Sullivan-Berks-Monroe County PA Archives Biographies.....Noll, Elias S. 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 28, 2008, 7:16 pm Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) REV. ELIAS S. NOLL, pastor of the Reformed church at Dushore, to which he came in 1895 and in which he was first ordained as a minister, has deservedly been most successful in his chosen work. At the time when he accepted the call the congregation was small and the church building anything but desirable; but through his zealous efforts, ably assisted by his congregation, he has been the means of largely increasing the membership and also of erecting a fine new edifice of modern architecture, which was dedicated February 7, 1897, and comfortably seats three hundred people. It was built at a cost of four thousand five hundred dollars. In addition to the audience room there is a basement for a Sunday-school and for meetings of various kinds. The principal officers of the church are Henry Stahl and A. Yonkin, elders; Lewis Zaner and Guy Yonkin, deacons. Mr. Stahl is the treasurer and also superintendent of the Sunday-school. The church has eighty members, which represents some thirty families, and all are in sympathy with their pastor, whose hands they uphold in every good work. The ordination of Mr. Noll occurred September 15, 1895. Rev. Mr. Noll was born near Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1866, the son of Mahlon and Maria (Seyler) Noll, both of German descent. Besides our subject their children were: Rosa E. (Mrs. Milton Feather); Sarah A. (Mrs. William Hill); Mahlon, Jr.; and Chester. Elias was reared upon a farm, attending the common schools until seventeen years old, when he began teaching and preparing for college. He later took a course at the Keystone State Normal school, which was supplemented by attendance at Ursinus College and at the theological seminary at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, graduating at that college in the class of 1893 and at the seminary in that of 1895. He taught in the normal school at East Stroudsburg, Monroe county, for one term. Mr. Noll was married June 7, 1898, at Milton, Pennsylvania, to Miss Linda Zaner, whose family are among the old and prominent settlers of Sullivan county. Mrs. Zaner was educated in the normal school at Muncy and before her marriage was a popular and successful teacher and is a cultured and refined woman. Mr. Noll is a man of strong physique, active and energetic in all he undertakes and one who uses every power of his intellect to advance the cause to which he has devoted his life. He has made many friends in the short time in which he has resided at Dushore and with his wife is universally loved and respected. In politics he is a Republican and is also strongly in favor of prohibition. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb