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KAMBLE, WALTON LESTON.

Born: 12-22-1879 Berrysburg PA married: Helen Venette Schiek
Died: 5-27-1956 obit: 1941,90

married2: Lovie E. Wiest

1910 license, recommended by East Point obit2: 1956,83
1912 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder

Interment: Zion EUB Church Cemetery, near Penns Creek PA
Obit: 1957,79

1910-11 Grover
1911-13 East Point
1913-16 Wayland
1916-21 Hagerstown circuit
1921-25 Hanover circuit
1925-28 Sugar Valley
1928-35 Penns Creek

1935-37 Rebersburg

1937 retired

Note: Walton L. Kamble wrote gospel songs and is the subject of an article in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, pages 46-54. The second Mrs. Kamble is a niece of Samuel L. Wiest.

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KAUFFMAN, EARL HARNISH

Born: 4-18-1915 near Leola PA married: Frances Eleanor Prutzman
Died: 10-28-1991 obit: 2000,347

1935 license, recommended by Brownstown Emmanuel
1941 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1943 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Kauffman’s Cemetery, near Annville PA
Obit: 1992,476

1939-40 Bolichs and Drehersville
1940-42 Tamaqua
1942-45 Shenandoah
1945-46 Nazareth
1946-49 Phoenixville
1949-51 Weissport

1951 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1951-54 Selinsgrove Charge
1954-59 White Deer Charge
1959-65 West Nanticoke and Ransom

1965-70 Jefferspn-Greenmount

1970-74 Gatchelville

1974-78 Highspire

1978-82 Highspire & Steelton

1982 retired

1982-83 associaye, Enders-Powell’s Valley

1983-86 Shopes-Stoverdale

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KAUFFMAN, JOHN

Born: married:
Died: obit:

license
1850 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1840-41 York and Gettysburg circuits
1841-42 Buffalo

1842 located

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KAUFFMAN, KARLE F.

Born: 2-4-1916 married:
Died: 10-18-1995 obit:

Interment:
Obit:

1945-47 West Milton

Note: Karle F. Kauffman served as a supply pastor. He appears to have been a resident of the West Milton area, but is otherwise unknown.

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KEAFER, CLAIR ERNEST

Born: 2-14-1905 Somerset County PA married: Iva Mae Reesey
Died: 9-25-1968 obit: 1974,439

1924 license, Pittsburgh Conference, recommended by Johnstown Centennial
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder

Interment: Johnstown PA
Obit: 1969,208

1930 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1930-36 Winfield
1936-41 Northumberland
1941-46 Bloomsburg
1946-51 Mechanicsburg
1951-57 Mifflinburg
1957-64 Berwick St. Paul

1964-68 Hughesville Bethany

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KEAGLE, HENRY

Born: 5-25-1805 Perry County PA married: Mary Levegood
Died: 9-13-1861 Linn County IA obit: [1/15/1810 – 3/24/1897]

license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1852-53 Canton
1853-54 Buffalo
moved west

Note: When Henry Keagle was born, Greenwood township was in Cumberland County. While he is referred to as Rev. Henry Keagle, and he served under appointment twice, there is no record of his receiving a license or ordination.

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KEEN, EMANUEL D.

Born: 6-26-1849 Millheim PA married: Emma J. Yoder
Died: 2-3-1917 Wrightsville PA obit: 1934,76

1881 license
1883 ordained deacon
1885 ordained elder

Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: 1917,74

1881-82 Middleburg
1882-83 McClure
1883-86 Juniata Circuit
1886-88 Liverpool
1888-91 Yorkana
1891-94 Loganville
1894-95 Yorkana
1895-98 Red Lion
1898-02 Nescopeck
1902-04 East Prospect
1904-07 York St. Paul
1907-11 Berwick North
1911-15 Lemoyne
1915-17 Wrightsville

Note: Emanuel D. Keen is the father of Paul Edwin Keen and a brother to Rosa E. Keen Jamison, wife of Milton I. Jamison. His mother Anna Maria [Mary] Deininger Keen is a sister to C.F. Deininger.

