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HAAS, ALFRED BURTON
Born: 7-21-1911
Died: 7-19-1987 Lewisburg PA obit:
1935 admitted on trial, recommended by
1935 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988, 411
1933-36 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1936 Hazleton Holy Trinity (very briefly)
1936-42 Harrisburg Grace
1942-44 at school
1944-68 faculty,
1968-71 chaplain, Wyoming Seminary in
1971 retired
Note: Alfred B. Haas is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the
HACKENBERRY, JOHN RICHARD
Born: 6-23-1923 Lewistown PA married: Joyce Vivian Klinger
Died: 5-18-2011 Summerville PA obit: Western PA Conference 1998, 411
1948 license
1953 ordained deacon
1955 ordained elder
1971 admitted as associate member, Western Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Juniata Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown PA
1949-51 Burnt Cabins (beginning 11/1/1949)
1951-54
1954-58 Ramey (beginning 9/1/54)
1958-63 Morrisdale
1963-68 Martinsburg
1968-70 Coalport
1970 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference by change of boundaries
1970-74 Coalport-Irvona
1974-79
1979-85 Littles Corners (beginning 3/15/79)
1985 retired
Juneau
Emerickville Church of God
Wellington Heights St. Mark’s Independent
1997-06 Barton Chapel (beginning 1/1/97)
Coolspring Presbyterian
HAGEY, J. CLARKE
Born: 3-15-1835 near Martinsburg PA married:
Died: 9-22-1888 obit:
1857 quarterly conference license, Cassville
1858 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
1860 ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference
1862 ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1858-59
1859-60 Mifflin
1860-61
1861-62 Shippensburg
1862-63
1863-64 Catawissa
1864-65 Muncy
1865-66 Jeansville
1866-67 New
1867-69
1869 transfer
to
1869-72
1872-73
1874-76
1879-82
1882-83
1883-86
1886-88 faculty,
HALL, JOHN P.
Born: 1832 married: Rachel E. Allen
Died: 9-8-1888 Gaithersburg MD obit: [1836 – 11/24/1888]
1853 admitted on trial
1855 ordained deacon
1857 ordained elder
Interment: Congressional Cemetery, Washington DC
Obit:
1853-54 Frostburg
1854-55
1855-56 Fincastle
1856-57
1857-59 Boonsboro
1859-60 Catawissa
1860-62
1862-63
1863 withdrew
“transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1865-66 Hyattstown
1866 “readmitted” to Baltimore Conference MES
1866-67 Poolesville
1867-69 Taylor’s
Note: When the Methodist Episcopal Church South [MES] was formed in 1844, the churches in the Shenandoah Valley remained in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church [ME]. After the war, in 1866, a Baltimore Conference MES was formed – mostly of churches and pastors of the Baltimore Conference [ME]. This was the conference in which John P. Hall settled. John P. Hall is credited with founding the ME South congregation in Boyds MD in 1865. His name appears in the 12/11/1876 Congressional Record as one of the petitioners that the Southern Methodist Publishing House “be paid for the use of its facilities by the United States Army in the years 1864 and 1865.”
HALL, THOMAS MAXWELL
Born: 7-30-1891 Newburg PA married: Helen Louise Bechdel
Died: 9-15-1958
1922 admitted on trial
1925 ordained deacon
1927 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 251
1922-23 at school
1923-25 Blandburg (ending 10/25)
1925-27
1927-30 Manor Hill
1930-34 Warrior’s Mark
1934-40
1940-45
1952-58 Roaring Spring
1958 Mill Hall
Note: Mrs. Hall was a
minister’s assistant in the Presbyterian Church prior to her marriage, and a
parish visitor in the
HALLMAN, RAYMOND W.
Born: 5-17-1910 married: Charlotte Bradford
Died: 5-9-2001 obit: [3/5/1909 – 3/18/1966]
1933 admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford DE
1929-31 Littlestown (began 9/29)
1933-39 itinerant in the Wilmington Conference
1939 charter member of Peninsula Conference
1939-43 itinerant in Peninsula Conference
1943 no longer listed
Note: Raymond Hallman served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a supply pastor, presumably while attending college and/or seminary in Westminster MD. Prior to her death, Mrs. Hallman had been the school nurse at Seaford High School for 22 years.
HALLOCK,
Born: 4-25-1907 married:
Died: 1-7-1967 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1929-30 student,
1929-30 Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (last part of year: see 1930, 81)
HAM, SAMUEL
Born: 10-15-1855
Died: 11-3-1912
1882 admitted on trial, recommended by
1884 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment: New
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 137
1881-83
1883-84 Robinsonville
1884-85
1885-87
1887-88 Pine Grove
1888-91
1891-96 Penfield
1896-96
1896-97
1897-03
1903-07 Salladasburg
1907-11 Airville
1911-12
HAMLIN, BENJAMIN BAIRD
Born: 8-28-1823 Kinzua PA married: Rebecca Manley
Died: 3-8-1904 Huntingdon PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1897, 96
1848 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 122
1848-49
1849-50 Northumberland
1850-51 Berwick
1851-53
1853-54
1854-56 Lewisburg
1857 charter
member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-60
1860-62
1862-66 superintendent, Bellefonte District
1868 charter
member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1869-73 superintendent, Juniata District
1873-74
1874-78 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1878-81
1884-87
1887-89
1889-94 superintendent, Altoona District
1896-00 Houtzdale
1900 retired
Note: Benjamin B. Hamlin is a brother to William S. Hamlin. Biographical sketches are given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 387, and in Simpson’s 1891 Cyclopedia of Methodism, Simpson. An obituary also appears in the 3/17/1904 Pennsylvania Methodist.
HAMLIN, WILLIAM S.
Born: 1837 Salona PA married: Caroline _____
Died: 3-11-1919 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916,131
1870 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 153
1868-69 Washingtonville
1869-70
1870-72 Snow Shoe
1872-74
1874-76 Glen Hope
1876-78 Shirleysburg
1878-80 Freedom [Burnham]
1880-82 McVeytown
1882-85 Pleasantville
1885-88 Catawissa circuit
1888-91 Harveyville
1891-93
1893-96 Catawissa circuit
1896-97 Wapwallopen
1897-99 Silver Brook
1899-02 Trevorton
1901 retired
Note: William S. Hamlin is a brother to Benjamin B. Hamlin.
HAMMAKER, FRANK ENSOR
Born: 9-22-1901 married: Grace Lillian McCaulley
Died: 10-18-1985 obit: [1/14/1902 – 10/30/1951]
married2: Aileene Callaway
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA obit2: [5/30/1908 – 3/30/2001]
Obit:
Note: Frank E. Hammaker has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He appears to have been in the cemetery monument business in Maryland, and his cemetery marker in Gettysburg is rather distinctive.
HAMMOND, CHARLES MITCHELL
Born: 10-16-1902 Horse Valley PA married: Altha Florence Hallman
Died: 4-15-1993 State College PA obit: [10/17/1911 – 1/4/1997]
1937 admitted on trial
1940 ordained deacon
1942 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 458
1933-34 Burnt Cabins
1934-36
1936-37 Pine Grove Mills
1937-38 Cherry Tree
1938-42 Snow Shoe
1942-44 Penn’s Valley
1944-47 Ralston
1947-50 Mifflinville
1950-54 Morrisdale
1954-57 Lock Haven
1957-59 Port Matilda
1959-61
1961-62 Forksville
1962-64 Half Moon
1964-68 Kulpmont
1968 retired
HAMMOND, JAMES S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-23 Pine Grove Mills
Note: James S. Hammond served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HANCE, OSCAR T.
Born: 11-?-1863 NY married: Sarah J. _____
Died: 10-13-1902 Pittsburgh PA obit: [born 1879]
1901 admitted on trial, recommended by Harrisburg Grace
Interment:
Obit: Harrisburg Telegraph, 10/14/1902, page 1.
1901-02 associate, Harrisburg Grace
Note: Oscar T. Hance was a newspaper man whose life was ruined by addiction. He reformed, became superintendent of Lafayette Mission on State Street, Harrisburg, and entered the ministry. “Overwork and family troubles brought on pneumonia, and threatened with consumption he went back to his old habits. His death resulted.”
HANK, WILLIAM
Born: 8-31-1796
Died: 3-31-1869
1820 admitted on
trial,
Obit:
1820-21
1821-22 Monongahela
1822-23 Lewis
1823-24
1824-25
1825-26 Cross Creek
1826-27 Monongahela
1827-29 Fincastle
1829-31 Rockingham
1831-32 Pendleton
1832-34
1834-36 Calvert
1836-38
1838-39
1839-41
1842-43
1843-44
1844-46
1847-48
1848-49
1849-51
1851-53
1853-55 Washington DC Foundry & Asbury station
1855-57
1857 charter
member of
1859-61 on leave
1861 retired
1868 transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
Note: William Hank is the father of Jehu Newman Hank
(1827-1899) of the Baltimore Conference ME South and Armeinius
Summerfield Hank (1831-1887) of the
HANN, VICTOR BLAKE
Born: 4-3-1902
Died: 1-24-2004
1925 license, recommended by Williamsport Newberry
1929 admitted on trial
1931 ordained deacon
1933 ordained elder
Interment: New
Obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2004, 366
1925-25 Vira
1925-28 Boiling Springs & Hickorytown (ending June 1928)
1928-30 New Bloomfield (beginning June 1928)
1930-32 Martinsburg
1935-39 Watsontown
1939-42 Lewistown Grove Memorial
1942-71 superintendent, Methodist Home for Children at Mechanicsburg
1971 retired
Note: Victor B. Hann is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 539.
HANTON, MARJORIE
Born: 4-12-1905 Jackson PA married:
Died: 7-7-2000 obit:
1941 ordained deacon, Troy Conference
1953 ordained elder, Troy Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1931 home
missionary, Community Center in
home missionary, Unity Mission in Berwick PA
girls’ dormitory supervisor,
community center and mission church,
transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1956-58 Alum Bank
1958-59 director, Shawnee Rural Group Work
transfer to Wyoming Conference
superintendent, Elizabeth Church Manor in
1972 retired
Note: Marjorie Hanton is the daughter of Benjamin Hanton (1865-1951) of the Wyoming Conference.
