[11-248b] ELMER FREDERICK KRAUSS, same as above, m 2d time, Sept. 20, 1904, EMMA ALICE KING. Res. 1600 S. 11th Ave., Maywood, II.
Elmer Frederick Krauss was b Sept. 7, 1862, at Kraussdale, Lehigh Co., Pa.; s of Isaac Yeakel Krauss and Theodora Rosalie Krauss, née Waage. He attended the Kraussdale Public School from 1868-1875. He entered Perkiomen Seminary, now Perkiomen School near Pennsburg, Pa., as one of its first pupils and pursued his studies at this Institution until 1878. He taught the Kraussdale Public School during the winters of 1878~1879 and 1879-1880. He attended the spring term of Muhlenberg Academy, Allentown, Pa., the Rev. A. R. Horne, Principal, in 1880; and entered the Freshman class at Muhlenberg College in the autumn of 1880, from which Institution he was graduated with First Honor in June, 1884. He attended The Theological Seminary of the Ev. Lutheran Church at Phila., Pa., from 1884-1887, graduating in June, 1887. During the summer vacation of 1885 he attended the Hebrew School conducted by Prof. W. R. Harper, D.D., at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary, Darby Road, Philadelphia.
He was ordained to the Ministry by the Ev. Lutheran Ministerium of Pa., in June, 1887. The same year, 1887, he received the degree of Master of Arts from Muhlenberg College, and in 1903 the same Institution conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Prof. Krauss served the following parishes:
July, 1887—Dec., 1892, St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church at Homestead, Pa. and Trinity Lutheran Church at Braddock, Pa. During his pastorate at Homestead he also served for several years the newly established St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church at McKeesport, Pa.; Jan., 1893-Nov., 1894, St. John’s English Ev. Lutheran Church at Minneapolis, Minn.; Dec., 1894-April, 1900, The First Ev. Lutheran Church at Leechburg, Pa.
In May, 1900, he entered upon his duties as Professor of New Testament Exegesis at The Theological Seminary of The Ev. Lutheran Church at Chicago, Illinois, of which Chair he has been the incumbent to the present time. He served as Acting President of The Theological Seminary of The Ev. Lutheran Chureh at Chicago, Il., from Oct., 1913-1915, and President from 1915-1920. In July, 1920, he resigned the Presidency of the Seminary, since which time he has been Dean of the Extra- Mural Department of the Seminary in addition to the work of his regular professorship in the Seminary.
At the organization of The United Lutheran Church in America in 1918, Dr. Krauss was elected to the Executive Board, the highest governing Board of the Church, and served on it until September, 1920. |