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REV. HENRY S. FEGLEY. In the life of this honored gentleman there is much for the reader to admire and emulate, and it therefore affords us pleasure to incorporate in this volume the main events in his useful and honorable career. He has charge at the present time of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Tripoli where he has been stationed for nearly a quarter of a century.

Our subject was born in Boyertown, Berks County, this state, on the 15th of December, 1843, and is the son of John and Maria (Swinehart) Fegley, both of whom are now deceased. Henry S. was reared to man’s estate in Boyertown, Berks County, and received his early training in Mt. Pleasant Seminary in that place. He afterward studied under private teachers until September, 1866, when he entered the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, where he took the regular course and was graduated in June, 1869.

Rev. Mr. Fegley’s first charge consisted of five congregations, namely: Ebenezer, at New Tripoli; Jacob’s, at Jacksonville; St. Peter’s, at Lynnville; St. Paul’s, at Seiberlingville, and Jerusalem, in Albany Township, Berks County. On assuming the control of these congregations our subject located at Lynnville, where he resided until the fall of 1891, when he came to New Tripoli. He was married September 5, 1871, to Miss Alice J. Long, a native of North Whitehall Township. She was the daughter of Ephraim Long, who was born in Egypt, this state, and of whom a sketch will appear on another page in this work.

To Mr. and Mrs. Fegley has been born a daughter, Annie M. During the years our subject has been engaged in the ministry he has been instrumental in advancing the welfare of his charges, and also in increasing their numerical strength, and his faithful ministry has gained him a large number of friends.