Background
Fry, Jacob was born on February 9, 1834 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Honorary Jacob and Mary (Gross) Fry.
Fry, Jacob was born on February 9, 1834 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Honorary Jacob and Mary (Gross) Fry.
Bachelor of Arts, Union College, 1851. Graduate Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1853. (Doctor of Divinity, 1873, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1911, Union College.
Doctor of Laws, Muhlenberg College, 1911).
Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1853. Pastor, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1854-1865, Trinity Church, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1865-1896. Professor homiletics and sacred oratory, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, since 1891.
Removed to Philadelphia, 1896.
President Lutheran Mission and Church Extension Society Author: Elementary Homiletics, 1897. The Pastor’s Guide, 1915.
Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Eliza J. Wattles, September 13, 1855.
