Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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

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Pennsylvania United Brethren Pastors. Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all the pastors for that letter. The instructions file gives information about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.

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LACKEY, ALEXANDER

Born: 5-21-1825 Perry County PA married:

Died: 9-18-1875 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 359

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1870 quarterly conference license

1871 license

1874 ordained

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit: 1876,12

1871-73 Shippensburg circuit

1873-75 Pine Grove mission

1875 ill

Note: Rev. Lackey held an exhorter’s license for 20 years and was a class leader for 20 years before entering the itinerancy. The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 123, gives a brief biography.

LAMEY, WILLIAM

Born: 8-16-1839 Venango County PA married: Fayetta Heckman

Died: 2-13-1924 obit: [9/29/1838 – 4/10/1908]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1880 license, East German Conference

1883 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Chapman’s Quarries, Northampton County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1924,17

1874-75 Middleburg circuit

1880-81 Conewago circuit

1881-83 Paxinos circuit

1883-84 Freeburg circuit

1884-85 Millheim circuit

1885-87 Northampton circuit

1887-88 Catasaqua circuit

1888-90 Landingville circuit

1890-92 Lykens Valley circuit

1892-94 Sinking Spring circuit

1894-96 Lehigh Valley circuit

1896-98 Susquehanna circuit

1898 retired

Note: Mrs. Lamey was first married to Adam F. Shaffer [Shaeffer], who died at age 23 leaving her with two small children.

LANDIS, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1850 quarterly conference license, Union Deposit

1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1869 name erased

Note: George Landis was dismissed along with George W. Hoffman and others involved in the United Christian split. Although George Landis was a part of that movement, he did not become a minister in the United Christian Church.

LANDIS, HENRY W.

Born: 2-17-1807 married:

Died: 1864 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference (manuscript) 1864,169

1852-53 Berks County circuit

1853-55 Millheim circuit

1855-56 Halifax circuit

1856-57 Lykens Valley circuit

1857-58 Sinking Spring circuit

1858-59 ?

1859-60 Schuylkill Haven circuit

1860-62 Hummelstown circuit

LANDIS, JOHN

Born: 4-29-1829 married:

Died: 8-4-1908 near East Salem PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1875 license, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908,67

1890 transfer to Allegheny Conference

Note: Details on John Landis are sketchy. Even though his obituary appears in the Allegheny Conference journal, his name is not in Fulton’s list of conference members. He appears to have been a shoemaker, and a very active local pastor that officiated at many weddings and funerals. The Pfoutz Valley congregation is said to be the result of one of his early revival meetings.

LANDIS, ROBERT C.

Born: married: Ruth E. _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1858 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1961 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1958-61 student, United Theological Seminary

1959-61 assistant, Vandalia OH

1961-62 assistant, Vandalia OH

1962-03 extension ministry, Red Bird Missionary Conference

1962-63 Jack’s Creek Center

1963-70 Bowen’s Creek

1970-76 Jack’s Creek

1976-03 Evarts

2003 retired

LANTZ, WILBER FRANKLIN

Born: 6-29-1930 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 752

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1955 license, recommended by Waynesboro

1960 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1955-57 Gettysburg-Salem

1957-60 student, United Theological Seminary

1957-60 assistant, Normandy (Miami Ohio Conference)

1960-61 Mont Alto

1961-63 Lemoyne Calvary (until June 1963)

1963 transferred to ministry in the United Church of Christ, page 89

Note: As of 2003, Rev. W. Franklin Lantz was serving St. Stephens UCC in Reading PA.

LaPRAIRIE, LARRY LYNN

Born: 10-14-1939 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 796

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1962 license, recommended by Pleasant Grove Church of York Haven charge

Interment:

Obit:

1962-63 student, Indiana Central College

Note: Larrry L. LaPrairie never entered the ministry. He worked for 18 years as the executive director of the Margaret Moul Home in York PA and moved to Arizona in 1983. He is currently a lay leader at Valley Cathedral (non-denominational). More information is in the biographical file. As of 2003, Larry L. LaPrairie owns LaPrairie Painting, 8130 E. Mulberry Street, Scottsdale AZ. O:602-721-2777 H:480-949-1466

LAUVER, MARLIN HENRY

Born: 8-12-1917 married: Gladys Gable

Died: 10-10-2000 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 744

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1953 license

1956 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 2001,?

1953 transfer from Mennonite Church, page 67

1953-57 Mt. Tabor

1957-59 Emigsville

1959-61 Lemoyne Calvary

1961-63 Windsor

1963-64 supernumerary

1964-71 Newburg

1971 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1971-77 Myersville circuit

1977-82 Union Bridge

1982 retired

Note: Mrs. Lauver is the daughter of Walter Gable and the sister of Henry Gable.

LAWSON, MOSES SR.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 132

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1828 license

1830 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1835-36 Juniata circuit

1938-39 Westmoreland circuit

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1840 dropped

Note: Moses Lawson is assumed to be the father of Moses Lawson Jr. [That may not be true, as sometimes persons with the same name were designated "senior" and "junior" in the conference rolls in order to distinguish between them.]

LAWSON, MOSES JR.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 223

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1837 license

Interment:

Obit:

1838-39 Westmoreland circuit

1841 “withdrawn from the Church under charges”, page 46

Note: Moses Lawson Jr. is assumed to be the son of Moses Lawson Sr.

LEACH, LESTER MARSHALL

Born: 2-4-1899 married: Susannah Randall

Died: 5-6-1932 Africa obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1921 license, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit: Virginia Conference 1932,13

1922-25 student, Lebanon Valley College

1922-25 Hillsdale circuit

1925-28 ?

1928-29 Franklin

1929-32 missionary in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone

Note: Lester M. Leach was killed by lightning. Mrs. Lester M. Leach was licensed by the Virginia Conference in 1928.

LEACOCK, WILLIAM J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 321

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

[1860 license]

1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1860-61 Lebanon Salem

1861 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1861-62 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1862 withdrew

LEARISH, ELMER BURTON

Born: 4-6-1886 Wallaceton PA married: Mary Ina Harley

Died: 9-5-1948 Philipsburg PA obit: [3/4/1891 – 11/3/1989]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 378

Gibble list: no

1908 quarterly conference license, Woodland

1910 license, Allegheny Conference

1911 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Minnich Cemetery, Union OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,71

1909-11 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1910 Center, Sandusky Conference (3 months)

1911 Orbisonia (4 months)

1911-15 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1912 Lexington, North Illinois Conference (3 months)

1915-19 Braddock

1919-22 Altoona Second

1922-26 Scottdale

1926-29 Philipsburg

1929-36 Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1936-46 conference superintendent

1946-47 Madison

1947-48 Philipsburg

LEBO, JOHN R.

