District Superintendents

Pittsburgh District: 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 Beazell1893-1899; Thomas Newton Boyle 1899-1904; James Mechem 1904-1910; William Francis Conner 1910-1916; William S. Lockhard 1916-1924; Henry N. Cameron 1924-1927; Jacob Simpson Payton 1927-1931; Discontinued 1931; Reactivated 1933; Lemon Dorsey Spaugy 1933-1935; Joseph Dushane Piper 1935-1940; Thomas R. 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--.

 

Pittsburgh East District: 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; W. 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: 95877

Location: At 1300 Burchfield Road, and serving Glenshaw and Allison Park communities, in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist – Pittsburgh Conference. Organized in the home of Edward and Caroline Odenbaugh, with the first service April 19, 1959 and Reverend William LeRoy Jones, Associate pastor at Ingomar Methodist Church officiating. Under the guidance of Dr. James Lewis Carraway, Allegheny District Superintendent; Reverend Ernest Vernon May, executive secretary of the Conference Board of Missions and the Methodist Church Union, and the Ingomar Community Methodist Church, a small congregation gathered. Reverend Howard Hugh Bright, Jr., was appointed as the first pastor at the 1959 Conference. The group moved to the Middle Road Fire Hall, where Charter Day Services were held December 13, 1959, receiving 42 members. The Church Builders Club of the Board of Missions and the Board of Lay Activities contributed toward the erecting of a multi purpose unit, which was consecrated August 14, 1960 by Bishop William Vernon Middleton. In December 1964 the first level of an educational building was ready for use. The membership in 1968was 316. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 220.

 

Pastors: Epworth: Howard Hugh Bright, Jr. 1959-1962; Robert Glendon Krouse 1962-September 1978; Robert William Higginbotham, Jr. October 1978-1984; Susan Ruth Hutchins 1984-1994; Ronald Howard Love 1994-October 5, 1994; Rodney Jay Croyle October 30, 1994-February 19, 1995; Ronald Edward Fleming February 19, 1995-2000; Sandra Kay Marsh-McClain 2000-2006; David Sheldon Dempsey 2006--.

 

ALLISON PARK: SAINT PAUL’S                                                                          PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN – WESTERN PA CONFERENCE                                                  1966

Mailing Address: 1965 Ferguson Road, Allison Park, PA 15101-3297                                      412/486-7006

ID: 189817

Location: Located at 1965 Ferguson Road, on the corner of Ferguson and Duncan Roads, North Hills, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Evangelical United Brethren - Western Pennsylvania Conference. The first service was held on October 30, 1966 in the parsonage at 1800 Red Coach Road with 19 persons present. On September 10, 1967 the church was organized as the Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church. The first services in the new sanctuary were held on December 21, 1969. An addition was opened February 2, 1975. In 1970 there were 103 members; in 1976 there were 536 members and on January 1, 2003 there were 1195 members.

 

Pastors: Saint Paul’s: William Edward Wineberg 1966-May 13, 1971; Brian Kelley Bauknight 1971-October 1, 1980; John Ross Thompson October 1980-1990; Joseph William Patterson Associate 1984-1992; Donna Martin Thompson Associate 1984-April 8, 1988; Leah Rose Prytherich Bergstrom Diaconal Minister 1979-1994; Ronald Robert Hoellein 1992--; Jeffrey Dahle Sterling Associate 1992-June 1, 1997; David Charles Frantz Associate 1997-July 1, 1999; Leah Rose Prytherich Bergstrom Associate 1994-2005; Bruce Alan Gascoine Associate 2005--; Marie Barontini Deacon 2006--.

 

ASPINWALL                                                                                                      PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL – PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                  1893

Mailing Address: 400 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15215                                                    412/781-6951

 

Location: Located at 400 Center Avenue, which is the corner of Center Avenue and Fourth Street in the Borough of Aspinwall, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. On March 23, 1893 the First Methodist Church of Aspinwall was organized in the home of H. A. Stout. In charge was the Reverend William D. Sease, then pastor of the Union Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg. Eighteen persons were present to be received as Charter Members. From 1893-1895 it was on a circuit with Simpson Church of Allegheny and met in the Aspinwall Public School Building. In 1895 a Sunday school was organized. A building program was initiated and the original church was dedicated on November 3, 1895. In 1931 the old building was remodeled, enlarged and bricked. It was dedicated March 6, 1932. In 1981 the congregations of Aspinwall and Blawnox merged and formed the Community United Methodist Church with services still being held in each church.

 

Pastors: Union Centenary/Aspinwall: William D. Sease March 23, 1893-September 1893; Simpson/Aspinwall Josiah Elmer Kidney 1893-1895; Aspinwall: William Tipper 1895-1899; Frederick A. Richards 1899-1902; Henry L. Chapman 1902-1905; Arthur D. Mink 1905-1907; Sherman T. Westlake 1907-1908; Joseph Dickson Brison 1908-1911; John R. Wolfe 1911-1914; Elmer H. Greenlee 1914-1917; Thomas George Hicks 1917-1922; Joseph Buchanan Risk 1922-1925; Charles J. Thompson 1925-1929; Reuben Secrist Harding 1929-1933; W. Sproule Boyd 1933-1934; Charles R. Wolf 1934-1940; Arthur Culmer Schultz 1940-1942; Forrest Abner Goodrich 1942-1946; William E. Siess 1946-1951; John S. Allison, Sr. 1951-1956; Charles Willard Hoover 1956-1959; Lewis Stewart Hastings 1959-1963; Earl Wilfred Lighthall 1963-1965; Steve Elwood Cupcheck 1965-1969; Bruce Taylor Bowman 1969-1983; Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox: Jack Levi Hemsky 1983-1987; North Shore Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox:  Edward LeRoy Clarke 1987-1991; Janet Chandler 1991-1993; Sandra Kay Marsh 1993-1999; Aspinwall/Blawnox: Mary Jane Fullerton 1999-2002; Pittsburgh Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox/Sharpsburg: Grace/Millvale: Mary Jane Fullerton 2002-2007; Community Circuit: Aspinwall/Blawnox/ Millvale/Sharpsburg: Grace: Brenda K. Walker 2007--

 

AVALON: GREENSTONE                                                                                    PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL - BALTIMORE CONFERENCE                                                                    1800

