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1927. Ministerial and mission boards jointly take initiative in placing pastors at mission points.
1928. Discontinuance of district Sunday-school secretary. Kurtz Memorial commission.
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1929. Merger of Mt. Zion and New Philadelphia. Goshen church name changed to White Cottage. Request for Lin- coln Heights mission.
1930. Request for district meeting programs.
1931. Kurtz Memorial completed.
1932. Organization of Maple Avenue. Disorganization of Loudonville church. Reapportionment of district dues. Eastwood.
1934. Director for Camp Mack. Old Folks' Home committee discontinued.
1935. Place for district gatherings. Budget limitation repealed. Merger of welfare board with board of Christian education. Organization of Lincoln Heights mission.
1936. Steps to open mission at Dillonvale. Report of committee on permanent place for district gatherings. Officially authorized trustees of permanent meeting place. Elders' body to approve nominations of joint board for district.
1937. Mortgage on Cleveland property canceled. Constitution for joint board. Development of permanent meeting place. Zion central project - mission board to advise in matters involving financial obligations. Men's and women's work. Rotary loan fund.
1938. Central meeting place named Camp Zion. District minis- terial program committee. Naming of Mansfield church. 1939. Camp Zion dormitory built. Date of district conference. Camp Zion trustees. Rebinding of district meeting minutes.
1940. Brethren service committee. Report of board of Chris- tian education. District calendar. Brethren service com- mittee. Term of writing clerk. Representation on Standing Committee. Special district conference.
1941. District meeting program committee.
1942. Reports and queries in hands of clerk by August 1. Board of education age-group directors. Financial and bookkeep- ing system. Appointment and supervision of adviser to conscientious objectors. Organization and names of subdistricts.
1943. Cleveland and Eastwood transferred from missions to fully organized churches.
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1944. Mission work at Dillonvale closed and property sold. Regional secretary.
1945. Transfer, sale, and control of local church properties. Contribution to Ohio Council of Churches. Term of office of central treasurer. Central treasurer limited in disburs- ing funds.
1946. Installation service for district officers, boards, and committees.
1947. Writing clerk an ex-officio member of the joint board. Historical committee established.
1948. Name of Wooster church changed to Paradise church.
1949. Election of moderator of district meeting.
1950. Name of Tuscarawas church changed to Eden church. 1951. District organization.
1952. Selection of Standing Committeemen. Recommendation of historical committee. New method of apportioning dis- trict budget.
1953. E. G. Diehm chosen as editor of History of the Church of the Brethren in Northeastern Ohio. Term of trustees for Manchester College. Time of residence required to serve on boards and committees of district. Tenure of office on boards and committees. Financial support of Manchester College. Mission board authorized to look into the need for a district Brethren home. Installation services for district officers.
1954. Group insurance approved. Revision of joint board con- stitution. Not more than two names to be submitted to fill vacancy in any district office. District representation on Camp Mack board discontinued. Beginning of Painesville mission.
1955. Dedication of Painesville mission. District program com- mittee to effect its own organization. Separation of Baltic and Sugarcreek congregations into separate churches. Mis- sion board given permission to purchase land for a prospec- tive church location. Purchase of Irvin farm as a home for the aged.
1956. Resignation of V. F. Schwalm and election of A. Blair Helman as president of Manchester College. The trustee board for the home for the aging. Camp committee for
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Camp Zion. Revised regulations for home mission board. 1957. Beginning of Brookpark mission. Beginning of Elyria mission. Employment of district executive secretary. Lay and pastoral counselors for district youth. Amending of constitution of council of boards.
1958. Tenure of office for resolutions committee.
1959. Centennial committee for 1963.
1960. Stewardship program for 1960 and 1961. Tenure rule of office suspended for the office of central treasurer.
1961. Wooster fellowship launched; to be known as the Christ Church of the Brethren.
1962. Crest View Manor board increased to fifteen members. District of Northeastern Ohio voted to merge with the Dis- trict of Northwestern Ohio.
