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He was converted in 1875, and the following September was ordained to preach by the M. E. Conference of Illinois. He served the pastorates of such towns as Newcomb, Marshall, South Champaign, Newman, Perry, Pittsfield, Barry, Alanta, Beardstown, Tuscola, Monticello, Saybrook and Potomac, Illinois. While at Tuscola a new edifice costing $19,000 was built. While he was pastor at Perry ( 1883-84) a member of his church was Miss Mame Baird. In 1884 she was united in marriage to William Jennings Bryan, then a struggling young lawyer. Rev. and Mrs. Calhoun attended the wedding and heard the new wife express her ambition "that Will might go to Congress," little dreaming that he should lead his party three times as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. It was the opinion of Rev. Calhoun that never were two more honest men than Wm. Mckinley and Wm. J. Bryan opponents in a political contest.
Married in 1878 to. Miss Anna Brown, of Ohio, four children were born to the family. During his lifetime Rev. Calhoun made a pilgrimage back to Perry County almost bi-annually. He died at Tuscola, Illinois, Sep- tember 10, 1917, where he made his home after retiring from the ministry, after the close of his pastorate at Potomac, in 1905, his death occurring in a physician's office, from heart failure.
Rev. Calhoun had a remarkable family, all three of his children gradu- ating at Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois. His son, G. M. Calhoun, is the Methodist pastor at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, one of the most important churches in that state and the location of the State Normal School. Another son, W. W. Calhoun, has for years been on the staff of the Cincinnati Post, and the only daughter married H. Verne Swartz, a successful young attorney of Chicago. Mrs. Calhoun resides at Long Beach, California.
CAMPBELL, DR. OLIVER HOWARD. Dr. Oliver Howard Camp- bell was born at New Germantown, July 26, 1871, the son of James Robin- son and Mary Eliza (Douglass) Campbell. He attended the local schools and the College University of Kansas, graduating from the Medical De- partment of Washington University at St. Louis, Mo., in 1899. He is a member of the staff of the city hospital at St. Louis, Mo .; of the St.
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Louis Hospital, and the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium. During the World War he was a lieutenant colonel and was stationed at the Base Hospital at Camp McArthur, and at Toul, France.
CHARLES, J. O. J. O. Charles, son of Edward T. and Emma (Sheaf- fer) Charles, was born in Penn Township, in 1899. His family moved to Wheatfield Township, where he attended the public schools. He attended the New Bloomfield Academy, Cumberland Valley State Normal School, and Muhlenburg College, at Allentown. He taught school in Wheatfield Township, and since graduating was first assistant principal in the State High School at Creswell, N. C., principal of the Millerstown schools, pre- fect at Girard College, and principal of the public schools at Macungie and Emaus, Pa.
CISNA, DR. WM. R. Dr. Wm. R. Cisna was born at Chambersburg, De- cember 8, 1837, but moved to Cisna's Run, Perry County, with his people when but a mere lad, in 1845. His parents were William and Anna (Everidge) Cisna. He attended the local schools and worked on the farm. He prepared for college at Mt. Dempsey Academy, and in 1863 graduated from Dickinson College. In 1865 he received his medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. At the closing of the Sec- tional War he was a surgeon in the U. S. Army. He was transferred to Texas, where General Kirby Smith's troops were still fighting, and made chief medical officer. He was brevetted major for meritorious conduct in the field. On his return he first located at Landisburg, but in 1866 located at Ickesburg. In 1889 he was appointed medical examiner of all the Penn- sylvania Lines west of Pittsburgh, with headquarters in Chicago. There he served for over twenty-five years, when he returned to Perry County. He died in 1920.
CLARK, ARTHUR B. Arthur B. Clark was born at New Bloomfield, June 16, 1872, the son of James B. and Margaret Jane ( McFarland) Clark. He attended the public schools and learned the printing trade. In 1893 he located at Altoona, being employed on the Morning Tribune ( for six or seven years). Ou his arrival there he began attending night school. He later became advertising manager of the Altoona Evening Gasette, subse- quently being elected a director and treasurer, and in 1912 was elected general manager of the company. In February, 1905, he was elected city treasurer of Altoona on the Democratic ticket, being the only Democrat to win out. In 1908 he was reelected, carrying every voting precinct in the city, something that had never been accomplished by any other candidate. In 1914 he was nominated by the Democrats of Pennsylvania for Con- gressman-at-large, but failed of election, as the entire Republican ticket swept the state, but led the entire Democratic ticket by more than 8,000 votes.
