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Rev. Benoni Bates
Rev. Benoni Bates was born at Trappe, Montgomery
Co., Pa. His early education was received in the public schools of Johnstown,
Pa., and Clarion Collegiate Institute. Rimersburg, Pa., where he graduated as
salutatorian in 1889. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1893
and from the Theological Seminary in 1896. When Christ Church. Norristown, Pa.,
was organized it extended a call to him. The call was accepted and be was
ordained and installed on August 2, 1896. Under the leadership of Rev. Bates,
Christ Church developed a steady and substantial growth. He died on Sunday, May
6, 1917. He served this congregation faithfully for twenty-one years, as his
first and only pastorate and as the congregation’s first and only pastor. For
a number of years and up to the time of his death, Rev. Bates was the
statistical editor of the Reformed Church Almanac. A wife and daughter survive.
Obituaries including Portraits and Biographical
Sketches, Almanac and Year Book for the Reformed Church in the United States,
1918, page 49
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on Benoni Bates at Men of the Cloth
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