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He was elected a minister in 1901 by the Harris Creek church.
Except for a brief period as cashier of the bank at Bradford, all his life was spent in public-school work, beginning as a teacher in the rural schools of Darke County. Then he taught at Greenville and Bradford, and for two years was professor of mathematics at Juniata College. Moving to Cleveland in 1916 he became principal of the Fairmount junior high school; he remained here for twenty-five years.
Brother Crowell was a charter member of the Cleveland church and later a trustee and a member of various boards and committees.
He died in Cleveland on March 31, 1952.
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ARTHUR CUPP
Arthur Cupp, son of Edward and Gertrude Cupp, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, April 12, 1913.
He was married to Virginia Mae Arledge on January 16, 1932. They have eight sons and one daughter.
Licensed to the ministry in 1940, he was ordained on April 30, 1952, by the Circleville church.
For two years he directed the work at Charleston. He has held evangelistic meetings, and in the local church he has been a Sunday-school teacher, a trustee, and a member of the relief and missionary committees. He is employed by the county highway department.
Arthur Cupp and Wife
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OLIVER DEARING
James Oliver Dearing, son of James Edward and Clellie Ann McCloney Dearing, was born September 22, 1908, near Hutsonville, Illinois.
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Following completion of studies in the public schools he took work at Johnson Bible College, Tennessee.
On March 31, 1928, he married Ellen Spivey, daughter of Henry and Leah Buckle Spivey. They have six children: Mrs. Patricia Wilson, Mrs. Rosalie Barber, Mrs. Eloise Miller, Paul, Maurice, and Leroy.
Both Brother Dearing and his wife were reared in Baptist homes. Both united with the Church of the Brethren in 1932. He was elected to the ministry by the La Motte Prairie church, Southern Illinois, in April 1932. This same church ordained him an elder in October 1936.
Brother Dearing was the part-time pastor of the Kaskaskia church, Southern Illinois, 1935-43, and of the Walnut Grove church, the same district, 1943-46. In May 1946 he came to Southern Ohio as pastor of the Eversole church, remaining until September 1954, when he became pastor of the County Line church, Northwestern Ohio.
While in this district he served as reader of district con- ference and as one of the first members of the new District Board. He also was a member of the Men's Work Cabinet here. He has been a member of Standing Committee several times.
WILLIAM M. DEATON
William M. Deaton is a native of Virginia; he was born near Roanoke on August 15, 1893, the son of Joseph F. and Mary Eller Deaton.
With his parents he came to this district in 1902, settling within the bounds of the former Wheatville church, Preble County.
He attended the public schools of Preble County and took some work in Manchester College and Bethany Seminary.
Elected to the ministry in December 1916 by the Wheat- ville church, he was ordained an elder by the Upper Twin church in October 1936.
Besides preaching in the local church and as a pulpit supply in surrounding churches, he was the pastor of the
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Richmond church, Southern Indiana, from March 1931 to September 1932. Then he shared in the pastorate of the Eaton church with A. G. Crosswhite from September 1933 to September 1935. He served the Gratis church from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1944 to 1946.
He married Elizabeth Foutz, of Kitchel, Indiana, on December 14, 1916. They had six children, five of whom are now living: Daniel F., Grace Elizabeth Smith, Martha Mary Mason, John William, and Esther May Mason.
They moved to Eaton in 1951 and are active in the church there, he being a member of the building committee.
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Allen Deeter and Wife
ALLEN C. DEETER
Allen C. Deeter was born March 8, 1931, in Dayton, Ohio, to Raymond C. and Flora Petry Deeter. His high school training was received in the Fairview high school, Dayton, after which he entered Manchester College, graduating, A.B.
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degree, in 1953. Then entering Bethany Biblical Seminary, he is a member of the class of 1955.
He married Joan Sue George, of Covington, Ohio, on August 31, 1952. She graduated from Manchester College, B.S. degree, in 1953.
His election to the ministry by the Mack Memorial church, Dayton, took place in 1951, and his ordination in August 1953.
While the Deeters are in Bethany Biblical Seminary he is acting as minister of education for the First church, Chi- cago. Both have taken special work at Garrett Biblical Institute and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
He acted as summer assistant pastor at Mack Memorial, as full-time counselor at Camp Sugar Grove one summer, and as supply minister for the churches of the district.
EARNEST DETRICK
Earnest Detrick, the son of John and Clara Miller Detrick, was born April 24, 1913, in Darke County, Ohio.
