History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ
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Daniel Berger was an American United Brethren clergyman and journalist.
Background
Daniel Berger was born on February 14, 1832, near Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Daniel and Esther Boda Berger. His great-grandparents on both sides were emigrants from Germany. When Daniel was six years old, his parents, impelled like their ancestors to seek larger freedom and opportunity, sold their property and fell into line with the stream of immigration westward. A four weeks' journey by wagon brought them to Springfield, Ohio, where Daniel's father bought a farm on which was a log cabin. This the family occupied until a more comfortable home could be built.
Education
Daniel attended the district school in Ohio. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Ohio Methodist Conference high school, where he remained for two years.
Career
Berger was made assistant principal of an academy at New Carlisle, Ohio. After serving here for three years he was appointed principal of one of the two large district schools in Springfield, and later, principal of the newly established high school. During the six years Berger had been teaching, he had been preparing himself privately for the ministry, and in 1854 had been licensed by the Miami Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He served in the pastorate from 1858 to 1864, at which time he was chosen editor of the Religious Telescope, the chief periodical of the United Brethren Church, published at Dayton, Ohio. This office he filled until 1869, when he became editor of the Sunday school literature of his denomination.
His work in this capacity covered a period of twenty-six years, and was marked by careful scholarship and lucid presentation. Beginning with a single children's paper, the publications came to include a complete line of literature for pupils, teachers, and officers. He also served for twelve years as a member of the International Sunday School Lesson Committee.
Achievements
Daniel Berger was a United Brethren clergyman who also served as an editor of the Religious Telescope and later the Sunday school literature of his denomination. He was also known as a contributor to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia and to the American Church History series, and as an author of a History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (1897).
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Religion
Daniel Berger was a member of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Connections
On July 28, 1853, Daniel Berger married Mary Frances Merry, a cousin of Cardinal Merry del Val. She was brought up as a devout Catholic, but later became a Protestant. She was an author of a good-tempered booklet, entitled In and Out of Catholicism.