CLARK, REV. JOSEPH. Rev. Joseph Clark was an early minister. He was licensed to preach hy the Carlisle Presbytery, June II, 1851, and ordained in 1852. He was pastor of the Falling Springs Church, at Cham- bersburg, from 1852 to 1857. He died June 9, 1865.
CLEGG, JOHN. John Clegg was born at New Bloomfield, the son of C. T. and Jennie (Stultz) Clegg. He attended the public schools and learned the printing trade. In 1902 he became associate editor of the Everett (Pa.) Press, and in September, 1914. purchased the plant of the Everett Press and became its editor and publisher. It is one of the best country newspapers in the state.
CLOUSER, EMMA. Emma Clouser (Mrs. Andujar) was born at New Bloomfield, November 6, 1857. She attended the local schools and took a great interest in church work. She was united in marriage to Rev. Andu- jar, then pastor of the New Bloomfield Methodist Church. Shortly after
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their marriage, Rev. and Mrs. Andujar were sent to San Juan, Porto Rico, in June, 1901. There she entered the work of a missionary with enthusiasm and success, but during a severe electrical storm was struck by a bolt of lightning and was killed, her death occurring September 28, 1902. With her husband she had charge of the Methodist Missions of the entire Island.
COCHRAN, DR. THOS. P. Dr. Thomas P. Cochran was born in Pfoutz Valley, near Millerstown, October 25, 1866, the son of Robert Pat- terson and Anna Mary (McFarlane) Cochran. He attended the public schools, the New Bloomfield Academy, Blair Hall, at Blairstown, N. J., and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1893. He practiced his profession in Millerstown until 1897, when he located at Pittsburgh. He has been on the staff of St. Joseph's Hospital since its organization in 1904, and has been president of the staff since 1905. In 1901 he helped organize the Lyman Building and Loan Association with a capital of $5,- 000,000, and was selected its president, a position which he still holds. He is also president of the St. Clair Incline Plane Company, and a member of the board of directors of the Hill Top Savings and Trust Company.
COCHRAN, REV. WILLIAM P. Rev. William P. Cochran was born in Millerstown in 1803, where he attended the subscription schools. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1824, and from Princeton in 1827. He went to Missouri in 1831 as a home missionary, where he remained until 1862-68, when he was pastor of the Millerstown Presbyterian Church. He returned to Missouri in the spring of 1868. While in Missouri he was the owner of a plantation which he conducted in connection with his min- istry. During his stay in Pennsylvania he organized the Presbyterian con- gregation at Newport. He died in Missouri, in 1886.
COMP, REV. GEO. L. Rev. Geo. Leiby Comp, the son of Andrew and Margery (Miller) Comp, was born near Walnut Grove, Juniata Township, February 28, 1848. He attended the local schools, and when fifteen years old ran away from home to enter the Union Army. His father brought him back, but he later enlisted as a member of the Emergency Corps and reached Gettysburg after the battle was fought, but assisted in restoring the field from the havoc of war. In 1864 he reenlisted in Company G, 208th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served to the end of the war. He then farmed on the Comp homestead until 1889, when he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving appointments at Alum Bank, Reedsville, Ennisville, Warriors Mark, Hopewell, Petersburg, Duncannon, Barnesboro, and Coalport. On account of his health he re- tired from the ministry in 1914. He died at Newport, November 2, 1916.
CROW, REV. H. I. Rev. H. I. Crow was born in Hunter's Valley, Buffalo Township, February 2, 1865, the son of Abraham and Mary (Bair) Crow. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy for several terms. He graduated at the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1888, and from the Reformed Theological Seminary at Lancaster, in 1805. Prior to entering the ministry he had taught in Perry and Dauphin Countics, being four years in Marysville, the last two of which he was principal of schools. He was ordained to the ministry of the Reformed Church in 1895, and served the New Hamburg (Mercer Co.) Church until 1900. He was on the Nittany Valley charge from 1900 to 1908, at Hublers- burg (owing to a division of the former charge) from 1908 to 1911. Since that time he has been pastor of the Bethany congregation at Bethlehem, Pa. Mr. Crow is president of the East Pennsylvania Classis of the Eastern Synod, which is the oldest classis in the United States. He was also presi- dent of each of the other classis of which he was a member, and was a delegate of the General Synod of the United States.
