CHARLES J. E LAUTENSCHLAGER, a well known resident of Glenford, Hopewell township, Perry county, and one whose efforts in behalf of right of moral development and of Christianity have been a potent influence in the affairs of the community in which he has lived, is pastor of St. Paul's and the Good Hope Evangelical Lutheran church of the joint synod of Ohio and other states. He was born in Owen county, Indiana, on the 15th of March, 1869. and is a son of the Rev. J. F. Lautenschlager, who was also a Lutheran minister. His mother bore the maiden name of Leah Cobel, and both are new deceased.
     Amid the refining influences of a good Christian home Mr. Lautenschlager of this review was reared, and the careful training of his parents left its impress for good upon his life. Fortunate is the man who has back of him an honorable ancestry and happy is he if his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. In person, in talents and in character Mr. Lautenschlager is a worthy representative of his race. He began his education in the district schools of Owen county, Indiana, but desiring to further perfect his knowledge he afterward entered the Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, in the year 1892, and was graduated in 1896 on the completion of full classical course, being selected valedictorian by a class of sixteen. He then took a three years course in theology in the same university and was graduated in 1899, whereupon he was ordained to the ministry and followed a call which he had received some months previous to Glenford, Ohio. He had determined to devote his life to this holy calling and his first pastorate is the one of which he is still in charge—the churches of St. Paul's and Good Hope. He is laboring untiringly, earnestly and with steadfast purpose in his efforts to spread the gospel and uplift mankind and his labors are not without desirable results. He is a young man of strong intellectuality, of broad reading and of marked consecration. The two churches of which he has charge are situated about three and one-half miles apart and have a combined membership of three hundred and fifty. The various societies and departments of the churches are now in good working order and Mr. Lautenschlager deserves great credit for what he has already accomplished here in the way of extending the influence of the church and promoting its efficiency.
     On the 29th of June, 1899, Charles J. E. Lautenschlager was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Emma Elsass, a native of Waynesburg, Ohio, and they have two children, Emma Esther and Paul Elsass. Our subject and his wife are one in their efforts to advance the cause of Christianity among their fellow men and both are well known and highly esteemed not only among the people of their own denomination but among the representatives of other churches as well.
Source: A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio - Publ. New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co - 1902 ~ Page 460