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HERBERT ALLEN FISHER is one of the young men just entering the ministry. He was licensed by the Battle Creek
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church in July 1943, and relicensed in July 1944. He is the son of Walter G. and Laura Johnson Fisher. He was born on June 28, 1922, at Ithaca, New York, and later moved to Flor- ida with his parents. He completed his elementary training and took several years of high school work in Florida, but graduated from the Marshall high school at Marshall, Mich- igan, in June 1941. He was married to Helen Hissong of Dayton, Ohio, on August 26, 1944. He graduated from Man- chester College in 1945. He was baptized in 1928 at Glen St. Mary, Florida.
WALTER G. FISHER with his wife and three sons moved to Michigan from Florida about 1939. He was born at Mex- ico, Indiana, January 6, 1890. He is the son of George A. and Jennie May Fisher. He married Laura Saloma Johnson on De- cember 30, 1913. His public school training was received at Perth, North Dakota, and there he united with the church in 1902. He has served the church in several different states since being elected to the ministry at Glen St. Mary, Florida, on Oc- tober 16, 1930. He preached at WALTER G. FISHER that church until he moved to Michigan. He served as pastor of the Sunfield church from 1940 to 1942, and was called to the pastorate of the Battle Creek church in 1943 to succeed Brother F. E. Mallott; he served there until 1945. He was ordained to the eldership at this church on November 19, 1944, by Arthur L. Dodge and Walter M. Young. The Marion church, Indiana, called him to give pastoral service there, and he began on September 1, 1945. In his grand-
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father's family there were seven children, two girls and five boys. The boys are all ministers. His association with leading elders of the brotherhood has been an inspiration to Brother Fisher.
EZRA FLORY is placed in this chapter because of his pas- toral work at the Rodney church, Michigan, the last place of service before his active and helpful ministry came to a close. He was born in Ohio on January 5, 1870, and died at Goshen, Indiana, February 15, 1940. Brother Flory was a member of the faculty of Bethany Bible School from 1912 to 1920. He looked upon the experiences of life as being the best means of education. He possessed a keen intellect and was qualified in the fields of teaching and preaching. By many boys and girls he will be remembered for his art in storytelling. He was baptized in 1889, became a deacon in 1890, was installed into the ministry in 1891, and was ordained elder in 1911. He was blessed with an influential ministry. (Refer to Gospel Messenger, May 1940.)
CHARLES O. FORROR and wife come to Michigan in 1925 and located at Brethren. He served as pastor of the Lake View church, and from here he served as fieldworker of the dis- trict. Information was not fur- nished regarding the place and CHARLES O. FORROR time of his birth, his parents, where he united with the church and when he was called to the ministry. His leader- ship in the churches of Michigan enabled the work to ad-
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vance effectively. There was a circuit established in that part of the district which included the Lake View, Marilla and Harlan churches. For five years during this period he acted as district evangelist. As he went about he helped to organize new churches. He was also the presiding elder of several churches, chairman of the district mission board, and young people's adult adviser. He was ordained to the elder- ship in 1927 at Brethren. He says that Mrs. Forror would help by taking his place in the circuit of churches and filling the pulpit while he was engaged in other work in the district.
JESSE M. FRADENBURGH discharged the duties of the ministry at the Midland church, Michigan, along with his daily work. His parents were John E. and Sarah Fraden- burgh. He was born on April 26, 1891, at Winamac, Indiana. On March 12, 1912, he was married to Bertha Elnora Metcalf. He has a public school and some normal school training, and has taught school in Marion County, Illinois. On September 5, 1908, he united with the church in Illinois. He has a Breth- ren family background for three generations. Elected to the ministry at Midland in 1931, he has spent the years in ministerial service on the free-time basis. It was through his insight and efforts that the Midland church was organ- ized in 1924. His life came to an untimely end in 1945.
ROYAL HOOVER FRANTZ is living and serving in the Sunfield congregation. His parents were Moses and Sarah Frantz. His mother was a very devoted Christian who was faithful and active until the time of her death about two years ago. He was born at Clarksville, Michigan, in 1900. He married Rose Mae Smalley in June 1926, and they have a family of five children. Their entire family is talented in music, and in this way they have contributed in no small measure to the program of the church. He received his high school training at Sunfield. Later he took training at Man- chester Academy, Barry County Normal School, and West-
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ern State Teachers College at Kalamazoo. He united with the church at Sunfield in 1909. He writes as follows: "I have never exercised very much in the pulpit. I have served al- most continuously as young people's leader and teacher, and also as music director."
