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SALT, MICHAEL A.
Born: 1841
Polruan,
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1880 license, Virginia Conference
1883 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1879-80 Garrett
1880-81
1881-83 Rockbridge
1883-84 Front Royal
1884-86 Ephrata,
1886 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1886-88 Intercourse
1888-89
1889-93
1893-96 New
1896-99
1899-01 Oberlin Neidig
1901-03 Williamstown
1903-05
1905-06 on leave
1906 withdrew
Note: A brief biography of Michael a Salt is given in Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 182.
SAMPLE, G.C.K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1899-1900
Note: G.C.K. Sample is otherwise unknown.
SAND, JOHN ADAM
Born: 7-1-1812
Died: 9-15-1880
Miller-Raker #: 245
Gibble list: yes
1841 license, recommended by Old Otterbein
1844 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1881,20
1841-42
1842-43 Dauphin circuit
1843-44
1844-46
1846-48 Pinegrove circuit
1848-51
1851-53 presiding elder, Susquehanna District
1853-54
1854 transfer to Ohio German Conference
1860-66
1866 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1866-67
1867-70
1870 charter member of East German Conference
1870-72
1874-77
1877 retired, membership at Baltimore Salem
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania
Conference, page 308, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania
Conference, page 459, give brief biographies.
SANDERS, BENEDICT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 17
Gibble list: yes
1791 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: The special collections section of the Maryland State
Archives, microfilm #M11025, contains the following: “BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER
OF WILLS (Petitions) [MSA T621-180] Petition of Benedict Sanders 8 August 1822;
statement of estate [1822]
SANDERS,
Born: 4-7-1847
Died: 5-10-1892 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1878 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1883 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Malick’s
Obit:
1876-77 Catawissa circuit
1877-79
1879-80 Paxinos circuit
1880-82 Conestoga circuit
1882-84 Duncannon station
1884-87
1887-90
1890-91 Intercourse circuit
1891-92
SAUER, WILLIAM ALVIN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1922-27 Rocherty
1927-28 living in Annville
1928-29 living
in
1929 transfer to Nebraska Conference, page 34
1929-43
1943 no longer listed in United Brethren Yearbook
Note: William A. Sauer graduated from
SAUL, ELMER ELSWORTH
Born: 3-1-1863 Hummelstown PA married: Alma Jane Laughlin
Died: 10-12-1953 obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1952,46
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
? license, Miami Conference
? ordained, Miami Conference
Interment:
Obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1954,49
1923-24 Linglestown circuit
1924-25
1929-30 Highspire (several months while assigned pastor is hospitalized)
1941-42 Halifax Otterbein (beginning 3/21/42)
Note: Elmer E. Saul graduated from Union Biblical [United
Theological] Seminary in
SAWYER, ERNEST G.
Born: 1876 married: Cora Blanch Palmer
Died: 8-16-1949 obit: Allegheny Conference 1944,65
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 363
Gilbble list: no
1906 quarterly conference license
1909 license, Allegheny Conference
1914 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Scottdale PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1949,76
1906-11 Youngwood
1911-12 [Davis-Mills evangelistic team]
1912-23 Tyrone
1923-26 evangelist
1926-28 Johnstown Westmont
1928-31 Altoona Second
1931-33 Trafford
1933-49 Mount Pleasant
Note: Ernest G. Sawyer is the father of John R. Sawyer and grandfather of John Carson Sawyer (1946-) of the Virginia Conference.
SAWYER, JOHN R.
Born: 20-12-1909Youngwood PAmarried: Miriam Carson
Died: 12-?-1983obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 382
Gibble list: no
1932 quarterly conference license
1934 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Mount Pleasant
Interment:
Obit: Virginia Conference 1984,?
1934-36 at school
1936 transfer to Virginia Conference
Franklin
Blairton-Greensburg
1941- Staunton St. Paul's
Note: John R. Sawyer is the son of Earnest G. Sawyer and the father of John Carson Sawyer (1946-)of the Virginia Conference. A biographical sketch is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia Conference.
SCHAEFFER, HARRY ELIAS
Born: 1-2-1887
Died: 6-10-1972
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1912 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1972,394
1912-15
1915-21
1921-62 Penbrook
1962 retired
Note: Mrs. Schaeffer was first married to a Rev. C.S.
Thompson, affiliation unknown, who died in 1934. Her first spouse may have been Charles F.
Thompson (d. 1934) of the East Ohio Conference of the
SCHAFF, JACOB GIDEON
Born: 7-28-1835 married: Susan Peters
Died: 9-21-1881 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 312
Gibble list: no
1857 license
1860 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1857-58
1858-60 York Springs circuit
1860-61 Shippensburg circuit
1861-63
1863-64 Littlestown
1864-66 ?
1866-68
1868-69 Greencastle circuit
1869-70
1870 withdrew, over his opinions on the nature and destiny of man
1875 editor
of the
Note: Beers’ 1887 History of Franklin County, page 682,
gives a brief account of the family. The
1905 Biographical Annals of Franklin County, page 284, gives a detailed account
of the family.
SCHAFFER, FREDERICK
Born: married:
Died: 1814 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 11
Gibble list: yes
1789 license
1813 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1807-08
1813-14
Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography.
SCHAFFER, JOHANN
Born: 5-19-1831 married:
Died: 3-5-1881 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
? license
Interment:
Obit: East German Conference Oct 1881,11
1874 transfer to East German Conference
SCHELL, MARVIN KEPLEY
Born: 11-17-1901
Died: 11-12-1983 obit: Wyoming Conference 1977,243
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1931 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1935 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Myerstown PA (?)
Obit:
1935-40
1940-41 no appointment – see 1940,33
1941-43 northeast district secretary, Pennsylvania YMCA
1943 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of Methodist Church
1943-45
1945-57
1957-66
1966-73
1973-76
1976 retired
SCHILDT, JOHN W.
Born: 5-15-1934 married: Mary Ann Oyer
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 759
Gibble list: no
1956 license
1962 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1956-60 Big Pool-Wolfsville
1960-61 Wolfsville
1961-67
1967-70 Chewsville Bethel
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-02 Chewsville Bethel
Note: Mrs. Schildt is the daughter of Russell Oyer. Rev. Schildt is the author of several historical books. See the biographical files for more details.
SCHINDLER, GEORGE
Born: 6-13-1837
Died: 5-20-1902 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [SHINDLER]
1871 license, East German Conference
1874 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1872-73 Susquehanna circuit
1873-74 Schaefferstown circuit
1874-75 Brunnerville circuit
1875-77
1877-78
1878-79 Avon
1879-80 Middleburg circuit
1880-81 Pine Grove
1881-82
1882-83 Valley View circuit
1892-93
Note: The record of George Schindler is unclear. He appears to have lived most of his life in
Powell’s Valley and ministered from there.
In addition to the appointments above, he is reported to have served
Sinking Springs and
SCHLICHTER, HIRAM A.
Born: 12-18-1838 near Upper Strasburg PA married: Barbara Strock
Died: 11-22-1899 Duncannon PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 326
Gibble list: no
1861 license
1865 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1900,43
1860-61 Greencastle circuit
1861-62 Perry circuit
1862-63 Ickesburg circuit (resigned to serve 9 months in the Army)
1863-64
1864-66 Shippensburg circuit
1866-68 Littlestown
1868-71
1871-75
1875-78
1878-81 Mechanicsburg station
1881-84 Boiling Springs
1884-85 Rocky Spring station
1885-86 Orrstown
1886-90 presiding elder, Chambersburg District
1890-91
1892-93
1893-94 Mt. Pleasant, Allegheny Conference
1894-95 living
in
1895-97
1897-98 living
in
1898-99
1899- Duncannon
Note: The 1868 assignments list York Springs for H.A.
Schlichter, but apparently he “traded” with John Fohl for Baltimore Second
before the appointments took effect.
SCHMID, WILLIAM LEE
Born: 12-2-1935 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 788
Gibble list: no
1960 license, recommended by York Fifth
1965 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1959-61 West Hill
1961-62 student assistant, York Fifth
1962-65 student, United Theological Seminary
1965-66
1966-68 Dorsey
1968 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Synod of the
Note: Our Lutheran records are incomplete. In 1981, Rev.
Schmid was serving
SCHMIDT, AUGUST
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1893-10 Old Otterbein
1911-28 listed
in
1929 no longer listed
Note: August Schmidt was a member of the Ohio German
Conference. Old Otterbein was affiliated
with the following Conferences: East German 1871-1901, Ohio German 1901-1918,
East Pennsylvania 1918-1934,
SCHMITT, JOSEPH H.
Born: 10-26-1887 Chambersburg PA married: Eunice M. Barger
Died: 10-25-1962 obit: 1948,35
Miller-Raker #: 608
Gibble list: no
1914 quarterly conference license, Hagerstown Grace
1915 license, Virginia Conference
1918 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1963,46
1914-15 Rockingham circuit, Virginia Conference
1915-18 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1916-18 Aley
Chapel and
1918 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1918-20
1920-22
1922-32 New
1932-37
1937-48
1948-53
1953 retired
Note: Joseph H. Schmitt was an accomplished poet. Mrs. Schmitt is the daughter of William D.
Barger. They had no children.
SCHMITTLE, LESTER CHRISTOPHER
Born: 5-23-1905 Glasgow PA married: Sara L. Edwards
Died: 3-5-1991 obit: [d. 1967]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Dorothy A. Fagley Gwin
Gibble list: no
1937 quarterly conference license
1939 license, Allegheny Conference
1941 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991,339
1938-41 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary
1941-47 Altoona Schum Memorial
1947-62 Everson Mt. Olive
1962-79 Pitcarin
1970 retired
SCHMUCK, DAVID WESLEY
Born: 10-11-1938 married: Nedra _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 768
Gibble list: no
1958 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
1963 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1956-60 student, Lebanon Valley Colege
1958-60 Fishing Creek
1960-63 student, United Theological Seminary
1960-65 youth pastor,
1963-68 Windsor
Grace
1974-75 sabbatical
1975-76 York Springs-Arnold’s
1976-82
1992-93 Tyrone Wesley
1993-99 Mechanicsburg Wesley
1999- Lewistown First
Note: David W. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a brother to Dwight M. Schmuck and Keith J. Schmuck.
SCHMUCK, DWIGHT MILLER
Born: 3-8-1936 married: Susan K. Stambach
Died: 10-15-2000 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1966 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
Interment:
Obit:
1968-70 Maytown
1970-74 Lewisberry-Lisburn (ending 12/31/1973)
1974 withdrew
Note: Dwight M. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a
brother to David W. Schmuck and Keith J. Schmuck.
SCHMUCK, KEITH JONATHAN
Born: married: Diane _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1968 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg First
1970 ordained deacon
1976 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-69
1969-70 ?
1970-73 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1970-71
1971-72 Ephrata First assistant, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1973 Crandon campground ministry, Wisconsin Conference
1973-75 Rosewood,
1975-81 Millville-Greenwood
1987-96
2001- Lykens
Note: Keith J. Schmuck is a son of Miller S. Schmuck, and a
brother to David W. Schmuck and Dwight M. Schmuck.
SCHMUCK, MILLER SAMUEL
Born: 5-30-1910 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 677
Gibble list: no
1932 license, recommended by York First
1939 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1932-36 student,
1935-36
1936-39 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1938-39
1939-42 Lemaster
1942-49
1949-54
1954-68 Mechanicsburg First
1968-75 Wrightsville Grace
1975 retired
1976-81 Pine Grove (until 11/16/81)
1981-82 Winterstown (beginning 11/16/81)
1982-83
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SCHNEIDER, GEORGE (see SNYDER, JOHN GEORGE)
SCHNEIDER, CARL
Born: 1825
Died: 6-10-1889
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1857 license, Ohio German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1867-70
1870-73
living in
1886 retired, joined Baltimore Third
Note: This surname is also rendered SNYDER. Baus’ 1967 Centennial History of Baltimore
Third, page 29, gives a picture and brief biography. While the 1885 UB Yearbook gives his address
as
SCHOLDE, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 135
Gibble list: yes
1828 license
1829 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1828-29
1831-32
1834-36 Westmoreland circuit
1837 name erased
SCHOLLAR, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 242
Gibble list: yes
1841 license, recommended by Old Otterbein
1843 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1840-43
1843-44 ?
1844-46
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-47 Dauphin
circuit
1849-51
1853 charter member of Ohio German Conference
1853- presiding elder,
Note: This surname is also rendered SCHOLLER and
SHOLLER. There are several references to
him regarding German publications in Ness’ 1966 History of Publishing in the
SCHROPP, HENRY
Born: 3-7-1811 near Pinegrove PA married: Priscilla ____
Died: 11-17-1890 obit: [10/3/1818 – 12/8/1891]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [SCHROOP]
1848 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1851 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: East German Conference 1891,44
1847-48
1848-50 Halifax circuit
1850-51
1851-54 Lebanon
1854-55 presiding elder
1855-56 Myerstown
1856-57
1857-60
1860-62 presiding elder
1862-63
1863-64 Bellegrove circuit
1865-66 Jonestown circuit
1868-69 Union Deposit circuit
1870 transfer to East German Conference
1871-72 presiding elder
1872-73
1873-78 presiding elder
1878-79 Bellegrove circuit
1880 located,
living in
Note: This name is also rendered HEINRICH SHROPP. He supposedly also served at Annville and Mountville. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 461, gives a brief biography.
SCHULTZ, ELMER ALBERT ROBERT
Born: 5-25-1903 married: Alice Flegal
Died: 5-28-1988 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 314
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Ethlynne Weaver
Fulton #: 498 obit2:
Gilbble list: no
1920 quarterly conference license
1925 license, Allegheny Conference
1928 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Green Ridge Memorial Park, Connellsville PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988,375
1925-26 Rochester Mills
1926-28 Hollsopple
1928-45 Connellsville
1945-51 Greensburg Otterbein
1951-67 Johnstown First
1967 retired
1967-76 East Connellsville
1979-80 visitation minister, Connellsville Wesley
1981 Star Junction, Little Redstone & Newell (Apr – Jun)
1981-85 Dunbar Wesley
SCHUMAN, JAMES EBAUGH
Born: 4-6-1938 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 769
Gibble list: no
1958 license, recommended by Hanover Lohr’s Memorial
1963 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1963-64 Newburg
1967-70 Yorkana-Mt. Pisgah
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-73
1973-77 leave of absence
1978 withdrew, page 154
Note: Rev. Schuman appears to have had a subsequent
relationship to Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in
SCHWALM, CLARENCE W.
Born: 8-2-1884 Valley View PA married: Anna M. Ryland
Died: 11-2-1948 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1919 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 pre-med
student,
1917-18 Grantville circuit (beginning 1/14/1918)
1918-23 student,
1923-24 inter,
1924-48 physician, living in Shoemakersville
Note: Although an ordained elder, Clarence W. Schwalm did
not itinerate. He graduated from
SCHWOPE, BENEDICT
Born: 10-30-1731 married: Susanna Welker
Died: 3-30-1810 obit: [1731-1795]
Miller-Raker #: 8
Gibble list: yes
1772 ordained, German Reformed Church
Interment:
Obit:
1771-73
1773-76 Pipe Creek
1789 joined Pennsylvania Conference
1790 moved
to
Note: This surname is also rendered SWOPE. Glatfelter’s 1980 German Lutheran and
Reformed Churches in
SCOTT, G.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
? license
Interment:
Obit:
1860 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1860-61
1861-62 New
1862 withdrew
SCRIBNER, JOHN WOODBURY
Born: 3-7-1840 Raymond NH married: Mary Ermina Wray [6/3/1866]
Died: 5-12-1912 Ocean Park ME obit: [b. 12/7/1848]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [SCHRIBER]
1869 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1860-64 student,
1864-73 president
1873-74 faculty,
1874 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1874-75 faculty,
1875-76
1876 “transfer” to Free-Will Baptist denomination
1876-69
1879-82 New
1882-84 Centre
1890’s Epsom NH Free-Will Church
Note: Limited information on J. Woodbury Scribner is
available in the biographical files at the conference archives.
SEARLE, HAZEL
Born: 12-16-1900 married: John Searle
Died: 10-6-1961 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1927 license, Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Ohio Sandusky Conference 1962,106
1927-29 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1929 credentials returned
SEARLE, JOHN C.
Born: 8-11-1903 married: Hazel _____
Died: 11-10-1997 obit: Ohio Sandusky Conference 1962,106
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1927 license, Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: West Ohio Conference 1998,?
1927-30 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1930 transfer to Sandusky Conference
1930-32 Bascom
1932-44 Shelby
1944- Bowling Green
Note: John C. Searle is the father of John C. Searle Jr. of the West Ohio Conference.
