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GABEL, HENRY S.
Born: 7-31-1860
Died: 4-29-1914 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1933,24
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1882 license, East German Conference
1885 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1881-84 Catawissa
circuit
1885-87 Pinegrove
1887-89
1889-94
1894-01 superintendent, Conference
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-05 superintendent, Eastern District
1905-13 general
secretary, United
1913-14
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 475, gives a brief biography.
GABLE, HENRY EUGENE
Born: 1-8-1926 married: Audrey _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 792
Gibble list: no
1961 license
1965 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1961-64 Rohrersville
1954-69 Yoe Salem
1969-81 Hughesville
Bethany
1990-92 Elizabethville
1992 retired
Note: Henry Gable is the son of Walter Harry Gable and brother of Gladys Gable Lauver, wife of Marlin H. Lauver.
GABLE, JOHN HENRY
Born: 4-25-1916
Died: 10-7-1966 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1938 license, Illinois Conference
1939 ordained, Illinois Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit: Eastern Conference 1967,126
1937-40 Prairie Chapel
1940-44
1944 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1944-45
1945-47 chaplain, US Army
1947-55
1955-56
1956-65
1965 retired
Note: Mrs. Gable is listed as a surviving spouse in the 1969 Eastern Conference, but not in the 1970 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference following the merger. Her fate in not known.
GABLE, MARTIN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1920 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Hebron
Interment:
Obit:
1920-23 Intercourse
Note: Martin L. Gable served with a quarterly conference license under the category “others employed by the conference.”
GABLE, WALTER HARRY
Born: 5-29-1900
Died: 3-6-1974 obit: 1996,412
Miller-Raker #: 740
Gibble list: no
1929 ordained,
Lancaster Conference of the
1952 license
1954 ordained
Interment: Stony Brook Cemetery,
Obit: 1975,159
1929-52 Stony Brook
1952 transferred
to Pennsylvania Conference,
1952-54
1954-57
1957-62
1962-63 Hagerstown Emmanuel, assistant
1963-68 Middleburg-Shiloh
1968 retired
1969-72 Freysville
Note: Walter is the father of Henry Eugene Gable and Gladys Gable Lauver, wife of Marlin H. Lauver.
GAITHER, GOLDEN ALBERT
Born: 10-27-1927 married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 779
Gibble list: no
1949 license, Virginia Conference
1955 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1955-59 Broadway
1959 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1959-61 Greenmount MD
1961-64
1964-68 Dillsburg
1968-71
1971-74 Mapleton yoked parish
1974-88 Yoe Christ
1988-90 Greencastle
1990 retired
interim, Airville McKendree
1996 interim, New Freedom Trinity
GALLAGER, JAMES
Born: married:
Died: 1843? obit:
Miller-Raker #: 226
Gibble list: yes [GALLAGHER]
1838 license
1839 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1843 expelled
Note: James Gallagher was a trustee of the Methodist building at Second and South Streets in Harrisburg from its erection in 1820 until its sale in 1839 to the United Brethren – to which denomination he then switched. See Gibble’s History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 194.
GALLOWAY, WILLIAM T.
Born: 1850 married: Nancy Jane Stiffler [6/28/1881]
Died: 6-17-1927 Norristown PA obit: [10-1-1852 – 1929]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1876 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Norristown PA
Obit:
1874-78 student, Western Pennsylvania Classical and Scientific Institute in Mt. Pleasant PA
1874-77 Braddock Jones Avenue
1877 Donegal Baptist (6 months)
1879 withdrew
1881 Donegal Baptist (Apr 1 – Sept 1)
1881-82 student, Bucknell University
1882-84 student Crozier Seminary
1884-89 Berwick PA
1889-92 Bloomsburg PA
Blakely PA
-1912 Center Square PA
1912- Old Bridge NJ
Note: Even though William T. Galloway received a license from the Allegheny Conference, he apparently was committed to the Baptist denomination and functioned essentially as a supply pastor for the United Brethren while he attended school. The Western Classical and Scientific Institute was a Baptist institution that took over the buildings of the United Brethren’s Mount Pleasant College (1850-58) in 1871. Mrs. Galloway is reported to be a sister to four brothers who were pastors and two sisters who were missionaries – including Baptist preachers James M. Stiffler and William H. Stiffler.
GAMBLER, URIAH
Born: 1-3-1841
Died: 1-11-1920
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 quarterly
conference license,
1878 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1881 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit:
1878-79 Pine Grove circuit
1879-81 Middleburg circuit
1881-82 Susquehanna circuit
1882-85
1885-88 Grantville
1888-89 Tamaqua
1889-90
1890-91 Paxinos circuit
1891-93
1893-94
1894-95
1895-97
1897-10 unemployed for health reasons
1910-11
1911-12 Sinking Spring
1912 retired
GARDNER, JOHN CHARLES
Born: 6-24-1858
Died: 5-4-1934 obit: 1942,33
Miller-Raker #: 423
Gibble list: no
1885 quarterly conference license, Harrisburg Otterbein
1887 license
1891 ordained
Interment: Mechanicsburg PA
Obit: 1934,21
1887-89 Eschol
1889-91 Winterstown
1891 Duncannon (until September)
1891-92 student, Bonebrake Seminary
1892-93
1893-94
1894-96
1896-98
1898-01 Newburg
1901-03 Shiremanstown
1903-05 Duncannon
1905-07 Shippensburg
1907-09 Enola
1909-10 Greencastle & Marion
1910-11 supply
1911-12 Shepherdstown
1012-14
1914-18 Bendersville
1918-20 Rohrersville
1920-22
1922-25
1925-27 Spry
1927 retired
GARLAND, THOMAS
Born: 9-23-1847 Llewellyn PA married: Lucinda Robinson
Died: 3-16-1925 obit: [East Pennsylvania Conf 1922,66]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1871 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1876 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1872-74 Northumberland circuit
1874-76 Catawissa circuit
1876-79 Highspire circuit
1879-81
1881-83 Hummelstown
1883-85 New
1885-87
1887-89 New
1889-90
1890-93 supernumerary, living in Powell’s Valley
1893-95
1895-96 living in Powell’s Valley (apparently dealing with death of son William)
1896-98 Pequea station
1898-00
1900-02 Penbrook
1902-04
1904-05 Lykens
1905-07 Williamstown
1907-10 Refton
1910-12 Cressona
1913-14 living in Penbrook
1914-16
1916 retired in Penbrook
1917-19
1919-21 Cleona-Pleasant Hill
Note:
GARMAN, J.D.A.
Born: 1-22-1818 married:
Died: 10-4-1884 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [GDA GARMAN]
1869 license, East German Conference
1876 ordained, East German Conference
Interment: Kemmerling’s
Obit: East German Conference 1885,12
1867-69 Bellegrove circuit
1868 charter member of East German Conference
1869 Schaefferstown circuit
1869-71 Neffsville Long Memorial
1871-75 ?