Born: 7-17-1936 married: Darlene _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 755

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1956 license

1961 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1961-64 Hagerstown St. Paul’s, associate

1964-70 Spry Otterbein

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-82 Hagerstown Otterbein

1982-96 Bel Air

1996 retired

LEE, CHARLES

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1928-29 Tremont St. Johns

Note: Charles Lee is listed under “others employed by the conference” and as living in Annville. This typically denotes a Lebanon Valley student, but Charles Lee is not listed in the LVC alumni records. He was likely an LVC student who did not graduate from that institution.

LEE, GEORGE A.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 336

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1865 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1865-66 Mountville St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference

1866-67 Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1867 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68 Shamokin circuit

1871 name erased

LEECH, EDWARD W.

Born: 10-20-1878 Baltimore MD married: Edna May Swindel

Died: 9-4-1970 York PA obit: 1945,33

Miller-Raker #: 503 married2: Myrtle Kiser

Fulton #: no obit2: 1963,45

Gibble list: no

1902 license, recommended by Baltimore Scott Street 1902,12

1906 ordained

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: 1970,357

1897-02 Brooklyn MD, independent Methodist

1902-04 Springett

1904-07 Greencastle

1907-11 New Cumberland

1911-33 Baltimore Franklin Street

1933-52 York Fourth

1952-56 Greenmount MD

1956 retired

LEFEVER, LLOYD STEIGERWALT

Born: 1-23-1911 married:

Died: 9-2-1995 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1964 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Covenant

1966 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1963-64 Newton

1964-66 Lickdale circuit

1966-67 Lykens

1967-69 Rocherty-Fontana

1969-70 Oregon

1970-73 Conestoga

1973-76 on leave

1976 retired

LEFEVRE, MARY DAUGHERTY

Born: 12-9-1894 married: Rufus H. Lefever [8/20/1919]

Died: 6-26-1963 York PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1921 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Steelton Centenary

1923 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1964,119

1922-23 Wagner Chapel, Dayton OH

1923-27 missionary to China

1928 Westerlo NY

1930-32 religious education work, Ithaca NY

1934-36 religious work, Snyder NY

pastor, Zion UCC in Buffalo NY

director of religious education, Presbyterian Church in Tamaqua PA

Note: Mary Daugherty LeFevre is the daughter of Joseph Daugherty.

LEFEVRE, RUFUS H.

Born: 2-25-1895 married: Mary Daugherty

Died: 6-?-1974 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 656

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

? license, ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1923-27 missionary to China

1928 transfer to Geneva Presbytery in New York state 1928,51

1947 professor of biology, Sampson College in Sampson NY

1956 Hopewell Presbyterian Church, York County PA

Note: Rufus H. Lefever received an A.B. from Lebanon Valley College in 1917 and a B.D. from Bonebrake [United] Seminary. The 1927 journal, page 61, states “We recommend that Rev. Rufus H. Lefever be received into the conference subject to proper credentials from the Miami Conference, which are in the mails.” Rev. Lefever appears to have been a denominational official at Dayton involved with missions. There is much correspondence between him and J. Stuart Innerst among the latter’s material at the University of California at San Diego, and material among the E.V. Cowdry papers at the Becker library of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Also a noted ornithologist, Rufus is a brother to United Brethren missionary Miss Myrtle M. Lefever, who served over 25 years in China and Hong Kong.

LEHMAN, ADAM

Born: 11-20-1732 married: Anna M. Steltz

Died: 8-?-1823 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 6

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1789 original member at the first conference

Interment: Doubs Cemetery, Frederick County MD

Obit:

Note: Adam Lehman attended the conference of 1789, 1791 and 1800. His daughter Mary married Peter Kemp. Miller’s 1969 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography.

LEHMAN, AMOS

Born: 8-30-1850 Reading PA married:

Died: 4-5-1917 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

? license, Church of God

Interment: Charles Evan Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917,38

Church of God

Schaefferstown

McKeansburg

Valley View

1879-81 Landingville circuit, East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1881 transfer to East German Conference

1881-82 Williams Valley circuit

1882-84 Susquehanna circuit

1884-87 Lykens Valley circuit

1887-89 Schuylkill Haven circuit

1889-94 Lebanon circuit

1894-97 Williamstown

1897-01 Reading Salem

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03 Reading Salem

1903-05 Denver Trinity

1905-07 Florin Glossbrenner

1907-08 Bern circuit

1908-11 Lebanon Memorial

1911-15 Palmyra Second

1915-16 Pine Grove

LEHMAN, ARTHUR SYLVESTER

Born: 7-7-1878 Killinger PA married: Carrie May Wert

Died: 12-21-1936 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1951,29

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1910 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937,14

1901-03 East Harrisburg circuit

1903-07 Manheim

1907-10 student, Bonebrake Seminary

1907-08 Bowlusville OH

1908-10 First Presbyterian/Belmont Mission Station, Dayton OH

1910-25 Hummelstown

1925-36 Harrisburg Derry Street

Note: Arthur S. Lehman is the son of William H. Lehman.

LEHMAN, HARRY DICKSON

Born: 3-11-1863 West Fairview PA married:

Died: 7-11-1899 Royalton PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1886 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1899,39

1886-88 Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1888-92 Royalton [a.k.a. Middletown Centennial Chapel]

1892-95 Reading Otterbein

1895-96 Royalton, unable to serve because of health

1898-99 Royalton

Note: The Royalton charge included Elizabethtown (1888-91) and Falmouth (1888-89; 1891-1901).

LEHMAN, JOHN HARRISON

Born: 12-20-1892 Starview, York County married: Dora Isabel Fry

Died: 5-9-1967 Carlisle obit: 1930, 61

Miller-Raker #: 592 married 2: Louise Steinmetz

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1914 quarterly conference license, Starview

1915 license

1919 ordained

Interment: Union Cemetery, Starview PA

Obit: 1967, 230

1915-17 Jefferson

1917-21 Rayville

1921-26 Greenmount

1926-35 Lemoyne

1935-52 Yoe

1952-61 Boiling Springs

1961 retired

1961-65 Dillsburg Mt Zion

1965-67 Cline’s

LEHMAN, WILLIAM HEINRICH

Born: 9-1-1851 near Curtin PA married: Emma E. Deibler

Died: 3-18-1936 Millersburg PA obit: [Oct 1849 – before Apr 1930]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1899 license, East German Conference

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1936,13

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: William H. Lehman is the father of Arthur S. Lehman. Curtin is a village in Mifflin township, Dauphin County. William H. Lehman was a lifelong member of Riegels. He did not itinerate, but served as a local preacher in the Lykens Valley.

