. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Congress, Memberof State Assembly, President of Board of Censors ofPennsylvania, Justice of the Peace, Judge of Mont-gomery County, three times elected to the House ofRepresentatives and Speaker of the first and third. 274 jubilee volume Rev. Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg,Preacher, Theologian, Distinguished botanist, and Au-thor of several standard books on botany and an Eng-lish and German Lexicon, and grammar. Francis Rahn various positions in the State. Was -twice electedgovernor of Pennsylvania. Is buried in the old ceme-tery where the citizens of
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Congress, Memberof State Assembly, President of Board of Censors ofPennsylvania, Justice of the Peace, Judge of Mont-gomery County, three times elected to the House ofRepresentatives and Speaker of the first and third. 274 jubilee volume Rev. Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg,Preacher, Theologian, Distinguished botanist, and Au-thor of several standard books on botany and an Eng-lish and German Lexicon, and grammar. Francis Rahn various positions in the State. Was -twice electedgovernor of Pennsylvania. Is buried in the old ceme-tery where the citizens of Pennsylvania erected amonument. Rev. Jacob Fry, , , ,Preached his first sermon in the Old Church beforehe was eighteen years old. A distinguished and elo-quent preacher and lecturer. Held many offices oftrust in the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. Professorin the Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy. Still vigorousin body and mind, in pulpit and class room after sixty-three years in the active ministry of the Rev. Aden B. Macintosh Rev. N. Y. Ritter CHRIST, TRUMBAUERSVILLE WHETHER religious services were held in ihisvicinity prior to the erection of the firstchurch edifice we are unable to ascertain. We haveno account of the erection of the first church. All weknow is the following from the old church record:A. D. 1769, den 4ten Mai, als am Tage der Himmel-fahrt unseres Erloesers, ist die Kirche in Lower Mil-ford durch die zwei Prediger, als Philip HeinrichRapp auf Lutherischer seite, und Christoph Gobrechtauf Reformirter seite eingeweiht worden, und ihr derName Christus beigeleght. From this we learn: first,that this was undoubtedly the first church erected bythe congregations, since in a previous item PhilipHeinrich Rapp calls himself the first pastor of thecongregation; .second, that the first church was also aunion church; third, that the name of the first church,as well as of the present, was Christ Church ; fourth,that the name of the township at that time
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