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MARSHALL COLLEGE
Class of 1860 Obituaries
Albert Eichler CARPENTER, Esq., the oldest child of
William and Caroline (Eichler) Carpenter, was born at Earlville, Lancaster county, Pa., September 26, 1841. As
his parents had taken up their residence in Lancaster city while Mr. Carpenter was in his earliest years, he received
his preparatory education in the public schools of that place, and in the private school of Rev. M. Coit. In the fall of
1856 he entered the Freshman class and was graduated with the honor of the Franklin oration in 186o. He was a
member of the Goethean Literary Society, and an occasional contributor to the local journals on subjects of political
and literary interest.
After his graduation, Mr. Carpenter joined his father in
the business of surveying and conveyancing. In 1861 he went with Col. Emlyn Franklin's regiment to Washington,
where he remained nine months, serving as clerk to General Casey. He began to read law in the office of the Hon.
O. J. Dickey in 1864, and later read under James, L. Reynolds, Esq. (1841), and was admitted to practice at the
Lancaster bar in 1867.
In this same year, January 30, he married Elizabeth A.,
daughter of George Louis and Sarah J. Eckert, of Paradise township, Lancaster county. In the following year his only
child, Minnie Eckert Carpenter, was born and in less than two years both wife and child had died. Oppressed by the
burden of. exceptional domestic sorrow Mr. Carpenter gradually lost his vigorous health and after a lingering illness
died December 14, 1871, at the home of his parents just east of Lancaster.
Mr. Carpenter had scarcely had time to enter very deeply
into the affairs of his especial day, but that his young life gave promise of unusual achievement is evidenced by a
series of resolutions passed by the members of the Lancaster bar upon the occasion of his death. "Society could
little afford to lose a man so honest and so good."
[Miss Elizabeth Carpenter; Rev. U. H.
Heilman.]
Rev. William Augustus GRING, son of Rev. Daniel and
Catharine (Morrison) Gring, was born at Paradise, Northumberland county, Pa., January 12, 1838. When he was about
fifteen years of age he removed with his parents to Shrewsbury, York county, Pa., where he was confirmed, May 6,
1854. He received his preparatory training at McEwensville and Franklin and Marshall academies. He entered
the Freshman class in 1856 and was regularly graduated with his class in 186o. He was a
Diagnothian.
He completed the course of theological studies at
Mercersburg in 1862, and in October, the same year, was licensed to preach by the Synod in session at Chambersburg,
Pa. In 1863 he was commended by the Board of Visitors of the Theological Seminary and elected by the Synod,
which had convened at Carlisle, Pa., as travelling fellow in accordance with the provision of the theological tutorship
scheme. This honor he declined. He was ordained June 8, 1863.
His ministry was as follows: Grantville charge, Somerset
county, from April, 1863, for two years and four months; Harrisburg mission, from August, 1865, for over two years;
assistant to Rev. J. W. Steinmetz, at Danville, Pa., for six months; Mount Moriah (Md.) charge, from October, 1869,
for seven years; Sulphur Springs mission, Bedford county, Pa., for five years; Emmitsburg (Md.) charge, from July,
1881, one year.
His health failing he removed to Somerset county, Pa.,
October 1, 1882, and engaged as agent of the White Bronze Statuary and Monumental Works for two years. The
business being distasteful to him he returned to Maryland in October, 1884, and located on a small farm about a mile
from Frederick, where he died of consumption February 8, 1889. He lies buried in Mt. Olivet cemetery, Frederick.
He was married to Miss Emma A. Stonebraker, November 20, 1873, and was the father of two daughters, one of
whom preceded him into the eternal world. The other, Naomi Catharine, resides with her mother at Frederick.
[College Student, 9: 115; Mrs. A. K. Deihl; Rev. E. R.
Eschbach, D. D.; Rev. U. H. Heilman.]
Jonathan Hetrick RHINESMITH was born January 21,
1834, and entered the Freshman class from Blain, Perry county, Pa., in 1856. The maiden name of his mother
was Mary Hetrick. He was a member of the Goethean Society and graduated in 186o, with the honor of the
English salutatory. He taught in the public schools two terms, studied theology for a time at Mercersburg and then
entered the army. While in the army he lost his life, but the circumstances of his death are not known. Several of his
sisters are living somewhere in the West.
[Henry Rinesmith.]
Albert John SCHOLLENBERGER, son of Wm. E. and
Catherine E. (Lewars) Schollenberger, was born at Hamburg, Berks county, Pa., January 18, 1839. He attended
the public schools of Hamburg, and then the boarding school of James S. Lee (185o), in Reading, Pa. In 1856
Rev. Jos. H. Apple, D. D., opened the Blue Mountain Seminary at Hamburg, and Mr. Schollenberger entered as a
student and at the same time held the position of assistant. During his connection with this institution he prepared for
college. He entered the Sophomore class in 1857. He was a member of the Diagnothian Literary Society.
After leaving college he taught a country school and
pursued the study of law. He engaged in surveying for a time and also clerked for a contractor. At the outbreak of
the Civil War, he was instrumental in raising a company of cavalry, which was known as Capt. Richard's
Independent Company of Cavalry. This company was afterwards Co. M, 1st Pa. Cavalry. He was sworn into the U. S.
service, August 5, 1861, was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant, and remained with the company until the beginning of 1862.
On an expedition under General Dix, to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, he contracted a cold through exposure, and
was compelled to leave the service.
After resigning his command he went to Washington,
D. C., and for a short time held the position of reporter on the staff of the Army and Navy Gazette. He did not,
however, improve in health and therefore returned to his home with evidences of pulmonary trouble. After a lingering
illness he died May 1, 1863, at his home at Hamburg. He was a conscientious, Christian gentleman, an able
scholar, and very greatly respected by all who knew him.
[Bates, 1 : 1052; Rev. U. H. Heilman; L. A.
Schollenberger, M. D.]
Source: Franklin and Marshall College
Obituary Record, Edited for the Alumni Association, Vol. 1, No.1, Lancaster,
Pa. Published by the Alumni Association of Franklin and Marshall
College, June 1897.
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