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BACHMAN, JERALD G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1954 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1954-58 student, Lebanon Valley College
1958-62 student, University of Pennsylvania
1962-09 staff, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Note: Jerald G. Bachman is the author of numerous books and articles on youth behaviors, substance abuse, and other social issues.
BACHMAN, MONROE
Born: 9-8-1867 near Lititz PA married: Clara Weidman
Died: 11-25-1939 obit: [11/16/1870 – 3/25/1953]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1894 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1897 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1894-95
1895-98 Grantville circuit
1898-00 Manheim station
1900-01
1901-02 Manor
1902-03 on leave for secular employment
1903-05 Eby’s (ending 9/10/1905)
1905-10 living
in
1910-12 living
in
1912 transfer to Iowa Conference
1912-39 living
in
Note: Although 1908,11 states “an open transfer was granted to M.E. Bachman”
while he was living in
BAER, ALLEN W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1896 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1899 transfer [to Rock River Conference?]
Note: This is believed to be the “A.U. Baer” who appears in
the UB Yearbook in the Rock River Conference beginning in 1902.
BAER, DAVID
Born: 1796 married:
Died: 2-27-1853 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 95
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
1822 ordained
Interment: Spring Run PA
Obit: 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.
BAER, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: 1823 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 97
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
Interment:
Obit:
BAER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: 1831/2 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 76
Gibble list: yes
1815 license
Interment:
Obit: 1832,32
BAER, MICHAEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 65
Gibble list: yes
1811 license
Interment:
Obit:
BAIER, WILLIAM A.
Born: married:
Died: 1911
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 license, East German Conference
1887 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1883-84 Philadelphia
Port Richmond [
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
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: W.A. Baier (also Baeir, Bare, Beier)
was a member of the East German Conference from Freeburg,
BAILEY,
Born: 1856 Wellsboro PA married: Mary Gummo
Died: 7-12-1911 obit: Allegheny Conference 1918,64
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1905 license, Allegheny Conference
1910 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1911,83
1905-06 Lloydell
1906-07 Claysville
1907-08 Dunevy
1908-09 Houserville
1909-10 Fair Hope
1910-11 New
BAIR, EMANUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46 Juniata
1846 name erased
BAKER, E.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 382
Gibble list: no
? license, ? Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1910 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1916 returned to quarterly conference license
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.
BAKER, HARRY P.
Born: 1-12-1891 near Newburg PA married: Catharine Louise Sparrow
Died: 10-3-1959 Enola obit: 1931,40
Miller-Raker #: 596 married
2: Olive May Sheibley
Gibble list: no
1916 license
1922 ordained
Interment: Spring Hill, Shippensburg PA
Obit: 1960,42
1916-17
1917-20
1920-25 Shermansdale
1925-30 Oakdale
1930-38 Duncannon
1938-48 Shepherdstown
1948-50
1950-58 Enola
1958 retired
Note: The first Mrs. Baker was the daughter of Charles Mayberry Sparrow.
BAKER, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: 1811
Miller-Raker #: 9
Gibble list: yes
1789 license
Interment:
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.
BAKER, J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1839 license, Allegheny Conference
1841 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1901,32
1841-42 Juniata
1842-43
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
1869-70
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
1880-81
1881-82 Cooksburg
1882-85 Allegheny
1885-87 located
1885-86 Cooksburg
1886-87 Tuscorora (1st part), New Haven (2nd part)
1887 retired
BALMAN, NOLAN F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1958-59 Shermansdale-Young’s
Note: Nolan F. Balman is listed as “others employed” and the charge as under “care of conference superintendent.” He is the author of God's Viking, the biography of TEAM missionary Walter S. Olsen (1916-1972).
BALMER, CHRISTIAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 285
Gibble list: no
1847 license
1851 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1851 transfer, to any western conference
Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. Christian Balmer apparently is no direct 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: Kate E. Linaweaver
Died: 9-5-1922 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1903 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1906 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1902-07 Catawissa
circuit (beginning 1/1/03 – see 1903,5)
1915-19
1919-22
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 C. James
Died: 1-16-1893 Annville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 330
Gibble list: yes
1854 license, Virginia Conference
1856 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1854-55 Middle Creek circuit
1855-56 Buckhannon
1856-57 Churchville
1857-58 Winchester
1858-59 Hagerstown mission station
1859-61
1861-62
1862 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1862-64 Orrstown station
1864-66 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]
1866-67 New
1867-68 unknown
1868 transfer to Virginia Conference
1868-69 unknown
1869-70
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
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
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:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 772
Gibble list: no
1959 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity
Interment:
Obit:
1959-61 member
of New Cumberland Trinity, student at
1961 withdrew,
moved to
BARGER, JOSEPH [see BERGER, JOSEPH]
BARGER, WILLIAM D.
Born: 1850 married: Laura Belle Smith
Died: 12-3-1919
Miller-Raker #: 484
Gibble list: no
1873 quarterly
conference license,
1877 license,
1879 ordained,
Interment: Rose Hill,
Obit: 1920,67
1874-75 New
1875-76 Augusta circuit VA
1876-77 Buckhannon station WV
1877-78 Berlin,
1878-79 Philippi
1879-80 Central station
1880-82 West Milford
1882-84 Lexington
1884-86 Pendleton circuit
1886-87 South Branch
1887-88 North Fork
1890 transfer to Maryland Conference
1890-91 Chewsville MD
1891-92 Williamsport
1892-93 Westernport MD
1894 retired, member of Hagerstown Grace
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
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 R.
