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EARHART, JACOB EITNIER

Born: 4-17-1911 Lancaster County PA married: Beatrice Kupp

Died: 10-4-1962 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1945 quarterly conference license, Ruhl’s

1947 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1952 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Ruhl’s Cemetery, north of Manheim PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1963,58

1946-47 Brunnerville

1947-48 Lebanon Memorial

1948-51 Silver Spring circuit

1951-57 Kochenderfer’s

1957-62 Refton-West Willow

EARLY, CHARLES LUTHER

Born: 4-8-1876 Dauphin County PA married: Cora Gingrich

Died: 4-17-1933 obit: [3/27/1876 – 10/17/1900]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mary A. Mark [2/22/1902]

Fulton #: no obit2: [1871 – 1934]

Gibble list: yes

1911 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Otterbein

1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1916 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Grantville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933,13

1913-14 Chambers Hill

1914-15 Coatesville Grace (did not finish the year)

1915-16 living in Harrisburg

1916-19 Chambers Hill

1919-25 Manada Hill

1925-26 Rockville

Note: This surname is also rendered EARLEY. Charles Luther Early taught in the Grantville public schools for eight years before entering the ministry. He left the ministry for health reasons and was ill the last seven years of his life. He appears to have worked as a postal clerk while he served as a preacher.

EARLY, DAVID S.

Born: 5-29-1828 married:

Died: 7-21-1907 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1861 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1864 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907,35

1870 transfer to East German Conference

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: David S. Early “never traveled as an itinerant” but “was a very useful man in a local relation.” His mother was Christiana Kreider, a daughter of Martin Crider.

EARNST, CLARENCE L.

Born: 4-15-1917 Mount Union MD married: Irene Elizabeth Fauth

Died: 3-25-1992 Harrisburg PA obit: 1968,127

Miller-Raker #: 790 married2: Miriam Barrick Kitner

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1961 license, recommended by Emigsville Otterbein

1965 ordained

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1992,472

1961-82 Shermansdale

1982 retired

1982-83 assistant, Newport parish

1988-92 assistant, Waynesboro Faith

EBERLY, DANIEL

Born: 4-22-1834 near Shiremanstown PA married: Josephine Bittinger

Died: 7-9-1910 Hanover PA obit: [1884]

Miller-Raker #: 314

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1859 license

1861 ordained

Interment: Abbottstown PA

Obit: 1910,122

1856-57 student, Mt. Pleasant College

1857-58 student, Otterbein University

1858-59 assistant, Carlisle circuit

1859-60 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1860-61 Littlestown circuit

1862-63 York Spring circuit

1863-65 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1865-66 Baltimore English mission

1866-72 president, Cottage Hill Female College at York

1872-73 ?

1873-74 Philadelphia Girard Avenue Mission, East Pennsylvania Conference

1874-76 Lebanon Trinity, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876-84 professor, Lebanon Valley College at Annville

1884 retired, upon the death of his wife

chaplain, Pennsylvania National Guard

board member, Lebanon Valley College

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography. Wallace’s 1966 Centennial History of Lebanon Valley College contains significant information on both Mr. and Mrs. Eberly. Daniel is the son of Samuel Eberly.

EBERLY, H.M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 165

Gibble list: no

1874 license, Allegheny conference

Interment:

Obit:

1874-75 Millheim circuit
1875-77 no assignment

1877 name erased

Note: H.M. Eberly associated with a Juniata County group known as the United Christian Church, which is distinct from the United Christian Church that broke away from the United Brethren Church in 1864 under George Hoffman and is headquartered in Annville PA. He officiated at the dedication of United Christian buildings at Graham's Ore Banks in 1878 and at Whiteland in 1879. He was involved in a United Christian controversy at Dressler's Ridge in 1895.

EBERLY, SAMUEL

Born: 3-10-1790 married: Catherine Erb

Died: 11-14-1862 obit: [6/23/1791 – 10/9/1860]

Miller-Raker #: 175

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1832 license

1835 ordained

Interment: Shopp’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit: 1864,92

Note: Samuel Eberly preached locally. He is the father of Daniel Eberly. Mrs. Eberly was a sister to bishop Jacob Erb and is buried in Shopp’s Cemetery.

