Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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

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JACKSON, WILLIAM ANDREW

Born: 12-31-1828 Pleasant Mill VA married: Alice Snook

Died: 1-20-1910 obit: [9-15-1839 to 8-10-1894]

Miller-Raker #: 333

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1858 quarterly conference license, Winchester circuit

1860 license, Virginia Conference

1863 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Bruceville [Keymar] MD [or Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Ladiesburg MD?]

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1910,85
1859-60 Frederick circuit

1860-61 Hagerstown circuit

1861 Augusta circuit (did not finish the year)

1861-62 Shade Gap circuit, Allegheny Conference

1862-63 ?

1863 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1863-64 Shippensburg circuit

1864-65 St. Thomas circuit

1865 transfer

1866 preaching in Illinois

1868 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1869 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1869-71 New Paris

1871-72 ?

1872-73 presiding elder

1873-74 presiding elder, East District

1874-75 Westmoreland circuit

1875-77 served in Washington County PA

1877-80 ?

1880-82 New Paris

1882-83

1883-85 presiding elder, Johnstown District

1885-86 Somerset

1886-88 Rockwood

1888-89 Port Matilda

1889-91 Stormstown (resigned 12/90)

1891-93 withdrew to serve another denomination 1891,13

1893-95 New Paris

1895-96 Hustontown

1896-97 Middletown

1897-98 Barren Run

1898-00 Berlin

1900-01 living in Glen Savage

1901-02 Hustontown

Eschol

1904-05 Hilliard

1905 retired

Note: William A. Jackson is the son of David Jackson of the Virginia Conference.

JACOBS, JEREMIAH

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1853 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1854-55 Lebanon circuit

1856 transfer to

JAMIESON, R.E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 298

Gibble list: no

? license, Ontario Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1900-01 Liverpool, Allegheny Conference

1901 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1901-02 Liverpool

1902-03 Mapleton Depot

1903-05 Woodland

1905-08 Pitcairn

1908-09 Monessen

1909 transfer to Iowa Conference

1909-10 Bristow

JARRELL, J. TEMPLE

Born: 6-25-1911 Kennedyville MD married: Esther Romaine Daugherty

Died: 7-14-1955 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 2010,165

Miller-Raker #: 670

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1932 license, recommended by Baltimore Salem

1937 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Rest Haven Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955,38

1933-34 Mt. Horeb, Virginia Conference

1934-37 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1935-36 assistant, Fort McKinley in the Miami Conference

1937-55 Spring Run

1955 executive secretary, York County Council of Churches

Note: Mrs. Jarrell is the daughter of George C. Daugherty.

JEFFRIES, CYRUS

Born: 6-6-1812 near Nossville PA married: Catharine Kidlinger

Died: 8-12-1877 Williamstown NJ obit:

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Margaret Clayton

Fulton #: 71 obit2:

Gibble list: no

1850 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Mount Union PA

Obit:

1866 irregularly withdrawn

identified with Spiritualism

Note: A biographical sketch of and further information on Cyrus Jeffries is on file at the conference archives. He is the namesake of the famed Cyrus Jeffries Kephart of the United Brethren Church. He apparently was very charismatic and a little eccentric. Writing of the early 1870's, Methodist Emory M. Stevens says: "There was a man living a few miles from Burnt Cabins by the name of Cyrus Jeffries. He had been a presiding elder in the United Brethren Church and had left them because they had not elected him bishop. He had organized a cult of his own and had a considerable number of followers throughout the region." He was first associated with the Methodist Protestant Church, and was a delegate from the Indiana Conference to their 1846 General Conference. He was also involved in newspapers and other enterprises and is the author of the 1856 book Drama of the American Revolution.

JENANYAN, HARUTUNE S.

Born: 4-25-1858 Marash, Armenia married: _____ Ruliffson

Died: 9-25-1907 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1887 ordained, Presbyterian Church

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1907,36

1887 graduated Union Theological Seminary

1888-95 principal (and founder), St. Paul’s Institute in Tarsus,

1895-97 principal (and founder), The Apostolic Institute in Iconium

1897-00 living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

1900 transfer to East German Conference of the United Brethren Church

1900-01 living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-07 living in Philadelphia (evangelist and missionary fundraiser)

Note: Mrs. Jenanyan is the daughter of Rev. A.G. Ruliffson, who founded the Bowery Mission in NYC in 1879. The following account appears in Ernest K. Emurian’s 1959 Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs, page 61.

