ARCHIVES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

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DANIELS, HARRY

Born: 12-13-1875 Granite Falls NC married: Mary Edith Rohrer

Died: 4-9-1932 Berwick PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 234

1907 admitted on trial

Interment: Mennonite Cemetery, Strasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 177

1906-08 Hustontown

1908-13 York West Street

1913-15 Shrewsbury

1915-17 Yeagertown-Rhodes

1917-20 Sinnemahoning

1920-25 Gettsburg-New Oxford

1925-30 Mechanicsburg

1930-32 Shickshinny

Note: An obituary for Harry Daniels also appears in the 4/28/1932 Christian Advocate, page 462.

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DANIELS, HARRY JOSEPH

Born: 10-11-1904 Lykens PA married: Myrl P. Bowers

Died: 9-7-1989 Denver PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 452

1944 ordained, Pilgrim Holiness Church

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 451

1936-61 Pilgrim Holiness church

Williamstown

Pitman

Frackville

Port Matilda

 Stonington

Rebuk

1961 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist

1961-64 Wrightsville

1964-66 Renovo

1966-72 Milroy

1972-77 Belleville

1977 retired

Note: Harry J. Daniels served as a local pastor.

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DASHIELL, JOHN HUTSON

Born: 10-11-1821 Salisbury MD married: Emily W. Irving

Died: 1-21-1914 obit: [d. 11/27/1866]

1852 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Loudon Park, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1914, 63

1852-54 Great Falls

1854-56 Hereford

1856-58 Lewisburg (Pa) station

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Lewisburg (Pa) station

1858-60 principal, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1860-62 Baltimore Strawbridge

1862-63 Baltimore Emory Chapel (nominal)

1863-64 without appointment

1864-65 principal, Northwest Institute in Baltimore

1865 “withdrew to join M.E. South”

1865-70 *Chatsworth Independent Methodist Church

and principal, Northwest Institute in Baltimore

1870 re-admitted to Baltimore Conference

1870-73 Georgetown Dumbarton Avenue

1873-74 Baltimore Madison Avenue

1874-77 Washington McKendree

1877-80 Annapolis First

1880-83 Hagerstown

1883-86 Frederick

1886-91 Washington Fifteenth Street

1891-92 secretary, Methodist Alliance in Washington DC

1892 retired

Note: John H. Dashiell is a brother to Robert Laurenson Dashiell of the Baltimore and Newark Conferences who served as president of Dickinson College 1868-72 and whose obituary consequently appears in the 1880 Central Pennsylvania Conference journal, page 65.

*In the early 1860’s there was dissension in Baltimore that led to the formation of the Independent Methodist “denomination” of several churches. That association of churches appears to have developed out of the Methodist Episcopal and/or Methodist Protestant Church, but not the M.E. South – and that reference is apparently in error and likely a misunderstanding about the Independent Methodists. The Northwest Institute [aka Northwestern Institute] is otherwise unknown.

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DAUGHERTY, BEVERLY WAUGH

Born: 1834 Maryland married:

Died: obit:

married2: Mrs. Helen J. Thompson Sawyer

1855 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference obit2:

1855-56 Salem

1856-57 Warm Springs (Va)

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Castle Fin

1858-59 Alto Dale

1859-60 East Harford

1860-61 Lock Haven

1861-62 Frederick

1862-63 West Falls

1863 withdrew

“transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church South

“transfer” to Episcopal Church

1882-87 Winston-Salem NC St. Paul’s

1884 ordained in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of North Carolina

1891 Huron OH Christ

Note: Beverly Waugh Daugherty is a brother to Thomas Daugherty. The second Mrs. Daugherty was the widow of a Mr. Cleveland Sawyer, and her papers reside in the manuscript collection of the Perkins Library at Duke University.  

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DAUGHERTY, JOHN HENRY

Born: 2-2-1868 Thompsontown PA married: Lillian Mae Fisk

Died: 11-29-1937 Jersey Shore PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1946, 236

1892 admitted on trial, recommended by Hazleton St. Paul’s

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1938, 220

1892-93 assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

1893-95 South Williamsport

1895-97 Hughesville

1897-00 Williamsport Third Street

1900-03 Shickshinny

1903-09 Tyrone First

1909-15 Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1915-20 Sunbury St. John’s

1920-30 Williamsport Pine Street

1930-37 Lewistown First

1937 Jersey Shore First

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DAUGHERTY, THOMAS

Born: 4-6-1828 Maryland married: Mary _____

Died: 9-15-1885 obit:

married2

1850 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference obit2: Susan Catherine Rippey

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1886, 38

1850-51 Westminster

1851-52 Front Royal

1852-54 South Branch

1854-56 Bellefonte

1856-57 Carlisle Emory Chapel

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Carlisle Emory Chapel

1858-60 Waynesboro

1860-61 Mercersburg

1861 transfer to West Virginia Conference

1861-64 principal, Morgantown Institute

1864 transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1864-66 Hollidaysburg

1866-67 Carlisle Emory Chapel

1867-68 Mechanicsburg

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Mechanicsburg

1869 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1869-70 North Baltimore circuit

1870-73 Baltimore Whatcoat

1873-75 Baltimore Exeter Street

1875-78 South Baltimore

1878-81 Baltimore Emory

1881-84 Baltimore Jackson Square

1884-86 Baltimore Hanover Street

Note: Thomas Daugherty is a brother to Beverly Waugh Daugherty.

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DAVIDSON, ELLIS B.

Born: 12-7-1886 Bedford PA married: Mary Louise Willoughby

Died: 8-6-1869 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 437

1909 quarterly conference license, Bedford

1912 admitted on trial

1914 ordained deacon

1916 ordained elder

Interment: Community Mausoleum of the Bedford Cemetery, Bedford PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 380

1911-13 Eagles Mere & Laporte

1913-15 Littlestown

1915-18 Riddlesburg

1918-20 Reedsville-Milroy

1920-21 York West Street

1921-24 Mechanicsburg

1924-28 Muncy

1928-29 Bellwood

1929-36 Huntingdon First

1936-38 Shamokin Lincoln Street

1938-40 Lock Haven Trinity

1940-46 Berwick First

1946-49 Mount Union First

1949-52 Altoona Simpson

1952 retired

1954-55 Wolfsburg (9/1/1954 to 5/31/1955)

1961-63 Dunning Creek United Church of Christ

Note: Ellis Bell Davidson was baptized by and named for J. Ellis Bell. Mrs. Davidson graduated from the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School and served as a deaconess at Harrisburg St. Paul prior to her marriage.

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DAVIDSON, ROBERT EARL

Born: 5-4-1934 Lewistown PA married: Marjorie Ellen Moist

Died: obit:

1957 license

1958 admitted on trial

1959 ordained deacon

1962 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1957-62 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1957-62 Catonsville MD

1962-63 Mount Union

1963 transfer to Newark Conference

1963-68 associate, Westwood

1968-71 Irvington

1971-78 Midland Park

1978-92 Totowa

1992-01 Hillsdale

2001 retired

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DAVIS, CHARLES EVAN

Born: 11-27-1889 married:

Died: 12-30-1975 obit:

1921 admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference

Interment:

Obit: Peninsula Conference 1976, ?

1916-19 student, Dickinson College

1916-17 Hickorytown, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1921-22 student

1922-25 Cheswold

1927-27 faculty, Wesley Collegiate Institute

1927-30 Cherry Hill

1930-34 Hockessin

1934-36 Wilmington Asbury

1936-39 Cecilton

1939-41 Still Pond

1941-43 Queenstown

1943-54 Ocean View

1945-49 Greensboro

1949-52 Pittsville Ayres

1952-57 Wilmington Trinity

1957 retired

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DAVIS, EDWARD E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1962 license

Interment:

Obit:

1962-70 Gordon

1970 “transfer” by boundaries to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: Edward E. Davis served as a local pastor.