SEAVERS, GILMORE B.
Born: 2-13-1917 married:
Died: 12-15-1999 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 730
Gibble list: no
1950 license
Interment:
Obit:
1950-55 living
in
1955-57 (first)
superintendent,
1957 withdrew, page 82
1957-70 staff,
1970-80 president,
1980 retired
Note: He is the namesake of the
SECHRIST, CHARLES R.
Born: 5-12-1900
Died: 8-17-1983 Dallastown PA obit: 1984,393
Miller-Raker #: 660
Gibble list: no
1927 quarterly conference license
1928 license, recommended by Windsor Grace
1936 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1984,380
1928-29
1929-33 Bog Pool-Middleburg
1933-43 Rohrersville
1943-52 Red Lion circuit
1952-67
1967 retired
SECHRIST, HENRY A.
Born: 3-22-1857 Dallastown PA married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1880 quarterly conference license, Dallastown
1882 license, Miami Conference
1884 ordained, Miami Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1880-81 student,
1881-83 student, Union Biblical Seminary at
1883-84 Shippensburg & Orrstown circuit
1884-05
1905-13 field
secretary, Church Erection Society of the
1913-19+ financial
secretary, Otterbein Home at
Note: Henry A. Sechrist was a member of the Miami Conference from 1884 until his death about 1930. A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch.
SEELING, CHAUNCEY E.
Born: 1890 married: Martha “Mae” Mitzel [2/2/1909]
Died: obit: [b. 5/?/1888]
Miller-Raker #: 622
Gibble list: no
1923 license, recommended by Yoe
Interment:
Obit:
1928 returned to quarterly conference license, page 49
SEESE, HARVEY BOYER
Born: 4-21-1869 Elton PA married: Nellie M. Arthur
Died: 2-2-1939 Johnstown PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1949,75
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 484
Gilbble list: no
1894 license, Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1897 ordained, Pittsburgh Conference of the United Evangelical Church
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1939,57
1921-22 Johnstown Circuit
1922-23 Bens Creek
1923-24 St. Michael, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
1924 transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
1924-26 East Freedom
1926-31 Greenwood
1931-34 Clearfield (beginning 9/28/31, apparently originally assigned to continue at Clearfield)
1934-37 Altoona Grace
1937-39 Johnstown Westmont
SEESE, SAMUEL RILEY
Born: 5-7-1866 near Normalville PA married: Anna Kate Owen
Died: 4-28-1937 obit: [d. 4/21/1934]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 254 & 411
Gilbble list: no
1893 quarterly conference license
1893 license, Allegheny Conference
1900 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Scottdale PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1937,57
1893-94 Copeland
1894-96 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1896-98 Madison
1898-00 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1900-07 Johnstown Park Avenue
1907-09 Altoona Second
1909-10 Toledo, Iowa Conference
1910 transfer to Iowa Conference
1910-12 Toledo
1912-13 Lisbon
1913-14 McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial, Allegheny Conference
1914 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1914-16 McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial
1916-20 (without appointment for health reasons)
1920 Mt. Nebo on the Westmoreland charge (ending 3/1921)
1921-26 Westmoreland (beginning 3/1921)
1926-28 Mt. Pleasant
1928 without appointment
1929 retired
1929-35 living in Florida for wife's health
Note: Some sources give the date of death for Mrs. Seese as 8/26/1934.
SEIBERT, LORENZ [
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 161
Gibble list: yes
1830 license
Interment:
Obit:
1830 charter
member of
Note: There appears to be no record of Rev. Seibert in the Virginia Conference.
SEIDERS, MARLIN DAVID
Born: 1-9-1927 married: Nancy Jean Deimler
Died: 2-1-2006 obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 2006,?
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1946 quarterly
conference license,
1947 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1949 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1943-47 student,
1945-47
1947-50 student, Evangelical School of Theology in
1947-49 Hillsdale
1949-50 Grantville & Manada Hill
1950-51 student,
1950-51 Grantville & Manada Hill
1951-82 chaplain,
1982-84 staff,
1984-91
1991 retired
SEIDERS, SAMUEL
Born: 3-35-1796 married:
Died: 3-29-1859 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 230
Gibble list: yes
1838 license
1841 ordained
Interment: Ranck’s Church, New Holland PA
Obit:
1841-42
1843-45
1845-46
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-48 Northumberland mission
1848-49 presiding elder
1849-51 Highspuire circuit
1851-52 Dauphin circuit
1852-53 Millheim circuit
1853-55 West Branch circuit
1855-56 Hopeland circuit
1856-57 presiding elder
1857-58 Dauphin-Hummelstown circuit
1858-59 New Holland circuit
SEILER, JOHN F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 298
Gibble list: no
1851 license
Interment:
Obit:
1850-51 New Bloomfield (last part of year)
1851-52
1852-53
1852 transfer to Sandusky Conference
Note: The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 98, gives brief biographical comments.
SELDOMRIDGE, ISAAC NEWTON
Born: 9-30-1868 married: M. Adele Kendig
Died: 10-10-1957 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1962,67
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1897 quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant
1900 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1907 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Heller’s
Obit:
1899-00
1900-01 Hopeland
1901-02 Hillsdale
1912-13
1913-20
1920-23
1923-29 Oberlin
1929-39 Myerstown
1939-42 Manheim
1942 retired
1943-44 Manor circuit
SELLERS, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1895-96 York Springs
Note: Rev. Sellers appears to be a lay supply person filling
a temporary gap. In 1896, York Springs
was attached to Bendersville.
SENSENY, JOHN
Born: married: _____ Gonder
Died: 1819 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 35 married2:
Gibble list: yes
1800 license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John Senseny is the son of Peter Senseny.
SENSENY, PETER
Born: 1738 married: Mrs. Ursula Shoneur Senseny
Died: 9-8-1804 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 40 married2:
Maria Holl [1784]
Gibble list: yes
1801 license
1802 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1807,5 [see also biographical files]
Note: This surname is also rendered SENCENY and
SENSENEY. Peter Senseny, a medical
doctor and the 1796 founder of
SEWELL, T.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 304
Gibble list: no
1854 license
Interment:
Obit:
1852-53 Hershey’s station
1853-54
1855 withdrew
SEXTON, TIMOTHY FRANKLIN
Born: 1-14-1890 near Indiana PA married: Sarah Alberta Mock
Died: 3-18-1988 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982,444
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1916 license, Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association
1933 ordained deacon
1941 ordained elder
Interment: Mt. Tabor Cemetery, New Florence PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1988,376
1916-20 Indiana
1920-22 Brush Valley
…
1937-44 Blairsville-Robinson
1944-49 Oak Ridge
1949-51 Johnstown Mission
1951 transfer by boundary change to Western Pennsylvania Conference EUB
1951-52 Bowserdale
1952-56 Marchand
1956-58 Woodland
1958-59 Bigler
1959 retired
Note: Timothy F. Sexton was never United Brethren. He is listed in the United Brethren files because the only Susquehanna Conference congregations he served (Woodland and Bigler) were former United Brethren congregations of the Allegheny Conference.
SHADE, B.N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1868 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1867-68
1868-69 Middleburg circuit
1870 withdrew
SHAEFFER, JOSEPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
? license
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74
Note: Joseph Shaeffer gave the 1874 statistical report for
SHAEFFER, PHILLIP
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1874-75 Pine Grove circuit
Note: This Philip Shaeffer is otherwise unknown.
SHAFFER, COLIN JACOB
Born: 12-27-1934 married: Lynette _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 805
Gibble list: no
1963 license, recommended by Dover Otterbein
1971 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1962-65 Barts
1965-71 Keystone-Perry
1971-74
1974-91 Biglerville
1991-93 Shippensburg Christ
1993-99 Three Mounts
1999 retired
SHAFFER, GLEN C.
Born: 4-3-1910 married: Zelma L. Shauck
Died: 6-?-1987 obit: [1/4/1912 – 9/24/2002]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 532
Gibble list: no
1928 quarterly conference license
1930 license, Allegheny Conference
1935 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1928-32 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1932-35 student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ
1935-38 Greenwood
1938-42 Greensburg
1942-65 chaplain, US Army and US Air Force (retired, 1965)
1965-66 student
1966-67 without appointment
1967 no longer listed
Note: Starting in 1965, Glen C. Shaffer settled in
Westerville OH. He appears to have been
involved in a counseling ministry and maintained close ties with Otterbein
College. He served almost until his
death in interim and assistant pastor positions in multiple Presbyterian
churches across central Ohio – including Mifflin, Gahanna, and Columbus
Central.
SHAFFER, JACOB T.
Born: 10-8-1843
Died: 8-6-1909 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 347
Gibble list: yes
1866 license
1870 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1866-67 Rocky Spring circuit
1867-68
1868-70 Shippensburg mission
1870-71 Littlestown
1871-73 Greencastle
1873-74 Newville
1874-75 Shippensburg
1875-77 Duncannon
1877-78
1877-81
1881-85 Mechanicsburg
1885-86 Mount Joy
1887-90
1890 Newburg
(appointed but did not serve: 1891,20)
1892 transfer
to Maryland Conference
1893-95
1895 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1895-98
1898 Baltimore Fifth (did not finish the year: 1899,19)
1898-00 Mountville,
1900 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1900-03 Annville
1903-06
1906-09
Note: He is often incorrectly denoted J.T. “Shaeffer” in Pennsylvania Conference journals. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 442, gives relevant information. Mrs. Shaffer is the sister of W. Otterbein Smith and a niece of Jacob C. Smith.
SHAFFER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: 1881 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
? license
Interment:
Obit:
1869-70
1873-74
1874 transfer to East German Conference
1880 living
in
Note: This surname is also rendered SHEAFFER and SCHAFFER, and the given name sometimes appears as JOHANN. He appears to have been a member of the Pennsylvania Conference, since he transferred out in 1874, but there is no information concerning his license.
SHAFFNER, JACOB S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1855 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1863 transfer to
SHAMBAUGH, ELMER PARKER
Born: 11-4-1933 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 746
Gibble list: no
1953 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1958 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1953-54 student,
1954-55 West Hill
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1958-60 New
1960-62 living
in
1962 dropped, no longer EUB: page 82
Note: His 2003 address is
SHANK, ABRAHAM H.
Born: married:
Died: Parsons KS obit:
Miller-Raker #: 390
Gibble list: no
1880 license
1884 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1877 A.B.
degree,
1879 A.M.
degree,
1880-82 Newville station
1882-85 Newburg station
1885-86
1886-87 Orrstown station
1887-89
1889 withdrew
1891 joined the United Brethren (Old Constitution)
1891-93 presiding
elder,
1893-94 presiding elder, Pennsylvania Conference
1894-97
1897 Shippensburg mission
1897 granted certificate of transfer, page 23
SHANK, JOSEPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [SHENK]
Interment:
Obit: 1838,41
Note: This person is unknown. His death is noted, but there is no record of his being licensed, ordained, or serving a circuit.
SHANNON, ABSALOM LINCOLN
Born: 4-19-1864 married: Linnie Erb
Died:12-13-1900 Highspire PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 425
Gibble list: yes
1887 license
Interment:
Obit:
1887-88 living in Shippensburg
1888-90 student,
1888-90
1890 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1890-92 Pequea
1892-93 Philadelphia Mount Pisgah [First] (did not finish year)
1893-94 student, Union Seminary
1894-96 Ephrata
1896-98 Mountville
1898-00 Highspire
Note: A.L. Shannon is the father of Paul E.V. Shannon.
SHANNON, CHARLES E.
Born: 1868 married: Charlotte _____
Died: 1953 obit: Allegheny Conference 1935,60
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Loretta Belle Dobson
Fulton #: 465 obit2: Allegheny Conference 1946,61
Gibble list: no
1911 quarterly conference license
1922 license, Allegheny Conference
1937 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1953,22
1911 Bethel (10 months)
1911-13 Springfield
1913-15 Susquehanna
1915-22
1922 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference
1922-23 Port Matilda
1923-27 Fayette
1927-31 Wyano
1931-33 Jefferson
1933-42 Fairmount
1942-44 Wyano
1944-46 Rochester Mills
1946 retired
Note: It is unclear how or where Charles E. Shannon was involved 1915-22.
SHANNON,
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1881 license, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1881
1881-82 Manheim
1882-83 Freeburg
1883-84
1884-85 Tremont
1885 referred
SHANNON, PAUL EUGENE VIRGIL
Born: 3-25-1898 Mountville PA married: Josephine S. Mathias
Died: 5-23-1957
Miller-Raker #: 642 married2:
Katherine Higgins
Gibble list: yes
1917 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1920 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1957,42
1914-18 student,
1917-18 Hillsdale
1918-21 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1918-19 Veedersburg,
1919-20 field representative, Bonebrake Seminary
1920-21
1921 transfer to Miami Conference
1921-24
1924-25 living
in
1925 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 71
1925-27
1927-28 field representative, Bonebrake Seminary
1928-35 Dallastown Bethlehem
1935-48
1948-57 superintendent, Pennsylvania Conference
1957 bishop
Note: Paul E.V. Shannon is the son of A.L. Shannon. Following the untimely death of his father, his sister and brother were the first residents of the Quincy Orphanage. Mrs. Katherine Higgins Shannon is a sister to D. Rayborn Higgins, and she married widower bishop J. Gordon Howard in 1967.
SHARP, EARNEST A.
Born: 3-19-1878 near Mahaffey PA married: Hannah Buhan
Died: 4-16-1946 East Freedom PA obit: [1880 - ?]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 329
Gibble list: no
1898 quarterly conference license
1904 license, Allegheny Conference
1920 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946, 63
1899-02 Hooversville
1902-03 Juniata
1903-05 student,
1903-04 Ostrander, Sandusky Conference (6 months)
1904 West Decatur (4 months)
1904-05 Bowlusville, Miami Conference (7 months)
1905 New Paris (4 months)
1905-08 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1911-12 Hershey,
1912-13 Bradford, Erie Conference (6 months)
1913-16 Portage First
1916-21
1921-22 Latrobe
1922-23 Connellsville
1923-26 Philipsburg
1926-29
1931-35
1935-37 Monessen
1937-38 Altoona Grace
1938-46 East Freedom
SHAY, RUSSELL LUCAS
Born: 3-13-1897
Died: 11-21-1970 obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1990,316
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1921 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem
1922 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1931 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
Obit:
1919-24 high
school teacher,
1923-24 Manada Hill
1924-28 high
school teacher,
1928-31 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1929
1929
West Mansfield,
1931-40
1940-46 chaplain, U.S. Army
1946-51 Cleona & Pleasant Hill
1951-57 chaplain, U.S. Army
1957-62
1962 retired
SHEAFFER, AARON MILTON
Born: married: Patricia _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1953 license,
recommended by
1958 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1951-55 student,
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary
1958-60 assistant,
1960-70 staff,
United Theological Seminary in
1970 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-91 faculty, United Theological Seminary
1991 pastor of arts and outreach, Dayton Oh Shiloh
1991 retired
SHEAFFER, ELEANORE F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1930 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1930 transfer to Colorado-New Mexico Conference
1950 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference and classified as local elder, page 47
Note: This surname is also rendered SCHAEFFER.
SHEAFFER, GRANT L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1891-92
1892-94
1901 withdrew
SHEAFFER, LEE EARL
Born: 11-26-1901 Carlisle PA married: Lena Alice Heishman
Died: 10-?-1978 obit: (biographical files)
Miller-Raker #: 639
Gibble list: no
1925 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
Interment:
Obit:
1927 transfer to Virginia Conference
Shenandoah
Broadway
Pendleton-Grant
1956 retired
Note: Lee E. Sheaffer is not a brother to W. Clark Sheaffer. He is the father of Lee Benjamin Sheaffer of the Virginia Conference. Glovier’s 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 263, gives a brief biography.
SHEAFFER, W.
Born: 6-14-1884 married: Alice M. Houck
Died: 11-15-1957 obit: 1934,23
Miller-Raker #: 627 married2:
Mary Owen
Gibble list: no
1924 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1931 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1925-26 ?, Virginia Conference
1926-27 Shermansdale
1927 local
Note: W. Clark Sheaffer is not a brother to Lee E.
