History of Leeds, (Greene County) New York United States of America

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Isaac Peter Labagh, clergyman, was born in Leeds, Greene county, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1804; son of the Rev. Dr. Peter and Magdalen (Van Alert) Labagh. His father (born in 1773, died in 1858), was a prominent minister of the Dutch Reformed church. Isaac was graduated from Dickinson college, Pa., in 1823, and from the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1826, and held pastorates in Rochester and Gravesend, N.Y., until 1842. He was suspended from the ministry by the general synod for views expounded concerning the second advent and the Christian Sabbath. He took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1846; engaged in missionary work among the Jews in New York city, and organized and built Grace church, Gloucester, N.J., and St. Paul's church, Brooklyn, N.Y. He removed to Marengo, Ill., in 1860, and there established a seminary for young women, which was destroyed by fire in 1862. In 1863 he removed to Cairo, Ill., and built the Church of the Redeemer, and in 1864 removed to Fairfield, Iowa, and was pastor of St. Peter's church until his death. He is the author of: A Sermon on the Personal Reign of Christ (1846); Twelve Lectures on Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy (1859); Theoklesia ; or the Organization, Perpetuity, Conflicts and Triumphs of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church (1868). He died in Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 29, 1879.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Leeds, (Greene County) New York

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