Wilson Meyer Rehrig ^67,220,480

  General Notes:

Wilson prepared for college at the Lehighton Academy and graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1879. Entering the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, he completed his course in 1882, being ordained as a minister of the Lutheran Church in June of the same year. Immediately after his ordination he located in Girardville where he organized a mission. Upon his resignation in 1887 he had gathered a self-sustaining congregation of more than three hundred members. He assumed charge of a country parish at Greenville, Mercer Co. Later he became pastor of the Church of Thiel College where he was acting German professor of the college besides being an instructor in various other subjects.
On June 1,1900, he became pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Mauch Chunk, Pa., where he remained until his death in 1925. Rev. Rehrig served as president of the Wilkes-Barre Conference of the Lutheran Church for a number of years. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia for about eight years. In June 1910, he attended the World's Missionary Conference, held at Edinburgh, Scotland, as the delegate of the churches of Carbon County, Pa. He was accompanied by his wife, making a general tour of Europe. For post-graduate work in philosophy, Thiel College conferred the degree of PH.D upon Rev. Rehrig while the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Chicago honored him with the degree of B.D.

Wilson married Margaret M English on Feb 26, 1884. (Margaret M English was born on an unknown date and died on an unknown date.)