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KEEN, PAUL EDWIN

Born: 1888 Yorkana PA married: [never married]
Died: 11-19-1958 Naperville IL obit:

1910 license, recommended by Berwick Bethany
1916 ordained deacon
1918 ordained elder

Interment: Union Cemetery, Millheim PA
Obit: Wisconsin Conference EUB 1959,64

1917-22 Wrightsville
1922-24 State College
1924-28 faculty, Albright College at Reading PA
1928-57 faculty, Theological Seminary at Naperville IL

1957 retired

Note: Paul Edwin Keen is the son of Emanuel D. Keen. A biographical sketch for Paul Edwin Keen appears in the 1939 History of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 348.

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KEHR, DANIEL

Born: married: Rachel Rishel
Died: 9-9-1871 Centre County PA obit:

1830 license
1832 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1830-31 Canton Circuit
1831-32 Lancaster Circuit
1832-33 Somerset
1833-34 Lake Circuit
1834-35 Gettysburg
1835-36 located
1836-37 Somerset
1837-38 Indiana
1838-39 Lykens Circuit
1839-40 Dansville Circuit
1840-41
1841-42 Columbia
1842-44 superintendent, Carmel District
1844-46 superintendent, Potomac District
1846-48 Clinton circuit
1848-49 Union
1849-51 Center
1851-52 Block House

1852-53

1853 located

went west and served as Presiding Elder; afterward returned: Superannuated

Note: This surname is also rendered KERR. The parents of Daniel Kehr provided a regular preaching place for Jacob Albright in Centerville, a few miles west of New Berlin. Mrs. Kehr is a sister to David Rishel and to Susan Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and Sarah Rishel Kreamer (wife of John Kreamer).

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KELLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Born: 3-3-1851 near East Prospect PA married: Fanny Fisher
Died: 4-23-1926 Litchfield PA obit: 1933,80

1875 license
1877 ordained deacon
1879 ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: 1927,87

1875-76 Jersey Shore circuit
1876-77 Block House
1877-78 Liverpool
1878-80 Juniata
1880-81 Dushore
1881-84 New Columbia
1884-86 West Clifford
1886-89 Wayland
1889-92 Grover
1892-93 West Brooklyn
1893-94 Tunkhannock
1894-96 Hebbville
1896-98 York circuit
1898-01 Craleyville
1901-05 Ransom
1905-09 Lopez
1909-13 New Berlin
1913-17 Port Treverton
1917-21 Pennsdale
1921-25 Penns Creek
1925 retired

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KELLEY, LEVI

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1847 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1847-48 Indiana circuit
1848-49 Gettysburg
1849-50 Franklin

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KELLY, WILLIAM HOWARD

Born: 2-11-1904 Craley PA married: Geraldine Grace Lagerman
Died: 11-26-1988 Harrisburg PA obit:1987,418

1930 license, recommended by Red Lion St. Paul's
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: 1989,469

1930-32 Scranton Zion
1932-38 Hebbville
1938-46 York Zion
1946-49 Berwick Bethany
1949-60 Lewisburg St. Paul's
1960-66 Williamsport First
1966 retired

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KENNELLEY, MAX AUGUSTUS

Born: 5-5-1867 Spring Mills PA married: Havilla Catherine Miller
Died: 3-8-1928 York PA obit: 1948,100

1892 license, recommended by Spring Mills
1894 ordained deacon
1896 ordained elder

Interment: York PA
Obit: 1929,81

1892-93 Milesburg
1893-94 Middleburg
1894-96 Liberty
1896-00 Hebbville
1900-02 York St. Paul
1902-06 Baltimore Grace
1906-08 Altoona
1908-12 York Grace
1912-16 Carlisle
1916-21 Milton
1921-23 Lewistown
1923-26 Hughesville
1926-28 York Grace

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KEPNER, DANIEL A.

Born: 1-25-1825 near Newport PA married: Leah Christ
Died: 4-1-1901 Millerstown PA obit: [10/9/1826 – 2/7/1894]

license
1860 ordained deacon
1869 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1867-68 Big Spring
1868-69 Hagerstown
1869-71 Luzerne
1871-73 Liverpool
1873 located

Note: Daniel A. Kepner is the father of Daniel L. Kepner and J.A. Kepner.