Sheaffer. He is the grandfather (via
daughter Leah with his second wife) of Charles W. Salisbury of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the
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SHEARER, DANIEL LEROY
Born: married: Irma Isabel Kieffer
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 684
Gibble list: yes
1936 license, recommended by Jefferson Bethlehem
1941 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1934-38 student,
1938-41 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1939-40 Twin Creek OH, Congregational Christian Church
1940-41 West
Sonora,
1941-44 Silver Springs
1944 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1944-53
1953-62 Ephrata First
1962-70 Hummelstown Trinity
1970-73 superintendent, New Cumberland District
1973-80 director, Conference Council on Ministries
1980-82 superintendent, State College District
1982 retired
1982-91 administrative assistant, Harrisburg Area Bishop’s Office
Note: Daniel L. Shearer is the son of Monroe J. Shearer Jr and a brother to Monroe J. Shearer Jr and Wilson A. Shearer.
SHEARER,
Born: 7-30-1924 married: Thelma Zimmerman
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 711
Gibble list: no
1948 license, recommended by Jefferson Bethlehem
1952 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1951-52
1952-55 Red Lion circuit
1955-58 Spring Run
1958-62 Enola First
1961-70 Myersville
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-71 Myersville
1971-76
1976 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1976-82 Hustontown
1982
1982-83 Three Springs (beginning Oct 29)
1983-84 Felton Bethany
1984 retired
Note:
SHEARER,
Born: 12-30-1897 near Spring Grove PA married: Edith Diehl
Died: 5-21-1989 obit: 1989,474
Miller-Raker #: 710
Gibble list: no
1948 license
1949 ordained
Interment: St. Peter’s (Lischeys)
Obit: 1989,475
1945-48 Gardners-Mt. Victory
1948-54 Dillsburg
1954-59
1959-62 Emigsville
1962-67 Chewsville
1967 retired
1968-75 Pleasant Grove
Note:
SHEARER, WILLIAM H.
Born: 11-9-1849
Died: 1-18-1910 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 381
Gibble list: no
1871 quarterly conference license, Shermansdale charge
1876 license
1879 ordained
Interment: Young’s Church,
Obit: 1910,115
1877-78 Orrstown
1878-80 Mercersburg
1880-81 Shippensburg
1881-82
1882-86 locate, throat trouble
1886-89 Shoops [Shiremanstown]
1889-90 Mount Wolf
1890 located, rheumatism
SHEARER, WILSON A.
Born: 5-29-1931 married: Marilyn Evans
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 738
Gibble list: no
1951 license
1954 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1954-57 Middleburg-Shiloh
1957-65 York Third [St. Luke’s]
1965-70 director, Conference Youth Ministry and Camping
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-76
1976-82 superintendent,
1982-85 assistant, Washington Area Bishop’s Office
1985-96
1996 retired
SHEETZ, BYRON WILBUR
Born: 6-12-1901
Died: 7-1-1976 obit: [Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1981,285]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1924 quarterly conference license, St. Jacobs in Powell’s Valley
1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1931 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1924-28 student,
1925-28 Powell’s Valley
1928-31 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1928-29 Alpha OH
1929-31 Harrison-Rockville,
1931-66
1966 retired
Note: The birth date for Mrs. Sheetz, not given in her obituary, is 10/8/1904.
SHELLENBERGER, G.G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1878-1879
Note: G.G. Shellenberger is otherwise unknown.
SHELLEY, CHARLES A.
Born: married: Esther M. Zimmerman
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 697
Gibble list: no
1944 license
1946 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1940-44 student,
1944-47 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1944-45
1945-46 Dayton Otterbein assistant, Miami Conference
1948-50 Winterstown
1950-52
1952 withdrew, page 65
SHELLEY, CLARENCE E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 606
Gibble list: no
1918 license
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 living in Walkersville
1919-20 living in Newburg
1920 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1920-22
1922-23 Cassellman
1923-24 Port Matilda
1924-26 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1926-27 without appointment
1927 withdrew, page 106
SHELLY, JAMES M.
Born: 3-3-1866 near Quakertown PA married: Laura Hoover
Died: 7-3-1944 obit: Philadelphia Conference 1935,596
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1889 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1892 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889-90 Hummelstown
1890-91
1891-94
1894-96
1896-99 Steelton Centenary
1899-02
1902 honorable dismissal
1902 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1902-03
1903-06 New
1906-08 Coxestown
1908-10 Narberth
1910-13
1913-17 Birdsboro
1917-20 Shenandoah
1922-26
1926-31
1931-34
1934-35 Strasburg
1936-42 Quakertown
1942 retired
1942-44Evansburg
SHELLY, WILLIAM NEWCOMER
Born: 10-8-1814
Died: 8-4-1893 obit: [1821 – 7/6/1856]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Anna Taylor [12/24/1856]
Gibble list: yes married3: Juliana Slough
obit3:
? license,
1880 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit: East German Conference 1893,50
1879-80 Bucks County circuit, East German Conference of United Brethren Church
1880 transfer to East German Conference, page 8
apparently not assigned
SHENEFELT, TEDFORD L.
Born: 1-4-1922 married: Alberta Kalbach
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 716
Gibble list: no
1949 license
1951 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1949-51
1951-52
1952-54 chaplain, US Navy
1954 transfer to New York Conference
1954-56
1956 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1956-59 Greenmount
1959-73 chaplain, Veterans Administration
1973 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1973-89 chaplain, Veterans Administration
1989 retired
Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 403, gives a grief biography of Tedford L. Shenefelt.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
Note: E.F. Sherman is a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian
Church, appointed when the assigned pastor did not accept his assignment – see
1903, page 5. Apparently the possibility
that he would join the United Brethren permanently did not materialize. A Rev. E.F. Sherman is listed as performing a
marriage at the
SHERRICK, GEORGE WASHINGTON
Born: 9-1-1858 Everson PA married: Emma Mary Linton
Died: 10-7-1918 Dallastown PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1902,47
Miller-Raker #: 559 married2:
Margaret Beaver
Gibble list: no
1885 license, Tennessee Conference
1888 ordained, Tennessee Conference
Interment: Scotdale PA
Obit: 1918,81
1884-84 White Pine circuit
1885-87
1887-89 Braddock Second, Allegheny Conference
1889 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1889-90 Braddock Second
1890-92 Mt. Pleasant
1892-94 Westmoreland circuit
1894-97 Pitcairn
1897-01 presiding elder, East District
1901-03
1903-06 Johnstown Walnut Grove
1906-08 Huntingdon
1908-09
1909 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1909-11
1911-16 Shippensburg
1916-18 Dallastown
Note: This branch of the Sherrick family appears to have
Mennonite roots in
SHERRICK, HENRY GRISSINGER
Born: 6-8-1842 near Mount Joy PA married: Frances I. _____
Died: 4-3-1886 near
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1874 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1878 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Henry G. Sherrick did not itinerate, but remained a local elder.
SHERRIFF, STANLEY GEORGE
Born: 1-16-1905
Died: 3-22-1981
Miller-Raker #: 657
Gibble list: no
1927 ordained, Sandusky Conference
Interment: St. Mark’s UM Church,
Obit:
1927-28 student,
1928 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1928-29
1929-31 living
in
1931-33
1933-35
student,
1935-38 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1938-44 Myersville
1944 transfer to Sandusky Conference
1944-50 Old Fort
1950-56 McClure
1961-62
1962-66 Whitehouse Zion
1966-70 Oceola- Salem
1970 retired
Note:
SHERRIFF, WILLIAM ERNST
Born: 4-5-1898
Died: 10-29-1976 obit: [1991,476]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1929 quarterly conference license, Cleona
1930 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1934 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1977,263
1928 Tom’s Brook VA (10/1/28 to 12/31/28)
1931-32 Hummelstown circuit
1932-37 Manor
1937-41 Enders & Powell’s Valley
1941-43 Grantville
1943-51 Bellegrove circuit
1951-56 Highspire
1956-66 Stehman’s & Green Hill
1966 retired
1966-69 Union Deposit
1969-70 Shopes
1970 transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-75 Shopes
Note: William E. Sherriff is a brother to Stanley G. Sherriff. The birth date for Mrs. Sherriff is 9/6/1898.
SHETTEL, JOHN AULT
Born: 2-1-1865 near Shiremanstown PA married: Elizabeth G. Crowl
Died: 2-26-1945 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 446
Gibble list: no
1890 license
1893 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1945,28
1890-92
1892-95
1895-99
1899-01 Lemasters circuit
1901-06 Red Lion circuit
1906-09 Boonsboro
1909-11
1911-15
1915-24
1924-33 Yoe
1933 retired to Dallastown
Note: John A. Shettel is the father of Paul O. Shettel, Mrs. John L. Fehl and Mrs. Mervie H. Welty.
SHETTEL, PAUL OTTERBEIN
Born: 9-21-1895
Died: 4-26-1969 obit: 2002,373
Miller-Raker #: 594
Gibble list: no
1916 license,
recommended by
1921 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1969,211
1914-18 student,
1917 Limeridge WI, Wisconsin Conference (June-Sept)
1917-18 Mechanicsburg circuit
1918-21 student. Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1918-20 Biglerville
1920-21 Yankeetown
OH,
1921-25 Walkersville
1925-30
1930-33 Shippensburg Messiah
1933-38
1938-43 faculty,
1943-46 chaplain, US Army at
1946-50 Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church,
1950-54 Mechanicsburg First
1954-62
1962 retired
Note Paul O. Shettel is the son of John A. Shettel, and a
brother to Mrs. John L. Fehl and Mrs. Mervie H. Welty. He is the father of Rev. John E. Shettel of
the Presbyterian Church,
SHIMP, W.O.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1883-87
Note: W.O. Shimp held revivals in
SHIRES, GEORGE W.
Born: 6-23-1863
Died: 11-4-1950
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mrs. Minnie Graham
Gibble list: yes
1888 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Centenary (Methodist Episcopal)
1898 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1905 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Quentin PA
Obit:
1895-98
1898-01 Catawissa circuit
1901-03
1903-04 Lykens
1904-05 Glosbrenner
1905 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1905-08 Port Matilda
1908-10
1910-14 Tannersville,
1914 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1914-17
1917-18
1918-21
1921-23
1923-26 Eddystone
1926-30
1930-32 Hatboro
1932-37 Bristol Harriman mission
1937 retired
Born: 1-18-1880 near
Died: 6-20-1956
Miller-Raker #: 528
Gibble list: no
1904 license,
recommended by
1907 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1956,41
1904-07 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1905 Coalton,
1906 Milton, Allegheny Conference (May-Sept)
1907-42 missionary,
1942-46 Emigsville
1947-49 board
of missions,
1949 retired
Note: B. Frank Shively is a brother to Rev. John Shively of the Congregational Church. Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 409, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Shively is the daughter of John I.L. Ressler; her birthdate is7/21/1883.
SHOEMAKER, A.J.D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22 Jonestown circuit
1922-23 Pequea circuit
Note: A.J.D. Shoemaker is consistently listed without elaboration under “other employed in the conference.” His ministerial status/qualifications and affiliation are unknown.
SHOLLER, JACOB
Born: 1812
Died: obit: [b. 1810]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1844-46
1846-47 Dauphin circuit
1847-49
1849-51
Note: The 1850 census lists Jacob Sholler as a “Methodist”
preacher in Millerstown (=Annville),
SHOLTER, ROBERT HAMILTON
Born: 3-7-1908 Laurelton PA married: Dorothy Elizabeth Rodgers
Died: 7-19-1988 obit: 1990,467
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1932 quarterly
conference license,
1935 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1939 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1989, 477
1932-36 student,
1936-39 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1936-38 associate, Fort McKinley OH
1939-41 student, Hartford Seminary School of Religious Education
1943-44
1944-55
1955-70
1970 transfer by boundary charge to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-73
1973 retired
SHOOP, CHARLES WILSON
Born: 8-10-1879 Powell’s Valley PA married: Kathryn Steffy
Died: 5-17-1956 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1954,29
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1903 quarterly conference license, Union Church in Powell’s Valley
1906 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1912 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Sinking
Obit:
1904-08 student,
1905-06 Sinking Spring
1906-08 Hillsdale
1908-09 Hillsdale
1909-12 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1909-12 Wagner & Aley
Chapels,
1912 Reading Otterbein (part year)
1912-50 missionary
to
1950 retired
Note: Charles W. Shoop is a brother to William C. Shoop and Warren E. Shoop. Their father William C. Shoop (1838-?) was a local preacher and the brother of James W. Shoop.
SHOOP, JAMES W.
Born: 10-17-1840
Died: 5-25-1934 obit: [10/24/1838 – 6/10/1864]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Sarah Anna Hoy
Gibble list: yes
1863 quarterly conference license
1867 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1872 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1866-67 Bellegrove
1867-71 Valley View
1871-73 Sinking Spring
1873-74 Pine Grove
1874-77
1877-78
1878-81 Valley
View
1883-88 presiding elder
1888-90 Avon
1890-95 presiding elder
1895-96 Valley View
1896-02 Lykens circuit
1902-03 Elizabethville
1903-04
1904 retired
Note: James W. Shoop is an uncle to Charles W. Shoop, Warren E. Shoop and William C. Shoop.
SHOOP, WARREN EDWIN
Born: married: Sarah Ellen Wagner
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1908 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1908-09 Susquehanna circuit, Allegheny Conference
1909 transfer to Allegheny Conference, page 9
1909-10 Susquehanna circuit (ending soon after start of 1910-11 conference year)
1910-11
1911 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1911-13
1913-17 Hopeland
1917-19
1919-22 Enders circuit
1922-28 Catawissa
1928 dismissed
Note: Warren E. Shoop is a brother to Charles W. Shoop and
William C. Shoop. Their father William
C. Shoop (1838-?) was a local preacher and a brother to James W. Shoop.
SHOOP, WILLIAM CARSON
Born: married: Merle Dietrick
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1907 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1907-11 student,
1907-09 Union Deposit circuit
1909-10
1910-11 Chambers Hill circuit
1911-12 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1912-13 living in Wall, PA
1913 honorable dismissal, page 16
Note: William C. Shoop is a brother to Charles W. Shoop and
Warren E. Shoop. Their father William C.
Shoop (1838-?) was a local preacher and a brother to James W. Shoop [and their
father third cousin, via a common Schupp ancestor in
SHOPP, CHRISTIAN
Born: 12-22-1791 married: Sarah (Sally) M. Rupley
Died: 7-4-1873 [7-14-1872?] obit: [1792 – 11-17-1871]
Miller-Raker #: 115
Gibble list: yes
1825 license
1829 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1833-34
Note: Christian Shopp is a son of John Shopp Sr (1761-1821)
of Shiremanstown, whose home/church/cemetery location is a conference
historical site, and Anna Hershey Shopp (1765-1850), daughter of John B.
Hershey. Through a common Schupp
ancestor in
SHOVER, DONALD RAYMOND JR
Born: 10-23-1937 married: Barbara _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 764
Gibble list: no
1957 license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary
1963 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1957-59 student,
1959-60 houseparent, Otterbein Home at Lebanon PH
1960-63 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1960-63 Ridgeville
Community Church,
1963-65 Hagerstown Grace
1965-67 Ellicott
City
1970-73 Lock
Haven First
1982-87 Mechanicsburg First
1987-92 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1992-00 State College St. Paul’s
2000 retired
2000-08 bishop’s administrative assistant
SHOWERS, JOSEPH S.
Born: 3-16-1850 Paris, Ontario Canada married: Margaret O. Morrow
Died: 2-1-1935 Johnstown PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1903,55
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Alice Elizabeth Schlichter
Fulton #: 319 obit2: Allegheny Conference 1947,67
Gibble list: no
1881 quarterly conference license
1884 license, Ontario Conference
1888 ordained, Ontario Conference
Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1935,58
1902-03 Fairmount, Allegheny Conference
1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1903-05 Fairmount
1905-07 Ligonier
1907-12 Madison
1912-14 Youngwood
1914-22 Connellsville
1922-27 Portage
1927-28 Altoona mission
1928-33 Altoona Garden Heights
1933 retired
Note: Joseph S. Showers is the father of Russell S. Showers
and of noted bishop and denominational leader John Balmer Showers (1879-1962)
of the Erie Conference. The maiden name
of the second Mrs. Sowers was Elsley, and she was the widow of a Mr. Samuel D.
Schlichter.
SHOWERS, RUSSELL S.
Born: 12-14-1881 Paris, Ontario Canada married: Clara Sheifele
Died: 1934 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 320
Gibble list: no
? quarterly conference license
? license, Allegheny Conference
1915 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Dayton OH
Obit: Erie Conference 1934,37
1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1903-07 Punxsutawney
1907-08 living in Oregon for health reasons
1908-12 Portland First, Oregon Conference
1912-13 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1913-15 Bradford Hill Memorial, Erie Conference
1915 transfer to Erie Conference
1915-16 Bradford Hill Memorial
1916-25 conference superintendent
1925-29 assistant general secretary, Home Missions and Church Extension
1929-34 general secretary, Home Missions and Church extension
Note: Russell S. Showers is the son of Joseph S. Showers and
a brother of noted bishop and denominational leader John Balmer Showers
(1879-1962) of the Erie Conference. A
picture and biographical sketch appear in Weaver's 1936 History of the Erie
Conference, pages 61-63.
