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

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VanSAUN, ARTHUR C.

 

Born: 7-12-1893                                                          married: Millie Glass

Died: 9-?-1969                                                            obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: 434

Gibble list: no

 

1911    quarterly conference license

1912    license, Miami Conference

1917    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1912-13           Cherry Grove

1913-15           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary

1915-16           Industry, Allegheny Conference

1916                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1916-17           Industry

1917-20           Sewickley (ending 3/15/1920)

1920-21           Monessen (3/16/1920 - 3/15/1921)

1921-23           East Freedom (beginning 3/16/1921)

1924-27           Jeannette

1927-32           Huntingdon (ending 8/16/32)

1932-33           Lutz, Florida

1934-38           C.C.C. Service

1938                name erased for specific violation of the Discipline, page 100

 

Note: Arthur C. Van Saun is a brother to Walter Van Saun (1889-1950) of the Miami Conference and longtime faculty member at Hope College in Holland MI.

 

VARNER, CHAUNCEY JACOB

 

Born: 5-4-1923  St.Michaels PA                                             married: Louise L. Laidig

Died: 3-1-1974  Harrisburg PA                                              obit:

Miller-Raker #: no

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1941    quarterly conference license

1946    license, Allegheny Conference

1952    ordained, Allegheny Conference

 

Interment: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1974,432

 

1943                Rio Grande, South East Ohio Conference (Feb-Oct)

1943-44           Three Springs

1944-46           Fulton Memorial

1946-49           Monessen

1949-52           student, Bonebrake [United] Theological Seminary in Dayton OH

1952-54           Philipsburg

1954-60           director of youth work, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1960-68           staff. Indiana State Council of Churches 

1966-68           executive director, York County Council of Churches

1968-70           executive director, Pennsylvania Council of Churches

1970-74           State College St. John's

 

VARNER, KARL IRVIN

 

Born: 11-1-1923  Niagara Falls NY                            married: Virginia Storer

Died: 12-26-1998                                                        obit:

Miller-Raker #: 698

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: no

 

1944    license, recommended by Spring Run

1947    ordained

 

Interment: Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, Howard County MD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington Conference 1999,611

 

1940-42           student, Shenandoah College

1942-44           student, Otterbein College

1944-47           student, United Seminary

                             1945-47    youth pastor, Dayton Euclid Ave

                             1947       student pastor, Piqua OH Presbyterian Church

1947-49           Myersville

1949-54           Keedysville

1954-59           York Haven

1959-62           Scotland

1962-68           Baltimore Siemers Memorial

1968                local

1970                transfer to Baltimore Conference

1970-87           Relay

1987                retired, active at Catonsville UM

 

Note: Karl I. Varner worked with the juvenile court in Baltimore City 1969-86, and his service to the church after 1968 was on a less-than-full-time basis.

 

 

VICKROY, THOMAS REES

 

Born: 12-27-1833  Stayestown PA                             married: Henrietta Ettie Stahl [1857]

Died: 4-18-1904  St Louis MO                                   obit: [d. 1887]

Miller-Raker #: no                                                       married2: Cordelia Hyatt Myers [1889]

Fulton #: no                                                                 obit2: [d. 1897]

Gibble list: yes

 

?          license, ?

1870    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1866-68           president, Lebanon Valley College

1868                transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71           president, Lebanon Valley College

1871-74           principal, St. Louis MO public schools

1874                name erased

1874-96           principal, St. Louis MO. Public schools

1896                retired

                        1896-1904  publishing advisor in Chicago IL

 

Note: Thomas R. Vickroy had a college degree, worked in a bank, and was a local preacher in the Methodist Church.  He became an ordained United Brethren preach in order to become the first president of Lebanon Valley College.  He authored several textbooks and was a promoter of phonics and phonetic spelling.  His name also appears as THOMAS RHYS VICKORY.

 

VONDERSMITH, A.V.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 477

Fulton #: 316

Gibble list: no

 

1901    license

1903    ordained  1903,45&80

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1902-03           living in Dubois

1903                transfer to Allegheny Conference

1904                transfer

1916-17           Wyoming Park, Michigan Conference

1917                transfer to Michigan Conference

1917-20           Detroit Euclid Avenue

1920                open transfer

1923-24           Dunbar WV

 

Note: While the Dunbar UB (now UM) Church lists Rev. Vondersmith as their pastor, and states they have a picture of him in their pastors’ gallery, he does not appear in the UB yearbooks after 1922.  He appears in the UB yearbooks in sporadically: Va (1905-09), N Ill (1911-15), WV (1916), MI (1918-20,22).  Minutes of the Virginia Conference indicate he was given an advisory seat at the conference of 1904 and 1905, but there is no records of a transfer.  There is also a Miss Orpha Della Vondersmith (1886-1977) in the St. Joseph Conference for a few years in the early 1920’s. 

 

VON NEIDA, JEREMIAH H.

 

Born:                                                                           married:

Died:                                                                           obit:

Miller-Raker #: 408

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes [VON NIEDA]

 

1883    license

1886    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1882-84           Halifax Otterbein

1884                transfer to East German Conference

1884-89           Lykens (moved to Reading during the 1888-89 year)

1889-94           Reading First [Zion] (moved from Lykens during the 1888-89 year)

1894-96           Lebanon Salem

1896-97

1897-99           Reading Zion

1899-00           living in Reading

1900                withdrew

 

Note: Jeremiah H. Von Neida was “given advisory membership” at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, of the Pennsylvania District, convened in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in Reading PA on October 17, 1902.

 

VON NIEDA, SOLOMON

 

Born: 3-24-1809                                                          married:

Died: 7-21-1880  Dayton OH                                     obit:

Miller-Raker #: 282

Fulton #: no

Gibble list: yes

 

1845    license

1848    ordained, East Pennsylvania Conference

 

Interment:

Obit:

 

1846                charter member of East Pennsylvania Conference

1848-49           Berks County circuit

1849-50           Dauphin circuit

1850-52           Myerstown

1854                transfer

 

Note: This surname is also rendered VON NEIDA and VONNIEDA [all one word, with only the V capitalized]. Solomon Von Nieda was active at the denominational level as publishing agent, etc., and the denominational histories contain many references to him.