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DAVIS, GEORGE EDWARD

Born: 9-9-1903 Abington MD married: Anita Amelia Stephney

Died: 4-21-1981 Harrisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1992, 471

1947 admitted on trial, Washington Conference

1947 ordained deacon

1951 ordained elder

Interment: Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1981, 329

1945-51 Centerville MD

1951-69 Harrisburg Mitchell Memorial

1956 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1956-69 Harrisburg Mitchell Memorial

1969 retired

Note: George E. Davis is the son of George A. Davis (d. 1945) of the Washington Conference and the father of Bernice Davis Stevens in the United Methodist files. In 1956, Mitchell Memorial Church became the first congregation in the entire Methodist denomination to transfer out of the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction of Negro conferences into its otherwise geographically appropriate conference.

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DAVIS, JAMES MERLYN

Born: married: Jeanne _____

Died: obit:

1967 license, recommended by Mifflinville

1971 ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1967-68 Buckhorn-Rupert

1968-71 North Bend

1971-77 Pennsdale

1977-88 Muhlenburg

1988 retired

Note: James M. Davis served as a local pastor.

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DAVIS, JOHN F.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1866 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mulberry Street

Interment:

Obit:

1866-68 faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70 faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1870-71 Duboistown-Rocktown

1871-72 Susquehanna [Nisbet]

1872-81 on leave

1872-75 assistant, Williamsport Pine Street

1875-77 assistant, Williamsport Price Chapel

1877-78 assistant, Mulberry Street

1881 l ocated

Note: Rocktown is the lower part of South Williamsport. Susquehanna is the original name for Nisbet. The “move” in 1871 was a re-naming of the circuit.

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DAVIS, MICHAEL F.

Born: 9-6-1893 Eatontown NJ married: Florence McMillen

Died: 1-7-1991 Ephrata PA obit:

1919 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 302

1914-17 student, Dickinson College

1914-16 Rehoboth

1916 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1916-17 Atglen & Mt. Pleasant

1917-20 student, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton NJ

1920-24 Mount Joy

1924-26 Chester Parkside

1926-28 West Grove

1928-32 Reading St. Peter’s

1932-37 Jenkintown

1937-39 Philadelphia Roxborough First

1939-42 Philadelphia Berry-Long Memorial

1942-48 Philadelphia Oak Lane

1948-54 Bethlehem Wesley

1954-58 Ardmore

1958-60 Philadelphia Logan

1960-66 Quarryville Memorial

1966 retired

1970-71 Mount Hope

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DAVIS, WILLIAM H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1920-21 Fort Loudon (did not finish the year)

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

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DAY, GIDEON HOWARD

Born: 5-16-1816 Ellicott City MD married: Sarah Ann Seamans

Died: 5-16-1901 Riverside obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1901, 109

1840 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Old Gearhart Cemetery [Mt. Vernon Cemetery], Riverside PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 120

1840-41 Clearfield

1941-42 Sunbury

1842-43 Luzerne

1943-44 Waynesboro

1844-46 Mifflin

1846-48 Luzerne

1848-50 Bloomsburg

1950-52 Jersey Shore

1852-53 agent, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1853-55 Baltimore City station

1855-56 Washington Capital Hill

1856-57 New Bloomfield

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-60 Seaman’s Union Bethel

1860-62 Jeanesville

1862-64 on leave

1864-66 Orangeville

1866-68 Jeanesville

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-73 on leave

1868-70 Berwick

1871-72 Benton

1873-76 Trevorton

1876-79 Snydertown

1879-82 Elysburg

1882-84 Washingtonville

1884-87 White Haven

1887-88 Stockton-Beaver Meadow

1888-90 Riverside

1890 retired

Note: An obituary for Gideon Howard Day also appears in the 5/23/1901 Christian Advocate. A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference.

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DEALE, JOHN SUMMERFIELD

Born: 9-3-1825 Annapolis MD married:

Died: 4-19-1885 Baltimore MD obit:

1849 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1886, 41

1849-50 St. Mary

1850-51 Rockville

1851-52 Cumberland

1852-53 Warrenton

1853-55 Shepherdstown

1855-56 Rockville

1856-57 Ryland Chapel station

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Ryland Chapel station

1858-59 Harpers Ferry

1859-60 Williamsport (Md)

1861-63 Hereford

1863-65 principal, Baltimore County Institute

1864-66 North Baltimore

1866-68 Baltimore Harford Avenue

1868 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69 Baltimore Harford Avenue

1869-70 Baltimore Broadway

1870-74 superintendent, East Baltimore District

1874-76 North Baltimore station

1876-78 Waugh

1878-81 Washington Wesley Chapel

1881-82 Ryland

1882-85 superintendent, Washington District

1885 Baltimore Caroline Street

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DEAN, GLENN IRVAN THOMAS.

Born: 6-5-1939 Tyrone PA married: (none)

Died: 6-20-1972 New Paris PA obit:

Interment:

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1973, 372

1968 license, recommended by Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1967-68 associate, Tyrone Columbia Avenue (beginning 1/1/67)

1968-71 Burnt Cabins

1971 New Paris, Western Pennsylvania Conference

Note: Glenn I.T. Dean served as a local pastor.

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DEAN, JOHN SHERIDAN WEBSTER

Born: 3-7-1848 Upshur County WV married: Grace Marple

Died: 6-24-1917 Kansas City MO obit: [b. 2/4/1868]

1875 admitted on trial

Interment: Oakwood [Oakland?] Cemetery, Baldwin City KS

Obit: Kansas Conference 1918, 201

1875-76 Pine Grove

1876-80 faculty, Pennsylvania Agricultural College [Penn State]

1880-83 student , Boston University in Boston MA

1883-84 student, University of Berlin in Germany

1884-85 member, West Virginia legislature

1885-86 Detroit MI

1886 transfer to Nebraska Conference

Peru

Pawnee City

Falls City

Hastings

Lincoln

presiding elder, Nebraska City District

transfer to Kansas Conference

Note: The conference archives have a newspaper obituary for John S.W. Dean.

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DEAVOR, EDWARD E. ALLEN

Born: 12-31-1845 Roses Place, Fulton County PA married: Susan Stotler

Died: 9-17-1923 York PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 130

1872 admitted on trial

Interment: Mifflintown Cemetery, Mifflintown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1924, 144

1872-73 Shrewsbury

1873-76 West Fairview

1876-79 Wrightsville

1879-80 Mercersburg

1880-83 Newton Hamilton

1883-84 Birmingham

1884-85 Shrewsbury

1885-88 Newport

1888-90 Wrightsville

1890-93 Newberry

1893-96 Emporium

1896-97 Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1897-99 Hollidaysburg

1899-00 Austin

1900-02 Patton

1902-03 Hazleton Diamond

1903-06 York Duke Street

1906-09 Montoursville

1909-12 Osceola

1912-16 Mifflintown

1916-17 York West Street

1917 retired

Note: Edward E.A. Deavor is a brother of Joseph D.W. Deavor and W.T. Sherman Deavor.

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DEAVOR, JOSEPH DYKE WALTER

Born: 5-31-1853 Fulton County PA married: Laura Belle McDowell

Died: 12-20-1935 Harrisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 133

1880 admitted on trial, recommended by Williamsport Mulberry Street

1881 ordained deacon, recommended by Port Royal

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1936, 188

1880-81 Port Royal

1881-83 Robinsonville

1883-85 Orbisonia

1885-88 Mifflinville

1888-91 Northumberland

1891-93 Weatherly

1893-95 Mount Holly Springs

1895-99 Shamokin Second

1899-02 Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1902-04 Mifflin

1904-07 Burnham

1907-10 Williamsport Fourth Street.

1910-12 Ashland

1912-14 Sunbury Catawissa Avenue

1914-19 Harrisburg Epworth

1919-23 Morrisdale

1923 retired

Note: Joseph D.W. Deavor is a brother of Edward E.A. Deavor and W.T. Sherman Deavor. The conference archives contain an extensive file of his written sermons.

