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Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania

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WAGONER, CHARLES

Born: married
Died: 1843 obit:

1837 license

Interment:
Obit:

1838-39 Erie circuit
1839-40 Indiana circuit
1840-41 Somerset
1841 located

Note: Charles Wagoner is the father of Hannah Wagoner Hesser, wife of Charles Hesser, Rebecca Wagoner Hoffman, wife of Francis A, Hoffman, and Elizabeth Wagoner Orwig, mother of Bishop W.W. Orwig. Biographical comments on Charles Wagoner appear in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, pages 91-95 [where he is called Christopher Wagoner] and page 543.

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WAGONER, PHILIP

Born: 11-22-1800 near Carlisle PA married: Catharine _____
Died: 2-15-1870 Williamsport PA obit: [4/3/1799 – 9/8/1870]

? license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: [1893,67]

1822-23 Canton OH circuit
1823-24 Lancaster OH circuit
1824-25 Union and Center
1825-26 Franklin and Berkley
1826-27 Center
1827-28 superintendent, Salem District
1828-29 Lake NY circuit
1829-31 located
1831-33 Center
1833-35 superintendent, Carmel District
1835-38 superintendent, Salem District
1838-42 superintendent, Zion District
1842-44 superintendent, Salem District
1844-46 superintendent, Susquehanna District
1846-47 superintendent, Baltimore District
1847-49 superintendent, Somerset District
1849-50 superintndent, Center District
1850-52 Canton
1852-53 Lycoming
1853-54 Center
1854-55 superintendent, Baltimore District
1855-58 superintendent, Center District
1858-59 Boalsburg
1859-61 superintendent, Susquehanna District
1861-62 Harford
1862-64 Williamsport
1864-66 Clinton
1866-67 Center
1867-68 Lock Haven
1868-69 Boalsburg
1869-70 Williamsport

Note: A biographical sketch for Philip Wagoner appears in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 553.

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WALKER, ALBERT ROBERT

Born: 3-27-1932 New Berlin PA married: Pauline B. Kenyon
Died: 12-23-2007 obit:

1952 license, recommended by Milton First
1959 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 2008,432

1954-56 Jacobus
1956-59 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1957-59 Hillgrove-Waterhouse, Miami Conference
1959-63 Castanea-Farrandsville
1963-64 Hummel's Wharf & Witmers

1964-68 Hummel’s Wharf

1968-70 Jersey Shore

1970-73 Watsontown

1973-81 Sunbury Albright

1981-86 retired

1986-88 Harveyville (ending 1/1/1988)

1988-92 assistant chaplain. Muncy Correctional Institution (beginning 1/1/1988 and ending 8/31/1992)

1992-93 leave of absence (beginning 8/31/1992)

1993-95 Mifflinburg St. Paul’s

1995 retired

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WALKER, R.C.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1902 license
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1902-03 York Christ
1903-04 White Deer
1904-08 Mechanicsburg
1908-11 student, Princeton Seminary in Princeton NJ
1911 “transfer” to Presbyterian Church

1911- Pottsville Second

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WALKER, WILLIAM PAUL

Born: married: Shirley _____
Died: obit:

1948 license, recommended by York St. Paul's
1954 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1950-51 Union circuit
1951-53 Cumberland
1953-56 Avis and Salladasburg
1956-58 Avis
1958-64 Milheim

1964-66 McClure

1966-71 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd

1971-72 Quincy

1972-73 chaplain, Quincy Home (ending 12/31/1973)

1974-81 Hanover Lohr’s (beginning 1/1/1974)

1981-91 Mechanicsburg Hope

1991 retired

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WALLIS, H.M.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1907 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

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WALLIS, WILLIAM NEVIN

Born: 4-21-1848 Shippensburg PA married: Annie E. McCord
Died: 12-14-1922 obit: 1924,81

1870 license
1875 ordained deacon
1877 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 1923,78