In 1891, when my grandfather, Rev. Harutune S. Jenanyan, took his wife and little daughter on a perilous and dangerous missionary journey from Tarsus, Asia Minor, the city of St. Paul, to Sivas in Armenia, they travelled on horseback through robber-infested country for fourteen days. Two of the leading robber chiefs on that territory were Chollo, whose “name cast terror on every side” since he had successfully evaded pursuing Government forces for many months, and Kara Agha, a famous Koorish chief, whose name caused even the fearsome Chollo to tremble. Harutune took his small party directly into the heart of Kara Agha’s country, telling those he met enroute that he was going to be Agha’s guest in his own village. When they reached the brigand’s headquarters, the missionary asked that they be received as guests for the night. The surprised robber chief gave them accommodations, entertaining Harutune in his own spacious tent while his wife, Helene, and their little daughter, Grace were cared for in another tent by the women of the village. The next morning, before taking their leave, the missionary asked for permission to read a portion of the Holy Scripture, and then offered a prayer. Seeing that the chief was somewhat affected, he then said, “Do you wish to have the little child sing for you?” The chief replied, “Oh yes; can she?” Then little Grace, only three-and-a-half years old, came forward and stood before the tall old man and sang two songs she had recently learned in the Sunday School in Tarsus, singing them in the native tongue, “Jesus loves me, this I know” and “I want to be an angel”. The chief was so deeply touched, that he sent his own son, Bekkeer Agha, mounted on a handsome Arabian steed, to lead the small missionary party through the rest of his territory.

JOHN, LEWIS FRANKLIN

Born: married: Lulu Maude Kephart

Died: 1-8-1938 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit: St. Joseph Conference 1938,60

Parkersburg Conference

1892 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1892-94 Johnstown Vine Street

1894-97 Johnstown First

1897-99 college pastor, Westerville OH

1899 open transfer

1901-08 faculty, Lebanon Valley College

1908 Shiremanstown (April – Oct)

transfer to Nebraska Conference

1917-18 faculty, York College

transfer to St. Joseph Conference

retired, living in Chicago

Note: Rev. John is the author of the 1907 biography of his father-in-law Ezekiel Boring Kephart. He is a brother-in-law of LVC President Hervin Ulysses Roop, who married the other daughter of E.B. Kephart.

JOHNSON, JOHN HENRY

Born: 11-2-1862 Montgomery County PA married:

Died: 7-12-1898 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1891 quarterly conference license, Lebanon Memorial

1892 license, East German Conference

1895 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Schwenksville

Obit: East German Conference 1898,29

1892-98 Allentown Zion

JOHNSON, RAY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Johnstown First

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Ray Johnson apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained. He is otherwise unknown.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL M.

Born: 1872 Cambria County PA married: Viola K. Mauk

Died: 10-4-1961 Ebensburg PA obit: Western Pennslyvania Conference 1959,30

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 387

Gibble list: no

1909 quarterly conference license

1911 license, Allegheny Conference

1914 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Belsano PA

Obit: [Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962,37]

1909-12 Dunlevy

1912-15 Houserville

1915-22 Belsano

1922-25 Madison

1925-28 Milton

1928-29 Altoona Grace

1929 retired

JOHNSON, W.E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1894-95 Lancaster circuit

JOHNSON, W.J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

Westerville OH

1891-93 Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1893-96 Greencastle IN

Note: W.J. Johnson was a member of the Indiana Conference.

JONES, CHARLES TURNER

Born: 3-30-1873 Cambridge MD married: Emma Grace Lissel

Died: 8-28-1932 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 532

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1901 license, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1901,14

1902 deacon, local pastor Baltimore Conference ME Church 1902,58

1904 ordained, page 63

Interment:

Obit: Wilmington Conference ME 1933,113

1892-97 student, Dickinson College

1897-98 Greencastle Central Pennsylvania Conference ME (ending fall 1897)

1897-00 student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1903 “transfer” to North Indiana Conference ME Church

1903-04 Thurmont, Pennsylvania Conference UB Church

1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference UB Church, page 32

1904-05 Thurmont, resigned 5/1/05; withdrew 1907,46

1906 “transfer” to Wilmington Conference ME Church

1906-08 Chincoteague MD

1908-11 Greensboro MD

1911-13 Fruitland MD

1913-14 Trappe MD

1914-16 Crumpton MD

1916-17 Hillsboro MD

1917-20 Tilghman MD

1920-22 Port Deposit MD Hopewell

1922-24 Chesapeake City MD

1924- St. Georges DE

Note: The maiden name of Mrs. C. Turner Jones is also given as LITTLE.