SHOWMAN, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 283
Gibble list: no
1846 license
1848 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1845-45 Greenvillage mission
1846-47 Littlestown circuit
1847-48 Perry circuit
1848-49 Hershey station
1849-51 Littlestown circuit
1851-52 ? (not assigned)
1852-53
1853-56
1856-57 Greencastle
circuit
1859-60 ? (not assigned)
1860 Greencastle circuit (appointed, but refused to serve)
1862 withdrew due to difficulties, page 79
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania
Conference, page 438, tells of Rev. Showman’s involvement in the
SHOWMAN, NELLIE HUTCHINSON
Born: 3-21-1869 Fayette County PA married: George Showman
Died: 10-14-1946 Connellsville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 366
Gibble list: no
1908 quarterly conference license
1909 license, Allegheny Conference
1913 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Mill Run Cemetery, Fayette County PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946,57
1915 transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference
Conneaut
Clinton
1933 transfer to Allegheny Conference
located
SHROYER, ALVIN EDGAR
Born: 5-1-1875 Pillow PA married: Lillian Grace Kreider
Died: 6-7-1920 Annville PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1963,61
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1899 license, East German Conference: recommended by Shamokin
1903 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1899-00 student,
1900-01 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-03 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1902-03 Elizabethville
1903-09 Highspire
1909-20 faculty,
1913-14 Annville
1918 Lykens circuit (Mar-Oct)
SHULTZ, CHRISTIAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 247
Gibble list: no
1841 license
Interment:
Obit:
1841 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1842 transfer to
Note: Note: Rev. Shultz is otherwise unknown. Even though he is clearly noted as “received,” his name does not appear on the alphabetical list in Gibble’s 1951 History of the Pennsylvania Conference.
SHULTZ, HORACE CLAYTON
Born: 11-6-1877
Died: 7-11-1909 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 537
Gibble list: no
1905 quarterly
conference license,
1906 license
Interment:
Obit: 1909,128
1906-09
SIECHRIST, CHRISTIAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 277
Gibble list: yes
1844 license
1847 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1848-50
1854-55 Myerstown
1856 expelled
Note: This surname is also rendered SIEGRIST. He appears to have served as a local pastor
who performed many weddings in
SILVER, MABEL I.
Born: Baltimore MD married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1931-64 missionary to Africa
Note: Dr. Mabel I. Silver served as a medical missionary in Tiama, Sierra Leone.
SIPE, HAROLD OBERDORFF
Born: 9-22-1909 Wormleysburg PA married: Ruth Emily Blemler
Died: 1-21-1995 obit: 1943,32
Miller-Raker #: 686 married2:
Mrs. Pearl Crider Schultz
Gibble list: no married 3: Madalene Koller
obit3: 1988,425
1932 quarterly conference license, Wormleysburg
1937 license, recommended by Wormleysburg
1940 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1995,454
1937-45 Biglerville
1945-51 Mechanicsburg circuit
1951-59 Scotland-Salem
1959-75
1975 retired
SIPE, RUSSELL A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street
Interment:
Obit:
1938 referred
SIPES, HORACE NELSON
Born: 4-6-1883 married: Mary C. Norris [1909]
Died: 12-29-1919 obit:
1909 admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment:
Obit:
1908-1909 Allegheny (ending 9/1909: see 1910, 68)
1909 discontinued
1909 received
on credentials, Allegheny Conference of
1909-11 Bradenville
1911 name erased
1911 received
on trial,
1913-14 Ebensburg
1915-16
1916-17
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SITES, WILLIAM ALGERNON
Born: 3-25-1880 married: Emma Eston
Died: 9-?-1964 obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conf 1968,45]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 335
Gibble list: yes
1901 quarterly conference license
1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1910 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: [
1904-05 Belsano, Allegheny Conference
1905 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1905-06 Orbisonia
1906-08
1908-10 Huntingdon
1910-15 Latrobe
1915-19
1919-25 Braddock
1925-40 Bradenville
1940-52 Latrobe
1952 retired
1955-56 Blairsville
SITLINGER, ALBERT LEROY
Born: 7-6-1908 Lykens PA married: Ruth Marie Brauti [1936]
Died: 8-3-2000 CA obit: [4/18/1902 – 3/30/1987]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1928 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lykens
Interment:
Obit:
1926-30 student,
1937 referred
Note: Albert L. Sitlinger later lived in
SITMAN, JOHN R.
Born: 1806 married: Mary Roop
Died: 4/24/1869 obit: [1809-1885]
Miller-Raker #: 174
Gibble list: yes
1832 license
1835 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1870,21
1834-35 Huntingdon circuit
1835-37 ?
1837-39 presiding elder, Huntingdon District
1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference
1839-40 presiding elder, Allegheny District
1840-41 (no minutes recorded)
1841-42
1842-43 (appointments not listed)
1843-45
1845-47 Westmoreland circuit
1847-48
1848-49 presiding elder, Huntingdon District
1849-50 Clarion mission
1850-51
1851-52 Blair circuit
1852-54 Schellsburg circuit
1854-56 Ligonier circuit
1856-57 ?
1857-58 presiding elder, East District
1858-59
1859-60 ?
1860-62 presiding elder, Middle District
1862-64 Fallen Timber
1864 apparently no longer accepting an appointment
Note: The father of Mary Roop Sitman was a first cousin to Jacob Roop. Two family histories have been published by Evelyn Sidman Watcher: “Family Record of William Sitman, Brother of Rev. John R. Sitman of Cambria County PA” and “Rev. John R. Sitman, Pioneer UB Preacher of Cambria County PA, and his Descendants” (both, Westfield NJ 1973).
SLAYBAUGH, CHARLES RICHARD JR
Born: 4-16-1940 married: Lurie_____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 806
Gibble list: no
1963 license, recommended by Wormleysburg
1968 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1963-64 assistant, Enola First
1964-65 assistant, Mechanicsburg First
1965-68 student, United Theological Seminary
1966-67 youth minister, Dayton Trinity
1967-68 assistant, Dayton Ohmer Park Methodist
1968-83 Walnut Bottom Trinity
1983-02
2002 retired
SLENKER, PALMER MILLARD
Born: 11-3-1906 Yoe PA married: Glenna Mae Stottlemyer
Died: 4-13-1967 obit: 1965,108
Miller-Raker #: 633 married2:
Mrs. Violet Yost Ambrose
Gibble list: no
1923 quarterly conference license
1924 license, recommended by Yoe Salem
1926 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1967,230
1927-28 Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to New Cumberland charge)
1928-33 Wolfsville
1933-35 Orrtanna
1935-42
1942-44 Mechanicsburg circuit
1944-46
1946-49
1949 retired
1959-60
SMILEY, JOHN M.
Born: 2-12-1822 Shermansdale PA married: Sarah Mickey
Died: 6-17-1898 Shippensburg PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 318
Gibble list: no
1854 quarterly conference license
1860 license
1863 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1864 moved to Shippensburg
1892 joined United Brethren (Old Constitution) denomination
Note: John M. Smiley was a businessman and operated as a local pastor. His original 1854 quarterly conference license is in the biographical files at the conference archives. John M. Smiley is an uncle to Leo C. Smiley. Kendall’s 1966 History of the Messiah Evangelical United Brethren Church of Shippensburg includes significant material on John M. Smiley.
SMILEY, LEO CHRIST
Born: 9-27-1869 near Shermansdale PA married: Ida Salome Loy
Died: 12-8-1949 obit: [11/25/1866 – 11/30/1925]
Miller-Raker #: 475 married2: Omega M. _____
Fulton #: 266 obit2:
Gibble list: no married3: Mary Kennedy [6/20/1927]
obit3:
1895 license, recommended
by
1898 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Shermansdale PA
Obit:
1895
1895
1895-98 student, Union Seminary
1898 Orrstown (resigned immediately), Pennsylvania Conference
1898-00 Phillipsburg (resigned mid-way through second year)
1900-01 Mechanicsburg circuit, Pennsylvania Conference
1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02
1902 Walkersville (resigned immediately)
1902-03 New
1903-04 Lemasters
1904-07
1907-08 Greencastle (did not finish the year)
1908 evangelist at large
1910 continued without appointment, page 48
1911 withdrew, page 30
Note: One Internet genealogy page states the following: “Leo is son of William A. Smiley and Martha A. Adair. Leo attended United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, working as an apprentice jeweler to support himself. Ida became a dressmaker's apprentice. When Leo was appointed to the United Brethren (now United Methodist) Church in New Bloomfield, Perry Co., PA, it was bankrupt and he agreed to serve without pay, supporting himself as a jeweler. He retired in 1900 and opened a shop in Lemoyne, but reentered the ministry serving in the Presbytery of Carlisle (Presbyterian Church).” Leo C. Smiley is a nephew of John M. Smiley.
SMITH, BUDD ROSSITER
Born: 5-24-1901 Rossiter PA married: Martha E. Wolf
Died: 1-15-1991 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976,336
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 473
Gibble list: yes
1921 quarterly conference license
1923 license, Allegheny Conference
1925 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991,340
1922-25 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1923 Jefferson (4 months)
1925-28 Jefferson
1928-33 Portage
1933-39 Trafford
1939-42 Huntingdon
1942-47 Philipsburg
1947-59 Tyrone
1959-70 Johnstown Beulah
1970 retired
1970-74 Johnstown Trinity Asbury
SMITH, DONALD LEROY
Born: 9-16-1929
Died: 6-29-1984 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 760
Gibble list: no
1956 license, recommended by Franklintown UBOC
1960 ordained, Texas-Oklahoma Conference
Interment: Newberrytown
Obit: 1985,416
1956-59 Saginaw-Starview
1959 transfer
to Texas-Oklahoma Conference
1962-66 Alva
1966 transfer to Susquehanna Conference
1966-75 Newberrytown
1975-80
Note: Rev. and Mrs. Smith had no children.
SMITH, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1849 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1852 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1847-48 Dauphin circuit
1848-49 Highspire circuit
1849-50
1850-52 Pine Grove circuit
1852-54
1854-55 Susquehanna circuit
1869 withdrew
SMITH, GEORGE ELMER
Born: 1886 married: Bertha Jane Dale
Died: 1953 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conf 1981,440
Miller-Raker #: 601 Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980,352
Fulton #: 384, 449
Gibble list: no
1909 quarterly conference license
1911 license, Allegheny Conference
1918 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1911-12 Houserville
1912-13 Middleburg
1913-15 Greenwood-Juniata
1915-16
1916-17
1917 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1917-18 Walkersville
1918-19 Bendersville
1919 transfer to Allegheny Conference, page 41
1919-23 Bellefonte
1923-25 Huntingdon
1925-26
1926-28 Beaverdale
1928-29
1929-31 Hollsopple
1931-34
1934-36 Middleburg
1936-40 Knoxdale
1940-42 Rockwood
1942-44 Windber
1944-47 Westmoreland
1947-48
1948-50
1950-51 East Freedom
1951 retired
SMITH, GIDEON
Born: Ironville,
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 104
Gibble list: yes
1823 license
1825 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1825-27
1827-28
1831-32
1832-33 presiding elder, Canada District
1833-34
1837 expelled, page 40
1845 examined and received back, page 61
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-47
1859 transfer to
Note: Gideon Smith is the son of John Christian Smith.
SMITH, HERBERT A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [HERBERT E.]
1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-15 Royalton Emanuel
1915-17
1917-18 Grantville (ending 1/14/18)
1920 “transfer” to Northumberland Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 19
Note: Herbert A. Smith left 1/14/18 to take up “emergency army work of the YMCA” (see 118,7).
SMITH, HERMAN E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1944-46 associate, Enders & Powell’s Valley
Note: Herman E. Smith is listed under “others employed by
the conference.” He lived in rural
SMITH, HOMER ALLEN
Born: 10-5-1910 Youngwood PA married: Sara Jane Sowash
Died: 10-4-1995 Clearfield PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1945 quarterly conference license, Youngwood
1946 license, Allegheny Conference
1948 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1996,425
1943-46 Claysville Zion
1946-50 South Williamsport
1950-59 Bigler
1958-78 Summit Hill
1978 retired
1990-95 Winburne Emmanuel
Note: Homer A, Smith is the father-in-law of Rev. Noel Rich of the Episcopal Church and grandfather of Rev. Jeffrey Smith of the Presbyterian Church and John Emigh of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.
SMITH, J.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 342
Gibble list: no
1866 license
Interment:
Obit:
1864-65
1865-66 Rocky Spring & St. Thomas (last part of the year: 1865a,104 & 1866,113)
1866-67
1867-68 silenced while case pending, page 116
1868 expelled, page 125
SMITH, J. LEWIS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1869 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1869-70 Highspire circuit
1871 name erased
SMITH, JACOB C.
Born: 1-22-1819 near Chambersburg PA married: Eliza Staley
Died: 11-13-1886
Miller-Raker #: 267
Gibble list: yes
1843 license
1846 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1887,25
1843-44
1844-45 Dauphin circuit
1845-46 Littlestown circuit
1846-47
1847-51
1851-52 presiding elder, Conference
1852-53 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]
1853-55
1855-57 Rocky Spring circuit
1857-61
1861-63 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]
1863-64 Greencastle & Alto Dale circuits
1864-66 Greencastle circuit
1866-71
1871-76 presiding elder, York District
1876-77
1877-82
1882-83 agent, Union
Biblical Seminary (first part of year)
1883-84 local
1884-85 Winterstown circuit
1885-86
1886 retired
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania
Conference, page 308, gives a brief biography of Jacob C. Smith. The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page
98, gives brief biographical comments.
He is an uncle to John S. Smith, W. Otterbein Smith, and Mary Smith
Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer. And
his mother, the former Barbara Clippinger, is a sister to the great-grandfather
of John O. Clippinger.
SMITH, JACOB PAUL
Born: 3-7-1849 Middleburg PA married: Mary J. Ruhl
Died: 7-31-1911
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1870 quarterly conference license, Middleburg
1872 license, East German Conference
1876 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1872-74 Manheim
1874-75 Hummelstown
1875-76 ?
1876-77
1877-78 ?
1878-79 Paxinos
1879-82
1882-85
1885-89 Myerstown
1889-90 Tamaqua
1890-91 Williamstown
1891-96
1896-99
1899-01
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02
1902-03 ?
1903-06
1906-07 Bellegrove circuit
1907-08
1908-09 retired,
living in
1909-10
1910-11 Sinking Spring
Note: When the East German Conference was disbanded in 1901, Jacob Paul Smith was assigned to Baltimore Third – even though Baltimore Third moved into the Pennsylvania Conference and Rev. Smith moved into the East Pennsylvania Conference. Long Memorial in Neffsville lists Jacob P. Smith as its pastor 1882-83.
SMITH, JEREMIAH P.
Born: 2-10-1826 Annville PA married: Leah Stoner
Died: 1-12-1892
Miller-Raker #: 392
Gibble list: yes
1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1868 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Hummelstown PA
Obit: 1892,40
1861-64 Highspire circuit
1865-66 Hummelstown circuit
1866-67
1867-68 Highspire circuit
1868-69 Annville
1869-71 living in Hummelstown
1871-73 Schuylkill Haven circuit
1873-74 Susquehanna circuit
1874-75
1875-79
1879-80
1880 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1880-82
1882-84 Manheim
circuit
1885-88 Dallastown station
1888-92
SMITH, JOHN
Born: 5-15-1781 married:
Died: 11-5-1843 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 68
Gibble list: no
1812 license
Interment: Cresswell PA
Obit:
SMITH, JOHN
Born: 2-26-1796 married:
Died: 7-22-1884 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 143
Gibble list: no
1828 license
1830 ordained
Interment: Galion OH
Obit:
1831-32
SMITH, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 181
Gibble list: yes
1833 license
Interment:
Obit:
1846 transfer?