1873-74 Bendersville
1874-75 Middleburg
1875-77 Hughesville
1877-79 Dillsburg circuit
1879-80 Dushore
1880-83 Danville [Wayland NY]
1883-86 Nittany Valley
1886-89 Williamsport circuit
1889-91 Millmont
1891-94 Patterson
1894-95 Leiwistown
1895-97 located
1897-01 Jersey Shore
1901-03 New Berlin
1903-07 Lock Haven circuit
1907-10 Danville
1910-11 Berwick West
1911-13 New Freedom
1913-16 Yoe and Freysville
1916-17 Pennsdale
1917-19 Avis
1919-22 Jersey Shore Mission [South Avis?]

Note: William N. Wallis is a brother to Sarah E. Wallis Moore Frain, wife of Isaac S. Frain.

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WALTER, JOHN

Born: 8-21-1781 near Quakertown PA married: Christena Becker
Died: 12-3-1818 obit: [d. 1868]

1802 license

Interment: Faber family graveyard, near Mt. Nebo
Obit:

1811-12 Schuylkill circuit

1812-13 Franklin circuit

1813-14 Schuylkill circuit

1814 located to near Jonestown PA

NOTE: John Walter is the first preacher to travel under Jacob Albright. A biographical sketch is given in Stapleton’s 1917 account of the lives of Jacob Albright and his co-workers, page 123. Mrs. Walter is a sister to the George Becker in whose house Jacob Albright died.

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WALTER, JOHN JR.

Born: 1797 married:
Died: 1874, Michigan obit:

1813 license

Interment:
Obit:

1813-14 Schuylkill circuit

located

NOTE: John Walter Jr. is a brother to Michael Walter and to Elizabeth Walter Stambach, wife of John Stambach. The Snyder County home of their father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer.

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WALTER, MICHAEL

Born: 1794 married:
Died: 1856, Ohio obit:

1814 license
? ordained deacon
1820 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1814-15 Bedford circuit

1815-17 Somerset circuit

1817-18 Franklin circuit

1818-19 Canton circuit

1819-20 York circuit

1820-21 Somerset circuit

1821-22 Lake circuit

1822 located

NOTE: Michael Walter is a brother to John Walter Jr. and to Elizabeth Walter Stambach, wife of John Stambach. The Snyder County home of their father, John Walter Sr., near Middleburg, was one of the first Evangelical preaching places west of the Susquehanna – and it was also visited by the United Brethren circuit rider Christian Newcomer.

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WALTER, MOSES

Born: married:
Died: 1869 obit:

1859 license
1861 ordained deacon
? ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: [1883,95]

1859-60 Lycoming
1860-62 Middle Creek
1862-65 Baltimore circuit
1865-66 Center
1866-68 Lycoming
1868-69 York circuit

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WALTON, MORRIS

Born: 6-9-1837 Luzerne County married: Rosanna Caroline Kline
Died: 8-6-1870 Luzerne County PA obit: [b. 10/4/1836 – 2/12/1923]

1869 license

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: [1893,67]

1869-70 Columbia circuit
1870 located

Note: A biographical sketch of Morris Walton is given in the 1915 History of Columbia and Montour Counties, page 539.

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WALTZ, JACOB W.

Born: 4-25-1881 Baltimore MD married: Ellen May Landis
Died: 1-29-1964 Richland PA obit: 1966,144

1903 license, recommended by Baltimore Memorial
1910 ordained deacon
1914 ordained elder

Interment: Richland PA
Obit: 1964,84

1908-09 Enola
1909-10 York Princess Street
1910-13 located

1910 Dorsey (summer)

1911 Lake Ariel (summer)
1913-18 Wayland
1918-19 Prospect
1919-24 Bloomsburg
1924 retired

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WARBURTON, WILLIAM HENRY

Born: 9-19-1877 Lycoming County PA married: Edna Helen Klingman
Died: 10-14-1958 obit: 1960,89

1904 license, recommended by Bethel on the Muncy Valley circuit
1908 ordained deacon
1910 ordained elder

Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Forest Hill PA.
Obit: 1959,106

1905-06 West Clifford
1906-07 West Nanticoke
1907-08 Spring Mills
1908-10 Millmont
1910-14 Salladsburg
1914-17 Craley
1917-19 McClure
1919-22 Lewisberry
1922-24 Lopez
1924-26 Rebersburg
1926-27 New Freedom
1927-29 Mr. Rock
1929 located

Note: William H. Warburton located to operate a store in Forest Hill PA. He also taught school in Union County.

