Rechenberg, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm

Rechenberg, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm a Lutheran minister, was born Feb. 10, 1817, at Barnickow, near Konigsberg, in Prussia. From 1835 to 1840 he studied in the seminary of the Berlin Missionary Society, and in 1841 he came to this country to work among his countrymen. His first pastorate was at Syracuse, N. Y., where he labored for about fifteen years. In the year 1855 he was called to Albany, at which place he remained three years. He then went to Canada, where he labored for thirteen years in Toronto and for five years at Montreal. Amongs his co-religionists he was a prominent, member, and was the first president of the Canadian synod. He also edited for a long time the paper of his denomination, and as president of the Missionary Board he cared for his countrymen with word and sacrament. His bodily infirmities obliged him to retire from his large field of labor, and he accepted the call of a small congregation at Port Chester, N.Y., in 1875, where he died Dec. 13, 1877. (B. P.)