Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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

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Pennsylvania United Brethren Pastors. Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all the pastors for that letter. The instructions file gives information about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.

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CAMERON, THOMAS

Born: 8-11-1839 married: Martha W .Lucas

Died: 4-26-1902 obit:

Miller-Raker #: none

Fulton #: 201

Gibble list: no

1882 license, Allegheny Conference

1885 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1882-83 Moshannon

1883-88 Philipsburg

1888-91 New Haven

1891-92 Bigler

1892-93 living in Philipsburg

1893-94 South Williamsport

1894-97 Mahoning

1897-99 Knoxdale

1899-00 living in Philipsburg

1900 name removed, page 19

continued to hold membership at Philipsburg

Note: Thomas Cameron is also listed by the Johnstown Barron Avenue UB congregation as one of their pastors.

CAMPBELL, ELVA M

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona First

1933 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Miss Elva Campbell apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained. She is otherwise unknown.

CAMPBELL, H.G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Bradenville

Interment:

Obit:

Note: H.G. Campbell apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained. He is otherwise unknown.

CANOLES, WILLIAM EDWARD

Born: 1-28-1890 Rayville MD married: Ruth Ann Baker

Died: 1-5-1965 Front Royal VA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 575

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1912 license, recommended by Rayville charge 112,33

1921 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference MES

1925 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference MES

Interment: Bennett’s Chapel Church, Virginia

Obit: Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church 1965,124

1911-12 Millers

1912-13 Jefferson (also picked up Mt. Olivet, Winterstown charge 113,32)

1913-14 Biglerville

1914-17 Springet

1917-18 living in Esparto CA

1918-19 living in Codorus PA

1919 dismissed 1919,41; affiliated with Baltimore Conference MES

1919-24 Warren VA circuit

1924-26 Richlands circuit, Greenbrier County WV

1926-29 Mt. Airy MD

1929-31 Freedom MD

1929 location, moved to California for health reasons

served Methodist Church in Colfax CA

1941-44 Toms Brook VA UB

1944-47 Mathias WV UB/EUB

1947-51 Antioch WV EUB

1951-54 Hillsboro-Bluemont Methodist

1954-56 West Frederick

1956-59 Stanardsville circuit

1959 retired

Amherst (6 months)

Cokesbury circuit, Warren County VA (6 months)

Note: William Canoles is a brother to Rev. John Jefferson Canoles (1893-1969) of the Presbyterian Church. [Dates for Mrs. Canoles are inconsistent: One source says she was born was born 6-14-1902. Their marriage is variously reported as 2-17-1914 at First UB in Hagerstown MD and as 2-14-1917 in Jefferson PA.] There are pictures of Rev. and Mrs. Canoles in the Pleasureville church file.

CANOLES, WILLIAM S.

Born: 9-4-1892 married:

Died: 3-?-1969 Baltimore MD obit:

Miller-Raker #: 604

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1917 license, recommended by Rayville charge

Interment:

Obit:

1917-21 living in Parkton MD

1921-23 living in Baltimore MD

1923 referred back to quarterly conference 1923,33

CARL, O.E.

Born: married:

Died: obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 410

Gibble list: yes

1913 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1913-14 Middleburg

1914 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1919 referred

CARPENTER, ISRAEL

Born: 10-17-1824 Lancaster PA married:

Died: 10-2-1890 Reading PA obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1855 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1890,48

1852-53 Northumberland mission

1853-54 Lancaster circuit

1854-56 New Holland

1856-58 not assigned

1858-59 Harrisburg

1859-60 Amity mission

1860-64 not assigned

1864065 Halifax circuit

1865-66 not assigned

1866-67 Mountville

1867-69 not assigned

1869-71 Hummelstown

1871-72 not assigned

1872-76 Reading Otterbein

1876-77 not assigned

1877-78 Mountville

1878-79 Ephrata

1880 located to Reading

CASTETTER, EDWARD FRANKLIN

Born: 3-11-1896 married: Ellen Wright

Died: 2-?-1978 obit: [8/25/1884 – 10/?/1972]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1915 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1916-17 Birdsboro Grace

1917-19 Hillsdale circuit

1919-21 student, Penn State University

1921 withdrew

1928-78 professor of biology, University of New Mexico

Note: Edward F. Castetter apparently served while a student at Lebanon Valley College. He received a PhD from Iowa State in 1924, published much in ethnobiology, and is the namesake of Castetter Hall at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque NM.

CASTLE, A. S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1886 license, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1887 transfer to Maryland Conference

1887-88 York Spring circuit

1888-89 Duncannon station

1889-90 East Salem, Allegheny Conference

1890-93 living in Boonsboro MD

1893 no longer listed

Note: A.S. Castle was never ordained. He served churches in the Pennsylvania and Allegheny Conferences as a licensed member of the Maryland Conference. This may be Silas A. Castle (1855-1936), brother of Elmer C.B. Castle.

CASTLE, ELMER C.B.

Born: 2-27-1864 Middletown MD married: Luella K. Routzahn

Died: 8-19-1934 obit: 1943,30

Miller-Raker #: 474

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1887 quarterly conference license, Middletown (Myersville circuit, Maryland Conference)

1890 license, Maryland Conference

1892 ordained, Maryland Conference

Interment: Middletown MD Reformed cemetery

Obit: 1934,22

1889-92 Walkersville

1892-95 Keedysville

1895-98 Thurmont

1898-99 Williamsport

1899-01 New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania Conference

1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 9

1901-03 Newburg

1903-04 Greencastle

1904-06 Taneytown

1906-18 Mechanicsburg

1918-28 Dallastown

1928-33 Boiling Springs

1933 retired

CATLOW, RICHARD C.

Born: 4-1-1799 Manchester England married: Mary Crowell

Died: 2-1-1881 Bellefonte PA obit: [1807 – 5/20/1887]

Miller-Raker #: 140

Fulton #: 23 [Cutlough]

Gibble list: yes [Cathlow]

1828 license

1840 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1854 erased

Note: Beers’ 1898 Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, page 92, states that “Richard Catlow, nephew of Sir Robert Peel [a Prime Minister of the U.K.], and a learned and eloquent preacher in the U.B. Church, inherited a fortune from the family estates in England, but preferred to reside in this country. For some time his home was in Clearfield county, but later he removed to a farm in Bald Eagle Valley, where for many years he followed the peaceful calling of agriculture.” He became a U.S. citizen in 1869. Mrs. Carlow is an aunt to Abraham Crowell.