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KEPNER, DANIEL L.

Born: 10-22-1859 Perry County PA married: Jennie Kershner
Died: 2-25-1942 obit: 1946,84

1891 license
1893 ordained deacon
1895 ordained elder

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: 1942,89

1891-93 Millmont
1893-96 Brush Valley
1896-99 Dushore
1899-03 Milton
1903-05 Marysville
1905-08 York Grace
1908-11 Red Lion
1911-13 Williamsport St. John
1913-17 Hughesville
1917-22 Mechanicsburg
1922-24 Northumberland
1924 retired

Note: Daniel L. Kepner is the son of Daniel A. Kepner and the brother of J.A. Kepner.

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KEPNER, J. A.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1879 license

Interment:
Obit:

Note: J.A. Kepner is the son of Daniel A. Kepner and the brother of Daniel L. Kepner. [Daniel A. Kepner had two sons with the initials J.A. that lived in Berwick. It is not clear whether it was Jacob Albert Kepner or John Alfred Kepner who received the local preacher’s license.]

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KERSTETTER, HOWARD ALLEN

Born: married: Evelyn Louise Walker
Died: obit: 2004, 371

1951 license, recommended by State College St. John’s
1957 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1952-54 Runville
1954-57 Dorsey
1957-66 Baltimore Trinity

1966-83 Lemoyne Grace

1983-92 Carlisle First

1992 retired

1992-2003 Mt. Rock

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KESSLER, ELMER LEWIS.

Born: 7-7-1866 Blooming Grove PA married: Annie Lucinda Wise
Died: 4-1-1934 Woodward PA obit: 1946,84

1888 license, recommended by Blooming Grove
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder

Interment: Woodward Cemetery, Woodward PA
Obit: 1935,83

1889-90 Sugar Valley
1890-91 Milesburg
1891-92 Middleburg
1892-95 Leesburg
1895-97 Perry circuit
1897-00 Hagerstown circuit
1900-04 Luzerne circuit
1904-06 Harford
1906-19 Located
1919-23 East Point
1923-30 Keystone
1930 retired

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KESSLER, ELVIN H.

Born: 6-21-1917 Muir PA married: Blossom M. Workman
Died: 7-7-1992 West Grove PA obit: [4/17/1916 – 4/25/2003]

1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Fairview Cemetery. Muir PA
Obit:

1940-41 Port Trevorton

1941 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, page 76

1941-42 Port Trevorton

1942-46 Liberty

1946-51 Lewistown Trinity

1951-53 Wrightsville

1953 “transfer” to Philadelphia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 75

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KIBBE, GEORGE R.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1952 license, recommended by Williamsport First
1956 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1953-54 Otterbein-Green Hill, Indiana North Conference
1954-55 Markle, Indiana North Conference
1956-59 Howard
1959-61 Sonestown
1961-62 Penn's Creek
1962-66 Columbia circuit

1966-70 Baltimore Calvary

1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-76 Baltimore Keen Memorial

1976-78 leave of absence

1978 transfer to Northern New York Conference

Note: As of 2010, George R. Kibbe was retired and living in Baltimore MD.

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KIESS, HARRY AMMON

Born: 6-24-1873 Lycoming County PA married: Mae Messinger
Died:9-22-1930 obit: [1881-1921]

married2: Laura Stoltz [1922]

1896 license obit:

Interment:
Obit:

1896-99 student, Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin PA

1900-29 faculty, Albright College at Myerstown PA

1929-30 faculty, Albright College at Reading PA

Note: Harry A. Kiess also served as a math tutor and band director 1896-99. On the faculty, he taught mathematics and astronomy. He was a 1915 charter member of the Mathematical Association of America. Although sometimes known as Rev. Harry Kiess, he never served under appointment. The first Mrs. Kiess is the daughter of J.W. Messinger.

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KING, JOHN M.

