History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ry educationafforded by the public schools of that valley. In due time he wasgraduated from the college at Gettysburg, in the class of was then tutor at his alma mater for two years. Licensedto gospel ministry by the Central Synod, at Duncannon, on May25, i860, and ordained to his life work by the East PennsylvaniaSynod, at Germantown, in the fall, 1861. He organized theMessiah Lutheran Church of Harrisburg, Pa.
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ry educationafforded by the public schools of that valley. In due time he wasgraduated from the college at Gettysburg, in the class of was then tutor at his alma mater for two years. Licensedto gospel ministry by the Central Synod, at Duncannon, on May25, i860, and ordained to his life work by the East PennsylvaniaSynod, at Germantown, in the fall, 1861. He organized theMessiah Lutheran Church of Harrisburg, Pa., and pastor therefor six vears; then at Emmitsburg, Md., for twenty-two years;816 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES at Stoyestown, Pa., for six years; at Elk Lick, Pa., for elevenyears, and at Wellersburg, Pa., for ten years. Fifty-four yearsand eight months in the active work of the Lutheran twenty-two years of this time he was a member of theMaryland Synod, and honored by that body by being, for at leastone term, their president, and for many years as a director ofthe Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, and by electing him forsome live or six times to General REV. E. S. JOHNSTON, For the last twenty-nine years he has been a member of theAlleghany Synod. Having been reared on the territory of thisSynod, he was always looked,upon as one of the Sons of Alle-ghany Synod, and when he became a member of the Synod, theysent him to the General Synod, made him a member of the Exam-ining Committee, and twice elected him as their president. When in Harrisburg, he was married to Miss Annie M. ODell, 817 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Gettysburg, Pa, May 28, 1861, by the Rev. Henry L. Baugher,, president of Pennsylvania College. His family numbersfour sons and one daughter. Russell, the oldest, lives at Odebolt,Iowa. The next, John, is at home. The third, Edwin, lives inAltoona, Pa., and the youngest son is Robert, who lives in ElkLick, Pa. Miss Carrie is at home. Wayne Oburn
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