1963. Merger of Northeastern Ohio with Northwestern Ohio consummated. New district, Northern Ohio. The history, Church of the Brethren in Northeastern Ohio, published.
DISTRICT ORGANIZATION (1962-1963)
Moderator
William Walters 1963
Alternate Moderator
Merlin G. Shull 1963
Writing Clerk
Clair O. Throne 1965
Reading Clerk
John McCormick 1963
Delegates to Standing Committee
Delbert Kettering 1963
Clair O. Throne 1963
John Blough 1964
J. Perry Prather (first alternate) 1963
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P. J. Remsburg (second alternate)
1963
Richard Speicher (third alternate) 1963
District Mission Board
Arthur Hess 1967
Merlin G. Shull 1966
Guy Buch 1965
Wilbur Shoemaker
1964
Galen Hochstetler
1963
Ministerial Board
Elmer Brumbaugh 1965
John Blough 1964
Alvin Kintner 1963
Brethren Service Committee
Ben Bollinger 1965
Norman Hostetler 1964
Merl Cordier
1963
Board of Christian Education
Mrs. Ralph (Hilda) Bowman 1965
Atlee Stroup 1965
Victor Bendsen 1964
Mrs. Gene (Gladys) Pickens 1964
Mrs. L. E. (Thelma) Kieffaber 1963
Camp Zion Trustees
Bennett Shoemaker 1967
Wilbur Hershberger 1966
Walter Coldren 1965
Mildred Young
1964
Leroy Domer
1963
District Conference Program Committee
W. H. Miley 1965
Edward Angeny 1964
Mrs. Don (Edna) Disler 1963
Resolutions Committee
Mrs. Henry (Mable) Krommes 1965
Mrs. W. H. (Orpha) Miley 1964
Mrs. William (Dorothy) Walters 1963
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Representative to the Regional Board
Walter Bowman 1965
Central Treasurer
P. J. Remsburg 1963
Auditing Committee
Albert Gray
1964
Don Disler 1963
Brethren Home Trustees
Ralph Martin 1965
Harper Bender 1966
Roy Bower 1965
Ira Good 1964
Mrs. Harold (Grace) Steiner 1963
Jay Myers 1965
Russell Young
1965
Edison Moomaw
1964
Howard Dickerhoof 1964
Mrs. Homer (Jean) Miller 1963
Mrs. Leonard (Dorothy) Kauffman 1963
Roy S. Lautenschlager (appointment confirmed) 1963
Ivan Steiner, Sr. (appointment confirmed) 1964
Jay Lehman (appointment confirmed) 1965
Trustee to Manchester College
John L. Deardorff 1965
Credential Committee
Mrs. Edison (Fern) Moomaw 1965
F. Blake Million 1964
Dean Rohrer 1963
Delegates to the Ohio Council of Churches Assembly
William Church
1964
Victor Bendsen 1963
Women's Fellowship Cabinet
President Mrs. Merlin (Grace) Shull
Vice-president Mrs. Edward (Helen) Angeny
Secretary-treasurer Mrs. P. J. (Cecil) Remsburg
Mission director Mrs. Harry (Florence) Imhoff
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Aid-service
Mrs. John Miller
Men's Fellowship Cabinet
President
Forest Heiks
Vice-president Wilbur Hershberger
General secretary Kenneth Imhoff
Recording secretary Paul Wise
Treasurer Clifford Johnson
Pastoral adviser
Merlin G. Shull
CBYF Cabinet
President Kenneth Radcliff
Vice-president
Janet Kurtz
Secretary
Beverly Eggleton
Treasurer Dave Snyder
Faith
Ron Hanft
Citizenship
Verda Deeter
Fellowship
Bob Messer
Outreach
Sharon Krommes
DISTRICT BUDGET (October 1, 1962 - September 30, 1963)
Church extension
$20,000
Council of boards
3,500
Christian education board
1,200
Ministerial board
320
Brethren service committee
180
Executive secretary service
6,500
Brotherhood Fund
25,000
Manchester College
3,300
Brethren Home
15,000
District parsonage
5,000
$80,000
Manchester College - 15%
1,500
Brotherhood Fund - 85%
8,500
$90,000
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MINISTERS OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO (As of September 1962)
Elders
Angeny, Edward T.