1875-77 Hopeland circuit
1877-78
GARMAN, JOHN
Born: 12-5-1825 Upper Strasburg PA married: Margaret E. Ferguson
Died: 11-24-1901 obit: [3/6/1834 – 3/13/1913]
Miller-Raker #: 370
Gibble list: no
1870 quarterly conference license
1872 license
1876 ordained
Interment: Young’s Church,
Obit: 1902,56
1872-75
1875-77 Perry circuit
1877-78
1878-80 Carlisle Springs circuit
1880-84 ?
1884-87 Eschol mission
supernumerary, living in Shermans Dale
Note: John is the father of Sheridan G. Garman. A biographical sketch is given in the 1897 Biographical Encyclopedia of Juniata Valley, page 1103.
GARMAN,
Born: 8-1-1866
Died: 11-29-1912
Miller-Raker #: 464
Gibble list: no
1896 license
Interment:
Obit:
1896-99 York Fourth & York Fifth (resigned during final year to attend seminary)
1899-01 student, Bonebrake Seminary
1901-02
1902 transfer to Wisconsin Conference
1902-03
1903-05 Van Orin IL
1905-06
1906 transfer to Northern Illinois Conference
1906-08 Polo
1908-09
1909-11 Bayliss
1911-12
Note:
GARRETT, PHILIP H.
Born: 1870 married: Mary E. Felts
Died: 1915 obit: [1860 – 1906]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [GARRET]
1889 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Hanoverdale Cemetery, Dauphin County PA
Obit:
1889 Birdsboro Grace (Feb-Oct: short conference year)
1889-90 Pequea circuit
1890 expelled
Note: The Lebanon Daily News for May 20, 1890, states: ‘Rev. P. H. Garrett, the United Brethren preacher who is under indictment for forging the name of Adam E. Good, one of his parishioners, is out on bail. He returned to his circuit on the Welsh Mountain, and endeavored to secure a place to preach, but without success. He said he could convince his people that be is more of a saint than sinner. But the church doors were closed against him, and the Salisbury township school board refused him permission to vindicate himself in the Meadville school house.” The Tyrone Daily Herald for October 7, 1891, states: “A Minister Sentenced. READING, Pa., Oct. 7.—Rev. Philip H. Garrett, an eloquent United Brethren minister was sentenced to serve one year in prison for swindling a friend out of $250. He trembled and wept as sentence was pronounced. Garrett pleaded that his salary was so small that he was unable to support his family on it.”
GARVIN, ARTHUR W.
Born: 1-24-1902 married: Mabel _____
Died: 1-4-1999 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 650
Gibble list: no
1926 license
1932 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1926-29 student, Westminster Theological Seminary
1929-32 faculty,
1930-31
Harmony-Zion,
1931-33
1933-36 supply,
living in
1936-38
1938-62 Taneytown
1962-67 Rayville
1967 retired
1969 transferred to Baltimore Conference
Note: Arthur is the father of Roland E. Garvin.
GARVIN, ROLAND EDWIN
Born: 7-1-1930 married: Sue _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 724
Gibble list: no
1950 license, recommended by Taneytown Messiah
1954 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1953-54 Good Shepherd, youth pastor, Miami Conference
1954-63 Newburg
1984-90 district superintendent, Williamsport District
1990-93
1993 retired
Note: Roland E. Garvin is the son of Arthur W. Garvin.
GATES, LAFAYETTE MARTIN
Born: 11-28-1845 Cambria County PA married: Dionysia [Nish] Smiley
Died: 6-17-1932 Ottawa KS obit: [6/16/1848 – 4/16/1932]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
license, Allegheny Conference
ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Durant IA
Obit:
1869 moved to Iowa
1880 moved back to PA
1881 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1881-82 Three Springs
1882-83 Cooksburg
1884 name erased
moved to Kansas
Note: In 1878 L.M. Gates was a farmer and local United Brethren preachers living in Cedar County IA. He is a brother to Elizabeth M. Gates, second wife of Daniel Strayer. Warning: Lafayette Martin Gates is a contemporary to a different Rev. L.M. Gates who was a Presbyterian pastor in Ottawa IL.
GAUNNT, HOMER EDWARD
Born: 2-16-1907 Swayzee IN married: Marian Esther Head
Died: 3-24-1977 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983,411
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 509
Gibble list: no
1924 quarterly conference license, Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1927 license, Allegheny Conference
1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Grandview Cemetery. Johnstown PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,258
1926-27 Bryant IN, Indiana Conference of the MP Church
1927-29 St. Michael
1929-31 Wilmore
1931-40 Houserville
1940-57 Clearfield Emmanuel
1942-49 Mount Hope
1957-72 Altoona Garden Heights – Lakemont
1972 retired
1972-75 Mount Moriah
GEETING, GEORGE ADAM SR.
Born: 2-6-1741
Died: 6-28-1812 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 3
Gibble list: yes
1783 ordained (by Otterbein & Hendel)
1788 ordination validated, German Reformed Church
Interment:
Obit:
1772-1812 Keedysville
[
1812 bishop (informally elected, he had already presided at several conferences)
Note: This surname is also rendered GUETHING. Holdcraft’s 1939
History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 27, gives a brief biography. George Sr. is the father of George Geeting Jr. and Simon Geeting (of
GEETING, GEORGE ADAM JR.
Born: 2-27-1781 married: Barbara Ann Bishop
Died: 2-5-1842 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 69
Gibble list: yes
1812 license
1816 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1819-20 presiding
elder,
1823-24 presiding elder
1827-28 presiding elder
1830 charter
member of
1831-32 Mechanicstown [Thurmont]
Note: This surname is also rendered GUETHING. George Jr. is the son of George Adam Geeting Jr. and the brother of Simon Geeting
(of
GEIGER, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 11-7-1850
Reading
Died: 2-26-1916 Woodbury County IA obit: [1/?/1852 – c 1920]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1871 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1875 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids IA
Obit:
1870-73
1873-76
1876-78 Harrisburg First (did not finish
second year)
1878 transfer to Philadelphia
Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church
1878-79 New Holland-Bareville
1879-81
1881-82 Guthrieville
1882-84
1884 withdrew
1884
1885-87
1887-89 Harlan IA, Congregational Church
Note: The Clinton Mirror [Iowa] for Mar 29, 1897, states: “Rev. John Wesley Geiger, pastor of the Congregational Church at Marion, who was expelled from the Davenport Association of Congregational Churches, has retained counsel and will bring suit in the District Court of Lynn county for libel and slander against the Davenport Association and those who preferred the charges,”
GEIGER, RUTH see McDANNELL,
RUTH
GEIMAN, MELVIN
Born: 8-2-1918 Chambersburg PA married: A. Lorraine Burkhart
Died: 3-15-2002 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 700
Gibble list: no
1941 quarterly conference license, Chambersburg Park Avenue
1944 license, recommended by Chambersburg Park Avenue
1949 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 2002,359
1941-42
1942-44 Wolfsville-Big Pool
1944-46
1946-48 student, Eastern Baptist Seminary
1948-52 Shermansdale
1952-82
1982 retired
GEISINGER, JACOB
Born: married:
Died: 1807 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 26
Gibble list: yes
1800 license
Interment:
Obit: 1807,5
GEISINGER, JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 73
Gibble list: yes
1813 license to exhort
1814 license
Interment:
Obit:
GEIST, CONRAD GROFF
Born: 2-13-1818 New Hanover PA married: Rachel Linderman
Died: 12-25-1883 obit: [9/4/1818 – 1/14/1898]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1847 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1853 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Pillow PA
Obit: East German Conference 1884,18
1853-55
1855-56
1856 ill health, assists other ministers
GELBACH, HENRY H.
