Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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BACHMAN, JERALD G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1954 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg Derry Street

Interment:

Obit:

1954-58 student, Lebanon Valley College

1958-62 student, University of Pennsylvania

1962-09 staff, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Note: Jerald G. Bachman is the author of numerous books and articles on youth behaviors, substance abuse, and other social issues.

BACHMAN, MONROE EUGENE

Born: 9-8-1867 near Lititz PA married: Clara Weidman

Died: 11-25-1939 obit: [11/16/1870 – 3/25/1953]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1894 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1897 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1894-95 Paradise station

1895-98 Grantville circuit

1898-00 Manheim station

1900-01 Jacksonville circuit (Enders)

1901-02 Manor

1902-03 on leave for secular employment

1903-05 Eby’s (ending 9/10/1905)

1905-10 living in Elkhart IN and pastoring part-time

1910-12 living in Des Moines IA and pastoring part-time

1912 transfer to Iowa Conference

1912-39 living in Des Moines IA and pastoring part-time

Note: Although 1908,11 states “an open transfer was granted to M.E. Bachman” while he was living in Indiana, he apparently did not formally join another conference until 1912 while he was living in Iowa. M.E. Bachman graduated from the Still College of Osteopathy in Des Moines IA in 1912 and served as dean of that institution 1912-23. He is the father of Walter Eugene Bachman (1890-1971: member of the Iowa and Nebraska Conferences, and president of York College 1947-53) and Fannie Irene Bachman (1898-1973: teacher at McCurdy Mission School 1929-51 and namesake of that institution’s Bachman Hall dormitory). Even though he is listed in the United Brethren Yearbook until 1940, there appears to be no conference obituary for M.E. Bachman. The story of the Bachman family is given in Pauline Bachman Mann’s 1981 book “Our Heritage, a History of the Bachmans of Lititz Pennsylvania: ancestors and descendants of Aaron Eugene & Fannie Ritter Bachman, and Monroe Eugene & Clara Weidman Bachman.”

BAER, ALLEN W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1896 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1899 transfer [to Rock River Conference?]

Note: This is believed to be the “A.U. Baer” who appears in the UB Yearbook in the Rock River Conference beginning in 1902.

BAER, DAVID

Born: 1796 married:

Died: 2-27-1853 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 95

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1820 license

1822 ordained

Interment: Spring Run PA

Obit: 1854,30 – sent to The Religious Telescope

1826-27 presiding elder

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 45, gives a brief biography.

BAER, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: 1823 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 97

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1820 license

Interment:

Obit:

BAER, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: 1831/2 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 76

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1815 license

Interment:

Obit: 1832,32

BAER, MICHAEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 65

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1811 license

Interment:

Obit:

BAIER, WILLIAM A.

Born: married:

Died: 1911 Philadelphia obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 231 [BAIR]

Gibble list: yes

1884 license, East German Conference

1887 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Philadelphia

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1911,32

1883-84 Philadelphia Port Richmond [St. Paul’s]

1884-85 Middleburg circuit

1885-86 Freeburg circuit

1887-88 Yocumtown mission, Pennsylvania Conference

1888 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1895 transfer to East German Conference

1900-01 East Clearfield, Allegheny Conference

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: W.A. Baier (also Baeir, Bare, Beier) was a member of the East German Conference from Freeburg, Snyder County, when assigned to Yocumtown. He suffered from ill health and did not finish the year.

BAILEY, NEWTON F.

Born: 1856 Wellsboro PA married: Mary Gummo

Died: 7-12-1911 obit: Allegheny Conference 1918,64

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 331

Gibble list: no

1905 license, Allegheny Conference

1910 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Williamsport PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1911,83

1905-06 Lloydell

1906-07 Claysville

1907-08 Dunevy

1908-09 Houserville

1909-10 Fair Hope

1910-11 New Paris

BAIR, EMANUEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 59

Gibble list: no

1844 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1845-46 Juniata

1846 name erased

BAKER, E.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 382

Gibble list: no

? license, ? Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1910 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916 returned to quarterly conference license

BAKER, F.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1933 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Otterbein

Interment:

Obit:

Note: F.H. Baker apparently never served under appointment. He is otherwise unknown.

BAKER, HARRY P.

Born: 1-12-1891 near Newburg PA married: Catharine Louise Sparrow

Died: 10-3-1959 Enola obit: 1931,40

Miller-Raker #: 596 married 2: Olive May Sheibley

Fulton #: no obit2: 1982,389

Gibble list: no

1916 license

1922 ordained

Interment: Spring Hill, Shippensburg PA

Obit: 1960,42

1916-17 Carlisle circuit

1917-20 Dover

1920-25 Shermansdale

1925-30 Oakdale

1930-38 Duncannon

1938-48 Shepherdstown

1948-50 York Haven

1950-58 Enola

1958 retired

Note: The first Mrs. Baker was the daughter of Charles Mayberry Sparrow.

BAKER, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: 1811 Tennessee obit:

Miller-Raker #: 9

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1789 license

Interment: Tennessee

Obit:

Note: Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 156, gives a brief biography of Baker and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789. Page 257 of the same book notes that on 4/5/1812 Francis Asbury made the following comments while eulogizing Martin Boehm and speaking of the United Brethren in general: “Our German reformers have left no journal or record, that I have seen or heard of, by which we might learn the extent of their labors; but from Tennessee, where the excellent Baker labored and died, through Virginia and Maryland, into Pennsylvania as far eastward as Bucks and Berks counties, the effects of their ministry were happily seen and felt.” Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives a brief biography.

BAKER, J.A.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1860-61 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1860 resigned Shopps station

BAKER, JOHN LUDWIG

Born: 8-22-1809 Centre County PA married: Sarah Linstman

Died: 10-2-1900 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 33

Gibble list: no

1839 license, Allegheny Conference

1841 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1901,32

1841-42 Juniata

1842-43 Harrisburg station, Pennsylvania Conference

1843-45 superintendent, Huntingdon District

1845-46 superintendent, Westmoreland District

1846-48 Allegheny

1848-50 located

1850-51 Westmoreland

1851-52 Somerset

1852-53 located

1853-55 Liverpool

1855-56 Allegheny

1856-57 Johnstown

1857-58 Schellsburg

1858-59 Washington

1859-63 located

1863-64 Mechanicsburg

1864-65 Blair

1865-66 Bellefonte

1866-68 Millheim mission

1868-69 Juniata

1869-70 Washington

1870-71 Industry

1871-72 located

1872-73 Bellefonte & Millheim

1873-74 ?

1874-75 Cambria

1875-76 West Branch circuit

1876-78 Springfield

1878-79 Fallen Timber

1879-80 East Salem

1880-81 Indiana

1881-82 Cooksburg

1882-85 Allegheny

1885-87 located

1885-86 Cooksburg

1886-87 Tuscorora (1^st part), New Haven (2^nd part)

1887 retired

BALMAN, NOLAN F.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1958-59 Shermansdale-Young’s

Note: Nolan F. Balman is listed as “others employed” and the charge as under “care of conference superintendent.” He is the author of God's Viking, the biography of TEAM missionary Walter S. Olsen (1916-1972).

BALMER, CHRISTIAN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 285

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1847 license

1851 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1851 transfer, to any western conference

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. Christian Balmer apparently is no direct relation to Bishop John Balmer Showers, who was named for the Canadian physician who attended his mother’s birth.

BALSBAUGH, PETER HUMMEL

Born: 1-21-1868 Hummelstown PA married: Kate E. Linaweaver

Died: 9-5-1922 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1903 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Fishburn Cemetery, Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1922,66

1902-07 Catawissa circuit (beginning 1/1/03 – see 1903,5)

1907-15 Harrisburg Sixth Street

1915-19 Columbia Salome

1919-22 Schuylkill Haven

Note: Peter H. Balsbaugh is the father of Edna Balsbaugh Beittel wife of Charles R. Beittel.

BALTZELL, ISAIAH

Born: 11-26-1832 Thurmont MD married: Cecelia C. James

Died: 1-16-1893 Annville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 330

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1854 license, Virginia Conference

1856 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1893,30

1854-55 Middle Creek circuit

1855-56 Buckhannon

1856-57 Churchville

1857-58 Winchester

1858-59 Hagerstown mission station

1859-61 Baltimore mission

1861-62 Frederick

1862 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1862-64 Orrstown station

1864-66 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1866-67 New Holland circuit

1867-68 unknown

1868 transfer to Virginia Conference

1868-69 unknown

1869-70 Hagerstown mission station (also assigned in 1870, but went to East Pa instead)

1870-72 Mountville circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1872-73 Mountville circuit

1873-74 Highspire circuit

1874-80 presiding elder

1880-83 Harrisburg Memorial

1883-84 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1884-85 presiding elder, Lancaster District

1885-86 presiding elder, Baltimore District

1886-89 presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1889-92 Reading Otterbein

1892-93 Pottstown mission

Note: Isaiah Baltzell was a prominent hymn writer and editor of gospel song books. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 289, gives a brief biography. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 452, gives a brief biography.

