACOFE, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 8-25-1842  near Stribling Springs VA             married: Catharine Virginia Snyder

Died: 8-29-1914  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [4/10/1846 – 1/11/1870]

Miller-Raker #: 422                                                    married2: Susan P. Buxton

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 41

Gibble list: no

 

1861    quarterly conference license,                                                                                    

1863    license, Virginia Conference

1864    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 94

 

1862-63           Lacey Springs circuit

1863-64           Highland circuit

1864-66           Rockbridge circuit

1866-67           Winchester circuit

1867-68           Churchville circuit

1868-70           Frederick circuit

1870-73           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1873-76           Boonsboro

1876-80           Keedysville

1880-85           Potomac circuit

1885-87           Newville, Pennsylvania Conference

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1887-89           Newville

1889-94           Mechanicsburg First

1894-98           Mont Alto circuit

1898-99           Rocky Spring circuit

1899-00           Greencastle

1900-04           Boling Springs

1904-10           Frederick

1910-12           Windsor

1912                retired to Hagerstown MD

 

Note: The first Mrs. Kiracofe is buried at Mt. Tabor Lutheran church in Augusta County VA, on route 252, 8 miles from Staunton VA.  John Wesley Kiracofe is a brother to George W. Kiracofe and Nimrod A. Kiracofe, and an uncle to Mrs. Albert Snyder.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, and Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 300, give brief biographies.  Three other Kiracofe brothers became pastors who eventually settled in other denominations: Charles Hiram Kiracofe (1845-1921), Presbyterian, Indiana; William Kiracofe (Baptists, Virginia), Joseph Harvey Kiracofe (1857-1935), Presbyterian, Indiana.

 

 

KIRACOFE, NIMROD ADDISON

 

Born: 4-20-1849  Stribling Springs VA                     married: Mary Elizabeth Perry (1870)

Died: 3-10-1921  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: [7/17/1847 – 3/1/1889]

Miller-Raker #: 526                                                    married2: Kathryn Sarah Dick (1890)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 62

Gibble list: yes

 

1886    license, Virginia Conference

1893    ordained, Maryland Conference

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 69

 

1881-82           West Augusta

1882-85           South River

1885-86           Lost River mission (apparently did not finish 2nd year)

1886-87           Orrstown, Pennsylvania Conference (part year 1887,12)

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-88           Potomac [Williamsport Rehobeth]

1888-89           Deer Park (?)

1889-90           Rockbridge (?)

1890-91           North Fork, Virginia Conference

1891-92           Lost River mission, Virginia Conference

1892-93           Manor circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1893-95           Manor circuit

1895-96           Chestnut Grove circuit

1896-97           Mount Joy circuit

1898-01           Pequea circuit

1901-02           Catawissa circuit

1902-03           supernumerary, living in Roaring Creek (Columbia County)

1903-04           living in Middleburg (Snyder County? or State Line?)

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-05           Springett

1905-07           Perry circuit

1907-08           Rayville

1908-09           Mechanicsburg circuit

                        assistant superintendent, Mechanicsburg Old People’s Home

 

Note: Nimrod A. Kiracofe is a brother to George W. Kiracofe and John Wesley Kiracofe, and an uncle to Mrs. Albert Snyder.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography.  While Nimrod is a Bible name, Rev. Kiracofe was named for his mother’s brother Nimrod H. Showalter.

 

 

KIRBY, EDMUND WESLEY

 

Born: 4-?-1831  VA                                                                married1: Emma Massey Wilson

Died: 2-7-1902  Washington DC                                           obit: [9/27/1833 – 4/17/1907]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                  married2: Mary Jane Hartley

Fulton #: no                                                                             obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1853    ordained, Baltimore Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: see biographical files at the conference archives

 

1853-54           Woodstock VA

1854-55           Penn’s Valley

1855-56           Warrior’s Mark

1856-57           Manor Hill

1857-58           Clearfield circuit

1858                chart member of East Baltimore Conference ME

1858-59           Philipsburg

1859-61           New Washington

1861-63           Williamsburg

1863-65           Bedford station

1865-68           Mifflin

1868-69           Milton

1869                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference ME

1869-70           Milton

1870-72           Chambersburg St. Paul’s

 

1885-86                      Philadelphia Grace

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 441, states that Dr. E.W. Kirby was a physician and a local preacher who reported a new congregation named “Grace” and was appointed to serve it in 1885.  In 1886 he made a report to conference, but there is no further record of the mission.  There is material on Rev. and Mrs. Kirby in the biographical files.  See also the article "Rev. Edmund Wesley Kirby: A Participant in Methodist History" that begins on page 46 of the 2008 volume of The Chronicle.

 

 

KISSINGER, H. PHILIP

 

Born: 7-3-1930                                                            married: Gloria L. Dern (7/9/1949)

Died:                                                                           obit: [10/14/1930 – 3/3/2021]

Miller-Raker #: 743

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1952    license, recommended by York Fourth

1956    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-57           Woodland Beach MD

1957-60           chaplain, US Army

1960-62           Shepherdstown

1962                withdrew

 

Note: H. Philip Kissinger left the denomination to found Emmanuel Baptist Church, between Camp Hill and Mechanicsburg.  About 20% of the members of Shepherdstown left with him to form the new congregation.

 

KITCHEN, A.M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 68

Gibble list: no

 

1848    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1850                name erased

 

KITCHEN, WESLEY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 134

Gibble list: no

 

license,

ordained,

 

Interment:

Obit:

                        Western Reserve Conference

1864                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1864-65           Kittanning

1866                transfer to ?

 

Note:  This surname is sometimes rendered KETCHUM.  This may the Wesley Kitchen (1838-1920) who was born in Logan OH, moved to IL in 1867, died in CO, and is the father of Rev. George E. Kitchen (1867-1956) of the Colorado Conference of the Methodist Church.

 

KITZMILLER, HARVEY JACOB

 

Born: 2-10-1867  near Bnevola MD                           married: Henrietta Middour

Died: 1-25-1936                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 31

Miller-Raker #: 445

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1890    license

1893    ordained

 

Interment: Quincy Cemetery, Quincy PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 21

 

1896-99           Waynesboro

1889-02           Mont Alto

1902-36           superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home

 

Note: The Kitzmiller’s gave their farm at Quincy for the purpose of establishing an orphanage.  The Mechanicsburg Old People’s Home merged into the Orphanage in 1913.

 

 

KLEFFMAN, JOHN EDWARD

 

Born: 4-11-1866                                                          married: Ella Lucking

Died: 3-17-1926                                                          obit: [1869 – 1954]

Miller-Raker #: 437

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1889    license

1892    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 61

 

1889                B.S. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1891-94           Hanover

1894-95           Greencastle station

1895-98           Rocky Spring circuit

1898-00           Gettysburg

1900-03           Duncannon Otterbein

1903-07           Carlisle Grace

1907-11           Red Lion Bethany

1911-13           Chambersburg First

1913-21           Baltimore Third

1921-26           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home

 

Note: Lebanon Valley College awarded John Edward Kleffman a D.D. degree in 1910.  He is the father of Rev. Albert Harry Kleffman (1916 A.B. from Lebanon Valley and 1919 B.D. from Princeton) of the Presbyterian denomination.

 

KLEIN, MATTHEW

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 168

Fulton #: 20

Gibble list: no

 

1831    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: This name is also given as MATHIAS KLINE.  Matthew Klein has no itinerant record – apparently any service rendered was as a local pastor.

 

 

KLINE, EDNA LARUE

 

Born: 2-27-1936  Mont Alto PA                                married: James Vance Brewer [1970]

Died: 10-18-2013  Norwalk CA                                 obit: [2/13/1922 – 10/18/1984]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1962    listed as missionary, page 37

 

Interment: Mont Alto Cemetery, Mont Alto PA

Obit: [Waynesboro Record Herald 11/23/2013]

 

1962-65           missionary, Sierra Leone and Nigeria

1965-67           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1967-70           Missionary, Nigeria

 

Note: Edna Kline graduated from Shippensburg University in 1958 with a BS in elementary education and taught in the public schools before teaching missionary and African children in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.  After her marriage in 1970 she taught in Chrsitian schools in the United States.

 

 

KLINE, JOHN M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1882    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884                referred

 

 

KLINE, THERESSA M.

 

Born: 9-16-1895  Belsano PA                                    married: David Isam McCracken (1924)

Died: 6-25-1950  Williamsport PA                            obit: [9/21/1893 – 8/4/1978]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 463

Gibble list: no

 

1922    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Sanborn Cemetery, Sanborn PA

Obit:

 

1923-24           Central City

1924                transfer to ?

 

Note: In non-church records her given name is rendered THERESA.  The grandfather of Theressa Kline was a George Washington Kephart (1841-1918), a first cousin of the noted United Brethren Kephart brothers Isaiah Lafayette Kephart, Ezekiel Boring Kephart and Cyrus Jeffries Kephart.  1924,136 states “That Thressa [sic] M. McCracken (nee, Miss Thressa M. Kline) be granted an open transfer.”  She does not appear in any United Brethren yearbook for any conference after her 1924 listing as Theressa Kline with the Allegheny Conference.”  In 1951, the widowed David McCracken married an Emma Wagner (1911-1973).  David McCracken was ordained in 1924 in the Pilgrim Holiness Church and served in Colorado and California and Pennsylvania.

 

 

KLINGER, HARVEY M.

 

Born: 1-25-1874  Shamokin PA                                 married: Elizabeth Frances Beach
Died: 10-5-1938  Galesburg IL                                  obit: [5/16/1879 – 4/5/1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1901    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Park Hill Cemetery and Maudoleum, Bloomington IL

Obit:  Illinois Conference 1939, 30

 

1900-03           Milton, East German Conference (1900-01) and Allegheny Conference (1901-03)

1903-04           Derry [Hershey] circuit

1904-08           Coatesville Grace

1908-09           Intercourse

1909-11           living in Minnesota

1911                transfer to Minnesota Conference

1919                transfer to Illinois Conference

                        Weaver Memorial

                        Bloomington First

                        Gibson City

                        Lexington

                        Sterling

                        Galesburg

 

 

KLOPPER – see CLOPPER

 

KNAPP, CLYDE DIRE

 

Born: 1-5-1885  Lake Pleasant PA                             married: Bertha Crain

Died: 1-24-1977  St. Petersburg FL                           obit: Erie Conference 1922,27

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Magdelena Schoenthaler

Fulton #: 445                                                               obit2: [10/15/1889 – 1949]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Georgie Bradley

                                                                                    obit3: Western New York Conference 1978, 295

1908    license, Erie Conference

1924    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Petersburg FL

Obit: Western New York Conference 1977, 275 & 1978, 289

 

                       

1905-05           Centerville

1910                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

1910-12           Franklin PA

1912-17           student, Otterbein College

                             1914-15  Galloway

1917-18           Rockwood, Allegheny Conference                

1918                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1918-19           Rockwood

1919-20           Lake Pleasant, Erie Conference

1920-21           (no appointment)

1921                transfer to Erie Conference

1921-26           Harris Hill

1926-57           local elder

                             1944-45  Riverdale, California Conference

1957                retired

 

Note: Clyde D. Knapp is a brother to Walter A. Knapp.

 

KNAPP, JOHN T.

 

Born: 8-?-1854  Baltimore MD                                  married: Mary S. Knaby [9/9/1883]

Died: 1917                                                                  obit: [1863/4 – 8/13/1942]

Miller-Raker #: 389

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1879    license

1882    ordained

 

Interment: Lorraine Park Cemetery, Woodlawn MD

Obit:

 

1879-80           living in Baltimore

                        Upper Strasburg PA (part of the year?)

1880-81           Yocumtown circuit (first part the year)

                        Pine Grove Mission [Rayville MD] (last part of the year)

1881-83           living in Baltimore

1883-84           Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial], mid-year replacement beginning 11/1883

1884-92           living in Baltimore

1892-93           Winterstown circuit

1901                dismissed  1901,8 & 37

 

Note:  The service record of John T. Knapp is unclear.  While the 1880 journal lists John T. Knapp as appointed to Yocumtown, it may be that the appointment never materialized and he spent the entire year at Pine Grove.  In October 1893 charges were filed against J.T. Knapp for “kissing a thirteen year old maid against her will.”  Mrs. Knapp was from West Fairview in Cumberland County PA.

 

KNAPP, WALTER ARNOLD

 

Born: 6-8-1878  Lake Pleasant PA                             married: Amy Lois DuMond [6/8/1878\

Died: 9-2-1960  Wattsburg PA                                   obit: [7/20/1877 – 11/14/1933]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Addie McGraw [1938]

Fulton #: 431                                                               obit2: [5/9/1899 – 5/?/1984]

Gibble list: no

 

1902    license, Erie Conference

1906    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Parkersburg WV

Obit: Erie Conference 1961, 50; West Virginia Conference 1961, 34

 

                       

                        Pleasantville PA

                        Buffalo NY

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-19           Greensburg PA

1919-20           (not listed)

1920-21           evangelist at large

1921                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

                        Westerville

1931                transfer to West Virginia Conference

                        Parkersburg WV

1946-47           Enid OK

                        Union City PA

           

 

Note: Walter A. Knapp is a brother to Clyde D. Knapp.  He attended Lebanon Valley College and Otterbein College.

 

KNAPPA, FREDERICK

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 248

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, page 46

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Frederick Knappa is otherwise unknown.  Even though he is clearly noted as “received,” his name does not appear on the alphabetical list in Gibble’s 1951 History of the Pennsylvania Conference.  This may be the Frederick Alanson Knapp (1810-1880) buried in Schuylkill County PA who was reported to be “Methodist, and was well versed in Scripture and was a traveling preacher.”

 

 

KNIGHT, LLOYD

 

Born: 6-30-1818  Patapsco Park MD                         married: Helen Rebecca Kealhoffer

Died: 3-14-1895  Yutan NE                                       obit: [1822-1864]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Margaret Weidensall

Fulton #: 150                                                               obit2: [?-1890]

Gibble list: no

 

1845    license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

1847    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Omaha NE

Obit:

 

                        Lutheran Church

1845-49           New Bloomfield

1849-62           Hollidaysburg

1862-63           Middletown MD

1863-66           Point Lookout MD

1866-67           agent, Gettysburg Academy              

                        “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1870-73           Hollidaysburg

                        returned to Lutheran Church

1873-75           Morristown IL

1880-81           North Liberty IA

1881-83           Alamode MO

 

Note: Lloyd Knight graduated from Gettysburg College in 1843 and from Gettysburg Seminary in 1845.  He appears to have severed his official synod connections while at Middletown MD, and after that served as a supply to Lutheran churches – and, on occasion, to United Brethren, and perhaps others.

 

KNIPP, JOHN EDGAR

 

Born: 9-2-1874  Baltimore MD                                  married: Bene Kriel

Died: 4-21-1962  Quincy PA                                      obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 41

Miller-Raker #: 469

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1898    license

1900    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 43

 

1900-04           missionary to Japan

1904-05           ill health

1905-15           education secretary of Foreign Missionary Society

1915-42           missionary to Japan

1942                retired

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 408, gives a brief biography.

 

 

KNOLL, JONAS L.

 

Born: 3-22-1847  near Annville PA                           married: Mary Boltz [6/20/1869]

Died: 1-11-1902                                                          obit: [?/?/1849 – 3/17/1907]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, East German Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 24

 

Note: Jonas L. Knoll was a member of Lebanon Salem and served as a local pastor.  A carpenter, he was supposedly the “inventor of a washing machine and a spring frame bicycle, with customers all over the US.”

 

 

KNOTT, WILLIAM MARKWOOD CORNELIUS

 

Born: 1804/5  PA                                                        married: Lydia Ann Sanders

Died: 1868  Augusta County VA                               obit: [?/?/1807 – 10/15/1868]

Miller-Raker #: 154

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

1832    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet United Brethren Church Cemetery, Mount Solon VA

Obit:

 

1830               charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1833-35           Woodstock

1836-37           Frederick

1837-39           Hagerstown

1846-48           Franklin

1848-49           Staunton

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 140, says that “Pappy Knott” was a good preacher with a wonderful voice – but that he could not read when he began to preach, and someone often read for him.  Some equally reliable sources identify Mrs. Knott as the former LYDIA L. SILERS.

 

KNOUSS, DAVID

 

Born: 7-1-1847  Biglerville PA                                  married: Sophie Elizabeth Cressler

Died: 5-1-1934  Bethlehem PA                                  obit: [9/23/1848 – 1/26/1892]

Miller-Raker #: 398

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1881    license

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Arendtsville PA

Obit:

 

1881-82                      Fulton mission

1882-85           living in Arendtsville

1885                returned to quarterly conference, page 5

1890                member of Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1890-97           local, living in Arendtsville and a member of York Springs quarterly conference

1897                returned to quarterly conference, page 6

 

Note: David Knouss is the father of Mary Knouss Pierce, wife of Rev E.F. Pierce, affiliation unknown (but serving in Richmond VA in 1934).

 

KNOX, G.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1890-91           Reading Trinity

 

Note: G.H. Knox served 1890-91 under a quarterly conference license.  This may be the George H. Knox (1866-1930) listed in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

 

KOCHER, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 287

Fulton #: no

Gible list: no

 

1848    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1855                expelled

 

 

KOHLER, FILLMORE THURMAN

 

Born: 2-9-1888  PA                                                    married: Rebecca Jane Owen (12/20/1917)

Died: 9-9-1957                                                            obit: [2/23/1892 – 11/30/1986]

Miller-Raker #: 550

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Yoe Salem

1909    license, recommended by Yoe Salem

1913    ordained

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 47

 

1908-10           student, Lebanon Valley College

1910-13           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                            1911    Pleasant Valley MI (July-Sept)]

1913-17           Duncannon

1917-19           West Fairview

1919-22           Lemoyne

1922-26           Keedysville

1926-27           student, Princeton Seminary

1927-34           Mount Wolf

1934-47           Baltimore Salem [Christ]

1947-50           Williamsport MD

1950                retired

 

 

KOHLER, WILLIAM F.

 

Born: 4-4-1880  Fayetteville PA                                married: Mary Catherine Straley

Died: 6-28-1961                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 35

Miller-Raker #: 600                                                    married2: Mrs. Bessie A. Flack

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license

1923    ordained

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1961,46

 

1917-21           Carlisle circuit

1921-24           Myersville

1924-28           Thurmont

1928-31           Wormleysburg

1931-39           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1939-42           Emigsville

1942-48           Dillsburg

1948-51           Scotland

1951-53           Youngs-Mt. Zion

1953                retired

 

 

KOHR, LEWIS

 

Born: 10-16-1840                                                        married: Lena Witrecht

Died: 7-4-1922                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 24

Miller-Raker #: 377

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license

1878    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 72

 

1876-77           Dover circuit

1877-82           Jefferson circuit

1882-84           York circuit

1884-85           Dallastown circuit

1885-86           Winterstown circuit

1886-88           Dover circuit

1888-91           Hanover circuit

1891-93           Bendersville

1893-94           Manchester circuit

1894-05           Hanover

1905                local

 

Note: Lewis Kohr is the grandfather of Kathleen Rebecca Kohr Caplinger (1898-1958), who graduated from Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1920 and joined the Virginia Conference in 1933 and was ordained in 1935 – reportedly the first woman ordained in the Virginia Conference of the United Brethren Church.  Mrs. Caplinger was the wife of Earnest Bruce Caplinger (1895-1983) of the Virginia Conference.

KOHR, THOMAS HENRY

 

Born: 1-15-1845  Winfield OH                                  married: Alma Adell Coe [6/4/1872]

Died: 12-26-1932  Columbus OH                              obit: [12/14/1853 – 2/16/1938]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 182

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1876    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Amaranth Abbet Mauseoleum, Columbus OH

Obit: Columbus Dispatch 12/27/1932, page 1B

 

1876                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1876-77           Johnstown First

1877-78           ?

1878-79           Greensburg

1879                dismissed to join the Presbyterian ministry

1879-89           Pataskala OH

1889-03           Westerville OH

1903-13           Bryan OH

1913-32           Linden Heights, Columbus OH (pastor emeritus for the last several years)

 

 Note: Thomas H. is a first cousin to Angeline Kohr Kanaga, wife of Solomon S. Kanaga.  An 1872 graduate of Otterbein University, he is the founding pastor of the Linden Heights church – which was re-named the Kohr Memorial Presbyterian Church while he was still living.

 

KOLB, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 72

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1813    license to exhort

1814    license to preach

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

KOONS, ISAAC BOHR

 

Born: 9-5-1853  near Lickdale PA                             married: Catherine J. Nye

Died: 12-21-1938                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 24

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1882    quarterly conference license, Mountville (Lebanon County)

1886    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1889    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bellegrove Lutheran Cemetery, Bellegrove PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 12

 

1883-87           Lehigh circuit

1887-91           Sinking Spring circuit

1891-94           Lehigh circuit

1894-02           Northampton circuit

1902-05           Lehigh circuit

1905-06           Northampton circuit

1906-07           Lehigh circuit

1907-17           located, farmed at Point Phillips on Northampton circuit

1917-21           Northampton circuit

1921-27           Bellegrove

1927-31           Grantville circuit

1931                retired

                             1932-33      Lickdale

 

 

KOONTZ, ELIAS WASHINGTON

 

Born: 8-8-1834  Frederick County MD                      married: Sarah Anne Steffey

Died: 6-1-1903                                                            obit: [12/3/1835 – 12/19/1928]

Miller-Raker #: 367

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1872    license

 

Interment: Greer’s Point Cemetery, Perry County

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference (EV) 1904, 60

 

1872-75           Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission

1875-77           Bendersville circuit

1877-79           living in Arendtsville

1879                withdrew, page 15

1880                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Evangelical Association; CPC 1880,7

1888-91           Milesburg

1891-93           Bellefonte mission

1893-96           Millmont

1896-98           Nittany Valley

1898-00           Liverpool

1900-03                      Fishing Creek (Keystone, Perry County)

1903                retired

 

Note: Rev. Koontz was baptized in a Moravian ceremony at Graceham MD on 1/10/1835.  Rev. Koontz reportedly joined the Evangelical Association congregation at Bendersville in February 1878.   Circumstantial evidence suggests that possible sympathies with the minority faction that later became the UBOC led to his withdrawal – although he was never licensed or ordained by that group following their formal organization in 1889.  He is the father of Rev. Samuel Edward Koontz (1867-1932) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

 

KOONTZ, JOSIAH C. PERRY

 

Born: 4-23-1861  Silver Run, Carroll County MD    married: Mary Isabel Baumgardner

Died: 12-8-1923  York PA                                         obit: [1/27/1856 – 12/26/1888]

Miller-Raker #: 427                                                    married2: Amanda Jane Rodes (1/1/1890)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 37

Gibble list: no

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Greenmount MD

1888    license

1891    ordained

 

Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 61

 

1888-90           York Haven

1890-92           Rayville

1892-94           York circuit

1894-96           York Fourth

1896-97           Manchester circuit

1897-98           York circuit

1898-03           Yoe

1903-05           York Haven

1905-07           Hanover

1907-11           West Fairview

1911-14           Carlisle

1914                field secretary, Quincy Orphanage & Home (May-Oct)

1914-20           York Second

1920-23           Waynesboro

 

Note: Josiah and Amanda Koontz are the parents of Paul R. Koontz and Jessie Pearl Koontz (Mrs. Philip) Nathans.  Amanda was a first cousin of Rufus R. Rodes.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 386, gives a brief biography.

 

 

KOONTZ, PAUL RODES

 

Born: 10-30-1890  Rayville MD                                married: Elizabeth Agnes Lau

Died: 11-29-1954  Pittsburgh PA                               obit: [2/4/1891 – 1959]

Miller-Raker #: 552

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    license

1914    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 34

 

1909-11           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1911      Lemoyne (Aug-Oct)

1911-14           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1914                Carlisle (May-Oct)

1914-15           Myersville

1915-19           Lemoyne

1919-25           Mechanicsburg

1925-41           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1941-45           Carlisle Grace

1945-54           editor, UB/EUB youth publications

 

Note: He is the son of Josiah Koontz.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 390, gives a brief biography.  He is the author of numerous publications, including the 1950 Koontz-Roush two-volume classic The Bishops of the United Brethren Church.

 

 

KOPPENHAVER, W.R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1886-87           Greensboro MD mission

 

Note: In the East Pennsylvania Conference, Greensboro MD was a charge with Vineland NJ and Wilmington DE for 1885-86.  W.R. Koppenhaver served Greensboro the following year.  Nothing more is known about this charge or this pastor.

 

 

KOSTENBADER, TRUMAN GEORGE

 

Born: 9-21-1910  Bath PA                                          married: Hilda I. Marsh

Died: 12-19-1977                                                        obit: [7/27/1911 - 10/17/2003]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Moorestown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 554

 

1944-46           Lebanon Ebenezer

                         local 

1951-52           Easton Christ (beginning February 1952))

1952-53           Lansdale Christ (beginning November 1952)

1853-54           Weissport Ebenezer (beginning August 1953)

1954-55           Quakertown Bethel (beginning November 1954)

1957-59           Danielsville, Bowmanstown & Middlecreek (beginning August 1957)

1959-76           Nazareth Trinity

1976                 retired

 

Note: Truman G. Kostenbader is listed in 1944 under “others employed by the conference.”  He worked as an automobile mechanic and service manager while serving as a local pastor.

 

KOTTLER, HARRY C.

 

Born: 9-5-1886  Florin PA                                         married: Alva Mae Fasnacht

Died: 9-10-1966                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 74

Miller-Raker #: 567                                                    married2: Rose K. Miller

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    quarterly conference license

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hargerstown MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 228

 

1910-11           Mont Clare

1911                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1911-13           Dover

1913-16           Carlisle circuit

1916-18           Shiremanstown

1918-19           Hillsdale, East Pennsylvania Conference

1919-20           Mapleton, Allegheny Conference

1920-22           Biglerville

1922-25           Williamsport MD

1925-28           York Fifth

1928-32           Mont Alto

1932-35           Mechanicsburg circuit

1935-37           Springett

1937-47           Williamsport MD

1947-56           Walkersville

1956                retired

                             1959           Boonsboro (Jul-Oct)

                             1960-61      Benevola (Oct-Jun)

 

 

KRACK, JOHN ARTHUR

 

Born: 10-21-1792  Baltimore MD                              married: Anna Mary Hivner

Died: 3-19-1879  Forrest IL                                       obit: [10/2/1790 – 4/6/1857]

Miller-Raker #: 116                                                    married2: Sarah Ann _____ (1864)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/11/1823 – 1/7/1909]

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY

Obit:

 

1827-29           York circuit

1829-30           Hagerstown circuit

1830-31           Baltimore circuit

1831-35           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1835                transfer to Virginia Conference

1835-36           Frederick circuit

1836                transfer to Wabash Conference

                        entered the Lutheran ministry

      ?-47           Jeffersontown KY

1847-?             Louisville KY

1849                Mt. Pisgah, Pulaski County IL

      ?-79           Zion, Jackson County IL

 

NOTE: This surname is also rendered KROCK, KRACH and CRACK.  In 1841 John Krack was living in Cincinnati OH and preaching part-time in the Lutheran Church.  He appears to have continued in that denomination, and served as a synod president in 1846.

 

 

KRAMER, LEWIS REDOLPHUS

 

Born: 7-9-1853  Schuylkill Haven PA                       married: Ellen L. Reinhart

Died: 1-1-1919  Cressona PA                                     obit: [6/11/1859 – 10/11/1939]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1878    quarterly conference license, Schuylkill Haven

1880    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1883    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Cemetery [Schuylkill Haven Union Cemetery], Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Easter Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 44

 

1880-82           Catawissa circuit

1882-83           Jefferson circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1883-86           Florin

1886-89           Ephrata

1889-93           Manheim

1893-96           Hummelstown

1896-97           Paradise [St. John’s] circuit

1897-98           Mount Joy circuit

1898-01           Lebanon Pleasant Hill

1901-04           Avon Zion

1904-15           Pinegrove

1915-19           Cressona

 

 

KRATZER, CLAYTON CHARLES

 

Born: 5-13-1885  Middleburg PA                  married: Lena Mink Snyder (6/26/1908)

Died: 1-16-1966  Union County PA               obit: [2/11/1889 – 4/18/1958]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 435

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg PA

Obit:

 

1915-17           student, Lebanon Valley College

1917-18           Dunlo

1918-19           East Pittsburgh

1919-21           living in Middleburg

1921                referred back to quarterly conference

1922                high school principal, Millheim PA

 

Note. C.C. is the brother of E.P. Kratzer.

 

KRATZER, ERNEST PALMER SR.

 

Born: 11-18-1888  Snyder County PA                       married: Anna Ruth Mingle [2/2/1918]

Died: 9-?-1966                                                            obit: [1900 – 1951]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 439

Gibble list: yes

 

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg PA

Obit:

 

1919-20           Dunlo

1920-21           Huntingdon Twelfth Street

1921-23           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1921-23      Stoverdale

1923                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1923-25           Shamokin Second

1929                referred

 

Note: E.P. Kratzer is the brother of C.C. Kratzer.  Mrs. Kratzer is the daughter of William Henry Mingle.

 

 

KRAUMER, see CRAUMER

 

 

KRAUSE, AUGUST

 

Born: 1833  Germany                                                 married: Ursula _____

Died: 4-26-1885  Baltimore MD                                obit: [8/16/1819 – 6/26/1888]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

license

ordained

 

Interment: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati OH

Obit: Ohio German Conference 1885, 18

 

1872                Cleveland OH First [St. Paul’s] German UB
1874-77           Cleveland OH First German UB

1877-79           Cleveland OH Secind German UB

1881-82           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1882                transfer to East German Conference

1882-85           Baltimore Old Otterbein

 

Note: August Krase appears to be involved in establishing German UB congregtaions in Cleveland in the 1870’s.  The exact timelines and church names/locations are not clear.

 

KREIDER  see CRIDER

 

KRENZ, OSCAR ELLSWORTH

 

Born: 6-23-1889  West Newton PA                           married: Mary Francis Bell

Died: 4-9-1969                                                            obit: Pittsburgh Conference ME 1935, 503

Miller-Raker #: 582

Fulton #: 370

Gibble list: no

 

1913    license

1916    ordained

 

Interment: McKeeesport and Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania ME 1969, 327

 

1910-15           Dillsburg

1915-18           conference evangelist

1918-21           Walla Walla, Columbia River Conference

1921                transfer to Columbia River Conference, page 35

1921-22           Walla Walla

1922-23           Christy Park, Pittsburgh Conference ME

1923                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1923-25           Christy Park

1925-27           Johnstown Cooper Avenue

1927-31           Cresson

1931-32           Cresson-Ebensburg

1932-33           South Greensburg

1933-37           Brushton

1937-40           Sharpsburg Union Centenary

1940-54           Blawnox

1954-60           Bellevue Central

1960                retired

 

 

KRICK, WILLIAM DAVID

 

Born: c1888                                                                married: Grace Ewing Strawbridge

Died: 3-23-1946                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Reading Salem

1923    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-19           Rocherty

1919-21           Stoverdale

1921-22           Northampton circuit

1922-24           Enders circuit (resigned 5/11/1924)

1925                dismissed

1926                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1926-27           Cressona and Orwigsburg

1927                “transfer” to East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Congregational Church

1927-31           Reamstown

1931-32           Williamstown

1943-46           Steelton Grace

 

 

 

KRONE, HARRY EMERSON

 

Born: 5-23-1885  Conewago twp, York County PA  married: Mary Emma Stein

Died: 4-30-1978  Quincy PA                                      obit: Baltimore Conference 1978, 348

Miller-Raker #: 574

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1912    license, recommended by York Third: 112, 33

1916    ordained

 

Interment: Wellers Cemetery, Thurmont MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1978, 434

 

1912-17           Rayville circuit

1917-21           Myersville

1921-24           Yoe

1924-28           Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1928-37           Thurmont

1937-46           Greencastle

1946-50           Enola

1950-53           Mt. Tabor

1953-57           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1957                retired

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

Note: The 244-page, hard-bound autobiography of Harry E. Krone “Come On, Let’s Get Busy” is in the biography section and gives considerable detail about the churches and congregations (including marriages, etc.) he served.

 

 

KUHN, MARY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Greensburg

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Mrs. Mary Kuhn apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained.  She is otherwise unknown.  This is believed to be Mrs. Mary Adda Kuhn (nee Rudolph) [4/27/1885 – 3/11/1972], widow of a Mr. John William Kuhn (1879-1925) who lived in Greensburg in the 1930’s & 40’s.

 

 

KUMLER, HENRY SR.

 

Born: 1-3-1774  Berks County PA                             married: Susanna Wenger

Died: 1-7-1854                                                            obit: [10/1/1779 – 11/30/1874]

Miller-Raker #: 74

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1814    license

1816    ordained

 

Interment: Miltonville Cemetery, Miltonville OH

Obit: Miami Ohio Conference 1892,9

 

1814-15           accompanied Spayth, Mayer and others on circuits

1815-16           Greencastle area circuit

1816-17           Virginia circuit

1817-18           presiding elder

1819                transfer to Miami Ohio Conference

1825-45           bishop

1845                retired

 

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.  His farm near Greencastle was a very early UB preaching center – and the site of one annual conference and other important meetings.  He is the father of Bishop Henry Kumler Jr (1801-1882) [who married the daughter of Bishop Andrew Zeller (1755-1839)] and grandfather of Bishop Daniel Kumler Flickinger (1824-1911).  In addition, his son Daniel C. Kumler (1807-1882) was a member of the Miami Ohio Conference, and his daughters Hannah (1798-1892) and Susannah (1804-1875) are this wives of Miami Ohio Conference pastors Jacob Flickinger (1782-1844) and John Zeller (1797-1858).  Chapter 3 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Henry Kumler Sr.  Susanna Wenger is a sister to Jacob Wingert.

They had eleven children, who grew to maturity, and one that was drowned in a spring when five years old. Hannah, the widow of the Rev. Jacob FLICKINGER, born in 1798, lives in Seven-Mile. Henry KUMLER, born January 10, 1801, lives in Dayton, Ohio. He is an ex-bishop of the United Brethren Church, an office he held for twenty years. Susannah, the wife of the Rev. John ZELLER, born January 3, 1804, died in 1875. Elizabeth, the widow of the Rev. A. HESS, born July 5, 1805, lives in Brazil, Indiana. Daniel C., born September 30, 1807, lives in Seven-Mile. Elias, born October 21, 1809, died in 1873. Jacob and Michael, twins, were born August 31, 1811, and are each married, and live near Millville, in this county. Joseph, born February 23, 1813, is married, and lives in Wayne Township, at Jacksonburg. John, born December 24, 1814, is married, and lives in Dayton. Catherine, widow of Henry WELTY, born April 6, 1817, lives in Oxford. Mary born in 1819, was drowned.  

 

KUNKEL, JOHN W.

 

Born: 10-19-1829  Fogelsville PA                             married: Caroline Knerr

Died: 7-2-1880                                                            obit: 3/13/1834 – 11/11/1865]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1867    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1870    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union-West End Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit:

1867-68           Halifax circuit

1868-69           ?

1869-72           Lykens Valley circuit

1872-74           Myerstown

1874-75           Bethlehem circuit

1875-77           Baltimore Fulton Avenue

1877-80           Baltimore Old Otterbein

 

Note: This surname is also rendered KUNKLE.  It appears that the proper given first name is JONAS.  The first name of Mrs. Kunkel also appears as Carolina.

 

KURTZ, H.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1901    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902                license returned

 

Note:  This may be the Rev. Harry H. Kurtz (1866-1955) who was pastor of the Forks of Brandywine Presbyterian Church 1924-1952 and appears to have lived in Honeybrook before that.

 

 

KURTZ, JOHN HENDERSON

 

Born: 1-13-1855  Chester County PA                        married: Caroline Jane H. Shoemaker

Died: 10-9-1928  Bellwood PA                                  obit: [3/5/1863 – 12/10/1944]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1885    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit:

 

Note: J.H. Kurtz did not itinerate.   Mrs. Kurtz is the daughter of Henry Shoemaker and the granddaughter of John R. Sitman.

 

 

KURTZ, PARKE B.

 

Born: 11-13-1891  Gap PA                                        married: Pauline Geiger

Died: 11-23-1938  Wilkinsburg PA                           obit: [9/20/1894 – 7/23/1985]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/24/1938, page 18]

 

1917-19           Birdsboro

1919-23           Coatesville

1923-24           assistant, Harrisburg Derry Street

1924-29           Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1929-32           living in Wilkinsburg PA

1932                honorable dismissal

 

Note: This first name also appears as PARK.  P. B. Kurtz founded the independent and fundamental Callender Memorial Church in Wilkinsburg PA in 1929.  He was succeeded at that church by the noted fundamentalist preacher Wilford O.H. Garman (1900-1983), who served at Callender Memorial 1939 -1973.  He was a graduate of Temple University Seminary in Philadelphia PA and received a D.D. degree from Bob Jones College in Cleveland TN [n.b. Bob Jones University moved from Cleveland TN to Greensboro SC in 1947.]

 

LACKEY, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 5-21-1825  Perry County PA                            married: Elizabeth Reed

Died: 9-18-1875                                                          obit: [12/28/1826 – 8/6/1900]

Miller-Raker #: 359

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1870    quarterly conference license

1871    license

1874    ordained

 

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 12

 

1871-73           Shippensburg circuit

1873-75           Pine Grove mission

1875                ill

 

Note: Alexander Lackey held an exhorter’s license for 20 years and was a class leader for 20 years before entering the itinerancy.  The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 123, gives a brief biography.

 

 

LAMEY, WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-16-1839  Venango County PA                      married: Fayetta Heckman

Died: 2-13-1924                                                          obit: [9/29/1838 – 4/10/1908]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1880    license, East German Conference

1883    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Chapman’s Quarries, Northampton County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 17

 

1874-75           Middleburg circuit

1880-81           Conewago circuit

1881-83           Paxinos circuit

1883-84           Freeburg circuit

1884-85           Millheim circuit

1885-87           Northampton circuit

1887-88           Catasaqua circuit

1888-90           Landingville circuit

1890-92           Lykens Valley circuit

1892-94           Sinking Spring circuit

1894-96           Lehigh Valley circuit

1896-98           Susquehanna circuit

1898                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Lamey was first married to Adam F. Shaffer [Shaeffer], who died at age 23 leaving her with two small children.

 

 

LANDIS, GEORGE

 

Born: 3/17/1804                                                          married: Anna Hammaker

Died: 10/27/1869                                                        obit: [1/1/1793 – 4/8/1823]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elizabeth Balsbaugh

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/8/1807 – 2/9/1892]

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    quarterly conference license, Union Deposit

1852     license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Deposit Cemetery, Union Deposit PA

Obit:

 

1869                name erased

 

Note: George Landis was dismissed along with George W. Hoffman and others involved in the United Christian split.  Although George Landis was a part of that movement, he did not become a minister in the United Christian Church.  The conference that erases his name was held in February 1869, and he died in October 1869.  His second wife’s brother George is the grandfather of Peter Hummel Balsbaugh. 

 

LANDIS, HENRY W.

 

Born: 2-17-1807                                                          married:

Died: 8-21-1863                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference (manuscript) 1864, 169

 

1852-53           Berks County circuit

1853-55           Millheim circuit

1855-56           Halifax circuit

1856-57           Lykens Valley circuit

1857-58           Sinking Spring circuit

1858-59           ?

1859-60           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1860-62           Hummelstown circuit

 

Note: Henry W. Landis appears to be a ministerial son of the Bellegrove congregation.

 

LANDIS, JOHN

 

Born: 4-29-1829                                                          married: Anna Baker

Died: 8-4-1908  near East Salem PA                         obit: [3/?/1826 – 3/16/1913]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 192

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, East Salem PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908, 67

 

1880                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1880-82           East Salem

1882-87           Tuscarora

1887-90           East Salem

1890-08           (no longer itinerating)

 

Note: Details on John Landis are sketchy.  Even though his obituary appears in the Allegheny Conference journal, his name is not in Fulton’s list of conference members.  He appears to have been a shoemaker, and a very active local pastor that officiated at many weddings and funerals.  The Pfoutz Valley congregation is said to be the result of one of his early revival meetings.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 10.

 

 

 

LANDIS, ROBERT C.

 

Born: 5-23-1936  Lancaster PA                                  married: Ruth Elaine Goff

Died: 5-26-2014  Harlan KY                                      obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1961    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Resthaven Cemetery, Harlan KY

Obit:

 

1958-61           student, United Theological Seminary

                            1959-61        assistant, Vandalia OH

1961-62           assistant, Vandalia OH

1962-03           extension ministry, Red Bird Missionary Conference

                            1962-63       Jack’s Creek Center

                            1963-70       Bowen’s Creek

                            1970-76       Jack’s Creek

                            1976-03       Evarts

2003                retired

           

Note: This name also appears as C. Robert Landis.  

 

LANE, MARTIN O.

 

Born: 1-20-1832  Westmoreland County PA             married: Jane Shallenberger [6/7/1853]

Died: 4-25-1902                                                          obit: [? – 11/15/1893]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 136

Gibble list: no

 

1866    license, Allegheny Conference

1869    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Alverton Cemetery, Alverton PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1902, 46

 

1866-69           Washingtom

1869-72           Ligonier

1872-73           Madison

1873-74           Mt. Pleasant

1874-75           ?

1875-76           Allegheny

1876-77           Springfield

1877-78           superintendent, West District

1878-80           Westmoreland

1880                Pittsburgh (Feb-Sep; short conference year)

1880-81           ?

1881-82           Connellsville

1882-83           Altoona

1883-85           Altoona station

1885-87           Huntingdon

1887-90           financial agent, Lebanon Valley College

1890-99           on leave, living in Altoona

                             1890-91      Altoona First, last two months (see 1891,19)

1899-02           Birmingham

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 4.

 

LANTZ, WILBER FRANKLIN

 

Born: 6-29-1930  Chewsville MD                              married: June Ellen Lykens (1955)

Died:                                                                           obit: [c1935 – 9/24/2019]

Miller-Raker #: 752

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1955    license, recommended by Waynesboro

1960    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1955-57           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1955-57      Gettysburg-Salem

1957-60           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1957-60       assistant, Normandy (Miami Ohio Conference)

1960-61           Mont Alto

1961-63           Lemoyne Calvary (until June 1963)

1963                transferred to ministry in the United Church of Christ, page 89

1963-68           St. Peter’s UCC, Frackville PA

1968-69           Schuylkill County Housing Authority, Pottsville PA

1969-83           Brethren Village Inc., Lancaster PA

1983-85           Homestead Village Inc.

1985-86           St. Paul’s UCC, Red Run PA

1986-               consultant

 

Note: As of 2003, Rev. W. Franklin Lantz was serving St. Stephens UCC in Reading PA.  Mrs. Lantz is the daughter of Rev. Paul H. Lykens (1898-1959) of the Evangelical Congregational Church.

 

LaPRAIRIE, LARRY LYNN

 

Born: 10-14-1939  York Haven PA                           married: Frances Martinez

Died: 1-29-2021  Peoria AZ                                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: 796

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1962    license, recommended by Pleasant Grove Church of York Haven charge

 

Interment: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1962-63           student, Indiana Central College

 

Note: Larrry L. LaPrairie never entered the ministry.  He worked for 18 years as the executive director of the Margaret Moul Home in York PA and moved to Arizona in 1983, where he served as a lay leader at Valley Cathedral (non-denominational) and owned LaPrairie Paining in Scottsdale AZ.  More information is in the biographical file.   

 

LAUMASTER, DANIEL

 

Born: 1-12-1822                                                          married: [single]

Died: 1-19-1858  Indiana County PA                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 102 [Lamasters]

Gibble list: no

 

1857    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Church Cemetery, Canoe township, Indiana County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1859, 15

 

1857-58           Stone Valley

 

Note: This surname is also rendered LOWMASTER.   Feeling ill, Daniel Laumaster left the January 1858 conference having been re-assigned to Stone Valley, and he died within a few days – reportedly of small pox.

 

LAUVER, MARLIN HENRY

 

Born: 8-12-1917                                                          married: Gladys Gable

Died: 10-10-2000  York County PA                          obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2004,629

Miller-Raker #: 744

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license

1956    ordained

 

Interment: Stony Brook Mennonite Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 2001,603

 

1953                transfer from Mennonite Church, page 67

1953-57           Mt. Tabor

1957-59           Emigsville

1959-61           Lemoyne Calvary

1961-63           Windsor

1963-64           supernumerary

1964-71                      Newburg

1971                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1971-77           Myersville circuit

1977-82           Union Bridge

1982                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Lauver is the daughter of Walter Gable and the sister of Henry Gable.

 

 

LAWSON, MOSES RICHARD SR.

 

Born: 1770  Shrewsbury township, York Co. PA      married: Elizabeth Richards

Died: 1-22-1846  Carroll County MD                        obit: [2/2/1775 – 4/23/1858]

Miller-Raker #: 132

Fulton #: 29

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license, Virginia Conference

1830    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Greenmount MD

Obit: [Baltimore Sun 2/2/1846, page 2.]

 

1835-36                      Juniata circuit

1938-39           Westmoreland circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1840                dropped

 

Note: Moses Lawson is the father of Moses Lawson Jr.  

 

LAWSON, MOSES R. JR.

 

Born: c1800                                                                married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 223

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1837    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841                “withdrawn from the Church under charges,” page 46

 

Note: Moses Lawson Jr. is the son of Moses Lawson Sr. 

 

 

LEACH, LESTER MARSHALL

 

Born: 2-4-1899                                                            married: Susannah Randall

Died: 5-6-1932  Africa                                               obit: [11/11/1896 – 7/16/1988]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Virginia Conference 1932, 13

 

1922-25           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1922-25       Hillsdale circuit

1925-28           ?

1928-29           Franklin

1929-32           missionary in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone

 

Note: Lester M. Leach was killed by lightning.  Mrs. Lester M. Leach was licensed by the Virginia Conference in 1928.  She is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery in Green Spring VA.

 

LEACOCK, WILLIAM J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 321

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

[1860   license]

1861    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1860-61           Lebanon Salem

1861                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1861-62                      Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1862                withdrew

 

 

LEARISH, ELMER BURTON

 

Born: 4-6-1886  Wallaceton PA                                 married: Mary Ina Harley

Died: 9-5-1948  Philipsburg PA                                 obit: [3/4/1891 – 11/3/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 378

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Woodland

1910    license, Allegheny Conference

1911    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Minnich Cemetery, Union OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,71

 

1909-11           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1910     Center, Sandusky Conference (3 months)

                             1911     Orbisonia (4 months)

1911-15           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

                             1912     Lexington, North Illinois Conference (3 months)

1915-19           Braddock

1919-22           Altoona Second

1922-26           Scottdale

1926-29           Philipsburg

1929-36           Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1936-46           conference superintendent

1946-47           Madison

1947-48           Philipsburg

 

 

LEAS, ISAAC JACOB

 

Born: 6-14-1821  Perry County                                  married: Mary Toomey

Died: 9-27-1895  Clearfield County                           obit: [d. before 1872]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Ann Wallace (1872)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/15/1836 – 3/25/1914]

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Snyders UB Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit:

 

1867-69           Clearfield

 

 Note: Isaac J. Leas is the son of Rev. John Leas (1788-1859), affiliation unknown.

 

LEASURE, LOREN BIGELOW

 

Born: 10-26-1828  Madison PA                                 married: Anna O. Tintsman [11/26/1855]

Died: 11-9-1881  Greensburg PA                               obit: [12/29/1838 – 1941(aged 102)]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 77

Gibble list: no

 

1852    license, Allegheny Conference

1862    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit:

 

1849-50           Huntington circuit

1850-52           ?

1852-53           Ligonier

1853-54           Westmoreland

1854-57           ?

1857-58           Greensburg Fourth Street

1858-60           ?

1860-61           Greensburg Fourth Street

1861-62           Pittsburgh mission

1862-66           ?         

1866                withdrew

1868                “transfer” to Western Classis of the Reformed Church

                        Shanksville

1872-73           Kittanning

Emlenton

Wilkinsburg

Scottdale

           

 

LEBO, JOHN R.

 

Born: 7-17-1936                                                          married: Darlene J. _____

Died:                                                                           obit: [1936 - ]

Miller-Raker #: 755

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license

1961    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Emmorton MD

Obit:

 

1961-64           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, associate

1964-70           Spry Otterbein

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-82           Hagerstown Otterbein

1982-96           Bel Air

1996                retired

 

 

LEE, CHARLES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928-29           Tremont St. Johns

 

Note: Charles Lee is listed under “others employed by the conference” and as living in Annville.  This typically denotes a Lebanon Valley student, but Charles Lee is not listed in the LVC alumni records.  He was likely an LVC student who did not graduate from that institution.

 

LEE, D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-97           Clarington

 

Note:  D. Lee served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person.

 

LEE, GEORGE A.

 

Born: 12-6-1832                                                          married: Frances A. _____

Died: 11-28-1912                                                        obit: [12/?/1838 – 11/11/1918]

Miller-Raker #: 336

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1863    license postponed, continue in quarterly conference relation

1865    license

 

Interment: Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield OH

Obit:

 

1865-66           Mountville St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference

1866-67           Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1867                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68           Shamokin circuit

1871                name erased

1872-74           Smicksburg PA Lutheran

                        Clay Memorial, Mansfield OH Lutheran

 

Note: George A. Lee appears to have become a Lutheran pastor in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

 

 

LEECH, EDWARD W.

 

Born: 10-20-1878  Baltimore MD                              married: Edna May Swindel

Died: 9-4-1970  York PA                                           obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 33

Miller-Raker #: 503                                                    married2: Myrtle Kiser

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania 1963, 45

Gibble list: no

 

1902    license, recommended by Baltimore Scott Street  1902,12

1906    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference1970,357

 

1897-02           Brooklyn MD, independent Methodist

1902-04           Springett

1904-07           Greencastle

1907-11           New Cumberland

1911-33           Baltimore Franklin Street

1933-52           York Fourth

1952-56           Greenmount MD

1956                retired

                             1958  Manchester PA (8/24/1958 to 10/8/1958); see 1958,59

 

 

 

LEFEVER, LLOYD STEIGERWALT

 

Born: 1-23-1911  Lancaster County PA                     married: Katherine M. Lingle

Died: 9-2-1995  Lancaster County PA                       obit: [8/1/1908 – 7/18/1984]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Covenant

1966    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: New Providence Mennonite Cemetery, New Providence PA

Obit:

 

1963-64           Newton

1964-66           Lickdale circuit

1966-67           Lykens

1967-69           Rocherty-Fontana

1969-70           Oregon

1970-73           Conestoga

1973-76           on leave

1976                retired

 

 

LEFEVER, MYRTLE M.

 

Born: 7-18-1898                                                          married: [single]

Died: 10-10-1977  Hong Kong                                   obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Springettsbury township, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 271

 

1922-25           superintendent, United Brethren Christian Endeavor in Dayton OH

1925-26           student, Biblical Seminary in New York City

1926-30           missionary to China

1930-31           furlough

1931-44           missionary to China

1944-46           student, Columbia University

1946-50           missionary to China

1950-51           missionary in Hong Kong

1952-53           home in the United States

1953-64           missionary in Hong Kong

1964-65           missionary deputation in the United States

1965                retired

                             1965-77      missionary in Hong Kong

 

Note: Myrtle M. Lefever is the sister of Rufus H. Lefever.  A graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Biblical Seminary (MRE) in New York, she served a missionary from York Fourth Church to China and Hong Kong.  The above timeline is an oversimplification of the moves and transitions made necessary by World War II.

 

 

LeFEVRE, MARY LUCINDA DAUGHERTY

 

Born: 12-9-1894                                                          married: Rufus H. LeFevre [8/20/1919]

Died: 6-26-1963  York PA                                         obit: [2/25/1895 – 6/?/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Steelton Centenary

1923    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Springettsbury township, York PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 119

 

1922-23           Wagner Chapel, Dayton OH

1923-27           missionary to China

1928                Westerlo NY

1930-32           religious education work, Ithaca NY

1934-36           religious work, Snyder NY

                        pastor, Zion UCC in Buffalo NY

                        director of religious education, Presbyterian Church in Tamaqua PA

 

Note: Mary Daugherty LeFevre is the daughter of Joseph Daugherty.

 

 

 

LeFEVRE, RUFUS H.

 

Born: 2-25-1895                                                          married: Mary Lucinda Daugherty

Died: 6-?-1974                                                            obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 119

Miller-Raker #: 656 [Lefever]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, ordained

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Springettsbury township, York PA

Obit:

 

1917-20           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1921-23           missionary school, Dayton OH

1923-27           missionary to China

1928                transfer to Geneva Presbytery in New York state  1928,51

1947                professor of biology, Sampson College in Sampson NY

1956                Hopewell Presbyterian Church, York County PA

 

Note: This surname is also rendered LEFEVER.  Rufus H. Lefever received an A.B. from Lebanon Valley College in 1917 and a B.D. from Bonebrake [United] Seminary.  The 1927 journal, page 61, states “We recommend that Rev. Rufus H. Lefever be received into the conference subject to proper credentials from the Miami Conference, which are in the mails.”  Rev. Lefever appears to have been a denominational official at Dayton involved with missions.  There is much correspondence between him and J. Stuart Innerst among the latter’s material at the University of California at San Diego, and material among the E.V. Cowdry papers at the Becker library of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  Also a noted ornithologist, Rufus is a brother to United Brethren missionary Miss Myrtle M. Lefever, who served over 25 years in China and Hong Kong.

 

 

LEHMAN, ADAM

 

Born: 11-20-1732  Montgomery County PA             married: Anna Marie Margaretha Steltz

Died: 8-8-1823  Frederick County MD                      obit: [7/7/1729 – 2/?/1818]

Miller-Raker #: 6

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    original member at the first conference

 

Interment: Doubs Cemetery, Frederick County MD

Obit:

 

Note: Adam Lehman (a.k.a. Johannes Adam Lehman) is the father of Jacob Adam Lehman and of Mary Lehman Kemp, wife of Peter Kemp.  He attended the conference of 1789, 1791 and 1800.  Miller’s 1969 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography.  He is also referred to as Johann Adam Lehman.

 

 

LEHMAN, AMOS

 

Born: 8-30-1850  Reading PA                                    married: Annie Gaul

Died: 4-5-1917  Reading PA                                      obit: [3/16/1850 – 8/16/1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, Church of God

 

Interment: Charles Evan Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 38

 

                        Church of God

                            Schaefferstown

                            McKeansburg

                            Valley View

1879-81           Landingville circuit, East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1881                transfer to East German Conference

1881-82           Williams Valley circuit

1882-84           Susquehanna circuit

1884-87           Lykens Valley circuit

1887-89           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1889-94           Lebanon circuit

1894-97           Williamstown

1897-01           Reading Salem

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Reading Salem

1903-05           Denver Trinity

1905-07           Florin Glossbrenner

1907-08           Bern circuit

1908-11           Lebanon Memorial

1911-15           Palmyra Second

1915-16           Pine Grove

 

 

LEHMAN, ARTHUR SYLVESTER

 

Born: 7-7-1878  Killinger PA                                     married: Carrie May Wert

Died: 12-21-1936                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 29

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1901    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 14

 

1901-03           East Harrisburg circuit

1903-07           Manheim

1907-10           student, Bonebrake Seminary

                             1907-08      Bowlusville OH

                             1908-10      First Presbyterian/Belmont Mission Station, Dayton OH     

1910-25           Hummelstown

1925-36           Harrisburg Derry Street

 

Note: Arthur S. Lehman is the son of William H. Lehman.

 

 

LEHMAN, HARRY DICKSON

 

Born: 3-11-1863  West Fairview PA                          married: Elleanor Deem (10/7/1891)

Died: 7-11-1899  Royalton PA                                   obit: [1868 – 6/17/1940]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1886    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Httisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 39

 

1886-88           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1888-92           Royalton  [a.k.a. Middletown Centennial Chapel]

1892-95           Reading Otterbein

1895-96           Royalton, unable to serve because of health

1898-99           Royalton

 

Note: The Royalton charge included Elizabethtown (1888-91) and Falmouth (1888-89; 1891-1901).  Following the desth of H.D. Lehman, Mrs. Lehman married a Mr. Isaac N. Baker (1845-1927)

 

 

LEHMAN, JACOB ADAM

 

Born: 10-6-1759  Frederick County MD                    married: Hannah Peterson [8/23/1779]

Died: 5-31-1848  Perry County OH                           obit: [12/13/1754 – 7/7/1824]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1818    license

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Perry County OH

Obit:

 

Note: Jacob Adam Lehman is the son of Adam Lehman.  He attended conferences irregularly until 1827, but apparently never served under appointment.

 

 

 LEHMAN, JOHN HARRISON

 

Born: 12-20-1892  Starview, York County PA          married: Dora Isabel Fry

Died: 5-9-1967  Carlisle PA                                       obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 61

Miller-Raker #: 592                                                    married 2: Louise Steinmetz

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/23/1891 – 5/17/1968]

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Starview

1915    license

1919    ordained

 

Interment: Hoover Union Cemetery, Starview PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 230

 

1915-17           Jefferson

1917-21           Rayville

1921-26           Greenmount

1926-35           Lemoyne Calvary

1935-52           Yoe

1952-61           Boiling Springs Ottterbein

1961                retired

                             1961-65      Dillsburg Mt Zion

                             1965-67      Cline’s

 

Note: John H. Lehman graduated from Westminster Theologocial Seminary in 1925.  Mrs. Lehman is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown, Cumberland County PA.

 

LEHMAN, WILLIAM HEINRICH

 

Born: 9-1-1851  near Curtin PA                                 married: Emma E. Deibler

Died: 3-18-1936  Millersburg PA                              obit: [Oct 1849 – before Apr 1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    license, East German Conference

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 13

 

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: William H. Lehman is the father of Arthur S. Lehman.  Curtin is a village in Mifflin township, Dauphin County.  William H. Lehman was a lifelong member of Riegels.  He did not itinerate, but served as a local preacher in the Lykens Valley.

 

 

LEHR, CONRAD O.

 

Born: 2-14-1853                                                          married: Matilda Fry

Died: 5-8-1909                                                            obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 24

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    license, East German Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit:

 

1889-92           Middleburg circuit

1892-93           Lehigh Valley circuit

1893-95           Susquehanna circuit

1895-01           Valley View circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           Lehigh Valley circuit

1902-05           Northampton circuit

 

Note: Conrad O. Lehr died while a local elder living in Allentown.  There was no conference obituary.  Some sources give his dates as 2-14-1852 and 5-8-1908.

 

 

LEIBOLD, TITUS JAMES

 

Born:  6-28-1891  Reading PA                                   married: Louise D. Schiedel (3/12/1917)

Died: 1-29-1967  Dauphin County PA                       obit: [6/6/1888 – 4/8/1961]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Reading Salem

1911    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

1911-12           Birdsboro Grace

1912-16           living in Reading

1916                transfer to Michigan Conference

1916-17           Walloon Lake

1917-18           Chase

1918-19           Casco

1919-20           Branch

1920                transfer to East Ohio Conference

1925                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-27           Shamokin circuit

1927-29           Catawissa

1929-30           Enders

1930-39           living in Reading                   

1939-53           living in Harrisburg

1953                license revoked, page 55

 

Note: Titus J. Leibold graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1912.  After 1930, he is listed with an S.T.D. degree and classified as a local elder.  The 1947 LVC alumni record calls him a “United Brethren minister,” but there is no record of any service.  He lived near Otterbein Church, but his name is not on their rolls.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 400, says of his father: "A sainted name of Salem Church is that of Frank J. Leibold, who was a trustee and class leader and served as Sunday School superintendent for twenty-five years.”  This surname is also rendered Liebold.

 

 

LEICHLITER, JOHN LYONS

 

Born: 9-28-1865  near Springfield PA                       married: Alice Brooks

Died: 4-1-1914                                                            obit: [d. 1886]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Emma Gould

Fulton #: 219                                                               obit2: [12/13/1866 – 2/22/1959]

Gilbble list: no

 

1885    quarterly conference license

1887    license, Allegheny Conference

1890    ordained

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Tampa FL

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1914, 81

 

1887-88           Newberg

1888-92           Rockwood

1892-95           Moxham

1895-96           Dubois

1896-97           Tyrone

1897-01           Wilkinsburg

1901-03           Johnstown Third [Barron Avenue]

1903-09           Westmoreland 

1909                relocated for health reasons

1909-13           Fitzgerald GA

1913-14           Lutz & Lochwylda FL

 

Note: A picture of J.L. Leichliter appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 10.

 

LEISTER, JOHN D.

 

Born: 4-23-1843                                                          married: Esther H. Lauver

Died: 4-15-1923                                                          obit: [4/17/1846 – 2/3/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Susan C. Good

Fulton #: 171                                                               obit2: [11/20/1860 – 10/28/1921]

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Cocolamus PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church 1924,80

 

                        (never served under appointment)

1884                name erased

 

Note: John D. Leister apparently did not serve as a United Brethren itinerant, but functioned as a local preacher.  He later served as an active local deacon in the Evangelical Church.  One grandson is a Presbyterian minister.  The second Mrs. Leister was a widow, and she is also known as Susan C. Herrold.  It is believed that Herrold is her maiden name and that Good is the name of her first husband

 

 

LEISTER, JOHN MAURICE

 

Born: 1889                                                                  married: Mary Ella Mutch [1923]

Died: 1966                                                                  obit: [1894 – 1993]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 381

Gibble list: no

 

1910    license, Allegheny Conference

1919    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Rural Valley Cemetery, Rural Valley PA

Obit:

 

1911-15           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1911-12      Lebanon circuit

                             1912-13      Pottstown Baltzell

1915-17           Sewickley

1917-19           Wyano

1919-22           Trafford

1922                granted an open transfer, page 89

                        Western Theological Seminary

                        pastor, Presbyterian Church in Burnham PA

                        pastor, First Presbyterian Church in Rural Valley PA

 

Note: J. Maurice Leister is the preferred usage.  Mrs. Leister is the daughter of Charles A. Mutch.

 

 

LEITZELL, LAWRENCE HACKMAN.

 

Born: 3-17-1858                                                                      married: Josephine Matilda Roush

Died: 7-25-1934                                                                      obit: [8/31/1860 – 10/17/1946]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 237

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license, Scottdale First

1890    license, Allegheny Conference

1893    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Spring Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, State College PA

Obit:

 

1905-06           Middletown

1914                returned to quarterly conference status 

 

Note: Scottdale dentist Dr. L.H. Leitzell was active in conference affairs, and Mrs. Leitzell was active in the Women’s Missionary Association at the conference level (serving as president 1893-1919) and beyond.  L.H. Leitzell and his brother Wilbur F. Leitzell, WWI hero and controversial burgess of State College in the 1930’s, were directors in the Scottdale Coal & Coke Company.  The L.H. Leitzells later resided in State College.

 

LENGLE, BLANCHE CHRISTINA

 

Born: 5-1-1896                                                            married: [never married]

Died: 9-23-1982                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 689

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1930    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Otterbein

1931    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1983,331

 

1931-34           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1935-38                      assistant/deaconess, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1938                transferred to Pennsylvania Conference

1938-46           assistant/deaconess, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1946-48                     assistant, Lancaster Covenant

1948                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 96

1948-53                     assistant, Lancaster Covenant

1953                transfer to Miami OH Conference

1953-55           CE director, Dayton OH Belmont

1955                transfer to East Pennslyvania Conference

1955-61           local pastor living in Bausman PA

1961-63           assistant, Daytona Beach FL First Methodist

1963                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1963-65           CE director, Camp Hill Presbyterian

1965                retires to Lancaster, no longer listed in any conference

                        1965-66  Boehm’s Methodist?

 

NOTE:  Blanche C. Lengle is considered a pioneer in the struggle for women’s clergy rights.  Apparently because of her gender, she was denied assignment as a regularly-appointed pastor in charge – and where, when, and in what capacity she served are not always clear.  The above timeline is the best that can reconstructed from the resources at hand.  There is an article “Miss Blinn and My Life Decision” by Blanche C. Lengle in The Evangel for December 1920, page 359.

 

 

LENTZ, GEORGE

 

Born: 2-25-1835  Lebanon County PA                      married: Lydia Light [1854]

Died: 3-2-1918  Lebanon PA                                     obit: [8/9/1835 – 1/25/1890]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elizabeth Klopp [1893]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/23/1841 – 4/23/1915]

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license

 

Interment: Wolfs Union Meeting House Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit:

 

1899-01           Green Point

 

Note: George Lentz, a lay member of the Fredericksburg church, was a active local pastor.  See Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 296, and Eberly’s 1911 Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 221.

 

 

LEONARD, RICHARD DAVID

 

Born: 7-8-1934  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Irene Marzolf

Died: 11-11-2005  Reynoldsburg OH                        obit: [2/27/1935 – ]

Miller-Raker #: 747

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    temporary license, page 67

1954    license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

1959    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated, ashes scattered by Lake Chautauqua]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 419

 

1952-56           student, Lebanon Valley College

                              1953-56     Fishing Creek Salem

1956-59           student, United Seminary

1959-61           Quincy

1961-69           Boiling Springs

1969-74           Chambersburg First, assistant

1974-84           Lock Haven Trinity

1984-90           State College St. John’s

1990-96           Northumberland Christ

1996-98           Airville Salem

1998-99           disability

1999                retired

 

 

LESHER, JAMES MORRIS

 

Born: 9-23-1857  Freeburg PA                                   married: Eleanor Parks

Died: 7-24-1924                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1922, 126

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 239

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    quarterly conference license

1880    license, East German Conference

1882    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924, 67

 

1878-79           Susquehanna

1879-81           Middletown

1881-82           Landingville circuit

1882-83           Tamaqua circuit

1883-88           missionary, Sierra Leone

1888-89           Wilkinsburg

1889                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1889-90           Wilkinsburg Christ

1890-92           Greensburg Fourth Street (Otterbein)

1892-94           Pitcairn and Wilmerding

1894-96           Copeland and East Pittsburgh

1896-97           East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding

1897-98           McKeesport First

1898-01           Conemaugh

1901                retired from the active ministry to Pitcairn, entered the lumber business

                             1901-02      Wilmerding

                             1906-07      McKeesport Fawcett

                             1907-09      Somerset

                             1922-24      Henderson Memorial (Good Shepherd) (ending 7/24/1924)

 

Note: This name also appears in the records as John M. Lesher.

 

 

LESHER, THOMAS

 

Born: 4-10-1812                                                          married: Polly Bowman

Died: 8-14-1894                                                          obit: [5/4/1819 – 1/8/1900]

Miller-Raker #: 269

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1847    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Deposit Cemetery, Union Deposit PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51           Halifax circuit

1870                withdrew to join the United Christian Church of George W. Hoffman

 

Note:  Thomas Lesher appears to have functioned mostly as a local preacher on the Union Deposit circuit.  He is the father of Rev Jacob B. Lesher (1852-1923[1932?]) of the United Christian Church

 

 

LEWIS, MILLARD MAHLON

 

Born: 5-9-1898  Shamokin PA                                   married: Katie Helen Schlegel (c1923)

Died: 5-20-1986  Northumberland PA                       obit: [12/22/1898 – 6/?/1981]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1925-26           Manada Hill

1935-37           Williamstown

 

Note: The 1930 cesus lists Millard M. Lewis as a streetcar cinductor living in Reading PA.  After 1937, the conference lists him as a local elder living in Shamokin (where the 1940 census identifies him as a laborer at the Frigidaire plant) until granted a certificate of recommendation to the Evangelical Congregational Church 1952,58.

 

 

LEWIS, WILLIAM B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 211

Fulton #: 14

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1843    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1847                transfer “to any conference he may wish”

 

NOTE: Rev. Lewis appears to have attended the conferences and progressed to ordination without making himself available to serve without reserve, and so he apparently was not given an itinerant appointment as per his own request.  The Miami Conference reports the death of a William R. Lewis in 1850.

 

 

LICK, ARTZ SAMUEL

 

Born: 4-17-1910  Lebanon PA                                   married: Grace Mae Heisey

Died:                                                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984,390

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Memorial

1934    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s UMC Cemetery, Hegins PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982,381

 

1934-38           Lickdale

1938-39           Olive Chapel, Oklahoma Conference

1939                transfer to Oklahoma Conference, page 27

1939-41           Stillwater

1941-43           Omaha Harford Memorial, Nebraska Conference

1943                transfer to Nebraska Conference

1943-47           Kearney First

1947                transfer to Missouri Conference

1947-51           Kansas City First

1951-53           Excelsior Springs Barbee Memorial Presbyterian Church

1953                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1953-56           Harrisburg First

1956-64           Allentown Zion

1964-67           Schaefferstown-Kleinfeltersville

1967-70           Hegins-Barry

1970-76           Hegins

1976                retired

 

 

LIGHT, CASPER

 

Born: 9-7-1804                                                            married: Mary Light

Died: 8-2-1857                                                            obit: [2/26/1803 – 11/26/1866]

Miller-Raker #: 184

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1858, 99

 

1842-45                      presiding elder, Lebanon district

1845-46           Lebanon circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           presiding elder, Lebanon district

1850-51           presiding elder, Lancaster district

 

NOTE: Casper Light is a son of Felix Light, a brother to John Light and Joseph Light, and the father of Joel Light.  Mrs. Light’s maiden name was also Light.  The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 222, gives a brief biography of Casper’s active laity son Felix H. Light.

 

 

LIGHT, EPHRAIM

 

Born: 8-8-1835  Lebanon PA                                     married: Mary Blankenbiller Weidman

Died: 2-27-1912  Reading PA                                                obit: [9/16/1838 – 6/25/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1861    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

1858-59           Hummelstown circuit

1859-60           Myerstown

1869                withdrew

1874-75           Steelton Centenary

1879-81           Hummelstown

1883-84           Lehigh Valley circuit

1884                re-instated

1884-85           Swatara circuit

1900                name erased

 

Note: Ephraim Light does not appear to be a direct relative of the other Lebanon County Lights.  He retired to his native Lebanon, but moved to Reading about 1896.  Some records list his burial for Ebenezer Cemetery in Lebanon and his wife’s maiden name as Witmer.

 

 

LIGHT, EZEKIEL HOFFER

 

Born: 3-19-1834  Lebanon PA                                   married: Katharine Ann Bowman

Died: 11-4-1903  near Dayton OH                             obit: [4/13/1837 – 9/18/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

 

1855    license, Ohio German Conference

1858    ordained, Ohio German Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1904,22

 

                        Cleveland

1862-63           Lebanon Salem

1864-65           Reading Zion, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-67           Reading Zion

1867-68           Annville (second half of year, following George W. Hoffman’s removal)

1871-72           Annville

1877-79           Lebanon Salem

1882-85           presiding elder, Lancaster district

                        chaplain, Soldiers Home in Dayton OH

 

Note: Ezekiel Light is the son of John Light and grandson of Felix Light.  He is the brother of Job Light and Rudolph Light.  He is the father of missionary Jennie L Light Burtner, wife of Luther Olin Burtner.

 

 

LIGHT, FELIX W.B.

 

Born: 11-11-1767                                                        married: Barbara Sherk

Died: 1-23-1841                                                          obit: [5/23/1771 – 3/20/1830]

Miller-Raker #: 253

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, ordained

 

Interment: Mt Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1841,4 6

 

Note: Felix Light had been an effective minister in the Mennonite Church.  He became a United Brethren preacher, even though there is no indication that he was ever formally licensed or ordained as such.  He is the father of 3 UB preachers Casper Light (1804-1857), John Light (1808-1845) Joseph Light (1813-1870); grandfather of 4 UB preachers Rudolph Light (1826-?), Ezekiel Light (1834-1903), Job Light (1839-1888) and Joel Light (1840-1904); great-grandfather of 1 UB preacher John C.H. Light (1872-1950); and great-great-grandfather of 1 UB preacher Howard Paul Light (1879-1957).  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 40, gives a detailed account of the extended Light ministerial family.  The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 207, gives a brief biography of Felix Light – and, on page 209, the story of Light’s meeting house.

 

 

LIGHT, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 198

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843                                expelled

 

Note: The relationship of Henry Light to the other Lights, if any, is not known.  This may be Henry (Harry) L. Light (7/31/1818 – 12/9/1879) who married Mary A. Rauch (3/26/1820 – 3/30/1903).

 

 

LIGHT, HOWARD PAUL

 

Born: 4-2-1879  Lebanon PA                                     married: Dora Minnie Haas

Died: 10-23-1957                                                        obit: [11/30/1892 – 6/10/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 486

Gibble list: no

 

1910    quarterly conference license

1912    license, North Nebraska Conference

1916    ordained, Michigan Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1958,34

 

1910-12           believed to be serving in North Nebraska Conference

1912-15           (at school?)

1915-16           East Casco, Michigan Conference

1916                transfer to Michigan Conference

1916-18           Tallman

1918                Barton-Chase (part year)

1918-20           Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920-22           Sodus

1922-23           ?

1923-24           East Freedom, Allegheny Conference

1924                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1924-27           Susquehanna

1927-30           East Salem

1930-37           Glasgow

1937                Springfield (ending 9/25/1937)

1937-41           West Decatur (beginning 9/25/1937)

1941-43           Knoxdale

1943-47           Liverpool

1947-50           Port Matilda

1950                retired

 

Note: Howard P. Light is the great-great-grandson of Felix Light – his great-grandmother being a sister to Felix’s ministerial sons Caspar, John and Joseph.

 

 

LIGHT, JOB HOFFER

 

Born: 12-11-1839  Lebanon PA                                 married: Anna Jane Campbell

Died: 12-14-1888                                                        obit: [East PA Conference 1927,9]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

license, Ohio

ordained, Ohio

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East German Conference 1889,47

 

                        served “10 years” in Ohio

1867-68           Tamaqua, East Pennsylvania Conference

1868                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Bethlehem circuit

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-72           Reading Zion

1872-73           Harrisburg Otterbein

1873-74           Bellegrove circuit

1874-78           conference superintendent

1878-81           Myerstown

1881-84           Baltimore Fulton Street

1884-86           Philadelphia Fourth Street German Mission

1886-88           Reading Zion

 

Note: Job Light is the grandson of Felix Light, the son of John Light and a brother to Ezekiel Light and Rudolph Light.  He is the father of John C.H. Light.  The dates for Mrs. Light are 6/21/1844 – 1/10/1927.

 

 

LIGHT, JOEL

 

Born: 2-11-1840                                                          married: Elizabeth Kreider

Died: 2-24-1904  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [East PA Conference 1925,15]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1904,23

 

1870-72           Harrisburg circuit

1872-74           Lebanon circuit

1874-76           Bellegrove circuit

1876-79           Jonestown circuit

1879-82           Lykens Valley circuit

1882-85           Lebanon circuit

1885-88           Avon Zion

1888-94           Valley View circuit (including Barry)

1894-01           Lebanon circuit

1901-03           Lebanon Bethany

1903                retired

 

Note: Joel Light is the son of Casper Light and the grandson of Felix Light.

 

 

LIGHT, JOHN C.H.

 

Born: 8-14-1872  Harrisburg PA                                married: Carrie Metcalf

Died: 3-24-1950                                                          obit: [East PA Conference 1922,66]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Mabel Dickman Farrand

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    license, East German Conference

1898    ordained,

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950,25

 

1896-97           Columbus City, Iowa Conference

1897                transfer to Iowa Conference  

1897-98           Columbus City

1898-02           Hudson

1902-03           Colorado Springs CO

1903-05           Sumner

1905-11           Muscatine

1911-15           Cedar Rapids

1915-18           conference superintendent

1918-25           Birdsboro Grace, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 2/19; see 1919,6)

1925                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-45           Lititz

1945                retired

 

Note: John C.H. Light is the son of Job Light, grandson of John Light, and great-grandson of Felix Light.

 

 

LIGHT, JOHN SHERK

 

Born: 11-14-1802  Lebanon County                          married: Anna Hoffer

Died: 4-29-1845                                                          obit: [19/25/1807 – 5/15/1880]

Miller-Raker #: 173

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1846, 71

 

1836-37           presiding elder, Lebanon district

1837-39           presiding elder, Lancaster district

1840-42           presiding elder, Lebanon district

1842-43                      Lebanon and Miller’s [Annville] station

1843-44           Lebanon station

1844-45           Lebanon station and Myerstown

1845-46           presiding elder, Lebanon district

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

NOTE: John Light is a son of Felix Light and a brother to Casper Light and Joseph Light.  He is the father of Rudolph Light and Ezekiel Light and Job Light, and the grandfather of Job’s son John C.H. Light.  The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 217, gives a brief biography of John Light.

 

 

LIGHT, JOSEPH F.

 

Born: 2-11-1813                                                          married: Elizabeth Huber

Died: 2-22-1870                                                          obit: [8/28/1815 – 2/11/1895]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    quarterly conference license

1861    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: My. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870,29

 

1861-62                     Union County circuit

1862                ceased to travel because of poor health, preached considerably in a local capacity

 

Note: Joseph Light is a son Felix Light of and a brother to John Light and Casper Light.  The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 222, gives a brief biography of Joseph F. Light.

 

 

LIGHT, RUDOLPH

 

Born: 11-7-1826                                                          married: Amanda Halkins

Died: 5-19-1896                                                          obit: [1824 – 8/6/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1854    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

?          ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Erie Cemetery, Erie PA

Obit:

 

1854-55           Berks County circuit

1855-56           Sinking Spring circuit

1861-62           Millheim circuit

1887                transfer to ?

 

 

LIGHTNER, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 9-28-1936  Chambersburg PA                          married: Harriet Mickey (6/15/1958)

Died: 8-28-2023                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 756

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license

1961    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2024, ?

 

1956-58           student, Lebanon Valley College

        1957-58                         Upper Strasburg
1958-61  student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1961-69           Benevola-Mt. Lena

1969                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1969-79                      Waldorf Good Shepherd

1979-99           Bel Air

1999                retired

 

 

LIGHTNER, DANIEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1853    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1857                name erased

1858                re-instated

1865                surrendered license

 

 

LIGHTNER, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 3-21-1828  near Gettysburg PA                       married: Hannah Catherine Tawney

Died: 3-12-1909  near Gettysburg PA                        obit: [10/?/1830 – 10/19/1896]

Miller-Raker #: 344                                                    married2: Mrs. Susan Ruff (2/2/1899)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/27/1830 – 5/1/1914]

Gibble list: no

                                                                                   

1867    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment: Duncannon Union Cemetery, Duncannon PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1909,119

 

1866-67           Bendersville circuit

1867-68           Manchester

1868-70           Perry

1870-73           Duncannon

1873-74           Greencastle (served little or no time)

1873-74           Hagerstown St. Paul’s (8 months)

1874-77           West Fairview

1877-78           Duncannon

1878-81           York circuit

1882-84           Conestoga circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1884-87           Halifax, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1887-88           Manheim

1888                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89           Alto Dale circuit (resigned soon after conference on account of ill health)

 

Note: The first Mrs. Lightner is a sister to Daniel A. Tawney.  The second Mrs. Lightner (nee Snyder) was the widow of a Mr. William Ruf (1832-1898)

 

 

LILLEY, JAMES HENRY

 

Born: 11-10-1878  Fayette County PA                      married: Lillian May Furnier (1/16/1902)

Died: 10-20-1950  Schellsburg PA                            obit: [6/9/1878 – 3/10/1950]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Schellsburg Cemetery, Schellsburg PA

Obit:

 

1914-16           Three Springs

 

Note: J.H. Lilley served as “others employed by the conference.”  He reportedly served United Brethren congregations for 20 years before serving in the Christian Church for the last 18 years of his life and retiring from the Cumberland Christian Church.  His appointments included New Paris, Central City, Sidman, Bolivar, Miligans Cove, Hyndman and Cumberland. 

 

LINCKS, FREDRICK E.

 

Born: 4-2-1838  Alsace-Loraine                                 married: Mary Oyler

Died: 12-24-1910  Canal Fulton OH                          obit: [6/16/1842 - 2/19/1912]

Miller-Raker #: 325

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license

 

Interment: Canal Fulton Cemetery, Canal Fulton OH

Obit:

 

1860-61           Carlisle circuit (1st part of year)

1860-61           Manchester circuit (2nd part of year)

1862                transfer

Indiana

Ohio

 

Note: It appears that Fredrick E. Lincks served in Indiana and Ohio as a local pastor while working as a miner and may never have formally joined another conference as a ministerial member.

 

 

LINEBAUGH, NORMAN LESTER

 

Born: 9-24-1880  Machester PA                                married: Minnie Gertrude Michael

Died: 7-21-1962  York PA                                         obit: [?/?/1885 – 2/11/1920]

Miller-Raker #: 512                                                    married2: Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pyle

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1901    quarterly conference license, York Fifth

1903    license

1912    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962,68

 

1905-06           Union Deposit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1906-07           Union Deposit

1907-09           Florin

1909-10           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1910-12           Vandalia OH

1912-16           Hershey

1916-17           Harrisburg First

1917-20           Philadelphia Second

1920                transfer to Miami Conference

1949-50           Mt. Carmel, East Pennsylvania Conference

1950                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1950-52           Mt. Carmel

1952-56           Hillsdale

1956                retired

 

NOTE: Norman L. Linebaugh supposedly also served congregations in the Allegheny and Erie conferences.

 

 

LIST, FREDERICK A.

 

Born: 4-17-1827  Germany                                         married: Eliza _____

Died: 1-6-1912  Ellicott City MD                              obit: [10/2/1821 – 6/11/1897]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1866    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1912,31

 

1864-65           Millheim circuit

1865-66           ?

1866-67           Valley View circuit

1867-68           Middleburg circuit

1868-70           ?

1870-71           Halifax circuit

1875                name erased

1880                re-instated      

1881                transfer to East German Conference

1881-83           Camden mission

1883-85           Philadelphia Fourth Street German mission

1885-89           Baltimore Fulton

1889-92           Baltimore Seventh Street

1892-93           Middleburg circuit

 

 

LITTLE, GEORGE KIRKLEY

 

Born: 1-27-1860  Baltimore MD                                married: Anna C. Bittinger

Died: 8-22-1938  Quincy PA                                      obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948,34

Miller-Raker #: 451

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Quincy PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1938,26

 

1880-08           evangelist at large

1908-09           Greencastle & Marion

1909-14           evangelist at large

1914-16           West Rockingham charge, Virginia Conference

1916-20           evangelist at large

1920-24           Harrisonburg, Virginia Conference

1924-25           local

1925-26           Shermansdale

1926                retired

Note: George K. Little is the son of George O. Little.  He is the subject of book (on file in the conference archives) by R.E. Williams, printed in 1887 by the UB Publishing House: George K. Little and his Revival Work – comprising a history of his life, conversion, and six years of evangelistic work.

 

LITTLE, GEORGE O.

 

Born: 11-11-1783                                                        married: Martha Hanaway

Died: 5-16-1860  Gettysburg PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1844    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1846    quarterly conference license, Littlestown circuit

1848    license, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit:

 

1844-45           West Harford

1845-46           Huntersville

1846                “transfer” to United Brethren Church

1848-49           Winchester

 

1873-

 

Note: George O. Little is the father of George K. Little.  According to Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, George O. Little transferred to the Pennsylvania Conference – but no such official conference record can be found.  The August 3, 1846, quarterly conference of the Littlestown circuit states “that George O. Little from the Methodist E. Church shall be received into the Church of the United Brethren in Christ” and “that he shall have license to preach the gospel among us up to the next annual conference.”  Brief biographical comments on George O. Little appear in Williams’ 1887 biography of George K. Little, page 9.

 

 

LLOYD, CLIFFORD PAUL

 

Born: 8-13-1924                                                          married: Verna _____

Died: 6-29-1994                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 862

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    credentials in the Allegheny Conference, Brethren in Christ

1963    license

1967    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1958-60           Mount Holly Springs BIC

1960-63                      Mount Rock BIC

1963                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB

1963-69           Frederick Centennial Memorial

1969-71           York Christ

1971                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1971-74           Barton-Westernport

1974-79           Overlea

1979-80           Fork-Waugh

1980-84           Baltimore Wesley

1984-87           Hamilton St. John’s

1987                leave of absence  Baltimore Conference 1987,178

1987                withdraw  Baltimore Conference 1988,185

 

Note: The last known residence of Clifford P. Lloyd was in Terre Hill, Lancaster County.

 

 

LLOYD, NEHEMIAH JOHNSON

 

Born: 8-23-1836  Beaver PA                                      married: Esther B. Taylor

Died: 4-20-1909  Akron OH                                      obit: [1837 – 2/19/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 135 [Loyd]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: East Akron Cemetery, Akron OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1909,58

 

1865                transfer to the Allegheny Conference

1868                transfer to East Ohio Conference

 

 

LOCHER, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1860    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1861                withdrew

 

LOEWEN, JOHN CARL

 

Born: 11-1-1925                                                          married: Lois Marie Lester

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017,287

Miller-Raker #: 798

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    credentials in the American Baptist Convention

1962    license

1969    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-59           People’s Baptist Church, Sag Harbor LI-NY

1959-62           supply, Nyack NY area

1962                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1962-68           Mt. Tabor

1968-78           Leesburg

1978-84           Young’s

1984-88           Jacobus

1988-91           Yoe Christ

1991                retired

 

 

LOHR, MARTIN

 

Born: 9-28-1803                                                          married: Maria Christiann Carl [12/25/1825]

Died: 5-17-1868                                                          obit: [8/?/1804 – 4/4/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 188

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1869, 11

 

1835-36           Chambersburg circuit

 

Note: Martin Lohr chose to function as a local pastor, preaching as opportunity afforded.  He is the namesake of Lohr’s UM Church in Hanover.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 302, gives a brief biography.

 

 

LONG, AARON ALBION

 

Born: 9-25-1864  Hays Grove PA                              married: Katherine Snyder Reed

Died: 1-6-1944                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 51

Miller-Raker #: 447

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Annville

1890    license

1892    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 34

 

1891                Duncannon (May-Sept)

1891-92           Highspire, East Pennsylvania Conference

1892                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1892-93           Highspire

1893-98           Columbia

1898-01           Harrisburg First

1901-06           Shamokin First

1906-10           Hummelstown

1910-11           Altoona First, Allegheny Conference

1911                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1911-19           York First

1919-20           local

1920-27           Shiremanstown

1927                retired

 

Note: While the 1910, page 11, East Pennsylvania Conference journal lists Rev. Long as seeking a transfer to the Allegheny Conference, it appears that was never formally accomplished and that his 1911 transfer into the Pennsylvania Conference was from the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

LONG, AARON M.

 

Born: 2-24-1863  Somerset PA                                  married: Emma Esther Leichliter

Died: 8-31-1945  Everson PA                                    obit: [9/25/1863 – 5/11/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 255

Gibble list: no

 

1890    quarterly conference license

1893    license, Allegheny Conference

1901    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Normalville Cemetery, Normalville PA

Obit:

 

1890-91           Glasgow

1891-94           Wilmore

1894-95           Glasgow

1895-99           Ligonier

1899-02           Mahoning

1902-03           Knoxdale

1903-04           Clarington

1904-06           Dunlo

1906-15           (not assigned)

1915-17           Fayette

1917                located

 

 

LONG, DAVID

 

Born: 7-6-1771  Cumberland County PA                   married: Catharine Hershey

Died: 2-19-1860  Pfoutz Valley PA                           obit: [7/13/1771 – 9/25/1849]

Miller-Raker #: 41

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1837                expelled

 

Note: David Long is a nephew of Isaac Long, in whose barn Otterbein and Boehm first met in 1767.  He moved to the Pfoutz Valley in 1814 and served as a local preacher.  The 1816 annual conference was held at his home.  Mrs. Long is a sister to Abraham (Lancaster) and Christian Hershey.

 

 

LONG, DAVID E.

 

Born: 10-2-1869  Bellegrove PA                                married: Clara Miller

Died: 1-13-1939                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 31

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    quarterly conference license

1897    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1900    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 13

 

1896-00           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1898-99      Mt. Etna

1900-01           Elizabethville

1901-03           Cressona

1903-06           Lykens and Millersburg

1906-08           Philadelphia First

1908-13           field secretary, Lebanon Valley College

1913-14           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage (did not finish the year)

1914-18           Mount Joy (began following the 4/29/1914 death of H.S. Gabel))

1918-25           Mountville

1925-29           Myerstown

1929-32           Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1932                retired

 

Note: David E. Long is the father of Rev. Abram Long of the Presbyterian Church, and his daughter Laura is married to Schuyler C. Enck’s son Paul. 

LONG, JOSIAH P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1865    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1864-65           Hummelstown circuit

1865-66           Shamokin circuit

1867                withdrew

 

Note: This may be the Rev. Josiah P. Long (1832-1880) who was admitted on trial in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867; see the Methodist Episcopal pastor files.

 

LONG, SAMUEL BURMAN

 

Born: 5-31-1883  Hays Grove PA                                          married: Margaret Mae Hoch [9/21/1911]

Died: 6-24-1974                                                                      obit: [10/12/1883 – 8/16/1977]

Miller-Raker #: 538

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    license, recommended by Chambersburg First

1910    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Newville PA

Obit: United Church of Christ Yearbook 1975, 351

 

1906-08           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1907-08      Mechanicsburg circuit

1908-11                      student, Union Theological Seminary NY

                                                Croyden and Errol NH – denomination uncertain

[1910-11          Newburg (apparently did not serve)]

1911                transfer to Congregational Church 1911,65

1911-16           Lusk WY

1916-               Yorkville, IL

                        Marlborough NH

                        student, Syracuse University

1930                Syracuse NY, Geddes

1943-54           South Weymouth MA, Old South Union

1954-55           Brockton MA, Waldo (Montello)

1955-56           ?

1956-63           Worcester MA, Chestnut Street

1963-69           Auburn MA, Pakachoag and Hope

1969-72           ?

1972-73           lived at Bethel Methodist Home in Ossining NY

1973-74           lived at Homewood Church Home in Carlisle PA

 

Note: A biography of S. Burman Long appears in the 1987 Shepherdstown Church Centennial Book, page 22. 

 

 

LONG, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 138

Gibble list: no

 

1867    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1866-68           Ligonier circuit

1868-69           Somerset

1870                name erased

 

 

 

LONGENECKER, CHRISTIAN RISSER

 

Born: 6-14-1877  Lebanon County PA                      married: Mabel Mae Evans

Died: 11-17-1959                                                        obit: [d 8/27/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Hilda Heller [10/14/1944]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf. 1998, 7.270

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Palmyra First

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Palmyra Second Church Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 52

 

1912-13           Northampton circuit

1913-15           Bellegrove

1915-20           Palmyra Second

1940-24           New Holland

1924-25           conference evangelist

1925-30           Cleona

1930-33           Reading Zion

1933-36           conference evangelist

1936-39           Lebanon Bethany

1939-47           Myerstown

1947-50           Lickdale

1950                retired

                             1951        Hummelstown (part year)

                             1955-56  Mt. Gretna

                             1959        Mt. Etna

 

 

LONGENECKER, DAVID SHENK

 

Born: 11-29-1843  Dauphin County PA                     married: Anna Peck

Died: 12-4-1917                                                          obit: [7/18/1844 – 10/20/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 41

 

1879-80           Union Deposit circuit and Harrisburg Reily Street [Otterbein]

1880-82           Union Deposit circuit

1882-83           Berks County circuit

1883-85           Sinking Spring circuit

1885-89           Lebanon Salem

1889-92           Myerstown

1892-93           Allentown Zion

1893-97           Reading Salem

1897-04           Lebanon Memorial

1904-08           Avon Zion

1908-09           West Lebanon

1909-15           Avon Zion

1915-17           Lebanon Pleasant Hill [Cleona circuit]

 

Note: David S. Longenecker is the son of Rev. Abraham Longenecker, a local preacher in the Mennonite Church.

 

 

LONGENECKER, ROBERT PEIFFER

 

Born: 6-19-1928  Salunga PA                                    married: K. Elaine Frey

Died: 2-4-2006                                                            obit: [5/8/1928 – 12/19/2017]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Elizabethtown

1954    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: West Green Tree Brethren Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 467

 

1950-51           student, Lebanon Valley College

1951-54           student, United Theological Seminary

1954-57           Rocherty-Fontana circuit

1957-62           Myerstown

1962-66           Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1966-75           Annville

1975-81           superintendent, Allentown District

1981-87           Philadelphia St. James

1987-94           Philadelphia Holmesburg

1994                retired

 

 

LOOSE, GEORGE A.

 

Born: 9-10-1842  Berks County PA                           married: Emma S. Althouse

Died: 12-26-1917  Reading PA                                  obit: [4/15/1843 – 5/19/1924]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit:

 

1873-75           Florin circuit

1875-77           Jacksonville circuit

1877-78           ?

1878-80           Hummelstown circuit

1880-81           ?

1881-83           Harrisburg circuit

1883-84           Rocky Spring station

1886-88           Lititz

1892                credentials returned: East Pennsylvania Conference 1892,8

 

Note:  George A. Loose appears to be living in Reading during the years (1884-86 and 1889-92) he was not serving a charge.  Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 392, gives some biographical information.

 

 

LOOSE, HENRY

 

Born: 8-15-1826                                                         married: Priscilla Hoffnagle (11/8/1849)

Died: 2-7-1907                                                            obit: [9/2/1831 – 10/11/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: [probably with his wife and brother at Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart IN]

Obit:

 

1849-50           Halifax circuit

1850-51           ?

1851-53           Lebanon circuit

1853-55           Halifax circuit

1855-56           Lebanon circuit

1856-58           Hummelstown circuit

1858-59           Millheim circuit

1859-60           Susquehanna circuit

1864                withdrew

 

Note: Henry Loose is a brother to Dennis Lose.  He reportedly moved to Sailor MI about 1868, and then to just outside the Elkhart IN city limits in 1893.  This surname is also rendered LOSE and LUSE, with the latter apparently the spelling adopted by his descendants.  His father Abraham Lose has a brief biography in Beer’s 1898 Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania.

 

LORENZ, EDMUND SIMON

 

Born: 7-13-1854  North Lawrence OH                      married: Florence L. Kumler

Died: 7-10-1942  Dayton OH                                     obit: [?/?/1857 – 9/3/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1877    license, Miami Conference

1882    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Religious Telescope 108:30 (July 25, 1942)

 

1880-81           student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1881-83           student, Yale Divinity School

1883-84           student, University of Leipzig in Germany

1884-86           Dayton High Street

1886-87           chaplain, National Military Home in Dayton OH

1887-88           president, Lebanon Valley College

1888                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89           president, Lebanon Valley College

1889                transfer to Miami Conference

1890                founded the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton OH

 

Note:  Edmund S. Lorenz is the son of Rev. Edward Lorenz (1827-c1900) of the Miami Conference and the father of Justina Lorenz Showers, wife of Bishop John Balmer Showers (1879 – 1962).  A biographical sketch appears in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism, page 1452.  Mrs. Lorenz is a great-granddaughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Sr, and a granddaughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Jr (1801-1882).

 

LOSE, DENNIS        

 

Born: 4-9-1831  Lebanon County PA                        married: Mary Ann Kramer

Died: 9-3-1907  Millheim PA                                    obit: [12/2/1835 – 5/14/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA

Obit:

 

Note: Dennis Lose is a brother to Henry Loose.  This surname is also rendered LOOSE and LUSE, with the latter apparently the spelling adopted by a majority of his descendants.  His father Abraham Lose has a brief biography in Beer’s 1898 Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania.

                       

 

LOVEJOY, M.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1901-02           Salem circuit (last part of year)

 

Note: M.J. Lovejoy was “of West Virginia” – 1902,12.  In the statistical reports he is given as M.F. Lovejoy.  This is believed to be the Marion T. Lovejoy who was serving the Church of God in Harrisburg PA in 1906 and the Church of God in Chambersburg PA 1909-10.

 

 

LOVELL, HENRY

 

Born: c1811  PA                                                         married: Mary Ann Wheeler [5/22/1856]

Died: 7-27-1896  Pella IA                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Eliza Joy [12/23/1876]

Fulton #: 65                                                                 obit2: [5/14/1807 – 1/31/1891]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Mrs. Sarah Nossman Lambert [6/3/1894]

                                                                                    obit3:

1846    license, Allegheny Conference

1848    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Pella IA

Obit:

 

1848-49           Fort Littleton

1849-50           Schellsburg

1850-52           Bellefonte

1852-53           Blair

1853-55           ?

1855-56           New Castle

1856-58           located

     1856-58  Bellefonte

1858                withdrew

 

Note: Henry Lovell is listed as an 1833 constituent member of the Cassville Methodist Protestant Church, and Cassville appears to be his home area.  The 1856 journal of the Allegheny Conference includes the following two resolutions concerning Henry Lovell.

     Resolved: that H. Lovell’s views on the doctrine of regeneration are anti-scriptural and contrary to the views of this conference.

     Revolved: that in the opinion of this conference, Brother H. Lovell’s application of certain passages of scripture relating to the Kingdom of Christ are erroneous.

            Beginning about 1860 Henry Lovell describes himself as a Methodist clergyman, but he is not listed in any Methodist records.  He moved to Pella Iowa in 1870 and is described as Rev. Dr. Henry Lovell.

