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MARSHALL COLLEGE
Class of 1862 Obituaries
Abraham Schultz GERHARD, A. M., M. D., the son of
Samuel and Susana (Schultz) Gerhard, was born in Upper Hanover township, Montgomery county, Pa., June to,
1840. He died December 15, 1891. He fitted for college in the academy at Allentown under the Rev. Dr. Kessler. In the
fall of 1859 he entered the Freshman class, and was graduated in 1863. He was a
Goethean.He studied medicine in the office of Dr. C. W. P. Fisher of Boalsburg, Pa., entered the Medical Department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1864, and was graduated in 1866. He at once began the practice of medicine in the
city of Philadelphia, and with marked success. In the Medico-Chirurgical College of his adopted city, Dr.
Gerhard was a member of the faculty, at different times occupying the chairs of surgery, physiology, chemistry, materia
medica, therapeutics, pathology, medical jurisprudence, and clinical medicine. At the time of his death he was the only
remaining member of the original faculty of that institution. He was a writer of recognized authority upon professional
subjects, and completed a book of prescriptions. He discovered the specific action of chestnut leaves in whooping
cough. Of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Medico-Legal Society he was an active member for a
number of years.
Dr. Gerhard was the Alumni orator at the
commencement of his Alma Mater in 1885, and had for the subject of his address, " The Future University." He was a man of
marked humility, his friends and professional associates recognizing his ability and attainments more than he did
himself.
September 4, 1866, he was married to Miss Amelia
Pilgram of Philadelphia, sister of Rev. Frederick Pilgram, his classmate. Six children were born to them, four of whom
survive: Samuel P. (M. D., Medico-Chirurgical, 1891); Frederick W.; Amelia J.; and William C.
[College Student, 12: 76; Reformed Church Messenger,
December, 1891; Samuel P. Gerhard, M. D.]
Levi Mock KOOKS, A. M., son of Michael and Anna
(Mock) Koons, was born at Frederick, Montgomery county, Pa., January 4, 1839. He died September 23, 1882, at
Boyertown, Berks county, Pa., where his remains are buried. He prepared for college at Frederick Institute,
near his home. He entered the Sophomore class in 1860, and was graduated in 1863. The degree of A. M. was
conferred upon him in course. He was a Goethean.
Upon his graduation he associated himself with the Rev.
Levi C. Sheip (1861) in the conduct of a classical school for boys at Doylestown, Pa. From 1867 to 1878 he had charge
of Mt. Pleasant Seminary at Boyertown, discontinuing his work as a teacher on account of failing health. In 1875 he
was elected justice of the peace; in 1879 secretary of the Borough Council and director of the public schools of the
town. These offices he held at the time of his death.
Mr. Koons was married March 30, 1869, to Miss Harriet
Loury, of Greshville, Berks county, who, with one son, Frederick, survived him. He was an honored member of the
Boyertown Reformed church, and for many years secretary of the consistory of the congregation. He was active in the
church and for a long time identified with Sunday-school work.
[Rev. Levi C. Sheip.]
Richard Cecil NEVIN, A. M., the third son of the Rev.
John Williamson Nevin, D. D., LL. D. (Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1821), and his wife, Martha
Nevin, daughter of the Hon. Robert Jenkins of Windsor Forge, Lancaster county, Pa., was born at Mercersburg, Pa., April
15, 1843. He prepared for college at the Franklin and Marshall Academy, entered the Freshman class in 1859, and was
graduated with his class in 1863. He received his A. M. degree in course. He was a member of the Diagnothian
Literary Society. During the war, at the time of the Gettysburg invasion, he went out with a company of
volunteers to defend Columbia and Harrisburg, Pa. He served afterwards on the Sanitary Commission in Maryland and
Virginia. For a year or more he taught in a private school for boys at Oxford, Pa. Afterwards he entered the General
Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City, where he was a member of the class
which graduated in 1868. He died in Lancaster, Pa., March 22, 1867, and is buried in Woodward Hill cemetery in that
city.
[Miss Alice Nevin.)
Rev. Frederick PILGRAM, A. M., fifth son of William
George and Christina (Drexel) Pilgram, was born in Hundelshausen, Hesse Cassel, Germany, December 24, 1837.
In 1851 he came to America and together with his mother and sisters settled in Philadelphia. Here he attended the
public schools until he went to the Allentown Seminary, in 1856, to prepare for college. He entered the Sophomore
class in 186o, became a member of the Goethean Society, and graduated in 1863. While at college Mr. Pilgram
was the leader of a famous vocal quartette and was interested in all kinds of music.