Born: 1839 Springfield PA married: _____ Hatton [1865]
Died: 5-5-1912 Newberry PA obit:

1869 license
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1869-70 Boalsburg
1870-71 Center circuit
1871-72 Nittany circuit
1873-74 Block House
1874-77 Canton circuit
1877-80 Milesburg
1880-83 Canton circuit
1883-86 Newberry
1886-88 Center Hall
1888-90 Nittany Valley
1890-93 Williamsport circuit
1893-97 Jersey Shore circuit
1897-01 Wayland
1901-05 Williamsport circuit
1905-09 Columbia circuit
1909-11 Lopez
1911-12 Williamsport Grace
1912 retired

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KING, WARREN E.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1917 license
1923 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KISTLER, JAMES DANIEL.

Born: 11-29-1872 Weissport PA married: Annie C. Traub
Died: 11-24-1936 Harrisburg PA obit: Northeastern Conference 1961, 116

1901 license East Pennsylvania Conference UE
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 366

1901-02 Egypt

1902-04 Egypt and Franklin

1904-08 Reading St. Paul

1908-11 Lebanon First

1911-15 Tamaqua

1915-20 Allentown Trinity

1920-27 Mount Carmel

1927-30 Germantown

1930-36 Harrisburg Harris Street

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KLEFFEL, HARRY CHRISTIAN

Born: 3-21-1889 York County PA married: Joy Irene Billhime
Died: 3-1-1963 obit: 1959,107

1911 license
1913 ordained deacon
1915 ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:

1911-14 Milton circuit
1914-18 Sugar Valley
1918-25 Ringtown
1925-31 Millheim
1931-47 Altoona First

1947-48 Altoona Faith

1948-51 Mifflinburg

1951- Hummels Wharf

Note: Harry C. Kleffel is the father of John B. Kleffel and Paul H. Kleffel.

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KLEFFEL, JOHN B.

Born: 4-25-1918 Ringtown PA married:
Died: 10-28-2000 Harrisburg PA obit:

1943 license
ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:

1944-48 Enola
1948- 53 Grover –East Point
1953 “transfer” to Lackawanna Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, page 75

1953-58 Canton Presbyterian

Note: John B. Kleffel is the son of Harry C. Kleffel and a brother to Paul H. Kleffel.

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KLEFFEL, PAUL HARRY

Born: 4-13-1923 Ringtown PA married: Elizabeth L. Throssel
Died: 11-26-1993 obit:

1946 license, recommended by Altoona Faith
1951 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 1994,481

1948-50 Union circuit
1950-53 Espy
1953-58 Millheim
1958-66 Lock Haven First

1966-77 Lemoyne Calvary

1977-80 Huntingdon First (ending 1/15/1980)

1980-82 Chambersburg First (beginning1/15/1980)

1982-86 Spry Otterbein

1986 retired

Note: Paul H. Kleffel is the son of Harry C. Kleffel and a brother to John B. Kleffel.

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KLEINFELTER, EMANUEL

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1856 license
1874 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KLINE, DANIEL PETER

Born: 9-11-1848 Troxelville PA married: Miriam Eyer
Died: 9-6-1900 obit: Nebraska Conference ME 1943,1073

1874 license
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: Nebraska Conference ME 1900,68

1874-75 York circuit
1875-76 Center circuit
1876-78 Jersey Shore
1878-81 Sugar Valley
1881-84 Buffalo
1884-87 Columbia circuit
1887 transfer to Platte River Conference

1891 transfer to Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1891-92 Garrison

1892-95 Waco

1895-96 Arborville

1896-99 Surprise

1899-00 Utica

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KLINE, EDWIN NEWTON

Born: 1-14-1873 Liverpool PA married: Carlotta Mae Grissinger
Died: 7-19-1971 obit: [1875 – 3/13/1941]

married2: Belle T.

obit2: [5/7/1871 – 6/4/1962]

1896 quarterly conference license, Selinsgrove ME

1900 license, Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1902 ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1904 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Interment: Lake Carroll Cemetery, Hillsborough County FL
Obit:

1899-00 Camptown

1900-01 South Danby

1901-03 Litchfield

1903-04 Scranton Ash Street

1904-05 Glen Lyon

1905-06 Auburn

1906-07 Maine NY

1907 transfer to Dakota Conference ME (apparently in and out without an appointment)

