Front Cover: Mrs. Priscilla Bennett and Mrs. Kate Dickson are featured in the article beginning on page 4. The photo of Kate Pettebone Dickson was provided by the Luzerne County Historical Society.

THE CHRONICLE is published by the Historical Society of the Susquehanna Conference

of the United Methodist Church, 303 Mulberry Drive, Mechanicsburg PA 17055-3179.

THE CHRONICLE

Journal of the Historical Society

of the

Susquehanna Conference

of the

United Methodist Church

Milton W. Loyer

editor

Volume XXVIII spring 2017

Editor's Preface .........................................................................................................2

Female Torch Passers

Two Philanthropic Ladies……………………………..…………………....…4

Blanche Kingery Carroll……………………………………………….…….10

Denominational Transitions

Wayne Circuit of the Evangelical Association..……………………….….…18

Daleville Circuit of the Methodist Protestant Church………………………25

Pastoral Transitions

John H. Powell….……………………………………………………….....….42

Joseph Sproule……………………………………………………..…………49

Generational Transitions

B.F. Campbell……….……………………………….……………………….58

The Bowman Family…………….…………………………………….….......72

Congregational Transitions

Town Hill Methodism…………..……………………………………..……...80

The United Brethren in York……………………………………………...…91