Background
The Review Beale M. Schmucker, Doctor of Divinity was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the son of German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian Samuel Simon Schmucker and Mary Catherine Steenbergen.
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The Review Beale M. Schmucker, Doctor of Divinity was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the son of German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian Samuel Simon Schmucker and Mary Catherine Steenbergen.
He was graduated from Pennsylvania College during 1844.
In 1847, Schmucker was a graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Schmucker served as Secretary of the Alumni Association of Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary at the time of his death in 1888. In 1870 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania.
Schmucker was the pastor of Lutheran churches in Martinsburg, Virginia and Shepherdstown, Virginia, 1847-1851.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1852. Easton, Pennsylvania, 1862.
Reading, Pennsylvania, 1867. And Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1881-1888.
In particular, Schmucker worked to revive historic liturgical practice.
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