Note: He appears to drop out during the 1846 division of the
conferences. The Pennsylvania Conference
reports him as going to East Pennsylvania, while East Pennsylvania reports him
as going to
SMITH, JOHN CHRISTIAN
Born: 1-11-1774
Died: 9-8-1860 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 56
Gibble list: yes
1807 license
Interment: Silver Springs,
Obit:
1833-34
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: John Christian Smith lived in Ironville,
SMITH, JOHN F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1876 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1872-74 Hummelstown
1874-75
1875-78 Susquehanna circuit
1878-79 Pine Grove circuit
1879 name erased
SMITH, JOHN FRANCIS
Born: 12-17-1860
Died: 10-6-1914 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1887 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1890 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1886-87
1887-88 Ironville Mission
1888-89 Manor circuit
1889 Highspire (Feb-Oct)
1889-92 Ephrata
1892-94 Royalton
1894-96
1896-98 Oberlin
1898-00
1900-01
1901-05 Sunbury
1905-06 evangelist
at large & special solicitor of
1906-08 Birdsboro
1908-10
1910-11 Coatesville
1911-13 Royalton
SMITH, JOHN S.
Born: 11-22-1846 Franklin County PA married: Josie Wagner
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
? license
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John S. Smith is a nephew to Jacob C. Smith and a brother to W. Otterbein Smith and Mary C. Smith Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer. The 1907 History of the Greencastle Church lists him as a United Brethren minister, but there are no other known records to support that claim. He may have been a local pastor.
SMITH, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN
Born: 7-4-1849
Died: obit: [5/21/1845 - ?]
Miller-Raker #: 365
Gibble list: no
1872 license
1875 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1871-72 Altodale
1872-73
1873-74
1874-75
1875-76 New Cumberland station
1876-77 Greencastle station
1877-79 living in Marion PA
1879 withdrew to pursue a career in medicine, page 15
Note: W. Otterbein Smith is a nephew to Jacob C. Smith and a
brother to John S. Smith and Mary C. Smith Shaffer, wife of Jacob T. Shaffer.
SMITH, WILLIAM WARD
Born: 3-9-1911 Red Lion PA married: Eleanor Weik
Died: 12-16-1958 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 675
Gibble list: no
1932 quarterly conference license, Memorial Church of Washington DC
1933 license, recommended by Memorial Church of Washington DC
1939 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1959,44
1936-39 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1937-39 Wagner Chapel,
1939-44
1944-48 New
1948-58
SMOKER, JOHN G.
Born: 5-5-1840 married:
Died: 12-27-1902 Elizabethville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1871 quarterly conference license
1883 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1889 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1876-78 Mount Pleasant circuit
1881-84 Quarryville
1884-86 Mount Pleasant
1886-87
1887-88 Mount Pleasant
1888-89 Pequea circuit
1889-90 Glosbrenner
1890-96
1896-01 New
1901-02 Elizabethville
SMOKER, JOHN LEVI
Born: 12-16-1899
Died: 7-19-1978
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1939 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1924-26
1926-33
1933-38 Neffsville
1938-47 Intercourse
1947-48 Pottstown & Birdsboro
1948-65
1965 retired
Union Deposit
SNAPP, GEORGE H.
Born: married:
Died: 4-6-1901 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1864 license, Virginia Conference
1874 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1864-65 Shamokin circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference
1865-66 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown], Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Alleghany
1869-70 Boonsboro
1870-71
1872-73 Rockbridge
1875-76 Mill Creek
1876-77 Garrett
1877-78 general book agent and
evangelist
1878-79 conference evangelist
1887-89
transfer to
1900 living in
SNAVELY, CHARLES A.
Born: 7-31-1879 near Hershey PA married: Mary A. Gruber
Died: 7-31-1944
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Loille Zearing Starr
Gibble list: yes
1902 quarterly conference license, Fishburn’s
1903 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1910 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1903-06 Cressona
1906-08 Millersburg
1914-15
1915-18
1918-21 Mount Joy
1921-23
1923-28
1928-34
SNAVELY, JACOB
Born: 1808 married: Barbara Nissley
Died: 3-?-1891 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Elizabeth Walters
Gibble list: yes
1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1853 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1868 dismissed
Note: Jacob Snavely was a farmer and a local pastor in the Oberlin congregation. A brief biography is given on page 447 of the website http://pa-files.biofiles.us/Dau1907-431-470.pdf, which references an unnamed c1906 History of Dauphin County.
SNEATH, ELIAS OSCAR JR
Born: 8-18-1904
Died: 10-6-1933 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1924 quarterly conference license, Manor charge
1929 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Stehman’s Memorial UB Church Cemetery,
Obit:
1926-28 student,
1926-27 Brunersville
1928-30 student,
1930-31 student,
Note: E. Oscar Sneath dropped out of seminary for health reasons and never fully recovered.
SNEATH, ISAIAH WITMER
Born: 8-22-1855 Mountville PA married: Ellen Jane Mark
Died: 11-1-1939 obit: [d. 12/?/1939]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1881 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1884 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1882-84 living
in
1884-85 Baltimore
Fourth [
1885-87 professor of German and Greek,
1887-88
1888-89 living in Cambridgeport MA
1889 withdrew, page 8
Note: Isaiah Sneath is the g-g-grandson of ME circuit rider
Richard Sneath (1751-1824), whose diaries of work in the
SNELL, SAMUEL HENRY
Born: 3-20-1854 married: C. Arbelion Spessard
Died: 7-9-1945 obit: 1926,63
Miller-Raker #: 498
Gibble list: no
1878 quarterly
conference license,
1880 license, Virginia Conference
1883 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Smithsburg MD
Obit: 1945,29
1880-81 Bloomery circuit
1881-82 New Creek circuit
1882-83
1884-86 Walkersville
1886-87
1887 charter member of Maryland Conference
1887 enters local relationship
1887 Keedysville (9 months)
1889
1896
1898 Laurel mission (6 months)
1900-01 Rohrersville (8 months)
1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1904 Hagerstown St. Paul’s (2 months)
1905 Chewsville (8 months)
1906
1917-18 Littlestown
1918 retired
Note: The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville church. Arbelion Spessard Snell is a sister to E.G. Spessard and a niece of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia Conference and a first cousin to Katie Spessard, wife of Jeremiah B. Brenneman of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church. Longtime UB missionary Miss Lottie Mae Spessard (1891-1982) is the daughter a first cousin.
SNOKE, CHARLES EDWARD
Born: 7-20-1876
Died: 3-16-1951
Miller-Raker #: 472
Gibble list: no
1900 license
1905 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1896-00 student,
1900-04 student,
1905-06
1906 withdrew, page 46
Note: Charles E. Snoke is the great-grandson of Bishop John
Snoke (1785-1866) of the church of the Brethren and a first cousin once removed
to Jacob H. Snoke. He became a
Presbyterian minister and professor at
SNOKE, JACOB HIGH
Born: 9-17-1839 married: Anna Gail
Died: c1922 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 372 married2:
Nancy Shoemaker
Gibble list: no
1873 license
1876 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1875-78
1878-79 Yocumtown circuit
1879-82 Bendersville (did not finish last year)
1882 resigned
above charge and moved to
1883 transfer to Iowa Conference
Note: Jacob H. Snoke served as postmaster of Mowersville,
SNOKE, PAUL OTTERBEIN
Born: 6-25-1898
Died: 8-16-1970
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1918 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1918-25 living
in
1926 name erased
Note: Paul O. Snoke is the grandson of the brother of Jacob H. Snoke. He became a medical doctor and a radiologist.
SNYDER, ALBERT
Born: 3-20-1896 married: Pauline Kiracofe
Died: 3-4-1965 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 731
Gibble list: no
1950 license
1958 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1965,108
1944-45 Wolfsville
1945-56 Big Pool
1956-65 Walkersville
Note: Rev. Snyder worked for the USPS in
SNYDER, CARL (see SCHNEIDER, CARL)
SNYDER, DAVID
Born: 9-14-1761 married:
Died: 2-12-1819 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 30
Gibble list: yes
1801 license
Interment: Snyder’s graveyard, near Newville PA
Obit: 1819,15
1807-08
1808
Note: The annual conferences of 1803 and 1804 were held in his home. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 309, gives a brief biography – see also the account of Rev. David Snyder and Snyder’s Church, near Newville PA, on page 191.
SNYDER, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 292
Gibble list: no
1848 license
Interment:
Obit:
1849-51
1851-52
1852 transfer to Sandusky Conference
SNYDER, GEORGE EDWIN
Born: 9-21-1893 near Dallastown PA married: Agnes A. Weber
Died: 2-18-1975 Dallastown PA obit: 1992,484
Miller-Raker #: 655
Gibble list: no
1918 quarterly conference license
1927 license
1932 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1975, 163
1927-32 Spring Run
1932-43 Bendersville
1943-46 Rohrersville
1946-50
1950-56
1956-57 Winterstown
1957 retired
SNYDER, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 117
Gibble list: yes
1826 license
1828 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1832-34
1833-34 Dauphin circuit
1841 withdrew “under charges”, page 46
SNYDER, JOHN
Born: 12-28-1768
Died: 6-20-1845 obit: [1768-1846]
Miller-Raker #: 57
Gibble list: no
1809 license (attended for the first time, but no formal mention of a license)
1814 ordained (see item #17; 1817 item #4 is likely an error, see item #7)
Interment: Snyder’s Church, Perry County PA
Obit: 1846,71
1817-18 presiding
elder,
1817-25
1827-28 traveling presiding elder
1833-34 Dauphin circuit
1837-38 presiding elder, Carlisle District
1840-41
Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference,
page 375, gives a brief biography. An
extended account of Rev. Snyder appears in the 1993 volume of The Chronicle,
pages 3-25. He is the father of John
George Snyder.
SNYDER, JOHN GEORGE
Born: c1810 married: Peggy Owen
Died: 3-1-1889 obit: [d. 5/18/1884, age 74]
Miller-Raker #: 194 & 233
Gibble list: yes
1835 license
1838 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1835-36
1836-37
1837-38 Huntingdon circuit
1838-39
1848-49 Perry circuit
1851 transfer to a western conference?
1857 transfer to Iowa Conference, page 46
Note: The 1890 UB
Yearbook gives the death date as 3-1-1888.
John George Snyder is also known as George Schneider. For several years he supposedly was an
instructor at
SNYDER, JOHN KRABIEL
Born: 4-9-1800
Died: 9-25-1881 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Lydia Gordon
Gibble list: yes
1851 license, Allegheny Conference
1854 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1873 transfer to East German Conference
1880-81
Note: John K. Snyder was a local pastor and is considered
the 1876 founder of the United Brethren work at
SNYDER, JOSIAH FRANKLIN
Born: 2-21-1866 Keedysville MD married: Martha Caroline Broy
Died: 4-1-1948 obit: 1914,96
Miller-Raker #: 524 married2:
Miss Emma M. Tanger
Gibble list: no
1888 quarterly conference
1890 license, Virginia Conference
1892 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Keedysville MD
Obit: 1948,32
1890-91 Lost River
1891-92 Bloomery
1892-93
1893-96
1896-97 Martinsburg
1897-99
1899-00 South Branch
1900-03 student, Union [United] Seminary in Dayton OH
1902-03
1903
1903-04
1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1904-07 Lemasters
1907-10
1910-14 Red Lion circuit
1914-25 Boiling Springs circuit
1925-30 Duncannon
1930-36 Shiremanstown
1936 retired
Note: Josiah F. Snyder is the father of missionary Grace Snyder Martin, wife of missionary William N. Martin.
SNYDER, MEADE MILTON
Born: 10-29-1886 Jefferson County PA married:
Died: 11-2-1958 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 426
Gibble list: yes
1912 quarterly conference license
1916 license, Allegheny Conference
1920 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1959,29
1914-23 Waukesha
1923-30 Youngwood
1930-34 Braddock
1934-42 Scottdale
1942-45 Greensburg
1945-53 Connellsville Otterbein
1953-56 Pittsburgh Lorenz Avenue
1956 retired
Note: Meade M. Snyder is the father of Helen Sylvia Snyder, the wife of Arthur P. Peden.
SNYDER, ROSE KESTER
Born: 9-20,1891 Clearfield County PA married: William Snyder
Died: 8-18-1960 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 457
Gibble list: yes
1920 quarterly conference license
1921 license, Allegheny Conference
1925 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rock Hill Furnace PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 38
1925-27 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1927-30 associate, Bellefonte
1930-41 associate, Orbisonia
1941-49 associate, Hollsopple
1949-60 associate, Conemaugh
1960 retired
Note: Rose K. Snyder served as an associate pastor with her husband William Snyder. Her pastoral work included preaching, teaching, and visitation of the sick.
SNYDER, SAMUEL S.
Born: married: Mary V. Stewart
Died: 8-21-1863 Lawrence KS obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 63
Gibble list: no
1845 license, Allegheny Conference
1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1844-45 Jefferson
1845-46 Allegheny
1846-48 Mt. Pleasant
1848-49 [not listed?]
1849-50 Westmoreland
1850-51 Blair
1851-53 superintendent, Eastern District
1853-54 superintendent, Western District
1854 superintendent, East District (ending 11/1/1854)
1854 transfer to Missouri Conference
1854-57 missionary to Kansas
1857 charter member of Kansas Conference
1857-59 conference superintendent
1859 transfer to
1860-61 Lawrence, Kansas Conference
1861 transfer to Kansas Conference
1861-62 located
1862-63 Lawrence
SNYDER, WILLIAM
Born: 3-22-1893 Clearfield County PA married: Rose Kester
Died: 12-2-1983 Clearfield PA obit: Western Pennsylvania Conf 1961,38
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Lulu Alice Glant Grubbs
Fulton #: 456 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf 1978,416
Gibble list: yes
quarterly conference license
license, Allegheny Conference
ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rock Ill Furnace PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1984,420
1921-22 Knoxville
1922-25 Ligonier
1925-27 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1926 Altoona Schum Memorial (3 months)
1927-30 Bellefonte
1930-41 Orbisonia
1941-49 Hollsopple
1949-60 Conemaugh
1960 retired
Note: The first Mrs. Snyder was also ordained, and she served as an associate pastor on the charges served by William Snyder. The second Mrs. Snyder was the widow of Albert Eugene Grubbs (1875-1960) of the Ohio East Conference of the EUB Church.
SNYDER, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 5-6-1867 Lykens PA married: Catherine Kocher
Died: 9-7-1843 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1887 quarterly conference license, Lykens
1890 license, East German Conference
1896 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1893-94 Freeburg
Note: William H. Snyder was of poor health and served as a local pastor.
There are two C.A. SOLLENBERGERS listed below, one in 1901
in
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 479
Gibble list: no
1901 license
Interment:
Obit:
1901
1902 referred back to quarterly conference 1902,38
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1916 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1916-17 Grantville circuit
1917-18
1918-19 Williamstown
1921 referred
SOLLENBERGER, DANIEL WEBSTER
Born: 9-26-1845 near Chambersburg PA married: Nancy Brandt [12/24/1868]
Died: 1-9-1906 Spring Grove PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 397 married2:
Mrs. Fannie Starr Frock
Gibble list: no
1878 quarterly conference license
1881 license
1884 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1906,75
1882-83 Rocky Spring
1883-85 Bendersville
1885-88 Littlestown
1888-90 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]
1890-94 Mount Wolf
1894-96
1896-97
1897-01
1901-04
1904-05 Myersville
1905-06 Spring Grove
Note: Daniel W. Sollenberger was a school teacher in
SOMERS, ENOCH BROWN
Born: 1850
Died: 8-2-1924 Orbisonia PA obit: [1900]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mrs. A.J. Marriot
Gibble list: no
1882 quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference
1884 license, Allegheny Conference
1887 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1924,68
1882-83 Bigler
1883-84 Susquehanna
1884-85
1885-87 Three Springs
1887-89
1889-91 Mahoning
1891-92 Dubois
1892-95
1895-96
1896-98 Philipsburg
1898-99
1899-03 Stormstown
1904-09
1909-10 ?
1910-11 Susquehanna
1911-12 Middleburg
1912-14 Runville
1914-16
1916-19 Three Springs
1919-20
1920-21 Coalport
1921 retired
SOUDERS, BRUCE C.
Born: married: Patricia Marie Bartels
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1944 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon Trinity
1947 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1944-47 student, United Theological Seminary
1945-46
1946-47
1947-49 faculty,
1949-57 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1957-66 director of public relations,
1966-88 faculty,
1988 retired
SOUILLIARD, AARON H.
Born: 12-19-1859
Died: 10-15-1922 Minersville PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
? license
1894 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
Obit:
1890 transfer to East German Conference
1890-92 Landingville circuit
1892-95 Milton Mission
1895-01 Lykens
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-03 Myerstown (ending 2/15/03 – see 1903,4)
1903 withdrew
1908-11
1918-22 Minersville English Baptist
Note: There is limited information on A.H. Souilliard in the biographical files at the conference archives.
