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Rev. John Henry Harpster, DD
- F. George Harpster (add)
- M. Frances (add)
- Rev. John Henry Harpster, DD1844 - 1911
Facts and Events
| Name[2] |
Rev. John Henry Harpster, DD |
| Alt Name[3][4] |
Captain John Henry Harpster |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[4] |
27 Apr 1844 |
Centre Hall, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Other[5] |
From 1872 to 1876 |
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, Indiaserved as Lutheran missionary |
| Marriage |
1882 |
to Mary Julia Jacobs |
| Other[3] |
19 Dec 1885 |
applied for military pension for Civil War service |
| Other[5] |
From 1893 to 1902 |
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, Indiaserved as Lutheran missionary |
| Census[1] |
1910 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Other[5] |
from 1902 to abt 1910 |
Rajahmundry, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, Indiaserved as Lutheran missionary |
| Death[4] |
8 Feb 1911 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Burial[4] |
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Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Other[3] |
1 Mar 1911 |
Pennsylvaniawife applied for widow's pension |
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References
- ↑ Philadelphia Ward 22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624)
HH 35, Fam 35.
Jacobs, Henry E., 65, married 1 for 27 years, b. PA, both parents b. PA, Clergyman, College Dean, rents house
, Laura H., wife, 57, married 1 for 27 yrs, 5 children 4 living, b. MD, fa b. PA, mo b. MD
Downing, Annie, E., sister-in-law, 68, single, b. MD, fa b. PA, mo b. MD
Harpster, John H., brother-in-law, 66, married 1 28 yrs, b. PA, both parents b. PA, Clergyman, missionary to Indian
, Julia M., sister-in-law [sic], 63, married 1 for 28 yrs, no children, b. PA, both parents b. PA
Craig, maria, servant, black, 66, widow, b. MD, both parents b. MD
- ↑ Bell, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles). History of Leitersburg District, Washington County, Md: including its original land tenure; first settlement; meterial development; biographical sketeches, etc. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985)
p. 180.
Rev. Michael Jacobs, DD, . . . . In 1833 he married Julia M. Eyster, of Harrisburg, PA, and they were the parents of four children:
Rev. Henry E., DD, Professor of Systematic Theology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Dean of the faculty of that institution, and a well known author in the province of dogmatics and church history;
Michael William, attorney-at-law, Harrisburg, PA;
George Edward, optician, Denver, CO, and
Mary Julia, wife of Rev. J. H. Harpster, DD, a missionary of the Lutheran Church at Gunter, India.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 United States. Veterans Administration. General index to pension files, 1861-1934. (Washington, District of Columbia, United States: NARA).
Soldier: Harpster, John H.
Widow: Harpster, Mary J.
Service: Capt. G 148 PA Inf; H 7 PA Inf
Filing: 19 Dec 1885, Invalid Pension, Certificate #1,059,089
1 Mar 1911, PA, Widow Pension, Certificate : 719,127
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Capt John H Harpster, in Find A Grave
accessed 9 Apr 2014.
Capt John H Harpster
Birth: Apr. 27, 1844, Centre Hall, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Feb. 8, 1911, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Son of George and Frances Harpster
Husband of Julia (Jacobs) Harpster
The REV. DR. JOHN HENRY HARPSTER, well known in Gettysburg, died early Wednesday morning from grip at the residence of his brother-in-law, Dr Henry E. Jacobs, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.
Dr. Harpster was born at Centre Hall, this state, April 27, 1843, the son of George and Frances Harpster. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, through which he served. He was Captain and staff officer of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. He was dangerously wounded in battle twice.
After the war he resumed his schooling at institutions in Selinsgrove and Gettysburg Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, conferred the degree of D. D. upon him in 1893. He married Julia, daughter of Professor Michael Jacobs, of Gettysburg, in 1882.
He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in 1871, and from 1272 to 1875 he was missionary at Guntur, India. Impaired health led to his return to his country.
He resided for a time in California and was pastor of churches in Ellsworth and Hayes City, Kansas; Trenton. New Jersey; and Canton, Ohio. He reentered foreign missionary work in 1893.
In 1902 the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council having asked the Board of General Synod to release him in order to reorganize the mission of the latter at Rajabmundry in India, he accepted the difficult position, and, after seven years successful labor, returned to this country in 1909. Since his return he has been almost incessantly occupied with presenting the cause of foreign missions in all parts of the North, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Funeral from the 1:45 p.m. train over the Reading Saturday. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Dr. J. A. Singmaster officiating.
Source : The Adams County News Newspaper - Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania - Tuesday, February 14, 1911
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Singmaster, Elsie. The Story of Lutheran Missions. (Columbia, South Carolina, United States.: Co-operative Literature Committee Woman's Societies Lutheran Church, 1917)
pp. 101, 102.
p. 101 - in 1869 the mission field in India was permanently divided, the Gunter station . . . becoming the charge of the General Synod, the Rajahmundry Station becoming the charge of the General Council of which the Ministerium of Pennsylvania was now a part.
p. 102 - The Rev. J. H. Harpster, a veteran of the Civil War, served his first term as a missionary from 1872 till. 1876. Returning for a second term in 1893 he was nine years later allowed by the General Synod to assume temporary charge of the Rajahmundry mission, then passing through a period of confusion. In the service of the Rajahmundry mission he continued until his death. To him his fellow workers paid this tribute: "As a missionary he was indefatigable, as a preacher eloquent and inspiring. He labored in season and out to inculcate self-support. Altogether this was a man to love." His work at Rajahmundry accomplished all that had been most hopefully expected, for in place of the discord and disorganization which he found he left peace and order and the promise of a great future.
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