METHODIST PROTESTANT PASTOR FILE
This file attempts to list all Methodist Protestant pastors who served congregations which once existed within the boundaries of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church as defined in 2010 – i.e., when the Central Pennsylvania Conference received the Pennsylvania churches of the Wyoming Conference and was re-named the Susquehanna Conference. Only a handful of those congregations were still in existence as United Methodist churches in 2010 as follows:
Bedford County: Centerville
Huntingdon County: Cooks
Franklin County: Amberson, Doylesburg and Roxbury
Lackawanna County: Cortez and Daleville
York County: Delta, and Fawn Grove, Mount Nebo and Mount Olivet
In 1939, when the Methodist Protestant Church joined with the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal South denominations to form the Methodist Church, there were three MP conferences active within the forenamed boundaries:
1. Pittsburgh Conference – generally covering the western part of the state, from the Allegheny highlands to the Ohio border. This included Clearfield County.
2. Maryland Conference – generally covering the southern part of the state that drains into the Potomac. This included southern York, Franklin, Fulton and Bedford counties – and reached up into Path Valley.
3. Eastern Conference – generally covering the rest of central and northeast Pennsylvania This conference had been formed in 1911 by uniting two conferences:
a. Pennsylvania Conference – which then included most MP congregations in central and northeast Pennsylvania.
b. New York Conference – which then included (along with New York, New Jersey and all of New England), for reasons involving a previous 1866-75 MP split and re-union, the MP charges of Daleville, Mt. Cobb, Pittston and South Canaan.
Because theses conferences and their pastors served so many charges not included within the 2010 boundaries defined above, the years and charges of interest to this file are given in boldface type. In addition the MP classification “unstationed” is given as “located” – the more widely used within United Methodism, even though the designations are not exactly identical.
Because this file involves so many of United Methodism’s predecessor denominations, and because the same conference names were used by multiple denominations, conference names will typically be followed by a denominational indicator:
EA = Evangelical Association MES = Methodist Episcopal Church South
EUB = Evangelical United Brethren Church MP = Methodist Protestant Church
EV = Evangelical Church UB = United Brethren Church
M = Methodist Church UE = United Evangelical Church
ME = Methodist Episcopal Church UM = United Methodist
and so, for example “Pennsylvania Conference MP 1888, 43” is a different reference than “Pennsylvania Conference UB 1888, 43.”
Note: Because the Pennsylvania Conference MP was so small and weak, its records are far from complete – and even its records at the national UM archives in Madison NJ are incomplete – with no known surviving journals from its founding in 1829 up to and including 1872.
ABBOTT, AMBROSE A.
Born: 1-20-1805 Waitsfield VT married: Mamee [or Alena?] Bay
Died: 5-23-1878 Hillsdale MI obit: [1814 - ?]
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: West Woodbridge Cemetery, Camden MI
Obit:
1840-42 Bradford County
1850 Wayne County
1871 transfer to West Michigan Conference MP
Note: A. Abbott is the Pennsylvania Conference MP ministerial delegate to the 1850 General Conference. He had a long pastorate in Steubenville OH during the Civil War. Surviving letters written by him to various family members indicate he was personally familiar with major personalities of the day.
ACKLEY, STANLEY FRANK
Born: 4-1-1852 Spring Hill PA married: Ophelia A. Cogwell [11/1/1871]
Died: 6-3-1924 Elmhurst PA obit: Eastern Conference MP 1931, 75
1898 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment: Spring Hill PA
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1924, 24
1897-00 Daleville
…
1907-08 Berwick (last 4 months)
1908-09 Berwick (under Home Mission Board)
1909-10 ?
1910-11 Daleville & Freytown and [Maple
Lake & Covington, PA Conf. (5 months)]
1911 charter member and first president of Eastern Conference MP
1911-13 Daleville & Freytown
1913-15 Daleville & Freytown and
chairman, District 8
1915-19 Daleville & Freytown and Maple
Lake & Covington and chairman, District 8
…
1921-23
1923-24 w/o appointment
Note: Note: S.F. Ackley is the father of the noted gospel songwriters B.D. [Bentley DeForest] Ackley (1872-1958) and Rev. A.H. [Alfred Henry] Ackley (1887-1960) of the Presbyterian Church, the latter of which is the author of the ever-popular “He Lives,” and of Rev. George Kilmer Ackley (1878-1930). Rev. G. Kilmer Ackley was an evangelist who transferred from the Methodist Protestant Church to the United Evangelical Church in 1916 [See Eastern Conference MP 1916, 42].
ADAMS, JAMES PEYTON
Born: 12-8-1886 married:
Died: 2-1-1968 obit:
1916 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Brookview Methodist Churchyard, Rhodesdale MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference 1968, 309
1916-18 Mapleside and Fairview
1918-19 Mt. Tabor DC (resigned 8/14/19 to attend school)
1919-20 student, Adrian College in Adrian MI
1920-21 Broadway and Lauraville
1921-22 no appointment at his own request
1922 withdrew
[note: from 1922 to 1924 there is a J.P. Adams in the Pittsburgh Conference MP]
1924 re-admitted
1924-25 Reliance
1925-26 Calvary and Walker’s Chapel
1926-27 Mt. Nebo
1927-28 Clayton
1928-29 Graceland Park
1929-30 director of religious work, Starr Church
1930-31 Greenbackville
1931-32 Harmony
1932-33 Emmanuel
1933-34 on leave
1934-35 Amelia
1935-36 Marley
1936-37 Cumberland circuit
1938-38 Grove
1928-39 Deer Creek
1939-40 Dover
Note: J. Peyton Adams is the preferred usage. He is listed in the 1920-21 catalogue of Western Maryland College as a junior from Vienna MD.
ADAMS, ZIBA
Born: 3-16-1873 married: Josephine L. _____
Died: 3-7-1948 obit: [1877 – 1958]
admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Mount Pleasant United Methodist Cemetery, Pleasantville NJ
Obit: Peninsula Conference 1948, 167
1913 transfer to Maryland Conference
1913-14 Rowlandville
1914-15 Bedford
1915-17 Kent Island
1917-18 Harbeson
1918-19 Warwick
1919-21 Oak Grove and Prince George
1921-22 Leeds
1922-24 Bivalve
1924-27 Franklin City
1927-29 Greenwood
1929-31 St. Michaels
1931-33 Clayton
1933-36 Deer Creek
1936-38 Caroline
1938-39 Dorchester
1939-40 Trinity-Salem
ADKINSON, RICHARD
Born: 9-9-1818 married: Olivia _____
Died: 3-9-1852 Easton MD obit:
1841 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Spring Hill Cemetery, Easton MD
Obit: 1882 Maryland Conference MP history, 78
1841-42 Cecil
1842-43 Cumberland MD [includes PA appointments of later Allegany/Bedford circuits]
1843-44 Sussex
1844-45 no appointment at his own request
1845-46 Allegany [Bedford]
1846-48 Jefferson
1848-50 Sussex
1850-51 Talbot
1851-52 Caroline (ending 3/9/1852)
AMMERMAN, GEORGE EDWARD
Born: 1-11-1889 married: Florence Louisa Hooper
Died: 4-20-1984 obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1980, 200
1933 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Olivet Cemetery, Pittsgrove NJ
Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1985, 209
1933-34 Hollisterville and Cortez
1934-37 Hollisterville
1937-40 Point Erial NJ
Note: Mrs. Ammerman is the daughter of Thomas H. Hooper and a sister to three other parsonage families: Rev. Thomas Leroy Hooper (1894–1975) of the Pittsburgh MP and West Virginia M/UM conferences; Leona Hooper Naylor, wife of George H. Naylor; Mrytle Hooper Sliker, wife of Stephen F. Sliker.
AMES, WILLIAM CREES
Born: 10-15-1839 near Harpers Ferry VA [WV] married: Margaret Catherine Demory
Died: 3-10-1878 obit: [4/12/1838 – 3/21/1907]
1870 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Union Methodist Cemetery, Burrsville MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1878, 50
1869-70 Jefferson
1870-72 Potomac
1872-74 Concord
1874-77 Whaleyville
1877-78 Caroline (ending 3/10/1878)
ANDERSON, CHARLES ERNEST
Born: 7-11-1898 Paterson NJ married: Ayesha Oneita Flowers
Died: 2-9-1988 Columbus MS obit: 9/17/1902 – 4/11/2004]
1929 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: First Presbyterian Cemetery, Mahopac NY
Obit: California-Nevada Conference UM 1988, 294
1916-27 Haddonsfield – Moorestown NJ
1927-29 Daleville – Bloomington PA
1929-30
1930-34
1934-37
1937-39 student, High Point College in High Point NC
1939 Westville NJ
1939 transfer by denominational union to New York East Conference
1939-49 West Granby CT
1940-42 Sag Harbor
1942-43 South Norwalk
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1946047 Shelton
1947 transfer to California Conference
1947-49 Mariposa
1949 transfer to California-Nevada Conference
1949-51 San Jose St. Paul’s
1951-53 Rio Linda
1953-58 Sacramento Elmhurst
1958-59 San Rafael
1959-62 Ceres
1962-63 Greenfield
1963-64 sabbatical
1964 retired
ANDERSON, JOSEPH
Born: 8-7-1835 Harvey’s Lake PA married: Matilda Heffner
Died: 2-22-1896 Harvey’s Lake PA obit: [3/11/1884 – 11/27/1910]
1889 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Orcutt Cemetery, Noxen PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 9
1889-90 Harvey’s Lake
1890-91 Monroe
1891-92 Coles Creek
1892-94 Harvey’s Lake
1894-96 Maple Lake (ending 2-22-1896)
Note: Some sources give an erroneous death date of 2-27-1896.
BABCOCK, EARL M.
Born: 5-11-1886 Exeter NY married: Georgia M. Smith [1922]
Died: 6-30-1969 Richfield Springs NY obit: [9/17/1894 – 2/?/1974]
1927 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Fly Creek Cemetery, Fly Creek NY
Obit:
1925-27 Hollisterville
1927-30
1930-31 living in
1931-32
1932-35 w/o appointment, living in Burlington Flats NY
Note: Earl Babcock and Georgia Smith met and married while students at the Practical Bible Training School In Binghamton NY.
BACCHUS, GEORGE QUITMAN
Born: 10-2-1850 married: Carrie Blanch McPherson
Died: 2-23-1930 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1926, 141
1874 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1930, 139
1874-75 Stewartstown
1875-77 Bel Air
1877-78 Campbell
1878-80 Pocomoke
1880-82 Dorchester
1882-85 Caroline
1885-87 Harrington DE
1887-90 Laurel
1890-92 Crisfield
1892-97 Baltimore First
1897-00 Cambridge
1900-04 Lynchburg
1904-08 Broadway
1908-10 Mount Tabor
1910-15 St. Michaels
1915-17 Elizabeth
1917-18 Park Road
1918-21 Centreville
1921 retired
BAILEY, GEORGE
Born: 1848 Nippenose twp, Lycoming Co PA married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Loyalsock
Note: George Bailey is the son of Levi L. Bailey.
BAILEY, LEVI L.
Born: c1824 married: Elizabeth Curtis
Died: 4-29-1878 Williamsport PA obit:
married2: Jane _____
1873 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conf MP obit2:
1873 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit: [Wilkes-Barre PA Record of the Times 5/3/1878, page 1]
1873-74 Lycoming
…
1877-78 Loyalsock
Note: Levi L. Bailey is the father of George Bailey.
BAIRD, ROBERT
Born: 11-20-1794 Westchester County NY married:
Died: 10-13-1860 obit:
Interment: Laddsburg Cemetery, Laddsburg PA
Obit: death reported in September 1861 manuscript minutes of the Pennsylvania Conference
[Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
1860-61 under the superintendent
Note: Robert Baird is the Pennsylvania Conference MP ministerial delegate to the 1846 General Conference, and he appears in the 1859 list of members of the Pennsylvania Conference MP.
BAIRD, ZACHARIAH DuBOIS
Born: 5-1-1817 married: Lovinia A. _____
Died: 7-24-1886 obit: [12-4-1834 – 7/9/1871]
admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment: Creekside Cemetery, Churchville NY
Obit:
New York East Conference ME
1875-76 West Granby
1876-77 West Rocky Hill
…
“transfer” to New York Conference MP
…
1878-80 Pittston PA
1880-82 Daleville PA
Note: Z.D. Baird served in the New York East Conference ME as a supply pastor. It has not been conclusively documented that the Z.D. Baird Zachariah DuBois Baird whose personal information is given above is the Z.D. Baird who served in the Methodist Protestant Church.
BAKER, ALFRED
Born: 6-4-1812 married: Louisa Moxley
Died: 1-17-1885 obit: [1811 -1/30/1872]
1841 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Providence UMC Church Cemetery, Kemptown MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1886, 86
1841-44 Concord
1844-45 Baltimore circuit
1845-47 on leave
1847-48 Baltimore circuit
1848-49 on leave
1849-50 Patuxent
1850-52 Frederick
1852-57 on leave
1857-58 Frederick
1858-64 on leave
1864-65 on loan to Montgomery AL
1865-66 no appointment at his own request
1866-67 on loan to Montgomery AL
1867-68 no appointment at his own request
1868-69 on loan to Montgomery AL
1869-70 no appointment at his own request
1870 retired
Note: The birth and death dates given for Alfred Baker vary. Other sources give a birth year of 1813 and/or death year of 1886. A 41-page document produced by the Maryland Historic Trust on the Alfred Baker House is given at http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/historic/upperpatuxent/documents/15-4MIHPFORMCOMPLETE_000.pdf .
BAKER, LEROY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1909-10 in the hands of the president
BARLOW, JOSEPH
Born: 4-?-1787 near Manchester England married: Phebe Howell Phillips
Died: 5-22-1858 obit: [3/11/1808 – 1/9/1892]
1808 entered ministry in the Methodist Connection in England
1829 present at organization convention of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1829-30 Salem
1835 transfer to Presbytery of Montrose, Presbyterian Church
1837-43 Salem
1843-46 Archbald (Blakely)
1852-56 Abington
1856-58 Franklin (Susquehanna County) PA Presbyterian
Note: Joseph Barlow came to America in 1819. He apparently served a circuit of several
area Presbyterian churches. The history of the Franklin Hill Presbyterian Church,
Susquehanna County, states: “In 1836 the Church became Presbyterian and five
elders were chosen. They united with Liberty Presbyterian church in the support
of the Rev. Joseph Barlow as pastor. He served them until his death by fire in
the manse in May 1858.” He is reported to have preached for the Presbyterians in
Sterling about 1827. Joseph Barlow is
also the founding pastor of the Providence Presbyterian Church in Scranton and
its pastor of record 1856-57, as well as the pastor of record at Liberty
Presbyterian Church, near Montrose – apparently he preached at a variety of
places under the auspices of the Presbyterian’s American Home Missionary
Society. Mrs. Barlow is buried in
Kansas City KS, where she appears to have moved with her son.
BARNEY, S.L.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1846 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1846-47 assistant, Juniata; assistant, Queen Anne
Note: It appears that S.L.A. Barney was moved during the conference year
BASFORD, CALVIN H.
Born: c1849 MD married: Viola L. _____
Died: 8-22-1926 Philadelphia PA obit:
1876 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference ME
1878 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Marathon Village Cemetery, Marathon NY
Obit:
1876-77 Bentley Springs
1877 “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1877-78 Monroe
1878-79 Pine Creek
1879-80 Burlington
1880 “transfer” To Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1880-81 Harford
1881-83 Rush
1883-85 Apalachin
1885-87 Spencer
1887 no longer listed
“transfer” to
Philadelphia Conference
“transfer” to New York
Conference
Note: Calvin H. Basford
served as a local and/or supply pastor in the Wyoming Conference and the
Philadelphia Conference and, for a few years before his death, in Sullivan
County of the New York Conference. The
tombstone gives the name of Mrs. Basford as Viala, but there are no dates.
BATEMAN, THOMAS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1873 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Albany
Note: This may be the Rev. Thomas M. Bateman (1845-1920) who was born in England and entered the ministry of the Primitive Methodist Church in 1876.
BATES, DANIEL WEBSTER
Born: 6-10-1815 Medford NJ married:
Died: 11-9-1895 Edesville MD obit:
1835 exhorter’s license, ME church
1840 joins MP church
1842 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Rock Hall MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1896, 75
1842-43 Wesley Chapel
1843-44 Cecil
1844-45 Snow Hill
1845-47 Cambridge
1847-48 Williamsport MD
1848-51 New Market
1851-53 Baltimore circuit
1853-55 Philadelphia Salem
1855-58 Howard
1858-60 Kent
1860-61 Caroline
1861-63 Anne Arundel
1863-65 Baltimore MD Washington Street [Alnutt Memorial]
1865-66 Alexandria
1866-69 Liberty
1869-72 Baltimore circuit
1972-74 Stewartstown
1874-77 Warwick
1877-80 president, Maryland Conference
1880-83 Chesapeake
1883 retired
Note: Daniel Webster Bates is a brother to Rev. Laurence Webster Bates (1819-1901) of the Maryland Conference MP and to Anna Bates Dumm, wife of William T. Dumm. A biography of Daniel W. Bates appears in Simpson’s 1878 Cyclodedia of Methodism.
BATTERSBY, GEORGE SAMUEL
Born: 1-24-1830 Manchester, England married: Emily Davis Conner [3/2/1865]
Died: 6-11-1890 Philadelphia PA obit: [11/14/1844 – 12/12/1934]
1861 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA
Obit:
1861-62 Warwick
1862-63 Caroline
1863-64 Worcester
1864-65 Bedford
1865-66 Union
1866-67 Concord
1867-68 Harmony
1868 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1868-69 Union
1869 withdrew to enter the Lutheran ministry
Note: G.S. Battersby was originally interred at Glenwood Cemetery, but re-interred at Cedar Hill in 1892.
BAUGHMAN, GEORGE E.
Born: 2-8-1899 York PA married: Grace N. _____
Died: 11-9-1988 Cumberland MD obit: [1898 – 1970]
1926 local pastor’s license, Central Pennsylvania Conference ME Church
Interment: Sunset Memorial Park, Cumberland MD
Obit:
1926-29 Concord
1929-31 Oak Grove and Prince George, Maryland Conference MP
1931-32 Bedford, Maryland Conference MP
1932 received by the Maryland Conference
1932-33 Bedford
1933-39 Cumberland
First
1939 transfer by
denomination union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-46 Cumberland First
1946 voluntary location
BAUSCHER, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Born: 11-13-1883 married: Emma Jane Schafer
Died: 6-10-1947 obit: Peninsula Conference 1957, 480
1912 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Peninsula Conference 1948, 168
1912-15 Deer Park
1915-18 Bedford
1918-21 Liberty
1921-23 Wallace Memorial
1923-26 Accomac
1926-29 Union
1929-31 Powellville
1931-35 Dover and Leipsic
1935-39 Kennedyville
1939 transfer by denominational union to Peninsula Conference M
1939-40 Kennedyville
BEANE, ADDISON SPURGEON.
Born: 11-18-1858 Northumberland County VA married: Eliza Jane Beatley
Died: 9-21-1928 Baltimore MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1936, 145
1893 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Woodlawn MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1929, 144
1890-92 Grove
1892-97 Franklin City
1897-99 Greenwood
1899-02 Bedford
1902-05 First DC
1905-08 New Market
1909-28 Keen Memorial
1928 retired
BAXTER, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1884-85 no appointment
BELLES, ROBERT BRUCE
Born: 9-26-1854 Luzerne County PA married: Rosa Sorber
Died: 4-8-1941 Danville PA obit: [9/5/1861 – 2/14/1948]
1883 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1884 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Sorber Cemetery [aka Reyburn Cemetery], Shickshinny PA
Obit:
1882-83 Shickshinny and Pine Creek
1883-84 Shickshinny
1884-88 Monroe
1888-89 Salem and Sterling
…
1892-95 Monroe
…
1898-99 Harvey’s Lake
1899-03 Albany
1903-07 Reyburn
1907-09 conference president
1909-11 Monroe (did
not finish last year)
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-14 w/o appointment
1914 located
Note: This surname is also given as BELLAS, BELLIS and BELLUS. The spelling above is as given on the tombstone.
BENNETT, LOUIS ALLEN
Born: 1-26-1866 married: Lillian A. _____
Died: 7-22-1932 obit:
1892 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1933, 131
1890-91 Frederick
1891-94 Georgetown DE
1894-97 Waverly
1897-01 Mariners
1901-04 Delmar
1904-06 Fawn Grove
1906-10 Snow Hill
1910-11 Harrington DE
1911-17 Milford
1917-20 no appointment at his own request
1920-21 Baltimore Bethany
1921-22 no appointment at his own request
1922 retired
BERRIMAN, MARK
Born: 12-28-1839 Somerset, Englamd married: Martha Jane Stead [9/23/1869]
Died: 8-17-1883 Muncy PA obit: [6/14/1846 – 1/11/1936]
1867 license
1870 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Muncy Cemetery, Muncy PA
Obit: [New York Conference MP 1902, 9]
1871-80 South Canaan
BICHELL, ALBERT ALONZO
Born: 1864 married: Edith M. Emmett [1897]
Died: 4-2-1923 obit: [1874 - ?]
married2: Minie Schelhase [c.1918]
1897 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [11/19/1882 - ?]