SPANGLER, ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Born: 2-165-1852 Shanksville PA married: Cynthia E.J. Penrod
Died: 2-20-1924 Harrisburg PA obit: [4/?/1850 – 1/23/1905]
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Gertrude M. Shannon [1/28/1906]
Fulton #: 155 obit2: [d. 4/2/1912]
Gibble list: no married3: Katherine E. Long [c1913]
obit3: [d. 5/12/1938]
quarterly conference license
1871 license, Allegheny Conference
1875 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Yeagertown PA
Obit:
1872-73 New Paris
1873-74 Clearfield
1874-75 Scottsville [Three Springs]
1875-77 Liverpool
1877-78 (no records kept)
1878-79 Clearfield
1879 honorable discharge
entered the Lutheran ministry
1892-93 Braddock Trinity Lutheran Church [Pittsburgh Synod, General Council]
1893-18 Reedsville & Yeagertown
Note: A.H. Spangler is a brother to John T. Spangler and Wesley H. Spangler, and the father of Rev. Luther Stoy Spangler (1883-1949) of the Central Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lutheran Church. The 1880 census lists him as a minister living in New Bloomfield, Perry County. It appears that the family may have lived in Middleburg [Snyder County] for several years in the 1880's.
From a 1960 article by Lynne Ramer: Stories and sagas about the
Rev. A. H. Spangler, Lutheran divine of Yeagertown-Reedsville-Alfarata in the
first decades of the present century, are legion and probably growing in
numbers. Thus, like
Lincoln, if Mr. Spangler lived all the events he is reputed to have
experienced, he’d have to be living still. And in the memories of many former
parishioners, he probably is.
It’s well
known that he outlived two wives and was married to a third. His jovial
companions oft queried, “When will you make it a home run,” that is, “outlive a
third and a fourth wife?”
This story about the
Rev. Mr. Spangler comes from Mrs. Maude Ramer: At one time Dr. Spangler was
sick and his family doctor prescribed pills and whisky. At some banquet Dr.
Spangler spoke thus. “I am glad to be
here. I have been sick, in fact, sick enough to die. But now I have recovered
due, I believe, to the fact that when the doctor inquired about my progress in
taking the prescribed medicines, I was able to tell him ‘Although I might be a
day or two behind on the pills, I’m several days ahead on the whisky!”
This apparently was said at a public gathering and is typical
Spanglersque.
SPANGLER, DWIGHT M.
Born: 9-13-1900 Scottdale PA married: Ruth Hysong
Died: 10-8-1988 obit: [6/29/1903 – 7/1/2001]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 506
Gibble list: no
1925 quarterly conference license, East Pittsburgh
1927 license, Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Twin Valley Memorial Park, Delmont PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1989,415
1926-29 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1927 Springfield (summer)
1928 Knoxdale (summer)
1929-31 Belsano
1931-34 Wyano
1934-37 Everson
1937 West Decatur (ending 9/19/1937)
1937-38 Springfield (beginning 9/27/1937)
1938-40 Aaron
1940 Mahaffey (resigned 9/27/1940)
1940-46 without appointment due to poor health
1946-50 located
1950 retired
Note: Dwight M. Spangler is the son of Wesley H. Spangler and M. Elizabeth Spangler. He is the father of Verda Spangler Cassiday (1929-1983), wife of Arlie Darrell Cassiday (1923-) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.
SPANGLER, JAMES THOMAS
Born: c1868 Shanksville PA married:
Died: 6-14-1954 Dallas TX obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 243 & 299
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, Allegheny Conference
1895 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1886-90 student,
1890-91 faculty,
1891-94 student,
Union[United] Biblical Seminary in
1894-95 Hagerstown, Maryland Conference
1895 transfer to Maryland Conference
1895-97 Hagerstown
1897-01 faculty, Lebanon Valley College
1901 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1901-09 faculty, Lebanon Valley College
1909 Reading Otterbein East Pennsylvania Conference (7/1/09 – 10/1/09, see 1909,10)
1909-10 ?
1910 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1910-13 Mount Joy
1913-15
1915-16 Lykens
1916-25 faculty,
1920-21
1925-30 faculty, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Dallas TX
1930-31
1931-44 faculty, Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas TX
1944 retired
1950 honorable dismissal, page 47
Note: James Thomas Spangler is a brother to A.H. Spangler and Wesley H. Spangler, and a first cousin to Martin Spangler. He the author of the book Conduct: Its Relation to the Devotional Life (1904) and numerous articles. He was one of the earliest faculty members at what is now Dallas Theological Seminary. [Caution: Wesley H. Spangler also had a nephew James T. Spangler born c1866 in Shanksville PA, and there is a possibility this pastor is the nephew and not the brother.]
SPANGLER, MARGARET ELIZABETH
Born: married: Wesley Hamilton Spangler
Died: 7-25-1953 obit: Allegheny Conference 1923,63
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 478
Gibble list: no
credentials, Wesleyan Methodist Church
1923 license, Allegheny Conference
1927 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954,22
1923-30 East Pittsburgh (beginning 1/15/1923)
1930-31 New Florence
1931 retired
Note: M. Elizabeth Spangler is the mother of Dwight M. Spangler.
SPANGLER, MARTIN
Born: 1-30-1838 Stoystown [Shanksville] PA married: Sophia J. McCreary
Died: 10-1-1881 Altoona PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1919,85
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 110
Gibble list: no
? quarterly conference license
1859 license, Allegheny Conference
1861 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60 Stone Valley
1860-61 Trough Creek
1861-62 Johnstown mission
1862-64 Springfield
1864-67 Allegheny
1867-69 Rochester mission
1869-70 Industry mission
1870-73 Washington
1873-75 Allegheny
1875-76 Pittsburgh mission station
1876-81 Altoona
Note: Martin Spangler is a first cousin to brothers A.H.
Spangler, Wesley H. Spangler and James T. Spangler. Some sources give the birth date as
1-10-1833.
SPANGLER, ROY C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1932 license
Interment:
Obit:
1917-21 student, Lebanon Valley College
1917-19 West Lebanon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1919-21 Chambers Hill, East Pennsylvania Conference
1921-31 South
1931-32 Pottstown,
1932 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1932-35 Shamokin circuit
1935-36 Enders & Powell’s Valley
1936-37 Hillsdale circuit (resigned soon after conference, see 1937,22)
1937-42 no assignment
1942 expelled
Note: The Lebanon Valley College yearbook gives the hometown of Roy C. Spangler as Palmyra PA.
SPANGLER, WESLEY HAMILTON
Born: 10-11-1859 Shanksville PA married: Sidney Baldwin
Died: 1-9-1923 East Pittsburgh PA obit: [7/12/1861 – 4/20/1895]
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Margaret Elizabeth Trabert
Fulton #: 236 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954,22
Gibble list: no
1889 quarterly conference license
1890 license, Allegheny Conference
1893 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1923,63
1891 Somerset (6 months)
1891-92 New Florence – Morrellville
1892-97 Morrellville
1897-98 Coalport
1898-03 Westmoreland
1903-05 Morrellville
1905-06 Youngwood
1906-07 Bellefonte
1907-09 Wilmore
1909-11 Connellsville
1911-15 Philipsburg
1915-17 Jeannette
1917-20 Huntingdon
1920-23 East Pittsburgh
Note: Wesley H. Spangler is a brother to A.H. Spangler and James T. Spangler, a first cousin of Martin Spangler, and the father of Dwight M. Spangler.
SPARKS, GEORGE ALONZO
Born: 11-8-1864
Died: 9-10-1928 Mt. Ranier MD obit: Allegheny Conference 1938,59
Miller-Raker #: 436
Fulton #: 251
Gibble list: no
1887 quarterly conference license, Raysville charge
1889 license
1893 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928,62
1888-90 Eschol
1890-91
1891-92 La Jose, Allegheny Conference
1892-94 Tuscarora circuit, Allegheny Conference
1893 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1893-94 Tuscarora circuit
1894-96 Three Springs
1896-97 DuBois
1897-00 West
1900-01 Port Matilda
1901-04 Runville
1904-06
1906-08 Rockwood
1908-10 Fayette
1910-11 Mapleton
1911-12 Orbisonia
1912-13 Hustontown
1913-16 Bigler
1916 Mahaffey (ending 12/31/1916)
1917 leave of absence for health reasons (beginning 1/1/1917)
1917-18 Hooversville
1918-20
1920-23 Runville
1923-26 Arona
1926 retired
Note: George A. Sparks is the father of W. Maynard Sparks.
SPARKS, WALDEN MAYNARD
Born: 12-16-1906 Rockwood PA married: Blanche May Frank
Died: 8-17-1999 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990,306
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 474
Gibble list: no
1919 quarterly conference license
1923 license, Allegheny Conference
1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2000,387
1923-27 student, Lebanon Valley College
1927-30 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1930-31 Sewickley
1931-37 Shanksville – Central City
1937-40 Pinxsutawney First
1940-46 Wilkinsburg Christ
1946-50 conference superintendent
1950-59 faculty, Lebanon Valley College
1959-72 bishop
Note: W. Maynard Sparks is the son of George A. Sparks.
SPARROW, CHARLES MAYBERRY
Born: 4-13-1871
Died: 2-16-1940 obit: 1949,35
Miller-Raker #: 548
Gibble list: no
1906 quarterly conference license, Wormleysburg
1908 license
1916 ordained
Interment: Shippensburg PA
Obit: 1940,30
1906-09 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1909-11 Walkersville
1911-16 Newburg
1916-23 Boonsboro
1923-26 Lemoyne
1926-34 Greencastle
1934-37
1937-40 Keedysville
Note: Charles M. Sparrow is the father of Catherine Louise Baker, wife of Harry P. Baker.
SPATZ, EDGAR E.
Born: 6-30-1890 Dallastown PA married: Margaret M. Moyer
Died: 5-14-1980 obit: 1939,40
Miller-Raker #: 588 married2:
Helen Wilson
Gibble list: no
1911 quarterly conference license, Dallastown
1914 license
1920 ordained, Illinois Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1980,348
1911-14 student,
1915 Orangeville circuit
(May-Sep), Illinois Conference
1917-19
1919 transfer to Illinois
Conference, page 41
1919-21
1921-22
1922 transfer to
Pennsylvania Conference, page 39
1922-25
1925-31 Chambersburg Park Avenue
1948-55 Shepherdstown
1955-59
1959 retired
1960-62 associate, Carlisle
Grace
Note: A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch.
SPAYD, HENRY BOBMERGER
Born: 10-6-1855 married: Alice C. Schaeffer
Died: 1939 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 460
Gibble list: yes
1881 license, East German Conference
1884 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1881-83
1883-85
1885-86
1886-90 Shamokin First
1890 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1890-94 Annville
1894-96
1896 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1896-02
1902-04
1904 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1904-08
1908-13 Annville
1913 Modestso
CA,
1914 transfer to California Conference
1915
Note: Henry B. Spayd is a brother to Maurice B. Spayd.
SPAYD, MAURICE BOMBERGER.
Born: 6-1-1861
Died: 5-13-1941 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 quarterly
conference license,
1885 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1888 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
Obit:
1884-86 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary at
1884-86
1886-88
1888-89 Grantville
1889-91 Highspire
1891-93
1893-96 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary at
1893-94
1894-96 Bowlusville OH
1896 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
1896-01
1901-07
1907-10 district superintendent
1910-17
1917-20
1920 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1920-22
1922-28
1928-30 Hopeland
1930 retired
Note: Maurice B. Spayd is a brother to Henry B. Spayd. It appears that he started his undergraduate
work at
SPAYTH, HENRY J.
Born: 9-13-1788
Died: 9-2-1873
Miller-Raker #: 67
Gibble list: yes
1812 license
1814 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1812-13
1814-15
Muskingum Conference
presiding elder
1835 charter member of Sandusky Conference
Note: Henry G. Spayth is best known as the 1851 author of the denomination’s first published history. The Encyclopedia of World Methodism, page 2223, gives a brief biography.
SPECK, BENJAMIN
Born: 10-21-1806 married: Elizabeth Wallace
Died: 4-21-1887 obit: [12/30/1803 – 11/30/1860]
Miller-Raker #: 196 married2:
Mary _____
Gibble list: yes
1835 license
1838 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1842-43 Littlestown mission
1845 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1845-46
1848-49
Note: Benjamin Speck is listed among those “willing to
travel without reserve” in the 1845 Allegheny Conference minutes, and he
received an assignment in 1848, but there is no record that he ever officially
joined that conference.
SPECK, DAVID
Born: 5-29-1827 married: Frances Angelia Coulter
Died: 7-20-1912 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 414
Gibble list: no
1848 quarterly conference license
1851 license, Allegheny Conference
1856 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1912,87
1850-51 Bellefonte circuit
1851-52
1852-53
1853-54
1854-57 ?
1857-59
1859-60
1860-61 Mount Pleasant
1861-62
1862-65
1865-69 presiding elder, West District
1869-70 Westmoreland circuit
1870-71 Johnstown Mission station
1871-73 presiding elder, West District
1873-74 Pittsburgh Mission station
1874-75 presiding elder, East District
1875-76 Wilmore station
1876-77
1877-80 presiding elder, East District
1880-81 presiding elder, West District
1881-82
1882-85 Annville,
1885 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1885-88
1888-90
1890-92
1892-93
1893 Newburg circuit (resigned immediately, did not report)
1893 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1893-96 Braddock
1896-98 Westmoreland
1898-00 Wilmerding
1900 retired
to
Note: His daughter Nina narrowly escaped death during the
SPEROW, EVERETT H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 517
Gibble list: no
1903 license,
recommended by
1904 ordained, page 63
Interment:
Obit:
1905 transfer to Carlisle Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 47
Note: Everett H. Sperow apparently never served a UB church,
and (even though he was licensed and ordained) his name never appears in the UB
yearbook
SPESSARD, E.G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
? license, Maryland Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1894 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1894-95 South Williamsport
1895-96 Mount Union
1896-97 living in Harrisonburg VA
1897-07 apparently not under appointment
1899 attended Virginia Conference annual sessions as a “visiting minister”
1907-10 Hooversville (beginning 3/1907)
1910-12 East Freedom
1912-15 Woodland
1915 honorable discharge to unite with the Huntingdon Presbytery, page 60
Note: The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville church. E.G. Spessard is a brother to Arbelion Spessard Snell and a nephew of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia Conference and a first cousin to Katie Spessard, wife of Jeremiah B. Brenneman of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church. Longtime UB missionary Miss Lottie Mae Spessard (1891-1982) is the daughter a first cousin.
SPONSELLER, EDWIN H.
Born: 12-6-1917 married: Sarah Jane Shively
Died: 4-25-1972 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 692
Gibble list: no
1940 license
1942 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1940 Union Congregational Church, Isle A Haut ME (summer)
1940-43
1943-44 director of public relations and instructor in religion,
1944-47 Myersville
1947-54 professor,
1954 transfer to Mercersburg Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church
Note: Edwin H. Sponseller is the son of Harling E. and Grace
H. Sponseller.
SPONSELLER, GRACE H.
Born: 6-13-1896 married: Harling E. Sponseller
Died: 9-17-1979 obit: [3-25-1963]
Miller-Raker #: 640
Gibble list: no
1925 license
1933 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1924-26 Mont Alto (beginning Dec 1924)
local elder
retired
Note: Grace is the daughter of Edwin Hummelbaugh, wife of Harling E. Sponseller, and mother of Edwin H. Sponseller. She is part of an unbroken chain of six generations of UB ministry within the Pennsylvania Conference as follows. 1. Bishop Joseph Hoffman (1780-1856), 2. Enoch Hoffman (1808-1879), 3. Frances Hoffman (?-c1912) married to Hiram Y. Hummelbaugh (1835-1868), 4. Edwin Hummelbaugh (1864-1924), Grace Hummelbaugh (1896-1979) married to Harling E. Sponseller (1892-1963), 6. Edwin H. Sponseller (1917-1972). All except Frances Hoffman were regularly ordained and served as pastors.
SPONSELLER, HARLING EUGENE
Born: 9-10-1892 married: Grace Hummelbaugh
Died: 3-25-1963 obit: [9-17-1979]
Miller-Raker #: 621
Gibble list: no
1922 license
Interment: Shippensburg
Obit:
1920-21
1929 withdrew
faculty for 27.5 years,
retired
1954-55 (first)
supervising principal,
Note: Harling E. Sponseller is the husband of Grace H. Sponseller and the father of Edwin H. Sponseller.
SPONSLER, MELVIN GUY SR.
