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PALING, W.L.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884-85           Newville station (did not finish the year)

 

Note: W. L. Paling is otherwise unknown.  He did not finish the year, and R. Wood was appointed to take his place and give the 1885 statistical report was given by R. Wood.  He could be the H[iram] L[loyd] Poling (12/11/1846 – 10/9/1904) of the Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference who transferred to the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1897.

 

 

PARDOE, GERALD L.

 

Born: 3-20-1913  Bellefonte PA                                 married: Phyllis M. Woolford

Died: 4-15-1989                                                          obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982,409

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1939    quarterly conference license

1943    license, Allegheny Conference

1958    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Mt. Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989,411

 

1940-43           Mahaffey (beginning 11/2/1940)

1943-46           [Virginia Conference]

1946-49           Sidman – St. Michael

1949-57           McKeesport First

1957-65           Paradise

1965-70           Dubois Trinity

1970-77           McDonald

1977                retired

 

 

PARMER, CHARLES EDWARD

 

Born: 2-18-1912                                                          married: Hope M. Martin

Died: 10-?-1983                                                          obit: [6/13/1911 – 3/7/1988]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1943    quarterly conference license, New Holland

1946    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1949    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1943-46           student, Lebanon Valley College

                        1943-46  Grantville and Manada Hill

1946-49           student, United Theological Seminary

                        1946-47  Pottsdam-West Sonora

                        1947-49  Liberty

1949-53           Reading Zion

1953-62           Manheim

1962-63           Harrisburg Penbrook (ending 8/22/1963)

1963                withdrew – see 1964,132

 

PATRICK, MELVIN EDWARD

 

Born: 3-7-1908                                                            married: Ida Mae Barnhart

Died: 3-24-2001                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    quarterly conference license, Jenner Cross Roads

1931    license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Hooversville

1938    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2001,?

 

1929-33           student, Lebanon Valley College

                             1929-31  Lickdale

                             1931-33  Grantville circuit

1933                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1933-38           student, Evangelical School of Theology

                             1933-38  Grantville circuit

1938-39           Grantville circuit

1939-44           Lebanon Memorial

1944-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-70           Palmyra Second

 

Note: Melvin E. Patrick is the father of M. Eugene Patrick.

 

PATRICK, MELVIN EUGENE

 

Born: 12-28-1928  Somerset County PA                    married:  Juliette Romaine Bowman

Died: 7-25-1991                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1950    license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Palmyra Second [Gravel Hill]

1956    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: 1992,481

 

1951-54           Silver Spring circuit

1954-59           Royalton

1959-67           Ranck’s

1967-70           Highspire

1970                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-74           Highspire

1974-80           Mont Alto Yoked

1980-87           East Prospect

1987-91           Houserville-Woodycrest

 

Note M. Eugene Patrick is the son of Melvin E. Patrick.

 

PATTERSON, GEORGE

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 137

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1828    license

1828    ordained

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1830                charter member of Virginia [Hagerstown] Conference

1832-33           Woodstock circuit

 

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference does not give George Patterson’s name in the alphabetic list.  He is listed as present in 1831,33,34,35,37; absent in 1832,39,43.

 

 

PATTERSON, N.O.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1891-92           Fulton circuit

1892-94           Phillipsburg, Allegheny Conference

 

Note:  N.O. Patterson is not an itinerant or approved supply in any UB conference, although the 1894 UB yearbook grants him a (one-time) listing as a member of the Allegheny Conference.  In the 1890’s the Pennsylvania Conference was meeting in February and the Allegheny Conference in September.  In February 1891 Fulton circuit was left TBS, but Rev. Patterson was appointed by the presiding elder immediately after conference.  In February 1892 Rev. Patterson was again assigned to Fulton circuit, which during the year was returned to the Allegheny Conference.  In September 1892 Rev. Patterson was assigned to Phillipsburg.

