Sullivan-Berks-Monroe County PA Archives Biographies.....Noll, Elias S. 1866 - 
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  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.
  
  
  
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                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                   Compendium of Biography
                  
             The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
   
  
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