Born: married: Helen Virginia Beall
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 626
Gibble list: no
1924 license
1931 re-licensed,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1925-27 Baltimore Trinity
1927-29 Winterstown
1929-30 living in
1930 returned to quarterly conference license
1930-33 living
in
1932-33
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
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
Died: 9-12-1975 Hollidaysburg PA obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1976, 333
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1923 quarterly conference license
1925 license, Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1923-25 Hustontown
1925-27 Runville
1927-28 New
1928-30
1930-34 Casselman
1934-37 Wyano
1937-49 Glasgo
1949-52 Sidman
–
1952-57
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 Pennslyvania Conference 1994,283
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1931 quarterly conference license
1936 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Punxsutawney
1938 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
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 near Middleburg PA married:
Died: 1-17-1904 Bendersville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 410
Gibble list: no
1874 license, Virginia Conference
1879 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Bendersville PA
Obit: 1904,70
1884 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
taught school until becoming an itinerant
1895-98 Perry circuit (beginning 10/12/1895)
1898-99 New
1899-03 Bendersville
BARNHART, ELMER HOWARD
Born: 5-21-1872 married:
Died: 6-20-1958 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 284
Gibble list: no
1898 license, Allegheny Conference
1903 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Southern California – Arizona Conference (M) 1959,316
1910 honorable discharge
BARNHART, THOMAS JEFFERSON
Born: 1-2-1893 Forward PA married: Reba Mae Wentling
Died: 10-26-1944 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1926 quarterly conference license, Cleona
1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1931 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1926-32
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: 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: 1919,70
Miller-Raker #: 431
Fulton #: 322
Gibble list: no
1881 quarterly conference license, Dallastown
1888 license
1891 ordained
Interment: Dallastown PA
Obit: 1920,68
1888-89 Winterstown (beginning 10/1888)
1889-92 Dover circuit
1892-95 Eschol mission
1895-96 living in
1896 transfer to Maryland Conference
1896-99 Walkersville
1899-00 living
in
1900 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
1900-01
1901-02 White
1902-03 living in Shiremanstown
1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1903-04 Orbisonia
1904-06 Coalport
1906-07
1907-09 Bellefonte
1909-10 Portage and/or Wilmore [records confusing]
1910-11 Greenwood
1911-12 Mapleton
(resigned 12/7/11, moved to
1912-13
1913-15
1915 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1915-17
1917-19 Shepherdstown
1919
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
BARTO, ISAIAH
Born: 1-10-1805 Mount Joy PA married: Mary _____
Died: 5-29-1850 Clearfield PA obit: [10/18/1804 - ?]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 37
Gibble list: no
1840 license, Allegheny Conference
1843 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mount Joy PA
Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907,9]
1843-45 Clearfield circuit
BASEHORE, JOHN
Born: 11-15-1774 married:
Died: 10-31-1853 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 228
Gibble list: no
1838 license
Interment:
Obit: 1854,30 sent to The Religious Telescope
1849-50 Conococheague circuit
BASHORE, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1953 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein
1958 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1953-55 student,
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in
1955-58 assistant, Dayton High Street
1958-59 assistant,
1950-64
1964-73 Reading Inner City Parish
1973-79 superintendent, Reading District
1979-80
1980 elected bishop
BATDORF. GRANT DAVID
Born: 4-30-1874 Lickdale PA married: Lydia Ann Zeller
Died: 9-21-1954
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1896 quarterly
conference license,
1897 license, East German Conference
1898 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1898-01
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-06
1906-11
1911-20
1920-21
1921 transfer to Miami Conference
1921-29
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 _____
Fulton #: 524 obit2: [d. 1999]
Gibble list: no
1927 quarterly conference license
1929 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
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.
Born: 1859 Bellefonte PA married: Amelia A. Malone
Died: 5-29-1922 Orbisonia PA obit: [?/?/1859 – 11/18/1921]
Miller-Raker #: 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
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: Mary L. Miller
Died: 3-9-1910 obit: [10/3/1850 - ?]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1889 quarterly conference license, Chapman’s Quarries
1892 license, East German Conference
1895 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1891-92 Catawissa circuit
1892-93 Myerstown
1893-96
1896-97 Pine Grove circuit
1897-99 located, living in Klecknersville
1899-01 Sunbury and Milton
1901 transfer
to
1901-02
1902-08 located, living at Klecknersville
1908-09
1909 retired
BAULUS, JACOB
Born: 3-10-1768 Middletown Valley MD married: Anna Margaret Beckenbach
Died: 4-20-1851 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 24
Gibble list: yes
1795 license
1814 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1812-13
oversight “between
1816-18 presiding elder
1820’s transfer
to
BAULUS, VALENTINE
Born: 1763 married:
Died: 1818/9 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 45
Gibble list: yes
1802 license
1817 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 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
Gibble list: yes
1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889 transfer to Maryland Conference
1890 transfer to Ohio German Conference
Note: This surname is also rendered BAUMBACK.
BAZZLE, WILLIAM PERRY
Born: married: Mary S. Fout
Died: obit: [d. 10/12/1916]
Miller-Raker #: 486 married2:
Lydia E. Garman [8/22/1917]
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
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,
Born: 7-128-1852 West
Died: 1-10-1929 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
quarterly conference license, Columbia Salome
1889 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1892-93
1893-99
1899-00 Intercourse
1900-01
1901-03
1903-04 Pequea circuit
1904-06 Elverson circuit
1906-09
1909-11 Union circuit
1911-15 Hillsdale circuit
1915-18 Royalton
1918-20 retired
1920-22
1922 retired
Note: In 1901 Rev. Beach was assigned to Hillsdale but
“exchanges were made shortly after conference” and he served at
BEACHEL, LeROY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 719
Gibble list: no
1947 quarterly conference license, York First (transfer from Allegheny Conference)
1950 license, recommended by York First
Interment:
Obit:
1947-48
1950-59 living
in
1959 return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89
BEACHLEY, RAYMOND E.
Born: 8-26-1898 married:
Died: 3-23-2000,
Miller-Raker #: 611
Gibble list: no
1920 license
1925 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1921-25 Chewsville
1925-26
1926-28 instructor at Quincy Orphanage
1928-57 local
1957 withdrew, page 82 “engaged full time in commercial enterprise”
Note: The death of his father, layman Elmer Beachley of Myersville MD, is noted in 1935,28.
BEAMER, WALTER J.
Born: 7-23-1842 married: Sarepta O. Miller
Died: 1-25-1927 obit: 1911,115
Miller-Raker #: 351
Gibble list: no
1868 quarterly
conference license,
1869 license
1873 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1927,58
1869-70
1870-73 Perry circuit
1873-76 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]
1876-80
1880-83 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1883-84 presiding elder, Baltimore District
1884-86 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1886-88
1888-90 local
1890-93 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1893 local
[1900-01
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography.
BEAMESDERFER, CORNWELL
Born: 9-2-1893 near Schaefferstown PA married: Sallie Ebling
Died: 5-11-1969 obit: Eastern Conference 1969,119
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 quarterly conference license, Myerstown
1914 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: Eastern Conference 1969,119
1914-17 Schaefferstown
1917-18 student,
1918-24 “unemployed”, living in Myerstown
1924-28 Williamstown
1928-34 Shamokin Second
1934-37
1937-39
1939-42 Union circuit
1942-48
1948-50
1950-56 Coatesville
1956-57 Refton
1957-58 without appointment, page 45
1958-60 assistant, Neffsville
1960 retired
1960-69
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
Gibble list:
1949 license
Interment:
Obit:
1954 dropped:
Note: Emmett E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell Beamesderfer and the brother of Harold E. and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.
