Frederick B. Hahn,
son of Richard and Sophia (Bender) Hahn, was born in Plainfield
Township, Northampton County, Pa., Sept. 8th, 1847. He
graduated from
Kutztown Normal School in 1869; from Franklin and Marshall College in
1875, and from the Lancaster Seminary in 1878. He was
licensed to
preach in 1878 by Lancaster Classis, and ordained by St. Paul’s
Classis, the same year. He was pastor of the Greenville
congregation
in Mercer County, Pa., for six years. From 1884 to 1885 he
served the
Mt. Pleasant charge in Westmoreland County, Pa.; from 1885 to 1888, the
Meadville charge, in Crawford County, Pa.; from 1888 to 1889 he served
the English Mission in Cleveland, Ohio; and from 1889 to 1892 a newly
organized congregation in Kutztown, with one at Topton; and from 1892
to 1901 he was pastor Faith and St. James Congregations, Reading,
Pa.
He was stated clerk of Reading Classis. He died in his home
in
Reading, May 16th, 1901, aged fifty-three years eight months and eight
days.
Source: The History of
the Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church in the United
States:
prepared in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, by David B.
Lady, 1920, pages 176-177
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