JACOB EZRA FREDERICK was born at Harmony, Mary- land, October 5, 1844. He lived to be eighty-two years of age. He joined the Church of the Brethren when he was twenty- two years old. In 1866 he was united in marriage to Mary Car- oline Harshman at Walkersville, Maryland. He moved to Ohio about 1873, and then moved back to Brownsville, Maryland, J. E. FREDERICK about 1878. In 1881 he came to Indiana and lived at different places in that state during the next decade, and finally moved back to Williamsport, Maryland. About 1893 he moved to Salem, Illinois, and in 1902 he came to Michigan and settled near the village of Rodney. He was called to the ministry either by the church near Winamac or the church at Monticello, Indiana. His preaching in Michigan was con- fined mostly to the Rodney church.
RALPH L. FRY came into the District of Michigan from the Olivet church of Northeastern Ohio. He and his wife entered the pastorate of the Shepherd church on September 1, 1944. He was born at Polo, Illinois, on March 8, 1918. His parents were Lee A. and Mary N. Fry. He was married to Pauline DeLauter on September 23, 1939. His wife's father, Ora DeLauter, an elder in the Church of the Brethren, is now the director of the Civilian Public Service camp near Wil-
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liamsport, Maryland, which is operated by the Brethren Service Committee. Ralph completed his elementary school training in 1931 and graduated from the Mt. Morris, Illinois, high school in 1935. He received the bachelor of arts degree from Manchester College in 1939. In 1943 he received his bachelor of divinity de- gree from Bethany Bib- lical Seminary, Chicago. He was baptized by S. S. Plum at the West Branch church of Northern Illi- nois on November 7, 1926. This church called him to the ministry in January 1939, and he was RALPH AND PAULINE FRY installed by Elder John Heckman on Easter, April 9, 1939. He served the Rockford church in Illinois from September 1939 to September 1940. While in the seminary he was the summer pastor at Lamotte Prairie, Illinois, in 1942. Then after his graduation from the seminary he was called to the pastorate of the Olivet church in Northeastern Ohio. From there he and his wife came to the Shepherd church.
BENJAMIN FRYFOGLE settled in the vicinity of the Sunfield church. Very little data could be obtained regard- ing his life. He was born in Knox Township, Columbiana, Ohio, on October 16, 1830. His father was born in Holland in 1805. His mother was born in Switzerland. Before the Sun- field church house was built, services were held in his barn. He was ordained to the full ministry of the church in 1878. These were the days of the free ministry, and Brother Fry- fogle's name may be seen on the records of many of the early churches of Michigan.
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EARL OREN FUNDERBURG, one of Michigan's younger ministers, is now serving his home congregation in a wonder- ful way. He was born in Marilla Township, Manistee Coun- ty, Michigan, on July 30, 1913. His parents were George W. and Effie Shideler Funderburg. He married Thelma Blanche Ball on September 5, 1935, at Ozark, Michigan. He began his elementary schoolwork at Huntington, Indiana, and finished at the Clarkes school in Marilla Township, Manistee County, Michigan. It was here that he finished his high school train- ing. He was baptized in the Harlan church in 1924, at the age of eleven, during a series of evangelistic meetings con- ducted by George Killian. He was licensed to preach in Sep- tember 1942 and ordained to the ministry in August 1943. This was done while he was living in the Ozark congregation. He began his first pastorate at the Homestead church on April 1, 1944, on a part-time basis. This is a rural com- munity, and Brother and Sister Funderburg are rendering a noble service to a church in great need of ministerial help.
TED ELWYN GANDY is one of Michigan's young minis- ters. He was born on March 29, 1917, at South Bend, Indiana. His parents are Allen C. and Gertrude Gandy. On July 23, 1939, he was married to Olivia Turner. He was baptized in the Battle Creek church by D. P. Schechter. He graduated from the Battle Creek high school and has taken training at Bethany Bible Training School. In December 1939 he was called to the ministry at his home church. His installation was in 1942. He is preparing for ministerial duties and will probably find his field of service very soon.
