Charles (Karl) Ferdinand Obermeyer Collection

Charles Obermeyer was born on 21 September 1851. He graduated from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis in 1874, and was ordained on 9 August on that year. His first call was to be pastor and missionary in Farmington, Missouri. From 1876 to 1889 he served the First Lutheran Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was called to Zion Lutheran Church in Saint Louis in 1889 and served this congregation as its first resident pastor for 25 years. He served the Synod as chair and secretary of the Synodical Conference Negro Mission Board and travelled extensively throughout Arkansas and Tennessee. He also served on the Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House until 1908. In 1908 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Synod, a position he held until his death on 14 September 1914.