Who was Harry Morse ?

[Scott Pitta]

I am in the process of making contact with a senior couple from San Francisco who have been lifelong Pentecostals.

Today is a great day.

[Scott Pitta]

Who was Harry Shearer ?? He may have been a student of Harry Morse. Not quite sure who he was.

Any leads ???

[Scott Pitta]

Looks like he lived in West Virginia. The article I just read did not leave room for him to travel to Oakland for training.

[Scott Pitta]

Harvey Shearer seems to have been his name and he had a role in bringing Pentecostalism to Louisiana.

[Whoop Harted]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

Harvey Shearer seems to have been his name and he had a role in bringing Pentecostalism to Louisiana.

Wasn't he Hush Shearer's dad or some relation?

[Whoop Harted]

Wisconsin Dells, isn't that close to where Barnam and Bailey circus winters?

Have a sister in law from there I believe.

[Scott Pitta]

They winter in the small town south of the Dells called Baraboo. The Shearer I am looking into lived around 1900

[Scott Pitta]

He was in the AOG from 1914-1917.

[Scott Pitta]

In 1904 he worked with Parham, but relocated to Linwood, Texas in 1904. It was the first Pentecostal church outside of Houston.

Harvey F Shearer

In 1914-1915 he was still in Texas.

In 1907, while in route to the great Azusa revival in Los Angeles, California, Harvey Shearer (an ordained Methodist minister) traveling on horseback stopped at a brush arbor meeting and received his “Pentecost”. Shearer did not make it to Azusa but chose to begin his Apostolic ministry at that moment. He arrived in Burnet, Texas in 1910 proclaiming the reality of Pentecost. Here he met Edwin Roark, his wife, Mrs. Ida Roark, and the Pentecostal pioneer who would later found what is now known as The Tabernacle, the honorable A.D. Light. Light would travel by horseback from his home in Llano some thirty miles away to hold services in Burnet. The Shearers, Roarks and Lights began to hold annual camp meetings in the summer of 1910 on the banks of Hamilton Creek. They would go 3-4 weeks at a time with service starting in the morning and lasting till late at night. These meetings went through 1924. Those attending would camp on the grounds and cook meals over open campfires.

[Scott Pitta]

Pastor Shearer holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is a licensed funeral director and embalmer. He first felt his call to the ministry at a Texas camp meeting with Bro. O. R. Fauss preaching and began his ministry at age 22. He preached his first sermon at Apostolic Lighthouse Church in Dayton, Ohio in 1980. He explained, “I am a third generation Pentecostal. My grandfather, Harvey Shearer, was one of the original ministers in the United States to establish the Jesus’ name belief in the early 1900s. He baptized the first 300 preachers in Jesus’ name right before becoming the first chairman of the Louisiana camp over 100 years ago. My father, Huss Shearer, preached for over 40 years and pastored churches in Texas and Ohio where he was district superintendent.” Bro. Shearer served as youth pastor and principal of Lighthouse Christian School in Dayton, Ohio in 1978. He became assistant pastor there in 1986 and served as Ohio District Youth Secretary from 1986-1992. He served as director of After Easter Feast Conference from 1993-2000 and has served as a sectional presbyter in Alabama for 10 years.