Alsentz, John George

Alsentz, John George, a German Reformed minister, emigrated to America in 1757; was pastor of a Church in Philadelphia, and while serving there accepted a call to Germantown in 1758, where he remained until 1762. From Germantown he was called in 1763 to Wentz's Church in Montgomery County, and was especially active in its erection. Here he labored seven years, and died in 1769. See Harbaugh, Fathers of the German Ref. Church, 2, 97.