Interment:
Obit:
1897-98 Canton St. John’s
1898-99 Quantico
1899-00 Nichols Memorial
1900-02 Mt. Nebo PA
1902-05 Keen Memorial (ending 7/24/1904)
1905 “transfer” to Wilmington Conference ME
1905-06 Crapo
1906-07 Burrsville
1907 transfer to Baltimore Conference ME
1907-08 Chestnut Ridge
1908-09 Herndon VA
1909-10 Paw Paw WV
1910 located
1910-11 Baltimore Remington Avenue Independent Methodist Church (ending 8/6/1911)
work as a supply preacher
1912-13 Orrtanna, Central Pennsylvania Conference
1916-17 Presho and Vivian, Dakota Conference
1919-20 Cross Fork, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Note: The second Mrs. Bichell later married a Mr. Wamsley [after 1940].
Note1: The President’s report in the 1905 journal states: July 26th, 1904, I received a letter from Rev. A. A. Bichell stating he had taken work in another denomination, and would not preach any more in Keen
Memorial Church, to which he had been appointed at the
last Conference. August 1st, 1904, I gave him a letter setting forth the facts
in the case. As he had not complied with his engagements to the Conference, and
was still indebted (in a small amount) to the Board of Ministerial Education,
the law prevented the
giving of such a testimonial as he might otherwise have been entitled to. I recommend that his name be stricken from the roll.
Note2: The March 1907 Wilmington Conference annual meeting assigned A.A. Bichell to Leipsic DE before he was received into the Baltimore Conference at their April 1907 annual meeting.
Note3: The 4/10/1910 Baltimore Sun, page 5, reports on the
1910 Maryland Conference MP annual conference as follows: The application of Rev. A. A. Bichell for admittance to
the conference was refused, the committee reported. Mr. Bichell was a former
Methodist Protestant minister. but went into the Methodist Episcopal Church in
the Wilmington Conference. After spending some years in the latter denomination
he asked to be reinstated in the Maryland Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church.
Note4: The 8/26/1911 Denton MD Journal, page 5, reports the following: Rev.
Mr. Bichell Leaves Church. The Baltimore papers of Monday note that Rev. Albert
A. Bichell, formerly of Burrsville, this county, has left the Remington Avenue
Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore, of which he was pastor until a few
days ago, when he sent in his resignation and left the city. Mrs. Bichell, the
papers stated, recently left her husband, and the domestic trouble caused the minister
to quit. The Evening Sun of Monday, speaking of the Bichell trouble said:
"They are said to have started when Mr. Bichell, who recently conducted
services on the Eastern Shore, failed to return when he promised his wife he
would, and several disputes followed. Members of his congregation, hearing of
it, the subject was soon common gossip about that section. When asked about her
husband this morning Mrs. Bichell didn't "care to speak." Neighbors
said they had not seen any sign of the missing minister, but some think that he
may have gone back to the Eastern Shore. Mr. Bichell resigned August 6, and the
church board, hearing of the pastor's dispute with his wife, requested both to
appear before them last Monday night. Mr. Bichell did so but his wife was away
and did not return for several days. As nothing definite could be decided upon
concerning the dispute, the board refuted to accept the resignation.''
BIRDSALL, ARCHIBALD [ARCHIE] F.
Born: 1903 married: Effie Jane Van Louvender
Died: 1957 obit: [1902 – 1977]
1926 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Pine Hill Cemetery, Shickshinny PA
Obit:
1922-25 Cassville
1925-27 Shickshinny
1927-28 Shickshinny and chairman,
Pennsylvania District
1928-35 Shickshinny
1935-37 Shickshinny and chairman,
Pennsylvania District
1937-40 Shickshinny
Note: Archibald F. Birdsall is the father of Rev. Warren Birdsall (1923-1995), who succeeded his father at the then independent Shickshinny church from 1957 to 1975, and of Rev. Clifford A. Birdsall (1925-2002), who supplied area independent, Baptist and Bible Fellowship congregations. Rev. Birdsall and the Shickshinny congregation remained out of the 1939 denominational union and became independent. Mrs. Birdsall’s maiden name is also given as Van Leuvender.
BLAKE,
CHARLES WESLEY
Born:
7-24-1817 married:
Ann Greenfield
Died:
3-17-1893 obit:
[1/20/1813 – 3/22/1883]
married2: Mary Electa
Jewett
obit2:
[1/27/1838 - ]
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn PA
Obit:
1869-71 Canaan
1872-75 Lackawaxen, Wyoming Conference of the
ME Church
1875-77 Rileyville, Wyoming Conference of the
ME Church
Note: C.W. Blake is the father of Susannah
Blake Price, wife of George T. Price. He
served as a local preacher and had been a chaplain in the Civil War. In 1902 the second Mrs. Blake married widower
Mr. Jason S. Wright.
BLAKE, DORSEY
Born: 6-14-1864 Rockford WV married: A. Annetta Rogers
Died: 3-20-1945 Milford DE obit: [1867 – 1959]
1892 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milford DE
Obit: Peninsula Conference M 1945, 167
1892-94 Salem
1894-95 Lynchburg
1895-97 Greenwood
1897-00 Snow Hill
1900-03 Fawn Grove PA
1903-05 Bel Air
1905-07 Cambridge
1907-09 Waltersville
1909-10 Centreville
1910-14 Stewartstown PA
1914-15 without appointment, living in Dover DE
1915-17 Federalsburg
1917-18 on leave
1918-20 St. Michaels
1920-21 no appointment at his own request
1921-26 Indian River
1926 retired
1931-34 Indian River
BLOOMFIELD,
ARTHUR G.
Born:
11-4-1845 London, England married: Esther Ann
Wakelin
Died:
12-4-1940 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming
Conference M 1937, 153
1854 exhorter’s license, Ontario, Canada
1855 quarterly conference license, Ontario,
Canada
1867 admitted on trial, Wesleyan Methodist
Conference of Canada
Interment:
Maple Grove Cemetery, Canfor NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference M 1941, 154
1867-68 Brock
1868-69 Millbrook
1869 transfer to Illinois Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church
Marseilles
Kendall
New Bedford
East Bench
1875 transfer to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church
Corfu
Kendall
1879 transfer to Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1879-84 Auburn
1884-85 no appointment at his own request
withdrew 9/6/1885
1886 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1886-87 Franklin Forks
1887-90 North Tioga
1890-92 Speedsville
1892-95 on leave, living in Corfu NY
1895 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Arthur
G. Bloomfield appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 285.
BOOTH, JOHN WESLEY
Born: 6-13-1868 DE married: Mary E. Parry
Died: 7-25-1953 Eddystone PA obit: [3/27/1869 – 1/8/1949]
1938 admitted, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1938 ordained, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
Interment: Sorber Cemetery, Shickshinny PA
Obit:
1923-27 New Brooklyn NJ
1927-29 Hollisterville
1929-32 Hollisterville and Cortez
1932-33 living in Hollisterville
1933-34
1934-37 Point Erial NJ
1937-39 Reyburn
1939-40 w/o appointment
Note: John Wesley Booth and the Reyburn charge remained out of the 1939 denominational union and joined the newly formed Bible Protestant denomination.
BOTTS, JOHN RICHARD
Born: 1832 Duboistown PA married: Mary May Myerly
Died: 8-?-1902 Trout Run PA obit: [7/15/1840 – 4/1/1922]
1882 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
1881-82 Lycoming (beginning 10/26/1881)
1882-83 Williamsport
1883-84 Lycoming
1884-85 Albany
…
1892-94 Albany
1894-95 conference president
1896-99 Monroe (Noxen, Beaumont, Evans Falls, Stull, South Run)
Note: John R. Botts was the Pennsylvania Conference ministerial delegate to the 1888 and 1896 General Conferences.
BOUGHEY,
JOSIAH
Born:
1821 England married: Hannah
Bentley (12/26/1842 in England)
Died:
6-25-1888 Schuylkill County PA obit: [d. 8/21/1885]
admitted on
trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Tamaqua PA
Obit:
Note:
Josiah applied for admission to the Pennsylvania Conference in 1860 and then
withdrew his application. In 1864 he
helped organize a Primitive Methodist congregation in Girardville, Schuylkill
County PA.
BOWMAN, SIMPSON PETER
Born: 6-5-1877 Calvin PA married: Julia Viola Hazzard [9/7/1899]
Died: 7-17-1945 Orbisonia PA obit: [3/?/1882 – 1968]
Interment: Trough Creek Cemetery, Calvin PA
Obit:
1921-22 Coles Valley (Huntingdon County)
1922-23 assistant, Cassville
Note: The Coles Valley appointment was organized in 1844 but never had a building. They met in the schoolhouse near the Coles Valley cemetery. In 1922 Coles Valley became part of the Cassville circuit, and Simpson Bowman is listed as conducting services and funeals at the Harmony Grove MP church that year. His death certificate lists him as a “laborer” and a lifelong resident of resident of Huntingdon County, with burial at the “Baptise [sic] Cemetery” in Calvin.
BOYD, REUBEN TYLER
Born: 7-3-1794 near Rockville MD married: ? [12/22/1818]
Died: 2-21-1865 Clarksburg MD obit:
married2: Elizabeth Moore [1835]
1825 license, Baltimore Conference ME obit2: [8/4/1811 – 10/3/1882]
1829 ordained deacon, [Maryland Conference] MP
1832 ordained elder, Maryland Conference MP
1833 admitted, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Clarksburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Clarksburg MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1865, 42
1833-34 Shippensburg
1834-35 Prince William
1835-36 New Market
1836-38 Snow Hill
1838-39 Dorchester
1839-40 New Leeds
1840 transfer to Illinois Conference MP
1840-42 (circuit in western Kentucky)
1844 transfer to Ohio Conference MP
1844-49 (circuits in Ohio)
1849 transfer to Maryland Conference
1849-50 Trough Creek
1850-52 Allegany [Bedford]
1852-54 Caroline
1854-55 Anne Arundel
1855-56 Dorchester
1856-57 retired
1857-58 Warwick
1858-59 Accomac
1859 retired
BREWER, OTHO GRACEN
Born: 4-25-1897 married: Flora E. Bosley
Died: 9-19-1965 obit: [11/20/1900 – 9/17/1976]
1922 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mardela Memorial Cemetery, Mardela Springs MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference M 1966, 928
1922-24 Quantico
1924-25 Fairfax
1925-27 Reliance
1927-28 Bedford
1928-30 Liberty
1929-30 Lewistown
1930-31 Dagsboro
1931-35 Greenbackville
1935-36 Dorchester
1936-39 Mardela
Note: Otho Brewer is the father of Rev. Ortho G. Brewer Jr (1925-2001) of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference UM.
BRIGHT, HARRY JONATHAN
Born: 9-10-1865 Myerstown PA married: Jennie Alice Rouvenac [5/23/1889]
Died: 4-30-1948 Northfield NJ obit: [1/1/1866 – 3/12/1942]
married2: Experience “Peaney” Mannery Leeds
1913 ordained, Eastern Conference MP obit2: [7/25/1873 – 4/28/1962]
Interment:
Obit:
1912-13 Oceanville NJ
1913-19 Cassville
1915-17 chairman,
District 9
1919-21 Daleville PA
1921-24 Daleville and chairman, Pennsylvania
District
1924-27
1927-30 Fair
1932-33 Friendship NJ
1933-34 retired
1934-40 Millville NJ Second
Note: As of 1975, the Eastport NY church was the Eastport Gospel Church – and a booklet from that church gives the wife of Harry J. Bright as Laura, but that appears to be the wife of his son Wesley. The second Mrs. Bright (nee Mannery) was the widow of a Mr. Thomas Alomzo Leeds (1855-1935).
BROHAWN, REGINALD TALMADGE SR.
Born: 3-6-1908 married: Freada Morgan Robison
Died: 3-?-1981 obit: [1910 – 1994]
1929 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Bethel ME Church Cemetery, Centerville PA
Obit:
1929-31 Bedford PA
1931 no longer listed
entered the ministry if the Church of the Nazarene
Broad Top PA
Oakland MD
Moscow MD
Note: Reginald T. Bowman, at the time of his death, was living on Oriole Drive in RD 4, Cumberland MD.
BROOKS, JOSEPH D.
Born: 9 -1-1826 married: Mary _____
Died: 6-23-1872 obit: [1/30/1821 – 1/6/1904]
1844 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit:
1844-45 Pipe Creek
1845-46 Trough Creek PA
1856-47 Newton
1847-48 no appointment
1848-49 Anne Arundel
1849-50 Carlisle PA
1850 located
Note: Joseph D. Brooks later became a medical doctor.
BROWER, JAMES H.
Born: 10-2-1852 married: Jessie _____
Died: 11-1-1925 obit: Eastern Conference MP 1918, 26
1897 ordained, New York Conference MP
Interment: Fair View Cemetery, Middletown NJ
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1926, 25
1908-11 Eastwoods CT
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1912-14
1915-16
1916 Reyburn (ending 10/19/1916)
1916-17 Scullville NJ
----
1921-22 Fair
1922-26 Eastwoods CT (ending 11/1/1925)
1923-24 Noroton Heights
Note: James H. Brower apparently never actually served at Reyburn, as his return to Scullville was effect ted 4 days after the close of the 1916 annual conference. The Jessie Brower whose obituary is given in Eastern Conference MP 1918,26 is the daughter and not the wife of James H. Brower.
BROWN, T.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1880-84 Canaan
BROWN, WILLIAM A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
BRUFF, WILLIAM HOWELL
Born: 4-6-1858 Allegheny City PA married:
Died: 3-27-1919 Pittsburgh PA obit:
1885 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1891 ordained
Interment: Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA
Obit: [Pittsburgh Press 3/28/1919
1885-87 Cassville
1887-88 Trumbull
1888-90 no appointment at his own request
1890-91 Trumbull
1891-92 Uniontown
1892 no longer listed
Note: William H. Bruff appears not to have married. He apparently became a pastor in the Christian Church. His obituary states he “graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, and later from the Adrian Theological Seminary, Adrian, Mich. He held pastorates in Brilliant, Pa., Lowellville, O., and other places before returning to Pittsburgh. Prior to becoming pastor of the Observatory Hill [Christian] church here, he was pastor of Calvary Christian church, Shadeland Ave.”
BRYAN, BENJAMIN AUGUST
Born: 10-24-1872 married: Nellie Lowe
Died: 1-11-1959 obit: Baltimore Conference M 1966, 403
1904 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery, Mount Airy MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1959, 281
1904-05 Montgomery
1905-06 Marley
1907-09 Deer Creek
1909-11 Harbeson
1911-12 Lawsonia
1912-14 Bethany
1914-15 Hurlock
1915-18 New Market
1918-19 Howard
1919-22 Bedford
1922-24 Reliance
1924-26 Delmar
1926-28 Stewartstown
1928-30 Ridgeville
1930-33 New Church
1933-37 Nichols Memorial
1937-40 Frederick
BRYAN, THOMAS M.
Born: 2-1-1818 married:
Died: 5-11-1879 obit:
1846 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, St. Michaels MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1880, 52
1846-47 Smyrna
1847-48 Potomac
1848-49 Clearfield
1849-50 no appointment at his own request
1850-51 Accomac
1851-53 Newton
1853-55 Dorchester
1855-57 on leave
1857-59 Sussex
1859-61 no appointment at his own request
1861-64 on leave
1864-66 West Baltimore circuit
1866 retired
BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
Note: This may be the George Buckingham (1824-1871) buried in the Hornbaker Cemetery, Madisonville, Lackawanna County PA and husband of Sarah Finch Buckingham (1825-1903)
BUDD, GEORGE
Born: 1-29-1899 Camberly, England married: Lillian. Pearl Gilbert
Died:12-18-1989 Caribou ME obit: New England Conference 2005, B-279
Methodist lay preacher in England
1933 ordained elder, Pittsburgh Conference MP
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Caribou ME
Obit: Main Conference 1990, 240
Sheffield
Leeds
Liverpool
1928 “transfer” to United Church of Canada in Newfoundland
Whitbourne parish
Clarenville
Shoal Harbor
1931 “tranbsfer” to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1932-33 Sharpsburg – Fox Chapel
1933-35 Fairchance and Hopwood
1935-36 Fairchance circuit
1936-38 Kittanning
1938-39 Bakerstown and Fox Chapel
1939-40 East Liverpool OH
transfer to N.E. Ohio Conference (12/1/1939)
Bakertown
George’s Run
Streetsboro
1943 transfer to Maine Conference
1944 transfer to United Church of Canada
[appoinments in Canada]
1946 transfer to Maine Conference
1946-48 Machias
1948-56 Lincoln
1956-64 Caribou
1964-66 Woodland
1966 retired
Colby ME First Baptist
Franklin ME Baptist
Caribou ME United Baptist
Note: George Budd reportedly supplied the Houtzdale charge sporadically during his 1936-38 tenure at Kittanning while the appointed pastor was temporarily unable to do so. Mrs. Budd is also known as Pearl D. Budd.
BULKLEY, L. THOMAS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1898 in hands of the president, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1897-99 Spring Lake (Spring Lake, Oak Hill, Fairbanks, Sugar Hill) (beginning 7/5/1897)
Note: The location of this charge is uncertain, but it is believed to be in New Jersey.
BURCH, RANDOLPH CLAYTON
Born:
7-23-1875 Baltimore MD married: Anna
Fidelia Dale
Died:
1-25-1960 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1947, 728
1895 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1960, 253
1895-00 ?
1900-03 Daleville
PA
1903-07 Pittston
PA
1907-10 Daleville
PA
1910 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1910-13 Waymart
1913-16 Factoryville
1916-19 Scranton Embury
1919-24 Scranton Providence
1924-25 Sayre
1925-30 Honesdale
1930-32 Worcester
1932 retired
BURROW, WILLIAM
Born: 1847 married: Ann Carr
Died: 12-18-1896 Cookport PA obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1927, 42
1888 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1888 ordained, Pittsburgh Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1897, ?
1885-88 Bakerstown and Saxon (beginning 12/4/1885)
1888-90 Bakerstown
1890-94 Cassville
1894-96 Ebenezer circuit
1896-97 Cookport circuit (ending 12/18/1896)
Note: The birth year for Mrs. Burrow, not given in her obituary, is 1844. She is buried in the Bakerstown Cemetery in Bakerstown PA.
BURTON, THEOPHILUS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1848 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1848-49 Newtown
1849-51 Prince William
1851-52 Trough Creek
1852-53 Talbot
1853-55 Sussex
1855-56 no appointment at his own request
1856-57 Warwick
1857-59 Williamsport MD
1859 located
“transfer” to Methodist Episcopal Church
1884 “transfer” to Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South – page 14
BUTLER, JOHN BAILEY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1871 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1869-70 Frederick
1870-71 no appointment
1871-72 Baltimore circuit
1872-73 Bedford PA
1873-74 Howard
1874-75 Anne Arundel
1875-76 Crumpton
1876-77 Finksburg
1877-78 Chincoteague
1878-79 Guilford
1879-80 no appointment at his own request
1880-87 on leave
1887 located
Note: John Bailey Butler was a medical doctor.
CAIN, FRANK SHAW
Born: 5-11-1866 Uniontown MD married: Bessie Davis Bennett
Died: 3-11-1931 Stewartstown PA obit:
1895 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1898 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1931, 134
1894-95 Chincoteague
1895-96 Leipsic
1896-97 Marley
1897-98 Beaver Dam
1898-00 Mt. Nebo
1900-03 Pocomoke
1903-04 Oak Grove and Prince George
1904-07 Warwick
1907-08 Salem
1908-10 Rolandville
1910-11 Felton
1911-13 Kent Island
1913-16 Kennedyville
1916-19 Susquehanna
1919-23 Lisbon
1923-25 Leeds
1925-27 Harpers Ferry
1927-28 Hurlock
1928-31 Stewartstown (ending 3/11/1931)
Note: Frank Shaw Cain is the son of Rev. Joshua Cain, a local preacher in the Methodist Protestant Church.
CAIRNS, JAMES
Born: 12-31-1843 Ireland married: Mary Jane McMullen
Died: 10-7-1914 obit: [1844 – 1903]
married2: Rev. Emma E. Nutter [1909]
1885 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conf MP obit2: New Jersey Conference M 1956, 139
1888 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Hollisterville Cemetery, Hollisterville PA
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1914, 22
1872 came to America, active local preacher in Pennsylvania Conference MP
1883-84 Pine Creek (beginning 6/?/1884)
1884-85 Williamsport and Tivoli
1885-86 Albany
1886-88 Salem and Sterling
1888-89 Covington
1889-92 [records incomplete]
1892-95 Covington and Harvey’s Lake
conference president
1897 transfer to New Jersey Conference MP
Newark
Kearney Beulah
Millville Second
Note: James Cairns is the father of Thompson Alexander Cairns and Rev. Robert Edward Cairns (1884-1922) of the Pittsburgh Conference MP and (through Robert) the grandfather of Rev. Robert Harlan Cairns (1913-1995) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference UMC. The second Mrs. Cairns was an ordained elder in the New Jersey Conference MP.
