Thanks for such a quick response and for all the information. Most of it was lost between generations. Bob Kimmell. At 11:01 AM 10/2/00 EDT, you wrote: >Yes, Brethren Encyclopedia has Arthur Vance Kimmell in the ministerial lists >and also gives him a full paragraph in the main part of the encyclopedia. > >In the ministerial lists BE has this: > > 'KIMMELL, ARTHUR VANCE (FGBC); 8-30-1880/5-27-1955; ord. 3-30-1902 at >Dayton, OH (p. 1902-03); min. term., ca. 1950; Lordsburg (LaVerne) CA )p >(1905 -08); Los Angeles CA, 1st (p. 1908-13; Whittier CA (p.1913-27); Los >Angeles CA, 2d (p.1927-30); Philadelphia PA , 1st (p & eld 1930-50?); >..." [citations given are all Brethren denominational publications]. > >As to abbreviations used above, "p" stands for pastor. His ministry >terminated about 1950. FGBC has to do with which branch of the Brethren >this Kimmell was a minister in, and I don't find the list of abbreviations >just yet. "eld" is elder. "min.term." means ministry terminated. > >However, in the main portion of BE on page 693 -694 Arthur Vance Kimmell is >given his own entry, and it has some very good genealogical information in it: > > "Kimmell, Arthur Vance (BC, FGBC) 1880-1955, pastor. Born Aug. 30 near >Pleasant Hill, OH, A V Kimmell was a grandson of Elias Teeter and a nephew of >R R Teeter. He joined the Brethren Church in Dayton, OH, in 1898, and was >ordained an elder there in 1902. Kimmell was pastor at Lordsburg (LaVerne) >CA 1905-08, while studying at Lordsburg (LaVerne) College. Between 1908 and >1930 he was pastor of congregations he helped establish at Los Angeles (First >Brethren 1908, Second Brethren 1910) and Whittier (1913), CA. In this way >Kimmell as responsible for much of the early groowth of the Brethren Church >in southern California.... He was pastor at the First Brethren Church, >Philadelphia, 1930-ca1950. > >"Kimmell was moderator of General Conference (BC) in 1930. President of the >Foreign Missionary Society Board for many years, he also edited the Brethren >Missionary 1923-29. He was president of the Grace Seminary board from its >inception as the Brethren Biblical Seminary Assn in 1937. Kimmell resigned >as pastor at Philadelphia..... He died May 27 in Philadelphia. " > >Citations are mostly Brethren Church denominational stuff, but R L Howe's >History of a Church (1943) is also mentioned. > >BC stands for Brethren Church. FGBC presumably is the Grace Brethren >branch. (Brethren have had lots of splits.) > >Happy hunting. > > > >