1907 transfer to Detroit Conference ME

1907-08 Newberry

1908 withdrew

“transfer” to Presbyterian Church

1915-16 Stephentown

1919-20 Mountain Top

1925 “transfer” to the Central PA Conference of the Evangelical Church, page 61

1925-26 Alberton
1926-27 Buffalo Valley
1927 “transfer” to Presbyterian Church

1931-32 Erie Belle Valley

1937-38 Middlefield Center NY

1938-40 Laurens NY

Note: A biographical sketch for Edwin N. Kline appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 356. His service in the Presbyterian Church involved at least the following Presbyteries: Otsego, Albany, Northumberland, Lackawanna. The years given for the Presbyterian service include only the years he was known to have been at those locations – expanding the years at each location to eliminate the apparent gaps is not possible from the information at hand. Mrs. Kline is buried in the Brooksville Cemetery in Brooksville FL. The headstone includes the name and birth years for Edwin Newton Kline – but the death date is not cut into the stone. Edwin is buried with his second wife in Lake Carroll Cemetery, located at the north end of Lake Carroll on Armenia Avenue, owned by and a ministry of Lake Magdalene United Methodist Church.

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KLINE, LEWIS ELLERMAN

Born: 3-30-1898 Elliottsburg PA married: Ivy May Brighton
Died: 11-8-1969 Hallam PA obit:

married2: Edith Backel Horn [1942]

obit2: 2003,384

1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Charlton
1928 ordained deacon
1930 ordained elder

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville PA
Obit: 1970,381

1926-27 Manada Furnace, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1927-28 East Point
1928-35 Sonestown
1935-41 Howard
1941-60 Hellam
1960-66 Dorsey

1966 retired

chaplain, Pleasant Home in York County

Note: The second Mrs. Kline (nee Backel) was the widow of a Mr. Wilton Sylvester Horn.

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KLINGEMAN, HARRY ALBRIGHT

Born: 5-6-1900 Mahanoy City PA married: Elizabeth Ann Pettee
Died: 3-18-1984 Philadelphia PA obit: 1971,374

married2: Irene B. Lucas

obit2: 1986,429

1921 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Mahanoy City Salem
1934 ordained deacon

1936 ordained elder

Interment: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Lycoming County PA
Obit: 1984,378

1932-38 York Zion
1938-43 Williamsport Grace
1943-49 Baltimore Trinity
1949-60 Bellefonte Trinity
1960-62 Lewisburg
1962-68 Jersey Shore

1968 retired

1974-77 First Baptist Church, Gloucester City NJ

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KLINGER, CHARLES LEROY

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1950 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1955 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1955-61 Lewisberry
1961-62 Houserville
1962-68 Mount Nittany

1968-79 South Williamsport Grace

1979-87 associate, Hummelstown Trinity

1987-92 Berwick Bower Memorial

1992 retired

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KNAUB, MELVIN.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1899 license

Interment:
Obit:

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KNISLEY, BRUCE FRANCIS

Born: married: Ruth _____
Died: obit:

1941 license, recommended by Windsor Emmanuel
1947 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1942-46 Baltimore St. Matthew's
1946-48 Baltimore St. Matthew's and St. John's
1948-52 Baltimore St. Matthew's
1952-56 Manchester-Yorkshire
1956-70 Yorkshire

1970-78 Lewisburg Beaver Memorial

1978-85 Hanover Grace

1985 retired

Note: Bruce F. Knisley is the grandfather of Kenneth M. Loyer of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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KOHLER, JOHN HENRY

Born: 8-22-1884 York County PA married: Matha Augusta Gilbert
Died: 7-15-1919 Big Horn River MT obit: [2/14/1891 – 8/9/1963]

1911 license
1913 ordained deacon
1915 ordained elder, Nebraska Conference

Interment: Broadview MT
Obit: [Nebraska Conference 1938,17]

1911-13 Liverpool

1913 transfer to Nebraska Conference

1916-19 Broadview MT

Note: A complete obituary for John H. Kohler is given in the 8/6/1919 issue of The Evangelical, page 20.