After completing high school in Bradford, he enrolled in Manchester College, graduating with the B.S. degree in 1939. Later he attended Bethany Biblical Seminary. He has served pastorates in Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Bear Creek church, this district. He is engaged in school work in Wisconsin at this time.
He married Anna Elizabeth Beard in 1938. They have three sons, Ralph, John, and Joe.
WILLIAM C. DETRICK
William C. Detrick was born April 16, 1879, in Miami County, Ohio, to Noah W. and Margaret Helman Detrick.
He attended the Bradford schools and then enrolled in Juniata College, Pennsylvania, and later in Angola College, Indiana, and at Indianapolis, in preparation for teaching in the commercial department of the public schools.
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He taught for eighteen years in the public schools in Indiana and Ohio, including the Bradford high school, from which he had previously graduated.
W. C. Detrick and Wife
Elected to the ministry in the Covington church in 1914, he was ordained an elder in 1921 by the First church, Dayton.
His first pastorate was in the Wabash City church, Middle Indiana. Next he was the pastor of the Lick Creek church in Northwestern Ohio. After ministering to the First church, Dayton, this district, for four years, he became the pastor of the Sipesville church, Western Pennsylvania, re- maining there four years. He was then pastor at Pleasant Hill for a year. For twelve years he lived in the Potsdam church, Southern Ohio, and assisted in the free ministry of that church. He moved from there to Pleasant Hill and later back to Bradford, where he now lives. Both at Pleasant Hill and at Bradford he and Sister Detrick were engaged in retailing Bibles, books, pictures, plaques, and other religious items.
His marriage to Goldie M. Wyatt, of Bradford, Ohio, took
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place on May 20, 1903. They recently celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. She is also a minister, having been licensed by the Sipesville church, Pennsylvania, in 1925 and given a permanent license by the same congregation in 1926. She has been a leader of singing and music and was assistant pastor in the Lick Creek church. She was also a public-school teacher. She has been a most helpful companion to her husband-pastor.
They have two living children, Cleophas W., music in- structor in the Dayton schools, and William R. A daughter, Rebecca, is deceased.
ARTHUR L. DODGE
Arthur L. Dodge, the son of Leonard C. and Elmina Binkley Dodge, was born at Columbus Grove, Ohio, on December 3, 1892.
He attended the academy of Manchester College.
He joined the Church of the Brethren in February 1909 in the Lima congregation, Northwestern Ohio. The Union City church, this district, elected him to the ministry in September 1919. He was ordained an elder by the Pleasant Valley church on September 12, 1925.
Gertrude Netzley became his wife on December 24, 1916. They have two children, Mrs. Mary Emery and Lowell.
For two years, 1923-25, he served the Pleasant Valley church, this district. He has served other pastorates in North- western Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Northeastern Ohio, Michigan, and Southern Indiana. He is now pastor at Wakarusa, Northern Indiana.
DAVID S. DREDGE
David S. Dredge was born October 20, 1860, the son of John and Frances Dredge, near Springfield, Ohio. He married Sarah Jane Heck in 1884. Two sons and four daughters were born to them. 1
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In 1895 he united with the Church of the Brethren. Elected to the ministry in 1900, he was ordained an elder in 1911.
He was the presiding elder of the New Carlisle church for fourteen years. In 1930 he traveled through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine.
His wife died in 1918. In 1934 he married Mrs. Lillian M. Price, at La Verne, California, where he lived until his death on February 21, 1947.
FRANK EBY
Frank Eby was born near Auburn, Illinois, on April 16, 1879, the son of Noah and Elizabeth Vaniman Eby. He was married to Effie Landes on September 23, 1903. They had a son, Donald, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
Frank Eby and Wife
He was called to the ministry by the Trotwood church on September 24, 1919, and a few years later was ordained to the eldership.
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In pastoral service he has been with the Middletown and Eaton churches on part time and the West Milton congregation as regular pastor.
His wife passed away in 1943. On November 5, 1944, he married Margaret Brumbaugh Smith, of West Milton, daughter of Elder and Mrs. S. L. Brumbaugh. Together they worked in the West Milton pastorate. She is at present a member of the District Cabinet of Children's Work and has taught at Camp Sugar Grove.
Their residence is now in the Salem congregation, and, while retired from the active ministry, he has been filling preaching appointments where there is need.
