Rev. John Krout Rosenberger

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Rev John Rosenberger in 1838 changed his name from Rosenberry to Rosenberger. In 1860 his children changed further the name to Rosenberg. He was born in Montg co, Pa. He was a minister in the Mennonites, and in after life of the Evangelical assn. At the annual session of the conference of the Evangelical association church in Pa in 1838, he was licensed to preach and was sent as an assistant to travel the Lancaster circuit, and in 1839 as an assistant on the NY circuit. The work in the church at that time was more in order of missionary work, with much traveling, and constantly every day preaching with many hardships to endure and small salaries. He, having a wife and six children, his small capital sank to $400, which forced him to locate in 1840, when he and his family moved to eastern Ohio, then a new country, where other members of his father's family had proceeded him. He bought a small farm of 80 acres in Knox Twp, Columbiana County and supported his family by farming, still continuing to preach on Sunday the balance of his life and died in 1853, honored by all that knew him.