BEAMESDERFER, HAROLD E.
Born: 10-6-1916 married: Mary Ruth Hoffman
Died: 3-8-2003 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly conference license, Shamokin Second
1945 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1947 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1946 associate, Palymra First (summer)
1946-47 Grantville circuit
1947-52 Showmakersville-Bern
1952-62 Steelton
1962-75
1975-80
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: 1986,427
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly conference license, Shamokin Second
1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1951 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 2001,357
1937-38
1943-55
1955-59 Linglestown
1959-60 Royalton
1960-70 administrator
and chaplain,
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-77 administrator
and chaplain,
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
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
BEATTIE, JOHN W.
Born: 10-2-1907 married:
Died: 12-26-1990 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 654
Gibble list: no
1927 license,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
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
BEATTIE, WILLIAM METZEL
Born: 3-1-1874, Peach Bottom PA married: Carrie Susan Klinedinst
Died: 8-21-1944, Greencastle PA obit: 1934,25
Miller-Raker #: 531 married2:
Ruby Edith Morin Wyand
Gibble list: no
1897 quarterly conference license, York Second
1904 license
1911 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1944,37
1900 Hellam, resigned after 1 month: 1901, 16
1904-08 Rohrersville
1908-10 Dillsburg
1910-14 Mount
1914-20 Greencastle
1920-22 Keedysville
1922-25 York Fifth
1925-27 Hanover
1927-30 Shiremanstown
1930-33 Gettysburg
1933-37 Williamsport
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)
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:
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
Born:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 515
Gibble list: no
1903 license, recommended by Mont Alto
Interment:
Obit:
1903-05
student,
1905-06 living
in
1906 withdrew, page 49
Note: The 1905 BIZARRE [LVC yearbook], page 34, gives a picture and brief biography. He does not appear to be a son of George William Beatty.
BEATTY, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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
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
BECKLEY, ARTHUR S.
Born: 8-8-1884
Died: 1914 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963,61
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1905 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1909 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Aulenbach’s Cemetery,
Obit:
1904-06 Landingville
1906-10
1910-12 Grantville circuit
1912-14 Shamokin First
Born: 9-26-1893
Died: 5-24-1956
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1930-47 missionary
–
1947-51 missionary
–
1951 furlough fore health reasons
BECKTEL, RUSSELL GORDON
Born: 3-8-1907 Elizabethville PA married: Eva Shissler
Died: 1-9-1993
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1928 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1936 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Brunnerville UM Cemetery, Brunnerville PA
Obit:
1925-26 Sinking Spring
1926-27 Fontanna
1927-29 Brunnerville
1934-36
1936-40
1940-41
1941-46 chaplain, US Air Force (beginning 8/29/41)
1946-47
1947-57
1959-69
1973 retired
BEERHALTER, M.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1932
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
Died: 4-7-1961
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 quarterly conference license
1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1907 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit:
1904-06 Manor circuit
1906-09 Cressona
1909-16 Manheim
1916-38 Shamokin First
1938-53
1953 retired
BEHNEY, JOHN BRUCE
Born: 10-15-1905 Ralston PA married: Dorothy E. Heister
Died: 8-18-1987
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly conference license, Annville
1928 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1933 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1935-73 faculty, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
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.
BEIGHEL, WILLIAM
Born: 1-31-1817 Spruce Creek PA married:
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
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1883,36
1838-39
1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference
1839-40 Huntingdon circuit
1840-41 no minutes taken
1841-42
1842-43
1843-44 Westmoreland circuit
1844-45 Ligonier circuit
1845-46
1846-47 presiding elder, Western District
1847-48 Westmoreland circuit
1848-49
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
BEISTLINE, ALLEN ROBERT
Born: 6-8-1928 Steelton PA married: Margaret Ann Greenwalt
Died: 2-3-1985
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1967 1icense, Eastern Conference: recommended by Steelton Centenary
1969 ordained, Eastern Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1965-75 Birdsboro Christ
1975-78 Birdsboro Christ & Focht Memorial
1978-84 Birdsboro Focht Memorial
1984-85 Frackville First & St. Clair
BEITTEL, CHARLES ROUSS
Born: 4-20-1893
Died: 5-29-1974
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1915 quarterly conference license, Columbia Salome
1918 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1924 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1974,414
1917-18
1918 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1918-22 Royalton
1922-28
1928-64
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 R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1943 quarterly conference license
1945 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1943-44
1944-45 Hillsdale circuit
1945-49 student,
1949 dismissed,
joined West Ohio Conference of the
Note: Dale R. Beittel is the son of Charles R. Beittel. In 2003 Dale R. Beittel is listed as a retired member of the West Ohio Conference.
Born: 12-28-1921 married:
Died: August 1973 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 720
Gibble list: no
1950 license, recommended by Spry Otterbein
Interment:
Obit:
1950-53 attending
1953 dropped, change in vocational plans
BEMESDERFER, JAMES ORVILLE
Born: 10-22-1911 married: Amelia A. _____
Died: 1-16-1999 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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:
Obit:
1940-46 Potttstown Salem & Birdsboro Christ
1946-51
1951-59 Cleona
&
1959-76 chaplain,
1968-76
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
Gibble list: yes
1910 quarterly conference license, Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1910 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1912 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-15 Williamstown
1915-21 Bellegrove
1932-34 Campbelltown & Lebanon West
1934-44
BENDLE, A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
quarterly conference license
license, Allegheny Conference
ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1900-01 West Decatur (resigned soon after conference)
Note: A. Bendle is listed as "others employed in the conference." He is otherwise unknown.
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
Gibble #: yes
1803 license
1815 ordained, Miami Ohio Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1810 charter member of Miami Ohio Conference
Note: George Benedum is considered one of the founders of the
UB Church in
BENNETCH, FREDERICK E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1955 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Schaefferstown
1960 ordained, Michigan Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1957-60 student, Evangelical Theological Seminary
1958-59 assistant,
1960 transfer to Michigan Conference, page 95
1960-62 Ludington Zion
1962 transfer
to
1962-67 Shamokin Second
1967-70 Millersburg Hebron
1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-80 Millersburg Hebron
1980-93 Marysville Wesley
1993 retired
1993-95 associate, Wellsville
BENNETT, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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, H.K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1899 transfer to
BERGER, CHRISTIAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 52
Gibble list: yes
1803 license
1805 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
BERGER, JOSEPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 136 & 207
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.
