Armstrong Valley Charge (Dauphin Co., PA)
Scope and Contents
The Armstrong Valley Charge collection consists of 1 box containing: ARMSTRONG VALLEY CHARGE: - Annual Reports, 1956 - Church Records (original): Baptisms, 1902-1964; Confirmations, 1901-1906; Marriages, 1902-1964; Deaths, 1901-1964; Communicants, 1899-1915, 1931-1964; Membership, 1910-1964; Officers, 1938-1968; Pastoral Register, 1904-1964; Statistical Reports, 1909-1911 - Church Records (transcription): Baptisms, 1902-1907; Confirmations, 1901-1906; Marriages, 1903-1907; Directory, n.d. - Correspondence. To: Lancaster Classis, 1903-1933 - Financial Records: Benevolences, 1901-1915, 1933-1934 (found in original record book); Endowment Fund, 1905-1924 - History - Legal Records, 1899 - Newsletters, 1904-1957 (incomplete) - Parochial Reports, 1896-1852 (incomplete) - Pastors, 1901-1931 - Reports: Self-Study, 1923, 1945 - Committees: - Building Committee: Parsonage. Minutes & Financial Records, 1924-1925 - Joint Consistory: Constitutions, 1889; Correspondence, 1916-1963; Financial Records. Ledgers, 1924-1964; Minutes, 1887-1910, 1957 - Trustees: Correspondence, 1911-1912; Parsonage. Minutes & Financial Records, 1894-1905 ST. JAMES CHURCH, CARSONVILLE, PA: - Church Records: Membership, n.d. - Financial Records: Treasurer's Reports, 1956-1957 - Parochial Reports, 1936, 1938 - Photographs ST. JACOB'S (MILLER'S) CHURCH, HALIFAX (CENTRE VIEW), PA: - Cemetery Records: Tombstone Inscriptions - Church Records: Communicants, 1954; Membership - Financial Records: Offering, 1955-1957 - Parochial Reports, 1936, 1938 - Photographs
Dates
- Creation: 1887 - 1964
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions apply.
Biographical / Historical
The following churches were at some point part of Armstrong Valley Charge: St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Union Church, Halifax, PA St. Paul's (Bowerman's) Reformed Church, Enterline, PA Messiah Union Church, Fisherville, PA Trinity Reformed Church, Halifax, PA St. Jacob's (Miller's) Church, Halifax (Centre View, Jackson Twp.), PA St. James (Powell's Valley) Church, Carsonville (dropped from UCC Yearbook in 1970) Star of Bethlehem, Enders, PA (last mentioned in 1916 minutes of the Lancaster Classis) In 1964, St. Peter's, Trinity and St. Paul's formed Twin Valley Charge of the UCC. In 1969 the three churches merged to form the Valley UCC, Halifax, PA Pastors who served this charge include: 1895-1901 Ambrose Carl Geary 1901-???? Paul J. Dundore 1904-1907 George Spotts 1908-???? H. G. Kopenhaver 1910-1912 Joseph M. Bean 1912-1914 D. W. Bicksler 1915-1915 F. W. Teske (student supply) 1916-???? Jacob C. Pease 1923-1927 C. E. Heffleger 1928-1931 Paul L. Troutman (student supply) 1931-1932 Guy J. Moyer (student supply) 1932-1935 Guy J. Moyer 1935-1936 George W. Moyer (supply) 1936-1952 George W. Moyer 1954-1957 David H. Rapp 1957-1958 Donald Schlecher (supply) 1958-1962 William Vastine (supply) 1962-1963 Larry Fisk & David Mark (supplies) 1963-1964 Merle Deck (supply) 1964-1968 George Hoffman, Jr.
Extent
1 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Bean, Joseph M. (1866-1935) (Person)
- Bicksler, David Wesley (1854-1944) (Person)
- Dech, Merle Renner (1939-2016) (Person)
- Dundore, Paul Jonathan (1877-1953) (Person)
- Geary, Ambrose Carl (1844-1901) (Person)
- Heffleger, Charles Edwin (1875-1967) (Person)
- Hoffman, George H. Jr. (1871-1910) (Person)
- Kopenhaver, Harvey Grant (1869-1941) (Person)
- Mark, David Charles (1927-2020) (Person)
- Moyer, George Washington (1888-1966) (Person)
- Moyer, Guy Jeremiah (1906-1994) (Person)
- Pease, Jacob Clayton (1867-1937) (Person)
- Rapp, David Howard (1929-2009) (Person)
- Schlicher, Donald Wilbur (1912-2008) (Person)
- Spotts, George Washington (1877-1963) (Person)
- Teske, Frank William (1889-1977) (Person)
- Troutman, Paul Leo (1906-1935) (Person)
- Vastine, William Hursh (1913-1981) (Person)
Geographic
- Title
- Armstrong Valley Charge (Dauphin Co., PA)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the E&R Library & Archives Repository
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