LEHR, CONRAD O.

Born: 2-14-1852 married: _____ Fry

Died: 5-8-1908 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1949,24

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1888 license, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1889-92 Middleburg circuit

1892-93 Lehigh Valley circuit

1893-95 Susquehanna circuit

1895-01 Valley View circuit

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02 Lehigh Valley circuit

1902-05 Northampton circuit

Note: Conrad O. Lehr died while a local elder living in Allentown. There was no conference obituary.

LEIBOLD, TITUS JAMES

Born: 6-28-1891 married:

Died: 1-?-1967 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1908 quarterly conference license, Reading Salem

1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1911-12 Birdsboro Grace

1912-16 living in Reading

1916 transfer to Michigan Conference

1916-17 Walloon Lake

1917-18 Chase

1918-19 Casco

1919-20 Branch

1920 transfer to East Ohio Conference

1925 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-27 Shamokin circuit

1927-29 Catawissa

1929-30 Enders

1930-39 living in Reading

1939-53 living in Harrisburg

1953 license revoked, page 55

Note: Titus J. Leibold graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1912. After 1930, he is listed with an S.T.D. degree and classified as a local elder. The 1947 LVC alumni record calls him a “United Brethren minister,” but there is no record of any service. He lived near Otterbein Church, but his name is not on their rolls. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 400, says of his father: "A sainted name of Salem Church is that of Frank J. Leibold, who was a trustee and class leader and served as Sunday School superintendent for twenty-five years.” This surname is also rendered Liebold.

LEICHLITER, JOHN L.

Born: 9-28-1865 near Springfield PA married: Alice Brooks

Died: 4-1-1914 obit: [d. 1886]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Emma Gould

Fulton #: 219 obit2:

Gilbble list: no

1885 quarterly conference license

1887 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1914,81

1887-88 Newberg

Rockwood

Moxham

Dubois

Tyrone

Wilkinsburg

Johnstown Barron Avenue

Westmoreland

1909 relocated for health reasons

1909-13 Fitzgerald GA

1913-14 Lutz & Lochwylda FL

LEISTER, JOHN MAURICE

Born: married: Mary Ella Mutch [1923]

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 381

Gibble list: no

1910 license, Allegheny Conference

1919 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1911-15 student, Lebanon Valley College

1911-12 Lebanon circuit

1912-13 Pottstown Baltzell

1915-17 Sewickley

1917-19 Wyano

1919-22 Trafford

1922 granted an open transfer, page 89

Western Theological Seminary

pastor, Presbyterian Church in Burnham PA

pastor, First Presbyterian Church in Rural Valley PA

Note: Mrs. Leister is the daughter of Charles A. Mutch.

LENGLE, BLANCHE CHRISTINA

Born: 5-1-1896 married:[never maried]

Died: 9-23-1982 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 689

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1930 quarterly conference license, Lancaster Otterbein

1931 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Cedar Lane Cemetery, Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1983,331

1931-34 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1935-39 assistant/deaconess, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1939 transferred to Pennsylvania Conference

1939-46 assistant/deaconess, Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1946-48 assistant, Lancaster Covenant

1948 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 96

1948-53 assistant, Lancaster Covenant

1953 transfer to Miami OH Conference

1953-55 CE director, Dayton OH Belmont

1955 transfer to East Pennslyvania Conference

1955-61 local pastor living in Bausman PA

1961-63 assistant, Daytona Beach FL First Methodist

1963 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1963-65 CE director, Camp Hill Presbyterian

1965 retires to Lancaster, no longer listed in any conference

1965-66 Boehm’s Methodist?

NOTE: Rev. Lengle is considered a pioneer in the struggle for women’s clergy rights. Apparently because of her gender, she was denied assignment as a regularly-appointed pastor in charge – and where, when, and in what capacity she served are not always clear. The above timeline is the best that can reconstructed from the resources at hand. There is an article “Miss Blinn and My Life Decision” by Blanche C. Lengle in The Evangel for December 1920, page 359.

LENTZ, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1899-01 Green Point

Note: George Lentz is otherwise unknown. See Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 296.

LEONARD, RICHARD DAVID

Born: 7-8-1934 Harrisburg PA married: Irene Marzolf

Died: 11-11-200 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 747

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1953 temporary license, page 67

1954 license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary

1959 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2006, 419

1952-56 student, Lebanon Valley College

1953-56 Fishing Creek Salem

1956-59 student, United Seminary

1959-61 Quincy

1961-69 Boiling Springs

1969-74 Chambersburg First, assistant

1974-84 Lock Haven Trinity

1984-90 State College St. John’s

1990-96 Northumberland Christ

1996-98 Airville Salem

1998-99 disability

1999 retired

LESHER, JAMES M.

Born: 9-23-1857 Freeburg PA married: Eleanor Parks

Died: 7-24-1924 obit: Allegheny Conference 1922,126

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 239

Gibble list: yes

1878 quarterly conference license

1880 license, East German Conference

1882 ordained, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924,67

1878-79 Susquehanna

1879-81 Middletown

1881-82 Landingville circuit

1882-83 Tamaqua circuit

1883-88 missionary, Sierra Leone

1888-89 Wilkinsburg

1889 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1889-90 Wilkinsburg

1890-92 Greensburg

1892-94 Pitcairn and Wilmerding

1894-96 Copeland and East Pittsburgh

1897-97 East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding

1897-98 McKeesport First

1898-01 Conemaugh

1901 retired from the active ministry to Pitcairn, entered the lumber business

1901-02 Wilmerding

1906-07 McKeesport Fawcett

1907-09 Somerset

Note: This name also appears in the records as John M. Lesher.

LESHER, THOMAS

Born: 4-10-1812 married: Polly Bowman

Died: 8-14-1894 obit: [5/4/1819 – 1/8/1900]

Miller-Raker #: 269

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1844 license

1847 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Union Deposit Cemetery, Union Deposit PA

Obit:

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51 Halifax circuit

1870 withdrew to join the United Christian Church of George W. Hoffman

Note: Thomas Lesher appears to have functioned mostly as a local preacher on the Union Deposit circuit. He is the father of Rev Jacob B. Lesher (1852-1923[1932?]) of the United Christian Church

LEWIS, MILLARD M.

Born: 11-8-1909 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1934 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1925-26 Manada Hill

1935-37 Williamstown

Note: Millard M. Lewis is listed as a local elder living in Shamokin until granted a certificate of recommendation to the Evangelical Congregational Church 1952,58.

LEWIS, WILLIAM B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 211

Fulton #: 14

Gibble list: yes

1835 license

1843 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1847 transfer “to any conference he may wish”

NOTE: Rev. Lewis appears to have attended the conferences and progressed to ordination without making himself available to serve without reserve, and so he apparently was not given an itinerant appointment as per his own request. The Miami Conference reports the death of a William R. Lewis in 1850.