 

 

 

LOVELL, ISAAC

 

Born: 1847                                                                  married: Amanda Jane Kelbaugh (1870)

Died: 1928                                                                  obit: [3/29/1855 – 7/13/1905]

Miller-Raker #: 388

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1879    license

1888    ordained

 

Interment: [believed to be Garfield UM Church Cemetery, Garfield MD]

Obit:

 

1880-81           Alto Dale [Mont Alto] circuit

                        local

1902-05           Garfield MD

                        supernumerary

1912                withdrew  1912,51

 

Note: As a local preacher living in the community, Isaac Lovell started and built the Garfield [Mt. Carmel] church in 1902.  He served it until it was attached to Wolfsville circuit in 1905.  See Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 183.   

 

LOWER, WILLIAM THOMAS

 

Born: 5-22-1822  Orange County VA                        married: Mary Elizabeth Toms (1854)

Died: 5-4-1875  Newburg, Cumberland County PA  obit: [b. c1835]

Miller-Raker #: 358                                                    married2: Lydia Stotler (1867)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1843 – 1918]

Gibble list: no

 

1851    license, Virginia Conference

1853    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 11

 

1850-51           Frederick circuit

1851-52           Jackson

1852-53           Frederick circuit

1853-55           ?

1855-57           Frederick circuit

1857-61           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1861-62           Hagerstown circuit

1862-65           Frederick circuit

1865-66           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1867-70           Martinsburg

1870                granted open transfer

1870-71           ?

1871                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1871-72           Chambersburg station

1873-74           Orrstown station

1874-75           Newburg

 

Note: This birth year may be 1828.  The second Mrs. Lower is the niece of Margaret Stotler (Mrs. Henry) Burtner.

 

LOWERY, DANIEL DeWITT

 

Born: 4-11-1860  Annville PA                                   married: Ida May Burtner

Died: 5-29-1917                                                          obit: [b. 5/?/1859 - ?/?/1936]

Miller-Raker #: 403

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1879    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained

 

Interment: Enola Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 40

 

1879-80           Tamaqua

1880-81           Camden NJ Emmanuel

1881                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1881-82           West Fairview station

1882-83           Baltimore Fifth Street

1883-84           Big Spring station

1884-86           Manheim station  [Pennsylvania and East Pennsylvania Conferences were together 1882-1886]

1886                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-87                      Manheim station

1887-89           Mt. Joy

1889-90           Annville

1890-93           Harrisburg Derry Street

1893-1916       conference superintendent

 

Note: Daniel D. Lowery is the son of John H. Lowery and father of Ira D. Lowery.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 455, gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Lowery is a sister to Edward O. Burtner and a granddaughter of Frederick May (through his daughter Katherine).

 

 

LOWERY, FREDERICK CLARK

 

Born: 12-5-1924  Intercourse PA                               married: Cora Jean Kling

Died: 2-19-2016  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [12/9/1924 – 3/31/2020]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Neffsville

1954    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: New Holland UM Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit:

 

1949-50           student, Franklin and Marshall College

1950-54           student, Dallas Theological Seminary

1954-60           Jonestown circuit

1960-87           New Holland

1987                retired

     1987-92      Intercourse

 

Note: Fred C. Lowery is the son of Ira D. Lowery, the grandson of Daniel D. Lowery, and the great-grandson of John H. Lowery.

 

 

LOWERY, IRA DEWITT

 

Born: 7-4-1882  Baltimore MD                                  married: Hazel Cordelia Clark

Died: 8-3-1962                                                            obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1991,309

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Derry Street

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s UMC Cemetery, Paradise PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962,69

 

1910-12           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1910-11       Hillsdale circuit

1912-15           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1915-17           home missionary, Shawnee OK

1917                Florin (part year)

1917-19           Halifax

1919-21           Cressona

1921-23           Shamokin Second

1923-26           Intercourse

1926-29           Manheim

1929-31           Reading Trinity

1931-34           Tower City

1934-38           Intercourse

1938-52           Neffsville

1952                retired

 

Note: Ira D. Lowery is the son of Daniel D. Lowery, the grandson of John H. Lowery, and (through his mother) the great-grandson of Frederick May.  In addition, all 3 sons of Ira became ordained: Frederick C. Lowery, Robert B. Lowery (non-EUB/UM, Cincinnati OH), Paul D. Lowery (missionary to Guatemala, ordained from Calvary Independent Church, Lancaster PA).    

 

 

LOWERY, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 9-7-1821  Lebanon County PA                        married: Martha Dissinger

Died: 9-9-1908  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: [9/7/1822 – 1/4/1901]

Miller-Raker #: 272 [LOWRY]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1859    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Iona PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 37

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1856-57           Lebanon circuit

1857-60           Pine Grove circuit

1860-62           Annville

1862-64           Dauphin circuit

1864-65           Middleburg circuit

1865-66           Lykens Valley circuit

1866-70           Upper Berne

1870                charter member of East German Conference

1870-72           ?

1872-73           Tamaqua

1873                Hamburg mission

1873-75           Lebanon circuit

1875-77           Swatara circuit

1877-79           Bethlehem circuit

1879-80           Lehigh Valley circuit

1880-81           Berks County circuit

1881-83           Avon Zion

1883-84           Swatara circuit

1884-85           Valley View circuit

 

Note: John H. Lowery is the father of Daniel D. Lowery, the grandfather of Ira D. Lowery, and the great-grandfather of Fred C. Lowery.

 

 

LUCKENS, JOHN WENGERT

 

Born: 3-31-1902  Schuylkill Haven                           married: Rheta H. Saul

Died: 12-15-1972  Shamokin PA                               obit: [3/6/1908 – 12/13/1993]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Schuylkill Haven

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1929    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1973,403

 

1922-26           student, Lebanon Valley Vollege

1926-29           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1929-31           Hummelstown circuit

1931-33           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1933-43           Reading Zion (did not finish last year)

1943-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-68           Shamokin First

1968                retired

 

 

LUDWICK, ESDRAS

 

Born: 11-27-1847  near Romney WV                        married: Anna C. _____

Died: 10-29-1925  Shippensburg PA                         obit: [?/?/1861 – 1/17/1939]

Miller-Raker #: 561

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [LUDWIG]

 

1878    license, Virginia Conference

1881    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania 1926, 59

 

1877-78           Boonsboro

1878-79           Frederick

1879-80           Winchester

1880-83           Hagerstown

                             1882   Newville, Pennsylvania Conference – see Note

1883-84           Berkeley Springs

1884                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1884-86           Shippensburg

1886                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-88           Mountville St. Paul’s

1888-93           Columbia

1893-96           Steelton Centenary

1896-04           Middletown

1904-06           Reading Otterbein

1906-08           Hershey First

1908-10           living in Shippensburg

1910                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1910                Newburg (May-Nov)

1910-21           local, living in Shippensburg

1921                retired

 

Note:  It appears that Rev. Ludwick made overtures to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1882 and was appointed to Newville [1882,40], but that he did not accept the assignment [1883,4].  The conference memberships above are a practical compromise.  The Virginia Conference [Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 142] considers him transferred to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1885, but the Pennsylvania Conference does not acknowledge him until the 1910 transfer.  The East Pennsylvania Conference [1887,5] formally recognizes his transfer from the Virginia Conference in 1887.  The confusion can be attributed to the Pennsylvania and East Pennsylvania Conferences meeting together 1882-1886.

 

 

LUDWICK, PEARLE J.

 

Born: 1-25-1894  Greensburg PA                              married: [never married]

Died: 2-14-1985                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 501

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 383

 

1925-31           evangelist

1931-34           New Florence

1934-42           evangelist

1942-43           Fairmount

1943-50           evangelist

1950                retired

 

Note Pearle J. Ludwick is a sister to Anna Margaret Ludwick Willard, wife of Daniel W. Willard.

 

 

LUDWIG, CHRISTIAN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1828                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 148

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1826    admitted?

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1828, 26

 

Note: Christian Ludwig is reported present at the 1826 conference, but there is no record of his receiving a license or being admitted on trial.

 

LUDWIG, SANFORD ROMANUS

 

Born: 5-14-1859  Rio WV                                          married: Martha Virginia Shumaker

Died: 2-11-1934  Winchester VA                              obit: [1/23/1869 – 11/21/1946]

Miller-Raker #: 558

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license, Virginia Conference

1897    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester VA

Obit: Virginia 1934, 13

 

1892-94           South Branch

1894-95           Lacey Springs

1895                transfer to Miami Conference

1895-98                  student, Bonebrake Seminary

     1895-98      Abbottsville

1898                transfer to Virginia Conference

1898-99           Berkeley Springs

1899-01           Churchville

1901-03           field agent for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, Dayton VA

1903-08           Keyser

1908                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1908-10           Rayville

1910-11           Boonsboro

1911-12           Gettysburg

1912-13           Oakville

1913-16           Elkins WV, West Virginia Conference

1916-17           Clarksburg WV, West Virginia Conference

1917-18           local [see 1917,52; see also 1916,30]

1918-20           Fayetteville

1920-22           Manchester MD

1922                transfer to Virginia Conference

1922-33           Winchester

1933                retired

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography of S.R. Ludwig.

 

 

LUTZ, LEWIS WALTER

 

Born: 8-25-1872  Middletown MD                            married: Mary Catherine Thompson

Died: 9-7-1947                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 26

Miller-Raker #: 518                                                    married2: Mrs. Ada Frankham Markley

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 32

Gibble list: no

 

1897    license, West Virginia Conference

1900     ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 34

 

1897-99           South Branch, Virginia Conference

1899                transfer to Virginia Conference

1899-01           Edinburg

1901-03           West Fairview, Pennsylvania Conference  1902,12

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1903-04           West Fairview

1904-13           Chambersburg

1913-20           Chambersburg First

1920-23           Baltimore Fourth

1923-25           Waynesboro

1925-32           York Second

1932-40           New Cumberland Trinity

1940                retired

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography.

 

 

LYNCH, CLYDE ALVIN

 

Born: 8-24-1891  Harrisburg PA                                married: Edith L. Basehore

Died: 8-6-1950                                                            obit: [6/10/1892 – 8/20/1976]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    quarterly conference license

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1916    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, near Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 30

 

1910-11           Centerville circuit

1911-12           Chambers Hill

1912-18           Linglestown and Rockville

1918-21           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             1918-21      Antioch and Pyrmont, OH

1921-25           Ephrata

1925-30           Philadelphia Second

1930-32           faculty, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1932-50           president, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: Clyde A. Lynch is the grandfather of John H. Lynch of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference UMC.

 

LYTER, JOSEPH ALLEN

 

Born: 1-22-1865  Enders PA                                      married: Margaret Bowman

Died: 1-29-1940                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 51

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 15

 

1887-88           Freeburg circuit (first part of year)

1887-88           Paxinos circuit (last part of year)

1888-92           Mountville

1892-93           Philadelphia St. Paul

1893-96           Mount Joy

1896-99           Hummelstown

1899-24           Harrisburg Derry Street

1824-26           Annville

1926-40           associate editor, Sunday School literature

 

 

 

MacLEOD, THOMAS H.

 

Born: 11-3-1868  Simcoe, Ontario Canada                married: Sarah Ann Holdaway

Died: 8-4-1949                                                            obit: [11/11/1867 – 2/16/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 339 [McLeod]

Gibble list: no

 

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

1910    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland MD

Obit:

 

1905-07           Three Springs

1907-08           Mapleton

1908-10           Bethel [Holsopple]

1910-14           Liverpool

1914-15           Youngwood

1915-19           Bellefonte

1919                open transfer, page 61

1919                received by the Synod of Baltimore, Presbytery of Washington City

 

Note: The original surname was McLeod, but he started using MacLeod about 1920, after leaving the United Brethren Church.  The March 19, 1919, Harrisburg Telegraph, page 2, reported that the MacLeod family would continue to reside in Bellefonte and “Mr. MacLeod will engage in church extension work.”  It appears, however, that T.H. MacLeod associated with the Presbyterian Church in the Washington DC area.  The June 29, 1923, Harrisburg Telegraph reports that “Miss Puera B. Robison spent Monday with the Rev. and Mrs. T. H. MacLeod, in Washington on her way to Higgins, N.C, where she will spend the summer doing church and community work under the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.”  Puera Robison of Liverpool was one of the first females ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church (in the late 1920’s) and worked as a deaconess and was granted a local preacher’s license – but she never served a church.

 

 

MACDONALD, JOSEPH R.

 

Born: 9-7-1883  Lancaster County PA                       married: Bessie Creamer

Died: 12-15-1986                                                        obit: [d. 1929]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Emma Mae Parmer

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/30/1904 – 6/23/1979]

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1912    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fishburn UM Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1987,7.3

 

1912-16           New Holland and Ranks

1916-17           Lykens

1917-27           Union Deposit circuit

1927-32           Coatesville

1932-37           Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1937-48           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1948-62           Fishburn and Union Deposit

1962                retired

                             1962-64      conference supply, including Geyers and Falmouth

                             1964-73      Milton Grove and Moyers

 

Note: Biographical information on Joseph R. MacDonald is given in the Fishburn Church file in the bulletin celebrating his 100th birthday in 1983.

 

MAHORTER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 217

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license

1837    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1840                withdrew

 

 

MAINES, JOHN G.

 

Born: 5-15-1878  Clearfield County PA                    married: Mary A. Kephart

Died: 6-15-1959                                                          obit: [1876 – 12/6/1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Shiloh Cemetery, Woodland PA

Obit:

 

1913-14           Waukesha

 

Note: J.G. Maines served as “others employed by the conference.” He was a lay member of the Pleasant Valley U.B. church near Woodland PA.

 

 

MANEVAL, JOHN LEON

 

Born: 12-12-1906  Williamsport PA                          married: Anna Helen Mason

Died: 11-9-1964  Salamanca NY                               obit: [8/5/1905 – 6/9/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 510

Gibble list: no

 

1926    quarterly conference license, Williamsport PA

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained

 

Interment: Lawn Cemetery of Beaver Dam, Beaver Dam NY

Obit: Erie Conference (EUB) 1965, 55

 

1927-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1927-28      Cherry Creek

     1928           transfer to Erie Conference

1930-33           student, Milligan University in Decatur IL

     1930-33      Dalton City IL, Illinois Conference

1933-37           Jamestown Stillwater

1937-39           Union City

1939-41           Chandlers Valley

1941-46           Buffalo White Memorial

1946-56           Wayne Valley

1956-60           Obi

1960-64           West Salamanca Kissinger Memorial

 

Note: J. Leon Maneval is the father of EUB missionary to Nigeria Onnolee Hope Maneval and a nephew to Harry P. Maneval (1885-1954) of the Evangelical Church.  He receivd an A.B. degree from Indiana Central College in 1934.  ANNA HELEN MANEVAL took over her husband’s ministerial duties until the end of the conference year.  She had received her quarterly conference license in 1930 from Dalton City IL and her license in 1931 from the Illinois conference.  While this was her only pastoral service, she was an officer and administrator in the Women’s Society.  She was an elementary school teacher. 

 

 

MARCH, DANIEL J.

 

Born: 12-14-1880  Adams County PA                       married: Eleanora Jane Zuck

Died: 6-15-1942                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960,48

Miller-Raker #: 553

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1909    license

1914    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1942,30

 

1908-09           Spring Grove

1909-11           Dover circuit

1911-14           Springett  [Pleasureville]

1914-17           Mont Alto

1917-21           Taneytown

1921-22           Rayville

1922-34           Scotland

1934-42           Dillsburg

 

Note: Daniel J. March is the father of Harold V. March.

 

 

MARCH, HAROLD V.

 

Born: 11-26-1913  Pleasureville PA                          married: Kline Elizabeth Shriner

Died: 9-8-1990                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001,369

Miller-Raker #: 694

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Dillsburg Calvary

1941    license

1949    ordained

 

Interment: Fetterhoff Church Cemetery, Franklin County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991,483

 

1938-41           Middletown MD

1941-42           Mt. Victory-Gardners (including Dillsburg Jun-Oct)

1942-44           Shermansdale

1944-56           Gettysburg

1956-63           New Cumberland Trinity

1963-64           disability

                        1964    Baltimore Otterbein (5 months)

1964-73           Fetterhoff’s-Mt. Union

1973-75           Elkland

1975-79           disability  [legally blind]

1979                retired

                             1989           pastor emeritus, Fetterhoff’s

 

Note: Harold V. March is the son of Daniel J. March

 

 

MARK, GEORGE A. SR

 

Born: 11-6-1790                                                          married: Christina Runkle

Died: 12-26-1868                                                        obit: [10/3/1794 – 6/14/1866]

Miller-Raker #: 246

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

1848    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania 1869, 19 and 1870, 31

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1852-54           Myerstown circuit

 

Note: George A. Mark Sr is the father of George A. Mark Jr, and of Lydia Mark Etter, wife of Samuel R. Etter, and of Amanda A. Mark, wife of D.S. Early.  A biographical sketch is given in the 1911 Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 209, by Eberly et al. 

 

 

MARK, GEORGE ADAM JR

 

Born: 2-8-1825                                                            married: Maria Myers

Died: 2-16-1886                                                          obit: [1830 – 1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 27

 

1852-54           Myerstown circuit

1854-55           Lancaster circuit

1855-56           ?

1856-57           Lebanon circuit

1857-58           ?

1858-59           Hummelstown

1859-61           Millheim

1963-69           superintendent

1869-70           agent, Lebanon Valley College

1872-73           Annville

 

Note: George A. Mark Jr is the son of George A. Mark Sr, a sister to Lydia Mark Etter, wife of Samuel R. Etter, and the father of Ella Jane Mark Sneath, wide of Isaiah W. Sneath.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 455, gives a biographical sketch.  The dates on his tombstone are “1826 – 1887”.

 

 

MARK, HARRY CLAYTON

 

Born: 1-7-1906                                                                        married: Dorothy F. Lesher

Died: 6-19-1999                                                                      obit: [6/26/1915 – 5/5/2014]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1931    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 2000,?

 

1932-34           Lebanon Bethany

1934-39           Union Deposit circuit

1939-52           Royalton

1952-71           Neffsville

1971                retired

 

Note: Harry C. Mark is the author of “Patterns for Preaching: the Art of Sermon Making” and “If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again.”

 

 

MARK, JACOB H.

 

Born: 4-24-1826                                                          married: Amanda E, Clark

Died: 3-26-1900                                                          obit: [7/13/1833 – 11/6/1854]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Hettie Van Reed

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [9/18/1827 – 11/24/1899]

Gibble list: yes

 

1862    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1869    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1862-63           Hummelstown circuit

1866-69           Lebanon Salem

1869-70           Annville

1870-72           Susquehanna circuit

1872-73           ?

1873-76           Lykens Valley circuit

1876-79           Reading Zion

1879-81           Allentown Zion

1881-83           Myerstown

1883-87           Schuylkill Haven

1887-89           ?

1889-90           Reading Salem

1890-92           Pine Grove circuit

1892-93           Avon Zion

1893-95           West Lebanon

                        transfer to?

 

Note: Jacob H. Mark is the father of Emma Mark Mohn, wife of Henry V. Mohn.  Some sources give the death date for the first Mrs. Mark as 1861.

 

 

MARKER, ANDREW

 

Born: 1804                                                                  married:

Died: 1876                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

1848    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1844-47           Baltimore mission

 

Note:  Andrew Marker was not a travelling itinerant.  A ruling elder of Baltimore's Old Otterbein church, he preached elsewhere upon invitation, actively supported missionary work, and led a weekly holiness meeting.  In his will, he left $1000 to the denomination’s “Home Frontier and Missionary Society.”

 

 

MARKS, WILLIAM JAMES

 

Born: 1-14-1872  Slatington PA                                 married: Frances [Fannie] S. Spence

Died: 6-14-1932                                                          obit: [1886 – 1972]

Miller-Raker #: 541

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1907    license

1911    ordained

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference (ME) 1933, 172

 

1907-07           Spring Grove

1907-11           Biglerville

1911-12           Walkersville

1912-14           Mon Alto

1914-17           Taneytown

1917-20           Duncannon

1920-21           Greenmount

1921                transfer to Philadelphia Conference, ME denomination  (see 1921,25)

1921-22           Avondale

1922-27           Mountain Home

1927-29           Lansford

1929-31           Wiconisco

1931-32           Steelton

 

 

MARTIN, AMOS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1914-17           Brunnerville

 

Note: Amos Martin Served Brunnerville while it was under the Lititz quarterly conference.  He appears to have been a lay speaker, as there is no record of his appointment in the conference journal.  In 1908 and 1923 he is listed as a lay delegate from Pequea.

 

 

MARTIN, JERE ROBERT

 

Born: 6-17-1935  Lancaster PA                                  married: Beverly J. Styer

Died: 9-15-2015  Mount Joy PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1955     license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1960    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1955-57           student, Lebanon Valley College

1957-50           student, United Theological Seminary

1960-65           Royalton

1965-75           Lancaster Community

1975-93           Annville

1993-98           Swarthmore

1998                retired

                             1998-99      Morgantown

 

 

MARTIN, LLOYD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Sue Gabel

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1912-13           Neffsville Long Memorial

1913-14           living in Johnson City TN

1914                transfer to Miami Conference

                        Cincinnati College Hill

                       

 

Note: Lloyd Martin appears to have served churches of other denominations in GA, MA and NY.  Mrs. Martin is the daughter of Henry S. Gabel.  She is a 1916 graduate of Otterbein University in Westerville OH.

 

 

MARTIN, PAUL JONATHAN

 

Born: 6-25-1889  Shippensburg PA                           married: Ruth Hostetter

Died: 10-28-1963  Harrisburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982,391

Miller-Raker #: 659

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1928    license

1932    ordained

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1964, 47

 

1935-37           Upper Strasburg

1936-47           secular employment

1947-52           Middleburg [State Line]

1952-57           Emigsville

1957-58           Shermansdale-Young’s

1958-61           Myersville

1961-63           Enola

 

 

MARTIN, WILLIAM LANDERS

 

Born: 1-24-1835  Frederick County MD                    married: Emma Alice Sigmund

Died: 1-27-1917  Richmond VA                                obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1941,31

Miller-Raker #: 494

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    quarterly conference license

1881    license, Virginia Conference

1884    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Wellers Cemetery, Thurmont MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 85

 

1882-84           Clark mission

1884-86           Mechanicsburg [Thurmont] circuit

1886-87           Frederick circuit

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-89           Frederick circuit

1889-92           Myersville circuit

1892-93           Williamsport MD

1893-95           Mechanicstown [Thurmont] circuit

1895-97           Boonsboro

1897-99           living in Thurmont

1899-00           Williamsport MD

1900-01           living in Thurmont

1901-02           Thurmont

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-04           living in Thurmont

1904-07           South Bendersville

1907-09           Wolfsville

1909-11           living in Thurmont

1911-13           Sabillasville

1913                retired

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 175, and Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 302, give brief biographies.

 

 

MARTIN, WILLIAM NORMAN

 

Born: 6-22-1896  Rouzerville PA                              married: Grace E. Snyder

Died: 4-3-1988  Oxford PA                                        obit: [4/27/1896 – 9/15/1991]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Edna Roselean Dowland

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/26/1906 – 10/1/1988]

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Harbaugh Church Cemetery, Rouzerville PA

Obit: [Lebanon Daily News 4/9/1988, page 17]

 

1914-18           student, Lebanon Valley College

1918-20           principal, Lebanon Valley Academy

1920-26           missionary, Sierra Leone

1926                high school teacher in the US

 

Note: William N. Martin taught at the Albert Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  Mrs. Martin graduated from LVC in 1919 and also taught at the Academy in Sierra Leone; she is the daughter of Josiah F. Snyder. The family ties to LVC are strong.  Dr. William N. Martin donated to LVC a 140 acre environment studies park near Gettysburg.  William received the college’s 1985 distinguished alumni award; in April 1988 Edna planted a tree in William’s memory on the campus; in May 1988 Edna was awarded an honorary doctorate and described as “a retired lifetime educator.”   The maiden name of the second Mrs. Martin sometimes appears as Dolland.

 

 

MASON, WILLIAM P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 49

Gibble list: no

 

1842    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843-44           Washington circuit

1844-45           Huntingdon circuit

1845-46           Susquehanna

1848                withdrew

 

 

MATHIAS, HARRY CLEMENT

 

Born: 3-15-1875                                                          married: Emma R. Bucher (9/11/1909)

Died: 5-13-1965                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960,55

Miller-Raker #: 602

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1916    quarterly conference license, Highspire (East Pennsylvania Conference)

1917    license  1917,38

1921    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Halifax Cemetery, Halifax PA

Obit: Eastern Conference EUB 1965, 116

 

1917-18           assistant superintendent, Quincy Orphanage

1918-19           living in Chambersburg

1919                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 57

1919-25           Powell’s Valley

1925-36           Halifax Otterbein

1936-39           Iona

1939-41           Jonestown circuit

1941-46           Cressona-Landingville

1946                retired

 

Note: Mrs. H.C. Mathias is recognized as a deaconess [1917,47] but may have been looking toward the ministry [1917,38].

 

 

MATTERN, WILLIAM HARRISON

 

Born: 9-28-1838  Huntingdon County PA                 married: Elizabeth S. Poorman

Died: 4-27-1927  Altoona PA                                    obit: [1838-1900]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rachel Nofsker

Fulton #: 161                                                               obit2: [2/16/1865 – 3/15/1952]

Gibble list: no

 

1872    quarterly conference license

1873    license, Allegheny Conference

1876    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Canoe Creek Cemetery, Canoe Creek PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1927,76

 

1873-75           Susquehanna

1875-76           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1876-79           Bellefonte

1879-81           Otterbein [Bigler] circuit

1881-84           Hollidaysburg

1884-85           Fallen Timber [Glasgow]

1885-86           New Paris

1886-87           Bellwood

1888-89           Liverpool [did not serve, resigned immediately after Conference]

1889-91           Tuscarora [Shade Gap] (did not complete second year)

1891-96           on leave

1896-99           Stormstown

1899-01           Lajose

1902-14           on leave

1914                retired 

 

MAULFAIR, MICHAEL

 

Born: 2-20-1794  Dauphin County PA                       married: Christiana Ellenberger

Died: 7-13-1856  Lebanon County PA                       obit: [4/16/1794 – 5/30/1866]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

 

Interment: St. John’s UMC Cemetery, Grantville PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1854                name erased

 

Note: It appears that the family lived in the Palmyra area.  Mrs. Maulfair is the sister of local United Brethren preacher Samuel Ellenberger (1799-1870).   

 

MAXWELL, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM

 

Born: 1840                                                                  married: Sarah “Sallie” J. Seiler

Died: 1-6-1910  Somerset County PA                        obit: [11/25/1839 – 7/30/1928]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 229

Gibble list: no

 

1873    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1889    license, Allegheny Conference

1893    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Paint PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Northumberland Mission
1875-78           located
1878-79           Duboistown
                        located

                              1885-86     SS superintendent, Williamsport Bennett Street

1886                surrendered license and withdrew from the Church

1889                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1889-90           assistant, South Williamsport mission

1890-91           Liverpool

1891-93           Huntingdon & Juniata

1893-94           Huntingdon

1894-95           Philipsburg

1895-98           Port Matilda

1898-00           New Paris

1900-01           located, living in New Paris

1901                no longer listed

1904                surrendered license and withdrew from the Church

 

Note: In 1870, A.W. Maxwell is a cabinet maker living in Watsontown,; in 1885, he is selling insurance in Williamsport.

 

MAY, FREDERICK

 

Born: 9-9-1799  Middletown PA                               married: Magdalena Gingrich

Died: 5-9-1857  West Fairview PA                            obit: [6/23/1797 – 7/16/1870]

Miller-Raker #: 195

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1858,55

 

Note: Frederick May lived in West Fairview.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 378, gives a brief biography.  Frederick May (through his daughter Katherine) is the grandfather of Edward Otterbein Burtner and Ida May Burtner Lowery, wife of Daniel D. Lowery.  Mrs. May is a sister to Joseph Gingerich and a first cousin to David Gingrich Jr and to the father of John S. Gingerich.

 

 

MAY, THOMAS SENGER

 

Born: 9-8-1911  Paradise PA                                      married: J. Elizabeth _____

Died: 10-28-1981                                                        obit: [1910 – 2000]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    quarterly conference license, Paradise St. John’s

1935    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Paradise PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 268

 

1934-37           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1937-44           Harrisburg First

1944-53           Hershey First

1953-59           assistant to president, Lebanon Valley College

1959-70           Harrisburg State Street

1970-76           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1976                retired

 

 

MAYER, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1757  Cumberland County PA                         married: Anna Becker [3/29/1785]

Died: 10-28-1826                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 25

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1796    license

1815    ordained

 

Interment: Bear’s Graveyard, Plainfield PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1827, 24

 

1807                Pfoutz Valley

1812-13           presiding elder, between Susquehanna and Potomac rivers

1816-21           presiding elder, Juniata circuit

1823-24           presiding elder

 

Note: Miller’s 1969 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 373, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, give brief biographies.

 

 

MAYS, ROBERT VERNON

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1939    quarterly conference license

1942    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1944-46           Silver Springs

1946-47           Cressona

1949                withdrew to join another denomination, page 82

                        Evangelical and Reformed Church

1950-52           Boonsboro MD

 

 

 

MAYSILLES, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 4-25-1848                                                          married: Kate Magdalen Linebaugh

Died: 1-17-1914                                                          obit: [3/2/1844 – 6/4/1889]

Miller-Raker #: 495                                                    married2: Mary Louis Duckworth

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/23/1864 – 6/9/1951]

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license, Virginia Conference

1887    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Bethel Cemetery, Sleepy Creek WV

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1914,92

 

                        Martinsburg

1885-86           Morgan

                        Garrett

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

                        Westernport

1892-94           Frederick city

1898-99           local, living in Munson WV

1899-00           Walkersville

1900-01           local, living in Munson WV

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

                        retired

                             1911-13  Big Pool

 

 

McABOY, JAMES FRANKLIN

 

Born: 5-11-1878  Cabell County WV                        married: Lucy W. Morris [2/22/1898]

Died: 1941                                                                  obit: [10/?/1879 – 7/?/1919]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1908    license, Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

                       

1908-09           Centerville-Riceville-Britton Run

1909-10           Clarington

1910-11(?)*     Arroyo-Halton-Portland Mills-Lake City

1910-11(?)       Ligonier, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1911-12**       Phillipsville circuit

1912-13           Spring Creek

                        “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1922-23           Montandon

1923-24           Catawissa circuit

 

*This may be a G.C. McAboy, otherwise unknown.

**This may be a James C. McAboy, otherwise unknown.

 

Note: J.F. McAboy served in the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church under “others employed in the conference”.  As a Methodist, he served in both the Erie Conference and the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local preacher.

 

 

McBEATTY [see BEATTY]

 

 

McCANDLESS, CECIL NEWTON

 

Born: 4-4-1885  Butler County PA                            married: Hazel Reed

Died: 4-12-1956                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 457

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 425

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: North Cemetery, Butler PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Church 1956, 250

 

1915-16           Knoxdale

1916-18           Normalville and Mill Run

1918-19           Zelienople, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1919                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1919-22           Unionville

1922-24           Compton [Natrona Heights Grace]

1924-25           Koppel

1925-26           Freedom

1926-28           Roscoe

1928-31           Pittsburgh Lemington Avenue

1931-34           McKeesport Christy Park

1934-37           Nanty Glo

1937=39          Pleasant Unity

1939-42           Mt. Lebanon – Tarr

1942-44           Houstom

1944-48           Vanderbilt

1948-52           Smithfield – Walnut Hill

1952-56           Pittsburgh Ames

 

McCANN, CHARLES HOWARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 576

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Duncannon

1912    license, recommended by Rayville 112,33

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

McCAULEY, JONATHAN LEE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 767

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, recommended by Quincy

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960                withdrew, page 88 & 89

 

 

McCLAIN, A.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 495

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924-25           Zion

1925-26           student, Allegheny Seminary in Pittsburgh PA

1926                irregularly withdrawn

 

Note: A.H. McClain reportedly became a pastor in another denomination.

 

 

McCLARREN, LLOYD CHARLES

 

Born: 12-4-1926  PA                                                  married: Mary Jane Schucker

Died:                                                                           obit: [2/9/1928 – 12/22/1983]

Miller-Raker #: 784                                                    married2: Evelyn Smeal

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/11/1928 -

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Duncannon

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960-61           Penbrook Trinity, Northeastern Conference

1961                transfer to Northeastern Conference

1961-69           Penbrook Trinity

1969-70           Wiconisco

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-73           Clarksburg circuit

1973-82           Baltimore St. Paul’s

1982-88           Cumberland Grace

1988-90           Cumberland Wesley

1990                retired

 

Note: Lloyd McClarren originally received a BS in Agriculture Education from Penn State and taught at McCurdy Mission School, Santa Cruz NM, 1954-56.

 

 

McCLAY, JOSEPH E.

 

Born: 6-3-1848                                                            married: Mary Eyer

Died: 9-9-1905  Wilkinsburg PA                               obit: Allegheny Conference 1927, 76

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 152

Gibble list: no

 

1869    quarterly conference license, St. Clair

1871    license, Allegheny Conference

1875    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1905, 36

 

1871-73           Casselman

1873-77           New Paris

1877-79           Three Springs

1879-80           Millheim

1880-80           New Paris (Feb-Sept, short conference year)

1880-81           Mt. Pleasant

1881-83           Springfield

1883-84           on leave

1884-86           superintendent, Greensburg District

1886-88           Fairview (ending 1/28/1888)

1888-91           on leave (beginning 1/28/1888)

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 2.

 

McCONNEL, JOHN H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 494 [McCONEL]

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-25           Casselman (resigned for health reasons 12/1/1924)

1925-26           Zion

1926-28           local    

1928                withdrew, page 129

                             Markleton

 

Note: Markleton, Somerset County, was established as an appointment in 1920 and merged into Casselman in 1971.  It was served mainly by part-time and/or retired persons.

 

McCRACKEN, RICHARD

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by McKeesport First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Richard McCracken apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

McCULLOUGH, CHARLES R.

 

Born: 10-9-1847                                                          married: Hannah M. Hamilton

Died: 8-11-1905 North Point (Indiana Co.) PA         obit: Allegheny Conference 1905, 34

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 220

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license, North Point on the Rochester Mills charge

1887    license, Allegheny Conference

1890    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Church Cemetery, Rossiter PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1905, 34

 

1887-88           Juniata

1888-89           Tuscarora

1889-90           Clarion River charge [Sigel]

1890-92           Springfield

1892-96           Fairmount

 

                        Knoxdale

 

Note: Charles McCullough was also actively involved in business ventures – coal leases, telephone company, etc.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 2.

 

McCURDY, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1909                transfer to Iowa Conference, page 9

 

 

McDANIEL, CHARLES BENJAMIN

 

Born: 4-4-1853  Pataskala OH                                   married: Florence Josephine Carr [1879]

Died: 5-4-1908  Waynesboro PA                               obit: [1858 – 2/18/1899]

Miller-Raker #: 506                                                    married2: Mary Jane Gearhart [1900]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 21

Gibble list: no

                                   

1889    license, Ohio

1903    ordained

 

Interment: Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 118

 

                        Dayton OH

                        Germantown OH

                        Bremen OH

                        Basil OH

                        Remington IN

                        Germantown OH

1901-02           Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Lemasters

1903-04           New Bloomfield

1904-05           Walkersville

1905-07           Duncannon

1907                disability

 

Note: Charles B. McDaniel is the son of William K. McDaniel (1823-1889) of the Scioto Conference.

 

 

McDANNELL, RUTH DELILAH 

 

Born: 3-26-1905  New Oxford PA                             married: Francis J. Geiger

Died: 6-8-2000                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 382

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license, Gettysburg charge  1933,26

1954    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church; 1954,63

1958    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

 

Interment: Perry Heights Cemetery, Marysville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania 2001, 363

 

1939                listed as local pastor pf Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church; 1939,58

1946                begins “assignments” with the Methodist denomination

1946-47           student, Scarritt College

1947-50           deaconess, Kulpmont

1950-51           deaconess, Hughesville

1951-53           deaconess, Curwensville

1953-56           deaconess, McConnellsburg

1956-62           Burnt Cabins

1962-68           Big Pond-Wetona

1968                leave of absence (Jul-Nov)

1968-69           Millerton-Daggett (beginning 11/10/68)

1969-70           Roseville Yoked (UM,Baptist)

1970                retired

 

Note: For the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church, Rev. McDannell was the first woman regularly assigned a church at conference (1956) and the first woman ordained an elder (1958).  She married Rev. Francis J. Geiger (1912-1996), a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church, in 1970.

 

 

McDERMAD, JOHN ALLEN

 

Born: 3-7-1861  Adams County PA                           married: Margaret Jane Crouse (3/26/1890)

Died: 3-25-1909  Aspers, Adams County PA            obit: [3/1/1867 – 12/15/1891]

Miller-Raker #: 428                                                    married2: Annie Eckert (4/2/1901)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/20/1879 – 12/6/1926]

Gibble list: no

                       

1886    license, recommended by Mt. Calvary, Bendersville charge

1889    ordained

 

Interment: Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 121

 

1886-87           student, Gettysburg College

1887-88           student, Gettysburg Seminary

1888-89           Path Valley

1889-90           York Springs

1890-91           Duncannon

1891-92           living in Gettysburg

1892-97           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1897-98           faculty, York College (NE)

1898                illness, retired to Aspers

 

Note: The second Mrs. McDermad appears to have later married a Mr. Thomas Kline.

 

McDONALD, J.R.    

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1909-10           Shamokin circuit  (did not finish the year; 1910,7)

 

 

McFARLAND, HARRY L.

 

Born:  9-11-1920  Johnstown PA                               married: Elizabeth Aline Kessel 8/14/1942]

Died:  5-31-1993  Salisbury NC                                 obit: [12/2/1917 – 7/12/2007]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1938    quarterly conference license

1942    license, Allegheny Conference

1945    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1940-42           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1942-45           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1945-57           Altoona Garden Heights

1957-65           Clearfield Christ

1965                "transfer" to North Hills (unaffiliated) Presbyterian Church in Salisbury NC

                        founding pastor, Maranatha Bible Church of Salisbury NC

 

McGEE, GORDON LLOYD

 

Born: 10-6-1885  Punxsutawney PA                          married: May Kirtz

Died: 12-16-1917                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 409 [McGHEE]

Gibble list: no

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Punxsutawney

1913    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Sunbury Memorial Park, Sunbury OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1918, 62

 

 1913-16          student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

 

Note:  It appears as though G. Lloyd McGee never had an opportunity to serve under appointment.  He died after several months of incapacity resulting from being kicked by a horse.

 

McGINNIS FRED B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1935   license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: Fred B. McGinnis apparently never served under appointment.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

McHENRY, LUKE C.

 

Born: 12-23-1872  near Punxsutawney PA                married: Elizabeth Engelder

Died: 4-23-1945  Juniata County PA                         obit: Allegheny Conference 1917, 71

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Minnie Mumberg Hamilton

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/17/1872 – 6/25/1962]

Gibble list: no

 

1912    quarterly conference license

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Mahaffey

 

Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945, 59

 

1916-18           Glasgow

1918-23           Houserville

1923-25           Springfield

1925-28           Belsano

1928-32           Mahaffey

1932-37           Three Springs

1937-45           East Salem     

 

Note: L.C. McHenry served as a local pastor until 1931.  The second Mrs. McHenry was the widow of Robert M. Hamilton

 

 

McKEE, GEORGE BRADY

 

Born: 4-4-1862  Port Royal PA                                  married: Luella Wickey

Died: 8-13-1920 Canton IL                                        obit: [1863-1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 242

Gibble list: yes

 

1884    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Canton IL

Obit:

 

1884-86           Port Providence

1886-88           Catawissa circuit

1888-89           Clearfield [Woodland], Allegheny Conference

1889                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1889-90           Tyrone station

1890                honorable discharge; joined the Baptist denomination

                        Altoona PA

                        New Brighton PA

                        Sharon PA

                        Kokomo IN

                        Lebanon IN

                        Indianapolis IN

                        Vermont IL

                        Canton IL First

                        (also reported to have served briefly in Freedonia KS)

 

Note:  In October 1890, George B. McKee left the United Brethren Church and preached to an overflow crowd in the Baptist Church on “Why I Became a Baptist.”  He and his wife were baptized by immersion, and he began a career as a Baptist preacher.  An article, including the full text of sermon, appears in the 10/9/1890 local Tyrone newspaper.  Mrs. McKee is the daughter of Lewis A. Wickey.  A biographical sketch of George B. McKee is given in Hain’s 1922 History of Perry County, page 826 – which erroneously gives the death year as 1921 (as 1920 year comes from the September 1920 Illinois Baptist Bulletin).

 

 

McKEE, WILLIAM BERGSTRESSER

 

Born: 5-22-1829  Boalsburg PA                                 married: Sarah Jane Norton

Died: 2-22-1919  Aledo IL                                         obit: [10/17/1836 – 8/20/1924]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 89

Gibble list: 50

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: McPherren Cemetery, Aledo IL

Obit:

 

1853-54           Allegheny (did not finish the year)

1854-55           Allegheny and Allegheny City mission

1855-56           Johnstown First

1856                withdrew

                        “transfer” to Presbyterian Church

1868-70           Silver Springs

1893-97           Bald Eagle

 

McKELVEY, HARRY ALBERT

 

Born: 5-1-1873                                                            married: Alice Virginia Hicks

Died: 4-8-1955                                                            obit: Nebraska Conference 1952, 25

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 359 [McKELVIE]

Gibble list: no

 

1908    license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: McCool Junction Cemetery, McCool Junction NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1955, 21

 

1908-09           Dubois

1909-11           Port Matilda

1911-12           Fairmount

1912-15           Bellwood

1915                transfer to Nebraska Conference

 

 

McKINNEY, WILLIAM ROBERTSON

 

Born: 11-16-1878                                                        married: Ida Mae Hass

Died: 4-7-1951  Rochester PA                                   obit: [6/26/1881 – 6/25/1958]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 466

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license

1917    license, Virginia Conference

1918    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Monaca PA

Obit:

 

1913-15           Harveyville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

1915-17           York Springs, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

1917                "transfer" to Virginia Conference of UB Church

1917-19           West Rockingham

1919-21           South Branch

1921-22

1922                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1922-23           Arona (beginning 5/1922)

1923-24           Liverpool

1924-26           Bigler

1926-27           Industry

1927-28           evangelist

1928                located

 

Note: William R. McKinney served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.  His given Virginia Conference ordination and status is what was reported to the Allegheny Conference and is not supported by Funkhouser's 1921 History of the Virginia Conference.
 

 

 

McLAUGHLIN, ALBERT GUYER

 

Born: 5-21-1909  Altoona PA                                    married: Martha Louise Hollobaugh

Died: 4-9-1995  Altoona PA                                      obit: [2/22/1917 – 5/21/2006]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 382

Gibble list: no

 

1933   license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1937                erased from roll for specified violations of the Discipline, page 94

 

Note: Albert G. McLaughlin apparently never served under appointment.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

McNEIL, THOMAS SUDDEN

 

Born: 3-21-1814  Washington County VA                married:

Died: 3-12-1874  Gallipolis OH                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1843    received on trial, Wabash Conference

1846    ordained, Wabash Conference

 

Interment: Shippensburg PA [reportedly]

Obit: [The Religious Telescope 2/24/1875]

                       

1845                Jefferson circuit [spring conference]

1845-46           Concord circuit [moved to fall conference]

1847                transfer to Miami Conference

                        …

1852-53           Hershe’s Station, Pennsylvania Conference

1853-55           York Springs circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1855-56           Path Valley circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

                        …

1859                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        …

c1863              living in Shippensburg as a local preacher [see Holdcraft, page 217]

 

Note: A poster of individual Virginia Conference pastors identifies him as Dr. T.S. McNeil.  He attended the Virginia Conference sessions, but was not given an assignment and has no conference obituary listed because in 1875 the Virginia Conference had not yet begun printing their journal.  The reference is to The Religious Telescope’s printing of the obituary that was read at the 1875 annual conference.  Conference records state that he “drowned in Ohio while on his way to the Parkersburg Conference.”

     Thomas S. McNeil is the subject of an extended article in the 2021 issue of The Chronicle, pages 55-71.

 

McNELLY, HENRY FRANKLIN

 

Born: 5-9-1863  near Gap PA                                     married: Kathryn M. Wise

Died: 10-1-1912                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 54

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1890    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bellevue Cemetery, Gap PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1912, 32

 

1889-90           Pequea circuit

1890-93           Mt. Pleasant circuit

1893-96           Paradise

1896-99           Mt. Joy

1899-12           Pottstown Baltzell

 

MEASE, CLARENCE

 

Born: 11-21-1880  Lebanon County PA                    married: Anna M. Risser [7/4/1903]

Died: 2-3-1961                                                            obit: 12/11/1881 – 7/25/1964]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1912    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1907-08           Intercourse

1908-09           Halifax

1909-12           Florin

1912-15           Cressona

1915-18           Williamstown

1918-21           Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1921-23           Oberlin

1923-25           Hopeland

1925-26           Jonestown (resigned 8/9/26)

1928                withdrew, page 30

 

Note: Clarence Mease is a brother to Oliver L. Mease, whose 1946 obituary states that Clarence was living in Harrisburg. 

 

 

MEASE, OLIVER L.

 

Born: 10-10-1883  Lebanon County PA                    married: K. Gertrude Shenk

Died: 4-27-1946  Danville PA                                    obit: Eastern Conference 1969, 115

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1904    quarterly conference license

1905    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1912    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 15

 

1904-08           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1905-06      Centerville

                             1906-07      Cordelia

                             1907-08      Centerville

1908-12           student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary

                             1910-11      Lake Odessa MI

                             1911-12      Lockington OH

1912-16           Myerstown

1916-18           Mountville

1918-28           Millersburg

1928-32           Harrisburg State Street

1932-38           Mt. Joy

1938-46           Shamokin First

 

Note: Oliver L. Mease is a brother to Clarence Mease. 

 

MEDSGER, JOSEPH N.

 

Born: 12-12-1833                                                        married: Harriet Smith

Died: 11-25-1899                                                        obit: [9/25/1835 – 11/30/1873]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Margaret I. Campbell

Fulton #: 131                                                               obit2: [7/23/1851 – 6/25/1930]

Gibble list: no

 

1864    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Barren Run Methodist Cemetery, Smithton PA

Obit:

 

1866-67           Ligonier

1867-70           Madison

1870-73           Tyrone

1873-75           Greensburg station

1875-77           Westmoreland

1877-78           (appointments not listed)

1878-80           superintendent, West District

1880-82           Altoona

1882-84           Johnstown First

1884-85           on leave, living in New Florence

1885-89           superintendent, Johnstown District

1889-97           on leave, living in New Florence

     1893-94      Somerset

1897                honorable dismissal

 

Note: This surname is also rendered MEDSGAR, METZGAR and METZGER.  Joseph Medsger is an uncle to Sarah S. Medsgar Mills, first wife of [Bishop] Job Smith Mills (1848-1909) of the Central Ohio Conference.  Some sources indicate he was also married to a Barbara Hershey.  His picture appears [MEDSGAR] in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 6.

 

MEFFERD, THEODORE CLAYTON

 

Born: 10-29-1940  Shade Gap PA                              married: Esther Moore

Died: 10-30-2020  Mount Gretna PA                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: 797

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1962    license, recommended by Shiremanstown

1969    ordained

 

Interment: St. Anfrew UM Cemetery, Berks County PA

Obit:

 

1962-63           Upper Strasburg

1963-65           student assistant, Dover Otterbein-Maytown portion of York Area parish

1965-69           student, United Seminary

                             Dayton Eastmont

1969-70           Lancaster Covenant, Eastern Conference

1970                transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

1970-74           Lancaster Covenant

1974-90           New Berlinville

1990-               Cornwall

 

MEILY, CORNELIUS SELTZER

 

Born: 8-1-1848  Lebanon County PA                        married: Esther Martha Light

Died: 12-8-1882                                                          obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 66]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1875    ordained, Easy Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1883, 24

 

1871-73           Florin circuit

1873-75           Millersburg

1875-78           Hummelstown

1878-79           Schuylkill Haven

1879-82           Columbia Salome

 

 

MELHORN, JAMES IRVIN

 

Born: 8-14-1939                                                          married: Barbara _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 785                                                    married2: Lora Bush

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by Red Lion Bethany

1967    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960-62           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1962-64           York Area parish

1964-66           student, United Seminary

1966-69           Red Lion Zion

1969-71           Gettysburg

1971-78           administrator, Quincy Home

1978-79           administrator, Methodist Home of Pittsburgh

1979-80           executive director, Sherwood Oaks

1980                withdrew  1980,273

1980-04           president and CEO, Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. 

1996-07           chairman, board of trustees of Western Maryland [now McDaniel] Coll.

 

Note: As of 2020, James I. Melhorn appears to be living in Seattle WA.

 

 

MELOY, SAMUEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1847                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 281

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1845    license

 

Interment: Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1845-46           Chambersburg circuit

 

Note: A Susan Resler, born 10-24-1806 in Juniata County, married a Samuel Meloy (1791-1874) in 1831.

 

 

MELZER, GEORGE CLARENCE

 

Born: 3-13-1874  PA                                                  married: Mary Charlotte Witherow (4/22/1896)

Died: 8-28-1936  Allegheby County PA                    obit: [1873-1971]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Dutch Hill – Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sigel PA

Obit:

 

1914-16           Clarion River

 

Note: G.C. Melzer served as “others employed by the conference” and is otherwise unknown – but he is belived to be the person identified above.

 

MENTZER, CALVIN B.

 

Born: 1-18-1875  Schaefferstown PA                        married: Mary J. Hartman

Died: 1945                                                                  obit: [1879 – 9/29/1956]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Schaefferstown Cemetery, Schaefferstown PA

Obit:

 

1921                Lebanon Hebron (part year)

 

Note: C.B. Mentzer is a layman.  A member at Schaefferstown UB, which was on the Lebanon Hebron charge, he served following the 2/3/1921 death of D.D. Buddinger.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

 

MENTZER, HARRY MYERS

 

Born: 4-2-1883  Stevens PA                                       married: Carrie Wolf Myers

Died: 2-26-1969  Pottsville PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 440

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. Andrews Cemetery, Valley View PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1969, 115

 

1913-59           Valley View

1959                retired

 

Note: Harry M. Mentzer is the father of Warren F. Mentzer. 

 

MENTZER, WARREN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 2-4-1915  Valley View PA                               married: Marie Shadle

Died: 1-29-1991  MT. Gretna PA                              obit: [3/11/1918 – 1/5/1995]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1931    quarterly conference license

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 7.299

 

1931-35           student, Lebanon Valley College

1935-38           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1938-54           Campbelltown circuit

1954-60           Campbelltown

1960-62           Lincoln Park – Sinking Spring (ending April 1962)

1962-63           conference superintendent (beginning April 1962)

1963-69           superintendent, Western District

1969-73           superintendent, Lebanon-Reading District

1973-80           Myerstown Zion

1980                retired

                          1980-90         visitation pastor, Lebanon Trinity

 

Note: Warren F. Mentzer is the son of Harry M. Mentzer. 

 

MEREDITH, EDWARD CLAYTON

 

Born: 3-25-1871                                                          married:

Died: 9-15-1897  York PA                                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

quarterly conference license, York First

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 21

 

Note: Edward C. Meredith is the son of Joseph R. Meredith.  A more complete secular obituary is on file in the conference archives.

 

 

MEREDITH, JOSEPH ROBERT

 

Born: 7-26-1840  Benvenue, Dauphin County PA     married: Mary Catherine Hiney [Heine]

Died: 4-30-1910  Reading PA                                                obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 15

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1868    quarterly conference license, Halifax circuit

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 43 

 

1868-69                      assistant, Lykens circuit

1869-71           Schuylkill Haven

1871-72           Manheim

1872-75           Mount Joy

1875-78           Annville

1878-79           ?

1879-82           Grantville circuit

1882-85           York First

1885-89           Annville

1889-90           New Holland

1890-92           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1892-93           Steelton

1893-98           Highspire

1898-04           Reading Otterbein

1904-05           Myerstown

1905                retired

 

Note: Joseph R. Meredith is the father of Edward C. Meredith.  A brief biography of J.R. Meredith appears in Brane’s 1909 Historical Souvenir of the United Brethren Churches of Reading, page 17.

 

 

MERKER, ANDREW

 

Born: 2-10-1804  Ingerweiler, Alsace                        married: Caroline Hissey

Died: 5-25-1876  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1814 – 5/19/1857]

Miller-Raker #: 252

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license

1848    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Oliver Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 18

 

1844-47           Baltimore mission

1847-48           ?

1848-76           “ruling elder” of Baltimore Otterbein

 

Note:  This surname is sometimes misrendered as MARKER.

 

 

MERRICK, J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1882-83           Shamokin First

 

MERRICK, SOLOMON GRASLEY

 

Born: 1-21-1858  Easton MD                                     married: Althea Corilla Fink

Died: 6-18-1911  Miami FL                                       obit: [1859-1937]

Miller-Raker #: 407

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1883    license

1886    ordained, Congregational denomination

 

Interment: Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum, Miami FL

Obit:

 

1882-83           student, Lebanon Valley

                             1882-83      Columbia Salome

1883-86           student, Yale Divinity School

1886                transfer to Congregational denomination

1886-96           Gaines NY

1896-00           Duxbury MA

1900-05           Coconut Grove FL

 

Note: Apparently the family was not UB, but he temporarily connected with the denomination while at Lebanon Valley.  In 1898 Rev. Merrick purchased 160 acres of undeveloped land southwest Miami FL, where the family operated thriving orange, grapefruit and avocado groves.  Their home at 907 Coral Way, Coral Gables, is now a museum and mini-conference center.  His son George Edgar Merrick founded Coral Gables FL and the University of Miami on the family estate, which had grown to 1600 acres.  The University of Miami has a Solomon G. Merrick building.

 

 

MERSFELDER, FRIEDRICH H.

 

Born: 6-20-1847  Germany                                         married: Anna Scheidt

Died: 1-31-1915  Dover OH                                       obit: Central German Conference (ME) 1923, 315

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1884    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Dover OH

Obit: Central German Conference (ME) 1915, 118

 

1883-84           Camden mission

1885                transfer to

 

 

MESSENGER, D.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 166

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1874                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1874-75           Huntingdon

1875-77           Fallen Timber

1880                name erased

 

Note:  This surname also appears as MESSINGER.

 

METCALF, LESLIE GORDON

 

Born: 7-18-1936                                                          married: Katherine Lee _____

Died: 6-10-2017                                                          obit: [1/23/1938 - ]

Miller-Raker #: 813

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Baltimore Third

1971    ordained, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Moreland Memorial Park, Parkville MD

Obit:

 

1964                Old Otterbein (Oct-Nov)       

1965-69           Baltimore St. Matthew’s

1969                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1969-75                      Baltimore St. Matthews’s

1975-87           Woodlawn St. Luke’s

1987-91           Parkside

1991-93           Catonsville Trinity

1993-94           leave of absence

1994-97           Pasadena

1997                retired

 

 

METZGAR, HENRY

 

Born: 3-10-1802  Barren Run PA                               married: Hannah Sherrow [12/25/1822]

Died: 12-10-1842                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 209

Fulton #: 19

Gibble list: no

 

1839    license

1842    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hoffman Cemetery, Smithton PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1843, 1

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Henry Metzgar is the father of Samuel Metzgar.  This surname is also rendered MEDSGAR, METSGER and METZGER

 

METZGAR, SAMUEL

 

Born: 9-29-1824                                                          married: Leah Hepler

Died: 3-5-1851                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 67

Gibble list: no

 

1848    license, Allegheny Conference

1850    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1852, 3

 

1848-49           Westmoreland

1849-51           Washington

 

Note: This surname is also rendered MEDSGAR, METSGER and METZGER.  Samuel Metzgar is the son of Henry Metzger.  Mrs. Metzgar is a first cousin to Christopher Hepler.

 

MEYER, GOTTLIEB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [MYER]

 

1880                ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio German Conference 1898, 44

 

                        East German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1879-80           Camden mission, East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1880                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1880-81           Philadelphia Port Richmond [St. Paul’s]

1881-82           Camden mission

1882-84           Williams Valley circuit

1884-86           Jonestown circuit

1886-88           Landingville circuit

1888-90           Catasaqua circuit

1890-91           Northampton circuit

1891-93           Bellegrove circuit

1893-95           Avon Zion

1895                transfer to Ohio German Conference

 

 

MEYER, JOHN

 

Born: 9-18-1818                                                          married: Sarah Urich

Died: 12-27-1891                                                        obit: [8/15/1822 – 7/11/1897]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [MOYER]

 

1844    license

1848    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1892, 50

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           Dauphin circuit

 

 

MICHAEL, THOMAS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

MICKEY, LEWIS WASHINGTON

 

Born: 1-6-1834  Shermansdale PA                             married: Elizabeth Ann Shearer [1856]

Died: 8-19-1912  Hutchinson KS                               obit: [10/22/1832 – 7/7/1907]

Miller-Raker #: 329

Fulton #: 141

Gibble list: no

 

1862    license

1865    ordained

 

Interment: Plainville Cemetery, Plainville KS

Obit:

 

1862-63           Path Valley circuit

1868                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1869                transfer to “any conference he wished to join”

 

Note: L.W. Mickey lived in Iowa in the early 1870’s.  He was active in Plainville KS Methodist Episcopal church from its founding in 1878 until after 1900, and he was classified as a local elder in the Northwest Kansas Conference.

 

MICKEY, MILLARD ORION

 

Born: 6-30-1909  Pitcairn PA                                     married: Beatrice Noble Brownlee

Died: 6-25-1981  York PA                                         obit: [8/31/1919 – ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    quarterly conference license

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Bradenville

1937    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: River View Cemetery, East Prospect PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 336

 

1928-30           Waukesha

1930-32           Three Springs

1932-36           Industry

1936-42           Zion

1942-47           Bellwood

1947-51           Liverpool

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

1951-62           Liverpool

1962-72           East Prospect

1972                retired

                             1972-78       assistant, Red Lion St. Paul (ending 12/31/1978)

 

Note: M. Orion Mickey is a nephew of Paul F. Mickey,

 

 

MICKEY, PAUL FRANK

 

Born: 4-30-1884  Denny’s Hill PA                            married: Zilla May Overly

Died: 4-2-1947  Tyrone PA                                        obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 35

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 417

Gibble list: no

 

1910    quarterly conference license

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

1917    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1947, 69

 

1911-12           Waukesha

1912-14           Rochester Mills

1914-18           Beaver Falls

1918-19           Everson

1919-22           evangelist

1822-29           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1929-42           Philipsburg

1942-47           Tyrone

 

Note: Paul F. Mickey is an uncle to M. Orion Mickey.

 

 

MILLER, AMOS S.

 

Born: 1-7-1829                                                            married: Catherine Margaret _____

Died: 12-4-1868                                                          obit: [11/10/1832 – 10/5/1878]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1862    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: UB Cemetery, Intercourse PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 32

 

1862-66           West Branch circuit

 

 

MILLER, ARTHUR GRANT

 

Born: 8-19-1906  Lebanon PA                                               married: Anna Elizabeth Fortna

Died: 2-13-1983  Annville PA                                               obit: [6/9/1912 – 7/19/2006]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1960    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 332

 

1947-51           Mt. Aetna

1951-62           Lickdale

1962-67           Rocherty-Fontana

1967-72           Pequea circuit

1972                retired

                             1977-80      Bellegrove 

 

MILLER, CALVIN RESSLER

 

Born: 3-22-1924  Lancaster PA                                  married: Grace A. Dettinger [1948]

Died: 5-14-1999  Mercer PA                                      obit: [1/21/1929 – 1/13/2020]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit:

 

1945-46           Brunnersville

1955                ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church

                        Mount Sterling KY Church of the Ascension

                        Newport KY St. Paul’s

                        Selinsgrove PA All Saints

                        Northumberland PA St. Mark’s

                        Smethport PA St. Luke’s

                        Franklin PA St. John’s

1987                retired

                             1987-90      Marietta PA St. John’s

 

Note: Calvin R. Miller is listed until 1951,127 and then dropped.  He was a 1944 graduate of Bryan College in Dayton TN.

 

 

MILLER, CHARLES CALVIN

 

Born: 7-12-1869  McClure, Snyder County               married: Anna Bertha May

Died: 1-8-1949                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 34

Miller-Raker #: 584

Fulton #: 256

Gibble list: no

 

1893    license, Allegheny Conference

1897    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 32

 

1891-93           Runville

1893-95           Millheim

1895-97           Bellefonte

1897-01           Bellwood

1901-05           Braddock Second

1505-09           Clearfield

1909-13           Conemaugh

1913-14           Dallastown, Pennsylvania Conference

1914                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1914-16           Dallastown

1916-20           Waynesboro

1920-25           Hanover

1925-33           York Fourth

1933-37           Boiling Springs

1937-43           Scotland

1943                retired

 

 

MILLER, CHARLES F.

 

Born:  5-6-1896  Orbisonia PA                                  married: Claudia Stapleton

Died:  8-26-1963  Burnt Cabins PA                           obit: [1902-1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    quarterly conference license

1937    license, Allegheny Conference

1946    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Church Cemetery, Shade Gap PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 27]

 

1927-31           Runville & Shade Gap

1931-33           Shade Gap (ending 5/17/1933)

1933-38           Runville (beginning 5/18/1933)

1938-48           Middleburg

1948-57           Mapleton

1957-61           Fulton Memorial

1961                retired

                            1962-63       Bethlehem, McConnellsburg 

 

MILLER, CHARLES NEVIN

 

Born: 8-26-1910                                                          married: Alice Louise Baublitz

Died: 7-?-1983                                                            obit: [4/16/1911 – 9/24/1991]

Miller-Raker #: 727

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1950-57           living in York

1957                withdrew

 

Note: C. Nevin Miller was an active layperson (trustee and Sunday School superintendent) at Third EUB in York.

 

MILLER, CHARLES RICHARD

 

Born: 2-25-1909  Red Lion PA                                  married: Dorothy I. Mergenthaler

Died: 5-1-1996                                                            obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 440]

Miller-Raker #: 687

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1935    lay minister’s license

1937    quarterly conference license

1938    license, recommended by York Fifth

1946    ordained

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996,421

 

1938-41           Mt. Olivet

1941-42           Aley-Harshman, Miami Ohio Conference

1942-44           Oakville

1944-47           Mt. Tabor

1947-49           Keedysville

1949-53           Mont Alto-Quincy

1953-62           Greencastle

1962-68           York Second

1968-69           leave of absence

1969-74           Yoe Salem

1974                retired

                             1979-87      Mt. Olivet [including Winterstown Feb-Jun 1981]

 

 

MILLER, CHARLES WALLACE

 

Born: 5-20-1886                                                          married: Emma Krumbine

Died: 3-17-1960  Evansville IN                                 obit: [8/29/1882 – 4/8/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: [Gibble blends together C.W. Miller and C. Wallace Miller]

 

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park, New Albany IN

Obit: Indiana North Conference 1960, 15

 

1906-10           Tower City

1910-14           Iona circuit (did not finish last year; see 1914,5)

1914                withdrew 1914,13

 

Note:  It appears that C. Wallace Miller later served in the Wisconsin, Nebraska and Michigan Conferences. 

 

MILLER, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 7-22-1833  Fairfield OH                                   married: Sarah Ellen Niswonger [1854]

Died: 10-21-1921  Montgomery County OH             obit: [1/?/1837 – 5/20/1901]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: [Gibble blends together C.W. Miller and C. Wallace Miller]

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1922, 102

 

                        Miami Conference

1903-05           Williamstown, East Pennsylvania Conference

1905                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1905-07           Sunbury

1907-09           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1909-10           Centerville circuit (did not finish the year; 1910,7)

1910-11           on leave

1911                transfer to Miami Conference

 

 

MILLER, CHRISTOPHER

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881 license, East German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881-82           Middleburg circuit

1884                name erased

 

 

MILLER, CLAYTON G.F.

 

Born: 12-8-1859  Lancaster County PA                     married: Laura E. Erb

Died: 11-7-1899                                                          obit: [7/19/1864 – 4/24/1911]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    quarterly conference license

1892    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grace United Evangelical Cemetery, Millersville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 32

 

1891-92           Intercourse

1892-99           Lititz

 

Note: Clayton G.F. Miller is a brother to Henry M. Miller.

 

MILLER, CLINTON SYLVESTER

 

Born: 10-4-1855  Lynnville PA                                  married: Emma Shuey

Died: 11-11-1927  Royalton PA                                 obit: [1871-1937]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1884    license, East German Conference

1886    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1928, 15

 

1884-85           Avon

1885-87           Tamaqua

1887-90           Pine Grove

1890-91           Reading Third

1891-93           Tower City

1893-94           Bellegrove circuit

1894-96           Schuylkill Haven

1896-97           Milton and Sunbury

1897-99           on leave, living in Fogelsville

1899-01           Tower City

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-08           Royalton

1908-09           Avon

1909-10           Lebanon Hebron

1910-16           Mount Carmel

1916-19           Lititz

1919-23           Williamstown

1923-26           Lykens circuit

1926                retired

 

Note: The Miller family moved to Fogelsville when Clinton was four, and he may have lived there 1897-99 to care for his parents. 

 

 

MILLER, ELMER RAY

 

Born:  3-8-1903  near Jonestown PA                         married: Mary Jane Shook

Died:  1-15-1992                                                         obit: [d. 4/10/1964]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Keith Painter Silvis

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1991, 345

Gibble list: no

 

1926    quarterly conference license

1931    license, Tennessee Conference

1942    ordained, Tennessee Conference

 

Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Westover PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 295

 

1924-27           Shade Gap

1927-28           Runville

1928-30           Knoxdale

1931                "transfer" to Tennessee Conference

1931-32           student, Chattanooga University in Chattanooga TN

1932-33           Chattanooga First

1935-37           student, Chattanooga University in Chattanooga TN

1937-40           student

1940-42           Runville, Allegheny Conference (beginning 10/28/1940)

1942-43           Punxsutawney-Albion. Allegheny Conference

1943                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1943-45           Punxsutawney-Albion

1945-52           Waukesha

1952-54           Troutville

1954-55           Troutville& Knoxdale

1955-56           OakRidge (beginning 1/1/1956)

1956-61           Clarion River

1961-62           Westover

1962-68           Clarion River

1968                retired

                             1968-71      Clarion River 

 

MILLER, ESSIE EDWOOD

 

Born: 11-09-1893  Windsor NC                                 married: Gladys L. Bright

Died: 4-28-1987                                                          obit: Virginia Conference 1937, 15

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Hope F. Vanever

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/22/1904 – 12/17/1985]

Gibble list: no

 

1920    license, Virginia Conference

1925    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Timberville Cemetery, Timberville VA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1987, ?

 

1918-19           student, Shenandoah Collegiate Institute

                             1918-19      Blevedere (ending June 1919)

1919                Elk Garden WV (June – Sept)

1919-22           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1919-21      Jonestown circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922-24           Broadway

1924-25           Bayard WV (beginning 6/1924)

1925-26           Cumberland MD

1926-34           Roanoke

1934-35           Keyser WV

1935-40           Martinsburg First

1940-49           Harrisonburg

1949-55           Dayton

1955-56           Mt. Clinton

1956-68           Cumberland MD First

1968                retired

 

Note: E.E. Miller served at Jonestown while a student at Lebanon Valley College.

 

 

MILLER, FREDERICK K.

 

Born: 11-28-1908  Lebanon PA                                 married: Marion Stover

Died: 3-7-1975  Lebanon PA                                     obit: [6/21/1910 – 11/20/2001]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Grandview Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1934-39           faculty, Lebanon High School

1939-51           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1951-67           president, Lebanon Valley College

1967-71           Pennsylvania deputy secretary of education and commissioner of higher education

 

Note: Frederick K. Miller is the son of Harry E. Miller and a brother to Paul A. Miller.  He was never ordained or under appointment, but he appears in this list because of his family connections and his presidency at Lebanon Valley College.

 

 

MILLER, GEORGE

 

Born: 7-2-1810  York County PA                              married: Nancy Rider

Died: 1-8-1860  Cedar County IA                              obit: [7/4/1815 – 10/25/1897]

Miller-Raker #: 189

Fulton #: 4

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment: Rochester Cemetery, Rochester IA

Obit: [Iowa Conference 1920, 33?]

 

1834-35           Clearfield circuit

1835-37           York circuit

1837-39           Huntingdon circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           Westmoreland circuit

1840-41           no records exist

1841-42           superintendent, Westmoreland District

1842                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1842-45           Chambersburg station

1845-47           Hershe’s station

1848-51           Baltimore station [Old Otterbein]

1851                transfer to Iowa Conference

 

Note: George Miller was one of the founders of Western College in 1855.  A death notice for Mrs. Miller supposedly appears in the Iowa Conference 1915,46.

 

 

MILLER, GEORGE MAHLON

 

Born: 1-7-1880  York PA                                           married: Ethel Harlacher [12/26/1904]

Died: 1-6-1948                                                            obit: [12/12/1881 – 10/20/1955]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 303 & 374

Gibble list: no

 

1902    license, Allegheny Conference

1903    ordained, ? Conference

 

Interment: Congregational Church [Corashire] Cemetery, Monterey MA

Obit: 1/6/1948 Brooklyn Eagle, page 15

 

1902-03           student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

1903                transfer to Miami OH Conference

1903-09           assistant, Dayton First; founding pastor, East Dayton

1909                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1909-13           Johnstown First

1913                honorable dismissal to enter the ministry of the Congregational Church

1913-21           St. Paul MN Olivet (beginning 9/1/1913 and ending 1/12/1921)

     1918-19  YMCA, WWI European Theater of Operations (Mar 1918 – Feb1919)

1921-23           Billings MT

1923-45           Brooklyn NY Ocean Avenue

1945                retired

                             1945-48      Monterey MA

 

Note: G. Mahlon Miller was a graduate of Lebanon Valley College (1899) and Bonebrake Seminary (1903). 

 

MILLER, GRANT NATHANIEL

 

Born: 2-12-1905  Orwin PA                                       married: Ruth Darling Essick [1930]

Died: 1-5-1997  Columbia PA                                    obit: [5/28/1907 – 12/11/2011]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1925    quarterly conference license, Tower City

1928    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Orangeville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 7.256

 

1927-29           Pottstown Baltzell Memorial

1929-32           student, Lebanon Valley College & University of Chattanooga

                             1929            Brunnerville (part year)

                             1929-32      Chattanooga TN

1932-35           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

1935-36           Hillsdale

1936-37           Enders and Powell’s Valley

1937-40           Lebanon circuit

1940-49           Kochenderfer’s

1949-52           Steelton

1952-63           Ironville

1963-66           Enders and Powell’s Valley

1966-70           Jonestown-Fredericksburg

1970                retired

                             1972-82      Safe Habor and Colemanville 

 

MILLER, HARRY EDWIN

 

Born: 6-5-1873  Orwin PA                                         married: Laura Etta Keiper

Died: 2-5-1947                                                            obit: [3/21/1870 – 1/14/1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1893    quarterly conference license

1894    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1899    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 23

 

1898-00           Lebanon St. Paul’s

1900-01           Elizabethtown

1901-03           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1903-04           Myerstown

1904-45           Lebanon Salem

1945                retired

 

Note: Harry E. Miller is the father of Frederick K. Miller and Paul A. Miller.  Mrs. Miller is a sister to John A. Keiper. 

 

MILLER, HENRY MILTON

 

Born: 3-2-1866  Hopeland PA                                    married: Amanda Susan Shirk

Died: 9-8- 1946                                                           obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954,30

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1896    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 19

 

1889-91           Schaefferstown

1891-05           Grantville

1895-99           Intercourse

1899-04           Florin and Elizabethtown

1904-07           Elizabethtown

1907-21           Penbrook

1921-26           Lebanon Memorial

1926-41           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage

1941                retired

 

Note: Henry M. Miller is a brother to Clayton G.F. Miller.

 

MILLER, HOMER HERBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    quarterly conference license, recommended by Reading Trinity

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-26           Aristes

1926-28           Barry

1928-30           Williamstown

1930-34           Royalton

1934-35           Rocherty and Lickdale

1935-36           ?

1936                transfer to Miami Conference

 

Note: Homer H. Miller is a 1931 graduate of Elizabethtown College.

 

MILLER, J.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881                Bethlehem circuit (Feb-Oct)

1881-82           Unity circuit

1886                name erased

 

 

MILLER, J.R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1886    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1893                name erased

 

Note: J.R. Miller appears, with the information given above, in Gibble’s list, but there appears to be no reference to him in the annual journals.  He may be the Joseph R. Miller that appears in this list.
 

 

MILLER, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: 

Obit: 

 

1929-30           Fishing Creek Salem (an attachment to New Cumberland)

 

Note: Rev. Jacob Miller apparently served under a quarterly conference license, although no one by that name can be so identified.  There was a quarterly conference preacher named George G. Miller living in Emigsville at this time. 

 

MILLER, JOHN S.

 

Born: 10-10-1848  Shiremanstown PA                      married: Amanda Pentz

Died: 3-15-1888  Wilkinsburg PA                             obit: [2/14/1851 – 9/27/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 154

Gibble list: no

 

1871    quarterly conference license, Altoona

1872    license, Allegheny Conference

1875    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Shopp’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1888, 34

 

1872                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1872-73           Clearfield

1873-74           Otterbein [Bigler] circuit

1874-76           Tyrone station

1876-79           Ligonier

1879-81           Madison

1881-84           Wilmore and Conemaugh

1884-87           Pittsburgh station

1887-88           Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 9.  In 1893, the widowed Mrs. Miller married a Mr. John E. Mann (1840-1926).

  

MILLER, JOHN PEFFLY

 

Born: 7-11-1853  near Pine Grove PA                       married: Elizabeth Ann Rouse

Died: 10-24-1942  Minneapolis MN                          obit: [1854 – 7/28/1921]

Miller-Raker #: 384

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [J.P.]

 

1875    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis MN

Obit: [see biographical files]

 

1872-73           Middleburg circuit

1873-74           Landingville circuit

1874-76           Tamaqua circuit

1876-78           Williams Valley circuit

1878                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1878-79           Baltimore Fifth

1879-82           York First

1882-88           Chambersburg station

1888-91           Baltimore Fourth

1891                transfer to Iowa Conference

1891-95           faculty, Western College at Toledo IA

1893-95           Harrisburg First

1895                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1895-99           Harrisburg First

1897-98           professor of social ethics, Lebanon Valley College

1899                transfer to Miami Conference

1899-08           Dayton First

1908                transfer to Minnesota Conference of Congregational Church

1908-14           Minneapolis Pilgrim

1914-17           Wayzata

1917-19           Minneapolis 38th Street

1919-34           superintendent, Twin Cities District

                        1924  founded Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis

1935-42           superintendent emeritus, Twin Cities District

 

Note: There were also (different) contemporary individuals with similar names: Jacob P. Miller (1837-1916) in the Philadelphia Conference of the ME denomination; J.P. Miller who transferred to White River Conference in 1910 and served Elwood (1910-11), Otterbein (1911-12) and Black Hawk (1912-13).  The maiden name of Mrs. Miller is also given as Rowse.

 

 

MILLER, JOSEPH R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 356

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, Allegheny Conference

1917    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1906-08           Houserville

1908-14           living in Westerville OH

1914-17           not listed

1917                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference 

 

MILLER, L.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 443

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

            ordained, Central Illinois Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1888-90                      Duncannon, Pennsylvania Conference (see 1889,19)

1890                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1890-91           Greencastle (resigned: see 1891,20)

1891                transfer to California Conference

1891-92           Olinda CA

1892                transfer to Walla Walla Conference

1892-93           Pasco WA

1893                transfer to Columbia River Conference

1893-94           Prosser WA

1894-95           Winterstown (last part of year), Pennsylvania Conference

1895-96           Manchester MD, Pennsylvania Conference

1912                Mont Alto, Pennsylvania Conference (Jan-Oct: see 1912,33)

 

Note: The ministerial career of this L.E. Miller is not entirely clear.  This may be the Lewis Elmer Miller given in this list and/or there may be confusion with yet another L.E. Miller.

 

MILLER, LEWIS ELMER

 

Born: 1/8/1864  Wayne County OH                           married: Ellen P. Barnes

Died: 9/23/1926  Fayette County IL                          obit: [1868-1960]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 383

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, Lower Wabash Conference

 

Interment: Maplewood Cemetery, St. Elmo IL

Obit: Illinois Conference 1927,42

 

1908-09           Shanksville, Allegheny Conference

1909-10           Monesson, Allegheny Conference

1910                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1910-11           Trafford

1911-14           (no assignment in Allegheny Conference)

1914                transfer to East Ohio Conference

                        transfer to Illinois Conference

 

Note: The ministerial career of this L.E. Miller is not entirely clear.  This may be the same person as the other L.E. Miller in this list and/or there may be confusion with yet another L.E. Miller.

 

 

MILLER, MARTIN GEORGE

 

Born: 1-27-1811  York County PA                            married: Elizabeth Rider [12/25/1834]

Died: 1-1-1894  Cherokee County IA                        obit: [6-18-1811 – 3/8/1876]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 30

Gibble list: no

 

1839    license, Allegheny Conference

1842    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Masonic Cemetery, Tipton IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1894, 22

 

1851                            transfer to

 

Note: Martin G. Miller taught school in Huntingdon County before being converted and licensed to preach.  He served as a local preacher and moved to Iowa in 1851 – where he engaged primarily in farming and continued to serve as a local preacher.  He occasionally taught school and was active in the founding and promotion of Leander Clark College.

 

MILLER, MILTON HARRISON

 

Born: 5-12-1859  Bellegrove PA                                married: Sarah A. “Sallie” Smith

Died: 11-12-1936                                                        obit: [1860 – 1/8/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    quarterly conference license

1892    license, East German Conference

1896    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 12

 

1895-96           Pine Grove

1896-01           Lehigh circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-04           Sinking Spring

1904-08           Lebanon St. Paul’s and St. John’s

1908-10           Allentown circuit

1910-12           Valley View

1912-14           Lykens circuit

1914-18           Denver

1918-26           Florin

1926-31           West Willow

1931-33           retired

1933-36           Iona

1936                retired

 

 

MILLER, PAUL ALFRED

 

Born: 5-17-1914  Lebanon PA                                   married: Dorothy Irene Moudy [9/16/1939]

Died: 4-20-1997  Williamsport PA                            obit: [11/2/1917 – 3/10/2016]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1937    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1939    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit:

 

1939-42           assistant, Lebanon Salem

1942-45           chaplain, US Army

1945-60           Lititz

1960                withdrew, page 95     

1962                ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, Diocese of Central Pennsylvania

                        Tioga St. Andrew’s

                        Montoursville Church of Our Saviour

                        Upper Fairfield Church of the Good Shepherd

1981                retired

 

Note: Paul A. Miller is the son of Harry E. Miller and a brother to Frederick K. Miller.  In 1967 he was reportedly living in Montoursville PA.

 

 

MILLER, RUFUS P.

 

Born: 8-3-1860                                                            married: Lydia K. Ressler

Died: 1-10-1935                                                          obit: [4/26/1860 – 1/17/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 204

Gibble list: no

 

1883    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1883-85           Madison

1885-86           student, UB Seminary in Dayton OH

1886                honorable dismissal

 

Note: R.P. Miller became a Presbyterian pastor.  Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Jacob Ressler, the sister of John I.L. Ressler, and the sister of Lilliam Ressler Keister (wife of George Keister).

 

MILLER, ROBERT JOHN

 

Born: 2-13-1924  Hummelstown PA                          married: Jean Burkholder

Died: 3-16-1989                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 461

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1941    quarterly conference license, Hummelstown

1947    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1950    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 460

 

1941-43           student, Shenandoah Junior College

1943-45           US Army

1945-47           student, Lebanon Valley College

1947-50           student, United Theological Seminary

                        1948-50  youth director, Dayton Euclid Avenue

1950                assistant, Baltimore Fulton Avenue (June-Sept)

1950-56           Iona

1956-65           Lancaster Community

1965-66           Harrisburg Mt. Calvary and Union Deposit

1966-70           Harrisburg Mt. Calvary

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-76           Harrisburg Mt. Calvary

1976-84           Chambersburg St. Paul

1984-87           York Bethany

1987                retired

 

Note: Robert J. Miller is the uncle of Rev. Nancy M. Rooney of the East Pennsylvania Conference.  He served Derby-Derwent circuit in Derby, England, 1973-74 in an exchange program.

 

 

MILLER, SAMUEL HARVEY

 

Born: 11-16-1923  Loganville PA                              married: Doreen Mae Heistand

Died: 3-7-2001                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 426

Miller-Raker #: 786

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by York First

1967    ordained

 

Interment: Bixler’s UMC Cemetery, Westminster MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 370

 

1960-66           Manchester MD

1966-76           Saginaw-Starview

1976-78           Hegins

1978-79           Hegings-Muir

1979-86           Hershey

1986                retired

 

 

MILLER, THOMAS B.

Born: c1831                                                                married: Julia Levis

Died: c1901                                                                obit: [11/28/1827 – 2/18/1896]

1852    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference of ME Church

1854    ordained deacon

1856    ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1851-52           Coatesville – Marshalltown

1852-53           Dover DE

1853-54           Church Creek MD

1854-55           North East circuit

1855-56           Fulton

1856-58           Elk Ridge – Oxford

1858-59           Conshohocken

1859-61           Bethlehem

1861-63           Philadelphia Hancock

1863-64           Haddington

1864-67           Philadelphia Scott

1867-70           Philadelphia Western

1870-72           Philadelphia Sanctuary

1872-74           Middletown

1874-77           Philadelphia Hedding

1877-80           Philadelphia Kingsley [aka Eden]

1880                tried and expelled  1880,5&7&13&28

1882-85           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah], East Pennsylvania Conference UB

                             1883-84      Jasper Street Mission

1885-86           Philadelphia Fifth Street, East Pennsylvania Conference UB
1886-87           Philadelphia Shiloh Independent Methodist Church

Note: Thomas B. Miller is the son of Rev. Joseph Miller and the grandson of Rev. Thomas Miller (1770-1847), both of the Philadelphia Conference.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 430, reports that T.B. Miller was “an ordained minister of the ME Church, a druggist, and medical doctor.”  There is a long-standing association (1867 camp-meeting, medicine) between Miller and William Major, who was also expelled in 1880 (see Philadelphia Conference ME 1880,12).  There is an 1860 publication by Thomas B. Miller titled Original and Selected Thoughts on the Life and Times of Rev. Thomas Miller, and Rev. Thomas Warburton [his grandfathers].

 

 

MILLER, THOMAS

 

Born:                                                                           married: _____ Painter

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 124

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1828    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1827-29           Virginia circuit

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

           

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference reports that Rev. Miller lived in Shenandoah County and later joined the Lutheran Church.

 

MILLER, WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-6-1805                                                          married: Margaret _____

Died: 7-13-1853  Orrstown PA                                  obit: [1806 – 1879]

Miller-Raker #: 294

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1849    license

1851    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1853, 27

 

1851-52           Littlestown circuit

1852-53           Rocky Spring circuit

 

 

MILLER, WILLIAM ARTHUR

 

Born: 8-4-1933  Gap PA                                            married: Betty K. Kreider (8/19/1951)

Died: 6-2-2017  Myerstown PA                                 obit: [6/5/1933 – 5/15/2019]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1954    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Limeville

1959    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Schaefferstown Cemetery, Schaefferstown PA

Obit:

 

1955-60           Williamstown-Tower City

1960-62           associate, Manheim (ending 6/1/62)

1962                Mt. Aetna (June)

1962-73           Myerstown Zion

1973-77           industrial chaplain, Quaker Alloy Casting Company

1977-98           Schaefferstown Zion

1998                retired

 

 

MILLER, WILLIAM C. JR

 

Born: 3-3-1934                                                            married: Marguerire _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 814

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Scotland

?          ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1966-68           Daniels

1968-70           Dorsey Emmanuel

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-72           Dorsey Emmanuel

1972-76           Rockville Millian Memorial

1976-83           Gatch Memorial

1983-89           Brooklyn Heights

1989-94           Cumberland Centre Street

1994-97           Woodlawn St. Luke’s

1997                retired

 

 

MILLS, JAMES A.

 

Born: 2-17-1873  Blair County PA                            married: Rebecca A. Rinker

Died: 11-18-1933  Bellwood PA                                obit: Allegheny Conference 1934, 61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 340

Gibble list: no

 

1904    quarterly conference license

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

1911    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Orbisonia PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1934, 59

 

1905-07           Belsano

1907-09           West Decatur

1909-11           Knoxdale

1911-15           Cambria

1915-17           Delano

1917-20           Coalport

1920-24           Mapleton

1924-27           Bellefonte

1927-30           Westmoreland

1930-33           Bellwood

  

MINGLE, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 1-29-1854  Warriors Mark PA                         married: Anna Virginia Campbell

Died: 5-6-1945  Middleburg PA                                obit: Allegheny Conference 1908, 65

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Minnie Myers

Fulton #: 202                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1914, 85

Gibble list: no

 

1879    quarterly conference license

1883    license, Allegheny Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945, 60

 

1880-83           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1883-85           New Paris

1885-87           Madison

1887-91           Johnstown First

1891-94           Conemaugh

1894-95           Pitcairn

1895-96           Madison

1896-97           Liverpool

1897-00           Woodland

1900-01           Connellsville

1901-08           located

1908-09           Milton

1909-11           Shanksville

1911-12           New Florence

1912-15           Herminie

1915-16           Bellwood

1916-18           Middleburg

1918                retired

 

Note: William H. Mingle is the father of Anna Ruth Mingle Kratzer, wife of Easrnest P. Kratzer, and he is a brother to Jennie Mingle Sheerer, wife of James C. Sheerer.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 1.

 

MINNICK, SAMUEL L.

 

Born: 4-15-1803  Chestnut Hill PA                            married:

Died: 3-13-1897  Philadelphia PA                             obit:

Miller-Raker #: 305

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1854    license

1857    ordained

 

Interment: Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 39 

 

1853-55           Rocky Spring circuit

1855-56           Littlestown circuit

1856-57           Hanover circuit

1857-58           Mercersburg

1858-59           Greencastle circuit

1859-61           without appointment

1861-65           Philadelphia Mt. Airy

1865                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-69           Philadelphia Mt. Airy

1869-71           Philadelphia Parrish Street mission

1871-72           Philadelphia Darien Street mission

1872-73           Philadelphia Parrish Street mission

 

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered MINNICH.

 

 

MISAL, DONALD ARTHUR

 

Born: 2-7-1923                                                            married: Ina Claire Barnes

Died: 3-26-2020                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 427

Miller-Raker #: 757

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license, recommended by Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1961    ordained

 

Interment: Providence Cemetery, Gamber MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 340

 

1954-58           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1956-58  Fishing Creek Salem

1958-61           student, United Theological Seminary

1961-63           Fishing Creek Salem

1963-67           Wormleysburg St. Paul’s

1967-70           Red Lion Bethany

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-71           Woodside

1971-73           leave of absence

1973-77           administrator, Quincy Home

1977                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1977-78           administrator, Quincy Home

1978-87           administrator, Franklin County Nursing Home

1987-88           leave of absence

1988                retired

 

 

MITCHELL, GERTRUDE  [see HALLIWELL, GERTRUDE]

 

 

MITCHELL, GLENN CHARLES

 

Born: 6-12-1907  Conemaugh PA                              married: Emily Jane [Emma] Edmonds

Died: 7-16-1963  Johnstown PA                                obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987,408

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 530

Gibble list: no

 

1928    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1935    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 27

 

1929-32           Johnstown Overbrook

1932-37           East Pittsburgh

1937-40           Windber

1940                Altoona Garden Heights (resigned 9/25/1940)

1940-42           Windber (beginning 10/3/1940)

1942-58           chaplain, US Army (ending 3/1958)

1958-59           McKeesport Shoemaker (beginning 3/1958)

1959-63           Johnstown Belmont

 

 

MITTENDORF, WILLIAM [HEINRICH WILHELM]

 

Born: 1-30-1830  Hanover, Germany                         married: Louisa Remmert

Died: 4-24-1895  Dayton OH                                     obit: [11/19/1830 – 1/17/1879]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rosina Meyer

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [c1845 – 1/25/1893]

Gibble list: yes

 

license, Ohio German Conference

ordained, Ohio German Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1869-85           editor of German paper

1885-87           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1887                transfer to East German Conference

1887-89           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1889                transfer to Ohio German Conference

1889-95           editor of German paper

 

Note: Berger’s 1897 History of the United Brethren in Christ Church gives biographical information on William Mittendorf on page 422 and a photograph of him opposite page 323.  Biography of William Mittendorf is an autobiography, of which the conference archives does not have a copy, written by Heinrich Wilhelm Mittendorf in 1888.

 

 

MOBLEY, MARK ANDERSON

 

Born: 9-21-1921                                                          married:

Died: 2-?-1977                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 696

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license

1947    ordained

 

Interment: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor PA

Obit:

 

1943-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

1944-47           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                        1946-47  Rohrersville

1947-48           Rohrersville

1948-55           living in Red Lion

1955                transfer to Donegal Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church USA 1955,70

 

 

MOFFAT, ARTHUR THOMAS SR.

 

Born:  3-5-1911  Duquesne PA                                  married: Luella Sillaman (7/27/1942)

Died:  3-3-2003  Johnstown PA                                 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2013, 335

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license

1934    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Monessen

1937    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?

 

1937-40           student

                             1937-40  Advance IN Congregational Christian Church

1940-46           Bradenville

1946-51           Pitcairn

1951-59           Johnstown Beulah

1959-70           Franklin First [Christ]

1970-78           New Kensington

1978                retired

 

Note: Arthur T. Moffat is the father of Arthur T. Moffat Jr of the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

 

MOHN, G.B. [a misrendering of the German script for Samuel V. Mohn]

 

 

MOHN, HENRY V.

 

Born: 8-9-1842  Lancaster County PA                       married: Alvesta Schmeyer

Died: 9-5-1935                                                            obit: [d.1874]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Emma Mark

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [6/9/1858 – 11/15/1943]

Gibble list: yes

           

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mohn Cemetery, Mohn’s Hill PA

Obit: see biographical files in the conference archives

 

                        Susquehanna circuit

                        missionary, Sunday School work in eastern PA

1870-71           Harrisburg circuit (1st part of year)

1870-71           Columbia (2nd part of year)

1871-73           Allentown English mission

1873-76           Philadelphia Mt. Airy

                        living in Allentown for health reasons

1884-86           Baltimore George Street

1891-97           Reading Trinity

1897-99           independent congregation in Reading

1899                name erased

 

Note:  Henry V. Mohn is the brother of Samuel V. Mohn.  The V. in both names is assumed to be for Von Neida, their mother’s maiden name.  There are gaps and inconsistencies in the material available, but it appears that Rev. Mohn may have identified with the Congregational and/or Evangelical Congregational Church after 1899.  Rev. Mohn’s second wife is the daughter of Jacob H. Mark.  Henry and Samuel are first cousins to Jeremiah G. Mohn (1839-1919) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church.

 

 

MOHN, SAMUEL V.

 

Born: 3-2-1845                                                            married: Mary H. Snyder

Died: 6-17-1879                                                          obit: [10/9/1843 – 8/25/1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    license, East German Conference

1873    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Jordan township, Northumberland County PA

Obit: East German Conference 1880, 12

 

1869-70           Middleburg circuit

1870-71           Bellegrove circuit

1871-72           Lebanon circuit

1872-73           Lykens Valley circuit

1873-74           Willaims Valley circuit

1874                Jonestown circuit (part year)

1874-76           Landingville circuit

1876-78           Myerstown

1878-79           Bellegrove circuit

 

Note: Samuel V. Mohn is the brother of Henry V. Mohn and the father of Naomi Evelyn Mohn Trautman, wife of Rev. Howard M. Trautman (1867-1942) of the Methodist Church..  The V. in both names is assumed to be for Von Neida, their mother’s maiden name.  Henry and Samuel are first cousins to Jeremiah G. Mohn (1839-1919) of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church.

 

 

MONTGOMERY, HENRY M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 340

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1864-65           Liverpool circuit (last part of year) 1864,97 & 1865,105

1867-68           Plainfield circuit

1869                dismissed  1869,3&23

 

MOORE, HARVEY

 

Born: 11-3-1818  Lycoming County PA                    married: Margaret Bright

Died: 7-17-1889  Muncy PA                                      obit: [10/29/1822 – 12/21/1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 78

Gibble list: no

 

1852    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit:

 

1852-53           Clearfield

1853-54           Blair

1854                name erased for immorality

1855                suspended

1856                appeal to General Conference

 

MOORE, MABEL E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 665

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, recommended by Baltimore Franklin Street

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1935                withdrew  1935,54

 

Note: In 1935, page 35, Mabel E. Moore was denied credentials as a conference evangelist because she was not ordained.  Several newspapers of the era refer to her as “Mrs. Mabel E. Moore, evangelist and gospel singer of Baltimore MD.”

 

 

MOREY, ROGER DEXTER SR

 

Born: 11-25-1914  Erie PA                                        married: Luella P. Gray

Died: 8-5-1986  Erie PA                                             obit: [1915 – 1960]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Margery C. Culbertson Winkie

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [9/21/1916 – 10/12/2012]

Gibble list: no

 

1934    quarterly conference license, Erie Conference

1936    license, Erie Conference

1945    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Millcreek township, Erie County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 396

 

1935-36           Millport

1936-38           Bear Lake

1938-42           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1940-42      Lickdale circuit

1942-45           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             1943-44      Potsdam

1944-48           Frewsburg NY

1948-55           Warren Bethel

1955-62           Bradford West Branch

1962-71           Weis Library

1971                transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1971-78           Weis Library

1978                retired

                             1984           Smethport (Apr-Jun)

 

 

MORGAN, DONALD RAY

 

Born: 7-23-1931                                                          married: Ruby J. Long

Died: 4-23-2022                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Valley View

1962    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Leck Kill, Northumberland County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 362

 

1959-62           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1959-60      Congregational Christian Church, Covington OH

1962-70           Sunbury Otterbein

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-74           Sunbury Otterbein

1974-77           on leave

1977                honorable location, page 201

 

Note: Donald Ray Morgan graduated from George Washington University in 1953 and served in the US Navy as a commissioned officer before entering seminary and the ministry.  He owned and operated the historic Edison Hotel in Sunbury PA 1974-94 before retiring to rural Perry County PA

 

MORGAN, J.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 273

Gibble list: no

 

1896    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895-96           Middletown

1896-97           Mt. Zion

1897                transfer to Minnesota Conference, page 36

                        Waseca County MN

 

 

MORGAN, RUFUS ELMER

 

Born: 4-4-1881                                                            married: Edna Mae Schrope

Died: 3-2-1960                                                            obit: [11/9/1883 – 9/17/1925]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Virgie May Bingeman

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/6/1902 – 12/2/1985]

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    quarterly conference license

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1913    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hopeland, Lancaster County PA

Obit:

 

1906-08           student, Lebanon Valley College

1908-11           Jonestown

1911-13           Williamstown

1913-14           Bellefonte, Allegheny Conference

1914-16           Iona

1916-21           Pine Grove

1921-22           Tower City

1922-25           Grantville

1925-28           Hopeland

1928-30           Royalton Emanuel

1930-35           Williamstown

1935-42           “unemployed”

1942                expelled, page 8

 

 

MORRIS, PAUL ALVIN

 

Born: 7-18-1897  KIngsview PA                                married: Helen J. McIndoe

Died: 7-9-1986  Connellsville PA                              obit: [11/6/1898 – 4/16/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 471

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 397

 

1923-26           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1926-27           Arona

1927-29           Fayette

1929-30           Central City

1930-37           Springfield

1937-46           Everson

1946-47           Everson – Mt. Olive

1947-64           Westmoreland

1964                retired

 

 

MORRISON, JOHN E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1914    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Steelton

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1914-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1915-16  Hillsdale circuit

1916-17           Florin (did not finish the year)

1917                name erased

 

Note: John E. Morrison was a member of the class of 1917, but did not graduate from Lebanon Valley at this time.  His picture and a brief biographical statement are given in the LVC yearbook designated 1917, page 115.  He may be the John Ephriam [sic] Morrison of Steelton who graduated from LVC in 1932 and pursued a career in education.

 

 

MOSES, ELVA CAMPBELL

 

Born:  5-5-1909  Bellwood PA                                   married: James C. Moses

Died:  2-18-1999  Davenport IA                                obit:  Western Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 388

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Dr. Herbert Janke

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1918 – 11/15/2011]

Gibble list: no

 

1929    quarterly conference license, recommended by Bellwood

1931    license, recommended by Altoona First

1933    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Baptist Cemetery, Winburne PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 376

 

1931-49           available supply pastor

1949-52           Susquehanna, with James C. Moses

1952-58           available supply pastor in Central Pennsylvania Conference of EUB Church

1958-59           local pastor

1960                no longer listed

 

Note: In 1944 Elva Campbell married James C. Moses, also an ordained member of the conference.  In 1951 the Susquehanna charge was transferred to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church, but Elva C. Moses appears to have kept her conference membership in the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  Since Rev. Mrs. Moses married Dr. Janke after she had ceased all ministerial functions, she is listed in this file as Elva Campbell Moses.  Dr. Herbert Janke is the father of Rev. Theodore Janke, affiliation unknown, from his first wife Lorne K. Campbell (d. 1985) – believed to be a sister to Elva.

 

 

MOSES, JAMES C.