Mailing Address: 939 California Avenue, Pittsburgh 15202                                                     412/761-3221

ID: 101148

Location: Located at 939 California Avenue at North Home Street in the Borough of Avalon, on Ohio River Boulevard, west of Pittsburgh, in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Baltimore Conference. Although in Avalon it is mostly referred to as Bellevue: Greenstone. It was organized as a Methodist Episcopal Congregation of the Pittsburgh Conference. This congregation developed from the Class formed in the John Rodenbaugh home on the original Shenango Circuit of the Baltimore Conference in 1800. The Rodenbaugh home was at the north edge of the city of Pittsburgh near the intersection of Ivory Lane and Route 19. The class was divided in 1812 and the segment that was to become the Bellevue Church was known as the Robert Quaill Class. Robert Quaill’s beautifully written Quarterly Meeting Minutes of the Shenango Circuit are a treasured possession of the Bellevue Church. In 1813 a log Church was built in Ross Township near the northern boundary of the Borough of Bellevue. The property is still in the possession of the Church and is used as a cemetery. Sometime around 1830 the congregation moved to Hopewell, exact location not known. From there they moved back to the Quaill farm, then to Jack’s Run where, in 1850, a Church was built and named Fleming Chapel in memory of Thornton Fleming, early frontier Presiding Elder. It was a part of the Manchester Circuit until 1858. Until 1873 it was part of the Allegheny Circuit, then from 1873 to 1875 it was the Bellevue and Blackburn Charge. In 1875 the first Church was built in what was then West Bellevue, now Avalon. It became a Station appointment in 1875. A second frame building was erected in 1899, and the new Greenstone building in 1906. The educational wing was added in 1926. The membership in 1968 was 1,016. In 1982 the name was changed from Bellevue: Greenstone to Greenstone. The membership on January 1, 2002 was 532. Name changed to Avalon: Greenstone in 2007.

 

Pastors: Shenango Circuit: Bellevue: Greenstone: John Desselms 1808-1810; James Watts 1810-1811; Abel Robinson and Daniel Davidson 1811-1812; James Watts and Shadrack Ruark 1812-1813; John McMahan, John G. Scissel and Boroughs Westlake 1813-1814; John Elliott and James B. Finley 1814-1815; John Sommerville and David Young 1815-1816; Robert C. Hatton 1816-1817; Ira Eddy, Jacob Hooper and Samuel Baker, 1817-1818; John C. Brooke and Thomas McClelland 1818-1819; William Cunningham and James C. Hunter 1819-1820; William Cunningham and Charles Trescott 1820-1821; John Graham and William Tipton 1821-1822; Dennis Goddard and Billings O. Plimpton 1822-1823; Ezra Boothe and Albert G. Richardson 1823-1824; Samuel Adams and Robert Finley Hopkins 1824-1825; Samuel Adams and James Babcock 1825-1826; Alfred Burnson 1826-1827; Charles Thorn and Jonathan Holt 1827-1828; Samuel Adams and William C. Henderson 1828-1829; Joseph W. Davis and Jacob Jinks 1829-1830; Richard Armstrong 1830-1831; Richard Armstrong and John Scott 1831-1832; Daniel Ritchey and Ahab Keller 1832-1833; Thomas Thompson 1833-1834; Cornelius Jones and John C. Sweeney 1834-1835; Simon Lauck and Harvey Bradshaw 1835-1836; Abner Jackson and Ellis W. Worthington 1836-1837; Abner Jackson and William Henderson 1837-1838; David R. Hawkins and William C. Henderson 1838-1839; John White and Joseph Wright 1839-1840; Joshua Moore and John White 1840-1841; Peter M. McGowan and Hosea McCall 1841-1842; Hosea McCall 1842-1843; David Sharp and John Huston 1843-1844; David Sharp and William Page Blackburn 1844-1845; Warner Long and John Wesley Baker 1845-1846; Warner Long and William Page Blackburn 1846-1847; Hamilton Cree, Jr. and Hiram Miller 1847-1849; William Cooper 1849-1850; Fleming Chapel: David L. Dempsey and Joseph Horner 1850-1851; Robert Finley Hopkins and Joseph Horner 1851-1852; Albert G. Williams and William Page Blackburn 1852-1853; Isaac P. Saddler and W. L. N. Gilmore 1853-1854; H. D. Fisher and Artemas E. Ward 1854-1855; Lancelot Robinson Beacom and Sylvester Burt 1855-1856; Lancelot Robinson Beacom and Francis D. Fast 1856-1857; John C. Brown and George Crook 1857-1858; Robert Finley Hopkins 1858-1859; John McCarty 1859-1861; Adna Bradway Leonard 1861-1863; Abraham J. Rich 1863-1865; David Hess, and J. Shaffer 1865-1867; John Z. Moore and James M. Swan 1867-1868; William Johnson 1868-1869; Francis D. Fast 1869-1870; James M. Swan and Homer J. Smith 1870-1871; James M. Swan 1871-1873; Bellevue/Blackburn: George W. Swift 1873-1875; Bellevue: Greenstone: Silas Thayer Mitchell 1875-1876; James Mechem 1876-1877; Thomas Hudson Wilkinson 1877-1880; Morris B. Pugh 1880-1882; George Washington Johnson 1882-1885; John Hoffman Miller 1885-1888; Joseph Buchanan Risk 1888-1891; Henry Conley Beacom 1891-1892; Delbert L. Johnson 1892-1897; Milton McChesney Sweeney 1897-1902; Nicholas H. Holmes 1902-1904; Thomas J. Leak 1904-1905; Harry Lester Smith 1905-1909; Walter E. Burnett 1909-1913; George L. C. Richardson 1913-1914; Perry H. Murdick 1914-1919; Thomas R. Thoburn 1919-1921; Ralph B. Urmy 1921-1928; John B. Magee 1928-1932; Ralph B. Urmy 1932-1934; Roy E. Manne 1934-1939; James Franklin Hoffman 1939-1945; Arthur W. Sandberg 1945-1954; George A. Mooers 1954-1961; George A. Mooers 1961-1962; Harold Creston Liphart, Jr. Associate 1961-1962; John Paul Lambertson 1962-1967; John Howard Piper Associate 1964-1966; John Howard Cherry Associate 1966-1967; Ralph S. Findley 1967-1973; William LeRoy Jones 1973-1979; John Wright Gordon, Sr. 1979-1982; Name changed to Greenstone: John Wright Gordon, Sr. 1982-1983; Bruce Taylor Bowman 1983-June 1, 1995; James Newville Shaver, Jr. 1995-2001; Emily Ann Byrd 2001-2003; James William Kramer 2003-2007; Name changed to Avalon: Greenstone: Richard Olin Feagin 2007--.

