Pennsylvania

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See Branches of Plymouth Brethren to explain abbreviation types (although in short: OB (& TW-P) are Halls & Chapels within the "open brethren" (although GH's (generally) maintain a separate network from the Chapels). EB/TW/TW-N are "Careful" Brethren (similar to OB Halls), and BC are (generally) independent community churches with early or indirect PB influence, and will (usually) not consider themselves "Brethren").  AA/CA refers to assemblies of African or Caribbean origin, or predominant demographic, although all ethnicities are overly welcome in any assemblies.

The above primer link expands on the abbreviations, and also contains introduction to this (and other) sheets within the overall History. There have been scores of branches with their own distinctive networks and strengths within the history of the PB, and many branches continue to flourish today, and while no assembly or gathering is identical to the others, each is thought to maintain a fervent desire for simplicity in gathering around the Lord Jesus, though practices and secondary doctrines may vary culturally and/or preferentially as autonomous (yet inter-dependent) local churches.

Assemblies are sorted geographically, and will, D.V., eventually have further history within. Red links on Brethrenpedia are presently undeveloped, and blue links contain data. Appreciate patience with our progress, and if you'd like to help, please contact any of the editing team, preferably via social media.

Northcentral PA

Columbia County

Briar Creek

Northeast PA

Bradford County

Canton

Hollenback

  • Elwell Meeting Room, PA (EB) 1879+
    • c/o Marvin "Marion" Tuttle (b. 1833 N.Y. - d. 1893 Hollenback, PA); Civil War vet @ 1865 Private @ Co. B 56 Pa. Inf.; m. Mary Jane Steele (b. 1836 PA, 1850 @ Asylum, Bradford, PA, d. 1922 Hollenbeck, PA), dau. William Steele (b. 1802 PA) & Polly Mary Steward Steele (b. 1813 PA);

Quicks Bend

  • Quicks Bend Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1896-1904
    • c/o Urania Bates Wilson +1896-1903+ (1821-1904 Bradford Cty, PA), m. Daniel Wilson (b. 1810 - d. 1858 Wilmot, PA)

Sugar Run

  • Sugar Run Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1896-1909; (TW) 1909-1917+
    • c/o Sarah Ann Wilson Rosencrance +1896-1918 (b. 1839 PA - d. 1918 Wilmot, PA), dau. of Daniel Wilson (b. 1810 - d. 1858 Wilmot, PA) & Urania "Rainy" Bates Wilson (1821-1904 Bradford Cty, PA);
    • c/o Deborah F. Wilson Shuman +1903-1905+ (b. 1846 Sugar Run, PA - d. 1927 Wilmot, PA), dau. of Daniel & Urania Wilson. m. John Anderson Shuman (b. 1837 PA - d. 1919 Wilmot, PA), blacksmith, son of George Shuman.
    • Miss L. Vose +1903-1908+
      • possibly Mary L. Vose Metcalf (b. 1873 Sugar Run, PA - d. 1957 Ransom, Lackawanna, PA), dau. of Thomas Vose (1835-1917 Wilmot, PA) & Anna Rosina Saxe Vose (b. 1843 Hessen, Germany - d. 1890 Hollenback, PA); 1911 m. Jacob Elmer Metcalf (b. 1863 Jefferson Cty, OH - d. 1947 Luzerne Cty, PA);

Sayre

  • Sayre Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1903+; (TW) +1962-1973+
    • Athens Meeting Room +1962-1966+
    • c/o Adelbert Dixon +1903+; Robert H. Baker +1966-1973+; Carl Newton +1962-1966+; Earl B. Beam +1962-1966+; Howard F. Baker +1962+, 1973+;

Stevensville

Towanda

  • Towanda Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1878-1903+
    • c/o M.A. Shaw +1878-1879+; L.T. Royce/Royse +1889-1896+; Mrs. A. Ott +1896+; Miss J. Lequin +1901-1903+;

Wyalusing

Northwest PA

Erie County

Erie

Mercer County

Sharon

  • Sharon Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1889+
    • c/o Thomas Cox (b. 1862 Eng., emig. 1865, farmer @ Sharon by 1870, d. 1907 County Home, Mercer, PA)
      • son of William Cox (b. 1830 Eng.), coal miner, & Mary Cocam Cox (b. 1825 Eng.)

