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EARNSHAW, WILLIAM

Born: 5-12-1828  Philadelphia PA                              married: Margaret A. Hutchinson

Died: 7-17- 1885  Dayton OH                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 127

1853    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, OH

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1886, 77

1853-54           Warrior’s Mark

1854-56           Gettysburg

1856-57           Hancock MD

1857                c harter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58           Hancock MD

1858-60           Mercersburg

1860-62           Shippensburg

1862-67           chaplain, US Volunteers

1867-68           chaplain, National Home for disabled volunteers in Dayton OH

1868                 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-85           chaplain, National Home for disabled volunteers in Dayton OH

Note: An obituary for William Earnshaw also appears in the 8/6/1885 Christian Advocate.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 368, and in the January 1879 Conference News.  Some sources indicate that he transferred to the Tennessee Conference in 1864.

EARP, EDWIN LEE

Born: 10-26-1867  Illchester MD                                 married:  Lina Gibb Pearsall [5/1/1901]

Died: 2-4-1950                                                            obit: 

1893    ordained deacon, recommended by Carlisle

1896    ordained elder, Newark Conference

1900    admitted on trial, Newark Conference

Interment:

Obit: Newark Conference 1950, 491

1891-95           student, Dickinson College

1895-97           student, New York University in New York City NY

                             1895-97  Ridgewood NJ

1897-98           student, Drew Theological Seminary on Madison NJ

1898-99           student, University of Berlin

1899-00           student, Leipzig University

1900-02           Newark St. James

1902-04           Plainfield Grace

1904-09           faculty, Syracuse University in Syracuse NY

1909-38           faculty, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1938                 retired

Note: Although ordained by the conference, Edwin L. Earp was never a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  He is the author of numerous books and articles.  Mrs. Earp took seminary courses at Drew 1923-25.  Other sources erroneously give her maiden name as Ella Louisa Pearsall.

EBERHART, JAMES G.

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

1881    admitted on trial, recommended by Concord circuit

Interment:

Obit:

1881-82           Burnt Cabins

1882                 discontinued at own request

EBNER, J. ROLLIN

Born: 10-25-1876  Muncy PA                                    married: Blanche Gertrude Duncan

Died: 2-5-1968  Muncy PA                                        obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 181

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by Muncy

Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1968, 318

1901-03           Westport

1903-05           Penfield

1905-06           on leave

1906-07           Williamsport Pine Street

1907-11           Stewartstown

1911-21           retired

1921-22           on leave

1922                 retired

ECKERSLEY, JAMES

Born: 8-1-1854  England                                              married: Cornelia Ann Gerard [4/18/1883]

Died: 3-26-1936                                                          obit: [3/26/1853 – 3/6/1901]

1882    admitted on trial, recommended by Carlisle

1883    ordained deacon, recommended by Loudon

Interment:

Obit: New Jersey Conference 1936, 134

1880-82           student, Dickinson College

1882-83           Loudon

1883-84           Dillsburg

1884-86           Fort Littleton

1886-89           Littlestown

1889-92           Newville-Pine Grove

1892-95           Selinsgrove

1895                 transfer to New Jersey Conference

                         Columbus

EDEL, WILLIAM WILCOX

Born: 3-16-1894                                                          married: Louise Billingsley

Died: 9-16-1996                                                          obit: So Cal-Arizona Conference1967, 266

1916    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: California-Pacific Conference 1997, ?

1917-46           chaplain, US Navy

1946-59           president, Dickinson College

1947                 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1947-59           president, Dickinson College

1959                 transfer to Southern California-Arizona Conference

Note: William W. Edel also served as superintendent of education for American Samoa 1924-27.

EDMONDS, WALTER GEORGE

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

1968    admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1968-70           student, Yale University in New Haven CT

1970                 transfer to Southern New Jersey Conference

Note: As of 2003, Rev. Edmonds was an active member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

EDWARDS, ISAIAH T.

Born: 11-13-1847  Broad Top PA                               married: Eliza Ellen Stucker

Died: 10-6-1891                                                          obit:

1869    admitted on trial

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, PA

Obit:

1869-72           Orangeville

1871-73           Castle Fin

1873-75           on leave

                        1873-74  Benton

1875-76           Liberty Valley

1876-77           Congress Hill

1877-79           Snow Shoe

1879-82           Lumber City

1882                 transfer to Florida Conference (for health reasons)

1883-84           Lake Eustis, Mont Dora & Round Lake

1884-85           Seneca Lake circuit

1885-86           St. John’s River

1886-88           on leave

1888                 located, and apparently returned to Pennsylvania

                             1888-89  Waterville

                             1901-02  Boiling Springs

EDWARDS, JACOB D.

