BIO: REV. HENRY NEIDIG FEGLEY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 256
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    REV. HENRY NEIDIG FEGLEY, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, and
  Professor of Mental and Moral Science, German and Literature at Irving
  College, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is one of the distinguished citizens of his
  community. He was born Nov. 18, 1848, in Boyertown, Berks county, a son of
  Stephen and Lavina (Neidig) Fegley, the former of whom was born in Berks
  county and the latter in Montgomery county, near the Berks line. After their
  marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fegley located in Berks, where the father, carried on
  farming for some time, and then moved to Montgomery county, when their son
  Henry had reached school age.
    
    Completing the common school course, Henry N. Fegley, a bright student,
  attended Frederick Institute and Boyertown Academy, and later entered the
  Sophomore class at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he
  remained from 1866 to 1869, graduating in the latter year. After his
  graduation he entered the Theological Seminary at Mt. Airy, in the vicinity
  of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1872, and soon afterward was
  ordained. Shortly after the young clergyman came to Cumberland county and
  located at Mechanicsburg, where he became pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran
  Church, a congregation which has increased under his pastorate to 215
  members. Since 1892 he has also filled the position of Professor of Mental
  and Moral Science at Irving College, and since 1895, has occupied, in
  addition, the chair of German and Literature. He is one of the able and
  scholarly men of his church.
    
    In 1875 Dr. Fegley married Miss Belinda C. Reichard, of Allentown, a
  daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Reichard, and the two children of this union
  are: Charles, a graduate of Muhlenberg College, at Allentown; and Edith
  Elizabeth, a graduate of Irving College, at Mechanicsburg, and a teacher in
  the city schools.
    
    Rev. Dr. Fegley has been honored on more than one occasion by the various
  educational institutions with which he has been more or less connected. For a
  long period he has held the degree of A. M., and in 1903 the Roanoke College,
  of Virginia, conferred that of D. D. His reputation as an educator extends
  beyond the State and he is no less noted as a pastor. Few citizens of
  Mechanicsburg are better known, and few are more closely identified with its
  religious and educational life.