Gwinnett County GaArchives Biographies.....Rauschenberg, Fritz December 27 1877 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg.

	Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg was born in Atlanta December 27, 1877. His 
father was Mr. Aug. Rauschenberg, Confederate veteran and pioneer citizen of 
Atlanta. He graduated from the Boys' High School in Atlanta in 1896. He was a 
reporter for a while with an Atlanta paper, and later owned and edited a 
religious periodical there. He sold his paper and for six years was engaged in 
the laundry business. Here he came in touch with Jew and gentile, white and 
black, old and young, rich and poor, religious and irreligious, and learned 
human nature in all its phases. He was married to Miss Clara Elizabeth Hay, 
May 16, 1897. His wife was born in Gwinnett county, near Woodward's Mill. They 
have three children.

	He joined the Presbyterian church in Atlanta at the age of 18, and 
served as deacon, elder and Sunday school teacher in the Pryor street 
Presbyterian church. He entered the Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia, 
S. C., 1905, graduating in 1908. Licensed to preach at Congers, April 17, 
1907, and ordained at Lawrenceville, May 24, 1908.

	He served as pastor of the Lawrenceville, Winder and Fairview 
Presbyterian churches from 1908 to the middle of 1911.



Additional Comments:
From:

GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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