Rev. Conrad Ide with history of Hawkeye area Lutheran Church

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Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/2/2002 at 16:52:10

Rev. Conrad Ide

Rev. Conrad Ide, pastor of Zion's Congregation, German Lutheran Church, was born in Jesberg, Province of Fritzlar, Hessen, Prussia, July 25, 1837. At the age of seventeen he emigrated to America in 1854, locating in Detroit, Michigan. Three years later, in 1857, he went to Clayton County, Iowa and entered Wartburg Seminary, an institution of learning conducted by the German Lutheran Synod of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1861. Soon after he was ordained a minister of the gospel in the church of his choice and received a call from a congregation in Marine City, Michigan, where he remained eight years, and the six succeeding years he spent as pastor of a church in Ottawa Lake, Michigan. In the spring of 1874, he was called to the church in Iowa City, Iowa, continuing his pastoral duties there until 1879, when he accepted the pastorate of his present charge. As an evidence of Mr. Ide's devoted and successful labors in the ministry, it would be eminently proper to record some of the results of his life work. Previous to locating here, he baptized and admitted to probationar