 

Born: 12-12-1879  East Freedom PA                         married: Laura Harriet Feather

Died: 4-13-1971                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1940, 58

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elva Campbell

Fulton #: 429                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 376

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license

1916    license, Allegheny Conference

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Mills PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 388

 

1909-11           Waukesha

1911-14           Ligonier

1914-19           Port Matilda

1919-21           Arona

1921-24           Bigler

1924-28           Mapleton

1928-30           Bellwood

1930-33           Liverpool

1933-35           Jefferson

1935-37           Rochester Mills

1937-40           Sidman St. Michael

1940-42           Altoona Third

1942-46           Rockwood

1946-47           Coalport

1947-49           New Florence

1949-52           Susquehanna

1952                retired

 

Note: In 1951 the Susquehanna charge was transferred to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church, but James C. Moses appears to have kept his conference membership in the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  He is the father of Ruth Moses Fisher, wife Wilbur R. Fisher.  The second Mrs. Moses is also an ordained member of the conference.  James C. Moses is sometimes listed incorrectly as Joseph C. Moses.  The second Mrs. Moses was ordained in the United Brethren Church and appears in this data base under CAMPBELL and MOSES.

 

 

MOTTER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 278

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1848    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1857                transfer to White River Conference

 

 

MOUER, JOSEPH RABER

 

Born: 12-31-1862  PA                                                married: Elnora Nead Dorty

Died: 5-25-1938  Champion   NE                               obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lelia A. Pauley [1912]

Fulton #: 301                                                               obit2: Nebraska Conference 1918, 37

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Leona Pearl Campbell

                                                                                    obit3: Nebraska Conference 1937, 45

1901    license, Allegheny Conference

1905    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Home, Beatrice NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1938, 46

 

1900-01           McKeesport Second?

1901-07           Monessen

1907-08           Beatrice, East Nebraska Conference

1908                transfer to East Nebraska Conference

1908-09           Beatrice

1913                charter member of Nebraska Conference

1913-14           superintendent, East District

 

Note: J.R. Mouer is the son of S. S. Mower and is one of 8 brothers who entered the ministry.  See the Simon Smith Mower card for comments on the Mower family.

 

MOULTON, ROLLAND CHARLES

 

Born: 5-30-1836  Maine                                             married: Mary E. Eastwood [1891]

Died:  11/?/1924  Iowa                                               obit: [5/3/1837 – 6/19/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Alice (Mrs. John) Stokie

Fulton #: 160                                                               obit2: [?/?/1851 – 7/?/1913]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3:

                                                                                    obit3:

1873    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines IA

Obit:

 

1873-74           Hollidaysburg

1875                name erased

…

1884-85           Miles City MT, Montana Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church

…

1891-08           Des Moines IA Methodist Protestant

1908-10           Des Moines IA Second Christian (founding pastor)

1910-11           ?

1911-12           Des Moines IA Second Chistian

 

Note: R.C. Moulton was born in Maine, fought with the Tenth Massachusetts Infantry in the Civil War, and lived in various locations before settling in Iowa.

 

MOUNTAIN, JAMES V.

 

Born: 11-10-1884  Fayette PA                                   married: Mary Olive Shields

Died: 9-9-1971                                                            obit: [11/2/1893 – 5/4/1981]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 443

Gibble list: no

 

1915    quarterly conference license

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery. Lewisville (Indiana County) PA

Obit:

 

1916-25           Zion/Fairmount [Claysburg PA]

1925                withdrew to unite with Presbyterian Church

                        Windy Gap Presbyterian Church

                        Clarksburg Presbyterian Church

                        Oak Grove Presbyterian Church

1950’s             Summerville Presbyterian, Jefferson County PA

 

Note: This person is also referred to as John V. Mountain – and it is possible that he really was John V. Mountain and that James V. Mountain, also a Presbyterian minister, was a relative.  An obituary for Mary O. Mountain appears in the 5/5/1981 Indiana [PA] Gazette, page 20, and corrects misinformation that appears in other sources.

 

MOWER, ALFRED BISHOP

 

Born: 4-28-1865  Mount Rock PA                             married: Annie M. Beggs

Died: 3-18-1940  Wormleysburg  PA                        obit: [9/?/1863 – 8/2/1903]

Miller-Raker #: 433                                                    married2: Wilhelmina Rudisill          

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 49

Gibble list: yes [A.B.]

                                   

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained

 

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 31

 

1889                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1889-95           Path Valley circuit

1895-01           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1901-04           Taneytown

1904-07           Mount Wolf

1907-11           Carlisle (did not finish the last year)

1911-12           illness

1912-17           Shepherdstown

1917-22           Wormleysburg

1922-29           West Fairview

1929                retired

 

Note: While the 1894 journal lists his assignment as Hanover, he apparently returned to Path Valley for another year.  Alfred B. Mower is the son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed.  He is also the grandfather of A. Glenn Mower Jr of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.  The second Mrs. Mower is the granddaughter of Abraham Rudisill.

 

 

MOWER, HENRY HYRAM HUMMELBAUGH 

 

Born: 6-25-1860  Newburg PA                                  married: Harriet Ella Marple (12/29/1881)

Died: 9-19-1943  Brooklyn NY                                 obit: [d. 9/26/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Lillian M. Dickinson (5/7/1923)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1878 – 1975]

Gibble list: yes

 

1886    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1902    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead NY

Obit: New York East Conference 1944, 174

 

1882-83           Halifax

1885-87           Manor circuit (ending 9/1/87)

1887-89           on leave

1889                honorable dismissal

1898                Lebanon First Baptist

1902                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1902-03           Haines, Idaho Conference

1903                transfer to Idaho Conference

1903-05           Nampa

1905-06           Le Grand

1906-08           Brooklyn NY Cropsey Avenue, New York East Conference

1908                transfer to New York East Conference

1908-12           Glen Cove

1912-15           Queens Shaw Avenue

1915-18           Sayville

1918-23           Farmingdale and Mellville

1923-25           New Haven CT St. Andrews

1925-29           Oceanside

1929-33           Brooklyn, Bensonhurst, St. James

1933-35           Bayport

1935-36           Westport

1936                retired

 

Note: Henry H.H. Mower is the son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed.  The second Mrs. Mower (nee Patterson) was the widow of a Mr. Dickinson.

 

MOWER, JOHN FOHL

 

Born: 11-8-1846  Mowersville PA                             married: Catherine L. Enders [1871]

Died: 12-26-1942  Beatrice NE                                  obit: Nebraska Conference [MOUER] 1937, 45

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Home, Beatrice NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference [MOUER] 1943, 40

 

1869-70           Susquehanna circuit

1870-71           Shamokin First

1871-72           ?

1872-73           Mt. Airy

1873-74           Allentown English mission

1874-75           Sunbury mission

1875-78           New Holland circuit

1878-80           Monocacy circuit

1880-86           Springfield circuit

                             1881-82      also Monocacy circuit (2nd part of year)

1886-89           on leave, living in Chester County

1889-92           Philadelphia St. Paul’s

1892-93           on leave (first part of year), Philadelphia First (2nd part of year)

1893-94           Mont Clare

1894-95           on leave, living in Phoenixville

1895                withdrew irregularly, page 30

                        …

1908                “transfer” to Nebraska Conference UB

1908-11           Seward

1911-13           Hastings

1913-14           Merna

1914-16           Seward

1916-24           Julian

1924-26           Crab Orchard

1926-27           Beatrice

1927-28           Ambler Pa, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928-29           living in Beatrice

1930                retired

 

Note: John F. Mower is the son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed.  He later entered the ministry in Nebraska, where his brother J.R. Mouer was serving, and changed the spelling of his surname to MOUER.  The conference journal lists Mrs. Mower’s maiden name, apparently incorrectly, as Katharine E. Andrews.

 

 

MOWER, JOSEPH RABER

 

Born: 12-31-1862  Mowersville PA                           married: Elnora Nead Dorty [7/13/1884]

Died: 5-25-1938  Champion NE                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lelia A. Pauley [1912]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Nebraska Conference 1918, 37 [MOUER]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Leona Pearl Campbell [6/28/1923]

                                                                                    obit3: Nebraska Conference 1939, 45 [MOUER]

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Champion NE

Obit: Nebraska Conference 1938, 46 [MOUER]

 

1899-01           Dunlevy, Allegheny Conference

1901-07           Monessen, Allegheny Conference
1907                transfer to Nebraska Conference UB

1907-10           Beatrice

1910-11           Lincoln

1911-13           Cheney

1913-14           Lincoln
1914-21           Lushton
1921-24           Kearney

1924-26           Hastings

1926-30           Ord

1930-33           Shelton

1933-34           Omaha

1934-38           Champion

1938                no longer listed

 

Note:  J.R. MOWER served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”       He is a son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the family is discussed, and one of 8 brothers to enter the ministry.

 

MOWER, SAMUEL TAWNEY

 

Born: 1-16-1852  Dry Run PA                                   married: Mary Ann Bowman (1877)

Died: 5-27-1914  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [7/17/1855 – 11/28/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 170

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Ardsley Cemetery, Ardsley PA

Obit:

 

1876                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1883                referred

 

Note: Samuel T. Mower is the son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed, and the father of Rev Wayne D. Mower (1881-1942) – affiliation unknown, although he served Methodist churches in Merchantville NJ and Hurlock MD in the 1930’s. 

 

MOWER, SIMON SMITH

 

Born: 1-16-1822  Mowersville PA                             married: Catharine Piper [1844]

Died: 3-26-1898  Oberlin PA                                     obit: [2/23/1820 – 3/9/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Linglestown

1877    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

1869-70           Rockville and Fishing Creek of the Harrisburg circuit

1872-73           Rockville

1883-84           Linglestown of the Harrisburg circuit

 

Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 31

 

Note: The S.S. Mower family appears to have moved from Mowersville to Lingleston about 1870, where he was president of the Dauphin County Mutual Fire Insurance Company located there.  He  served mostly by appointment of the presiding elder as an evangelist.  The Mowers had 9 sons and 2 daughters – 8 of the sons became pastors, and 1 of the daughters married a pastor.  See the Mower folder in biographical files.  They named their sons for United Brethren pastors.  Those with ministerial connections are

Rev. John Fohl Mower* (1846-1943), East Pennsylvania Conference & Nebraska Conference

Rev. William Dickson Mower (1848-1910), Pennsylvania Conference

Rev. Samuel Tawney Mower (1852-1914), East Pennsylvania Conference

Rev. David Wilson Mower (1854-1926), service unknown

Rev. Zephaniah Colestock Mower (1856-1938), Pennsylvania Conference

Harriet Eveline Mower (1858-1907)

     married Rev. Anson Leroy Hassler (1853-1930), Presbyterian, Congregational and Reformed churches in NY, OH & IN

Rev. Henry Hyram Hummelbaugh Mower (1860-1943), East Pennsylvania Conference

Rev. Joseph Raber Mower* (1862-1938), Nebraska Conference

Rev. Alfred Bishop Mower (1865-1940), Pennsylvania Conference

*The brothers who settled in Nebraska, Rev. J.F. and Rev. J.R. eventually adopted the spelling MOUER.

 

 

MOWER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1-26-1918  Shippensburg PA                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 313

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1880-91           living in Mowersville

1891-92           Mainsville

1892-06           living in Mowersville

1906-16           living in Shippensburg

1916                withdrew

 

Note: William Mower is a nephew of Simon Smith Mower and a first cousin to the Simon’s eight ministerial sons.  He was an ordained local pastor.  He is a brother to Elizabeth Mower Faust, wife of Samuel D. Faust.

 

 

MOWER, WILLIAM DICKSON

 

Born: 5-10-1848  Mowersville PA                             married: Frances Emiline Mellon

Died: 10-6-1910  Schuylkill Haven PA                     obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 79

Miller-Raker #: 473

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1877    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Schuylkill Haven Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 124

 

1872-73           Highspire circuit

1873-74           Halifax

1874-76           Harrisburg Calvary

1876-79           Columbia

1879-81           Halifax

1887                transfer to Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal South Church

1900                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Church

1900-03           Chambersburg circuit

1903-08           Fayetteville

1908-10           living in Schuylkill Haven

 

Note: William Dickson Mower is the son of Simon Smith Mower; see the S.S. Mower card.  

 

MOWER, ZEPHANIAH COLESTOCK

 

Born: 3-7-1856  Newburg PA                                    married: Sarah Ellen Miller

Died: 6-7-1938  Colfax WA                                       obit: White River Conference  1913,74

Miller-Raker #: 386                                                    married2: Sarah Hortense Butts [1913]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1877 – 2/10/1963]

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, recommended by Linglestown

1882    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Colfax Cemetery, Colfax WA

Obit: Oregon Conference 1938, 47

 

1878-79           Orrstown station

1879-80           Pequea Valley circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1880                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1880-83           Pequea Valley circuit

1883-86           Manchester MD

1886-89           Middletown

1889-90           Intercourse (did not finish the year)

1890                expelled  1890,28

                        …

1898                transfer to White River Conference UB

1898-01           Mohawk circuit

1901-06           Geneva

1906-07           Indianapolis

1907-09           Muncie

1909-12           Clay City IL

1912-13           Lebanon

1913                transfer to Nebraska Conference UB

1913-15           Geneva

1915-18           Crab Orchard

1918-20           living in Crab Orchard

1920-24           living in Waterloo

1924                transfer to Oregon Conference

1924-25           Salem

1925-26           Elberton

1926-32           Colfax

1932                retired

 

Note: Zephaniah C. Mower is the son of Simon S. Mower, on whose card the Mower family is discussed.  The Middletown Times-Press for October 11, 1890, states: “Rev. Z. C. Mower was expelled from the United Brethren Conference at Mountville and the Church for immorality and fraudulent transactions, and the Rev. P. H. Garrett was expelled for conduct unbecoming a Christian minister. Mower committed a number of forgeries and fled from this county.”

 

 

MOWERS, SAMUEL A.

 

Born: 8-12-1840  Cumberland County PA                 married: Marie Gelwicks

Died: 12-3-1903  PA                                                  obit: [11/17/1844 – 7/8/1896]

Miller-Raker #: 348

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1868    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1868-69           St. Thomas circuit

1869-75           Mercersburg station

1875-79           Baltimore Fourth

1879-81           Chambersburg station

1882                transfer to Miami Conference

1882-88           Dayton First

                        joined the Presbyterian Church

                        Lafayette IN

 

 

MOWREY, DAVID FLOYD

 

Born: 12-13-1885  Franklin County PA                                 married: Eva Catherine Shearer

Died: 2-22-1966                                                                      obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 34

Miller-Raker #: 658

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1918    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1933    ordained

 

Interment: New Cumberland PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 147

 

1925-56           New Cumberland Community

1956                retired

 

Note: David F. Mowrey’s son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. D. Dwight Grove, were missionaries to Africa 1939-41.

 

 

MOYER, DAVID

 

Born: 12-11-1824  Reading PA                                  married: Mary Fernsler Peffley

Died: 7-7-1868                                                            obit: [12/13/1822 – 5/23/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1851    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 30

 

1856-59           Myerstown

1859-61           Lykens Valley

1861-63           Susquehanna circuit

                        1862-63 West Branch circuit (1st half of year)

1863-64           ?

1864-67           Harrisburg circuit

1867-68           Bellegrove circuit

 

 

MOYER, JOHN K.

 

Born: 1-12-1827                                                          married: Fanny Kreider

Died: 2-16-1887                                                          obit: [12/1/1833 – 6/24/1870]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1862    quarterly conference license

1883    ordained, United Christian Church

 

Interment: Annville United Brethren Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1865-66           Millheim circuit

1866-67           Sinking Spring circuit

1867-68           Union Deposit circuit

 

Note: John K. Moyer left the denomination in the 1869 split that created the United Christian Church.  Mrs. Moyer is a sister to Rev. Christian F. Kreider (1855-1931) of the United Christian Church.

 

MOYER, SAMUEL NICHOLAS

 

Born: 9-10-1855  Snyder County PA                         married: Sarah Jane Trostle

Died: 1-23-1908                                                          obit: [1902]

Miller-Raker #: 413                                                    married2: Mary [Minnie] Elizabeth Rupp

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 75

Gibble list: no

                       

1885    license

1888    ordained

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 115

 

1884-86           Perry circuit

1886-89           York circuit

1889-92           New Cumberland mission

1892-95           Rock Springs [Scotland] charge

1895-00           Boiling Springs

1900-03           Mechanicsburg First

1903-07           Red Lion Bethany

1907-08           Baltimore Third

 

 

MULHOLLEM, LLOYD GARRISON

 

Born: 2-10-1905  Glasgow PA                                   married: Mary Elizabeth McGrail

Died: 6-13-1980  Latrobe PA                                     obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 318

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 520

Gibble list: no

 

1927    quarterly conference license

1929    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: I.O.O.F Cemetery, Rockwood PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 416

 

1927-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1930-33           Knoxdale

1933-34           Belsano

1934-41           Casselman

1941-52           West Decatur

1952-58           Indian Creek

1958-67           Rockwood

1967-72           Brush Valley Calvary

1972                retired

                             1972-73      Brush Valley Calvary

                             1973-79      Hatsings (ending 1/1/1979)

 

Note: This surname is sometimes given incorrectly as Mulhollen.

 

 

MUMMA, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1855                expelled

 

 

MUMMA, JOSEPH CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 2-9-1840  near Highspire PA                           married: Catherine Reitzel (1860)

Died: 3-19-1902  Union Deposit PA                          obit: [12/6/1840 – 1/2/1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    license, East Pennsylvania

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania

 

Interment: Baldwin Cemetery, Steelton PA

Obit:

 

1868-69           Highspire circuit

1869-71           Mt. Joy circuit

1871-73           Columbia Salome

1873-75           ?

1875-77           Mountville St. Paul’s

1877-78           Schuylkill Haven

1878-80           New Holland circuit

1880-83           Steelton station

1883                Baltimore George Street (did not finish the year)

1883                withdrew  1884,6

 

Note: Joseph C. Mumma is a twin brother to Martin J. Mumma.  He is the father of Edith A. Mumma Miller, wife of Rev. Luther Alvin Miller (1873-1963) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

 

MUMMA, MARTIN J.

 

Born: 2-9-1840  near Highspire PA                           married: Catharine Ann Fisher

Died:11-9-1912  Hershey PA                                     obit: [2/16/1842 – 10/16/1906]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    quarterly conference license, Highspire

1870     license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania 1913, 40

 

1869-70           Highspire circuit

1870-71           Annville

1871-75           New Holland circuit

1875-76           agent, Lebanon Valley College

1876-77           Reading Otterbein

1877-81           presiding elder

1881-84           Mountville

1884-86           Lancaster Covenant

1886-87           New Holland

1887-89           Penbrook [East Harrisburg circuit]

1889-91           presiding elder

1891-93           Hummelstown

1893-94           Springville circuit (part year); agent, Lebanon Valley College (part year)

1894-97           Annville

1897-00           Jacksonville circuit

1900-03           Ephrata

1903-07           Schuylkill Haven

1907                retired

 

Note: Martin J. Mumma is a twin brother to Joseph C. Mumma.

 

 

MUND, FREDERICK W.

 

Born: 4-26-1903                                                          married: Helen Lucille Hearn

Died: 4-21-1997                                                          obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1998, 597

Miller-Raker #: 668

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license

1935    ordained

 

Interment: Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1997, 646

 

1931-32           student, Lebanon Valley College

1932-35           student, Yale Divinity School

1935-67           Baltimore Dorguth Memorial

1967-70           Baltimore Dorguth Memorial & Old Otterbein

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-75           Baltimore Dorguth Memorial

1975                retired

1975-80           Delmont

 

Note:  The SS Death index gives the death date for Frederick W. Mund as 2-21-1997.

 

 

MUNDEN, JASPER NEWTON.

 

Born: 2-19-1858                                                          married: Millia Elmina Pershing

Died: 8-3-1939                                                            obit: [8/2/1859 – 4/13/1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 187

Gibble list: no

 

1878    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Bradenville

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Greenlawn Memorial Park, Bakersfield CA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1939, 471

 

1880-81           Rockwood

1883-85           Intercourse (did not finish 2nd year), East Pennsylvania Conference

                             1883-84      Paradise St. John’s (second part of year)

1885-87           Greensburg charge

1887-89           Braddock

1889-91           Altoona First (ending Feb 1891)

1891-92           living in Woodbridge CA

1892-95           Scottdale First            

1895                joined Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1895-98           Stahlstown circuit

1900-03           McKeesport circuit

1903-05           Vanderbilt

1905-06           Dunbar

 

Note: The Western Pennsylvania Conference records place him on the Stahlstown ME circuit 1882-85!  The 1891 Allegheny Conference journal, page 19, reports: “Altoona First Church passed through an ordeal that was very unpleasant and deleterious to the general interests of the station, resulting from the resignation of Brothers J.N. Munden and W.J. Zuck.”  A 1930 anniversary booklet from Altoona First incorrectly lists J.N. Munden with the deceased pastors.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 11.

 

MUNDIS, CARL H.

 

Born: 2-6-1894  Snydertown [Yoe], PA                    married: Amelia Snyder

Died: 10-1-1954                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 432

Miller-Raker #: 597

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    quarterly conference license, Yoe Salem

1916    license

1920    ordained

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Yoe PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 36

 

1916-17           student, Bonebrake Seminary

1917-19           Jefferson

1919-23           Newburg

1923-24           Baltimore Fourth

1924-29           Hagerstown Emmanuel

1929-34           Mechanicsburg First

1934-37           Greencastle

1937-50           York Fifth

1950-54           Winterstown

 

 

MUNDIS, DANIEL CYRUS

 

Born: 12-16-1864  PA                                                married: Sarah I. Smith

Died: 11-30-1914  York PA                                       obit: [7/31/1876 – 8/6/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit:

 

1897-98           Eschol (beginning 10/9/1897)

1900-01           Hellam

 

Note: D.C. Mundis was a local preacher on the Red Lion circuit.  He served 4 months at Eschol following the resignation William F. Gilbert (see 1898,21) and served 11 months at Hellam following the resignation of William Beatty (see 1901,16.  Nothing more is known about this man.  This may be Daniel Cyrus Mundis (12/16/1864 – 11/20/1914) of York, who is buried in Red Lion and was known to have been United Brethren.

 

 

MURRAY, CHARLES RANDOLPH

 

Born:  4-19-1913  West Fairview PA                         married: Jean Frances Betts

Died:  12-29-1992  Reamstown PA                           obit: [1/29/1921 – 9/18/2005]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license, Johnstown Barron Avenue

1934    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Johnstown Overbrook

1939    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion UM Church Cemetery, Akron PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 466

 

1933-37           Johnstown Overbrook

1937-39           Susquehanna

1939-48           Beaverdale

1948-70           Altoona Greenwood

1970-79           Berwick Bower Memorial

1979                retired

 

Note: Charles R. Murray is the son of William L. Murray.

 

 

MURRAY, WILLIAM LUTHER

 

Born: 7-27-1883  West Fairview PA                          married: Grace C. Randolph

Died: 6-17-1932  Johnstown PA                                obit: Western Pennsylvania Conf (EUB) 1961, 39

Miller-Raker #: 568

Fulton #: 480

Gibble list: no

 

1910    quarterly conference license, West Fairview

1911    license

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1932, 47

 

1911                Sabillasville (May-Oct) & Horse Valley (summer)

1911-13           Spring Run

1913-20           Williamsport MD

1920-21           Duncannon

1921-22           Buffalo NY, Erie Conference

1922                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1922-24           Johnstown Southmount

1924-26           Punxsutawney

1926-31           McKeesport Kephart Memorial

1931-32           Johnstown Barron Avenue

 

Note: William L. Murray is the father of Charles R. Murray.

 

 

MUSSELMAN, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 12-25-1877  Florin PA                                     married: Alice Naomi Dougherty

Died: 9-7-1947  near Mt. Gretna PA                          obit: Eastern Conference 1966, 125

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1909    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 30

 

1908-47           missionary, Sierra Leone

                            1908-09       Shenge

                            1909-10       Mofus

                            1911-16       Rotifunk

                            1916-21       Freetown

                            1921-47       superintendent

 

 

MUTCH, CHARLES AMBROSE

 

Born: 2-21-1859  Lebanon PA                                   married: Cora M. Runk

Died: 6-17-1942  Annville PA                                   obit: [10/4/1865 – 3/6/1940]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license, East German Conference

1890    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1942, 16

 

1886-87           Freeburg circuit

1887-89           Susquehanna circuit

1889-91           Montana mission

1891-94           Williamstown

1894-96           Shamokin Second

1896-99           Schuylkill Haven

1899-01           Reading Fourth [Trinity]

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-06           New Holland

1906-08           Palmyra

1908-11           Millersburg

1911-13           Sunbury

1913-16           Schuylkill Haven

1916-20           Ephrata

1920-25           Reading Salem

1925-28           Shamokin Second

1928-30           Bellegrove

1930                retired

                            1930-31       Lebanon West (1/1/1931)

                            1933-34       Lickdale and Grier Point

 

Note: Charles A. Mutch is the father of Heber R. Mutch and M. Ella Mutch Leister, wife of Rev. J.M. Leister of the Presbyterian Church.  Mrs. Mutch is the daughter of Jacob Runk and the brother of Irvin E. Runk. 

 

 

MUTCH, HEBER R.

 

Born: 1-25-1901                                                          married: Frances H. Shellenberger

Died: 5-18-1991                                                          obit: [5/9/1903 – 4/27/2001]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Goodwill Cemetery, Bunkertown PA

Obit:

 

1929                name erased

 

Note: Heber R. Mutch is the son of Charles A. Mutch.  He went on to be a public school principal in Glen Rock PA.  An obituary for Mrs. Mutch is in the biographical files.

 

 

MYERS, ABRAHAM R.

 

Born: 6-18-1850 near Mountville PA                        married: Elizabeth M. Stoner

Died: 5-23-1908                                                          obit: [1848 – 1934]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1882    quarterly conference license, Mountville

1893    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1896    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mountville Cemetery, Mountville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1908,38

 

1892-99           Centerville

1899-07           Steelton Centenary

1907-08           Lancaster Covenant

 

 

MYERS, C.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1897-98           South Williamsport

 

Note:  C.W. Myers served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person.

 

MYERS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 275

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1844    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: The East Pennsylvania Conference appears to have no further record of this man.

 

 

MYERS, P.J.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896-97           Indiana

1898-99           Johnstown Fifth

 

Note: P.J. Myers served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person. 

 

NATHANS, PHILIP

 

Born: 1-10-1891  PA                                                  married: Jessie Pearl Koontz

Died: 12-10-1968  Kansas City MO                           obit: [1893-1928]

Miller-Raker #: 614                                                    married2: Thursa Morris

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/18/1915 – 5/1/1991]

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, recommended by York Second

 

Interment: [body donated to Kansas University Medical Center]

Obit

 

1920-22           Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

1924                withdrew to join Presbyterian Church, page 41

 

Note: Philip Nathans appears to have served the Presbyterian Church in Texas and Missouri.  Mrs. Nathans is the daughter of Josiah C. Perry Koontz and the brother of Paul R. Koontz.

 

 

NAUGLE, IVAN GUY

 

Born: 4-1-1898  Orrtanna PA                                     married: Helen L. Geiselman

Died: 8-24-1989  Chambersburg PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 479

Miller-Raker #: 663

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1929    license

1935    ordained

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 462

 

1929-37           Manchester MD

1937-54           Thurmont

1954-68           Keedysville

1968                retired

    1970      Littlestown (May-Jun) & St. John’s (Aug-Dec)

    1974      Littlestown (Feb-Jun)

 

 

NEAFFER, HIRAM

 

Born: 5-5-1837  Middletown PA                               married: Sarah P. Whaley (4/4/1860)

Died: 2-21-1914  Altoona PA                                    obit: [10/13/1838 – 2/18/1910]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [NEAFER]

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit

 

1871-73           Harrisburg Calvary [Derry Street]

1874-76           Highspire circuit

1878                withdrew

 

Note: By 1880 Hiram Neaffer was living in Altoona.  The Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist Episcopal journals of the early 1900's list him as a local preacher and a lay member of the Altoona Eighth Avenue Church.

 

 

NEEDY, ELWOOD EDWARD

 

Born: 6-2-1912  Boonsboro MD                                married: Rose Stuart Tschopp

Died: 2-15-1976  Franklin County PA                       obit: [4/23/1914 – 7/2/2016]

Miller-Raker #: 682

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license, Mt. Nebo of Boonsboro MD charge

1935    license, recommended by Mt. Nebo

1940    ordained

 

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery at St. Paul’s Chapel Church, Red Lion PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 150

 

1933-37           student, Lebanon Valley College

                              1936-37     Clear Spring mission, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937-40           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1937-40      student assistant, Dayton Belmont

1940-43           Red Lion circuit

1943-62           Red Lion St. Paul’s Chapel

1962-70           Waynesboro First

1970-71           sabbatical

1971                retired

                            1974-76       Mt. Victory

 

Note: The conference records consistently use Ellwood, but SS and cemetery records give his first name as Elwood.  The father of Ellwood E. Neely is a first cousin to George D. Neely.

 

 

NEEDY, GEORGE DAVID

 

Born: 1-19-1868  Washington County MD                married: Marcy C. Dearmond

Died: 12-16-1951  Los Angeles CA                           obit: [7/23/1872 – 7/19/1896]

Miller-Raker #: 523                                                    married2: Rose A. Sickafoose (12/28/1898)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/17/1868 – 4/30/1955]

Gibble list: no

 

1892    license, Central Ohio Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1892-95           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1895-97           Eugene OR

1897                transfer to Columbia River Conference

1897-03           Spokane WA

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1903-06           living in Hagerstown MD

1906-08           no address

1908-10           living in Spokane WA

1910                open transfer, page 48

 

Note: George D. Neely is a first cousin to the father of Ellwood E. Needy.  Some sources (incorrectly) give his dates as 1867-1952.  The UB yearbooks list him as George C. Needy, living in Spokane WA as a member of the Pennsylvania Conference, until 1911 – and then he no longer appears.  The open transfer was apparently given because he failed to file a report with the conference of his ministerial activity during the year.  He appears to have been involved in business and financial ventures after 1903 (and not in the active ministry) and to be living in Los Angeles by 1940.

 

 

NEFF, GEORGE ORVIS

 

Born: 8-22-1892  LaJose PA                                      married: Mary Ethel Bowden

Died: 3-25-1962  Selinsgrove PA                              obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 314

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 488

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Freeburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 37

 

1924-29           Houserville

1929-34           Richfield

1934-39           Coalport

1939-45           Bigler

1945-49           Shanksville

1949                retired for health reasons

                             1949-61  living with his son in Encorse MI

 

Note: George O. Neff is the great-grandson of Isaiah Barto (through Isaiah’s daughter Mary Ann Barto Neff and grandson Isaiah Barto Neff).

 

NEIDIG, JOHN

 

Born: 4-1-1765  Berks County PA                             married: Mary [“Katie”] Baer

Died: 1-11-1844  Oberlin PA                                     obit: [5/20/1771 – 10/8/1843]

Miller-Raker #: 16

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

1802    ordained

 

Interment: Highspire Cemetery, Highspire PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1844, 55

 

1790-91           Mennonite preacher

1807-08           Pfoutz Valley

1812-13           Lancaster circuit

1820-21           presiding elder and Lancaster circuit

1826-27           presiding elder

1828-31           Baltimore Old Otterbein

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 302, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 47, give brief biographies.  See also the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, pages 3-34.

 

 

NEIDIG, JOHN

 

Born: 1-21-1833                                                          married: Eliza Shelly (1852)

Died: 1-4-1904                                                            obit: [2/3/1837 - 6/18/1879]

Miller-Raker #: 339

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license

1873    ordained

 

Interment: Shopp Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit:

 

1868-69           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1869-70           York Springs circuit

1871-72           York Springs circuit

1884                withdrew, page 5

 

Note: The Neidig family tree is confusing, and the above information represents current interpretation of the facts at hand – see the Neidig family articles in the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, pages 30-34.  It is believed that this John Neidig is the grandson of John Neidig (1764-1844), the son of Jacob and Catherine Shopp (daughter of John Shopp Sr and Anna Hershey) [and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 49, errs in saying that particular John Neidig went to Iowa.]

 

NEIMAN, HARRY SR.

 

Born: 8-28-1883  York County PA                            married: Mabel H. Delp

Died: 5-?-1974                                                            obit: [11/6/1885 – 4/4/1959]

Miller-Raker #: 728

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, page 38

 

Interment: Bethany Church Cemetery, Dover PA

Obit:

 

1950-59           living in Dover RD 3

1959                return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

 

Note: The 1950 journal, page 38, gives this name as Harry Neiman Jr.  All subsequent references give the name as Harry Neiman Sr.  The son of Harry Neiman Sr was Harry Allen Neiman (1919-2002), also buried in Bethany Church Cemetery – while consideration of ages might suggest the younger Harry A. as the one receiving a license in 1950, he is not commonly called Jr and had no son named Harry.  Both father and son appear to have been active in the congregation.

 

 

NEIMAN, JAMES

 

Born: 1801                                                                  married: Catharine Shively

Died: 5-6-1880                                                            obit: [5/20/1809 – 8/27/1875]

Miller-Raker #: 147

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

1831    ordained

 

Interment: Bellville Cemetery. Bellville OH [NIMAN]

Obit: Central Ohio Conference 1880, 16

 

1831-32           Baltimore circuit

1832-33           Halifax circuit

1833-34           presiding elder and Chambersburg circuit

1834-36           presiding elder, Huntingdon district

1837                transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.  This surname is sometimes given as NIMAN.

 

 

NEISWANDER, ISAAC

 

Born: 1752  Erguel, Switzerland                                married: Barbara Henrietta Frank

Died: 1820  VA                                                          obit: [c1760 – 9/3/1850]

Miller-Raker #: 37

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1800    license

1807    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1810-11                     Virginia circuit

 

Note: Isaac Neiswander is recorded as performing marriages in Rockingham County VA in 1812 and 1813.  This surname is also rendered NISWANDER, and the original German rendering appears to be NEUENSCHWANDER.  He is credited as the author of the 1816 hymn “Ein Pilgrim bin auch ich auf Erden” – the English version of which, “I am a poor wayfaring stranger,” became known as the “Libby Prison Hymn.”  Some sources list his wife as Catherina Baumgartner, but that is believed to be the maiden name of his mother.  The information available about this family is confusing: there is a Barbara Henrietta Niswander (wife of Isaak Neuenschwander) with dates 1780-1817 buried in the Early Cemetery in Rockingham County VA.

 

 

NELKER, JOHN FREDERICK

 

Born: 11-24-1836  Hanover, Germany                       married: Louisa C. _____

Died: 3-14-1910  Ba;timore MD                                obit: [1840 – 10/?/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Virginia C. Johnston (1896)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/18/1862 – 7/1/1922]

Gibble list: yes

 

             quarterly conference license

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1898-99           Baltimore Third

 

Note: J.F. Nelker supplied the pulpit for the last ppart of the year with a quarterly conference license [see 1899,19]. 

 

NELSON, JAMES H.

 

Born: 4-10-1817                                                          married: Rebecca _____

Died: 1-24-1880                                                          obit: [d. 3/4/1885]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 19

 

1871-72           Northumberland circuit

 

NESS, JOHN HARRISON

 

Born: 10-23-1891  York PA                                       married: Myra Grace Kiracofe

Died: 2-15-1980  Lebanon OH                                   obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 142

Miller-Raker #: 571

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no                                                

 

1908    quarterly conference license, Yoe Salem

1911    license, recommended by Yoe Salem

1919    ordained

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 345

 

1911-15           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1911-12       Jefferson

                            1914-15       Millers

1915-16           Manchester MD

1916-19           student, Princeton Seminary

1919-31           York First

1931-48           conference superintendent

1948-62           associate/general secretary, General Board of Pensions EUB

1962                retired

     1963           United Church, Ponce PR (Jan-Jul)

     1964-65      Ibor City Mission, Tampa FL

     1967           superintendent, Otterbein Home Lebanon OH

 

Note: John Harrison Ness is the father of John Herbert Ness; they are sometimes noted as John H. Ness Sr. and Jr.

 

 

NESS, JOHN HERBERT

 

Born: 9-29-1919  Hagerstown MD                             married: Lucille Hull [divorce]

Died: 9-18-2000  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1920-2007]

Miller-Raker #: 691                                                    married2: Mrs. Naomi Vera Kaiser Grieve (1973)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 366

Gibble list: no

 

1936    quarterly conference license

1940    license, recommended by York First

1944    ordained

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 374

 

1936-40           student, Lebanon Valley College

1940-42           student, University of Pennsylvania

    1941-42       Mt. Olivet

1942-45           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

    1943-44       Dayton Otterbein, Miami Conference

                            1944-45       York Haven

1945-48           York Haven

1948-53           Frederick Centenary

1953-54           Mt. Alto-Quincy

1954-55           Mt. Alto

1955-58           Manchester PA (ending 8/24/1958)

1958-68                      general secretary, General Historical Society EUB (beginning 8/24/1958)

                            1958-62       Dayton Belmont, part-time

                            1962-64       Dayton Good Shepherd, part-time

1968-81           general secretary, General Commission on Archives and History UM

1981                retired

 

Note: John Herbert Ness is the son of John Harrison Ness; they are sometimes noted as John H. Ness Jr and Sr.

 

 

NEWBECKER, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 187

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841                expelled

 

Note: Henry Newbecker is listed as attending the 1830 (at Shoop’s meeting house) and 1831 (at Brown’s meeting house) conferences – both in Cumberland County PA.

 

 

NEWCOMER, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 2-1-1749  Lancaster County PA                       married: Elizabeth Baer

Died: 3-12-1830  Beaver Creek MD                          obit: [3/31/1752 – 4/22/1811]

Miller-Raker #: 4

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment: Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren

Obit:

 

1802-03                      Cumberland circuit

1805-06           Maryland (and part of PA) circuit

1812-13           Ohio circuit

1813-30           bishop

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 30, gives a brief biography.  Newcomer’s diary and various biographies are available in several forms.  Chapter 2 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Christian Newcomer.

 

 

NEWELL, HARRY NELSON

 

Born: 2-8-1869  Pittsburgh PA                                   married: Mary Magdalene Freehling

Died: 8-8-1918  Chester, WV                                     obit: [1876 – 8/?/1964]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 286

Gibble list: no

 

1899    license, Allegheny Conference

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Zion United Methodist Cemetery, Sarver PA

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church  1918, 371

 

1899-00           Port Matilda

1900-03           East Salem

1903-05           Herminie

1905-06           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1906-08           Fairmont

1908-09           Knoxdale

1909-10           DuBois

1910-11           (not listed)

1911                “transfer” to West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1911-12           Ceredo

1912-13           Alma

1913                transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1913-14           West Elizabeth

1914-15           Swartz

1915-17           Hopewell

1917-18           Chester WV

 

Note: H.N. Newell graduated from Slippery Rock College in 1896 and Western Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh) in 1915.

 

NEWMAN, DANIEL LESTER.

 

Born: 4-10-1911  Waynesboro PA                             married: Virginia S. Summers

Died: 1-26-2001  Brighton CO                                   obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1991, 221

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1935    license

1937    ordained

 

Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens, Greely CO

Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 2001, ?

 

1937-39           Kingwood, West Virginia Conference

1939                transfer to Virginia Conference

1939-45           [VA churches]

1945-67           chaplain, USAF

1967                transfer to Rocky Mountain Conference

                        Seibert

                        Meeker

                        Woodrow

1973                retired

 

NICHOLAS, JACOB LEONARD

 

Born: 11-6-1843  southern York County PA             married: Amelia Weitkamp

Died: 12-17-1919  Pottsville PA                                obit: [1/27/1846 – 11/2/1914]

Miller-Raker #: 395

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880    license

1883    ordained

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: on file

 

1882-83                     Spring Garden [Florin] circuit

1883-86           Hanover circuit

1886-88           Path Valley circuit

1888-89           Dover circuit

1889-90           supernumerary

1890                withdrew, page 10

                        entered the Lutheran ministry

1890-96           West Fairview charge, Synod of West Pennsylvania: St. Mark’s & St. Paul’s

1904                Ickesburg charge

1910-13                      Elderton charge, Pittsburgh Synod: Gastown Christ, Plum Creek Township Mount

                        Union & South Bend St. Jacob’s

                        Mechanicsburg

 

Note: J.L. Nicholas is the father of Lutheran pastors William H. Nicholas (PA,IL), Jacob C. Nicholas (PA), and C.M. Nicholas (PA) – and of Ida Kate Virginia Nicholas Fahs, the wife of Lutheran pastor William H. Fahs (PA,FL).

 

 

NICHOLAS, THEODORE J.

 

Born: 1833                                                                  married: Mardie A. _____

Died: 11-?-1905                                                          obit: [1841-1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit

 

1876                withdrew

 

NICKEL, FRANK A. JR      

 

Born: 2-10-1927                                                          married: Janet Lee Schafer

Died: 11-22-2014  Elizabethtown PA                        obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 400

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Covenant

1954    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2015, 578

 

1951-56           Northampton circuit

1956-58           Elizabethville

1958-60           Harrisburg Skyline View [Mt. Calvary]

1960-65           Lititz

1965-76           Paradise St. John’s

1976-92           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1992                retired

 

Note: Frank A. Nickel Jr. is the father of Chaplain Timothy A. Nickel, affiliation unknown.  Mrs. Nickel is buried in the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.

 

NISSLEY, EDWARD SWARTZ

 

Born: 7-25-1876  Hershey PA                                    married: Bess Palm

Died: 3-15-1957  Lancaster County PA                     obit: [9/12/1877 – 1950]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1898    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit

 

1901                referred

 

Note: An E.S. Nissley is mentioned in connection the Harrisburg Derry Street Sunday School in Gibble's 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 208.  He appears to have been from Middletown PA, attended Lebanon Valley College (class of 1902), and worked at the Dauphin Deposit Bank in Harrisburg.

 

 

NODEN, GEORGE

 

Born: 9-1-1857  Maccels Field, England                   married: Miriam Elizabeth Rossell

Died: 7-7-1942  Nova OH                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1945, 67

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 205

Gibble list: no

 

1882    quarterly conference license

1883    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Southview Cemetery, Sullivan OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1942, 63

 

1883-85           Pittsburgh mission

1885-87           Mahoning

1887-88           Newburg

1888-90           Bellefonte

1890-93           Port Matilda

1893-94           New Paris

1894-99           East Freedom

1899-02           Bigler

1902-04           Middletown

1904                Three Springs (did not finish the year)

1904                retired for health reasons

 

Note:  Apparently George Noden was able to return to the ministry and served North Point before retiring for good in 1923.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 9, column 9.

NOLL, SIMON

 

Born: 11-2-1817  near Annville PA                           married: Isabella Weiser [2/14/1852]

Died: 11-8-1899  Annville PA                                   obit: [2/23/1833 – 3/3/1911]

Miller-Raker #: 263

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1840    quarterly conference license

1842    license

1845    ordained

 

Interment: UB Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1900, 33

 

1842-44           Dauphin circuit

1844-45           Lebanon circuit

1845-46           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Berks County mission

1848-49           ?

1849-52           Reading Zion

1852-53           Highspire circuit

1853-55           ?

1855-57           Susquehanna circuit

1857-58           ?

1858-60           Dauphin circuit

1860-62           Sinking Spring circuit

1862-65           Jonestown circuit

1865-67           Pine Grove circuit

1867-69           Lykens Valley circuit

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-71           Union Deposit circuit

1871-73           Bellegrove circuit

1873-74           Lykens Valley circuit

1874-75           Myerstown circuit

1875-76           ?

1876-77           Germanville [Valley View] circuit

1877-80           Lebanon circuit

1880-81                     Avon circuit

1881-82           Jonestown circuit

1882-84           Union Deposit circuit

1884-85           Swatara circuit

1885                retired, living in Annville

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 457, gives a brief biography.  Simon Noll is the father of Minnie V. Noll Buddinger, wife of David D. Buddinger.

 

 

NOON, ADAM ABNER

 

Born: 1810  Hopewell, York County PA                   married: Maria Mary Lauer

Died: 2-26-1842  Cambria County PA                       obit: [1801 or 1802 – 8/21/1878]

Fulton #: 50

Miller-Raker #: 214

Fulton #: 50

Gibble list: yes

 

1836    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1907, 9

 

1839-40           York circuit

1840-41           Baltimore station

1841-42           Dauphin circuit

1842                transfer to Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Adam A. Noon is the brother of Benjamin F. Noon.  Their grandmother Mary Ann Otterbein [married to Conrad Noon, born 1750 in Dillenburg Germany], was the daughter of Philip William Otterbein’s brother George Gottfried Otterbein.

 

 

NOON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 9-7-1826  near Johnstown PA                          married: Anna Mary Fender

Died: 8-1-1898  Johnstown PA                                  obit: [1825 – 4/5/1880]

Fulton #: 79                                                                 married2: Sarah A. Custer

Miller-Raker #: 214                                                    obit2: [1/14/1850 – 7/1/1890]

Fulton #: 79                                                                 married3: Magdalena Stutzman Spangler (1891)

Gibble list: no                                                             obit3: [2/16/1844 – 12/12/1909]

 

1848    quarterly conference license

1852    license, Allegheny Conference

1855    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1898, 38

 

1852-53           Stone Valley circuit

1853-56           ?

1856-58           Ligonier circuit

1858-59           Schellsburg

1859-61           Jefferson

1861-62           Springfield

1863-65           superintendent, West District

1865-67           Jefferson

1867-69           ?

1869-70           Jefferson

1870-71           Somerset

1871-72           on leave

1872-78           ?         

1878-80           Cambria circuit

1880-81           Tyrone

1881-82           Casselman

1882-84           Rockwood

1884-88           Clearfield circuit

1888-89           Coalport circuit

1889-90           on leave

1890-92           Johnstown Second [Moxham]

1892-93           on leave

1893-94           Industry circuit

1894-96           Orbisonia

1896-97           on leave

1897                retired

 

Note: Benjamin F. Noon is the brother of Adam A. Noon.  Their grandmother Mary Ann Otterbein [married to Conrad Noon, born 1750 in Dillenburg Germany], was the daughter of Philip William Otterbein’s brother George Gottfried Otterbein.  There appears to be many “holes” in his record, and it is believed that he was an active supply preacher during those times.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 1.  The maiden name of the first Mrs. Noon may have been Pender.  The third Mrs. Noon (nee Stutzman) appears to have been the widow of a Mr. Spangler.

 

NORCROSS, ISAAC

 

Born: 12-1-1801                                                          married: Rachel Van Court [6/26/1823]

Died: 8-29-1850                                                          obit: [11/22/1803 – 4/30/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference (manuscript) 1851, 28

 

1850-1850       Lancaster circuit

 

 

NORTON, JAMES L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 93

Gibble list: no

 

1855    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1855-56           Schellsburg

1858                name erased

 

 

NOSS, W. RAY

 

Born: 2-24-1910                                                          married: Ethel M. Smith

Died: 8-3-1998                                                            obit: [10/31/1910 – 10/25/1999]

Miller-Raker #: 667

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license

1950    license

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Silver Spring township, Cumberland County PA

Obit:

 

1931-35           living in Mechanicsburg RD

1935                return to quarterly conference license, page 39

1950-59           living in Mechanicsburg RD

1959                return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

 

 

NUNN, SAMUEL JOHNSON

 

Born: 6-9-1858  Ontario Canada                                married: Almeda Medore Henderson

Died: 6-26-1901  San Miguel CA                              obit: [?/?/1858 – 6/6/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose CA.

Obit:

 

1881-83           Paradise St. John’s

1883                granted honorable dismissal at his own request, page 17

                        Baptist Church

1884                Mapes ND

1885                Cheyenne WY First

1886                Spring Valley MN

1887                Stillwater MN

1892                Oregon

1897                California

1898-99           Ft. Bragg CA

 

Note:  While S.J. Nunn is listed as an elder, but does not appear in Gibble’s list, nothing else is known about his credentials or association with the East Pennsylvania Conference.  He married in 1880 and a son in Pennsylvania before moving west.  Apparently he was originally interred in the San Francisco Columbarium, San Francisco CA, but his remains were later removed to San Jose by his son Fred.  The order of his service in ND and WY is unclear and may be given above in reverse.

 

 

NYE, ALLEN G.

 

Born: 10-22-1865  Lebanon County PA                    married: Emma Elizabeth Hetrick

Died: 12-27-1948                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 17

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1893    quarterly conference license, Palmyra Second

1894    license, East German Conference

1897    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 21

 

1894-95           Middleburg circuit

1895-96           Cressona

1896-99           Lykens circuit

1899-01           Reading Zion

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-04           Reading Zion

1904-06           Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1906-11           Lancaster Otterbein

1911-14           Lebanon Memorial

1914-20           Paradise St. John’s

1920-23           Elizabethtown

1923-26           Hershey First

1926-28           Linglestown and Colonial Park

1928-42           Palmyra Second

1942                retired

                             1944    Hershey First

 

 

OAKES, JOHN W.

 

Born: 4-24-1884  Pottstown PA                                 married: Florence Mabel Hepner

Died: 11-18-1943                                                        obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 29

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 433

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1923    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 57

                       

1914-15           Shaffertown

1915-16           Susquehanna

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-17           Hollsopple

1917-19           New Florence

1919-22           West Decatur

1922-25           Rockwood

1925-27           Madison

1927-30           South Williamsport

1930-36           Milton

1936-40           Latrobe

1940                retired

 

 

O’FARREL, DAVID

 

Born: 11-21-1821  VA                                               married: Hannah Fohl

Died: 6-28-1887  Parsons KS                                     obit: [1/2/1826 – 6/28/1887]

Miller-Raker #: 279

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    quarterly conference license, Winchester circuit of Virginia Conference

1844    license, Virginia Conference

1847    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Parsons KS

Obit: Neosho Conference 1888,? [see O’Farrell biographical file]

 

1844-45           Chambersburg circuit

1845-46           living in Indiana

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           New Holland circuit

1848-50           Lancaster circuit

1850-53           Harrisburg circuit

1853-54           Rocky Spring circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1854                transfer to White River Conference

1854-55           Dublin

1855-56           ?

1856-57           Marion

1857-58           Fall Creek

1858-60           presiding elder, East District

1860-61           presiding elder, Marion District

1861-62           Antioch

1862-63           presiding elder, Indianapolis District

1863-64           presiding elder, Marion District

1864-65           Antioch

1865-66           Salamony

1866-67           no assignment

1867-68           York Springs circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Mt. Joy, East Pennsylvania Conference

1869                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1869-71           New Holland

1871-72           Hummelstown-Highspire

1872-73           Highspire

1873                transfer to White River Conference   

1873-74           Williamsburg

1874-75                     Dundee                                             

1875-76           presiding elder, Dublin District

1876-77           Lincolnville

1877-80           location

1880                transfer to Osage Conference                                                

1880-84           ?

1884-87                     Parsons

 

Note: Mrs. O’Farrel is a sister to John Fohl – see Loyer’s 2000 Autobiography of John Fohl for more information on David O'Farrel.

 

 

OGG, ALBERT EDWARD

 

Born: 1873  CA                                                          married: Delores Eva Davis

Died: 10-13-1917  Chicago IL                                   obit: [born c1879]

Miller-Raker #: 530

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    license, recommended by Washington DC

1905    ordained

1907    received on trial in Baltimore Conference of ME Church

1907    ordained deacon in Baltimore Conference of ME Church

1908    missionary to India

1908    continued on trial in South India Conference

1911    [actually 12/1910] ordained elder in South India Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Oregon IL

Obit: South India Conference 1918 [actually 12/1917]

 

1904-06           living in Washington DC

1906                withdrew irregularly, page 49

1907                "transferred" to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1907-08           Gaithersburg MD

1908-09           Madras, Press Church

1909-11           Madras, Boys’ Orphanage & Press Church & publishing house agent

1911-14           agent for Madras Publishing House

1914-18           on leave

 

Note: 1904, 61 reports “that in view of the work done by Brother Albert E. Ogg in the Howard Theological Seminary, Washington DC, the past two years, he be passed to the second year’s course of reading.”  1905, 49 reports that Rev. Ogg was retained in third year’s course of reading.  His relationship to George Albertus Ogg (1867-1945) of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church is not known, but they are not immediate family.  The South India Conference was supposed to meet about February each year, depending on the schedule of the overseeing bishop, but sometimes the annual conference for one year was actually held in December of the preceding year.  Some sources give his birth year as 1872.
     In the 1940 census, Delores E. Ogg (61) is living in Queens NY with her daughter Ruth L. Ogg (40) and son George D. Ogg (29).

 

 

O’HARE, PATRICK

 

Born: 3-12-1842  Williamsburg NY                          married: Sarah Jane Waite

Died: 12-16-1920  Altoona PA                                  obit: [9/15/1851 – 8/8/1913]

Miller-Raker #: 349

Fulton #: 186 [HARE]

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Pennsylvania Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Altoona Mirror, 16 December 1920, p. 20, col. 2

 

1869-70           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1876                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1880                name erased

 

Note: This name is also rendered as P.O. HARE.  He generally was present at annual conference, but not listed as an itinerant.  He was a very active member at Altoona First.

 

 

OHNMACHT, JOHN R.

 

Born: 7-20-1867                                                                      married: Mary A. Heagy

Died: 19-12-1961                                                                    obit: [3/27/1879 – 8/30/1964]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery [Ebenezer], Lebanon County PA

Obit: [Lebanon Daily News, 10/13/1861, page 2]

 

1908-10           Manor circuit

1910-12           Catawissa circuit

1912                name erased

 

Note: John and Mary were married in 11/27/1912, a likely reason for him to leave the itinerancy and settle down.

 

 

OLEWILER, HOWARD LOWER

 

Born: 4-3-1893  York County PA                              married: Ruth E. Quigley

Died: 4-30-1983  Bradenton FL                                 obit: [1894 – 1983]

Miller-Raker #: 573

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1912    license, recommended by York Second

1917    ordained, Donegal Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

 

Interment: Hollywood Memorial Gardens, Hollywood FL

Obit: [see biographical files]

 

1912-14           student, Lebanon Valley College

1914-16           student, Princeton Seminary

1916                withdrew to become Presbyterian, page 72

1916-17           student, Princeton Seminary

1917-19           Bellevue Presbyterian, Gap PA

1919-23           First Presbyterian, Wilkinsburg PA

1923-27           Forrest Hills Presbyterian, Pittsburgh PA

1927-54           First Presbyterian, Marion OH

1954                retired

                             interim OH pastorates at Sandusky, Norwalk, Fostoria, Olena

                             supply for St. Andrews’s Presbyterian, Hollywood FL

                             organizing pastor for First Presbyterian, Margate FL

                            1973-83       chaplain at Doctor’s Hospital, Hollywood FL

 

 

OLIVER, JOHN EARL

 

Born: 6-5-1893  Martinsburg WV                              married: Miriam Green

Died: 9-3-1979  Pen Argyl PA                                   obit: [7/30/1895 – 3/27/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1917    license, Virginia Conference

1922    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Riverview Burial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1980, 360

 

1917-19           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1917-10      Stoverdale circuit

1919-22           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1922-24           Shenandoah

1924-25           Broadway

1925-32           Cumberland MD

1932-35           Singers Glen

1935-38           Keyser WV

1938-43           Petersburg WV

1943-61           Winchester

1961                retired to Pen Argyl PA

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

 

OPLINGER, WILLIAM G.

 

Born: 1-7-1884  Westmoreland County PA               married: Hilda Todd _____

Died: 5-6-1955  Greensburg PA                                 obit: [1894 – 1986]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 382

Gibble list: no

 

1933   license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Arona

 

Interment: Madison Union Cemetery, Madison PA

Obit:

 

Note: W.G. Oplinger apparently never served under appointment.  It is unclear whether TODD is the middle name or the maiden name of Mrs. Oplinger.

 

 

ORLIDGE, ALFRED J.

 

Born: 2-25-1891  Braddock PA                                 married: Carrie Almetta House

Died: 12-14-1957  McKeesport PA                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 391

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 437

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    quarterly conference license

1917    license, Allegheny Conference

1923    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 35

 

1913-14           Clarion River

1914-15           Milton

1915-16           Jefferson

1916-18           Runville

1918-19           Bradenville

1919-22           New Florence

1922-25           Wall

1925-28           Altoona Grace

1928-30           Shanksville

1930-37           McKeesport First

1937-44           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1944-50           Jeannette Gethsemane

1950-57           McKeesport Shoemaker

 

Note: Mrs. Orlidge is a daughter of Edwin F. House and a sister to Clyde E. House.

 

 

ORMSTON, EARL EVERETT

 

Born: 1-6-1892  Beaver Falls PA                               married: Martha Esther Dainton

Died: 6-23-1961  Johnstown PA                                obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 320

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 436

Gibble list: yes

 

1915    quarterly conference license

1917    license, Allegheny Conference

1921    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 37

 

1917-20           Knoxdale

1920-23           Fayette

1923-24           Industry & Sewickley

1924-28           Altoona Third

1928-31           [Florida Conference, under Board of Home Missions]

1931-34           Hollsopple (beginning 11/15/1931)

1934-44           Conemaugh

1944-48           Bellefonte

1948-58           Johnston Overbrook (ending 1/1958)

1958                retired for health reasons (beginning 1/58)

 

 

ORNER, THEODORE PORTER

 

Born: 12-22-1839  Perry County PA                          married: Delilah P. Pines (1/14/1864)

Died: 10-19-1920                                                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1929, 62

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 207

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    quarterly conference license

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1921, 93

 

1878-79           Millersburg Hebron

1883                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1883-84           Juniata [Mapleton]

1884-84           Huntingdon and Juniata

1885-89           Altoona First

1889-91           Altoona Second

1891-93           superintendent, Altoona District

1893-97           superintendent, Greensburg District

1897-98           superintendent, Altoona District

1898-03           Pitcairn Highland Avenue

1903-04           on leave

                             Port Matilda?

1904-06           Greenwood

1906-12           Tyrone

1912-14           Altoona Third

1915-20           emeritus, Altoona First

1920                retired

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 4.

 

 

OTT, EDWIN FORREST

 

Born: 8-5-1863  Altoona PA                                      married: Sarah Margaret Yingling (3/22/1883)

Died: 3-22-1948  Arkansas                                         obit: [2/1/1856 – 12/5/1928]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ruth Coley (c1900)

Fulton #: 264                                                               obit2: [10/28/1890 – 2/25/1969]

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license, Allegheny Conference

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Ganderville (Summers) Cemetery, Washington County AR

Obit:

 

1894-96           Stormstown

1896-97           Coalport

1897-98           Patchinville

1898-99           (no longer listed; living in Selinsgrove)

 

Note: Edwin F. Ott is a brother to Joseph E. Ott.  He apparently became a preacher in the Synod of Central Pennsylvania of the Lutheran Church.

 

OTT, JOSEPH ELWOOD

 

Born: 2-12-1871                                                          married: Ida Myrtle Haight

Died: 3-31-1942  Kane PA                                         obit: [11/2/1880 – 3/22/1971]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 318

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist

1903    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit:

 

1897-98           North Jefferson, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1900-01           living in Selinsgrove

1901-02           Washingtonville

1902                Harrisonville (Mar-Aug)

1902                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1902-03           Birmingham

1903-06           East Salem

1906-07           New Paris

1907-08           Lovett

1908-10           Liverpool

1910-12           Mahaffey

1912-13           Knoxdale

1913-15           Fayette

1915-17           West Decatur (ending 4/16/17)

1926                dropped

                       

Note: Joseph E. Ott is a brother to Edwin F. Ott.  In 1897 he is listed under “others employed by the conference,” and he served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.  He reportedly served as a minister until two daughters aged 8 and 10 died within six months of each other, and then became a chiropractor in Kane PA.  He is not to be confused with Jacob Emil Ott (1867-1951) of the Oregon-Washington Conference of the EUB Church.

 

 

OTTERBEIN, PHILIP WILLIAM

 

Born: 6-3-1726  Dillenburg, Germany                       married: Susan LeRoy

Died: 11-17-1813  Baltimore MD                              obit: [11/?/1735 – 4/27/1768]

Miller-Raker #: 1

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1749    ordained, German Reformed Church

 

Interment: Old Otterbein Church, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1749-52           Ockersdorf, Germany

1752-58           Lancaster PA (and Pequea)

1758-60           Tuplehocken PA (and Mill Creek)

1760-65                      Frederick MD (and Middletown)

1765-74           York PA (and Kreutz’s, Quickel’s, Lower Windsor, Paradise, Union, Hopewell)

1774-00           Baltimore MD (and Antietam until 1784)

1800                charter member (and first bishop) of United Brethren denomination

1800-13           Baltimore Old Otterbein

 

Note: Several biographies exist

 

 

OW, JOHANN GERHARDUS HERMANUS [HARMONIUS]

 

Born: 2-17-1778  Oberisen, Germany                        married: Catherine Gilbert (10/17/1797)

Died: 7-20-1861  Cherry Tree, Indiana County PA   obit: [c1778 – c1808]

Miller-Raker #: 58                                                      married2: Christina Elizabeth Faust (3/18/1811)

Fulton #: 1                                                                   obit2: [9/27/1778 – 2/27/1856]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Rebecca Wilson (1857)

                                                                                    obit3:

1810    license

1814    ordained

 

Interment: Stiffler Church Cemetery, Berringer PA

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9]

 

1836-37           presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Harmonius Ow is the father of Eve Ow Stevens, wife of Benedict Stevens (1802-1883) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The site http://www.rootsweb.com/~papastor/ gives a brief biography of Harmonius Ow.  His gravesite is also reported as Uniontown Cemetery, Uniontown [Indiana County] PA

 

 

OWEN, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 8-22-1820  Orrstown PA                                  married: Rebecca Howenstein

Died: 12-3-1861  Newville PA                                   obit: [6/1/1927 – 5/8/1907]

Miller-Raker #: 261

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

1845    ordained

 

Interment: Oakville UB/UM Cemetery, Oakville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1862, 76&78

 

1842-43           Carlisle circuit

1843-45           Littletown mission

1845-46           Chambersburg circuit

1846-47           Carlisle circuit

1847-49           Chambersburg station

1849-52           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1852-54           presiding elder, York District

1854-56           Big Spring circuit

1856-57           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown] (did not finish the year)

1856-57           president, Mt Pleasant College

1857-59           denominational editor, Unity Magazine and (English) Sabbath School Periodicals

 

Note: Five Owen brothers entered the ministry: Alexander, Wilson and William in the UB Church; Abraham K. (1825-1904) in the North Ohio Conference of the ME Church; Stephen W. (1837-?) in the Lutheran Church (at St. John’s in Hagerstown for more than 40 years).  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 303, gives brief biographical sketches of the various Owen pastors.  In 1875, the widowed Mrs. Owen later married the widowed Solomon Keister, father of Lawrence W. Keister and George Keister.

 

 

OWEN, JOHN W.

 

Born: 12-26-1830  Clearfield County PA                  married: Lavina C. Korb

Died: 6-13-1885  Kittanning PA                                obit: [7/8/1837 – 1/14/1904]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 120

Gibble list: no

 

1859    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1862    ordained, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Kittanning Cemetery, Kittanning PA

Obit:

 

1859-60           Penns Valley

1860                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1860-61           Wilmore

1861-62           Luthersburg

1862-63           Knoxdale

1863-65           Mahoning

1865-70           located for health reasons

1870                honorable discharge

 

Note: In 1866, John W. Owen moved to Kittanning where he practiced dentistry, operated a store, and engaged in other business pursuits.  He became an active layman in the local Methodist Protestant church.  There is a biographical sketch of John W. Owen in the biographical files.

 

 

OWEN, JOHN WILSON

 

Born: 9-3-1871  Littlestown PA                                 married: Minerva Wantz

Died: 1-27-1949  Dayton OH                                     obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 59

Miller-Raker #: 456

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1895    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 31

 

1894-95           Frederick

1895-96           Walkersville

1896-99           Duncannon

1899-00           Chambersburg circuit

1900                 Gettysburg (Mar-Oct, resigned 11/1/1900)

1900-03           Union [Bonebrake] Theological Seminary

                             1902           Dayton High Street mission (Jun-Aug)

1903-06           Mechanicsburg

1906-10           Baltimore Franklin Street

1910-13           York Fifth

1913-25           denominational associate editor, Sunday School literature

1925-41           denominational editor, Sunday School literature

1941                retired

 

Note: John Wilson Own is the son of Wilson Owen.

 

 

OWEN, WILLIAM O.

 

Born: 5-26-1829                                                          married: Rebecca McFerren

Died: 4-19-1911                                                          obit: [4/21/1836 – 1/30/1914]

Miller-Raker #:

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1857    license

 

Interment: Pughtown Baptist Church Cemetery, Pughtown PA

Obit:

 

1857-58           Greencastle circuit

1858-60           Path Valley circuit

1860-61           Orrstown circuit

1861-62           Big Spring station

1862                withdrew to minister in the Church of God

1871                withdrew to minister in the Baptist church

1887-95           Pughtown

 

Note: Five Owen brothers entered the ministry: Alexander, Wilson and William in the UB Church; Abraham K. (1825-1904) in the North Ohio Conference of the ME Church; Stephen W. (1837-?) in the Lutheran Church.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 303, gives brief biographical sketches of the various Owen pastors.
 

 

OWEN, WILSON

 

Born: 5-25-1827  Franklin County PA                       married: Margaret Ann Thompson

Died: 4-2 1876  Chambersburg PA                            obit: [3/12/1832 – 9/?/1900]

Miller-Raker #: 345

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1867    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1877, 17

 

1867-69           Bendersville

1869-71           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1871-74           Littlestown

1874-76           Greencastle

1876                Orrstown (Mar-Apr)

 

Note: Wilson Owen is the father of John Wilson Owen.  Five Owen brothers entered the ministry: Alexander, Wilson and William in the UB Church; Abraham K. (1825-1904) in the North Ohio Conference of the ME Church; Stephen W. (1837-?) in the Lutheran Church.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 303, gives brief biographical sketches of the various Owen pastors.

 

 

OYER, DAVID MONTGOMERY

 

Born: 9-27-1868                                                          married: Anna Irene Hoover

Died: 2-22-1917                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 32

Miller-Raker #: 482

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Upper Strasburg

1901    license

1905    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 87

 

1897-01           student, Lebanon Valley College

1901-03           Mechanicsburg circuit

1903-07           Newburg

1907-09           Duncannon

1909-14           Boiling Springs

1914-16           Enola

1916-17           York Fourth

 

Note: David M. Oyer is the father of Russell C. Oyer and the grandfather of David N.R. Oyer.

 

 

OYER, DAVID NATHANIEL RUSSELL

 

Born: 2-18-1943                                                          married: Mildred Arlene Slater (1968)

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 803

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-65           living in Lemoyne

1965-68           living in Pittsburgh, director of Youth Ministry for Pittsburgh Council of Churches

1968-69           living in Dayton OH

1969                no longer listed

 

Note: David N.R. Oyer is the son of Russell C. Oyer and the grandson of David M. Oyer.  His father’s 1971 obituary places him in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  His mother’s 2002 obituary simply lists him as a survivor.  In 1996 he appears to be a property manager in Pittsburgh PA.  In 2019, he appears to be living in Rogersville TN.

 

 

OYER, RUSSELL CONWELL

 

Born: 9-12-1906  Newburg PA                                  married: Mary Elizabeth Jackson

Died: 3-19-1971                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 367

Miller-Raker #: 649

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    quarterly conference license, Shippensburg Messiah

1926    license

1932    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 363

 

1925-29           student, Lebanon Valley College

1929-32           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1932-33           living in Boiling Springs

1933-35           Myersville

1935-38           Mt. Alto-Quincy

1938-44           Baltimore Siemers Memorial

1944-49           Mt. Wolf

1949-52           Hagerstown Emmanuel

1952-60           Hanover

1960-63           conference director, Christian Education

1963-66           Lemoyne Calvary

1966-70           Lock Haven First

1970-71           Yorkanna

 

Note: Russell Oyer is the son of David M. Oyer and the father of David N.R. Oyer.  His daughter Mary Ann is the wife of John W. Schildt.  His daughter Patricia Sue is the wife of Rev. Aaron M. Sheaffer of the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

PALING, W.L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884-85           Newville station (did not finish the year)

 

Note: W. L. Paling is otherwise unknown.  He did not finish the year, and R. Wood was appointed to take his place and give the 1885 statistical report.  He could be the H[iram] L[loyd] Poling (12/11/1849 – 10/9/1904) of the Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference who transferred to the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1897.

 

 

PARDOE, GERALD L.

 

Born: 3-20-1913  Bellefonte PA                                married: Phyllis M. Woolford

Died: 4-15-1989                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 409

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1939    quarterly conference license

1943    license, Allegheny Conference

1958    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 411

 

1940-43           Mahaffey (beginning 11/2/1940)

1943-46           [Virginia Conference]

1946-49           Sidman – St. Michael

1949-57           McKeesport First

1957-65           Paradise

1965-70           Dubois Trinity

1970-77           McDonald

1977                retired

 

 

PARKER, CHARLES SPURGEON

 

Born: 8-2-1865  Huntington County IN                                 married: Sue Gertrude Pence (10/19/1898)

Died: 2-7-1920  Des Moines IA                                             obit: [8/21/1878 – 1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 430

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, St. Joseph Conference

1895    ordained, St. Joseph Conference

 

Interment: South Whitley Cemetery, South Whitley IN

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1920, 78

 

1895-96           Dayton IN

1896-88           Frankfort

                        Silver Lake

                        South Whitley

                        North Manchester

                        Peru

                        Indianapolis

                        Russell KS

1905-06           Churubusco

1906-08           Elkhart Castle

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-19           Altoona First (ending 1/1/1919)

1919-20           Des Moines IA Castle Memorial, Iowa Conference

 

Note: C.S. Parker is the brother of United Brethren pastors William Frank Parker (1850-1916) and James Rosecrans Parker (1862-1936).  He reportedly had an excellent musical and evangelistic ministry in which he engaged full-time for 3 years, and served at large churches in various conferences before coming to the Allegheny Conference in 1916.

 

PARMER, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 2-18-1912                                                          married: Hope M. Martin

Died: 10-30-1983                                                        obit: [6/13/1911 – 3/7/1988]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    quarterly conference license, New Holland

1946    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1949    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rancks United Methodist Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit:

 

1943-46           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1943-46       Grantville and Manada Hill

1946-49           student, United Theological Seminary

                            1946-47       Pottsdam-West Sonora

                            1947-49       Liberty

1949-53           Reading Zion

1953-62           Manheim

1962-63           Harrisburg Penbrook (ending 8/22/1963)

1963                withdrew – see 1964, 132

 

 

PATRICK, MELVIN EDWARD

 

Born: 3-7-1908  Jenners PA                                       married: Arnetta Crist

Died: 3-24-2001                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 289

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                              married2: Ida Mae Barnhart

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1910 – 2008]

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license, Jenner Cross Roads

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Hooversville

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Cornwall Cemetery, Cornwall PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2001, 7.326

 

1929-33           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1929-31      Lickdale

                             1931-33      Grantville circuit

1933                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1933-38           student, Evangelical School of Theology

                             1933-38      Grantville circuit

1938-39           Grantville circuit

1939-44           Lebanon Memorial

1944-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-70           Palmyra Second

 

Note: Melvin E. Patrick is the father of M. Eugene Patrick and of Rev. Larry P. Patrick (1941-2002) of the Church if God.  Following the death of Melvin, the second Mrs. Patrick married a Mr. Mark M. McCurdy.

 

 

PATRICK, MELVIN EUGENE

 

Born: 12-28-1928  Somerset County PA                   married:  Juliette Romaine Bowman

Died: 7-25-1991                                                          obit: [12/26/1929 – 9/15/2016]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Palmyra Second [Gravel Hill]

1956    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 481

 

1951-54           Silver Spring circuit

1954-59           Royalton

1959-67           Ranck’s

1967-70           Highspire

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-74           Highspire

1974-80           Mont Alto Yoked

1980-87           East Prospect

1987-91           Houserville-Woodycrest

 

Note: M. Eugene Patrick is the son of Melvin E. Patrick and a brother of Rev. Larry P. Patrick (1941-2002) of the Church of God.

 

 

PATTERSON, GEORGE

 

Born: 2-14-1776  Augusta County VA                      married: Barbara Silling [5/12/1796]

Died: 8-22-1843  Augusta County VA                      obit: [1768 – 1838]

Miller-Raker #: 137

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1828    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference 1844]

 

1830                charter member of Virginia [Hagerstown] Conference

1832-33           Woodstock circuit [and presiding elder (superintendent) for Virginia]

 

Note: George Patterson reportedly started his ministry as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference does not give George Patterson’s name in the alphabetic list.  He is listed as present in 1831, 33, 34, 35, 37; absent in 1832, 39, 42, 43.  An obituary also appears in the 2/28/1844 Religious Telescope.

 

 

PATTERSON, NELSON OLIVER

 

Born: 7-9-1862  Waynesboro PA                               married: Ellen Sophia Carty (1884)

Died: 9-15-1949  Canoe AL                                       obit: [2/15/1865 – 2/10/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 257

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Sardis Cemetery, Wawbeek AL

Obit:

 

1891-92           Fulton circuit

1892-94           Phillipsburg, Allegheny Conference

1893                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1893-94           Phillipsburg

1894                dismissed

                        Baptist Church

1908                Stonington IL

                        Tuscumbia AL

1920                Florala AL

1927-29           Hoover AL Hunter Street

1929                Jackson AL

1939                Bratt AL

 

Note:  N.O. Patterson is the father of Dr. Eugene Nelson Patterson of the Southern Baptist Church (president of Grand Canyon College in Phoenix) and Florence Patterson Seise, wife of Baptist pastor Peter Hall Seise (1888-1934).  He appears to have attended Lebanon Valley College.  In the 1890’s the Pennsylvania Conference was meeting in February and the Allegheny Conference in September.  In February 1891 Fulton circuit was left TBS, but Rev. Patterson was appointed by the presiding elder immediately after conference.  In February 1892 Rev. Patterson was again assigned to Fulton circuit, which during the year was returned to the Allegheny Conference.  In September 1892 Rev. Patterson was assigned to Phillipsburg.  He is later referred to as Dr. N.O. Patterson.

 

PEASE, JACOB CLAYTON

 

Born: 9-6-1867  York County PA                              married: Emma L. Murray (1893)

Died: 3-21-1937  Mechanicsburg PA                         obit: [4/1/1872 – 3/9/1957]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1894    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC [1894, 6&9]

1897    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: [Harrisburg Telegraph 3/22/1937, page 22]

 

1894-95           Eschol mission

1895-96           York Spring mission

1896-99           Manchester mission

1899                withdrew to preach for the Church of God [in Perry County], page 8

1900                returned, page 8&26

1900-02           Shippensburg mission

1902-03           Waynesboro mission (did not finish the year [1904, 11])

1903-04           Tower City, East Pennsylvania Conference

1904                withdrew to preach for the UB (new constitution), page 6

1904                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 7&8&11

1904-06           Tower City

1906-07           Refton

1907-09           Linglestown circuit

1909-12           Halifax

1912-13           Fayetteville, Pennsylvania Conference

1913-16           Jacksonville circuit

1916-17           Shamokin circuit (did not finish the year)

1917                name erased, page 9

 

 

PEDEN, ARTHUR PAUL

 

Born:  3-4-1895  Johnstown PA                                 married: Mabel Irene Josephine Weik

Died:  4-28-1994                                                         obit: [2/24/1892 – 10/27/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Helen Sylvia Snyder Michael

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1982, 410

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Mrs. Oma O. Smeal Tobias

                                                                                    obit3: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1991, 347

1914    quarterly conference license

1921    license, Miami Conference

1924    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Rossiter PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 370

 

1919-21           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

                             1919-21      associate, Westerville OH

1921-24           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1921-22      associate, Westerville OH

                             1922-24      associate secretary, Board of Administration in Dayton OH

1924-27           Dayton Olivet

1927-30           Cincinnati Willey Memorial

1930-37           conference evangelist

1937-38           chaplain. Otterbein Home in Lebanon OH

1938-42           Millville

1942-46           conference evangelist

1946                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1946-48           Rochester mills

1948-53           Altoona Wehnwood

1953-57           Johnstown Fairfield Avenue

1957-60           conference evangelist

1960-61           Punxsutawney Albion

1961                retired

 

Note: Arthur P. Peden is the author of six books of poetry.  The second Mrs. Peden is the daughter of Meade M. Snyder and the widow of a Mr. Darrell Howard Michael.  The third Mrs. Peden is the widow of William B. Tobias.

 

 

PEFFLEY, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 10-6-1802                                                          married: Elizabeth Light

Died: 11-2-1885                                                          obit: [8/5/1806 – 8/12/1853]

Miller-Raker #: 203                                                    married2: Rachel Hoover

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 10/9/1894]

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment: Mountville, Lebanon County PA

Obit:

 

1841-41           Lebanon circuit

1842-43           Lancaster circuit

1843-44           Schuylkill mission

1844-45           Berks circuit

1845-46           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1848-49           Lebanon circuit

1849-51           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1851-52           ?

1852-53           Dauphin circuit

1853-54           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1854-55           not employed

1855-57           presiding elder, East District

1857-58           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1858                joined Evangelical Mennonite denomination

1862                name erased from East Pennsylvania Conference

1877                joined United Christian denomination

1879-1882       presiding elder

 

Note: Limited additional information on Christian Peffley appears in The Chronicle 13:44 (2002), the 1977 History of the United Christian Church, and the conference biographical files.

 

 

PEIFFER [see also PFEIFER]

 

 

PEIFFER, HAROLD SYLVESTER

 

Born: 3-30-1911                                                          married:  Martha Uhrich

Died: 8-24-2006                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2009, ?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1937    quarterly conference license, Elizabethtown

1939    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1943    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Grantville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2007,?

 

1937-40           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1937-40       Brunnerville-Newton

1940-43           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

                            1940-43       Potsdam

1943-51           Philadelphia Second

1951-72           Lancaster Covenant

1972-78           superintendent, Northeast District

1978                retired

                            1978-79       assistant to the bishop

                            1979-81       Mt. Gretna

                            1981-83       Quarryville Memorial

                            1983-84       Quarryville Wesley

 

 

PEIFFER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 1883                                                                  married: Almeta S. Dougherty

Died: 3-4-1951  Jonestown PA                                  obit: [1885 – 2/20/1967]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Nebo Cemetery, Ono PA

Obit:

 

1906-08           student, Lebanon Valley College

1913                referred

 

Note: William H. Peiffer served as a local preacher.  He also was a school teacher, worked 25 years as a rural mail carrier, and served as a tax collector.  Mrs. Peiffer is the daughter of Joseph B. Daugherty.

 

PENICK, RAY EMMET

 

Born: 7-14-1886  Cumminsville OH                          married: Esther May Groff [6/26/1913]

Died: 11-28-1958  Clearfield PA                               obit: [5/28/1889 – 4/24/1990]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 446

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Southeast Ohio Conference

1916    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Newman Creek Cemetery, North Lawrence OH

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 30

 

1910-13           Peachblow – Ostrander

1913                transfer to Miami Conference

1913-16           Dayton Olivet

1916-19           Hamilton

1919                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1919-22           Altoona First

1922-25           Johnstown Park Avenue

1925-28           without appointment

1928-31           Hooversville (beginning 2/1/1928)

1931-34           Altoona Second

1934-40           Clearfield

1940                Hollsopple (resigned 10/22/1940)

1940-43           without appointment

1943                no longer listed          

 

Note: Not much is known about Ray E. Penick.  He apparently graduated from Hughes High School in Cincinnati OH in 1904.  The last [1990] SS address for Mrs. Penick is Hesston, Huntingdon County, PA.

 

 

PERKS, THOMAS WILLIAM

 

Born: 1866                                                                  married: Bessie Ann Stevens

Died: 1958                                                                  obit: Kansas Conference 1931, 32

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 253

Gibble list: no

 

1893    license, Allegheny Conference

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1959, 81

 

1892-94           Mahaffey

1893-94           living in Mahaffey

1894-95           Knoxdale

1895-98           student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1898-99           McKeesport

1899-00           Johnstown Fourth [Walnut Grove]

1900-03           Bellefonte

1903-06           Madison

1906                transfer to

 

PERNA, ANTHONY JOHN

 

Born: 10-10-1921  Clearfield County PA                  married: Margaret Jean Musser [1946]

Died: 4-4-1987                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2011, 404

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, Allegheny Conference

1957    ordained, Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

 

Interment: McClure Union Cemetery, McClure PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 419

 

1948-51           East Salem

1951                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

1951-59           East Salem

1959-96           Runville

1965-66           Nescopek

1966-80           McClure

1980-84           disability leave

1984                retired

 

 

PERSHING, JUSTUS HOLMES

 

Born: 6-13-1847                                                          married: Mary Alice McGuire

Died: 5-23-1931                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1921, 25

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 181

Gibble list: no

 

1872    quarterly conference license, Loyalhanna

1876    license, Allegheny Conference

1880    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1931, 64

 

1875-78           Mahoning

1878-81           Somerset

1881-83           Ligonier

1883-84           Burnsides

1884-86           Rockwood

1886-88           Somerset

1888-90           Conemaugh

1890-91           superintendent,

1891-93           Copeland

1893-96           Coalport

1896-98           superintendent,

1898-99           Moxham

1899-01           Rockwood

1901-02           Connellsville

1902-05           ?

1905-06           Edna mission

1906-11           ?

1911-27           assistant, Greensburg

1927                retired

 

Note: Justus H. Pershing is the grandson of Daniel Pershing (1769-1830) of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a first-cousin to the father of General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) of WWI fame.  He was a historian and lecturer of national reputation and the author of several books – including a pictorial history of the United Brethren Church and Two Railroads.  Beginning in 1902 he appears to be living in Greensburg.  A 22-page booklet “Short Sketch of Life Work of Rev J.H. Pershing, D.D.” was printed about 1910.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 6.

 

PETERS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1837                transfer to Wabash Conference

 

1843-44           Lisbon IA circuit

                       

Note: This is not the prominent John Peters (1838-1899) of the Tennessee and East Tennessee Conferences.

 

PETERS, LEWIS

 

Born: 7-20-1836  near New Holland PA                    married: Cassadella Ranck

Died: 3-8-1893  New Holland PA                              obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 66

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    quarterly conference license

1859    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1862    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Baldwin Cemetery, Steelton PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 31

 

1858-60           East Lancaster mission

1860-61           Amity circuit

1861-63           Columbia Salome

1863-64           Hummelstown circuit

1864-67           Lancaster circuit

1867-71           Reading Otterbein

1871-74           ?

1874-76           Steelton Centenary

1876-77           Lebanon Trinity

1877-78           Lebanon Trinity (first part of year), Harrisburg First (last part of year)

1978-80           Harrisburg First

1882-83           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1883-84           living in Intercourse

1884-85           Paradise St. John’s

1885-86           Intercourse

1886-89           Steelton Centenary

1889-92           Pottstown Baltzell

1892-93           New Holland

 

PETERSON, ERNEST LEROY

 

Born: 9-26-1923  Lyleville PA                                   married: Esther Grace McGlathery

Died:  7-26-1991  PA                                                 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 367

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1943    quarterly conference license

1947    license, Allegheny Conference

1951    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 297

 

1946-47           Altoona Wehnwood

1947-48           Shade Gap

1948-51           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton Oh

1951-58           East Freedom

1958-64           Punxsutawney First

1964-74           Johnstown Westmont

1974-85           associate, Chippewa

1985-88           Johnsonburg

1988                retired

 

 

PETERSON, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born:  8-1-1917  Utahville PA                                   married: Daisy Beatrice Wolford

Died:  3-7-1978                                                           obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 320

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1943    quarterly conference license, Casselman

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Kesslar Cemetery, Acme PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 406

 

1942-44           Casselman

1944-49           Susquehanna

1949-53           Shanksville – Central City

1953-58           Rockwood

1958-65           Indian Creek

1965-78           Hooversville

 

 

PFEIFER, DANIEL.

 

Born: 10-21-1785  Germany                                       married: Barbara Hershey (1825)

Died: 9-20-1868                                                          obit: [6/30/1804 – 12/26/36]

Miller-Raker #: 79                                                      married2: Mrs. Esther Shoemaker Eby

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes [PEIFFER]

 

1815    exhorter’s license

1818    license

1820    ordained

 

Interment: Eby’s Cemetery (Rapho township), Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 29

 

1819-20           Hagerstown circuit

1820-21           Virginia circuit

1821-22           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.  Barbara Hershey Pfeifer is the daughter of Abraham Hershey (Lancaster).

 

 

PFRIMMER, JOHN GEORGE

 

Born: 7-24-1762  Alsace, Germany                            married: Elizabeth Ann Senn

Died: 9-25-1825  Corydon IN                                    obit: [6/20/1762 – 7/3/1829]

Miller-Raker #: 15

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1790    license

1815    ordained, Miami Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Pfrimmer Chapel Cemetery, Harrison County IN

Obit: [Miami Conference  1892, 8]

 

1814                transfer to Miami Ohio Conference   

 

Note: John George Pfrimmer is the father of Elizabeth Pfrimmer Winter, wife of John L. Winter.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 304, gives a brief biography.  Chapter 4 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses John George Pfrimmer.

 

 

PHILLIPS, JONATHAN SETH

 

Born: 6-2-1857  Rauchtown PA                     married: Alma Bida Clark

Died: 10-30-1934  Belleville PA                    obit: [d. 1918]

Miller-Raker #: no                                          married2: Mrs. Margaret Cummins Bigelow

Fulton #: no                                                     obit2: Central PAConference [Methodist] 1940, 185

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Belleville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference [Methodist] 1935, 233

 

1895-96           East Salem

1901                “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church

1901-04           Belleville

1904-05           Burnt Cabins

1905-08           Ennisville

1908-09           Pine Grove Mills

1909-11           Thompsontown

1911-12           apparently no assignment

1912-16           Cassville

1916-17           Lock Haven circuit

1917-19           Thompsontown

1919-20           Vira

1920-23           Claysburg

1923-26           Ramey

1926-28           Salona & Lamar

1928-30           Beach Haven

1930-33           Rouzerville

1933                retired

 

Note:  J.S. Phillips served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference”  and in the Methodist Church after 1901 as a local pastor.

 

PHILLIPS, GEORGE STAHL

 

Born: 10-1-1927  McKeesport PA                             married: Ella Jean Flood

Died: 2-27-1976  California PA                                 obit: [1931 -

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, Allegheny Conference

1961    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Neelyton PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 315

 

1944-47       Shade Gap

1947-50       Knoxdale

1950-56       Windber Graham Avenue

1956-62       Braddock

1962-70       Greenville Calvary

1970-71       West Washington (ending 9/16/1971)

1971-75       Erie Christ (beginning 9/16/1971)

1975-76       California

 

Note: George Stahl Phillips is the grandson on Lazarus W. Stahl.

 

PHILLIPS, HENRY CLAY

 

Born: 8-21-1847  PA                                                  married: Elizabeth E. Guest

Died: 8-25-1914  Mount Gretna PA                           obit: [8/30/1848 – 9/13/1908]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary C. Gladding

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [12/10/1860 – 3/11/1929]

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1873-74           Highspire

1874-76           Middletown-Royalton

1876-80           Steelton Centenary

1880-85           Reading Otterbein

1885-86           Philadelphia First

1886-89           Harrisburg First

1889-93           Mount Joy

1893-02           Philadelphia First

                            1894-99       Port Richmond St. Paul’s

1902-03           Mount Joy

1903-04           Paradise St. John’s

1904-08           living in Philadelphia, manager of Sea Grove camp meeting

1908                name erased

 

 

PHREANER, SAMUEL

 

Born: 1-4-1828                                                            married: Veronica Felty

Died: 1-7-1915                                                            obit: [1/25/1831 – 6/3/1889]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1874-75           Grantville

 

Note: Samuel Phreaner is otherwise unknown.

 

 

PILGRIM, CHARLES EVANS

 

Born: 1870                                                                  married: Hattie Mady

Died: 12-9-1928                                                          obit: Michigan Conference 1930, 32

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Loudpn Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Michigan Conference 1929, 17

 

1887-90           evangelist, living in Philadelphia

1890                transfer to “Iowa Conference, or any other conference he may wish to join” – p.11

                        Sandusky Conference

1902                transfer to Michigan Conference

1902-03           ?

1903-05           Grand Rapids First

1905-06           ?

1906                transfer to Iowa Conference

…

1908                Lancaster Covenant, East Pennsylvania Conference (May to Oct)

…

1916                transfer to Michigan Conference

1916-19           Grand Rapids First

1919-28           conference superintendent

 

Note: Charles E. Pilgrim was called the “boy evangelist.”  He held successful revivals at Lancaster Covenant 1887 and 1888 and returned there from Michigan in 1908 to finish the year following the 5/23/08 death of Abraham Myers.

 

PITMAN, JOHN SPENCE

 

Born: 8-8-1845  New York City NY                          married: Sarah A. Brown [1868]

Died: 12-27-1911  Eagle Rock CA                            obit: [1839 – 5/1/1906]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, California Conference

?          ordained, California Conference

 

Interment: Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana CA

Obit: California Conference 1912, 22

 

                        California Conference

1892-93           superintendent, Los Angeles District

1893-97           Los Angeles First

1897-00           conference superintendent

1900-01           Dubois, Allegheny Conference

 

Note: J.S. Pitman is the father of Presbyterian/Congregational pastor Homer K. Pitman.  He served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference” and returned to California to go into business.  A biographical sketch is on file.

 

PLUMMER, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-11-1887                                                          married:

Died: 4-2-1919                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 563

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license, Shiloh of Chewsville charge

1910    license, recommended by Hagerstown

 

Interment: Shiloh Cemetery, Security [near Hagerstown] MD

Obit:

 

1909-10           student, Lebanon Valley College

1911-12           Wolfsville

1915                withdrew

 

Note: Charles W. Plummer is a brother of F. Berry Plummer.

 

PLUMMER, FREDERICK BERRY

 

Born: 1-7-1885  Bridgeport MD                                married: Emma E. Flook

Died: 5-25-1957                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 36

Miller-Raker #: 514

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license

1908    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Myersville MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 45

 

1903-05           student, Lebanon Valley College

1905-07           Myersville circuit

1907-11           Shippensburg Messiah

1911-14           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1914-21           Carlisle Grace

1921-56           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1956                retired

 

Note: F. Berry Plummer is a brother of Charles W. Plummer.  Mrs. Plummer is a granddaughter of Joshua Harp and a sister to Cryus F. Flook.   

 

POSTLETHWAIT, SAMUEL L.

 

Born: 2-14-1876                                                          married: Hannah Williams

Died: 3-29-1954 OH                                                   obit: East Ohio Conference 1969, 153

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 392 [POSTLETHWAITE]

Gibble list: no

 

license, ? Conference

1907    ordained, ? Conference

 

 

Interment: South Lawn Cemetery, Beach City OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1954, 41&87

 

1911                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1911-13           Mount Pleasant

1913-17           Johnstown First

1917                open transfer, page 50

                        Anderson IN First

 

Note: This name is also rendered S.L. POSTLETHWAITE.

 

POTTER, ISAIAH

 

Born: 1-7-1819 near Montgomery’s Ferry PA           married: Mary Ann Wasson

Died: 10-4-1890  Selinsgrove PA                              obit: [2/13/1822 - 1911]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 55 and 176 and 225

Gibble list: yes

 

1843    license, Allegheny Conference

1846    ordained, Allegheny Conference

1852    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1891, 33

 

1843-44           Susquehanna

1844-45           Bellefonte and Millheim

1845-46           Bellefonte

1846-48           Juniata

1848-50           Huntingdon

1850-52           Mt. Pleasant station

1852-54           West Moreland

1854-55           Madison

1855-56           Bellefonte

1856-58           Juniata

1858-62           superintendent, Eastern District

1862-63           Mapleton

1863-65           Perrysville

1865-66           East Salem

1866-68           Blair

1868-70           Liverpool

1870-71           irregularly withdrawn

1871-72           Tyrone

1872                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73           Annville (did not finish the year)

1873-75           located

1875                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1875-78           located

1878-79           Liverpool

1879-82           Westmoreland Herminie

1882-83           Belsano

1883-86           located

1886                honorable discharge

1888                reinstated

 

Note: Isaiah Potter is the father of Milton G. Potter and Newton I. Potter.  The home church of Isaiah Potter was Bucks, in Perry County.  In the 11/11/1846 he reports to the Religious Telescope on a revival in Bedford County.   He is called a “theologian” and Berger’s denominational history considers him “well-known.”  A biographical sketch is give in Hain’s 1922 History of Perry County, page 835.

 

 

POTTER, MILTON GEORGE

 

Born: 1-24-1855  Madison PA                                   married: Elizabeth Stauffer [11/17/1880]

Died: 5-13-1917  Avalon PA                                      obit: [12/15/1854 – 1/2/8/1925]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 185

Gibble list: no

 

1877    license, Allegheny Conference

1880    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Freedom PA

Obit:

 

1878-79           East Salem

1879-80           New Paris

1880                Ligonier (Feb – Sept conference year)

1880-81           Industry

1881-83           Fallen Timber

1883                dismissed

1885                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1885-86           Fawcett

1886-88           Florence

1888-90           Peter’s Creek

1890-92           Freedom

1893                withdrew

 

Note: Milton G. Potter is the son of Isaiah Potter and a brother to Newton I. Potter.  Some sources incorrectly give the death year as 1915, but the death is reported in the May 14, 1917, Connellsville PA Daily Courier, page 2. 

 

POTTER, NEWTON I.

 

Born: 1-27-1856  Centre County PA                          married:

Died: 1-29-1885  Selinsgrove PA                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA

Obit:

 

1880                Ligonier (Feb – Sept conference year)

 

Note: Newton I. Potter is the son of Isaiah Potter and a brother to Milton G. Potter.  There is no evidence that he was ever licensed or ordained, but he is listed in 1874 as co-appointed with his brother Milton.  He was an attorney.

 

POTTS, JEPTHA

 

Born: 1-8-1809                                                            married: Mary Horn(e) [5/8/1832]

Died: 8-21-1883                                                          obit: [5/31/1810 - 1898]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 58

Gibble list: no

 

1844    license, Allegheny Conference

1852    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Daley Cemetery, Central City PA

Obit:

 

1850-51           Juniata

1851-53           Mahoning

1853-54           Clearfield

1854-55           Bellefonte

1855-56           Clearfield

1856-57           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1857-59           Curwensville

1859-60           Fallen Timber

1860-62           Ligonier

1862-63           Mahoning

1853-64           Washington

1864-65           Jefferson

1865-66           Somerset

1866-67           Fallen Timber

1867-68           (not listed)

1868                withdrew

 

Note: Jeptha Potts is the father of John V. Potts.  The Daly Cemetery, Somerset County, is also called Potts Cemetery after Jeptha Potts who served there.  Jeptha Potts is reported to have been a Lutheran minister, but no available documentation associates him with that denomination.  Some sources give the birthdate for Mrs. Potts as 3/31/1812. “In the early spring of 1809, a young woman named Susan Parson Potts died and was supposedly buried in Berlin. The known facts of her life are few, and the questions intriguing. In 1803, Susan became the second wife of Alexander Potts, Revolutionary War veteran and native of Frank­lin County. When she was about to give birth, Susan returned to her family, and because of illness or other reasons, did not return to her husband. At the time, he had several small children by his first wife, Martha Barnett. Susan’s son, born Jan. 8, 1809, was named Jephthah Potts. He later became a well known preacher.  Susan died shortly after Jephthah’s birth and reportedly her sister (believed to be a member of the Shell family of Shellsburg) accepted temporary responsibility for his care. At the age of five, Jephthah was indentured by the authorities of Shade Township to Abraham Shell of Stoystown, who raised him to maturity.” – from the 9/7/1971 SOMERSET DAILY AMERICAN, page 3.

 

POTTS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 162

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license, recommended by Dillsburg

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1833-34           Clearfield circuit

1836                name erased

 

Note: In the 1833 minutes, John Potts is listed as a deacon.

 

POTTS, JOHN VINTON

 

Born: 7-22-1836  Schellsburg PA                              married: Anna Barron Colburn [3/21/1861]

Died: 9-18-1909                                                          obit: [1/24/1840 – 7/4/1902]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 119

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Campbell Cemetery, Crawford County OH

Obit:

 

1861-62           Stone Valley

1862-63           Mechanicsburg

1863-64           ?

1864-66           Fallen Timber

1866                transfer to

 

Note: John V. Potts is the son of Jeptha Potts.  He entered college at Westerville OH in 1866.  He is the author of several books – including Christian Co-operation in Actual Life [History of the United Brethren Church] (1874) and The Secret Lodge System (1909).

 

POULTON, CAMPBELL THOMAS

 

Born: 8-17-1837  Carroll County OH                        married: Eliza Ann Williamsson

Died: 4-30-1873  North Vineland NJ                         obit: [3/?/1835 – 1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, Methodist Protestant Church

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1869    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Willow Grove Cemetery, Pittsgrove NJ

Obit:

 

1868-70           Amity circuit

1870-71           Monocacy circuit

1871-72           Philadelphia Darien Street mission

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Campbell T. Poulton is given in Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 417.  He is listed as enlisting with Company E the PA 174th volunteers on 10/31/1862 and deserting on 11/3/1862 and then enlisting with Company A of the PA 154th  volunteers 11/6/1862, prompted 5/1/1863, but absent and “in arrest” at muster our 9/29/1863. Some sources give a death date of 5/2/1872.