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WARNTZ, MALVIN FRANCIS

Born: married: June Elnora Auman
Died: obit: 2003,392

married2: Roberta _____

1948 license, recommended by Millheim obit2:
1952 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1950-54 Penns Creek
1954-72 Burnham

1972-85 Altoona Garden Heights – Lakemont

1985 retired

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WEAVER, ALBERT FREDRICK

Born: 7-31-1878 Snyder County PA married: Mary Holibaugh
Died: 2-7-1955 obit: 1914,68

married2: Anna Mary Crowell

1899 license obit2: 1967,231
1901 ordained deacon
1903 ordained elder

Interment: Red Mount Cemetery, York County PA
Obit: 1955,85

1899-02 Dillsburg
1902-05 Mt. Rock
1905-08 Newport
1908-12 Milton
1912-14 Bellefonte
1914-19 Lock Haven
1919-25 York Trinity
1925-27 Williamsport First
1927-35 superintendent, Lewisburg District
1935-43 superintendent, York District

1943-50 General Church staff, Council of Administration

1950 retired

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WEBER, GEORGE P.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1858 license

Interment:
Obit:

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WEBER, JOSEPH

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1841 license

Interment:
Obit:

1842 located

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WEIDEMEYER, PETER C.

Born: 2-18-1849 Pimlico MD married: Catherine Barbara Schemm
Died: 7-13-1932 obit: 1934,75

1876 license, recommended by Hebbville
1878 ordained deacon
1880 ordained elder

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Powhatan MD
Obit: 1933,76

1876-77 East Prospect
1877-78 Middleburg
1878-81 Mifflinburg circuit
1881-83 Center circuit
1883-86 Brush Valley
1886-89 Lock Haven circuit
1889-92 Sugar Valley
1892-96 McClure circuit
1896-00 Loganville
1900-04 Lycoming
1904-08 White Deer
1908-12 Loganville
1912-16 Yorkana
1916-21 Yoe and Freysville
1921-26 Harford
1926 retired

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WEIKEL, JACOB

Born: 1812 Berks County PA married:
Died: 5-25-1880 Mercer County PA obit:

1848 license
1851 ordained deacon
1853 ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference

Interment:
Obit:

1848-49 Venango circuit
1849-50 Clarion

1850-52 located

1852 charter member of Pittsburgh Conference

1852-53 Clarion

1853-58

1858-62 superintendent, Allegheny District

1862-63

1863-64 Jefferson

1864-73

1873 retired

Note: Jacob Weikel appears to have located for some reason for various periods of time. An obituary is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 429.

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WEIRICK, GEORGE

Born: 6-14-1819 married: Mary Myer
Died: 3-11-1850 obit: [1/30/1824 – 4/12/1899]

1842 license
1844 ordained deacon
1846 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: [1883,95]

1842-43 Bedford
1843-45 Columbia
1845-46 Cumberland
1846-47 Washington circuit
1847-48 Center
1848-49 superintendent, Allegheny District
1849-50 York circuit

Note: George Weirick is the father of W.E. Weirick. After the death of George Weirick, his widow married a Mr. John F. Price and became the mother of John Myer Price. Comments on his conversion appear in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 554 and Stapleton’s 1908 Flashlights on Evangelical History, page 115.

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WEIRICK, HENRY E.

