Ninety years ago today, Concordia Seminary dedicated its new campus located in Clayton, Missouri. The dedication event was attended by a reported 75,000 people. It was an amazing gathering of people who were excited about this new seminary campus which they prayed would continue to train young men to become pastors in the Lutheran Church-Missouri … More A New Seminary Home – 90 Years Ago
June 11th was a special day in the history of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Concordia Seminary. A Log Cabin College had been built outside Altenburg, Missouri in 1839. After several years as a German gymnasium, this institution transitioned to become a seminary with the purpose of training young men for the ministry. After the … More A New Home for the Seminary
May 27, 1873, was the wedding date for a couple whose parents spent some of their early time after the immigration in Perry County. Both of the groom’s parents and both of the bride’s parents spent those early years in and around Altenburg. The groom was Ferdinand Gerhard Walther and the bride was Bertha Emilie … More A Special Wedding with Perry County Roots
February 17, 1869 was the birthday of Rev. Henry Adam Klein. He was born in Klein, Texas (now called Spring, Texas). The town of Klein was named after Adam Klein, Rev. Klein’s father. Rev. Klein’s connection to East Perry County is the fact that he was the pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wittenberg … More Klein from Klein
