Schaeffer, Charles William

D.D. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1879), Luther an (General Council); b. at Hagerstown, Md., May 5, 1813; graduated at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1832; was pastor in Montgomery County, Penn., 1835-41; at Harris 200 burg, Penn., 1841-49; at German town, Penn., 1849-75; has been profe or in the theological seminary of the Luther an Church, Philadelphia, since 1864; and a member of the Board of Trustees in the University of Pennsylvania since 1857. He is the author of Early History of the Luther an Church in America, Philadelphia, 1857, 2d ed. 1864; Bogatzkfs Golden Treasury, translated 1858, several later editions Family Prayer, a Book of Devotions, 1859, 5th ed. 1885; Halle Reports, translated from the German, with extensive historical, critical, and literary annotations, vol. i., 1880; WackernageVs Life of Luther, translated 1883; Hans Sachs' Wittenberg