ARCHIVES 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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BABCOCK, ROYAL ANSON

Born: 2-23-1890 Elgin PA married: Minnie Frances Scott

Died: 4-27-1948 obit:

1930 license, recommended by Carlisle First

1932 ordained deacon

1934 ordained elder

Interment: Rebersburg

Obit: 1948,100

1930-34 Cearfoss

1934-37 Bryansville

1937-48 Rebersburg

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BAILEY, CHARLES ARTHUR

Born: 6-16-1920 Spring Mills PA married: Charlotte Elizabeth Fiebig

Died: 8-17-2006 obit: 1999,428

married2: Isabelle _____

1940 license, recommended by Hummel's Wharf obit2:

1946 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: 2007,400

1942-45 Port Trevorton
1945-57 Cearfoss
1957-61 Windsor
1961-72 Mexico

1972-73 Avis Yoked Parish

1973-76 Williamstown

1976-79 York Springs-Arnolds

1979-81 Jacobus

1981 retired

1981-92 Ralston

1993-94 Union circuit

1994-98 Millmont

Note: Charles A. Bailey is the son of Irwin C. Bailey Sr and a brother to Irwin C. Bailey Jr.

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BAILEY, CHARLES CARROLL

Born: 6-7-1893 Loganville PA married: Margaret Louise Kibbler

Died: 11-6-1955 Baltimore MD obit:

1918 license, recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial

1920 ordained deacon

1922 ordained elder

Interment: Loganville Evangelical Cemetery, Loganville PA

Obit: 1956,81

1917-18 Berwick Bower Memorial (beginning 7/8/1917)

1918-25 York Christ

1925-27 Milton

1927-29 assistant (under Dan A. Poling), Marble Collegiate church in New York NY

1929-39 Baltimore Faith

1939-43 Lemoyne Grace

1943-41 York St. Paul's

1951-55 Baltimore Immanuel

Note: C. Carroll Bailey is the son of Eli B. Bailey.

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BAILEY, DAVID PAUL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1948 license, recommended by York Grace

1953 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1953-58 Liberty
1958-61 Williamsport Heshbon Park
1961-66 Newberrytown St. Paul

1966-68 without appointment by own request

1968 located, page 237

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BAILEY, ELI BENTON

Born: 1-1-1864 Loganville PA married: Malinda Alice Venus

Died: 7-8-1917 Berwick PA obit:

1889 license

1892 ordained deacon

1894 ordained elder

Interment: Loganville PA

Obit: 1918,72

1890-92 Chanceford

1892-93 York Circuit

1893-94 Akron OH

1894-97 Baltimore Grace

1897-01 Baltimore Olive Branch

1901-02 located

1902-05 Alberton

1905-06 located

1906-07 Manchester

1907-11 Bloomsburg

1911-15 Baltimore Memorial

1915-17 Berwick Bower Memorial

Note: Eli B. Bailey is a brother to Irwin C. Bailey Sr and to William E. Bailey (1862-1931) of the Ohio Conference, and is the father of C. Carroll Bailey.

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BAILEY, IRWIN CORNELIUS SR

Born: 11-19-1887 York County PA married: Hattie Grace Freed

Died: 11-1-1961 York PA obit: [3/11/1884 – 9/4/1960]

1910 license, recommended by Loganville

1912 ordained deacon

1914 ordained elder

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1962,94

1910-12 York (Princess Street)

1912-16 Bryansville

1912-19 Salladasburg

1919-22 Spring Mills

1922-28 Lewisberry

1928-32 Alberton

1932-37 Windsor

1937-51 Hummels Wharf

1951-58 York Bethlehem

1958 retired

Note: Irwin C. Bailey Sr is a brother to Eli B. Bailey and to William E. Bailey (1862-1931) of the Ohio Conference, and is the father of Charles A. Bailey and Irwin C. Bailey Jr.

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BAILEY, IRWIN CORNELIUS, JR.

Born: 7-11-1912 Bryansville PA married: Miriam V. Ritter

Died: 3-1-1974 obit:

1934 license, recommended by Windsor Emmanuel

1940 ordained elder

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1974,416

1936-37 Manchester- Yorkshire
1937-40 Ransom-Scranton
1940-42 Dushore-Lopez
1942-59 chaplain, U.S. Army
1959-61 Mexico
1961-64 Middleburg

1964-74 Lewisburg St. Paul's

Note: Irwin C. Bailey Jr is the son of Irwin C. Bailey Sr, a brother to C. Carroll Bailey, and the father of Rev. Kathryn Louise Bailey Moore of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

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BAILEY, WILLIAM ELMER

Born: 3-23-1862 Loganville PA married: Laura Kate Whiteleather

Died: 3-4-1931 Columbus OH obit: [12/19/1856 – 4/9/1892]

married2: Minnie Bright

1893 license obit2: [8/8/1867 - ?]

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1931,64

transfer to Ohio Conference

Note: William E. Bailey is a brother to Eli B. Bailey and Irwin C. Bailey Sr.

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BAIR, ISAAC NEWTON

Born: 11-29-1854 East Prospect PA married: Hannah Jane Kirkwood Campbell

Died: 7-31-1936 obit: 1935,84

1891 license

1895 ordained deacon

1897 ordained elder

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: 1937,78

1893-96 Bryansville

1896-98 Shrewsbury

1898-03 Howard

1903-06 Millheim

1906-08 Cumberland

1908-12 Marysville

1912-16 Mount Holly

1916-17 Burnham

1917-22 Williamsport Grace

1922-29 Espy

1929 retired

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BAIR, JOHN S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1867 license

1873 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1869-70 Liverpool

located

Note: This surname is also rendered BEAR.

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BAKER, FRANCIS M.

Born: 11-?-1839 Oak Hill Station PA married: Harriet Elizabeth Fenner

Died: 1926 obit: [8/14/1837 – 1919]

1872 license

1874 ordained deacon

1876 ordained elder

Interment: Dauphin Cemetery, Middle Paxton township, Dauphin County PA

Obit:

1868-69 student, Bucknell University

1869-72 student, Union Theological Seminary in New York NY

1872-73 Port Trevorton

1873-74 Perry

1874-79 principal, Union Seminary in New Berlin PA

withdrew from the Church

1882 received by the Philadelphia Central Presbytery

1882-84 Hicksville OH

1884-15 Dauphin

Note: Francis M. Baker is the father of Rev. George Fenner Baker (1873-?) of the Presbyterian Church. Some sources give the name of Mrs. Baker as Elizabeth H. Cornelius, but this is believed to be the result of confusion with the name of her father, Cornelius George Fenner.

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BAKER, G.G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

license

ordained deacon

ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1851-52 Allegheny

1852 charter member of Pittsburg Conference

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BAKER, H.E.

Born: 1888 married:

Died: 1967 obit:

1908 license

Interment:

Obit:

1916-18 Reading Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference of the EC Church

1918 "transfer" to East Pennsylvania Conference, Evangelical Congregational Church

1981-21 Reading Trinity

1921-26 Plymouth Meeting

1926-30 Palmerton

1930-38 Reading Bethany

1938-44 Manheim

1944-51 Harrisburg

1951-53 Adamstown

1953 retired

1957-58 Reading Trinity

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BAKER, IRVING K.

Born: 11-28-1883 near Carlisle PA married: Bessie May Kutz

Died: 5-27-1964 obit: [d. 6/8/1954]

1908 license, recommended by St. Paul's Hagerstown Md.

1911 ordained deacon

1913 ordained elder

Interment: Mount Holly Springs PA

Obit: [1964,18]

1908-10 Mt. Holly Springs

1910-14 Bloserville

1914-19 Loganville

1919-21 Mexico

1921-26 Wellsville

1926-29 Rebersburg

1929-36 Felton

1936-46 Winfield
1946-52 Manchester-Yorkshire
1952 retired

1952 Wellsville (May-Aug)

1954-55 Windsor and Bittersville (Nov 54-Aug 55)

1956 Loganville (May-Oct)

1957 Felton (Feb-May)

1957 Wellsville (May-Dec)

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BAKER, WARREN ARTHUR

Born: 9-7-1924 McClure PA married: Irene Dunkelberger

Died: 11-29-1981 obit: 1984,385

1955 license, recommended by McClure

Interment: Union Cemetery, McClure PA

Obit: 1982,380

1954-59 Sonestown
1959-64 Craley

1964-68 Sonestown

1968-81 Selinsgrove Christ

1981 Duncannon Parish

Note: Mrs. Baker is the daughter is the daughter of Edwin E. Dunkelberger.

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BANKES, CRYDER HAROLD

Born: 2-19-1893 Mainville PA married: Ellen Jane Pugh [4/24/1919]

Died: 1-7-1983 Bloomsburg PA obit: [4/24/1897 – 4/28/1957]

1920 license

1922 ordained deacon

1924 ordained elder

Interment: New Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg OA

Obit:

1920-21 Penns Creek

1921-23 Buffalo Circuit

1923-25 Freemont

1925-28 Pennsdale

1928-29 Dushore

1929-31 Espy

1931-33 without appointment; caretaker at Central Oak Heights

1933-34 Morgan WV

1934 located

1955 name removed

Note: C. Harold Bankes printed the periodical "The Evangelical Challenge" and was outspoken on many issues. The 1994 volume of The Chronicle, pages 87-88, tells of the controversy that led to his name being removed from the Conference rolls.

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BANZHOF, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1858 license

Interment:

Obit:

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BARBER, JAMES

Born: 4-22-1797 Lancaster County PA married: Mary Maize

Died: 9-19-1867 Snyder County PA obit: [1805 – 1870]

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, New Berlin PA

Obit: [1883,95]

1817-18 Lancaster Circuit

1818-19 Somerset

1819-20 Lancaster

1820-21 York Circuit

1821-22 Somerset and Bedford

1822-23 Union

1823-27 superintendent, Salem District

1827-28 Center

1828-30 Union

1830-31 Center

1831-32 White Deer

1832-33 Lycoming

1833-34 Franklin

1834-36 Located

1836-37 Schuylkill

1837-38 Lykens

1838-39 Columbia

1839-40 Union

1840-41 Lycoming

1841-43 Center

1843-45 Union

1845-47 Buffalo

1847-48 Mahantango

1848-49 Union

1849 retired

Note: James Barber is the father of Lovina Barber Krause, wife of Abraham Krause, and the grandfather of Minerva L. Spitler Shortess, wife of John D. Shortess. A biographical sketch of James Barber is given in Stapleton's 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 537. An extended article on James Baber appears in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, pages 4-33.

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BARNER, JACOB KENNETH

Born: 7-15-1922 Liverpool PA married: June Geraldine Bucher

Died: 10-14-2006 obit: 2003,374

1953 license, recommended by Liverpool

1955 ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Holly Springs Cemetery, Mt. Holly Springs PA

Obit: 2007,401

1953-62 Daniels
1962-74 Mt. Holly Springs (ending 10/31/74)

1974-79 Altoona Juniata Otterbein (beginning 11/1/1974)

1979-88 Dover Bethany

1988 retired

1988-90 Mt. Airy-Mt. Zion

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BARSHINGER, HENRY B.

Born: 11-9-1864 Springvale PA married: Rozella M. Fulton

Died: 11-25-1917 Mont Alto PA obit: [1873-1950]

1887 license

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1918,75

1889-90 Middleburg

1890-91 Sugar Valley

1891-92 Nittany Valley

1892 located

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BARTGES, LEE WILBUR.

Born: 8-21-1902 Logan Mills PA married: Iva Edith Moyer

Died: 10-17-1968 Lock Haven PA obit: 1990,447

1929 license, recommended by Logan Mills

1931 ordained deacon

1933 ordained elder

Interment: St. Paul's Church Cemetery, near Loganton PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1969,209

1929-34 East Point
1932-34 East Point-Grover

1924 Sonestown, March and April
1934-36 Morgan

1936-38 Cearfoss

1938-44 Warrensville
1944-53 Lock Haven Mission
1953-59 Centre Hall-Spring Mills
1959-65 East Salem

1965-68 Pennsdale

1968 retired

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BARTGES, WOODROW ALLEN

Born: 3-27-1913 Sugar Valley PA married: Sara E. Schilling

Died: 3-13-1997 obit:

1932 license, recommended by Milheim

1940 ordained elder

Interment: St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1997,635

1936-38 Keystone-Perry

1938-41 Nescopeck
1941-48 missionary, China
1948-57 Grace, York
1957-70 Washington DC Albright Memorial

1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-78 Washington DC Albright Memorial

1978 retired

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BARTHOLOMEW, M.E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1908 license

1910 ordained deacon

1912 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1908-09 Nittany

1909-11 Mount Rock

1911-13 Leesburg

1913-16 Lewisberry

1916-18 located

1918 withdrew

Note: This is believed to be Marshall E. Bartholomew, later (1920's-1940's) a Presbyterian minister in northern Pennsylvania and southern New YorK.

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BASOM, EDWARD CHARLES

Born: 1-7-1878 Richfield PA married: Carrie Bordlemay

Died: 6-13-1957 York PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1941,394

1900 license, recommended by Pine

1902 ordained deacon

1904 ordained elder, Oregon Conference

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: 1958,93

1900-01 Big Spring

1901-02 Emigsville and Manchester

1902 transfer to Oregon Conference

1902-03 Portland Second

1903-05 Sodaville & Sweet Home

1905 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1905-08 Mifflinburg

1908-09 West Nanticoke

1909-13 York Bethany

1913-17 Hagerstown

1917-22 Williamsport St. John's

1922-26 Williamsport St. Paul's

1926-31 Red Lion

1931-35 superintendent, York District

1935-39 superintendent, Lewisburg District

1939-49 Lewisburg St. Paul's

1949-57 Yorkanna

1957 retired

Note: Edward C. Basom is a nephew of Henry S. Basom and the father of William E. Basom.

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BASOM, HENRY S.