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CROW, REV. H. E. Rev. H. E. Crow was born August 27, 1871, in Hunter's Valley, Buffalo Township, the son of Abraham and Mary (Bair) Crow. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1893. Prior to his graduation he had taught in Perry and Clearfield Counties. After graduating he taught in Liverpool and Downingtown, Pa. He prepared for college at Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, N. J., graduating in the class of 1897. In 1901 he graduated from Dickinson College, and in March of that year was admitted to the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has since been pastor of charges at Greencastle, Vira, South Williamsport, Wilburton, Laurelton, Conyngham (1911-18), and since 1918 has been at Dillsburg, Pa.
DARLINGTON, DR. E. E. Dr. E. E. Darlington was born at New Bloomfield, March 24, 1874, the son of John and Mary Elizabeth (Arnold ) Darlington. He was educated in the public schools and the Bloomfield Academy, graduating from the Maryland Medical College in 1900. He practiced seven years at Gordon, Pa., after which he located at Harrisburg, where he now practices.
DAVIS, CHAS. S. Charles S. Davis was born in New Bloomfield, November 14, 1864, the son of James Reynolds and Margaret (Dougherty) Davis. His father later located at Liverpool, and there Mr. Davis attended the public schools. He taught school at Thompsontown, and graduated at the Central State Normal School at Lock Haven in 1883. He began teach- ing in Steelton in 1883, and in the Steelton High School in 1885, being its principal from 1888 to 1919, when, on the death of L. E. McGinnes, super- intendent of schools, he was elected to that position. The record of Mr. Davis and Mr. McGinnes for joint service in the educational field in Penn- sylvania probably stands first for length. In 1910 Mr. Davis was president of the high school department of the State Teachers' Association, and in 1917 was elected president of the State Educational Association. He was one of the original enthusiasts for clean sport, and in 1913 he was chair- man of the committee that drafted a constitution for control of Pennsyl- vania high school athletics, and was the first president of the State Board of Athletic Control under this constitution, thus helping to place high school athletics in Pennsylvania on a higher plane. He is interested in community and municipal affairs, holding office in the Municipal League, the Park and Playground Commission, and on the Shade Tree Commission of Steelton.
DEACH, REV. SAMUEL R. Rev. Samuel R. Deach was born near New Germantown in 1838. He was a captain in the Union Army in the Sectional War. He had been licensed to preach in 1860, and at the end of his term of service, in 1864, he became pastor of the Dwight and Odell charge of the M. E. Church in Illinois. He served in the ministry for thirteen years, when pulmonary trouble caused his retirement. He was regarded as a zealous and able preacher, one of the best in his conference. His mother was a daughter of Peter Sheibley. He died May 4, 1882.
DEACH, REV. JACOB N. Rev. Jacob N. Deach was born June 16, 1846, near New Germantown, his mother being a daughter of Peter Sheib- ley and his father dying when he was very young. He was educated at the Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg and at the New Bloom- field Academy and taught for several years. He then joined the Central Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church and for sixteen years en- gaged in the ministry, when a throat affection resulted in his retirement. He is spoken of as an able and pursuasive divine. He had entered the army on a three-year enlistment, but was discharged on account of his health. He lives in retirement in the State of California, where his son
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Ivan, a brilliant educator, is a member of the faculty of Leland Stanford University.
DECKARD, DR. J. W. Dr. John Wesley Deckard was born in Howe Township, December 27, 1850, the son of David and Barbara (Stence) Deckard. He attended the public schools and the Summer Normal School of Prof. Silas Wright, at Millerstown. He then tattght in Buffalo and Howe Townships. His summers were occupied in studying medicine, with Dr. Samuel Stites, of Millerstown, as preceptor. He then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1874. He located at Richfield, Juniata County, where he has been engaged in practice ever since. He was a member of the school board for twenty-two consecutive years, and is now president of the Juniata County Medical Society.
DECKARD, DR. PARK A. Dr. Park A. Deckard was born at Liver- pool, September 12, 1881, the son of Elmer E. and Mary (Lutz) Deckard. He graduated from the Liverpool High School in 1898, from the Central State Normal School in 1900, from Pierce Business School in 1903, and from the Medico-Chirurgical College and the University of Pennsylvania, in 1908. In 1914 he took a postgraduate course in the New York School of Medicine. He has practiced at Harrisburg, Pa., since his graduation, in 1908, and has been electro therapeutist at Harrisburg Hospital since 1912. Dr. Deckard was president of the Harrisburg Medical Club in 1915, sec- retary-treasurer of the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine, 1918 to 1920, and president of the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine in 1921. He was also a member of the Medical Advisory Board of this district during the World War.