HARDEN, WILLIAM
Born: 8-27-1828
Died: 11-9-1873
married2: Mary W. Moody
1847 quarterly conference license, obit2:
1848 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1848-49
1849-50 Boonsboro
1850-51
1851-53
1853-55
1855-57
1857 charter
member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-60
1860-62
1862-66 superintendent,
1866-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69
1872 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1872-73
Note: The first Mrs. Harden was the daughter of Henry Slicer (1801-1874) of the Baltimore Conference.
HARMAN, HARRY CURTIN
Born: 10-14-1862 Orangeville PA married: Rose Ella Lesh
Died: 9-30-1942 obit: Nebraska Conference 1896,79
married2: Belle Sherfey
1879 admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference obit2: North Indiana Conference 1945, 282
1881 ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1879-80
1880-81 (apparently not appointed)
1881 missionary to West Nebraska Mission
1881-82
1882-83 Culbertson
1883 transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference
1883-84 Goldfield
1884 missionary to West Nebraska Mission*
1884-85
1885 transfer to Northwest Iowa Conference
1885-86 located
1887 re-admitted to Nebraska Conference
1887-88
1888-89 Ulysses
1889-92
1892-93 Humboldt
1893-94
1894-97
1897/8 transfer to Black Hills Conference
1898-99 Lead
1899 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1904-06
1906-11
1911 transfer to Rock River Conference
1914 transfer to North Indiana Conference
1914-17
1917-22
1926-30 Elwood First
1930 retired
to
*Apparently Rev. Harman automatically became a member of the
West Nebraska Conference when it moved from
Note: Harry C. Harman was admitted on trial in October 1879, a few days before his seventeenth birthday. Two years later, the 1881 Nebraska Conference journal states that “Harry C. Harman was to be ordained a Deacon under the Missionary rule, if he should be appointed as a missionary to the West Nebraska Mission.”
HARMAN, HENRY MARTYN
Born: 3-22-1822
Died: 7-2-1897
1871 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1853-55 faculty,
1858-68 faculty,
Light Street Institute in
1868-69 faculty,
1869-70 traveled
in Europe and the
1870-72 faculty,
1872 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1872-96 faculty,
1896 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Henry M. Harman is given in Simpson’s Cyclopedia of Methodism. He is author of several books. He taught ancient languages.
HARPER, ALFRED BERTRAM
Born:
Died: 3-5-1948
1915 admitted on trial
1915 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1914-18 Penfield (moved to
1918-19
1919-20 Glen Campbell
1920-22 North Bend-Hyner
1922-24 Mifflinville
1924-26 on leave
1926 withdrew
HARPER, DAVID SCOTT
Born: married: Linda _____
Died: obit:
1969 admitted on trial, recommended by
1969 ordained deacom
1973 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1969-70 student,
Boston School of Theology in
1970-72 student, Lutheran Theological Seminary
in
1970-72 Barts-Green Springs
1972-80
1980-90
1990-94 chaplain,
1994 withdrew to unite with the Episcopal Church
Olivet
Episcopal Church,
HARPER, ELLAHUE ANSIL
Born: 12/28/1866 married:
Died: 11/20/1947 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1926-27 Greencastle
Note: Ellahue A. Harper appears to
have been a pastor from the Ohio Conference who was associated with
HARPSTER, HERBERT M.
Born: 1-7-1897 married:
Emma G. Potter
Died: 3-?-1969 obit:
[1895-1990]
Interment:
Obit:
1923-24 Harveyville
Note: Herbert M. Harpster served as a local pastor. He was a school teacher.
HARRIS, FREDERICK BROWN
Born: 4-10-1883
Died: 8-18-1970
1909 admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference
1909 ordained deacon, New Jersey Conference
1911 ordained elder, New Jersey Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1905-09 student,
1907-08 Greencastle
1909 “transfer” to New Jersey Conference
1909-12 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1918 transfer to New York Conference
1918-24 New York City Grace
1924 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1924-55
1955 retired
1955-69 chaplain, U.S. Senate
Note: A biographical sketch of Frederick B. Harris appears in the 1974 Encyclopedia of World Methodism. The author of several books and chaplain of the US Senate, he conducted the funerals of President Herbert Hoover, Senator Robert A. Taft, and General Douglas MacArthur. He is the son of George Thomas Harris (1859-1930) of the New Jersey Conference. Mrs. Harris is the daughter of Lewis R. Streeter (d. 1930) of the New York East Conference.
HARRIS,
Born: 3-17-1899 Queen Anne County MD married: Edna M. Sell
Died: 4-27-1977 obit: [2/15/1900 – 9/21/1975]
Interment: Saint Helenas Episcopal Churchyard, Beaufort SC
Obit:
1918-19 student,
1918-19 Hickorytown
Note:
HARRISON, CHARLES EDWARD
Born: 1-31-1923 Wilkes-Barre PA married: June Kerestes [5/6/1943]
Died: obit: [1925 – 1/23/2012]
1952 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1946-50 student, Dickinson College
1946-50 Boiling Springs-Hickorytown
1950-54 Gordon
1954 discontinued
1955-74 “private practice teacher”
1975- freelance writer, Castle Point NY
Note: Charles Edward Harrison received a B.D. from Temple in 1953 and a MTh from United in 1956. According to the 1955 Dickinson alumni directory, Rev. Charles Edward Harrison was living in Harrisburg PA. He was a writer and a composer.
HARRISON, GEORGE WILLIAM
Born: 7-4-1910 married:
Died: 1-5-1994 obit:
? ordained,
1942 license
1946 admitted on trial, recommended by Bendersville
1946 ordained deacon
1948 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Virginia Conference 1994,?
Mount
1942 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church
1942-47 Bendersville
1947-50 Mifflintown
1950 transfer to Virginia Conference
HARRISON, LEROY JAMES
Born: 3-2-1927 Westmoreland City PA married: Carol Nellie
Died: 5-16-2005
1944 license, Newark Conference
1948 admitted on trial, recommended by
1948 ordained deacon
1950 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2005, 445
1946-47
1947-52 Harveyville
1959-62
1985-86 sabbatical
1986-88
1988 retired
Note: Leroy J. Harrison is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 554.
HART, BARNETT
Born: 10-25-1864
Died: 1-8-1949
married2:
1887 admitted on trial, recommended by Cassville obit2: 1973,383
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 194
1887-88 assistant,
1888-91 Thompsontown
1891-93
1893-96 Huntingdon Second
1896-01
1920-25
1925-27
1927-36 Hollidaysburg First
1936 retired
Note: Barnett H. Hart served as conference treasurer 1939-49, and Pearl Part served as conference treasurer 1949-64.
HART, RUSSELL MILFRED
Born: married: Dorene _____
Died: obit:
1967 admitted on trial, North Dakota Conference: recommended by Pembina Pioneer Mem.
1967 ordained deacon, North Dakota Conference
1970 ordained elder
Interment:
1967-70 student,
Wesley Theological Seminary in
1967-70 Three Springs
1970 transfer from North Dakota Conference
1970-77
1977-87
1987-95 Red
Lion
1995- director, Center for Spiritual Formation
HARTER, ELMER ELLSWORTH
Born: 10-24-1868
Died: 12-23-1936 Oakmont PA obit: Central PA Conference 1901, 111
married2: Priscilla Ray
1891 admitted on trial obit2: Central PA Conference 1946, 235
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1937, 261
1890-91 assistant,
1891-93 Thompsontown
1893-96 Schellsburg
1896-01
1901-05
1905-06 Muncy
1906-08 Wrightsville
1908-12
1912-17 Shickshinny
1917-23 Hollidaysburg
1923-25 field secretary, Children’s Home Society
1925-34 state superintendent, Children’s Home Society
1934 retired
HARTMAN, ALBERT
Born: 1-5-1821 married: Elizabeth _____
Died: 2-3-1897 obit: [12-1-1827 - ?]
1849 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Florence KS
Obit:
1849-50 Penn’s Valley
1950-51 Luzerne
1851-52 Sunbury
1852-53 Orangevile
1853-54
1854-55 Sinnemahoning
1855-57 Pine Creek
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 North Lock Haven
1858-59
1859-60 Laporte
1860-62 Castle Fin
1862-63 Mifflinburg
1863-66 Jerseytown
1866-68 on leave
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-72 on leave
1868-69 Bloomsburg
1872 transfer to Kansas Conference
HARTMAN, C.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1890-91 Emporium circuit (ending 12/12/1891)
Note: C.H. Hartman served as a local pastor.
HARTMAN, DANIEL
Born: 7-8-1810 Salona PA married: Mary E. Davis
Died: 3-14-1891 West Chester PA obit: [d. 1874]
1833 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 86
1833-34
1834-35 Clear Spring
1835-37
1837 transfer to Virginia Conference
1837-44 Virginia Conference
1844 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1844-45 Newville
1845-47 York Springs
1847-48
1848-50 Penn’s Valley
1850-52 McConnellsburg
1852-53 Greencastle
1853-54 Mercersburg
1854-56
1856-57
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58
1858-59 tract agent
1859-61
1861-63
1863-64 chaplain, US Army
1864-67 Salona
1867-68 temperance agent
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70 temperance agent
1870-72
1872-75
1875-78 on leave
1878-79 retired
1879-81
1881-84
1884-85
1885-88 on leave
1888 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Daniel Hartman is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 392.
HARTMAN,
Born: 1-18-1865 near Bloomingdale PA married: Eva Harrison
Died: 11-28-1944 Muncy PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955,238
1894 admitted on trial, recommended by Madison NY
1894 ordained deacon, recommended by Madison NJ
1898 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 219
1890-91 student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
1891-94 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1894-95 Milnesville
1895-96 Nescopeck
1896-99
1899-01 Hoytville
1901-02 Slate Run
1901-04 North Bend-Hyner
1904-05 Dillsburg-Wellsville
1905-07 Stewartstown
1907-11 Mahaffey
1911-13 Flemingtom
1913-14 McVeytown
1914-17
1917-18 Wallaceton
1918-20 Ramey
1920-24 Muncy
1924-25 Mechanicsburg
1925-26 Frankstown
1926-28 Coalport-Irvona
1928-30
1930-31 Kulpmont
1931-32 Duncannon
1932-33 Lewisberry-Lisburn
1933 retired
HARTMAN, H.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1929-30 West
Fairview & Summerdale (did not finish the year)
Note: H.W. Hartman served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown. He appears not to have been a student at
HARTMAN, WILLIAM DAWSON
Born: 10-6-1939 Lewisburg PA married: Linda Ruth Blair
Died: obit:
1962 license, recommended by Bloomsburg Wesley
1963 admitted on trial
1963 ordained deacon
1965 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1958-62 student,
1958-59 assistant, Montoursville
1962-65 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1962-63
1963-66 Centralia-Helfenstein
1966-68 Marysville
1968-72 on leave
1972 transfer to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1972-79 Gilberton and
1979-85
1985-90 Roxborough First
1990- chaplain, Evangelical Manor
Note: William D. Hartman is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 558.