Born: c1848 married:
Died: obit:

1873 license

Interment:
Obit:

1873-74 Conewago
1874-75 located

1875 “took credentials for another conference”

1876 received back into Central Pennsylvania Conference

Note: H.E. Weirick is the son of George Weirick. This name is also given as W.E. WEIRICK.

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WELCH, JAMES HUNTINGTON

Born: 3-13-1860 Carrol County MD married: Elizabeth Huffman
Died: 11-2-1938 obit: 1933,90

married2: Mrs. Nattine Brandt

1882 license obit2: 1941,91
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder

Interment: Yorkana Cemetery, Yorkana PA
Obit: 1939,86

1882-83 Wayland NY
1883-84 Jersey Shore circuit
1884-85 Nittany
1885-88 Milesburg
1888-89 Hagerstown circuit
1889-91 Keystone
1891-93 White Deer
1893-95 Liverpool
1895-97 Lewisberry
1897-99 Wellsville
1899-05 located
1905-09 Berkeley Spring WV

1909-12 Lycoming circuit
1912-16 East Point
1916-21 Yorkana
1921-26 Mexico
1926-27 Mt. Rock
1927 retired

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WERNER, PAUL AUGUSTUS

Born: 9-22-1898 Parryville PA married: Margaret C. Cooper
Died: 12-4-1959 obit: 1985,419

1923 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Emmaus
1927 ordained deacon, Illinois Conference
1927 ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA
Obit: 1960,88

1926-27 Symerton IL

1927 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1927-31 Baltimore Trinity
1931-35 Berwick North
1935-47 York Bethany

1947-59 Red Lion St. Paul’s

Note: Paul A. Werner is the son of Lewis Augustus Werner (1862-1953) of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Mrs. Werner is the sister of Paul E. Cooper of the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church.

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WHEATFIELD, FRANK L.

Born: 8-14-1885 married: Jennie Sweiger
Died: obit:

1907 license

Interment:
Obit:

Note: It has not been confirmed that the Frank Wheatfield born 8/14/1885 and married to Jennie Sweiger is the same Frank L. Wheatfield licensed in 1907.

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WHEELOCK, PAUL SAMUEL

Born: 2-8-1908 North Bloomfield NY married: Vietta May Ingalls
Died: 2-22-1991 Kissimmee FL obit: 1991,494

1931 license, Free Methodist Church, recommended by Albion NY
1935 ordained elder, Free Methodist Church

Interment:
Obit: 1991,493

1943 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1943-47 South Williamsport Grace
1947-53 Williamsport St. Paul's

1953-58 York Zion
1958-69 superintendent, Evangelical Home at Lewisburg PA

1969-73 Sunbury Albright

1973 retired

Note: Paul S. Wheelock is the son of Rev Orrin K. Wheelock of the Free Methodist Church.

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WHITEHEAD, C. ARTHUR

Born: married: E. Ursula _____
Died: 10-8-1961 obit:

? license
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: New York Conference EUB 1962,69

New England Conference

1925 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1925-33 Wayland NY
1933 transfer to New York Conference

Conference superintendent

1960 retired

1960-61 assistant, Syracuse Calvary

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WHITMIRE, J.G.

Born: 1856 Evansville PA married:
Died: 4-5-1900 Bloomsburg PA obit:

1892 license
1894 ordained deacon
1896 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 1901,78

1892-93 Waller
1893-97 Scranton Trinity
1897-98 Danville
1898 retired

Note: A death notice is given in Stapleton’s 1900 Annals of the Evangelical Association, page 639.

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WHITMIRE, MELVIN LEE

Born: 7-29-1909 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Anne Wengert
Died: 1-25-1987 Williamsport PA obit:

1946 license, recommended by Berwick Bower Memorial
1950 ordained elder

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA
Obit: 1987,422

1946-52 Nescopeck
1952-66 State College St. John’s

1966-76 Williamsport First

1976 retired

1976-82 assistant chaplain, Williamsport Hospital

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WHITMORE, W.H.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1893 license

Interment:
Obit:

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WHITMYER W.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1853 license

Interment:
Obit:

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WIEST, SAMUEL L.

