Background
Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon was born on August 26, 1827 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Sion and Mary Catherine (Steenbergen) Schmucker.
Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon was born on August 26, 1827 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Sion and Mary Catherine (Steenbergen) Schmucker.
Graduate Pennsylvania College (later Gettysburg College), 1844. Graduate Gettysburg Theological Seminary, 1847. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, University of Pennsylvania, 1870.
Synod, Lutheran Church, 1847, ordained by Virginia Synod, 1849. Pastor Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), 1848-1851, Saint John's English Lutheran Church, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1852-1862, Saint John's Church, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1862-1867, Saint James Church, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1867-1881, Church of Transfiguration, Pottstown, West Virginia, 1881-1888. English secretary, board directors Philadelphia Theological Seminary, 1864-1888.
Secretary board foreign missions Ministerium of Pennsylvania and General Council Evangelical Lutheran Church in American Author: A Liturgy for the Use of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1860, 68, 71.
Editor Hymns for the Use of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1865, 68.
Married Christiana M. Pretz, March 6, 1860, 2 children.