Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania
On Line Data Bases
KEPHART, CYRUS JEFFRIES
Born: 2-23-1852 Clearfield County PA married: Sarah Scott Perry
Died: 6-20-1932 obit: Miami Conference 1928,34
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1874 license, Iowa Conference
1879 ordained, Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit: Kansas Conference 1932,15
1869-74 student, Western College in Toledo IA
1874-75 Toledo
1875-78 student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH
1878-79 principal, Avalon Academy in Avalon MO
1879-85 president, Avalon College in Avalon MO
1885-87 faculty, Western College in Toledo IA
1887-89 Des Moines East Side
1889 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1889-90 president, Lebanon Valley College
1890-94 Lebanon Trinity (beginning 1/1/90)
1894-97 field secretary, Pennsylvania Sunday School Association
1897 transfer to Iowa Conference
1897-99 president Avalon College in Trenton MO
1899-02 Des Moines Summit Park
1902-05 Lisbon IA
1905-08 president, Western College [renamed Leander Clark College] in Toledo IA
1908-13 Dayton First
1913-25 bishop
1925 retired
Note: Cyrus J. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Ezekiel B. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart. A biographical sketch of Bishop C.J. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 207-220.
Preserving and Celebrating Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania
On Line Data Bases
KEPHART, CYRUS JEFFRIES
Born: 2-23-1852 Clearfield County PA married: Sarah Scott Perry
Died: 6-20-1932 obit: Miami Conference 1928,34
Miller-Raker #: no
Fulton #: no
Gibble list: yes
1874 license, Iowa Conference
1879 ordained, Iowa Conference
Interment:
Obit: Kansas Conference 1932,15
1869-74 student, Western College in Toledo IA
1874-75 Toledo
1875-78 student, Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton OH
1878-79 principal, Avalon Academy in Avalon MO
1879-85 president, Avalon College in Avalon MO
1885-87 faculty, Western College in Toledo IA
1887-89 Des Moines East Side
1889 transfer to East Pennsylvania Conference
1889-90 president, Lebanon Valley College
1890-94 Lebanon Trinity (beginning 1/1/90)
1894-97 field secretary, Pennsylvania Sunday School Association
1897 transfer to Iowa Conference
1897-99 president Avalon College in Trenton MO
1899-02 Des Moines Summit Park
1902-05 Lisbon IA
1905-08 president, Western College [renamed Leander Clark College] in Toledo IA
1908-13 Dayton First
1913-25 bishop
1925 retired
Note: Cyrus J. Kephart is the son of Henry Kephart and the brother of Ezekiel B. Kephart and Isaiah L. Kephart. A biographical sketch of Bishop C.J. Kephart appears in the 1950 Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Koontz and Roush, pages 207-220.
Family Members
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Elizabeth Kephart
1826–1830
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Barbara Kephart Albert
1828–1911
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Mary "Polly" Kephart Crowell
1831–1905
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Rev Isaiah Lafayette Kephart
1832–1908
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Ezekiel Boring Kephart
1834–1906
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Abraham Kephart
1836–1860
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Isabelle Jane "Belle" Kephart Jeffries
1840–1907
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John Henry Kephart
1844–1920
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Sarah Ann Kephart McClintock
1847–1895
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Hiram Kephart
1848–1851
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