Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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

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

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KACHEL, W.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [KACKEL]

1916 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1916-17 Jonestown

1917-19 local

1919 referred

Note: This is believed to be the Rev. William Henry Kachel, affiliation unknown, Dickinson College class of 1913 (n.g.), residing in Pottstown in 1922.

KAUFFMAN, ABRAHAM H.

Born: 1815 married:

Died: 2-20-1897 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1853 license, Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1869 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Mountville circuit

1872 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Washington Boro PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1897,40

1868-70 Mountville

1870-71 Northumberland circuit

1871-74 Monocacy circuit

1874-75 Allentown English mission

1875-80 Conestoga circuit

1880-82 Highspire circuit

1882-83 Swatara

1883-85 Middletown station

1885-86 Yocumtown [Pennsylvania Conference]

1886 retired to Columbia

1 896 Marietta (5 months)

KAUFFMAN, CHRISTIAN

Born: 3-5-1798 married:

Died: 5-2-1877 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 270

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1844 license

1847 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Annville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1878,16

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1850-51 Lancaster circuit

1853-54 Berks County circuit

1854-56 Hummelstown circuit

1858-59 Lancaster circuit

1859-61 Union County circuit

Note. Christian Kauffman appears not to have been available for appointment every year. This may be Christian Miller Kauffman, and possibly the brother of Daniel M. Kauffman.

KAUFFMAN, DANIEL M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1857 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1860 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1856-57 Dauphin circuit

1857-58 Millheim circuit

1858-59 Union County circuit

1859-60 Lebanon circuit

1860-63 Schuylkill Haven circuit

1863-64 Reading Zion

1875 name erased

Note: This may be Daniel Miller Kauffman, and possibly a brother of Christian Kauffman.

KAUFFMAN, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

Interment:

Obit:

1867-68 Sinking Spring circuit (part year)

Note. This person is otherwise unknown. This could be a mis-rendering of George W. Hoffman, who served Sinking Spring circuit part of 1868-69.

KAUFFMAN, GERALD DONALD

Born: 6-20-1923 married: Eleanor Hershey

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 701

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1944 license, recommended by Bixler’s: Manchester MD charge

1946 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1943-44 student, Lebanon Valley College

1943-44 Fishing Creek Salem

1944-47 student, Yale Divinity School

1946-47 Newburg

1947-48 Pawtucket RI First Congregational

1948-52 Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1952-57 York Third

1957-89 Carlisle Grace

1989 retired

Note: Gerald D. Kauffman is the son of Walter I. Kauffman and brother of Lester M. Kauffman.

KAUFFMAN, JOHN WARREN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1908 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1902-06 student, Lebanon Valley College

1902-03 Hillsdale circuit

1903-04 West Lebanon

1904-06 Sinking Spring

1906-07 local, in Philadelphia

1907-10 Philadelphia First

1910-12 Paradise St. John’s

1912-13 student, Princeton Theological Seminary

1913 honorable dismissal, to join another denomination

1916 Path Valley Presbyterian Church

1940’s Farmville VA Presbyterian Church

Note. J. Warren Kauffman was functioning as a local preacher in Philadelphia, and he assumed responsibility at First during the 1907-08 conference year when D.E. Long became solicitor for Lebanon Valley College.

KAUFFMAN, LESTER MILLARD

Born: 12-5-1906 York PA married: Grace Witmer

Died: 12-24-1993 Chambersburg PA obit: [2/25/1907 – 1/30/1998]

Miller-Raker #: 661

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1928 license, recommended by Dover

1934 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1994,512

1928-30 student, Lebanon Valley College

1928-29 Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

1929-30 Carlisle circuit

1930-33 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1933-34 living at home (Dover, Spring Run)

1934-39 Lemasters

1939-48 Chambersburg Park Avenue

1948-56 New Cumberland Trinity

1956-70 Hagerstown St. Paul’s [Otterbein]

1970 retired

Note: Lester M. Kauffman is the son of Walter I. Kauffman , brother of Gerald D. Kauffman, and father of Robert W. Kauffman. His picture is on the cover of the 5/13/1933 Religious Telescope as a member of the Bonebrake Seminary class of 1933.

KAUFFMAN, PAUL WILFRED

Born: 1-4-1929 married: Dee _____

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 726

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1950 license, recommended by Dallastown Bethlehem

1953 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1950-51 Miamisburg OH, Ohio Miami Conference

1951-53 Rosewood OH, Ohio Miami Conference

1953-57 Fayetteville

1957-59 West Fairview

1959-62 Boonsboro

1962-65 York area parish

1965-70 Emigsville-Longstown

1970-75 Mt. Nebo charge

1975-80 Newport parish

1980-83 Montgomery

1983-91 Harrisburg Twenty-ninth Street

1991 retired

[1991-2001 Harrisburg First and Otterbein]

KAUFFMAN, ROBERT WITMER

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 754

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1956 license, recommended by New Cumberland Trinity

Interment:

Obit:

1956-58 living at home (Hagerstown MD)

1958 withdrew to join Lutheran Church and prepare for their ministry 1958,75

Note: Robert W. Kauffman is the son of Lester M. Kauffman and grandson of Walter I. Kauffman. He appears not to have followed through on plans to enter the Lutheran ministry. According to his father’s 1994 obituary, he was living in Duxbury MA. In 2002 he appears to be living at 1080 E McKinley Street, Chambersburg PA 17201-2861, (717)263-8083.

KAUFFMAN, RUDOLPH

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

Interment:

Obit:

1867-68 Lancaster circuit

KAUFFMAN, SAMUEL GETZ

Born: 11-20-1854 Lancaster County PA married: Hettie Ann Eidenmiller

Died: 1-13-1938 Neffsville PA obit: [d. 6/18/1927]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1888 quarterly conference license, Refton

1891 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1894 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Neffsville PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1938,13

1891-95 Intercourse

1895-01 Manor

1901-05 Refton

1905-08 Denver Trinity

1908-11 Schuylkill Haven

1911-13 Centerville

1913-33 Neffsville

1933 retired

KAUFFMAN, WALTER I.

Born: 9-10-1882 Hellam PA married: Sarah R. Welty

Died: 11-3-1965 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977,269

Miller-Raker #: 646

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1919 quarterly conference license, Longstown church of Red Lion charge

1921 license, Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution)

1930 ordained

Interment: Longstown Cemetery, York County PA

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1966, 145

1920-24 Heidlersburg

1924-26 Franklintown

1926 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference from UBOC

1926-32 Dover

1932-37 Spring Run

1937-46 Manchester MD

1946-49 Oakville

1949 retired

1951-56 Upper Strasburg

Note: He is the father of Gerald D. Kauffman and Lester M. Kauffman, and the grandfather of Robert W. Kauffman. While B.F. Blubaugh (Chambersburg King Street), Amos M. Funk (Greencastle) and Walter I. Kauffman (Franklintown) all transferred from the UBOC at the same time, there is no evidence of any connection.

KAUTERMAN, JOHN A JR.

Born: 6-3-1884 Schuylkill Haven PA married: Bertha M. Kauffman [11/13/1908]

Died: 9-25-1972 Pottsville PA obit: [5/29/1883 – 3/28/1969]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

Interment: [possibly Kimmel’s Church Cemetery, Schuylkill County PA]

Obit:

1923-38 Cressona

Note: For 1923-25, H.F. Boeshore was the assigned pastor, but he was too ill to serve. John A. Kauterman was listed each year under “others employed in the conference,” and his status or qualifications are unclear. He lived in Schuylkill Haven and worked as a baker.

KECK, BENJAMIN K.

