Background
George Nathaniel Henry Peters was born on November 30, 1825 in New Berlin, Pennsylvania to Isaac Cyrus Peters and Magdalene Miller.
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His premillennial views were in conflict with the majority of Lutherans who held postmillennial beliefs. He moved with his family to Springfield, Ohio at the age of ten. He enrolled in Wittenberg College in 1846.
Difficulty with his eyes from a gunpowder burn required him to take a break from school during his junior year, but he returned and graduated in 1850.
They had two sons, Edgar Edwards Peters (born 1854) and Charles Cyrus Peters. He served as treasurer of the Wittenberg Synod from 1853 to 1858.
Wittenberg College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1907. Peters died on October 7, 1909, at the age of 83.
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He was a member of the board of directors of Wittenberg College from 1855 to 1859.
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