Kintner, Alvin L.
Beach, Guy K.
Krommes, Henry A.
Bendsen, Victor C.
Loucks, William H.
Block, Ervin F.
Louder, Cyril C.
Blough, John H.
McCormick, John A.
Bowman, Walter D.
Martin, Ralph B.
Brumbaugh, Elmer I.
Miley, Wilbert H.
Buch, Guy R.
Miller, Adam H.
Bucher, Gordon W.
Million, F. Blake
Coldren, Walter E.
Myers, Jay G.
Cripe, Mervin A.
Naylor, Kent E.
Deardorff, C. H.
Noffsinger, Stanley B.
Deeter, Harold I.
Nolt, Enos D.
Diehm, Edgar G.
Petry, Edwin C.
Fisher, C. Kenneth
Prather, J. Perry
Harley, Henry P.
Reinke, J. Herman
Hays, Durward F.
Rohrer, Dean C.
Heeter, Robert L.
Sheets, George H.
Helm, C. A.
Shull, Merlin G.
Helser, Albert D.
Smith, E. Stanley
Hess, Arthur H.
Speicher, Richard D.
Holderread, Arno M.
Strausbaugh, George S.
Keller, Walter
Wenger, Richard C.
Kindy, Dean R.
Zigler, Jacob D.
Ordained Ministers
Fausnight, Ivan J.
Kettering, Delbert W.
Frantz, Loren D.
Kurtz, Willis E.
Fryman, Robert P.
Pierson, Augustus B.
Gemmer, H. Robert
Sollenberger, Donald D.
Grant, Willard L.
Walters, William E.
Harman, Wayne P.
Licensed Ministers
Brumbaugh, Paul
Eberly, Roger
Kinsel, Waldo E.
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Frame, Donald Kettering, Merlyn
Kieffaber, Alan G. Marvin, Kenneth, Jr.
McConnel, David R. Reinke, Richard L.
Showalter, Harold Snyder, Edison
Two DISTRICTS BECOME ONE
The district conference of Northeastern Ohio in 1961 authorized the district realignment study committee to bring to the 1962 conference definite proposals regarding the merger of the districts of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Ohio. The committee consisted of Guy Beach, Guy Buch, Arthur Hess, and Merlin Shull. Eleanor Garner, Paul Haworth, Ken- neth Long, and John Tomlonson represented Northwestern Ohio. Gordon Bucher, serving both districts as executive secretary, brought the following recommendations to the 1962 conference:
We recommend to the District Conferences of North- western and Northeastern Ohio that the two districts merge into one district called Northern Ohio.
We recommend that Mercer, Auglaize, Hardin, Marion, Morrow, Knox, Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Harrison and Jeffer- son counties be the southern tier of counties in the new district.
We recommend that the principle of merger be adopted at the 1962 District Conferences and that the merger be consummated at a joint District Conference in 1963.
We recommend that the principle of a District Board of Administration working through commissions be adopted.
We ask that we be authorized to see that a detailed plan of organization is brought to the 1963 District Conference and that a slate of nominees be prepared by the appropriate District bodies.
We recommend that we move toward a unified budget, including age and interest groups, and support payments to the Brotherhood Fund, Manchester College, the Homes, and camp (but not including capital improvement funds). We also recommend that there be one central treasurer handling all funds except [those of] the homes and camp.
Merlin G. Shull, secretary
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Merger Committee of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Ohio
The recommendations were adopted by both district con- ferences at their respective district meetings in August 1962.
A centennial conference program committee is preparing a special program in cooperation with the district program committee to commemorate the first district conference of Northeastern Ohio which was held in the barn of Jacob Brum- baugh in 1864, one and one-half miles southwest of Hartville. Speakers for the special occasion are Andrew W. Cordier and Paul M. Robinson. The new historical volume, The Church of the Brethren in Northeastern Ohio, will be presented. This historic district conference will be held at Ashland College, August 15-18, 1963. The meeting also marks the centennial district conference of Northeastern Ohio and the merger of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Ohio into the District of Northern Ohio.