 

BAKERSTOWN                                                                                                  PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST PROTESTANT - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                              1832

Mailing Address: 5760 William Flynn Highway, Gibsonia, PA 15044-9548                                 724/443-3184

ID: 95285

Location: Route 8 and Dickey Road, one-fourth mile south of Bakerstown on Route 8, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Protestant – Pittsburgh Conference. The church was organized in 1832 in the home of Ralph Lee. The first church building was erected in 1838. It was a white frame Church and was built on land purchased from James Jones. This first Church burned in 1859 and a red brick Church was erected in 1860. This building was gutted by fire in 1890 and repaired in 1891. On various Circuits in its early years, its relation with the Bairdford Church commenced in 1896 and continued until 1957. The Fox Chapel Church was a part of the Charge from 1935 to 1953. The church attained Station status in 1957 and in 1959 a New Church building was erected on a hill-overlooking Route 8. The old Church in the village of Bakerstown was sold to the then adjoining Presbyterian Church in 1959. In 1960 a parsonage was built beside the new church. At the ground breaking service on May 3, 1959, Mrs. Matilda Crummy, the oldest living member of the Church, whose husband, Lee Crummy, was the grandson of Ralph Lee, in whose home the Church was born, lifted the first shovel of earth. The membership in 1968 was 320. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 512

 

Pastors: Bakerstown: Ralph Lee 1832-1834; Thomas Stinchcomb 1834-1835; Daniel Gibbons 1835-1836; George Brown and Fielding A. David 1836-1837; George Brown and Asa Shinn 1837-1838; John Beatty 1838-1840; John Burns 1840-1841; John Burns and Asa Shinn 1841-1842; James Robinson 1842-1844; John Cowl 1844-1845; Served by Ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church 1845-1857; John Scott 1857-1858; William Collier 1858-1860; John Herr 1860-1861; Samuel Ferry Crowther 1861-1862; Unknown 1862-1863; William Wragg 1863-1864; George Beamish McElroy 1864-1865; Joel J. Wood 1865-1867; Berry Edmiston 1867-1868; William H. Phipps 1868-1869; Henry Palmer 1869-1870; John Rinehart Taggard 1870-1872; To Be Supplied: 1872-January 1873; Ebenezer Matthews January 3, 1873-1874; Henry Switer 1874-1877; To Be Supplied 1877-1877; Charles S. Cowl October 10, 1877-March 24, 1879; James I. Robinson April 1879-1879; Johnston J. Wagoner 1879-1881; J. A. Gehrette 1881-1882; James I. Robinson April 1882-September 11, 1882; Thomas Wilmer Colhouer September 16, 1882-1884; James I. Robinson 1884-December 1, 1884; William Burrow December 4, 1884-1890; John T. Willis December 5, 1890-1892; Joseph C. Carpenter 1892-1894; Benson F. Saddler 1894-1896; Bakerstown/Bairdford: T. H. Hall 1896-1897; Elias Judson Headley 1897-1898; Adam Robert Rush 1898-1900; F. S. Grover 1900-1902; Zebulin C. Roberts 1902-May 1903; J. A. Johnson June 1903-October 1903; John William Righter November 1903-1907; William Alexander Rush 1907-1908; Hiram Woodward King October 26, 1908-1910; E. V. R. Hughes 1910-1911; Frank Pierce Hummell 1911-1912; Orson Ward Bolton 1912-1913; Harry S. D. Shimp 1913-1914; Harry M. Peterson 1914-1915; Charles A. Biles 1915-September 1916; C. William Evans September 1916-April 1917; George Elmer Schott June 1917-March 1918; Albert Wallace Kaufman June 1918 – August 1918; Charles A. Biles August 1918-1920; William S. Hamilton 1920-January 1923; William Millward January 1923-June 1923; Mrs. William Millward June 1923-September 1923; William Hunter, Jr. September 29, 1923-1924; Earle William Terry September 9, 1924-April 1925; Willard Myron Douglas May 1925; Harold Ingram Zook June 1925-September 1925; Fred W. Atkinson November 1925-July 1932; Harry V. Leland July 1, 1932-1933; Thomas Milton Gladden 1933-1935; Bakerstown/Bairdford/Fox Chapel: Thomas Milton Gladden 1935-1938; George Budd 1938-1939; Josiah David Stillwagon 1939-1941; William E. Baker 1941-1943; William M. Smith 1943-1946; Ward Elliott 1946-1953; Bakerstown/Bairdford: Ward Elliott 1953-1957; Bakerstown: Ward Elliott 1957-1972; Andrew Charles Harvey 1972-March 1, 1980; Duane Lavern Morford March 15, 1980-January 1, 1988; Donald Richard Brown January 31, 1988-1989; James Newville Shaver, Jr. 1989-1995; Mark Arthur Stewart 1995--; Connie Bennett Hoeke Associate January 1996-June 1996; James Parker Walker Associate 2003-2005;.

 

BALDWIN COMMUNITY                                                                                    PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                                    1946

Mailing Address: 5001 Baptist Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236-1799                                            412/882-9300

ID: 101104

Location: Baptist Road and Doverdell Drive in the Borough of Whitehall, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist – Pittsburgh Conference. The congregation grew out of a Church school class composed of eight children in the home of Mrs. Frank R. Garman on Baptist Road. The original founders of the Church school and the leaders in the development of a Church were Mrs. Frank R. Garman and Mrs. Frank B. Madden. In order to accommodate a Church and Church school, the program was moved to the Union School in 1945 under the guidance of Dr. Thomas R. Courtice, first Pastor of the congregation. In 1946 the Church was organized with a charter membership of eighty-five members under the leadership of Dr. David Jones Wynne. A first unit of the Church building was constructed in June 1948 which housed the Church and a social hall. A second building including classrooms for education purposes was constructed in 1952. A new Sanctuary and social hall was added in 1956. A completed education wing was dedicated in December 1960. The congregation has been built on a basis of a community Church serving many of the civic and social community groups, yet fully organized as a Methodist Church and from its inception, a member of the Pittsburgh Annual Conference and later the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The Methodist Church. Since 1946, Baldwin Church has consistently grown from 85 charter members to a membership reported in the 1968 Journal of 3,076 and a Church school of approximately 2,000 enrollment. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 2022.