ECKELS, J.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 394

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1880 license

Interment:

Obit:

1879-1881 Horse Valley, did not finish the second year: see 1880,4 & 1881,4

1881 expelled 1881,14

Note: J.H. Eckels may have been from Fannettsburg.

ECKSTEIN, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 129

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1827 license

1829 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1827-28 Hagerstown circuit

1828-29 Virginia circuit

1837-38 Lancaster circuit

Note: John Eckstein may have been considered a member of the Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference after 1830, but there is no record of appointments there, either.

EDMUNDS, ARTHUR FREDERICK

Born: 12-11-1922 married: Julia Ethel Wrightstone

Died: 2-28-1996 obit: 2006, 425

Miller-Raker #: 765

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1958 license, recommended by Enola Mt. Zion

1964 ordained

Interment: Pleasant Grove UM Church Cemetery, Newberry township York County

Obit: 1996,409

1959-68 York Haven-Pleasant Grove

1968-71 Windsor Grace

1971-79 Mifflinburg St. Paul

1979-88 Bethlehem-Springvale

1988 retired

1989-93 Bittersville

1993-95 Bittersville & Windsor Grace

EDRIS, REGINA SUSANNA AMANDA

Born: 1902 Myerstown PA married: (single)

Died: 7-?-1958 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1925 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: United Brethren Cemetery, Myerstown PA

Obit:

1933 surrender license

Note: Regina Edris graduated from Lebanon Valley College with a degree in nursing in 1924.

EGGE, WILLIAM JACOB

Born: 1-30-1820 near Allentown PA married:

Died: 1-12-1903 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1855 license, East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association

Interment: Allentown PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1903,24

1855-1897 local relation

1897 transfer to East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: William J. Egge is the father of Rev. Charles Hesser Egge (1844-1924) of the Evangelical Association/United Evangelical/Evangelical Congregational Church, and the grandfather of Charles’ son Rev. Walter Howard Egge (1874-1948) of the United Evangelical/Evangelical Congregational Church.

EHRHART, CARL YARKERS

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1937 quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1940 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1943 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1947-61 faculty, Lebanon Valley College

Note: Carl Y. Ehrhart is the son of Oliver T. Ehrhart.

EHRHART, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 300

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1852 license

Interment:

Obit:

1849-50 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1854-55 Littlestown circuit

1857 transfer to Iowa Conference, page 46

EHRHART, OLIVER TILLMAN

Born: 10-8-1881 Lancaster County PA married: Edna E. Yarkers

Died: 5-22-1960 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1907 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah

1908 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1917 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Greenfield Cemetery of Stehman Memorial Church, Lancaster County PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1960,55

1910-20 Lebanon Hebron

1920-51 Lancaster Covenant

1951 retired

Note: Oliver T. Ehrhart is the father of Carl Y. Ehrhart.

EICHELBERGER, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 264

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1842 license

Interment:

Obit:

1846 silenced 1846,72&73

EICHINGER, HARRY L.

Born: 1875 married: Laura A. Myers

Died: obit: b1871

Miller-Raker #: 462

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1896 license

Interment:

Obit:

1896-97 Jefferson

1897-98 Dover circuit

1898-99 living in Annville

1899-01 Grantville circuit, East German Conference

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 11

1901-02 Derry [Hershey] circuit

1902 Catawissa circuit, resigned shortly after conference

1902-04 Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania Conference

1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-06 living in Mount Wolf

1906 returned to quarterly conference relation 1906,49

Note: Rev. Eichinger is in a posed picture of ministers in the Penn Grove camp meeting file. Mrs. Eichinger’s mother is a sister to Henry A. Sechrist. A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. Eichinger. The 1920 census (from which the above birth years were inferred) places them living on East Main Street in Dallastown.

ELLIS, D.R.

