. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . were Elizabeth, Polly, Catharine, Daniel, George,Jeremiah R., and Susanna. Jeremiah R. spent hisboyhood in labor, his educational advantages havingbeen limited to a period of eight months at the publicschool. He learned the trade of a potter in SnyderCounty, Pa., and subsequently that of a removed to Williamstown in 1864, and subse-quently was engaged in contracting and in the lumberbusiness. He is now farming, and is a director of the. REV. JAMES CALDER,
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . were Elizabeth, Polly, Catharine, Daniel, George,Jeremiah R., and Susanna. Jeremiah R. spent hisboyhood in labor, his educational advantages havingbeen limited to a period of eight months at the publicschool. He learned the trade of a potter in SnyderCounty, Pa., and subsequently that of a removed to Williamstown in 1864, and subse-quently was engaged in contracting and in the lumberbusiness. He is now farming, and is a director of the. REV. JAMES CALDER, Calder, son of William Calder and MaryKirkwood, was born Feb. 16, 182(5, at Harrisburg,Pa. He was educated in the public schools of theborough, the Harrisburg Academy, Partridges Mili-tary Institute, and entered Wesleyan University, Mid-dletown, Conn., in 1845, from which he graduated 1stof August, 1849. In September following he joinedthe Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Epis-copal Church, and was stationed in Lancaster County,where he remained until 1851, when he was ap-pointed missionary to China, sailing from New Yorkin the spring of that year. He reached Foo-Chow,his missionary station, in July following. He re-mained at this point until the year 1854, when, havingchanged his views on church polity, he withdrewfrom the denomination, and returned to the UnitedStates Soon after he became pastor of the BethelChurch, Harrisburg, until the year 1859, and in themean time editor of the Church Advocate, the organof the Church of God. In 1857, while se
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