Jacob John Glossbrenner

Jacob was converted to evangelical Christianity at the age of seventeen. This changed the current of his life. A year later he was Licensed to Exhort in the United Brethren Church. Another year, when only nineteen, he became an itinerant preacher.

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• Drury, Rev. A. W., The Life of Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner, D. D. of the United Brethren in Christ, Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren, 1889 FAIL WHALE