History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ssionwork to the Board of Home Missions of the General Bedford, Pa., in September, 1869, the very place where theAlleghany Synod eleven years before had commissioned its firstmissionary to Nebraska, it formally transferred its missions andit- funds to the Board of Home Missions of the General Synod,though it exercised an oversight of the work until 1870. Thisterminated a most successful campaign of missions. 21
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ssionwork to the Board of Home Missions of the General Bedford, Pa., in September, 1869, the very place where theAlleghany Synod eleven years before had commissioned its firstmissionary to Nebraska, it formally transferred its missions andit- funds to the Board of Home Missions of the General Synod,though it exercised an oversight of the work until 1870. Thisterminated a most successful campaign of missions. 215 MISSIONARY WORK OF ALLEGHANY SYNODRev. J. Frederick Kuhlman SKETCH PREPARED BY HIMSELF, PONCA CITY, NEBR., MAY, I917 I was born, November 10, 1829, at Neuenkirchen, Grand Duchy-Oldenburg, Germany. My parents were peasants, living in thesame leased house, and cultivating the same land that had beenoccupied and tilled by my great-grandfather. Here I attendedschool from my sixth year—1835—until the spring of 1837,when my parents emigrated to America. After a voyage of eight weeks, we landed at Baltimore aboutJuly 6. A teamster secured, and goods loaded on a wagon, we. FREDERICK KUHLMAN started to Somerset County, Pa., by way of Gettysburg,Chambersburg and Bedford. A number of my uncles had pre-ceded us to this country several years earlier, and lived thennear Meyers Mill (now Meyersdale). With the exception ofmy younger brother, the entire family walked from Baltimoreto near Berlin, Pa., where our friends met us. In the fall ofthat year I started to school at Meyers Mill, a subscription school,the common school system not having been adopted in that partof the country at that time. In this neighborhood my parents remained for ten years, eightyears in the same place near Meyers Mill. They attended the216 KUHLMAN Lutheran Church at Pine 11 ill until St. Pauls, or Fritz Church,was built. Here 1 attended catechetical instruction in the falland winter of 1846 and 1847, being conf
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