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JACKSON,
G
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1871 license
Interment:
Obit:
JACOBS,
HARRY HALBERT
Born:
5-4-1893 Carlisle
PA married:
Emma Catherine Basom
Died: 12-22-1975 obit:
1989,468
1915 license, recommended by First, Carlisle
1922 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment:
Williamsport PA
Obit: [1976,150]
1915-16 Junior preacher Cumberland circuit
1919-20 Keystone Mission
1920-24 South Wayland
1924-26 Liberty
1926-33 Lycoming
1933-39 Danville
1939-49 Bellefonte
1949-58 Bethany, Berwick
1958-62 Jersey Shore
1962 retired
Note:
Mrs. Jacobs is the daughter of Henry S. Basom.
JACOBS,
J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1835-37 Gettysburg
1837-38 Union
1838-40 Cumberland
1840-41 York and Gettysburg
circuit
1841-42 Cumberland
1842-45 located
1845-46 Gettysburg
1846 located
JACOBS,
M.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1906 license
1908 ordained deacon
1912 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
JACOBS,
OTIS LEANDER
Born:
3-15-1862 near
Rossville PA married:
Mellie V. Madge
Died: 9-29-1897 obit:
[d. 1/26/1892]
1883 license
Interment:
Obit:
1880-84 student, York Collegiate
Institute at York PA
1884-86 student, Princeton
University at Princeton NJ
1886-87 faculty, Central
Pennsylvania College at New Berlin PA
1887-93 vice-principal, York
High School at York PA
1893-97 principal, York High
School at York PA
Note: A
picture of Prof. O.L. Jacobs appears in the 11/8/1898 issue of The Evangelical,
page 353, and a biographical sketch appears in the 9/17/1913 issue of The
Evangelical, page 6.
JAMES,
E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 license
Interment:
Obit:
1878-79 Cumberland
1879-81 Middleburg
1881-84 listed as local preach
on trial, living in “Juniata”
1884 credentials granted,
page 10
JAMES,
JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1875 license
Interment:
Obit:
JAMISON,
MILTON IRVIN
Born:
12-31-1859 Spring
Mills PA married:
Rosa Emma Keen
Died: 2-17-1920 Williamsport PA obit: 1936,79
1885 license, recommended by Millheim
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: 1920,69
1885-86 Sugar Valley
1886-88 Nittany
Valley
1888-89 Turbotsville
1889-92 Hughesville
1892-96 Williamsport St. Paul
1896-98 Nescopeck
1898-02 Baltimore Memorial
1902-06 Altoona
1906-07 Baltimore Memorial
1907-11 York Trinity
1911-13 Hagerstown
1913-15 agent, Albright College
1915-19 superintendent,
Williamsport District
1919-20 Center District
Note:
Mrs. Jamison is a sister to Emanuel D. Keen.
JARRETT,
HARRY LEPLEY
Born:
9-15-1885 East
Prospect PA married:
Mary Katherine Bailey
Died:
4-14-1948 Philadelphia
PA obit:
Central PA Conference ME 1946, 233
married2:
Jennie R. Dodge
1907 license obit2:
1913 admitted
on trial, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment:
Shriener’s Church Cemetery, Shamokin Dam PA
Obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1948,193
1908-11 Eagles
Mere & Laporte, Central Pennsylvania Conference
ME
1911-15 Cross
Fork, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME
1913 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1913-15 Cross Fork
1915-16 Fairview
1916-21 New
Millport
1921-30 McConnellsburg (moved to Millerstown in mid-year 1929-30)
1930-41 Millerstown-Liverpool
(came from Liverpool in mid-year 1929-30)
1941-48 Montgomery
Note:
Harry L. Jarrett is the son of Percival F. Jarrett.
JARRETT,
PERCIVAL F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 license
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder
1989 ordained elder, Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment:
Obit:
1874-76 Buffalo
1876-79 Jarrettsville
1879-82 Bendersville
1882-85 Dillsburg
1885-88 East Prospect
1888-89 Liverpool
1889-90 located
1890-92 Nittany
Valley
1892-95 Sugar Valley
1895-98 located
1896-98
Wapwallopen, Central Pennsylvania Conference
ME
1898 withdrew to “transfer”
to Methodist Episcopal Church
1898-99 Wapwallopen
1899-01 ?
