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BABCOCK, HARRY F.
Born: 3-27-1886 Blackwell PA married: Jessie Reed
Died: 8-17-1971 obit: [7/11/1888 – 11/16/1976]
1911 license, recommended by Osceola Mills
1912 admitted on trial
1914 ordained deacon
1916 ordained elder
Interment: [Riverview, Huntingdon PA]?
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 386
1911-13 Center-Sandy Ridge
1913-17 Bakerton
1917-21 Half Moon
1921-24 student,
1924-28 Lewisburg
1928-35 Bloomsburg
1942-43
1943-46 superintendent, Altoona District
1946-49
1949-50 sabbatical leave
1950-53 Pleasant Gap
1953 retired
Note: Rev. Babcock is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities In American Methodism.
BAER, GUY RICHARD
Born: 7-17-1934 Warrensville PA married: Eleanor Grace Frey
Died: obit:
1954 license, Pennsylvania Conference United Brethren (OC) denomination
1966 ordained deacon
1968 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55
1955-58
1958-63
1963-64 Cold Springs
1964-66 assistant,
1966 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
1966-70 assistant, Chambersburg St. Paul
1970-74
1974-81 associate director, Conference Council on Ministries
1981-92 Shiremanstown
1992-96 Bellefonte Faith
1996 retired
Note: Guy Baer is the father of Timothy R. Baer in the United Methodist list.
BAGNELL, ROBERT
Born: 8-10-1865
Died: 4-24-1946
1884 admitted on trial, Upper Iowa Conference
1888 ordained, Upper Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889 transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference
1901 transfer to New York Conference
1901-07
1907 transfer to New York East Conference
1907-14
1914 transfer
to Philadelphia Conference
1917 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1917-33 Harrisburg Grace
1933 transfer to West Virginia Conference
1933-37
1937 retired
Note: Rev. Bagnell is the author of Economic and Moral Aspects of the Liquor Business, and is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.
BAILOR, DONALD ELLIS SR
Born: 1-11-1928 married: Bernice Jean Shaffner
Died: 12-2-2007 obit: [1994, 472]
married2: Mary Lou Longenecker
1967 license, recommended by Newton Hamilton obit:
1970 ordained deacon
1971 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: 2008, ?
1967-75 Ramey
1975-83 Millerstown (ending 8/1/1983)
1983-89 Lewisberry (beginning 8/1/1983)
1989-93
1993 retired
Note: The first Mrs. Bailor is the daughter of L. Earl
Shaffner and niece to Thomas M. Stone.
BAIR, ELWOOD LEROY
Born: 5-24-1914
Died: 2-24-1976 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986,425
1932 license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary
1943 admitted on trial
1943 ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 2:144
1936-38 Karthaus
1938-41 Lock Haven circuit
1941-43 Littlestown
1943-47 Doylesburg
1947-52
1952-57 Warriors Mark
1957-62 Montoursville
1962-67
1967-71
Note: Elwood L. Bair is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the
BAKER, EDGAR RAYMOND
Born: 1-31-1909 married: Helen _____
Died: 8-6-1999 obit:
1963 license,
recommended by
1966 ordained deacon
1968 ordained elder
1969 admitted as associate member
Interment: Wesley Chapel, Berwick PA
Obit: [2000, 334]
1963-69
1969-70 Unityville
1970-75
1975 retired
1975-79
1981 Shickshinny (2/1/1981 – 7/1/1981)
BAKER, ELMER G.
Born: 4-23-1852
Died: 12-13-1910 Espy PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938,231
1885 admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 126
1885-86 Hyner-North
1886-89 Three Springs
1889-92 Town Hill
1892-97 Airville
1897-99 Conyngham
1899-03
1903-05
1905-07 Picture Rocks
1907-08 Barnesboro
1908 retired
BAKER, GEORGE W.
Born: 8-29-1856 married: Mary Anna Ebbs
Died: 4-4-1915 obit:
1876 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1876-77 West Creek
1877-78 Cove
1878 transfer to Kansas Conference
1882-83 McConnellstown,
1883-85 Port
Matilda,
1885-86 Coalport,
BAKER, HARRY W.
Born: 1863 PA married:
Died: obit:
1895 admitted on trial, recommended by Huntingdon First
Interment:
Obit:
1895-96
1896 transfer to California Conference
1906 on leave
1911 retired
1913 located at own request
1919-20
Note: A biographical sketch of Harry W. Baker appears in the 1913 History of Sacramento County CA, page 992.
BAKER, TRUMAN LEROY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1956-62 Half Moon
1962-65 Doylesburg
1965-66 Wast
1966-68 Enola
became a pastor in the United Church of Christ
Note: Truman L. Baker served as a local pastor.
BAKER, W.J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22 Rouzerville
Note: W.J. Baker served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BALDWIN, AMOS SMITH
Born: 9-21-1854 Shirleysburg PA married: Kate McCulloch
Died: 8-25-1905 Sunbury PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 234
? quarterly
conference license,
1875 admitted on trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 114
1874-75
1875-76
1876-77 Saxton
1877-78
1878-80 McVeytown
1880-82 Rays Hill
1882-85 Ennisville
1885-88
1888-90
1890-91 on leave
1891-92
1892-93
1893-95 Muncy
1895-97
1897-00
1900-02 Lewistown Trinity
1902-04 superintendent, Juniata Distirct
1904-05 superintendent, Danville District
Note: An obituary notice for Amos S. Baldwin appears in the 8/31/1905 Christian Advocate. A memoir appears in the 11/16/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1847.
BALL, RITCHIE FLEENOR.
Born: married:
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 385
married2: Dorse _____
1957 license, recommended by Clearville obit2:
1963 ordained deacon
1965 ordained elder
1971 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1957-65 Clearville (beginning 7/15/1957, ending 2/4/1965)
1965-70 Delta (beginning 2/5/1965)
1970-74 Delta-Bryansville
1974 retired
BANER, ALBERT L.
Born: 11-7-1896 married: Phoebe Sharpe
Died: 3-31-1984 obit: Central New York Conference 1952,130
1924 admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference
1924 ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference
1926 ordained elder, New Jersey Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1920-21 student,
1920-21 Newville
1921-24 student, Drew Seminary in Madison NJ
1921-24 Woodruff & Rosenhayn
1924-27 Aura
1927-28 director
of religious education, Camden Central-Tabernacle
1933-36 Red Bank First
1936-40
1940-41 superintendent New Brunswick District
1941-45 superintendent, Camden District
1945 transfer to Central New York Conference
1945-58
1958-61 Syracuse First (merged with Centenary)
1961-62 sabbatical
1962 transfer to New Jersey Conference
1962 retired
BANKS, WILLIAM WHITE
Born: 8-13-1879
Died: 10- 26-1964
1907 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 351
1905-07 Rehoboth (starting fall 1905)
1907-10 Enola-West
1910-13 Enola
1917-21 Emporium
1925-31
1936-42 Roaring Spring
1942-49
1949-52
1952 retired
1953-56 Shawville
1958-60 Wallaceton
BARDINE, BRUCE ROBERT SR.
Born: 12-6-1920 married: Darthea _____
Died: 6-9-2004 obit:
1967 license, recommended by Mt. Union First
1970 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit: (none)
1966-67 Robertsdale
1967-71 Hustontown
1971-78
1978-80 Salladasburg
1980-83 Montoursville Bethel
1983 retired
1983-87
BARNARD, CHARLES H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1865 license
1886 ordained elder,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit: [1907, 64]
1887-90 Helfenstein
1891-05 Fountain
Spring (near
Note: Charles H. Barnard lived in
BARNER, GLENN ALLISON
Born: 9-8-1918 Meiserville PA married: Mary Edith Wigfield
Died: 6-24-1993 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 473
1958 license, recommended by Altoona Simpson
1963 ordained deacon
1965 ordained elder
1969 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 454
1958-64
1964-69 Williamsport Grace (beginning 11/1/1964, ending 3/1/1969)
1969-75 Warrior’s Mark (beginning 3/1/1969)
1975-85
1985 retired
1986-92 Manor Hill
BARNES, JAMES ELMER
Born: 10-15-1926
Died: 10-1-2003
1960 license,
recommended by
1966 admitted on trial
1966 ordained deacon
1968 ordained elder
Interment: Rolling
Obit: 2004, 358
1944-47
1947-60 E.C. Barnes & Son Oil Distributors
1960-64 Rouzerville
1964-65
1965-70
1970-76 Spry Otterbein
1976-83 New
1983-87 Lemoyne Grace
1987 retired
1987-92
BARNES, SAMUEL
Born: 4-5-1827
Died: 1-14-1912 obit:
1853 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1853-54
1854-55 Muncy
1855-56 Berwick
1856-58
1858 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-59 Milton-Montoursville
1859-61
1861-62
1862 transfer
to West Virginia Conference
1864-65 Lewistown
1865-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70
1870-74 superintendent, Danville District
1874 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1874-77
Rehoboth
1889-93 associate, Philadelphia Park Avenue
1893 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Samuel Barnes appears in Simpson’s 1876 Cyclopedia of Methodism.
BARNES, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 7-18-1919 Gillette PA married: Ruby Luella Hamilton
Died: 8-25-1985 Sayre PA obit:
1964 license,
recommended by
1967 ordained deacon
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 426
1963 Millerton (Feb – Jun)
1963-69
1969-84 Burlington-East Smithfield (beginning 8/24/1969)
1984 retired
1984
BARNETT, FRED
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1927-28 Allegheny circuit
Note: served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BARNHART, THOMAS
Born: 5-22-1823 married: Hannah Hall
Died: 5-8-1880 obit: Des Moines Conference 1903,386
1845 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46
1846-47 Sunbury
1847-48 Huntingdon
1848-49 Lycoming
1849-51
1851-53 Bloomingdale
1853-55 Northumberland
1855-57 Berwick
1857-58 Clearfield-Curwensville
1858 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-59 Clearfield-Curwensville
1859-61
1861-63
1863-65
1865-68 superintendent, Juniata District
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 superintendent, Juniata District
1869-72 Tyrone
1872-75
1875 retired
1876 transfer to Des Moines Conference
Note: A memoir for Thomas Barnhart also appears in The Conference News for June 1880, page 5.
BARNITZ, ALEXANDER McCLAIN [aka McCLEAN]
Born: 6-13-1824
Died: 1-18-1903
? quarterly conference
license,
1849 admitted on
trial, Baltimore Conference, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 108
1849-50 Bellefonte circuit
1850-51
1851-52 Bloomingdale
1852-53
1853-55 Newville
1855-56 Clearfield-Curwensville
1856-58 Penn’s Valley
1858 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-60 Huntingdon
1860-62 Manor Hill
1862-64 Berwick
1864-66
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71 Mifflin
1871-74
1874-76
1876-78
1878-81
1881-84 Mifflinburg
1884-86 Shickshinny
1886-89 Catawissa
1894-98 New
1900 retired
Note: Alexander M.
Barnitz is the father of Charles M. Barnitz.
A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore
Conference, page 328. There is a memoir
in the 5-14-1907 NY Christian Advocate, page 807. He is a brother to Rev. Samuel B. Barnitz of
the
BARNITZ, CHARLES McCLEAN
Born: married: Mazie A. Frank
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1921, 145
1892 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1892-94 Audenreid
1894-97
1897-98
1898-00 Weatherly
1900-03
1903-06 Osceola
1606-11 on leave
1911-12
1912-18 on leave
1918-21 retired (?)
1921-24 on leave
1924 retired
1927 withdrew under complaint
Note: Charles M. Barnitz is the son of Alexander M. Barnitz.
BARR, WILLIAM HUBERT
Born: 10-25-1925
Died: 12-30-2002 Hollidaysburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996,405
1949 license
1955 admitted on trial, recommended by Juniata Gethsemane
1955 ordained deacon
1957 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: 2003, 375
1950-52 Rehoboth
1952-57 Cherry Tree
1957-66
1966-71
1971-83
1983-91
1991 retired
BARRETT, ARTHUR G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1965-66 Hunlock Creek
Note: Arthur Barrett served as a local pastor.
BARRETT, OWEN C.
Born: 5-21-1890 married: Flora Bessie Briggs
Died: 8-20-1976 obit: Central New York Conference 1967, 186
1920 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1914-16
1918 Laquin
1918-21 Enfield-Hennedys
1921-25
1925-26 East Canton-Beach Flats
1926-33 East Troy-Leona
1933-37 Blossburg
1937-47 East Smithfield-Big Pond-Wetona
1947-52 Daggett-Roseville-Webbs Mills
1952-58 East
Canton-Windfall-West
1958 retired
1960-62
associate,
1962 [transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference – see Note below]
1962-70
associate,
Note:
BARTER, MERRILL EMERSON
Born: 7-11-1894
Died: 9-18-1973 obit:
1917 ordained,
Christian and
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 417
1917-29 missionary,
1929-31 ?