CAUFMAN see KAUFFMAN

CAVANAUGH, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [CAVENAUGH]

1892 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1894 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1892 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1892-94 Pequea circuit

1894-95 Mont Clare

1895-96 Lancaster circuit

1897 transfer to Northwest Kansas Conference

1902-03 East Freedom, Allegheny Conference

1903 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1903-04 East Freedom

1904-06 South Williamsport

1906-07 living in Madalene FL

1907 transfer to Georgia Conference

CHAMBERLIN, J. BARRETT

Born: Winchester VA married: Maude C. Earmon

Died: obit: [died 11/21/1917, aged 51]

Miller-Raker #: 487

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1888 quarterly conference license, Antioch (New Creek circuit, Virginia Conference)

1889 license, Virginia Conference

1891 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1888-91 Winchester

1891-95 Martinsburg

1895 transfer to Maryland Conference

1895-98 Keedysville (ending 7/1/98)

1898-01 Washington DC (beginning 7/1/98)

1901 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1901-18 local, living in Martinsburg WV

Greencastle station, supply December 1902 – May 1903: 1903,21

1918 transfer to Virginia Conference

1918-22 local, living in Martinsburg WV

1922 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1922-1930 local, living in Martinsburg WV

1930 withdrew, at own request

Notre: His first name is listed as both Jonas and John. Conference records consistently render the surname as Chamberlain, but he seems to prefer Chamberlin. According to Funkhouser, page 298, he was granted an advisory seat at the 1904 session of the Virginia Conference.

CHAMBERLINE, JAMES

Born: married:

Died: obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1852 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1852-53 Chester County mission

1861 name dropped

CHILDRESS, WALTER LOMAX

Born: 9-26-1867 Virginia married: _____ Burtner

Died: 10-4-1936 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1894 entered Virginia Conference from Methodist Protestant Church

Interment: Dayton VA

Obit: Virginia Conference 1937,13

1900-02 Rohrersville

1902 Perry circuit, resigned immediately after conference

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 160, gives a brief biography. It appears that he considered himself a member of the Virginia (and not Maryland) Conference – and as such never matriculated into the Pennsylvania Conference in 1902, but returned to the Virginia Conference. His wife was a daughter of Rev. William Burtner of the Virginia Conference, and a sister to Luther, Newton W. and Otto W. Burtner. The conference archives has a copy of his 1901 book “Trailing Arbutus and Other Poems.”

CHRISTMAN, CHARLES W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 511

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1898 quarterly conference license, St. Thomas

1903 license

1908 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1903-04 Carlisle circuit

1904-08 Bendersville

1908-10 Taneytown

1910-12 Chewsville

1912-18 local

1918-20 Wolfsville

1920-43 local

1943 dismissed 1943,47

CHRISTMAN, SAMUEL FRED

Born: 6-17-1908 Franklin County married: Gladys V. Rotz

Died: 3-14-1999 obit: 1997,381

Miller-Raker #: 662

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1926 quarterly conference license, Lemasters

1929 license

1938 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1999,429

1931-33 Biglerville

1933-40 Newburg

1940-44 New Cumberland Trinity

1944-46 chaplain, US Army

1946-53 Chambersburg First

1953-54 Quincy Home, assistant superintendent

1954-71 Quincy Home, superintendent

1971 retired

CHUBB, CLARENCE L.

Born: 2-20-1914 married: Alice Betts

Died: obit: 1999,430

Miller-Raker #: 708

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1936 quarterly conference license, Allegheny Conference Liverpool charge: Oriental Salem

1943 license, Allegheny Conference

1949 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1940-45 Shade Gap

1945-47 Shermansdale

1947-48 Mt. Tabor

1948 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1948-50 Mt. Tabor

1950-53 Chambersburg First, associate

1953-59 Young’s-Mt. Zion

1959-62 Chewsville

1962-68 Red Lion St. Paul’s Chapel

1968-73 Paxtonville

1973-74 Selinsgrove Wesley

1974-77 Mapleton yoked

1977-80 Glen Rock

1980 retired

CHUBB, FRANK B.

Born: 6-1-1871 England married: Edith Clift

Died: 12-17-1944 near Linglestown PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1902 quarterly conference license, New Cumberland charge

1910 license, Virginia Conference

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, Colonial Park PA

Obit: conference biographical files

1902-03 Salem charge (Fishing Creek Salem & Mt. Olivet), resigned April 1903

living in Pleasant Grove, York County

1907-10 Jones Spring, Virginia Conference

1910 joined Virginia Conference

1910-12 Maysville [South Branch]

1912-14 Edinburg

1916-17 Tom’s Brook

1917-18 Shenandoah City

1918 retired because of poor health to Linglestown PA

local

1926-28 Manada Hill, East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: See the explanation of the resignation in 1903,13. While Rev. Chubb is listed as an itinerant in the Virginia Conference, he appears as a first year licentiate 1912-18. He apparently never made any progress toward ordination. Some personal details are given in 1913,9.

CIAMPA, DONALD N.

Born: 8-6-1905 Italy married: Dorothy Love Jackson

Died: 6-2-1989 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2005,331

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 491

Gibble list: no

1924 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Salix PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990,288

1927-31 Zion

1931-38 Rockwood

1938-48 Belsano

1948-63 Beaverdale

1963-72 Herminie

1972 retired

1972-80 Dunlo

Note: Donald N. Ciampa is the father of five United Methodist pastors, all graduates of United Theological Seminary in Dayton OH: J. Paul Ciampa, John E. Ciampa, B. Frank Ciampa, and Ralph C. Ciampa of the Western Pennsylvania Conference; Donald J. Ciampa of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.

CLAIR, HORACE G.

Born: married:

Died: obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1889 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1889-91 Halifax Otterbein

1891-93 Jacksonville circuit (resigned spring 1893)

1893-95 located

1895 honorable dismissal

CLAIR, JOHN G.

