Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

ARCHIVES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania

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DAMBACH, A.W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1917-19 Brunnerville

1919-25 Columbia circuit

1925-32 Hillsdale circuit

1932-38 Aristes

1938-41 no assignment

1941-42 Enders-Powell’s Valley

Note: A.W. Dambach is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journals under “others employed by the Conference” and no other information is available. This may be Albert Witmer Dambach, born 10/22/1879 to a United Brethren family in Columbia PA.

DARKES, ETHEL MAY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1933 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Mrs. Darkes completed the conference course of study, but she never sought ordination or was assigned to a church.

DAUB [see DOUB]

DAUGHERTY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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

Died: 8-28-1944 Penney Farms FL obit:

Miller-Raker #: 439

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1889 license

1892 ordained

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944,22

1887-89 student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

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

1891-94 Baltimore Fifth

1894-97 Harrisburg Otterbein

1897-06 professor, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1906 transfer to Lower Wabash Conference

1906-11 president, Westfield College at Westfield IL

1911 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1911-34 Lebanon Trinity

1934 retired

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

DAUGHERTY, GEORGE CLINTON

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

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

Miller-Raker #: 555

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1904 quarterly conference license, Dallastown Bethlehem

1909 license

1914 ordained

Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hanover

Obit: 1968,126

1909-11 Spring Run

1911-13 Lemoyne Calvary

1913-20 Greenmount MD

1920-27 Winterstown

1927-45 Hanover Lohr’s

1945-49 Duncannon

1949-55 Jefferson-Greenmount

1955 retired

1956 Winterstown, supply

1963-64 Jefferson-Greenmount

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

DAUGHERTY, JOSEPH

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

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

Miller-Raker #: 438

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1889 license

1892 ordained

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944,14

1891-92 Newville

1892-96 New Cumberland

1896-00 Baltimore Franklin Street

1900-03 Carlisle

1903-07 York First

1907-09 Waynesboro

1909-10 Myerstown, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1910-12 Myerstown

1912-15 Columbia

1915-18 Harrisburg Sixth Street

1918-23 Steelton

1923-29 Elizabethtown

1929-32 Hummelstown

1932 retired

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

DAUGHERTY, JOSEPH B.

Born: 12-18-1826 Williamsport PA married:

Died: 5-3-1899 near Lebanon PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1856 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1859 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1899,38

1856-57 Hummelstown circuit

1857-58 Union County mission

1858-59 Amity circuit

1859-61 Highspire circuit

1861-63 Lancaster circuit

1863-66 Lebanon Salem

1866-67 Columbia Salome

1867-69 Schuylkill Haven circuit

1869 charter member of East German Conference

1869-72 superintendent, Lebanon District

1872-73 Bethlehem circuit

1873-75 Allentown Zion

1875-78 ?

1879-79 Union Deposit circuit

1879-81 ?

1881-84 Grantville circuit

1884-87 superintendent, Susquehanna District

1887-88 ?

1888 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1888-90 Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1890 Florin Glossbrenner (ending 10/31/90)

1890-93 on leave, living in Lebanon

1893-96 Lebanon circuit (English)

1896 retired

Note: Joseph B. Daugherty is the father of Sealon S. Daugherty. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 453, gives a brief biography.

DAUGHERTY, ROBERT MOWERY

Born: 10-16-1930 married: Ruth A. _____

Died: 4-8-2003 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

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

1955 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?

1950-52 student, Lebanon Valley College

1952-55 student, United Theological Seminary

1955-56 Tremont-Barry

1956-64 Broomall Christ [formerly Philadelphia Second]

1964-72 Lebanon Covenant [formerly Lebanon Salem]

1972-79 Lancaster Covenant

1979-85 superintendent, Lebanon-Reading District

1985-86 conference consultant

1986-96 conference council director

1996 retired

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

DAUGHERTY, SAMUEL FRANKLIN

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1896 quarterly conference license, Dallastown

license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906 ordained,

Interment:

Obit:

1896-01 student, Lebanon Valley College at Annville PA

1900-01 Highspire

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03 Highspire

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

1905 transfer to South East Ohio Conference

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

1906-14 Westerville

1914 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1914-19 Annville

1919-20 Columbus Fifth Avenue, Southeast Ohio Conference

1920 transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

Sandusky Conference

Miami Conference

1940 no longer listed in the United Brethren Yearbook

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

DAUGHERTY, SEALON S.

