File:1517-1917. Jubilee volume (1917) (14781899274).jpg

Identifier: 15171917jubileev00evan (find matches)
Title: 1517-1917. Jubilee volume
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Conferences. Norristown
Subjects: Lutheran church in Pennsylvania. (from old catalog) Lutherans
Publisher: (Lebanon, Pa., Sowers printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
chool had an initial mem-bership of 127, of which two members and one officerare still active in our Lutheran Sunday-school work atSassamansville. In 1895 the time seemed ripe for theerection of an exclusively Lutheran church in Sassa-mansville. A committee was appointed to work outall the preliminary details regarding the building site.finances, etc. This committee reported favorably andon January 7, 1896, a building committee was appoint-ed, consisting of John F. Renninger, Isaac C. Jores,Irwin R. Erb, Milton Hoffman and Isaac Linsenbig-ler. Plans were drawn up and work begun at once.All the members contributed liberally towards thebuilding fund. Many of the members also worked onthe erection of the church without accepting any re-muneration for their services. The entire buildingwas completed at the remarkably small cost of $6,397.In the following year, 1897, this beautiful house ofworship, a monument to the faithful work of Rev.Fox and the liberality of the congregation, was dedi-
Text Appearing After Image:
NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 203 cated as the Evangelical Lutheran St. Pauls Churchof Sassamansville, Pa. In 1900 the last financial obli-gation incurred through the building of the churchwas cancelled by the congregation. In 1901 a tract ofland was purchased to serve as a burial ground. Itwas named St. Pauls Cemetery. In 1903 the congre-gation was incorporated. In the same year the con-gregation also installed beautiful memorial windowsat a cost of $545. In the spring of 1904 Rev. Foxs pastorate came toan end with his death. From 1904-06 different pastorssupplied the congregation, chief among whom was theRev. J. J. Cressman, of Kutztown, Pa. At an election held on Sunday, April 18, 1906, Mel-vin A. Kurtz, of East Greenville, who was baptizedand confirmed by his predecessor, the late Rev. W. B.Fox, and who was about to graduate from the Theo-logical Seminary, was elected pastor. He took chargeof the congregation June the 24th of the same yearand was regularly installed on July 15th by the pr

Note About Images