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Emanuel E. Shively, son of Jacob and Anna Shively, was born in Marshall County, Indiana, December 19, 1851. He lived on the same farm near the Mt. Pleasant Church for 67 years. He was married to Rose Morlock November 11, 1883. They were the parents of six chil- dren, one daughter marrying N. O. Troyer, a minister, and another was married to Van B. Wright, a prominent elder now living in Cali-
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fornia. He was called to the ministry May 5, 1900; advanced, October 12 of the same year, and ordained to the eldership June 16, 1907. For some years he was the only minister in the congregation, and he served to the best of his ability until his death September 27, 1922.
Daniel Shively, of Elkhart County, was born in Stark County, Ohio, May 31, 1827, and died in Goshen, Indiana, at the age of 79 years, 4 months and 13 days. He was married to Esther Whitehead January 22, 1852. About this time they were received into the church.
When the Solomon's Creek church was organized in 1856 with Frederick P. Loehr as minister, Daniel Shively was chosen deacon. Two years later he was called to the ministry. When Frederick Loehr moved to Michigan in 1865, Daniel Shively was left alone in the min- istry until the following year, when George W. Cripe was elected. For several years he was practically in full charge at Solomon's Creek before his ordination in 1878. He was the honored and respected elder of his congregation during most of his remaining years. During this time he had as his colaborers: G. W. Cripe, Peter Hammon, Joseph Hardman, George Domer, Lewis Muntz, Jesse Calvert, A. L. Neff, W. R. Deeter, J. H. Warstler and others. He worked well with his church and official body.
His education was limited, but his zeal was unbounded. He preached many funerals, baptized many, and it is said that he officiated at more funerals than any other man in Elkhart County. No sacrifice was too great for him to make for the church. His home was a hospit- able retreat for friend and stranger alike.
He was not a text preacher, but could interest his congregation and often preached excellent sermons. He had the gift of song and was never more happy than when engaged in singing. At the Annual Meet- ing of Ashland, Ohio, he and Paul Wetzel together sang a Ger- man song. He lies buried in the Baintertown cemetery, near where the Annual Conference was held in 1852.
D. P. SHIVELY
Born in Ohio in 1841, Bro. Shively came to Miami County with his family when he was eleven. They settled in Pipe Creek Township where he did his life's work. He was married in 1864 to Harriet Little and they lived together till 1900.
He was called to the ministry in 1873 and to the eldership in 1889. He was a father to his people as he exercised in the office of elder. At his death in 1900 he had charge of three other churches besides Pipe Creek.
He was a trustee (ten years) of the Old Folks' and Orphans'
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Home; a member of the district Mission Board; reading clerk of the district meeting four times and five times its moderator. Once he was elected to the Standing Committee.
Bro. Shively was a man of unusual ability and personal charm. He was an eloquent advocate of the Word. His ministry in times of sickness and death extended beyond the membership of his church. He helped much in the management of the Conference at North Man- chester, 1900. Soon after the meeting he died of a heart attack.
THOMAS A. SHIVELY
Brother Shively was born in Miami County on November 22, 1883, to Daniel P. and Harriet Little Shively. Brother Al Wright
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of North Manchester baptized him in 1904. He was called to the min- istry in 1922 and to the eldership in 1924. In 1906, he married Myrtle A. Fisher. They have three sons.
Brother Shively attended several colleges but holds his degree from Manchester. For many years he served as a teacher, principal; and county superintendent in the public schools of Indiana. He has com- bined teaching with ministerial work for many years. He began serv- ing in the free ministry in his home church, Pipe Creek, in 1922 and has been presiding elder since 1928. Five times he has served on Standing Committee ; he has been moderator, reading and writing clerk of his district and for fourteeen years on the Ministerial Mission Board. An- other notable service he has rendered has been that of trustee of Man- chester College since 1928. He has held many evangelistic meetings and has served in many other ways. Full of enthusiasm, Brother Shively has rendered a very fine service to the church and continues to do so.
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LEVI S. SHIVELY
Shively, Levi S., was born at Piatt, Ill., Oct. 10, 1884. He was the son of John and Leah (Blickenstaff ) Shively. He was married to Emma G. Whistler in 1906, to whom were born four sons: Willard, Forest, Ralph and John.