Born: 7-19-1849 Richfield PA married: Ada L. Nailor

Died: 2-25-1920 Carlisle PA obit: 1925,82

1876 license

1883 ordained deacon

1886 ordained elder

Interment: Kutz's Cemetery, near Carlisle PA

Obit: 1910,65

1877-78 Baltimore circuit

1876-83 located to undergo a surgical operation to correct physical deformity

1883-86 Big Spring

1886-88 Brush Valley

1888-91 Jersey Shore Circuit

1891-92 Williamsport Newberry

1892-95 Lock Haven Circuit

1895-98 East Prospect

1898-02 Big Spring

1902-03 Wellsville

1903-06 Salladasburg

1907 retired

Note: Henry S. Basom is the father of Florence Basom Furhman, wife of Lester A. Fuhrman, and of Emma Basom Jacobs, wife of Harry H. Jacobs. He is the uncle of Edward C. Basom.

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BASOM, WILLIAM EDWARD

Born: married: Ruth _____

Died: obit:

1934 license, recommended by Trinity, York

1939 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1935-36 Nescopeck
1936-37 Penns Creek

1937-38 Albright Memorial, Washington D.C.
1938-69 Alexandria Beverley Hills

1969 transfer by boundary change to Virginia Conference

1969-80 Alexandria Beverly Hills
1980 retired to Lewisburg PA

Note: William E. Basom is the son of Edward C. Basom.

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BAUGHMAN, WARREN LEONARD SR.

Born: 2-22-1902 married: Bessie Margaret Spahr

Died: 3-21-1999 obit: 1961,89

married2: Geneva _____

1927 license, recommended by York Zion obit2:

1929 ordained deacon

1931 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1927-31 Dorsey

1931-36 Berkeley Springs

1936-41 Columbia circuit
1941-47 Juniata, Altoona
1947-52 Montoursville & Pennsdale
1952-57 Berwick St. Paul's Berwick
1957-71 Hagerstown St. Matthew's

1971 retired

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BAUGHMAN, WARREN LEONARD JR.

Born: married: Doris _____

Died: obit:

1946 license, recommended by Altoona Grace

1954 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1946-47 Mt. Rock
1947 Port Trevorton
1947-52 Sonestown
1952-55 Lewisberry
1952-61 Newberrytown
1961-70 Berwick Bower Memorial

1970-73 Red Lion Bethany

1973-78 superintendent, New Cumberland District

1978-82 Harrisburg Calvary (ending 10/1/1982)

1982-88 superintendent, Lewisburg District (beginning 10.1.1982)

1988-91 Muncy

1991 retired

2004-04 Berwick First (beginning 8/19.2004)

2006-07 Evansville (beginning 3/1/2007)

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BAUMGARDNER, AARON SYLVESTER

Born: 2-12-1852 Fayette County PA married: Ruth R. Crane

Died: 10-29-1916 Lewisburg PA obit: 1901,80

married2: Huldah Gertrude Wertz

1874 license, Pittsburgh Conference obit2:

Interment: Lewisburg PA

Obit: 1917,73

Pittsburgh Conference

1885 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885-88 Danville

1888-89 Glen Rock

1889-91 Baltimore Grace

1891-93 Jarrettsville

1893-94 York circuit

1894-97 Hagerstown circuit

1897-98 Perry

1898-99 Newport & Perry

1899-02 Buffalo

1902-04 Sugar Valley

1904-06 Warrensville

1906-08 McClure

1908-09 New Berlin

1909-11 Liverpool

1911-15 Morgan

1915 located

Note: The dates for the first Mrs. Baumgardner, not given in her obituary, are 1846 (VA) to 1901. The second Mrs. Baumgardner was born in 1871 in PA.

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BAYNE, ELLIS JAMES

Born: 10-7-1893 Baltimore MD married: Lillie Mae Craley

Died: 8-20-1982 York PA obit: 1982,389

1914 license, recommended by Goodwill

1918 ordained deacon

1920 ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1983,396

1915-18 Manchester

1918-22 Bryansville

1922-27 Craley

1927-33 Hanover

1933-39 Lewistown Grace

1939-47 Williamsport St. John's
1947-57 Bethany, York
1957-61 Berwick Bower Memorial
1961 retired

Note: Ellis J. Bayne is the father of Thelma Bayne Woods, wife of William F. Woods.

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BEAM, L.S

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

East Pennsylvania Conference

1904 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 23

Note: L.S. Beam is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor on trial who lived in Lebanon and "moved within the bounds of the Central Pennsylvania Conference." He appears not to have served an appointment in either Conference and is otherwise unknown.

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BEAUMONT WILLIAM LINCOLN

Born: 2-17-1863 St. Clair PA married: Laura Elinor Edwards

Died: obit:

1885 license

1887 ordained deacon

1890 ordained elder, Oregon Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1885-86 Dillsburg circuit

1886-88 West Brooklyn circuit

1888-89 Middleburg circuit

1889-90 Spring Mills

1890 transfer to Oregon Conference

1890 Newberg (did not finish the year)

1890 withdrew irregularly

1890 "transfer" to Oregon Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

1890-93 Gervais OR

1893-94 Lycoming PA

1894-95 Charleston WV

1895-96 Beverly OH

Note: William L. Beaumont was well educated. He received a BE from Central Pennsylvania College in 1888, an MA from Marietta College (OH) in 1896, and a PhD from Mt. Union College in 1901. He is the 1910 author of Ben Ezra, or The Midnight Cry.

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BEAVER, E.M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1872 license

1887 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1872-73 Hughesville

1873-74 Columbia

1874-75 Center Hall

1875 located

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BEECHER, H. W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1920 license

Interment:

Obit:

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BENDER, A. J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1853 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1851-53 Columbia

1853-54 Blockhouse and Cherry

1854 went west and united with M. E. Church

Note: This is believed to be the Amos J. Bender (1828-1897) given in the Methodist Episcopal pastor file.

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BENDER, HARVEY WALTER

Born: 11-7-1863 Bendersville PA married: Lulu Musser Schoch

Died: obit: [2/20/1872 – 5/3/1926]

1891 license

1893 ordained deacon

1897 license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

1898 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church

Interment:

Obit:

1891-92 Cumberland

1892-93 Nittany Valley circuit

1896 surrendered license, withdrew; page 67

1897 "transfer" to Lutheran Church

1898-01 Dickinson PA

1901-06 New Chester PA

1906-07 Philipsburg PA

1907-14 Schellsburg PA

1914-23 Lilly PA

1923- Juniata PA

Note: H.W. Bender graduated from Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin in 1894 and from the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg in 1898. Mrs. Bender is the daughter of Rev. William H. Schoch (1839-1930) of the Lutheran Church.