J. HOWARD EIDEMILLER
J. Howard Eidemiller was born December 5, 1881, near Tipp City, Ohio, to Martin P. and Elizabeth Eidemiller. He united with the church in 1904.
His training was received in the local schools, in the Kansas State Normal, and in Bethany Biblical Seminary.
The old Hickory Grove (West Charleston) church called him to the ministry in 1907. He was ordained by the New Carlisle church in 1915.
His marriage to Nora A. Studebaker occurred on Feb- ruary 11, 1903. Two sons and two daughters were born to them.
After teaching school for three years he turned to the active ministry, first serving in the free ministry in the Donnels Creek and New Carlisle churches. In 1920 he was made pastor of the Beaver Creek church; he continued there for fifteen years. Then he pastored the Piqua church for five years.
Brother Eidemiller served the district in many capacities, several times on Standing Committee, as moderator of the district conference, and as a member of the Mission Board for some twenty years.
Retiring from the active ministry in 1941, he still preached on occasion and worked in the local church and Sunday school.
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After three weeks in the Miami Valley Hospital, with a heart attack, he passed away on December 17, 1945.
Sister Eidemiller lives at their home just north of New Carlisle.
JOHN EIKENBERRY
John Eikenberry was the son of Jacob and Mary Eiken- berry of near Pitsburg, Ohio, born to them on November 3, 1880. When a young man he united with the Pitsburg church.
He married Kathryn Mummert, of Bradford, Ohio, on
John Eikenberry and Wife
November 26, 1903. Two daughters were born to them. One daughter, Mrs. Ruth Erbaugh, has been active in district work. The Harris Creek church installed him into the ministry in December of 1905 and ordained him an elder on July 26, 1916.
After attending the public schools of Darke County he spent two winters in Manchester College. In 1906 Brother
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and Sister Eikenberry enrolled in Bethany Bible School and remained two years.
His activities in the District of Southern Ohio began as Sunday-school secretary, in which office he worked for three years. Afterward he was a member of the Sunday School Institute Committee. He has been on the Historical Com- mittee of the district over six years and is a present member assisting in preparing the material for this volume.
In the local church he has served as Sunday-school teacher, chorister, and superintendent, with a nearly perfect at- tendance record. In the capacity of minister he has given service to the Harris Creek, Middletown, and Bradford churches. His residence is in the Bradford church at the present time.
LORREL EIKENBERRY
Lorrel S. Eikenberry, son of T. S. and Beulah Minnich Eikenberry, was born August 27, 1915, in Darke County, Ohio.
After completing high school in Darke County he entered Manchester College, graduating with the B.S. degree in 1939. In 1949 he received the B.D. degree from Bethany Biblical Seminary. He was in advertising for several years, taught four years, and did office work for the N.S.B.R.O. in Wash- ington, D.C., and for the United Nations.
He was elected a minister in 1946 and became pastor of the Oakley church, Southern Illinois, later of the Peoria church, the same district, then of the Lanark church, Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, where he now is.
FLOYD C. EMRICK
Floyd C. Emrick was born in Preble County, Ohio, on June 12, 1910, the son of Clarence and Mary Ellen Emrick. He was reared in a foster home from infancy.
He attended the Monroe Township schools and enrolled in Manchester College, graduating with the B.S. degree in
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1948. He attended Bethany Biblical Seminary and completed the work for the B.D. degree in 1950.
The Castine church, this district, licensed him in March of 1947. The North Bethel church, Northern Missouri, ordained him to the ministry in August 1948. He was ordained an elder by the Owl Creek church, Northeastern Ohio, in No- vember 1952.
His marriage to Mildred Kasserman, of Lewisburg, Ohio, occurred in August 1935.
During his student days he was the assistant pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, Oak Park, Illinois, and the summer pastor of the North Bethel church, Missouri. Then he became pastor of the Owl Creek church, Northeastern Ohio, where he now ministers.
LELAND B. EMRICK
Leland B. Emrick, the son of Chester D. and Mabel Brinley Emrick, was born March 20, 1917, at Eldorado, Ohio. He married Ernestine Hoff, the daughter of Brother and Sister Ernest Hoff, of Elgin, Illinois, on May 30, 1941. They have one son, Gregory Lee.
Brother Emrick took his high school work at West Manchester, Ohio, graduated from Manchester College in 1939, B.S. degree, and from Ohio State University, in 1940, M.A. degree. He taught one year at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia, and one year in the Franklin, Ohio, high school.