BANKERT, NATHAN EUGENE

Born: 7-25-1934 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 772

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1959 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity

Interment:

Obit:

1959-61 member of New Cumberland Trinity, student at Messiah College

1961 withdrew, moved to Tennessee

BARGER, J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 26

Gibble list: no

? license, ? Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1839 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1857 name erased

BARGER, WILLIAM D.

Born: 1850 married: Laura Belle Smith

Died: 12-3-1919 Hagerstown MD obit: 1947,36

Miller-Raker #: 484

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1873 quarterly conference license, Mt. Hebron (South Branch, Virginia Conference)

1877 license, Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference

1879 ordained, Parkersburg [West Virginia] Conference

Interment: Rose Hill, Hagerstown MD

Obit: 1920,67

1874-75 New Germany MD

1875-76 Augusta circuit VA

1876-77 Buckhannon station WV

1877-78 Berlin, Ontario Canada

1878-79 Philippi WV

1879-80 Central station

1880-82 West Milford

1882-84 Lexington IL

1884-86 Pendleton circuit

1886-87 South Branch

1887-88 North Fork

1890 transfer to Maryland Conference

1890-91 Chewsville MD

1891-92 Williamsport MD

1892-93 Westernport MD

1894 retired, member of Hagerstown Grace

1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-11 evangelist at large

Note: The Maryland Conference was formed from the Virginia Conference in 1887 and merged into the Pennsylvania Conference in 1902. William D. Barger’s daughter Eunice is the wife of Joseph H. Schmitt.

BARNABY, PAUL R.

Born: married: Helen Virginia Beall

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 626

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1924 license

1931 re-licensed, recommended by Baltimore Franklin Street 1931,28

Interment:

Obit:

1925-27 Baltimore Trinity

1927-29 Winterstown

1929-30 living in Lancaster

1930 returned to quarterly conference license

1930-33 living in Lancaster, Baltimore, Hagerstown

1932-33 Hagerstown Mission, Pennsylvania Conference of the UBOC

1933 dropped, discontinued course of study, no longer UB

Note: Paul R. Barnaby is the son of Rev. Alvin Paul Barnaby (1865-1906) and the grandson of Bishop Horace Thomas Barnaby (1823-1917), both of the United Brethren Old Constitution – the latter being an 1889 co-founder of the denomination along with Bishop Milton Wright. A family picture and biographical sketch appear in the 1928 Winterstown Church Centennial booklet. See also the journals of the Pennsylvania Conference of the UBOC 1932 (p.11) and 1933 (p.4), as Paul R. Barnaby supplied their work in Hagerstown for almost two years but was never a ministerial member of that conference.

BARNER, FERN TYBERTIUS

Born: 4-14-1912 Snyder County PA married: Naomi Beatrice Herrold

Died: 4-16-1998 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992,308

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1933 quarterly conference license, Freeburg

1935 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Richfield

1941 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1998, 390

1939-42 Waukesha

1942-47 Altoona

1947-53 Altoona Third

1953-60 South Fork

1960-68 Philipsburg (ending 11/1968)

1968-75 Paradise (beginning 11/1968)

1975-78 South Greensburg

1978 retired

BARNETT, ARTHUR LEE

Born: 19-14-1897 Punxsutawney PA married: Bessie Mildred Dobson

Died: 9-12-1975 Hollidaysburg PA obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1976, 333

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 490

Gibble list: no

1923 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Pearce Cemetery, Rossiter PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1976,319

1923-25 Hustontown

1925-27 Runville

1927-28 New Paris

1928-30 Rochester Mills

1930-34 Casselman

1934-37 Wyano

1937-49 Glasgo

1949-52 Sidman – St. Michael

1952-57 Punxsutawney Albion

1957-59 Cherry Tree

1959 retired

BARNETTE, KENNETH THOMAS

Born: 8-1-1911 Punxsutawney PA married: Edna Elizabeth Sherwood

Died: 10-27-1988 obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1994,283

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 quarterly conference license

1936 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Punxsutawney

1938 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1936-38 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1938-43 Altoona Pleasant Valley (ending 3/1/1943)

1943-49 McKeesport First (beginning 3/1/1943)

1949-56 Somerset

1956-64 Johnstown Park Avenue

1964-75 McKeesport Kephart

1975-76 sabbatical

1976 retired

Note: Kenneth T. Barnette is the father of Rev. Sherwood Barnette and Rev. Sheldon Barnette – both formerly of the Western Pennsylvania Conference, most recent affiliations unknown.

BARNHART, DAVID

Born: 10-24-1840 near Middleburg PA married:

Died: 1-17-1904 Bendersville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 410

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1874 license, Virginia Conference

1879 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Bendersville PA

Obit: 1904,70

1884 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

taught school until becoming an itinerant

1895-98 Perry circuit (beginning 10/12/1895)

1898-99 New Bloomfield

1899-03 Bendersville

BARNHART, ELMER HOWARD

Born: 5-21-1872 married:

Died: 6-20-1958 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 284

Gibble list: no

1898 license, Allegheny Conference

1903 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Southern California – Arizona Conference (M) 1959,316

1910 honorable discharge

BARNHART, THOMAS JEFFERSON

Born: 1-2-1893 Forward PA married: Reba Mae Wentling

Died: 10-26-1944 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1926 quarterly conference license, Cleona

1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1931 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1945,15

1926-32 Lebanon circuit

1932-44 Hershey First

BARNHART, WILLIAM VERNON

Born: 1-11-1867 Waynesboro PA married: Fannie Susan Gossart

Died: 6-7-1946 obit: [1/4/1871 – 3/10/1954]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 267

Gibble list: no

1894 quarterly conference license

1895 license, Allegheny Conference

1899 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Green Ridge Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946,64

1894-95 Rosedale

1895-99 LaJose

1899-02 McKeesport First

1902-07 Connellsville

1907-08 Wilkinsburg

1908-17 Pitcairn

1917-19 field work Church Erection

1919-21 field work, Board of Administration (ending 4/1921)

1921-23 Monessen (beginning 4/1921)

1923-26 McKeesport Kephart

1926-27 Beaver Falls

1927-31 Latrobe

1931-42 Westmoreland

1942 retired

Note: Mrs. Barnhart's maiden name is also rendered Gossert.

BARSHINGER, DANIEL

Born: 9-27-1859 Yoe PA married: Lydia Landis

Died: 12-22-1919 Yoe PA obit: 1919,70

Miller-Raker #: 431

Fulton #: 322

Gibble list: no

1881 quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1888 license

1891 ordained

Interment: Dallastown PA

Obit: 1920,68

1888-89 Winterstown (beginning 10/1888)

1889-92 Dover circuit

1892-95 Eschol mission

1895-96 living in Dayton OH

1896 transfer to Maryland Conference

1896-99 Walkersville

1899-00 living in Hagerstown MD

1900 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference

1900-01 Forreston IL [? – nee Note below]

1901-02 White Heath IL

1902-03 living in Shiremanstown

1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-04 Orbisonia

1904-06 Coalport

1906-07 South Williamsport

1907-09 Bellefonte

1909-10 Portage and/or Wilmore [records confusing]

1910-11 Greenwood

1911-12 Mapleton (resigned 12/7/11, moved to York?)

1912-13 Milton

1913-15 Dover, Pennsylvania Conference

1915 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1915-17 Dover

1917-19 Shepherdstown

1919 Jefferson

Note: The 1900-01 year is confusing. Daniel Barshinger is listed locally as pastor at Boonsboro MD (Maryland Conference) 1900-01. He also seems to have been assigned 1900-01 to New Paris (Allegheny Conference) 1900-01, but apparently did not serve. The years 1909-1911 are also unclear, although he apparently graduated during this time from the Doctor Gordan School of Osteopathy at Rockford IL. A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Barshinger.

BARTO, ISAIAH

Born: 1-10-1805 Mount Joy PA married: Mary _____

Died: 5-29-1850 Clearfield PA obit: [10/18/1804 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 37

Gibble list: no

1840 license, Allegheny Conference

1843 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Mount Joy PA

Obit: [Allegheny Conference 1907,9]

1843-45 Clearfield circuit

BASEHORE, JOHN

Born: 11-15-1774 married:

Died: 10-31-1853 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 228

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1838 license

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: 1854,30 sent to The Religious Telescope

1849-50 Conococheague circuit

BASHORE, GEORGE W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1953 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Otterbein

1958 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1953-55 student, Princeton University

1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1955-58 assistant, Dayton High Street

1958-59 assistant, Elizabethtown

1950-64 Reading Zion

1964-73 Reading Inner City Parish

1973-79 superintendent, Reading District

1979-80 Lancaster First

1980 elected bishop

BATDORF. GRANT DAVID

Born: 4-30-1874 Lickdale PA married: Lydia Ann Zeller

Died: 9-21-1954 Dayton OH obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1959,53

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1896 quarterly conference license, Dayton OH Summit Street

1897 license, East German Conference

1898 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955,29

1898-01 Allentown Zion

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-06 Harrisburg First

1906-11 Reading Zion

1911-20 Lancaster Covenant

1920-21 Dayton First, Miami Conference

1921 transfer to Miami Conference

1921-29 Dayton First

1929 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1929-45 bishop, Eastern Area

1945 bishop emeritus

BATEMAN, EARL CLAYTON

Born: 2-10-1905 PA married: Ruby Ann See

Died: 12-30-2000 Charlottesville VA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 524

Gibble list: no

1927 quarterly conference license

1929 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Virginia Conference 2001,?

1929-31 Altoona Wehnwood

1931-33 Runville (ending 5/9/1933)

1933-35 Mapleton (beginning 5/10/1933)

1935-36 Riverton, Virginia Conference

1936 transfer to Virginia Conference

Blairton-Greensburg

Berkeley Springs

faculty, Augsburg American School of the US Forces in Germany

Note: A biographical sketch for Earl C. Bateman is given in Glovier's 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 321.

BATHURST, ZEBULON W.

Born: 1859 Bellefonte PA married: Amelia A. Malone

Died: 5-29-1922 Orbisonia PA obit: [?/?/1859 – 11/18/1921]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton: no

Gibble list: no

Interment: Orbisonia PA

Obit:

1907-09 Eschol, Allegheny Conference

1909-10 Shade Gap, Allegheny Conference

1912-13 Shade Gap, Allegheny Conference

1912-13 Horse Valley, Pennsylvania Conference (apparently simultaneously with above)

Note: Zebulon Bathurst appears to have served without being formally licensed or ordained by any Conference. Zebulon and Amelia were married 12/23/1880 at Milesburg.

BAUER, CHARLES

Born: 3-18-1850 Klecknersville PA married: Mary L. Miller

Died: 3-9-1910 obit: [10/3/1850 - ?]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1889 quarterly conference license, Chapman’s Quarries

1892 license, East German Conference

1895 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Old Moorstown Church [PA]

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1910,42

1891-92 Catawissa circuit

1892-93 Myerstown

1893-96 Mt. Carmel

1896-97 Pine Grove circuit

1897-99 located, living in Klecknersville

1899-01 Sunbury and Milton

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02 Paradise

1902-08 located, living at Klecknersville

1908-09 Iona

1909 retired

BAULUS, JACOB

Born: 3-10-1768 Middletown Valley MD married: Anna Margaret Beckenbach

Died: 4-20-1851 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 24

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1795 license

1814 ordained

Interment: Ohio

Obit:

1812-13 oversight “between Potomac and Susquehanna rivers”

1816-18 presiding elder

1820’s transfer to Ohio

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 45, give brief biographies. The surname is also rendered BOWLUS. Memorial United Methodist Church (Sandusky County OH) has microfilmed records at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center placed by Vonda Bowlus Kokai, a lifelong member and church historian. The congregation begun under Jacob Bowlus. In 1822, Jacob Bowlus migrated from Frederick County, Maryland to Winter's Station (near Bettsville OH). Through his influence, the General Conference formed the Sandusky Conference and began supplying the stations with itinerant ministers in 1829. Chapter 6 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Jacob Baulus. Jacob Bowlus is a first cousin to Jacob Doub.

BAULUS, VALENTINE

Born: 1763 married:

Died: 1818/9 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 45

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1802 license

1817 ordained

Interment: Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown MD

Obit: 1819,15 (postscript)

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, gives a brief biography.

BAUMBACH, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1889 transfer to Maryland Conference

Baltimore

1890 transfer to Ohio German Conference

Toledo

Dayton

Note: This surname is also rendered BAUMBACK.

BAZZEL, W.P.

Born: married: Mary Fout

Died: obit: [d. 10/12/1916]

Miller-Raker #: 486

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1888 licensed, Virginia Conference

1895 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1888-89 Hartmansville mission

1889-90 Franklin

1890-91 Moorefield

1891-02 unknown, apparently transferred to Maryland Conference

1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-04 living in Westernport MD

1904-06 living in Elkgarden WV

1907 dismissed, pages 46&72

BEACH, WILLIAM

Born: 7-128-1852 West Bromwich, England married: Sarah Evans

Died: 1-10-1929 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

quarterly conference license, Columbia Salome

1889 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Middletown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1929,13

1892-93 Marietta circuit

1893-99 East Harrisburg circuit

1899-00 Intercourse

1900-01 Halifax

1901-03 Tower City

1903-04 Pequea circuit

1904-06 Elverson circuit

1906-09 Liverpool, Allegheny Conference

1909-11 Union circuit

1911-15 Hillsdale circuit

1915-18 Royalton

1918-20 retired

1920-22 Iona

1922 retired

Note: In 1901 Rev. Beach was assigned to Hillsdale but “exchanges were made shortly after conference” and he served at Tower City instead.

BEACHEL, LeROY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 719

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1947 quarterly conference license, York First (transfer from Allegheny Conference)

1950 license, recommended by York First

Interment:

Obit:

1947-48 Mount Olivet

1950-59 living in York, no progress

1959 return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

BEACHLEY, RAYMOND E.

Born: 8-26-1898 married:

Died: 3-23-2000, Chambersburg obit:

Miller-Raker #: 611

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1920 license

1925 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1921-25 Chewsville

1925-26 Fayetteville

1926-28 instructor at Quincy Orphanage

1928-57 local

1957 withdrew, page 82 “engaged full time in commercial enterprise”

Note: The death of his father, layman Elmer Beachley of Myersville MD, is noted in 1935,28.

BEAMER, WALTER J.

Born: 7-23-1842 married: Sarepta O. Miller

Died: 1-25-1927 obit: 1911,115

Miller-Raker #: 351

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1868 quarterly conference license, Salem (Littlestown circuit)

1869 license

1873 ordained

Interment: Salem Church at Guldens, Adams County

Obit: 1927,58

1869-70 Fulton mission

1870-73 Perry circuit

1873-76 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1876-80 Baltimore Second

1880-83 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1883-84 presiding elder, Baltimore District

1884-86 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1886-88 Hanover station

1888-90 local

1890-93 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1893 local

[1900-01 Gettysburg, from 11-1-1900 until conference in March 1901]

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 290, gives a brief biography.

BEAMESDERFER, CORNWELL

Born: 9-2-1893 near Schaefferstown PA married: Sallie Ebling

Died: 5-11-1969 obit: Eastern Conference 1969,119

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1913 quarterly conference license, Myerstown

1914 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Zion UB Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1969,119

1914-17 Schaefferstown

1917-18 student, Albright College at Myerstown

1918-24 “unemployed”, living in Myerstown

1924-28 Williamstown

1928-34 Shamokin Second

1934-37 Reading Salem

1937-39 Tower City

1939-42 Union circuit

1942-48 West Willow

1948-50 Iona

1950-56 Coatesville

1956-57 Refton

1957-58 without appointment, page 45

1958-60 assistant, Neffsville

1960 retired

1960-69 Oregon

Note: Cornwell Beamesderfer is the father of Emmett E. Beamesderfer, Harold E. Beamesderfer and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.

BEAMESDERFER, EMMETT E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list:

1949 license

Interment:

Obit:

1954 dropped: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954,48

Note: Emmett E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell Beamesderfer and the brother of Harold E. and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.

BEAMESDERFER, HAROLD E.

Born: 10-6-1916 married: Mary Ruth Hoffman

Died: 3-8-2003 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1933 quarterly conference license, Shamokin Second

1945 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1947 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1946 associate, Palymra First (summer)

1946-47 Grantville circuit

1947-52 Showmakersville-Bern

1952-62 Steelton

1962-75 Lebanon Trinity

1975-80 Philadelphia Juniata Park

1980 Jonestown

1980 retired

Note: Harold E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell Beamesderfer and the brother of Emmett E. and Lloyd E. Beamesderfer.

BEAMESDERFER, LLOYD EBLING

Born: 7-15-1915 Myerstown PA married: Miriam Ruth Schott

Died: 1-24-2001 obit: 1986,427

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1933 quarterly conference license, Shamokin Second

1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1951 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: 2001,357

1937-38 Mt. Aetna

1943-55 Williamstown-Tower City

1955-59 Linglestown

1959-60 Royalton

1960-70 administrator and chaplain, Dauphin County

1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-77 administrator and chaplain, Dauphin County

1977-81 Steelton Grace

1981 retired

1981-85 Steelton Grace

Note: Lloyd E. Beamesderfer is the son of Cornwell Beamesderfer and the brother of Emmett E. and Harold E. Beamesderfer.

BEAMESDERFER, SAMUEL H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1944 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1948 dismissed

Note: Samuel H. Beamesderfer was designated a parish associate at Highland Presbyterian in Lancaster PA [Presbytery of Donegal] on June 23, 1998.

BEATTIE, JOHN W.

Born: 10-2-1907 married:

Died: 12-26-1990 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 654

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1927 license, recommended by Hanover

Interment:

Obit:

1932 referred back to quarterly conference 1931,37

Note: John W. Beattie is the son of William Metzel Beattie. He later enrolled in the Army OCS at Aberdeen MD.