PART THREE
Biographies
It is the purpose of the biographical sketches to give the important facts in the lives of those ministers and lay leaders who have served in Northeastern Ohio. However, with very few exceptions only those lay men and women who have represented the district on Standing Committee are included.
The information on which the sketches are based was obtained by means of questionnaires. The historical committee began mailing these out in 1948. Some were never returned. After the manuscript was taken to Elgin in September 1962, Ora W. Garber, the book editor, mailed out a large number of questionnaires in an effort to bring the sketches up to date. Any omissions are due to the fact that no information was furnished.
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CHARLES ERNEST ANDERSON, the son of Bruce and Vergie (Wolf) Anderson, was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on September 16, 1926. He was married to Wilma Ruth Wagoner on December 29, 1946; they have one son and one daughter. Brother Anderson was baptized in August 1938 at East Berlin, Pennsylvania. In October 1953 he was ordained to the ministry at La Porte, Indiana. He served the La Porte church from September 1, 1953, to November 1, 1956, and was pastor of the Brookpark church in Northeastern Ohio from November 1956 to 1958. He is currently living in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
EDWARD T. ANGENY, born on August 6, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a son of William G. and Catherine (Krupp) Angeny. He attended the Bible Institute of Pennsylvania (1935), Bethany Biblical Seminary (1939), Juniata College (B.A., 1947), and the United Theological Seminary (B.D., 1955). Called to the ministry by the Bethany church, Philadelphia, in 1935, he was ordained to the full ministry in 1937. His wife is the former Helen Buehl, whom he
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married on February 26, 1938; they have two daughters. From September 1939 to September 1940 he was the pastor of the Woodworth church, Ohio. Having volunteered for service in the overseas mission program of the church, Brother and Sister Angeny went to China in September 1940. In 1941 they went to the Philippines with the language school formerly located in Peiping. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines the Angenys were interned at Baguio, where they remained until the close of the war. Returning to the States in 1945, Brother Angeny spent a year at Juniata College and then took up the pastorate at Muncie, Indiana. From 1951 to 1960 he was with the Lower Miami church in Southern Ohio; then he accepted a call to the first full-time pastorate of the Kent, Ohio, church. In Northeastern Ohio he has been the chairman of the district conference program committee.
WHITMORE ARNOLD, son of Charles and Susannah (Whit- more) Arnold, was born near Cadiz, Ohio, on November 28, 1826. A cabinetmaker and carpenter, he was licensed to preach in 1856. Moving to Somerset, he was a farmer and carpenter until 1870 and from 1870 to 1876 operated a hardware store. He was pastor of the Jonathan Creek church (now the Olivet church), Ohio, from 1860 to 1885. He married Harriet Helser on May 23, 1861; three children were born to them. Sister Arnold died on March 15, 1914. Brother Arnold followed on February 20, 1915.
GLEN M. BAIRD was born at Old Washington, Ohio, on February 15, 1904, to Joseph and Alice (Dugan) Baird. Bap- tized in 1926 and called to the ministry in 1935, he was ordained to the eldership in 1941 in the Des Moines Valley church, Iowa. He received his ministerial education at Bethany Seminary, Drake University, and the Oberlin Graduate School of The- ology. As a student pastor he worked in the Arcadia church, Indiana, from March to September 1939, and then in Marion, Indiana, until June 1940. He was in the Des Moines Valley church as pastor from June 1940 to June 1943; the Morrellville church, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from July 1943 to March 1947; the Hartville church, Northeastern Ohio, from that time
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until September 1951; the Flora church, Indiana, from then until 1954; the Fort Wayne (Lincolnshire) church, Indiana, from 1954 to 1958; the Union Bridge church, Maryland, since 1958. In Northeastern Ohio he was the peace director from September 1947 to September 1951 and was the moderator of the 1950 district conference. In 1926 he married Agnes Tice; they are the parents of one son.