Born: 4-23-1899 near
Died: 10-2-1983
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1921 quarterly conference license, Jacobs on Powell’s Valley circuit
1925 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1934 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1984,382
1922-28 Enders circuit
1928-34 Powell’s Valley
1934-35 Enders & Powell’s Valley
1935-42 Shamokin circuit
1942-49
1949-52 assistant superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home
1952-55 Elizabethville
1955-63 Paxinos circuit
1963-67 Highspire
1967 retired
1967-76 Water Works,
Note: Melvin G. Sponsler Sr is the father of Melvin G. Sponsler Jr.
SPONSLER, MELVIN GUY JR
Born: married: Marilyn _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1953 license
1958 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1953-55 student,
1953-55 assistant, Enders-Powell’s Valley circuit
1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in
1955-56 youth director, Dayton OH Miami Chapel
1956-58
1958-60 assistant, Manheim Salem
1960-73 Campbelltown
1973-82
1990-98 Mount Hope
1998 retired
Note: Melvin G. Sponsler Jr is the son of Melvin G. Sponsler Sr.
SPRAGUE, ALONZO BAILEY
Born: 12-28-1856Pomfret NYmarried: Clara A. Leroy
Died: 10-22-1929 Friendship NY obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gilbble list: no
1893 quarterly conference license
1897 license, Erie Conference
1906 ordained Erie Conference
Interment: West Genesee Cemetery, Genesee NY
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930,6
1914-15 Bellefonte, Allegheny Conference (beginning 1/30/1914)
1915 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1915-19 Milton
1919-21 Middleburg
1921-22
1922-23 Bradenville (6 months)
1923-24 on leave
1924-25 Juniata (beginning 5/1/1924)
1925-26 Wall
1926 retired
SPRECHER, JOHN W.
Born: 11-2-1873 married: Nina Young
Died: 3-5-1951 obit: Ohio Southeast Conference 1959,111
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1904-05 living
in
1905-06 living
in
1906-07 living in Hood River OR
1907-08 living
in
1908-09 no address given
1909 transfer to Oregon Conference, page 9
SPRENKLE, GEORGE BOSSLER
Born: 9-23-1893 Hellam township,
Died: 8-7-1970 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 620
Gibble list: no
1921 quarterly conference license, York Fourth
1922 license
1924 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1924-29 Newburg
1929-58
1958 retired
1958-67 supply team, Baltimore Old Otterbein
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
STABLEY, CHARLES
Born: 3-1-1817 married:
Died: 12-29-1861 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 255
Gibble list: yes
1841 license
Interment: Red Lion
Obit: 1862,76&78
STABLEY, HENRY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 249
Gibble list: yes
1841 license
Interment:
Obit:
1841-42
1843 dismissed
STABLEY, RUFUS RHODES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 616
Gibble list: no
1921 license, recommended by Dallastown
Interment:
Obit:
1919-22 student, Lebanon Valley College
1922-23 student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1923-24
1924-25 graduate teaching assistant, University of Minnesota
1927 referred back to quarterly conference, page 47
Note: R. Rhodes Stabley served as chairman of the English-Speech department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1960. That school dedicated the Rhodes R. Stabley Library, reflecting a change in his name, in 1961. A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes a brief biographical sketch and picture of Rufus Rhodes Stabley.
STAHL, LAZARUS W.
Born: 12-17-1851Madison PA married: Caroline Brown
Died: 2-10-1930 obit: Allegheny Conference 1927,70
Miller-Raker #: no
Gilbble list: no
1871 quarterly conference license
1872 license, Allegheny Conference
1875 ordained
Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930,62
1872-73 Huntingdon
1873-75 Bellefonye
1875-77 Beaver
1877-79 Connellsville
1879-81 Port Matilda
1881-85 superintendent, Altoona District
1885-87 financial agent, Lebanon Valley College
1887-90 Greensburg
1891-01 superintendent, Johnstown and Greensburg District
1901-06 Everson
1906-10 Latrobe
1910-13 Windber
1913-16 Trafford
1916-20 McKeesport First
1920-26 Dunlo
1926-29 conference missionary
1929 retired
Note: Lazarus W. Stahl is the grandfather of George Stahl Phillips.
STAMBACH, ARTHUR WILLIAM
Born: 7-2-1925 Spring Run PA married: Betty M. Getz
Died: 6-26-1991 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 702
Gibble list: no
1945 license
1948 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1944-45 student,
1944-45 Mechanicsburg circuit
1945-48 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1945-46 Potsdam-West
1947-48
1951-52 chaplain, US Army
1952-59 Lemoyne Calvary
1959-63
1963-70 conference program director
1970-76 associate director, conference council on ministries
1976-79 superintendent, Chambersburg District
1979-90 Hershey First
1990-91 disability
Note: Arthur W. Stambach is the son of C. Guy Stambach and the brother of Paul E. Stambach. He is a nephew to ministerial couple Jerome and Pauline Stambach, and a first cousin to longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.
STAMBACH, CHARLES GUY
Born: 2-25-1895 southern
Died: 5-11-1972 obit: 1991,404
Miller-Raker #: 595
Gibble list: no
1914 quarterly conference license, York Fourth
1916 license
1920 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1972,396
1912-16 student,
1916-19 student, Union Biblical [United Theological] Seminary in
1917-18
1919-20 Bendersville
1920-25 Spring Run
1925-28 Chewsville
1928-34
1934-44 Mechanicsburg First
1944-49 Dallastown Bethlehem
1949-60 Duncannon Otterbein
1960 retired
Note: C. Guy Stambach was a charter member of the
Pennsylvania Conference Ministers’ Choir.
He is best known as the artist of life-size paintings of Christ found in
churches of all denominations throughout
STAMBACH, JEROME SPURGEON
Born: 2-25-1901
Died: 6-4-1972
Miller-Raker #: 613
Gibble list: no
1921 license
1929 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1972,297
1920-24 student,
1924-25 Big Pool
1925-29 student,
Bonebrake [United]
Theological Seminary in
1929
1929-30
1930-31 Mt.
Olivet- Fishing Creek
1931-42
1942-52 Springett
1952-61 Rohrersville
1961-64 Yoe
1964-67 Spring Run
1967 retired
1968-72 Violet Hill
Note: Jerome S. Stambach is the husband of Pauline E. Stambach. He is a brother to C. Guy Stambach and the father of longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.
STAMBACH, PAUL ELIAS
Born: 10-1-1930 married: Gloria _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 732
Gibble list: no
1946 quarterly conference license, Dallastown Bethlehem
1950 license
1955 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1948-52 student,
1952-55 student, United Theological Seminary
1952 youth minister,
1955-56
1956-60
1960-78
1978-92
1992-00 superintendent, State College District
2000 retired
Note: Paul E. Stambach is the son of C. Guy Stambach and the brother of Arthur W. Stambach. He is a nephew to ministerial couple Jerome and Pauline Stambach, and a first cousin to longtime UB missionary Ruth Marie Stambach.
STAMBACH, PAULINE E.
Born: 9-2-1902
Died: 4-22-1999
Miller-Raker #: 673
Gibble list: no
1933 license, recommended by York Fourth
1934 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1999,440
Note: Pauline E. Stambach is the wife of Jerome S. Stambach. She functioned as a local elder and assisted her husband in the ministry.
STAMM, JOHN
Born: 9-21-1819 married:
Died: 2-19-1895 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1848 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1851 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: United
Obit:
1848-50 Millheim circuit
1850-52
1852-54
1854-57 presiding elder
1856-57 Sinking Spring circuit
1857-59 Susquehanna circuit
1859-60 presiding elder
1860-62
1869 name erased, sided with George W. Hoffman and the United Christian Church
STANGLE, L. ALSON
Born: 12/23/1869 married: Lucy Maud Parrett
Died: 5/?/1968 obit: Sandusky Conference 1929,29
Miller-Raker #: 587 married2:
Fellers _____
Gibble list: no
1898 ordained, St Joseph Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1895-96 LaGrange
1896-99 Churubusco
1900-06 Pleasant
1906-08
1908-09
1909 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1909-12
1912-14 Taneytown
1914-18 Rohrersville
1918-22
1922-23
1923 local
1925 transfer to Sandusky Conference, page 71
moved to
transfer to Iowa Conference
retired to
Note: His second wife, Mrs. Fellers Stangle, was a local pastor in the Iowa Conference. Rev. Stangle is listed in the last (1968) EUB yearbook, but not the first (1969) UM general minutes.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1900 license, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1907-09 Myersville
Note: E.A. Stanton served Myersville while a member of the Virginia Conference, after which he is no longer listed in the UB yearbook.
STATTON, ARTHUR B.
Born: 3-27-1870
Died: 12-8-1937 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 499
Gibble list: no
1892 license, East Nebraska Conference
1896 ordained, East Nebraska Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1938,22
1890-94 faculty,
1894-97
1898 transfer to Maryland Conference
1898-01 Hagerstown St. Paul’s
1901 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference
1917-25 conference superintendent
1925-37 bishop, Southwest District
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page ix, gives a brief biography. See 1916,81 for an obituary of his mother. He is the son of Isaac K. Statton (1830-1903) of the Virginia Conference. Three of Isaac’s brothers (George W., John F. and David E.) were also members of the Virginia Conference. See Holdcraft,310 for a brief account of the Statton brothers. The 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 99, gives brief biographical comments on the Stattons.
STAUB, HENRY
Born: 4-22-1809
Died: 11-16-1890 Spencerville OH obit: [9/30/1810 – 4/28/1854]
Miller-Raker #: 244
Gibble list: yes
1841 license, recommended by Old Otterbein
1844 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1842-43 served in the Allegheny Conference?
1843-44 Dauphin Circuit
1844-46
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-48
1848-50 Dauphin circuit
1850-51
1851 transfer to Scioto Conference
1853 charter member of Ohio German Conference
1853-
Note: Henry Staub was denominational editor for German
publications 1851-55. There are several
references to him regarding German publications in Ness’ 1966 History of
Publishing in the
STAUB, JOHN R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1872 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1876 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1879 expelled
STAUFFER, A.P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1877-78
STEARN, CHARLES THOMAS
Born: 1-1-1839 Mt. Jackson VA married: Anna Duterra
Died: 5-19-1909
Miller-Raker #: 363
Gibble list: no
1857 quarterly conference license, Lacey Spring circuit
1859 license, Virginia Conference
1863 ordained, Rock River Conference
Interment: Louden Cemetery,
Obit: 1909,124
1859-60
1860-61 Pendelton & Highland circuits
1861-62
1862
1862-63
1863 transfer to Rock River Conference
1863-64
1854-65
1865 transfer to Virginia Conference
1865-68 Frederick & Myersville circuits
1868-71 Boonsboro circuit
1871 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1871-75
1875-78 Mechanicsburg
1878-82 presiding elder, Baltimore District
1882-86 presiding elder, Harrisburg District
1886-89
1890-94
1894-02
1902-03 presiding elder, Baltimore District
1903-09 too ill to itinerate, served as conference missionary
STEARNS, JACK EDWIN
Born: 6-24-1935 married:
Died: obit: (divorce c1992/3?)
Miller-Raker #: 753 married2:
Sara Jane _____
Gibble list: no
1955 license, recommended by Carlisle Grace
1961 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1957-58 West Hill
1958-61 student, Fuller Theological Seminary
1961-65 Greenmount
1965-70 graduate student
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-78 chaplain,
1978-83 pastoral counselor
1983-87 director, pastoral counseling for Memphis Conference
1987-92 regional director, pastoral counseling
1992- director,
STEHMAN. HENRY HERR.
Born: 9-4-1829 married: Barbara Herr [4/17/1855]
Died: obit: [12/15/1834 – ?]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1872 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1875 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1871-75 Strasburg
1880-81
1888 name erased
Note: Henry H. Stehman is the son of John Stehman. He was a local pastor living in Millersville.
STEHMAN, JACOB
Born: 10-9-1816 married:
Died: 11-4-1892 Soudersburg PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1849 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1852 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: United
Obit:
Note: Jacob Stehman was a local pastor associated with
Paradise St. John’s. Gibble’s 1951
History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 151, gives biographical
material.
STEHMAN, JOHN
Born: 7-15-1801 married: Anna Nancy Herr
Died: 6-4-1887 obit: [9/5/1801 – 6/18/1886]
Miller-Raker #: 265
Gibble list: yes
1842 license
1845 ordained
Interment: Stehman’s Church,
Obit:
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: John Stehman is the father of Henry H. Stehman. This surname is also rendered STAMAN. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conferences, pages 132 and 136, gives biographical material. Mrs. Stehman is the granddaughter of the Abraham Herr (1751-1823) discussed on page 57 of Gibble’s history.
STEIGERWALT, ANDREW
Born: 11-28-1814 married:
Died: 12-29-1872 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1849 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1853 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1849-50 Northumberland Mission
1850-53
1853-54 Hummelstown circuit
1854-55
1855-57 Annville
1857-59 presiding elder
1859-60 Myerstown
1860-61 presiding elder
1861-63
1863-64 Myerstown
1864-66 Bellegrove circuit
1866-68
1868-69 Bellegrove circuit
1869 charter member of East German Conference
1869-71
1871-72 Union Deposit circuit
Note: Some references list this man as ADAM Steigerwalt.
STEIN, JAMES H. JR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 601
Gibble list: no
1924 license, recommended by York First
Interment:
Obit:
1925-26
1932 referred back to quarterly conference, page 37
STEINER, ALBERT J.ACOB
Born: 8-14-1912Unity Township PA married: Ava M. Brown
Died: 1-17-2005 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1936 quarterly conference license
1943 license, Allegheny Conference
1942 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2005,352
1940-43 Utah Methodist Episcopal Church
1943-46 Coaplort
1946-47 Bradenville
1947-63 local elder
1947-63 World Gospel Mission, TX
1963-72 Greensburg Fourth Street
1972-78 Beaver Falls Otterbein - Bennets Run
1978 retired
1979-2004 visitation pastor, Beaver Falls Concord
STEINER, J.GOODWIN
Born: married:
Died: 6-10-1925 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1875 license, Allegheny Conference
1878 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1874-75 Brookville circuit
1875-76 Bellefont circuit
1876-77 Allegheny circuit
1877-80 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1880-80 Industry (part-year)
1880-82 Shamokin First, East German Conference
1882 transfer
to East Pennsylvania Conference
1888-89 living
in
1889-91 living
in
1891-94 living
in
1894-95 no address given
1895-01 living
in
1901-16 living
in Knoxdale,
1916-17 living in Brookville
1917-25 living in Los Angelos
Note: J.G. Steiner is a mystery. He is described in
STEWART, OLIVER THOMAS
Born: 5-2-1853GrangePAmarried: Caroline Reits
Died: 3-15-1919 Punxsutawney PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1928,63
Miller-Raker #: no
Gilbble list: no
1887 quarterly conference license
1888 license, Allegheny Conference
1890 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1919,86
Clarington
Allegheny
Lajose
Tuscarora
Hustontown
Cambria
Bigler
Holsopple
Glasgow
Rochester Mills
Mahaffey
West Decatir
Runville
Ligonier
Holsopple
New Florence
Industry
Zion
Jefferson
1918 retired
STINE. CAWLEY
Born: 9-12-1899
Died: 12-12-1984 obit: [1932,21]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Ruth Adell Sellers
Gibble list: yes
1917 quarterly
conference license,
1918 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1923 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1985,417
1916-20 student,
1920-23 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1923-31
1931-43
1955-68 general
treasurer,
1968 retired
1969
Steelton Mt.
1969-71 Manada Hill
1971-83 assistant, New Cumberland Trinity
STINE, FRANK LESTER
Born: 8-18-1877 near
Died: 1-4-1950 obit: 1948,36
Miller-Raker #: 534
Gibble list: yes
1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1905 license
1919 ordained
Interment: Boonsboro MD
Obit: 1950,22
1903-05 Intercourse (resigned soon after start of 2nd year; see 1905,4)
1905 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1905-06 Wolfsville
1906-07
1907-10 living
in
1910-11 Grant circuit, Frederick District of Baltimore Conference of ME Church
1911-13 Bendersville
1913-17 Mechanicsburg
(also: student at
1917-23
1923-30
1930-47 Boonsboro
1948 retired
STINESPRING, CHARLES W.
Born: 7-27-1852
Died: 2-22-1919
Miller-Raker #: 417
Gibble list: no
1876 license, Virginia Conference
1880 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1919,68
1876-77 Shady Grove circuit
1877-79 Westernport
1879-80
1880-82
1882-84 Churchville
1884-85 Baltimore Woodberry mission, Pennsylvania Conference
1885 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1885-87 Baltimore Woodberry mission [Otterbein Memorial]
1887-89
1889-90 supernumerary
1890-91
1891-92
1892 transfer to Maryland Conference
1892-93 Chewsville
1893-95 Walkersville
1895-02
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-04
1906-10 field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home
1910-12 field representative, UB Publishing House
1912-16 field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home
STOLL, GEORGE
Born:
Died: 1911 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1868 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1874 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69
1869 charter member of East German Conference
1869-70 Tamaqua (starting about 1/1/69)
1874-75 Union Deposit circuit
1878-79
1893-94
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: George Stoll did not regularly attend conferences or receive appointments.
