Rev. Kendig Bergtresser Collection
Dates
- 1912 - 1999
Creator
Biographical / Historical
The Rev. Kendig Wade Bertresser was born on 22 February 1912, in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, to Rev. Ralph Henry Bergstresser DD and Nellie Esther Rupley.
He received a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College (1934), a bachelor of divinity degee from Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, and an honorary doctor of divinity from Gettysburg College. He married Kathryn Louise Gable on 11 March 1942.
He was pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Penbrook, Dauphin County, from 1949 until retiring in 1974. Previously, he served the Treverton, Gowen City Lutheran parish for seven years.
Bergtresser died on 15 November, 1999 at tge age of 87.
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is housed in the same box as MS 112
Creator
- Title
- Rev. Kendig Bergtresser Collection
- Author
- Victoria Jesswein
- Date
- July 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Personal Papers and Manuscripts Collection, Seminary Archives, United Lutheran Seminary Library, Gettysburg, PA Repository