Cornwell, We

Cornwell, W.E.

a German Reformed minister, was born in Philadelphia, December 8, 1807. In early life he was a Presbyterian. In 1836 he became a licensed minister in the German Reformed Church, and took charge of a congregation in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Later, he was pastor at Bohms (in Whitpaine), Pleasantville, and Whitemarsh. In 1850 he left the German Church and was immersed by Reverend Mr. Smith. From 1853 to 1857 he was pastor of the Baptist churches at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and Bridgeton, N.J., and later at Princeton. He died March 29, 1858. See Harbaugh, Fathers of the Germ. Ref. Church, 3:488.