Born: 9-22-1818 Lancaster County PA married: Susan Hosler

Died: 7-11-1882 Mount Joy PA obit: [5/10/1818 – 9/21/1893]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1859 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1863 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Camp Hill Cemetery, Florin PA

Obit: 1883,25

1862-63 York circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1863-64 Paradise [Jefferson] circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1864-65 Highspire circuit

1865-67 Halifax circuit

1867-68 Harrisburg circuit

1868-69 Pine Grove circuit

1869-70 Susquehanna circuit

1870 located to Mt. Joy for health reasons

CLARK, CHARLES H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 535

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1906 license, recommended by York First

Interment:

Obit:

1905-07 Walkersville

1907-08 Spring Grove (Greenmount, Jefferson, Spring Grove)

1909 withdrew 1909,40

CLAY, GEORGE BOTELER

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 599

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1916 license, recommended by Quincy

Interment:

Obit:

1916-18 student at Lebanon Valley College, Annville PA

1918-21 student at Otterbein College, Westerville OH

1921-24 student at Asbury Seminary, Wilmore KY

1924 withdrew 1924,28

Note: His last known address is Ozawie KS in 1947. Be careful – there was ANOTHER Rev. George B. Clay in KS and MO in the early 1900’s.

CLEMM, JACOB A.

Born: 1-?-1825 married:

Died: 4-8-1891 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 319

Fulton #: 140

Gibble list: yes

1857 exhorter’s license in Methodist Episcopal Church, Alto Dale [Mont Alto]

1860 license

1862 ordained

Interment: originally at Young’s Church in Perry County

moved to Harrisburg East Cemetery in 1904

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1891,42

1859-61 Rocky Spring circuit

1861-63 Manchester circuit

1863-64 York Springs circuit

1864-66 Bendersville mission

1866-68 Perry circuit

1868 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1868-69 Bellefonte circuit

1869-70 Juniata circuit (Mt. Union area)

1870-72 Scottsville circuit (Three Springs area)

1872-73 unclear, ministering at large

1873-75 Fallen Timber

1875-76 Clearfield circuit

1876-77 Burnside circuit (Woodland area in Clearfield County)

1877-78 Holidaysburg circuit

1878-79 Mahoning

1879-80 unclear

1880 Allegheny circuit [2 conferences this year: time switched from spring to fall]

1880-82 Liverpool

1882-85 Three Springs

1885-88 presiding elder, Altoona district

1888 Patchinsville (did not complete the year)

1889 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1891 Ironville and Silver Springs (Lancaster County, part year: 191,13)

Note: It appears that Rev. Clemm’s wife died 1888/9 and he moved in with his son in Harrisburg. There is a Clemm folder in the biographical files at the conference archives.

CLINE, JESSE

Born: 1-30-1809 married:

Died: 7-31-1883 Petersburg [York Springs] PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 306

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1855 license

Interment: Cline’s Church, Adams County PA

Obit: 1884,21

1855 –56 York circuit

1856 located permanently

CLIPPINGER, ARTHUR RAYMOND

Born: 9-3-1878 Franklin County PA married: Ellen Weinland Mills

Died: 7-18-1958 Dayton OH obit: [6-3-1955]

Miller-Raker #: 510

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1903 license, recommended by Newburg charge

1911 ordained

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: Miami Conference 1959,91

1903 Greencastle station, May-October: 1903,21

1905-07 New Cumberland Trinity

1907-09 Trumbull CT Congregational Church, student at Yale

1909-10 North Haven CT Congregational Church, student at Yale

1910-11 Dayton OH Summit Street

1911 transfer to Miami Conference

1911-18 Summit Street

1918-21 conference superintendent

1921-50 bishop

1950 retired

Note: Bishop Clippinger represented the United Brethren in the famous handshake that signified the 1946 EUB union. Holdcraft’s 1939History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 316, gives a brief biography – as does The Chronicle 1997,7. He is a brother to Walter G. Clippinger. Mrs. Clippinger is the daughter of Bishop Job Smith Mills.

CLIPPINGER, JOHN O.

Born: 12-23-1848 Franklin County PA married: Emma E. Cormany

Died: 7-9-1918 obit: 1947,33

Miller-Raker #: 390

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1877 quarterly conference license, Center (Orrstown circuit)

1879 license

1882 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1918,78

1880 Pine Grove mission

1880-83 York Springs circuit

1883-84 Pequa mission

1884-87 Big Springs station

1887-89 St. Thomas

1889-92 Waynesboro

1892-95 Boiling Springs

1895-97 Greencastle

1897-01 Taneytown (named Littlestown 1897-99)

1901-03 Fayetteville

1903-07 Mechanicsburg circuit

1907-08 York Haven

1908-11 Rohrersville (did not finish last year)

1911 local

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 291, gives a brief biography. Clippinger was apparently a very common surname in Franklin County, and attempts to relate John to Arthur/Walter Clippinger or missionary Lula May Clippinger or ME preacher W.A. Clippinger have not been successful. But John O. Clippinger was a first cousin to the wife of Samuel D. Faust, her father Henry being a brother to John’s father Elias. Mrs. Clippinger is a granddaughter of Jacob Cormany and a first cousin of Cora Cormany (Mrs. Lawrence) Keister.

CLIPPINGER, LULU MAY

Born: married: (never married)

Died: 8-16-1967 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

missionary

Interment:

Obit: The World Evangel for December 1967, page 395

1914-19 Africa

1920-31 Alcalde NM

1931- Vallecitos NM

Note: A tribute for Lulu’s sister Amy C. Clippinger appears in The World Evangel for October 1959, page 317.

CLIPPINGER, WALTER G.

Born: 3-1-1873 married:

Died: 9-29-1948 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 468

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1898 license

1903 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Southeast Ohio Conference 1949,11

1898-01 student, Lebanon Valley College Annville PA

1901-04 student, Union Seminary Dayton OH

1904-05 UB Publishing House Dayton OH

1905-09 professor, Union Seminary Dayton OH

1909-10 president, Otterbein University Westerville OH

1910 transfer to Southeast Ohio Conference

1910-39 president, Otterbein University Westerville OH

1939 retired (president emeritus)

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 316, gives a brief biography. Walter is a brother to Arthur Raymond Clippinger.

