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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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Henry Eyster Jacobs

Henry Eyster JacobsThe son of one of the first professors of Gettysburg College, Jacobs was born in that town in 1844. He was a witness to both the Battle of Gettysburg and to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He followed his father onto the

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