CAIRNS, THOMPSON ALEXANDER
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1897 ordained (8/29/1897), Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1897-00 missionary to Japan (beginning 10/1897)
Note: T.A. Cairns is the son of James Cairns. An 1897 graduate of Adrian College (Michigan) and a Methodist Protestant missionary to Japan he resigned that work and left the Methodist Protestant church in May 1900 to unite with Dowie’s radical Christian Catholic Church and their Zion Home in Chicago.
CARROLL, FLOYD A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1938 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1936-39 Warwick
1939-40 Doylesburg PA
1939 transfer by denominational union
to Central Pennsylvania Conference of Methodist Church
1939-40 Doylesburg
1940-42 Dillsburg-Wellsville
1942-45 Duncannon
1945-50 Gettysburg
1950 withdrew
Note: Floyd
A. Carroll was a student at Westminster Theological Seminary 1937-38.
CARSON,
C.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 Reyburn
(10/31/1918 – 11/16/1918)
CASSEN, SAMUEL FRANKLIN
Born: 11-22-1859 married: Elizabeth Robinson Smith
Died: 8-13-1941 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1930, 146
admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Prospect Hill Park Cemetery, Towson MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1942, 141
1883-84 assistant, Frederick
1884-85 assistant, Anne Arundel
1885-86 Deer Park
1886-89 Deer Creek
1889-91 Cambridge
1891-93 Bedford
1893-96 Liberty
1896-03 New Market
1903-04 Greeenwood
1904-13 Finksburg
1913-27 Baltimore circuit
1927 retired
Note: Samuel F. Cassen is the father of Methodist Protestant missionary to India Rev. Paul Cassen.
CHARLTON, JOHN WILLIAM
Born: 1-27-1832 Worcester County MD married: Marey “Mollie” Farrow
Died: 2-24-1896 MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1918, 171
1860 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1896, 78
1859-60 Frederick
1860-61 Snow Hill
1861-62 Queen Anne
1862-64 Cumberland
1864-65 Broadway
1865-67 Philadelphia Salem
1867-69 East Washington
1869-71 Anne Arundel
1871-74 Laurel
1874-77 Pipe Creek
1877-78 college agent
1878-79 South Baltimore
1879-81 Finksburg
1881-84 Fawn Grove
1884-85 Talbot
1885-87 Seaford
1887-90 Susquehanna
1890-93 Pipe Creek
1893-95 Kemptown
1895-96 Accomac (ending 2/24/1896)
CHEW, ELIJAH H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Salem and Sterling
CHRISTIE, JOHN MCD.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1922-23 Hollisterville
CLAY, JEREMIAH
Born: 1829 married: Alcinda Sampson
Died: 11-7-1895 obit: [8/30/1842 – 12/16/1911]
1850 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Duncannon PA
Obit:
1850-51 New Market
1851-52 Union
1852-53 Trough Creek
1853-54 Deer Creek
1854-55 Bew Market
1855-56 Philadelphia Salem
1856-57 Williamsport MD
1857-58 Potomac
1858-59 Frederick
1859-60 Reading
1860-61 Cumberland
1861-62 Trough Creek
1862-63 no appointment at his own request
1863-64 Concord
1864-65 Trough Creek
1865-66 West Baltimore circuit
1866-68 Harpers Ferry
1868-69 Millsborough
1869-70 Whaleyville
1870-71 Lewistown
1871-72 Whiteground
1872-73 Severn
1873-74 Caroline
1874-75 Cambridge
1875-82 no appointment
1882-87 on leave
1887 located
Note: By 1879, Jeremiah Clay appears to have retired to Wheatfield township, Perry County PA, with his wife and his wife’s unmarried sister Naomi. Mrs. Clay appears to have been from Maryland Line MD. The Perry County connection seems strange.
CLAYTON, GEORGE MANLOVE
Born: 6-21-1871 Clayton DE married: Linnie Ina Weaver
Died: 9-5-1837 Baltimore MD obit: Baltimore Conference 1944, 212
1893 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1938, 131
1893-94 Waverly
1894-96 Frederick
1896-00 Hurlock
1900-03 Stewartstown
1903-07 Pocomoke City
1907-12 Parksley
1912-17 Park Road
1917-21 Baltimore Wilton Heights
1921-24 Centreville
1924-25 ?
1925-37 Baltimore Bethesda
1937 retired
CLIFT, FRANK M.
Born: 2-2-1870 married: Eva Jane Mumford
Died: 11-27-1945 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1937, 142
1904 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Berlin MD
Obit: (none)
1901-02 Georgetown DE circuit
1902-03 Kemptown
1903-06 Amerlia
1906-08 Nillville
1908-10 Concord
1910-12 Bedford
1912-14 Oak Grove and Prince George
1914-16 Cecil
1916-19 Union Bridge
1919-22 Reliance
1922-25 Laurel circuit
1925-27 Greenwood
1927-29 St. Michael
1929-32 Bivalve
1932-33 Whaleyville
1933-34 Dagsboro
1934-36 Hebron
1936-37 Grove
1937 retired
CLIPPINGER, ISAAC WEBSTER
Born: married:
Died: 5-25-1842 Cumberland MD obit:
1842 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: 1882 Maryland Conference MP history, 76
1842-43 Cumberland MD [includes PA appointments of later Allegany/Bedford circuits]
COBLEY, W.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1884 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1884-85 Burlington
1885-86 Covington (ending 9/19/1885)
Burlington (beginning 9/19/1885)
1886-88 Covington
1888-89 Albany
…
1892-93 Williamsport
1893 Moosic (3/17 – 6/20)
1893-94 conference missionary
1894-95 Scranton
Note: Mrs. Cobley is believed to be the Mrs. Elizabeth H. Cobley (1840-1933) who was born in England and is buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Daleville PA.
CODY, JAMES CONWAY
Born: 9-1-1858 Philadelphia PA married: Lucy Ann Graves
Died: 4-27-1934 NJ obit: New Jersey Conference M 1945, 336
admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment: Atlantic View Cemetery, Manasquan NJ
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1934, 17
Cos Cob CT
Tompkins Cove NY
1892-93 Inwood, Long Island NY
South Canaan PA
Atlantic City NJ Trinity
1900-01 Pittston PA
Brooklyn NY Canarsie
1906-11 Eastport, Long Island NY
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-13 Eastport, Long Island NY
1913-15 Manasquan NJ
1915- Glassboro NJ
Westville NJ
1921-25 Allenwood NJ
1925-30 North Tarrytown NY
1930-33 Penns Grove NJ
1933 retired
Note: This James Cody is not to be confused with his contemporary Rev. James Bodwell Cody (1855-1912) of the Presbyterian Church who also ministered in southern NY and northeast PA. The birthdate for Mrs. Cody, not given in her conference obituary, is 1/13/1864.
COE, SAMUEL WALKER
Born: 2-28-1855 Greensboro NC married: Laura Adelaide Coe
Died: 8-25-1935 Brooklyn MD obit: [6/24/1857 – 11/?/1935]
1891 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mount Oliver Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1936, 126
1891-93 Queen Anne
1893-00 Finksburg
1900-03 Bel Air
1903-04 Cecil
1904-07 Entaw
1907-09 Delta
1909-13 Oxford
1913-14 Pittsville
1914-21 Brooklyn
1921-22 Seaford
1922-23 no appointment at his own request
1923 retired
Note: Samuel W. Coe is the father of Rev. Robert W. Coe (1886–1973) and of the noted Rev. Albert Buckner Coe (1888-1970) of the Congregational Church – who played a leading part in the 1957 denomination union to form the United Church of Christ. Albert is in turn the father of Rev. Chalmers Coe (1901–1978) and Rev. Buckner Coe (1924–2018).
COLE, CHARLES WILLIAM
Born: 1-1-1887 married:
Died: 10-25-1918 obit:
1916 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Harmony Cemetery, Marlowe WV
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1919, 153
1916-18 Fairfax
1918 Bedford
Note: Charles W. Cole died in the flu epidemic. The tombstone gives the birth year as 1888.
COLHOUER, THOMAS WILMER
Born: 8-17-1860 Camden NJ married: Martha E. Craft [1886]
Died: 5-19-1945 Uniontown PA obit: [1/7/1864 – 12/20/1931]
1882 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1884 ordained
Interment: Sylvan Heights Cemetery, Oliver PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference M 1945, 341
1882-84 Bakerstown and Saxton
1884-86 Uniontown
1886-88 Amity
1888-89 Knoxville
1889-90 no appointment at his own request
1890-93 Cherry Tree
1893-98 Houtzdale
1898-00 Rogersville
1900-01 Mt. Olive
1901-02 no appointment at his own request
1902-04 Rogersville and Morrisville
1905-07 Morrisville mission
1907
1907-15 Eldersville and Bethel (beginning 11/11/1907)
1915-16 Broadford and Hopwood
1916-31 Uniontown Calvary
1931-33 assistant, Uniontown Calvary
1933 retired
1939 transfer by denominational union to Pittsburgh Conference M
Note: Thomas Wilmer Colhouer is the son of noted Pittsburgh Conference MP pastor, missionary and conference president Rev. Thomas Henry Colhouer (1829-1903).
COLLIER, DANIEL
Born: 12-7-1809 married: Mrs. Elizabeth Ann McCoy Ellis
Died: 12-16-1868 obit: [5/7/1813 – 6/12/1899]
1839 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Little Georgetown Cemetery, Little Georgetown WV
Obit:
1839-40 Concord
1840-41 Trough Creek
1841-42 Cumberland MD [includes PA appointments of later Allegany/Bedford circuits]
1842-43 Baltimore First
1843-44 Allegany [Bedford]
1844-46 Prince William
1846-48 Williamsport MD
1848-49 no appointment at his own request
1849 located
Note: Mrs. Collier appears to have been the widow of a Mr. James Ellis (1812-1844).
CONKLIN, AUSTIN W.
Born: 7-17-1885 married: Philippa G. _____
Died: 2-?-1970 obit: [9/26/1887 – 12/17/1983]
1927 license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1935 ordained local deacon, Newark Conference ME
1937 ordained local elder, Newark Conference ME
Interment: Sloatsburg Cemetery, Sloatsburg NY
Obit:
1927-28 Reyburn
…
1934-49 Jones Point & Johnsontown NY
Note: In the Methodist Church, the Jones Point and Johnsontown Methodist Protestant churches were on the line between the Newark and New York conferences. In 1949. Austin W. Conklin protested to no avail the authority of either conference to take charge of and sell the church buildings.
COONS, ELLERY DAVID
Born: 7-31-1885 Amsterdam NY married:
Died: 5-12-1927 Nyack NY obit:
1911 admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP
1915 ordained Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Old Stone Fort Cemetery, Schoharie NY
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1927, 27
1911-12 Maple Lake and Thornhurst
1912-13 Auburn
1913-15 New
1915-17
…
1919-20 New Brooklyn
…
1921-22
1922-23 Point Erial NJ
1923-24 w/o appointment
1924-27 Tomkins Cove NY (ending 5/12/1927)
Note: Ellery Coons was living in Glendola in 1937.
CRALL, DAVID
Born: 2-5-1798 Frederick County MD married: Mary Haff
Died: 9-11-1876 Allen County OH obit: [8/9/1799 – 3/29/1881]
1824 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima OH
Obit:
1829 charter member of the Maryland Conference, Methodist Protestant Church
1829-30 Reisterstown
1830-31 Shippensburg
1831-32 no appointment at his own request
1832 located
Note: David Crall is described as “one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, being among the original seceders from the Methodist Episcopal Church.” He moved to Ohio in !841 and became the patriarch of the prominent Crall family of Lima OH.
CRAMER, LEWIS B.
Born: 2-20-1834 married: Hannah Amanda Osborn
Died: 5-25-1899 obit: [7/9/1833 – 1/19/1896]
married2: Leah _____
1875 admitted on trial, New York Conf MP obit2: [8/4/1852 – 4/6/1907]
Interment: Old Daleville Cemetery, Daleville PA
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1900, 13]
1877-78 Spring Brook
1878-79 no appointment at his own request
Spring Brook (beginning 10/7/1878)
1879-80 no appointment at his own request
1880-83 ?
1883-84 Pine Creek
1884-87 no appointment
1887-88 on leave
1893-95 living in Daleville
CRANE, W.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on
trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1918-19 Coles
Creek
Note: W.H.
Crane served as a local pastor. Nothing
else is known about him.
CROMPTON, EDWARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56 St. Clair
1859-60 Burlington
1860-61 Sterling and Paupack
Note: This is believed to be the Rev. Edward Crompton of the Primitive Methodist church who migrated from England to America in 1855 – serving the St. Clair MP church near Pottsville in 1855 and 1862, and is believed to have lived in Mahony City PA in 1866. His brother Rev. Thomas Crompton (1816/7-1886) was also a Primitive Methodist preacher who migrated from England and his buried in Canada. There is a Rev. Edward Crompton (1829-1903) buried in Carlisle, Ontario Canada.
CROUSE, JAMES
Born: 4-12-1811 Huntingdon PA married: Jemima Hendon Wright [1840]
Died: 4-4-1841 Cassville PA obit: [10/6/1813 – 9/2/1860]
1833 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1833-34 Kent
1834-35 New Market
1835-36 Juniata
1836-37 Trough Creek
1837-38 Shippensburg
1838 located
Note: Mrs. Crouse is the daughter of Jesse Wright.
CROUSE, THOMAS OWINGS
Born: 1-8-1852 Baltimore MD married: Lavinia Russell
Died: 4-29-1929 Denton MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1919, 155
married2: Janie Phillips Moore
1872 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2:
Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1929, 163
1872-73 Kent
1873-74 Dorchester
1874-75 Jefferson
1875-78 Harpers Ferry
1878-80 Middleway
1880-83 St. Michaels
1883-85 Chesapeake
1885-90 Centreville
1890-98 Chatsworth Independent Methodist Church of Baltimore (“on loan”)
1898-99 Harrington DE
1899-04 West Baltimore
1904-09 Georgetown DC Congress Street
1909-15 North Baltimore
1915-20 Denton
1920-23 Milton DE
1923-26 Monterey PA Hawley Memorial
1926 retired
Note: Thomas O. Crouse is the son of William A. Crouse.
CROUSE, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS
Born: 3-24-1824 Westminster MD married: Matilda Lee Shepherd
Died: 1-11-1906 obit: [? – 1/12/1852]
married2: Mary C. Boring
1870 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Maryland Conference MP 1906, 121
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1906, 118
1867-68 Williamsport MD
1868-72 Concord
1872-75 Choptank
1875-77 Leipsic
1877-80 Sussex
1880-81 Middleway
1881-83 Accomac
1883-85 Preston
1885-88 Crumpton
1881-91 Deer Park
1891-93 Concord
1893 retired
Note: William A. Crouse id the father of Thomas O. Crouse and the grandfather (through his daughter _____ Crouse Derr) of Mrs. Louis Randall.
CRUMP, CHARLES W.
Born: 1-17-1846 New York NY married: Catharine E. _____
Died: 11-4-1918 Stroudsburg PA obit: [8/15/1848 – 1/24/1909]
1882 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: St. John’s Cemetery, Bartonsville PA
Obit: [Scranton Republican 11/11/1918, page 6]
1877-78 Kingtson mission (ending 12/18/1877)
Williamsport (beginning 12/18/1877)
1878-79 Indiantown (formerly Hughesville
circuit)
1879-80 left in the hands of the president
1880-81 [missing]
1882-83 Loyalsock
1883-84 Williamsport
1884 transfer to North Missouri Conference MP
1885-86 Williamsport circuit
1886-86 Williamsport mission (ending 4/5/1886)
Burlington (beginning 4/5/1886)
1887-89 Burlington
…
1891-92 Shickshinny
1892-95 Lopez
…
1896-00 Maple Lake
1897
Scranton mission
…
1907-08 Covington (last part of year)
…
Moosic
1901 retired
Note: C.W. Crump is reported to be the pastor under whom the MP church at Lopez (after 1907, St. Vladimir’s Russian Orthodox Church) was erected in 1899.
DARBY, JOHN EDWARD
Born: 11-9-1840 Somerset County MD married: Charlotte Amelia Bremerman
Died: 11-21-1922 Table Rock NE obit: [4/19/1845 – 8/7/1922]
1866 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Table Rock Cemetery, Table Rock NE
Obit:
1865-66 “with president”
1866-67 Bedford
1867-68 Frederick
1868-69 Potomac
1869-70 Stewartstown
1870-72 Clarksville
1872-74 loaned to Mission Board
1874 transfer
Note: John E. Darby later served in Illinois and Iowa. Before moving to Nebraska in 1882.He is not to be confused with contemporary Rev. John Elias Darby (1815-1890) of the Des Moines Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
DARNELL, THEODORE WESLEY JR
Born: c1885 married: Blanche H. _____ [1908]
Died: 1-26-1943 Blackwood NJ obit:
? admitted on trial, New Jersey Conference MP
1910 ordained, New Jersey Conference MP
Interment: New Jersey
Obit:
1908-10 Pleasantville NJ
1910-11 Turtle Creek Electric Heights, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1911 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1911-1912 Sheraden (ending 10/11/1911)
1912-13 Uniontown Calvary and Houtzdale (beginning 10/11/1911)
1913-14 Houtzdale
1914-15 Fairchance circuit
1915-17 Monongahela circuit
1917-19 Dunbar
1919-21 Kittanning Union Avenue (ending 10/17/1921)
1921 given letter of standing 10/17/1921 to Presbyterian Church
Worthington. Presbytery of Kittanning
1921-25 West Newton, presbytery of Redstone
retired to New Jersey
Note: T.W. Darnell Jr. is the son of Rev. T.W. Darnell Sr., who was pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church in Oceanville NJ in 1908 when the junior Darnell graduated from Western Maryland College and married. T.W. Darnell Jr. is the author of two 1927 articles “Is the Minister a Student?” and “Is the Preacher a Professional” in Scribner’s Magazine, which periodical reports as follows: “Mr. Darnell is a former Presbyterian minister. Instead of concealing his doubts under a philosophy of expediency, Mr. Darnell chose to announce frankly to his presbytery that he could no longer support the doctrines of his church and was therefore resigning. The moderator complimented him on his honesty and Mr. Darnell left without ceremony or ill-feeling. He is now a teacher of English at George School.”
Note2: Do not be misled by items such as the following: #1. Theodore Wesley Darnell was given a letter of standing in 1915 to the Louisiana Conference MES. #2 The 1919 North George Conference of the MES reports that Theodore Wesley Darnell has “withdrawn from the ministry and membership of our church.” These refer to T.W. Darnell Sr.
DAVIS, GEORGE E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1890 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1895-96 Silver Mines
1905-07 South Canaan
1907-09 Cos Cob CT
1909-11 Stamford
Note: George E. Davis reportedly left to join the Baptists in 1911 – see the New York Times, 9/22/1911, page 1.
DAVIS, THOMAS E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1887 license
1888 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1888-90 Pittston
1890-91 South Canaan
1891-93 Daleville PA
Rockville Center, Lon Island NY
1895-00 Eastport, Long Island NY
1900-01 Baldwins, Long Island NY
…
1903-07 Daleville PA
…
1908-09 without appointment at own request
Note: Thomas E. Davis is an 1888 graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary.
DAVIS, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1905-07 Salem & Sterling (beginning 11/23/1905)
DAY, ROBY FRANKLIN
Born: 6-18-1872 Damascus MD married: Rachel Vivia Cochel (Walker) Day
Died: 7-28-1964 Long Island NY obit: New York East Conference M 1957, 777
Interment: Allenwood Church Cemetery, Allenwood NJ
Obit: New York Conference M 1965, 809
1899-00 Harvey’s Lake (beginning 5/12/1899)
Holder IL
Tehuacana TX
Inwood
St. Paul’s, Long Island NY
Note: Roby F. Day is the son of Methodist Protestant local preacher Jackson Day
(1830-1883) and the father of Methodist missionary Jackson Wesley Day
(1910-2005), who was admitted to the Eastern Conference MP in 1930 and served in
China and Malaya and Sumatra and Indonesia before retiring in 1975. R.F. Day graduated from Western Maryland
College in 1896 and Westminster Seminary in 1900, and he appears to have served
in the Pennsylvania Conference while in seminary.
DEARHOLT, MORELAND ELLIS
Born: 8-19-1893 married: Effie Josephine Eckenrode
Died: 12-24-1951 obit: [4/10/1897 – 4/13/1966]
1922 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Grace Falls Road United Methodist Cemetery, Reisterstown MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference 1952, 170
1922-26 Concord
1926-28 Mardella
1928-29 Cecil
1929-31 Harmony
1931-34 New Market
1934-39 Maryland Line
1939-40 Georgetown
DeFOREST, DAVID W.
Born: 6-26-1856 CT married:
Died: 2-16-1925 CT obit:
married2:
1887 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP obit2:
1889 ordained, New York Conference MP married3: Mrs. Clarissa Beebe Sutter Sweetman
obit3: Eastern Conference MP 1938, 17
Interment: Sellecks Corner Cemetery, New Canaan CT
Obit:
1887-88 Vista and Eastwood
…
1891-95 South Canaan PA
Pittston PA
South Canaan PA
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference MP
…
1922-23 White Plains NY
1923 retired
Note: the third Mrs. DeForest (nee Sutter) was the widow of Rev. Thomas R. Sweetman (1856-1892) of the New York Conference ME.