DEMAREE, HARRY S. Harry S. Demaree was born at Newport, the son of B. F. and Jennie M. (Stambaugh) Demaree. He graduated from the Newport High School and attended Franklin and Marshall College and Lehigh University. He later entered the United States Bureau of Standards, and was transferred from there to the Patent Office. While at the latter place he took up the study of law at Washington University, graduating in 1917. In the World War he was located at the Pontiac Naval Air Station, near Bordeaux, France. Returning home he reentered the Patent Office, took a law examination, and was admitted to the bar at Washington, D. C. In August, 1920, he became associated with a large electrical company in Chicago as patent attorney.
DERICKSON, S. H. S. Hoffman Derickson was born in Greenwood Township, April 9, 1879, the son of Henry Benner and Elizabeth Naomi (Hoffman) Derickson. He attended the public schools and the Newport High School. He graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1902, and attended Johns Hopkins University in 1903, Bermuda Biological Labora- tory, Cinchona Botanical Laboratory, and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He has been professor of Biology at Lebanon Valley Col- lege since 1904. In 1903 he was the land zoologist with the Bahama Ex- pedition of the Baltimore Geographical Society, and in 1908 was director of the field expedition for the collection of Eocene fossils for Vassar College. In 1920 he was made treasurer of Lebanon Valley College.
DERICK, GEO. W. Geo. W. Derick was born at Newport, November 30, 1863, the son of Geo. and Sarah (Burd) Derick. His family removed to New Bloomfield in 1869, where he attended the public schools and New Bloomfield Academy. In 1881 he graduated from Allen's Business Col- lege, Elmira, N. Y., learned telegraphy, and entered the employ of the H. & B. T. M. R. R. Co., remaining in various capacities for fifteen years. He became interested in politics and held all the Republican party offices of Bedford County. In 1905 he was elected prothonotary and clerk of the
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courts. In 1904 he started the First National Bank of Saxton, Pennsyl- vania. In 1905 he became a partner in the Everett (Pa.) Bank, and in 1909 he became cashier of that institution. During the war he was chair- man of the Bankers' Liberty Loan Committee, Bedford County, and took a leading part in other World War activities.
DICE, REV. L. M. Rev. L. M. Dice was born at Marysville, February 10, 1870, the son of Levi and Mary J. ( Ilgenfritz) Dice. He attended the public schools and graduated from Central Pennsylvania College in 1894. He entered the ministry of the United Evangelical Church in 1896, filling several important churches and being active in the work of the confer- ence and the denomination. He is an officer of the management of the United Evangelical Home at Lewisburg.
DICK, REV. J. M. Rye Township was the birthplace of the late Rev. J. M. Dick, he having been born May 3, 1853. His parents were Israel and Elizabeth Dick. He attended the Juniata Valley Normal School at Millerstown, conducted by Prof. Silas Wright, taught school several terms, and was then ordained a minister of the gospel in the Church of the Evan- gelical Association. From 1880 to 1893 he served various congregations of that faith, when, owing to a schism he transferred to the Congregational Church, serving a number of pastorates until 1903. He then became a Sunday school organizer and missionary of the Congregational Church for the western section of the State of Washington, serving until his death, which occurred February 5, 1920, at the Swedish Hospital, in Seattle, Washington, where he had dwelt for many years. His early work was in Pennsylvania, but in 1887, he removed to the State of Washington, which was the scene of his later success. His marked Christian character and kindliness made him a notable man in the religious annals of his adopted state. His Pennsylvania pastorates were at Liverpool, Perry County, and at Lock Haven, Pa.
DIFFENDAFER, A. P. Alton P. Diffendafer was born at Millerstown, December 16, 1870, the son of Thomas and Johanna (Graham) Diffendafer. He attended the public schools, graduating at Millerstown in 1887, and from the Lock Haven State Normal School in 1888. He is also a graduate of the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. He taught at Mil- lerstown, and in 1891 was elected principal of the Nanticoke High School, later being elevated to the position of superintendent of the Nanticoke schools, which he still holds.
DRAKE, CAPT. C. ARTHUR. C. Arthur Drake was born at Avon, Illinois, May 20, 1894, and was brought to Perry County by his mother, Myrtha (Campbell) Drake, on July 3d of the same year, and was reared in the home of his grandfather, John S. Campbell. He attended Evergreen school, in Oliver Township, completing the course at fourteen. He then entered Grove City College, but when Dr. J. R. Flickinger took charge of the Central State Normal School he matriculated there, at the suggestion of his grandfather, who had been a co-worker of Dr. Flickinger's in the Perry County schools. He graduated at Lock Haven when but eighteen. He then taught at Homestead as headmaster of the Schwab Industrial School, and later graduated from the University of Illinois, at Champaign, where he had four years of military training. He enlisted and saw service on the Mexican Border, and in the World War rapidly rose to the rank of captain, having been connected with General Pershing's Headquarters Company. Upon the completion of the World War he was sent to Hawaii by the government upon an educational mission.