Born: 5-23-1825
Died: 7-8-1886 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1842 quarterly conference license, Jonestown
1854 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1869 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery,
Obit: East German Conference 1886,12
1866-67 Bellegrove circuit
1869 charter member of East German Conference
1869-72
1872-74 superintendent, Lebanon District
1874-76
1877-78 Union Deposit circuit
1878-83 superintendent, Lebanon District
1883 Avon Zion (left in mid-year)
1883-84 superintendent, Lebanon District (started in mid-year)
1884 ceased active work due to ill health
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 454, gives a brief biography.
GEYER, GEORGE
Born: 6-14-1777 married:
Died: 8-5-1859 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 180
Gibble list: yes
1833 license
Interment:
Obit:
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 63, gives a brief biography.
GEYER,
Born: 9-2-1891 Florin PA married: Naomi Longenecker
Died: 4-21-1962 obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf 1976,539
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1915 quarterly conference license, Florin Glosbrenner
1917 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1922 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1917-19 student,
1917-19
1919-22 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH
1919-22
1922-23
1923 transfer to Miami Conference
1923-25
1925 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1925-51
1951-59
1959 retired
1959-62
Note: Harvey K. Geyer is the father of missionary to Africa Janet Geyer Snavely [Mrs. John] and Rev. George Robert Geyer of the Presbyterian Church.
GIBBLE, PHARES BRUBAKER
Born: 6-3-1888
Died: 4-7-1976
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1910 quarterly
conference license,
1911 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: Eastern Conference 1967,132
1910-11 Green Point
1911-13
1913-15 Cleona-Pleasant Hill
1915-18 student, United Theological Seminary
1916
South
1918-23
1923-46
1946-53 Ephrata First
1953-57 Myerstown Zion
1957 retired
GIBSON, JAMES
Born: 10-1-1797 Cherryhill PA married: Mary Griffith [6/1/1818]
Died: 12-20-1844 Cherryhill PA obit: [4/26/1801 – 5/3/1881]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1841 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1845,4
Note: James Gibson apparently functioned as a local pastor and never served under formal appointment.
GILBERT,
Born: 9-24-1801 Chambersburg PA married:
Died: 1-23-1869 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 133 married2:
Gibble list: yes
1828 license
1831 ordained
Interment: Chambersburg PA
Obit: 1870,24
1828-29
1831-33
1833-34
1835-36 Huntingdon circuit
1836-37
1837-39
1839-40
1845-46 Dauphin circuit
1861-62 Shippensburg circuit
Note: Frederick Gilbert is a brother to George Gilbert.
GILBERT, GEORGE
Born: 9-12-1805 married:
Died: 5-2-1870 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 142
Gibble list: yes
1828 license
1832 ordained
Interment: Shiremanstown PA
Obit:
1832-33 Huntingdon circuit
1833-34
1844-45
1845-46
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-48
1848-50 New
1850-51 Dauphin circuit
1851-54 ?
1854-56 Northumberland mission
1856-61
1861-62 New
1862-69
1869-70 living in Shiremanstown
Note: George Gilbert is a brother to Frederick Gilbert.
GILBERT, WILLIAM F.
Born: married: Mary Alice _____
Died: [before 1941] obit: [? – 2/22/1941]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1899 license, Allegheny Conference
1902 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99 Mattawana (
1899-00
1900-02 Cambria
1902-03
1903-05 Mapleton
1905-06 no assignment
1906 honorable discharge
1907 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church
1907-08 McKee’s Gap
1908-09 no assignment
1909-11 Centre-Sandy Ridge
1911-13 Port Matilda
1913-16 Glen Hope
1916-17 Glen Campbell
1917-19 on leave, living in Mapleton Depot
1919 withdrew to join the ministry of another denomination, page 38
GILCHRIST, FRANK B.
Born: 3-11-1909 married: Emily H. Mull
Died: 11-?-1967 Tampa FL obit: Florida Conference 2005,297
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1929 quarterly conference license
1932 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by McKeesport First
1935 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Tampa FL
Obit: Florida Conference 1968,?
1929 McKeesport First (part year)
1931-32 Industry (beginning 5/7/1931)
1932-40 Beaver Falls
1940 Shanksville – Central City (resigned 9/26/1940)
1940-42 Beaver Falls (beginning 10/1/1940)
1942-60 Youngwood (ending 1/1960)
1960-62 Tampa First, Florida Conference
1962 transfer to Florida Conference, page 95
1962-67 Tampa First [Otterbein]
GILES, D.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1866 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Allegheny Conference
1858-59 Loudon Reformed
1866 “transfer” to United Brethren Church
1867 withdrew
Note: D.M. Giles was performing weddings in the Orbisonia area as early as 1864 and as late as 1884 – denomination unknown.
GINGERICH, JOHN SIDEMAN
Born: 10-16-1819 Juniata County PA married: Elizabeth J. Wallis
Died: 11-17-1900 Pasadena CA obit: [1827 – 4/2/1905]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 91
Gibble list: no
1855 license, Allegheny Conference
1857 ordained, Kansas Conference
Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena/Altadena CA
Obit: Neosho 1901,16
1855 “transfer” to Missouri Conference
1855-57 missionary to Kansas
1857 charter member of Kansas Conference
1857-58 Prairie City
1858-59 Lawrence
1859-60 located
1860-61
1861-63 located
1863 chaplain, US Army (Mar-Sep)
1863-68
1868-69 superintendent, South District
1869 charter member of Osage Conference
1881 charter member of Southwest Missouri Conference
1883 transfer to Osage Conference
1885 charter member of Neosho Conference
Los Angeles
Note: John S. Gingerich’s father is a first cousin to Joseph Gingerich and to David Gingrich Jr. His original license was actually issued by the Allegheny Conference in December 1854. Fulton’s listing him with that Conference as “name erased” in 1860 is likely a confusion with Joseph Gingerich. A biographical sketch of John S. Gingerich appears in the 2010 volume of The Chronicle, pages 16-30.
