History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . ecords, the following ministers have servedthe congregation in the order of their names: Rev. Jonathan Rahauser, 1789-92; George Geistweit, 1794-1804; John Dietrich Adams. 1808-13; Mar-tin Bnmer, 1813-23; Richard A. Fisher, 1826-54; Daniel Y. Heisler, 1850-58;John W. Steinmetz, 1858-62; William C. Cremer. 1804-07: Abraham , 1869-70; Calvin S. Gerhard, 1870-79; Thomas J. Barkley, 1879-84; and Rev. J. Calvin Leinbach, from 1884 to the present time. The Sunday school was organized by Rev. Richard A. Fisher. First Presbyterian Church.—On t
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . ecords, the following ministers have servedthe congregation in the order of their names: Rev. Jonathan Rahauser, 1789-92; George Geistweit, 1794-1804; John Dietrich Adams. 1808-13; Mar-tin Bnmer, 1813-23; Richard A. Fisher, 1826-54; Daniel Y. Heisler, 1850-58;John W. Steinmetz, 1858-62; William C. Cremer. 1804-07: Abraham , 1869-70; Calvin S. Gerhard, 1870-79; Thomas J. Barkley, 1879-84; and Rev. J. Calvin Leinbach, from 1884 to the present time. The Sunday school was organized by Rev. Richard A. Fisher. First Presbyterian Church.—On the 31st of May, 1787, the united con-gregations of Buffalo, Sunbuiy, and Northumberland, having never in theseplaces had the stated administration of the Gospel ordinances,* extendeda call to the Rev. Hugh Morrison, a licentiate of the Presbjierv- of Root,Ireland, who had been admitted to the Presbytery- of Donegal in 1780. Thecall was intrusted to Reverend Wilson for presentation to the moderator of ?Linns Annals of Buffalo Valley, p :! <2^ytZ<A., SUXBURY. 507 Carlisle Presbytery by William Gray and Abraham Scott, of Simbury; Will-iam Cooke and James Hepburn, of Northumberland, and William Clark, ofBuffalo; it bore eight signatures from Sunlrary, from which it is clearly evi-dent that the church at this place was verj- weak niunerically. Mr. Morrisonbecame pastor of the Buffalo church in October, ITS, and continued in thatrelation until November, 1801; Sunbury was included in his field of laborduring this period, and perhaps later, as he died on the 13th of September,180-1, and is buried in the Sunbury cemetery. The next pastor was Grier, S. T. who died in 1814; since that date Reverends RobertF. N. Smith, William R. Ashmead, WiUiam R. Smith, Wheelock S. Stone,William R. Smith, William Simonton, James Eeardon. Samuel W. Reigart,Orr Lawson, Samuel J. MiUiken, Martin L. Ross, and Andrew Brjdie havesuccessively served as pastors. The church became a sepa
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