Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Congregation, Franconia ???? - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

FRANCONIA CONGREGATION.
  
  Rev. Henry Funk was the first minister of
Franconia 
congregation. The first meetinghouse was built of stone in 
the year
1730. It had a seating capacity of over seven 
hundred, with a membership of
about four hundred and fifty. 
The third house was built of stone. The church
has a 
membership of six hundred with seats for eight hundred or 
nine hundred.

  Josiah Clemmer was chosen to the ministry in 1860. His 
co-workers in the
ministry are Jacob Landes and Michael 
Moyer. Henry Nice was chosen to the
ministry in 1839 and 
died in 1883, aged seventy-nine years. Jacob Godshall
was 
chosen to the ministry in 1804, and was elected bishop in 
1813. He died in
1845, aged seventy-five years. Abraham 
Clemmer, Sr., was elected deacon in
Franconia congregation 
in 1839, and died in 1879, aged eighty-five years, in
1884.  
Abraham Clemmer, Jr., was elected deacon in 1879.  Jacob 
Freed was
ordained to a deacon in 1884. Abraham Clemmer was 
ordained, as a minister in 1904.

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