Charles Porterfield Krauth

KRAUTH, Charles Porterfield. b. Martinsburg, Virginia, 17 March 1823; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 January 1883. The son of a Lutheran minister, Charles Philip Krauth, Charles Porterfield Krauth was educated at Pennsylvania College (later Gettysburg College), of which his father was the first President, and at Gettysburg Theological Seminary, graduating in 1841. He served Lutheran churches in Canton, Baltimore (1841-42), the Second English Lutheran Church, Baltimore (1843-47); Winchester, Virginia (1848-52); the English Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh (1855-59); and St Mark’s Church, Philadelphia (1859-61). For some years, beginning in 1861, he edited an important Lutheran periodical, The...