Bro. Shively attended Mt. Morris College, Ill., the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He was a teacher in Mt. Morris College in Ill. 1908-1915 and 1917- 1928; also in Ball State Teachers' College since 1928. After the death of his wife he married Edna Wolf, of Franklin Grove, Ill. She has been very active in the work of the church. For a number of years she has served as Chil- dren's Director of the Central Region.
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In 1905 he was elected to the ministry, and in 1917 was ordained to the eldership. He has served his home congregation as presiding elder since 1946. For some years he served as Trustee of Manchester College. His home address is 2025 W. Jackson St., Muncie, Ind.
DAVID SHOEMAKER
Born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1789, a soldier in the war of 1812, Bro. Shoemaker was converted and was called to preach in the Sandy Church, Stark County, Ohio. He was called to the eldership there and later moved to Huntington County where he was the first minister and elder of the Clear Creek church. He also worked in Whit- ley County where he was a leader in organizing the Sugar Creek church. He did not live to a great age, passing away in 1855 at sixty- six. He was a highly respected church leader.
LAWRENCE (L. W.) SHULTZ
Lawrence (known as L. W.) Shultz was born to Isaac L. and Elizabeth (Ulrich) Shultz, at the old John Ulrich homestead eight miles south of Huntington, Ind., on the Lancaster road October 24, 1890.
In 1903 he completed the grade school at the Ream's School and in 1907 high school at Lancaster. He entered Manchester College April I, 1907 and has been connected with it to the present as student, teacher, field worker, and collector. In the fall of 1907, six weeks before he was seventeen, he began teaching school at Zook's School. Two years there and one year at Lancaster completed his grade school teaching. In 1910 he began teaching in the high school at Lancaster Center, Huntington Co., taught one year and then taught in the Academy at Manchester College while completing his college work. He graduated in 1914. Then for two years he was principal at Lancaster High
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School. He became principal of the Academy at Manchester College and served till 1923. 1923 and 1924 were spent in Northwestern University securing his Master's Degree. 1925-1943 were spent in teaching and in being librarian at Manchester College. He taught in the field of Christian Education. Since 1943 he has served as field man, manager of Camp Mack, and director of Brethren Tours.
On June 1, 1915 he was married to Cora Leona Winger of Sweet- ser, Grant County, Ind., daughter of John Martin and Mary C. Smith Winger. To them were born four children, Ruthanne (Anglin) Feb. 15, 1919, Betty Marie, July 31, 1924, Carl Jean and Carol Dean, May 29, 1929.
On May 29, 1910 the Salamonie Church called L. W. (and Noah M. Shideler ) to the ministry. In 1919 the church ordained him to the eldership.
Since 1916 to the present he has been connected with the district work of Middle Indiana, as District Sunday School Secretary and field man 1916-1946, member of the Board of Christian Education, writing clerk, and 1923 (Calgary) Standing Committee. He served as secre- tary of the Calgary Conference Program Committee; as member of the General Board of Christian Education, 1923-41 ; as member of the Peace Commission, 1928-40; as member of the Brethren Service Com- mittee since its beginning in 1940 to 1946. As foreman and supervisor he sponsored two shiploads of heifers to Poland in 1945-1946-1947 and he helped start the relief mission in Poland in 1947. Two tours of Brethren people were directed by him in 1949 and 1951.
He feels that his outstanding contribution has been in the field of Young People's work. He served as a member of the Youth Commis- sion for many years; suggested the name BYPD which was adopted; was advisor of the Middle Indiana Youth Cabinet 1923-1941, and since 1921 he has served as a leader in the camping movement of the church. In 1924 he helped locate and start Camp Mack and has managed it to this date. It has been one of his chief interests. He has felt that college and church and camp have taken his full time during these busy years. He has been aided greatly by his good wife and children in these en- deavors.
He served for many years as chairman of the Youth Council of Indiana and as a denominational representative on the Indiana Council of Christian Education and represents that Council on the Indiana Council of Churches.
He is also chairman of the Historical Commission of the Church of the Brethren which at the Manchester Conference was reorganized as a regular commission of the church. The publication of this book has been one of his main concerns.
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SNELL
John Snell and his wife, Magdalena Brower, were both natives of Virginia. They first settled in Preble County, Ohio and later moved to Kosciusko County, Indiana. Four of their sons were ministers : Jacob, Daniel, Levi, and Samuel.