GINGERICH, JOSEPH
Born: 2-7-1802 Dauphin County PA married: Frances Stauffer
Died: 9-12-1872 Centre County PA obit: [1803 – 1873]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 53
Gibble list: no
1843 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment: Gray’s Cemetery, Centre County PA
Obit:
1860 name erased
Note: Joseph Gingerich is the brother of Magdelena Gingrich May, wife of Frederick May, and is a first cousin to David Gingrich Jr and to the father of John S. Gingerich.
GINGRICH, DAVID SR.
Born: 11-22-1768 [or 12/13/1768?] married: Barbara _____
Died: 12-1-1849 obit: [7/18/1773 – 5/?/1838]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1812 license [per Gibble]
Interment: Gingrich family cemetery, near Geyer’s Church in Dauphin County PA
Obit:
Note: David Gingrich Sr is the father of David Gingrich Jr. He ministered locally in upper Lancaster and lower Dauphin counties. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 63, gives a brief biography.
GINGRICH, DAVID JR.
Born: 2-21-1802 married: Mary Rider
Died: 9-4-1874 Mount Joy PA obit: [7/14/1805 – 3/12/1891]
Miller-Raker #: 179
Gibble list: yes
1833 license
1835 ordained
Interment: Herr-Gingrich-Reider Cemetery, Elizabethtown PA
Obit:
1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference
1846-47
1847-49 Dauphin circuit
1849-51
1851-52
Note: David Gingrich Jr is the son of David Gingrich Sr and is a first cousin to Joseph Gingerich
and to the father of John S. Gingerich. He was prominent in the
GINGRICH, JAMES M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1915 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1924 referred
GINGRICH, RAPHAEL A.
Born: 7-14-1909 married: Velma Leota Aud
Died: 5-22-1996 obit: [9/15/1911 – 8/12/2000]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1934 license, East Pennsylvania Conference, recommended by Cleona
Interment:
Obit:
1936 transfer to Indiana Conference, page 23
“transfer” to Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church mission, Evansville IN
Pilgrim Baptist Church, Evansville IN
Note: Raphael A. Gingrich is listed in the denominational yearbook as a licensed preacher of the Indiana Conference living (serving?) in Montgomery IN for several years and then drops from the list in 1942. The 1944 Evansville IN city directory lists him as a Baptist pastor.
GIPPLE, SAMUEL R.
Born: 9-4-1844
Died: 11-24-1892 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1871 license, East German Conference
1881 ordained,
Interment:
Obit:
1870-72 Susquehanna circuit
1872 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1872-74
1874-76 Manheim station
1876-77 Linglestown circuit
1877-80 Catawissa circuit
1880-82 Paxinos circuit
1882-84
1884-86
1886-89
1889 Pequea circuit (Feb-Oct conference year)
1889-91
1891-92 Ruhl’s station
GLASER, WILLIAM KARL
Born: 10-8-1939 married: Jo Ann _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 776
Gibble list: no
1959 license, recommended by Greencastle First
1967 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1959-63
student,
1959-60 Mt. Olivet-Mt.
1963-67 student, United Seminary
1967-79 missionary,
1979 transfer to Kansas West Conference
1979-85
1985-92
1992-02 Haysville
2002 retired
Note: William K. Glaser retired to Parker CO.
GLEN, JOHN STEWART
Born: 9-25-1889
Died: 5-3-1983 Chambersburg PA obit: 1962,45
Miller-Raker #: 581
Gibble list: no
1913 license, recommended by Baltimore Salem
1916 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1983,401
1913-16
1916-22 Enola
1922-30 Shippensburg Messiah
1930-40
1940-49 Red
Lion
1949-58
1958 retired
1959-82 associate,Chambersburg First,
Note: John Stewart Glen is the brother of William Richert Glen.
GLEN, WILLIAM RICHERT
Born: 12-31-1884
Died: 6-4-1942 obit: 1922,71
Miller-Raker #: 547 married2:
Mrs. Flora Schaeffer Schell
Gibble list: no
1908 quarterly conference license, Baltimore Salem
1909 license
1912 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1942,29
1910-14 Rohrersville
1914-20
1920-26
1926-27 leave of absence
1927-33
1933-39 Emigsville
1939-42 Wormleysburg
Note William Richert Glen is the brother of John Stewart Glen.
GLENN, F.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 502
Gibble list: no
? license, West Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1897-98 Kerens
1898-00
1900-02
1902 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1902-03 Myersville
1903 transfer to West Virginia Conference
1903-07 Belington
1907-16 Parsons
1916 apparently left the United Brethren ministry
Note: Apparently F.M. Glenn was serving Myersville as a
member of the West Virginia Conference and got caught in the merger of the
GLICK, JACOB BOICE
Born: 7-11-1880 married:
Died: 8-16-1953 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1909 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1913 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1910-13 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary
1913-14 living
in
1914 transfer to St. Joseph Conference
GOCKLEY, DAVID WOODROW
Born: 10-9-1918 married:
Died: 3-18-2001 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1938 quarterly conference license, Ephrata First
1942 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1945 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1945-48 director
of public relations,
1948-51 director
of religious and social relations,
1951-56
1956-61
1961-74 director of public relations, Religion in American Life
1974-78 executive vice president, Religion in American Life
1978-85 president, Religion in American Life (ending 1/3/85)
1985 National Education Network (beginning 1/3/85)
1985 retired
GOHN, CLAYTON C.
Born: 5-7-1879 Red Lion PA married: Lucy Sherk
Died: 3-30-1938
Miller-Raker #: 504
Gibble list: no
1901 quarterly conference license, York Haven
1902 license
1905 ordained
Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery,
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938,63
student, Union Biblical Seminary
1903-04
1904-08 Wormleysburg
1908-11
1911-12
1912 transfer to East Ohio Conference 1912,56
1912-17
1917-18
1918 transfer to White River Conference
1918-23
1923-24
1924 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1924-31
1931-38
Note: Clayton C. Gohn is the son of Jacob A. Gohn. A copy of the 11/29/19 Telescope in the Dallastown church file includes brief biographical sketches of Rev. and Mrs. J.A. Gohn.
GOHN, JACOB A.
Born: 10-2-1853 East Prospect PA married: Anna Mary Blockinger
Died: 6-14-1928
Miller-Raker #: 448
Gibble list: no
1889 quarterly conference license, Dallastown
1891 license
1897 ordained
Interment: UB Cemetery, Spry PA
Obit: 1928,71
1891-94 Duncannon
1894-97 student,
Union Seminary [
1897 Joslin,
1897-98 Polo,
1898-02
1902-07
1907-11
1911-13 Spry
1913-14
1914-18
1918-19 Mechanicsburg
1919-25 Dillsburg
1925-26 Boiling Springs
1926 retired, membership at York Third
Note: Jacob A. Gohn is the father
of Clay C. Gohn.
