History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . servedthis congregation from 1804 to the present time: F. Haas, 1804to February 7, 1815; John G. Schmick, 1816 to 1828; JacobMartin, October 1828 to 1838; Michael Eyster, December 1,1838, to May 1, 1845; William S. Emery, May I, 1845, toOctober 1, 1847; William Z. Laitzle, April 1, 1848. to July 1,510 ST. JOHNS, SINKING VALLEY 1850; John T. Williams, August 1, 1850, to April 1, 1854;Peter M. Rightmeyer, April 1, 1854, t
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . servedthis congregation from 1804 to the present time: F. Haas, 1804to February 7, 1815; John G. Schmick, 1816 to 1828; JacobMartin, October 1828 to 1838; Michael Eyster, December 1,1838, to May 1, 1845; William S. Emery, May I, 1845, toOctober 1, 1847; William Z. Laitzle, April 1, 1848. to July 1,510 ST. JOHNS, SINKING VALLEY 1850; John T. Williams, August 1, 1850, to April 1, 1854;Peter M. Rightmeyer, April 1, 1854, to April 1, 1857; Jacob , April 1, 1857, to April 1, 1866; A. H. Aughe, May 1,1866, to September 26, 1869; John Kistler, December 1, 1869,to November 1, 1877; John Walterick, January 1, 1878, to Sep-tember 3, 1882; H. M. Oberholtzer, December 1, 1882, to April1, 1888; A. J. Bean, August 1, 1888, to November 10, 1893;L. H. W. Kline, April 1, 1894, to January 1, 1895; C. F. Jacobs,June 1, 1895, to March 15, 1898; J. A. Dunlap, July 1, 1898, toApril 1, 1901; R. S. Stair, April 1, 1903, to October 1, 1907;C. H. Shull, January 1, 1908, to July 1, 1909; G. L. Courtney,. ST. JOHN S LUTHERAN CHURCH, SINKING VALLEY December 1, 1910, to October 1, 1913; Mervyn J. Ross, July 1, The combination of congregations forming the charge in whichSt. Johns has been associated is interesting. Until 1816 it wasin the Huntingdon charge, which embraced the whole of what isnow Huntingdon and Blair Counties, also a point in Kishaco-quillas Valley near Allenville. In this territory Rev. Haas hadno less than fourteen preaching places. In 1816 the territorywas divided, and Sinking Valley was served with Waterstreet,Seven Stars, Half-Moon Valley (Gatesburg), Salem, AlleghanyFurnace, Newry, Frankstown, Williamsburg and Clover about two years two of these, Williamsburg and Clover 511 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE Creek, were taken over by the Huntingdon charge. Thisarrangement continued until
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