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The Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic was formed in 1989 as a reorganization of The Historical Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America begun in 1952 and of its predecessor organizations, the first of which was founded in 1843. Read more...

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Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker

Samuel Whitaker PennypackerSamuel 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

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