1931 enters Baptist ministry
1931-35
1935-42
1942-48
1948-54 Wildwood
1954-58 Patton PA
1958-59 ?
1959 local
pastor, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
1959-60 New Millport
1960-62 Three Springs
1962-68 Houtzdale
1968 retired
1968-73 Houtzdale
BARTH, FRANCIS LOUIS
Born: 10-18-1924
Died: obit:
1944 license,
recommended by Brightwood Park,
1950 ordained deacon
1951 admitted on trial
1952 ordained elder
1945-47
1947-52 Three Springs
1952-58 Duncansville
1958-62 Mill
Hall (beginning 11/15/1968)
1967-78
1984-90 superintendent, New Cumberland District
1990-93 Lewistown Grace
1993 retired
Note: F. Louis Barth is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 65.
BARTON, LAWRENCE BURGESS
Born: 4-11-1893 Unionville PA married: Alma Amelia Corle
Died: 3-18-1972 Tyrone PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1971,372
1918 license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary
1923 admitted on trial
1925 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 388
1921-26
1929-31 Claysburg
1931-37
1943-50 Renovo (beginning 12/1/1943)
1950-55
1955-59
1959 retired
BASSLER, JAMES EARL
Born: 3-2-1893 Hyndman PA married: Lillian Grace Bridenbaugh
Died: 6-23-1965
1917 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 332
1912-14 Washingtonville
1914-15 Jeddo-Lattimer
1916-18 associate,
1918-21
1921-28
1928-34 Enola
1943-48 Barnesboro-Bakerton
1948-51 Nescopeck
1951-55 Flemington
1955-58
1958 retired
Note: J. Earl Bassler is the preferred rendering.
BASTIAN,
Born: 3-13-1909 married: Sylvia Erilla Bierly
Died: 3-5-2005 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 382
1968 license, recommended by Williamsport Newberry
Interment:
Obit: (none)
1968-70 assistant, Picture Rocks (ending 12/31/69)
1970-71 McElhattan (beginning 1/1/70)
1971 retired
BASTUSCHECK,
Born: 8-15-1910 Drums PA married: Ruth Peters
Died: 11-14-1995 obit: Oregon Conference 1963,96
married2: Gladys Laura Shank
1936 admitted on trial obit2: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1997, 210
1937 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Oregon-Idaho Conference 1996, 198
1931-32 Mahaffey
1932-35 Half Moon
1935-37 Picture Rocks
1937-39 Harveyville
1939-42 White Haven
1942-44 Weatherly
1944-47
1947-49 McConnellsburg
1949 transfer to Iowa Conference
1949-54 director,
Van Buren Country Group Ministry in
1954-64 faculty,
1964-68 Clackamus
County Group Ministry in
Note:
BATTENHOUSE, HENRY MARTIN
Born: 8-27-1885 married: Sarah L. _____
Died: 3-23-1960 obit:
1911 admitted on trial, Colorado Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1909 graduate,
1911-20
1919-20 faculty,
1920 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1920-29 faculty,
1929 transfer to Detroit Conference
1929-? faculty,
? retired
Note: English Professor Dr. Henry M. Battenhouse is the
author of This Seed of Faith, English Romantic Writers (1958), Christ in the
Gospels: An Introduction to His Life and Its Meaning (1952), and other
books. His collected papers are in the
special collections of the Stockwell-Mudd Library at
BAUGHMAN, GEORGE E.
Born: 2-8-1899
Died: 11-9-1988
1932 received by
Maryland Conference of the
Interment:
Obit:
1926-29
1929 “transfer”
to Maryland Conference of the
1929-31 Oak
Grove and
1931-33
1933-39
1939 transfer
by merger to Baltimore Conference of the
1939-46
1946 voluntary location
Note: George E. Baughman served in the Methodist Episcopal
Church as a local pastor.
BAUM, GORDON WINFIELD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1952 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1952-53 at school
1953 transfer to Newark Conference
1953-57
1957-61 Staten
Note: In 2003 Gordon W. Baum is listed as a retired member of the Greater New Jersey Conference.
BAUMAN, ERNEST
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1926-27 Trout Run
Note: Ernest Bauman served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BEAM, HERBERT PLANK
Born: 5-27-1896
Died: 10-26-1978
1920 license, recommended by Evanston IL First
1922 admitted on trial, Northwest Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 328
1920-22 student,
Garrett Theological Seminary in
1920-22
1922-25 Oto (beginning 10/1/22)
1925 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1925-26 Claysburg
1926-28 Bakerton
1928-30 Orbisonia
1930-33
1933-36
1943-47 Tyrone
First
1955-61 Lock Haven Trinity (beginning 10/1/1955)
1961-64 Enola
1964 retired
BEARD,
Born: 2-26-1939 married: Alma Jean Cole
Died: obit:
1957 license, West Virginia Conference
1962 ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference
1964 admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference
1964 ordained elder, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1958-60 Albright
1960-64 Short Gap
1964-65 ?
1965 transfer to
Central Pennsylvania Conference
1965-67 Mapleton-Mill Creek 1965-67
1967-68
1968 transfer to West Virginia Conference
1968-70 West Liberty-Short Creek
1970-73 Belle-Mt.
Juliet
1981-83 Glen Dale
1983-90
1990-96 superintendent, Huntington District
1996-01 Elm Grove
2001 retired
BEARD, JOHN E.
Born: 4-27- 1878 Yorkana PA married: Mary E. Birnstock
Died: 5-7-1949
1905 admitted on trial, West Wisconsin Conference
Internment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 193
1905-07 Muscoda
1907 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1907-12 Millerstown
1912-15 Berwick Calvary
1915-18 Freeland
1922-25
1925-30
1932 retired
BEARD, RICHARD LEWIS
Born: 11-21-1932
Died: obit:
1955 admitted on
trial
Interment:
Obit:
1954-57 student,
Boston University School of Theology in
1956 Cuttyhank MA (summer)
1957 Popponessett MA (summer)
1957-58 Wallaceton
1958-59 at school
1959-60 sabbatical leave
1960 transfer to New England Southern Conference
1960-64 Baltic
and
1964 voluntary location
BEAVER, JACOB F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1922-26 assistant, Kulpmont
1926-29 ?
1929-34 Helfenstein
Note: Jacob F. Beaver served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown. His middle initial is sometimes given as S.
BECK, GEORGE PAUL SR
Born: 4-22-1880
Died: 3-24-1961 obit:
1909 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1904-09 student,
1906-07 Boiling Springs & Pine Grove Furnace
1907-09
1909 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference
1909-13 Millersville
1918-22
1922-27 Sharon Hill\
1927-29
1929-34
1934-37
1937-39 Wissinoming
1939-44
1944-47
1947-52
1952 retired
BEDFORD, JOSEPH WILLIAM
Born: 12-5-1850
Died: obit:
1876 admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Schellsburg
1874-76 Logan and Sandy circuit, West Virginia Conference
1876-78 Winfield WV
1878-81
1881-83
1883-85 Sinclair WV
1885-86
1886 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1886-88 Woodbury and Loysburg
1888-90 Snow Shoe
1890-92 Freeland
1892-94 White Haven
1894 transfer to West Virginia Conference
Note: Joseph W. Bedford is a brother to Elias Cambridge Bedford (1855-1932) of the West Virginia Conference. A brief biography appears on page 705 of Bradsby’s 1893 History of Luzerne County Part II: Biographical Sketches. Loysburg is listed as Pattonville in the conference journal; the village was called Morris Cove 1820-35, Loysburg 1835-44, Pattonville 1844-82, and Loysburg since 1882.
BEEMAN, VANDERBILT
Born: 11-25-1906 Frostburg MD married: Jennie Edna Hunt
Died: 3-27-1979 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 401
married2: Patsy Ann Korman
1935 license, recommended by Frostburg MD obit2:
1954 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 329
1945-50 Trout Run (beginning 6/1/45)
1950-53 Grampian (ending 10/1/53)
1953-59 Espy-Lightstreet (beginning 10/1/53)
1959-60 Salona-Lamar
1960-63
1963-72 Port Matilda
1972 retired
1972-76 Fairbrook-Spruce Creek
Note: Rev. Beeman was still considered a layman, and there
was no need for a transfer of conferences when he moved from Frostburg into
BEERS, ROBERT
Born: 2-13-1806
Died: 2-15-1870 Cassville PA obit:
1835 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 63
1835-36 Northumberland
1836-37 Lewistown
1837-38
1838-39
1839-41
1841-43 Allegheny
1843-45
1845-47 Bloomingdale
1847-49 Trough Creek
1849-51 Shirleysburg
1851-53
1853-55 Stonerstown
1855-56 on leave
1856-57 Bald Eagle
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 Pine Creek
1858-59
1859-61 on leave
1861 retired
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: A biographical sketch of Robert Beers appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 332.
BEISHLINE, HERVIE G.
Born: c1893 married:
Died: obit:
1921 admitted on trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22 Jeddo-Milnesville
1922 discontinued
BEISHLINE, JOHN L.
Born: 6-9-1849
Died: 10-8-1887 Buckhorn PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 142
1879 license, recommended by Wesley Chapel, Orangeville circuit
1884 ordained deacon, recommended by Muhlenburg circuit
1886 admitted on trial, recommended by Muhlenburg circuit
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 101
1883-86 Muhlenburg
1886-87 New Washington circuit
1887 Buckhorn
Note: Mrs. Beishline is a sister to Theodore S. Faus and an aunt to George W. Faus.
Born: 2-4-1869
Died: 7-21-1924 Huntingdon PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 166
1902 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 157
1900 Manada
Furnace-Paxton,
1902-06 Gatchelville
1906-11 Weatherly
1911-18 Reedsville
1918-21
1921-24
Note: Frank Thompson Bell is the nephew of J. Foster
Bell. He supplied in 1900 while a
student at
Born: 8-4-1846
Died: 3-21-1932
? quarterly
conference license,
1878 admitted on trial,
recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 169
1878-81
1881-83 Duncannon
1883-86 Hollidaysburg
1886-89
1889-93 Williamsport
Grace
1898-00
1900-06 superintendent, Altoona District
1906-11
1911-16
1916-17 Berwick First
1917-21 Mechanicsburg
1921 retired
Note: James Ellis Bell is a brother of J. Foster Bell. He is the uncle of John Thompson Bell (son of his brother J. Foster) and Frank Thompson Bell (son of his brother Samuel). A memoir appears in the 4/14/1932 Christian Advocate, page 405. His daughter Elsie is married to John W. Buckingham’s son Lewis. Mrs. Bell is the daughter of Plummer E. Watters of the Baltimore Conference and step-daughter of James H. McGarrah.
BELL, JAMES W.
Born: 1845 Birmingham PA married: Anna F. Levegood
Died: 1-9-1910 obit: [4/15/1853 – 3/21/1950]
1872 admitted on
trial, recommended by
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
1870-71 Washington [Lamar] (beginning 2/1/1871)
1871-72
1872-73
1873-74 Leidy
1874-76 Pleasantville
1876-78 McConnellstown
1878-80 Schellsburg
1880-81 Milroy
1881-82 Three Springs
1882 permitted to withdraw under charges (vote of 82 to 69)
Born: 10-17-1844 near Lewistown PA married: Maria Emery Naginey
Died: 3-5-1878 Lewistown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 198
1869 admitted on trial
Internment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 70
1869-70 Warrior’s Mark
1870-73 Osceola
1873-75 Beech Creek
1875-76 Pine Grove
1876-78
Note: J. Foster
Born: 7-10-1877
Died: 3-17-1922
1900 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 130
1900-04 Blain
1904-09 Yeagertown
1912-17 Watsontown
1917-21
1921 retired
Note: John Thompson Bell is the son of J. Foster Bell and a first cousin of Frank Thompson Bell.
Born: 12-21-1908
Died: 10-30-1982
1936 license, recommended by Buckhanon WV First
1937 admitted on
trial, Ohio Conference
1938 ordained elder, Ohio
Conference
Interment: Woolrich PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 397
1937-39
1939-41 Columbus Shepherds-St. Paul’s
1941-43
1943-45 chaplain, US Navy
1945-46
1950 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1950-74 Harrisburg Grace
1974 retired
Note:
Sheridan W. Bell Jr is the son of Sheridan W. Bell Sr (1864-1938) of the West
Virginia Conference.