LICK, ARTZ SAMUEL

Born: 4-17-1910 Lebanon PA married: Grace Mae Heisey

Died: obit: 1984,390

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1932 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Memorial

1934 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: St. John’s UMC Cemetery, Hegins PA

Obit: 1982,381

1934-38 Lickdale

1938-39 Olive Chapel, Oklahoma Conference

1939 transfer to Oklahoma Conference, page 27

1939-41 Stillwater

1941-43 Omaha Harford Memorial, Nebraska Conference

1943 transfer to Nebraska Conference

1943-47 Kearney First

1947 transfer to Missouri Conference

1947-51 Kansas City First

1951-53 Excelsior Springs Barbee Memorial Presbyterian Church

1953 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1953-56 Harrisburg First

1956-64 Allentown Zion

1964-67 Schaefferstown-Kleinfeltersville

1967-70 Hegins-Barry

1970-76 Hegins

1976 retired

LIGHT, CASPER

Born: 9-7-1804 married: Mary Light

Died: 8-2-1857 obit: [2/26/1803 – 11/26/1866]

Miller-Raker #: 184

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1833 license

1835 ordained

Interment: Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1858, 99

1842-45 presiding elder, Lebanon district

1845-46 Lebanon circuit

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-47 presiding elder, Lebanon district

1850-51 presiding elder, Lancaster district

NOTE: Casper Light is a son of Felix Light, a brother to John Light and Joseph Light, and the father of Joel Light. Mrs. Light’s maiden name was also Light. The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 222, gives a brief biography of Casper’s active laity son Felix H. Light.

LIGHT, EPHRAIM

Born: 8-8-1835 married: Mary B. Witmer [Weidman]

Died: 2-27-1912 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1858 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1861 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit:

1858-59 Hummelstown circuit

1859-60 Myerstown

1869 withdrew

1874-75 Steelton Centenary

1879-81 Hummelstown

1883-84 Lehigh Valley circuit

1884 re-instated

1884-85 Swatara circuit

1900 name erased

Note: Ephraim Light does not appear to be a direct relative of the other Lebanon County Lights.

LIGHT, EZEKIEL

Born: 3-19-1834 Lebanon PA married:

Died: 11-4-1903 near Dayton OH obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1855 license, Ohio German Conference

1858 ordained, Ohio German Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1904,22

Cleveland

1862-63 Lebanon Salem

1864-65 Reading Zion, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-67 Reading Zion

1867-68 Annville (second half of year, following George W. Hoffman’s removal)

1871-72 Annville

1877-79 Lebanon Salem

1882-85 presiding elder, Lancaster district

chaplain, Soldiers Home in Dayton OH

Note: Ezekiel Light is the son of John Light and grandson of Felix Light. He is the brother of Job Light and Rudolph Light.

LIGHT, FELIX

Born: 11-11-1767 married: Barbara Sherk

Died: 1-23-1841 obit: [5/23/1771 – 3/20/1830]

Miller-Raker #: 253

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

? license, ordained

Interment: Mt Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: 1841,46

Note: Felix Light had been an effective minister in the Mennonite Church. He became a United Brethren preacher, even though there is no indication that he was ever formally licensed or ordained as such. He is the father of 3 UB preachers Casper Light (1804-1857), John Light (1808-1845) Joseph Light (1813-1870); grandfather of 4 UB preachers Rudolph Light (1826-?), Ezekiel Light (1834-1903), Job Light (1839-1888) and Joel Light (1840-1904); and great-grandfather of 1 UB preacher John C.H. Light (1872-1950). Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 40, gives a detailed account of the extended Light ministerial family. The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 207, gives a brief biography of Felix Light – and, on page 209, the story of Light’s meeting house.

LIGHT, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 198

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1835 license

1838 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1843 expelled

Note: The relationship of Henry Light to the other Lights, if any, is not known. This is believed to be Henry (Harry) L. Light (7/31/1818 – 12/9/1879) who married Mary A. Rauch (3/26/1820 – 3/30/1903).

LIGHT, HOWARD PAUL

Born: 4-2-1879 Lebanon PA married: Dorah _____

Died: 10-23-1957 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 486

Gibble list: no

1910 quarterly conference license

1912 license, North Nebraska Conference

1916 ordained, Michigan Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1958,34

1910-12 believed to be serving in North Nebraska Conference

1912-15 (at school?)

1915-16 East Casco, Michigan Conference

1916 transfer to Michigan Conference

1916-18 Tallman

1918 Barton-Chase (part year)

1918-20 Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920-22 Sodus

1922-23 ?

1923-24 East Freedom, Allegheny Conference

1924 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1924-27 Susquehanna

1927-30 East Salem

1930-37 Glasgow

1937 Springfield (ending 9/25/1937)

1937-41 West Decatur (beginning 9/25/1937)

1941-43 Knoxdale

1943-47 Liverpool

1947-50 Port Matilda

1950 retired

Note: The relationship of Howard P. Light, if any, to the other Lebanon County Lights is not known.

LIGHT, JOB HOFFER

Born: 12-11-1839 married: Anna Campbell

Died: 12-14-1888 obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1927,9]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

license, East Pennsylvania Conference

ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East German Conference 1889,47

1867-68 Tamaqua, East Pennsylvania Conference

1868 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Bethlehem circuit

1869 charter member of East German Conference

1869-72 Reading Zion

1872-73 Harrisburg Otterbein

1873-74 Bellegrove circuit

1874-78 conference superintendent

1878-81 Myerstown

1881-84 Baltimore Fulton Street

1884-86 Philadelphia Fourth Street German Mission

1886-88 Reading Zion

Note: Job Light is the grandson of Felix Light, the son of John Light and a brother to Ezekiel Light and Rudolph Light. He is the father of John C.H. Light.

LIGHT, JOEL

Born: 2-11-1840 married: Elizabeth Kreider

Died: 2-24-1904 Lebanon PA obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1925,15]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1871 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1904,23

1870-72 Harrisburg circuit

1872-74 Lebanon circuit

1874-76 Bellegrove circuit

1876-79 Jonestown circuit

1879-82 Lykens Valley circuit

1882-85 Lebanon circuit

1885-88 Avon Zion

1888-94 Valley View circuit (including Barry)

1894-01 Lebanon circuit

1901-03 Lebanon Bethany

1903 retired

Note: Joel Light is the son of Casper Light and the grandson of Felix Light.

LIGHT, JOHN C.H.