 

Pastors: Baldwin Community: Thomas R. Courtice, 1945-1946; David Jones Wynne 1946-1960; Mahlon D. Hurlbert, Jr. Associate 1955-1961; Robert Charles Howe 1960-1965; Raymond Verle Bengston Associate 1961-December 1, 1965; John Boyle Warman 1965-August 8, 1972; George C. Godfrey Associate 1961-1965; Gerald George Walcutt Associate 1962-February 1, 1965; Mahlon D. Hurlbert, Jr. Associate January 1, 1966-1975; Paul John Meuschke August 8, 1972-1978; Elmer Harold Reamer, Jr. Associate1970-1975; John Howard Piper Associate October 1972-July 1976; Harry Clayton Prince Associate 1975-1977; Frank Richard Leslie Associate 1975-1978; Hugh Dewey Crocker 1978-1992; Howard Franklin Burrell, Jr. Associate 1978-November 18, 1980; Susan Ruth Hutchins Associate 1978-1984; David Mark Biondi Associate 1981-1987; Donald Paul Blinn, Jr. Associate September 15, 1984-1989; Howard Gilliford Russell, Jr. Associate 1987-1993; John Warren Aupperle 1992-2002; Janet E. Chandler Associate August 1, 1989-1991; Patricia Salapow Harbison Associate 1991-1997; Connie Bennett Hoeke Associate 1997-1999; David Sherwood Coul Associate 1999-2001; Jaime Potter-Miller 2002-September 1, 2003; Gregory David Cox Associate 2002-2006; Larry Bartlett Hauck Interim September 1, 2003-2004; Deryl Kent Larsen 2004-2007; Jeffrey Thomas St. Clair Associate 2006--; Allan Keith Brooks 2007--.

 

BANKSVILLE                                                                                                      PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                         1853-1918

 

Location: Located on Banksville Road, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. The Banksville Church had its origin in the home of William Marshall, a Methodist Local Preacher from England, in 1853. This home, and the Church building erected in 1869, were located on the old Banksville Road. This congregation sold its building and merged with the Dormont congregation November 24, 1918.

 

Pastors: Banksville: William Marshall 1853-Unknown; Martin Sherrick Kendig 1859-1870; Edwin Ruthvan Jones 1870-1872; L. H. Baker 1872-1874; Leonidas Hamline Eaton 1874-1875; Joseph E. Wright 1875-1876; Earl D. Holtz 1876-1878; Jeremiah W. Kessler 1878-1880; W. Kennedy Brown, 1880-1881; Joseph H. Henry 1881-1882; Morris B. Pugh 1882-1883; James Elverson Williams 1883-1886; Joseph Jackson Hayes 1886-1887; James B. Gray 1887-1890; Edward Williams 1890-1892; Silas Elmer Rodkey 1892-1893; David M. Hollister 1893-1895; George A. Sheets 1895-1896; Herbert Melvin Carnahan 1896-1898; William H. Hunter 1898-1903; William J. Law 1903-1905; Howard H. Westwood 1905-1908; Leroy I. Lord 1908-1911; William Medley, Sr. 1911-1913; Weldon P. Varner 1913-1918; Thomas N. Ryder 1918-November 24, 1918; Merged with Dormont Church November 24, 1918.

 

BELLEVUE: CENTRAL                                                                                         PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST PROTESTANT - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                              1866

Mailing Address: 2 North Sprague Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202-3115                                   412/761-1343

ID: 101126

Location: At the corner of Hawley, Lincoln and North Spragg Avenues in the Borough of Bellevue, on Ohio River Boulevard in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Protestant – Pittsburgh Conference. Organized on Sunday August 26, 1866 at the home of charter member Hugh Claney by Reverend James Robinson and Reverend Valentine Lucas. It was originally intended to be a Union Church, the original membership being about equally United Presbyterian and Methodist Protestant. The Methodist Protestant members came mainly from the East Commons Church, later known as the First Methodist Protestant Church of Allegheny. Land was purchased from Congressman Andrew Bayne, a United Presbyterian for $200 with the stipulation that a fence be erected around the building. Construction was commenced immediately but funds were insufficient to complete it. The Pittsburgh Methodist Protestant Conference agreed to advance the money provided if it were organized as a Methodist Protestant Church. The building was dedicated on September 30, 1866. A new Church costing $50,000, erected on the original lot, was dedicated April 19, 1903. The original frame building was moved back on the lot, veneered with stone, and the new building added to the front. The older section was used as Sunday School rooms. The pipe organ was a gift of Andrew Carnegie. The original parsonage stood immediately behind the Church on Sprague Avenue. Later the lot on which it stood was sold to the Borough of Bellevue and was made into a parking lot. In the late 1950’s the parsonage at 154 Watkins Avenue was purchased. The membership in 1968 was 158. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 125.

