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Born Union (now Snyder) County, Pa.,
March 29; son John Reinhart and Anna Maria Sehambach Boyer; married Leah Jordan,
Feb. 16, 1840; eleven children. United Ch. of B., 1836; installed deacon, 1841,
by Eld. John Kline; minister, 1862; elder, 1901. His father, a Lutheran, and mother,
German Reformed, had dedicated him to the Lutheran ministry. Because they were
poor, Allen was hired out to Eld. Isaac Myers of Buffalo Valley church, Pa., at
six dollars a month when he was sixteen. Thus he was led into the Church of the
Brethren. The Boyers drove through from Pennsylvania to Lena, Ill., being on the
way from May 19 to June 21, 1846. One horse was their own; the other was borrowed
from Dr. Voight, who arrived the following season. We are indebted to Boyer for
the preservation of church publications, many of which are now housed in the "Brethren
Publishing House."
Source: Brethren
In Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, page 152; by John HECKMAN and
J.E. MILLER Brethren
Publishing House, Elgin, Illinois - 1941 Submitted
by: Layne A. Holley
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