BELL, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1886 ordained deacon, recommended by Philipsburg station
Interment:
Obit:
Note: William Bell served as a local pastor.
BENDER, AMOS J.
Born: 7-31-1828
Bendersville PA married:
Died: 6-30-1897
1856 admitted on
trial,
1859 ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56
1856-57
1857 charter
member of
1857-58
1858-59
1859-60 Coalmont
1860-61
1861-63 New
1863-68 on leave for health reasons
1868 transfer
to
1868-71 Allegany
1871-73 Harper’s Ferry
1873-76
1876-78 Gorsuch
1878-79 Fletcher
1879-88 on leave for health reasons
1883-85 Loudon
1888-92
1892-96
1896-98
Note: Amos J. Bender is the father of Simpson A. Bender
(1865-1940) of the East Main Conference and
BENDER,
Born: 12-17-1848 near York Springs PA married: (never married)
Died: 8-19-1881 New Market MD obit:
? quarterly
conference license,
1875 admitted on trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 75
1875-76
1876-77 Mont Alto (resigning for health, August 1877)
1877-78 living in Greencastle
1878-81 vice
principal,
1881
BENDER, HENRY RICHARD
Born: 3-18-1847 Bendersville PA married: Florence Salome VanFossen
Died: 10-26-1932 Northumberland PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 272
? quarterly
conference license,
1873 admitted on
trial, recommended by
1877 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 182
1873-74 York Springs
1874-75 Wellsville
1878-81 Stewartstown
1881-83
1886-90 Lock
Haven Trinity
1892 transfer to Central New York Conference
1892-97
1897-01
1901-04 on leave
1904 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1904-08 Lock Haven Trinity
1908-11
1911-17
1920-26 Northumberland
1926 retired
Note: Some sources list his birthplace as
BENDER, LaRUE GIRTON
Born: 5-31-1911 Muncy Valley PA married: Helen Shaw Metzger
Died: 5-29-1997 Lewisburg PA obit: 2000, 339
1944 license
1948 admitted on trial, recommended by Elysburg
1948 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 428
1944-45 Catawissa circuit
1945-50 Elysburg
1950-54 McConnelsburg
1954-58 Altoona Grace
1958-63
1963- Coudersport
Note: LaRue Bender is the father of Richard W. Bender. He has a nephew Donald Wayne Bender and a
grandson Richard J. Bender in the Central Pennsylvania Conference United
Methodist data base. He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the
BENDER, RICHARD WILLIAM
Born: 10-23-1935 Muncy PA married: Janet Hunter
Died: obit:
1964 license,
recommended by
1966 admitted on trial
1966 ordained deacon
1969 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1963-65 Oriole (ending September 1965)
1965-69 student, Crozer Seminary in West Chaester PA
1968
1969-77 McVeytown
1977-79 Altoona Broad Avenue-Schumm Memorial
1979- chaplain, Lewisburg United Methodist Home
Note: Richard W. Bender is the son of LaRue Bender.
BENFIELD, FRANK L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 Rehoboth
1923-24 Schuyler
Lake Federated and Exeter Methodist,
Episcopal
priest,
Note: Frank L. Benfield served as a local pastor. He may have been a student at
BENFORD, JACOB POORMAN
Born: 3-5-1844 Mt. Pleasant PA married: Frances Emma Trescott
Died: 3-22-1913
? quarterly conference license, Uniontown in the Pittsburgh Conference
1874 admitted on trial, recommended by Philipsburg
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 115
1873-74
1874-75
1875-76 Bloomingdale
1876-78 Beaver Meadow
1878-80
1880-81
1881-83 Fairview-Marysville
1883-84 Lewisburg
1884-86 York Springs
1886-89 Newville-Rehoboth
1889-92
1892-94
1897-98 Jeanesville
1898-00 Coalport-Irvonia
1900-03 Duncansville
1903-11 Gordon
1911-13
BENFORD, WILLIAM H.
Born: married: Rosalie A. Novallie
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 138
1892 admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1891-92
1892-93
1893-94
1894-96
1896-98
1898-99
1899 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1899-00 Shirleysburg
1900-01 Ennisville
1901-02 Clearville
1902-04
1904-08
1908 withdrew
…
1926-27 Elimsport & Maple Hill
BENNETT, ERWIN DAVID
Born: 9-13-1907
Died: 1-20-1983
1927 license, recommended by Watertown NY Asbury
1932 admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 399
1932-34
1934-35 Mount Pleasant
1935-38
1938-39 at school
1939-40 Constantia-West
1940-41 at school
1941 transfer to Central New York Conference
1941-43 Benton-Voak
1943-45 Red Creek
1945-46 chaplain, US Navy
1946-48
1948-53 chaplain, US Navy
1953-57
1957 transfer to Genesee Conference
1957-62 Buffalo-Plymouth
1962 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1962-65 Wellsboro
1973 retired
BENNETT, FENTON S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? license, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1947-48 associate, Newtown Creek Larger Parish
1959-62 New Era
1962 “transferred” by change of boundaries to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1962-63 New Era
Note: Fenton S. Bennett served as a local pastor.
BENNETT, GILBERT LLOYD
Born: 7-2-1902 Port Matilda PA married: Kathryn Fritz
Died: 12-20-1990 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 473
1926 license
1928 admitted on trial
1933 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment: Rolling
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 477
1926-27
1927-32 Orangeville (beginning summer 1927)
1932-37 Picture Rocks Parish
1937-43 Catawissa
1943-48
1948-55 Huntingdon First
1955-61
1961-67 superintendent, Williamsport District
1967 retired
1967-68 visitation, Harrisburg Calvary
1968-70 evangelism, New Cumberland Baughman Memorial
1970-80 visitation, Camp Hill
Note: Gilbert L. Bennett is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 88.
BENNETT, THOMAS LEE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1965 license
1971 admitted on trial
Interment:
1965-72 Roulette
1972 no longer listed
Note: T. Lee Bennett may not have finished his final year at Roulette, as no report was submitted to Conference.
BENSCOTER, CRAWFORD L.
Born: 1-28-1845
Died: 5-12-1905 Huntingdon PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 529
? quarterly conference license, Bloomingdale
1870 admitted on trial, recommended by Jeanesville
Interment: Lock Haven
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 105
1869-70 Jeanesville
1870-71 Berwick
1871-72
1872-75
1875-77
1877-79
1879-82 Mifflinville
1882-85 Newville-Rehoboth
1885-88
1888-93
1893-97
1897-00 Lock
Haven
1900-03 Shamokin Second
1903-05 Huntingdon Second
1905 retired
Note: A memoir for Crawford L. Benscoter also appears in the 8/31/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1407.
BENSON, LEVI
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1919-21 Alum Bank
1921-25 Benezette
1925-27
Note: Levi Benson served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BERGSTROM, FRANK WILLIAM
Born: 1-13-1930
Died: obit:
1960 license
1964 admitted on trial
1964 ordained deacon
1966 ordained elder
1958-59 ?
1959-63 student,
1959-63
1963-68
1968-83 Dillsburg Calvary
1983-95 Lemoyne Calvary
1995 retired
2000-06
assistant, Lemoyne Grace
Note: Frank W. Bergstrom is a brother to John B. Bergstrom.
BERGSTROM, JOHN BOGARDUS
Born: married: Averil L. Peterson
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 428
1958 license, recommended by Worcester MA Park Avenue
1963 ordained deacon
1965 ordained elder
1971 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1945-57 Assembly of God churches
1957-59
1959-64
1964-70
1970-73 Oriole
1973-78
1978-83
1983-86 Berwick First
1986 retired
1986-93 associate, Picture Rocks Parish
1993-96
Note: John B. Bergstrom is a brother to Frank W. Bergstrom.
BERKEBILE, CALVIN E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22
Note: C.E. Berkebile served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BERKHEIMER, CHARLES FRANKLIN
Born: 8-8-1896 Mechanicsburg PA married: Zerba Theresa Weber
Died: 12-17-1968
1918 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 306
1918-19 Riverside-West
1919-22 Millerstown
1922-24 Dillsburg-Wellsville
1924-26 Snow
Shoe
1930-36 Emporium
1951-57 superintendent, Sunbury District
1957-62
1962 retired
Note: Charles F. Berkheimer is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 92. Mrs. Berkheimer’s sister Alma Weber Mower is the mother of A. Glenn Mower.
BERKSTRESSER, GEORGE
Born: 8-12-1807 PA married: Anna Catherine Horn
Died: 11-3-1896 Dadeville AL obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895,87
1836 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Dadeville AL.
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 93
1836-37 New
1837-38 Mifflin
1838-39 Beaver Meadows
1839-40 Bellefonte
1840-42
1842-43 Sunbury
1843-45
1845-46
1846-48 Warrior’s Mark
1848-50
1850-52
1852-54 Penn’s Valley
1854-55 Lewistown circuit
1855-57 Cassville
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59 Woodbury
1859-60 York Springs
1860-62
1862-64
1864-65 Rainsburg
1865 retired
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1876-80 on leave
1880 retired
living
in
Note: A biographical sketch of George Berkstresser appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 333.
BERNINGER, WILLIAM
Born: 1-19-1918 Williamsport PA married: Kathryn Beaver
Died: 2-24-2011 Dunlap TN obit: [6/5/1916 – 4/?/1976]
Interment:
Obit:
1956-57 Forksville
1957-59 Lock
Haven
1959-62 New
Note: William Berninger served as a local pastor. He “transferred” from the East Tennessee Conference, where he apparently was also a local pastor. He later served as a pastor and evangelist for the Church of the Nazarene in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Mrs. Berninger’s name is sometimes given, apparently erroneously, as Katherine.
BETHUNE, JAMES WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1880 admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg
Interment:
Obit:
1880-81 Wharton
1881-82
1882-83 ?
1883 located at own request
BETTENS, JAMES HENRY
Born: 7-15-1869
Died: 9-26-1954 Lock Haven PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 241
1899 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 227
1899-01 Waller
1901-02 Silver Brook
1902-06
1906-08 Selinsgrove
1908-10 Benezette
1910-16
1916-21 McVeytown
1921-25 Flemington
1925-30 Nescopeck
1930-36
1936-38 Lock
Haven
1938 retired
Note: James H. Bettens is an uncle (through his sister Elizabeth Bettens Symons) to Edmund J. Symons.
BEYER, JAMES STEVENS
Born: 11-29-1837
Beyer’s Mill,
Died: 3-30-1899
1857 license
1865 ordained deacon
1866 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
1869 ordained elder, Virginia Conference
Interment: Tyrone PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 108
1866-68
1868 transfer to Virginia Conference
1868-69
1869-71
1871-73 Old Point Comfort
1873-76
1876-79
1879-81 superintendent, Alexandria District
1881 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1881-83 Half Moon
1883-85 Sinnemahoning
1886-89 Weatherly
1889-92 Salona
1892-96 Ralston
1896-99
BICHELL, A.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1912-13 Orrtanna
1919-20 Cross
Fork [
Note: served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BICKEL, JOHN CRAWFORD
Born: married: Idylla Robbins
Died: 11-29-1939
1894 admitted on trial, recommended by Harveyville
Interment:
Obit:
1893-95 Harveyville
1895-98 Milnesville-Jeddo
1898-00 Without Appointment
1900-03 Jeanesville-Audenreid
1903-04
1904-10 superintendent, Wyoming Mission
1910 transfer to Indiana Conference
transfer to Ohio Conference
Note: John C. Bickel was born in
BICKELL, CHARLES ALBERT LEHMAN
Born: 8-8-1906
Died: 6-26-1969 Sunbury PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 468
1929 admitted on
trial, recommended by Newberry
1931 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 379
1928-30 Wallis Run
1930-32 Montandon
1932-34 at school
1934-36 Snydertown
1936-40
1940-43 Shickshinny
1943-46
1946-53 Philipsburg (ending 11/30/1953)
1953 transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference
1953-56 [
1956 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1956-59
1959-63
1963-69 superintendent, Sunbury District
Note: Rev. Bickell is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 97.
BIDDLE, CHARLES ABRAHAM
Born: 6-26-1853 Buffalo Run Valley PA married: Rosa Vene Lee
Died: 3-11-1922 New Millport PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 225
1886 admitted on trial, recommended by Port Matilda circuit
Interment: New
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 124
1884-85 Osceola
1885-86 Port Matilda
1886-89 Coalport
1889-93
1893-97 Ramey
1897-99 Altoona Epworth mission.