BEATTIE, WILLIAM METZEL

Born: 3-1-1874, Peach Bottom PA married: Carrie Susan Klinedinst

Died: 8-21-1924, Greencastle PA obit: 1934,25

Miller-Raker #: 531 married2: Ruby Edith Morin Wyand

Fulton #: no obit2: 1970,386

Gibble list: no

1897 quarterly conference license, York Second

1904 license

1911 ordained

Interment: Williamsport MD

Obit: 1944,37

1900 Hellam, resigned after 1 month: 1901, 16

1904-08 Rohrersville

1908-10 Dillsburg

1910-14 Mount Wolf

1914-20 Greencastle

1920-22 Keedysville

1922-25 York Fifth

1925-27 Hanover

1927-30 Shiremanstown

1930-33 Gettysburg

1933-37 Williamsport MD

1937-42 Jefferson

1942-44 Lemasters

Note: William M. Beattie is the father of John W. Beattie. Miller’s 1968 History of Pennsylvania Conference, page 390, gives a brief biography.

BEATTY, GEORGE WILLIAM

Born: 3-9-1839 married: Frances Keller

Died: 1-6-1920 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 371 married2: Mary E. _____(c1869)

Fulton #: no obit2: [7/21/1842-4/23/1878]

Gibble list: no married3: Margaret Maria Wiley (1879)

obit3: [1/25/1844-7/3/1908]

1973 license married4:Lula Virginia Zuse (1911)

obit4: [3/3/1885-11/4/1959]

Interment: Maryland Line Cemetery, Maryland Line MD

Obit:

1869-70 assistant, Cecil circuit of Maryland Conference of MP Church

1871-73 Stewartstown mission

1873-75 Shippensburg circuit

1876 Alto Dale, did not finish the year

1878-79 Greencastle (beginning Oct 1878)

1885 returned to quarterly conference license, page 17

Note: There is evidence unsupported by conference records that he supplied Spry Otterbein briefly in the 1870’s and part of the Parkton circuit of the Baltimore Conference of ME Church during 1903-04. This person is referred to by several other names – including George M. Beatty, George McBeatty, J. McBeatty. The fourth Mrs. Beatty is a sister to Clayton H. Zuse and Harry W. Zuse.

BEATTY, THOMAS BAYARD

Born: Quincy PA married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 515

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1903 license, recommended by Mont Alto

Interment:

Obit:

1903-05 student, Lebanon Valley College

1905-06 living in Dayton OH

1906 withdrew, page 49

Note: The 1905 BIZARRE [LVC yearbook], page 34, gives a picture and brief biography. He does not appear to be a son of George William Beatty.

BEATTY, WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1900-01 Hellam (served only 1 month, and then resigned)

Note: See 1900,55 and 1901,16. Nothing more is known about this man, although there is a possibility this is George William Beatty.

BECKER, ISAAC

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1888-89 Lititz and Brunnerville

Note: Isaac. Becker was a local preacher who served for one year. In 1889 Lititz and Brunnerville were placed on the Lancaster circuit.

BECKLEY, ARTHUR S.

Born: 8-8-1884 Lebanon County PA married: Emma Elizabeth DeLong

Died: 1914 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963,61

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1905 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1909 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Aulenbach’s Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1915,36

1904-06 Landingville

1906-10 Mont Clare

1910-12 Grantville circuit

1912-14 Shamokin First

BECKLEY, MABEL ESTHER

Born: 9-26-1893 Lebanon County PA married: [never married]

Died: 5-24-1956 Lebanon PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment: Iona Cemetery, Iona PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956,28

1930-47 missionary – Moyamba, Sierra Leone

1947-51 missionary – Tiami, Sierra Leone

1951 furlough fore health reasons

BECKTEL, RUSSELL GORDON

Born: 3-8-1907 Elizabethville PA married: Eva Shissler

Died: 1-9-1993 Cape May NJ obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1928 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1936 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Brunnerville UM Cemetery, Brunnerville PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1993,277

1925-26 Sinking Spring

1926-27 Fontanna

1927-29 Brunnerville

1929-34 Tremont St. John’s

1934-36 Lebanon Bethany

1936-40 Mont Clare Otterbein

1940-41 Silver Spring circuit (ending 8/29/41)

1941-46 chaplain, US Air Force (beginning 8/29/41)

1946-47 Philadelphia Fourth [Burholme]

1947-57 Philadelphia First [Mt. Pisgah]

1957-59 Harrisburg State Street

1959-69 Middletown

1969-73 Mountville St. Paul’s

1973 retired

BEERHALTER, M.B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1932 Philadelphia Third (Jan – Sept); 1932,21

Note: M.B. Beerhalter, a local minister of Philadelphia Third, filled the pulpit for the remainder of the conference year following the death of I. Moyer Hershey on 1/30/1932.

BEHNEY, HARVEY JOSEPH

Born: 9-27-1881 Fredericksburg PA married: Ada Alleman

Died: 4-7-1961 Lancaster PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956,28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1899 quarterly conference license

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1907 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1961,55

1904-06 Manor circuit

1906-09 Cressona

1909-16 Manheim

1916-38 Shamokin First

1938-53 Columbia Salome

1953 retired

BEHNEY, JOHN BRUCE

Born: 10-15-1905 Ralston PA married: Dorothy E. Heister

Died: 8-18-1987 Lebanon OH obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1925 quarterly conference license, Annville

1928 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1933 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1988,

1935-73 faculty, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1973 retired

Note: J. Bruce Behney is co-author, with Paul D. Eller, of Abingdon Press’ 1979 The History of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. A biographical sketch appears in Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 558.

BEIGHEL, WILLIAM

Born: 1-31-1817 Huntingdon County PA married:

Died: 8-10-1883 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 205

Fulton #: 8 & 167

Gibble list: yes

1837 license

1840 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Pleasant Unity Cemetery, Westmoreland County PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1883,36

1838-39 Clearfield circuit

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40 Huntingdon circuit

1840-41 no minutes taken

1841-42 Washington circuit

1842-43

1843-44 Westmoreland circuit

1844-45 Ligonier circuit

1845-46

1846-47 presiding elder, Western District

1847-48 Westmoreland circuit

1848-49 Somerset circuit

1849-50 presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1850-51 presiding elder, Eastern District

1851-52 Ligonier circuit

1852-53 presiding elder, Western District

1853-54 presiding elder, Eastern District

1854-55 Westmoreland circuit

1855-56 Washington circuit

1867-57 Madison circuit

1857-58 presiding elder, Western District

1858-59 presiding elder, Northern District

1859-60 suspended for 1 year

1860-61 Springfield circuit

1861 withdrew, irregularly

1861-74

1874 transfer (?) to Allegheny Conference

BEISTLINE, ALLEN ROBERT

Born: 6-8-1928 Steelton PA married: Margaret Ann Greenwalt

Died: 2-3-1985 Pottsville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1967 1icense, Eastern Conference: recommended by Steelton Centenary

1969 ordained, Eastern Conference

Interment: St. Michael’s Cemetery, Birdsboro PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1985,301

1965-75 Birdsboro Christ

1975-78 Birdsboro Christ & Focht Memorial

1978-84 Birdsboro Focht Memorial

1984-85 Frackville First & St. Clair

BEITTEL, CHARLES ROUSS

Born: 4-20-1893 Columbia PA married: Edna Frances Balsbaugh

Died: 5-29-1974 Harrisburg PA obit: Eastern Conference 1967,130

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1915 quarterly conference license, Columbia Salome

1918 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1924 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: 1974,414

1917-18 Diamond Grove IL

1918 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1918-22 Royalton

1922-28 Schuylkill Haven

1928-64 Harrisburg Otterbein

1964 retired

1964-70 visitation pastor, Mechanicsburg First

1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-72 visitation pastor, Harrisburg Otterbein

Note: Charles R. Beittel is the father of Dale R. Beittel. Mrs. Beittel is the daughter of Peter Hummel Balsbaugh.

BEITTEL DALE R.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1943 quarterly conference license

1945 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1943-44 Enders-Powell Valley circuit

1944-45 Hillsdale circuit

1945-49 student, Yale Divinity School in New Haven CT

1949 dismissed, joined West Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church

Note: Dale R. Beittel is the son of Charles R. Beittel. In 2003 Dale R. Beittel is listed as a retired member of the West Ohio Conference.

BELL, LLEWELLYN E.

Born: 12-28-1921 married:

Died: August 1973 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 720

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1950 license, recommended by Spry Otterbein

Interment:

Obit:

1950-53 attending Otterbein College, Westerville OH

1953 dropped, change in vocational plans

BEMESDERFER, JAMES ORVILLE

Born: 10-22-1911 married: Amelia A. _____

Died: 1-16-1999 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1934 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1937 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lebanon Covenant

1939 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1999, ?

1940-46 Potttstown Salem & Birdsboro Christ

1946-51 Allentown Zion [Trinity]

1951-59 Cleona & Lebanon St. John’s

1959-76 chaplain, Lebanon Valley College

1968-76 Mt. Gretna

1976 retired

BENDER, E. ETHAN

Born: 3-27-1881 Elizabethville PA married: Estella S.M. Leese

Died: 3-7-1944 obit: [2/24/1886 – 9/?/1968]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1910 quarterly conference license, Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1910 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1912 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Union Deposit Cemetery, Union Deposit PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1944,16

1910-13 Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1913-15 Williamstown

1915-21 Bellegrove

1921-32 Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1932-34 Campbelltown & Lebanon West

1934-44 Lebanon West

BENDLE, A.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

quarterly conference license

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1900-01 West Decatur (resigned soon after conference)

Note: A. Bendle is listed as "others employed in the conference." He is otherwise unknown.