HARTMAN, WILLIAM EMORY
Born: 11-7-1900 Freeland PA married: Naomi D. Gum
Died: 6-4-1958
1924 admitted on trial
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1924-26 student, Boston Universoty
School of Theology in
1924-26 Trinity Congregational Church, Neponset MA (1/24 – 5/26)
1926-27 student,
Universities of
1927-28 faculty,
1928-30 Berwick Calvary, Berwick
1930-32 Wesley Foundation, State College PA
1932-41
1941-43 superintendent, Altoona District
1943-50 Harrisburg Grace
1950 transfer to Ohio Conference
1950-58 Bexley
Note: W. Emory Hartman is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism. W. Emory Hartman is the son of William Wade Hartman and the father of Robert Hill Hartman of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
HARTMAN, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 11-10-1852
Died: 1-12-1945 Bloomsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1943,216
1877 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1881 ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
1883 ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 214
1875-79 student,
1879-80 Center circuit
1881-82 West Clifford
1882-84
1884-87 Dushore and Bernice
1887-88 Catawissa
1888-90
1890-92
1892 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church
1892-95 Nescopeck
1895-00 Buckhorn
1900-04 Espy-Lime Ridge
1904-09
1909-11 Trout Run
1911-16 Woodland-Bradford
1916-21 Mahaffey
1921-23 White Haven
1923 retired
1923-30 Rupert and Buckhorn
Note: Mrs. Hartman’s sister Idylla (d. 1950) married John Crawford Bickel (d. 1939) of the Ohio Conference.
HARTMAN, WILLIAM WADE
Born: 7-24-1869 Buckhorn PA married: Hester Ann Tubbs
Died: 3-20-1922
1894 admitted on trial, recommended by
1895 ordained
deacon, recommended by
1898 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1923, 134
1891-92 student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
1892-95 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison
NJ
1896-98 Audenreid
1898-01 Freeland
1901-03 St. Marys
1903-04 Mifflinburg
1904-09
1909-11 Hollidaysburg
1911-15 Tyrone First
1917-22
Note: William Wade Hartman is the father of W. Emory
Hartman. Following her husband’s death,
Mrs. Hartman worked 1922-36 as a hostess at
HARTSOCK, A.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69 Saxton
Note: A.C. Hartsock served as a local pastor.
HARTSOCK, HENRY WILLIS
Born: 1-9-1877 near Warrior’s Mark PA married: Maude Letitia Harris
Died: 5-26-1964 Tyrone PA obit:
1901 admitted on trial, recommended by Half Moon
1903 ordained deacon
1905 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1965, 353
1901-02
1902-03
1903-06 Glen Hope
1906-08 Marysville
1903-13
1913-17 Camp Hill
1925-27
1927-29 Mount
1929-31 Tyrone First
1935-36 Williamsport Grace
1936-41 Bellefonte
1941-46
1946 retired
Note: Henry W. Hartsock is a brother to Frank D. Hartsock (1865-1936) of the Wyoming Conference and a nephew of A. Jackson Hartsock (1832-1907) of the Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church. Mrs. Hartsock is a niece of William A. Carver [her mother’s sister is married to Rev. Carver.]
HARTSOCK, SAMUEL MITCHELL
Born: 11-23-1838 near
Died: 3-18-1908 obit:
1857 admitted on
trial,
Obit:
1857 charter
member of
1857-58 Penn’s Valley
1858-59 Bellefonte
1859-60 Boonsboro
1860-62 Frostburg
1862-63 Greencastle
1863-65 Warrior’s Mark
1865-66 Port Matilda
1866-68
1868 transfer
by boundary change to Baltimore Conference
1869-71 Middleton
1871-73
1875-78
1881-84
1894-99
1899-04
1904-05 Chatsworth
1905-08
HARTZELL, CHARLES VINTON
Born: 3-9-1856
Died: 9-17-1927 Muncy PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1925, 165
1879 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1928, 742
1879-81 Saxton
1881-82 West Huntingdon Mill Creek
1882-84
1884-85 Harrisburg Grace Mission [
1885-87
1887-89 Dillsburg
1889-91
1891-94 Hollidaysburg
1897-00
1903-04
1904-07 Millerstown
1907-09 Boiling Springs-Salem
1909-10 New Benton [Bressler] –
1910-12 Cross Roads
1912-13 Newville
1913-14 on leave
1914-15 Beaver Meadow
1915-17 Stewartstown
1917-20 Muncy
1920-21
1921 retired
Note: The
HARVEY,
Born: 4-6-1921
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1941-44 student,
1941-44 Rehobeth
Note:
HASLUP, REZIN C.
Born: 9-30-1840
Died: 6-2-1874 obit:
1859 admitted on trial, East BaltimoreConference
Obit:
1859-60 Hancock
1860-61 Allegany
1861-63
1863-64
1864-66 Emmitsburg
1866-67
Govanstown
HAUGHAWOUT, JOHN WOOLSEY
Born: 5-13-1811
Died: 3-24-1891
1837 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 85
1837-38
1838-39 Sunbury
1839-40
1940-42 Lycoming
1942-43 Penn’s Valley
1843-45 Bloomingdale
1845-47 Sunbury
1847-49 Lock Haven
1849-51 Bloomingdale
1851-53 New
1853-55 Bellefonte circuit
1955-57 Manor Hill
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-59 Warrior’s Mark
1859-61 Newberry
1861-63 Bloomingdale
1863-64 Montoursville
1864-66
1866-68 Warrior’s Mark
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Warrior’s Mark
1859-72 Penn’s Valley
1872-75 Grahamton
1975-77
1877-79 Port Matilda
1879-80 Loyalsock
1880-83 on leave
1883-84 assigned to Muhlenburg, apparently did not complete the year
1884-88 on leave
1888 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of John W. Haughawout
appears in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore
Conference, page 399. Mrs. Haughawout is the daughter of Rev. Shadrach B. Laycock and Susan Bowman.
Shadrach Laycock was a well-respected local
preacher in Luzerne and
HAVEN, CLARENCE V.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 Beach
Haven,
1918 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1918-20 Beach Haven
1920 transfer to Northern New York Conference
HAVEN, THEODORE W.
Born: 3-1-1862 married: Susan Choate Gould
Died: 4-3-1920 obit: Central New York Conference 1908, 162
1897 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1897 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1897-98 Espy & Lime Ridge
1898-99 Trevorton
1899-00 Catawissa circuit
1900-01 York Springs
1901-03 Penn’s Valley
1903-04
1904-05 Harveyville
1905 transfer to Central New York Conference
1905-07
1907-09 Montezuma
1909-10 Tyrone (NY)
1910-11 S. Onondaga-Cedarvale
1911 transfer
to
HAWKINS, CHARLES PITMAN
Born: 1835
Died: 12-15-1869 Sinnemahoning PA obit:
1867 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 64
1866-68 Karthaus
1868 charter member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Karthaus
1869 Sinnemahoning
Note: Charles Pitman Hawkins was baptized by and named for Charles Pitman (1796-1854) of the Newark Conference.
HAWKINS, JOHN E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1904-05 Ashcroft
Note: John E. Hawkins served as a
local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HAY, HUGH
Born: 8-22-1851 Scotland married: Cordelia Jane
Bennett
Died: 3-4-1935
Interment:
Obit:
1931-33 Littlestown,
Note: Hugh Hay served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference while a retired member of another conference.
HAYDEN, ROBERT L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1938-39 Harrisonville (beginning 10/38)
1939-40 Wallis Run
Note: Robert L. Hayden served as a local pastor.
HAYS, EDWARD SYLVESTER
Born: 12-8-1898
Died: 4-13-1985 McConnellsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1979, 345
married 2: Cora E. Sipes
1922 license,
recommended by
1931 admitted on trial
1933 ordained deacon
1935 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1985, 410
1929-34
1934-36
1936-37 Claysburg
1937-38 Salona-Lamar
1938-42
1942-47 McConnellsburg
1947-52 Saxton
1952-55
1955-64 Airville
1964 retired
1964-67 Warfordsburg
1967-68 Harrisonville (Dec 1967 – Jan 1968)
1968
1968-70 Little Cove
1971-74
Note: The dates for the second Mrs. Hays are 12/27/1913 – 12/9/1990.
HAZEN, COLLINS EMERSON
Born: 9-13-1891 Nordmont PA. married: Velma Elizabeth Thrump
Died: 3-20-1945 Sunbury PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 391
1921 admitted on trial, recommended by Picture Rocks
Interment: Muncy PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1945, 213
1915-18 Elimsport & Maple Hill
1918-20 Emporium
1920-22 Picture Rocks circuit
1922-25 Town Hill
1925-28 Penn’s Valley
1928-35 Lock Haven
1935-40 Muncy
1940-42 Gordon
HEATHER, FRED HARVEY JR
Born: 9-27-1905 married:
Died: 5-21-1989 obit:
Interment:
Obit: California-Pacific Conference 1989
1926-29 student,
1926-29
1929-30
1930-31 ? [returned to
1931-34
Note: The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry offers the Fred H. Heather memorial clinical pastoral education scholarship, established in 1989, to provide scholarship assistance for members of The United Methodist Church who want the training and experience of Clinical Pastoral Education. There are also other scholarships available in his name for chaplains, women, and minorities. Fred H. Heather appears to have been a chaplain.
HECK, LEVI G.