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

Died: 10-17-1913 Elizabethtown PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

quarterly conference license, Avon

1887 license, East German Conference

1891 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Kimmerling Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1914,33

1886-87 Catasauqua circuit

1887-90 Lykens station

1890-95 Cressona circuit

1895-97 Reading First [Zion]

1897-98 Shamokin circuit

1898-01 Berne circuit

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-09 Lititz

1909-13 Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1913 Reading Trinity (died before he began serving)

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

DAUGHERTY, SIMPSON BENDER

Born: 5-5-1891 married: Nan Murray

Died: 6-5-1968 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 577

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1911 quarterly conference license, Baltimore Third

1912 license

1918 ordained

Interment: Greenmount MD

Obit: 1969,207

1912-13 Millers

1913-15 Oakville

1915-20 Hanover Lohr’s

1920-25 Chambersburg First

1925-41 Washington DC Memorial

1941-45 chaplain, US Army

1945-57 Carlisle Grace

1957-61 conference superintendent

1961 retired

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

DAUGHERTY, WILLIAM EMERY

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

Died: 9-16-1927 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 488

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

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

1898 quarterly conference license, Thurmont (Maryland Conference)

1898 license, Maryland Conference

1901 ordained

Interment: Greenmount MD

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1927,10

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

1898 joins Maryland Conference: UB Church

1898-1901 Thurmont MD

1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

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

1903-05 Yoe

1905-08 Shiremanstown

1908-13 Baltimore Third

1913-15 Reading Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1915-17 Reading Trinity

1917-21 Harrisburg First

1921 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1921-22 Hershey First, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1922-23 Hershey First

1923-27 Coatesville

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

DAVIDSON, ANDREW

Born: 7-11-1849 England married:

Died: 6-3-1928 Pittsburgh PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 198

Gilbble list: no

1880 quarterly conference license

1882 license, Allegheny Conference

1885 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Curwensville Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1828,58

1881-83 Lycippus

1883-84 Fallen Timber

1884-86 Burnside

1886-88 South Williamsport

1888-91 Three Springs

1891-94 Woodland

1896-98 Johnstown Park Avenue

1898-02 Wilmore

1902-05 Bellefonte

1905-06 Madison

1906-07 New Brighton

1907-11 Bellwood

1911-16 Hollsopple

1916 retired

1918-19 Rochester Mills (6 months)

1919-20 Industry (7 months)

1920-23 Sewickley

DAVIS, DAVID J.

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 358

Gibble list: no

1908 licensed, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1904-05 Lemont

1907-11 South Williamsport

1911 open transfer, page 88

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

DAVIS, FREDERICK W.

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

Died: 3-?-1945 Altoona PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1921 ordained, East Ohio Conference

Interment: Alto Rest Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945,64

1912-18 missionary, China

1918-21 ?

1921 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1921-27 Greensburg

1927-31 Scottdale

1931-34 Johnstown First

1934-45 Altoona Second

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

DAY, KEITH EDWIN

Born: 11-6-1930 married:

Died: 12-27-1986 Virginia obit:

Miller-Raker #: 799

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1951 license, West Virginia Conference: recommended by Parkersburg First

1958 ordained, West Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1951-52 Edinburg VA

1952-55 Huntingdon Z. Warner

1955-58 Arlington OH

1958-59 Benington

1969-61 Phillipi

1961-62 Nitro

1962 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1962-67 Carlisle Grace, assistant

1967-69 Charles City MD

1969 located

DEAVEN, HARRY W.

Born: 3-5-1916 married: Ellen Simko

Died: 4-2-1974 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1936 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1941 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1974,?