 

Pastors: Bellevue: Central: William Reeves 1866-1869; James Robinson 1869-1870; To Be Supplied 1870-1872; William McCracken 1872-1873; William R. Cowl 1873-1875; Arthur D. Brown 1875-1876; William R. Cowl 1876-1880; Charles Edgar Wilbur 1880-1882; S. G. Appleget 1882-1885; To Be Supplied 1885-1885; Charles Fayette Swift December 18, 1885-1895; Charles Edgar Wilbur 1895-1898; George Shaffer 1898-1910; Edward S. Hawkins 1910-1918; To Be Supplied 1918-1919; Alden J. Green 1919-1923; Ronald J. Tamblyn June 1, 1923-1928; To Be Supplied 1928-1929; Ralph Harris 1929-1930; J. B. Lamb 1930-1934; Clarence Lloyd Daugherty, Jr. 1934-1940; George L. Powell 1940-1942; J. R. Thompson 1942-1943; T. C. Whitehouse 1943-1944; Howard Ellsworth Lloyd 1944-1945; Charles J. Thompson 1945-1947; Thomas Reese Thomas 1947-1949; James Elmer Breakiron 1949-1950; Roy Calvin Dowling 1950-1954; Oscar Ellsworth Krenz 1954-1960; Hugh Ashby 1960-November 1, 1964; John Howard Cherry 1965-1968; Harvey Miller 1968-1969; Josiah Osmond 1969-1970; James E. Bird 1970-May 9, 1972; Robert Clarence Watt July 1972-1975; Michael Lewis Kundrat 1975-1978; James Earl Davis 1978-February 1, 1980; Kurtis Arthur Knobel 1980-1981; K. E. Smith 1981-1982; Marvel Irene Timm 1982-1984; Dennis L. Heater 1984-February 1, 1985; Daniel Evan Tucker February 1, 1985-1986; Robert H. White 1986-1987; Francis Njang Ayuk 1987-1990; Kathleen Strong Soltis 1991-1995; Randall Robert Roda 1995-1996; Thomas F. Bracken, Jr. 1996-December 31, 2004; Bellevue: Central/Evergreen: David Sheldom Dempsey January 1, 2004-2005; Bellevue: Central: Claudia Kim Viehland 2005--.

 

BETHEL: FIRST                                                                                                  PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                                    1947

Mailing Address: 5901 Library Road, Bethel Park, PA 15102-3398                                          412/835-0700

ID: 102622

Location: On State Highway Route 88, corner of Library Road and King’s School Roads in Bethel Park, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist – Pittsburgh Conference. Began as an Inter-denominational Church in an abandoned school house with their first worship service held on March 24, 1946. A group of ten people who felt the need of a Church in a rapidly growing community thus began and became known as “King’s Chapel” keeping the name of the school building they converted. They could not remain inter-denominational. The Methodist Church began giving some direction through Reverend Oscar Burdeth Emerson, pastor in Castle Shannon, Dr. Albert G. Curry, Superintendent of the Washington District; and Reverend Lemon D. Spaugy. After voting to become Methodist on May 21, 1947, thirty-five charter members were received including four of the original ten from the King’s Chapel group, namely, Norman E. Lancaster and his wife, Roseanna, along with Samuel E. Cox and his wife Marion. In October 1947 Watson S. Custer, a student, was assigned as first pastor until 1948. It was then attached to the Bridgeville Church and served by Reverend Clark Russell Kerr until 1952. In 1952 it became a Station and Reverend Frank Irvin Snavely was assigned as pastor. The original school building was enveloped in a new building including a sanctuary and consecrated March 27, 1952. Additional property was purchased, and growth reached 651 members by 1958 when Reverend Herbert Lyons Costolo became pastor. During his pastorate an Educational unit was consecrated September 25, 1960. The membership in 1968 was 964. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 697.

 

Pastors: Kings Chapel: Watson S. Carter October 1947-1948; Bethel: First/Bridgeville: Clark Russell Kerr 1948-1952; Bethel: First: Frank Irvin Snavely 1952-1958; Herbert Lyons Costolo 1958-1967; Kenneth Charles Fordyce 1967-1974; Thomas Snyder Lynn 1974-1976; Lee Alvin Pomeroy Associate, 1974-November 1976; Roger Glenn Rulong 1976-October 1, 1987; Alan John Howes Associate 1977-1978; Frank Andy Bodnar November 2, 1987-1995; Lisa Ann Grant 1995-2006; Deborah Ann Dennick-Ream Minister of Outreach and Children 1997--; Thomas Eric Hoeke Associate 1999-2007; Sandra Kay Marsh-McClain 2006--; Austin Paul Hornyak 2007--.

 

BETHEL PARK: CHRIST                                                                                      PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                                    1949

Mailing Address: 44 Highland Road, Bethel Park, PA 15102-1806                                           412/835-6621

ID: 101206

Location: Located at Highland Road and Oxford Drive in suburban Pittsburgh in the borough of Bethel Park just off Route 19 South of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist – Pittsburgh Conference. After World War II, as suburban population began to move farther south from Pittsburgh, the Conference purchased land for a new Church in the Bethel Park area and in 1949 Reverend Harry N. Peeler, Jr. was appointed to organize a new congregation. The first service was held with 27 members on October 30, 1949. The Church was chartered April 13, 1950, by which time the membership had grown to over 200. The first unit of the building program was opened for services on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1952. In May 1959, ground was broken for three educational units, a Sanctuary with Educational and Administration wings. These were opened for use April 3, 1960. In 1968 this was the largest Church in the Western Pennsylvania Conference with a staff of five ministers and reporting a membership of 3,309. In 1961 this large congregation adopted the device of organizing the membership into four Societies each ministered to by one of the ordained ministers on the staff. These societies were given historic names, namely: Aldersgate, Bristol, Epworth and Oxford. The purpose of the plan was to maintain the warmth and fellowship of the smaller church for the members while retaining the strength of a large congregation. The membership on January 1, 2001 was 3,298.

 

Pastors: Bethel Park: Christ: Harry N. Peeler, Jr. 1949-November 1, 1975 Rosser L. Nalls Associate 1958-1961; Robert Allen Messenger Associate 1958-January 1, 1972; Hansel H. Tower Associate 1960-1966; Carl R. Carlsen Associate 1961-1963; Arden Lee Roy Hearn Associate 1963-1979; Theodore Merle Silvis Associate January 1, 1964-1978; Richard Lee Weber Associate 1967-1969; William Boyd Grove November 16, 1975-October 1, 1980; Norman Eugene Dunkle Associate 1972-1982; David Jones Wynne Associate 1977-1980; Sharon Louise Everhart Associate 1978-1982; Brian Kelley Bauknight October 1, 1980-2007; James Austin Gilchrist Associate December 1, 1980-1983; Timothy Mark Farabaugh Associate 1982-March 1, 1988; Lisa Ann Grant Associate 1982-1988; George Ellis Porter, Jr. Associate 1988-1995; Penny Sue Adams Associate 1988-1995; Thomas Howard Funka Associate 1995--; Eric Stephen Park Associate 1995-2002; Peggy Marie Morton Osborne Deacon 1997--; Linda Marian McKinney Williams Deacon 1997--; Christopher Michael Whitehead Associate 2002-2005; John Todd Shaver Associate 2005--; Raymond Duane  Thompson 2007--.

 

BLAWNOX                                                                                                        PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL – PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                  1881

Mailing Address: 400 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA  15215                                                   412/781-6951

 

Location: On Center Street in the borough on Blawnox on Route 28 in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. In the summer of 1880 the Reverend Dermit, a Local Methodist Preacher, was authorized by Reverend Thomas Newton Boyle, Presiding Elder of the Allegheny District, to organize a Methodist Society in Hoboken, as the community was named at the time. A society of ten members was organized with Mr. A. Hoey as Class Leader. A lot was purchased from W. Hackey and the Church was built in 1881, being dedicated on December 11^th of that same year. Reverend John Henderson was appointed pastor of the Hoboken Methodist Episcopal Church in 1883. He was dissatisfied with Methodist Episcopal polity and in October 1884 led almost all of the congregation to transfer to the Methodist Protestant Church. Failing to obtain the Methodist Episcopal property, they built the Hoboken Methodist Protestant Church. Rev. John Henderson organized the Fox Chapel Methodist Protestant Congregation in 1891 and served it along with Hoboken Methodist Protestant Congregation until 1909. He served Hoboken continuously until his death in 1930, after which the Methodist Protestant congregation dissolved. Meanwhile the remaining Methodist Episcopal members re-organized in July 1886. It has been on circuits at various times with Tarentum, Walter’s Chapel, Harmarville and more recently with Fox Chapel and then Aspinwall. In 1981 Blawnox and Aspinwall merged to form the Community: North Shore (later called Pittsburgh: Community) with services still being held in each church. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: Hoboken: John Henderson 1883-1884; Closed 1884-1886; D. Cupp 1886-1887; William H. Rodenbaugh 1887-1889; Martin S. Kindig 1889-1890; Robert L. Hickman 1890-1891; Morris B. Pugh 1891-1892; John W. Otterman 1892-1894; Nolan Harden Sanner 1894-1897; John Coleman High 1897-1898; G. L. C. Westlake 1898-1899; To Be Supplied 1899-1900; Robert B. Carroll 1900-1904; Frank J. Sparling 1904-1906; Oscar Adams Emerson 1906-1909; Silas Thayer Mitchell 1909-1912; Edward George Loughery 1912-1913; Lemon Dorsey Spaugy 1913-1914; Joseph Francis Dipner 1914-1915; Maris Russell Hackman 1915-1916; Thomas Morgan Dunkle 1916-1920; John Wesley Hall 1921-1923; Alvin Elramon Yeager 1923-1927; Renamed Blawnox: George M. Hartung 1927-1933; Silas Elmer Rodkey 1933-1935; Sherman L. Burson 1935-1937; Merrill Vernon Stone 1937-1940; Oscar Ellsworth Krenz 1940-1954; Donald Earl Steeb 1954-1958; Jerry Miller Smith 1958-1960; Hayden L. Henthorne June 1960-January 1961; Samuel Clement Dunning 1961-1965; John Frederick Lindstrom 1965-1967; Albert W. Smith 1967-1972; Bruce Taylor Bowman 1972-1983; Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox: Jack Levi Hemsky 1983-1987; North Shore Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox:  Edward LeRoy Clarke 1987-1991; Janet Chandler 1991-1993; Sandra Kay Marsh 1993-1999; Aspinwall/Blawnox: Mary Jane Fullerton 1999-2002; Pittsburgh Community: Aspinwall/Blawnox/Sharpsburg: Grace/Millvale: Mary Jane Fullerton 2002-2007; Community Circuit: Aspinwall/Blawnox/Millvale/Sharpsburg: Grace: Brenda K. Walker 2007--

 

BRADDOCK: CROMIE                                                                                        PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

UNITED BRETHREN – ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE                                                                 1888-1911

 

Location: on Cromie Avenue in the Borough of Braddock, PA in Allegheny County.

 

History: United Brethren – Allegheny Conference. In 1888, what was to become the Cromie Avenue Church was organized. It was on the opposite side of the railroad tracks from the Jones Avenue United Brethren Church in Braddock. Cromie Avenue Church merged with Jones Avenue Church in 1911.

 

Pastors: Cromie Avenue: G. W. Sherrick 1888-1891; J. H. Pushing 1891-1892; S. R. Seese 1892-1893; J. M. Lesher 1893-1896; W. H. Blackburn 1896-1898; A. L. Funk 1898-1900; B. L. Seneff 1900-1901 C. C. Miller 1901-1904; William Echard 1904-1907; J. P. Truxall 1907-1908; B. C. Shaw 1908-1910; Merged with Jones Avenue United Brethren Church. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

BRADDOCK: FIRST                                                                                            PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL – PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                        1832-1987

 