Born: 4-9-1842 Orbisonia PA married: Sarah Widney
Died: 12-31-1918 Watsontown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 130
1867 quarterly conference license, Shirleysburg
1869 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1919, 157
1868-69 Tuscarora circuit
1869-70
1970-71
1871-72
1872-75
1875-78 Sinnemahoning
1878-80 Salona
1880-81 Pine Grove
1881-83 on leave
1883-84 Schellsburg
1884-00 on leave
1885-86 McConnellstown
1900 retired
Note: Levi G. Heck had significant military involvement during
the Civil War and was present when Lee surrendered at
HECK,
Born: 4-10-1860 Three Springs PA married: Carrie Minerva Shammo
Died: 4-8-1910 Berwick PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1931, 195
1887 admitted on trial, recommended by
1888 ordained
deacon, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 113
1884-87 student,
1887-88
1888-90
1890-92
1892-96 Watsontown
1896-97
1897-01
1903-06
1906-10 Berwick First
Note:
HECKERT, DAVID W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 Bakerton
Note: David W. Keckert served as a local pastor.
HECKMAN, EDGAR ROHRER
Born: 2-11-1875 Ennisvile PA married: Mabel Geiger
Died: 5-24-1948 Millerstown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 196
1898 admitted on trial, recommended by
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1949, 196
1898-00 faculty,
1900-02 Town Hill
1902-06
1906-08 Duncannon
1908-15 Bloomsburg
1915-18
1918-19 superintendent, Altoona District
1919-25 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1925-29
1929-32
1932-36 Bellefonte
1936-47 superintendent, Home for Aged at Tyrone
1947 retired
Note: Edgar R. Heckman is the son of Isaac Heckman. He is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism.
HECKMAN, ISAAC
Born: 2-24-1842
Died: 11-6-1917 Tyrone PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 129
1871 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 138
1871-72 Saxton
1872-74 Glen Hope
1874-76 Ennisville
1876-78 Osceola Mills
1878-81 Warrior’s Mark
1881-82
1882-85 Martinsburg
1885-88 Penn’s Valley
1888-92 Sinnemahoning
1892-97 Mifflinburg
1897-00 Montoursville
1900-02 Lock Haven
1904-08 Mifflintown
1908-11 Northumberland
1911-14
1914 retired
Note: Isaac Heckman is the father of Edgar Rohrer Heckman.
HEDGES, JOHN W.
Born: 7-2-1818
Died: 4-27-1907
1845 admitted on
trial,
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46
1846-47
1847-49 Greenbrier mission
1849-50 Rockingham
1850-52 agent, Wesley Female Institute In Wilmington DE
1852-54 Ryland Chapel station
1854-55
1855-56 Rockbridge
1857 charter
member of the
1858-60
1860-62 Lewisburg
1862-64
1868 transfer
by boundary change to
1868-70
1873-75
1877-82 Sunday School and Tract Society
1883-87 on leave
1887-88
1888-90
1890-92
1892-93
1893-94
1894 retired
HEIL, EUGENE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1947-49 Ray’s Hill
Note: Eugene Heil served as a local pastor.
HEIM, CLAUDE STEPHEN
Born: Jackson Twp, Northumberland Co PA married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1920-22 Eagles Mere & Laporte (started in middle of first year)
1922-23 Orrtanna
Nov. 1933 Reading Grace, denomination unknown
Note: Claude S. Heim has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never progressed through the system.
HEIM, WILLIAM WARDEN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1903 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church
Interment:
Obit:
1905-06 Montandon
1906-08 Wharton
1908-09 Ceres,
1909-10 Ceres
and Horse Run,
1910 no longer listed
Note: William W. Heim served as a local pastor but was not recommended for admission to Conference. See the Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 66. Apparently he faced the same situation in the Genesee Conference.
HELLER, PARKE HESS
Born: 7-24-1894 married: Ida Myrtle Flick
Died: 1964 obit:
1926 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1928 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1926-28 Maple Grove
1928-29 Skinner’s Eddy
1929 withdrew
1930 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1930-31 Hustontown (started during the 1929-30 conference year)
“transfer” to Congregational Church
1934-39 Glenolden, Chester County PA
Note: Parke H. Heller is also listed as H.R. Heller and H.P. Heller. He appears to be serving as a Baptist pastor in Maryland in the 1950’s. The biographical information given above has not been confirmed to be that of the Parke H. Heller listed in the ministerial files.
HELT, CARL CLINTON
Born: 3-2-1910, Berwick PA married: Vera Luella Callender
Died: 1-6-1993 obit: [1997, 379]
1931 license, recommended by Berwick Calvary
1943 admitted on trial
1943 ordained deacon
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 459
1934-35
1935-37 Allenwood
1937-39 Wilburton and
1939-42 Montandon-Hendrickson
1942-45 New
1945-49 Hughesville
1949-54
1954-57 superintendent, Home for the Aged at Tyrone
1957-59 Shickshinny
1959-64
1964-68
1968-75 Fawn Grove
1975 retired
Note: The dates for Mrs. Helt are 6/29/1909 to 2/14/1997.
HENCK, HARRY
SMITHSON
Born: 12-12-1898 Harpers Ferry WV married: Mary R.
Hawthorne
Died: 12-29-1985 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1993, 350
1921 admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference
1922 ordained deacon
1924 ordained elder
Interment: Harper
Cemetery, Harpers Ferry WV
Obit: Wyoming Conference
1986, 292
1919-20 student, Dickinson College
1919-20 Hickorytown
& Salem, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1920-23 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1920-23 Bayville and Ocean Gate
1923-24 Cliffwood
1924- New Brunswick Highland Park
…
1956 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1956-64 West
Pittston
1964-67 Endicott
St. Paul’s
1967 retired
Note: Harry S. Henck is the son of
Louis Henck (1864-1898) of the Baltimore Conference
and a brother to Louis Wheeler Henck (1897-1994) of
the Troy Conference. [His brother is
also known as Louis E. Henck.]
HENNINGER, FRANK LAMONT
Born: 5-16-1900
Died: 11-14-1975 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1984, 389
1917 license, recommended by
1922 admitted on trial
1924 ordained deacon
1926 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 148
1920-22 Boiling Springs
1922-23
1923-24
1924-26 Jeddo-Lattimer
1926-28 Shippensburg
1928-30 director of student work,
1930-32
1932-34
1939-45 superintendent, Sunbury District
1945-46
1946 transfer to Genesee Conference
1946-49
1949 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1949-53
1953-59 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1959-69 executive secretary, Conference Interboard Council (ending 12/31/69)
1969 retired (beginning 12/31/69)
1970-71
1973-74 assistant, Harrisburg Grace
Note: F. Lamont Henninger is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church.
HENRY, EDGAR ANDREW
Born: 2-23-1905 Reedsville PA married: Esther Pauline Brumbaugh
Died: 4-11-1995 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990, 455
1926 license, recommended by Lewistown First
1927 admitted on trial
1919 ordained deacon
1931 ordained elder
Interment: Rolling
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1995, 444
1925-26 Steelton,
1926-27
1927-30 Wallaceton
1930-33 Nescopeck
1941-46
1946-51
1952-59
1959-65 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1965-68
1968 retired
1968-75
Note: Edgar A. Henry is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 583. He is the father of Joanne Yvonne Henry Winstead, wife of Donald L. Winstead.
HENRY, FRANK BERNARD
Born: 11-25-1912 Chambersburg PA married:
Died: 12-11-1996 obit:
1936 admitted on trial
1936 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: California-Nevada Conference 1997, ?
1937-38 West Fairview-Summerdale
1938-40 Pleasant Gap
1940-68 chaplain, US Army
1968 transfer to California-Nevada Conference
HENRY, GEORGE W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1962 license
Interment:
1962-64
1964-66 Wallaceton
1966-68 Coalport
1971 no longer listed
became a pastor in the United Church of Christ
HENSON, ROBERT GRANT
Born: 4-5-1922
Died: 11-7-2003 obit:
?
Interment:
Obit:
1939-43 student,
1939-40
1940-41
1942-43
1943-46 student,
Westminster Theological Seminary in
1943-45 Clearville (beginning 9/1/43)
1944-45 Grantsville MD
1945-46 Landsodowne MD
1946-49
1949-53 Rupert
1956-60
1966-69 Moundsville
1969-70 chaplain, West Virginia State Penitentiary
1979-80 chaplain,
1980-85 Sophia-Mabscott
1985 retired
1987-97
Note: Robert G. Henson has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never became a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.
HERMAN, JAMES WALTER
Born: 2-1-1932 New Oxford PA married: Margaret Daum
Died: 6-6-2008 obit:
1955 approved lay pastor
1970 license
Interment: New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford PA
Obit:
1957-62 Fannettsburg-Metal
1968-69 Fort Loudon
1969-79 Fort Loudon-Edenville
1979-92 Hummels Wharf Christ Community
1992-96 Scotland-Salem
1996 retired
Note: James W. Herman served 1957-62 as a lay pastor, and after 1970 as a local pastor.
HERRING, PAUL LAMAR
Born: 1-15-1932 Shamokin PA married: Eleanor Roadarmel
Died: obit:
1956 license, recommended by Elysburg
1960 admitted on trial
1960 ordained deacon
1962 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1956-59 Morris
1959-63 Mapleton-Mill Creek
1963-65 associate, Harrisburg Stevens Memorial
1965-68 Dillsburg -Wellsville
1968-76 Towanda
1976-83 York Aldersgate (ending 8/15/83)
1983-90 Carlisle Allison (beginning 8/15/83)
1990-96 superintendent, Williamsport District
1996 retired
1996-04 associate director, Conference Council on Ministries
2004-04 Harrisburg Paxton (beginning 10/1/04 and ending 10/1 05)
Note: Paul L. Herring is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 588.
HERRITT, JOHN ADRILE
Born: 1-25-1895 Jersey Shore PA married: Louise Mengee
Died: 1-5-1960
1924 admitted on trial
1926 ordained deacon
1928 ordained elder
Interment: Elan Memorial Park., Lime Ridge PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 242
1920-21 Morris (beginning 9/20)
1921-24 Trout Run
1924-28 Harveyville
1928-34 Three Springs
1934-39 Thompsontown
1939-46
1946-52 Burnham
1952-58
1958-60 Catawissa
HERROLD, BENJAMIN S.