DeLANCY, O.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1878-79 Delaware circuit (beginning 10/14/1878)
Note: O.L. DeLancy served as a local pastor.
DENNIS, JOHN M.
Born: 6-22-1827 MD married: Emma S. Savage
Died: 2-11-1870 obit: [2/19/1833 – 7/6/1859]
married2: Harriet Belle Rowins
1849 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [5/4/1830 – 9/4/1908]
Interment: Dennis Family Cemetery, Willards District, Wicomico County MD
Obit:
1849-50 New Market
1850-51 Trough Creek
1851-52 Potomac
1852-53 Williamsport MD
1853-54 Mt. Zion
1854-55 Snow Hill
1855-56 Prince William
1856-58 Accomac
1858-59 Philadelphia Twentieth Street
1859-61 no appointment at his own request
1861-62 Federalsburg
1862-69 on leave
1869 located
DIBBLE, DELAMATER MARSHALL
Born: 9-2-1873 Lyndbrook NY married: Caroline Elizabeth Lindsay
Died: 6-23-1956 obit: Baltimore Conference UM 1968, 392
1903 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1957, 256
1903-04 Waverly
1904-05 Mt. Nebo PA
1906-06 Denton
1906 “transfer” to Baltimore Conference ME
1906-08 Hancock
1908-10 Lutherville
1910-11 Guilford Avenue
1911-15 Lutherville
1915-16 West Baltimore circuit
1916-22 Hampstead
1922-25 Ellicott City
1925-30 Hampden Grace
1930-31 Madison Square
1931-40 Boundary Avenue
1940-45 Wilton Heights
1945 retired
1945-48 Magnolia and Edgewood
1948-49 Perryville
1949-51 Lafayette Avenue
Note: The first name of D.M. Dibble also appears as DELAMARTER and DELMARTER
DICK, ABRAHAM DOWNS
Born: 12-18-1826 married: Lydia Wood
Died: 10-23-1904 obit: [8/?/1834 – 2/?/1909]
1854 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Federalsburg MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1905, 106
1853-54 Kent
1854-55 Union
1855-56 Accomac
1856-57 Howard
1857-58 Deer Creek
1858-60 Potomac
1860-61 Frederick
1861-63 Prince William
1863-64 Baltimore circuit
1864-65 Williamsport MD
1865-67 Union
1867-69 Philadelphia Salem
1869-72 Leipsic
1872-75 Finksburg
1875-77 Anne Arundel
1877-78 Ellicott City
1878-80 Caroline
1880-82 Whaleyville
1882-84 Milton DE
1884-86 Fawn Grove
1886-88 Kent Island
1888-90 Quantico
1890-93 Baltimore circuit
1893-95 Grove
1895097 Kemptown
1897-99 Reliance
1899 retired
DINKLE, IRA MOLER
Born: 10-8-1901 Bolivar WV married: Elizabeth McLeyne Somerville
Died: 1-11-1984 DuPage IL obit: [7/27/1903 – 5/17/1992]
1928 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Baldwin Memorial United Methodist Church Cemetery, Millersville MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference UM 1984, 355
1926-27 Middleway
1927-27 Quantico
1928-31 Fort Myer’s Heights and Walker’s Chapel
1931-33 Powellville
1933-36 Doylesburg
1936-40 Bedford
1940 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference, Methodist Church
1940-48 Stewartstown
1948-53 Broadway
1953-57 Woodberry
1957-60 Millersville Baldwin Memorial
1960-64 Eutaw
1964-68 Fork
1968 retired
DODD, THOMAS B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1878 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1869 Primitive Methodist Church, Lawrence County PA (“a few months”)
1878 “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1878-79 Scranton Hyde Park
1879-80 left in the hands of the president
1881-82 Huron, Central New York Conference ME
1882 “transfer” to Central New York Conference ME
1882-83 Huron
1883-85 Junius
1885-86 Ludlowville and Lansingville
1886-87 Clockville and Mile Strip
1887-88 Perryville (ending 6/15/1888)
1888 withdrew, page 15
Note: The 11/26/1870 Christian Advocate [ME] records Thomas B. Dodd as officiating at a wedding in Indiana County PA. The conference files contain a 6/23/1888 newspaper account of the events relating to the withdrawal of Thomas B. Dodd.
DODSON, THOMAS L.
Born: 3-10-1810 married: [single]
Died: 5-4-1888 obit:
Interment: New Columbus Cemetery, Luzerne County PA
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 8]
1873-74 no appointment at his own request
1878-79 no appointment at his own request
Note: Thomas L. Dodson was a member/trustee of the Pine Creek MP church northeast of New Columbus. It is unknown whether he ever served under appointment.
DONALDSON, GEORGE ROBERT
Born: 9-11-1868 married: Mary Ella _____
Died: 1-23-1937 obit: Baltimore Conference M 1964, 292
1892 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Laurel DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1937, 128
1891-92 Leslie
1892-94 Holly Run
1894-95 Denton
1895-97 Pocomoke
1897-98 Oak Grove and Prince George
1898-00 Beaver Dam
1900-02 Grove
1902-05 Bedford
1905-07 Franklin City
1907-12 Laurel circuit
1912-17 Mardela
1917-18 Accomac
1918-20 Stewartstown
1920-23 Sharptown
\1923-29 Frederick
1920-35 Marley
1935 retired
DONOVAN, AVERY
Born: 2-22-1862 Ellendale DE married: Ida Dawson
Died: 2-25-1938 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1912, 124
married2: Helen DeLashmutt
1891 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Baltimore Conference M 1966, 405
1892 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1938, 137
1891-93 Powellville
1893-96 Pittsville
1896-00 Accomac
1900-06 Snow Hill
1906-07 agent, Western Maryland College
1907-12 Laurel
1912-15 Buckeystown
1915-18 Sharptown
1918-22 St. James
1922-25 Dover and Leipsic
1925-28 Fawn Grove
1928-33 Finksburg
1933-35 Oxford
1936 retired
DORLON, SAMUEL J.
Born: 11-17-1876 married: Emma R. _____
Died: 12-6-1964 obit: New Jersey Conference 1945, 336
1904 ordained, New York Conference MP
Interment: Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville NJ
Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1965, 427
1908-09 Bloomingdale NJ
1909-10
1910-11 Paterson NJ Hamilton Avenue
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-12 Pittston and chairman, District 8
1912-18 Pittston
1919-22 Penns Grove NJ
1922-25
1925-27
1927-36
DORSEY, NICHOLAS
Born: 1787 MD married: Sarah Hyatt [1819]
Died: 2-1-1854 New Market MD obit:
married2: Cordelia Harris [1840]
1833 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [2/19/1798 – 5/29/1879]
Interment: Central Cemetery, New London MD
Obit:
1833-34 Caroline
1834-35 Shippensburg PA
1835-36 Reisterstown
1836-37 Caroline
1837-38 Cumberland MD [includes PA appointments of later Allegany/Bedford circuits]
1838-39 Anne Arundel
1839-40 no appointment at his own request
1840 located
Note: The second Mrs. Dorsey was the widow of a Mr. William Downey (1789-1828).
DORSEY, SAMUEL JENNINGS
Born: 6-2-1828 MD married: Louisa Shawke [1851]
Died: 11-22-1908 Scranton PA obit: [1828 – 2/?/1860]
married2: Terish Schoch
obit2:
? received, Pittsburgh Conference MP married3:Sarah Caroline Ellis
obit3: [10/8/1838 – 4/23/1929]
Interment: Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunmore PA
Obit:
1848-50 Waynesburg circuit
1850-51 (Muskingum Conference)
1851-52 Ohio circuit
1852-53 New Brighton
1853-54 Johnstown
1854-55 Washington
1855-56 Uniontown
1856-57 Waynesburg circuit
1857-59 ?
1859 transfer to Maryland Conference MP
1859-60 Bedford PA
1860 transfer
Note: Samuel J. Dorsey is the son of Rev. Dennis Basil Dorsey (1799-1860), one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant denomination, and is the brother of Rev. Dennis B. Dorsey Jr (affiliation unknown). Some sources give his birthdate as 6-4-1827.
DOYLE, HUGH
Born: 12-24-1787 married: Susannah Rutledge
Died: 11-23-1867 Atchison County MO obit: [8/26/1789 – 3/12/1866]
1830 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Sonora Cemetery, Watson MO
Obit:
1830-32 Reisterstown
1832-33 Shippensburg
1833-34 Juniata
1834-36 Pipe Creek
1836-37 Williamsport MD
1837-38 Baltimore circuit
1838 discontinued
Note: Susannah Rutledge Doyle is a first-cousin to Joshua Wells Rutledge. Mrs. Doyle’s first name is also given as Susanah.
DUMM, WILLIAM THOMAS
Born: 1-19-1817 OH married: Mary Jane Dilks
Died: 7-19-1886 Johnsville MD obit: [7/?/1830 – 12/16/1861]
married2: Anna Bates
1843 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit: Maryland Conference MP 1918, 172
Interment: Mountain View Cemetery, Union Bridge MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1887, 49
1843-45 Deer Creek
1845-46 Williamsport MD
1846-47 Potomac
1847-48 Cumberland
1848-49 Snow Hill
1849-50 Queen Anne
1850-51 Kent
1851-53 Mt. Zion
1853-55 Deer Park
1855-57 New Market
1857-58 Cecil
1858-60 Carlisle
1860-62 East Washington
1862-64 Philadelphia Salem
1864-66 Cumberland
1866-67 Caroline
1867-68 Salisbury
1868-70 Finksburg
1870-72 Frederick
1872-75 Cecil
1875-78 Howard
1878-79 Stewartstown
1879 retired
Note: William T. Dumm is the father of Carlisle-born Rev. William Watters Dumm (1858-1937), who left the ministry in 1900 to become a practicing osteopath in California, and of Rev. Benjamin Alfred Dumm (1867-1959), who withdrew from the Maryland Conference MP in 1898 to become a noted scholar in religion and science and political science. The second Mrs. Dumm is a sister to two noted Maryland Conference MP clergymen: Daniel Webster Bates (1815-1895) and Laurence Webster Bates (1819-1901).
DuVALL,
ROY
Born:
5-25-1903 Hillburn NY married:
Adriana Lindenburg
Died:
4-26-1977 obit: Wyoming
Conference 1956, 255
married2:
Carolyn Hess
1927 admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP obit2: Wyoming Conference 2004, 206
1930
ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment:
Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Lakes NJ
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1977, 232
1927-30 student, Westminster Theological
Seminary in Westminster MD
1930-33 Cassville
1933-37 Friendship NJ
1937-39 Daleville
(included Burlington & Lehigh)
1939 transfer by denominational union
to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Church
1939-43 Daleville
1943-45 Wyalusing
1945-47 chaplain, US Army
1947-50 Baltimore Bethany (beginning
1/1/1947)
1950-65 Scranton, St. Paul’s – Bradley
Memorial
1965-69 Scranton Embury
1969 retired
Note:
The second Mrs. DuVall (nee Hess) was the widow of a Mr. Richards.
EATON, JESSE GLAISON
Born: 4-7-1898 New Freedom PA married: Stella W. Baker
Died: 4-25-1959 West Reading PA obit: Philadelphia Conference M 1953, 497
married2: Helen Trout
1926 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [1911 – 1980]
Interment: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Shrewsbury PA
Obit: Philadelphia Conference M 1959, 1057
1926-29 Washington Mt. Tabor
1929-33 Baltimore Trinity
1933-35 Laurel
1935-37 Fawn Grove
1937-39 Philadelphia St. Luke’s
1939 transfer by denomination union to Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Church
1939-41 Philadelphia St. Luke’s
1941-45 South Chester
1945-49 South Chester and Price Street
1949-52 Yardley and Washington’s Crossing
1952-55 Philadelphia Gethsemane
1955-56 Hamburg
1956-59 Birdsboro (ending 4/24/1959)
Note: In 1970, the second Mrs. Eaton moved into the Presbyterian Home in Quarryville PA. She is buried with her parents in the Methodist Cemetery in Fawn Grove PA.
EDMONSTON, GEORGE DURBIN
Born: 3-7-1844 married: Eleanora Frances Smith
Died: 6-2-1905 obit:[ 1836 – 4/8/1918]
1865 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Glenwood Cemetery, Washington DC
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1906, 117
1864-65 West Baltimore circuit
1865-66 New Market
1866-67 Queen Anne
1867-68 Bel Air
1868-69 Frederick
1869-70 Severn
1870-73 Bedford
1873-75 Howard
1875-76 Finksburg
1876-77 no appointment at his own request
1877 withdrew
1885 re-instated
1885-87 Powellville
1887-89 Surry
1889-91 Sussex
1891-92 Potomac
1892-93 Grove
1893-95 Bedford
1895-97 Conquest
1897-99 Crumpton
1899-01 no appointment at his own request
1901-05 on leave
ELDERDICE, JAMES LUTHER
Born: 1-28-1858 Snow Hill MD married: Letitia Cumi Hayman
Died: 12-31-1934 Oxford MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1901, 101
married2: Ida R. Wood
1880 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2:
1883 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1935, 142
1880-81 Finksburg
1881-84 Pocomoke
1884-85 Kennedyville
1885-86 Snow Hill
1886-87 St. Michaels
1887-90 Baltimore circuit
1890-96 Fawn Grove PA
1896-97 Seaford
1897-98 Kemptown
1898-00 Stewartstown PA
1900-01 Canton St. John’s
1901-04 Chesapeake
1904-05 Cambridge
1905-07 Queen Anne
1907-09 Heathville
1909-11 Cecil
1911-14 Salem
1914-18 Franklin City
1918-21 Oxford
1921 retired
Note: James Luther Edlerdice is the son of James Martin Elderdice and the father of Rev. Charles Martin Elderdice (1886 – 1974) of the Maryland Conference MP (and later the Peninsula Conference M). He is also the brother of Hugh Latimer Elderdice (1860-1938), who was born in Carlisle PA and served as president of the denomination’s Westminster Theological Seminary 1897-1935.
ELDERDICE, JAMES MARTIN
Born: 10-14-1817 Frederick County MD married: Nancy Grier Breckenridge [1844]
Died: 10-5-1884 Barren Creek MD obit: [1815 – 10/16/1855]
married2: Matilda Jane Hefflefinger
1840 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [12/13/1826 – 4/28/1871]
married3: Eunity Verdin
obit3: Maryland Conference MP 120, 178
Interment: Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Cemetery, Seaford DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1885, 51
1840-41 Baltimore
1841-42 Williamsport MD
1842-43 Talbot
1843-44 no appointment at his own request
1844-45 Howard
1845-47 Cecil
1847-49 Liberty
1849-51 Concord
1851-53 New Market
1853-54 Williamsport MD
1854-57 Concord
1857-58 Snow Hill
1858-60 Trough Creek
1860-63 Carlisle
1863-65 Anne Arundel
1865-69 Cecil
1869-71 Sussex
1871-72 Seaford
1872-75 Leipsic
1875-79 Bedford
1879-80 Williamsport MD
1880-82 Caroline
1882-84 Sussex
1884-85 Union (ending 10/5/1884)
Note: James Martin Elderdice is the brother of John Elderdice, and he is the father of two Maryland Conference MP clergymen: James Luther Elderdice and Hugh Latimer Elderdice (1860-1938), who was born in Carlisle PA and served as president of the denomination’s Westminster Theological Seminary 1897-1935.
ELDERDICE, JOHN
Born: 7-14-1814 Frederick County MD married: Louisa Defibaugh
Died: 7-9-1874 obit: [12/9/1812 – 4/10/1875]
1838 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Woodensburg MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1875, 34
1837-38 assistant, Shippensburg
1838-39 Cumberland MD [includes PA appointments of later Allegany/Bedford circuits]
1839-40 Baltimore circuit
1840-42 Anne Arundel
1842-43 Pipe Creek
1843-46 New Market
1846-47 Carlisle
1847-50 Deer Creek
1850-52 Williamsport MD
1852-54 Anne Arundel
1854-57 Cecil
1857-60 New Market
1860-61 West Baltimore circuit
1861-63 Caroline
1863-65 Cecil
1865-67 Bedford
1867-69 Cambridge
1869-70 no appointment at his own request
1870 retired
Note: John M. Elderdice is a brother to James Martin Elderdice. Some sources give his death years as 1871. Before opting to unite with the Methodist Protestant Church, he has a member at Toms Creek Methodist Episcopal church near Emmettsburg MD and license to exhort and to preach by the Gettysburg ME circuit. The tombstone has deteriorated, and what find-a-grave reads as Wm. John Elderdice should probably be Rev. John Elderdice.
ELLEGOOD, JAMES HENRY
Born: 1-15-1819 Laurel DE married: Rebecca Meredith
Died: 9-9-1892 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1910, 124
1849 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1851 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Old Methodist Protestant Cemetery, Laurel DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1893, 64
1849-51 Newtown
1851-52 Friendship
1852-53 Prince William
1853-55 Philadelphia Salem
1855-57 Carlisle
1857-58 Kent
1858-59 Caroline
1859-60 Berkley
1860-62 Cambridge
1862-64 New Market
1864-67 Harmony
1867-70 Caroline
1870-72 Finksburg
1872-74 Milton DE
1874-77 Sussex DE
1877-78 Quantico
1878 retired to Milton DE
ESTELL, DAVID A.
Born: c1830 Windham PA married: Mary Ann Henson
Died: c1911 obit: [1831-1904]
license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60 Quicks Bend and Shinersville
1860-61 unstationed
1879-80 Indiantown (formerly Hughesville circuit)
Note: David A. Estell served as a local/supply preacher. Census records show him as a laborer in West Burlington, Bradford County, in 1870 and as a minister in Shrewsbury, Lycoming County, in 1880.
EVANS, J.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1877-78 Pine Creek
1878-80 president, Pennsylvania Conference MP
EVERSOLE, ABRAHAM S.
Born: 7-10-1813 Berkeley County WV married: Elizabeth Wallace
Died: 2-3-1877 Sussex County DE obit: [d. 5/3/1857]
married2: Mrs. Sarah Ann Wallace Brittingham
1839 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Maryland Conference MP 1913, 140
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1877, 42
1830-40 Trough Creek
1840-41 Caroline
1841-42 Snow Hill
1842-43 Somerset
1843-44 Lewes
1844-46 Kent
1846-47 Prince William
1847 transfer to ?
…
1851 transfer to Maryland Conference MP
1851-53 Dorchester
1853-55 Newtown
1855-58 Union
1858-59 Allegany [Bedford]
1859-61 Baltimore circuit
1861-62 Frederick
1862-64 New Market
1864-65 Sussex
1865-66 Caroline
1866-68 Worcester
1868-69 Delaware
1869-72 Cecil
1872-83 Peach Bottom
1873-73 Seaford
1874 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Eversole is the sister of his deceased first wife and the widow of a Mr. James Brittingham.
EVERSOLE, CHRISTIAN
Born: 5-13-1820 Berkeley County WV married: Marie A. Summers
Died: 12-12-1870 Baltimore MD obit: [1/2/1836 – 9/13/1899]
1852 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Little Georgetown Cemetery, Little Georgetown WV
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1871, 35
1852-53 Allegany [Bedford]
1853-54 Baltimore circuit
1854-55 Deer Creek
1855-56 Kent
1856-57 Frederick
1857-58 Newtown
1858-60 Cambridge
1860-63 Concord
1863-65 Bedford
1865-66 Williamsport MD
1866 retired
EWELL, ARTHUR WEBSTER
Born: 3-17-1888 Crisfield MD married: Mary Cookson Lynch
Died: 10-24-1953 Montgomery County MD obit: Baltimore Conference UM 1981, 373
1912 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1954, 237
1912-14 Evergreen
1914-16 Conquest
1916-19 Harpers Ferry
1919-22 Delta
1922-28 Laurel
1928-30 Baltimore St. John’s
1930-32 Pocomoke
1930-36 Towson
1936-39 Westminster
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-41 Westminster
1041-44 Arlington
1944-53 Gaithersburg Epworth (ending 10/24/1953)
Note: Arthur Webster Ewell is the grandson of John E.T. Ewell.
EWELL, DANIEL FITCHETT
Born: 1-24-1817 Accomac County VA married: Mary H. Ross [1842]
Died: 3-17-1888 Clayton DE obit: [1822 – 2/14/1853]
married2: Mary Elizabeth Jefferson [1854]
1839 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Maryland Conference MP 1898, 85
Interment: Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1888, 65
1838-39 Shippensburg
1839-42 Dorchester
1842-43 Church Creek
1843-44 Philadelphia Brickmaker’s
1844-46 Union
1846-49 Newtown
1849-50 Accomac
1850-51 Dorchester
1851-52 no appointment at his own request
1852-57 located
1857-59 Anne Arundel
1859-62 Warwick
1862-66 Delaware
1866-67 Baltimore MD Washington Street [Alnutt Memorial]
1867-71 Talbot
1872-85 retired
1885-86 Powellville
1886-87 Talbot
1887-88 Clayton (ending 3/17/1888)
Note: Daniel Fitchett Ewell is the son of Rev. George Hope Ewell III (1781 – 1865) [described as“Methodist” – exact affiliation unknown] and one of three brothers to serve in the Maryland Conference MP – along with John E.T. Ewell and Thoroughgood C. Ewell. He is also the father of Addie Ewell Roe, wife of Rev. Robert Roe (1845-1930) of the Wilmington Conference ME, and of Florence Ewell Atkins, wife of Rev. Edwin C. Atkins (1855-1949) of the Wilmington Conference ME and North Georgia Conference ME.
