History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . n fullypaid. Present officers, elected September 6, 1915: Elders: John McCormick, for one year; G. E. Gillette, fortwo years. Deacons: A. J. Harr, for one year; Frank McCormick, fortwo years. Trustees: F. P. Lind, for one year; A. B. Mosser, for oneyear; M. S. Strauss, for two years. The church has recently installed new quartered oak pews. TRINITY LUTHERAN CFIURCH DU BOIS, PA;Sketch by Rev. K. E. IrrinThe inception of
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . n fullypaid. Present officers, elected September 6, 1915: Elders: John McCormick, for one year; G. E. Gillette, fortwo years. Deacons: A. J. Harr, for one year; Frank McCormick, fortwo years. Trustees: F. P. Lind, for one year; A. B. Mosser, for oneyear; M. S. Strauss, for two years. The church has recently installed new quartered oak pews. TRINITY LUTHERAN CFIURCH DU BOIS, PA;Sketch by Rev. K. E. IrrinThe inception of Trinity Lutheran Church, DuBois, Pa., was 419 NOR THE A S T CONFERENCE to be found within the efforts of a more liberal constituency ofthe General Council Church with which they had been affiliatedfor some time. Among this number were many wTho had for-merly been members of the General Synod Church at variousplaces. The consensus of opinion within that element favoredthe organization of a Synod Church. Consequently, on May 8 and 15, 1906, two preliminary meet-ings were held at the home of Mr. C. Luther Lowe, 58 WestLong Avenue. Rev. A. R. Longanecker, of Smicksburg, was. C. LUTHER LOWE present at the first meeting and Rev. H. E. Wieand, presidentof the Alleghany Synod, was officially present at the secondmeeting. Favorable sentiment was meanwhile being crystallizedand a third meeting was called for the purposes of organizationon May 29, 1906, at the same place. Rev. A. R. Longanecker was present at this meeting. A con-stitution was adopted which differs very little from the regularconstitution of the General Synod. The name Trinity wasalso chosen as the local appellation of the church. From the420 TRINITY, DU BO IS minutes of this third meeting we read: The nomination andelection of church officers was then taken up. Messrs. C. , J. I\. Seyler and E. W. Fair were elected as elders andMessrs. II. J. Boyer, I >. M. Seyler. W. B. Beck, J. W. Hallowell,H. L. Robinson
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