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PHOTOGRAPH: The first and second buildings of the present Grace United
Methodist Church on State
Street, the mother congregation of Harrisburg Methodism.
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COVER: Pennington Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, Pennington, NJ. See
section 4,
page 30, of the article of Bishop Isaac W. Wiley
THE CHRONICLE is published
by the Historical Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
United
Methodist Church, PO Box 2053, Mechanicsburg PA
17055
THE CHRONICLE
Journal of the Historical Society
of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference
of the
United Methodist Church
Milton W. Loyer
editor
Volume XVII spring 2006
Editor's Preface ........................................................................................ ...............2
Jacob Gruber
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Rev. Jacob Gruber (1778-1850)
by Milton Loyer, 1984
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This,
Too, Is Harrisburg District History
by Charles Berkheimer, 1967
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by J. Martin Stroup, 1964
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by Isaac W. Wiley, 1882
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Reading
Between the Lines: An Interesting Letter from Methodisms Past
by Robert Wilson, 1832
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Harrisburg
Women
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by Beverly R. Waugh, 1861 52
Rev. Richard McAllister of Fort Hunter
by Ann Hulme Price, 1817 .78
by Lena Elizabeth Beck, 1909 ....85
by Helen
Eichelberger Ake, 1965
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50 Years of Inclusiveness
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