EWELL, JOHN EDWARD TYSON
Born: 9-13-1834 Accomac County VA married: Arinthia Sorin Russell
Died: 11-7-1902 Waverky MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1911, 121
1859 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Crisfield Cemetery, Crisfield MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1903, 91
1859-60 Anne Arundel
1860-61 Trough Creek
1861-63 Cecil
1863-65 Caroline
1865-66 Choptank
1866-68 Delaware
1868-69 on leave
1869-71 Harmony
1871-72 South Baltimore
1872-73 Accomac
1873-74 Patapsco
1874-75 Ellicott City
1875-78 Somerset
1878-80 Newtown
1880-83 Laurel
1883-92 South Baltimore
1892-95 Accomac
1895-96 Mariners
1896-99 South Baltimore
1899-01 Delmar
1901-03 Waverly and Evergreen (ending 11/7/1902)
Note: John E.T. Ewell is the son of Rev. George Hope Ewell III (1781 – 1865) [described as“Methodist” – exact affiliation unknown]l and one of three brothers to serve in the Maryland Conference MP – along with Daniel F. Ewell and Thoroughgood C. Ewell. He is also the father of Rev. John Hewlings Stockton Ewell (1865-1908) of the Maryland Conference MP and the grandfather (through his son Alpheus) of Arthur Webster Ewell.
EWELL, THOROUGHGOOD C.
Born: 6-16-1832 Accomac County VA married:
Died: 11-21-1862 obit:
1856 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Prospect Cemetery, Mount Airy MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1863, 41
1856-57 New Market
1857-58 Trough Creek
1858-60 Dorchester
1860-62 Sussex
1862 on leave
Note: Thoroughgood C. Ewell is the son of Rev. George Hope Ewell III (1781 – 1865) [described as“Methodist” – exact affiliation unknown] and one of three brothers to serve in the Maryland Conference MP – along with John E.T. Ewell and Daniel F. Ewell. His first name also appears as THOROGOOD and THOROWGOOD.
EWING, EDWIN OLIVER
Born: 8-29-1852 Harford County MD married: Emma Michael
Died: 12-6-1917 Baltimore MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1926, 144
admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference MP
Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Aberdeen MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1918, 168
1884 transfer to Maryland Conference
1884-87 Bedford
1887-88 Quantico
1888-90 Frederick
1890-91 Bedford
1891-93 Deer Creek
1893-95 Baltimore circuit
1895-95 Grove
1897-01 Pittsville
1901-03 Salem
1903-07 Crumpton
1907-12 Deer Park
1912-13 Nichols Memorial
1913-14 Powellville
1914-17 Rolandville (ending 12/6/1917)
FARRING, GEORGE FREDERICK
Born: 10-22-1852 Baltimore MD married: [single]
Died: 7-25-1938 obit:
1873 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1876 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn Park MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1939, 120
1873-74 Frederick
1874-75 Dorchester
1875-76 Accomac
1876-77 Bedford PA
1877-78 Finksburg
1878-79 Rainsburg PA
1879-81 Ellicott City
1881-83 Howard
1883-89 Wilmington
1889-92 Accomac
1892-93 Clayton
1893-00 Frederick
1900-05 Harpers Ferry
1905-07 Cannon
1907-11 Nichols Memorial
1911-15 West Wilmington
1915-18 Cannon
1918 retired
FARROW, JOHN
Born: 5-?-1830 married: Adriana Brobst
Died: 12-13-1902 obit: [5/8/1836 – 5/8/1906]
1878 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus OH
Obit:
1877-78 Taylorsville and Pyne Shaft (beginning 4/?/1878)
1878-79 Albany
1879-80 Shickshinny
1880-81 [missing]
1881 withdrew 9/10/1881
Note: John Farrow appears to have been born in Williamsport MD, served as a Methodist Protestant pastor in Norfolk VA prior to 1877 and served as a pastor in Columbus OH sometime after 1881.
FENBY, JOSHUA TRACEY
Born: 11-25-1891 Westminster MD married: Helen Linda Rineer [1924]
Died: 12-2-1942 Washington DC obit: [1904 – 7/2/1986]
married2: Olga Frances Spencer [1934]
1921 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Baltimore-Washington Conf. UM 1995, 451
1921 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Greenbelt Cemetery, Greenbelt MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1943, 139
1921-23 Kent Island
1923-27 Marley
1927-28 Leeds
1928-31 no appointment at his own request
1932-32 loaned to Salvation Army
1936-38 Mt. Nebo
1938-39 Walker’s Chapel and Ft. Myer Heights
1939 transfer by denominational; union to Baltimore Conference M
1939 no appointment at his own request
FERGUSON, SAMUEL TUCKER
Born: 1-5-1840 Washington DC married: Emma Reese Cromwell
Died: 11-11-1890 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1927, 167
1864 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Liberty MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1891, 65
1864-65 Union
1865-66 Carlisle
1866-67 New Market
1867-68 Prince William
1868-69 Howard
1869-70 Queen Anne
1870-71 Pocomoke
1871-72 Harmony
1872-74 Frederick
1874-76 Union
1876-79 Finksburg
1879-83 Bedford
1883-87 Concord
1887-91 Liberty (ending 11/11/1890)
Note: Mrs. Ferguson is a granddaughter of Rev. John Smith Reese (1790-1855), an 1829 founding member of (and twice president of) the Maryland Conference MP.
FERNON, JOHN
Born: married: Sarah Campbell Kirkpatrick
Died: 1848 obit: [d. 1861]
1810 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference ME
1812 ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference
1815 ordained elder, Philadelphia Conference ME
Interment:
Obit:
1810-11 Dauphin circuit
1811-12 Gloucester
1812-13 Bristol and Northampton
1813-14 Chester
1814-15 Trenton and Brunswick
1815 located
1829 founding member of the Maryland Conference MP
1829-30 missionary to Pennsylvania and New
Jersey
1830 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference MP
Note: Upon locating in 1815, John Fernon was a trustee and class leader at the Kensington ME Church in Philadelphia. He was a delegate of the Pennsylvania Conference MP to the 1830 first General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. While not known to be linked with any specific MP charge of interest to this file, he is included because of that possibility and because of his ME connection to Dauphin circuit.
FISH, JAMES
Born: 3-15-1862 England married: Minnesota Ruffner
Died: 9-28-1937 McConnelsville OH obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1938, 45
1885 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1887 ordained
Interment: McConnelsville Cemetery, McConnelsville OH
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1938, 44
1884-85 Elizabeth and Bellvue
1885-86 Bethel
1886-89 Cherry Tree
1889-90 Waynesburg and Morrisville
1890-91 Mt. Zion
1891-93 Orange
1893-95 Union
1895-96 Turnersville
1896-98 Stahlstown
1898-99 Cassville
1899-01 Cookport
1901-03 Susquehanna circuit
1903-04 no appointment at his own request
1904-07 left in the hands of the president
1907-08 Broadford
1908-09 Hoboken and Fox Chapel
1909-10 left in the hands of the president
1910-12 on loan to Ohio Conference
1912-13 no appointment at his own request
1913-14 Nettle Hill
1914-18 East Liverpool
1918 retired
Note: James Fish reportedly had been a minister in the United Free Methodist Church of England
FISHER, LEMUEL
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1888 license, Maryland Conference MP
1889 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1889-90 Tarrytown NY
1890-91 Daleville PA
1892-93 Jones Point NJ
Note: Lemuel Fisher attended Westminster Seminary as a licentiate recommended by Frederick, Maryland Conference MP. In 1889 that conference granted him permission to enter another conference upon graduation. The New York Times 10/9/1889 reported: “The Rev. Lemuel Fisher, pastor of the Tarrytown church, is so popular with the young folks that it is said the older people will make an effort to have a change. This is likely to precipitate a lively controversy.”
FISHER, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1843 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1843-44 Trough Creek PA
1844-46 Newtown
1846-49 Accomac
1849-50 no appointment at his own request
1850 informally withdrawn
FISK, ARTHUR ROSCOE
Born: 1877 Luzerne PA married: Myrtle Bathier Williams [1899]
Died: 1939 Minersville PA obit:
married2: Grace May Butler [1900]
1906 license, recommended by Salem & Sterling obit2:
Interment:
Obit:
1906-08 Auburn
1908-09 Shickshinny
1909-10 no appointment at his own rewuest
1910 withdrew 3/18/1910 to join the Congregational Church – see page 16
Plymouth Elm
Bethlehem
Note: Arthur R. Fisk is the son of Sylvester D. Fisk.
FISK, SYLVESTER D.
Born: 1839 RI married: Rachel Kanarr
Died: 1-23-1933 Register PA obit: Pennsylvania Conference MP 1908, 36
1890 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: New Columbus Cemetery, New Columbus PA
Obit: [Wilkes-Barre Record 1/25/1933, page 4]
1892-95 Cole’s Creek
1895-99 Albany
1899-02 Salem & Sterling
1902-03 without appointment
1903-07 Albany
1907-08 Covington & Maple Lake
1908-11 Cassville
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-12 Kizers [Cortez] & Mt. Cobb and
South Canaan
1912-14 Cortez & Mt. Cobb
1914-15 Maple Lake & Covington
1915 retired, living in Register
FLETCHER, B.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1868-70 Scranton Hyde Park
1873 withdrew
Note: Some sources give this name as F.B. Fletcher.
FLOYD, WILLIAM JAMES
Born: 7-9-1831 Centreville MD married: Elizabeth A. McCleary
Died: 2-18-1902 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1917, 155
1871 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1902, 73
1870-73 Patapsco
1873-76 Peach Bottom
1876-79 Washington DC First Church
1879-81 Baltimore MD Washington Street [Alnutt Memorial]
1881-85 Anne Arundel
1885-88 Finjsburg
1888-90 Warwick
1890-93 Frederick
1893-98 Howard
1898-01 Liberty
1901-02 Mariners (ending 2/18/1902)
Note William J. Floyd is the son of a local preacher (name and affiliation unknown).
FRANKLIN, C.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1886 license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1886-87 Monroe circuit (beginning 10/23/1886)
1887-88 left in the hands of the president
FREER, ALFRED MAYNARD
Born: 10-5-1890 Strood, England married: Etta May Pettet
Died: 7-25-1980 Point Pleasant NJ obit: 22/26/1893 – 5/1/1986]
1927 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Atlantic View Cemetery, Manasquan NJ
Obit:
1924-28 Friendship NJ
1928-29
1929-32 Bloomington and Daleville
1936-38
1938-40 Cassville
FRITZ, S.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1906 license, recommended by Cole’s Creek
1909 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1909-11 Albany
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-12 Albany
1912-13 Reyburn
1913-14 Albany
1914-16 Cortez & Mt. Cobb
----
1923 located
GALLEY, STEPHEN HAMILTON
Born: 10-3-1895 Manchester, England married: Nellie Coles
Died: 11-16-1960 Martinsburg WV obit: Baltimore Conference M 1958, 278
married2: Mrs. Nellie Christiana Lease Monshaur
1927 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [7/8/1894 – 8/17/1976]
Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1961, 249
1925-27 Liberty
1927-28 Amelia
1928-29 Bedford
1929-31 Mt. Nebo
1931-32 Chesaco and Graceland Peaks
1932-36 Harpers Ferry WV
1936-37 Harrington DE
1937-39 Kemptown
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-43 Kemptown
1943-46 chaplain, US Army
1948048 Sexton
1948-54 chaplain, US Army
1954-57 Union Bridge
1957 retired
Note: The second Mrs. Galley (nee Lease) was the widow of a Mr. Harry Thomas Monshaur.
GARRATT, J.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1892-93 Woodhaven NY
1893-97 Daleville PA
GEORGE, JAMES
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1860 ordained deacon, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1873 withdrew
GLADDEN, THOMAS MILTON
Born: 6-20-1880 Morrisville PA married: Hattie Florence Rowley
Died: 1-7-1966 obit: Pittsburgh Conference M 1957, 600
1902 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1906 ordained, Pittsburgh Conference MP
Interment: Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian MI
Obit: Western Pennsylvania Conference M 1966, 1483
1902-03 Fairway – Long Run
1903-05 Houtzdale
1905-06 Springdale – Morningside
1906-07 Nessley – Point Pleasant
1907-10 Fairchance circuit
1910-17 Dunbar Franklin Memorial
1917-19 Turtle Creek Electric Heights
1919-22 Houtzdale
1922-25 New Brighton Fifth Avenue
1925-29 Percy
1929-33 Rogersville circuit
1933-38 Bakerstown circuit
1938-40 Kittanning Union Avenue
1940 charter member of the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Church
1940-44 Chester WV
1944-47 Centerville – Tayler
1947 retired
Note: T. Milton Gladden is the son of William H. Gladden and the father of James W. Gladden (1912-1993) of the Western Pennsylvania UM Conference.
GLADDEN, WILLIAM HENRY
Born: 2-16-1855 Brownsville PA married: Eleanor Ann Lantz
Died: 1-6-1918 obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1935, 42
1881 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1883 ordained
Interment: Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville PA
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1919, 25
1879-80 Cassville (beginning 3/1880)
1881-82 Trumbull
1882-84 Bethel circuit
1884-86 Monroe, Fairchance and Brownfield
1886-87 Dunbar
1887-89 Broadford
1889-92 East Liverpool (ending 3/22/1892)
1892-95 Uniontown (beginning 3/22/1892 and ending 12/24/1894)
1895-99 New Brighton
1899-02 East Liverpool
1902-06 Connellsville
1906-08 Youngstown
1908-10 Rogersville circuit
1910-12 Houtzdale
1912 retired
1912-14 Gans mission
1915-18 Percy circuit (beginning 1/9/1915 and ending 11/6/1918)
Note: William H. Gladden is the father of T. Milton Gladden and the grandfather of James W. Gladden (1912-1993) of the Western Pennsylvania UM Conference. He also served as president of the Pittsburgh Conference MP 1901-04.
GORDON,
LEWIS W.
Born:
6-15-1882 Long Island NY married:
Ida May Price
Died:
7-28-1965 obit:
Eastern Conference MP 1914, 23
married2:
Mary Louise Carman 8/31/1915]
1906 admitted on trial, New York Conf. MP obit2: [d. 1/12/1947]
1909 ordained, New York Conference MP
Interment:
Georgetown DE
Obit:
Virginia Conference M 1966, 137
Eastwoods NY
1906-09 student, Westminster Theological
Seminary
Fairfax VA
Springfield
Gardens NY
Baldwin NY
1911-12 Berwick
Pleasantville NJ
Barnesboro NJ
Bloomingdale NJ
1917 transfer to Maryland Conference
(9/6/1917)
Chincoteague VA
Carmichael MD
Mannboro VA
Warwick VA
Popular Springs MD
Greenbackville VA
1939 transfer to Virginia Conference
M by denominational union
1939-41 Greenbackville VA
Pungoteague
Wachapreague
Bellevue
Batesville
Mount Pleasant
1953 retired
GORMAN, RENALDO EDWARD
Born: 1822 West Hartland MD married: Evaline Henley
Died: 1880 Williamsport PA obit: [9/1/1836 – 3/14/1911]
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
1860-61 Lackawanna
Note: R.E. Gorman was the Pennsylvania Conference MP ministerial delegate to the 1854 General Conference.
GOULD, HARLAND FULLER
Born: 3-15-1978 Scranton PA married: Etta Ethel Allen [6/3/1902]
Died: 9-30-1939 Powell PA obit:
1901 on contract, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1905 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Powell Cemetery, Powell PA
Obit:
1901-02 Albany
…
1907-08 Pittston
…
1908-09 loaned to Luzerne County Bible Society
1909-10 assistant superintendent, Pennsylvania Bible Society
1912 transfer to Muskingum Conference
“transfer” to Congregational Church
McKeesport PA
East Smithfield PA
Note: Harland F. Gould is the father of Rev. Stanley A. Gould (1904-1976) of the Congregational Church. He attended Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda PA and Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster MD.
GRABLE, J.M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1854 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1854-55 Baltimore
1855-56 Peach Bottom PA
1856-57 Queen
1857-58 Williamsport MD
1858 withdrew
GRAHAM, WALTER RALEIGH
Born: 10-29-1852 married: Sarah [“Sallie”] Matilda Smith
Died: 2-24-1920 obit: Maryland Conference MP 128, 179
1873 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Chester Cemetery, Chestertown MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1920, 175
1872-73 Stewartstown
1873-74 Jefferson
1874-75 Kent
1875-76 Wicomico
1876-77 Snow Hill
1877-80 Alexandria
1880-81 on loan to Montgomery AL
1881-85 Philadelphia PA St. Luke’s
1885-91 Chestertown
1891-96 Georgetown
1896-02 Westminster
1902-07 Easton
1907-09 Pocomoke City
1909-12 Salisbury
1912-16 Chestertown
1916 retired
GRAY, JAMES WILLIAM
Born: 3-12-1840 Lancaster County PA married: Joanna Ensor Foster
Died: 4-1-1928 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1929, 166
1861 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1863 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn Park MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1928, 169
1861-62 Newtown
1862-63 Union
1863-64 West Baltimore circuit
1864-66 Worcester
1866-69 Cumberland
1869-71 Chesapeake
1871-75 Anne Arundel
1875-79 Baltimore circuit
1879-84 Washing DC First Church
1884-85 Hampden
1885-86 Philadelphia PA St. Luke’s
1886-91 Anne Arundel
1891-95 Hampden
1895-96 Delta PA
1896-97 Eutaw
1897-02 Washington DC First Church
1902-06 Potomac
1906-07 no appointment at his own request
1907-10 retired
1910-12 Baltimore Payson Street
1912 retired
GREEN, ALONZO HARRIS
Born: 9-7-1866 Cockeysville MD married: Anna May Leas
Died: 11-24-1960 Dallastown PA obit: Baltimore Conference M 1940, 159
1892 admitted on trial Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1961, 252
1891-92 Leipsic
1892-94 Talbot
1894-96 Amelia
1896-98 Mardela
1898-01 Middleway
1901-05 Concord PA
1905-10 Bedford PA
1910-12 Selbyville
1912-14 Accomac
1914-17 Mariners
1917-22 Kemptown
1922-26 Mardela
1926-28 Milton
1928-31 New Market
1931-33 Pipe Creek
1933 retired
Buckeystown
Doylesburg PA
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
Note: Alonzo H. Green is the father of Rev. John Leas Green (1895-1969) of the Maryland Conference MP (and later Peninsula Conference M). The birthdate for Mrs. Green, not given in her conference obituary, is 4/18/1871.
GREGORY,
JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial,
Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1854-58 Pittston
Broad Street
1859-61 Pittston
Broad Street
1876-78 Pittston
Broad Street
GRIDLEY, JOHN J.
Born: 4-2-1814 Chesterfield NH married: Elizabeth Carnahan
Died: 3-24-1894 obit: [1813 – 1899]
1837 license, New England Conference ME
1840 ordained
Interment: Shenango Valley Cemetery, Greenville PA
Obit:
1849 transfer to Genesee Conference ME
1853-54 Kendall
1854 trasnfer to Rock River Conference ME
1854-55 Wheeling IL
transfer to Detroit Conference ME
1857-58 Farmington
1860-61 Oakville
1861-62 Augusta and West Mound
1862-63 Congregational Church, Pickney and Howell MI
1867 “transfer” to Presbytery of Erie, Presbyterian Church
1867-68 ? OH
“transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1877 withdrew, 9/6/1877
GUSTIN, VOLNEY HORTON
Born: 9-1-1935 Burlington PA married:
Died: 2-24-1864 Richmond VA obit:
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Gustin Cemetery, Bradford County PA
Obit:
1860-61 Windsor
Note: V.H. Gustin is an uncle to Rev. Clyde C. Gustin (1876-1925) of the Central New York Conference ME.
HADDAWAY, LEWIS EDWARD
Born: 6-7-1885 Bayside MD married: Anna Estella Brown
Died: 6-8-1971 obit: Baltimore Conference M 1979, 396
1917 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1919 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Parkwood Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference UM 1972, 427
1917-20 Cecil
1920-22 Bivalve
1922-25 Clayton
1925-26 Mt. Nebo
1926-27 Conquest
1927-29 Harbeson
1929-32 Nichols Memorial
1932-33 Wilmington First Church
1933-35 Kennedyville
1936-39 Dover – Leipsic
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-40 Marley
1941-46 Chesaco – Graceland Park
1946 retired
Note: Lewis E. Haddaway is the father of Rev. Lawrence E. Haddaway (1916–2008) of the Disciples of Christ. He does not appear to be closely related to the other Haddaway clergymen in the Maryland Conference MP.