Born: 12-12-1825 married: Susanna DeEsch

Died: 2-25-1892 obit: [2/8/1823 – 7/21/1894]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1873 license, East German Conference

1873 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: East Texas PA

Obit: East German Conference1892,50

1876-79 Lehigh Valley circuit

1879-82 Bellegrove circuit

1882-84 Jonestown circuit

1884-85 Northampton circuit

1885-88 Lebanon circuit

KECKLER, BENJAMIN F.

Born: 4-9-1894 married: Caroline _____

Died: 11-2-1969 Ft. Wayne IN obit:

Miller-Raker #: 632

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1924 license, recommended by Enola

Interment: Shoopes Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit:

1924-26 Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

1925 Shermansdale (“a few weeks” 1926,23)

1926-27 Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to New Cumberland charge)

1927-28 living in Enola

1928 transfer to East Pennsylvania Eldership of the Church of God 1928,51

Mt. Laurel (Piketown) [Dauphin County]

Bainbridge [Lancaster County]

Eberly Mills and Glenville [Cumberland County and Perry County]

Harrisburg Nagle Street

Duncannon

Goldsboro

Note: Benjamin F. Keckler's son and grandson Benjamin F. Keckler Jr and Benjamin F. Keckler III graduated from Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay OH in 1955 and 1976 respectively. Contact person in 2003 is grandson Marlin Keckler Jr, 11 Pennsboro Drive, Enola PA 17025.

KEECH, ROGER EUGENE

Born: 8-13-1923 Akron OH married: Ruth Evelyn Gearhart

Died: 1-7-2010 Chambersburg PA obit: 2006,417

Miller-Raker #: 713

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1949 license

1953 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1949-53 assistant chaplain, Soldiers & Sailors Home in Zenia OH

1953-58 Myersville

1958-64 Spry

1964-81 York Fifth [Messiah]

1981-88 Shippensburg Messiah

1988 retired

1989-94 mission interpreter, Conference Board of Global Ministries

1995-97 visitation pastor, Waynesboro Faith

KEEDY, DAVID D.

Born: 2-16-1830 Washington County MD married: Lucinda Brechbill

Died: 1-12-1895 Keedysville MD obit: [6/24/1850 – 3/20/1930}

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 90

Gibble list: no

1855 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Keedysville MD

Obit: Maryland Conference 1895,18

1857 transfer to Virginia Conference

1887 charter member of Maryland Conference

KEELEY, WILLIAM BIRD

Born: 4-19-1860 Dublin, Ireland married: Nannie Hannah Southworth

Died: 3-12-1910 Rouzerville obit:

Miller-Raker #: 539

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1ocal preacher, Wesleyan Methodist Church in England

1892 probationer, North West Kansas Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1896 ordained. North West Kansas Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1901 license, Virginia Conference

Interment: Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church 1910,121

Jamestown

Weber

Narka

Formosa

one year in Iowa

one year in Nebraska

1901 transfer to Virginia Conference of United Brethren Church

1901-03 Lacey Springs

1903-05 Harrisonburg

1905-06 Rocky Spring, Pennsylvania Conference

1906 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 50

1906-07 Rocky Spring

1907 open transfer, page 46 & 66

1907-09 Rouzerville, Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1909 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

1909-10 Rouzerville

Note: The 1901 Virginia Conference membership (unsupported by other evidence) is per Glovier’s 1965 History of the Virginia Conference, page 90. Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 296, reports only that he was given an advisory seat at the conference. While Rev. Keeley served Rocky Spring, he was also the chaplain for the Scotland Home.

KEENE, JAMES CALVIN

Born: 2-29-1908 Enders PA married: Elsa Feichtinger

Died: 11-7-2002 Lewisburg PA obit: [1/2/1903 – 9/15/1994]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1927 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Union Cemetery, Penns Creek PA

Obit:

1926-30 student, Lebanon Valley College

1938 referred

Note: J. Calvin Keene is the son of James Edward Keene. He earned a PhD in Religion from Yale University in 1927 and taught at Howard University and other schools. Mrs. Keene was born in Linz, Austria, and the Keenes were married 4/20/1934 in Izmir, Turkey. They lived their final years at the denominational home in Lewisburg.

KEENE, JAMES EDWARD

Born: 10-21-1878 Reading PA married: Nora Mary Kershner

Died: 9-4-1966 Quincy PA obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1957,49

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1902 quarterly conference license, Reading Salem

1903 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1907 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1967,124

1902-03 Hustontown, Allegheny Conference

1903-04 Intercourse circuit

1904-08 Jacksonville circuit

1908-09 Denver Trinity

1909-14 Lititz

1914-18 Lancaster Otterbein

1918-26 Mont Claire

1926-33 Pine Grove

1933-43 Cleona-Pleasant Hill

1943-47 Avon

1947-50 Coatesville

1950 retired

KEIPER, JOHN ALFRED

Born: 12-19-1861 Elizabethville PA married: Gertrude V. Barr

Died: 4-19-1933 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1950,28

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1885 quarterly conference license

1888 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Tower City PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933,14

1888-90 Tremont circuit

1890-91 Tower City

1891-93 Lykens

1893-01 Myerstown

1901-10 Oberlin

1910-14 Philadelphia First

1914-17 Allentown Linden Street

1917-19 Pottstown

1919-21 Lebanon Memorial

1921-22 Pine Grove

1922-25 Lebanon Hebron

1925-31 Tower City

1931 retired

1931-32 Lickdale and Greenpoint

1932-33 Lickdale

Note: John A. Keiper is a brother to Laura Keiper (Mrs. Harry E.) Miller.

KEIRN, JOSEPH B.

Born: 6-2-1862 Clearfield County PA married: Ella Thompson

Died: 6-16-1939 Salix PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1946,65

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 306

Gibble list: no

1898 quarterly conference license

1902 license, Allegheny Conference

1906 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Dunmire Cemetery, Salix PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1939,58

1901-03 Berlin

1903-07 Cambria

1907-08 Ligonier

1908-09 New Florence

1909-10 ?

1910-13 Fayette

1913-15 Madison

1915-16 McKeesport First

1916-18 Rockwood

1918-20 Ralphton

1920-21 Knoxdale

1921-22 Wall

1922-23 Belsano

1923-24 Orbisonia

1924-27 Wyano

1927-29 Dunlo

1929-31 Houserville

1931 retired

1935-36 Rutherford (beginning 1/13/1935)

1936-37 Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 12/22/1936)

1937-38 Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 10/1/1937)

1938-39 Mt. Olive on Sidman-St. Michael charge (beginning 11/19/1938)

KEISTER, LAWRENCE W.

Born: 8-28-1856 near Scottdale PA married: Mary Cora Brittannia Cormany

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 214 & 242

Gibble list: no

1881 quarterly conference license

1885 license, Allegheny Conference

1886 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1945,56

1877-82 student, Otterbein University

1882-85 student, Boston University School of Theology

1885 Clarion River (3 months)

1885-86 Morrellville

1886-87 Greensburg

1887 transfer to California Conference

1887-90 living in California

1890 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1890-94 Wilkinsburg

1894-95 Tyrone

1895-00 Scottdale

1900-01 faculty, Otterbein College

1901-07 Mount Pleasant

1907-12 president, Lebanon Valley College

1912 "publishing and writing"

Note: The middle initial for Lawrence Keister is variously given as L (supposedly for Laurence) or W. The conference archives has several booklets by Lawrence Keister. There are biographical sketches of Lawrence Keister in Wallace's 1966 Centennial History of Lebanon Valley College, page 139, and in Fulton's 1931 History of the Allegheny Conference, page 75. The latter book also includes, on page 80, a biographical sketch of his father, the prominent Allegheny Conference layman Solomon Keister (1816-1901) – and, on page 90, a biographical sketch of his brother, Allegheny Conference layman Albert Keister (1894-1929). Mrs. Keister is the daughter of Samuel E. Cormany and a first cousin to Emma Cormany (Mrs. John O.) Clippinger.

KEISTER, SAMUEL W.

Born: married: Mary P. Nease [1879]

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 276

Gibble list: no

quarterly conference license

license, Allegheny Conference

ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

Miami Conference

1897 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1897-01 Mount Pleasant

1901-07 superintendent, ? District

1910 Johnstown Park Avenue

1913-18 living in Westerville OH: field agent, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1918 transfer to Miami Conference

1924 no longer listed

Note: Samuel W. Keister is the son of Samuel and Eliza Keister of Germantown OH and does not appear to be directly related to Lawrence Keister and the other Keisters of the Allegheny Conference.

KELLER, CHARLES HENRY

Born: 12-12-1905 married: Goldie L. Wechtenhizer

Died: 9-1-1983 obit: East Ohio Conference 1997,?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 497

Gibble list: no

1923 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1931 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1984,?

1925-29 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1929-31 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1931-32 Beaver Falls

1932-37 Fayette

1937-43 Herminie

1943-44 Parkersburg WV

1944-45 Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

1945 transfer to Miami Conference

1945-46 Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

Note: Charles H. Keller is the husband of Goldie W. Keller. He is also the author of the 1943 History of the Allegheny Conference,

KELLER, GOLDIE L. WECHTENHIZER

Born: 2-28-1908 married: Charles H. Keller

Died: 3-9-1997 obit: East Ohio Conference 1984,?

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 517

Gibble list: no

1926 quarterly conference license, Central City

1928 license, Allegheny Conference

1930 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Ohio Conference 1997,?

1928-30 student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1930-31

1931-32 Beaver Falls

1932-37 Fayette

1937-43 Herminie

1943-44 Parkersburg WV

1944-45 Cincinnati OH Norris Memorial

1945 transfer to Miami Conference

1945 located

Note: Goldie W. Keller is the wife of Charles H. Keller. She is listed in the EUB yearbooks up to 1968, but does not appear in the United Methodist General Minutes beginning in 1969.

KELLY, GEORGE EDWARD

Born: 10-23-1898 Runville PA married: Lucinda Muriel McFarland

Died: 3-30-1985 Johnstown PA obit: [d. 4/14/1966]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Blanche Wood Brady

Fulton #: 470 obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992,315

Gibble list: no

1921 quarterly conference license

1923 license, Allegheny Conference

1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Rockwood PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1985,381

1928-31 Jefferson

1931-42 Wilmore–Dunlo

1942-48 Huntingdon

1948-59 East Connellsville

1959-68 Casselman

1968 retired

Note: G. Edward Kelly is the son of John F. Kelly.

KELLY, J.W.A.

Born: 4-5-1860 near Port Trevorton PA married: Anna M. Zimmerman

Died: 11-22-1935 Williamsport PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 313, 526

Gibble list: yes [KELLEY]

1889 quarterly conference license, South Williamsport

1897 license, East German Conference

1901 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1936,59

1891-98 Shamokin Second

1898-00 Milton

1900-02 South Williamsport
1902 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1902-04 South Williamsport

1904 local, living in Williamsport

1926 dropped

Note: J.W.A. Kelly retired from the active ministry in 1904 because of ill health. He took secular employment and was an active member at South Williamsport. He was vice-president of the Billy Sunday Brotherhood of Williamsport and was instrumental in getting Mr. Sunday to come and lay the cornerstone 11/22/1925 for the new sanctuary.

KELLY, JOHN FRANKLIN

Born: 8-21-1865 Martha Furnace PA married: Eliza Jane Gates

Died: 1-20-1948 Altoona PA obit: Allegheny Conference 1902,49

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Lillian May Spain

Fulton #: 263 obit2: Allegheny Conference 1935,57

Gibble list: no

1893 quarterly conference license

1894 license, Allegheny Conference

1898 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Lewistown PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1948,66

1893-95 East Salem

1895-98 Runville

1898-99 New Florence

1899-01 Middletown

1901-02 Middleburg

1902-04 Liverpool

1904-06 Wilmore

1906-08 Greenwood

1908-10 Lovett

1910-11 Shanksville

1911-12 Milton

1912-14 Clearfield

1914-15 Coalport

1915-18 East Freedom

1918-20 Hooversville

1920-22 Mill Run

1922-35 local pastor

1935 retired

Note: John F. Kelly is the father of G. Edward Kelly.

KELLY, M.N.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1881-82 Catasauqua circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: M.N. Kelly is otherwise unknown

KEMP, GEORGE W.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1934 quarterly conference license

1935 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1935-37 student

1937-39 Mahaffey (beginning 11/16/1937 and ending 4/17/1939)

1942-43 Zion

1944-45 Wall

1945-51 Wilmerding YMCA

1951-56 no appointment at own request

1956 no longer listed

KEMP, PETER

Born: 6-28-1749 married: Mary Lehman

Died: 2-26-1811 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 43

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1801 license

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Mrs. Kemp is the daughter of Adam Lehman. It was in the Peter Kemp home near Frederick MD that the United Brethren denomination was organized on September 25, 1800. Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 300, and Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, give brief biographies.

KEMPER, J. R.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 421

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

Parkersburg Conference

1887 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3

1890 dismissed 1890,16

KENDALL, DANIEL HOMER

Born: 9-21-1913 Hagerstown MD married: Mary Genevieve Kendle

Died: 1-31-1991 Hagerstown MD obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1990,456

Miller-Raker #: 688

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1938 license, recommended by Hagerstown Grace

1939 ordained

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1991,481

1940-47 Keedysville

1947-50 Baltimore Salem

1950-59 Chewsville

1959-67 Shippensburg Messiah

1967-72 Wormleysburg St. Paul’s

1972-78 Oberlin Neidig Memorial

1978 retired

KENDIG, LILLIAN MAY

Born: 5-26-1890 Mowersville PA married: Harry Verde Cole [1925]

Died: 9-?-1982 obit: [9/4/1880 – 2/5/1962]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1918 license, New Mexico Mission Conference 1917,39

Interment:

Obit:

1916-25 faculty, McCurdy Mission School in Espanola NM

1918-21 superintendent

Note: Lillian M. Kendig is a great niece to Jacob High Snoke. A biographical sketch of home missionary Lillian Kendig Cole is given in Holdcraft's 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 329. After their marriage, the Coles settled in Indiana.

KENDIG, M.D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1918-20 Brunnerville, East Pennsylvania Conference

Note: M.D. Kendig is otherwise unknown.

KEPERLING, IRA C.

Born: 9-13-1923 married: Elizabeth Zeigler

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 714

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

quarterly conference license, Highville Church in Manor township of Lancaster County

1949 license

1957 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1944-46 student, Lebanon Valley College

1944-46 Lickdale circuit (ending 6/46), East Pennsylvania Conference

1946-49 student, seminary

1949-57 Manchester MD

1957-63 Winterstown

1963-70 Hagerstown Emanuel

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-79 Govans

1979-83 Greenbelt Mowatt Memorial

1983-85 Williamsport Rehobeth

1985 retired

Note: Mrs. Keperling is the daughter of Roy R. Zeigler.

KEPHART, CYRUS JEFFRIES

Born: 2-23-1852 Clearfield County PA married: Sarah Scott Perry

Died: 6-20-1932 obit: Miami Conference 1928,34

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1874 license, Iowa Conference

1879 ordained, Iowa Conference

Interment:

Obit: Kansas Conference 1932,15

1869-74 student, Western College in Toledo IA

1874-75 Toledo

1875-78 student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH

1878-79 principal, Avalon Academy in Avalon MO

1879-85 president, Avalon College in Avalon MO

1885-87 faculty, Western College in Toledo IA

1887-89 Des Moines East Side

1889 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1889-90 president, Lebanon Valley College

1890-94 Lebanon Trinity (beginning 1/1/90)

1894-97 field secretary, Pennsylvania Sunday School Association

1897 transfer to Iowa Conference

1897-99 president Avalon College in Trenton MO

1899-02 Des Moines Summit Park

1902-05 Lisbon IA

1905-08 president, Western College [renamed Leander Clark College] in Toledo IA

1908-13 Dayton First

1913-25 bishop

1925 retired

Note: Cyrus J. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Ezekiel B. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart. A biographical sketch of Bishop C.J. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 207-220.

KEPHART, EZEKIEL BORING

Born: 11-6-1834 married: Susan J. Trefts

Died: 1-24-1906 obit: [3/3/1835 – 3/22/1922]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 107

Gibble list: no

1858 quarterly conference license, Clearfield circuit

1859 license, Allegheny Conference

1861 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Annville PA

Obit: Indiana Conference 1906,40

1856-57 student, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1857-58 student, Mount Pleasant College

1858-59 teaching, local public school

1859-60 Troutville mission

1860-61 Johnstown

1861-63 Altoona First

1863-64 Greensburg and Mount Pleasant

1864-65 student, Otterbein University in Westerville OH

1865 transfer to ? [may not have followed through]

1865-66 principal, Michigan Collegiate Institute in Leoni MI

1866-67 Rochester and Industry

1867-68 Mount Pleasant circuit

1868-74 president, Western College near Cedar Rapids IA

1874 transfer to Iowa Conference

1874-81 president, Western College near Cedar Rapids IA [later removed to Toledo IA]

1881-05 bishop

Note: Ezekiel B. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Cryus J. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart. He is the father of Emma May Kephart Roop, wife of Hervin U. Roop, and of Lulu Maude Kephart, wife of L. Franklin John of the St. Joseph Conference. A biographical sketch of Bishop E.B. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 75-91.

KEPHART, HENRY JR.

Born: 1-5-1802 Center Furnace PA married: Sarah Goss

Died: 5-5-1886 Shueyville IA obit: [7/6/1808 – 10/30/1887]

Miller-Raker #: 192

Fulton #: 25 and 105

Gibble list: yes

1834 license

1837 ordained

Interment: Cedar Rapids IA

Obit: Iowa Conference 1887,35

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

1857 transfer to Iowa Conference

1858 transfer to Allegheny Conference

1861 transfer to Iowa Conference

Note: Henry Kephart was an active local preacher who reportedly only had charge of a field of labor one year. He is the father of three very prominent denominational leaders: college president and editor Isaiah Lafayette Kephart (1832-1908), bishop Ezekiel Boring Kephart (1834-1906), and college president and bishop Cyrus Jeffries Kephart (1852-1932). Published biographies of these prominent sons include much biographical detail on Henry and Sarah Kephart. His daughter Mary married Abraham Crowell of the Allegheny Conference.

KEPHART, ISAIAH LAFAYETTE

Born: 9-8-1832 Clearfield County PA married: Mary Elizabeth Sowers

Died: 10-28-1908 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 106

Gibble list: yes

1857 quarterly conference license

1859 license, Allegheny Conference

1863 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: East Tennessee Conference 1908,12

1859-60 Mahoning circuit

1859-61 student, Otterbein College in Westerville OH

1861-62 Brush Valley

1862-63 East Salem

1863-64 McVeytown (did not finish the year)

1864-65 chaplain, US Army

1865-66 Hummelstown circuit

1866 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1866-67 Hummelstown circuit

1868 transfer to Iowa Conference

1876-78 actuary, United Brethren Mutual Aid Society in Lebanon PA

1878 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1878-84 actuary, United Brethren Mutual Aid Society in Lebanon PA

1884 transfer to

1884-86 faculty, San Joaquin College in Woodbridge CA

1886-89 president, Westfield College in Westfield IL

1889-08 editor, The Religious Telescope

Note: Isaiah L. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Cyrus J. Kephart and Ezekiel B. Kephart. His biography, Life of Rev. Isaiah L. Kephart, D.D., was published by the United Brethren Publishing House in 1909.

KERNS, OTTIS ALFRED

Born: 6-21-1896 Coldwater OH married: Martha Elizabeth Hollinger

Died: 8-2-1974 obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1983,411

Miller-Raker #: 761

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1921 ordained, Auglaize Conference of the United Brethren Church (Old Constitution)

Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg PA

Obit:

1922-23 Carlisle, Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1923-24 Orrstown, Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1924 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC)

1924-25 Orrstown

1925-27 Mt. Pleasant

1927-28 Greencastle

1928-33 Lemasters

1933-37 professor, Huntington College

1937-40 living in Shippensburg RFD, conference treasurer

1940-44 living in Shippensburg RFD

1944-46 Heidlersburg

1946-47 Mainsville

1947-50 Franklintown

1950-54 Mainsville

1954-56 living in Shippensburg RFD

1956 withdrew Pennsylvania Conference (UBOC), page 9

1957 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 82

1957 retired

1960 Upper Strasburg (Apr-Oct)

Note: No conference obituary is given for Ottis A. Kerns. He is reported to have served Crider’s, but the UBOC appointments are tedious to reconstruct. As he seems to have lived in the same house 1937-56, some years with no appointment, it appears he may have left the UBOC because of efforts to “clean up” the ministerial rolls of non-itinerating pastors.

KESSLER, ELIAS ALVIN

Born: 11-28-1904 Schuylkill County PA married: Emma Mary Smeltzer

Died: 1-18-1992 obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1982,408

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1935 quarterly conference license, Barry

1938 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Barry UB Cemetery, Schuylkill County PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1992,293

1940 transfer to Virginia Conference

1944-46 Kentucky Home Mission Fund

1946-51 Virginia Conference

1951-55 Beaver Falls First, Western Pennsylvania Conference

1953 transfer to Western Pennsylvania Conference

1953-55 Beaver Falls First

1955-58 Bradenville

1958-60 Port Matilda

1960-67 Conemaugh Calvary

1967-70 Conemaugh Calvary – Johnstown Mt. Hope

1970 retired

1971-74 Casselman (beginning 1/11/1971)

Note: Elias A. Kessler is the author of the book REIFLICH AND SEQUEL AS A COUNTRY PREACHER DISCOVERS WHILE SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES.

KESSLER, JACOB SMITH

Born: 10-26-1812 Sinking Valley, Blair County PA married:

Died: 6-12-1863 Hummelstown PA obit: [d. 3/24/1852]

Miller-Raker #: 197 maried2: Sarah _____

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1835 license

1838 ordained

Interment: Mt. Kalmia Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1864,169

1836-37 Huntingdon circuit

1837-38 Juniata circuit

1838-40 Chambersburg circuit

1840-41 Dauphin circuit (resigned in mid-year for health reasons)

1841-43 local (for health reasons), living 4 miles east of Chambersburg

1843-45 Hershey’s station

1845-46 Highspire

1846-49 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1849-53 Philadelphia mission

1853-54 Harrisburg Front Street mission

1854-55 Rocky Spring circuit (resigned for health reasons, helped in Philadelphia)

1855-56 agent for Philadelphia church

1856-57 Lancaster, East Pennsylvania Conference

1857 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference, page 46

1857-58 Lancaster

1858-59 Highspire

1859-61 Hummelstown circuit (resigned for health reasons)

1861-62 postmaster, living in Hummelstown

Note: Jacob’s mother, Anna Smith [Schmitt], was raised near Frederick in a home visited often by Otterbein, Boehm, Geeting, Neidig, etc. Isaiah L. Kephart wrote an 1867 biography of Jacob Smith Kessler. Jacob Kessler had no children.