WILLIAM HARVEY GOOD has spent all of his life, since becoming a minister, in the District of Michigan. He was born in Fulton County, Ohio, on April 27, 1878, the son of Jacob and Susannah Good. On May 28, 1899, he was married to Malinda Angeline Rowe. He attended public school in
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Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and attended high school at Wauseon, Ohio. He united with the church in the Swan Creek congregation in Ohio in February 1897. He was elected to the ministry in the Riverside church, Missaukee County, Mich- igan, in July 1908. He was or- dained to the eldership in the same church in October 1912. He was a minister in the River- side church from 1908 to 1918; the church was then disorgan- ized and the members were counted a part of the Zion con- gregation. He has lived and WILLIAM H. GOOD served in this church since 1918, and at present is the presiding elder. His ministry has been a great help to this church and to the district. He has been a member of the district mission board since 1937. He is willing to labor earnestly to further the cause of Christ in the world.
CORNELIUS HAGLE has been able to achieve success in spite of a great handicap. The son of Alonzo and Eliza Bickel Hagle, he was born in Knox County, Indiana, October 15, 1890. His wife's maiden name was Zora Ethel Trader. He was born blind and received home training only. He was baptized in and became a member of the Salem congrega- tion, Starke County, Indiana, April 22, 1906. It was at this church that he was called to the ministry in the autumn of 1920. Here he assisted Brother Clyde M. Joseph; later he served with Brother E. R. Fisher at the La Porte church, In- diana. Because, after leaving home, it was difficult to find someone to do his reading, he retired from the ministry and was later called to the deacon's office. While working in
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Grand Haven he connected himself with the Muskegon con- gregation, in which he was the only deacon. Brother L. W. Shafer was the pastor then and called upon him to conduct the services a few times in his absence. During the time of his retirement he learned the Braille system of reading and writing. In 1942 when Brother Shafer resigned, the church asked him to fill the vacancy and granted him a license to preach. He did the preaching until they secured Brother El- mer Leckrone as pastor. He was finally installed into the minis- try on June 6, 1943, and has as- sisted in the work whenever his services were needed since then.
CORNELIUS HAGLE STANDING BY HIS BRAILLE BIBLE DANIEL MAX HARTSOUGH was born at Dresden, Ohio, on March 9, 1877. He is the son of George and Caroline Hartsough. He has a public school training. He united with the church in Ohio in October 1886. He was installed into the ministry in June 1925 at Wooster, Ohio. He served the Lake View, Marilla, and Harlan churches while in Michigan.
ABRAM W. HAWBAKER was born in Pennsylvania April 6, 1857. At an early age he moved with his parents to Dallas County, Iowa. On February 10, 1881, he married Mary Hoff, who, as his widow, now resides in South Bend, Indiana. A. W. Hawbaker was elected to the ministry at Dallas Center, Iowa, about 1885. He lived near Hope, Kansas, for two years, 1886 and 1887. He then moved to Dallas Center, Iowa, and preached some there and for a while at a mission point in
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Des Moines, Iowa. For a few years, about 1890 to 1892, he had a furniture store in Grundy Center, Iowa, and also preached at the church. His next location was in Polk Coun- ty, Iowa, 1893 and 1894, where he preached at two or three churches near Elkhart. In 1895 he moved to Dallas County, Iowa, near Waukee, where he farmed the farm formerly operated by his father. He preached at churches in that vicinity while living on that farm. In 1898 Brother Haw- baker moved to near Kenmare, North Dakota, on a home- stead and preached at various schoolhouses. In 1899 he was ordained as an elder. He was active in mission points throughout that part of North Dakota. In 1902 he moved to Brethren, Michigan, and later to a farm four miles east of Brethren. He preached at the church in Brethren and was its elder. In 1903 or 1904 he moved near the Marilla church, which was a part of the Brethren congregation; there he lived until his death. He was in charge of the services in the Marilla church and also preached at many places. For some time he was the evangelist for the Michigan District and preached at nearly all of the Brethren churches in Michigan. He loved the pioneer work in mission churches and was not satisfied to remain in an old, well-organized church. He was interested in growing, expanding churches, and delighted in trying to create unity among people who had migrated to lo- cations from various other places. He was sympathetic with people who had conflicting ideas, and was interested in prob- lems that beset young people. He was more interested in the work of the church than in his own material welfare. He would leave his farm work at the busiest times if there was a call for church work. While preaching near Petoskey, Michigan, he was stricken with appendicitis, and passed away December 3, 1906. He was buried in the cemetery one mile west and one-half mile north of the Marilla church. We cherish his memory.