HAIR,
GEORGE ROBSON
Born: 12-6-1825 Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England married: Elizabeth S. Davidson
Died: 1-23-1898 Mankato MN obit:
Minnesota Conference ME 1917, 70
1856 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference ME
1858 ordained deacon
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato MN
Obit:
Minnesota Conference ME 1898, 64
1852-53 Pittston
Broad Street
1856 “transfer”
to Wyoming Conference ME
1856-57 Whitney’s
Point
1857-58 Whitney’s
Point and Lisle
1858-60 Windsor
1860-62 Lanesboro
1862-64 Orwell
1864-67 LeRaysville
1867-70 Gibson
1870-73 Kingston
1773-77 superintendent,
Wyoming District
1877-80 Waverly
1880 transfer
to Minnesota Conference
1880-82 Northfield
superintendent, Red River District
superintendent, North Dakota missions
Owatanta
Mankato
superintendent, Mankato District
North
Church
Minneapolis
Gleneo
on leave
Garden
City
HALL, THOMAS HENRY
Born: 1863 Tunstall England married: Mary Emily Harrison
Died: 5-20-1906 obit: New Jersey Conference M 1951, 809
1896 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1896 ordained
Interment: Spring Grove Cemetery, East Liverpool OH
Obit: New Jersey Conference ME 1907, 135
1895-96 Bethel circuit
1896-97 Bakerstown
1897-98 Cassville
1898-99 Houtzdale
1899-00 Susquehanna
1900 transfer to New Jersey Conference MP [?]
1901 transfer to New Jersey Conference ME
1901-02 Stratford
1902-05 Mauricetown
1905-06 Hurffville
Note: An obituary for Thomas H. Hall also appears in the 8/30/1906 Christian Advocate, page 39.
HAMILTON, GEORGE D.
Born: 8-28-1798 married:
Died: 4-5-1864 obit:
1831 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1865, 44
1831-32 Shippensburg
1832-33 Deer Creek
1833-34 Snow Hill
1834-37 Dorchester
1837-39 Queen Anne
1839-41 Pipe Creek
1841-43 Sussex
1843-44 Snow Hill
1844-46 Baltimore circuit
1846-48 New Market
1848-51 Caroline
1851-53 Cambridge
1853-54 Williamsport MD
1854-59 retired
1859-60 Clearfield
1860-63 Union PA
1863 retired
HAMILTON, PHILIP MURRAY
Born: 7-18-1863 married: Helen Crane
Died: 4-8-1947 obit: [1849 – 1933]
Interment: Friendship Finley Methodist Church Cemetery, Bridgeton NJ
Obit: New Jersey Conference 1947, 754
1913-14 Silvermine CT (beginning 11/24/1913)
1914-15 left in the hands of the President
1915-16 Noroton Heights CT
1916-17 Cortez and Mt. Cobb (ending 1/6/1017)
…
1919-20 Cassville
1920-21 New Albany
1921-24
1924-26 Eldersville, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1926-28 Hardingville
1928 retired
1939 transfer by denominational union to New Jersey Conference M
HAMILTON, WILLIAM D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1845 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1845-46 New Market
1846-47 Newport DE, detached from Wilmington in 1845 and short-lived
1847-48 Greenville
1848-49 Cecil
1849-51 Smyrna
1851-52 Philadelphia Salem
1852-53 Sussex
1853-55 Carlisle
1855 located
HANKS, REUEL JR.
Born: 7-8-1823 Augusta ME married: Harriet Smith
Died: 12-6-1914 Daleville PA obit: [1827 – 1881]
married2: Mary Elizabeth Dale
admitted on trial, New York Conference MP obit2: Eastern Conference MP 1936, 18
Interment: Old Daleville Cemetery, Daleville PA
Obit: [Scranton Republican 12/8/1914, page 10]
1882-87 Daleville
1887-88 ?
1888-89 Daleville
…
1890-91 South Canaan
…
1892-93 chairman, Canaan District
Note: Reuel Hanks is the father of William S. Hanks. He was a teacher before entering the ministry. The second Mrs. Hanks was born and raised in Daleville and spent her whole life in Daleville, being the daughter of the town’s founder and namesake. Her birthdate, not given in conference obituary, is 1/22/1842.
HANKS, WILLIAM SUMNER
Born: 10-1-1855 married: Alice Fletcher
Died: 3-21-1937 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1927, 165
1879 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment: Westminster Cemetery, Westminster MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1937, 134
1879- Paterson NJ Main Street
New London CT
1883-85 Pittston PA
on loan, Canterbury CT Congregational
on loan, Middletown NY Congregational
1891 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference MP
Knoxville PA
New Cumberland WV
Pittsburgh PA Second
Pittsburgh PA Trinity
1906 transfer to Maryland Conference MP
1906-09 Oxford
1909-14 Brooklyn
1914-16 Evergreen
1916-17 Waverly
1917-21 Kent Island
1921-25 Union Bridge
1925-29 Salem
1929-30 Chincoteague
1930 retired
Note: William S. Hanks is the son of Reuel Hanks.
HARPER,
A.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on
trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1913-14 Coles
Creek (10/24/1913 – 4/1/1914)
HARRIS, GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1860 ordained elder, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
? Daleville
1859-60 Covington
1860-61 Danville
Note: George Harris is listed among the pastors at Daleville in the 1850’s.
HARRIS, JOHN P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1879 license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1879-80 Delaware
Note: John P. Harris served as a local/supply pastor.
HARRYMAN, AQUILLA AUGUSTUS
Born: 8-31-1845 Baltimore MD married: Ellen Wentzel
Died: 2-20-1920 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1918, 170
license, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Fairview Lutheran Cemetery, Bolivar WV
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1920, 173
1871-72 assistant, Stewartstown
1872073 assistant, Howard
1873-74 Kennedyville
1874-75 Crumpton
1875-76 Surry
1876-78 Deer Creek
1878-80 Milton
1880-82 Rowlandville
1882-84 Cumberland
1884-85 Frederick
1885-86 Baltimore circuit
1886-87 Union
1887-90 Bedford
1890-91 Milton
1891-92 Wilmington
1892-95 Felton
1895-97 Harper’s Ferry
1897-98 Marley
1898-03 Prince George and Oak Grove
1903-06 Conquest
1906-07 New Church
1907-12 Mardela
1912-15 Whaleyville
1915-18 Wye
1918 retired
Note: This surname is sometimes rendered HARRIMAN
HARVEY, GEORGE RICHARD.
Born: 6-14-1832 Bristol, England married: Jane Tyler (1/3/1849)
Died: 12-17-1904 Ennis TX obit:
married2: Emaline Van Gorder (1/26/1867)
obit2: Genesee Conference 1915, 131
1859 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1861 ordained
Interment: Myrtle Cemetery, Ennis TX
Obit: Genesee Conference ME 1905,147
1859-61 Barclay
1861-62 New Albany
1862-64 Muncy
1864-66 Eagleton
1866-69 Salem and Sterling
1869-70 Shickshinny
1870 transfer to Susquehanna Conference of the Free Methodist Church
1870-72 Wilkes-Barre
1872-73 Canaan
1873-74 Pittsford and Bushnell’s Basin
1874-75 Emporium
1875-76 Waverly
1876-78 missionary to Texas
1878-81 superintendent, Texas District
1881-83 Corning and Caton
1883-85 Byersville
1885-86 Birdsall, Genesee Conference ME
1886 transfer to Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1886-87 Birdsall
1887-89 Fowlersville
1889-92 Wiscoy and Filmore
1892-94 Johnsonburg
1894-95 Wheeler
1895-97 South Addison
1897-01 Olean People’s
1901-03 Machias
1903-04 Farmersville
1904 retired
Note: The name of the second Mrs. Harvey also appears as Emeline VanGorden.
HARVEY, M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Auburn and Monroe
HELMBOLD, JOSEPH KEMMERER JR.
Born: 6-2-1820 Philadelphia PA married: Sarah Emeline Black
Died: 4-17-1891 Daleville obit: [4/9/1820 – 9/1/1865]
married2: Henrietta Elizabeth Miller [12/9/1868]
1844 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Wyoming Conference 1948, 1021
1846 ordained deacon and elder
Interment: Old Daleville Cemetery, Daleville PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 9
1844-45 Trough Creek
1845-46 Newport DE, detached from Wilmington in 1845
1846-47 Juniata
1847-48 Huntingdon [Juniata]
1848-49 Concord
1849-50 Clearfield
1850-53 Cecil MD
1853-56 Reading
1856 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference
1856-61 president, Pennsylvania Conference MP
(beginning fall 1855)
1861-62 “visit” the Danville, Wadesville, St Clair, and Reading missions; Covington (part year)
1862-63 captain, Union Army
1863-64 Auburn
1864-65 Salem and Sterling
1865-68 president, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1868-71 no appointment at his own request
1871-73 ?
1873-74 no appointment at his own request
1877-78 Wilkes-Barre (ending 1/24/1878)
1878-79 Taylorsville and Briggs Shaft (ending 4/10/1879)
1879-80 Monroe
1880-88 located
1888 re-instated
1888-91 no appointment at his own request
Note: J.K. Helmbold is the father of William Christmas Helmbold (1871–1927) of the Michigan Conference MP – who was born 12/24/1871 in Daleville PA. He was the Pennsylvania Conference ministerial delegate to the 1858 General Conference and the 1860 special conference.
HELMBOLD, WILLIAM CHRISTMAS
Born: 12-24-1871 Daleville PA married: Mildred Guinevere Clark
Died: 1927 obit: Detroit Conference M 1953, 469
1897 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Washington Township Cemetery, Carsonville MI
Obit: Michigan Conference MP 1928, 23
transfer to Michigan Conference
Note: William C. Helmbold is the son of J.K. Helmbold.
HEMPSTEAD, JOHN NELSON
Born: 12-27-1888 Inwood NY married: Maude E. Beddell
Died: 10-17-1981 Blairsville PA obit: Pittsburgh Conference M 1952, 194
married2: Eleanor Margaret McKee
1914 license, Eastern Conference MP obit2: Western Pennsylvania Conf. UM 1974, 297
1916 admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP married3: Mrs. Helen Browell
1919 ordained, Eastern Conference MP obit3: Western Pennsylvania Conf. UM 1986, 467
Interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland MD
Obit: Western Pennsylvania UM 1982, 392
1914-15 living in Inwood NY
1916-19 Franklinton NY
1929-24 Pittston
1924-27 Pittston and chair, Pennsylvania
District
1927-29 Pittston
1929 transfer to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1929-39 Beaver Falls Central
1939 transfer by denominational union to Pittsburgh Conference M
1939-45 Pittsburgh Knoxville
1945-55 Blairsville
1955 retired
1955-63 Black Lick
1963-74 Florida, “some churches off and on for a few years”
HESS, REEMER ROY
Born: 1883 married: Margaret A. Baer
Died: 1937 obit: [1894 – 1987]
1911 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Sorber (Reyburn) Cemetery, Shickshinny PA
Obit:
1909-10 student, Westminster Seminary
1910-11 Reyburn (beginning 5/8/1910)
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-12 Jones Point &
1912-13 Albany
1913-14 Friendship NJ
1914-15 Somers Point &
1915-17 Monroe & Harvey’s Lake (ending 3/14/17)
Note: R.R. Hess appears to have been from Wilkes-Barre and to have later joined the Pilgrim Holiness Church. This appears not to be the R.R. Hess who sent as a missionary to the Philippines with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in 1932.
HILL, GEORGE JACOB
Born: 11-12-1861 Shepherdstown WV married: Frances Davis Trusselle
Died: 12-26-1942 Washington DC obit: Baltimore Conference M 1952, 239
1893 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Harper Cemetery, Harpers Ferry WV
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1943, 146
1892-93 Accomac
1893-95 Conquest
1895-96 Hurlock
1896-99 Deer Park
1899-01 Concord
1901-06 Frederick
1906-07 Delmar
1907-11 Pipe Creek
1911-14 Warwick
1914-18 Centreville
1918-19 Cherrydale VA
1919-21 Alexandria
1921 retired
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
HEWEY,
FRANK B.
Born: 1878 married:
Died: 1932 obit:
Interment:
Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford CT
Obit:
1916-17 New
Albany (11/13/1916 – 3/29/1917)
Note: Frank
B. Hewey appears to have supplied pulpits in various denominations and in
several different states. Nothing else
is known of him.
HIMMELREICH, WILLIAM I.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60 Monroe
1860-61 left without appointment
Note: William Himmelreich appears in the 1859 list of members of the Pennsylvania Conference MP
HINES, GEORGE W.
Born: 7-3-1870 Philadelphia PA married: Ella E. Millard
Died: 3-28-1950 Stewartstown PA obit: Peninsula Conference M 1964, 266
1893 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1896 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference M 1950, 566
1893-94 Tyreanna
1894-95 Talbot
1895-98 Baltimore Payson Street
1898-00 Baltimore Bethany
1900-04 Queen Anne
1904-05 Milton DE
1905-10 St. Michael MD
1910-15 Snow Hill MD
1915-16 Harrington DE
1916-20 Lynchburg VA
1920-22 Somerset Trinity
1922-26 Stewartstown PA
1926-28 Georgetown DC
1928-35 retired
1935-39 Oxford MD
HINEY, GEORGE W.
Born: 1870 married: Josephine Butterfield
Died: 1947 obit: Central New York Conference 1950, 120
1893 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference EV
1896 ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania Conference EV
Interment: Pine Grove Cemetery Annex, Berwick PA
Obit:
1896-97 Waller
1897-99 Bellefonte circuit
1899-04 located
1904 name dropped from
conference roll
1905 “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1906-07 loaned to Genesee Conference
Stanards
Pains Hollow
North Wolcott
1911 “transfer” to Central New York Conference ME
1911-13 Montezuma
1913-15 Ludlowville & Lansing
1915-17 Sterling & Martville
1917-19 Savannah
1919-21 Lodi
1921-24 Sodus Point & Wallington
1924-27 North Rose & Resort
1927-30 Skaneateles
1930-34 Phoenix
1934-36 Locke
1936 retired
Note: George W. Hiney is the father of Ralph E. Hiney (1898-1959) of the Central New York, Central Pennsylvania and Kentucky conferences. This name appears in many records as HEINEY.
HOBBS, H. A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1879-80 Pine Creek
Note: H.A. Hobbs served in Pennsylvania Conference MP as a supply pastor. This may be the Henry A. Hobbs who served as an ordained member of the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at least since the early 1850’s. There was also a lay person named Henry A. Hobbs living in Luzerne County in 1880.
HODGE, GEORGE ROBERT
Born: 2-11-1862 Cecil County MD married: Emma Florence Lyne
Died: 9-10-1917 obit: Peninsula Conference M 1958, 735
1889 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1891 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: North East United Methodist Cemetery, North East MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1918, 167
1889-92 Middleway
1892-93 Stewartstown PA
1893-95 Crumpton
1895-98 Milton DE
1898-01 Holly Run
1901-02 Nichols Memorial
1902-07 Deer Creek
1907-11 Mariner’s
1911-13 New Church
1913-15 Chincoteague
1915-17 Whaleyville
1917-18 Oxford (ending 9/10/17)
HOLDEN, JOSHUA HUDSON
Born: 1852 married: Ella Electra Eaton
Died: 1-17-1907 obit: [11/26/1853 – 7/20/1939]
1873 admitted on trial, New York Conference MP
Interment: Eastport Cemetery, Eastport NY
Obit:
1884-89 Canaan
…
1892-93 Pittston PA
…
1900-02 East Point, Long Island NY
HOLLAND, FRANK ATKINS
Born: 4-2-1871 DE married: Mabel Bailey (3/29/1899)
Died: 3-6-1953 Baltimore County MD obit: [10/19/1881 – 5/?/1974]
1896 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Brick Meeting House Cemetery, Calvert MD
Obit: Peninsula Conference M 1953, 374
1895-97 Fairview
1897-99 West Wilmington
1899-00 Wicomico
1900-02 Beaver Dam
1902-03 Herbeson
1903-07 Salem
1907-09 Queen Anne
1909-10 Greensboro
1910-17 Milton DE
1917-20 Elizabeth
1920-25 Fawn Grove
1925-30 Parksley
1930-35 Hurlock
1934-39 Leeds MD
1939 transfer by denominational union to Peninsula Conference M
1939-40 Leeds MD
1940 retired
HOLMES, JOHN MATTHEW
Born: 6-22-1845 Baltimore MD married: Sarah Elizabeth Preston [1874]
Died: 7-2-1925 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1908, 126
married2: Virginia Preston [1911]
1864 license, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Maryland Conference MP 1912, 125
1865 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP married3:
obit3:
Interment: Hollywood Cemetery, Harrington DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1926, 138
1865-66 Baltimore circuit
1866-67 Kent
1867-68 Concord PA
1868-70 South Baltimore
1870-72 St. Michaels
1872-74 Norfolk
1874-76 Dorchester
1876-79 West Baltimore
1879-83 Somerset
1883-87 Newark NJ
1887-88 Concord PA
1888-90 Oxford and Talbot
1890-92 St. Luke’s
1892-96 Crisfield
1896-01 Baltimore Alnutt Memorial
1901-04 East Baltimore
1904-09 West Baltimore
1909-11 Alexandria
1911-15 Harrington DE
1915-17 superintendent, Church Extension
1917 retired
Note: The obituary of John M. Holmes states that he was married three times.
HOLMES, WILLIAM GREENBURY
Born: 3-7-1822 near Westminster MD married: Tabitha Barnes
Died: 12-31-1900 obit:
married2: Mary C. Haslup
1855 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [3/22/1832 – 9/17/1885]
Interment: Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Mardela Springs MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1901, 92
1855-57 Trough Creek PA
1857-60 Concord PA
1860-61 Williamsport MD
1861-64 Dorchester
1864-66 Concord PA
1866-69 Sussex
1869-72 Choptank
1872-74 Whaleyville
1874-76 Caroline
1876-80 Union MD
1880-81 Franklin City
1881-82 Quantico
1882-92 retired
1892-94 Marley
1894-95 Pocomoke
1895 retired
HOMAN, SAMUEL
Born: 9-13-1832 Reading PA married:
Annie E. Bortree
Died: 12-20-1909 Chenango obit:
Wyoming Conference 1887, 73
married2:
Mrs. Elizabeth (King) Holden
obit2:
Wyoming Conference 1923, 140
1855 license,
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1857 admitted
on trial
1857 ordained
deacon
1858 ordained
elder
Interment: Salem Cemetery, Hamlin PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1910, 127
…
1858-59 Daleville PA
1859-61 Auburn
1861-62 president, Pennsylvania Conference
…
1864-65 Daleville PA
1865-69 Canaan
… *
1868-76 Daleville PA
1876 “transfer”
to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1876-77 Edmeston
1877-79 Middlefield
1879-82 Sidney
Center
1882-84 Windsor
1884-86 Waymart
1886-88 Salem
1888-90 Chenango
Forks
1890-93 Clifford
1893-95 Bethany
1895-99 Jackson
1899-01 Foster
1901 retired
*Samuel Homan appears to have joined the 1866-75 split group
called the Methodist Church that left the Pennsylvania Conference MP and then
re-joined the New York Conference MP. He
was a New York Conference ministerial delegate to the 1875 General Conference
of the Methodist Church.
Note: Samuel Homan is the father of Rev. Robert Homan (1854-?)
of the Wyoming Conference. A
biographical sketch of Samuel Homan appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
344. He was the Pennsylvania Conference
ministerial delegate to the 1862 General Conference.
HOOKER, GEORGE JOSEPH
Born: 10-2-1880 Baltimore MD married: Neva Margaret Hudson
Died: 9-27-1955 obit: Baltimore Conference M 1957, 277
1903 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1904 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference M 1956, 261
1903-05 Baltimore Payson Street
1905-06 Milton DE
1906-08 Kennedyville
1908-10 Hurlock
1910-13 Fawn Grove PA
1913 transfer to ?
1913-15 ?
1915 transfer to Maryland Conference
1915-19 Frederick
1919-22 Pittsville
1922-24 Washington DC First
1924-27 Denton
1927-30 Alexandria
1930-36 Seaford
1936-27 pocomoke
1937-39 Baltimore Calvary
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-43 Baltimore Calvary
1943-53 Nalyimore Milton Avenue
1953 retired
HOOPER, THOMAS HOSKIN
Born: 11-4-1861 Beer Alston, England married: Catherine Cornelius
Died: 10-11-1935 obit: New Jersey Conference M 1950, 589
1900 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference
1904 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Atlantic View Cemetery, Manasquan NJ
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1936, 16
1900-02 Harvey’s Lake
1902-03 Hollisterville
1903-06 Salem & Sterling (ending 10/20/1905)
1906-07 loaned to Home Mission Board
1907-08 Berwick (ending 10/1/1907)
1908-11 South Canaan (Kizers [Cortez] &
Mt. Cobb and South Canaan)
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-15 Shickshinny and chairman, District 9
1915-17
…
1921-24
1924-29
1929-31
1931 retired, living in Manasquan
Note: Thomas H. Hooper is the father of four parsonage families: Rev. Thomas Leroy Hooper (1894–1975) of the Pittsburgh MP and West Virginia M/UM conferences; Leona Hooper Naylor, wife of George H. Naylor; Mrytle Hooper Sliker, wife of Stephen F. Sliker; Florence Hooper Ammmeran, wife of George E. Ammerman.
HOOVER, S.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1892-93 Maple Lake
Maple Lake & Moosic (beginning 6/21/1892)
1893-94 without appointment
HORNER,
J.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on
trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 Reyburn
(beginning 2/14/1917)
1918-19 Albany
(ending 11/15/1918)
1819-20 living in New Albany
Note: J.E.
Horner served as a local preacher.
Nothing else is known about him.