1901-02 Jamison City
Note: Percival F. Jarrett is the father of Harry L. Jarrett. He served as a local pastor in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
JARRETT,
RALPH McKINLEY
Born:
10-15-1896 Shamokin
Dam PA married:
Alice Ruth Bierly
Died: 6-16-1940 Williamsport PA obit:
1933 license, recommended by Hummels
Wharf
1936 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment: Shamokin Dam PA
Obit: 1941,90
1934-39 Grover and East Point
1939-40 Williamsport circuit
JENKINS,
A. MORGAN
Born:
4-5-1886 New
Park PA married:
Sylvia Kirk
Died: 8-1-1980 York PA obit:
[11/6/1887 – 2/5/1976]
1910 license, recommended by Lewisberry
1912 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder
Interment:
Centre Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New Park PA
Obit: 1981,335
1910-13 Yoe and Freysville
1913-18 Felton
1918 Baltimore Immanuel
(ending 8/1918)
1918-19 chaplain, U.S. Army
(8/18 – 12/19)
1919-20 evangelist (beginning
12/19)
1920-21 Mt. Holly Springs
1921-26 Baltimore Olive Branch
1926-28 Wrightsville
1928-33 Altoona Grace
1933-41 Jersey Shore
1941-46 chaplain, U.S. Army
1946-48 Bloomsburg
1948-50 Felton
1950-51 Loganville
1954 retired
JEWELL,
CLYDE ELMER
Born:
11-21-1889 Hughesville
PA married:
Jennie M. Unger
Died: 11-28-1944 Scranton PA obit: [8/6/1893
– 2/18/1933]
married2:
Eleanor S. Thompson [7/11/1936]
1910 license obit2:
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: 1945,83
1915-17 Lopez
1917-20 Dushore
1920 located
Note:
Clyde E. Jewell became principal of the high school at Dushore
and left the itinerancy for a vocation in education. He also served as principal at high schools
in Tunkhannock PA and Waverly PA.
JONES,
THOMAS REESE
Born:
11-3-1927 York
PA married:
Jeune E. Krebs
Died: 1-10-2010 Cross Keys PA obit:
1940 license, recommended by York Grace
1955 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010,166
1952-57 Bryansville
1957-65 Felton
1965-74 York St. Luke
1974-77 York St. Luke and St. Paul
1977-78 sabbatical
1978-93 associate chaplain, York Hospital
1993 retired
JOHNSON,
C.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1897 license
Interment:
Obit:
JOHNSON,
IRVIN ELLSWORTH
Born: 6-17-1871 married: Lulu Idell
Kauler
Died: 10-1-1971 obit: [12/8/1876 - ?/?/1957]
1897 license, East Pennsylvania (United) Conference
Interment:
Riverview Burial Park, Lancaster PA
Obit: Eastern Conference of the Evangelical Congregational Church 1972, 146
1897-98 Limerick
1898-00 Lemoyne
1900-04 Pottstown
1904-07 Sunbury
1907-11 Terre Hill
1911-13 Mount Joy
1913-15 on leave
1915-17 Mount Joy
1917-22 Manheim
1922 identified with Evangelical
Congregational Church
1922-23 Columbia
1923-25 York
1925-30 Shillington
1930-34 Manheim
1934-37 Harrisburg
1937 retired
JORDAN,
MARK S.
Born:
4-5-1923 married:
Died: 5-13-1996 obit:
1950 license, recommended by Tusseyville
1955 ordained elder
Interment:
Tusseyville
Obit: [1996,401]
1951-59 Keystone-Perry
1959-72 Newport
(beginning9/4/1959)
1972-82 Hellam
1982-89 York Fourth
1989 retired
JOSEPH,
GEORGE
Born:
3-7-1845 Abadair England married:
Agnes Gilmore
Died: 3-3-1922 obit:
1929,87
1876 license
1878 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder
Interment:
Mt. Rock Cemetery, Lewistown PA
Obit: 1922,74
1876-78 Milton circuit
1878-79 Liverpool
1879-81 Marysville
1881-82 Fishing Creek Valley
1882-85 Hagerstown circuit
1885-87 Perry
1887-89 Millmont
1889-91 Shrewbury
1891-94 East Prospect
1894-95 Red Lion
1895-98 Lewistown
1898-01 Newport
1901 retired
1910-11 Lewistown Grace (last 4 months)
1912-15 Lewistown Trinity