Born: 11-2-1840 Wales married:

Died: 8-24-1908 Annville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 180

Gibble list: no

1876 license, Allegheny Conference

1879 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1908,68

1889-91 Clearfield [Woodland]

ELSER, THEODORE EDWIN

Born: 10-25-1929 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 775

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1959 license

1963 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1959-62 Young’s-Mt. Zion

1962-69 Boonsboro Mt. Nebo

1969-70 Frederick Centennial

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-71 Centennial

1971-76 Wesley Grove

1976-80 chaplain, Scotland (PA) School

1981-84 leave of absence, living in Scotland PA

1984 transfer to Peninsula Conference

ELWAY, JAMES

Born: married: Sarah Prosser [in England]

Died: 8-26-1862 obit: [1808-1887]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 24 [ALWAY]

Gibble list: yes

1838 license, Pennsylvania Conference

1840 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Altoona

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1844-45 Westmoreland circuit

1845-46 Clearfield circuit

1846-47 Jefferson circuit

Note: Rev. Elway was born in England, emigrated to America in 1830 and lived briefly in Philadelphia and Centre County. Africa’s 1883 History of Blair County, page 141, says that “James Elway came to the Tuckahoe Valley in Logan township in 1850, where he purchased a farm. He removed to Altoona in 1859.” His son James married the daughter of Jacob Root – the layperson behind Roots appointment, predecessor to the Bellwood congregation.

ELY, DANIEL

Born: 6-9-1832 married: Martha Ann Coombs

Died: 2-16-1909 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1867 quarterly conference license, Chambersburg First

Interment:

Obit: 1910,28

1889-95 Horse Valley

1897-99 Ortanna

1900-02 Horse Valley

1907-10 living in Philadelphia

Note: Daniel Ely served with a permanent quarterly conference license. There is a folder on him in the biographical file at the conference archives. The 1910 UB Yearbook incorrectly identifies him as Daniel EBY in the death notices.

EMENHEISER, BENJAMIN F.

Born: 3-31-1898 married: Roberta Glanville

Died: 4-17-1991 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 609

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1919 license, recommended by Thurmont

Interment:

Obit:

1919-21 student, Lebanon Valley College

1924 withdrew 1924,28

teacher, Baltimore City College

Note: Benjamin F. Emenheiser is the son of Franklin Benjamin Emenheiser. He is a member of the Baltimore City College Hall of Fame.

EMENHEISER, FRANKLIN B.

Born: 5-22-1870 near East Prospect married: Catherine Jane Daugherty

Died: 4-28-1957 Hagerstown MD obit: 1961,47

Miller-Raker #: 478

1896 quarterly conference license, Dallastown

1901 license

1905 ordained

Interment: Mount Rose Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1957,41

1901-03 Dover circuit

1903-07 Rayville circuit

1907-10 Lemasters circuit

1910-12 Oakville circuit

1912-16 Shiremanstown circuit

1916-18 Fayetteville

1918-20 Thurmont

1920-25 Springet

1925-39 York Haven

1939 retired

Note: Franklin B. Emenneiser is the father of Benjamin F. Emenheiser, Paul D. Emenheiser and Cora Mabel Emenheiser Zeigler – wife of Roy R. Zeigler. The Zeigler children [Franklin’s grandchildren] include Betty Zeigler Keperling (wife of Ira C. Keperling), Eleanor Zeigler Ford (wife of missionary Rev. Paul Ford) and Harold E. Zeigler. Mrs. Emenheiser is a first cousin of Benjamin Daugherty Rojahn (through Rojahn, and possibly also through Daugherty). A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. F.B. Emenheiser.

EMENHEISER, PAUL DAUGHERTY

Born: 2-20-1911 married: Esther L. Redding

Died: [before 1979] obit:

Miller-Raker #: 666

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license

1936 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1931-33 student, Lebanon Valley College

1933-36 student, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

1933-36 Barts

1936-38 Taneytown

1938-42 Baltimore Otterbein

1942-48 Wormleysburg, resigned 5/31/48

1947 withdrew 1948,56&96

1954-63 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sycamore IL

Note: Paul D. Emeheiser is the son of Franklin B. Emenheiser.

EMENHIZER, G.W.