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WALTER J. HEISEY, son of Albert and Susanna Kreider Heisey, was born September 17, 1890, at Union, Montgomery County, Ohio. After completing his high school training in Ohio he studied extensively in preparation for missionary service. He has been a student at Lewis Institute in Chicago, Manchester College, Bethany Biblical Seminary, and North- western University. He is a graduate of Yen Ching School of Chinese Studies. He was baptized in March 1902 in the Georgetown congregation in Southern Ohio. The West Mil- ton congregation of Southern FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Ohio elected him to the ministry on September 17, 1911. He was CHURCH SCHOOL 10 AM CHURCH WORSHIP IT AM ordained to the eldership at Shou Yang Hsien, Shansi, China, IODEF THAT MAKES ADIFFERENCE in September 1919, by J. H. B. Williams, J. J. Yoder, and F. H. OURNEW PSTOR Crumpacker. Brother Heisey WALTER JHBSEY served in China fourteen years. WALTER J. HEISEY Since returning from the mis- sion field in China he has held pastorates in Indiana. He served as fieldman for Manchester College for five years prior to his acceptance of the call to the Midland church, Michigan, in 1942. He and his wife were called to the pastorate of the Flint church in September 1944. He is also the presiding elder of that church. He has done a considerable amount of deputation work among the churches under the General Mission Board in the interest of missions, and he has done summer conference and camp work. As a former missionary he is called upon to lecture before service clubs, P. T. A.'s and other interdenominational groups. Sister Heisey is serving on the district children's work cabinet.
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HOWARD HOLMES HELMAN once lived in the Long Lake congregation. He is the son of David F. and Susan Helman. He was born on December 12, 1880, in Stark County, Ohio. He was married first in 1906 to Ora Alice Ren- neckar, who died April 24, 1924. His second wife was Cora Viola Wise. He received his public school training in Stark County, Ohio, and also attended high school at Scio and Can- ton, Ohio. He was a student at Manchester College for two years. He united with the church in the Tuscarawas congre- gation, Ohio, in 1897. He was elected to the ministry in the same congregation in 1901, and advanced to the eldership at Wooster, Ohio. The following significant note was included in his report: "Paternal grandfather came from Germany in the Catholic Faith in 1840. He came in contact with mem- bers of the (then) German Baptist Brethren Church, mart ried into a family of members of the latter and united about 1848. My parents were not converted until past the age of forty, a year or two before my conversion. I served on the district mission board of Northeastern Ohio for several years, and on the ministerial board of Middle Indiana one term. Was compelled to give up regular ministerial work in 1928 because of failure of my voice to hold up under the strain of regular preaching. I am now farming." He re- linquished his farming in 1945 and returned to North Man- chester, Indiana.
KENNETH HOLLINGER, son of E. Sylvester and Eliza- beth Wandle Hollinger, was summer pastor at the Shepherd church in 1944. He was born August 11, 1912, near Hollans- burg, Ohio. He married Helen Louise Darley of North Man- chester, Indiana, on June 1, 1938. He graduated from the high school at Hollansburg, Ohio, on May 16, 1930, and from Manchester College with the bachelor of arts degree on May 31, 1935. He is now pursuing his seminary training at Beth- any Biblical Seminary, Chicago. He united with the Cedar
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Grove church of Southern Ohio by baptism in 1925. This church licensed him to the ministry on November 28, 1931, and about a year later, November 26, 1932, he was installed. He was ordained to the eldership on June 5, 1942, at the Prices Creek church, Ohio, where he was serving as part- time pastor. He had taken his turn in the preaching sched- ule of his home church (Beech Grove) prior to 1938. He was a principal and teacher in the Preble County schools, Ohio, for a period of eight years after his graduation from Man- chester College.
E. SYLVESTER HOLLINGER is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Hollinger. He was born on September 6, 1887, in Darke County, Ohio. He mar- ried Elizabeth Wandle on March 23, 1910. She passed to her eternal rest on November 4, 1934. His second wife was Vicie Cassell. In addition to his public school training in Darke County, Ohio, he has taken courses at Manchester College and Bethany Biblical Seminary. He was baptized in March 1901 at the Beech Grove church of Southern Ohio. This church elected him to the E. S. HOLLINGER deacon's office in November 1911, and to the ministry in November 1912. He served in the ministry at the Beech Grove church for twenty-five years, on both a free-time and a part-time basis. He was part-time pastor of the Cedar Grove church, Southern Ohio, for seven years. He was or- dained to the eldership in the Prices Creek church, Southern Ohio, in 1919. In January 1944 he was called to the pastorate
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of the Beaverton church, Michigan. He is now vice-chair- man of the district board of Christian education and as such is the director of peace and temperance work.
