Pennsylvania Conference UB Pastors

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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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NATHANS, PHILIP

Born: 1-10-1891 PA married: Jessie Pearl Koontz

Died: 12-10-1968 MO obit: [1893-1928]

Miller-Raker #: 614 married2: _____ Morris

Fulton #: no obit2:

Gibble list: no

1921 license, recommended by York Second

Interment:

Obit

1920-22 Fishing Creek Salem (attachment to York Haven charge)

1924 withdrew to join Presbyterian Church, page 41

Note: Mrs. Nathans is the daughter of Josiah C. Perry Koontz and the brother of Paul R. Koontz.

NAUGLE, IVAN GUY

Born: 4-1-1898 Adams County married: Helen L. Geiselman

Died: 8-24-1989 Chambersburg PA obit: 1992,479

Miller-Raker #: 663

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1929 license

1935 ordained

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg PA

Obit: 1990,462

1929-37 Manchester MD

1937-54 Thurmont

1954-68 Keedysville

1968 retired

1970 Littlestown (May-Jun) & St. John’s (Aug-Dec)

1974 Littlestown (Feb-Jun)

NEAFFER, HIRAM

Born: c1839married: Sarah _____

Died: obit: [b. c 1841]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [NEAFER]

1872 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit

1871-73 Harrisburg Calvary [Derry Street]

1874-76 Highspire circuit

1878 withdrew

Note: By 1880 Hiram Neaffer was living in Altoona. The Central Pennsylvania Conference Methodist Episcopal journals of the early 1900's list him as a local preacher and a lay member of the Altoona Eighth Avenue Church.

NEEDY, ELLWOOD EDWARD

Born: 6-2-1912 Boonsboro MD married: Rose Stuart Tschopp

Died: 2-15-1976 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 682

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1933 quarterly conference license, Mt. Nebo of Boonsboro MD charge

1935 license, recommended by Mt. Nebo

1940 ordained

Interment: Heiland View Cemetery at St. Paul’s Chapel Church, Red Lion PA

Obit: 1976,150

1933-37 student, Lebanon Valley College

1936-37 Clear Spring mission, East Pennsylvania Conference

1937-40 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1937-40 student assistant, Dayton Belmont

1940-43 Red Lion circuit

1943-62 Red Lion St. Paul’s Chapel

1962-70 Waynesboro First

1970-71 sabbatical

1971 retired

1974-76 Mt. Victory

Note: The conference records consistently use Ellwood, but the SS death Index gives his first name as Elwood.

NEEDY, GEORGE D.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 523

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1903 license

Interment:

Obit:

1903-06 living in Hagerstown MD

1906-08 no address

1908-10 living in Spokane WA

1910 open transfer, page 48

Note: The UB yearbooks list him as George C. Needy, living in Spokane WA as a member of the Pennsylvania Conference, until 1911 – and then he no longer appears. This may be the George Charles Needy living in Greencastle in the 1870’s and 80’s.

NEFF, GEORGE ORVIS

Born: 8-22-1892 LaJose PA married: Mary Ethel Bowden

Died: 3-25-1962 Selinsgrove PA obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1990,314

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 488

Gibble list: no

1924 quarterly conference license

1925 license, Allegheny Conference

1929 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Freeburg PA

Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference 1962,37

1924-29 Houserville

1929-34 Richfield

1934-39 Coalport

1939-45 Bigler

1945-49 Shanksville

1949 retired for health reasons

1949-61 living with his son in Encorse MI

NEIDIG, JOHN

Born: 4-1-1765 Berks County PA married: Mary Bear

Died: 1-11-1844 Oberlin PA obit:

Miller-Raker #: 16

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1791 license

1802 ordained

Interment: Highspire PA

Obit: 1844,55

1790-91 Mennonite preacher

1807-08 Pfoutz Valley

1812-13 Lancaster circuit

1820-21 presiding elder and Lancaster circuit

1826-27 presiding elder

1828-31 Baltimore Old Otterbein

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 302, and Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 47, give brief biographies. See also the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, pages 3-34.

