Thomas Mifflin was born January 10, 1744 in Philadelphia. He began his career as a merchant, but then entered the Provisional Assembly of Pennsylvania from 1772–1776. He also served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774–1775, but left
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was born April 9, 1843, in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. As a student during the Civil War, he served in Company F, 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia during the Gettysburg campaign, fighting in a brief skirmish north of
Michael Jacobs was born January 18, 1808 in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Licensed as a Lutheran minister in the Western Pennsylvania Synod in 1832, he served as one of the pastors at Christ Lutheran Church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. From 1828
Professor Martin Luther Stoever, an American Lutheran educator and writer, was born on February 17, 1820, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College in 1838. Although he originally intended to go into ordained ministry, Stoever entered the
John Andrew Shulze was born July 19, 1774 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Lutheran minister Christopher Emmanuel Shulze and grandson of Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg. Ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1796, he left the ministry for
Francis Rawn Shunk, the tenth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848, was born on August 7, 1788 near Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of John Shunk and Elisabeth Rawn. Shunk served in the Pennsylvania militia during the War
Stewart Winfield Herman, Jr., Lutheran pastor, Foreign Service worker, OSS Operative, first Lutheran World Federation Director of Refugee Services, and seminary president. Stewart W. Herman Jr. was born in 1909 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Gettysburg College and the
Henry Hanson was elected to the presidency of Gettysburg College from his ministry at Messiah Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Roanoke College and the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, he held numerous honorary degrees. He was highly regarded
Margaret was a woman with deep Lutheran roots, and a Gettysburg College pioneer and scholar. She was born in 1875 in the home of her maternal grandfather, the Rev. Charles A. Hay, on Seminary Ridge where Hay was teaching at
Charles Philip Krauth was born May 7, 1797 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1819 the Ministerium of Pennsylvania licensed Krauth to preach. After serving Lutheran congregations at Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, Virginia, he was called in 1827 to Philadelphia to take
