HENRY HORACE ROMIG, son of Joseph L. Romig, was born March 2, 1864, near Vera Cruz, Lehigh County, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Upper Milford Township; also, when a boy, attended a summer school at Dillingersville, in Lower Milford Township, taught by John Bitting. This school was sustained through the bequest of a public-spirited citizen and friend of education. When six years of age, Henry Horace Romig was adopted by Alfred D. Romig and wife, Amanda, who had no children and in whose home he received a good Christian training. In his youth he worked on the farm mostly. The guardian appointed for him was the late Rev. Abraham Kauffman of Upper Milford Township, who furnished money for the education of his ward from funds on interest until his majority. From January 1881, till the fall of the same year, he attended the Keystone State Normal School. Kutztown, Pa., while Dr. Nathan C. Schaefer, now state superintendent, was the principal. That fall he obtained his first provisional teacher's certificate from Prof. David S. Keck, county superintendent of the Berks county public schools. He successfully taught his first term at Seisholtzville, Pa. Afterwards he continued his education at Schuylkill Seminary, Reading. Pa., graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1823, in the English scientific course. Then he taught in one of the First ward school buildings, Allentown, Pa., and during the same tern also teaching in the night school of the Sixth ward. Later reentering Schuylkill Seminary but staying only a short time, he went to Philadelphia and graduated, Jan. 9, 1885, in Haven's College of Practical Phonography and Typewriting. For a time he was stenographer for R. W. Davenport, superintendent of the Midvale Steel Works, Nicetown. Philadelphia. He was married to Miss Alavesta Musselman. of Coopersburg. Pa., who died Nov. 19, 1886, a little less than a year after marriage, leaving a child (Alavesta) only a day old. For several years he was stenographer and bookkeeper for J. S. Harley, harness manufacturer at Quakertown. Pa. During a vacation he took his second tip to Michigan and Kansas. Eight months after his return, he married, May 26, 1888, Miss Rosie E. Jacobs, of Temple, Berks County, Pa.

On their wedding day they started house-keeping in a new home at Allentown. While here Mr. Romig taught these schools: Vera Cruz secondary; Ore's, in Upper Milford township; Ritters and Fairview, in Salisbury township. In 1891, he entered the ministry of the Evangelical Association, serving at the following places: Orwigsburg, Trappe. Phoenixville, Wi1lliamstown, Shenandoah, Brush Valley, New Columbia, and Janettsville, Md. Later he was pastor of Manor circuit while living at Millersville, Pa. Returning to Allentown, he taught school again at Yost's and Wilbur's, Salisbury Township, and in Cementon, Whitehall township. For two years he was pastor of Bethany United Evangelical church, Bethlehem, Pa., and then taught school again, for the second time Yost's, and then Keiper's grammar school in Hanover Township, where he is now teaching his third term. He holds a professional teacher's certificate, obtaining same after taking a Saturday course at Muhlenberg College. He frequently preaches for pastors of various denominations, has written for periodicals, and is the author of a book entitled, "Another Bob."