Bausman, Benjamin

D.D. (Franklin and Marshall College, 1870), Reformed (German); b. at Lancaster, Penn., Jan. 28, 1824; graduated at Marshall College, and the theological seminary, Mercers burg, Penn., 1852; became pastor at Lewis burg, Penn., 1852; editor of The Reformed Me enger, published at Chambers burg, Penn., 1858; pastor there, 1861; at Reading, 1863 (First Reformed Church till 1873, since of St. Paul's, which he organized). He was delegate to German Church Diet at Liibeck, 1856, and to Council of Alliance of Reformed Churches held at Belfast, 1884; president of General Synod, Baltimore, Md., 1884. He is the author of Sinai and Zion (travels), Philadelphia, 1860, 7th ed. 1883 (German trans., Reading, Penn., 1875, 2d ed. 1885); Wayside Gleanings in Europe, Reading, 1876; edited The Guardian, 1867-82; Harbaugh's Harfe (poems), 1870; founded, and since has edited, Der Reformirle Hausfreund, 1867 sqq.