CLOPPER, JOHN

Born: 1773 married:

Died: 6-13-1852 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 100

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [KLOPPER]

1821 license

1829 ordained

Interment: Rohrersville MD

Obit:

1830 charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

COLE, CALVIN H.

Born: 2-16-1938 married: Janet _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 774

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1959 license, recommended by Mt Zion: Manchester MD

1965 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1958-59 Gardners-Mt. Victory

1959-60 Shermansdale

1960-62 Mt. Tabor

1962-64 Center Christian Church Dayton OH

1964-69 Baltimore Otterbein

1969-77 New Cumberland Trinity

1977-81 superintendent, Harrisburg District

1981-92 Harrisburg Grace

1992-99 York Messiah

1999 retired

COLE, JOHN HARRYMAN

Born: 10-26-1828 Baltimore County MD married:

Died: 1-16-1908 Lemoyne PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment: Black Rock Baptist Meeting House, Baltimore County MD

Obit: 1908,108

1883 West Fairview, supply for 4 months

1884 Eschol, several months

1896-97 Ortanna

1900-01 Path Valley (starting 9/1/1900)

1901 New Bloomfield, 2 months

1906-07 Sabillasville

Note: He never accepted a license to preach, although it was offered to him. He was a member at Rayville MD 1887-1908 and at Lemoyne from 1-5-1908 until his death.

COLESTOCK, ZEPHANIAH AUGUSTUS

Born: 3-25-1824 Littlestown PA married: Priscilla Cormany

Died: 1-19-1924 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 286

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1843 quarterly conference license, Atwater Center (Nimishillin circuit, Muskingum Conf)

1844 license, Muskingum Conference

1847 ordained

Interment: Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: 1924,63

1844-45 Orange circuit

1845-46 Nemishellon circuit

1846-47 Littlestown circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1847 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1847-48 Hershe circuit

1848-49 Chambersburg circuit

1849-50 Big Spring

1850-52 Hershe’s station

1852-54 Chambersburg circuit

1854-57 Chambersburg station

1857-60 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1860-62 Chambersburg station

1862-66 Big Spring

1866-68 Baltimore Scott Street

1868-69 Shopp’s station

1869-72 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1872-75 presiding elder, York District

1875-78 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1878-93 local, living in Mechanicsburg

1893-05 superintendent, Old People’s Home at Mechanicsburg PA

1905-12 assistant superintendent, Old People’s Home at Mechanicsburg PA

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 291, gives a brief biography.

COLLEDGE, GEORGE J.

Born: 4-2-1894 Greensburg PA married: Minnie Agnes Knarr

Died: 12-17-1927 Torrance PA obit: [9/24/1885 - 11/18/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 386

Gibble list: no

quarterly conference license

1911 license, Allegheny Conference

1914 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928,61

1913-16 Middleburg

1916-17 (no appointment)

1917-18 Dunlo

1918-20 Fairmont

1920-21 Hollsopple

1921-23 Huntingdon (ending 4/1923)

1923 located for health reasons

Note: George J. Colledge is the son of John S. Colledge.

COLLEDGE, JOHN S.

Born: 10-16-1874 Greensburg PA married: Martha Fenwick

Died: 6-18-1942 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 351

Gibble list: no

1897 quarterly conference license, Scottdale

1907 license, Allegheny Conference

1911 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Hillview Cemetery, Greensburg PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1942,64

1906-07 Middletown

1907-09 Springfield

1909-11 Milton

1911-17 South Williamsport

1917-21 Beaverdale

1921-25 Milton

1926-31 Clearfield

1931-39 Tyrone

1939-40 conference evangelist

1940-42 Bellwood

Note John S. Colledge is the father of George J. Colledge.

COMREY, EDWIN STANTON

Born: 9-4-1878 married: Katherine _____

Died: 9-22-1964 obit: Miami Conference 1923,92

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1909 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1915 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Ohio Miami Conference 1965,72

1909-12 Pequea

1916 transfer to Miami Conference

CONERY, J. WILLIS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1874 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1873-74 Northumberland mission station

1874-76 Paxinos circuit

1876 expelled

COOK, SAMUEL

Born: married:

Died: 1849 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 274

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1844 license

Interment:

Obit: Muskingum Conference 1885,26

1846 transfer to Muskingum Conference

COOMBS, ISAAC

Born: 8-9-1799 married: Susan _____

Died: 11-14-1858 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 219

Fulton #: 11

Gibble list: yes [COMBS]

1837 license

Interment: Young’s Church, Perry County PA

Obit:

1838-39 Juniata circuit

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1839-40 Clearfield circuit

1840-41 no minutes taken

1841-42 Allegheny circuit

1842-43 appointments not listed

1843-44 Bellefonte circuit

1844-45 Bellefonte & Millheim

1845-47 Somerset circuit

1847-51 unknown, but apparently not assigned by Allegheny Conference

1851 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1851-52 York circuit

1852-54 Manchester mission

1854-55 Dover circuit

1855-56 Mercersburg mission

1856-57 York Springs circuit

1857-58 Carlisle circuit

1858-59 Perry circuit

Note: This surname is also rendered COMBS. Isaac and Susan Coombs were members of Fetterhoff’s class, near Chambersburg, at least from 1834.

COONS, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1845-46 Chambersburg station

Note: As one not properly licensed, he was serving under the presiding elder.

COOPER, J.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 509

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1903 license

Interment:

Obit:

1906 referred back to quarterly conference 1906,49

COOPER, PAUL EDWARD

Born: 7-26-1900 married: Helen M. Nye

Died: 3-16-1990 obit: 1969,212

Miller-Raker #: 618

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1921 quarterly conference license, York Fourth

1922 license

1928 ordained

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1990,449

1928-31 Chewsville

1931-35 York First

1935-41 Lemoyne Calvary

1941-49 Baltimore Otterbein

1949-64 Dallastown Bethlehem

1964-65 Gettysburg Memorial

1965 retired

1973-74 assistant, York Messiah

Note: Paul E. Cooper is a brother to Margaret Cooper Werner, wife of Paul A. Werner of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church. He is also a first cousin to Lewis Cleveland Cooper (1884-1949) of the Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Church.