He is the son of Rev. George Gohn , a local
preacher in the
GOOD, DAVID JAY
Born: 5-12-1872 Dayton OH married: Pearl Myers
Died: 11-30-1939 Klamath Falls OR obit: Allegheny Conference 1912,91
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Rachel Emma Applegate
Fulton #: 348 obit2: [11/?/1887 – 6/15/1955]
Gibble list: no
? license
1914 ordained, White River Conference
Interment: IOOF Cemetery Klamath Falls OR
Obit:
1898-00 staff, Otterbein College in Westerville OH
1906 "transfer" to Allegheny Conference
1906-08 Altoona Third
1908-09 Braddock Jones Avenue
1909-13 Braddock First
1913-14 Anderson IN, White River Conference
1914 transfer to White River Conferencea
1914-17 Indianapolis First
1917 transfer to Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1917-18 Indianapolis Fletcher Place and City Missions
1918-19 Hartford, Michigan Conference
1919 transfer to Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1919-20 Hartford
1920 (no appointment)b
1921 permitted to withdraw under charges or complaints
1925 Dayton OH Patterson Memorial Presbyterian Church
school administrator, Klamath County OR
aIt is not clear whether this formal transfer of credentials was ever completed.
b"The case of D.J. Good was referred to the District Superintendent for investigation."
Note: David J. Good is believed to be the son of Rev. Solomon Good (1845-c1911) of the Brethren in Christ Church in Bachman OH. It appears he preferred the form D. Jay Good while in the United Brethren Church, and David J. Good after 1917.
GOOD, JOHN DANIEL
Born: 1-29-1885 Harrisonburg VA married: Rachel Virginia Seneff
Died: 9-17-1968 Quincy PA obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1956,28
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 415
Gibble list: no
1914 quarterly conference license
1915 license, Allegheny Conference
1918 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1969,28]
1914-17 New Florence
1917-20 Hollsopple
1920-22 Johnstown Barron Avenue
1922-26 Mount Pleasant
1926-27 Scottdale
1927-31 Greensburg
1931-37 Altoona First
1937-40 McKeesport Shoemaker Memorial
1940-51 Johnstown First
1951-57 Pitcairn
1957 retired
Note: John D. Good is a brother to William D. Good and Charles Martin Good (1876-19730, once a member of the Virginia Conference. He was the host pastor for the 1946 uniting conference that created the Evangelical United Brethren denomination. Mrs. Good is the daughter of Michael B.L. Seneff. One source identifies Mrs. Good as the former Mrs. Grace Wentz, which we believe to be incorrect.
GOOD, MICHAEL
Born: married:
Died: 1856 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
GOOD, WILLIAM DANIEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1922 quarterly conference license, Middleburg
1923 license, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1922-23 Dunlevy (resigned 10/29/1922)
1923-25 without appointment
1925 dropped
GOOD, WILLIAM DAVID
Born: 10-10-1873 Dale Enterprise VA married: Mary Elizabeth Harrison
Died: 11-7-1952 Quincy PA obit: [1/15/1890 – 9/30/1950]
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: 447
Gibble list: no
1900 quarterly conference license
1902 license, Virginia Conference
1906 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Shanghai WV
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1953,21
1901-02 Albemarle
1902-06 student, Otterbein University
1906-08 Shenandoah
1908-09 Berkeley Springs
1909-11 Westernport
1911-12 Jones Springs
1912-14 Swoope
1914-16 Pendleton
1916-19 Riverton
1919 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1919 Westmoreland
1919-21 Ligonier
1921-22 Casselman
1922-24 Knoxdale
1924-26 Hooversville
1926-28 Rochester Mills
1928-34 Wall
1934-35 Altoona Garden Heights
1935-36 Zion
1936-39 New Florence
1939-41 Industry
1941 retired
Note: This middle name is sometimes given as DANIEL. William D. Good is a brother to John D. Good and to Charles Martin Good (1876-1973) of the Virginia Conference.
GOODLING, ISAAC
Born: married: Catherine Gelnett
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes [J. GOODLING]
1882 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1882-83
1882-83 Freeburg circuit (last part of year)
1884 dropped
Note: Isaac Goodling was a farmer near Freeburg,
Born: 4-10-1855 Aristes PA married: Mary Ann Harris
Died: 12-3-1932 obit: [11/20-1860 – 8/27/1935]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1884 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1891 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889-92 Susquehanna circuit
1892-98 Catawissa
1898-07 Shamokin circuit
1907-10 Lykens circuit
1910-11
1911-15 Catawissa circuit
1915-27 Tremont
1927-32 Shamokin circuit
1932 retired
Note: Benjamin F. Goodman is the grandfather (via son Burt Harris Goodman) of Chester O. Goodman. Mrs. Goodman is the daughter of Mathias W. Harris (1837-1887) and brother of William S. Harris (1865-1956), both of the Evangelical Church.
GOODMAN,
Born: 11-28-1911 Sunbury PA married: Martha Ruth Schaum
Died: 12-26-1957 obit: [10/4/1912 – 6/6/1998]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Edna Marie Mewhirter
Gibble list: yes
1929 quarterly conference license
1931 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1938 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit: [see biographical files]
1935-37 missionary, Freetown West Africa
1937-38 student, Bonebrake Seminary
1938-41 Hummelstown circuit
1941-43
1943 transfer to Oregon Conference
1943 Salem Englewood (ending 10/1/43)
1946-48
1950 withdrew
Note:
GOODWIN, WILLIAM M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1891 license, Walla Walla Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1891-92
1892 transfer to California Conference
1892-93 Brooks
1893-94
1894 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1894-97
1897-99 living
in Blue Rock,
1899 honorable dismissal
Note: William M. Goodwin is listed as the statistical secretary for the 1892 Walla Walla Conference.
GOSS, HOWARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1932-42 Mount Hope (beginning 3/5/1932)
Note: Howard Goss is listed under "others employed" by the conference. He is otherwise unknown.
GOSS,
Born: 11-8-1913
Died: 5-29-1984 obit: Central Pennsylvania (Methodist) Conference 1946, 237
Miller-Raker #: no married2: Marjorie Jean Cook
Fulton #: no obit2:
Gibble list: no
1935 quarterly conference license, Altoona Second
1936 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Altoona Second
1937 ordained
1941 ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church
1943 ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church
Interment:
Obit: New York Conference 1984, 267
student,
1936-40 student,
Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in
1937 East Pittsburgh (ending 10/25/1937)
1940-41
1941 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
1941-43 Bakerton (beginning 11/15/41)
1943-46 Howard
1946-47 Flemington
1951-54 Hollidaysburg First
1954-60 chaplain,
1956-59 Bakerton
1959-60
1960 re-admitted to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1960-61
1961 Renovo
1961 transfer to New York East Conference East
1961-68 executive
director, Methodist Home for the Aged in
1968-74 executive director, United Methodist Homes of CT, Inc.