 

POWELL, JOHN H.

 

Born: 1893                                                                  married: Gretna M. _____

Died: 1-19-1952                                                          obit: [1893-1955]

Miller-Raker #: 585

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    license

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit:

 

1915                Dillsburg, United Evangelical Church (Jan to Mar)

1915-16           Lemasters [see 1916, 30]

1916                returned to quarterly conference license, page 77

 

Note:  The 10/30/1915 Harrisburg Telegraph, page 5, reported the following: “The Rev. John.H. Powell, a Dillsburg young man who was granted a minister's license in the United Brethren Church by the conference at Mechanicsburg last Fall, has received an appointment as pastor of the Lemaster charge, in Franklin county, which includes the United Brethren churches in Lemaster, Mercersburg, St. Joseph, Edensville and St. Thomas. The Rev. Mr. Powell during the last year has assisted in a number of revival services in this section and frequently filled the pulpits on the Dillsburg charge during the absence of the pastor. He will begin Work tomorrow with services in St. Joseph, Edensville and St. Thomas churches.” [The reference to St. Joseph is an error – and it should read St. John’s.]  In the 1917 Harrisburg City Directory he is listed at “printer” living in Dillsburg.

 

 

PRICE, HARRISON

 

Born: 10-10-1918                                                        married: Elsie Ellen Smeal

Died: 9-1-1977                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 428

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license, Allegheny Conference

1964    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mock’s Hill Cemetery, West Decatur PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 262

 

1948-51           Mahaffey

1951                transfer by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1951-53           Mahaffey

1953-58           Port Matilda

1958-66           Woodland

1966-70           Huntingdon 12th Street

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-77           Huntingdon 12th Street

 

 

PRINGLE, ABRAHAM B.

 

Born: 11-14-1811  Cambria County PA                     married: Abigail Cain

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 95

Gibble list: no

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1856-57           Allegheny

1857-60           (not listed)

1860-61           Stone Valley

1861-66           (not listed)

1866                name erased

 

Note: Abraham Pringle is a brother to Daniel Pringle.  While the Abraham and Daniel Pringle whose personal information is given are the sons of George Pringle (1767-1846) and Catherine Cable Pringle (1776-1831), it has not yet been documented that they are the Abraham and Daniel Pringle who were licensed by the Allegheny Conference.  George and Catherine are buried at Pringle Hill Cemetery, near Wilmore, where there used to be a Pringle Hill UB Church and a nearby Pringledale UB camp ground.

 

 

PRINGLE, DANIEL P.

 

Born: 4-4-1819  Cambria County PA                         married: Mary Sharp

Died: 4-22-1891  Franklin PA                                    obit: [1819 – 4/22/1897]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 94

Gibble list: no

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

1859    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Headrick Union Cemetery, Franklin PA

Obit:

 

1855-56           Stone Valley

1856-58           Mahoning

1858-59           Tyrone

1859-60           Clearfield

1860-62           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1862-63           Somerset

1863-64           Allegheny

1864-65           (not listed)

1865                name erased

 

Note: Daniel Pringle is a brother to Abraham Pringle.  While the Abraham and Daniel Pringle whose personal information is given are the sons of George Pringle (1767-1846) and Catherine Cable Pringle (1776-1831), it has not yet been documented that they are the Abraham and Daniel Pringle who were licensed by the Allegheny Conference.  George and Catherine are buried at Pringle Hill Cemetery, near Wilmore, where there used to be a Pringle Hill UB Church and a nearby Pringledale UB camp ground.

 

 

PRINKEY, E. CORA

 

Born: 11-19-1884  Indian Head PA               married: Wilbur R. Murray

Died: 11-1-1958                                              obit: [1885-1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 357

Gibble list: no

 

1908    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Green Ridge Memorial Park, Connellsville PA

Obit: 11/3/1958 Connellsville Daily Courier

 

1906-07           Windber

1909-11           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1911-13           student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

1921                open transfer, page 72

 

Note: E. Cora Prinkey reportedly “travelled around the country on horseback preaching the Gospel” and “taught school for many years.” 

 

 

PRISK, CHARLES BEST

 

Born: 4-15-1908  Johnstown PA                                married: Virginia Patterson

Died: 8-15-2005                                                          obit: [1913 – 12/22/2012]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 533

Gibble list: yes

 

1928    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1934    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Valley View Memorial Park, Hurricane WV

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 390

 

1928-31           student, Otterbein College on Westerville OH

1931-34           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1934-37           Beaverdale

1937-43           McKeesport First (ending 1/25/1943)

1943-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-53           local elder

1953                dropped: 1953, 99

1974                readmitted, Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church

1974                retired

 

Note: Obituaries for Rev. Charles B. Prisk appear in two WV newspapers on 8/17/2005: on page C-3 of the Huntington Herald Dispatch, and on page C-2 of the Charleston Gazette.  In addition, he lived in Boone NC for several years.

 

 

PROCASCO, CHARLES E.

 

Born: 1900                                                                  married: Myrtle V. Fisher

Died:1986                                                                   obit: [1907 – 1963]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Shoops Cemetery, Harrisburg PA.

Obit:

 

1926-29           Reading Trinity

 

Note: Charles Procasco was living in Harrisburg in the 1930’s and performing some pastoral duties, possibly in the Lutheran Church – he appears to have been the head of a CPA firm.  His only United Brethen pastoral service appears to have been at Reading Trinity.  He is listed in the journals as a licentiate (fourth year) until 1934, and as non-itinerating elder in 1935.  His father’s name was Raymond – and he is listed in the 1940 church directory for Harrisburg State Street,

Note2: There is another Charles E. Procasco buried in Harrisburg after 1940: (1892-1977) in the East Harrisburg Cemetery.  While there is much missing information, it is believed that the Charles E. Procasco cited above is the one licensed by the United Brethren Church.

 

PROFFITT, DAVID W.

 

Born: 1841  VA                                                          married: Mary Ann Betz [6/1/1876]

Died: 6-8-1913  Abilene KS                                       obit: [10/18/1845 – 11/21/1918]

Miller-Raker #: 379

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license, Parkersburg Conference

 

Interment: Abilene Cemetery, Abilene KS

Obit:

 

1876                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1876-77           Mercersburg circuit

1877-78           Alto Dale circuit

1878-79           Chambersburg station

1879-80           Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1880-83           New Cumberland mission station

1883-86           Harrisburg First [Memorial]

1886-88           Duncannon station

1888                transfer to West Nebraska Conference

1888-91           Broken Bow NE

1891-92           not listed

1892                transfer to Iowa Conference

1892-93           Letts IA

1893-95           Cedar Rapids IA

1895-96           Vinton IA

1896-98           West Union IA

1898-99           not listed

1899                transfer to West Nebraska Conference

1899-01           no appointment listed

1901-02           not listed

1902-03           Ohiowa NE

1903-04           Solomon KS

1904-05           White City KS

1905                no longer listed

 

Note: This surname is also given as PROFFIT.  The “appointments” after 1888 are the post offices listed in the UB Yearbook.   

 

PROWELL, ULYSSES S. GRANT

 

Born: 1865                                                                  married: Sadie J. Karr

Died: 1933                                                                  obit: [12/31/1866 – 3/12/1956]

Miller-Raker #: 424

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1887    license

 

Interment: Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton KS

Obit:

 

1886-87           Yocumtown

1887-88           New Lancaster KA, Kansas Conference

1888-90           Detroit KS, Kansas Conference

1890-91           Peoria City KS, Kansas Conference

1891                transfer to Kansas Conference

1891-92           Lyndon KS

1892-93           not listed

1893-96           Norwood MO

1896                transfer to Southern Missouri Conference [later, Missouri Conference]

1896-98           Dudenville MO

1898-00           Polo MO

1900-01           Adrian MO

1901-04           Rich Hill MO

1904-05           Brookfield MO

1905                retired to Rich Hill MO

                             1910           moved to Nevada MO

                             1913-14      Montevallo MO

                             1914-15           Livonia MO

                             1915-16      Toronto KS

                             1916-17  living in Kansas

1917                no longer listed

 

Note: The Prowell family lived in the Yocumtown area.  U.S.G. Prowell, Lydia Prowell (Mrs. William) Quigley and Emma Grace Prowell (Mrs. George W.) Strine are all from the same extended family, but their exact relationships are unclear.  The “appointments” after 1887 are the post offices listed in the UB Yearbook. Rev. and Mrs. Prowell were married 4/29/1888 in Miami County KS, where she was born and died.  The Rich Hill Mining Review (Bates County MO) Vol. XXIV, No. 11, Dec. 7, 1903, carries the following notice: “U.S.G. Prowell, the real estate hustler, was a passenger for Metz this afternoon.” 

 

 

PUGH, WALTER DANIEL

 

Born: c1906  Steelton PA                                           married: Margaret Christina Fadley [9/11/1930]

Died: 1962                                                                  obit: [c1908 - 1995]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Miami Valley Memorial Gardens, Springboro OH

Obit:

 

1924-28           student, Lebanon Valley College

1928-31           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1936                referred

1940’s             assistant principal and coach, Dorothy Lane High School in Kettering OH

 

Note: Walter D. Pugh was from Steelton PA.  His wife was from Dayton OH, and he apparently settled in that area without entering the ministry. 

 

QUAID, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 1-7-1904  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Nellie M. Bentley

Died: 12-23-1976                                                        obit: [11/23/1906 – 6/6/1999]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Otterbein

1925    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 574

 

1925-28           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1928-36           Mont Clare

1936-42           Halifax Otterbein

1942-45           chaplain, US Army

1945-48           Mount Carmel

1948-52           Avon

1952-56           Allentown Zion

1956-61           Highspire

1961-65           Lebanon St. John’s

1965-72           Schuylkill Haven Cocenant

1972                retired

                             1972-76   Reading Ebenezer

 

QUEER, S.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 460

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

                        Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church

                        Shenango

1916-17           Crawford

1921                “transfer” from United Evangelical Church

1921-22           Mahaffey (beginning 4/1/1921 and ending 12/15/1921)

1922                returned to quarterly conference status

 

Note: S.E. Queer was a theological student at Albright College in 1915, during which time he is credited with establishing the Evangelical work in Kutztown, but apparently he never graduated.  This is believed to be Samuel Queer (1871-1945) – uncle to Miss Armead Queer [later Henderson] of the Allegheny Conference UB [See Fulton’s History of the Allegheny Conference, page 37.].

 

QUIGLEY, ALEX SYLVESTER SR.

 

Born: 11-20-1933  Enola PA                                      married: Shirley A. Feister

Died: 4-26-2006  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 289

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1967    license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion
1970    ordained

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Silver Spring township, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 427

 

1966                Dillsburg Mt. Zion  (Jun-Oct)

1966-97           Blue Mountain  (beginning Oct 1966)

1997                retired

 

Note: The great-grandfather of Alex S. Quigley is a brother to John X. Quigley and William Quigley.

 

QUIGLEY, JOHN X.

 

Born: 7-24-1844  Cumberland County PA                 married: Sarah E. Crider

Died: 12-25-1908  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [5/25/1850 – 8/25/1938]

Miller-Raker #: 341

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1866    license

1869    ordained

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 35

 

1865-66           Greencastle circuit & Alto Dale

1866-68           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1868-68           Plainfield circuit & Big Spring station

1869-71           Greencastle

1871-74           Shippensburg station

1874-75           endowment agent, Lebanon Valley College

1875                withdrew

1878                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: John X. Quigley is a brother to William Quigley and to the great-grandfather of Alex S. Quigley.  John Quigley never served an appointment in the East Pennsylvania Conference.  He was an active member of Harrisburg Memorial and supplied pulpits over a wide area as the needs arose.

 

 

QUIGLEY, WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-13-1839  Cumberland County PA                             married: Lydia A. Prowell

Died: 2-1-1917  Red Lion PA                                                obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 74

Miller-Raker #: 353

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license

1873    ordained

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 86

 

1872-74           Ickesburg circuit

1874-78           Path Valley circuit

1878-79           Newburg

1879-81           Greencastle

1881-83           Manchester MD

1883-85           York Springs

1885-88           Alto Dale circuit

1888-91           Perry circuit

1891-92           Winterstown

1892-93           Red Lion circuit

1893-96           York Haven circuit

1896-99           Bendersville circuit

1899-01           Winterstown circuit

1901-10           ill health

1910-11           Jefferson circuit

1911                local

 

Note: William Quigley is a brother to John X. Quigley and to the great-grandfather of Alex S. Quigley.  The above list of appointments is correct; the list in the obituary contains gross errors.

 

 

RABER, WILLIAM B.

 

Born: 2-22-1824                                                          married: Catherine A. Weidman

Died: 2-11-1875                                                          obit: [6-26/1826 – 8/14/1852]

Miller-Raker #: 289                                                    married2: Susan Hoff

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/31/1835 – 10/5/1910]

Gibble list: no

 

1846    quarterly conference license, Littlestown circuit

1848    license

1850    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 15

 

1847-48           assistant, Chambersburg Circuit (beginning in July)

1848-49           York circuit

1849-51           Chambersburg circuit

1851-53           Perry circuit

1853-54           Dover circuit

1854-57           York station

1857-60           Chambersburg station

1860-63           presiding elder, York District

1863-67           Mechanicsburg

1867-71           presiding elder, York District

1871-75           York station

 

Note: The entire 1996 volume of The Chronicle is given to William Raber and his journal.  An obituary for the second Mrs. Raber appears in The York Daily, 10/06/1910, page 2.

 

RABY, EARL STEPHEN

 

Born: 6-11-1924  Quincy PA                                     married: Lillian Ruth Isenhower

Died: 4-2-2006                                                            obit: [12/19/1925 – 8/30/2005]

Miller-Raker #: 717

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    quarterly conference license, Ephrata

1945    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1948    ordained

 

Interment: Masonic Cemetery, Eagle Lake TX

Obit:

 

1943-45           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1943-45      Hummelstown

1945-49           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             1945-47      Dayton Zion, Miami OH Conference

                             1947           transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

                             1947-49      Dayton Zion, Miami OH Conference

1949-53           Myersville MD

1953-63           Wormleysburg

1963-64           York First

1964-65           San Antonia First, Oklahoma-Texas Conference

1965                transfer to Oklahoma-Texas Conference, page 111

1965-85           San Antonio First [aka Albright UM]

1970                transfer to Southwest Texas Conference

1970-85           San Antonia Albright

1985                retired

 

Note: The conference archives has secular published obituaries for Rev. and Mrs. E. Stephen Raby.

 

RAEZER, GEORGE BARSTOW

 

Born: 7-24-1866  New Holland PA                            married: Laura E. _____

Died: 2-9-1949  Lititz PA                                           obit: [12/9/1865 – 11/9/1890]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Carrie R. _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1867 – 1949]

Gibble list: yes

 

            quarterly conference license, New Holland

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1904    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. Stephen UCC Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit:

 

1899-00           Ephrata (last part of the year)

1900-01           Mt. Joy circuit

1901-02           ?

1902-04           Elverson

1904-05           Hagerstown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference (resigned after 2 months)

1905                honorable discharge from United Brethren Church

1905                joins the ministry of the Reformed Church

1905-07           Shoops [Colonial Park] charge, Dauphin County

1907-09                     Penbrook St. Andrew’s

1909-12           Maytown

1912-46           Warwick charge (Lititz St. Luke’s, Brickerville Zion, and Penryn Jerusalem)

 

 

RALSTON, SAMUEL HENRY

 

Born: 3-11-1873  MD                                                 married: Nellie F. _____

Died: 7-23-1953  Dauphin County PA                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 330

Gibble list: no

 

1896    quarterly conference license

1904    license, Allegheny Conference

1908    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Trindle Springs Lutheran Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 23

 

1904-06           Industry

1906-08           New Florence

1908-11           Dunlo and Beaverdale

1911-13           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1913-15           McKeesport First

1915-19           Madison

1919-23           Windber

1923-24           Monessen

1924-25           West Lebanon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-28           Bellwood

1928-31           Woodland

1931-37           Windber

1937-40           Bellwood

1940                retired

 

 

RAMSEY, HOMER MATTHIAS

 

Born: 1-7-1894  Lemasters PA                                   married:

Died: 3-2-1918  Lemasters PA                                   obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916    quarterly conference license, recommended by Lemasters

 

Interment: Spring Grove Cemetery, Lemasters PA

Obit: 

 

1916-17           student, Lebanon Valley College

 

Note: Homer Ramsey graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1917 and was a popular and effective student preacher throughout the conference – but he became a Presbyterian ministry in Newport PA and died in 1918 at the age of 24.  At LVC he was a member of the “Old Story” quartette with Guy Stambach, Leroy Walters and J. Paul Hummel. 

     1916,31 lists Homer M. Ramsey among those granted quarterly conference licenses “with the distinct understanding that they prepare themselves for the gospel ministry as per discipline.”

 

 

RANCK, EZRA HOOVER

 

Born: 10-13-1907                                                        married: Dorothy Estella Mohler

Died: 1-29-1996                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf, 1992, 7.314

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1930    quarterly conference, recommended by Ranck’s

1933    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rancks Church Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1996,?

 

1933-34           Baltimore Otterbein

1934-38           Campbelltown

1938-55           Mount Joy

1955-73           conference director of Christian Education/Adult Ministries

1973                retired 

                            1973            Milton Grove Moyer’s

                            1973-76       associate, Mount Joy St. Mark’s

 

Note: Ezra H. Rank is the son of George S. Ranck and a brother of J. Allan Ranck.  His picture is on the cover of the 5/13/1933 Religious Telescope as a member of the Bonebrake Seminary class of 1933.

 

 

RANCK, GEORGE SELDOMRIDGE

 

Born: 3-16-1881  East Earl PA                                   married: Mabel Hoover

Died: 12-26-1975  New Holland PA                          obit: Eastern Conference 1986, 122

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

 

Interment: Rancks Church Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit:

 

Note: George S. Rank is the father of Ezra H. Rank and J. Allan Ranck.  He appears to have been a local pastor.

 

 

RANCK, JOHN ALLAN

 

Born: 8-16-1912   Lancaster County PA                    married: Mildred A. Stauffer

Died: 2-4-1979  Montclair NJ                                    obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 326

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Harriet Mae Spangler (1975)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5.6.1923 – 10/16/2019]

Gibble list: yes

 

1933    quarterly conference license, Ranck’s

1934    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rancks Church Cemetery, New Holland PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 409

 

1933-34           student, Lebanon Valley College

1934-37           student, United Theological Seminary

1937-46           Allentown Zion

1946-52           denominational director of Young People’s Work

1952-77           staff, National Council of Churches

1977                retired

 

Note: J. Allan Ranck is the son of George S. Rank and a brother of Ezra H. Ranck.

 

 

RANKIN, ROBERT G.

 

Born: 4-8-1822  Indiana County PA                          married: Catherine Waggoner

Died: 1889                                                                  obit: [d. 1853]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elizabeth Ale

Fulton #: 66                                                                 obit2: [1824 - 1899]

Gibble list: no

 

1847    license, Allegheny Conference

1850    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Raymore Cemetery, Raymore MO

Obit:

 

1846-47           Sinamahoning

1847-48           Westmoreland

1848-50           Juniata

1850-52           Liverpool

1852-53           Bellefonte

1853-54           Wayne station

1854-55           Allegheny City

1855-56           Juniata

1856-57           Warrior’s Mark

1857-59           Bellefonte

1859-60           Curwinsville

1860-62           Clearfield

1862-64           Ligonier

1864-65           Springfield

1865-67           Madison

1867-69           Allegheny station

1869-70           ?

1870-72           Wesrmorland

1872-73           Springfield

1873                located, moved to Cass County MO and entered farming

 

Note: Robert G. Rankin appears to have some connection with Miss Mary Rankin (1821-1889), author of the 1858 autobiographical book The Daughter of Affliction, although any biological relationship has not been determined.  A copy of the book is in the UB biography section at the conference archives.

 

 

RATHFANG, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 70

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1814    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1849                transfer to Virginia Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered RATHFON.  This may be the father of John Rathfang, Miller-Raker #191.  To distinguish them, lists commonly designate the latter as John Rathfang Jr – but that designation does not appear in the minutes.

 

 

RATHFANG, JOHN

 

Born: 12-19-1809  PA                                                married: Lydia Spangler [2/15/1835]

Died: [after 1880]                                                       obit: [8/27/1817 – 11/28/1880]

Miller-Raker #: 191

Fulton #: 5

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1834-35           York circuit

1836-37           not assigned [letter read: “desires to have York circuit or nothing”]

1837-39           Westmoreland circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           Juniata circuit

1840                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1842-44           Chambersburg circuit

1844-51           local preacher, Littlestown circuit

1854                withdrew

 

Note: This surname is also rendered RATHFON.  The 1860 census lists him as a farmer living in Johnson township, Clinton County IN.  This may be the son of John Rathfang, Miller-Raker #70.  To distinguish them, lists commonly designate the former one as John Rathfang Sr – but that designation does not appear in the minutes.

     Mrs. Rathfon is buried in Saint Paul Cemetery, Forest IN.  She is niece of the John Spangler in whose York County house the noted United Brethren Conference of 1791 was held.  [In 1791, John Spangler was still a boy and the house should more properly have gone down in history as the house of his father Bernard Spangler (1745-1802) – the grandfather of Mrs. Rathfon.]

 

 

RAUCH, JOHN LEROY

 

Born: 4-22-1931  Coalport PA                                   married: Lily Agnes Beck (1951)

Died: 5-20-2020  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2008, 422

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Joanne Hale (2011)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/26/1934 – 7/20/2023]

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Orbisonia

1954    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Chambers Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, 342

 

1949-51           Fulton Memorial charge

1951-54           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1951-54      Castine – Weaver Station OH

1954-61           Johnstown Barron Avenue

                             1959-60      Johnstown Centennial

1961-65           Punxsutawney Area Large Parish

1965-66           chaplain, Quincy Home in the Central Pennsylvania Conference

1966                transfer to Susquehanna Conference

1966-71           chaplain, Quincy Home

1971-82           Chambers Hill (ending 10/1/1982)

1982-87           Millersburg Grace (beginning 10/1/1982 and ending 9/1/1987)

1987-89           Mount Calvary (beginning 9/1/1987)

1989-93           Mount Calvary – Manada Hill

1993-97           Fayetteville Otterbein

1997                retired

                             1997-08      visitation pastor, Waynesboro Faith

                             2008-13      chaplain, Providence Place in Chambersburg PA

 

Note: John L. Rauch is the son of Jonathan P. Rauch, and the brother of United Methodist missionary Ruth Evelyn Rauch (1927-1995) and Mary Ethel Rauch Esch, wife of Byron Moore Esch (1915-2001) of the Western New York Conference.

 

 

RAUCH, JONATHAN PETER NEWMAN

 

Born: 9-27-1891  Mount Pleasant Mills PA               married: Jennie May Bickhart

Died: 1-14-1957  Altoona PA                                    obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 459

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 462

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1922    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Liverpool Union Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 30

 

1920-27           Richfield (beginning 1/1921)

1927-30           West Decatur

1930-33           Coalport

1933-43           Liverpool (assigned Woodland 1941, but returned to Liverpool: see 1942,74)

1943-50           Orbisonia

1950-54           Altoona Pleasant Valley

1954                retired

 

Note: Jonathan P. Rauch is the father of John L. Rauch, United Methodist missionary Ruth Evelyn Rauch (1927-1995) and of Mary Ethel Rauch Esch, wife of Byron Moore Esch (1915-2001) of the Western New York Conference.

 

 

RAUCH, SAMUEL A.

 

Born: 3-22-1874  Lebanon County PA                      married: Carrie M. Swoyer

Died: 3-10-1944  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [1879 – 1968]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1898    quarterly conference license

1900    license, East German Conference

1906    ordained, East Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 18

 

1900-01           Memphasis NB, East Nebraska Conference

1901                transfer to East Nebraska Conference

1901-02           Memphasis

1903-04           Swanton

1904-07           Crab Orchard

1907-09           Pickrel

1909                transfer to North Kansas Conference

1909-11           Herrington

1911-14           Corning

1914-17           Ozawkie

1917-18           Catawissa, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning Jan 1918)

1918                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1918-22           Catawissa

1922-26           Pine Grove

1926-34           Paradise St. John’s

1934-37           Tower City

1937-44           Manor circuit

 

 

RAUHAUSER, JOEL EDWARD

 

Born: 5-16-1818  York PA                                         married: Charlotte Bowers

Died: 12-16-1899  Columbus City IA                        obit: [d. 8/26/1854]

Miller-Raker #: 299                                                    married2: Martha W. Sargent

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 10/12/1886]

Gibble list: no

 

1852    license

 

Interment: Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City IA

Obit:

 

1854                transfer to any conference he may wish to join, page 31

 

Note: The 1850 census places Joel Rauhauser in in Dover township, York County PA.  His first wife died in 1854 in Iowa.  He later modified his surname to RAWHOUSER.

 

  

RAVER, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 1849  Columbia County PA                             married: Julia Caroline Carrolton [10/12/1867]

Died: 4-17-1913  Shamokin PA                                 obit: [c1850 – 12/4/1935]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 196

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license, Allegheny Conference

1885    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

1880-81           living in Liverpool

1881-82           Orbisonia

1883-84           Liverpool

1884                transfer to East German Conference

1884-85           Millheim

1885-87           Paxinos circuit [Shamokin area]

1888                expelled

1889                joined Primitive Methodist Church

1889-90           Houtzdale (did not finish the year)

                        “returned” to United Brethren Church

1892-93           Freeburg circuit, East German Conference

1893-94           Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

                        “transferred” to Susquehanna Synod of the Lutheran Church

                        Seybertsville

 

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered RABER.  Charles W. Raver reported was a lawyer in Harrisburg before entering the ministry and joined the Allegheny Conference in September 1881.  In July 1881, he was living in Liverpool, Perry County, apparently serving as a local pastor.

     In 1889, Charles W. Raver asked to be relieved of Houtzdale and re-assigned.  He was permitted to turn in his credentials and retire, but was not to be re-assigned in the Primitive Methodist Church. 

     His service in the Lutheran church is unclear.  Strangely, no dates are given for his service at Seybertsville.  Although he seems to have no formal assignment, he is active in synod affairs and living in Danville in 1901 (and that seems to have been his home base) and assisted at a dedication in Sunbury in 1905.

     Mrs. Raver’s biological father died and her mother married a Mr. King, and so her maiden name is sometimes given as King.

 

RAY, LUKE CRANSTON

 

Born: 12-23-1892  Denver CO                                   married: Jomay Cummins

Died: 2-3-1949  Whiteville NC                                  obit: [8/26/1902 – 11/?/1968]

Miller-Raker #: 625

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924

 

Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Lake Waccamaw NC

Obit:

 

1924                transfer from Congregational Church, page 41&44&66

1924-25           associate, Chambersburg

1925                transfer to Syracuse Presbytery of Presbyterian Church, page 71

?                        ?

1944-48          Monroe NY First Presbyterian

 

Note: Following the death of Luke C. Ray, Mrs. Ray married a Mr. Leon C. Meaders.

 

 

RAYSOR, JOHN

 

Born: 1-18-1789                                                          married:

Died: 8-31-1850                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 234

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

 

Interment: Raysor’s Cemetery, near Penbrook PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1851, 28

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: John Raysor remained a local pastor and did not itinerate.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 246, gives a brief account of Raysor’s Church (predecessor of Penbrook Grace) and Rev. Raysor.

 

 

REASEY, ROBERT EARL

 

Born: 5-22-1933  Dillsburg PA                                  married: Margaret Miller

Died: 9-25-2003  Hershey PA                                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: 745

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, recommended by Arnolds

1958    ordained

 

Interment: columbarium at Camp Hill UMC, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 377

 

1955-58           student, United Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1955-56      Feesburg OH, Congregational Christian Church

1958-59           assistant, Chambersburg

1959-63           Shiremanstown

1963-79           Chambersburg First

1979-80           leave of absence

1980-82           Altoona Faith

1982-95           chaplain, Bethany Village

1995                retired

                             1995-03      visitation pastor, Camp Hill

 

 

REBER, CALVIN H. JR

 

Born: 4-30-1915  Lebanon PA                                   married: Audrie E. Fox

Died: 3-10-2012  Chambersburg PA                          obit: Eastern PA Conference 1988, 7.23

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1934    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1939    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2012, 596

 

1934-36           student, Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA

1936-39           student, United Theological Seminary, Dayton OH

1939-42           missionary to China

1942-46           Palmyra Second

1946-51           missionary to China

1951-83           faculty, United Theological Seminary

1983                retired

 

 

REBER, HOWARD FRANKLIN

 

Born: 4-1-1888  McKeansburg PA                            married: Esther Naomi Weidner

Died: 4-23-1914  Dayton OH                                     obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 369

Gibble list: no

 

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1914, 83

 

1904-05           Eschol

1905-07           Hustontown

1907-10           Middleburg

1910-11           Middleburg circuit

1911-14           student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

                            Oregonia, Miami Conference

                            Kingsville, Miami Conference

 

Note: In 1920, the widowed Mrs. Reber married James M. Walters.

 

REBOK, HENRY WILSON

 

Born: 1-12-1828  Lurgan PA                                      married: Lydia Elizabeth Cormany

Died: 5-11-1905  Riverside CA                                 obit: Iowa Conference 1891, 10

Miller-Raker #: 302

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1853    license

1861    ordained

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1907, 41

 

1852-53           Greencastle circuit

1853-55           Path Valley circuit

1855-56           Manchester circuit

1878                transfer to any conference he wishes to join, page 14

 

 

REBOK, KENNETH LEE

 

Born: 1-11-1939                                                          married: [single]

Died: 8-7-2017                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 804

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Newburg Otterbein

1969    ordained

 

Interment: [body apparently  given to Kettering Medical Center, Kettering OH]

Obit: [Dayton OH Daily News 8/31/2017]

 

1963-65           student, Shippensburg University

     1963-65      Upper Strasburg

1965-68           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1965-67      Huber Heights OH Sulpher Grove EUB (beginning 9/1/1965)

 

Note: Kenneth L. Rebok is listed in the 1969 Susquehanna Conference journal as being ordained in 1969 and as without an appointment, but he does not appear in the 1969 United Methodist General Minutes.  His obituary states he was “a teacher and coach for the Huber Heights City Schools for over 30 years and an Associate Pastor at Aldersgate United Methodist Church for over 40 years.”

 

 

RECTOR, ROBERT BISHOP

 

Born: 1-11-1897  Westmoreland County PA             married: Margaret P. _____

Died: 3-8-1976  Carlisle PA                                       obit: [1901 – 1966]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit:

 

1918-19           Bowersdale

1919-20           Indiana

1920                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1920-21           Richfield

1921                return to quarterly conference license, page 78

 

 

REDDICK, D. LEONARD

 

Born: 1-10-1894  Walkersville MD                           married: Nannie Luella _____

Died: 5-12-1958  Berkley County WV                      obit: [3/21/1897 – 11/14/1960]

Miller-Raker #: 586

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    license, recommended by Walkersville MD

 

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Woodsboro MD

Obit:

 

1919                withdrew

 

Note: D. Leonard Reddick is a 1915 graduate of LVC.   It appears that Nannie Luella may be a sister, and not a wife.

 

 

REDDING, EARL EUGENE

 

Born: 9-14-1901  Hanover PA                                   married: Ada Myrle Creswell

Died: 1-15-1981                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania 1979, 348

Miller-Raker #: 648                                                    married2: Mrs. Anna S. Boyer

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1925    quarterly conference license

1926    license, recommended by Baltimore Salem

1930    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 338

 

1925-29           Jefferson

1929-32           Taneytown

1932-38           Shepherdstown

1938-52           York Third

1952-64           Hagerstown Grace

1964-67           Fayetteville

1967                retired

                             1967-76      associate, York Fourth

 

 

REED, JOHN BENEDICT JR.

 

Born: 2-7-1901  Chambersburg PA                            married: Laura Edna Stickell

Died: 6-6-1958  York PA                                           obit: [7/12/1904 – 6/29/1998]

Miller-Raker #: 630

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1924    license

1929    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 42

 

1922-26           student. Lebanon Valley College

1926-29           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1929-31           Biglerville

1931-37           Keedysville

1837-45           Boiling Springs

1945-52                      Hanover

1952-58           Spry

 

Note: John Benedict Reed is a nephew of Unted Brethren missionary to Peurto Rico Miss Elizabeth Reed [see Holdcraft, page 327].

 

REEL, FREDERICK

 

Born: 1851  PA                                                           married: Anna Mary Macferran (11/24/1881)

Died: 10-?-1924                                                          obit: [1861 – 8/26/1882]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1887-89           Philadelphia Port Richmond St. Paul’s, Edgemont & Westmoreland

1893                name erased, page 6

1896                Church of Christ Mission, 85th and Island Road

1898                Highway Mission, Oxford at Ridge Avenue

 

Note: Frederick Reel remained an active clergyperson in Philadelphia, affiliation unknown, until at least 1900.  His sister Martha married a Huplet and named her son Frederick Reel Huplet.  The extended Huplet and Macferran families appear to have been Methodist Episcopal.

     The following information comes from the Assemblies of God Heritage vol 90, no 3, fall 1989 – which tells the story of Philadelphia’s Highway Tabernacle and give a picture of Frederick Reel. Reel was an 1894 charter member of the evangelistic outreach the reconstituted Cross and Crown Association, loosely associated with the Siloam ME Church near Booths Corner.  Reel had originally been a railroad employee, but we was called by the group as an evangelist and founded a congregation that at one time had association with the CMA denomination but about 1908 drifted into Pentecostalism.  He pastored there for 25 years, until 1919.

 

REESE, HORACE GREELEY

 

Born: 9-21-1900  Port Matilda PA                             married: Katharine Beatrice Williams

Died: 5-24-1965                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 32

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Matilda Hunsburger

Fulton #: 493                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 345

Gibble list: no

 

1924    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Port Matilda Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 4&27

 

1924-28           Liverpool

1928-30           Milton

1930-39           Pitcairn

1939-42           Tyrone

1942-49           Punxsutawney

1949-54           McKeesport Kephart

1954-65           Dubois

1965                retired

 

Note: The maiden name of the second Mrs. Reese was Matilda Jane Brendlinger.  Her first husband, a Mr. Claude Hunsburger, died in 1931.

 

 

REESER, DAVID M.

 

Born: 1821  Northumberland County PA                   married: Harriet Krigbaum

Died: 6-22-1864  Petersburg VA                               obit: [2/15/1822 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1859    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: near Fort Hell, Petersburg VA

Obit:

 

1856-57           Northumberland mission

 

Note: David M. Reeser was mustered in May 12, 1864, and killed in battle while serving with the Pennsylvania Regiment 184, Company B.

 

 

REID, WILBUR LEROY

 

Born: 9-14-1913  York PA                                         married: Reba Mary Cunningham

Died: 8-4-1999  Ocala FL                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 729                                                    married2: Barbara Howard

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Hazel Ruth Rawson Marsell

 

1950    license

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1948-51           Windsor Grace (did not finish final year)

1951                withdrew “to return to pastorate in New England,” page 48

 

Note: Wilbur L. Reid is listed 1948-50 under “permanent quarterly conference and lay ministers.” 

 

 

REIDER, GEORGE

 

Born: 11-16-1813                                                        married: Elizabeth Shearer

Died: 1-21-1901                                                          obit: [10/20/1821 – 5/26/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1863    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit:

 

1870                name erased

 

Note: George Reider is a brother to Mary Rider Gingrich, wife of David Gingrich Jr.  He was prominent in the Elizabethtown congregation – see Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, pages 94 & 95.  He apparently continued as a local pastor in the denomination after his name was erased from the conference rolls, for Kelker’s 1907 History of Dauphin County, reports (volume 3, page 319) a March 1877 marriage performed by “Rev George Reider, pastor of the United Brethren Church of Mount Joy” and reports (volume 3, page 233) a January 1890 marriage performed by “Rev. George Rider, pastor of the Hummelstown United Brethren Church.”  George Reider was not the assigned pastor of record on either occasion.  This surname is also rendered RIDER.

 

 

REIGEL, JOHN ADAM

 

Born: 9-7-1754                                                            married: Anna Catharine Schwartz

Died: 8-2-1822                                                            obit: [7/17/1764 – 10/22/1820]

Miller-Raker #: 31

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1800    license

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered RIEGEL.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 60, gives a brief biography.  It was at a 1791 prayer meeting in his home that Jacob Albright, founder of the Evangelical Association, was concerted.

 

 

REISINGER, DAVID KENNETH

 

Born: 6-4-1905  Pittsburgh PA                                   married: Mary Ellen Hair

Died: 1-14-1977                                                          obit: see biographical files

Miller-Raker #: 652

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1926    license, recommended by New Bloomfield charge

1933    ordained

 

Interment: Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 363

 

1927-28           Bendersville

1928-32           Mechanicsburg circuit

1932-36           Dover

1936-45           Greenmount

1945-46           executive secretary, Baltimore School of the Bible

1946-47           Second Congregational Church, Baltimore MD

1947-48           president, Buffalo Bible Institute in West Seneca NY [now part of Houghton Col]

1948                transfer to Erie Conference, page 96

1948-53           president, Buffalo Bible Institute in West Seneca NY [now part of Houghton Col]

1953-55           Bradford

1955-61           president, Evangelical Teacher Training Association of Wheaton IL

1961-68           director of adult education, Gospel Light Publications of Gendale CA

1968                retired

 

Note: His mother’s death is noted 1929, 21.  According to 1929, 21 he may have served for a time on Wolfsville charge circa 1928.  D. Kenneth Reisinger is married to Mary E. Reisinger. 

 

REISINGER, MARY H.  see  HAIR, MARY E.

 

 

REITZEL, JOHN RICHARD

 

Born: 10-16-1847  Hummelstown PA                        married: Mary Ann Weiss

Died: 2-21-1910  Souix City IA                                 obit: [12/28/1846 – 11/1/1929]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1869-71           Philadelphia Mt. Airy

1871-72           Florin Glossbrenner (first part of year), Shamokin First (second part of year)

1872-73           Shamokin First

1873-74           Harrisburg Calvary [Derry Street]

1874-76           Monocacy circuit

1876-77           Middletown (first 10 months), Shamokin First (last 2 months)

1877-79           Shamokin First

1879-881         student, Yale Divinity School

1881                honorable dismissal, entered Congregational ministry

1881-84           organized Mitchell SD First Congregational Church

1884-86           superintendent, Congregational Publishing Society for Wisconsin

1886-91           Blue Island IL

1891-94           Owosso MI Congregational Church

1894-00           without a charge, living in Chicago

1900-03           Oconomowoc WI

1903-05           without a charge

1905-09           Blue Island IL

 

Note: While without a charge,  J.R. Reitzel was a public speaker at Chautauqua-type gatherings.

 

 

RENN, ULYSSES S. GRANT

 

Born: 3-18-1864  Hallowing Run, near Sunbury PA married: Lillie Louise Light

Died: 12-24-1912  Harrisburg PA                              obit: [8/14/1863 – 1/6/1938]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 40

 

1887-88           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1887-88      Manor circuit (beginning 9/1/87)

1888-89           Manheim

1889-91           Elverson

1891-93           Mont Clare

1893-96           Oberlin

1896-00           Ephrata

1900-03           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1903-07           Reading Memorial [Trinity]

1907-12           Middletown

1912                Harrisburg State Street

 

Note: U.S.G. Renn is a brother to Alice S. Renn Sanders, wife of Monroe P. Sanders.  He is an uncle to Mabel Grace Renn Crim, wife of A.H.M. Crim.

 

 

RENSHAW, ELWOOD JAMES

 

Born: 5-29-1860                                                          married: Anna Elizabeth Henry

Died: 2-10-1921  Baltimore MD                                obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 44

Miller-Raker #: 565

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1903    ordained, Baptist

 

Interment: St. John’s UB Church, Paradise PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 66

 

1894-04           East Brandywine Baptist, Chester County PA

1904-05           Paradise St. John’s, UB denomination (begin soon after conference; see 1905, 4)

1905                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, UB denomination

1905-10                      Paradise St. John’s

1910                Lebanon Hebron (briefly)

1910-11           Baltimore Sixth, Pennsylvania Conference

1911                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1911-16           Boonsboro

1916-17           Myersville

1917-21           Baltimore Fifth [Otterbein Memorial]

 

Note: Elwood James Renshaw is believed to be a brother to George B. Renshaw.

 

 

RENSHAW, GEORGE B.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Hannah A. _____

Died:                                                                           obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 73

Miller-Raker #: 566

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    ordained, Baptist Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-03           First Baptist, Lebanon PA

1903-05           First Baptist, Chesterfield NJ

1905                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1905                Intercourse (Jan-Oct)

1905-09           Lykens

1909-10           Reading Otterbein

1910-13           Quincy Orphanage/conference evangelist

1913                Baltimore Fourth (July-Nov)

1913-17           Wormleysburg

1917-22           Windsor

1922-25           Manchester PA (resigned 9/1/1925  1925, 28)

1925                transfer to Lutheran Church, page 71

 

Note: George B. Renshaw is believed to be a brother to Elwood J. Renshaw.  He traveled as a singing evangelist.  One source suggests he died in Camden NJ in 1944.

 

 

RESSLER, JACOB BRUNER

 

Born: 9-15-1821  Fayette County PA                        married: Emily Shupe

Died: 4-27-1891  Westerville OH                              obit: [1818-1904]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 48

Gibble list: no

 

1842    license, Allegheny Conference

1845    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Ohio Conference 1891, 46

 

1843-44           Jefferson

1844-46           Mt. Pleasant station

1846-47           Liverpool

1847-48           superintendent, Huntingdon District

1848-50           superintendent, Westmoreland District

1850-52           superintendent, Western District

1852-53           agent, Mt. Pleasant College

1853-54           ?

1854-57           Mt. Pleasant station

1857-58           ?

1858-62           superintendent, West District

1862-63           Mt. Pleasant

1863-64           agent, Otterbein University

1873                transfer to

 

Note: Jacob B. Ressler is the father of John I.L. Ressler, Lillian Ressler Keister (wife of George Keister) and Lydia Ressler Miller (wife of Rufus P. Miller).  A reference to the death of Jacob B. Ressler appears in the 1891 Allegheny Conference journal, page 38, where it states he "had for many years been associated with the Allegheny Conference."  The marriage date of "Rev. Jacob B. Ressler" and Emily Shupe is given in the Religious Telescope as 1/27/1848.  For this person, this surname is also rendered RESLER.  Mrs. Ressler is a niece to Elizabeth Shupe Worman, wife of Daniel Worman. 

 

RESSLER, JOHN ISAAC LEWIS

 

Born: 11-30-1854  Mt. Pleasant PA                           married: Mary Sammis

Died:  9-6-1934  Beaverdale PA                                obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 62

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 189

Gibble list: no

 

1876    quarterly conference license

1877    license, ? Conference

1879    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1934, 61

 

1876                graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1876-78           student, Union Biblical Seminary and Western Theological Seminary

1878-79           New Paris, Allegheny Conference

1879                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1879-82           Johnstown First

1882-83           Greensburg

1883-86           Braddock

1886-91           Mt. Pleasant

1891-94           Altoona First

1894-97           Wilkinsburg

1897-01           Johnstown First

1901-07           conference superintendent

1907-13           McKeesport Shoemaker

1913-19           Conemaugh

1919-22           Johnstown Southmont

1922-27           Trafford

1927-28           Wilmore

1928                Beaverdale

 

John I.L. Ressler is the son of Jacob B. Ressler and a brother to Lillian Ressler Keister, wife of George Keister.  He is the father of Mary Grace Ressler Shively, wife of B. Frank Shively.  In some cases J.I.L. Ressler is incorrectly recorded as G.L. Ressler.  His picture [RESLER] appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 4.

 

RETTEW, CHESTER ELIJAH

 

Born: 10-4-1890  Columbia PA                                 married: Ruth C. Detweiler

Died: 1-31-1964                                                          obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1985, 318]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1910    quarterly conference license, Columbia

1912    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 125

 

1911-12           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1911-12       Mont Clare

1912-15           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

                             1914-15      Kingsville

1915-17           Halifax Otterbein

1917-20           New Holland

1920-26           missionary, Philippine Islands

1926-29           Harrisburg First

1929-32           Mount Joy

1932-37           Allentown Linden Street [Zion]

1937-41           Schuylkill Haven

1941-47           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1947-53           Myerstown

1953                retired

 

Note: Chester E. Rettew is the father of Rev. Richard D. Rettew of the Presbyterian denomination.

 

 

REXRODE, LAFAYETTE

 

Born: 4-?-1867  KY                                                    married: Mattie B. Cothrill

Died: 1939                                                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1902, 48

Miller-Raker #: 461                                                    married2: Susanna Cleaver

Fulton #: 312                                                               obit2: [3/22/1864 – 12/4/1951]

Gibble list: no

 

1896    license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit:

 

1895-96           Manchester (last part of the year)  1896, 50

1896-97           Dover

1897-99           York Haven circuit (left during last year to attend seminary)

1899-02           seminary student, Dayton OH

1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-03           Clearfield station

1903-05           McKeesport

1905-06           West Decatur

1906-07           living in Valier PA

1907-08           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1908-11           Fairmount

1911-12           Punxsutawney (resigned 4/30/1912, page 48)

1912                honorable dismissal, page 73, to “transfer” to the Presbyterian Church

1912-15           Leatherwood (New Bethlehem PA)

1915-20           Lower Buffalo (Independence PA)

1920-               Sampson’s Mills (White Oak PA, beginning 12/21/1920)

 

Note: Lafayette Rexrode is reported to have lived in Kearneysville WV and appears to have connections to Grant County WV, where his brother Aldine Whetsel Rexrode farmed.  The second Mrs. Rexrode (nee Cleaver) may have been the widow of a Mr. Helmrick.

 

 

REYNOLDS, FRANCIS D.

 

Born: 11-26-1871  Baltimore MD                              married: Emma Jane Rush

Died: 1-3-1932                                                            obit: Baltimore Conference (Methodist) 1957, 278

Miller-Raker #: 476

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1895    ordained “in the Mission of Faith of the M.E. Church in Baltimore MD”

1901    license

1901    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church  132, 115

 

1901-02           New Bloomfield (resigned 3/13/01)

1902-03           York Haven (resigned 11/9/02)

1903-05                      living in Baltimore MD

1905                granted open transfer, page 46

1907                transfer to Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

1907-09           Lawsonia

1909-10           Kennedyville

1910-12           Dover and Leipsic

1912-15           Sharptown

1915-16           Waverly

1916-18           no appointment, by own request

1918-25           Baltimore St. Paul’s

1925-31           Evergreen

 

 

REYNOLDS, JOSHUA R.

 

Born: 1825  Cambria County PA                                           married: Elizabeth Kring [1845]

Died: 3-7-1885  Indianapolis IN                                            obit: [1827 – 3/19/1878]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                  married2: Emma Frazier [12/15/1878]

Fulton #: 124                                                                           obit2: [c1834 – c1897]

Gibble list: no

 

1862    license, Allegheny Conference

1869    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Village Cemetery, Braddock PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1885, 36

 

1862-63           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1863-64           Bellefonte

1864-65           Mechanicsburg

1865-69           (health issues)

1869-70           Fallen Timber

1879-71           Liverpool

1871-72           Bald Eagle Valley

1872-73           Clearfield

1873-74           (health issues)

1874-75           Mahoning

1876                (health issues)

 

 Note: Joshua Reynolds served in the army 9/6/1864 – 6/4/1865 and was never physically well afterwards.  Emma Frazier was the widow of a Thomas Ryan.  She then married (10/13/1864) John Pringle (1796-1866), a brother to Abraham and Daniel Pringle.

 

RHEN, ALLEN R.

 

Born: 1-2-1866                                                            married: Clara L. _____

Died: 1-7-1934                                                            obit: Colorado Conference 1925, 54

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 275

Gibble list: no

 

1896    license, Allegheny Conference

1900    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont CO

Obit: Colorado – New Mexico Conference 1934, 13

 

1895-97           Bellwood

1897-00           Bellefonte

1900-03           Punxsutawney

1903-06           Milton

1906-07           Loveland CO, Colorado Conference

1907                transfer to Colorado Conference

 

RHINEHART, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1856  Fisherville VA                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 163

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [RINEHART]

 

1830    license

1832    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bethlehem Cemetery [unmarked grave], Augusta County VA

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1836-37           presiding elder, Maryland District

1838-39           local preacher, living 4 miles from Hagerstown

 

Note: This surname is also rendered REINHART and RINEHART.  See Burrow’s 1984 History of the West Virginia Conference, page 215.  This may be the same Jacob Rhinehart as #239.

 

 

RHINEHART, JACOB

 

Born: 1812                                                                  married: Elizabeth _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 239

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1840    entered conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1840-42           Chambersburg station

1842-43           believed to be serving in Allegheny Conference

1843-45           York First

1845                transfer to Virginia Conference

 

Note: This may be the same Jacob Rhinehart as #163.

 

 

RHINEHART, PAUL E.

 

Born: 9-28-1896  Greencastle PA                              married: Mary Helen Waltrick

Died: 5-15-1965  Westminster MD                            obit: [d. 10/23/1974]

Miller-Raker #: 619

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Greencastle First

1922    license

1926    ordained

 

Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 109

 

1922-24           Mercersburg circuit

1924-26           Myersville

1926-29           Manchester MD

1929-34           Dillsburg

1934-34           York Second

1938-44           Mount Wolf

1944-62           Baltimore Seimer’s Memorial

1962-65           Taneytown

 

RHINEHART, WILLIAM R.

 

Born: 11-28-1800  Rockingham County VA married:

Died: 5-9-1861                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 112

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [RINEHART]

 

1825    license

1828    ordained

 

Interment: Miami Chapel, Dayton OH

Obit: Miami OH Conference 1892, 9

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831-34           Hagerstown circuit

1834-39           (first) editor, Religious Telescope

1853                transfer to Miami OH Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered REINHART and RINEHART.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 85, and Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 321, give brief biographies.

 

 

RHOAD, EDWIN MORRIS

 

Born: 4-3-1893  Lebanon County PA                        married: Mary B. Nissley

Died: 6-23-1978                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1977, 578

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    quarterly conference license, Lemberger’s

1918    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 410

 

1917-22           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1917-19       Manada Hill

                            1919-22       Hillsdale circuit

1922-25           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

                            summer 1923  McKeesport-Shoemaker’s

                            summer 1924  Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga TN

                            summer 1925  Hillsdale circuit

1925-43           Ephrata First

1943-45           chaplain, US Army

1945-52           Lebanon Salem

1952-62           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1962                retired

 

Note: Edwin M. Rhoad is a brother to Hiram F. Rhoad and an uncle to William O. Rhoad.

 

RHOAD, HIRAM FRANKLIN

 

Born: 3-14-1878  Lebanon County PA                      married: Annie Mae Houser

Died: 11-8-1950                                                          obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 124

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    quarterly conference license

1898    license, East German Conference

1902    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 26

 

1900-01           Ebenezer

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           Bellegrove

1902-04           Pine Grove

1904-07           Lykens circuit

1907-09           Manheim

1909-17           Highspire

1917-28           Harrisburg State Street

1928-47           Lancaster Otterbein

1947-50           Highspire

 

Note: Hiram F. Rhoad is a brother to Edwin M. Rgoad and the father of William O. Rhoad.

 

 

RHOAD, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 8-17-1903                                                          married: Myrtle Iva Dymon [11/22/1929]

Died: 2-28-1989                                                          obit: [3/19/1904 – 1/10/1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Briery Church, Prince Edward County VA

Obit:

 

1923-25           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1924-25      Manada Hill

1925-28           student, Princeton University

1928-30           Linglestown and Colonial Park

1930                honorable dismissal to join Presbyterian ministry

                        Ashfield & Ripley, Ontario Canada

 

Note: William O. Rhoad is the son of Hiram F. Rhoad and a nephew of Edwin M. Rhoad.

 

 

RHOADS, SOLOMON LINCOLN

 

Born: 11-9-1864  near Hummelstown PA                  married: Mary A. Seigfried

Died: 2-16-1941                                                          obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 123

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1894    quarterly conference license, Hummelstown Trinity

1895    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1898    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 11

 

1895-98           Lebanon St. John’s mission

1898-01           Mount Joy circuit

1901-03           Denver

1903-04           Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1904-07           Mount Carmel

1907-11           Sunbury

1911-14           Lancaster Otterbein

1914-17           Lykens circuit

1917-20           Lykens station

1920-25           Palmyra Second and Campbelltown

1925-29           Highspire

1929-30           Shoemakersville

1930-34           Intercourse

1934-41           Tremont St. John’s and Barry

 

 

RHODES, CHARLES HALLOR

 

Born: 3-12-1893  Trauger PA                                    married: Mary Elizabeth Dunlap (9/15/1914)

Died: 10-27-1957  Williamsport PA                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1923, 65

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2:  Kathryn Leah Thomas (11/10/1924)

Fulton #: 440                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf 1958, 35

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Ruth Wyona Jones

                                                                                    obit3: [7/23/1908 – 12/4/1992]

1917    quarterly conference license

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

1920    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Montoursville Cemetery, Montoursville PA

Obit:

 

1917-19           Mapleton Depot

1919-22           Madison

1922-25           Bellwood

1925-26           Everson

1926-29           Altoona Schum Memorial

1929-30           Coalport

1930-34           South Williamsport

1934-35           Susquehanna (ending 3/1/1935)

1935                removed for violating policy on divorce & remarriage – see 1935, 93

 

 

RICE, AMOS HEINTZELMAN

 

Born: 7-11-1849  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Jennie E. Miller

Died: 12-13-1904  Dayton OH                                   obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 28

Miller-Raker #: 356

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license

1873    ordained

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 64

 

1869-70           assistant, Shopp’s station

1870-71           assistant, York circuit

1871-73           Path Valley

1873-75           Manchester MD

1875-77           York Second

1877-79           Newville station

1879-82           Liverpool circuit

1882-86           Harrisburg Otterbein

1886-90           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1890-91           Baltimore George Street

1891-02           Baltimore Scott Street

1902-04           York Allison Memorial (Third)

 

 

RICE, H.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1879                Millersburg Hebron (June-Oct)

1880-81           Phoenixville circuit

1888                removed at own request

 

 

RICE, JAMES E.B.

 

Born: 1-26-1862  Rockingham County VA               married: Martha Jane Applegate

Died: 2-18-1949  Quincy PA                                      obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 24

Miller-Raker #: 496

Fulton #: 323

Gibble list: no

 

1885    license, Virginia Conference

1887    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 33

 

1885-86           Clark mission

1886-87           Singers Glen

1887-90           Churchville

1890-91           Berkeley Springs

1891-94           student, Bonebrake seminary

1894-97           Winchester

1897                transfer to Maryland Conference

1897-00           Boonsboro

1900-02           Walkersville

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902                Mount Wolf (beginning 3/1903 and ending 10/15/1902)

1902-03           Tyrone, Allegheny Conference

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-04           Tyrone

1904-05           (health issue, living in Frederick MD – see 9/7/1904 Religious Telescope, page 12)

1905-06           East Pittsburgh

1906                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 50

1906-07           Taneytown

1907-10           Chewsville

1910-12           Scotland

1912-15           York Third

1915-17           West Fairview

1917-19           local

1919-25           Jefferson

1925-29           Manchester PA

1929                retired

 

Note: JEB Rice is a brother to Samuel L. Rice.

 

RICE, MARVIN LEE

 

Born: 9-1-1936                                                            married: Marlene L. Myers

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 107

Miller-Raker #: 758

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license, recommended by Hagerstown Emmanuel

1962    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58           student, Lebanon Valley College

     1956-58      Gardners-Mount Victory

1958-62           student, United Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1958-62      Eldorado, Miami Ohio Conference

1962-69           Greencastle

1969                no appointment

 

Note: Marvin L. Rice never appears in the United Methodist Church records.

 

RICE, SAMUEL L.

 

Born: 1-4-1857                                                            married: Magdalena M. Shank [8/23/1881]

Died: 10-7-1930  Gettysburg PA                                obit: [8/27/1863 – 1919]

Miller-Raker #: 497                                                    married2: Antoinette G. Bowers [1920]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/12/1862 – 10/18/1934]

Gibble list: no

 

1889    license, Virginia Conference

1892    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit:

 

1889-91           Cross Keys

1891-98           ?

1898                transfer to Maryland Conference

1898-02           Keedysville (beginning 7/1/98)

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-05           Gettysburg

1905-06           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage

1906                withdrew irregularly, page 49, to enter the Lutheran ministry

1907-12           Lemoyne Trinity

1912-18           Marysville & Duncannon

1918                retired

 

Note: Samuel L. Rice is a brother to JEB Rice.  The second Mrs. Rice was the widow of a Mr. Howes.

 

 

RICHARDSON, HARVEY EUGENE

 

Born: 6-22-1865  Buckeystown MD                          married:

Died: 9-17-1957                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 501

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1895    license, Virginia Conference

1898    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Rosedale Cemetery, Martinsburg WV

Obit: Virginia Conference  1958, 17

 

1900-02           Williamsport MD

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           Williamsport MD (resigned April 1903)  1903, 21

1903                transfer to Iowa Conference

1903-04           Letts

1909                transfer to Virginia Conference

1912-14           Cumberland MD

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 179, gives a brief biography.

 

 

RICHEY, W.T. [WILLIAM THOMAS?]

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1866                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

1862    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1907, 9

 

1860-61           Schellsburg

1861-63           Allegheny

1863-65           Clearfield

1865-66           Liverpool

 

 Note: The 1865 journal lists this pastor as THOMAS RICKEY.  The surname also appears as RICHIE.

 

RICHIE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS

 

Born: 9-22-1888                                                          married: Belle Orris

Died: 7-17-1966                                                          obit: Eastern Conference 1966, 124

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    quarterly conference license, Shamokin First

1911    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Grand View Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1967, 123

 

1909-13           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1911-12  Jonestown circuit

1913-14           associate, Marble Collegiate (Dutch Reformed) NYC

1914-17           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             1915-17  Fairfield (ME) OH

1917-23           Allentown Zion

1923-25           Philadelphia Second

1925-58           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

                        1925-56  Annnville

1958                retired

 

Note:  Mrs. Richie was ordained a United Brethren deaconess 10/6/1919.  Daughter Alice (1917-1998) is the wife of Darwin D. Clupper (1912-1981), US Navy chaplain and pastor in the Minnesota and Ohio Sandusky Conferences.

 

 

RICHMOND, R.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 398

Gibble list: no

 

1912    license, Allegheny Conference

1913    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1912-13           Houserville

1918                returned to quarterly conference license, page 52

 

Note: R.C. Richmond is otherwise unknown.

 

RICHTER, GEORGE MARTIN

 

Born: 3-9-1884  Halifax PA                                       married: Fanny Louise Shunk

Died: 8-?-1974  Grinnell IA                                       obit: [12/4/1883 – 12/26/1951]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Nina V. Blodgett

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/27/1900 – 12/16/1992]

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City IA

Obit:

 

1906-07           Sinking Spring

1907-08           Lehigh circuit

1908-09           Birdsboro Grace

1909-12           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

                             Delta OH

                             Oak Street, Dayton OH

1912-15           missionary, Africa

1915-16           Coatesville

1916-19           Schuylkill Haven

1919-38           missionary, Africa

1938                transfer to Colorado-New Mexico Conference

                             last listed as United Brethren in 1940 in Espanola NM

 

Note: George M. Martin served as a Congregational pastor in Elkader IA and Grinnell IA c1943-c1960.  The first Mrs. Martin was also a graduate of Bonebrake Seminary, and they married in 1912 while missionaries in Africa.

 

RICKABAUGH, CLYDE EDWARD

 

Born: 2-15-1902                                                          married: Viola Isabelle Smith Mitchell

Died: 2-9-1993                                                            obit: [10/18/1903 – 10/22/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Shoops Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1925-26           Pottstown

1927-28           Tremont St. John’s

1928-31           student, Crozer Theological Seminary

1931                removed to enter the Presbyterian ministry

                        First and Salem, Slatington PA

 

Note: Clyde E. Rickabaugh is the father of Rev. Homer T. Rickabaugh of the Presbyterian Church.
 

 

RIDER, GORDON I.

 

Born: 6-27-1877  Silver Lake IN                               married: Cora Ellen Haverstock

Died: 1-1-1966                                                            obit: Baltimore Conference 1982, 415

Miller-Raker #: 516

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license, recommended by Shepherdstown

1907    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 145

 

1905-06           Thurmont

1906-09           Walkersville

1909-52           Hagerstown Second [Grace]

1952                retired

 

 

RIDER, JOHN

 

Born: 10-26-1786                                                        married: Nancy Eyer

Died: 4-24-1849                                                          obit: [11/25/1788 – 1/4/1869]

Miller-Raker #: 103 [REIDER]

Fulton #: 21

Gibble list: yes

 

1822    license

1825    ordained

 

Interment: Old Union Cemetery, Buffalo Mills PA

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9],

 

1835-39           presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1845-46           Millheim

1847-48           Schellsburg circuit

 

Note: This surname is also rendered REIDER.  Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, gives a brief biography [REIDER].  John Rider is the father of Barbara E. Rider Bowers, wife of Christian Frederick Bowers.  After the death of John Rider, his widow and family moved to Iowa.  Nancy Eyer Rider is buried in Western Cemetery, Linn county IA.

 

 

 

RIDDLE, JEREMIAH SYLACE.

 

Born: 8-5-1848  Gilmer WV                                      married: Amelia Eleanor Kipp Kneal

Died: 7-16-1880  Oxford County, Ontario Canada    obit: [5/1/1848 – 9/27/1879]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Princeton, Ontario Canada

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 14

 

1873                transfer to

1878-79           Halifax Otterbein, East Pennsylvania Conference

1879                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1879-80           Intercourse

 

Note: Jeremiah S. Riddle is the brother of Merchant S. Riddle (b. 1847) of the West Virginia Conference Mrs. Kneal (nee Kipp) was a widow when she married Jeremiah Riddle 9/25/1874.

 

RIFE, CARL BRUCE

 

Born: 2-5-1940                                                            married: Judith Ann Snowberger

Died:                                                                           obit: [6-6-1941 – 10-20-2014]

Miller-Raker #: 787

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by York Fifth

1966    ordained

           

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-62           student associate, Lemoyne Calvary

1962-63           youth evangelist, General Board of Evangelism

1963-66           student, United Seminary in Dat=yton OH

                             1963-66      youth minister, Brookville OH

1966-68           Silver Spring

1968-70           Lemoyne Grace

1970-71           student, Wesley Seminary

1971                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1971-81           Frederick Brooke Hill

1981-84           Baltimore Grace

1984-87           director of development, United Seminary

1987-94           Millford Mill

1994-99           Wheaton Hughes

1999                retired

 

RIGOR, GEORGE W. MILES

 

Born: 9-22-1832  near Scottdale PA                          married: Lillie Jane McCreary

Died: 7-9-1906  North Vineland NJ                           obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 32

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 87

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    quarterly conference license, Mount Pleasant

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

1860    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Stoverdale Church Cemetery, Dauphin County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 31

 

1854-57           Blair

1857-58           Jefferson

1858-59           Mahoning

1859-61           Liverpool

1861-62           Perrysville

1862                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1862-63           Northumberland Mission

1863-66           Columbia Salome

1866-70           Lebanon Trinity

1870-72           Harrisburg First

1872-75           superintendent

1875-76           Harrisburg First

1876-79           superintendent

1879-80           Highspire circuit

1880-81           superintendent

1881-83           Mount Joy

1883-84           Baltimore Scott Street

1884-85           Philadelphia Jasper Street mission

1885-88           superintendent, Lancaster District

1888-89           Philadelphia First

1889-90           Camden NJ Woodland mission

1890-95           living in Vineland NJ

1895-96           Lebanon Trinity

1896-98           Pottstown

1898-99           Halifax Otter (first part of year), Paradise St. John’s (last part of year)

1899-01           Royalton Emmanuel

1901-02           Elverson

1902-03           Coatesville mission [Grace]

1903                retired to Vineland NJ

 

RILAND, PAUL JONES

 

Born: 11-22-1829  PA                                                married: Mary A. Gilbert

Died: 3-3-1906  Halifax PA                                       obit: [7/7/1834 – 10/3/1909]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1853    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion [Stone] Church Cemetery, Powell’s Valley PA

Obit:

 

1853-54           Halifax circuit

1854-56           Lancaster circuit

1856-58           New Holland

1858-91           living in Powell’s Valley

1891                name erased

 

Note: Some sources give the birthdate as 4-8-1827, the birthdate of his (twin?) sister.  The 1829 date comes from the tombstone.

 

RILEY, JOHN

 

Born: 5-11-1824  Westmoreland PA                          married: Rebecca Cooper

Died: 2-14-1903  Georgia City MO                           obit: [2/10/1825 – 10/23/1912]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 80

Gibble list: no

 

1853    license, Allegheny Conference

1855    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Georgia City Cemetery, Belleville MO

Obit: Missouri Conference 1903, 15

 

1852-53           Jefferson

1853-54           Ligonier

1854-55           Jefferson

1855-57           Westmoreland

1857-58           Madison

1858-59           Madison & Westmoreland

1859-60           Madison

1860-61           Clarion

1861-63           Kittanning

1863                transfer to

 

 

RINGER, ANDREW P.

 

Born: 11-20-1808 Hagerstown MD                            married: Catharine _____

Died: 5-8-1853  IA                                                     obit: [c1813 - ]

Miller-Raker #: 172

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1832-33           Carlisle circuit

1833-34           declared a “private member” (i.e., ministerial privileges suspended)

1834                dismissed

                        became “a minister in the Christian, or Campbellite, Church”

                        moved to Iowa and became a medical doctor

 

Note: Andrew P. Ringer named his daughters Virginia, Indiana, Louisiana, Carolina and Iowa. 

 

RISLEY, FRANK ASHER

 

Born: 3-17-1880  St. Johns MI                                   married: Elta Alta Ankeny

Died: 1-7-1942                                                            obit: [3/16/1885 – 8/27/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 354

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, Michigan Conference

1909    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Oak Park Cemetery, Ligonier IN

Obit: St. Joseph Conference 1942, 56

 

1902-03           Mt. Pleasant

1903-07           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1907                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1907-08           Port Matilda

1909-25           missionary, West Africa

1925                open transfer, page 119

 

Note: Frank Asher Risley is a brother to Robert Russell Risley (1875-1950) of the Sandusky Conference.  In 1955, the widowed Mrs. Risley married a Mr. Charles Jefferson Roberts.

 

 

RITCHEY, ARTHUR

 

Born: 1-28-1880  Blue Knob PA                                married: Juniata Allenbaugh

Died: 11-19-1958                                                        obit: [1885-1952]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 418&527

Gibble list: no

 

1910    quarterly conference license

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

1931    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Blue Knob PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 30

 

1910-14           Three Springs

1914-18           Wilmore

1918-19           St. Michael

1919-27           located

1927-30           Port Matilda

1930-34           Susquehanna

1934-38           Belsano

1938-40           Springfield

1940-42           Wyano

1942-45           Waukesha

1945-48           East Salem

1948-52           Shade Gap

1952                retired

 

Note: The tombstone of Mrs. Ritchey reads “Junie Etta Ritchey.”  This surname also appears as RITCHIE.

 

 

RITCHEY, LEONARD E.

 

Born: 12-22-1921  Portage PA                                   married: Jean Margaret Hawk [8/15/1941]

Died: 8-1-1989  Meadville PA                                   obit: 5/29/1922 – 12/17/2012]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1941    quarterly conference license, Altoona Third

 

Interment: Carson Valley Cemetery, Duncansville PA

Obit:

 

1945-50          Runville

1950-51          student, Grace Seminary in Winona Lake IN

1951-53          Casselman

1953                no longer listed

 

1966                Breedtown PA Baptist Church

                        retired

                             Meadville First Baptist

                             Hydetown Baptist

 

Note: Leonard E. Ritchey is a brother to William J. Ritchey.  He served as a local pastor.  

 

RITCHEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH

 

Born: 11-18-1907  Beaverdale PA                             married: M. Elizabeth Hearn [9/27/1930]

Died: 5-21-1991  Colorado Springs CO                     obit: [11/30/1907 – 4/20/2000]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 512

Gibble list: no

 

1926    quarterly conference license

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1939    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum, Colorado Springs CO

Obit:

 

1927-30           student, Otterbein College

1930-34           supply

                             1930-31      Industry (10/30/1930 - 3/1/1931)

1934-37           Bellwood (beginning 1/8/1934)

1937-46           Fayette

1946-47           East Connellsville

1947-52           Johnstown Westmont

1952-54           DuBois

1954-55           without appointment at own request

1955                united with the Independent Baptist Church – 1955, 88

 

Note: William J. Ritchey is a brother to Leonard E. Ritchey and the father of three pastors, affiliation unknown – Rev. William D. Ritchey, Rev. Thomas F. Ritchey, and Rev. Dennis E. Ritchey.  A Colorado Springs CO newspaper obituary for Mrs. Ritchey is on file at the archives.  This surname is sometimes incorrectly given as RICHEY.

 

 

RITTER, HALLIE BROWN

 

Born: 9-19-1882  Frederick County VA                    married: Ida May Moore

Died: 9-16-1960  Manassas VA                                 obit: [3/17/1878 – 4/22/1960]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 395

Gibble list: no

 

1912    license, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Buckhall Community Cemetery, Prince William County VA

Obit:

 

1907-08           Prince William Station, Virginia Conference

1909-10           Roanoke, Virginia Conference

1911-12           Westernport, Virginia Conference

1912-17           Mapleton

1917-20           Liverpool

1920                returned to quarterly conference license 

 

Note:  H.B. Ritter is listed as a “visiting minister” at the Virginia Conference session of 1908; while he served churches in that conference, he is not listed as having been a part of the Virginia Conference.  He apparently returned to Prince William County and went into business.

 

RITTER, JACOB

 

Born: 3-28-1815  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Eleanor _____

Died: 2-4-1901  Liverpool PA                                    obit: [4/18/1816 – 6/5/1854]

Miller-Raker #: 186                                                    married2: Catharine E. _____

Fulton #: 10                                                                 obit2: [11/18/1816 – 8/171887]

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Liverpool Union Cemetery, Liverpool PA

Obit:

 

1833-34           Huntingdon circuit

1834-35           Juniata circuit

1835-37           Carlisle circuit

1837-38           Chambersburg circuit

1838-39           Washington circuit

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           Washington circuit

1840-41           (no minutes recorded)

1841-42           Westmoreland circuit

1842-43           (assignments not listed)

1843-45           presiding elder, Westmoreland District

                             1843-44      also Mt. Pleasant station and New Stanton station

1845-46           Schellsburg circuit

1846-47           Johnstown mission

1847-48           traveling agent, Mt. Pleasant College

1848-49           Johnstown station

1850                located to Liverpool to practice medicine and serve as local preacher

1852                transfer [?]

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 308, gives a brief biography.  Chapter 8 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Jacob Ritter.  He was the last surviving charter member of the Allegheny Conference.

 

 

RITTER, THEODORE DEWEY

 

Born: 1-12-1899                                                          married: Ada Catherine Greenawalt

Died: 5-11-1959  Frederick MD                                 obit: [8-18-1899 – 6/13/1968]

Miller-Raker #: 643

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit:

 

1917-20           Franklin circuit

1920-22           Bendersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1922-23           Biglerville, Pennsylvania Conference

1923-25                      Taneytown, Pennsylvania Conference

1925                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference [from Virginia Conference, page 71]

1925-27           Spring Run

1927-31           Sherman’s Dale circuit

1931-33           Rohrersville

1933-34           local, living in Paramount MD

1934                withdrew, page 38

 

Note:  There appears to be no formal recognition of his license in the Virginia Conference minutes, although he is listed as “resigned” in their 1921 journal.  There is a picture of T. Dewey Ritter on page 37 of the 1931 journal.  After leaving the ministry, he became a veterinarian.

 

 

RITTGERS, JOHN B.

 

Born: 3-21-1863  Hocking County OH                      married: Zeuriah Edith Davis [4/26/1888]

Died: 6-21-1921  Camden NJ                                     obit: [1872 – 1949]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 344

Gibble list: yes

 

1894    license, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Johnstown PA Brethren Church, Morris Street

1891-92           Philadelphia PA First Brethren Church, 10th Street below Dauphin

1892-94           ?

1894                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1894-96           Richmond

1896                discontinued

1896-97           ?

1897-98           Wilmore, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church [per local records, not conference records]

1898-05           ?

1905-06           Glendola NJ [believed to be New Jersey Conference of the Methodist protestant Church]

1906-07           Portage, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church [per local records, not conference records]

1907                received on credentials by Allegheny Conference of United Brethren Church

1907-08           Monessen

1908                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1908-10           Mount Joy

1910-12           Reading Otterbein (did not finish second year: see 1912, 7)

1912                name erased

1913                serving in Camden NJ, affiliation unknown

 

ROBB, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 1-31-1889                                                          married: Esther S. _____

Died: 7-?-1964                                                            obit: [8/18/1894 – 4/24/1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 420

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

1917    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Memorial Mausoleum, Wyomissing PA

Obit:

 

1915-17           student, Bonebrake Seminary in Dayton OH

1917-18           Bradenville

1918                Jefferson (ending Oct 1918)

1918                “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1918-20           Gallitzin

1920-21           on leave

1921                discontinued

1922                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1922-24           Canadensis

1924-26           Mt. Hope

1926-28           Avondale and Chatham

1928-29           Morton

1929                transfer to New Jersey Conference

1929-31           Belford and Union Beach

1931-33           Linwood

1933-35           Camden Bethany

1935                transfer to Wilmington Conference (re-named Peninsula in 1940)

1935-37           Millington

1937-38           Roxana

1938-40           Vienna

1940-41           St. Thomas

1941-42           Allen

1942-43           Trinity and Quindocqua

1943-44           Pittsville Ayres

1944                ceases membership

 

ROBB, J.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

1892    ordained deacon, Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-01           Clarington

 

Note:  J.E. Robb served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  He may have been a Presbyterian minister at that time. 

 

ROBB, R.S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1897-98           Indiana

 

Note:  R.S. Robb served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person.  This name is also given as R.G. Robb.

 

ROBERTS, GERALD WAYNE

 

Born: 4-2-1926  York PA                                           married: Helen Louise Blauser

Died: 7-28-1982                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 815

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by York Third

1968    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, York PA (Springettsbury township)

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 406

 

1964-67           Mt. Victory

1967-71           Spring Run

1971-74           Genesee-Ulysses

1974-82           Barnitz

 

ROBERTS, PALMER FRANKLIN

 

Born: 8-9-1880 Arcola IL                                                                  married: Mary Bertha Spatz

Died: 1-16-1953  Macomb IL                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1909-13           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1909-10      Harrisburg circuit

                             1912-13      Sinking Spring

 

Note:  In 1922 Palmer F. Roberts was serving a United Brethren church in Anchor IL; in 1947 he worked in landscaping and pastored the Argyle Presbyterian Church in Colchester IL.

 

 

ROBERTS, R.P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 269

Gibble list: no

 

1885    ordained, Congregational Church

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1896                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1896-98           Berlin

1898-00           Hustontown

1900-01           East Freedom

1901-04           Dunlo

1904-05           Clarington

1905-07           Long Creek [Louisa County IA] Welsh Congregational Church

1907                transfer to ?

 

1910                Wilkes-Barre Welsh Presbyterian (?)

 

Note: R.P. Roberts was a native of Wales.  The 8/24/1894 Hastings Tribune, page 5, reports that “Rev. R.P. Roberts, of this place, expects to remove to Ohio in the near future, where he will engage in ministerial work among the Welsh people of that state.”

 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM T.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 468 [ROBISON]

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, ?

?          ordained, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1901-06           Coultersville

1915-22           Masontown

1922                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church by credentials

1922-23           McKeesport Shoemaker (resigned 1/15/1923)

1923                dropped

 

Note: The Pittsburgh Conference of the ME Church appears to assign William T. Robinson to Youngwood 1922-24 without interruption, and then on to other churches.

 

ROCK, RANDOLPH

 

Born: 1-10-1851  New Harrisburg OH                      married: Alice Amanda Casper [1875]

Died: 9-26-1917  Canton OH                                     obit: East Ohio Conference 1925, 70

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment: West Lawn Cemetery, Canton OH

Obit: [New Philadelphia OH Daily Times 9/28/1917, page 1]

 

                        Miami Conference

1875-77           New Philadelphia

                        Canton

                        Marietta

[1886]              Fostoria

[1891]              Dayton Summit Street

1894-95           Lebanon Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895                transfer to East German Conference

1896-99           Shamokin First

1899                honorable dismissal

1913-15           Harrisonburg VA, Virginia Conference

1915                retired to Canton OH

 

Note: His given name may have been RANDOLPHUS ROCK, and he is often referred to in church records as RUDOLPH ROCK.  He is known as Dr. Randolph Rock, D.D.  Beginning in 1899 he maintained a local preacher’s relationship and preached, spoke and lectured extensively in Pennsylvania and Ohio.  He is listed in the 1887 Otterbein Birthday Book.

 

RODES, DAVID HOOVER

 

Born: 4-7-1895  Mount Wolf PA                               married: Mary K. Smith

Died: 11-12-1962                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 271

Miller-Raker #: 709

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license, York Third

1948    license

1950    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 48

 

1944-45           Dover & Harmony Grove

1945-47           Mt. Olivet

1947-52           Rohrersville

1952-56           Springet

1956-62           Pleasureville-Longstown

1962-62           Pleasureville

 

Note: David H. Rodes is a nephew of Rufus R. Rodes.

 

 

RODES, RUFUS ROMANUS

 

Born: 12-1-1860 Wago PA                                         married: Anna Flury

Died: 6-9-1941                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 72

Miller-Raker #: 458                                                    married2: Mrs. Nettie M. (Dietz) Sollenberger

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/19/1876 – 5/22/1955]

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license, Johnstown First

1895    license

1898    ordained

 

Interment: Manchester Union Cemetery, Manchester PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 30

 

1884-90           superintendent of schools, Johnstown PA

1890-94           superintendent of schools, Glen Rock PA

1894-96           York circuit

1896-99           New Cumberland

1899-04           Dallastown

1904-08           York Third

1908-13           Wormleysburg

1913-22           York Fifth

1922-27           Windsor

1927-30           Emigsville

1930                retired

 

Note: Wago [Wago Junction] is in York County along the Susquehanna River, south of York Haven.  Rufus R. Rodes is an uncle to David H. Rodes.  There was also a Rev. Richard Rufus Rodes who served EUB and other churches, but his relationship to Rufus Romanus Rodes is not known – although Richard Rufus Rodes may be the son of Rufus Romanus Rodes’ son Lester A. Rodes, as both Richard (1941) and Lester (1914) are graduates of LVC. Daniel Rodes (1806-1890), the grandfather of Rufus R. Rodes, was an effective local preacher in the Manchester PA area.

 

 

ROEDIGER, H.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1883    license, East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1883-84           Camden Emmanuel Mission

 

Note: “Mr. H.E. Roediger of Philadelphia” – so called in his application for license – is otherwise unknown.  In 2007, a Richard Roediger is a board member at United Theological Seminary and an architect for Lorenz & Williams.

 

 

ROHRBAUGH, LAVERNE EUGENE

 

Born: 2-24-1924  YorkPA                                          married: Shirley Elaine Blatt

Died: 9-21-1999  BeltsvilleMD                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 704

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1947    license

1953    ordained

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2000, 597

 

1947-64           Biglerville

1964-70           Hagerstown Grace

1970                transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-74           Hagerstown Grace

1974-83           Washington Mt. Vernon Place

1983-87           Cheverly

1987                retired

 

Note: Laverne E. Rohrbaugh served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II and was held prisoner by the Germans at Barth, Germany, from 1944 to 1945.

 

ROJAHN, BENJAMIN D.

 

Born: 1-31-1882  Dallastown PA                               married: Mamie E. Seitz

Died: 6-13-1961                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 146

Miller-Raker #: 544

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    quarterly conference license, Dallastown Bethlehem

1907    license

1909    ordained

 

Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 44

 

1904-05           student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1905-06           student, Yale Divinity School

1906-07           City Mission, New Haven CT

1907                Congregational Church, Sherbourne VT (Jun-Sep)

1907-09           student, Bonebrake Seminary

                            1907-08  Millville, Miami Conference

1909                Dover circuit (Aug-Oct)

1909-11           Mont Alto

1911-14           New Cumberland

1914-21           Yoe

1921-25           York Fourth

1925-33           Waynesboro

1933-52           Spry

1952                retired

 

Note: Benjamin D. Rojahn is a first cousin to Catherine Daugherty (Mrs. Franklin B.) Emenheiser – through Rojahn, and possibly through Daugherty.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Rojahn.

 

 

ROMIG, HENRY HORACE

 

Born: 3-22-1864  Lehigh County PA                         married: Alavesta Musselman [1/7/1886]

Died: 19-10-1949                                                        obit: [c1866 – 11/19/1886]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rosie Ellen Jacobs [5/26/1888]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [9/10/1865 – 2/8/1937]

Gibble list: yes

 

 

1891    license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1892    admitted on trial, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1892    ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit:

 

1891-94           Phoenixville

1894-96           Williamstown

1896-97           Shenandoah

1897-98           Brush Valley

1898-99           Penn’s Valley

1899-00           New Columbia & Buffalo Valley

1900-02           Jarrettsville MD

1902                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of United Brethren Church

1902-04           Manor circuit

1906                honorable dismissal

1907                “transfer” to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1907-09           Bethlehem Bethany

1909                not assigned, member of Allentown Bethany quarterly conference

 

Note: H. Horace Romig is the son of Mennonite Brethren in Christ pastor Joseph L. Romig (1837-1869) and is a brother to Oscar G. Romig.  There an unexplained reference in the 1902 United Brethren Yearbook listing him as a member of the Allegheny Conference serving the Susquehanna charge.  He is the author of the 1939 111-page book “One Cut in 206.”  See the Romig folder in the biographical files.

 

ROMIG, OSCAR GEHMAN

 

Born: 7-20-1866  Lehigh County PA                         married: Alice Frey

Died: 9-23-1937  Hershey PA                                                obit: [1868 – 1/31/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1892    quarterly conference license, East German Conference

1894    license, East German Conference

1898    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 16

 

1893-98           Freeburg

1899-01           Cressona

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-04           Valley View

1904-05           Berne circuit

1905-08           Jonestown

1908-11           Hershey First

1911-14           Union Deposit circuit

1914-16           Tower City

1916-17           New Holland

1917-18           Florin

1918-20           Denver

1920-22           Refton & West Willow

1922-29           Chambers Hill

1929-31           Pottstown

1931-32           Grantville circuit

1932                retired

 

Note: Oscar G. Romig is the son of Mennonite Brethren in Christ pastor Joseph L. Romig (1837-1869) and is a brother to H. Horace Romig.  His given name is J. Oscar Romig [the J. assumed to be for Joseph], but he began using Oscar G. Romig in memory of his mother Elizabeth [nee Gehman] Romig – who died when he was one month old.  See the Romig folder in the biographical files.

 

ROOP, HERVIN ULYSSES

 

Born: 11-16-1868  near Highspire PA                       married: Emma May Kephart

Died: 9-22-1955                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 51

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1890    quarterly conference license, Highspire

1893    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 34

 

1895-97           superintendent, Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association

1897-06           president, Lebanon Valley College

1906-09          

1909-16           president, Eastern College in ?

1916-19

1919-21           president, York College in York NE

1921-23           Janesville WI

1923-30

1930-31           Philadelphia Second

1929-31           president, Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate TN

1931-37           West Willow & Refton

1937                retired

                             1937-39      faculty, Columbus College in Washington DC

                             1940-45       Chicago Atwood Heights

 

Note: Hervin U. Roop is the great-grandson of Jacob Roop.  Mrs. Roop is the daughter of Ezekiel Boring Kephart.  The gaps may be filled in by noting that he taught at Shippensburg State Normal School, Rittenhouse Academy and Wheaton College and did graduate work at the University of Chicago and other places.

 

 

ROOP, JACOB

 

Born: 3-1-1782  near Highspire PA                           married: Mrs. Margaret Sharp Ziegler

Died: 2-2-1875 Highspire PA                                     obit: [4/25/1784 – 5/25/1850]

Miller-Raker #: 126                                                    married2: Fannie Witmer

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1820    license

1833    ordained

 

Interment: Highspire Cemetery, Highspire PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1876, 16

 

1833-34           Dauphin circuit

1834-35           Carlisle circuit

1835-36           German preacher, Carlisle & York circuits

1839-40           Dauphin circuit

1840-41           Lebanon circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           Halifax circuit

1847-48           presiding elder, Lebanon District

1849-50           Myerstown circuit

1851-52           Highspire circuit

1852-53           Pine Grove

1854-55           Hummelstown circuit

1855-56           Dauphin circuit

 

Note: This name is sometimes rendered RUPP.  Jacob Roop is the great-grandfather of Hervin U. Roop.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 458, gives a brief biography – see also page 222.  The first Mrs. Roop, nee Sharp, was the widow of Philip Ziegler.

 

 

ROSE, LOUIS CHARLES

 

Born: 4-5-1878  Curry's Hollow PA                          married: Luella Emma McCloskey [3/19/1902]

Died: 4-?-1967  Waynesboro PA                               obit: [b. 5/13/1880]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 396

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1912    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 31

 

1911-14           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1914-16           Mahaffey (beginning 5/14/1915)

1916-19           Windber

1919-21           Punxsutawney

1921-24           Hollsopple

1924-27           Monessen

1927-29           Beaver Falls

1929-34           Madison

1934-37           South Williamsport

1937-40           Altoona Garden Heights

1940                Trafford (resigned 9/30/1940)

1940-44           Richfield (beginning 9/28/1940)

1944                retired

 

 

ROSS, LESTER F.

 

Born: 2-3-1913                                                            married: Anna E. Troup

Died: 6-2-1995                                                            obit: [3/4/1915 – 6/20/1993]

Miller-Raker #: 671

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit:

 

1932-38           living in Mechanicsburg

1938                withdrew, page 45

 

Note: Lester Ross was a student at Lebanon Valley when he received his license.

 

 

ROSSELOT, FREDERIC P. 

 

Born: 2-1-1863                                                            married: Ageneth P. Funk

Died: 1-11-1941                                                          obit: California Conference 1917, 30

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 345

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, ? Conference

?          ordained, ? Conference

 

 

Interment: Magnolia Memorial Park, Garden Grove CA

Obit: Sandusky Conference 1941, 20

 

1905-06           Greensburg, Allegheny Conference

1906                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1906-12           Greensburg

1912                open transfer, page 73

 

Note: F.P. Rosselot is an 1893 graduate of Bonebrake [United] Seminary and the author of The Christian’s Power (1904), part of a denominational devotional series.

 

ROTE, JAMES LINN

 

Born: 4-27-1847  Centre County PA                          married: Christina Ann Lovina Garbrick

Died: 5-16-1924  State College PA                            obit: [11/5/1853 – 8/2/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 151

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit:

 

1871-72           Tyrone mission

1872-73           Bellefonte and Millheim

1878                name erased

 

Note: Both appointments of James L. Rote were as the junior pastor on the charge.  Apparently he did not continue in the ministry and appears to have been a resident of Bellfonte.  While the above James Linn Rote was active in the United Brethren Church, it has not been documented with certainty that he is the James L. Rote licensed in 1871.

 

ROTH, CONRAD

 

Born: 1780  York County PA                                     married: Sarah Butt [1806]

Died: OH                                                                    obit: [1772 – 1815]

Miller-Raker #: 85

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1817    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1818-19           Hagerstown area

 

Note: The following are among many references that exist for Conrad Roth, many involving Tuscarawas County OH.  He described as “a surveyor, farmer, local preacher and school teacher” who came to Ohio from York County PA with his father-in-law William Butt in 1806.  In his later years he may have identified with the Methodists.

*mentioned several times in Christian Newcomer’s journal – July 18, 1816, Newcomer is “at the house of my travelling companion, Conrad Roth” and mentions visiting Roth’s father-in-law William Butt.

*5/5/1818 Pennsylvania Conference meeting in Lancaster County PA: “Resolved that Conrad Roth be permitted to preach the gospel in and around Hagerstown this year, with the understanding that after harvest he is to go to Virginia to help to hold big meetings if his health permits.”

*6/16/1818 Miami Conference in Warren County OH: Conrad Roth is present and preached in English on 6/17.

*2/23/1825 Marion County OH: Conrad Roth “minister of the gospel” of Bucyrus [adjacent Crawford County] OH performs a wedding.

*11/6/1825 Marion County OH: Conrad Roth “minister of the gospel” performs a wedding.

*11/17/1825 Marion County OH: Conrad Roth “justice of the peace” performs a wedding.

 

 

ROTHERMEL, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 9-4-1873                                                            married:

Died: 5-25-1942                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 365

Gibble list: yes

 

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1913    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Friedensburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 13

 

1908-09           Spring Run

1909-10           Orbisonia

1910-13           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1913-14           Port Matilda

1914-16           Liverpool

1916-17           Iona, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1917-19           Lykens circuit (did not finish second year)

1919                resigned for health reasons

                        clerk, Allentown Portland Cement Company

 

 

ROTHWELL, SAMUEL S.

 

Born: 2-21-1815  Washington County PA                 married: Elizabeth Ashcroft [1835]

Died: 12-19-1897 Centerville PA                              obit: [1811 – 1887]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 112

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1865                name erased

 

Note:  S.S. Rothwell also taught school and worked as a cabinet maker; there is no evidence that he ever served under appointment in the Allegheny Conference.  He lived in California PA and is reported to have also been licensed as a local pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1840.

 

 

ROUDABUSH, GEORGE JACOB

 

Born: 12-1-1846  Seville VA                                     married: Martha Elizabeth Huckstep [1869]

Died: 12-17-1916  Boonsboro MD                             obit: Virginia Conference 1915, 54

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs.  Fidelia M. (Shuler) Harner [1916]

Fulton #: 297                                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license, Virginia Conference

1879    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

 

Interment: Boonsboro Cemetery, Boonsboro MD

Obit: Virginia Conference 1917, 55

 

1874-78           Page Valley

1878-81           Lacey Spring

1881-83           Augusta

1883-84           Elkton

1884-85           Dayton

1885-86           ?

1886-87           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-88           Mechanicstown [Thurmont]

1891-93           Mt. Nebo        

                        conference superintendent                 

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference by boundary change

1901-02           New Paris

1902-03           Cambria

1903-04           Hooversville

1904                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        Boonsboro

 

Note: George J. Roudabush was mayor of Boonesboro MD 1906-09, 1910-11, 1912-16.  The second Mrs. Roudabush was the widow of a Mr. Charles P. Harner.  The Maryland Conference of the United Brethren Church existed from 1887 to 1901.

 

 

ROWE, EMANUEL DAVID

 

Born: 1-23-1869  Danville PA                                   married: Catherine M. Yocum

Died: 4 -1-1938  Milton PA                                       obit: [1/13/1878 – 7/15/1961]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 482

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1924    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Milton PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 64

 

1921                Milton (9 months)

1921-23           New Paris

1923-25           Runville

1925-27           St. Michael

1927-28           Glasgow

1930-35           Clarion River (beginning 9/26/1930)

1935-36           Shade Gap (beginning 11/15/1935)

1936                retired

 

Note: The first name of Mrs. Rowe also appears as Katherine.

 

RUDISILL, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 4-14-1811  Hanover PA                                   married: Sarah Wehrley

Died: 1-20-1899  York PA                                         obit: [8/15/1813 – 8/30/1882]

Miller-Raker #: 359

 

1871    license

1874    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 50

 

1870-72           Harmony Grove

1872-73           Dover circuit

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 305, gives a brief biography.  Abraham Rudisill is the subject of the 1936 book The Day of Our Abraham.  While there are various reports that he is buried in Wrightsville PA or Baltimore MD, he is likely buried in York PA.  He is the father of Rev. Abram Wehrley Rudisill (1846-1922) – Methodist Episcopal minister, missionary, author, and head of that denomination’s publishing house in Madras, India – and of Charlotte Rudisill Fisher (1833-1856), first wife of Alfred A. Fisher (1830-1893) of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Abraham Rudisill is also the grandfather of Wilhelmina Rudisill Mower, wife of Alfred B. Mower, and of Lilly Rudisill Stair, wife of Rev. Reuben Stair, affiliation unknown.  Abraham Rudisill is also the uncle of Lewis A. Rudisill (1847-1929) of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

 

RUDISILL, MARTIN LUTHER

 

Born: 6-18-1860  near Gettysburg PA                       married: Addie Alice Young

Died: 4-24-1929                                                          obit: [9/21/1871 – 8/16/1947]

Miller-Raker #: 359

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church (Old Constitution)

1918    ordained, Maryland Synod of the Lutheran Church

 

Interment: Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Two Taverns, Adams County PA

Obit:

 

1901-02           Littlestown mission (resigned January 1902)  PA UBOC 1903, 14

1902-03           ?

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference of United Brethren Church, page 57

1903-06           living in Gettysburg

1906-07           New Paris, Allegheny Conference

1907-09           Sabillasville

1909-10           living in Gettysburg

1910                dismissed

1917                enters the Lutheran ministry

1917-21                      Trinity, Needmore WV

1921                transfer to West Pennsylvania Synod

1921-23                      Upper Frankford

1923                pulpit supply as health permits

 

Note: Stump’s 1925 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod [Lutheran], page 188, gives a picture and a brief biography.  Some sources give his full name as Benjamin Martin Luther Rudisill.  Martin L. Rudisill is the brother of Lutheran pastor Andrew Jackson Rudisill (1867-1927).

 

 

RUHL, JOHN

 

Born: 11-3-1829                                                          married: Esther Keller

Died: 7-26-1887                                                          obit: [10/25/1819 – 5/12/1907]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1868    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ruhl’s UB Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East German Conference 1887, 10

 

1869                charter member of East German Conference

 

Note: John Ruhl is the father of Mary Jane ruhl Smith, wife of Jaocb P. Smith.  Hewas never appointed to a charge.  He was a member of Ruhl’s [Zion] Church in Rapho township and served as a local pastor.

 

RULOFF, FRANKLIN HENRY

 

Born: 5-10-1845  Germany                                         married: Ellen Elizabeth Hahn [6/10/1870]

Died: 3-23-1910                                                          obit: [9/4/1852 – 8/24/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [RUHLOFF]

 

1885    license, East German Conference

1888    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit:

 

1885-88           Valley View circuit

1888-89           Lebanon circuit

1889-90           Baltimore Fulton Avenue

1890                transfer to another denomination

1893                licensed by the Lehigh classis of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church

1893-96           Nanticoke PA

1907                without a charge, living in Allentown

 

Note: F.H. Ruloff graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Berlin in 1866, immigrated to Northampton County PA, and practiced his profession for 13 years before entering the ministry.  See the Ruloff folder in the biographical files.

 

RUMMEL, CHARLES LESLIE

 

Born: 9-26-1913 near Mount Union PA                     married: Sarah E. Secrest

Died: 1-26-1988                                                          obit: [9/16/1916 - 5/7/1991]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1942   quarterly conference license

1945    license, Allegheny Conference

1955    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Nebo Cemetery, Shirleysburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 374
          Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 421

 

1943-46           Knoxdale

1947-53           Houserville

1953-64           Franklin Grace

1964-77           Somerset Grace

1977                retired

     1986-87      Spruce Creek, Central Pennsylvania Conference 

 

Note: This surname is also rendered RUMMELL.

 

RUNK, DAVID

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1866                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 166

Fulton #: 28

Gibble list: yes

 

1831    license

1834    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9]

 

1831-32           Huntingdon circuit

1832-33           Lancaster circuit

1833-34           Clearfield circuit

1834-35           presiding elder, Westmoreland District

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note:  The minutes for 1839 state that David Runk was absent, that he be continued in his present standing for one year, and that he be accountable to the conference for his further usefulness in the ministry.  Mary Gray, the daughter of Methodist pioneer Peter Gray of Half Moon Valley in Centre County, married a David Runk – but it appears unlikely to have been this David Runk.

 

 

RUNK, IRVIN EUGENE

 

Born: 8-23-1874  Pillow PA                                       married: Mary Minerva Zacharias [12/8/1903]

Died: 11-11-1959                                                        obit: [12/7/1882 – 7/11/1909]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Katherine Wetz

Fulton #: 412                                                               obit2: West Michigan Conference 1974, 238

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    license, East German Conference

1899    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids MI

Obit: Michigan Conference 1960, 118

 

1895-96           Reading Trinity

1896-97           student, Lebanon Valley College

1897-98           Sinking Spring

1898-99           student, Lebanon Valley College

1899-00           Lebanon Salem

1900-01           student, Lebanon Valley College

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-06           Mount Joy

1906-13           Harrisburg First

1913-14           Scottdale, Allegheny Conference

1914                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1914-19           Scottdale

1919-20           Annville, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1920-24           Annville

1924-25           Canton, East Ohio Conference

1925                transfer to East Ohio Conference

                        Canton

                        Grand Rapids First

 

Note: Irvin E. Runk is the son of Jacob Runk and brother of Cora M. Runk Mutch, the wife of Charles A. Mutch.  His birth date is also reported as 8/23/1871 and 9/23/1874.  The first Mrs. Runk was from Sinking Spring and attended Lebanon Valley at the same time as I.E. Runk.  It is unclear whether they were in the same class and whether or not she graduated.  She appears to have died in connection with the birth of their second child in 1909.