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DEAVOR, WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

Born: 12-8-1864 near West Dublin, Fulton County PA married: Katharine Totten

Died: 11-2-1898 Wapwallopen PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1956, 235

1886 quarterly conference license, Mifflinville

1888 admitted on trial, recommended by Mifflinville circuit

1890 ordained deacon

1892 ordained elder

Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 89

1888-89 Schoyerville

1889-91 Nescopeck

1891-92 Silverbrook

1892-98 faculty, St. John’s College at Annapolis MD

Note: W.T. Sherman Deavor is a brother of Edward E.A. Deavor and Joseph D.W. Deavor. WTS Deavor is the author of A History of the Deavor Family, of which the archives do not have copy.

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DECKER, ANDREW WILSON

Born: 9-18-1834 Huntingdon PA married: Sallie A. Johnston

Died: 8-7-1901 Orbisonia PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 76

married2: Anna Rebecca Jones

1863 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference obit2: 1943, 217

Interment: River View Cemetery, Huntingdon

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 127

1862-65 Shirleysburg

1865-67 Woodbury

1867-78 Schellsburg

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70 Schellsburg

1870-72 Cassville

1872-75 New Bloomfield

1875-77 Duncansville

1877-79 Birmingham

1879-82 Concord

1882-84 Castle Fin

1884-85 Airville

1885-86 Newville

1886-87 Conyngham

1887-90 Elysburg

1890-92 Jerseytown

1892-95 Manor Hill

1895-98 Ray’s Hill

1989-00 Saladasburg

1900 retired

Note: An obituary for Andrew W. Decker also appears in the 10/17/1901 Christian Advocate.

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DECKER, WILLIAM HERBERT

Born: 4-8-1874 Monroe County WI married: Arria Evelyn Wheeler (1/1/1900)

Died: obit:

1899 admitted on trial

1899-01 West Fairview

1901-03 Lewisberry-Lisburn

1903 withdrew to enter the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church

1903-04 instructor, York County Academy

1904- Minersville PA

1924-26 Trenton NJ St. Paul’s

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D’ELIA, PASQUALE

Born: 8-3-1875 Tarlizzi, Bari Italy married: Angelina Profeta

Died: 5-16-1967 Altoona PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 220

1917 admitted on trial, Erie Conference

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 312

1912-26 Hillsville Italian Church

1926 transfer to Northern New York Conference

1926-29 Frankfort NY Italian Mission

1929 transfer to Wyoming Conference

1929-32 Yatesville PA Italian Mission

1932-33 Altoona Italian Mission, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1933 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1933-42 Altoona Italian Mission

1942 retired

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DEMING, WALTER RAY

Born: 7-27-1919 Canfield OH married: Isabel _____

Died: 1-30-2004 obit:

1951 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1951 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Troy Conference 2004, ?

1951-52 Deer Park

1952 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1952-57 Muncy Valley

1957-63 Conyngham

1963-66 Williamsport Third Street.

1966 transfer to Troy Conference

1966-77 Round Lake and Clifton Park

1977-87 Granville and Rupert

1987 retired

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DeMOYER, JOHN AMOS

Born: 3-12-1826 New Berlin PA married: Susanna Frey

Died: 2-9-1903 Trevorton PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 164

1850 quarterly conference license, Williamsport Pine Street

1851 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Northumberland Cemetery, Northumberland PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1903, 112

1851-52 Middleburg

1852-53 Bloomingdale

1853-54 Bloomsburg

1854-55 North Danville

1855-57 Orangeville

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59 Catawissa

1859-60 Milton

1860-62 Penn’s Valley

1862-63 Great Island

1863-65 Warrior’s Mark

1865-66 Half Moon

1866-68 Manor Hill

1868 charter member Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Manor Hill

1869-71 Waynesboro

1871-72 White Haven

1872-74 Montoursville

1874-77 Sunbury

1877-80 Hollidaysburg

1880-83 Ashland

1883-84 Harrisburg Fifth Street

1884-85 Snydertown

1885-88 Houtzdale

1888-90 Duncannon

1890-93 Wrightsville

1893-97 Shickshinny

1897-00 Northumberland

1900 retired

 1902-03 Tevorton

Note: An obituary for John A. DeMoyer also appears in the 6/18/1903 New York Christian Advocate, page 1007. A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 361.

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DENDLER, JAMES WESTON

Born: 8-2-1916 Berwick PA married:

Died: 4-4-2001 obit:

1946 admitted on trial, recommended by Rouzerville

1946 ordained deacon

1948 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: Iowa Conference 2001, ?

1941-42 Waterville

1942-44 Sandy Ridge

1944-46 Rouzerville

1946-47 Mont Alto

1947-48 Patton

1948-53 Weatherly

1953 transfer to Des Moines Conference

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DENLINGER, PAUL B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1939-43 student, Dickinson College

1945-47 York Springs

faculty, Chinese & Russian Institute of the U of Washington in Seattle WA

living in Taiwan

Note: Paul B. Denlinger served as a local pastor. He is the author of books and articles on Sino-Tibetan languages.

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DERK, FERDINAND

Born: 8-23-1908 Shamokin PA married: Marion L. Snyder

Died: 10-22-1995 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 430

1931 license, recommended by Shamokin Chestnut Street

1933 admitted on trial

1936 ordained deacon

1938 ordained elder

Interment: Northumberland Memorial Cemetery, Shamokin PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 407

1932-33 Vira

1933-35 Wilburton

1935-36 Laurelton

1936-39 Beach Haven (ending 12/31/1939)

1940-42 Glen Campbell (beginning 1/1/1940 and ending 2/1942)

1942-45 chaplain, US Army (beginning 2/1942 and ending 10/1945)

1945-47 Fairview (beginning 11/1/1945)

1947-48 Flemington (ending 9/1948)

1948-52 Ferrum Junior. College, VA (beginning 9/1948)

1952-57 Shickshinny

1957-65 Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1965-74 Bellefonte Trinity

1974 retired

Note: Ferdinand Derk is the father of Jay Merrill Derk, and the grandfather of J. Michael Derk of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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DERK, FRANCIS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1955-56 Bald Eagle Parish

Note: Francis Derk served as a local pastor.

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DERK, JAY MERRILL

Born: 10-6-1940 Clearfield PA married: Donna Lee Chronister

Died: obit:

1959 license, recommended by Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1963 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1963 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1965 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1961-62 student, Juniata College

1961-62 Wolfsburg

1962-65 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC

1962-63 assistant, Washington McKendree

1963-65 Bristol MD

1965 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1965-66 Harrisburg Christ and Mechanicsburg Salem

1966-70 Mechanicsburg Salem

1970-74 Mifflintown

1974-82 Sunbury St. John’s

1982-87 Philipsburg Trinity

1987-00 Grace Lemoyne

2000-02 York Fourth

2002 retired

Note: Jay Merrill Derk is the son of Ferdinand Derk, and the father of J. Michael Derk of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the Methodist Church.

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DERSHEN, ROBERT CAREY

Born: 4-16-1884 Mifflinburg PA married: Kathryn M. Rherer

Died: 11-3-1947 Harrisburg PA obit:

? ordained, Northwestern Conference of the United Evangelical Church

Interment: Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1948, 190

Correll and Norcross, MN

Big Stone City and Aberdeen, ND

Palmerton PA

1921-22 Hustontown, Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church

1922-24 ?

1924-25 Lewisberry & Lisburn, Central Pennsylvania Conference of ME Church

1925 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the ME Church

1925-28 Gatchelville & Cross Roads

1928-30 Elysburg

1930-32 Conyngham

1932-35 Pleasant Gap

1935-38 Snow Shoe

1938-40 East Waterford

1940 retired

1940-41 Fort Loudon

1941-42 Karthaus

1942-45 Allenwood

1945-46 Montandon

1946-47 Boyles Run

Note: The churches listed prior to 1925 are as given in his obituary and are not necessarily in sequence. Robert C. Dershen is the father of Mable Jeannette Dershen Keboch, wife of Edwin C. Keboch.