BERKEL, OSCAR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1934 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Jeannette
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Oscar Berkel apparently never served under appointment. He is otherwise unknown.
BESHORE, ANDREW S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 572
Gibble list: no
1912 license,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1912-14
attending Shenandoah Institute,
1914-15 living in Aurora NE
1915 transfer to Nebraska Conference, page 80
BICKLEY, AUGUSTUS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 268
Gibble list: yes
1843 license
Interment:
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: 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,
Died: 2-17-1863,
Miller-Raker #: 334
Gibble list: no
1863 license
Interment:
Obit: 1864,91
BIELSTEIN, CLYDE HENRY
Born: 3-15-1907 married: Madeline Violet Lemmon
Died: 2-?-1985 Dayton OH obit: [4/26/1907 – 3/14/2003]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 519 [BEILSTEIN]
Gibble list: no
1928 quarterly conference license
1929 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
Englewood OH
1932-35 YMCA
1935 no longer listed
BIELY, ALDEN GEORGE
Born: 4-25-1902
Died: 11-27-1977
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Hilda Catherine Jenkins (Castor)
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem
1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: [
1925-68
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: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1952 license
Interment:
Obit:
1953-54 student, United Seminary in
1941 dropped:
Note: Alden George Biely Jr. is the son of Alden George Biely.
BIERMAN, GEORGE FILLMORE.
Born: 8-25-1855
Died: 8-19-1939
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 quarterly conference license
1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1891-92 Penbrook
1892-95
1895-98
1898-00 Hopekand
1900-01 Elverson
1901-02 on leave, living in Birdsboro PA
1902-09 faculty,
1909-24 faculty,
1921-22
1924-25
1925-29 instructor in Spanish, Schuylkill
[Albright] College in
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
BIGGS, GEORGE JR.
Born: 6-2-1907 Youngwood PA married: Martha Ellen Wingate
Died: 6-13-2001 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998,404
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 528
Gibble list: no
1929 quarterly conference license
1930 license, Allegheny Conference
1935 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2002,313
1928-32 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1932-35 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1932-33 Aley Chapel
1935-36 assistant, Wiliknsburg Christ
1936-38 Middleburg
1938-44 Altoona Greenwood
1944-50 McKeeesport Shoemaker
1950-68 Johnstown Homestead Avenue
1968-83 Arbutus Park Manor
1973 retired
1973-1985 Arbutus Park Manor
BIGHAM, SOLOMON
Born: 5-3-1817 married:
Died: 6-30-1889, Duncannon obit:
Miller-Raker #: 327
Gibble list: no
1862 license
1863 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1890,21
1863-64 Ickesburg mission
1864-66
1866-68 Rocky Spring station
1868-69 Orrstown station
1869-70 Bendersville
1870-73 located, living in Shiremanstown
1873-78 local pastor, Pennel’s
Duncannon, from 10/17/1879 until conference in March 1880
Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography.
BIGLER, ADAM G. JR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1935 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1941 referred
BINGHAM, ALTA [BAER]
Born: 10-23-1886
Died: 1-14-1958
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1929 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1958,46
Note: Mrs. Bingham was never assigned to a church, but always active in churches served by her husband.
BINGHAM, C.C.
Born: 4-23-1854 Franklin County PA married: [5/1880]
Died: 1-9-1919 Shiloh UB Church, Bigler PA obit:
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
Glasgow
Liverpool
1900-03 Woodland
Runville
East Freedom
Somerset
Altoona Greenwood
East Salem
Bigler
BINGHAM, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 373
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
1881-85 Greencastle
1885 withdrew, pages 4 & 23
BINGHAM, JAMES G.
Born: 12-14-1884
Died: 6-22-1946 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958,46
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1920 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third
1923 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Baer Mennonite Cemetery,
Obit:
1921-22 Chambers Hill
1922-23 Sinking Spring
1923-26 Stoverdale
1926-29 student, Bonbrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1926-29
1929-30 Highspire
1930-31 not assigned, living in
1931-32 Campbelltown (beginning 5/50/1931; see 1931,19)
1932-37 Coatesville
1937-42
1942-44
1944-46
BINKLEY, JOHN
Born: 1-20-1833 married: Fannie Eshelman
Died: 2-12-1918 obit: [11/9/1832 - ]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1865 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1868 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit:
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
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
Gibble list: no
1830 license
Interment:
Obit:
BISHOP, JAMES MADISON
Born: 8-9-1821, Littlestown married: Eliza Over
Died: 3-27-1891 obit: [12/18/1824 - 12/16/1889]]
Miller-Raker #: 273
Gibble list: yes
1844 license
1847 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46
1846-48
1848-49 Rocky Spring circuit
1849-50
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
Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. James M. Bishop is a brother to Jeremiah P. Bishop.
BISHOP, JEREMIAH PHILIP
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 295
Gibble list: no
1851 license
1854 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1851-52
1852-53 Rocky Spring circuit
1853-54 York Spring circuit
1854-55 Mercersburg circuit
1855-57
1857-58
1858-59
1859-60
1860-61 Orrstown station
1861-62
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
Died: 12-19-1959 obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,69
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 427 & 479
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
BITZEL, PETER
Born: married: Margaret Hartner
Died: 7-30-1849 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 256
Gibble list: yes
1841 license
1844 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1850,16
1844-47
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 #:
Gibble list: no
quarterly conference license
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Allegheny
1845-46
1846-47 Washington
1847-50
1850-51 agent, Mt. Pleasant College
1851 name erased for leaving his wife and child
BLACKBURN, W.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 235
Gibble list: no
1890 license, Allegheny Conference
1893 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: California Conference 1944,50
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:
1887 transfer to
BLAIR, JOHN G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1861-62
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
Gibble list: yes
1925 quarterly
conference license,
1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1932 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1926-29 Stoverdale
1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1929-30 Waterhouse-Bonehill,
1930-31 Houghton Congregational Christian Church in Houghton OH
1932-33
1933-40
1940-68
1968 retired
1968-73 visitation pastor, Limona Village UM Chapel in Brandon FL
BLECKER, AARON M.
