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

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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, Penn State University in State College

1924-28           Lewisburg      

1928-35           Bloomsburg   

1935-42           State College St. Paul’s

1942-43           York First      

1943-46           superintendent, Altoona District

1946-49           Carlisle

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           Mt. Vernon

1955-58                      Etna Avenue, Huntington IN

1958-63           Pleasant Hill

1963-64           Cold Springs

1964-66           assistant, Chambersburg King Street

1966                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1966-70           assistant, Chambersburg St. Paul

1970-74           Altoona Greenwood

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  Philadelphia PA                             married: Mary Elizabeth Wallace

Died: 4-24-1946  Philadelphia PA                             obit: [3/?/1867 – 11/24/1960]

 

1884    admitted on trial, Upper Iowa Conference

1888    ordained, Upper Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1946, 123

 

                        Iowa

1889                transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference

                        Iowa

1901                transfer to New York Conference

1901-07           NYC Metropolitan Temple

1907                transfer to New York East Conference

1907-14           Brooklyn Janes

1914                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1914-17           Philadelphia Park Avenue

1917                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1917-33           Harrisburg Grace

1933                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1933-37           Charleston Christ

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: Old Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal PA

Obit: 2008, ?

 

1967-75           Ramey

1975-83           Millerstown (ending 8/1/1983)

1983-89           Lewisberry (beginning 8/1/1983)

1989-93           Fayetteville Otterbein

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  Montgomery PA                            married: Audrey Mary Shilling

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: Twin Hills Memorial Park, Lycoming County PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 2:144

 

1936-38           Karthaus

1938-41           Lock Haven circuit

1941-43           Littlestown  

1943-47           Doylesburg    

1947-52           Lewistown Grove Memorial & Lake Park

1952-57           Warriors Mark           

1957-62           Montoursville

1962-67           Hanover         

1967-71           Waynesboro   

1971-76           Chambersburg St. Paul’s

 

Note: Elwood L. Bair is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.

 

BAKER, EDGAR RAYMOND

 

Born: 1-31-1909                                                         married: Helen _____

Died: 8-6-1999                                                           obit:

 

1963    license, recommended by Benton

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

1969    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Wesley Chapel, Berwick PA

Obit: [2000, 334]

 

1963-69           Muncy Valley

1969-70           Unityville

1970-75           Muncy Valley

1975                retired

                             1975-79  Muncy Valley

                             1981        Shickshinny (2/1/1981 – 7/1/1981)

 

BAKER, ELMER G.

 

Born: 4-23-1852  Alexandria PA                               married: Sarah E. Summerson

Died: 12-13-1910  Espy PA                                       obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938,231

 

1885     admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg

 

Interment: Espy Cemetery [or Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA?]

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 126

 

1885-86           Hyner-North Bend

1886-89           Three Springs

1889-92           Town Hill

1892-97           Airville

1897-99           Conyngham   

1899-03           Newport         

1903-05           York Epworth  

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: Southwest Kansas 1918, 98

 

1876    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit: Southwest Kansas Conference 1916, 43

 

1876-77           West Creek    

1877-78           Cove

1878                transfer to Kansas Conference

1882-83           McConnellstown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1883-85           Port Matilda, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1885-86           Coalport, Central Pennsylvania Conference

 

BAKER, HARRY W.

 

Born: 1863 PA                                                            married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1895    admitted on trial, recommended by Huntingdon First

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1895-96                      Hastings

1896                transfer to California Conference

1906                on leave

1911                retired

1913                located at own request

1919-20           Sacramento Oak Park

 

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 Waterford

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, Liverpool

1875    admitted on trial, recommended by Liverpool

 

Interment:  Newton Hamilton

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 114

 

1874-75           Liverpool       

1875-76           Gettysburg

1876-77           Saxton            

1877-78           Port Royal

1878-80           McVeytown

1880-82           Rays Hill        

1882-85           Ennisville      

1885-88           Newton Hamilton      

1888-90           Waynesboro

1890-91           on leave         

1891-92           Fort Littleton 

1892-93           Newport         

1893-95           Muncy

1895-97           Milton            

1897-00           Clearfield       

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: Florence Ethel Jones

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: Southern New Jersey Conference 1984,

 

1920-21           student, Dickinson College

                             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

1928-33           Trenton Hamilton Avenue

1933-36           Red Bank First

1936-40           Vineland First

1940-41           superintendent New Brunswick District

1941-45           superintendent, Camden District

1945                transfer to Central New York Conference

1945-58           Syracuse First

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  Salisbury MD                                married: Daisy Maud Elliott

Died: 10- 26-1964  Clearfield PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959,258

 

1907    admitted on trial

 

Interment:  Mt. Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Enola PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 351

 

1905-07           Rehoboth (starting fall 1905)

1907-10           Enola-West Fairview

1910-13           Enola  

1913-17           Hazleton Diamond Street 

1917-21           Emporium      

1921-25           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1925-31           Altoona Juniata First

1931-36           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1936-42           Roaring Spring

1942-49           Clearfield Trinity

1949-52           Jersey Shore First

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           Altoona Wesley-Asbury

1978-80           Salladasburg

1980-83           Montoursville Bethel

1983                retired

                             1983-87  Shade Valley (beginning 8/1/1983)

 

BARNARD, CHARLES H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1865    license

1886    ordained elder, recommended by Ashland

 

Interment:

Obit: [1907, 64]

 

1887-90           Helfenstein

1891-05           Fountain Spring (near Ashland)

 

Note: Charles H. Barnard lived in Ashland and served as a local pastor.

 

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: Alto Rest Burial Park, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 454

 

1958-64           Newton Hamilton

1964-69           Williamsport Grace (beginning 11/1/1964, ending 3/1/1969)

1969-75           Warrior’s Mark (beginning 3/1/1969)

1975-85           Altoona Greenwood

1985                retired

                             1986-92  Manor Hill

 

BARNES, JAMES ELMER

 

Born: 10-15-1926  Lancaster PA                               married: Necia Jane Niswander

Died: 10-1-2003  Palmyra PA                                                obit:

 

1960    license, recommended by Saint Thomas      

1966    admitted on trial

1966    ordained deacon

1968    ordained elder

 

Interment: Rolling Green Memorial Gardens, Camp Hill PA

Obit: 2004, 358

 

1944-47           US Army

1947-60           E.C. Barnes & Son Oil Distributors

1960-64           Rouzerville    

1964-65           Fort Loudon

1965-70           Mount Nebo   

1970-76           Spry Otterbein

1976-83           New Kingstown

1983-87           Lemoyne Grace

1987                retired

                             1987-92  Mt. Rock

 

BARNES, SAMUEL

 

Born: 4-5-1827  Luzerne County PA                         married:

Died: 1-14-1912                                                         obit:

 

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1912, 97

           

1853-54           Milton circuit

1854-55           Muncy

1855-56           Berwick

1856-58           Milton

1858                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1858-59           Milton-Montoursville

1859-61           Bedford

1861-62           East Baltimore           

1862                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1862-64           Wheeling Fourth Street

1864-65           Lewistown

1865-68           North Baltimore        

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Chambersburg                       

1870-74           superintendent, Danville District

1874                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1874-77           Pottsville

1877-80           Philadelphia Twelfth Street

1880-81           Frankford Paul Street & Aramingo

                        Rehoboth

                        Philadelphia St. George’s

1886-89           Philadelphia Nineteenth Street

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 Jackson Center

1967    ordained deacon

1970    admitted as associate member

 

Interment: Jackson Center Cemetery, Jackson Center PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 426

 

1963                Millerton (Feb – Jun)

1963-69           Genesee (ending 8/24/1969)

1969-84           Burlington-East Smithfield (beginning 8/24/1969)

1984                retired

                             1984  Burlington-East Smithfield (until 7/18/1984)

 

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: Des Moines Conference 1880, 47

 

1845-46           Clearfield

1846-47           Sunbury         

1847-48           Huntingdon

1848-49           Lycoming

1849-51           Jersey Shore  

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           Williamsburg

1861-63           Cumberland   

1863-65           Chambersburg           

1865-68           superintendent, Juniata District

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           superintendent, Juniata District

1869-72           Tyrone

1872-75           Phillipsburg   

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  York PA.                                        married: Sarah Elizabeth Gray

Died: 1-18-1903  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 133

 

?          quarterly conference license, York

1849   admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference, recommended by York

 

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 108

 

1849-50           Bellefonte circuit

1850-51           Williamsport 

1851-52           Bloomingdale

1852-53           Carlisle circuit           

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           Danville         

1866-68           Espy-Light Street

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           Mifflin                       

1871-74           Everett                       

1874-76           York First

1876-78           Ashland          

1878-81           Milton            

1881-84           Mifflinburg                

1884-86           Shickshinny   

1886-89           Catawissa                   

1889-94           York Duke Street

1894-98           New Cumberland       

1898-00           York West Street

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 Lutheran Church.  Mrs. Barnitz was one of eight sisters, five of whom married Methodist ministers: Anna married Presley Smith, Margaret married Dennis Dorsey of the Missouri Conference, Frances married Samuel Regester, Elmira married Abram Creighton. 


 

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           Riverside       

1897-98           Centralia        

1898-00           Weatherly

1900-03           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1903-06           Osceola          

1606-11           on leave         

1911-12           Riverside

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  Altoona PA                                  married: Phyllis J. Hyatt

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: Alto Reste Park, Altoona PA

Obit: 2003, 375

 

1950-52           Rehoboth 

1952-57           Cherry Tree 

1957-66           Altoona Jaggard

1966-71           Jersey Shore First

1971-83           Gettysburg

1983-91           Altoona First

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: Central New York Conference 1977, ?

 

1914-16           New Albany

1918                Laquin 

1918-21           Enfield-Hennedys

1921-25           East Canton               

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 Franklin

1958                retired            

                             1960-62  associate, Troy

                             1962        [transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference – see Note below]

                             1962-70  associate, Troy  

 

Note: Troy, and most of the present Wellsboro District, was moved from the Central New York Conference to the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1962.  Even though the Central Pennsylvania Conference journal lists Owen Barrett as a member, and he was serving part-time as an associate at Troy until 1970, he officially remained a member of the Central New York Conference – i.e., he was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference and the journal is in error on that point from 1962 to 1970.

 

BARTER, MERRILL EMERSON

 

Born: 7-11-1894  East Weymouth MA                      married: Martha Ricker

Died: 9-18-1973                                                         obit:

 

1917    ordained, Christian and Missionary Alliance Church

 

Interment: Fairmont Cemetery, East Weymouth MA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 417

 

1917-29           missionary, Belgian Congo

1929-31           ?

1931                enters Baptist ministry

1931-35           Wardsboro VT

1935-42           Wilmington VT

1942-48           Parkersburg PA

1948-54           Wildwood Crest NJ Community Church

1954-58           Patton PA

1958-59           ?

1959                local pastor, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church

1959-60           New Millport

1960-62           Three Springs

1962-68           Houtzdale

1968                retired

                        1968-73  Houtzdale

 

BARTH, FRANCIS LOUIS

 

Born: 10-18-1924  Florence SC                                 married: Joan _____

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1944    license, recommended by Brightwood Park, Washington DC

1950    ordained deacon

1951   admitted on trial

1952    ordained elder

 

1945-47           Mill Spring NC (beginning 11/1/1945), North Carolina Conference    

1947-52           Three Springs

1952-58           Duncansville  

1958-62           Mill Hall (beginning 11/15/1968)

1962-67           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue (ending 12/1/1967)

1967-78           Everett            (beginning 12/1/1967)

1978-84           Red Lion St. Paul’s

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: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1972, 388

 

1921-26           Muncy Valley (beginning 6/21)

1926-29           Espy-Light Street      

1929-31           Claysburg      

1931-37           Hastings

1937-42           Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1942-43           Williamsport High Street (ending12/1/43)

1943-50           Renovo (beginning 12/1/1943)

1950-55           Harrisburg Epworth

1955-59           Williamsport Faxon-Kenmar

1959                retired


 

BASSLER, JAMES EARL

 

Born: 3-2-1893  Hyndman PA                                   married: Lillian Grace Bridenbaugh

Died: 6-23-1965  Williamsport PA                           obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 435

 

1917    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Twin Hills Memorial Park, between Muncy and Montoursville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1966, 332

 

1912-14           Washingtonville

1914-15           Jeddo-Lattimer

1916-18           associate, Williamsburg

1918-21           Birmingham  

1921-28           Alexandria     

1928-34           Enola  

1934-43           Williamsport Market Street

1943-48           Barnesboro-Bakerton 

1948-51           Nescopeck     

1951-55           Flemington    

1955-58           Ashland

1958                retired

 

Note: J. Earl Bassler is the preferred rendering.

 

BASTIAN, CLYDE C.

 

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: Linwood Cemetery, McElhattan PA

Obit: (none)

 

1968-70           assistant, Picture Rocks (ending 12/31/69)

1970-71           McElhattan (beginning 1/1/70)

1971                retired

 

BASTUSCHECK, BURTON CHARLES

 

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           Altoona Fairview

1947-49           McConnellsburg        

1949                transfer to Iowa Conference

1949-54           director, Van Buren Country Group Ministry in Keosauqua IA

1954-64           faculty, Willamette University in Salem OR

1964-68           Clackamus County Group Ministry in Mt. Angel OR

 

Note: Burton C. Bastuscheck is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 68.