Born: 5-2-1843 Stormstown PA married: Sarah Elizabeth Long

Died: 5-10-1928 obit: Allegheny Conference 1932,49

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 195

Gibble list: no

1875 quarterly conference license

1880 license, Allegheny Conference

1884 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Houserville Cemetery, Houserville PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1928,59

1875-79 Bellefonte circuit

1879-80 Allegheny

1880-82 Shade Gap

1882-86 East Salem

1886-89 Juniata

1889-92 Bellefonte

1892-94 Punxsutawney

1894-95 Fairmont

1895-97 DeHaven

1897-98 Connellsville

1898-01 Springfield

1901-04 Three Springs

1904-06 Path Valley

1906-08 Fairhope

1908-13 Belsano

1913-15 West Decatur

1915-17 Casselman

1917-18 ?

1918-20 Clarion River

1920 retired

Note: G.W. Emenhizer is the grandfather of J.S. Emenhizer.

EMENHIZER, JARED SILAS

Born: 12-14-1892 Centre County PA married: Naomi Blanche Newman

Died: 9-1-1973 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1987,406

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 428

Gibble list: no

1914 quarterly conference license

1916 license, Allegheny Conference

1923 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Houserville Cemetery, Houserville PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1974,284

1915-16 Union

1916-18 Hustontown

1918-20 Mahaffey

1920-24 Susquehanna

1924-26 Glasgow

1926-28 Waukesha

1928-30 Middleburg (ending 9.24.1930)

1930-31 Central City (beginning 10/1/1930, apparently was originally assigned to Clarion River))

1931-36 New Paris

1936-37 Shade Gap

1937-43 Three Springs

1943-46 Woodland

1946-49 Rockwood

1949-53 Hollsopple

1953-54 Bowersdale

1954-60 Salem

1960-62 Mount Hope

1962 retired

Note: J.S. Emenhizer is a grandson of G.W. Emenhizer.

EMPFIELD, CHARLES HAROLD

Born: 5-11-1914 married: Dorothy Blanche Claypool

Died: 8-15-2002 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2000,360

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1939 quarterly conference license

1943 license, Allegheny Conference

1946 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 2003,?

1941-44 Rochester Mills

1944-48 Johnstown Overbrook

1947-48 Windber

1948-51 Beaver Falls

1951-61 Altoona Schum Memorial

1961-69 McKeesport First

1969-79 disability leave

1979 retired

ENCK, SCHUYLER COLFAX

Born: 7-3-1868 Hopeland PA married: Elizabeth Sophia Seltzer

Died: 11-29-1963 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957,50

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 quarterly conference license, Hopeland

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Hopeland Cemetery, Lancaster County PA

Obit: Eastern Conference 1964,121

1888-1891 Ruhl’s

1891-92 Pottstown

1892-93 Lockington, Miami Conference

1893 New Holland

1893-98 Manheim

1898-12 Columbia

1912-17 Philadelphia Second

1917-42 conference superintendent

1942 retired

Note: Schuyler C. Enck’s son Paul is married to David E. Long’s daughter Laura. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 449, gives a brief biography.

ENDERS, GEORGE W.

Born: 1-6-1836 married: Susan Warner

Died: 12-27-1916 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1878 quarterly conference license

1881 license, East German Conference

1887 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Enders PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1917,39

1892-93 Jacksonville circuit

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: George W. Enders served as needed as a local pastor.

ENGLE, DANIEL

Born: 4-10-1811 Germany married:

Died: 3-16-1883 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 241

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ENGEL]

1841 license, recommended by Old Otterbein

Interment: Braxton County WV

Obit: Parkersburg Conference 1891,31 & West Virginia Conference 1897,51

1840-46 pre-Buckhannon WV, informally

1843 transfer to Virginia Conference

Note: Daniel Engle is mentioned in Burrow’s 1989 History of West Virginia United Methodism, pages 217 & 219.