 

RUNK, JACOB R.

 

Born: 7-20-1835  Elizabethville PA                           married: Henrietta Geist

Died: 9-9-1915  Berrysburg PA                                 obit: [8/21/1843 – 5/28/1874]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah “Sallie” Davis [1876]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/18/1846 – 7/11/1877]

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1864    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Sweitzers Memorial Cemetery, Berrysburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 38

 

1857-59           Lebanon circuit

1859-60           Hummelstown circuit

1860-63           ?

1863-65           Lykens Valley circuit (moved in the middle of the second year)

1865-65           Sinking Spring circuit (last part of the year)

1865-67           Middleburg circuit

1867-69           Reading Zion

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-72           Bethlehem circuit

1872-74           Lebanon Salem

1874-78           district superintendent

1878-80           Williams Valley circuit

1880-82           Jacksonville circuit

1882-84           Lykens Valley circuit

1884-85           Grantville circuit

1885-87           Allentown Zion

1887-91           district superintendent

1891-96           ?

1896-98           Ebenezer station

1898-99           Avon Zion

1899-01           Lebanon Salem

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           West Lebanon

1903-04           Pleasant Hill

1904-05           Sinking Spring

 

Note: Jacob Runk is the father of Irvin E. Runk and Cora M. Runk Mutch, the wife of Charles A. Mutch.  The first Mrs. Runk is the daughter of Conrad G. Geist.

 

RUNKLE, DANIEL

 

Born: 3-21-1820                                                          married: Elizabeth Neidig

Died: 8-2-1892                                                            obit: [1/3/1828 – 2/27/1913]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [RUNKEL]

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Lisbon Cemetery, Lisbon IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1893, 32

 

1850                transfer to

 

Note: Daniel Runkle is a founding 1855 trustee of the United Brethren’s Western College in Linn County IA.

 

 

RUPP, CHRISTIAN FOLTZ

 

Born: 1-6-1905  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Mildred Sarah Laudenslager

Died: 7-4-1963  Harrisburg PA                                  obit: [12/18/1904 – 1987]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Chambers Hill Cemetery, Chambers Hill PA

Obit:

 

1934-35           Hummelstown circuit

 

 

RUPP, JOHN C.

 

Born: 1-3-1874  near Liverpool PA                           married: Rebecca Rice Murphy

Died: 7-6-1960                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 63

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 338

Gibble list: no

 

1903    quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

1911    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, East McKeesport PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 38

 

1906-07           Susquehanna

1907-11           Williamsgrove [Bigler]

1911-13           Coalport

1913-21           Wall

1921-26           Beaverdale

1926-28           McKeesport First

1928-30           Windber

1930-32           Everson

1932-34           Altoona Grace

1934-43           Woodland (assigned Liverpool 1941, but returned to Woodland: see 1942,74)

1943-44           Johnstown Overbrook

1944                retired

 

RUPP, SAMUEL EDWIN

 

Born: 9-9-1878  Harrisburg PA                                  married: Jessie Brane

Died: 5-23-1964  Ocean Springs MS                         obit: East Ohio Conference 1973, 274

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference; recommended by Chambers Hill

1904    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Benevola United Methodist Church Cemetery, Benevola MD

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1964, 15

 

1900-01           student, Lebanon Valley College

1901-06           Mont Clare

1906-11           Lebanon Trinity

1911-23           Harrisburg Otterbein

1924-26           Westerville OH, Southeast Ohio Conference

1926                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

 

Note: Mrs. Rupp is the daughter of Commodore I.B. Brane.

RUSSELL, JOHN

 

Born: 3-18-1799  Near Pipe Creek MD                     married: Christina Harmon

Died: 12-21-1870                                                        obit: [3/22/1800 – 1/8/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 90

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1818    license

1822    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery [later moved to Fairview Cemetery, Keedysville MD]

Obit:

 

1819                transfer to Miami Conference

1825                charter member of Scioto Conference

1830                presiding elder, Miami Conference

1834                presiding elder, Sandusky Conference

1837                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1838-41           Baltimore station [Old Otterbein]

1843-45           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1845-49           bishop

1849-50           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1851-54           Baltimore station

1855-56           Chambersburg German mission

1857-61           bishop

1862-64           Annville

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 321, gives a brief biography.  Koontz’ 1950 The Bishops: Church of the United Brethren in Christ, page 272, gives a biography of Bishop Russell.  Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, also gives a brief biography.

 

 

RYMER, WILLIAM WASHINGTON

 

Born: 3-7-1854  Monterey VA                                   married: Cora Livingston McCoy (3/23/1881)

Died: 12-24-1918  Columbus OH                              obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1943, 17

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 279

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1919, 43

 

1894-96           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

     1894-96      Miamisburg OH

1897                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-01           Tyrone

1901-02           Huntingdon

1902-04           field agent for Otterbein College, Westerville OH

1904-05           Beaver Falls

1905                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

 

1910-11           Hillsboro OH

1911-               Baltimore OH

 

 

SALT, MICHAEL ALLEN

 

Born: 5-25-1841  Plymouth England                         married: Mary Emma Von Nieda      

Died: 1-15-1912  Reading PA                                                obit: [12/13/1855 – 6/11/1909]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1880    license, Virginia Conference

1883    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Bowman Cemetery, Ephrata PA

Obit:

 

1879-80           Garrett

1880-81           Madison mission

1881-83           Rockbridge

1883-84           Front Royal (first part)

                        Lacey Springs (last part)

1884-86           Ephrata, East Pennsylvania Conference

1886                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-88           Intercourse

1888-89           Reading Otterbein

1889-93           East Harrisburg circuit

1893-96           New Holland

1896-99           Florin circuit

1899-01           Oberlin Neidig

1901-03           Williamstown

1903-05           Halifax Otterbein

1905-06           on leave

1906                withdrew

                       

 

Note: A brief biography of Michael A. Salt is given in Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 182.  He appears to have associated with the Holiness Christian Church [later merged into Church of the Nazarene], served that denomination’s appointment at Seybert’s Station, and died while serving there in 1912.  Mrs. Salt is a niece of Solomon Von Neida.

 

 

SAMPLE, GEORGE C.K.

 

Born: 2-1-1854  Columbia PA                                   married: Amanda Mann

Died: 1-2-1930  Columbia PA                                    obit: [4/14/1854 – 12/5/1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia PA

Obit:

 

1899-1900       Marietta

 

Note: G.C.K. Sample was a former general secretary of the Columbia Rail Road, in Columbia PA, who conducted evangelistic campaigns for the YMCA and among railroad employees.  He is known as “the evangelist of the Pennsylvania Railroad.” 

 

SAND, JOHN ADAM

 

Born: 7-1-1812  Alsace, France                                  married: Rosana Wilson

Died: 9-15-1880  Baltimore MD                                obit: [1811 – 1875]

Miller-Raker #: 245

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license, recommended by Old Otterbein

1844    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 20

 

1841-42           Lancaster circuit

1842-43           Dauphin circuit

1843-44           Halifax circuit

1844-46           Lebanon circuit

1846-48           Pinegrove circuit

1848-51           Lebanon Salem

1851-53           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1853-54           Lebanon circuit

1854                transfer to Ohio German Conference

                        Cincinnati German

1860-66           Baltimore station [Old Otterbein]

1866                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1866-67           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1867-70           Baltimore Third [Fulton Avenue]

1870                charter member of East German Conference

1870-72           Allentown Zion

1872-74           Baltimore George Street

1874-77           Baltimore Fifth

1877                retired, membership at Baltimore Salem

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 308, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 459, give brief biographies. 

 

SANDERS, BENEDICT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 17

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also given as SAUNDERS.  Benedict Sanders was one of those attending Otterbein’s 1789 and 1791 meetings that led to the creation of the United Brethren denomination.  The special collections section of the Maryland State Archives, microfilm #M11025, contains the following: “BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-180] Petition of Benedict Sanders 8 August 1822; statement of estate [1822] MSA SC 4239-14-85.”

 

 

SANDERS, FRANKLIN PIERCE

 

Born: 12-4-1852  Taylors Corners OH                      married: Elma J. Gindlesberger

Died: 11-2-1931  Westerville OH                              obit: [1853 – 5/2/1882]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ella Medora [Dora] Curry

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/30/1862 – 10/20/1936]

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained, Southeast Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville Ohio

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1932, 12

 

                        Lorain

                        Akron

                        Galion

                        Logan

1891                college pastor, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1891-97           evangelist [living in Akron OH?]

     1895    Westmoreland, Allegheny Conference (ending 11/1895)

1897                retired to Westerville in the insurance and construction business

 

Note:  F.P. Sanders is a brother to Thomas Jefferson Sanders (1855-1946) of the Southeast Ohio Conference.  He graduated from Bonebrake [Union] Seminary in Dayton OH in 1878.

Note2: The life of the Franklin Pierce Sanders given above is sketch, and it is possible he is not the Frank P. Sanders that served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”

 

 

SANDERS, MONROE P.

 

Born: 4-7-1847  Lebanon County PA                        married: Alice Sophia Renn

Died: 5-10-1892                                                          obit: [3/19/1846 – 1/24/1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1883    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Malick’s Church Cemetery, Northumberland County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 44

 

1876-77           Catawissa circuit

1877-79           Harrisburg circuit

1879-80           Paxinos circuit

1880-82           Conestoga circuit

1882-84           Duncannon station

1884-87           Pequea Valley circuit

1887-90           Halifax mission

1890-91           Intercourse circuit

1891-92           Marietta circuit

 

Note: Mrs. Sanders is a sister to U.S.G. Renn.

 

 

SAUER, WILLIAM ALVIN

 

Born: 3-25-1889  Middleburg PA                              married: Annie Elizabeth Dauberman

Died: 9-5-1944  Kreamer PA                                     obit: [7/20/1887 – 8/28/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1926    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Hummel’s

 

Interment: Globe Mills Cemetery, Globe Mills PA

Obit:

 

1922-27           Rocherty

1927-28           living in Annville

1928-29           living in Vermilion SD

1929                transfer to Nebraska Conference, page 34

1929-43           Nebraska Conference

1943                no longer listed in United Brethren Yearbook

 

Note: William A. Sauer graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1927.  The 1947 alumni directory lists him (apparently posthumously] as a minister in Kreamer PA.

 

 

SAUL, ELMER ELSWORTH

 

Born: 3-1-1863  Hummelstown PA                            married: Alma Jane Laughlin

Died: 10-12-1953  Quincy PA                                    obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1952, 46

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Miami Conference

1887    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Dauphin County PA

Obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1954, 49

 

New Hope

Ithaca

Winchester

Sulpher Grove

New Haven

Middletown

Union Chapel and Wagner’s

Dayton High Street

Brookville

1921                moved to Camp Hill PA

1923                supply in East Pennsylvania Conference

1923-24           Linglestown circuit

1924-25           Rockville

1929-30           Highspire (several months while assigned pastor is hospitalized)

1941-42           Halifax Otterbein (beginning 3/21/42)

 

Note: Elmer E. Saul graduated from Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH in 1885 and was a member of the Miami Conference.  He retired to Pennsylvania, eventually living in the Quincy Home.  Some sources give his birthdate as 3-13-1863 or 3-16-1863.

 

 

SAWYER, ERNEST G.

 

Born: 1876                                                                  married: Cora Blanch Palmer

Died: 8-16-1949                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 65

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 363

Gilbble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1949, 76

 

1906-11           Youngwood

1911-12           [Davis-Mills evangelistic team]

1912-23           Tyrone

1923-26           evangelist

1926-28           Johnstown Westmont

1928-31           Altoona Second

1931-33           Trafford

1933-49           Mount Pleasant

 

Note: Ernest G. Sawyer is the father of John R. Sawyer and grandfather of John Carson Sawyer (1946-) of the Virginia Conference.

 

 

SAWYER, JOHN REBY

 

Born: 10-12-1909  Youngwood PA                           married: Miriam Carson

Died: 12-3-1983                                                          obit: [12/9/1908 – 3/3/1999]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 382

Gibble list: no

 

1932    quarterly conference license

1934    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Mount Pleasant

 

Interment: Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton VA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1984,?

 

1934-36           at school

1936                transfer to Virginia Conference 

Franklin

Blairton-Greensburg

1941-               Staunton St. Paul's

 

Note: John R. Sawyer is the son of Earnest G. Sawyer and the father of John Carson Sawyer (1946-) of the Virginia Conference.  A biographical sketch is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia Conference.

 

SCHAEFFER, HARRY ELIAS

 

Born: 1-2-1887  Lebanon County PA                        married: Blanche Groshans

Died: 6-10-1972  Harrisburg PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 482

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 394

 

1912-15           Lebanon circuit

1915-21           Avon

1921-62           Penbrook

1962                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Schaeffer was first married to a Rev. C.S. Thompson, affiliation unknown, who died in 1934.  Her first spouse may have been Charles F. Thompson (d. 1934) of the East Ohio Conference of the United Brethren Church.
 

 

SCHAFF, JACOB GIDEON

 

Born: 7-26-1835                                                          married: Susan Peters

Died: 9-20-1881                                                          obit: [7/27/1838 – 1/30/1912]

Miller-Raker #: 312

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1857    license

1860    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1857-58           Hanover circuit

1858-60           York Springs circuit

1860-61           Shippensburg circuit

1861-63           Carlisle circuit (did not finish the second year)

1863-64           Littlestown

1864-66           ?

1866-68           Big Spring circuit

1868-69           Greencastle circuit

1869-70           Chambersburg station

1870                withdrew, over his opinions on the nature and destiny of man

1875                editor of the Chambersburg newspaper The People’s Register

           

Note: Beers’ 1887 History of Franklin County, page 682, gives a brief account of the family.  The 1905 Biographical Annals of Franklin County, page 284, gives a detailed account of the family.

 

SCHAFFER, FREDERICK

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1814                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 11

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    license

1813    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1807-08           Pfautz Valley

1813-14           Baltimore Old Otterbein

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography.  This may be the Frederick Schaffer, aged 81, who died 3/17/1814 and is buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD.

 

 

SCHAFFER, JOHANN

 

Born: 5-19-1831                                                          married:          

Died: 3-5-1881                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license

 

Interment: Baltimore MD

Obit: East German Conference Oct 1881, 11

 

1874                transfer to East German Conference

 

 

SCHELL, MARVIN KEPLEY

 

Born: 11-12-1910  Lebanon PA                                 married: Winifred Rebecca Albert

Died: 11-17-1983                                                        obit: Wyoming Conference 1977, 243

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1931    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion UM Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1984, 216

 

1935-40           Pottstown Baltzell

1940-41           no appointment – see 1940, 33

1941-43           northeast district secretary, Pennsylvania YMCA

1943                “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of Methodist Church

1943-45           Uniondale

1945-57           Scranton Providence

1957-66           Moscow

1966-73           Binghamton Centenary

1973-76           Warren Center

1976                retired

 

 

SCHILDT, JOHN W.

 

Born: 5-15-1934                                                          married: Mary Ann Oyer

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 759

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license

1962    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-60           Big Pool-Wolfsville

1960-61           Wolfsville

1961-67           St. Thomas

1967-70           Chewsville Bethel

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-04           Chewsville Bethel

2004                retired

                             2007-17      Rohersville Bethel

 

Note: Mrs. Schildt is the daughter of Russell Oyer and a sister to Patricia Oyer (Mrs. Aaron) Shaeffer..  Rev. Schildt is the author of several historical books.  See the biographical files for more details.

 

 

SCHINDLER, GEORGE

 

Born: 6-13-1837  Germany                                         married: Catharine Wise        

Died: 5-20-1902                                                          obit: [4/21/1836 – 10/15/1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [SHINDLER]

 

1871    license, East German Conference

1874    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Union Church Cemetery, Powell’s Valley PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 25

 

1872-73           Susquehanna circuit

1873-74           Schaefferstown circuit

1874-75           Brunnerville circuit

1875-77           Bethlehem circuit

1877-78

1878-79           Avon Zion

1879-80           Middleburg circuit

1880-81           Pine Grove

1881-82

1882-83           Valley View circuit

1892-93           Jacksonville circuit

 

Note: The record of George Schindler is unclear.  He appears to have lived most of his life in Powell’s Valley and ministered from there.  In addition to the appointments above, he is reported to have served Sinking Springs and Northampton mission (= Bethlehem circuit?).  The gravemarker gives the name as SHINDLER.

 

SCHLICHTER, HIRAM A.

 

Born: 12-18-1838  near Upper Strasburg PA             married: Barbara E. Strock

Died: 11-22-1899  Duncannon PA                             obit: [1841-1920]

Miller-Raker #: 326

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license

1865    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 43

 

1860-61           Greencastle circuit

1861-62           Perry circuit

1862-63           Ickesburg circuit (resigned to serve 9 months in the Army)

1863-64           Fulton circuit

1864-66           Shippensburg circuit

1866-68           Littlestown

1868-71           Baltimore Second [Scott Street]

1871-75           Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1875-78           Chambersburg station

1878-81           Mechanicsburg station

1881-84           Boiling Springs

1884-85           Rocky Spring station

1885-86           Orrstown

1886-90           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1890-91           York Second

1892-93           Harrisburg Memorial [First], East Pennsylvania Conference

1893-94           Mt. Pleasant, Allegheny Conference

1894-95           living in Chambersburg

1895-97           Marion

1897                living in Chambersburg

1897-99           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial (beginning 11/14/1897)

1899-               Duncannon

 

Note: Hiram A. Schlichter is a nephew of Susan Rebecca Schlichter Holler, wife of Peter C. Holler.  The 1868 assignments list York Springs for H.A. Schlichter, but apparently he “traded” with John Fohl for Baltimore Second before the appointments took effect.

 

SCHMID, WILLIAM LEE

 

Born: 12-2-1935                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 788

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1960    license, recommended by York Fifth

1965    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1959-61           West Hill

1961-62           student assistant, York Fifth

1962-65           student, United Theological Seminary

1965-66           Milford Mill

1966-68           Dorsey

1968                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church, page 236

                        Carlisle St. Paul

 

Note: Our Lutheran records are incomplete. In 1981, Rev. Schmid was serving St. Paul.  In 1985, he was no longer listed.  He apparently left the ministry to associate with his extended family at the Wolfgang Candy company in York PA.

 

 

SCHMIDT, AUGUST

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1893-10           Old Otterbein

1911-28           Cleveland OH, Third (German) United Brethren

1929                no longer listed

 

Note: August Schmidt was a member of the Ohio German Conference.  Old Otterbein was affiliated with the following Conferences: East German 1871-1901, Ohio German 1901-1918, East Pennsylvania 1918-1934, Pennsylvania 1934-1964. 

 

SCHMITT, JOSEPH H.

 

Born: 10-26-1887  Chambersburg PA                        married: Eunice M. Barger

Died: 10-25-1962                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 35

Miller-Raker #: 608

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Hagerstown Grace

1915    license, Virginia Conference

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 46

 

1914-15           Rockingham circuit, Virginia Conference

1915-18           student,  United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1916-18     Aley Chapel and Kingsville, Miami Conference

1918                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1918-20           York Haven

1920-22           Manchester PA

1922-32           New Cumberland

1932-37           West Fairview

1937-48           Frederick

1948-53           Fayetteville

1953                retired

 

Note: Joseph H. Schmitt was an accomplished poet.  Mrs. Schmitt is the daughter of William D. Barger.  They had no children. 

 

SCHMITTLE, LESTER CHRISTOPHER

 

Born: 5-23-1905  Glasgow PA                                   married: Sara L. Edwards

Died: 3-5-1991                                                            obit: [1904 – 1967]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Dorothy A. Fagley Gwin

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 420

Gibble list: no

 

1937    quarterly conference license

1939    license, Allegheny Conference

1941    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Blair Memorial Cemetery, Bellwood PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 339

 

1938-41           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1941-47           Altoona Schum Memorial

1947-62           Everson Mt. Olive

1962-79           Pitcarin

1970                retired 

 

SCHMUCK, DAVID WESLEY

 

Born: 10-11-1938  Dayton OH                                               married: Nedra Rine

Died: 12-20-2018  Elizabethtown PA                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: 768

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First

1963    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2019, 348

 

1956-60           student, Lebanon Valley Colege

                             1958-60      Fishing Creek Salem

1960-63           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1960-65      youth pastor, Dayton Epworth Methodist Church

1963-68           Windsor Grace

1968-74           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1974-75           sabbatical

1975-76           York Springs-Arnold’s

1976-82           Altoona Fifty-Eighth Street

1982-92           Williamsport St. Paul’s

1992-93           Tyrone Wesley

1993-99           Mechanicsburg Wesley

1999-               Lewistown First

 

Note: David W. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a brother to Dwight M. Schmuck and Keith J. Schmuck.

 

 

SCHMUCK, DWIGHT MILLER

 

Born: 3-8-1946                                                            married: Susan K. Stambach

Died: 10-15-2000                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1966    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First

 

Interment: Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg PA

Obit:

 

1968-70           Maytown

1970-74           Lewisberry-Lisburn (ending 12/31/1973)

1974                withdrew

 

Note: Dwight M. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a brother to David W. Schmuck and Keith J. Schmuck.  Mrs. Schmuck is the daughter of Arthur W. Stambach.
 

 

SCHMUCK, KEITH JONATHAN

 

Born:                                                                           married: Diane _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1968    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First

1970    ordained deacon

1976    ordained elder

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1968-69           Liverpool

1969-70           ?

1970-73           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1970-71      York Center, West Ohio Conference

                             1971-72      Ephrata First assistant, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

                             1973           Crandon campground ministry, Wisconsin Conference

1973-75           Rosewood, West Ohio Conference

1975-81           Millville-Greenwood

1981-87           Riverside St. Peter’s

1987-96           York Bethany

1996-01           Manchester St. Paul

2001-06           Lykens

2006-11           Altoona Juniata

2011-               Winterstown

 

Note: Keith J. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a brother to David W. Schmuck and Dwight M. Schmuck.
 

 

SCHMUCK, MILLER SAMUEL

 

Born: 5-30-1910  Windsor PA                                   married: Eleanor Louise Miller

Died: 12-24-2006                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 387

Miller-Raker #: 677

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    license, recommended by York First

1939    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2007, 427

 

1932-36           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1935-36       Mount Olivet

1936-39           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1938-39       Zion, Miami Conference

1939-42           Lemaster

1942-49           Jefferson

1949-54           Waynesboro First

1954-68           Mechanicsburg First

1968-75           Wrightsville Grace

1975                retired

    1976-81       Pine Grove (until 11/16/81)

    1981-82       Winterstown (beginning 11/16/81)

                            1982-83       Druck Valley

                                                Marion

                                                Lemaster

 

Note: Miller S. Schmuck is the father of David W. Schmuck, Dwight M. Schmuck and Keith J. Schmuck.

 

SCHNEIDER, GEORGE (see SNYDER, JOHN GEORGE)

 

 

SCHNEIDER, CARL

 

Born: 1825  Ulm, Wurtenburg Germany                    married:

Died: 6-10-1889  Baltimore MD                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1857    license, Ohio German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1867-70           Baltimore First

1870-73           Baltimore Third

                        living in Philadelphia

1886                retired, joined Baltimore Third

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SNYDER.  Baus’ 1967 Centennial History of Baltimore Third, page 29, gives a picture and brief biography.  While the 1885 UB Yearbook gives his address as Philadelphia PA, he is not listed in connection with any of the known UB work there discussed in Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference.   This may be the Rev. Charles E. Schneider (1825-1889) buried in the Loudon Parke Cemetery in Baltimore.  There was a Rev. Charles Schneider at the UB Cheviot Mission Church in Cincinnato OH in 1859,

 

SCHOLDE, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 135

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1828-29           Carlisle circuit

1831-32           Halifax circuit

1834-36           Westmoreland circuit

1837                name erased

 

 

SCHOLLER, JACOB

 

Born: 1812  Germany                                                 married: Magdelena _____

Died: 9-20-1893                                                          obit: [11/30/1818 – 8/7/1897]

Miller-Raker #: 242

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license, recommended by Old Otterbein

1843    ordained

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1840-43           Carlisle circuit

1843-44           ?

1844-46           Halifax circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           Dauphin circuit

1847-49           Lancaster circuit
1849-51           Lebanon circuit

1853                charter member of Ohio German Conference

1853-               presiding elder,

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SCHOLLAR and SHOLLER.  There are several references to him regarding German publications in Ness’ 1966 History of Publishing in the EUB Church.  The 1850 census lists Jacob Sholler as a “Methodist” preacher in Millerstown (=Annville), Lebanon County.  The census states the last two children were born in Germany in 1845 and 1847, but that’s apparently an error.  Mrs. Scholler is also known as Mary.  

 

SCHREFFLER, H.R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 419

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918                returned to quarterly conference license

 

Note:  There is no evidence that H.R. Schreffler ever served under appointment, and he is otherwise unknown.  This may be the H. Ray Schreffler (1888-1970) of the Otterbein Church in East Salem, Juniata County PA.

 

SCHROPP, HENRY

 

Born: 3-7-1811  near Pinegrove PA                           married: Priscilla Christ

Died: 11-17-1890  Lebanon PA                                 obit: [10/3/1818 – 12/8/1891]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [SCHROOP]

 

1848    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1851    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood Cemetery, Ebenezer [Lebanon County] PA

Obit: East German Conference 1891, 44

 

1847-48           Lebanon circuit

1848-50                      Halifax circuit

1850-51           Berks County circuit

1851-54                      Lebanon Salem

1854-55           presiding elder

1855-56           Myerstown

1856-57           Lebanon circuit

1857-60                      Baltimore Old Otterbein

1860-62           presiding elder

1862-63           Lebanon circuit

1863-64           Bellegrove circuit

1865-66           Jonestown circuit

1868-69           Union Deposit circuit

1870                transfer to East German Conference

1871-72           presiding elder

1872-73           Allentown Zion

1873-78           presiding elder

1878-79           Bellegrove circuit

1880                located, living in Lebanon (see 1880, 13)

 

Note: This name is also rendered HEINRICH SHROPP.  He supposedly also served at Annville and Mountville.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 461, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SCHULTZ, ELMER ALBERT ROBERT

 

Born: 5-25-1903                                                          married: Alice Flegal

Died: 5-28-1988                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 314

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ethlynne Weaver

Fulton #: 498                                                               obit2:

Gilbble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license

1925    license, Allegheny Conference

1928    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Green Ridge Memorial Park, Connellsville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 375

 

1925-26           Rochester Mills

1926-28           Hollsopple

1928-45           Connellsville

1945-51           Greensburg Otterbein

1951-67           Johnstown First

1967                retired

                             1967-76      East Connellsville

                             1979-80      visitation minister, Connellsville Wesley

                             1981           Star Junction, Little Redstone & Newell (Apr – Jun)

                             1981-85      Dunbar Wesley

 

 

SCHUMAN, JAMES EBAUGH

 

Born: 4-6-1938                                                            married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 769

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, recommended by Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1963    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           Newburg

1964-67           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1967-70           Yorkana-Mt. Pisgah

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-73           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1973-77           leave of absence

1978                withdrew, page 154

 

Note: Rev. Schuman appears to have had a subsequent relationship to Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore MD.  His 2003 address is believed to be James E Schuman  3215 Avon Ave  Baltimore, MD 21218-3514  (410)467-4547.

 

 

SCHWALM, CLARENCE W.

 

Born: 8-2-1884  Valley View PA                               married: Anna M. Ryland

Died: 11-2-1948                                                          obit: [1889 – 1959]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1919    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. Andrews UM Church Cemetery, Valley View PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 23

 

1917-18           pre-med student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1917-18      Grantville circuit (beginning 1/14/1918)

1918-23           student, Temple University Medical School

1923-24           intern, Allentown General Hospital

1924-48           physician, living in Shoemakersville

 

Note: Although an ordained elder, Clarence W. Schwalm did not itinerate.  He graduated from Kutztown State Normal School and taught school for several years before entering Lebanon Valley as a pre-med student.

 

 

SCHWOPE, BENEDICT

 

Born: 10-30-1731                                                        married: Susanna Welker

Died: 3-30-1810                                                          obit: [1731 – 3/?/1795]

Miller-Raker #: 8

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1772    ordained, German Reformed Church

 

Interment: Logan’s Station KY

Obit:

 

1771-73           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1773-76           Pipe Creek

1789                joined Pennsylvania Conference

1790                moved to Lincoln County KY

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SWOPE.  Glatfelter’s 1980 German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Pennsylvania 1717-1793, volume I, page 148, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SCOTT, G.W.M.

 

Born: 1829  Clearfield County PA                             married:          

Died: 8-1-1910                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 99

Gibble list: yes

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino CA

Obit:

 

1856-57           Stone Valley

1857-59           Liverpool

1859-60           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1860                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1860-61           Columbia Salome

1861-62           New Holland

1862                withdrew [to join the Baptists, as per Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 85]

1869-71           Pottawatomie County KS [where he presided at the wedding of his daughter Susan Emma to a Mr. W.A. Hansbrough]

1889-90           superintendent, Chilocco Indian Industrial School in Indian Territory [Oklahoma] (part year)

                        joined Cumberland Presbyterian Church

1893                Lower Lake and Middletown CA

 

Note: The 9/28/1904 Religious Telescope, page 1228 (12), reports that G.W. Scott is 74 years old, living in Naranjo CA, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

 

SCRIBNER, JOHN WOODBURY

 

Born: 3-7-1840  Raymond NH                                   married: Mary Ermina Wray [6/3/1866]

Died: 5-12-1912  Ocean Park ME                              obit: [b. 12/7/1848]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [SCHRIBER]

 

1869    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1860-64           student, Dartmouth College

1864-73           president Hartsville College in Hartsville IN

1873-74           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1874                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1874-75           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1875-76           Lake View NH Free-Will Baptist

1876                “transfer” to Free-Will Baptist denomination

1876-69           Lake View NH Free-Will Baptist

1879-82           New Hampton NH

1882-84           Centre Sandwich NH Free-Will Baptist

1890’s             Epsom NH Free-Will Church

 

Note: Limited information on J. Woodbury Scribner is available in the biographical files at the conference archives.
 

 

SEARLE, HAZEL

 

Born: 12-16-1900                                                        married: John Searle

Died: 10-6-1961                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 508

Gibble list: no

 

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Sandusky Conference 1962, 106

 

1927-29           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1929                credentials returned

 

 

SEARLE, JOHN CLARENCE JR

 

Born: 8-11-1903  Johnstown PA                                married: Hazel M. Head

Died: 11-10-1997  Findlay OH                                  obit: Ohio Sandusky Conference 1962, 106

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 507

Gibble list: no

 

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, West Independence OH

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1998,?

 

1927-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1930                transfer to Sandusky Conference

1930-32           Bascom

1932-44           Shelby

1944-               Bowling Green

 

Note: John C. Searle is the father of John C. Searle Jr. of the West Ohio Conference.

 

SEAVERS, GILMORE B.

 

Born: 2-13-1917  Newville PA                                  married: Kathleen Sanderson

Died: 12-15-1999  Carlisle PA                                   obit: [12/1/1915 – 10/17/1996]

Miller-Raker #: 730

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

 

Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisel PA

Obit:

 

1950-55           living in Carlisle

1955-57           (first) superintendent, Cumberland Valley School District

1957                withdrew, page 82

1957-70           staff, Shippensburg University

1970-80           president, Shippensburg University

1980                retired

 

Note: He is the namesake of the Gilmore B. Seavers Medical Center in Shippensburg.
 

 

SECHRIST, CHARLES R.

 

Born: 5-12-1900  Windsor PA                                   married: Cordie Irene Gibson

Died: 8-17-1983  Dallastown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 393

Miller-Raker #: 660

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    quarterly conference license

1928    license, recommended by Windsor Grace

1936    ordained

 

Interment: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 380

 

1928-29           Mount Olivet

1929-33           Bog Pool-Middleburg

1933-43           Rohrersville

1943-52           Red Lion circuit

1952-67           Baltimore Christ

1967                retired

 

 

SECHRIST, HENRY A.

 

Born: 3-22-1857 Dallastown PA                                married: Rozetta Drew

Died: 10-2-1930  Montgomery County OH               obit: [1859 – 2/6/1938]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1882    license, Miami Conference

1884    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Abbottsville Cemetery, Abbottsville OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1931, 37

 

1880-81           student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1881-83           student, Union Biblical Seminary at Dayton OH

1883-84           Shippensburg & Orrstown circuit

1884-05           Miami Conference

1905-13           field secretary, Church Erection Society of the United Brethren Church

1913-19+         financial secretary, Otterbein Home at Lebanon OH

 

Note: Henry A. Sechrist was a member of the Miami Conference from 1884 until his death about 1930.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch.

 

 

SEELING, CHAUNCEY E.

 

Born: 1890                                                                  married: Martha “Mae” Mitzel [2/2/1909]

Died:                                                                           obit: [b. 5/?/1888]

Miller-Raker #: 622

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1923    license, recommended by Yoe

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1928                returned to quarterly conference license, page 49

 

 

SEESE, HARVEY BOYER

 

Born: 4-21-1869  Elton PA                                        married: Nellie M. Arthur

Died: 2-2-1939  Johnstown PA                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1949, 75

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 484

Gilbble list: no

 

1894    license, Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1897    ordained, Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1939, 57

 

1921-22           Johnstown Circuit

1922-23           Bens Creek

1923-24           St. Michael, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1924                transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1924-26           East Freedom

1926-31           Greenwood

1931-34           Clearfield (beginning 9/28/31, apparently originally assigned to continue at Greenwood)

1934-37           Altoona Grace

1937-39           Johnstown Westmont

 

SEESE, SAMUEL RILEY

 

Born: 5-7-1866  near Normalville PA                        married: Anna Kate Owen

Died: 4-28-1937                                                          obit: [d. 4/21/1934]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 254 & 411

Gilbble list: no

 

1893    quarterly conference license

1893    license, Allegheny Conference

1900    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1937, 57

 

1893-94           Copeland

1894-96           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1896-98           Madison

1898-00           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1900-07           Johnstown Second [Park Avenue]

1907-09           Altoona Second

1909-10           Toledo, Iowa Conference

1910                transfer to Iowa Conference

1910-12           Toledo

1912-13           Lisbon

1913-14           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial, Allegheny Conference

1914                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1914-16           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1916-20           (without appointment for health reasons)

1920                Mt. Nebo on the Westmoreland charge (ending 3/1921)

1921-26           Westmoreland (beginning 3/1921)

1926-28           Mt. Pleasant

1928                without appointment

1929                retired

                             1929-35      living in Florida for wife's health

 

Note: Some sources give the date of death for Mrs. Seese as 8/26/1934.

 

 

SEIDERS, MARLIN DAVID

 

Born: 1-9-1927  Middletown PA                               married: Nancy Jean Deimler

Died: 2-1-2006                                                            obit: [8/6/1926 – 5/30/2005]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1946    quarterly conference license, Middletown

1947    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1949    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hillsdale Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 470

 

1943-47           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1945-47     

1947-50           student, Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA

                             1947-49      Hillsdale         

                             1949-50      Grantville & Manada Hill

1950-51           student, Temple University

                             1950-51      Grantville & Manada Hill

1951-82           chaplain, U.S. Navy

1982-84           staff, Bucknell University

1984-91           Lebanon Covenant

1991                retired

 

 

SEIDERS, SAMUEL

 

Born: 3-35-1796                                                          married:

Died: 3-29-1859                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 230

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1838    license

1841    ordained

 

Interment: Ranck’s Church, New Holland PA

Obit:

 

1841-42           York circuit

1843-45           Lancaster circuit

1845-46                      Berks County circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Northumberland mission

1848-49           presiding elder

1849-51           Highspuire circuit

1851-52           Dauphin circuit

1852-53           Millheim circuit

1853-55           West Branch circuit

1855-56           Hopeland circuit

1856-57           presiding elder

1857-58           Dauphin-Hummelstown circuit

1858-59           New Holland circuit

 

 

SEILER, JOHN F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 298

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1851    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1850-51           New Bloomfield (last part of year)

1851-52           Big Spring circuit

1852-53           Manchester mission

1852                                 transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 98, gives brief biographical comments.

 

 

SEILHAMER, HUGH S.

 

Born: 1865                                                                  married: Elizabeth Jane Brush

Died: 3-17-1935  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [1859-1934]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 309

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Willow Grove Cemetery, Linglestown PA

Obit:

 

1902                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1903-05           Susquehanna

1905-06           Mapleton

1914                returned to quarterly conference license, page 63

 

1930-31           Linglestown

 

Note: H.S. Seilhamer reportedly served as a local pastor in Harrisburg beginning in the 1920’s, with his last service at Manada Hill, but there is no record of this in the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

SELDOMRIDGE, ISAAC NEWTON         

 

Born: 9-30-1868                                                          married: M. Adele Kendig

Died: 10-10-1957                                                        obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 67

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1907    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Heller’s Church Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 44

 

1899-00           Centerville

1900-01           Hopeland

1901-02           Hillsdale

1902-12           Harrisburg State Street

1912-13           Reading Trinity

1913-20           Elizabethtown

1920-23           Philadelphia Second

1923-29           Oberlin

1929-39           Myerstown

1939-42           Manheim

1942                retired

                        1943-44  Manor circuit

 

 

SELLERS, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895-96           York Springs

 

Note: William Sellers appears to be a lay supply person filling a temporary gap.  In 1896, York Springs was attached to Bendersville. 

 

SENEFF, MICHAEL BURNS LORR

 

Born: 1-27-1862  Fayette County PA                        married: Laura Margaret Shoemaker

Died: 4-19-1915  Westerville OH                              obit: Allegheny Conference 1923, 66

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 228

Gibble list: no

 

1889    license, Allegheny Conference

1892    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:  Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 68

 

1889-91           Industry

1891-93           Westmoreland

1893-94           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1894-95           Altoona Second

1895-97           president, Westfield College in IL

1897-99           Greensburg

1899-00           on leave, living in Greensburg

1900-01           Braddock Second

1901-03           Herminie

1903-09           Conemaugh station

1909                retired for health reasons to Westerville OH

 

Note: B.L. Seneff (as he is commonly known) is a great-grandson of Christian William Seneff (1770-1855) of the Muskingum Conference, and a nephew of David Rugg Seneff (1841-1934) of the Illinois Conference, and a brother to Eudora Seneff McIntosh, wife of William David McIntosh (1867-1941) of the Illinois Conference, and the father of Rachel Seneff Good, wife of John D. Good.  He returned to Otterbein University in 1893 to complete studies he had begun there in 1884.  Mrs. Seneff is the daughter of Henry Shoemaker and the granddaughter of John R. Sitman.

 

SENSENY, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married: _____ Gonder

Died: 1819                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 35                                                      married2: Nancy _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1800    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: John Senseny is the son of Peter Senseny.  Christian Newcomer records the baptism of John and his wife baptism 9/30/1797.

 

 

SENSENY, PETER

 

Born: 1738  Lancaster County PA                             married: Mrs. Ursula Shoneur Senseny

Died: 9-8-1804                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 40                                                      married2: Maria Holl [1784]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1756 – 6/2/1835]

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

1802    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester VA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1807, 5 [see also biographical files]

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SENCENY and SENSENEY.  Peter Senseny, a medical doctor and the 1796 founder of Middletown VA (originally named Sensenytown), was the first in the Shenandoah Valley to welcome Christian Newcomer.  Newcomer reports Peter Senseny preached for him 3/29/1798.  He is the father of John Senseny.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 183, gives a brief biography.  That same book also lists a Daniel Senseny as being licensed in 1829, but no other conference history names such a person.  Peter’s first wife was the widow of his first cousin Christian Senseny.

 

 

SEWELL, T.B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 304

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1852-53           Hershey’s station

1853-54           Big Spring circuit

1855                withdrew

 

 

SEXTON, TIMOTHY FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-14-1890  near Indiana PA                             married: Sarah Alberta Mock

Died: 3-18-1988                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 444

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association

1933    ordained deacon

1941    ordained elder

 

Interment: Mt. Tabor Cemetery, New Florence PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 376

 

1916-20           Indiana

1920-22           Brush Valley

…

1937-44           Blairsville-Robinson

1944-49           Oak Ridge

1949-51           Johnstown Mission

1951                transfer by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1951-52           Bowserdale

1952-56           Marchand

1956-58           Woodland

1958-59           Bigler

1959                retired

 

Note: Timothy F. Sexton was never United Brethren.  He is listed in the United Brethren files because the only Susquehanna Conference congregations he served (Woodland and Bigler) were former United Brethren congregations of the Allegheny Conference.

 

 

SHADE, B.N.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1868    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1867-68           Bethlehem circuit

1868-69           Middleburg circuit

1870                withdrew

 

 

SHAEFFER, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873-74                      West Fairview (last part of the year)

 

Note: Joseph Shaeffer gave the 1874 statistical report for West Fairview.  Otherwise unknown, he is likely a local preacher who supplied the pulpit until conference.  In the West Fairview church history he is identified as “John Shaffer,” but he is not the John Shaffer who served Baltimore Fifth 1873-74.  The Miller-Raker history identifies him as “Joseph Scheaffer.”

 

 

SHAEFFER, PHILLIP

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1874-75           Pine Grove circuit

 

Note: This Philip Shaeffer is otherwise unknown.

 

 

SHAFFER, COLIN JACOB

 

Born: 12-27-1934                                                        married: Lynette _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 805

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Dover Otterbein

1971    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-65           Barts

1965-71           Keystone-Perry

1971-74           Mount Rock

1974-91           Biglerville

1991-93           Shippensburg Christ

1993-99           Three Mounts

1999                retired

 

 

SHAFFER, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1913-14           Wilkinsburg

 

Note: George Shaffer served as “others employed by the conference.”  This is believed to be the Rev. George Shaffer (1885-1920) listed in the Methodist Protestant data base who served in the Pittsburgh Conference and had “no appointment at his own request” 1912-14.

 

SHAFFER, GLEN C.

 

Born: 4-3-1910                                                            married: Zelma L. Shauck

Died: 6-?-1987                                                            obit: [1/4/1912 – 9/24/2002]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 532

Gibble list: no

 

1928    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1935    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1928-32           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1932-35           student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

1935-38           Greenwood

1938-42           Greensburg

1942-65           chaplain, US Army and US Air Force (retired, 1965)

1965-66           student

1966-67           without appointment

1967                no longer listed

 

Note: Starting in 1965, Glen C. Shaffer settled in Westerville OH.  He appears to have been involved in a counseling ministry and maintained close ties with Otterbein College.  He served almost until his death in interim and assistant pastor positions in multiple Presbyterian churches across central Ohio – including Mifflin, Gahanna, and Columbus Central. 

 

SHAFFER, JACOB T.

 

Born: 10-8-1843  Carroll County MD                        married: Mary Katherine Smith

Died: 8-6-1909  Philadelphia PA                               obit: [1/21/1853 – 1948]

Miller-Raker #: 347

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1866    license

1870    ordained

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 35

 

1866-67           Rocky Spring circuit

1867-68           St. Thomas circuit

1868-70           Shippensburg mission

1870-71           Littlestown

1871-73           Greencastle

1873-74           Newville

1874-75           Shippensburg

1875-77           Duncannon

1877-78           Liverpool circuit (did not finish the year)

1877-81           Lebanon Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881-85           Mechanicsburg

1885-86           Mount Joy

1887-90           York Second

1890                Newburg (appointed but did not serve: 1891, 20)

1890-92           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, Maryland Conference

1892                transfer to Maryland Conference

1892-93           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1893-95           Baltimore Fourth, Pennsylvania Conference

1895                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1895-98           Baltimore Fourth

1898                Baltimore Fifth (did not finish the year: 1899, 19)

1898-00           Mountville, East Pennsylvania Conference

1900                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1900-03           Annville

1903-06           Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah [First]

1906-09           West Philadelphia [Haverford Avenue]

 

Note: He is often incorrectly denoted J.T. “Shaeffer” in Pennsylvania Conference journals.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 442, gives relevant information.  Mrs. Shaffer is the sister of W. Otterbein Smith and a niece of Jacob C. Smith.

 

 

SHAFFER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1881                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

 

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference Oct 1881, 11

 

1869-70           Deer Park

1873-74           Baltimore Fifth

1874                transfer to East German Conference

1880                living in Baltimore

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SHEAFFER and SCHAFFER, and the given name sometimes appears as JOHANN.  He appears to have been a member of the Pennsylvania Conference, since he transferred out in 1874, but there is no information concerning his license.

 

 

SHAFFNER, JACOB S.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1852    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1863                transfer to

 

Note: Jacob Shaffner is listed in Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 195, as one of original 1851 trustees of the Harrisburg Front Street church building.  This may be the Jacob Shaffner (1830-1917) buried in the Harrisburg Cemetery,

 

 

SHAMBAUGH, ELMER PARKER

 

Born: 11-4-1933                                                          married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 746

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, recommended by Carlisle Grace

1958    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1953-54           student, Lebanon Valley College

1954-55           West Hill

1955-58           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1958-60           New Bloomfield (ending 5/15/60)

1960-62           living in Dayton OH

1962                dropped, no longer EUB: page 82

 

Note: His 2003 address is 425 Osman St, Bucyrus, OH 44820-2824, (419)562-0298.

 

 

SHANK, ABRAHAM HAHN

 

Born: 12-8-1851  PA                                                  married: Almira Engle

Died: 7-18-1938  1938 Parsons KS                            obit: [8/8/1850 – 1930]

Miller-Raker #: 390

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1880     license

1884    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit:

 

1877                A.B. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1879                A.M. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1880-82           Newville station

1882-85           Newburg station

1885-86           Waynesboro

1886-87           Orrstown station

1887-89           Mt. Wolf

1889                withdrew

1891                joined the United Brethren Old Constitution

1891-93           presiding elder, Pennsylvania and Maryland Conferences

1893-94           presiding elder, Pennsylvania Conference

1894-97           Chambersburg

1897                Shippensburg mission

1897                granted certificate of transfer, page 23

 

SHANK, DANIEL

 

Born: 4-30-1811  Canada                                                       married: Eve Keller

Died: 10-12-1892                                                                    obit: [4/4/1812 – 8/28/1876]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1853    license, Allegheny Conference

1859    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Columbus Cemetery, Columbus NE

Obit:

 

1858-61           Somerset

1861-63           Schellsburg

1863-65           Somerset

1865-74           (apparently not under appointment)

1874                transfer to ?

 

Note: The Shanks were from Somerset County PA.  Daniel Shank was born during the residence of his parents in Canada.  He spent his boyhood and youth in Ohio, but afterward learned the carpenter's trade in Stony Creek township, Somerset County, and here followed that occupation several years.  Of a deeply religious nature, imbued with the spiritual faith which dominated the United Brethren, he became a somewhat noted preacher in that denomination, and for twenty years labored professionally in Somerset County.  Losing his voice, he subsequently went to Nebraska in search of renewed vigor, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. 

 

SHANK, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [SHENK]

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1838, 41

 

Note:  This person is unknown.  His death is noted, but there is no record of his being licensed, ordained, or serving a circuit.

 

 

SHANNON, ABSALOM LINCOLN

 

Born: 4-19-1864                                                          married: Linnie Erb (1890)

Died: 12-13-1900  Highspire PA                                obit: [2/10/1874 – 7/24/1924]

Miller-Raker #: 425

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license

 

Interment: Paradise [Hopeland] Church cemetery, Clay PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 28

 

1887-88           living in Shippensburg

1888-90           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1888-90  Paradise station, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1890-92           Pequea

1892-93           Philadelphia Mount Pisgah [First] (did not finish year)

1893-94           student, Union Seminary

1894-96           Ephrata

1896-98           Mountville

1898-00           Highspire

 

Note: A.L. Shannon is the father of Paul E.V. Shannon.

 

 

SHANNON, CHARLES E.

 

Born: 9-21-1865                                                          married: Charlotte Isaac

Died: 4-19-1953                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1935, 60

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Loretta Belle Dobson

Fulton #: 465                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1946, 61

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1922    license, Allegheny Conference

1937    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Elmira NY

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 22

 

1911                Bethel (10 months)

1911-13           Springfield

1913-15           Susquehanna

1915-22

1922                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference

1922-23           Port Matilda

1923-27           Fayette

1927-31           Wyano

1931-33           Jefferson

1933-42           Fairmount

1942-44           Wyano

                             1943-44      Dunlevy (beginning 10/1/1943)

1944-46           Rochester Mills

1946                retired

 

Note: It is unclear how or where Charles E. Shannon was involved 1915-22.

 

 

SHANNON, NEWTON S.

 

Born: 4-15-1850  Snyder County PA                         married: Amanda Rearick      

Died: 3-2-1925  Fountain Hill PA                              obit: [1/8/1851 – 4/13/1928]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license, East German Conference

 

Interment: Fountain Hill Cemetery, Fountain Hill PA

Obit:

 

1881                Marietta, East Pennsylvania Conference (part year)

1881-82           Manheim

1882-83           Freeburg

1883-84           ?

1884-85           Tremont

1885                referred

1893                “transfer” to East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

1893-96           ?

1896-98           Annville

1898-99           Lykens and Wiconisco

 

Note: Newton S. Shannon continues to be listed as a deacon after 1899, but he is not listed among those appointed.  He is (erroneously) listed in early Evangelical Association records as Nelson Shannon.

 

SHANNON, PAUL EUGENE VIRGIL

 

Born: 3-25-1898  Mountville PA                               married: Josephine S. Mathias

Died: 5-23-1957  York PA                                         obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 25

Miller-Raker #: 642                                                    married2: Katherine Higgins

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1996]

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 42

 

1914-18           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1917-18       Hillsdale

1918-21           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1918-19      Veedersburg, White River Conference

                             1919-20      field representative, Bonebrake Seminary

                             1920-21      Dayton Fairview, Miami Conference

1921                transfer to Miami Conference

1921-24           Dayton Fairview

1924-25           living in Mt. Gretna PA

1925                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 71

1925-27           Baltimore Liberty Heights

1927-28           field representative, Bonebrake Seminary

1928-35           Dallastown Bethlehem

1935-48           York First

1948-57           superintendent, Pennsylvania Conference

1957                bishop

 

Note: Paul E.V. Shannon is the son of A.L. Shannon.  Following the untimely death of his father, his sister and brother were the first residents of the Quincy Orphanage.  Mrs. Katherine Higgins Shannon is a sister to D. Rayborn Higgins, and she married widower bishop J. Gordon Howard in 1967.

 

 

SHARP, EARNEST A.

 

Born: 3-19-1878  near Mahaffey PA                          married: Hannah Buhan

Died: 4-16-1946  East Freedom PA                           obit: [12/12/1880 – 8/27/1968]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 329

Gibble list: no

 

1898    quarterly conference license                                     

1904    license, Allegheny Conference

1908    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946, 63

 

1899-02           Hooversville

1902-03           Juniata Mission

1903-05           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

                            1903-04       Ostrander, Sandusky Conference (6 months)

                            1904            West Decatur (4 months)

                            1904-05       Bowlusville, Miami Conference (7 months)

                            1905            New Paris (4 months)

1905-08           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

1908-11           Johnston Barron Avenue

1911-12           Hershey, East Pennsylvania Conference

1912-13           Bradford, Erie Conference (6 months)

1913-16           Portage First

1916-21           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1921-22           Latrobe

1922-23           Connellsville

1923-26           Philipsburg

1926-29           Punxsutawney

1929-31           Johnstown Barron Avenue

1931-35           Greenwood (beginning 9/28/1931, apparently originally assigned to Clearfield)

1935-37           Monessen

1937-38           Altoona Grace

1938-46           East Freedom

 

 

SHARP, THOMAS McMILLAN

 

Born: 11-5-1864 Dumfrieshire, Scotland                               married: Jane Ann Beatrice Storey

Died: 3-14-1924  Pitcairn PA                                                 obit: [c1869 – 5/14/1957]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 283&423

Gibble list: no

 

1896    quarterly conference license

1898    license, Allegheny Conference

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Irwin PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924, 63

 

1896-99           Middletown

1899-06           McKeesport Second [Shoemaker Memorial]

1906-08           evangelist at large

1908-09           Roanoke, Virginia Conference

1909                transfer to Virginia Conference

1909-15           Roanoke

1915                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1915-16           Dunlo and Beaverdale

1916-20           Latrobe

1921-24           Pitcairn

 

Note: Thomas M. Sharp came to America in 1883 and served as a local preacher with the Primitive Methodist Church and Salvation Army before joining the Allegheny Conference.  Mrs. Sharp appears to have re-married – a Mr. Grant Anderson 6/29/1938, and a Mr. Raymond Hawley 5/18/1948.

 

 

SHAW, BARTIN C.

 

Born: 1-5-1858  Everett PA                                                    married: Nancy K. Keagy

Died: 12-21-1914  Dunlo PA                                                 obit: Allegheny Conference 1936, 57

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1886    quarterly conference license

1889    license, Allegheny Conference

1892    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 67

 

1889-91           Allegheny

1891-94           Liverpool

1894-95           Bellefonte

1895-99           Herminie

1899-01           Huntingdon

1901-04           Coalport

1904-07           East Freedom

1907-08           Johnstown Park Avenue

1908-10           Braddock Comrie Avenue

1910-12           Wilmore

1912-15           Dunlo

 

Note: B.C. Shaw taught school before entering the ministry.

 

SHAY, RUSSELL LUCAS

 

Born: 3-13-1897  Lebanon PA                                   married: Florence May Adams

Died: 11-21-1970                                                        obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1990, 316

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1922    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 320

 

1919-24           high school teacher, Lebanon

                        1923-24  Manada Hill

1924-28           high school teacher, Plattsburgh NY

1928-31           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                        1929 Brookfield, Missouri Conference

                        1929 West Mansfield, Sandusky Conference

1931-40           Linglestown & Colonial Park

1940-46           chaplain, U.S. Army

1946-51           Cleona & Pleasant Hill

1951-57           chaplain, U.S. Army

1957-62           Lebanon Ebenezer

1962                retired

 

 

SHEAFFER, AARON MILTON

 

Born: 5-14-1933                                                          married: Patricia Oyer

Died: 9-26-2015  Dayton OH                                     obit: Susquehanna Conference 2021, 367

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, recommended by Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1958    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 269

 

1951-55           student, Lebanon Valley College

1955-58           student, United Theological Seminary

1958-60           assistant, Harrisburg Derry Street

1960-70           staff, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-91           faculty, United Theological Seminary

pastor of arts and outreach, Dayton OH Shiloh UCC

1991                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Shaeffer is the daughter of Russell Oyer and a sister to Mary Ann Oyer (Mrs. Daniel) Schildt.

 

 

SHEAFFER, ELEANORE F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1930    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1930                transfer to Colorado-New Mexico Conference

1950                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference and classified as local elder, page 47

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SCHAEFFER.

 

 

SHEAFFER, GRANT L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1891-92           Marietta circuit

1892-94           Pottstown Baltzell

1901                withdrew

 

 

SHEAFFER, LEE EARL

 

Born: 11-26-1901  Carlisle PA                                   married: Lena Alice Heishman

Died: 10-?-1978                                                          obit: (biographical files)

Miller-Raker #: 639

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license, recommended by Carlisle Grace

 

Interment: Maple Hill Cemetery, Petersburg VA

Obit:

 

1927                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        Manassas

                        Shenandoah

                        Franklin

                        Westernport Potomac Park

                        Broadway

                        Pendleton-Grant

1956                retired

           

Note: Lee E. Sheaffer is not a brother to W. Clark Sheaffer.  He is the father of Lee Benjamin Sheaffer of the Virginia Conference.  Glovier’s 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 263, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SHEAFFER, W. CLARK

 

Born: 6-14-1884                                                          married: Alice M. Houck

Died: 11-15-1957                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 23

Miller-Raker #: 627                                                    married2: Mary Owen

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1924    license, recommended by Carlisle Grace

1931    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit:

 

1925-26           ?, Virginia Conference

1926-27           Shermansdale

1927                local

 

Note: W. Clark Sheaffer is not a brother to Lee E. Sheaffer.  He is the grandfather (via daughter Leah with his second wife) of Charles W. Salisbury of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

 

SHEARER, DANIEL LEROY

 

Born: 9-6-1917  York County PA                              married: Irma Isabel Kieffer

Died:   3-31-2016                                                        obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 270

Miller-Raker #: 684

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1936    license, recommended by Jefferson Bethlehem

1941    ordained

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 269

 

1934-38           student, Lebanon Valley College

1938-41           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

    1939-40       Twin Creek OH, Congregational Christian Church

    1940-41       West Sonora, Miami Conference

1941-44           Silver Springs

1944                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1944-53           Harrisburg First

1953-62           Ephrata First

1962-70           Hummelstown Trinity

1970-73           superintendent, New Cumberland District

1973-80           director, Conference Council on Ministries

1980-82                      superintendent, State College District

1982                retired

                            1982-91       administrative assistant, Harrisburg Area Bishop’s Office

 

Note: Daniel L. Shearer is the son of Monroe J. Shearer Sr and a brother to Monroe J. Shearer Jr and Wilson A. Shearer.  Mrs. Shearer (nee Sheetz) was raised by her Kieffer relatives after her mother died when she was 14 months old.

 

 

SHEARER, MONROE J. JR

 

Born: 7-30-1924                                                          married: Thelma Fay Zimmerman

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013, 271

Miller-Raker #: 711

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, recommended by Jefferson Bethlehem

1952    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1951-52           Nashville, Miami Conference

1952-55           Red Lion circuit

1955-58           Spring Run

1958-62           Enola First

1961-70           Myersville

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-71           Myersville

1971-76           Berkley Springs First

1976                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1976-82           Hustontown

1982                Altoona Fairview (until Oct 29))

1982-83           Three Springs (beginning Oct 29)

1983-84           Felton Bethany

1984                retired

 

Note: Monroe J. Shearer Jr is the son of Monroe J. Shearer Jr and a brother to Daniel L. Shearer Jr and Wilson A. Shearer.

 

 

SHEARER, MONROE JULIUS SR

 

Born: 12-30-1897  near Spring Grove PA                  married: Edith Diehl

Died: 5-21-1989                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 474

Miller-Raker #: 710

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license

1949    ordained

 

Interment: St. Peter’s (Lischeys) Church Cemetery, near Spring Grove PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 475

 

1945-48           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1948-54           Dillsburg

1954-59           Quincy

1959-62           Emigsville

1962-67           Chewsville

1967                retired

                             1968-75      Pleasant Grove

 

Note: Monroe J Shearer Sr is the father of Daniel Shearer, Monroe Shearer Jr and Wilson A. Shearer.  His daughter Susan is married to Kenneth Thomas Stover (1917-1997) of the West Ohio Conference.

 

 

SHEARER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 11-9-1849  Pisgah Valley, Perry County PA   married: Zipporah Hufford

Died: 1-18-1910                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 381

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    quarterly conference license, Shermansdale charge

1876    license

1879    ordained

 

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 115

 

1877-78           Orrstown

1878-80           Mercersburg

1880-81           Shippensburg

1881-82           Big Spring

1882-86           locate, throat trouble

1886-89           Shoops [Shiremanstown]

1889-90           Mount Wolf

1890                located, rheumatism

 

 

SHEARER, WILSON A.

 

Born: 5-29-1931                                                          married: Marilyn Evans

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 738

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1951    license

1954    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-57           Middleburg-Shiloh

1957-65           York Third [St. Luke’s]

1965-70           director, Conference Youth Ministry and Camping

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-76           Hagerstown Otterbein

1976-82           superintendent, Frederick District

1982-85           assistant, Washington Area Bishop’s Office

1985-96           Hagerstown Otterbein

1996                retired

 

 

SHEERER, DAVID M.

 

Born: 7-29-1825                                                          married: Jemima C. Cooper

Died: 7-3-1901                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1922, 125

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 86

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

1857    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1901, 34

 

1853-55           Somerset

1855-56           Madison

1856-58           Washington

1858-59           Madison and Westmoreland

1859-60           Westmoreland

1860-61           Altoona

1861-62           Bellefonte

1862-65           superintendent, East District

1865-68           Juniata

1868-69           superintendent, East District

1869-70           Mount Pleasant station

1870-72           Madison

1872-74           Westmoreland

1874-76           superintendent, East District

1876-77           Cambria

1877-78           ?

1878-79           Madison

1879-80           Ligonier

1880-81           Connellsville

1881-83           superintendent, Johnstown District

1883-85           Somerset

1885-86           Cambria

1886-87           Johnstown

1887-90           superintendent, Altoona District

1890-91           Jenners Cross Roads

1891-92           Moxham mission

1892-93           ?

1893-94           Cambria

1894-95           Connellsville

1895-96           Philipsburg

1896-97           Jenners Cross Roads

1897-98           DeHaven

1898-99           Casselman

1899                retired

 

Note: David Sheerer is the father of James Cooper Sheerer.  Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 7.

 

SHEERER, JAMES COOPER

 

Born: 1851                                                                  married: Jennie Mingle

Died: 1886                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Martha Jane _____ [after 1884]

Fulton #: 179                                                               obit2: [8/13/1855 – 12/18/1922]

Gibble list: no

 

1876    license, Allegheny Conference

1879    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: originally in Johnstown PA, remains re-interred in Tyrone PA in 1898

Obit:

 

1876-77           Tyrone

1877-78           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1878-79           Industry

1879-80           Greensburg

1880-81           student, Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh PA

1881-82           Mount Pleasant

1882-83           Connellsville

1883-84           ?

1884                honorable dismissal to become a pastor in the Presbyterian Church

 

Note: James Cooper Sheerer is the son of David Cooper.  He graduated from Otterbein University in 1878 and from Western Theological Seminary in 1885.  The first Mrs. Sheerer is a sister to William H. Mingle.

 

SHEESLEY, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 10-9-1787                                                          married: Catherine Barbara Lenker

Died: 10-1-1871                                                          obit: [1/6/1792 – 9/29/1873]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1831    quarterly conference license, Penbrook

 

Interment: Raysors Cemetery, near Penbrook PA

Obit:

 

Note: Abraham Sheesley served as a local pastor, his license being renewed every year from 1831 until his death.

 

 

SHEETZ, BYRON WILBUR

 

Born: 6-12-1901  Dauphin County PA                       married: Esther V. Abbey      

Died: 7-1-1976                                                            obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1981, 285]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1924    quarterly conference license, St. Jacobs in Powell’s Valley

1926    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reading PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 576

 

1924-28           student, Lebanon Valley College

                        1925-28  Powell’s Valley

1928-31           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                        1928-29  Alpha OH Methodist Protestant Church

                        1929-31  Harrison-Rockville, Miami Conference

1931-66           Reading Trinity

1966                retired

 

Note: The birth date for Mrs. Sheetz, not given in her obituary, is 10/8/1904.

 

 

SHELLENBERGER, G.G.

 

Born: 1841                                                                  married: Anna S. _____

Died: 1919                                                                  obit: [1849 – 1925]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Maize Cemetery, Maize KS

Obit:

 

1878-1879       Lancaster circuit

 

Note: G.G. Shellenberger apparently moved to Maise KS he was a painter and his wife operated a hotel.  He he has a brief letter in The Religious Telescope for 2/12/1902, page 17 (209).  [Warning: It has not been verified that the G.G. Shellenberger named above is the same G.G. Shellenberger who served the Lancaster circuit.]

 

 

SHELLEY, CHARLES A.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Esther M. Zimmerman

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 697

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license

1946    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1940-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

1944-47           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1944-45       Maple Park assistant, Miami Conference

                            1945-46       Dayton Otterbein assistant, Miami Conference

                            1946-47  Hagerstown St. Paul assistant

1947-48           Hagerstown St. Paul assistant

1948-50           Winterstown

1950-52           Baltimore Salem

1952                withdrew, page 65

 

 

SHELLY, CLARENCE E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 606 [SHELLEY]

Fulton #: 452

Gibble list: no

 

1918    license, Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1918-19           living in Walkersville

1919-20           living in Newburg

1920                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1920-22           Glasgow

1922-23           Casselman

1923-24           Port Matilda

1924-26           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1926-27           without appointment

1927                withdrew, page 106

 

Note: Clarence E. Shelley was “of York, Pa.” when he was licensed in 1918.  In January 1918 he was leading revival meeting at Barts, on the Littlestown charge.

 

SHELLY, JAMES M.

 

Born: 3-3-1866  near Quakertown PA                       married: Laura Hoover          

Died: 7-3-1944                                                            obit: Philadelphia Conference 1935, 596

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1892    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Pottstown PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1945, 203

 

1889-90           Hummelstown

1890-91

1891-94           Florin circuit

1894-96           Pottstown Baltzell

1896-99           Steelton Centenary

1899-02           Mount Joy

1902                honorable dismissal

1902                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1902-03           Hamburg

1903-06           New Bethel

1906-08           Coxestown

1908-10           Narberth

1910-13           Middletown

1913-17           Birdsboro

1917-20           Shenandoah

1920-22           Reading St. Peter’s

1922-26           Columbia First

1926-31           Clifton

1931-34           Philadelphia Emmanuel

1934-35           Strasburg

1935-36           Philadelphia Orthodox Street

1936-42           Quakertown

1942                retired

                            1942-44  Evansburg

 

 

SHELLY, WILLIAM NEWCOMER

 

Born: 10-8-1814  Bucks County PA                          married: Sarah Geisinger [9/23/1838]

Died: 8-4-1893                                                            obit: [1821 – 7/6/1856]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Anna Taylor [12/24/1856]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 6/1881]

Gibble list: yes                                                            married3: Juliana Slough

                                                                                    obit3:

?          license, Mennonite Church

1880    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit: East German Conference 1893, 50

 

1879-80           Bucks County circuit, East German Conference of United Brethren Church

1880                transfer to East German Conference, page 8

                        apparently not assigned

 

 

SHENEFELT, TEDFORD L.

 

Born: 1-4-1922  Mont Alto PA                                  married: Alberta C. Kalbach

Died: 12-22-2009  Carroll County MD                      obit: [11/3/1921 – 9/11/2023]

Miller-Raker #: 716

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1949    license

1951    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Hampstead MD

Obit:

 

1949-51           Northampton, East Pennsylvania Conference

1951-52           Windsor

1952-54           chaplain, US Navy

1954                transfer to New York Conference

1954-56           Niagara Falls

1956                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1956-59           Greenmount

1959-73           chaplain, Veterans Administration

1973                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1973-89           chaplain, Veterans Administration

1989                retired

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 403, gives a grief biography of Tedford L. Shenefelt.

 

 

SHEPHERD, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 69

Gibble list: no

 

1849    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1849-51           Mahoning Mission

1854-55           Juniata circuit (confirmed by secular records)

 

 

Note: Secular sources report that William Shepherd was one of the United Brethren pastors who served Orbisonia before the first building was erected and the first pastor was formally assigned there in 1858.  Although not listed as such in the Conference minutes, we apparently served the large Juniata circuit along with R.G. Rankin.

 

 

 

SHERK, ABRAHAM BREAK.

 

Born: 11-6-1832  Waterloo County, Ontario married: Rebekah Gonder

Died: 11-27-1916                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Ontario Conference

?          ordained, Ontario Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1870-71           Tuscarora, Allegheny Conference

 

Note: A.B. Sherk is a brother to David B. Sherk (1837-?) of the Ontario Conference.  He supplied Tuscarora circuit as a member of the Ontario Conference.  Records of his United Brethren service in Canada and the United States (Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania) are sketchy.  He also served briefly in the Congregational Church.  More information on A.B. Sherk is available at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, located at Conrad Grebel College in Waterloo, Ontario.

 

SHERMAN, E.F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-03           Paradise St. John’s

 

Note: E.F. Sherman is a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, appointed when the assigned pastor did not accept his assignment – see 1903, page 5.  Apparently the possibility that he would join the United Brethren permanently did not materialize.  A Rev. E.F. Sherman is listed as performing a marriage at the Spruce Run Lutheran Church in Hunterdon County NJ in 1923.

 

 

SHERRICK, GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

Born: 9-1-1858  Everson PA                                      married: Emma Mary Linton

Died: 10-7-1918  Dallastown PA                               obit: Allegheny Conference 1902, 47

Miller-Raker #: 559                                                    married2: Margaret Beaver

Fulton #: 230                                                               obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 50

Gibble list: no

 

1885    license, Tennessee Conference

1888    ordained, Tennessee Conference

 

Interment: Scotdale PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 81

 

1884-84           White Pine circuit

1885-87           Knoxville circuit

1887-89           Braddock Second, Allegheny Conference

1889                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1889-90           Braddock Second

1890-92           Mt. Pleasant

1892-94           Westmoreland circuit

1894-97           Pitcairn

1897-01           superintendent, East District

1901-03           Wilkinsburg

1903-06           Johnstown Walnut Grove

1906-08           Huntingdon

1908-09           Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Conference

1909                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1909-11           Gettysburg

1911-16           Shippensburg

1916-18           Dallastown

 

Note: This branch of the Sherrick family appears to have Mennonite roots in Lancaster County and to have migrated to Everson prior to 1800.  We are unable to establish any relationship to Henry G. Sherrick or Sarah M. Sherrick, professor (1889-92) of English at Lebanon Valley College.

 

 

SHERRICK, HENRY GRISSINGER

 

Born: 6-8-1842  near Mount Joy PA                          married: Frances I. _____

Died: 4-3-1886  near Middletown PA                        obit: [11/1/1848 – 2/13/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1874    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1878    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Mount Joy PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 29

 

Note: Henry G. Sherrick did not itinerate, but remained a local elder.

 

 

SHERRIFF, STANLEY GEORGE

 

Born: 1-16-1905  Badshot-Lea, England                   married: Lois Mildred Bushong

Died: 3-22-1981  Toledo OH                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: 657

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    ordained, Sandusky Conference

 

Interment: St. Mark’s UM Church, Findlay OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1981, 300

 

1926-27           Delphos St. Paul

1927-28           student, Otterbein Academy at Findlay College

1928                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1928-29           Mount Olivet

1929-31           living in York

1931-33           Carlisle circuit

1933-35                      student, Lebanon Valley College

1935-38           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1935-38      Dayton High Street

1938-44           Myersville

1944                transfer to Sandusky Conference

1944-50           Old Fort

1950-56           McClure

1956-61           Toledo St. Andrew

1961-62           West Independence

1962-66           Whitehouse Zion

1966-70           Oceola- Salem

1970                retired

 

Note: Stanley G. Sherriff is a brother to William E. Sherriff.

 

 

SHERRIFF, WILLIAM ERNST

 

Born: 4-5-1898  London, England                             married: Anna Elizabeth Unger

Died: 10-29-1976                                                        obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 476]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license, Cleona

1930    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oberlin Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 263

 

1928                Tom’s Brook VA (10/1/28 to 12/31/28)

1931-32           Hummelstown circuit

1932-37           Manor

1937-41           Enders & Powell’s Valley

1941-43           Grantville

1943-51           Bellegrove circuit

1951-56           Highspire

1956-66           Stehman’s & Green Hill

1966                retired

                             1966-69      Union Deposit

                             1969-70      Shopes

                             1970           transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

                             1970-75      Shopes

 

Note: William E. Sherriff is a brother to Stanley G. Sherriff.  The birth date for Mrs. Sherriff is 9/6/1898.

 

 

SHETTEL, JOHN AULT

 

Born: 2-1-1865  near Shiremanstown PA                  married: Elizabeth G. Crowl

Died: 2-26-1945  Dallastown PA                               obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 47

Miller-Raker #: 446

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1890    license

1893    ordained

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery at Peace Church, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 28

 

1890-92           York Haven

1892-95           Dover

1895-99           Big Spring

1899-01           Lemasters circuit

1901-06           Red Lion circuit

1906-09           Boonsboro

1909-11           Hanover

1911-15           West Fairview

1915-24           York Third

1924-33           Yoe

1933                retired to Dallastown

 

Note: John A. Shettel is the father of Paul O. Shettel, Mrs. John L. Fehl and Mrs. Mervie H. Welty.

 

 

SHETTEL, PAUL OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 9-21-1895  Big Spring PA                                married: Laura Viola Witmer

Died: 4-26-1969                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2002, 373

Miller-Raker #: 594

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1916    license, recommended by West Fairview

1921    ordained

 

Interment: St. John’s Cemetery at Peace Church, Shiremanstown

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969, 211

 

1914-18           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1917            Limeridge WI, Wisconsin Conference (June-Sept)

                            1917-18       Mechanicsburg circuit

1918-21           student. Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1918-20       Biglerville

                            1920-21       Yankeetown OH, Miami Conference

1921-25           Walkersville

1925-30           Chambersburg First

1930-33           Shippensburg Messiah

1933-38           Baltimore Trinity

1938-43           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1943-46           chaplain, US Army at Little Rock AK

1946-50           Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Little Rock AK

1950-54           Mechanicsburg First

1954-62           Waynesboro

1962                retired

 

Note Paul O. Shettel is the son of John A. Shettel, and a brother to Mrs. John L. Fehl and Mrs. Mervie H. Welty.  He is the father of Rev. John E. Shettel of the Presbyterian Church, New Jersey.

 

 

SHIFFER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 2-25-1883  Juniata County PA                         married: Annie Long Gelnett [9/16/1905]

Died: 6-7-1941  Perry County PA                              obit: [1/9/1886 – 2/24/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 399

Gibble list: no

 

1912    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Freemont, page 49

 

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Millerstown PA

Obit:

 

1912-15           Dunlevy

1918                returned to quarterly conference license

 

Note: Henry Shiffer began teaching school at the age of 16 years, continuing with teaching even while serving as a United Brethren preacher.  “Retiring” from the ministry in 1918, he moved to Sugar Run Valley in Perry County.  He last taught at No. 4 school house in Raccoon Valley, and he also served as Justice of the Peace in Tuscarora township for one term. --- Source: "Perry County Times" obituary.

 

SHIMP, NATHAN K.

 

Born: 1830  Berkeley County WV                             married: Anna G. Wortman [1855]

Died: 10-16-1901  Kansas City MO                           obit: [3/15/1838 – 5/6/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 103

Gibble list: no

 

1858    license, Allegheny Conference

1861    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City MO

Obit: [Kansas City Star, 10/17/1901, page 9]

 

1857-59           Allegheny

1859-61           Washington

1861-63           Liverpool

1865                name erased

 

Note: Nathan K. Shimp is a brother to William K. Shimp.  Some sources give his birth year as 1828.  His newspaper obituary states that he “was active in the Methodist Church (South) for 30 years and also practiced medicine.”

  

SHIMP, WILLIAM K.

 

Born: 4-2-1824  Berkeley County WV                      married: Martha _____

Died: 2-20-1882  Clearfield County PA                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 81

Gibble list: no

 

1853    license, Allegheny Conference

1855    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Joy Church Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1882, 21

 

1852-53           Westmoreland

1853-55           Mahoning

1855-56           Somerset

1856-57           Springfield

1857-58           Westmoreland

1858-60           Ligonier

1860-62           Mahoning

1862-63           Clearfield

1863-64           Jefferson

1864-66           Schellsburg

1866-69           Kittanning

1869-70           Sellersville

1870-71           Knoxville

1871-72           Allegheny

1872-73           Somerset

1873-75           Washington

1875-76           Millheim

1876-78           ?

1878-80           Indiana

1880-81           Cooksburg

1881-82           Burnsides 

 

Note: William K. Shimp is a brother to Nathan K. Shimp.  He is also the father of Rev. Joseph H. Shimp (1850-1935) of the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.

 

SHIMP, WILLIAM O.

 

Born: 1832                                                                  married: Sarah C. Shimp

Died: 11-5-1916                                                          obit: [d. 10/14/1913]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Harleigh Cemetery, Camden NJ

Obit:

 

1883-87           Camden NJ Bethel Mission (Third Street, below Walnut)

 

Note: William O. Shimp held revivals in Camden under the auspices of the United Brethren Church beginning in 1878.  The resulting congregation worshiped as Independent Wesleyan Methodists until becoming “Methodist” within the Greater Philadelphia movement headed by E.W. Kirby and the United Brethren in 1883.  He was still preaching in Camden in 1894. 

 

SHIRES, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 6-23-1863  Cornwall PA                                  married: Ellen McElhenney   

Died: 11-4-1950  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Philadelphia Conference 1929, 173

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Minnie Graham

Fulton #: 346                                                               obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1942, 461

Gibble list: yes

 

1888    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Centenary (Methodist Episcopal)

1898    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1905    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bismark Cemetery, Quentin PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1951, 1046

 

1895-98           East Lebanon circuit

1898-01           Catawissa circuit

1901-03           Halifax Otterbein

1903-04           Lykens

1904-05           Glosbrenner

1905                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1905-08           Port Matilda

1908-10           Altoona Greenwood                          

1910-14           Tannersville, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1914                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1914-17           East Mauch Chunk

1917-18           Philadelphia Scott

1918-21           Philadelphia Lawndale

1921-23           Philadelphia Twenty-Second Street

1923-26           Eddystone

1926-30           Philadelphia Providence

1930-32           Hatboro

1932-37           Bristol Harriman mission

1937                retired

 

 

SHIRK, PETER BRADY

 

Born: 8-7-1823                                                            married: Lydia M. Patton

Died: 5-30-1882  New Millport PA                           obit: [9/13/1831 – 12/20/1870]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah Willoughby [2/13/1872]

Fulton #: 123                                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1862    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Salem Lutheran Cemetery, New Millport PA

Obit:

 

1862-63           Stone Valley

1863-64           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1864-66           Mapleton

1866-67           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1868-71           (not listed; formally dismissed in 1872)

1871                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod

                        Juniata County

1876-81           New Millport (resigned 4/1/1881 for health reasons0

 

Note: The second Mrs. Shirk was the widow of a Mr. Joseph Dearing.

 

SHIVELY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 1-18-1880  near Fayetteville PA                      married: Mary Grace Ressler

Died: 6-20-1956  Los  Angeles CA                           obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 450]

Miller-Raker #: 528

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1904    license, recommended by Fayetteville quarterly conference

1907    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 41

 

1904-07           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

                           1905      Coalton, Southeast Ohio Conference (May-Sept)

                           1906      Milton, Allegheny Conference (May-Sept)

1907-42           missionary, Japan

1942-46           Emigsville

1947-49           board of missions, Dayton OH

1949                retired

 

Note: B. Frank Shively is a brother to Rev. John Shively of the Congregational Church and to Mrs. Fanny Shively Kaufman, wife of John Warrenn Kaufman.  Both Holdcraft’s 1939 (page 328, with pictures) and Miller’s 1968 (page 409) History of the Pennsylvania Conference give brief biographies.  Mrs. Shively is the daughter of John I.L. Ressler; her birthdate is 7/21/1883.  Both Rev. and Mrs. Shively are graduates of Otterbein University.

 

 

SHOEMAKER, ALBERT JONATH DAVID

 

Born: 3-29-1899  Lehigh County PA                         married: Elda I. Fenstermaker

Died: 12-14-1969  Mullins SC                                   obit: [5/14/1900 – 2/23/1971]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Easter Hicks Ray Bush

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/18/1897 – 2/11/1992]

Gibble list: no

 

1920    quarterly conference license, recommended by Berrysburg

 

Interment: Devotion Gardens, Marion SC

Obit:

 

1918-19           student, Schuylkill Seminary in Reading PA

1919-20           Lykens Valley circuit

1920-21           Bern circuit

1921-22           Jonestown circuit

1922-23           Pequea circuit

 

Note: A.J.D. Shoemaker is consistently listed without elaboration under “other employed in the conference.”  His ministerial status/qualifications and affiliation are unknown.  Apparently he preached at Gardner Chapel, near New Castle PA in the late 1920’s and left for Michigan in 1930.  He served as a chaplain in WWII and died in Mullins SC.  He apparently labored as a local pastor, even though his secular obituary lists him Dr. A.J.D. Shoemaker, D.D. and describes him as a “retired Methodist minister.”  Mrs. Shoemaker (nee Ray) had been previously married to a Mr. Harry Wesley Bush.
     The 5/17/1929 Harrisburg Evening News, page 24, includes the following: “State College Pastor Taken in Custody ALLENTOWN, May 17. Deputy Sheriff Burk and Constable Simon-ton brought the Rev. Albert Shoemaker yesterday from State College and committed him to the Lehigh County jail. Shoemaker was arrested on an attachment issued by the court in default of his paying a certain amount for the support of his wife, Mrs. Elda Shoemaker, and children, as he had been ordered to do.”  The two children were Pauline C. (b. 1919) and Paul David (b. 1924).

 

 

SHOEMAKER, HENRY

 

Born: 2-28-1825  Madison PA                                   married: Margaret Ann Sitman [5/9/1861]

Died: 1-10-1904  Madison PA                                   obit: [5/17/1828 – 10/20/1911]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 117

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Madison PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1904, 56

 

 

Note: Henry Shoemaker is the father of Laura Margaret Shoemaker Seneff, wife of Michael Burns Loor Seneff, and of Caroline Jane H. Shoemaker Kurtz, wife of John H. Kurtz.    He appears not to have ever been assigned an appointment and is assumed to have functioned as a local pastor.  Henry Shoemaker is the namesake of Shoemaker Memorial Church in McKeesport.  Mrs. Shoemaker is the daughter of John R. Sitman.  Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 3.

 

SHOLLER, JACOB      see SCHOLLER

 

 

SHOLTER, ROBERT HAMILTON

 

Born: 3-7-1908  Laurelton PA                                    married: Dorothy Elizabeth Rodgers

Died: 7-19-1988                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 467

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Sixth Street

1935    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1939    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 477

 

1932-36           student, Lebanon Valley College

1936-39           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                        1936-38  associate, Fort McKinley OH

1939-41           student, Hartford Seminary School of Religious Education

1941-43           East Hartford CT South, Congregational Church

1943-44           Reading Zion

1944-55           Paradise

1955-70           Colonial Park

1970                transfer by boundary charge to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-73           Colonial Park

1973                retired

 

 

SHOLTY, ALVA HOBART SR.

 

Born: 10-13-1895  Kosciusko County IN                  married: Ruth E. Conley (6/10/1920)

Died: 2-27-1969  Kendallville IN                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 459

Gibble list: no

 

1916    quarterly conference license

1921    license, Allegheny Conference

1921    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Steuben County IN

Obit: North Indiana Conference 1969, 304

 

1921-22           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1922-27           missionary, Japan

1927-29           White River Conference

1929                transfer to St. Joseph Conference, page 118

 

Note: Alva H. Sholty is a first cousin to Ulysses Grant Sholty (1868-1899) of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is the author of Twice in Two Thousand Years, a book (Otterbein Press, 1946) about his WWII experience in Japan.

 

 

SHOOP, CHARLES WILSON

 

Born: 8-10-1879  Powell’s Valley PA                       married: Kathryn Steffy        

Died: 5-17-1956                                                          obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1954, 29

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1903    quarterly conference license, Union Church in Powell’s Valley

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1912    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Sinking Spring PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 31

 

1904-08           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1905-06      Sinking Spring

                             1906-08      Hillsdale

1908-09           Hillsdale

1909-12           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1909-12      Wagner & Aley Chapels, Miami Conference

1912                Reading Otterbein (part year)

1912-50           missionary to China

1950                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Shoop is a brother to William C. Shoop and Warren E. Shoop.  Their father William C. Shoop (1838-1916) was a local preacher and the brother of James W. Shoop.

 

 

SHOOP, JAMES W.

 

Born: 10-17-1840  Dauphin County PA                     married: Catherine Paul

Died: 5-25-1934                                                          obit: [10/24/1838 – 6/10/1864]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sarah Anna Hoy

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1848 – 4/29/1916]

Gibble list: yes

 

1863    quarterly conference license

1867    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 14

 

1866-67           Bellegrove

1867-71           Valley View

1871-73           Sinking Spring

1873-74           Pine Grove

1874-77           Lebanon Salem

1877-78           Williams Valley

1878-81           Valley View

1881-83           Allentown Linden Street [Zion]

1883-88           presiding elder

1888-90           Avon Zion

1890-95           presiding elder

1895-96           Valley View

1896-02           Lykens circuit

1902-03           Elizabethville

1903-04           Jacksonville circuit

1904                retired

 

Note: James W. Shoop is an uncle to Charles W. Shoop, Warren E. Shoop and William C. Shoop.

 

 

SHOOP, WARREN EDWIN

 

Born: 1885                                                                  married: Sarah Ellen Wagner

Died: 1964                                                                  obit: [1886-1961]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 375

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Elan Memorial Cemetery, Lime Ridge PA

Obit:

 

1908-09           Susquehanna circuit, Allegheny Conference

1909                transfer to Allegheny Conference, page 9

1909-10           Susquehanna circuit (ending soon after start of 1910-11 conference year)

1910-11           Berne circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning soon after start of year)

1911                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1911-13           Berne circuit

1913-17           Hopeland

1917-19           Iona

1919-22           Enders circuit

1922-28           Catawissa

1928                dismissed

 

Note: Warren E. Shoop is a brother to Charles W. Shoop and William C. Shoop.  Their father William C. Shoop (1838-1916) was a local preacher and a brother to James W. Shoop. 

 

SHOOP, WILLIAM CARSON

 

Born: 5-7-1877  Halifax PA                                       married: Merle [or Beryl?] Alma Dietrick    

Died: 11-26-1954  North Warren PA                         obit: [7/7/1880 – 2/3/1942]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Guys Mills PA

Obit:

 

1907-11           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1907-09      Union Deposit circuit

                             1909-10      Harrisburg circuit

                             1910-11      Chambers Hill circuit

1911-12           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

1912-13           living in Wall, PA

1913                honorable dismissal, page 16

 

Note: William C. Shoop is a brother to Charles W. Shoop and Warren E. Shoop.  Their father William C. Shoop (1838-1916) was a local preacher and a brother to James W. Shoop [and their father is a third cousin, via a common Schupp ancestor in Germany, to Christian Shopp].

 

 

SHOPE, W.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

license

ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1898-99           Mahaffey

 

Note:  W.H. Shope served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person.  This name is also given as N.H. SHOPE.

 

SHOPP, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 12-22-1791                                                        married: Sarah (Sally) M. Rupley [c1823]

Died: 7-4-1873 [7-14-1872?]                                      obit: [1792 – 11/17/1871]

Miller-Raker #: 115

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1829    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit: Miami Conference  1873, 18

 

1833-34           York circuit

 

Note: Christian Shopp is a son of John Shopp Sr (1761-1821) of Shiremanstown, whose home/church/cemetery location is a conference historical site, and Anna Hershey Shopp (1765-1850), daughter of John B. Hershey.  Through a common Schupp ancestor in Germany, Christian Shopp is a third cousin to the father of James W. Shoop.  Comments on his conversion and work in Ohio are given in the 1911 Landmark History of the United brethren Church, by Eberly et. al., pages 19-20.

 

SHOVER, DONALD RAYMOND JR

 

Born: 10-23-1937                                                        married: Barbara _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 764

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

1963    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-59           student, Juniata College

1959-60           houseparent, Otterbein Home at Lebanon PH

1960-63           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1960-63      Ridgeville Community Church, Lebanon OH

1963-65           Hagerstown Grace

1965-67           Ellicott City Rockland

1970-73           Lock Haven First

1973-82           Williamsport St. Paul

1982-87           Mechanicsburg First

1987-92           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1992-00           State College St. Paul’s

2000                retired

                             2000-08  bishop’s administrative assistant (ending 12/31/2007)

 

Note: Donald R. Shover is the father of Mark R. Shover of the Susquehanna Conference.

 

SHOWERS, JOSEPH S.

 

Born: 3-16-1850  Paris, Ontario Canada                    married: Margaret O. Morrow

Died: 2-1-1935  Johnstown PA                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1903, 55

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Alice Elizabeth Schlichter

Fulton #: 319                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1947, 67

Gibble list: no

 

1881    quarterly conference license

1884    license, Ontario Conference

1888    ordained, Ontario Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1935, 58

 

1902-03           Fairmount, Allegheny Conference

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-05           Fairmount

1905-07           Ligonier

1907-12           Madison

1912-14           Youngwood

1914-22           Connellsville

1922-27           Portage

1927-28           Altoona mission

1928-33           Altoona Garden Heights

1933                retired

 

Note: Joseph S. Showers is the father of Russell S. Showers and of noted bishop and denominational leader John Balmer Showers (1879-1962) of the Erie Conference.  The maiden name of the second Mrs. Sowers was Elsley, and she was the widow of a Mr. Samuel D. Schlichter. 

 

SHOWERS, RUSSELL SMITH

 

Born: 12-14-1881  Paris, Ontario Canada                  married: Clara Sheifele

Died: 4-13-1934  Rochester MN                                obit: [d. 1969]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 320

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license

?          license, Allegheny Conference

1915    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Erie Conference 1934, 37

 

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-07           Punxsutawney

1907-08           living in Oregon for health reasons

1908-12           Portland First, Oregon Conference

1912-13           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1913-15           Bradford Hill Memorial, Erie Conference

1915                transfer to Erie Conference

1915-16           Bradford Hill Memorial

1916-25           conference superintendent

1925-29           assistant general secretary, Home Missions and Church Extension

1929-34           general secretary, Home Missions and Church extension

 

Note: Russell S. Showers is the son of Joseph S. Showers and a brother of noted bishop and denominational leader John Balmer Showers (1879-1962) of the Erie Conference.  A picture and biographical sketch appear in Weaver's 1936 History of the Erie Conference, pages 61-63. 

 

SHOWMAN, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 11-19-1819  PA                                                married: Isabella E. _____

Died: 10-9-1903                                                          obit: [1824 – 5/28/1858]

Miller-Raker #: 283

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1846    license

1848    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit:

 

1845-46           Greenvillage mission

1846-47           Littlestown circuit

1847-48           Perry circuit

1848-49           Hershey station

1849-51           Littlestown circuit

1851-52           ? (not assigned)

1852-53           Big Spring circuit

1853-56           Carlisle circuit

1856-57           Greencastle circuit

1857-59           Philadelphia Clinton Street mission, East Pennsylvania Conference

1859-60           ? (not assigned)

1860                Greencastle circuit (appointed, but refused to serve)

1862                withdrew due to difficulties, page 79

 

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 438, tells of Rev. Showman’s involvement in the Philadelphia Clinton Street mission.  The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 98, gives brief biographical comments.

 

 

SHOWMAN, NELLIE J. HUTCHINSON

 

Born: 3-21-1868  Fayette County PA                        married: George Showman

Died: 10-14-1945  Connellsville PA                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 366

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1913    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Indian Creek Cemetery, Mill Run, Fayette County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946, 57

 

1915                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

                        Conneaut

                        Clinton

1933                transfer to Allegheny Conference

                        located

 

 

SHROM, WILLIAM PROWELL

 

Born: 1840                                                                  married: Laura Stiles Gardner [6/1/1871]

Died: 1921                                                                  obit: [9/2/1849 – 5/16/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 148 [SCHUM]

Gibble list: no

 

1870    license, Allegheny Conference

1871    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit:

 

1870-71           student, Western Theological Seminary

1871-72           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1872-73           ?

1873                dismissed

                        entered the Presbyterian ministry

187                  Zanesville OH First

1898                Pittsburgh PA Fourth

1906-17           Neville Island

 

Note: W.P. Shrom graduated from Otterbein University (Westerville OH) in a1868 and from Western Theological Seminary (Allegheny PA) in 1871.  He was a board member for several years at Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny PA.  He is the author of at least two published materials:

     1872 – A Sermon delivered before the Students of Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa., June 2, 1872

     1878 – Handbook of the First Presbyterian Church of Zanesville, Ohio

Mrs. Shrom is the daughter of George Gardner (1820-1859), a medical doctor licensed (1847) and Ordained (1858) as a local preacher in the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  She is a graduate of Otterbein University, and she became a medical doctor.

 

 

SHROYER, ALVIN EDGAR

 

Born: 5-1-1875  Pillow PA                                         married: Lillian Grace Kreider

Died: 6-7-1920  Annville PA                                     obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    license, East German Conference: recommended by Shamokin

1903    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 55

 

1899-00           student, Lebanon Valley College

1900-01           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1902-03      Elizabethville

1903-09           Highspire

1909-20           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

                             1913-14      Annville

                             1918           Lykens circuit (Mar-Oct)

 

 

SHULTZ, CHRISTIAN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 247

Fulton #: 47

Gibble list: no

 

1841     license, Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1842                transfer to

 

Note: Note: Christian Shultz is otherwise unknown.  Even though he is clearly noted as “received,” his name does not appear on the alphabetical list in Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

SHULTZ, HORACE CLAYTON “HARRY”

 

Born: 11-6-1877  Wrightsville PA                             married: Sadie Sylvia Gohn (1898)

Died: 7-11-1909   Dover PA                                      obit: [12/30/1876 – 8/5/1955]

Miller-Raker #: 537

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1905    quarterly conference license, York circuit

1906    license

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 128

 

1906-09           Dover

 

Note: An obituary for H.C. Shultz also appears in the 8/4/1909 Religious Telescope, page 30.  In 1910, the widowed Mrs. Shultz married a Mr. Harry John Dietz (1875-1959) and moved to Iowa.  Mrs. Shultz is the neice of Jacob A. Gohn.

 

 

SHUPE, HENRY FOX

 

Born: 3-18-1860  Scottdale PA                                  married: Susan F. Stoner

Died: 10-12-1926  Dayton OH                                   obit: [7/1/1860 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lulu Billhammer

Fulton #: 215                                                               obit2: [Allegheny Conference 1894, 25]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Margaret Faist

                                                                                    obit3: Allegheny Conference 1947, 69

1882    quarterly conference license

1885    license, Allegheny Conference

1886    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1927, 71

 

1884                Tyrone (summer)

1885-89           Tyrone

1889-90           South Williamsport

1890-93           Braddock

1893-26           editor, Watchword

 

Note: Henry F. Shupe is the author of numerous books and articles.  Hungers of the Teens is on file in the local authors section at the conference archives.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 4.

 

SIBERT, LAWRENCE [LORENZO] DAVID

 

Born: 5-22-1804  Shenandoah County VA                married: Rebecca Georgianna Thrasher

Died: 9-25-1881  Staunton VA                                  obit: [d. 11/19/1883]

Miller-Raker #: 161 [LORENZ SEIBERT]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license

 

Interment: Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton VA

Obit: [see find-a-grave website]

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831                license taken away “because of conduct unbecoming a minister”

                        proprietor of Van Buren Furnace

 

Note: See Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 242.  In 1860, Lorenzo Sibert patented a carbine that could fire 48 shots without reloading, or 600 times a minute “consecutively for 12 hours.”

 

 

SIECHRIST, CHRISTIAN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 277

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1847    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1845-46           Halifax circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1848-50           Berks County circuit

1854-55           Myerstown

1856                expelled

 

Note: This surname is also rendered SIEGRIST.  He appears to have served as a local pastor who performed many weddings in Lebanon County in the 1850’s.  The following relevant item, for example, appears in a Price family Internet history: She and Joseph Reed were married by the Reverend Christian Siegrist, who was the affiant of the affidavit on 18 Oct 1890, in which he said that "he was the person who performed the marriage on the 19th December A. D. 1857 at the home of Martin Prize, the father of Mrs. Reed, no marriage certificate being issued, it not being customary at that time to issue such certificates".  He is recorded, and signed the document, in German script, as Christian Siechrist. He was a resident of Heidelberg Township and his post office address was Kleinfeltersville.

 

 

SILVER, MABEL I.

 

Born: 1902  Baltimore MD                                        married: [single]

Died: 4-2-1972                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

1931-64           missionary to Africa

 

Note: Dr. Mabel I. Silver served as a medical missionary in Tiama, Sierra Leone.  She was a 1925 graduate of Lebanon Valley College, and a women’s dormitory there is named in her honor.

 

 

SIMMONS, ANTHONY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 46

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

1845    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1845-46           Sinamahoning

1847                name erased

 

 

SININGER, NORMAN E.

 

Born: 1875  Bremen IN                                              married: Myra B. Huff [7/8/1898]

Died: 8-22-1960  Sparta WI                                       obit: [11/27/1878 – 5/5/1952]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 321

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, St. Joseph Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-04           Youngwood

1904                transfer to ?

 

Note: Norman E. Sininger became a congregational minister in Wisconsin.

 

SIPE, HAROLD OBERDORFF

 

Born: 9-22-1909  Wormleysburg PA                         married: Ruth Emily Blemler

Died: 1-21-1995                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 32

Miller-Raker #: 686                                                    married2: Mrs. Pearl Crider Schultz

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 443

Gibble list: no                                                             married 3: Madalene Koller

                                                                                    obit3: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 425

1932    quarterly conference license, Wormleysburg           

1937    license, recommended by Wormleysburg     

1940    ordained

 

Interment: Millers Crossroads Cemetery, Northumberland County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Confrerence 1995, 454

 

1937-45           Biglerville

1945-51           Mechanicsburg circuit

1951-59           Scotland-Salem

1959-75           West Fairview

1975                retired

 

 

SIPE, RUSSELL A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938    referred

 

 

SIPES, HORACE NELSON

 

Born: 4-6-1883                                                            married: Mary C. Norris [1909]

Died: 12-29-1919                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 376

Gibble list: no

 

1909    admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment:

Obit: Pittsburgh Conference (ME) 1920, 83

 

1908-1909       Allegheny (ending 9/1909: see 1910, 68)

1909                discontinued

1909                received on credentials, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1909-11           Bradenville

1911                name erased

1911                received on trial, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1913-14           Ebensburg

1915-16           Uniontown-Fairchance

1916-17           Concord-Winnett-Layton-Banning

1917-19           Braddock Fourth Street

 

 

SITES, WILLIAM ALGERNON

 

Born: 3-25-1880                                                          married: Emma Eston

Died: 9-?-1964                                                            obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conf 1968, 45]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 335

Gibble list: yes

 

1901    quarterly conference license

1904    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 26]

 

1904-05           Belsano, Allegheny Conference

1905                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1905-06           Orbisonia

1906-08           Milton

1908-10           Huntingdon

1910-15           Latrobe

1915-19           McKeesport Kephart Memorial

1919-25           Braddock

1925-40           Bradenville

1940-52           Latrobe

1952                retired

                             1955-56  Blairsville

 

 

SITLINGER, ALBERT LEROY

 

Born: 7-6-1908  Lykens PA                                       married: Ruth Marie Brauti [1936]

Died: 8-3-2000 CA                                                     obit: [4/18/1902 – 3/30/1987]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1928    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lykens

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1926-30           student, Lebanon Valley College

1937                referred

                       

Note: Albert L. Sitlinger later lived in Oregon, taught at the University of Idaho, and was a real estate broker.  He is not to be confused with another Albert Leroy Sitlinger (1902-1973), also also born in Lykens, who spent his entire life in Dauphin County.

