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He volunteered for missionary work in Pennsylvania, and arrived in New York on July 27, 1752. He served several German speaking parishes near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. In 1767 or 1768, Otterbein, currently serving a Reformed church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was present at a worship service in Long's Barn, a nearby barn.
He founded his final church here in 1740 and is buried beneath it. The church was named in his honor. John Phillip Boehm (1683–1749) was a school teacher and an early leader in the German Reformed Church (now the Reformed Church in the United States ), first as a lay reader and later as an ordained minister.
A Greek Revival-style building, this church was designed by Gen. George Washington Cullum (1809-1892), who also designed Fort Sumter. [2] The congregation was a supporter of the Meadville Theological School. [2] This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
The Evangelical Church was founded in 1800 by Jacob Albright (1759–1808), a German-speaking Christian native of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area, influenced by John Wesley and the Methodist Episcopal Church and by followers of Philip William Otterbein. In 1790, several of his children died of dysentery.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts founded. [23] [24] Arch Street Friends Meeting House built. 1806 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Commonwealth v. Pullis, criminalizing labor strikes. [15] 1807 – First African Presbyterian Church founded. [16] 1809 – First African Baptist Church founded. [16] 1810 Columbian Garden opens on Market Street ...
14.3 1800–1900. 14.4 Since 1900. ... William Penn founded Pennsylvania. ... Black Americans outside a church in Georgia, 1900.
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ (2004) Frey, Sylvia R. "The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau," Slavery and Abolition, Jan 2008, Vol. 29 Issue 1, pp 83–110; Hatch, Nathan O.