1899-04
1904-07 Woodland-Bradford
1907-10 New Millport
1910 retired
Note: Charles A. Biddle is a brother to Fletcher W. Biddle
and to Rev. John Edward Biddle (1855-) of the Christian and
BIDDLE, FLETCHER W.
Born: 6-15-1858 near Bellefonte PA married: Josephine Little
Died: 6-8-1930
1887 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 176
1885-86 assistant,
1887-88 Cassville
1888-90 Clearville
1890-93 Shirleysburg
1893-96 Flemington
1896-99
1899-03 Osceola
1903-07
1907-10
1910-12 Roaring Springs
1913-15 Williamsport
Grace
1919-20 Curwensville
1920-22 Renovo
1922-23
1923-24 Stewartstown
1924-26 Duncansville
1926 retired
Note: Note: Fltecher W. Biddle is a brother to Charles A.
Biddle and to Rev. John Edward Biddle (1855-) of the Christian and
BIDLACK, STEPHEN BRUCE
Born: 4-8-1875 Southdale PA married: Emma Eldora Fiester
Died: 4-5-1966 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 247
1902 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 311
1901-03 Laporte
1903-05 Clarkstown
1905-09
1909-11 Trevorton
1911-14 Espy-Lime Ridge
1914-17
1917-19 Marysville
1919-23 Lock
Haven
1923-26 Watsontown
1926-27
1927-31 Freeland
1931-37 Mifflinburg
1938-40 Duboistown-Nisbet
1940-42 Lewisberry-Lisburn
1942 retired
1942-45 Laurelton
Note: Some biographical information on Stephen B. Bidlack appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 31. Some sources give his birth date as 4-1-1875.
BIEBER, GEORGE
Born: 12-12-1921
Died: 4-25-2003 obit:
1945 admitted on trial, New England Southern Conference
1947 ordained elder, New England Southern Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1941-43 Clearville (beginning 10/1/41)
1943-44 living
in
1944-45 Mapleville
& Glendale,
1945 “transfer” to New England Southern Conference
1945-48 Mapleville & Glendale
1948-51
1951-61 chaplain, USAF
1961-66 Vineyard Haven
1966-74
1974-82
1982-88 Spencer (beginning 5/1/82)
1985-88
1988 retired
Note: The 2003
address for Mrs. Bieber is
BIERI, JOHN
Born: 11-13-1873
Died: 3-30-1951 obit: Philadelphia Conference 1924, 880
married2: Alice Dalrymple
1902 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference obit2: Philadelphia Conference 1937, 189
1902 ordained, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1898-01 student,
1900-01
Millerstown (last part of year)
1901-02 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1901-02 Millerstown
1902 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference
1902-07
1909-10
1913-16
1916-18
1920-24
1925-27
1927-28
1928-29 conference evangelist
1929-30 Philadelphia Wissahickon (ending 10/30)
1940 retired
1942-44
Philadelphia Clearview (beginning 10/42)
Note: John C. Bieri is the author of over 60 published hymn and is also noted for gospel magic presentations.
BIERLY, EDWIN SYLVERIUS
Born: 6-20-1869 Rebersburg PA married: Sarah Catherine Erhard
Died: obit: [1872-1938]
1899 license, recommended by Spring Mills
1908 admitted on trial, recommended by Port Matilda
Interment:
Obit:
1901 East Falmouth MA (3 months)
1904
1905-06 York Springs
1906-07 Alum Bank
1907-09 Port Matilda
1909-10 Pine Grove Mills
1910-11 Burnt Cabins
1911 discontinued
Note: Some sources give the first name as EDWARD. Edwin S. Bierley is an 1898 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 59.
BINGAMAN, HARRY LUTHER
Born: 7-21-1908 Glen Iron PA married: Dorothy Gwendolyn Aumiller
Died: 11-1-2001 Lewisburg PA obit: [11/14/1908 – 4/2/1981]
Interment: Hartley township,
Obit:
1959-63 Montandon (ending 1/31/63)
Note: Harry Bingaman was a schoolteacher and served as a local pastor. He served as worship leader and “pastor emeritus” for many years at Laurelton Lincoln Chapel.
BIRD, FRANKLIN HORATIO JR.
Born: 9-2-1924
Died: obit:
1955 license
1961 admitted on trial
1961 ordained deacon
1964 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1954-57 Lower Bank circuit, New Jersey Conference (10/1/54 – 5/26/57)
1957-59 student,
1957-59
assistant,
1959-60 student,
S959-60
assistant,
1960-61 student,
Crozer Seminary in
1960-61 Freeland Parish
1961-63 student,
Asbury Seminary in
1961-63
Freeland Parish
1966 voluntary location
Alabama-West
BIRD, PEMBERTON
Born: 10-3-1817 Shamokin PA married: Mary A. Arnold
Died: 9-2-1894 Shamokin PA obit: [6/24/1817 – 6/26/1871]
married2: Sarah E. Deiterly
obit2: [2/18/1840 – ?]
? quarterly conference license, Shamokin
1855 local deacon, East Baltimore Conference
1859 local elder, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Sunbury circuit
Interment:
Obit:
1868 charter “member” of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Jeansville
1869-71
1871-72 Cogan’s Valley
1872-73 Watsontown (first part of year)
1873-75 Wharton
1875-76 Pine Creek
1882-83
Note: Pemberton Bird served as a local pastor. He worked as a carpenter and was an 1838 charter member of the congregation at Shamokin.
BIRD, ROBERT WENNER
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1952 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1947-52 Catawissa circuit
1952-55 at school
1954-55 Beaver Falls,
1955 Transfer
to
1955-
North
Note: Rev. Bird is listed as a retired member of the North Central New York Conference in 2003.
BIRDSALL, ARCHIBALD F.
Born: married: Effie Jane VanLeuvender
Died: obit:
1926 admitted, Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church
1926 ordained, Eastern Conference of Methodist Protestant Church
Interment: Shickshinny PA
Obit:
1922-25 Cassville
1925-39 Shicksinny
1939 transferred to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1941 withdrawn by action of the Annual Conference
Note: Many records list the given name as ARCHIE. At the 1939 denominational union, A.F.
Birdsall and the Shickshinny MP congregation never actually came into the
BIRT, PAUL EUGENE
Born: 7-14-1936 Berwick PA married: Mary Esther Gunder
Died: obit:
1964 license, recommended by Mechanicsburg Salem
1965 admitted on trial
1965 ordained deacon
1967 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1964-67 Barnitz
1967-72 York Springs
1972-76 Millheim
1976-77 sabbatical
1977-80 Millheim
1980 honorable location
Note: Paul E. Birt is founder of Victorious Living
Ministries International,
BITTENBENDER, EDWIN LEE
Born: 2-25-1925 Berwick PA married: Mona Monson
Died: 7-2-2011 Fergus Falls MN obit:
1954 admitted on trial
1955 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1949-52 instructor, Lucknow Chgristian College, Lucknow India
1952-54 M2 to
1954-56 student, Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston IL
1956 transfer to Lucknow Conference (11/1/1956)
1956-61 chaplain, Lucknow Christian College
1961-63 Herman First (Minnesota)
1963-70 Lucknow Lal Bagh
1970-72 Perham, Richvale & Dent (Minnesota)
1972-77 Minnetonka (Minnesota)
1978-80 Karachi (Pakistan) St. Andrews
1980-82 Norcross & Tenney (Minnesota)
1982-87
1987 retired
1990-91 Nome (Alaska) Community UMC
BIXLER, ANDREW LOY
Born: 1-1-1880
Died: 2-9-1962
1906 admitted on trial, New England Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 319
1906-07
1907-10
1910-15
1915-18
1918-20 secretary, YMCA France
1920 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1920-21 director
of religious work,
1921-25
1928-29 Huntingdon First
1929-31
1931-36
1936-42
1946-49 Lewisburg
1950 retired
BLACK, JACOB H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1874 discontinued at own request
BLACK, JAMES HARPER
Born: 12-29-1845 Chambersburg PA married: Mary Carter Barbour
Died: 10-12-1932 Chambersburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 142
1873 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 183
1863-75 Bendersville
1875-77 Wellsville
1877-80 Shippensburg
1882-83 superintendent, Methodist Book Room (beginning 8/17/1882)
1883-86
1886-89
1889-92
1892-97 Lock Haven Trinity
1897-02 superintendent, Williamsport District
1902-03 superintendent, Book Room
1903-08 Huntingdon First
1908-11
1911 retired
BLACK, ROBERT WESLEY
Born: 9-6-1824
Huntingdon
Died: 8-13-1895 obit:
1851 admitted on
trial,
Interment: Louden
Obit:
1851-52 Cassville
1852-53
1853-54
1854-55 Catawissa
1855-57 Mifflinburg
1857 charter
member of
1857-59
1859-60
1860-62 Mechanicsburg station
1862-64
1864-66
1866-68
1868 transfer
to
1868-69
1872-75
1875-78 Hamline
1881-82
1882-87 superintendent,
1887 retired
Note: This name is sometimes given in the form R. Wesley Black.
BLADES, ANSLEY BAKER
Born: 6-25-1870
Died: 1941 Seminole County FL obit: [1/21/1875 – 5/15/1946]
?
Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Union Springs [Cayuga County] NY
Obit:
1907 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1908 withdrew to join the Presbyterian ministry; see 1909,82
Note: Ansley Baker Blades is the son of John Hogg Blades
(1829-1891) of the Genesee Conference. A
notice of the withdrawal of A.B. Blades appears in the 13/3/1908 Christian
Advocate, page 2026. He also served ME
churches in
BLAIR, SAMUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1891 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1889-90
1890-91
1891-93 Harveyville
1893-96
1896-99 Morrisdale
1899-00
1900 transfer to North Nebraska Conference
1900-02 [
1902 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1902-04 missionary,
1904-07 missionary,
1907-09 missionary,
1909-11 missionary,
1911 transfer to Kansas Conference
BLAKE, BURDINE
Born: 1-13-1800 Lancaster County PA married: Mazey Ann Simpkins [12/14/1818]
Died: 8-26-1874 Martinsburg PA obit: [2/?/1794 – 4/1/1867]
married2: Mrs. Barbara Stifler [11/?/1867]
Interment: obit2:
Obit:
Note: Burdine Blake was an ordained local elder. There is no evidence that he every served a charge under appointment.
BLAZY, J.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22 Westport & Cross Forks
Note: J.F. Blazy served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BLOOM, ARTHUR WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1952 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1952-54 at
school
1957 transfer to New York Conference
Note: Arthur W. Bloom is listed as retired member of New York Conference in 2003.
BOBB, DEAN MEREDITH SR
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1959 license, recommended by Lewistown Rhodes Memorial
1962 ordained deacon
1964 ordained elder
Interment:
1951-62 Morris
1962-66 Elkland
(ending 11/14/66)
1971 no longer lister
BOBB, JOSHUA PIERCE
Born: 11-23-1846 near Mechanicsburg PA married: Agnes M. Crumb
Died: 8-30-1895
1870 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 99
1870-71 Salladasburg
1871-76 faculty, Pennington Seminary
1876-78 on leave
1878 retired
1878-90 faculty, High Forest MN Seminary
Note: Joshua P. Bobb graduated from
BODTORF, ROY OAKLEY
Born: 5-10-1909 Centre Hall PA married: Mabel Elizabeth Dougherty
Died: 9-13-1968
1930 admitted on trial
1933 ordained deacon
1935 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 307
1929-31 Vira
1931-33 Oriole-Antes Fort
1933-35 Duboistown-Nisbet
1935-38 Pleasant Gap
1938-43 Morrisdale-Munson
1943-47 Mifflintown
1947-53
1957-62 Tyrone First
1962-66 Berwick First
1966-68 assistant
administrator,
1968 retired
Note: Mrs. Bodtorf is still living in 2005.
BOGGS, GEORGE FRANKLIN
Born: 11-3-1867
Died: 2-5-1947
1894 admitted on trial, recommended by Shirleysburg circuit
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 197
1894-97 McKee’s Gap
1897-01
1901-04 Howard
1904-08
1911-14 Hollidaysburg
1914-17
1922-25
1925-28 Renovo
1932-36 Camp
Hill
1940 retired
1943-47
Note: Mrs. Boggs is a sister to David F. Kapp.
BOHNER, RUSSELL HENRY
Born: 10-9-1907 Shamokin PA married: Martha Irene Leitzel
Died: 6-26-1989 Sunbury PA obit:
1933 license, East
Pennsylvania Conference of the
recommended by Elizabethville
1938 admitted on
trial, Northeast Ohio Conference of the
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 447
1936-38 Chesterville
1938-41 Gambier
1941-43 Gnadenhutten
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-48
1948-50
1950-67 chaplain, US Air Force
1967-69 sabbatical
1969 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1969-73 on leave
1973 retired
Note: Mrs. Bohner ceases to be listed as a surviving spouse beginning in 2000, but there is no record of her death.