BENEDUM, GEORGE

Born: 1765 married: Magdalena Minnich

Died: 3-29-1837 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 48

Fulton #: no

Gibble #: yes

1803 license

1815 ordained, Miami Ohio Conference

Interment: Liberty Cemetery, Fairfield County OH

Obit:

1810 charter member of Miami Ohio Conference

Note: Benedum is considered one of the founders of the UB Church in Ohio. See Drury, page 308. Krumm’s 1958 History of the Scioto Conference, page 7, gives a brief biography. Chapter 3 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses George Benedum.

BENNETCH, FREDERICK E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1955 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Schaefferstown

1960 ordained, Michigan Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1957-60 student, Evangelical Theological Seminary

1958-59 assistant, Chicago Diversey Parkway

1960 transfer to Michigan Conference, page 95

1960-62 Ludington Zion

1962 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1962-67 Shamokin Second

1967-70 Millersburg Hebron

1970 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-80 Millersburg Hebron

1980-93 Marysville Wesley

1993 retired

1993-95 associate, Wellsville

BENNETT, WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First

Interment:

Obit:

1935 name erased, page 93

Note: William Bennett apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained. He is otherwise unknown.

BENSON, H.K.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1899 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1899 transfer to

BERGER, CHRISTIAN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 52

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1803 license

1805 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

BERGER, JOSEPH

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 136 & 207

Fulton #: 26

Gibble list: no

1828 license

1835 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1857 erased

Note: The Allegheny Conference renders the name BARGER.

BERKEL, OSCAR

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1934 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Jeannette

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Oscar Berkel apparently never served under appointment. He is otherwise unknown.

BESHORE, ANDREW S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 572

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1912 license, recommended by Windsor 112,33

Interment:

Obit:

1912-14 attending Shenandoah Institute, Dayton VA

1914-15 living in Aurora NE

1915 transfer to Nebraska Conference, page 80

BICKLEY, AUGUSTUS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 268

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1843 license

Interment:

Obit:

1850-51 Perry circuit, did not finish the year

1860-61 Mercersburg circuit

1872-78 chaplain, Franklin County Poor House

1879 withdrew, over issue of secret societies

1881-87 chaplain, Franklin County Poor House

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography.  Augustus Bickley Jr. served Alto Dale circuit for the Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1890-91,

although he is not listed as a ministerial member of that conference.  Beer’s 1887 History of Franklin County, page 213, states that “Mr. Bickley commenced

holding religious service at the poor-house in 1836, and continued with few interruptions until 1872, when he was regularly elected chaplain, with a salary.”

BICKLEY, BARNET A.

Born: 8-3-1838, Chambersburg married:

Died: 2-17-1863, Chambersburg obit:

Miller-Raker #: 334

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1863 license

Interment:

Obit: 1864,91

BIELSTEIN, CLYDE HENRY

Born: 3-15-1907 married: Madeline Violet Lemmon

Died: 2-?-1985 Dayton OH obit: [4/26/1907 – 3/14/2003]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 519

Gibble list: no

1928 quarterly conference license

1929 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1932-35 YMCA

1935 no longer listed

BIELY, ALDEN GEORGE

Born: 4-25-1902 Lebanon PA married: Rena Miller Borgner

Died: 11-27-1977 Lebanon County PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1959,58

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Hilda Catherine Jenkins (Castor)

Fulton #: no obit2: East Pennsylvania Conf 1962,62

Gibble list: yes

1925 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Salem

1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1930 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: [East Pennsylvania Conference 1978,486]

1925-68 Lebanon Hebron

1968 retired

Note: Alden George Biely is the father of Alden George Biely Jr. The second Mrs. Biely was the widow of a Mr. Norman Richard Castor.

BIELY, ALDEN GEORGE JR

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1952 license

Interment:

Obit:

1953-54 student, United Seminary in Dayton OH

1941 dropped: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954, 48

Note: Alden George Biely Jr. is the son of Alden George Biely.

BIERMAN, GEORGE FILLMORE.

Born: 8-25-1855 Upper Bern PA married: Sarah Jane Wagner

Died: 8-19-1939 Reading PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1922,26

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1884 quarterly conference license

1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939,16

1891-92 Penbrook

1892-95 Marietta

1895-98 Halifax

1898-00 Hopekand

1900-01 Elverson

1901-02 on leave, living in Birdsboro PA

1902-09 faculty, Gibraltar School in Birdsboro

1909-24 faculty, Reading High School for Boys

1921-22 Pottstown

1924-25 Pottstown

1925-29 instructor in Spanish, Schuylkill [Albright] College in Reading

1929 retired

Note: George F. Bierman is a brother to the educator Dr. Elijah Benjamin Bierman (1839-1909) who was on the first faculty at Lebanon Valley College and served as its president 1890-97. Rev. Bierman received a D.D. degree from The Chicago Lutheran Seminary in 1901 and spent most of the rest of his years in education as a member of the Reading Salem congregation. He is also the author of the “Bierman Family” booklet. Mrs. Bierman’s dates, not given in her conference obituary, are 4-30-1857 to 8-19-1922.

BIGGS, GEORGE JR.

Born: 6-2-1907 Youngwood PA married: Martha Ellen Wingate

Died: 6-13-2001 obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1998,404

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 528

Gibble list: no

1929 quarterly conference license

1930 license, Allegheny Conference

1935 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2002,313

1928-32 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1932-35 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1932-33 Aley Chapel

1935-36 assistant, Wiliknsburg Christ

1936-38 Middleburg

1938-44 Altoona Greenwood

1944-50 McKeeesport Shoemaker

1950-68 Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1968-83 Arbutus Park Manor

1973 retired

1973-1985 Arbutus Park Manor

BIGHAM, SOLOMON

Born: 5-3-1817 married:

Died: 6-30-1889, Duncannon obit:

Miller-Raker #: 327

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1862 license

1863 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1890,21

1863-64 Ickesburg mission

1864-66 Carlisle circuit

1866-68 Rocky Spring station

1868-69 Orrstown station

1869-70 Bendersville

1870-73 located, living in Shiremanstown

1873-78 local pastor, Pennel’s

Duncannon, from 10/17/1879 until conference in March 1880

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography.

BIGLER, ADAM G. JR

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1935 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1941 referred

BINGHAM, ALTA [BAER]

Born: 10-23-1886 Hanover PA married: James Bingham

Died: 1-14-1958 Quincy PA obit: 1946,17

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1929 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: 1958,46

Note: Mrs. Bingham was never assigned to a church, but always active in churches served by her husband.

BINGHAM, C.C.

Born: 4-23-1854 Franklin County PA married: [5/1880]

Died: 1-9-1919 Shiloh UB Church, Bigler PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 271

Gibble list: no

1896 license, Allegheny Conference

1899 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Old Bradford Cemetery, Bigler PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1919,86

Glasgow

Liverpool

1900-03 Woodland

Runville

East Freedom

Somerset

Altoona Greenwood

East Salem

Bigler

BINGHAM, GEORGE W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 373

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1874 license

1877 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1874-77 Ickesburg circuit

1877-80 York Springs circuit

1880-81 resigned York Springs, helped on Horse Valley

1881-85 Greencastle

1885 withdrew, pages 4 & 23

BINGHAM, JAMES G.

Born: 12-14-1884 Toronto, Canada married: Alta Baer

Died: 6-22-1946 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958,46

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1920 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third

1923 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1929 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Baer Mennonite Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1946,17

1921-22 Chambers Hill

1922-23 Sinking Spring

1923-26 Stoverdale

1926-29 student, Bonbrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1926-29 Englewood OH

1929-30 Highspire

1930-31 not assigned, living in Harrisburg

1931-32 Campbelltown (beginning 5/50/1931; see 1931,19)

1932-37 Coatesville

1937-42 West Willow

1942-44 Halifax

1944-46 Lebanon Memorial

BINKLEY, JOHN

Born: 1-20-1833 married: Fannie Eshelman

Died: 2-12-1918 obit: [11/9/1832 - ]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1865 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1868 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1918,42

1867-69 Susquehanna circuit

1869 charter member of Easy German Conference

1869-71 Bellegrove circuit

1871-72 Pinegrove circuit

1872-75 Union Deposit circuit

1875-76 Jonestown circuit

1876-78 Bellegrove circuit

1878-81 not assigned, living in Jonestown

1881-82 Lebanon circuit

1882-83 not assigned

1883-84 Valley View circuit

1884-85 not assigned

1885-88 Fishing Creek circuit

1888-98 not assigned

1898 retired

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: The reason for the gaps in service is not known. The death date is also variously reported as 1-12-1918 and 2-6-1918.