KESSLER, MATTHIAS

Born: married:

Died: 1812 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 39

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1801 license

Interment:

Obit:

KEYS, WILLIAM SPRING HUBBELL

Born: 7-8-1826 Centre County PA married: Susan Crownover [10/7/1852]

Died: 1892 obit: [c1832 – c1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 60 [W.H.S.]

Gibble list: yes

1844 license, Allegheny Conference

1847 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1862 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1862-66 New Holland

1866-68 Harrisburg First

1868-70 Columbia Salome

1870-74 Lebanon Trinity

1874-77 Shamokin First (did not finish final year)

1878 honorable dismissal

Note: W.S.H. Keys was in the newspaper business in Tyrone in the 1850’s. He later became a Congregational minister in Missouri.

KIEFER, HIRAM SHERMAN

Born: 7-2-1875 Shellsville PA married: Margaret Fasnacht

Died: 9-28-1955 obit: [died 1943]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mrs. Olive Fegley Holderman

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1902 quarterly conference license, Grantville

1903 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1909 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Oberlin Cemetery, Oberlin PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1956,29

1904-05 Union Deposit circuit

1905-08 Halifax

1908-10 Coatesville

1910-15 Lykens

1915-21 Oberlin

1921-29 Mt. Joy

1929-38 Avon

1938-48 Elizabethville

1948 retired

KIEFER, JAMES S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1944 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1946 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1944-48 living in Elizabethtown

1948-51 living in Bern, Switzerland

1951-57 living in Frankfort, Germany

1957 granted “certificate of recommendation”

to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, Spartanburg SC

KILLIAN, JOHN D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 420

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1874 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1872-73 Shamokin First

1873-75 Jacksonville circuit

1875-77 Grantville circuit

1877-79 Intercourse

1879-81 Monocacy

1881-82 Monocacy circuit

1882-83 Berks County coircuit

1883-87 Hummelstown station

1887 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 3

1887-88 Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission station

1888-90 Dallastown

1890-92 York First

1892-95 West Fairview

1895-96 Perry circuit (resigned 10/12/1895)

1896 dismissed 1896,9

1915 living in Philadelphia

Note: A picture of Rev. Killian appears in the 1915 75^th anniversary booklet for York First.

KIMBERLEIN, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1825 admitted?

Interment:

Obit:

KING, JOHN RESSLER

Born: Fayette County PA married: Zella Bates

Died: 1-23-1938 St. Petersburg FL obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 245

Gibble list: no

1887 quarterly conference license, Walnut Hill

1892 license, Allegheny Conference

1904 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1938,61

1894-01 missionary, Sierra Leone [Africa]

1901-02 Beaver Falls

1902-12 missionary, Sierra Leone [Africa]

1912-26 superintendent, Otterbein Home in Lebanon OH

1926-38 superintendent, men's dormitory at Otterbein College in Westerville OH

KINGSBOROUGH, RAYMOND McCLELLAN

Born: 10-5-1922 married: Pearl I Wilhelm

Died: obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 2007,?

Miller-Raker #: 763

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

? Wesleyan Methodist Church, Middle Atlantic States Conference

1957 license, page 82 & 84

Interment:

Obit:

1957-60 Manchester MD

1960-68 New Bloomfield

1968-70 Thurmont Deerfield

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-77 Thurmont Deerfield

1977-83 Martinsburg Pikeside

1983-88 Darlington charge

1988 retired

KINNEAR, WILLIAM

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 134

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1828 license

1831 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1830 charter member of Virginia Conference

apparently returned to the Pennsylvania Conference

1831-32 Huntington circuit

1832-33 Juniata circuit

1833 withdrew

Note: This surname is also rendered KENIER and KERNER. A William Kinnear was a local ME preacher south of Erie in the Pittsburgh Conference in the mid 1830’s, but there appears to have been a Kinnear family indigenous to Venango County that produced the ME Rev. Gideon Kinnear (1809-1876).

KIPP, CALVIN

Born: 6-9-1929 married: Marian Lucille Musselman

Died: 11-28-1987 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 715

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1949 license

1955 ordained

Interment: Mount Zion Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1988,416

1949-52 Gardners-Mt. Victory

1952-55 Houston Congregational Christian (Ohio)

1955-58 Lemasters

1958-60 Chambersburg Park Avenue

1960-63 Middleburg-Shiloh

1963-79 Winterstown

1979-81 Hughesville Christ-Clarkstown

1981-87 disability

KIRACOFE, GEORGE WILLIAM

Born: 8-5-1847 married: Katharine Koontz

Died: 8-19-1919 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 383

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1874 license, Virginia Conference

1877 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Keller VA

Obit:

1878 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1877-79 Liverpool (first year = last part only)

1879-81 Perry circuit

1881-83 Littlestown circuit

1883-86 Greenmount circuit

1886-88 Winterstown circuit

1890 enters Baptist ministry

Note: George W. Kiracofe is a brother to John Wesley Kiracofe and Nimrod A. Kiracofe.

KIRACOFE, JOHN WESLEY

Born: 8-25-1842 near Stribling Springs VA married: Catharine Virginia Snyder

Died: 8-29-1914 Hagerstown MD obit: [1846-1870]

Miller-Raker #: 422 married2: Susan P. Buxton

Fulton #: no obit2: 1939,41

Gibble list: no

1861 quarterly conference license,

1863 license, Virginia Conference

1864 ordained, Virginia Conference

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1914,94

1862-63 Lacey Springs circuit

1863-64 Highland circuit

1864-66 Rockbridge circuit

1866-67 Winchester circuit

1867-68 Churchville circuit

1868-70 Frederick circuit

1870-73 Hagerstown St. Paul’s

1873-76 Boonsboro

1876-80 Keedysville

1880-85 Potomac circuit

1885-87 Newville, Pennsylvania Conference

1887 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1887-89 Newville

1889-94 Mechanicsburg First

1894-98 Mont Alto circuit

1898-99 Rocky Spring circuit

1899-00 Greencastle

1900-04 Boling Springs

1904-10 Frederick

1910-12 Windsor

1912 retired to Hagerstown MD

Note: The first Mrs. Kiracofe(4-10-1846 to 1-11-1870) is buried at Mt. Tabor Lutheran church in Augusta County VA, on route 252 8 miles from Staunton VA. John Wesley Kiracofe is a brother to George W. Kiracofe and Nimrod A. Kiracofe. Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, and Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 300, give brief biographies.

KIRACOFE, NIMROD ADDISON

Born: 4-20-1849 Stribling Springs VA married: Mary Elizabeth (1870)

Died: 3-10-1921 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 526 married2: Kathryn Dick (1890)

Fulton #: no obit2: 1930,62

Gibble list: yes

1886 license, Virginia Conference

1893 ordained, Maryland Conference

Interment: Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1921,69

1886 Lost River mission (apparently did not finish the year)

1886-87 Orrstown, Pennsylvania Conference (part year 1887,12)

1887 charter member of Maryland Conference

1887-88 Potomac [Williamsport Rehobeth]

1888-92 ?

1892-93 Manor circuit, East Pennsylvania Conference

1893 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1893-95 Manor circuit

1895-96 Chestnut Grove circuit

1896-97 Mount Joy circuit

1898-01 Pequea circuit

1901-02 Catawissa circuit

1902-03 supernumerary, living in Roaring Creek (Columbia County)

1903-04 living in Middleburg (Snyder County? or State Line?)