Location: This church was located at Library and Parker Avenues in the Borough of Braddock, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. In 1831 Reverend Charles Elliott and Reverend Wesley Browning, the preachers at the Pittsburgh Station, made a preaching tour of about twenty miles east of Pittsburgh in the territory between the Youghiogheny and Allegheny Rivers. At the conference of 1832 the Braddock’s Field Mission was created and Reverend Jacob Keiss Miller was assigned to it. Braddock was one of the Societies organized on that large Mission Circuit that year. The first meetings were in a cabin in the Port Perry area. Starting in 1842 the Society met in a home on Jones Avenue, now in North Braddock. In 1855 the Society moved its meeting place to a brick Schoolhouse on Bell Avenue. In 1856, when Reverend Benjamin F. Sawhill was assigned to the Port Perry Charge, he organized the Braddock Church and Sunday school from the members of the Society that had been meeting in the School. The first building was erected at Tenth and Braddock Avenues in 1859 and known as Seller’s Chapel. In 1875 Braddock became a Station. A new building was erected under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Newton Boyle in 1890. In 1987 Braddock: First and Jones Avenue Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form Braddock: New Life United Methodist Church. In 1990 New Life Church merged with Turtle Creek: McMasters United Methodist Church and the church was closed. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: Braddock’s Field Mission: Jacob Keiss Miller 1832-1833; John H. Ebbert 1833-1834; George L. Sisson 1834-1835; Simon Elliott 1835-1836; Thomas McGrath and Joseph Wright 1836-1837; Christopher Hodgeson and Gideon D. Kinnear 1837-1838; Richard Armstrong and Peter M. McGowan 1838-1839; John L. Williams 1839-1840; East Liberty Circuit: S. G. L. Worthington and Moses P. Jimeson 1840-1841; John McLean and David S. Walling 1841-1842; John Fribley and Alpheus C. Gallahue 1842-1843; William C. Henderson and James Henderson 1843-1844; Caleb Foster and Abraham J. Rich 1844-1846; Jeremiah Knox and Jonathan D. Cramer 1846-1847; Jeremiah Knox and W. L. N. Gilmore 1847-1848; Braddock’s Field Circuit: Daniel A. Haines 1848-1849; George Washington Cranage 1849-1850; John M. Rankin 1850-1851; Hiram Miller 1851-1852; Walter Brown 1852-1853; Wilkinsburg Circuit: William H. Locke and Abraham J. Rich 1853-1854; Samuel Y. Kennedy 1854-1855; Port Perry Circuit: Charles H. Ziegler 1855-1856; Benjamin F. Sawhill 1856-1857; David Hess 1857-1859; Braddock’s Field: William H. Locke 1859-1861; John M. Thomas 1861-1862; William Page Blackburn 1862-1863; Braddock’s Field/Wilkinsburg: Latshaw McGuire 1863-1865; Braddock’s Field/Port Perry: Latshaw McGuire and William Pitt Turner 1865-1866; Robert Thompson Miller 1866-1869; Thomas McCleary 1869-1872; Richard Morrow 1872-1873; Asbury B. Castle 1873-1875; Braddock: Thomas Hudson Wilkinson 1875-1877; James Mechem 1877-1880; John T. Riley 1880-1883; James Jackson McIlyar 1883-1884; John Wesley Baker 1884-1887; Thomas Newton Boyle 1887-1892; James Fletcher Jones 1892-1893; Joseph Walter Miles 1893-1896; Silas Thayer Mitchell 1896-1898; Nicholas H. Holmes 1898-1902; William Pitt Turner 1902-1905; Braddock: First: Charles L. E. Cartwright 1905-1908; William W. Hall 1908-1913; James Vernon Wright 1913-1919; Preston C. Brooks 1919-1920; David Roy Graham 1920-1923; Thomas Charlesworth 1923-1928; Alexander Steele 1928-1930; Roy Lincoln McQuiston 1930-1934; Samuel Ford 1934-1940; Charles J. Thompson 1940-1945; William Perry McCune 1945-1949; Harry Floyd Gotjen 1949-1951; John William Lofgren 1951-1953; Joseph Matthew Somers 1953-March 1956; Conway Edward Keibler June 1956-1960; John Howard Wright 1960-1962; William Wilbur Filer 1962-1970; Edwin Charles Schultz 1970-April 28 1974; Braddock: First/Jones Avenue: Hugh Ashby 1974-1978; Robert Clyde Gumbert 1978-1983; Joseph W. Betz 1983-1987; First and Jones Avenue churches merged and formed Braddock New Life United Methodist Church.

 

BRADDOCK: FOURTH STREET                                                                           PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL – PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                                                  1894

Mailing Address: 418 Lobinger Avenue, North Braddock, PA 15104-2221                               412/271-0770

ID: 99168

Location: At the corner of Fourth Street and Lobinger Avenue in North Braddock, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – Pittsburgh Conference. Started with a Mission Sunday school in 1894. Church construction started with ground breaking in August 1894 and building started on Thanksgiving Day in 1894. The building was completed in February of the following year and was dedicated by Reverend Dr. Charles Wesley Smith. The Church was on a circuit attached to Swissvale and Port Perry and known as Shady Park Church, with Reverend John J. Davis as Pastor. With the coming of Reverend David M. Hollister in the fall of 1897 Shady Park became a Station severing its connection with the rest of the circuit. In the fall on 1901 under the Pastorate of Reverend Titus Lowe the Church was incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania and became known as the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 16, 1923 the corner stone was laid for a new building and on February 24, 1924 the completed building was dedicated by Bishop Francis John McConnell. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 96. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: Shady Park: Richard L. Miller April 1895-October 1896; John J. Davis 1896-1897; David M. Hollister 1897-1898; Richard Bruce Cuthbert 1898-1898; Frank Prosser 1898-1899; Titus Lowe 1899-1899; A. J. Whipkey 1899-1900; Name changed to Braddock: Fourth Street: Titus Lowe 1900-1903; William Jackson Lowstutter 1903-1906; James A. Younkins 1906;1908; Joseph Henry Laverty 1908-1910; Henry David Rudolph 1910-1913; Leroy I. Lord 1913-1916; Joseph James Buell 1916-1917; Horace Nelson Sipes 1917-December 1919; Thomas Walton January 1920-1920; H. W. Gilmor 1920-1921; William Rufus Hofelt 1921-1924; Samuel H. Greenlee 1924-1925; James A. Forgie 1925-1927; Charles Morton Sherburne 1927-1933; John C. Burnworth 1933-1935; Emerson R. Burchell 1935-1937; George M. Burnworth 1937-1940; Robert Lee Carraway 1940-1944; William L. Crawford 1944-1947; Jacob Henry Breakiron 1947-1951; James Bird 1951-1957; William S. Hamilton 1957-1966; Arnold Merriman Beggs 1966-1969; David Lynn Griffith 1969-1972; Donald Detrick Richards 1972-1977; Martha Ann Mattner 1977-1983; Keith Phillip Wells 1983-1983; William Cunningham Miller 1983-1984; David Todd Brazelton 1984-November 24, 1988; Zane Charles Howland February 1, 1989-June 6, 1989; Rita Sharon Platt September 1, 1989-1993; Kathleen Joy Barnhart 1993-2002; Swissvale/Braddock: Fourth Street: Robert S. White, Jr. 2002--. Dawn Lynn Funk Check Deacon 2002-2006; Braddock: Fourth Street: Robert S. White, Jr. 2006--.