Born: 5-10-1844 Northumberland County PA married: Elizabeth Orwig
Died: 2-10-1924 obit: [b. 1/?/1846]

1869 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1871 ordained deacon, East Pennsylvania Conference
1873 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1869-70 Lykens

1870-71 agent, Church Building Fund

1871-74 Easton English mission

1874-76 Uniontown [Pillow]

1876-79 Mahony City

1879-80 Schuylkill Haven

1880 corresponding secretary, Missionary Society

Note: Samuel L. Wiest is the father of Rev. Lawrence Orwig Wiest (b. 1867, affiliation uncertain), and the grandfather of Vila Alyce Wiest Heiser, wife of Benjamin F. Heiser. He is also an uncle to Lovie Wiest Kamble, wife of Walton L. Kamble. Mrs. Wiest is the daughter of William W. Orwig.

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WILCOX, E.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1873 license

Interment:
Obit:

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WILKES, HARRY REAY

Born: 9-13-1872 Danville PA married: Anna Catharine Heil
Died: 10-29-1959 York PA obit: 1941,92

married2: Bessie Reay

1902 license obit2: 1961,86
1905 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: 1960,88

1903-06 West Nanticoke
1906-08 Nuremberg
1908-12 Dushore
1912-15 Mifflinburg
1915-20 Berwick St. Paul
1920-24 Baltimore St. Paul
1924-28 Baltimore St. John
1928-33 York Grace
1933-34 Altoona Grace
1934-36 Northumberland
1936-40 Mifflin

1940-46 Manchester

1946 retired

Note: The maiden name of the first Mrs. Wilkes is also given as HEYLE.

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WILKES, MILTON G.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1923 license

Interment:
Obit:

Note: Milton G. Wilkes is listed as a resident of Baltimore MD, but his relation to Harry R. Wilkes, if any, is unclear.

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WILHELM, HENRY

Born: married:
Died: obit:

? license
1868 ordained deacon

Interment:
Obit:

Note: This is likely John Henry Wilhelm, another reference to the John Wilhelm licensed in 1864.

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WILHELM, JOHN

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1864 license

Interment:
Obit:

Note: This is likely John Henry Wilhelm, another reference to the Henry Wilhelm ordained deacon in 1868.

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WILLIAMSON, A.W.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1886 license
1893 ordained deacon

Interment:
Obit:

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WILLSON, CHARLES WESLEY

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1939 license, New England Conference, recommended by Pawtucket RI Broadway
? ordained deacon
1943 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1939-40 Fall River MA
1940-44 Lowell MA

1944 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1944-48 Hughesville
1948-55 Mt. Holly Springs
1955-58 Mifflin
1958-68 Wrightsville

1968-82 Red Lion Chapel

1882 retired

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WILSON, ELIJAH B.

Born: 8-8-1818 Milton PA married: Lucinda Ludwig [9/24/1840]
Died: 5-17-1868 near Arndtsville PA obit: [c1820 – 8/20/1884]

1847 license
1853 ordained deacon
1863 ordained, Mercersburg Classis of the Reformed Church

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Arndtsville PA
Obit:

1852-54 Franklin
1854-56 Gettysburg
1856-57 Perry
1857-58 Liverpool
1858-60 Columbia
1860-61 Shrewsbury
1861-62 Cumberland
1862 withdrew

1863 received by the Classis of Zion of the Reformed Church

1863-65 Strasburg, Franklin County

1865-66 Grindstonehill charge [Marion, Grindstone Hill, Fayetteville, Funkstown]

1866-68 Orangeville

Note: A biographical sketch of Elijah B. Wilson appears in volume 4 of the 1872 The Fathers of the German Reformed Church, pages 448-450. An interesting account of all that is known about this man is given in the volume “Reverend Elijah B. Wilson and Lucinda Ludwig Wilson” privately published in 2011 by James O. Stevenson of Washington DC, a copy of which is in the conference archives.