 

 

SITMAN, JOHN R.

 

Born: 6-22-1806  Centre County PA                          married: Mary Roop

Died: 4-24-1869                                                          obit: [5/2/1810 – 1/19/1885]

Miller-Raker #: 174

Fulton #: 2

Gibble list: yes

 

1832    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Shiloh [Sidman] Cemetery, Sidman PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1870, 21

 

1834-35           Huntingdon circuit

1835-37           ?

1837-39           presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           presiding elder, Allegheny District

1840-41           (no minutes recorded)

1841-42           Jefferson circuit

1842-43           (appointments not listed)

1843-45           Somerset mission

1845-47           Westmoreland circuit

1847-48           Johnstown mission & Jenner

1848-49           presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1849-50           Clarion mission

1850-51           Jefferson circuit

1851-52           Blair circuit

1852-54           Schellsburg circuit

1854-56           Ligonier circuit

1856-58           presiding elder, East District

1858-59           Jefferson circuit

1859-60           ?

1860-62           presiding elder, Middle District

1862-64           Fallen Timber

1864                apparently no longer accepting an appointment

 

Note: John R. Sitman is the father of Margaret Ann Sitman Shoemaker, wife of Henry Shoemaker.  He is the founder (and namesake?) of Sidman UMC in Sidman, Cambria County.  The father of Mary Roop Sitman (some sources list her birth date as 5/13/1809) was a first cousin to Jacob Roop.  Two family histories have been published by Evelyn Sidman Watcher: “Family Record of William Sitman, Brother of Rev. John R. Sitman of Cambria County PA” and “Rev. John R. Sitman, Pioneer UB Preacher of Cambria County PA, and his Descendants” (both, Westfield NJ 1973).

 

 

SLAYBAUGH, CHARLES RICHARD JR

 

Born: 4-16-1940                                                          married: Lurie_____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 806

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Wormleysburg

1968    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1963-64           assistant, Enola First

1964-65           assistant, Mechanicsburg First

1965-68           student,  United Theological Seminary

                        1966-67  youth minister, Dayton Trinity

                        1967-68  assistant, Dayton Ohmer Park Methodist

1968-83           Walnut Bottom Trinity

1983-02           Gettysburg

2002                retired

 

 

SLENKER, PALMER MILLARD

 

Born: 11-3-1906  Yoe PA                                          married: Glenna Mae Stottlemyer

Died: 4-13-1967                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 108

Miller-Raker #: 633                                                    married2: Mrs. Violet Yost Ambrose

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/1896 – 10/1986]

Gibble list: no

 

1923    quarterly conference license, Yoe Salem

1924    license, recommended by Yoe Salem

1926    ordained

 

Interment: Wolfsville Church Cemetery

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967, 230

 

1927-28           Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to New Cumberland charge)

1928-33           Wolfsville

1933-35           Orrtanna

1935-42           Oakville

1942-44           Mechanicsburg circuit

1944-46           Dover

1946-49           Manchester MD

1949                retired

                             1959-60      Mont Alto

 

 

SMELTZER, MONROE WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-9-1874  Dauphin County PA                       married: Blanche Emma Hollinger

Died: 12-10-1951  Fulton MO                                    obit: [10/15/1883 – 9/6/1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1900    quarterly conference license, Penbook

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Fulton MO

Obit:

 

                        Lower Wabash Conference

1909                transfer to White River Conference               

                        Montana Conference

 

Note: In 1900 M.W. Smeltzer of Penbrook PA was a preparatory student at Lebanon Valley College.  He moved west before he was ordained or served under appointment.  His daughter Pauline Smeltzer, who died sometime after 1995, never married and was a schoolteacher in Ohio.  Pauline’s photo album has been published in various contexts on the Internet as “The Adventures of Pauline Smeltzer” and includes photos of Monroe W. Smeltzer and tells quite a family story.  The Smeltzer biographical file at the conference archives includes the original 1900 quarterly conference license and other M.S. Smeltzer documents.

 

SMILEY, JOHN M.

 

Born: 2-12-1822  Shermansdale PA                           married: Sarah Mickey

Died: 6-17-1898  Shippensburg PA                           obit: [1826 – 1912]

Miller-Raker #: 318

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1854    quarterly conference license, Petersburg [Duncannon] quarterly conference

1860    license

1863    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC  1898, 13

 

1864                moved to Shippensburg

1866                founding pastor, Shippensburg Messiah

1892                joined United Brethren (Old Constitution) denomination

 

Note: John M. Smiley is an uncle to Leo C. Smiley and a brother to Rev. James W. Smiley (1824-1893) of the Methodist Protestant Church.  He was a businessman and operated as a local pastor.  His original 1854 quarterly conference license is in the biographical files at the conference archives.    Kendall’s 1966 History of the Messiah Evangelical United Brethren Church of Shippensburg includes significant material on John M. Smiley.

 

 

SMILEY, LEO CHRIST

 

Born: 9-27-1869  near Shermansdale PA                   married: Ida Salome Loy

Died: 12-8-1949                                                          obit: [11/25/1866 – 11/30/1925]

Miller-Raker #: 475                                                    married2: Omega M. _____

Fulton #: 266                                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Mary Kennedy [6/20/1927]

                                                                                    obit3:

 

1895    license, recommended by Bellwood in Allegheny Conference

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Shermansdale PA

Obit:

 

1895                Bellwood (Mar 1 to May 20), page 12

1895                Mt. Union (May 20 50 Aug 20), page 13

1895-98           student, Union Seminary

1898                Orrstown (resigned immediately), Pennsylvania Conference

1898-00           Phillipsburg (resigned mid-way through second year)

1900-01           Mechanicsburg circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1901                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           Gettysburg

1902                Walkersville (resigned immediately)

1902-03           New Bloomfield

1903-04           Lemasters

1904-07           West Fairview

1907-08           Greencastle (did not finish the year)

1908                evangelist at large

1910                continued without appointment, page 48

1911                withdrew, page 30

 

Note: One Internet genealogy page states the following: “Leo is son of William A. Smiley and Martha A. Adair. Leo attended United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, working as an apprentice jeweler to support himself. Ida became a dressmaker's apprentice. When Leo was appointed to the United Brethren (now United Methodist) Church in New Bloomfield, Perry Co., PA, it was bankrupt and he agreed to serve without pay, supporting himself as a jeweler. He retired in 1900 and opened a shop in Lemoyne, but reentered the ministry serving in the Presbytery of Carlisle (Presbyterian Church).”  Leo C. Smiley is a nephew of John M. Smiley.

 

SMITH, BUDD ROSSITER

 

Born:  5-24-1901  Rossiter PA                                   married: Martha E. Wolf

Died: 1-15-1991                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 336

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 473

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1925    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 340

 

1922-25           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1923  Jefferson (4 months)

1925-28           Jefferson

1928-33           Portage

1933-39           Trafford

1939-42           Huntingdon

1942-47           Philipsburg

1947-59           Tyrone

1959-70           Johnstown Beulah

1970                retired

                             1970-74  Johnstown Trinity Asbury

 

 

SMITH, DONALD LEROY

 

Born: 9-16-1929  York PA                                         married: Shirley Mayer

Died: 6-29-1984  Harrisburg PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: 760

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1956    license, recommended by Franklintown UBOC

1960    ordained, Texas-Oklahoma Conference

 

Interment: Paddletown Cemetery, Newberrytown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 416

 

1956-59           Saginaw-Starview

1959                transfer to Texas-Oklahoma Conference

1959-62           Shawnee St. Mark’s

1962-66           Alva

1966                transfer to Susquehanna Conference

1966-75           Newberrytown

1975-80           Harrisburg Paxton

1980-84           Harrisburg Fifth Street

 

Note: Donald L. Smith had no children.

 

 

SMITH, C.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1898-99           Industry

 

Note:  C.E. Smith served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person. 

 

SMITH, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1852    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1847-48           Dauphin circuit

1848-49           Highspire circuit

1849-50           Berks County circuit (moved to Pine Grove in mid-year)

1850-52           Pine Grove circuit

1852-54           Lebanon circuit

1854-55           Susquehanna circuit

1869                withdrew

 

 

SMITH, GEORGE ELMER

 

Born: 9-10-1886  Alum Bank PA                               married: Bertha Jane Dale

Died: 5-5-1953  West Milton PA                               obit: Western Pennsylvania Conf. 1981, 440

Miller-Raker #: 601                                                             & Central Pennsylvania Conf. 1980, 352

Fulton #: 384, 449

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license

1911    license, Allegheny Conference

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Houserville Cemetery, Houserville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference  1953, 22

 

1911-12           Houserville

1912-13           Middleburg

1913-15           Greenwood-Juniata

1915-16           Myersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1916-17           Walkersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1917                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1917-18           Walkersville

1918-19           Bendersville

1919                transfer to Allegheny Conference, page 41

1919-23           Bellefonte

1923-25           Huntingdon

1925-26           McKeesport First

1926-28           Beaverdale

1928-29           Altoona Wehnwood

1929-31           Hollsopple

1931-34           Woodland

1934-36           Middleburg

1936-40           Knoxdale

1940-42           Rockwood

1942-44           Windber

1944-47           Westmoreland

1947-48           Bellwood

1948-50           Milton

1950-51           East Freedom

1951                retired

 

 

SMITH, GIDEON

 

Born: Ironville, Lancaster County PA                        married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 104

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1823    license

1825    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1825-27           Hagerstown circuit

1827-28           Lancaster circuit

1831-32           Lancaster circuit

1832-33           presiding elder, Canada District

1833-34           Canada circuit

1837                expelled, page 40

1845                examined and received back, page 61

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47           Lebanon circuit

1859                transfer to

 

Note: Gideon Smith is the son of John Christian Smith.  Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SMITH, HERBERT ALVIN.

 

Born: 3-28-1888  Philedelphia PA                             married: Theresa Bertha Linderman (1910)

Died: 6-18-1950  Salem OH                                       obit: [11/?/1888 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [HERBERT E.]

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pomfert Manor Cemetery, Sunbury PA

Obit:

 

1913-15           Royalton Emanuel

1915-17           West Lebanon

1917-18           Grantville (ending 1/14/18)

1920                “transfer” to Northumberland Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 19

1920                Muncy PA

1927                transfer to Steubenville OH Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

1945-               Columbiana OH Presbyterian Church

 

Note: Herbert A. Smith is the son of John Francis Smith.  He left 1/14/18 to take up “emergency army work of the YMCA” (see 118, 7).

 

 

SMITH, HERMAN E.

 

Born: 7-1-1901  Lebanon County PA                        married:          

Died: 4-24-1951  Harrisburg PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Kochenderfers Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1944-46           associate, Enders & Powell’s Valley

 

Note: Herman E. Smith is listed under “others employed by the conference.” He lived in rural Lebanon and his status is unknown.

 

 

 

SMITH, HOMER ALLEN

 

Born: 10-5-1910  Youngwood PA                             married: Sara Jane Sowash

Died: 10-4-1995  Clearfield PA                                 obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012, 301

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license, Youngwood

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Morrisdale PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 425

 

1943-46    Claysville Zion

1946-50    South Williamsport

1950-59    Bigler

1958-78    Summit Hill

1978          retired

                        1990-95  Winburne Emmanuel

 

Note: Homer A, Smith is the father-in-law of Rev. Noel Rich of the Episcopal Church and grandfather of Rev. Jeffrey Smith of the Presbyterian Church and John Emigh of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

 

SMITH, J. LEWIS

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1869-70           Highspire circuit

1871                name erased

 

SMITH, JACOB C.

 

Born: 1-22-1819  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Eliza Ann Staley

Died: 11-13-1886  York PA                                       obit: [5/26/1823 – 1/21/1906]

Miller-Raker #: 267

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1843    license

1846    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA [or Hampton UB cemetery, Adams County PA?]

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1887, 25

 

1843-44           Chambersburg circuit

1844-45           Dauphin circuit

1845-46           Littlestown circuit

1846-47           Chambersburg circuit

1847-51           York station

1851-52           presiding elder, Conference

1852-53           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1853-55           Philadelphia station (did not finish last year, for health reasons)

1855-57           Rocky Spring circuit

1857-61           York station

1861-63           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1863-64           Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits

1864-66           Greencastle circuit

1866-71           York station

1871-72           presiding elder, York District

1972-75           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1975-76           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1876-77           Chambersburg mission

1877-82           York Second

1882-83                      agent, Union Biblical Seminary (first part of year)

Columbia (last part of year), East Pennsylvania Conference

1883-84           local

1884-85           Winterstown circuit

1885-86           York circuit

1886                retired

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 308, gives a brief biography of Jacob C. Smith.  The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 98, gives brief biographical comments.  He is an uncle to John S. Smith, W. Otterbein Smith, and Mary Smith Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer.  And his mother, the former Barbara Clippinger, is a sister to the great-grandfather of John O. Clippinger.   

 

SMITH, JACOB PAUL

 

Born: 3-7-1849  Middleburg PA                                married: Mary J. Ruhl

Died: 7-31-1911  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [12/16/1856 – 11/29/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1870    quarterly conference license, Middleburg

1872    license, East German Conference

1876    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Covenan Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference  1911, 31

 

1872-74           Manheim

1874-75           Hummelstown

1875-76           ?

1876-77           Florin

1877-78           ?

1878-79           Paxinos

1879-82           Lebanon Salem

1882-85           Allentown Zion

1885-89           Myerstown

1889-90           Tamaqua

1890-91           Williamstown

1891-96           Baltimore Third [Fulton Street]

1896-99           Lebanon Salem

1899-01           Avon

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02           Baltimore Third [Fulton Street], Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03           ?

1903-06           Lebanon Bethany

1906-07           Bellegrove circuit

1907-08                      Iona

1908-09           retired, living in Lebanon

1909-10           Iona

1910-11           Sinking Spring

 

Note:  When the East German Conference was disbanded in 1901, Jacob Paul Smith was assigned to Baltimore Third – even though Baltimore Third moved into the Pennsylvania Conference and Rev. Smith moved into the East Pennsylvania Conference.  Long Memorial in Neffsville lists Jacob P. Smith as its pastor 1882-83.  Mrs. Smith is the daughter of John Ruhl.

 

 

SMITH, JAMES A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 377

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference

 

1907-09           Path Valley, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1909                received on credentials, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church 

1911                name erased

 

McKeesport First (?)

 

SMITH, JAMES MORGAN

 

Born: 4-5-1830  Blair County PA                              married: Abigail Hunt (1863)

Died: 9-21-1889  Bellefonte PA                                 obit: [1839 – 9/7/1867]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Salome Weller

Fulton #: 126                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1916, 74

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1863    license, Allegheny Conference

1864    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1889, 36

 

1861                withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church

1862-63           Kittanning

1863-65           Liverpool

1865-67           Clearfield

1867-68           Jefferson

1868-69           Ligonier

1869-70           Bellefonte circuit

1870-71           Bellefonte mission

1871-73           Juniata

1873-75           Bellefonte

1875-77           superintendent, Western District

1877-79           Millheim

1879-80           Bellefonte

1880                Bellefonte and Millheim (Feb – Sep; short conference year)

1880-81           Hollidaysburg

1881-83           Clearfield

1883-85           Otterbein [Bigler]\1885-86     Indiana

1886-99           New Patis

1888-89           Fallen Timber

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 7.  The second Mrs. Smith was the widow of a Mr. J. Cyrus Yealy (1838-1865), who perished in the Civil War.  Following the death of J.M. Smith she resided in Coleville, Centre County.

 

SMITH, JEREMIAH PETER

 

Born: 2-10-1826  Annville PA                                   married: Leah Stoner

Died: 1-12-1892  York PA                                         obit: [1823 – 11/18/1898]

Miller-Raker #: 392

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1861    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1868    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 40

 

1861-64           Highspire circuit

1865-66           Hummelstown circuit

1866-67

1867-68           Highspire circuit

1868-69           Annville

1869-71           living in Hummelstown

1871-73           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1873-74           Susquehanna circuit

1874-75

1875-79           York First, Pennsylvania Conference

1879-80           Baltimore Fifth, Pennsylvania Conference

1880                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1880-82           Baltimore Fifth

1882-84           Manheim circuit

1884-85           Baltimore George Street

1885-88           Dallastown station

1888-92           York Third

 

 

SMITH, JOHN

 

Born: 5-15-1781                                                          married:

Died: 11-5-1843                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 68

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1812    license

 

Interment: Cresswell PA

Obit:

 

 

SMITH, JOHN

 

Born: 2-26-1796  Hessen, Germany                           married: Margaret Purkeypile

Died: 7-22-1884  Crawford OH                                 obit: [7/11/1801 – 3/4/1857]

Miller-Raker #: 143

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1828    license

1830    ordained

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Galion OH

Obit: Central Ohio Conference 1884, 26

 

1831-32           Carlisle circuit

 

 

SMITH, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 181

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1833    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                transfer?

 

Note: He appears to drop out during the 1846 division of the conferences.  The Pennsylvania Conference reports him as going to East Pennsylvania, while East Pennsylvania reports him as going to Pennsylvania.

 

 

SMITH, JOHN CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 1-11-1774  Lancaster County PA                     married: Mary _____

Died: 9-8-1860                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 56

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1807    license

 

Interment: Silver Springs, Lancaster County PA

Obit:

 

1833-34           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: John Christian Smith lived in Ironville, Lancaster County, and functioned mainly as a local preacher – although he was a genuine scholar and preached in meetings from Virginia to Canada.  He is the father of Gideon Smith.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 59, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SMITH, JOHN F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 342

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1866    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1864-65           Path Valley circuit (last part of the year: 1864a, 97 & 1865, 105)

1865-66           Rocky Spring & St. Thomas (last part of the year: 1865a, 104 & 1866, 113)

1866-67           York and Jefferson circuits

1867-68           silenced while case pending, page 116

1868                expelled, page 125

 

Note: The John F. Smith on the following page may be the same person.

 

SMITH, JOHN F.

 

Born:                                                                           married:          

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1876    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1872-74           Hummelstown

1874-75           Schuylkill Haven

1875-78           Susquehanna circuit

1878-79           Pine Grove circuit

1879                name erased

 

Note: The John F. Smith on the preceding page may be the same person.

 

SMITH, JOHN FRANCIS

 

Born: 12-17-1860  Allentown PA                              married: Nellie M. Pilgrim     

Died: 10-6-1914  Royalton PA                                   obit: [5/16/1865 – 12/14/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: North Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1915, 37

 

1886-87           Springfield [Elverson] (2nd part of the year)

1887-88           Ironville Mission

1888-89           Manor circuit

1889                Highspire (Feb-Oct)

1889-92           Ephrata

1892-94           Royalton

1894-96           Florin

1896-99           Oberlin

1899-00           Mont Clare

1900-01           Philadelphia Central Mission

1901-05           Sunbury

1905-06           evangelist at large & special solicitor of Lebanon Valley College

1906-07           Elverson

1907-08           Birdsboro

1908-10           Mount Carmel

1910-11           Coatesville

1911-13           Royalton

 

Note: J. Francis Smith is the father of Herbert A. Smith.  While not reflected in the conference journals, he may have been moved to Mont Clare and Pottstown in 1898.  In 1918 the widowed Mrs. Smith married a Mr. Emanuel Howrad Kling (1854-1936).

 

SMITH, JOHN STOUFFER

 

Born: 11-22-1846  Franklin County PA                     married: Johanna Christina “Josie” Wagner (1874)

Died: 1-1-1912  Mount Vernon IA                            obit: [9/24/1852 – 3/9/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1873    member, Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo IA

Obit:

 

[all service in Iowa]

            Red Oak, near Mechanicsville

            Centennial Church, near Lisbon

            Waltham and County Line, Tama County

[after leaving the ministry for health reason, he bcame a jeweler and an optician]

 

 

Note: John S. Smith is a nephew to Jacob C. Smith and a brother to W. Otterbein Smith and Mary C. Smith Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer.  The 1907 History of the Greencastle Church lists him as a United Brethren minister.

 

SMITH, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 7-4-1849  Marion PA                           married: Elizabeth Margaret “Lizzie” Meyers (7/11/1872)

Died: 8-3-1932  Norristown PA                     obit: [5/21/1845 – 1/28/1923] 

Miller-Raker #: 365

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1872    license

1875    ordained

 

Interment: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd PA

Obit:

 

1871-72           Altodale

1872-73           Manchester circuit

1873-74           Big Spring station

1874-75           Big Spring station & Newville

1875-76           New Cumberland station

1876-77           Greencastle station

1877-79           living in Marion PA

1879                withdrew to pursue a career in medicine, page 15

 

Note: W. Otterbein Smith is a nephew to Jacob C. Smith and a brother to John Stouffer Smith and Mary C. Smith Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer.

 

SMITH, WILLIAM WARD

 

Born: 3-9-1911  Red Lion PA                                    married: Elenor Weik

Died: 12-16-1958                                                        obit: [10/6/1916 – 9/13/2013]

Miller-Raker #: 675

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    quarterly conference license, Memorial Church of Washington DC

1933     license, recommended by Memorial Church of Washington DC

1939    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 44

 

1936-39           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1937-39  Wagner Chapel, Miami Conference

1939-44           York Haven

1944-48           New Cumberland Trinity

1948-58           York First

 

Note: Mrs. Smith (nee Weik) out-lived three husbands: William Ward Smith, Mr. Kenneth Franklin Miller (1910-1981), and Mr. Frederick Feldman.

 

SMOKER, JOHN G.

 

Born: 5-24-1840                                                          married: Georgiana _____     

Died: 12-27-1902  Elizabethville PA                         obit: [5/16/1842 – 10/18/1872]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    quarterly conference license

1883    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1889    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s Church Cemetery, Paradise PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 22

 

1876-78           Mount Pleasant circuit

1881-84           Quarryville

1884-86           Mount Pleasant

1886-87           Springfield [Elverson] (returned to Mount Pleasant in mid-year))

1887-88           Mount Pleasant

1888-89           Pequea circuit

1889-90           Glosbrenner

1890-96           Middletown

1896-01           New Holland

1901-02           Elizabethville

 

 

SMOKER, JOHN LEVI

 

Born: 12-16-1899  Belleville PA                               married: Anna Marie Bowers (1932)

Died: 7-19-1978  Mt. Gretna PA                                obit: [1/29/1907 – 3/15/2008]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1939    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Centerville Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 414

 

1924-26           West Frederick VA circuit

1926-33           Silver Spring circuit

1933-38           Neffsville

1938-47           Intercourse

1947-48           Pottstown & Birdsboro

1948-65           Pottstown

1965                retired

                        Mt. Gretna

                        Union Deposit

 

 

SNAPP, GEORGE H.

 

Born: 5-10-1834                                                          married:

Died: 4-6-1901                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1864    license, Virginia Conference

1874    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Old Edinburg Cemetery, Edinburg VA

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1901, 38

 

1864-65           Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-66           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown], Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Alleghany
1869-70           Boonsboro
1870-71           Potomac
1871-72           Bach Creek mission
1872-73           Rockbridge
1875-76           Mill Creek
1876-77           Garrett
1877-78           general book agent and evangelist
1878-79           conference evangelist
1887-89           Madison mission                    
transfer to Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference
1900                living in Mt. Olive VA 

Note: The sister of George H. Snapp is married to the brother of George Absalom Funkhoiuser.

 

SNAVELY, CHARLES A.

 

Born: 7-31-1879  near Hershey PA                            married: Mary A. Gruber

Died: 7-31-1944  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1926, 13]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Loille Zearing Starr

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1902    quarterly conference license, Fishburn’s

1903    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

           

Interment: Fishburn Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 20

 

1903-06           Cressona

1906-08           Millersburg

1908-14           Allentown Linden Street [Zion]

1914-15           Philadelphia First

1915-18           Philadelphia Third

1918-21           Mount Joy

1921-23           Avon

1923-28           Harrisburg Otterbein

1928-34           Schuylkill Haven

1934-44           Paradise St. John’s

 

 

SNAVELY, JACOB

 

Born: 5-8-1808                                                            married: Barbara Nissley [1/28/1830]

Died: 3-13-1891                                                          obit: [9/24/1808 – 5/24/1846]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elizabeth Walters [5/2/1847]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/15/1828 – 6/29/1888]

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit:

 

1868                dismissed

 

Note: Jacob Snavely was a farmer and a local pastor in the Oberlin congregation.  A detailed biography is in Kelker’s 1907 History of Dauphin County, volume III, page 434.  His daughter Susan is the wife of Rev. Franklin Balsbaugh (1839-1905) of the United Christian Church, founder and namesake of the Balsbaugh United Christian Church near Hershey.

 

SNEATH, ELIAS OSCAR JR

 

Born: 8-18-1904  Lancaster County PA                     married:          

Died: 10-6-1933                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1924    quarterly conference license, Manor charge

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Stehman Memorial UB Church Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 12

 

1926-28           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1926-27      Brunersville

1928-30           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1930-31           student, Yale Divinity School

 

Note: E. Oscar Sneath dropped out of seminary for health reasons and never fully recovered. 

 

 

SNEATH, ISAIAH WITMER

 

Born: 8-22-1855  Mountville PA                               married: Ella Jane Mark

Died: 11-1-1939                                                          obit: [3/20/1856 – 12/?/1939]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1884    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1882-84           living in New Haven CT

1884-85           Baltimore Fourth [Salem] (reappointed in 1885, but did not complete the year)

1885-87           professor of German and Greek, Lebanon Valley College

1887-88

1888-89           living in Cambridgeport MA

1889                withdrew, page 8

 

Note: Isaiah Sneath is the g-g-grandson of ME circuit rider Richard Sneath (1751-1824), whose diaries of work in the Delaware Valley have been published.   Wallace’s 1966 History of Lebanon Valley College, page 249, reports: “Sneath, class of 1881, preached for the Congregational Church in New England, went to Yale and became Dean of the School of Philosophy there.”  Rev. Sneath’s picture appears on page 74 of that book.  There is an article about Isaiah Sneath in vol 12(4) [1986], page 6, of MT. MASSAEMET SHADOWS, published quarterly by The Shelburne Historical Society, Inc.  P.O. Box 86, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370.  He is a brother to Elias Hershey Sneath, the education professor at Yale who endowed the Richard Sheldon Sneath Memorial Library at Yale in memory of his (EH’s) son. 

     Mrs. Sneath is the daughter of George A. Mark Jr..

 

 

SNELL, SAMUEL HENRY

 

Born: 3-20-1854  Rushville VA                                 married: C. Arbelion Spessard

Died: 7-9-1945  Lafayette LA                                                obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 63

Miller-Raker #: 498

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1878    quarterly conference license, Dayton circuit of Virginia Conference

1880    license, Virginia Conference

1883    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Smithsburg Cemetery, Smithsburg MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 29

 

1880-81           Bloomery circuit

1881-82           New Creek circuit

1882-83           Edinburg circuit

1883-84           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1884-86           Walkersville

1886-87           Hagerstown circuit

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887                enters local relationship

1887                Keedysville (9 months)

1889                Williamsport MD (9 months)

1896                Lacey Springs, Virginia Conference (6 months)

1898                Laurel mission (6 months)

1900-01           Rohrersville (8 months)

1901                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904                Hagerstown St. Paul’s (2 months)

1905                Chewsville (8 months)

1906                Cumberland mission (6 months)

1917-18           Littlestown

1918                retired

 

Note: The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville church.  Arbelion Spessard Snell is a sister to E.G. Spessard, a niece of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia Conference, an aunt to Lottie Spessard, and a first cousin to Katie Spessard, wife of Jeremiah B. Brenneman of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church.

 

 

SNOKE, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 7-20-1876  Cumberland County PA                 married: Helen Virginia Uhrich (9/17/1907)

Died: 3-16-1951  Washington PA                              obit: [10/13/1883 – 5/24/1955]

Miller-Raker #: 472

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1900    license

1905    ordained

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit:

 

1896-00           student, Lebanon Valley College

1900-04           student, Yale Divinity School

1905-06           Gettysburg

1906                withdrew, page 46

 

Note: Charles E. Snoke is the great-grandson of Bishop John Snoke (1785-1866) of the church of the Brethren and a first cousin once removed to Jacob H. Snoke.  He became a Presbyterian minister and professor at Waynesburg College.

 

 

SNOKE, JACOB HIGH

 

Born: 9-17-1839  Newton TN                                    married: Anna Gail (before 1860)

Died: 7-5-1911                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 372                                                    married2: Nancy Shoemaker

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/7/1841 – 5/29/1880]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Sybil Ruth _____              

                                                                                    obit3: Des Moines Conference 1907, 29

1873    license                                                            married4: Rosie J. Hildeson (1909)

1876    ordained                                                         obit4: [1870-1933]

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines IA

Obit:

 

1875-78           Manchester circuit

1878-79           Yocumtown circuit

1879-82           Bendersville (did not finish last year)

1882                resigned above charge and moved to Iowa, page 6

1883                transfer to Iowa Conference

                        Des Moines Conference

 

Note: Jacob H. Snoke served as postmaster of Mowersville, Franklin County, 1868-75.  He is the grandson of Bishop John Snoke (1785-1866) of the church of the Brethren.  He is an uncle of Nellie Maude Snoke Brewbaker, the wife of Charles W. Brewbaker, and of Anna Elizabeth Snoke Kendig, mother of Lillian M. Kendig.   He is a first-cousin to the father of Charles E. Snoke, and his brother is the grandfather of Paul O. Snoke.

 

 

SNOKE, PAUL OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 6-25-1898  Philadelphia PA                             married: Lydia Margaret Scholl (6/5/1924)

Died: 8-16-1970  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [6/21/1898 – 1/3/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1918    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit:

 

1918-25           living in Philadelphia

1926                name erased

 

Note: Paul O. Snoke is the grandson of the brother of Jacob H. Snoke.  He became a medical doctor and a radiologist.

 

 

SNYDER, ALBERT

 

Born: 3-20-1896  Washington County MD                married: Pauline A. Kiracofe

Died: 3-4-1965  Frederick MD                                   obit: [8/17/1899 – 1/13/1985]

Miller-Raker #: 731

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

1958    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 108

 

1944-45           Wolfsville

1945-56           Big Pool

1956-65           Walkersville

 

Note: Rev. Snyder worked for the USPS in Hagerstown MD for 38 years before entering the ministry.  The father of Mrs. Snyder is a brother the three Kiracofe pastors: George W., John W. and Nimrod A.

 

 

SNYDER, CARL  (see SCHNEIDER, CARL)

 

 

SNYDER, DAVID

 

Born: 9-14-1761                                                          married:

Died: 2-12-1819                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 30

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1801    license

 

Interment: Snyder’s graveyard, near Newville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1819, 15

 

1807-08           Pfautz Valley

1808                Hagerstown (2-3 months)

 

Note: The annual conferences of 1803 and 1804 were held in his home.  Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 309, gives a brief biography – see also the account of Rev. David Snyder and Snyder’s Church, near Newville PA, on page 191.  Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, also gives a brief biography.

 

 

SNYDER, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 292

Fulton #: 35

Gibble list: no

 

1840    license, Allegheny Conference

1842    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1843-47           Huntingdon

1847-48           Sinamahoning

1848                “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference (see Pennsylvania Conference 1848, page 6)

1848-49           Perry

1849-51           York circuit

1851-52           Manchester PA mission

1852                transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: This pastor is not to be confused with the contemporary Rev. George Snyder (1813-1900) of the Evangelical Association buried in Timblin PA.

 

 

SNYDER, GEORGE EDWIN

 

Born: 9-21-1893  near Dallastown PA                       married: Agnes A. Weber

Died: 2-18-1975  Dallastown PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 484

Miller-Raker #: 655

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1918    quarterly conference license

1927    license

1932    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 163

 

1927-32           Spring Run

1932-43           Bendersville [Mt. Tabor]

1943-46           Rohrersville

1946-50           Dover

1950-56           Williamsport MD

1956-57           Winterstown

1957                retired

 

 

SNYDER, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 117                           

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1826    license

1828    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1832-33           Carlisle circuit

1833-34           Dauphin circuit

1841                withdrew “under charges”, page 46

 

 

SNYDER, JOHN

 

Born: 12-28-1768  Prussia                                          married: Catharine Piper

Died: 6-20-1845                                                          obit: [1768-1846]

Miller-Raker #: 57

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1809    license (attended for the first time, but no formal mention of a license)

1814    ordained (see item #17; 1817 item #4 is likely an error, see item #7)

Interment: Snyder’s Church, Perry County PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1846, 71

1814-15           Hagerstown circuit

1817-25           Baltimore First

                             1817-18      presiding elder, Virginia District

1827-28           traveling presiding elder

1833-34           Dauphin circuit

1837-39           presiding elder, Carlisle District

1840-41           York mission

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 375, gives a brief biography.  An extended account of Rev. Snyder appears in the 1993 volume of The Chronicle, pages 3-25.  He is the father of John George Snyder.   Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, also gives a brief biography.

 

 

SNYDER, JOHN GEORGE

 

Born: c1810                                                                married: Peggy Owen

Died: 3-1-1889                                                            obit: [d. 5/18/1884, age 74]

Miller-Raker  #: 194 & 233

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment: Western Cemetery, Western IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1889, 18

 

1835-36           Lancaster circuit

1836-37           Juniata circuit

1837-38           Huntingdon circuit

1838-39           Carlisle circuit

1848-49           Perry circuit

1849-51           York circuit

1851                transfer to a western conference?

1857                transfer to Iowa Conference, page 46

 

Note:  The 1890 UB Yearbook gives the death date as 3-1-1888.  John George Snyder is also known as George Schneider.  For several years he supposedly was an instructor at Western College, a UB institution in Western IA.  He is the son of John Snyder.

 

 

SNYDER, JOHN KRABIEL

 

Born: 4-9-1800  Snyder County PA                           married: Phoebe Womer (or Shrantz?)

Died: 9-25-1881                                                          obit: [8/9/1801 – 2/16/1867]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Lydia Kreigbaum Gordon [1867]

Fulton #: 75 [J. H. Snyder]

Gibble list: yes

 

1851    license, Allegheny Conference

1854    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Cross Road Mennonite Cemetery, north of Richfield PA

Obit:

 

1873                transfer to East German Conference

1880-81           Richfield

 

Note: John K. Snyder was a local pastor and is considered the 1876 founder of the United Brethren work at Richfield.  His middle name (his mother’s maiden name) often appears as GRAYBILL, and his birth date is also given as 4-11-1800.  Biographical information for J.K. Snyder is given in the 1976 Centennial Celebration booklet in the Richfield church file.  The second Mrs. Snyder (nee Kreigbaum) was the widow of a Mr. Zacheus Gordon (1809-1857).  The dates for John K. Snyder also appear as 4/11/1800 – 11/25/1881.

 

 

SNYDER, JOSIAH FRANKLIN

 

Born: 2-21-1866  Keedysville MD                                         married: Martha Caroline Broy

Died: 4-1-1948                                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 96

Miller-Raker #: 524                                                                married2: Miss Emma M. Tanger

Fulton #: no                                                                             obit2: [9/2/1867 – 6/10/1954]

Gibble list: no

 

1888    quarterly conference

1890    license, Virginia Conference

1892    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Keedysville MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 32

 

1890-91           Lost River

1891-92           Bloomery

1892-93           Augusta

1893-96           Berkeley circuit

1896-97           Martinsburg

1897-99           Edinburg

1899-00           South Branch

1900-03           student, Union [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1902-03   Kingsville, Miami Conference

1903                Roanoke (Mar-Nov)

1903-04           Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference

1904                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-07           Lemasters

1907-10           Oakville

1910-14           Red Lion circuit

1914-25           Boiling Springs circuit

1925-30           Duncannon

1930-36           Shiremanstown

1936                retired

 

Note: Josiah F. Snyder is the father of missionary Grace Snyder Martin, wife of missionary William N. Martin.  The first Mrs. Snyder is an aunt to Margaret L. Broy, wife of David T. Gregory.

 

SNYDER, MEADE MILTON

 

Born: 10-29-1886  Jefferson County PA                    married: M. Elizabeth Wolfe 

Died: 11-2-1958  Punxsutawney PA                          obit: [1885 – 1955]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 426

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license

1916    license, Allegheny Conference

1920    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 29

 

1914-23           Waukesha

1923-30           Youngwood

1930-34           Braddock

1934-42           Scottdale

1942-45           Greensburg

1945-53           Connellsville Otterbein

1953-56           Pittsburgh Lorenz Avenue

1956                retired

 

Note: Meade M. Snyder is the father of Helen Sylvia Snyder, the wife of Arthur P. Peden.

 

 

SNYDER, ROSE KESTER

 

Born: 9-20, 1891  Clearfield County PA                    married: William Snyder

Died: 8-18-1960                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 420

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 457

Gibble list: yes

 

1920    quarterly conference license, Altoona Third

1921    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by Knoxdale

1925    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rock Hill Furnace PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 38

 

1925-27           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1927-30           associate, Bellefonte

1930-41           associate, Orbisonia

1941-49           associate, Hollsopple

1949-60           associate, Conemaugh

1960                retired

 

Note: Rose K. Snyder served as an associate pastor with her husband William Snyder.  Her pastoral work included preaching, teaching, and visitation of the sick.

 

 

SNYDER, SAMUEL S.

 

Born: c1824                                                                            married: Mary V. Stewart

Died: 8-21-1863  Lawrence KS                                              obit: 

Miller-Raker #: no                                                                 

Fulton #: 63                                                                            

Gibble list: no

 

1845    license, Allegheny Conference

1847    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1844-45           Jefferson

1845-46           Allegheny

1846-48           Mt. Pleasant

1848-49           [not listed?]

1849-50           Westmoreland

1850-51           Blair

1851-53           superintendent, Eastern District

1853-54           superintendent, Western District

1854                superintendent, East District (ending 11/1/1854)

1854                transfer to Missouri Conference

1854-57           missionary to Kansas

1857                charter member of Kansas Conference

1857-59           conference superintendent

1859                transfer to

1860-61           Lawrence, Kansas Conference

1861                transfer to Kansas Conference

1861-62           located

1862-63           Lawrence

 

Note: Samuel S. Snyder was the first person murdered during the infamous April 1863 raid of the pro-slavery forces of W.C. Quantrill at Lawrence KS.  The story of S.S. Snyder appears in the 2010 volume of The Chronicle, pages 16-30.

 

SNYDER, WILLIAM

 

Born: 3-22-1893  Clearfield County PA                    married: Rose Kester

Died: 12-2-1983  Clearfield PA                                 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 38

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Lulu Alice Glant Grubbs

Fulton #: 456                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 416

Gibble list: yes           

 

1920    quarterly conference license< Altoona Third

1921    license, Allegheny Conference, recommended by Knoxdale

1925    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rock Ill Furnace PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 420

 

1921-22           Knoxville

1922-25           Ligonier

1925-27           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1926  Altoona Schum Memorial (3 months)

1927-30           Bellefonte

1930-41           Orbisonia

1941-49           Hollsopple

1949-60           Conemaugh

1960                retired

 

Note: The first Mrs. Snyder was also ordained, and she served as an associate pastor on the charges served by William Snyder.  The second Mrs. Snyder was the widow of Albert Eugene Grubbs (1875-1960) of the Ohio East Conference of the EUB Church.

 

SNYDER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 5-6-1867  Lykens PA                                       married: Catherine Elizabeth Kocher

Died: 9-7-1943  Wiconisco PA                                  obit: [12/15/1873 – 7/28/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Lykens

1890    license, East German Conference

1896    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Calvary UM Cemetery, Wiconisco PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 19

 

1893-94           Freeburg

 

Note: William H. Snyder was of poor health and served as a local pastor and as the church historian at Lykens.

 

 

SOLLENBERGER, C.A.

 

There are two C.A. SOLLENBERGERS listed below, one in 1901 in Franklin County, one in 1916 in Dauphin County.  These may be the same person.  The 1916 one may be Clinton Albertus Sollenberger (11/28/1879 – 5/31/1937) who married Stella K. Sargent in Annville on 9/3/1901.  He was in the family construction business, but 1920 census records list him as an evangelist living in Harrisburg.  Stella Sargent Sollenberger graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1898.  There is no record of a C.A. Sollenberger graduating from LVC, but there was a Clarence A. Sollenberger of Harrisburg attending the Conservatory of Music 1888-89 and other references to a C.A. Sollenberger.  Stella Sargent is the daughter of Annville tailor Jacob Sargent, 18 and 25 W. Main Street.  In 1947 Mrs. C.A. [and Mr.?] were living on Lancaster Street in Annville.

 

 

SOLLENBERGER, C.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 479

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1901                Salem circuit (3/23/01 – 10/6/01; see 1902, 12)

1902                referred back to quarterly conference  1902, 38

 

SOLLENBERGER, C.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1916    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-17           Grantville circuit

1917-18           Centerville circuit

1918-19           Williamstown

1921                referred

 

SOLLENBERGER, DANIEL WEBSTER

 

Born: 9-26-1845  near Chambersburg PA                  married: Nancy Brandt [12/24/1868]

Died: 1-9-1906  Spring Grove PA                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: 397                                                    married2: Mrs. Fannie Starr Frock

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 70

Gibble list: no

                                                                                   

1878    quarterly conference license 

1881    license

1884    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 75

 

1882-83           Rocky Spring

1883-85           Bendersville

1885-88           Littlestown

1888-90           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1890-94           Mount Wolf

1894-96           Gettysburg mission

1896-97           York circuit

1897-01           Manchester MD

1901-04           Big Spring

1904-05           Myersville

1905-06           Spring Grove

 

Note: Daniel W. Sollenberger was a school teacher in Franklin County before entering the ministry.

 

 

SOMERS, ENOCH BROWN

 

Born: 1850  Brooklyn NY                                          married: Emily Jane Brown

Died: 8-2-1924  Orbisonia PA                                    obit: [d. 1900]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. A.J. Marriot

Fulton #: 209, 249, 389                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1882    quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference

1884    license, Allegheny Conference

1887    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924, 68

 

1882-83           Bigler

1883-84           Susquehanna

1884-85           Madera

1885-87           Three Springs

1887-89           East Ohio Conference

1889-91           Mahoning

1891-92           Dubois

1892-95           Bellwood

1895-96           Path Valley, Pennsylvania Conference

1896-98           Philipsburg

1898-99           South Williamsport

1899-02           Stormstown

1902                dismissed

1902-04

1904-09           New Jersey Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-10           ?

1910-11           Susquehanna

1911                admitted on credentials, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church (page 88)

1911-12           Middleburg

1912-14           Runville

1914-16           Florida Conference

1916-19           Three Springs

1919-20           Glasgow

1920-21           Coalport

1921                retired

 

Note: E.B. Somers supposedly transferred out of the Allegheny Conference in 1889 and returned in 1892, but his service within the Conference appears to continue during those years.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 9.

 

SOUDERS, BRUCE CHESTER

 

Born: 12-27-1920  Richland   PA                               married: Patricia Marie Bartles

Died: 2-12-2012  Frederick County VA                    obit: [10/10/1923 – 5/27/2012]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1944    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon Trinity

1947    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2012, 597

 

1944-47           student, United Theological Seminary

                             1945-46      Dayton OH Baptist Mission

                             1946-47      Lebanon Memorial

1947-49           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1949-57           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1957-66           director of public relations, Lebanon Valley College

1966-88           faculty, Shenandoah College

1988                retired

 

 

SOUILLIARD, AARON H.

 

Born: 12-19-1859  Lebanon PA                                 married:

Died: 10-15-1922  Minersville PA                             obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license

1894    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1890                transfer to East German Conference

1890-92           Landingville circuit

1892-95           Milton Mission

1895-01           Lykens

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Myerstown (ending 2/15/03 – see 1903, 4)

1903                withdrew

 

1908-11           Lebanon First Baptist

1918-22           Minersville English Baptist

 

Note: There is limited information on A.H. Souilliard in the biographical files at the conference archives.

 

 

SPANGLER, ALEXANDER HAMILTON

 

Born: 2-165-1852  Shanksville PA                            married: Cynthia E.J. Penrod

Died: 2-20-1924  Harrisburg PA                                obit: [4/?/1850 – 1/23/1905]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Gertrude M. Shannon [1/28/1906]

Fulton #: 155                                                               obit2: [d. 4/2/1912]

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Katherine E. Long [c1913]

                                                                                    obit3: [d. 5/12/1938]

quarterly conference license

1871    license, Allegheny Conference

1875    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Yeagertown PA

Obit:

 

1872-73           New Paris

1873-74           Clearfield

1874-75           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1875-77           Liverpool

1877-78           (no records kept)

1878-79           Clearfield

1879                honorable discharge

                        entered the Lutheran ministry

1892-93           Braddock Trinity Lutheran Church [Pittsburgh Synod, General Council]

1893-18           Reedsville & Yeagertown

 

Note: A.H. Spangler is a brother to John T. Spangler and Wesley H. Spangler, and the father of Rev. Luther Stoy Spangler (1883-1949) of the Central Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lutheran Church.  The 1880 census lists him as a minister living in New Bloomfield, Perry County.  It appears that the family may have lived in Middleburg [Snyder County] for several years in the 1880's. 

     From a 1960 article by Lynne Ramer: Stories and sagas about the Rev. A. H. Spangler, Lutheran divine of Yeagertown-Reedsville-Alfarata in the first decades of the present century, are legion and probably growing in numbers.  Thus, like Lincoln, if Mr. Spangler lived all the events he is reputed to have experienced, he’d have to be living still. And in the memories of many former parishioners, he probably is.

  It’s well known that he outlived two wives and was married to a third. His jovial companions oft queried, “When will you make it a home run,” that is, “outlive a third and a fourth wife?”
  This story about the Rev. Mr. Spangler comes from Mrs. Maude Ramer: At one time Dr. Spangler was sick and his family doctor prescribed pills and whisky. At some banquet Dr. Spangler spoke thus.  “I am glad to be here. I have been sick, in fact, sick enough to die. But now I have recovered due, I believe, to the fact that when the doctor inquired about my progress in taking the prescribed medicines, I was able to tell him ‘Although I might be a day or two behind on the pills, I’m several days ahead on the whisky!”
This apparently was said at a public gathering and is typical Spanglersque.

 

 

SPANGLER, DWIGHT M.

 

Born: 9-13-1900  Scottdale PA                                  married: Ruth Hysong

Died: 10-8-1988                                                          obit: [6/29/1903 – 7/1/2001]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 506 [D.W.]

Gibble list: no

 

1925    quarterly conference license, East Pittsburgh

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1929    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Twin Valley Memorial Park, Delmont PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 415

 

1926-29           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1927    Springfield (summer)

                             1928    Knoxdale  (summer)

1929-31           Belsano

1931-34           Wyano

1934-37           Everson

1937                West Decatur (ending 9/19/1937)

1937-38           Springfield (beginning 9/27/1937)

1938-40           Aaron

1940                Mahaffey (resigned 9/27/1940)

1940-46           without appointment due to poor health

1946-50           located

1950                retired

 

Note: Dwight M. Spangler is the son of Wesley H. Spangler and M. Elizabeth Spangler.  He is the father of Verda Spangler Cassiday (1929-1983), wife of Arlie Darrell Cassiday (1923-) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

SPANGLER, JAMES THOMAS

 

Born: 3-26-1867  Shanksville PA                              married: Mary J. Schween

Died: 6-14-1954  Dallas TX                                       obit: [7/24/1885 – 11/18/1964]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 243 [J.P.] & 299

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, Allegheny Conference

1895    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Restland Memorial Park, Dallas TX

Obit:

 

1886-90           student, Lebanon Valley College

1890-91           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1891-94           student, Union [United] Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1894-95           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, Maryland Conference

1895                transfer to Maryland Conference

1895-97           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1897-01           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1901                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1901-09           faculty, Lebanon Valley College       

1909                Reading Otterbein East Pennsylvania Conference (7/1/09 – 10/1/09, see 1909, 10)

1909-10           ?

1910                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1910-13           Mount Joy

1913-15           Harrisburg First

1915-16           Lykens

1916-25           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

                             1920-21      West Lebanon (beginning 7/18/20, see 1920, 7)

1925-30           faculty, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Dallas TX

1930-31

1931-44           faculty, Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas TX

1944                retired

1950                honorable dismissal, page 47

 

Note: James Thomas Spangler is a brother to A.H. Spangler and Wesley H. Spangler, and a first cousin to Martin Spangler.  He the author of the book Conduct: Its Relation to the Devotional Life (1904) and numerous articles.  He was one of the earliest faculty members at what is now Dallas Theological Seminary.  Mrs. Spangler is buried in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas TX.  [Caution: Wesley H. Spangler also had a nephew James T. Spangler born c1866 in Shanksville PA, and there is a possibility this pastor is the nephew and not the brother.]

 

 

SPANGLER, MARGARET ELIZABETH TRABERT

 

Born: 7-8-1870  Johnstown PA                                  married: Wesley Hamilton Spangler (1897)

Died: 7-25-1953  Romney WV                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1923, 63

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 478

Gibble list: no

 

            credentials, Wesleyan Methodist Church

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 22

 

1923-30           East Pittsburgh (beginning 1/15/1923)

1930-31           New Florence

1931                retired

 

Note: M. Elizabeth Spangler (nee Trabert) is the wife of Wesley H. Spangler and the mother of Dwight M. Spangler. 

 

 

SPANGLER, MARTIN

 

Born: 1-30-1838  Stoystown [Shanksville] PA          married: Sophia J. McCreary

Died: 10-1-1881  Altoona PA                                    obit: Allegheny Conference 1919, 85

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 110

Gibble list: no

 

?          quarterly conference license

1859    license, Allegheny Conference

1861    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1859-60           Stone Valley

1860-61           Trough Creek

1861-62           Johnstown mission

1862-64           Springfield

1864-67           Allegheny

1867-69           Rochester mission

1869-70           Industry mission

1870-73           Washington

1873-75           Allegheny       

1875-76           Pittsburgh mission station

1876-81           Altoona

 

Note: Martin Spangler is a first cousin to brothers A.H. Spangler, Wesley H. Spangler and James T. Spangler.  Some sources give the birth date as 1-10-1833.  

 

SPANGLER, ROY C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1917-21           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1917-19      West Lebanon, East Pennsylvania Conference

                             1919-21      Chambers Hill, East Pennsylvania Conference

1921-31           South East Ohio Conference

                             Portsmouth Boulevard

1931-32           Pottstown, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1932-35           Shamokin circuit

1935-36           Enders & Powell’s Valley

1936-37           Hillsdale circuit (resigned soon after conference, see 1937, 22)

1937-42           no assignment

1942                expelled

 

Note: The Lebanon Valley College yearbook gives the hometown of Roy C. Spangler as Palmyra PA.  There is a Roy Clifford Spangler (1897-1962) buried in Enders.

 

 

SPANGLER, WESLEY HAMILTON

 

Born: 10-11-1859  Shanksville PA                            married: Sidney Baldwin

Died: 1-9-1923  East Pittsburgh PA                           obit: [7/12/1861 – 4/20/1895]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Margaret Elizabeth Trabert (1897)

Fulton #: 236                                                               obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 22

Gibble list: no

 

1889    quarterly conference license

1890    license, Allegheny Conference

1893    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1923, 63

 

1891                Somerset (6 months)

1891-92           New Florence – Morrellville

1892-97           Morrellville

1897-98           Coalport

1898-03           Westmoreland

1903-05           Morrellville

1905-06           Youngwood

1906-07           Bellefonte

1907-09           Wilmore

1909-11           Connellsville

1911-15           Philipsburg

1915-17           Jeannette

1917-20           Huntingdon

1920-23           East Pittsburgh

 

Note: Wesley H. Spangler is the husband of Margaret Trabert Spangler, a brother to A.H. Spangler and James T. Spangler, a first cousin of Martin Spangler, and the father of Dwight M. Spangler.

 

 

SPARKS, GEORGE ALONZO

 

Born: 11-8-1864  Baltimore County MD                   married: Sarah C. Heefner

Died: 9-10-1928  Mt. Ranier MD                               obit: Allegheny Conference  1938, 59

Miller-Raker #: 436

Fulton #: 251

Gibble list: no

 

1887    quarterly conference license, Raysville charge

1889    license, Pennsylvania Conference

1893    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Oddfellows Cemetery, Mapleton Depot PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928, 62

 

1888-90           Eschol

1890-91           Fulton circuit .[aka Hustontown, Allegheny Conference]

1891-92                      La Jose, Allegheny Conference

1892-94           Tuscarora circuit, Allegheny Conference

1893                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1893-94           Tuscarora circuit

1894-96           Three Springs

1896-97           DuBois

1897-00           West Decatur

1900-01           Port Matilda

1901-04           Runville

1904-06           Liverpool

1906-08           Rockwood

1908-10           Fayette

1910-11           Mapleton

1911-12           Orbisonia

1912-13           Hustontown

1913-16           Bigler

1916                Mahaffey (ending 12/31/1916)

1917                leave of absence for health reasons (beginning 1/1/1917)

1917-18           Hooversville

1918-20           Rochester Mills (resigned 10/29/1920)

1920-23           Runville (beginning 11/1/1920)

1923-26           Arona

1926                retired

 

Note: George A. Sparks is the father of W. Maynard Sparks.

 

 

SPARKS, WALDEN MAYNARD

 

Born: 12-16-1906  Rockwood PA                              married: Blanche May Frank

Died: 8-17-1999  Sacramento CA                              obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 306

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 474

Gibble list: no

 

1919    quarterly conference license

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1930    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 387

 

1923-27           student, Lebanon Valley College

1927-30           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1930-31           Sewickley

1931-37           Shanksville – Central City

1937-40           Punxsutawney First

1940-46           Wilkinsburg Christ

1946-50           conference superintendent

1950-59           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1959-72           bishop

 

Note: W. Maynard Sparks is the son of George A. Sparks.

 

SPARROW, CHARLES MAYBERRY

 

Born: 4-13-1871  West Fairview PA                          married: Nora B. Rapp

Died: 2-16-1940  Keedysville MD                             obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 35

Miller-Raker #: 548

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Wormleysburg

1908    license

1916    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 30

 

1906-09           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

1909-11           Walkersville

1911-16           Newburg

1916-23           Boonsboro

1923-26           Lemoyne

1926-34           Greencastle

1934-37           Windsor

1937-40           Keedysville

 

Note: Charles M. Sparrow is the father of Catherine Louise Baker, wife of Harry P. Baker.

 

 

SPATZ, EDGAR E.

 

Born: 6-30-1890  Dallastown PA                               married: Margaret M. Moyer

Died: 5-14-1980                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 40

Miller-Raker #: 588                                                    married2: Helen Wilson

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 426

Gibble list: no

                                                                                   

1911    quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1914    license

1920    ordained, Illinois Conference

 

Interment: Westminster Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 348

 

1911-14           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1914-17           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH
                        1916    Rossville circuit (May-Sep), Illinois Conference
                            1915            Orangeville circuit (May-Sep), Illinois Conference
1917-19           Paris, Illinois Conference
1919                transfer to Illinois Conference, page 41
1919-21           Paris, Illinois Conference
1921-22           Baltimore Fifth [Otterbein Memorial], Pennsylvania Conference
1922                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 39
1922-25           Baltimore Fifth [Otterbein Memorial]
1925-31           Chambersburg Park Avenue
1931-32           student, Princeton
1932-33           Paris IL
1933-48           Shippensburg Messiah
1948-55           Shepherdstown
1955-59           Mont Alto
1959                retired
                           1960-62   associate, Carlisle Grace

Note: A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch.

 

SPAYD, HENRY BOBMERGER

 

Born: 10-6-1855  PA                                                  married: Alice C. Schaeffer

Died: 12-1-1938  Kingman AZ                                  obit: [10/26/1856 – 3/27/1937]

Miller-Raker #: 460

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license, East German Conference

1884    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Melrose Abbey Memorial Park, Anaheim CA

Obit: California Conference 1939, 48

 

1881-83           Lehigh Valley circuit

1883-85           Mt. Carmel

1885-86

1886-90           Shamokin First

1890                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1890-94           Annville

1894-96           York First, Pennsylvania Conference

1896                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1896-02           York First

1902-04           Chambersburg

1904                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1904-08           Allentown Zion

1908-13           Annville

1913                Modestso CA, California Conference

1914                transfer to California Conference

1915                Los Angeles Third

 

Note: Henry B. Spayd is a brother to Maurice B. Spayd.

 

 

SPAYD, MAURICE BOMBERGER.

 

Born: 6-1-1861  Lebanon County PA                        married: Alice Long Kreider

Died: 5-13-1941                                                          obit: [1861 – 1943]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1884    quarterly conference license, Avon

1885    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1888    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 12

 

1884-86           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary at Dayton OH

                        1884-86  Jacksonville OH     

1886-88           New Berlin OH

1888-89           Grantville

1889-91           Highspire

1891-93           Halifax

1893-96           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary at Dayton OH

                             1893-94      Dayton OH Miami Chapel

                             1894-96      Bowlusville OH         

1896                transfer to Northern Illinois Conference

1896-01           Decatur 

1901-07           Chicago Weaver Memorial

1907-10           district superintendent

1910-17           Springfield 

1917-20           Witchita KS

1920                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1920-22           Reading Zion

1922-28           Iona

1928-30           Hopeland

1930                retired

 

Note: Maurice B. Spayd is a brother to Henry B. Spayd.  It appears that he started his undergraduate work at Lebanon Valley and then finished it at Union in 1886, and that he later returned to Union 1893-96 for seminary work.

 

 

SPAYTH, HENRY G.

 

Born: 9-13-1788  Germany                                         married:

Died: 9-2-1873  Tiffin OH                                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: 67

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1812    license

1814    ordained

 

Interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Tiffin OH

Obit:

 

1812-13           Maryland and Pennsylvania circuit

1814-15           Virginia circuit

                        Mount Pleasant PA

                        Muskingum Conference

                        presiding elder

1835                charter member of Sandusky Conference

 

Note: Henry G. Spayth is best known as the 1851 author of the denomination’s first published history.  The Encyclopedia of World Methodism, page 2223, gives a brief biography.

 

 

SPECK, BENJAMIN

 

Born: 10-21-1806                                                        married: Elizabeth Wallace

Died: 4-21-1887                                                          obit: [12/30/1803 – 11/30/1860]

Miller-Raker #: 196                                                    married2: Mary _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1838    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1842-43           Littlestown mission

1845                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1845-46           Juniata circuit

1848-49           Fort Littleton mission

 

Note: Benjamin Speck is listed among those “willing to travel without reserve” in the 1845 Allegheny Conference minutes, and he received an assignment in 1848, but there is no record that he ever officially joined that conference.

 

SPECK, DAVID

 

Born: 5-29-1827                                                          married: Frances Angelia Doebler

Died: 7-20-1912                                                          obit: [12/10/1897 – 8/8/1897]

Miller-Raker #: 414

Fulton #: 74 & 252

Gibble list: no

 

1848    quarterly conference license

1851    license, Allegheny Conference

1856    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1912, 87

 

1850-51           Bellefonte circuit

1851-52           Wilkinsburg circuit

1852-53           Johnstown station

1853-54           Washington circuit

1854-57           ? (not listed)

1857-59           Altoona station

1859-60           Johnstown

1860-61           Mount Pleasant

1861-62           Mount Pleasant & Greensburg

1862-65           Madison

1865-69           presiding elder, West District

1869-70           Westmoreland circuit

1870-71           Johnstown Mission station

1871-73           presiding elder, West District

1873-74           Pittsburgh Mission station

1874-75           presiding elder, East District

1875-76           Wilmore station

1876-77           Madison and Greensburg

1877-80           presiding elder, East District

1880-81           presiding elder, West District

1881-82           Somerset

1882-85           Annville, East Pennsylvania Conference

1885                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1885-88           Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1888-90           Chambersburg First

1890-92           West Fairview

1892-93           Carlisle mission

1893                Newburg circuit (resigned immediately, did not report)

1893                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1893-96           Braddock

1896-98           Westmoreland

1898-00           Wilmerding

1900                retired to Wilkinsburg

 

Note: David Speck’s daughter Nina narrowly escaped death during the Johnstown flood, and her story appears in the biographical files.  Some sources give the maiden name of Mrs. Speck as Coulter.

 

SPEROW, EVERETT H.

 

Born: 12-11-1875  Berkeley Springs WV                  married: Nina M. Wiles

Died: 6-5-1950  Hagerstown MD                               obit: [4/20/1892 – 1/11/1972]

Miller-Raker #: 517

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license, recommended by Hagerstown circuit

1904    ordained, page 63

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit:

 

1905                transfer to Carlisle Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 47

 

Note: Everett H. Sperow apparently never served a UB church, and (even though he was licensed and ordained) his name never appears in the UB yearbook.  He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1904 and is the author of the book The Silent Nazarene (Gorham Press, 1917).  His Find-A-Grave notes state that he was a “Congressional [sic] minister and had served charges in Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia and Alabama.”
 

 

SPESSARD, EDWARD GLOSSBRENNER

 

Born: 7-10-1868                                                          married: Margaret Elvira Schott

Died: 1-25-1924                                                          obit: [11/4/1871 – 5/30/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 258

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Maryland Conference

 

 

Interment: Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chewsville MD

Obit:

 

1894                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1894-95           South Williamsport

1895-96           Mount Union

1896-97           living in Harrisonburg VA

1897-07           apparently not under appointment

                             1899  attended Virginia Conference annual sessions as a “visiting minister”

1907-10           Hooversville (beginning 3/1907)

1910-12           East Freedom

1912-15           Woodland

1915                honorable discharge to unite with the Huntingdon Presbytery, page 60

 

Note: The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville church.  E.G. Spessard is a brother to Arbelion Spessard Snell, a nephew of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia Conference, an uncle to Lottie Mae Spessard, and a first cousin to Katie Spessard, wife of Jeremiah B. Brenneman of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church.

 

SPESSARD, LOTTIE MAE

 

Born: 1-19-1891                                                          married: [never married]

Died: 9-3-1982                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    commission, Foreign Missionary Society

 

Interment: Smithsburg Cemetery, Smithsburg MD

Obit:

 

1924-1960       head nurse, San Fernando Hospital in Lubuagan, Philippine Islands

1960                retired to Smithsburg MD

 

Note: Lottie Spessard graduated from the academy at Lebanon Valley College in 1909, and from the college at LVC with an A.B. in 1913 and later received an R.N. degree from Johns Hopkins University.  The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Maryland United Brethren church.  Lottie Spessard is a niece to E.G. Spessard, whose page gives other family relationships. 

 

SPONSELLER, EDWIN HUMMELBAUGH

 

Born: 12-6-1917                                                          married: Sarah Jane Shively

Died: 4-25-1972                                                          obit: [3/6/1916 – 7/10/2010]

Miller-Raker #: 692

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1940    license

1942    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1940                Union Congregational Church, Isle A Haut ME (summer)

1940-43           Fort Trumbull Union Church, Milford CT

1943-44           director of public relations and instructor in religion, Lebanon Valley College

1944-47           Myersville

1947-54           professor, Hood College

1954                transfer to Mercersburg Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church

 

Note: Edwin H. Sponseller is the son of Harling E. and Grace H. Sponseller.
 

 

SPONSELLER, GRACE W. (HUMMELBAUGH)

 

Born: 6-13-1896  Mount Wolf PA                             married: Harling E. Sponseller

Died: 9-17-1979  Quincy PA                                      obit: [9/10/1892 – 3/25/1963]

Miller-Raker #: 640

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license

1933    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1924-26                      Mont Alto (beginning Dec 1924)

local elder

retired

 

Note: Grace is the daughter of Edwin Hummelbaugh, wife of Harling E. Sponseller, and mother of Edwin H. Sponseller.  She is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972).  All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.

 

 

SPONSELLER, HARLING EUGENE

 

Born: 9-10-1892  Frederick County MD                    married: Grace W. Hummelbaugh

Died: 3-25-1963  Chambersburg PA                          obit: [6/13/1896 – 9/17/1979]

Miller-Raker #: 621   

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1922    license

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

 

1920-21                      Frederick

1929                withdrew

                        faculty for 27.5 years, Shippensburg State Teachers College

                        retired

1954-55           (first) supervising principal, Greencastle-Antrim School District

 

Note: Harling E. Sponseller is the husband of Grace H. Sponseller and the father of Edwin H. Sponseller.

 

 

SPONSLER, MELVIN GUY SR.

 

Born: 4-23-1899  near Halifax PA                             married: Mary G. Minnich

Died: 10-2-1983  Lebanon PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 439

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1921    quarterly conference license, Jacobs on Powell’s Valley circuit

1925    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

           

Interment: Jacobs Church Cemetery, Powell’s Valley PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 382

 

1922-28           Enders circuit

1928-34           Powell’s Valley

1934-35           Enders & Powell’s Valley

1935-42           Shamokin circuit

1942-49           Lebanon Trinity

1949-52           assistant superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home

1952-55           Elizabethville

1955-63           Paxinos circuit

1963-67           Highspire

1967                retired 

                             1967-76      Water Works, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Melvin G. Sponsler Sr is the father of Melvin G. Sponsler Jr.

 

 

SPONSLER, MELVIN GUY JR

 

Born: 2-1-1934                                                            married: Marilyn Derk

Died: 2-12-2018                                                          obit: [10/25/1932 – 9/11/2008]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license

1958    ordained

 

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Mount Joy PA

Obit:

 

1953-55           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1953-55      assistant, Enders-Powell’s Valley circuit

1955-58           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1955-56      youth director, Dayton OH Miami Chapel

                             1956-58      Clarksburg OH Christian Church

1958-60           assistant, Manheim Salem

1960-73           Campbelltown

1973-82           Allentown Trinity

1982-90           Mountville St. Paul’s

1990-98           Mount Hope

1998                retired

 

Note: Melvin G. Sponsler Jr is the son of Melvin G. Sponsler Sr.

 

 

SPRAGUE, ALONZO BAILEY

 

Born: 12-28-1856  Pomfret NY                                 married: Clara A. Leroy

Died: 10-22-1929  Friendship NY                             obit: [1860 – 1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 424

Gilbble list: no

 

1893    quarterly conference license

1897    license, Erie Conference

1906    ordained Erie Conference

 

Interment: West Genesee Cemetery, ObiNY

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930, 6

 

1914-15           Bellefonte, Allegheny Conference (beginning 1/30/1914)

1915                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1915-19           Milton

1919-21           Middleburg

1921-22

1922-23           Bradenville (6 months)

1923-24           on leave

1924-25           Juniata (beginning 5/1/1924)

1925-26           Wall

1926                retired

 

 

SPRECHER, JOHN WILSON

 

Born: 11-2-1873                                                          married: Nina Young

Died: 3-5-1951                                                            obit: Ohio Southeast Conference 1959, 111

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1904    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville NY

Obit: Ohio Southeast Conference 1951, 40

 

1904-05           living in Lancaster

1905-06           living in Dayton OH

1906-07           living in Hood River OR

1907-08           living in Dayton OH

1908-09           no address given

1909                transfer to Oregon Conference, page 9

 

SPRENKLE, GEORGE BOSSLER

 

Born: 9-23-1893  Hellam township, York Co.           PA married: Mabel Belle Heuitt

Died: 8-7-1970                                                            obit: Baltimore Conference 1987, 394

Miller-Raker #: 620

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1922    license

1924    ordained

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1971, 445

 

1924-29           Newburg

1929-58           Baltimore Third (Fulton Avenue)

1958                retired

1958-67           supply team, Baltimore Old Otterbein

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

 

 

STABLEY, CHARLES

 

Born: 3-1-1817                                                            married:

Died: 12-29-1861                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 255

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

 

Interment: Zion United Brethren Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1862, 76&78

 

Note: Charles Stabley is a twin brother to Henry Stabley.

 

STABLEY, HENRY

 

Born: 3-1-1817                                                            married: Sarah Gibson

Died: 6-19-1892                                                          obit: [10/22/1821 – 1/17/1894]

Miller-Raker #: 249

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

 

Interment: Zion United Brethren Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit:

 

1841-42           Lancaster circuit

1843                dismissed

 

Note: Henry Stabley is a twin brother to Charles Stabley.

 

STABLEY, RUFUS RHODES

 

Born: 1-8-1901  Dallastown PA                                 married: Marion Perry

Died: 5-15-1958  Indiana PA                                     obit: [7/25/1899 – 7/22/1983]

Miller-Raker #: 616

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, recommended by Dallastown

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1919-22           student, Lebanon Valley College

1922-23           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

1923-24

1924-25           graduate teaching assistant, University of Minnesota

1927                referred back to quarterly conference, page 47

 

Note: R. Rhodes Stabley served as chairman of the English-Speech department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1960.  That school dedicated the Rhodes R. Stabley Library, reflecting a change in his name, in 1961.  A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch and picture of Rufus Rhodes Stabley.

 

 

STAHL, LAZARUS W.

 

Born: 12-17-1851  Madison PA                                 married: Caroline Brown

Died: 2-10-1930                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1927, 70

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 156

Gilbble list: no

 

1871    quarterly conference license

1872    license, Allegheny Conference

1875    ordained

 

Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930, 62

 

1872-73         Huntingdon

1873-75         Bellefonte

1875-77         Beaver

1877-79         Connellsville

1879-81         Port Matilda

1881-85         superintendent, Altoona District

1885-87         financial agent, Lebanon Valley College

1887-90         Greensburg

1891-01         superintendent, Johnstown and Greensburg District

1901-06         Everson

1906-10         Latrobe

1910-13         Windber

1913-16         Trafford

1916-20         McKeesport First

1920-26         Dunlo

1926-29         conference missionary

1929               retired

 

Note: Lazarus W. Stahl is the grandfather of George Stahl Phillips.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 9.

 

STAMBACH, ARTHUR WILLIAM

 

Born: 7-2-1925  Spring Run PA                                 married: Betty Mae Getz

Died: 6-26-1990  Palmyra PA                                                obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 271

Miller-Raker #: 702

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    license

1948    ordained

 

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 489

 

1944-45           student, Lebanon Valley College

                              1944-45     Mechanicsburg circuit

1945-48           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                              1945-46     Potsdam-West Sonora, Miami Conference

                              1947-48     West Union Congregational Christian Church

1948-51           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1951-52           chaplain, US Army

1952-59           Lemoyne Calvary

1959-63           York First

1963-70           conference program director

1970-75           associate director, conference council on ministries

1975-79           superintendent, Chambersburg District

1979-90           Hershey First

1990-91           disability

 

Note: Arthur W. Stambach is the son of C. Guy Stambach and the brother of Paul E. Stambach.  He is a nephew to ministerial couple Jerome and Pauline Stambach, and a first cousin to longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.  He is also the father of Nancy Stambach Sprenkle, wife of Charles W. Sprenkle of the Susquehanna Conference, and of Susan Stambach Schmuck, wife of Dwight M. Schmuck.  See the C. Guy Stambach page for links to Stambach ancestors who were preachers in the Evangelical Church.

 

 

STAMBACH, CHARLES GUY

 

Born: 2-25-1895  southern York County                   married: Glenna Alice Demuth

Died: 5-11-1972                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 404

Miller-Raker #: 595

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1916    license

1920    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 396

 

 

1912-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-19           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1917-18       Kingsville and Bowlusville, Miami Conference

1919-20           Bendersville

1920-25           Spring Run

1925-28           Chewsville

1928-34           Baltimore Salem

1934-44           Mechanicsburg First

1944-49           Dallastown Bethlehem

1949-60           Duncannon Otterbein

1960                retired

 

Note: C. Guy Stambach is the great grandson of John Stambach and grandson of Elias Stambach, both of the Evangelical Church. He a brother to Jerome S. Stambach and the father of Arthur W. Stambach and Paul E. Stambach.  C. Guy Stambach was a charter member of the Pennsylvania Conference Ministers’ Choir.  He is best known as the artist of life-size paintings of Christ found in churches of all denominations throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland.  At LVC, he was a member of the “Old Story” quartette with Homer Ramsey, Leroy Walters and J. Paul Hummel.

 

 

STAMBACH, JEROME SPURGEON

 

Born: 2-25-1901  York PA                                         married: Pauline E. Haverstock

Died: 6-4-1972  York PA                                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conf. 1999, 440

Miller-Raker #: 613

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license

1929    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 397

 

1920-24           student, Lebanon Valley College

1924-25           Big Pool

1925-29           student, Bonebrake  [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1929            Franklin charge, Virginia Conference (May-June)

1929-30           Jefferson

1930-31           Mt. Olivet- Fishing Creek Salem

1931-42           Shermans Dale

1942-52           Springett

1952-61           Rohrersville

1961-64           Yoe

1964-67           Spring Run

1967                retired

                             1968-72      Violet Hill

 

Note: Jerome S. Stambach is the great grandson of John Stambach and grandson of Elias Stambach, both of the Evangelical Church. He is the husband of Pauline E. Stambach, a brother to C. Guy Stambach and the father of longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.

 

 

STAMBACH, PAUL ELIAS

 

Born: 10-1-1930  York PA                                         married: Gloria Elaine Rohrbaugh

Died: 7-12-2024  Sarasota FL                                    obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 276

Miller-Raker #: 732

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1946    quarterly conference license, Dallastown Bethlehem

1950    license

1955    ordained

 

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2025, 351

 

1948-52           student, Lebanon Valley College

1952-55           student, United Theological Seminary

                            1952  youth minister, Dayton OH Euclid Avenue

1955-56           Patterson NJ Christ, New England Conference

1956-60           Williamsport MD

1960-78           Mt. Wolf Otterbein

1978-92           York Asbury

1992-00           superintendent, State College District

2000                retired

 

Note: Paul E. Stambach is the son of C. Guy Stambach and the brother of Arthur W. Stambach.  He is a nephew to ministerial couple Jerome and Pauline Stambach, and a first cousin to longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.  See the C. Guy Stambach page for links to Stambach ancestors who were preachers in the Evangelical Church.

 

 

STAMBACH, PAULINE E.

 

Born: 9-2-1902  York PA                                           married: Jerome Spurgeon Stambach

Died: 4-22-1999  Lebanon OH                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 297

Miller-Raker #: 673

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1927    quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1933    license, recommended by York Fourth

1934    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 440

 

Note: Pauline E. Stambach is the wife of Jerome S. Stambach.  She functioned as a local elder and assisted her husband in the ministry.

 

 

STAMBACH, RUTH MARIE

 

Born: 1-18-1931  York PA                                         married: [single]

Died: 1-24-2019   Lebanon OH                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    listed as missionary, page 37

            ordained, West Ohio Conference

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: West Ohio Conference 2019, ?

 

missionary, McCurdy NM

“transfer” to West Ohio Conferennce

Marseilles circuit

 

Note: Ruth Marie Stambach is the daughter of Jerome and Pauline Stambach.

 

STAMM, JOHN

 

Born: 9-21-1819                                                          married: Mary Ann Behm

Died: 2-19-1895  Annville PA                                   obit: [9/6/1824 – 13/30/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1848    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1851    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: [Lebanon Daily News, 2/20/1895, page 1]

 

1848-50           Millheim circuit

1850-52           Lebanon circuit

1852-54           Lancaster circuit

1854-57           presiding elder

                             1856-57      Sinking Spring circuit

1857-59           Susquehanna circuit

1859-60           presiding elder

1860-62           Lebanon Salem          

1869                name erased, sided with George W. Hoffman and the United Christian Church

 

 

STANGLE, LUTHER ALSON

 

Born: 12-23-1869                                                        married: Lucy Maud Parrett

Died: 5-?-1968                                                            obit: Sandusky Conference 1929, 29

Miller-Raker #: 587                                                    married2: Fellers _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. c1956]

Gibble list: no

                                                                                   

1898    ordained, St Joseph Conference

 

Interment: Prairie Street Cemetery, Elkhart IN

Obit:

 

1895-96           LaGrange

1896-99           Churubusco

1900-06           Pleasant Lake

1906-08           Decatur

1908-09           Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania Conference

1909                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1909-12           York Third

1912-14           Taneytown

1914-18           Rohrersville

1918-22           Scotland

1922-23           Manchester MD

1923                local

1925                transfer to Sandusky Conference, page 71

                        moved to Iowa

                        transfer to Iowa Conference

                        retired to Toledo IA

 

Note: His second wife, Mrs. Fellers Stangle, was a local pastor in the Iowa Conference.  L.A. Stangle is listed in the last (1968) EUB yearbook, but not the first (1969) UM general minutes.

 

 

STANTON, EDGAR ALLEN POE

 

Born: ?  Mount Clinton VA                                        married: Florence Stinespring

Died: 1930  Harrisonburg VA                                                obit: [4/6/1875 – 6/11/1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1900    license, Virginia Conference

1903    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: East Point Cemetery, Elkton VA

Obit:

 

1903-04           Elkton

1907-09           Myersville, Pennsylvania Conference                       

 

Note: E.A. Stanton served Myersville while a member of the Virginia Conference, after which he is no longer listed in the UB yearbook.  In 1909 he “retired from the ministry to take charge of the farm now occupied by his wife’s aged parents, near Harrisonburg VA.”

 

 

STATTON, ARTHUR B.

 

Born: 3-27-1870  Sycamore IL                                  married: Lola Mae Brown

Died: 12-8-1937  MO                                                 obit: [4/24/1871 – 7/3/1957]

Miller-Raker #: 499

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1892    license, East Nebraska Conference

1896    ordained, East Nebraska Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 22

 

1890-94           faculty, York College

1894-97           Olin IA

1897-98           Hagerstown St. Paul’s, Maryland Conference

1898                transfer to Maryland Conference

1898-01           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1901                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1901-17           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1917-25           conference superintendent

1925-37           bishop, Southwest District

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page ix, gives a brief biography.  See 1916, 81 for an obituary of his mother.  He is the son of Isaac K. Statton (1830-1903) of the Virginia Conference.  Three of Isaac’s brothers (George W., John F. and David E.) were also members of the Virginia Conference.  See Holdcraft, 310 for a brief account of the Statton brothers.  The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 99, gives brief biographical comments on the Stattons.

 

 

STAUB, HENRY

 

Born: 4-22-1809  Heinrich, Germany                         married: Hannah Haines

Died: 11-16-1890  Spencerville OH                           obit: [9/30/1810 – 4/28/1854]

Miller-Raker #: 244

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license, recommended by Old Otterbein

1844    ordained

 

Interment: Spencerville Cemetery, Spencerville OH

Obit:

 

1842-43           served in the Allegheny Conference?

1843-44           Dauphin Circuit

1844-46           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Lebanon circuit

1848-50           Dauphin circuit

1850-51           Berks County circuit

1851                transfer to Scioto Conference

1853                charter member of Ohio German Conference

1853-               Dayton

 

Note: Henry Staub was denominational editor for German publications 1851-55.  There are several references to him regarding German publications in Ness’ 1966 History of Publishing in the EUB Church.

 

 

STAUB, JOHN R.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1879                expelled

 

 

STAUFFER, A.P.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1877-78           Middletown

 

Note: This may be Dr. Alvin Packer Stauffer (1856-1948) who attended Millersville State Normal School and taught school for several years before entering medical school in 1882 and practicing medicine in Hagerstown MD 1887-1948.

 

STEARN, CHARLES THOMAS

 

Born: 1-1-1839  Mt. Jackson VA                               married: Annie Elizabeth Dudrear

Died: 5-19-1909  York PA                                         obit: [12/30/1845 – 1/19/1916]

Miller-Raker #: 363

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1857    quarterly conference license, Lacey Spring circuit

1859    license, Virginia Conference

1863    ordained, Rock River Conference

 

Interment: Louden Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1909, 124

 

1859-60           Woodstock circuit

1860-61           Pendelton & Highland circuits

1861-62           Winchester circuit

1862                Highland circuit (had to resign and leave due to Civil War)

1862-63           Chicago mission, Rock River Conference

1863                transfer to Rock River Conference

1863-64           Chicago mission

1854-65           Hagerstown, Virginia Conference

1865                transfer to Virginia Conference

1865-68           Frederick & Myersville circuits

1868-71           Boonsboro circuit

1871                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1871-75           Baltimore Second

1875-78           Mechanicsburg

1878-82           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1882-86           presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1886-89           Harrisburg Otterbein

1889-90           Baltimore Fifth Street

1890-94           Chambersburg

1894-02           York Second

1902-03           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1903-09           too ill to itinerate, served as conference missionary

 

 

STEARNS, JACK EDWIN

 

Born: 6-24-1935                                                          married: Sharon _____

Died:                                                                           obit: (divorce c1992/3?)

Miller-Raker #: 753                                                    married2: Sara Jane _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

                                                                                   

1955    license, recommended by Carlisle Grace

1961    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1957-58           West Hill

1958-61           student, Fuller Theological Seminary

1961-65           Greenmount

1965-70           graduate student

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-78           chaplain, Brook Lane Psychiatric Center

1978-83           pastoral counselor

1983-87           director, pastoral counseling for Memphis Conference

1987-92           regional director, pastoral counseling

1992-               director, Asbury Village

 

STEELE, DAVID WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-7-1823  Buffalo Valley PA                         married: Nancy Summerville

Died: 12-23-1902  Jefferson County PA                    obit: [11/22/1827 – 8/29/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 168

Gibble list: no

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Zion Cemetery, Jefferson County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1903, 29

 

1874-77           Brookville

1877-78           ?

1878-80           Burnside

1880-82           Mahoning

                        (no longer active)

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 3.

 

 

STEHMAN, HENRY HERR

 

Born: 9-4-1829  PA                                                    married: Barbara Herr [4/17/1855]

Died: 8-10-1921  Lancaster PA                                  obit: [12/15/1834 – 3/25/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1875    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Millersville Mennonite Cemetery, Millersville PA

Obit:

 

1871-75           Strasburg

1880-81           Lancaster

1888                name erased

 

Note: Henry H. Stehman is the son of John Stehman.  He was a local pastor living in Millersville. 

 

STEHMAN, JACOB

 

Born: 10-9-1816                                                          married: Maria _____

Died: 11-4-1892  Soudersburg PA                             obit: [10/7/1795 – 7/16/1872

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1852    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Intercourse PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 32

           

Note: Jacob Stehman was a local pastor associated with Paradise St. John’s.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 151, gives biographical material. 

 

STEHMAN, JOHN

 

Born: 7-15-1801                                                          married: Anna Nancy Herr

Died: 6-4-1887                                                            obit: [9/5/1801 – 6/18/1887]

Miller-Raker #: 265

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1842    license

1845    ordained

 

Interment: Stehman’s Church, Lancaster County

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 40

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: John Stehman is the father of Henry H. Stehman.  This surname is also rendered STAMAN.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conferences, pages 132 and 136, gives biographical material.  Mrs. Stehman is the granddaughter of the Abraham Herr (1751-1823) discussed on page 57 of Gibble’s history.

 

 

STEIGERWALT, ANDREW S.

 

Born: 11-28-1814                                                        married: Elizabeth Bashore

Died: 12-29-1872                                                        obit: 5/10/1812 – 10/3/1885]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Covenant Greenwood [Ebenezer] Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit:

 

1849-50           Northumberland Mission

1850-53           Halifax circuit

1853-54           Hummelstown circuit

1854-55           Lebanon circuit

1855-57           Annville

1857-59           presiding elder

1859-60           Myerstown

1860-61           presiding elder

1861-63           Lebanon Salem

1863-64           Myerstown

1864-66           Bellegrove circuit

1866-68          

1868-69           Bellegrove circuit

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-71          

1871-72           Union Deposit circuit

 

Note:  Some references list this man as ADAM Steigerwalt.

 

 

STEIN, JAMES HERMAN JR

 

Born: 1-16-1905  York PA                                         married: Mabel Caroline Grothe

Died: 7 -28-1988  PA                                                 obit: [6/13/1898 – 9/?/1984]

Miller-Raker #: 601

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    license, recommended by York First

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

 

1925-26           Dover

1932                referred back to quarterly conference, page 37

 

 

STEINER, ALBERT JACOB

 

Born:   8-14-1912  Unity Township PA                     married: Ava M. Brown

Died: 1-17-2005                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1936    quarterly conference license

1943    license, Allegheny Conference

1942    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 352

 

1940-43           Utah Methodist Episcopal Church

1943-46           Coaplort

1946-47           Bradenville

1947-63           local elder

    1947-63       World Gospel Mission, TX

1963-72           Greensburg Fourth Street

1972-78           Beaver Falls Otterbein - Bennets Run

1978                retired

    1979-04       visitation pastor, Beaver Falls Concord 

 

 

STEINER, JOHN GOODWIN

 

Born: 3-26-1851  Knox Dale PA                                married: Ada Musser [12/25/1883]

Died: 6-10-1925  Los Angeles CA                             obit: [8/26/1858 – 8/3/1918]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 169

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

1878    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1874-75           Brookville circuit

1875-76           Bellefont circuit

1876-77           Allegheny circuit

1877-80           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1880-80           Industry (part-year)

1880-82           Shamokin First, East German Conference

1882                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1882-84           Paradise St. John’s

1888-89           living in Marietta

1889-91           living in Lebanon

1891-94           living in Philadelphia

1894-95           no address given

1895-01           living in Knoxville, Tioga County [believed to be an error for Knoxdale]

1901-16           living in Knoxdale, Jefferson County

1916-17           living in Brookville

1917-25           living in Los Angeles

 

Note: J.G. Steiner is a mystery.  He is described in Fulton’s 1931 History of the Allegheny Conference, page 183, as serving Knoxdale in 1860 while “a practicing physician and a member of the Pennsylvania Conference.”  J. Goodwin Steiner is listed as an 1882 graduate of Lebanon Valley College; since J.G. appears to have already been a physician and a seminary graduate, this is a mystery – but the Los Angeles address and death date point to it being the same person.  While Mrs. Steiner is buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood CA, the burial place of Dr. Steiner is not known.  There is a biography of J,G, Steiner in McKnight’s 1915 Jefferson County PA: Her Pioneers and People.

 

 

STEPHENSON, WILLIAM

 

Born: 1813                                                                  married:

Died: 3-6-1853  PA                                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 64

Gibble list: no

 

1845    license, Allegheny Conference

1848    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Wayne U.B. Church Cemetery, Mifflin County PA

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907, 9]

 

1844-45           Susquehanna

1845-47           Sinamahoning

1847-48           Huntingdon

1848-50           Bellefonte

1850-52           Juniata

 

 

STEWART, OLIVER THOMAS

 

Born: 5-2-1853  Grange PA                                       married: Caroline Reits

Died: 3-15-1919  Punxsutawney PA                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1928, 63

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 223

Gilbble list: no

 

1887    quarterly conference license

1888    license, Allegheny Conference

1890    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1919, 86

 

1887-88           Cooksburg

1888-89           Allegheny

1889-91           Newburg        

1891-92           Tuscarora

1892-94           Hustontown

1894-95           Cambria

1895-96           Jenner’s Cross Roads

1896-98           Bigler

1898-00           East Freedom

1900-02           Glasgow

1902-04           Mahoning

1904-06           Mahaffey

1906-07           West Decatur

1907-08           Runville

1908-10           Ligonier

1910-12           Bethel

1912-14           New Florence

1914-15           Industry

1915-16           Zion

1916-18           Jefferson

1918                retired

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 12.

 

STILLWAGON, GEORGE WHITE

 

Born: 11-15-1826  Connellsville PA                          married: Jane French [9/28/1848]

Died: 4-13-1890  Connellsville PA                            obit: [6/21/1828 – 7/28/1913]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 128

Gibble list: no

 

1863    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hillgrove Cemetery, Connellsville PA

Obit:

 

1869                name erased

 

 

Note: George Stillwagon is a brother to Charles K. Stillwagon (1834-1900) of the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.  He was a local preacher for over 20 years, but he never served under appointment.  George W. Stillwagon is a second cousin to the grandfather of Josiah David Stillwagon Jr (1909-1988) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  Mrs. Stillwagon is sometimes given as Elizabeth French or Jane Lane.

 

STINE, CAWLEY HOOVER

 

Born: 9-12-1899  Rockville PA                                  married: Emma Minerva Witmeyer

Died: 12-12-1984                                                        obit: [1901– 2/7/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ruth Adelle Sellers

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 415

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    quarterly conference license

1918    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1923    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Shoops Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 417

 

1918-20           student, Lebanon Valley College

1920-23           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1923-31           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1931-43           Philadelphia Second

1943-55           Harrisburg State Street

1955-68           treasurer, EUB General Church

1968                retired

                             1968-69      Steelton Mt. Zion (beginning 1/1/1969)

                             1969-71      Manada Hill (beginning 10/5/1969)

                             1971-83      assistant, New Cumberland Trinity

 

 

STINE, FRANK LESTER

 

Born: 8-18-1877  near Sharpsburg MD                      married: Bessie Magdalene Thomas

Died: 1-4-1950                                                            obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 36

Miller-Raker #: 534

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1904    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1905    license

1919    ordained

 

Interment: Boonsboro Cemetery, Boonsboro MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 22

 

1903-05           Intercourse (resigned soon after start of 2nd year; see 1905, 4)

1905                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1905-06           Wolfsville

1906-07           Williamsport MD (not able to accept the appointment  1907, 22)

1907-10           living in Baltimore

1910-11           Grant circuit, Frederick District of Baltimore Conference of ME Church

1911-13           Bendersville

1913-17           Mechanicsburg (also: student at Lebanon Valley College, graduated 1916)

1917-23           Mont Alto

1923-30           Gettysburg (also: student at Lutheran Theological Seminary, graduated 1929)

1930-47           Boonsboro

1948                retired

 

 

STINESPRING, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 7-27-1852  Dayton VA                                     married: [single]

Died: 2-22-1919  Harrisonburg VA                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 417

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1876    license, Virginia Conference

1880    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Cemetery, Dayton VA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 68

 

1876-77           Shady Grove circuit

1877-79           Westernport

1879-80           Hagerstown

1880-82           Frederick station

1882-84           Churchville

1884-85           Baltimore Woodberry mission, Pennsylvania Conference

1885                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1885-87           Baltimore Woodberry mission [Otterbein Memorial]

1887-89           Baltimore Fifth

1889-90           supernumerary

1890-91           Boonsboro, Maryland Conference

1891-92           Chewsville, Maryland Conference

1892                transfer to Maryland Conference

1892-93                      Chewsville

1893-95           Walkersville

1895-02           Frederick

1902                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-04           Frederick

1904-06           Baltimore Franklin Street

1906-10           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home

1910-12           field representative, UB Publishing House

1912-16           field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home

 

Note: C.W. Stinespring was a school teacher before entering the ministry.

 

STINNER, ALBERT LESTER

 

Born: 12-29-1906                                                               married: Margaret Gething

Died: 11-19-1991                                                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 270

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1924       license, recommended by Williamstown ME

1958       ordained, Association of Baptist Churches

 

Interment: Methodist Cemetery, Williamstown PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 463]

 

1941-53  Lykens Baptist
1953-65  Hummelstown Circuit, Eastern Pennsylvania (UB) Conference

1965-68  Shopes

1968-69  Shamokin St. John

1969-72  disability leave

1972                       retired

                                    1973-77            Susquehanna, Central Pennsylvania Conference



 

STIVERSON, WILLIAM GRAFTON

 

Born: 5-13-1872  Enterprise OH                                married: Nettie _____

Died: 5-11-1948  Leesburg OH                                  obit: [2/23/1876 – 11/1/1975]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 337

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, ? Conference

1899    ordained, ? Conference

 

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Leesburg OH

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1948, 11

 

1904-05           faculty, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1905                transfer to the Allegheny Conference

1905-06           Braddock First

1906-07           Philipsburg

1907-10           Altoona First

1910-13           chaplain, U.S. Army Eighth Cavalry

1913                transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

 

Note William G. Stiverson is a brother to John Wallace Edward Stiverson (1868-1952) of the Nebraska Conference of the EUB Church.

 

STOLL, GEORGE

 

Born: 3-?-1839  Germany                                           married:

Died: 5-?-1911                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1868    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 33

 

1868-69           Mount Joy circuit (ending about 1/1/69)

1869                charter member of East German Conference

1869-70           Tamaqua (starting about 1/1/69)

1874-75           Union Deposit circuit

1878-79           Camden Mission

1893-94           Baltimore Seventh

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: George Stoll did not regularly attend conferences or receive appointments.

 

 

STOLTE, ROBERT HUFFMAN

 

Born: 6-5-1926  Newburg PA                                    married: Jean Marie Kostenbauder

Died: 9-12-1973  Hanover PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 458

Miller-Raker #: 707

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, recommended by Newburg

1952    ordained

 

Interment: cremation

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 431

 

1949-52           chaplain, Xenia OH Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home

1952-61           Yoe Salem (ending 1/1/1961)

1961-73           Hanover Lohr’s Memorial (beginning 1/2/1961)

 

 

STONECIPHER, ALVIN H.M.

 

Born: 10-6-1888  Harrison County IN                       married: Blanch M. Ritchie

Died: 4-9-1981                                                            obit: [6/21/1892 – 8/15/1965]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    license, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

1912    ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

1922    ordained, White River Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Interment: Grandview Memorial Park, Annville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 269

 

1909-17           student, Vanderbilt University in Nashville TN

1917-22           faculty, Indiana Central University in Indianapolis IN

1922                transfer to White River Conference of the United Brethren Church

1922-32           faculty, Indiana Central University in Indianapolis IN

1932-33           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1933                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1933-58           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1958                retired

                             1960-68      Mount Gretna

 

 

STONER, JOHN CLARK

 

Born: 2-18-1906  Tarrs PA                                         married: Violet Mabel Stein

Died: 12-6-1975  Portage PA                                     obit:  Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 413

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 529

Gibble list: no

 

1929    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1937    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Westmoreland Memorial Park, Greensburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 332

 

1928-32           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1932-34           student, Western Seminary in Pittsburgh PA

1934-40           Wall

1940-42           Punxsutawney First

1942-47           Scottdale

1947-48           East Connellsville

1948-52           Philipsburg

1952-63           Portage Trinity

1963-65           without appointment

1965                retired

                             Mt. Olive

 

 

STONER, SAMUEL HESS

 

Born: 7-25-1912                                                          married: Mary Elizabeth Boose

Died: 8-2-2014  Mount Joy PA                                  obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 271

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Alice Keller

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2013, 505

Gibble list: yes

 

1942    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1946    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hernley Mennonite Cemetery, Manheim PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2015, 581

 

1938-42           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1940-41       Silver Spring

                            1941-42       Hillsdale

1942-44           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1944-62           Lykens Grace

1962-78           Manheim Salem

1978                retired

                            1978-79       Schuylkill Haven

                            1979-80       Clearfield

 

 

STOUFFER, HENRY

 

Born: 9-16-1795                                                          married: Mary F. Flickinger

Died: 4-30-1884                                                          obit: [10/10/1805 – 1/24/1873]

Miller-Raker #: 221

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [STAUFFER]

 

1833    quarterly conference license

1837    license

 

Interment: Salem Church Cemetery, Franklin County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 31

 

Note: Henry Stouffer lived near Rocky Spring, Franklin County.  A farmer who preached locally, he never entered the itinerancy. His Find-A-Grave entry states: “Henry Stouffer was a United Brethern Minister and because of the forest country he traveled by horseback, his wife never knew when he would return from his trips. She also rode horseback, and many times carrying a baby. Henry preached in Franklin, Cumberland, Perry, Juniata, Perry and Bedford counties.”  They had 15 children.

 

 

STOVER, GERALD L.

 

Born: c1910                                                                married: Nellie Wiedemann

Died: 1992                                                                  obit: [c1909 – 9/13/1996]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1934               name erased, page 97

 

Note: Gerald Stover apparently never served under appointment.  He is otherwise unknown, but apparently from Altoona.  In 1929 he is listed as a young person living at 507 Seventh Avenue answering a call to the ministry, and he is listed as the guest preacher 8/9/1931 at the Pleasant Valley church.  In the 1970’s and 1980’s Rev. Dr. Gerald Stover was a noted Bible conference speaker operating out of Lansdale PA and possibly associated with the Mennonite Church.  He also taught courses within the World Wide Bible Institutes and Source of Light ministries headed by fellow Altoona native Dr. Bill Shade.  Mrs. Stover, also a native of Altoona, was also a speaker at Bible conferences.

 

 

STRADER, RONALD KEITH

 

Born: 9-22-1932                                                          married: Joan E. Strang

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 271

Miller-Raker #: 807

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion

1970    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-74           Young’s – Mt. Zion

1974-79           Genesee – Ulysses

1979-88           Fort Louden – Edenville

1988-94           Danville Trinity

1994                retired

 

 

STRASBAUGH, RALPH A.