Southcentral PA

Franklin County

Waynesboro

Southeast PA

Adams County

Littlestown

Cumberland County

Enola

  • Enola Meeting Room, PA (TW) +1962-1992; (TW-N) 1992-2016+
    • William "Leo" Cool +1962-1966+, +1985+; Ralph Donard Sigman +1962-1973+ (b. 1892 Liberty, Guernsey, OH - d. 1983 Camp Hill, Cumberland, PA); George Samuel Gallagher +1962-1973+ (b. 1917 Miller, Perry, PA - d. 2004 Harrisburg, PA); Richard Paul Sigman +1973+ (b. 1920 Altoona, Blair, PA - d. 2010 Carlisle, Cumberland, PA); John Frazer +1985+ (b. 1915 N.Y.C., son of John Alexander Frazer & Eliza Jane Robinson Frazer, grad @ East Orange, N.J., retired @ Evangelical Press, d. 2001 Camp Hill, PA), father of Dr. Paul D. Frazer @ Sioux Falls, S.D.;

Dauphin County

Harrisburg

  • Harrisburg Assembly Hall, PA (OB) +1901+
  • Harrisburg Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1878
    • c/o Eusebe I. Grenier (b. 1849 Paris, France - d. 1894 Portland, OR)
      • 1866 student @ Ag. College of PA; 1870 @ St. Paul, MN m. Lily Mattheis (b. 1856 St. Paul, MN - d. 1935 Portland, OR), dau. of C.G.A. Matthews (b. 1828), +1869-1871+ bartender @ Snelling House, 1873 cabinetmaker, & Amelia Matthews (b. 1836 Germany); 1878 "professor of languages" (French & German) @ Harrisburg, PA; 1880 Language tchr @ Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH; +1891-1894 language tchr @ Portland, OR;
        • Unrelated trivial note: Morning Oregonian, Portland, OR: 12-14-1885: "E.W. Alderson, of Coles valley, states that an old man by the name of Grenier, living on the ____, is the oldest resident in Oregon, having been here sixty-five years. He is a Frenchman, and belonged to the Hudson Bay company. As a trapper(?), he has always been an expert. His age is 85 years, and he is now somewhat feeble."

Philadelphia County

Philadelphia

  • 20th and Dickinson Streets Gospel Hall, PA 1885-1911+
    • 26th Annual Conference here in 1911; 26th for Philadelphia or 20th & Dickinson???
  • Downtown Meeting, PA (OB) +1901+
  • Howard Street Gospel Hall, PA (OB) +1901-1902+
  • Philadelphia Friendship Hall Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1889-1908+
    • c/o Wesley L. Manks +1889+ (b. 1845 N.J. - d. 1905 Phila., PA), saw mfg.; Charles R. Sharer +1889-1908+ (see Willow Grove); Matthew Morrison +1901-1908+ (see Willow Grove);
  • Willow Grove Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1878-1909; (TW) 1909-1992; (TW-N) 1992-
    • Philadelphia Meeting Room (EB) +1878-1909; (TW) 1909-1966+; Glenside Meeting Room (TW) +1973-1992;
    • c/o C.H. Bright +1878 (possibly Harry Chard Bright (1867-1940 Phila., PA or Harry C. Bright (b. 1855 PA - d. 1889 Phila., PA or Henry Bright (b. 1831 Lancashire, England), butcher); David Lithgow +1878-1879+ (possibly b. 1820 Ireland - d. 1885 Phila., PA), machinist; or (b. 1849 Spring Garden, Phila., PA - d. 1883 Phila., PA), buttonmaker; James Farrington Valentine +1879-1908+ (b. 1852 Black Rock, Buffalo, Erie, N.Y. - d. 1917 Ridley, Delaware, PA); James McAleely +1889-1914 (b. 1842 Ireland - d. 1914 Phila., PA), grocer; Charles R. Sharer +1911-1916 (1841-1916 Phila., PA); Matthew Morrison +1911-1917+ (b. 1867 Whitehall, Lehigh, PA - d. 1940 Phila., PA), fireman; R.J. Payne +1911-1917+; William Hamilton, Sr. +1911-1923-1927+; William Stradling +1923-1927+; Dr. Henry Medd +1923-1927+; George Meikle +1933+; Samuel Brown +1933-1951+; Edward C. Holbrook +1933-1966+; Amandus G. Reeb +1951-1973+; Ralph A. Reeb +1973-1985+; Robert L. Haye +1973-1999+; Jack Cameron +1999-2005+; John Haye +2005-2010+;