 

PEASE, J.C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1894    license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC [1894,6&9]

1897    ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1894-95           Eschol mission

1895-96           York Spring mission

1896-99           Manchester mission

1899                withdrew to preach for the Church of God, page 8

1900                returned, page 8&26

1900-02           Shippensburg mission

1902-03           Waynesboro mission (did not finish the year [1904,11])

1903-04           Tower City, East Pennsylvania Conference

1904                withdrew to preach for the UB (new constitution), page 6

1904                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 7&8&11

1904-06           Tower City

1906-07           Refton

1907-09           Linglestown circuit

1909-12           Halifax

1912-13           Fayetteville, Pennsylvania Conference

1913-16           Jacksonville circuit

1916-17           Shamokin circuit (did not finish the year)

1917                name erased, page 9

 

 

PEDEN, ARTHUR PAUL

 

Born:  3-4-1895  Johnstown PA                                 married: Mabel Irene Josephine Weik

Died:  4-28-1994                                                                     obit: [d. 10/27/1943]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                       married2: Mrs. Helen Sylvia Snyder Michael

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982,410

Gibble list: no                                                              married3: Mrs. Oma O. Smeal Tobias

                                                                                    obit3: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991,347

1914    quarterly conference license

1921    license, Miami Conference

1924    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Union Cemetery, Rossiter PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1995,370

 

1919-21           student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

                             1919-21  associate, Westerville OH

1921-24           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

                             1921-22  associate, Westerville OH

                             1922-24  associate secretary, Board of Administration in Dayton OH

1924-27           Dayton Olivet

1927-30           Cincinnati Willey Memorial

1930-37           conference evangelist

1937-38           chaplain. Otterbein Home in Lebanon OH

1938-42           Millville

1942-46           conference evangelist

1946                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1946-48           Rochester mills

1948-53           Altoona Wehnwood

1953-57           Johnstown Fairfield Avenue

1957-60           conference evangelist

1960-61           Punxsutawney Albion

1961                retired

 

Note: Arthur P. Peden is the author of six books of poetry.  The second Mrs. Peden is the daughter of Meade M. Snyder and the widow of a Mr. Darrell Howard Michael.  The third Mrs. Peden is the widow of William B. Tobias.

 

PEFFLEY, CHRISTIAN

 

Born: 10-6-1802                                                          married: Elizabeth Light

Died: 11-2-1885                                                          obit: [8/5/1806-8/12/1853]

Miller-Raker #: 203                                                     married2: Rachel Hoover

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 10/9/1894]

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

1839    ordained

 

Interment: Mountville, Lebanon County PA

Obit:

 

1841-41           Lebanon circuit

1842-43           Lancaster circuit

1843-44           Schuylkill mission

1844-45           Berks circuit

1845-46           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1848-49           Lebanon circuit

1849-51           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1851-52           ?

1852-53           Dauphin circuit

1853-54           presiding elder, Susquehanna District

1854-55           not employed

1855-57           presiding elder, East District

1857-58           Schuylkill Haven circuit

1858                joined Evangelical Mennonite denomination

1862                name erased from East Pennsylvania Conference

1877                joined United Christian denomination

1879-1882       presiding elder

 

Note: Limited additional information on Christian Peffley appears in The Chronicle 13:44 (2002), the 1977 History of the United Christian Church, and the conference biographical files.

 

 

PEIFFER [see also PFEIFER]

 

 

PEIFFER, HAROLD SYLVESTER

 

Born: 3-30-1911                                                          married:  Martha _____

Died: 8-24-2006                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1937    quarterly conference license, Elizabethtown

1939    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1943    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Grantville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 2007,?

 

1937-40           student, Lebanon Valley College

                        1937-40  Brunnerville-Newton

1940-43           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

                        1940-43  Potsdam

1943-51           Philadelphia Second

1951-72           Lancaster Covenant

1972-78           superintendent, Northeast District

1978                retired

                        1978-79  assistant to the bishop

                        1979-81  Mt. Gretna

                        1981-83  Quarryville Memorial

                        1983-84  Quarryville Wesley

 

 

PEIFFER, WILLIAM H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1906    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1913                referred

 

 

PENICK, RAY EMMET

 

Born: 7-14-1886  Cumminsville OH                           married: Esther May Groff [6/26/1913]

Died: 11-28-1958  Clearfield PA                               obit: [5/28/1889 – 4/24/1990]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 446

Gibble list: yes

 

1908    quarterly conference license

1909    license, Southeast Ohio Conference

1916    ordained, Miami Conference

 

Interment: Newman Creek Cemetery, North Lawrence OH

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959,30

 

1910-13           Peachblow – Ostrander

1913                transfer to Miama Conference

1913-16           Dayton Olivet

1916-19           Hamilton

1919                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1919-22           Altoona First

1922-25           Johnstown Park Avenue

1925-28           without appointment

1928-31           Hooversville (beginning 2/1/1928)

1931-34           Altoona Second

1934-40           Clearfield

1940                Hollsopple (resigned 10/22/1940)

1940-43           without appointment

1943                no longer listed          

 

Note: Not much is known about Ray E. Penick.  He apparently graduated from Hughes High School in Cincinnati OH in 1904.  The last [1990] SS address for Mrs. Penick is Hesston, Huntingdon County, PA.

 

 

PERNA, ANTHONY JOHN

 

Born: 10-10-1921  Clearfiled County PA                  married: Margaret Jean Musser

Died: 4-4-1987                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, Allegheny Conference

1957    ordained, Central Pennsylvania Conference (EUB)

 

Interment: McClure Union Cemetery, McClure PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987,419

 

1948-51           East Salem

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

1951-59           East Salem

1959-96           Runville

1965-66           Nescopek

1966-80           McClure

1980-84           disability leave

1984                retired

 

PETERS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1835    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1837                transfer to Wabash Conference

                       

Note: This is not the prominent John Peters (1838-1899) of the Tennessee and East Tennessee Conferences.

 

PETERS, LEWIS

 

Born: 7-20-1836  near New Holland PA                    married: Cassadella Ranck

Died: 3-8-1893  New Holland PA                              obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1922,66

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1857    quarterly conference license

1859    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1862    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Steelton PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893,31

 

1858-60           East Lancaster mission

1860-61           Amity circuit

1861-63           Columbia Salome

1863-64           Hummelstown circuit

1864-67           Lancaster circuit

1867-71           Reading Otterbein

1871-74           ?

1874-76           Steelton Centenary

1876-77           Lebanon Trinity

1877-78           Lebanon Trinity (first part of year), Harrisburg First (last part of year)

1978-80           Harrisburg First

1882-83           presiding elder, Baltimore District

1883-84           living in Intercourse

1884-85           Paradise St. John’s

1885-86           Intercourse

1886-89           Steelton Centenary

1889-92           Pottstown Baltzell

1892-93           New Holland

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PETERSON, ERNEST LEROY

 

Born: 9-26-1923  Lyleville PA                                   married: Grace McGlathery

Died:  7-26-1991                                                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1943    quarterly conference license

1947    license, Allegheny Conference

1951    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992,297

 

1946-47           Altoona Wehnwood

1947-48           Shade Gap

1948-51           student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton Oh

1951-58           East Freedom

1958-64           Punxsutawney First

1964-74           Johnstown Westmont

1974-85           associate, Chippewa

1985-88           Johnsonburg

1988                retired

 

PETERSON, JOHN ROBERT

 

Born:  8-1-1917  Utahville PA                                    married: Beatrice Wolford

Died:  3-7-1978                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1943    quarterly conference license, Casselman

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1948    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Kesslar Cemetery, Acme PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1978,406

 

1942-44           Casselman

1944-49           Susquehanna

1949-53           Shanksville – Central City

1953-58           Rockwood

1958-65           Indian Creek

1965-78           Hooversville

 

PFEIFER, DANIEL.

 

Born: 10-21-1785  Germany                                       married: Barbara Hershey

Died: 9-20-1868                                                          obit: [d. 12/26/36]

Miller-Raker #: 79                                                       married2: Mrs. Esther Shoemaker Eby

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2:

Gibble list: yes [PEIFFER]

 

1815    exhorter’s license

1818    license

1820    ordained

 

Interment: Eby’s Cemetery (Rapho township), Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1870,29

 

1819-20           Hagerstown circuit

1820-21           Virginia circuit

1821-22           Lancaster circuit

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.  Barbara Hershey Pfeifer is the daughter of Abraham Hershey (Lancaster).

 

 

PFRIMMER, JOHN GEORGE

 

Born: 7-24-1762  Alsace, Germany                            married:

Died: 9-25-1825                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: 15

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1790    license

1815    ordained, Miami Ohio Conference

 

Interment: Harrison County IN

Obit: [Miami Conference  1892,8]

 

1814                transfer to Miami Ohio Conference   

 

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 304, gives a brief biography.  Chapter 4 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses John George Pfrimmer.