Born: 1-15-1844
Died: 11-28-1924 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]
1885 license, East German Conference
1888 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1901 transfer
to
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
Died: 4-1-1912 Myerstown PA obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1926,13]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]
1881 quarterly conference license,
1882 license, East German Conference
1884 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: United
Obit:
1881-83
1883-86
1886-89 Sinking Spring circuit
1889-93
1893-97
1897-99 Bellegrove circuit
1899-01
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02 on leave, living in Myerstown
1902-03
1903-05
1905-07
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
BLOUCH, GIDEON L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-14 Jonestown circuit
1919 referred
BLOUCH, HERBERT ROY
Born: 3-27-1910
Died: 3-31-1988
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1931 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Bethany
1933 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1938 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit:
1934-35
1935-38 student, United Theological
Seminary in
1938-41
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
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
Gibble list: no
1908 license,
Pennsylvania Conference UBOC: recommended by
1917 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC
Interment:
Obit:
1907-08 Littlestown mission
1908-10
1910-12 Shippensburg mission
1912-13 Lemasters, did not finish the year
1913-14
1914-17 Lemasters
1926 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1926-33 Myersville
1933-52
1952 retired
Note: Mrs. Blubaugh was a niece of
Etta and Harvey Kitzmiller, benefactors of the Quincy Home. While B.F. Blubaugh (
BOEHM, CHARLES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble #: no
Interment:
Obit:
1831-32
BOEHM, HENRY
Born: 6-8-1775,
Died: 12-19-1875 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 28
Gibble list: no
1800 license
1802 license, Methodist Episcopal Church
1803 ordained, Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment:
Obit:
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 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 2
Gibble list: yes
1756 ordained,
Interment: Boehm’s Chapel,
Obit:
1800 elected
[with Otterbein] one of first two bishops of the
Note: Martin Boehm is the father of Henry Boehm.
BOESHORE, HARRY FRANKLIN
Born: 4-13-1894
Died: 1-24-1926 Cressona obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 51
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-17
1917-19
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
Died: 1930
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1894 license,
East German Conference: recommended by
Lebanon First [
Interment:
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
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
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1875 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1881 name erased
BOMBERGER, JOSEPH W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg First
Interment:
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
BONAWITZ, PETER
Born: married: Barbara _____
Died: 1852 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 266
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
BONEWELL, JOHN W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Gibble list: no
1848 ordained, on credentials from Primitive Methodist Church
Interment:
Obit:
1848-49 Philadelphia
Clinton Street
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
1857-58 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.
BOOK, WILLIAM J.
Born: married: Barbara
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1930-31 Linglestown circuit
Note: William J. Book supplied the
Linglestown circuit (
BORING, A.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 304
Gibble list: no
1902 license, Allegheny Conference
1908 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1918 returned to quarterly conference license
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
Gibble list: yes
1825 license
1828 ordained
Interment:
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
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
Gibble list: yes
1804 license
Interment:
Obit:
1818 charter member of Muskingum Conference
BOSSLER, ETHAN ALLEN G.
Born: 4-12-1866
Died: 7-3-1960 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958,44
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1886 quarterly conference license, Royalton
1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1890 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Paxtang Mausoleum,
Obit:
1890-93 Oberlin
1893-07
1907-13 Steelton
1917-18 retired
1918-21
1921 retired
Born: 12-17-1922 married:
Died: 9-3-2005 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1949 license, recommended by Philadelphia Second
1952 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1950-52 Laura OH Congregational Christian
1952-57
1957 granted
“certificate of recommendation” to the Southwestern Association of the
BOUGHTER, CHARLES EDWIN
Born: 2-10-1868
Died: 12-4-1922 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, East German Conference
1894 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1893-95 Paxinos 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
1916-20
1920-22 Lykens
Note: Charles E. Boughter is an uncle to Harvey D. Boughter.
BOUGHTER,
Born: 9-17-1870
Died: 5-23-1940
Miller-Raker #: 664
Gibble list: no
1900 ordained, Churches of God
Interment:
Obit: 1940,33
Martinsburg PA
1922 transfer to UB Church, Oregon Conference
1922-26 president,
1926-30 Greenmount
1930 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1930-31 Greenmount
1931-34 Chewsville
1934-36
1936-40
Note: Harvey D. Boughter is a nephew to Charles E. Boughter.
BOUGHTER, JOHN W.
Born: 6-10-1837
Died: 5-24-1914 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1870 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1881 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69 Union Deposit circuit
1870-76
1876-77
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
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
BOUGHTER, S.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1893-1894
Note: UB Yearbooks for 1893,1894 list Daniel R. Bovey in
BOWERMASTER, JOHN RICHARD
Born: 10-8-1879 married: Amelia Mohr
Died: 2-7-1963 obit: [d. 1953]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 quarterly
conference license, Paradise
1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1911 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1904-06 Middleburg, Allegheny Conference
1906-07
1909-10
1950 retired
BOWERS, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK
Born: married: Barbara E. Rider
Died: 12-19-1907 obit: Iowa Conference 1901,28
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 61
Gibble list: no
1844 license, Allegheny Conference
1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Iowa Conference 1908,42
1846-47 Bellefonte
1847-48 Washington
1848-50 Clearfield
1850-52 Schellsburg
1852 transfer to Iowa Conference
BOWERS, HERBERT HARVEY
Born: 3-26-1913 married:
Died: 4-9-1981 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 quarterly
conference license,
1940 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1943-46
1946-47 Hummelstown circuit
1947-48
1948-49
1949-52 living in
1952-54 Royalton
1954-57 living in
1957-69 living in
1969 no longer listed
Note: Herbert H. Bowers is the son of Walter G. Bowers.
BOWERS, THEODORE R.
Born: 10-24-1904married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gilbble list: no
1831 license
1834 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1944-53 Three Springs
Note: Theodore Bowers served as a local pastor.
BOWERS, WALTER GEORGE
Born: 2-3-1890
Died: 3-2-1982 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955,35
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Bessie Clara Shanaman Kreps
Gibble list: yes
1926 quarterly
conference license,
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1926-46
1947-58
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
BOWLUS [see BAULUS]
BOWMAN, EDWARD STAUFFER
Born: 1866 married: Louella Funk (10/30/1890)
Died: 8-19-1940
Miller-Raker #: 442
Gibble list: yes [EDWIN S. BOWMAN]
1889 license
1892 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1885-90
1890-91 ?