 

Born: 9-23-1886  Menges Mills PA                           married: Elsie M. Beshore

Died: 1-23-1971  Shiremanstown PA                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 167

Miller-Raker #: 610

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1919    quarterly conference license, Pleasant Grove-York Haven charge

1920    license

1924    ordained

 

Interment: Roth’s Church Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 364

 

1921-26           Lemasters

1926-31           Keedysville

1931-36           Greenmount

1936-59           Shiremanstown

1959                retired

                             1960-61      Fishing Creek Salem (7/2/1960 to 7/2/1961)

                             1962           Shepherdstown (4/29/1962 to 10/7/1962)

 

Note: His son Wayne V. Strasbaugh, although he never pursued the ministry, was granted a quarterly conference license by the Greenmount charge 5/29/1934 and served as director of development at Lebanon Valley College 1959-64.

 

 

STRATTON, WILLIAM DANIEL

 

Born: 6-30-1858  Canaan OH                                    married: Sarah Alice Taylor

Died: 7-21-1942  Farwell MI                                     obit: [7/24/1858 – 11/11/1899]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rosa A. _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [Michigan Conference 1946, 30]

Gibble list: no

 

1887    license, Michigan Conference

1889    ordained, Michigan Conference

 

Interment: Maple Hill Cemetery, Charlotte MI

Obit: Michigan Conference 1942, 26

 

1887-88           Aurelius

1888-89

1889-90           Charlotte

1890-91           Barry circuit

1891-93           Grand Rapids mission

1893-95           faculty, Western College in Toledo IA

1895-96           Grand Rapids

1896-05           conference superintendent

1905-06           Lake Odessa

1906-08           Petoskey

1908                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference

1908-09

1909-10           Altoona Second

1910-11

1911                "transfer" to Michigan Conference

1911-13

1913-14           Caledonia

1914-16           Freemont

1916-17

1917-18           Casco

1918-20           Hastings

1920-21           Branch

1921-24           Brown City

1924-27

1927                retired

 

Note: Michigan Conference records indicated W.D. Stratton formally transferred to the Allegheny Conference in 1908 and "returned" in 1911, but the Allegheny Conference records do not indicate that there ever was an official transfer.  W.D. Stratton supposedly served 18 years as conference superintendent, and so it is possible that some of the latter "blank" years represent service in that capacity.  The dates for the second Mrs. Stratton, not given in her "obituary," are 3/21/1872 – 6/27/1946.

 

 

STRAUB, LOUIS ERNEST

 

Born: 3-3-1907                                                            married: Martha Priscilla Elser

Died: 6-12-1968                                                          obit: [2/15/1915 – 5/2/1998]

Miller-Raker #: 679

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1934    license, recommended by Baltimore Salem

1941    ordained

 

Interment: Palm Cemetery, Winter Park FL

Obit: Florida Conference 1969, 244

 

1934-41           living in Baltimore

1941-45           West Fairview (beginning 7/1/1941)

1945-49           Mont Alto

1949-58           York Second (ending 1/12/1958)

1958-59                      Orlando-Winter Park, Florida Conference (beginning 1/12/1958; 1958, 59)           

1959                transfer to Florida Conference, page 90

 

Note: This middle name also appears as ERNST.  The birthdate for Mrs. Straub also appears as 2/17/1915.

 

STRAYER, DANIEL

 

Born: 11-8-1830  Cambria County PA                       married: Susannah Noon [1850]

Died: 2-21-1903  Flinton PA                                      obit: [?/?/1834 – 10/14/1879]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Walter

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Allegheny Conference 1919, 83

Gibble list: no                                                            

 

?          ordained, Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Beaver Valley Cemetery, Flinton PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1903, 25

 

1862-64           Ligonier circuit

1866-67           Stahlstown

1871                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1874-75           Liverpool

 

Note: The "transfer" of Daniel Strayer is not noted in Fulton's list.  Daniel Strayer is an uncle to Evangelical minister Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938), the father of George R. Strayer and John F. Strayer.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 8.  The second Mrs. Strayer [nee Elizabeth Matilda Gates] was a sister to Lafayette M. Gates and the widow of a J.S. Walter.  [Caution: There is another Daniel Strayer (1790-1869) in the Sandusky Conference of the united Brethren Church.]

 

 

STRAYER, GEORGE RUDOLPH M.

 

Born: 12-1-1883  Buena Vista OR                             married: May Geyer

Died: 12-19-1953                                                        obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 40

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 379

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license

1910    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Johnstown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 23

 

1909-13           McKeesport First

1913-16           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                              1913-16     Dayton Belmont

1916-19           Trafford City

1919-20           Monessen (ending 3/15/1920)

1920-22           Scottdale (beginning 3/15/1920)

1922-25           field agent, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1925-28           Altoona Second

1928-33           Johnstown Westmont

1933-45           Portage

1945-46           ?

1946-47           Altoona First (beginning 3/1946)

1947-48           conference evangelist

1948-49           Altoona Pleasant Valley

1949                retired

 

Note: George R. Strayer is the son of Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938) of the Pittsburgh and Oregon Conferences of the United Evangelical Church, and a brother to John F. Strayer. 

 

STRAYER, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 3-8-1886  Buena Vista OR                               married: Bessie Edna Rosevear [1908]

Died: 8-14-1960  South Williamsport PA                  obit: [2/15/1885 – 9/12/1953]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Alice Vinton Hogarth

Fulton #: 367                                                               obit2: [4/11/1885 - ?]

Gibble list: no

 

1907    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1914    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 38

 

1907-08           Hustontown (beginning 2/1/1908)

1908-10           Clarington

1910-15           Zion

1915-18           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1918-22           Woodland (beginning 5/1918)

1922-27           Latrobe

1927-36           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1936-42           Youngwood

1942-46           South Williamsport

1946-49           Woodland

1949-53           Punxsutawney First

1953-56           Altoona Third

1956                retired

                             1957  Marchand (Jan-Jun)

                             1958  Punxsutawney First (Jan-May)

 

Note: John F. Strayer is the son of Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938) of the Pittsburgh and Oregon Conferences of the United Evangelical Church, and a brother to George R. Strayer.  The second Mrs. Strayer (nee Vinton) was the widow of a Mr. Thomas Hogarth (1867-1947).

 

 

STRICKLER, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 1805                                                                  married:

Died: 7-20-1841                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 236

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1839    license

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1842, 50

 

 

STRICKLER, DANIEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 21

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1791    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1808                dismissed

 

 

STRICKLER, DAVID

 

Born: 5-11-1814  near Mount Joy PA                                    married: Mary Ann Greiner

Died: 10-5-1888  Lebanon PA                                   obit: [2/14/1829 – 9/12/1853]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elizabeth Funck [1/1/1867]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [12/31/1811 – 12/20/1883]

Gibble list: yes

 

1854    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1889, 32

1849-53           editor, Busy Martha

1853-56

1856-57           Harrisburg Front Street

1857-58           Lancaster circuit

1858-60           presiding elder

1860-61

1861-62           Lancaster

1862-65           presiding elder

1865-81

1881-82           Halifax Otterbein

1882-83           Baltimore Scott Street

 

Note: David Strickler was also a school teacher.

 

 

STRICKLER, EARLE MONROE

 

Born: 11-18-1890  Newmanstown PA                       married: Mary Rebecca Bowman

Died: 5-25-1987  Orange County CA                        obit: [2/4/1892 – 12/11/1983]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    quarterly conference license

1924    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1930    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hilld Memorial Park, Whittier CA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 7.12

 

1902-23           school teacher

1923-26           Pequea

1926-28           Royalton

1928-32           Iona

1932-39           Mt. Maemel

1939-41           Grantville

1941-43           Tremont circuit

1943                moved to California

 

Note: Earle M. Strickler is the father of A. Philip Strickler and Warren L. Strickler.

 

 

STRICKLER, ANDREW PHILIP

 

Born: 4-24-1922                                                          married: Mary E. Seaman

Died: 9-21-2000                                                          obit: [8/16/1919 – 2/28/1947]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lucille Longenecker

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [10/31/1930 – 9/11/2011]

Gibble list: no

 

1942    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: St. John’s UM Church Cemetery, Grantville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2001,?

 

1943-54           Jonestown circuit

1954-56           evangelist

1956-57           Lebanon Ebenezer

1957                transfer to California Conference

1957-58

1958-64           Warner Memorial

1964-66           Los Angeles Grace

1966                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1966-87           Ono

     1971-76      Shirk’s

1987                retired

                             1987-90      Kleinfeltersville

 

Note: A. Philip Strickler is the son of Earle M. Strickler and the brother of Warren L. Strickler.

 

 

STRICKLER, WAREN LEO

 

Born: 1-10-1914                                                          married: Anna Laura Groh

Died: 12-23-2009                                                        obit: [4/6/1917 – 3/7/1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1935    quarterly conference license

1937    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Desert View Memorial Park, Victorville CA

Obit:

 

1938-40           Lickdale

1940-43           Brunnerville

1943                transfer to California Conference

1943-54           [California Conference]

1954                no longer listed in the EUB yearbook

 

Note: Warren L. Strickler is the son of Earle M. Strickler and the brother of A, Philip Strickler.

 

 

STRINE, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 2-22-1880  Strinestown PA                              married: Emma Grace Prowell

Died: 4-13-1938                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 30

Miller-Raker #: 542

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1899    quarterly conference license

1900    license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Old Constitution

1904    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Old Constitution

 

Interment: Strinestown Cemetery, Strinestown PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 24

 

1900-03           Mountain Grove mission (Yocumtown area)

1903-05           Shippensburg mission

1905-06           Carlisle mission

1906-07           St. Thomas circuit

1907                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Church

1907-09           Mont Alto

1909-13           Greenmount circuit

1913-20           Spry

1920-26           Greencastle

1926-30           Frederick

1930-33           Emisgville

1933-35           Yoe

1935-38           Manchester-Jerusalem

 

 

STROCK, ROBERT EUGENE

 

Born: 3-24-1920  Chambersburg PA                          married: Katharine R. Hill

Died: 2-2-1993                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 793

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license, recommended by Edenville

1967    ordained

 

Interment: St. Thomas Cemetery, St. Thomas PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 477

 

1962-77           Oakville

1977-86           Altoona East End

1986                retired

                             visitation pastor, Morrisville (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)

                             interim pastor, Warminster St. Andrew’s (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)

                             visitation pastor, Hatboro Lehman (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)

                             chaplain, Warminster Eastern Star Home

 

 

STROHM, JAMES NEVIN

 

Born: 9-13-1913  McKeesport PA                             married: Lois Margaret Zollars

Died: 1-27-2006                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 396

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1933    quarterly conference license

1935    license, Allegheny Conference recommended by McKeesport Shoemaker

1942    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Penn Lincoln Cemetery, North Huntington PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 393

 

1939-40           Mahaffey (beginning 4/28/1939)

1940-42           Arona

1942-43           Beaver Falls

1943-46           Ligonier

1946-48           student, Juniata College

    1946-48       Mapleton

1948-51           student Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1951-63           Jeannette Claridge

1963-67           Wilkinson Grace

1967-70           Dunlo and director, Camp Allegheny

1970-79           director, Camp Allegheny

1979                retired

 

 

STUM, DAVID EDWARD

 

Born: 11-13-1944                                                        married: Shelia _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 816

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

1969    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-66                      student, Lebanon Valley College

     1963-64      Adamsville-Pleasant Grove

1966-69           student, Boston University School of Theology

                             1968-69      assistant, Newtonville MA

1969-70           Benevola-Mt. Lena

1970                transfer by change of boundaries to Baltimore Conference

1970-76           Benevola circuit

1976-80           Bethesda

1980-85           Covenant-Washington Grove

1985-95           Covenant

1995-96           General Board of Global Ministries

1996-               Silver Spring Good Shepherd

 

 

STUMP, CHARLES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 361

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1871    license, page 8

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873                transfer to Ohio German Conference

 

STURGEON, EUGENE FRY

 

Born: 4-12-1857  Hagerstown MD                             married: Sarah M. Manges

Died: 4-10-1930                                                          obit: [1866-1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gilbble list: no

 

1918    license, Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment: Burnside Cemetery, Burnside PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930, 64

 

1919              "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1919-20         Albion (6 months)

1920-24         Three Springs

1924-28         Mahaffey

1928-30         Casselman

 

Note: Eugene Fry Sturgeon served as a local pastor.

 

 

STUTZMAN, GERALD J.

 

Born: 7-15-1927  Upper Darby PA                            married: Elizabeth Forss

Died: 6-14-1983                                                          obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 294

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1953    license, recommended by Philadelphia Third

1959    ordained

 

Interment: Harrisburg East Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 408

 

1952-55           Lebanon Ebenezer

1955-59           student, United Theological Seminary

     1955-59      Rossburg circuit, OH

1959-67           Rockville

1967-77           Harrisburg Derry Street

1977-83           Lemoyne Calvary

 

SUMMY, CLARENCE IRA

 

Born: 3-7-1915  Lancaster County PA                       married: Mildred Evelyn Meck [2/3/1940]

Died: 3-9-2005  Staunton VA                                    obit: [3/7/1915 – 12/6/2011]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Lillian Kate Huntley

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/12/1916 – 9/21/2006]

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton VA

Obit:

 

1943-46           Tremont St. John’s

 

                        Calvary Bible Church of Mount Joy PA (late 1940’s and early 1950’s)

                       

Note: Clarence I. Summy is listed under “other employed in the conference” and his status or credentials are unknown.  C.I. Summy and the first Mrs. Summy were divorced 10/25/1977.  The second Mrs. Summy (nee Huntley) had three previous marraiages: in 1935 to a Mr. Roland Ray Johnson (1916-1962), in 1953 to a Mr. James William Fitzgerald (1927-2005), and in ? to a Mr. Juan Neputa Diego (1929-1983).
 

 

SUPPLEE, BARTON CLIFFORD

 

Born: 2-3-1874                                                            married: Florence Florinda Gehr [1/18/1899]

Died:                                                                           obit: [1877 – 1962]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: May L. Kraft [6/28/1929]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/27/1873 – 7/15/1966]

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1908                withdrew

1908                “transfer” to United Evangelical Church

 

1912-15           Grace United Evangelical Church, Woodbine IL

1915-16           Ossian and Calmar, Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1916                Independence IA, Presbyterian Church         

1917                “transfer” to Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

                        transfer  to West Wisconsin Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1921-22           Viroqua circuit

1922-23           Waldwick

1924-25           Troy

 

Note: East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church 1908, 32 states: “B.C. Supplee, a local preacher, was received into the Conference in the same relation that he sustained to the United Brethren Church, on condition that he secure credentials and deposit them with the Secretary of the Conference.”  His address is listed as Pottstown PA in both the 1907 UB and 1908 UEV journals.  By 1916, Barton C. Supplee was a Presbyterian minister serving in Independence Iowa.  His first wife and several family members are buried in Iowa.  An October 1916 Presbyterian paper reports that B.C. Supplee was “dismissed to the M.E. Church.”  By 1929, an apparently divorced Barton C. Supplee was pastor of the Calvary Congregational Church in Oakland CA, where he married Miss Kraft.  A California paper reports: “Mrs. Supplee, who has made her home In Berkeley for three years, is a graduate of Northwestern University at Evanston IL and a post graduate of Boston University and the University of California. She took courses at the School of Religious Education and Social Service in Boston. She was connected with the Chicago and California schools. The Rev. Supplee studied for two years at the theological seminary at Omaha, Nebraska, and then received his degree and ordination at Dubuque, Iowa. He accepted the pastorate of Calvary Church in January.”

 

SUTTON, JAMES

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1844                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 141

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1844, 55

 

Note: James Sutton is the grandfather (through his daughter Eve Sutton Zeek) of Elias A. Zeek.

 

SWAIN, JAMES ALFRED

 

Born: 11-7-1907  Hooversville PA                            married: Edna Marie Boyts

Died: 12-19-1968                                                        obit: [4/14/1907 – 6/12/1982]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1933    license, Allegheny Conference

1941    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Dayton Cemetery, Dayton VA

Obit:

 

1933                transfer to Virginia Conference

 

Note: A biographical sketch of James A. Swain is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 284.

 

 

SWANGER, MURRAY LEE.

 

Born: 9-16-1893  Franklin County PA                       married: Edna Mowery [1912]

Died: 7-26-1982  Newburg PA                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ida M. Cramer [1926]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [1/18/1902 – 9/1/1973]

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Otterbein PA

Obit:

 

1918-19           Birdsboro Grace (until the end of February; see 1919, 6)

 

Note: M.L. Swanger served while a student at Lebanon Valley Academy, from which graduated in 1920.  He graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1924 and pursued a career in education.

 

 

SWANK, EDWIN H.

 

Born: 1876  Somerset County PA                              married: Eliza Jane Heefner [11/12/1912]

Died: 12-20-1951  Huntingdon County PA               obit: [11/12/1886 – 8/24/1973]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 390

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association

 

Interment: Mount Union Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

 

1896-97           Lickingville

1897-02           ?

1902-03           Indiana

1903-04           Mowrytown

1904-06           Berkeley Springs

1906-07           Johnstown circuit, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1907-09           ?

1909-10           Houserville, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1910-11           Hustontown, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1911                admitted on credentials, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1911-12           Hustontown

1912-13           Waukesha

1913                withdrew

1914                admitted as a local pastor in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1914-15           Burnt Cabins

1915-19           Alum Bank

1919-22           Ennisville

1922-24           New Millport

1924-25           Karthaus

 

 

SWANK, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1863    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1860-62           Northumberland Mission

1862-63

1863-64           Northumberland Mission

1864-65           Shamokin circuit

1865-66          

1866                withdrew

 

SWARTZ, CHRISTIAN LANDIS

 

Born: 1864                                                                  married: Annie M. Brinser

Died: 1951                                                                  obit: [1864 – 1946]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1900    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hummelstown Cemetery, Hummelstown PA

Obit:

 

1902-03           Catawissa circuit (“for a brief time”; see 1903, 5)

1906                referred

 

Note: C.L. Swartz lived in Hummelstown and was referred back his quarterly conference for licensing and service at that level, apparently because he was not making progress toward and/or not showing interest in completing the steps toward the itinerancy.   Rev. Matthias Brinser (1795-1889), founder of the United Zion denomination that separated from the River Brethren (Brethren in Christ) in 1855 was a brother to Annie M. Brinser’s grandfather John Gish Brinser (1782-1875).

 

 

SWARTZ, CHAUNCEY ROYALTON

 

Born: 1-30-1894  Lebanon County PA                      married: Alice Cora Sherman

Died: 10-18-1967  Willow Street PA                         obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 31

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1930    quarterly conference license, Hochenderfer’s

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

                       

Interment: Kochenderfer’s Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1968, 120

 

1928-32           Barry

1932-43           Bellegrove

1943-47           Highville

1947-48           Avon

1948-53           Ranck’s

1953-60           Grantville

1960-64           Valley View

1964               retired

 

SWARTZ, PETER

 

Born: 5-8-1774  Berks County PA                             married: Mary Christina _____

Died: 10 -13-1845  Juniata County PA                      obit: [12/17/1771 – 1/11/1847]

Miller-Raker #: 61

Fulton #: 22

Gibble list: yes

 

1811    license

1816    ordained

 

Interment: Niemonds Church, near Richfield PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1846, 2

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Peter Swartz was a farmer in Snyder County.  Any service he performed was as a local preacher, and he never served under appointment.  His son Peter Swartz Jr. (1813-1880) farmed in Juniata County and reportedly also served as a local preacher.

 

SWARTZ, RICHARD WALLACE

 

Born: 1-26-1929  Harrisburg PA                                married: Dorothy Elizabeth Werner

Died: 9-28-2015  Lewistown PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 468

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, East Pennsylvania Conference – recommended by Harrisburg Otterbein

1953    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2016, 271

 

1946-50           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1949-50   Brunnerville

1950-53           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1950-53   Englewood OH, Miami Conference

1953-59           Reading Zion

1959-62           Lebanon Trinity

1962-72           Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1972-77           Wormleysburg

1977-82           Geyers

1982-89           associate, Lewistown First

1989                retired

 

 

SWARTZ, SOLOMON L.

 

Born: 9-18-1827  Dauphin County PA                       married: Mary R. Nissley

Died: 10-6-1907                                                          obit: [d. 1858]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Annie Wagner

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/16/1835 – 11/17/1916]

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1879    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 37

 

1877-78           Middletown

 

Note: S.L. Swartz never traveled as an itinerant, but he ministered as a class leader and local pastor and served as conference Missionary Treasurer for 21 years.

 

 

SYNAN, CARL A.

 

Born: 11-29-1943                                                        married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 868

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    temporary license, page 38

1963    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           Wolfsville

1965-66           conference board of evangelism

1966-78           West Ohio Conference

1978-82           Pacific Northwest Conference

1982                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1982-88           Lonaconing

1988-91           campus ministry, University of Southern Florida

1991-01           campus ministry, Penn State University

2001-03           Wesley Memorial

2003-05           Forty West Cooperative Ministry

2005-06           West Baltimore

2006                retired

 

 

SYPHER, JOHN

 

Born: 10-31-1800                                                        married: Lucinda Rinehart

Died: 6-24-1846                                                          obit: [3/4/1909-3/22/1856]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 43

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

1844    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: St. Michael’s Cemetery, Pfoutz Valley PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1847, 3

 

 

 

TALLHELM, JOHN FRANKLIN

 

Born: 3-5-1825  State Line PA                                   married: Nancy Jane Varner

Died: 2-11-1908  Julian PA                                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1916, 73

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 101

Gibble list: no

 

1857    license, Allegheny Conference

1860    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Williams Cemetery, Julian PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908, 62

 

1857-59           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1859-60           Schellsburg

1860-62           Tyrone

1862-63           Bellefonte

1863-64           Mapleton

1864-66           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1866-69           Schellsburg

1869-72           Clearfield

1872-73           Scottsville [Three Springs]

1873-74           Ligonier

1874-75           Clearfield

1875-76           Bellefonte

1876-79           Port Matilda

1879-80           Liverpool

1880                Shade Gap (Feb-Sep; short conference year)

1880-82           Bellefonte

1882-83           Juniata

1883-84           Ligonier

1884-87           Hollidaysburg

1887-88           Port Matilda

1888-89           Jenner’s Cross Roads

1889-91           superintendent, Altoona District

1891-94           Stormstown

1894-95           Mt. Union

1895-96           Millheim

1896-98           Hustontown

1898-99           Shade Gap

1899                retired

 

Note: J.F. Tallhelm is the father of Drusilla Tallhelm Anderson, wife of Rev. Joseph F. Anderson (1849-1940) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church.  J.F. Tallhelm’s mother was a Gossard, and J.F. Tallhelm is a first cousin to the grandfather of George Daniel Gossard.  He also had two brothers in the ministry: Humphrey Tallhelm was a preacher in the Brethren Church in Iowa and Kansas, and Henry Tallhelm (1824-1902) was a preacher in the Virginia Conference for many years before uniting with the Reformed Church.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 7.

 

 

TAYLOR, ALBERT B.

 

Born: 1-29-1884                                                          married: Blanche Dull [9/10/1906]

Died: 10-28-1935                                                        obit: [7/17/1886 – 5/15/1981]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 444

Gibble list: no

 

1918    quarterly conference license, Scottdale

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit:

 

1918-20           East Freedom

1920-22           (not listed)

1922                returned to quarterly conference license

                        Church of the Open Door, Greensburg PA

                        First Baptist Church, Carnegie PA

 

Note: A.B. Taylor was involved in evangelistic work in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania before his years under appointment.  He was awarded (10/6/1930) the Carnegie Hero medal for saving a life.  He reportedly lived for a while in New Britain CT.

 

TAWNEY, DANIEL ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1833  Adams County PA                                  married: Helen Adele Paige

Died: 12-14-1909  St Paul MN                                   obit: [1847-1933]

Miller-Raker #: 301

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1850    exhorter’s license, Littlestown circuit

1853    license

 

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona MN

Obit:

 

1852-53           Path Valley circuit

1853-54           Perry circuit

1854-55           Manchester circuit

1855-56           Rocky Spring circuit

1856-57           student, Mt. Pleasant College

1857-60           student, Otterbein University

1860-62          

1862-63           Lebanon Salem, East Pennsylvania Conference (did not finish the year)

1863                withdrew

1864-64           179th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

                        Presbyterian minister

                        New Castle, IN (1870’s & 80’s)

                        St. Paul MN

 

Note: Daniel A. Tawney is a brother to Hannah Catherine Tawney Lightner, wife of George W, Lightner.  Biographical comments are given in the Eberly-Albright-Brane 1911 Landmark History, pages 56-57, and in the 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 99.  He apparently was also assisting on the Path Valley circuit for at least the latter part of 1851-52.

 

 

TAYLOR, JAMES W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1876-78           Elizabethtown St. Paul’s (did not finish the 2nd year)

1882-83           Philadelphia Jasper Street Mission

 

Note: Nothing more is known about James W. Taylor or his credentials for the ministry.

 

 

TETER, JAMES R.

 

Born: 11-30-1857                                                        married:

Died: 10-17-1886                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [TETTER]

 

1886 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Drehersville Evangelical Cemetery, Drehersville PA

Obit:

 

Note:  This surname is also rendered Teeter and Tetter.  J.R. Teter and his 7 year old daughter Mamie are buried in the Mohl cemetery plot, and so his wife might have been a Mohl.

 

THIRLWELL, THOMAS

 

Born: 11-3-1847  England                                          married: Charlotte Hall [7/29/1872]

Died: 7-2-1898  Dunlevy PA                                      obit: [6/?/1846 – 1926]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 274 [THURLWELL]

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license, Primitive Methodist Church

1881    ordained, Primitive Methodist Church

 

Interment: Hoover’s Cemetery, California PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1898, 39

 

1895-96           Connellsville, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1896                “transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1896-97           Connellsville

1897-98           Dunlevy

 

Note: Thomas Thirlwell came to America in 1888 and settled in Robertsdale, where he was a local preacher in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1892 he moved to Herminie and identified with the United Brethren Church.  His son Thomas William Thirlwell (b. 1881) and son-in-law William Robbins [married to Mary Jane (b. 1875)] were ministers in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in western Pennsylvania.  Limited additional information is available in the biographical files.  Mrs. Thirlwell in buried in the Howe Cemetery , Coal Center PA.

 

THOMAS, GERTRUDE MARGARET JONES

 

Born: 6-21-1895  Metal PA                                        married: Norman Bruce Scott Thomas

Died: 7-7-1978  Franklin County PA                         obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 37

Miller-Raker #: 672

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    quarterly conference license, Metal class of Spring Run charge

1933    license

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 350

 

1937                withdrew

 

Note: Gertrude Thomas is the wife of Norman Bruce Scott Thomas. 

 

THOMAS, MICHAEL

 

Born: 5-5-1749                                                            married: Elizabeth Schang

Died: 1-23-1834                                                          obit: [11/25/1756 – 9/22/1823]

Miller-Raker #: 34

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1800    license

 

Interment: Boonsboro Cemetery, Boonsboro MD

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 145, reports that Michael Thomas “lived in Maryland.”  Newcomer stayed at his house in Boonsboro in March 1830.

 

 

THOMAS, NORMAN BRUCE SCOTT

 

Born: 1-24-1885  near Hagerstown MD                     married: Gertrude Margaret Jones

Died: 11-8-1954                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 350

Miller-Raker #: 556

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    license

1913    ordained

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 37

 

1908-12           student, Lebanon Valley College

1910-12           Mechanicsburg circuit

1912-13           Biglerville

1913-20           Spring Run

1920-25           Fayetteville

1925-33           Williamsport MD

1933-44           Gettysburg

1944-49           Lemasters

1949-54           Oakville

1954                retired

 

Note: N.B.S. Thomas is the husband of Gertrude Jones Thomas.

 

 

THOMPSON, ALFRED D.

 

Born: 2-14-1886  Elizabethtown WV                        married: Chloey Farrel

Died: 9-18-1947  Braddock PA                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1925, 61

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sadie Blanch. Speece

Fulton #: 441                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1946, 62

Gibble list: no

 

1916    quarterly conference license

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rock Hill Furnace PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948, 64

 

1917-18           Industry

1918-22           East Salem

1922-24           Houserville

1924-26           Orbisonia

1926-30           Bigler

1930-31           Shanksville

1931-33           Belsano

1933-37           Sidman St. Michael

1937-40           Wyano

1940-44           Susquehanna

1944-47           Port Matilda

 

 

THOMPSON, A. L.

 

Born: 1886  Kittanning PA                                         married: Laura Edith Guthrie

Died: 1950                                                                  obit: Allegheny Conference 1950, 80

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 513

Gibble list: no

 

1913    ordained, Church of God

 

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Clearfield PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 8]

 

1914-15           Limestone

1915-16           Kittanning

1916-20           Montgomeryville Baptist Church

1920-23           Latrobe

1923-26           Indian Head

1927-28           East Freedom, Allegheny Conference of the UB Church (beginning 1/1/1927)

1928                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928-30           East Freedom

1930-35           West Decatur

1935-45           Hooversville

1945-50           Bigler

1950                East Freedom  

 

THOMPSON, CURVIN LIVINGSTON

 

Born: 8-22-1914  Stewartstown                                 married: Thelma Eileen Penvose

Died: 10-14-1991                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 430

Miller-Raker #: 683

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1933    quarterly conference license, York First

1935    license, recommended by York First

1941    ordained

 

Interment: Stewartstown Cemetery, Stewartstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 489

 

1933-34           student, Lebanon Valley College

1934-35           education disrupted due to the Depression

1935-38           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1936-38       Mt. Olivet

1938-41           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                        Presbyterian churches in Bellbrook and West Carrolton OH

1941-47           Walkersville

1947-56           Boonsboro

1956-78           New Cumberland Community

1978                retired

                                                chaplain, New Cumberland Army Depot

                             1986-91      pastor emeritus, New Cumberland Community

 

 

THOMPSON, HENRY ADAMS

 

Born: 3-27-1837  Half Moon Valley, PA                   married: Harriet Elizabeth Copeland [8/7/1862]

Died: 7-1-1920  Dayton OH                                       obit: [12/10/1835 - 1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

1861    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1920, 86

 

1860-61           Pittsburgh

1861-62           faculty, Western College in IA

1862-67           faculty, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1867-71           superintendent of schools, Troy OH

1871-72           faculty, Westfield College in IL

1872-86           president, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1886                transfer to Central Ohio Conference, page 23

1886-93           ?

1893-97           associate editor, Sunday School literature

1897-01           editor, Sunday School literature

1901-08           editor, United Brethren Review

                            1901-05       associate editor, Sunday School literature

1908                retired

 

Note: H.A. Thompson graduated from Jefferson College in 1858 and spent two tears (1858-60) at Western Theological Seminary.  He was the 1880 vice-presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party.  He is the author of several books – including Our Bishops (1889), Biography of Jonathan Weaver (1901).  Mrs. Thompson was a teacher of painting and drawing at Otterbein University 1862-68 and 1872-93.

 

THOMPSON, JOHN J. JR

 

Born: 5-4-1893  Kitanning PA                                   married: Florence Hare

Died: 8-29-1958  Middleburg PA                              obit: [10/8/1896 – 1/11/1923]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rebecca H. Gregory

Fulton #: 514                                                               obit2: [1899 – 1974]

Gibble list: no

 

1918 ordained, Church of God

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Mapleton PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 29

 

1918-19           Kittanning

1919-20          

1920-21           Emericksville

1921-22           Barkeyville

1922-24           Venango

1924-27           Marklesburg

1927-28           Ligonier, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928                "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928-30           Ligonier

1930-32           Fayette

1932-35           Arona

1935-42           Mapleton

1942-47           Altoona Third

1947-49           Conemaugh

1949                retired

                             1953-56      Altoona Grace
 

 

THRUSH, JOHN OLIVER

 

Born: 11-15-1861  Burlington WV                            married: Ada E. Brown [9/7/1891]

Died: 4-3-1936  River Falls WI                                  obit: [6/11/1869 – 9/5/1953]

 

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 210

Gibble list: no

 

1884    license, Allegheny Conference

1888    ordained, Congregational Church

 

Interment: Greenwood Cemetery, River Falls WI

Obit:

 

 

1884-85           Tyrone

1885-86           faculty, Fairmount WV State Normal School

1886-88           student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

1888                entered the Congregational ministry

1888-91           Postville IA

1891-99           Spencer IA

1899-09           Webster City IA

1909-12           ?

1912-18           First Church, Spencer IA

1918-26           Falls River WI

1926                retired

 

Note: John O. Thrush graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1884.  He continued to be listed as a member of the Allegheny Conference, living in Iowa, until his name was formally erased in 1891.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 12.

 

THUMA, JOHN

 

Born: 9-28-1812  Cumberland County PA                 married: Mary Hiskey [2/23/1837]

Died: 6-8-1879  Lexington OH                                  obit:  [6/13/1817 – 4/2/1885]

Miller-Raker #: 169

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1831    license

1835    ordained

 

Interment: Lexington Cemetery, Lexington OH

Obit:

 

1838                transfer to Sandusky Conference

 

Note: Mrs. Thuma is reported by some sources to be the daughter of George Hiskey, and by other sources to be the daughter of Valentine Hiskey.   Her 1837 marriage in Ohio suggests that she was the daughter of George.

 

TILLOTSON, ALONZO OTIS

 

Born: 4-20-1886  Sigel PA                                         married: Ella May Ickes (7/9/1914)

Died:3-20-1976                                                           obit: [3/10/1895 – 10/14/1968]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    supply license, Erie Conference ME

 

Interment: Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton CA

Obit:

 

1913-14           Wilmore

                        “transfer” to Erie Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church

1915-16           Cottage

1916-17           Columbus

1917-20           Garland
1920-21           Milton (resigned 1/1/1921)

1921-23           Brockport/Brandy Camp

1923-25           Luthersburg

1925-26           Riceville

 

Note: Alonzo Tillotson served in the Allegheny Conference UB as “others employed by the conference” and is listed as A.E. Tillotson.  Some Methodist records list him as Amos O. Tillotson.  Mrs. Tillotson was also known as Rev. Ella May Ickes.   Census records appear to place the family in Milton PA in 1920 (?) and McConnelsville OH in 1930.

 

TOBIAS, HARRY MILLER

 

Born: 12-14-1906                                                        married: Ethel Irene Miller

Died: 3-5-1996                                                            obit: [8/20/1913 – 3/6/2004]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license, Myerstown

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Ruhls UM Cemetery, Manhein PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 7.245

 

1930-35           Brunnerville

1935-42           Allentown Grace

1942-53           Manheim Salem & Ruhl’s

1953-72           Ruhl’s

1972                retired

                             1975-78      Clearfield & Marticville

                             1978-79      Water Works

 

 

TOBIAS, WILLIAM BRUCE

 

Born: 7-20-1894  New Millport PA                           married: Oma Onida Smeal

Died: 7-14-1970                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 347

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 511

Gibble list: no

 

1921    quarterly conference license

1927    license, Allegheny Conference

1931    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Lakelawn Memorial Park, Reynoldsville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 393

 

1922-27           East Salem

1927-30           Three Springs

1930-35           Rochester Mills

1935-38           Arona

1938-40           Runville

1940-47           Clarion River

1947-49           Fairmount

1949-55           Laughlintown

1955-60           Timblin

1960                retired

 

Note: In 1982, Mrs. Tobias married Arthur P. Peden. 

 

TOHILL, LAWRENCE S.

 

Born: 5-1-1846  Crawford County IL                        married: Elizabeth S. _____

Died: 2-5-1894                                                            obit: [1856-1920]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Monte Vista Cemetery, Monte Vista CO

Obit: [1895 UB Yearbook, page 19]

 

1874-75           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1877                transfer to ?

                        Neosho Conference

1881-82           president, Lane University in Lecompton KS [this could be 1882-83]

                        Colorado Conference

 

Note: Lawrence S. Tohill has an article on Prohibition in the 11/1/1871 Religious Telescope. 

 

TOMLINSON, WILLIAM SAHM

 

Born: 4-9-1861  Somerset PA                                    married: Margaret Estella Gibbons [6/20/1899]

Died: 5-14-1912  Jacksonville FL                              obit: [12/7/1873 – 11/14/1952]

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit:

 

1899-00           Juniata

 

Note:  W.S. Tomlinson served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  He took theological work at Dayton OH and served less than 10 years in the ministry before moving to Florida and finding employment in construction.

 

TOZER, ANDREW S.

 

Born: 6-12-1806  NY                                                 married:

Died: 3-9-1868  Newburg, Clearfield County PA      obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 98

Gibble list: no

 

1856    license, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: LaJose Cemetery, Newburg (Clearfield County) PA

Obit:

 

1861                transfer to ?

 

Note: A.S. Tozer never served under appointment.  He is listed in secular records as a treasury official in Clearfield County in 1854 and as having performed a wedding in Clearfield County in 1857. A.S. Tozer was a brother to the grandfather of the noted evangelical Protestant figure A.W. Tozer (1897-1963).

 

TRAUB, CHRISTIAN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 98

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1820    exhorter’s license

1821    license

1823    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1827-28           Huntingdon circuit

 

Note: This surname sometimes appears as TRAUBE.  The minutes for 1824 report that Christian Traub “has been sick a very long term” and is “in great need for [financial] help.”  The minutes for 1826 report that he be “received again.”

 

TRAUTMAN, HOWARD MONROE

 

Born: 10-31-1867                                                        married: Lula Davidson

Died: 5-18-1942                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conf (Meth) 1943, 219

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    license, East German Conference: recommended by Lykens

1901    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Landingville Cemetery, Landingville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference (Methodist) 1943, 213

 

1899-01           Freeburg circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference     

1901-03           Pequea circuit

1903-06           Grantville circuit

1906-08           Manor circuit

1908-10           Bern circuit

1910-12           Tower City

1912-13           Birdsboro Grace

1913-14           living in Gibraltar, Berks County

1914                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1914-16           Laurelton

1916-20           Cassville

1920-23           Ramey

1923-25           Muncy

1925-26           Half Moon

1926-28           Elysburg

1928-31           McVeytown

1931-32           Hopewell

1932-34           Shirleysburg

1934-36           East Waterford

1936=37          James Creek

1937-38           Allenport & Singer’s Gap

1938-39           Muncy Valley

1939                retired

 

 

TRIPNER, ALEXANDER

 

Born: 9-11-1822  Cumberland County PA                 married: Catharine Ann Lobaugh

Died: 10-17-1879  Manchester PA                             obit: [3/14/1830 – 11/7/1876]

Miller-Raker #: 303                                                    married2: Ella Everhart [9/25/1879]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license

1858    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Churchtown PA

Obit: [Baltimore Sun 10/20/1879]

 

1853-54           York circuit

1854-56           Perry circuit

1856-58           Manchester circuit

1858-60           Hanover circuit

1860-61           Big Spring station

1861-63           Greencastle circuit

1863-64           Mercersburg circuit

1864-66                     ? [operated a grocery store on North George Street in York PA]

1866-68           Carlisle circuit

1868-71           Rocky Spring station

1871-72           Goldsboro

1872-74           York circuit

1874-76           Littlestown circuit

1876-77           Liverpool circuit

1877-79           Baltimore Woodberry mission

1879                Duncannon station

 

Note: The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 99, gives brief biographical comments. He “came to his death … by his own hands while suffering from aberration of mind caused by sickness.”  The surname of the first Mrs. Tripner is also rendered Lobach.

 

 

TROSTLE, MARTIN WILLIAM ALTON

 

Born: 9-28-1929  Harrisburg PA                                married: Constance C. Chambers

Died: 9-6-2013                                                            obit: Susquehanna Conference 2015, 278

Miller-Raker #: 739

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1951    license, recommended by Dillsburg Calvary

1954    ordained

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2014, 266

 

1954-58           New Bloomfield

1958-63           Baltimore Third

1963-75           Shiremanstown

1975-83           staff, Conference Council on Ministries

1883-95           New Kingstown Trinity

1995                retired

     1995-96      Valley View St. Andrew’s

                             1996-97      Wiconisco Wesley-Muir Grace

                             1997-00      Tower City

     2000-03            Harrisburg Riverside

                             2003-09      Harrisburg First

 

Note: Martin A. Trostle is a brother to Gerald Allan Trostle of the East Pennsylvania (EUB)/Central Pennsylvania (UM) Conference. 

 

TROXEL, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 11-1-1751  Lebanon County                            married: Elizabeth _____

Died: 2-?-1825                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 14

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1789    license

1811    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant PA

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered DRAKSEL and TRACHSEL.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 37, and Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 371, give a brief biographies.  Some sources give the birth year as 1753.

 

 

TROYER, DANIEL

 

Born: 1769                                                                  married:

Died: 1863                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 53

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1805    license

1815    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Germantown Cemetery, Germantown OH

Obit:

 

1806                moved to Ohio

1810                charter member of Miami Conference

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 145, gives brief biographical comments for Daniel Troyer.

 

 

TRUAX, ERNEST BELL

 

Born: 4-29-1871  Warfordsburg PA                           married:

Died: 11-30-1934  New Kensington PA                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1897    quarterly conference license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Interment: Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg PA

Obit:

 

1897-99           living in Morrisdale

1899-00           Grant (Clearfield County)

1900-01           Patchenville, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

 

Note: E.B. Truax is the son of Methodist Local preacher Job Truax (1842-1903).  He attended Williamsport Dickson Seminary, with his home town listed as Ansonville PA.  He served as a local preacher for the Methodists and served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”   His father was living in Hollidaysburg when he died in 1903, and E.B. appears to have filled pulpits in the Altoona-Hollidaysburg area as well as in Clearfield County.  His death certificate describes him as a “retired coal miner.”

 

TRUXAL, ISAIAH POTTER

 

Born: 6-20-1852  Mount Pleasant PA                        married: Sarah Ellen Longsdorf

Died: 5-?-1924                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 208

Gibble list: no

 

1884    quarterly conference license

1884    license, Allegheny Conference

1887    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924, 64

 

1884-86           Industry

1886-88           Mahoning

1888-91           Westmoreland

1891-94           Altoona Second

1894-98           Conemaugh

1898-02           Braddock First

1902-03           Dunlevy

1903-07           Wall

1907-08           Braddock Comrie

1908                retired

 

Note: This surname is one of the many adaptions of Draksel, and I.P. Truxal is related to the Abraham Draksel (Troxel) who attended Otterbein’s 1789 conference that began the United Brethren Church.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 1, column 5.

 

TYSON, RAYMOND JACOB

 

Born: 6-7-1903  Red Lion PA                                    married: Margaret Zumbrun Strine

Died: 11-16-1949  Mechanicsburg PA                       obit: [12/16/1907 – 12/28/1996]

Miller-Raker #: 636

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license

1929    ordained

 

Interment: Zion United Brethren Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 21

 

1922-26           student, Lebanon Valley College

1926-27           Emigsville

1927-29           Carlisle circuit

1929-30           local

1930-32           Bendersville

1932-35           Mont Alto

1935-44           Dallastown

1944-49           Mechanicsburg

 


UHLER, EDWARD THEODORE

 

Born: 10-5-1905  Lebanon PA                                   married: Lucetta Cordelia Dissinger

Died: 7-24-1982                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 584

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Elsie Jones Blaisley

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1932    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Hebron

1932    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Stehman’s Church Cemetery, Millersville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 333

 

1932-39           Jonestown circuit

1939-43           Mount Carmel (ending 11/43)

1943-51           Schuylkill Haven (beginning 11/43)

1951-52           Allentown Zion

1952-66           Hopeland

1966-71           Stehman’s & Green Hill

1971                retired

                             1972-73      Hopeland

 

 

UHLER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 6-27-1837  near Lebanon PA                           married: Mary Miller

Died: 6-12-1903  Lebanon PA                                   obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 24

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1876    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 23

 

1875-78           Pine Grove circuit

1878-79           Susquehanna circuit

1879-80           Avon Zion

1880-81           Lehigh Valley circuit

1881-83           Philadelphia Port Richmond St. Paul’s

1883-86           Shamokin First

1886-89           Lebanon Glosbrenner Memorial

1889-91           Allentown Zion

1891-97           presiding elder

1897-99           Reading Trinity          

1899-01           Williamstown

1901                retired

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

 

 

UHRICH, RAYMOND G.

 

Born: 4-19-1895  Lebanon County PA                      married: Sally Ann Heller

Died: 1-29-1986                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 555

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1926    quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1927    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zoar’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Mt. Zion PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1986, VII.19

 

1925-32           Jonestown circuit

1932-63           Philadelphia Third

                             1944-45      Philadelphia Burholme

1963                retired 

 

 

ULRICH, ALBERT NEWTON

 

Born: 3-16-1874  Dauphin County PA                       married: Susan M. Erb [8/22/1901]

Died: 9-25-1958  Dauphin County PA                       obit: [7/6/1873 – 12/6/1951]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1908-10           Jacksonville circuit

1910-11           living in Enders

1911-14           living in Middletown

1914                referred

 

Note: Albert N. Ulrich is the father of Clarence E. Ulrich and the grandfather of Clarence D. Ulrich.  Mrs. Ulrich is the daughter of Mennonite preacher John Erb (1839-1913).

 

 

ULRICH, CHARLES YOUNG

 

Born: 8-22-1889  Lancaster PA                                  married: Amelia Starr Maitland [1917]

Died: 9-?-1976  Glassboro NJ                                                obit: Eastern Conference 1968, 123

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1910    quarterly conference license, Manheim

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Richwood UM Church Cemetery, Richwood NJ

Obit:

 

1913-16           Birdsboro Grace

1916-30           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1930                removed

1933                restored

1933-46           Philadelphia Fourth

1946-70           listed without appointment

1970                no longer listed

 

Note: The only personal information on Charles Y. Ulrich is that he is the son of a Monroe D. Ulrich (1850-1924) and a Sarah Young (1847-1919).

 

 

ULRICH, CLARENCE DAUGHERTY

 

Born: 5-3-1933  Reading PA                                      married: Pauline Sophia Heisey

Died: 10-28-2013  Cornwall PA                                obit: [5/17/1938 – 5/8/2023]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1957    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Mount Joy St. Mark’s

1959    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Brunnerville United Methodist Cemetery, Brunnerville PA

Obit: [none?]

 

1959-62           Hillsdale

1962-78           Avon

1978-88           Brunnerville

1988-94           Reading St. Matthew’s

1994                retired

                             1994-04      Shirks

 

Note: Clarence D. Ulrich is the son of Clarence E. Ulrich and the grandson of Albert N. Ulrich and Joseph Daugherty.

 

 

ULRICH, CLARENCE ERB

 

Born: 8-19-1903  Penbrook PA                                  married: Miriam Rebecca Daugherty

Died: 5-15-1972                                                          obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2001,7.331

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1924    quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1926    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1930    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 334

 

1926-27           Pottstown

1930-35           Shoemakersville

1935-40           Lykens

1940-55           Linglestown & Colonial Park

1955-69           Mount Joy St. Mark’s

1969                retired

 

Note: Clarence E. Ulrich is the son of Albert N. Ulrich and the father of Clarence D. Ulrich.  Mrs. Ulrich is the daughter of Joseph Daugherty.

 

 

ULRICH, HARRY EDWIN

 

Born: 7-1-1889  Dauphin County PA                         married: Mary L. Pastor

Died: 9-21-1984  Naples FL                                       obit: [1890 – 2/11/1917]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mary Margaretta Schmidt

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/25/1901 – 8/8/1990]

Gibble list: yes

 

1913    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: cremated, ashes scattered in New London NH

Obit:

 

1912-13           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1912-13       Chambers Hill

1913-14           Intercourse

1914-16           student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NJ

                             1914-16      assistant, Doylestown PA Presbyterian

1916                honorable dismissal to join Presbyterian Church

1916-17           student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NJ

                             1916-17      supply, Forest Grove PA Presbyterian Church

                        Lancaster PA Bethany

1929-38           West Chester PA First Presbyterian

1938-51+         White Plains NY First Presbyterian

 

Note: The first Mrs. Ulrich was from Harrisburg.

 

 

UMBERGER, GRANT JAY

 

Born: 6-21-1906                                                          married: Amanda S. Bomberger

Died: 2-13-1973                                                          obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 8.6]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929     quarterly conference license, Bellegrove

1931    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bellegrove United Methodist Cemetery, Bellegrove PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1973,405

 

1930-31           Birdsboro circuit

1931-32           Philadelphia Fourth [Burholme]

1932-35           Hillsdale circuit

1935-41           Hopeland

1941-43           Schuylkill Haven (ending 11/43)

1943-46           chaplain, US Navy (beginning 11/43)

1946-47           Lebanon Memorial

1947-50           chaplain, Lebanon VA Hospital

                             1947-48      Brunnerville

1950-51           Lickdale

1951-53           Grantville

1953-59           Ranck’s

1959-61           Denver

1961-63           Highspire

1963-65           Paxinos circuit

1965-70           Fleetwood

1970                retired

 

Note. The birth date for Mrs. G. Jay Umberger is 2/5/1908.

 

 

UNGER, AMOS H.

 

Born: 3-8-1829  Windsor, Berks County PA             married: Maria Krause

Died: 3-12-1904                                                          obit: [10/30/1826 – 3/24/1915]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1872    license, East German Conference

1875    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

 

1875-76           Myerstown (part year?)

                        Allentown Zion (part year?)

1886                name erased

 

Note: Amos H. Unger moved to Lebanon in 1883, where he was a painter and paperhanger and a “consistent member of the Trinity UB church.”

 

UNGER, JAMES H.

 

Born: 11-23-1842                                                                    married: (1862)

Died: 6-16-1913                                                                      obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1871    license, East German Conference

1874    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Union-West End Cemetery, Allentown PA

Obit:

 

1870-71           Tamaqua

1871-72           Lehigh Valley circuit

1872-76           Reading Zion

1876-79           Allentown Zion

1879-80           Jonestown circuit

1880-81           Bucks County circuit

1881-83

1883-84           Hopeland

1884-85           Camden Mission

1885-89           living in South Bethlehem

1895                transfer to ?

                        not listed in the United Brethren Yearbook

 

Note: Gibble also lists J.H. Unger as serving Jonestown circuit for at least part of the year 1874-75.  He could preach in English or German.

 

 

URBAN, CARL ARTHUR

 

Born: 12-30-1896  Toledo OH                                   married: Myra Poole [aka Myra Stitely]

Died: 10-20-1935  Thurmont MD                              obit: [5/28/1897 – 1/9/1996]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    quarterly conference license, Frederick

 

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 20

 

1933-35           Middletown-Pleasant Valley

 

Note: A longtime member of the church at Frederick MD, Carl A. Urban supplied the pulpit with a quarterly conference license.  Following the death of Carl A. Urban, his widow married a Mr. Amos T. Anderson.

 

 

VAN KIRK, DONALD EUGENE

 

Born: 1-3-1935  Bloomsburg PA                               married: Nancy Buck

Died: 3-2-2006  Harrisburg                                         obit:

 

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1959    license, recommended by State Street

1966    ordained

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 432

 

1959-63           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1959-63      Shamokin Second circuit

1963-66           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1963-66      New Hope OH

1966-76           Elizabethville

                             1966-68      Forney’s

                             1968-76      Loyalton

1976-80           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1980-85           Marysville Bethany

1985-91           Holidaysburg First

1991                disability leave (ending 8/15/1991)

1991-94           Adamsville and Dallastown Trinity (beginning 8/15/1991)

1994-96           Wrightsville Grace

1996-98           Mt. Victory

1998                retired

 

VAN SAUN, ARTHUR CARLOS

 

Born: 7-12-1893  Near Cincinnati OH                       married: Millie Arminta Glass [1915]

Died: 9-1-1969  Wilkes County GA                          obit: [12/31/1890 – 8/6/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: May Graham

Fulton #: 434                                                               obit2: [1890 – 1896]

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license, recommended by Cherry Grove

1912    license, Miami Conference

1917    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Booneville Cemetery, Booneville TN

Obit:

 

1912-15           student, Otterbein University

1915-16           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-17           Industry

1917-20           Sewickley (ending 3/15/1920)

1920-21           Monessen (3/16/1920 – 3/15/1921)

1921-23           East Freedom (beginning 3/16/1921)

1924-27           Jeannette

1927-32           Huntingdon (ending 8/16/32)

1932-33           Lutz, Florida

1934-38           C.C.C. Service

1938                name erased for specific violation of the Discipline, page 100

                        became a Presbyterian minister

                       

Note: Arthur C. Van Saun is a brother to Walter Van Saun (1889-1950) of the Miami Conference, who was a longtime (1929-1950) faculty member at Hope College in Holland MI.  He is the author of Replanning the Rural Church, printed in 1934 by the Quincy Orphanage Press, and based on his 1932 PhD dissertation at Penn State.  The 1945 obituary of Mrs. Van Saun (buried in Alto Reste Burial Park, Altoona) states that she died at her home in North Philadelphia and that Rev. Van Saun was living in Florida.

 

VARNER, CHAUNCEY JACOB

 

Born: 5-4-1923  St. Michaels PA                                           married: Louise L. Laidig

Died: 3-1-1974  Harrisburg PA                                              obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017, 295

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1941    quarterly conference license

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1952    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 432

 

1943                Rio Grande, South East Ohio Conference (Feb-Oct)

1943-44           Three Springs (beginning 10/6/1943)

1944-46           Fulton Memorial

1946-49           Monessen

1949-52           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1952-54           Philipsburg

1954-60           director of youth work, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1960-68           staff. Indiana State Council of Churches 

1966-68           executive director, York County Council of Churches

1968-70           executive director, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1970-74           State College St. John's

 

VARNER, KARL IRVIN

 

Born: 11-1-1923  Niagara Falls NY                           married: Virginia Storer

Died: 12-26-1998                                                        obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2016, 557

Miller-Raker #: 698

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license, recommended by Spring Run

1947    ordained

 

Interment: Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, Howard County MD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1999, 611

 

1940-42           student, Shenandoah College

1942-44           student, Otterbein College

1944-47           student, United Seminary

                             1945-47           youth pastor, Dayton Euclid Ave

                             1947           student pastor, Piqua OH Presbyterian Church

1947-49           Myersville

1949-54           Keedysville

1954-59           York Haven

1959-62           Scotland

1962-68           Baltimore Siemers Memorial

1968                local

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-87           Relay

1987                retired, active at Catonsville UM

 

Note: Karl I. Varner worked with the juvenile court in Baltimore City 1969-86, and his service to the church after 1968 was on a less-than-full-time basis.

 

 

VARNER, SAMUEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 39 [XARNER]

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1854                name erased

 

Note: Samuel Varner [Samuel Xarner?] never served under appointment and is otherwise unknown.  This may be Samuel T. Varner (2/26/1812 – 11/26/1894) – a first-cousin to Nancy Jane Varner (Mrs. J.F.) Tallhelm who is reported to have been “a minister of the Gospel.”

 

VEECH, DAVID

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 115

Gibble list: no

 

1860    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1865                name erased

 

Note: David Veech never served under appointment and is otherwise unknown.   This may be David Henry Veech (5/15/1837 – 5/2/1874), son of [Judge] James Veech, author of The Monongahela of Old.

 

VICKROY, THOMAS RHYS

 

Born: 12-27-1833  Stayestown PA                             married: Henrietta “Ettie” Stahl [1857]

Died: 4-18-1904  St. Louis MO                                  obit: [10/10/1837 – 4/10/1887]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Cordelia Hyatt Myers [1889]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 3/?/1897]

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, ?

1870    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis MO

Obit:

 

1866-68           president, Lebanon Valley College

1868                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           president, Lebanon Valley College

1871-74           principal, St. Louis MO public schools

1872                “transfer” to St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1872-96           principal, St. Louis MO public schools

1896                retired

                            1896-1904   publishing advisor in Chicago IL

 

Note: Thomas R. Vickroy had a college degree, worked in a bank, and was a local preacher in the Methodist Church.  He became an ordained United Brethren preacher in order to become the first president of Lebanon Valley College.  He authored several textbooks and was a promoter of phonics and phonetic spelling.  Originally THOMAS REES VICKORY, he had his middle name legally changed to match the ancestral spelling of Rees.

 

VONDERSMITH, ALBERT VALENTINE

 

Born: 8-9-1875  Baltimore MD                                  married: Netta E. Rickenbaugh [c.1903]

Died: 11-6-1936  Charlotte NC                                  obit: [2/5/1869 – 6/4/1954]

Miller-Raker #: 477

Fulton #: 316

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license

1903    ordained  1903,45&80

 

Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro PA

Obit:

 

1902-03           living in Dubois

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904                transfer

1916-17           Wyoming Park, Michigan Conference

1917                transfer to Michigan Conference

1917-20           Detroit Euclid Avenue

1920                open transfer

1923-24           Dunbar WV

 

Note: While the Dunbar UB (now UM) Church lists A.V. Vondersmith as their pastor, and states they have a picture of him in their pastors’ gallery, he does not appear in the UB yearbooks after 1922.  He appears in the UB yearbooks in sporadically: Va (1905-09), N Ill (1911-15), WV (1916), MI (1918-20,22).  Minutes of the Virginia Conference indicate he was given an advisory seat at the conference of 1904 and 1905, but there is no record of a transfer. 

 

 

VON NIEDA, JEREMIAH H.

 

Born: 12-?-1860                                                          married: Mollie R. Richards

Died: 4-6-1908                                                            obit: [10/31/1861 – 3/24/1914]

Miller-Raker #: 408

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1883    license

1886    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Annville United Brethren Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit:

 

1882-84           Halifax Otterbein

1884                transfer to East German Conference

1884-89           Lykens (moved to Reading during the 1888-89 year)

1889-94           Reading First [Zion] (moved from Lykens during the 1888-89 year)

1894-96           Lebanon Salem

1896-97

1897-99           Reading Zion

1899-00           living in Reading

1900                withdrew

 

1901-07           Gospel Tabernacle in Reading PA

 

Note: Many sopurces give this surname as VON NEIDA.  Rev. J.H. VonNeida is listed as the composer of several gospel song tunes in the 1890’s, apparently in connection with Isaiah Baltzell.  He also appears to have some association with the healing ministry of John Alexander Dowie.
     In 1899, Jeremiah H. Von Neida helped officiate at the laying of the cornerstone at the UB church in Palmyra.  He was “given advisory membership” at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, of the Pennsylvania District, convened in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in Reading PA on October 17, 1902.  In 1902, his “parsonage” is listed as 1228 Spruce Street in Reading. 

     The Reading Times, 9/9/1901, page 5, states: TABERNACLE DEDICATED. FIRST SERVICES HELD IN THE NEW HOUSE OF WORSHIP ON FRANKLIN STREET ABOVE TENTH. With a prayer meeting, lasting from 8.30 to 12.30 Saturday evening, the Gospel Tabernacle, Franklin Street above Tenth, was formally dedicated to the worship of God. The service was devoted mainly to waiting on God in prayer. Yesterday services were held at 10 1 a. m., 3.15 and p. m., Bible school 2.45 p. m. and Junior Sunday school at 2.45 p. m. Services will be held every evening this week at 7.45 o'clock and Wednesday and Thursday all day. This evening the meeting will be addressed by F. E. Dunlap, secretary of the P. &amp; R. Railway Y. M. C. A.; Tuesday evening Rev. C. S. Oswald, of Grace United Evangelical church; Wednesday, Girard Bailey, a South American missionary; Thursday, Rev. F, H. Senft, of Philadelphia, district superintendent of the Christian Missionary Alliance; Friday, Rev. W. K. Ziegler, pastor of the Mennonite congregation. The Rev. J. H. Von Neida, pastor, says the work was entrusted to him by Providence, he undertook it with faith, and that God has already honored it with contributions amounting to $1,119. The tabernacle is to be sacred to the full Gospel. The new tabernacle is a substantial plain brick building, 20 by 50 feet. The front is pressed brick laid in rod mortar. The interior is finished in cypress wood, except the pulpit furniture, chancel rail and pews, which are hard oak. Model leaded windows are in the front of the building.

     The Associated Press distributed this in item 1901: READING. Pa. Nov. 25.--The Rev J. H. Von Neida, pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle here, has publicly warned tile young women of his church against “those who are skilled in the art of hypnotism.” “How many young women of respectable families,” he said, "have been led into traps by this influence. They attend an evening gathering. A young man who is an adept in the art escorts one of them home, and by hypnotic influence gets her into his power. I believe this devilish art is responsible for some recent crimes.”

 

 

VON NIEDA, SOLOMON

 

Born: 3-24-1809  Cocalico PA                                   married: Elizabeth Mary Fry

Died: 7-21-1880  Dayton OH                                     obit: [5/13/1815 – 5/10/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 282

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1845    license

1848    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum. Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1848-49           Berks County circuit

1849-50           Dauphin circuit

1850-52           Myerstown

1854                transfer

 

Note: This surname is also rendered VON NEIDA and VONNIEDA [all one word, with only the V capitalized]. Solomon Von Nieda was active at the denominational level as publishing agent, etc., and the denominational histories contain many references to him.  Solomon Von Neida is an uncle to Mary E. Von Neida Salt, wife of Michael A. Salt.

 

 

WACHTER, WILLIAM CORNELIUS

 

Born: 10-12-1881  Walkersville MD                         married: Ella Ida Aumen

Died: 10-10-1979                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 23

Miller-Raker #: 598                                                    married2: Mrs. Mettie C. Reightler Smith

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Susquehanna Conference 1965, 109

Gibble list: no

 

1916    quarterly conference license, Walkersville   

1916    license, recommended by Walkersville

1924    ordained

 

Interment: Utica Cemetery, Lewistown MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 349

 

1920-21           Barts

1921-23           Taneytown

1923-26           Manchester

1926-30           Boonsboro

1930-35           Oakville

1935-37           Mechanicsburg circuit

1937-42           Springett

1942-49           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1949-55           Lemasters

1955                retired

                        supply pastor, Emmanuel EUB in Brooklyn MD

 

Note:  The dates for both licenses are from 1916, 31 and do not agree with what was later erroneously published in the UM journals. 

 

 

WACKERMAN, HARRY E.

 

Born: 6-19-1943                                                          married: Peggy _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 809

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1963    license, recommended by York First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1961-65           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1962-65       student assistant, York First

1965-68           student, United Seminary

1968-70           associate, Shippensburg Messiah

1970-79           Jacobus (ending 8/1/1979)

1979-80           York Springs-Arnold’s (8/1/1979-8/26/1980)

1980                withdrew 8/26/80, see 1981, 261

                        instrumental in starting Cedar Hill Baptist church in Dillsburg PA area

                        manager, American Eagle Outfitters

                        manager, Long John Silver’s Seafood Restaurant

1991-03           Aramark Services, West Chester University in West Chester PA

2003-14           assistant program coordinator, Kennett Senior Center in Kennett Square PA

2014                retired

 

 

WADE, A.T.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 184

Gibble list: no

 

1877    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1879                transfer to

 

 

Note: A.T. Wade never served under appointment in the Allegheny Conference.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

WAGGONER, WALTER E.

 

Born: 11-11-1896  Wertzville PA                              married: Leona Ruth King

Died: 4-24-1934  York PA                                         obit: [6/25/1902 – 10/24/1973]

Miller-Raker #: 615

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1921    license, recommended by Mechanicsburg circuit

1932    ordained

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Lutheran church cemetery, near Wertzville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 20

 

1922-24           Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

1924-28           Mechanicsburg circuit, while a student at Lebanon Valley College

1928-32           Shepherdstown

1932-34           York Second

 

Note: The widowed Mrs. Waggoner later married a Mr. Lester F. Adams (1900-1993).

 

WAGNER, BARNARD

 

Born: 1820                                                                  married:

Died: 4-20-1893                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 288

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1848    license

 

Interment:

Obit: Northwest Kansas Conference 1893, 27

 

1849-51           Perry circuit

1851-52           Path Valley circuit

1855                transfer to Illinois Conference

 

Note:  In 1877 Barnard Wagner is listed as the pastor of the church outside Galva, Henry County IL.

 

WAGNER, DAVID R.

 

Born: 4-11-1864  Buckhannon WV                           married: Blanche _____

Died: 12-14-1939  Trego MD                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: 519

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, West Virginia Conference

?          ordained, ?

 

Interment: Rohrersville Cemetery, Rohrersville MD

Obit:

 

1893-01           Mt. Lake Park

1901-02           ?

1902-03           Rohrersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 57

1903-04           Rohrersville

1904-06           Williamsport MD

1906-10           Red Lion circuit

1910-14           Winterstown

1914-15           Baltimore Scott Street [Dorguth]

1915-16           York Fourth

1916-17           Manchester

1917                local, living in Baltimore & Pasadena MD

1925                dropped, page 71                   

 

Note: D.R. Wagner is listed as being ordained in 1903, but the West Virginia Conference shows him transferring out in 1902 and there is no record of his being ordained by the Pennsylvania Conference.  His picture is in the 1916 directory in the York Fourth church file.  Find-a-grave lists him as David W. Wagner.  It is believed that his family name was original Wagoner.

 

 

WAGNER, JACOB K.

 

Born: 10-23-1843                                                        married: Jennie Virginia Seeley [1871]

Died: 5-15-1899                                                          obit: [10/11/1846 – 7/22/1917]

Miller-Raker #: 459

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1891    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown IA

Obit:

 

1890-91           Florin Glossbrenner (beginning 10/31/90; see 1891, 13)

1891-93           Springfield

1893                transfer to Northwest Kansas Conference

1893-96

1896                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1896-98           Newburg

1898-01           Path Valley  (resigned 9/1/1900)

1901                withdrew

 

Note: J.K. Wagner is the son of William B. Wagner.  He served with the Iowa cavalry in the Civil War, graduated from Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton Ohio in 1890, and eventually followed in his father’s footsteps and became a practicing physician in Iowa.  Mrs. Wagner’s maiden name also appears as Jenny Swiney.

 

WAGNER, MILTON A.

 

Born: c1881  Akron OH                                             married: Mary Ann Hughes

Died: 1-31-1958                                                          obit: Ohio East Conference 1960, 105

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [MARK A. WAGNER]

 

1915    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1921    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio East Conference 1958, 89&90


1913-14           Iona circuit (last part of year; see 1914, 5)

1914-17           Chambers Hill

1917-18           Lebanon Bethany

1918-21           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1921-22           Akron OH Arlington Street, Ohio East Conference

1922                transfer to Ohio East Conference

1922-52           Akron Arlington Street [Wedgewood]

1952                retired

 

 

WAGNER, THEOPHILUS

 

Born: 11-6-1857  near McConnellsburg PA              married: Laura Mary Arnold

Died: 3-17-1935  Carlisle PA                                     obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 38

Miller-Raker #: 432

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [THEODORE WAGNER]

 

            quarterly conference license, Pleasant Grove of York Haven charge

1886    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891    ordained

 

Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 21

 

1883-84           assistant, Shippensburg & Orrstown

1884-85           Yocumtown

1885-86           Middletown, East Pennsylvania Conference

1886                “transfer” to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-87           Mt Pleasant mission (including part of a second year)

1887-88           Bendersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1888                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89           Bendersville

1889-90           Greencastle

1890-92           Big Spring

1892-94           Rayville circuit

1894-97           Littlestown circuit

1897-98           supernumerary

1898-02           Perry circuit

1902-05           York Springs

1905-24           supply

1924                retired, active in the Carlisle church

 

Note: Arnold’s Church near Dillsburg received its name from the family of Mrs. Wagner.

 

 

WAGNER, WILLIAM. B.

 

Born: 2-5-1818  Dauphin County PA                         married: Barbara A. Rank [1842]

Died: 8-23-1892                                                          obit: [7/?/1823 – 12/17/1901]

Miller-Raker #: 254

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license

1846    ordained

 

Interment: Oak hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1893, 32

 

1841-42           Carlisle circuit

1842-43           Chambersburg circuit

1843-44           Carlisle circuit

1844-46           York circuit

1846-48           Rocky Spring circuit

1848-49           assistant presiding elder

1849-50           Chambersburg circuit

1850-51           presiding elder

!851-54            York station

1854-56           Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1856-57           presiding elder

1857                transfer to Iowa Conference, page 46

                        became a physician and practiced medicine in Blairstown IA

 

Note: William B. Wagner is the father of J.K. Wagner.

 

 

WAGNER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 7-19-1832  near Oakville PA                           married: Caroline Kurtz

Died: 8-17-1914  Hockersville PA                             obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 95

Miller-Raker #: 355

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1868    quarterly conference license

1871    license

1874    ordained

 

Interment: Mt Pleasant [Hayes Grove] UB Cemetery, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 93

 

1870-71           Shippensburg circuit

1871-72           not assigned

1872-75           Carlisle circuit

1875-77           Newville

1877-79           Big Spring

1879-80           Orrstown (3 months)

1880-81           Carlisle

1881-85           living in Dickinson, Cumberland County PA

1885-87           Scotland

1887-90           living in Dickinson, Cumberland County PA

1890-94           Dillsburg circuit

1894-99           Carlisle circuit

1899                local

1906-12           special agent, Quincy Old People’s Home

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 311, gives a brief biography.

 

 

WAGONER, GEORGE SR.

 

Born: 1803 Germany                                                  married: Mary Leonard

Died: 5-19-1855  Jackson County IA                         obit: [1797 – 1/5/1884]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 31 & 83

Gibble list: no

 

1839    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Hickory Grove Cemetery, Emeline IA

Obit:

 

1841                expelled

1853                reinstated

 

Note: George Wagoner Sr. is the father of George Wagoner.  He operated as a local pastor.  The 1889 biographical history of Jackson County IA includes these comments: “George and Mary (Leonard) Wagoner were natives of Germany and Pennsylvania, and spent their last years in Brandon Township. Mr. Wagoner was born in Germany and came to the United States with this brothers and sisters when a small boy. They settled in Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1854, then came to this county with the expectation of building up a home in Brandon Township. The plans and expectations of the family were sadly broken in upon by his death, which occurred three weeks after his arrival here. Mrs. Wagoner survived her husband nearly thirty years and passed away on the 5th of January, 1884.”

 

 

WAGONER, GEORGE

 

Born: 4-19-1826  near Madison PA                           married: Mary Louise Henrie

Died: 5-31-1889  [Johnstown flood]                          obit: [11/15/1829 – 5/31/1889]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 70

Gibble list: no

 

            quarterly conference license, Philippi class in Ligonier Valley

1850    license, Allegheny Conference

1852    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1889, 35

 

1848-49           assistant, Somerset circuit

1849-50           Liverpool circuit

1850-52           Johnstown

1852-53           Liverpool circuit

1853-54           Johnstown

1854-56           Wayne circuit

1856-57           Allegheny City mission

1857-60           Pittsburgh and Allegheny City mission (did not finish the final year)

1860-62           on leave for health reasons

1852-65           superintendent, Middle District

1865-66           missionary agent for Pittsburgh mission

1866                located to Johnstown

                             1870-71      Columbia Salome, East Pennsylvania Conference (part year)

                             1871-72      Cambria circuit

                             1873-74      superintendent, West District

                             1875-76      Cambria circuit

                             1880-81      Stony Creek mission

 

Note: George Wagoner is the son of George Wagoner Sr.  He is also known as George W. Wagoner III. In his later years, George Wagoner practiced dentistry in Johnstown and accepted appointments as he was able.  He was a trustee of Lebanon Valley College 1883-89.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 8.

 

WAITE, HENRY

 

Born: 1-3-1826                                                            married: Anna Eyre

Died: 5-15-1873                                                          obit: [3/25/1832 – 4/3/1911]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 146

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Allegheny Conference

1873    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grays Cemetery, Centre County PA

Obit:

 

1869-70           Millheim

 

Note:  Henry Waite served mainly as a local preacher.

 

 

WALKER, FRED DONALD

 

Born: 2-23-1920  Tyrone PA                                      married: Elizabeth Seilhammer (11/26/1944)

Died: 12-11-2005  Williamsport PA                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1940    quarterly conference license

1944    license, Allegheny Conference

1946    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mazeppa Union Cemetery, Mazeppa PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 443

 

1940-44           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1944-46           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1946-57           missionary to Sierra Leone, Africa

                             1952-53      Shade Gap

1957-62           Pitcairn

1962-69           Altoona Third [East End]

1969                disability leave

                             1972-79      chaplain, River Woods at Lewisburg PA

     1985           retired

 

Note: Mrs. Ealker’s maiden name is more freuiqenty given as SEILHAMER.

 

WALKER, JOSHUA

 

Born: 2-8-1825  England                                            married: Nancy J. Williams

Died: 1-23-1880  East Conemaugh                            obit: [1836-1880]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 85

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

1856    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference (FEB) 1880, 14

 

1854-55           Bellefonte

1855-57           Liverpool

1857-58           Tyrone

1858-60           Juniata

1860-62           Westmoreland

1862-64           Blair

1864-65           Bellefonte

1865-68           superintendent, East District

1868-70           Blair

1870-72           Millheim

1872-76           Altoona station

1876-78           superintendent, East District

1878-80           Wilmore and Conemaugh

 

Note: Joshua Walker came to this country when “quite young.”

 

WALKER, WAYNE SCOTT

 

Born: 1-29-1846  Scotland                                         married: Florence Emily Helton

Died: 2-20-1934  Spokane WA                                  obit: [3/17/1850 – 12/21/1931]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [S.W. Walker]

 

?          license,

?          ordained,

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Bonners Ferry ID

Obit:

 

1875-76           Annville, Lebanon Valley College Chapel

1876                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1876-77           Annville, Lebanon Valley College Chapel (did not finish the year)

1876-77           president, Philomath College in Philomath OR

1877                transfer to Oregon Conference

1877-84           president, Philomath College in Philomath OR

1885-87           principal, UB school in Brownsville OR

1887-89           principal, UB’s Washington Seminary in Huntsville WA

1889-91           principal/headmaster, secular school in Latah WA

1891-93           founder/headmaster, Pullman Military School in Pullman OR

 

Note: Walker emigrated to the U.S. in 1862, took up residence in Terre Haute IN, and served in the 11th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, 1864-65.  He is believed to have studied at Westfield College (but all of that institutions records from that period are lost) and taught school in Neoga Township IL before moving to Annville in 1875.  Pullman Military School burned in 1893 and never re-opened.  In 1894 Dr. W.S. Walker was defeated in his bid to become mayor of Lafayette IN.  He returned to the west and taught, farmed and kept store.  He served two terms in the Idaho State Senate 1917-20.  He moved to Spokane in 1926.  The most complete account of his life is given in the 2011 paper “Pullman’s Military College” by Mark O’English of Washington State University in the Bunchgrass Historian, vol. 37-2.

 

WALLACE, JOHN

 

Born: 2-?-1813                                                            married: Margaret Otto (1840)

Died: 8-31-1880  near Freeport IL                             obit:

Miller-Raker #: 193

Fulton #: 6

Gibble list: yes

 

1834    license

1837    ordained

 

Interment: Lancaster Cemetery, Dakota IL

Obit: [Religious Telescope 9/29/1880]

 

1835-36           Clearfield circuit

1836-38           Washington mission

1838-39           New York mission

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40           Huntingdon circuit

1840-41           no minutes taken

1841-42           Susquehanna mission

1842-43           assignments not listed

1843-45           Liverpool circuit

1845-46           presiding elder, Washington District

1846-47           presiding elder, Eastern District

1847-48           presiding elder, Westmoreland District

1848-50           Mount. Pleasant station

1850-52           Allegheny circuit (apparently did not finish 2nd year)

1851                transfer to Rock River Conference

                        Congregational Church in Missouri

                        United Brethren Church in Illinois

 

 

WALLACE, SAMUEL THOMAS

 

Born: 1-14-1847  Perry County PA                            married:  Rebecca Jane Gingrich

Died: 6-11-1922  MO                                                 obit: [1/23/1847 – 2/15/1923]

Miller-Raker #: 374

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1874    license

1877    ordained

 

Interment: UB Cemetery, southwest of Fulton MO

Obit: Missouri Conference 1922, 36

 

1874-75           Liverpool circuit [Manchester PA] & Dover circuit

1875-77           Pine Grove MD mission

1877-78           Mercersburg circuit

1878-81           Path Valley circuit

1881-85           Alto Dale circuit

1885-86           York Springs circuit

1886-87           living in Fulton MO

1887                transfer to Missouri Conference

 

Note: Samuel T. Wallace is a brother to William O. Wallace and the grandson of Thomas Huston.  Their parents [Robert (1817-1885) and Barbara Huston (1822-1895) Wallace] are buried in the Snyder’s UB Church Cemetery, Perry County PA.  The Missouri Conference “obituary” is on file, but it gives no biographical information – except to say that he was a former presiding elder [district superintendent].  The file of Samuel T. Wallace contains several items.  Mrs. Wallace is a niece to John S. Gingerich.

 

 

WALLACE, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN

 

Born: 7-26-1851  Perry County PA                            married: Anna Virginia Gorsuch

Died: 1-5-1903  Kansas City MO                               obit: [3/21/1858 – 3/23/1950]

Miller-Raker #: 387

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1878    license

1882    ordained

 

Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Golden City MO

Obit: Missouri Conference 1903, 15

 

1877-79           Pine Grove MD mission

1879-80           Manchester MD circuit (did not finish the year)

1880-81           living in New Bloomfield

1881-82           Eschol mission

1883-86           living in Dellville

1886                transfer to Missouri Conference, page 5

 

Note: William O. Wallace is a brother to Samuel T. Wallace and the grandson of Thomas Huston.  Their parents [Robert (1817-1885) and Barbara Huston (1822-1895) Wallace] are buried in the Snyder’s UB Church Cemetery, Perry County PA.  The Missouri Conference “obituary” is on file, but it gives no biographical information – except to say that he served as a pastor and a presiding elder [district superintendent]. 

 

 

WALLICK, CHARLES C. JR

 

Born: 9-6-1916  Red Lion PA                                    married: Nancy Jane Cole

Died: 6-6-2008                                                            obit: [4/19/1917 – 10/6/1994]

Miller-Raker #: 693

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1940    license, recommended by Red Lion Bethany

 

Interment: Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado, Grand Junction CO

Obit:

 

1934-38           student, Ursinus College

1938-41           student, Yale Divinity School

1941                ordained a minister in the Congregational Church, page 35

1941-42           Wethersfield CT

1942-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-49           faculty, Ursinus College

1949-51           student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

1951-54           Hampton CT

1954-55           director, University of Cincinnati YMCA

1955-56           Inner City Protestant Parish, Cleveland OH

1956-57           Faith Community Church, Richmond Heights OH

1957-64           ?

1964-77           insurance business in Cleveland OH

                             Church of Our Lord, inner city mission in Cleveland OH

1977-80           Colibran CO

1980-81           UCC mission at Mount Silinda, Zimbabwe, Africa

1981-88           New Castle CO

1988                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Wallick was a medical doctor who served mainly in inner city clinics and small rural towns.

 

WALMER ROBERT CHESTER

 

Born: 9-9-1883  Lebanon PA                                     married: Addie Vogt (2/21/1904)

Died: 4-11-1914  Mahaffey  PA                                 obit: [3/24/1884 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 385

Gilbble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license, McKeesport Kephart Memorial

1911    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Massillon City Cemetery, Massillon OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1914, 82

 

1911-12           Rochester Mills

1912-14           Mahaffey

 

 

WALTER, C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1881-82           Hopeland circuit

 

Note: C. Walter was apparently a local pastor in the East Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

WALTERS, CLARENCE GEORGE SR.

 

Born: 1-7-1904  near Camp Hill PA                          married: Margarene I. Pentz

Died: 9-21-1978                                                          obit: [6/15/1906 – 2001]

Miller-Raker #: 733

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1943    quarterly conference license

1950     license, recommended by Mt. Zion of Young’s-Mt Zion charge

1959    ordained

 

Interment: St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Wertzville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 340

 

1951-56           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1956-65           Hellam-Druck Valley

1965-76           Liberty

1976                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Walters is listed in the journal as a ministerial widow up to and including 1986.  Starting in 1987 she is no longer listed, but no mention of her death can be found in any source.

 

WALTERS, H.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 503

Gibble list: yes

 

1926    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

1927                credentials asked

 

Note: This person is also named as H.M. Walters.

 

WALTERS, JOHN M.

 

Born: 10-14-1869  Reynolds PA                                married: Emma Katherine Houser

Died: 3-27-1945  Reading PA                                                obit: [d. 9/6/1917]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Esther (Weidner) Reber

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: East PA Conference 1962, 61

Gibble list: yes

 

1890    quarterly conference license

1891    license, East German Conference

1893    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Laureldale Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 18

 

1890-93           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton Ohio

1893-94           Elizabethville

1894-95           Tower City

1895-96           Milton

1896-01           Baltimore Third [Otterbein]

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Allentown Linden Street

1903-08           Mountville

1908-10           Palmyra First

1910-16           Ephrata

1916-19           Sunbury

1919-21           Lititz

1921-23           Pottstown

1923-30           Reading Zion

1930-37           Elizabethville

1937-39           Denver

1939                retired

 

Note: John M. Walters is the father of Leroy R. Walters.  The second Mrs. Walters is the widow of Howard F. Reber.

 

 

WALTERS, LEROY RIDGLEY

 

Born: 5-13-1897  Baltimore MD                                married: Katherene A. Wollenhaupt

Died: 11-11-1964                                                        obit: [1901-1978]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1917    quarterly conference license, Sunbury Otterbein

1919    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Park Hill Cemetery, Landingville PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1965, 112

 

1917-18           student, Lebanon Valley College

1918-19           military service (first half of year)

                        Cressona (second ha1f of year)

1919-22           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1922-24           Reading Zion

1924-26           New Holland

1926-27           (nothing listed)

1927-29           Phillipsburg OH, Miami Conference

1929-32           Mount Carmel

1932-35           Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1935-38           Shoemakersville

1938-43           Avon

1943-46           Ephrata

1946-52           Mountville

1952-62           Avon

1962                retired

 

Note: Leroy R. Walters is the son of John M. Walters.  At LVC, he was a member of the “Old Story” quartette with Homer Ramsey, Guy Stambach and J. Paul Hummel.

 

 

WALTZ, SAMUEL H.

 

Born: 4-14-1882                                                          married: Mary E. Reed

Died: 1-3-1958                                                            obit: [11/19/1881 – 5/27/1963]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Cornwall Cemetery, Cornwall PA

Obit:

 

1920-25           Lebanon circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 4/2/1920)

1925-31           Campbelltown & Lebanon West, East Pennsylvania Conference (ending 1/1/1931)

1931-?             Campbelltown Union Gospel Tabernacle, independent

                       

Note: Samuel H. Waltz is listed under “’others serving in the conference” and his credentials and affiliation are unknown.  The Union Gospel Tabernacle reorganized in 1962 as the Lebanon Valley Bible Church. 

 

WALZ, CHARLES P.

 

Born: 8-6-1908  Philadelphia PA                               married: Mabel Feusner

Died: 6-4-1989  Fountain Valley CA                         obit: [2/13/1905 – 2/26/1985]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [WALTZ]

 

1936    quarterly conference license

1938    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1939    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1938-39           student, Temple University School of Theology

1939-40           Antioch WV circuit, Virginia Conference (beginning 9/25/1939)

1940-41           living in Reliance VA

1941                transfer to Virginia Conference

1943                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1943-44           Lykens

1944-45           living in Philadelphia

1945-46           Muscatine IA (beginning Dec. 1944, UB church at Sixth Street & Mulberry Avenue)

1946                transfer to California Conference

                        director, San Diego CA Goodwill Industries

1959                director, Battle Creek MI Goodwill Industries

1968                no longer listed in EUB Yearbook

 

Note: Charles P. Walz is pictures in the 1939 yearbook of the Temple University School of Theology. The 1946 United Brethren yearbooks lists Charles P. Walz as a member of the East Pennsylvania Conference living in Muscatine IA.  In the 1960’s he is listed as a member of the California Conference living in Michigan and Ohio.  Mrs. Walz was president of the Divinity Dames (ministers’ wives) of the Virginia Conference 1941-42.  

 

WARNER, MICHAEL E.

 

Born:                                                                           married: _____ Shull

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1966     license, recommended by York First

 

Interment: 

Obit:

 

1966-68           Adamsville-Mt. Pleasant

 

Note: Michael Warner was attending Millersville State College.  His name does not appear in the 1968 journal, and drops out without any explanation.  Michael E. Warner was from Stewartstown and Mrs, Shull was from York.  In July 1969, they were living in Kingston NY when their daughter Kristi Lynn was born.  In 1971, he was Specialist Four Warner stationed in Germany.  In 2019, he appears to be living in Cary NC.

 

 

WASHINGER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 9-9-1862  Jacksonville PA                               married: Romaine Elizabeth Funkhouser

Died: 5-18-1928                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 35

Miller-Raker #: 440

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1889    license

1894    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 69

 

1889-91           student, Lebanon Valley College

1890-91           Harrisburg Derry Street, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891-94           Harrisburg Otterbein

1894-02           Chambersburg First

1902-17           conference superintendent

1917-28           bishop, Pacific District

 

Note: A brief biography of W.H. Washinger appers in Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 323.  Mrs. Washinger is the granddaughter of Daniel Funkhouser.

 

 

WASSON, CHARLES WESLEY

 

Born: 6-14-1866  near State College PA                    married: Mary Alice Shodel

Died: 5-2-1935  Philadelphia PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 229

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 212

Gibble list: no

 

1885    license, Allegheny Conference

1888    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pine Hall Cemetery, State College PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 192

 

1884-85           Huntingdon and Juniata

1885-86           Millheim

1886-87           Bellefonte

1887-90           Philipsburg

1890-92           Tyrone

1892                honorable dismissal

1892-93           Woodland & Bradford, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME (beginning 7/21/92)

1893                received into Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1893-95           Hastings

1895-98           Patton

1898-01           Saxton

1901-06           Williamsport High Street

1906-11           York Duke Street

1911-15           Altoona Juniata

1915-21           Philipsburg

1921-25           Bloomsburg

1925-28           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1928                retired

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 11.

 

WASSON, ROBERT LAWRENCE

 

Born: 9-24-1903  PA                                                  married: Elizabeth Johnson

Died: 9-25-1989  OR                                                  obit: [9/9/1909 – 1992]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    quarterly conference license

1933    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Tyrone

1935    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: [cremated]

Obit:

 

1937                transfer to Michigan Conference, page 94

1937-39           Casco

1939-43

1943                removed for delinquency

                        First Presbyterian, Canon Beach OR

 

Note: This surname is also rendered WASSEN.  Robert L. Wasson became a Presbyterian minister, lived in Spokane for quite a few years, moved to the desert in California, and retired in Oregon.

 

WATERS, J.W.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 349

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

                        Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1903-04           Scalp Level Trinity

1904-05           Pennsville

1906                transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1906-07           Burnside

1907-08           Mahaffey (reassigned in 1908, but resigned soon after)

1908-09           Bendersville, Pennsylvania Conference

1909                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: As a member of the Allegheny Conference, JWA Waters served Bendersville when the regularly assigned pastor resigned soon after conference – see 1909, 29.  The Allegheny Conference lists him as transferring to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1909, but he never appears on the rolls of that or any other conference.  The 1909 Pennsylvania Conference journal, page 49, lists him as a licentiate of the Allegheny Conference whose request for transfer was deferred until he shall have completed his course of study.  The 11/6/1909 Adams County News, page 4, calls him “one of the most able ministers the Bendersville charge ever had” and states that he “has accepted as more lucrative position as pastor of a church at [?].”  The 1911 UB yearbook lists him as a member of the Allegheny Conference living in Bendersville.  In the 1910’s and 1920’ there was a Rev. John W. Waters in the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania who began serving at Dunbar 10/1/1918.

 

 

WATSON, J. WILBUR

 

Born: 1922                                                                  married:

Died: 1968                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1945    quarterly conference license

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mount Joy Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Mount Pleasant PA

Obit:

 

1947-48      Dunlevy

1948-54      Arona

1954           without appointment at own request

1954-58      Pittsburgh Madison Avenue (beginning October 1954)

1958-60      without appointment

1960           located

 

 

WATSON, JOHN R.

 

Born: 5-25-1875  Northumberland, England             married:  Blanche McCabe

Died: 2-2-1933  McKeesport PA                                obit: Allegheny Conference 1948, 70

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 343

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

1911    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Jeannette Cemetery, Jeannette PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1933, 46

 

1908-1915       Jeannette

1915-22           Youngwood

1922-25           Altoona Second

1925-31           Tyrone

1931-33           McKeesport Kephart Memorial

 

Note: John Watson served as a local preacher in the Primitive Methodist Church in England 1901-1906.  In 1938 the widow Watson married a Mr. Henry J. Barnes.

 

WEAVER, CHARLES A.

 

Born: 4-25-1875  Curtin, Dauphin County PA          married: Bertha J. Sheets

Died: 5-14-1938  Kingston PA                                   obit: Allegheny Conference 1931, 63

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Anna M. Garman

Fulton #: 328 & 391                                                   obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    quarterly conference license, Reigles

1899    quarterly conference license, Steelton

1902    quarterly conference license

1903    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1908    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Reigles United Brethren Cemetery, Dauphin County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938, 67

 

1903-04           student, Lebanon Valley Academy at Annville PA

1904                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904                Clarington (part year)

1904-05           Rochester Mills

1905-08           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1908-09           Shueyville circuit, Iowa Conference

1909                transfer to Iowa Conference

1909-11           serving in Iowa

1911                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1911-12           Dunlo

1912-14           Erie Conference

1914-16           Springfield

1916-17           Liverpool

1917-19           West Decatur

1919-21           Shanksville

1921-23           Altoona Greenwood

1923-24           Wilmore

1924-26           Industry

1926-27           Hooversville

1927-29           Richfield

1929                located

1935                retired

 

Note: Charles A. Weaver is the father of S. Paul Weaver.

 

 

WEAVER, EARL CROSBY

 

Born: 6-15-1881  VenangoCounty PA                       married: Estella Gifford (6/11/1910)

Died: 3-13-1955  Knox PA                                        obit: [6/3/1883 – 3/10/1950]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 361

Gibble list: no

 

1904    quarterly conference license

1908    license, Allegheny Conference

1913    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 29

 

1908-10      student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

                        1909  Glasgow (June-Sept)

1910-16      Johnstown Park Avenue

1916-17      student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NJ

1917-23      Johnstown First (beginning May 1917)

1923-30      Wilkinsburg

1930-39      Somerset

1939-46      Johnstown Park Avenue

1946-49      McKeesport Kephart

1949            retired

 

 

WEAVER, GEORGE MILLER JR.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Anne Webster

Died:                                                                           obit: Susquehanna Conference 2023, 365

Miller Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1961    license, recommended by Mt, Tabor

1966    ordained

 

Interment:
Obit:

 

1961-63           student, Lebanon Valley College

1959-63           Mt. Aetna Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1963-66           student, United Theological Seminary

1966-67           Shoemakersville – Berne

1967-74           assistant,Derry Street

1974-80           Selinsgrove

1980-83           associate, Chambersburg First

1983-89           Hellam Faith

1989-94           Clearfield Centre Grove

1994-04           Paddletown

2004                retired

 

 

WEAVER, JOSEPH HARRY

 

Born: 4-10-1880  Port Matilda PA                             married: Virgie Esther Williams

Died: 4-17-1948                                                          obit: [5/5/1881 – 1/5/1966]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 483

Gibble list: no

 

1912    quarterly conference license

1924    license, Allegheny Conference

1927    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948, 67

 

                        Blandburg Methodist Episcopal Church

1913-15           Belsano

1915-22           Orbisonia

1922-27           West Decatur

1927-28           Arona

1928-30           Rockwood

1930-34           East Freedom

1934-44           Port Matilda

1940                Sidman – St. Michaels (resigned 9/30/1940)

1940-44           Port Matilda (beginning 9/28/1940)

 

WEAVER, SAINT PAUL H.

 

Born: 7-3-1895  Millersburg PA                                married: Alice C. Hanson

Died: 11-19-1963                                                        obit: [4/17/1899 – 8/?/1986]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1913    quarterly conference license, Sugar Grove

1914    license, Erie Conference

1918    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg NY

Obit: [EUB Yearbook 1964, 74]

 

1913-14           student, Sugar Grove Seminary in Sugar Grove PA

                             1913-14      assistant, Mt. Pleasant circuit

1914-16           Oswayo

1916-17           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1917-18           Albion

1918-19           Buffalo NY Grace

1919-20           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1920-21           Warren

1921-23           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1921-23      Cleona & Pleasant Hill, East Pennsylvania Conference

1923-26           student, Gordon Graduate School of Theology

                             1923-26      West Bridgewater Ma Sunset Avenue Congregational Church

1926-27           West Bridgewater MA Sunset Avenue Congregational Church

1927-28           Youngsville

1928-34           Erie Glenwood

1934-35           Bradford (ending 3/1/35)

1934-46           conference superintendent (beginning 11/15/34)

 

Note: S. Paul Weaver is the son of Charles A. Weaver.  A biographical sketch is given in Weaver’s 1936 History of the Erie Conference, of which he is the author.        

 

WEAVER, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Born: 2-23-1861  York County PA                            married: Ida E. Heiges

Died: 4-29-1926  Dillsburg PA                                  obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 30

Miller-Raker #: 418

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1886    license

1889    ordained

 

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 62

 

1886-89           Rayville

1889-91           Littlestown

1891-94           Mont Alto

1894-99           Dillsburg circuit

1899-02           New Cumberland

1902-03           Red Lion & Windsor

1903-05           Shiremanstown

1905-07           Lemoyne & Enola missions

1907-11           Lemoyne mission

1911-18           treasurer, Lebanon Valley College

1918                local

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 311, gives a brief biography.  Wiley’s 1897 Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cumberland, York and Adams Counties, page 348, gives an extended family history.

 

 

WEBER, MICHAEL M.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-97           Jacksonville circuit

1897-98

1898-99           Grantville circuit

1899-01           Fishburn circuit

1901-03           living in Middletown

1903                referred

 

Note: Michael M. Weber appears to have been referred back to the local charge for failing to progress toward ordination and/or losing interest in the ministry. 

 

WECHTENHIZER, GOLDIE  [see KELLER]

 

 

WEEKLEY, MARTIN L.

 

Born: 3-11-1866                                                          married: Edna M. McCormick

Died: 1949                                                                  obit: [1882-1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    license, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg VA

Obit:

 

1896-99           Buckhannon

1899-00           Marion IN, White River Conference

1900-01           Wilbur

1901-09           Parkersburg

1909                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference [see 1910, 11]

1909-11           Harrisburg Otterbein

1911                transfer to (any conference); see 1911, 13

1916                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1916-18           Charleston

1918                transfer to Virginia Conference

1918-19           Harrisonburg

1919                transfer to East Ohio Conference

                        Massillon

                        Mansfield

Note: Martin L. Weekley is the brother of Bishop William M. Weekley (1851-1926) of the United Brethren Church. 

WEEKS, JOHN STAFFORD

Born: 9-27-1920  Hanover PA                                   married: Winifred Ann English
Died: 1-25-2009  Monmouth IL                                 obit: [5/16/192 – 10-5/1016]
Miller-Raker #: 695
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no

1941    license, recommended by Hanover

1945    ordained

 

Interment: Sugar Tree Grove Cemetery, Warren County IL

Obit:

 

1940                Hanover (June-Sept)

1942-44           East Dayton OH

1944-48           Fayetteville

1948-53           Chicago Norwood Park

1953-54           faculty, Huron College in Huron SD

1954                transfer to Presbyterian Church, Presbytery of Huron SD

                        transfer to Presbytery of Great Rivers

1959-97           faculty & chaplain, Monmouth College

                        retired

                            Faith United Presbyterian, Monmouth IL

 

Note: Rev. Dr. Weeks has a BS from Juniata College, BD from Bonebrake Seminary, and PhD from the University of Chicago.  In addition to the positions listed above, he served as interim pastor of First Methodist Church of Monmouth IL.

 

 

WEICHAND, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1841    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

 

WEIDLER, ISAAC C.

 

Born: 3-17-1829  Lancaster County PA                     married: Mary Catharine Schaff

Died: 4-20-1897  Biglerville PA                                obit: [d. 7/1/1909]

Miller-Raker #: 308

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1852    quarterly conference license, Salem Church in Franklin County

1855    license

1858    ordained

 

Interment: Biglerville Cemetery, Biglerville PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC  1897, 8

 

1855-56           Greencastle circuit

1856-57                      Carlisle circuit

1857-59           Big Spring circuit

1859-61           Bendersville mission

1861-62           ?

1862-64           Littlestown circuit

1864-67           Ickesburg mission

1867-70           located

1870-72           Big Spring

1872-75           Bendersville circuit

1875-79           Boiling Springs circuit

1879-80           Yocumtown circuit

1880-81           Orrstown station

1881-85           located, living in Eschol

1885                “transfer”

1885-90           located, living in Eschol

1890                charter member of Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1890-93           York Springs

1893-94           Manchester & Littlestown

1894-95           Manchester & Franklintown

1895-96           Gettysburg

1897                Littlestown

 

Note: Isaac C. Weidler is the father of Z.A. Weidler.  He is listed in the UB yearbooks as living in Eschol until 1887, and then his name disappears.  He is the brother of Rev. W.O. Weidler of the Pennsylvania Conference UBOC. 

 

WEIDLER, JAMES B.

