BIO: Rev. Milton H. SANGRE, Franklin Township, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 411 REV. MILTON H. SANGRE, P.O. Arendtsville, Penn., was born in 1832, near Smithsburg, Washington Co., Md. Of his ancestors little is known. It is supposed they were originally Huguenots from the south of France and spelled the name Saintgries, forced to flee from that country to America on account of religious persecution. Michael, the grandfather of Rev. Mr. Sangre, was born in 1759, and located in York County, on the banks of the Susquehanna, twenty miles below Columbia. His wife, nee Miss Burkholder, bore him the following named children: Jacob, Christian, Jane, Esther, Abraham, Elizabeth, Joseph and Benjamin. The last named died young. Elizabeth married a Mr. Mundorff and had one child, Mary. During boyhood the sons were fishermen and thus helped to support the family. Later they all learned the milling business and followed it for many years. Abraham was the father of our subject, and was engaged in milling near Hagerstown, Washington Co., Md. In 1830 he married in Smithsburg, Washington Co., Md., Miss Margaret Tritle, and five years later moved to Huntingdon County, Penn. Our subject and Arietta were born near Smithsburg, Md.; Amanda, Luther and Linda M. in Pennsylvania. Mr. Abraham Sangre was one of the kindest of men, and was rendered comparatively poor by reason of his charitable nature. He had an extensive library and gave his children a practical education. His death occurred March 28, 1868, and that of his widow, December 20, 1885. Milton H., for ten years prior to his marriage, was engaged in teaching, merchandising and farming. October 6, 1856, he married Miss Jane E. Hudson, a daughter of George and Rebecca (Hubbel) Hudson, of Three Springs, Huntingdon Co., Penn. After marriage he engaged in various occupations until his enlistment in February, 1865, in Company K, Seventy-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was commissioned second lieutenant, and served until honorably discharged. In June, 1871, he completed a theological course at Mercersburg, and the same month was licensed to preach. The following year he raised $17,000 for the endowment of Mercersburg College. His first charge was in Everett, Bedford Co., Penn., from 1872 to 1878, and the following spring he removed to Alexandria and remained until 1884, when he was called to assume the pastorate of the Reformed Church at Arendtsville. To his efforts is mainly due the erection of the handsome brick church which was completed and dedicated May 9, 1886. As a pastor of earnestness and zeal, Mr. Sangre has few peers; his congregation respect and love him and are a unit in speaking of his satisfactory ministration. His children are rapidly completing their education. Rev. Henry H., the eldest, was married, in 1885, to Miss Helen Hoke, of Hanover, Penn.; he is a graduate of Mercersburg College and Union Theological Seminary, New York, and is now pastor of the Fairfield charge, Reformed Church, in Adams County; Ernest B. graduated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, and is a teacher of elocution and oratory at the military academy of Michigan; T. Chalmers is a druggist in Philadelphia; Frances N. is the wife of E. C. Fahrney, M.D. of Hagerstown; Margaret completed her classical education at Birmingham, Penn., and her musical education at the Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.; Hope, Allen and George still attend school. The family is a most pleasant and interesting one. The circle is unbroken and harmony dwells therein.