ENSMINGER, EARL JACOB

Born: 3-30-1904 near Strinestown PA married: Ruth M. Funk

Died: 11-19-1977 Florida obit: 1980,338

Miller-Raker #: 810

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1934 quarterly conference license, Strinestown UBOC

1935 license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1941 ordained, UBOC

Interment: Strinestown Cemetery, Strinestown PA

Obit: 1978,258

1936-40 missionary to Sierra Leone

1940-41 student, Huntingdon College IN

1941-44 Heidlersburg

1944-45 student, Huntingdon College IN

1945-49 missionary to Sierra Leone

1949-52 Celina OH circuit, Auglaize Conference

1952-53 living in Huntingdon IN

1953-57 missionary to Sierra Leone

1957-63 State Line

1963-64 Mt. Tabor MD

1964 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB denomination

1964-69 Marion

1969 retired

1974-77 associate, Seminole FL

ENSMINGER, RUTH M. FUNK

Born: 8-6-1911 married: Earl Jacob Ensminger

Died: 11-30-1979 obit: 1978,258

Miller-Raker #: 811

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1939 license, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1951 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

Interment: Strinestown Cemetery

Obit: 1980,338

1936-40 missionary to Sierra Leone

1940-41 student, Huntingdon College IN

1941-44 Heidlersburg

1944-45 student, Huntingdon College IN

1945-49 missionary to Sierra Leone

1949-52 Celina OH circuit assistant, Auglaize Conference

1952-53 living in Huntingdon IN

1953-58 missionary to Sierra Leone

1964 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, EUB denomination

1964-69 Marion, unofficial assistant

1969 retired

Note: Ruth was married to Earl Jacob Ensminger. She was the daughter of Bishop Ezra Funk of the United Brethren, Old Constitution.

ENTERLINE, SAMUEL

Born: 9-4-1810 Lykens Valley PA married:

Died: 5-24-1884 Adams County PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 238

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1839 license

1842 ordained

Interment: Hampton, Adams County PA

Obit: 1885,29

1842-44 Lebanon circuit

1844-46 Dauphin circuit

1846-47 York circuit

1847-48 York Springs circuit

1848-49 York circuit

1849-51 Dover circuit

1851-53 Franklin circuit

1853-54 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1854-57 Baltimore station

1857-59 Rocky Spring circuit

1859-60 Orrstown circuit

1860-61 York Springs circuit

1861-65 York station

1865-67 Manchester circuit

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography. He is a grandson of Lutheran immigrant minister John Michael Enterline.

ERB, JACOB

Born: 5-25-1804 near Manheim PA married: Elizabeth Shirk

Died: 4-29-1883 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 105

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1823 license, Hagerstown Conference

1825 ordained

Interment: Shopp’s Cemetery, Shiremanstown

Obit: 1884,20

1823-24 Lancaster circuit

1824-25 Hagerstown circuit

1825-26 Lancaster circuit

1827-28 missionary to New York

1828-29 Susquehanna circuit

1829-31 unassigned

1831-32 Littlestown circuit

1832-33 Canada mission, informally & working on hymnal

1833-36 presiding elder, Carlisle District

1836-37 Canada mission, informally

1837-45 bishop

1837-38 Dauphin circuit

1841-45 Baltimore Otterbein

1845-48 Baltimore Otterbein

1849-53 bishop

1854-56 presiding elder, York District

1856-57 agent for Philadelphia church

1857-58 presiding elder, Chambersburg District

1858-59 Liverpool circuit

1859-60 agent for the printing establishment

1860-62 unassigned

1862-63 Carlisle circuit

1863-66 York station

1866-68 unassigned

1868-70 Harrisburg First

1871-75 unassigned

1875 retired

1876 special agent for Lebanon Valley College

1878-82 conference evangelist

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 317, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 46, give brief biographies. Chapter 6 of the 1911 denominational study guide Our Heroes vol 2 discusses Jacob Erb and gives a picture. His mother Elizabeth Hershey Erb was a sister to Abraham and Christian Hershey. His sister married Samuel Eberly. Jacob Erb is a cousin to Jacob G. Erb.

ERB, JACOB G.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 176

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1832 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1836 dismissed

old Erie Conference

1861 charter member of new Erie Conference

1862-63 Orleans mission

1880 irregularly withdrawn

Note: Jacob G. Erb a cousin to Bishop Jacob Erb, whose Koontz-Roush biography states on page 218 that “Jacob G. Erb, an able preacher, lived about 6 or 7 miles from Buffalo NY and gave a number of years to ministerial service in that region.”