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KOHR, EMANUEL

Born: married: Matilda Haines
Died: 1894 Lewisburg PA obit: 1915,63

1844 license
1846 ordained deacon
1848 ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: [1915,64]

1844-45 Gettysburg circuit
1845-47 Perry
1847-49 Columbia
1849-51 Buffalo
1851-53 Cumberland
1853-54 Leesburg
1854-55 York Queen Street
1855-56 York circuit and station
1856-57 Hagerstown
1857-58 Perry
1858-62 superintendent, Center District
1862-66 superintendent, Baltimore District
1866-70 superintendent, Susquehanna District
1870-71 superintendent, Baltimore District
1871-72 on leave
1872-74 Buffalo
1874-75 White Deer
1875-76 superintendent, Baltimore District
1876-79 superintendent, Carlisle District
1879-80 superintendent, Juniata District
1880-83 superintendent, York District
1883-86 located
1886-88 Williamsport Market Street
1888-91 Williamsport Newberry
1891 retired

Note: A complete obituary for Emanuel Kohr is given in the 8/29/1894 issue of The Evangelical, page 276.

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KOONS, JOHN

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1882 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KOONTZ, ELIAS WASHINGTON

Born: 8-8-1834 Frederick County MD married: Sarah Anne Steffy
Died: 6-1-1903 obit: 1929,87

1872 license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church
1882 ordained deacon

1890 ordained elder

Interment: Bethel Cemetery at Greer’s Point, Perry County PA
Obit: 1904,60

1872-75 Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission

1875-77 Bendersville circuit

1877-79 living in Arendtsville

1879 withdrew, page 15

1880 transfer to Central PA Conference of the Evangelical Association, page 7

1888-91 Milesburg
1891-93 Bellefonte Mission
1893-96 Millmont
1896-98 Nittany Valley
1898-00 Liverpool
1900-03 Fishing Creek [Keystone, Perry County]
1903 retired

Note: Elias W. Koontz is the father of Samuel E. Koontz.

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KOONTZ, SAMUEL EDWARD

Born: 12-19-1867 Carroll County MD married: Ollie S. Harter
Died: 11-4-1932 Lewistown PA obit: 1943,86

1889 license, recommended by Lemont
1891 ordained deacon
1893 ordained elder

Interment: Mount Rock Cemetery, near Lewistown PA
Obit: 1933,76

1889-90 Milesburg
1890-91 Nittany Valley
1891-194 Wayland
1894-98 Williamsport Grace
1898-01 Patterson
1901-03 Spring Mills
1903-07 New Berlin
1907-11 Winfield
1911-14 Bloomsburg
1914-19 York St. Paul
1919-23 Berwick North
1923-29 Lewistown Grace
1929-32 Newport

Note: Samuel E. Koontz is the son of Elias W. Koontz.

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KOPP, GEORGE

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1843 license
1846 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1844-45 Indiana circuit
1845-46 Clarion
1846-47 Virginia
1847-49 located
1849-50 Venango
located and moved west

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KOPP, LAMAR W.

Born: married: Jean McClintock
Died: obit: Baltimore-Washington Conf 2009,649

1948 license, recommended by York Christ
1952 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1947-54 Baltimore
1954-70 Hebbville

1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-76 Hebbville

1976-85 Hagerstown Otterbein

1985-89 Washington DC Metropolitan Memorial

1989 retired

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KRAUSE, ABRAHAM

Born: 6-27-1823 near Selinsgrove PA married: Lovina Barber
Died: 8-21-1893 Williamsport PA obit: [12/4/1827 – 12/3/1896]

1848 license
1852 ordained deacon
1854 ordained elder

Interment: Williamsport PA
Obit: 1894,55

1850-51 Center
1851-52 Lycoming
1852-54 York circuit
1854-56 Center
1856-58 Baltimore McEldery Street
1858-60 Shrewsbury
1860-62 Middleburg
1862-64 Lycoming
1864-66 Baltimore McEldery Street
1866-68 York circuit
1868-70 Loganville
1870-71 York circuit
1871-73 Lycoming
1873-76 Williamsport Market Street
1876-77 McClure circuit
1877-78 Middleburg
1878-79 York circuit
1879-82 Lycoming
1882 retired

Note: Abraham Krause is the father of Mary Alice Krause Schleh, wife of G.H. Schleh. An obituary for Abraham Krause is given in the 9/20/1893 issue of The Evangelical, page 303. Mrs. Krause is the daughter of James Barber. A complete obituary for Lovina Barber Krause is given in the 12/23/1896 issue of The Evangelical, page 415.