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BENFER, HENRY ABRAHAM

Born: 3-12-1861 Bannerville PA married: Anna Leah Hengst

Died: 6-7-1925 Red Lion PA obit: 1948,100

1882 license

1884 ordained deacon

1886 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: 1926,91

1882-83 Middleburg

1883-84 Center

1884-86 Liverpool

1886-89 Big Spring

1889-92 Williamsport Bennett Street

1892-96 Lock Haven

1896-00 Williamsport First

1990-03 Carlisle

1903-07 York Trinity

1907-11 superintendent, York District

1911-15 Center District
1915-20 Baltimore Memorial

1920-25 Red Lion

Note: Henry A. Benfer is the father of Harry A. Benfer and Kenneth L. Benfer. Mrs. Benfer is the daughter of Benjamin Hengst,

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BENFER, HARRY A.

Born: 1-24-1892 married:

Died: 1-?-1966 obit:

1913 license

1919 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1916-17 Hummels Wharf

1917-18 faculty, Western Union College

1918-19 Army Y.M.C.A. Secretary

1919-25 faculty and coach, Albright College

1925-36 coach, Muhlenberg College

1936 withdrew

Note: Harry A. "Haps" Benfer is the son of Henry A. Benfer and a brother to Kenneth L. Benfer.

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BENFER, KENNETH L. M.D.

Born: 10-12-1903 York PA married: Janet Merrian Kaltreider

Died: 1-15-1985 York PA obit: [6/26/1903 – 11/26/1991]

1924 license, recommended by St. Paul's, Red Lion

1929 ordained elder

Interment: Red Lion Cemetery, Red Lion PA

Obit: 1985,400

1924-25 Baltimore Trinity

1925-26 Red Lion

1926-27 Alberton [Daniel's] MD
1927-30 student, Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore MD

1930-80 medical doctor in York

1930 York St. Paul's

1934 East Prospect Zion

1953 Guinter Memorial Hospital in Bambur, Nigeria

1980 retired

Note: Kenneth L. Benfer is the son of Henry A. Benfer and a brother to H.A. Benfer Jr. He is the author of the book Somewhere in North Africa and an unpublished book-length manuscript Chiron in North Africa that is kept at the conference archives.

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BENNINGTON, SAMUEL D.

Born: 2-8-1831 Harford County MD married: Eliza Gault Paige

Died: 9-20-1892 WV obit: [8/28/1836 – 9/13/1920]

1859 license

1861 ordained deacon

1864 ordained elder

Interment: Tabernacle Church Cemetery, Whiteford MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal South 1893,37

1859-60 Loganville

1860-61 York Circuit

1861-62 Leesburg

1862-63 Perry Circuit

1863-64 Franklin Circuit

1864-65 Hagerstown

1865-67 Columbia

1867-69 Buffalo

1869-71 Liverpool

1871-73 Boalsburg

1873-74 Lycoming

located , and withdrew from the Church

Note: Samuel D. Bennington joined the ME South and preached, among other places, on the Flintstone circuit.

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BENTZ, J.W.

Born: married: Elizabeth Detwiler

Died: 8-3-1912 Carlisle PA obit: 1922,76

1867 license

1868 ordained deacon

1870 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: 1913,69

1867-68 Hughesville

1868-69 York circuit

1869-70 Big Spring

1870-72 Susquehanna

1872-80 faculty, Union Seminary at New Berlin

1880-83 Port Trevorton

1883-85 Perry Circuit

1885-88 Leesburg

1888-89 Marysville

1889-91 Dillsburg

1891-92 Cumberland

1892-94 Hagerstown

1894-96 York circuit

1896-98 located

1898-99 Milton circuit

1899-03 Bloomsburg

1903-05 Liverpool

1905-06 Hanover circuit

1906-09 Dorsey

1909-10 Harford

1910-11 West Nanticoke

1911 retired

Note: Mrs. Detwiler is a sister to W.E. Detwiler.

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BERGE, WILLIAM F.

Born: married: Esther M. Kuter [1901]

Died: obit: [d. 2/25/1932]

1899 license, Illinois Conference UE

1902 ordained deacon, Illinois Conference UE

1870 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1918 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920 “transfer” to Rock River Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church

1920 Coal Valley and Beulah

Note: W.F. Berge has no record in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

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BERGER, DANIEL

Born: 4-16-1797 married: Hannah Wiltrout

Died: 4-14-1880 obit: [5/1/1800 – 3/1/1879]

1834 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1836 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1838 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1881,13

1850 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51 Baltimore Green Street

1851 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

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BERGER, HENRY C.

Born: 8-4-1851 Centerville, Snyder County PA married: Emma Louisa Strawman

Died: 3-2-1918 Lindsey OH obit: [1/1/1861 – 11/20/1946]

1872 license

1877 ordained deacon

Interment: Lindsey Cemetery, Lindsey OH

Obit:

1875-76 Prospect

1876-77 Center

1877-78 Prospect

1878 transferred to Erie Conference

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BERRY, AQUILLA WENCENLUS

Born: 9-28-1839 Clinton County PA married: Sarah Brungart

Died: 2-27-1893 Concordia KS obit: [b. 1842]

1877 license

Interment:

Obit: Kansas Conference 1893,19

Note: A.W. Berry moved to Kansas about 1878. He served as a local pastor in both PA and KS, and apparently never served under appointment in either conference.

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BERRY, WILLIAM HENRY

Born: 4-26-1829 Centre County PA married:

Died: 6-2-1869 obit:

1850 license

1852 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1850-51 Bedford

1851-52 Perry Circuit

1852-53 Shrewsbury

1853-54 Lycoming

1854-56 Blockhouse and Cherry

1856 located

withdrew

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BERTSH, J.G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1853 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

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BIERLY, ADAM SYLVESTER

Born: 12-25-1863 Tylersville PA married: Cordie Ida Mae Bressler

Died: 12-24-1947 obit: 1940,84

married2: Minerva Grenninger

obit2: 1957,79

1900 license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

Interment: Witmer's Church Cemetery, Port Trevorton PA

Obit: 1948,100

1901-03 Mifflin

1903-05 Spring Mills

1905-11 Port Trevorton & Mifflin

1911-12 Port Trevorton

1912-13 Cresswell, Milton Grove & Conewago

1913-15 Spring Mills, Uniontown & County Line

1915-17 Spring Mills

1917-18 living in Selinsgrove

1918-21 Waller

1921-22 Wayne

1922-23 Port Trevorton

1923 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference by denominational re-union

1923-25 living in Selinsgrove

1925-28 Freemont

1928 located

Note: This surname is sometimes rendered BIERLEY. The father of A.S. Bierly was a first cousin to the grandfather of W.C. Bierly. During the denominational split, Adam S. Bierly served in the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association as a local deacon.

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BIERLY, WILLIAM CRESSWELL

Born:3-20-1858 Madisonburg PA married: Ida Mae Mader

Died: 2-3-1942 Jersey Shore PA obit: 1941,92

1888 license

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: 1942,89

1889-91 Liverpool

1891-94 Fishing Creek

1894-97 Juniata Circuit

1897-99 Dillsburg

1899-03 Liberty

1903-05 Spring Mills

1905-08 Millmont

1908-10 Sugar Valley

1910-12 located

1912-13 Unityville

1913 located

Note: This surname is also rendered BIERLEY. The grandfather of W.C. Bierly was a first cousin to the father of A.S. Bierly.

