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CHURCH RECORDS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH COMPILED AND EDITED BY REV. NORMAN CARLYSLE YOUNG, M.Div.; M.Ed. AND NAOMI KATHLEEN IVEY HORNER UPDATED June 30, 2021 AN HISTORICAL RECORDS VOLUME PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ARCHIVES & HISTORY MINISTRY TEAM Printed by McElvany & Company Printing and Publishing 1 Copyright © 2021 by The Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church All Rights Reserved 2 PREFACE The Historical Volume Church Records Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church was last printed in 2003. In order to keep the Church Records current, Janet & Norman C. Young were retained to update the more recent appointments and make necessary corrections as new information became available. Since their death, Naomi Horner has graciously volunteered to continue updating the volume. New information comes from the readers making corrections and suggestions. New information also comes from Naomi’s continued research on the companion volume Pastoral Records. The Western Pennsylvania Commission on Archives & History decided to make this revision and update available on these webpages www.wpaumc.org0H so that the most current information remains accessible and for corrections to continue to refine the document. This volume has had long history of Revision. Described by Herbert E. Boyd in his 1957 volume on the Erie Methodist Preface as a “compendium…intended primarily as an administrative tool.” He then credits forerunners back to 1898. At that time, this primarily contained Pastoral Records. Grafton T. Reynolds edited for the Pittsburgh Methodist Episcopal Church a similar volume through 1927. W. Guy Smeltzer divided his 1969 revision between chapters on Pastoral Records and Church Records. Raymond M. Bell followed the same chapter division when he added Evangelical United Brethren in 1991. Norman C. Young who had worked on the Methodist Protestant section in the 1969 volume required us to divide the Church Records (2003) and the Pastoral Records (2012) into separate books because of the sheer volume of the material collected. With Naomi Horner’s contributions the Western Pennsylvania Commission on Archives & History is hoping to eventually publish a three-volume set. John R. Wilson Conference Secretary TABLE OF CONTENTS BUTLER DISTRICT ........................................................................................................................ 5 CONNELLSVILLE DISTRICT ..................................................................................................... 91 ERIE-MEADVILLE DISTRICT .................................................................................................. 191 FRANKLIN DISTRICT ................................................................................................................ 287 GREENSBURG DISTRICT ......................................................................................................... 391 INDIANA DISTRICT ................................................................................................................... 459 JOHNSTOWN DISTRICT ........................................................................................................... 563 KANE DISTRICT ......................................................................................................................... 643 PITTSBURGH DISTRICT ........................................................................................................... 709 WASHINGTON DISTRICT ......................................................................................................... 799 INDEX .......................................................................................................................................... 895 3 Sources of Information Allegheny Conference, Evangelical United Brethren Church, Journals Allegheny Conference, United Brethren Church, Journals Allegheny Conference, United Brethren in Christ Church, Journals Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals Central Pennsylvania Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals Central Pennsylvania Conference, The Methodist Church, Journals Erie Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals Erie Conference, Evangelical Association Church, Journals Erie Conference, Evangelical United Brethren Church, Journals Erie Conference, The Methodist Church, Journals Erie Conference, United Brethren in Christ Church, Journals Genesee Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals Genesee Conference, The Methodist Church, Journals Ohio Conference, Evangelical Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Evangelical Association Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Evangelical Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Evangelical