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KREAMER, AARON W.

Born: 12-6-1844 Centre County PA married:
Died: 3-16-1888 obit:

1867 license
1869 ordained deacon
1871 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1867-68 Middle Creek
1868-69 Boalsburg
1869-70 Muncy
1870-72 Big Spring
1872-74 Conewago
1874-76 Jarretsville
1876-77 Liverpool
1877-79 Luzerne
1879 transfer to Kansas Conference

1879-80 Pratt County

1880-82 Jewell City

1882 located on account of throat trouble

Note: Aaron W. Kreamer is the son of John Kreamer. A complete obituary for Aaron W. Kreamer is given in 5/9/1888 issue of The Evangelical, pages 162-163,

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KREAMER, DANIEL L.

Born: 8-27-1824 Millheim PA married: Mary Magdalene Condo
Died: 10-21-1900 obit: [d. 10-14-1858]

married2: Margaret Jane Hummer [1860]

1846 license obit2: Illinois Conference 1911,44
1849 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1846-47 Buffalo
1847-49 York circuit
1849-51 Gettysburg
1851-52 Union
1852-54 Baltimore McEldery Street
1854-56 Baltimore Green Street
1856-58 Center
1858-59 agent, Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1859-60 York Queen Street
1860-62 Baltimore McEldery Street
1862 transfer to Illinois Conference

1862-64 Freeport

1864-68 located

1867-68 Yellow Creek circuit

1868-70 Brookville circuit

1870-71 Peoria

1871-77 located

1877-79 Cedarville circuit

1879-82 Brookville

1882-85 Davis

1885 retired

1890 Black Oak (6 months)

Note: A complete obituary for Margaret Jane Hummer Kreamer is given in the 11/30/1910 issue of The Evangelical, page 762.

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KREAMER, J.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1847 license
1849 ordained deacon
1851 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KREAMER, JOHN

Born: 1817 married: Sarah Rishel
Died: 8-14-1886 Canada KS obit: [1/3/1816 – 7/14/1892]

license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment: Evangelical Cemetery, Canada KS
Obit: [Kansas Conference 1929,8] as KRAMER

1839-41 Lancaster circuit
1841-42 Lehigh
1842-44 Milford
1844-46 Lykens
1846-48 Lehigh
1848-49 Clinton
1849-51 Perry
1851-52 Shrewsbury
1852-54 York circuit
1854-56 Lycoming
1856-57 York
1857-67 Located
1867-69 Middle Creek
1869-71 Lycoming
1871-73 Williamsport German
1873-74 Baltimore McEldery Street
1874-76 Loganville
1876-79 Brush Valley
transfer to Kansas Conference

1879-84 ?

1884-86 Canada KS

Note: John Kreamer is the father of Aaron W. Kreamer. Mrs. Kreamer is a sister to David Rishel and to Susan Rishel Orwig (wife of Bishop W.W. Orwig) and Rachel Rishel Kehr (wife of Daniel Kehr). A complete obituary for Sarah Rishel Kreamer is given in the 9/21/1892 issue of The Evangelical, page 303.

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KREAMER, JOHN

Born: married:
Died: obit:

license
1858 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KRECKER, JOSEPH WILLLARD

Born: 11-6-1898 Friedensburg PA married: Grace Griffith Drake
Died: 10-29-1992 obit: 1986,430

1922 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Schuylkill Haven Grace
1926 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1929 ordained elder

Interment: Red Lion PA
Obit: 1993,462

1927-31 Williamsport Grace
1931-39 York Christ
1939-47 Red Lion
1947-67 editor, Telescope-Messenger and Church and Home

1967 retired

1969 Mount Joy Glosbrenner (7 months)

1970 Elizabethtown St. Paul’s (6 months)

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KREIDLER, CLAIR C.