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BIGGS, JOSEPH OLIE

Born: 2-28-1869 Georgetown MD married: Helen Elizabeth Smith

Died: 1-5-1947 obit: 1951,100

1893 license

1898 ordained deacon

1900 ordained elder

Interment: Rolling Green Cemetery, Lemoyne PA

Obit: 1947,98

1896-00 Luzerne

1900-02 Milton Circuit

1902-06 Sonestown

1906-10 Espy

1910-12 Dallastown

1912-16 Alberton

1916-21 Baltimore Christ

1921-22 East Prospect

1922-26 Williamsport St. John's

1926-30 Hagerstown

1930-31 York St. Paul's

1931-40 Enola

1940 retired

Note: This name also appears as Joseph O'Neal Biggs. Mrs. Biggs is the daughter of Samuel Smith.

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BIGLER EDWARD EMANUEL

Born: 7-6-1920 Carlisle PA married: Isabell Stangrewski

Died: 3-22-2010 Carlisle PA obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967,231

1946 license, recommended by Carlisle First

1950 ordained elder

Interment: Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010, 181

1946-53 Ringtown
1953-56 Paxtonville

1956-59 Pennsdale
1959-62 Selinsgrove Christ
1962-70 Mechanicsburg Grace

1970-82 York Zion

1982-85 Duncannon parish

1985 retired

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BINGAMAN, S.P.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1911 license

Interment:

Obit:

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BINGMAN, JACOB FREDERICK

Born: 6-17-1875 Beavertown PA married: Edna Grace Dice

Died: 3-14-1947 Dallastown PA obit:

1904 license, recommended by Beavertown

1907 ordained deacon

1909 ordained elder

Interment: Beavertown Cemetery, Beavertown PA

Obit: 1947,99

1905-09 Milton Circuit

1909-11 Nittany Valley

1911-15 Rebersburg

1915-19 Howard

1919-20 Millmont

1920-25 Centre Hall

1925-29 Cumberland Circuit

1929-33 Loganville

1933-37 Ringtown

1937-46 Mexico

1946 retired

Note: J. Frederick Bingman is an uncle to Stewart F. Bingman. Mrs. Bingman is the daughter of Levi Dice.

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BINGMAN, STEWART FRANKLIN

Born: 2-26-1920 Beavertown PA married: Mary M. Dellinger

Died: 11-29-2008 Mechanicsburg PA obit:

1941 license, recommended by Beavertown

1947 ordained elder

Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Beavertown PA

Obit: 2009,413

1943-46 Windsor
1946-52 Avis-Salladasburg
1952-67 Richfield

1967-84 Shepherdstown

1984 retired

assistant, Dillsburg Calvary

1989 Mount Holly Springs (Jan – Jun)

chaplain, Country Meadows Retirement Center at Mechanicsburg

1994 Chestnut Grove (Jan – Jun)

Note: Stewart F. Bingman is a nephew of J. Frederick Bingman.

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BINKLEY, HENRY K.

Born: married: Catherine Barbara Bierly [6/10/1886]

Died: obit: [b. 6/11/1853]

Interment:

Obit:

1878 surrendered credentials

Note: H.K. Binkley became a pastor in the Reformed Church. Part of the time he lived in Reading and was the agent for the Reformed Church Record. Mrs. Binkley is a first cousin to A.S. Bierly.

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BISCHOP, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1849 license

Interment:

Obit:

1849 Bedford

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BICKSLER, DANIEL WESLEY

Born: 12-15-1854 Womelsdorf PA married: Almeda Barbara Wolf

Died: 2-3-1944 West Palm Beach FL obit: [3/14/1862 – 2/23/1936]

1877 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference

1883 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Akron PA

Obit:

1877-78 Halifax

1878-79 ?

1879-80 White Deer, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1880-81 located

1881-82 Birdsboro

1882-84 Womelsdorf

1884-85 Mount Joy

1885-88 Dauphin

1893 superintendent, Lancaster General Hospital

1912-14 St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Reformed Church, Dauphin County

Note: This surname is sometimes given as BIXLER. D.W. Bicksler is a primary founder of Lancaster General Hospital.

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BOAS, JACOB

Born:1815 Reading PA married: Rebecca Kutz

Died: 4-5-1884 obit: 1914,68

Interment:

Obit: 1885,47

1833-34 Indiana circuit

1834-35 Lake circuit

1835-36 Indiana

1836-37 Erie circuit

1837-38 Miami circuit

missionary to Illinois, organized the first circuit west of Chicago

1838-39 Canton

1839-40 Bedford

1840-42 missionary to Baltimore

1842-44 Cumberland

1844-45 Gettysburg

1845-46 Baltimore

1846-47 York

1847-51 superintendent, Baltimore District

1851-55 superintendent, Center District

1855-56 superintendent, Baltimore District

1856-72 located

1872-73 Perry circuit

1873-78 located

1878-79 Jersey Shore

1879-81 Center Hall

1881-83 Big Spring

1883 retired

Note: Jacob Boas is the father of Lillian Boas Ettinger, wife of Jesse M. Ettinger.

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BOLLINGER, EDWARD S.

Born: 10-6-1859 York PA married: Lillie Frances Deininger

Died: obit:

1886 license

1887 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1886-88 Baltimore Preston Street

1888-89 Prospect Circuit

1889 transfer to Oregon Conference

1889-90 Salem

1890-95 superintendent, Oregon School for the Blind at Salem

1895 "transfer" to Oregon Conference of the Congregational Church

1895-99 Astoria Congregational

1899-06 Oregon City First Congregational [now Atkinson Memorial Unitarian Universalist]

1906-15 Portland Highland Congregational

Note: E.S. Bollinger appears to be serving in Valdez AK in the late 1910's and the First Congregational Church in Vancouver WA in 1921. No more information about him is known at this time. He is the author of the book An Alaska Investment, published by the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Mrs. Bollinger is the daughter of C.F. Deininger.

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BOLTON, JOHN C.

Born: 1-14-1828 New Castle, England married: Elizabeth Christina Huffmaster

Died: 7-2-1899 Augusta IL obit: [c1830 – 1894]

1847 license

1848 ordained deacon

1851 ordained elder

Interment: Round Prairie Cemetery, Plymouth IL

Obit:

1847-48 Columbia

1848-49 Muncy

1849-50 Somerset

1850-51 Bedford

1851-52 Indiana circuit

transfer to Pittsburg Conference

Note: John Bolton moved to Richmond VA just prior to the Civil War. He later moved to Dushore PA, where he married, and eventually moved on to IL, where he reportedly was a Methodist circuit minister of country churches.

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BOWER, A.W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1872 license

1874 ordained deacon

1876 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1872-73 Prospect

1873-74 Milton

1874-75 Dushore

1875-76 student, Union Seminary

1876-77 York King Street [Trinity] (started in mid-year)

1877 transfer to the Pacific Conference

1877-79 Salem OR

1879 withdrew to join the Congregational Church

1879- Oregon City First Congregational

East Portland

1891- Sultan City

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BOWER, HIRAM S.

Born: 5-10-1847 married: Eliza M. Grytzmacher

Died: 10-20-1915 obit: Kansas Conference 1919,210

1853 license

1875 ordained deacon

1877 ordained elder

Interment: Westmoreland KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1916,62

1872-73 Baltimore Circuit

1873-74 Middle Creek

1874-76 located

1876-77 Bendersville

transfer to Kansas Conference

1912 retired

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BOWER, ISAIAH

Born: 3-19-1829 Evansville PA married: Hannah Hagenbauch

Died: 1-25-1912 obit: [4/20/1831 – 4/2/1910]

1881 ordained deacon

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, near Berwick PA

Obit: 1912,66

Note: Isaiah Bower is a first cousin to George E. Zehner. He was involved full-time in various secular work: manufacturing, retail selling, real estate, etc. He is the namesake of the Bower Memorial Church in Berwick.

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BOWER, JACOB

Born: 11-27-1820 married: Mary A. Bishoff

Died: 1902 obit: [b. 4/10/1828]

Interment:

Obit:

1845-46 Bedford

1846 located

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BOWER, KENNETH IRVIN

Born: 4-24-1916 near Williamsport PA married: Lois M. English

Died: 3-13-2001 Mechanicsburg PA obit: 2007,404

1935 license, recommended by St. Paul's, Williamsport

1942 ordained elder

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: 2001,359

1938-39 Penns Creek

1939-41 Salladasburg
1941-42 Howard
1942-46 Berwick St. Paul's
1946-53 York Zion
1953-60 Lewistown Grace
1960-68 Milton First

1968-82 Mechanicsburg First

1982 retired

1991-96 Mt Airy-Mt. Zion

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BOWER, MOSES

Born: married:

Died: 1847 Somerset County PA obit:

1841 ordained deacon

1843 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: [1883,95]

1840-41 Cumberland

1841-43 Virginia Circuit

1843-44 Gettysburg

1844-46 Cumberland

1846-47 superintendent, Potomac District

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BOWERSOX, J.F.D

Born: married: Mrs. Elizabeth May Condo Freeby

Died: obit: 1921,70

1916 license

1918 ordained deacon

1920 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1916-19 Nittany Valley Circuit

1919-21 East Prospect

1921 Baltimore Christ ("left his charge during the year and united with another denomination")

1921 "transfer" to the Lutheran Church

1921-24 St. Benjamin's Lutheran Church, Carroll County MD

1924-26 New Hope and Zion Lutheran Churches, Adamsville OH

Note: The first husband of Mrs. Bowersox was a Mr. Charles W.L. Freeby; she married J.F.D. Bowersox in 1915.

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BOWERSOX, JOSIAH

Born: 9-22-1837 Snyder County PA married: Mary Catherine Orwig

Died: 1-11-1929 OR obit: [12/14/1841 – 9/4/1896]

married2: Mollie E. Harner [1899]

1865 ordained deacon obit2:

1867 ordained elder

Interment: Salem OR

Obit: [Oregon Conference 1929,9]

1863-65 Lock Haven

1865-67 Blockhouse

1867-69 Lewisburg

1869-70 York

1870-76 missionary to Oregon

1876 charter member of Pacific Conference

1876-77 superintendent, Pacific Conference

1877-84 Albany and superintendent, Pacific District

1884 charter member of Oregon Conference

1884-88 superintendent, Oregon District

1888-90 superintendent, Washington District

1890 identifies with Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1890-91 Brooks mission

1891-92 superintendent, Washington District; also Albany and Brownsville, and Brooks mission

1892-94 superintendent, Columbia District; also Salem

1894-97 Salem

1897-99 Lafayette

1899-03 Dayton

1903-07 Portland Second

1907-11 Portland Ockley Green

1911-12 Portland Second

1912-13 Portland Ockley Green

1913-16 city missionary

1916-18 Warren, city missionary

1918-22 Warren

1922 retired

Note: Josiah Bowersox is a brother to Reuben C. Bowersox. They are grandsons of George Adam Bowersox whose 1802 log cabin, that hosted Jacob Albright and other early Evangelical leaders, is still standing on the Bowersox Tree Farm. A brief biography is given in Poling's 1938 History of the Evangelical Church in Oregon and Washington, page 277. The first Mrs. Bowersox is the daughter of W.W. Orwig.

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BOWERSOX, REUBEN C.

Born: 12-2-1843 Snyder County PA married: Sarah A. Gift

Died: 10-20-1879 obit: 1918,72

1871 license

1875 ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA

Obit: [1893,67]

1871-72 Perry Circuit

1872-73 Columbia circuit

1873-75 Bloomsburg

1875-78 Cumberland circuit

1878 located

Note: Reuben C. Bowersox is a brother to Josiah Bowersox. They are grandsons of George Adam Bowersox whose 1802 log cabin, that hosted Jacob Albright and other early Evangelical leaders, is still standing on the Bowersox Tree Farm.

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BOWERSOX, RONALD ERB

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1954 license, recommended by McClure

1959 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1956-60 Loganville
1960-65 South Williamsport Grace

1965-78 Bellefonte Faith (ending 11/1/1978)

1978-88 Dallastown Bethlehem (beginning 11/1/1978)

1988-95 superintendent, Lewisburg District

1995-01 Camp Hill

2001 retired

2002-05 Dover New Creation

2005-06 Hellam Faith

2006-07 York Asbury

2009-10 Lewisberry

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BRADER, J.M.

Born: married: Minerva Wright

Died: 12-25-1889 obit: 1912,68

1872 license

1874 ordained deacon

1876 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: [1893,67]

1872-73 Milton

1873-76 Orangeville

1876-79 White Deer

1879-80 Canton

1880-82 Perry

1882-85 Danville

1885-88 Wyoming

1888-89 Sugar Valley

1889 Williamsport circuit

Note: A death notice for J.M. Brader appears in the 1/15/1890 issue of The Evangelical, page 23.

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BRENNEMAN, H.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1880 license

Interment:

Obit:

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BRESSLER, WILLIAM.

Born: 1-9-1819 Centre County PA married: Sarah Jane McKisson

Died: 8-24-1899 obit: [b. 7/4/1817]

1849 license

Interment:

Obit:

1849-50 Columbia

1850-52 Clarion

1852 charter member of Pittsburgh Conference

Note: A death notice for William Bressler and his wife appears in the 9/13/1899 issue of the Evangelical Messenger, page 587, and states they were residents of Illinois.

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BRETZ, CARL V.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

married2: Mrs. Rosemary Smith Morris Burns

obit2: [1922-2009]

Interment:

Obit:

1949-52 Warrensville

Tuscaloosa AL Unitarian Universalist Church

living in retirement in Tennessee

Note: The second Mrs. Bretz was previously married to a Mr. David Markland Morris and a Mr. John H. Burns.

