Background
Trabert, George Henry was born on October 16, 1843 in Lancaster Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Christopher A. and Fredericka (Stapff) Trabert.
Trabert, George Henry was born on October 16, 1843 in Lancaster Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Christopher A. and Fredericka (Stapff) Trabert.
Student Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1864-1867. Graduate Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1870. (Doctor of Divinity, Bethany College, Kansas, 1895).
Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1870. Pastor Ephrata, Pennsylvania, 1870-1874, Elizabethtown, 1874-1877, Salem Church, Lebanon, 1877-1883, Saint John's Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1883-1892 (organized 4 churches in Minneapolis, and 1 each in Saint Paul, Red Wing and Duluth). Pastor Warren, Pennsylvania, 1892-1895, Wilkes-Barre, 1896-1897, Salem Church, Minneapolis, 1897-July 1920, when retired from active ministry.
President Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North.W., 1901-1904.
A founder, 1905, and president Lutheran Inner Mission Society of Minneapolis, to 1915. Delegate to 16 conversations
General Council Lutheran Church in America. Author: Spurious Revivals, 1875.
Outlines of Church History, 1880.
Mission Among the Telugus, 1890. Church History for the People, 1897. English Lutheranism in the Northwest, 1914.
Translator: Life of Luther in Picture and Verse, 1882.
Home: 2714 Pleasant Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Married M. Elizabeth Minnigh, of Gettysburg, June 23, 1870.