BOLLINGER, LLOYD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1952-54 Hustontown
Note: Lloyd Bollinger served as a local pastor.
BONACCI, ANGELO W.
Born: Adams,Italymarried:
Died: obit:
1902 license
1906 admitted on
trial, Austin Conference
1909 ordained, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Italian Mission, Cleveland OH
1905-06 Hazleton & Mount Carmel missions
1906 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1906-09
1909 transfer to Genesee Conference
1909-13 missionary, Buffalo NY Italian Mission
1913 transfer to Des Moines Conference
1913-16
1916 expelled
BONHAM, KENNETH ROBERT
Born: 2-24-1916 Hunlock PA married: Esther _____
Died: obit:
1950 license, recommended by Oakdale of the Hunlock Creek charge
1954 admitted on trial
1954 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1950-52 Forksville, Central New York Conference (beginning 10/1/1956)
1952-56
1956-59 Barnesboro
1959-61 Gatchelville
1961-62
1962-66 Mill Hall
1966-77 Bendersville
1977-81 Dallastown
Trinity
1981-82 Adamsville-Dallastown
parish (ending 12/31/1982)
1983 retired (beginning 1/1/1983)
BOONE, SAMUEL PERRY
Born: 9-18-1858 Black
Creek,
Died: 7-26-1938
1886 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 205
1884-86
1886-91
1891-92 Mifflinville
1892-93 Buckhorn-Rupert
1893-01 on leave
1901 retired
BOOTH, JOHN WESLEY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1938 admitted,
Eastern Conference of the
1938 ordained,
Eastern Conference of the
Interment:
Obit:
1923-29 New
1929-33 Hollisterville PA circuit
1933-34
1934-38 Point Erial NJ
1938-39 Reyburn circuit
1939 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1941 withdrawn to join ministry of another church
Note: At the 1939 denominational union, J.W. Booth and the
Reyburn MP charge never actually came into the
BOUGHEY, PERCY S.
Born: 11-6-1890
Died: 8-19-1972
? license,
1919 admitted on trial
1921 ordained deacon
1923 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 368
1913-15
1915 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1915-16 Hummelstown
1916 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1916-18
1918-22 Montandon
1922-25 Kulpmont
1925-30 Audenreid
1931-38 Weatherly
1938-47
1947-50 Shippensburg
1950-61 Renovo
1961 retired
Note: The father and grandfather of Percy S. Boughey were
local preachers in
BOUSE, GEORGE W.
Born: 4-9-1823 Pendleton County WV married: Virginia Miles
Died: 7-21-1892
1849 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Tyrone PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 90
1848-50
1850-51
1851-52
1852-54 Westernport MD
1854-55
1855-57
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59 Cassville
1859-61 Shirleysburg
1861-63
1863-66
1866-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71 New
1871-74 Three Springs
1874-75
1875-78 Penn’s Valley
1878-81 Half Moon
1881-84
1884-87 Warrior’s Mark
1887-92 Milesburg
1892
Note: A biographical sketch of George W. Bouse appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 335. The 1899 conference obituary for Mrs. Bouse is in error. It gives her maiden names as Mills and the marriage data as 8/7/1858; the maiden name is Miles and the marriage date is 8/7/1851.
BOUTON, ARTHUR A.
Born: 9-27-1890
Died: 7-8-1974 obit:
1917 admitted on trial
1917 ordained deacon
1919 ordained elder, New York East Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1911-15 student,
1914-15 Boiling Springs (summer 1914 – summer 1915)
1915-17 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1915-17 West Livingston NJ (beginning summer 1915)
1917-18
1918 transfer to New York East Conference
1918-20 New
Rochelle First
1923-26
1926-33 Brooklyn Bay Ridge Grace
1933-40 Queens
1940-46
1946-52 Queens
1952-59
1959 retired
BOWDEN, WILLIAM H.
Born: 2-3-1850
Holmbush
Died: 12-27-1919 Windber PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 235
1867 license, Bible
Christian Church in
1874 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 134
1873-75
1875-76 New
1876-77
1877-78 Ray’s Hill
1878-79 Shirleysburg
1879-81 Burnt Cabins
1881-83 Lycoming
1883-85
1885-87
1887-90
1890-93 Schellsburg
1893-01 on leave
1901 retired
BOWEN, JOHN
Born: 6-8-1793
Died: 11-18-1864 obit: [10/14/1800 – 8/28/1877]
1820 license
1823 admitted on
trial,
1825 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference
1827 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1822-23
1823-24 Aughwick
1824-25 Bald Eagle
1825-26
1826-28 Lycoming
1828-30 Pendleton
1830-32
1832-33
1833-34 Calvert
1834-35 Lewistown
1835-37 Huntingdon
1837-39 Hollidaysburg
1839-41
1841-43
1843-44 Lycoming
1844-45
1845-47 Berwick
1847-49
1849-50
1850-51 Shepherdstown
1853-55 Patapsco
1855-57
1857 charter
member of
1857-59
1861-65 retired
Note: Mrs. Bowen was the widow of a Dr. Matthew Blackburn Grier, M.D. (1887-1818). This 4/5/1827 marriage may have been a second marriage for John Bowen.
BOWER, AARON VINCENT
Born: 10-15-1862 Berwick PA married: Harriet V. Garney
Died: obit:
1888 admitted on trial, recommended by Berwick station
Interment:
Obit:
1888 graduated from Drew Theological Seminary
1888-89 Beach Haven
1889 discontinued at own request
1891 readmitted to New York East Conference
1891-92
1895 studying
law at
Note: Aaron V. Bower became a lawyer and settled in
BOWER, HARRY CLAYTON
Born: 5-31-1882 Elimsport PA married: Mabel Lucy Crawford [6/2/1909]
Died: 8-?-1971 St. Petersburg FL obit:
1901 license,
recommended by
1905 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1905-06 Cameron
1906-08 missionary,
Pinang
1908 transfer to Philippine Islands Mission Conference
1913 transfer to Malaysia Conference
1918 transfer to Netherlands Indies Mission Conference
1927 transfer to North Sumatra Conference
1935 withdraw (7/18/1935)
Note: Some biographical information on Harry C. Bower appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 56. Some sources give his birth year as 1883. The biographical files at the conference archives contain limited information on his assignments.
BOWER,
Born: 7-5-1858 Berwick PA married:
Died: obit:
1895 ordained deacon, recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1884-87 principal, preparatory department at
1887-96 businessman,
moved
to
Note: Lahman F. Bower served as a local pastor. His name also appears as Lahman FORREST
Bower. A biographical sketch appears in
the 1905 Dickinson College Alumni Record, page 37. He is the author of the book The Economic Waste of Sin, published by
Abingdon Press in 1924. He appears to be
living back in
BOWER, ROY WILLARD
Born: 9-7-1922
Died: 7-7-1983 obit:
1946 local preacher’s license
1951 ordained deacon
1953 ordained elder
1969 admitted as associate member, East Ohio Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1948-50 Mont Alto (ending 11/15/50)
1950-53 Port Matilda (beginning 11/15/50 & ending 9/15/53)
1953 “transfer” to East Ohio Conference
Trinway
Thompson
1978 retired
to
Note: The middle name for Roy W. Bower is sometimes given as WILLIAM.
BOWERS, DAN S.
Born: 3-2-1922
Died: 10-23-2006
Interment:
Obit:
1939-43 student,
Franklin &
1944-45 student,
Note: Dan S. Bowers has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. It is unknown whether he completed seminary and served in any other conference or denomination.
BOWMAN, ALFRED STECK
Born: 11-19-1847 near Mifflinville PA married: Mary Alice Rockefeller
Died: 11-27-1934
1868 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 236
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Berwick circuit
1869-70 Elysburg
1870-71 Conyngham
1871-72 Washingtonville
1873-75
1875-78 Muncy
1880-83 Mechanicsburg
1883-86
1886-88
1891-93 Shickshinny
1893-96 Newberry
1896-99
1899-04 Hollidaysbsurg
1904-10 endowment secretary, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
1910-11 Reedsville-Milroy
1911-13 Weatherly
1913 retired
Note: A.S. Bowman fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. He is the author of The Jesse Bowman Sr. Lineage (1931). Alrfed S. Bowman is a second cousin to Shadrach L. Bowman. Relationships to other pastors are too numerous to mention, but are detailed in the Bowman Family files at the conference archives. His sister Martha married Aaron M. Kester. A.S. Bowman served as Conference Historian during his retirement and wrote the History of Methodism in the Central Pennsylvania Conference in the 1918 Conference Journal, pages 117-122.
BOWMAN, SHADRACH LAYCOCK
Born: 5-2-1829 married: Mary Elizabeth Aber
Died: 9-1-1906
1855 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56
1856-57
1857 transfer to Newark Conference
1857-58 Passiac
1858-50 located [member of Union Chapel in
1860 transfer to East Baltimore Conference
1860-62 Berwick
1862-64 Bellefonte Station
1864-66
1866-68 faculty,
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-72 faculty,
1872-73 on leave
1873-74
1874-76 Lock Haven
1876-79
1879 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1883-89 dean
of
1898 transfer to Newark Conference
Note: S.L. Bowman is the author of numerous booklets and
articles - including Silence of Women in the Churches (1878), Revised Version
of the New Testament (1881). His major
book (732 pages) is Historical Evidence of the New Testament (1908). After the deaths of professors Miley (1895)
and Crooks (1897), Bowman responded to the call of
BOWSER, HARRY GRABILL
Born: 2-5-1872 married: Esther Williams [c1889]
Died: 5-29-1935 obit:
[b. c1868, possibly
married2: Viola May Swisher
? license obit2:
1924 recognized as
elder from the
Stackhouse Shaw Secules
Interment: obit3: 1942, 207
Obit: [1936, 98]
1923-26 Penfield (beginning 9/1/1923: see 1924, 85)
1926-30
1930-35 Harveyville
1935 retired in mid-year: see 1935,93
Note: H.G. Bowser served as a local pastor. The third Mrs. Bowser, the widow of Jack Shaw and Jefferson Secules, was a cook for four years at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary while her daughter Pearl Shaw attended there.
BOWSER, ROBERT NELSON
Born: 6-15-1937 Duncansville PA married:
Died: obit:
1962 admitted on
trial, recommended by Duncansville Hicks Memorial
1962 ordained deacon
1964 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1962-64 student,
Garrett Theological Seminary in
1964-65 Gatchelville
1965-69 Beach Haven
1969 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1969-70 Lansdowne
1970-73
1973-74 on leave
1974 voluntary location
Note: Robert N. Bowser is listed 1963, 98 as transferring in as a probationer from the Northwest Indiana Conference. That is confusing because (1) he is listed 1962, 88 as being admitted on trial to the Central Pennsylvania Conference and (2) the General Minutes list no connection to the Northwest Indiana Conference.
BRACHETTI, GIULIO C.
Born: 12-18-1872 married:
Died: 6-18-1950 obit:
1916 admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1913-14
1916 “transfer” to Northern New York Conference
1916-20
Note: Guilio C. Brachetti served as a local pastor.
BRADFORD, HARRY A. JR.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1962 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1951-53
1953-57 Friendship NJ
1957-62
1962 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1962-64
1964 transfer to New Jersey Conference
transfer to Peninsula Conference
1968-71 on leave
1971 voluntary location
BRADLEY, EDGAR HERMAN
Born: 1-4-1916 Dudley PA married:
Died: 4-16-1988 obit:
1943 admitted on trial
1943 ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1988, ?
1937-39
1939-41
1941-46 Kulpmont
1946 transfer to California-Nevada Conference
BRADLEY, GEORGE WELLS
Born: 9-1-1876
Died: 8-28-1949 obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 230
Interment:
Obit: [1950, 69]
1922-27 assistant,
1927-29 Blandburg
1929-34 Allegheny circuit
1934-41 Hollidaysburg
[Loop]
1941-47 Allegheny circuit
1947 retired
Note: George W. Bradley served as a local pastor.