NEIDIG, JOHN

Born: 1-21-1833 married: Eliza _____

Died: 1/4/1904 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 339

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1865 license

1873 ordained

Interment: Shopps Cemetery, Shiremanstown PA

Obit:

1868-69 Shopp’s station [Shiremanstown]

1869-70 York Springs circuit

1871-72 York Springs circuit

1884 withdrew, page 5

Note: The Neidig family tree is confusing, and the above information represents current interpretation of the facts at hand – see the Neidig family articles in the 1995 volume of The Chronicle, pages 30-34. It is believed that this John Neidig is the grandson of John Neidig (1764-1844), the son of Jacob and Catherine Shopp (daughter of John Shopp Sr and Anna Hershey) [and to Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 49, errs in saying that particular John Neidig went to Iowa.]

NEIMAN, HARRY SR.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 728

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1950 license

Interment:

Obit:

1950-59 living in Dover RD 3

1959 return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

NEIMAN, JAMES

Born: 1801 married: Catharine Shively

Died: 5-6-1880 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 147

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1829 license

1831 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Central Ohio Conference 1880,16

1831-32 Baltimore circuit

1832-33 Halifax circuit

1833-34 presiding elder and Chambersburg circuit

1834-36 presiding elder, Huntingdon district

1837 transfer to Sandusky Conference

Note: Weaver’s 1908 Minutes of the 1819-24 Conferences, page 47, gives a brief biography.

NEISWANDER, ISAAC

Born: married:

Died: 1821 obit:

Miller-Raker #: 37

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1800 license

1807 ordained

Interment:

Obit:

1810-11 Virginia circuit

Note: This surname is also rendered Niswander.

NELSON, JAMES H.

Born: 4-10-1817 married:

Died: 1-24-1880 obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1869 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

1872 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment: Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1880,19

1871-72 Northumberland circuit

NESS, JOHN HERBERT

Born: 9-29-1919 Hagerstown MD married: Lucille Hull

Died: 9-18-2000 Baltimore MD obit:

Miller-Raker #: 691 married2: Mrs. Naomi Vera Kaiser Grieve [19733]

Fulton #: no obit2: 2002,366

Gibble list: no

1936 quarterly conference license

1940 license, recommended by York First

1944 ordained

Interment:

Obit: 2001,374

1936-40 student, Lebanon Valley College

1940-42 student, University of Pennsylvania

1941-42 Mt. Olivet

1942-45 student, Bonebrake [United] Seminary in Dayton OH

1943-44 Dayton Otterbein, Miami Conference

1944-45 York Haven

1945-48 York Haven

1948-53 Frederick Centenary

1953-54 Mt. Alto-Quincy

1954-55 Mt. Alto

1955-58 Manchester PA

1958-68 general secretary, General Historical Society EUB

1958-62 Dayton Belmont, part-time

1962-64 Dayton Good Shepherd, part-time

1968-81 general secretary, General Commission on Archives and History UM

1981 retired

Note: John Herbert Ness is the son of John Harrison Ness; they are sometimes noted as John H. Ness Jr and Sr.

NESS, JOHN HARRISON

Born: 10-23-1891 York PA married: Myra Grace Kiracofe

Died: 2-15-1980 Lebanon OH obit: 1966,142

Miller-Raker #: 571

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1911 license, recommended by Yoe Salem

1919 ordained

Interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton OH

Obit: 1980,345

1911-15 student, Lebanon Valley College

1911-12 Jefferson

1914-15 Millers

1915-16 Manchester MD

1916-19 student, Princeton Seminary

1919-31 York First

1931-48 conference superintendent

1948-62 associate/general secretary, General Board of Pensions EUB

1962 retired

1963 United Church, Ponce PR (Jan-Jul)

1964-65 Ibor City Mission, Tampa FL

1967 superintendent, Otterbein Home Lebanon OH

Note: John Harrison Ness is the father of John Herbert Ness; they are sometimes noted as John H. Ness Sr and Jr.

NEWBECKER, HENRY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 187

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1834 license

Interment:

Obit:

1841 expelled

NEWCOMER, CHRISTIAN

Born: 2-1-1749 Lancaster County PA married: Elizabeth Baer

Died: 3-12-1830 Beaver Creek MD obit:

Miller-Raker #: 4

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

Interment: Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren

Obit:

1802-03 Cumberland circuit

1805-06 Maryland (and part of PA) circuit

1812-13 Ohio circuit

1813-30 bishop

Note: Holdcraft’s 1939 History of the Pennsylvania Conference, page 30, gives a brief biography. Newcomer’s diary and various biographies are available in several forms. Chapter 2 of the 1908 denomination study course Our Heroes discusses Christian Newcomer.