1974- president, UM Retirement Homes of CT, Inc.
Note: Roy A. Goss apparently never served under appointment in the United Brethren Church. He is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in The Methodist Church, page 490.
GOSSARD, GEORGE DANIEL
Born: 11-26-1868 near Greencastle PA married: Florence Elizabeth Huber
Died: 4-17-1932 obit: 1903,18
Miller-Raker #: 465 married2:
Ella Augusta Plitt
Gibble list: no
1888 quarterly conference license, Middleburg [State Line] (Maryland Conference)
1897 license
1898 ordained
Interment: Louden
Obit: 1932,22
1897-99
1899-02 Shippensburg
1902-12
1912-32 president,
Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 319, gives a brief biography.
GOSWEILER, A.V.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1872-73 New Holland circuit
1873-74 Steelton Centenary
1874-75
1880 withdrew
GOTTSCHALL, LEWIS DOUGLAS
Born: 7-10-1894 Mount Carmel PA married: Mary Ann Parcels
Died: 1-25-1982
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
quarterly conference license, Lebanon Trinity
1915 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1916-18 Allentown Grace
1918-20 Linglestown circuit
1920-22 chaplain, US Navy
1922 withdrew
settled
in
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GOTTWALD, DANIEL
Born: 12-16-1793
Died: 3-11-1843 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 121
Gibble list: yes
1825 license
1830 license, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination
1831 ordained, Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination
Interment:
Obit:
1828-30 student, Gettysburg Seminary
1830 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran denomination
1830-38
1838-43 Aaronsburg
Note: Wentz’ 1926 History of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, page 367, gives a brief biography. Daniel Gottwald gave 3 sons, a grandson and a great-grandson to the Lutheran ministry – see Stump and Anstadt’s 1925 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod (Lutheran), pages 179 & 190.
GOTWALT, ALFRED KENNETH
Born: 2-8-1916
Died: 2-17-2000 State College PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: 725
Gibble list: no
1950 license,
recommended by
1960 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 2000,343
1949-50
1950-56 Mt.
Olivet-Mt.
1956-58 living in Hellam
1958-71 Orrtanna (beginning 1/12/1958; 1958,59)
1971-86
1986 retired
Note: Alfred Gotwalt is an uncle to Tina Rockwell, wife of William Keith Rockwell.
GRABILL, S.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1877-78 Ephrata station, East Pennsylvania Conference
Note: S.R. Grabill was apparently
a local preacher. He was instrumental in
starting the Lancaster Covenant congregation in 1884. See Gibble’s 1951
History of the
GRAHAM, GEORGE LAVENGOOD
Born: 7-9-1870 married:
Died: 3-29-1927 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1894 license, East Ohio Conference
1902 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: East Ohio Conference 1927,63
1901 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1901-04 Philipsburg
1904-07 Altoona First
1907-11 Mt. Pleasant
1911 transfer to Sandusky Conference
1915 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1915-16 Philipsburg
1916-19 Wilkinsburg
1919 transfer to East Ohio Conference
Note: G.L. Graham is a 1900 graduate of Otterbein University.
GRANT, JAMES G.
Born: 8-12-1832 Margate, England married:
Died: 2-12-1895 obit: [d. 7/25/1895]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1860 license, Allegheny Conference
1861 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit: Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church 1895, 65
1859-61 Allegheny
1861-62 Washington
1862-63 (not listed)
1863-64 Curwensville
1864-66 Ligonier
1866-67 Bellefonte
1867 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference of the “Methodist Church” [?]
1868-69 Hooversville Reformed
1870 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church
1870-71 Hooversville
1871-73 Zion’s Valley
Note: James Grant is reported to have credentials with the Pittsburgh Conference of “Methodist Church” dated 9/8/1868, but he joined the Reformed church in 1870 on his credentials from the United Brethren Church. His obituary states “during the latter years of his life he was without a charge” and was “granted permission to engage in secular work.”
GRANTZ, GOTTLIEB
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: 257
Gibble list: yes
1841 license
Interment:
Obit:
1843 withdrew
GRAUL, AMOS
Born: 10-3-1831
Died: 12-5-1902 Pinegrove PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Mrs. Elmira Miller
Gibble list: yes
1872 license, East German Conference
1875 ordained, East German Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1870-71 Sunday School Missionary
1871-72 Middleburg circuit
1872-73 Susquehanna circuit
1873-73 Freeburg circuit
1874-76
1876-77 Tamaqua station
1877-79 Swatara circuit
1879-80 Conewago circuit
1880-82
1882-83 Schuylkill Haven station
1883-89 superintendent
1899-92
1892-94
1894-95 Lykens
1895-96 Ebenezer
1896-98
1898-99 located
1899-01 Pinegrove
1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1901-02 Pinegrove
1902 West
Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 454, gives a brief biography.
GRAYBILL, JOHN H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1874-75 Steelton
Centenary,
GREEN, JOHN
Born: 12-17-1884
Died: 1-23-1960
Miller-Raker #: 546
Gibble list: no
1907 quarterly conference license, Baltimore Otterbein Memorial
1908 license
1911 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1960,43
1909-11 Sabillasville (did not finish 2nd year)
1911
1911-13 Duncannon
1913-15 Lemoyne
1915-18
1918-20 Walkersville
1920-24 Thurmont
1924-38
1938-45
1945-56
1956 retired
GREEN, JOHN R.
Born: 7-26-1827
Died: 8-20-1883 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 369
Gibble list: no
1872 license
Interment: Dallastown PA
Obit: 1884,21
1872-73 assistant, Littlestown circuit
1873-74
Note: His obituary states he primarily as a local pastor on
GREENBLADE, HENRY.
Born: 1804 married:
Died: 7-26-1887 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 297
Gibble list: no
1851 license
1860 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1851-53
1853-54
1855 transfer
Note: The UB Yearbook places him in
GREGORY, DAVID T.
Born: 7-16-1889 married: Margaret Broy
Died: 12-27-1956 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1915 license, Virginia Conference
1920 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: Virginia Conference 1957,15 & 18
1915-17 student,
1916-17
1917-20 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary
1920-21 associate editor, Religious Telescope
1921-22 director, United Enlistment Movement of the Board of Administration
1922-26 president,
1926 transfer
to Miami Conference
1936-37 superintendent, Miami Conference
1937-50 executive secretary, Board of Administration
1950 elected bishop
Note: Following the death of Samuel B. Wengert on 12/2/1916, David T. Gregory finished the conference year at Lebanon Bethany.