L. M. BALDWIN, son of Charles and Barbara (Wagoner) Baldwin, was born in Fayette County, Illinois, December 26, 1897. He was baptized in the Hurricane Creek congregation, Southern Illinois, August 17, 1910. Licensed to the ministry on August 27, 1922, and ordained on May 11, 1924, he was ordained to the eldership in Osceola, Missouri, on November 4, 1939. After graduation from McPherson College in 1927, he entered educational work, serving as a high school principal and super- intendent. Brother Baldwin was united in marriage to Maudie McConkey on June 5, 1927; two children were born to them. From 1934 to 1936 he served as a part-time pastor in Nevada, Missouri; from 1936 to 1941, in the Osceola and Deepwater churches, Missouri, while principal of the Osceola high school. In 1941 he went to La Place, Illinois, remaining as full-time pastor there until 1945, when he moved to Thornville, Ohio, where he was pastor of the Olivet church until 1948. He died on May 19, 1962.
WILBUR BANTZ was born in Carroll County, Tennessee, on June 23, 1900, a son of C. M. and Carrie (Oren) Bantz. When he was still quite young the family moved to Trotwood, Ohio, where he was baptized and finished grade school. He was graduated from Manchester College in 1926 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1932. Brother Bantz was united in marriage to Martha Blessing on June 29, 1918; two children were born to them. Called to the ministry in the Bear Creek congregation, Ohio, in 1923 and ordained the following year, he was ordained an elder at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1931. Beginning his pastoral career in Fort Wayne, Indiana (1925-1929), he served in Wilmington (1929-1934); Thornville, Ohio (1934-1936) ; Toledo, Ohio (1936-1945) ; Decatur, Illinois
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(1945 until the time of his death on December 24, 1957). For a time during World War II he was a civilian public service supervisor for the Brethren Service Committee.
GUY K. BEACH, son of Adam and Catherine (Kochenderfer) Beach, was born at Salemville, Pennsylvania, in December 1889. He was baptized at the age of thirteen in the New Enterprise congregation. On July 20, 1913, he was elected to the ministry and was ordained on August 24 of the same year at New Enterprise. His ordination to the eldership took place in 1928 in the Akron City church, Ohio. He received his education at Juniata College and the Goodyear Industrial University. After about thirty-five years in the employment of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, he is now retired. Brother Beach has served as interim pastor at the Hartville, Freeburg, and Black River churches. On June 24, 1919, he was married to Ethel Eyer; four children were born to them. Prior to coming to Akron he taught school in New Enterprise from 1912 to 1916. During World War I, he was stationed for thirteen months in Germany and France. In the District of Northeastern Ohio he was the central treasurer from 1942 to 1951; a Standing Committee delegate to Annual Conference in 1953; a member of the district ministerial board; chairman and treasurer of the joint board and the board of the Home for the Aged.
Guy K. Beach
William M. Beahm
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WILLIAM M. BEAHM was born in Tazewell, Virginia, to I. N. H. and Mary (Bucher) Beahm. Brother Beahm lived in Akron, Ohio, as a young man for a short period of time. He attended the First church, Akron, and was elected to the min- istry by this congregation in 1917. He received a B.A. degree from Manchester College; a B.D. from Bethany Biblical Sem- inary (1922) ; an M.A. (1932) and a Ph. D. (1941) from the University of Chicago. Manchester College conferred the honorary D.D. degree on him in 1940. Further study was carried on at Garrett Biblical Institute and Northwestern University. While he was a graduate student, he served for one term as the secretary of the United Student Volunteers of the Church of the Brethren. This was followed by a year as traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. He spent the years from 1924 to 1937 as a missionary representing his church in northeastern Nigeria. From 1938 to 1962 he was on the staff of Bethany Biblical Seminary, as dean from 1944. He served his church as secretary of Annual Conference from 1942 to 1953 and as moderator in 1954 and 1959. He was a member of the General Brotherhood Board from 1946 to 1950 and from 1957 to 1962. Brother Beahm was the editor and chief translator of the New Testament published in the Bura language of Nigeria in 1937. He has contributed articles to denominational journals and chapters to several books. In 1958 his book, Studies in Christian Belief, was published. He is the author of two pamphlets on the sacra- ments: The Brethren Love Feast (1943) and The Meaning of Baptism (1952). After retirement from Bethany in 1962, he moved to Bridgewater, Virginia, where he became a member of the Bridgewater College faculty. Mrs. Beahm is the former Esther Eisenbise.