 

BRADDOCK: JONES AVENUE                                                                             PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

UNITED BRETHREN – ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE                                                                 184?-1987

 

Location: Corner of Jones and Hawkins Avenues in Borough of North Braddock, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: United Brethren – Allegheny Conference. The history of this church dates back to the early 1840s. The first authentic date is 1852. From 1852 to 1872 Braddock was served by the pastors of the Wilkensburg church. In 1872 it was made the Pittsburgh Mission. A Church, Soles Chapel, was built at the top of Cemetery Road. It was dedicated in 1875, and became known as the Jones Avenue United Brethren Church. In 1888 what was to become the Cromie Avenue Church was organized. It was on the other side of the railroad tracks. These two churches united in 1911. A new building was dedicated May 9, 1912. Since 1918 the congregation has been supporting Miss Naomi Wilson, daughter of Reverend J. W. Wilson, a former pastor, as their missionary at Moyamba, Africa. In 1987 Braddock: First Methodist and Jones Avenue Evangelical United Brethren Churches merged to become Braddock: New Life United Methodist Church. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: Soles Chapel/Wilkensburg: J. L. Holmes 1850-1851; David Speck 1851-1852; J. L. Holmes 1852-1853; W. B. Dick 1853-1854; I. Potter 1854-1855; D. Sheerer 1855-1856; William Beighel 1856-1857; J. Riley 1857-1859; W. B. Dick 1860-1861; L. L. Leasure 1861-1862; William T. Ritchie 1862-1863; D. Pringle 1863-1864; M. Spangler 1864-1867; R. G. Rankin 1867-1869; George Wagoner 1869-1870; ___Wagner 1872-1873; D. Speck 1873-1874; W. T. Galloway 1874-1875; Jones Avenue: W. T. Galloway 1875-1877; William Wragg 1877-1878; J. Clem 1878-1880; A. J. Delone 1880-1883; G. L. Ressler 1883-1886; Jasper N. Munden 1886-1889; H. F. Shupe 1889-1893; D. Speck 1893-1896; O. M. Wilson 1896-1898; J. P. Truxall 1898-1902; A. B. Wilson 1902-1903; H. F. Cunningham 1903-1904; J. W. Stiverson 1904-1905; R. J. Head 1905-1907; D. Jay Good 1907-1910; Braddock: Cromie Avenue merged with Jones Avenue 1910: D. Jay Good 1910-1912; J. W. Wilson 1912-1915; E. B. Learish 1915-1919; W. A. Sites 1919-1925; W. H. Hayes 1925-1930; M. N. Snyder 1930-1934; J. H. Bradigum 1934-1940; A. Byron Fulton 1940-1947; C. J. Cox 1947-1957; George S. Phillips 1957-1962; R. E. Shoup May 1962-August 1965; M. I. Potter September 1965-July 1970; High Ashby 1970-1978; Robert Clyde Gumbert 1978-1983; Joseph W. Betz 1983-1987; Braddock: First and Jones Avenue merged to form Braddock New Life Church in 1987.

 

BRADDOCK: MUHLMAN MEMORIAL                                                                 PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL – CENTRAL GERMAN CONFERENCE                                                        1914

Mailing Address: Grandview Avenue & Willow Street, North Braddock, PA 15104                    412/823-5170

ID: 99181

Location: At the corner of Grandview Avenue and Willow Street in the First Ward, North Braddock, in Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: Methodist Episcopal – German Central Conference. It became a church in the Pittsburgh Conference at the dissolution of the Central German Conference in September 1933. Reverend Dietrich Worthman and a group of Baldwin Wallace students organized a Sunday school of German speaking Methodists. The Brinton Avenue Presbyterian Church loaned the basement of their church for this purpose. Quickly outgrowing these quarters, a new site was purchased and a commitment to donate the buildings was received from Miss Minnie Muhlmann in memory of Captain Charles Muhlmann. The cornerstone was laid in 1914. It has been until recent years (the 1980’s) a Station appointment, and then shared with Braddock: Fourth Street. The membership on January 1, 2002 was 90. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: German Central Conference: Deitrich Worthman 1915-1922; Henry Maag 1922-1925; Fred Schaenglin 1925-1928; John Herion 1928-1930; John Link 1930-1933; John W. Buhren 1933-1934; Pittsburgh Methodist Conference: Braddock: Muhlman Memorial: Ralph Greiner White 1934-1936; George W. Ringer 1936-1938;  Braddock: Muhlman Memorial/Pittsburgh: McCandless Avenue: Samuel H. Greenlee 1938-October 27, 1942; Emma Spielman 1942-1950; James McClure, Jr. 1950-1955; Harry H. Houser 1955-1962; Samuel Ford 1962-1965; William Paul Saxman 1965-1970; Robert H. Reid 1970-1971; Howard Gilliford Russell, Jr. 1971-1972; Thomas Robson Dixon, Jr. 1972-December 1973; Robert S. Fulton 1974-October 1, 1978; Robert Norman Janacek October 15. 1978-1988; John Edward Patterson 1982-1983; Keith Phillip Wells 1983-1984; William C. Miller 1984-1984; David Todd Brazelton 1984-November 24, 1988; To be supplied November 1988-September 1, 1989; Rita Sharon Platt September 1, 1989-1993; Kathleen Joy Barnhart 1993-1997; Jean Larraine Haslett 1997-2001; Deborah L. Kociban 2001-2007; Braddock: Muhlman Memorial: Edwin Pope 2007--.

 

BRADDOCK: NEW LIFE                                                                                      PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

UNITED METHODIST – WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE                                         1987-1990

 

Location: Located at the corner of Jones Avenue and Hawkins Avenue in Braddock, Allegheny County, PA.

 

History: United Methodist – Western Pennsylvania Conference. After the merger of Braddock: First and Jones Avenue to form New Life Community Church, the congregation continued to worship in the First Church Building. After three years this congregation merged with the Turtle Creek: McMasters United Methodist Church in 1990 and the church building was sold. Transferred from Pittsburgh East District in 2004.

 

Pastors: Braddock: New Life: James Alan Canistraci 1987-1988; Josephine Ann Whitely-Fields 1988-1990. Merged with Turtle Creek: McMasters in 1990.

 

CARNEGIE                                                                                                         PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

METHODIST EPISCOPAL - PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE                                           &