GRENZEBACH, JACOB C.
Born: 5-21-1871 Zorra, Ontario Canada married: Georgia Johanna Staebler
Died: 9-27-1931 obit: New York Conference of the EUB Church 1955,68
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1900 license, Ontario Conference
ordained, Ontario Conference
Interment: Trinity UMC Cemetery, Grand Island [Erie County] NY
Obit: New York Conference of the Evangelical Church 1932,49
1897-01
1901-02 LaJose, Allegheny Conference
1902 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1902-04 LaJose
1904-06 Waukesha
1906-08 Dubois
1908 transfer to New York Conference of the Evangelical Asssociation
1908-12 Grove
1912-17 Webster
1917-20 Amsterdam
1920-27 Syracuse
1927-28 Rochester Bethany
1928-31 Grand Island
Note: Jacob C. Grenzebach is the father of Rev. Eldon V. Grenzebach (1899-1938) of the Presbyterian Church. An obituary also appears in the 10/31/1931 Evangelical-Messenger.
GRIER, JOSEPH A.
Born: 1853 Elverson PA married:
Died: 1935 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment: St. Mark’s Episcopal Cemetery, Honey Brook township, Chester County PA
Obit: Reading Times April 27, 1935
1894-97 Birdsboro Grace
1909-01 Elverson (beginning 7/1/01)
Note: Professor J.A. Grier was a local pastor within the Birdsboro congregation. He taught school, for several years was associated with Stoner’s Business College in Reading, and served for 11 years as supervising principal of the Birdsboro schools.
GRIMM,
Born: 1-6-1817
Died: 2-11-1888 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 259
Gibble list: yes
1842 license
1846 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1888,30
1848-50
1850-52
1852-53 considering transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1853-56
1856-58
1858-59 York Springs circuit
1859-70 ?
1870-73
1873-76
GRIMM, JACOB LUTHER
Born: 11-27-1842 Rohrersville MD married: Mary Ellen Harp
Died: 8-22-1905 obit: 1946,33
Miller-Raker #: 406
Gibble list: no
1867 license, Virginia Conference
1869 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1905,73
Gibble list: no
1867-68 Boonsboro circuit
1868-69 ?
1869-71 Rockingham circuit
1871-73 ?
1873-75 Chewsville
1875-80 ?
1880-81 Boonsboro circuit
1881-83
1883 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1883-84
1887-89 editor “The Weekly Itinerant” & manager Eastern UB Book/Publishing House
1889-98
1898-02 presiding elder, Baltimore District
1902-04 New
Note: Jacob Luther Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to William Otterbein Grimm and John Wesley Grimm. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.
GRIMM, JAMES LOWER
Born: 4-12-1869 married: Lillie Mae Appenzellar
Died: 7-25-1933 obit: 1933,20
Miller-Raker #: 430
Gibble list: no
1886 quarterly conference license, New Cumberland
1888 license
1891 ordained
Interment:
Obit: 1933,21
1888-89 Greencastle
1889-91 Newville
1891-93
1893-98 Red Lion circuit
1898-01
1901-02
1902-09
1909-16
1916-22 Shippensburg
1922-27
1927-33 Spry
Note: J. Lower Grimm is the son of John Wesley Grimm. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Grimm is the daughter of local preacher Henry Appenzellar.
GRIMM, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 6-24-1839 married: Elizabeth Catherine Hoffman
Died: 2-15-1921 obit: 1931,41
Miller-Raker #: 380
Gibble list: no
1861 quarterly conference license, Rohrersville (Virginia Conference)
1863 license, Virginia Conference
1864 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Obit: 1921,68
1862-66
1866-68 Churchville circuit
1868-69
1869-71 South Branch circuit
1871-73
1873-75 Lacey Springs circuit
1875-76 Newburg circuit, Pennsylvania Conference
1876 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3
1876-78 Newburg circuit
1878-80 Alto Dale circuit [Mont Alto]
1880-82 Shopp’s station
1882-85 Highspire
1885-89 New
1887-88 Yocumtown (part year 1888,15)
1889-90 Rocky Springs circuit
1890-92 Boiling Springs circuit
1892-95
1895-98 Winterstown
1898-01 West
1901-02 Springet
1902-05 Spring Grove
1905-09 Boonsboro
1909-21 Judge
Fahs Union
Note: J. Wesley Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to William Otterbein Grimm and Jacob Luther Grimm. He is the father of J. Lower Grimm and Nellie Virginia Grimm Shue, wife of Allen Clayton Shue (1880-1962) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography. Mrs. Grimm’s sister is married to Rev. Abram S. Hammack of the Virginia Conference.
GRIMM, JOSEPH S.
Born: 5-8-1812 married:
Died: 3-10-1892 Rohrersville MD obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1841 license, Virginia Conference
1847 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Rohrersville MD
Obit:
1887 charter member of Maryland Conference
Note: Joseph S. Grimm is the father of Jacob Luther Grimm, John Wesley Grimm and William Otterbein Grimm.
GRIMM, WILLIAM OTTERBEIN
Born: 7-14-1837 near Rohrersville MD married: Martha Ann Mullendore
Died: 8-24-1896 obit: 1929,21
Miller-Raker #: 411
Gibble list: no
1865 license, Virginia Conference
1865 ordained, Virginia Conference
Interment: Rohrersville MD
Obit: 1897,36
1864-66 teacher
of “freed men” at
1866-68 ?
1868-69 Boonsboro circuit
1869-70 ?
1870-71 Boonsboro circuit
1871-72
1872-73 Boonsboro circuit
1873-75 Churchville circuit
1875-77 Rockingham circuit
1877-78 Edenburg circuit
1878-80 presiding elder, Potomac District
1880-81 Keedysville station
1881-82 Rohrersville
1882-84 agent, United Seminary
1884 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1884-85 Littlestown circuit
1885-87
1887-89
1889-91 Bendersville
1891-95 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]
1895-96
1896 retired
Note: William Otterbein Grimm is the son of Joseph S. Grimm and a brother to John Wesley Grimm and Jacob Luther Grimm. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 294, gives a brief biography.
Born: 5-18-1851 near Intercourse PA married: Mary C. Ranck
Died: 2-11-1940 obit: [d. 11/28/1920]
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1873 quarterly conference license, Ranck’s
1875 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1897 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1875-76
1876-77
1877-78 Ephrata station
1879-80
1880 Intercourse (following the 7/16/1880 death of Jeremiah S. Riddle)
1894-95
GROFF, JOHN HOWRY
Born: 12-8-1843 married: Elizabeth Kurtz
Died: 3-21-1910 obit: [12/29/1841 – 11/29/1873]
Miller-Raker #: no married2:
Sarah C. Eckert [11/15/1877]
Gibble list: yes
1874 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1873-75 New Holland circuit
1881 referred
Note: John H. Groff is the grandson of Rev. Hans Howry (1769-1829) of the
GROFF, MARTIN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
Interment:
Obit:
1900-01 Manor circuit (beginning 4/1/01)
1901-03
1904-05
1910-20 Manor circuit
Note: Martin Groff was a local pastor in the East Pennsylvania Conference.