BINOD, ANDREW

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 159

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1830 license

Interment:

Obit:

BISHOP, JAMES MADISON

Born: 8-9-1821, Littlestown married: Eliza Over

Died: 3-27-1891 obit: [12/18/1824 - 12/16/1889]]

Miller-Raker #: 273

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1844 license

1847 ordained

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference UBOC 1892,14

1845-46 Perry County mission

1846-48 Chambersburg circuit

1848-49 Rocky Spring circuit

1849-50 Chambersburg station, did not finish the year

1850-57 located

1857-59 Greencastle circuit

1859-63 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1863-65 Rocky Spring station

1865-66 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1866-67 Newburg circuit

1867-69 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1869-70 Orrsrtown station

1870-71 Shippensburg mission station

1871 located

[1873-74 Greencastle]

1879 withdrew, over issue of secret societies

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 88, gives a brief biography. James M. Bishop is a brother to Jeremiah P. Bishop.

BISHOP, JEREMIAH PHILIP

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 295

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1851 license

1854 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1851-52 Chambersburg circuit

1852-53 Rocky Spring circuit

1853-54 York Spring circuit

1854-55 Mercersburg circuit

1855-57 Philadelphia Clinton Street station

1857-58 Harrisburg mission

1858-59 Big Spring circuit

1859-60 Big Spring station

1860-61 Orrstown station

1861-62 Baltimore mission station

1862-65 Baltimore English mission

1865-66 Rocky Spring station

1866-67 Shopps station [Shiremanstown]

1867-70 Mechaniscburg station

1870 withdrew, over doctrines about hell

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 89, gives a brief biography. Jeremiah P. Bishop is a brother to James M. Bishop.

BITTNER, MELVIN S.

Born: 2-14-1893 Garrett PA married: Savilla Romesberg

Died: 12-19-1959 obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,69

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 427 & 479

Gibble list: no

1915 quarterly conference license

1916 license, Allegheny Conference

1920 ordained, White River Conference

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1960,32

1917-18 East Salem (beginning 11/1917)

1919 Glasgow (summer)

1920 transfer to White River Conference

1920-21 Snyder Chapel of the Crawfordsville circuit

1921-22 Crawfordsville circuit

1923 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1923-28 Woodland

1928-59 Altoona Juniata

1959 retired

BITZEL, PETER

Born: married: Margaret Hartner

Died: 7-30-1849 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 256

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1841 license

1844 ordained

Interment: Baltimore MD

Obit: 1850,16

1844-47 Baltimore mission

Note: Holdcraft’s 1959 The Old Otterbein Church Story, page 58, gives some biographical information.

BLACK, NATHANIEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #:

Gibble list: no

quarterly conference license

1844 license, Allegheny Conference

1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1844-45 Allegheny

1845-46

1846-47 Washington

1847-50

1850-51 agent, Mt. Pleasant College

1851 name erased for leaving his wife and child

BLACKBURN, W.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 235

Gibble list: no

1890 license, Allegheny Conference

1893 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: California Conference 1944,50

1912 transfer to California Conference

1912-13 Riverside First

BLACKBURN, W.S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 213

Gibble list: no

1885 license, Allegheny Conference

1886 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1887 transfer to

BLAIR, JOHN G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1861-62 York circuit

BLATT, WILLIAM CARL

Born: 12-3-1902 Royalton PA married: Ruth N. Goudy

Died: 2-22-1985 Brandon FL obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1996,?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1925 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg State Street

1926 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1932 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Limona Village Cemetery, Brandon FL

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1985,299

1926-29 Stoverdale

1929-32 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1929-30 Waterhouse-Bonehill, Miami Conference

1930-31 Houghton Congregational Christian Church in Houghton OH

1932-33 Lebanon circuit

1933-40 Silver Spring circuit

1940-68 Mont Clare

1968 retired

1968-73 visitation pastor, Limona Village UM Chapel in Brandon FL

BLECKER, AARON M.

Born: 1-15-1844 Lebanon County PA married:

Died: 11-28-1924 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]

1885 license, East German Conference

1888 ordained, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1925,14

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: Araon M. Blecker is a brother of Jared R. Blecker. “Brother Blecker never served as a regularly appointed pastor… He ministered extensively by assisting the different presiding elders in the conducting of quarterly conferences, and doing some evangelistic work, as well as relieving pastors when in need of a supply.” He also served on various Conference and General boards. He appears to have operated a photography shop in Myerstown 1863-1898.

BLECKER, JARED R.

Born: 10-15-1847 Lebanon County PA married: Elizabeth Zeller

Died: 4-1-1912 Myerstown PA obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1926,13]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [BLECHER]

1881 quarterly conference license, Mt. Aetna

1882 license, East German Conference

1884 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1912,32

1881-83 Northampton circuit

1883-86 Lehigh Valley circuit

1886-89 Sinking Spring circuit

1889-93 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1893-97 Lebanon Memorial

1897-99 Bellegrove circuit

1899-01 Palmyra First

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-02 on leave, living in Myerstown

1902-03 Schuylkill Haven

1903-05 Iona circuit

1905-07 Bern circuit

1907 located for health reasons

Note: Jared R. Blecker is a brother of Aaron M. Blecker. Mrs. Blecker’s dates, which are not given in the conference journal, are 10/3/1847 – 2/18/1926. Her father George Zeller (1818-1889) was a local preacher instrumental in establishing the Mt. Aetna church and a nephew to [Bishop] Andrew Zeller (1755-1839) of the Miami Conference.

BLOUCH, GIDEON L.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1913-14 Jonestown circuit

1919 referred

BLOUCH, HERBERT ROY

Born: 3-27-1910 Lebanon PA married: Mildred C. Lengle

Died: 3-31-1988 Cornwall PA obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1994,?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1931 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Bethany

1933 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1938 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1988,7.17

1934-35 Mt. Aetna

1935-38 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1938-41 Northampton circuit

1941-43 Jonestown

1943-46 chaplain, US Army

1946-53 Allentown Grace

1953-56 Manor circuit

1956-59 Sunbury Otterbein

1956-61 Silver Springs-Centerville

1961-64 Hempfield

1964-75 Reading Faith

1975 retired

1976-77 Shirk’s

1977-80 Kauffman’s

BLUBAUGH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Born: 7-20-1882 Thomastown married: Elizabeth Middour

Died: 6-8-1973 obit: Baltimore Conference 1981, 372

Miller-Raker #: 644

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1908 license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC: recommended by Waynesboro

1917 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

Interment: Quincy Cemetery

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1974,390

1907-08 Littlestown mission

1908-10 Carlisle mission

1910-12 Shippensburg mission

1912-13 Lemasters, did not finish the year

1913-14 Hagerstown mission

1914-17 Lemasters

1917-26 Chambersburg King Street

1926 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1926-33 Myersville

1933-52 Baltimore Franklin Street

1952 retired

Note: Mrs. Blubaugh was a niece of Etta and Harvey Kitzmiller, benefactors of the Quincy Home. While B.F. Blubaugh (Chambersburg King Street), Amos M. Funk (Greencastle) and Walter I. Kauffman (Franklintown) all transferred from the UBOC at the same time, there is no evidence of any connection.

BOEHM, CHARLES

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble #: no

Interment:

Obit:

1831-32 Juniata circuit

BOEHM, HENRY

Born: 6-8-1775, Lancaster County married:

Died: 12-19-1875 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 28

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1800 license

1802 license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1803 ordained, Methodist Episcopal Church

Interment: Staten Island

Obit: Newark Conference ME 1876,53

Note: Henry Boehm is the son of Martin Boehm.

BOEHM, MARTIN

Born: 11-30-1725 Lancaster County PA married: Eve Steiner

Died: 3-23-1812 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 2

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1756 ordained, Mennonite Church

Interment: Boehm’s Chapel, Lancaster County

Obit:

1800 elected [with Otterbein] one of first two bishops of the United Brethren Church

Note: Martin Boehm is the father of Henry Boehm.

BOESHORE, HARRY FRANKLIN

Born: 4-13-1894 Lebanon PA married: Adeline Florence Murray

Died: 1-24-1926 Cressona obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960, 51

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery, South Pottstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1926,11

1913-17 Pottstown

1917-19 Reading Trinity

1919-21 Shamokin Trinity

1923-26 Cressona

Note: Beginning in 1924 Harry F. Boeshore was unable to perform full pastoral duties and continued to live in the parsonage while the primary pastoral duties were performed by another pastor.

BOGER, CALVIN ULYSSES

Born: 4-11-1868 Lebanon County married: Clara Nye

Died: 1930 Philadelphia PA obit: [1870-1925]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1894 license, East German Conference: recommended by Lebanon First [Salem], see Gibble,315

Interment: Ebenezer, Lebanon PA

Obit:

1896 membership ceased

BOLES, HUBERT ALLEN

Born: 10-3-1921 Beech Grove IN married: Dorothy Mae Lynch [9/25/1942]

Died: 9-2-1985 obit: [6/14/1922 – 4/27/2000]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1941 license, Baptist Church

1942 ordained, Baptist Church

Interment:

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1986,?

