Glenn P Schwalm
Author
Publisher
Closson Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
168 p.
Language
English
Description
Jacob's Church was organized about 1780 in Pine Grove Township. Salem was organized about 1792 and was named after the schoolmaster and the carpenter of the church, Peter Hetzel. In the 1820s Hetzels became a union church with Lutheran and Reformed congregations. It is located in present-day Washington Township.
Author
Publisher
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
"St. John's Church, formerly known as the 'Little Brick Church', was organized in 1853 by Reformed and Lutheran members who separated from the Himmel's and Howerter's congregations. The Union Church went out of existence in 1913, when the Lutheran congregation withdrew to build th St. John's Lutheran Church in Leck Kill" -- Historical.
Author
Publisher
Closson Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
147 p.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Filmed by Norton Micro-Images for Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
Pub. Date
[19--]
Physical Desc
on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The church is located in Washington Township, four miles east of Mahoney and 1/2 mile east of Rebuck. Church is also known as Schwaben Creek or Green Brier Creek Church.