Glenn P Schwalm

Jacob's (St. Jacob's in 1874) or Howerter's Lutheran Church was organized about 1803 in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County and a church was built in 1807. Before that, a stone building served as the church and schoolhouse. In 1893 a third church was built and called St. James. When the building burned in 1943, the congregation built St. James at Pitman in Schuylkill County. St. Paul's Lutheran Church broke away from Howerter's before...