Rev. August Unkerer served as minister of Simeon Lutheran Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, in 1865, one of the years of the Civil War. As no portrait photograph has been found of him, a early photograph of the church is pictured with a brief bio of him. The photo dates to 1883, about 18 years after Rev. Unkerer left Simeon Lutheran Church.
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Rev. August Unkerer succeeded Rev. William R. C. Hasskarl in 1865. According to a brief comment made in the Jubilee Memorial Volume of the Danville Conference of 1898, Rev. Unkerer “remained less than a year and left an odious record behind him.
No other information about him is known at this time.
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A brief biography of Rev. Unkerer appeared in a Gratz history published in 1997.
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