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit: 

Interment:

Obit:

1924-25           Clearville

1925-26           Picture Rocks circuit

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

EDWARDS, THOMAS R.

Born:                                                                           married: 

Died:                                                                           obit: 

1888    ordained deacon, recommended by Stockton & Beaver Meadows charge

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Thomas R. Edwards served as a local pastor.

EDWARDS, WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE

Born: 4-23-1834  Martinsburg VA                             married: Fannie Trone

Died: 2-16-1909  Baltimore MD                                obit:

1856    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference.

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1909, 87

                        Warrenton VA

                        Jefferson circuit

                        Jackson Street and Market Street, St. Paul MN

                        Alexandria VA

                        Chambersburg circuit

                        Warrenton

Severn

                        Fayette Street

                        City Station

1869                transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1869-71          Williamsport Mulberry Street

1871                transfer to Baltimore Conference

                        Broadway

                        Caroline Street

                        Centre Street

                        superintendent, Baltimore District

                        superintendent, West Baltimore District

                        McKendree

                        Dumbarton Avenue

                        superintendent, Baltimore District

                        superintendent, East Baltimore District

                        Madison Square

1901                retired

Note William S. Edwards is the son of William B. Edwards (1809-1888) of the Baltimore Conference.

EGE, OLIVER

Born: 12-11-1800 Boiling Springs PA                        married: Susanna Penrose Thompson

Died: 8-9-1889 Mechanicsburg PA                            obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1896, 105

1827    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Danville Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1890, 75

1827-29           Concord

1829-30           Philipsburg

1830-31           Bellefonte

1831-32           Sunbury

1832-33           Berwick

1833-34           Lycoming

1834-35           Northumberland

1835-37           Sunbury

1837-39           Great Falls

1839-41           Codorus

1841-43           Shrewsbury

1843-45           East Harford

1845-47           Washington DC Ebenezer

1847-48           Patapsco

1848-50           Calvert

1850-52           Newport

1852-54           Severn

1854-56           Great Falls

1856-57           Frederick circuit

1857                 charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59           York Springs

1859-60           Wrightsville

1860-68           principal, Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg

1868                 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-78           principal, Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg

                        1874-75  New Cumberland

                        1876-78  Mechanicsburg

1878                retired

Note: Oliver Ege is the father of Thompson P. Ege.  A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 370.

EGE, THOMPSON P.

Born: 10-12-1835  Berwick PA                                  married: Sarah Cooper Dodson

Died:                                                                           obit:

1865    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1866    ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1868    ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1866-68           president, Irving Female College at Mechanicsburg

1868                 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-84           president, Irving Female College at Mechanicsburg

1884                 withdrew to join the Protestant Episcopal Church

Note: Thompson P. Ege is the son of Oliver Ege.  He is the author of History and Genealogy of the Ege Family in the United States 1738-1911 and of Dodson Genealogy 1600-1907, neither of which the archives has.

EIDAM, JOHN RICHARD

Born: 4-28-1944  Shamokin PA                                  married: Elaine Marie Wetzel [8/12/67]

Died:                                                                           obit:

1967    admitted on trial, recommended by Shamokin Lincoln Street

1967    ordained deacon

1969    ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1962-66           student, Lycoming College

1966-69           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1969- 91          dean of admissions, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

1991                 transfer to Wyoming Conference

1991-               dean of admissions, Wyoming Seminary in Kingston PA

Note:  As of 2003, Rev. Eidam still serves as the dean of admissions at Wyoming Seminary.

EISENMAN, THOMAS EDWARD

Born:                                                                           married

Died:                                                                           obit:

1952    admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1950-53           White Haven

1953-56           Beach Haven

1956-58           Freeland Parish

1958                 withdrew to join the United Church of Christ

1981                 Calvary UCC, Lima OH

1991-06           First Reformed UCC, Kenton OH

ELLIOTT, THOMAS ALFONZO

Born: 7-23-1855  Lewisburg PA                                                married: Anna M. Zuck

Died: 8-10-1922  Altoona PA                                                    obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1895, 91

                                                                                                  married2: Laura Annette Ulsh

                                                                                                  obit2: [1947, 215]

1885    admitted on trial, recommended by Pine Grove circuit    

1886    ordained deacon, recommended by Pine Grove circuit

Interment: New Buffalo PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 133

1882-83           Woodland

1884-87           Pine Grove

1887-89           Birmingham

1889-94           on leave

1894-96           Liverpool

1896-97           Hoytville

1897-99           on leave

1899-00           Greencastle

1900-01           Camp Hill

1901-05           on leave (ending 7/16/1905)

1905-07           Lock Haven East Main Street (beginning 7/16/1905)

1907-08           Cross Forks

1908-11           Hoytville

1911-13           Ramey

1913-15           Sinnemahoning

1915                 retired

ELY, JOHN WESLEY

Born: 1-25-1844  near Elysburg PA                             married: Lucinda Susan Dunmire

Died: 8-16-1893  Warrior’s Mark PA                         obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 135

1867    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Bloomsburg

1880    return to itinerancy, recommended by McVeytown & Granville circuit

Interment: Warrior’s Mark Cemetery

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1894, 91

1867-68           Washingtonville

1968                 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69           Shirleysburg

1869-71           Manor Hill

1871-73           Milroy

1873-75           Rainsburg

1875-76           on leave

1876-78           Freedom

1878-80           on leave

1880-82           Blain

1882-83           on leave

1883-85           Thompsontown

1885-88           on leave

1888-90           Woodbury

1890-93           Warrior’s Mark

Note: An obituary for John W. Ely also appears in the 8/24/1893 Central Pennsylvania Methodist, page 1.  Mrs. Ely is a sister to William Worth Dunmire and Mrs. Justus A. Melick.

ENGLER, STUARD HARRISON

Born: 5-30-1864  Bethlehem PA                                married: Myrtle Joanna Bryan

Died: 5-28-1927  Port Matilda PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 248

1901    admitted on trial, recommended by McElhattan

Interment: Tyrone Cemetery, Tyrone PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 737

1899-01           McElhattan & Pine

1901-03           Liberty Valley

1903-05           Laporte

1905-11           Medix Run

1911-12           Pleasant Gap

1912-16           Glen Campbell

1916-19           Schellsburg

1919-23           Glen Hope

1923-25           Three Springs

1925-27           Port Matilda

ERTEL, DANIEL ANDREW

Born: 7-30-1870  Penn Hall PA                                  married: Carrie Mae Ulrich

Died: 4-19-1929  Spring Mills PA                               obit: Central PA ConferenceEUB 1960,89

1901    exhorter’s license

1902    local preacher’s license

1911    license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1913    ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

1915    ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Millheim PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church 1930, 81

1909-11           Karthaus

1911                 “transferred” to United Evangelical denomination

1911-13           Port Trevorton

1913-15           Nittany

1915-20           New Berlin

1920-23           Millmont

1923-24           Grover

1924-26           Salladasburg

1926-29           on leave

1929                 retired

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

ESLINGER, EDWIN LINCOLN

Born: 12-5-1864  Dillsburg PA                                   married: Minnie Coover Berkheimer

Died: 7-28-1942  Waynesboro PA                             obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1941, 220

1890    admitted on trial, recommended by Dillsburg & Wellsville

Interment: Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943, 208

1890-94           York Ridge Avenue

1894-96           Harrisburg Epworth

1896-00           Liverpool

1900-02           Port Royal

1902-05           Half Moon

1905-07           Martinsburg

1907-11           Saxton

1911-13           Huntingdon Fifteenth Street

1913-18           Roaring Spring

1918-23           Berwick First

1923-29           Waynesboro

1929-33           Clearfield Trinity

1933-37           Gettysburg

1937                 retired

Note: Mrs. Eslinger is believed to be a first cousin of the father of Charles F. Berkheimer.

ETTER, CHARLES E.

Born: 1901                                                                   married:

Died: 2-3-20                                                                obit:

1918    license

Interment:

Obit: [1920, 82]

1918-19           Elimsport & Maple Hill

1919-20           Duboistown & Nisbet

Note: Charles E. Etter served as a local preacher.

EVANS, BUREN HERBERT

Born: 1-26-1882  North Star PA                                  married: Anna Mary Corbin

Died: 7-20-1973  Altoona PA                                       obit: [11/2/1878 – 1/12/1942]

Interment:

Obit:

1923-24           South Lakemont

1924-26           living in Altoona

1926-27           Altoona Asbury

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

EVANS, DAVID CHARLES

Born: 11-2-1889  Jackson OH                                                 married: Emma Mae Jenkins

Died: 4-20-1974                                                                      obit: [9/11/1889 – 12/?/1979]

1921    admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference

1921    ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference

1923    ordained elder, New Jersey Conference

Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Elmer NJ

Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1975, 37

1918-19           student, Dickinson College

                             1918-19  Boiling Springs, Salem & Pine Grove Furnace

1919-22           student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1919                 “transfer” to New Jersey Conference