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WILSON, ROLLIN E.

Born: 8-12-1873 Pennsdale PA married: Eva Babcock
Died: 10-22-1958 Dansville NY obit: Genesee Conference 1960,191

1895 license
1898 ordained deacon
1906 ordained elder

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit: Genesee Conference 1959,900

1895-97 Steuben NY

1897-98 located to attend normal school

1898-02 student, Central Pennsylvania College in New Berlin
1902-03 Susquehanna
1903-04 located

1903-04 Flycreek ME
1904-06 Steuben
1906-07 Mt. Rock
1907-09 York Bethany
1909 “transfer” to the Wyoming (PA/NY) Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-11 Hallstead

1911 transfer to Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1911-14 Allen’s Hill

1914-15 Conesus

1915-16 Cohocton

1916-17 Pulteney

1917-18 Cameron

1918-19 Delevan-Yorkshire

1919-20 sabbatical

1920-22 Rushford

1922-25 Garland-Oyis

1925-26 East Bloomfield

1926-17 Warren’s Corners

1927-28 South Royalton

1928-31 West Barre

1931-36 Alabama-Basom

1936-38 Genesee-Shongo

1938 retired

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WINEGARDEN, BENJAMIN F.

Born: 10-10-1817 married: Elizabeth Cochran [5/15/1839]
Died: 7-24-1902 obit: [1818-1890]

1866 license
1873 ordained deacon

Interment:
Obit: 1903,73

Note: Benjamin F. Winegarden of Lewisburg served as a local pastor and class leader.

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WINTER, ABRAHAM ALBERT

Born: 10-4-1871 Lycoming County PA married: Nellie I. Henry
Died: 10-27-1938 obit: 1967,232

1896 license
1901 ordained deacon, Oregon Conference
ordained elder

Interment: Williamsport PA
Obit: 1939,86

1899-01 Lafayette OR
1901-05 Dallas OR
1905-09 Portland OR
1909-13 president, Dallas College in Dallas OR
1913-16 Salem OR

1916-38 superintendent, Evangelical Home and Orphanage at Lewisburg OA

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WINTER, W. NELSON

Born: 5-12-1897 Baltimore MD married:
Died: 7-7-1963 Baltimore MD obit:

1920 license
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder

Interment: Parkwood Memorial Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Eastern Conference 1964,119

1922-26 Baltimore St. Matthew's
1926 transfer to the Atlantic Conference

1926-29 Philadelphia Grace [Olney]

1929-62 Baltimore Calvary

1962 retired

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WITT, SAMUEL

Born: 1790 married: Catharine
Died: 1842 obit: [1789-1871]

1818 license
1836 ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1818-19 Somerset

1819-20 Bedford

1820 located

Note: Samuel Witt lived near Somerset.

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WITTMER, WILLIAM CARL

Born: 12-27-1907 Philadelphia PA married: Sara Gertrude Winkleblech
Died: 3-27-1979 Orange City FL obit: 1989,480

1930 license, Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, recommended by Gospel Tabernacle of Binghamton NY
1932 ordained elder, Christian & Missionary Alliance Church

Interment: [cremated; ashes scattered]
Obit: 1979,342

1930-31 Hammersley Fork and Tamarack, Pa.
1931-32 Swedish Mission Covenant, Renovo, Pa.
1932-35 Gospel Tabernacle, Binghamton NY
1935-37 Gospel Tabernacle, Salamanca NY
1937-42 Gospel Tabernacle, Hornell NY
1944-48 Leesburg
1948-54 Rebersburg
1954-62 East Prospect
1962-64 Port Trevorton