NEWMAN, DANIEL LESTER.

Born: 4-19-1911 Waynesboro PA married: Virginia _____

Died: 1-26-2001 Brighton CO obit: [Oct 1990]

Miller-Raker #: 679

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1935 license

1937 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Rocky Mountain Conference 2001

1937-39 Kingwood, West Virginia Conference

1939 transfer to Virginia Conference

1939-45 [VA churches]

1945-67 chaplain, USAF

1967 transfer to Rocky Mountain Conference

Seibert

Meeker

Woodrow

1973 retired

NICHOLAS, JACOB LEONARD

Born: 11-6-1843 southern York County PA married: Amelia Weitkamp

Died: 12-17-1919 Pottsville PA obit: [1/27/1846 – 11/2/1914]

Miller-Raker #: 395

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1880 license

1883 ordained

Interment: Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg PA

Obit: on file

1882-83 Spring Garden [Florin] circuit

1883-86 Hanover circuit

1886-88 Path Valley circuit

1888-89 Dover circuit

1889-90 supernumerary

1890 withdrew, page 10

entered the Lutheran ministry

1890-96 West Fairview charge, Synod of West Pennsylvania: St. Mark’s & St. Paul’s

1904 Ickesburg charge

1910-13 Elderton charge, Pittsburgh Synod: Gastown Christ, Plum Creek Township Mount

Union & South Bend St. Jacob’s

Mechanicsburg

Note: J.L. Nicholas is the father of Lutheran pastors William H. Nicholas (PA,IL), Jacob C. Nicholas (PA), and C.M. Nicholas (PA) – and of Ida Kate Virginia Nicholas Fahs, the wife of Lutheran pastor William H. Fahs (PA,FL).

NICHOLAS, THEODORE J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1872 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit

1876 withdrew

NICKEL, FRANK A. JR

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1950 license, East Pennsylvania Conference: recommended by Lancaster Covenant

1954 ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1951-56 Northampton circuit

1956-58 Elizabethville

1958-60 Harrisburg Skyline View [Mt. Calvary]

1960-65 Lititz

1965-76 Paradise St. John’s

1976-92 Elizabethtown St. Paul’s

1992 retired

NISSLEY, E.S.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1898 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit

1901 referred

Note: An E.S. Nissley is mentioned in connection the Harrisburg Derry Street Sunday School in Gibble's 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 208.

NODEN, GEORGE

Born: 9-1-1857 Maccels Field, England married: Miriam Rossell

Died: 7-7-1942 Nova OH obit: Allegheny Conference 1945,67

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 205

Gibble list: no

1882 quarterly conference license

1883 license, Allegheny Conference

1886 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Sullivan OH

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1942,63

1883-85 Pittsburgh mission

1885-87 Mahoning

1887-88 Newburg

1888-90 Bellefonte

1890-93 Port Matilda

1893-94 New Paris

1894-99 East Freedom

1899-02 Bigler

1902-04 Middletown

1904 retired for health reasons

NOLL, SIMON

Born: 11-2-1817 near Annville PA married: Isabella Weiser [2/14/1852]

Died: 11-8-1899 Annville PA obit: [2/23/1833 – 3/3/1911]

Miller-Raker #: 263

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1840 quarterly conference license

1842 license

1845 ordained

Interment: UB Cemetery, Annville PA

Obit: East German Conference 1900,33

1842-44 Dauphin circuit

1844-45 Lebanon circuit

1845-46 Lancaster circuit

1846 charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1846-48 Berks County mission

1848-49 ?

1849-52 Reading Zion

1852-53 Highspire circuit

1853-55 ?

1855-57 Susquehanna circuit

1857-58 ?

1858-60 Dauphin circuit

1860-62 Sinking Spring circuit

1862-65 Jonestown circuit

1865-67 Pine Grove circuit

1867-69 Lykens Valley circuit

1869 charter member of East German Conference

1869-71 Union Deposit circuit

1871-73 Bellegrove circuit

1873-74 Lykens Valley circuit

1874-75 Myerstown circuit

1875-76 ?

