Background
Pfotenhauer, Frederick was born on April 22, 1859 in near Celle, Hanover, Germany. Son of Review Hermann and Louise (Köhler) Pfotenhauer.
Pfotenhauer, Frederick was born on April 22, 1859 in near Celle, Hanover, Germany. Son of Review Hermann and Louise (Köhler) Pfotenhauer.
Gymnasium, Celle; came to America, 1875. Graduate Concordia College, Indiana, 1877. Graduate Concordia Seminary, Missouri, 1880, Doctor of Divinity, 1920.
Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1880. Pastor, Odessa, Minnesota, and traveling missionary in Minnesota and the tys. of Dakota and Montana, 1880-1887. Pastor at Lewiston, Minnesota, 1887-1894, Hamburg, Minnesota, 1894-1911.
President Minnesota and Dakota
District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states, 1891-1908. 1st vice president, 1908-1911, president, 1911-1935, then honorary president Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states.
Home: Chicago, Illinois.
Married Helene Brauer, October 10, 1882. Children: Gertrud, Martha, Else, Martin, Hermann, Helen, Ernst, Dorothea, Karl, Esther, Friedrich.