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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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Francis Rawn Shunk

Francis Rawn ShunkFrancis Rawn Shunk, the tenth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848, was born on August 7, 1788 near Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of John Shunk and Elisabeth Rawn.  Shunk served in the Pennsylvania militia during the War

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