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BRICKLEY, F.E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1913 ordained elder, Oregon Conference

Interment:

Obit:

Pittsburgh Conference

1890-92 Lickingville

Christian & Missionary Alliance Church

1909 "transfer" to Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1909-10 Sodaville & Sweet Home

1910-11 Independence

1911-12 Dayton

1912-13 Lewisville & Bridgeport

1913-14 Lewisville

1914-15 Eugene

1916 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-17 Idaville

1917-20 Lycoming

1920-23 located

1923 withdrew

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BRICKLEY, GEORGE

Born: 1-31-1806 Mifflinburg PA married: Mary A. Wingert

Died: 3-17-1889 York PA obit: [3/10/1813 – 1874]

Interment:

Obit: 1890,39

1829-30 Somerset

1830-31 York circuit

1831-32 Franklin

1832-33 Lancaster

1833-35 Lycoming

1835-36 Center

1836-37 York circuit

1837-39 Columbia

1839-42 superintendent, Salem District

1842-44 York Queen Street

1844-46 Baltimore Green Street

1846 located to practice medicine

Note: George Brickley is the father of George A. Brickley.

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BRICKLEY, GEORGE A.

Born: 5-1-1840 New Berlin PA married:

Died: 8-26-1895 York PA obit:

1863 license

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: The Evangelical, 9/11/1895 page 294

Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church

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. Brickley the son of George Brickley. To distinguish him from his father, he is referred to as George Brickley Jr.

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BRICKLEY, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1841 license

1843 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1841-43 Somerset

1843-44 Indiana

moved west

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BILLHART, C.D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1916 license

Interment:

Obit:

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BRILLHART, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH

Born: 4-26-1865 Kralltown PA married: Cora Minnie Zarfoss

Died: 2-10-1917 York PA obit: [12/31/1870 – 12/27/1954]

1889 license

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1917,75

1889-91 Wayland

1891-94 Liberty

1894-96 Grover

1896-98 Bryansville

1898-01 Port Trevorton

1901-04 Leesburg

1904-06 Cumberland

1906-08 Yoe

1908-09 Dallastown

1909-11 New Freedom

1911-12 Bryansville

1912 located

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BRINER, LEWIS A.

Born: 11-28-1917 Lewistown PA married:

Died: 3-27-2003 Kalamazoo MI obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1937 license

1937-39 student, Albright College

1939-43 student, seminary

"transfer" to the Presbyterian Church

1974 Kalamazoo MI First Presbyterian

1992 pastor emeritus, Kalamazoo MI First Presbyterian

Note: Lewis A. Briner is the author of several books and articles on worship. He is a member of the Consultation on Common Texts and chairman of the North American Committee on Calendar and Lectionary.

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BRININGER, HARRY LEROY

Born: 1-7-1913 McClure PA married: Leona A. Boyer

Died: 2-24-1988 obit: 1950, 96

married2: Ruth Bichler

1932 license, recommended by McClure obit 2:

1937 ordained deacon

1939 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: 1988,404

1935-39 Mount Holly Springs

1939-43 director of public relations, Albright College

1943-47 Williamsport St. Paul's

1947-50 director of church school administration, PA State Sabbath School Association

1950-52 director of Educational Promotion, National Council of Churches
1952-57 associate secretary of administration, National Council of Churches
1957-65 assistant General Secretary of administration, National Council of Churches

1965-75 associate General Secretary, National Council of Churches

1975-77 administration, Union Theological Seminary in NY

1977-78 National Council of Churches

1978 retired

Note: A biographical sketch for H. Leroy Brininger appears in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 349. The second Mrs. Brininger later married a Mr. Page and was deceased by 2006.

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BRINKER, LUKE JEREMIAH

Born: married: Theda _____

Died: obit:

1947 license, recommended by Allentown First Church of the Nazarene

1951 ordained elder, Church of the Nazarene

Interment:

Obit:

1950-62 Served in Church of Nazarene
1962-68 Penn's Creek

1968-75 Fishing Creek Salem

1975-79 Wrightsville Grace

1979-82 York Trinity

1982-85 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd

1985-88 Sunbury Albright

1988 retired

Note: Luke J. Brinker is the father of David Luke Brinker of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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BRITCHER, JAMES EDWARD

Born: 9-20-1851 Adams County PA married: Margaret B. Alton

Died: 11-12-1894 obit:

married2: Barbara Margaret Myers

1880 license obit2: [1/10/1855 – 11/7/1939]

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit:

Note: J. Edward Britcher was a painter by vocation and never served under appointment. His first marriage apparently ended in divorce and produced no children. He is the father of Minnie Kate Britcher Buyers, wife of Franck C. Buyers of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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BROADBECK, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: 1860 Baltimore MD obit:

1857 ordained deacon

1859 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1856-57 Buffalo

1857-59 Center

1859-60 Baltimore McEldery Street

1860 located

Note: An incident involving Henry Broadbeck is given in Stapleton's 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 60.

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BROWN, JAMES GOOD

Born: 7-17-1901 Bellefonte PA married: Mary Frances Curry

Died: 12-25-2008 Haverhill NH obit:[3/16/1895 - 8/17/1975]

married2: Valerie Wentworth

1922 license obit2:

Interment: Manchester PA

Obit:

1923-26 Buffalo

1926 transfer to Pittsburg Conference

withdrew

Note: J. Good Brown is the son of William H. Brown.

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BROWN, LORENZO DOW.

Born: 7-9-1822 Tionesta PA married: Susannah Frantz [8/3/1843]

Died: 1-14-1918 Minneapolis MN obit: [3/?/1823 – 11/5/1896]

1846 license

1851 ordained elder

Interment: Minneapolis MN

Obit:

1846-48 Somerset

1848-49 Clarion

1849-50 Venango

1850-52 Shenandoah Circuit

transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

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BROWN, PERCY DONALD

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1949 license, recommended by Carlisle First

1954 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1951-55 Wellsville Charge
1955-62 Mount Holly Springs Charge
1962-65 Rockland MD

1965-76 New Kingstown

1976-84 Midddletown Evangelical (ending 2/15/1984)

1984-92 York Messiah (beginning 2/15/1984)

1992 retired

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BROWN, WILLIAM HENRY

Born: 1-8-1871 Manchester PA married: Minnie Ella Wetzel

Died: 12-13-1924 obit: 1917,76

married2: Harriet R. Heller

1892 license obit2: [1867 – 8/24/1928]

1899 ordained deacon

1901 ordained elder

Interment: Manchester Union Cemetery, Manchester PA

Obit: 1925,79

1897-01 Spring Mills

1901-04 Bellefonte

1904-08 East Prospect

1908-10 Newport

1910-14 Lewisburg

1914-18 Millheim

1918-22 Burnham

1922-23 York (Princess Street)

1923-24 Loganville

Note: William H. Brown is the father of J. Good Brown.

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BROWNMILLER, EPHRAIM STEIN

Born: 10-5-1853 Hamlin PA married: Minnie Anna Zimmerman

Died: obit:

1873 license

Interment:

Obit:

1873-74 York Circuit

"transfer" to the Lutheran Church

1874-81 Union Deposit

1881-89 Ephrata Parish (Ephrata, Swamp, Schoeneck's, Lincoln)

1889-06 Reading Parish (Reed, Oley, Spiess, Shalter's, Kissinger, Bern)

Note: E.S. Brownmiller was a life-long Lutheran. He appears to have taken an appointment in the Evangelical Church while a student. He is the father of Rev. Martin Luther Brownmiller of the Lutheran Church.

