Incredible Historic Ephemera Of John George Butler Clergy To The Senate

Incredible Historic Ephemera Of John George Butler, Clergy To The Senate.
John George Butler was born in Cumberland, Maryland on January 28, 1826, the son of Jonathan Butler.[1] His paternal grandfather and namesake was a well-known pioneer minister of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He was educated at the Cumberland Academy and graduated from the Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), and the Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He worked for a time at his father's store in Berlin, Pennsylvania.
Ordained in 1848, he became pastor of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C. in 1849, serving there twenty-four years. He was one of the first regimental and hospital chaplains appointed by President Abraham Lincoln at the outbreak of the American Civil War. He also served as chaplain to George Atzerodt, one of Lincoln's assassins, assuring him of divine compassion even to the gallows.[3] At the end of the war he returned to Washington and was elected Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. There are two document from John George and C. H. Butler.

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