Born: 5-17-1889 Port Trevorton PA married: Bertha A. Long
Died: 9-8-1974 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 249
1936 ordained deacon
1938 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 160
1937-40 Allenwood
1940-43 New Millport (ending 2/1/43)
1943-45 Trout Run (beginning 2/1/43)
1945-48 Morris
1948-50
1950-54
1954-57
1957-58 Saxton
1958 retired
1958-62
Note: Benjamin S. Herrold served as a local pastor. Bertha Herrold (widow of B.S.) appears in the journals with no address in the spouses of deceased ministers list for the years 1977-82; this is an error.
HERRON, LEVIN DORMAN
Born: 10-20-1824
Died: 4-4-1897 obit: [c1835 – 1875]
1853 admitted on
trial,
Interment:
Obit:
1853-54
1854-55 Patapsco
1855-57
1857 charter
member of
1857-59 West Falls
1859-61 Emmitsburg
1861-62 Hancock
1862-64
1864-65 Westernport
1865-68 Long Green
1868 transfer
by boundary change to
1868-69
1869-77 on leave
1877-80 Pendleton
1880 retired
HESS, CHARLES FRANKLIN
Born: married: Lilliam _____
Died: obit:
1955 license, recommended by Allenport
1957 ordained deacon
1959 ordained elder
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit:
1955-58 Three Springs
1958-61 Ramey
1961-66 Saxton
1966-71 Milesburg
1971-78 Curwensville
1978-83 Berwick First
1983-87
1983-87 Lime Ridge
1987 retired
HESS, DORIS E.
Born: Hughesville PAmarried: [single]
Died: obit:
missionary
Interment:
Woman's Division of Methodist Church
World Association for Christian Communication
1990
retired
Note: Miss Hess worked in missionary journalism in various parts of the world.
HESS, GERALD B.
Born: married: Mary L. _____
Died: obit: [d. 11/19/58]
1959 license
Interment:
1959-62 Manor Hill
1962-66 Freeland Parish
1966-70
1970 “transfer” by boundary change to Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Gerald B. Hess served as a local pastor.
HESS, LEVI LOGUE
Born: 9-26-1905 Warfordsburg PA married: Ruth V. Deshong
Died: 4-24-1976 Lewistown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 480
1945 license, recommended by Harrisonville Asbury
1951 ordained deacon
1953 ordained elder
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1976, 149
1947-52 Harrisonville (beginning 6/1/47)
1952-56 New Millport (ending 2/15/56)
1956 Orangeville (beginning 2/15/56)
1956-59
1959-62
1962-65
1965-67 Gatchelville
1967-71 Orbisonia
1971 retired
1971-72
1972-75
HESS, M.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1922-23 Blandburg
Note: M.L. Hess served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HESS, S. M. V.
Born: 1-12-1850 married: Agnes P. Elliott
Died: 7-12-1926 obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1931, 48
Interment:
Obit:
1911-13
Note: S.M.V. Hess served in the Methodist Episcopal Church as a local pastor.
HESSER, WILLIAM CHARLES
Born: 6-6-1833 Mifflinburg PA married: Ellen Clarissa Templin
Died: 1-7-1906 Mifflinburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 121
1860 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Mifflinburg circuit
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1906, 104
1860-62 Mifflinburg & Middleburg
1962-63 Berwick
1863-65 Shippen [Emporium]
1865-66 Lycoming
1866-68 Orangeville
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71 White Haven
1871-74 Shippensburg
1874-77
1877-80
1880-83 White Haven
1883-84 Northumberland
1884-86 Jeanesville-Audenried
1886-89 Hanover-New
1889-94 Mechanicsburg
1894-97 Montoursville
1897-99 Hughesville
1899-01 Watsontown
1901 retired
Note: William Charles Hesser is the son of Hannah Wagner Hesser and Rev. Charles Hesser of the Evangelical Association. The elder Rev. Hesser died in an accident on his way to attend the 1843 General Conference of the Evangelical Association as a delegate of the East Pennsylvania Conference [see Breyfogel’s 1888 Landmarks of the Evangelical Association, page 105.]
HEVERLY, HARRIS EDWARD
Born: 10-2-1913 Howard PA married: Isabel Barker
Died: 3-16-2007
1941 admitted on trial
1941 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1941-42 at school
1942 transfer to New England Conference
1942-44 at school
1944-47 Crawford
Memorial.
1947-49 at school
1949 withdrew
entered the ministry of the Congregational Church
Note: In 1957 Rev. Harris E. Heverly was working in the denominational finance offices of the Congregational Church.
HEWETT, J.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
1882-83 Cove (beginning 5/28/1882)
1884-85 Cove
Note: J.C. Hewett was a local pastor living in Dickey’s
Mountain,
HEYDE, GEORGE WATSON
Born: 1-2-1835
Died: 1-20-1913 Parkton MD obit:
1858 admitted on trial, East BaltimoreConference
Interment:
Obit:
1858-59 Shirleysburg
1859-60 York Springs
1860-62
1862-63 Mercersburg station
1863-65
1865-67 Havre de Grace
1867-68 Hollidaysburg
1868 charter
member of
1868-69 Hollidaysburg
1869 transfer
to
1869-71 Hancock
1871-74 Patapsco
1874-75 Woodberry
1876-79 Summerfield
1881-84
1884-87
1887-88
1888-11 chaplain,
Seamen’s
1911 retired
HICKOK, FRED
Born: 2-18-1928 Hallstead PA married: Marguerite Elaine Pedrone
Died: obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 438
1950 license
1954 admitted on trial, recommended by
1954 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1950-53 Morris
1953-57 Elysburg
1957-59
1959-60 Weatherly
1960-66 Harveyville
1966-68
1968-74
1978-80
1980-84 Witmers
1984-86 Burnham yoked parish (ending 4/1/86)
1986-87 leaver of absence (beginning 4/1/86)
1987-90 Robertsdale
1990 retired
Note: Fred C. Hickok is the father of Fred Earl Hickok of
the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
HICKS, OWEN DEVON
Born: 5-27-1842 Machen,
Died: 9-14-1921
married2: Clara J. Kline
obit2:
1861 local license,
recommended by
1866 admitted on trial, Erie Conference
Interment: Howard PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 128
1866-67 Thompson [
1867 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1867-68
1868-69 Hillsborough
1869 charter member of Virginia Conference
1869-70
1870-71
1871-73 Rockbridge
1873-74 Middlebrook
1874-75 Accotink
1875-76
1876 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1876-78 Littlestown
1878-81 Muhlenburg
1881-84 New
1884-86 Howard-Beech Creek
1886-89 Duncansville
1889-91 Penn’s Valley
1891-92
1892-94 Hustontown
1893-94 Harrisonville
1894-97 McConnellsburg
1897-99 Mercersburg
1899-04 Montandon
1904-06
1906-09 Slate Run
1909-11 Costello
1911-16 Duboistown-Nisbet
1916 retired
Note: Owen D, Hicks is a brother to William W. Hicks. An obituary also appears in the 9/21/1921 Christian Advocate, page 1196. His semi-centennial paper has been bound and published with photographs.
HICKS, WILLIAM WATKINS
Born: c 1836 Wales UK married:
Died: obit:
1857-58
1858-60
1860-62 Havre de Grace station
1862-64 missionary to
1864-65 Bellefonte
1865-66
1866 withdrew
1866-67 State Street Congregational Church, Brooklyn NY
1867-68 Lee Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn NY
moved South: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Note: William W. Hicks is a brother to Owen D. Hicks. Rev. and Mrs. William W. Hicks appear in an 1863 photograph of the 1863 annual meeting of the India Mission housed in the mission collection at the conference archives. Apparently both he and his wife returned from India with illnesses from which they never fully recovered. His 4/19/1865 address occasioned by the death of President Lincoln has been reprinted in various contexts. After his withdrawal from the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1866. William W. Hicks maintained an interest in, if not a direct connection with, the work in India and wrote at least one related book, The Sanctuary.
HILBERT, JAMES
JOSEPH
Born: 1-10-1903 Shenandoah PA married: Margaret
E. Ruehling
Died: 5-29-1981 obit:
[1905 – 1992]
1933 license, Wyoming Conference
1942 ordained deacon
1949 ordained elder
Interment: Elkton
Cemetery, Elkton MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference
1981, 355
1938-41 Thornhurst
1941-42 West Nicholson
1942-44 Rome
1944-45 Rome – Orwell
1945-47 Castle Creek
1947-49 Alderson – Noxen
1949-50 McClure
1950-51 North Fenton
1951-53 Greene
1953-54 not appointed
1954 “transfer” to New York
Conference
1958 “transfer” to Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1958-61 Enola
1961-62 Lawrenceville – Tioga – Tioga
Junction, Genesee Conference
1962-65 Delta
1966 “transfer” to Peninsula
Conference
1966-68 Cherry Hill
1968-70 Port Deposit - Tome
1970 retired
1970-73 Wesley Chapel
Note: James J.
Hilbert served as a local pastor.
HILBISH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born: 10-12-1869 near Shamokin PA married: Catharine Mary Anna McKelvey
Died: 8-26-1954
1900 local license, recommended by Shamokin First
1902 admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference
1904 ordained deacon, West Virginia Conference
1908 ordained elder, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1955, 230
1898-99 Roxbury
1899-00 Coram,
1900-01
1901-02
1902-03 Lumberport
1903-04 Grantsville MD
1904-05
1905-06 Clearville,
1906 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1906-08 Bloomingdale
1908 transfer to West Virginia Conference
1908-09
1909-11 Glenville
1911 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1911-13 Harveyville
1913-15 Ray’s Hill
1915-17
1917-19 Manor Hill
1921-26 Mahaffey
1926-28 Dillsburg-Wellsville
1928-32 Crossroads-Zion
1932 retired
Note: Benjamin F. Hilbish is the father of Mabelle Z. Hilbish Croyle, wife of Harry A. Croyle. The biography of Benjamin F. Hilbish, Tales of Frontier Preacher, was written by his daughter Florence May Anna Hilbish and published by Pageant Press. Mrs. Hilbish is the sister of three Central Pennsylvania Conference pastors: Clarence E. McKelvey, Ellis E. KcKelvey, and Wesley L. McKelvey.