1947-50 Bradenville, Allegheny Conference of the EUB Church

1948 transfer to Allegheny Conference of the EUB Church

1948-50 Bradenville

1950-56 Woodland

1956-58 Punxsutawney First (ending 1/1958)

1958-59 Tampa FL, Florida Conference (beginning 1/1958)

1959 transfer to Florida Conference

BOLTON, JOSEPH L.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1875 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1881 name erased

BOMBERGER, JOSEPH W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Harrisburg First

Interment:

Obit:

1911-1914 living in Annville

1914 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

Note: 1914,13 lists Joseph W. Bomberger as transferring to the Pennsylvania Conference, but there is not record that this actually occurred. He is last listed in the 1914 UB Yearbook as a member of the East Pennsylvania Conference living in Annville. There is no record of him as a student or staff member at Lebanon Valley College.

BONAWITZ, PETER

Born: married: Barbara _____

Died: 1852 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 266

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1842 license

Interment:

Obit:

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1849 expelled

Note: Peter Bonawitz was an elder in the Linglestown congregation organized in 1827 by John Winebrenner that erected the first church building in what became the Church of God denomination. In 1843 Bonawitz and his wife Barbara sold the Linglestown UB congregation the lot for its first church building.

BONEWELL, JOHN W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Fulton #: 76

Miller-Raker #: 291

Fulton #: 76

Gibble list: no

1848 ordained, on credentials from Primitive Methodist Church

Interment:

Obit:

1848-49 Philadelphia Clinton Street Mission

1849-50 Rocky Spring circuit

1850-51 Chambersburg station

1851 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1851-52 Jefferson circuit

1852-54 Juniata circuit [Three Springs]

1854-55 Schellsburg circuit

1855-56 Mahoning circuit

1856-57 Clearfield circuit

1857-58 Springfield circuit

1859-60 Allegheny circuit

1860-61 local relation for 1 year

1861 transfer to “any other annual conference he may wish to join”

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 90, gives a brief biography.

BOOK, WILLIAM J.

Born: married: Barbara

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1930-31 Linglestown circuit

Note: William J. Book supplied the Linglestown circuit (Linglestown & Colonial Park) duringn the first part of the conference year. He is not listed as a local pastor, and his credentials are not known.

BORING, A.L.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 304

Gibble list: no

1902 license, Allegheny Conference

1908 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1918 returned to quarterly conference license

BORING, EZEKIEL

Born: 1-15-1780 Baltimore County MD married: Catharine Moore

Died: 2-14-1861 obit: [12/12/1784 – 11/16/1853]

Miller-Raker #: 127

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1825 license

1828 ordained

Interment: Manchester MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1862,76&78

1828-29 Juniata circuit

1829-31 appointments not listed in journal

1831-32 presiding elder, Chambersburg & Juniata & Huntingdon circuits

1832-34 presiding elder, Huntingdon District

1834-35 Cumberland circuit

1835-36 Lancaster station

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 165, gives a brief biography. He is the namesake of Bishop Ezekiel Boring Kephart (1834-1906).

BORTSFIELD, MATTHIAS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 49

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1804 license

Interment:

Obit:

1818 charter member of Muskingum Conference

BOSSLER, ETHAN ALLEN G.

Born: 4-12-1866 Middletown PA married: Kathryn Hemperly

Died: 7-3-1960 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1958,44

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1886 quarterly conference license, Royalton

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1890 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Paxtang Mausoleum, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960,57

1890-93 Oberlin

1893-07 Lancaster Covenant

1907-13 Steelton

1913-17 Harrisburg State Street

1917-18 retired

1918-21 Middletown

1921 retired

BOSTON, ARTHUR A.

Born: 12-17-1922 married:

Died: 9-3-2005 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1949 license, recommended by Philadelphia Second

1952 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1950-52 Laura OH Congregational Christian

1952-57 Lebanon Bethany

1957 granted “certificate of recommendation” to the Southwestern Association of the Ohio Conference of the United Church of Christ

BOUGHTER, CHARLES EDWIN

Born: 2-10-1868 Lebanon County PA married: Clara Fritz

Died: 12-4-1922 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1891 license, East German Conference

1894 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1923,15

1893-95 Paxinos circuit

1895-96 Susquehanna circuit

1896-99 Cressona circuit

1899-01 West Lebanon circuit

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03 Intercourse

1903-10 Ephrata

1910-15 Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1915-16 Harrisburg First

1916-20 Reading Zion

1920-22 Lykens

Note: Charles E. Boughter is an uncle to Harvey D. Boughter.

BOUGHTER, HARVEY DIXON

Born: 9-17-1870 Fredericksburg PA married: Emma Elizabeth Daub

Died: 5-23-1940 Decatur IL obit: 1949,35

Miller-Raker #: 664

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1900 ordained, Churches of God

Interment: Fredericksburg PA

Obit: 1940,33

Upper Sandusky OH

Martinsburg PA

Altoona PA

Chambersburg PA

Decatur IL

1922 transfer to UB Church, Oregon Conference

1922-26 president, Philomath College

1926-30 Greenmount

1930 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1930-31 Greenmount

1931-34 Chewsville

1934-36 Fayetteville

1936-40 Dover

Note: Harvey D. Boughter is a nephew to Charles E. Boughter.

BOUGHTER, JOHN W.

Born: 6-10-1837 Lancaster County PA married: Mary Simmons

Died: 5-24-1914 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1870 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1881 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Stoverdale Cemetery, Stoverdale PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1914,33

1868-69 Union Deposit circuit

1870-76

1876-77 Lebanon circuit

1877-79

1879-81 Susquehanna circuit

1881-82 Valley View circuit

1882-84 Middleburg circuit

1884-84 Freeburg circuit

1885-87 Fishburn circuit

1887-89 apparently w/o appointment

1889-90 Lancaster circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (see 1890,18)

1890 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1890-92 Lititz circuit

1892-93 Ruhl’s station

1893-95 Chestnut Grove circuit

1895-96 Royalton

1896-97 Lebanon circuit (English)

BOUGHTER, S.B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1897-98 Middleburg circuit

Note: S.B. Boughter was a quarterly conference pastor in the East German Conference (see 1898,18).

BOVEY, DANIEL R.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1893-1894 Marion circuit, member of Virginia Conference

Note: UB Yearbooks for 1893,1894 list Daniel R. Bovey in Virginia, Maryland conferences – no other references. Our journal indicates he served the entire year (Feb-Feb), but he is also the pastor of record for Mar-Sep 1893 of Williamsport MD station in the Maryland Conference. He is the son of Rev. Henry A. Bovey (Virginia, Central Ohio, Miami Conferences) and grandson of Rev. Adam I. Bovey (Virginia Conference). He is a brother of Rev. Jacob A. Bovey (Virginia Conference) and Rev. M.S. Bovey (California Conference). He did not enter the ministry until he was 50 years old.

BOWERMASTER, JOHN RICHARD

Born: 10-8-1879 married: Amelia Mohr

Died: 2-7-1963 obit: [d. 1953]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1900 quarterly conference license, Paradise St. John’s

1904 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1911 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963,62

1904-06 Middleburg, Allegheny Conference

1906-07 Liverpool, Allegheny Conference

1908-18 Lancaster Laurel Street mission, under conference supervision

1909-10 Centerville

1918-50 Lancaster Laurel Street mission, as an independent work

1950 retired

BOWERS, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK

Born: married: Barbara E. Rider

Died: 12-19-1907 obit: Iowa Conference 1901,28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 61

Gibble list: no

1844 license, Allegheny Conference

1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Iowa Conference 1908,42

1852 transfer to

BOWERS, HERBERT HARVEY

Born: 3-26-1913 married:

Died: 4-9-1981 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1933 quarterly conference license, Rockville

1940 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1943-46 Northampton

1946-47 Hummelstown circuit

1947-48 Philadelphia Burholme

1948-49 Mount Carmel

1949-52 living in Halifax

1952-54 Royalton

1954-57 living in Halifax

1957-69 living in Harrisburg

1969 no longer listed

Note: Herbert H. Bowers is the son of Walter G. Bowers.

BOWERS, THEODORE R.

Born: 10-24-1904married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gilbble list: no

1831 license

1834 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1944-53 Three Springs

Note: Theodore Bowers served as a local pastor.

BOWERS, WALTER GEORGE

Born: 2-3-1890 Rockville PA married: Katie Heilman

Died: 3-2-1982 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1955,35

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Bessie Clara Shanaman Kreps

Fulton #: no obit2: 1972, 402

Gibble list: yes

1926 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Sixth Street

1932 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Hill Church Cemetery, Cleona PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1982,269

1926-46 Rockville

1947-58 Halifax

1958-62 Allentown Grace

1962 retired

Note: Walter G. Bowers is the father of Herbert H. Bowers. Officially, Walter G. Bowers was “referred” in 1938 and re-admitted in 1950; during those years he appears in the category “others employed by the conference.” After 1970 he lived in the Harrisburg area and should be a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church; the memoir of his second wife appears in that journal, but he is never listed in any category.