HOTTENSTEIN, SOPHIA (BRENCHLEY)
Born: 4-?-1844 PA married: Henry Hottenstein
Died: 1905 obit: [1841 – 1906]
? license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: East Forks Union Cemetery, Forksville PA
Obit:
1897 Spring Lake (ending 3/23/1897)
1897-98 Auburn (beginning 4/10/1897)
Note: S. Hottenstein is not listed as a member of Conference, and her status/credentials are not known. She apparently is known for her “ministerial work” in the Methodist Protestant Church.
HOWARD, ERNEST P.
Born: 7-18-1900 Canada married: Eva Mae Wanstall
Died: 9-29-1980 Fort Myers, FL obit: [11/5/1897 – 7/25/1979]
1924 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Fort Myers Cemetery, Fort Myers FD
Obit:
1923-24 White Plains NY
1924-29 missionary,
1929-30 Pittston
1931-39 missionary under independent missionary board
Note: Retired missionaries Ernest P. and Eva M. Howard moved from Largo FL to Shell Point Village in 1970. The middle name of Mrs. Howard in also give as May.
HOWARD, WILLIAM CAMDEN
Born: 9-26-1902 NY married: Dorothea K. Badgley
Died: 8-21-1995 obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1986, 283
1928 admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP
1930 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1996, 219
1928-31 Reyburn PA
1931-34
1934-37
1937-39 Somers Point NJ
1939 transfer by denominational union to New Jersey Conference M
1939-41 Somers Point
1941-47 Browns Mills and New Lisbon
1947-55 Medford
1955-64 Glouster First
1964-67 Bridgeton Wesley
1967-75 Long Branch Simpson
1975 retired
HUCKELL, WALTER A.
Born: c1884 married: Florence A. Saxbury
Died: 8-11-1964 Poughkeepsie NY obit: [d. 9/24/1935]
Interment: Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie NY
Obit:
1911-12 Hunts-Gulick NY “Methodist”
…
1921-22 New Albany PA
1922-23 left in the hands of the President
…
1926 “transfer” to Christian Church
HUDGINS, HERBERT EUGENE
Born: 11-20-1900 married: Louise B. _____
Died: 9-23-1990 obit: [10/18/1910 – 3/28/2009]
1927 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richmond VA
Obit: Virginia Conference UM 1991, 202
1925-28 Lewistown
1928-29 Concord PA
1929-31 Doylesburg PA
1931-33 Wallace Memorial
1933-34 Greenwood – Cannon
1934-39 St. Pauls
1939 transfer by denominational union to Virginia Conference
1939-40 Cherrydale VA
HUGHES, EUGENE VINCENT REYNOLDS
Born: 2-03-1867 Philadelphia PA married: Lillie Annie Elizabeth Shapley (1888)
Died: 1-15-1946 Laurel Run PA obit: [12/12/1864 – 10/14/1945]
? license, Congregational Church
Interment:
Obit:
1905-06 Shickshinny, Pennsylvania Conference of MP Church (beginning 5/15/1905)
1906 transfer to Pennsylvania Conference, page 12
1906-08 Shickshinny
1908 Wyoming Mission (apparently did not finish the year)
1908 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference
1908-10 Houtzdale
1910-11 Bakerstown
1911- Trumbull and Turnersville (or “without work at his own request”?)
1915-16 Coles Creek (beginning 11/29/1915)
1916-18
1918-20 Salem and Sterling (beginning
12/24/18)
1920-21
1921-22 Oceanville NJ
1924-25 left in the hands of the president
1925 no longer listed
Note: In 1899 Eugene V.R. Hughes is listed as a Sunday School teacher at the Millville NJ Fourth ME church. E.V.R. Hughes of Silvera PA was the Pennsylvania Conference MP ministerial delegate to the 1904 General Conference. He is reported to have represented the Eastern Conference MP at General Conference(s). He is reported to have retired to Quakertown PA about 1926. In 1902 he is listed as a Sunday School teacher in the Millville NJ Fourth ME Church. A February 1903 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports the following for Goldsboro NJ: “Great interest is being manifested in the revival services now in progress in the Methodist Protestant Church. Evangelist E.V.R. Hughes, by his singing, has attracted young and old and the attendance is increasing.” Mrs. Hughes is the daughter of Rev. Jacob Shapley (1843-1922) of the Eastern Conference MP. Rev. Shapley was born in Hummelstown PA and has an interesting life story.
HUGHES, SAMUEL
Born: 1866 England married: Clare _____ [1892]
Died: 1949 obit: [1866 – 1895]
married2: Annie Marie Hill [1905]
1926 local pastor, Pittsburgh Conference MP obit2: [1874 – 1942]
Interment: Richland Cemetery, Dravosburg PA
Obit:
1922-25 Cookport circuit (beginning 1/1/1922)
1925-25 Mahaffey circuit
1927-41 Houtzdale
Note: It appears that Samuel Hughes and the Houtzdale congregation remained out of the 1939 denominational union and became independent. After a few years, they disbanded and most of the members joined the Houtzdale Methodist (former ME) congregation.
HUIZER, JOHN S.
Born: 7-4-1884 Paterson NJ married: Jennie Nieuwenthius
Died: 2-6-1951 Stanhope NJ obit: New Jersey Conference 1955, 801
1921 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment: Fair Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Fair Lawn NJ
Obit: New Jersey Conference 1951, 805
1921-22 Glassboro NJ
1922-25 Fair
1925-30
1930-31 given letter of standing
1931-32
1932-34 Burlington & Lehigh and Daleville
PA
1934-35 Burlington & Lehigh and Daleville PA and chairman, Pennsylvania District
1935-37 Burlington & Lehigh and Daleville
PA
1937-39 South Amboy NJ Calvary
1939 transfer by denominational union to New Jersey Conference M
1939-41 South Amboy Calvary
1941-42 West creek
1942-48 Englishtown
1948-49 sabbatical
1949 retired
Note John S. Huiser was a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids MI. Before 1921 he served pastorates in the Reformed Church in Chicago, in the northwest, and in Wanaque NJ.
HULL, JESSE H.
Born: 9-9-1821 Knottsville VA married: Elizabeth _____
Died: 8-28-1893 Toronto OH obit: [1820 – 3/18/1897]
1850 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1852 ordained
Interment: Toronto Union Cemetery, Toronto OH
Obit:
1849-50 Cassville circuit
1850-51 Amity
1851-52 Washington mission
1852-55 Clarion circuit
1855-57 Pittsburgh Birmingham mission
1857-60 Uniontown
1860-62 Brownsville circuit
1862-63 president, Pittsburgh Conference
1863-66 Manchester circuit
1866-70 Monongahela circuit
1870-71 Pittsburgh Allegheny Second
1871-73 East Liverpool
1873-75 president, Pittsburgh Conference
1874-75 Pittsburgh Second
1875-78 Susquehanna circuit
1878 retired
1878-80 East Ohio Conference ME
1881-82 Coraopolis
1885-865 Fairview circuit
1890-93 assistant, New Cumberland WV
Note: The tombstone gives the birth year as 1820.
HULSART, R.S.
Born: 1831 Plainfield NJ married: Anny Ely Hankinson
Died: 1914 obit: [7/24/1831 – 11/10/1884]
1868 ordained, Wesleyan Methodist Church
Interment: Rockville Cemetery, Lynbrook NY
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1914, 21
“transfer” to New York Conference MP
1892-93 Paterson NJ Main Street
Pittston PA
1897-01 Franklintown NY
1901-02 Paterson NJ Main Street
…
1912-14 Baldwin NY
HUMPHREYS, GIDEON IRELAND
Born: 11-5-1881 Elton Head Manor MD married: Alma Olsen
Died: 4-5-1963 obit: [10/2/1891 – 4/2/1982]
1904 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville FL
Obit: Western North Carolina Conference M 1963, 314
1904-05 Evergreen
1905-07 Delta
1907-09 Alexandria
1909-13 Pocomoke City
1913-16 West Baltimore
1916-23 Washington DC Rhode Island Avenue
1923-26 president, Maryland Conference
1926-30 Salisbury
1930-39 president, High Point College, High Point NC
1939 transfer to Western North Carolina Conference M
1939-49 president, High Point College
1949 retired to Gainesville FL
HUNT, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1838 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1839-40 Baltimore (moved in mid-year to Deer Creek)
1840-41 Deer Creek
1841-43 Williamsport MD
1843-44 Allegany PA [Bedford]
1844 withdrew
HUSSEY, EDWARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1883 license, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1887 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1888 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1883-84 local preacher living in Williamsport PA
1884 dropped, page 11
1886-87 Williamsport mission (beginning 4/19/1886)
1887-88 Muncy
Note: The following item appearing in multiple newspapers may be relevant: ‘Williamsport, Pa. May 28 [1894]. Rev Edward Hussey, a colored preacher, was found dead in an upper room of his house. The lower floor had been flooded and he escaped up stairs, where he died from exposure.”
HUTTON, AMOS
Born: c1824 married: Mary E. _____
Died: obit: [b. c1833]
Married2: Margaret Jane Gilmore
? received, Pittsburgh Conference MP obit2: [d. 1931]
Interment:
Obit:
1851-58 principal of the preparatory department, Madison College
…
1865-67 Cassville
…
1881 Dawson Baptist, Fayette County PA
Note: Madison College was a Methodist Protestant institution in Uniontown, Fayette County PA, 1851 – 1858. Amos Hutton is listed in the 1860 census as a schoolteacher in Connellsville, Fayette County PA. He may have had a later connection with the Christian Church. He eventually settled in his wife’s home town of Connellsville, Fayette County PA, on “the property adjoining the Methodist Protestant Church in Peach Street.”
JACKSON, J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1841 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1841-42 Anne Arundel
1842-43 Sussex
1843-44 Snow Hill
1844-46 Lewes
1846-48 retired
1848-49 Smyrna
1849-50 Cecil
1850-52 no appointment at his own request
1852-53 Allegany PA [Bedford]
1853 located
JAMES, JOHN J.
Born: married:
Died: 1860/61 obit:
1860 ordained deacon, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: death reported in September 1861 manuscript minutes of the Pennsylvania Conference
[Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
Note: This name also appears as JOHN H. JONES, and in later memorial rolls as JOHN J. JONES.
JENKINS, CLINTON MERCER
Born: 6-27-1875 near Leesburg VA married: Eva Mae Mathers
Died: 12-15-1943 Mt. Solon VA obit:
1920 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
1921 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Herndon VA
Obit: Virginia Conference M 1944, 146
1919-20 Concord PA
1920-21 Amelia VA
1921-22 Lawsonia MD
1922-23 Crumpton MD
1923-25 Bedford PA
1925-28 Grove MD
1928-29 Mt. Nebo PA
1929-31 Cecil MD
1931-32 St. Michaels MD
1932-34 Bivalve MD
1934-36 Dagsboro MD
1936-38 Deer Creek MD
1938-39 Northumberland VA
1939 transfer by denominational union to the Virginia Conference M
1939- Northumberland
Toms Brook
Mt. Solon (ending 12/15/1943)
Note: The dates on his headstone 6/27/1876-12/15/1944 appear to be off by exactly one year.
JOHNSON, RALPH
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1908 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1922 ordained, Pittsburgh Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1909-10 Nettle Hill circuit, Pittsburgh Conference MP
1910-11 Mahaffey circuit
1910 “transfer” to Erie Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church
1910-13 Fallowfield
1913-15 West Monterey – Queenstown
1915-18 Robinson Chapel
1918 Hilliards – North Washington (part year)
1919 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1919-21 Rogersville circuit
1921-22 Manchester circuit
1922-27 Houtzdale
given letter of standing 5/6/1929
JONES, BENJAMIN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1859-60 Danville
1860-61 Muncy
JONES, EDWARD HAMILTON
Born: 10-26-1869 married: Anna Barker
Died: 4-28-1932 obit: Peninsula Conference M 1949, 373
1900 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1932, 118
1899-00 Willimasport MD
1900-02 Fredrica DE
Felton (beginning 12/12/1901)
1902-04 Grove
1904-07 Chincoteague
1907-10 Franklin City
1910-11 Lawsonia
1911-16 Clayton
1916-18 Stewartstown PA
1918-24 Delmar
1924-25 Parksley
1925-32 East Baltimore (ending 4/28/1932)
Note: E. Hamilton Jones is the son of Rev. Ellis Harrison Jones (1937–1908) and the nephew of (his mother’s brother) Rev. William Rusmiselle (1816–1892), both of the Lutheran Church. His name also appears as ELLIS HAMILTON JONES.
JONES, JOHN B.
Born: 1833 married: Lavinia Ann Ward
Died: obit: [10/10/1844 – 7/2/1925]
1860 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
Note: This name also appears as JOHN C. JONES, and may be the same as one of the other JC JONES entries below. Mrs. Jones was from Laurel DE.
JONES, JOHN BAYLEY
Born: 12-5-1833 near Milton DE married: Annie America Follin
Died: 10-12-1909 Baltimore MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1885, 56
married2: Lavinia A. Ward (1886)
1860 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: [10/10/1844 – 7/2/1925]
1862 ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Old Methodist Cemetery, Laurel DE
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1910, 117
1860-61 Pipe Creek
1861-62 Caroline
1862-63 Talbot
1863-64 Newtown
1864-65 Howard
1865-66 Georgetown
1866-67 Severn
1867-69 Alexandria
1869-70 Philadelphia Salem
1870-72 Whaleyville
1872-73 Potomac
1873-75 on loan to Montgomery AL
1875-79 Kent
1879-81 East Baltimore
1881-83 Warwick
1883-85 Laurel
1885-86 Anne Arundel
1886-89 Cambridge
1889-93 Cecil
1893-95 Delta PA
1895-97 Hampden
1897-04 St. Luke’s
1904-10 Brooklyn (ending 10/12/1909)
Note: John Bayley Jones is the grandfather of Rev. John Bayley Jones IV (1908-2003) of the Maryland Conference MP (and later of the Baltimore Conference and Baltimore-Washington Conference). The first Mrs. Jones is a sister to Ella Virginia Follin Hoblitzell, wife of Rev. Solomon Asbury Hoblitzell (1836-1911) of the Maryland Conference MP.
JONES, J.C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1860 ordained elder, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1859-61 Lykens Valley
1865-68 Daleville
JONES, JOHN C.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1873 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1873-74 Scranton Hyde Park
1878-79 no appointment at his own request (living in Philadelphia)
1879 retired
JONES, O.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1912-13 Franklinton NY
1913-14 Auburn PA (beginning 4/18/1914)
1914-15 Coles Creek PA
1915-16 Friendship NJ
1916-17
JORDAN, HANSON PERRY
Born: 11-10-1818 Baltimore MD married: Elizabeth Shapley
Died: 1-10-1903 Baltimore MD obit: [3/4/1824 – 3/11/1886]
1842 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mount Oliver Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit:
1842-43 Concord PA
1843-46 Carlisle PA
1846-47 Cumberland
1847-49 Frederick
1849-51 Union
1851-53 Pipe Creek
1853-55 on leave
1855-58 Queen Anne
1858-61 Talbot
1861-63 Washington Street
1863-65 no appointment at his own request
1865-76 on leave
1876-77 no appointment at his own request
1877 located
Note: Hanson P. Jordan served as the State Librarian of Maryland 1863-68. Mrs. Jordan was born in Carlisle PA and met Hanson P. Jordan when he served there.
JORDEN, C.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1879-80 Cassville PA
KAHLE, JACOB R.
Born: 1-4-1821 Kahletown PA married: Mary Jane Carter
Died: 4-8-1882 Brookville PA obit: [d. 9/30/1877]
married2: Anna H. Chivers
admitted on trial, Erie Conference ME obit2: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1921, 34
Interment:
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1882, ?
1866-67 Clarington
…
1873 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1873-74 Youngstown
1874-75 ?
1875-76 Phillipsburg
1876-77 Cassville (ending 12/10/1877)
1877-79 left in hands of the president
1879-81 Brookville
1881-83 Stahlstown
Note: Jacob R. Kahle died of smallpox. He was an 1853 organizer of the Kahletown ME church and was a local preacher. He is also associated with a Sarah Anne Carter (1825-1877). His conference obituary states that he was born in “Huntingdon County PA”.
KEEHNER, EDWIN
Born: c1901 Baltimore MD married: [single]
Died: 6-23-1968 obit:
1926 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference UM 1969, 388
1926-27 Monterey PA Hawley Memorial
1927-28 West Baltimore
1928-31 Texas
1931-34 Mt. Nebo
1934-36 St. Michaels
1936-37 no appointment at his own request
1937-39 Chesaco and Graceland Parks
1939 transfer by denominational union to Baltimore Conference M
1939-41 Chesaco and Graceland Parks
1941-42 sabbatical
1942-44 Mount Pleasant
1944-48 Bedford PA circuit
1948-50 Hedgesville
1950-57 South Baltimore
1957-60 Frederick Avenue
1960-62 Delta PA
1962-65 Calvary
1965-66 Sparrows Point
1966 retired
Note: Some sources give his first name as EDWARD,
KEITH, JOHN DAVID
Born: 5-11-1875 GA married:
Died: 3-10-1989 Rockwall County TX obit:
Interment: Rolla Cemetery, Rolla ND
Obit:
1903-04 Delta PA (beginning 10/14/1903)
1904 transfer to Georgia Conference MP
1904-05 Cedar Grove Station
Note: Westminster seminary student John D. Keith supplied Delta after H.H. Price left to take a faculty position at an MP school in Texas. He appears to have been an older student from the Alabama Conference MP who entered the Georgia Conference MP following seminary. The journal for the Georgia Conference MP 1904, page 15, notes the 8/30/1904 transfer of John D. Keith from the Alabama Conference MP to the Georgia Conference MP.
KELLEY, MAURICE E.
Born: 11-3-1900 married: Josephine Leiby
Died: obit: [2/23/1904 - ?]
1935 ordained, Eastern Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1935-38 Cassville
1938-40
…
1946-57 Eastport NY Gospel Church (beginning 1/1/1946)
Note: The Madison Park MP Church in Paterson was organized in 1897 and appears to have been absorbed by its ME counterpart very soon after 1939. The exact position/fate of the pastor and the bulk of the membership at that time is not known. Maurice E. Kelley followed another former Pennsylvania Conference MP pastor, Charles A. Pepoon, as the pastor at the Eastport Gospel Church.
KENDRICK, TUNIS TITUS
Born: 1834 Pickaway County OH married: Julia A. Snodgrass [9/20/1859]
Died: 9-?-1890 Brooklyn NY obit:
admitted on trial, Ohio Conference MP
Interment: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
Obit:
1865-66 Middletown OH
tried and indefinitely suspended from the ministry
1869 applied to New York Conference, at first rejected, later accepted
Brooklyn NY Grand Street
…
expelled
1877-78 Hughesville PA (beginning in mid-year)
“transfer” to Illinois Conference MES
1887-88 Marion
Note: An account of T.T. Kendrick’s 1869 dealings with the New York Conference MP appears in John Scott’s 1898 Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry, pages 246-249. He is also mentioned in D.M. Bennett’s 1878 Champions of the Church: Their Crimes and Punishments, page 973. His unpleasant experiences in Ohio, New York and Illinois are the subject of many secular newspaper stories. Many years after he left Ohio, for example, the 12/1/1886 Xenia Daily Gazette states: Rev. Tunis Titus Kendrick appears to be playing his little confidence pranks on the unsuspecting, as is learned from various letters of inquire received here inquiring about him. His field of operation is now in Illinois.”
KILGORE, JAMES LANYON
Born: 8-24-1832 Stanton DE married: Anna M. _____
Died: 5-4-1898 Wilkes-Barre PA obit: [c1927 - 2/?/1938]
admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Muncy PA
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1899, 85
president, Pennsylvania Conference
1872 transfer to Maryland Conference
1872-74 Alexandria
1874-76 on leave
1876-79 Kent Island
1879-83 Stewartstown PA
1883-85 Jefferson
1885-88 Hampden
1888-92 Lisbon
1892 retired
Note: James L. Kilgore graduated as a physician from the University of Pennsylvania in 1854 and served as president of the Pennsylvania Conference MP while teaching at the academy in New Columbus, Luzerne County PA. He moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1893.
KLAFFKE, THEODORE A.
Born: c1834 Germany married: Elizabeth Fawcett
Died: 7-4-1927 obit: [10/6/1851 – 7/8/1925]
1889 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, New Albany PA
Obit:
1888-89 left in the hands of the president
…
1892-95 Burlington
…
1898-00 Auburn
1900-02 Lopez
[Silvara & Jersey Hill??]
1902-03 without appointment
1903-04 Harvey’s Lake
…
1906-07 Lopez
Note: The 1910 census places Theodore A .Klaffke in Wyoming PA. This is not the Theodore A. Klaffke from Brownsville OR who attended Drew Theological Seminary 1883-86 – as the Drew alumni record says that Theodore A. Klaffke entered the ministry of the Free Methodist church and died about 1903.
KLINE, A.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted in trial, Pennsylvania Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1860-61 Montour, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Association
…
1872-74 Pine Creek and Shickshinny
Note: A.E. Kline reportedly sought admission on trial in the Evangelical Association in 1860, but was denied. When the pastor appointed to Montour circuit refused the assignment, A.E. Kline supplied the circuit. He then reportedly sought admission on trial again in 1861, but was denied. In 1874 A.E. Kline brought fraternal greetings from the Pennsylvania Conference to the Maryland Conference.