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DERSTINE, MICHAEL SHAFFER

Born: 9-29-1864 Oak Hall, Centre County PA married: Maude May Gruver

Died: 4-12-1936 Williamsport PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1929, 200

1897 admitted on trial

Interment: Centre Hall Cemetery, Centre Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 248

1897-02 East Waterford

1902-03 Dillsburg-Wellsville

1904-06 North Bend-Hyner

1906-10 Woolrich-Avis

1910-15 Williamsport Third Street

1915-18 Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1918-20 Danville St. Paul’s

1920-22 Clearfield Eleventh Street

1922-28 Williamsport High Street

1928-30 Muncy

1930-32 Jeanesville-Audenreid

1932-34 Ramey-Janesville

1934 retired

1934-35 Ramey-Janesville

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DEWALT, HARRISON A.

Born: 5-30-1901 Hancock County OH married: Alice Elaine Atwood

Died: 2-10-1995 Benson AZ obit: Wyoming Conference1947, 732

married2: Ruth Evelyn Kent

1933 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit: [1923-?]

1936 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference

Interment: Benson AR

Obit: [1995, 229 & 438]

1933-34 Lisle

1934-36 Sidney Center

1936-37 Sanataria Springs

1937-39 Kirkwood

1939-43 Flemingsville

1943-46 Tioga Center

1946-48 Hornbrook

1948 transfer to Central New York Conference

1948-49 associate, Odessa-Catherine-Alpine

1949-53 Blodgett Mills-Freetown-East Freetown

1953-55 East Smithfield-Wetina-Big Pond

1955-58 Victory-Bethel-Ira

1958-61 Ledyard-West Genoa-Venice Center (ending in mid year)

1961 Whitneyville, Genesee Conference (beginning in mid-ear)

1961 transfer to Genesee Conference

1961-62 Whitneyville (beginning in mid-year)

1962 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1962-64 Whitneyville Parish

1964-65 Bald Eagle Parish

1965-66 sabbatical leave

1966 retired

Note: Harrison A. DeWalt is the father of Robert William DeWalt (1937-1992), admitted on trial in the Central New York Conference in 1960.

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DIAL, GLENDALL PEARL

Born: married:

Died: 9-15-1959 obit:

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1960, 425.

1944-47 Burnt Cabins

Note: G. Pearl Dial served Burnt Cabins as a student from another conference, while attending seminary at Westminster MD.

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DICKSON, CONWAY W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1897 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1897-01 West Fairview-Marysville

1901-03 Beaver Meadow

1903-04 Jeanesville-Audenreid

1904-06 Great Island

1906-07 Hughesville

1907-09 Sinnemahoning

1909-11 Epworth, York

1911-12 Conyngham

1912-16 on leave

1916 withdrew

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DIEBEL, JACOB HENRY

Born: 3-25-1863 Germany married: Bertha A. _____

Died: 6-1-1918 Gordon obit: [d. 4/25/1942]

1890 admitted on trial, recommended by Fort Littleton circuit

Interment: Clauser Cemetery, Llewellyn PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 126

1888-91 Fort Littleton

1891-92 Rouzerville

1892-95 Littlestown

1895-97 Selinsgrove

1897-00 Mifflinville

1900-02 Bloomingdale

1902-05 Clearville

1905-06 Slate Run

1906-11 Ramey

1911-12 Hoytville

1912-16 Houtzdale

1916-16 Gordon

Note: An obituary for Jacob H. Diebel also appears in the 8/10/1916 Christian Advocate, page 1073.

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DIEHL, CHARLES ELLSWORTH

Born: 1-4-1909 Millville PA married: Ruth Louise Cupp

Died: 7-18-1994 Williamsport PA obit:

1927 license, recommended by Newberry

1930 admitted on trial

1933 ordained deacon

1935 ordained elder

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 443

1928-29 Hummelstown, Philadelphia Conference

1929-31 Waterville

1931-33 Phelps Chapel and Limestone

1933-37 Salona-Lamar

1937-43 Petersburg

1943-47 Shickshinny

1947-50 York Grace [Calvary]

1950-63 New Cumberland

1963-66 Chambersburg

1966-71 Lewistown First

1971 retired

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DIEHL, JARED N.

Born: 2-17-1846 Snydertown PA married: Kathryn Hilner

Died: 1-23-1942 Berwick PA obit:

married2: Margaret Morrison

1907 license obit2: 1939, 222

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Danville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 200

1907-09 Milnesville, Lattimer & Jeddo

1909-16 Jamison City

1916-21 Wapwallopen

1921-26 Orangeville & Rohrsburg

1926-30 Laurelton

1930 retired

Note: Jared N. Diehl served as a local pastor. He appears to have been originally assigned to Washingtonville in 1909, but was “moved” to Jamison City before beginning his work there.

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DILL, HENRY G.

Born: 7-18-1808 Gettysburg PA married: Sarah Ann Gilbert

Died: 5-30-1887 Lewisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1878, 72

1831 quarterly conference license

1833 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1835 ordained deacon

1837 ordained elder

Interment: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1888, 86

1833-34 Prince George

1834-35 Harford

1835-37 Great Falls

1837-39 Sunbury

1839-40 Lewistown circuit

1840-42 Frederick

1842-43 Williamsburg

1843-45 Huntingdon

1845-47 Bellefonte

1847-49 Milton circuit

1849-51 Williamsport

1851-53 Berwick

1853-55 Frederick

1855-57 Liberty

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59 Berwick

1859-61 Gettysburg

1861-63 Muncy

1863-64 Espty-Light Street

1864-67 Northumberland

1867-68 White Haven

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71 Catawissa

1871 retired

1882-84 New Columbia

Note: Henry G. Dill is the father of William Henry Dill. A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 363. There is a folder on the Dill family in the biographical files. Three of Mrs. Dill’s sisters also married ministers.

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DILL, WILLIAM HENRY

Born: 9-28-1838 Sunbury Pa married: Edith Boynton [7/31/1865]

Died: 1-25-1906 obit: [2/14/1845 – 2/24/1920]

1861 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville PA

Obit: (none)

1861-66 faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1866-67 Hereford

1867-68 Northumberland

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 on leave

1868-69 Curwensville & Clearfield

1869-70 Clearfield

1870-73 on leave

1872-73 Clearfield

1873-76 Woodland

1876-77 Clearfield circuit

1877-80 Clearfield mission

1880-82 West Huntingdon

1882 located for health reasons, became cashier at First National Bank in Clearfield

Note: William Henry Dill is the son of Henry G. Dill. A biographical sketch of Rev. Dill is given in Aldrich’s 1887 History of Clearfield County, page 690.

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DIMMICK, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Born: 5-10-1850 married: Sarah Louise Morris

Died: 8-2-1908 obit: Ohio Conference 1943, 1064

? Ohio Conference

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Conference 1908, 120

Ohio Conference

1894 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1894-99 Harrisburg Grace

1899-01 Danville St. Paul’s

1901 transfer to Ohio Conference

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DI STEFANO, NICOLA

Born: 8-13-1881 Montalbono Sicily married: Myrtle Rebecca Cozzens

Died: 1-20-1966 Lake Harbor FL obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 162

married2:Augusta Foor Andrews

1908 admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference obit2: Central NY Conference1966, 192

1918 ordained elder, page 59

Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY

Obit: Central New York Conference 1966, 187

1908-15 Italian work and/or missionary to Italian Conference

1915 transfer to Genesee Conference

1915-16 Italian Missions

1916 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1916-20 Altoona Italian Mission

1920 transfer to Central New York Conference

1920-21 Manchester

1921-23 Newfield-Trumball

1923-49 Syracuse Church of the Redeemer

1949 retired

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DIXON, DAVID L.

