. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . remark-able literary and theological attainments, distinguishedfor his intelligence and particularly noted for his thoroughscholarship in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, and as a pro-found mathematician, mineralogist and botanist of exten-sive scientific acquirements. The history of the iron andcoal interests of Pennsylvania and the world pictureshim as a character of importance in the infancy of thoseinterests, with an influence upon their subsequent devel-opment which will be felt
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . remark-able literary and theological attainments, distinguishedfor his intelligence and particularly noted for his thoroughscholarship in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, and as a pro-found mathematician, mineralogist and botanist of exten-sive scientific acquirements. The history of the iron andcoal interests of Pennsylvania and the world pictureshim as a character of importance in the infancy of thoseinterests, with an influence upon their subsequent devel-opment which will be felt to the end of time. He wasthe first to discover the value of anthracite coal for smelt-ing iron, and his name is prominently identified withother important discoveries which have for years been aportion of the recognized system of iron a number of years he officiated as pastor of ChristLutheran church, in Frankfort street. New York, whichwas distinguished as being the only church in New Yorkbesides the Episcopalian which escaped desecration atthe hands of the English, it being attended by the Hes-. sian soldiers, who were Lutherans. The senior died in 1838. The subject of the present notice came to New Yorkwith his father at an early age, and received a thoroughacademical and theological education under the ablepreceptorship of his father and instructors whom thelatter employed. In 1818, when he was only twentyyears of age, he was licensed as a minister of the Luther-an church. He was first settled over a congregation atVincent, Chester county. Pa., where he remained tenyears, when he was called to the pastorate of St. Mat-thews church in Walker street. New York, in which hecontinued about fourteen years. The congregation ofChrist church after a time became the possessors of theproperty of St. Matthews congregation and took thename of the latter organization. In pursuance of a re-solve to found a new church, Dr. Geissenhainer estab-lished St. P
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