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  • ID: I34734
  • Name: Samuel A. Ziegenfuss , D. D. 1
  • Sex: M
  • Title: Rev.
  • Birth: 12 DEC 1844 in near Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1
  • Residence: 6671 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2
  • Note:
    from Rosenberger book of 1906 (page 288-289)...

    Dr. Ziegenfuss received his education in public schools and Quakertown Normal and Classical school, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg and Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1870, and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia in 1873. He was ordained to the office of ministry in the Lutheran church by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania in the same year, a few days after graduation from the Seminary. His first charge was at Sellersville, Pennsylvania, where he labored successfully from June 1873 to November 1876, when he accepted a unanimous call from the Bath and Howertown charge in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He continued his labors in this charge until January 1892, when he followed an urgent call from St. Michael's Lutheran church Germantown, Philadelphia, where he still labors. He has succeeded in building one of the finest Lutheran Churches in Philadelphia, the chancel arrangement being exceptionally well arranged. In all of his charges new church buildings were erected. He received the degree of D. D. from his Alma Mater in 1896. Dr. Ziegenfuss has filled many positions of honor and trust in the church. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Muhlenberg College, and Secretary of the Board since 1886, member of the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, and secretary of its executive committee. President of the Philadelphia English Conference of Ministerium of Pennsylvania.




    Father: Samuel Ziegenfuss b: 11 JAN 1809
    Mother: Catharine Rosenberger b: 18 JUN 1807

    Marriage 1 Mary E. Himmelwright b: BET 1824 AND 1862
    • Married: 21 OCT 1875 1

    Sources:
    1. Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa.
      Author: Fretz, A. J.
      Publication: Milton, New Jersey: 1906.
      Note: Full Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa. Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches and Illustrated with Portraits and other Illustrations.
      Repository:
      Media: Book
      Page: page 288
    2. Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa.
      Author: Fretz, A. J.
      Publication: Milton, New Jersey: 1906.
      Note: Full Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa. Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches and Illustrated with Portraits and other Illustrations.
      Repository:
      Media: Book
      Page: page 289
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