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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Hanser, Carl Johann Otto |
| Title, Monographic | Irrfahrten und Heimfahrten: Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben |
| Place of Publication | Buffalo, N.Y. |
| Publisher | Lutheran Publishing Co. |
| Date of Publication | 1910 |
| Extent of Work | 291 pp., illustrations, portraits |
| Notes | On title page verso: Press of the Erie Printing Company, Erie, PA. --- Vorerinnerung written in St. Louis, 1909. |
| MKI Annotation | Inscription written in Bay City, Michigan, Christmas 1915. --- Rev. C. J. Otto Hanser, D. D., was a native of [Schopfloh] Bavaria and came to America in 1848, being forced to leave his native country on account of his political activity in opposition to monarchial rule He was a highly educated man, a graduate of one of the leading German universities and until he took up the study of theology had quite an adventurous life, being obliged to leave Bavaria because of his activities against the crown. He managed to get out of the country to England and there secured a position as a seaman on a sailing vessel. He sailed the seas for four voyages, finally landing in New York, where he obtained a position as an accountant with a leading wholesale tobacco firm. It was his desire, however, to enter the ministry and his talents well qualified him for a professional career of that character, and moreover, inherited tendency as well as natural predilection led him in that direction, for through more than two hundred years members of the family had been connected with the work of the ministry. Rev. Mr. Hanser accordingly came to St. Louis, Missouri, and in due course of time was graduated with high honors from the Concordia Theological Seminary. He was then assigned to a pastorate in Boston, Massachusetts, where he labored in the church for seven years and on the expiration of that period accepted a pastorate at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he continued for an equal time. While thus engaged he was also a director in the Concordia Lutheran College of Fort Wayne and in educational work he thereafter continued to the time of his death. He removed from Fort Wayne to St. Louis to become pastor of Trinity Lutheran church at Eighth and Lafayette avenue, this being the first church of the denomination established in the city. He continued as pastor for thirty-three years, greatly loved by his own people and honored and esteemed by those of other denominations. He passed away in 1910, at the age of seventy-eight years, leaving a memory that is enshrined in the hearts of all who knew him and which is a blessed benediction to those with whom he was associated. Extracted from Centennial History of Missouri: He married Margaret De Prez, a native of France, born on the German-French border, of French parentage. She came to America In 1861 with her parents, who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, and there in her mother's home she became the bride of the Rev. C. J. Otto Hanser. To them were born three children, two sons and a daughter, the eldest being Dr. Hanser, of this review. The second son, Rev. Arthur Hanser, D. D., is now a minister of Brooklyn, New York. The daughter, Johanna, is the wife of the Rev. Otto Ungemach, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [C. J. Otto Hanser died on 10 January 1910 in St. Louis.] |
| Donated by | Esther Gieschen, 1990. |
| Call Number | PIA NY (Buffalo) |
| MKI Terms | Autobiography/ Lutherans |