ISAAC R. BEERY was born near Logan Ohio, the twenty-first of February 1877, the son of Abraham and Margaret (Hunsaker) Beery. He was baptized January 20, 1893, in the Covington congregation. On July 7, 1899, he married Barbara Elizabeth Shafer. To them four children were born. Brother Beery received his education at Juniata and Manchester colleges and Bethany Seminary. He was elected to the ministry at Pleasant Hill, Ohio, on January 1, 1911; here he served until May 1,
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1912. He was advanced to the second degree of the ministry at Pleasant Hill on May 27, 1912, and ordained to the eldership March 16, 1928, in Markle, Indiana. From 1912 to 1915 he was part-time pastor at Naperville, Illinois; from 1932 to 1934 at Pleasant Hill; from 1934 to 1937 at Sidney, Ohio; and from 1940 to 1943 at Charleston, Ohio. His full-time pastorates have been Lanark, Illinois (1915-1917) ; Flora, Indiana (1917-1922) ; Pyrmont, Indiana (1923-1925); Markle, Indiana (1926-1930) ; Rossville, Indiana (1930-1932) ; Bellefontaine, Ohio (1943-1946) ; and Freeburg and Reading, Ohio, from 1946 to 1949, when he retired from active service. Brother Beery was a delegate to the International Sunday School Conventions at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912 and at Chicago in 1914. He was a delegate to the Annual Conference many times. His death occurred on July 19, 1959.
VICTOR C. BENDSEN, son of Niels and Ingebor Bendsen, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 1916. His parents were converts of the Church of the Brethren Danish mission work and immigrants to the United States. He was reared in Chicago in the community of the First church. At the age of nine he was baptized there. In 1936, as a student at Manchester, he offered himself to the church for the ministry. During his student days at Bethany Biblical Sem- inary he was ordained. While still a student at Manchester, he married Lucille Huffman; the Bendsens are the parents of one daughter and two sons. Upon graduation from Bethany in 1946, Brother Bendsen accepted a pastoral call to the Ellisforde church, Tonasket, Washington. In 1949 he went to Seattle, Washington, to organize the Lakewood Community Church of the Brethren. For nine years he worked to build up this church. He began his service to the Hartville church, North- eastern Ohio, in 1949. He is currently chairman of the district board of Christian education.
ERVIN BLOCK was reared in Minnesota, in a Lutheran en- vironment. After being in a civilian public service camp during World War II, he became a member of the Church of the Brethren. His wife is the former Ethel May; they have
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Victor C. Bendsen
Ervin Block
three children. Graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a B.A. degree in 1947 and from Bethany Bib- lical Seminary with a B.D. degree in 1950, he began his ministry in a newly formed church in Kingsport, Tennessee. There he remained until 1954; starting with twenty-five members, he helped the congregation to grow and to build the first unit of its church house. Later pastorates have been the Mt. Vernon church, Virginia (1954-1959); the Chambersburg church, Pennsylvania (1959-1962); the Cleveland First church, Ohio (1962 -).
JOHN H. BLOUGH grew up in the South Waterloo church, Iowa. He was graduated from Mt. Morris College in 1919, was a student at Bethany Seminary for a year, earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago, and took graduate work at Iowa State University and the University of Illinois. In the latter school he was an instructor for several years. Brother Blough was the pastor of the Washita Church of the Brethren in Oklahoma while serving as a superintendent of schools. For a number of years he worked as a pastor in the Congregational Church and has been the pastor of the Dixon, Illinois, Church of the Brethren. For five and a half years prior to coming to the Center church in Northeastern Ohio in October 1959, he had been the secretary for evangelism of the Illinois Council of Churches, with his residence in Springfield.
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