History of Freeburg, (Snyder County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Emanuel Vogel Gerhart, educator, was born in Freeburg, Pa., June 13, 1817; son of the Rev Isaac and Sarah (Vogel) Gerbart; grandson of Abraham Gerhart, and a descendant of Peter Gerhart, a refugee from Alsace, about 1730. He was graduated from Marshall college in 1838 and from the Mercersburg theological seminary in 1841. He was pastor of the Reformed church in Gettysburg, Pa., 1843-49, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849-51; president of Heidelberg college, and professor of systematic and practical theology in the Heidelberg theological seminary at Tiffin, Ohio, 1851-55; president of Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., 1855-66, and professor of mental and moral philosophy there, 1855-68. In 1868 he was elected to the chair of theology in the Theological seminary of the Reformed church, then located at Mercersburg. Pa., and in 1868 was appointed dean of the seminary. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Jefferson college in 1857 and that of LL.D. by Franklin and Marshall college in 1887. He published many sermons, also Philosophy and Logic (1858); a monograph on The Reformed Church (1863); Child's Heidelberg Catechism (1882); Institutes of the Christian Religion, in two volumes (1891); and edited the Inner Life by Ranch

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

History of Freeburg, (Snyder County) Pennsylvania

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