He was elected to the ministry at the Prices Creek church, Ohio, in 1942. He completed his seminary work at Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago, in 1945, receiving the B.D. degree. During part of his seminary work he pastored the Robins, Iowa, church, and took clinical training at the Elgin State Hospital, Illinois. In the summer of 1952 he took a three weeks' course at Oberlin College, Ohio, in the study of the rural church.
He was the pastor of the church at Springfield, Illinois, from 1945 to 1951, and was ordained an elder there in 1946.
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In 1951 he became pastor of the Pleasant Hill church, where he still serves.
Brother Emrick has been a Standing Committeeman, a trustee of Manchester College, and a member of the Board of Administration of the District of Southern Illinois.
He acted as representative of the District of Southern Illinois on the Illinois Council of Churches, as president of the Springfield Ministerial Association, as chairman of the National Christian Teaching Mission there, and of radio and race relations committees, also as a member of the mayor's commission on human relations. He was for two years a member of the board of directors of the Springfield Y.M.C.A.
Brother Emrick is one of our Southern Ohio sons, working efficiently with one of our good churches.
Leland Emrick and Wife
Roy Engle and Wife
ROY G. ENGLE
Roy G. Engle, the son of Harvey E. and Minnie Denlinger Engle, was born April 27, 1897, near Dayton, Ohio.
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He attended elementary and high school in Montgomery County, receiving his high school diploma in 1915. He took a year's normal school training and then taught for three years. Then he attended Bethany Seminary and Manchester College, graduating with the A.B. degree from the latter in 1925. He returned to Bethany Seminary in 1927 and was granted the B.D. degree in 1930.
He was licensed to the ministry by the Happy Corner church, this district, in 1924. There he was installed into the full ministry in 1926 and ordained an elder on May 15, 1935.
On December 24, 1925, he was married to Orpha Diehl, of Trotwood, Ohio. The first year of their married life was spent in pastoral work in the Cassel Run and Rennels Run churches in the southern part of Ohio, under the direction of the Mission Board of the district. Following this they went to Bethany Seminary, as indicated above.
In 1931 they located near Hart, Michigan, serving the Hart church on a part-time basis while teaching school. In 1934 they returned to this district, to the Happy Corner church, where he shared with others in the pulpit ministry. In 1943 they moved into the Prices Creek congregation, where he was pastor for three years, and where they still reside. He was the supply pastor for the Brethren church in West Alexandria for a few months and has also supplied for other churches in Southern Ohio. He is at present serving the district on the Credential Committee.
They have three daughters, Evelyn, Deloris, and Esther, the oldest of whom is married and lives in Lewisburg, Ohio.
CLARENCE G. ERBAUGH
Clarence G. Erbaugh was born near New Lebanon, Ohio, on November 21, 1882, the son of Elder Samuel and Barbara Bookwalter Erbaugh.
He united with the Wolf Creek church in October 1898. He was elected to the ministry in the Eversole church May 3, 1917, and made an elder in 1921.
Besides his training in the public schools he took work in both Manchester College and Bethany Biblical Seminary.
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He married Clara Horning of the Eversole church on May 3, 1917. They have two daughters, Naomi and Ruth, the former being the wife of Brother Paul Kinsel, pastor of the Trotwood church. Both are graduates of Manchester College.
Brother Erbaugh has had pastoral charge of Stonelick, Middletown, Eaton, and Pleasant Valley in this district. Also he has been the elder of Middletown, Eversole, Constance (Kentucky), Charleston, Circleville, Columbus, Stonelick, Marble Furnace, and Flat Creek (Kentucky).
He has been on the Credential Committee for Annual Conference, and on both the Ministerial Board and the Mission Board of Southern Ohio. Recently he has served as fieldman for Manchester College. He resides near the Eversole church, of which he is the present elder.
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Howard Erbaugh and Wife
HOWARD F. ERBAUGH
Howard F. Erbaugh, the son of Samuel A. and Barbara Bookwalter Erbaugh, was born March 20, 1897, near Liberty,
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Montgomery County, Ohio. He was the youngest of four sons, three of whom were ministers and one a deacon. His father was a member of the District Mission Board for ten years.
Always active in his local church, Bear Creek, he took a special interest in the promotion and development of Men's Work in the district. Consequently he was chosen chairman of Men's Work for the district, and also served two terms on the National Council of Men's Work.
With other laymen, in 1942 he began the work at Turkey Creek, Kentucky, which resulted later in establishing a church at this place.
