. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . r of the Re-formed Church, who was also teacher of the the Revolution broke out he served as a sub-altern officer in the associators. Towards the closeof the war he was in command of the battalion ofmilitia. Upon the organization of the county ofDauphin he was appointed, by the Supreme Execu-tive Council county, lieutenant May 6, 17S5. Hewas a representative to the General Assembly in1790, resigning to accept the position of State Sen-ator, which office he also i
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . r of the Re-formed Church, who was also teacher of the the Revolution broke out he served as a sub-altern officer in the associators. Towards the closeof the war he was in command of the battalion ofmilitia. Upon the organization of the county ofDauphin he was appointed, by the Supreme Execu-tive Council county, lieutenant May 6, 17S5. Hewas a representative to the General Assembly in1790, resigning to accept the position of State Sen-ator, which office he also in time resigned, preferringthe quiet of home life to the vexations of legislativeexperience. He was appointed by Governor Mifflin—a warm personal friend—one of the associate judgesof the county of Dauphin. This position, owing tothe distance and the inconvenience of travel, he after-wards resigned. However, upon the erection of thenew county of Lebanon, in 1813, he was commissionedone of the associate judges, an office he filled manyyears. He died at Lebanon on the 22d of Januarv, 270 HISTORY OF LEBANON HON. JOHN GLONINGER. 1836, aged seventy-seven years. Few men had moreextended influence, and were more highly respectedand beloved, than Judge Gloninger. He marriedCatharine Orth, daughter of Adam and Catharine(Kucher) Orth ; and they were the ancestors of aprominent family, most of whom left a marked im-pression upon the period in which they lived. REV. PHILIP Gloninger, son of John and Catharine(Orth) Gloninger, was born Feb. 17, 1788, in Leba-non, Pa. HaviDg acquired the necessary preparatoryeducation in the schools of his native town he en-tered Dickinson College, where he early completedhis literary course. Subsequently he studied divinityunder the Rev. C. L. Becker, , of Baltimore, oneof the most distinguished theologians and pulpit ora-tors of the age. At a meeting of the Reformed Synod,held at Germantown in the autumn of 1808,
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