Entering the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa.,
after graduation, he completed his course there in 1866. In the same year he was licensed to preach the Gospel by
the Philadelphia Classis, dismissed to St. Paul's Classis, and installed as pastor of the Shenango charge, consisting of
five congregations in Mercer county, Pa., with pastoral residence at Greenville. On October 8, 1868, he was
received by Lancaster Classis, when he became pastor of the Reformed congregation of Columbia, Pa.; and on
November 21, 1872, he was dismissed by Lancaster Classis to St. Paul's Classis, where he became for the second time pastor
of the Shenango charge, then consisting of four congregations. He continued as pastor of this charge for fifteen
years, when he accepted the Irwin charge, consisting of two congregations, which he served until 189o. During this
pastorate he erected a new church building at Irwin. From 1890 to 1892 he lived at Greenville, Pa., serving as a supply
several congregations in Mercer county, and acting as the agent of the Professorship Endowment Fund, in St. Paul's
Classis. For a short time he lived at Braddock, Pa., and on August 20, 1892, was received by Lancaster Classis as
pastor of the Bethany charge, consisting of congregations at Brickerville, Ephrata, and White Oak, Lancaster county,
Pa. During his last pastorate he resided at Lititz, Pa.October 25, 1869, Rev. Pilgram was married to Elizabeth
Hester, only daughter of Dr. William Moore, of Womelsdorf, Pa. Mrs. Pilgram died September 24, 1894; Rev.
Pilgram, July 5, 1896, leaving six sons and a daughter: Wiliam M., Frederick N., George E., Robert J., Mary
Anna, Herbert E., and Ernest A. Rev. Pilgram died at the hospital of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
from the result of an operation performed on the left side of the neck for a tumorous growth.
He was twice president of Lancaster Classis, in 1872 and
in 1896. The first time he left the Classis without a president, on his removal to the western part of the State, and the
second time, Classis was without a president, on account of his death.
[Rev. D. W. Gerhard ; Robert James Pilgram.]
John Theodore REINECKE, the youngest son of the
Rev. John and Fredricka (Schaeffer) Reinecke, and brother of Rev. E. W. Reinecke, D. D. (1843), was born at
Shrewsbury, York county, Pa., December 1o, 1841. The elder John Reinecke was one of the fathers of the Reformed
Church, and this son was his companion in travel as he drove from one church to another among the eight
congregations of which he had charge in the sparsely settled district of the southern part of the county.
At the threshold of young manhood the father died, and
the son went to York, Pa., where he attended the York County Academy, and prepared for college. He entered
the Sophomore class in 186o, took a most active interest in all college affairs, and in the Goethean Literary Society, of
which he was a member. Just before graduation his entire class was called out to aid in the defence of the bridge over
the Susquehanna river at Columbia, when Pennsylvania was threatened by an invasion by the Southern troops; and so
the class received their diplomas without the formality of regular commencement exercises.
Immediately after graduation he became a tutor in
Nazareth Hall, a boarding school at Nazareth, Pa., and after a year's service here went to Summit Hill, Carbon county,
Pa., where he became principal of the public school. After three years of most acceptable service in this capacity he left
the teacher's profession to accept a position in the office of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. at that place.
About this time, June 23, 1868, he married Miss Olive E.
Farnsworth, daughter of Col. David Farnsworth of Smithfield, Bradford county, Pa.
In July of the same year he was assigned by the Company
to look after their interests at their shipping port in New Brunswick, N. J.; and at this place and with this Company
he continued until his death. In 1876 he also engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business in his own behalf, and
soon built, up a thriving trade.
In New Brunswick he became identified with the
educational, musical, and religious interests of the city. For four years previous to his death he was a member of the Board
of Education. He was an active and valued member of the Second Presbyterian church, where he held the several
offices of trustee, elder, superintendent of Sabbath-school and choir leader. In politics he was a staunch Republican,
and at one time was the candidate for mayor of New Brunswick on the Republican ticket.
He died suddenly on Palm Sunday, April 6, 1884, leaving
a widow, two sons and two daughters : Edward Farnsworth, of Chicago; and Lillian Fredricka, Edna Myrtilla, and
Robert Haven, of New Brunswick. He was buried in Elmwood cemetery in New Brunswick.
[Mrs. Olive E. Reinecke.]
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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