. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Rev. C. F. Dapp, Rev. F. BerkemeyEr Rev. George Dracw ST. PAULS, DOYLESTOWN THE beginning of Lutheranism in Doylestown,Pa., dates back to the year 1859, when the Berkemeyer came to Bucks County, as the pastorof the Hilltown congregation. With the zeal of a truemissionary pastor, he soon began to look up the scat-tered Lutherans in other communities, and Doyles-town was one of the first places which claimed hisattention. His efforts met with immediate success,and soon the little band of Lutherans, mostly Ger-mans, which he had organized into a congrega
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. Rev. C. F. Dapp, Rev. F. BerkemeyEr Rev. George Dracw ST. PAULS, DOYLESTOWN THE beginning of Lutheranism in Doylestown,Pa., dates back to the year 1859, when the Berkemeyer came to Bucks County, as the pastorof the Hilltown congregation. With the zeal of a truemissionary pastor, he soon began to look up the scat-tered Lutherans in other communities, and Doyles-town was one of the first places which claimed hisattention. His efforts met with immediate success,and soon the little band of Lutherans, mostly Ger-mans, which he had organized into a congregation, be-gan considering plans for the erection of a house ofworship. The exact date of the founding of the con-gregation, however, is unknown, although it is com-monly believed to have taken place in the year purpose at first was to erect a union church; butthe Lutherans finding that the Reformed people hadcontributed such a paltry sum towards the enterprise,resolved to build an exclusively Lutheran church. This purpose, however, was not
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