Jacob was born in Preble County, Ohio in 1836 and came to In- diana in 1844. He married Clara M. Bowman in 1860. They were the parents of four sons and eight daughters. He united with the church in 1868 and helped organize the Spring Creek congregation. Called to the ministry in 1871, he was ordained to the eldership in 1887. For eleven years he had oversight of his church. Having the confidence of his people, he was an effective preacher. In 1899 he passed away and lies buried in the Spring Creek cemetery.
Two of Jacob's sons were ministers and have passed away only recently. George, born near Sidney, 1866, married Mary E. Fitzger- ald in Colorado in 1892. In 1897 they moved to Indiana and in 1900 he was elected to the ministry in the Spring Creek church. In 1913 he was ordained to the eldership. He served in the free ministry at his home church and was often elder of other congregations. His wife died in 1939 and he married Alice Lehmer in 1943. She died in 1945. Bro. Snell passed away on Dec. 30, 1950.
J. Amsey Snell, brother of George, was born in Whitley County in 1881 and married Estie May Kreider in 1903. He was elected to the ministry in 1906 and ordained elder in 1915. He served many churches as elder including Sugar Creek, Huntington Country, Pleas- ant View, Andrews, and others. Bro. Snell died rather suddenly in 195I at seventy.
Daniel Snell, brother of Jacob, was called to the ministry in 1885, when he was forty-seven years old and made an elder in 1898. When his brother died the following year, he took charge of the church for a period of ten years. He was a man of strong personality and deep con- victions. Failing eyesight compelled him to give up much of his work. He was on the Standing Committee twice and for several years was a trustee of Manchester College. He supported the college liberally by gifts.
Levi Snell, another son of Jacob was nearly sixty when called to the ministry in Nebraska but at once entered into the work actively and soon had the oversight of several churches. He was on the Standing Committee in 1909. His son, Jacob, was also a minister in the west.
Samuel was a minister in Ohio and his son, Harvey, is a min- ister and lives at Fresno, California.
Susan, a sister to the four Snell brothers who were ministers, mar- ried Robert Ross. Their son, Amos, was a missionary to India and is mentioned elsewhere in this book.
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Cora Miller Stahly
Cora Miller Stahly, formerly of Nappanee, was born near Berlin, Ohio. Her grandfather was a favorite cousin of Jennie Lind. She may have inherited her musical ability. At the age of 10 she could lead the congregation in the metrical tunes without notes. She attended all the musical schools within reach. After teaching for three terms, she attended Manchester College, graduating from music and Bible courses in 1907. She also studied music at Wooster University, the Chicago School of Music at Northwestern University and at Winona Lake. She taught music at Manchester College for 14 years and at Bethany Bibli- cal Seminary. She also was a private instructor for 10 years. She was a member of the Music Committee of the General Brotherhood for a number of years. Her home was for many years at Nappanee where she was Primary Superintendent of the Sunday School. For some years she has spent her winters at Glendora, California and her sum- mers at Syracuse, Ind.
LAFAYETTE STEELE
George E. and Mary Steele lived on a farm in St. Joseph County, Indiana, in the bounds of the Pine Creek Church. They raised a family of four sons and two daughters. The youngest son, Lafayette, was born February 15, 1878. After finishing the grades, he had one year of Normal work at Manchester College and one summer term at Valpa- raiso. He also took some Bible correspondence work from Bethany Biblical Seminary, under Brother A. C. Wieand. He taught school for 19 years in his community and in Walkerton and North Liberty. May II, 1902 he and Una Cripe, daughter of Elder Jonathan Cripe, were united in marriage. They were the parents of two sons and two daugh- ters.
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He was called to the ministry October 19, 1902 and ordained to the eldership December 12, 1912. He served in the free ministry in the Pine Creek church, but he really belonged to the district because he was District Sunday School Secretary from 1906 to 1918. He was Reading Clerk at District Meeting four times and Writing Clerk once, besides serving on various district committees. From 1911 to 1918 he served as a member of the General Sunday School Board, part of the time as its chairman. He represented his district in 1917 on the Standing Com- inittee. He was always energetic and very active in every phase of church work; was elder of his home congregation for the last five years. His busy, useful life was cut short by death August 1, 1918, at the age of 40.
