Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....De Long, Calvin M. July 7, 1876 - 
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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

CALVIN M. DE LONG, pastor of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
church of East Greenville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 
which is one of the very oldest congregations in the United 
States, and possesses the oldest Reformed church record in 
the country, is widely and favorably known, is a graduate of 
the Reformed Theological Seminary at Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania. He was born July 7, 1876, in Maxatawny 
township, near Topton, Berks county, Pennsylvania, and is a 
son of the late Joseph De Long.

He was reared on the farm owned by his parents, and received 
his early education in the schools of his native township. 
Later this knowledge was supplemented by attendance at the 
Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, from which he was 
graduated in the class of 1894. The two following years he 
was engaged as a teacher in the public schools, after which 
he again attended the Normal School and prepared for 
college, at the same time graduating in the scientific 
course, In the fall of 1897 he entered Franklin and Marshall 
College, from which he was graduated in June, 1900, at the 
head of his class. He also won first prize in the senior 
prize debate. Several months after his graduation he entered 
the Reformed Theological Seminary at Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania, and at Christmas of the same year he was 
elected instructor of mathematics and natural science at 
Franklin and Marshall Academy, the duties of which position 
he discharged in connection with his theological work. Mr. 
De Long spent the summer of 1901 in special study at the 
University of Chicago, and during the same year was elected 
as professor of Latin at the Franklin and Marshall Academy, 
at the same time carrying on his seminary work.
 
While a student of the Reformed Theological Seminary, Mr. De 
Long served one summer as supply pastor of the St. Stephen's 
Reformed church, Reading, Pennsylvania. On Sunday forenoon, 
November 30, 1902, the New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
Congregation held an election at which they decided to 
instruct the consistory to wait for the licentiation of 
Calvin M. De Long, with whom arrangements had been made to 
preach for them every other Sunday until his ordination. 
Since Mr. De Long accepted the pastorate of the church the 
work has progressed in a remarkably, gratifying manner, and 
many additions have been, made to the membership roll, which 
now numbers about one thousand. M. De Long is an able and 
fluent speaker, and his sermons possess the power of giving 
strength and comfort to the members of his flock, and at the 
same time touching the hearts of those present who are not 
followers of the Divine Master. During the present year 
(1904), he enjoyed a European trip of three months duration 
during which time he studied at the University of Berlin, 
and traveled through Germany, Switzerland, France and 
England; thereby increasing his store of knowledge in a 
large degree. 

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