Born: 8-14-1872 Harrisburg PA married: Carrie Metcalf

Died: 3-24-1950 obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference 1922,66]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Mabel Dickman Farrand

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1895 license, East German Conference

1898 ordained,

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950,25

1896-97 Columbus City, Iowa Conference

1897 transfer to Iowa Conference

1897-98 Columbus City

1898-02 Hudson

1902-03 Colorado Springs CO

1903-05 Sumner

1905-11 Muscatine

1911-15 Cedar Rapids

1915-18 conference superintendent

1918-25 Birdsboro Grace, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 2/19; see 1919,6)

1925 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1925-45 Lititz

1945 retired

Note: John C.H. Light is the son of Job Light, grandson of John Light, and great-grandson of Felix Light.

LIGHT, JOHN SHERK

Born: 11-14-1802 Lebanon County married: Anna Hoffer

Died: 4-29-1845 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 173

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1832 license

1835 ordained

Interment: Ebenezer [Mt. Lebanon?] Cemetery, Lebanon County PA

Obit: 1846,71

1836-37 presiding elder, Lebanon district

1837-39 presiding elder, Lancaster district

1840-42 presiding elder, Lebanon district

1842-43 Lebanon and Miller’s [Annville] station

1843-44 Lebanon station

1844-45 Lebanon station and Myerstown

1845-46 presiding elder, Lebanon district

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

NOTE: John Light is a son of Felix Light and a brother to Casper Light and Joseph Light. He is the father of Rudolph Light and Ezekiel Light and Job Light, and the grandfather of Job’s son John C.H. Light. The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 217, gives a brief biography of John Light.

LIGHT, JOSEPH F.

Born: 2-11-1813 married:

Died: 2-22-1870 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1858 quarterly conference license

1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870,29

1861-62 Union County circuit

1862 ceased to travel because of poor health, preached considerably in a local capacity

Note: Joseph Light is a son Felix Light of and a brother to John Light and Casper Light. The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 222, gives a brief biography of Joseph F. Light.

LIGHT, RUDOLPH

Born: 11-7-1826 married: _____ Halkins

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1854 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1854-55 Berks County circuit

1855-56 Sinking Spring circuit

1861-62 Millheim circuit

1887 transfer to

LIGHTNER, CHARLES W.

Born: 9-28-1936 married: Harriet _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 756

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1956 license

1961 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1957-58 Upper Strasburg

1961-69 Benevola-Mt. Lena

1969 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1969-79 Waldorf Good Shepherd

1979- 99Bel Air

1999 retired

LIGHTNER, DANIEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1853 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1857 name erased

1858 re-instated

1865 surrendered license

LIGHTNER, GEORGE WASHINGTON

Born: 3-21-1828 near Gettysburg PA married: Hannah Catherine Tawney

Died: 3-12-1909 near Gettysburg PA obit: [died 10-19-1896]

Miller-Raker #: 344 married2: Mrs. Susan Ruff

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1867 license

1870 ordained

Interment: Duncannon

Obit: 1909,119

1866-67 Bendersville circuit

1867-68 Manchester

1868-70 Perry

1870-73 Duncannon

1873-74 Greencastle (served little or no time)

1873-74 Hagerstown St. Paul’s (8 months)

1874-77 West Fairview

1877-78 Duncannon

1878-81 York circuit

1882-84 Conestoga circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1884-87 Halifax, East Pennsylvania Conference

1887 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1887-88 Manheim

1888 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89 Alto Dale circuit

Note: The first Mrs. Lightner is a sister to Daniel A. Tawney.

LINCKS, FREDRICK E.

Born: 4-2-1838Alsace-Lorainemarried: Mary Oyler

Died: 12-24-1910CanalFulton OHobit: [6/16/1842 - 2/19/1912]

Miller-Raker #: 325

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1861 license

Interment:

Obit:

1860-61 Carlisle circuit (1^st part of year)

1860-61 Manchester circuit (2^nd part of year)

1862 transfer

Indiana

Ohio

Note: It appears that Fredrick E. Lincks served in Indiana and Ohio as a local pastor while working a secular job and may never have formally joined another conference as a ministerial member.

LINEBAUGH, NORMAN LESTER

Born: 9-24-1880 Machester PA married: Minnie G. Michael

Died: 7-21-1962 York PA obit: [died 2-11-1920]

Miller-Raker #: 512 married2: Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pyle

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1901 quarterly conference license, York Fifth

1903 license

1912 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962,68

1905-06 Union Deposit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1906-07 Union Deposit

1907-09 Florin

1909-10 student, Bonebrake Seminary

1910-12 Vandalia OH

1912-16 Hershey

1916-17 Harrisburg First

1917-20 Philadelphia Second

1920 transfer to Miami Conference

1949-50 Mt. Carmel, East Pennsylvania Conference

1950 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1950-52 Mt. Carmel

1952-56 Hillsdale

1956 retired

NOTE: Norman L. Linebaugh supposedly also served congregations in the Allegheny and Erie conferences.

LIST, FREDERICK

Born: c1827 Germany married:

Died: 1-6-1912 Ellicott City MD obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1866 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Bethlehem PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1912,31

1864-65 Millheim circuit

1865-66 ?

1866-67 Valley View circuit

1867-68 Middleburg circuit

1868-70 ?

1870-71 Halifax circuit

1875 name erased

1880 re-instated

1881 transfer to East German Conference

1881-83 Camden mission

1883-85 Philadelphia Fourth Street German mission

1885-89 Baltimore Fulton

1889-92 Baltimore Seventh Street

1892-93 Middleburg circuit

LITTLE, GEORGE KIRKLEY

Born: 1-27-1860 Baltimore MD married: Anna C. Bittinger

Died: 8-22-1938 Quincy PA obit: 1948,34

Miller-Raker #: 451

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1894 license

1898 ordained

Interment: Quincy PA

Obit: 1938,26

1880-08 evangelist at large

1908-09 Greencastle & Marion

1909-14 evangelist at large

1914-16 West Rockingham charge, Virginia Conference

1916-20 evangelist at large

1920-24 Harrisonburg, Virginia Conference

1924-25 local

1925-26 Shermansdale

1926 retired

Note: George K. Little is the son of George O. Little. He is the subject of book (on file in the conference archives) by R.E. Williams, printed in 1887 by the UB Publishing House: George K. Little and his Revival Work – comprising a history of his life, conversion, and six years of evangelistic work.

LITTLE, GEORGE O.

Born: married: Martha Hanaway

Died: 5-16-1860 Gettysburg PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1846 quarterly conference license, Littlestown circuit

1848 license, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1848-49 Winchester

Note: George O. Little is the father of George K. Little. According to Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, George O. Little transferred to the Pennsylvania Conference – but no such official conference record can be found. The August 3, 1846, quarterly conference of the Littlestown circuit states “that George O. Little from the Methodist E. Church shall be received into the Church of the United Brethren in Christ” and “that he shall have license to preach the gospel among us up to the next annual conference.” Brief biographical comments on George O. Little appear in Williams’ 1887 biography of George K. Little, page 9.