STOLTE, ROBERT HUFFMAN
Born: 6-5-1926 Newburg PA married: Jean Kostenbauder
Died: 9-12-1973
Miller-Raker #: 707
Gibble list: no
1948 license, recommended by Newburg
1952 ordained
Interment: cremation
Obit: 1974,431
1949-52 chaplain, Xenia OH Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
1952-61 Yoe
1961-73 Hanover Lohr’s Memorial (beginning 1/2/1961)
STONECIPHER, ALVIN H.M.
Born: 10-6-1888
Died: 4-9-1981 obit: [d. 1965]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1906 license, Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1912 ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1922 ordained,
White River Conference of the
Interment:
Obit:
1909-17 student,
1917-22 faculty,
1922 transfer
to White River Conference of the
1922-32 faculty,
1932-33 faculty,
1933 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1933-58 faculty,
1958 retired
1960-68
STONER, JOHN CLARK
Born: 2-18-1906 Tarrs PA married: Violet Mabel Stein
Died: 12-6-1975 Portage PA obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987,413
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 529
Gibble list: no
1929 quarterly conference license
1930 license, Allegheny Conference
1937 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Westmoreland Memorial Park, Greensburg PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976,332
1928-32 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1932-34 student, Western Seminary in Pittsburgh PA
1934-40 Wall
1940-42 Punxsutawney First
1942-47 Scottdale
1947-48 East Connellsville
1948-52 Philipsburg
1952-63 Portage Trinity
1963-65 without appointment
1965 retired
Mt. Olive
STONER, SAMUEL HESS
Born: married: Mary E. Boose
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1946 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1938-42 student, Lebanon Valley Vollege
1940-41
1941-42 Hillsdale
1942-44 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1944-62 Lykens Grace
1962-78 Manheim Salem
1978 retired
1978-79
1979-80
STOUFFER, HENRY
Born: 9-16-1795 married:
Died: 4-30-1884 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 221
Gibble list: yes [STAUFFER]
1833 quarterly conference license
1837 license
Interment:
Obit: 1885,31
Note: Henry Stouffer lived near Rocky Spring,
STOVER, GERALD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First
Interment:
Obit:
1934 name erased, page 97
Note: Gerald Stover apparently never served under appointment. He is otherwise unknown.
STRADER, RONALD KEITH
Born: 9-22-1932 married: Jean _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 807
Gibble list: no
1963 license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion
1970 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1962-74 Young’s-Mt.
1974-79 Genesee-Ulysses
1979-88 Fort Louden-Edenville
1988-94
1994 retired
STRASBAUGH, RALPH A.
Born: 9-23-1886 Menges Mills PA married: Elsie M. Beshore
Died: 1-23-1971 Shiremanstown PA obit: 1975,167
Miller-Raker #: 610
Gibble list: no
1919 quarterly conference license, Pleasant Grove-York Haven charge
1920 license
1924 ordained
Interment: Roth’s
Obit: 1971,364
1921-26 Lemasters
1926-31 Keedysville
1931-36 Greenmount
1936-59 Shiremanstown
1959 retired
1960-61 Fishing Creek
1962 Shepherdstown (4/29/1962 to 10/7/1962)
Note: His son Wayne V. Strasbaugh, although he never pursued
the ministry, was granted a quarterly conference license by the Greenmount
charge 5/29/1934 and served as director of development at
STRATTON, WILLIAM DANIEL
Born: 6-30-1858 Wayne County OH married: Sarah Alice Taylor
Died: 7-21-1942 obit: [Michigan Conference 1946,30]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: no
1887 license, Michigan Conference
1889 ordained, Michigan Conference
Interment:
Obit: Michigan Conference 1942,26
1887-88 Aurelius
1888-89
1889-90 Charlotte
1890-91 Barry circuit
1891-93 Grand Rapids mission
1893-95 faculty, Western College in Toledo IA
1895-96 Grand Rapids
1896-05 conference superintendent
1905-06 Lake Odessa
1906-08 Petoskey
1908 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference
1908-09
1909-10 Altoona Second
1910-11
1911 "transfer" to Michigan Conference
1911-13
1913-14 Caledonia
1914-16 Freemont
1916-17
1917-18 Casco
1918-20 Hastings
1920-21 Branch
1921-24 Brown City
1924-27
1927 retired
Note: Michigan Conference records indicated W.D. Stratton formally transferred to the Allegheny Conference in 1908 and "returned" in 1911, but the Allegheny Conference records do not indicate that there ever was an official transfer. W.D. Stratton supposedly served 18 years as conference superintendent, and so it is possible that some of the latter "blank" years represent service in that capacity. The death date of Mrs. Stratton, not given in her "obituary," is 11/9/1899.
STRAUB, LOUIS ERNEST
Born: 3-3-1907 married: Martha Priscilla Elser
Died: 6-12-1968 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 679
Gibble list: no
1934 license, recommended by Baltimore Salem
1941 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1934-41 living
in
1941-45
1945-49
1949-58 York Second (ending 1/12/1958)
1958-59
1959 transfer to Florida Conference, page 90
STRAYER, DANIEL
Born: 11-8-1829 Cambria County PA married: Susannah Noon [1850]
Died: 2-21-1903 obit: [1834-1879]
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Walter
Fulton #: no obit2: Allegheny Conference 1919,83
Gibble list: no
? ordained, Evangelical Association
Interment: Beaver Valley PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1903,25
1862-64 Ligonier circuit
1866-67 Stahlstown
1871 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
Note: The "transfer" of Daniel Strayer is not noted in Fulton's list. Daniel Strayer is an uncle to Evangelical minister Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938), the father of George R. Strayer and John F. Strayer. The second Mrs. Strayer [nee Elizabeth Matilda Gates] was the widow of a J.S. Walter. [Caution: There is another Daniel Strayer (1790-1869) in the Sandusky Conference of the united Brethren Church.]
STRAYER, GEORGE R. M.
Born: 12-?-1883 married: May Geyer
Died: 12-19-1953 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961,40
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 379
Gibble list: no
1909 quarterly conference license
1910 license, Allegheny Conference
1914 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1954,23
1909-13 McKeesport First
1913-16 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1913-16 Dayton Belmont
1916-19 Trafford City
1919-20 Monessen (ending 3/15/1920)
1920-22 Scottdale (beginning 3/15/1920)
1922-25 field agent, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1925-28 Altoona Second
1928-33 Johnstown Westmont
1933-45 Portage
1945-46 ?
1946-47 Altoona First (beginning 3/1946)
1947-48 conference evangelist
1948-49 Altoona Pleasant Valley
1949 retired
Note: George R. Strayer is the son of Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938) of the Pittsburgh and Oregon Conferences of the United Evangelical Church, and a brother to John F. Strayer.
STRAYER, JOHN FRANKLIN
Born: 3-8-1886 Buena Vista OR married: Bessie Rosevear
Died: 8-14-1960 obit: [2/15/1885 – 9/12/1953]
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Alice Vinton Hogard
Fulton #: 367 obit2:
Gibble list: no
1907 quarterly conference license
1909 license, Allegheny Conference
1914 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Johnstown PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1961,38
1907-08 Hustontown (beginning 2/1/1908)
1908-10 Clarington
1910-15 Zion
1915-18 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1918-22 Woodland (beginning 5/1918)
1922-27 Latrobe
1927-36 McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial
1936-42 Youngwood
1942-46 South Williamsport
1946-49 Woodland
1949-53 Punxsutawney First
1953-56 Altoona Third
1956 retired
1957 Marchand (Jan-Jun)
1958 Punxsutawney First (Jan-May)
Note: John F. Strayer is the son of Franklin Joseph Strayer (1852-1938) of the Pittsburgh and Oregon Conferences of the United Evangelical Church, and a brother to George F. Strayer. The second Mrs. Strayer is also identified as Mrs. Alice Hogarth.
STRICKLER, CHRISTIAN
Born: 1805 married:
Died: 7-20-1841 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 236
Gibble list: yes
1839 license
Interment:
Obit: 1842,50
STRICKLER, DANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 21
Gibble list: yes
1791 license
Interment:
Obit:
1808 dismissed
STRICKLER, DAVID
Born: 5-11-1814 near Mount Joy PA married: Mary Ann Greiner
Died: 10-5-1888 obit: [2/14/1829 – 9/12/1853]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
[1/1/1867]
Gibble list: yes
1854 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1857 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
Obit:
1849-53 editor, Busy Martha
1853-56
1857-58
1858-60 presiding elder
1860-61
1861-62
1862-65 presiding elder
1865-81
1881-82
Note: David Strickler was also a school teacher.
STRICKLER, EARLE MONROE
Born: 11-18-1890 Newmanstown PA married: Mary Rebecca Bowman
Died: 5-25-1987
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1923 quarterly conference license
1924 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1902-23 school teacher
1923-26 Pequea
1926-28 Royalton
1928-32
1932-39
1939-41 Grantville
1941-43 Tremont circuit
1943 moved
to
Note: Earle M. Strickler is the father of Philip Strickler and Warren L. Strickler.
STRICKLER, ANDREW PHILIP
Born: 4-24-1922 married: Lucille _____
Died: 9-21-2000 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1943-54 Jonestown circuit
1954-56 evangelist
1956-57
1957 transfer to California Conference
1957-58
1958-64 Warner Memorial
1964-66 Los Angeles Grace
1966 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1966-71 Ono
1971-76 Ono & Shirk’s
1976-87 Ono
1987 retired
1987-90 Kleinfeltersville
Note: A. Philip Strickler is the son of Earle M. Strickler and the brother of Warren L. Strickler.
STRICKLER, WAREN LEO
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1935 quarterly conference license
1937 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1938-40 Lickdale
1940-43 Brunnerville
1943 transfer to California Conference
1943-54 [
1954 no longer listed in the EUB yearbook
Note: Warren L. Strickler is the son of Earle M. Strickler and the brother of A, Philip Strickler.
STRINE, GEORGE W.
Born: 2-22-1880 Strinestown PA married: Emma Grace Prowell
Died: 4-13-1938 obit: 1943,30
Miller-Raker #: 542
Gibble list: no
1899 quarterly conference license
1900 license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Old Constitution
1904 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Old Constitution
Interment:
Obit: 1938,24
1900-03 Mountain Grove mission (Yocumtown area)
1903-05 Shippensburg mission
1905-06
1906-07
1907 transfer
to Pennsylvania Conference,
1907-09
1909-13 Greenmount circuit
1913-20 Spry
1920-26 Greencastle
1926-30
1930-33 Emisgville
1933-35 Yoe
1935-38 Manchester-Jerusalem
STROCK, ROBERT EUGENE
Born: 3-24-1920 Chambersburg PA married: Katharine R. Hill
Died: 2-2-1993 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 793
Gibble list: no
1961 license, recommended by Edenville
1967 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1993,477
1962-77
1977-86
1986 retired
visitation pastor, Morrisville (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)
interim pastor, Warminster St. Andrew’s (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)
visitation pastor, Hatboro Lehman (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference)
chaplain, Warminster Eastern Star Home
STROHM, JAMES NEVIN.
Born: 9-13-1913McKeesport PA married: Lois Margaret Zollars
Died: 1-27-2006 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985,396
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1933 quarterly conference license
1935 license, Allegheny Conference recommended by McKeesport Shoemaker
1942 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Penn Lincoln Cemetery, North Huntington PA
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2006,393
1939-40 Mahaffey (beginning 4/28/1939)
1940-42 Arona
1942-43 Beaver Falls
1943-46 Ligonier
1946-48 student, Juniata College
1946-48 Mapleton
1948-51 student Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1951-63 Jeannette Claridge
1963-67 Wilkinson Grace
1967-70 Dunlo and director, Camp Allegheny
1970-79 director, Camp Allegheny
1979 retired
STUM, DAVID EDWARD
Born: 11-13-1944 married: Shelia _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 816
Gibble list: no
1964 license, recommended by Lemoyne Calvary
1969 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1962-66
student,
1963-64 Adamsville-Pleasant Grove
1966-69 student, Boston University School of Theology
1968-69 assistant, Newtonville MA
1969-70 Benevola-Mt.
1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1970-76 Benevola circuit
1976-80
1980-85 Covenant-Washington Grove
1985-95 Covenant
1995-96 General Board of Global Ministries
1996-
STUMP, CHARLES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 361
Gibble list: no
1871 license, page 8
Interment:
Obit:
1873 transfer to Ohio German Conference
STURGEON, EUGENE FRY
Born: 4-12-1857Hagerstown MDmarried: Sarah M. Manges
Died: 4-10-1930obit: [1866-1932]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gilbble list: no
1918 license, Methodist Protestant Church
Interment: Burnside Cemetery, Burnside PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1930,64
1919 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church
1919-20 Albion (6 months)
1920-24 Three Springs
1924-28 Mahaffey
1928-30 Casselman
Note: Eugene Fry Sturgeon served as a local pastor.
SUMMY, CLARENCE IRA
Born: 3-7-1915
Died: 3-9-2005
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Clarence I. Summy is listed under “other employed in
the conference” and his status or credentials are unknown. The maiden name of Mrs. Summy is Huntley.
SUPPLEE, B.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1907 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1908 withdrew
SUTTON, JAMES
Born: married:
Died: 1844 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 141
Gibble list: yes
1828 license
Interment:
Obit: 1844,55
Note: James Sutton is the grandfather (through his daughter Eve Sutton Zeek) of Elias A. Zeek.
SWAIN, JAMES A.
Born: 11-7-1907 Hooversville PA married: Edna Marie Boyts
Died:12-?-1968 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1933 license, Allegheny Conference
1941 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1933 transfer to Virginia Conference
Note: A biographical sketch of James A. Swain is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 284.
SWANGER, MURRAY LEE.
Born: 9-16-1893 married: Edna Mowery [1912]
Died: 7-26-1982 Newburg PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Ida M. Cramer [1926]
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 Birdsboro Grace (until the end of February; see 1919,6)
Note: M.L. Swanger served while a student at
SWANK, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1863 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1860-62 Northumberland Mission
1862-63
1863-64 Northumberland Mission
1864-65 Shamokin circuit
1865-66
1866 withdrew
SWARTZ, C.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1900 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1902-03 Catawissa circuit (“for a brief time”; see 1903,5)
1906 referred
Note: C.L. Swartz lived in Hummelstown and was referred back his quarterly conference for licensing and service at that level, apparently because he was not making progress toward and/or not showing interest in completing the steps toward the itinerancy.
SWARTZ, CHAUNCEY ROYALTON
Born: 1-30-1894
Died:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1930 quarterly conference license, Hochenderfer’s
1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1936 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Kochenderfer’s
Obit: Eastern Conference 1968,120
1928-32 Barry
1932-43 Bellegrove
1943-47 Highville
1947-48
1948-53 Ranck’s
1953-60 Grantville
1960-64 Valley View
1964 retired
SWARTZ, PETER
Born: married:
Died: 1845 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 61
Gibble list: yes
1811 license
1816 ordained
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1846,2
1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference
SWARTZ, RICHARD WALLACE
Born: married: Dorothy Elizabeth Werner
Died: obit: 1990,468
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1948 license, East Pennsylvania Conference – recommended by Harrisburg Otterbein
1953 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1946-50 student,
1949-50 Brunnerville
1950-53 student, United Theological Seminary in
1950-53
1953-59
1959-62
1962-72 Oberlin Neidig Memorial
1972-77 Wormleysburg
1977-82 Geyers
1982-89 associate, Lewistown First
1989 retired
SWARTZ, SOLOMON L.
Born: 9-18-1827
Died: 10-6-1907 obit: [d. 1858]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Annie Wagner
Gibble list: yes
1871 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1879 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1877-78
Note: S.L. Swartz never traveled as an itinerant, but he ministered as a class leader and local pastor and served as conference Missionary Treasurer for 21 years.
SYNAN, CARL A.
Born: 11-29-1943 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 868
Gibble list: no
1961 temporary license, page 38
1963 license
Interment:
Obit:
1961-65 Wolfsville
1965-66 conference board of evangelism
1966-78
1978-82
1982 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1982-88 Lonaconing
1988-91 campus
ministry,
1991- campus
ministry,