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OF THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist
Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania
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Central Pennsylvania Evangelical Pastors Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all the pastors for that letter. The instructions file gives information about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.
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ALBRIGHT,
GEORGE E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1906 license
Interment:
Obit:
1909-10 Dorsey
1910 withdrew
Note: George
E. Albright later served in the Presbyterian ministry in western Pennsylvania
and Iowa.
ALBRIGHT,
GEORGE S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1903 license
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1903-07 Keystone
1907-11 Lewisberry
1911-15 Winfield
1915-18 East Prospect
1918-22 York (Princess Street)
1922 withdrew to join West
Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lutheran Church
ALBRIGHT,
RAYMOND WOLF
Born:
7-16-1901 Akron
PA married:
Mary Catherine Sherr
Died:
7-15-1965 Boston
MA obit:
East Pennsylvania Conference 1932,204
married2:
Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Ayer Rising
obit2:
1921 license, East Pennsylvania Conference,
recommended by Akron Mt Zion
1923 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania
Conference
1925 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Laureldale Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit:
Eastern Conference 1966,120
1920-22 Wyomissing Berkshire Heights
1922-24 Lebanon Old Emmanuel
1924-27 Matamoras
1926-52 faculty,
Evangelical School of Theology in Reading PA
1952-65 faculty,
Episcopal Theological School in Boston MA
Note:
Raymond W. Albright is the great-great-grandson of Jacob Albright and the
brother of Rev. Alton P. Albright (1904-1995) of the United Church of
Christ. He is the author of the
definitive 1945 History of the
Evangelical Church.
ALLEN,
J.N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1867 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note:
J.N. Allen is believed to have moved to Ohio, and then to Nebraska in 1871, and
served as a Congregational minister.
ALLISON,
CHARLES E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1914 license
Interment:
Obit:
ALTHOUSE,
HENRY
Born:
3-21-1819 PA married:
Juliana Myers 12/27/1857
Died:
9-18-1895 Los
Angeles CA obit:
[9/2/1832 – 1/21/1915]
1852 license
1856 ordained deacon
Interment:
Los Angeles CA
Obit:
1855-56 Lycoming
1856-58 York station
1858-59 Gettysburg
1859-60 Middle Creek
1860-61 Center
1861-62 Clinton
1862-63 Lock Haven
1863-64 Center
1864-66 York circuit
1866-67 Baltimore circuit
1868 transfer to Iowa Conference
1888 transfer to California
Conference
1888-89 Bardsdale
mission
1889 retired
Note:
Henry Althouse is the father of William Henry Althouse (1858-1929) of the California Conference.
ANTHONY,
BENJAMIN F.
Born:
5-30-1844 Juniata
Furnace (Perry Co) PA married: Anna
H. Fenicle
Died:
5-23-1886 East
Berlin PA obit:
1877 ordained deacon
1879 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
[1893,67]
1875-76 Middleburg
1876-77 McClure
1877-80 Hagerstown
1880-82 Lewisberry
1882-85 Jarrettsville
1885-86 Dillsburg
Note:
Mrs. Anthony re-married in 1894 to Benjamin F. Hall – a retired member of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference. She is
also referred to as Anna H. Zimmerman.
ARCHER,
JOSIAH
Born:
3-22-1827 Bethnal Green, England married: Jemima Johnson
Died:
12-5-1882 Irving
MI obit:
Interment:
Coopersville Cemetery, Coopersville MI
Obit:
1874-75 Duboistown
1875-76 Glen Rock
1876-77 Baltimore Mission
withdrew;
"transfer" to Lutheran Church
1877-79 Beckleyville
MD, Independent Lutheran Synod
moved
to Michigan; "transfer" to Methodist Episcopal Church
1879-80 Grand Rapids Division Street MI
[organizing pastor] (beginning summer 1880)
1880-82 Coopersville MI
1882- Irving MI
Note:
The biographical files include an obituary and other material for Josiah
Archer. His service in Michigan was as a
local pastor filling "to be supplied" appointments,
and his name does not appear in the conference minutes.
ARMSTRONG,
H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1882 license
Interment:
Obit:
ARNSPARGER,
C.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1902 license
Interment:
Obit:
1902-03 Emigsville
1905 withdrew
ARTMAN,
DANIEL ABRAM
Born:
2-4-1864 Mordansville PA married:
Mary Amelia Oaks
Died:
4-27-1928 West
Nanticoke PA obit:
[d. 3/26/1887]
married2:
Ida May Erdley
1889 license, recommended by New Berlin obit2: 1916,79
1892 ordained deacon married3: Mrs. Hulda G. Baumgardner
1894 ordained elder obit3:
Interment:
New Freedom PA
Obit:
1929,82
1890-91 Middleburg
1891-93 West Clifford
1893-95 Espy
1895-96 Dushore
1896-00 Cumberland
1900-03 Wrightsville
1093-05 Howard
1905-09 Mifflin
1909-10 Hebbville
1910-13 Hellam
1913-16 NewFreedom
1916-17 Bellwood
1917-19 Hummels
Wharf
1919-24 Avis
1924-25 Pennsdale
1925-27 Penns Creek
1927-28 West Nanticoke
AURAND,
CELESTINE VAN BUSKIRK
Born:
6-4-1858 married:
Ida Leopold
Died:
3-8-1901 Hanover
PA obit:
1885 license
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment:
Blooming Grove Evangelical Cemetery, York County PA
Obit:
[1915,64]
1885-86 Cumberland
1886-87 Middleburg
1887-90 Liberty
1890-92 Spring Mills
1892 "transfer" to East
Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1892-94 Pottstown & Birdsboro
1894-95 Catasauqua Immanuel
1895-97 Philadelphia Germantown
1897-99 Schuylkill Haven
1899-00 ?
1900 returned to Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1900-01 Hanover Circuit
Note:
C.V.B. Aurand is the son of Simon Aurand. Mrs. Aurand is the
daughter of Aaron Frederick Leopold (1819-1889) and the sister of Sylvester
Theodore Leopold (1851-1913) and William Augustus Leopold (?-1925), all members
of the East Pennsylvania Conference.
AURAND,
SIMON
Born:
12-26-1827 near
Selinsgrove PA married:
Sarah Van Buskirk
Died:
4-18-1909 Berwick
PA obit: 1912,67
1860 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1910,65
1856-57 Lycoming
1857-59 Cherry
1859-61 Block House
1861-63 Gettysburg
1863-65 Shrewsbury
1865-67 Perry
1867-69 Port Trevorton
1869-71 Center
1871-73 Troxelville
1873-75 York (German)
1875-78 York Circuit
1878-80 York (English)
1880-83 Cumberland
1883-84 Located
1884-86 Loganville
1886-87 Port Trevorton
1887-90 Middleburg
1890-93 Brush Valley
1893-96 Milesburg
1896-97 Zions Grove
1897-00 Hanover
1900-02 Centerville
1902-05 Millmont
1905 retired
Note:
Simon Aurand is the father of C.V.B. Aurand. Mrs. Aurand is a grand-daughter of Abraham Eyer
(of the Eyer Barn in Winfield), whose daughter Sarah Eyer married a John Van Buskirk.
AUSTIN,
DONALD PAUL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1941 license, recommended by Berkley Place
(Martinsburg WV)
1954 ordained elder, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1947-48 Martinsburg
1948-53 West Frederick
1953-56 Manassas
1956 transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1956-63 Hummel's Wharf
1963-66 Williamsport circuit
1966-69 Port Trevorton
1969 transfer to Southern New Jersey
Conference