DROMGOLD, DR. S. T. Dr. S. T. Dromgold, son of John and Ban- dinah (Hench) Dromgold, was born in Saville Township, March 26, 1852. He attended the common schools, Airy View Academy, and the Bloomfield
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Academy. He taught school in Perry County and Ohio for five years. He graduated in medicine in 1877, and practiced for one year at the North- western Insane Asylum at Toledo, Ohio. He then located at Elmore, Ohio, where he has since practiced.
DROMGOLD, DR. T. M. Dr. Thomas Miller Dromgold was born in Saville Township, July 30, 1848, being one of twin sons of John and Ban- dinah (Hench) Dromgold. Studied medicine and located at Ottawa, Illi- nois, where he practiced until his death.
DUM, REV. RAY S. Rev. Ray Spotts Dum was born at Landisburg, July 6, 1888, the son of George Billow and Annie (Spotts) Dum. He at- tended the Landisburg schools, Carlisle High School, Conway Hall, and graduated from Dickinson College in 1911, and the Drew Theological Seminary. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1913, becoming pastor of Calvary Church in New York City. During 1914 to 1921 he was located at Clayton, Las Vegas, and Rosewell, N. M. In 1921 he became pastor of the Bethel M. E. Church at Pueblo, Colorado.
DUMM, DR. J. M. Dr. J. M. Dumm was born at Elliottsburg, Novem- ber 21, 1853, the son of Jacob and Sarah (Reapsome) Dumm. He attended the public schools and the New Bloomfield Academy, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1878. He located at Mackeyville, Pa., where he has since been in active practice.
DUNKELBERGER, REV. ROY M. Rev. Roy Martin Dunkelberger was born Angust 25, 1884, in Spring Township, the son of Josiah W. Dunkelberger and wife. He attended the local schools and graduated from Dickin- son College in 1906. He then entered the Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, from which he graduated in 1909. He then entered for- eign mission work, and has spent the days of his ministry in India, where he is mis- sionary in charge at Lentichintila, in the Madras presidency, having a field covering a paluk (county), with ten thousand bap- tized Christians, a task of great magnitude. He is and has been for some years the missionary of Zion Lutheran Church at Harrisburg, which pays all of his salary and expenses. During recent years he en- REV. ROY DUNKELBERGER. joyed a furlough of a year in the land of his birth, but his heart was in the work. EHRHART, REV. M. G. Rev. Michael G. Ehrhart was born in Centre Township, in 1824, the son of Michael and Sarah (Wolf) Ehrhart. He attended subscription and the public schools and Selinsgrove College. He entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church and preached at New Flor- ence, Newry, Newville, West Fairview and Steelton, being located at the latter place when he died in January, 1886.
ENDSLOW, S. S. S. S. Endslow, son of William S. and Addie (Stroup) Endslow, was born in Jackson Township, near Blain, June 10, 1872. He attended the public schools, graduated from Dickinson College in 1898 with the Ph.B. degree. In 1908 he was awarded the A.M. degree by the same institution. He taught in the high school at Lewistown 1898-99, in the Mankate ( Washington) High School, 1899-1901, and was superintendent of the Elmore (Minn.) schools, 1901-03. Then for five years he followed the retail drug line. From 1908 to the present time he has been connected with the Lewis & Clark High School at Spokane, Washington, as teacher of Physics and Chemistry.
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EVERHART, DR. EDGAR S. Dr. Edgar S. Everhart was born at Millerstown in 1879, the son of William and Mary (Goodman) Everhart. He attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He gradu- ated from Dickinson College in 1903, and from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1907. He entered medical practice at lemoyne, Pa., where he was in active practice until the World War. He then entered the Medical Corps of the United States Army as first lientenant, later being assigned as Junior Medical Officer of the 308th Infantry, at Camp Upton, New York. March 1, 1918, he was assigned as surgeon of the 302d Ammunition Train, and landed in France on May 4th. From July 15th to November 1Ith he was in the Oise-Ainse offensive and the Argonne-Meuse offensive engage- ments. On October 16th he was transferred as the commanding officer of the 307th Field Hospital, Seventy-Seventh Division. He was promoted to the rank of captain, April 13, 1918, and on November 26th was pro- moted to the rank of major. He is at present with the Pennsylvania State Department of Health.
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