Born: 1-7-1872 near Petersburg PA married: Winifred Simon

Died: 8-4-1929 Millerstown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 197

1908 admitted on trial

Interment: Hopewell Cemetery, Hopewell PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1930, 188

1906-07 Shirleysburg

1907-09 Waterville

1909-10 West Port

1910-11 Eagles Mere

1911-12 Trevorton

1912-15 Lewisberry-Lisburn.

1915-16 Mt. Holly Springs

1916-18 Hopewell

1918-20 Weatherly

1920-22 Hastings

1922-27 Catawissa

1927-28 Montgomery

1928-29 Millerstown

Note: An obituary for David L. Dixon also appears in the 8/22/1929 Christian Advocate, page 1032.

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DIXON, EDWARD DELBERT

Born: 12-16-1923 Clearfield County PA married: Martha Marie Dixon

Died: 2-6-2001 obit: 2002, 358

1965 license, recommended by Centre Hill

1969 admitted as associate member

Interment: Centre Hill Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: 2001, 361

1965 Simmemahoning (Jun 1 – Oct 31)

1966-78 Wallaceton

1978-88 Shawville

1988 retired

Note: Edward D. Dixon worked as a laborer and truck driver for 24 years before entering the ministry.

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DIXON, JOHN ALEXANDER

Born: 7-13-1830 Frederick County MD married: Harriet Abigail Richards

Died: 5-7-1905 Chicago IL obit: [b. 2/6/1832]

1857 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1859 ordained deacon. East Baltimore Conference

1861 ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: West Wisconsin Conference 1905, 35

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Warrior’s Mark

1858-59 Karthaus

1859-60 Shippen

1860-61 Milton circuit

1861-62 Sunbury

1862-64 York Springs

1864-65 Shippensburg

1865-67 Williamsburg

1867-68 Mount Carmel

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Mount Carmel

1869-71 Hanover-New Oxford

1871-72 Newville-Rehoboth

1872-73 Rehoboth

1873-76 Logan Valley

1876-77 Pine Grove

1877-78 Grahamton

1878 located, after a trial, without consent

1878-80 “went west”

1880 “re-admitted” to Nebraska Conference

1880-81 Red Cloud

1881-82 Grant

1882 transfer to West Virginia Conference

1882-83 Coalburg

1883-84 Fairfields

1884-85 Point Pleasant

1885-86 Smithville

1886-87 Quinnimont

1887-88 Hinton & Coal Valley

1888-89 Hinton

1889 transfer to Virginia Conference

1889-90 ?

1890-91 Bethany

1891 transfer to West Wisconsin Conference

1891-92 West Sterling

1892-94 Rewey

1894-95 State Line

1895-98 Cassville

1898-99 Rewey

1899 retired

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DOBBS, JAMES HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1881 admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Ridge Avenue station

Interment:

Obit:

1881 transfer to St. Louis Conference

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DODD, HARPER P.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1944-48 Benezette-Penfield (beginning 10/1/1944)

Note: Harper P. Dodd served as a local pastor.

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DODSON, EDWARD WESLEY

Born: 1930 Rome PA married:

Died: 2007 Westport WA obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1949-53 student, Dickinson College

1950-52 Lewisberry

Note: Edward W. Dodson is the son of Lavere A. Dodson.

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DODSON, LAVERE A.

Born: 5-26-1902 Quincy PA married: Eunice Alma VanRiper

Died: 3-10-1998 obit: Wyoming Conference1954, 1760

married2: Grete _____

1925 admitted on trial obit2:

1928 ordained deacon

Interment: East Newark Valley NY

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1998, 320

1925-27 Manor Hill

1927-29 Riddlesburg

1929 transfer to Wyoming Conference

1929-32 Rome-North Orwell

1932-36 Otego

1936-39 Bethany

1939-43 Moscow

1943-57 chaplain, US Army

1957 transfer to New Jersey Conference

1957-62 New Jersey Conference

1962 transfer to Wyoming Conference

1962-68 Otego

1968 retired

1968-69 Chenango Bridge

1969-70 chaplain, Broome CCOC

1970-72 Sanitaria Springs

1972-74 North Fenton/Susquehanna/Tioga Center

1974-76 Brookvale

Note: Lavere A. Dodson is the father of Edward W. Dodson.

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DOHERTY, JAMES

Born: 5-15-1867 Lisburn, Ireland married:

Died: 2-27-1941 obit:

1900 admitted on trial

Interment: Utahville PA

Obit: [1941, 205]

1893-97 student, Dickinson College

1897-00 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1900-01 Everett circuit

1901-02 Jonestown

1902-03 Benton

1903-09 Excelsior

1909-10 Waterville

1910-12 Jeddo-Milnesville

1912-14 Allegheny

1914-16 Gatchelville

1916-19 York Springs

1919-22 Williamsburg (asst)

1922-23 Ennisville

1923-25 Claysburg

1925-28 Emporium circuit.

1928-30 Glen Hope

1930-33 Alum Bank

1933-34 Blandburg

1934- retired

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DOLOWAY, ERNEST S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit

1925-26 Juniata Gap

Note: Ernest Doloway served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown, although he appears to have been a Baptist pastor in the Endicott NY area prior to coming to Pennsylvania – and there was an Ernest Doloway (father?) in the Tabernacle ME Church in Binghamton NY in the late 1880’s.

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DONAHUE, JOHN

Born: 6-30-1831 Baltimore MD married: Mrs. Catharine Mytinger Linton

Died: 5-31-1893 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 101

1859 quarterly conference license, Newport circuit

1865 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 90

1865-66 Newport circuit

1866-69 Mount Holly Springs

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Mount Holly Springs

1869-70 Altoona Eighth Avenue

1870-71 Chambersburg Second

1871-74 Waynesboro

1874-77 Everett

1877-80 Williamsport Mulberry Street

1880-81 Bellefonte

1881-83 Bloomsburg

1883-86 Ashland

1886-89 Hazleton

1989-93 superintendent, Danville District

Note: This surname is also rendered DONOHUE. Mrs. Donahue was first married to a Mr. Linton. She is the sister of Charles H. Mytinger of the Baltimore Conference.

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DONALDSON, JANE HOWELL (MONTGOMERY)

Born: 1-12-1932 Boston MA married: _____ Donaldson

Died: obit:

1954 license, recommended by State College

1957 admitted on trial

1960 ordained deacon, Florida Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1957-58 at school

1958-61 assistant director, Florida State Univeristy Wesley Foundation

1961-63 dean of women, Westminister Choir College at Princeton NJ

1963-65 publicity department, Cedar Crest College at Allentown PA

1965 located

Note: Jane Montgomery Donaldson is the daughter of Frank W. Montgomery and the sister of Joanne Montgomery Link.

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DOSH, JOHN H. C.

Born: 4-17-1821 Strasburg VA married: Hannah Brown Tallman

Died: 4-16-1881 Arlington MD obit: [9/5/1828 – 3/21/1895]

1846 quarterly conference license, Woodstock circuit

1848 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1850 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1852 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1882,34

1847-48 Franklin circuit

1848-49 Frostburg

1849-50 Concord

1850-51 Lewistown

1851-53 Pine Creek

1853-54 New Liberty

1854-56 Gettysburg

1856-57 Waynesboro station

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Waynesboro station

1858-60 Hollidaysburg

1860-62 Jefferson station

1862-64 Danville

1864-66 York

1866 -68 superintendent, Frederick District

1868 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69 superintendent, Frederick District

1869-70 superintendent, West Baltimore District

agent, Book Depository

Baltimore Harford Avenue

Hereford

Baltimore circuit

Arlington

Summerfield

Note: Mrs. Dosh is the daughter of prominent layman Jeremiah Tallman of the Williamsport Pine Street congregation.

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DOTY, JAMES B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1896-97 Town Hill

Note: James B. Doty lived in New Cumberland and served as a local pastor. The surname is also rendered DOTEY.

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DOUGHERTY, JAMES H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1892 ordained deacon, recommended by Williamsport Pine Street

Interment:

Obit:

Note: James H. Dougherty served as a local pastor.