ERB, JOHN CALVIN

Born: 7-28-1863 Calvin PA married: Frances Settle

Died: 12-31-1932 Blair's Mills PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1937,58

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 372

Gibble list: no

1894 quarterly conference license

1909 license, Allegheny Conference

1927 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1933,48

1894-95 South Williamsport

1895-98 Wilmore

1898-99 Dunlevy

1899-00 Shade Gap

1900-03 Orbisonia

1903-04 Newport (6 months)

1904-05 Clarion River

1905-07 Birmingham

1907-08 Susquehanna

1908-11 East Salem

1911-13 Bigler

1913-15 Knoxdale

1915-16 Rochester Mills

1916-18 New Buffalo

1918-20 Runville

1920-21 Industry

1921-23 ?

1923-24 New Paris

1924-28 Cambria

1928 retired

ERNST, IRA SANKEY

Born: 12-2-1894 Guilford Springs PA married: Nellie Rice

Died: 1-31-1959 obit: 1957,48

Miller-Raker #: 589

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1915 license

1918 ordained

Interment: Lincoln Lawn, Chambersburg PA

Obit: 1959,47

1915-16 student, Lebanon Valley College

1916-18 Biglerville

1918-21 Chewsville MD

1921-41 Carlisle Grace

1941-53 Washington DC

1953-59 Chambersburg First

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 391, gives a brief biography.

ERNST, JOHN

Born: 2-22-1744 married:

Died: 8-30-1804 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 7

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1789 license

Interment: East Berlin PA

Obit:

1790’s congregation in Adams County

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 370, gives a brief biography. Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 156, gives a brief biography of Ernst and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.

ESCHBACH, CARL B.

Born: 9-9-1903 married: Ruth Myers

Died: 5-20-1998 obit: West Ohio Conference 1984,307

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 522 [Eschbaugh]

Gibble list: no

1923 quarterly conference license

1929 license, Allegheny Conference

1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: West Ohio Conference 1998,?

1929-45 MISSIONARY, Philippine Islands

1945-46 ?

1946-50 associate secretary, Foreign Missions

1950-51 faculty, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1951 transfer to Miami Conference

ESENSEE, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 251

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ESENSY]

1841 license

1844 elected to the office of elder – but refused to be ordained, page 55

Interment:

Obit:

1841-42 Dauphin circuit

1842-43 Lancaster circuit

1843-44 Lebanon circuit

1845 dismissed

entered the Lutheran ministry, Pittsburgh Synod

1845-51 Brick Church St. John’s, Freeport Trinity, Gilpin Twp Zion

1851 deposed

Note: Henry Esensee apparently preached in German. Heissenbuttel’s 1959 Pittsburgh Synod Congregational Histories includes references to Both Henry and John Esensee. They appear to be related, but that relationship and their exact service in the Lutheran Church are not clear.

ESENSEE, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 250

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ESENSY]

1841 license

Interment:

Obit:

1841-42 Chambersburg circuit

1843 withdrew

entered the Lutheran ministry, Pittsburgh Synod

1842-44 Saxonburg St. Luke’s

1843-45 Freeport Trinity

Heissenbuttel’s 1959 Pittsburgh Synod Congregational Histories includes references to both Henry and John Esensee. They appear to be related, but that relationship and their exact service in the Lutheran Church are not clear. There appears to be a connection with George St. Clair Hussey.

ESHELMAN, DAVID S.

Born: married:

Died: 10-11-1940 Arcanum OH obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [ESHLEMAN]

1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1897 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1892-93 Hopeland

1893-94 student, Lebanon Valley College

1894-97 student, Union Seminary in Dayton OH ?

1897-00 Annville

1900-03 Mountville St. Paul’s

1903-04 Allentown Zion

1904-07 Middletown

1907-08 Mount Carmel

1908-09 Myerstown

1909-10 Cressona

1910 honorable dismissal

ESTERLINE, CLIFFORD EUGENE

Born: 10-31-1895 Wiconisco PA married: Ruth Irene McClean

Died: 1-13-1981 obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1977,583

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1935 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Third

1936 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster PA

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1981,273

1938-39 Aristes

1939-42 Tower City

1942-46 Shamokin circuit

1946-47 Pottstown-Birdsboro

1947-66 Intercourse

1966 retired

ESTERLINE, LORENZ [LAWRENCE]

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 108

Fulton #:

Gibble list: yes

1824 license

1827 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

Note: This surname is also rendered ESTERLEIN.