COPENHAVER, MERRITT ALLEN

Born: 1-8-1936 married:

Died: 3-17-2000 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 762

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1957 license, recommended by Taneytown

1962 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1957-59 Gettysburg Salem

1962-79 Dover Bethany

1979-80 leave of absence

1980 transfer to Baltimore Conference

CORL, PETER

Born: 2-8-1824 married:

Died: 6-19-1884 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 324

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1861 license

1863 ordained

Interment: Mt. Pleasant [Hayes Grove] Church, Cumberland County PA

Obit: 1885,31

1860-63 Paradise circuit

1863-64 US army

1864-68 Liverpool

1868-71 York circuit

1871-73 Rocky Spring

1873-75 Mercersburg circuit

1875-76 Liverpool circuit

1876-77 Big Spring circuit

CORMANY, JACOB

Born: 2-?-1798 married: Margaret Hampsher

Died: 4-24-1856 obit: [1786-c1829]

Miller-Raker #: 218 married2: Lydia Hampsher [1831]

Fulton #: no obit2: [10/20/1809 – 12/29/1836]

Gibble list: yes [CARMONY] married3: Mary Eckerman

obit3:

1837 license

Interment: Salem Church, Franklin County

Obit: 1856,42

Note: While there is no record of his ordination and he appears not to be a regular itinerant, 1848,8 lists him as eligible for election to General Conference. Jacob Cormany is the father of Samuel E. Cormany, and the grandfather of cousins Cora Cormany (Mrs. Lawrence) Keister and Emma Cormany (Mrs. John O.) Clippinger and Naomi Jane Carmany [sic] (Mrs. Benjamin G.) Huber. The first and second wives were sisters. The third Mrs. Cormany married a Mr. Daniel Byers in 1859.

CORMANY, SAMUEL ECKERMAN

Born: 5-24-1838 near Chambersburg PA married: Rachel Bowman

Died: 4-20-1921 Scottdale PA obit: [4/12/1836 – 2/18/1899]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Almeda Truxall [1904]

Fulton #: 226 obit2: [d. 1915]

Gibble list: no

? license

1871 ordained

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1921,96

1859-60 student, Otterbein College

1860-62 living in Canada

1862-65 Civil War service

1865-68 living in Missouri, informal home missionary

1868-73 living in Kansas, informal home missionary

Cherokee circuit

1873-76 living in Canada

1873-76 Waterloo circuit

1876-78 Fonthill circuit

1878-88 living in Michigan, informal home missionary

1888 transfer to Allegheny Conference

Pitcairn

New Florence

Moxham

Wilmerding

superintendent, Pittsburgh Protestant Home for Boys

Bradenville

Johnstown Second

1898 retired

Note: Samuel E. Cormany is the son of Jacob Cormany and the father of Cora Cormany Keister, wife of Lawrence W. Keister. There is additional material on Samuel E. Cormany and his wife Rachel in the biographical files at the conference archives.

CORNEAL, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1921-22 Pottstown Baltzell’s

COURSEY, WILLIAM R.

Born: married:

Died: 7-2-1881 Benevola MD obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1833 license, Virginia Conference

1835 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1833-35 Hagerstown circuit

1835-36 Frederick circuit

1836-37 unknown

1837-38 Staunton circuit

1838-41 presiding elder, district unspecified

1841-42 no minutes

1842-43 Staunton circuit

1843-45 unknown

1845-48 presiding elder, district unspecified

1848-50 Fredrick circuit

1850-52 Hagerstown circuit

1852-53 Woodstock circuit

1853-56 unknown

1856-57 Hagerstown circuit

1857-58 presiding elder, Maryland District

1858-59 unknown

1859-60 Greencastle circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1860-61 unknown

1861-63 Hagerstown circuit

1863-65 Mountville-St. Paul’s, East Pennsylvania Conference

1865-67 unknown

1867 transfer to Rock River Conference

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 161, gives a brief biography.

COURTNEY, REED HAYES

Born: 8-5-1879 Middleburg PA married: Ella Foltz

Died: 10-?-1945 obit: Allegheny Confereence 1950,80

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1925 license, Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Church

1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Richfield PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1946,58

1927-28 Susquehanna, Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928 transfer to Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

1928-30 Susquehanna

1930-37 East Salem

1937-39 Waukesha

1939-42 Punxsutawney

1942-45 Runville

1945 retired

COWDER, CECIL CLYDE

Born: 3-8-1914 West Decatur PA married: Margaretta Allene Houser

Died: 4-19-2008 Bigler PA obit: [6/29/1916 – 5/12/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mary Josephine Houser Owens

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1935 quarterly conference license

1937 license, Allegheny Conference

1939 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Summit Hill Cemetery, Clearfield County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2008,?

1936-39 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1939-42 Coalport

1942-45 chaplain, US Army

1946-48 Altoona Pleasant Valley

1948-63 chaplain, US Army

1963-68 Heckathorn

1968-77 Johnstown Homestead Avenue

1977 retired

Note: The second Mrs. Cowder is the widow of James Bernard Owens, and an older sister to the first Mrs. Cowder.

COWHER, MERLE S.

Born: 7-4-1914 Hannah Furnace PA married: Gladys Patton

Died: 3-23-1987 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1936 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME: recommended by Tyrone Columbia Ave

1945 quarterly conference license, Altoona First UB

1946 license, Allegheny Conference

1967 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Shoop's Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987,413

1937-38 Allegheny circuit (beginning 1/1/1937)

1938-40 Sandy Ridge – Center

1940-41 Wallaceton

1941-41 (not appointed)

1942-45 US Army

1945-46 Springfield, Allegheny Conference of the UB Church

1946 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference of the UB Church

1946-47 Springfield

1947-54 Sewickley

1954-56 Oak Ridge

1956-57 (not appointed)

1957-63 Fishertown

1963-70 Huntingdon larger parish

1970-73 Westfield

1973-81 Harrisburg Otterbein

1981 retired

Note: Merle S. Cowher is a brother to Harold L. Cowher, local pastor of the Central Pennsylvania (M) Conference.

