Listers, here is the searchable database for the Methodist and United Brethren data. Listers, I have found other ONLINE searchable database!! http://www.gcah.org/inv_srch.htm Regarding the Methodists and United Brethren. Put in your SURNAMES. I got this by just putting in a year. Many came west to start these churches. This has many biographies of ministers and I found one from Oregon. Any relationship to him let me know!! Biographical/History Note Orrie Orlando Arnold (1884-1959) was a minister and editor who also had a long, prolific speaking and writing career. On July 24th, 1884 he was born in Darke County, Ohio, but his family soon moved to Oregon. There he received his call to ministry, and was licensed by the Oregon Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1906. IN 1909 he was received into the Ohio Miami Conference, in which he served several pastorates, remaining in Ohio for the rest of his life. From 1917 through 1957, in became an associate editor of his denomination's Sunday School press, and was subsequently elected editor of the Evangelical United Brethren Sunday school publications at the time of church union in November, 1946. He retired from this position on December 31, 1958, only a few days before his death. Arnold also served his denomination as chairman of the Rural Life Commission, a member of the General Board of Christian Education, the Commission on Christian Social Action, the Inter-Board Education Committee, and the General Board of Evangelism. He was active interdenominationally as a Committee on Uniform Lessons, and the Committee on the National Christian Teaching Mission of the National Council of Churches. He participated avidly in community organizations, helped to organize the Community Chest in Germantown, Ohio, and also was an active member of the Rotary Clubs in Germantown and Greenville. He was thrilled when the Germantown Press named him "Father of the Year" in 1956. Arnold married his wife, Bessie, in 1911. They had three sons and three daughters. Arnold died on January 2, 1959, after a short period of ill health. Laura Searching for Methodist Lee A. Johnson from Walla Walla, WA in 1906. The FUDGES started a UB church in Columbia Co. WA. FUDGE, GALLOWAY, HALES, FINE, JOHNSON, GIBSON, TURNER, PORTER.