First Methodist Episcopal Church, Dunmore, Pennsylvania

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
Surnames/tags: Churches Methodist Episcopal

History

The First Dunmore Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated April 11, 1861, and organized with the following named members, with others: William Jackson and wife, Stewart Dilley and wife, John Butler and wife, Joseph Savage and wife, Artemas Miller and wife, John Rice and wife, James Haskins and wife, Mrs GW Simpson, JW Silsbee, and Thomas Dorsheimer.^[1]

January 1880, the official members were as follows:

Trustees:

• Allen Secor
• Thomas Dersheimer
• Dan Powell
• John Harper
• John Butler
• Thomas Sly
  

Stewards:

• Dan Powell
• John Rice
• Elijah Shaffer
• Reuben Mowry
• Albert Wagner
• Hall Thornton
• Henry Thorn

Current Information

Also known as the Dunmore M.E. Church.
Today known as the Dunmore United Methodist Church
Address: 222 S Blakely St, Dunmore, PA 18512

Sources

1. ↑ History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, W.W. Munsell & Co, Published: (1880)