BRADS, JAMES
Born: married: Eliza Ritchie
Died: 12-18-1887
1836 admitted on
trial,
Interment:
Obit:
1836-37
1837-38 Moorefield
1838-39 Wardensville
1839-40 on leave
1841-43
1843-44
1844-46 Westmoreland
1846-47 Warrenton
1847-49 York Springs
1849-51 Boonsboro
1851-53
1853-55
1855-57
1857 charter
member of
1857-59
1859-61
1861-62 Westernport
1862-64 Huntingdon
1864-66
1866-68
1868 retired
BRADY,
Born: 1-9-1873 Mackeyville PA married: Sarah Virginia Gwynn
Died: 12-6-1930
1885 admitted on trial, recommended by Loyalsock circuit
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 182
1884-86 Loyalsock
1886-91 Penfield
1891-92
1892-93 Coalport
1893-98
1898-03
1903-06 Hughesville
1906-10 Shippensburg
1914-15 Emporium
1915-18
1925 retired
Note:
BRAGONIER, WILLIAM F.
Born: married: Maude Miller [?]
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1909-10 Blandburg
Note: William F. Bragonier served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BRANNON, GEORGE O.
Born: 10-26-1923 married: Ruth Martin
Died: 11-3-1998 obit: [11/10/1926 – 7/20/2005]
Interment:
Obit:
1948-50
Note: George O. Brannon served as a local pastor.
BRECKBILL, WILLIAM WALLACE
Born: 2-4-1907
Died: 9-?-1974 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1934, 222
married2: Anna M. Hixson
1933 admitted on trial obit2: [11/18/1915 – 12/20/2007]
1934 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1932-35 Ray’s Hill
1935-39 Three
Springs
1945 withdrew
Note: In 1946 William Wallace Breckbill was one of the
co-founders of the
BREESE, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1879 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: William H. Breese served as a local pastor.
BREISCH, HOWARD REESE
Born: 12-29-1892 Hazelton PA married:
Rebecca [Reba] Morgart.
Died: 7-21-1974 obit:
Newark Conference 1958, 152
married2:
Mrs. Marie D. McCloud. Nast
1921 admitted on trial, Newark Conference obit2: Northern New Jersey Conference 1975, 229
1921 ordained deacon
1923 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 student,
1917-18
Greencastle
1918-18
Summerdale
1919 “transfer” to Newark Conference
1919-21 Broadway, Lows Hollow & New Village
1921-22 Denville
1922-25 Aloine & Demarest
1925-29
1929-20
1930-32
1932-34 Hackettstown
1934-47
1947-59 Elizabeth Epworth
1959 retired
Note: Howard R. Breisch served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BRENNAN, JAMES McCLELLAN
Born: 9-22-1871
Died: 2-15-1957 Tyrone PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 182
1893 license
1903 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 238
1903-05
1905-11 Duboistown
1911-15 Picture Rocks
1915-19 Lock
Haven
1919-21 Freeland
1921-27 Emporium
1927-30 Curwensville
1932-37
1937-38 Yeagertown-Rhodes Memorial
1938-41 Duncansville
1941 retired
Note: Some biographical information on James M. Brennan appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 38. His autobiography From Mine to Pulpit was published in 1954.
BRENNEMAN, JEREMIAH BENDER
Born: 4-21-1861 Dillsburg PA married: Kate Spessard
Died: 3-18-1930
1887 admitted on trial, recommended by Dillsburg & Wellsville
1888 ordained deacon, recommended by Newton Hamilton circuit
Interment: Greencastle PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 172
1887-88
1891-93
1893-96 Martinsburg-Woodbury
1896-99
1899-00 Camp
Hill-Salem
1902-05 McVeytown
1908-11 Lock
Haven
1911-14
1914-20 Lewisburg
1920-22
1922-25
1925-29
1929 retired
Note: Jeremiah B. Brenneman is a brother to Joseph E. Brenneman. The Spessard family was prominent and numerous in the Chewsville United Brethren church. Katie Spessard Brenneman is a niece of David Spessard (1817-1894) of the Virginia UB Conference and a first cousin to Arbelion Spessard, wife of Samuel H. Snell of the Pennsylvania Conference of the UB Church. Longtime UB missionary Miss Lottie Mae Spessard (1891-1982) is the daughter a first cousin.
BRENNEMAN, JOSEPH ERWIN
Born: 4-26-1873 Dillsburg PA married: Carrie Halfpenny Watson
Died: 7-27-1951 Mifflinburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 237
1899 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 198
1897-99
1899-01
1901-03 Laurelton
1903-05
1905-08
1908-12 Mill Hall
1912-15
1915-17
1917-19 Camp Hill
1919-23 Stewartstown
1923-26 Duncannon
1926-29 Northumberland
1929-31
1931-33 Mechanicsburg
1937-41 Mifflinburg
1941-45
1945 retired
Note: Joseph E. Brenneman is a brother to Jeremiah B. Brenneman.
BRENNEMAN, RICHARD FLOYD
Born: 4-4-1933 married: Lynne _____
Died: obit:
1954 license, recommended by Stewartstown
1956 admitted on trial
1956 ordained deacon
1959 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1956-58 assistant, Brooklyn NY Hansen-Place-Central
1958-61 Wrightsville
1961-62
1962-63 missionary
to
1963 transfer to Austrian Provisional Conference
1963-70 Vienna-Sechshaus
1970 return to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1970-76
1976-82 Spry Otterbein
1982-90
1990-98 Hershey (ending 11/1/1998)
1998 retired
BRETH, ROBERT ELWOOD
Born: 9-24-1912 Yarnell PA married:
Died: 8-23-1989 obit:
1941 ordained deacon
1943 admitted on trial
1943 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: North
1938-40 Benezette-Penfield
1940-42 Wallis Run
1942-43 Half Moon
1943-46
1946-48
1948-50 Watsontown
1955-58 associate general secretary, Pennsylvania Council of Christian Education
1958 transfer to Central New York Conference
BRETZ, JOSEPH A.
Born: 3-8-1876 married:
Died: 3-21-1958 obit:
? admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1907-08 student
1908 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1908-09 Ennisville
1909-10
1910-11 on leave
1911 transfer to Gulf Conference
BREWER, CHARLES CURTIS
Born: 10-31-1900 Clark Township NJ married: Jennie Gearhart
Died: 5-8-1977 Port Matilda PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 202
married2: Inez Gray Sellers
1927 admitted on trial, recommended by Vira obit: [1892-1963]
1930 ordained deacon married3: Mrs. Sara A. Williams
1932 ordained elder obit: [7/16/1913 – 2/9/2001]
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,264
1926-27 Vira
1927-28
1928-30 Munson
1930-32 Half Moon
1932-33 Claysburg
1933 withdrew
1934-42 automobile accessories business
1942-68 insurance representative
1972 reactivated, retired
1972-75 Shrader
Note: Charles C. Brewer also served as a local pastor when not under appointment. The maiden name of the third Mrs. Brewer was Sara A. Kern.
BRILL, WILLIAM
Born: 2-23-1855
Died: 6-8-1925 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 200
1886 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment: Bellefonte PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 339
1886-88 Port Matilda
1888-89 Pine Grove
1889-91
1891-93 Tyrone Second
1893-98
1898-00 Burnham
1901-05 Newberry
1905-06 Shickshinny
1909-10 suspended for one year
1910-15 on leave
1915-16 faculty,
1916 retired
Note: Mrs. Brill is the daughter of Jacob McMurray. She is a direct descendant of Senator Andrew Gregg and a first cousin of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin.
BRIM, WILLIAM WALLACE
Born: 5-18-1827 Henrietta NY married: Julia Mabel Maria Douglas
Died: 10-7-1874
1859 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1875, 70
1857 graduated
from
1857-60 principal, Rainsburg Seminary
1859-60 Schellsburg
1860-61 Lewistown Circuit
1861-62 principal, Rainsburg Seminary
1862-63 retired
to
1863-64 principal,
Jonesville Seminary in
1864-68 retired
to
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868 retired
Note: William W. Brim did not marry until 1864. Mrs. Brim’s first husband, a Mr. Augustus Dickerson, died in 1859. Doug Brim at dprh@aol.com is a 2004 contact person
BRINKER, ALBERT JAN SR.
Born: 7-18-1912
Died: 3-28-1990
married2: Elizabeth Varga
1956 admitted on trial obit2:
1956 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1954-57 Rehoboth
1958 withdrew at own request, page 53
1958 entered the ministry in the United Church of Christ
1958-64 Penryn PA, Jerusalem UCC
retired, living in
BRINTON, HOWARD THOMAS
Born: 1-14-1916
Died: 5-4-1998 Mechanicsburg PA obit: 2004, 361
1935 license,
recommended by
1939 admitted on trial, Southern Congo Provisional Conference
Interment: Homeville PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 428
1939 graduated
from
1939-41 Sandoa,
1941-43 student, Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminsiter MD
1942-43
1943 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1943-44
1944-45 student, Hartford Seminary
1945-66 missionary,
Republic of the
1966-80 executive staff, Board of Global Ministries
1980 retired
Note: Howard T. Brinton is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 147.
BRITTAIN, ALEM MARR
Born: 9-17-1809 near Light Street PA married: Jemima Porter Goodfellow
Died: 11-9-1889 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 123
1830 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 79
1829-30 Philipsburg
1830-31
1831-32 Bellefonte
1832-33 Philipsburg
1833-34 Berwick
1834-36 Hollidaysburg
1836-43 on leave
1843-45 Sunbury
1845-47
1847-49 Berwick
1849-51 Bellefonte circuit
1851-53 Warrior’s Mark
1853-54 Huntingdon
1854-56 Penn’s Valley
1856-57 Lock Haven
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59 Bellefonte circuit
1859-61
1861-62
1862-63
1863-64
1864-65 chaplain, US Army
1865-68 on leave
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70 on leave
1870-73 Berwick circuit
1873-75 Jeanesville
1875-76
1878-79 Beach Haven
1879-80 Buckhorn
1880 retired
Note: Alem M. Brittain is the father of Melville C. Brittain, the father of the wife of Ebenezer A. Smith (1827-1902) of the New England Conference and the grandfather of Katherine Brittain Leidy, wife of George Leidy. A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 336.
Alem Brittain is supposedly a second cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman, the bishop’s mother Sarah Brittain being a cousin to Alem’s father John Brittain. He apparently is the namesake of Alem Brittain Mettler (1844-1917) of the Rock River Conference and Alem Brittain Shipman (1845-1906) of the Des Moines Conference.
BRITTAIN, MELVILLE C.
Born: c1844 PA married: Amelia J.B. Randolph
Died: obit:
1865 admitted on
trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by
1873 local pastor’s license, Central Pennsylvania Conference [1873,85; 1874,85]
Interment:
Obit:
1862-63
1865-66
1866-67 Half Moon
1867-68
1868-69
1869 transfer
by boundary change to
1869-70
1870-71 chaplain, US Navy
1871 transfer
to
1871-72
1872 withdrew
1873-75 Bloomingdale,
1875-76 local pastor living in New Columbus, possibly serving as the principal of a school
1876 no longer listed
1880 living
in
1881-82
1893 preached and officiated at funerals in Connecticut
1897 preached
and officiated at funerals in
Note: Melville C. Brittain is the son of Alem M. Brittain. He appears also to be known as Melton C. Brittain. Local sources report that he served Dillsburg 1865-66 and State College 9/1891-3/1892.
The following is taken from the 1914 History of Strafford County, New Hampshire by John Scales: In 1871, Rev. M. C. Brittain, who had been transferred from the Baltimore Conference, was stationed at Dover. Owing to habits of intemperance, which he said he had formed in the navy, in which he had served as a chaplain, he resigned the charge at the request of the official board and the presiding elder in December. He removed from the city soon after his resignation. The church was deeply affected with grief at this unfortunate event, but treated Mr. Brittain with the greatest kindness, and bore with him some time with charitable hopes of his reformation, which was of no avail, notwithstanding his strong promises and feeble efforts.
BRONSON, B.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22
Note: B.F. Bronson served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BRONSON, P.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1889-90 Boyle’s Run
Note: P.L. Bronson served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BROOKS, LYNN CALVIN
Born: 9-8-1929 Center Hall PA married: Delores Marion Knepp
Died: obit:
1949 license, recommended by Pleasant Gap
1954 admitted on trial
1954 ordained deacon
1957 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1948-52 student,
1950-52 Montandon
1952-55 student,
1955-57 Nescopeck (beginning 3/1/1955)
1957 voluntary location
Born: 8-11-1861
Died: 11-1-1934 Drexel Hill PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 247
1889 admitted on trial, recommended by Clifton & Mt. Pleasant of the Philadelphia Conf
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 234
1890-92 Hoytville
1892-94 Montandon
1894-95 Emporium circuit
1895-99 Snydertown
1899-04 Conyngham
1906-08 Houtzdale
1908-11 Shamokin Second
1911-15
1915-17 Muncy
1917-19 Stewartstown
1919-22 St. Mary’s
1922-24 Enola
1924-27 Mercersburg
1927 retired
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1956-58
Note: William Brooks served as a local pastor.
