BIO:  H. Louis BAUGHER, D.D., Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 349

H. LOUIS BAUGHER, D. D., Franklin professor of the Greek language and literature 
in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, was born in that place August 6, 1840, son 
of Henry L. Baugher, D. D., and Clara Mary (Brooks) Baugher.  Henry L. Baugher 
was born in Adams County, Penn., July 19, 1804; was prepared for college by Rev. 
David McConaughy, of Gettysburg, and was graduated from Dickinson College, 
Carlisle, in 1826.  In 1832 he became a professor in Pennsylvania College, and 
in 1850 was chosen president of that college.  (An extended sketch of him will 
be found in the college records.)  His death occurred April 14, 1868, the father 
of five children, who lived to adult age, of whom our subject is next to the 
youngest.  H. Louis Baugher was reared in Gettysburg and educated in 
Pennsylvania College, from which he was graduated in 1857.  He subsequently was 
graduated in theology in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, and spent a 
year in the seminary at Andover, Mass.  He served as co-pastor of a church at 
Wheeling, W. Va., during the year 1863-64, and from 1864 to 1867 was pastor of a 
church at Norristown, Penn.  A portion of the year 1867-68 he passed in Europe, 
and the latter year served as pastor of a church at Indianapolis, Ind.  From 
1869 to 1880 he was professor of Greek in Pennsylvania College, and served as 
pastor of a church at Omaha, Neb., during the year 1880-81.  From 1869 to 1873 
he also gave instruction in New Testament Exegesis in the Theological Seminary 
at Gettysburg, and supplied the department of Systematic Theology throughout the 
year 1883-84.  In 1880 he received the degree of D. D., conferred by his alma 
mater.  In 1888 Dr. Baugher supplied the chair of Greek in Howard University, at 
Washington, D. C., and was elected to a professorship of political economy, 
etc., in that institution, but declined to accept his former position in 
Pennsylvania College, to which he was recalled in 1883.  Since 1874 Dr. Baugher 
has been connected, as editor and commentator, with the Lutheran Publication 
Society, and since the convention at Atlanta, Ga., in 1878, has represented the 
Lutheran Church on the International Sunday-School Lesson Committee.  April 8, 
1872, Dr. Baugher was married to Miss Ida, daughter of William Smith, of York, 
Penn., and to them one child, Bessie, has been born.