1876-77 Germanville [Valley View] circuit

1877-80 Lebanon circuit

1880-81 Avon circuit

1881-82 Jonestown circuit

1882-84 Union Deposit circuit

1884-85 Swatara circuit

1885 retired, living in Annville

Note: Gibble’s 1951 History of the East Pennsylvania Conference, page 457, gives a brief biography. Simon Noll is the father of Minnie V. Noll Buddinger, wife of David D. Buddinger.

NOON, ADAM ABNER

Born: 1810 York County PA married: Mary Lauer

Died: 2-26-1842 Cambria County PA obit: [1802 to 8/21/1878]

Fulton #: 50

Miller-Raker #: 214

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1836 license

1839 ordained

Interment:

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1907,9

1839-40 York circuit

1840-41 Baltimore station

1841-42 Dauphin circuit

1842 transfer to Allegheny Conference

Note: Adam A. Noon is the brother of Benjamin F. Noon. Their grandmother Mary Ann Otterbein [married to Conrad Noon, born 1750 in Dillenburg Germany], was the daughter of Philip William Otterbein’s brother George Gottfried Otterbein.

NOON, BENJAMIN F.

Born: 9-7-1826 near Johnstown PA married: Anna Mary Fender

Died: 8-1-1898 obit: [1825 to 4/5/1880]

Fulton #: 79 married2: Sarah Custer

Miller-Raker #: 214 obit2: [1/14/1850 – 7/1/1890]

Fulton #: no married3: _____ Spangler

Gibble list: no obit3:

1848 quarterly conference license

1852 license, Allegheny Conference

1855 ordained, Allegheny Conference

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Southmont PA

Obit: Allegheny Conference 1898,38

Stone Valley circuit

Cambria circuit

Ligonier circuit

Cambria circuit

Somerset circuit

Madison circuit

Cambria circuit

Schellsburg circuit

Springfield circuit

superintendent, West District

Cambria circuit

Wilmore circuit

Cambria circuit

Ligonier circuit

Rockwood circuit

1884-88 Clearfield circuit

Coalport circuit

Johnstown Second [Moxham]

Industry circuit

Obrisonia circuit

Note: Benjamin F. Noon is the brother of Adam A. Noon. Their grandmother Mary Ann Otterbein [married to Conrad Noon, born 1750 in Dillenburg Germany], was the daughter of Philip William Otterbein’s brother George Gottfried Otterbein.

NORCROSS, ISAAC

Born: 12-1-1801 married: Rachel Van Court [6/26/1823]

Died: 8-29-1850 obit: [11/22/1803 – 4/30/1892]

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1850 license, East Pennsylvania Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference (manuscript) 1851,28

1850-1850 Lancaster circuit

NOSS, W. RAY

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: 667

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

1931 license

1950 license

Interment:

Obit:

1931-35 living in Mechanicsburg RD

1935 return to quarterly conference license, page 39

1950-59 living in Mechanicsburg RD

1959 return to permanent quarterly conference license, page 89

NUNN, S.J.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

Interment:

Obit:

1881-83 Paradise St. John’s

Note: Nothing else is known about S.J. Nunn and his association with the East Pennsylvania Conference.

NYE, ALLEN G.

Born: 10-22-1865 Lebanon County PA married: Emma Elizabeth Hetrick

Died: 12-27-1948 obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1923,17

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

1893 quarterly conference license, Palmyra Second

1894 license, East German Conference

1897 ordained, East German Conference

Interment: Gravel Hill Cemetery, Palmyra PA

Obit: East Pennsylvania Conference 1949,21

1894-95 Middleburg circuit

1895-96 Cressona

1896-99 Lykens circuit

1899-01 Reading Zion

1901 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1901-04 Reading Zion

1904-06 Allentown Sixth Street [Grace]

1906-11 Lancaster Otterbein

1911-14 Lebanon Memorial

1914-20 Paradise St. John’s

1920-23 Elizabethtown

1923-26 Hershey First

1926-28 Linglestown and Colonial Park

1928-42 Palmyra Second

1942 retired

1944 Hershey First