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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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Michael Jacobs

Michael JacobsMichael 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

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