JONES, GLENN DAVID

Born: 11-8-1904 near Boonsboro MD married: Evelyn Marianna Hallin

Died: 10-17-1991 obit: 2007,414

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1927 license, Assembly of God Church: recommended by Hagerstown MD Bethel

1929 ordained, Assembly of God Church

Interment: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Columbia PA

Obit: 1992,475

1927-30 Beaver Falls PA First

1930-31 Jamestown NY Calvary

1931-33 Erie PA First

1933-37 Corry PA First

1937-42 Syracuse NY Grace

1942-46 government service

1946-52 Columbia PA First

1952-58 Jackson MI First

1958-60 Lemasters, Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1960-64 Melcroft PA First

1964-65 Kreagert Memorial Federated Church, Stallstown PA

1965-66 Hellam-Druck Valley, Susquehanna Conference of EUB Church

1966 “transfer” to Susquehanna Conference of EUB Church

1966-69 Hellam-Druck Valley

1969 retired

Note: Glenn D. Jones is the father of Calvin David Jones of the Baltimore Conference and Everett W. Jones of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

JONES, JEREMIAH BIXLER

Born: 4-3-1829 Carroll County MD married: Amanda Anstine

Died: 6-17-1905 Windsor PA obit: 1921,71

Miller-Raker #: 309

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1855 license

1859 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 1905,69

1856-57 Rocky Springs circuit

1857-58 York Springs circuit

1858-59 York circuit

1859-60 Paradise mission

1860-63 Liverpool circuit

1863-65 Bethany circuit

1865-67 Path Valley circuit

1867-68 ?

1868-70 Jefferson circuit

1870-72 Bendersville

1872-73 Harrisburg circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1873-74 Grantville circuit, East Pennsylvania Confereence

1874-77 Jefferson circuit

1877-79 Perry circuit

1879-80 living in Shermansdale

1880-81 Manchester circuit

1881-84 Dover circuit

1884-85 living in York

1885-86 living in Windsor

1886-87 Jefferson circuit

1887-88 Yocumtown (part year 1888,15)

1888-89 Winterstown (part year 1889,19)

JONES, JOHN OWEN

Born: 1-26-1891 Chapman’s Quarries PA married: Emma R. Stees

Died: 1-27-1945 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1912 quarterly conference

1913 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1918 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference1945,17

1911-15 student, Lebanon Valley College

1913-15 Mont Clare

1915-18 student, Crozier Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia

1913-18 Mont Clare

1918-26 Harrisburg Sixth Street

1926-34 Annville

1934-37 Harrisburg First

1937-38 Elizabethville

1938-39 on leave, health reasons

1939 retired

Note: John Owen Jones is the son of Moses H. Jones.

JONES, JOSEPH R.

Born: 5-28-1848 Metal, Franklin County PA married: Irene Davis Jones

Died: 1-14-1932 obit: 1935,24

Miller-Raker #: 419

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1883 quarterly conference license, Spring Run charge

1886 license

1889 ordained

Interment: Greenmount Cemetery, York PA

Obit: 1932,21

1886-89 Manchester circuit

1889-92 York circuit

1892-95 York Third

1895-98 Baltimore George Street

1898-02 Red Lion Bethany

1902-13 Baltimore Scott Street

1913-17 local, attending York First

1917 York Fourth (Feb-Oct)

1918-21 Hellam

1921 retired

JONES, MOSES HENRY

Born: 9-16-1864 Chapmansville PA married: Mary Hummel

Died: 4-20-1926 Reading PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1891 license, East German Conference

1894 ordained, East German Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1926,11

1891-93 Paxinos circuit

1893-94 Lykens

1894-97 Bellegrove

1897-98 Milton and Sunbury

1898-99 Sunbury

1899-02 Lykens Valley circuit

1902-07 Penbrook Grace

1907-11 Reading Memorial [Trinity]

1911-12 Shamokin First

1912-14 Paradise St. John’s

1914-19 Lebanon Memorial

1919-26 Reading Trinity

Note: Moses H. Jones is the father of John Owen Jones.

JONES, ROBERT U.

Born: 2-11-1920 married:

Died: 8-12-1956 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1942 quarterly conference license

1945 license, Allegheny Conference

1947 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1957,30

1947-52 Coalport

1952-55 Sidman

1955-56 without appointment at own request

1956 retired on disability: 1956, 100

JORDAN [see YORDY]