COWLING, DONALD JOHN

Born: 1880 married: Elizabeth Lucretia Stehman

Died: 11-27-1965 obit: [3/2/1889 – 5/?/1980]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 302 [W.J. COWLING]

Gibble list: yes

1902 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1902-06 student, Yale University at New Haven CT

1907-09 faculty, Baldwin University in Baker KS

1909 transfer to

1909-1945 president, Carlton College at Northfield MN

1945 retired

Note: Donald J. Colwing is the son of John P. Cowling. He is the namesake of that Carlton College’s Colwing Arboretum, and his papers are housed at the University of Minnesota.

COWLING, JOHN P.

Born: 4-11-1853 St. Leath, Cornwall England married: Mary K. Stevens

Died: 9-9-1907 McKeesport PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1930,65

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 285

Gibble list: yes

1887 license, East German Conference

1890 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Scottdale Cemetery, Scottdale PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1907,85

1887-90 Paxinos circuit

1890-94 Shamokin First

1894 transfer to Ontario Conference

1894-97 superintendent, Ontario District

1897 transfer to Allegheny Conference

Dubois

Greensburg

1900-04 Scottdale

1904-06 Tyrone

1906-07 McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial

Note: John P. Cowling is the father of Donald J. Cowling.

COX, JAMES

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 62

Gibble list: no

1844 license

Interment:

Obit:

1850 transfer “to Illinois Conference, or any other conference that he may attach himself to”

CRABILL, SAMUEL A.

Born: 6-15-1862 Rockingham County VA married: Effie Landis

Died: 11-9-1936 obit: 1948,33

Miller-Raker #: 525

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1889 quarterly conference license, Whitesels (Cross Keys circuit, Virginia Conference)

1895 license, Virginia Conference

1898 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Mt. Sidney VA

Obit: 1937,20

1895-98 Franklin circuit

1898-99 Tom’s Brook circuit

1899-03 Inwood circuit

1903-04 Jones Spring circuit

1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-05 Chambersburg circuit

1905-07 Hagerstown circuit

1907-09 Newburg

1909-11 Spry

1911-15 Hanover

1915-19 Dillsburg

1919-22 West Fairview

1922-24 Enola

1924-25 Oakville

1925-27 Carlisle circuit

1927-30 conference evangelist

[1928 Shepherdstown, part year supply]

1930 retired

Note: A detailed biographical sketch appears in the 1911 Spry charge History and Directory.

CRALL, LLOYD HORNBERGER

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1943 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1942-43 Lickdale

1943-50 Bonebrake Seminary, Dayton OH

1950-51 living in DunkirK NY

1951 transferred to another denomination, East Pennsylvania Conference 1951,47

Note: Lloyd H. Crall served while a student at Lebanon Valley College. The 1947 LVC Alumni Register lists him as pastor of St. Paul’s EUB Church, 3821 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA – this is St. Paul’s of the Atlantic Conference that was sold to a black congregation in 1952, with the assets used to establish St. Paul’s EUB Church in Fairless Hills, but Lloyd H. Crall is not listed in any Atlantic Conference records and another pastor is listed at that time for St. Paul’s.

CRAMER, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 271

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1844 license

Interment:

Obit:

1846 transfer to Illinois Conference

CRAMER, WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 167

Fulton #: 18

Gibble list: yes

1831 license

Interment:

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1854 dropped

Note: There is no evidence that he was ever assigned to a circuit.

CRAUMER, LEWIS WENTZ

Born: 9-16-1827 Manheim township, York County married: Elizabeth Smith

Died: 11-8-1900 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: (none)

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1849 quarterly conference license

1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1853 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1901,27

1849-50 Pine Grove

1850-52 Milheim

1852-55 Union mission

1855-57 Dayton OH German

1857-59 Circleville OH

1859-60 Highspire circuit

1860-62 Pine Grove

1862-63 Deep Creek circuit [Heginsville]

1863-64 Lebanon Salem

1864-67 Annville

1867-69 Myerstown

1869 charter member of East German Conference

1869-71 Myerstown

1871-78 ?

1878-82 presiding elder, Harrisburg District

1882-85 Pine Grove

1885-86 Sinking Springs circuit

1886-89 ?

1889-90 Lebanon Fourth [West Lebanon]

1890-91 Lykens

1891-93 Reading Salem

1893 retired

Note: Lewis W. Craumer died a member of the East German Conference in 1900, but that Conference had remerged into the East Pennsylvania Conference by the time his obituary was printed in 1901. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 452, gives a brief biography. Lewis is not a brother to Rev. William H. Craumer, but they appear to be related.

CRAUMER, WILLIAM HENRY

Born: 9-3-1829 near Shrewsbury, York County married: Catherine Sterner

Died: 6-4-1899 Dallastown obit: 1917,84

Miller-Raker #: 338

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1865 license

1868 ordained

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1900,42

1865-68 Jefferson circuit

1868-74 Liverpool [Manchester] circuit

1874-78 York circuit

1878-79 Manchester circuit

1879 retired

1879-81 Pine Grove circuit, East German Conference

1883-84 Yocumtown

1885-86 Hopeland circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1894-95 Jefferson

Note: His daughter Sarah married Rev Alexander R. Ayres. William is not a brother to Rev. Lewis Wentz Craumer, but they appear to be related.

CRETZINGER, JOHN IRVIN

Born: 1892 married: Martha L. Weidler

Died: 1956 obit: [1887-1978]

Miller-Raker #: 590 [JOHN C.]

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1915 license, recommended by Duncannon

Interment: Duncannon Union Cemetery (United Brethren section), Duncannon PA

Obit:

1915-18 living in Duncannon

1918-19 military service in France [battery D, 314^th field artillery]

1919-21 student at Lebanon Valley College

1921-24 living in Duncannon

1924 withdrew 1924,28

1925 M.A. Penn State

1939 Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

1946-50 professor of biology, Lebanon Valley College

Note: It appears that Mrs. Cretzinger may have also been married to a Mr. Culhane, most likely after John’s death in 1956.

CRIDER, CHRISTIAN SMITH

Born: 2-1-1811 married: Catherine _____

Died: 3-7-1850 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 199

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1835 license

1839 ordained

Interment: Myerstown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1851,28

1841-43 York station

1843-45 York circuit

1845-46 Lebanon Salem

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48 Lebanon Salem

1848-50 presiding elder, Lebanon District

1850 no assignment due to ill health

Note: Christian S. is the son of John Crider and the grandson of Martin Crider. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 39, gives a brief biography. The Eberly-Albright-Brane 1911 Landmark History, page 60, gives a brief biography. His daughter Barbara A. married effective quarterly conference licensee D.M. Rumler.

CRIDER, HENRY M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 335

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1864 license

1870 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1877 withdrew

CRIDER, J.C.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 391

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

licensed, Miami Conference

1881 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1879-80 Baltimore Woodbury mission [Otterbein Memorial], Pennsylvania Conference

1880 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1880-82 Baltimore Woodbury mission [Otterbein Memorial]

1882-84 West Fairview station, left irregularly in middle of 2^nd year

1884 dismissed

CRIDER, JOHN

Born: 4-15-1765 married: Barbara Smith

Died: 6-17-1841 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 66

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1812 license

1814 ordained

Interment: Crider’s Church, Franklin County PA

Obit: 1842,49

1823-24 presiding elder

Note: John is the son of Martin Crider and the father of Christian S. Crider. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 39, gives a brief biography.

CRIDER, MARTIN

Born: 2-14-1740 married: Catharine Schmutz

Died: 11-14-1826 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 12

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [KREIDER]

1789 license

Interment: Lebanon PA

Obit:

Note: Martin is the father of John Crider and the grandfather of Christian S. Crider and David S. Early. Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 371, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 38, give brief biographies. Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 157, gives a brief biography of Crider and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.

CRIDER, ROBERT FREDERICK JR

Born: 4-3-1941 married: Diane A. W.

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 789

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1961 license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue

1967 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1961-63 Mt. Olivet-Mt. Zion

1963-65 Dayton OH Epworth, youth minister

1965-66 Baltimore Dorguth, seminary intern

1967-70 Baltimore Christ

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-72 Baltimore Christ

1972-73 Baltimore Simms

1973-75 Lanham Ebenezer

1975-83 Martinsburg Otterbein

1983-87 Hagerstown Wesley

1987-93 superintendent, Cumberland-Hagerstown District

1993-96 Linthicum Heights

1996- Timonium

Note: Rev. Crider’s wife is a ministerial member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

CRIDER, TOBIAS

Born: 10-26-1799 married:

Died: 6-13-1881 obit: [d. 1878]

Miller-Raker #: 220

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1837 license

1840 ordained

Interment: St. John’s, Franklin County PA

Obit: 1882,37

1843-46 unorganized work in Franklin & Fulton counties

1846-48 Dover circuit

1848-49 Chambersburg circuit

1850-52 Conococheague circuit

1852-53 York circuit

1853-55 local?

1855-56 Lisburn mission

1856-58 Jefferson circuit

1858-60 Mercersburg circuit

1860 local at Cashtown, Franklin County, due to health

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 378, gives a brief biography.

CRIDLAND, HARRY CLIFFORD

Born: 8-28-1879 married: Grace L. Faust

Died: 6-15-1966 obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1956,28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1932 quarterly conference license

1933 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Wilkinsburg

1939 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1967,31]

1935-37 Susquehanna (beginning 3/1/1935)

1937-41 Altoona Schum Memorial

1941-47 Sewickley

1947-48 Wilmore

1948-51 Huntingdon

1951 retired

Note: Harry C. Cridland and Grace L. Faust were married 2/21/1901 in Dayton OH. He is a 1910 graduate of Harvard, worked as a chemist for the Joyce-Cridland Company in Dayton OH, served in WWI, and worked for the International Sunday School Association in Dayton OH, Minneapolis MN, Little Rock AR, and Pittsburgh PA.

CRIM, ABRAM HARRY MARSHALL

Born: 10-25-1894 Grimes VA married: Mabel Grace Renn

Died: 3-23-1972 Winchester VA obit: [6/11/1888 – 9/1/1929]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Maude Vashti Jarrett

Fulton #: no obit2: [6/18/1894 – 5/?/1982]

Gibble list: no

1919 license, Virginia Conference

Interment: Riverview Cemetery, Strasburg VA

Obit:

1917-19 Jonestown circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference (beginning Oct 1917)

1919-20 West Lebanon, East Pennsylvania Conference (ending 7/18/20, see 1920,7)

1920-23 missionary, Taiama Africa (beginning 7/18/20)

1923 no longer listed

Note: This surname is also rendered CRIMM. Harry Crim is listed in the East Pennsylvania Conference journal as “others employed in the Conference.” He attended the denomination’s Shenandoah Valley Academy and served in the East Pennsylvania Conference while a student at Lebanon Valley College (see 1918,6). He graduated from Union Theological Seminary (BD 1929, ThM 1938, ThD 1944) in Richmond VA and served in the Presbyterian Church. The 1947 LVC Alumni Register lists him as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Strasburg VA. The first marriage occurred 6/23/1923 in Shamokin PA, and the first Mrs. Crim is buried in Shamokin.

CRIST, ROBERT PAUL

Born: married: Marion Speicher

Died: obit

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [CHRIST]

1942 quarterly conference license

1944 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1943-44 Lickdale circuit

1944-46 student, Andover-Newton Seminary

1946 honorable dismissal

Note: Robert P. Crist served while a student at Lebanon Valley College. He later became a Baptist minister.

CROFT, JOHN ROSS

Born: 8-21-1827 Franklin County PA married: Sarah Ann Sites

Died: 1-27-1898 near McConnellsburg obit: [2/5/1834 – 9/22/1905]

Miller-Raker #: 376

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1872 quarterly conference license, Mercersburg circuit

1875 license

1878 ordained

Interment: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1898,49

1875-88 Fulton circuit

1888-89 Horse Valley

1889-90 Fulton circuit

1890 retired due to ill health

Note: John R. Croft is the father of Edward J. Croft (1873-1956) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CRONE, AUGUSTUS C.