ORA W. STINE
Ora W. Stine was born near Adel, Iowa in 1893. He was grad- uated from Manchester College in 1914 and taught there two years. He married Madge Ulery in 1916 and has lived in the Rock Run Church since. He was employed by the Rock Run Mills in Goshen for 30 years. He was elected as deacon in 1922; has been treasurer of the local church since 1924. He was sec .- treas. of the Elkhart County Council of Religious Education for 10 years; was alumni trustee of Manchester College for nine years; has been treasurer of the
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local Credit Union since its beginning in 1943; he has been treasurer of Camp Mack since its beginning in 1925; was treasurer of the first Heifer Project in 1943; was District treasurer from 1920'to 1926, and was elected again in 1950; he has also served on the district Auditing Committee for a number of years.
J. G. STINEBAUGH
Born in Carroll County in 1870, Bro. Stinebaugh married Mary E. Reiff in 1891. He was called to the ministry in the Bachelor Run church in 1897 and to the eldership in 1904 in the Lower Deer Creek church where he was serving at the time. Two well-known ministers ordained him: W. S. Toney and Jacob Cripe. He later served Beaver Dam, Delphi, and elsewhere. He was a fine man, of substantial ability, and widely respected throughout the district. He was pastor at Logans- port for five years.
His son Walter C., and his grandson, Vernon H., are ministers in Indiana and are noted elsewhere. Bro. J. G. Stinebaugh was killed in an accident in 1932.
WALTER C. STINEBAUGH
Brother Stinebaugh was born on September 24, 1892, in Carroll County, to Elder J. G. and Mary Elizabeth Reiff Stinebaugh. His father baptized him in 1904; he was called to the ministry in 1915 and to the eldership in 1922. On August 4, 1915, he was married to Merl Spitler. They had two sons and two daughters. In 1947 he married Olive Bagwell.
He graduated from the Akron High School in 1911 and from Manchester College in 1917. He attended Bethany Seminary, 1919-21, and, by transfer of credit was granted an A. M. degree at Manchester, 1921. He specialized in penmanship, studying at the Zan- erian School of Penmanship summers, 1913-14-15.
He taught in the public schools of Kosciusko and Carroll counties, 1911-1914; Penmanship at Manchester College, 1914-17; in Walton High School four years, Onward High School four years, and Bunker Hill High School three years.
While teaching, he served as a part time pastor at Walton for a total of seven years. In 1930 he began a full time pastorate at Logans- port, 1930-34; at Salamonie, 1934-44; at Pittsburg, Ohio, 1944-49; and at Wabash, 1949 to the present.
Brother Stinebaugh has served three times on the Standing Com- mittee, ten years on the Board of Christian Education of Middle Indi- ana, district clerk in Middle Indiana six years, and numerous other re- sponsibilities. He is the father of two college professors-Vernon at
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Manchester and Galen at Bridgewater, both teachers of music. His daughter, Mary Etta, is the wife of Don Holsopple, just now commenc- ing a pastorate at Salamonie. Brother Stinebaugh has been a very substantial man in the service of the church, as was his father before him.
STONER
The Stoners came to Indiana from Maryland about 1830 and set- tled south of Ladoga. David Stoner did not unite with the church till he was eighty-eight years old, but his wife and five children were mem- bers. His brother, Daniel, was elected to the ministry at the same time as R. H. Miller.
In 1893 David's daughter, Salome, married T. T. Myers, a promi- nent leader later. She died early the next year. Salome was a prom- ising church worker. She had spent eight years at Mount Morris College and had taught school two years.
Samuel D., son of David, attended Ashland College while R. H. Miller was president. He married Lina Norris, sister of R. H. Miller's second wife, Emma, 1884. He was called to the ministry in 1890 and to the eldership in 1904. He was the elder of the Mount Pleas- ant church for some years. Sister Stoner, an unusual person, found time to write both poems and prose articles for church publications and encourage her eight children in their school tasks.
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The older daughter of Samuel and Lina Stoner, Mary, married Grover L. Wine, whom she met at Manchester College. A sketch of him will be found elsewhere. Their only child, Salome Ruth, married Galen Ogden, a minister. Like her mother, Mary Wine has the gift of verse and has been an active helpmate of her husband's pastoral career. She has had a major part in the assembling of material for this book. They now live at Rossville.
The younger daughter, Rowena, married Woodford W. Peters, prominent minister and educator in the church. He was a professor at Manchester College at two different times and is now in Europe, supervising relief work in Austria.
David, a promising son of Samuel, died just as he had started a brilliant career as a teacher. He married Nettie Studebaker, sister of the wife of V. F. Schwalm. David was a promising minister as well as teacher when he died suddenly in 1915.