HILDEBRAND, JOSIAH
Born: 6-16-1816Lewistown PAmarried: Frances S. Dorsey
Died: 8-5-1892Des Moines IAobit:
1852 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Winterset City Cemetery, Winterset IA
Obit: on file in the conference archives
1852-53 ?
1853-55 Greenbank
1855-56 Lewisburg circuit
1856-57 Hampstead
1857
charter member of the East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 Hampstead
1858-59 Allegany
1859
transfer to Illinois Conference
reportedly served in the Illinois Conference until locating about 1884
Note:
There was a Josiah Hildebrand in Western Pennsylvania in the 1840's (Brockaway 1844, Cambridge Springs 1848-49, etc.), but it is
unknown whether this is the same man. It is possible that this Josiah
Hildebrand may have initially joined another Conference about 1842.
HILDT, GEORGE
Born: 2-6-1803
Died: 3-7-1882
married2: Eliza Welch
1826 admitted on
trial,
Obit:
1826-27 Northumberland
1827-28
1828-29
1829-30
1830-31
1831-33
1833-35
1835-37
1838-38 Harper’s Ferry
1838-39
1839-40
1840-41
1841-45 superintendent, Northumberland District
1845-47
1847-49 Baltimore Caroline station
1849-51
1851-55 superintendent, Winchester District
1855-57 McKendree station
1857 charter
member of
1857-59
1859-61
1861-65 on leave
1865 retired
1868 transfer
by boundary change to
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1916-17
Note: Anthony Hill served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HILL, CARL EUGENE
Born: 9-2-1940
Died: obit:
1959 quarterly conference license, Beach Haven
1963 admitted on trial
1963 ordained deacon
1965 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1963-65 student, Wesley Theological Seminary in
1965-67 McVeytown
1967-72 Pleasant Gap
1972-79
1979-87
1987-94 Blossburg
1994-03 Lemont Mt. Nittany
2003 retired
HILL, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 1863 Kalida OH married: Nora Holmes
Died: 10-12-1936 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1905, 126
married2: Sara Harrison Schmidt
? license obit2:
? ordained
Interment:
Obit:
transfer to Central Ohio Conference
1899 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1899-06 Harrisburg Grace
1906 transfer to New York East Conference
1906-07
1907-12
1916-36 chancellor,
1936 retired
Note: John Wesley
Hill is the son of John Wesley Hill Sr (1831-1913) of the West Ohio
Conference. He was a noted orator,
Chautauqua speaker and political campaigner for McKinley, Roosevelt and
Taft. The first Mrs. Hill died in
HILL, KENNETH ROBERT
Born: 1-8-1931 married:
Died: 10-10-1994 obit:
1960 license, recommended by Selinsgrove
1962 admitted on trial
1961 ordained deacon
1983 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [1995, 438]
1960-61 Audenreid-Jeanesville
1961-66 student, Lancaster Theological Seminary in
1961-66 Conestoga
1966 discontinued
1966-73 Steelton First (beginning 12/1/66)
1973-84 Beavertown
1984-88
1988-90 Brandon-Central
1990-94 disability
HILL, PETER W.
Born: 2-1-1918 Shamokin PA married: Claire Johnston
Died: 6-23-2003
1968 license
Interment:
Obit: Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise 6/29/2003 (on file at the archives)
1940-61 American Baptist minister in PA, CA and IL
1961-84 faculty,
1968-74 Nelson (beginning 2/4/68)
Note: Peter W. Hill continued to live in
HILLIARD, CALVIN RAYVON
Born: 8-17-1931
Died: obit:
1953 license,
recommended by Tryo in
1954 admitted on trial, Western North Carolina Conference
1855 ordained deacon
1957 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1954-56 East Waterford,
1955 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1955-56
1956-58 Orangevile
1958-62
1962-64
1964-68 Berwick Calvary
1980-81 Lewistown Lake Park-Granville
1981-84
1984-89 Williamstown
1989-94 Pennsdale-Huntersville
1994 retired
2001 Danville St. Paul’s Emmanuel
2002-03 Bloomsburg Good Shepherd
Note: Calvin R. Hilliard is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 598.
HIME, W.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
1905-06 Montandon
Note: W.W. Hime served as a local pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HIMES, CHARLES FOSTER
Born: 10-20-1889 Bunkertown PA married: Ethel Myers
Died: 12-3-1979
1909 license, recommended by Vira
1913 admitted on trial
1915 ordained deacon
1917 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 342
1913-14 Burnt Cabins
1914-18 Millerstown
1918-22
1922-26
1926-41 Montoursville
1941-50 Woolrich
1954 retired
1954-56
1961-65 Eaglesmere (beginning 12/1/61)
1965-75
HINE-BULTER, DOUGLAS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1964-68 Grampian (beginning 10/1/64)
Note: Douglas Hine-Butler served as a local pastor.
HINEY, RALPH E.
Born: 4-5-1898 married: Edith R. Mead
Died: 12-8-1959 obit: Central New York Conference 1973, 174
married2: Elinor L. _____
obit: [7/23/1905 - ?]
1918 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
1918 ordained deacon
1920 ordained elder
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick PA
Obit: Kentucky Conference 1960, 245
1918-19 Belle Isle
1919-20 Belle Isle & Camillus
1920-22 Fleming & Scipioville
1922-24 Valois – Logan
1924-27 Aloquin & Flint
1927-31 Ovid & Varick
1931-36 Seneca Falls
1936-41 Warners & Belle Isle
1941-44 Syracuse Brown Memorial
1944 retired
1944-47 New Millport (beginning 10/1/1944), Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Ralph E. Hiney is the son of George W. Hiney of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church. He served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor. At the time of his death he was an approved art-time supply pastor in the Kentucky Conference. It appears that Ralph and Edith divorced before 1957 and that Ralph moved to Kentucky.
HINKLE, GORDON F.
Born: 8-24-1899
Died: 5-10-1967 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967, 2071
1924 admitted on trial
1926 ordained deacon
1927 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1923-24 Vira (ending fall 1924)
1924-27 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1924-26 Harriman,
1927-28 Jeddo-Lattimer
1928-30
1930-35 Patton (beginning fall 1930)
1935-37 Saxton
1937-40
1940-45
1949 transfer to Florida Conference
1949-51
1951 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference
1951-55 Zelienople
1955-59 Beaver Falls College Hill
1959-65
1965 retired
HINKLE, HERBERT CRAWFORD
Born: 1-8-1874
Died: 10-21-1917
1901 admitted on trial, recommended by York First
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 130
1901-04
1904-06 Cross Roads
1906-07
1907-13 Camp Hill
1913-15 Hughesville
1915-17 St. Mary’s
1917 Watsontown
Note: Herbert C. Hinkle is the son of Richard Hinkle. An obituary also appears in the 11/15/1917 Christian Advocate, page 1216.
HINKLE, RICHARD
Born: 10-9-1830
Died: 4-7-1917
1854 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 127
1854-55 Shirleysburg
1855-56 Cassville
1856-57 Woodbury
1857-58
1858 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1858-59
1859-61 Lock Haven
1863-65
1865-68 Strawbridge station
1868 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1868-71
1871 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1874-77 Lewisburg
1877-79 Harrisburg Grace
1879-81 Huntingdon First
1881-85 superintendent, Juniata District
1888-91
1891-94 Berwick
1894-99
1899-04
1904 retired
Note: Richard Hinkle is the father of Herbert C. Hinkle and a brother to George B. Hinkle (1828-1913) of the California Conference. Mrs. Hinkle is a sister to the Isaac F. Purvis who married the gospel songwriter and Williamsport Dickinson Seminary instructor Katharine E. Nash Purvis.
HINKELMAN, RALPH D.
Born: 1-28-1892 Hyner PA married: Lauretta Hunter
Died: 4-25-1959
1918 admitted on trial, Wisconsin Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1959, 250
1917 Strockbridge circuit (2 months)
1918-20 Pardeeville
1920-23 Sinnemahoning,
1921 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1921-23 Sinnemahoning
1923-26
1926-28 Houtzdale
1928-31 Patton
1931-34
1934-40
1940-46 Northumberland
1946-50
1950-54
1954-59
Note: Ralph D. Hinkelman is the father of Richard H. Hinkelman, and of Robert M. Hinkelman (1919-2005) of the Texas Conference .
HINKELMAN, RICHARD HUNTER
Born: Married:
Died: obit:
1952 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1952-53 at school
1953 transfer to East Wisconsin Conference
Note: Richard H. Hinkelman is the son of Ralph D. Hinkelman, and the brother of Robert M. Hinkelman (1919-2005) of the Texas Conference. In 2003 he is listed as a retired member of the Wisconsin Conference.
HIRONS, WILLIAM R.
Born: 1878 near
Died: 5-28-1907
1899 admitted on trial, Wilmington Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 126
1906 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1906-07 Greencastle
1907 Newville
HOCH, G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1877 license
Interment:
Obit:
1877-78 York Springs
Note: G. Hoch served as a local pastor.
HOCH, WILLIAM E.
Born: 5-13-1849
Died: 7-29-1897 Mercersburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1916, 135
1873 admitted on trial
Interment: Mercersburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 93
1873-75 Saxton
1875-76 McConnellstown
1876-78 Shellsburg
1878-80 Shirleysburg
1880-97 on leave
HODGSON, FRANCIS
Born: 2-13-1805 Driffield
Died: 4-17-1877 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 97
1828 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1828-29 Dauphin
1829-31 Elkton MD
1833-34
1834-35
1835-36
1836 transfer
to New York Conference
1845 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1845-47
1847-49
1849-51
1955-57
1957-59
1859-63 superintendent, South Philadelphia
District
1865-67
1867-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71
1871-74 Lewisburg
1874-76
1876 retired
1877 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
Note: Francis Hodgson is the father of Francis Day Hodgson (1832-1899) of the Central New York Conference.
HODGSON, IRVIN SWYERS
Born: 2-24-1890 Dagus Mines PA married: Blanche Anita Cline
Died: 6-14-1966
1912 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1912-13 Excelsior
1913-14 White Haven
1914-17 Snow Shoe
1917-18 Oriole-Antes Fort
1918-19 worker, US YMCA
1919-20 Benezette
1920 withdrew
HOFFMAN, CHARLES DUANE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1954 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 at school
1955 name missing from list, no other information found.