 

PHILLIPS, GEORGE STAHL

 

Born: 10-1-1927  McKeesport PA                              married: Ella Jean Flood

Died: 2-27-1976  California PA                                 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1948    license, Allegheny Conference

1961    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, near Shade Gap PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976,315

 

1944-47       Shade Gap

1947-50       Knoxdale

1950-56       Windber Graham Avenue

1956-62       Braddock

1962-70       Greenville Calvary

1970-71       West Washington (ending 9/16/1971)

1971-75       Erie Christ (beginning 9/16/1971)

1975-76       California

 

Note: George Stahl Phillips is the grandson on Lazarus W. Stahl.

 

PHILLIPS, HENRY C.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1873    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1873-74           Highspire

1874-76           Middletown-Royalton

1876-80           Steelton Centenary

1880-85           Reading Otterbein

1885-86           Philadelphia First

1886-89           Harrisburg First

1889-93           Mount Joy

1893-02           Philadelphia First

1902-03           Mount Joy

1903-04           Paradise St. John’s

1904-08           living in Philadelphia, manager of Sea Grove camp meeting

1908                name erased

 

 

PHREANER, SAMUEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1874-75           Grantville

 

Note: Samuel Phreaner is otherwise unknown.

 

 

PILGRIM, CHARLES EVANS

 

Born: c1871                                                                married: Hattie _____

Died: 12-9-1928                                                          obit: Michigan Conference 1930,32

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1887    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Michigan Conference 1929,17

 

1887-90           evangelist, living in Philadelphia

1890                transfer to “Iowa Conference, or any other conference he may wish to join” – p.11

1908                Lancaster Covenant (May to Oct)

 

Note: Charles E. Pilgrim was called the “boy evangelist.”  He held successful revivals at Lancaster Covenant 1887 and 1888 and returned there from Michigan in 1908 to finish the year following the 5/23/08 death of Abraham Myers.

 

PLUMMER, CHARLES WILLIAM

 

Born: 8-11-1887                                                          married:

Died: 4-2-1919                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: 563

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1909    quarterly conference license, Shiloh of Chewsville charge

1910    license, recommended by Hagerstown

 

Interment: Shiloh Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit:

 

1909-10           student, Lebanon Valley College

1911-12           Wolfsville

1915                withdrew

 

Note: Charles W. Plummer is believed to be a brother of F. Berry Plummer.

 

PLUMMER, FREDERICK BERRY

 

Born: 1-7-1885  Bridgeport MD                                 married: Emma E. Flook

Died: 5-25-1957                                                          obit: 1949,36

Miller-Raker #: 514

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1903    license

1908    ordained

 

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Myersville MD

Obit: 1957,45

 

1903-05           student, Lebanon Valley College

1905-07           Myersville circuit

1907-11           Shippensburg Messiah

1911-14           Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1914-21           Carlisle Grace

1921-56           Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1956                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Plummer is a granddaughter of Joshua Harp and a sister to Cryus F. Flook.  F. Berry Plummer is believed to be a brother of Charles W. Plummer.

 

 

POTTER, ISAIAH

 

Born: 1-7-1819                                                            married: Mary Ann Wasson

Died: 10-8-1888                                                          obit: [b. 2/13/1822]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 55 and 176

Gibble list: yes

 

1843    license, Allegheny Conference

1852    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868                irregularly withdrawn            

1872                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73           Annville (did not finish the year)

1874/5             transfer to Allegheny Conference

1879-82           Herminie

1882-83           Belsano

1886                honorable discharge

 

Note: The home church of Isaiah Potter was Bucks, in Perry County.  In the 11/11/1846 he reports to the Religious Telescope on a revival in Bedford County.   He is called a “theologian” and Berger’s denominational history considers him “well-known.”

 

POTTS, JOHN

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 162

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1830    license, recommended by Dillsburg

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1833-34           Clearfield circuit

1836                name erased

 

 

POULTON, CAMPBELL T.

 

Born: 8-17-1837  Carroll County OH                         married:

Died: 4-30-1873  North Vineland NJ                         obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1858    license, Methodist Protestant Church

1869    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1869    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1868-70           Amity circuit

1870-71           Monocacy circuit

1871-72           Philadelphia Darien Street mission

 

Note: A biographical sketch of Campbell T. Poulton is given in Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 417.  He is listed as enlisting with Company E the PA 174th volunteers on 10/31/1862 and deserting on 11/3/1862 and then enlisting with Company A of the PA 154th  volunteers 11/6/1862, prompted 5/1/1863, but absent and “in arrest” at muster our 9/29/1863.