 

BATTENHOUSE, HENRY MARTIN

 

Born: 8-27-1885                                                         married: Sarah L. _____

Died: 3-23-1960                                                         obit: Detroit 1962,768

 

1911    admitted on trial, Colorado Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Detroit Conference 1960,235

 

1909                graduate, Baldwin-Wallace College

1911-20           Colorado Conference

1919-20           faculty, Dickinson College

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-29           faculty, Penn State University

1929                transfer to Detroit Conference

1929-?             faculty, Albion College

?                      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 Albion College.

 

 

BAUGHMAN, GEORGE E.

 

Born: 2-8-1899  York PA                                           married:

Died: 11-9-1988  Cumberland MD                            obit:

 

1932    received by Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1926-29           Concord

1929                “transfer” to Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

1929-31           Oak Grove and Prince George

1931-33           Bedford PA

1933-39           Cumberland First

1939                transfer by merger to Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church

1939-46           Cumberland First

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 Island Christ

 

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  Adams County PA                         married: Katharine Naomi Patterson

Died: 10-26-1978  Lancaster PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 386

 

1920    license, recommended by Evanston IL First

1922    admitted on trial, Northwest Iowa Conference

 

Interment: Presbyterian Cemetery, Williamsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 328

 

1920-22           student, Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston IL

                        1920-22  Thornton-Lansing IL, Rock River Conference (10/1/20 – 8/30/22)

1922-25           Oto (beginning 10/1/22)

1925                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1925-26           Claysburg      

1926-28           Bakerton        

1928-30           Orbisonia       

1930-33           Gettysburg     

1933-36           Harrisburg Trinity

1936-43           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1943-47           Tyrone First

1947-53           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1953-55           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1955-61           Lock Haven Trinity (beginning 10/1/1955)

1961-64           Enola  

1964                retired

 

 

BEARD, CLYDE WILSON

 

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           Knoxville                    1967-68

1968                transfer to West Virginia Conference

1968-70           West Liberty-Short Creek

1970-73           Belle-Mt. Juliet

1973-81           Petersburg Main street

1981-83           Glen Dale

1983-90           Parkersburg Christ

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  York  PA                                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 194

 

1905    admitted on trial, West Wisconsin Conference

 

Internment:  Canadochly Cemetery, York County PA

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

1918-22           Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1922-25           Carlisle

1925-30           Williamsport Newberry

1930-32           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1932                retired

 

 

BEARD, RICHARD LEWIS

 

Born: 11-21-1932  Clearfield PA                               married: Carol Rowe Cook

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1955    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1954-57           student, Boston University School of Theology in Boston MA

                        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 Versailles

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 Philadelphia PA                              married: Mary Orella Cramer

Died: 3-24-1961                                                         obit:

 

1909    admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1961, 562

 

1904-09           student, Dickinson College

                             1906-07  Boiling Springs & Pine Grove Furnace

                             1907-09  Green Village

1909                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1909-13           Millersville

1913-18           Philadelphia Springfield Avenue

1918-22           Prospect Park

1922-27           Sharon Hill\

1927-29           Brookline

1929-34           Lansdale

1934-37           East Stroudsburg

1937-39           Wissinoming

1939-44           Philadelphia Simpson Memorial

1944-47           Norwood

1947-52           Philadelphia Lindley

1952                retired

                             1952-56  Ashland Avenue

 

 

 

BEDFORD, JOSEPH WILLIAM

 

Born: 12-5-1850  Fulton County PA                          married: Mary Catherine Furlow

Died:                                                                           obit: West Virginia Conference 1932, 112

 

1876     admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: West Virginia Conference 1947, 216

 

1873-74                      Schellsburg 

1874-76           Logan and Sandy circuit, West Virginia Conference

1876-78           Winfield WV

1878-81           Milton WV

1881-83           Barboursville WV

1883-85           Sinclair WV

1885-86           Deer Park MD

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 HAMILTON

 

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: Centre County Memorial Park, State College PA

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           Altoona Lakemont

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 Pennsylvania in 1943.

 

BEERS, ROBERT

 

Born: 2-13-1806  Concord PA                                   married:

Died: 2-15-1870  Cassville PA                                  obit:   

 

1835     admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment:  Jersey Shore PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 63

 

1835-36           Northumberland

1836-37           Lewistown     

1837-38           Williamsburg

1838-39           Deerfield

1839-41           Monroe

1841-43           Allegheny

1843-45           Clearfield

1845-47           Bloomingdale

1847-49           Trough Creek 

1849-51           Shirleysburg  

1851-53           Concord         

1853-55           Stonerstown   

1855-56           on leave

1856-57           Bald Eagle     

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Pine Creek     

1858-59           Jersey Shore              

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 Benton

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1921-22           Jeddo-Milnesville

1922                discontinued

 

BEISHLINE, JOHN L.

 

Born: 6-9-1849  Columbia County PA                      married: Rachel R. Faus

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.

BELL, FRANK THOMPSON    

 

Born: 2-4-1869  Decatur IL                                        married: Marion Estelle Siebert

Died: 7-21-1924  Huntingdon PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 166

 

1902    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Vira Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 157

 

1900                Manada Furnace-Paxton, Philadelphia Conference

1902-06           Gatchelville   

1906-11           Weatherly      

1911-18           Reedsville      

1918-21           Newport

1921-24           Bellwood

 

Note: Frank Thompson Bell is the nephew of J. Foster Bell.  He supplied in 1900 while a student at Dickinson.  He is the father of eminent historian Raymond M. Bell of the Western Pennsylvania Conference.  Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 34.

BELL, JAMES ELLIS

 

Born: 8-4-1846  Dry Valley, Mifflin County PA      married: Juniata Waters

Died: 3-21-1932  York PA                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 201

 

?          quarterly conference license, Logan

1878    admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport

 

Interment: Prospect Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 169

 

1878-81           Williamsport Price Chapel [Grace]

1881-83           Duncannon

1883-86           Hollidaysburg

1886-89           Bedford

1889-93           Williamsport Grace

1893-98           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1898-00           Chambersburg           

1900-06           superintendent, Altoona District

1906-11           York First, York

1911-16           Chambersburg           

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 Williamsport circuit

1874    ordained deacon

1876    ordained elder

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit:

 

1870-71           Washington [Lamar] (beginning 2/1/1871)  

1871-72           Williamsport circuit

1872-73           Liberty Valley           

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)

BELL, JOHN FOSTER

 

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: Brick Church, Reedsville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 70

 

1869-70           Warrior’s Mark

1870-73           Osceola

1873-75           Beech Creek

1875-76           Pine Grove

1876-78           Woodland

 

Note: J. Foster Bell is a brother of James Ellis Bell.  He is the father of John Thompson Bell and the uncle of Frank Thompson Bell.  A memoir also appears in The Conference News for April 1880, page 2.

 

 

BELL, JOHN THOMPSON   

 

Born: 7-10-1877  Woodland PA                                married: Claudia Kitchen

Died: 3-17-1922  Bedford PA                                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 199

 

1900     admitted on trial

 

Interment: Easton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 130

 

1900-04           Blain  

1904-09           Yeagertown   

1909-12           Clearfield Eleventh Street

1912-17           Watsontown   

1917-21           Bedford

1921                retired

 

Note: John Thompson Bell is the son of J. Foster Bell and a first cousin of Frank Thompson Bell.

BELL, SHERIDAN WATSON

 

Born: 12-21-1908  Cincinnati OH                             married: Elizabeth Rich

Died:  10-30-1982 Harrisburg PA                              obit: [d. 3-08-1999]

 

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           Columbus Indianola

1939-41           Columbus Shepherds-St. Paul’s

1941-43           Columbus Maple Grove

1943-45           chaplain, US Navy     

1945-46           Franklin

1946-50           Delaware William Street

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: Elizabeth Schleichter

Died: 6-30-1897  Dublin MD                                     obit:

 

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1859    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Chambersburg PA

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1898, 61

 

1855-56           St. Mary’s circuit

1856-57           Frederick

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Liberty

1858-59           Green Village

1859-60           Coalmont

1860-61           New Granada

1861-63           New Washington

1863-68           on leave for health reasons

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-71           Allegany

1871-73           Harper’s Ferry

1873-76           Middletown

1876-78           Gorsuch

1878-79           Fletcher

1879-88           on leave for health reasons

                             1883-85  Loudon 

1888-92           St. Mary’s

1892-96           Severn

1896-98           North Harford

 

Note: Amos J. Bender is the father of Simpson A. Bender (1865-1940) of the East Main Conference and Elizabeth R. Bender, Methodist missionary to Japan.  This is believed to be the A.J. Bender who served Evangelical Association churches 1851-54 and is listed in the Evangelical pastor file.

 

BENDER, AQUILA REESE

 

Born: 12-17-1848  near York Springs PA                 married: (never married)

Died: 8-19-1881  New Market MD                            obit:

 

?          quarterly conference license, Carlisle

1875     admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment:  Chambersburg

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 75

 

1875-76           Shrewsbury    

1876-77           Mont Alto (resigning for health, August 1877)

1877-78           living in Greencastle

1878-81           vice principal, Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover DE

1881                 Dorchester circuit, Wilmington Conference

 

 

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, Carlisle

1873    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1877    ordained elder

 

Interment: Chambersburg Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 182

 

1873-74           York Springs 

1874-75           Wellsville

1875-78           York Duke Street

1878-81           Stewartstown 

1881-83           Birmingham  

1883-86           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1886-90           Lock Haven Trinity

1890-92           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1892                transfer to Central New York Conference

1892-97           Auburn First

1897-01           Syracuse Centenary

1901-04           on leave         

1904                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1904-08           Lock Haven Trinity

1908-11           Chambersburg           

1911-17           Clearfield Trinity

1917-20           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1920-26           Northumberland

1926                retired

 

Note: Some sources list his birthplace as Petersburg [York Springs].  Henry R. Bender was present when President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.  He is the author of Twentieth Century Interpretation of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1905), The Problem of Consolation (1912), The Bible Devil (1917), Devils: Bible versus Pagan (1918), Walks with St. John (1929).  A memoir also appears in the 11/17/1932 Christian Advocate, page 1249.

 

 

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           South Williamsport   

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 Methodist Church, page 86.

 

 

BENDER, RICHARD WILLIAM

 

Born: 10-23-1935  Muncy PA                                    married: Janet Hunter

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1964    license, recommended by South Williamsport

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

                             1965-68  Trenton NJ Hamilton Avenue (beginning October 1965)

                             1968        Millville NJ Fourth (Feb-Jun)

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, New York state

                        Episcopal priest, New York State

 

Note: Frank L. Benfield served as a local pastor.  He may have been a student at Dickinson College. 


 

BENFORD, JACOB POORMAN

 

Born: 3-5-1844  Mt. Pleasant PA                               married: Frances Emma Trescott

Died: 3-22-1913  Riverside PA                                  obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 137

 

?          quarterly conference license, Uniontown in the Pittsburgh Conference

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Philipsburg

 

Interment: Allentown PA.

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 115

 

1873-74           Decatur

1874-75           Williamsburg

1875-76           Bloomingdale

1876-78           Beaver Meadow

1878-80           Hickory Run  

1880-81           Centralia

1881-83           Fairview-Marysville

1883-84           Lewisburg

1884-86           York Springs 

1886-89           Newville-Rehoboth

1889-92           Shrewsbury    

1892-94           Liverpool       

1894-97           York Ridge Avenue

1897-98           Jeanesville     

1898-00           Coalport-Irvonia

1900-03           Duncansville  

1903-11           Gordon

1911-13           Riverside       

 

 

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           Centerville NJ, New Jersey Conference

1892-93           Vienna MD

1893-94           Woodside DE

1894-96           Royal Oak MD

1896-98           Bethel and Summit

1898-99           Mount Lebanon DE

1899                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1899-00           Shirleysburg  

1900-01           Ennisville      

1901-02           Clearville       

1902-04           Jamison City

1904-08           Benton

1908                withdrew

…

1926-27           Elimsport & Maple Hill

 

BENNETT, ERWIN DAVID

 

Born: 9-13-1907  Syracuse NY                                  married: Doris Muriel Larkins

Died: 1-20-1983  Altoona PA                                                obit: 2004, 360

 

1927    license, recommended by Watertown NY Asbury

1932    admitted on trial, Northern New York Conference

 

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983, 399

 

1932-34           Hammond      

1934-35           Mount Pleasant

1935-38           Oswego Center

1938-39           at school        

1939-40           Constantia-West Monroe

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           Weedsport Brick Church

1948-53           chaplain, US Navy

1953-57           Lansing Parish           

1957                transfer to Genesee Conference

1957-62           Buffalo-Plymouth

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-65           Wellsboro

1965-68           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1968 -73          Altoona Fifth Avenue

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 Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 477

           

1926-27           Jamison City (ending summer 1927)

1927-32           Orangeville (beginning summer 1927)         

1932-37           Picture Rocks Parish 

1937-43           Catawissa       

1943-48           Hanover

1948-55           Huntingdon First

1955-61           Harrisburg Stevens Memorial

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:

Obit:

 

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  Luzerne County PA                       married: Josephine Louisa Davidson

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           Benton           

1872-75           Hickory Run  

1875-77           Benton

1877-79           South Heberton

1879-82           Mifflinville    

1882-85           Newville-Rehoboth   

1885-88           Hopewell       

1888-93           Mount Union 

1893-97           North Altoona

1897-00           Lock Haven East Main Street

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           Cogan Valley

 

Note: Levi Benson served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

BERGSTROM, FRANK WILLIAM

 

Born:  1-13-1930  Worcester MA                              married: Barbara Ann Schonberg

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1960    license

1964    admitted on trial

1964    ordained deacon

1966    ordained elder

 

1951-56           Meridian CT

1956-58           Worcester MA Park Avenue

1958-59           ?

1959-63           student, Penn State University

                        1959-63  Penns Valley (ending 3/15/1963)

1963-68           Mt. Alto (beginning 3/15/1963)

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           Grampian-Lumber City

1964-70           Benton

1970-73           Oriole

1973-78           Westfield

1978-83           Williamsport Trinity

1983-86           Berwick First

1986                retired

                             1986-93  associate, Picture Rocks Parish

                             1993-96  South Williamsport Larger Parish

 

Note: John B. Bergstrom is a brother to Frank W. Bergstrom.

 

BERKEBILE, CALVIN E.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1921-22           Sandy Ridge

 

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  Williamsport PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 401

 

1918    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1969, 306

 

1918-19           Riverside-West Fairview

1919-22           Millerstown   

1922-24           Dillsburg-Wellsville 

1924-26           Snow Shoe

1926-30           Williamsport Market Street

1930-36           Emporium

1936-43           Sunbury St. John’s

1943-51           Williamsport Pine Street

1951-57           superintendent, Sunbury District

1957-62           Milton

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 Bloomfield

1837-38           Mifflin           

1838-39           Beaver Meadows

1839-40           Bellefonte

1840-42           Danville circuit

1842-43           Sunbury         

1843-45           Shrewsbury    

1845-46           Bedford

1846-48           Warrior’s Mark

1848-50           Newport         

1850-52           Clearfield       

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           Shrewsbury    

1862-64           Gettysburg     

1864-65           Rainsburg

1865                retired

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1876-80           on leave

1880                retired

                        living in Alabama

 

Note: A biographical sketch of George Berkstresser appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 333.

 

BERNINGER, WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

 

Interment:      

Obit:

 

1955-56           Williamsport Third Street (beginning 9/1/55)

1956-57           Forksville

1957-59           Lock Haven East Main Street

1959-62           New Bloomfield

 

Note:  William Berninger served as a local pastor.

 

BETHUNE, JAMES WILLIAM

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1880     admitted on trial, recommended by Lewisburg

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1880-81           Wharton

1881-82           Cogan Valley 

1882-83           ?

1883                located at own request

 

BETTENS, JAMES HENRY

 

Born: 7-15-1869  Cornwall England                          married: Mary Fullmer

Died: 9-26-1954  Lock Haven PA                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1935, 241

 

1899    admitted on trial

 

Interment:  Millville PA Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 227

 

1899-01           Waller

1901-02           Silver Brook  

1902-06           Irish Valley    

1906-08           Selinsgrove    

1908-10           Benezette       

1910-16           North Bend

1916-21           McVeytown

1921-25           Flemington

1925-30           Nescopeck

1930-36           Riverside

1936-38           Lock Haven East Main. Street

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, Blair County PA   married: Susannah Wolverton

Died: 3-30-1899  Philadelphia PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927,527

 

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           Lewisburg WV

1868                transfer to Virginia Conference

1868-69           Middlebrook WV

1869-71           Portsmouth

1871-73           Old Point Comfort

1873-76           Alexandria

1876-79           Falls Church

1879-81           superintendent, Alexandria District

1881                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1881-83           Half Moon     

1883-85           Sinnemahoning

1885-86           Espy-Light Street

1886-89           Weatherly      

1889-92           Salona

1892-96           Ralston

1896-99           Woodland

 

BICHELL, A.A.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

Interment:

Obit:     

 

1912-13           Orrtanna

1919-20           Cross Fork [Potter County]

 

Note: served as a local pastor.  He is otherwise unknown.

 

BICKEL, JOHN CRAWFORD

 

Born:                                                                           married: Idylla Robbins

Died: 11-29-1939  Fort Wayne IN                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1951, 1165 Ohio Conference

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Harveyville

 

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1940, 182

 

1893-95           Harveyville    

1895-98           Milnesville-Jeddo     

1898-00           Without Appointment           

1900-03           Jeanesville-Audenreid

1903-04           Salt Lake City UT First

1904-10           superintendent, Wyoming Mission   

1910                transfer to Indiana Conference

                        Irvington

                        transfer to Ohio Conference

 

Note: John C. Bickel was born in Indiana and raised in Missouri.  He is supposedly a graduate of DePauw and Boston University.

 

BICKELL, CHARLES ALBERT LEHMAN

 

Born: 8-8-1906  Williamsport PA                             married: Marion Theodora Danskin

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: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 379

 

1928-30           Wallis Run     

1930-32           Montandon    

1932-34           at school

1934-36           Snydertown    

1936-40           Riverside       

1940-43           Shickshinny   

1943-46           Milton

1946-53           Philipsburg (ending 11/30/1953)

1953                transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1953-56           [California]    

1956                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1956-59           Waynesboro

1959-63           York First

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 Millport Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 124

 

1884-85           Osceola

1885-86           Port Matilda

1886-89           Coalport

1889-93           Lumber City  

1893-97           Ramey

1897-99           Altoona Epworth mission.

1899-04           Clearfield       

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 Missionary Alliance Church.  Mrs. Biddle is a granddaughter of Rev. Timothy Lee, supposedly “a member of the first American Methodist General Conference” (1792?), who was a first cousin of the eminent missionary Jason Lee (1803-1845).

 

BIDDLE, FLETCHER W.     

 

Born: 6-15-1858  near Bellefonte PA                                    married: Josephine Little

Died: 6-8-1930  Bedford PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 273

 

1887    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

 

Interment: Bedford PA Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 176

 

1885-86           assistant, Concord

1887-88           Cassville        

1888-90           Clearville       

1890-93           Shirleysburg  

1893-96           Flemington    

1896-99           Petersburg      

1899-03           Osceola

1903-07           Harrisburg Curtin Heights

1907-10           Bedford

1910-12           Roaring Springs

1913-15           Williamsport Grace

1915-19           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1919-20           Curwensville 

1920-22           Renovo

1922-23           Mount Union 

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 Missionary Alliance Church.  A memoir also appears in the 6/19/1930 Christian Advocate, page 789.  Mrs. Biddle’s sister Melissa is the wife of David F. Kapp.

 

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: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 311

 

1901-03           Laporte

1903-05           Clarkstown

1905-09           Muncy Valley

1909-11           Trevorton       

1911-14           Espy-Lime Ridge

1914-17           West Fairview           

1917-19           Marysville     

1919-23           Lock Haven East Main Street

1923-26           Watsontown   

1926-27           Petersburg      

1927-31           Freeland

1931-37           Mifflinburg    

1937-38           Williamsport Third Street

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 STERLING

 

Born: 12-12-1921  Williamsport PA                         married: Montene _____

Died: 4-25-2003                                                         obit:

 

1945    admitted on trial, New England Southern Conference

1947    ordained elder, New England Southern Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New England Conference 2003,?

 

1941-43           Clearville (beginning 10/1/41)

1943-44           living in Williamsport

1944-45           Mapleville & Glendale, New England Southern Conference

1945                “transfer” to New England Southern Conference

1945-48           Mapleville & Glendale

1948-51           East Hartford Center

1951-61           chaplain, USAF

1961-66           Vineyard Haven

1966-74           Marshfield

1974-82           Glastonbury (ending 5/1/82)

1982-88           Spencer (beginning 5/1/82)

                             1985-88  West Warren (10/1/85 – 3/8/88)

1988                retired

 

Note:  The 2003 address for Mrs. Bieber is 9 Westview Street, Grafton MA  01519.

 

BIERI, JOHN CASPER

 

Born: 11-13-1873  Philadelphia PA                           married: Jeanette M. Betson

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: Philadelphia Conference 1951, 1034

 

1898-01           student, Dickinson College

                             1900-01  Millerstown (last part of year)

1901-02           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1901-02  Millerstown

1902                “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1902-07           Easton Memorial

1907-09           Philadelphia Hancock Street

1909-10           Philadelphia Scott

1910-13           Reading Windsor Street

1913-16           Columbia

1916-18           Mahanoy City

1918-20           Chester Providence Avenue

1920-24           Philadelphia Siloam

1924-25           Philadelphia Frankford Avenue

1925-27           Spring City

1927-28           Philadelphia Centenary

1928-29           conference evangelist

1929-30           Philadelphia Wissahickon (ending 10/30)

1930-34           Philadelphia Columbia Avenue (beginning 10/30)

1934-37           Philadelphia St. Luke’s

1937-40           Philadelphia Park Avenue

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: St. Peter’s Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg PA

Obit:

 

1901                East Falmouth MA (3 months)

1904                South Dakota

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, Union County PA      

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  Brooklyn NY                                   married: Sara Marie Levance

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, Juniata College

                             1957-59  assistant, James Creek

1959-60           student, Lycoming College

                             S959-60  assistant, James Creek

1960-61           student, Crozer Seminary in Chester PA

                             1960-61  Freeland Parish

1961-63           student, Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY

                             1961-63  Freeland Parish

1963-66           Shamokin Chestnut Street

1966                voluntary location

                        Alabama-West Florida Conference

 

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           Williamsport circuit

1871-72           Cogan’s Valley

1872-73           Watsontown (first part of year)

1873-75           Wharton

1875-76           Pine Creek

1882-83           Hickory Run

 

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, Northern New York Conference

1955                Transfer to Northern New York Conference (1/15/1955)

1955-               Beaver Falls

                        North Central New York Conference

 

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 Methodist Church.  Fiercely autonomous, he and the congregation even declined to join the newly formed Bible Protestant Church and became independent.  The congregation eventually associated with the GARB (Baptist) denomination.  Beginning in 1956, his son Rev. Warren M. Birdsall (1923-1995) served the congregation for 30+ years.

 

 

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, P.O. Box 103, Silver Lake, NY  14549, phone 716-237-3072.  Mrs. Birt is the daughter of Jesse K. Gunder.

 

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 India

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           Bangkok (Thailand) International Congregation

1987                retired

                             1990-91  Nome (Alaska) Community UMC

 

BIXLER, ANDREW LOY

 

Born: 1-1-1880  Perry County PA                             married: Carolyn Mable Moore

Died: 2-9-1962  Harrisburg PA                                  spouse: 1973, 382

 

1906    admitted on trial, New England Conference

 

Interment: Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1962, 319

 

1906-07           Leicester

1907-10           Upton

1910-15           Boston

1915-18           Beverly

1918-20           secretary, YMCA France

1920                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-21           director of religious work, Dickinson College

1921-25           Altoona Fairview

1925-28           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1928-29           Huntingdon First

1929-31           State College 

1931-36           Altoona Simpson

1936-42           Mount Carmel           

1942-46           Hazleton St. Paul’s

1946-49           Lewisburg

1949-50           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

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: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 183

 

1863-75           Bendersville  

1875-77           Wellsville

1877-80           Shippensburg 

1880-83           Harrisburg Fifth Street  (ending 8/17/1882)

1882-83           superintendent, Methodist Book Room (beginning 8/17/1882)

1883-86           Bedford

1886-89           Clearfield       

1889-92           Everett           

1892-97           Lock Haven Trinity

1897-02           superintendent, Williamsport District          

1902-03           superintendent, Book Room

1903-08           Huntingdon First

1908-11           Carlisle          

1911                retired

 

BLACK, ROBERT WESLEY

 

Born: 9-6-1824  Huntingdon PA                                married: Belinda T. Gorsuch

Died: 8-13-1895                                                         obit:

 

1851    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1896, 55

 

1851-52           Cassville

1852-53           Hereford

1853-54           Gettysburg

1854-55           Catawissa

1855-57           Mifflinburg

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Birmingham

1859-60           Bedford

1860-62           Mechanicsburg station

1862-64           Carlisle

1864-66           Jersey Shore

1866-68           Baltimore Broadway

1868                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1868-69           Baltimore Broadway

1869-72           Union Square

1872-75           Washington DC Wesley Chapel

1875-78           Hamline

1878-81           Baltimore High Street

1881-82           South Baltimore station

1882-87           superintendent, East Baltimore District

1887                retired

 

Note: This name is sometimes given in the form R. Wesley Black.

 

BLADES, ANSLEY BAKER

 

Born: 6-25-1870  Canisteo NY                      married: Florence Leonard Bailey [8/10/1894]

Died: 1941  Seminole County FL                  obit: [1/21/1875 – 5/15/1946]

 

?          Newark Conference

 

Interment: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Union Springs [Cayuga County] NY

Obit:

 

1907                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1907-08           Williamsport Market Street (ending 9/29/1908)

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 Cottonwood County MN, but it is unclear whether this was before or after his service in the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He was residing in WA in 1930.


 

BLAIR, SAMUEL

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1891    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1889-90           Hazleton Mission [Diamond] & West Hazleton

1890-91           Hazleton Diamond

1891-93           Harveyville

1893-96           Altoona City Mission

1896-99           Morrisdale     

1899-00           Altoona Epworth Mission

1900                transfer to North Nebraska Conference

1900-02           [Nebraska]

1902                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1902-04           missionary, Wyoming           

1904-07           missionary, Utah

1907-09           missionary, Texas

1909-11           missionary, New Mexico

1911                transfer to Kansas Conference

 

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

1954-57           York Duke Street

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:

Obit:

 

1951-62           Morris

1962-66           Elkland (ending 11/14/66)

1966-71           Williamsport High Street (beginning 11/15/66)

1971                no longer lister

 

BOBB, JOSHUA PIERCE

 

Born: 11-23-1846  near Mechanicsburg PA              married: Agnes M. Crumb

Died: 8-30-1895  Maywood NE                                 obit:

 

1870    admitted on trial

 

Interment: Maywood NE

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 Dickinson College in 1870 and later earned a PhD from Illinois Wesleyan University.  He suffered with health problems most of his life.

 

BODTORF, ROY OAKLEY

 

Born: 5-10-1909  Centre Hall PA                              married: Mabel E. _____

Died: 9-13-1968   Harrisburg PA                               spouse:

 

1930    admitted on trial

1933    ordained deacon

1935    ordained elder

 

Interment:   Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

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           Altoona Fairview

1953-57           Altoona Fifth Avenue

1957-62           Tyrone First

1962-66           Berwick First

1966-68           assistant administrator, Bethany Village

1968                retired

 

Note: Mrs. Bodtorf is still living in 2005.

 

BOGGS, GEORGE FRANKLIN

 

Born: 11-3-1867  Path Valley, Franklin County PA married: Isabelle Virginia Kapp

Died: 2-5-1947  Altoona PA                                      obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 234

 

1894    admitted on trial, recommended by Shirleysburg circuit

 

Interment: Alto Rest Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1947, 197

 

1894-97           McKee’s Gap 

1897-01           Hastings

1901-04           Howard

1904-08           Hazleton Diamond

1908-11           Williamsport High Street

1911-14           Hollidaysburg

1914-17           Waynesboro   

1917-22           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1922-25           Milton

1925-28           Renovo

1928-32           Williamsport Mulberry Street

1932-36           Camp Hill      

1936-40           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1940                retired

 1943-47  Altoona Mardorf

 

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 Evangelical Church

            recommended by Elizabethville

1938    admitted on trial, Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church

 

Interment: Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 447

 

1936-38           Chesterville

1938-41           Gambier

1941-43           Gnadenhutten

1943-46           chaplain, US Army

1946-48           West Lafayette

1948-50           Mt. Gilead

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                      Altoona Italian Mission

1909                transfer to Genesee Conference

1909-13           missionary, Buffalo NY Italian Mission      

1913                transfer to Des Moines Conference

1913-16           Des Moines Italian Mission

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           Mount Alto    

1956-59           Barnesboro    

1959-61           Gatchelville   

1961-62           Newport (beginning 9/15/1961)

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, Luzerne County PA married: Anna May Hess

Died: 7-26-1938  Hazleton PA                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1958, 251

 

1886    admitted on trial, recommended by West Hazleton circuit

 

Interment: Methodist Church Cemetery, Black Creek PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 205

 

1884-86           West Hazleton

1886-91           Benton           

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 Methodist Protestant Church

1938    ordained, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1923-29           New Brooklyn NJ

1929-33           Hollisterville PA circuit

1933-34           Hillburn NJ

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 Methodist Church.  The Register Church closed.  Rev. Booth and the Bloomingdale, Koonsville and Reyburn congregations joined the newly formed Bible Protestant Church. 


 

BOUGHEY, PERCY S.

 

Born: 11-6-1890  Derby, England                              married: Lucy Belle Harries

Died: 8-19-1972  Matlock, England                          obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1953,227

 

?          license, British Methodist Church

1919    admitted on trial

1921    ordained deacon

1923    ordained elder

 

Interment: East Harrisburg PA Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 368

 

1913-15           Lancashire, England

1915                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1915-16           Hummelstown

1916                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-18           Liverpool 

1918-22           Montandon    

1922-25           Kulpmont

1925-30           Audenreid      

1930-31           Williamsport Market Street

1931-38           Weatherly      

1938-47           Ashland          

1947-50           Shippensburg 

1950-61           Renovo

1961                retired

 

Note: The father and grandfather of Percy S. Boughey were local preachers in England.  He is an uncle to Rev. Harry E. Boughey of the United Church of Christ.  Mrs. Boughey is the daughter of Alfred Harries (c1870-1916) of the Philadelphia Conference.

 

BOUSE, GEORGE W.

 

Born: 4-9-1823  Pendleton County WV                    married: Virginia Miles

Died: 7-21-1892  Woodland PA                                obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899,99

 

1849    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Tyrone PA Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1893, 90

 

1848-50           Lewisburg VA           

1850-51           Woodstock VA

1851-52           Springfield VA

1852-54           Westernport MD

1854-55           Cumberland MD

1855-57           Bedford circuit

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Cassville

1859-61           Shirleysburg  

1861-63           Newport

1863-66           Port Royal

1866-68           Gettysburg

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           New Bloomfield

1871-74           Three Springs

1874-75           West Clearfield

1875-78           Penn’s Valley

1878-81           Half Moon

1881-84           Green Village

1884-87           Warrior’s Mark

1887-92           Milesburg

1892                Woodland

 

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  Brooklyn NY                                 married: Helen F. Garber

Died: 7-8-1974                                                           obit:

 

1917    admitted on trial

1917    ordained deacon

1919    ordained elder, New York East Conference

 

Interment:

Obit: New York Conference 1975, ?

 

1911-15           student, Dickinson College

                             1914-15  Boiling Springs (summer 1914 – summer 1915)

1915-17           student, Drew Theological Seminary

                             1915-17  West Livingston NJ (beginning summer 1915)

1917-18           Riverside & West Fairview

1918                transfer to New York East Conference

1918-20           New Rochelle First

1920-23           Lynbrook St. James

1923-26           Hempstead

1926-33           Brooklyn Bay Ridge Grace

1933-40           Queens Astoria First

1940-46           Baldwin

1946-52           Queens Elmhurst

1952-59           Union

1959                retired

 

BOWDEN, WILLIAM H.

 

Born: 2-3-1850  Holmbush England                          married: Sarah Belle Cisney

Died: 12-27-1919  Windber PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 235

 

1867    license, Bible Christian Church in England

1874    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

 

Interment: Redland Cemetery, Windber PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1920, 134

 

1873-75           Concord circuit

1875-76           New Bloomfield

1876-77           Port Royal

1877-78           Ray’s Hill

1878-79           Shirleysburg  

1879-81           Burnt Cabins  

1881-83           Lycoming

1883-85           Liberty Valley           

1885-87           Cogan Valley 

1887-90           Wolfsburg

1890-93           Schellsburg

1893-01           on leave

1901                retired

 

BOWEN, JOHN

 

Born: 6-8-1793  Bedford County PA                         married: Martha Lewis Walton Grier

Died: 11-18-1864                                                       obit: [10/14/1800 – 8/28/1877]

 

1820    license

1823    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1825    ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1827    ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 42

 

1822-23           Bedford circuit

1823-24           Aughwick

1824-25           Bald Eagle

1825-26           Clearfield

1826-28           Lycoming

1828-30           Pendleton

1830-32           Carlisle

1832-33           Baltimore

1833-34           Calvert

1834-35           Lewistown

1835-37           Huntingdon

1837-39           Hollidaysburg

1839-41           Chambersburg

1841-43           Milton

1843-44           Lycoming

1844-45           Williamsport station

1845-47           Berwick

1847-49           Staunton station

1849-50           York

1850-51           Shepherdstown

1851-53           Baltimore Caroline Street station

1853-55           Patapsco

1855-57           Westminster

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Gettysburg

1859-61           Baltimore Dallas Street

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           East Chester NY

1892-95           New Canaan CT

1895                studying law at Scranton PA

 

Note: Aaron V. Bower became a lawyer and settled in Scranton PA.

 

BOWER, HARRY CLAYTON

 

Born: 5-31-1883  Elimsport PA                                 married: Mabel Lucy Crawford

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1901    license, recommended by South Williamsport

1905    admitted on trial

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1905-06           Cameron

1906-08           missionary, Pinang Malaysia

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 1882.  The biographical files at the conference archives contain limited information on his assignments. 


 

BOWER, LAHMAN FOREST

 

Born: 7-5-1858  Berwick PA                                     married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

 

1895    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1884-87           principal, preparatory department at Dickinson College

1887-96           businessman, Carlisle

                        moved to Cincinnati OH

 

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 Carlisle 1930-34.

 

BOWER, ROY WILLARD    

 

Born: 9-7-1922  Akron OH                                        married: Mary _____

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: Greenlawn Memorial Park, Akron OH

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1984, ?

 

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

                        West Bedford

                        Trinway

                        Warsaw

                        Thompson

                        Andover

1978                retired to Akron OH

 

 

Note: The middle name for Roy W. Bower is sometimes given as WILLIAM.

 

BOWERS, DAN S.

 

Born: 3-2-1922  Waynesboro PA                               married:

Died: 10-23-2006  Westfield NY                               obit:

 

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1939-43           student, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA

1944-45           student, Duke Divinity School in Durham NC

 

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   Scotia NY                                   obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 111

 

1868    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1870    ordained deacon

1872    ordained elder

 

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

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

1872-73           Danville St. Paul’s

1873-75           Riverside

1875-78           Muncy

1878-80           Williamsport Third Street

1880-83           Mechanicsburg

1883-86           Waynesboro   

1886-88           Ashland          

1888-91           Harrisburg St. Paul

1891-93           Shickshinny   

1893-96           Newberry

1896-99           Austin

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  Newark NJ                                       obit:

 

1855    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark NJ

Obit: Newark Conference 1907, 97

 

1855-56           Carlisle circuit

1856-57           East Loudon   

1857                transfer to Newark Conference

1857-58           Passiac

1858-50           located            [member of Union Chapel in Cincinnati OH]

1860                transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1860-62           Berwick

1862-64           Bellefonte Station

1864-66           Carlisle Emory

1866-68           faculty, Dickinson College

1868                charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-72           faculty, Dickinson College

1872-73           on leave

1873-74           Bedford          

1874-76           Lock Haven   

1876-79           York First

1879                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

 

1883-89           dean of School of Theology, DePauw University

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 Drew University to temporarily fill their positions.  S.L. Bowman is a second cousin to A.S. Bowman.  Relationships to other pastors are too numerous to mention, but are detailed in the Bowman file at the conference archives.  Most notably, S.L. Bowman is a grandson of Thomas Bowman (1760-1823, ordained by Asbury) and a first cousin to Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914), both of the Baltimore Conference.

 

BOWSER, HARRY GRABILL

 

Born: 2-5-1872                                                           married: Esther Williams [c1889]

Died: 5-29-1935                                                         obit: [b. c1868, possibly Bedford County]

                                                                                    married2: Viola May Swisher

?          license                                                             obit2:

1924    recognized as elder from the Church of God married3: Mrs. Emma Cordelia [Della]

                                                                                                Stackhouse Shaw Secules

Interment:                                                                   obit3: 1942, 207        

Obit: [1936, 98]                                                                                             

 

1923-26           Penfield (beginning 9/1/1923: see 1924, 85)

1926-30           Muncy Valley

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 Evanston IL        

1964-65           Gatchelville   

1965-69           Beach Haven  

1969                transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1969-70           Lansdowne

1970-73           Philadelphia Calvary

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: Erie Conference 1950, 972

 

1913-14           Clearfield Italian Mission     

1916                “transfer” to Northern New York Conference

1916-20           Frankfort Italian Mission

 

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           Deerfield NJ

1953-57           Friendship NJ

1957-62           North Towanda

1962                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64           North Towanda

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           Cogan Valley 

1939-41           Muncy Valley 

1941-46           Kulpmont       

1946                transfer to California-Nevada Conference

 

BRADLEY, GEORGE WELLS

 

Born: 9-1-1876  Altoona PA                                      married: Caroline Moon

Died: 8-28-1949                                                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 230

 

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [1950, 69]

 

1922-27           assistant, Williamsburg circuit

1927-29           Blandburg

1929-34           Allegheny circuit

1934-41           Hollidaysburg [Loop] St. Paul’s

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  Orange NJ                                                obit: Baltimore Conference 1897, 72

 

1836    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

 

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1888,62

 

1836-37           Gettysburg

1837-38           Moorefield

1838-39           Wardensville

1839-40           on leave

1841-43           Concord

1843-44           Williamsburg

1844-46           Westmoreland

1846-47           Warrenton

1847-49           York Springs

1849-51           Boonsboro

1851-53           Frederick

1853-55           Danville station

1855-57           York

1857                charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           Baltimore Whatcoat

1859-61           Westminster

1861-62           Westernport

1862-64           Huntingdon

1864-66