GROFF, MICHAEL B.
Born: 10-24-1864 New Providence PA married: Annie Martin
Died: 7-2-1939 obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1907 quarterly conference license
1917 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1916-22 Pequea circuit
1922-26
1926-30 Manor circuit
1930-35 Hopeland
1935 retired
GROH, ISAAC W.
Born: 12-30-1855
Died: 9-2-1947 obit: Allegheny Conference 1935,58
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1889 license, Ontario Conference
1993 ordained, Ontario Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1889-93
1893-99 conference superintendent
1906-07 LaJose, Allegheny Conference
1907 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1907-08 LaJose
1908 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1912 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1912-15 Orbisonia
1915-18
1918-21
1921-24 Shanksville
1924-26 Wilmore
1926 retired to Huntingdon
Note: The 1908
transfer to the East Pennsylvania Conference notes that Isaac W. Groh “does not
expect to enter the active ministry of our Conference” (page 8). It is unclear what vocation he pursued
1899-1906 and 1908-12. He retired to
Huntingdon in 1926 and moved to live with his daughter in
GROSH, CHRISTOPHER
Born: 1-12-1749 married: Ann Maria Ranck
Died: 4-16-1829 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 13
Gibble list: yes
1789 license
Interment: Ranck’s Church, New Holland PA (originally buried on family farm across the road)
Obit:
1812-13 north side of Susquehanna circuit
Note: One of the “founding fathers,” Grosh was Moravian and added that influence to the Reformed and Mennonite background of the others. Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 31, gives an extended biographical sketch. Among his descendants are the Weidman and Ranck pastors of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Drury’s 1924 History of the United Brethren in Christ, page 157, gives a brief biography of Grosh and the others listed in connection with the historic conference of 1789.
GROSS, G.D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1876 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1876-78 Monocacy circuit
1878 withdrew
GROSZ, WILLIAM GEORGE
Born: 3-4-1907
Died: 5-17-1971
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1929 quarterly conference license, Philadelphia Mt. Pisgah
1930 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1935 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1929-31
1931-35 associate,
Philadelphia First [
1935-37 Brunnerville-Newton
1937-42 Williamstown
1942-48 Union circuit
1948-61
1961-71 Brunnerville
GROVES, JAMES ANDREW
Born: 12-16-1860 Middletown IN married: Melvina Louisa Gaskill
Died: 10-7-1843 Westerville OH obit: St. Joseph Conference 1930,75
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1883 license, St. Joseph Conference
? ordained, St. Joseph Conference
Interment: IOOF Cemetery, Bourbon IN
Obit: [none?]
1889-92 student, Bonebrake Theological Seminary
1890-91 Dayton Home Avenue
1903-04 Greensburg, Allegheny Conference
1904 transfer to Allegheny Conference
1904-05 Greensburg
1905 transfer to St. Joseph Conference
Lafayette
superintendent, West District
1930 retired
GRUBB, DAVID
Born: 5-18-1797 Perry County PA married: Margaret Ewig
Died: 7-3-1863 Liverpool PA obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1843 license, Allegheny Conference
1846 ordained
Interment: Liverpool PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1864,9
Note: David Grubb lived in Liverpool and worked as an undertaker and cabinet maker. He never served under appointment, but he preached and performed weddings as an active local pastor.
GRUBER, CHARLES BARTHOLOMEW
Born: 3-6-1860 married:
Died: 5-25-1940 obit:
Miller-Raker #: 434
Gibble list: no
1882 license, Allegheny Conference
1885 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1883-84 Brookville [Knoxdale]
1884-87
1887-88 living in Annville PA
1888-89 Baltimore Woodberry mission [Otterbein Memorial], Pennsylvania Conference
1889 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1890 name erased 1890,11
1921 reappears in UB Yearbook as member of West Virginia Conference
living in
GRUMBLING, CHRISTIAN
Born: 1-3-1796 York County married: Catherine Heindell
Died: 9-5-1865 obit: [d. 1834]
Miller-Raker #: 145 [CRUMBLING] maried2: Julia Myers
Fulton #: 27 obit2: [1/29/1800 – 3/25/1885]
Gibble list: yes [CRUMLING]
1829 license
1838 ordained
Interment: Fry Cemetery, Brush Valley [Indiana County] PA
Obit: Allegheny Conference 1866,5 [GRUMLING]
1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference
Note: Christian Grumbling is an older brother to Jonathan Grumbling. This surname is also rendered CRUMLING, CRUMBLING, GRAMLING and GRAMBLING. Grumbling is the spelling that appears on the tombstone.
GRUMBLING, E.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
license
ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1895-96 Elk
1896-97 Millheim
1897-98 Shade Gap
Note: E.H Grumbling served in the Allegheny Conference under “others employed in the conference.” Nothing more is known about this person.
GRUMBLING, JONATHAN
Born: York County married: Mary _____
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1841 license, Allegheny Conference
1844 ordained, Allegheny Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1848-49 Mahoning mission
Note: Jonathan Grumbling is a younger brother to Christian Grumbling.
GUINIVAN, THOMAS WILLIAM
Born: married: Irene Lenore Schwalm
Died: obit: 1997,383
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: yes
1938 quarterly
conference license,
1939 license, East Pennsylvania Conference
1942 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1939-42 student, United Theological Seminary
1942-44 Hummelstown circuit
1944-47 chaplain, US Navy
1947-53
1953-73 Hershey First
1973-78 superintendent, York District
1978-83
1983 retired
GWYNN, CHARLES W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Miller-Raker #: no
Gibble list: no
1911 quarterly conference license
1919 license, Colorado Conference
1920 ordained, Colorado Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 Peublo
1919-20 Niwot
1920-22 [Baptist Church]
1922 “transfer” to Allegheny Conference
1922-23 Orbisonia
1923-25 Belsano
1925-27 Dunlo
1927-28 Industry-Sewickley
1928-30 Sewickley
1930-31 Windber
1931-32 Jeannette
1932-34 Everson
1934-36 Knoxdale
1936-37 Mahaffey (ending 10/25/1937)
1937-39 East Pittsburgh (beginning 10/25/1937)
1939-40 New Florence
1940 Runville (ending 10/25/1940)
1940-41 Hollsopple (beginning 10/25/1940)
1941-44 without appointment
1944 united with another denomination, page 96