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BRUMGARD, D.M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1879 license

Interment:

Obit:

Note: D.M. Brumgard was from Logansville [Loganton], Clinton County. He later became the superintendent of schools for Clinton County. He never served a church under appointment.

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BUCHMAN, S

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1859 ordained deacon (or 1860?)

Interment:

Obit:

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BUCHNER, J.P.

Born: married: _____ Siegfried

Died: obit:

1889 license

Interment:

Obit:

1889-91 Juniata circuit

1891-93 Hanover circuit

1893-96 Shrewsbury

1896 withdrew from the Church; page 67

Note: Mrs. Buchner is the daughter of Charles W. Siegfried.

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BUCK, HARRY MERWYN SR.

Born: 7-6-1891 Muncy Valley PA married: Edith Mae Ackerly

Died: 10-5-1954 Mifflin obit: 1979,344

1917 license, recommended by Sonestown

1920 ordained deacon

1922 ordained elder

Interment: Sonestown Cemetery, Sonestown PA

Obit: 1955,84

1918-23 Enola

1923-28 East Prospect

1928-33 Carlisle

1933-39 Berwick Bower Memorial

1939-43 Williamsport First

1943-54 Baltimore Olive Branch

1954 Mifflin

Note: H. Merwyn Buck is the father of Harry M. Buck.

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BUCK, HARRY MERWYN JR.

Born: married: Esther M. Gingrich

Died: obit:

1940 license, recommended by Williamsport First

1946 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1942 Cearfoss (Jan – Mar)

1942-46 Baltimore St. John,
1946-49 State College
1949-51 fellow, University of Chicago
1951-59 professor, Wellesley College in Wellesley MA

1959-87 professor, Wilson College in Chambersburg PA

1987 retired

Note: Harry M. Buck is the son of H. Merwyn Buck. Mrs. Buck is the daughter of Felix Moyer Gingrich (1872-1958) of the East Pennsylvania Conference.

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BUCK, HENRY WILLIAM

Born: 2-28-1843 New Berlin PA married: Margaret C. Losch

Died: 2-2-1916 York PA obit: 1901,79

1863 license

1866 ordained deacon

1901 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: 1916,77

1864-65 Cumberland

1865-67 Lycoming

1867-69 Hughesville

1869-71 Buffalo

1871-74 Columbia

1874-76 Danville

1876-79 Glen Rock

1879-82 Jersey Shore

1982-85 Berwick

1985-87 Bloomsburg

1987-91 Elder Williamsport District

1891-95 York District

1895-99 Lewisburg District

1899-02 Millheim

1902-05 Berwick

1905-09 New Freedom

1909 retired

Note: H.W. Buck Sr is the son of Thomas Buck, and a brother to S.T. Buck, and the father of H.W. Buck Jr.

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BUCK, HENRY WILLIAM JR.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1907 license

1913 ordained deacon

1915 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1912-14 Mifflin

1914-16 York Zion

1916-17 Scranton

1917 withdrew

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BUCK, S.T.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1860 license

1862 ordained deacon

1864 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1860-61 Gettysburg

1861-63 Buffalo

1863-64 Center

1864-65 Perry (ending 10/1864 to enlist and serve 10 months in the US Army)

1865-66 Lycoming (beginning 8/1865)

1866-68 Wyoming

1868-69 Williamsport Market Street

1869-71 Williamsport English

1871-74 Lock Haven

1874-76 Newberry

1876-77 College Agent

1877-79 Milton

1879 retired

Note: S.T. Buck is the son of Thomas Buck, and a brother to H.W. Buck Sr, and the father of Bertha L. Buck Swengel, the wife of [Bishop] Uriah F. Swengel.

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BUCK, THOMAS

Born: married:

Died: 10-26-1842 obit:

Interment: Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, New Berlin PA

Obit:

1823-24 Somerset

1824-25 Union and Center

1825-26 Lancaster

1826-27 Schuylkill

1827-28 York

1828-29 superintendent, Salem District

1829-31 Canaan District

1831-33 Zion District

1833-34 Canaan District

1834-37 Located

1837-38 Schuylkill

1838-42 superintendent, Canaan District

1842 publishing agent

Note: Thomas Buck is the father of S.T. Buck and H.W. Buck Sr, and the grandfather of H.W. Buck Jr.

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BUCKS, HENRY

Born: 1810 married:

Died: 1895 obit:

Interment: Plainfield IL

Obit:

1832-33 York Circuit

1833-34 Gettysburg Circuit

1834-35 Somerset

1835-36 Westover

1836-37 Crawford

1837-38 Erie Circuit

1838-42 superintendent, Carmel District

1842 transferred to East Pennsylvania Conference

1859 transferred to Illinois Conference

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BULL, JOHN AARON

Born: 6-10-1867 Chestertown MD married: Ida Lillian Koller

Died: 12-28-1958 Baltimore MD obit: [d. 1/20/1946]

1893 license

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit:

Note: J.A. Bull was formally received as a "preacher on trial" in 1893 and maintained that relationship until his death. During that time, he was an active lay member at Baltimore Grace and Baltimore Faith.

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BUNDY, LYLE STEWARD

Born: married: Iris L. Barry

Died: obit: 1997,381

1946 license, recommended by DuBois, Free Methodist

1948 ordained deacon, Free Methodist Chruch

1950 ordained elder, Free Methodist Church

Interment:

Obit:

1952-55 Free Methodist, Clearfield

1955 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church
1955-64 McClure

1964-73 Williamsport St. Paul's

1973-88 Red Lion Bethany

1988 retired

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BURGETT, GORDON SPENCER

Born: 11-9-1898 Middlesex PA married: Annie Ludwig

Died: 11-25-1993 Rising City NE obit: 1985,403

1920 license, recommended by Letort Springs

1936 ordained elder

Interment: Circle Mound Cemetery, Rising City NE

Obit: 1994,475

1923-24 Hancock

1926-41 staff, Red Bird Mission in Beverly KY

1941-48 staff, Evangelical Home in Lewisburg PA

1948-84 staff, Red Bird Mission in Beverly KY

1984 retired

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BURKETT, A.L.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit: 1920,72

1902 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03 Morgan

1903-05 Perry

1905-07 Lewisberry

1907-08 Sugar Valley

1908-12 McClure

1912-15 Idaville

1915 located

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BURSON, GEORGE L.

Born: married:

Died: 1897 obit:

1872 ordained deacon

1874 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1871-73 Big Spring

1973-75 Hughesville

1975-78 Luzerne

1978-80 Wyoming

1880-81 Kingston

1881-84 Dushore

1884-86 Tunkhannock

1886-88 Located

1888-92 West Brooklyn

1892-93 Located

1893-94 Williamsport Grace

1894-96 Nickelson

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