BIO: Christian Henry FORNEY, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 277.
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  FORNEY, REV. CHRISTIAN HENRY, D.D., son of Christian T. Forney (1806-
1860) and Barbara Strohm, was born October 17, 1839, in West Hanover 
township, Dauphin county, Pa.  He was educated in the common schools, 
St. Thomas Institute, Milesburg Normal School and Oberlin College, 
where he completed the course preparatory to the study of theology in 
1860, and entered upon the ministry at Mount Ivy, Lancaster county, 
Pa., in November of that year, where he remained until April, 1863.  He 
also preached at Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pa., from April, 1863, 
to April, 1866; at Harrisburg, Fourth street, from April, 1866, to 
April, 1868; Lancaster city, from April 1868, to April, 1870, since 
which time he has been in charge of the editorial department of the 
church paper of his denomination, preaching only on special occasions.  
He was chaplain of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in 
1868, and has been twice speaker of the East Pennsylvania Eldership of 
the Church of God; once speaker of the General Eldership; almost a 
continuous member of the standing committee of the East Pennsylvania 
Eldership since 1869; member of Board of Missions and Board of 
Incorporation of the East Pennsylvania Eldership; member of the 
Executive Board of the General Eldership; continuous member of Board of 
Education of the General Eldership until elected on the Executive 
Board; a continuous member of the Board of Education of East 
Pennsylvania Eldership.  In 1866 he was elected assistant editor of the 
Church Advocate, and upon the death of the editor, in 1869, became 
editor-in-chief, which position he still occupies.  In June, 1881, 
Hillsdale College, Michigan, conferred upon him the degree of D.D.