1941-42 Hummelstown circuit

1942-49 Steelton

1949-59 Lebanon Trinity

1959 transfer to Ohio Miami Conference

DEBOLD, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1825 license (?, see Note)

Interment:

Obit:

1834 name erased, page 34

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

DECKARD, MARSHALL G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1956 temporary license 1956, 36 & 45 & 74

Interment:

Obit:

1956-57 Upper Strasburg

DEHOFF, JACOB

Born: 4-2-1768 married:

Died: 3-18-1834 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 54

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1805 license

1815 ordained

Interment: Leitersburg MD

Obit:

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, gives a brief biography.

DEHOFF, JOHN

Born: 5-10-1765 married:

Died: 5-11-1844 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 138

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1828 license

1830 ordained

Interment: Greenmount MD

Obit: 1845,60

DEIBLER, WALTER E.

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

Died: 1-28-1976 Lancaster PA obit: [d. March 1947]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1914 quarterly conference license, Reigel’s

1920 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1925 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1976,527

1920-26 Paradise

1926-30 Lebanon Memorial

1930-43 Highspire

1943-46 chaplain, US Navy

1946-56 Pine Grove

1956-70 Columbia Salome

1970 retired

1970-71 Columbia Salome

DEITRICH, PHILIP E.

Born: 12-9-1838 Chambersburg married:

Died: 11-25-1903 Harrisburg obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 174

Gibble list: yes

1875 quarterly conference license, Altoona

1876 license, Allegheny Conference

1878 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania 1904,24

1876-78 Conemaugh Valley charge

1878-82 living in Harrisburg, attending Harrisburg Memorial

1882 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1878-03 living in Harrisburg, attending Harrisburg Memorial

Note: Philip E, Deitrich may be a brother to Samuel K. Deitrich.

DEITRICH, SAMUEL K.

Born: 3-24-1836 married:

Died: 1-26-1873 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 313

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1858 license

1871 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Harrisburg PA

Obit:

1857-58 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1859-60 Orrstown circuit

1869 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: Samuel K. Deitrich may be a brother to Philip Deitrich.

DEITRICH, WESLEY

Born: 1827 married:

Died: 3-19-1896 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1855 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1858 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East German Conference 1896,41

1855-56 Hummelstown circuit

1856-57 Sinking Spring circuit

1857-58 Northumberland mission

1858-60 West Branch circuit

1860-62 Dauphin circuit

? transfer to East German Conference

1885-86 Middleburg circuit

Note: This surname is also rendered DIETRICH.

DEITZLER, JONATHAN C.

Born: 1-13-1887 married: Elsie Sterner

Died: 3-15-1969 Annville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 578

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1909 license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Conference 1969,116

1909-10 Littlestown mission

1910-12 student, Annville Academy

1912 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference 1912,50

1912-16 student, Lebanon Valley College

1913-14 Jefferson

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

1917 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference 1917,52

1917-18 Shamokin circuit

1918-20 Mt. Carmel

1920-22 Lykens Valley circuit

1922-25 Tower City

1925-26 Manor circuit

1926-33 Florin

1933-35 Pottstown-Birdsboro

1935-38 Hummelstown circuit

1938-39 Royalton

1939-51 Catawissa circuit

1951-57 Bellegrove circuit

1957 retired

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

DENIG, JOHN

Born: 6-25-1793 married:

Died: 8-1-1863 York PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 258

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1842 license

1854 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1864,93

Note: John Denig was the editor of the 1858 “Autobiography of Rev. Samuel Huber.”

DENLINGER, H.F.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1889 honorable discharge

DENLINGER, HARRY T.

