Frederick
Pilgrim was born in Huntershausen, HesseCassel, Germany, Dec. 24th,
1837. He came with his mothers and sisters to America and settled
in Philadelphia in 1857. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall
College in 1863 and from the Seminary at Mercersburg in 1866, was
licensed by Philadelphia Classis, and ordained by St. Paul’s Classis in
the same year, and was pastor of the Shenango charge in Mercer County,
Pa., for two years then at Columbia, Pa., for four years, and again of
the Shenango charge for fifteen years. Then he was at Irwin, Pa.,
for a few years, after which he moved back to Greenville and supplied
some vacant congregations in St. Paul’s Classis, and after a short
residence in Braddock, he moved to Lancaster County, and took the
pastorate of the Bethany charge. He died July 5th, 1896, in a
hospital in Philadelphia, aged fifty-eight years, seven month and
eleven days. He was a good musician. Rev. Robert J. Pilgrim of
Lancaster, is a son of Rev. F. Pilgrim.
Source:
The History of the Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed Church in the
United States: prepared in commemoration of its fiftieth
anniversary, by David B. Lady, 1920, page 197
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