Sullivan-Berks County PA Archives Biographies.....Klingler, John W. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 28, 2008, 7:57 pm Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) REV. JOHN W. KLINGLER, pastor of the Lutheran church at Dushore, is one of the prominent divines of Sullivan county and is active and zealous in the cause of his Master. He entered upon his present charge March 4, 1894, and since then has accomplished much good, both in the church and in the community. Mr. Klingler was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, receiving his early education in the public schools of that place and later attending the college at Myerstown and Muhlenberg College at Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was a very studious youth and excelled in his classes, taking a four-years course at Muhlenberg College, and graduating in the class of 1880 with high honors. He received also the degree of Master of Arts at the Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1883. Although but a little over forty years of age Mr. Klingler is well known as a fine classical scholar and is now conducting two classes in Greek. Since taking charge of the church at Dushore he has been the means of adding one hundred and ninety-two members to its rolls, has baptized one hundred and eighty-four persons and has married forty-one couples. He is a fine speaker and his congregations are always large and attentive. In politics he is an independent Republican with prohibition tendencies, and his influence, especially with the younger people in the town, is most beneficial. His aspirations are of the highest and he gives promise of a brilliant career of usefulness. The marriage of Mr. Klingler to Miss Agnes E. Gruber, of Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania, took place May 10, 1887, and they have one child, Caroline. Mrs. Klingler is an intelligent, refined woman, and ably assists her husband in his church work. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb