Glossbrenner, Jacob John

D.D. (Otter be in University, Westerville, O., and Lebanon- Valley College, Annville, Penn., both 1873, and declined; Lebanon-Valley College, 1884), a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ; b. at Hagerstown, Md., July 24, 1813; educated in common schools; apprenticed to a silversmith; converted in 1830, and began reading theological books; was licensed to preach by the Virginia Annual Conference, 1833, and continued to preach as an itinerant mi ionary, circuit preacher, and presiding elder, till May, 1849, when he was first elected bishop; re-elected for ten quadrennial terms; in May, 1885, elected bishop emeritus, and is now senior bishop without any a igned district of labor. Several of his occasional sermons have been published in the denominational organ, The Religious Telescope, Dayton, O.