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REV.
E. ORTLEPP. For eleven
years Rev. E. Ortlepp has been the beloved pastor of St.
Paul's Lutheran church of Greenville, Ohio, and has ministered
faithfully to the spiritual needs of his people and has given power
and effective aid to all influences which work for the advancement
of the community.
He was born Apr. 23, 1867, in the city of Naumburg,
Germany, in which country his parents spent their entire lives.
He was reared and educated in his native land. After leaving
the select school where his primary training was received he entered
the university at Halle and later in Berlin. Subsequently he
was a student at the theological seminary at Breklum,
Schleswig-Holstein.
In 1888 Mr. Ortlepp came to the United States,
landing in New York city. He accepted his first charge as the
pastor of a Lutheran church at Paterson, New Jersey, where he
remained one year and on the 15th of September, 1889, came to
Greenville as the pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church. he
also has charge of the church at Wakefield, Darke county, the two
churches having a membership of three hundred. The church
edifice at Greenville, was erected in 1891 at a cost of fifteen
thousand dollars. On the 10th of November, 1889, Mr.
Ortlepp was ordained in the old Methodist Episcopal church at
Greenville by Dr. Severinghaus, of Chicago, by the authority
of the New York and New Jersey Lutheran synods, and he is now the
manager and treasurer of the literary board of the Lutheran Wartburg
and Nebraska synods of the Lutheran book department, and it is
manager of religious periodicals and author of Lutheran catechisms,
almanacs and other literary works. He devotes his entire time
and attention to the work of the church, and under his pastorate the
congregations of which he now has charge have largely increased and
have been greatly strengthened spiritually.
On the 18th of October, 1892, Mr. Ortlepp
married Miss Gertrude Henne, the only daughter of the late
Daniel Henne, a prominent citizen and for many years a leading
merchant of Greenville. Mrs. Ortlepp was born and
reared in that place and was educated in its high school. She
is an accomplished lady and has been of great help to her husband in
his work.
Source:
A Biographical History of Darke County, Ohio,
Compendium of National Biography - Illustrated - Publ. Evansville,
Ind. - 1900
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