. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . ollows:December 29, 1896, Elder Geo. S. Rairigh; March 20, 1897,William Shimer, deacon; March29,1899, Benjamin Stewart,deacon; September 27, 1899, D. R. Heddings, deacon;March 28, 1900, Brother Levi Spicher, deacon; March 29,1905, J. H. Beer, Elder, and Milan H. Spiker, minister insecond degree; September 27, 1905, E. F. Clark, a ministerIn the second degree, and O. P. Pherson, deacon; March28, 1906, Edward Steel and George Steel, deacons; August,1907, Elder T. F.
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . ollows:December 29, 1896, Elder Geo. S. Rairigh; March 20, 1897,William Shimer, deacon; March29,1899, Benjamin Stewart,deacon; September 27, 1899, D. R. Heddings, deacon;March 28, 1900, Brother Levi Spicher, deacon; March 29,1905, J. H. Beer, Elder, and Milan H. Spiker, minister insecond degree; September 27, 1905, E. F. Clark, a ministerIn the second degree, and O. P. Pherson, deacon; March28, 1906, Edward Steel and George Steel, deacons; August,1907, Elder T. F. Imler; May 12, 1908, J. W. Arnold,deacon; July 14, 1909, Solomon Longenecker, deacon; Sep-tember 20, 1909, A. R. Kitchen, a minister in the seconddegree. Elections.—November 1, 1890, L. R. Brumbaugh waselected to the ministry, and D. B. Stayer and D. K. Crouse,deacons. August 26, 1897, L. R. Brumbaugh was ad-vanced. July 4, 1902, John P. Holsinger and Aaron were elected deacons. March 30, 1904, Milton and Harry R. Holsinger were elected deacons. Janu-ary 16, 1911, Levi K. Ziegler was elected to the RIDGELY CHURCH. 535 On October 22, 1909, the Ridgely Church was divided byan Elder from an adjoining state district. The irregular-ities of this move were called to the attention of DistrictMeeting, and after careful consideration a committee ofthree Elders was appointed to go to Maryland, and investi-gate the case. The Committee met the members of theformer Ridgely Church in joint session, May 3, a long and careful investigation the committee pro-nounced the work illegal, because of the irregularities, butrecognizing the fact that conditions seem to make a divisiondesirable, proceeded in a regular way to divide the Church,the one part retaining the name Ridgely, and the otherbeing called Denton. Each part accepted the decision of thecommittee. The Ridgely Church had about 150 membersbefore the division, and the line of division was so fixed as
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