Born: 7-5-1857 Millersville PA married:

Died: 3-31-1931 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 583

Fulton #: 238

Gibble list: yes

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Stehman’s, Millersville PA

Obit: 1931,42

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

1888-89 Tyrone, Allegheny Conference

1889-90 Williamsport, Allegheny Conference

1890 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1890-93 Williamsport

1893-95 Penbrook, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1895-98 Penbrook

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

1898-01 Sugar Valley, Allegheny Conference

1901 withdrew irregularly from the denomination 1901,4

1901-02 Sugar Valley, Allegheny Conference

1902-12 Unicorn [southern Lancaster County], Baptist

1912-13 Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference

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

1913-14 Lemasters

1914-16 Biglerville

1916 local, page 77

DESENBERG, LEON LENHART

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

Died: 5-1-1977 obit: 1985,405

Miller-Raker #: 721

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1938 quarterly conference license, Emigsville

1950 license

1955 ordained

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York

Obit: 1977,257

1952-55 Gettysburg Salem

1955-60 Red Lion circuit

1960-66 Red Lion Zion

1966 retired

1966-76 Pine Grove [Leader’s Heights]

DETWILER, PETER C.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1872 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1873-74 Shamokin First

1889 license returned

DETWILER, WILLIAM H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1871 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1875 name erased

DEVOR, BASIL J.

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

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 173 [J.B. Devor]

Gibble list: no

1875 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1880 name erased (October)

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

1861-65 mercantile business, Shirleysburg

1865-71 store owner/operator, Mount Union

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

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

1878 lawyer, Mount Union

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

DEWINNI, DANIEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 149

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1829 license

Interment:

Obit:

1831-31 Huntingdon circuit

1832 dismissed

Note: Should this be rendered Daniel Devinney?

DICK, WILLIAM B.

Born: c1820 married: Virginia Jane Caldwell

Died: 1871 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 72

Gibble list: no

1850 license, Allegheny Conference

1852 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1872, 24

1850-51 Ligioner

1851-53 Washington

1853-54 Allegheny City

1854-57 superintendent, West District

1857-59 Mount Pleasant station

1859-60 Altoona

1860-62 Madison

1862-64 Westmoreland

DICKSON, JOHN

Born: 6-15-1820 married: Mary Jane Adair

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

Miller-Raker #: 284

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1845 quarterly conference license, Littlestown

1847 license

1850 ordained

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1907,95

1846-47 Perry circuit

1847-49 Carlisle circuit

1849-50 Hershey’s station

1850-51 Big Spring circuit

1851-54 Chambersburg station

1854-56 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1856-57 Big Spring circuit

1857-61 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1861-62 Orrstown station

1862-66 Chambersburg station

1866-67 Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits

1867-68 Greencastle circuit

1868-69 Big Spring station & Plainfield circuit

1869-93 bishop

1893 retired

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

DICKSON, WILLIAM ADAIR

Born: 8-19-1850 Big Spring married:

Died: 3-20-1921 Chambersburg obit:

Miller-Raker #: 375

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1872 quarterly conference license, Chambersburg First

1874 license, Miami Conference

1877 ordained

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg

Obit: 1921,70

1874-75 Orrstown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1875 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1875-76 Orrstown circuit

1876-78 Rocky Spring circuit

1878 Greencastle station (resigned Oct 1878)

1879-82 Newburg circuit

1882-83 Newville

1883-84 Shippensburg

1884-85 Orrrstown

1886-92 UB Publishing House, Dayton OH

1892-98 living in Chambersburg

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

1899-08 Dillsburg

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

1909-12 Carlisle circuit

1912-18 Scotland

1918-20 Shiremanstown

Note: William is the son of John Dickson.

DIETER, HAROLD H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1923-24 Northampton circuit

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

DIETRICH, GLENN MARK

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

Died: 3-21-2010 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1951 license, recommended by Ephrata First

1956 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010,163

1956-59 Brunnerville

1959-66 Halifax Otterbein

1966-70 Harrisburg Park Street

1970 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-76 Harrisburg Park Street

1976-84 York Calvary

1984-90 Harrisburg Derry Street

1990-93 Chambersburg Park Avenue

1993-98 York Otterbein

1998 retired

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

2006-10 Windsor Grace

DILLER, OLIVER F.