Brother Erbaugh was called to the ministry by the Hamilton church in 1947. He continued with this church for some time and then assisted in the Turkey Creek mission until a resident minister could be obtained. For the last five years he has been the pastor of the Bradford church.
ORION ERBAUGH
Orion Erbaugh, a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, was born April 19, 1885, to Samuel and Barbara Bookwalter Erbaugh.
He graduated from the local high school and after some years took one term in Bethany Biblical Seminary.
He united with the church at Trotwood, and was elected to the ministry on March 31, 1937, and ordained an elder in 1941 by this congregation.
His marriage to Omy Ethel Kuns occurred on January 11, 1911. To them two children were born, Eleanor and Richard.
Brother Erbaugh was a builder and contractor for years. His service in the district began with his election to the Mission Board in 1930, on which he served continuously for ten years, much of this time as its secretary.
He became pastor of the Constance, Kentucky, church in 1936 and served this church until his death. During the last two years the Hamilton church was joined with the Constance church under his leadership. At the time of his decease, December 16, 1944, he was secretary of the Hamilton
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city ministerial association. He passed away at the home of one of the members of the Hamilton parish while engaged in a pastoral call.
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As a builder he directed the construction of the Bethany and Hamilton churches, and assisted in the remodeling of the East Dayton, Middletown, and Constance churches.
DWIGHT FARRINGER
Leland Dwight Farringer was born May 28, 1927, at Lena, Illinois, to Roy D. and Lula Lutz Farringer.
After completing his high school training he entered Man- chester College, receiving the B.S. degree in 1947 and the A.B. degree in 1949. In 1952 he was granted the B.D. degree by Bethany Biblical Seminary.
He married Helen Naomi Halladay, of Darke County, Ohio, on August 29, 1950. She is the daughter of Ralph B. and Mary Halladay, of the Poplar Grove church.
Brother Farringer was licensed to the ministry in 1945 and ordained in 1949 by the Yellow Creek church, Northern Illinois and Wisconsin. He was summer pastor of the Franklin church, Southern Iowa, in 1951.
While a student at Manchester College he was an as- sistant in the physics department; at Bethany Seminary he
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assisted in speech; and he is now a part-time assistant and graduate student in physics at Ohio State University. In the fall of 1954 he became the first director of the Brethren Student Center in Columbus.
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JOHN W. FIDLER
John W. Fidler was born April 28, 1875, near Sulpher Grove, Ohio, to Joseph and Lydia Fidler.
He attended the schools of Bethel Township, Miami County, and spent parts of two winters in the Training School of Bethany Biblical Seminary.
On April 29, 1896, he married Olive M. Mishler of Brook- ville, Ohio. They have two children, Paul J. and Mrs. Miriam Wilson, who with her husband is a missionary in Africa.
The Salem church called him to the ministry in 1898; he was ordained an elder by the Wolf Creek congregation in 1907.
His active ministry began with his becoming pastor of the East Dayton church in 1908, where he continued until 1912. Then he was pastor and elder of the Brookville church for twenty-four years. He has also served as elder of the Cincinnati, Constance (Kentucky), Troy, East Dayton, and Trotwood churches.
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For the district he was a member of the Mission Board for about fifteen years, has been clerk and moderator for district conferences, and has represented the district many times on Standing Committee.
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He has engaged in farming and has held many evangelistic meetings throughout the Brotherhood.
His first wife died in 1936. On November 9, 1941, he married Mrs. Anna Miller, of Sebring, Florida.
They reside at Brookville and spend the winters at Sebring, Florida.
FAYETTE FIELDS
Fayette Fields, son of Robert and Sarah Elizabeth Fields, was born at Laura, Kentucky, on January 14, 1913.
He completed high school at Inez, Kentucky, took the B.S. degree in 1937 at Western Kentucky State College, and was
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awarded his M.A. in 1950. He also had one summer term at George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.
He was married at Scottsville, Kentucky, to Virginia Opal Nichols on January 25, 1936. They have two children, Virginia Faye and Glenna Kathryn.
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His election to the ministry occurred at Laura in November of 1935. The Turkey Creek church ordained him in 1946. He assisted in the ministry in the Kentucky field, at Wolfe Creek, Rock House, and Turkey Creek.
They moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he is the principal of the Linwood elementary school and is active in the church. He has been the Sunday-school superintendent in the local church and a member of the ministerial, finance, and Christian education boards and committees.
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