ETTER, JOHN WESLEY

Born: 3-13-1846 Powell’s Valley PA married: Sarah Elizabeth Collier

Died: 3-28-1895 Dayton OH obit: [2/18/1851 – 1/16/1900]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1871 quarterly conference license

1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1876 ordained

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1895,53

1871-72 student, Lebanon Valley College

1872-73 professor, Lebanon Valley College

1873-75 student, Drew University

1875-77 Mount Joy

1877-79 Philadelphia

1879-82 Baltimore Fourth

1882-83 unknown, living in Halifax

1883-85 Mount Joy

1885-89 Lebanon

1889-93 editor of the Quarterly Review, Dayton OH

1891-92 professor, Union Seminary

1893-95 chief editor, UB Sunday School literature

Note: The conference archives collection contains the following books by John W. Etter [a.k.a. J. Wesley Etter]: The Doctrine of Christian Baptism (1888), The Preacher and his Sermon (1883), The Thorn in the Flesh (1892). Mrs. Etter was also a graduate (1875) of Lebanon Valley College; she is buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Halifax PA.

ETTER, ROBERT WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1941 quarterly conference license, Lancaster Covenant

1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1945 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1944-53 Manor circuit

1953-54 living in Lancaster

1954 withdrew to join another denomination: East Pennsylvania Conference 1954,48

Note: Robert W. Etter is a brother to Russell E. Etter. He is believed to have become an Episcopal priest.

ETTER, RUSSEL EMERICH

Born: 10-15-1910 Hummelstown PA married: Kathryn Miller

Died: 12-27-1979 York PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1925 quarterly conference license, Balsbaugh’s United Christian Church

1928 annual license, United Christian Church

1931 ordained, United Christian Church

1938 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1941 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: New Holland PA

Obit: 1980,338

1938 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, United Brethren Church

1938-48 Iona

1948-60 New Holland

1960-76 Harrisburg First

1976 retired

Note: Russell E. Etter is a brother to Robert W. Etter.

ETTER, SAMUEL R. JR.

Born: 1-2-1823 Campbelltown PA married: Lydia Mark

Died: 9-20-1907 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Louisa Killinger

Fulton #: no obit2: [3/3/1833 - 5/23/1912]

Gibble list: yes

1870 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1873 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907,36

1869-71 Pine Grove circuit

1871-74 Jonestown circuit

1874-76 Lehigh Valley circuit

1876-80 Landingville circuit

1880-81 Jonestown circuit

1881-86 Reading Zion

1886-89 Reading Salem

1889-92 Avon Zion

1892-93 Lebanon Memorial

1893-94 Tamaqua

1894 retired, living in Reading

Note: Samuel R. Etter Jr is the son of Samuel Etter Sr. The middle initial of Samuel Etter Sr is not known, but it appears the church created the Jr-Sr designation to distinguish between the two. The first wife of Samuel R. Etter Jr. is a daughter of George A. Mark Sr.

ETTER, SAMUEL SR.

Born: 2-4-1803 PA married: Susana Mary Fasig

Died: 1864 OH obit: [1/20/1803 - 10/25/1847]

Miller-Raker #: 200

Fulton: no

Gibble list: yes

1833 license

1835 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1860 expelled

Note: Samuel Etter Sr. is the father of Samuel R. Etter Jr. He served as a local preacher. The middle initial of Samuel Etter Sr is not known, but it appears the church created the Jr-Sr designation to distinguish between the two.

