Of Allentown

Rev. Samuel A. Bridges Stopp, the son of John and Ella C. M. Dech Stopp, was born in Allentown. Pa., March 19, 1875. He was educated at the Muhlenberg Academy and at Muhlenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1896, being honored by an appointment as one of the speakers. During his college course, he was a member of the Enterpean Literary Society, assistant editor of the Ciarla, the Junior annual, and editor-in-chief of the Mublenberg. In the fall of 1896, Mr. Stopp entered the Senior Class of Princeton University, and entered the classes of Woodrow Wilson. He became a member of Whity Hall, one of whose distinguished founders was President James Madison, of the class of 1771, and of the Philadelphia Society whose organization antedates that of the college YMCA Graduating with honors in 1897, Mr. Stopp took a year's post-graduate course in linguistic and literary studies and received the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton University in 1898. After taking a three years' theological course at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, he was graduated from that institution in 1901, and delivered an address at the commencement exercises in St. Michael's church.. Germantown. In June 1901, Mr. Stopp was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in St. Michael's church, Allentown, and soon after was called to the pastorate of St. Paul's church Doylestown, where he remained for five years. He was pastor of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, New York, for a short time in 1907, and from 1907 until 1909 pastor of St. Andrew's-by-the-sea, Atlantic City, N. J. Ill health required Mr. Stopp to retire from the active pastorate but he supplies various churches in the Allentown and Wilkes-Barre Conferences of the Lutheran Church He is the author of various monographs, some of which were published by the Pittsburgh Liturgical Association, including "A General Survey of the Book of Common Prayer," "The Collects", and "The Apostolic Age." He has also written "The Early History of the Dresibach Family in America," and is historian of the Drisebach Family Association, a charter member of the Bucks County Historical Society, a member of the Bucks County Historical Society, and a life member of the Pennsylvania Bible Society.

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