BOWLUS [see BAULUS]

BOWMAN, EDWARD STAUFFER

Born: 1866married: Louella Funk (10/30/1890)

Died: 8-19-1940 Lebanon PA obit: b. [11/16/1869 - 1936]

Miller-Raker #: 442

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [EDWIN S. BOWMAN]

1889 license

1892 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1885-90 Lebanon Valley College

1890-91 ?

1891-94 Greencastle

1894-00 Mechanicsburg

1900-03 Harrisburg Otterbein

1903 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1903-08 Harrisburg Otterbein

1908-09 living in Princeton NJ

1909-10 living in Dayton OH

1910 transfer to Miami Conference

1910-11 ?

1911 "transfer" to Presbyterian Church

1911-37 Em manuel Presbyterian Church

1937 retired

Note: The conference journals consistently refer to him erroneously as “Edwin S. Bowman”. He is listed as an 1890 graduate of LVC “from Boonsboro MD”, but also as being on faculty 1885-1890 in bookkeeping & penmanship. He authored at least one book, The Bible Doctrine of Devotion. A 1929 anniversary booklet in the Harrisburg Otterbein file gives his picture and refers to him as Edward S. Bowman, DD of Philadelphia. His relationship to other Bowmans on the LVC faculty in the 1880’s and 1890’s is not known. Mrs. Funk is the daughter of Erasmus P. Funk.

BOWMAN, PETER A.

Born: 4-6-1839 Dauphin PA married: Mary A. Espenshade

Died: 9-25-1910 Harrisburg PA obit: 1926,13

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1878 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ephrata PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1910,43

1872-73 Highspire circuit

Grantville circuit

1875-77 Schuylkill Haven

1877-79 Spring Garden [Florin]

1879-82 Manheim circuit

1882-84 Ephrata

1884-87 Boiling Springs, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1887-88 Dillsburg, Central Pennsylvania Conference

1888-89 Intercourse circuit

1889 Hummelstown circuit (Feb-Oct)

1889-91 Union Deposit circuit

1891-94 chaplain, Dauphin County Almshouse

1892 Fishburn circuit (Jun-Oct)]

1894-95 Royalton

1895-99 Fishburn circuit

1899 Grantville circuit, did not finish

1899-01 Lititz

1901-03 Manheim

1903-05 Elizabethville

1905 retired

1907 Harrisburg Sixth Street (Feb-Oct)

1909-10 Hillsdale circuit

BOYER, HARRY THEODORE

Born: 1-28-1870 married: Lulu Kunkle

Died: 8-26-1939 obit: 1961,47

Miller-Raker #: 463

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1892 quarterly conference license, Duncannon

1896 license

1899 ordained

Interment: Carlisle

Obit: 1939,42

1897-01 Dover

1901-07 York circuit

1907-15 Shermansdale

1915-24 Oakville

1924-37 Enola

1937 retired

BOYER, JOHN NEELY

Born: 10-12-1900 Johnstown PA married: Estella Shank

Died: 7-12-1953 obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1954,22

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 475

Gibble list: no

1922 quarterly conference license

1923 license, Allegheny Conference

1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1954,22

1928 Connellsville (summer)

1930-32 East Pittsburgh

1932-37 Johnstown Barron Avenue

1937-40 Altoona First

1940-45 Westerville OH

1945-53 faculty, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

Note: J. Neely Boyer also served as the mayor of Westerville OH. He and his wife were killed in a plane crash while returning from visiting their daughter in Guam.

BOYER, RALPH EUGENE

Born: 7-7-1889 married: Anna E. Hatton

Died: 5-6-1965 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 612

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1919 quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1921 license, recommended by York Fourth

1926 ordained

Interment: Mt. Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: in the biographical files at the conference archives

1921 Baltimore Otterbein Memorial (Apr-Oct)

1921-25 Carlisle circuit

1925-27 Springet

1927-35 Baltimore Scott Street

1935 withdrew 1935,34

Note: Following a summer-long tent campaign in 1935, Ralph E. Boyer moved to York and founded the York Gospel Center. He is the father of singer-evangelist Dave Boyer.

BOYER, WILLIAM H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1899 license, East German Conference: recommended by Middleburg

1902 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1898-01 Middleburg circuit

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-03 Jonestown circuit

1903-05 Jonestown

1905-07 Intercourse

1907-11 Williamstown

1911-12 on leave, living in Williamstown

1912 expelled

BRADFORD, J.T.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 368

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1872 license

1872 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1871-71 West Fairview circuit

1872-73 York Springs circuit

1875 withdrew irregularly 1875,5

BRANDAUER, FREDERICK PAUL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1954 1icense, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Annville

1958 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1954-55 student, Lebanon Valley College

1954 Brunnerville (3 months)

1954-55 assistant, Elizabethville

1955-58 student, United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1958-59 Elizabethville

1959-72 missionary, Hong Kong

1972-73 lecturer, Stanford University

1973-79 faculty, University of Washington

1979 transfer to Pacific Northwest Conference

Note: Frederick P. Brandauer is the son of Evangelical/EUB/UM missionary Frederick W. Brandauer (1904-1986) of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

BRANDT, DAVID DICKSON

Born: 9-22-1878 near Newville PA married: Emma Frances Engle

Died: 4-15-1979 Mechanicsburg PA obit: (10-11-1884 to Apr 1974)

Miller-Raker #: 513

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1901 quarterly conference license, Shippensburg Messiah

1903 license, recommended by Big Spring charge

1906 ordained

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: 1979,330

1901-04 student, Lebanon Valley College

1904-07 student, Union Seminary Dayton OH

1906 Riverside CA (summer)

1907 Beloit WI (summer)

1907-10 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, Dayton VA

1910-11 principal, Derry township high school (Dauphin County PA)

1911 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference 1911,50

1911-13 Schuylkill Haven

1913-16 Reading Zion

1916 transfer to Virginia Conference

1916-21 Dayton VA

1921 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1921-59 local/supply

1921-44 teacher/principal, Mechanicsburg high school (Cumberland County PA)

1944-67 justice of the peace, Hampden township

1959 retired

Note: Mrs. Brandt earned an A.B. and A.M. from Lebanon Valley College in 1905 and 1906, and a B.D. from Bonebrake [United] Seminary in 1907. Apparently, she never pursued a ministerial license.

BRANDT, SAMUEL

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 80

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1815 license

Interment:

Obit:

BRANE, COMMODORE I.B.

Born: 12-25-1848 married: Clara M. Harp

Died: 4-7-1920 Dayton OH obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1923,17

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1873 license, Virginia Conference

1876 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Benevola MD

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1920,54

1872-73 Potomac mission

1873-74 New Germany

1874-76 Mechanicstown MD

1876-78 ?

1878-79 Rockbridge

1879-82 ?

1882-85 located due to ill health, Washington DC

1883 Newville, Pennsylvania Conference: completed part-year vacancy

1885-86 presiding elder, Shenandoah District

1886-87 Hagerstown MD

1887 transfer to Maryland Conference

1887-90 Hagerstown MD

1890-93 Washington DC

1893-94 general secretary, Church Erection

1894-96 Pequa, East Pennsylvania Conference

1896 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1896-06 Lebanon Trinity

1906-09 Reading Otterbein

1909-17 associate editor, Religious Telescope

Note: Dr. Brane (along with Daniel Eberly and Isaiah H. Albright) is one of the authors of the 1911 Landmark History of the United Brethren Church. Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 156, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Brane is the daughter of Joshua Harp.

BRASHEAR, THEODORE F,

Born: 3-5-1825 married:

Died: 4-18-1888 Nebraska obit:

Miller-Raker #: 332

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1849 license, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit: UB Yearbook 1889,28

1849-50 South Branch

1850-51 appointments not listed

1851-52 Buckhannon

1852-53 Highland mission

1853-54 Rockingham

1854-55 appointments not listed

1855-56 Myersville

1856-57 Lacey Springs

1857-59 Rockingham

1859-61 Churchville

1861-62 Woodstock

1862 Bethany mission (Pennsylvania Conference), completed part-year vacancy

1862-63 presiding elder, Southern Section

1863 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1863-65 Manchester circuit

1865 transfer to any conference he wishes to join, 1865,102

Rock River Conference (IL)

Iowa Conference

Elkhorn Conference (Dakota Territory & northern Nebraska)

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 157, gives a brief biography.

BRATTEN, JAMES H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 290, 320

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1848 license

1851 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1851-54 attends conference and serves on committees

1854-60 not listed in any category

1860 joined conference as “an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church”

1860-61 Perry circuit

1861-62 no assignment

1861 withdrew

Note: The Chronicle 1996, page 90, gives a brief biography.

BRAZER, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: 1822/3 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 88

Fulton #:

Gibble list: yes

1817 license

Interment: Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1823,19

Note: This surname is also rendered BRAEZER. Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 45, gives a brief biography.

BRENEMAN, BENJAMIN MILLER

Born: 11-24-1859 bear Mount Joy PA married: Jennie K. Smith

Died: 5-7-1940 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1900 quarterly conference license, Mount Joy Circuit of the East Pennsylvania Conference

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1909 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Silver Spring Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1940