 

Born: 4-2-1850                                                            married: Sarah Ellen Swab

Died: 6-28-1896  near Shippensburg PA                   obit: [9/8/1857 – 11/6/1890]

Miller-Raker #: 401

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, ? Conference

1884    ordained

 

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 34

 

1880                transfer to East German Conference

1881                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1881-85           Path Valley circuit

1885-88           Greencastle station

1888-90           Dillsburg circuit

1890-92           Orrstown

1892-96           Waynesboro mission

 

Note: There was a Rev. J.B. Weidler Endowment Fund of $200 for professorships at Lebanon Valley College from 1897 [see 1897 journal, page 51] to about 1965, but the college’s office of advancement could uncover no further information about the fund.

 

WEIDLER, VICTOR OTTERBEIN

Born: 1-27-1887                                                          married: Dora Henrietta Housekeeper

Died: 8-5-1950  Canada                                             obit: Alaska Missionary Conference 1979, 119

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1913    quarterly conference license, Waynesboro

1914    license, Erie Conference

1916    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green OH

Obit: Minnesota (UB) Conference 1951, 33

 

1910-13           high school teacher, Waynesboro PA

1913-14           Frewsburg NY, Erie Conference

1914                “transfer” to Erie Conference

1914-16           Frewsburg

1916-21           Buffalo Elmwood

1921-22           Warren

1922-26           Buffalo First

1926-34           Minneapolis and superintendent, Minnesota Conference

1934-38           secretary, Home Missions and Church Erection

1938-50           bishop

 

Note: V.O. Weidler is the son of Z.A. Weidler and the grandson of Isaac C. Weidler and Joshua Harp.  Weaver’s 1936 History of the Erie Conference, page 64, and Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 388, give a brief biography.  The dates for Mrs. Weidler, which are not given in her conference obituary, are 1884-1978. 

 

WEIDLER, ZUR ABNER.

 

Born: 7-25-1859  Bendersville PA                             married: Lydia Alice Harp

Died: 7-3-1949  Jamestown NY                                 obit: Erie Conference 1926, 60

Miller-Raker #: 399

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1881    license

1883    ordained

 

Interment: Benevola UB Church Cemetery, Benevola MD

Obit: Erie Conference 1949, 27

 

1880-81           Orrstown

1881-82           Pine Grove mission

1882-84           Baltimore Sixth

1884-85           student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in Dayton OH

1885-87           Highspire circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 5

1887-89           Hummelstown

1889-90           Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1890-92           New Holland

1892-94           Mountville St. Paul’s

1894-95           Lebanon Trinity

1895-98           Reading Otterbein

1898-00           Penbrook Grace

1900-01           Intercourse

1901-03           Lykens

1903-04           ? [re-assigned to Lykens but did not serve the entire year, if at all]

1904-06           Hershey First

1906-08           Allentown Grace

1908-11           Royalton Emanuel

1911-14           Coatesville Grace

1914                moved west

1915-16           Buffalo White Memorial, Erie Conference

1916-17           Cherry Creek, Erie Conference

1917                transfer to Erie Conference

1917-18           Cherry Creek

1918-19           Youngsville Evangelical

1919-22           Kiantone – Lakewood

1922-30           Jamestown Stillwater

1929                retired to Frewsburg NY

 

Note: This first name is sometimes given as Zackary.  Z.A. Weidler is the son of Isaac C. Weidler and the father of Bishop Victor Otterbein Weidler.  He is also the father of Deleth Weidler (1885-1963) – missionary to Africa, faculty member at Indiana Central College, and president of York (NE) College.  Mrs. Weidler is the daughter of Joshua Harp.  A picture of Z.A. Weidler appears in Weaver’s 1936 History of the Erie Conference, page 17.

 

 

WEIDMAN, BENNEVILLE B.

 

Born: 9-5-1833                                                            married: Sarah Peifer

Died: 10-31-1922                                                        obit: [9/7/1842 – 8/6/1903]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [BENNEVILLE E.]

 

1881    license, East German Conference

1885    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Weidman Cemetery, Sinking Spring PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 17

 

1883-84           Berks County circuit

 

Note: B.B. Weidman is the son of Solomon Weidman, and the grandson of Joseph Weidman.

 

WEIDMAN, GIDEON

 

Born: 8-21-1819                                                          married: Sarah _____

Died: 4-18-1876                                                          obit: [11/0/1812 – 9/9/1884]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1851    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hopeland United Brethren Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit:

 

1869                charter member of East German Conference

 

 

WEIDMAN, JOSEPH

 

Born: 12-28-1765  Philadelphia PA                           married: Susanna Hoffert

Died: 7-16-1853  Berks County PA                           obit: [2/5/1765 – 2/24/1843]

Miller-Raker #: 206                                                    married2:

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

 

Interment: Weitman Burial Ground, Cumru township, Berks County PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1850                dropped

 

Note:  Joseph Weidman is the father of Solomon Weidman, and the grandfather of B.B. Weidman.  A Joseph Weidman is mentioned in Christian Newcomer’s journal.  This surname is also rendered WEITMAN and WAIDMAN.   

 

WEIDMAN, SOLOMON B.

 

Born: 2-13-1807  Brecknock twp, Berks Co. PA       married: Mary Blankenbiller

Died: 1-127-1871  Sinking Spring PA                       obit: [1811 – 1898]

 

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1851    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Weidman Cemetery, Sinking Spring PA

Obit:

 

1869                surrendered license

 

Note: Solomon Weidman is the son of Joseph Weidman, and the father of B.B. Weidman.  He pioneered the United Brethren cause in Reading PA and became the founder of that city’s Zion UB Church on South Ninth Street.  A brief biography of Solomon Weidman appears in Brane’s 1909 Historical Souvenir of the United Brethren Churches of Reading, page 34.
 

 

WEIDNER, HENRY

 

Born: Switzerland                                                       married:

Died: 1811  near Baltimore MD                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 5

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1789    license [previously licensed 6-2-1776 by Otterbein, Swope, Hendel & Weimer]

 

Interment: near Baltimore MD

Obit:

 

Note: Henry Weidner attended the conferences of 1789 and 1791, but appears not to have attended after that.  He reportedly moved to Virginia about 1790.  Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 369, gives a brief biography.
  In 1774 he is listed as a class leader in Baltimore, upper part.

 

WEIGEL, AMOS HALLER

 

Born: 11-16-1885  York County PA                          married: Marie Thorne

Died: 10-?-1949  Chicago IL                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: 554

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    license, recommended by Dover

 

Interment: Dover [Salem] Union Cemetery, Dover PA

Obit:

 

1909-10           Mechanicsburg circuit

1910-11           Shepherdstown

1912-13           student, University of Michigan [graduated 1913 with B.A.]

1913-14           instructor in Latin and English in Gilbert MN

1914                withdrew

                        advertising manager for Glass Block, Duluth MN

                        sales manager for Hart Company, Chicago IL (beginning April 1922)

                        Standard Corporation, Chicago IL

 

Note: Amos H. Weigel served Shepherdstown while a student at Lebanon Valley College.  The 1940 census shows an Amos H. Weigel living in Dover PA age 54. 


 

WEIRICH, DAVID

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1880                name erased

 

 

WEIRICH, JOSEPH E.

 

Born: 3-12-1839                                                          married: Mary Countryman

Died: 1-15-1923                                                          obit: [3/14/1840 – 12/23/1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Round Top class of Dauphin County

1876    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Cemetery, Middletown PA

Obit:

 

1875-78           Middleburg circuit

1878-81           Hopeland [Paradise] circuit

1881                name erased

                            1914-17  Stoverdale

 

Note: Joseph E. Weirich was from the Middletown area prior to his itinerancy and functioned as a local pastor in that area after his itinerancy.  He is listed as director of the 1917 Stoverdale Campmeeting.

 

 

WEIST, CONRAD

 

Born: 1-15-1795  Boonsboro MD                              married: Mary Fetterhoff

Died: 3-28-1858  Hagerstown MD                             obit: [4/19/1806 – 1/13/1888]

Miller-Raker #: 91[WIEST]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [WIEST]

 

1819    license

1822    ordained

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD [WEAST]

Obit:

 

1819-20           Virginia circuit

1820-21           Hagerstown circuit

1824-25           Juniata circuit

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1837                ruled “no longer a preacher among us”

 

Note: This surname is also rendered WIEST and WEAST.  According to Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, in 1831 “Conference agreed that Conrad Weist should quit selling liquor and preach more than he has done; if not, his license to be demanded and he be a member of the church no longer.”  Mrs. Weist is the daughter of George Fetterhoff, namesake of Fetterhoff Chapel south of Fayetteville, Franklin County PA.  Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, gives a brief biography.  Mrs. Weist [WEAST] is buried in Frederick MD.

 

WELCH, CALEB L.

 

Born: 8-3-1862  near Zanesville OH                          married:

Died: 3-11-1941  New Florence PA                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Winnie Grigsbee (1894)

Fulton #: 362                                                               obit2: Allegheny Conference 1923, 63

Gibble list: no                                                             married3: Charlotte L. Simmons

                                                                                    obit3: [5/23/1862 – 3/1/1947]

1894    quarterly conference license

1894    license, Scioto Conference

1898    ordained, Scioto Conference

 

Interment: Iliff Cemetery, McLuney OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1941, 59
 

1898-99           Williamsport

1899-01           Laurelville

1901                transfer by conference merger to Southeast Ohio Conference

1901-02           Laurelville

1902-05           Williamsburg

1905-06           Milland

1906-07           Philo

1907                Attica, Sandusky Conference

1907-08           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1908                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1908-14           Industry

1914-16           (not assigned?)

1916-22           Bellefonte

1922-30           New Florence

1930-31           Port Matilda

1931                retired (apparently originally assigned to Sewickley, but resigned 11/13/1931)
 

Note: The widowed third Mrs. Welch appears to have later married a Mr. Whitmore.

 

WELCH, STEPHEN H.

 

Born: 5-15-1858  Chest Springs PA                           married: Eliza J Binker

Died: 3-14-1899  Glasgow PA                                   obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Dorinda Messer [1/24/1889]

Fulton #: 277                                                               obit2: [c1865 – 3/29/1933]

Gibble list: no

 

1882    quarterly conference license, Illinois

1884    license, Central Illinois Conference

1889    ordained, Central Illinois Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Hill UM Cemetery, Glasgow PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1899, 36

 

1894-95           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1895-96           Sanborn, Allegheny Conference

1896-97           West Decatur, Allegheny Conference

1897                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-99           Glasgow

 

Note: Stephen H. Welch was reportedly removed from the cemetery at Glasgow 5/17/1920 and re-interred in the Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA.  One source incorrectly gives the interment at Fairview Cemetery in Altoona PA.  One source gives the first name of the second Mrs. Welch as Lorinda, while another source gives the name Drusinda Messens.  S.H. Welch is listed in the UB Yearbook with the Central Illinois Conference every year (except 1892) from 1885 to 1897.

 

 

WELLS, JOHN B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 88

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1852-53           Stone Valley

1853-54           New Castle

1854-55           Clearfield

1855-56           Fulton mission

1860                expelled

 

WELTY, MERVIE H.

 

Born: 3-6-1902                                                            married: Mary Ellen Shettel

Died: 11-13-1994                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 419

Miller-Raker #: 628

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1924    license, recommended by York Third

1930    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 456

 

1924-26           student, Lebanon Valley College

1924-27           Bendersville (beginning 1/4/1925 – see 1925, 24)

1927-30           student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary

                            1927-28       Colorado Avenue Baptist Church, Dayton OH

                            1928-30       Harrison-Rockdale, Miami Conference

1930                transfer to Oregon Conference

1930-34           Seattle Wallingford

1934                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1934-38           Baltimore Old Otterbein

1938-49           York Second

1949-67                      Red Lion Bethany

1967                retired

     1967-70      Hampstead- Falls Road Salem (ending 1/1/70)

     1974-75      New Freedom-Shrewsbury (beginning 11/1/74)

 

Note: Mrs. Welty is the daughter of J.A. Shettel, and a sister to Paul O. Shettel and Mrs. Harry L. Fehl.  She graduated from seminary with her husband in 1930, but she never sought ordination.

 

 

WENGER, EUGENE BOYER

 

Born: 12-26-1920                                                        married: Dorothy Mae Pfautz (10/1/1944)

Died: 4-22-2002  Riverside CA                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

            license, UBOC

1949    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1941-45           student, Lebanon Valley College

1945                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

1945-46           Hummelstown circuit

1946-49           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                            1946-47       assistant, Dayton OH Fairview, Miami Conference

                            1947-49       Wagner Chapel, Miami Conference

1949-55           missionary to Japan

1955-57           Harrisburg State Street

1957-70           faculty, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville IL

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970                withdrew

1981                First United Presbyterian, San Bernardino CA

 

Note: The 1964 PhD dissertation of Eugene Boyer Wenger is titled “Implications of the Thought of Martin Buber for the Teaching-Learning Process in Christian Education.”

 

 

WENGER, JOHN

 

Born: 1761                                                                  married:

Died: 12-23-1845                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 110

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1824    license

 

Interment:

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1846, 71

 

1837-38           Westmoreland circuit

 

 

WENGERT, ABRAHAM CALVIN

 

Born: 7-6-1789                                                            married: Barbara Light

Died: 5-26-1855                                                          obit: [5/8/1793 – 9/22/1854]

Miller-Raker #: 215

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [WENGER]

 

1836    license

1842    ordained

 

Interment: Wenger’s Church Cemetery, Jonestown PA

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

 

WENGERT, SAMUEL B.

 

Born: 2-20-1865  Lebanon County PA                      married: Mary Ella Light

Died: 12-7-1916                                                          obit: [4/28/1862 – 9/23/1906]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1893    license, East German Conference

1896    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 38

 

1893-94           Middleburg circuit

1894-97           Elizabethville1897-99 Williamstown

1899-01           Schuylkill Haven

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           Schuylkill Haven (did not finish final year; see 1903, 4)

1903-04           (apparent medical leave)

1904-08           Lebanon Memorial

1908-12           Reading Salem

1912-16           Lebanon Bethany

 

Note: Samuel B. Wengert graduated from Millersville State Normal School and was a public school teacher in Lebanon County before entering the ministry.
 

 

WENRICH, DAVID

 

Born: 12-18-1825  Berks County PA                         married: Catherine Kinports [3/28/1847]

Died: 11-30-1899  Pullman WA                                obit: [8/17/1823 – 1/6/1860]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Sara Jane Frost [9/25/1862]

Fulton #: no                                                                 oibit2: [11/11/1842 – 4/4/1945]

Gibble list: yes

 

1849    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pullman City Cemetery, Pullman WA

Obit:

 

1849                transfer to ?

 

Note: David Wenrich is the youngest brother of the grandfather (1781-1865) of George Wenrich.  He reportedly served in the United Brethren church for 40 years in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.  After the death of David Wenrich, the second Mrs. Wenrich married a Mr. Miller.

 

WENRICH, GEORGE W.S.

 

Born: 5-13-1854  Dauphin County PA                       married: Jane E. Whalen

Died: 1931  Los Angeles CA                                     obit: [1856 – 1949]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1875    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1878    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

           

Interment: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood CA

Obit:

 

1875-79           Paxinos circuit

1880                honorable dismissal

                        became a Presbyterian pastor

?-1897             Kirkpatrick Memorial, Ringoes New Brunswick

1897-?             Atlantic Highlands NJ
1917-18           Canton PA

1921                Hawley PA 

 

Note:  George Wenrich is the grandson of the oldest brother (1781-1865) brother of David Wenrich.  He appears to have adopted the spelling WENRICK at some point in his life, as that is the name on his tombstone and the name shared by most of his direct descendants.

 

WENTZ, JACOB S.

 

Born: 1-25-1824  Manheim twp, York County PA    married: Rebecca Oller

Died: 11-25-1899                                                        obit: [11/20/1832 – 8/30/1873]

Miller-Raker #: 290                                                    married2: Mrs. Catharine Shuman

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [5/15/1840 – 8/17/1909]

Gibble list: no

 

1849    quarterly conference license

1851    license

1854    ordained

 

Interment: Marion United Brethren Church Cemetery, Marion PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1900, 23

 

1850-52           Dover circuit

1852-53           Jefferson circuit

1853-56           Greencastle circuit

1856-58           York Springs circuit

1858-61           York circuit

1861-63           Perry circuit

1863-64           Carlisle circuit

1864-70           local, because of health

1870-71           Alto Dale circuit

1871-73           Mercersburg

1873-76           Rocky Spring

1876-77           Alto Dale circuit

1877-79           Bendersville circuit

1879-81           Boiling Springs circuit

1881-82           Shippensburg mission station

1882                retired to Marion PA

1890                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UBOC  1890, 11
 & 27

 

Note: The second Mrs. Wentz (nee Brumbaugh) was the widow of a Mr. Jacob G. Shuman (1836-1863), who died in North Carolina in the Civil War.

 

WERLE, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 1823                                                                  obit:

Miller-Raker #: 93

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1820    license

1820    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered WERBE, WERDE and WERTE.

 

 

WERNER, STUART WESLEY

 

Born: 6-17-1909                                                          married: Violet V. Adams

Died: 4-8-2002                                                            obit: [10/6/1910 – 4/22/2006]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1935    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1929-33           student, Lebanon Valley College

1933-36           student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

1937                honorable dismissal

                        entered the Presbyterian ministry

                        Stambaugh MI Christ

 

Note:
 

 

WERT, MARK HOPKINS

 

Born: 3-1-1886  Killinger PA                                     married: Susan E. Reed

Died: 11-25-1942                                                        obit: Eastern Conference 1966, 124

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Millersburg Cemetery, Millersburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 12

 

1906-07           Landingville

1907-08           Shamokin

1908-09           student

1909-11           Intercourse

1911-13           student, Lebanon Valley College

                        1911-13  Cleona & Pleasant Hill

1913-16           Sunbury

1916-17           Manheim

1917-20           Highspire

1920-23           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1923                transfer to Miami Conference

1923-29           Arcanum OH (ending 12/4/29)

1929                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1929-34           Philadelphia First (beginning 12/4/29)

1934-42           Lebanon Trinity

1942-42           Palmyra Second
 

 

WERTSCH, ALVIN CARTER

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 9-26-1959                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 734

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

 

Interment: Quincy Cemetery

Obit: Quincy Orphanage and Home Annual Report  1960, 3

 

1924-36           assistant superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home

1936-54           superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home

1956                withdrew
 

 

WERTZ, W.D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no     

Fulton #: no    

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

?          ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-00           South Williamsport

 

Note:  W.D. WERTZ served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.”  Nothing more is known about this person. 

 

WESTFALL, CHARLES KUYKENDALL

 

Born: 1-2-1856  VA                                                   married: Elizabeth Jane Day

Died: 7-21-1917  Mariposa County CA                     obit: [9/22/1863 – 1938]

Miller-Raker #: 500

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license

 

Interment: Maripose Masonic Cemetery,  Mariposa CA

Obit: California Conference  1918, 30

 

1902-03           Greencastle

1904                transfer to California Conference, page 34

                        Selma

 

WHISNER, ARCHIE DIMMICK

 

Born: 2-15-1907                                                          married: Margaret Katherine Schell

Died: 5-23-1993                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 420

Miller-Raker #: 770

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, recommended by Quincy

1971    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Oliver Cemetery, Frederick MD

Obit: [none?]

 

1958-64           Spring Run

1964-68           Rohrersville-Mt. Carmel

1968-73           Beavertown

1973                retired

 

WHISTLER, DANIEL

 

Born: 2-12-1807  Mifflin twp, Cumberland Co PA   married:

Died: 4-25-1880  Mifflin twp, Cumberland Co PA   obit:

Miller-Raker #: 323 [Whisler]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1857    quarterly conference license

1861    license

 

Interment: Bethany (Guisetown) Church Cemetery, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 21

 

Note: Daniel Whistler never itinerated, but he was an active local preacher.  He was an evangelist and the founder of the Bethany Church at Guisetown.
 

 

WHITE, CHARLES G.

 

Born: 7-9-1881  Jefferson County PA                        married: Tillie A. Coleman

Died: 11-7-1958                                                          obit: [1882 – 10/19/1967]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 432

Gibble list: yes

 

1907    quarterly conference license

1910    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1916    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 29

 

1910-12           Linglestown circuit

1912-13           Refton

1913-16           Allentown Grace

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-17           Huntingdon

1917-19           Pitcairn

1919-23           Conemaugh

1923-25           Beaver Falls

1925-28           Juniata

1928-29           Belsano

1929-30           McKeesport First

1930-31           Rockwood

1931-34           Port Matilda

1934-37           Hollsopple

1937-45           Monessen

1945-53           East Pittsburgh

1953                retired

 

 

WHITE, RAMON H.

 

Born: 1884                                                      married: Ruth Iva Powell [1910]

Died: 1956                                                      obit: [1892-1968]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931   license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Waukesha

 

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Burnside PA

Obit:

 

1926-31           Millstone/Clarion River circuit

1931-34           Waukesha

 

Note: R.H. White is listed as pastor of the “Mahaffey Methodist Protestant Church” 1949-51.  Nothing more is known about such a congregation, whose building supposedly burned down in 1984.

 

 

WHITEHEAD, S. MAY

 

Born: 6-19-1875  near McKeesport PA                     married: [never married]

Died: 12-23-1910                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 291

Gibble list: no

 

1899    quarterly conference license

1900    license, Allegheny Conference

1902    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, near McKeesport PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1911, 82

 

1900-02           student, Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton OH

1902-04           Stormstown

1904-06           Bellwood

1906-07           graduate student, Lebanon Valley College [or Otterbein College in OH?]

1907-10           Zion (Washington County)

 

Note: Her obituary states: “Rev. May Whitehead had the distinguished honor of being the first lady preacher who had sole charge of work in the Allegheny Conference.  She proved her ability to overcome the obstacles bound to arise.  She won her way into the hearts of the people wherever she sent.”  While her obituary states that she spent 1906-07 pursuing further studies at Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA, her address for that year is given in the journal as Westerville OH.
 

 

WHITESELL, PETER

 

Born: 3-12-1805  Rockingham County VA               married: _____ Brown

Died: 2-2-1837  VA                                                    obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license

 

Interment: Whitesell Church Cemetery, Rockingham County VA

Obit: [Virginia Conference 1837]

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1832-33           Hagerstown circuit

1833-35           Woodstock circuit

1835-37           Staunton circuit (died during 2nd year)

 

Note: Peter Whitesell married the daughter of Bishop William Brown.  This surname is also rendered WETZEL and WHITESEL.     Peter Whitesell III is an uncle to Rev. James Edward Whitesel (1851-1878) of the Virginia Conference,
 

 

WHITLOCK, ROBERT H.

 

Born: 1843                                                                  married: Alice Sigler

Died: 2-17-1913                                                          obit: [6/5/1853 – 3/13/1937]

Miller-Raker #: 378

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1876    license

 

Interment: Parkersburg Memorial Gardens, Parkersburg WV

Obit:

 

1876-79           Littlestown circuit

1879-81           West Fairview station

1881-83           living in Martinsburg WV

1883                transfer to East Tennessee Conference

 

Note: R.H. Whitlock is not mentioned in Sherman Starling’s rather complete 1946 History of the Tennessee Conference, a manuscript thesis for Bonebrake Seminary shelved with the conference histories.

 

WHITTLE, THOMAS

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1899-04           Philadelphia Port Richmond St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Thomas Whittle is supposedly a Methodist minister, but he is otherwise unknown.
 

 

 

WICKEY, LEWIS A.

 

Born: 8-17-1832  Hagerstown MD                             married: Lydia A. Wagner

Died: 1-6-1903  Eschol PA                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conf UBOC  1900, 25

Miller-Raker #: 352

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license

1872    ordained

 

Interment: Newport Cemetery, Newport PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1903, 20

 

1871-73           Alto Dale circuit

1873-77           York Springs circuit

1877-79           Ickesburg circuit

1879-80           Eschol mission

1880-81           Mercersburg circuit (resigned, did not report)

1881-84           living in Eschol

1884-85           St. Thomas circuit

1885-86           living in St. Thomas

1886                dismissed  1886, 23

 

Note: Rev. Wickey joined the UBOC denomination, but apparently not in an official ministerial relationship.  When his wife died he was referred to as Rev. Wickey, but he never appears as an itinerant member of the conference.  He was a general lay delegate to the Pennsylvania Conference UBOC for 1893-94 and the lay delegate from Eschol for 1895, 1897-1901.  The death date for Mrs. Wickey is 3/26/1900.  He is the father of Luella Wickey McKee, wife of George B. McKee, and the grandfather (through his son William Otterbein Wickey) of distinguished Lutheran churchman and educator Rev. Norman Jay Gould Wickey (1891-1976).  Hain’s 1922 History of Perry County, gives some biographical information on pages 827, 853, 854, and 1053 – but erroneously states that his death occurred in January 1898.


 

WIECHAND, HENRY

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 243

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

Note: This surname is also rendered WEICHAND.

 

WIER, ADAM K.

 

Born: 5-14-1874  Willow Street                                 married: Ada Roth

Died: 10-26-1962                                                        obit: [d. 1916]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Alma Katerman

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/6/1898 – 5/?/1987]

Gibble list: yes

 

1895    quarterly conference license

1899    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963, 59

 

1899-02           Paradise St. John’s

1902-03           Philadelphia First

1903-06           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1903-06      Millville OH, Miami Conference

1906-11           Shamokin First

1911-13           Reading Zion

1913-18           Steelton

1918-19           Philadelphia Third

1919-26           Columbia

1926-32           Hershey First

1932-43           Harrisburg State Street

1943                retired

                             1944-45      West Lebanon (beginning 4/1/44)

 

Note: There are pictures of Rev. and Mrs. A.K. Wier in the State Street file.
 

 

WIEST, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1867    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1870                name erased

1881                re-licensed

1883                referred

 

WIEST, RALPH E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1916-17           Northampton circuit

 

Note: Ralph E. Wiest is listed as “other ministers employed” with no indication of his credentials and/or affiliation.

 

WILLARD, DANIEL WEBSTER

 

Born: 2-28-1885  Ruffsdale PA                                 married: Anna Margaret Ludwick [3/20/1906]

Died: 9-24-1972  Mahoning County OH                   obit: [1/31/1887 – 11/13/1978]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 442

Gibble list: no

 

1913    quarterly conference license

1918    license, Allegheny Conference

1922    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Youngstown OH

Obit:

 

1915-17           Dunlevy

1917-19           Arona

1919-21           Westmoreland

1921-24           Punxsutawney

1924-28           Windber

1928-29           McKeesport First

1929                name erased

 

1934                First Baptist Church, Struthers OH

 

Note: Mrs. Willard is a sister to Pearle J. Ludwick.

 

WILLE, CHARLES E.

 

Born: 1888                                                                  married: Elizabeth Emma Scott

Died: 4-2-1957 St. Petersburg FL                              obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 431

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 469

Gibble list: no

 

1922    quarterly conference license, Portage

1923    license, Allegheny Conference

1926    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Petersburg FL

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1957, 30

 

1923-27           Three Springs

1927-30           Springfield

1930-36           Ligonier

1926-40           Milton St. Peters

1940-41           Wall

1941                retired
 

 

WILLIAMS, AUGUST

 

Born: 5-15-1894                                                          married:  Mary Jane Williams

Died: 2-29-1960                                                          obit: [3/3/1897 – 2/28/1988]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel PA

Obit:

 

1917-18           Catawissa circuit (beginning 11/1/17 and ending 1/1/1918; see 1918, 7)

1920-21           Shamokin circuit

 

Note: August Williams was a member of the Mount Carmel congregation and supplied when requested under a quarterly conference license.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 355, states that August Williams “has been a lay minister for twenty years, and church trustee for fifteen years.”  The maiden name of Mrs. Williams was also Williams.
 

 

 

WILLIAMS, GOODELL ERNEST

 

Born: 8-30-1916  Frederick MD                                married: Muriel Ruth Vowles

Died: 8-6-1975                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 1778

Miller-Raker #: 817

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Mt. Wolf Otterbein

1966    ordained

 

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 152

 

1964-66           Adamsville-Pleasant Grove

1966-69           Potomac charge

1969-76           Port Trevorton (did not finish final year)

 

 

WILLIAMS, HARVEY L.

 

Born: 6-15-1903  Brookville PA                                married: Lizzie G. Hartzell

Died: 3-9-1981  Altoona PA                                      obit: [1900 – 1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    quarterly conference license

1933     license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Third

1945     ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 420


1940-42      Springfield
1942-45      student
1945-48      Wall
1948-53      Belsano
1953-56      Hawthorn
1956-60      Ellerslie
1960-62      Fairmount - Zion
1962-65      Clearfield Mount Hope
1965-70      Punxsutawney Larger Parish (ending 1/1/1970)
1970            retired (beginning 1/1/70)

 

WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM W.

 

Born: 2-28-1858  Tow Law, Durham England          married: Mary Ann Finley

Died: 10-13-1934  Cuyahoga Falls OH                      obit: East Ohio Conference 1891, 54

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Alice Marie Sonnedecker

Fulton #: 278                                                               obit2: East Ohio Conference 1958, 92

Gibble list: no

 

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: West Lawn Cemetery, Canton OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1935, 11

 

1897                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-04           Altoona First

1904-08           Scottdale

1908-09           Johnstown First

1909-11           field agent for Otterbein University

1911-12           living in Westerville OH

1912                transfer to East Ohio Conference

 

 

WILLIBY, JAMES D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 45

Gibble list: no

 

1841    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1841-42           Huntingdon

                        (no longer listed)

 

Note: The first record of a benevolent preacher’s aid fund in the Allegheny Conference is in 1841, when it was voted that James Williby should receive $10.00.  This may be the James Williby from Pine township, Allegheny County PA, whose dates are given as c1785 – 1841.

 

WILSON, A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 142

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Allegheny Conference

1870    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1869-70           Allegheny circuit

1870-71           Mount Pleasant station

1871                dismissed

 

 

WILSON, ALBERT BARNES

 

Born: 7-26-1865  Clearfield County                          married: Ella Lewis

Died: 9-12-1951                                                          obit: East Ohio Conference 1942, 12

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 262 & 355

Gibble list: no

 

1894    license, Allegheny Conference; recommended by Woodland

1898    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1952, 85

 

1894-95           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1895-98           student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1898-01           Coalport

1901-02           Tyrone

1902-05           Braddock First

1905                transfer to Virginia Conference

1907                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1907-08           Bellwood

1908-10           (not listed)

1910-11           Beaver Falls

1911-13           Connellsville

1913                transfer to

 

Note: Albert B. Wilson is a brother to Oscar M. Wilson and Warren S. Wilson and is a legal (but not biological) second cousin to Dudley R. Wilson.

 

WILSON, DUDLEY REED

 

Born: 6-16-1877  Clearfield County PA                    married: Ora French

Died: 10-4-1949                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Eva D. Frank

Fulton #:                                                                      obit2: [9/6/1884 – 2/14/1954]

Gibble list: no

 

1899    license, Allegheny Conference; recommended by Woodland

 

Interment: Greenville Union Cemetery, Greenville OH

Obit:

 

1899-00           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1900-02           “west”

1902-04           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1904-05           McKeesport Fawcett Avenue

1906                transfer to Miami Conference

                        entered the Presbyterian ministry

1920                New Martinsville WV

1921                Fairgrove MI

1930                Pierceton IN

 

Note: Dudley R. Wilson is a brother to Tamson Wilson, wife of Oscar M. Wilson.  He and Tamson are legal (but not biological) second cousins to the three brothers Albert B. Wilson, Oscar M. Wilson and Warren S. Wilson.  The widowed second Mrs. Wilson may have later a Mr. Beebe.

 

WILSON, E. HERBERT

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 735

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1950-59           living in Baltimore

1959                return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

 

 

WILSON, EDWARD MILTON

 

Born: 10-8-1906  Somerset PA                                  married: Mary Emma Moffat

Died: 8-22-1983  PittsburghPA                                  obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 371

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Ruth Allison

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [8/18/1907 – 12/5/1987]

Gibble list: no

 

1931    quarterly conference license

1932    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Monessen

1934    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 423

 

1934-35           Zion (beginning 5/20/1934)

1935-41           Sewickley

1941-43           Orbisonia

1943-51           Herminie

1951-59           Johnstown Trinity

1959-67           Greensburg Otterbein

1967-78           Johnstown Belmont

1978                retired

 

Note: Edward M. Wilson is the son of John Wesley Wilson.

 

WILSON, FRANK C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 185

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1833 license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1833-34           Carlisle circuit

1834-35           Huntingdon circuit

1835                dismissed

 

Note:  This person is also listed as FRANZ C. WILSON.

 

WILSON, JOHN WESLEY

 

Born: 12-16-1860  Myersville MD                            married: Laura C. Schroyer

Died: 2-8-1918  Monongahela City PA                     obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 64

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 250

Gibble list: no

 

1890    quarterly conference license, Myersville

1892    license, Maryland Conference

1895    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference

 

1891-93           Ligonier, Allegheny Conference

1893                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1893-95           Ligonier

1895-99           Fairmont

1899-00           Herminie

1900-07           Somerset

1907-13           Johnstown Walnut Grove [Homestead Avenue]

1913-15           Braddock

1915-18           Monessen

 

Note: J.W. Wilson is the father of Edward M. Wilson and Naomi R. Wilson.  He taught school in Maryland for 13 years before entering the ministry.

 

WILSON, NAOMI R.

 

Born: 6-5-1889                                                            married: [single]

Died: 8-15-1950                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: 

 

1917-30           missionary, West Africa

 

Note: Naomi R. Wilson is the daughter of John W. Wilson.  A biographical sketch of Naomi R. Wilson is given in Fulton’s 1931 History of the Allegheny Conference, page 79.

 

WILSON, OSCAR MELVIN

 

Born: 1869  Clearfield County PA                             married: Tamson Wilson

Died: 1-11-1941  Johnstown PA                                obit: [8/2/1871 – 7/5/1924]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Emma B. Callihan

Fulton #: 247                                                               obit2: [10/4/1878 – 3/29/1942]

Gibble list: no

 

1892    license, Allegheny Conference

1895    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit:

 

1893-95           student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1895-96           Bigler

1896-98           Braddock First

1898-99           Johnstown Fourth [Homewood]

1898-99           (not listed) – served as Christian Endeavor secretary-treasurer; see Fulton, page 41

1900                name erased

                        joined Baptist Church

1929-31           Pittsburgh PA

 

Note: Oscar M. Wilson is a brother to Warren S. Wilson and Albert B. Wilson and is a legal (but not biological) second cousin to Dudley R. Wilson.  Details of his ministerial career and personal life are sketchy.  The first Mrs. Wilson is a sister to Dudley R. Wilson and is buried at the old Bradford Cemetery in Clearfield County.  O.M. Wilson is reported to have had another wife (between the given two?) about whom nothing is known: Olive Spanogle.

Note2: Oscar M. Wilson is almost always referred to as O.M. Wilson.  He is not to be confused with another contemporary Rev. O.M. Wilson (1865-1930) who joined the White River Conference of the United Brethren Church, Old Constitution, in 1898 and was ordained in 1901.  That man also is almost always referred to as O.M. Wilson, but his first name was Oliver and he was married to a Malissa Rumler.

 

 

WILSON, SAMUEL J.

 

Born: 11-13-1861  McVeytown PA                           married: Theresa White

Died: 3-5-1940  Quincy PA                                        obit: Allegheny Conference 1947, 68

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 373

Gibble list: no

 

1905    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1915    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Quincy Home Cemetery, Quincy PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1940, 57

 

1906-07           Clarington

1907-08           Dunlo

1908-10           New Paris

1910-11           Cambria

1911-12           Knoxdale

1912-13           Glasgow

1913-13           Port Matilda

1914-16           Runville

1916-17           Rochester Mills

1917-19           Casselman

1919-20           Industry

1920-24           Fairmount

1924-25           Bradenville

1925-27           Ligonier

1927-28           Mahaffey

1928-29           Wilmore

1929-30           Shade Gap

1930                retired

 

Note: the tombstone for S.J. Wilson gives his birth year as 1862.

 

WILSON, W.H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 290

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1898-99           Clarington, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1899                admitted on credentials, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1899-00           Dubois

1900-01           Herminie

1901-02           Middleburg

1902-10           (not listed)

1910                transfer to

 

Note: W.H. Wilson was living in Tyrone when he accepted the United Brethren call to Clarington.  He is the author of the 1897 classic Tyrone of Today – Gateway to the Alleghenies.  His previous and subsequent denominational affiliations, and other personal information, remain a mystery.

 

WILSON, WARREN SHUEY

 

Born: 11-22-1871  near Woodland PA                      married: Orvilla [Ora] W. Forcey

Died: 1-5-1944                                                            obit: Allegheny Conference 1948, 70

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 334

Gibble list: no

 

1904    quarterly conference license

1905    license, Allegheny Conference

1907    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1944, 58

 

1907-10           Punxsutawney

1910-14           Altoona Second

1914-16           Wilkinsburg

1916-22           Johnstown Park Avenue

1923                St. Michael (6 months)

1924-27           Pitcairn

1927-36           conference superintendent

1936-37           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1937-43           Johnstown Overbrook

1943                retired

 

Note: Warren S. Wilson is a brother to Oscar M. Wilson and Albert B. Wilson and is a legal (but not biological) second cousin to Dudley R. Wilson.

 

 

WILT, JACOB F.

 

Born: 8-3-1838                                                            married:

Died: 1-27-1863  Chambersburg PA                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 322

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1861    license

 

Interment: UB Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1864, 91

 

1860-61           Shopp’s station (latter part of the year)

1861-62           Greencastle circuit

1862-63           Bethany mission (did not finish the year)

 

Note: Jacob F. Wilt is the grandson (through his mother Elizabeth Wingert Wilt) of Jacob Wingert. The 2-11-1863 obituary in The Religious Telescope for Jacob F. Wilt says he died of lung disease and had attended Otterbein University.  His tombstone [apparently erroneously] gives the death date as 1/27/1862. 


 

WILT, MARTIN L.

 

Born: 5-22-1874  Coleman PA                                   married: Blanche Goodrich

Died: 1-19-1958                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1961, 40

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 305

Gibble list: no

 

1900    quarterly conference license

1902    license, Allegheny Conference

1909    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: New Friedens Cemetery, Somerset County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1958, 35

 

1901-02           Patchinsville (beginning 5/1901)

1902-04           New Paris

1904-05           Hooversville

1905-06           Fairmount

1906-08           Hollsopple

1908-09           Orbisonia

1909-12           Woodland

1912-15           East Freedom

1915-17           Coalport

1917-20           Altoona Greenwood

1940-24           Hooversville

1924-28           Shanksville

1928-33           Cambria

1933-34           Knoxdale

1934-38           East Freedom

1938-46           New Paris

1946                retired

 

WILT, WILLIAM ABRAHAM

 

Born: 9-1-1888  Snyder County PA                           married: Anna C. Straub

Died: 9-27-1973                                                          obit: [8/8/1891 – 11/?/1977]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 407

Gibble list: yes

 

1912    quarterly conference license, Paradise Church on Port Trevorton charge

1913    license, Allegheny Conference

1915    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Grandview Memorial Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 537

 

1912-15           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1915                given “advisory seat” in the Virginia Conference

1915-16           Harrisonburg, Virginia Conference

1916-17           Keyser WV, Virginia Conference     

1917                transfer to Virginia Conference

1917-28           Keyser WV

1928-35           Martinsburg WV (ending 1/1/35)

1935-56           Annville (beginning 1/1/35), East Pennsylvania Conference

1936                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1936-57           Annville

1957                retired

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 189, gives a biographical sketch. 

 

WINE, SYLVESTER K.

 

Born: 2-4-1853  Harrisonburg VA                             married: Elizabeth Hopkins Keyes (1885)

Died: 1-21-1911  Fayetteville PA                              obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 42

Miller-Raker #: 549

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1874     quarterly conference license

1877    license, Virginia Conference

1881    ordained, Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 113

 

1878-79           Opequon

1879-81           student, Lebanon Valley College

1881-82           New Creek

1882-83           South Branch

1883-84           ?

1884-85           Augusta

1885-87           Churchville

1887                charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-88           Frederick station

                        transfer to Sandusky Conference

1896                transfer to Virginia Conference

                        Harrisonburg

                        Winchester

1907-08           Scotland, Pennsylvania Conference  

1908                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1908-10           Scotland

1910-11           Fayetteville & Marion (did not finish the year)

 

Note: He also appears erroneously as Samuel K. Wine.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 189, gives a brief biography.  He attended Shenandoah Institute and Graduated from Lebanon Valley College, where he was a trustee 1897-1904.  He also attended Otterbein University and Princeton University.

 

WINEKA, PAUL R.

 

Born: 12-17-1897  Yoe PA                                        married: Iva R. Snyder [4/9/1921]

Died: 12-13-1997  Spring Grove PA                          obit: [1900-1971]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 481

Gibble list: no

 

1919    quarterly conference license

1924    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Church Cemetery, Spry PA

Obit:

 

1921-24           Rochester Mills (beginning 1/15/1921)

1924-28           Knoxdale (ending 5/1/1928)

1928                located

 

Note: Paul R. Wineka served 1932-1969 as the pastor of the independent Otterbein Church in Hanover PA, now the Hanover Bible Church, following its removal from the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.
 

 

WINEY, CHARLES W.

 

Born: 10-9-1882 Richfield PA                                   married: Edith Brown

Died: 4-4-1956  Johnstown PA                                  obit: [8/27/1884 – 4/15/1969]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 364

Gibble list: no

 

1908    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Allegheny Conference

1912    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Freeburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 27

 

1909-13           Bellefonte

1913-14           Connellsville

1914-19           Altoona Second

1919-23           Wilkinsburg

1923-25           Tyrone

1925-31           Johnstown Park Avenue

1931-34           Scottdale

1934-40           Johnstown First

1940-44           McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

1944-48           Altoona Greenwood

1948-50           Windber

1950                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Winey is a ministerial son of the Richfield, Juniata County, congregation.

 

WINEY, TEKOA SHIRK

 

Born: 1876                                                                  married: Emily Bertha Shaw

Died: 12-16-1938                                                        obit: [1873 – 1917]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Martha _____

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1899    license, East German Conference: recommended by Freeburg circuit

 

Interment: Mountain View Memorial Park, Lakewood WA

Obit:

 

1900                transfer to East Nebraska Conference

                        transfer to South West Kansas Conference

1910                no longer listed in United Brethren Yearbook

1911-14           Portland OR Waverly Heights Congregational

1917-18           Chatham OH Congregational

 

Note:  Tekoa S. Winey re-appears in the 1911 United Brethren Yearbook with his old address of Hutchinson KS, but that is assumed to be incorrect.  He started the Congregational Church in Portland in 1911 under the auspices of the Congregational Mission Society.  He had an article in the 12/2/1903 Religious Telescope, page 23, from Seattle WA complaining about the lack of United Brethren churches and mission work there.  He is the author of several poems and the Sunday School Song “Thankful Hearts.”  He is a ministerial son of the Richfield, Juniata County, congregation. 

 

WINGERD, CHARLES B.

 

Born: 1878                                                                  married: Leah C. Hartz

Died: 1953                                                                  obit: [1875 – 1961]

Miller-Raker #: 470

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1898    license

1900    ordained

 

Interment: Chautauqua Cemetery, Chautauqua NY

Obit:

 

1897                A.B. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1900                A.M. degree. Lebanon Valley College

1900-01           Greencastle

1902-05           Shippensburg

1905                transfer

1947                Presbyterian Headquarters, Chautauqua NY

 

WINGERT, JACOB

 

Born: 1-17-1777                                                          married: Elizabeth Binkley

Died: 9-9-1862                                                            obit: [3/18/1775 – 3/29/1831]

Miller-Raker #: 75

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [WENGER]

 

1814    license

1819    ordained

 

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle PA

Obit:

 

1836-37           Westmoreland circuit

1839-40           presiding elder, Lancaster District

1840-41           Lancaster circuit

1842-43           York circuit

 

NOTE: Jacob Wingert is the grandfather (through his daughter Elzabeth Wingert Wilt) of Jacob F. Wilt.  This surname is also rendered WINGERD, WENGER and WENGERT.  Jacob Wingert lived 5 miles south of Greencastle on the road to Williamsport and was a frequent host of Christian Newcomer and others.  Jacob Wingert’s sister Susanna Wenger married Henry Kumler Sr.   Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 48, gives a brief biography [WENGER].

 

 

WINTER, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 5-20-1807  Washington County PA                 married: _____ Clemens

Died:8-20-1857                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Leah Hewitt

Fulton #: 38 [WINTERS]                                           obit2 [6/12/1809 – 3/7/1877]

Gibble list: no

 

1840    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1841                expelled

 

Note:  Abraham Winter lived in Washington County.  Beginning in 1832, as a local United Brethren preacher, he supplied the German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church in Washington borough for a while.

 

Note: Abraham Winter is a son of Jacob Winter and a brother to Daniel Winter.

 

WINTER, DANIEL

 

Born: 9-12-1805  Washington County PA                 married: Sarah Simmons [1828]

Died: 1-2-1877  Garfield IL                                       obit:

Miller-Raker #: 155 [WINTERS]                               married2: Susannah Bebout [3/16/1837]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [6/22/1817 – 2/13/1875]

Gibble list: yes [WINTERS]

 

1829    license

 

Interment: Wenona Community Cemetery, Wenona IL

Obit:
 

Note: Daniel Winter is the son of Jacob Winter and a brother to Abraham Winter.

 

WINTER, JACOB

 

Born: 9-16-1780  Washington County PA                 married: Catherine Miller

Died: 10-12-1843  Licking County OH                     obit: [12/26/1785 – 8/28/1858]

Miller-Raker #: 61

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1811    license

1818    ordained

 

Interment: Luray Cemetery, Licking County OH

Obit:

 

1818                transfer
 

Note: Jacob Winter is the father of Abraham Winter and Daniel Winter, and a brother to John L. Winter.  He is also the grandfather (through another son Isaac) of Kate Winter Hanby, wife of Benjamin R. Hanby.  Another son, Jacob Jr. (1811-?) received a conference license to exhort in 1836.  The Autobiography of John Fohl includes the following account of Jacob Winter and his ministry in Washington County: “A large portion of this field had been opened by the venerable Jacob Winter, of blessed memory, who was a man of talent and eminent in piety. He preached in both languages, English and German, and catechized and confirmed his members after the order of the Lutheran and Reformed churches. He made no report to annual conference, yet claimed membership in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He was the means of winning many souls to Christ, and I found him highly esteemed among the people. As the infirmities of age were coming upon him, he wisely transferred his entire work to the Pennsylvania Conference.”  The first (1800) and second (1839) Zion Church log buildings were erected on the Winter property, and that historic United Brethren work is older than the denomination.

 

WINTER, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1836-37           superintendent, Westmoreland District

 

Note: At Conference in 1837, this John Winter received an allotment for travel and “exhorted.”   This may be John L. Winter (who had previously moved to Indiana), or a misnomer for Jacob Winter, or another John Winter.

 

WINTER, JOHN LEVI

 

Born: 11-10-1778  Washington County PA               married: Elizabeth Pfrimmer

Died: 8-19-1870  Montgomery County IN                obit: [6/3/1789 – 1/15/1865]

Miller-Raker #: 47

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1803    license

 

Interment: Ladoga Cemetery, Ladoga IN

Obit:

 

1810                transfer to

 

Note: John Winter is a brother to Jacob Winter.  He moved to Corydon IN in 1808.  Mrs. Winter is the daughter of John George Pfrimmer. 

 

WINTERS, THOMAS

 

Born: 12-23-1778  Harbaugh’s Valley MD               married: Susannah Flegal [2/26/1799]

Died: 10-2-1863  West Alexandria OH                      obit: [5/6/1782 – 3/8/1853]

Miller-Raker #: 38 [WINTER]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [WINTER]

 

1801    license

1815    license, Reformed Church

1819    ordained, Reformed Church

 

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit:

 

1810                organizing participant of Miami Conference

1812                transfer to Miami Conference

1812-13           Twin Creek circuit

1814                dismissed at own request to re-join the Reformed Church

1815-40           Germantown, Montgomery County OH

1840-42           Evansport, Defiance County OH

1842                retired

 

Note: The birthdate above comes from A Sketch of the Winters Family, by Jonathan H. Winters, published by the United Brethren Publishing House in 1889.  Drury’s 1897 Minutes of the Conferences 1800-1818 mentions Thomas Winter in the Miami section.  His sons David Winter and Thomas H. Winter reportedly became preachers in the Reformed Church.  Mrs. Winters is the daughter of Valentine Flegal.
 

 

WINTON, HORACE B.

 

Born: 1825  OH                                                          married: Sarah E. Hoffman (9/26/1849)

Died: 4-1-1896  Pittsburgh PA                                   obit: [1831 – 8/10/1899]

Miller-Raker #: 331

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Sandusky Conference

 

Interment: Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield OH

Obit:

 

1850                transfer to Virginia Conference

1851-52           Rockbridge

1852-54           Hagerstown

1858-59           Woodstock

1862                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1864-65           Lebanon Salem, East Pennsylvania Conference

1866                withdrew

                        Pittsburgh Synod of Lutheran Church

1880-83           Monongahela Grace

1883-84           Mansfield OH First English Lutheran

1890-91           Butler Grace

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 146, calls H.B. Winton a “fine preacher.”  As missionary superintendent of the Pittsburgh Synod, he was directly involved in starting several congregations.  There are many references to him in E.G. Heissenbuttel’s 1959 History of the Pittsburgh Synod.  His obituary in the 4-11-1896 Richland (County OH) Shield & Banner states that he died at the home of his daughter Mrs. A.E. Henderson.

 

 

WINWOOD, JOHN

 

Born: 4-24-1874  Tanfield Lee, England                   married: Lizzie Lucinda Leonard

Died: 4-12-1949                                                          obit: Allegheny Conference 1940, 60

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Fairmount Cemetery, East Finley PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1949, 74

 

1914-20        New Paris 

                     Sidman 

1931-33        Fairmount

1933-34        Coalport

1934-37        Waukesha

1937-41        Rochester Mills

1941-43        Industry

                     Wyano

                     retired 

 

Note: John Winwood worked in the coal mines and served as a licensed pastor.

 

 

WISE, J.G..

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1854    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1920-21           Greenwood (resigned 7/11/1921)

Note: J.G. Wise is listed as a “pastor in the conference, not a member” residing in Altoona.  He is other wise unknown.  This is likely the J.G. Wise who was a member of the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Church.

 

WISE, IRWIN [aka IRVIN] CASTNER

 

Born: c1896                                                                married: Marie Feigenspan

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Louise _____

Fulton #: 487                                                               obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1924    license, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1924-25           Northampton circuit, including Crossroads, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-26           Birdsboro Grace, East Pennsylvania Conference

1926                transfer to ? (open transfer, page 132)

1926-27           Birdsboro Grace, East Pennsylvania Conference

                        First Presbyterian, Frankfort KY

1933-38           Ainslie Street Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn

1938                American Christian Fellowship (new church start)

1946                Garwood Presbyterian, Garwood NJ

 

1964                Dr. Edwards Memorial Congregational Church, Kingston [Edwardsville] PA

                        (served here about ten years or more)

                        retired

      1970-73     Slocum, Wyoming Conference of the United Methodist Church

 

Note: Irwin C. Wise was reportedly born to the Philip Castner family c1896 and adopted by the Wise family.  He is listed by the East Pennsylvania Conference as “others employed by the conference.”  He graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1926 (listed as being from East Greenville, Montgomery County PA) and Central Theological Seminary in 1928.  He did ecumenical administrative work and supplied Presbyterian and/or Congregational pulpits.

 

 

WISSINGER, WILLIAM A.

 

Born: 4-22-1871                                                          married: Pauline Aberle

Died: 2-8-1966                                                            obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 433

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 403

Gibble list: no

 

1901    quarterly conference license

1903    license, United Evangelical Church

1907    ordained, United Evangelical Church

 

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 29]

 

1912                transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1912-13           Madison

1913-16           Everson

1916-17           Beaverdale

1917-20           Clearfield

1920-24           Herminie

1924-26           located

1926-27           Westmoreland

1927-29           Conemaugh

1929-30           Pitcairn

1930-31           Bigler

1931-35           Hooversville

1935-37           West Decatur

1937-40           Hollsopple

1940-47           New Florence

1947                retired
 

 

WISSWAESSER, CARL L.

 

Born: 2-13-1850                                                          married: Carolina Pfeiffer

Died: 12-6-1907                                                          obit: [1861-1934]

Miller-Raker #: 520

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Vaughn, Ontario Canada

Obit:

 

                       

1890                transfer to Presbytery of Lackawanna

1897                transfer from Presbytery of Athens

1897                Pomeroy, Presbyterian Synod of Ohio

1899                Syracuse, Presbyterian Synod of Ohio

1902-03           York First, Pennsylvania Conference

1903                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 57

     1904  withdrew

1903                transfer to Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

1903-04           York PA

1904                transfer to Pittsburgh Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

1904-05                      Elderton charge, Armstrong County PA (St. Jacob’s, South Bend twp and Mount Union, Plum Creek twp)

1905                transfer to Easter Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

1905-07           Sherwood

 

Note: This surname is rendered WISWAESER in some of our records.  He was able to preach in German.  He is a difficult person to track.  A 9/23/1890 report of the Presbytery of Lackawanna receives “Rev. Carl L. Wisswaesser from the N.Y. and N.J. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches.”  The 1903 minutes of the Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Church state: “The paper placed in the hands of your Committee relates to the transfer of Rev. C.L. Wisswaesser from the Church of the United Brethren in Christ to this body.  The dismissal is in regular form, and accompanied by a highly commendatory letter from Bishop Mills.  Other papers are letters from the superintendent of schools and Lutheran ministers of York, Pa.  Rev. Mr. Wisswaesser was brought up in the Lutheran Church, and was formerly a member of the New York and New Jersey Synod, and everything the Committee has been able to learn concerning his application being commendatory and satisfactory, we recommend his reception into the Maryland Synod in accordance with the provisions of our Constitution in such cases.  The historical files of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada contain a 1901[sic, should be 1907?] “record of contributions for memorial to the Rev. C.L. Wisswaesser.”

 

 

WITMAN, J.E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1889    license, East German Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1890                name erased

 

Note:  This may by John E. Witman (1854-1934) – born in PA, married Sarah H. Batdorf,  and buried in Dayton OH.

 

WITMER, CLAYTON CLARK

 

Born: 10-7-1881  near Mount Joy PA                                    married:  May Cooley

Died: 2-24-1971                                                          obit: [1888-1983]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Dayton OH Euclid Avenue of the Miami Conference

1915    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Kraybill’s Cemetery, Mount Joy PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1971, 321

 

1915-41           missionary, Philippine Islands

1941-43           Williamstown & Tower City

1943-44           local preacher, living in Mt. Joy PA

1944-45           student, Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford CT

1945-50           missionary, Philippine Islands

1950                retired

 

Note:  Clayton C. Witmer is a brother to Catherine Witmer, missionary to China.  Mrs. Witmer was a United Brethren Mission to the Philippines from Illinois.  Clayton C. Witmer is related to Albert Witmer  Dambach, but the exact relationship is not known.
 

 

WITMER, JOHN A.

 

Born: 11-29-1920                                                        married: Doris Ferry

Died: 1-5-2007                                                            obit: [10/29/1920 – 7/31/2010]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1946    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Restland Memorial Park, Dallas TX

Obit:

 

1943-48           living in Lancaster

1948-69           faculty, Dallas Theological Seminary

1970                no longer listed

 

Note: John A. Witmer was classified as a local elder and maintained a charge conference relationship with Lancaster Otterbein.  He is the author of several books and articles.
 

 

WITMER, JOHN HENRY

 

Born: 6-15-1930  Wertzville PA                                married: Esther Mae Shultz [1952]

Died: 7-29-2017  Chambersburg PA                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2004, 381

Miller-Raker #: 748

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1954    license, recommended by Young’s (Cumberland Co.)

1960    ordained

 

Interment: Flohrs Lutheran Church Cemetery, Adams County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 282

 

1954-57           Shermansdale

1957-60           Mt. Tabor

1960-64           Fayetteville

1964-71           Biglerville

1971-86           Altoona Second Avenue

1986-93           associate, Hershey First

1993                retired, living in Chambersburg

 

WITWER, JONAS

 

Born: 5-22-1776  PA                                                  married: Margaret _____

Died: 9-22-1851  Franklin County PA                       obit: [9/25/1784 – 5/31/1816]

Miller-Raker #: 77

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1815    license

 

Interment: Witwer Farm Graveyard, Scotland PA

Obit:

 

Note:  Jonas Witmer is the father of Hetty Witwer Hendricks, wife of John Hendricks, and of Leah Witwer Frey, wife of Philip Frey.  He never itinerated, but he was still involved enough to remain with the Pennsylvania Conference when East Pennsylvania was split off in 1846 – although he is most typically listed among the “members absent.”  He is mentioned several times in the diary of bishop Christian Newcomer.

 

 

WOLAND, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 12-?-1844                                                          married: Selina Bowers

Died: 11-17-1915  Fremont OH                                 obit:  [4/?/1845 – 1/27/1917]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

Interment: Lindsey Cemetery, Lindsey OH

Obit:

 

1867-68           Sinking Spring circuit (part year?)

 

Note: William H. Woland married about 1868, was living in Millersburg in 1870, and by 1880 was a physician living in Ohio.
 

 

WOLF, EARL EMERSON

 

Born: 12-27-1908  Lancaster PA                                married: Mary Elizabeth Stephens

Died: 2-9-1979                                                            obit: [1911 – (after 1984)]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1927    quarterly conference license, Lancaster Otterbein

1928    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Serenity Gardens Memorial Park, Largo FL

Obit:

 

1927-31           student, Lebanon Valley College

1931-34           student, Bonenrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1934-41           Philadelphia First

1941-62           chaplain, US Army

1962                retired

                            1962-79       minister of visitation, Clearwater FL Peace Memorial Presbyterian

 

Note: Mrs. Wolf was from Shilllington PA and is a 1933 graduate of Lebanon Valley College.  Their only child, Nancy Ann Wolf, also graduated from LVC, class of 1954.

 

WOLF, HENRY

 

Born: 2 -25-1841                                                         married: Mary Jane Scott

Died: 3-26-1923                                                          obit: [4/5/1832 – 11/20/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rebecca Gress Peightel

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [4/9/1852 – 3/5/1936]

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Bethlehem Cemetery, Fulton County PA

Obit:

 

Note: Henry Wolf appears to have been a local pastor whose home church was Bethlehem, in Fulton County.  Rev. Henry Wolf is listed in the newspaper as holding a funeral service at th Bethlehem church in 1908.  The second Mrs. Wolf was the widow of a Mr. Frank Peightel.

 

 

WOLFE, ARCHIE S.

 

Born: 6-22-1880                                                          married: Edith Gertrude Meyer

Died: 5-22-1976                                                          obit: West Ohio Conference 1974, 256

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

 

1906    license, Allegheny Conference

1918    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Parish Cemetery, Arlington OH

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1976, 266

 

1904-05           Hustontown

1905-06           Houserville

1906-07           Dunlo

1907-10           student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1910-11           Middleburg and Selinsgrove

1911-12           alternating between seminary student in Dayton OH and teaching in Westerville OH

1918                transfer to East Ohio Conference

 

WOLFE, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 1-3-1921  Lebanon PA                                     married: Grace Corl

Died: 9-22-1999  Ephrata PA                                     obit: [8/11/1919 – 6/5/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1939    quarterly conference license, Highville

1944    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1949    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Cocalico Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Denver PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 7.292

 

1940-44           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1941-42      Northampton circuit

                             1942-44       Hillsdale circuit

1944-45

1945-53           Denver Trinity

1953-55           Columbia Salome

1955-68           Mount Joy Glossbrenner

1968-70           sabbatical leave

1970-71           on leave

1971-87           honorable location

1987                retired

 

Note: Charles W. Wolfe is the son of Ralph H. Wolfe.

 

 

WOLFE, HARVEY F.

 

Born: 9-20-1862  Navarre OH                                   married: Flora E. Cail

Died: 1-14-1940  Uhrichsville OH                             obit: [11/11/1872 – 11/6/1945]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 269 [WOLF]

Gibble list: no

 

1893    license, Eat Ohio Conference

?          ordained

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Uhrichsville OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1940, 11

 

                        East Ohio Conference

1894                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1894-95           Bigler

1895-96

1896                transfer to East Ohio Conference

                        7 pastorates in Ohio

                        “transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church?

                        11 year of service in North Carolina

1936                retired to Uhrichsville OH, active in Grace Methodist Church

 Note: The middle initial of Harvey Wolfe also appears as E, and the birth year also appears as 1863.

 

WOLFE, RALPH HARBER

 

Born: 12-21-1897  Lebanon PA                                 married: Florence Elizabeth Uhler

Died: 7-10-1974  Neffsville PA                                 obit: Eastern Conference 1964, 127

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Mrs. Myrtle E. Ressner

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes

 

1928    quarterly conference license, Reading Salem

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Greem Mount Cemetery, Highville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 776

 

1928-30           Birdsboro Grace

1930-32           Manor

1932-42           Highville

1943-51           Reading Salem

1951-52           Schuytlkill Haven

1952-58           on leave, living in Mount Joy

1958-59           Halifax

1959-61           Brunnerville

1961-62           Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah

1962-64           Hillsdale-Falmouth

1964                retired

 

Note: Ralph H. Wolfe is the father of Charles W. Wolfe and of Rev. Ralph D. Wolfe of the Baptist Church.
 

 

WOLFE, RICHARD JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 818

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1962-66           student, Lebanon Valley College

1963-64           Adamsville-Pleasant Grove

1964-65

1965-66           Barts

1966-69           student, United Theological Seminary

 

Note: Richard J. Wolfe is a brother to Susan J. Wolfe.
 

 

WOLFE, SUSAN J.

 

Born:                                                                           married: Merrill A. Hassinger

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 819

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1964    license, recommended by Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1960-64           student, Lebanon Valley College

1964-67           student, United Theological Seminary

1967                transfer to Eastern Conference

1967-70           EUB Board of Publication

1970-77           Fleetwood

1977-80           associate, Springfield Covenant

1980-83           Mount Gretna

1983-88           superintendent, Allentown District

1988-               conference consultant

1996-04           bishop Boston Area

 

Note: Susan J. Wolfe is a sister to Richard J. Wolfe.  Rev. Merrill A. Hassinger is a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

 

WOLFERSBERGER, LEVI B.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died: 10-?-1889                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 125 & 183 [WOLFENSBERGER]

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Hauger Cemetery, Black Twp., Somerset County PA

Obit:

 

1858                transfer to Allegheny Conference granted

1862                transfer to Allegheny Conference completed

1863                transfer to (any Western conference he wishes to join)

1876                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1879                withdrew

 

Note: In 1851 Levi Wolfersberger sold the United Brethren a lot with a church building thereon on Front Street in Harrisburg (see Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 195).  He is listed as a leader in the Neidig Memorial Church in Oberlin.  A Levi Wolfersberger joined the Nebraska Conference in 1874.  While many details and documentations are missing, it appears that this Levi Wolfersberger was born in Lebanon County and ended up in Somerset County, with a possible venture to Nebraska.

 

WOMER, ORION ALEXANDER

 

Born: 6-5-1907  Philipsburg PA                                 married: Josephine Schiele Miller

Died: 4-2-1992  Rowlett TX                                       obit: [4/12/1912 – 7/?/1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1930    quarterly conference license

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Philipsburg

1933    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Brandon Cemetery, Oil City PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 305

 

1931-40      Richfield

1940-43      Houserville

1943-45      Beaver Falls

1945-54      Hooversville

1954-57      Paradise

1957-67      Oil City

1967-73      Portage Bethany

1973            retired

                        1973-84           associate, Indiana Grace
 

Note: Orion A, Womer is the father of Albert S. Womer of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  This surname is sometimes given as WOOMER.

 

WOOD, R.

 

Born: 1840                                                                  married:

Died: 2-1-1918                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 415

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Parkersburg Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1918, 28

 

1884-85           Newville (latter part of year), Pennsylvania Conference  1885, 14

1885-87           Bendersville circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1887                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1887-88           living in Bendersville

1888-91           Mont Alto circuit (soon after 1888 conference: see 1889,23)

1891-92           living in Mont Alto

1892                transfer to Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference

 

Note: The documentation on R. Wood’s transfer into the Pennsylvania Conference and ordination (if any) is not clear.  He is known to have held UB camp meetings in West Virginia in the early 1870’s.  The 3/2/1904 Religious Telescope, page 268, notes the serious illness of Mrs. Wood.
 

 

WOODWARD, RICHARD S.

 

Born: 2-18-1830  Chester County PA                        married: Catherine A. Freet

Died: 3-17-1903                                                          obit: [9/20/1835 – 11/16/1916]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 144

Gibble list: no

 

1869    license, Allegheny Conference

1872    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Three Springs Cemetery, Three Springs PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1903, 27

 

1868-70           Scottsville

1870-72           Mahoning

1872-75           Cambria

1875-77           Juniata

1877-78           (no records)

1878-80           Orbisonia

1880                Tyrone (Feb-Sep; short conference year)

1880-81           Ligonier

1881-83           Otterbein

1883-84           Clearfield

1884-86           Wilmore & Conemaugh

1886-88           Conemaugh

1888-92           Madison

1892-93           Three Springs

1893-96           superintendent, Altoona District

1896-99           Huntingdon

1899-00           Orbisonia

1900-02           Mapleton

1902-03           Orbisonia

 

Note: Richard S. Woodward taught school for 11 winters and operated the family farm near East Salem before selling the farm in 1867.  Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 4, column 9.

 

WOODYARD, NOAH

 

Born: 5-13-1799  Harrison County VA                      married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 152

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1829    license

1831    ordained, Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831-32           Staunton & Woodstock

 

Note: Noah Woodyard is believed to be the son of John Covert Woodyard (1771-1845) and Elizabeth Ford Woodyard (1775-?).  There is a Noah Woodyard in the 1840 census in Johnson County IN.

 

 

WOOMER, JAMES ALLEN

 

Born: 6-30-1915  Tyrone PA                                      married: Marietta Getz

Died: 11-24-2005  Johnstown PA                              obit: [3/13/1917 – 8/6/2013]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1934    quarterly conference license

1937    license, Allegheny Conference

1943    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Bald Eagle Cemetery, Blair County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 397

 

1937-40      Shade Gap (beginning 10/15/1937)

1940-43      student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
                         1940-43        Congregational-Christian churches in Philipsburg and West Union OH

1943-45      Altoona Pleasant Valley (beginning June 1943)

1945-60      Portage Bethany

1960-61      Johnstown Centennial-Faith

1961-68      Altoona Second Avenue

1968-70      superintendent, Western District

1970-74      superintendent, Indiana District

1974-79      Brookville First

1979           retired

                        1979-94           minister of visitation, North Naples FL 

 

 

WORMAN, DANIEL

 

Born: 12-3-1786                                                          married: Elizabeth Shupe

Died: 8-19-1862                                                          obit: [c1789 – 2/12/1855]

Miller-Raker #: 212

Fulton #: 9

Gibble list: no

 

1827    ordained

 

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 9

 

1839                charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note: Daniel Worman was a local preacher and never itinerated.  Mrs. Worman is an aunt to Emily Shupe Ressler, wife of Jacob Ressler.

 

 

WORTHINGTON, I.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1878-79           Horse Valley  1879, 4

1880-81           Horse Valley (last part of year)  1881, 4

 

Note: This is believed to be Isaac G. Worthington (1827-1883), an active member of the Scotland church.

 

WORTMAN, CICERO

 

Born: 7-8-1828  New Rumley OH                             married: Elizabeth Burrier

Died: 1-28-1891  Westmoreland County PA             obit: Allegheny Conference 1905, 37

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 158

Gibble list: no

 

1850    quarterly conference license, Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1855    license, Muskingum Conference

 

Interment: Middletown Methodist Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1891, 36

 

1853                transfer to Muskingum Conference, United Brethren Church

1871-72           Mount Pleasant, Allegheny Conference

1872                transfer to Allegheny Conference
1872-73     Allegheny

1873-75           Madison

1875-76           Ligonier

1876-77           Somerset

1877-78           (no records)

1878-79           Springfield

1879-80           Connellsville

1880                Allegheny (Feb-Sep; short conference year)

1880-82           Washington

1882-83           Mahoning

1883-85           Cambria

1885-86           Bellefonte

1886-88           Millheim

1888-89           New Paris

1889-90           Lycippus

1890-91           on leave

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 5, column 6.

 

WRAGG, WILLIAM

 

Born: 2-24-1833  Pittsburgh PA                                 married: Harriet E. Laishley

Died: 11-10-1885  Industry PA                                  obit: [3/15/1833 – 1880]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Anna C. _____

Fulton #: 139                                                               obit2: Pittsburgh Conference MP Church 1918, 26

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

?          ordained

 

Interment: Southside Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Obit:

 

1863-64           Bakerstown

1867-68           Ligonier, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1868                admitted on credentials to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1868-69           Mt. Pleasant

1869-72           Altoona

1872-74           Mt. Pleasant

1874-75           ?

1875-77           Sewickley

1877-78           Braddock Jones Avenue

1878-79           Wilkinsburg Christ

1879                withdrew

                        return to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

Note: The first Mrs. Wragg is the daughter of Rev. Peter Thomas Laishley MD (1798-1884) of the Methodist Protest Church, who is reported to have had five grandsons in the ministry – including John M. Conway (1848-?) of the Methodist Protestant Church.

 

WRIGGLE, EDWARD FRANKLIN

 

Born: 8-5-1861  Clearfield County PA                      married: Clara Hepburn

Died: 8-18-1960  Modesto CA                                   obit: Oregon Conference 1942, 32

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 261

Gibble list: no

 

?          license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1895    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

 

Interment: Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland OR

Obit: Pacific Northwest Conference 1961, 77

 

1894                admitted on credentials to the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church 

1894-96           Patchinsville

1896-99           Cambria

1899-00           Windburne

1900-02           Windber

1902-03           New Florence

1903-06           Latrobe

1906-08           (Nebraska)

1908                transfer

 

WYAND, SIMON SNYDER

 

Born: 11-20-1871  Hagerstown MD                           married: Frances Farman

Died: 6-16-1933  Duluth MN                                     obit: [9/2/1870 – 5/30/1966]

Miller-Raker #: 540

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment: Amsterdam Cemetery, Goodell IA

Obit: Northern Minnesota Conference of ME Church 1933, 233

 

1906                transfer from Iowa Conference, page 50

1907                open transfer, page 46 & 66

                        Northern Minnesota Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Note: A 1913 newspaper account says a funeral “was conducted by Rev. Geo. E. Tindall of St. Cloud, assisted by the local pastor, Rev. S. S. Wyand.”

 


YARKERS, JOHN ADAMS

 

Born: 4-28-1859  Carsonville PA                               married: Mrs. Thomas Lease

Died: 3-22-1915                                                          obit: [11/20/1853 – 12/16/1926]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 315

Gibble list: yes

 

1896    quarterly conference license, Mount Carmel

1896    license, East German Conference

1897    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, East Salem PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1915, 72

 

1887-88           Freeburg circuit

1888-89           Middleburg circuit

1902                transfer to Allegheny Conference

                        local preacher, living in McAllisterville

 

Note: Mrs. Yarkers was the former Ellen A. Graybill.

 

YEAGER, AMOS F.

 

Born: c. 1830                                                              married: Matrona Maneval

Died: 1895  Milroy PA                                               obit: [3/20/1832 – 6/5/1865]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Hannah Knight [c1866]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [11/?/1836 – 11/9/1932]

Gibble list: yes

 

1856    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1859    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: reportedly Woodlawn Cemetery, Milroy PA, but no record

Obit:

 

1856-58           West Branch circuit

1858-60           Northumberland mission

1860-62           West Branch circuit

1862-64           Halifax circuit

1864-65           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1865-67           Susquehanna circuit

1867-69           New Holland

1869-73

1873-75           Susquehanna circuit

1878                surrender license

1879                “transfer” to the Lutheran ministry, perhaps as a local supply

1882-84           Duncannon charge

 

Note:  Strangely, Amos F. Yeager is also listed for Halifax circuit 1868-69.

 

YEAKEL, JOSEPH HUGHES

 

Born: 3-12-1928  Mahanoy City PA                                      married: Lois J. Shenk

Died: 7-4-2021  Wooster OH                                                 obit: [11/23/1927 – 3/5/2014]

Miller-Raker #: 706

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license

1952    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1948-49           Gardners-Mt. Victory

1952-55           associate, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1955-61           York Fifth

1961-63           Silver Spring

1963-68           EUB Board of Evangelism

1968-72           UM Board of Evangelism

1972-96           bishop

                             1972-84      New York West Area

                             1984-96      Baltimore-Washington Area

1996                retired

 

Note: Bishop Yeakel is a brother to Mrs. Paul Horn.

 

YOHE, HARRY HERBERT

 

Born: 1877  near Shippensburg PA                            married: Alma Engle

Died: 1963                                                                  obit: [1881-1979]

Miller-Raker #: 481

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license, recommended by Shippensburg

 

Interment: Harrisburg East Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

 

1901-02           York Springs (did not finish the year)  1902,16

1902-03           YMCA, Dayton OH

1903-04           Chambersburg circuit (did not accept)  1904,13

1904                transfer to Miami [OH] Conference

1904-07           Dayton Troy Street

                        apparently left the pastorate to do para-church work

                        Harrisburg PA

1911-12           Indianapolis IN

1920-31           Central YMCA, Minneapolis MN     

1947                executive secretary, First Presbyterian in Phoenix AZ

 

Note: Harry H. Yohe is a 1901 graduate of Lebanon Valley College.  He attended Cumberland Valley State Normal School and taught at Cherry Grove before entering Lebanon Valley.

 

YOHE, JAY WEIDLER

 

Born: 4-8-1873  Mongul PA                                      married: Annie Benedict Small

Died: 3-24-1960                                                          obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1953, 33

Miller-Raker #: 466

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1897    license

1901    ordained

 

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 46

 

1894-98           student, Lebanon Valley College

1898-01           York Fourth & Fifth

1901-02           Mechanicsburg circuit (did not report)

                            1901-02       Van Oren & Forreston, Illinois Conference 

1902-07           Mont Alto

1907-11           on leave, living in Fayetteville

1911-12           Fayetteville

1912-15           Wolfsville

1915-19           local

1919-50           Marion-St. John’s

1950                retired

 

Note: Jay W. Yohe was the Protestant chaplain at the South Mountain institution 1907-09 and 1915-53.

 

 

YOHE, THEODORE CHARLES

 

Born: 11-24-1935                                                        married: Clara Lou _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 794

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1954    license, Evangelical Congregational denomination: recommended by York St. Paul’s

1960    ordained, Evangelical Congregational denomination

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1956-58           Clark’s Valley charge, Dauphin County

1958-61           Lawn, Lebanon County

1961                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference of EUB denomination

1961-62           associate, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1962-67           Shepherdstown

1967-73           Shippensburg Messiah

1973-83           Lewistown Grace

1983-93           Harrisburg Colonial Park

1993-95           Hanover First

1995                retired

 

 

YORDY, HENRY C.

 

Born: 9-16-1845                                                          married: Josephine B. Kurtz

Died: 12-15-1908                                                        obit: [1/19/1846 – 4/27/1893]                 

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Catherine A. Summers

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [12/28/1859 – 12/16/1934]

Gibble list: no

 

 

Interment: Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit:

 

1888-89           Shamokin Second, East German Conference

 

Note: H.C. Yordy is otherwise unknown, and appears to have served as a local preacher.

 

 

YORDY, JOSEPH

 

Born:                                                                           married: Esther Musser

Died: 1851  Iowa                                                        obit:                   

Miller-Raker #: 64 & 178

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1811    license

 

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1851, 28

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: This surname is also rendered in English as YORDE and in German as JORDY.  The twentieth century transcription of the minutes from German to English incorrectly rendered  “Jordy” as “Jordan” – and when the surname began appearing in 1832 beginning with “Y” instead of “J”, he was thought to be a different person and “licensed” and assigned Miller-Raker #178.  Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 62, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Yordy is the daughter of a Martin Musser who died 9/9/1802.

 

 

YOUNG, DAVID EDWARD

 

Born: 5-20-1892  Manheim PA                                  married: Anna Will Miller

Died: 3-20-1962  Harrisburg PA                                obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 24

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Gladys Leola Ream

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [2/5/1909 – 8/5/2002]

Gibble list: yes

 

1910    quarterly conference license, Manheim

1912    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Manheim PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 63

 

 

1911-15           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1910-14  Jonestown

1915-19           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1916       Nappanee IN (summer)

                             1917       Etna Green IN (summer)

                             1917-19  South Bend IN

1919-26           Philadelphia Third

1926-42           Harrisburg Sixth Street

1942-62           conference superintendent

 

Note: Following the death of David E. Young, the second Mrs. Young married a Mr. Frank L. Goodyear Jr.

 

YOUNG, HENRY

 

Born: 5-6-1795                                                            married: Veronica Florence Ulsh

Died: 8-8-1867                                                            obit: [4/18/1799 – c1863]

Miller-Raker #: 158

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license

1832    ordained

 

Interment: Youngs Church Cemetery, Shermans Dale PA

Obit: Religious Telescope 4-22-1868

 

Note: Mrs. Young is believed to be the Fanny Young (4/20/1788 – 11/14/1862) buried at Youngs Church in Shermans Dale.

 

YOUNG, JACOB

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1861    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1861                withdrew

 

YOUNG, JOHN DANIEL SMELTZER

 

Born: 10-3-1862 Frederick County MD                     married: Florence Idella Ramsburg

Died: 2-14-1935                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 21

Miller-Raker #: 545

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Thurmont class

1908    license

1913    ordained

 

Interment: Thurmont UB Church, Thurmont MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 20

 

1887-09           medical doctor

1909-10           living in Creagerstown MD

1910-12           Taneytown

1912-17           Chewsville

1917-20           Manchester MD

1920-28           Rohrersville

1928                retired

1928-35           medical doctor

 

Note:  JDS Young was assigned to Bendersville when he received his license in 1908, but he did not report at that time – see 1909,29.

 

 

YOUNG, JOHN H.

 

Born: 11-24-1835                                                        married: Ellen Balsley

Died: 3-23-1920                                                          obit: 6/3/1833 – 10/18/1905]

Miller-Raker #: 337                                                    married2: Anna C. Byers

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [3/1/1857 – 5/6/1914]

Gibble list: no

 

1865    license

1868    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview Township, York County PA

Obit:

 

1864-66           York Springs circuit

1866-67           York Springs circuit & Bendersville mission

1867-68           York circuit

1868-70           Littlestown circuit

1870-73           Newville

1873-75           York mission station

1875-76           endowment agent, Lebanon Valley College

1876-78           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1878-80           presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1880-82           Duncannon station

1882-85           Waynesboro station

1885-87           Newburg station

1887-90           West Fairview station

1890-94           Dallastown station

1894-95           Manchester circuit (did not finish the year)

1895-98           living in Wormleysburg

1898-01           living in New Cumberland

1901                joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1901,24

1901-03           West Fairview

 

Note: In the Methodist Episcopal Church, John H. Young served as a local pastor.  The 1901 session of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church recognized the United Brethren elders orders of both William H. Young and John H. Young – but no relationship has been established between William and John.

 

YOUNG, JOSEPH SR

 

Born: 1-7-1793                                                            married:

Died: 12-30-1849                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 202

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

 

Interment: Youngs UM Cemetery, Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1850, 16

 

 

YOUNG, JOSEPH JR

 

Born: 12-18-1821  near York PA                                           married: Sarah Deibler

Died: 11-22-1901  Harrisburg PA                                          obit: [1/19/1828 – 7/8/1893]

Miller-Raker #: 274

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1844    license

1847    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 24

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           Halifax circuit

1848-50

1850-52           Northumberland

1852-53

1853-55           Highspire circuit

1855-57           Reading Zion

1857-58           Amity mission

1858-59           ?

1859-62           Lancaster circuit

1862-73           local, due to throat problems

                             1865-66  Irish Valley & Shamokin

                             1869-70  Halifax

1873-75           Annville

1875                retired in Annville

                             1886-89  Ruhl’s station

 

Note: Rev. Young was elected presiding elder in 1854, but declined for reasons of health.

 

 

YOUNG, PARKER CYRUS

 

Born: 2-1-1910  Tappen, ND                                     married: Helen Erlita Cole

Died: 6-18-1991  Quincy PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009, 434

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1929    license, Erie Conference: recommended by Union City Parade Street

1937    ordained, Erie Conference

 

Interment: Quincy Cemetery, Quincy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992,490

 

1937-41           missionary, Sierra Leone

1941-42           Albion

1942                transfer to Ohio Sandusky Conference

1942-44           Dunkirk

1944-47           missionary, Sierra Leone

1947-56           Woodville

1956-68           regional secretary, Board of Missions

1968-71           Advance director, Board of Missions

1971                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1971-74           Yorkana

1974                retired

 

 

YOUNG, SAMUEL A.

 

Born: 2-16-1830  York PA                                         married: _____ Epley

Died: 1-20-1888  Baltimore MD                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: 328

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1853    quarterly conference license, York First

1862    license

1866    ordained

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 31

 

1860-61           Carlisle circuit (last part of year)

1861-63           Mercersburg circuit

1863-64           Path Valley circuit (first part of year; entered army)

1864-65           army

1866-68           Shippensburg circuit

1868-70           Manchester circuit

1870-71           York Springs

1871                local, due to throat problems

                             1871-78  living in York PA

                             1878-85  living in Wilmington DE, UB Aid Society

                             1885-88     living in Baltimore MD, Provident Life Association

 

Note: While living in Wilmington DE, Rev. Young was reportedly an agent for the UB Aid Society and directed the city mission there.  This is strange because there was no known UB work in the entire state of Delaware.

 

 

YOUNG, WILLIAM H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 441

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1889    license

1892    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1888-89           York Springs mission

1889-90           Rayville circuit

1890-92           Eschol mission

1892-93           York Haven

1893-95           Winterstown circuit

1895                transfer to Illinois Conference

1901                “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

Note: The 1901 session of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church recognized the United Brethren elders orders of both William H. Young and John H. Young – but no relationship has been established between William and John.

 

 

ZAHN, JOHN

 

Born: 4-17-1804                                                          married: Mariah M. Weitzell

Died: 4-14-1881                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 113                                                    married2: Mrs. Rowanna Hoover (2/7/1863)

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit: [1/11/1828 – 11/27/1891]

Gibble list: yes

 

1825    license

1827    ordained

 

Interment: Bethel UMC Cemetery, Chewsville MD

Obit:

 

1824-25           Shenandoah circuit

1827-29           Hagerstown circuit

1830                charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

1831-32           Staunton & Woodstock circuits

 

Note: Rev. Zahn preached at the 1830 funeral of Bishop Newcomer.  Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 189, gives a brief biography.  John Zahn is a brother to Charles W. Zahn of the Virginia Conference.  While he may have been a member of the Virginia Conference at his death, he is not listed in the minutes after 1831.  He appears to have left the United Brethren to help form “The Christian Conference of the Valley in Virginia” in 1838 and become active in the Christian Church.  There is limited information on the family in the biographical files.  The second Mrs. Zahn, nee Warbel, was the widow of a Mr. Ezra Hoover.

 

 

ZECH, HARRY EDWARD

 

Born: 3-30-1913  Jefferson PA                                  married: Edna Smith

Died: 7-15-1995  Westerville OH                              obit: [10/29/1911 – 7/10/2005]

Miller-Raker #: 669

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1932    license

1936    ordained

 

Interment: Jefferson Cemetery, Jefferson PA

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1996, 353

 

1929-33           student, Lebanon Valley College

1933-36           student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1936-44           Fayetteville

1944-69           missionary, Puerto Rico

1969                transfer to Ohio Conference

1969-70           Croton

 

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 410, gives a brief biography.

 

 

ZECHMAN, HARRY WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-18-1908  Fearnot PA                                   married: Vesta M. Harner

Died: 7-29-1997  Palmyra PA                                                obit: [10/13/1909 – 4/22/1995]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1928    quarterly conference license, Fearnot

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1933    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 262

 

1926-30           student, Lebanon Valley College

                            1929-30       Brunnerville (beginning 12/30)

1930-32           Lebanon Bethany

1932-33           Pottstown & Birdsboro

1833-37           Pine Grove

1937-67           Harrisburg Derry Street

1967-77           Palmyra First

 

 

ZEEK, ELIAS A.

 

Born: 7-25-1835  Roxbury PA                                   married: Caroline J. Beighel [1/25/1858]

Died: 10-18-1911  Scottdale PA                                obit: [?/?/1839 – 9/25/1897]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 175

Gibble list: no

 

1872    exhorter’s license

1875    license, Allegheny Conference

1880    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1912, 90

 

1875-76           East Salem

1880-81           Three Springs

1881-82           Juniata

1882-83           Liverpool

1883-84           Huntingdon

1884-87           Port Matilda

1887-88           Scottdale

1888-91           superintendent

1892-95           Springfield

1895                retired

 

Note: Elias A. Sutton is a grandson (through his mother Eve Sutton Zeek) of Joseph Sutton.  Mrs. Zeek (aka “Callie”) may be the daughter of William Beighel.  His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 2, column 3.

 

ZEIGLER, HAROLD EDWIN

 

Born: 11-27-1924  Boonsboro MD                            married: Romaine McQuay Burke

Died: 4-27-2006  Greer SC                                        obit: [6/25/1921 – 7/25/2014]

Miller-Raker #: 705

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1947    license

 

Interment: Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Greer SC

Obit:

 

1947-48           student, Lebanon Valley College

    1947-48       Shermansdale

1948-52           student, Dallas Theological Seminary

1952                withdrew, page 65

           

1957                independent church, Alden PA

1979                Congregational Church, Shattuck OK

 

Note: Harold E. Zeigler is the son of Roy R. Zeigler.

 

 

ZEIGLER, ROY RAYMOND

 

Born: 2-28-1891  Rossville PA                                  married: Cora Mabel Emenheiser

Died: 12-10-1978  Quincy PA                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 352

Miller-Raker #: 591

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    quarterly conference license, Mechanicsburg First

1915    license

1924    ordained

 

Interment: Winterstown United Brethren Cemetery, Winterstown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 343

 

1915-18           Shermansdale

1918-22           Mechanicsburg circuit

1922-23           Bendersville

1923-26           Boonsboro

1926-31           Fayetteville

1931-34           Windsor

1934-38           Mt. Wolf

1938-45           Duncannon

1945-52           Boiling Springs

1952                retired

                            1955 (Jan-Sep)  assistant, Harrisburg State Street: East Pennsylvania Conference

                            1960 (Jun-Oct)  New Bloomfield charge

 

Note: Mrs. Zeigler is the daughter of Franklin B. Emenheiser.  The Zeiglers are the parents of Elizabeth Zeigler Keperling (wife of Ira C. Keperling), Eleanor Zeigler Ford (wife of missionary Rev. Paul Ford) and Harold E. Zeigler.

 

 

ZEPP, JACOB

 

Born: 12-15-1906  Adams County PA                       married: Ruth Kennedy

Died: 8-6-1981  Chambersburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 351

Miller-Raker #: 736

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1931    quarterly conference license, Heidlersburg UBOC

1932    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1938    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment: Heidlersburg Cemetery, Adams County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 388

 

1933-35           Crider’s

1935-41           Rohrersville

1941-50           Strinestown

1950                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB Church

1950-57           Dover

1957-62           Oakville

1962-70           Scotland-Salem

1970                retired, active member at Chambersburg Park Avenue

                             1970-71      St. John’s

                       

 

ZIEGLER, PHILIP GEORGE

 

Born: 11-2-1775  York County PA                            married: Margaret Sharp

Died: 3-6-1828                                                            obit: [4/25/1784 – 5/25/1850]

Miller-Raker #: 107

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ZEIGLER]

 

1823    license

1823    ordained

 

Interment: Salem Union Cemetery, Dover PA

Obit:

 

Note: The widowed Mrs. Ziegler married noted pioneer UB pastor Jacob Roop.

 

ZIEGLER, SAMUEL GEORGE

 

Born: 10-14-1884                                                        married: Ethel Redding

Died: 10-30-1980                                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 443

Miller-Raker #: 543

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1906    quarterly conference license, Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1907    license

1911    ordained

 

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 347

 

1907-08           student, York Collegiate Institute

1908-11           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1909-11      Duncannon

1911-14           student, Bonebrake Seminary

                             1912-14      Wagner-Aley charge, Miami Conference

1914-17           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1917-21           Hagerstown St. Paul

1921-46           general secretary, Foreign Mission Society

1946-58           EUB Board of Missions

1958                retired

 

Note: The conference archives include two books by Samuel G. Ziegler: Christian Movements in the Orient and God’s Will Be Done in World Relations.

 

ZIMMERMAN, CLINTON DEWITT

 

Born: 8-10-1910  Penbrook PA                                  married: Charlotte Faye Gingrich

Died: 10-2-1999  Quincy PA                                      obit: [1912 – 1972]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      maried2: Genevieve Naomi Frehn Shupp

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [7/10/1915 – 1/10/2010]

Gibble list: yes

 

1938    quarterly conference license, Penbrook Grace

1940    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1944    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2000, 7.293

 

1938-41           student, Lebanon Valley College

1941-44           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1944-46           Aristes

1946-53           Shamokin circuit

1953-58           Allentown Grace

1958-59           Denver

1959-62           Reading Salem

1962-65           Lebanon Bethany

1965-66           Christian Publications

1966-67           Lickdale circuit

1967-70           Blue Mountain Parish (Indiantown Gap Emmanuel & Lickdale Trinity)

1970-71           sabbatical leave

1971-74           Christian Publications

1974-77           Brownstown

1977                retired

 

 

Note: Clinton D. Zimmerman is the father of Rev. Robert S. Zimmerman of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

 

ZIMMERMAN, HARRY W.

 

Born: 5-2-1849                                                            married: Mary Molly Reen [12/11/1877]

Died: 4-22-1925  Palmyra PA                                                obit: [10/27/1855 – 12/6/1932]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1878    license, East German Conference

1881    ordained, East German Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: [Lebanon Daily News 4/23/1925]

 

1877-78           Middletown

1878-79           Tamaqua circuit

1879-81           Freeburg circuit

1881-82           Pine Grove circuit

1882-84           Jacksonville circuit

1884-87           Susquehanna circuit

1887-89           Union Deposit circuit

1889-91           Bellegrove circuit

1891-92           Allentown Zion

1892-95           Lykens Valley circuit

1895-98           Jonestown circuit

1901                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03           living in Palmyra

1903                referred

 

Note: This first name is also reported as HENRY.  Strangely, H.W. Zimmerman is also listed for Middletown 1881-82.

 

 

ZIMMERMAN, PETER L.

 

Born: 12-15-1826                                                        married:

Died: 11-10-1856  Cornwall PA                                obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1856    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference manuscript 1857, 83]

 

1855-56           Highspire circuit

1856-57           Northumberland mission

 

Note: An obituary for Peter L. Zimmerman appears in the 11/21/1856 issue of Der Libanon Demokrat, Lebanon PA.

 

ZIMMERMAN, SIMON

 

Born: 5-7-1820                                                            married: Catherine Lichty

Died: 8-20-1897                                                          obit: [2/25/1828 – 4/10/1874]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1850    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Reinholdsville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 40

 

1852-54           New Holland

1854-55

1855-56           Amity circuit

1856-57           Highspire circuit

1857-59           Halifax circuit

1859-60           Union County circuit

1860-61           Susquehanna circuit

1861-63           Hummelstown circuit

1863-64           Catawissa circuit

1864-65

1865-66           Hummelstown circuit

1866-67           Union Deposit circuit

 

 

ZUCK, WILLIAM JOHNSTON

 

Born: 1-?-1858  Westmoreland County PA               married: Jessie Monterey Zent [1881]

Died: 11-21-1934  Franklin County OH                    obit: [8/22/1857 – 7/24/1941]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 191

Gibble list: yes

 

1880    license, Allegheny Conference

1884    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Otterbein Mausoleum, Westerville OH

Obit:

 

1882-84           faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1884-03           faculty, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1903-04           Annville, East Pennsylvania Conference

                             1903-04      faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1904                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1904-08           Annville

                             1904-08      faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1908-11           director, Anti-Saloon League in Erie PA

1911-12           Columbus OH St. Clair Avenue Presbyterian

1912                honorable dismissal to join Presbyterian Church

                        Columbus OH St. Clair Avenue Presbyterian

                        Columbus OH Second Avenue Presbyterian

 

Note: His picture appears in the 1887 Allegheny Conference photo row 3, column 5.

 

ZUG, LESTER BONEBRAKE

 

Born: 6-9-1893  near Chambersburg PA                    married: Irma Rhoads

Died: 8-29-1921                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 385

Miller-Raker #: 593

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1915    license, recommended by Chambersburg First

1918    ordained

 

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 70

 

1911-15           student, Lebanon Valley College

1915-19           student, Bonebrake Seminary

                            1918      chaplain, US Army

1919-20           missionary to Africa (got sick in England, never made it to Africa)

1920-21           Walkersville

 

 

ZUMBRO, ABRAHAM

 

Born: 1-24-1810  Westmoreland County PA             married: Elizabeth Lash

Died: 6-5-1878  Grantsville MO                                obit: [3/1/1817 – (before 1850)]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                      married2: Rebecca Newlon

Fulton #: 32                                                                 obit2: [6/30/1815 – 12/15/1897]

Gibble list: no

 

1839    license, Allegheny Conference

1842    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Grantsville MO

Obit:

 

Abraham Zumbro is the son of Joseph Zumbro – and the father of sisters Sarah (1848-?) and Mary (1852-1936), who married brothers Leander Fisher (1844-1889) and Rudolf Fisher (1858-1952) of the Missouri and Missouri & Oregon Conferences.

 

 

ZUMBRO, JOSEPH

 

Born: 12-12-1775  Bern township, Bucks Co PA      married: Maria Friedt

Died: 5-10-1846  West Newton, PA                          obit: [10-19-1780 to 5-10-1846]

Miller-Raker #: 208

Fulton #: 3

Gibble list: no

 

?          license

1821    ordained

 

Interment: Funk Cemetery, near West Newton, Westmoreland Co PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1847, 3

 

1839    charter member of Allegheny Conference

 

Note:  Joseph Zumbro is the father of Abraham Zumbro.  While he was a long time local pastor at Apple's Mills, along Sewickley Creek in S. Huntington twp., Westmoreland Co., there appears to be no record of his license or ordination. 

 

 

ZUSE, CLAYTON HILL

 

Born: 12-15-1889                                                        married: Inez Mae Rose

Died: 6-11-1963                                                          obit: Michigan Conference (Meth) 1962, 174

Miller-Raker #: 579

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1913    license, recommended by Myersville

 

Interment:  Chippewa Lake Cemetery, Mecosta County MI

Obit: Michigan Conference (Methodist) 1963, 183

 

1912-16           student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-18           Benton Harbor, Michigan Conference

1918                transfer to Michigan Conference

1918-23           Lake Odessa

1923-24           Wyoming Park

1924-28           Hastings

1928-29           Ogden-Jasper

1929                honorable dismissal

1929-41           ?

1941                transfer to Michigan Conference of the ME Church

1947                Reading MI

 

Note: Clayton Hill Zuse is a brother to Harry W. Zuse and Lula Virginia Zuse Beatty, wife of George W. Beatty.

 

 

ZUSE, DEWITT PHILO

 

Born: 3-30-1905                                                          married: Linda Fegley

Died: 10-5-1963                                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 480

Miller-Raker #: 637

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1925    license

1929    ordained

 

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 45

 

1922-26           student, Lebanon Valley College

1926-30           student, Princeton Theological Seminary

1930-37           Frederick

1937-41           West Fairview

1941-46           WW II

1946-51           Emigsville-Saginaw

1951-58           Chambersburg Park Avenue

1958-63           conference treasurer

 

Note: DeWitt Philo Zuse is the son of Harry W. Zuse.

 

 

ZUSE, HARRY WILLIAM

 

Born: 4-15-1877  Carroll County MD                        married: Claudine Gertrude Meads

Died: 12-25-1958                                                        obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 31

Miller-Raker #: 508                                                    married2: Grace Leister

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license

1907    ordained

 

Interment: New Freedom Cemetery, New Freedom PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 46

 

1902-03           York Haven (beginning 11/10/1902)

1903-07           Greenmount & Manchester

1907-09           Greenmount

1909-14           Myersville

1914-22           Mount Wolf

1922-28           Wormleysburg

1928-37           York Fifth

1937-43           Enola

1943                retired

                             1945-47      Greenmount, supply (beginning 3/45)

 

Note: Harry W. Zuse is the father of DeWitt Philo Zuse and a brother to Clayton Hill Zuse and Lula Virginia Zuse Beatty, wife of George W. Beatty.

 

 

ZUVER, ROBERT EUGENE

 

Born: 6-5-1927 York PA                                            married: Phyllis Bubb

Died: 2-15-2003  Millersburg PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 496

Miller-Raker #: 771                                                    married2: Mrs. Janet E. Daniels Tobias

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Susquehanna Conference 2022, 372

Gibble list: no

 

1958    license, recommended by York First

1962    ordained

 

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2003, 393

 

                        administrator, Quincy Orphanage and Home

1958-63           Dillsburg

1963-87           Pleasureville (ending 10/1/87)

1987-95           Millersburg Grace (beginning 10/1/87)

1995                retired

                            1997-98       County Line