LLOYD, CLIFFORD PAUL

Born: 8-13-1924 married: Verna _____

Died: 6-29-1994 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 862

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1958 credentials in the Allegheny Conference, Brethren in Christ

1963 license

1967 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1958-60 Mount Holly Springs BIC

1960-63 Mount Rock BIC

1963 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB

1963-69 Frederick Centennial Memorial

1969-71 York Christ

1971 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1971-74 Barton-Westernport

1974-79 Overlea

1979-80 Fork-Waugh

1980-84 Baltimore Wesley

1984-87 Hamilton St. John’s

1987 leave of absence Baltimore Conference 1987,178

1987 withdraw Baltimore Conference 1988,185

Note: The last known residence of Clifford P. Lloyd was in Terre Hill, Lancaster County.

LOCHER, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1860 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1861 withdrew

LOEWEN, JOHN CARL

Born: 11-1-1925 married: Lois _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 798

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1957 credentials in the American Baptist Convention

1962 license

1969 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1957-59 People’s Baptist Church, Sag Harbor LI-NY

1959-62 supply, Nyack NY area

1962 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1962-68 Mt. Tabor

1968-78 Leesburg

1978-84 Young’s

1984-88 Jacobus

1988-91 Yoe Christ

1991 retired

LOHR, MARTIN

Born: 9-28-1803 married: Maria Christiann Carl [12/25/1825]

Died: 5-17-1868 obit: [8/?/1804 – 4/4/1881]

Miller-Raker #: 188

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1834 license

1835 ordained

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: 1869,11

1835-36 Chambersburg circuit

Note: Martin Lohr chose to function as a local pastor, preaching as opportunity afforded. He is the namesake of Lohr’s UM Church in Hanover. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 302, gives a brief biography.

LONG, A.M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 255

Gibble list: no

1890 quarterly conference license

1893 license, Allegheny Conference

1901 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1890-91 Glasgow

1891-94 Wilmore

1894-95 Glasgow

1895-99 Ligonier

1899-02 Rochester Mills

1902-03 Knoxdale

1903-04 (not assigned)

1904-06 Dunlo

1906-15 (not assigned)

1915-17 Fayette

1917 located

LONG, AARON ALBION

Born: 9-25-1864 Hays Grove PA married: Katherine S. Reed

Died: 1-6-1944 obit: 1960,51

Miller-Raker #: 447

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 quarterly conference license, Annville

1890 license

1892 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1944,34

1891 Duncannon (May-Sept)

1891-92 Highspire, East Pennsylvania Conference

1892 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1892-93 Highspire

1893-98 Columbia

1898-01 Harrisburg First

1901-06 Shamokin First

1906-10 Hummelstown

1910-11 Altoona First, Allegheny Conference

1911 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1911-19 York First

1919-20 local

1920-27 Shiremanstown

1927 retired

Note: While the 1910, page 11, East Pennsylvania Conference journal lists Rev. Long as seeking a transfer to the Allegheny Conference, it appears that was never formally accomplished and that his 1911 transfer into the Pennsylvania Conference was from the East Pennsylvania Conference.

LONG, DAVID

Born: 7/6/1771 Cumberland County PA married: Catharine Hershey

Died: 2/19/1860 Pfoutz Valley PA obit: [7/13/1771 – 9/25/1849]

Miller-Raker #: 41

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1801 license

Interment:

Obit:

1837 expelled

Note: David Long is a nephew of Isaac Long, in whose barn Otterbein and Boehm first met in 1767. He moved to the Pfoutz Valley in 1814 and served as a local preacher. The 1816 annual conference was held at his home. Mrs. Long is a sister to Abraham (Lancaster) and Christian Hershey.

LONG, DAVID E.

Born: 10-2-1869 Bellegrove PA married: Clara Miller

Died: 1-13-1939 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955,31

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1896 quarterly conference license

1897 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1900 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939,13

1896-00 student, Lebanon Valley College

1898-99 Mt. Etna

1900-01 Elizabethville

1901-03 Cressona

1903-06 Lykens and Millersburg

1906-08 Philadelphia First

1908-13 field secretary, Lebanon Valley College

1913-14 field secretary, Quincy Orphanage (did not finish the year)

1914-18 Mount Joy (began following the 4/29/1914 death of H.S. Gabel))

1918-25 Mountville

1925-29 Myerstown

1929-32 Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1932 retired

Note: David E. Long is the father of Rev. Abram Long of the Presbyterian Church, and his daughter Laura is married to Schuyler C. Enck’s son Paul.

LONG, JOSIAH P.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1865 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1864-65 Hummelstown circuit

1865-66 Shamokin circuit

1867 withdrew

LONG, SAMUEL BURMAN

Born: 5-31-1883 Hays Grove PA married: Margaret Mae Hoch [9/21/1911]

Died: 6-24-1974 obit: [10/12/1883 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: 538

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1906 license, recommended by Chambersburg First

1910 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1975 Yearbook The United Church of Christ, 351

1906-08 student, Lebanon Valley College

1907-08 Mechanicsburg circuit

1908-11 student, Union Theological Seminary NY

Croyden and Errol NH– denomination uncertain

[1910-11 Newburg (apparently did not serve)]

1911 transfer to Congregational Church 1911,65

1911-16 Lusk WY

1916- Yorkville, IL

Marlborough NH

student, Syracuse University

1930 Syracuse NY, Geddes

1943-54 South Weymouth MA, Old South Union

1954-55 Brockton MA, Waldo (Montello)

1955-56 ?

1956-63 Worcester MA, Chestnut Street

1963-69 Auburn MA, Pakachoag and Hope

1969-72 ?

1972-73 lived at Bethel Methodist Home in Ossining NY

1973-74 lived at Homewood Church Home in Carlisle PA

Note: A biography of S. Burman Long appears in the 1987 Shepherdstown Church Centennial Book, page 22.