 

POWELL, JOHN H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 585

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1914    license

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1915-16           Lemasters

1916                returned to quarterly conference license, page 77

 

 

PRICE, HARRISON

 

Born: 10-10-1918                                                        married: Elsie Ellen Smeal

Died: 9-1-1977                                                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2009,428

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license, Allegheny Conference

1964    ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment: Mock’s Hill Cemetery, West Decatur PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978,262

 

1948-51           Mahaffey

1951                transfer by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1951-53           Mahaffey

1953-58           Port Matilda

1958-66           Woodland

1966-70           Huntingdon 12th Street

1970                transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-77           Huntingdon 12th Street

 

PRISK, CHARLES BEST

 

Born: 4-15-1908  Johnstown PA                                married: Virginia _____

Died: 8-15-2005                                                          obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 533

Gibble list: yes

 

1928    quarterly conference license

1930    license, Allegheny Conference

1934    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: Valley View Memorial Park, Hurricane WV

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006,390

 

1928-31           student, Otterbein College on Westerville OH

1931-34           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1934-37           Beaverdale

1937-43           McKeesport First (ending 1/25/1943)

1943-47           chaplain, US Army

1947-53           local elder

1953                dropped: 1953,99

1974                readmitted, Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church

1974                retired

 

Note: Obituaries for Rev. Charles B. Prisk appear in two WV newspapers on 8/17/2005: on page C-3 of the Huntington Herald Dispatch, and on page C-2 of the Charleston Gazette.  In addition, he lived in Boone NC for several years.

 

 

PROCASCO, CHARLES E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1923    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1935    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

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Obit:

 

1926-29           Reading Trinity

 

PROFFIT, D.W.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 379

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1859    license, Parkersburg Conference

 

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1876                transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1876-77           Mercersburg circuit

1877-78           Alto Dale circuit

1878-79           Chambersburg station

1879-80           Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1880-83           New Cumberland mission station

1883-86           Harrisburg First [Memorial]

1886-88           Duncannon station

1888                transfer to West Nebraska Conference

1888-91           Broken Bow NE

1891-92           not listed

1892                transfer to Iowa Conference

1892-93           Letts IA

1893-95           Cedar Rapids IA

1895-96           Vinton IA

1896-98           West Union IA

1898-99           not listed

1899                transfer to West Nebraska Conference

1899-01           no appointment listed

1901-02           not listed

1902-03           Ohiowa NE

1903-04           Solomon KS

1904-05           White City KS

1905    no  longer listed

 

Note: The “appointments” after 1888 are the post offices listed in the UB Yearbook.  Beginning with the 1906 UB Yearbook, WD Proffit no longer appears, but a WH Proffit in the Oklahoma Conference begins to appear.

 

 

PROWELL, ULYSSES S. GRANT

 

Born: 1865                                                                  married: Sadie J. Karr

Died: 1933                                                                  obit: [12/31/1866 – 3/12/1956]

Miller-Raker #: 424

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1887    license

 

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1886-87           Yocumtown

1887-88           New Lancaster KA, Kansas Conference

1888-90           Detroit KS, Kansas Conference

1890-91           Peoria City KS, Kansas Conference

1891                transfer to Kansas Conference

1891-92           Lyndon KS

1892-93           not listed

1893-96           Norwood MO

1896                transfer to Southern Missouri Conference [later, Missouri Conference]

1896-98           Dudenville MO

1898-00           Polo MO

1900-01           Adrian MO

1901-04           Rich Hill MO

1904-05           Brookfield MO

1905                retired to Rich Hill MO

                            1910                        moved to Nevada MO

                            1913-14  Montevallo MO

                            1914-15    Livonia MO

                            1915-16  Toronto KS

                        1916-17  living in Kansas

1917                no longer listed

 

Note: The Prowell family lived in the Yocumtown area.  U.S.G. Prowell, Lydia Prowell (Mrs. William) Quigley and Emma Grace Prowell (Mrs. George W.) Strine are all from the same extended family, but their exact relationships are unclear.  The “appointments” after 1887 are the post offices listed in the UB Yearbook. Rev. and Mrs. Prowell were married 4/29/1888 in Miami County KS, where she was born and died.  The Rich Hill Mining Review (Bates County MO) Vol. XXIV, No. 11, Dec. 7, 1903, carries the following notice: “U.S.G. Prowell, the real estate hustler, was a passenger for Metz this afternoon.” 

 

 

PUGH, WALTER D.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1929    license, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

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1936                referred