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

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Central Pennsylvania Evangelical Pastors Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all the pastors for that letter.  The instructions file gives information about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes occurred, and detailed bibliographic references. 

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YARNELL, EDWARD HUMMELL

Born: married: Elsie _____
Died: obit:

1949 license, recommended by Lewistown Grace
1954 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1951-57 Enola
1957-66 Yorkana – Mt. Pisgah

1966-84 York Bethany

1984-93 Red Lion St. Paul’s

1993 retired

1993-02 Longstown

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YEAGER, C.F.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1873 license
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1873-75 Lairdsville
1875-77 Bendersville
located and moved West

Note: This name also appears as G.F. YEAGER.

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YEAKEL IRWIN C.

Born: 3-4-1852 married:
Died: obit:

1880 license
1883 ordained deacon
1885 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1879-85 faculty, Union Seminary at New Berlin PA
1885-88 Marysville
1888-89 York circuit
1889-91 East Prospect
1891-94 Baltimore Grace
1894 withdrew to unite with the Presbyterian Church

1894-98 Darnestown MD

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YEARICK, SAMUEL

Born: 11-4-1827 Greg twp, Centre County PA married: Abigail Shaffer
Died: 1-21-1892 Brush Valley, Centre County PA obit: [8/15/1829 – 6/15/1891]

1864 license
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 1892,40

1870-71 Clinton
1871-74 Middleburg
1874-75 Center
1875-76 McClure
1876-79 Williamsport Market Street
1879-82 York Circuit
1882-85 Whiteground
1885-87 Red Lion
1887 retired

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YEATTS, EARL RAYMOND

Born: 2-22-1894 York PA married: Esther Marie Lehr
Died: 12-11-1920 Burke NY obit:

1917 license

Interment: York PA

obit:

1916-19 student, Princeton Seminary, Princeton NJ

1918-19 Presbyterian, York PA

1919 “transfer” to the Presbyterian Church
1919-20 Burke NY

Note: E.R. Yeatts was raised in the York Third United Brethren Church. His 1917 license by the United Evangelical Church suggests he may have served, or have intended to serve, as a student pastor in that denomination, but there is no record of any such service. An obituary appears in the 1912 Princeton Seminary Bulletin, page 137.

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YINGLING, WILLIAM EYSTER

Born: 10-6-1898 Manchester MD married: Tillie Heisley
Died: 11-14-1990 New Oxford PA obit: 1963,104

married2: Mrs. Margaret Banks

1915 license, recommended by Hanover Grace obit2:
1922 ordained deacon
1925 ordained elder

Interment: York Road Cemetery, Hanover PA
Obit: 1991,496

1917-19 Keystone
1919-21 located
1921-24 Manchester
1924-28 Lock Haven Mission
1928-35 Howard
1935-46 Burnham (ending 5/46)
1946-49 located for health reasons (5/46 – 1/49)
1949-64 Hanover Grace (beginning 1/49)

1964 retired

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YOST, L.M.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1912 license

Interment:
Obit:

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YOST, THOMAS ADAM

Born: 4-22-1847 Brookville PA married: Eliza Anna Schick
Died: 2-7-1926 Eugene OR obit: [5/6/1848 - ?]

1908 license

Interment:
Obit: [Oregon Conference 1926,37]

Note: A more complete obituary for T.A. Yost appears in the 1927 Year Book of the Evangelical Church, page 107. Some sources give a birth date of 4/7/1847.

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YOUNG, ABRAHAM

Born: married:
Died: 1846 Union County PA obit:

1846 license

Interment:
Obit: [1883,95]

1846 Lycoming

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YOUNG, B.W.A.

Born: 1841 married: Lydia Barto
Died: 1911 obit: [1845 – 1925]

1868 license

Interment: Salladasburg Cemetery, Salladasburg PA
Obit:

Note: B.W.A. Young supposedly graduated from medical school in 1871 and practiced medicine in Lycoming County PA, living at least part of the time in Nisbet. He is listed as local pastor in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as follows:

1896-04 Larryville

1904-05 Jersey Shore

In 1907 “Rev. B.W.A. Young” is listed as attending the Oval Methodist Episcopal Church.

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YOUNG, CARL E.

Born: 6-8-1908 Williamsport PA married: Lois Spencer Horton
Died: obit:

1930 license, recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1935 ordained deacon
1937 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1934-35 Scranton
1935-36 Mt. Holly Springs
1936-53 Baltimore Walbrook
1953-70 Milford Mill

1970 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1970-72 Milford Mill

1972 retired

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YOUNG, DAVID FRANKLIN

Born: 12-3-1866 married: Jennie L. Young
Died: 3-2-1952 Lewistown PA obit: 1949,98

1893 license
1895 ordained deacon
1897 ordained elder

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: 1952,100

1898-94 Sparrows Point
1894-96 Columbia
1896-99 Wrightsville
1899-02 Lopez
1902-06 Nescopeck
1906-09 Baltimore Grace
1909-13 Hughesville
1913-16 Altoona
1916-21 Lewistown Grace
1921-28 Carlisle
1928-31 Northumberland
1931-39 Williamsport Trinity
1939 retired

Note: David F. Young is the son of Reuben Young.