Born: 1848 married:

Died: 12-14-1925 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1890-92 York Springs

1893-94 Bendersville

DILLER, SIMON

Born: 1840 married:

Died: 12-29-1916 near Franklintown PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 302

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1871 license

1891 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

Interment:

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

1875-77 Carlisle Springs circuit

1877-81 Dover circuit

1881-82 located

1882-83 Yocumtown circuit

1883-90 living in Clear Spring, York County

1890 transfer to UBOC denomination 1890,10

1890-91 York Springs circuit

1891-92 Dillsburg

1892-93 Mechanicsburg

1893-94 York Springs circuit

1894-95 Shippensburg

1895-97 Mechanicsburg

1897-99 Littlestown mission

1899-03 presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1903-06 inactive, living in Dillsburg RD

1906 withdrew 1906,6

Note: Simon Diller is the son of "Rev. Samuel Diller, who built the South Mountain Union Church in 1867."

DIMERLING, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 122

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1825 license

Interment:

Obit:

DINGER, LEROY W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1942-43 Northampton circuit

Note: Leroy W. Dinger is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journal under “others employed by the Conference.” This may be Leroy Wilson Dinger (2/28/1917 – 9/7/1973) of Lancaster County who married Helen Elizabeth Mann (2/23/1915 – 5/31/1989).

DISSINGER, HENRY

Born: 10-19-1819 married:

Died: 8-25-1887 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1871 license, East German Conference

1881 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Reinholdsville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1887,10

1867-69 Sinking Spring circuit

1870-71 Neffsville Long Memorial

1884-85 Hopeland circuit

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

DISSINGER, WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1871 license, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1868-69 Sinking Spring circuit

1869-70 Bellegrove circuit

1870-71 Middleburg circuit

1871-73 Germanville [Valley View] circuit

1874 transfer to

DITTERS, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 201

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1835 license

Interment:

Obit:

DOERKSON, JACOB

Born: 1823 married:

Died: 8-28-1891 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Baltimore MD

Obit: East German Conference 1891,45

1852-53 Millheim circuit

1853-54 Union County circuit

1854-55 Lykens Valley circuit

1855-57 Union County Circuit

1857-58 Lebanon circuit

1859-61 ?

1861-62 Lancaster circuit

1862-63 Pine Grove circuit

1863-64 Hummelstown circuit

? transfer to East German Conference

1873-77 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1877-81 Baltimore Fulton Avenue

1881-90 ?

1890-91 Baltimore Fulton Avenue

DOHNER, HIRAM B.

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1878 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

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

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1906,30

1877-80 Jacksonville circuit

1880-81 ?

1881-82 Schuykill Haven station

1882-84 York Second

1884-86 Mountville station

1886-88 conference instructor, Sunday School Normal Course

1888-91 presiding elder, Harrisburg or Lancaster District

1891-93 presiding elder, Conference

1893-94 Philadelphia St. Paul

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

1897-01 agent, Lebanon Valley College

1901-03 Reading Trinity

1904-05 Landingville circuit

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

DONAHUE, JAMES

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 96

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1820 license

Interment:

Obit:

1820-21 Virginia circuit

Note: This surname appears in many variations, including DANAHOW and DUNAHOO – and the given name appears in some records as JACOB.

DOUB, JACOB

Born: 11-22-1771 Frederick MD married:

Died: 8-27-1838 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1824-25 Augusta circuit

Note: Jacob Doub is a first cousin to Jacob Bowlus. He is also the brother of the Valentine Doub who married Esther Kemp, the daughter of the Peter Kemp in whose home the United Brethren denomination was formed in 1800. This surname also appears as DAUB. This may be the Jacob Doub who served the Bedford Methodist Episcopal circuit in the Baltimore Conference 1827-28.