1904 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1904-05 Springett

1905-07 Perry circuit

1907-08 Rayville

1908-09 Mechanicsburg circuit

assistant superintendent, Mechanicsburg Old People’s Home

Note: Nimrod A. Kiracofe is a brother to George W. Kiracofe and John Wesley Kiracofe. Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 174, gives a brief biography. While Nimrod is a Bible name, Rev. Kiracofe was named for his mother’s brother Nimrod H. Showalter.

KIRBY, EDMUND WESLEY

Born: 4-?-1831 VA married1: Emma Massey Wilson

Died: 2-7-1902 Washington DC obit: [9/27/1833 – 4/17/1907]

Miller-Raker #: no married2: Mary Jane Hartley

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1853 ordained, Baltimore Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church

Interment: Arlington National Cemetery

Obit: see biographical files at the conference archives

1853-54 Woodstock VA

1854-55 Penn’s Valley

1855-56 Warrior’s Mark

1856-57 Manor Hill

1857-58 Clearfield circuit

1858 chart member of East Baltimore Conference ME

1858-59 Philipsburg

1859-61 New Washington

1861-63 Williamsburg

1863-65 Bedford station

1865-68 Mifflin

1868-69 Milton

1869 charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference ME

1869-70 Milton

1870-72 Chambersburg St. Paul’s

1885-86 Philadelphia Grace

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 441, states that Dr. E.W. Kirby was a physician and a local preacher who reported a new congregation named “Grace” and was appointed to serve it in 1885. In 1886 he made a report to conference, but there is no further record of the mission. There is material on Rev. and Mrs. Kirby in the biographical files. See also the article "Rev. Edmund Wesley Kirby: A Participant in Methodist History" that beings on page 46 of the 2008 volume of The Chronicle.

KISSINGER, HARRY PHILIP III

Born: 7-3-1930 married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 743

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1952 license, recommended by York Fourth

1956 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1956-57 Woodland Beach MD

1957-60 chaplain, US Army

1960-62 Shepherdstown

1962 withdrew

Note: Rev. Kissinger left the denomination to found Emmanuel Baptist Church, between Camp Hill and Mechanicsburg. About 20% of the members of Shepherdstown left with him to form the new congregation.

KITZMILLER, HARVEY J.

Born: 2-10-1867 near Bnevola MD married: Henrietta Middour

Died: 1-25-1936 obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1945,31

Miller-Raker #: 445

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1890 license

1893 ordained

Interment: Quincy PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1936,21

1896-99 Waynesboro

1889-02 Mont Alto

1902-36 superintendent, Quincy Orphanage and Home

Note: The Kitzmiller’s gave their farm at Quincy for the purpose of establishing an orphanage. The Mechanicsburg Old People’s Home merged into the Orphanage in 1913.

KLEFFMAN, JOHN EDWARD

Born: 4-11-1866 married: Ella Lucking

Died: 3-17-1926 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 437

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1889 license

1892 ordained

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1926,61

1889 B.S. degree, Lebanon Valley College

1891-94 Hanover

1894-95 Greencastle station

1895-98 Rocky Spring circuit

1898-00 Gettysburg

1900-03 Duncannon Otterbein

1903-07 Carlisle Grace

1907-11 Red Lion Bethany

1911-13 Chambersburg First

1913-21 Baltimore Third

1921-26 field secretary, Quincy Orphanage and Home

Note: Lebanon Valley College awarded John Edward Kleffman a D.D. degree in 1910. He is the father of Rev. Albert Harry Kleffman (1916 A.B. from Lebanon Valley and 1919 B.D. from Princeton) of the Presbyterian denomination.

KLEIN, MATTHEW

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 168

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1831 license

Interment:

Obit:

1839 charter member of Allegheny Conference

Note: Matthew Klein has no itinerant record – apparently any service was as a local pastor.

KLINE, JOHN M.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1882 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1884 referred

KLINE, THERESSA M.

Born: married: _____ McCracken

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 463

Gibble list: no

1922 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1923-24 Central City

1924 transfer to ?

Note: 1924,136 states “That Thressa [sic] M. McCracken (nee, Miss Thressa M. Kline) be granted an open transfer.” She does not appear in any United Brethren yearbook for any conference after her 1924 listing as Theressa Kline with the Allegheny Conference.”

KLINGER, HARVEY M.

Born: 1875 married:
Died: 10-5-1939 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1906 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Illinois Conference 1939, 30

1900-03 Milton, East German Conference (1900-01) and Allegheny Conference (1901-03)

1903-04 Derry [Hershey] circuit

1904-08 Coatesville Grace

1908-09 Intercourse

1909-11 living in Minnesota

1911 transfer to Minnesota Conference

1919 transfer to Illinois Conference

Weaver Memorial

Bloomington First

Gibson City

Lexington

Sterling

Galesburg

KLOPPER – see CLOPPER

KNAPP, J. T.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 389

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1879 license

1882 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1879-80 living in Baltimore

1880-81 Yocumtown circuit (did not finish the year)

1881-83 living in Baltimore

1883 Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] circuit, mid-year replacement

1883-92 living in Baltimore

1892-93 Winterstown circuit

1901 dismissed 1901,8 & 37

KNAPPA, FREDERICK

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 248

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1841 license, page 46

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Frederick Knappa is otherwise unknown. Even though he is clearly noted as “received,” his name does not appear on the alphabetical list in Gibble’s 1951 History of the Pennsylvania Conference.

KNIPP, JOHN EDGAR

Born: 9-2-1874 Baltimore MD married: Bene Kriel

Died: 4-21-1962 Quincy PA obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1943,41

Miller-Raker #: 469

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1898 license

1900 ordained

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1962,43

1900-04 missionary to Japan

1904-05 ill health

1905-15 education secretary of Foreign Missionary Society

1915-42 missionary to Japan

1942 retired

Note: Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 408, gives a brief biography.

KNOLL, JONAS L.

Born: 3-22-1847 near Annville PA married: Mary Boltz [6/20/1869]

Died: 1-11-1902 obit: [b. 1850]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1891 license, East German Conference

Interment: Lebanon PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1902,24

Note: Jonas L. Knoll was a member of Lebanon Salem and served as a local pastor. A carpenter, he was supposedly the “inventor of a washing machine and a spring frame bicycle, with customers all over the US.”

KNOTT, WILLIAM

Born: married: Lydia L. Silers

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 154

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1829 license

1832 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1830 charter member of Hagerstown [Virginia] Conference

Note: Funkhouser’s 1921 History of the Virginia Conference, page 140, says that “Pappy Knott” was a good preacher with a wonderful voice – but that he could not read when he began to preach, and someone often read for him.

KNOUSS, DAVID

Born: 7-1-1847 Arendtsville PA married: Sophie Cressler

Died: ?-?-1934 Arendtsville PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 398

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1881 license

Interment:

Obit:

1881-82 Fulton mission

1882-85 living in Arendtsville

1885 returned to quarterly conference, page 5

1890 member of Pennsylvania Conference UBOC

1890-97 local, living in Arendtsville and a member of York Springs quarterly conference

1897 returned to quarterly conference, page 6

KNOX, G.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1890-91 Reading Trinity

Note: G.H. Knox served 1890-91 under a quarterly conference license. This may be the George H. Knox (1866-1930) listed in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

KOCHER, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 287

Fulton #: no

Gible list: no

1848 license

Interment:

Obit:

1855 expelled

KOHLER, FILLMORE THURMAN

Born: 2-9-1888 married: Rebecca Jane Owen

Died: 9-9-1957 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 550

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1908 quarterly conference license, Yoe

1909 license

1913 ordained

Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1957,47

1909-10 student, Lebanon Valley College

1910-13 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary

1911 Pleasant Valley MI (July-Sept)]

1913-17 Duncannon

1917-19 West Fairview

1919-22 Lemoyne

1922-26 Keedysville

1926-27 student, Princeton Seminary

1927-34 Mount Wolf

1934-47 Baltimore Salem [Christ]

1947-50 Williamsport MD

1950 retired

KOHLER, WILLIAM F.

