Janes United Methodist Church - Ministers
Our Ministers Over the Years

History: Methodist Episcopal - Pittsburgh Conference. The church began a society in the name of William Nickolas in 1879. Organized on April 1, 1881 under the name of Hites Church, the meeting place of the congregation was in the Hites School and it was served by Rev. George Washington Johnson, the minister from Springdale. At the conference session of 1881, it was placed on a circuit with North End Church of Pittsburgh with Rev. Richard Cartwright as minister. Its first church building was dedicated on December 18, 1881. In 1887, the church was renamed the Janes Methodist Episcopal Church in honor of Bishop Edmund S. Janes. The second building was erected on the east side of Freeport Road and dedicated on November 15, 1903. The expansion of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Plant in 1941 caused the sale of the property and the building of a church. It was dedicated on March 1, 1942. The church became a station appointment in 1882. It was placed on a two-point charge with Center in 1935-1961, becoming a station again in 1962. It became a shared ministry with Millerstown in 2003.


Pastors

Hites Church:

Richard Cartwright 1881-1882

James Alexander Ballantyne 1882-1885

James Bruce Taylor 1885-1887


Janes Church:

Amos Potter Leonard 1887-1888

George A. Sheets 1888-1889

Josiah Elmer Kidney 1889-1890

Robert Hamilton 1890-1893

Charles L. Smith 1893-1895

Daniel J. David 1895-1897

William Lynch 1897-1902

Charles F. Bollinger 1902-1904

William Medley, Sr. 1904-1906

George Orbin 1906-1909

Joseph Emil Morrison 1909-1911

George M. Allhouse 1911-1914

Samuel G. Noble 1914-1917

Oliver B. Patterson 1917-1919

Ralph Bell 1919-1922

T.H. McGuire 1922-1924

William Calvin Marquis 1924-1926


Janes / Walters Chapel:

George M. Hartung, Jr. 1926-1927