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YOUNG, GEORGE W.F.

Born: c1820 married: Rachel Bierly
Died: 1858 Baltimore MD obit: [7/26/1826 – 1/25/1896]

1850 license
1855 ordained deacon
1857 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1850-51 Cherry circuit
1851-52 York circuit
1852-54 Union
1854-55 York circuit
1855-57 Baltimore
1857-58 York circuit
1858 Baltimore mission

Note: George Young is the son of John Young and the brother of Jacob Young and Noah Young and Reuben Young.

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YOUNG, J.M.

Born: married:
Died: 1875 Luzerne County PA obit:

license
1847 ordained deacon
1849 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: [1883,95]

1846-47 Cumberland
1847-49 Gettysburg
1849-51 Columbia
1851-53 Buffalo
1853-55 Perry
1855-57 Columbia
1857-59 Union
1859-61 Cumberland
1861-62 Perry
1862-64 Baltimore Green Street
1864-66 superintendent, Center District
1866-68 superintendent, Baltimore District
1868-69 Lycoming
1869-71 Boalsburg
1871-73 Marysville
1873 retired

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YOUNG, JACOB

Born: 8-24-1829 Union County PA married: Mary Lentz
Died: 4-12-1895 Williamsport PA obit:

1852 license
1854 ordained deacon
1856 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference EA 1896,23

1852-53 Buffalo
1853-54 Gettysburg
1854-55 Columbia
1855-56 Blockhouse and Cherry
1856-57 Cherry Circuit
1857-58 Boalsburg
1858-59 Cumberland
1859-60 Union
1860-62 superintendent, Baltimore District
1862-64 superintendent, Center District
1864-66 York Queen Street
1866-68 Williamsport Market Street
1868-70 superintendent, Baltimore District
1870-71 superintendent, Susquehanna District
1871-72 superintendent, Baltimore District
1871-75 editor, The Living Epistle and Sunday-school Literature
1875-77 corresponding secretary, Missionary Society
1877-79 Port Trevorton
1879-80 Williamsport circuit
1880-82 Lock Haven
1882-85 Williamsport Market Street
1885-87 Lewisburg
1887-89 Buffalo
1889-92 Williamsport Market Street
1892 located and transferred to the East Pennsylvania Conference EA

Note: Jacob Young is the son of John Young and the brother of George Young and Noah Young and Reuben Young.

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YOUNG, JOHN

Born: married:
Died: 1873 Crescent PA obit:

license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: [1883,95]

1831-32 Schuylkill circuit
1832-33 Lycoming
1833-34 Center
1834-35 Union
1835-36 Lycoming
1836-37 Lebanon circuit
1837-38 Somerset
1838-39 Cumberland
1839-40 Lycoming
1840-57 located
1857-58 Columbia
1858-60 Clinton
1860-61 Liverpool
1861-62 Lycoming

1862 located

Note: John Young is the father of Elizabeth Young Loyer, first resident of the Lewisburg Home, and of five Evangelical pastors. From oldest to youngest, the ministerial sons are George, Jacob, William (otherwise unknown), Reuben and Noah.

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YOUNG, NOAH

Born: married: Amelia A. Champiob
Died: 1923 obit: 1890,40

married2: Sophia Feese

1871 license obit2: 121,68
1873 ordained deacon married3: Mrs. Maria Witmer Bierly
1875 ordained elder obit3: 1928,96

Interment:
Obit: 1924,76

1871-73 York circuit
1873-76 Baltimore circuit
1876-79 Liberty
1879-82 McClure
1882-83 Brush Valley
1883-86 Port Trevorton
1886-89 McClure
1889-91 Loganville
1891-94 Millersville
1894-95 Carlisle
1895-99 superintendent, Carlisle District
1899-03 superintendent, Lewisburg District
1903-07 Lewistown
1907-11 Wrightsville
1911-15 Berwick North
1915-19 Mifflinburg
1919-21 Danville
1921 retired

Note: Noah Young is the son of John Young and the brother of George Young and Jacob Young and Reuben Young. It is not known whether this is the “Rev. Noah Young” who wrote the words for the gospel song The Purifying Fountain, music by C. Harold Lowden, copyright 1913 by The Heidelberg Press.

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YOUNG, REUBEN C.

Born: 4-20-1839 Centre County PA married: Dorothy Ellwanger
Died: 1903 obit: 1925,82

1871 license
1873 ordained deacon
1875 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit: 1904,58

1871-72 Liberty circuit
1872-73 Port Trevorton
1873-75 Center Hall
1875-78 Sugar Valley
1878-80 Nittany Valley
1880-83 Williamsport circuit
1883-85 Lycoming
1885 located

Note: Reuben Young is the son of John Young, the brother of George Young and Jacob Young and Noah Young, and the father of David Young.

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YOUNKEN, EDWARD L.

Born: married:
Died: obit:

1952 license, recommended by Williamsport St. John's
1958 ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1955-58 State Road EUB, Germantown OH, Miami Ohio Conference
1958-66 York Bethlehem and Violet Hill

1966-71 Park Forest Village

1971-72 sabbatical leave

1992 withdrew

entered the Presbyterian ministry