Born: 4-4-1880 Fayetteville PA married: Mary Catherine Straley

Died: 6-28-1961 obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1944,35

Miller-Raker #: 600 married2: Mrs. Bessie A. Flack

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1916 license

1923 ordained

Interment: Norland Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1961,46

1917-21 Carlisle circuit

1921-24 Myersville

1924-28 Thurmont

1928-31 Wormleysburg

1931-39 Chambersburg Park Avenue

1939-42 Emigsville

1942-48 Dillsburg

1948-51 Scotland

1951-53 Youngs-Mt. Zion

1953 retired

KOHR, LEWIS

Born: 10-16-1840 married: Lena Witrecht

Died: 7-4-1922 obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1932,24

Miller-Raker #: 377

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1875 license

1878 ordained

Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922,72

1876-77 Dover circuit

1877-82 Jefferson circuit

1882-84 York circuit

1884-85 Dallastown circuit

1885-86 Winterstown circuit

1886-88 Dover circuit

1888-91 Hanover circuit

1891-93 Bendersville

1893-94 Manchester circuit

1894-05 Hanover

1905 local

KOLB, GEORGE

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 72

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1814 license

Interment:

Obit:

KOONS, ISAAC BOHR

Born: 9-5-1853 near Lickdale PA married: Catherine J. Nye

Died: 12-21-1938 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1933,24

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1882 quarterly conference license, Mountville (Lebanon County)

1886 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1889 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Bellegrove Lutheran Cemetery, Bellegrove PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1939,12

1883-87 Lehigh circuit

1887-91 Sinking Spring circuit

1891-94 Lehigh circuit

1894-02 Northampton circuit

1902-05 Lehigh circuit

1905-06 Northampton circuit

1906-07 Lehigh circuit

1907-17 located, farmed at Point Phillips on Northampton circuit

1917-21 Northampton circuit

1921-27 Bellegrove

1927-31 Grantville circuit

1931 retired

1932-33 Lickdale

KOONTZ, ELIAS WASHINGTON

Born: 8-8-1834 Frederick County MD married: Sarah Anne Steffey

Died: 6-1-1903 obit: [12/3/1835 – 12/19/1928]

Miller-Raker #: 367

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1872 license

Interment: Greer’s Point Cemetery, Perry County

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference (EV) 1904,60

1872-75 Woodbury [Baltimore Otterbein Memorial] mission

1875-77 Bendersville circuit

1877-79 living in Arendtsville

1879 withdrew, page 15

1880 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference, Evangelical Association; CPC 1880,7

1888-91 Milesburg

1891-93 Bellefonte mission

1893-96 Millmont

1896-98 Nittany Valley

1898-00 Liverpool

1900-03 Fishing Creek (Keystone, Perry County)

1903 retired

Note: Rev. Koontz was baptized in a Moravian ceremony at Graceham MD on 1/10/1835. Rev. Koontz reportedly joined the Evangelical Association congregation at Bendersville in February 1878. Circumstantial evidence suggests that possible sympathies with the minority faction that later became the UBOC led to his withdrawal – although he was never licensed or ordained by that group following their formal organization in 1889. He is the father of Rev. Samuel Edward Koontz (1867-1932) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church.

KOONTZ, JOSIAH C. PERRY

Born: 4-23-1861 Silver Run, Carroll County MD married: Mary Isabel Baumgardner

Died: 12-8-1923 York PA obit: [1/27/1856 – 12/26/1888]

Miller-Raker #: 427 married2: Amanda Jane Rodes [1-1-1890]

Fulton #: no obit2: 1948,37

Gibble list: no

1887 quarterly conference license, Greenmount MD

1888 license

1891 ordained

Interment: Yoe Cemetery, Yoe PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1924,61

1888-90 York Haven

1890-92 Rayville

1892-94 York circuit

1894-96 York Fourth

1896-97 Manchester circuit

1897-98 York circuit

1898-03 Yoe

1903-05 York Haven

1905-07 Hanover

1907-11 West Fairview

1911-14 Carlisle

1914 field secretary, Quincy Orphanage & Home (May-Oct)

1914-20 York Second

1920-23 Waynesboro

Note: Josiah and Amanda Koontz are the parents of Paul R. Koontz and Jessie Pearl Koontz (Mrs. Philip) Nathans. Amanda was a first cousin of Rufus R. Rodes. Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 386, gives a brief biography.

KOONTZ, PAUL RODES

Born: 10-30-1890 Rayville MD married: Elizabeth Agnes Lau

Died: 11-29-1954 Pittsburgh PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 552

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1909 license

1914 ordained

Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York PA

Obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1955,34

1909-11 student, Lebanon Valley College

1911 Lemoyne (Aug-Oct)

1911-14 student, Bonebrake Seminary

1914 Carlisle (May-Oct)

1914-15 Myersville

1915-19 Lemoyne

1919-25 Mechanicsburg

1925-41 Baltimore Otterbein Memorial

1941-45 Carlisle Grace

1945-54 editor, UB/EUB youth publications

Note: He is the son of Josiah Koontz. Miller’s 1968 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 390, gives a brief biography. He is the author of numerous publications, including the 1950 Koontz-Roush two-volume classic The Bishops of the United Brethren Church.

KOPPENHAVER, W.R.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1886-87 Greensboro MD mission

Note: In the East Pennsylvania Conference, Greensboro MD was a charge with Vineland NJ and Wilmington DE for 1885-86. W.R. Koppenhaver served Greensboro the following year. Nothing more is known about this charge or this pastor.

KOSTENBADER, TRUMAN GEORGE

Born: 9-21-1910 Bath PAmarried: Hilda I. Marsh

Died: 12-19-1977obit: [7/27/1911 - 10/17/2003]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1978,554

1944-46 Lebanon Ebenezer

local

1951-52 Easton Christ (beginning February 1952))

1952-53 Lansdale Christ (beginning November 1952)

1853-54 Weissport Ebenezer (beginning August 1953)

1954-55 Quakertown Bethel (beginning November 1954)

1957-59 Danielsville, Bowmanstown & Middlecreek (beginning August 1957)

1959-76 Nazareth Trinity

1976 retired

Note: Truman G. Kostenbader is listed in 1944 under “others employed by the conference.” He worked as an automobile mechanic and service manager while serving as a local pastor.

KOTTLER, HARRY C.

Born: 9-5-1886 Florin PA married: Alva Mae Fasnacht

Died: 9-10-1966 obit: Pennsylvania Conference 1922,74

Miller-Raker #: 567 married2: Rose K. Miller

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: yes

1908 quarterly conference license

1910 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1922 ordained

Interment: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hargerstown MD

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 1967,228

1910-11 Mont Clare

1911 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference

1911-13 Dover

1913-16 Carlisle circuit

1916-18 Shiremanstown

1918-19 Hillsdale, East Pennsylvania Conference

1919-20 Mapleton, Allegheny Conference

1920-22 Biglerville

1922-25 Williamsport MD

1925-28 York Fifth

1928-32 Mont Alto

1932-35 Mechanicsburg circuit

1935-37 Springett

1937-47 Williamsport MD

1947-56 Walkersville

1956 retired

1959 Boonsboro (Jul-Oct)

1960-61 Benevola (Oct-Jun)

KRACK, JOHN

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 116

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1825 license

1827 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1827-28 York circuit

1830-31 Baltimore circuit

1831-35 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1835 transfer to Virginia Conference

1835-36 Frederick circuit

1836 transfer to Wabash Conference

NOTE: This surname is also rendered KROCK and KRACH.