Note: Charles D. Hoffman had been an approved supply pastor since 1952, but he never filled an appointment. No address or home church is given.
HOFFMAN, HARRY C.
Born: 3-27-1884 married:
Died: 3-7-1963 obit:
1916 license
Interment:
Obit: [1963, 142]
1916-17 Summerdale
1937-47 Boyles Run
1947-48 without appointment, living in Sunbury
1948-53 Boyles Run
1953 retired
Note: Harry C. Hoffman served as a local pastor.
HOKE, GEORGE M.
Born: 10-20-1853 Fort Loudon PA married: Virginia Budding
Died: 2-10-1911 Hellam PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1908, 132
1878 admitted on trial
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1911, 130
1878-81
1881-84 Harrisburg Grace mission
1884-87
1887-90 Orbisonia
1890-95 Duncannon
1895-00
1900-03
1903-05 New
1905-11 Shamokin First
Note: George M. Hoke is the nephew of prominent UB layman
Jacob Hoke of
HOFFMAN, WILLIAM MAGUIRE
Born: 8-14-1877 Maple Hill PA married: Lillian Harriet Shaffer
Died: 5-5-1063
1908 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1903-07 student,
1905-06 Lewisberry & Lisburn (first half of the year)
1907 “transfer” to Baltimore Conference
1907-09 assistant,
1909-13 Laytonsville
1913-14 Patapsco
1917-22
1922-24
1924-29 Waugh
1929-32
1932-49 Millersville Baldwin Memorial
1949 retired
HOLLAND, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 license
Interment:
Obit:
1878-79 Wharton
Note: William Holland served as a local pastor.
HOLLEY, WILLIAM EDWARD
Born: 7-11-1911 Juniata [
Died: 7-?-1980 obit:
1935 admitted on trial
1935 ordained deacon
1937 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1928-32 student,
1932-35 student,
1935-38 Salladasburg
1938-41 Woodland-Bradford
1941-48
1948-57 on leave
1957 voluntary location
safety director, R.H. Sheppard Company of
HOLLINGSWORTH, SAMUEL WILLIAM JR
Born: 8-27-1925 Abington PA married: Erma F. Raudabaugh
Died: obit:
1951 admitted on trial
1951 ordained deacon
1953 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1945-49 student,
1948-50 West Fairview-Summerdale
1949-52 student,
Westminster Theological Seminary in
1949-50 West Fairview-Summerdale
1950-52
1952-55 Bendersville
1955-58 Shippensburg
1961-66
1966-67 sabbatical
1967 voluntary location
supervisor of investigations, EEOC in
Note: S. William Hollingsworth is listed in the 1966 Who’s
Who in the
HOLLINS, JOHN C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1893 ordained deacon, recommended by Milnesville & Humboldt
Interment:
Obit:
1890-91
Note: John C. Hollins served as a local pastor.
HOLLINS, J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1893-94 Excelsior
Note: J.W. Hollins served as a supply pastor. He is otherwise unknown.
HOLMES, CHARLES AVERY
Born: 6-2-1827 married:
Died: 3-15-1897 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1874 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1874-77 Harrisburg Grace
1879 transfer to Kentucky Conference
HOLMES, FRED
Born: 5-25-1899 Catawissa PA married: Mary Diener
Died: 2-?-1972 obit: [b. 12/5/1898]
1920 admitted on trial
1926 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1920-24 student,
1924-27 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1926-27 Beach Haven
1927-28 Beach Haven
1928 withdrew to enter the ministry in the Episcopal Church
Muncy PA
Note: Mrs. Holmes attended the
HOMMEL, AMOS EPHRIAM
Born: 10-12-1908
Died: 4-22-1984 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
Note: Amos E. Hommel has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He was seeking ordination as a local pastor and is believed to have operated an ministry in Lock Haven.
HONTZ, ALMON
Born: 1-30-1861
Died: 10-18-1898
1885 admitted on trial, recommended by Helfenstein
1888 ordained
deacon, recommended by
1889 admitted on trial again
Interment: Centerport,
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1899, 87
1884-86 Helfenstein
1886-90 student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
1890-93 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1893-95 Jamison city
1895-98 on leave to
HOOPERT, GRANTAS ELTON
Born: 3-27-1911 York Springs PA married: Ethel Mae Decker
Died: 8-24-1995 obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2002, 360
1945 license, recommended by York Springs
1949 admitted on trial
1949 ordained deacon
1951 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996, 414
1945-47 Hustontown
1947-49 Littlestown
1949-53 Doylesburg
1953-59 Mifflinburg
1963-67 New
1967-73 superintendent, Williamsport District
1973-76
1976 retired
1976-79
19867-87 Hendrickson-Mooresburg
Note: Grantas E. Hoopert is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 618.
HOOVEN, ANDREW BOZORTH
Born: 8-11-1833
Died: 2-7-1904 DuBois PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1913, 143
1867 quarterly conference license, Salladasburg
1869 admitted on trial
1871 ordained deacon
1873 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1904, 119
1869-72
1872-74 Emporium
1874-75 Lycoming
1875-78 Hughesvile
1878-81 Penfield
1881-83
1883-85 Town Hill
1885-88 Orangeville
1888-93 Stewartstown
1893-96
1896-97 Flemington
1897-00 Duboistown
1900 retired
Note: Andrew B. Hooven is the
father of Miss Minnie Hooven, who served 8 years in
Born: 2-4-1891
Died: 12-8-1974 Mechanicsburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1980, 351
1925 license, recommended by Kylertown
1930 ordained deacon
1932 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1975, 161
1927-29 Benezette
1929-33 Salona and Lamar
1933-36 Lock Haven circuit
1936-40 Wallaceton
1940-43 Trout Run (ending 1/15/43)
1943-46 Cassville (beginning 1/15/43)
1946-48
1948-54 Millville-Jerseytown
1954-58
1958-63
1963 retired
Note: John A. Hoover served as a local pastor.
Born: 3-18-1844
Died: 9-3-1908 obit: Philadelphia Conference 1909, 95
1868 admitted on trial, Troy Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69 faculty, Fort Edward Institute
1869-70
1870 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1870-72
[1872 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference]
1873 transfer to Philadelphia Conference
1873-74 Sanctuary
…
…
1903-08 superintendent, North District
Note: Solomon H. Hoover was not really a member of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference. He was
automatically transferred in between the 1872 and 1873 annual conferences when
the General Conference added
HOPKINS, HENRY FRANCIS
Born: 12-25-1920
Died: 12-7-2001 Lewisburg PA obit:
1939 license,
recommended by
1945 admitted on trial, recommended by Beaver Meadows
1946 ordained deacon
1948 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2002, 361
1942-43 Vira (beginning 7/15/42)
1943-45 Snydertown (beginning 10/1/43)
1945-47 Beaver Meadows
1947-49 Berwick Calvary
1949-54
1954-58 Llyswen,
1958-63 Epworth, Harris.
1963-69
1969-74 Huntingdon First
1974-80 superintendent, State College District
1980-83 New
1983 retired
1983-89 South Williamsport Grace
Note: Henry F. Hopkins is a brother to Martin W. Hopkins and Thomas J. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long.
HOPKINS, MARTIN WESLEY
Born: 7-18-1917 Anita PA married: Betty Louise Zeigler
Died: 7-18-1998 obit:
1938 license, recommended by Breezewood
1945 admitted on trial, recommended by Beaver Meadows
1945 ordained deacon
1947 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1999, 433
1938-40 Laurelton (beginning 5/38)
1940-43 Snydertown (ending 10/43)
1943-45 Beaver Meadow (beginning 12/43)
1945-48 Nescopeck
1951-54 director of youth work, PA Council of Churches
1954-65
1965-71 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1971-78
1978-82
1982 retired
1982-86
Note: Martin W. Hopkins is a brother to Henry F. Hopkins and Thomas J. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long. He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 620.
HOPKINS, THOMAS JAMES
Born: 11-27-1911 Nanty-Glo PA married: Mary Elizabeth Brant
Died: 11-6-2000 Lewisburg PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1997, 385
1935 license, recommended by Glen hope
1937 admitted on trial
1937 ordained deacon
1941 ordained elder
Interment: Lewisburg PA
Obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2001, 366
1935-38 Ray’s Hill
1938-41 Catawissa circuit
1945-50
1954-61 Bloomsburg
1961-66 Lewistown First
1972-77 Tyrone Wesley
1977 retired
Note: Thomas J. Hopkins is a brother to Henry F. Hopkins and Martin W. Hopkins and Helen E. Hopkins Long, wife of Merrel D. Long.
HORNER, J.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1919-20 Jonestown
Note: J.E. Horner served as a local pastor. He apparently also served area Methodist Protestant churches (Reyburn).
HORNING, JOHN
Born: 1845 near Ennisville PA married: Hannah Margaret Oburn
Died: 9-25-1931 Huntingdon PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 134
1872 admitted on trial
1874 ordained deacon
1876 ordained elder
Interment: Huntingdon PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1932, 168
1872-73 Rays Hill
1873-74 Warriors Mark
1874-75 Conyngham
1875-77
1877-79
1879-82 Bloomingdale
1882-85 Mifflinville
1887-88 Snydertown
1888-91 Orangeville (moved to Shamokin Second during the 1890-91 conference year)
1891-94 Shamokin Second
1894-97
1898-01 Duncannon
1901-03 Duncansville-Altoona Epworth
1903-05
1906-07 Costello
1907-13 Nescopeck
1913-15 Weatherly
1915 retired
HOUCK, WILLIAM A.