1891-94 Greencastle
1894-00 Mechanicsburg
1900-03
1903 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1903-08
1908-09 living in
1909-10 living in
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
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1878 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ephrata PA
Obit:
1872-73 Highspire circuit
Grantville circuit
1875-77
1877-79
1879-82 Manheim circuit
1882-84 Ephrata
1884-87 Boiling Springs,
1887-88 Dillsburg,
1888-89 Intercourse circuit
1889 Hummelstown circuit (Feb-Oct)
1889-91 Union Deposit circuit
1891-94 chaplain,
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
1909-10 Hillsdale circuit
BOYER, HARRY THEODORE
Born: 1-28-1870 married: Lulu Kunkle
Died: 8-26-1939 obit: 1961,47
Miller-Raker #: 463
Gibble list: no
1892 quarterly conference license, Duncannon
1896 license
1899 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1939,42
1897-01
1901-07
1907-15 Shermansdale
1915-24
1924-37 Enola
1937 retired
BOYER, JOHN NEELY
Born: 10-12-1900 Johnstown PA married: Estella Shank
Died: 7-12-1953 obit: Western Pennslyvania 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 E. Hatton
Died: 5-6-1965 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 612
Gibble list: no
1919 quarterly conference license, York Fourth
1921 license, recommended by York Fourth
1926 ordained
Interment:
Obit: in the biographical files at the conference archives
1921
1921-25
1925-27 Springet
1935 withdrew 1935,34
Note: Following a summer-long tent
campaign in 1935, Ralph E. Boyer moved to
BOYER, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 license, East German Conference: recommended by Middleburg
1902 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
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
BRADFORD, J.T.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 368
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 H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
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:
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.
BRANDAUER, FREDERICK PAUL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1954 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Annville
1958 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 student,
1954 Brunnerville (3 months)
1954-55 assistant, Elizabethville
1955-58 student, United Theological
Seminary in
1958-59 Elizabethville
1959-72 missionary,
1972-73 lecturer,
1973-79 faculty,
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 to Apr 1974)
Miller-Raker #: 513
Gibble list: yes
1901 quarterly conference license, Shippensburg Messiah
1903 license,
recommended by
1906 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1979,330
1901-04 student,
1904-07 student, Union Seminary Dayton OH
1906 Riverside
1907 Beloit
1907-10 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute,
1910-11 principal, Derry township high school (
1911 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference 1911,50
1911-13
1913-16
1916 transfer to Virginia Conference
1916-21
1921 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1921-59 local/supply
1921-44 teacher/principal, Mechanicsburg high
school (
1944-67 justice of the peace, Hampden township
1959 retired
Note: Mrs. Brandt earned an A.B. and
A.M. from
BRANDT, SAMUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 80
Gibble list: yes
1815 license
Interment:
Obit:
BRANE, COMMODORE I.B.
Born: 12-25-1848 Frederick MD married: Clara M. Harp
Died: 4-7-1920
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 license, Virginia Conference
1876 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Benevola MD
Obit:
1872-73
1873-74 New
1874-76 Mechanicstown MD
1876-78 ?
1878-79 Rockbridge
1879-82 ?
1882-85 located due to ill health,
1883
1885-86 presiding elder, Shenandoah District
1886-87
1887 transfer to Maryland Conference
1887-90
1890-93
1893-94 general secretary, Church Erection
1894-96 Pequa,
1896 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1896-06
1906-09
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. Mrs. Brane is the daughter of Joshua Harp.
BRASHEAR, THEODORE F,
Born: 3-5-1825 married:
Died: 4-18-1888
Miller-Raker #: 332
Gibble list: no
1849 license, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: UB Yearbook 1889,28
1849-50 South Branch
1850-51 appointments not listed
1851-52 Buckhannon
1852-53
1853-54 Rockingham
1854-55 appointments not listed
1855-56 Myersville
1856-57 Lacey Springs
1857-59 Rockingham
1859-61 Churchville
1861-62
1862
1862-63 presiding elder, Southern Section
1863 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1863-65
1865 transfer to any conference he wishes to join, 1865,102
Elkhorn
Conference (Dakota Territory & northern
Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 157, gives a brief biography.
BRATTEN, JAMES H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 290, 320
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
Gibble list: yes
1817 license
Interment:
Obit: 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 bear Mount Joy PA married: Jennie K. Smith
Died: 5-7-1940 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 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:
Obit:
1900-01
1901-04
1904-07
1907-13
1913-20 Refton and
1920-32
1932 retired
BRENNEMAN, CURVIN ELMER
Born: 7-?-1887
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 570
Gibble list: no
1910 quarterly
conference license from
1911 license,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1910-11 Jefferson
1912
1912-17 local, living in
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
Gibble list: yes
1922 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1921-25 student,
1921-22 Rocherty
1923-24 Sinking Spring
1927 transfer to ?
1932 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary
1947 pastor
of The Open Bible Testimony,
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:
1900-01 Lickingville (resigned & appointed to West Decatur soon after 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
Miller-Raker #: 527
Gibble list: no
1888 quarterly conference license, Middleburg [State Line]
1890 license, Iowa Conference
1893 ordained, Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1961,43
1888-90 student,
1890-92 student,
1892-93 medical rest & supply pastor
1893-96 student, Union Seminary at
1896 transfer to Maryland Conference
1896-98
1898-99
1899 transfer to East Ohio Conference
1899-04
1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 32
1904-11
1911-12
First
1912-13
1913-29 general secretary, Sunday School & Brotherhood Work
1929-33 general secretary, Evangelism
1933-39
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:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
? license
? ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1848 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1848-50 Northumberland mission
1850-52 New
1852-53 Dauphin circuit
1853-54 Hummelstown circuit
1854-57
1857-58 Highspire circuit
1858-59
1859-61 New
1861-63
1863-65 Susquehanna circuit
1886 name erased
BRICKER, M.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1880-81 Mercersburg: see 1881,4
BRICKLEY, GEORGE A.
Born: 5-1-1840
Died: 8-26-1895
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
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
BRIDIGUM, JOSEPH H.
Born: 1890 married: Agnes Hummel
Died: 7-23-1956 obit: Western Pennslyvania 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 Pennslyvania 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
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
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
1964-64 Morning Sun United Presbyterian, OH
1964-67
1967-84
1984 retired
BROOKS, OLIVER R.
Born: 2-24-1887
Died: 10-21-1951 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 quarterly
conference license,
1912 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1927 re-license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Boehm’s Cemetery, Willow Street PA
Obit:
1912-13 Jonestown
1913-17
1917-18 Jonestown (resigned Oct 1917, see 1918,6)
1918-20
1920 referred
1929-39 Manheim
1939-45
1946-51
BROWN, ALAN S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1960 1icense,
East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by
1964 ordained, Eastern Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1964-87 assistant, Lancaster Otterbein
1987-99 Grove
BROWN, GEORGE
Born: Cumberland [now Perry] County PA married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 81
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: 1974,435
Miller-Raker #: 638
Gibble list: no
1924 quarterly
conference license,
1925 license,
recommended by
1928 ordained
Interment: Greenmount MD
Obit: 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
Gibble list: no
1856 license
1869 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1856-58
1858-61
1861-63
1863-66 Perry circuit
1866-68 ?
1868-69 Ickesburg mission
1869-70 ?
1870-72
1872-74
1874 dismissed
BROWN, JACOB F.
Born: 8-3-1876 Lampeter PA married:
Died: 5-6-1934 Sunbury PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Shamokin circuit
1917 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
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 _____
Gibble list: yes
1820 license
1821 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1820-21
1821-24 [records incomplete]
1824-27
Note: John Brown [PA] is a brother to Bishop William Brown, on whose page is more family information. He apparently migrated westward, living successively in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
BROWN, JOHN [VA]
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 92
Gibble list: yes
1819 license
1821 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
BROWN, WILLIAM
Born: 7-9-1796
Died: 5-11-1868
Miller-Raker #: 84
Gibble list: yes
1816 license
1819 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1817-18
1818-20
1820-21
1821-23 appointments not listed
1823-24 presiding elder, circuits unspecified
1824-25 appointments not listed
1825-28
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
1837 moved
to
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 Whitesel. In addition, his brothers Simon (1804-1874) and David (1813-1875) and numerous nephews were also UB preachers. His father Peter Brown served as a local pastor. There is a folder on William Brown in the biographical files. This name is also rendered Wilhelm Braun.
BRUBAKER, URIAH B.
Born: 3-28-1872 Lancaster County PA married: Martha Roloston
Died: 10-10-1957 obit: Kansas Conference 1923,37
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Estela Ankeny Long
Fulton #: 282 obit2: [d. 9/5/1950]
Gibble list: no
1896 quarterly conference license, Manheim
1897 license, Allegheny Conference
1909 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
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
BRYDIA, ELLIS MYERS
Born: 6-5-1909 married: Thelma Morgan
Died: 3-31-1977 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 749
Gibble list: yes
1955 license
Interment: Rolling
Obit:
1955-56 living in
1956 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1956-57 Tremont-Barry
1957-58 Cressona
1958
withdrew:
Note: Rev. Brydia felt called to the
ministry as a student at
BUCH, OSCAR KIEHL
Born: 9-15-1889 married: Clara Hahn
Died: 3-11-1972 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1925 quarterly conference license, Manheim Salem
1950 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: [
1925-26 Silver Spring
1927-34 Rocherty
1941-43 Brunnerville
1945-55 Newton-Mt.
1955-60
1960-61 Williamstown
1961 retired
1969 no longer listed
BUCHART,
Born: 12-11-1904 married: Anna Evelyn Petroff
Died: 12-21-1968
Miller-Raker #: 647
Gibble list: no
1924 quarterly conference license, Yoe
1926 license, recommended by Yoe
Interment: 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 Wisconsin IA married: Minnie V. Noll
Died: 2-3-1921
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1895 license, East German Conference
1899 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1895-97 Middleburg circuit
1897-99 Pine Grove circuit
1899-00 Ebenezer station
1900-01 Sinking Spring
1901 transfer
to
1901-06 Bellegrove circuit
1906-12
1912-20
1920-21
Note: Mrs. Buddinger is the daughter of Simon Noll.
BUELL, JOHN SPEER
Born: 9-13-1838 Ligonier Valley PA married: Susan C. Brant
Died: 3-18-1891 obit: Allegheny Conference 1928,64
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 159
Gibble list: no
1873 license, Allegheny Conference
1876 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Valley Cemetery, Ligonier PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1891,36
1874-75 Ligonier
1875-76 Susquehanna
1876-79 Castleman
1879-81 Springfield
1881-83 Madison
1883-84 no appointment
1884-85 Mahoning (resigned before reporting)
1885-86 Bigler
1886-89 Cambria
1889-90 Coalport
1890-91 Somerset
Note: For reasons that have not been reported, John S. Buell appears not to have served under appointment 1883-85. He appears to have maintained a regular family residence in Ligonier, even though some of his appointments were some distance away.
BUFFINGTON, HENRY A.
Born: 6-20-1863 Pillow PA married: Agnes L. Ressler [9/28/1886]
Died: 1-5-1952 obit: [11/24/1864 – 1961]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 quarterly conference license
1885 license, East German Conference
1889 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA
Obit: [
1884-86
1886-88 Tamaqua circuit
1888-89
1889 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1889-91 New
1891-93
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
1915-16 Latrobe
1916-19 Philipsburg
1919-21 Pitcairn
1921-24
1924-26
1926-27 Wilmore
1927-29
1929-34 Conemaugh
1934-36 New
1936 retired
Note:
Henry A. and Agnes Buffington retired to
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:
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 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: 5-24-1875 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 368
Gibble list: no
1908 quarterly conference license
1909 license, Allegheny Conference
1915 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: St. John's 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 Allen W. Reed (1921-1971) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference
BUNGARD, WILLIAM S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1933 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Johnstown Park Avenue
Interment:
Obit:
Note: William S. Bungard is the son of Benjamin S. Bungard.
BURD, J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 307
Gibble list: no
1855 license
1859 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56
1856-58
1858-61
1861-63 Rocky Spring station
1863-66 presiding elder, Chambersburg District (did not finish last year)
1868 transfer to Rock River Conference
BURGESS, HAROLD R.
Born: 2-8-1917 married: Lynell Mae _____
Died: 8-16-2007 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006,376
Miller-Raker #: 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 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
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
Gibble list: no
1934 quarterly conference license
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
BURKERT, CYRUS JACOB
Born: 7-7-1842 Rebersburg PA married:
Died: 11-12-1905
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60
1860-61
1861-62
1862 dropped
Note: Cyrus J. Burkert 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: married:
Died: 7-24-1871 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
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:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 750
Gibble list: no
1955 license, recommended by Shiremanstown
1960 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1955-57 West Hill
1957-59 seminary student at
1959-61 Lemasters (first year, apparently latter part only)
1961-68
1968-69
1969 withdrew
1969-80 Easter Seals Society
1980-90 American Cancer Society
1990 retired
Note:
Donald S. Burkhart’s present (2002) address is
BURKHART, ROY ABRAM
Born: 8-28-1895 married: Hazel Shover
Died: 12-9-1962 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 624
Gibble list: yes
1923 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg
1929 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
principal & football coach at
1923-33
student at United Seminary & national UB
Youth Director,
1933-35 PhD student,
1935-40
1940 withdrew
to join
Note: Dr. Burkhart is the author of several books, 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.
