History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . confirmed in the Clover Creek laving early received a call to the ministry, he entered the insti-tutions at Springfield, Ohio, graduating from the seminary in1847. He entered the ministry in 1849, and at his death, March25, 1899, had completed fifty years in the work, thirty-eight inarduous pastorates in the East and the West. Previous to the semi-centennial of the Synod (1892), he trav-eled throughout the terr
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . confirmed in the Clover Creek laving early received a call to the ministry, he entered the insti-tutions at Springfield, Ohio, graduating from the seminary in1847. He entered the ministry in 1849, and at his death, March25, 1899, had completed fifty years in the work, thirty-eight inarduous pastorates in the East and the West. Previous to the semi-centennial of the Synod (1892), he trav-eled throughout the territory and gathered material for its his-tory. The manuscript was not published, though purchased by 812 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Synod, and has been the source of most of the history of thecongregations prior to 1892, now presented to the public. Hiswork was well done, and meagerly compensated, having receivedabout $800 for three years of severe toil. His body lies in thecemetery at Clover Creek Church. Leonidas Gearhardt was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1804,son of Balthser and Ann Marie Gearhardt. Here he was con-firmed. In 1819, he came to America with his parents, as a. REV. J. R. FOCHT redemptioner, and was hired to a farmer in Somerset County,Pa., to pay his passage. He engaged in teaching several years,then studied theology at Gettysburg, and entered the ministry in1837, being ordained by the West Pennsylvania Synod. Heserved charges in Abbottstown, Elizabethtown, , Lancaster and Manheim. At the latter place he died,in the latter seventies. He was thrice married. He was a faith-ful minister and laborer in his charges, which flourished underhis ministrations. (Written September 20, 1917, by Rev. WilliamGearhardt, Martinsburg, W. Va., his youngest brother, who was 813 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES born October 28, 1817, long a pastor in the General Council,Lutheran Church.) The first wife of Rev. Gerhardt was Anna Marie Fritz, amember of the Fritz Church, Garrett Ch
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