LEVI T. HOLSINGER was born in Henry County, Indiana, on March 21, 1850. He was the son of John and Sarah Hol- singer. He attended the high school at Pleasant Hill, Ohio, and took a business course at a commercial school in Chicago. At the age of twenty he joined the Methodist Church and preached in that denomination for two years. He united with the Church of the Brethren on April 28, 1878, and was called to the ministry in the same year, September 21, in the Bethel church, Nebraska. After his return to Indiana he was ad- vanced to the second degree of the ministry in the fall of 1884 and ordained to the eldership in 1885. He was united in marriage to Mary A. Kern in 1871. He moved L. T. HOLSINGER to Brethren, Michigan, about 1912, and served in the district approx- imately nine years. He went among the churches of Michi- gan as the district evangelist, conducting revival meetings. He was widely known as an evangelist previous to his resi- dence in Michigan. He served a number of times on Stand- ing Committee and twice as moderator of Annual Meeting. For a number of years he was a member of the General Ed- ucation Board. He was a trustee of Manchester College and the presiding elder of the Manchester church for two years. He was a good preacher, and many have been led into the kingdom under his preaching. He was especially qualified to
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give instruction in doctrinal subjects. He was able to keep church members united in Christian love. He was very in- sistent on members living harmoniously as fellow Christians. He died at Mexico, Indiana, on February 16, 1937, and was buried in the Pleasant View cemetery, Rossville, Indiana.
BURYL E. HOOVER was born at Nashville, Michigan, on March 5, 1893. He is the son of Frank and Josephine Hoover. In 1917 he was united in marriage to Pearl Smith, whom he lost by death in 1918. His second wife was Candace R. Hoover. He took his public school and high school work in Michigan and graduated from Manchester College in 1926; he received his master of arts degree at the University of Michigan in 1936. He was baptized in the Thornapple church in 1913 by Brother C. H. Deardorff. He was elected to the ministry at Onekama, Michigan, in 1918. He has served the Wawaka church in Indiana from 1922 to the present, and was ordained to the eldership there about 1928. He spent three hundred sixty-four days in Camp Custer during the first world war. He has been a teacher of English in the Rome City and Wawaka high schools since 1922.
PERRY R. HOOVER was born on July 30, 1890, at Hagerstown, Indiana. He is the son of John D. and Elizabeth Hoover. He married Jessie May Teeter on June 22, 1912. To them have PERRY R. HOOVER been born two sons and two daughters. Brother Hoover is a graduate of the Hagerstown high school, of Manchester College, and of Bethany Biblical
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Seminary. He has taken graduate work at the Central State Teachers College. In 1905 he united with the church at Hagerstown, was called to the ministry in 1913 and was or- dained to the eldership in 1915 at that church. After gradu- ating from Bethany Biblical Seminary in 1925 he was pas- tor of the church at Liberty, Illinois, for two years. In 1927 he and his family moved to Michigan, where he became the first full-time pastor of the Beaverton church, continuing until 1931. He served on the district ministerial board for three years. He then taught one year and served two years as superintendent in the Beaverton Rural Agricultural High School. After an absence of six years from the state he again returned to Beaverton March 1, 1940, as part-time pas- tor, giving half of his time to the district as fieldworker. He was moderator of the district meeting at Marilla in 1941 and was elder of the Beaverton church from 1941 to 1943. He closed his work in Michigan in 1943 to accept the pastorate of the Pine Creek church in Northern Indiana. Because of ill-health he resigned this pastorate in 1944, and he and his wife lived on the Camp Mack farm during the summer and fall of 1945. At present they are living in Elgin, Illi- nois, where he is employed in the Brethren Publishing House.
HARVEY ROY HOSTETLER was born at Accident, Mary- land, on August 12, 1894, the son of Jonas and Rebecca Hostetler. He married Wilma Mae Bollinger on July 31, 1921, and three sons have been born to them. He is a grad- uate of the high school at Fruitland, Idaho, and also of Man- chester College, and was a student at Bethany Biblical Semi- nary from 1915 to 1919. In 1906 he united with the church at Williston, North Dakota. He was elected to the ministry in 1917 and ordained to the eldership in 1919 by the church at Fruitland, Idaho. In November 1937 he came from Morrill, Kansas, to the Detroit church, which he served as pastor and
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