LONGENECKER, CHRISTIAN RISSER

Born: 6-14-1877 Lebanon County PA married: Mabel Mae Evans

Died: 11-17-1959 obit: [d 8/27/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Hilda Heller [10/14/1944]

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1912 quarterly conference license, Palmyra First

1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Palmyra Second Chjurch Ce,etery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960,52

1912-13 Northampton circuit

1913-15 Bellegrove

1915-20 Palmyra Second

1940-24 New Holland

1924-25 conference evangelist

1925-30 Cleona

1930-33 Reading Zion

1933-36 conference evangelist

1936-39 Lebanon Bethany

1939-47 Myerstown

1947-50 Lickdale

1950 retired

1951 Hummelstown (part year)

1955-56 Mt. Gretna

1959 Mt. Etna

LONGENECKER, DAVID SHENK

Born: 11-29-1843 Dauphin County PA married: Anna Peck

Died: 12-4-1917 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1878 license, East German Conference

1881 ordained, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1918,41

1879-80 Union Deposit circuit and Harrisburg Reily Street [Otterbein]

1880-82 Union Deposit circuit

1882-83 Berks County circuit

1883-85 Sinking Spring circuit

1885-89 Lebanon Salem

1889-92 Myerstown

1892-93 Allentown Zion

1893-97 Reading Salem

1897-04 Lebanon Memorial

1904-08 Avon Zion

1908-09 West Lebanon

1909-15 Avon Zion

1915-17 Lebanon Pleasant Hill [Cleona circuit]

Note: David S. Longenecker is the son of Rev. Abraham Longenecker, a local preacher in the Mennonite Church.

LONGENECKER, ROBERT P.

Born: married: Elaine Frey

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1950 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Elizabethtown

1954 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1950-51 student, Lebanon Valley College

1951-54 student, United Theological Seminary

1954-57 Rocherty-Fontana circuit

1957-62 Myerstown

1962-66 Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1966-75 Annville

1975-81 superintendent, Allentown District

1981-87 Philadelphia St. James

1987-94 Philadelphia Holmesburg

1994 retired

LOOSE, GEORGE A.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1873-75 Florin circuit

1875-77 Jacksonville circuit

1877-78 ?

1878-80 Hummelstown circuit

1880-81 ?

1881-83 Harrisburg circuit

1883-84 Rocky Spring station

1886-88 Lititz

1892 credentials returned: East Pennsylvania Conference 1892,8

Note: George A. Loose appears to be living in Reading during the years (1884-86 and 1889-92) he was not serving a charge. Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 392, gives some biographical information.

LOOSE, HENRY

Born: 8-15-1826 married: Priscilla Hofnagle

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1849-50 Halifax circuit

1850-51 ?

1851-53 Lebanon circuit

1853-55 Halifax circuit

1855-56 Lebanon circuit

1856-58 Hummelstown circuit

1858-59 Millheim circuit

1859-60 Susquehanna circuit

1864 withdrew

LORENZ, EDMUND SIMON

Born: 7-13-1854 North Lawrence OH married: Florence L. Kumler

Died: 7-10-1942 Dayton OH obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1877 license, Miami Conference

1882 ordained, Miami Conference

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Religious Telescope 108:30 (July 25, 1942)

1880-81 student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1881-83 student, Yale Divinity School

1883-84 student, University of Leipzig in Germany

1884-86 Dayton High Street

1886-87 chaplain, National Military Home in Dayton OH

1887-88 president, Lebanon Valley College

1888 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89 president, Lebanon Valley College

1889 transfer to Miami Conference

1890 founded the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton OH

Note: Edmund S. Lorenz is the son of Rev. Edward Lorenz (1827-c1900) of the Miami Conference. A biographical sketch appears in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism, page 1452. Mrs. Lorenz is a great-granddaughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Sr, and a granddaughter of Bishop Henry Kumler Jr (1801-1882).

LOSE, DENNIS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1857 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

LOVEJOY, M.J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1901-02 Salem circuit (last part of year)

Note: M.J. Lovejoy was “of West Virginia” – 1902,12. In the statistical reports he is given as M.F. Lovejoy.

LOVELL, ISAAC

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 388

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1879 license

1888 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1880-81 Alto Dale [Mont Alto] circuit

local

1902-05 Garfield MD

supernumerary

1912 withdrew 1912,51

Note: As a local preacher living in the community, Rev. Lovell started and built the Garfield [Mt. Carmel] church in 1902. He served it until it was attached to Wolfsville circuit in 1905. See Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 183.

LOWER, WILLIAM T.

Born: 5-22-1822 Orange County VA married:

Died: 5-4-1875 Newburg, Cumberland County PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 358

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1851 license, Virginia Conference

1853 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1876,11

1850-51 Frederick circuit

1851-52 Jackson

1852-53 Frederick circuit

1853-55 ?

1855-57 Frederick circuit

1857-61 Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1861-62 Hagerstown circuit

1862-65 Frederick circuit

1865-66 Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1867-70 Martinsburg

1870 granted open transfer

1870-71 ?

1871 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1871-72 Chambersburg station

1873-74 Orrstown station

1874-75 Newburg

LOWERY, DANIEL DeWITT

Born: 4-11-1860 Annville PA married: Ida May Burtner

Died: 5-29-1917 obit: [b. 5/?/1859 - ?/?/1936]

Miller-Raker #: 403

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1879 license, East German Conference

1881 ordained

Interment: Enola PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1917,40

1879-80 Tamaqua

1880-81 Camden NJ Emmanuel

1881 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1881-82 West Fairview station

1882-83 Baltimore Fifth Street

1883-84 Big Spring station

1884-86 Manheim station [Pennsylvania and East Pennsylvania Conferences were together 1882-1886]

1886 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-87 Manheim station

1887-89 Mt. Joy

1889-90 Annville

1890-93 Harrisburg Derry Street

1893-1916 conference superintendent

Note: Daniel D. Lowery is the son of John H. Lowery and father of Ira D. Lowery. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 455, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Lowery is a sister to Edward O. Burtner and a granddaughter of Frederick May (through his daughter Katherine).

LOWERY, FREDERICK CLARK

Born: c1925 married: Cora Jean Kling

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1949 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Neffsville

1954 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1949-50 student, Franklin and Marshall College

1950-54 student, Dallas Theological Seminary

1954-60 Jonestown circuit

1960-87 New Holland

1987 retired

1987-92 Intercourse

Note: Fred C. Lowery is the son of Ira D. Lowery, the grandson of Daniel D. Lowery, and the great-grandson of John H. Lowery.

LOWERY, IRA DEWITT

Born: 7-4-1882 Baltimore MD married: Hazel Cordelia Clark

Died: 8-3-1962 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1991,309

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1907 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Derry Street

1910 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962,69

1910-12 student, Lebanon Valley College

1910-11 Hillsdale circuit

1912-15 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1915-17 home missionary, Shawnee OK

1917 Florin (part year)

1917-19 Halifax

1919-21 Cressona

1921-23 Shamokin Second

1923-26 Intercourse

1926-29 Manheim

1929-31 Reading Trinity

1931-34 Tower City

1934-38 Intercourse

1938-52 Neffsville

1952 retired

Note: Ira D. Lowery is the son of Daniel D. Lowery, the grandson of John H. Lowery, and (through his mother) the great-grandson of Frederick May. In addition, all 3 sons of Ira became ordained: Frederick C. Lowery, Robert B. Lowery (non-EUB/UM, Cincinnati OH), Paul D. Lowery (missionary to Guatemala, ordained from Calvary Independent Church, Lancaster PA).