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DOUT, SAMUEL REUBEN

Born: 7-13-1882 Boyertown PA married: Edith M. Coleman

Died: 5-24-1947 York PA obit: Philadelphia Conference 1953, 406

1910 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference

Interment: Boyertown PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1948, 208

1908-10 student, Dickinson College

1908-09 Greencastle

1909 “transfer” to Philadelphia Conference

1909-10 Hummelstown

1910-11 Hummelstown

1911-14 Leola & New Holland

1914-18 Elverson

1918-19 chaplain, US Army

1919-28 Ardmore

1928-37 Shenandoah

1937-45 Philadelphia Rehoboth

1945-46 Lansdale

1946-47 Royersford

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DOVERSPIKE, CLIFFORD LEROY

Born: 2-21-1937 Troutville PA married: Wanda Lou Mattern

Died: obit:

1961 license, recommended by Canoe Creek

1964 ordained deacon

1966 ordained elder

1969 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1960-63 Oriole

1963-68 Trevorton

1968-72 student, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY

1968-72 Marathon, Ohio Conference

1972-83 Altoona Trinity

1983-88 Greencastle

1988-91 Mechanicsburg Aldersgate

1991-95 Wellsboro

1995-99 Hanover Lohr’s Memorial

1999 retired

Note: C. Leroy Doverspike is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 357.

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DOW, LOREN WOODBURY

Born: 3-11-1915 Camden ME married:

Died: 10-29-1997 obit:

1937 ordained deacon, Maine Conference

1939 ordained elder, Maine Conference

1940 admitted on trial, Maine Conference

Interment:

Obit: New England Conference 1998, ?

1935-37 North Brooksville

1937-38 Mattawamsburg

1938-40 Dexter

1940-42 Wareham, New England Southern Conference

1942 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1942-45 Altoona Lakemont

1945-46 at school

1946 transfer to New England Southern Conference

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DOWNIN, DAVID ALBERT, JR

Born: 8-3-1908 Phoenixville PA married: Marion F. Dimmick

Died: 10-27-1997 Oriole PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937,275

married2: G. Elizabeth Fenstermaker

obit2: 2004, 364

1937 admitted on trial, recommended by Bethlehem Wesley

1939 ordained deacon

1941 ordained elder

Interment: Limestone Cemetery, Jersey Shore PA

Obit:1998, 432

1935-38 Oriole & Antes Fort

1938-40 Rouzerville

1940-42 Half Moon

1942-45 Pleasant Gap

1945-49 Salladasburg

1949-53 Port Royal

1953-57 Newport

1957-64 Berwick Calvary

1964-75 Millerstown

1975 retired

1975-88 Williamsport Christ

Note: David A. Downin is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 358

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DOWNS, WILFORD

Born: 3-12-1827 near Lexington VA married: Martha Cornelius

Died: 10-?-1884 obit: [b. 1836]

1850 quarterly conference license, Fincastle (Va.) circuit

1851 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1885, 35

1850-51 Fincastle circuit

1851-52 Moorefield

1852-54 Augusta

1854-56 North Baltimore station

1856-57 Altoona

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59 Lock Haven

1859-61 Boonsboro

1861-63 Frostburg station

1863-65 Frederick

1865-67 Lewistown

1867-68 Baltimore Jefferson Street

1868 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1868-69 Baltimore Jefferson Street

1869-72 East Baltimore station

1872-74 Baltimore Strawbridge

1874-78 superintendent, West Baltimore District

1878-81 South Baltimore station

1881-84 Washington Waugh

1884 Baltimore Monroe Street

Note: Wilford Downs is the father of Howard F. Downs (1860-1936) of the Baltimore Conference.

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DRAKE, CARL VANDIVER

Born: 10-25-1880 Flintstone MD married: Elva Dempsey

Died: 10-19-1918 Williamsport PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 209

1906 admitted on trial

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 148

1904-08 Elimsport & Maple Hill (started in mid-1904, ending 10/15/08)

1908-13 Williamsport Market Street (beginning 10/15/08

1913-17 Saxton

1917-18 Williamsport Third Street

Note: Some biographical information on Carl V. Drake appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 60.

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DRAKE, DONALD E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1964 license

1966 ordained deacon

1968 ordained elder

1971 admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1964-67 Half Moon

1967-70 Grampian

1970 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1970-75 Grampian

1975-88 DuBois Trinity- Penfield

1988-94 Grampian circuit

1994 retired

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DRIVER, CHARLES ERNEST

Born: 3-27-1892 Renovo PA married: Henrietta Pauline Humphrey

Died: 11-25-1979 Bakersfield CA obit: [12/21/1892 – 4/18/1958]

married2: Lovina _____

obit2:

Interment: Hillcrest Memorial Park

Obit:

1914-16 Trout Run

1916-19 Duboistown & Nisbit

1919-21 Port Matilda

1921-22 Jamison City

1922 no longer listed

1925 evangelist, living in Palmyra NY

1928 Paterson NJ Lewis Street Community Church

1951-79 living in Kern County CA

Note: Charles E. Driver served as a local pastor. There is a biographical file in the conference archives on Charles E. Driver.

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DRUM, MARTIN LUTHER

Born: 1834 McKee’s Falls PA married: Selma Jane McMillan

Died: 4-7-1898 Philadelphia PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 743

1855 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 80

1855-56 Catawissa

1856-57 Berwick

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Sunbury

1858-59 Gettysburg

1859-60 Liberty

1860-62 Wrightsville

1862-63 Shrewsbury

1863-65 New Washington

1865-66 Warrior’s Mark

1866-68 Liberty Valley

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Renovo

1869-72 Emporium

1872-75 Muncy

1875-78 Jeanesville

1878-81 Northumberland

1881-84 Shickshinny

1884-86 New Cumberland

1886-89 Mt. Carmel

1889-92 Jeanesville-Audenreid

1892-95 Mifflin

1895-98 Shippensburg

1898 on leave

Note: Martin L. Drum is the grandfather of William D. Gould (1897-1993) of the Easter Pennsylvania Conference. A biographical sketch of Martin L. Drum is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 365. Mrs. Drum’s father David McMillan was a local preacher, and her sister Carrie L. McMillan was a missionary to India and the wife of the prominent Methodist missionary Rev. Philo M. Buck (1846-1924).

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DUBOIS, RAYMOND DONALD

Born: 8-25-1942 Brooklyn NY married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1961-65 student, Susquehanna University

1965-66 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NY

1966 “withdrew” to New York Conference

Greater New Jersey Conference

Note: Raymond D. DuBois has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He apparently started the ministerial process while a student within our conference and then returned to his native New York Conference. In 2003 he is listed as a member of the Greater New Jersey serving as chaplain of the Garden State Correctional Facility.

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DUBRICK, WILTON J.

Born: 6-16-1904 Courtdale PA married: Hazel Mae Harding

Died: 8-25-1981 obit: Wyoming Conference 2003, 204

1929 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference

Interment: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort PA

Obit: Wyoming Conference 1982, 222

1929-31 student, Dickinson College

1929-31 Lewisberry & Lisburn

1931-33 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1932-33 Pocono Lake

1933-35 Wilkes-Barre Bennet Memorial –St. Andrews

1935-37 Glen Lyon

1937-41 Whitney Point

1941-42 Endwell & Vestal Center

1942-43 Endwell

1943-46 Sidney

1946-51 Waverly NY

1951-53 Wilkes-Barre Firwood

1953-58 executive secretary, Conference Board of Education

1958-63 Clarkes Green

1963-72 Binghamton Fairview

1972-75 Maine Federated

1975 retired

1975-77 Maine Federated

1980-81 Choconut Center

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

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DUM [DUNN], RAY SPOTTS

Born: 7-6-1888 married: Jennie Helen McWhood

Died: obit: New Mexico Conference 1920, 50

married2: Kate Heller

1914 admitted on trial, New Mexico Conference obit2: Oregon Conference 1946,305

married3: Mrs. Mirabel _____

obit 3:

Interment:

Obit: [DUNN] Idaho Conference 1953, 83

1908-11 student, Dickinson College

1909-10 Hammersly Fork (later part of the year)

1910-11 Rehoboth

1911 Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Grove (ending summer 1911)

1911-14 student, drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1914-16 Clayton English Mission

1916-17 Las Vegas (English)

1917-21 Roswell (English)

1921 transfer to Colorado Conference

1921  Pueblo Bethel

…

? transfer to Idaho Conference

1951 retired

Note: Ray S. Dum moved to New Mexico in 1914 for the health of his first wife, who suffered from tuberculosis. At the insistence of the second Mrs. Dum, he legally changed his name to Ray S. Dunn. There is a Dum biographical file at the conference archives and a Dum Family Collection in the special Collections at Dickinson College.

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DUMVILLE, WILLIAM SOLOMON JOSEPH

Born: 7-4-1877 Alpena MI married:

Died: obit:

1906 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1902-04 Westport

1904-05 Harrisonville

1905-07 Wapwallopen

1907-09 Jamison City

1909 withdrew because he was unwilling to abstain from tobacco

Note: Some biographical information on Will S.J. Dumville appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 56.

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DUNCAN, CHARLES HAVEN

Born: 9-1-1934 Ashland PA married: Linda Dorothea Kilbourne [9/1/1956]

Died: 10-8-1981 Danielson CT obit: [b. 11/10/1936]

1958 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1958-60 at school

1960 transfer to Northwest Indiana Conference

1962 discontinued

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DUNCAN, JACKSON L.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

1891 admitted on trial

1895 ordained elder, recommended by Lewisberry circuit

1890-92 Muhlenberg

1892-93 Rohrsburg

1893 discontinued at own request

Note: Jackson L. Duncan served after 1893 as a local pastor.

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DUNCAN, JOHN MASON

Born: married: Rebecca Mary Duffield

Died: obit: [d. 2/28/1887]

1872 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1872-73 McConnellsburg

1873 discontinued at own request

Note: It is believed that John Mason Duncan later taught at the Allegany County Academy (near Cumberland MD) and still later removed to Bellefonte PA. Mrs. Duncan was from McConnellsburg.

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DUNKERLY, JOHN RICHARD

Born: 12-28-1856 Williamsport PA married: Bertha Free

Died: 2-11-1905 Shickshinny PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1885, 81

married2: E. Cordelia Reifsnyder

1880 admitted on trial, recommended by Newberry obit2: 1927,533

1880 ordained deacon, recommended by Newberry

Interment: Washington Street Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 115

1880-81 South Heberton

1881-82 Mont Alto

1882-84 Liverpool

1884-87 Shippensburg

1887-91 Gettysburg

1891-94 Hopewell

1894-99 York Duke Street

1899-03 Huntingdon Second

1903-04 Shickshinny

Note: An obituary for John R. Dunkerly also appears in the 2/23/1905 Christian Advocate, page 309. The second Mrs. Duncan is a sister to the prominent medical missionary Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder.

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DUNLAP, GEORGE WILSON

Born: 1-20-1827 Brownsville PA married: Elizabeth M. Hendrix

Died: 6-23-1901 Williamsport PA obit: [1828-1865]

married2: Nancy J. Musser

1855 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference obit2: 1902, 136

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1902, 126

1855-56 Allegany

1856-57 Schellsburg

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58 Shirleysburg

1858-59 York Springs

1859-60 West Falls

1860-62 Shrewsbury

1862-64 Wrightsville

1864-66 Karthaus

1966-68 Philipsburg

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69 Canton MD

1869-70 Granville

1870-72 Freedom Forge [Burnham]

1872-75 Cassville

1875-77 New Bloomfield

1877-79 Three Springs

1879-81 Port Royal

1881-83 Benton

1883-84 Lycoming

1884-87 Great Island

1887-88 Cogan Valley

1888-97 on leave

1891-92 Hyner

1092-93 Lycoming

1897 retired

Note: A biographical of George W. Dunlap sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 366.

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DUNLAP, MARION OSCAR

Born: 7-24-1911 married:

Died: 11-27-1999 obit:

1943 admitted on trial

1943 ordained deacon

1944 ordained elder, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1943-44 chaplain, US Army

1944 transfer to Virginia Conference

1944 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1944-47 chaplain, US Army

1947 transfer to California Conference

1948 [re-named California-Nevada Conference]

1954-56 on leave

1956 voluntary location

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DUNLAP, PAUL B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1932-34 Glen Hope & Madera

1934-36 Frankstown

1936-39 Ramey & Blandburg

Note: Paul B. Dunlap served as a local pastor.

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DUNLAP, RICHARD NORMAN

Born: 9-1-1934 Philipsburg PA married: Ann Carolyn Devore

Died: obit:

1960 ordained deacon

1961 admitted on trial

1963 ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1961-62 New Millport

1962-65 Montgomery

1965-66 student, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena CA

1966-70 Wrightsville

1970-77 Jersey Shore Epworth & Trinity (yoked parish)

1977-88 Muncy

1988-97 Huntingdon First

1997 retired

Note: Richard N. Dunlap is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 369.

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DUNLAP, PAUL BRYAN

Born: 6-5-1900 Hortons PA married: Mary Todd

Died:9-13-1960 New Castle PA obit: [d. 1943]

married2: Margaret Kathryn Fox

1924 ordained, ? Conference obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference1999,353

Interment:

Obit: Erie Conference 1961, 599

Wisconsin Conference

Central Pennsylvania Conference

1949 “transfer” to Erie Conference

1949-57 Sligo-Cherry Run

1957-60 Clintonville Grace

Note: Paul B. Dunlap has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He passed through the conference course of study 1934-38. Mrs. Dunlap supplied the pulpit during her husband’s illness and became an associate member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference in 1969; when Paul B. Dunlap died, she continued as pastor at Clintonville until 1973.

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DUNLAP, SAMUEL B.

Born: 5-10-1816 Fayette County PA married:

Died: 5-14-1861 Baltimore MD obit:

1838 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1862,36

1837-38 Kingwood (Va) circuit

1838-39 Washington (Pa) circuit

1839-40 Somerset

1840-41 Ligonier

1841-42 Redstone

1842 transfer to Missouri Conference

1842-43 St. Charles

1843-44 Fayette

1844-45 (no appointment)

1845 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference (because of the ME/MES split)

1845-46 Beallsville circuit (last part of the year)

1846-48 Morgantown VA

1848-50 Temperanceville

1850-51 Allegheny City Beaver Street

1851-52 Allegheny City South-Common

1852-54 Steubenville OH

1854-55 (no appointment)

1855 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1855-57 Frostburg

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59 Carlisle

1859-61 Baltimore Caroline station

1861

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DUNMIRE, WILLIAM WORTH

Born: 3-27-1847 near McVeytown PA married: Rosamund Caldwell Vail

Died: 3-16-1907 obit: [1850-1910]

1871 admitted on trial

Interment: Dunmire Cemetery, McVeytown PA

Obit:

1870-72 Concord

1872-73 Granville

1873-76 Burnt Cabins

1876-79 Glen Hope

1879-82 Williamsburg

1882-85 Logan Valley

1882-85 editor, Williamsburg Independent

1885 located

1885-? Editor, Altoona Evening Independent

1893-94 Warriors Mark

Note: William W. Dunmire is a brother to Emily Dunmire Melick (1834-1910), wife of Justus A. Melick, and to Lucinda Dunmire Ely (1840-1895), wife of John Wesley Ely. He is a first cousin to Gabriel Dunmire (1832-1885) of the Erie and East Ohio Conferences. The 1892 Biographical Cyclopedia of Blair County gives a biographical sketch and reports that William Worth Dunmire is the proprietor and editor of the Independent Loyal American newspaper in Altoona.