KRAUSS, FRANKLIN PORTER
Born: 7-17-1874 Baltimore MD married: Elvie M. Reininger
Died: 5-17-1962 York PA obit: [8/15/1881 – 7/20/1961]
1903 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro PA
Obit:
1902-03 Williamsport MD
1903-05 Millville
1905-07 Grove
1907-08 Felton
1908-08 Mt. Nebo PA
1909-10 Whaleyville
1910-11 Franklin City
1911-12 Oak Grove and Prince George
1912-14 Bedford PA
1914 withdrew
LANDON, EZRA
Born: 7-5-1790 Hardwick NJ married: Ruby Chapin
Died: 1-11-1869 MO obit: [1/25/17896 – 5/5/1877]
1827 elected deacon, Rochester Conference of Methodist Societies
Interment: Union Cemetery, Sedalia MO
Obit:
1827-28 Burlington
1832 joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Genesee NY
1833 excommunicated 12/31/1833
moved to Missouri
joined Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint
Note: Ezra Landon and his father Laban are listed among the early settlers of Union township, Tioga County PA. He was part of the 1824-29 Rochester [NY] Conference of Methodist Societies that pre-dated the Methodist Protestant denomination. In 1828, Landon and several congregations were set apart to help form the Pennsylvania Conference MP. After moving to Missouri, he is recorded as having performed weddings as an elder in the Methodist Protestant Church. Ezra Landon is part of the little-known links between the Reformed Methodists (predecessors to the Methodist Protestant Church, with whom they later united) and the Latter Day Saints (particularly the family of Brigham Young).
LANE, ALEXANDER
Born: 10-3-1809 Burlington PA married: Catherine Shoemaker
Died: 4-26-1890 Burlington PA obit: [10/18/1813 – ?/?/1889]
Interment: Luthers Mills Cemetery, Luthers Mills PA
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
Note: Alexander Lane is a brother to Zephaniah Lane. Bradsby’s 1891 History of Bradford County states: “Rev. Alexander Lane, was a clergyman of the Methodist Protestant church, having joined the Pennsylvania Conference at the age of eighteen; he traveled as an itinerant preacher, on horseback, as was the custom in those early days, in the States of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania; was a powerful preacher and an excellent man; he was nearly sixty years in active pastoral work."
LANE, ZEPHANIAH
Born: 12-14-1796 Poughkeepsie NY married: Synthia Swain
Died: 2-9-1873 Burlington PA obit: [11/4/1802 – 11/2/1839]
married2: Mary “Polly” Clark [1840]
Interment: obit2: [?/?/1810 – 12/14/1896]
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
Note: Farmer-preacher Zephaniah Lane is reported to be the founding pastor of the Laddsburg MP church, in Bradford County PA on the New Albany charge.
LARCOM, LEWIS JOB
Born: 5-20-1838 married:
Died: 1860/61 obit:
1860 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: death reported in September 1861 manuscript minutes of the Pennsylvania Conference
[Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 8]
1860-61 Canaan
Note: This surname also appears as LARCUM. The 1860 census places him living with his parents in West Burlington township, Bradford County PA. His death is also reported in The Hamiltonian for July 1862, issued by the class of 1862 of Hamilton College in Clinton NY. It appears that he was a member of the class of 1862 and died in the War. The school lists him as being from Burlington PA.
LASSELL, JAMES THOMAS
Born: 3-6-1836 Chestertown MD married: Julia A. Sanderson
Died: 3-24-1904 Baltimore MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1909, 124
1866 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1909, 120
1866-67 Cambridge
1867-70 Dorchester
1870-72 Snow Hill
1872-75 Newtown
1875-77 Easton
1877-80 Susquehanna
1880-81 Anne Arundel
1881-82 Baltimore MD Washington Street [Alnutt Memorial]
1882-83 Ninth Street
1883-84 Warwick
1884-86 Howard
1886-88 Lisbon
1881-91 Finksburg
1891-93 Brooklyn
1893-96 Pipe Creek
1896-00 Fawn Grove PA
1900-03 Oxford
1903-05 Leeds
1905-07 Mariners
1907 retired
LEACH, JOHN MELVIN
Born: 8-21-1855 Oswayo PA married: Florence R. Farnham
Died: 3-28-1932 Ceres NY obit: Genesee Conference ME 1943, 653
1875 license to preach
1878 admitted on trial, Pittsburgh Conference
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment: Ceres Cemetery, McKean County PA
Obit: Genesee Conference ME 1932, 112
1878-80 Nunda
1880-81 Brooksgrove
1881-83 Greece
1883-84 Westfield
1884-85 on leave
1885-86 Annin Creek and Turtle Point, Genesee Conference ME
1886 transfer to Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1886-87 Annin Creek and Turtle Point
1887-90 Honeoye
1890-91 Colegrove and Clermont
1891-93 Hinsdale Ischua
1893-95 Andover
1895-97 Duke Center and Rixford
1897-00 Spencerport
1900-02 Cuba and Haskell
1902-04 Harrison Valley
1904-06 Stannards and Shongo
1906-08 Belmont
1908-10 Machias and McKinstry
1910-11 Ceres and Horse Run
Note: John M. Leach is the son of James H. Leach, local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father of Rev. William H. Leach, affiliation unknown. Mrs. Leach is the daughter of Rev. William Hosmer Farnham (1854-1929) and the granddaughter of Rev. William H. Farnham, both reportedly local preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
LEAKE, WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1857 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference ME
1860 admitted
on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1857-58 Bethany
1858-59 Salem
1860 “transfer”
to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1860-61 Salem
chaplain,
U.S. Army
Note:
The military service of William H. Leake was with the 3rd
Regiment, PA Volunteers, which included the “Salem Independents” of Wayne
County.
LEE, THOMAS
Born: 6-17-1821 Manchester, England married: Elizabeth Hardman
Died: 7-16-1882 Rainsburg PA obit: Maryland Conference MP 1905, 111
1836 license, Methodist New Connection
1851 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference
Interment: Woods Church Cemetery, Rainsburg PA
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1883, 45
local preacher in England [Bolton, Rochdale, Haywood, Bury, etc.]
1848 moved to America
1850-52 Accomac
1852-53 Salem
1853-55 Allegany PA [Bedford]
1855-56 no appointment at his own request
1856-58 Reading
1858-60 Caroline
1860-63 Bedford
1863-66 retired
1866-68 Susquehanna
1868 retired
LEETZ, SIMON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1860 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1906,6]
LEETZ, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1906,6]
LEIGHTON, WILLIAM B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1867 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
LEILICH, JOHN LUTHER
Born: 12-12-1854 Frederick MD married: Jennie Elizabeth Smith
Died: 7-16-1905 Lock Haven PA obit: Central Pennsylvania Conf. ME 1884, 86
married2: Mary Lucinda McLaughlin
1879 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Central Pennsylvania Conf. ME 1911, 133
Interment: Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference ME 1906, 116
1878-79 assistant, Caroline
1879-80 Rainsburg PA
1880-82 Sussex
1882 withdrew
1882-83 Blain, Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1883 “transfer” to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1883-84 Blain
1884-85 Robinsonville
1885-86 Thompsontown
1886-89 Concord
1889-92 Three Springs
1892-94 Jeanesville
1894-95 Northumberland
1895-97 Newport
1897-00 Harrisburg St. Paul’s.
1900-01 Lewisburg
1901-04 superintendent, Utah Mission
1904-05 Lock Haven East Main Street
Note: An obituary for John L. Leilich also appears in the 7/27/1905 Christian Advocate, page 1192, and a tribute appears in the 3/1/1906 Christian Advocate.
LEMEN, NICHOLAS
Born: 10-7-1815 VA married: Catherine Ann Minor [1846]
Died: c1875 obit: [1828 – 1896]
1843 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1843-44 Trough Creek PA
1844-46 Potomac
1846-47 Harpers Ferry
1847-48 Cecil
1848-49 Prince William
1849 located
LENNON, JOHN FRANCIS
Born: 8-6-1870 New Brunswick NJ married: Martha Dupre
Died: 1-18-1932 obit: New Jersey Conference ME 1947, 756
1914 license, recommended by Kearny NJ
Interment: Bridgeport Cemetery, Bridgeport NJ
Obit: New Jersey Conference ME 1932, 729
1914-16 South Canaan (ending 11/10/1916)
1916-17 Oceanville (beginning 11/10/1916)
1920 “transfer” to New Jersey Conference ME
Greenville circuit
Manahawkin and Cedar Run
Forked River and Lanoka
Sea Isle City
Bridgeboro and Asbury
Bridgeport and Center Square
Note: John F. Lennon is the father of John Robert Lennon (1911-1986) of the East Ohio Conference. He is the subject of a brief article in the 2011 issue of The Chronicle, pages 24-25.
LEWIS, ROBERT LUTHER
Born: 6-2-1847 married: Missouri Redhead
Died: 4-13-1899 obit: Maryland Conference MP 1932, 121
1871 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery, Federalsburg MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1900, 95
1870-71 Howard
1871-72 Dorchester
1872-73 Bel Air
1873-74 Kent
1874-75 Pocomoke
1875-81 on loan to Heathsville
1881-84 Queen Anne
1884-85 Seaford
1885-88 Chesapeake
1888-90 Salisbury
1890-92 Caroline
1892-95 Kennedyville
1895-96 South Baltimore
1896-97 Delta PA
1897-98 Wye
1898 retired
LINCOLN, WILLIAM B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1867 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1906,6]
LIPPINCOTT, CLARENCE MELVILLE
Born: 6-17-1873 Waynesburg PA married: Florence Bertha Morris
Died: 7-16-1936 Pittsburgh PA obit: [4/14/1875 – 5/18/1917]
1904 ordained, Pittsburgh Conference MP
Interment: Oakmont Cemetery, Waynesburg
Obit: Pittsburgh Conference MP 1936, 31
1898-01 student, Yale University
1901-02 Faimont WV
1902-03 South Canaan, New York Conference
1903-04 Uniontown
1904-09 New Cumberland WV
1909-14 Beaver Falls
1914-19 Pittsburgh Fourth
1916-18 president, Pittsburgh Conference
1919-22 Pittsburgh First
1922-27 Pittsburgh St. John’s
1927-29 Haynesville LA
1929-31 Pittsburgh Second
1931-32 Kittanning
1932-36 Eldersville
Note: C.M. Lippincott is a 1901 B.D. graduate of Yale University
LITSINGER, WILLIAM DUNCAN
Born: 9-27-1839 Warren MD married: Amelia Caroline Hawkins
Died: 10-21-1922 Richmond VA obit: Maryland Conference MP 1928, 179
1863 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1923, 137
1863-64 Talbot
1864 65 Newtown
1865-66 Bel Air
1866-67 Frederick Avenue
1867-69 Severn
1869-70 Snow Hill
1870-71 Kent Island
1871-74 Sussex
1874-76 Chesapeake
1876-77 Peach Bottom
1877-81 Fawn Grove
1881-83 Finksburg
1883-84 ?
1884-87 Susquehanna
1887-89 Cecil
1889-92 Dorchester
1892-96 Lisbon
1896-98 Liberty
1898-01 Howard
1901-03 Heathsville
1903-04 Warwick
1904 retired
Note: William Duncan Litsinger is the father of three pastor: William Hawkins Litsinger (1870-1958) and James Ernest Litsinger (1879-1913) of the Maryland Conference MP, and R. Stanley Litsinger (1884-1956) of the Episcopal Church. There are 4 other Litsinger pastors that appear to be related to William Duncan Litsinger, but the Baltimore area extended Litsinger family was large and the exact biological relationships and denominational affiliations are unknown: Rev. William Richard Litsinger (1815-1903) and his son Rev. William F. Litsinger (1847-1935); Rev. William J. Litsinger (1881-1965) and his Assembly of God son Rev. Gilbert M. Litsinger (1906-1994).
LITTLETON, CHARLES HUMPHREY
Born: 1-6-1829 VA married: Sarah E. Webster
Died: 1-17-1905 Baltimore MD obit: [d. 6/6/1886]
married2: Mrs. Carrie E. Pope
1851 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP obit2: Maryland Conference MP 1914, 144
Interment: Loraine Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1905, 108
1851-52 Newtown
1852-54 Howard
1854-55 no appointment at his own request
1855-56 on leave
1856-57 Deer Creek
1857-58 Baltimore circuit
1858-59 Reading
1859-60 Williamsport MD
1860-65 West Baltimore circuit
1865-69 Anne Arundel
1869-73 Somerset
1873-77 Jefferson
1877-82 Pipe Creek
1882-85 Starr
1885-86 no appointment at his own request
1886-89 on leave
1889-91 Concord
1891-93 Crumpton
1893-98 Deer Creek
1898-99 Milton
1899 retired
Note: The first Mrs. Littleton was the daughter of Rev. Isaac Webster ((1787-1851) of the Maryland Conference MP.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Born: 5-6-1836 Worcester County MD married: Amanda Embrey
Died: 11-29-1888 Westminster MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1912, 129
1861 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Mount Olivet Methodist Church Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit: Maryland Conference 1889, 56
1861-62 New Market
1862-63 Cecil
1863-72 no appointment for health reasons
1872-74 Williamsport MD
1874-78 Concord
1878-81 Deer Creek
1881-83 Middleway
1883-88 Potomac
1888 retired
LONG, H.E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
? United Brethren Church
Interment:
Obit:
1893 “transfer” to Pittsburgh Conference MP
1893-94 Nadine
1894-99 located
1899-00 Cassville
Note: H.E. Long reportedly served in the United Brethren Church 1844-93, but apparently as a local pastor with no official record.
LONG, THEODORE CLAYTON
Born: 9-?-1854 Huntingdon County PA married: Margaret P. _____
Died: 1933 obit: [1856 – 1943]
1901 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Sicklerville Methodist Cemetery, Sicklerville NJ
Obit:
1881-82 Scranton station (beginning 11/11/1881)
…
1901-04 Coles Creek
…
1906-07 Monroe & Harvey’s Lake
1907-09 Albany
1909-11 president, Pennsylvania Conference
Monroe (3 mo)
1911 charter member of Eastern Conference
1911-12 w/o appointment, living in
1913-14 w/o appointment
1914-17
…
1921-22 left in the hands of the President
LOUNSBERRY,
HARVEY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted on trial,
Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1858-59 Pittston
Broad Street
LOW, HENRY S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 8]
LUCAS, WILLIAM JAMES DILLON
Born: 12-4-1849 Centreville MD married: Rachel Ann Fluharty
Died: 3-26-1914 Denton MD obit: Maryland Conference MP 1928, 173
1873 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Denton Cemetery, Denton MD
Obit: Maryland Conference MP 1915, 125
1873-74 Bedford
1874-75 Frederick
1875-76 Baltimore circuit
1876-77 Quantico
1877-81 Preston
1881-83 Clayton
1883-85 Clayton and Leipsic
1885-88 Caroline
1888-90 retired
1890-91 Quantico
1891 retired
LUCE, BENJAMIN B.
Born: 1-17-1829 married: Sarah Ann Carpenter
Died: 2-21-1898 Sugar Run PA obit: [1/2/1831 – 5/25/1906]
1883 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1884 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Vaughn Cemetery, Mehoopany PA
Obit: Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 9 & 42
1884-88 Auburn
1888-90 Shickshinny
1890-92 Reyburn
1892-94 president, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1894-97 Mehoopany mission
1897 retired
Note: Benjamin B. Luce reportedly served as a local preacher in the Mejthodist Episcopal church for “a number of years” before joining the Pennsylvania Conference MP. Some sources give a death date of 2/26/1898.
LUCY, RALPH J.
Born: 5-15-1889 NY married: Lena Mae White [1913]
Died: 10-30-1975 obit: [11/9/1888 – 2/4/1985]
1926 ordained
Interment: North Columbia Cemetery, Herkimer County NY
Obit:
1925-28 South Canaan
1928-34 South Canaan and chairman,
Pennsylvania District
1934-39 South Canaan
1939 charter member of Bible Protestant denomination
1939-63 South Canaan
1963 retired
Note: Ralph J. Lucy and the South Canaan congregation remained out of the 1939 denominational union and joined the newly formed Bible Protestant denomination.
LUNNING, ALBERT ALEXIS
Born: 1867 married: Annie _____
Died: 9-24-1935 obit: Eastern Conference MP 1926, 31
1908 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich CT
Obit: Eastern Conference MP 1935, 16
1912-13 Berwick PA
1913-14 w/o appointment
1914-15 Point Erial NJ
1915-17 New
…
1921-35 Cos Cob CT
Note: The birth year for Mrs. Lunning, not given in her obituary, is 1871.
LUTZ, SIMEON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1860 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference 1898, 8]
? Daleville
1859-60 Muncy
1860-61 Trevorton
Note: Simeon Lutz is listed as having served Daleville sometime between 1847 and 1857.
LUTZ, WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit: [Pennsylvania Conference MP 1898, 8]
? Daleville
1855-57 Canaan
1859-60 Sterling and Paupack
1860-61 Monroe
Note: William Lutz is listed as having served Daleville sometime between 1847 and 1857.
LYNCH, ANDREW GLADYS
Born: 1-29-1901 married: Hazel S. Sharp
Died: 6-1-1963 obit: [1906 – 1971]
ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Rock Hall MD
Obit: Virginia Conference M 1963, 124
1931-33 Doylesburg PA
1933-37 on loan, Board of Missions
1937-39 Wesley Chapel
1939 transfer by denominational union to Virginia Conference
1939-40 Parksley VA
LYNN, JEFFERSON GILBERT
Born: 4-12-1876 Danville PA married: Alma May _____
Died: 4-13-1966 obit: [1887 – 1973]
1927 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg PA
Obit:
1923-24 Kent Island
1924-26 Cecil
1926-27 Concord
1927-29 Bivalve
1929-30 Wye and Queen Anne
1930 no longer listed
Note: Jefferson G. Lynn lived in Harrisburg for many years as a retired minister serving as a guest pastor in various denominations on various occasions.
LYON, EZRA F.
Born: 4-25-1826 Oswegatchie NY married: Sarah Jane Patterson [2/26/1844]
Died: 9-17-1898 Marshfield PA obit: [2/26/1827 – 1911]
1884 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Obit:
1876-77 Varick NY Wesleyan Methodist
…
1883-84 Phoenix NY [ME?]
1884 “transfer” to Pennsylvania Conference MP
1884-85 Pine Creek
1885-88 Shickshinny
1888-89 Mehoopany mission
1889-90 Franklin Forks and Fairdale, Wyoming Conference ME
1890-92 Randolph [Hickory Grove] PA, Wyoming Conference ME
1893-94 Greenfield Free Will Baptist Church [aka Finch Hill Baptist], Greenfield Township PA
1894-95 Freewill Baptist Church of Brookfield, Tioga County PA
1895-98 East Deerfield Free Baptist Church, Tioga County PA
Note: E.F. Lyon is the father of J.W. Lyon and of Elizabeth Lyon Feathers, wife of Rev. Hori Lester Feathers (1851-1915), affiliation unclear. Mrs. Lyon is buried at the West Lowville NY Cemetery, which may also be where E.R. Lyon is interred. See http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=8328 for 3/6/1883 newspaper article on the family.
LYON, JOHN WASSON
Born: 8-20-1854 Ogdensburg NY married: Helen Case
Died: 6-13-1932 Valois NY obit: [1869 – 1947]
1885 admitted on trial, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment: Sodus Rural Cemetery, Sodus NY
Obit:
1885-86 Pine Creek
1886-88 Maple Grove
1888-89 Auburn
1889-90 Harford NY, Wyoming Conference ME
1890-92 Litchfield PA, Wyoming Conference ME
“transfer” to Baptist
Church
1894-96 First Baptist Church of Deerfield,
Tioga County PA
1896 East Troupsburg NY Baptist
1896-00 Marshfield PA
1908 Red Creek NY
Himrod NY
Note: J.W. Lyon is the son of E.F. Lyon. He appears to have had previous connections with the Onondaga Conference MP.
MacBAIN,
CHARLES H.
Born:
3-29-1873 Middleburg NY married: Mary Alger
Died:
4-10-1962 Tioga Center NY obit: Wyoming
Conference M 1939, 592
married2:
Lena _____ [1939]
1911 admitted on trial, Eastern Conference MP obit2: [1877 – 1955]
Interment:
Tioga Cemetery, Owego NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference M 1962, 223
1911-13 Central
1913-17 Salem
and Sterling PA
1917-19 Hollisterville
PA
1919 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1919-25 Foster–Brooklyn
1925-30 Thompson
1930-33 Waverly–Fleetville
1933-36 Beach Lake
1936-39 Tioga Center
1939 retired
Note:
Charles H. MacBain is a brother to Dow B. MacBain (1875-1953) of the New York
Conference.
MADDOX, CARROLL
Born: 4-17-1876 Front Royal VA married: Mabel Rice
Died: 3-3-1950 Parkville MD obit: Eastern Pennsylvania Conf. UM 1971, 325
1905 admitted on trial, Maryland Conference MP
? ordained, Maryland Conference MP
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore MD
Obit: Philadelphia Conference M 1950, 779