BURKHOLDER, DANIEL R.
Born: 5-5-1837
Died: 4-6-1902 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 364
Gibble list: no
1872 license
1875 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1903,70
1872-73
1873-75 Perry
1875-78 Shippensburg
1878-82 Rocky Springs
1882-86 Shopp’s [Shiremanstown]
1886-89
1889-90
1890-92 Rocky Springs
1891-92
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
Died: 3-5-1900
Miller-Raker #: 382
Gibble list: no
1876 license
1879 ordained
Interment: Annville PA
Obit: 1900,45
1878-79 Duncannon
1879-81 Big Springs
1881-84 Mercersburg circuit
1884-87
1887-91
1891-94
1894-97 presiding elder, Baltimore District
1897-00
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the
Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography. C.A. Burtner earned a PhD (not honorary) from
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
Gibble list: yes
1893 quarterly conference license
1895 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1896 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1893-95 student, Union Theological
Seminary [United] in
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-06 Hummelstown
1906-08
1908-09
1909-10 Lykens
1910-23
1928-35 Steelton
1935 retired
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
Died: 1-5-1857
Miller-Raker #: 99
Gibble list: yes
1821 license
1823 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1830
charter member of
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,
BURTNER, JOHN HOWARD
Born: 12-23-1903 married: Alva D. Wall
Died: 7-?-1982 obit: [10/2/1911 – 9/28/1988]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1933 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1931-34 Union Deposit circuit
1934-38 Royalton Emanuel
1939 honorable dismissal
Note: J. Howard Burtner is the son of
Edward O. Burtner. After leaving the
Conference, he is described as a “religious field worker” in the
BURTNER, LUTHER OLIN
Born: 12-9-1858
Died: 5-15-1910 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 483
Gibble list: no
1882 license, Virginia Conference
1889 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1910,118
1883-84 Rockbridge
1884-88 apparently not assigned (perhaps serving in Maryland Conference)
1888-89 Keedysville (
1889 transfer to Maryland Conference
1889-92 Keedysville
1892-93 Walkersville
1893-96 missionary to
1896-97 furlough
1897-98 missionary to
1898-99
1899-01 presiding elder, Maryland Conference
1901-04 missionary to
1904-09 Foreign & Home Missionary boards,
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, and
the grandson of Henry Burtner. Luther is
a brother to
BURTNER, MARKWOOD MONROW
Born: 1-7-1858
Died: 9-1-1932 Dufur OR obit: [8/22/1863 – 6/27/1946]
Miller-Raker #: 435
Gibble list: no
1889 license
1891 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1887-88 Orrstown station
1889-91
1891-94 Littlestown
1894-95 supernumerary, living in Hancock MD
1895-98
1898-01 Rayville (ending 8/1/1901)
1901-04 Wasco OR
1904-05
1905 transfer to Columbia River Conference
1905-06
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
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
BURTNER,
Born: 1862 married: Ella May Albert
Died: 1933 obit: Ohio Southeast Conference 1957,109
Miller-Raker #: 471
Gibble list: no
1899 license
Interment:
Obit:
1898-99
1899-01 Baltimore Fourth
(resigned 11/6/1901 to go to
1901-02
1902 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1902-08
1908-10 Scottdale
1910-12
1912-16 Huntingdon
1916-18 Canal
1918 transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference
Note:
BURTNER, OTTO WHITMORE
Born: 1873
Died: 1951 obit: [1875-1963]
Miller-Raker #: 505
Gibble list: no
1894 license, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1899
1899-00 supply, Scottdale (Allegheny Conference 1900,6)
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-05
1912 no longer listed
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
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 737
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
1968 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1968-70 missionary to
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 Roger Q. Burtner, 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
Died: 9-21-1952 obit: 1947,32
Miller-Raker #: 564
Gibble list: no
1889 quarterly
conference license,
1891 licensed, Virginia Conference
1898 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: 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
1909-11
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
1935-37 Ortanna
1937 retired
1937-40 supply, Gardners-Mt. Victory
BUSHONG, T.F.
Born: married: Flora M. _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1861 license, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
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
Born: 1-12-1943 married: Gloria Umberger
Died: 8-20-1998 obit: [6/9/1933 – 7/16/2006]
Miller-Raker #: 795
Gibble list: no
1962 license,
recommended by Maytown of the
Interment: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey PA
Obit:
1962-64 Gardners-Mt. Victory
1964-65 senior,
1965-67 living in Wellsville
1967 no longer listed
BUTTERWECK, ERVIN HERBERT
Born: 5-5-1874 married: Ella A. Garman
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 license, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1903 referred
1926-27 Cross Roads [
BUTTERWICK, FRANCIS JAMES
Born: 3-14-1846 Mertztown PA married: Mary Jane Shaeffer
Died: 2-22-1921 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1880 license, East German Conference
1882 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1883-86 Landingville circuit
1886-91 Jonestown circuit
1891-94
1894-98
1898-01 Jonestown circuit
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-05
1905-07
1907 retired
Note: Francis J. Butterwick is the father of Robert R. 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
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, East German Conference
1895 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1895-97 Shamokin circuit
1897-98 Reading Fourth [Memorial] [Trinity]
1898-00 Sinking Spring
1900-01
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-06
1906-07 field agent,
1907-08
1908-16 Mountville
1916-21 Hershey First
1921-38 faculty,
1938 retired
Note: Robert R. Butterwick is the son of Francis J. Butterwick.
BYERS, WILLIAM L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889 transfer
to
1889-90
1890-92
Note: Beginning in 1893, William L. Byers is no longer listed in the United Brethren Yearbook.
BYRD, RUDOLPH
Born: 9-15-1859 married: Cornelia Ann Evers Weaver
Died: 10-2-1928 obit: 1940,33
Miller-Raker #: 485
Gibble list: no
1884 quarterly
conference license,
1885 license, Virginia Conference
1887 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Spry PA
Obit: 1928,73
1884-85 Trout Run mission
1885-87 Rockbridge
1887-89
1889-90
1890-92 Toms Brook
1892-95 Berkley Springs circuit
1895 transfer to Maryland Conference
1895-99 Myersville
1899-02
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-04
1904-09 Boiling Springs
1909-12 Shiremanstown
1912-17
1917-20
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.