Southwest PA

Cambria County

Johnstown

  • Johnstown Meeting Room, PA (TW) +1908-1910
    • c/o Alice Evelyn Whitney Clarke (b. 1849 Pittsfield, Lorain, OH - d. 1910 Westmont, Cambria, PA), dau. of Oliver Wolcott Whitney (b. 1817 Pittsfield, MA - d. 1864 Des Moines, IA) & Esther Alice Ann Rising Whitney (b. 1824 OH - d. 1891), 1840 @ Grafton Lorain, OH m.; 1875 @ Des Moines, Polk, IA
      • m. James P. Clarke (b. 1845 Blairsville, Indiana, PA - d. 1906 Johnstown, PA), coal operator; 1880 @ Des Moines; son of Robert W. Clarke (b. 1816 PA - d. 1895 Des Moines, IA) & Caroline King Clarke (b. 1819 - d. 1880 Des Moines, IA);
        • James' sister Jennie Clarke (b. 1845 Blairsville, PA - d. 1918 Des Moines, IA) met her husband, Alex. H. Rule at Monmouth College where Alex was "studying for the ministry". They married in 1871, and soon after served in Egypt, then two trips to Bermuda, and some in the British West Indies; According to her obit, Jennie was "one of the early teachers at Bryant school and also taught music, being an excellent pianist" in Des Moines. After Alex's death in 1906, Jennie returned to Bermuda to labor. Her father, "R.W. Clarke, came to Des Moines in 1855, and his family came the following year to the home he had built for them on East Fifth and Lyon streets."

Springhill

  • Springhill Meeting Room, PA (EB) 1879+
    • c/o H.B. Ackley
      • possibly Harris S. Ackley (b. 1828 Springhill, Cambria, PA - d. 1918 Endicott, Broome, NY); funeral @ his home officiated by N.Y.C. evangelist Fred Robinson, attended by Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bosworth, Mr. & Mrs. William Shumway, Mr. & Mrs. Mertin S. Blocher, and Harris' sister Mrs. Sophia Bosworth (all of Spring Hill, PA); other attendees included: Mrs. Lettie Stalford and her son Henry and daughter Helen (Wyalusing, PA); Mr. & Mrs. Charles Brown, of (Elkins, W.V.); Dr. & Mrs. C.J. Wells & dau. Constance; W.D. Brewster & Floyd L. Brewster (Syracuse, N.Y.), Mrs. R.A. Wage (Union, N.Y.); nephew Griffin S. Ackley (Binghamton, N.Y. then Brooklyn, N.Y.);
        • 1828-1850+ @ Springhill, PA; farmer 1863 @ Tuscarora, PA; +1860+, +1870-1879 @ Wyalusing, PA; formerly corres. +1878-1879 @ Wyalusing Meeting Room, Bradford, PA; 1900 @ Binghamton, Broome, N.Y.;












Bennetts Corner

Camden

Harveysville

Newtown Square

Pleasant Valley

Plumsteadville

Unionville

Pittsburgh

Butler

  • Butler tent meetings (OB) 1911
    • William Pinches

California

Dravosburg

East Bethlehem

Franklin

Homestead

McDonald

Roscoe

Sheridanville

Turtle Creek

Wilkinsburg

Pottsville

Ashland

Scranton

Avoca

East Lemon

Factoryville

Forest City

Hawley

Montrose

Moosic

New Milford

Sista ?

State College

Burnham

Macedonia

Oshanter

Philipsburg

Sunbury

Shamokin

Wilkes Barre

Forkston

Lovelton

Laceyville

Meshoppen

Mehoopany

Windham

Jenningsville

Scottsville

Plymouth

Tunkhannock

Bardwell

Williamsport

Punxsutawney

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Jersey Shore Villas

  • Jersey Shore Villas Meeting Room, PA (EB) +1903+
    • c/o Robert Ronson
      • possibly (b. 1850 Preesall, Lancashire, Eng. - d. 1929 Brooklyn, N.Y.), emig. 1887 to Brooklyn, carpenter, wife Ellen (b. 1856 Oxford, Eng. - d. 1916 Brooklyn, N.Y., member @ Gospel Truth Mission, Monroe St., Brooklyn); wife died two days after son Frederick died of pneumonia; Five other children: Margaret, Eugene, Harold, William and Robert, Jr., the latter of whom served three years in the U.S. Army in the Philippines 1913-1916.
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