LOWERY, JOHN HENRY

Born: 9-7-1821 Lebanon County PA married: Martha Dissinger

Died: 9-9-1908 obit: [9/7/1822 – 1/4/1901]

Miller-Raker #: 272 [LOWRY]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1844 license

1859 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Iona PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1908,37

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1856-57 Lebanon circuit

1857-60 Pine Grove circuit

1860-62 Annville

1862-64 Dauphin circuit

1864-65 Middleburg circuit

1865-66 Lykens Valley circuit

1866-70 Upper Berne

1870 charter member of East German Conference

1870-72 ?

1872-73 Tamaqua

1873 Hamburg mission

1873-75 Lebanon circuit

1875-77 Swatara circuit

1877-79 Bethlehem circuit

1879-80 Lehigh Valley circuit

1880-81 Berks County circuit

1881-83 Avon Zion

1883-84 Swatara circuit

1884-85 Valley View circuit

Note: John H. Lowery is the father of Daniel D. Lowery, the grandfather of Ira D. Lowery, and the great-grandfather of Fred C. Lowery.

LUCKENS, JOHN WENGERT

Born: 3-31-1902 Schuylkill Haven married: Rheta H. Saul

Died: 12-15-1972 Shamokin PA obit: [3/6/1908 – 12/13/1993]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1922 quarterly conference license, Schuylkill Haven

1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1973,403

1922-26 student, Lebanon Valley Vollege

1926-29 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1929-31 Hummelstown circuit

1931-33 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1933-43 Reading Zion (did not finish last year)

1943-46 chaplain, US Army

1946-68 Shamokin First

1968 retired

LUDWICK, ESDRAS

Born: 11-27-1847 near Romney WV married:

Died: 10-29-1925 Shippensburg PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 561

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [LUDWIG]

1878 license, Virginia Conference

1881 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit: 1926,59

1877-78 Boonsboro

1878-79 Frederick

1879-80 Winchester

1880-83 Hagerstown

1882 Newville, Pennsylvania Conference – see Note

1883-84 Berkeley Springs

1884 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1884-86 Shippensburg

1886 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1886-88 Mountville St. Paul’s

1888-93 Columbia

1893-96 Steelton Centenary

1896-04 Middletown

1904-06 Reading Otterbein

1906-08 Hershey First

1908-10 living in Shippensburg

1910 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1910 Newburg (May-Nov)

1910-21 local, living in Shippensburg

1921 retired

Note: It appears that Rev. Ludwick made overtures to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1882 and was appointed to Newville [1882,40], but that he did not accept the assignment [1883,4]. The conference memberships above are a practical compromise. The Virginia Conference [Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 142] considers him transferred to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1885, but the Pennsylvania Conference does not acknowledge him until the 1910 transfer. The East Pennsylvania Conference [1887,5] formally recognizes his transfer from the Virginia Conference in 1887. The confusion can be attributed to the Pennsylvania and East Pennsylvania Conferences meeting together 1882-1886.

LUDWICK, PEARLE J.

Born: 1-25-1894 Greensburg PA married: [never married]

Died: 2-14-1985 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 501

Gibble list: no

1924 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1927 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985,383

1925-31 evangelist

1931-34 New Florence

1934-42 evangelist

1942-43 Fairmount

1943-50 evangelist

1950 retired

LUDWIG, CHRISTIAN

Born: married:

Died: 1828 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 148

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit: 1828,26

LUDWIG, S. R.

Born: 1859 Rio WV married:

Died: 2-11-1934 Winchester VA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 558

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1894 license, Virginia Conference

1897 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit: Virginia 1934,13

1892-94 South Branch

1894-95 Lacey Springs

1895 transfer to Miami Conference

1895-98 student, Bonebrake Seminary

1895-98 Abbottsville

1898 transfer to Virginia Conference

1898-99 Berkeley Springs

1899-01 Churchville

1901-03 field agent for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, Dayton VA

1903-08 Keyser

1908 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1908-10 Rayville

1910-11 Boonsboro

1911-12 Gettysburg

1912-13 Oakville

1913-16 Elkins WV, West Virginia Conference

1916-17 Clarksburg WV, West Virginia Conference

1917-18 local [see 1917,52]

1918-20 Fayetteville

1920-22 Manchester MD

1922 transfer to Virginia Conference

1922-33 Winchester

1933 retired

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography.

LUTZ, LEWIS WALTER

Born: 8-25-1872 Middletown MD married: Mary Catherine Thompson

Died: 9-7-1947 obit: 1932,26

Miller-Raker #: 518 married2: Mrs. Ada Frankham Markley

Fulton #: no obit2: 1943,32

Gibble list: no

1897 license, West Virginia Conference

1900 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Home Cemetery, Dallastown PA

Obit: 1947,34

1897-99 South Branch, Virginia Conference

1899 transfer to Virginia Conference

1899-01 Edinburg

1901-03 West Fairview, Pennsylvania Conference 1902,12

1903 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1903-04 West Fairview

1904-13 Chambersburg

1913-20 Chambersburg First

1920-23 Baltimore Fourth

1923-25 Waynesboro

1925-32 York Second

1932-40 New Cumberland Trinity

1940 retired

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography.

LYNCH, CLYDE ALVIN

Born: 8-24-1891 Harrisburg PA married: Edith L. Bashore

Died: 8-6-1950 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1909 quarterly conference license

1910 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1916 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Grand View Memorial Park, near Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950,30

1910-11 Centerville circuit

1911-12 Chambers Hill

1912-18 Linglestown and Rockville

1918-21 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1918-21 Antioch and Pyrmont, OH

1921-25 Ephrata

1925-30 Philadelphia Second

1930-32 faculty, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1932-50 president, Lebanon Valley College

Note: Clyde A. Lynch is the grandfather of John H. Lynch of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference UMC.

LYTER, JOSEPH ALLEN

Born: 1-22-1865 Enders PA married: Margaret Bowman

Died: 1-29-1940 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957,51

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 quarterly conference license

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1940,15

1887-88 Freeburg circuit (first part of year)

1887-88 Paxinos circuit (last part of year)

1888-92 Mountville

1892-93 Philadelphia St. Paul

1893-96 Mount Joy

1896-99 Hummelstown

1899-24 Harrisburg Derry Street

1824-26 Annville

1926-40 associate editor, Sunday School literature