EVERHART, LORENZ [LAWRENCE]

Born: 5-6-1755 married: Ann Mary Breckinbaugh

Died: 8-6-1840 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 58

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [EBERHART]

1805 license

1808 ordained by Francis Asbury

Interment: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown MD

Obit:

1812 November, Maryland and Pennsylvania while Spayth is in Virginia

1812 membership ceased, apparently joined the Methodist Episcopal denomination

1816 organized the Methodist class at Little Cove, Franklin County

see Foreman’s 1967 History of Little Cove, page 26

1817 German missionary, Carlisle District

1818 missionary

1819 missionary

1820 German missionary

1821 located

Note: Known in secular history for several acts of bravery in the Revolutionary War, his surname is also rendered Eberhart, Everhardt, etc. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 292, gives a brief biography. The 1911 Eberly-Albright-Brane Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, page 228, gives an extensive biographical sketch. See also Clark’s 1958 Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury, volume II, page 741. He was the father of John Everhart (1791-1860), a UB pastor in Iowa discussed in chapter 17 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes and of Anna Margaret Everhart Larkin, wife of Thomas Larkin (1786-1852) of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

EVERS, ABRAM M.

Born: 10-2-1837 Rockingham County VA married: Jennie Rhinehart

Died: 9-18-1918 obit: 1935,23

Miller-Raker #: 489

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1861 quarterly conference license, Pleasant Grove (Augusta circuit, Virginia Conference)

1862 license, Virginia Conference

1863 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: 1918,79

1861 South Branch circuit, 6 months

1862-64 Rockbridge circuit

1864-65 Lacey Springs circuit

1865-66 South River circuit

1866-68 Boonsboro circuit

1868-70 Myersville circuit

1870-72 Hagerstown circuit

1872-75 Frederick circuit

1875-78 Martinsburg station

1878-79 presiding elder, South Branch District

1879-82 Churchville circuit

1882-86 Frederick station

1886-87 presiding elder, Potomac District

1887 charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-92 presiding elder

1892-95 Hagerstown circuit

1895-02 Hagerstown Grace

1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1902-03 Hagerstown Grace

1903-07 Marion

1907 local

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 293, and Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 163, give a brief biography. He is the father of Samuel J. Evers. His daughter Alice M. married Rev. D.E. Burtner of the Congregational Church.

EVERS, SAMUEL J.

Born: c1871 married: Katherine Edith White

Died: cMarch 1965 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 491

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1891 quarterly conference license, Frederick (Maryland Conference)

1896 license, Maryland Conference

1896 ordained [simultaneously], Maryland Conference

Interment:

Obit: see the biographical files

1896-1946 Glenbrook Union Memorial Church [Congregational], Stamford CN.

1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UB

1923 transfer to Fairfield County Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers 1923,33

Note: He is the son of Abram M. Evers. There was also a Samuel Evers (c1831-1861) who entered the Virginia Conference in 1857.

EVERS, WILLIAM B.

Born: 1839 Rockingham County VA married:

Died: 11-9-1920 Martinsburg WV obit:

Miller-Raker #: 385 & 490

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1863 quarterly conference license, Whitesels (Rockingham circuit, Virginia Conference)

1866 license, East Des Moines Conference

1869 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Martinsburg WV

Obit: 1921,66

1862-63 Franklin circuit

1863-65 Big Grove circuit, East Des Moines Conference

1865-66 Winchester circuit

1866-67 New Holland, East Pennsylvania Conference

1867 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1867-68 Mount Joy

1868-70 Shamokin

1870-71 Highspire

1871-72 Reading Otterbein

1872-75 Harrisburg Boas Street

1875-77 Phoenixville

1877-78 Greencastle, Pennsylvania Conference

1878 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 5

1879-80 Opequon, Virginia Conference

1880 appears to have located

1889 in Maryland Conference

1889-90 Keedysville

1893-94 Williamsport

1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1903-04 Westernport MD, Virginia Conference

1904 local

EWIG, JACOB

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 146

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1828 license to exhort

1829 license

Interment:

Obit:

1834 withdrew

Note: The German word ewig (everlasting) is pronounced “evich” – and so alternate renderings of this surname might be EVICH or EVICK or EVIG.

EWIG, JAMES

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 111

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1822 license to exhort

1824 license

Interment:

Obit:

Note: The German word ewig (everlasting) is pronounced “evich” – and so alternate renderings of this surname might be EVICH or EVICK.