The Stoystown congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran church was organized by Rev. Henry Gerhart in 1806. The pastors in order of succession have been;
Rev. Henry Gerhart
Rev. Schmucker
Rev. Heyer
Rev. Haverstick
Rev. Rizer
Rev. Williams
Rev. Lawson
Rev. J. K. Miller
Rev. Peter Sahm
Rev. John Tomlinson
Rev. J. J. Welsh
Rev. J. W. Ryder
Rev. A. K. Felton.
The first church edifice was erected about 1810. The present church was built in 1846, at a cost of eight hundred dollars. The present membership is one hundred and eighty. The congregation is free from debt. There are one hundred and twenty scholars in the sabbath school.
Rev. A. K. Felton, pastor of the Lutheran church, Stoystown, is a native of East Providence township, Bedford county, and a son of Jacob Felton. He graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1872. In 1874, in New York city, he was ordained as a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran church. His first appointment was in Clarksville, New Jersey, where he labored about one year. Thence he went to Kansas as a missionary, and remained two years. Mr. Felton came to Addison in this county in 1878, and to Stoystown in 1882. His earnest work is bringing forth good results.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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