Rev. J.G. Rembold 1879

REMBOLD, PROTTENGERER

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REV. I.[sic] G. REMBOLD, Pastor of the Lutheran Church and Superintendent of Orphan Asylum, Andrew; was born in Kirshheim am Necker, O.B. Bessigheim, Koenigs Wurtemberg, June 24, 1832. He received a liberal education in the High Schools in Germany. In 1852, emigrated to the United States, and entered the Fayette University, Fayette Co., Iowa, where he received a preparatory education, which fitted him for the study of theology. He then entered the Wartburg Lutheran Seminary, where he finished his education and was ordained. In 1864, he was appointed Pastor of the Lutheran Church at Marine City, Mich., where he remained but a short time, when he was transferred to Sanilac, Mich., and had pastoral charge of the Church there until 1867, when he removed to Iowa and acted as assistant Pastor at Andrew a few months; then was appointed Pastor of the Church at Bellevue, and also had charge of churches at Spragueville and Van Buren, until 1873, when he was called again to Andrew as its Pastor, the pastorate of which place, with Lost Nation, Clinton Co., he is the present incumbent of. He has also had charge of the Orphan Asylum of this place since 1873. Mr. Rembold is a man of rare gifts. A diligent student, he finds time, amid his manifold duties, to cultivate his taste for literature, and he is unexcelled in his unselfish devotion and fidelity to the welfare of his parishioners. June 13, 1865, he married, in Detroit, Mich., Miss Lena Prottengerer; they have six children - Barbara, Godfreid, John, Albert, Christoph and Paulis. – 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg 738.