KRAMER, LEWIS REDOLPHUS

Born: 7-9-1853 Schuylkill Haven PA married: Ella Reinhart

Died: 1-1-1919 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1878 quarterly conference license, Schuylkill Haven

1880 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1883 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Prospect Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven PA

Obit: Easter Pennsylvania Conference 1919,44

1880-82 Catawissa circuit

1882-83 Jefferson circuit, Pennsylvania Conference

1883-86 Florin

1886-89 Ephrata

1889-93 Manheim

1893-96 Hummelstown

1896-97 Paradise [St. John’s] circuit

1897-98 Mount Joy circuit

1898-01 Lebanon Pleasant Hill

1901-04 Avon Zion

1904-15 Pinegrove

1915-19 Cressona

KRATZER, CLAYTON CHARLES.

Born: 3-8-1885 married: Elizabeth Irene Stichter

Died: obit: [5/13/1888 – 11/?/1974]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 435

Gibble list: yes

1917 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1915-17 student, Lebanon Valley College

1917-18 Dunlo

1918-19 East Pittsburgh

1919-21 living in Middleburg

1921 referred back to quarterly conference

1922 high school principal, Millheim PA

Note. C.C. Kratzer was the high school principal in Middleburg PA in the 1940’s. He is believed to be the brother of E.P. Kratzer.

KRATZER, ERNEST PALMER

Born: 11-18-1888 Snyder County PA married: Anna Ruth Mingle [2/2/1918]

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 439

Gibble list: yes

1918 license, Allegheny Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1919-20 Dunlo

1920-21 Huntingdon Twelfth Street

1921-23 student, Lebanon Valley College

1921-23 Stoverdale

1923 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1923-25 Shamokin Second

1929 referred

Note: The 1947 LVC alumni register lists E.P. Kratzer as a minister in Middleburg PA. He is believed to be the brother of C.C. Kratzer.

KRAUMER, see CRAUMER

KRAUSE, AUGUST

Born: married:

Died: 4-26-1885 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

license, East Pennsylvania Conference

ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: Ohio German Conference 1885,18

1881-82 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1882 transfer to East German Conference

1882-85 Baltimore Old Otterbein

KREIDER see CRIDER

KRENZ, OSCAR ELLSWORTH

Born: 6-23-1889 West Newton PA married: Mary Francis Bell

Died: 4-9-1969 obit: Pittsburgh Conference ME 1935,503

Miller-Raker #: 582

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1913 license

1916 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Western Pennsylvania ME 1969,327

1910-15 Dillsburg

1915-18 conference evangelist

1918-21 Walla Walla, Columbia River Conference

1921 transfer to Columbia River Conference, page 35

1921-22 Walla Walla

1922-23 Christy Park, Pittsburgh Conference ME

1923 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

1923-25 Christy Park

1925-27 Johnstown Cooper Avenue

1927-31 Cresson

1931-32 Cresson-Ebensburg

1932-33 South Greensburg

1933-37 Brushton

1937-40 Sharpsburg Union Centenary

1940-54 Blawnox

1954-60 Bellevue Central

1960 retired

KRICK, WILLIAM D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1921 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1918-19 Rocherty

1919-21 Stoverdale

1921-22 Northampton circuit

1922-24 Enders circuit (resigned 5/11/1924)

1925 dismissed

KRONE, HARRY EMERSON

Born: 5-23-1885 York County PA married: Mary Emma Stein

Died: 4-30-1978 Quincy PA obit: Baltimore Conference 1978,348

Miller-Raker #: 574

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1912 license, recommended by York Third 112,33

1916 ordained

Interment: Wellers Cemetery, Thurmont MD

Obit: Baltimore Conference 1978,434

1912-17 Rayville circuit

1917-21 Myersville

1921-24 Yoe

1924-28 Baltimore Fourth [Salem]

1928-37 Thurmont

1937-46 Greencastle

1946-50 Enola

1950-53 Mt. Tabor

1953-57 Baltimore Old Otterbein

1957 retired

1970 transfer to Baltimore Conference

Note: The 244-page, hard-bound autobiography of Harry E. Krone “Come On, Let’s Get Busy” is in the biography section.

KUHN, MARY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license, Allegheny Conference: recommended by Greensburg

Interment:

Obit:

Note: Mrs. Mary Kuhn apparently never served under appointment and was never ordained. She is otherwise unknown.

KUMLER, HENRY SR.

Born: 1-3-1774 Berks County PA married: Susanna Wenger

Died: 1-7-1854 obit: [11/30/1874]

Miller-Raker #: 74

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1814 license

1816 ordained

Interment: Butler County OH

Obit: Miami Ohio Conference 1892,9

1814-15 accompanied Spayth, Mayer and others on circuits

1815-16 Greencastle area circuit

1816-17 Virginia circuit

1817-18 presiding elder

1819 transfer to Miami Ohio Conference

1825-45 bishop

1845 retired

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography. His farm near Greencastle was a very early UB preaching center – and the site of one annual conference and other important meetings. He is the father of Bishop Henry Kumler Jr (1801-1882) [who married the daughter of Bishop Andrew Zeller (1755-1839)] and grandfather of Bishop Daniel Kumler Flickinger (1824-1911). In addition, his son Daniel C. Kumler (1807-1882) was a member of the Miami Ohio Conference, and his daughters Hannah (1798-1892) and Susannah (1804-1875) are this wives of Miami Ohio Conference pastors Jacob Flickinger (1782-1844) and John Zeller (1797-1858). Chapter 3 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Henry Kumler Sr. Susanna Wenger is a sister to Jacob Wingert.

They had eleven children, who grew to maturity, and one that was drowned in a spring when five years old. Hannah, the widow of the Rev. Jacob FLICKINGER, born in 1798, lives in Seven-Mile. Henry KUMLER, born January 10, 1801, lives in Dayton, Ohio. He is an exbishop of the United Brethren Church, an office he held for twenty years. Susannah, the wife of the Rev. John ZELLER, born Janueary 3, 1804, died in 1875. Elizabeth, the widow of the Rev. A. HESS, born July 5, 1805, lives in Brazil, Indiana. Daniel C., born September 30, 1807, lives in Seven-Mile. Elias, born October 21, 1809, died in 1873. Jacob and Michael, twins, were born August 31, 1811, and are each married, and live near Millville, in this county. Joseph, born February 23, 1813, is married, and lives in Wayne Township, at Jacksonburg. John, born December 24, 1814, is married, and lives in Dayton. Catherine, widow of Henry WELTY, born April 6, 1817, lives in Oxford. Mary born in 1819, was drowned.

KUNKLE, JOHN W.

Born: married:

Died: 1880 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1867 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1870 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Allentown PA

Obit:

1867-68 Halifax circuit

1868-69 ?

1869-72 Lykens Valley circuit

1872-74 Myerstown

1874-75 Bethlehem circuit

1875-77 Baltimore Fulton Avenue

1877-80 Baltimore Old Otterbein

KURTZ, H.H.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1901 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1902 license returned

KURTZ, J.H.

Born: married:

Died: 10-9-1928 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1885 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1891 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

Note: J.H. Kurtz did not itinerate.

KURTZ, PARK B.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1917 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1920 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1917-19 Birdsboro

1919-23 Coatesville

1923-24 assistant, Harrisburg Derry Street

1924-29 Harrisburg Twenty-Ninth Street

1929-32 living in Wilkinsburg PA

1932 honorable dismissal