Born: 1-25-1837 Newburg [Huntingdon Co.] PA married:
Died: 3-25-1926
1859 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1927, 518
1859-60 Woodbury
1860-61 Jeansville
1861-62
1862-63 Manor Hill
1863-65 Lewistown circuit
1865-66 chaplain, US Army
1866-67
1867-68 Shippensburg
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-70 Shippensburg
1870-73
1873-76
1879-82 Lock Haven
1882-86 superintendent, Harrisburg District
1889-94 Bellefonte
1897-03
1906 retired
1909
HOUGHTELIN, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1868 admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69
1869 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1869 withdrew
HOUSE, JAY WESLEY
Born: 9-7-1931
Died: obit:
1951 license, recommended by Williamsport Calvary
1954 admitted on trial
1955 ordained deacon
1956 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1954-55 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1955-60
1963-68 Nescopeck
1968-78
1978-81 Mount Wolf Otterbein
1981-85 associate program director, Conference Council on Ministries
1985-88 council director, Conference Council on Ministries
1988-96 New
1996 retired
1997-98 Wormleysburg
Note: Jay W. House is the father of James Charles House of
the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
HOVENSTINE, JOHN ROBERT
Born: 6-24-1923 Ranshaw PA married: Mae Constance Slotterback
Died: obit:
1952 admitted on trial
1953 ordained deacon
1954 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1951-53 Ray’s Hill
1953-54
1954-55 Catawissa
1955-57 chaplain, US Air Force
1957-59 Jerseytown
1959-61 Mifflintown
1962-70 chaplain, Altoona Veterans’ Hospital
1970 transfer to the United Church of Christ denomination
Note: John R. Hovenstine is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 626.
HOVIES, DAVID WILLIAM
Born: 4-20-1910 Sunbury PA married: Ruth Shipe
Died: 6-27-1973 Lewistown PA obit:
1958 license,
recommended by
1960 ordained deacon
1962 ordained elder
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974, 424
1957-61 Forksville (beginning 6/1/57)
1961-66 Snow Shoe
1966-71 Renovo
1971-73 Lewistown Grove Memorial
HOWE, WESLEY
Born: 2-5-1802 near Millerstown PA married: Elizabeth Eyster
Died: 12-8-1869 Orrstown PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1892, 93
1829 quarterly
conference license, recommended by
1831 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Orrstown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1870, 65
1831-32 Berwick
1832-33 Sunbury
1833-34
1834-36 Mifflin
1836-37 Luray
1837-38 Warrenton
1838-39
1839-50 Loudon
1840-42
1842-43 Mercersburg
1843-44
1844-45 Lewistown
1845-46
1846-48 Lewistown
1848-50
1850-52 Penn’s Valley
1852-54
1854-56
1856-57
1857 charter
member of
1857-58
1858-60 Castle Fin
1860-62 Shippensburg
1862 retired
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Wesley Howe is the son of Morris Howe (1766-1843) of the Baltimore Conference. A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference, page 400.
HOWES, JOHN BAXTER
Born: 10-25-1908
Died: 12-12-1995 Emmitsburg MD obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2001, 367
1925 license, recommended by Flatwoods
1927 admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference
1933 ordained deacon, Kentucky Conference
1935 ordained elder, Holston Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1996,415
1927-31 student,
1931-33 faculty, Kingdom Come Settlement School
1933-34
1934 transfer to Holston Conference
1934-37 student, Boston University School of
Theology in
1934-37
1937-39 Southern Mountain Missions
1939-42 Harriman
1942-43 director of rural work, Central Pennsylvania Conference (beginning 9/1/42)
1943 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1943-45 director of rural work
1945-47 Town Hill
1947-58 faculty,
Westminster Theological Seminary in
1958-79 faculty, Wesley Theological Seminary in
1979 retired
1980-84
Note: John B. Howes is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 630.
HOYT, EDWARD S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1963-65 Roulette
1965-66 Wallis Run
Note: Edward S. Hoyt served as a local pastor.
HUBBOCK, A.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
Note: A.R. Hubbock was pastor of
the
HUFF, NORMAN EUGENE
Born: 6-18-1932 Lewistown PA married: Anna Mae Good
Died: obit:
1952 quarterly conference license, Lewistown First
1954 license, recommended by Lewistown First
1959 admitted on trial
1959 ordained deacon
1962 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1952-56 student,
1954-56
1956-57
1957-61 Rehoboth
1961-64
1964-65 associate, Camp Hill
1965-78 Salladasburg
1978-87 Tyrone Good Shepherd
1987-91 Hanover Lohr’s Memorial
1991-94 Muncy
1994 retired
1996-97 Mapleton Depot (beginning 3/1/96)
1997-98 Bellwood-Pinecroft
2006-07 Lemont Mt. Nittany (beginning 2/1/06)
HUGHES, BENJAMIN F.
Born: 1-1-1910 Courtdale PA married:
Died: 8-?-1981 obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1936-37 Lock Haven circuit
1937-40 student,
1937-40 Rehobeth
1940-42 Rehobeth
chaplain, U.S. Navy
Note: Benjamin F. Hughes has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he never matriculated in the conference.
HUGHES, WILLIAM BRUCE
Born: 5-3-1856
Died: 3-20-1916 Bellefonte PA obit:
1884 admitted on trial, recommended by Hickory Run circuit
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1917, 121
1883-84
1884-85 Jerseytown
1885-86 Iola
1886-87
1887-88
1888-89 Port Matilda
1889-91 Glen Hope
1891-94 McKee’s Gap
1894-96 Karthaus
1896-97 Pleasant Gap
1897-98 Allegheny
1898-00 Harrisonville (ending 8/1900)
1900-02 Bethel-Trinity (beginning 8/1900)
1902-03
1903-05 Shirleysburg
1905-09
1909-11
1911-13 Alum Bank
1913-14 Costello
1914-15 Keating Summit
1915 retired
Note: Bruce Hughes is the preferred form of this name.
Born: 11-6-1919
Died: 4-23-2001 Winfield KS obit:
1947 admitted on trial, recommended by Winfield KS Grace
1947 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1944-47 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ
1947-48 Half Moon
1947 transfer to Central Kansas Conference 1948, 42
Note: H. Wayne Hull did graduate work at
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1941-43
Note:
HUMPHREYS, GEORGE W.
Born: 11-5-1875 Brighton
Died: 11-6-1949 Schuylkill Haven PA obit:
1913 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1950, 200
1913-16
1916-18
1923-28 Shenandoah
1928-29
1934 transfer to Peninsula Conference
1934-37
1938 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1945 retired
HUNSINGER, AMANDUS RAY [“PAT”]
Born: 5-29-1910
Died: 3-3-2005 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 440
1951 license, recommended by Hunlock Creek
1953 ordained deacon
1955 ordained elder
1970 admitted as associate member
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2005, 446
1951-53 Catawissa circuit
1953-60 Snydertown
1960-65 Orangeville
1965-75 Farragut-Fairview
1975 retired
HUNT, JOHN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1945-47 Mercersburg
Note: John M. Hunt served as a local pastor.
HUNTER, CLARENCE VanDYKE
Born: 11-12-1920 Berwindale PA married:
Died: 12-01-1995 KY obit:
1941 license
Interment:
Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 1996, 332
1942-44 Allenport
Note: Clarence V. Hunter has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he did not matriculate in the conference.
HUNTER, JAMES
Born: 12-6-1827 Mauch Chunk PA married: Anna Johnson
Died: 12-28-1913
1855 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1914, 121
1855-56 Sinnemahoning
1857-57 New
1857 charter member of East Baltimore Conference
1857-58 Bellefonte circuit
1858-60 Sinnemahoning
1860-61 on leave
1861-62
1862-64 Salona
1864-66 Howard
1866-68
1868 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference
1868-71 on leave
1868-70 Saladasburg
1871-73
1873-76 Northumberland
1876-79 Renovo
1879-81 Muncy
1881-83 Salladasburg
1883-84
1884-86 Northumberland
1886-87
1887-88 on leave
1888-90 Hyner
1890-91 Mill Hall
1891-93 Duboistown
1893-97 on leave
1897 retired
Note: An obituary for James Hunter also appears in the 1/29/1914 Christian Advocate, page 171.
HUNTER, JOHN WALTER
Born: 1-15-1934
Died: obit:
1957 admitted on trial
1959 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1957-64 at school
1964-69 faculty,
1969-78 executive secretary, Farm & Wilderness
Camps at
1978 honorable location
HURLBERT, JAMES PREDMORE
Born: 5-27-1870
Died: 1-30-1939 Mount Lebanon PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1942, 211
1909 license, recommended by Wharton
1913 admitted on trial
1917 ordained deacon
1923 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1939, 209
1911-12 Wapwallopen
1912-15 Montandon
1915-17 Beach Haven
1917-19 Laurelton
1919-21 Avis
1921-23
1926-31 Mahaffey
1931-33 Salladasburg
1933-37 Trout Run
1937 retired
HURLEY, DONALD ROY
Born: 7-25-1925
Died: 9-28-1999 obit:
1946 license,
recommended by
1947 admitted on trial
1955 ordained deacon
1957 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsyvania Conference 2000,345
1947-51 Frankstown
1956-59 Martinsburg
1959-66
1966-79
1979-85 superintendent, Chambersburg District
1985-89 Dillsburg Calvary
1989 retired
1994-95
Note: Donald R. Hurley is the father of Donald N. Hurley of
the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
HUSTON, OLIVER H.
Born: 1843 married:
Died: 1924 obit:
1874 admitted on trial, recommended by McConnellsburg circuit
Interment:
Obit:
1874-75 Ray’s Hill
1875-76 Shirleysburg
1876-77
1877-78
1878-79
1879-80
1880-81 Licking Creek
1881 withdrew
HUTSON, HAROLD HORTON
Born: 1-14-1914
Died: 7-15-2006 obit:
1932 license,
recommended by
1947 admitted on trial, Ohio Conference
1947 ordained deacon, Ohio Conference
1949 ordained elder, Ohio Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1931-32 student,
1932-35 student,
1935-38 student,
1936-38 director of adult work,
1938-46 faculty, Birmingham Southern College in
1944-46
1946-52 faculty,
1947-51 Jerome Methodist
1951-52 Waldo Methodist
1952-64 president,
1964-69 provost,
1969 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1969-76 president,
1976 retired
Note: Harold H. Huston is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist church, page 648.
HYKES, JOHN RESIDE
Born: 8-9-1852 Shippensburg PA married: Rebecca Harshall
Died: 5-14-1921 Shangai
1873 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1922, 129
1874-75 missionary,
1875 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1875-93 missionary,
1893-21 agency secretary for the American Bible
Society,