1919-21           Hancocks Bridge and Canton

1921-23           Aura

1923-29           Millville Westside

1929-31           Glassboro

1931-34           Woodstown

1934-37           Asbury Park Ballard

1937-46           Burlington Broad Street

1946-48           Long Branch St. Luke’s

1948-55           Audubon

1955-57           Camden Broadway

1957                 retired

                         interim pastor, Philadelphia Old St. George’s

EVANS, EMMA HILDA

Born: London, England                                                married: (none)

Died: 5-12-1941  Ocean Grove NJ                             obit:

Interment: Shady Lane Cemetery, Scranton PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 210

Buffalo NY

Baltimore MD

Newark NJ

Tyrone PA

Note: Miss Evans served as a deaconess.

EVANS, SIMPSON BOUSE

Born: 12-12-1858  Eagle Foundry PA.                         married: Hannah Lincoln

Died: 9-29-1939  Williamsport PA                               obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1900, 118

                                                                                    married2: Mrs. Ruth Belle Heisse Wolf

1886    admitted on trial                                                obit2: 1931, 193

                 recommended by Westport& Keating Summit circuit

Interment: Mifflinburg, PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 177

1885-86           Westport & Keating

1886-87           Westport

1887-92           Lock Haven East Main Street

1892-97           Williamsport Third Street

1897-99           Mifflinburg

1899-04           Milton

1904-06           Danville St. Paul’s

1906-09           Harrisburg Ridge Avenue

1909-12           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1912-18           superintendent, Altoona District

1918-20           Shamokin Lincoln Street

1920-25           Williamsport Newberry

1925032          Philipsburg

1932-35           field agent, Dickinson Junior College

1935                 retired

Note: The first Mrs. Evans is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln.  The second Mrs. Evans is the widow of JE Wolf, a brother of Mrs. Charles Wesley Karns.  She is a sister to John Frederick Heisse (1883-1924) of the Baltimore Conference

EVANS, WILLIAM WILSON

Born: 9-24-1840  Lewistown  PA                               married: Alice E. Frysinger

Died: 10-2-1916  Washington DC                              obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1940, 181

1861    admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 126

1861-62           Schellsburg

1862-63           Birmingham

1863-66           York Duke Street

1866-68           Williamsport Price Chapel

1868                 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1968-71           Sunbury

1871-74           Berwick

1874-77           Hazleton

1877-78           Altoona First

1878-82           superintendent, Danville District

1882-85           Berwick

1885-88           Philipsburg

1888-89           Altoona Eighth Avenue

1889-92           Carlisle

1892-98           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1898-04           superintendent, Danville District

1904-09           superintendent, Juniata District

1909-11           superintendent, Harrisburg District

1911                 retired

Note: An obituary for William W. Evans also appears in the 10/12/1916 Christian Advocate.

EVELAND, WILLIAM PERRY

Born: 2-12-1864  Harrisburg PA                                married: Rose Mullin

Died: 7-28-1916  Mount Holly Springs PA                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 746

1891    admitted on trial

1892    ordained deacon

1895    ordained elder

Interment: Mt. Holly Springs Cemetery, My. Holly Springs PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 121

1890-95           Shippensburg

1895-97           Danville Trinity

1897-99           director, Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit MD

1899-01           York Duke Street

1901-03           Chambersburg

1903-06           Bloomsburg

1906-13           president, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

1913-16           bishop, Southern Asia and the Philippines

Note: A biographical sketch for William P. Eveland appears in the 9/4/1912 Christian Advocate, page 976.  Bishop Eveland is listed in the 1916 Who’s Who in American Methodism.

EYER, P. FRANKLIN

Born: 11-2-1835 near Orangeville PA                         married: Jennie Torbert

Died: 1-1-1910 Bloomsburg PA                                 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 126

1858    admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1910, 117

1858-59           Muncy, East Baltimore Conference

1859                 transfer to East Baltimore Conference

1859-60           Luzerne

1860-61           East Harford

1961-63           Great Falls

1863-65           located

1865-67           Bloomingdale

1867-78           Berwick

1868                 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70           Berwick

1870-73           Mount Carmel

1873-76           New Cumberland

1876-78           Harrisburg Fifth Street

1878-80           Mechanicsburg

1880-82           Weatherly

1882-84           Montoursville

1884-87           McConnellsburg

1887-89           Shippensburg

1889-92           Gordon

1892-97           York West Street

1897-00           Hanover

1900-01           Harrisburg Epworth

1901-05           Saxton

1905                 retired