Conemaugh Amish Mennonite Church (Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA)
Conemaugh Amish Mennonite Church is now extinct. Among the first settlers of Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were some Amish Mennonites who began to arrive about 1790. Christian (Schmidt) Miller (d. 1845) was one of the first and became the first Amish bishop in the township. Others kept moving in until there were possibly several hundred members around Johnstown. The advent of the steel mills into Johnstown caused many of them to move westward. They adhered strictly to the German language, which caused a general decline in membership.
In 1880 they built two meetinghouses, one near Davidsville, Somerset County, known as the Kaufman Meetinghouse, because it was built and financed by Isaac Kaufman and because more than half the members had the name Kaufman, and another known as the Miller Meetinghouse near Geistown, Cambria County. After the death of Bishop Moses B. Miller in 1902, services at the Miller Meetinghouse were discontinued, while the Davidsville church continued with ministerial help supplied by the Mifflin County churches until 1916, after which all Amish worship was discontinued and the church dismantled. The few surviving members united with the Mennonite Church (MC).
Bibliography
Hartzler, Jonathan K. "The Glades and Conemaugh churches." Herald of Truth 39, no. 14 (15 July 1902): 218-219.
_____. "Fifty years in the Amish Mennonite churches of Pennsylvania." Herald of Truth 39, no. 11 (1 June 1902): 163-164.
| Author(s) | Ammon Kaufman |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1957 |
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Kaufman, Ammon. "Conemaugh Amish Mennonite Church (Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Conemaugh_Amish_Mennonite_Church_(Somerset_County,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=179890.
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Kaufman, Ammon. (1957). Conemaugh Amish Mennonite Church (Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Conemaugh_Amish_Mennonite_Church_(Somerset_County,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=179890.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 158. All rights reserved.
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