rev john seger (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 12mo. hardcover in blindstamped dark brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Large oval albumen photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. 204 pp. Good to very good, spine gilt dulled, offsetting to the tile page from the facing photograph, some shallow tidemarking to the outer margins of pp. 99-172. Binding is firm. There is an old pencil signature and notation "Trenton" on the front free endpaper and on the second front blank from added up numbers and a receipt for eight dollars in rent dated October 5, 1876. The Rev. John Seger (1786-1870) was native of New York City, joining the First Baptist Church there in April, 1803. His grandfather was a successful businessman, a manufacturer of ship anchors, and John followed him into business and obtained a "patent right for the first cooking stove that was ever invented". He was ordained in 1813 and would eventually become pastor of Baptists churches in Penns Neck, New Jersey, Jamaica (then identified as part of Long Island), and Lambertville, New Jersey. Seger later relocated to Hightstown, New Jersey and became the third pastor of the Baptist Church there, remaining there until his death on November 19, 1870.