BROUSE, DAVID YOUNG
Born: 8-10-1865 Boalsburg PA married: Margaret Ann Marks Murphy
Died: 8-8-1940
married2: Leda Mandella Bahn
1897 admitted on trial obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 314
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 204
1889 Hancock school house, Manor Hill circuit (beginning 4/24/1889)
1891-94 Emporium circuit (beginning 12/12/1891)
1894-97 Muhlenburg [Bloomingdale]
1897-02 Jerseytown
1902-05
1905-10
1910-13 Warrior’s
Mark
1917-21 Houtzdale
1921-23
1923-27
1927-31
1931-34 Altoona Grace
1934 retired
BROWN, ELBERT V.
Born: 7-19-1873
Died: 2-18-1952 Carlisle PA spouse: (d 1936)
1900 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1952, 200
1900-01 Centre
1901-04
1904-07 Camp Hill
1907-09
1909-10 Bakerton
1910-15 on leave
1915-16 assistant, Clearfield Trinity
1916-18 secretary, Conference Temperance Society
1918-49 located at own request
worked
in
1938
moved to
1949 readmitted as elder
1949 retired
BROWN, JAMES H.
Born: 8-20-1807
Died: 3-15-1886 obit: [d.11/7/1883]
1829 admitted on trial , Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1829-30 Bellefonte
1830-31 Lycoming
1831-32 Sunbury
1832-
1830-35
1835-36
1836-37
1837-38 Shippensburg station
1839-41
1841-42
1842-44
1844-46
1846-47
1847-49
1849-51
1851-53 Lewistown
1853-55 Washington Wesley chapel
1855-57 Martinsburg
1857 charter
member of
1857-59
1859-61
1861-63 assistant,
1863 retired
1868 transfer
by boundary change to
BROWN, JOHN C.
Born: 10-13-1848
Died: 3-14-1899
1878 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 97
1878-79 Cove
1879-80
1880-81
1881-83 Muhlenberg
1883-86 Littlestown
1886-86 Greencastle
1887-88 Hyner
1888-90 Ray’s Hill
1890-95
1895-97 Manor Hill
1897 on leave
BROWN, JOHN D.
Born: 11-8-1834 Kishacoquillas Valley PA married: Susan M. _____
Died: 2-17-1878
1857 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 68
1859-60
1860-61 Philipsburg
1861 Warrior’s Mark (until 8/1861)
1861-70
1870-71
1871-72
1872 transfer to India Conference
1872-76
1876 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1876-77 ?
1877-78 Sunday School tract agent
Note: A memoir for John D. Brown also appears in The
Conference News for March 1880, page 4.
His original 1876 letter from
BROWN, JOHN FEARON
Born: 7-19-1832
Died: 12-8-1880 Lock Haven PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1907, 120
1859 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment: Lock Haven PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1881, 68
1858-59 Philipsburg
1859-60 Cassville
1860-61 Newberry
1861-62 Bellefonte circuit
1862-64 Karthaus
1864-66 Milroy
1866-68 Cassville
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71 Orangeville
1871-73 Elysburg
1873-75 Conyngham
1875-76 Washingtonville
1876-78 Bloomingdale
1878-80 Grahamton
1880
Note: A memoir for J. Fearon Brown also appears in The Conference News for 12/15/1880, page 5.
BROWN, JOHN WESLEY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1859-60 Hampstead
1860-62
1862-63
1865 withdrawn
Note: This is not the John Wesley Brown (1827-1919) of the
BROWN, RUSSELL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1927-28 Phelps Chapel & Charlton
Note: Russell Brown served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
BROWN, WILLIAM MARTIN
Born: 2-12-1928 West
Oneonta NY married:
Died: obit:
1944 license, recommended by Oneonta NY Elm Park
1954 admitted on trial
1954 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1946-47 Avis (9/46 – 4/47)
1947-48
1948-50 student,
West Virginia Wesleyan in
1948-50 group ministry, West Virginia Conference
1950-52
1953-55 student,
Boston University School of Theology in
1954-55 student
1955-58
1958-63 New Freedom
1963-68
1968-70 York Ridge Avenue-Bethlehem
1970-73
1973-80 Hummelstown Grace
1980-88 Huntingdon First
1988-93 Shippensburg Messiah
1993 retired
Note: William M. Brown was conference secretary 1976-2000. He is the father of Ann Brown Baer, wife of Timothy R. Baer in the United Methodist files.
BRUBAKER, DAVID OWEN
Born: 1-5-1915
Died: 5-20-1987 obit: 2001, 360
1933 license, recommended by Altoona Grace
1937 admitted on trial
1938 ordained deacon
1941 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 406
1937-39 student,
Boston University School of Theology in
1939-41 Bakerton
1941-44
1944-48 Watsontown
1948-50
1950-55 Mifflintown
1962-67 Montoursville
1967-72 Tyrone
First
1976-81 Towanda
1981 retired
1981-83
Trout Run
Eagles Mere
Note: David O. Brubaker is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 164.
BRUCE, AMOS MARTIN
Born: 1-10-1873 Mount Nebo PA married: Mary F. Faussett
Died: 10-12-1936 obit: NE Southern 1951, 694
1900 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1895-99 student,
1897-99 Rehobeth
1899-00 York Springs
1900-01 Milnesvile-Lattimer
1901-03 student,
Boston University School of Theology in
1901-02 assistant, Maplewood MA Congregational Church
1903-05 York
Springs
1907-09 North Bend-Hyner
1909 transfer to New England Southern Conference
BRUMBAUGH, HARRY FRANCIS
Born: 3-29-1895 Royer PA married: Hazel Jamilla Bingaman
Died: 11-18-1941
1921 admitted on trial, recommended by Laurelton
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 198
1914-19 Vira (beginning 9/14)
1919-22 Laurelton
1922-24 Selinsgrove
1924-27 Mill Hall
1927-31 Burnham
1931-36
1936-40
1940-41
Note: Harry F. Brumbaugh was conference treasurer 1928-36.
BRUNER, CALDER DANIEL APPLEY
Born: married: Martha A. _____
Died:
married2: Ella May _____
Interment:
Obit:
1910-17 New Benton [Bressler]
Note: Calder D.A. Bruner was a baker and served as a local
pastor. His father, a brakeman for the
railroad, was killed on the
BRUNSTETTER, BYRON CURTIS
Born: 12-8-1900
Died: 9-16-1953 near
1921 admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Camp Curtin
Interment:
Obit:
1920-22 student,
1921-22 Bainbridge, Philadelphia Conference
1922 Hummelstown, Philadelphia Conference
1922-23 student, Drew Theological School in Madison NJ
1922-23 Jeddo, Latimer & Milnesville
1923 discontinued
Note: Byron C. Brunstetter is the son of Frank H. Brunstetter. He left seminary to study for a PhD in Biochemistry.
BRUNSTETTER, FRANK HOWARD
Born: 4-27-1871 Eyers Grove PA married: Lulu M. Appleman
Died: 4-20-1925
1898 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1926, 335
1898-01 Excelsior
1904-11 Conygham
1920-24
1924-25
Note: Frank H. Brunstetter is the father of Byron C.
Brunstetter. Following the death of Rev.
Brunstetter, Lulu Brunstetter worked at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (now
BRUNYATE, EDWIN RICHARD
Born: 10-20-1852
Selby, Yorkshire
Died: 1-13-1930 obit: New Jersey Conference 1941, 523
1873 admitted on trial, Nova Scotia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1920-21 Greencastle (did not finish the year)
Note: Edwin R. Brunyate supplied as a retired pastor from
BRYNER, CHARLES WILBUR
Born: 11-8-1871 McCoysville PA married: Lo Demma Kirkpatrick
Died: 7-18-1939
married2: Ethel Rosalind Chilcote
1902 admitted on trial obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 138
married3: Carrie Catharine Waltman
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 174
1899-00 Cassville
1900-02 Shirleysburg
1902-03 Mapleton-Mill Creek
1903-05 Washingtonville
1905-07 Buckhorn
1907-11 McConnellsburg
1911-16
1916-17 Houtzdale
1917-19 St. Mary’s
1919-23 Wrightsville
1923-25 Freeland
1925-28
1928 retired
Note: Some biographical information on Charles W. Bryner appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 29. The first husband of the second Mrs. Bryner was a Charles Bard. She is a niece to Mary Catherine Chilcote Norcross, the wife of William H. Norcross.
BUBB, MICHAEL B.
Born: c1872
Died: 1923 obit: [2/22/1878 – 1964]
1901 admitted on
trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit:
1899-01
1901-02 Nelson’s Run
1902-04 Wharton
1904-07
1907-11 Salona-Lamar
1911-13 Salladasburg
1913-15 Wallaceton
1915 withdrew
Note: The obituary of Mrs. Bubb appeared in the Altoona
Mirror.
BUCK, CHARLES J.
Born: 12-25-1852 Clarkstown PA married: Anna Rebecca Hass
Died: 8-14-1883 Clarkstown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 136
1874 admitted on trial, recommended by Hughesville circuit
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 77
1874-75 Muncy Creek
1875-76
1876-77 Elysburg
1877-78
1878-79 Beech
Creek and
1879-81 Kedron
1881-83
1883 Shirleysburg
Note: A memoir for Charles J. Buck also appears in The Conference News for 9/1/1883.
BUCKE, DAVID PERRY
Born: 4-24-1907 Sunbury PA married: Amy McCallum
Died: 9-9-1993
1927 license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial
1930 admitted on trial
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1994, 474
1929-31 Jeddo-Milnesville
1931-33 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1932-33 West Fairview-Summerdale
1933-37 Mercersburg
1937-42
1942-47
1947-53 Tyrone First
1953-59
1959-62 Berwick First
1962-67
1967-71
1971-74 Millersburg First
1974 retired
1977-79 assistant, Newport Parish
Note: D. Perry Bucke is the son of J.E.A. Bucke. He is a brother to Emory Stevens Bucke and
Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller (medical missionary to
BUCKE, EMORY STEVENS
Born: 11-18-1913 married: Barbara Burns
Died: 3-10-1987 obit: [3/23/1903 – 10/?/1980]
? license, recommended by Harrisburg Stevens Memorial
1939 admitted on trial, New England Conference
1941 ordained deacon, New England Conference
Interment:
Obit: Southern New England Conference 1987, ?
1936-38
1938-42
1942-44 Hyde Park MA
1944-53 editor,
1953- senior editor, Board of Publication
Note: A biographical sketch of Emory S. Bucke appears in the
1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism.
Named for Emory Stevens, Emory Stevens Bucke is the son of J.E.A.
Bucke. He is a brother to D. Perry Bucke
and Dr. Elizabeth Bucke Miller (medical missionary to
BUCKE, JACOB EDWARD AMBROSE
Born: 11-3-1875 Hunter’s Valley, Liverpool PA married: Linnie Mae Coulter
Died: 3-8-1961
1903 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 261
1900-03 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
New
1903-05 Buckhorn-Rupert
1912-20
1921-27 superintendent, Sunbury District
1927-34
1934-38 Lock
Haven Trinity
1945-48
1948 retired
1948-52 Patton
Note: J.E.A. Bucke is listed in the 1945 Prominent
Personalities in American Methodism. He
is a brother to J.L.L. Bucke and W. Fowler Bucke and Irene Bucke Fray, wife of
Charles Augustus Fray (1880-1953) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Evangelical Church. He is also the
father of D. Perry Bucke, Emory Stevens Bucke and Dr. Alma Elizabeth Jane Bucke
Miller (medical missionary to
BUCKE, JOHN LAWRENCE LEE
Born: 11-18-1858 Perry County PA married: Clara S. Crow [1881]
Died: 10-21-1933 obit: [8/2/1860 – 3/11/1911]
married2: Minnie F. Moses
obit2:
Interment:
Obit:
1907-09 Duncannon circuit
Note: J. Lawrence L. Bucke served as a local pastor. He was a teacher, and he served as treasurer
of
BUCKE, WILLIAM FOWLER
Born: 9-29-1866 Hunter’s Valley, Liverpool PA married: Anna C. Moore [6/17/1896]
Died: 9-14-1941 New Buffalo PA obit:
1922 ordained local deacon, Genesee Conference
1927 ordained local elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1892-95 student,
1895-98 faculty,
Centenary Collegiate Institute in
1898-02 high school principal, New Castle PA
1902-04 student,
1904-? principal,
faculty
and department head,
1926-28 Rouzerville (beginning 12/3/1926)
1928-29
1929-32 Gatchellville
Note: W. Fowler Bucke has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated through the system. His ministerial service was as a local pastor. He is a brother to J.A.E. Bucke and J.L.L. Bucke. He the author of several early twentieth century publications including “Children’s Thoughts, Reactions, and Feelings Toward Pet Dogs,” “Examinations and Grading: an Historical Comparative, and Psychological Study,” and “Dynamics of History.”