United Brethren Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Methodist Protestant Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, The Methodist Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, United Evangelical Church, Journals Western Pennsylvania Conference, Evangelical United Brethren Church, Journals Western Pennsylvania Conference, The Methodist Church, Journals Western Pennsylvania Conference, The United Methodist Church, Journals West Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, Journals West Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Journals West Virginia Conference, Methodist Protestant Church, Journals Pittsburgh Conference, Evangelical Association Church, Microfilm Boyd, Herbert E., Historical Record of the Erie Conference of The Methodist Church, 1957. Fradenburgh, Jason N., History of Erie Conference, Volumes I – II, 1907. Fulton, J. S., History of the Allegheny Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1931. Hodge, Edwin S., Western Pennsylvania Conference, Record of Churches – Closed, Merged and Change of Names, 1994. Reynolds, Grafton T., Manual of the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1825-1929. Smeltzer, Wallace Guy, Methodism in Western Pennsylvania 1784-1968, Co-Editor, Methodist Protestant Church Records, Young, Norman Carlysle Young, Norman C., Pittsburgh Conference Methodist Protestant Churches and Ministers 1933-1939 Young, Norman C., Church Records, 2003 4 Pittsburgh District District Superintendents District: Pittsburgh: Commenced in 1825. Asa L. Shinn 1825-1826; Thornton Fleming 1826-1828; David Sharp 1828-1832; Charles Elliott 1832-1834; Robert Hopkins 1834-1838; Charles Cooke 1838-1839; William C. Henderson 1839-1843; James Green Sansom 1843-1847; Thomas M. Hudson 1847-1850; Charles Cooke 1850- 1854; Isaac Newton Baird 1854-1856; Homer Jackson Clark 1856-1860; William Cox 1860-1864; Simon P. Woolf 1864-1868; Discontinued 1868; North Pittsburgh District: Commenced 1868; David L. Dempsey 1868-1872; Richard L. Miller 1872-1876; Henry L. Chapman Spring 1876-Fall 1876; Discontinued 1876: Pittsburgh District: Reactivated 1876; Thomas Newton Boyle 1876-Fall 1880; Charles Wesley Smith 1880-1884; Charles Avery Holmes 1884-1887; Joseph Walter Miles 1887-1893; Benjamin Fell Beazell 1893-1899; Thomas Newton Boyle 1899-1904; James Carter Mechem 1904-1910; William Francis Conner 1910-1916; William S. Lockhard 1916- 1924; Henry Nesmith Cameron 1924-1927; Jacob Simpson Payton 1927-1931; Discontinued 1931; Reactivated 1933; Lemon Dorsey Spaugy 1933-1935; Joseph Dushane Piper 1935-1940; Thomas Richard Courtice 1940-1946; Harry Alden Price 1946-1952; Ernest Vernon May 1952-1956; John Paul Lambertson 1956-1962; Continued in Western Pennsylvania Conference: John Boyle Warman 1962-1965; Bruce LeVant Middaugh 1965-1970; Paul John Meuschke 1970-August 8, 1972; Gilbert Earl Hoffman August 8, 1972-1978; Richard Edwin Hawke 1978- 1984; Madge Black Floyd 1984-1990; Paul Edwin Schrading 1990-1996; John William Walker 1996-August 11, 1996; Thomas Lynn Funk January 1, 1997-1999; Martha Marie Orphe 1999-2006; Donald Guy Scandrol 2006- 2014; Paul Dennis Taylor 2014-2018; Dawn Maria Hand 2018-2021; Deborah L. Ackley Killian 2021--. District: Pittsburgh East: Commenced in 1962; W. Sproul Boyd 1962-1966; Harold Theodore Porter 1966-1969; William Edward Daugherty 1969-1975; Benton Robert McKee 1975-1979; Roger Ray Shaffer 1979-1985; Clair Alden Lundberg 1985-1981; Jerry LaVon Kincaid, Sr. 1991-1999; Jeffrey Edward Greenway 1999-2004; Closed. ALLISON PITTSBURGH DISTRICT METHODIST EPISCOPAL – PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE 1888-1901 History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. In 1888 when Mathilda Allison sold the remaining property making up the Allison Farm to Charles E. Wood and W. E. Harmon, developers of Allison Park, she reserved one lot which she conveyed to the Allison Methodist Episcopal Church. Not much is known of the history of this church but we do know it was located on a spot which later became known as “Gospel Hill”, and the property with its building, was later sold to Mr. Herman J. Keppeler of DeHaven, and became the first building occupied by Saint Ursula’s Roman Catholic Church from 1909 to 1928. Pastors: Allison/Glenshaw: J. D. W. Hazelton 1891-1892; William H. McBride 1892-1893; To Be Supplied 1893- 1894; J. R. Bly 1894-1896; Allison/Evergreen: J. R. Bly 1896-1898; Ralph Bell 1898-1901; ALLISON PARK: EPWORTH PITTSBURGH DISTRICT METHODIST - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE 1959 Mailing Address: 1300 Burchfield Road, Allison Park, PA 15101-4098 412/486-1454 ID: 095877 Location: At 1300 Burchfield Road, and serving Glenshaw and Allison Park communities, in Allegheny County, PA. History: Methodist – Pittsburgh