1964-69 Middleburg

1969-74 Dallastown Trinity

1974 retired
1975-79 minister of visitation, Orange City FL UMC

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WOLF, AARON

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1842 license
1843 ordained deacon
1845 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1842-43 Union
1843-45 Center
1845-46 Pittsburgh mission
1846-49 located
1849-50 Union
1850 located

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WOLF, ADAM E.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1913 license

Interment:
Obit:

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WOLF, SIMON

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1846 license
1848 ordained deacon
1850 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1846-47 Columbia
1847-48 Perry
1848-49 Bedford
1849-50 Lycoming
1850-52 York circuit
1852-53 Luzerne Mission
1853-54 Wilkes-Barre Mission
1854-58 agent, Union Seminary
1858-59 York Queen Street
1859-60 located
1860-61 agent, Union Seminary
1861-63 Lewisburg
1863-64 agent, Union Seminary
1864-66 superintendent, Susquehanna District
1866-68 superintendent, Center District
1868 located
left the Church and united with the Reformed Church

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WOLGEMUTH, PAUL LEHMAN

Born: 8-19-1917 near Manheim PA married: Ruth Gibble Faus
Died: 4-4-1999 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010,178

1947 license, Brethren in Christ Church, recommended by Shippensburg
1949 ordained elder, Brethren in Christ Church

Interment: Mastersonville BIC Cemetery, Lancaster County PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999,443

1947-50 Farris Mines BIC, Pulaski County VA

1950-52 Colyer and Green Grove BIC, Centre County PA

1952-53

1953-55 Knifley BIC, Adair County KY

1955-58 chaplain, Cumberland County Prison
1958-61 Mount Rock BIC, Cumberland County PA

1961 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference EUB

1961-67 Sugar Valley

1967-69 Winfield & New Berlin

1969-75 Winfield

1975-79 Bethlehem - Springvale

1979-82 Mifflinburg St. Paul’s

1982 retired

Note: Paul Wolgemuth is the father of Mr. Gerald Wolgemuth, media director for the Susquehanna Conference UMC.

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WOMELDORF, JEZREEL

Born: 9-22-1859 Clinton County PA married: Vianna Zuleka Heller
Died: 9-23-1936 West York PA obit: 1927,88

married2: Mary Margaret Herrman

1886 license, recommended by Howard obit2:
1888 ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder

Interment: Mount Holly Springs
Obit: 1937,81

1886-88 Cumberland
1888-90 Bendersville
1890-91 Hanover circuit
1891-93 Dillsburg
1893-95 Bloomsburg
1895-97 Danville
1897-99 Scranton Sibly
1899-01 Bellefonte
1901-03 Patterson
1903-05 Middleburg
1905-07 Williamsport circuit
1907-08 Sonestown
1908-12 Nuremberg
1912-15 Buffalo circuit
1915-16 Espy
1916-19 Rebersburg
1919-23 Loganville
1923-25 Alberton
1925-26 Idaville
1926-28 Idaville and Mount Holly Springs
1928 retired

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WOODS, WILLIAM FREED JR.

Born: married: Thelma _____
Died: obit:

1938 license, recommended by York St. Paul's York
? ordained deacon
1943 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1939-41 Baltimore St. Matthew
1941-42 Jersey Shore
1942-45 Dushore and Lopez
1945-49 Yorkana
1949-57 Baltimore Trinity
1957-66 Lemoyne Grace

1966-71 superintendent, Lewisburg District

1971-78 Red Lion St. Paul

1978-83 Carlisle First

1983 retired

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WOOLERY, E.G.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1913 license
1916 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1914-16 Harford
1916-18 Bryansville
1918-22 located
1922-24 Baltimore Christ
1924-27 Hebbville
1927 located

Note: This surname is sometimes given as WOLLERY.

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WRIGHT, RALPH LARUE

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1955 license, recommended by South Williamsport Grace
1960 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1955-57 Columbia circuit
1957-60 Dorsey
1960-69 Loganville

1969-70 without appointment

1970 located, page 98

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WUSTER, J.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1862 deposed