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DUNN, ROBERT HENRY

Born: 2-10-1916 married: Agnes E. _____

Died: 10-16-1999 obit: [9/4/1915 – 9/16/2006]

1962 license, recommended by Beaver First

1966 ordained deacon

1968 ordained elder

1970 admitted as associate member

Interment: Atlanta GA

Obit: [2000, 334]

1963-68 Eagles Mere (beginning 9/1/63)

1968-74 Enola (beginning 8/1/68)

1974-78 Berwick St. Paul’s

1978-81 disability

1981 retired

Note: Robert H. Dunn appears to have been originally from California.

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DUNNING, CHARLES THOMPSON

Born: 11-21-1852 Dover DE married: Mary Hamilton Crever

Died: 10-22-1932 Pittsburgh PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 138

1880 admitted on trial recommended by Watsontown & Montandon

Interment: Paxtang Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 185

1873-74 faculty, Worthington Seminary in Worthington MN

1874-76 faculty, Jennings Seminary in Aurora IL

1876-77 faculty, seminary at Harrisburg PA

1877-80 faculty, Pennington Seminary in Pennington NJ

1880-81 Hickory Run circuit.

1881-82 Beach Haven

1882-84 Concord

1884-86 Three Springs

1886-88 Petersburg-Alexandria

1888-89 Petersburg

1889-93 Hanover-New Oxford

1893-96 Wrightsville

1896-99 Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1899-03 Mechanicsburg

1903-06 Harrisburg St. Paul’s

1906-09 Osceola Mills

1909-11 Altoona Juniata

1911-13 Williamsport Grace

1913-14 Mt. Carmel

1914-17 Hollidaysburg

1917-20 Williamsburg

1920 retired

Note: Charles T. Dunning is the father of James E. Dunning. Mrs. Dunning is the daughter of Benjamin Heck Crever.

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DUNNING, JAMES EDWIN

Born: 1-23-1886 Three Springs PA married: Daisy W. Fisher

Died: 9-26-1958 Los Angeles CA obit:

1907 admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit: Southern California-Arizona Conference 1959, 324

1907-09 Center-Sandy Ridge

1909-12 Lumber City

1912-15 Howard

1915 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1915-17 Johnstown Louther Memorial

1917-21 Ford City

1921 transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

1921-25 Los Angeles Chesterfield Square

1925-29 Los Angeles Euclid Heights

1929-33 Pacific Palisades

1933-35 Orange

1935-39 superintendent, San Diego-Phoenix District

1939-43 executive secretary, conference board of missions and church extension

1943-58 Los Angeles First

Note: James E. Dunning is the son of Charles T. Dunning and grandson of Benjamin Crever. He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, page 100.

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DURKEE, JOHN BEST

Born: 6-13-1855 Madera PA married: Lucretia Shoff

Died: 5-6-1930 Houtzdale PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 163

1893 ordained deacon

1895 ordained elder

1910 admitted on trial

Interment: Beulah Cemetery, Madera PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 174

1893-94 Millheim

1894-98 Harrisonville

1898-01 New Millport [Ansonville]

1900-04 Karthaus

1904-07 Port Matilda

1907-08 Pleasant Gap

1908-11 Cogan Valley

1911-13 Costello-Wharton

1913-15 Shawville

1915-17 Cherry Tree

1917-19 Munson

1919-21 Jeddo-Milnesvile

1921-22 Kulpmont

1922024 Karthaus

1924-25 Waterville

1925 retired

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DUVALL, GEORGE ALBERT

Born: 12-28-1879 Akersville PA married: Anna Elizabeth Steck

Died: 1-9-1955 Williamsport PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1978, 266

1904 admitted on trial

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hughesville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 228

1903-04 Medix

1904-07 Westport

1907-11 Park Place-Delano

1911-16 Gordon

1916-22 Barnesboro

1922-27 Roaring Spring

1927-30 Tyrone Columbia Avenue

1930-33 Bedford

1933-42 Williamsport High Street

1942-46 Jersey Shore Epworth

1946-49 Mill Hall

1949 retired

Note: George A. Duvall is the uncle of Ira R. Duvall. Some biographical information appears in the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 45.

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DUVALL, IRA RUSSELL

Born: 7-29-1892 Crystal Springs PA married: Ramie Osa Jackson

Died: 10-10-1983 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1986, 428

1912 license, recommended by Akersville

1917 admitted on trial

1919 ordained deacon

1921 ordained elder

Interment: Watsontown PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 375

1914 Vira (ending 9/14)

1914-15 student, Dickinson College (9/14 to 9/15)

1915-17 Keating Summit (beginning 9/15)

1917-21 Burnt Cabins

1921-28 Orbisonia-Shirleysburg

1928-32 Houtzdale (ending 6/32)

1932-38 Montgomery (7/32 – 7/38)

1938-48 Altoona Grace (beginning 8/38)

1948-55 Osceola Mills

1955-61 Curwensville

1961 retired

Note: Ira R. Duvall is the nephew of George A. Duvall.

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DYER, LEWIS A.

Born: 12-24-1866 Pleasant Hill MO married: Bula Schaeffer

Died: 11-27-1930 Landisville PA obit:

1895 ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1898 admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

Interment: Landisville Cemetery, Landisville PA

Obit: Philadelphia Conference 1931, 712

1898-00 Bethel-Trinity (did not finish the second year)

1900-05 Shamokin mission

1905-09 on leave

1909-11 Wapwallopen

1911-13 Beach Haven

1913 Roaring Creek

1913 transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1913-14 Springfield

1914-15 Grove

1915-17 Thorndale

1917-20 Tremont

1920-21 Belfast and Wind Gap

1921-24 Tullytown

1924-26 Delaware Water Gap Portland

1926-27 Lehighton

1927-28 on leave

1928-30 Salunga

1930 on leave

Note: The Trinity of Bethel-Trinity is the former Trinity South of the Evangelical Association; this charge is in southern York County.

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DYSART, RUSSELL BALDWIN

Born: 12-27-1887 Newton Hamilton PA married: Anna L. Reynolds

Died: 11-12-1943 Mifflinville PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 452

1913 license

1918 admitted on trial, recommended by Montville NJ

1918 ordained deacon

1920 ordained elder

Interment: Franklinville Cemetery, Franklinville PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1944, 220

1916-17 Montville NJ, Newark Conference

1917-20 YMCA War Work

1920-22 Riddlesburg

1922-25 Birmingham

1925-28 James Creek

1928-30 Dudley

1930-34 New Oxford

1934-39 New Bloomfield

1939-42 Three Springs

1942-43 Mifflinville

Note: Russell B. Dysart is a brother to William A. Dysart.

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DYSART, WILLIAM A.

Born: 10-10-1879 married: Fay Carse

Died: 7-?-1972 obit: [10/3/1884 – 9/?/1975]

Interment:

Obit:

1922-25 Allegheny circuit

1925-28 Sandy Ridge

1928-29 [no appointment]

1929-31 Blandburg

Note: William A. Dysart is a brother to Russell B. Dysart. He served as a local pastor. In 1944 he was living in Philadelphia, and he died while living in Florida.

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DYSON, FRANKLIN

Born: 11-26-1810 Charles County MD married: Mary Ann Noble

Died: 11-10-1880 Chambersburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1882, 81

1839 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1841 ordained deacon

1843 ordained elder

Interment: Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1880, 74

1839-41 Waynesboro

1841-42 Concord

1842-43 West River MD

1843-45 Charles MD

1845-47 Newport

1847-49 Mifflin

1849-51 York Springs

1851-53 Boonsboro MD

1853-55 Bloomingdale

1855-57 Milton station

1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857 retired

1857-68 agent, Bible Society

1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-80 agent, Bible Society

Note: An obituary for Franklin Dyson also appears in the March 1880 Conference News, page 4. He is an uncle to Mary Addie Dyson Kester, wife of Aaron M. Kester.