Born: 8-19-1906 Yoe PA married: Anne R. Hess
Died: obit: 1996,417

1930 license, recommended by Yoe Christ
ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder

Interment: Yoe Union Cemetery, Yoe PA
Obit: 1996,418

1930-34 Bryansville
1934-38 Craley
1938-39 York Bethlehem
1939-53 Lewistown Grace
1953-59 Carlisle First
1959-70 superintendent, Southern District

1970-73 superintendent, York District

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KRESGE, Alfred Shick

Born: 8-10-1855 McMichaels PA married: Savannah Brong

Died: 1-19-1941 Myersdale PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1909,42

married2: Alice Elizabeth Grier

1886 license, East Pennsylvania Conference EA obit2: [d. 1936]
? ordained deacon married3: Eva Ford
1892 ordained elder, East Pennsylvania Conference EA obit3:

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA
Obit:

White Haven

Reading

Pottsville

York

Shamokin

Lehighton

Williamsport

“transfer” to Reformed Church, Iowa Classis

Conesville IA

Plymouth IN

transfer to Somerset Classis

Wills Creek

Hyndman

1930 retired

Rockwood

Myersdale

Note: Alfred S. Kresge is the father of Rev. Seward R. Kresge of the Reformed Church.

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KRING, SAMUEL BAUMGARDNER

Born: 10-6-1827 Elton PA married: Mary Ann Stull
Died: 7-28-1893 Decatur IN obit: [12/7/1830 – 9/27/1894]

1850 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment: Hicksville OH
Obit:

1850-51 Somerset
1851-52 Center
transfer to Pittsburgh conference

Note: Samuel B. Kring is the son of Conrad Kring (1800-1887) of the Ohio Conference and the father of Savilla Kring Poling, wife of Charles C. Poling (1859-1947) of the Oregon-Washington EUB Conference and president of Western Union College. Samuel’s grandfather (Conrad’s father) George Kring lived in Morrison’s Cove and was converted under Jacob Albright. According to Satapleton’s 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 189, Savilla Kring Poling was the first female evangelist in the Evangelical Church.

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KUHNS, W.H.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1873 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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KURTZ, FREDERICK

Born: 2-26-1839 Germany married: Magdalena Wurster
Died: 1-1-1906 Brooklyn NY obit: Atlantic Conference 1916,16

license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
Obit: [Atlantic Conference 1923,4]

1863-64 Buffalo
1864 transfer to Michigan Conference
transfer to Wisconsin Conference

1871-72 Waukesha Salem
1872-73 Baltimore Green Street, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1873 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1873 -76 Baltimore Green Street
1876 charter member of the Atlantic Conference

1876-77 Baltimore Green Street

A list of subsequent appointments has not yet been reconstructed.

1879 Philadelphia Emanuel

1905 Brooklyn NY

Note: A biographical sketch of Frederick Kurtz is given in Ohms’ 1985 History of the Atlantic Conference, page 20. He is the father of Rev. Arthur Kurtz (1880-1925), affiliation unknown, and of Margretha Kurtz Eggar, wife of Rev. Frederick Eggar (1858-1933), affiliation unknown. The dates for Mrs. Kurtz, not given in the conference obituary, are 6/14/1842 – 2/14/1916.

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KURZ, FERDINAND A. JR.

Born: 6-9-1912 married: Margaret H. Prince
Died: 7-15-2004 obit:

1934 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1938-39 Scranton
1939-46 Grover and East Point

1946-48 Cumberland

1948-49 without appointment

1949 “transfer” to New York Conference of the Congregational Christian Church

1979 Wayland NY

Note: The archives has a biographical file on Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand A. Kurz. Each year the Rev. Ferdinand Kurz Fire/EMS Community Service Award is presented to a Wayland-Cohocton NY high school senior.

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KUTZ, WILLIAM

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1874 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: