He was born and raised on the farm and attracted attention early in life by his natural taste for books and his acquaintance with subjects of public interest. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school, and taught for four terms in the country. During the spring sessions of 1882 and 1883 he attended the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa., and in 1884 entered the preparatory department of Muhlenberg College at Allentown, graduating in 1888 with the degree of A.B. He then prepared himself for the ministry at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, where he was graduated on May 19, 1891. On the 26th of the same month he was ordained a minister by the annual meeting of the ministerium at Pottsville, Pa., and accepted a call to the charge at Weatherly, Pa. After that he served at Shoemakersville, McClure, and Butler, Pa. [The Gerberich Family in America]
He was born and raised on the farm and attracted attention early in life by his natural taste for books and his acquaintance with subjects of public interest. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school, and taught for four terms in the country. During the spring sessions of 1882 and 1883 he attended the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa., and in 1884 entered the preparatory department of Muhlenberg College at Allentown, graduating in 1888 with the degree of A.B. He then prepared himself for the ministry at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, where he was graduated on May 19, 1891. On the 26th of the same month he was ordained a minister by the annual meeting of the ministerium at Pottsville, Pa., and accepted a call to the charge at Weatherly, Pa. After that he served at Shoemakersville, McClure, and Butler, Pa. [The Gerberich Family in America]
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