BUCKINGHAM, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 1832 married: Rebecca McGinley
Died: 1904 obit:
married2: Mrs. Sallie A. VanKirk
? license obit2:
Interment:
Obit:
Note: John W. Buckingham served as a local preacher. His local preacher’s license is on display at York Asbury UMC. A biographical sketch appears in the 1996 volume of The Chronicle, page 128. His son Lewis married Elsie Bell, the daughter of James Ellis Bell.
BUCKINGHAM, NATHAN S.
Born: 9-13-1821
Died: 4-27-1884 Lewisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 96
1843 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 78
1843-44 Front Royal
1844-45 Bellefonte
1845-46 Northumberland
1846-47
1847-48
1848-49 Berwick
1849-51 Havre de Grace
1851-52 Shippensburg
1852-54 Mifflin
1854-56 Huntingdon
1856-57
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59
1859-61 Mifflin
1861-63
1863-66 Frostburg
1866-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69
1860-72 Shamokin
1872-74 Bloomsburg
1874-78 superintendent, Danville District
1878-81
1882-84 Lewisburg
Note: Nathan S. Buckingham is the son of Rev. Richard Buckingham, a local preacher in the Baltimore Conference. A memoir also appears in The Conference News for 9/15/1884. Biographical sketches appear in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 341, and in Simpson’s 1881 Cyclopedia of Methodism. He is the namesake of Nathan Buckingham Smith.
BUCKLEY, JOHN W.
Born: 12-11-1832 near Mt. Union PA married: Mary J. Rishel
Died: 5-1-1918 Media PA. obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 130
1857 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Media PA Cemetery
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 133
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 Coalmont
1858-59
1859-60
1860-61 Woodbury
1861-62 Muncy
1862-63 Middleburg
1863-65 Mercersburg
1865-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70 Glen Hope
1870-73 Howard
1873076 Rehoboth-Newville
1876-79
1879-82 Selinsgrove
1882-85
1885-88
1888-90 Watsontown
1890-93 Mount Holly
1893-98 Weatherly
1989-03
1903-07 White Haven
1907 retired
Note: A memoir for John W. Buckley also appears in the Christian Advocate for 6/13/1918, page 748.
BUEHLER, JOHN FRANCIS
Born: 12-7-1910
Died: 7-9-1996 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 328
1940 license, recommended by Snow Shoe
1949 admitted on trial
1951 ordained elder
Interment: Stewartstown
Obit: [1997,337]
1941-42 Karthaus
1942-45 Wallis Run
1945-47
1947-50 Beaver Meadows
1950-54
1954-57 Watsontown
1957-62 Stewartstown
1962-64 Northumberland
1964-68
1970-75 Mechanicsburg Grace
1975 retired
Note: John F. Buehler is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 172.
BUOY, CHARLES WESLEY
Born: 7-16-1841 Milton PA. married: Ella Simpson
Died: 10-31-1897
1868
.
Interment:
Obit:
1868 charter member of Wilmington Conference
1868-71 Fairmount MD
1872
1872-73 on leave
1873 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1873-76 assistant, Philadelphia Grace
1876-79
1879 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1879-82 Harrisburg Grace
1882 transfer to Colorado Conference
1882-84 Denver Evans Chapel (resigned due to ill health)
1884 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1884-86
1886-91
1891-96
1896-97
Note: Charles W. Buoy is the author of the book Representative Women of Methodism. Mrs. Buoy is the daughter of Bishop Matthew Simpson. The burial plot of Rev. and Mrs. Buoy adjoins that of Bishop and Mrs. Simpson.
BUHRMAN, EMORY
Born: 4-11-1836
Died: 2-3-1919 Relay MD obit: [10/5/1838 - ?]
1858 license,
1859 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
1861 ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference
1863 ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1858-59 Hampstead circuit
1859-60 Coalmont
1860-61 Schellsburg
1861-62 Allegany
1862-63 Mifflin
1863-64
1864-66 Wrightsville
1866-68 Frostburg
1868 transfer
by boundary change to
1868-69 Frostburg
1869-72 Hampstead
1872-75
1875-77 Harford
1877-80
1880-83 Bentley Springs
1883-86 Hancock
1886-90 Patapsco
1890-93 New
1893-99 Hampstead
1899-02 Summerfield
1902-07
1907-09 Elkridge
1909 retired
Note: Emory Buhrman reportedly had a brother in the ministry, name and denomination unstated.
BURDON, RICHARD FLOYD
Born: Multnomah OR married: Isabel Felix de Lade
Died: obit:
1959 license, Oregon Conference
1960 admitted on trial, recommended by Secretary MD
1960 ordained deacon
1962 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1953-56
1956-59 rural mission
school,
1959 Secretary MD,
Baltimore Conference (3 months)
1960-61
1961-62 Rehoboth
1962 transfer to Idaho Conference
1962-69
1969 charter member of Oregon-Idaho Conference
1969-70 North Bend First
1970 voluntary location
Note: Although not listed in the General Minutes, Richard F. Burdon operates as a retired member of the Oregon-Idaho Conference. In 1998 he signed on as a United Methodist minister willing to officiate at same-sex unions, and in December 2005 he preached at University Park UMC in Portland OR.
BURKET, KENNETH ABRAHAM
Born: 1-6-1914
Died: 12-8-1975
1934 license, recommended by Juniata Wesley
1955 ordained deacon
1957 ordained elder
1969 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 145
1935-36 Allegheny circuit (ending 10/31/1936)
1936-38 Picture Rocks (beginning 11/1/1936)
1938-41 (not assigned)
1941 Tipton (ending 11/14/1941)
1941-45
1945-50
1950-52
1952-55 Three Springs
1955-59 Salona-Lamar
1959-64 Glen Campbell
1964-69 Duboistown
1969-72 Blossburg
1972-75 Osceola Mills
Note: Following the death of Kenneth A. Burket, Marjorie married Charles I. Walker.
BURKHOLDER, HARRY CLAY
Born: 6-9-1869 near Bellwood PA married: Anna Belle McIntyre
Died: 1-8-1940
married2: Sandra McLaughlin
1901 admitted on trial, recommended by obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 365
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 175
1901-03
1903-06 Blackwell
1906-09 New
1909-12 McVeytown
1912-15 Yeagertown
1915-17
1919-20 executive secretary, Centenary Fund of the Oregon Conference
1920 transfer to Oregon Conference
1920-29 executive secretary, Centenary Fund
1929 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1929-30 financial secretary, Conference
1930-36 on leave
1936 retired
Note: Beginning in 1919 Harry C. Burkholder traveled
extensively for Methodist educational institutions, working for brief periods
in almost every state in the
Born: 8-24-1841 married: Sally Harris Updegraff
Died: 9-3-1917
1871 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 134
1871-72 Watsontown
1872-75 Muncy Creek
1875-77 on leave
1875-77
assistant,
1877-80 Hyner’s Run
1880-81
1881-90 on leave
1890 retired
1915-17 Morris
1917 Snow Shoe
Note: A memoir for Charles W. Burnley also appears in the
11/15/1917 Christian Advocate, page 1216.
Rev. Burnley is credited with organizing and erecting the
BURTNER, ROGER QUENTIN
Born: 11-30-1918
Died: obit:
1943 admitted on trial
1944 ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1943-45 Morris (beginning 1/1/1943)
1945-49 North Bend-Farwell
1949-53 Orangeville
1953-58 chaplain, US Air Force
1958-59 at school
1969-61 Bald Eagle Parish
1961-65 Reedsville(beginning 7/15/1961)
1965-74
1974-76
1976 transfer to Southwest Texas Conference
1976-91
1991 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Roger Q. Burtner is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 184.
BUTERBAUGH, CARL LEROY
Born: 5-23-1931
McConnellsburg PA married:
Died: obit:
1950 license, recommended by Cito
1954 admitted on trial
1954 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1951-52 assistant,
1952-57 Montandon
1957-64 Yeagertown
1964-71 Northumberland Christ
1971-88
1988-93 Duncansville Hick’s Memorial
1993 retired
1998 Barts-Centenary (Jan 1 – Jun 30)
Born: 6-13-1922married: Lucille Bolling Mears
Died: 6-22-2003obit: Peninsula Conference 1984, 433
1954 license
1956 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference
Interment: Belle Haven VA
Obit: Peninsula-Delaware Conference 2004,?
1954-57
1957-58
1958-61
1961 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1961-64
1964 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference
1964-69
1969-70 Mt. Pleasant-Alverton
1970 transfer to Peninsula Conference
1970-1979 Crisfield Immanuel
1979-81 Chestertown First
1981-82 Princess Anne Antioch
1982-86 Crisfield Immanuel
1986 retired
Born: 6-8-1798
Died: 4-5-1883 Tyrone PA obit: [d. c1835]
married2: Martha Green Ganoe [1841]
1838 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 141
1840 ordained deacon
1842 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1884, 80
1837-38 Northumberland circuit
1838-39
1839-41 Lewistown
1841-42
1842-43
1843-45
1845-46 Warrior’s Mark
1846-48
1848-49 South Branch
1849-50 McConnellsburg
1850-51 Hancock
1851-53 Frostburg
1853-54 on leave
1854-55 Manor Hill
1855-56
1856-57 Schellsburg
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59 Bloomingdale
1859-60 Luzerne
1860-62 Sunbury
1862-64 Castle Fin
1864-66 agent, Sunday School & tracts
1866-68 Port Matilda
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70 Milesburg
1870-73 Half Moon
1873-74
1874-75 Hughesville
1875-76 Elimsport
1876-78 Beech Creek
1878 retired
Note: Elisha Butler is the father of Electa M. Butler, missionary to China. A memoir for Elisha Butler also appears in The Conference News for April 16, 1883, page 4. A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 344. The second Mrs. Butler is a sister to Martine L. Ganoe and William V. Ganoe.
BUTLER, HOWARD WELSH
Born: 2-14-1892Roaring Spring PA married: Rosanna Coney
Died: 11-?-1967 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1912-16 student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
1914-15
Note: Howard W. Butler served as a local pastor. He is known to have lived later in El Paso TX and Columbus GA.
BUTTORFF, LYNN WILLIAM
Born: 7-16-1928
Died: 4-9-1985 obit:
1960 license, recommended by Montoursville Faith
1967 admitted on trial
1972 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 404
1961-62 Salladasburg
1962-66
1966-68
1970-63 Osceola Mills
1973-74 New Freedom
1974-75 Addiction
Prevention Lab,
1975-79 National
Institute on Drug Abuse,
1979-83 Snow Shoe
1983-85 Bellefonte Trinity
BUYERS, FRANK CLARENCE
Born: 2-13-1868 Sunbury PA married: Minnie Kate Britcher
Died: 12-22-1923 Selinsgrove PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958,252
1894 admitted on trial, recommended by Madison NJ
1896 ordained deacon
1898 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 143
1894-96
1897-98 Jonestown
1898-00
1900-02
1902-05 Rouzerville
1905-09 Penfield
1909-10 Burnside-Glen Campbell
1910-14 Lock Haven circuit
1914 retired
Note: A memoir for Franck C. Buyers also appears in the 1/10/1924 Washington Christian Advocate, page 4. Additional information appears in the 1925 Drew Theological Seminary Alumni Record, page 233. Mrs. Buyers is the daughter of J. Edward Britcher of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.
BYERS, WALTER REUVEN
Born: 11-5-1890 Rock Hill Furnace PA married: Georgia M. Dodd
Died: 6-7-1977
1912 license, recommended by Orbisonia
1917 admitted on trial
1926 discontinued
1931 re-admitted on trial
1931 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,255
1913-14 Washingtonville
1914-15 Eagles Mere
1915-17 Burnt Cabins
1917-18 Keating Summit
1918-19
1919-20
1920-22 Jonestown
1922-29 Wapwallopen
1929-32 Penfield
1932-33 Benezette-Penfield
1933-36 Wallaceton
1936-38 Morris
1938-40
1940-44
1944-46 Cherry Tree
1946-50 Beach Haven
1950-53 Snydertown
1953-55 Catawissa circuit
1955-57 Port Matilda
1957 retired
Note: Walter R. Byers was designated a supply pastor 1926-31, as he was not officially a ministerial member of the Conference during those years.