Background
Kieffer, Henry Martyn was born on October 5, 1845 in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Ephraim and Eleanor (Spangler) Kieffer.
Kieffer, Henry Martyn was born on October 5, 1845 in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Ephraim and Eleanor (Spangler) Kieffer.
Enlisted as drummer boy 150th Pennsylvania Volumes at 16. Served 3 years; Bachelor of Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, 1870, with the highest grade ever made in the history of the college. Graduate Theological Seminary of Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1873.
Doctor of Divinity, Ursinus College, 1887.
Pastor Reformed Church, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1873-1884, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1884-1903. Received into Protestant Episcopal Church, January 1903. Author: The Recollections of a Drummer Boy, 1883.
Joint Editor: The Reformed Church Hymnal, 1890.
The First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware, 1905. lieutenant Is to Laugh, 1907.
The Funny-Bone, 1910. Short Stories of the Hymns, 1912.
Laugh Again, 1913; More Laughs, 1923.
Home: Atlantic City, New Jersey Deceased.
Married Mary East. Miley, September 2, 1873. Children: Evelyn (deceased), Edna Jeanne (deceased), Henry Mylin.