John E., another son of Samuel, is a professor in Indiana Uni- versity. He is a minister and has taken great interest in problems of peace and international relations. Paul, another son of Samuel, is a substantial farmer and deacon in the Bethel church, Ladoga. The other sons were Norris, Benjamin, a minister in So. Ohio, and Joseph, all outstanding teachers and business men. All eight graduated from Manchester College.
STUDEBAKER
This has been a prominent name among the Brethren for several generations. The ancestor of these Studebakers was Jacob, of Penn- sylvania. Four sons and the mother settled in Ohio after his death. The mother died near West Charleston, Ohio, in 1832.
Abraham, one of the four sons, was the father of John S. Stude- baker and John, his brother, was the father of George W. Studebaker. John was the great grandfather of George L. and Alexander Stude- baker, of Delaware County. David, another brother of Abraham, had a son John U. Studebaker. John U. and George W., double first-cousins, spent their lives together in Indiana from the 30's on.
John U., born in Ohio 1816, moved to Delaware County in 1837, the same year he and his wife had united with the church. In 1847 he was called to the ministry and to the eldership in 1859. He was an able leader and had charge of his church, Mississinewa, for a number of years. He died in 1901.
George W., better known in the Brotherhood, was born in Penn- sylvania, 1818, moved to Ohio, then to Delaware County, 1833. A little later he was elected a deacon. The older Brethren gave him per- mission to exhort, provided he remained seated while he spoke. The next year he was called to the ministry, 1842, and to the eldership in
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1850. He memorized many passages of Scripture and could preach ably in either English or German. On his white horse, he travelled widely among the churches. He was responsible for the founding of several of the churches. In a debate on the Brethren observance of the Lord's Supper, he upheld his views so well that his opponent acknowl- edged defeat and eight persons applied for baptism.
He was married four times and had a total of nine children by the four wives. In 1882 he moved to Fredonia County, Kansas. He was active there in the Lord's work till he was called home in 1905, at eighty-seven.
John S. was called to the ministry in the Mississinewa church in 1843. He moved to the Upper Deer Creek church where he was their first minister. He was not as active as George W. in the ministry. He died at ninety in Camden, 1906.
George L. Studebaker, two generations younger than George W. and John S., was born to Samuel and Elizabeth Losh Studebaker in Illinois, 1861. Two years later they moved to Delaware County, In- diana. At seventeen he joined the church, was called to the ministry at twenty, and to the eldership at thirty-two. He married Marietta Simonton in 1882. He was elder of Mississinewa till he moved to Muncie, 1897, a mission point, where he labored nine years. They had a son, Mark, and they moved to North Manchester in 1906 to be
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near the college. Bro. Studebaker became field representative and business manager of the college. The son graduated in 1910 and taught four years in the college. They then moved back to Muncie where he served as pastor till 1932.
Florence Studebaker, niece of George L., married V. F. Schwalm, President of Manchester College, and has been very active in church affairs. Her sister, Nettie, married David Stoner who died in 1915. She later re-married and lives at Ladoga. Herbert A., brother of these two women, was called to the ministry while in Manchester College. He has been a pastor in the Presbyterian Church for many years.
JACOB STUDEBAKER
Jacob Studebaker was a native of Montgomery County, Ohio. There he was born in 1793 and married in 1830. He was among the first settlers to come to Elkhart County. He settled on the Elkhart River, northwest of Goshen, at some distance from the other early brethren. He helped to erect the first city building in Goshen.
Elder Studebaker took much interest in the church. He was pre- siding elder for awhile at Rock Run. He was classed as an ordinary preacher, but a great friend to every one. He took delight in writing poetry. Elder Studebaker died at the age of 85, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Ulery. The latter was the mother of Mrs. Eliza-
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beth Miller, a widow, who became the second wife of Elder John W. Miller.
DANIEL STUTSMAN
Elder Daniel B. Stutsman was a familiar person in the Elkhart church for years. He was a native of Montgomery County, Ohio. His wife was Elizabeth Bashor, born in Lebanon County, Penn- sylvania. They were married in 1829 and settled in Elkhart County in 1832. In this church he served as deacon, minister and presiding elder. He died August 9, 1887, having almost rounded out 80 years. For several years he was almost blind. He is remembered as a faithful and efficient worker for the Lord.
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