BUDACH, REV. RICHARD PAUL

BUDACH, PILGRIM

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Biography reproduced from page 512 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Rev. Richard Paul Budach, the present pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Whitman, Kossuth Co., Iowa, was born in Guben, Prussia, July 31, 1860, and is the son of J. G. and Anna E. Budach, natives of Prussia. He came with his parents to America in 1866. They settled in Chicago, where they now reside. The subject of this sketch, at the age of fourteen years, entered the University of Fort Wayne, Ind., and remained six years. In 1879 he entered the theological seminary at Springfield, Ill., to prepare for the ministry. He was ordained a minister of the gospel, Nov. 18, 1883, and soon after assumed the charge of his present Church. His congregation consists of about thirty families, who erected, in the fall of 1883, a neat and comfortable parsonage, which he at present occupies. The lot upon which it stands was donated to the Church by the Northwestern Railway Company. His congregation intends to erect a house of worship during the present year. He was married Jan. 13, 1884, to Helena Pilgrim, daughter of William and Wilhelmina Pilgrim, of Chicago, Ill. She was born in Chicago, Sept. 6, 1863. Mr. Budach votes the democratic ticket.