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John George was born on August 18, 1771 in Germany at Michelstadt in the Odenwald, the second of the six children of John Christopher Schmucker, and came to Pennsylvania with his parents in 1785. After tarrying a year in Lehigh and another year in Lancaster County, the family settled in the Shenandoah Valley just west of Woodstock, Virginia.
In his nineteenth year, Schmucker began to study for the ministry under Paul Henkel, whom he accompanied on one or more trips to the back country. In 1790 he tramped north to Philadelphia to study for two years under J. H. C. Helmuth and J. F. Schmidt.
In 1825 he received the degree of Doctor Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania.
Schmucker became a catechist at Quickel's Church, York County, Pennsylvania, under the supervision of the celebrated Jacob Goering, with whom he read Hebrew. He was licensed in 1793 and ordained in 1800 by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. From 1794 to 1809 he was pastor of the Lutheran Church at Hagerstown, Maryland, and its affiliated congregations.
After Goering's death he was called to take charge of the congregations in and about York, Pennsylvania, and held this post from 1809 to 1836. On May 1, 1814, the York congregation dedicated a new church building, Christ Church, the act of consecration being performed by Friedrich Valentin Melsheimer. Schmucker began about 1820 to conduct some of the services at Christ Church in the English language, and in 1829 he received a congenial assistant in the Rev. Jonathan Oswald. A few years later he precipitated a local tempest by advocating temperance; for a while he was so unpopular that he could collect only half his salary.
He was president (1820 - 21) of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and one of the founders of the General Synod, the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, and the West Pennsylvania Synod, and his services to all these organizations and institutions were important and continued over many years.
Schmucker's published works include The Prophetic History of the Christian Religion, or Explanation of the Revelation of St. John (1817 - 21); Vornehmste Weissagungen der Heiligen Schrift (1807); Die Wachterstimme an Zion's Kinder (1838); Reformations-Geschichte zur Jubelfeier der Reformation (1817); Lieder-Anhang zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch der General Synode (1833).
He left in manuscript a huge commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews and an explanation of Luther's Shorter Catechism, which B. M. Schmucker described as "among the most excellent of its whole class, simple, clear, precise, thoroughly evangelical and distinctly Lutheran in doctrine".
Schmucker resigned his pastorate at York in 1836 and was succeeded by Augustus Hoffman Lochman. He continued to act as pastor of Quickel's Church, which he served in his youth, until 1852.
The last few years of his life were spent at Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, where he died.
John George Schmucker was active in the establishment of Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), and for more than twenty-one years was one of its trustees. For more than thirty years, he was one of the leaders of a Lutheran Church body in the United States. Besides, Schmucker was a founder of the 1821 General Synod of the Lutheran Church in the United States. His famous works: Reformations-Geschichte zur Jubelfeier der Reformation, Wächterstimme an Zion's Kinder, Lieder-Anhang, zum Evang. Gesangbuch der General-Synode and others.
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Schmucker came to Hagerstown a pale, emaciated, diffident youth, whom his parishioners regarded half with wonder and half with pity, but he developed steadily into one of the ablest, most influential ministers of his denomination.
Schmucker was married twice; to Elizabeth Gross of Quickel's, who bore him twelve children and died in 1819; and in 1821 to Anna Hoffman, sister-in-law of John George Lochman, who bore him seven children and outlived him.