DOYLE, GEORGE ALTAIR

Born: 1863 married:

Died: 1905 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1887-89 Springfield circuit

1889 honorable dismissal

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

DOYLE, MARTIN PATRICK

Born: 1838 Ireland married: Ellen V. _____

Died: 1916 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 127

Gibble list: yes

1863 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon County PA

Obit:

1863-64 Schellsburg

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

1865-69 Altoona

1869-71 superintendent, East District

1871-75 Johnstown mission station

1875-76 Huntingdon mission station

1877-79 Juniata

1879-1881 Mt. Joy, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1881-85 Lebanon Trinity

1885-88 Reading Otterbein

1889 surrender license

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

DRAKSEL, see TROXEL

DRESBACH, SIMON

Born: married: _____ Bowman

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 120

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1825 license

1827 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1828-29 Lebanon circuit

1844-45 Carlisle circuit

1846-47 Highspire circuit

1851-52 Highspire circuit

1865 transfer

Note: This surname is also rendered DREISBACH and DRESSBACH. The Eberly-Albright-Brane 1911 Landmark History, page 61, gives a brief biography.

DRUCKENBROD, FRANK E.

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1924 quarterly conference license, Ruhl’s

1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Cambridge PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 61

1924-26 Brunnerville

1926-47 Pequea

1947 retired

DUCKWALT, FREDERICK

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 51

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1805 license

Interment:

Obit:

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

DUCKWALT, LUDWIG

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 42

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1801 license

1802 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

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

DUENNEBIER, H.D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1892 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1895 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1892-93 Baltimore Seventh

1895 transfer

DUITSCHER, HANNAH

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1912 ordained deaconess 1912,33

Interment:

Obit: 1935,28

Note: She is described as “for many years a faithful deaconess of our Fulton Avenue Church, Baltimore.”

DUMA, JOHN

Born: 1-12-1749 married:

Died: 1832 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 165

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1831 license

Interment:

Obit:

DUNDORE, SAMUEL THOMAS

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

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

1922 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: 1972,388

1917-19 student, Lebanon Valley College

1919-22 student, United Theological Seminary

1922-25 Elizabethville

1925-33 Mountville

1933-49 Millersburg

1949-62 Elizabethtown

1962 retired

1962-66 visitation pastor, Harrisburg Market Square Presbyterian

1966-67 Manada Hill

1967-70 Steelton Grace

1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-71 Steelton Grace

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

DUNDORE, MABLE LUCILLE MORRISON

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

Died: 2-20-1988 obit: 1972,388

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1923 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1923 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: 1988, 407

1922-23 deaconess, Canton First

1923 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1962 retired

1966-67 Manada Hill

1967-70 Steelton Grace

1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-76 Steelton Grace

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

DUNHAM, JOHN HENRY

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1911 quarterly conference license

1921 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1926 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

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

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1947,27

1919-29 Mount Carmel

1929-39 Catawissa

1939-44 Aristes

1944-47 Florin Glossbrenner

DUNKELBERGER, ALLEN

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

Died: 1-20-1936 Dayton OH obit: Miami Conference 1905.65

Miller-Raker #: 402 married2: Laura Bowman

Fulton #: no obit2: Miami Conference 1922,30

Gibble list: yes

1879 license, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: Miami Conference 1936,40

1879-80 Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1880 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

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

1881 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1881-82 Yocumtown circuit

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

1882-86 student, Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton OH

1886 transfer to Miami Conference

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

DUNKELBERGER, EDWIN E.

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

Died: 8-14-1959 Harrisburg PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 476

Gibble list: no

license, Evangelical Church

1928 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Union Cemetery, Richfield PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB) 1960,88

Western Pennsylvania Conference 1960,32

1923 transfer to the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1923-26 Waukesha

1926-30 Orbisonia

1930-34 Middleburg

1934-36 Altoona Schum Memorial and Altoona Wehnwood

1936-37 Altoona Schum Memorial

1937-42 South Williamsport

1942-46 Mapleton

1946-51 retired

1949-51 Middleburg

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

1951-52 Middleburg

1952-54 Mifflin

1954 retired

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

DUNWOODY, RICHARD GEORGE

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

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

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1953 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1957 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984,374

1953-57 Cressona–Landingville

1957-63 Lebanon Kochenderfer’s

1963-84 Penbrook Grace

DURKES, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 144

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1829 license

Interment:

Obit:

1832 transfer