The Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized 15-21 Sep 1825. Until that time, the Baltimore Conference had managed the circuits in southwest PA from Uniontown to Brownsville to Pittsburgh and western VA from Morgantown to Wheeling. [1]
A schism had developed in the church around the authority of the conference Bishop. The Bishop appointed the Presiding Elders. “Reformers” or “radicals” offered a proposal to the conference that the Presiding Elders should be elected by the conference members. The proposal was an attempt to reduce the power of the Bishop. Pittsburgh was the chief center of this agitation. By the time of the General Conference held in Pittsburgh in 1828, the controversy was too great to reconcile. The result was the withdrawal of the reformers who two years later adopted the name The Methodist Protestant Church.
Georgetown Methodist Church pre 1951 (Anna L and John F Nash )
The Georgetown church, founded in 1834, was a Methodist Episcopal Church. Today it is a United Methodist Church.
Reference.
[1] . Wallace Guy Smeltzer, DD, The Story of Methodism in the Pittsburgh Region, The Allegheny-Kiski Printing Co, 1958.