Born: 8-4-1875 Dover, York County married: Elizabeth R. Reichenbauch

Died: 2-10-1968 obit: 1974,436

Miller-Raker #: 507

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1901 quarterly conference license, Rohlers

1903 license

1908 ordained

Interment: Kutz’s Cemetery, Cumberland County

Obit: 1968,125

1904-07 Carlisle circuit

1907-08 Taneytown

1908-11 Springett

1911-14 York Haven

1914-19 Winterstown

1919-26 Shepherdstown

1926-28 Boiling Springs

1928-30 Bendersville

1930-37 Jefferson

1937-42 Mechanicsburg circuit

1942 retired, attended Carlisle Grace

CRONISE, B.F.

Born: [1829] married:

Died: 8-?-1896 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

? license, Methodist Episcopal Church

1879 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1887 charter member of Maryland Conference

CROWELL, ABRAHAM

Born: 1-10-1829 Osceola Mills PA married: Mary Kephart

Died: 2-20-1887 obit: [2/2/1831 – 3/14/1905]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 92 & 104

Gibble list: no

1855 license, Allegheny Conference

1858 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Iowa Conference 1897,24

1856-57 Curwensville

1957-59 Luthersburg mission

1859-61 Bellefonte

1861-63 Jefferson

1863-64 Kittaning

transfer to Iowa Conference

Note: Abraham Crowell apparently was torn between Pennsylvania and Iowa. He is listed as transferring to Iowa Conference in 1857, transferring back to Allegheny Conference in 1858, and transferring to Iowa Conference in 1861 – even though he appears to have been appointed in the Allegheny Conference continuously until 1864. Mrs. Crowell is the daughter of Henry Kephart and a sister Isaiah Lafayette Kephart, bishop Ezekiel Boring Kephart and bishop Cyrus Jeffries Kephart.

CROWELL, CHARLES

Born: married:

Died: 1878 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 34

Gibble list: no

1840 license, Allegheny Conference

1846 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1841-42 Huntingdon

1842-43 no minutes taken

1843-44 Juniata

1844-45 Washington

1845-46 Liverpool

1846-48 Bellefonte

1848-49 Schellsburg

1849-50 Somerset

1860-61 Curwensville

Note: Charles Crowell is believed to be a cousin of Abraham Crowell, but the exact relationship has not yet been established.

CRUM, CHRISTIAN

Born: 1763 Frederick County MD married: Christiana Schmidt

Died: 7-30-1820 obit: [1749->1831]

Miller-Raker #: 18

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1791 license

1815 ordained

Interment: Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester VA

Obit:

1810-11 Virginia circuit

Note: The birth and death information comes from the 1968 Miller-Raker history, page 373 – but it disagrees with other sources. Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference gives his death as 1823, and most other sources give his birth year as 1748 in Carbon County PA – this is necessary to agree with his daughter Susanna being born in 1776 and marrying William Amrose, for his Revolutionary War service, etc. Christian is the twin brother of Henry Crum. Christian and Henry are reported to have been chaplains under George Washington in the Revolutionary War.

CRUM, HENRY

Born: 1763 Frederick County MD married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 27

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1800 license

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Henry is the twin brother of Christian Crum – see the note on Christian’s file regarding their birth year Christian and Henry are reported to have been chaplains under George Washington in the Revolutionary War. Henry is reported to have become a Methodist minister and started the Methodist work several miles northwest of Berryville, Clarke County VA.

CRUMLING, CHRISTIAN

Born: 1-3-1796 married: Catherine Heindell

Died: 9-5-1865 obit: [d. 1834]

Miller-Raker #: 145 maried2: Julia Myers

Fulton #: no obit2: [1/29/1800 – 3/25/1885]

Gibble list: yes

1829 license

1838 ordained

Interment: Fry Cemetery, Brush Valley [Indiana County] PA

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

Note: This surname is also rendered CRUMBLING and GRUMBLING, which is the spelling that appears on the family tombstones.

CULP, LEROY THOMAS

Born: 1894 married: Catherine Shaffer

Died: 1981 obit: [1896-1976]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 492

Gibble list: no

1924 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1928 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Pringle Hill Cemetery, Wilmore PA

Obit:

1924-27 Port Matilda

1927-31 Trafford

1931-32 Hollsopple (ending 9/28/31)

1932 name erased, page 75

CUNKLE, PAUL VINCENT

Born: 1-11-1916 married: Gracella _____

Died: 9-8-1991 East Hampton NY obit:

Miller-Raker #: 681

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1935 license, recommended by West Fairview

1941 ordained

Interment:

Obit: biographical files at conference archives

1935-38 student, Lebanon Valley College

1938-41 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1941-42 without appointment (started at Windsor 2/1/42)

1942-48 Windsor

1848-50 Chambersburg First, assistant

1950-55 York Fifth

1955-56 living on Long Island NY

1956-63 high school social studies teacher, Deer Park NY

1963 reclassified as local elder

1963-68 high school social studies teacher, Deer Park NY

1968-69 living on Long Island NY

1969-81 Amagansett & Springs Presbyterian charge, East Hampton NY

1981 retired

CUNNINGHAM, B.F.

Born: married: _____ _____

Died: 1916 obit: [California Conference 1917,30]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 327

Gibble list: no

license

1906 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: [California Conference 1917,30]

1903 Hollsopple circuit (6/25 – 9/1)

1904 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904 Hollsopple circuit (3/1 – 10/1)

1907 transfer to Michigan Conference

1907-10 Grand Rapids First

Anderson IN

1913-14 Los Angeles Third CA

1914 transfer to California Conference

Note: B.F. Cunningham drowned in a swimming accident near Los Angeles.

CURRY, CONRAD KREIDER

Born: 1-18-1896 married: Edna Hocker

Died: 12-10-1929 obit: [d. 2/11/1920]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Sarah Ann Muth

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1920 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1928 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Balsbaugh’s United Christian Church, Hershey PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1930,12

1922-23 Brunnerville

1923-29 Lickdale

Note: Conrad K. Curry is a brother to Rev. Irwin K. Curry (1904-1965) of the United Christian Church.